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Book SynopsisConsiders race and ethnicity as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. This volume argues that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviours criminal, and the determination of who becomes a victim of crime under which circumstances.Trade ReviewShines a new, critical light on race, ethnicity, crime and justice. The text pushes us to consider how these terms are defined, what's missing from our conventional analyses and ultimately why and how race matters in discussions of justice. -- Katheryn Russell-Brown,author of The Color of Crime: Racial Hoaxes, White Fear, Black Protectionism, Police Harassment, and Other MacroaggressionsThe most comprehensive treatment to date of the relationship between race, ethnicity, and crime. This collection will be valuable to practitioners and criminological theorists alike because it contains vast amounts of data on the topic, then orders and interprets these data with a strong socio-historical lens, enhanced by a comparative perspective. -- Troy Duster,author of Backdoor to EugenicsWith a distinguished cast of scholars, this book makes a major contribution to the field in its framing of a very complex social problem. -- Simon I. Singer,author of Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice ReformWith a dedicated focus on race and ethnicity, and through an examination of heretofore neglected groups (e.g., Haitian immigrants and rural blacks), the authors both broaden and deepen our understanding of the influence of race and ethnicity, often surprising us with their results. . . . The editors have assembled an impressive group of contributors who bring fresh perspectives and ideas to the table and also remind us how time-tested constructs such as social disorganization, informal social control, and the culture of violence can be applied in ways that allow us to learn something new about race, ethnicity, and crime. . . . The Many Colors of Crime is an important book not only for criminologists but also for those with an interest in race and ethnicity generally. * American Journal of Sociology *The volume’s devotion to establishing comparative studies of racial and ethnic groups and to acknowledging regional and temporal variances yields productive insights into structural and social inequalities in the United States. * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1 Cultural Mechanisms and Killing FieldsPart I Constructs and Conceptual Approaches2 Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Crime and Criminal Justice 3 Demythologizing the "Criminalblackman"4 Race and the Justice WorkforcePart II Populations and Intersectionalities5 Toward an Understanding of the Lower Rates of Homicide in Latino versus Black Neighborhoods6 Extending Ethnicity and Violence Research in a Multiethnic City7 Crime and Deviance in the "Black Belt"8 Crime at the Intersections9 Race, Inequality, and Gender ViolencePart III Contexts and Settings10 Is the Gap between Black and White Arrest RatesNarrowing? 11 Race, Labor Markets, and Neighborhood Violence 12 Drug Markets in Minority Communities13 Perceptions of Crime and Safety in Racially and Economically Distinct Neighborhoods14 Neighborhood, Race, and the Economic Consequences of Incarceration in New York City,1985-1996 Part IV Mechanisms and Processes15 Creating Racial Disadvantage16 Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Social Control 17 Toward a Developmental and Comparative Con?ictTheory of Race, Ethnicity, and Perceptions of Criminal Injustice18 Race and Neighborhood Codes of ViolenceBibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAsserts that the U.S. is in a new and distinct phase of racism that is "post-intentional," neither based on intentional discrimination nor drawing upon biological concepts of raceTrade Review"[Perry] offers provocative essays exploring various aspects of the societal contradictions between continuing racial inequalities and public professions of equality...Perry provides probing and original analyses of racial narratives such as the 'acting white' narrative that numerous prominent Americans, white and black, have periodically emphasized." * Contemporary Sociology *"Perry offers an insightful 'third way' analysis...the book...is a good fit for cutting-edge graduate and faculty research." -- M. Christian * Choice *"Imani Perry has done it again. With an uncanny ability to merge art, law, social science, and cultural studies, she weaves a powerful analysis of race in contemporary America." -- Patricia Hill Collins,author of Another Kind of Public EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 "It Wasn't Me!" Post-Intent and Correlational Racism 2 It's All of Us The Practice of Inequality 3 Telling Tales Out of School The Work of Racial Narratives 4 The House That Jack Built Inequality via Category 5 "I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me" The Racing of Privacy, Voyeurism, and Surveillance 6 Exceptionally Yours Racial Escape Hatches in the Contemporary United States 7 Black Taxes and White Wages The Social Economy of Race Conclusion Remediation, or from Proof to Possibility Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisUsing evidence from the largest-ever scientific survey addressed exclusively to Latino/Hispanic respondents, this book explores political diversity within the Latino community, considering how intra-community differences influence political behavior and policy preferences.Trade ReviewIt is a collection of cutting edge research, and a must-read for students and researchers alike. * American Politics *A must-read for scholars interested in understanding the political behavior of this growing and important sector of the U.S. polity, this volume situates the study of Latino politics within its historical context and provides readers with a wealth of tools for designing studies focused on this population. -- Lisa García Bedolla,author of Latino PoliticsThis collection of essays is as timely as it is important. With Latinos on the cusp of greatly enhanced power, this book illustrates the many nuances to Latino politics in contemporary America. -- Gary M. Segura,co-author of Latino Lives in AmericaThis outstanding collection of research articles by some of the brightest minds in political science should be read by everyone interested in the politics of race and ethnicity in the United States and especially by those who want to know considerably more about Latinos, the most fascinating and complicated identity group in America today. The range of topics covered in the book is very impressive as well. -- Valerie Martinez-Ebers,editor of American Political Science Review and author of Latinos in the New MillenniuThis volume brings together a number of excellent articles on central questions in Latino politics written by an impressive and accomplished group of scholars. The sections and various chapters therein engage and inform several themes that, while clearly important, have generally been under-studied and/or under-appreciated. As such, the volume nicely contributes to and substantially advances the (growing) body of Latino politics research. -- Rodney Hero,President Elect, American Political Science Association and author of Black-Latino RelationsTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Chapter Appendices Foreword: Latino People, Politics, Communities, and KnowledgeAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Latino Voice in Political Analysis, 1970 - 2014 2 Identity Revisited 3 Latino Immigrant Transnational Ties 4 Multiple Paths to CynicismPart III: Acculturation, Differentiation, and Political Community 5 'Quien Apoya Que? The Influence of Acculturation and Political Knowledge on Latino Policy Attitudes 6 The Boundaries of Americanness 7 Black and Latino Coalition Formation in New England 8 Racial Identities and Latino Public Opinion 9 A "Southern Exception" in Black-Latino Attitudes? Perceptions of Competition with African Americans and Other Latinos 10 Latino Politics and Power in the Twenty-First CenturyAppendix A: Latino National Survey QuestionnaireAppendix B: Latino National Survey Questionnaire About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Okinawa, Australia, and New Zealand.Trade ReviewGlobal Mixed Race is a comprehensive compilation of world mixed-race identities, histories, and issues. The editors have expertly prepared for comparison and intrinsic interest contemporary and timely discussions of mixed race as an increasingly recognized dimension of racial and ethnic diversity in the 21st century. From post-modern popular culture to academic race theory, this exciting, ground-breaking collection will be a standard resource and reference for general readers, multidisciplinary scholars, and specialists of race, ethnicity, culture, and mixed race. -- Naomi Zack,author of Race and Mixed RaceGlobal Mixed Race is a very welcome addition to the literature on race and mixedness. Its vibrant case studies, comparative frame and historical grounding offer a useful guide for understanding what contemporary concepts and experiences of 'mixed race' owe to global trends and local specificities. A must-read for anyone interested in racialization in its many forms. -- Kimberly Dacosta,author of Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color LineThis superb volume lays the groundwork for an emergent and exciting global comparative framework for understanding mixed race categories and identities. By decentering U.S. mixed race histories and experiences, these essays make us attentive to how notions such as nation and class, and processes such as colonization and migration, are fundamentally complicit in shaping the very definition and meaning of 'mixed race.' -- Michael Omi,co-author of Racial Formation in the United StatesMixtureracial, national, ethnicwhile not a new phenomenon is increasingly evident in todays globalized world. The authors of these 12 absorbing essays examine and discuss the status, identity, and life experiences of mixed-decent individuals and communities in different cultural and political environment. . . . This fine book makes valuable contributions to the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in a period of unprecedented global change.Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAn IntroductionPart I: Societies with Established Populations of Mixed Descent 1. Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective 2. "Rider of Two Horses": Eurafricans in Zambia Juliette Bridgette 3. "Split Me in Two": Gender, Identity, and "Race Mixing" in the Trinidad and Tobago Nation 4. In the Laboratory of Peoples' Friendship: Mixed People in Kazakhstan from the Soviet Era to the Present 5. Competing Narratives: Race and Multiraciality in the Brazilian Racial Order 6. Antipodean Mixed Race: Australia and New Zealand 7. Negotiating Identity Narratives among Mexico's Cosmic RacePart II: Places with Newer Populations of Mixed Descent 8. Multiraciality and Migration: Mixed-Race American Okinawans, 1945-1972 9. The Curious Career of the One-Drop Rule: Multiraciality and Membership in Germany Today 10. Capturing "Mixed Race" in the Decennial UK Censuses: Are Current Approaches Sustainable in the Age of Globalization and Superdiversity? 11. Exporting the Mixed-Race Nation: Mixed-Race Identities in the Canadian ContextA ConclusionBibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis work tells the stories, in their own words, of the New Orleans civil rights workers who fought the racial terrorism that scarred so much of the South in the United States in the 1950s and 60s. The accounts span three generations of activists, tracing their risks, triumphs and disappointments.Trade Review"Rogers paints a slightly less rosy picture, one in which the Louisiana un-American Activities Committee staged a raid on the offices of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), and the City Council passed laws prohibiting the right to peaceful assembly, paving the way to jailing protesters." --Gambit Weekly This important study provides fresh insights into the lives of both black and white civil rights leaders, documents the diversity of individuals and motivations, and traces movement history in a major southern city. Well written and well researched, this book is highly recommended for readers at all levels. --Choice Charts the distinctly different experiences and memories of 25 black and white civil rights activists of three 'generations' in New Orleans, opening with a deft sketch of the city's unusual racial background with its black Creole caste. --Publishers Weekly An important study, full of valuable information, profoundly moving testimony, and provocative insights. --The Journal of Southern History "An emotionally evocative, richly textured history based on autobiographical accounts of those who lived and shaped the struggle. The importance of many of Rogers' subjects and the uniqueness of New Orleans make this must reading for anyone interested in the history of the movement. But those interested in oral history and African-American autobiography will find riches aplenty as well. A welcome addition to a number of literatures" --Doug McAdam, author of Freedom Summer "Righteous Lives skillfully blends oral history with a perceptive analysis of three generations of civil rights leadership in New Orleans. Rogers has revealed not only what people did, but what they remember, and how their assessments of their activism have changed over time." --Donald A. Ritchie, U.S. Senate Historical Office

