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Its main insights relevant well beyond the United States, White Fragility will facilitate difficult but necessary conversations that we must have in Britain too. With both compassion and uncompromising clarity, Diangelo helps us understand the everyday manifestations of 'white supremacy' and provides several unexpected answers to the familiar defensive question 'How is that racist?' If we want to end racism and develop as human beings, we must be prepared to get 'racially uncomfortable -- Dr Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003eA fresh, sane, clear-sighted analysis on the racial and social challenges we face in the 21st century... Robin DiAngelo is a white person with whom we would do well talk about race with. 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From Black Exceptionalism to Josephine Baker to Old Heads-he brings it and clarifies it, then shapes it into every bit of medicine we need right now\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Jacqueline Woodson * author of Red at the Bone *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoignant, powerful, candid, written with sincerity and emotion ... An important book\u003c\/b\u003e * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most important cultural critic in America right now? This writer gets my vote. Abdurraqib has delivered a winner.\u003c\/b\u003e * Chicago Tribune *\u003cbr\u003eHanif Abdurraqib has a way of taking slices of our cultural landscape, examining them, and transforming them into observations and analyses that leave me underlining the entire page. In \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil In America\u003c\/i\u003e, Abdurraqib \u003cb\u003ebrilliantly braids together history, criticism, and prose so stunning that it makes you want to read every word out loud just so you can hear its music. \u003c\/b\u003eEverything Abdurraqib writes is a must-read, but this is \u003cb\u003ehis best yet\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eIt is one of the most dynamic books I have ever read\u003c\/b\u003e. -- Clint Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlending pop-culture essays, memoir, and poetry, \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America \u003c\/i\u003edelves into the manyiterations of Black artistic expression through an often deeply personal lens\u003c\/b\u003e ...\u003cb\u003eStartling, layered, and timely, this is an essential, illuminating collection\u003c\/b\u003e * Booklist (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eA thoughtful memoir rolled into a set of joined essays on life, death, and the Black experience in America... Social criticism, pop culture, and autobiography come together neatly in these pages, and \u003cb\u003eevery sentence is sharp, provocative, and self-aware ... A winner.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Kirkus Reviews (*starred review*)\u003cbr\u003eA Little Devil in America is so so heavy in some places that I have to take breaks. It just hurts to read some of these truths, woven in such beautiful writing. -- Yomi Sode\u003cbr\u003eIn this \u003cb\u003estaggeringly intimate meditation\u003c\/b\u003e, Abdurraqib shines a light on how Black artists have shaped-and been shaped by-American culture. His prose is reliably razor-sharp. Filled with nuance and lyricism, Abdurraqib's \u003cb\u003eluminous \u003c\/b\u003esurvey is \u003cb\u003estunning\u003c\/b\u003e. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib pens respectful, heartwarming essays that reflect on giants in music, television, cinema, and even magic\u003ci\u003e...\u003c\/i\u003ehis stories will inspire and provoke thoughtful meditations on how Black lives matter in all areas of life and art.\u003c\/b\u003e * Library Journal (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003eAbdurraqib uses his \u003cb\u003einimitable blend of incisive, piercing criticism and shimmering stream-of-consciousness \u003c\/b\u003eto explore everything from the problem with praising Black women for being \"vessels\" who have \"saved America\" with their votes (he points out: \"It occurred to me that Black women were simply attempting to save themselves\") to Dave Chappelle's appeal to white audiences to the death of his mother. \u003cb\u003eMoving, provocative, and infused with a singular lyricism, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e is an exultant blend of memoir and criticism, a must-read for anyone looking to better understand this country and its people.\u003c\/b\u003e * Refinery29 *\u003cbr\u003eIt's \u003cb\u003ean absolutely brilliant book\u003c\/b\u003e from a critic who's become \u003cb\u003eone of the country's most essential writers\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003eTo call Abdurraqib anything less than one of the best writers working in America, and to call this book anything less than a masterpiece, would be doing him, and literature as a whole, a disservice\u003c\/b\u003e -- Michael Shaub * Minneapolis Star Tribune *\u003cbr\u003eThese 'notes in praise of Black performance' \u003cb\u003eencompass dance, music, film, and standup, along with everyday affectations and embodiments of masculinity, fear, intimacy, and belonging.\u003c\/b\u003e Subjects include Josephine Baker, Michael Jackson, blackface, \"Soul Train,\" and brotherhood. ...\u003cb\u003eCombines meditations on personal experiences\u003c\/b\u003e-losing his mother, navigating the Midwestern punk scene-\u003cb\u003ewith affectionate studies of cultural\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003emoments and figures, beloved and under-sung alike.