Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

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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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Using the case of publicly subsidized housing and its residents in Chicago, Catherine Fennell brilliantly traces the architectures of public housing decay and the so-called solutions to them as affective possibilities. Political debates over how to house the urban poor unfold as gripping ethnographic realities here, urging us to think through the materiality of sympathy."—Vincanne Adams, University of California, San Francisco"This book is a must-read for those concerned with public housing and its aftermath. The author has captured stories rarely heard anywhere else."—Planning Magazine"An excellent, timely, and nuance ethnography that moves beyond the more familiar analysis of postwelfare urban inequalities. It is a valuable addition to the literature about urban poverty, urban planning, and the politics of race and class in the contemporary United States."—American Anthropologist"Fennell’s great achievement rests on her ability to capture those critiques of the new housing not as a nostalgia for the old—that kind of thing is the preserve of the social scientists and the museum-advocates in her narrative—but rather as a negotiation of the difference between sympathetic attachments and abstract, sentimentalized obligations to anonymous others."—Somatosphere"Last Project Standing will undoubtedly make a great impact on the ways that other urban anthropologists respond to the influences of interdisciplinary humanistic research methods."—Journal of the Illinois State Historical SocietyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Across DamenPart I. Sympathy“Toward a Better Life”2. The Many Harms of Staying Here3. Project Heat and Sensory PoliticsPart II. CivicsRadio Rumors4. Experiments in Vulnerability5. The City, the Grassroots, the Poverty PimpsPart III. PublicsResurrections6. The Museum of ResilienceEpilogue: Raising Sympathetic PublicsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lynn Mie Itagaki's book is an incisive critique of the civil racism that has become dominant in both liberal and conservative discourses of race in the post-Civil Rights era."—Daniel Kim, Brown University"Given recent urban unrest that lays bare tensions between state power, late capitalism, and race, this is a timely book."—CHOICE"Civil Racism considerably advances literature on the concept of racial civility. Lynn Mie Itagaki's text will be of significant interest to race—specifically those in Asian American studies—and feminist scholars, pushing readers to consider how systems of oppression manifest in insidious forms such as civility."—Journal of Asian American Studies"Exceptionally timely."—American Literary History"Much-needed contribution."—Critical Ethnic Studies "As a sociologist coming to this work, I found Itagaki’s elaboration of civil racism theoretically rich and relevant for many other facets of race relations in the US post-Cold War context. [...] I appreciated Itagaki’s careful use and analysis of language. Calling the events that occurred in 1992 a rebellion instead of a riot provides insight into how the rest of her book centers the subversion of people of color in the face of state oppression. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about race, intersectionality, citizenship, and critical literary/media analysis." —Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies AssociationTable of ContentsContentsA Note on TerminologyPrefaceIntroduction: The 1992 Los Angeles CrisisPart I: Racial Civility1. Model Family Values and Sentimentalizing the Crisis2. In/Civility, with Colorblindness and Equal Treatment for All3. The Territorialization of Civility, the Spatialization of RevengePart II: Counterdiscourse of Civility4. At the End of Tragedy5. The Media Spectacle of Racial DisasterEpilogue: Lives That MatterAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves outside his home, Farred experienced a racist encounter: a white woman stopped to ask him, “Would you like another job?” Farred responded, “Only if you can match my Cornell faculty salary.” The moment, however, stuck with him. The black man had gravitated to, of all people, Martin Heidegger, specifically Heidegger’s pronouncement, “Only when man speaks, does he think—and not the other way around,” in order to unpack this encounter. In this essay, Farred grapples with why it is that Heidegger—well known as a Nazi—resonates so deeply with him during this encounter instead of other, more predictable figures such as Malcolm X, W. E. B. DuBois, or Frantz Fanon. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series

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Book SynopsisThis institutional history of the US Presbyterian church describes how the church shaped and was shaped by its regional culture and explores the denomination's own culture as it struggled to determine what role racial issues and realities would have in the definition of being Presbyterian.

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Book SynopsisThe turn of the 20th century represented one of the most chaotic periods in the nation's history, as immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans struggled with their roles as Americans while white America feared their encroachments on national identity. This book examines Theodore Roosevelt’s public rhetoric - speeches, essays, and narrative histories - as he attempted to craft one people out of many.Table of Contents" room for immigrants and nonwhites, while reinforcing their status as others, thereby reassuring white Americans of their superior place in the nation. Roosevelt's belief in an ordered and unified nation did not overwhelm his private racist attitudes, Dorsey argues, but certainly competed with them. Despite his private sentiments, he recognised that racist beliefs and rhetoric were divisive and bad for the nation's progress. The resulting message he chose to propagate was thus one of a rhetorical, if not literal, melting pot. By focusing on Roosevelt's rhetorical constructions of national identity, as opposed to his personal exploits or his role as a policy maker, We Are All Americans offers new insights into Roosevelt's use of public discourse to bind the nation together during

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Book SynopsisDuring Poland’s century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland’s reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity.Trade Review“The bibliography, sources, notes, and index will be a treasure for scholars and researchers alike.” * Polish American Journal *“This is a pioneering work. Majewski found and made sense of a treasure trove of popular literature written in Polish for and about Polish immigrants to the US in the late 19th and early 20th century…” * Choice *Traitors and True Poles not only provides a valuable contribution to the study of Polish cultural and political history, but in a sensitive and respectful manner facilitates the understanding of American ethnic literature and multiculturalism, by adding the voice of the heretofore 'silent' Polish writers of the 'old immigration.'

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Book SynopsisDuring Poland’s century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland’s reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity.Trade Review“The bibliography, sources, notes, and index will be a treasure for scholars and researchers alike.” * Polish American Journal *“This is a pioneering work. Majewski found and made sense of a treasure trove of popular literature written in Polish for and about Polish immigrants to the US in the late 19th and early 20th century…” * Choice *Traitors and True Poles not only provides a valuable contribution to the study of Polish cultural and political history, but in a sensitive and respectful manner facilitates the understanding of American ethnic literature and multiculturalism, by adding the voice of the heretofore 'silent' Polish writers of the 'old immigration.'

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Book SynopsisIn Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts.Trade Review“This is a book of great importance. Contours of White Ethnicity demonstrates a patient and very deep reflection on the past, present, and future of ethnicity in America. Its immediate subject—popular ethnography’s treatment of the Greek immigrant past in America—is quite precise, but its scope is wide.” * Department of Modern Greek, University of Michigan *“Though it starts with a very specific study, questioning Greek identity from antiquity to today, the book’s scope becomes wider as it reflects on the past and present of ethnicity in America. The book investigates the assimilation process of Greek immigrants into American culture and explores the construction of ethnic history by revealing how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts…. Contours of White Ethnicity is of particular interest to scholars in the humanities, ethnic studies, and social science who are researching ethnicity and race” * Journal of Folklore Research *“Anagnostou successfully analyzed Greek Americans to exemplify how this community dealt with issues of adaptation while attempting to keep true to its past.... The book can be used as a metaphor for gaining a greater understanding of other white ethnic groups.” * Choice *“Contours of White Ethnicity charts new directions for the study of white ethnicities in the United States. Although it draws from the scholarship on a specific ethnic group, the study exhibits a sophisticated, interdisciplinary methodology, which makes it of particular interest to scholars researching ethnicity and race in the United States and for those charting the directions of future research for white ethnicities.” * SirReadalot.org *“Yiorgos Anagnostou…demonstrates that there are many ways of being Greek American in his very new book, Contours of White Ethnicity. * Greek News *

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Book SynopsisIn 1846 two slaves, Dred and Harriet Scott, filed petitions for their freedom in the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri. As the first true civil rights case decided by the U.S.Trade Review“(T)hese essays have collectively expanded the context of the case and greatly enriched our understanding of its impact, then and now.… (an) enormously thought-provoking volume.” * Civil War Book Review *“(The Dred Scott Case) conveniently brings together a striking array of important perspectives, both on the nineteenth-century story of Dred Scott itself and on its continuing significance. Scholars and undergraduates alike will find this volume rewarding.” * The Journal of Southern History *

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Book SynopsisTaifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam.Trade Review“TAIFA is James Brennan's compelling meditation on Tanganyikan nationalism seen through the lens of relations between diasporic Indians and indigenous Africans in colonial and early postcolonial Dar es Salaam. Brennan is regarded as one of the most careful researchers of his generation of Tanzania scholars and his book has been long anticipated. It does not disappoint.…TAIFA combines methodologies drawn from social, political, and intellectual history in a manner that is as enriching as it is rare.…A deeply thoughtful and well-argued account of the ways in which race and nation were articulated [in] one of the continent's frequently-cited cases. TAIFA's appeal will not be confined to Tanzania specialists…” * Journal of African History *“[This book’s] theoretical project…is to describe the formation of racial identities as emerging from below rather than constructed from above…Brennan’s analysis of the racial identities that emerged during the post-Second World War colonial period is particularly fascinating. …[The final chapter] is first and foremost a masterpiece of discourse analysis. Brennan unearthed a TANU primer defining the new words to be used after the Arusha Declaration, and he uses that and other sources to illustrate how an elaborate vocabulary of socially undesirable people emerged.” * African Affairs *“The book is a rich and insightful account of how the racial, ethnic, and socio-economic pluralism of Dar es Salaam was an inherent part of the emergence of a racially conscious TANU-led independence movement.…Its emphasis on the unintended and the contingent, a view that relativizes and reveals as inherently relational the power and incapacities of important actors and organizations, makes this book a work of depth and detail.…Taifa is as any good academic book should be, replete with the kind of answers that breed a new multitude of questions.” * African Studies Quarterly *“With Taifa, James Brennan establishes himself as not just a major historian of Tanzania, but as an innovative scholar of urban history, racial relations, and colonialism…. The extraordinary range and depth of his research is reflected in every sentence; the book is densely packed with information and insight about colonial and early postcolonial Tanzania. Taifa is a ‘must read’ for all scholars of Tanzania, including anyone interested in contemporary political debates about ‘indigenous’ Africans that rely on the very racial logics and legacies that Brennan so deftly explains and explores.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Taifa is the first urban history to tackle nationalist politics in towns, an achievement made possible by Brennan's grounding in two separate sets of secondary literature which gives his work a breadth that is rare in today's monographs.”“In a compelling and highly nuanced way, Taifa shows how African colonial subjects conceived and articulated their own ideas about race and citizenship during the final decades of colonialism and the early years of self-rule.” * Comparative Studies in Society and History *“Brennan’s provocative and important work builds on his impressive range of publications on political culture in Dar es Salaam. It will stimulate others to test his conclusions across Tanzania and Africa.” * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“Taifa is distinctive in discussing Africans together with ‘Indians’ (most are also Africans now)…. (Brennan) skillfully dissects stereotypes, notably the stigma of unscrupulous merchants unfairly borne by Africa’s Indian communities…. Indian Ocean studies has grown as a discrete field, usually through broader surveys. This work on a specific port city makes the subject more concrete.” * Choice *