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Book SynopsisExamines the cultural, political, and legal representations of Mexican Americans and the development of US capitalism and nationhood. From the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 through the period of mass repatriation of US Mexican laborers in 1939, this book explores both Mexican-American and Anglo-American cultural production.Trade ReviewDiscussions of Latino cultural citizenship and public culture have a distinguished and stimulating lineage in the work of major figures such as Renato Rosaldo, Rina Benmayour, and William Flores. With his new book that introduces literary history into the discussion, we must now add the name of John-Michael Rivera. -- José E. Limón,author of American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of CultureOffers an eloquent and compelling account of nineteenth and twentieth century cultural productionone that resituates Mexicanos at the center of thinking about U.S. nation-making during the nineteenth century and beyond. . . . This stunning new text promises to reshape literary and theoretical work in American Studies. -- Mary Pat Brady,author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographics: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of SpaceThe books research base is impressive, and Riveras reading of his sources is sophisticated, nuanced, and informed by the latest scholarship in ethnic, literary, sociological, and historical studies. -- Ernesto Chavez,University of Texas at El PasoIn elegant (and enviable) prose, Riveras work calls for continued inquest into the role of stories, land, and memory in the formation of current Mexican political collectivities. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction "How Do You Make the Invisible, Visible?": Locating Stories of Mexican Peoplehood 1 Don Zavala Goes to Washington: Translating U.S. Democracy 2 Constituting Terra Incognita: The "Mexican Question" in U.S. Print Culture 3 Embodying Manifest Destiny: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Color of Mexican Womanhood 4 Claiming Los Bilitos: Miguel Antonio Otero and the Fight for New Mexican Manhood 5 "Con su pluma en su mano": Americo Paredes and the Poetics of "Mexican American" Peoplehood Conclusion: Recovering La memoria: Locating the Recent Past Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisManning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Marlon Ross provides an intellectual history of both famous and lesser-known men who have served?controversially?as models and foils for black masculine competence. Ross examines a host of early twentieth-century cultural sites where black masculinity struggles against Jim Crow: the mobilization of the New Negro; the sexual politics of autobiography in the post-emancipation generation; the emergence of black male sociology; sexual rivalry and networking in biracial uplift institutions; Negro Renaissance arts patronage; and the sexual construction of the black urban folk novel. Focusing on the overlooked dynamics of symbolic fraternity, intimate friendship, and erotic bonding within and across gender, Manning the Race is the first book to integrate same-sexuality into the cultural histTrade ReviewIn this rich, eloquent, and indeed magisterial study, Marlon B. Ross explores how black manhood was constructed, produced, and reproduced under Jim Crow. At once cultural criticism and intellectual history, Manning the Race is a landmark contribution to the study of the deeply imbricated discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and nation. -- Valerie Smith,Princeton UniversityAn ambitious intellectual history of black manhood reform in the New Negro Movement, dating roughly from the 1890s to the 1940s. * GC Advocate *This major effort describes and analyzes how African American men were socialized and imaged for their public and private roles in the early 20th Century. Ross takes readers deeper into new dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance and African American urban life. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisManning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Marlon Ross provides an intellectual history of both famous and lesser-known men who have served?controversially?as models and foils for black masculine competence. Ross examines a host of early twentieth-century cultural sites where black masculinity struggles against Jim Crow: the mobilization of the New Negro; the sexual politics of autobiography in the post-emancipation generation; the emergence of black male sociology; sexual rivalry and networking in biracial uplift institutions; Negro Renaissance arts patronage; and the sexual construction of the black urban folk novel. Focusing on the overlooked dynamics of symbolic fraternity, intimate friendship, and erotic bonding within and across gender, Manning the Race is the first book to integrate same-sexuality into the cultural histTrade ReviewIn this rich, eloquent, and indeed magisterial study, Marlon B. Ross explores how black manhood was constructed, produced, and reproduced under Jim Crow. At once cultural criticism and intellectual history, Manning the Race is a landmark contribution to the study of the deeply imbricated discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and nation. -- Valerie Smith,Princeton UniversityAn ambitious intellectual history of black manhood reform in the New Negro Movement, dating roughly from the 1890s to the 1940s. * GC Advocate *This major effort describes and analyzes how African American men were socialized and imaged for their public and private roles in the early 20th Century. Ross takes readers deeper into new dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance and African American urban life. * CHOICE *

