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Book SynopsisOne of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Electric Literature * Publishers Weekly * The Millions * The Week * Good Housekeeping “There is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime.” —Julia Alvarez In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging girlhood and triumphant coming of age. While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Díaz found herself caught between extremes. As her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was supported by the love of her friends. As she longed for a family and home, her life was upended by violence. As she celebrated her Puerto Rican culture, she couldn’t find support for her burgeoning sexual identity. From her own struggles with depression and sexual assault to Puerto Rico’s history of colonialism, every page of Ordinary Girls vibrates with music and lyricism. Díaz writes with raw and refreshing honesty, triumphantly mapping a way out of despair toward love and hope to become her version of the girl she always wanted to be. Reminiscent of Tara Westover’s Educated, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club, and Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries, Jaquira Díaz’s memoir provides a vivid portrait of a life lived in (and beyond) the borders of Puerto Rico and its complicated history—and reads as electrically as a novel.Trade ReviewWinner of a Whiting Award for Nonfiction "[Ordinary Girls] belongs on your must-read lists. Diaz is a masterful writer . . . Writing with refreshing honesty, she talks about despair, depression, love, and hope with such vibrancy that her vivid portrayal will stay with you long after the final page." --O: The Oprah Magazine "Every once in a while, a truly electric debut memoir comes along, and this fall, Ordinary Girls is it. It's the story of an ordinary girl; it's the story of all of the extraordinary girls. Diaz is a skilled writer; the depth of layering is strong, from the details to the larger structures of identity, white supremacy, colonialism, and brown, queer, and femme resilience and resistance." --BuzzFeed "A skilled writer, Diaz is meticulous in her craft, and on page after page her writing truly sings . . . This brutally honest coming-of-age story is a painful yet illuminating memoir, a testament to resilience in the face of scarcity, a broken family, substance abuse, sexual assault, mental illness, suicide and violence." --New York Times Book Review "Incredible . . . Beautiful . . . Gorgeous and propulsive prose." --NBC / Today (Isaac Fitzgerald) "Diaz does not flinch with the hard-hitting details of growing up in communities that deserve our wholehearted attention. She complicates how we imagine girlhood and offers a beautiful memoir written with so much love, compassion and intelligence. This book is a necessary read at a time where the system and the media is so often working against the survival of women of color. This book burns in the memory and makes one feel all the feelings. A triumph!" --Bustle (Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana) "A dynamic examination of the power of persistence." --Time (Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019) "Outstanding. A powerful and lyrical coming-of-age story, Ordinary Girls is a candid illustration of shame, despair and violence as well as joy and triumph. Against a Puerto Rican backdrop, this debut is compassionate, brave and forgiving." --Ms. Magazine "At once heartbreaking and throbbing with life in a rich portrait that's anything but ordinary." --Good Housekeeping (The 50 Best Books of 2019 to Add to Your Reading List) "There's a certain ferocity throughout the entirety of Ordinary Girls. For some of the book, it's humming like a hardworking engine--concealed under the hood, always present--but then there are moments when it combusts, bursting from the page in such a way that you, as a reader, have to pause and take a breath. Ordinary Girls is an electrifying, deftly-paced debut." --Salon "Diaz's resilience and writing abilities are far from ordinary; she's an emissary from an experience that many young women have. Listen." --Refinery29 "A whirlwind memoir. Like Maya Angalou's seminal 1969 memoir I know Why the Caged Bird Sings before it, Ordinary Girls, is brutally honest in a way that few books dare to be." --Bitch "Striking. Diaz's story is absolutely breathtaking." --NBC Latino "A fierce, unflinching account of ordinary girls leading extraordinary lives." --Poets & Writers "Every so often you discover a voice that just floors you--or rather, feels like it can bulldoze something in your very soul. This fall, that voice belongs to Jaquira Diaz." --The Week (25 Books to Read in the Second Half of 2019) "In her debut memoir, Jaquira Diaz mines her experiences growing up in Puerto Rico and Miami, grappling with traumas both personal and international, and over time converts them into something approaching hope and self-assurance. For years, Diaz has dazzled in shorter formats--stories, essays, etc.