Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

Book SynopsisMexican American racial uncertainty has long been a defining feature of US racial understanding. Were Mexican Americans white or nonwhite? In the postcivil rights period, this racial uncertainty took on new meaning as the courts, the federal bureaucracy, local school officials, parents, and community activists sought to turn Mexican American racial identity to their own benefit. This is the first book that examines the pivotal 1973 Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1 Supreme Court ruling, and how debates over Mexican Americans' racial position helped reinforce the emerging tropes of colorblind racial ideology. In the postcivil rights era, when overt racism was no longer socially acceptable, anti-integration voices utilized the indeterminacy of Mexican American racial identity to frame their opposition to school desegregation. That some Mexican Americans adopted these tropes only reinforced the strength of colorblindness in battles against civil rights in the 1970s.Trade Review"This is an important book, and educational, civil rights, and Texas historians will find much within to appreciate and discuss." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Racial Uncertainties explains how racial and ethnic identities are both time and space specific but also how the law works to cement our understanding of identity and eliminate the possibility for fluidity." * The Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • (Un)making Mexican American Racial Identity, 1848–1964 2 • Racial Migrations: The Mile High City in Transition, 1945–1969 3 • Public Schools in Denver’s Racialized Urban Geography 4 • Becoming Minority under the Law 5 • “Not White, Yet Not, in the Old-Style Parlance, ‘Colored’ ” 6 • “American,” Not “Minority”: Mexican Americans and Colorblindness Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis2023 Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner, Organization of American Historians Between the 1980s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, Asian Americans in Los Angeles moved toward becoming a racial majority in the communities of the East San Gabriel Valley. By the late 1990s, their model minority status resulted in greater influence in local culture, neighborhood politics, and policies regarding the use of suburban space. In the country living subdivisions, which featured symbols of Western agrarianism including horse trails, ranch fencing, and Spanish colonial architecture, white homeowners encouraged assimilation and enacted policies suppressing unwanted changesthat is, increased density and influence of Asian culture. While some Asian suburbanites challenged whites' concerns, many others did not. Rather, white critics found support from affluent Asian homeowners who also wished to protect their class privilege and suburbia's conservative Anglocentric milieu. In Resisting Change in Suburbia, award-winning historian James Zarsadiaz explains how myths of suburbia, the American West, and the American Dream informed regional planning, suburban design, and ideas about race and belonging.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Constructing “Country Living” 2 • The People of “Country Living” 3 • Asian Families Making a Home in the Suburbs 4 • Asian Suburbanites in the “In-Between” 5 • Growth and the Imminent Death of “Country Living” 6 • To Remain Country, Become a City Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"There’s a lot not to like about social media, some of which Eschmann explores in a discussion of a Facebook page that invites anonymous postings about race, among other topics, that seems to be a magnet for hate. . . . [Yet] Eschmann’s book reveals that there are opportunities for social media to be beneficial to people experiencing marginalization." * Everyday Sociology *"The book makes a timely and relevant contribution both to the study of the societal impacts of masked racist ideologies widely fostered on social media and ways to resist this worrisome social phenomenon." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"The Deportation Express strikes that rare balance between thoughtful, well-researched scholarship and smooth readability. . . . [it is] a story about each of us, as participants in an ongoing national experiment, and our collective work to shape our discourse, values, and identity as a United States community." * Southern California Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents 1. An Intellectual Puzzle 2. Once We Were Colorblind 3. Mask On: Rules of Racial Engagement 4. Mask Off: Revelations and New Realities 5. Digital Resistance 6. Double-Sided Consciousness 7. Protest, Posters, and QR Codes 8. Racism Is Trending Acknowledgments Appendix Tables Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisArt produced outside hegemonic centers is often seen as a form of derivation or relegated to a provisional status. Forming Abstraction turns this narrative on its head. In the first book-length study of postwar Brazilian art and culture, Adele Nelson highlights the importance of exhibitionary and pedagogical institutions in the development of abstract art in Brazil. By focusing on the formation of the São Paulo Biennial in 1951; the early activities of artists Geraldo de Barros, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, and Ivan Serpa; and the ideas of critics like Mário Pedrosa, Nelson illuminates the complex, strategic processes of citation and adaption of both local and international forms. The book ultimately demonstrates that Brazilian art institutions and abstract artistic groupsand their exhibitions of abstract art in particularserved as crucial loci for the articulation of societal identities in a newly democratic nation at the onset of the Cold War.Trade Review"Forming Abstraction fills in many gaps and inconsistencies about this period and as such is a welcome addition to extant scholarship and especially to the classroom, where Nelson’s clear and engaging prose will undoubtedly be appreciated. More importantly, the author’s unique insight paves the way for new possibilities in addressing postwar art in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America, including further research into the racialized, classed, and gendered dimensions of abstract art." * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *