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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that provide the reader with a comprehensive, even-handed sense of the theoretical underpinnings, methodological challenges, and research necessary to understand the problems associated with racial and ethnic profiling and police bias.Trade ReviewThis timely and comprehensive volume sheds badly-needed light on the complex interaction between police and communities of color. Few issues rank higher on the nation's justice reform agenda. Get it right, and we enhance police legitimacy and reduce crime; get it wrong, and we create inner city tinderboxes. This formidable compendium of scholarship will help us get it right. -- Jeremy Travis,President, John Jay College of Criminal JusticeThis timely volume brings together the leading scholars on the topic of race, ethnicity and policing in one collection. The selections provide a solid, evidence based treatment of the key criminal justice issue of our time. -- Scott H. Decker,co-author of Confronting Gangs: Crime and CommunityTable of ContentsIntroduction Overview 1 A Sketch of the Policeman's Working Personality 2 Driving While Black 3 The Stories, the Statistics, and the Law 4 Legitimacy and Cooperation 5 Race and Policing in Different Ecological Contexts 6 Racially Biased Policing 7 Methods for Assessing Racially Biased Policing 8 Using Geographic Information Systems to Study Race, Crime, and Policing 9 Beyond Stop Rates 10 State of the Science in Racial Profi ling Research 11 Driving While Black 12 Citizens' Demeanor, Race, and Traffic Stops 13 Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited 14 Community Characteristics and Police Search Rates 15 Blind Justice: Police Shootings in Memphis 16 Race, Bias, and Police Use of the TASER 17 Space, Place, and Immigration 18 Revisiting the Role of Latinos and Immigrants in Police Research 19 New Avenues for Profi ling and Bias Research 20 Preventing Racially Biased Policing through Internal and External Controls 21 Democratic Policing 22 Moving Beyond Profiling: The Virtues of RandomizationAbout the ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHarvard has played a curiously central role in the American cultural imagination, a role that is fraught with ambiguity. In no part of our society is this more the case than in black America. This important book brings together for the first time two hundred years of reflection on the curious relation of black culture to Harvard, and Harvard's complex relation to black people. A fascinating collection, extraordinarily well-researched, an essential text for all who are interested in the history of African-Americans in higher education. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Book SynopsisA topical discussion of the controversial use of American Indian mascots by college-level and professional sports teams.Trade ReviewHonest, insightful, and a well balanced analysis of this complicated problem. Spindel has discovered the confusing reservoir of tangled emotions that underlie American attitudes towards Indians-and toward themselves. A 'must read'. -- Vine Deloria, Jr.,Professor of History Emeritus, University of Colorado and a Standing Rock Sioux tribal memberI celebrate Dancing at Halftime, which brings Carol Spindel's wry and penetrating perception to this subject. As she well understands, it is a cipher through which one can read the deeper meanings not only of American history but of contemporary life today. -- Susan Griffin,author of A Chorus of StonesSpindel displays considerable courage in tackling a controversial subject. A very personal account of the twentieth-century phenomenon of American Indians used as sports mascots, Dancing at Halftime also contains some fascinating history of early college football. The whole is strongly and beautifully written. -- Dee Brown,author of Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeWith clear and compelling language, Spindel shows us how the naive rituals of a previous era can become the insensitive orthodoxy of today. I can't imagine a more readable-or a more even-handed-exploration of the mascot issue. This should be required reading for anyone committed to building a new sense of community in the United States. -- Frederick E. Hoxie,Swanlund Professor, University of Illinois, and editor of The Encyclopedia of North American IndiansYesterday's racism we recognize and we are embarrassed by it. Today's racism we often do not recognize until we read something like Carol Spindel's clear and fascinating message in Dancing at Halftime. -- Senator Paul SimonTable of ContentsHome Game The Controversy Myth and Mascot Races of Living Things Starved Rock That Roughneck Indian Game Sons of Modern Illini Folded Leaves The Wild West Chills to the Spine, Tears to the Eyes The Speakers Have It All Wrong In Whose Honor? Signaling The Spoils of Victory Coloring Books What Do I Know about Indians? The Wistful Reservoir Dancing Scandalous and Disparaging The Tribe A Young Child Speaking A Racially Hostile Environment? Homecoming Video Letters

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Book SynopsisDrawn from a wide range of disciplines, the contributors to this volume explore how ideologies of race and racism intersect with nationality and gender to shape the research experience. They suggest how a critical race perspective might improve research methodologies.Trade Review"A remarkable collection of essays interrogating the political, methodological and ethical dilemmas of conducting research in racially stratified societies. These theoretically astute and ethnographically rich case studies compellingly demonstrate how the production of knowledge is framed and mediated by the racialized subject positions held by social scientists. Racing Research, Researching Race will no doubt incite a critical and long overdue discussion of the racial politics of ethnographic fieldwork." -- Steven Gregory,author of Black Corona, and Professor of Africana and American Studies at New York University"Absolutely critical reading. This volume powerfully explores how scholars' own racial background shapes the analytical lens with which they view whiteness, blackness . . . the exoticism and eroticism of racial ‘others' and the domain of white privilege." -- William Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University"Essential reading for all those whose research explicitly engages racial issues, and for all those who do not realize that their work inevitably engages racial issues." -- Ruth Frankenberg, author of White Women, Race Matters and editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Cultural Criticism"Points to the ethical dilemmas of researchers researching race among communities that are at once ‘victims' of racism and active in the continued process of racialization." -- Rinaldo Walcott,author of Black Like Who?, and Professor of Humanities, York University (Canada)"Timely and challenging, this innovative book engages questions and dilemmas that researchers on race and racism rarely talk about in public. Refreshingly clear and comparative in scope, it is a must reading in all courses about race and ethnic relations, calling for a fundamental rethinking of research agendas in this field." -- John Solomos, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick

