Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

Book SynopsisIs really "Islam" to blame for many of the ills of the world, like stagnation, gender inequality, social inequality, human rights violations and ecologically unsustainable development? In this book, the authors will present a Barro-type of cross-national development accounting framework for the weight that the variable "Muslims per total population" has in comparison to standard world economic openness, political geography and political history indicators for 17 key economic, political, social and environmental variables in 134 countries. This is a ''first of its kind'' to develop a quantitative assessment of the "global Lisbon process" of the convergence or divergence of living conditions across the globe since the 1990''s. The authors draw come optimistic, socio-liberal conclusions about Islam in the world system while we show, at the same time, that membership in the EU-15, by comparative standards, has dire long-term consequences in the world economy, and globalisation does not fulfill many of its promises.

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of personal narratives from scholars, educators, and leaders in higher education focusing on how they developed and used multicultural perspectives. Each story is unique and personal and the collection illustrates the many ways these individuals were influenced by and influenced broad and inclusive views of culture. People tend to make judgments based on their experiences in life. In the chapters, the authors discuss their experiences and how they developed a passion for multiculturalism. They discuss how they challenged themselves and traditional assumptions of our society to develop their own multicultural skill sets. It may have been one situation or a combination of situations; but for each author, there was a significant event that impacted him/her forever. In most cases, there were a number of factors and experiences that led the author down this very important path. White voices do matter and this book is a powerful collection of such voices in print. Individuals can be different and these chapters provide real stories and real situations where the authors made a conscious decision to not go with the "norm" and redirect their thoughts and actions to develop into proponents of multiculturalism. Through their actions, they have shown others that this behavior is acceptable, and in fact, is what everyone should be doing regardless of how they look, where they were born, or what neighborhood they currently live in. These stories open our eyes to what can really happen if we work at it.

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Book SynopsisRacism and racial prejudice, considered a relic of obsolete and outdated social systems, is re-emerging in the depths of ultra-modern Western societies with different characteristics from the past but with a surprising and worrying virulence. Forms of old racial prejudice, such as anti-Semitism, reappear in unexpected forms, presenting new and unpredicted characteristics, whereas anti-Islamism seems to challenge, by diffusion, transversality and essentiality, the worst historical anti-Semitic exhibitions. These waves of prejudice and racism that follow one after the other at the dawn of the twenty-first century testify to the many fears that fill the horizons of advanced societies, undermining not only their internal reliability, but also just their democratic settings. This book discusses the global perspectives, the coping strategies and social implications of racism.

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Book SynopsisPresident Obama is taking action to launch My Brother''s Keeper a new initiative to help every boy and young man of color who is willing to do the hard work to get ahead. For decades, opportunity has lagged behind for boys and young men of color. But across the country, communities are adopting approaches to help put these boys and young men on the path to success. As part of the initiative''s launch, the President also established the My Brother''s Keeper Task Force to review public and private sector programs, policies, and strategies and determine ways the Federal Government can better support these efforts, and how to better involve State and local officials, the private sector, and the philanthropic community. This book includes key indicators that will provide a comprehensive view of the environments and outcomes for boys and young men of color and their peers.

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Book SynopsisEmbroidery motifs for every hair type and person! Representation matters and this embroidery looks like you! Celebrate diversity with 10 projects and more than 50 motifs in a wide array of skin tones, body shapes, and hair textures. Table of ContentsIntroduction Basics Projects Project 1: Daily Affirmations Stitch Sampler Journal Cover Project 2: Ombre Text Clutch Project 3: Nude Is Not a Color, Framed Wall Hanging Project 4: I Don’t See Color: Double Hooped Project Project 5: Male-Focused Project Project 6: Pincushion - Play-ground Theme, Hopscotch, Double Dutch, Jump Rope Project 7: Tote Bag With 5 Bodies in Different Shapes And Skin Tones in Yoga Motif Project 8: “So Many Choices” A Variety of Hairstyle Names Border a Satin Pillowcase Project 9: Dimensional Hair Vignette: Shrinkage, Dread-locks, Bantu Knots, Teeny Weeny Afro Project 10: Upcycled Denim Jacket -Variety of Retro- Themed Motifs To Mix And Match Motif Library Iron On Transfers for Project Designs