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Book SynopsisDrawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing white supremacy in America Hate, racial violence, exclusion, and racist laws receive breathless media coverage, but such attention focuses on distinct events that gain our attention for twenty-four hours. The events are presented as episodic one-offs, unfortunate but uncanny exceptions perpetrated by lone wolves, extremists, or individuals suffering from mental illnessand then the news cycle moves on. If we turn to scholars and historians for background and answers, we often find their knowledge siloed in distinct academic subfields, rarely connecting current events with legal histories, nativist insurgencies, or centuries of misogynist, anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-Asian, and xenophobic violence. But recent hateful actions are deeply connected to the pastjoined not only by common perpetrators, but bythe vast complex of systems, histories, ideologies, and personal beliefs that comprise white supremacy in the United States. Gathering together a cohort of researchers and writers, A Field Guide to White Supremacy provides much-needed connections between violence present and past. This book illuminates the career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those who wish to recognize, understand, name, and oppose that violence. The Field Guide is meant as an urgent resource for journalists, activists, policymakers, and citizens, illuminating common threads in white supremacist actions at every scale, from hate crimes and mass attacks to policy and law. Covering immigration, antisemitism, gendered violence, lynching, and organized domestic terrorism, the authors reveal white supremacy as a motivating force in manifold parts of American life. The book also offers a sampling of some of the most recent scholarship in this area in order to spark broader conversations between journalists and their readers, teachers and their students, and activists and their communities.A Field Guide to White Supremacy will be an indispensable resource in paving the way for politics of alliance in resistance and renewal. Trade Review"Belew and Gutiérrez have compiled a superstar group of writers, commentators, and scholars who make sense of these vicious times of sophisticated hate. Collectively, they make the case that white supremacy—not ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom,’ as some like to think—is the most dominant idea (or ideology) in the history of the United States." * The Progressive *"An important and timely collection in a moment of political and social polarization." * California Review of Books *"This edited volume gives a clear and nuanced view of the different manifestations of white supremacy in the US. While modestly referred to as a manual by the editors, the volume shows the endurance of white supremacy in the past and the present, its embedment in its democratic institutions in the US, and ongoing manifestations." * Ethnic & Racial Studies *"A Field Guide to White Supremacy tracks the complex career of white supremacy, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, anti-Semitism, and nativism in the United States. . . . This is an indispensable volume for historians of race, racism, gender and sexuality, and immigration who are interested in the myriad ways that white supremacy has been produced and reproduced in the United States since its founding." * California History *"Lucid, written for a broad audience. . . . a lightning strike against any complacency within or without the academy that racism is merely Trumpism, or that both are somehow ‘over’." * Against the Current *Table of ContentsThoughts on the Associated Press Stylebook, by Kathleen Belew et al. Introduction, by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez Section I Building, Protecting, and Profiting from Whiteness 1. Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation Doug Kiel 2. A Culture of Racism Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 3. Policing the Boundaries of the White Republic: From Slave Codes to Mass Deportations Juan F. Perea 4. The Arc of American Islamophobia: From Early History through the Present Khaled A. Beydoun Section II Iterations of White Supremacy 5. The Longest War: Rape Culture and Domestic Violence Rebecca Solnit 6. The Pain We Still Need to Feel: The New Lynching Memorial Confronts the Racial Terrorism That Corrupted America—and Still Does Jamelle Bouie 7. Anti-Asian Violence and U.S. Imperialism Simeon Man 8. Homophobia and American Nationalism: Mass Murder at the Pulse Nightclub Roderick Ferguson 9. Wounds of White Supremacy: Understanding the Epidemic of Violence against Black and Brown Trans Women/Femmes Croix Saffin 10. On Antisemitism Judith Butler Section III Anti-Immigrant Nation 11. Fear of White Replacement: Latina Fertility, White Demographic Decline, and Immigration Reform Leo R. Chavez 12. Unmaking the Nation of Immigrants: How John Tanton’s Network of Organizations Transformed Policy and Politics Carly Goodman 13. The Expulsion of Immigrants: America’s Deportation Machine Adam Goodman 14. The Detention and Deportation Regime as a Conduit of Death: Memorializing and Mourning Migrant Loss Jessica Ordaz Section IV White Supremacy from Fringe to Mainstream 15. A Recent History of White Supremacy Ramón A. Gutiérrez 16. From Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump: The Nativist Turn in Right-Wing Populism Joseph E. Lowndes 17. The Alt-Right in Charlottesville: How an Online Movement Became a Real-World Presence Nicole Hemmer 18. The Whiteness of Blue Lives: Race in American Policing Joseph Darda 19. There Are No Lone Wolves: The White Power Movement at War Kathleen Belew Conclusion, by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez Notes Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFact is torn from fiction in this first biography of Mexico's famous independence heroine, which also traces her subsequent journey from history to myth. María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba (17781850) is an iconic figure in Mexican history. Known by the nickname La Güera Rodríguez because she was so fair, she is said to have possessed a remarkably sharp wit, a face fit for statuary, and a penchant for defying the status quo. Charming influential figures such as Simon Bolívar, Alexander von Humboldt, and Agustín de Iturbide, she utilized gold and guile in equal measure to support the independence movementor so the stories say. In La Güera Rodríguez, Silvia Marina Arrom approaches the legends of Rodríguez de Velasco with a keen eye, seeking to disentangle the woman from the myth. Arrom uses a wide array of primary sources from the period to piece together an intimate portrait of this remarkable woman, followed by a review of her evolving representation in Mexican artTrade Review"The charm and the impact of this brilliant study owe, in part, to the reader’s cool distance from the fiery fiction of writers who stoked embers in the dry archives of la Güera’s life. We know more than they did. But along with knowing, we experience another level of enjoyment in Arrom’s book. It is the exposure to fiction and fantasy. Silvia Arrom manages to give us both pleasures, the hot and the cold." * ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America *"This book will fascinate readers. . . .[it turns] a life into a literary tale." * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One The Life 1. La Güera as a Young Woman, 1778–1808 2. La Güera on Her Own, 1808–1820 3. Independence Heroine? 4. An Aristocratic Lady, 1825–1850 Part Two The Afterlife 5. The First Hundred Years after Her Death 6. The Legend Crystallized in Valle-Arizpe's La Güera Rodríguez, 1949 7. La Güera after Valle-Arizpe: The Power of Fiction Conclusion Appendix A. Chronology of a Life Appendix B. Genealogy Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs the authors show in the first systematic treatment of the subject since the mid-1960s, assimilation continues to shape the immigrant experience. Surveying a variety of domainslanguage, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriagethey demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life.Trade ReviewAlba and Nee have written a carefully theorized, thoughtfully argued, and empirically well-grounded book. They demonstrate persuasively that the so-called "new" immigration is not terribly different from previous ones, and that most of the descendants of today's Hispanic, Asian, and other newcomers are assimilating in much the same way as the children and grandchildren of the European immigration. Their contribution to our understanding of immigration, ethnicity and race should be read far beyond the worlds of social science scholarship. -- Herbert J. Gans, author of Democracy and the NewsAssimilation is dead, long live assimilation! Alba and Nee are fully aware of the flaws and biases in the old model of the "melting pot," but they rehabilitate it with elegant theory, persuasive facts, and careful attention to its continued racial and class-based failings. The idea of assimilation may be unfashionable, but it has the singular virtue of fitting the case--for many Americans, at any rate--more than other trendier theories do. Remaking the American Mainstream shows us how, why, and to what end. -- Jennifer L. Hochschild, co-author, The American Dream and the Public SchoolsAlba and Nee have accomplished a tour de force. They have an important story to tell and they've told it with great verve and skill, using prose that will allow this book to be widely read. Remaking the American Mainstream is an outstanding work that is truly worthy of the important topic it addresses. -- Roger Waldinger, author of Still the Promised City?: African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New YorkNo phenomenon is more central to the future shape of American life than assimilation - its contested meanings, the demand for it by established Americans, the powerful but mixed incentives for it by immigrants, its social history, and its future trajectory. Alba and Nee elucidate these crucial questions and supply provocative answers. Their book is a valuable Baedeker for anyone who visits the subject. -- Peter Schuck, author of Diversity in America: Keeping Government at a Safe DistanceSociologists Alba and Nee provide a superb, comprehensive analysis of theory, data, and history to revise past and contemporary understandings of immigration and assimilation in the U.S. Their goal is to respond to skeptics' pessimism about new immigrants' assimilability, question misconception about the assimilation experiences of previous and current immigrant groups, reject normative baggage attached to notions of assimilation, and answer the question, 'What can assimilation look like in such a diverse and ethnically dynamic society?' -- S. M. Green * Choice *Richard D. Alba and Victor Nee have dusted off the idea of assimilation, updated it for the 21st century and found it to be a powerful force in contemporary America--even now. Staying clear of polemics, Messrs. Alba and Nee have contributed a much needed and dispassionate analysis of the current state of immigrant assimilation. They define assimilation not as a linear process of ethnic obliteration but a dynamic one in which minority and majority cultures converge...Like millions of earlier immigrants, in short, the newest immigrants are likely to change America at least as much as America changes them. -- Gregory Rodriguez * Wall Street Journal *A humane and imaginative book which combines social analysis with historical understanding. [Alba and Nee] examine how different groups have increasingly come to share a common culture, a melding that now happens at a faster pace than it ever has in the past. Not the least reason is that even immigrants from the other side of the globe arrive here already familiar with American ways. -- Andrew Hacker * New York Review of Books *There are, to be sure, varying degrees of success and different patterns of adjustment to America, but underlying them all is one powerful "master trend": surprisingly rapid Americanization. The authoritative synthesis of the present processes of assimilation is Richard Alba and Victor Nee's sociological masterpiece, Remaking the American Mainstream. It shows that for nonblacks, assimilation is alive and well in America. It is not passive integration into a static, Anglo-Protestant mainstream (which was always a sociological fiction anyway), but an endlessly dynamic two-way cultural process. -- Orlando Patterson * New York Times *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Rethinking Assimilation 2. Assimilation Theory, New and Old 3. Assimilation in Practice: The Europeans and East Asians 4. Was Assimilation Contingent on Specific Historical Conditions? 5. The Background to Contemporary Immigration 6. Evidence of Contemporary Assimilation 7. Conclusion: Remaking the Mainstream Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWhat does Wilentz know that others have gotten so terribly wrong about the founding connection between slavery and racism? In his revealing and passionately argued book, he insists that because the framers did not sanction slavery as a matter of principle, the antislavery legacy of the Constitution has been ‘slighted’ and ‘misconstrued’ for over 200 years. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad * New York Times *Examines the debate over the legal status of enslaved people that began with the writing of the Constitution and continued up to the Civil War—a period in American history in which he finds an important lesson for how to achieve political change in a democracy…No American historian of his generation has written so well on so many different subjects; few even come close. * The Nation *Demonstrating that the Constitution both protected slavery and left open the possibility of an antislavery politics, Wilentz’s careful and insightful analysis helps us understand how Americans who hated slavery, such as Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, could come to see the Constitution as an ally in their struggle. -- Eric Foner, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American SlaveryStimulating…draws on letters, speeches and public debates to enlarge our sense of slavery’s political dimension in the founding period. -- David S. Reynolds * Wall Street Journal *Wilentz shows what we dearly need to see now as much as ever: that slavery and antislavery were joined at the hip in the American founding, as well as in the tragic history that led to the Civil War. The Constitution possessed fatal complicity with racial slavery but also sowed seeds of its destruction. Wilentz brings a lifetime of learning and a mastery of political history to this brilliant book. -- David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomSean Wilentz offers readers a forceful argument, an attentiveness to competing perspectives, an appreciation for nuance and irony, a thorough mastery of pertinent sources, and elegant writing. This is a book that both specialists and generalists will profit from reading. -- Randall Kennedy, author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the LawLike Sherlock Holmes noticing the dog that didn’t bark, Sean Wilentz discerns the revealing absence of a property right in slaves that hardline southerners failed to secure at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Clearly and without apology, Wilentz explains the framers’ familiar compromises with slavery. But until now no historian has examined the critical concession antislavery delegates refused to make. There would be no constitutional right of property in man. -- James Oakes, author of The Scorpion’s Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil WarWas the U.S. Constitution, as the South Carolinian states-man John C. Calhoun believed, a pro-slavery document, or did it, as President Abraham Lincoln argued, deny slavery a place in national law and point toward abolition? Although most Americans outside the academy would assume that Calhoun was wrong and Lincoln right, the contrary view has gained so much ground among academics in recent years that Wilentz’s qualified endorsement of Lincoln’s interpretation is both bracing and brave. Wilentz’s thoroughly researched argument serves as a useful example of solid scholarship and effective writing on a sensitive topic. -- Walter Russell Mead * Foreign Affairs *Will reshape American thinking on a deep American matter…Goes to the heart of the present-day consternation over the national identity and its history. -- Paul Berman * The Tablet *Undeniably enlightening. * Kirkus Reviews *An insightful account of slavery’s place in United States politics from the nation’s founding to the start of the Civil War. One of the leading political historians of our time, Wilentz draws on his extensive knowledge of the period to give readers fresh insights into historians’ long-running debate over slavery’s place in American politics. -- Frank Towers * Labour *

