Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

Book SynopsisThis unique work reveals how the denial of race as a social category maintains and reproduces systematic racism in contemporary France. Léonard offers an in-depth analysis of contentious issues in society, revealing how color-blind racism is at the centre of social inequality in France.

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Book SynopsisBorn into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—“Orientally yours”. Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong’s tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows, Wong’s rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a “Dragon Lady”, “Madame Butterfly” or “China Doll”, Huang’s biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia, unabashed sexism and ageism towards women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong’s all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth.Trade Review"[A]n incisive guide to the tangle of race, politics, and business that Anna May Wong encountered during her rise to fame... Daughter of the Dragon offers a lively tour through Wong's world and filmography, and the film stills and portraits included throughout are a particular pleasure. Mr. Huang turns the spotlight back onto an important but largely forgotten film icon—one who shone brightly despite the bitter racial bias she faced throughout her long career. " -- Julia Flynn Siler - The Wall Street Journal"With Daughter of the Dragon, Huang is offering something different... a form of reclamation and subversion. Huang is a wry and generous storyteller; the Anna May he evokes stepped out from the limited roles she was relegated to and turned to writing as a way of showcasing her curiosity and wit." -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times"Yunte Huang's superb biography of Hollywood's first Chinese American movie star, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History, doubles as a reckoning with the country's attitudes about Asian people in Wong's day... tremendously elucidating and moving." -- Nell Beram - Shelf Awareness"Daughter of the Dragon gives us a sense of how difficult it was for Wong to operate amid the legal, cultural, political and social constraints that restricted the roles she could play in the movies and the choices she could make in her life. Yet Huang also lets us watch Anna May transcend those limits, sending witty letters to friends, welcoming reporters, posing for photographers and campaigning for war in relief in China, all the while creating the character that still demands our attention. " -- Ann Fabian - National Book Review"Daughter of the Dragon soars when Huang resists treating Wong as a hapless victim of American history and digs deeper to reveal the shrewd, resilient soul beneath. During her lifetime, Wong's stardom was, for reasons beyond her control, eclipsed by that of her white peers. Thanks in part to scholars like Huang, her legacy won't suffer the same fate. " -- Mayukh Sen - The New Yorker

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Book SynopsisA new edition of a landmark work on Black women’s intellectual traditions. An astonishing wealth of literary and intellectual work by nineteenth-century Black women is being rediscovered and restored to print in scholarly and popular editions. In Kristin Waters’s and Carol B. Conaway’s landmark edited collection, Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, sophisticated commentary on this rich body of work chronicles a powerful and interwoven legacy of activism based in social and political theories that helped shape the history of North America. The book meticulously reclaims this American legacy, providing a collection of critical analyses of the primary sources and their vital traditions. Written by leading scholars, Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions is particularly powerful in its exploration of the pioneering thought and action of the nineteenth-century Black woman lecturer and essayist Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, novelist and poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, educator Anna Julia Cooper, newspaper editor Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and activist Ida B. Wells. The distinguished contributors are Hazel V. Carby, Patricia Hill Collins, Karen Baker-Fletcher, Kristin Waters, R. Dianne Bartlow, Carol B. Conaway, Olga Idriss Davis, Vanessa Holford Diana, Evelyn Simien, Janice W. Fernheimer, Michelle N. Garfield, Joy James, Valerie Palmer-Mehta, Carla L. Peterson, Marilyn Richardson, Evelyn M. Simien, Ebony A. Utley, Mary Helen Washington, Melina Abdullah, and Lena Ampadu. The volume will interest scholars and readers of African-American and women’s studies, history, rhetoric, literature, poetry, sociology, political science, and philosophy. This updated edition features a new preface by the editors in the light of new developments in current scholarship. Trade ReviewAwarded * The Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award for Best Anthology, 2007 by the Association of Black Women Historians *Named as one of * Fall 2017 list of fifty recommended books on black feminism *Praise for Previous Edition: "Black Women's Intellectual Traditions challenges us not just to insert black women into feminist histories, but to expand and rework our definitions and histories of feminism and of African American intellectual traditions . . . Black Women's Intellectual Traditions is about the future as well as the past, and about what can be, as well as what has been, done. Its message should resonate with those in the academy and beyond, those explicitly identified as feminists and those who might deny (or be denied) that designation, and women and men of all races who seek to study, teach, and promote the black feminist vision of resistance to injustice." * Journal of American History *Praise for Previous Edition: "Kristen Waters and Carol Conaway's Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking their Minds is an interpretative examination and reclamation of the intellectual traditions of African American women in North America. This volume is skillfully crafted, prominently displaying black female intellectualism and activism that is centered in a culture of resistance and grounded in traditions born of their lived experiences. This anthology represents a new paradigm for understanding the historical and contemporary intellectual production of African American women . . ." * The Journal of African American History *Praise for Previous Edition: "The reader, whether familiar with the intellectuals and traditions covered in this text or seeking knowledge about them for the first time, is guaranteed to learn something new from this masterful collection of essays." * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *Praise for Previous Edition: “A remarkable and invaluable anthology... I read with pleasure the splendid analyses of black women’s activism and the thought-provoking interpretations of their textured voices in slave narratives, speeches, religious sermons, letters, and expressive productions.” -- Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern UniversityPraise for Previous Edition: "In one wonderfully rich and comprehensive volume, Waters and Conaway present the foundation of the groundbreaking, but little known, history of black women's early intellectual pursuits." -- A'Lelia Bundles, author, producer, and Chair of the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book PrizeTable of ContentsPreface to New EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Carol B. Conaway and Kristin WatersPART I: MARIA W. STEWART: BLACK FEMINISM IN PUBLIC PLACES1. Maria W. Stewart: America’s First Black Woman Political Writer - Marilyn Richardson2. Maria W. Stewart and the Rhetoric of Black Preaching: Perspectives on Womanism and Black Nationalism - Lena Ampadu3. A Woman Made of Words: The Rhetorical Invention of Maria W. Stewart - Ebony A. Utley4. “No Throw-away Woman”: Maria W. Stewart as a Forerunner of Black Feminist Thought - R. Dianne BartlowPART II: INCIDENTS IN THE LIVES: FREE WOMEN AND SLAVES5. “Hear My Voice, Ye Careless Daughters”: Narratives of Slave and Free Women before Emancipation - Hazel V. Carby6. Literary Societies: The Work of Self-Improvement and Racial Uplift - Michelle N. Garfield7. “A Sign unto This Nation”: Sojourner Truth, History, Orature, and Modernity - Carla L. PetersonPART III: HARPERS, HOPKINS, AND SHADD CARY: WRITING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM8. Narrative Patternings of Resistance in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins’ Contending Forces - Vanessa Holford Diana9. “We Are All Bound Up Together”: Frances Harper and Feminist Theory - Valerie Palmer-Mehta10. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: A Visionary of the Black Press - Carol B. ConawayPART IV: ANNA JULIA COOPER: A VOICE11. Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the South - Mary Helen Washington12. A Singing Something: Womanist Reflections on Anna Julia Cooper - Karen Baker-Fletcher13. Arguing from Difference: Cooper, Emerson, Guizot, and a More Harmonious America - Janice W. FernheimerPART V: LEADERSHIP, ACTIVISM, AND THE GENIUS OF IDA B. WELLS14. “I Rose and Found My Voice”: Claiming “Voice” in the Rhetoric of Ida B. Wells - Olga Idriss Davis15. The Emergence of a Black Feminist Leadership Model: African-American Women and Political Activism in the Nineteenth Century - Melina Abdullah16. Shadowboxing: Liberation Limbos—Ida B. Wells - Joy JamesPART VI: BLACK FEMINIST THEORY: FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTY-FIRST17. Some Core Themes of Nineteenth-Century Black Feminism - Kristin Waters18. The Politics of Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins19. Black Feminist Theory: Charting a Course for Black Women’s Studies in Political Science - Evelyn M. SimienSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWorking in video, sculpture, photography, and text-based artworks, Smith draws attention to American systems of inequity This is the first major monograph dedicated to the New York–based artist Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986). Through her wide-ranging multimedia practice, Smith elucidates how the carceral state (read America) quietly inflicts violence and is constantly reinforced by the seemingly banal: from furniture found in prison visitation rooms, to pages from state-issued children's coloring books. Included in this publication are works produced from 2015 to the present day to provide a comprehensive overview of Smith’s videos, sculptures, photography, texts and printed matter. Accompanying over 140 color images are texts by Horace Ballard (Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Associate Curator of American Art at Harvard Art Museums), Johanna Burton (Executive Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (author of Friday Black), and Christina Sharpe (writer, professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University).

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Book SynopsisOver 25,000 older people from minority ethnic backgrounds live with dementia in the UK. Research suggests that these communities often face inequalities across the dementia care pathway and often don''t receive/access support until crisis point. Our modern society is wonderfully diverse with a range of cultures and ethnicities, with their own traditions, languages, and religions.When dealing with the challenges of dementia, individuals, their families, and communities from minority ethnic backgrounds-must be provided with appropriate advice, care, and support. Drawing on the evidence base, as well as personal and professional experience, chapters cover stigma surrounding the disease, promoting dementia awareness, risk factors for developing dementia, and much more. With an account of key issues and needs for people from minority ethnic communities at each stage of life with dementia, readers are given practical examples of culturally sensitive support, services, and interventions.