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Book SynopsisText in Spanish: Two daughters, who are identical twins, born and raised in Hartford, CT, decided to document the life of their adoptive father (Papi). In Tuesdays with Morrie, author Maribel Santana-Texidor and her sister Marisol Santana-Texidor share some of the great lessons they learned from Papi, which shaped their lives. These lessons were captured during intimate moments where Papi describes his childhood, his move to the United States, his job as a laborer, and moments of love and marriage. The lessons on how to maintain a healthy marriage and raise a family are invaluable. We also explore the importance of meeting challenges with humility. You will be intrigued by his love and level of commitment to his wife who was diagnosed with Alzheimer''s. He kept his promise to never leave her, until his passing in 2021. This included never placing her in a skilled nursing facility. And so, Papi became her caregiver for over 10 years, and when he was forced to undergo back surgery (spinal stenosis), his two daughters quickly moved in to care for Mami. Papi was in a rehab center for many weeks and couldn''t wait to recover so he could be reunited with his wife. You will be inspired by his life, and you will appreciate the many lessons he shares.

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Book SynopsisFrom 1914 to 1920, thousands of men who had immigrated to Canada from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were unjustly imprisoned as “enemy aliens,” some with their families. Many communities in Canada where internees originated do not know these stories of Ukrainians, Germans, Bulgarians, Croatians, Czechs, Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Alevi Kurds, Armenians, Ottoman Turks, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Serbians, Slovaks, and Slovenes, amongst others. While most internees were Ukrainians, almost all were civilians. The Stories Were Not Told presents this largely unrecognized event through photography, cultural theory, and personal testimony, including stories told at last by internees and their descendants. Semchuk describes how lives and society have been shaped by acts of legislated discrimination and how to move toward greater reconciliation, remembrance, and healing. This is necessary reading for anyone seeking to understand the cross-cultural and intergenerational consequences of Canada’s first national internment operations. Foreword by Jen Budney.Trade Review"To dwell in this book's pages is to experience dismay, sadness and sobering revelation. Finally though, a century later, internment stories are being told, making our nation's history more authentic." -- Steven Ross"The book is a melding of Semchuk’s personal journey, visual art, narrative, and recall.... The Stories Were Not Told is an intriguing composition, stimulating thought and offering an artistic integrative approach to history and culture.... This grounding of the human experience through a variety of approaches reveals more than history per se." [Full review at https://ormsbyreview.com/2020/05/13/823-regular-hinther-mochoruk-semchuk-black-internment/] -- Keith Regular, The Ormsby Review, May 13, 2020"[The author] underscores the linkage between the past and the present and the potential implications of not doing the individual and collective “memory work” that forces us to confront our personal and national histories in a meaningful and respectful fashion. It is a powerful invocation—and one we should heed." -- Jim Mochoruk * Prairie History *Table of Contents1 Learning from the Past The War Measures Act Enemy Aliens Families in Danger 2 Standing Where the Internees Stood 3 Stories from Internees and Descendants Mary Bayrak Jerry Bayrak Philip Yasnowskyj, excerpt from “Internment” Nikola Sakaliuk, “WWI Internment Account of a Ukrainian at Fort Henry,” an interview by Lubomyr Y. Luciuk Ferdinand Zieroth, as told by grandson David Zieroth Wasyl Bobyk, as told by son Albert Bobyk Emile Litowski, as told by niece Christine Witiuk Vasyl Doskoch, as told by daughter Anne Sadelain Stefa (Mielniczuk) Pawliw, as told by granddaughter Kim Pawliw Petro Witrowicz, as told by granddaughter Valdine Ciwko Anonymous, as told by a grandson Uncle’s Story, as told by nephew Andrew Antoniuk Yurko Forchuk, as told by son Marshall Forchuk Yuri Babjek and his brothers, John, Bill, and Theodore,as told by grandson Nick Topolnyski Mikhail Danyluk, as told by granddaughter Florence McKie Frederick, Hilda, and Fred Jr. Kohse, as told by son and brother Gerald Kohse Metro Olynyk, as told by son Fred Olynyk Maksym Boyko, as told by son Otto and daughter-in-law Kathleen Boyko William Sharun, as told by son Lawrence Sharun Harry Levitsky, as told by step-granddaughter Donna Korchinski 4 Spirit Lake Photographs 5 Engaging Memory Work A Loss of Identity They Were Kids Authorities Can’t Control Memory Telling the Story as Resistance Humiliation These Are the Last Flowers I Will See in My Life Healing Resilience The Doors Open

