Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books
Indiana University Press Genocides by the Oppressed Subaltern Genocide in
Book SynopsisOpening the subject of subaltern genocide for exploration by scholars of genocide, ethnic conflict, and human rights, this title explores genocide's sociological, anthropological, psychological, symbolic, and normative dimensions.Trade Review"The study of comparative genocide is one of the most important of our era. By focusing on acts of genocide (or near genocide) committed by oppressed people (or people who imagine themselves to be oppressed), this book sheds light on an important dimension of the problem." —Roger Smith, College of William and MaryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Symbolism and Subalternity: The 1680 Pueblo Revolt of New Mexico and the 1780-82 Andean Great Rebellion Nicholas Robins2. On the Genocidal Aspect of Certain Subaltern Uprisings: A Research Note Adam Jones3. Ethical Cleansing? The Expulsion of Germans from Central Europe during and after World War Two Eric Langenbacher4. Oppression and Vengeance in the Cambodian Genocide Alexander Laban Hinton5. Genocide in Self-Defense? Serbian Victimization and Historical Justifications for War, 1980-2000 David B. MacDonald6. The Imaginary in Rwanda's Pre-Genocidal Media Christopher C. Taylor7. Genocide, Humiliation, and Inferiority: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Evelin Gerda Lindner8. Subaltern Genocide and Evolutionary Theory E.O. Smith9. Subaltern Strands of the Genocidal Continuum Adam JonesIndex
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Indiana University Press Slavery and the Birth of an African City Lagos
Book SynopsisThe relationship between the slave trade and one of Africa's most vibrant centersTrade ReviewThis is a sophisticated analysis of the realities of slavery in an African culture in which belonging to a social group was the basis for both wealth and power. Mann (Emory Univ.) has devoted 30 years of research into the legal and financial records of this great port city in Nigeria to produce a masterpiece of urban history. She arranges her material in three chronological periods: the era of slave exports, the era of palm oil exports, and the late-19th-century period of conversion to wage labor. The central theme is the 'slow demise' of slavery and its reorganization through the medium of the social structures of the population of Lagos. Mann thus argues for the adaptive qualities of African slavery, which had economic and social roots. Both former master and slave developed new relationships in the growth of the new colonial urban culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * Choice *It may not be possible to write a better social history of Lagos—let alone less fully documented African port cities; and, even if it is, future scholars will have to recognize Mann's book as a benchmark.Jan 1, 2009 -- Ralph Austen * University of Chicago *Slavery and the Birth of an African City is an original and insightful work. This book is well written and well organized. It is an important guide to the history of the Atlantic slave trade, to the economic history of Lagos, and to the intervention of the British, especially since 1861 when Lagos was annexed. Overflowing with anthropological, cultural, and historical information, this book will be of interest to general readers and undergraduate and graduate students of West African history and anthropology.April 2010 -- Julius O. Adekunle * Monmouth University *Mann's work is an intellectually engaging, multifaceted, and tantalizingly in-depth study of slavery's gradual demise. She does an admirable job of offering fresh insights into the redefinition and rearrangement of employer-worker relationships in Lagos County, especially in the last decade of the 19th century.American Historical Review * American Historical Review *The author covers a lot of ground in this book, and she fills in an important gap in the historiography of Lagos. Through her careful use of a set of primary sources not often used by historians for this purpose, she has expanded the boundaries of the debate about slavery and dependency and has offered new details about the organization of business in nineteenth-century Lagos.Vol 83.2 summer 2009 -- Dmitri van den Bersselaar * Business History Review *This story is told by the author with the skill of a master—master researcher, master analyst, master story-teller, and master essayist.51, 3 Dec. 2008 -- A. E. Afigbo * Ebonyi State University, Nigeria *A valuable contribution not only to African history, but also to the history of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic. . . . Brilliantly organized . . . Mann's style makes the reading enjoyable.June 2008 -- Ana Lucia Araujo * H-net / H-Atlantic *A sophisticated analysis . . . Highly recommended. -- R. T. Brown * Choice *[T]his book combines extensive archival research and interviews and does an excellent job in chronicling the complex history of Lagos with authority and clarity, and it does so in a manner that is pleasant to read. This is, indeed, a well-written book with an insightful trajectory attesting to the author's decades-long research on West Africa and the Atlantic world. * Journal of World History *By looking at an emergent commercial town with deeply engrained political and economic competition, and relating this study to the wider library, Mann provides a fine example of how the rise and decline of African slavery can be traced in its complexity. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Rise of Lagos as an Atlantic Port, c. 1760–18512. Trade, Oligarchy, and the Transformation of the Precolonial State3. The Original Sin: Anti-slavery, Imperial Expansion, and Early Colonial Rule4. Innocent Commerce: Boom and Bust in the Palm Produce Trade5. Britain and Domestic Slavery6. Redefining the Owner-Slave Relationship: Work, Ideology, and the Demand for People7. The Changing Meaning of Land in the Urban Economy and Culture8. Strategies of Struggle and Mechanisms of Control: Quotidian Conflicts and Court CasesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Racial Imperatives Discipline Performativity and
Book SynopsisDiscusses formations of blackness and whiteness in US cultureTrade Review[T]his project fills a major gap in both Critical Race and Foucault studies. It will undoubtedly be cited and engaged for years to come. * Critical Philosophy of Race *Racial Imperatives is a strong tome with a great deal of value across disciplines. Building on her previous scholarly investigations and relying on a robust scholarship to push intellectual boundaries, Ehlers's work is insightful and thought provoking. . . . Scholars that study race in any academic discipline would benefit from the ideas and analysis in this book. * Spectrum *Racial Imperatives . . . is a thoughtful and provocative contribution to the literature of discipline, performativity, and agency as they relate to race. * Foucault Studies *In Racial Imperatives Nadine Ehlers explores the idea that racial identity is a construct both performed by individuals and maintained by the law. . . [Raises] interesting ideas, particularly that 'all identity is a form of passing,' and that all subjects . . . must continually enact their racial identities.June 2015 * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Racial Disciplinarity2. Racial Knowledges: Securing the Body in Law3. Passing through Racial Performatives4. Domesticating Liminality: Somatic Defiance in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander5. Passing Phantasms: Rhinelander and Ontological Insecurity6. Imagining Racial Agency7. Practicing Problematization: Resignifying RaceBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Racial Imperatives Discipline Performativity and
Book SynopsisDiscusses formations of blackness and whiteness in US cultureTrade Review[T]his project fills a major gap in both Critical Race and Foucault studies. It will undoubtedly be cited and engaged for years to come. * Critical Philosophy of Race *Racial Imperatives is a strong tome with a great deal of value across disciplines. Building on her previous scholarly investigations and relying on a robust scholarship to push intellectual boundaries, Ehlers's work is insightful and thought provoking. . . . Scholars that study race in any academic discipline would benefit from the ideas and analysis in this book. * Spectrum *Racial Imperatives . . . is a thoughtful and provocative contribution to the literature of discipline, performativity, and agency as they relate to race. * Foucault Studies *In Racial Imperatives Nadine Ehlers explores the idea that racial identity is a construct both performed by individuals and maintained by the law. . . [Raises] interesting ideas, particularly that 'all identity is a form of passing,' and that all subjects . . . must continually enact their racial identities.June 2015 * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Racial Disciplinarity2. Racial Knowledges: Securing the Body in Law3. Passing through Racial Performatives4. Domesticating Liminality: Somatic Defiance in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander5. Passing Phantasms: Rhinelander and Ontological Insecurity6. Imagining Racial Agency7. Practicing Problematization: Resignifying RaceBibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press The Chicano Experience
Book SynopsisMirandé offers a detailed examination of Chicano social history and culture that includes studies of: Chicano labor and the economy; the Mexican immigrant and the U.S.-Mexico border conflict; the evolution of Chicano criminality; the American educational system and its impact on Chicano culture; the tensions between the institutional Church and Chicanos; and the myths and misconceptions of machismo.Trade Review“Rejecting the use of ‘Mexican-American’ as falsely connoting immigrant status, Mirande emphasizes that Chicanos are an indigenous people and that their significant indio/mestizo heritage has been neglected. Attaching the immigrant group model which concentrates on acculturation and assimilation, he discusses Chicano labor, criminality, education, the church, the family, and machismo ... an interesting and thought-provoking study.” —Library Journal“[The Chicano Experience] offers an understanding of social, cultural, and economic forces shaping the situation of Chicanos—a context absent from much of what has been written about them.” —Choice“This is a very interesting book because the subject is interesting, because the treatment of the subject is interesting, and because it is in reality an invitation to sympathy for the Chicano.” —Social Science Quarterly[Mirande’s] sophisticated discussion of the interrelationship of scholarly models and cultural pluralism will be of value to all students of American culture.” —American Studies“Mirande’s major contribution in The Chicano Experience is his proposal of a new perspective that provides for an alternative interpretation of Chicano socio-history, social status, and culture.” —Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Toward a Chicano Social Science PART I DISPLACEMENT OF THE CHICANO 2. Chicano Labor and the Economy 3. The United States-Mexico Border: A Chicano Perspective on Immigration and Undocumented Workers 4. El Bandido: The Evolution of Images of Chicano Criminality 5. Education: Problems, Issues, and Alternatives PART II CHICANO CULTURE 6. The Church and the Chicano 7. La Familia Chicana 8. Machismo 9. Epilogue: Toward a Chicano Paradigm Appendix. Chicano-Police Conflict: A Case Study Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Notre Dame Press Democracy and Its Limits
Book SynopsisThese multidisciplinary essays combine an appreciation of the progress made in Third World democratization with an assessment of structural and cultural factors that limit further progress toward procedural democracy in many parts of the world, such as China and much of the Middle East.