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Book SynopsisBeyond Grievance highlights the growing tensions between the liberal cosmopolitanism which defines much of the British political Left, and the patriotic faith-based conservatism that runs deep in many of Britain's ethnic-minority communities. With American-style racial identity politics taking root in the UK, the book argues that many liberal-leftists are disregarding the attachments to the traditional triad of faith, family and flag in historically Labour-voting, ethnic-minority communities.Rakib Ehsan argues that Britain needs a robust civic patriotism which understands that a stable family unit is the finest form of social security known to humankind; a cultural arrangement which appreciates that faith is a vital source of strength and optimism across a diversity of communities. Providing a much-needed corrective to the toxic mixture of tribal identity politics and radical cultural liberalism on the modern British Left, the book presents the case for an inclusive

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Book SynopsisTransnational cultural hybrids of the Afro-Atlantic The first full-length monograph of Houston-based visual artist Jamal Cyrus (born 1973), this publication features an overview of Cyrus’ practice of cobbling modern artifacts that trace the evolution of Black identity as it migrates across the African Diaspora, Middle Passage, jazz age and civil rights movements from the 1960s to now. Published to accompany Cyrus’ first career survey exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum, the catalog includes materially diverse and conceptually charged textile-based pieces, assemblages, performances, installations, paintings and works on paper produced in the past two decades, including his ongoing Pride Records installation series. Together, these multidisciplinary artworks demonstrate Cyrus’ commemoration, translation and reactivation of sociopolitical struggles in African American history—forging a revised chronicle of histories, hybridity and redemption.Trade ReviewThis work sheds light on Cyrus’s process, which often takes viewers on an associative journey across time. -- Wendy Vogel * Bookforum *

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Book SynopsisThe first authoritative source on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for racial and ethnic minorities. To understand racial disparities in COVID-19 infections and deaths, we must first understand how they are linked to racial inequality. In the United States, the material advantages afforded by whiteness lead to lower rates of infections and deaths from COVID-19 when compared to the rates among Black, Latino, and Native American populations. Most experts point to differences in population density, underlying health conditions, and proportions of essential workers as the primary determinants in the levels of COVID-19 deaths. The national response to the pandemic has laid bare the fundamentals of a racialized social structure. Assembled by a prestigious group of sociologists, this volume examines how particularly during the first year of COVID-19, the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic led to different and poorer outcomes for Black, Latino, and Native American populations. While color-blindness shaped national discussions on essential workers, charity, and differential mortality, minorities were overwhelmingly affected. The essays in this collection provide a mix of critical examination of the progress and direction of our COVID-19 response, personal accounts of the stark difference in care and outcomes for minorities throughout the United States, and offer recommendations to create a foundation for future response and research during the critical early days.Table of Contents Preface: Preface: Systemic Racism: The Common Thread Part I: COVID-19, Racism, and the Legacy of Colonialism Chapter 1: Racial Inequality and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic Melvin E. Thomas Chapter 2: COVID-19 as White Space: The Collective Perils of Whiteness During the Pandemic  David L. Brunsma, Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, Inaash Islam, Joong Won Kim, and Steve McGlamery Chapter 3: Color-Blind Racial Discourse in Pandemic Times Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Chapter 4: Actual Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality for the Non-Hispanic Black Population Compared to Non-Hispanic White Population in 35 US States and Their Association with Structural Racism Michael Siegel, Isabella Critchfield-Jain, Matthew Boykin, and Alicia Owens Chapter 5: COVID-19 Exposes Deep Racial Inequities and Vulnerability in the United States Alana Dass Chapter 6: The COVID-19 Crisis Among Native Americans in the United States Loren Henderson Chapter 7: Global Racial Capitalism and COVID-19 Johnny Eric Williams and David G. Embrick Part II: COVID-19 and Selected U.S. Institutions Chapter 8: Essential Yet Expendable: The Paradoxical Racialization of COVID-19 Jan-Martijn Meij and Diane L. Odeh Chapter 9: Introducing the Strategic Health and Economic Emergency Management Plan for Vulnerable Populations: How to Protect Black Health and Black Wealth in the U.S. Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond Lori Latrice Martin Chapter 10: The Value of Incarcerated Black Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploration of Healthcare Disparities of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Populations Britany J. Gatewood, Ebony Russ, Yanesia Norris, and A. Cayce Chapter 11: The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Americans Employed in the Service Sector Anita Fernander and Lovoria Williams Part III: Personal Experiences With COVID-19 Chapter 12: Risks, Relationships, and ‘Rona: How Five Black Mothers Navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic Sandra Barnes Chapter 13: “Sister Space”: Clinical Insights From a Black Women’s Support Group During COVID-19 Haley Sparks Chapter 14: “Black Lives Matter #saytheirnames” Tiffany J. Grant Chapter 15: “Conclusion: The Path Forward” Loren Henderson, Melvin Thomas, and Hayward Derrick Horton Epilogue: “The Pandemic Continues”

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Book Synopsis'A powerful meditation on what it means to belong.' The Times Literary Supplement'Deeply moving.' David Lammy'Honest, poetic and deeply researched excellence.' Paterson Joseph'It took two decades for me to go in search of the parts of myself I had left behind in the Caribbean. What ghosts were waiting for me there? There was a thick, black journal in my flat, stuffed with letters, postcards, handwritten notes and diary entries. For the first time in years, I opened it.'Twenty years after living there as a child, Alexis Keir returns to the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. He is keen to uncover lost memories and rediscover old connections. But he also carries with him the childhood scars of being separated from his parents and put into uncaring hands.Inspired by the embrace of his relatives in the Caribbean, Alexis begins to unravel the stories of others who left Saint Vincent, searching through diary pages and newspaper articles, shipping and hospital records and faded photographs. He uncovers tales of exploitation, endeavour and bravery of those who had to find a home far away from where they were born. A child born with vitiligo, torn from his mother's arms to be exhibited as a showground attraction in England; a woman who, in the century before the Windrush generation, became one of the earliest Black nurses to be recorded as working in a London hospital; a young boy who became a footman in a Yorkshire stately home. And Alexis's mother, a student nurse who arrives in 1960s London, ready to start a new life in a cold, grey country - and the man from her island whom she falls in love with.From the Caribbean to England, North America and New Zealand, from windswept islands to the rainy streets of London, and spanning generations of travellers from the 19th century to the present, Windward Family takes you inside the beating heart of a Black British family, separated by thousands of miles but united by love, loss and belonging.Read what everyone is saying about Windward Family:'A powerful meditation on what it means to belong, both as a Black Briton in search of self-knowledge and acceptance... subtly explores the racism experienced by itinerant islanders and their children, and the long shadows cast by slavery and colonialism on St Vincent... a paean to the resilience and courage of those who travel to better the lot of their families and a loving recreation of "small island" Caribbean life... imbued with the pain of separation and loss, and the joy of homecoming.' The Times Literary Supplement'Being Black British is more than an identity, it is a journey into uncharted waters of personal history. Alexis Keir's deeply moving account will ring true for all of those navigating their own stories.' David Lammy'Infused with hope... pertinent and timely... with beautiful touches of memories that will resonate with any child born of Caribbean parents in the UK... honest, poetic and deeply researched excellence.' Paterson Joseph, actor and author of The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho'With a tender mix of prose and historical re-imagining, Alexis creates with words, a symphony of movement that mimics his travels and journeys across continents, in search of identity and belonging. A beautiful ode to migration, love and all that we do for family.' Florence ?lájídé, author of Coconut'By turns heartbreaking and hopeful. Deeply moving.' Anita Sethi'Brilliant... Profound... written in lyrical cinematic prose. I reread many passages strictly for their beauty.' H. Nigel Thomas'Poignant... like reading about your own ancestors, who were once lost but now found and brought to life... a joy to read.' Anni Domingo'A beautiful, illuminating read. Full of heart and wisdom.' Irenosen Okojie'Beautiful, evocative... tells the story of modern Britain as much as it does of this one man.' Stella Duffy'An incredible memoir... truly compelling... truly heartbreaking... I was hooked.' Goodreads reviewer'Heart wrenching... absolutely flawless!' Goodreads reviewer'Beautifully written... had me hooked from the beginning. Refreshing and informative... Fab fab book.' Goodreads reviewer'Heartbreaking... stunning and beautiful.' Goodreads reviewer'Alexis Keir paints a picture so vivid that I could feel the sun on my face, I could smell the sea and taste the food... A brilliant and well deserved 5 stars. The narration was perfect too.' Goodreads reviewer'Sheer beauty... an incredible ancestry, allowing those forgotten to be placed into history forevermore.' Goodreads reviewer'Very powerful and gripping.' Goodreads reviewer'I fell in love with this story.' Goodreads reviewer'A labour of love, and every word is heartfelt.' Goodreads reviewer