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Book SynopsisInterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations.Trade Review“A fascinating exploration of sex across the color line in colonial Ghana. This book is a brilliant addition to the literature on sex, gender and empire.”“In this creatively and brilliantly conceived book, Carina Ray uses the story of interracial sexual relationships between European men and African women in the Gold Coast and African men and European women in Britain as an entry point into a much broader history of racial and gender relations.…Crossing the Color Line is tier-one scholarship, capable of directing a new course in historical research on sex, gender, race, diaspora, empire and identity formation.” * Africa *“Crossing the Color Line has already made its mark in African and African diaspora studies.…There can be no doubt that this is an important book.…Many authors claim to be bringing colony and metropole into a single analytical field, but few of them really succeed in highlighting transnational dynamics without forsaking detailed knowledge of social relations in specific times and places. Ray’s book is one of the successes.” * H-Net *“A book that offers a rare glimpse into the intimate world of mixed race couples in colonial Africa....[Crossing the Color Line] is truly innovative. Whereas historians of the transatlantic slave trade had previously written about the instrumental nature of interracial marriages on the Gold Coast, Ray seeks out the forces of attraction, desire, and love that brought these men and women together, and goes further to demonstrate how ferociously they sought to maintain their unions, even in the face of humiliation and penury.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“[A] brilliant exposition of the colonial and nationalist politics of interracial unions in the Gold Coast and the eastern Black Atlantic…Through incisive analysis and beautiful narrative detail, the book reminds us that, even more than ideology or material power, it was the intensely personal webs of social relations that structured the politics of colonialism and decolonization.” * Journal of Modern History *“There can be no doubt that this is an important book.… Many authors claim to be bringing colony and metropole into a single analytical field, but few of them really succeed in highlighting transnational dynamics without forsaking detailed knowledge of social relations in specific times and places. Ray’s book is one of the successes.” * H-Net *“[Ray's] analysis of available records shocks and moves readers, offering delicately nuanced interpretations of the lives and relationships (not just sexual) of the men and women caught up in scandal. Indeed, few historians can match her skill in demonstrating the interplay between race, sexuality, and class.” * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Employing interracial sex as a loom, Ray deftly weaves disparate threads into a compelling tapestry that displays the underlying tensions of empire hidden in sex across the color line. …This innovative study is accessible, deserves a wide readership, and is essential reading on race, sec, and colonial politics in Ghana and Britain.” * Journal of West African History *“This groundbreaking book has set new standards for understanding race, its implementation and its interpretation not only in Africa but also around the world.” * New Books Network *“Crossing the Color Line uses a wide-angle lens to think broadly and adeptly about the fate of sexual liaisons against the backdrop of imperial change in the 20th century. Ray pays scrupulous attention to the embeddedness of sexual relations in local contexts through textured personal stories and fine-grained analyses of how race, gender, and class intertwined to produce both African agency and British unease. In the process, this book makes a persuasive case for the indispensability of interracial histories to any account of imperial power and anticolonial resistance.”“With Crossing the Color Line, Carina Ray has produced a leading work on the intricate interracial relationships in colonial Ghana. Her study builds on so far fragmented studies for the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, giving us a comprehensive understanding of the development of interracial relations during the height of colonialism in Ghana in the 20th century and beyond. Theoretically and methodologically, the book is of seminal importance for the study of the subject in general.”“This is a smart, well-researched, and nuanced account of the politics of sexuality and race that animated the establishment and contestation of colonial rule in Ghana. Drawing from transnational scholarship on gender and colonialism, the book explains how anxieties about racial mixing remain fraught into the present.”“Carina Ray has produced an ambitious monograph about interracial relationships in the colonial period, transnational in its remit and based on vivid biographical examples and fascinating case studies… The originality of this book lies in its focus on the positive and intimate aspects of interracial sexual relationships during a time when, as Ray carefully documents, a fear of miscegenation took hold of the popular imperialist imagination.”“The account that Ray provides in Crossing the Color Line is a fine combination of both astonishing insights and disarming lucidity. That she opens up an entire new domain of historical analysis there is no doubt. This book will quickly be recognized as an agenda-setting work and will illuminate debates on race relations not just in Ghana and West Africa, but wherever such relations occurred in the British Empire.”

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Book SynopsisInterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations.Trade Review“A fascinating exploration of sex across the color line in colonial Ghana. This book is a brilliant addition to the literature on sex, gender and empire.”“In this creatively and brilliantly conceived book, Carina Ray uses the story of interracial sexual relationships between European men and African women in the Gold Coast and African men and European women in Britain as an entry point into a much broader history of racial and gender relations.…Crossing the Color Line is tier-one scholarship, capable of directing a new course in historical research on sex, gender, race, diaspora, empire and identity formation.” * Africa *“Crossing the Color Line has already made its mark in African and African diaspora studies.…There can be no doubt that this is an important book.…Many authors claim to be bringing colony and metropole into a single analytical field, but few of them really succeed in highlighting transnational dynamics without forsaking detailed knowledge of social relations in specific times and places. Ray’s book is one of the successes.” * H-Net *“A book that offers a rare glimpse into the intimate world of mixed race couples in colonial Africa....[Crossing the Color Line] is truly innovative. Whereas historians of the transatlantic slave trade had previously written about the instrumental nature of interracial marriages on the Gold Coast, Ray seeks out the forces of attraction, desire, and love that brought these men and women together, and goes further to demonstrate how ferociously they sought to maintain their unions, even in the face of humiliation and penury.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“[A] brilliant exposition of the colonial and nationalist politics of interracial unions in the Gold Coast and the eastern Black Atlantic…Through incisive analysis and beautiful narrative detail, the book reminds us that, even more than ideology or material power, it was the intensely personal webs of social relations that structured the politics of colonialism and decolonization.” * Journal of Modern History *“There can be no doubt that this is an important book.… Many authors claim to be bringing colony and metropole into a single analytical field, but few of them really succeed in highlighting transnational dynamics without forsaking detailed knowledge of social relations in specific times and places. Ray’s book is one of the successes.” * H-Net *“[Ray's] analysis of available records shocks and moves readers, offering delicately nuanced interpretations of the lives and relationships (not just sexual) of the men and women caught up in scandal. Indeed, few historians can match her skill in demonstrating the interplay between race, sexuality, and class.” * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Employing interracial sex as a loom, Ray deftly weaves disparate threads into a compelling tapestry that displays the underlying tensions of empire hidden in sex across the color line. …This innovative study is accessible, deserves a wide readership, and is essential reading on race, sec, and colonial politics in Ghana and Britain.” * Journal of West African History *“This groundbreaking book has set new standards for understanding race, its implementation and its interpretation not only in Africa but also around the world.” * New Books Network *“Crossing the Color Line uses a wide-angle lens to think broadly and adeptly about the fate of sexual liaisons against the backdrop of imperial change in the 20th century. Ray pays scrupulous attention to the embeddedness of sexual relations in local contexts through textured personal stories and fine-grained analyses of how race, gender, and class intertwined to produce both African agency and British unease. In the process, this book makes a persuasive case for the indispensability of interracial histories to any account of imperial power and anticolonial resistance.”“With Crossing the Color Line, Carina Ray has produced a leading work on the intricate interracial relationships in colonial Ghana. Her study builds on so far fragmented studies for the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, giving us a comprehensive understanding of the development of interracial relations during the height of colonialism in Ghana in the 20th century and beyond. Theoretically and methodologically, the book is of seminal importance for the study of the subject in general.”“This is a smart, well-researched, and nuanced account of the politics of sexuality and race that animated the establishment and contestation of colonial rule in Ghana. Drawing from transnational scholarship on gender and colonialism, the book explains how anxieties about racial mixing remain fraught into the present.”“Carina Ray has produced an ambitious monograph about interracial relationships in the colonial period, transnational in its remit and based on vivid biographical examples and fascinating case studies… The originality of this book lies in its focus on the positive and intimate aspects of interracial sexual relationships during a time when, as Ray carefully documents, a fear of miscegenation took hold of the popular imperialist imagination.”“The account that Ray provides in Crossing the Color Line is a fine combination of both astonishing insights and disarming lucidity. That she opens up an entire new domain of historical analysis there is no doubt. This book will quickly be recognized as an agenda-setting work and will illuminate debates on race relations not just in Ghana and West Africa, but wherever such relations occurred in the British Empire.”

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Book SynopsisEncompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur’s study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for the articulation of new political communities and resistance.Trade Review“MacArthur’s exploration of the historiography of ethnicity in Kenya combines theoretical sophistication with innovative and deftly interdisciplinary methodological work, along with a knack for personalized storytelling. In Cartography and the Political Imagination, MacArthur has knit together a diverse and complex array of actors, plot lines, and forms of evidence (archival, cartographic, oral), resulting in a fascinating and important piece of historical scholarship.”“Three intertwined lines of argument are central to the study: ‘imagined communities’ constructed out of perceived concepts of ethnic, religious, linguistic, and genealogical links; the emergence of a particular form of ethnic patriotism consisting of the complex interplay of nativism and cosmopolitanism in African political thought; and how the mobilization of geographic identities rendered the development of ‘cartographic political imaginations.’ … Summing up: Recommended (upper-level undergraduates and above).” * CHOICE *“Cartography is really a fascinating and important study of how the Luyia successfully ‘imagined’ and then created a single ethnic constituency ... Cartography draws on the already rich literature on ethnogenesis … and takes it further in a case study that challenges much of the conventional wisdom about how ethnic identities are made.” * African Studies Review *“The Luyia defy assumptions about African ethnicity. With neither myth of common descent nor shared vernacular speech, this modern community is yet no colonial invention. These least ‘tribal’ of Kenya's peoples mapped their own territory of civic pluralism. In this new departure in ethnic studies, Julie MacArthur persuasively subverts our conventional wisdom.”“Cartography and Political Imagination breaks new ground in Kenyan historiography with its focus on western Kenya. This detailed and sophisticated study argues that Luyia ethnic architects used cartography to create a demographically inclusive, politically pluralistic, and progressive cosmopolitan community. It is refreshing to read a book on Kenya that does not focus on Mau Mau or the Kikuyu. MacArthur's exemplary study of a regional history will be indispensable to scholars of ethnogenesis and cartography in Africa and elsewhere.”“The Luyia have long represented a potential test case for the limits to the invention of ethnicity. MacArthur’s rich study does not disappoint. It reveals how a series of external influences—land pressures, gender panic, and the drawing of administrative boundaries—led the Luyia to define themselves through appeals to locality rather than shared ancestries. Its most fascinating contribution lies in its treatment of Luyia practices of counter-mapping.”