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University of Notre Dame Press What the Negro Wants
Book SynopsisPublished in 1944, What the Negro Wants was a direct and emphatic call for the end of segregation and racial discrimination that set the agenda for the civil rights movement to come.With essays by fourteen prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Roy Wilkins, What the Negro Wants explores the policies and practices that could be employed to achieve equal rights and opportunities for Black Americans, rejecting calls to reform the old system of segregation and instead arguing for the construction of a new system of equality. Stirring intense controversy at the time of publication, the book serves as a unique window into the history of the civil rights movement and offers startling comparisons to today's continuing fight against racism and inequality.Originally gathered together by distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. LoganTrade Review“This book provides a marvelous window into the contours of mid-twentieth century black political thought. . . . More than half a century after its publication, this book remains a valuable document for anyone interested in the origins of the modern civil rights movement. Its indictment of American racism remains powerful and relevant even today.” —Chicago Tribune“Rationalization and sublimation have been the means by which we have tried to solve the American race problem, and this ably written book is an outstanding example of the frontal approach.” —The New York Times Book Review (praise for a previous edition)
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University of Notre Dame Press Latinos in the United States
Book SynopsisWhen Latinos in the United States was first published in 1986, it was hailed as a triumph by the National Catholic Reporter, inspiring by the journal American Studies, and was named an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by Choice. The book was widely adopted in Latino and ethnic studies classes at colleges and universities throughout the country. Now, in the second edition, David Abalos updates his pioneering application of the transformation theory to key aspects of Latino politics, history, and culture. He draws on examples from everyday human encounters to address specific concerns of both Latino individuals and groups. Among the issues addressed are: the need to maintain Latino family heritage while allowing each member to develop the autonomy necessary to interact both within the family and within American society; the importance of avoiding assimilation; the necessity for Latinos to develop the skills and competence that allow them to entTrade Review"Latinos in the United States has become a classic work that has shaped Latino Studies for over the past decade. In this revised and expanded edition, David T. Abalos remains our introspective and thoughtful teacher who guides us all toward the deepest source of our being in order for us to become whole people as we actively work to transform our nation into a loving and more compassionate multicultural America." —Alberto Lopez Pulido, University of San Diego“David T. Abalos' work is an extraordinarily rich meditation on the most pertinent aspects of the Latino reality today that goes beyond a merely competent social science analysis of America's largest minority. Abalos integrates solid sociology, politics, anthropology and psychology into an inspiring vision demonstrating where Latinos could be going if the right choices are made. He takes the profoundly spiritual/religious, even mystical dynamics of Latino culture seriously and shows how the Latino future has everything to do with the recognition and renewal of that innate spirituality. This drama will define not only tomorrow's Latinos but all Americans as well, as the latinoization of the U.S.A. advances. Here is a scholar who wisely goes beyond the Academy's crusty secularism to embrace the sacred.” —Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., Loyola Institute for Spirituality"Professor Abalos is able to bring his original analysis into contemporary issues with the same clarity and depth he offered in his first edition of this book. . . instead of providing us a sociological perspective or a political or theological perspective in the traditional compartmentalized model of academia he provides us with a textured holistic representation of this segment of humanity we call Latinos. . . . This is an important and original contribution to knowledge in the field of Latino Studies. It is based on an urgently needed synthesis of a growing body of work done on Latinos that needs to be re-framed and connected to other mainstream sources in sociology, psychology, theology, and political science." —Victor M. Rodriguez, California State University, Long Beach“I hope this revised version will find a ready audience so that Abalos’s theory of transformation can receive the thorough discussion it deserves in the circles of Hispanic theology and Hispanic theological education. . . . This work should be required reading in courses in Latino/a studies and ethnic studies. It also fits well in certain political science courses. Professors teaching religion and religious studies will use the work. The addition of the final chapter extends the readership of the book to include persons involved in the educational attainment of Latinos/as in the U.S. Beyond the traditional classroom, the work will find a ready audience among community organizers and persons involved in social transformation.” —Paul Barton, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest“Abalos examines contemporary issues faced by Latinos in the US-family, politics in the community, education, mafle-female relations, and racism-from the perspective of the theory of transformation. Through this exploration the author offers readers-Latinos in particular-ways to become more whole people actively working to transform the nation into a more compassionate multicultural America.” —Research Book News“Readers should see this historically situated text as personal ruminations and exhortations from an academic elder and mentor of East Coast Latino/a students—an impassioned plea to his young charges at that time not to forsake their unique identity, culture, religion, and spirituality for the seductive lure of capitalist materialism. Hopefully, today's young Latino/a college students will resonate with this still worthwhile message of self-empowerment and transformation.” —Choice
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University of Notre Dame Press Race and Immigration in the New Ireland
Book SynopsisRace and Immigration in the New Ireland offers a comprehensive approach to the many aspects of transformations in Ireland related to immigration.Trade Review"This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the complex global interplay of race, migration, citizenship, and nationality that so irresistibly shapes the contemporary moment. Bringing together a remarkable range of essays on topics as varied as race theory, sports culture, language politics, the role of gender in immigration policy, and the ongoing social and political legacies of Northern Ireland’s partition, the volume offers thoughtful reexaminations of an Ireland we may have thought we knew along with insightful analyses of how Ireland’s palimpsestic relationship to migration sheds new light on pressing questions about race, globalization, and mobility that extend far beyond Irish shores. This is a book that is sorely needed." —Mark Quigley, University of Oregon"Race and Immigration in the New Ireland is ideal reading material for teachers in need of a solid text on contemporary Ireland. There is nothing comparable in the existing literature." —Kevin Whelan, Director of the Keough-Naughton Notre Dame Centre, Dublin, Ireland"Race and Immigration in the New Ireland presents a wide range of insights on the ethical challenges and possibilities of the post–Celtic Tiger Ireland. Together, the essays here offer an open and constructive debate within the social frame of Irish Studies. This book emphasizes the critical importance of the moral imagination in shaping the evolution of state policy in the ongoing contexts of migration, diaspora, and global markets that have marked recent Irish history." —Fionnghuala Sweeney, University of Liverpool“Race and Immigration in the New Ireland analyzes modern Ireland’s struggles with the issues of immigration, looking at both halves of the Irish nation and their unique approaches to these critical issues that grow ever more intriguing and important. From women’s issues, religious concerns, the place of language, and the presence of racism, [this book] is a strongly recommended addition to social and international issues collections.” —Library Bookwatch“. . . a strong collection of essays entering, if not starting, a pertinent conversation about the changing demographics of Ireland and the post-Celtic Tiger immigrant struggles. The landscape of Ireland has changed dramatically over the last two decades and Race and Immigration in the New Ireland provides an informative and insightful introduction as to how Ireland and Irish identity can be shaped in the years ahead.” —New Hibernia Review"The selection of material contained in this valuable contribution to the field of Irish and migration studies offers a breadth of perspectives that supports the editors' objective of broadening the concept of Irish identity, and provides a snapshot of the island of Ireland at a time of significant change." —Irish Studies Review"This wide-ranging collection of critical voices on the question of migration to Ireland extends the compass of Irish Studies to assess how culture and the state create and respond to social change in the evolving context of global migration. . . . [T]he title Race Immigration and the New Ireland reflects a continuing and vital undertow of change due to Ireland’s most recent experience of ethnic demographic change through inward migration. This is an important collection of critical work, signalling new areas of concern in the study of Ireland’s multi-faceted experience of migration." —Canadian Journal of Irish Studies
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University of Notre Dame Press Black Scholars on the Line
Book SynopsisBlack Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society. The book asks how segregation has influenced, and continues to influence, the development of American social thought and social science scholarship.Jonathan Scott Holloway and Ben Keppel present the work of thirty-one black social scientists whose work was published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power Era. Even though they had to fashion their careers outside of their respective fields'' mainstream, the intellectuals featured here produced scholarship that helped define the contours of the social sciences as they evolved over the course of the twentieth century. Theirs was the work of pioneers, now for the first time gathered in one anthology.AfteTrade Review“Thirty-one papers explore the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society.” —Journal of Economic Literature“The editors' excellent introductory essay focuses on social science as an expression of society, not simply as a detached commentary on it. In the US, institutionalized racism has been central to American society, and black scholars have always had to work both within and against its constraints. This is as true, the editors argue, of contemporary academics in Black Studies programs as it was for W.E.B. Du Bois at the beginning of the last century. . . . This volume will be particularly useful in courses on the history of American social science.” —Virginia Quarterly Review"Logically organized, well contextualized, and insightfully theorized, Holloway and Keppel's anthology enriches our knowledge of African American social scientists who operated during the era of segregation. In providing important primary documents that complement the numerous available biographies and studies of black scholars, this collection should be useful to any student of twentieth-century African American intellectual history." —The Journal of Southern History“The 31 well-selected essays, ranging from 1898 to 1973, are an excellent introduction and guide to the world of the African American scholars who established their place in US academic and intellectual culture. The introductions provide contexts and bibliographies. This strong, valuable collection documents the issues and barriers met by the 'Talented Tenth,' who often lived behind the 'Veil,' and who used their minds to explain how 'the color line continues to be drawn in the lives of millions of Americans.' Highly