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Book SynopsisFurther investigations of what race and racism mean in America.Trade Review"“...It is a MUST read for any educator." * The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues *"Offers fascinating new insights to the longstanding debate over racial discrimination in the United States. This important book will undoubtedly be influential in helping us analyze some of the most pressing civil rights issues of the twenty-first century." -- Kevin R. Johnson,University of California, Davis, School of Law"A very thoughtful analysis of the need to move beyond the traditional black/white paradigm to address the dynamic aspects of racialized inequalities. . . . This provocative book will be widely discussed and debated." -- William Julius Wilson,Harvard University"This book joins a growing body of work that challenges essentialist ideas about race while also rejecting the colorblind and end-of-racism theses of conservative commentators...The authors have done an excellent job of articulating the implications of what it means to bring class back into critical race theory." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisPatterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Okinawa, Australia, and New Zealand. In particular, the volume's editors ask: how have new global flows of ideas, goods, and people affected the lives and social placements of people of mixed descent? Thirteen original chapters address the ways mixed-race individuals defy, bolster, speak, and live racial categorization, paying attention to the ways that these experiences help us think through how we see and engage with social differences. The contributors also highlight how mixed-race people can sometimes be used as emblems of mulTrade ReviewGlobal Mixed Race is a comprehensive compilation of world mixed-race identities, histories, and issues. The editors have expertly prepared for comparison and intrinsic interest contemporary and timely discussions of mixed race as an increasingly recognized dimension of racial and ethnic diversity in the 21st century. From post-modern popular culture to academic race theory, this exciting, ground-breaking collection will be a standard resource and reference for general readers, multidisciplinary scholars, and specialists of race, ethnicity, culture, and mixed race. -- Naomi Zack,author of Race and Mixed RaceGlobal Mixed Race is a very welcome addition to the literature on race and mixedness. Its vibrant case studies, comparative frame and historical grounding offer a useful guide for understanding what contemporary concepts and experiences of 'mixed race' owe to global trends and local specificities. A must-read for anyone interested in racialization in its many forms. -- Kimberly Dacosta,author of Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color LineThis superb volume lays the groundwork for an emergent and exciting global comparative framework for understanding mixed race categories and identities. By decentering U.S. mixed race histories and experiences, these essays make us attentive to how notions such as nation and class, and processes such as colonization and migration, are fundamentally complicit in shaping the very definition and meaning of 'mixed race.' -- Michael Omi,co-author of Racial Formation in the United StatesMixtureracial, national, ethnicwhile not a new phenomenon is increasingly evident in todays globalized world. The authors of these 12 absorbing essays examine and discuss the status, identity, and life experiences of mixed-decent individuals and communities in different cultural and political environment. . . . This fine book makes valuable contributions to the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in a period of unprecedented global change.Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAn IntroductionPart I: Societies with Established Populations of Mixed Descent 1. Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective 2. "Rider of Two Horses": Eurafricans in Zambia Juliette Bridgette 3. "Split Me in Two": Gender, Identity, and "Race Mixing" in the Trinidad and Tobago Nation 4. In the Laboratory of Peoples' Friendship: Mixed People in Kazakhstan from the Soviet Era to the Present 5. Competing Narratives: Race and Multiraciality in the Brazilian Racial Order 6. Antipodean Mixed Race: Australia and New Zealand 7. Negotiating Identity Narratives among Mexico's Cosmic RacePart II: Places with Newer Populations of Mixed Descent 8. Multiraciality and Migration: Mixed-Race American Okinawans, 1945-1972 9. The Curious Career of the One-Drop Rule: Multiraciality and Membership in Germany Today 10. Capturing "Mixed Race" in the Decennial UK Censuses: Are Current Approaches Sustainable in the Age of Globalization and Superdiversity? 11. Exporting the Mixed-Race Nation: Mixed-Race Identities in the Canadian ContextA ConclusionBibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn era of mass immigration to the United States has brought newcomers from the most diverse class and national origins, legal statuses, and cultural backgrounds. Their children too come in all castes and hues, sometimes in unimaginable circumstances, and must adapt in highly variable and rapidly changing conditions. This fascinating volumethe most illuminating single book on the subject to dateemploys a wide-angle ecological framework to understand their developmental contexts, processes, and (at times paradoxical) outcomes, from health and mental health to identity and acculturation, language and religion, academic achievement and civic engagement. Transitions is a superb contribution, offering a wise and thorough assessment of a vast field and of future directions for research, practice and policy. -- Rubén G. Rumbaut,co-author of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second GenerationOffers a stunning developmental psychology of childhood in motion. . . . These children enter the U.S. with and without parents or papers, with and without dreams, trauma or bellies full of hope. Through this book we bear witness to stories of the social and psychological processes they enact and embody, and the wildly varied outcomes they produce and endure. Beautifully written for the general public and college students, future teachers, lawyers, social workers and community members with a soul, Transitions is a mirror to yesterday, a GPS to tomorrow, and a vivid history of the contemporary reimagination of America. A gift to psychology and education, this study has been delicately midwifed and tenderly inscribed by creative and talented researchers, Carola Suárez-Orozco, Mona Abo-Zena and Amy Marks. -- Michelle Fine,Graduate Center at the City University of New YorkThis important new book humanizes the experience of immigrant youth by illuminating how they cope with the numerous challenges they face in adjusting to a new country and culture. Insightful, informative and thought provoking, this book will be an invaluable resource to those who seek to move beyond the headlines to understand the experience of immigrant youth. -- Pedro A. Noguera,Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education, New York University