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Book SynopsisEncompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur’s study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for the articulation of new political communities and resistance.Trade Review“MacArthur’s exploration of the historiography of ethnicity in Kenya combines theoretical sophistication with innovative and deftly interdisciplinary methodological work, along with a knack for personalized storytelling. In Cartography and the Political Imagination, MacArthur has knit together a diverse and complex array of actors, plot lines, and forms of evidence (archival, cartographic, oral), resulting in a fascinating and important piece of historical scholarship.”“Three intertwined lines of argument are central to the study: ‘imagined communities’ constructed out of perceived concepts of ethnic, religious, linguistic, and genealogical links; the emergence of a particular form of ethnic patriotism consisting of the complex interplay of nativism and cosmopolitanism in African political thought; and how the mobilization of geographic identities rendered the development of ‘cartographic political imaginations.’ … Summing up: Recommended (upper-level undergraduates and above).” * CHOICE *“Cartography is really a fascinating and important study of how the Luyia successfully ‘imagined’ and then created a single ethnic constituency ... Cartography draws on the already rich literature on ethnogenesis … and takes it further in a case study that challenges much of the conventional wisdom about how ethnic identities are made.” * African Studies Review *“The Luyia defy assumptions about African ethnicity. With neither myth of common descent nor shared vernacular speech, this modern community is yet no colonial invention. These least ‘tribal’ of Kenya's peoples mapped their own territory of civic pluralism. In this new departure in ethnic studies, Julie MacArthur persuasively subverts our conventional wisdom.”“Cartography and Political Imagination breaks new ground in Kenyan historiography with its focus on western Kenya. This detailed and sophisticated study argues that Luyia ethnic architects used cartography to create a demographically inclusive, politically pluralistic, and progressive cosmopolitan community. It is refreshing to read a book on Kenya that does not focus on Mau Mau or the Kikuyu. MacArthur's exemplary study of a regional history will be indispensable to scholars of ethnogenesis and cartography in Africa and elsewhere.”“The Luyia have long represented a potential test case for the limits to the invention of ethnicity. MacArthur’s rich study does not disappoint. It reveals how a series of external influences—land pressures, gender panic, and the drawing of administrative boundaries—led the Luyia to define themselves through appeals to locality rather than shared ancestries. Its most fascinating contribution lies in its treatment of Luyia practices of counter-mapping.”

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Book SynopsisAfrica, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience.Trade Review“This edited volume offers an important contribution to the study of citizenship and community in colonial and early post-colonial Africa. The volume’s thematic and geographical diversity are a testament to the richness of the field, and several contributors offer examples and methods for a more sophisticated reading of the continent’s contentious political history.”

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Book SynopsisAfrica, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience.Trade Review“This edited volume offers an important contribution to the study of citizenship and community in colonial and early post-colonial Africa. The volume’s thematic and geographical diversity are a testament to the richness of the field, and several contributors offer examples and methods for a more sophisticated reading of the continent’s contentious political history.”

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Book SynopsisIn this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress’s development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism.Trade Review“Ambitious and rivetingly intelligent, Internal Frontiers offers a decolonized model of global history. Located at the intersection of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle with the idea of India, this book rescripts notions of race, empire, nation, diaspora and much more. Exquisitely written with exceptional interdisciplinary depth, it will become a model of intellectual transnational history.”“This paradigm-shifting book locates a radical strain of South African nationalism in the political firmament of postwar Durban. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Internal Frontiers reveals how insurgent intellectuals such as Anton Lembede and Albert Luthuli, influenced by India’s independence movement and the challenges of building solidarity with Natal’s Indian diaspora, conceived a vision of the nation ‘from below’ that affirmed African agency while also embracing a diverse, multiethnic political community.”“Soske’s combination of ‘high’ political narrative with material histories of class, race and sexuality is indispensable. This book is an extremely important counter to sentimental ideas about social and political relations between Africans and people of South Asian descent in South Africa during turbulent times.”

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Book SynopsisSafari Nation tells the history of the Kruger National Park through a black perspective, helping explain why Africa’s national parks—often derided by scholars as colonial impositions—survived the end of white rule on the continent.Trade Review“In Safari Nation, the Kruger Park and South African ideas of nature and nationality are revealed in profoundly new and insightful ways. Jacob Dlamini captures South African experiences of nature and leisure that have largely escaped the historical profession, focusing his sharp eye on the significant minority of black South Africans who managed to live ’with—as opposed to under—colonialism and apartheid.’ An enjoyable book, full of surprises.” -- Saul Dubow, author of South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights“An innovative work of intellectual, political, and social history, Safari Nation advances a compelling new explanation for why the ANC government has chosen not to dismantle colonial-era conservation projects whose origins lie in the dispossession of countless black families. Dlamini’s skillful storytelling throughout the book manages to balance compassion and concern for justice with careful empirical detail in a direct, graceful prose that makes Safari Nation an enjoyable read from start to finish.” -- Heidi Gengenbach, author of Binding Memories: Women as Makers and Tellers of History in Magude, Mozambique“Safari Nation is a highly original treatment of the history of Kruger National Park from a black perspective. Dlamini does not pursue a polarized interpretation of the park and conservation as simply white/colonial constructs but instead develops a growing literature that presents African people as engaged in many different facets of park history, as agents, and conservationists.” -- William Beinart, author of Rise of Conservation in South Africa“This book is about nature and black South Africans, but not as daughters and sons of the soil. Rather, Jacob Dlamini describes people on the move towards Kruger National Park, a place where conservation meant racial exclusion. On their way, they made a space of belonging through political effort, not nativism. Following its own eclectic route through rural reserves, cities, and mines, from Table Mountain to the lowveld, Safari Nation offers a bold argument that by making claim on the more-than-human world, black South Africans created an inclusive nation.” -- Nancy Jacobs, author of Birders of Africa: History of a Network“Safari Nation is more than a social history of KNP. It is a history of black South Africans opposed to injustice engaging with the land, leisure, what it means to be South African, and ‘ways of being’ under colonialism, apartheid, and a still unequal nation…. Indeed, Dlamini’s history of Kruger National Park makes a bold and hopeful statement about conservation and the land question in South Africa.” -- Jill E. Kelly * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisIn Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's industrialization, their struggles to gain control over their lives within a highly authoritarian political system, and their rise to political prominence in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a diverse range of sources-oral histories along with union, industry, and government archival materials-Wolfe's account focuses not only on labor leaders and formal Left groups, but considers the impact of grassroots workers' movements as well. He pays particular attention to the role of gender in the often-contested relations between leadership groups and thee rank and file. Wolfe's analysis illuminates how various class and gender ideologies influenced the development of unions, industrialists' strategies, and rank-and-file orgTrade Review"No area has been so misunderstood by foreign researchers as labor and union history in Brazil. This book sets high standards for any new studies on Brazil, Latin America, or even the rest of the world."—Michael L. Conniff, Auburn University"This is an excellent book, based on an impressive amount of research. It is a valuable and pathbreaking contribution to the historical study of class formation, gender, and the politics of industrial workers in South America's most important industrial center."—Thomas Holloway, Cornell University

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been included in the workplaces and markets of the US nation-state, yet, through exclusion laws and bars from citizenship, have been distanced from the terrain of national culture.Trade Review“Immigrant Acts is a compelling and persuasively written presentation of Asian American ‘cultural production.’ It is both an exciting and instructive volume.”—Barbara Harlow, The University of Texas at Austin“At long last a study that theorized the crucial place of the Asian American Immigrant Subject in the historical constitution of “the color line,” and thus, in the making of America. Tracing the genealogy of Asian immigrant labor and cultural production in the racial and gender formations of the pre-World War II, and contemporary U.S. State, Lisa Lowe offers us an ambitious, elegant, and incisive analysis that propels Asian immigrant women workers (and comparative feminist theory) to the center of discourses of nation and citizenship. Truly a book for the twenty first century.”—Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Hamilton College“In Immigrant Acts, Lowe grapples with some of the most challenging and complex issues before us in the humanities and in cultural studies today. This is a major work by a mature scholar who brings authority and wisdom to her subject.”—Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside“Lisa Lowe does the most important and influential work in Asian American cultural studies today. Her book is noteworthy for its breathtakingly skillful deployment of ‘materialist methodology,’ its penetrating and sensitive interpretations of various works of literature and film, and its attention to the relationships between Asian American cultural production and social and political issues in Asian American communities. Immigrant Acts is written with sophisticated grace. A profoundly and passionately humane voice emerges from it.”—Elaine H. Kim, University of California, Berkeley“Lisa Lowe has written a brilliant, erudite, and meticulously thorough ‘genealogy’ and critique of the U.S. institution of citizenship and immigration acts. Immigrant Acts will take its place as an indispensable text for theorists in cultural studies, ethno-racial literary studies, and Asian American feminist materialist critique. A stunning tour de force!”—José David Saldívar, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface ix 1. Immigration, Citizenship, Racialization: Asian American Critique 1 2. Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Asian American Studies 37 3. Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Asian American Differences 60 4. Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism 84 5. Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification: Writing and the Question of History 97 6. Unfaithful to the Original: The Subject of Dictee 128 7. Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian "American" Women 154 Epilogue 174 Notes 177 Bibliography 223 Index 241