recommended.” —Choice“It has a noble history of scholarship, justice and positive action, and in the twentieth century it was mainly practiced in an unenlightened, unjust and negative society. The 28 contributors here published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power movement, a time when African American practitioners of social science were both students and objects of a segregated society.” —Research Book News“We have in hand a remarkable contribution to the historiography of race relations in the U.S. or what some colleagues in a kindred field would designate as the sociology of knowledge. The documents have been expertly assembled and engage important themes such as the legacies of racism in the urban north as well as the rural south; the significance of family and kin as well as the role of institutions such as the church in community formation. What is just as impressive is the way that Holloway and Keppel have organized the material and introduced it.” —Patrick Miller, editor of The African American Intellectual Heritage series“Black Scholars on the Line is an intellectual feast, one that brings back many voices that I love to hear, and that I want my upper-division undergraduates and graduate students to hear. I would expect that this book would have quite a wide readership.” —Paul Spickard, editor of The African American Intellectual Heritage series“Jonathan Holloway and Ben Keppel have rendered a great service in bringing together the radiant social science scholarship of 20th-century African Americans. The 31 essays, deftly introduced, show the brilliance of under-appreciated black scholars who struggled to be heard across the color line.” —Gary B. Nash, professor emeritus, UCLA"Black Scholars on the Line is a wonderful contribution. As one who teaches black American intellectual history, I can attest to how useful it is to have these articles collected in one volume. Professors Holloway and Keppel are to be commended. They have chosen with intelligence and care, and their introductory essay situates their selections very helpfully. This book should do much to help recover for a new generation of scholars and students what was indeed the main trunk of black American intellectual discourse—and a primary domain of black Americans' civic debate—through the segregation era.” —Adolph Reed Jr, University of Pennsylvania
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University of Notre Dame Press Black Scholars on the Line
Book SynopsisBlack Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society. The book asks how segregation has influenced, and continues to influence, the development of American social thought and social science scholarship.Jonathan Scott Holloway and Ben Keppel present the work of thirty-one black social scientists whose work was published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power Era. Even though they had to fashion their careers outside of their respective fields'' mainstream, the intellectuals featured here produced scholarship that helped define the contours of the social sciences as they evolved over the course of the twentieth century. Theirs was the work of pioneers, now for the first time gathered in one anthology.AfteTrade Review“Thirty-one papers explore the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society.” —Journal of Economic Literature“The editors' excellent introductory essay focuses on social science as an expression of society, not simply as a detached commentary on it. In the US, institutionalized racism has been central to American society, and black scholars have always had to work both within and against its constraints. This is as true, the editors argue, of contemporary academics in Black Studies programs as it was for W.E.B. Du Bois at the beginning of the last century. . . . This volume will be particularly useful in courses on the history of American social science.” —Virginia Quarterly Review"Logically organized, well contextualized, and insightfully theorized, Holloway and Keppel's anthology enriches our knowledge of African American social scientists who operated during the era of segregation. In providing important primary documents that complement the numerous available biographies and studies of black scholars, this collection should be useful to any student of twentieth-century African American intellectual history." —The Journal of Southern History“The 31 well-selected essays, ranging from 1898 to 1973, are an excellent introduction and guide to the world of the African American scholars who established their place in US academic and intellectual culture. The introductions provide contexts and bibliographies. This strong, valuable collection documents the issues and barriers met by the 'Talented Tenth,' who often lived behind the 'Veil,' and who used their minds to explain how 'the color line continues to be drawn in the lives of millions of Americans.' Highly recommended.” —Choice“It has a noble history of scholarship, justice and positive action, and in the twentieth century it was mainly practiced in an unenlightened, unjust and negative society. The 28 contributors here published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power movement, a time when African American practitioners of social science were both students and objects of a segregated society.” —Research Book News“We have in hand a remarkable contribution to the historiography of race relations in the U.S. or what some colleagues in a kindred field would designate as the sociology of knowledge. The documents have been expertly assembled and engage important themes such as the legacies of racism in the urban north as well as the rural south; the significance of family and kin as well as the role of institutions such as the church in community formation. What is just as impressive is the way that Holloway and Keppel have organized the material and introduced it.” —Patrick Miller, editor of The African American Intellectual Heritage series“Black Scholars on the Line is an intellectual feast, one that brings back many voices that I love to hear, and that I want my upper-division undergraduates and graduate students to hear. I would expect that this book would have quite a wide readership.” —Paul Spickard, editor of The African American Intellectual Heritage series“Jonathan Holloway and Ben Keppel have rendered a great service in bringing together the radiant social science scholarship of 20th-century African Americans. The 31 essays, deftly introduced, show the brilliance of under-appreciated black scholars who struggled to be heard across the color line.” —Gary B. Nash, professor emeritus, UCLA"Black Scholars on the Line is a wonderful contribution. As one who teaches black American intellectual history, I can attest to how useful it is to have these articles collected in one volume. Professors Holloway and Keppel are to be commended. They have chosen with intelligence and care, and their introductory essay situates their selections very helpfully. This book should do much to help recover for a new generation of scholars and students what was indeed the main trunk of black American intellectual discourse—and a primary domain of black Americans' civic debate—through the segregation era.” —Adolph Reed Jr, University of Pennsylvania
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University of Notre Dame Press Pity the Drowned Horses
Book SynopsisPity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Sheryl Luna's poems are also about family and home within the broader context of the border as both a bridge and a barrier. They deal with the bilingual and bicultural city and how a place is longed for and viewed very differently as the observer changes and experiences other cultures.The first two sections of poems focus on home and family. They show that, despite poverty and geographical isolation, the border towns of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez are places of beauty and promise. The third section explores cultures: how anxiety over aesthetic judgments, values, and difference are negotiated. The final section is one of praise and recognition that despite differences we are all longing for faith and a place to call home.Trade Review“Sheryl Luna’s debut collection, Pity the Drowned Horses, poses several questions about the meaning of ‘home’: is it rooted to a particular place? can we escape it? can we find it elsewhere? once we’ve left, can we return? . . . She circles through various locales and landscapes, including San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Prague, and Paris, but like the frayed-wing hawk who drifts through the collection, Luna’s speaker is drawn, slightly battered, back to the desert of her origins.” —Latino Poetry Review"[A] heartfelt testimony from the borderlands, the place where music clanks like chains as history simultaneously crumbles and rebuilds itself, where weary dancers laugh anger away. …a triumphant debut and worthy of keeping company with the classic titles of border literature. Luna proves herself a leader among the next generation of Chicano poets."—El Paso Times"In her opening poem, Luna declares that 'pain is living and living is pain,' but while she relentlessly probes the hardscrabble lives of many of America's Latinos, these poems aren't grim reading. They're transfigured by this debut author's extraordinary lyric power." —Library Journal"... there's a weighty mournfulness to Luna's borderlands, where the stark poverty of Mexico butts against the brash, unyielding sprawl of her American city. Pity the Drowned Horses takes its reader across a ravaged landscape where ... the last few hares sprint across a bloodied/highway and there are women everywhere/who have half-lost their souls/in sewing needles and vacuum-cleaner parts. In this world of little comfort, Luna is intent on seeking meaning—however bitter—in the emptiness and meditating on the redeeming power of language."—The Texas Observer"From Sylvia Plath to popsicle-sellers in Juarez, from Mozart to maquiladoras, this stunning debut collection charts 'the way of borders....the way things thirst.' Remarkable!" —Lisa D. Chavez"Sheryl Luna’s book Pity the Drowned Horses bears witness not only to the poverty and wonder of the borderlands, to their dynamic and often tragic clash of cultural rivers, but also to an intense, tender, and unflinching sensibility refusing the easy distance of mere reportage. Rarely do we encounter a poet with such associative speed, such free access to her unconscious resources, who simultaneously reaches out with such heartbreaking clarity and sweep of vision. Here we see the moral imagination made both vulnerable and bold by its transfigurative investments, its impassioned music, its raw energy and recovering grace. A dazzling debut." —Bruce Bond“In Pity the Drowned Horses, Sheryl Luna carves out of the El Paso landscape the music of the borderlands where loss and acceptance converge. . . . Luna exquisitely captures—like no other poet before her—the ‘unsung positive capability/ of the desert’; her syntax—sometimes raw and edgy—creates a tableau where everything rushes toward ‘our wild need, all sweat, all shiver.’ The overall effect is simply mesmerizing.” —Robert Vasquez
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University of Notre Dame Press The Mind of Oliver C. Cox
