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Book SynopsisMelvin Delgado provides a comprehensive portrait of the status and unique assets of boomers of colorTrade ReviewBaby Boomers of Color is an important exposure of the impending ethical and practice issues confronted by gerontologists who must now take concerted efforts to train and support social workers who reflect the racial and ethnic composition of baby boomers of color. Furthermore, the book provides pertinent advice to social work educators for preparing the next generation of gerontologists and social workers in the aging society of America. -- Heung Bong Cha, president of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics This book looks more deeply into so-called minority groups and the impact of aging. It is important because of its attempt to address the intersection of aging and minority or marginalized status and will hopefully prompt more work in this important area. -- Jay Poole, University of North Carolina-Greensboro Outstanding... A powerful addition to the social work literature on baby boomers. CHOICETable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part 1. Setting the Context 1. Overview 2. Two Perspectives on Baby Boomers 3. Boomer Demographic Profile and Trends 4. A Demographic Focus on Baby Boomers of Color 5. Health Needs 6. Financial Indicators Part 2. Cultural Assets 7. Baby Boomer Assets: A Conceptual Foundation 8. Family-Focused Assets 9. Neighborhood/Community-Focused Assets Part 3. Implications for Policy 10. Classification of Asset-Driven Interventions 11. Policy, Practice, and Research Implications Epilogue References Index