--and her entree into longer lengths is very welcome." --The Millions (Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2019 Book Preview) "A powerful memoir, heart-wrenching, inspiring, thoroughly engrossing, reminiscent of Mary Karr's The Liar's Club, Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and more recently Tara Westover's Educated. Through one family's story, we learn about challenges of poverty, migration, uprootedness, addiction, sexism, racism--but also about the triumphant, spirited storyteller who survives to tell the tale. Jaquira Diaz is our contemporary Scheherazade, telling stories to keep herself alive and whole, and us her readers mesmerized and wanting more. And we get it: there is more life packed on each page of Ordinary Girls than some lives hold in a lifetime." --Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies

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Book SynopsisProfessor Victor Itoua has two passions: the legend of Philli-philli… and PhD candidate Jordan Harris. But while ethics rules and his own doubts keep him from admitting, much less acting on, his feelings for Jordan, nothing can stop him from researching the Philli-philli. Even if it means the torture of spending six months in the Peruvian rainforest, searching for an elusive, possibly mythical guardian with the man he loves and can’t have.For Jordan, with his history of abuse and abandonment, Victor is the one good, constant thing in his life. When Victor asks him to come to Peru, Jordan packs his bag, prepared to follow Victor anywhere the legends take them. Then, in a remote village, Jordan and Victor meet T’ukri.T’ukri is shaken when he realizes who the outsiders are and what they are looking for. Though he agrees to guide them on their quest, he is drawn by a deeper calling. But the more he shares with Victor and Jordan, the more questions they have—questions whose answers require him to reveal secrets that could mean his death should the men he is falling in love with betray his trust….

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Book SynopsisYu Jung Lee is associate professor at the Institute for the Study of Korean Modernity at Yonsei University.

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Book SynopsisItalian Culture in America: The Immigrants describes the nationwide anti-Italian discrimination, and often violent retribution, experienced by millions of immigrants during the formative years of an industrializing United States, from 1880 to 1930. This carefully presented work reveals the presence of Italian culture provided by hardworking, family-oriented Italians who bravely left their homeland in search of opportunity in America. Looking to his own Italian heritage, Giordano identifies so many of the "taken for granted" aspects of American life that have distinct Italian roots. Many creative innovations include banking, radio, the telephone, aeronautics, entertainment, and even the Statue of Liberty, among dozens of others. The study establishes that negative media stereotypes created by Hollywood are misunderstood and very often purely fictitious. In contrast, Giordano unfolds a factual story documenting the growing assimilation by Italians ingrained within all aspects of American culture. Italian Culture in America: The Immigrants will certainly fascinate those interested in Italian-American history. It will also help tell the story of all immigrants who entered and settled in the United States.

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Book SynopsisFive years after first living in the Indian Ocean Territories, Reneé Pettitt-Schipp finds herself returning, haunted by memories of the asylum seekers she taught there in Australias detention system. Why do the islands still have a hold on her? Why are her memories such troubled ones? And why can she not let go? Closer to Indonesia than Australia, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands are out of sight and out of mind to most Australians, but they are the sites of some of our frontier wars, the places where our identity is laid bare in all its flawed complexity and the places where there is time and space enough to ask: can we be better than this? A travel narrative, a memoir and a thought-provoking look at Australias complicated history with Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands and the asylum seekers detained there.