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Book SynopsisA realistic account of the porous US-Mexico border - from both sidesTrade ReviewThis engaging, entertaining, and educational 14-chapter book is a call to action for all to work on improving cross-border cooperation. Recommended for all readership levels. * CHOICE *[O]ne insight that is clearly articulated throughout this work is that the decisions that our governments make, whether unilaterally or cooperatively, have direct and critically important impact on their constituents. -- David Hatten * clcjbooks *"No doubt, borders are incredibly fascinating. And if you want a pleasant way to understand the multitude of factors driving the enormous legal and illicit traffic across the U.S.-Mexico border, then Run for the Border is the book for you. Benders detailed and nuanced review of the U.S.-Mexican border, its history and its complexity, is invaluable. It presents a very readable collection of historic to very modern examples demonstrating why people move goods and themselves in both directions. Benders rich analysis gives us the tools to understand what is wrongand occasionally right--with our trade, immigration and drug policies. In reviewing immigration reform and drug legalization Steve Bender makes some sober and some surprising policy suggestions. Run for the Border takes common U.S. border mythology and smashes it to pieces. What is left after reading this very interesting and compelling book is a much richer understanding of the U.S.-Mexico border. It uses history and modern cultural references to show what the border is and does. We also learn how and why people, legally and otherwise, have crossed goods and themselves over it for the past 150 years. Bender reveals the complexity of border traffic and shows us, strand by strand, how it works. Along the way, he also exposes the unfortunate fog of myths, stereotypes, and rank racism that have obscured our understanding of the border and the people who cross it. Run for the Borders fact-based approach gets us well beyond the din of the intense and sometimes bitter debate over immigration and drug policies. -- Raymond C. Caballero,former mayor of El Paso, TX"Benders account offers an important corrective to the idea that there is any single narrative that ought to drive the complex debate on immigration policy. With a series of graphic illustrations Bender explodes many of the myths about immigration and tells the complicated interlocking series of stories that have colored our understanding of the relationship this country has had with Mexico and which Mexico has had with us. It is an important and valuable contribution to the increasingly vituperative political debate on how to manage the border. -- Gerald Torres,author of The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming DemocracyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I . Running for the Border to Escape Justice 1 El Fugitivo Part I I . Economic Motivations for Southbound Border Runs 2 Gringos in Paradise 3 A Giant Sucking Sound Part I I I . Illicit Motivations for Southbound Border Runs 4 Margaritaville: The Lure of Alcohol 5 Losin' It: Prostitution and the Child Sex Trade 6 Going Southbound: Mexican Divorces and Medical Border Runs Part IV. Economic Motivations for Northbound Border Runs 7 Rum-Running for the Border 8 Acapulco Gold 9 Coming to America Part V. A Framework for Comprehensive Border Reform 10 Lessons from 150 Years of Border Crossings 11 Good Neighbor Immigration Policy viii | Contents 12 Reefer Madness 13 A Framework for Southbound Crossings 14 Laws the Border Leaves Behind Conclusion Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisPoints to a Third Way between liberals and conservatives, combining a commitment to government expenditures that enhance the incomes of working familiesTrade Review"Offers highly sophisticated proposals for helping working families advance in the wake of welfare reform. Cherry and Lerman are very expert, and they write very well."" -- Lawrence M. Mead,Co-editor of Welfare Reform and Political TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 A Third Way Perspective 2 Employment Growth: Its Strengths and Limitations 3 Evaluating Targeted Policies 4 Combating Racial Earnings Disparities 5 Combating Gender Earnings Disparities 6 Refocusing Community College Programs 7 Strengthening Partnerships 8 Revising Government Tax Policies 9 Redirecting Immigration Policies 10 Recasting Housing Subsidies 11 The Politics of Reform Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing pre and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, this title investigates the ways in which racially 'in-between' people and communities were brought to heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic.Trade ReviewPartly Coloredis a work that should be read not only by those interested in the South or regionalism but by all scholars interested in issues of racialization. -- Jennifer Ho * Journal of Asian American Studies *Bow's work is an imoprtant contribution to Asian American studies and southern literary criticism, and it brings together two forms of intellectual inquiry that have been treated as quite distinct by other scholars. -- Krystyn R. Moon * The Journal of Southern History *Intelligent and provocative. Partly Colored exemplifies the full possibility of & trans scholarshiptransnational, transracial, transgender, and transdisciplinary. With a deep appreciation of the ways in which mobility, hybridity and interstitiality itself exist within systems of power, accommodating themselves to the tropes and laws of the white supremacist South, Bow consistently demonstrates the telling power of black/white divisions. -- David Roediger,author of How Race Survived U.S. HistoryThrough her brilliantly executed and wide ranging analyses of how Asian Americans, Native Americans and other & partly colored subjects in the American South have been depicted and have depicted themselves, Bow reveals the region to be haunted by a different set of racial histories than the ones with which we have become familiar. She offers a revelatory perspective on how those who occupy the liminal zone between black and white negotiate the dynamic and contradictory social processes that sustain a monochromatic conception of race. -- Daniel Y. Kim,author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of IdentityAn impressive and well-researched interdisciplinary response. * MELUS *Scrutinizing the bipolar axis of power separating black from white under the Jim Crowe system of segregation, Bow tracks the oppression and elision of those who are partly colored"here chiefly Asian Americans but with comparative nods to Native Americans and the binaries characterizing gender and sexuality . . . What she finds is not a "third space" apart from black or white but an eneven extension of repression of racial differences into which Asian American subjects are shoehorned or erased. * Journal of American History *In a refreshingly wide-ranging study, Bow compares the circumstances of the Lumbee Indians with those of Asiansthe two groups were not classified as black or white. The author considers the consequences of intermarriage in the racialization of Asians, as well as the roles of class and gender. Above all, she explores the rich interstitial possibilities of Asians being in-between set categories. This stimulating read is suitable for a broad audience. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Interstitially 1 Coloring between the Lines: Historiographies of Southern Anomaly 2 The Interstitial Indian: The Lumbee and Segregation's Middle Caste 3 White Is and White Ain't: Failed Approximation and Eruptions of Funk in Representations of the Chinese in the South 4 Anxieties of the 'Partly Colored' 5 Productive Estrangement: Racial-Sexual Continuums in Asian American as Southern Literature 6 Transracial/Transgender: Analogies of Difference in Mai's America Afterword: Continuums, Mobility, Places on the Train Notes Works Cited Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing pre and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, this title investigates the ways in which racially 'in-between' people and communities were brought to heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic.Trade ReviewPartly Coloredis a work that should be read not only by those interested in the South or regionalism but by all scholars interested in issues of racialization. -- Jennifer Ho * Journal of Asian American Studies *Bow's work is an imoprtant contribution to Asian American studies and southern literary criticism, and it brings together two forms of intellectual inquiry that have been treated as quite distinct by other scholars. -- Krystyn R. Moon * The Journal of Southern History *Intelligent and provocative. Partly Colored exemplifies the full possibility of & trans scholarshiptransnational, transracial, transgender, and transdisciplinary. With a deep appreciation of the ways in which mobility, hybridity and interstitiality itself exist within systems of power, accommodating themselves to the tropes and laws of the white supremacist South, Bow consistently demonstrates the telling power of black/white divisions. -- David Roediger,author of How Race Survived U.S. HistoryThrough her brilliantly executed and wide ranging analyses of how Asian Americans, Native Americans and other & partly colored subjects in the American South have been depicted and have depicted themselves, Bow reveals the region to be haunted by a different set of racial histories than the ones with which we have become familiar. She offers a revelatory perspective on how those who occupy the liminal zone between black and white negotiate the dynamic and contradictory social processes that sustain a monochromatic conception of race. -- Daniel Y. Kim,author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of IdentityAn impressive and well-researched interdisciplinary response. * MELUS *Scrutinizing the bipolar axis of power separating black from white under the Jim Crowe system of segregation, Bow tracks the oppression and elision of those who are partly colored"here chiefly Asian Americans but with comparative nods to Native Americans and the binaries characterizing gender and sexuality . . . What she finds is not a "third space" apart from black or white but an eneven extension of repression of racial differences into which Asian American subjects are shoehorned or erased. * Journal of American History *In a refreshingly wide-ranging study, Bow compares the circumstances of the Lumbee Indians with those of Asiansthe two groups were not classified as black or white. The author considers the consequences of intermarriage in the racialization of Asians, as well as the roles of class and gender. Above all, she explores the rich interstitial possibilities of Asians being in-between set categories. This stimulating read is suitable for a broad audience. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Interstitially 1 Coloring between the Lines: Historiographies of Southern Anomaly 2 The Interstitial Indian: The Lumbee and Segregation's Middle Caste 3 White Is and White Ain't: Failed Approximation and Eruptions of Funk in Representations of the Chinese in the South 4 Anxieties of the 'Partly Colored' 5 Productive Estrangement: Racial-Sexual Continuums in Asian American as Southern Literature 6 Transracial/Transgender: Analogies of Difference in Mai's America Afterword: Continuums, Mobility, Places on the Train Notes Works Cited Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisEnhances our understanding of how prevalent segregation and hate-crime remain, and offers insightful analysis of a complex mix of remedies that can work to address this difficult problemTrade Review"Hate They Neighbor shows in devastating detail the rise and persistence of tactics for preventing residential racial integration, starting in the 20th century and continuing into the present. Although many minorities can find good housing in areas they can afford, just enough of their neighbors still greet them with cross-burnings, firebombs, and violence to send an ongoing warning: integrate at your own risk." -- Amanda I. Seligman,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee"A fascinating and deeply upsetting look at the issue of white Americans perpetrating violence in order to prevent housing integration. Recommended for scholarly readers interested in the intersection of law, public policy, and race." -- Rachel Bridgewater * Library Journal *"Puts an unsparing spotlight on one of the least discussed yet most intractable barriers to full civil rights for all Americans. . . . Stunning and tragic. . . . Hate Thy Neighbor is both empirical and poignant. Her proposals for how to address this enduring scandal will, without any doubt, launch new reflection, new movements, new hope." -- Patricia J. Williams,Columbia Law School""An important, informative, disturbing, surprisingly encouraging book. Although Ive taught, researched, and written about housing discrimination and segregation for decades, this book exposed me to much that I hadnt known.. . . The facts Bell relates are shocking in their cruelty and brutality. . . . A'must read' for anyone concerned about residential racial discrimination and segregation. " -- Florence Wagman Roisman,William F. Harvey Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law"Another new book to share with the younger generation is Jeannine Bell's Hate Thy Neighbor, a sobering reminder of how the legacy of the past lives on...Bell's book offers an important reality check for those who believe that racism is no longer a problem." * Tikkun *"In the bookHate Thy Neighbor, Jeannine Bell turns our attention to the often overlooked factor of anti-integrationist violence as a threat to minority decisions to move into white neighborhoods. In an era when most whites view racial struggles to be a thing of the past, Bells data is not only a stark reminder of how far we have to go, but also a demonstration of our legal systems failure to provide sufficient remedy for such acts." * American Journal of Sociology *"An impassioned advocate, the author puts a human face on statistics, drawing our attention to the financial and psychological damage sustained by individual victims of move-in violence...The cumulative effect is powerful and disturbing, a nuanced view of race relations in the age of Obama and a reminder to civil rights advocates of unfinished business." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Violence and the Neighborhood Color Line 1. The Roots of Contemporary Move-In Violence 2. The Contemporary Dynamics of Move-In Violence 3. Anti-Integrationist Violence and the Tolerance-Violence Paradox4. Racism or Power? Explaining Perpetrator Motivation in Interethnic Cases5. When Class Trumps Race: Explaining Perpetrator Motivation in Interclass Cases6. Responding to Neighborhood Hate Crimes Conclusion: The Reality of Anti-Integrationist Violence and Prospects for IntegrationNotes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisSports Matters brings critical attention to the centrality of race within the politics and pleasures of the massive sports culture that developed in the U.S. during the past century and a half.Trade Review"Most of the contributions strongly project the authors' perceptions of the role of race on their subjects, and essays should elicit lively discussions in the classroom." --CHOICETable of ContentsI Sports in the Era of Segregation 1 Duke Kahanamoku's Body 2 Jump for Joy 3 Baseball along the Columbia 4 Mexican American Baseball II Sports in the Era of the Civil Rights Movement 5 Jazzing the Basepaths 6 The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing 7 "We Want a Pennant, Not a White Team" 8 Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? 9 Documenting Myth III Sports and Race in the Post-Cold War Era 10 The Silence of the Rams 11 Warriors and Thieves 12 Running with Her Head Down 13 Saving Face, Place, and Race 14 Race in Soccer as a Global Sport 15 Tiger Woods at the Center of History