Book SynopsisBorn in Trinidad in 1901, Oliver Cromwell Cox emigrated to the United States in 1919, where he remained until his death in 1974. After earning advanced degrees in economics and sociology from the University of Chicago, Cox established himself as an impressive, but controversial, sociologist. His best-known work, Caste, Class, and Race (1948), was the first of five books that Cox would publish. In spite of his numerous scholarly contributions in the areas of social theory, political economy, and historical sociology, Cox's significance has remained relatively unacknowledged in recent decades. In this intellectual biography, Christopher A. McAuley seeks to change that.McAuley's approach to Cox's life and work is shaped by his belief that Cox's Caribbean upbringing and background gave him an unorthodox perspective on race, capitalism, and social change. Part 1 of the book chronicles Cox's life in Trinidad and the United States. Part 2 analyzes Cox's theory and history oTrade Review“McAuley offers a fine survey of Cox’s overall scholarly contribution, presenting a sympathetic, though not uncritical, account. This is an excellent study of the 'mind' ... of Cox. Highly recommended.” —Choice"Christopher A. McAuley's book is the first to delve deeply into Cox's thinking. ...it is an excellent start. ...McAuley provides us with a detailed understanding of how Cox's background influenced and shaped his work. McAuley successfully demonstrates that Cox's class analysis had its strong points but ultimately was limited with regard to understanding the full cultural context of race in America. This rich discussion deserves a close reading, especially in light of the continuing debates surrounding black-Jewish relations. There are many such gems in this book, and many suggestive comments for further studies to pursue. McAuley is to be commended for bringing Cox out of the shadows.... McAuley's intellectual examination introduces us to Cox's oeuvre and guides us through his deep and illuminating thought. We are indebted to him for his efforts." —American Historical Review"Rarely have I used the words exciting, exhilarating, powerful, dynamic, and creative singularly, much less collectively, to describe one book. But these adjectives, and more, do not do McAuley's effort justice for he has produced a truly remarkable examination of not only the work but the creative genius that can only be described as Oliver Cromwell Cox. Christopher McAuley has achieved a remarkable feat in his reconstruction, reanalysis, and critical reinterpretation of seminal works of Cox. McAuley's book and the resurrected works of Cox are necessities for any library or analysis to be complete."—Contemporary Sociology"…Christopher A. McAuley's exhumation, examination, and analysis of the mind of Oliver C. Cox comes as a welcome addition to the literature and should engender more innovative scholarship on race in this highly contentious subfield of intellectual history. In sum, McAuley's biography is a judicious work, and he has done a marvelous job of analyzing both Cox's strengths and his weaknesses. …this is a challenging book that makes a more than adequate case for the commencement of the University of Notre Dame Press series, the African American Intellectual Heritage." —The Journal of American History
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University of Notre Dame Press Jalos USA
Book SynopsisIn Jalos, USA, Alfredo Mirandé explores migration between the Mexican town of Jalostotitlán, Jalisco, and Turlock, California, and shows how migrants retain a primal identity with their community of origin. The study examines how family, gender, courtship, religion, and culture promote a Mexicanized version of the American Dream for la gente de Jalos.After introducing traditional theories of migration and describing a distinctly circular migration pattern between Jalos and Turlock, Mirandé introduces a model of transnationalism. Residents move freely back and forth across the border, often at great risk, adopting a transnational village identity that transcends both the border and conventional national or state identities. Mirandé's findings are based on participant observation, ethnographic field research, and captivating in-depth personal interviews conducted on both sides of the border with a wide range of respondents. To include multiple perspectives, MirandTrade Review"Weaving together historical material and ethnographic family accounts, Alfredo Mirandé's Jalos, USA examines the culture and identity of families in Turlock, California, with roots in Jalos, Mexico, and with family members who remain in or return to Mexico. These family stories capture the complexities of transnational lives on both sides of the border and highlight contested gender, class, and generational issues. Whether the family members live in Mexico or the USA, they claim a strong Jalos identity." —Mary Romero, author of The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream"Alfredo Mirandé is an established scholar. The strength of this book lies in its rich, fascinating interviews of individuals on both sides of the border. The reader comes away with a strong sense that Mirandé really got to know the persons interviewed because of the incredible detail and honesty recorded in their stories." —Bill Ong Hing, University of San Francisco School of Law"Community studies have a long history in modern Mexican research. This book by Alfredo Mirandé adds a new dimension to that tradition. The study of international migration today requires that we look at the binational, bilingual, and bicultural nature of the movement of large bodies of people. Mirandé adds a new theoretical perspective when he also examines the bi-community effects of living and raising families in two countries.” —Diego Vigil, University of California, Irvine“In Jalos, USA, Mirandé explores the complexities which immigrants experience upon their migration between Jalostotitlán, Jalisco, and Turlock. A professor of sociology and ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, Mirandé was inspired to write the book as a further examination of his social and cultural interests.” —turlockjournal.com“Alfredo Mirandé’s new book . . . examines the ability of these migrants to stay connected to their native roots, and how that facilitates success in the United States.” —turlockcitynews.com
£19.94
University of Notre Dame Press Race in Mind
Book SynopsisRace in Mind presents fourteen critical essays on race and mixed race by one of America's most prolific and influential ethnic studies scholars.Trade Review"This is a collection of masterful writings by one of the nation’s most cogent and sensitive race scholars. National and global as well as comparative historical in scope, these essays display Spickard’s signature sharp wit combined with an incisive intellect in deliberations on wide-ranging topics in history and ethnic studies, particularly in terms of race and multiplicity. It is wonderful that we now have an opportunity to experience the full import of some of Spickard’s most representative analyses compiled into one volume." —G. Reginald Daniel, author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?"Paul Spickard is one of the most innovative, controversial, and powerful voices in the scholarship on race and racial multiplicity, both in the United States and on a global scale. This volume traces his unique scholarly contributions to the field from the 1980s to the present. Like no other scholar in American history, he writes American history as world history: the essays in this volume negotiate transnational perspectives, on the one hand, and, on the other, they combine the world history paradigm with thorough investigations into the specificity of time, particular people, locales, cultures, and social systems." —Maria I. Diedrich, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster"A pioneer in mixed race studies, Paul Spickard is one of the most innovative historians to study race and ethnicity in the past generation. Race in Mind captures the essence of his originality and its relevance for understanding today’s increasingly multiracial America. This book is essential reading for the twenty-first century." —Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California"Challenging what [Spickard] sees as the simple white/black binary of many ethnic and racial studies, the 14 essays here examine multiraciality. . . . Spickard reaches beyond African-Americans to consider the Asian and Latino/a communities in the United States and explore[s] how race is 'constructed in different ways in different times and places,' among them England, Japan, Central America, South Africa, China, Pacific Islands, and Hawaii. . . . In his assessments of scholarship in the field of race and ethnic studies, Spickard writes with directness and verve, engaging and instructing the lay reader while flinging a gauntlet—'Race in America is not, and has never been, just about White and Black'—toward conventional academic theorists." —Publishers Weekly“Over the years, Spickard found the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois to be hugely influential including the conclusion that ‘racialized relationships exist in every part of the globe.’ Many of the later essays in this collection deal with multiplicity—‘people who are manifestly multiple in their racial ancestry’—and delve into the racial history, affiliations, and loyalties of Asian Americans, Hawaiians, and Pacific-Islander Americans.” —Foreword Reviews“Erudite, insightful, challenging, informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, Race in Mind: Critical Essays is an impressive body of impressively presented and reasoned scholarship on the subject of race that is very highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic library collections.” —Midwest Book Review
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University of Notre Dame Press UnRule Of Law and the Underprivileged In Latin
Book SynopsisThis study describes a Latin American legal system which punishes only the poor and a ""democratic"" state which fails to control its own agents' arbitrary practices. The contributors argue that judicial reform cannot be seperated from human rights and that justice must be made available to the poor.Trade Review“This book is an excellent compilation of work by today’s foremost scholars and activists in human rights in Latin America. These authors offer a thoughtful account of some of the most pressing problems in the region—including lack of accountability, police brutality, and the need for judicial reform—and provide a compelling debate on how to improve the promotion of human rights in the hemisphere.” —José Miguel Vivanco, Executive Director, Americas Division, Human Rights Watch“Anyone who assumes that redemocratization has done much to advance the rule of law must consult the papers in this collection. . . This volume does not explain, it describes and prescribes but does so richly and soberly. A fine acquisition for all academic collections.” —Choice“The (Un)Rule of Law is a thorough and incisive examination of the aftereffects of democratization in Latin America. The diversity of viewpoints presented constitutes an excellent contribution to the continuing dialogue on the promotion and institutionalization of human rights in the region.” —Journal of International Law and Politics“The (Un)Rule of Law features excellent essays on groups that are discriminated against in Latin America, including blacks, indegenous peoples, and women.” —Latin American Research Review“The essays collected in Mendez et al. About the “(un)rule of law” and the underprivileged in Latin America make sober reading. But while the specific problems they address about access to justice, racial and gender discrimination, discrimination against indigenous peoples, the role of the police, reform of the judiciary, pockets where the violence of the street rules rather than the law, are writ large in Latin America, they are-at the least-writ small in North America.” —International Journal of Constitutional Law
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University of Notre Dame Press Four Scraps of Bread
Book Synopsis Four Scraps of Bread is Magda Hollander-Lafon’s memoir of her time in Auschwitz and her homage to the men and women who perished in the Holocaust. Trade Review"The brevity of Magda Hollander-Lafon’s Four Scraps of Bread only magnifies its power. Part prose, part poetry, it takes us into the gates of Auschwitz, where her sensitive observations and intense self-examination open up the inner world of the Lager. One must appreciate the power of her words; more importantly the integrity of her example. I was moved, touched, frightened, and horrified. One must be grateful for such a distinct act of witness." —Michael Berenbaum, director, Sigi Ziering Institute"Magda Hollander-Lafon's experience of the Holocaust may parallel that of the Romanian-born Elie Wiesel, but her approach is even more abstracted and poetic. Instantly recognizable details of dehumanization, complicity, and endurance are all present, but with the goal of developing a spiritual and therapeutic vision of survival beyond the amassing of evidence. The enormous recent growth in publication of both saved firsthand accounts and post-memory analyses forms an additional appreciative context for Hollander-Laffon's singular work, not least as it is written by a woman, when most original accounts were produced by men." —Seán Hand, University of Warwick"Magda Hollander-Lafon’s book shines with an unquenchable yearning for life despite the appalling suffering and brutality it portrays. Through the eyes of her memory we see the whole gamut of human reactions to unspeakable suffering and cruelty. We connect with them at extraordinary depth through the heart of a tortured child whose hope never died. This is a heartbreaking, compassionate, triumphant book filled with a rare insight into human evil and suffering." —Gemma Simmonds, CJ, Heythrop College, University of London"An extraordinary memoir that is a valued and appreciated addition to the growing library of Holocaust literature, "Four Scraps of Bread" is unreservedly and emphatically