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Book SynopsisThe Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of ""black prairie"" literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of themselves as black writers or as ""prairie"" people. Their letters, recipes, oral literature, autobiographies, rap, and poetry- provide vivid glimpses into the reality of their lived experiences and give meaning to them. The book includes introductory notes for each writer in non-specialist language, and notes to assist readers in their engagement with the literature. This archive and its supporting text offer new scholarly and pedagogical possibilities by expanding the nation's and the region's archives. They enrich our understanding of black Canada by bringing to light the prairies' black histories, cultures, and presences.Table of Contents Introduction Daniel T. Williams [date unknown -1880] ""Notebook 1872-1875."" Letter to Hudson's Bay Company Factor, George Kennedy, April 12, 1873 Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd [1870-1915] ""To the Electorate of the District of Kinistino,"" 1905 Letters to The Melfort Moon Mildred Lewis Ware [1871-1905] Three Letters William Sylvester Alpheus Beal [1874-1968] from Memoir of the Swan River Valley, Manitoba 3 Glass-plate photographs Alice Ethel Lewis [1886-1960] ""In Loving Memory of Alberta"" Jefferson Davis Edwards [1888-1979] ""There Was a Cloud Over Amber Valley,"" from The Window of Our Memories John Bell Bowden [1888-1982] ""Always Be a Factor in the Community!"" Sylvester Long [1890-1932] ""My Trail Upward,"" from Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief ""Canoe Song"" ""Death Song of Long Lance"" Rosa Shannon [c.1880-1931]""We Gave Our Lives to This Part of the Country,"" from The Window of Our Memories Martha Edwards [1890-1977]""That Is What Pioneers Had to Go Through,"" from The Window of Our Memories Amanda Janet (Nettie) Ware [1893-1989]""John Ware"" E. A. Cobbs [dates unknown]""This Bias Was Good, for It Caused the Black People to Fight"" Ellis Hooks [1907-1979]""The Way I Felt, I Wanted to Plead Guilty: I Wanted the World to Know,"" from the Provincial Archives of Alberta Oral History Project Luther Gerard [1914-2004]""Community Spirit"" Lloyd Mayes [1916-1972?]""Homebrew,"" from North of the Gully Goldie Gordon [dates unknown]""Even the Bad Was Good,"" from North of the Gully Gwen Hooks [1918-]from The Keystone Legacy: Recollections of a Black Settler Willa R. Dallard [1898-1988]""Memories of My Father: The Late Willis Bowen of Amber Valley"" Woody Strode [1914-1994]""Mixed Breed""""A Hero in Dogtown"" Clinton Murphy [1926-2004]""Ode to the Amber Valley Baseball Team"" Fil Fraser [1932-]from Alberta's Camelot: Culture & the Arts in the Lougheed Years Claire Harris [1937-]""Backstage at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary,"" from She Addena Sumter-Freitag [1944-]from Stay Black & Die Linus Tongwo Asong [1947-2012]from No Way to Die Archie Crail [1948-]""An Election"" Nigel Darbasie [1950-]""Our Subdivision""Pan Man""""New Terra"" Tololwa M. Mollel [1952-]""Feasting on Words""The Orphan Boy F. B. André [1955-]""Is There Someone You Can Call?"" Cheryl Foggo [1956-]""The Kind of Black People That We Are,"" from Pourin' Down Rain from John Ware Reimagined Margaret Robinson-Gudmundson [1957-]""The Severance"" George Bwanika Seremba [1958-]from Come Good Rain Suzette Mayr [1967-]""His Own Ending,"" from Monoceros ""I Am the Architect of My Life,"" from Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley Hall Minister Faust [1969-]from The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad from The Alchemists of Kush Troy Burle Bailey [c.1960s-]from The Pierre Bonga Loops Sheila Addiscott [1965-]""Coloured"" Dawn Carter [1968-]""Restoration""A Monumental Love"" ""Get into My Car"" Bertrand Bickersteth [1969-]""I Look at My Hand""""What We Used to Call It"" ""We, Too"" Deanna Bowen [1969-]""sum of the parts: what can be named"" Valerie Mason-John [1969-]from Borrowed Body Wakefield Brewster [1973-]""Human""""In Short"" Ian Samuels [1975-]from The Ubiquitous Big Various writersfrom Black Pioneer Centennial: A Little Taste of Soul (2005)Kaie Kellough [1975-]""boy hood dub II""""night gallery""from Creole Continuum from Accordéon Esi Edugyan [1977-]""Encountering Aster,"" from The Second Life of Samuel Tyne from Half Blood Blues Nehal El Hadi [1978-]""La Puerta"" Nestor Wynrush (Elliott Walsh) [1978-]""Winnipeg South Blues""""Ole Mine Town"" Kevan Anthony Cameron (""Scruffmouth"") [1979-]""I Am a Claim"" Lisa Codrington [1982-]""The Red Woman"" Michelle Jean-Paul [1985-]""Learning to Love Me"" Ahmed Ali (""Knowmadic"") [1984-]""Child Soldier"" Titilope Sonuga [1985-]from Down to Earth Marika Schwandt [1985?-]""Mulatto Nation"" Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton) [1986-]""Oliver Square""""House Music""""How Black?"" Khodi Dill [1987-]""Atikameksheng ""Grey""""Ghost of Billie Holiday"" Young Kidd (Frankie Fontaine) [1988-]""Wonderful Winnipeg""""Hometown"" Hot Dogg (Mijok Lang [birth date unknown]""Letter to God"" Miranda Martini [1990-]""The Drinking Gourd: Three Tales""