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Book SynopsisThe historic uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd transformed the way Americans and the world think about race and policing. Why did it achieve so little in the way of substantive reforms? After Black Lives Matter argues that the failure to leave an institutional residue was not simply due to the mercurial and reactive character of the protests. Rather, the core of the movement itself failed to locate the central racial injustice that underpins the crisis of policing: socio-economic inequality.For Johnson, the anti-capitalist and downwardly redistributive politics expressed by different Black Lives Matter elements has too often been drowned out in the flood of black wealth creation, fetishism of Jim Crow black entrepreneurship, corporate diversity initiatives, and a quixotic reparations demand. None of these political tendencies addresses the fundamental problem underlying mass incarceration. That is the turn from welfare to domestic warfare as the chief means of regulating the excluded and oppressed. Johnson sees the way forward in building popular democratic power to advance public works and public goods. Rather than abolishing police, After Black Lives Matter argues for abolishing the conditions of alienation and exploitation contemporary policing exists to manage.Trade ReviewA virtuoso performance! Weighing the successes and limitations of Black Lives Matter, Johnson concludes that identity-based mobilization-confusing what people look like with what they need-cannot substitute for majoritarian political coalition-building. -- Barbara J. Fields, Columbia UniversityCedric Johnson delivers that increasingly rare experience in political writing: surprise. Whether telling the story of Louis Armstrong's first hearing of Mack the Knife or reporting on the inequities of Chicago's public transportation system or mounting a mini-memoir of his encounter with crime in Louisiana and Rochester, Johnson invests the drama of Marxist theory with new energy and vital detail. No matter how dark and dreary the landscape may be, it gets lit up wherever Johnson casts his sharp and appraising eye. -- Corey Robin, author of The Enigma of Clarence ThomasA brilliant scholar who is first and foremost concerned with equality and justice. It's those very commitments that lead him, in After Black Lives Matter, to question today's antiracism and its nostrums. -- Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin and author of The Socialist ManifestoA compelling argument for reinstating a meaningful anticapitalist analysis and politics into the fight to end police violence and the harms of the criminal justice system in the United States. Readers will undoubtedly come away with new perspectives that deepen their understanding of the successes and limitations of Black Lives Matter and its political vision. -- Leslie Kern, author of Feminist CityEssential reading for those weary of platitude-driven texts on race and criminal justice and in the market for an empirically grounded political analysis that points to practicable solutions to one of the biggest problems of our day. -- Touré F. Reed, author of Toward FreedomA provocative and expansive critique from the left of the loose collection of protest actions, organizations, and ideological movements-whether prison abolition or calls to defund the police-that make up what we now call Black Lives Matter...After Black Lives Matter should be commended both for the clarity of its message and the bravery of its convictions. -- Jay Caspian Kang * New Yorker *

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated history tells the fascinating story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand society. Across fifteen chapters written by leading historians and writers, every aspect of New Zealand's relationship with Pacific people is covered - from migration to tourism, economics to politics, sport to the arts.Trade Review"revealing and rewarding... the stories and the history of the Pacific and the way in which the various groups have interacted with each other and New Zealand is outlined in am accessible and informative way" Most importantly, the book is told from uniquely Pacific perspectives ... a truly Pacific side to the history of New Zealand." -- National Business ReviewTable of ContentsE kore au e ngaro: Ancestral connections to the Pacific -- Explorers and pioneers: The first Pacific people in New Zealand -- Visitors: Tupaia the navigator priest -- Little-known lives: Pacific Islanders in nineteenth-century New Zealand -- A Pacific destiny: New Zealand's overseas empire 1840-1945 -- Barques, banana boats and Boeings: Connecting New Zealand and the Pacific -- FIA (forgotten in action): Pacific Islanders in the New Zealand armed forces -- A land of milk and honey? Education and employment migration schemes in the postwar era -- Communities and cultures: Pacific organisations in New Zealand -- Economic links between the Pacific and New Zealand in the twentieth century -- All power to the people: Overstayers, dawn raids and the Polynesian Panthers -- Good neighbour, big brother, kin? New Zealand's foreign policy in the contemporary Pacific -- Representing the nation: Pacific peoples and politicians in New Zealand -- Conspicuous selections: Pacific Islanders in New Zealand sport -- Arts specific: Pacific peoples and New Zealand arts -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Image Credits -- Index.