recommended for community, college, and university library collections." —Midwest Book Review"[E]very once in a while a book is published which grabs us by the throat, the mind and the heart and makes us look, think, reflect and allow ourselves to be challenged. Such a book is Magda Hollander-Lafon’s Four Scraps of Bread, a brief memoir, part poetry, part prose, of her experience as a child in Auschwitz. There are few such original accounts written by women and few in which the horror and cruelty are balanced by such extraordinary spiritual depth and resilience, and such unrelenting self-confrontation in search of hope." —Thinking Faith“Four Scraps of Bread is highly and unreservedly recommended. . . [It is] an exceptional and moving read.” —Reviewer’s Bookwatch“The images Hollander-Lafon sketches in Four Scraps of Bread are often brutally evocative; so it is with this book. She gives us a hint of what she and the others suffered. . . . She trusts us to feel the pain. And, to remember.” —Neworld Review“As a profoundly personal quest for meaning, Four Scraps of Bread makes an important contribution to Holocaust literature and is highly recommended for parish libraries.” —Catholic Library World"'I did not understand how people changed so much: Some became executioners, others became victims,' writes Holocaust survivor Magda Hollander-Lafon in Four Scraps of Bread, a slim volume of piercing, simple-yet-profound reflections on her journey through hell and back." —Sojourners“The book’s reflections, prose, meditations, and poetry offer ways to experience alongside Hollander-Lafon her lived experience, both in the death camp and in the the Holocaust’s aftermath, as she, despite all odds, lives through Auschwitz’s atrocities and builds a new life after the war. Her book shows the beauty, hope, and presence of God while not flinching from an open-eyed portrayal of the worst violence and brutality that humans are capable of inflicting on each other.” —Emily Sanna, associate editor, U.S. Catholic
£17.99
University of Notre Dame Press Latinos in New York
Book SynopsisSignificant changes in New York City''s Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the 1990s to over 2.4 million, constituting a third of the population spread over five boroughs. Puerto Ricans remain the largest subgroup, followed by Dominicans and Mexicans; however, Puerto Ricans are no longer the majority of New York''s Latinos as they were throughout most of the twentieth century.Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, second edition, is the most comprehensive reader available on the experience of New York City''s diverse Latino population. The essays in Part I examine the historical and sociocultural context of Latinos in New York. Part II looks at the diversity comprising Latino New York. Contributors focus on specific national origin groups, including Ecuadorians, Colombians, and CentTrade Review"Latinos in New York was the first volume to provide a comprehensive view of the wide range of histories, experiences, and conditions of the changing mix of nationalities of the city's Latino/a population. This new edition captures the most significant continuities, discontinuities, and changes of the last two decades in the city's Latino/a population as a whole and among the various national groups, and is as timely and relevant as was the first edition. The essays in this volume offer a plethora of old and recent demographic data and a broad assortment of information to attain a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of New York Latinos/as, the evolving nature of their communities, and the socioeconomic, educational, and political inequalities, discrimination, and segregation that impact their lives in the city." —Edna Acosta-Belén, distinguished professor emerita, University at Albany, SUNY"The editors, all keen observers of the Latino communities of New York, have assembled highly knowledgeable and thoughtful analysts to provide thorough and compelling assessments of these increasingly important but still under-studied groups. A must read not only for those interested in the city’s diverse communities, but for understanding the dynamics of differentiation within the nation’s largest minority population." —John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY"Twenty years since the publication of the first pathbreaking edition of Latinos in New York, its editors give us the definitive new resource on the contemporary Latinization of New York. Site of the most diverse Latino/a communities, New York City has been at the forefront of processes of Latinization. Thanks to Baver, Falcón, and Haslip-Viera, we now have a collection of essays by some of the most knowledgeable and experienced scholars, journalists, activists, and educators, who bring us up to speed on the political and cultural issues involved in a changing Latino/a landscape in NYC and beyond." —Arlene Davila, New York University"The essays succeed in conveying the diversity of Latino/a communities and experiences through the lenses of settlement patterns, institution building, and policy impact. The collection is a good entry point to the convergence of scholarly literatures on migration, pan-ethnic identities, and local-level studies." —Choice
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University of Notre Dame Press Taking the Fight South
Book SynopsisTrade Review“As we examine the horrific examples of public racism, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant policy and behavior in contemporary society, I read this book personally, internalizing it deeply to ask if I would have had similar courage.” —Mark Curnutte, author of Across the Color Line“Howard Ball is a tenacious legal activist and teacher of civil rights. His involvement with the cause has been lifelong. More than anything else, his work in the Mississippi ACLU grounds this entertaining and informative book.” —Howard Winant, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States"Howard Ball has written extensively about civil rights and civil liberties. Taking the Fight South offers readers a candid and emotional view of the six years he spent living in Starkville and teaching political science at Mississippi State University. In the process, Ball reinforces his Jewish identity as well as his determination to fight racism, finding out firsthand what it takes to be a 'mensch.'" —Steven F. Lawson, co-author of Exploring American Histories"Howard Ball's memoir connects the dots between his teaching and scholarship on constitutional law and civil rights, his life and career as an advocate for racial equality, and his Jewish identity. It offers a first-hand narrative of southern Jewish community from the perspective of a never-fully-welcomed New Yorker. Recounting his research on the failure of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to guarantee compliance, the memoir sheds depressing light on voter discrimination today. It reminds us of the fragility of democracy and of the urgency of resisting ongoing efforts to subvert it." —Cheryl Lester, co-author of Social Work Practice With a Difference"Ball’s third book as an interloper in the Deep South is poignant, enlightening, and serves as a reminder of how far Mississippi has come and yet how far we still have to go." —The Daily Leader"In 1976, historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball moved his family from the Bronx to Starkville, Mississippi, where they’d stay until 1982. Ball describes the experience of his Jewish New York brood as they fend off KKK phone calls and fight for a more just future." —Jewish Exponent"Ball taught at Mississippi State University, adjacent to the town of Starkville, from 1976 to 1982, and in this engaging book, he recalls his experiences as a liberal in a staunchly conservative state which had been an integral part of the Confederacy and which fiercely resisted desegregation." —The Times of Israel"More than his personal experience with religious otherness, the heart of the memoir involves Ball’s reflections upon incidents of racial discrimination and the attempts that he and others made to remedy it." —H-Nationalism"I read with rapt interest Howard Ball’s memoir about his experiences—both the achievements and the obstacles—of living in Starkville, where he taught political science at Mississippi State University from 1976 to 1982. The clash between a New York Jewish liberal activist and white reactionaries was inevitable." —Southern Jewish HistoryTable of ContentsPreface 1. Going Down to Mississippi 2. The Jewish Community in Starkville, Mississippi and We "Fast Talkin' New York Jews" 3. Refereeing Football Games in the Magnolia State 4. Confronting Racism While Serving On the Mississippi Chapter, ACLU Board of Directors 5. Defending the 1965 Voting Rights Act 6. A Solitary Hebrew Working on Campus and in the Field 7. Leaving the "Magnolia" State 8. Conclusion. Reflecting on the Yin/Lang of Life in Mississippi: Two Men from Union, Marcus Gordon and “Preacher” Killen, Collide in 2005
£22.49
University of Notre Dame Press The Chicano Experience
Book SynopsisThis revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the situation of Chicanos today.For more than thirty years, and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirandé's The Chicano Experience has captivated readers with its groundbreaking analysis of Chicanos in the United States. Although its original context differs markedly from the current demographic landscape, it remains no less relevant todayLatinos have emerged as the largest minority population in the United States. With updated chapters revised in light of contemporary scholarship, this second edition speaks to the Chicano of today, in addition to puertoriqueños, Central Americans, and other groups who share common experiences of colonization, racialization, and, especially in the last decade, demonization.In this foundational text, Mirandé develops a comprehensive framework for Chicano sociology that, in attenTrade Review“Alfredo Mirandé’s The Chicano Experience is the 1985 landmark study devoted to the creation of Chicano sociology. The updated version will shape the dialogue for future generations.” —Robert J. Durán, author of The Gang Paradox“The Chicano Experience is a strident call for a complete revamping of all social science methodology in the field of Chicano politics.” —Benjamin Márquez, author of The Politics of Patronage"Filled with the latest research and current theorizing on racialization, the new edition of The Chicano Experience rises to the top rank of books about Chicanos and other Latinos in the twenty-first century." —Maxine Baca Zinn, co-author of Diversity in Families"The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective . . . offers fundamental sociological perspectives of the lives of the largest minority group in the United States. This edition provides a new interpretation of social, cultural, and economic drivers that shape Chicano/Latino lives today. —UC Riverside NewsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Chicano Social Science PART I DISPLACEMENT OF THE CHICANO 1. Chicano Labor and the Economy 2. The United States-Mexico Border: A Chicano Perspective on Immigration and Undocumented Workers 3. El Bandido: The Evolution of Images of Chicano Criminality 4. Education: Problems, Issues, and Alternatives PART II CHICANO CULTURE 5. The Church and the Chicano 6. La Familia Chicana 7. Machismo Epilogue: Toward a Chicano Paradigm Appendix: Chicano-Police Conflict: A Case Study Notes Bibliography Index
£87.55
University of Notre Dame Press The Chicano Experience