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Book SynopsisBased on first-hand accounts from Roma communities, Romaphobia is an examination of the discrimination faced by one of the most persecuted groups in Europe. Well-researched and informative, it shows that this discrimination has its roots in the early history of the European nation-state, and the ways in which the landless Roma have been excluded from national communities founded upon a notion of belonging to a particular territory. Romaphobia allows us to unpick this relationship between identity and belonging, and shows the way towards the inclusion of Roma in society, providing vital insights for other marginalized communities.Trade ReviewA compelling depiction ... This is a fascinating and provocative framework from which to view the continuing, hateful prejudice directed at Roma. * Choice *Enlightened, sensitively written and always positive, this book makes a valuable contribution. * The Morning Star *McGarry provides a valuable service in directing our attention to the forces that produce this kind of discrimination. * Times Literary Supplement *A timely analysis of how fear and loathing stultifies social progress. McGarry offers an excellent examination of the mechanisms of this enduring and despicable form of racism. * Annabel Tremlett, University of Portsmouth *A beautifully written text that is both inspiring and daunting; it does not shade or minimise the numerous challenges that are facing Romani communities in Europe, but it also offers signs of agency, empowerment and hope. This book is destined to become a benchmark for a new generation of critical scholars. * Colin Clark, author of Here to Stay: the Gypsies and Travellers of Britain *McGarry skillfully explains the complex phenomenon and history of Romaphobia in contemporary Europe. He offers a thoughtful and accessible inquiry into this persistent form of racism, and a powerful critique of how it continues to be tolerated in present-day Europe. * Huub van Baar, author of The European Roma *Draws on original research to examine enduring racism against Roma communities in Europe. Essential reading for all concerned about racism and the rise of far right politics that we are witnessing across Europe today. * Imogen Tyler, author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain *McGarrys contributes to our understanding of the root causes of inequality between Roma and non-Roma. He shows that Roma exclusion is rooted in the nation-building process in Europe and the way national identities have been constructed in relation to territory. * Iulius Rostas, Central European University *An eloquent account of one of the most troubling forms of racism still haunting the world: Romaphobia. This book examines the root causes, as well as the experiences of Roma communities in the UK and in continental Europe. * Katharine Quarmby, author of No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers *The strength of McGarry’s book lies in the exploration of a broader, transnational research agenda that seeks to awake Romani studies from its “splendid isolation”, leaving one with the desire to learn more about the roots of Romaphobia. * Lilla Farkas, Migration Policy Group *McGarry provides the first extensive scholarly exploration of Romaphobia and vividly outlines the magnitude of the challenge to overcome stereotypes deeply embedded in European culture. Romaphobia also addresses the relatively recent innovation of Roma people and organisations actively participating in public debates about themselves. * Martin Kovats, former Special Adviser on Roma issues to the European Commission *Table of Contents1. Romaphobia: marginalization and stigmatization in Europe 2. Strangers within the gates: territoriality and belonging 3. Roma identities: how Romaphobia distorts Roma identity 4. An expression of Romaphobia: socio-spatial segregation in Eastern Europe 5. Opre Roma! Challenging Romaphobia through Pride protests 6. Roma citizenship in the European Union: a question of belonging Conclusion. Understanding the causes of Romaphobia: between territoriality, identity and belonging

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Book SynopsisNot so long ago, many spoke of a ‘post-racial’ era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims has been exposed by the rise of Trump and Brexit, both of which have revealed deep seated white resentment, and have been attended by a resurgence in hate crime and overt racial hatred on both sides of the Atlantic. At a time when progress towards equality is not only stalling, but being actively reversed, how should anti-racist scholars respond? This collection carries on James Baldwin’s legacy of bearing witness to racial violence in its many forms. Its authors address how we got to this particular moment, arguing that it can only be truly understood by placing it within the wider historical and structural contexts that normalise racism and white supremacy. Its chapters engage with a wide range of contemporary issues and debates, from the whiteness of the recent women’s marches, to anti-racist education, to the question of Black resistance