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Book SynopsisA literarymixtape of transformative dialogues on justice with a cast of visionary rebel activists, organizers,artists, culture workers, thought leaders, and movement builders. Rebel Speaksounds the alarm for a global movement to end systemic injustice led by people doing the day-to-day rebel work in the prison capital of the world. Prison activist, artist, and scholarBryonnRolly Bain brings us transformativeoral history ciphers, rooted in the tradition of call-and-response, to lay bare the struggle and sacrifice on the front lines of the fight to abolish the prison industrial complex. Rebel Speakinvestigates themotives that inspire and sustain movements for visionary change. Sparked by a life-changing interview with working-class heroes Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte,Bryonninvites us to join conversationswith change-makers whose diverse critical perspectives and firsthand accounts expose the crisis of prisons and policing in our communities.Through dialogues with activists inclTrade Review"Prison activist Bryonn Bain presents a diverse and eye-opening series of discussions on mass incarceration, racial profiling, and other criminal justice issues. Describing the book as a ‘dialogue-centered mixtape,’ Bain pays homage throughout to the hip-hop culture that inspired and informed his activism. . . . A powerful and intimate look at the fight for a more equitable and compassionate justice system." * Publishers Weekly *“Coming at a time when those who benefit from white supremacy are attacking critical race theory and Black perspectives generally, Rebel Speak is an impassioned addition to conversations about how America was designed to harm Black citizens—and how it continues to do so.” * Foreword Reviews *“Rebel Speak: A Justice Movement Mixtape certainly captures the right vibe, from the cover image of a hand-labeled cassette tape, to the tracklist-style table of contents, to the way the author uses each chapter to pass the mic to people he admires. Rebel Speak features the voices of high-profile artists and activists alongside those of formerly incarcerated men and women to highlight the big issues of justice in society.” * KCET-TV Online *"Throughout his book, Bain uses his and his subjects’ personal perspectives to explore more universal ideas of effective alternatives to mass incarceration." * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *Table of ContentsForeword by Angela Davis Prologue. Criminal Minded: The Hip Hop Roots of the Critical Race Rebellion Track #1. The Blueprint The Radical Solidarity of Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte Track #2. Panther Rising How Albert Woodfox Survived Four Decades in Solitary Track #3. 21st Century Harriet Tubman A Dialogue with Susan Burton Track #4. Critical Justice Mass Incarceration, Mental Health, and Trauma Track #5. Beyond the Bars Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs on Life after Lockdown Track #6. Fear of a Black Movement Public Enemy's Chuck D Fights the Power Thirty Years Strong—A Dialogue with Alicia Virani Track #7. Live from Juvi The Artivism of Maya Jupiter and Aloe Blacc—A Dialogue with Rosa M. Rios Track #8. Trap Classics Who's Capitalizing on Cannabis and Incarceration? Track #9. Sing Sing Blues Reflections of a Street Cop Turned Warden Track #10. Homecoming Returning from Prison in a Pandemic—A Dialogue with Cheyenne Michael Simpson Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pacy and stimulating."---Marina Benjamin, New Statesman"The value in [Trans] is not in readjudicating old internet battles, but in laying out current conflicts of identity in a public, accessible way."---Emma Green, The Atlantic"Lucid, sophisticated, and judicious,Transis an important and timely exploration of the increasingly uncertain and unsettled boundaries of identity."---Glenn Altschuler, Florida Courier"While the first part of Trans compares Dolezal and Jenner, the second leverages the concept of transgender to examine transracial differences. Ultimately, Brubaker would like us to recognize transracial identities in the same way we accept transgender ones. In his analysis, transracial identities generate uneasy resonances with not only the dark histories of racial passing, but also the contemporary realities of racial oppression. Still, he prods us to reflect on the new kinds of racial identities being created through interracial relations, multiracial movements and generational change. While the mainstream recognizes transgender, it remains wary of transracial. The controversy over trans identities is far from settled." * Macleans *"Brubaker maintains that we are living in ‘an age of unsettled identities.' Of that, he convinces me. This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in the categories of identity and how they are being invoked or subverted."---Leonard Curry, Christian Century"This short book packs a wallop. . . . [Brubaker] offers up a much-needed, fresh perspective."---Arlene Stein, Public Books"[A] clear-eyed, eye-opening book to see ways in which transracialism may and may not be considered as legitimate as transgenderism in the modern push for fluidity of identity categories."---A. Loudermilk, PopMatters"“Brubaker . . . one of our finest analysts of the politics of difference, provides a clear and concise guide for the perplexed. He carefully lays out a taxonomy of both older and emerging classifications of ‘trans,' ordering both the many meanings of transgender and the less well known and more contested ideas about transracial. . . . What is clear from this excellent book is that the cultural logic of autonomy/choice that is working itself out in our age of unsettled identities is not of itself self-limiting. Wherever it takes us as a society, it seems, we will be forced to go.""---Joseph E. Davis, Society"Important reading for any psychologist interested in how people construe and label their own and others' identities, especially those having to do with gender and race."---Marianne LaFrance, PsycCritiques"Provocative. . . . [This book] offers a (new) theory of race likely to generate serious, heated discussions."---Iván Szelélnyi, Contexts"A rousing intellectual incitement and a splendid piece to think with."---Joss Greene, British Journal of Sociology

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Book SynopsisExplores childhood in relation to blackness, transfeminism, queerness, and deportability to interrogate what “the child” makes possibleThe concept of childhood contains many contested and ambivalent meanings that have extraordinary implications, particularly for those staking their claim for belonging and justice on the wish for inclusion within it. In Ambivalent Childhoods, Jacob Breslow examines contemporary U.S. social justice movements (including Black Lives Matter, transfeminism, queer youth activism, and antideportation movements) to discover and reveal how childhood operates within and against them.Ambivalent Childhoods brings together critical race, trans, feminist, queer, critical migration, and psychoanalytic theories to explore the role of childhood in shaping and challenging the disposability of young black life, the steadfastness of the gender binary, the queer life of children’s desires, and the precarious status of migrants. Through an engagement with“the psychic life of the child” that combines theoretical discussions of childhood, blackness, transfeminism, and deportability with critical readings of films, narrative, images, and social justice movements, Breslow demonstrates how childhood requires sustained attention as a complex and ambivalent site for contesting the workings of power, not only for the young. Ambivalent Childhoods is a forward-thinking and intersectional analysis of how childhood affects activism, national belonging, and the violence directed against queer, trans, and racialized people. Trade Review "This is a landmark achievement. Rigorous and lyrical, urgently political and achingly personal, Ambivalent Childhoods braids together scholarly approaches to childhood that center Blackness, transgender, queer sexuality, and migration in order to show how each twist through ambivalent, fraught, and necessary claims to the protections of childhood innocence."—Rebekah Sheldon, author of The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe "A highly engaging, timely, and forward-thinking interdisciplinary and intersectional exploration of how childhood shapes activism, national belonging, and the violence transacted against queer, trans, and racialized people. Jacob Breslow successfully weaves these differing fields and movements together to show us something vital but seemingly unnoticed about the role of the psychic life of the child in American fantasies about the political and citizenship."—Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child "Both deeply informative and good to think with."—Children’s Literature Association Quarterly "[Breslow] demonstrates one way to occupy the ambivalence of childhood, attending to its harmful effects while valuing its psychic power to sustain us. Ambivalent Childhoods invites us to engage with that ambivalence and the speculative futures it makes possible."—American Literary History Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Wish for Childhood1. Disavowing Black Childhood: Trayvon Martin, Adolescent Citizenship, and Anti-Blackness2. Transphobia as Projection: Trans Childhoods and the Psychic Brutality of Gender3. Desiring the Child: Queerness, Motherhood, and the Analyst4. Undocumented Dream-Work: Intergenerational Migrant Aesthetics and the Parricidal Violence of the BorderAfterword: Ambivalence and Loss AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThrough the compelling stories Dolly shares and the surprising science she reports, Dolly guides each of us closer to being the person we mean to be.Trade Review“Finally: an engaging, evidence-based book about how to battle biases, champion diversity and inclusion, and advocate for those who lack power and privilege. Dolly Chugh makes a convincing case that being an ally isn’t about being a good person—it’s about constantly striving to be a better person.” — Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take, Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg “Dolly Chugh helps us identify our ‘platform of privilege’ and guides us on how we can use this and other tools to create positive change. She encourages us to accentuate our strengths and to manage our weaknesses, and forces us to focus on being better and stronger in everything we do.” — Billie Jean King, social justice pioneer and tennis champion “Dolly Chugh has written the most important and actionable book on reducing bias that I have read. Using powerful and enduring findings from research on bias, she explains the reasons we fail to be the person we mean to be and provides prescriptions for managing the pitfalls of our humanness. This deeply personal book is a must-read.” — David Thomas, president of Morehouse College and author of Leading for Equity and Breaking Through “Dolly Chugh applies the power of a growth mindset to work on equity and inclusion at a time when it is much-needed. The Person You Mean to Be is essential reading.” — Carol Dweck, bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success “This is a book for anyone who thinks of themselves as a pretty decent human being but who knows, deep in their heart, they could be better. A cocktail of stories and science that gets you thinking and, more important, gets you acting.” — Angela Duckworth, founder and CEO of Character Lab, and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance “In authoritative yet accessible prose, social psychologist Dolly Chugh outlines how we can all make the indispensable shift from being ‘believers’ who live under the ideal of inclusion to being ‘builders’ who live up to that ideal. This book is both guide and gift.” — Kenji Yoshino, author of Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial; Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law “Never has an author made it so easy to see our blind spots and the downsides of our best intentions. Dolly Chugh’s brilliant lens reveals the invisible, uncomfortable truths of ordinary privilege, yet offers a light that inspires and guides each of us to be the moral, inclusive leader we hope to be.” — Liz Wiseman, New York Times bestselling author of Multipliers and Rookie Smarts

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Book SynopsisAn intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period.Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood of an idyll that became a nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, the bitterness of exile in Britain and the terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against tyranny.Mohamed Forna, a man of unimpeachable integrity and great charisma, was a new star in the political firmament Sierra Leone as the country faced its future as a fledgling democracy. Always a political firebrand, he was one of the first black students to come to Britain after the war. In Aberdeen he stole the heart of Aminatta''s mother, to the dismay of her Presbyterian parents, and returned with her to Sierra Leone. But the new ways of Western parliamentary democracy were tearing old Africa apart, giving rise only to dictatorships and Trade Review‘This is a book of quite extraordinary power and beauty. Aminatta Forna has excavated not only her memory but the hidden recesses of the heart.’ Fergal Keane ‘An extraordinary and gripping story…Aminatta Forna’s book glows with compassion. A modern classic, of which her courageous father would have been proud.’ Peter Gowin, author of ‘Mukiwa’ ‘An engrossing account of pain, love and discovery that had the capacity not only to make me understand but also to move me to tears’ Gillian Slovo, author of ‘Every Secret Thing’ ‘I had tears in my eyes almost the whole way through, although it is the least sentimental of books…Aminatta Forna manages, quite brilliantly, to evoke not only all the honour and pity that is in her family’s story, but its beauty and tenderness too.’ Katie Hickman, author of ‘Daughters of Britannia’