Book SynopsisThis revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the situation of Chicanos today.For more than thirty years, and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirandé's The Chicano Experience has captivated readers with its groundbreaking analysis of Chicanos in the United States. Although its original context differs markedly from the current demographic landscape, it remains no less relevant todayLatinos have emerged as the largest minority population in the United States. With updated chapters revised in light of contemporary scholarship, this second edition speaks to the Chicano of today, in addition to puertoriqueños, Central Americans, and other groups who share common experiences of colonization, racialization, and, especially in the last decade, demonization.In this foundational text, Mirandé develops a comprehensive framework for Chicano sociology that, in attenTrade Review“Alfredo Mirandé’s The Chicano Experience is the 1985 landmark study devoted to the creation of Chicano sociology. The updated version will shape the dialogue for future generations.” —Robert J. Durán, author of The Gang Paradox“The Chicano Experience is a strident call for a complete revamping of all social science methodology in the field of Chicano politics.” —Benjamin Márquez, author of The Politics of Patronage"Filled with the latest research and current theorizing on racialization, the new edition of The Chicano Experience rises to the top rank of books about Chicanos and other Latinos in the twenty-first century." —Maxine Baca Zinn, co-author of Diversity in Families"The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective . . . offers fundamental sociological perspectives of the lives of the largest minority group in the United States. This edition provides a new interpretation of social, cultural, and economic drivers that shape Chicano/Latino lives today. —UC Riverside NewsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Chicano Social Science PART I DISPLACEMENT OF THE CHICANO 1. Chicano Labor and the Economy 2. The United States-Mexico Border: A Chicano Perspective on Immigration and Undocumented Workers 3. El Bandido: The Evolution of Images of Chicano Criminality 4. Education: Problems, Issues, and Alternatives PART II CHICANO CULTURE 5. The Church and the Chicano 6. La Familia Chicana 7. Machismo Epilogue: Toward a Chicano Paradigm Appendix: Chicano-Police Conflict: A Case Study Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
University of Notre Dame Press Religion and Broken Solidarities
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a socially committed intellectual engagement with difficult solidarities and the way to reimagine them. It is precisely through the combination of superb scholarly research and sound caretaking that the authors help us have hope for the future by confronting the never-ending triumphalist discourses of modern coloniality.” —Santiago Slabodsky, author of Decolonial JudaismTable of ContentsIntroduction by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo 1. Broken Solidarities: Transnational Feminism, Islam, and “the Master’s House” by Perin Gürel 2. The Women’s March: A Reflection on Feminist Solidarity, Intersectional Critique, and Muslim Women’s Activism by Juliane Hammer 3. Transgressive Geography and Litmus Test Solidarity by Atalia Omer and Ruth Carmi 4. “To Confound White Christians”: Thinking with Claude McKay about Race, Catholic Enchantment, and Secularism by Brenna Moore 5. Seeing Solidarity by Melani McAlister
£70.55
University of Notre Dame Press Religion and Broken Solidarities
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book is a socially committed intellectual engagement with difficult solidarities and the way to reimagine them. It is precisely through the combination of superb scholarly research and sound caretaking that the authors help us have hope for the future by confronting the never-ending triumphalist discourses of modern coloniality.” —Santiago Slabodsky, author of Decolonial JudaismTable of ContentsIntroduction by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo 1. Broken Solidarities: Transnational Feminism, Islam, and “the Master’s House” by Perin Gürel 2. The Women’s March: A Reflection on Feminist Solidarity, Intersectional Critique, and Muslim Women’s Activism by Juliane Hammer 3. Transgressive Geography and Litmus Test Solidarity by Atalia Omer and Ruth Carmi 4. “To Confound White Christians”: Thinking with Claude McKay about Race, Catholic Enchantment, and Secularism by Brenna Moore 5. Seeing Solidarity by Melani McAlister
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University of Notre Dame Press Color
Book SynopsisIn 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described autobiographical sojourn with a second collection of interconnected essays. In McClane''s words, All concern race, although they, like the human spirit, wildly sweep and yaw. A timely installment in our national narrative, Color is a chronicle of the black middle class, a group rarely written about with sensitivity and charity. In evocative, trenchant, and poetic prose, McClane employs the art of the memoirist to explore the political and the personal. He details the poignant narrative of racial progress as witnessed by his family during the 1950s, ''60s, and ''70s. We learn of his parents'' difficult upbringing in Boston, where they confTrade Review“Kenneth McClane argues that the inclusion of a jazz phrase in the midst of another obviously discrete modality becomes an act of communion that 'honors the fragile possibility for mutuality.' He is right, for he does this skillfully in Color. An exciting find, the volume is a compendium of sophisticated essays rendered with deceptive simplicity. Color, always insightful, sometimes inexplicably tender, is that rare volume, seldom encountered, that moves us beyond measure.” —Mari Evans, author of Continuum: New and Selected Poems and Clarity as Concept: A Poet’s Perspective“Ken McClane's latest collection proves that he is one of the finest essayists currently plying the trade. Graceful, incisive, humane, Ken's writing is both beautifully wrought and deeply informative about how we live life. All of us practicing essayists can only marvel in delight at his skill and envy his accomplishment. I have known Ken since my days in graduate school over twenty-five years ago and I still feel now as I felt then: when I grow up I want to be half the writer Ken McClane is.” —Gerald L. Early, author of The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture and This is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s“In his finely crafted memoir, McClane weaves significant themes in twentieth-century race relations—the arbitrariness of racial designations, the impact of the Civil Rights movement, North and South, and rival versions of ‘Affirmative Action’—through the stories he tells about his parents’ lives. Sharply written, the essays highlight some of the sources of McClane’s anger as well as the breath and depth of his understanding of the American racial landscape.” —Patrick Miller, co-series editor, African American Intellectual Heritage“Kenneth McClane’s voice is unique in American letters: pragmatic; contemplative; intriguingly moody; at times unabashedly and movingly sentimental. He chronicles a world of black people that is little-known and even less-imagined. Color is a wonderful book of beautifully written, understated essays by an important writer who has steadily contributed to American letters.” —Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University“The essays that comprise Color are mighty in their directed honesty and uncompromising views of the lived racialized world observed with an intellectual curiosity and wise generosity that astonishes on every page. Through it all, the words hum with love, so that even the pained heart sings.” —Helena Maria Viramontes, author of Their Dogs Came With Them“. . . the honesty at the heart of Kenneth McClane’s essays is humble and fine, rich in insights. . . . McClane’s point is that the realities of race have not yet been fully confronted in America, and this phenomenon results in the festering of denial and pain.” —ForeWord"Acclaimed poet and literary scholar McClane follows Walls (1991), observations on life as an African American, with a new collection of interconnected essays covering disparate subjects with the locus on race. Exploring the importance of memory and identity with gentle recollections of stories told by his parents and earlier memories of racial discrimination and humiliation, McClane offers a vivid personal perspective on race.” —Booklist“ . . . McClane is neither an angry young man with a message nor someone with a one-sided political agenda. Instead, he comes across as what he is at Cornell, a teacher asking his readers to reflect on their own lives. This title is recommended for comprehensive Black studies collections, to complement the more extensive volumes of Michael Eric Dyson, Gerald Early, Bell Hooks, and other better-known African-American essayists.” —Multicultural Review". . . These eleven anecdotal essays provide glimpses into McClane's personal development through their poetic precision and their ability to speak to each other. While the topics that McClane addresses, including the challenges of caring for ailing parents, racial oppression that stymies educational and professional growth, colorism, and art's role in strengthening the human spirit, have been treated by many Black writers past and present, he provides a fresh lens through which we can view the continuing relevance of these issues. . . . [P]eople on both sides of the 'race question'—those who daily feel and see the effects of institutionalized racism and interpersonal prejudice as well as those who believe that we live in a post-racial America—will find ample food for thought in McClane's essays, which teach not through overt didacticism but through a carefully shaped and beautifully inflected meditation on self, other, and their intersection." —Callaloo
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University of Notre Dame Press My Kill Adore Him
Book SynopsisMy Kill Adore Him interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones.Trade Review"Like the poet’s native Chicago, even when violent or troubling, Paul Martínez Pompa’s poems risk beauty. His work possesses a fluidity that appears both effortless and well earned. His is a Chicago Renaissance of one—Gwendolyn Brooks’s Bronzeville and Carl Sandburg’s 'city of big shoulders' becoming a 'city of broken lovers' and 'an entire city in your ears' in Martínez Pompa’s capable hands. Playful and political and passionate, the poems in My Kill Adore Him mark an important debut, one you’ll surely adore."—Kevin Young author of Dear Darkness and For the Confederate Dead“This is an important book if we care about the lives of men, day-laborers, immigrants, factory workers and those on the urban fringe who don't get a fair shake. And this is an important book if we don't. Paul Martínez Pompa knows how to write; these poems vividly evoke people and lives that urge us toward awareness and honesty and compassion. Poetry can do no better than this.” —Valerie Martínez, author of Each and Her and Absence, Luminescent."This is one tough, smart poet. The poems of Paul Martínez Pompa are gritty and visceral, but never cross the line into sensationalism. They are poems that vividly evoke the urban world, especially Chicago, without ever lapsing into urban cliché. They are poems that seek justice for the Latino community without ever resorting to the overheated language that all too often consigns poetry of social conscience to oblivion." —Martín Espada, 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize judge“Paul Martínez Pompa deconstructs with a deft sword. Straddling literary strategies, no supposition nor paradigm is safe. He slays the stereotypic dragons within as well as without, putting popular culture, elegy, nightmare, personal narrative, identity and gender politics in the same hat, and drawing from the source, Pompa plays a poetic hand for keeps. Every turn of trope is more delightful than the last—a breakaway collection from an exciting new writer.” —Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of Drive: The First Quartet"There is so much more going on in this book . . . My Kill Adore Him is an exciting and tough collection of very well-composed and accessible poems. It’s been a while since I tore through a book of poetry and really enjoyed the read." —Harriet: A blog from the Poetry Foundation“My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poetry from Paul Martinez Pompa focusing on the issues of masculinity, race, and who people are. My Kill Adore Him is an entertaining and thought provoking work, highly recommended.” —The Midwest Book Review“Martinez Pompa’s collection engages the urban landscape and how its cultural and historical legacies extended south into the border and Mexico itself. . . . As a first collection, My Kill Adore Him . . . is definitely a find, with its impressive range of Latino literary influences, from Herrera to Andres Montoya, to Martin Espada. With such poetic energy and intensity in one book, there’s no doubt that Martinez Pompa’s next collection will engrave him on the literary map.” —El Paso Times"In his breathtaking debut poetry collection, Martinez Pompa bursts onto the contemporary Latino scene with literary guns ablaze. He is precisely what we need right now: a brave poet just as critical of himself as he is of others. Within the pages of this clever and brutally honest text lie the words of an old soul—who just happens to be a young poet. Martinez Pompa's youth and aged wisdom coexist in each and every poem, resulting in a fresh, yet deadly serious new voice that is not to be trifled with. . . . Highly recommended reading for anyone on the lookout for what comes next in Latino poetry." —Multicultural Review“. . . a critical tone is set from the opening quotation, lent to the collection by Joe Wenderoth: ‘As hypotheticals go, “man” seems to me the most damaging.’ Martinez Pompa sets the stage early for an exploration into what makes a man, indeed, what makes humanity. . . . Martinez Pompa illustrates the ways in which there is no recourse when decisions are made across a border in a land beyond imagination.” —Post No Ills“Paul Martinez Pompa’s My Kill Adore Him, winner of the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, vividly captures the traumatic experiences of many Latino/a immigrants. . . . Pompa’s sensitive eye doesn’t take us with the men who find a job for that day, but lingers on the man left behind, the man who will not make any money that day.” —Kenyon Review Online