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Book SynopsisRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrTrade Review"[A]nalytically sophisticated... Bethencourt tacks deftly between cultural and social history. His binocular vision marks Racisms out from most previous studies."--David Armitage, Times Literary Supplement "Bethencourt, professor of history at King's College London, examines how expansion abroad shaped European systems of ethnic prejudice in a tour de force spanning the Americas, West Africa, India, and other colonial environs."--Publishers Weekly "[W]ell worth reading."--Christie Davies, Standpoint "Francisco Bethencourt's Racisms could not be more timely ... Bethencourt's incisive analysis ought to be compulsory reading in the think tanks, chanceries and ministries of the developed world."--Maria Misra, Prospect "To understand what fuelled such racist ideologies and practices, I can think of no better book than Francisco Bethencourt's Racisms. It is an ambitious, bold project... Bethencourt addresses the 'scientific' turn in racial classification systems. There is a vast literature on the ideas of influential men such as ... Charles Darwin and many others. However, Bethencourt's summary is the clearest and most sophisticated to date... [An] impressive book."--Joanna Bourke, New Statesman "[A]mbitious and wide-ranging... Racisms['s] cataloguing of successive centuries of poisonous bigotry, of tangled, self-serving myth and murderous victimisation, creates a powerful cumulative effect. To chart some of my own emotions while reading it: anger; pain, disgust and sorrow. This is an unlovely history. But a necessary one that appears, sadly for the wrong reasons, at the right time."--Ekow Eshun, Independent "As a comparative study of colonial behaviour Racisms is astonishing... Readers of Racisms will learn a great deal about the colonial encounters that brought people of different regions, religions, 'skin colors,' and 'ethnicities' into contact with each other during the long centuries of European expansion."--David Nirenberg, Literary Review "Epic in scale and ringing with authority."--Steven Carroll, Age "Although Bethencourt's writings are grounded in academia, Racisms is a highly accessible and lively account that should appeal to a wide audience--a work that, while not being too sophisticated for the average person to read and appreciate for the multiple insights that it provides, makes for just as worthy an undergraduate text."--Lois Henderson, BookPleasures.com "For those who are already working on racism, or who are at the very least acquainted with it, the book should prove a very useful tool in locating specific work within a larger historical landscape. It serves as a very strong call to open one's historical horizons, both temporally and geographically, which can only improve one's work. In this sense, Racisms is well worth reading. It represents a welcome contribution to the growing body of work on the topic by debunking some very persistent myths about it."--Philippe-Andre Rodriguez, Oxonian Review "In this richly illustrated study, Bethencourt defines racism as prejudice based on ethnic descent that is supported by discriminatory measures driven by political motivations... Although Europe constitutes Bethencourt's focal point, he draws on examples of racism from Africa, Asia, and the Americas as points of comparison and context."--Choice "Bethencourt has done an admirable job sifting through history to produce this broad survey of the evolution of racial thought, always tying each development back to the political projects it was meant to facilitate and thereby illustrating the emptiness of race as an ontological category. Racisms not only pulls regularly from primary sources, such as travel narratives or scientific reports, but it is also richly peppered with images that bring to life the shifting perception of race through the centuries."--Guy Lancaster, Journal of History and Cultures "Racisms is a weighty tome in every sense of the word: the book reflects the scholarship and attention to detail of the dedicated academic as well as the writing of a man deeply sensitive to the moral and ethical issues involved."--Ed Standhaft, Methodist Recorder "This is a richly illustrated work--in terms of both historical material and visual images--that creates an interesting departure for further enquiry into a deeply challenging subject."--Shu Cao, International Affairs "Racisms is a superb monograph, well served by excellent illustrations."--Survival "No short review can do justice to this dazzlingly learned and ambitious book."--Stephen J. Whitfield, Patterns of Prejudice "Bethencourt has assessed copious sources and studies, making his book as helpful as instructive."--Stefanie Affeldt, Malte Hinrichsen, Wulf D. Hund, Archiv fuer Sozialgeschichte "This beautifully produced and richly illustrated book is a complex cross between an erudite essay on Western ideas about cultural, ethnic, religious, and racial differences, and a detailed accounting of European history and European contact with the rest of the world since the Middle Ages."--Stuart B. Schwartz, New West Indian Guide "Francisco Bethencourt's magisterial study Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century, offers an original contribution to this historiographical debate... Bethencourt's encyclopaedic research and sensitive and detailed analysis of 73 visual sources that guide each section will indubitably make this study invaluable for framing discussions on the long history of discrimination throughout European cores and peripheries."--Chloe Ireton, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Maps xii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I The Crusades 11 Chapter 1 From Greek to Muslim Perceptions 13 Chapter 2 Christian Reconquest 19 Chapter 3 Universalism: Integration and Classification 37 Chapter 4 Typologies of Humankind and Models of Discrimination 48 Part II Oceanic Exploration 63 Chapter 5 Hierarchies of Continents and Peoples 65 Chapter 6 Africans 83 Chapter 7 Americans 101 Chapter 8 Asians 117 Chapter 9 Europeans 137 Part III Colonial Societies 159 Chapter 10 Ethnic Classification 163 Chapter 11 Ethnic Structure 181 Chapter 12 Projects and Policies 204 Chapter 13 Discrimination and Segregation 216 Chapter 14 Abolitionism 228 Part IV The Theories of Race 247 Chapter 15 Classifications of Humans 252 Chapter 16 Scientific Racialism 271 Chapter 17 Darwin and Social Evolution 290 Part V Nationalism and Beyond 307 Chapter 18 The Impact of Nationalism 309 Chapter 19 Global Comparisons 335 Conclusions 365 Notes 375 Index 423

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Book SynopsisThe history and legacy of Indian and Chinese Caribbean indentured labourers who were part of the Windrush generationTrade Review‘This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration, struggle and celebration that shaped those communities born out of the system of Caribbean indenture’ -- Hanif Kureishi, author of ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ (Faber & Faber, 2009)'Through moving and insightful stories and testimonies, the legacies of indenture are powerfully inscribed' -- Hannah Lowe, author of 'Long Time No See' (Periscope, 2015)'This kaleidoscopic survey illuminates corners of modern Britain that have been overlooked. Filed with vivid stories about the Chinese and Indian contribution to Caribbean culture, it is also a vibrant history of immigration to the UK: a colourful work in every sense' -- Sibghat Kadri QC'I cried when I read this beautifully furious book on the life, loves and heroic struggles of my brave ancestors, the unfree indentured Indian and Chinese men and women who have been consciously and cruelly written out of British and Caribbean history' -- Heidi Safia Mirza, Professor of Race, Faith and Culture at Goldsmith College, University of London'Indentured labour was a unique form of labour invented and perfected by the British. This book analyses its history, development and human consequences with remarkable insight and points to its dark moral underside' -- Bhikhu Parekh, political theorist, academic and member of the House of LordsTable of ContentsList of figures Introduction: ‘My Father’s Journey Made Me Who I Am’ Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and David Dabydeen 1. What’s in a Face? - Jonathan Phang 2. Black Turkey - David Dabydeen 3. From BG to GB - Elly Niland 4. Made through Movement - Nalini Mohabir 5. Interview: ‘Trinidad Implants in you this Wonderful Sense of Carnival’ - Bob Ramdhanie 6. A Tribute to the Life of Rudy Narayan (1938–1998) - Lainy Malkani 7. Pepperpot - Gordon Warnecke 8. Scratching the Surface: A Speculative Feminist Visual History of other Windrush Itineraries - Tao Leigh Goffe 9. Everything of Us - Maria del Pilar Kaladeen 10. Three Rivers - Mr Gee 11. Interview: ‘Invited then Unwelcomed’ - Charlotte Bailey Contributor Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledgeTrade Review'Magnificent... the best recent treatment we have of the great Black Radical Tradition! Joshua Myers's powerful and profound examination of his towering figures lays bare the silences and evasions of contemporary Black academic studies. His vision of an alternative world grounded in the practices of Black everyday people is a clarion call for Black intellectual creativity and courage' -- Cornel West'A blueprint that helps to elevate the Black imagination so that a new architecture can create a better world. Myers’ reference to the work of Sylvia Wynter, June Jordan and Toni Cade Bambara gives visibility to Black women as thinkers and not individuals standing in the shadows of men. This is long overdue' -- Ethelbert Miller, writer and literary activist'Indispensable. In a sustained flash of deep, critical devotion, Joshua Myers has become one of our most important intellectual historians and the preeminent theorist of black study’ -- Fred Moten, cultural theorist, poet and scholar at New York University‘For those who are, or wish to become, engaged in this work of radical re-thinkings, Myers’ Of Black Study is a necessary consideration.’ -- Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.), Professor, Vanderbilt University‘Myers has blown the abeng. Through a beautifully woven, ethically attuned communion with Du Bois, Wynter, Carruthers, Robinson, Jordan, and Bambara, he charts a habit of thought that for more than a century has produced a body of knowledge robust enough to elaborate the fullness of black life. Let us answer the call Of Black Study’ -- Minkah Makalani, Director, Center for Africana StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Living (June Jordan) 1. Of Hesitance (W. E. B. Du Bois) 2. Of Human (Sylvia Wynter) 3. Of Speech (Jacob H. Carruthers, Jr.) 4. Of Order (Cedric J. Robinson) Conclusion: Dreams (Toni Cade Bambara)

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Book SynopsisAt a turning point for the growing field of Black Studies, one of its founders looks to its futureTrade Review'Alkalimat's unique talent and skill is to unpack, make accessible and organise layers of knowledge. He is encyclopaedic, radical, yet accommodative of all streams of Black Liberation' -- Vusi Mchunu a.k.a. Macingwane, South African poet, Chairperson of the Freedom Park Council'Written by one of its founding fathers, the book places Black Studies at the intersection of American history, progressive social movements and academia. Abdul Alkalimat builds on a life-long commitment, decades of research and a global network to provide unique insights' -- Nii Addy, German-Ghanaian Political Scientist'A timely, future-oriented and necessary contribution which provides clarity to the multi-valent tendencies in this field. Abdul Akalimiat, a long-standing practitioner and labourer in the trenches offers an updated and much-needed inquiry’ -- Carole Boyce Davies, prize winning author and Professor of Africana Studies and Literatures in English at Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Introduction PART I BLACK STUDIES AS AFROFUTURISM 1. Rethinking Afrofuturism 2. Imagining the Future 3. Back to the Future 4. Struggle for the Future PART II BLACK STUDIES AS DIASPORA STUDIES 5. History, Ideology, and Culture 6. African Diaspora Studies in Contemporary Academic Practice 7. Diaspora Studies in the African Diaspora PART III BLACK STUDIES AS KNOWLEDGE NETWORK 8. Science and Technology in Black History 9. Theories of eBlack 10. Toledo Model for eBlack Studies Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisModern Migrations, Black Interrogations uses reflections on the Black experience to consider the “unasked question of blackness” in modern migration and movement. The editors and contributors use the lens of Black Studies to show how migration—compelled by force or suggestion, from the transatlantic African slave trade to the Great Migration and the current refugee crisis—has been structured to reinforce white supremacy. Focusing on antiblackness in immigration and examining restrictions on freedom of movement and on settling alike, chapters address how Black im/mobility operates and how it can be distinguished from that of the migrant and the colonial settler, as well as from the transgressive mobilities of Indigenous populations. Looking at blackness, borders and border practices, and displacement, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations investigates racialized boundaries that determine immigration policy, citizenship, legality, and iTrade Review“In modernity, from the transatlantic slave trade to today, the ‘migration’ of Black people is incommensurable with that of others. As Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations argues and demonstrates, reckoning with antiblackness and Blackness fundamentally destabilizes conventional histories, categories, meanings, and politics. Wide-ranging yet penetrating, the book’s theoretical, empirical, and literary analyses pose a bracing challenge to all academics, policymakers, and activists concerned with mobility.”—Moon-Kie Jung, Coeditor of Antiblackness and author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present“The editors and contributors to this volume give migration studies a much-needed shake-up. Theoretically rich and analytically tight, its wide-ranging chapters probe and expose the unacknowledged extent to which antiblackness shapes the way we think and talk about the movement of people. Rather than just implicating the usual suspects, Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations calls on well-meaning humanitarians—scholars, activists, and the like—to wipe the smudge of antiblackness from our lens. This is a bold and important book.”—Jamie Longazel, Associate Professor of Law and Society at John Jay College, affiliated faculty in the International Migration Studies program at the CUNY Graduate Center, and coeditor of Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas (Temple)

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Book SynopsisInterweaves Shirley Chisholm's public image, political commitments, and private experiences to create a definitive account of a consequential life. In so doing, Anastasia Curwood suggests new truths for understanding the social movements of Chisholm's time and the opportunities she forged for herself through coalition building.