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Book SynopsisThe autobiography of Chief Rickard, who fought for the recognition of his Tuscarora nation throughout his life. He led his people in the Indian resistance to federal policies, and founded the Indian Defense League of America.Trade ReviewRickard (1882-1971) was one of the greatest Indian leaders of this century. Had he lived in another century he might have been a Sitting Bull, a Black Hawk, or a Chief Joseph, for he was cut from the same cloth as these leaders. But Clinton Rickard lived and fought in this century, and the weapons he used were the law, public indignation, and diplomacy. . . . One of the most significant books published on the contemporary American Indian. Its rare insights into contemporary Indian problems make the book essential reading for anyone interested in understanding 20th century Indian politics and history.' No less important than the recorded words of Wooden Leg, Black Elk, Black Hawk, and other articulate Indian leaders. The life of Rickard is a fascinating one. . . . Fighting Tuscarora is an example of oral history at its best. Highly readable. . . . The appeal of the book is enhanced by useful maps and a large selection of photographs.

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Book SynopsisArab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centred struggles. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities, occupations, sexualities, class backgrounds, and generations.

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Trade ReviewOver the past century and a half, numerous Middle Eastern Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities have experienced marginalization, violence, and ultimately displacement. These conflicts have led many to the mistaken conclusion that an endemic, immutable religious intolerance plagues the region. By contextualizing a selection of local experiences, the essays included in this book offer an important corrective.""—Joshua Schreier, associate professor of history, Vassar College

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Book SynopsisOffers a country-by-country critical assessment of the available scholarship on Arab families. Sixteen chapters focus on specific countries or groups of countries; seven chapters offer examinations of the literature on key topical issues. Joseph's volume provides an indispensable resource to researchers and students, and advances Arab family studies as a critical independent field of scholarship.Trade ReviewA monumental piece of scholarship, obviously years in the making. Undoubtedly, it will be an invaluable resource for anyone carrying out research or teaching on family and kinship in the Arab world.' - Julie Peteet, professor of anthropology and director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies program, University of Louisville

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Book SynopsisThe collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves.

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Book SynopsisThe collected essays in this volume capture the history and significance of Arab American women, addressing issues of migration, transformation, and reformation as these women invented occupations, politics, philosophies, scholarship, literature, arts, and, ultimately, themselves.

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Book SynopsisDescribes the people of a small town in Mexico and their remarkable knowledge of the natural world in which they live. Eugene S. Hunn writes sensitively and respectfully about the rich understanding of local flora and fauna that village inhabitants have acquired and transmitted over many centuries.

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Book SynopsisPresents a conversation about culture wars and affirmative action. This book analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. It exposes a discursive tug-of-war over antidiscrimination policies during the nineties.

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Book SynopsisPresents a conversation about culture wars and affirmative action. This book analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. It exposes a discursive tug-of-war over antidiscrimination policies during the nineties.

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Book SynopsisRethinking ideas about identity politics and critical thoughtTrade Review"Identity Complex is a brilliantly argued, much needed intervention that redefines the terms and changes the stakes of the contemporary debate over identity politics. Michael Hames-García's transformative understanding of identity formations establishes his standing as the foremost scholar in the field." —Donald Pease, Dartmouth CollegeTable of ContentsContentsPreface1. Who Are Our Own People?2. How Real Is Race?3. Are Sexual Identities Desirable?4. Do Prisons Make Better Men?Conclusion: Reflections on Identity in the Obama EraAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA stinging critique of the link between global capitalism and U.S. multiculturalismsTrade Review"A brilliant correction to both Weber and Winant, Represent and Destroy demonstrates how ‘the control over the means of rationality’ characterizes post-World War II US liberal racial orders. Working against the grain of change-as-progress, Jodi Melamed painstakingly demonstrates how official anti-racism has steadied, rather than dissolved, race as a structuring force of capitalism." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Producing Discourses of Certainty with Official Antiracisms1. Killing Sympathies: Racial Liberalism and Race Novels2. Counterinsurgent Canon Wars and Surviving Liberal Multiculturalism3. Making Global Citizens: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Literary Value4. Difference as Strategy in International Indigenous Peoples' MovementsEpilogue: Rematerializing AntiracismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review "ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui artfully performs the cultural and intellectual labor of overturning dominant paradigms and creating new ways of seeing and being an Kanaka 'Oiwi (Indigenous Hawaiian) woman and member of the Lahui (Nation) that draws inspiration from the volcano goddess Pele and her favored youngest siste Hi'iaka, patron of hula. This is an important and exciting book." —Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i"An amazingly well-crafted, well-selected, and well-analyzed lei that is, in and of itself, an incredibly powerful narrative destined to become an integral component of the intellectual lei of Kanaka Maoli literature."—Native American and Indigenous Studies JournalTable of ContentsPapa Kuhikuhi / Table of ContentsKa Pule Wehe / The Opening Prayer: Kūnihi ka Mauna (Steep Stands the Mountain)Ka Pane / The ResponseʻŌlelo Haʻi Mua / PrefaceNā Mahalo / AcknowledgmentsʻŌlelo Mua / Introduction: Ke Haʻa lā Puna i ka Makani (Puna Dances in the Breeze)Mokuna / Chapter 1. Mai Kahiki Mai ka Wahine ʻo Pele (From Kahiki Came the Woman, Pele): Historicizing the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 2. ʻO nā Lehua wale i Ka‘ana (The Lehua Blossoms Alone at Kaʻana): Weaving the Moʻokūʻauhau of Oral and Literary TraditionsMokuna / Chapter 3. Lele ʻana ʻo Kaʻena i ka Mālie (Kaʻena Soars Like a Bird in the Calm): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo as Intellectual HistoryMokuna / Chapter 4. Ke Lei maila ʻo Kaʻula i ke Kai ē (Kaʻula Is Wreathed by the Sea): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo and Kanaka Maoli CultureMokuna / Chapter 5. ʻO ʻOe ia e Wailua Iki (It Is You, Wailua Iki): Mana Wahine in the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 6. Hulihia Ka Mauna (The Mountain Is Overturned by Fire): Weaving a Literary Tradition: The Polytexts and Politics of the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 7. Aloha Kīlauea, ka ʻĀina Aloha (Beloved Is Kīlauea, the Beloved Land): Remembering, Reclaiming, Recovering, and Retelling: Pele and Hi‘iaka Mo‘olelo as Hawaiian Literary NationalismKa Pule Pani / The Closing PrayerʻŌlelo Wehewehe Hope / NotesPapa Wehewehe ‘Ōlelo / GlossaryPapa Kuhikuhi o nā Mea Kūmole ʻia / Works CitedPapa Kuhikuhi Hōʻike / Index