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib views performance as an expression of life and a means of survival\u003c\/b\u003e * The New Yorker *\u003cbr\u003e[Abdurraqib] \u003cb\u003ehas brought to pop criticism and cultural history not just a poet's lyricism and imagery but also a scholar's rigor, a novelist's sense of character and place, and a punk-rocker's impulse to dislodge conventional wisdom from its moorings until something shakes loose and is exposed to audiences too lethargic to think or even react differently\u003c\/b\u003e -- Gene Seymour * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book that brims with wonder and introspection \u003c\/b\u003ewhile also honoring the significance and contributions of so many of the lives within it. Abdurraqib's passions are fully on display, and his widespread love is infectious in the best way possible, resulting in \u003cb\u003ea masterwork that will not only move readers but will also send them off into their own personal rabbit holes of joy and wonder. This is, perhaps, the greatest gift a writer can give to his readers,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Little Devil in America \u003c\/i\u003edelivers it in spades \u003c\/b\u003e -- Daniel Modlin * The Daily Beast *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003econtemplative and scholarly...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eit is a joy to watch [Hanif's] mind work\u003c\/b\u003e. In his new collection of interconnected essays, the author...\u003cb\u003eexcavates the bits of pop culture that often get paved over by white supremacy and our collective short-term memory. \u003c\/b\u003eAs for the parts we think we know - Abdurraqib has lots to say about Whitney Houston, Dave Chappelle, \u003ci\u003eGreen Book\u003c\/i\u003e, Altamont, and more - \u003cb\u003eit's his pointed and frequently personal re-examinations that set \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil\u003c\/i\u003e soaring\u003c\/b\u003e -- Patrick Rapa * The Philadelphia Inquirer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vibrant showcase of sharp writing,\u003c\/b\u003e Abdurraqib's \u003cb\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/b\u003e attests that Black performance at its root is not simply an outward show of talent but also a means of survival. \u003cb\u003eRead carefully. Abdurraqib's book is a challenge not to accept the usual explanations for the performances we witness.\u003c\/b\u003e * BookPage *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib's great strength is his ability to present broad, canny observations through the lens of his personal experience, and his intimate exploration of what these specific moments meant to him as a Black Muslim coming of age in the US is what lingers long after you've finished the book\u003c\/b\u003e * Buzzfeed *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib has written a profound reflection on how Black performance is woven into the fabric of American culture\u003c\/b\u003e... \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e is a joyous ode to Black performance throughout history.\u003c\/b\u003e * PureWow *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThroughout, Abdurraqib writes with urgency as he highlights what these performances mean, how they connect to his own feelings on grief, love and life, \u003cbr\u003e and where they fit into American history\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e * TIME Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eFrom Josephine Baker to Soul Train to 'Sixteen Ways of Looking at Blackface,' \u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib takes us on a wild ride through the history of Black performances, \u003c\/b\u003eartists who crushed boundaries and carved out spaces for vigorous forms of African American expression. \u003cb\u003eHis is an intimate, conspiratorial voice, musically inflected, blending scholarship with anecdote\u003c\/b\u003e, a 'waltz in a circular chamber of your homies and not-homies, shouting chants of excitement.' * Oprah Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib breathes new life into performers of significance in his life, both legendary and unsung\u003c\/b\u003e * A.V. 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Here he charges himself with quite an ambitious task, \u003cb\u003epinning down and contextualizing the historic scale of such a globally significant cultural output\u003c\/b\u003e, and it is one that would appear to call for an equally ambitious scope... \u003cb\u003eContemplations of legendary voices, sleights of hand, and charismatic choreographies are in dialogue with his own stories of grief, love, faith, and the search for freedom within the confinements of borders and a body...Abdurraqib expands the conception of \"performance\" to include the whole realm of behavior and culture\u003c\/b\u003e...\u003cb\u003ePlayfulness, seduction, artistry, and reinvention: Abdurraqib wants us to know that these devilish gestures have their place\u003c\/b\u003e, too, among the saints that line the corridors in this tiresome, captivating, and essential struggle * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America,\u003c\/i\u003e Abdurraqib walks readers through Black archives of dance, film, social struggle, and song as though these \"intimate histories\" of performance (as Saidiya Hartman calls them) could free us from anything that misses the beat. For this collection of essays, \u003cb\u003ehe does the work of a DJ: he digs through the crates, selects the most appropriately unexpected songs\/topics\/subjects, builds a collage between cuts and scratches, and presents his set.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eHis books are soundscapes in print, and I was somehow listening to each sentence as if it were a breakbeat of personal narrative and socio-historical commentary...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHanif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation\u003c\/b\u003e * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAbdurraqib, known for his playful, intelligent sense of humor on Twitter, \u003cb\u003ehighlights amazing performances that shed light on societal constructions and moments of sheer joy\u003c\/b\u003e his book about Black culture in America. \u003cb\u003eWriting about joy is challenging; falling back on cliche is a constant temptation that Abdurraqib avoids in this insightful tome\u003c\/b\u003e * Forbes *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThat\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003esense of limitlessness wraps itself around every essay \u003c\/b\u003ein Abdurraqib's newest book, \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance\u003c\/i\u003e. In it, he writes about Black performance in America-from Great Depression-era dance marathons to the enduring cool of Don Cornelius to the art of Mike Tyson entering a boxing ring-\u003cb\u003ewith both great reverence and rigorous analysis. The book, in the way Abdurraqib's work so often does, erects monuments to our should-be legends and our unignorable icons alike, and paints an expansive, deeply felt portrait of the history of Black artistry\u003c\/b\u003e -- Leah Johnson * Electric Literature *\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003edeft consideration\u003c\/b\u003e of seemingly irreconcilable values, \u003cb\u003ebetween the personal and private dimensions of performance,\u003c\/b\u003e can be found throughout the essays in A Little Devil in America...