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Book SynopsisAmanda Lock Swarr debunks the centuries old claim hermaphroditism and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans by interrogating how contemporary intersex medicine its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism.Trade Review"Envisioning African Intersex is a compelling and provocative analysis of how medical and scientific authorities have imagined intersex (atypical sex development) in Africa and, just as important, how contemporary South African intersex activists have resisted these racist interpretations." -- Elizabeth Reis * Journal of Medical Humanities *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries: Intersex Images and Citational Chains 1 Part I. Uncovering: Colonial and Apartheid Legacies 1. Colonial Observations and Fallacies: “Hermaphroditism” in Histories of South Africa 23 2. “Intersex in Four South African Racial Groups in Durban”: Visualizing Scientific Racism and Gendered Medicine 49 Part II. Recovering: Decolonial Intersex Interventions 3. Defying Medical Violence and Social Death: Sally Gross and the Inception of South African Intersex Activism 73 4. #HandsOffCaster: Caster Semenya’s Refusals and the Decolonization of Gender Testing 102 5. Toward an “African Intersex Reference of Intelligence”: Directions in Intersex Organizing 132 Epilogue. Reframing Visions of South African Intersex 156 Acknowledgments 161 Appendix One: Compilation of Works by and Featuring Sally Gross 165 Appendix Two: Cited Twitter Posts Referencing Caster Semenya 167 Appendix Three: African Intersex Movement Priorities (2017, 2019, 2020) 169 Notes 171 References 207 Index 231

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Book SynopsisIn this revised and updated edition of The Dark Tree, Steven L. Isoardi tells the story of Horace Tapscott and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, a community arts group in Los Angeles that provided community-oriented jazz and jazz training for African American musicians, poets, playwrights, and artists for four decades.Trade Review“The Dark Tree is just wonderful. One cannot understand the history of Black arts on the West Coast without a thorough assessment of this movement; Isoardi knows this history so well and tells a much bigger story. The book does a fantastic job of capturing the nitty-gritty nature of the music scene and resurrecting local figures in the Arkestra who have never gotten any press for their astounding musicianship. This is a remarkable book.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original *“This is a revelatory document, virtuosically combining scholarship and oral history to connect the dots of African American music on the West Coast. Far more than a mere historical ‘overdub’ of an underdocumented scene, this book disrupts the mythic notions of jazz history, showing instead how music and community unfold as one. Both a celebratory and a cautionary tale, it also delivers some of the most frank and eye-opening musicians’ accounts since Arthur Taylor’s Notes and Tones.” -- Vijay Iyer, musician and composer“In these pages, Horace Tapscott says to the audience, ‘This is one more you wrote through us.’ And this is what Isoardi has done here: given voice to the nearly lost history of a revolutionary community movement through its key players. Epic in scope, dazzling in detail, and sensual as any Coltrane solo, this rare book—informative, intimate, lyrical, scholarly, nuanced, and essential—reads like no history book you’ve read before.” -- Chris Abani, author of GraceLand"An impressively constructed tapestry of voices, it includes memories and opinions from myriad people while maintaining a strong narrative thread through lsoardi's authoritative voice. . . . lsoardi's interviews with dozens of members—not one of whom declined to participate—recover a wealth of information crucial to the history of Los Angeles jazz. In the process, he has made The Dark Tree a truly collaborative project that itself shares in the communal spirit of the UGMAA." -- Matthew Blackwell * The Wire *Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition ix Acknowledgments xv 1. Ancestral Echoes: Roots of the African American Community Artist 1 2. Ballad for Samuel: The Legacy of Central Avenue and the 1950s Avant-Garde in Los Angeles 19 3. Lino’s Pad: African American Los Angeles and the Formation of the Underground Musicians Association (UGMA) 43 4. The Giant is Awakened: The Watts Uprising and Cultural Resurgence 69 5. Warriors All: UGMA in the Middle of It 117 6. The Mothership: From UGMA/UGMAA to the Pan Afrikan Peoples Akrestra and UGMAA 141 7. To the Great House: The Arkestra in the 1970s 179 8. Thoughts of Dar es Salaam: The Institutionalization of UGMAA 215 9. At the Crossroads: The Ark and UGMAA in the 1980s 259 10. The Hero’s Last Dance: The ’90s Resurgence 285 11. Aiee! The Phantom: Horace Tapscott 311 12. The Black Apostles: The Arkestra/UGMAA Ethos/Aesthetic: Music, Artists, Community 341 Epilogue: The Post-Horace Pan African Peoples Arkestra 363 Appendix: A View from the Bottom: The Music of Horace Tapscott and The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, by Roberto Miranda 369 Notes 379 Bibliography 407 Index 425

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Book SynopsisThe story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gamingGeek culture has never been more mainstream than it is now, with the ever-increasing popularity of events like Comic Con, transmedia franchising of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, market dominance of video and computer games, and the resurgence of board games such as Settlers of Catan and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Yet even while the comic book and hobby shops where the above are consumed today are seeing an influx of BIPOC gamers, they remain overwhelmingly white, male, and heterosexual. The Privilege of Play contends that in order to understand geek identity's exclusionary tendencies, we need to know the history of the overwhelmingly white communities of tabletop gaming hobbyists that preceded it. It begins by looking at how the privileged networks of model railroad hobbyists in the early twentieth century laid a cultural foundation for the scenes that woTrade Review"In this timely and important book, Aaron Trammell explores not just today's growing board game community, but its longer, more complex, and problematic genealogies and historiographies. The hobbyists from which the modern board game community developed—the train enthusiasts, the sci-fi authors, the war gamers, the role players—have strong ties through to today. And while the communities have offered safe spaces for some marginalized groups, they also participated in racist and class-based segregation. With his practiced analytical skills and detailed eye for nuance, Trammell never lets one narrative dominate, telling a refined, three- dimensional story about the development of hobby board games. Play is serious business, but Trammell's engaging tone makes it fun again too. Highly recommended." * Paul Booth, author of Board Games as Media *"I have been waiting for years for a book like The Privilege of Play. Using contemporary and historical examples, Aaron Trammell weaves together insightful theoretical analysis, archival deep dives, and sharp, poignant anecdotes to construct a compelling picture of game culture hobbyists, and the history out of which they emerged." * Shira Chess, author of Play Like a Feminist *"I read The Privilege of Play straight through. It hit pretty close to home, reading a bit like my own travelogue through the hobby, beginning with the model train sets I had as a kid, my obsession with war games as a teenager, and taking us right through my RPG days and current career in games. The Privilege of Play is a must read for anyone seriously committed to a socially just and open hobby industry. Trammel argues, and I would agree, that any hobby gaming professional looking to break down the patterns of exclusion that pervade our industry would do well to study how we arrived here." -- Christopher O’Neal, CEO of Brotherwise Games and President of Game Pathways"For nearly a decade, Aaron Trammell has been a leading voice calling for the field of game studies to attend to analog games’ (board games, card games, and tabletop roleplaying games) deep history and thriving present... Overall, The Privilege of Play expands a nascent but growing movement to study race within game cultures and provides a powerful demonstration of what archival work about play communities can reveal." -- Peter McDonald * Critical Inquiry *

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Book SynopsisReimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science researchand methodsThere is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and globally. In Disciplinary Futures, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays from scholars such as Y?n Lê Espiritu, Sunaina Maira, Hokulani K. Aikau, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Ben Carrington, Yvonne Sherwood, and Gilda L. Ochoa, among others, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism, namely: the black-white binarTrade ReviewThe margins of sociology are at once its cutting edge. There we find innovative scholarship remaking the discipline through critical engagements with American, cultural, ethnic, gender and women's, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. A stocktaking and agenda-setting book, Disciplinary Futures brings empire, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, queer of color critique, white supremacy, and intersectionality from the periphery to the core of our concern. May sociology take heed. * Moon-Kie Jung, author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present *Much lip service is paid to the significance of engaging in inter- and multidisciplinary research, but surprisingly little or no attention is given to why it is important and how to do it. These issues are central to this volume. A diverse and stellar group of scholars illustrate how the discipline of sociology can be rethought, enriched, and expanded through a deep engagement with other disciplines. Their scholarship reveals the necessity for sociology to revitalize and reinvent itself in order to fully comprehend the positionality, experiences, and voices of racialized and marginalized groups. * Michael Omi, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States *This is a powerful collection that challenges sociologists to confront the epistemic violence that undergirds their discipline. It challenges race-neutral and nation-bound analysis of the experiences of people of color as it calls for a critical sociology that acknowledges the injuries of racism, settler-colonialism, and imperialism in everyday experiences. This is a must-read for anyone committed to dismantling inequality. * Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work *The important essays in this exciting interdisciplinary volume bring valuable insights from studies of race and immigration, disability, gender and sexuality, and Indigeneity to bear upon research and methods in sociology and the social sciences.” * Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents *

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Book SynopsisWritten over a period of more than two decades, Colour Matters is a collection of essays that shows how race informs the aspirational pursuits of Black youth in the Greater Toronto Area.Table of ContentsForeword D. Alissa Trotz Introduction: Exploring the Social and Educational Experiences of Black Canadian Youth Over Time 1. Historical and Social Context of the Schooling and Education of African Canadians Response: Complicating Gender and Racial Identities within the Study of Educational History Funke Aladejebi 2. Generational Differences in Black Students’ School Performance Response: It’s the Same with Black British Caribbean Pupils Shirley Anne Tate 3. “To make a better future”: Narrative of a 1.5 Generation Caribbean-Canadian Response: Using Gender to Think Through Migration, Love, and Student Success Amoaba Gooden 4. Students “at risk”: Stereotypes and the Schooling of Black Boys Response: Black Lives Matter in the USA and Canada Joyce E. King 5. More than Brains and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectories of Two Young Black Men Response: What Folks Don’t Get: Race and Class Matter Annette M. Henry 6. Class, Race, and Schooling in the Performance of Black Male Athleticism Response: Basketball’s Black Creative Labour and the Mitigation of Anti-Black Schooling Mark V. Campbell 7. Troubling Role Models: Seeing Racialization in the Discourse Relating to “Corrective Agents” for Black Males Response: Black Role Models and Mentorship Under Racial Capitalism Sam Tecle 8. “Up to No Good”: Black on the Streets and Encountering Police Response: It Could Have Been Written Today: A Montrealer’s Reflection Adelle Blackett 9. “Colour Matters”: Suburban Life as Social Mobility and its High Cost for Black Youth Response: Respectability Politics and the Search for Upward Mobility in Canada Andrea A. Davis 10. Toward Equity in Education for Black Students Response: “I will treat all my students with respect”: The Limits to Good Intentions Leanne Taylor Epilogue Michele A. Johnson Acknowledgements Biographies of Contributors/Respondents