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions have been faced with multiple upheavals of interethnic violence, bloody secessions and ethnic cleansing. Up to the present, both regions are confronted with unresolved border, minority and security issues, matters of recognition, protracted traumata and claims for justice. After the fall of the iron curtain, simmering ethnic tensions turned into hot wars that created new states, new power-political hierarchies and a heritage of violence. Reaching back to the early 1990s, several international and national transitional justice measures have been applied to face these heritages and lay the foundations for a common future. For the former Yugoslavia, they range from broad criminal trials to a series of restorative justice mechanisms

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Book Synopsis"White trash" is a liminal figure that dramatizes the intersection of race and class. Contemporary British novelists like Irvine Welsh, Niall Griffiths and John King use this originally US-American stereotype to interrogate the racializing discourse of class in British society. Their novels are interdiscursive reflections of the figurations of race and class that still haunt the British cultural imaginary. "British White Trash" is the first analysis to comprehensively examine the adaptation of the "white trash" stereotype in major British novels. The study thus contributes to a critical understanding of racism and classism, its cultural representations and its underlying social processes.

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Book SynopsisIn Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge in unprecedented efforts to 're-found' the country and transform its society. This ethnography explores the experiences of Afrodescendants in plurinational Bolivia and offers a fresh perspective on the social and political transformations shaping the country as a whole. Moritz Heck analyzes Afrobolivian social and cultural practices at the intersections of local communities, politics, and the law, shedding light on novel articulations of Afrobolivianity and evolving processes of collective identification. This study also contributes to broader anthropological debates on blackness and indigeneity in Latin America by pointing out their conceptual entanglements and continuous interactions in political and social practice.Trade Review"Hecks study of Afrobolivianity is a respectable piece of work. Well-written and well-argued, multi-faceted." Harald Mossbrucker, Anthropos, 116 (2021)"Moritz Heck excellently describes the status of the relevant academic discussion and current political developments in his study of Afrobolivians." Lioba Rossbach de Olmos, PAIDEUMA, 67 (2021)

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Book SynopsisThe American Gothic novel has been deeply shaped by issues of race and raciality from its origins in British Romanticism to the American Gothic novel in the twenty-first century. Savage Horrors delineates an intrinsic raciality that is discursively sedimented in the Gothic's uniquely binary structure. Corinna Lenhardt uncovers the destructive and lasting impact of the Gothic's anti-Black racism on the cultural discourses in the United States. At the same time, Savage Horrors traces the unflinching Black resistance back to the Gothic's intrinsic raciality. The African American Gothic, however, does not originate there but in the Black Atlantic - roughly a decade before the first Gothic novel was ever written on American soil.

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Book SynopsisSince its inception, U.S. American cinema has grappled with the articulation of racial boundaries. This applies, in the first instance, to featuring mixed-race characters crossing the color line. In a broader sense, however, this also concerns viewing conditions and knowledge configurations. The fact that American film engages itself so extensively with the unbalanced relation between black and white is neither coincidental nor trivial to state it has much more to do with disputing boundaries that pertain to the medium itself. Lisa Gotto examines this constellation along the early history of American film, the cinematic modernism of the late 1950s, and the post-classical cinema of the turn of the millennium.Trade Review" This is an important book and should be read." Jan-Christopher Horak, Archival Spaces, 283 (2021)

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Book SynopsisThe British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its "heroic" confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. This historical-sociological study argues that racism was the ideological cornerstone and formed the main agenda of this first major human rights campaign of the 20th century. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse and investigates the "historical work" of racism at a crossroads between imperial power and "white crisis".

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean for Black diasporic writers to travel to Africa? Focusing on the period between the 1990s and 2010s, Isabel Kalous examines autobiographical narratives of travel to Africa by African American and Black British authors. She places the texts within the long tradition of Black diasporic engagement with the continent, scrutinizes the significance of Black mobility, and demonstrates that travel writing serves as a means to negotiate questions of identity, belonging, history, and cultural memory. To provide a framework for the analyses of contemporary narratives, her study outlines the emergence, development, and key characteristics of the multifaceted genre of Black travel writing. Authors discussed include, among others, Saidiya Hartman, Barack Obama, and Caryl Phillips.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Traveling Black: Traveling Back; An Invisible/Kaleidoscopic Genre: Black Travel Writing; Contemporary Black Travel Narratives; Conclusion: Ambiguous Arrivals; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisBased on an institutional approach to ethnic conflict, Petar Cholakov highlights the idiosyncrasies of, and the challenges to, inter-ethnic relations in Bulgaria. He traces the emergence of the currently implemented Bulgarian ethnic model in its interconnection with the party system, and especially examines the ideology, political support, and mobilization tools employed by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) party as well as the populist radical right. Cholakov presents findings from case studies on Bulgarias Roma, crime, and politics. He analyzes Bulgarian integration policies and assesses the role of Bulgarias judiciary as well as contemporary antidiscrimination legislation, in particular, of the 2004 Protection against Discrimination Act. The monograph peruses decisions of, among others, the European Court of Human Rights and uncovers patterns of discrimination against Roma. By reverse engineering the Bulgarian ethnic model, Cholakov reveals how the institutions operate and comes to the conclusion that inter-ethnic peace has been entrusted to a defective mechanism which institutionalizes ethnic cleavage and politicizes identity. On the basis of his in-depth analysis, the author makes a prognosis for the future of ethnic relations in Bulgaria and provides recommendations for reforms.