\u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib sees performance as a site of radical questioning, experimentation, and dream-making. This book is not a work of theory. It is sensual.\u003c\/b\u003e We watch him watching his idols and we watch him dancing along with them, sometimes clumsily. If Brooks's goal is to make a case for performers' intellectualism, \u003cb\u003eAbdurraqib's is to help us understand how they teach us to live richer, more embodied lives\u003c\/b\u003e -- Danielle A. Jackson * Vulture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngrossing and moving ... 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Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems.   Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.   Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section.   Honorable Mention in the 2017 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender.   NAACP Image Award Nominee for an Outstanding Literary Work from a debut author.   Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers.   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It transcends geographic boundaries and at once provides seminal insights into future ethnographic research Gonzalez Van Cleve demonstrates the power of ethnography in the best possible sense.\"—Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Criminology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Van Cleve's book is nothing less than a tour de force, and a clarion call for bringing egalitarian principles of racial and social justice to our most overlooked of criminal justice institutions, the courts. It forces us to confront 'the everyday miscarriages of justice' that pervade today's courts, asking us what has become of Gideon's trumpet in the age of spatially and racially concentrated 'mass incarceration.' The book is destined to become a classic, and ought to be on the mandatory reading list for citizens, law and society scholars and all sentient social scientists.\"—Thomas E. 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There Are No Racists Here: Prosecutors in the Criminal Courts\u003cbr\u003e  5. Rethinking Gideon's Army: Defense Attorneys in the Criminal Courts\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Racialized Punishment in the Courts: A Call to Action\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737393115479,"sku":"9780804790437","price":37.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804790437.jpg?v=1723811159"},{"product_id":"south-central-is-home-race-and-the-power-of-community-investment-in-los-angeles-9780804799812","title":"South Central Is Home  Race and the Power of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSouth Central Is Home\u003c\/i\u003e offers an illuminating history of one of America's most iconic communities in transition—from the War on Poverty to the War on Drugs. In prose as vivid as her subjects, Abigail Rosas beautifully captures the struggles, tensions, and aspirations of people typically portrayed as perpetrators or victims of unremitting violence—reminding readers that South Central Los Angeles is, indeed, home.\" -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of \u003ci\u003eThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Finding seeds of hope for a better racial future in the stories she uncovers, Abigail Rosas offers profound insights into how ordinary folks did extraordinary things, the remarkable possibilities and limits of multi-racialism, and sweeping transformations in urban life since World War II. \u003ci\u003eSouth Central Is Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling, timely, and imaginative book.\" -- Luis Alvarez * University of California, San Diego *\u003cbr\u003e\"Interdisciplinary in scope and accessible to scholars of race, power, and urbanization, as well as practitioners working with communities at the intersection of these processes, this volume probes how distinct black and brown communities emerged, grew, and shaped each other in LA since the 1960s. Rosas...effectively engages with archival material and several detailed oral histories....Highly recommended.\" -- J. deGuzman * \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Books like Rosas's help to fill an enormous void in both the urban and historical literatures where historical communities of color are often described too simplistically....\u003ci\u003eSouth Central Is Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a very well written urban history that should be a starting point and guide for all future work on the history of South Central and should be mandatory reading for undergraduate and graduate students in both introductory and higher-level social science courses.\" -- Robert Vargas * \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"For young scholars, [\u003ci\u003eSouth Central Is Home\u003c\/i\u003e] provides a model for writing about communities that formed us, communities that we unapologetically love. ....[By] disentangling the rich history of South Central, Rosas shows us the future of cities across the United States.\" -- Claudia Sandoval * \u003ci\u003eBoom California\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSouth Central Is Home\u003c\/i\u003e covers many of the issues found in interracial urban communities across America, and offers us a better understanding of the notions of race, community and place.\" -- Juan Manuel Niño * \u003ci\u003eJournal of Urban Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a thoughtful, insightful, and at times, personal history of South Central as a particular space and place. \u003ci\u003eSouth Central is Home\u003c\/i\u003e provides important contributions to our understanding of the City of Los Angeles, the community of South Central, and the often complicated and complex relationships between Latino\/as and African Americans in that community.