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Book SynopsisAs Angela Y. Davis has proposed, the “path to prison,” which so disproportionately affects communities of color, is most acutely guided by the conditions of daily life. Architecture, then, as fundamental to shaping these conditions of civil existence, must be interrogated for its involvement along this diffuse and mobile path. Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality aims to expand the ways the built environment’s relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays in this book implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States—and follow the premise that to understand how the prison enacts its violence in the present one must shift the epistemological frame elsewhere: to places, discourses, and narratives assumed to be outside of the sphere of incarceration.Paths to Prison: On the Architectures of Carcerality offers not a fixed or inexorable account of how things are but rather a set of starting points and methodologies for reevaluating the architecture of carceral society and for undoing it altogether.With contributions by Adrienne Brown, Stephen Dillon, Jarrett M. Drake, Sable Elyse Smith, James Graham, Leslie Lodwick, Dylan Rodríguez, Anne Spice, Brett Story, Jasmine Syedullah, Mabel O. Wilson, and Wendy L. Wright.Table of Contents1. Extended Stay: i.e. “The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same” Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt2. Carceral Architectures of Policing: From “Mass Incarceration” to Domestic Warfare Dylan Rodríguez3. Working to Get Free at the Rent Party Adrienne Brown4. Brushy Mountain and the Architecture of Carceral Extraction James Graham5. Fire Camp, Highway, Coal Mine: Geographies of the Carceral Quotidian Brett Story6. Processing Power: Archives, Prisons, and the Ethnography of Exchange Jarrett M. Drake7. “Nothing Stirred in the Air”: Affect, Sexuality, and the Architectural Terror of the Racial State Stephen Dillon8. Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines Anne Spice9. Zeroes and Ones: Carceral Life in the Data World Wendy L. Wright10. Design of the Self and the Racial Other Mabel O. Wilson11. Backward to Wayward: Listening to Archives of Disciplinary Education in Philadelphia Leslie Lodwick12. No Place Like Home: Practicing Freedom in the Loopholes of Captivity Jasmine Syedullah Images throughout by Sable Elyse Smith Acknowledgments Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLanguage is on display all around us, all the time, and the study of this linguistic landscape is one of the fastest-growing areas of research in applied linguistics. This book provides an overview of how the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies has emerged and developed over the past 20 years, combined with an in-depth exploration of the theoretical approaches, innovative research methods and major themes that have been central to this dynamic area of research. Written by two authors who have been involved in the field from its inception, the book features summaries of studies from around the world, a discussion of the future of the field, and an analysis of the impact of linguistic landscape research on language policy, language learning and teaching, and minority language revitalization. It will be an invaluable companion for students and researchers in Linguistic Landscape Studies, as well as to those working in related areas. The book is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence.Trade ReviewThis much-needed book explores past and present trends in the field of Linguistic Landscape Studies. The reader enters the archaeology of the field and then ventures back into the future. On the way, there is room to get to know the controversies, the dilemmas, the emerging themes, and the secret life of which the emergence and evolution of a research field is made. A book that reads like a novel. * Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer, University of Hamburg, Germany *The book successfully achieves its goal of offering readers a panoramic experience of this rich and evolving field. Whether you are a seasoned researcher or simply curious about the linguistic landscapes that surround us, this book will leave you with a newfound appreciation for the intricate tapestry of languages in our everyday environment. * Selim Ben-Said, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan *Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz have created a masterful text that captures the wealth of their knowledge of linguistic landscapes. They have presented a carefully considered and critical overview of the field, including its origins, theoretical approaches, methods and diverse applications. A must-read for all researchers and students of linguistic landscapes. * Corinne A. Seals, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand *...this weighty tome provides an incredible overview into the field and succeeds in being both macro and micro at the same time, zooming in and out at opportune moments. Most impressive is its inclusion and consideration of a great number of LL studies, no doubt in part aided by a lovingly maintained bibliography of LL research [...] It is certainly an invaluable resource to both current and new researchers in the field, providing inspiration for future research as well as methodological development * Andre Joseph Theng, The University of Edinburgh, UK, Language in Society *Table of ContentsFigures Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Captivating Studies of Language in Public Spaces Chapter 2. History: Early Stages of an Emerging Field Chapter 3. Theoretical Approaches: A Range of Perspectives Chapter 4. Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches Chapter 5. Photography and Other Distinctive Research Methods Chapter 6. Multilingualism is All Around Us Chapter 7. The Visibility of Minority Languages Chapter 8. The Influence of Language Policies Chapter 9. English Can Be Seen Everywhere Chapter 10. Educational Contexts Chapter 11. What's in the Names? Chapter 12. Expanding the Field of View References Index

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Book SynopsisIt's time to meet your new superheroesDiscover the fascinating stories behind 38 iconic people of colour, all of them ground-breakers, risk-takers and game-changers. Whether they are activists, athletes, scientists or superstars, every one of them has been a trailblazer in their field and has paved the way for future change. It's time these individuals took centre stage and had their achievements celebrated the world over.This book will introduce you to some of the most influential people of colour from across the globe and throughout history, including several modern-day icons.Among others, you will learn about the incredible lives and achievements of:- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez- Barack Obama- Chadwick Boseman- Florence Price- Jimi Hendrix- Kamala Harris- Laverne Cox- Malala Yousafzai- Maria Tallchief- RuPaulEach inspiring profile also features a bespoke illustration.Be empowered and inspired by their extraordinary stories, their awesome accomplishments and their words of wisdom in this pocketbook of remarkable people.

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Book SynopsisThe death of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests have made clear to everyone the vicious reality of racism that persists today. Many of those privileged enough to be distanced from racism are now having to come to terms with the fact that they continue to prosper at the detriment of others. Having spent the last four years researching, writing, and speaking about the benefits of diversity for society, June Sarpong is no stranger to educating and challenging those that have been enjoying the benefits of a system steeped in systemic racism without realising its true cost.In The Power of Privilege, June will empower those fortunate enough not to be otherised' by mainstream Western society to become effective allies against racism, both by understanding the roots of their privilege and the systemic societal inequities that perpetuates it. The Power of Privilege offers practical steps and action-driven solutions so that those who have been afforded privilege can begin unTrade Review‘A smart and digestible manual on how white people can challenge racism’. The Observer

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Book SynopsisCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.When a group of Travelling recyclers agree to tidy up a town, their methods of working, their music and stories have a huge impact on the residents making them examine their lives.Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

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Book Synopsis''I fight hard and love strong. I''m a traveller.''Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller, but as a child he felt like an outsider. He was different to his siblings. On the rare occasions he went to school, he was bullied for being a gypsy boy. And beyond the gates of the camp he found nothing but hostility. Slowly, Paddy''s hurt turned into anger and by the age of 11 he had started out on an illustrious career in bare-knuckle fighting. This earned him a position as one of the most well-respected (and feared) men in the travelling community. Yet while he won countless contests in the ring, the real battles he faced were very much outside.In this deeply honest autobiography, he tells of how he has loved and lost five children; plummeted to seven stone while battling depression, drink and drugs. He describes how it feels to be shot point-blank in the head and the lengths he''ll go to to protect his people, as well as life since My Big Fat

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Book SynopsisTo Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living conditions of black rural communities, revealing the abject poverty of the Jim Crow south. These university-affiliated social scientists documented shotgun houses, unsanitary privies and contaminated water, scaly hands, enlarged stomachs, and malnourished bodies. However, they also turned their attention to the spiritual possessions, chanted sermons, ecstatic singing, conjuration, dreams and visions, fortune-telling, taboos, and other religious cultures of these communities. These scholars aimed to illuminate the impoverished conditions of their subjects for philanthropic and governmental organizations, as well as the broader American public, in the first half of the 20th century, especially during the Great Depression. Religion was integral to their efforts to chart the long economic depression across the South.From 1924 to 1941, Charles Johnson, Guy Johnson, Allison Davis, Lewis Jones, and other social scientists framed the religious and cultural practices of the black communities as folk practices, aiming to reform them and the broader South. Drawing on their correspondence, fieldnotes, and monographs, Drake shows that social scientists'' use of folk reveals the religion was an important site for highlighting the supposed mental, moral, and cultural deficits of America''s so-called folk population. Moreover, these social scientists did not just pioneer rural social science and reform but used their study of religion to plant the seeds of the concept that would become known as the culture of poverty in the latter half of the twentieth century. To Know the Soul of a People is an exciting intellectual history that invites us to explore the knowledge that animated the earnest yet shortsighted liberal efforts to reform black and impoverished communities.Trade ReviewDrake's well-written, important, timely examination of these pioneering studies is excellent.... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Drake outlines with precision social scientific constructions of the category of 'folk religion' and demonstrates the significance of ideas about religion to liberal reformers' analyses of Black cultures, family, labor, and health. He shows how their analyses contributed to moralizing discourses about race and poverty and supported government policies aimed at 'modernizing' Black culture. The book provides new tools to understand the connections among religion, race, and class in African American history. * Judith Weisenfeld, Author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration *Jamil Drake follows Depression-era social scientists who spread across the rural U.S. South-particularly the Black rural South-in search of an explanation for its entrenched poverty and resistance to modernization. They found 'folk religion,' a category that challenged biological racism but entrenched a cultural critique of poor black southerners that remains with us. This is a timely, sobering, and important book * Alison Greene, Associate Professor of American Religious History, Emory University *Table of ContentsPreface: The Legacy of Hampton: Folk, Religion, and Classifying the Cabin People Introduction Chapter 1: Moralizing the Folk: The Negro Problem, Racial Heredity, and Religion in the Progressive Era Chapter 2: Assimilating the Folk: White Southern Liberals, Revival Religion, and Regional Isolation Chapter 3: Medicalizing the Folk: Superstitions, Family, and Germs in the Venereal Disease Control Program Chapter 4: Saving the Folk: Cultural Lag and the Southern Roots of the Religion of Poverty Chapter 5: Preserving the Folk: Folk Songs and the Irony of Romanticism Conclusion: The Aftermath of the Religion of Southern Folk Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuriesTrade Review“This book confirms Coll Thrush’s position as the best historian of place working in Native American and Indigenous studies today. Indigenous London is a major contribution to the growing scholarship of the Red Atlantic.”—Jace Weaver, author of The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 -- Jace Weaver“In this elegantly written and wide-ranging book Coll Thrush successfully challenges the widely assumed binary between urban civilization and indigenous people. In his exciting and always illuminating tour of the indigenous presence in the metropolis of the British Empire from the 16th to the 21st century, Thrush recovers the ways in which North American, New Zealand, and Australian native peoples sought to challenge settler colonialism. This book is a must read for those interested in indigenous peoples, London and the British Empire.”—Steve Pincus, author of 1688: The First Modern Revolution -- Steve Pincus“This is a truly innovative and engaging book. It demonstrates splendidly how the presence of these visitors stimulated a great deal of curiosity and speculation, as we would expect, but also forced Londoners to see the city through their eyes.”—Karen Kupperman, New York University -- Karen Kupperman“In this extraordinarily rich and compelling book, Coll Thrush has succeeded admirably in bringing to life the half-millennium-long phenomenon of Indigenous engagement with London. A terrific work of scholarship and a stunning act of authorial invention.”—Eric Hinderaker, author of The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery -- Eric Hinderaker

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Book SynopsisIn February 2016, Rachel Swarms, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Dana Canedy discovered dozens of photographs--and explored the history behind them--and chronicled them in the popular blog series Unpublished Black History. The month-long series was overwhelmingly well-received and garnered 1.7 million views and thousands of comments from readers. This book dives even deeper in the Times photo archives--known as the Morgue--to showcase 120 more photographs and their untold stories. The never-before-published photographs include a 27-year-old Jesse Jackson leading a rally of 4,000 people in Chicago, Rosa Parks arriving at a Montgomery Courthouse, and a candid behind-the-scenes shot of Aretha Franklin backstage at the Apollo Theater. Were the photos--or the people in them--not deemed newsworthy enough? Did the images not arrive in time for publication? Were they pushed aside by words at an institution long known as the Gray Lady? Swarms, Eveleigh, Cave, and Canedy explore all these questions and more in this one-of-a-kind book.