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Book SynopsisThe author of "Reality Therapy" offers recommendations to "shake up educators".

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Book SynopsisArgues that Islam is passing through a transformative moment no less dramatic than the movements that swept through Europe during the Reformation. From the role of women in Islam to the nature of jihad, from democracy and human rights to terrorism and warfare, the author builds a vital vision for a moderate Islam.Trade Review"The Great Theft is probably the most dramatic manifesto from an American Muslim since the September 11 attacks." -- Associated Press "Those looking for an understanding of the Muslim world and its relationship to the West...will find this book invaluable." -- Dallas Morning News "Mother Jones and the National Review rarely see eye-to-eye, but we both agree on this essential title." -- Mother Jones Magazine "An uncommonly rich, learned and easily accessible framework for understanding the current theological struggle within Islam." -- Washington Post Book World "... [The Great Theft] lucidly answers important questions Westerners have about Islam." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Khaled Abou El Fadl has made a contribution that should be widely distributed and deeply reflected upon." -- Globe and Mail (Toronto) "One of the more engaging primers on Islam available." -- Foreign Affairs

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Charles Blow’s uncommonly specific and clear remedy for overcoming racial injustice in America is provocative, intriguing, innovative, and insightful. You won’t read another contemporary book on race as powerful as this bold work by one of the nation’s most compelling writers.” — Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy "In cogent arguments bound together by his customary incandescent prose, Blow explores how the white backlash towards the Great Migration that never really ended has created a situation where racism in these Northern 'destination cities' of the Great Migration makes life untenable for Black Americans.... [Weaves] together deeply thought out analysis and in-depth sociological and historical research.... 'In a society and system in which white supremacy is ubiquitous and inveterate, Black people need fierce advocates to help restore the balance in the first instance,' writes Blow. Throughout his legendary career in journalism, Charles Blow has long been that voice." — NPR “Blow is in fact making an argument, not just offering a lament.... The Devil You Know reminds that America’s mobility has not always meant progress, that alongside the allure of movement are the tears and disappointments that keep us moving, always seeking a new place where we can and must belong.” — Washington Post "Searing.... A helpful introduction for those seeking to make sense of fractious political debates about race and voting rights in the South, and the broken promises of American democracy." — New York Times “A must-read in the effort to dismantle deep-seated poisons of systemic racism and white supremacy.” — San Francisco Chronicle “In his provocative manifesto Charles Blow gives us one of the most thrilling experiences as readers: the challenge of imagining an alternate future. Writing in a long tradition of Black visionaries who’ve wrestled with the political implications of place and power, he exhorts African Americans to reconsider the possibilities of home against an historical backdrop of past migrations. Blow is one of our most penetrating thinkers and brilliant essayists, and in The Devil You Know he is putting it all on the line.” — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University “Renders an unflinching diagnosis of the ravages of white supremacy and a rousing prescription for Black Americans to eliminate its harms…. This is daring work, accessible and easily digested by a wide audience…. There’s a sense of urgency to it that resonates. One doesn’t often expect a work of nonfiction to be this propulsive and exciting…. Both as polemic and as proposal, The Devil You Know is convincing — powerful and enticing arguments buoyed by accessible and pressing prose.” — The Grio “Daring…. Valuable as a thought experiment alone but also an “actual plan” for effecting lasting political change.” — Kirkus, starred review “A compelling argument on how a second migration back to the South could prove a way forward for Black America.” — Library Journal “Blow’s provocative call for action contains much food for thought…. He paints a devastating picture of how white liberals have failed to match rhetorical support for Blacks with action, and buttresses his political arguments with painful personal experiences.” — Publishers Weekly “Blow's powerful writing is always stirring, but perhaps never more than in this timely, often personal call for the building of a better tomorrow.” — Town & Country