\" -- Robert Bauman * \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Uncovering Black and Latina\/o Relations chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe Introduction explains the historical configuration of South Central Los Angeles's demographic change from a predominantly African American community to a multiracial African American and Latina\/o immigrant community. It posits that daily acts of community racialization and activism defined resident belonging and investment in this racially diverse community. The chapter examines how it is important to enrich existing scholarship by reconceptualizing South Central as a racialized space and community forged and sustained by African Americans and Latina\/os' sharing South Central as their home. As neighbors, entrepreneurs, homeowners, political advocates and representatives, teachers, parents, and students, South Central residents refused to be overwhelmed by U.S. national discourses and policies on crime, poverty, education, immigration, and public health and to live isolated from each other or to abandon or forfeit thriving together and as members of this community.\u003c\/p\u003e 1Placemaking in Our Community: Race Enterprise and the War on Poverty chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter introduces African American migration from the U.S. South to Los Angeles as foundational to South Central being understood nationally as an overwhelmingly African American community in the post–World War II period. An in-depth consideration of the emergence and influence of African American entrepreneurship in South Central's business sector reveals the power behind African American migrants spearheading the establishment of Broadway Federal Bank, a minority-owned bank in South Central. By the 1960s, however, the economic realities of South Central and Watts were increasingly defined as working class, working poor, and poor. The introduction of War on Poverty funding and programs would play a role in the relationships fostered between African American and Mexican American activists and advocates.\u003c\/p\u003e 2\"Let's Get Them Off to a Headstart!\" Community Investment in Head Start chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter centers on African American and Latina\/o South Central residents' struggles to establish, lead, teach, and benefit from Head Start programs throughout South Central. This consideration of the War on Poverty pre-school education program's vision, design, and implementation elucidates how this program brought African American and Latina\/o South Central residents together to forge an approach to \"school readiness\" that lived up to their expectations for the future of their children, families, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e 3\"The Wave of the Future\": The Emergence of Community Health Clinics chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter historicizes late mid-twentieth-century South Central African American and Latina\/o residents' community investment in the building of a hospital and community and health centers \"where the poorest and most humble can be treated with respect and feel they belong.\" It argues that in the wake of the 1965 uprisings, South Central residents, U.S. political officials, and physicians waged an interracial campaign for this community to have access to a hospital and community health clinics that would meet the diversity of South Central residents' health care needs. The chapter showcases African American and Latina\/o residents' unwavering resolve to act together and in support of community wellness as a formative step to asserting their community's humanity, investment, and power.\u003c\/p\u003e 4Becoming \"Bonafide\" Residents: Developing Relational Community Formation chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter advances our understanding of the impact of U.S. immigration policy on the resolve of Latina\/o immigrant South Central residents to invest themselves in forging a sense of community and home alongside and with their African American neighbors. The chapter elucidates the shared racialization of Latina\/o immigrant and African American South Central residents' experience. The emotive range of feelings framing this demographic change speaks to this community's relational interracial formation, humanity, and livelihood.\u003c\/p\u003e 5Teaching Together: Interracial Community Organizing chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter considers the enduring reach of Head Start centers in South Central throughout the 1980s. In the midst of neighborhood demographic change, Head Start classrooms implemented a multiracial and multicultural approach to early childhood education and community activism that resonated with South Central African American and Latina residents. By focusing on the goals of the educational curriculum framing Head Start, as well as this program's teachers' receptiveness to training African American and Latina immigrant parents and residents to participate in the teaching of the program's curriculum, the chapter provides an analysis of the lasting legacies of Head Start's benefits. The collaborative efforts of these women points to the importance of locating and learning from the power of investing in the educational attainment of South Central as a community of dedicated and promising children and women.\u003c\/p\u003e 6Celebrating Diversity: Selective Inclusion in a Multiracial City chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter reveals narratives of selectively acknowledging the ways demographic change and immigrant diversity influence community relations, opportunities, and life in South Central Los Angeles. The interracial tension between African American, Korean immigrant, and Latina\/o immigrant South Central entrepreneurs and residents was the result of heavy policing and profiling in the community, escalation of the drug epidemic, anxiety over immigrant enforcement, and the national and local government economic disinvestment. 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