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Book SynopsisKerwin Kaye offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Enforcing Freedom presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.Trade ReviewIn Enforcing Freedom, Kaye masterfully shows how drug courts and associated therapeutic communities update concepts of cultures of poverty and biological race with contemporary idioms of addiction as brain disease and welfare dependency. Blending political and historical analysis of U.S. drug war and rehabilitation ideologies with keen ethnographic observation, this book is a must-read to understand the seduction of drug courts as a false alternative to racialized mass incarceration. -- Helena Hansen, author of Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug MinistriesKaye has written an important, insightful, and nuanced ethnographic study of urban drug courts and, more unusually, the privatized therapeutic communities upon which they rely to deliver drug treatment services. His unique examination of the arms-length relationship between these somewhat mysterious private treatment providers and the formal court system is revelatory and spot on. While he provides a highly critical analysis, Kaye also makes a number of thoughtful ‘real world’ policy recommendations that build on and flow from his findings, and that will appeal to judicial and treatment policymakers. -- Michael Jacobson, author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass IncarcerationKerwin Kaye examines how American institutions that govern illegal drug use, especially drug courts and treatment programs, define and treat 'addiction.' This book offers new findings that show how efforts at drug control regulate citizenship and reflect racial and gender politics, ultimately revealing the intimate character of neoliberal state governance. -- Allison McKim, author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass IncarcerationKaye not only explodes the neoliberal mythology of the beneficence of drug courts and other diversion schemes but also lays bare their continuing coercive and even brutalizing potential. Supporters and skeptics of drug courts alike will find much to consider in this forceful ethnography. And all of us who are interested in envisioning a post–War on Drugs United States should seriously consider Kaye’s suggestions. -- Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., author of Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of SegregationOffers new and vital insights into our understanding of the insidious ways that the criminal justice system oppresses people who use drugs. * Filter Magazine *Enforcing Freedom is so magnificent. Kaye’s years of research have paid off in a pioneering book whose intellectual gems make mining its tectonic depths more than worth the effort. Five stars. * LSE Review of Books *Kaye’s book is rich in theory and this may be off-putting to those looking for a more nuts and bolts discussion of drug courts or their role as an “evidence-based best practice,” but there is much for practitioners to learn from Kaye’s critical perspective. The book is also more appropriate for graduate students versus undergraduates. Overall, I consider Enforcing Freedom essential for those doing serious sociological work on drug control policy or new models of social control. * Social Forces *A passionate, well-articulated critique that offers a mix of theoretical exposition and ethnography-based critique. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat3. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on DrugsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisKerwin Kaye offers an ethnographic account of drug courts and mandatory treatment centers as a system of coercion, demonstrating how the state uses notions of rehabilitation as a means of social regulation. Enforcing Freedom presents a critical perspective on the punitive side of criminal-justice reform and points toward alternative paths forward.Trade ReviewIn Enforcing Freedom, Kaye masterfully shows how drug courts and associated therapeutic communities update concepts of cultures of poverty and biological race with contemporary idioms of addiction as brain disease and welfare dependency. Blending political and historical analysis of U.S. drug war and rehabilitation ideologies with keen ethnographic observation, this book is a must-read to understand the seduction of drug courts as a false alternative to racialized mass incarceration. -- Helena Hansen, author of Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug MinistriesKaye has written an important, insightful, and nuanced ethnographic study of urban drug courts and, more unusually, the privatized therapeutic communities upon which they rely to deliver drug treatment services. His unique examination of the arms-length relationship between these somewhat mysterious private treatment providers and the formal court system is revelatory and spot on. While he provides a highly critical analysis, Kaye also makes a number of thoughtful ‘real world’ policy recommendations that build on and flow from his findings, and that will appeal to judicial and treatment policymakers. -- Michael Jacobson, author of Downsizing Prisons: How to Reduce Crime and End Mass IncarcerationKerwin Kaye examines how American institutions that govern illegal drug use, especially drug courts and treatment programs, define and treat 'addiction.' This book offers new findings that show how efforts at drug control regulate citizenship and reflect racial and gender politics, ultimately revealing the intimate character of neoliberal state governance. -- Allison McKim, author of Addicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass IncarcerationKaye not only explodes the neoliberal mythology of the beneficence of drug courts and other diversion schemes but also lays bare their continuing coercive and even brutalizing potential. Supporters and skeptics of drug courts alike will find much to consider in this forceful ethnography. And all of us who are interested in envisioning a post–War on Drugs United States should seriously consider Kaye’s suggestions. -- Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr., author of Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of SegregationOffers new and vital insights into our understanding of the insidious ways that the criminal justice system oppresses people who use drugs. * Filter Magazine *Enforcing Freedom is so magnificent. Kaye’s years of research have paid off in a pioneering book whose intellectual gems make mining its tectonic depths more than worth the effort. Five stars. * LSE Review of Books *Kaye’s book is rich in theory and this may be off-putting to those looking for a more nuts and bolts discussion of drug courts or their role as an “evidence-based best practice,” but there is much for practitioners to learn from Kaye’s critical perspective. The book is also more appropriate for graduate students versus undergraduates. Overall, I consider Enforcing Freedom essential for those doing serious sociological work on drug control policy or new models of social control. * Social Forces *A passionate, well-articulated critique that offers a mix of theoretical exposition and ethnography-based critique. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Policing Addiction in a New Era of Therapeutic Jurisprudence2. Drug Court Paternalism and the Management of Threat3. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life: Rehabilitative Practice Within Therapeutic Communities and the History of Synanon4. Control and Agency in Contemporary Therapeutic Communities5. Gender, Sexuality, and the Drugs Lifestyle6. Retrenchment and Reform in the War on DrugsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDexter R. Voisin provides a compelling and social-justice-oriented analysis of current trends in neighborhood violence in light of the historical and structural factors that have reproduced entrenched patterns of racial and economic inequality. He features the powerful voices and insights of black youth in Chicago and their parents and communities.Trade ReviewVoisin (Univ. of Toronto, Canada) has written a robust and captivating book detailing the impacts of neighborhood violence on the lives of impoverished black youth . . . The book is excellent in its overview of the problems at hand and the ways to address them . . . Highly recommended. -- J. A. Beicken, Rocky Mountain College * Choice *Based on years of study, Dexter Voisin has written an unusually thoughtful, sensitive, and astute meditation on violence—what it means, how it comes about, how it affects people, and how the media choose to write about it. The book’s critical yet sober stance means the author’s clear and unmistakable sense of urgency is coupled with a subtle, sophisticated sense of the many-faceted consequences of violence. A consistently enlightening work. -- Mario L. Small, author of Someone to Talk ToVoisin powerfully shows that the violence that Chicago’s black youth experience is rooted in the nation as a whole. He untangles these complex systems and offers clear and effective solutions. This book will be illuminating for scholars, policy makers, and practitioners alike. -- Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the CityDexter Voisin writes with conviction, clarity, and conscience in connecting the dots between big ideas (racism, violence, resilience) and daily life through his personal story and those of the folks he has interviewed. America the Beautiful and Violent will help you understand how African American youth can not only survive, but thrive. -- Lois Takahashi, University of Southern CaliforniaMost discussions of violence focus on its horrors and have the tendency to portray perpetrators in a stereotypical manner. This book, on the other hand, has the potential to deepen our understanding of violence and shed light on solutions. -- Pedro Noguera, University of California, Los AngelesTable of Contents1. The Beginning2. The Tale of Two Americas3. Not All Violence Is the Same: Race- and Place-Based Violence4. The Road to Concentrated Poverty and Neighborhood Violence5. The Scars of Violence6. When Violence and Sex Are Entangled7. Living and Parenting in the Presence of Everyday Dangers8. Joining the Broken Pieces: Practice and Policy Solutions and Systems Integration9. Making a Difference: Rebuilding the VillageNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn essays and conversations, leading writers reflect on how Black churches have participated in recent discussions about issues such as marriage equality, reproductive justice, and transgender visibility. They consider the varied ways that Black people and groups negotiate the intersections of religion, race, gender, and sexuality.Trade ReviewThe Black church is a complexly rich institution, and its sexual politics are even more complex. Yet the Black church has been caricatured as culturally monolithic and its sexual politics as dogmatically conservative. The Sexual Politics of Black Churches reveals the inaccurate and gross simplification of both of these characterizations. The interdisciplinary voices and varied approaches represented in this volume provide the kind of cultural, theological, historical, and political analyses that are necessary if one is ever to appreciate the intricate nature of Black churches and their sometime opaque sexual politics. For anyone who wants to move beyond the stereotypic tropes about Black churches as stubbornly homophobic, this volume is a must read. It does not simply build upon previous studies of Black church sexual politics; rather, it provides a new interdisciplinary approach that allows for a nuanced understanding of what has seemed too easily misunderstood and casually dismissed. -- The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, author of Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter and dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological SeminaryBlack churches have been stalked by flat-footed depictions of civil rights mythology on one hand and homophobia on the other. Thankfully, this volume brings together leading scholars and thinkers to trouble those waters, helping all of us to see a history and present that is far more complex, interesting, and beautiful. -- Lerone Martin, associate professor of religious studies, Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford UniversityAttitudes about LGBTQ rights have changed dramatically in the United States since the start of the twenty-first century and the legalization of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Communities of faith have both championed and challenged these changes. In this important and timely work, scholars explore Black churches’ responses to questions of gender, sexual identity, and marriage equality. It is a must-read for those doing ministry in the twenty-first century and those thinking about the future of Black religious faith and sexuality. -- Marla Frederick, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture, Candler School of Theology, Emory UniversityCombining the genres of dialogue and essay, Josef Sorett curates one of the most rigorous and riveting engagements with the state of the Black church and its political-cultural-sexual complexities. This collection overthrows theological and critical tables, providing essential and original close readings of the contemporary Black church, its pitfalls and possibilities. The Sexual Politics of Black Churches is a refreshing and welcomed contribution to Black church and sexuality studies! -- Jeffrey Q. McCune, director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of RochesterJosef Sorett and the team of scholars, practitioners, artists, and thinkers—blended at the intersections of their expertise—present readers with an invitation to explore and feel our way through important discussions of blackness, sexuality, and church/spiritual politics. Written and presented as a communal practice of listening, learning, and "reasoning together," this volume illuminates what matters today in black religious discourse. -- Thelathia “Nikki" Young, author of Black Queer Ethics, Family and Philosophical ImaginationI am a Same-Gender Loving African American Woman, Pastor, Bishop, Teacher, Preacher, Mother and evolving-Pentecostal Justice Warrior! I find my whole self and my community deeply situated in The Sexual Politics of Black Churches…a collection of experiences and studies focused on The Black Church and Sexuality. It was a joy to be part of the conversations, and the finished product is filled with scholarship and liberation power! May the Black Church and all of Her beautiful Spirit-filled Children read and experience the Christ-Call to Radical Inclusivity & Extravagant Grace! -- Rev. Dr. Yvette A. Flunder, presiding bishop of the Fellowship of Affirming MinistriesThe Sexual Politics of Black Churches is not only timely—even overdue—but especially rewarding intellectually, politically, and ethically. Advancing conversations on sexuality and Black Christianity, this work is essential reading for anyone interested in Black Christianity in general, in religion and sexuality, in studies of religion and race, and in accounts of theology and politics in the U.S. A wonderful achievement. -- Anthony Petro, author of After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Josef SorettPart I. A Call to Conversation1. Religion, Race & Sexuality in American Culture: A Public Conversation, featuring Victor Anderson, Serene Jones, and Barbara Savage; moderated by Cathy Cohen and Josef SorettPart II. Sacred Texts, Social Authority, Sexual Difference2. Jephthah’s Daughter and #SayHerName, by Nyasha Junior3. An Inconsistent Truth: The New Testament, Early Christianity, and Sexuality, by Michael Joseph BrownPart III. Historical and Cultural Formations of Black (Christian) Sexual Politics4. “Have the Sons of Africa No Souls?” Manliness, Freedom and Power in the Cultural Roots of Afro-Phallic Protestantism, by Jonathan Lee Walton5. Everybody Knew He Was “That Way”: Chicago’s Clarence H. Cobbs, American Religion, and Sexuality during the Post-World War II Period, by Wallace Best6. Interrogating the Passionate and Pious: Televangelism and Black Women’s Sexuality, by Monique MoultriePart IV. Identity and Inclusion in Black Churches7. The Self Interested Politics of Collective Religious Transformation: Issues of Family Definition and LGBT Inclusion in Black Churches, by Melynda J. Price8. Intersectional Invisibility and the Experience of Ontological Exclusion: The Case of Black Gay Christians, by Valerie Purdy-Greenaway, Richard Eibach, and Nick CampPart V. Theological and Pastoral Visions of Inclusive Black Churches9. Gay Is the New Black, Theologically Speaking, by Monica A. Coleman10. Flesh That Needs to be Loved: Wounded Black Bodies and Preachin’ in the Spirit, by Luke A. Powery11. Aiding and Abetting New Life: “Sex-Talk” in the Pulpit, Pew and Public Square, by Brad R. Braxton12. An Experiment in Inclusion: A Conversation with Christine and Dennis Wiley, an Interview by Derrick W. McQueenEpilogue by Josef SorettNotesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn essays and conversations, leading writers reflect on how Black churches have participated in recent discussions about issues such as marriage equality, reproductive justice, and transgender visibility. They consider the varied ways that Black people and groups negotiate the intersections of religion, race, gender, and sexuality.Trade ReviewThe Black church is a complexly rich institution, and its sexual politics are even more complex. Yet the Black church has been caricatured as culturally monolithic and its sexual politics as dogmatically conservative. The Sexual Politics of Black Churches reveals the inaccurate and gross simplification of both of these characterizations. The interdisciplinary voices and varied approaches represented in this volume provide the kind of cultural, theological, historical, and political analyses that are necessary if one is ever to appreciate the intricate nature of Black churches and their sometime opaque sexual politics. For anyone who wants to move beyond the stereotypic tropes about Black churches as stubbornly homophobic, this volume is a must read. It does not simply build upon previous studies of Black church sexual politics; rather, it provides a new interdisciplinary approach that allows for a nuanced understanding of what has seemed too easily misunderstood and casually dismissed. -- The Very Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, author of Resurrection Hope: A Future Where Black Lives Matter and dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological SeminaryBlack churches have been stalked by flat-footed depictions of civil rights mythology on one hand and homophobia on the other. Thankfully, this volume brings together leading scholars and thinkers to trouble those waters, helping all of us to see a history and present that is far more complex, interesting, and beautiful. -- Lerone Martin, associate professor of religious studies, Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair, director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford UniversityAttitudes about LGBTQ rights have changed dramatically in the United States since the start of the twenty-first century and the legalization of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015. Communities of faith have both championed and challenged these changes. In this important and timely work, scholars explore Black churches’ responses to questions of gender, sexual identity, and marriage equality. It is a must-read for those doing ministry in the twenty-first century and those thinking about the future of Black religious faith and sexuality. -- Marla Frederick, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion and Culture, Candler School of Theology, Emory UniversityCombining the genres of dialogue and essay, Josef Sorett curates one of the most rigorous and riveting engagements with the state of the Black church and its political-cultural-sexual complexities. This collection overthrows theological and critical tables, providing essential and original close readings of the contemporary Black church, its pitfalls and possibilities. The Sexual Politics of Black Churches is a refreshing and welcomed contribution to Black church and sexuality studies! -- Jeffrey Q. McCune, director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of RochesterJosef Sorett and the team of