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Book SynopsisWhile some social scientists may argue that we have always been networked, the increased visibility of networks today across economic, political, and social domains can hardly be disputed. Social networks fundamentally shape our lives and social network analysis has become a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of research. In The Oxford Handbook of Social Networks, Ryan Light and James Moody have gathered forty leading scholars in sociology, archaeology, economics, statistics, and information science, among others, to provide an overview of the theory, methods, and contributions in the field of social networks. Each of the thirty-three chapters in this Handbook moves through the basics of social network analysis aimed at those seeking an introduction to advanced and novel approaches to modeling social networks statistically. They cover both a succinct background to, and future directions for, distinctive approaches to analyzing social networks. The first section of the volume consists of Table of Contents1 Introduction Ryan Light and James Moody Network Basics and Theory 2 Network Basics: Points, Lines, and Positions Ryan Light and James Moody 3 Theories of Social Networks Jan Fuhse 4 Networks & Neo-Structural Sociology Emmanuel Lazega 5 Rethinking Networks in the Era of Computational Social Science James A. Kitts and Eric Quintaine 6 Networks, Status, and Inequality John Levi Martin and James P. Murphy Network Methods 7 Strategies for Gathering Social Network Data jimi adams, Tatiane Santos, and Venice Ng Williams 8 Social Network Experiments Matthew E. Brashears and Eric Gladstone 9 The network scale-up method Tyler H. McCormick 10 The Continued Relevance of Ego Network Data Jeffrey A. Smith 11 Dyadic, Nodal and Group-level Approaches to Study the Antecedents and Consequences of Networks: Which Social Network Models to Use and When? Filip Agneessens 12 An Introduction to Statistical Models for Networks Valentina Kuskova and Stanley Wasserman 13 Advances in ERGMs Dean Lusher, Peng Wang, Julia Brennecke, Julien Brailly, Malick Frye, and Colin Gallagher 14 Modeling Network Dynamics David R. Schaefer and Christopher Steven Marcum 15 Causal Inference for Social Network Analysis Kenneth A. Frank and Ran Xu Network Dimensions 16 Case Studies in Network Community Detection Saray Shai, Natalie Stanley, Clara Granell, Dane Taylor, and Peter J. Mucha 17 Three Perspectives on Centrality Stephen P. Borgatti and Martin G. Everett 18 Network Visualization James Moody and Ryan Light 19 The Spatial Dimensions of Social Networks Zachary P. Neal 20 Five Field-Experimental Tests of Preferential Attachment Arnout van de Rijt and Afife Idil Akin 21 Duality beyond persons and groups: culture and affiliation Sophie Mützel and Ronald Breiger 22 Networks of Culture, Networks of Meaning: Two Approaches to Text Networks Ryan Light and Jeanine Cunningham 23 Historical Network Research Emily Erikson and Eric Feltham Network Landscape 24 Networks in Archaeology Carl Knappett 25 Networks, Kin and Social Support G. Robin Guathier 26 Demography and Networks M. Giovanna Merli, Sara R. Curran, and Claire Le Barbenchon 27 The Neuroscience of Social Networks Carolyn Parkinson, Thalia Wheatley, and Adam M. Kleinbaum 28 Computational Social Science, Big Data, and Networks Paolo Parigi and Bruno Abrahao 29 Networks: An Economic Perspective Matthew O. Jackson, Brian W. Rogers, and Yves Zenou 30 Social Capital and Economic Sociology Steve McDonald and Richard A. Benton 31 The International Trade Network Min Zhou 32 Maps of Science, Technology, and Education Katy Börner 33 Criminal Networks Chris M. Smith and Andrew V. Papachristos