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Book SynopsisIn Singing Like Germans, Kira Thurman tells the sweeping story of Black musicians in German-speaking Europe over more than a century. Thurman brings to life the incredible musical interactions and transnational collaborations among people of African descent and white Germans and Austrians. Through this compelling history, she explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in the concert hall. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, audiences assumed the categories of Blackness and Germanness were mutually exclusive. Yet on attending a performance of German music by a Black musician, many listeners were surprised to discover that German identity is not a biological marker but something that could be learned, performed, and mastered. While Germans and Austrians located their national identity in music, championing composers such as Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms as national heroes, the performance of their works by Black musicTrade ReviewSinging Like Germans is a superb piece of historical research enlivened by its author's deep fascination with her subject matter. This book will be fascinating to a wide body of readers who are interested in classical music, German history, and African American history. * New York Journal of Books *Thurman's exacting research, synthesizing a kaleidoscope of source material, paints a rich portrait of Black classical music-making in Europe spanning well over a century. Filled with compelling accounts of the contradictions inherent in classical music's universalist claims, Singing Like Germans demonstrates that the lives of Black classical musicians cannot be reduced to a narrative of struggle. * Boston Review *Sometimes, a book comes along that completely breaks new ground—a total eye-opener. And that's the book called Singing Like Germans. It's meticulously researched, but the writing style goes down like water. Most importantly, it uncovers a story of people and a performance practice and rebuilds an unknown period in music history. * NPR *In Singing Like Germans, the historian Kira Thurman adds a new dimension to the story by focusing on African American classical musicians who studied, performed, or settled in German-speaking Europe, offering valuable insights into how Germans viewed these Black artists. * New York Review of Books *We love history like this that explores how people reinforced or challenged racial identities in specific circumstances. * East Bay Booksellers, Oakland, CA *Thurman's study of Black musicians is an indispensable and foundational achievment. Thurman's work represents a monumental and necessary step towards rewritng the history of German music. * Monatshefte *With Singing Like Germans, Thurman joins Naomi Adele André, author of Black Opera, at the vanguard of cultural histories reexamining musical production and consumption through the lens of critical race theory. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: 1870–1914 1. How Beethoven Came to Black America: German Musical Universalism and Black Education after the Civil War 2. African American Intellectual and Musical Migration to the Kaiserreich 3. The Sonic Color Line Belts the World: Constructing Race and Music in Central Europe Part II: 1918–1945 4. Blackness and Classical Musicin the Age of the Black Horror on the Rhine Campaign 5. Singing Lieder, Hearing Race: Debating Blackness, Whiteness, and German Music in Interwar Central Europe 6. "A Negro Who Sings German Music Jeopardizes German Culture": Black Musicians under the Shadow of Nazism Part III: 1945–1961 7. "And I thought they were a decadent race": Denazification, the Cold War, and (African) American Involvement in Postwar West German Musical Life 8. Breaking with the Past: Race, Gender, and Opera after 1945 9. Singing in the Promised Land: Black Musicians in the German Democratic Republic Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFrom the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent. Mirroring the urban development trend across the nation, new construction led to the displacement of low-income and working-class racial minorities, as city officials targeted these neighborhoods for demolition in order to spur economic growth and bring in affluent residents. Responding to the displacement, there emerged a coalition of unions, community organizers, and faith-based groups advocating for policy change. In Building Downtown Los Angeles Leland Saito traces these two parallel trends through specific construction projects and the backlash they provoked. He uses these events to theorize the past and present processes of racial formation and the racialization of place, drawing new insights on the relationships between race, place, and policy. Saito brings to bear the importance of historical events on contemporary processes of gentrification and integrates the fluidity of racial categories into his analysis. He explores these forces in action, as buyers and entrepreneurs meet in the real estate marketplace, carrying with them a fraught history of exclusion and vast disparities in wealth among racial groups.Trade Review"Another richly detailed book on capitalistic space control and white racism by Leland Saito! Although big capital and city officials remade LA's Broadway area, California's progressive growth-with-equity groups democratized this once capitalist-dominated city development process. Accenting historical context and changing meanings of white racial framing of cities, Saito crafts a very innovative racial-spatial formation theory."—Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University"Through rich documentation and incisive theorizing, Saito exposes a tragic history of racialized residential and community displacement in LA. He vividly portrays the struggles of regional social justice organizations to wrest community benefits agreements along with nuanced policy appraisals for how to achieve more redistributive and equitable urban futures in LA and elsewhere."—Jan Lin, Occidental College"Saito goes beyond the dualities of power and inequalities as he eloquently depicts the struggles and negotiations between community-based organizations and city officials and developers who had little regard for the welfare of racial and working-class minorities."—Fazila Bhimji, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Even though many studies have been published about Los Angeles, there is a lot to learn from Saito's thoroughly researched manuscript, particularly about the power of community coalitions and how they could challenge even the most influential developers. This is an excellent book, expertly structured, with a well-crafted and clear message about the path to success of local organizing for social justice."—Elena Vesselinov, Social Forces"Saito's close-to-the-ground book is essential reading for scholars of urban development and community organizers alike and will appeal to a wide audience of historians of Los Angeles, urban scholars, planning professionals, and students of community and labor movements."—Luis Flores, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Building Downtown Los Angeles is an essential study of the dialectics among capital, development, and oppositional politics.... Elaborating on the analytic of 'racial-spatial formation' in his account of city-corporate machinations, coalitional opposition, and subsequent public policy, he demonstrates how the construction of urban spaces and meanings about race are mutually constitutive....Essential."—J. deGuzman, CHOICEThis book speaks to multiple audiences, including scholars and practitioners working across disciplines and professions.... For all audiences, this text calls us to critically interrogate development projects, especially those underwritten by public dollars, as well as corresponding narratives ofmodernization. It calls us to ask who such projects serve and who shoulders the costs ofprogressin gentrifying cities."—Ashley Hernandez, Journal of the American Planning Association"Building Downtown Los Angeles has much to recommend it. It provides a well-researched account of the development of several key projects in Los Angeles's downtown beginning in the 1960s and continuing until about 2015. In addition, using Los Angeles as a case study, it effectively examines the increasingly significant role of social justice concerns and community engagement with the development process; it highlights the importance of community benefits agreements (CBAs) in this process."—Robert B. Kent, Journal of Urban Affairs"Saito's work has multiple strengths. His book is centrally concerned with understanding what made growth-with-equity coalitions arise and succeed in Los Angeles. The historical account he provides is key to this aim, as he produces an argument about the necessary antecedent events that led to particular outcomes. This book will be of special interest to scholars of Los Angeles, urban development, contemporary union movements, and Latino organizations."—Sarah Mayorga, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Racial-Spatial Formation 1. The Los Angeles Convention Center: 1950s-1990s 2. The Staples Center and L.A. Live: 1990s-2010s 3. Growth Interests and the Growth with Equity Coalition: 1990s 4. Negotiating the L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement: 1990s-2000s 5. Evaluating the L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement: 2000s 6. The NFL Stadium Proposal and Neighborhood Change: 1990-2015 Conclusion: Implications for Social Justice

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Book SynopsisHow can colorblindness – the idea that race does not matter – be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind racism: how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and real-life examples, Meghan Burke reveals colorblind racism to be an insidious presence in many areas of institutional and everyday life in the United States. She explains what is meant by colorblind racism, uncovers its role in the history of racial discrimination, and explores its effects on how we talk about and treat race today. The book also engages with recent critiques of colorblind racism to show the limitations of this framework and how a deeper, more careful study of colorblindness is needed to understand the persistence of racism and how it may be challenged. This accessible book will be an invaluable overview of a key phenomenon for students across the social sciences, and its far-reaching insights will appeal to all interested in the social life of race and racism.Trade Review"Perfectly timed for our national post-post-racial moment, this book provides an exceptionally clear synopsis of how the ideology of colorblind racism supports racial inequality. Burke convincingly argues that we must adjust our understandings of racial ideologies as they – and the societies in which they work – adapt and change. With Colorblind Racism, Burke presents us with an updated toolkit to understand and effectively confront racism today." —Kathleen Odell Korgen, William Paterson University "Burke's book takes us on a tour of the origins of colorblind racism, its most distinctive components and contributions, and the new research and thinking it is producing. If you study racism in this supposed 'post-racial' era, you will probably want and need to get this book."—Douglas Hartmann, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Definition and Core Features Early Studies of the “New” Racism Bonilla-Silva’s “Racism Without Racists” Methods of Study The Rise and Fall of “Post-racial” Politics: Race and Contemporary Politics The Urgency of New Frontiers Chapter 2: Colorblindness in Historical Context The Evolution of US Racism Study of Racism in the Social Sciences Colorblindness and Growing Racial Inequality Chapter 3: Colorblindness in Divergent Contexts Colorblindness in Institutions Colorblindness in Law and Policy Colorblindness in Culture Taking Stock of What We Know Chapter 4: Contested Colorblindness Variations Around and Across the Color Line Variations in Social Contexts Backstage Racism, Racial Codes, and Overt Expressions New Questions about the New Racism Chapter 5: New Directions Colorblind Variations, Identities, and Continuums The White Elephant in the Room Challenging Contemporary Racism