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Book SynopsisPresents significant advances in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. This book examines such topics as the legacy of slavery and its abolition, and race-related violence. It is suitable for those interested in the larger issues of political and social movements centered on the issue of race.Trade Review“In assembling this collection of essays, Michael Hanchard moves us beyond the traditional academic boundaries to underscore the relationship between theories and practices in Brazilian race relations.”—Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University“This volume is the most important collection of essays on contemporary Brazilian racial politics available to English readers since Pierre-Michel Fontaine’s Race, Class, and Power in Brazil. Specialists and general readers alike will profit from the scholarly essays and the testimonials from veteran Brazilian activists.”—Robert Anderson, North Carolina A&T State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction / Michael Hanchard Free African Brazilians and the State in Slavery Times / Richard Graham Black Cinderella? Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil / Michael Hanchard Ethnic Boundaries and Political Mobilization among African Brazilians: Comparisons with the U.S. Case / Edward E. Telles Racial Democracy and Racial Identity: Comparing the United States and Brazil / Howard Winant Miguel Reale and the Impact of Conservative Modernization on Brazilian Race Relations / Michael Mitchell Women and Racial Inequality at Work in Brazil / Peggy A. Lovell Notes on Racial and Political Inequality in Brazil / Carlos Hasenbalg and Nelson do Valle Silva The Black Movement and Political Parties: A Challenging Alliance / Benedita da Silva My Conscience, My Struggle / Thereza Santos Blacks and Political Power / Ivanir dos Santos Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a significant advance in understanding the complexities of racial difference in contemporary Brazilian society. This book examines such topics as the legacy of slavery and its abolition, and race-related violence. It is suitable for those interested in the larger issues of political and social movements centered on the issue of race.Trade Review“In assembling this collection of essays, Michael Hanchard moves us beyond the traditional academic boundaries to underscore the relationship between theories and practices in Brazilian race relations.”—Anani Dzidzienyo, Brown University“This volume is the most important collection of essays on contemporary Brazilian racial politics available to English readers since Pierre-Michel Fontaine’s Race, Class, and Power in Brazil. Specialists and general readers alike will profit from the scholarly essays and the testimonials from veteran Brazilian activists.”—Robert Anderson, North Carolina A&T State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction / Michael Hanchard Free African Brazilians and the State in Slavery Times / Richard Graham Black Cinderella? Race and the Public Sphere in Brazil / Michael Hanchard Ethnic Boundaries and Political Mobilization among African Brazilians: Comparisons with the U.S. Case / Edward E. Telles Racial Democracy and Racial Identity: Comparing the United States and Brazil / Howard Winant Miguel Reale and the Impact of Conservative Modernization on Brazilian Race Relations / Michael Mitchell Women and Racial Inequality at Work in Brazil / Peggy A. Lovell Notes on Racial and Political Inequality in Brazil / Carlos Hasenbalg and Nelson do Valle Silva The Black Movement and Political Parties: A Challenging Alliance / Benedita da Silva My Conscience, My Struggle / Thereza Santos Blacks and Political Power / Ivanir dos Santos Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the complex relationship between the coloniser and colonised on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Through novels, iconography, and texts from various disciplines including law, medicine, and psychology, this title constructs a political and cultural history of the island's relations with France.Trade Review“A brilliant piece of work. . . . Monsters and Revolutionaries promises to be an important intervention in the fields of political history and postcolonial discourse.”—Ali Behdad, University of California at Los Angeles“[Vergès’s] richly textured exploration of ‘metissage’ as a discursive strategy of identification, assimilation, and resistance is driven by a fluent engagement with concepts drawn from contemporary criticism, history, psychoanalysis, and philosophy and has the broadest implications right across the postcolonial world. A major innovative study that will shape the field.”—Stuart Hall, Emeritus Professor, The Open University and Goldsmith’s College, LondonTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface: Bitter Sugar's Island xi Acknowledgments xix The Family Romance of French Colonialism and Métissage 1 Contested Family Romances: Slaves, Workers, Children 22 Blood Politics and Political Assimilation 72 "Oté Debré, rouver la port lenfer, Diab kominis i sa rentré": Cold War Demonology in the Postcolony 123 Single Mothers, Missing Fathers, and French Psychiatrists 185 Epilogue: A Small Island 246 Notes 251 Bibliography 353 Index 389

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Book SynopsisTalks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population.Trade Review“Minority Rules is breathtaking. Combining sophisticated cultural analysis with sharp attention to political economy, Schein illuminates not only the way the Miao have been constructed historically but how they shape their own identities through cultural performances, whether in state theater or for tourists.”—Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Veiled Sentiments and Writing Women’s Worlds“A highly readable exploration of the cultural politics of reform-era China that deserves a broad readership among anthropologists, historians, and those in cultural studies.”—Ann Anagnost, author of National Past-Times: Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern ChinaTable of ContentsIllustrations Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I. Nation / Representation 2 Of Origins and Ethnonyms Contested Histories, Productive Ethnologies 3 Making Minzu: The State, the Category, and the Work 4 Internal Orientalism: Gender and the Popularization of China's Others 5 Reconfiguring the Dominant Part II. Identity and Cultural Struggle 6 Songs for Sale: Spectacle from the Mao to Market 7 Scribes, Sartorial Acts, and the State: Calling Culture Back 8 Displacing Subalternity: The Mobile Other 9 Performances of Minzu Modernity 10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOver the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. This title locates the origins of this ethnic resurgence within the social processes of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century state formation rather than in the ruins of the national project of recent decades.Trade Review“Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, ‘Los Altos.’ Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a ‘high placee’ and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there.”—Francisco Goldman“Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries’ worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions—political, economic, social, demographic—form a histore totale.”—John Demos, Yale University“Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, commmunity, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skillfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals.”—Deborah Levenson, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Searching for the Living among the Dead 1 Prelude: A World Put Right, 31 March 1840 20 1. The Greatest Indian City in the World: Caste, Gender, and Politics, 1750-1821 25 2. Defending the Pueblo: Popular Protests and Elite Politics, 1786-1826 54 3. A Pestilent Nationalism: The 1837 Cholera Epidemic Reconsidered 82 4. A House with Two Masters: Carrera and the Restored Republic of Indians 99 5. Principales to Patrones, macehuales to Mozos: Land, Labor, and the Commodification of Community 110 6. Regenerating the Race: Race, Class, and the Nationalization of Ethnicity 130 7. Time and Space among the Maya: Mayan Modernism and the Transformation of the City 159 8. The Blood of Guatemalans: Class Struggle and the Death of K'iche' Nationalism 198 Conclusions: The Limits of Nation, 1954-1999 220 Epilogue: The Living among the Dead 234 Appendix 1 Names and Places 237 Appendix 2 Glossary 241 Notes 243 Works Cited 315 Index 337

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Book SynopsisOver the latter half of the twentieth century, the Guatemalan state slaughtered more than two hundred thousand of its citizens. In the wake of this violence, a vibrant pan-Mayan movement has emerged, one that is challenging Ladino (non-indigenous) notions of citizenship and national identity. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review“Anyone interested in Latin American history will enjoy this myth-and-stereotype-shattering study of Mayan cultural and national identity as it has evolved over centuries in one region of Guatemala, ‘Los Altos.’ Thick with novelistic detail and anecdote, brilliantly and imaginatively researched, totally engrossing in its melding of convincing analysis and strong narrative sweep, Grandin takes us to a ‘high placee’ and guides us back over the tangled, treacherous paths that led there.”—Francisco Goldman“Bold, fascinating, and important, The Blood of Guatemala is a model of careful, yet highly innovative and original scholarship. Grandin has gone well beyond fine research to create a powerful narrative of two important centuries’ worth of Guatemalan history. Its many different dimensions—political, economic, social, demographic—form a histore totale.”—John Demos, Yale University“Brilliant, bold, and beautifully written from the first page to the last, The Blood of Guatemala convincingly challenges previous interpretations of the histories of ethnicity, commmunity, state, nation, and nationalism in Guatemala. Greg Grandin has skillfully united the disciplines of history and anthropology; he is part of a new generation of committed, sophisticated, and clearheaded intellectuals.”—Deborah Levenson, Boston CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Searching for the Living among the Dead 1 Prelude: A World Put Right, 31 March 1840 20 1. The Greatest Indian City in the World: Caste, Gender, and Politics, 1750-1821 25 2. Defending the Pueblo: Popular Protests and Elite Politics, 1786-1826 54 3. A Pestilent Nationalism: The 1837 Cholera Epidemic Reconsidered 82 4. A House with Two Masters: Carrera and the Restored Republic of Indians 99 5. Principales to Patrones, macehuales to Mozos: Land, Labor, and the Commodification of Community 110 6. Regenerating the Race: Race, Class, and the Nationalization of Ethnicity 130 7. Time and Space among the Maya: Mayan Modernism and the Transformation of the City 159 8. The Blood of Guatemalans: Class Struggle and the Death of K'iche' Nationalism 198 Conclusions: The Limits of Nation, 1954-1999 220 Epilogue: The Living among the Dead 234 Appendix 1 Names and Places 237 Appendix 2 Glossary 241 Notes 243 Works Cited 315 Index 337