scholars, practitioners, artists, and thinkers—blended at the intersections of their expertise—present readers with an invitation to explore and feel our way through important discussions of blackness, sexuality, and church/spiritual politics. Written and presented as a communal practice of listening, learning, and "reasoning together," this volume illuminates what matters today in black religious discourse. -- Thelathia “Nikki" Young, author of Black Queer Ethics, Family and Philosophical ImaginationI am a Same-Gender Loving African American Woman, Pastor, Bishop, Teacher, Preacher, Mother and evolving-Pentecostal Justice Warrior! I find my whole self and my community deeply situated in The Sexual Politics of Black Churches…a collection of experiences and studies focused on The Black Church and Sexuality. It was a joy to be part of the conversations, and the finished product is filled with scholarship and liberation power! May the Black Church and all of Her beautiful Spirit-filled Children read and experience the Christ-Call to Radical Inclusivity & Extravagant Grace! -- Rev. Dr. Yvette A. Flunder, presiding bishop of the Fellowship of Affirming MinistriesThe Sexual Politics of Black Churches is not only timely—even overdue—but especially rewarding intellectually, politically, and ethically. Advancing conversations on sexuality and Black Christianity, this work is essential reading for anyone interested in Black Christianity in general, in religion and sexuality, in studies of religion and race, and in accounts of theology and politics in the U.S. A wonderful achievement. -- Anthony Petro, author of After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, and American ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Josef SorettPart I. A Call to Conversation1. Religion, Race & Sexuality in American Culture: A Public Conversation, featuring Victor Anderson, Serene Jones, and Barbara Savage; moderated by Cathy Cohen and Josef SorettPart II. Sacred Texts, Social Authority, Sexual Difference2. Jephthah’s Daughter and #SayHerName, by Nyasha Junior3. An Inconsistent Truth: The New Testament, Early Christianity, and Sexuality, by Michael Joseph BrownPart III. Historical and Cultural Formations of Black (Christian) Sexual Politics4. “Have the Sons of Africa No Souls?” Manliness, Freedom and Power in the Cultural Roots of Afro-Phallic Protestantism, by Jonathan Lee Walton5. Everybody Knew He Was “That Way”: Chicago’s Clarence H. Cobbs, American Religion, and Sexuality during the Post-World War II Period, by Wallace Best6. Interrogating the Passionate and Pious: Televangelism and Black Women’s Sexuality, by Monique MoultriePart IV. Identity and Inclusion in Black Churches7. The Self Interested Politics of Collective Religious Transformation: Issues of Family Definition and LGBT Inclusion in Black Churches, by Melynda J. Price8. Intersectional Invisibility and the Experience of Ontological Exclusion: The Case of Black Gay Christians, by Valerie Purdy-Greenaway, Richard Eibach, and Nick CampPart V. Theological and Pastoral Visions of Inclusive Black Churches9. Gay Is the New Black, Theologically Speaking, by Monica A. Coleman10. Flesh That Needs to be Loved: Wounded Black Bodies and Preachin’ in the Spirit, by Luke A. Powery11. Aiding and Abetting New Life: “Sex-Talk” in the Pulpit, Pew and Public Square, by Brad R. Braxton12. An Experiment in Inclusion: A Conversation with Christine and Dennis Wiley, an Interview by Derrick W. McQueenEpilogue by Josef SorettNotesList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAn expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates the latest research in trauma theory and clinical applications. It features coverage of the experiences of historically disenfranchised, marginalized, oppressed, and vulnerable groups.Trade ReviewWith the inclusion of excellent chapters on LGBTQ clients, clients who have been incarcerated, combat trauma, the effects of bullying, and cultural trauma, this second edition of Trauma becomes very relevant to vulnerable and at-risk populations. Social workers will appreciate the depth of multiple perspectives and the artful integration of clinical practice throughout. This is an important book for every social work student and practitioner. -- Joan Berzoff, professor emerita, Smith CollegeBy exploring the theoretical underpinnings of the psychosocial impact of trauma, the authors provide the reader with clear mechanisms for understanding how trauma affects people. An excellent survey of the many facets of trauma and surely the best textbook for teaching. -- Eileen Dombo, Catholic University of AmericaOriginating from the editors’ rich experience, this is a comprehensive book bringing a diversity of theories and tools centered on new developments in the conceptualization of attachment trauma and trauma-related interventions. This is a must-read, and its scope should prove pertinent to undergraduates and clinicians from all modalities of psychotherapy. -- Orit Badouk Epstein, editor of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational PsychoanalysisThe second edition of Trauma is a must-have for mental health clinicians. The book provides expert descriptions of the leading forms of trauma therapy and how to apply them with diverse populations. I encourage any therapist who works with traumatized clients to study this amazing book. -- Russell Carr, M.D.The editors offer an expanded view on the topic of trauma through an excellent collection of chapters addressing theory, application, intervention, and research. Environmental issues are addressed, special populations are highlighted, and discussions are research-informed. Students, practitioners, and researchers will find this an excellent resource. -- Kathryn S. Collins, University of MarylandTable of ContentsIntroduction1. History and Development of Trauma Theory: Discussion of Main Concepts, by Shoshana Ringel2. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, by Antonio Gonzalez-Prendes, Stella Resko, and Caitlin Cassady3. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 1, by Jerrold R. Brandell4. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 2, by Shoshana Ringel5. Attachment Theory, by Shoshana Ringel6. Mindfulness-Oriented Approaches to Trauma Treatment, by Shoshana Ringel7. Cultural and Historical Trauma Among Native Americans, by Shelly A. Wiechelt, Jan Gryczynski, and Kerry Hawk Lessard8. Art Therapy with Traumatically Bereaved Youth, by Laura V. Loumeau-May9. The Effects of Bullying on Schoolchildren, by Jun Sung Hong and Jeoung Min Lee10. Combat Trauma, by Kathryn Basham11. Trauma and Incarceration: Historical Relevance and Present-Day Significance for African American Women, by Laverne D. Marks12. Working with LGBTQIA+ Clients in the Context of Trauma, with a Focus on Transgender Experiences, by David Byers, Kai Z. Thigpen, and Sara Wolfson13. The Effects of Trauma Treatment on the Therapist, by Brian RasmussenList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAn expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates the latest research in trauma theory and clinical applications. It features coverage of the experiences of historically disenfranchised, marginalized, oppressed, and vulnerable groups.Trade ReviewWith the inclusion of excellent chapters on LGBTQ clients, clients who have been incarcerated, combat trauma, the effects of bullying, and cultural trauma, this second edition of Trauma becomes very relevant to vulnerable and at-risk populations. Social workers will appreciate the depth of multiple perspectives and the artful integration of clinical practice throughout. This is an important book for every social work student and practitioner. -- Joan Berzoff, professor emerita, Smith CollegeBy exploring the theoretical underpinnings of the psychosocial impact of trauma, the authors provide the reader with clear mechanisms for understanding how trauma affects people. An excellent survey of the many facets of trauma and surely the best textbook for teaching. -- Eileen Dombo, Catholic University of AmericaOriginating from the editors’ rich experience, this is a comprehensive book bringing a diversity of theories and tools centered on new developments in the conceptualization of attachment trauma and trauma-related interventions. This is a must-read, and its scope should prove pertinent to undergraduates and clinicians from all modalities of psychotherapy. -- Orit Badouk Epstein, editor of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational PsychoanalysisThe second edition of Trauma is a must-have for mental health clinicians. The book provides expert descriptions of the leading forms of trauma therapy and how to apply them with diverse populations. I encourage any therapist who works with traumatized clients to study this amazing book. -- Russell Carr, M.D.The editors offer an expanded view on the topic of trauma through an excellent collection of chapters addressing theory, application, intervention, and research. Environmental issues are addressed, special populations are highlighted, and discussions are research-informed. Students, practitioners, and researchers will find this an excellent resource. -- Kathryn S. Collins, University of MarylandTable of ContentsIntroduction1. History and Development of Trauma Theory: Discussion of Main Concepts, by Shoshana Ringel2. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, by Antonio Gonzalez-Prendes, Stella Resko, and Caitlin Cassady3. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 1, by Jerrold R. Brandell4. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 2, by Shoshana Ringel5. Attachment Theory, by Shoshana Ringel6. Mindfulness-Oriented Approaches to Trauma Treatment, by Shoshana Ringel7. Cultural and Historical Trauma Among Native Americans, by Shelly A. Wiechelt, Jan Gryczynski, and Kerry Hawk Lessard8. Art Therapy with Traumatically Bereaved Youth, by Laura V. Loumeau-May9. The Effects of Bullying on Schoolchildren, by Jun Sung Hong and Jeoung Min Lee10. Combat Trauma, by Kathryn Basham11. Trauma and Incarceration: Historical Relevance and Present-Day Significance for African American Women, by Laverne D. Marks12. Working with LGBTQIA+ Clients in the Context of Trauma, with a Focus on Transgender Experiences, by David Byers, Kai Z. Thigpen, and Sara Wolfson13. The Effects of Trauma Treatment on the Therapist, by Brian RasmussenList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA large body of research has established a relationship between experiences of racial discrimination and adverse effects on mental and physical health. Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse offer a manual for mental health professionals on how to understand, assess, and treat the effects of racism as a psychological injury.Trade Review[A] well-researched book. -- H. Steven Moffic, MD , Jessica Isom, MD, MPH , Rahn K. Bailey, MD * Psychiatric Times *It is impossible to cover immense strengths of this book in this four-page review. The authors validate many points that address a huge gap currently prominent in society and provide evidence of ways to measure the effects and impact of racism, encourage training to prepare mental health workers, and clinical ideas for working with people of color who are impacted by racism. I believe this text takes a huge step in the process of helping clients who come to mental health workers measure the effects of racism and guide future work to effectively increase the well-being of people of color who have experienced racism. This text is appropriate for all mental health workers and health-care professionals who work with individuals, families, and student groups. -- Edward N. Randle Tarleton State University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA * Social Work with Groups *Carter and Pieterse increase our understanding of and the treatability of traumatic stress that results from racism. The proposals proffered in Measuring the Effects of Racism will lead to better treatment methods of race-based trauma and increase the evidence base for advocacy and agendas for social justice. -- Hugo Kamya, Simmons UniversityDrawing on decades of experience, Robert Carter and Alex Pieterse have given us a tour de force exploration of new research on race-based traumatic stress (RBTS). Introducing an invaluable new theoretical model and assessment, they have provided an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and trainees interested in systematically addressing the ill effects of racism in our society. -- Helen A. Neville, coauthor of Counseling the Culturally DiverseMeasuring the Effects of Racism is the definitive guide to understanding the scope of the psychological impact of racism. Providing a clear and comprehensive conceptual framework and assessment strategy, Carter and Pieterse have written a book that will be of great benefit to educators, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. -- Matthew Miller, associate editor of Journal of Counseling PsychologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. What We Know About Racism and Stress 1. Terms and Concepts Defined2. Understanding Reactions to Stress: Trauma, Traumatic Stress, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 3. Redefining Racism: Documenting Racism’s Effects4. Variations in Responses to Racial DiscriminationPart II. What We Need to Know About Racial Trauma5. Race-Based Traumatic Stress as Racial Trauma6. Measuring Race-Based Traumatic Stress7. Empirical Research Evidence Associated with the Race-Based Traumatic Stress Symptom Scale 8. The Short Form and the Interview Schedule of the Race-Based Traumatic Stress Symptom ScalePart III. What to Do with What We Know: Practice Applications 9. Clinical Applications of the Race-Based Traumatic Stress Model10. A Guide to Forensic Assessment: Clinical Applications11. Training Mental Health Professionals to Treat Racial Trauma 12. Emerging Issues in Practice and ResearchAppendix A: RBTSSS-Short Form (RBTSSS-SF)Appendix B: Carter-Vinson Race-Based Traumatic Stress Interview ScheduleNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisShadow Archives brings to life a slew of newly discovered texts to tell the stories of black special collections and their struggle for institutional recognition. Jean-Christophe Cloutier offers revelatory readings of major African American writers and provides a nuanced view of how archives shape literary history.Trade ReviewA very timely addition to the contemporary discussion of “the archives” among scholars of African American literature, culture, and history and in literary studies generally. * Modern Philology *Jean-Christophe Cloutier’s excellent Shadow Archives reminds us that scholarly archives, especially literary archives, are always a sort of interpretation. -- James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts Amherst * Modern Philology *Though the subject is narrow, this study succeeds at being both masterfully scholarly in tone and at the same time easily comprehensible. Valuable to those in the fields of library science, history, and African American literature, this rich volume should not be overlooked...Highly recommended. * Choice *Most compelling is Cloutier’s overarching purpose: to explore the deliberate, cautious, and sometimes frustrating ways Claude McKay and three roughly contemporary African American novelists—Ann Petry, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison—approached the archiving and preservation of their papers, and the degrees to which archival collections clarify and reconfigure their legacies. -- Steve Nathans-Kelly * New York Journal of Books *Shadow Archives is an impressive book.... Cloutier situates his work in the larger context of archival studies and theories, makes important discoveries, and by immersing himself in the “scenario” of many texts comes to fresh insights about writers, works well known and newly discovered, as well as their notes, drafts, letters, lives, writing practices, politics, and aesthetics. -- Stephanie Browner, Eugene Lang College–The New School * Textual Cultures *Cloutier offers an encouraging look at how modern archival and scholarly practice can do justice to literary history at large through what he calls an “archival sensibility.” * The Columbia Review *[This] monograph promises a historically and theoretically grounded account of the archival practices that informed the writings of McKay, Ellison, Richard Wright, and Ann Petry. . . Generally, Cloutier’s book is highly recommended to anybody interested in African American literature of the mid-twentieth century. More specifically, any future history or theory of the archive in African American letters will have to grapple with Shadow Archives. -- Stephan Kuhl, Goethe University Frankfurt * African American Review *With Jean-Christophe Cloutier’s scholarship in hand today, we are now better informed and poised to protect the integrity of African American archives for tomorrow. * New England Quarterly *In this fascinating book, Jean-Christophe Cloutier, an expert archivist and researcher, presents an original and compelling approach to the history of African American literature through what he terms “archival sensibility.” Grounded in Cloutier’s astute and nuanced discussion of the troubled history of black literary collections, Shadow Archives reads a variety of African American novels as alternative repositories for the black experience. This thought-provoking book provides an important new lens to view the works of Claude McKay, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Ann Petry; Shadow Archives is a welcome addition to literary criticism. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard UniversityShadow Archives is a page-turner in which Cloutier follows a trail of mistakes, misplaced manuscripts, and missed opportunities that came to define much of twentieth-century African American cultural production. With scholarly ease and writerly grace, he has produced a new and essential story of how our most famous black writers—Claude McKay, Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison—actively negotiated their relationship to the past. For them, archives were never dead, but sites of political necessity, historic urgency, and, as Cloutier compellingly shows, a space through which they could reinvent themselves and American culture writ large. -- Salamishah Tillet, author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights ImaginationNo novel in hiding is safe from Jean-Christophe Cloutier. He is—hands and laptops down—one of the very best literary detectives and literary historians of his talented generation. In Shadow Archives, he offers a genuinely fresh look at twentieth-century African American writing focused on the rise of black special collections and on the archival entanglements of a who’s who of modern black novelists. It will be one of the best academic books of the year, a memorable contribution to African American studies and a fruitful redirection of the archival turn in American literary scholarship. -- William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. LouisAs much a tour de force of archival sleuthing as an indispensable theoretical recalibration, Shadow Archives demonstrates that mid-twentieth-century black literature was indelibly molded by the “archival sensibility” of black writers. Tracking the peculiar fate and promise of African American literary papers in the midst of the boom in special collections libraries, Cloutier’s book is literary history in the guise of a boomerang—an exhilarating reminder of the “belated timeliness” and lurking potential of even the neglected and the obsolete. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black InternationalismTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: “Not Like an Arrow, but a Boomerang,” or The Lifecycles of Twentieth-Century African American Literary Papers1. Black Special Collections and the Midcentury Rise of the Institutional Collector2. Claude McKay’s Archival Rebirth: Provenance and Politics in Amiable with Big Teeth3. “At Once Both Document and Symbol”: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and the Lafargue Clinic Photographic Archive4. An Interlude Concerning the Vanishing Manuscripts of Ann Petry5. “Too Obscure for Learned Classification”: Comic Books, Counterculture, and Archival Invisibility in Invisible ManCoda. Disappointed Bridges: A Note on the Discovery of Amiable with Big TeethAppendix: Artifact Biographies or Vagabond Itineraries of Key Documents Discussed in This BookNotesPermissionsIndex