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Book SynopsisThis survey exhibition captures the arc and continued ascent of contemporary artist Beverly McIver. This exhibition catalog accompanies a survey exhibition of contemporary artist and painter Beverly McIver. Curated by Kim Boganey, this exhibition represents the diversity of McIver's thematic approach to painting over her career. From early self-portraits in clown makeup to more recent works featuring her father, dolls, Beverly's experiences during COVID-19 and portraits of others, Full Circle illuminates the arc of Beverly McIver's artistic career while also touching on her personal journey. McIver's self-portraits explore expressions of individuality, stereotypes, and ways of masking identity; portraits of family provide glimpses into intimate moments, in good times as well as in illness and death. The show includes McIver's portraits of other artists and notable figures, recent work resulting from a year in Rome with American Academy's Rome Prize, and new work in which McIver expTable of ContentsContents Director’s Foreword Jennifer McCabe Acknowledgments Kim Boganey A Conversation with Beverly McIver Kim Boganey Pigments and Personas Richard J. Powell PLATES Exhibition Checklist Selected Biography and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe definitive, engaging and previously little-known account of the 4,227 soldiers who comprised Force K6 of the British Indian ArmyTrade ReviewGroundbreaking ... On the trail of the Indian Contingent, Ghee Bowman has travelled thousands of miles across Britain, Europe, India and Pakistan. He has tracked down lost family archives and photographs from private albums, and conducted interviews with the descendants of soldiers who thought their family histories had been rendered irrelevant to the greater story of Britain’s involvement in the Second World War. He has also written a riveting and moving account of these men’s lives, which has enabled him to get much closer than any previous writer to understanding the Indian soldier’s experience in Europe in the 1940s ... This book deserves a wide readership and to be in the vanguard of shaping new histories of the Second World War -- Yasmin Khan, author of The Raj at WarThe racist comedian Bernard Manning once remarked that "There were no Pakis at Dunkirk". Ghee Bowman does important and essential work exposing this lie, which itself fuels the myth that Britain's multiculturalism is a modern creation. The story of how our ancestors fought in massive numbers for the country that colonised them needs to be told again and again and again -- Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpirelandThis book is a fitting recognition of the contribution of Dunkirk's forgotten soldiers, including the British Indian Army. At a time of rising division and in the face of the hateful rhetoric of the far-right, now more than ever we need to learn the lessons of our diverse history -- Anas Sarwar MSPA rigorous, meticulously researched and engagingly written challenge to the parochial whiteness of British Second World War memory ... A rich repository of Indian wartime experiences -- Dr Diya GuptaEvocative ... a labour of love -- Neil Drysdale * Press and Journal *Thought-provoking ... Bowman weaves into the history the experiences of a number of the men themselves, not just as soldiers, but as human beings, experiencing British culture and life for the first time ... Bowman does this so well that the reader can almost enter their world -- Hamish Johnston * Northern Times *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Book Award, sponsored by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Winner of the 2017 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Winner of the 2017 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, sponsored by the American Sociological Association's Sociology of Culture Section. Honorable Mention in the 2017 Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Race, Class, and Gender. NAACP Image Award Nominee for an Outstanding Literary Work from a debut author. Winner of the 2017 Prose Award for Excellence in Social Sciences and the 2017 Prose Category Award for Law and Legal Studies, sponsored by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers. Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher BookTrade Review"Gonzalez Van Cleve's account of the American criminal justice system, based on thousands of hours of careful observation behind the doors of the Chicago–Cook County courthouse, reveals the paradoxes and pain of our modern legal culture, including the effects on the punished and punishers alike. As Van Cleve's investigation so startlingly lays bare, just because legal institutions profess to be colorblind does not make it so. Reading Crook County helps us see the difference."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University"Beautifully written and keenly insightful, Crook County is a horror story I couldn't put down. May Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve's masterful book do for the Chicago criminal court what Upton Sinclair's The Jungle did to the meat packing industry: clean it up. Powerful, disturbing and paradigm shifting, Crook County is ethnography at its best."—Paul Butler, Georgetown Law, author of The Chokehold: Policing Black Men"Crook County is a searing account of how criminal courts serve as the gateway to racialized punishment. Turning a spotlight on the everyday actions of prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys, Gonzalez Van Cleve reveals a court culture that dehumanizes and discriminates against defendants, victims, and family members. Her eye-opening analysis forces us to confront the possibility [or reality] that mass incarceration results from mass wrongful convictions of black and brown people forced into a devastating charade."— Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania, author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of LibertyUrgent and important, Crook County is a powerful, eye-opening account of the code of the big-city court system. Carefully dissecting this crucial step of the 'school to prison pipeline,' Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve illustrates just how the scales of justice are cynically stacked against black and brown inner city young people, undermining their faith in our criminal justice system. Crook County is a must-read."—Elijah Anderson, Yale University, author of Code of the Street and The Cosmopolitan Canopy"This book is public sociology at its best. It is theoretically grounded, methodologically rigorous and innovativeIn sharp detail, the book shows how the crisis of racism is routinized in the daily functions of formal institutions of justice. There are lessons in this book, then, for any criminologist or sociologist of crime, law or deviance. It transcends geographic boundaries and at once provides seminal insights into future ethnographic research Gonzalez Van Cleve demonstrates the power of ethnography in the best possible sense."—Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, British Journal of Criminology"Van Cleve's book is nothing less than a tour de force, and a clarion call for bringing egalitarian principles of racial and social justice to our most overlooked of criminal justice institutions, the courts. It forces us to confront 'the everyday miscarriages of justice' that pervade today's courts, asking us what has become of Gideon's trumpet in the age of spatially and racially concentrated 'mass incarceration.' The book is destined to become a classic, and ought to be on the mandatory reading list for citizens, law and society scholars and all sentient social scientists."—Thomas E. Reifer, Law and Society Review"In a groundbreaking new book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court, Professor Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve adds an important, novel dimension to this problem. She exposes the deeply flawed operation of the criminal justice system by focusing on how felonies are processed in Cook County, Illinois...Van Cleve's important ethnography brings to light the hidden and pernicious workings of the criminal justice system that often operates in the shadows."—L. Song Richardson, Yale Law Journal"Through her meticulous methodological approach that draws on field notes, over one thousand hours of court observations by court watchers, and interviews with judges, private attorneys, public defenders, and prosecutors, Van Cleve outlines a legal habitus allowing individual actors to appear blameless in the practice of racialized justice....Reading Crook County, it becomes clear that the court system is a mere charade of what it is meant to be."––Amy Baumann Grau, ContextsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Opening the Courthouse Doors 1. Separate and Unequal Justice 2. Of Monsters and Mopes: Racial and Criminal "Immorality" 3. Race in Everyday Legal Practices 4. There Are No Racists Here: Prosecutors in the Criminal Courts 5. Rethinking Gideon's Army: Defense Attorneys in the Criminal Courts Conclusion: Racialized Punishment in the Courts: A Call to Action

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Book SynopsisLook it's two-two tweets that helped me vent my frustrations. It's really not that deepHoled up in her bedroom, Cleo's aired twenty-two Whatsapps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of the world. It doesn't mean she's been silent though she's got a lot to say. On the internet, actions don't always speak louder than wordsseven methods of killing kylie jenner explores cultural appropriation, queerness, friendship and the ownership of black bodies online and IRL.Jasmine Lee-Jones's award-winning play premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2019 and transferred to the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in June 2021.Trade ReviewJasmine Lee-Jones’s debut play is dazzlingly original, searingly articulate and savagely funny * Times *Lee-Jones’s writing is genuinely hilarious * Time Out *A blistering debut * The Stage *

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Book SynopsisNew paperback edition - As China becomes a pre-eminent world power again in the twenty-first century, this book uncovers Britain's long relationship with the country and its people.Trade Review‘The diligent reader is rewarded with many gems’ -- Literary Review

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Book SynopsisPresents the key experiences of a diverse group of teachers and students in their journeys of becoming social justice educator/scholars.This innovative book is a collection of autoethnographies by a diverse group of contributors who describe and theorize about the critical moments in their development as social justice educator/scholars in the face of colonizing forces. Using a rhizomatic approach, the editors'' meta-analysis identifies patterns of similarity and differences and theorizes about the exercise of agency in resistance and identity formation. In our increasingly diverse society, Becoming Critical is a wonderful resource for teacher education and sociology of education as it presents an alternative methodological approach for qualitative inquiry. The book contributes to students'' understanding of the development of critical theories-especially as they pertain to identities. The contributors make use of the work of critical scholars such as Collins, hooks, Weber, Foucault, and others relevant to the lives of students and educators today.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines and challenges the marginalisation of critical race analysis in debates on social justice, which have been constrained by a facile post-racialism. Highlighting the need to decolonise public debate and antiracism itself, it provides an essential resource for academics, students and activists.Table of Contents1. Introduction: 'No Place in Our Society' 2. Race: Real and Unreal 3. Permanent Racism: Derrick Bell’s Racial Realism 4. Postracial Britain 5. Against Antiracism 6. Whatever Happened to the Black Working Class? 7. Conclusion: Black Futures

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Book SynopsisThe essential anti-racist book from one of the world''s leading voices for change''With This Is Why I Resist, Dr Shola is shaking a nation out of its slumber.'' Annie Lennox OBE''Smart and courageous, this book should be on everyone''s must-read list.'' Naomi Campbell''Written with fearless articulacy, this book recalibrates the conversation on race to ignite transformational change.'' David Lammy MP''This book is a passionate call to arms for anyone who wishes to look the other way. It is a must read.'' Professor Kate Williams''Inclusive, exciting and focused, This Is Why I Resist is a fantastic point of reference for intersectional anti-racism work, no matter who you are.'' Munroe BergdorfIn 2020 we have seen clearer than ever that Black people are still fighting for the right to be judged by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin. In tTrade ReviewThis Is Why I Resist is an urgent and timely anti-racist call to action * Diva Magazine *