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Book SynopsisExamines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher it in the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. The author focuses on the 1920s and 1930s, a time when white women were actively refashioning Freud's problematic accounts of sexual subjectivity.Trade Review“In this groundbreaking book Jean Walton subjects psychoanalysis to a sustained and highly illuminating ethnographic critique. She has isolated a period—the 1920s and 1930s, the era of the great debates about femininity—in which there is a critical confrontation between questions of gender/sexuality and questions of race. Her incisive analyses of five women writers of this period are often fascinating, always provocative, and she demonstrates persuasively the inextricability of sexuality and race in their attempts to negotiate a ‘speaking position’ for themselves within a masculine domain.”—Mary Anne Doane, author of Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis“This intelligent and clear-thinking book provides a fascinating look into the racial fantasies of five modernist women. Focussing our attention on the evasions and displacements of both psychoanalysis and feminism, Walton demonstrates that race is never very far from twentieth-century culture’s founding narratives of sexual difference. A welcome and important investigation of white women’s racial imaginaries, a study as intellectually subtle as it is boldly original.”—Diana Fuss, author of Identification PapersTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Masquerade and Reparation: (White) Womanliness in Riviere and Klein 2. “Nightmare of the Uncoordinated White-Folk”: Psychoanalysis and the Queer Matrix of Borderline 3. Marie Bonaparte and the “Executive Organ” 4. “The Black Spitting Girl!!” 5. The Ethnographic Alibi 6. A People of Her Own: Margaret Mead 7. A Rap on Race: Mead and Baldwin Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAiming to provide a radical critique of elite culture and of liberal, bourgeois, and modern epistemologies and projects, the essays included here prove that Latin American Subaltern Studies is much more than the mere translation of subaltern studies from South Asia to Latin America.Trade Review“A very impressive collection of essays. It is unusually successful in being able to retain throughout a coherent theoretical focus, depth and variety of empirical scholarship, a cosmopolitan resistance to scholarly insularity, and an insurgent spirit of questioning received ideas about subaltern groups and their politics. This book deserves a wide readership. The self-conscious, honest, and comparative dialogue that it conducts between the Latin American and the South Asian Subaltern Studies groups will enrich the field of subaltern studies as a whole.”—Dipesh ChakrabartyTable of ContentsIntroduction / Ileana Rodríguez 1 I. Convergences of Times: Subaltern Studies C South Asia/Latin America, Modern/Postmodern Subaltern Studies: Projects for Our Time and Their Convergence / Ranajit Guha 35 The Im/possibility of Politics? Subalternity, Modernity, Hegemony / John Beverley 47 Solidarity as Event: Communism as Personal Practice, and Disencounters in the Politics of Desire / María Milagros López 64 A Storm Blowing from Paradise: Negative Globality and Critical Regionalism / Alberto Moreiras 81 II. Indigenous Peoples and the Coloniality of Power Rigoberta Menchu After the Nobel: From Militant Narrative to Postmodern Politics / Marc Zimmerman 111 No Perfect World: Aboriginal Communities' Contemporary Resource Rights / Patricia Seed 129 Historiography on the Ground: The Toledo Circle and Guaman Poma / Sara Castro-Klaren 143 III. Subject Positions: Dominant and Subaltern Intellectuals? Slaps and Embraces: A Rhetoric of Particularism / Doris Sommer 175 Beyond Representation? The Impossibility of the Local (Notes on Subaltern Studies in Light of a Rebellion in Tepoztlan, Morelos) / Jose Rabasa 191 Questions of Strategy as an Abstract Minimum: Subalternity and Us / Abdul Karim Mustapha 211 IV. Ungovernability: Authoritarian and Democratic Hegemonies From Glory to Menace II Society: African-American Subalternity and the Ungovernability of the Democratic Impulse Under Super Capitalist Orders / Robert Carr 227 Twenty Preliminary Propositions for a Critical History of International Statecraft in Haiti / Michael Clark 241 Death in the Andes: Ungovernability and the Birth of Tragedy in Peru / Gareth Williams 260 Outside In and Inside Out: Visualizing Society in Bolivia / Javier Sanjines C. 288 V. Citizenship: Resistance, Transgression, Disobedience The Teaching Machine for the Wild Citizen / Beatriz Gonzalez Stephan 313 Apprenticeship as Citizenship and Governability / Ileana Rodriguez 341 The Architectural Relationship between Gender, Race, and the Bolivian State / Marcia Stephenson 367 Gender, Citizenship, and Social Protest: The New Social Movements in Argentina / Marcelo Bergman and Monica Szurmuk 383 Who's the Indian in Aztlan? Re-Writing Mestizaje, Indianism, and Chicanismo from the Lacandon / Josefina Saldana-Portillo 402 Coloniality of Power and Subalternity / Walter D. Mignolo 424 Contributors 445 Index 449

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Book SynopsisPresents a range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race. With essays devoted to theories of racial domination, comparative global racisms, trans-national white identity, and post-apartheid South Africa, this title discusses the intersection of gay identity and whiteness.Trade Review“If for no other reason than that the circulation of racialized power has been and is fractured, multi-faceted, contradictory, and continual, then this collection would be valuable in its attention to the accumulation of the political and disciplinary effects of whiteness. The particular strength of this attention is magnified by the combination of work herein that originates in both academic and other than academic sites. And it is brave work; it proceeds without guarantees of its own outcome, without knowing what questions it might settle.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University“This very powerful volume touches many nerves in contemporary cultural politics. Its collected essays take various perspectives and collectively—and sometimes individually—engage various contradictions. It’s a disturbing, engaging, sometimes frustrating, deeply affecting book.”—Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction / Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica, and Matt Wray Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White / Dalton Conley “The Souls of White Folks” / Mab Segrest The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg White Racial Projects / Howard Winant The “Morphing” Properties of Whiteness / Troy Duster “White Devils” Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets / Jasbir Kaur Puar Perfidious Albion: Whitenss and the International Imagination / Vron Ware The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the “Vital Center” / Eric Lott How Gays Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays / Allan Bérubé (E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations / Michael Omi Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of “Whiteness” for Activism and the Academy / William Aal Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWith its recurrent themes of trans-nationalism, globalisation, and postcoloniality, this title considers various embodiments of the Asian diaspora, including a rumination on minority discourses and performance studies, and an historical look at the journal Amerasia.Trade Review“Bristling with provocations, this timely collection of intoxicating essays interrogates the margins of disciplinary and institutional centers, revealing unsettling glimpses of the intellectual and material investments in ‘Asia,’ ‘America,’ and the fields that figure and are configured by them.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa I. Investments and Interventions (Un)Disciplined Subjects: (De)Colonizing the Academy? / Dorinne Kondo (Re)Viewing and Asian American Diaspora: Multiculturalism, Interculturalism, and the Northwest Asian American Theatre / Karen Shimakawa Creating Performative Communities: Through Text, Time, and Space / Russell Leong Cross-Discipline Trafficking: What’s Justice Got to Do With It? / Sharon K. Hom II. Translating Knowledge Notes toward a Conversion between Area Studies and Diasporic Studies / Dipesh Chakrabarty The Stakes of Textual Border-Crossings: Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach in Sinocentric, Asian American, and Feminist Critical Practices / Sau-Ling C. Wong Biyuti in Everyday Life: Performance, Citizenship, and Survival among Filipinos in the United States / Martin F. Manalansan IV Missile Internationalism / Kuan-Hsing Chen III. Para-Sites, Or, Constituting Borders Leading Questions / Rey Chow Modeling the Nation: The Asian/American Split / David Palumbo-Liu Postwar Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi Conjunctural Identities, Academic Adjancencies / R. Radhakrishnan IV. Asian/American Epistemologies Epistemological Shifts: National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant / Lisa Lowe “Imaginary Borders” / Kandice Chuh “To Tell the Truth and Not Get Trapped”: Why Interethnic Antiracism Matters Now / George Lipsitz References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisColonial discourse in the United States has tended to criminalise, pathologise, and depict as savage not only Native Americans but Mexican immigrants, indigenous peoples in Mexico, and Chicanas/os as well. This book reveals how each group, has actively attempted to create for itself a social and textual space.Trade Review“Disrupting Savagism offers a theoretically nuanced reading of the struggles over representation that have been waged by marginalized inhabitants of the United States-Mexican border zone. With its remarkable breadth of examples, the book carefully unfolds the thoroughgoing legacy of racial violence in the colonized Southwest.”—Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, author of Rethinking the Borderlands: Between Chicano Culture and Legal Discourse“The ‘savage’ speaks, gains voice, and articulates resistance to the forces of oppression in Aldama’s Disrupting Savagism. It is relentless in its rigor and perspicacious in its investigation as it dismantles the social discourses that ascribe Native Americans and mixed bloods ‘savage.’ Aldama’s efforts allow the Mestizo and Native American to take hold of the apparatus of representation and affirm self-identity. Disrupting Savagism is an important work, long needed to fill the gap in our collective understanding, a work that will have broad and long-lasting impact. I can think of no other work that addresses this material so capably and so thoroughly. An intelligent and powerful work.”—Alfred Arteaga, author of Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities"Disrupting Savagism provides a fresh analysis of the ways in which the subaltern speaks and in so doing attempts to unravel the binding structures of nation and empire." -- Ernesto Chávez * American Studies *"[Aldama] manages to directly engage the reader, and refocus the discussion on the intersection between the articulation of body and strategies of resistance." -- Claudia Aburto Guzman * MELUS *"Thorough and nuanced. . . . Ambitious in its theoretical rigor and historical scope, Disrupting Savagism will make a lasting contribution to Chicana/o studies, American Indian studies, and the postcolonial studies of the Americas." -- Monica Brown * Aztlán *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Part I: Mapping Subalternity in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands 1. The Chiana/o and the Native American “Other” Talk Back: Theories of the Speaking Subject in a (Post?) Colonial Context 2. When the Mexicans Talk, Who Listens? The Crisis of Ethnography in Situating Early Voices from the U.S./Mexico Borderlands Part II: Narrative Disruptions: Decolonization, Dangerous Bodies, and the Politics of Space 3. Counting Coup: Narrative Acts of (Re)Claiming Identity in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko 4. Toward a Hermeneutics of Decolonization: Reading Radical Subjectivities in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua 5. A Border Coda: Dangerous Bodies, Liminality, and the Reclamation of Space in Star Maps by Miguel Arteta Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, this book envisions a future of politically equal and economically empowered citizens through the democratisation of power and the socialisation of property.Trade Review“An important, stringent critique of the hegemonic versions of multiculturalism touted in both popular and academic spheres. San Juan provides a new reality to contend with—a new version of the present, one in which erased histories of racism, oppression, exploitation, and the struggle of marginalized groups are restored.”—Neferti X. M. Tadiar, University of California, Santa Cruz“An invigorating analysis and soul-searching critique of contemporary controversies regarding multiculturalism and the centrality of race/culture/class in confronting politics of difference. San Juan casts a wide net, but he handles the workings and intricacies of contemporary politics regarding nationalism, immigration, and revolutionary struggle with much deftness, insightful grounding, and energy.”—Rick Bonus, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. “Can’t We Get Along?” Racial Politics and Institutional Racism 2. Performing Race: Articulations of Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism 3. Allegories of Asian American Experience 4. Ethnicity and the Political Economy of Difference 5. “Culture Wars” Revisited 6. Questioning Contemporary Cultural Studies 7. Postcolonial Criticism and the Vicissitudes of Uneven Development 8. For a Permanent Cultural Revolution: From Raymond Williams to Frantz Fanon Afterword Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be young, American, and white at the dawn of the twenty-first century? By exploring this question and revealing the everyday social processes by which high school students define white identities, this book offers insights into the social construction of race and whiteness among youth.Trade Review“Do whites have a culture? Pamela Perry shows us that not only do they have a culture, they have many. An engrossing study of teenage peer culture in an increasingly multiracial society, Shades of White is an enlightening romp through white youth identity—an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on whiteness.”—Dalton Conley, author of Honky“In an overwhelmingly white country being white used to be seen as just being part of the majority, just a normal American. But how will our children think about it in schools where they will increasingly confront more and more students of other racial and ethnic identities? This book offers a sensitive and fascinating exploration of that question from the state at the cusp of that demographic revolution, California. Perry frames vital issues of integration and equity that demand leadership from the nation’s educators not just for the sake of minority students, but to prepare whites to become a successful minority in a workable multiracial society.”—Gary Orfield, Harvard University“Perry’s book is part of a second wave of whiteness studies; she challenges ‘new racism’ theories with the encouraging idea that inconsistencies in white’s attitudes are not the subtle, modern face of racism, but ‘potential inlets for nurturing antiracism.’ Trying to broaden this ethnography’s appeal, the author has limited the jargon-heavy passages, making the book readable by those simply curious about what the kids have to say.” -- Keir Graff * Booklist *“Perry’s research provided her with ideas for restructuring education to enhance cultural diversity and compatibility among students, emphasizing that, as this country becomes more racially diverse, we should try to strip away racial identity and think of Americans as one people. These ideas might seem out of reach, but they’re worth considering.” * Library Journal *“This ethnographic portrait of students enrolled in two very different northern California schools provides us with some insight into how they identify racially and establish cultural boundaries among themselves and across racial groups. . . . This comparative research design allowed Perry not only to observe how context influences racial identity, but also how white students from similar backgrounds maintained substantively different racial identities depending on whether they were a part of either the school's majority or minority. . . . I enjoyed reading Shades of White, and certainly, I cannot quibble with Perry’s conclusions.” -- Prudence L. Carter * Contemporary Sociology *"A truly outstanding contribution to the existing race and ethnic relations literature. . . . I strongly recommend this very well written, accessible, and forward-thinking book for courses in race relations, multicultural and ethnic studies, and education. Perry's Shades of White makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the relational and situational nature of racial identity construction and the various social forces that continue to reshape the meaning we attach to race." -- Charles A. Gallagher * Social Forces *"[A]n engaging, comparative ethnography of white identity in two northern California high schools. . . . Shades of White asks a series of big questions: How do white youth talk about race? Do they think of themselves as racial subjects? Is there a white culture? Is white identity fixed or singular? How might diversity, and daily interactions with cultural differences shape the kind and quality of responses given by white youth? With theoretical sophistication, Perry provides illuminating response to each of these queries." -- C. Richard King * American Studies International *"[This] ethnography is extensive and the writing is often rich, complex, and vivid. . . . An important book." -- Michael Moffatt * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: School Life and Social Meanings 23 1. Valley Groves: “Normal, I’d say I’m just . . . normal.” 25 2. Clavey High: “There aren’t enough white kids here to have many skaters." 44 Part Two: Identity and Culture 73 3. Situated Meanings of “White” as a Cultural Identity 75 4. Doing Identity in Style 104 Part Three: Identity and Group Position 133 5. The Million Man March 135 6. The Social Implications of White Identity 150 Conclusion: Beyond Whiteness 180 Appendix: Methods and Reflections 199 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index 257