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Book SynopsisThe Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J. Cash's The Mind of the South and C. Vann Woodward's The Strange Career of Jim Crow. Representing 20 years of research and writing on the history of the South, The Crucible of Race explores the large topic of Southern racerelations for a span of a century and a half. Oxford is pleased to make available an abridgement of this parent volume: A Rage for Order preserves all the theme lines that were advanced in the original volume and many of the individualstories. As in Crucible of Race, Williamson here confronts the awful irony that the war to free blacks from slavery also freed racism. He examines the shift in the power base of Southern white leadership after 1850 and recounts the terrible violence done to blacks in the name of self-protection. This condensation of one of the most imTrade Review"Excellent--I am adopting this for a course on the New South."--L. Musslewhite, Cameron University "Excellent analysis of race relations--very comprehensive in its consideration of both the black and white sides of race relations."--W. Marvin Dulaney, University of Texas, Arlington On The Crucible of Race:"The most conspicuous landmark of scholarship in an important field...a deeper and more thorough penetration of the endless complexities of the subject than any every attempted before."--C. Vann Woodward, The New Republic "A major reinterpretation of black-white relations since the Civil War...Williamson has deepened our understanding of [Southern history's] tragic dimensions and enduring legacies."--The New York Times Book Review "A full and fresh overview of black-white relations in the South...Williamson tells his...story with rich detail and surrounds it with information and insights on an array of related topics."--Philadelphia Inquirer "A remarkable mixture of careful, empirically based historical work and free-wheeling cultural commentary in the vein of W. J. Cash and other imaginative writers on the Southern psyche."--George M. Frederickson, The New York Review of Books "A stimulating and controversial book...[A] significant contribution toward our understanding of a fundamental American riddle."--Los Angeles Times "One of the best books I've read in the last ten years. Williamson sets the rise of Southern segregation within the region's obsession with the sense of place, is less powerful in psychological than it was in physical terms. He manages to do this without losing himself and his narrative in a mass of pseudo-therapeutic speculations. I deeply appreciate this book and look forward to using it with my students this fall."--David Stricklin, Tulane University "Excellent for upper-division students."--Kathryn Olmsted, University of California, Davis

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Book SynopsisFrom Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Jill Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continuously foundered on issues of race. She draws on extensive primary research to show how social programmes became entwined with the civil rights movement and subsequently suffered by association at the hands of a white backlash.Trade Review"Important....A major contribution."--Frances Fox Piven, co-author of Why Americans Don't Vote and Regulating the Poor "A sweeping and detailed account of the U.S. health insurance system's development during the 20th century. ...One Nation Uninsured is a clearly written, informative book that would be of interest to academics studying health care, politics, policy or U.S. history, and members of the lay public who want a better understanding of why the United States does not have universal health insurance. It would also be accessible to students, particularly those in advanced undergraduate courses or graduate seminars."--Social Forces "Outstanding and thought provoking."--Free Press "What distinguishes Quadagno's depiction is its forceful interjection of racial issues into the heart of welfare policy analysis. The result is a suggestive and informative reconsideration....Written in limpid, unpretentious prose, The Color of Welfare contains numerous gems of policy analysis."--American Journal of Sociology "What distinguishes Quadagno's depiction is its forceful interjection of racial issues into the heart of welfare policy analysis. The result is a suggestive and informative reconsideration....Written in limpid, unpretentious prose, The Color of Welfare contains numerous gems of policy analysis (including fresh treatments of employment, housing, and day care policy and, best of all, of President Mixon's ill-fated Family Assistance Plan [FAP])."--American Journal of Sociology "Quadagno demonstrates convincingly that race, class, and gender are essential analytical categories for those who hope to understand the nation's past and to design public hope to understand the nation's past and to design public policies for its future. [A] timely, well-researched study."--Booklist "This important book provides a lucid and perceptive analysis of the War on Poverty and the turbulent race politics which surrounded and ultimately engulfed it. More than that, by placing racial inequality at the very center of her analysis, Jill Quadagno makes a major contribution to our understanding of the distinctive development of the American welfare state."--Frances Fox Piven, co-author of Why Americans Don't Vote and Regulating the Poor "A leading authority on the American welfare state, Jill Quadagno makes a compelling case for her thesis that racism has done more than any other fact to limit generous and dignified public social provision in the United States. Scholars, students, and policy-makers all have much to learn from this important book."--Theda Skocpol, author of Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States "A telling analysis of race as the key faultline of American social policy."--Joel Blau, author of The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the U.S. "The graceful prose of Jill Quadagno's new book conceals a hard-hitting argument about the critical importance of racism in shaping the American welfare state. Based on exhaustive research in primary sources, she tells a story which has not been told before. Even child care programs, not to mention family assistance, job training, and housing programs have been decisively shaped by the politics of race. Theoretically, her argument challenges the claim that America's 'liberal values' have been a main barrier to the expansion of the American welfare state."--Robert R. Alford, author of Health Care Politics "A sweeping and detailed account of the U.S. health insurance system's development during the 20th century. ...One Nation Uninsured is a clearly written, informative book that would be of interest to academics studying health care, politics, policy or U.S. history, and members of the lay public who want a better understanding of why the United States does not have universal health insurance. It would also be accessible to students, particularly those in advanced undergraduate courses or graduate seminars."--Social Forces