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Book SynopsisThe Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or rather the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Valérie Loichot employs cross-disciplinary methods to rethink notions of race and literary influence by providing a fresh perspective on forms of consumption both metaphorical and material.Trade Review"The Tropics Bite Back is a brilliant and highly original work of scholarship from one of the outstanding voices in contemporary Francophone studies. Valérie Loichot identifies cannibalism as the master trope of Antillean Literature, and goes on in this mature and insightful book to explore and analyze its various manifestations in a series of penetrating and novel readings. Exciting and profound, the book is both engaged and engaging." —Nick Nesbitt, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Cannibal and the Edible1. From Gumbo to Masala: Édouard Glissant’s Creolization in the Circum-Caribbean2. Not Just Hunger: Patrick Chamoiseau, Aimé Césaire, and Jean-Baptiste Labat3. Kitchen Narrative: Food and Exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisèle Pineau4. Sexual Traps: Dany Laferrière and Gisèle Pineau5. Literary Cannibals: Suzanne Césaire and Maryse CondéAfterword: Can Hunger Speak?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The public space of higher education is under siege. The Imperial University interrogates in brilliant detail the nature of such attacks and the hidden structures of power and politics that define them. But it does more in providing a passionate call to rethink higher education part of a future in which learning is linked to social change. A crucial book for anyone who imagines the university as both an essential public sphere and an index of what a democracy should be." —Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University"Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira’s The Imperial University charts the many ways that institutions of higher education fail to meet the needs of students and the teachers who instruct them. It’s a wonderful, stimulating and anger-inducing book."—Truthout"No book indexes the political brutalism that often hounds academic settings these days so intimately and nerve-rackingly as this one. This is, far and away, the most affecting, comprehensive, and visionary collection of essays published to date on the politics of contemporary higher education."—Academe"Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira provide an invaluable collection of scholarship on the transformation of the University into an apparatus of empire and the U.S. War on Terror."—American Studies Journal"A thoughtfully and often passionately crafted volume that problematized issues of academic-militaristic collusion, American exceptionalism, academic freedom, and in many cases, expulsion from the ivory tower."—Journal for Peace and Justice Studies"A provocative interrogation."—Journal of American History"Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira take great care to bring the battles on university campuses home to readers with great immediacy and in their full connection to warfare, militarism, racism, the politics of nationalism, and neoliberal versions of imperial violence."—American QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. The Imperial University: Race, War, and the Nation-StatePiya Chatterjee and Sunaina MairaI. Imperial Cartographies1. New Empire, Same University? Education in the American Tropics after 1898Victor Bascara2. Militarizing Education: The Intelligence Community’s Spy CampsRoberto J. González3. Challenging Complicity: The Neoliberal University and the Prison-Industrial ComplexJulia C. OparahII. Academic Containment4. Neoliberalism, Militarization, and the Price of Dissent: Policing Protest at the University of CaliforniaFarah Godrej5. Faculty Governance at the University of Southern CaliforniaLaura Pulido6. The BDS Movement and Violations of Academic Freedom at Wayne State UniversityThomas Abowd7. Decolonizing Chicano Studies in the Shadows of the University’s “Heteropatriracial” OrderAna Clarissa Rojas DurazoIII. Manifest Knowledges8. Normatizing State Power: Uncritical Ethical Praxis and ZionismSteven Salaita9. Nobody Mean More: Black Feminist Pedagogy and SolidarityAlexis Pauline Gumbs10. Teaching outside Liberal-Imperial Discourse: A Critical Dialogue about Antiracist FeminismsSylvanna Falcón, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott, and Dana Collins11. Citation and Censure: Pinkwashing and the Sexual Politics of Talking about IsraelJasbir PuarIV. Heresies and Freedoms12. Within and Against the Imperial University: Reflections on Crossing the LineNicholas De Genova13. Teaching by CandlelightVijay Prashad14. UCOP versus R. Dominguez —The FBI Interview: A One-Act Play á la Jean GenetRicardo DominguezAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Slaves of the State cannot receive enough superlatives: eye-opening, deeply disturbing, intellectually stimulating, terrible, brilliant. Dennis Childs has written a moving and intricately researched book, which weaves novels and memory, the past and the present, ancient artifacts and modern tools of repression to reveal an unwelcome truth about modern day America and the biggest prison system on earth."—Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal"Dennis Childs ‘digs a ditch’ in Slaves of the State, laboring to present the tortured captives of chain gangs and penitentiaries in ways that bring the captors to shame. With incisive scholarship, Childs analyzes the terrors of black incarceration and trauma. This daring book simplifies a democracy corrupted by penal enslavement. Its haunting critique of the racial-sexual production of misery and ghosts, through the ‘terrorizing structure of US penal law,’ needs to be read and remembered."—Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved CommunityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. “Inhuman Punishment”: The (Un)dead Book of Chattel Carcerality 1. “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”: Beloved and the Middle Passage Carceral Model2. “Except as Punishment for a Crime”: The Thirteenth Amendment and the Rebirth of Chattel Imprisonment3. Angola Penitentiary: The Once and Future Slave Plantation4. The Warfare of Northern Neoslavery in Chester Himes’s Yesterday Will Make You CryAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The reader is instilled with belief and optimism that social organizing around common needs holds great potential for changing the fabric of society one relationship at a time. This book is a solid contribution to the field of urban studies, and the knowledge it contributes is important to the perspective of practitioners of urban policy planning."—Progressive City"It is more than refreshing to find a scholarly book with a message of hope, albeit a carefully calibrated message."—Journal of Planning Education and Research"By focusing on globally pervasive patterns of discrimination against immigrants and investigating their possible remedies at a microlevel, the four geographers are asking their readers to drop the blinkers of privilege. Their earnest and carefully documented efforts pay close and respectful attention to what people actually do in their daily lives in the city."—H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The reader is instilled with belief and optimism that social organizing around common needs holds great potential for changing the fabric of society one relationship at a time. This book is a solid contribution to the field of urban studies, and the knowledge it contributes is important to the perspective of practitioners of urban policy planning."—Progressive City"It is more than refreshing to find a scholarly book with a message of hope, albeit a carefully calibrated message."—Journal of Planning Education and Research"By focusing on globally pervasive patterns of discrimination against immigrants and investigating their possible remedies at a microlevel, the four geographers are asking their readers to drop the blinkers of privilege. Their earnest and carefully documented efforts pay close and respectful attention to what people actually do in their daily lives in the city."—H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Innovative and ambitious, this book will undoubtedly become a key reference when debating the issue of anti-Muslim racism. Offering a range of analysis—linking anti-Muslim racism to the global phenomenon of imperialism—With Stones in Our Hands is a crucial work in the building of a true decolonial theory."