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Book SynopsisA comparative media analysis of the representation of the U.S.–Mexico border Border tunnels at the U.S.–Mexico border are ubiquitous in news, movies, and television, yet, because they remain hidden and inaccessible, the public can encounter them only through media. Analyzing the technologies, institutional politics, narrative tropes, and aesthetic decisions that go into showing border tunnels across multiple forms of media, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez argues that we cannot properly address border issues without attending to—and fully understanding—the fraught relationship between their representation and reality. Llamas-Rodriguez reveals that every media text about border tunnels, whether meant for entertainment, cable news, video games, or speculative design, implicitly takes a position on the politics of the border. The examples laid out in Border Tunnels will teach readers how to look differently at the border as it is commonly presented in various forms of media, from ABC’s Nightline and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360º to reality TV, propaganda videos, and even digital effects in Hollywood action films. Llamas-Rodriguez examines how creative decisions in the production, promotion, and distribution of these media texts either emphasize or downplay issues such as border security, racial dynamics of migration, and sustainability of the borderlands. Focusing on tunnels to show how media representations can influence all kinds of audiences—even those physically near the border—Border Tunnels helps us make sense of this pressing social issue, ultimately advancing understanding of the U.S.–Mexico border in all of its complexity and precariousness. Trade Review "Don’t miss this provocative and impressive study of the mediated imaginings and construction of the U.S.–Mexico border. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez’s Border Tunnels provides an original and illuminating investigation of the complex and intertwined subjects of U.S.–Mexico relations, media narratives and video games that focus on border security, and the political rhetoric of marginalization." —Mary Beltrán, author of Latino TV: A History "Juan Llamas-Rodriguez pushes the limits of media theory to help us think about borders, tunnels, and the complex social and material interrelations that define the U.S.–Mexico border. Subtle, creative, and theoretically sophisticated, Border Tunnels compels us to look at these material structures as media, as social organizers crafted by popular culture, policy, myth, engineering, and surveillance technologies." —Hector Amaya, author of Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States Table of Contents Contents Introduction: A Media Theory of the Border Tunnel 1. TV News and Spectacle 2. Reality TV and Performativity 3. Digital Animation and Plasticity 4. First-Person Shooters and Racialization 5. Speculative Design and Sustainability Conclusion: Media Theory from the Border Tunnel Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book Synopsis***An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!***From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.Central to RuPaul?s success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world?s largest television franchises, RuPaul?s ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.In The House of Hidden Meanings, RuPaul strips away all artifice and recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.Here in RuPaul?s singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living?a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag. ?I''ve always loved to view the world with analytical eyes, examining what lies beneath the surface. Here, the focus is on my own life?as RuPaul Andre Charles,? says RuPaul.If we?re all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.

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Book SynopsisWhy are immigrants from Mexico and Latin America such an affectively charged population for political conservatives? More than a decade before the election of Donald Trump, vitriolic and dehumanizing rhetoric against migrants was already part of the national conversation. Situating the contemporary debate on immigration within America’s history of indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery, the Mexican-American War, and Jim Crow, Cristina Beltrán reveals white supremacy to be white democracy—a participatory practice of racial violence, domination, and exclusion that gave white citizens the right to both wield and exceed the law. Still, Beltrán sees cause for hope in growing movements for migrant and racial justice. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Trade Review"Cristina Beltrán’s analysis and exposition of historical and political contexts of racism and xenophobia through Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy, is a compelling and necessary read."—Colors of Influence "A devastating and critical read."—Zocalo Public Space

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Book SynopsisA new edition of a seminal text in Critical Race TheorySince the publication of the third edition of Critical Race Theory: An Introduction in 2017, the United States has experienced a dramatic increase in racially motivated mass shootings and a pandemic that revealed how deeply entrenched medical racism is and how public disasters disproportionately affect minority communities. We have also seen a sharp backlash against Critical Race Theory, and a president who deemed racism a thing of the past while he fanned the flames of racial intolerance and promoted nativist sentiments among his followers. Now more than ever, the racial disparities in all aspects ofpublic life are glaringly obvious. Taking note of all these developments, this fourth edition covers a range of new topics and events and addresses the rise of a fierce wave of criticism from right-wing websites, think tanks, and foundations, some of which insist that America is now colorblind and hasTrade ReviewComprehensive and insightful, Critical Race Theory, Third Edition is a must read for those wondering ‘why the fuss?’ about racial justice and a must read for those who think they know. An essential tool for today’s world. -- Stephanie M. Wildman, Professor Emerita, Santa Clara UniversityWithout doubt this is the best introduction available to Critical Race Theory. The authors are inspirational writers who have shaped CRT from its inception to its present state as a global interdisciplinary movement of scholars and activists. CRT provides a radical and challenging perspective that reveals how racism shapes the everyday reality of the world; from law courts and prisons, to the economy, schools, media, and health care. -- David Gillborn, Emeritus Professor of Critical Race Studies, University of Birmingham, UKOne of the most acclaimed critical race theory books... accessible and informative. * Book Riot *

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Book SynopsisNineteenth-century stoneware by enslaved and free potters living in Edgefield, South Carolina, highlights the central role of Black artists in the region’s long-standing pottery traditions Recentering the development of industrially scaled Southern pottery traditions around enslaved and free Black potters working in the mid-nineteenth century, this catalogue presents groundbreaking scholarship and new perspectives on stoneware made in and around Edgefield, South Carolina. Among the remarkable works included are a selection of regional face vessels as well as masterpieces by enslaved potter and poet David Drake, who signed, dated, and incised verses on many of his jars, even though literacy among enslaved people was criminalized at the time. Essays on the production, collection, dispersal, and reception of stoneware from Edgefield offer a critical look at what it means to collect, exhibit, and interpret objects made by enslaved artisans. Several featured contemporary works inspired by or related to Edgefield stoneware attest to the cultural and historical significance of this body of work, and an interview with acclaimed contemporary artist Simone Leigh illuminates its continued relevance.Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (September 9, 2022–February 5, 2023) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 6–July 9, 2023) University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (August 26, 2023–January 7, 2024) High Museum of Art, Atlanta (February 16–May 12, 2024)

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of what it means to be fabulousand why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than everFabulous does not simply track new club worlds, it takes us to them. The book does not just tell us about fashion and clubs, it is immersed in the scenes it conjures. This is engaging, relevant, and glamorous. Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity and The Queer Art of FailureFabulous lives up to its title. Who knew there was such riveting sociopolitical drama behind those velvet ropes?New York Times Book Review Prince once told us not to hate him 'cause he's fabulous. But what does it mean to be fabulous? Is fabulous style only about labels, narcissism, and selfieslooking good and feeling gorgeous? Or can acts of fabulousness be political gestures, too? What are the risks of fabulousness? And in what ways is fabulous style a defiant response to the struggles of living while marginalized? madison moore answers these questions in a timely and fascinating bookTrade Review“Fabulous lives up to its title. Who knew there was such riveting sociopolitical drama behind those velvet ropes?"—New York Times Book Review“This joyful cultural analysis looks at fabulousness as a queer aesthetic and political statement.”—Francesca Carington, Tatler“Fabulous is an absorbing, engagingly written, and highly insightful study of how ‘beautiful eccentrics’ creatively self-fashion themselves to articulate identity, assert presence, and reclaim power on the streets and in the nightclub.”—Harvey Young, author of Black Theater Is Black Life"Fabulous does not simply track new club worlds, it takes us to them. The book does not just tell us about fashion and clubs, it is immersed in the scenes it conjures. This is engaging, relevant, and glamorous." —Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity and The Queer Art of Failure"Celebrating the joys of being beautifully eccentric in a bland world, Fabulous offers a theory of fabulousness as political glitter that’s both deviant and defiant. This vivid account of queer motion through clubland’s portals of possibility is a clarion call for a new and colorful consciousness that can collapse stale categories, confront privilege, and combat toxic Trumpism."—Victor P. Corona, author of Night Class: A Downtown Memoir

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Book SynopsisNineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s boardwalks to the segregated South. Bald’s history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.Trade Review[Bald] has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration: Muslims from British India who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -- Sam Roberts * New York Times *A revelatory book… Vivek Bald’s new book on Bengali migration tells a history that has been largely unknown. -- Mini Basu * CNN.com *Bald’s meticulously researched Bengali Harlem is about Indian sailors who jumped ship on the eastern seaboard during the early twentieth century. These men became blue-collar workers and married African American and Latina women, and their lives suggest a heterogeneity and hopefulness in the immigrant experience that is sometimes ignored. -- Hirsh Sawhney * Times Literary Supplement *Captur[es] a unique narrative of inter-marriage and inter-ethnic community making in America. -- Yogendra Yadav * Indian Express *Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America is a landmark work at exhuming an unknown past of South Asian emigration… It deals in fascinating detail with the little-known narrative of Muslim men travelling from undivided Bengal from the 1880s onwards to seek a living in the U.S. -- Shamik Bag * Mint *Bald opens readers’ eyes to a rarely depicted part of the U.S. melting pot. -- Richard Pretorius * The National *A revelatory account of how the first Bengali migrants quietly merged into America’s iconic neighbourhoods. -- Mohua Das * The Telegraph (Calcutta) *Bald vividly recreates the history of South Asian migration to the U.S. from the 1880s through the 1960s. Drawing on ships’ logs, census records, marriage documents, local news items, the memoir of an Indian Communist refugee, and interviews with descendants, Bald reconstructs the stories of the Muslim silk peddlers who arrived in 1880s during the fin-de-siècle fascination for Orientalism; the seamen from colonial India who jumped ship at ports along the Eastern seaboard; and the Creole, African-American, and Puerto Rican women they married. Bald persuasively shows how these immigrants provide us with a ‘different picture of assimilation.’ Global labor migrants, they did not necessarily come seeking a better way of life, nor did they follow a path of upward mobility. In the cases of the silk peddlers who maintained ties to the subcontinent to obtain their goods, they forged extensive global networks yet also assimilated into black neighborhoods, building multiethnic families and communities at a time of exclusionary immigration laws against Asians. By the 1940s, those who stayed had followed the jobs, becoming auto or steel workers in the Midwest, storekeepers in the South, and hotdog vendors or restaurant workers in Manhattan, and, thanks to their wives, had quietly blended into neighborhoods such as Harlem, West Baltimore, Treme in New Orleans and Black Bottom in Detroit. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Vivek Bald’s extraordinary account persuasively places these first Bengali migrants at the heart of our multiracial American experience. A virtuoso act of recovery. -- Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoVivek Bald’s work on this untold story is meticulously researched, movingly told, and absolutely timely. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of An Aesthetic Education in the Era of GlobalizationVivek Bald’s Bengali Harlem is a monumental achievement. It brings to life a slice of the U.S. population unknown to the history books: South Asian migrants who came into the United States between the 1890s and the 1940s, making their lives in between African American and migrant spaces. Elegantly assembled, the stories of these migrants and their families are fascinating and heart-rending. -- Vijay Prashad, author of Uncle Swami: South Asians in America TodayGrounded in extraordinary research, Bengali Harlem reveals how South Asians became an integral part of black and Puerto Rican communities in the early years of the twentieth century. Historians of black life, culture, and commerce will never again be able to ignore the South Asian presence in African American communities and families. -- George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place