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Pennsylvania State University Press AfroCatholic Festivals in the Americas
Book SynopsisExplores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connections between Afro-Catholic festivals and their precedents in the early modern Christian kingdom of Kongo.Trade Review“This multidisciplinary study of acculturation participates in a turn in postcolonial studies away from questions of the imposition of Christianity to black reinvention.”—Victor Houliston Heythrop Journal“A compelling collection of essays that map out the transplantation of Kongo and Central African Christian traditions in the Americas by exploring the crucial role African Christian festivals played in the Americas. This is a timely multidisciplinary text that invites readers to explore representation and performance expressed in ideas, music, and art deployed by Africans to assert the will to thrive in the context of domination and to forge a vibrant Christian presence and practice.”—Elias Bongmba,author of The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa“This remarkable set of essays and their accompanying images bring to life the dynamic interactions of central Africa and the Americas as expressed in music, dance, artistic representation, and spirituality. It does not resolve the great debate over African continuities versus creole creativity, but it enriches and enlivens it and makes it fundamental to an understanding of the Atlantic world.”—Stuart B. Schwartz,author of All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World “[This volume] offers a much-needed contribution to the study of African, Afro-Latino/a and African-American Catholics. While the field of Black Atlantic religions has exploded in the past decade, the study of Black Atlantic Catholicism has been one of the most understudied areas in the field of religion.”—Michelle A. Gonzalez Reading Religion“The authors critically address the modes of disciplinary engagement that have dominated discussion and evaluation to date. These essays are useful references for understanding the renegotiation necessary for comprehending processes and celebrations that excavate meaning far below the surface and, in turn, provide valuable information on the legacy of Catholic religiosity that has been simmering for centuries on the African continent.”—7/24/2020 Early American Literature“By including festivals from New Orleans and Mexico City, and by framing the volume as in direct conversation with scholarship on African American art and culture in the United States, Fromont takes an important stride toward bridging the historiographical divide between scholarship on North and South America.”—Ximena A. Gómez Art History“The volume challenges some established theories about the origins of Afro-diasporic cultural traditions, which many will welcome. This line of research has led to important and lasting insights.”—Patricia Barker Lerch Nova Religio“Readers seeking a historical introduction to the public expression of Afro-Catholic cultures in the African Diaspora or an inspiration for methods to carry the historical study of Black Atlantic religions forward will find Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas an essential text that fulfills both purposes.”—Ras Michael Brown International Journal of African Historical Studies“An amazing collection of essays about the traces of Kongolese Catholicism in the New World, focusing on festivals in particular. It is a great extension of the work by prior scholars of Kongolese Catholicism.”—Adam Mohr African Studies Review“Through attention to the subjectivity and cultural specificity of texts, translations, and images, and, crucially, to ‘embodied social memory’ that decenters the written record, the volume presents a complex and vital tale of American Christianity rooted in central Africa while underscoring trans-generational Black agency in the unfolding of festive traditions within the post-Columbian Americas.”—Adrienne Rooney Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Kongo Christianity, Festive Performances, and the Making of Black Atlantic TraditionCécile Fromont and Michael IyanagaPart 1 Ritual Battles from the Kongo Kingdom to the Americas1. Sangamentos on Congo Square? Kongolese Warriors, Brotherhood Kings, and Mardi Gras Indians in New OrleansJeroen Dewulf2. Moros e Christianos Ritualized Naval Battles: Baptizing American Waters with African Spiritual MeaningKevin Dawson3. A Mexican Sangamento? The First Afro-Christian Performance in the AmericasMiguel A. ValerioPart 2 America’s Black Kings and Diplomatic Representation4. Representing an African King in BrazilLisa Voigt5. Black Ceremonies in Perspective: Brazil and Dahomey in the Eighteenth CenturyJunia Ferreira FurtadoPart 3 Reconsidering Primary Sources6. Envisioning Brazil’s Afro-Christian Congados: The Black King and Queen Festival Lithograph of Johann Moritz RugendasCécile Fromont7. The Orisa House That Afro-Catholics Built: Africana Antecedents to Yoruba Religious Formation in TrinidadDianne M. StewartPart 4 Aurality and Diasporic Traditions8. On Hearing Africas in the Americas: Domestic Celebrations for Catholic Saints as Afro-Diasporic Religious TraditionMichael IyanagaList of ContributorsIndex
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University of Texas Press White Metropolis
Book SynopsisThe first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.Trade ReviewAn ambitious work, White Metropolis deserves attention from historians interested in the history of Texas, urban studies, and southern culture. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue: Through a Glass Darkly: Memory, Race, and Region in Dallas, Texas 1. The Music of Cracking Necks: Dallas Civilization and Its Discontents 2. True to Dixie and to Moses: Yankees, White Trash, Jews, and the Lost Cause 3. The Great White Plague: Whiteness, Culture, and the Unmaking of the Dallas Working Class 4. Consequences of Powerlessness: Whiteness as Class Politics 5. Water Force: Resisting White Supremacy under Jim Crow 6. White Like Me: Mexican Americans, Jews, and the Elusive Politics of Identity 7. A Blight and a Sin: Segregation, the Kennedy Assassination, and the Wreckage of Whiteness Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Evil Arabs in American Popular Film Orientalist
Book SynopsisA timely look at American popular films made between 1973 and 2001 that use Arabs, their landscapes, and their cultures as villains—and what these depictions of “evil” Arabs reveal about American fears and insecurities.Table of Contents Preface: Ichthyoid Man: Arcimboldo's The Water (1566) Acknowledgments Introduction: Orientalist Fear Chapter One. The Exorcist: Assault on American Confidence (1973) Chapter Two. Rollover: Assault on the American Economy (1981) Chapter Three. Black Sunday: The Loss of Frontier Heroism (1976) Chapter Four. Three Kings: Assault on Victory Culture (1999) Chapter Five. Rules of Engagement: Attack from the Multicultural Front (2000) Chapter Six. CNN's America Remembers: The "Real" Attack (2002) Conclusion. The South Park Lesson and Orientalist Fear Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press NeoConfederacy A Critical Introduction
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary team examines the mainstreaming of the New Dixie movement, whose calls range from full secession to the racist exaltation of “Celtic” Americans and whose advocates can be found far north of the Mason-Dixon Line.Table of Contents Foreword: A Connected Fringe (James W. Loewen) Acknowledgments Introduction: Neo-Confederacy and the New Dixie Manifesto (Euan Hague, Edward H. Sebesta, and Heidi Beirich) Part I. The Origins and Development of Neo-Confederacy and Its Tenets 1. Neo-Confederacy and Its Conservative Ancestry (Euan Hague and Edward H. Sebesta) 2. The U.S. Civil War as a Theological War: Neo-Confederacy, Christian Nationalism, and Theology (Edward H. Sebesta and Euan Hague) 3. Gender, Sexuality, and Neo-Confederacy (Heidi Beirich and Kevin Hicks) 4. Neo-Confederacy, Culture, and Ethnicity: A White Anglo-Celtic Southern People (Euan Hague and Edward H. Sebesta) 5. Neo-Confederacy and the Understanding of Race (Euan Hague and Edward H. Sebesta) Part II. Practicing Neo-Confederacy 6. Fighting for the Lost Cause: The Confederate Battle Flag and Neo-Confederacy (Gerald R. Webster and Jonathan I. Leib) 7. Neo-Confederacy and Education (Euan Hague) 8. Literature and Neo-Confederacy (Kevin Hicks) 9. You Ain't Just Whistlin' Dixie: Neo-Confederacy in Music (Jon Bohland and Brian Tongier) 10. The Struggle for the Sons of Confederate Veterans: A Return to White Supremacy in the Early Twenty-First Century? (Heidi Beirich) Afterword: Nationalizing Neo-Confederacy? (Euan Hague and Edward H. Sebesta) Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press BlackBrown Relations and Stereotypes
Book SynopsisOffering some of the first in-depth analyses of how African Americans and Hispanics perceive and interact with each other, this pathfinding study looks at black-brown relations in Houston, Texas, one of the largest U.S. cities with a majority ethnic populTrade Review"This is a very important book, in that it looks to the [racial] issues that are facing and will continue to face this nation over the next several years... No book could be more timely in this regard." Joe R. Feagin, author of Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future ReparationsTable of Contents List of Tables Preface Chapter One. Emerging Relations between African Americans and Hispanics Chapter Two. Stereotypes and Their Implications for Intergroup Relations Chapter Three. Areas of Disagreement Chapter Four. Women's Perceptions of Black-Brown Relations: A Contextual Approach Chapter Five. Areas of Agreement Chapter Six. Prospects for Black-Brown Relations References Index
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University of Texas Press Disneys Most Notorious Film
Book SynopsisAnalyzing histories of film reception, convergence, and race relations over seven decades, this pioneering book undertakes a superb, multifaceted reading of one of Hollywood’s most notorious films, Disney’s Song of the South.Trade ReviewDisney’s Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South (University of Texas, 2012) does more than dissect a film and the pros and cons around it. In its own way, it reveals that Song of the South, more or less by accident, holds a mirror to American views on race, with beauty or the lack thereof completely in the eyes of the beholder. * PopMatters *This study is meticulously researched and current on contemporary research, and though it reads slowly…the payoff is worth the work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- S. R. Kozloff, Vassar College * Choice *This excellent study of the controversy surrounding Disney’s Song of the South is an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of one of the studio’s most controversial films…Jason Sperb has produced an important analysis of one of popular culture’s most hotly debated products. * The Historian *Jason Sperb’s Disney’s Most Notorious Film quickly overcomes any concern that there might be nothing new to say about Song of the South by demonstrating how surprisingly “persistent” the film has been. * The Journal of American History *While Sperb's conclusions of conscious racism are debatable, his meticulous documentation of Song of the South merchandising through sixty years and its other cultural references…make Disney's Most Notorious Film an essential reference tool to those interested in SotS-iana. * Animation World Network *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Conditions of Possibility: The Disney Studios, Postwar "Thermidor," and the Ambivalent Origins of Song of the South Chapter 2. "Put Down the Mint Julep, Mr. Disney": Postwar Racial Consciousness and Disney's Critical Legacy in the 1946 Reception of Song of the South Chapter 3. "Our Most Requested Movie": Media Convergence, Black Ambivalence, and the Reconstruction of Song of the South Chapter 4. A Past That Never Existed: Coonskin, Post-racial Whiteness, and Rewriting History in the Era of Reaganism Chapter 5. On Tar Babies and Honey Pots: Splash Mountain, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," and the Transmedia Dissipation of Song of the South Chapter 6. Reassuring Convergence: New Media, Nostalgia, and the Internet Fandom of Song of the South Conclusion Appendix. Timeline for Song of the South and Its Paratexts Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights