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Book SynopsisYarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.Trade ReviewIn this timely, compelling, persuasive, and eye-opening book, Yarden Katz makes profound contributions to knowledge at the intersections of technology, philosophy, and critical race theory. Artificial Whiteness exposes artificial intelligence (AI) as a malleable technology of power rooted in raced, classed, and gendered models of the self. Katz reveals how the artifice of whiteness provides the organizing logic of AI and enables its racist and capitalist ideological projects to be disguised as socially neutral technological imperatives. -- George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity PoliticsIn Artificial Whiteness, Yarden Katz takes a deep dive into the history of artificial intelligence in order to reveal its enduring connections not only to the military-industrial complex but also to white supremacy itself. Katz sounds a chilling warning about how amorphous and future-oriented domains of knowledge production like AI—perhaps especially when abetted by the modern university’s false claims to both neutrality and benevolence—are able to be hidden from public scrutiny while they produce inequality, violence, and catastrophe in our world. A unique and fascinating study. -- Britt Rusert, author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American CultureFor the technology worker, the netizen, and the poet who wishes to tear into the handiwork of empire, here is a book that will dispel the illusions cast by artificial intelligence. Katz demystifies a field built on self-mystification. AI is a nebulous technology, a morally ambivalent discourse, and at its core, a political-military-scientific program, which, like whiteness, masquerades as universal and all-seeing when it is in fact deeply invested in race, gender, and colonialism. -- la paperson, author of A Third University Is PossibleThis is a book about how white supremacy can be found at the roots of artificial intelligence, an ongoing influence confirmed by links between AI startups and white supremacists. -- Khari Johnson * Venturebeat *The dialog this book introduces is one worth having; I recommend the read. * College and Research Libraries *Provides a useful frame for understanding both the historical arc of white domination under which we continue to suffer and the current wave of fascination with AI. * Public Books *[A] frontal assault on the flexible and nefarious association between whiteness and artificial intelligence...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Formation1. In the Service of Empire2. In the Service of CapitalPart II: Self and the Social Order3. Epistemic Forgeries and Ghosts in the Machine4. Adaptation, Not Abolition: Critical AI Experts and Carceral-Positive Logic5. Artificial WhitenessPart III: Alternatives6. Dissenting Visions: From Autopoietic Love to Embodied War7. A Generative RefusalAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisYarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.Trade ReviewIn this timely, compelling, persuasive, and eye-opening book, Yarden Katz makes profound contributions to knowledge at the intersections of technology, philosophy, and critical race theory. Artificial Whiteness exposes artificial intelligence (AI) as a malleable technology of power rooted in raced, classed, and gendered models of the self. Katz reveals how the artifice of whiteness provides the organizing logic of AI and enables its racist and capitalist ideological projects to be disguised as socially neutral technological imperatives. -- George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity PoliticsIn Artificial Whiteness, Yarden Katz takes a deep dive into the history of artificial intelligence in order to reveal its enduring connections not only to the military-industrial complex but also to white supremacy itself. Katz sounds a chilling warning about how amorphous and future-oriented domains of knowledge production like AI—perhaps especially when abetted by the modern university’s false claims to both neutrality and benevolence—are able to be hidden from public scrutiny while they produce inequality, violence, and catastrophe in our world. A unique and fascinating study. -- Britt Rusert, author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American CultureFor the technology worker, the netizen, and the poet who wishes to tear into the handiwork of empire, here is a book that will dispel the illusions cast by artificial intelligence. Katz demystifies a field built on self-mystification. AI is a nebulous technology, a morally ambivalent discourse, and at its core, a political-military-scientific program, which, like whiteness, masquerades as universal and all-seeing when it is in fact deeply invested in race, gender, and colonialism. -- la paperson, author of A Third University Is PossibleThis is a book about how white supremacy can be found at the roots of artificial intelligence, an ongoing influence confirmed by links between AI startups and white supremacists. -- Khari Johnson * Venturebeat *The dialog this book introduces is one worth having; I recommend the read. * College and Research Libraries *Provides a useful frame for understanding both the historical arc of white domination under which we continue to suffer and the current wave of fascination with AI. * Public Books *[A] frontal assault on the flexible and nefarious association between whiteness and artificial intelligence...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Formation1. In the Service of Empire2. In the Service of CapitalPart II: Self and the Social Order3. Epistemic Forgeries and Ghosts in the Machine4. Adaptation, Not Abolition: Critical AI Experts and Carceral-Positive Logic5. Artificial WhitenessPart III: Alternatives6. Dissenting Visions: From Autopoietic Love to Embodied War7. A Generative RefusalAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that centers social, political, and ecological concerns. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory.Trade ReviewCritical Approaches to Science and Religion is a marvelous advance of interdisciplinary scholarship that charts foundational themes for interpreting the cultural dimensions of science and religion. The authors elucidate epistemological tensions and methodological resonances to inform future scholarship. This is essential reading for scholars across multiple disciplines. -- Sylvester A. Johnson, coeditor of Religion and US Empire: Critical New HistoriesI will return repeatedly to this volume to think with these diverse authors. Their disciplinary languages are not mine although they attentively converse with my discipline of Critical Indigenous Studies, among others. I am eager for vital conversations that I and others will have with these ideas that feed my radical hope for the implosion of the white and settler supremacist worldview. In order to live better with one another in this world, we need this conversation. -- Kim TallBear, author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic ScienceWith its inclusion of vital perspectives from critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies, this volume transforms the conversation about religion and science by making issues of difference central to these discussions. These essays are invaluable. -- Randall Styers, author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern WorldA joyful intellectual exercise. I highly recommend this book. You likely won’t agree with all of it—perhaps even none of it. But you will nevertheless be changed by the experience of reading it. * Reviews in Science, Religion, and Theology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed RagabPart I. ValuesIntroduction, by Terence Keel, Ahmed Ragab, and Myrna Perez Sheldon1. Scripture of False Smiles: Scholarship and Lying with Erving Goffman, by Kathryn Lofton2. Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion, by Terence Keel3. A Feminist Theology of Abortion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon4. Can Originalism Save Bioethics?, by Osagie K. ObasogiePart II. BoundariesIntroduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab5. Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule, by Tisa Wenger6. Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science, by Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm7. Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India, by Cassie Adcock8. “And God Knows Best”: Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere, by Ahmed RagabPart III. NarrativesIntroduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon9. Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism, by Erika Lorraine Milam10. Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment, by Suman Seth11. Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide, by Joseph Graves Jr.Part IV. CoherenceIntroduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon12. Kānaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference, by Eli Nelson13. Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience, by Joanna Radin14. Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica, by Katharine Gerbner15. Obeah Simplified? Scientism, Magic, and the Problem of Universals, by J. Brent CrossonConclusion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed RagabIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a new direction for scholarship on science and religion that centers social, political, and ecological concerns. Featuring a diverse array of contributors, it draws on three vital schools of thought: critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial theory.Trade ReviewCritical Approaches to Science and Religion is a marvelous advance of interdisciplinary scholarship that charts foundational themes for interpreting the cultural dimensions of science and religion. The authors elucidate epistemological tensions and methodological resonances to inform future scholarship. This is essential reading for scholars across multiple disciplines. -- Sylvester A. Johnson, coeditor of Religion and US Empire: Critical New HistoriesI will return repeatedly to this volume to think with these diverse authors. Their disciplinary languages are not mine although they attentively converse with my discipline of Critical Indigenous Studies, among others. I am eager for vital conversations that I and others will have with these ideas that feed my radical hope for the implosion of the white and settler supremacist worldview. In order to live better with one another in this world, we need this conversation. -- Kim TallBear, author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic ScienceWith its inclusion of vital perspectives from critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies, this volume transforms the conversation about religion and science by making issues of difference central to these discussions. These essays are invaluable. -- Randall Styers, author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern WorldA joyful intellectual exercise. I highly recommend this book. You likely won’t agree with all of it—perhaps even none of it. But you will nevertheless be changed by the experience of reading it. * Reviews in Science, Religion, and Theology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed RagabPart I. ValuesIntroduction, by Terence Keel, Ahmed Ragab, and Myrna Perez Sheldon1. Scripture of False Smiles: Scholarship and Lying with Erving Goffman, by Kathryn Lofton2. Nihilism, Race, and the Critical Study of Science and Religion, by Terence Keel3. A Feminist Theology of Abortion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon4. Can Originalism Save Bioethics?, by Osagie K. ObasogiePart II. BoundariesIntroduction, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed Ragab5. Spiriting the Johnstons: Producing Science and Religion Under Settler Colonial Rule, by Tisa Wenger6. Dark Gods in the Age of Light: The Lightbulb, the Japanese Deification of Thomas Edison, and the Entangled Constructions of Religion and Science, by Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm7. Questioning the Sacred Cow: Science, Religion, and Race in the United States and India, by Cassie Adcock8. “And God Knows Best”: Knowledge, Expertise, and Trust in the Postcolonial Web-Sphere, by Ahmed RagabPart III. NarrativesIntroduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon9. Secular Grace in the Age of Environmentalism, by Erika Lorraine Milam10. Performing Polygenism: Science, Religion, and Race in the Enlightenment, by Suman Seth11. Out of Africa: Where Faith, Race, and Science Collide, by Joseph Graves Jr.Part IV. CoherenceIntroduction, by Ahmed Ragab, Terence Keel, and Myrna Perez Sheldon12. Kānaka Maoli Voyaging Technology and Geography Beyond Colonial Difference, by Eli Nelson13. Speculation Is Not a Metaphor: More than Varieties of Cryobiological Experience, by Joanna Radin14. Maroon Science: Knowledge, Secrecy, and Crime in Jamaica, by Katharine Gerbner15. Obeah Simplified? Scientism, Magic, and the Problem of Universals, by J. Brent CrossonConclusion, by Myrna Perez Sheldon, Terence Keel, and Ahmed RagabIndex