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Book SynopsisFor over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests, reported a fifteenth-century tale. They rove around, live of their own free will, and beat the Russian people, complained a seventeenth-century Cossack. Their actions are exceedingly rude. They do not take off their hats and do not bow to each other, huffed an eighteenth-century scholar. They are children of nature and guardians of ecological balance, rhapsodized early nineteenth-century and late twentieth-century romantics. Even the Bolsheviks, who categorized the circumpolar foragers as authentic proletarians, were repeatedly puzzled by the peoples from the late Neolithic period who, by virtue of their extreme backwardness, cannot keep up either economically or culturally with the furious speed of the emerging socialist society.Whether described as brutes, aliens, or endangered indigenous populations, thTrade ReviewEngagingly written and with much ironic wit throughout, Arctic Mirrors is a pleasure to read. * Journal of Historical Geography *In this great book, Slezkine has provided us with a comprehensive history of the encounter between the Russians and the indigenous peoples of the Arctic and northwestern Pacific.... Arctic Mirrors has already become required reading for anyone interested in the history or anthropology of Siberia, and it will soon establish itself as an invaluable contribution to the growing field of studies on the newly independent states. * American Anthropologist *Slezkine concentrates on the changing face of the Soviet Union in the microcosm of the northern people: from 'savage Indians' to the slow evolution from icebound hunters and trappers to industrialized laborers.... An invaluable look at the people the totalitarian Soviets forgot. * Booklist *This book sheds light on the history of a neglected people and reveals Russian self-perceptions refracted through the prism of their attitudes toward the natives.... It is a beautifully written, fascinating book that greatly enhances our understanding of Russia as a multiethnic state. * American Historical Review *This enlightening book should be read by all interested in the (former) Soviet north, northern people in general, or the relation between nation states and the various 'small peoples' of the earth. * Ethnohistory *This fascinating and authoritative book covers the history of relations between Russian civilization and the hunter-gatherer peoples of northern Eurasia. Slezkine charts changing Russian policies toward these circumpolar cultures beginning with the fur trade... in the eleventh century, through the expansion of the Russian empire under the tsars, to the modernization policies of the Soviets. He argues that attention to this kind of history reveals as much about the construction of Russian identity as it does about the cultural identity of the northern 'others.' This book is an important addition to the growing literature on comparative colonialisms. * Virginia Quarterly Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Small Peoples of the NorthPART I. SUBJECTS OF THE TSARCHAPTER 1. The Unbaptized The Sovereign's Profit The Sovereign's ForeignersCHAPTER 2. The Unenlightened The State and the Savages The State and the Tribute PayersCHAPTER 3. The Uncorrupted High Culture and the Children of Nature The Empire and the AliensPART II. SUBJECTS OF CONCERNCHAPTER 4. The Oppressed Aliens as Neighbors and Tribute Payers as Debtors The Russian Indians and the Populist IntellectualsCHAPTER 5. The Liberated The Commissariat of Nationalities and the Tribes of the Northern Borderlands The Committee of the North: The Committee The Committee of the North: The NorthPART III. CONQUERORS OF BACKWARDNESSCHAPTER 6. The Conscious Collectivists Class Struggles in a Classless Society Hunting and Gathering under SocialismCHAPTER 7. The Cultural Revolutionaries The War against Backwardness The War against EthnographyCHAPTER 8. The Uncertain Proletarians The Native Northerners as Industrial Laborers The North without the Native Northerners The Long Journey of the Small PeoplesPART IV. LAST AMONG EQUALSCHAPTER 9. The Socialist Nationalities Socialist Realism in the Social Sciences Fiction as HistoryCHAPTER 10. The Endangered Species Planners' Problems and Scholars' Scruples The Return of Dersu Uzala Perestroika and the Numerically Small Peoples of the NorthConclusionBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEncompassing more than a decade of research around the globe, this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics, prejudice, or genetics on the social and economic fates of minorities, nations, and civilization.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive collection of A. Sivanandan's writing.Table of ContentsForeword by Colin Prescod Introduction: Unity of struggle I The personal and the political 1. The liberation of the black intellectual 2. The hokum of New Times 3. La trahison des clercs II State racism and resistance 4. Race, class and the state: the political economy of immigration 5. From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain 6. RAT and the degradation of black struggle 7. Race, terror and civil society+ addendum III Globalisation and displacement 8. Imperialism and disorganic development in the silicon age 9. New circuits of imperialism 10. A Black perspective on the Gulf war 11. Poverty is the new black Bibliography of writings by A. Sivanandan Index

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Book Synopsis⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''OMG!!! This has to be my best book of the year!... Made me laugh and it made me cry!... So heartbreaking but inspiring at the same time. Loved it!'' Goodreads ReviewerA powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be yourself.Raised as a boy in a grand but unhappy family in Nigeria, Otolorin Akinro escapes to boarding school knowing two things: she is truly a girl, and to stay safe, she must hide that truth.Away from the cruelty of her childhood home, Oto blooms even as she strives to be the best boy she can, finding true friendship and working hard to earn a scholarship to an American university, hoping someone out there might help her understand the secrets her body holds.But she cannot stay away forever. Back home for the holidays, though Oto and her beloved twin sister are overjoyed to see each other, their mother''s violence erupts once more and when a terribTrade ReviewAn Ordinary Wonder is a spellbinding tale that prompts deep reflection around concepts of gender and identity. Buki Papillion's writing has a vivid beauty that kept me enthralled throughout -- Angela ChadwickBeautifully and delicately written, I felt a range of emotions while reading it. Papillon is a scintillating storyteller. We need more stories like this! -- Elizabeth OkohThis brilliant and ultimately uplifting debut antidotes the hard realities of gender-based violence, secrecy and family estrangement with the transformative forces of Yoruba spirituality, intergenerational nurturing and queer forms of kinship. From all that's foreclosed emerges a story of hope and optimism towards possible futures. Utterly stunning -- Isabel WaidnerPapillon draws on African mythology and art to create a rich, moving and uplifting story * Stylist *An Ordinary Wonder blew me away with its tender portrait of innocence, vulnerability and strength. Deftly, wisely, Papillon weaves together strands of history and identity which are too often separated. An Ordinary Wonder is nothing short of wonderful and anything but ordinary -- Okechukwu Nzelu author of The Private Joys of Nnenna MaloneyAn Ordinary Wonder is a profoundly moving book, all the more so for featuring an unforgettable protagonist in Otolorin, who will captivate readers with her hope, humour and joy of life. Being in Otolorin's company is never less than uplifting. Buki Papillon's writing is wonderfully vivid, and she treats all her characters - even the villains in Otolorin's family - with astonishing empathy -- Elodie HarperEntirely unique. In the face of prejudice and ignorance, An Ordinary Wonder sparkles with hope, insight, and humour -- Abigail DeanHighlights the limiting dangers of the gender binary, while also reminding us of the power storytelling has to help us envision a more expansive and inclusive world. * New York Times *A captivating queer coming of age story...[an] important one; there aren't many stories like Otolorin's in bookstores right now * Refinery29 *Delicate, emotional and beautiful... One you won't be able to put down * News 24 *A terrific coming-of-age story exploring complex desires as well as what it means to feel whole * YNaija Books of the Year *