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Book SynopsisThe South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. This title explores how ideas about the South function within American culture.Trade Review“Reconstructing Dixie is a wonderful book—feisty, original, filled with insights into the circulation of the South in contemporary consumerist and feminist space. With real aplomb Tara McPherson leaps into the fracas surrounding globalization, the new geography, the racialization of ’whiteness,’ and the controversies about the uses of gender analysis. The result is a book that could release ‘southern' studies from its limited academic terrain.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing“Reconstructing Dixie is theoretically sophisticated in its view of southernness as a discursive construct and a cultural fantasy and in its analysis of the work regional nostalgia performs.”—Laura Kipnis, author of Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America“I was absolutely blown away by this book. Tara McPherson's readings of individual texts, ranging from Gone With the Wind to the Captain Confederacy comicbook series and Octavia Butler’s Kindred, are original, precise, and utterly convincing. She pulls to the surface the radically different ways each work deals with the critical nexus of regional, racial, class, and gender identities.”—Henry Jenkins, director of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsIndex 311 Acknowledgments ix Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1 1. Romancing the South: A Tour of Lady’s Legacies, Academic and Otherwise 39 2. “Both Kinds of Arms”: The Civil War in the Present 95 3. Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149 4. Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity 205 Notes 257 Bibliography 293

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Book SynopsisThe South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. This title explores how ideas about the South function within American culture.Trade Review“Reconstructing Dixie is a wonderful book—feisty, original, filled with insights into the circulation of the South in contemporary consumerist and feminist space. With real aplomb Tara McPherson leaps into the fracas surrounding globalization, the new geography, the racialization of ’whiteness,’ and the controversies about the uses of gender analysis. The result is a book that could release ‘southern' studies from its limited academic terrain.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing“Reconstructing Dixie is theoretically sophisticated in its view of southernness as a discursive construct and a cultural fantasy and in its analysis of the work regional nostalgia performs.”—Laura Kipnis, author of Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America“I was absolutely blown away by this book. Tara McPherson's readings of individual texts, ranging from Gone With the Wind to the Captain Confederacy comicbook series and Octavia Butler’s Kindred, are original, precise, and utterly convincing. She pulls to the surface the radically different ways each work deals with the critical nexus of regional, racial, class, and gender identities.”—Henry Jenkins, director of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyTable of ContentsIndex 311 Acknowledgments ix Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1 1. Romancing the South: A Tour of Lady’s Legacies, Academic and Otherwise 39 2. “Both Kinds of Arms”: The Civil War in the Present 95 3. Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149 4. Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity 205 Notes 257 Bibliography 293

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Book SynopsisProminent political theorist defends democratic pluralism as a political stanceTrade Review“Pluralism is a brilliant study. Powerful, cogent, and compulsively readable, it presents a strong case for a democratic pluralism that is worthy of embrace by all who think the fundamentalism of our age needs to be countered, not with more of the same from another direction, but with the best-articulated and most profoundly true vision of another way of being together politically. If taken up, this book will change hearts and minds.”—Thomas Dumm, author of A Politics of the Ordinary“Pluralism is a practical intervention in the politics of antagonism in liberal democracies. William E. Connolly’s openness to religious ways of being in the world is unusual in a political theorist. But that openness allows him to draw on a wide range of resources for practices of agonistic engagement among political rivals. Connolly has an exceptional ability to plumb ordinary experiences for nuances that help one to realize virtues of faith, forbearance, and respect. Here are agile reflections on how we might become better than we are. And, as ever, Connolly’s style is warm, eclectic, honest, accessible, and somehow distinctly American.”—Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Department of Religious Studies, Grinnell College“If I were to pick an academic text as my political manifesto, if I were to look for a scholarly piece of writing which combined intellectual rigor and humility with incisive political analysis and practical effects, then Bill Connolly’s Pluralism would be the one. It will become the touchstone for a range of debates in political theory around democracy, global politics, and the political virtues we require.”—David Campbell, author of Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity“William E. Connolly pursues his impassioned search for a renewed pluralism, beyond mere tolerance. In a world beset by easy answers and hard action, he argues eloquently for a ‘multidimensional’ ethos of openness, in acceptance of complexity. Against doctrine, secular or religious, he refinds faith—in this world. A significant new philosophical statement by one of the foremost political thinkers of our time.”—Brian Massumi, author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation“[The book] helps us understand the complex ways in which the pluralist sensibility opens the path to a richer and more psychologically realistic liberalism.” -- William A. Galston * Perspectives on Politics *“Connolly offers a concise new defense of democratic pluralism.” -- M. Coulter * Choice *“Over the past twenty years or so,William E. Connolly has compiled a richly complex and highly original theory of deep pluralism. Calling upon each of us to recognize the contestability of our most basic commitments, Connolly has sought to articulate a set of civic virtues that can inspire a generous, progressive, and agonistic democratic culture.His latest contribution is an attempt to consolidate the core of his work into a single volume, rendering his political vision both succinct and widely accessible. . . . Pluralism is a fascinating read.” -- Andrew J. Douglas * Journal of Politics *“William Connolly has been one of the most perceptive and creative political theorists writing about pluralism over the past fifteen years. In this new book he draws together the various different strands he has been weaving into a compact, intense, yet accessible assemblage of arguments, concepts, analogies, and metaphors defending a new vision of democratic pluralism. What is distinctive about Connolly’s approach could be summarized thus: his argument is political and metaphysical.” -- Duncan Ivison * Political Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prelude 1 1. Pluralism and Evil 11 2. Pluralism and Relativism 38 3. Pluralism and the Universe 68 Interlude 93 4. Pluralism and Time 97 5. Pluralism and Sovereignty 131 Postlude: Belonging to Time 161 Notes 171 Index 187