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Book SynopsisOrdering the Human presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the racialization of science in various global contexts, illuminating how racial logics have been deployed to classify, marginalize, and oppress.

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Book SynopsisWhy is it so rare for Black candidates to win elections for governor and U.S. senator? Matthew Tokeshi examines the campaigns of every Black challenger for these offices from 2000 through 2020 and points to the significant effects of racial appeals to white voters.Trade ReviewIn this ambitious book, Tokeshi masterfully and systematically demonstrates what we intuitively know—Black candidates for statewide office experience a different and more negative campaign environment than their white counterparts. He also offers vital insights on the campaign strategies Black candidates can use to mitigate the effects of negative racial attacks. Campaigning While Black is a must-read for scholars and students of race and ethnic politics. -- LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, author of Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American PoliticsTokeshi provides a major contribution to our understanding of when and how racial attacks are effective and what candidates can do about them. The focus on African American women at the state level is new and important to our understanding of the links among race, gender, and state politics. -- Christopher Stout, author of Bringing Race Back In: Black Politicians, Deracialization, and Voting Behavior in the Age of ObamaTokeshi's book is timely as we think about the future of political representation in the United States. Asking if race is still a hurdle today for Black candidates, Tokeshi finds that Black candidates do not need to remain silent when attacked. This book is a must-read for those interested in race and politics, campaigns, and racial attitudes. -- Andrea Benjamin, author of Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic VotingTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Why Are Black Governors and U.S. Senators So Rare? Racial Bias Against Black Challengers, 2000–20202. The Racialization of Black Candidates3. The Response of Black Candidates4. The Deval Patrick and Harold Ford Jr. Campaigns of 20065. The 2013 Cory Booker and 2014 Anthony Brown Campaigns6. When Black Women Run: The 2018 Stacey Abrams and 2020 Kamala Harris Campaigns7. The Booker Experiment8. The Criminal Pardon ExperimentConclusionAppendixesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWhy is it so rare for Black candidates to win elections for governor and U.S. senator? Matthew Tokeshi examines the campaigns of every Black challenger for these offices from 2000 through 2020 and points to the significant effects of racial appeals to white voters.Trade ReviewIn this ambitious book, Tokeshi masterfully and systematically demonstrates what we intuitively know—Black candidates for statewide office experience a different and more negative campaign environment than their white counterparts. He also offers vital insights on the campaign strategies Black candidates can use to mitigate the effects of negative racial attacks. Campaigning While Black is a must-read for scholars and students of race and ethnic politics. -- LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, author of Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American PoliticsTokeshi provides a major contribution to our understanding of when and how racial attacks are effective and what candidates can do about them. The focus on African American women at the state level is new and important to our understanding of the links among race, gender, and state politics. -- Christopher Stout, author of Bringing Race Back In: Black Politicians, Deracialization, and Voting Behavior in the Age of ObamaTokeshi's book is timely as we think about the future of political representation in the United States. Asking if race is still a hurdle today for Black candidates, Tokeshi finds that Black candidates do not need to remain silent when attacked. This book is a must-read for those interested in race and politics, campaigns, and racial attitudes. -- Andrea Benjamin, author of Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic VotingTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Why Are Black Governors and U.S. Senators So Rare? Racial Bias Against Black Challengers, 2000–20202. The Racialization of Black Candidates3. The Response of Black Candidates4. The Deval Patrick and Harold Ford Jr. Campaigns of 20065. The 2013 Cory Booker and 2014 Anthony Brown Campaigns6. When Black Women Run: The 2018 Stacey Abrams and 2020 Kamala Harris Campaigns7. The Booker Experiment8. The Criminal Pardon ExperimentConclusionAppendixesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisMasterfully connecting historical systems of racial slavery to post-Enlightenment modernity.Trade Review"Lindon Barrett was one of our most brilliant intellectuals. His loss was, and remains, incalculable, but what he has left us in the form of Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity is just as incalculable a gift and legacy. A truly magisterial work."--Fred Moten, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition"In addition to deepening our understanding of the genealogy of western racism, this volume promises to effect a revaluation of established representations of African American modernism. A vivid demonstration of the affecting form of thoughtful, indeed crucial, provocation that Barrett added to the world."--Donald E. Pease, coeditor of Re-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In exploring migrants' cross-border connections over time, this collection of insightful and highly readable essays offers fresh perspectives and fascinating historical analysis on a topic central to the study of immigration. An indispensable guide to understanding the dynamics involved in transnational ties that will be a highly valued resource for students and scholars alike."--Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe"This volume, edited by two of the foremost scholars in the field, infuses migration studies with sorely needed historical perspective, conceptual clarity, and theoretical depth by treating the transnational not as a mantra but as actual social spaces/processes that can be understood empirically and historically."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 "Immigrant men and women shape and maintain transnational, often locally embedded linkages, and statesmen utilize or frame such connectivity. Both sides engage each other to achieve familial and statewide goals, economic, political, and emotional ones. The authors masterfully weave specific analyses into a long endured perspective of transcultural relations."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium"A Century of Transnationalism is a thoughtful and useful addition to research on migration and diaspora studies. It explores the diversity of over a century of migration experiences while highlighting shared migration factors: the tug-of-war of loyalties between home and host culture and the push-pull forces of assimilation versus alienation."--Review 31"Nancy Green and Roger Waldinger have assembled an excellent collection of rich empirical studies framed by their insightful introduction. The result constitutes a major contribution to a critical, historically-grounded, and state-centered perspective on transnationalism. This is essential reading for migration scholars."--Peter Kivisto, Augustana College

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brent M. S. Campney details lynchings and other forms of anti-Black violence from the antebellum era to the 1940s in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. . . . Hostile Heartland succeeds in demonstrating that the Midwest was not paradise for African Americans." --Journal of African American History"With clear, engaging prose, Campney's Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest speaks to the historiographies of the Midwest's importance, lynching and antiblack violence more generally, and activism." --American Historical Review"Brent M. S. Campney returns to the themes of his groundbreaking work This is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 in which he argued that white Kansans liked to imagine that their state was a model of enlightened progress in race relations. . . . Hostile Heartland thoroughly and convincingly documents the chilling ferocity of racist violence." --Kansas History"Hostile Heartland challenges assumptions about the 19th-century Midwest as ‘a land of pastoral virtue – a ‘Garden of Eden’ – where racist violence was anomalous.’ On the contrary, Campney argues that in the antebellum era ‘white mobs in the Midwest most certainly lynched free blacks and fugitive slaves. . . . The entire text would be useful in upper-division undergraduate courses and is essential for graduate-level study on racist violence and Midwestern history." --Choice"Hostile Heartland is the result of prodigious research informed by recent scholarship that grapples with the definition of lynching itself. . . . [Campney] is careful to never reduce the black residents of the Midwest to mere victims and devotes considerable space to accounts of black agency and resistance. . . . Campney’s most timely argument [is] that in the twentieth century an increasingly professional police force and court system both quelled racist mobs and essentially assumed their role in maintaining white supremacy. [Campney makes] a notable contribution by positing a long history of northern lynching, and this work will be of interest to scholars of U.S. racial violence and black exclusion." --Pacific Historical Review"Campney has written an ambitious, well-researched, and valuable study that deepens our understanding of just how commonplace and horrific mob violence . . . was over the course of more than a century. . . . He is particularly sensitive to what he calls ‘the multigenerational effects’ of racial violence on African Americans. " --Missouri Historical Review"There is much in this volume that is smart and thought-provoking, and I believe that it will inspire a number of more-detailed studies of such violence in the Midwest…. Campney provides a thought-provoking discussion of the possibility of numerous private lynchings in the 1930s and beyond, episodes driven into obscurity by concern over how they would reflect upon communities; I believe that on this subject and the others raised in this volume, multiple dissertations will be launched." --Indiana Magazine of History"In this very smart book, Brent Campney builds upon his vast research unearthing the history of racist violence in America's heartland. Hostile Heartland is a thorough and impressive work that challenges Midwesterners' time-honored penchant for claiming progressive superiority over the South when it comes to matters of racial egalitarianism and violence. Any reader who has ever contemplated race relations or racist violence in the Midwest today will find clear answers and lines linking the present to the past within these pages. Hostile Heartland opens much-needed windows onto the histories of race relations in the Midwest and the Great Migrations of African Americans to the region."--Kidada E. Williams, author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies about Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I "Hostile Heartland is a thickly researched survey that draws a striking picture of just how precarious life was for African American migrants to the Midwest." --Journal of Southern History "Brent Campney's Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest is an excellent and much needed historical account. . . . Well-written and succinct, this book powerfully documents an oft-forgotten practice in the Midwest, decentering the South as the only region with a very long history with anti-black violence." --Annals of Iowa

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Writing Revolutions's specific focus on the anarchist press sheds necessary light on the complexity of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anarchist networks among a variety of Hispanophone social groups from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe." --American Periodicals"High-quality and worth reading. " --Anarcho-Syndicalist Review"This phenomenal collection brings to light the breadth, depth, and interconnectedness of the Spanish-speaking anarchist movement in the United States, as well as the transnational networks that linked it to Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Essential reading for anyone interested in either anarchism or Hispanic labor and radicalism."--Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in the United States"Anarchism in the United States was so misunderstood and feared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that governmental authorities at all levels worked their hardest to obliterate it, smash its presses and deport or imprison its leaders. Government mail censors, G-men, local sheriffs, not to mention political hacks and journalists were so successful in their persecution that most of the documents necessary to study this idealistic, social justice movement were destroyed and are still missing today. The editors and authors of the well documented, enlightening essays in Writing Revolution have done the yeomen’s work of tracking down a good portion of this legacy that was so important in educating workers and establishing the rights they still vouchsafe today. Castañeda and Feu, inveterate researchers into Latino history and identity, have taken the lead in restoring the role played by Spanish-language anarchist print in the development of Latino working-class culture. That the editors and writers here were able to trace the transnational networks of the Hispanic anarchists, as well as locate and study such a large sampling of their periodicals and documents has not only the potential of filling gaps in our history but also of providing a whole new corpus of texts that will put a lie to the concept that only the victors get to tell their stories. Castañeda, Feu, and their collaborators have restored the testimonies of so many activists and organic intellectuals that it will take many other scholars years to follow up on and study their discoveries."--Nicolás Kanellos, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno"This new collection edited by Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu fills a substantial historiographical gap in the English language on Hispanic anarchism in the United States. The collection is sprawling in its ambition, with chapters ranging from discussions of early Spanish Republicanism and important but largely forgotten figures to analyses of individual newspapers and magazines. Despite this conglomeration of topics, the book flows easily, thanks in part to its chronological and thematic organization. " --The Volunteer