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Book SynopsisWhen Roya, an Iranian American high school student, is asked to identify her race, she feels anxiety and doubt. According to the federal government, she and others from the Middle East are white. Indeed, a historical myth circulates even in immigrant families like Roya's, proclaiming Iranians to be the "original" white race. But based on the treatment Roya and her family receive in American schools, airports, workplaces, and neighborhoods—interactions characterized by intolerance or hate—Roya is increasingly certain that she is not white. In The Limits of Whiteness, Neda Maghbouleh offers a groundbreaking, timely look at how Iranians and other Middle Eastern Americans move across the color line. By shadowing Roya and more than 80 other young people, Maghbouleh documents Iranian Americans' shifting racial status. Drawing on never-before-analyzed historical and legal evidence, she captures the unique experience of an immigrant group trapped between legal racial invisibility and everyday racial hyper-visibility. Her findings are essential for understanding the unprecedented challenge Middle Easterners now face under "extreme vetting" and potential reclassification out of the "white" box. Maghbouleh tells for the first time the compelling, often heartbreaking story of how a white American immigrant group can become brown and what such a transformation says about race in America.Trade Review"The Limits of Whiteness is cutting-edge scholarship at its best. Beautifully written and insightfully researched, it is essential reading for those interested in the fraught and capacious legacies, and afterlives, of Middle Eastern and American racial projects." -- Sarah Gualtieri * author of Between Arab and White *"In this brilliant, beautifully written, and persuasive book, Maghbouleh demonstrates that Iranian Americans inhabit a complex and contradictory relationship to race. The poignant portraits of second-generation Iranian Americans reveal whiteness to be a volatile social construction, shaped by political, cultural, linguistic, and religious practices that initially might seem to have little to do with race." -- George Lipsitz * author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness *"I've been writing personal essays about Iranians and race for years, but Neda Maghbouleh's The Limits of Whiteness provides a much-needed sociologist's examination. Maghbouleh seamlessly navigates the historical, anthropological, and political, in a work as engaging as it is informative. This trailblazing book should be required reading for anyone interested in race in America, period." -- Porochista Khakpour * author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion *"While there is much for a scholar or advanced graduate student of race, migration, or Middle East studies to glean from the text, the book would be a welcome addition to introductory courses in American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and sociology, and as shared family reading in Iranian American households. The book is a conversation starter and an insightful, timely analysis of what race means and feels like for brown youth at the limits of whiteness." -- Stephanie Sadre-Orafai * Mashriq and Mahjar *"While numerous sociological studies have examined how Jewish, Italian, and Irish Americans have "become white" over time,...Neda Maghbouleh is interested in how Iranian Americans and those of other Middle Eastern backgrounds have moved back and forth across the color line....Maghbouleh's book illustrates the inadequacy of existing studies of American whiteness." -- Bardia Sinaee * Literary Review of Canada *"Social science studies on race and Iranians, especially full-length books, are few. So this book significantly contributes to the scarce but emerging research on Iranians in diaspora. It also endeavors to better situate the immigration scholarship with that of race. Lastly, The Limits of Whiteness comes at a time when discussions surrounding immigrants and their children continue to take center stage in American political discourse and immigration policy." -- Sahar Sadeghi * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Being White chapter abstractChapter 1 describes how race and racism organize Iranian American lives and shows that for liminal racial groups, whiteness is fickle and volatile. The chapter introduces the concepts "racial hinges" and "racial loopholes" to make sense of the contradictory racial experiences of Iranian Americans. Through the narratives of Roya, a second-generation youth, and the controversy over an anti-Iranian poster, this chapter offers the "limits of whiteness" as an analytic to understand racial problems that, when typically extended to Iranians, are integrated as expressions of "anything but race": that is, ethnic and cultural difference, religious intolerance, or anti-immigrant nativism. 2In the Past chapter abstractChapter 2 takes the reader inside the conflicting racial logics of early twentieth-century court cases and the six-month window in the late 1970s when Iranian Americans were made at once legally white and perhaps irrevocably socially brown during and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In the twenty-first century, Iranian Americans are trapped in racial loopholes in which they are unable to seek legal recourse for on-the-ground racism in workplaces and street-level hate crimes due to their legal whiteness. With American racism in the twenty-first century increasingly drawing on "color-blind" logic, even the most socioeconomically successful Iranian Americans are sanctioned from full inclusion through subtle means, such as residential architecture and design codes in Los Angeles, California. 3At Home chapter abstractFirst- and second-generation Iranian Americans tend to disagree about one key question: Are Iranians white or not? A little-known feature of the Iranian American community is that first-generation immigrants grew up in an Iranian state in which they were formally taught that Iranians are not only white but also the world's original and most racially pure white people. In the American context, first-generation parents' insistence to their American-born children that Iranians are in fact whiter than the European American white peers who racially harass and bully them at school offers little recourse for second-generation youth. From their perspective, the "Aryan myth" of Iranian whiteness and other expressions of "Persian" pride (which are often anti-Arab) is a distressing expression of ethno-racial elitism that fundamentally misunderstands Iranian Americans' actual position in the racial hierarchy in the United States. 4In School chapter abstractIt is through youth's physical proximity to whiteness that they are convinced that Iranians are not white. Faced with racial harassment and sometimes physical violence, second-generation youth repeatedly learn that their brand of white is not white enough to escape racial harassment. This is reflected in the political and social alliances they form with other racialized peers, in their racialized interactions in classrooms, and in their retreat to "inherited nostalgia" for Iran in co-ethnic safe spaces on college campuses. In support of this characterization, Iranian American and other youth from the Middle East and North Africa have successfully petitioned the University of California System for a new non-white racial classification: "SWANA." 5To the Homeland chapter abstractChapter 5 focuses on racial profiling and the visceral experience of traveling that is required of Iranian American youth to visit ancestral homelands. Common concerns about not being "Iranian" enough for one's parents and extended family in Iran are counterpoised against the lived experiences of being "too Iranian" for customs agents and TSA personnel. A collective consciousness about the transformative process of international travel becomes part of Iranian American youth culture, as boys and girls share stories of excitement and disappointment after coming face-to-face with their shifting racialization and inherited nostalgia for the home country. These transnational crossings and direct encounters with their own inherited nostalgia form the raw material for a specific second-generation consciousness that celebrates Iranian heritage, while also forging nonbiological kin networks across diaspora and with other liminal non-white groups. 6At Summer Camp chapter abstractAs second-generation Iranian American youth grow up scattered across the United States and with their extended biological families often dispersed across the world, how do these youth foster and develop a positive collective identity? Camp Ayandeh, a summer camp by and for second-generation Iranian American youth, is one such site in which teenage Iranian Americans create community. Camp Ayandeh provides a powerful corrective against the racialized bullying faced by youth, and rather than run from their de jure non-white identities in the United States, through camp youth learn to embrace it, themselves, and each other. 7Being Brown chapter abstractChapter 7 draws on the author's own biography and her surprising connection to a seminal racial prerequisite case (United States v. Cartozian, 1925) to show how a group can be repeatedly ushered into and shoved out of whiteness, depending on the prevailing winds of the time. As Iranians and other Middle Easterners have served as racial hinges in the project of American whiteness for more than one hundred years, the stark contradiction between their legal racial status and on-the-ground experience is not surprising. Yet what this means in the twenty-first century is that Iranian Americans fall into racial loopholes in which they cannot seek legal recourse for the racial discrimination they face. The experiences of Iranian Americans expose the shifting borderlands of inclusion in the white racial category and the limits of the protections that legal whiteness can afford socially non-white migrants and their children.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on individual Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities such as Irish, Caribbean, South Asian, Chinese and Jewish, this accessible guide brings together key information on the impact of living with dementia in BAME communities into a single comprehensive resource for front-line staff as well as an information source for families and carers. The book sets out personal case studies and examines how to provide bespoke support and information to raise awareness and lower levels of stigma. With diagnoses among minority communities set to increase, this much-needed handbook is the perfect companion for care home workers, social workers, doctors and nurses who may lack experience in communicating with and caring for people from BAME backgrounds. It is also a valuable resource for family carers and those living with dementia.Trade ReviewAt a time when black and minority ethnic people living with dementia are regularly ignored by policy initiatives as well as often being poorly supported by services, this is a welcome reminder that the current situation is not good enough. Truswell and colleagues usefully identify where experiences are improving and the lessons we can all learn, so that we can do better. -- Jabeer Butt, OBE, Chief Executive, Race Equality FoundationReadable, interesting and a valuable source of information on an important subject. Many of the chapters are embellished with meaningful stories and case histories. Essential reading for anyone practising in the health and social care field but of interest much more generally. -- Suman Fernando, Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities, London Metropolitan University and former consultant psychiatristDementia is one of the biggest health and social care challenges facing our country, we know that it affects people in all walks of life and can affect young and old people across the country and people from different ethnic groups. We know that cultural differences are important in our understanding of dementia and our ambition to provide high quality diagnosis and post-diagnostic support. Contributions such as David Truswell's excellent book which add to our body of knowledge are important, and to be welcomed. -- Professor Alistair Burns, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, University of ManchesterDementia is not colour blind. It affects people from all ethnic groups and cultures and its impact in Black Asian and Minority ethnic communities in Britain is a lesser known fact. Our culture shapes the way we think and act. This book unlocks the mysteries of Dementia, its prevalence and conceptualisation in Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities in Britain. This compelling guide makes the invisible visible on dementia and its impact and care in Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities in Britain. -- Professor Raghu Raghavan, Professor of Mental Health and Director of Mary Seacole Research Centre, De Montfort University LeicesterTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Dementia and Irish People in Britain (Dr Mary Tilki). 3 Dementia and African-Caribbean Community (David Truswell). 4. The experience of dementia in UK South Asian Communities (Dr. Karan Jutlla and Harjinder Kaur). 5. Dementia and the UK Chinese Community (David Truswell, Tom Lam and Gill Tan). 6. Supporting People Living with Dementia in the Jewish Community (Padraic Garrett). 7. Dementia, Rights, and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities (Toby Williamson). 8. Exploring Spirituality and Dementia (David Truswell and Dr Natalie Tobert). 9. Dementia and further common issues affecting BAME Communities. 10. A single carer's perspective of dementia (Dr Shibley Rahman). 11. Summary (Truswell).

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Michèle Lamont (co-author), Winner of the 2017 Erasmus Prize, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation""Original. . . . This far-reaching survey seeks to understand people's experiences of discrimination, and it is particularly welcome in view of the fact that discrimination is different from injustice, such as the social injustice related to the distribution of goods and wealth. . . . While maintaining its demonstrative purpose, Getting Respect is equally rigorous in its description of individual experiences and societal characteristics. . . . A brilliant example of comparative sociology."---Francois Dubet, Books and Ideas

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Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies, this book presents an exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture.Trade Review“Raising the Dead is a tour de force filled with provocative, original, and imaginative observations and insights. Sharon Holland draws on a dazzling range of influences and interprets an impressive array of diverse cultural forms as she asks and answers crucial questions about ancestry, origins, and heritage in African American and Native American life and culture.”—George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego“A thorough, challenging, and compelling investigation of the themes of subjectivity, death, and their interrelation in twentieth-century American literature and culture.”—Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside“A work of theoretical power and brilliant interpretive prowess.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknoweldgments ix Introduction: Raising the Dead 1 1 Death and the Nations Subjects 13 2 Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made "Flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved 41 3 Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead 68 4 (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts 103 5 "From this Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians": Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment 124 6 Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death 149 Epilogue 175 Notes 183 Selected Bibliography 209 Index 227

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Book SynopsisA best-selling author, National Book Award-winner and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.

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Book SynopsisGary Craig and his contributors blend theory and practice-based case studies to review how different community development approaches can empower minority ethnic communities to confront racism and overcome social, economic and political disadvantage.Trade Review"Community organising against racism fills a major gap in the literature on community development – an essential sourcebook for academics, students, practitioners and policy makers alike." Marjorie Mayo, Emeritus Professor of Community Development, Goldsmiths, University of LondonTable of ContentsPart I: theories and concepts; Introduction: conceptualisation and historical framework: ethnicity and migration ~ Gary Craig; Community development and political participation by minorities ~ Asifa Afridi; Do minority groups need development? An Illichian approach ~ Brian Belton; Race based hate crime and Islamaphobia ~ Dr. Rick Bowler; Part II: Case studies; Capacity building with minority ethnic groups ~ Phil Ware; Learning Alliance approaches to working with minority communities on health care innovation ~ David Smith; Community development with Chinese mental health service users ~ Lynn Tang; Youth participation amongst ethnic minorities ~ Louisa Cocris; The role of mediators in activating communities ~ Colin Clark; Cultural identity and community development with Roma communities: an asset-based approach ~ Stuart Hashagen; Gender discrimination and community development with Gypsy, Roma and Travellers ~ Holly Notcutt; Addressing the effects of racism through community development ~ Tina Lathouras; An arts-based approach to intercultural work ~ Ranjit Sondhi; Working with multiple minority groups in Toronto ~ Morris Beckford; Community development, biculturalism and multiculturalism ~ Angela Summersgill; Working in a multicultural context in the US ~ Lorraine Gutierrez; Building strengths in asylum seeker communities ~ Linda Briskman and Lis de Vries; Participatory action research with migrant and asylum seeking women ~ Margaret Greenfields and Natalia Paszkiewicz; Re-negotiating identity between migrant workers ~ Rob Gregory; Working with female migrant workers in Hong Kong ~ SL Hung and KK Fung; Conclusion ~ Gary Craig.

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