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Book SynopsisExplores Germany's relation to the more than two million Turkish immigrants and their descendants living within its borders. This title examines the tensions in Germany between race-based ideologies of blood and belonging on the one hand and ambitions of multicultural tolerance and cosmopolitanism on the other.Trade Review“[An] extremely intelligent study of Turkish immigration to Berlin. . . . Highly recommended.” - A. A. Caviedes, Choice“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a fascinating and timely book that makes an important contribution to scholarship on German-Turkish relations, the new Europe, and immigration more broadly. It will be of great interest to scholars in these fields and to anyone interested in contemporary German society.” - Melissa L. Caldwell, European Journal of Sociology“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a vividly written ethnography that will attract readers who are interested in Turks and immigration politics in Germany, as well as the intercultural facets of Berlin. The multilayered study of belonging brings to our attention how Turkish guest workers in Germany are socially constructed as foreigners rather than immigrants or citizens. Therefore, this study clearly has an applied dimension. If policy makers read such analyses, they would more easily grasp the reasons why their current integration policy for ‘foreigners’ is bound to fail.” - Refika Sarıönder, Current Anthropology“This is a remarkable study which not only provides scholars in the fields of race and ethnicity, European studies and anthropology with real insights into the complexities and challenges facing Germany’s Turkish community, but also makes a disadvantaged community more visible.” - Daniel Faas, Ethnic and Migration Studies“In Cosmopolitan Anxieties, Ruth Mandel successfully conveys the particularities of Turkish experience in the German milieu as she moves across a variety of topics, including citizenship, cultural identity, religion, transnationalism, urbanism, and racism.”—Kevin Robins, author of The Challenge of Transcultural Diversities: Cultural Policy and Cultural Diversity“Ruth Mandel has turned the long trajectory of her journey through the jostling identities of Turk, Muslim, Alevi, German, Jew, and American—often introspective, always nuanced, and richly painted with intense, intimate, and many-hued detail—into an intricate and yet lucid masterpiece of analytic as well as ethnographic dexterity. In the condescension of a well-meaning Berlin cultural elite toward the ‘demotic cosmopolitanism’ of the immigrants, and in the scream of irrepressible disgust evoked by the touch of an alien-seeming strand of hair, she gracefully but inexorably traces the lingering miasma of submerged or weakly confronted intolerance and challenges us to search out its traces in our own cultural milieu as well.”—Michael Herzfeld, author of The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value“Ruth Mandel’s study of the Turks of Germany is perhaps the most important single book yet written examining the complexity and contradictions of the Muslims in today’s Europe. Looking at the various communities (Turks, Alevis, and Kurds) that make up the Turkish presence in Germany and delineating the complexity of a German identity after the Shoah and German reunification as the background to the debates about these Islamic presences, Mandel is able to provide first-hand, sophisticated answers to the most troubling questions about the shifting world of Islam in Europe. A study that will quickly become a classic for any examination of Europe and Islam.”—Sander L. Gilman, author of Multiculturalism and the Jews“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a fascinating and timely book that makes an important contribution to scholarship on German-Turkish relations, the new Europe, and immigration more broadly. It will be of great interest to scholars in these fields and to anyone interested in contemporary German society.” -- Melissa L. Caldwell * European Journal of Sociology *“Cosmopolitan Anxieties is a vividly written ethnography that will attract readers who are interested in Turks and immigration politics in Germany, as well as the intercultural facets of Berlin. The multilayered study of belonging brings to our attention how Turkish guest workers in Germany are socially constructed as foreigners rather than immigrants or citizens. Therefore, this study clearly has an applied dimension. If policy makers read such analyses, they would more easily grasp the reasons why their current integration policy for ‘foreigners’ is bound to fail.” -- Refika Sarıönder * Current Anthropology *“[An] extremely intelligent study of Turkish immigration to Berlin. . . . Highly recommended.” -- A. A. Caviedes * Choice *“This is a remarkable study which not only provides scholars in the fields of race and ethnicity, European studies and anthropology with real insights into the complexities and challenges facing Germany’s Turkish community, but also makes a disadvantaged community more visible.” -- Daniel Faas * Ethnic and Migration Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Note on Language xxiii Introduction: Germany, Turkey, and the Space In-Between 1 Berlin: A Prelude 23 1. Shifting Cosmopolitics 27 2. "We Called for Labor, but People Came Instead" 51 3. Making Auslander 80 4. Haunted Jewish Spaces and Turkish Phantasms of the Present 109 5. Berlin's Kreuzberg: Topographies of Infraction 141 6. Beyond the Bridge: Two Banks of the River 155 7. Minor Literatures and Professional Ethnics 184 8. Practicing German Citizenship 206 9. Deracination to Diaspora: Leave and Leaving 232 10. Reimaginig Islams in Berlin 248 11. Veiling Modernities 294 Conclusion: Reluctant Cosmopolitans 311 Glossary 327 Notes 329 Works Cited 359 Index 403

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Book SynopsisExplores the multiple meanings of the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and the different reactions it elicited: among the Amsterdam-based artistic and intellectual subculture, the wider Dutch public, the local and international Muslim communities, the radical Islamic movement, and the broader international community.Trade Review“Ron Eyerman has combined his two exquisite skills of an exceptionally thorough researcher and a consummate theorist to produce a uniquely enlightening study of the intricate mechanism which—in our times of the frailty of social setting, acute public uncertainty, and heightened susceptibility to moral panics—leads to the production of ‘traumatic events,’ subsequently deployed as catalysts in the reshaping of public memory and reinterpretation of collective identities. A masterly study of one of the most neuralgic phenomena in contemporary culture, bound to inform and direct our efforts to comprehend its dynamics.”—Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds and University of Warsaw“Ron Eyerman has produced a theoretically sophisticated analysis of the murder of Theo van Gogh, evoking themes of globalization, immigration, free speech, law and justice, gender relations, journalism and the media, political tolerance, and multiculturalism, all of which are at the center of debates in the contemporary social sciences. This is an important book.”—Robin Wagner-Pacifici, author of The Moro Morality Play: Terrorism as Social DramaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Assassination as Public Performance: The Murder of Theo van Gogh 1 2. Mediating Social Drama 24 3. Perpetrators and Victims 56 4. The Clash of Civilizations: A Multicultural Drama 102 5. A Dutch Dilemma: Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Multicultural Tolerance 141 6. Cultural Trauma and Social Drama 161 Notes 175 Bibliography 203 Index 215

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Book SynopsisIn Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness.Trade Review"Black France / France Noire is the most comprehensive and urgent anthology regarding the questions of citizenship and belonging in France since Pierre Bourdieu's The Weight of the World. There's also a salutary combination of scholarly and personal narratives in this book, which elevates it to the stature of a groundbreaking manifesto, the controversial nature of which will be discussed for years to come."—Manthia Diawara, author of African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics"Black France / France Noire is the most recent and best record of an ongoing and important international scholarly conversation on issues of color, race, ethnicity, exclusion, and belonging. With essays by both French and American scholars, the collection addresses some deeply challenging questions about how prejudice manifests itself in French life. Some of the French contributors are hesitant to employ ethnic categories, as is the case in the United States, as ways to speak of identity, justice, and injustice in French society. But most of them realize that to eliminate color prejudice in France they must talk about color. This collection is essential reading for scholars who study France, Europe, and the politics of racial discourse more broadly."—Herman Lebovics, author of Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies"Black skin may be officially invisible to France's government bureaucrats, statistics-gatherers, and devotees of French republicanism, but as a lived experience, blackness in France is very real. People of color routinely endure discrimination and find it difficult to gain full acceptance as French. Race matters in France, and the more that people talk and write about it, the more salient a social and political phenomenon race and racism in 'color-blind' France becomes. Black France / France Noire makes a major contribution by directly addressing experiences of blackness and anti-blackness in France."—Edward Berenson, author of Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa"In Black France / France Noire, leading thinkers and intellectuals raise challenging questions about how France's history of slavery and colonization, and immigration from its former colonies, are shaping the important, increasingly public discourse about blackness and racism."—Valérie K. Orlando, author of Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition“This volume makes an important claim for the field of Black French studies as a bridge between constructions of Black identity in France to African American studies…. It is my hope that this particular approach will contribute to a deepening historical and cultural address to the complex implications of black Diasporic subjectivity.” -- Peter J. Bloom * French History *“Black France/France Noire is a must read for any serious scholar of Black French Studies, or indeed, of Black European Studies. This text could also be successfully employed in undergraduate and graduate seminars.” -- Julin Everett * Contemporary French Civilization *“Black France / France Noire offers a valuable snapshot of the vexed status of blackness in present-day France and illuminating historical genealogies for its reemergence and significance.” -- Alexander G. Weheliye * Black Scholar *“Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness… uses a nuanced approach to discuss and problematize variously identified questions by relying on solid contributions from a diverse group of authors to form a well-rounded interpretation of race issues in France…. It offers an ideal introduction to complicated issues involved in formulating a black French identity. It skillfully combines theoretical analyses with personal narratives and historical accounts and represents a meaningful contribution to black French studies.” -- Yasmina Muthoki Martin * Africa Today *“The collection, as a whole, is dense but richly rewarding…. Black France/France Noir shows how the past has shaped present outcomes, debates, and difficulties in France but does not draw overly simplistic conclusions or too-easy morality stories. These features, along with the methodological richness of the collection, make it an important read for scholars of France, the French empire, and the black Atlantic. They also make it a strong candidate, almost mandatory reading, for any graduate seminar on modern France, the black Atlantic, or empire.” -- Rachel Anne Gillett * History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsForeword. Black . . . A Color? A Kaleidoscope! / Christiane Taubira ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Blackness Matters, Blackness Made to Matter / Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall 1 Part I. Theorizing and Narrating Blackness and Beloning Black France: Myth or Reality?: Problems of Identity and Identification / Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi 17 The Lost Territories of the Republic: Historical Narratives and the Recomposition of French Citizenship / Mamadou Diouf 32 Eurafrique as the Future Past of Black France: Sarkozy's Temporal Confusion and Senghor's Postwar Vision / Gary Wilder 57 Letter to France / Alain Mabanckou 88 French Impressionism / Jake Lamar 96 Part II. The Politics of Blackness—Politicizing Blackness The Invention of Blacks in France / Patrick Lozès 103 Immigration and National Identity in France / Dominic Thomas 110 "Black France" and the National Identity Debate: How Best to Be Black and French? / Fred Constant 123 Paint It "Black": How Africans and Afro-Caribbeans Became "Black" in France / Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga 145 The "Question of Blackness" and the Memory of Slavery: Invisibility and Forgetting as Voluntary Fire and Some Pyromaniac Firefighters / Michel Giraud 173 Part III. Black Paris—Black France The New Negro in Paris: Booker T. Washington, the New Negro, and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Marcus Bruce 207 The Militant Black Men of Marseille and Paris, 1927–1937 / Jennifer Boittin 221 Reflections on the Future of Black France: Josephine Baker's Vision of a Global Village / Bennetta Jules-Rosette 247 Site-ing Black Paris: Discourses and the Making of Identities / Arlette Frund 269 Coda: Black Identity in France in a European Perspective / Allison Blakely 287 About the Contributors 307 Index 311