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Book SynopsisSettlers is a testament to Jimi Famurewa''s love not just for his lineage, but for the culture. An incisive, intimate and profound work.- Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie and People PersonAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today.- Ben Judah, Journalist and author of This is London: Life and Death in the World CityJimi brings modern black London alive like no other author. This feels like an important book that is also a total pleasure to read. - Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial PastThe past, present and future of being Black, African and British in the capital.This is a story that begins with post-1960s arrivals from Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Somalia. Today their descendants have unleashed a tidal wave of British creativity from Lambeth to Lagos, IslingtTrade ReviewAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today. * Ben Judah, Journalist and author of This is London: Life and Death in the World City *Illuminating and fascinating, with humour and some surprises, Jimi Famurewa examines Britain's African communities, past and present. * Stephen Bourne, author of Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War *Jimi brings modern black London alive like no other author. This feels like an important book that is also a total pleasure to read. * Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past *Settlers is the book I didn’t know I was waiting for. Jimi Famurewa approaches an incredibly complicated topic with a steady hand and fine precision that results in a book that is well researched, rich in nuance and handled with care. It was as enjoyable to read as it was enlightening. * Jendella Benson, author of Hope & Glory *This is an extraordinary and beautifully written piece of work that deals with a deeply complex and rich history with a remarkable lightness of touch, sensitivity, warmth and insight. It is depressing to reflect on the reality that all too many people continue to question the benefits of immigration. This fine book shows beyond any doubt that London, and this country, is all the better for its Black African population. * James Ramsden *A spellbinding portrait of culture, talent, food and activism. * Stylist Magazine *Settlers is replete with revealing anecdotes… Famurewa’s writing is thoughtful, cogent and admirably even-handed. * theguardian.com *Dazzling. * Waitrose Food Magazine *[Jimi's] voice and the way he writes I just love. * Jamie Oliver *Settlers is a pleasure to read, by turns lyrical, approachable, funny, sensitive and always well-researched… [Famurewa] sweeps you along so thoroughly that you don’t realise until you close the book quite how much you have enjoyed it, how much you have learnt and how much it will stay with you. * The Spectator *Combined with [Jimi's] own family history, this is a sometimes painful but always postivie story of defiance and reclamation. * theguardian.com *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Second Great Wave 1 Farm 2 Market 3 Boat 4 Cell 5 Worship House 6 Restaurant 7 Classroom 8 Suburb Conclusion: The Next Great Wave Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisAs police racism unsettles Britain’s tolerant self-image, Black resistance to British policing details the activism that made movements like Black Lives Matter possible. Elliott-Cooper analyses racism beyond prejudice and the interpersonal – arguing that black resistance confronts a global system of racial classification, exploitation and violence.Imperial cultures and policies, as well as colonial war and policing highlight connections between these histories and contemporary racisms. But this is a book about resistance, considering black liberation movements in the 20th century while utilising a decade of activist research covering spontaneous rebellion, campaigns and protest in the 21st century. Drawing connections between histories of resistance and different kinds of black struggle against policing is vital, it is argued, if we are to challenge the cutting edge of police and prison power which harnesses new and dangerous forms of surveillance, violence and criminalisation.Trade Review‘Brother Adam Elliot Cooper has given us an important slice of Black British history. Grounded not just in solid academic research, but also in front line work serving and working with communities. Adam’s grasp of both history and the reality on the ground today makes for an impressive read as he brings to life the characters and communities resisting policing.’Akala, rapper, activist, poet, and author of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire'Without a doubt Adam Elliott-Cooper is a critical voice anchoring urgent conversations about the dynamics of Black resistance in the UK. Powerfully argued and compelling, his new book calls our attention to the gendered experience of state violence, the indispensable roles that Black women have played in shaping campaigns about racist policing in the UK and the imperial logics that have persisted in sanctioning the criminalisation of Black life and Black cultural forms. Moreover, this is a book that is insistent on employing history as tool for understanding the durability of anti-Black racial thinking and as a prism of knowledge that can inform our strategies of resistance to police violence in the present.'Kennetta Hammond Perry, Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and author of London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race'Black resistance to British policing is a must-read for researchers, organisers, or students. Carefully attentive to gender, age, and sector Elliott-Cooper shows how, as Stuart Hall argued, “race is the modality through which class is lived.” Stretching through time and across colonial and metropolitan space, the book shows continuity and change in organisational forms - from labor and social movements to families to community centres - through which resistance takes shape, extends, and endures. The book builds toward abolition understood as the capacity for self-determination, not only for people like those vividly portrayed in these pages, but for all who struggle to end oppression.'Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of The Golden Gulag'This book provides a comprehensive and timely examination of the function and practices of the police as a control apparatus of the state as they seek to regulate black people’s presence in the society and its institutions. The book is a must read, especially for young people, parents, teachers and those who shape education, youth and criminal justice policy.'Gus John, Associate Professor, UCL Institute of Education and author of Moss Side 1981: More Than Just a Riot'Elliott-Cooper provides crucial groundwork with this important and inspiring book on black resistances to British policing, which can be read as part of the black radical tradition as it deeply engages with traditions of anti-colonialism, black internationalism, black feminism and anti-capitalism, and shows that worlds beyond policing and prisons, as methods of racial capitalism, are already in the making.'Vanessa E. Thompson, Ethnic and Racial Studies (June 2022)'This book is a must-read, especially for young people, students, parents, teachers.'Race and Class'An important addition to the growing literature on this subject.'Labour Hub -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 'We did not come alive in Britain': histories of Black resistance to British policing2 Into the twenty-first century: resistance, respectability and Black deaths in police custody3 Black masculinity and criminalisation: the 2011 ‘riots’ in context4 2011: revolt and community defence5 All-out war: surveillance, collective punishment and the cutting edge of police power6 Futures of Black resistance: disruption, rebellion, abolitionConclusionIndex

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Book Synopsis The powerful story of an art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion.'AN ENGAGING HISTORY' New York Times 'A RICH HYBRID OF MEMOIR AND HISTORY' The New Yorker 'A MUST-READ' Roger Robinson 'GALVANISING' Luke Kennard 'CAPTURES LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE' Therí A. Pickens 'MAGNIFICENT' Cornel WestIn 2009, at only twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to recite a poem for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House's Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word. Spike Lee and Saul Williams were in the audience, and it turned out to be the very same event where Lin-Manuel Miranda first performed a work-in-progress that revolutionised musical theatre - Hamilton.Blending memoir and literary analysis, Bennett shows how a handful of visionaries altered modern culture. With passion, wit and erudition, he charts the history of spoken-word poetry, as well as his coming-of-age journey as a writer. From the early influence of Miguel Algarín and the Nuyorican Poets Café to Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem for President Joe Biden, he celebrates the contributions of legendary figures such as Ntozake Shange, Nikki Giovanni and Miguel Piñero, as well as how artists like MF DOOM, Jill Scott and Mos Def were inspired to develop their craft within their shared tradition.Spoken Word illuminates the profound influence that poetry has had everywhere melodious words are heard, from the West End to academia, from the podiums of political protest to cafés, from schools to rooms full of strangers all across the world.Trade ReviewBennett's engaging history of a literary and cultural movement that took hold in many realms - music, theater, film, television and, of course, poetry - tracks its evolution from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe to slam poetry and beyond. * New York Times, Editors’ Choice *Joshua Bennett wasn't on the sidelines observing the spoken word revolution he was in it, and he knew it was too good to be ghettoised, too uncut and raw to be ignored and too fly not to survive. It is rare to find such a nuanced and erudite record from an insider of a culture. A must-read for all interested in poetry, culture and its evolution. * Roger Robinson, author of 'Home is Not a Place' *A galvanising, thoroughgoing history of rare literary quality. Dr Joshua Bennett is courageously personal and honest in his account, but it's a passion which speaks to all of us, and to anyone still finding their voice or the nerve to take that risk, from the back room of the local arts centre to the biggest stages in the world. All written with the detail, lyricism, imagination and intellect of a seasoned poet. I feel more hopeful and excited for having read it. * Luke Kennard, author of 'Notes on the Sonnets' *This marvellous and magnificent book on the recent past and present of Spoken Word touches hearts and minds in a soulful way! Bennett's beautiful prose and powerful stories glow from his early Black Church origins, through his Ivy-league education, grassroots poetic formation to his precious son August Galileo listening to Coltrane! Don't miss this superb laying bare of Black joy and genius! * Dr Cornel West, author of 'Race Matters' and 'Democracy Matters' *Joshua Bennett's memoir and cultural history is a stirring reminder that no other art form is grounded in, and centres, community like spoken word does. I loved reading about how, through care, dedication, and will, spaces were forged that allowed voices from any and everywhere to come, be heard, and develop into some of the most radical and vital truth tellers of our times. * Rishi Dastidar, author of 'Saffron Jack' *Bennett renders this lush history in lively, captivating prose, smoothly transporting us back to the city blocks, bars, cafes and stages these artists traversed and inhabited. Perhaps most endearingly, and what makes this book shine with a refreshing dynamism, is that this history is also his own. Having 'lived out every part of the story' he hopes to tell, he is uniquely qualified to walk readers through the story of spoken word ... This book is not only a thoroughly researched and engrossing history by an accomplished and qualified academic, but also, and perhaps more significantly, a tender and heartwarming narrative of the evolution of an art form from a passionate, charismatic participant who was on the ground, in the audience and on the stage himself * Tas Tobey, The New York Times *Bennett captures lightning in a bottle: not just a few of spoken word's historical touchstones, but glimpses of all that the form has wrought in its various illustrious afterlives ... He clarifies for us that spoken word is no passing fad, swept away by the passage of time. It is, instead, howling wind that deserves our respect for how it transforms everything, leaving the world more exposed, more open, and more beautiful in its wake. * Therí A. Pickens, author of 'Black Madness :: Mad Blackness' *A talented poet in his own right, Bennett turns his attention to tracing the lineage and celebrating the impact of spoken word poetry in the U.S. ... Composed in dynamic, interlocking scenes, the story unfolds effortlessly despite the scholarly rigor and research evident in the writing. . . . Bennett succeeds in his efforts to "reclaim the political ethos and persistent dreaming" of spoken word poetry's bright past and brighter future. * Diego Báez, Booklist *Bennett, a Dartmouth English professor and poet who counts Guggenheim and National Endowment of the Arts fellowships among his many honors, traces the widespread cultural influence of spoken word poetry, from its 20th-century beginnings in New York to its 21st-century proliferation in digital media. . . . . A well-researched, invigorating celebration of a spirited art form. * Kirkus Reviews *Engaging ... While competing with his collegiate slam team at the University of Pennsylvania, Bennett absorbeda powerful lesson from a mentor. He learned that performance poetry could be interpreted as an "insistence on his own survival." That's a ringing endorsement for this art form, and this book. * James Sullivan, The San Francisco Chronicle *A rich hybrid of memoir and history [that] surveys the institutions that have shaped spoken-word poetry for the past five decades . . . Bennett, a poet himself, pays tribute to his literary forebears . . . [and] chronicles the mainstreaming, for better or worse, of a radical tradition * The New Yorker, 'Briefly Noted' *Bennett's book is much more than a history: it's a living poetic meditation on his own life as a poet and the lives of pathbreaking if largely ignored poets who did spoken word even before that moniker had been invented. * Ousmane K. Power-Greene, The Boston Globe *