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Book SynopsisThis study examines the role of race in the construction of history and the validation of knowledge. Using Martin Bernal''s Black Athena and its critiques as an entrée into the historical inquiries of African American intellectuals and many of their African counterparts, Keita engages the contested legacy of writing history in America. Ranging from 1700 BCE to the late twentieth century, he offers a new perspective on the challenge of building new historiographies and epistemologies.Trade ReviewThis useful book, which is a significant contribution to Oxford University Press's Race and American Culture series, is a sophisticated defense of Afrocentrism...Indeed, Keita's analysis of Snowden's paradoxes and ironies is a substantial contribution to our existing knowledge...This excellent work complements but does not supercede older works by Wilson Jeremiah Moses and Stephen Howe-neither of whom, surprisingly, is cited in Keita's book. Nevertheless, Race and the Writing of History should be must reading for professional historians. * History: Review of New Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Race and Historiography ; 2. Blackness in Ancient History: Criticism and Critique ; 3. Historiography and Black Historians ; 4. Carter G. Woodson ; 5. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ; 6. William Leo Hansberry ; 7. Frank M. Snowden, Jr. ; 8. Through a Glass Darkly: Afrocentrism ; 9. The Thesis and Its Refinement ; 10. Reprise: Conclusion by Way of Continuity

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority and dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia and that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics. Her discussion ranges from Flower Drum Song to M. Butterfly, Brown v. Board of Education to Anna Deavere Smith'Trade ReviewOne measure of a healthy and thriving literature is the health of its critics and theorists. If measured against the work of Anne Anlin Cheng, Asian-American literature is not only alive and thriving, but in the midst of a renaissance. Her discussion of race theory goes far beyond the often muddled binary discussion of racialized difference, historical chronology, or sociological case study, offering a new view of race and ethnicity in literature and psychoanalysis. * Shawn Wong, University of Washington *

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Book SynopsisIn recent years Christian scholars have become increasingly aware of their responsibility to recognize and respond to the challenges posed by ethnic and racial diversity. Similarly, historically white Christian colleges, universities, seminaries and congregations are struggling to transform themselves into communities that are welcoming to minorities and sensitive to their needs. This collection of all-new essays is meant to enable those who are engaged in these initiatives to understand the historical linkage of race, ethnicity and Christianity and to explore the ways in which constructive change can be achieved. The volume is the product of a long-term study funded by the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology. In the course of this study it emerged that many Christian institutions now offer courses on race and ethnicity, but that there is very little relevant literature written from the standpoint of rigorous Christian scholarship. This book is intended to fill that gap. The authors address such questions as: What has been the history of Christian churches and leaders in relation to slavery, segregation, and apartheid? Which biblical texts and doctrines have historically been employed on behalf of racial projects, and which are relevant to the racial and ethnic crises of our day? How have religious leaders constructively engaged such crises? How do congregations shape the values, civic commitments, understandings and sensitivities of their membership? How can local congregations be sites for racial reconciliation and justice initiatives? Are there positive models for how churches and other religious institutions have helped to bring healing to racial and ethnic tensions and divides? How might Christians in the professions work to bring justice to business, education, government, and other areas of society? When good intentions fail to accomplish desired ends, how do we analyze what went wrong? Written by an interracial and interethnic team of scholars representing diverse disciplines, this book will meet a pressing need and set a new standard for the discussion of race and ethnicity in the Christian context.Trade ReviewAmply documented and with helpful bibliographies, this set will appeal to all concerned about diversity in evangelical congregations, schools, and other agencies. * Choice *This Side of Heaven is a major contribution to the study of race, ethnicity, and religion. I found an incredible wealth of knowledge and insight in the book's chapters. This is a book to use in college and seminary courses, to read in your home, and to work through in small groups. Be prepared for serious discussions, as this volume if full of hard hitting chapters that cut to the core of religion, race, and ethnicity. Strongly recommended. * Michael O. Emerson, co-author of Divided by Faith and United by Faith *This Side of Heaven is unique among Christian books on multiculturalism and race because the authors combine thier social science analysis with their theological viewpoints. * Contemporary Sociology *The editors have managed to produce a volume that has unity and clarity, combining the realistic double edge of social analysis with a courageous rereading of biblical texts and a hopeful attitude in spite of discomforting facts. In short, this book represents missiology at its best. * International Bulletin of Missionary Research *

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