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Book SynopsisAfrican Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled. From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden Statein contrast to its reputation for toleranceperfected many methods of controlling people of color.Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state's color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan's campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists'Trade Review"West of Jim Crow explores the surge of violence precipitated by the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Black Californians responded with grassroots activism as they continued to demand access to homeownership, schools, and public spaces. Through the men and women themselves, Hudson provides incredible insight to California's racial battlegrounds." --Pacific Historical Review"Hudson's book illuminates just that: how contestations over public and private spaces as they related to race were tied together through the web of resistance that Black Californians engaged in as they utilized tactics that would become better known in the mid-twentieth century." --Journal of American Ethnic History"Outstanding history and an absorbing read. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"Thoughtful and well-written . . . Hudson has produced an impressive and finely wrought study of racial discrimination in the Golden State and the courageous and determined African American activists who challenged it in the courts and on the streets." --California History"West of Jim Crow is among the best introductions to Black California history yet written . . . an elegant synthesis that will doubtlessly stand the test of time." --Boom California"West of Jim Crow is a thorough account of California’s racist history that furthers understanding of racism in the United States." --Foreword Review"Powerfully argued, deeply researched, and alive with vivid portraits of little known freedom fighters, West of Jim Crow drives a stake through the heart of one of American history’s most persistent myths: that racial segregation and discrimination were peculiar to the South. By tracing the metamorphosis of white supremacy in the Golden State and the fierce resistance to it over the long span from statehood to the 1950s, Lynn Hudson has brilliantly plumbed the depth, complexity, and variability of American racial formations and added a new chapter to our understanding of the long black freedom movement and of women’s centrality to it."--Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Freedom Claims: Reconstructing the Golden State 2 “This is Our Fair and Our State”: Race Women, Race Men, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition 3 “The Best Proposition Ever Offered to Negroes in the State”: Building an All-Black Town 4 A Lesson in Lynching 5 Burning Down the House: California’s Ku Klux Klan 6 “The Only Difference Between Pasadena and Mississippi is the Way They Are Spelled”: Swimming in the Southland Epilogue: Remembering (and Forgetting) Jim Crow Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Manifest Technique brilliantly demonstrates how to place Filipino American choreography, lyrics, and crew allegiances at the heart of our study of hip hop as a cultural vernacular. Villegas invites us to listen deep and to consider how these expressive forms carry forward memories, desires, and critiques."--Theodore S. Gonzalves, author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What is most beautiful about these chapters is the way that Bynum maintains a delightful voice, a first-person perspective that centers her own pleasure in the researching and writing of this book. Her curiosity permeates each page. . . . She models for the reader what it is to read with curiosity and how to allow the interiority of others to inform our own, resulting in a communal experience." --Little Village Magazine “Sit down, read this book, and become a changed reader, scholar, and human. Sit down, and learn from Tara Bynum about worlds of Black experience--joy, longing, pleasure--beyond the white gaze. Through her brilliant literary research and reading of early African American literature, Bynum achieves the full humanity that a viciously segregated, racialized world denies all of us: some in body, some in understanding and spirit. In so doing, this book exemplifies what the humanities should be all about.”--Joanna Brooks, author of Why We Left: Untold Songs and Stories of America's First ImmigrantsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Matter of Black Living Phillis Wheatley’s Pleasures James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw’s Joyful Conversion Desiring John Marrant David Walker’s Good News Coda; Or, Reading Pleasures: Looking for Arbour/Obour/Orbour Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a book for movie buffs, Black history enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates solid research and good storytelling." --Roundup Magazine"Richly researched. . . . This carefully crafted academic treatment will enhance library shelves." --Library Journal (starred review)"A unique take on a key genre of cinema." --Film Stage“Mask provides an insightful commentary on the Civil Rights era and its African-American-themed Westerns from today's perspective.”--Angela Aleiss, author of Hollywood's Native Americans: Stories of Identity and ResistanceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Football Heroes Invade Hollywood Black Masculinity on Horseback: From Duel at Diablo to Buck and the Preacher Blaxplotation versus Black Liberation: The Charley Trilogy Harlem Rides the Range: Nobody Told You There Were Black Cowboys Westerns and Westploitation: Brothas and Sistas at the O.K. Corral Appendix: Interview with Jeff Kanew NotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston’s literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio-cultural and institutional values and processes shape the different ways we read her work? Jennifer L. Freeman Marshall considers the polar receptions to Hurston’s two areas of achievement by examining the critical response to her work across both fields. Drawing on a wide range of readings, Freeman Marshall explores Hurston’s popular appeal as iconography, her elevation into the literary canon, her concurrent marginalization in anthropology despite her significant contributions, and her place within constructions of Black feminist literary traditions. Perceptive and original, Ain’t I an Anthropologist is an overdue reassessment of Zora Neale Hurston’s place in American cultural and intellectual life.Trade Review"As the public, scholars, writers, and creatives continue to engage with Hurston through ongoing book releases, studies, documentaries, and festivals, Freeman Marshall’s work provides an important intervention that calls us to think about how we reconstruct and deploy Hurston as not only a talented storyteller and incisive ethnographer but also a consummate intellectual." --Another Chicago"Freeman Marshall makes clear that Hurston’s reputation as an anthropologist has been undermined by the glamour of her rediscovery and subsequent literary 'canonization' . . . . Freeman Marshall also compellingly argues that 'Hurston’s anthropological work has not been more fully recognized within the field of anthropology in part due to the marginalization of American folklore and in, in particular, African American folklore within the discipline.' Hopefully, with this new study, Hurston’s contributions to anthropology will finally be recognized." --Southern Review of Books"Doomed to obscurity, Zora Neale Hurston was then resurrected as a 'founding mother' of Black literature and folklore. Yet her pioneering work in African diaspora ethnography and anthropology, especially her work in Haiti, remains little-known. . . . Marshall concludes that Hurston’s refusal to be defined as 'tragically colored' formed her genius as she 'embraces . . . the right to feel and be herself, idiosyncratic and sometimes puzzling, like any member of the human race.'" --Booklist starred review"An insightful read about how academic obscurity can pigeonhole the legacy of Black women thinkers. Hurston’s fascination, esteem, and passion to capture, preserve and return to the African diaspora their new world folk traditions used academic methods and Africana means to share our interior selves. . . . Freeman Marshall contends that 'contextualization and a commitment to interdisciplinarity remain central' to excavating Hurston. This excavation serves as a prism through which collective literary and cultural works can contribute to transformative ways of reading and understanding the hybrid Black feminist agency and legacy crafted by Zora Neale Hurston by her people for her people and humanity writ large." --Black Perspectives"A fascinating examination into the work of Zora Neale Hurston as an anthropologist, which has been all but forgotten, especially in comparison to her work as a writer and cultural icon. " --Ms. Magazine“Jennifer Freeman Marshall combines razor sharp analysis and clear prose that compel the reader to think carefully and critically about why Zora Neale Hurston is lionized in literature and marginalized in anthropology. Like a quilt, Freeman Marshall’s book has a strong frame, an aesthetically pleasing design, and an impeccable yet creative logic.”--Lee D. Baker, author of Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture"Freeman Marshall unfolds a Hurston whose anthropological work contributed to her ramified sense of difference and variegation in the lived world. Hurston emerges as situated simultaneously in her selfhood and her experience as a Black woman. As an anthropologist, Hurston tells stories that are 'multiple and ... grounded by ... diverse communities.’ Recommended." --Choice"Undoubtedly, Ain't I an Anthropologist should be essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, as well as African American literature and folklore studies. With its careful and exhaustive documentation of the Black feminist literary and anthropological scholarship on Hurston's oeuvre, this book is both an archive and a treasure trove of information about Zora Neale Hurston that teaches us how to approach her work in new ways." --American AnthropologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: “Twice as Much Praise or Twice as Much Blame” On Firsts, Foremothers, and “The Walker Effect” Signifying “Texts”: The Race for Hurston Deconstructing an Icon: Tradition and Authority “Ain’t I an Anthropologist?” Mules and Men: “Negro folklore [. . .] is still in the making” The author arrives at no conclusion”? Reading Tell My Horse Notes Works CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents a colorful and detailed story of folk music's pioneering stage presenters.Trade Review"Vernon J. Williams Jr.'s The Social Sciences and Theories of Race is a collection of thoughtful, well-researched essays that chart the influence of anthropologist Franz Boas's scholarship on early-twentieth-century racial thinking. . . . A valuable contribution to the historiography of anthropology and racial formation."--Journal of Southern History"Readers who are not yet familiar with Vernon J. Williams's meticulous scholarship on race in America and its accompanying implicit and matter-of-fact activism will find a rare treat in these collected essays written over two decades but consistent in tone and intent."--Journal of Anthropological Research "Provocative and thought-provoking collection of essays. . . . The Social Sciences and Theories of Race deals with important issues in the discourse on race and race relations. It is a volume that should encourage further research and writing on these topics for decades to come."--Journal of African American History

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Book SynopsisThe surprising realities of rural race relations during a time of segregationTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006.“Mark Schultz illuminates a shadowy corner of the South with vivid depictions of work, race relations, and violence in Hancock County, Georgia. By connecting the memories of Hancock residents, past and present, with a trove of documentary evidence and then situating his evidence in the context of historical and autobiographical writing about the region, Schultz constructs a thoughtful, careful, and revealing study of race in the rural South during the twentieth century.” --Robert C. McMath Jr., professor of history, Georgia Institute of Technology“The Rural Face of White Supremacy is an important book, sure to attract attention and help shape our view of race relations in the twentieth-century South."--J. Morgan Kousser, professor of history and social sciences, California Institute of Technology

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Book SynopsisAstounding new information about the role of anthropologists in Hitler's efforts to create a master raceTrade Review“From Racism to Genocide is an original and important piece of scholarship based on never-before-published archival material. The analysis of the supporting role played by the anthropological sciences in the creation of Nazi racial and genocidal policies is painfully relevant for us today.”-- Bettina Arnold, associate professor of anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee"An informative textbook with a clear message about scientific responsibility and morality. . . . The author should be praised."--Patterns of Prejudice"A truly significant work, including important material overlooked by most scholars. Whereas scientists cherish a self-image of objectivity, the controversial--yet convincing--conclusions about German anthropologists in From Racism to Genocide should be met with great interest by scholars who have concerns about corruption of science for political purposes." -- Adrian M. Wenner, professor emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara"This careful depiction of anthropological complicity with Nazi genocide is fascinating and provocative. With so many anthropologists struggling now to create a more politically engaged discipline, this is a timely and important work." -- William L. Leap, author of Word’s Out: Gay Men's English

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Book SynopsisThis innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two 'sister' orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan''s Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children. Drawing on quantitative analysis of the records of more than 1,500 children living at the two orphanages, as well as census data, city logs, and contemporary social science surveys, this study raises new questions about the role of childcare in constructing and perpetrating social inequality in the United States.Trade ReviewHerbert G. Gutman Prize, Labor and Working-Class History Association, 2010. Lerner-Scott Prize in Women's History, Organization of American Historians, 2010. John Heinz Award, National Academy of Social Insurance, 2010. "An important book that will appeal to all scholars interested in the histories of child welfare, the working class, or social welfare. Highly recommended."--Choice"Jessie B. Ramey demonstrates why she is both a first-rate historian and writer."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "This book is an important contribution to the history of child welfare policy. Jessie B. Ramey's research illustrates the role racial segregation played in a northern industrialized city in child welfare policies for dependent children whose parents turned to orphanages for help."--Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s "Child Care in Black and White is part of the University of Illinois Press’s superb ‘‘The Working Class in American History’’ series, and it effectively ties orphanages into a broad array of historical literatures, including but not limited to working-class life, African American life, and arguments about both motherhood and women’s work. . . . valuable to readers interested in families, children, poverty, labor, race, gender, and class in turn of the century America."--Journal of Family History "Ramey's research contributes to greater understanding of working-class families in the early twentieth century and the flexibility and adaptability of child care institutions in response to the communities they serve."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "Child Care in Black and White, Jessie B. Ramey’s study of two Pittsburgh orphanages, the United Presbyterian Orphan’s Home UPOH and the Home for Colored Children HCC, during the years 1878–1929, is an extraordinary contribution to the history of US orphanages and child care institutions. . . . a valuable resource in advanced child and family policy courses in social work. Students will learn from its complexity, its attention to both micro and macro issues, and its unusually strong example of mixed-method, historical research."--Social Service Review"Ramey makes numerous contributions to our understanding of the role and operations of orphanages. This timely research informs debates about the limited public resources available to working parents for the well-being of their children, and Ramey repeatedly shows parents using the few instructions that did exist in ways that served their own purpose."--Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In exploring migrants' cross-border connections over time, this collection of insightful and highly readable essays offers fresh perspectives and fascinating historical analysis on a topic central to the study of immigration. An indispensable guide to understanding the dynamics involved in transnational ties that will be a highly valued resource for students and scholars alike."--Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe"This volume, edited by two of the foremost scholars in the field, infuses migration studies with sorely needed historical perspective, conceptual clarity, and theoretical depth by treating the transnational not as a mantra but as actual social spaces/processes that can be understood empirically and historically."--Jose C. Moya, author of Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930 "Immigrant men and women shape and maintain transnational, often locally embedded linkages, and statesmen utilize or frame such connectivity. Both sides engage each other to achieve familial and statewide goals, economic, political, and emotional ones. The authors masterfully weave specific analyses into a long endured perspective of transcultural relations."--Dirk Hoerder, author of Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium"A Century of Transnationalism is a thoughtful and useful addition to research on migration and diaspora studies. It explores the diversity of over a century of migration experiences while highlighting shared migration factors: the tug-of-war of loyalties between home and host culture and the push-pull forces of assimilation versus alienation."--Review 31"Nancy Green and Roger Waldinger have assembled an excellent collection of rich empirical studies framed by their insightful introduction. The result constitutes a major contribution to a critical, historically-grounded, and state-centered perspective on transnationalism. This is essential reading for migration scholars."--Peter Kivisto, Augustana College