—Houria Bouteldja, author of Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love"A timely updating of critical interventions and debates—of stone throwing in the best of anticolonizing traditions—from, about, and in conversation with the ‘Muslim Left,’ the ‘Muslim International.’ In the spirit of Third World studies, this is a crucial contribution for our times, a necessary read for all."—David Theo Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute"With Stones in our Hands offers theoretical application to historical and contemporary examples of anti-Muslim racisms, primarily in the US. Like any edited volume, the quality and character of the essays vary, but as a whole, this is a solid and distinctive collection well deserving of a wide readership." —Reading Religion "Daulatzai and Rana have put together a very strong collection of essays that accomplishes their purpose of giving voice to the Muslim Left and Muslim International while also providing interesting and insightful diversity." —Marginalia Review of BooksTable of ContentsWriting the Muslim Left: An Introduction to Throwing Stones Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid RanaI. Imperial Racism 1. A Palestinian Exception to the First Amendment? The Pain and Pleasure of Palestine in the Public SphereSteven Salaita 2. The Perils of American Muslim PoliticsAbdullah Al-Arian and Hafsa Kanjwal 3. Duplicity and Fear: Toward a Race and Class Critique of IslamophobiaStephen Sheehi 4. Palestinian Resistance and the Indivisibility of JusticeRabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi5. “From Here to Our Homelands”: An Interview with Lara Kiswani on Radical Organizing and Internationalism in the Post-9/11 Era Sohail DaulatzaiII. Decolonizing Geographies 6. Oppressed Majority: Violence and Muslim Communities in Multicultural EuropeFatima El-Tayeb7. Atlanta, Civil Rights, and Blackamerican IslamAbbas Barzegar 8. Like 1979 All Over Again: Resisting Left Liberalism among Iranian ÉmigrésArash Davari 9. The Only Good Muslim Is a Loyal, Exotic, or Dead Muslim, or All of the AboveVivek Bald 10. Charlie, National Unity, and Colonial-SubjectsSelim Nadi11. “Nuts and Bolts Organizing, They Work Everywhere:” An Interview with Fahd Ahmed on Mass-Based Organizing and the National Security StateJunaid RanaIII. Technologies of Surveillance and Control12. “A Catastrophically Damaged Gene Pool”: Law, White Supremacy, and the Muslim PsycheSherene H. Razack13. Death by Double-Tap: (Undoing) Racial Logics in the Age of Drone WarfareRonak Kapadia14. The Cry for Human Rights: Violence, Transition, and the Egyptian RevolutionNadine Naber and Atef Said15. Learning in the Shadow of the War on Terror: Toward a Pedagogy of Muslim IndignationArshad Imtiaz Ali 16. How Stereotypes Persist Despite Innovations in Media RepresentationsEvelyn Alsultany17. “Grounded on the Battlefront”: An Interview with Hamid Khan on the Police State in the War on TerrorSohail DaulatzaiIV. Possible Futures: Dissent and the Protest Tradition18. To Be a (Young) Black Muslim Woman IntellectualSu‘ad Abdul Khabeer 19. Letter from a West Bank Refugee CampRobin D.G. Kelley 20. Sami Al-Arian and Silencing PalestineHatem Bazian 21. Raising Muslim Girls: Women-of-Color Legacies in U.S. American IslamSylvia Chan-Malik 22. The Audience Is Still Present: Invocations of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz by Muslims in the United StatesMaryam Kashani 23. “Make a Way out of No Way:” An Interview with Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans on the Islamic Tradition and Social Justice ActivismJunaid RanaAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bearing personal witness from the frontiers of the quantified self, Anthony Ryan Hatch offers a reimagining of metabolism as a form of social knowledge. Blood Sugar makes a key contribution to our understanding of the evolution of racial health disparities."—Alondra Nelson, author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome"A highly readable account of the emergence and import of “metabolic syndrome,” a biomedical category of risk designed to capture the dangers of stroke, heart disease, and diabetes... Metabolic syndrome provides a fascinating window into contemporary racialized biomedical conceptualizations of risk, and Blood Sugar is the first sustained sociological analysis of it."—Bulletin of the History of Medicine"An important contribution to the field of science and technology studies."—Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law/JHPPL"This modest volume is a worthy contribution to the field of critical studies of the intersections of race, health, and power."—Social History of Medicine"In Blood Sugar Hatch offers a brief, informative history of metabolic syndrome together with a critique of the radicalizing processes at work in contemporary biomedical and pharmaceutical research and regulation."—Technology and Culture"Blood Sugar is itself a social justice project. It challenges us to conduct more rigorous studies on metabolic syndrome and gets academics, policy-makers, and physicians at the same table, or exam bed, to have more collaborative and productive conversations about how it affects the radicalization of medicalization, drug treatment, and health."—Contemporary Sociology"Medical sociologists, public health theorists, and historians of medicine will find this work of critical social theory most useful, and it should be consulted by policy makers who interrogate the limits of personal responsibility for health."—ISIS"This modest volume is a worthy contribution of the field of critical studies of the intersections of race, heath and power."—Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Metabolic Fetish1. Race, Biomedicine, and Health Injustice2. The Emergence of Metabolic Syndrome3. The Scientific Racism of Metabolism4. Killer Applications: The Racial Pharmacology of Prescription Drugs5. Sugar Stained with Blood: African Americans, Sugar, and Modern AgricultureConclusion: Metabolic InsurrectionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clearly passionate and committed, Crystal Parikh has read broadly and deeply into this very exciting topic and opens up a range of provocative questions."—David Palumbo-Liu, author of The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age"In this ambitious study, Crystal Parikh shows how the literature of writers of color has always been preoccupied with what are now called ‘human rights.’ Her wide-ranging and urgent readings, written with the precision and care of a passionate literary and social critic, reminds us of how much literature matters in imagining and demanding justice and humanity."—Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Refugees and The Sympathizer"Crystal Parikh’s Writing Human Rights is a timely and ambitious work that makes an impassioned claim for both reclaiming and problematizing contemporary human rights discourse. Parikh’s work serves as an important model of an engaged and probing mode of writing for our contemporary moment when democratic faith and norms are being thrown into question."—Contemporary Political TheoryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The U.S. Good Life, the UN World, and the Human Rights RecordUN International Bill of Human Rights; Toni Morrison, Beloved1. Other Humanities: The Bandung Spirit and the Right to Self-DeterminationUN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination; Ernest Gaines, A Gathering of Old Men; Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior2. “Come Almost Home”: The Impossible Subject of Human RightsUN Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters; Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life3. “A Globe within Him”: Security at the Borderline of War and TortureUN Convention against Torture; Susan Choi, The Foreign Student4. Regular Revolutions: The Feminist Travels of Human RightsUN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies5. Being Well: Minor Subjects and the Right to HealthUN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth; Ana Castillo, So Far from GodConclusion: An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the ChildUN Convention on the Rights of the Child; Aimee Phan, We Should Never MeetAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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