and intersectionality. Mapping out the problems we face, and the solutions we need, the book considers how anti-racist scholarship and activism can overcome the setbacks posed by the resurgence of white supremacy.Trade ReviewThis book is timely and incisive not only given the historical juncture at which we find ourselves in, but in its articulation of how we can respond to explicit racial violence. * Sociological Review *The Fire Now is an indispensable book of our times. It is urgent, it is written with love and it embodies the politics of inclusive community-building. It is is a significant contribution to British activism and scholarship and is a must-read for anyone who is affected by racism at universities and is moved to act against it. * Left of Brown *This collection is incredibly important. The essays remind you that you are not alone in this fight against injustice and oppression. I left this book feeling hopeful and revived, and pray it will have the same impact for many others. * The Book Islamist *An important book for the unpredictable and dangerous times in which we live. Now, more than ever, we need to understand the function of white supremacy and the anti-racist theories and practices to effectively combat it. * Akwugo Emejulu, Warwick University *These eloquent essays offer an inspiring landscape of resistance to white supremacy and racist violence in the age of Trump and Brexit. It belongs on the bookshelves of everyone who refuses to be silent in the face of profound injustice. * Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Syracuse University *Mobilizes the global resources of anti-racist activism and scholarship, bringing light and heat to a world desperately in need of both. The writing it contains is brilliant, timely and essential. * Fred Moten, New York University *This powerful collection captures the voices of a new generation of revolutionary writers and activists who declare “no more!” to racial injustice. The Fire Now will burn in your thoughts for as long as racism and white privilege prevail. * Heidi Safia Mirza, UCL Institute of Education (Emeritus) *A handbook for those who wish to undertake anti-racist work in resurgently racist times. By curating a timely and diverse set of critical interventions, the editors have provided an indispensable book with which to confront our current political climate. * Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University *A clarion call and a collaborative love letter, The Fire Now is a ferocious and diligent reckoning with newly energised forces of racism and white supremacy. * Yasmin Gunaratnam, Goldsmiths University of London *Table of ContentsForeword: The Heat and the Burdens of the Day - Christina Sharpe Changing our Fate in The Fire Now - Beth Kamunge, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Azeezat Johnson Part I: Transforming Academia 1. I Am Not a Writer - Muna Abdi 2. An Academic Witness: White Supremacy within and beyond Academia - Azeezat Johnson 3. Understanding Racism within the Academy: The Persistence of Racism within Higher Education - Jason Arday 4. Black Study - Derrais Carter 5. Confronting My Duty as an Academic: We Should All Be Activists - Remi Joseph-Salisbury Part II: Intersectional Identities, Intersectional Struggles 6. Majority Monitoring - Sai Murray 7. Crippin’ Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Colour from Slavery to Trump - Viji Kuppan 8. Intersectionality before the Courts: The Face Veil Cases - Amal Ali 9. Colour-Blind Racism and the 2017 Women’s March: White Feminism, Activism, and Lessons for the Left - Adrienne Milner and Adekonyinsola Aromolaran 10. ‘The Climate Crisis is a Racist Crisis’: Structural Racism, Inequality and Climate Change - Leon Sealey-Huggins Part III: Lessons from History, Connections Across Spaces 11. Beware the Northern Fox: Keeping A Focus on Systematic Racism Post Trump and Brexit - Kehinde Andrews 12. This Ain’t Nothing New: Contextualising Black Responses to Trump’s America - Layla Brown-Vincent 13. Understanding the Present through the Past: Struggles against Racism - Moussa Traoré 14. Fighting for Survival: Lessons from the Pan African Resistance - Tony Talburt 15. Could It Happen Here? Canada’s Multicultural Oasis and Global Right Wing Drift - Sam Tecle and Carl James 16. Domesticating Trump - Keguro Macharia Part IV: Understanding and Reframing Oppression 17. Writing in the Fire Now: Beth Dialogues with Wambui and Osop - Beth Kamunge, Wambui Mwangi and Osop Abdi Ali 18. Movements Through Trauma: How to See Ourselves - Maryam Jameela 19. Fundamental British Values: Moving Towards Anti-Racist And Multicultural Education? - Sadia Habib 20. Teaching White Innocence in An Anti-Black Social Order: British Values and the Psychic Life of Coloniality - China Mills 21. 'Be Exactly Who You Are': Black Feminism in Volatile Political Realities - Kadian Pow 22. Laughter and the Politics of Place-Making - Patricia Noxolo 23. Demanding the Impossible: Responding to The Fire Now - Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Azeezat Johnson and Beth Kamunge Afterword - George Yancy

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