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Book SynopsisIn White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of Dutch life—the passionate denial of racial discrimination and colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and xenophobia—to show how the narrative of Dutch racial exceptionalism elides the Netherland's colonial past and safeguards white privilege.Trade Review"White Innocence explains why white Dutch people seem unable to grasp the racism of Zwarte Piet: Assured of their own social progressivism, they can a priori think and therefore do no wrong. . . . Wekker concludes her work with a plea for 'another "embarrassment of riches,"' for acknowledging the racism staring us in the face. In the United States, we might start by recognizing that there is, and always has been, no more audacious identity politics than white identity politics, as Trump and his white-supremacist ilk gleefully demonstrate. At least the illusion of innocence has been stripped away. Or perhaps not?" -- Nick Barr Clingan * The Nation *"White Innocence exposes how Dutch racism is infused with classism, sexism, and homophobia in discussions of everyday racism that includes [Wekker's] own personal exoticization as a child and criminalization as an adult, TV talk shows and films, experiences of mixed-race families, white gay liberation that constitutes Dutch homonationalism . . . and the 'siloing' of gender and race/ethnicity in politics and academics that makes intersectional policy and scholarship impossible. In doing so, Wekker reveals the very real personal consequences for people of color when their very existence is in service of white people." -- Melissa F. Weiner * Journal of Anthropological Research *"White Innocence provides a welcome and thought-provoking impetus to think more acutely about the long-term impacts of imperialism, as well as about the interrelations between colonies and metropole." -- Bart Luttikhuis * History: Reviews of New Books *"White Innocence makes a significant contribution to the field of critical whiteness studies by examining the role of race, especially whiteness, and the legacy of colonialism in the present-day Netherlands." -- Shannon Sullivan * philoSOPHIA *"White Innocence is an enticing invitation to confront the contradictions of Dutch discourse on race, colonialism and violence. . . . Wekker’s work is of vital relevance for those willing to unlearn the legacy of colonialism." -- Lucía Berro Pizzarossa * European Journal of Women's Studies *"This book has been a long time coming. . . . An exemplary work of critical scholarship." -- Paul Mepschen * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. "Suppose She Brings a Big Negro Home": Case Studies of Everyday Racism 30 2. The House That Race Built 50 3. The Coded Language of Hottentot Nymphae and the Discursive Presence of Race, 1917 81 4. Of Homo Nostalgia and (Post)Coloniality: Or, Where Did All the Critical White Gay Men Go? 108 5. "For Even Though I Am Black as Soot, My Intentions Are Good": The Case of Black Pete 139 Coda. "But What about the Captain?" 168 Notes 175 References 193 Index 215

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Book SynopsisA compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century.Trade Review“In this engaging and well-researched study, Swanson tells us not just about the varieties of Germanness in the twentieth century, but also how minority identities are formed. The book is magnificent in its ‘thick description,’ and one gets a tangible sense of what it was like to be in a German village in interwar Hungary.” —Winson Chu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, author of The German Minority in Interwar Poland

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Book SynopsisKenneth Straus contemplates the question: Was there social support for the Stalin regime among the Soviet working class during the 1930s, and if so, why? In his well-researched answer he analyzes the daily lives of Soviet workers, and compares the ideologies of western and Soviet thought.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by diverse group of scholars who analyze issues raised by the U.S. prison system. Authors critique the racist, sexist, heterosexist, ableist, and economic injustices that uphold mass incarceration, practices of solitary confinement, and capital punishment.Trade Review"This is a crucially important work, one that while centering on philosophy far exceeds the bounds of the discipline, reaching out toward the concrete to grapple not just with a, but the question of our moment in ways that are both practical and rigorous." -- -George Ciccariello-Maher Drexel University "What does it mean to live in what Wacquant has called 'the first genuine prison society in history' and to be caught in the grip of a carceral state, economy, and public imaginary? What does philosophy, or rather philosophers, have to say about what this cancer growing in the very viscera of democracy: racialized, systematic, and capillary massive imprisonment? Perhaps philosophy itself has been imprisoned by its silence about this societal crisis. This anthology brings together philosophers, prison activists, former and present prisoners, to offer what are unquestionably the most thorough, insightful and incisive analyses of the origins and nefarious effects that the prison industrial complex has on our imprisoned democracy. Ranging across the philosophical corpus, from Nietzsche through Davis to Derrida, the contributors put philosophy to work on behalf of abolitionism, decarceration and reconstruction. The editors, however, have more than saved the honor of philosophy by having it address one of our most pressing yet invisible problems we face; they have given us a work that established a new benchmark. Henceforth, we must begin with this text if we are to think about racial justice and the democracy to come that the abolition of slavery promised but that at the very moment of its birth was compromised. There will be no racial democracy without abolition democracy. This is the new imperative that W.E.B. DuBois enunciated nearly a century ago, but which has become more urgent in our time." -- -Eduardo Mendieta Stony Brook University "Death and Other Penalties: Philosophical Interventions in a Time of Mass Incarceration is a brilliant collection of articles that draw on continental philosophers in order to consider the prison industrial complex, the death penalty in the United States, and the intersecting oppressions of racism, ableism, classism, sexism and heterosexism that are at work in these institutions and practices. The articles are innovative and accessible." -- -Chloe Taylor University of AlbertaTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Death and Other Penalties Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, and Scott Zeman 1 Part I. Legacies of Slavery Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition Brady Heiner 000 From Commodity Fetishism to Prison Fetishism: Slavery, Convict-leasing, and the Ideological Productions of Incarceration James Manos 000 Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell Maroon Shoatz Russell Maroon Shoatz 000 Part II. Death Penalties In Reality-from the Row Derrick Quintero 000 Inheritances of the Death Penalty: American Racism and Derrida's Theologico-Political Sovereignty Geoffrey Adelsberg 000 Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making "Good" Death a "Good" Penalty Kelly Oliver 000 Death Penalty Abolition in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security Andrew Dilts 000 On the Inviolability of Human Life Julia Kristeva (translated by Lisa Walsh) 000 Part III. Rethinking Power and Responsibility Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis Benjamin S. Yost 000 Prisons and Palliative Politics Ami Harbin 000 Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants Matt S. Whitt 000 Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security Andrea Smith 000 Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference Sarah Tyson 000 Part IV. Isolation and Resistance Statement on Solitary Confinement Abu Ali Abdur'Rahman 000 The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space Adrian Switzer 000 Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry Shokoufeh Sakhi 000 Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture Liat Ben-Moshe, Che Gossett, Nick Mitchell, and Eric A. Stanley 000 Notes 000 List of Contributors 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays by diverse group of scholars who analyze issues raised by the U.S. prison system. Authors critique the racist, sexist, heterosexist, ableist, and economic injustices that uphold mass incarceration, practices of solitary confinement, and capital punishment.Trade Review"This is a crucially important work, one that while centering on philosophy far exceeds the bounds of the discipline, reaching out toward the concrete to grapple not just with a, but the question of our moment in ways that are both practical and rigorous." -- -George Ciccariello-Maher Drexel University "What does it mean to live in what Wacquant has called 'the first genuine prison society in history' and to be caught in the grip of a carceral state, economy, and public imaginary? What does philosophy, or rather philosophers, have to say about what this cancer growing in the very viscera of democracy: racialized, systematic, and capillary massive imprisonment? Perhaps philosophy itself has been imprisoned by its silence about this societal crisis. This anthology brings together philosophers, prison activists, former and present prisoners, to offer what are unquestionably the most thorough, insightful and incisive analyses of the origins and nefarious effects that the prison industrial complex has on our imprisoned democracy. Ranging across the philosophical corpus, from Nietzsche through Davis to Derrida, the contributors put philosophy to work on behalf of abolitionism, decarceration and reconstruction. The editors, however, have more than saved the honor of philosophy by having it address one of our most pressing yet invisible problems we face; they have given us a work that established a new benchmark. Henceforth, we must begin with this text if we are to think about racial justice and the democracy to come that the abolition of slavery promised but that at the very moment of its birth was compromised. There will be no racial democracy without abolition democracy. This is the new imperative that W.E.B. DuBois enunciated nearly a century ago, but which has become more urgent in our time." -- -Eduardo Mendieta Stony Brook University "Death and Other Penalties: Philosophical Interventions in a Time of Mass Incarceration is a brilliant collection of articles that draw on continental philosophers in order to consider the prison industrial complex, the death penalty in the United States, and the intersecting oppressions of racism, ableism, classism, sexism and heterosexism that are at work in these institutions and practices. The articles are innovative and accessible." -- -Chloe Taylor University of AlbertaTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Death and Other Penalties Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, and Scott Zeman 1 Part I. Legacies of Slavery Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition Brady Heiner 000 From Commodity Fetishism to Prison Fetishism: Slavery, Convict-leasing, and the Ideological Productions of Incarceration James Manos 000 Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell Maroon Shoatz Russell Maroon Shoatz 000 Part II. Death Penalties In Reality-from the Row Derrick Quintero 000 Inheritances of the Death Penalty: American Racism and Derrida's Theologico-Political Sovereignty Geoffrey Adelsberg 000 Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making "Good" Death a "Good" Penalty Kelly Oliver 000 Death Penalty Abolition in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security Andrew Dilts 000 On the Inviolability of Human Life Julia Kristeva (translated by Lisa Walsh) 000 Part III. Rethinking Power and Responsibility Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis Benjamin S. Yost 000 Prisons and Palliative Politics Ami Harbin 000 Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants Matt S. Whitt 000 Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security Andrea Smith 000 Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference Sarah Tyson 000 Part IV. Isolation and Resistance Statement on Solitary Confinement Abu Ali Abdur'Rahman 000 The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space Adrian Switzer 000 Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry Shokoufeh Sakhi 000 Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture Liat Ben-Moshe, Che Gossett, Nick Mitchell, and Eric A. Stanley 000 Notes 000 List of Contributors 000 Index 000

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments, ix Introduction: Boundaries of Inclusion and Exclusion in Postwar America, 1 1. Italian American Identity and Politics: World War II to the Cold War, 17 2. The Italian American Immigration Reform Lobby, 49 3. Refugees and Relatives: Italian Americans and the Refugee Relief Act, 84 4. Resettlement Assistance and “A New Standard of Living”, 111 5. The Corsi Affair, 147 6. From Refugee Relief to Family Reunification, 175 7. The End of the National Origins System and the Limits of White Ethnic Liberalism, 202 Conclusion: The Deep Roots of White Ethnicity, 1965 and Beyond, 235 Notes, 243 Bibliography, 325 Index, 343

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