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brent M. S. Campney details lynchings and other forms of anti-Black violence from the antebellum era to the 1940s in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas. . . . Hostile Heartland succeeds in demonstrating that the Midwest was not paradise for African Americans." --Journal of African American History"With clear, engaging prose, Campney's Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest speaks to the historiographies of the Midwest's importance, lynching and antiblack violence more generally, and activism." --American Historical Review"Brent M. S. Campney returns to the themes of his groundbreaking work This is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 in which he argued that white Kansans liked to imagine that their state was a model of enlightened progress in race relations. . . . Hostile Heartland thoroughly and convincingly documents the chilling ferocity of racist violence." --Kansas History"Hostile Heartland challenges assumptions about the 19th-century Midwest as ‘a land of pastoral virtue – a ‘Garden of Eden’ – where racist violence was anomalous.’ On the contrary, Campney argues that in the antebellum era ‘white mobs in the Midwest most certainly lynched free blacks and fugitive slaves. . . . The entire text would be useful in upper-division undergraduate courses and is essential for graduate-level study on racist violence and Midwestern history." --Choice"Hostile Heartland is the result of prodigious research informed by recent scholarship that grapples with the definition of lynching itself. . . . [Campney] is careful to never reduce the black residents of the Midwest to mere victims and devotes considerable space to accounts of black agency and resistance. . . . Campney’s most timely argument [is] that in the twentieth century an increasingly professional police force and court system both quelled racist mobs and essentially assumed their role in maintaining white supremacy. [Campney makes] a notable contribution by positing a long history of northern lynching, and this work will be of interest to scholars of U.S. racial violence and black exclusion." --Pacific Historical Review"Campney has written an ambitious, well-researched, and valuable study that deepens our understanding of just how commonplace and horrific mob violence . . . was over the course of more than a century. . . . He is particularly sensitive to what he calls ‘the multigenerational effects’ of racial violence on African Americans. " --Missouri Historical Review"There is much in this volume that is smart and thought-provoking, and I believe that it will inspire a number of more-detailed studies of such violence in the Midwest…. Campney provides a thought-provoking discussion of the possibility of numerous private lynchings in the 1930s and beyond, episodes driven into obscurity by concern over how they would reflect upon communities; I believe that on this subject and the others raised in this volume, multiple dissertations will be launched." --Indiana Magazine of History"In this very smart book, Brent Campney builds upon his vast research unearthing the history of racist violence in America's heartland. Hostile Heartland is a thorough and impressive work that challenges Midwesterners' time-honored penchant for claiming progressive superiority over the South when it comes to matters of racial egalitarianism and violence. Any reader who has ever contemplated race relations or racist violence in the Midwest today will find clear answers and lines linking the present to the past within these pages. Hostile Heartland opens much-needed windows onto the histories of race relations in the Midwest and the Great Migrations of African Americans to the region."--Kidada E. Williams, author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies about Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I "Hostile Heartland is a thickly researched survey that draws a striking picture of just how precarious life was for African American migrants to the Midwest." --Journal of Southern History "Brent Campney's Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest is an excellent and much needed historical account. . . . Well-written and succinct, this book powerfully documents an oft-forgotten practice in the Midwest, decentering the South as the only region with a very long history with anti-black violence." --Annals of Iowa

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book is an exercise in pointing out the political bias promoted by Israel and the US, veering away from the neutral stance that is prioritised by the international community in order to focus on specific themes and political discussion. There are possibilities to challenge US influence and support for Israel if efforts to deconstruct oblivion and normalisation are taken seriously." --Middle East Monitor

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Book SynopsisAfrican Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled. From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden Statein contrast to its reputation for toleranceperfected many methods of controlling people of color.Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state''s color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan''s campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregTrade Review"West of Jim Crow explores the surge of violence precipitated by the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Black Californians responded with grassroots activism as they continued to demand access to homeownership, schools, and public spaces. Through the men and women themselves, Hudson provides incredible insight to California's racial battlegrounds." --Pacific Historical Review "Hudson's book illuminates just that: how contestations over public and private spaces as they related to race were tied together through the web of resistance that Black Californians engaged in as they utilized tactics that would become better known in the mid-twentieth century." --Journal of American Ethnic History "Outstanding history and an absorbing read. . . . Highly recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Freedom Claims: Reconstructing the Golden State 2 “This is Our Fair and Our State”: Race Women, Race Men, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition 3 “The Best Proposition Ever Offered to Negroes in the State”: Building an All-Black Town 4 A Lesson in Lynching 5 Burning Down the House: California’s Ku Klux Klan 6 “The Only Difference Between Pasadena and Mississippi is the Way They Are Spelled”: Swimming in the Southland Epilogue: Remembering (and Forgetting) Jim Crow Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Manifest Technique brilliantly demonstrates how to place Filipino American choreography, lyrics, and crew allegiances at the heart of our study of hip hop as a cultural vernacular. Villegas invites us to listen deep and to consider how these expressive forms carry forward memories, desires, and critiques."--Theodore S. Gonzalves, author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora

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Book SynopsisConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberatioTrade Review"Argues for a more expansive field of Black intellectual history that includes, not just other genres of writing, but also art and cultural practices of specific communities. . . and race-conscious social organizations and institutions, such as the early Black masonic lodges and later HBCUs and the 'Divine Nine' fraternities and sororities that sent forth generations of Black activists, scholars, and artists." --Society for U.S. Intellectual History "Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and well-documented. . . The Black Intellectual Tradition provides information and insights of great value to educators and scholars of all disciplines, genders, and racial/ethnic identities." --Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Brief yet weighty, ripening the often-told story of the Great Migration by venturing away from Chicago and big northern cities for the small Indiana villages where many Black Americans attempted to settle in." --Chicago TribuneTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: How White Desires Determine the Fate of the Great Migration in America’s Heartland Manifesting White Indiana Crossroads of Desires Erasing Histories: A Black Church and a White Pool Silencing Memories: White Desires and Black Terror When Black Folk Make the Record Conclusion: The Geography of Hate—Mapping Whiteness Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDiscusses whether the rights of minority voters still need Federal protectionTrade Review[T]he arguments presented in McCool's volume seem likely to remain contemporary for years to come . . . .100.2 Sept. 2013 * Journal of American History *Excellent for collections on civil rights, voting rights, US politics, and constitutional law. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This timely collection provides deep theoretical and empirical justifications for the VRA, and equally well-developed arguments in opposition. One finished the collection more informed and a little unsure of what is called, both signs of a well-edited volume. * newbooksinamericanstudies.com *[A]s an introduction to the VRA's [Voting Rights Act] underexplored role in protecting the franchise for language minorities in the West, The Most Fundamental Right is a welcome addition.12.3 Sept. 2014 * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsPrefaceSection I: The Political and Legal Context of the Voting Rights Act1. Meaningful Votes \Daniel McCool2. The Constitutional Foundations of the "Pre-Clearance" Process: How Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Was Enforced, 1965-2005 \Peyton McCrary3. Influence District and the Courts: A Concept in Need of Clarity \Richard EngstromSection II: The Debate4. The Bull Connor Is Dead Myth: Or Why We Need Strong, Effectively Enforced Voting Rights Laws \Laughlin McDonald5. Bull Connor is Long Dead: Let's Move On \Abigail Thernstrom6. The Voting Rights Act in South Dakota: One Litigator's Perspective on Reauthorization \Bryan Sells7. Realistic Expectations: South Dakota's Experience with the Voting Rights Act \Chris Nelson8. The Continuing Need for the Language Assistance Provisions of the Voting Rights Act \James Thomas Tucker9. Policy and Constitutional Objections to Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act \Roger CleggSection Three: Commentary10. After NAMUDNO: The Shape of Future Litigation \Edward Blum 11. Looking Backward to and Forward from the 2006 Voting Rights Act Reauthorization \Debo Adegbile