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Book SynopsisFind wisdom, inspiration, and new insight in this definitive volume of empowering quotes from the Pan African world. With over 60 quotations—carefully researched by National Black Cultural Information Trust founder, Jessica Ann Mitchell Aiwuyor—Black Voices is your go-to source for powerful words from both famous Black individuals in history and new and lesser-known voices. From this diverse spectrum of perspectives and experiences, gain a deeper understanding of Black culture and history. Some of the inspirational quotes include:“I’m very interested in, ‘What does it mean for us to cultivate together?’ Community that allows for risk, the risk of knowing someone outside your own boundaries, the risk that is love. There is no love that does not involve risk.” —bell hooks, African American feminist scholar“Our youth, our drive, our diversity and openness, our boundless capacity for risk and reinvention means that the future should be ours. But that potential will only be realized if our democracy works. Only if our politics better reflects the decency of our people.” —Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States and the first Black American president Spotlighting Black writers, artists, scholars, politicians, activists, and visionaries from all eras and backgrounds, each quote is accompanied by a short biography of its writer or speaker. This engaging and information-packed book touches on aspects and subjects relevant to Black lives, including and featuring, among many others, the voices of: Culture and History: Werewere Liking, author (Cameroon) Education and Knowledge: Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, author, poet, and playwright (Kenya) Justice, Civil Rights, and Human Rights: Ida B. Wells, journalist and activist (USA) Race and Racism: Paul Stephenson, civil rights activist (UK) Gender, Feminism, and Womanism: Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court (USA) Peace and Love: Basetsana Kumalo, businesswoman and television personality (South Africa) Inspiration, Hope, and Perseverance: Dudley Laws, activist (Canada) Freedom and Liberation: Claudia Jones, political activist and cofounder of Notting Hill Carnival (UK) Politics: Francia Márquez, 13th vice president of Colombia Blackness: Walter Rodney, scholar and activist (Guyana) Pan Africanism: Amy Jacques Garvey, Pan Africanist, journalist, and civil rights activist (Jamaica) The book also features the lush, vibrant artwork of six Black artists from around the world: Affen Segun, Nigerian painter (Instagram: @affensegun) Erin K. Robinson, American illustrator (Instagram: @brooklyndolly) Gilles Mayk Navangi, Belgian painter, illustrator, and sculptor (Instagram: @ngm_world) Nicole Collie, Bahamian painter (Portfolio: nicolecollie.com) Rendani Nemakhavhani, South African illustrator, visual artist, and art director (Instagram: @prsdnthoney) Uzo Njoku, Nigerian American visual artist (Portfolio: uzonjoku.com) Black Voices is a must-have reference to Pan African culture and history.

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Book SynopsisThe official catalog accompanying the major retrospective at MoCA LA: Henry Taylor creates a grand pageant of contemporary Black life in America Surveying 30 years of Henry Taylor’s work in painting, sculpture and installation, this comprehensive monograph celebrates a Los Angeles artist widely appreciated for his unique aesthetic, social vision and freewheeling experimentation. Taylor’s portraits and allegorical tableaux—populated by friends, family members, strangers on the street, athletic stars and entertainers—display flashes of familiarity in their seemingly brash compositions, which nonetheless linger in the imagination with uncanny detail. In his paintings on cigarette packs, cereal boxes and other found supports, Taylor brings his primary medium into the realm of common culture. Similarly, the artist’s installations often recode the forms and symbolisms of found materials (bleach bottles, push brooms) to play upon art historical tropes and modernism’s appropriations of African or African American culture. Taken together, the various strands of Taylor’s practice display a deep observation of Black life in America at the turn of the century, while also inviting a humanist fellowship that pushes outward from the particular. Raised in Oxnard, California, Henry Taylor (born 1958) took art classes at Oxnard College in the 1980s and studied under James Jarvaise, who became a mentor. From 1984 through 1995 Henry Taylor worked as a psychiatric technician at Camarillo State Mental Hospital (a facility that is now California State University Channel Islands) while concurrently attending the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Valencia, where he obtained his Bachelor of Fine Art degree in 1995. Taylor has had institutional solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He lives and works in Los Angeles.Trade ReviewAn overall commitment to figurative painting in support of his own tribe, to share their stories of joy and hardship, and, more importantly, to relay his own beautiful and unique vision of Blackness, in all its variable parts. -- Terence Trouillot * Frieze *Ever alert to social contradictions, embedded histories, and the gap between public propaganda and private experience, Taylor often graces his subjects with a deliberate equanimity, suggesting only by inference a narrative of quiet, enduring resistance. -- Albert Mobilio * Hyperallergic *Taylor’s scenes of everyday life perform what might be called stop-motion image-making...The picture sticks in your brain, while your body responds to the painterly scene. -- Christopher Knight * Los Angeles Times *Henry Taylor: B Side,’ captures the sweep of Taylor’s career thus far, featuring more than 150 pieces that include drawings and — for the first time in any meaningful way — sculpture, as well as what he calls “painted objects” on small cigarette packs, cereal boxes and beer crates. […] Even his older work has a timelessness that makes it feel contemporary. -- Robin Pogrebin * The New York Times *

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Book Synopsis*A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Pick* *A Newsweek & Refinery29 Most Anticipated Book of 2021*“Timely and urgent.” —The New York Times“Moving and powerful.” —Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author Discover the truth behind the discounts. In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap foam headstones had been five dollars at Kmart, too good a deal to pass up. But when she opened the box, something shocking fell out: an SOS letter, handwritten in broken English. “Sir: If you occassionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persicuton of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever.” The note’s author, Sun Yi, was a mild-mannered Chinese engineer turned political prisoner, forced into grueling labor as punishment for campaigning for the freedom to join a forbidden meditation movement. He was imprisoned alongside petty criminals, civil rights activists, and tens of thousands of others the Chinese government had decided to “reeducate,” carving foam gravestones and stitching clothing for more than fifteen hours a day. In Made in China, investigative journalist Amelia Pang pulls back the curtain on Sun’s story and the stories of others like him, including the persecuted Uyghur minority group, whose abuse and exploitation is rapidly gathering steam. What she reveals is a closely guarded network of laogai—forced labor camps—that power the rapid pace of American consumerism. Through extensive interviews and firsthand reportage, Pang shows us the true cost of America’s cheap goods and shares what is ultimately a call to action—urging us to ask more questions and demand more answers from the companies we patronize.Trade Review"A moving and powerful look at the brutal slave labor camps in China that mass produce our consumer products. Amelia Pang, who puts a human face on the Chinese laborers who work in bondage, makes clear our complicity in this inhuman system. She forces us, like the abolitionists who battled slavery in the 19th century, to place the sanctity of human life before the maximization of profit. It is hard not to finish this book and not be outraged, not only at the Chinese government but the American corporations that knowingly collaborate with and profit from this modern slave trade." --Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author "Amelia Pang has written a powerful new book that traces what we buy back to those who made it, often under truly torturous conditions." --Scott Simon, host of NPR / Weekend Edition Saturday "Amelia Pang exposes the shadow economy of forced labor in Made in China. Pang adroitly situates readers to Chinese culture and society... [and] sounds an uplifting note of agency and empowerment about the prospective impact of reforming Western consumption." --San Francisco Chronicle "The result of Pang's investigation is this powerful, illuminating book, which serves as a reminder that not only is nothing in life actually free, but it should also never be inexplicably cheap--someone, somewhere, is always paying the price." --Refinery29 "Journalist Pang debuts with a vivid and powerful report on Chinese forced labor camps and their connections to the American marketplace. Cinematic . . . Engrossing and deeply reported, this impressive expose will make readers think twice about their next purchase." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "With clarity and sensitivity, [Pang] exposes the human cost of the global demand for cut-rate products, and provides clear calls to action for individuals, corporations and governments to stem these abuses. Any reader with half a heart will be hard-pressed not to re-examine their own buying habits after reading this incredible, moving account." --Shelf Awareness "A powerful call to action and advice for conscientious consumption . . . Spanning biography, business, and sociology, this well-reported and well-researched account of labor practices shows the impact of the demand for global goods." --Library Journal "A powerful argument for heightened awareness of the high price of Chinese-made products." --Kirkus Reviews "Readers will be drawn into this thoroughly researched narrative and will be awakened by the author's pleas for consumers to be more vigilant about the origin of their goods." --Booklist "The book is an excellent entry-level explanation of Chinese religious and political history, and how human rights abuses intersect with billion-dollar businesses. Pang connects the dots between globalization, Western consumption, and sustainability to create a clear, cohesive picture of the problem, as well as of potential solutions." --BookPage "A cinematic approach to a vital topic, which should be as close to our hearts as cheap goods are to our wallets. Amelia Pang provides close-ups of the individual stories behind labor camps, and wide-angle views of their context and history." --Alec Ash, author of Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China "Sun's story shows the inhuman nature of the authoritarian Chinese government. The narrative consists of many people's untold stories. After reading this book, anyone with a conscience will realize it is time to take action for those who are persecuted by the Chinese dictatorship." --Chen Guangcheng, author of The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China "The problem of illegal prison labor being used in the People's Republic of China to manufacture goods for global markets is a longstanding one that keeps resurfacing in new guises. Now with this well-researched and reported book that reads like a detective story, investigative journalist Amelia Pang has opened a new porthole on this pernicious practice." --Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society

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Book SynopsisIlluminating two hundred years of lost Black History through the lens of an iconic abolitionist settlementIn the Light of Dawn shares the compelling story of how the iconic Dawn Settlement?now largely within the boundaries of Dresden, Ontario? shaped (and was shaped by) a broader course of international events along a 200-year continuum of resistance and contribution. Using a geographic approach, the book reveals that the town?s size, scope, and importance eclipses its previous narrow interpretations as a ?failed? utopian colony at a terminus of the Underground Railroad lead by the Reverend Josiah Henson (the ?real Uncle Tom? of Harriet Beecher Stowe?s landmark anti-slavery novel). Beyond Henson, Dawn?s history contains familiar figures like Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks as well as a pantheon of lesser known but equally important Black leaders including Dennis Hill, William Whipper, William Carter, and Hugh Burnett. The trajectories of Dawn?s residents often intersect with pivotal international events from the time of the fur trade to the modern Civil Rights movement. Activism from 19th-century Pennsylvania?s Black Elite and other major American centres run like a golden thread through successive generations in Dawn, resulting in landmark actions such as the challenge to segregation of private businesses and publicly funded schools. Dawn?s people not only resisted slavery and oppression but also made successful and lasting contributions to the growth of local communities and wider society. Far from being a failed colony, the Dawn Settlement emerges as a vibrant community of racial and economic diversity, where people of agency and ability influenced wider societal change. In the Light of Dawn presents an expansive yet nuanced account of a small rural town that challenges traditional notions of Black History and the contributions of early Black pioneers, leaving behind an enduring legacy.