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Book SynopsisAffords a penetrating look at the unexpected results of the expansion of African business opportunities following the demise of apartheidTrade Review[This] book addresses economic, geographic, political, and historical issues and would make an excellent tool for teaching about contemporary Africa and the social impact of neoliberal reform policies. * Journal of African History *The story of post-apartheid South Africa's northward expansion warrants further scholarly attention, and this eminently readable book provides an important national case study on which others will build. * Journal of Modern African Studies *This is a skilfully interdisciplinary book. Schroeder burrows deep into political economy, but is equally comfortable interpreting symbolism, such as the masculinist imagery and 'neocolonial chic' . . . of South African investment advertisements. Throughout the book we see keen ethnographic attention to affect, especially the confusion, resentment, and bitterness felt by Tanzanians as the waters of racial inequity rise. * African Affairs *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroduction1. Frontline Memories2. Invasion3. Fault Lines4. Tanzanite for Tanzanians5. Bye, the Beloved Country6. White SpotsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAffords a penetrating look at the unexpected results of the expansion of African business opportunities following the demise of apartheidTrade Review[This] book addresses economic, geographic, political, and historical issues and would make an excellent tool for teaching about contemporary Africa and the social impact of neoliberal reform policies. * Journal of African History *The story of post-apartheid South Africa's northward expansion warrants further scholarly attention, and this eminently readable book provides an important national case study on which others will build. * Journal of Modern African Studies *This is a skilfully interdisciplinary book. Schroeder burrows deep into political economy, but is equally comfortable interpreting symbolism, such as the masculinist imagery and 'neocolonial chic' . . . of South African investment advertisements. Throughout the book we see keen ethnographic attention to affect, especially the confusion, resentment, and bitterness felt by Tanzanians as the waters of racial inequity rise. * African Affairs *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroduction1. Frontline Memories2. Invasion3. Fault Lines4. Tanzanite for Tanzanians5. Bye, the Beloved Country6. White SpotsConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA history of politics and society among an influential group of mixed-race people who settled in coastal Africa under French colonialismTrade Review[This] book brings welcome new emphasis to family and gender dynamics, as viewed, for example, through the material life of métis households. [The author's] use of marriage contracts and genealogies, as well as documents she located in Bordeaux, has helped her to advance existing scholarship.85.1 Feb. 2015 * Africa *Jones's book is the result of extensive research in state, parish, and private archives and newspapers in Dakar and St Louis, Bordeaux, and Paris. . . The book expands the recent historiography on the meanings of the term 'métis' beyond the perspectives of French colonial society. Furthermore, Jones makes the important contribution of arguing for the ways in which women and household politics continued to influence the public sphere even as the French bolstered African men and state institutions as the locus of political power and wealth.55.3 Nov.2014 * Journal of African History *[T]his well-documented and well-written book represents a compelling case study for understanding the nature of the colonial encounter between Africans and Europeans in French West Africa. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *The métis (mixed-ancestry community of Saint-Louis has played an important role in Senegal's history. The most prominent descended from signares, successful female entrepreneurs and high-status 'companions' of European men. Historian Jones . . . rescues the métis from lingering voluptuary associations, exploring their 18th-century origins and how they created a distinct communty identity. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Overall, Jones's book represents an important contribution to studies of the French colonial presence in Africa, exploring that presence through a new and productive perspective that offers nuanced and often surprising insights. * Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies *[T]his is an immensely successful first book, and we can only hope that Jones will delve deeper into some of these topics in her future work. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Urban Life, Politics, and French Colonialism 1. Signares, Habitants, and Grumets in the Making of Saint Louis2. Métis Society and Transformations in the Colonial Economy (1820-1870)3. Religion, Marriage, and Material Culture4. Education, Association, and an Independent Press5. From Outpost to Empire6. Electoral Politics and the Métis (1870-1890)7. Urban Politics and the Limits of Republicanism (1890-1920)ConclusionAppendix: Family HistoriesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDescribes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple identities, which alter with time and changing circumstancesTrade Review"A significant contribution to studies of migration in Europe, ethnic/racial studies, studies of transnationalism, political studies of citizenship and belonging, as well as to the fields of sociology and anthropology." -Rebecca King-O'Riain, National University of IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Orientations 1. Many Multiplicities: Identity in an Age of Movement \ Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara 2. Ethnic Identities and Transnational Subjectivities \ Anna Rastas, University of TamperePart 2. The Complexities of Identities 3. Between Difference and Assimilation: Young Women with South and Southeast Asian Family Background Living in Finland \ Saara Pellander, University of Helsinki 4. Doing Belonging: Young Women of Middle Eastern Backgrounds in Sweden \ Serine Gunnarsson, Uppsala University 5. To Be or Not to Be a Minority Group? Identity Dilemmas of Kashubians and Polish Tatars \ Katarzyna Warmińska, Cracow University of Economics 6. "When You Look Chinese, You Have to Speak Chinese": Highly Skilled Chinese Migrants in Switzerland and the Promotion of a Shared Language \ Marylène Lieber and Florence Lévy, Neuchatel UniversityPart 3. Family Matters 7. Intercountry Adoption: Color-b(l)inding the Issues \ Saija Westerlund-Cook 8. The Children of Immigrants in Italy: A New Generation of Italians? \ Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini, University of Milan 9. Possible Love: New Cross-cultural Couples in Italy \ Gaia Peruzzi, Sapienza University of RomePart 4. Modes of Multicultural Success? 10. Divided Identities: Listening to and Interpreting the Stories of Polish Immigrants in West Germany \ Mira Foster, University of California, Santa Barbara 11. The Politics of Multiple Identities in Kazakhstan: Current Issues and New Challenges \ Karina Mukazhanova, Karaganda State University and University of Oregon 12. Chinese Americans, Turkish Germans: Parallels in Two Racial Systems \ Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa BarbaraBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisDescribes how migrants and minorities of all age groups experience their lives and manage complex, often multiple identities, which alter with time and changing circumstancesTrade Review"A significant contribution to studies of migration in Europe, ethnic/racial studies, studies of transnationalism, political studies of citizenship and belonging, as well as to the fields of sociology and anthropology." -Rebecca King-O'Riain, National University of IrelandTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1. Orientations 1. Many Multiplicities: Identity in an Age of Movement \ Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara 2. Ethnic Identities and Transnational Subjectivities \ Anna Rastas, University of TamperePart 2. The Complexities of Identities 3. Between Difference and Assimilation: Young Women with South and Southeast Asian Family Background Living in Finland \ Saara Pellander, University of Helsinki 4. Doing Belonging: Young Women of Middle Eastern Backgrounds in Sweden \ Serine Gunnarsson, Uppsala University 5. To Be or Not to Be a Minority Group? Identity Dilemmas of Kashubians and Polish Tatars \ Katarzyna Warmińska, Cracow University of Economics 6. "When You Look Chinese, You Have to Speak Chinese": Highly Skilled Chinese Migrants in Switzerland and the Promotion of a Shared Language \ Marylène Lieber and Florence Lévy, Neuchatel UniversityPart 3. Family Matters 7. Intercountry Adoption: Color-b(l)inding the Issues \ Saija Westerlund-Cook 8. The Children of Immigrants in Italy: A New Generation of Italians? \ Enzo Colombo and Paola Rebughini, University of Milan 9. Possible Love: New Cross-cultural Couples in Italy \ Gaia Peruzzi, Sapienza University of RomePart 4. Modes of Multicultural Success? 10. Divided Identities: Listening to and Interpreting the Stories of Polish Immigrants in West Germany \ Mira Foster, University of California, Santa Barbara 11. The Politics of Multiple Identities in Kazakhstan: Current Issues and New Challenges \ Karina Mukazhanova, Karaganda State University and University of Oregon 12. Chinese Americans, Turkish Germans: Parallels in Two Racial Systems \ Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa BarbaraBibliographyContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs Gunther Jikeli argues in his compelling new book, there is a 'research gap' on Muslim antisemitism in Europe. Although there have been surveys investigating Muslim attitudes to Jews, there is very little fine-grained, detailed research on this issue . . . Jikeli has uncovered a disturbing phenomenon but not a hopeless one. European Muslim antisemitism is not set in stone and, through the efforts of scholars such as Jikeli, by investigating it in more detail we can develop responses accordingly.5/8/15 * Jewish Chronicle *European Muslim Antisemitism is a brilliantly researched and highly accessible book. It makes a valuable contribution to an ongoing scholarly and moral debate on anti-Semitism. It is a book that should be read by everyone – especially students, scholars and policymakers interested in Muslim-Jewish relations7/16/15 * Times Higher Education *A milestone in the scholarly investigation of this phenomenon [i.e., European Muslim antisemitism] is the new book of the historian Günther Jikeli, the leading German expert on this subject. . . . His book has the potential to be the standard work [on its subject]. * Juedische Allgemeine *This thorough, well-presented, social scientific study focuses on the causes of anti-Semitic violence largely carried out by young Muslim males. . . . Jikeli . . . performs an important service for those who seek answers to an extremely troubling problem. . . . Essential. * CHOICE *There is a great deal of empirical data in this academic study that will be useful to track general patterns of anti-Semitism, and anti-Jewish behavior in Europe. The specific nature of this book makes its most suitable for an academic audience or groups working with discrimination against Jewish communities. * AJL Reviews *European Muslim Antisemitism is data, research, and analysis all wrapped into one in a compelling and digestible volume. * Jewish Book Council *Jikeli should be commended for bringing the deep-rooted issues of antiSemitism, and especially the denial, relativism, and unabashed support of the Holocaust, back to serious attention. * AJS Review *What do European Muslims actually think about Jews? Too little is known about the subject, so Günther Jikeli is to be heartily thanked for his pioneering and earnest efforts to supply some basic empirical evidence in European Muslim Antisemitsm. . . . Jikeli has gone to great efforts to make human contact with his subejcts, and his tact and his obvious empathy are much to his credit. * Times Literary Supplement *Jikeli presents the most thorough and systematic study of his topic to date. He writes pellucidly and calmly. The topic aside, his book is a pleasure to read. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. European Muslims: Between Integration and Discrimination2. Debates and Surveys on European Muslim Antisemitism3. An Empirical Study: Interviews with Young Male Muslims in Europe4. Patterns of Antisemitism5. "Classic" Modern Antisemitism6. Antisemitism Related to Israel7. Antisemitism Related to Islam, Religious or Ethnic Identity8. Antisemitism Without Justification or Rationalization9. Perceptions of the Holocaust10. Sources of Antisemitic Attitudes11. Positive Examples: Rejecting Antisemitism12. ConclusionAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Both important and timely, it will be a notable contribution to the ongoing public and intellectual discussion... of contemporary antisemitism and [the animus of intellectuals] toward the state of Israel." -Elhanan Yakira, author of Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel "Represents a significant contribution to our understanding of both the phenomenon of the 'new antisemitism' and a certain strain of French critical theory over the last several decades." -Maurice Samuels, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Bruno ChaouatTo My American Readers1. Jean Genet's Anxiety in the Face of the Good2. Alain Badiou: The Future of a Denial3. Saint Paul among the Moderns 4. On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception5. Foucault, Deleuze, the Jews and IsraelIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Both important and timely, it will be a notable contribution to the ongoing public and intellectual discussion... of contemporary antisemitism and [the animus of intellectuals] toward the state of Israel." -Elhanan Yakira, author of Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel "Represents a significant contribution to our understanding of both the phenomenon of the 'new antisemitism' and a certain strain of French critical theory over the last several decades." -Maurice Samuels, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Bruno ChaouatTo My American Readers1. Jean Genet's Anxiety in the Face of the Good2. Alain Badiou: The Future of a Denial3. Saint Paul among the Moderns 4. On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception5. Foucault, Deleuze, the Jews and IsraelIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom Cotton Fields to University Leadership is an uplifting story about the power of education, the impact of community and mentorship, and the importance of dreaming big.Trade Review"Far too often we meet leaders and forget their journeys to leadership. We forget the struggles, the stumbles, the surprises, and the enormous amount of hard work they put in, amidst twists and turns along the journey. Charlie Nelms has written an autobiography that is authentic, humble, and serves as an example for those leaders who will follow him. His voice, honesty, humor, and compassion shine through his life story."—Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Director, Penn Center for Minority-Serving Institutions, author of Educating a Diverse Nation: Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions"I have called Charlie Nelms a friend for almost 40 years. In his memoir, the realities of his life take on the qualities of a good docudrama, providing the back story to the development of a remarkable educational leader. His is "the examined life," filled with honesty, humor, and humility. While this is uniquely Charlie's story, it is a story that will lift the hearts of many and inspire future generations of leaders."—Betty J. Overton, Director, National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good"In the tradition of Booker Washington and Benjamin Mays, Charlie Nelms tells his riveting story from share croppers' son in rural Arkansas to university president. His memoir is a testament to the power of aspiration, character and education to overcome poverty and adversity. At a time when young people ask if college matters, Nelms' testimony is proof that university education remains an engine of social mobility and personal transformation. "—Michael L. Lomax, President & CEO, United Negro College Fund (UNCF)Table of ContentsForeword by Dr. Walter M. KimbroughPrefaceAcknowledgments1. "I'll Fly Away"2. How I Got Over3. Tacks and Splinters4. College Bound5. From Dairy-hand to Bookstore Clerk6. Everything Before Us7. Boot Camp8. "If I Had a Hammer"9. Holding Fast10. This Spinning Top11. Full Circle

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