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Book SynopsisA charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity.Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain...VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindTrade ReviewWritten in deliberately bad English, this is a wonderful comic romance -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *Xiaolu is a fabulous writer, fresh, witty and intelligent. She handles language in an astonishing way. I don't think I have enjoyed a book as much in the last twelve months and I am looking forward to hearing a lot more from this promising young voice. * Joanne Harris *A delicate combination of unwitting humour, sadness, sex and displacement. Unputdownable. * Katie Fforde *Her characterisation of Z's lover is subtle and profound... This novel will be compared with A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, but it is so much better than that. Guo uses her minimalist, messed-up prose not just to tell an affecting coming-of-age story, but to ask deep questions about the real differences between Chinese and British culture and language. -- Scarlett Thomas * Independent on Sunday *An auspicious English language debut...its young heroine adrift in a London whose people and customs prove as full of pitfalls as the tongue she struggles to master. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent, Christmas books special *

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Book SynopsisIntroducing the concept of cultural humility, this guide offers a new perspective to the field of art therapy practice and theory. It explores cultural humility in art therapy research and assessment, clinical and community-based practice, social justice, self-care and pedagogy.The notion of cultural humility addresses the power differential and encourages individuals and institutions to examine privilege within social constructs. It emphasizes self-reflection and the ability of knowing one's self in order to allow the art therapist to appropriately interact with their client, whilst being mindful of their own bias, assumptions and beliefs. Each chapter ends with a reflective exercise.Offering practical guidance to this increasingly recognised concept, Cultural Humility in Art Therapy is essential to those wanting to move toward an unbiased social justice.Trade ReviewThis is a useful and encouraging book which points the way forward in a field often fraught with conflict. The concept of cultural humility complements much existing work in diversity and inclusion, and gathers it together to suggest an integrated art therapy practice. -- Dr Marian Liebmann OBE, art therapist, lecturer and workshop leader, and author of many art therapy booksCultural competence is conceptualized as a way of doing. Cultural humility is conceptualized as a way of being. This book offers insight into new paradigms in thinking. Acquiring cultural competence and engaging diverse clients with cultural humility ensures that their identities will be respected within the practice of art therapy. -- Stella A. Stepney, MS, ATR-BC, LCAT, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods CollegeAs a proponent of cultural competence, I applaud Dr. Jackson's paradigm, which shifts the discourse from proficiency to humility. The transformative reflective perspectives and art experientials enhance art therapists' appreciation of the attributes of cultural humility. Required reading for anyone committing to lifelong self-reflection, equitable patient-practitioner interactions, and social action. -- Cheryl Doby-Copeland, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, LMFT, HLM, Clinical Program Coordinator, Parent Infant Early Childhood Enhancement program, Adjunct Faculty member GW Art Therapy programLouvenia Jackson's Cultural Humility in Art Therapy proposes Cultural Humility as a way of being that positions, develops and integrates art therapy professionals as spiritual, political, and creative beings. At its best this book offers up practical pathways through this complex world of authentic engagement with diverse clients in this age of social justice. Vital for BAME practitioners, useful for all. -- Jean Campbell, Art TherapistTable of Contents1. Integration of Cultural Humility in Art Therapy - Introduction. 2. Cultural Humility in Art Therapy Research and Assessment. 3. Cultural Humility in Art Therapy Practice - The Eyes. 4. Cultural Humility and Community-Based Art Therapy - The Hands. 5. Cultural Humility and Art Therapy: Approaches to Social Justice - The Heart. 6. Introspection and Self-Care - The Circle. 7. Cultural Humility in Pedagogy - Symbols.

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Book Synopsis'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David LammyForeword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive LloydVoices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation - West Indians who emigrated to Britain between 1948 and 1971 in response to labour shortages, and in search of a better life.Edited by journalist and bestselling author David Matthews, this book paints a vivid portrait of what it meant for those who left the Caribbean for Britain during the early days of mass migration.Through his own, and many other stories, Matthews explores: why and how so many people came to Britain after World War II, their hopes and dreams, the communities they formed and the difficulties they faced being separated from family and friends while integrating into an often hostile society. We hear how lives were transformed, and what became of the generations that followed, taking the reader right up to the present day, and the impact of the current Windrush deportation scandal upon everyday people.At once a nostalgic treasure trove of human interest, which unearths the real stories behind the headlines, and a celebration of black British culture, Voices of the Windrush Generation is an absorbing and important book that gives a platform to voices that need to be heard.

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Book SynopsisInternationalisation and intercultural competence are key ideas in contemporary education and have been much theorised and practised in higher education but have not received the same attention in school contexts. Linked to these ideas is an increasing focus on global citizenship and the development of students’ critical thinking skills and self-realisation. This book is based on a decade of experience of combining all three concepts in the practice of an upper secondary school in Denmark which is linked to 16 schools in 15 countries. The book includes both a description of the project by the teachers who have taken part and an analysis by researchers who have worked with them to deliver the programme.Trade ReviewThis inspiring text introduces an innovative new approach to integrating global citizenship into schools. It covers both theory and practice, and features case studies for school subjects ranging from ESL and foreign languages to science, geography and history. A valuable addition to the bookshelves of teachers, administrators, scholars and politicians! * Kip Cates, Professor Emeritus, Tottori University, Japan *This important book is essential reading as the first comprehensive account of a whole-school programme of Global Citizenship Education complemented by critical academic commentaries. Teachers at Rysensteen School in Denmark provide lively, practical and inspiring examples of how to promote Sustainable Development Goals, human rights and a political dimension. * Hugh Starkey, Institute of Education, UCL, UK *This volume offers a critical stance on theory and practice of global citizenship education (GCEd) through the lens of teachers and researchers, with examples from the Danish education system. It is an invaluable resource for teachers, school leaders, and graduate students who want to learn about how GCEd can be organised inside and outside classrooms. * Irina Golubeva, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA *[This book] provides a well-rounded, practical guide for educators, policymakers, and anyone interested in fostering global citizenship in the next generation. With its compelling arguments and actionable insights, this book inspires readers to take meaningful steps toward becoming responsible and informed global citizens. It is a must-read for anyone passionate about education’s role in shaping a better world. -- Helen Blachford, Bohunt Education Trust and Association for Citizenship Teaching, Teaching Citizenship 2023Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgements Preface: Introduction Chapter 1. Anders Schultz: Globalisation Crisis Part 1 Chapter 2. Steen Beck: Dannelse - A Danish Concept in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Chapter 3. Marie Højlund Roesgaard and Michael Byram: Global Citizenship Education in the Wider World Chapter 4. Anders Schultz: Organisation and Internationalising the Curriculum Chapter 5. Louise Tranekjær: Global Citizenship – Teaching and Evaluation in Formal and Informal Contexts of Learning Chapter 6. Louise Tranekjær: Intercultural Understanding, Cultural Encounters and Cultural Competences in Practice Part 2 Chapter 7. Mads Blom: Intercultural Understanding – Between Theory and Instrument – Empathy and Critique Chapter 8. Martin Lønstrup Nielsen: Hong Kong and the Question of Cultural Identity – The English Subject and Global Dannelse Chapter 9. Poul Nyegaard: Global Competences in Science Chapter 10. Laura Bjerregaard Sørensen and Lotte Bolander: Global Dannelse and French Chapter 11. Anders Folden Brink: Global Dannelse in Natural Geography Chapter 12. Mads Blom: Citizenship and Civicism – History as a School Subject and Global Dannelse Chapter 13. Anders Schultz: Where to Next for GCEd in Praxis? Chapter 14. Michael Byram: GCEd – Necessary but not Sufficient Index

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Book SynopsisIn three global conflicts and countless colonial campaigns, tens of thousands of black West Indian soldiers fought and died for Britain, first as slaves and then as volunteers. These all but forgotten regiments were unique because they were part of the British Army rather than colonial formations. All were stepchild units, despised by an army that was loath to number black soldiers in its ranks and yet unable to do without them; their courage, endurance and loyalty were repaid with bigotry and abuse.In Britain’s Black Regiments, Barry Renfrew shines a light on the experiences of these overlooked soldiers who had travelled thousands of miles to serve the empire but were denied recognition in their lifetimes. From British campaigns in the Caribbean to the Second World War, this is a saga of war, bondage, hardship, mutiny, forlorn outposts and remarkable fortitude.Trade ReviewIt shines a light into some very dark corners … The West Indian regiments were all but denied recognition in their lifetimes. This book gives them the tribute that they undoubtedly deserve. -- PennantA well-researched and disturbing account of three British Army regiments recruited in the Caribbean.This is a considered work, often seeing both sides … and presenting a strong case for greater recognition of what these men did. -- MusterIt should be essential reading for anyone with an interest in the contributions to the British Army of the Imperial and Commonwealth communities, and of the Afro-Caribbean community to the history of the United Kingdom in particular.

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