Book SynopsisWritten for general readers as well as scholars, this book sheds new light on the local activism that propelled the national civil rights movement, as well as on the birth of an organization that has been at the forefront of Mexican American and Latino ciTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Claiming Rights on a Local LevelChapter 1. Integration a Mordidas in Alpine Schools Chapter 2. The Multistep Integration of the El Paso Police Department Part 2. Claiming Rights on a National LevelChapter 3. MALDEF: Born into the Crosswinds of the Chicano Movement Conclusion: Of Oral History and Research Possibilities Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press They Called Them Greasers
Book SynopsisThis seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas.Trade ReviewThis well-written, comprehensive account of Anglo-American stereotypes of Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas makes for interesting reading. . . . As the author notes, the heritage of the past still persists. Mexican Americans in Texas are no longer lynched, but they continue to be 'victims of psychological violence in the more subtle form of discrimination.' * American Studies *Table of Contents Preface A Note on Terminology 1. Initial Contacts: Redeeming Texas from Mexicans, 1821-1836 2. N*****s, Redskins, and Greasers: Tejano Mixed-Bloods in a White Racial State 3. An Indolent People 4. Defective Morality 5. Disloyalty and Subversion 6. Leyendas Negras 7. Frontier "Democracy" and Tejanos—the Antebellum Period 8. Frontier "Democracy" and Tejanos—the Postbellum Period 9. Epilogue: "Not the White Man's Equal Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Woke Gaming
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This eye-opening collection of essays serves to remind readers of the power and potential of games as a catalyst for change... Woke Gaming seeks to push readers to recognise persistent inequalities, as well as those who struggle for change within both our virtual worlds and in our everyday communities." -- Tola Onanuga * The Guardian *"Gray and Leonard have assembled a courageous chorus of voices that challenge an industry emblematic of some of the most insidiously oppressive structures in American society... A must-read for scholars and students in fandom studies, popular culture and media studies, critical and cultural studies, communication, and sociology... Highly recommended." * Choice *
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University of Washington Press Fifth Chinese Daughter
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A sensitive and revealing story of a Chinese American girl’s coming of age in America. It is unique." * New York Herald Tribune *"A fascinating narrative, not only because of the courage and humour which shine through every page of the book, but also because it shows how the members of a typical Chinese family can adapt themselves to American conditions and take their part in the national life of the United States without losing the essentials of the cultural heritage which they rightly prize." * Times Literary Supplement *
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University of Washington Press Protecting Whiteness
Book SynopsisInsights into the racialized fear of change in US societyThe standoff at Cliven Bundy's ranch, the rise of white identity activists on college campuses, and the viral growth of white nationalist videos on YouTube vividly illustrate the resurgence of white supremacy and overt racism in the United States. White resistance to racial equality can be subtle as welllike art museums that enforce their boundaries as elite white spaces, right on crime policies that impose new modes of surveillance and punishment for people of color, and environmental groups whose work reinforces settler colonial norms. In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the US. Using case studies, they investigate the entrenchment of white privilege in institutions, new twists in anti-equality ideologies, and whitelash in the actions of social movements. Their examinations of new manifestations of racist aggression help make sense of thTrade Review"The interwoven nature of the numerous writers’ work will add nuances and complexity to any conversation associated with this work. Therefore, this thought-provoking book searches for avenues to wake-up some; spark true reality to others; and lastly unravel complicity expressed by lack of non-movement in others. The book is a breeding ground for several heated debates." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This timely collection offers an array of essays from talented critical sociologists probing aspects of the continuation and resurgence of 21st-century white supremacist and nationalist thought and action, supported by much social science data." * Choice *"In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the U.S, using case studies and investigations of entrenched white privilege in institutions, new twists in anti-equality ideologies, and “whitelash” in the actions of social movements." * The Washington Informer *Table of ContentsForeword by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Introduction. The Resurgence of Whitelash: White Supremacy, Resistance, and the Racialized Social System in Trumptopia David G. Embrick, J. Scott Carter, and Cameron D. Lippard Part I. The Ideological Reinforcement of White Supremacy 1. Post-Color Blindness? Trump and the Rise of the New White Nationalism Ashley "Woody" Doane 2. The Unblackening: "White" License and the "Nice Racism" Trope Johnny E. Williams 3. Polical Correctness: A Genuine Concern for Discussion or Slippery Language Rooted in Racial Animosity J. Scott Carter and J. Micah Roos 4. Diversity Regimes: How University Diversity Initiatives Shape White Race Consciousness James M. Thomas Part II. The Reentrenchment of White Superiority in American Institutions 5. Institutional Racism Revisted: How Institutions Perpetuate and Promote Racism through Color Blindness Charles A. Gallagher 6. Prison in the Street: What Market-Based Bipartisan Reform Means for Racial Stratification Kasey Henricks and Bethany Nelson 7. Settler Culture and White Property: From the Bundy Ranch Standoff to the West Virginia Coalfields Rebecca R. Scott 8. Local Immigration Enforcement: Shaping and Maintaining Policies through White Saviors and Economic Motivations Felicia Arriaga 9. Recruiting White "Victims": White Supremacist Flyers on College Campuses David Dietrich 10. The Whitening of South Asian Women Bhoomi K. Thakore 11. Colorful Art, White Spaces: How an Art Museum Maintains White Spaces Simon E. Weffer, David G. Embrick, and Silvia Dominguez Part III. White Emotions, Expressions, and Movements 12. White Noise: How White Nationalist Content Creators Reproduce Narratives of White Power and Victimhood on YouTube C. Doug Charles 13. Blue Lives Matter: Police Protection or Countermovement Marette McDonald 14. Echoing Derrick A. Bell: Black Women's Resistance to White Supremacy in the Age of Trump Marlese Durr 15. Solidarity and Struggle: White Antiracist Activism in the Time of Trump Mary K. Ryan and David L. Brunsma Conclusions. Where Do We Go from Here? Structural and Social Implications of Whitelash J. Scott Carter, David G. Embrick, and Cameron D. Lippard List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Protecting Whiteness Whitelash and the Rejection
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The interwoven nature of the numerous writers’ work will add nuances and complexity to any conversation associated with this work. Therefore, this thought-provoking book searches for avenues to wake-up some; spark true reality to others; and lastly unravel complicity expressed by lack of non-movement in others. The book is a breeding ground for several heated debates." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This timely collection offers an array of essays from talented critical sociologists probing aspects of the continuation and resurgence of 21st-century white supremacist and nationalist thought and action, supported by much social science data." * Choice *"In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the U.S, using case studies and investigations of entrenched white privilege in institutions, new twists in anti-equality ideologies, and “whitelash” in the actions of social movements." * The Washington Informer *Table of ContentsForeword by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Introduction. The Resurgence of Whitelash: White Supremacy, Resistance, and the Racialized Social System in Trumptopia David G. Embrick, J. Scott Carter, and Cameron D. Lippard Part I. The Ideological Reinforcement of White Supremacy 1. Post-Color Blindness? Trump and the Rise of the New White Nationalism Ashley "Woody" Doane 2. The Unblackening: "White" License and the "Nice Racism" Trope Johnny E. Williams 3. Polical Correctness: A Genuine Concern for Discussion or Slippery Language Rooted in Racial Animosity J. Scott Carter and J. Micah Roos 4. Diversity Regimes: How University Diversity Initiatives Shape White Race Consciousness James M. Thomas Part II. The Reentrenchment of White Superiority in American Institutions 5. Institutional Racism Revisted: How Institutions Perpetuate and Promote Racism through Color Blindness Charles A. Gallagher 6. Prison in the Street: What Market-Based Bipartisan Reform Means for Racial Stratification Kasey Henricks and Bethany Nelson 7. Settler Culture and White Property: From the Bundy Ranch Standoff to the West Virginia Coalfields Rebecca R. Scott 8. Local Immigration Enforcement: Shaping and Maintaining Policies through White Saviors and Economic Motivations Felicia Arriaga 9. Recruiting White "Victims": White Supremacist Flyers on College Campuses David Dietrich 10. The Whitening of South Asian Women Bhoomi K. Thakore 11. Colorful Art, White Spaces: How an Art Museum Maintains White Spaces Simon E. Weffer, David G. Embrick, and Silvia Dominguez Part III. White Emotions, Expressions, and Movements 12. White Noise: How White Nationalist Content Creators Reproduce Narratives of White Power and Victimhood on YouTube C. Doug Charles 13. Blue Lives Matter: Police Protection or Countermovement Marette McDonald 14. Echoing Derrick A. Bell: Black Women's Resistance to White Supremacy in the Age of Trump Marlese Durr 15. Solidarity and Struggle: White Antiracist Activism in the Time of Trump Mary K. Ryan and David L. Brunsma Conclusions. Where Do We Go from Here? Structural and Social Implications of Whitelash J. Scott Carter, David G. Embrick, and Cameron D. Lippard List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press The Borders of AIDS
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[I]mmediately urgent and immensely creative monograph." * Peitho Journal *"In this important monograph, Chávez eloquently interrogates the concept of national belonging as it relates to race, disease, power, and morality in the US. She clearly and articulately expresses her core thesis of the alienizing logic of exclusion and offers a fresh and insightful contribution to existing histories of the early years of the ongoing AIDS crisis by repositioning themes of race and immigration into the central frame of this narrative." * Connections *"[P]rovides a multifaceted narrative analysis of the dual policy frameworks of quarantine and immigration-related bans and detention as the United States coped with the rise of HIV/AIDS in the last quarter of the twentieth century. [Chávez’s]work represents an admirable effort to integrate relevant voices from a variety of strata. Naturally, all historical work in the contemporary era should endeavor to do the same, but the tapestry Chávez weaves through her diverse employment of sources proffers truly unique perspectives in her field." * H-Net Reviews *"This book made me hopeful about what scholarship can be and do. Chávez plays with time, drawing connections between the Reconstruction era, the AIDS epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, but always carefully. Chávez is confident about her political commitments, while not afraid to admit what she and we do not yet know. And perhaps most importantly, she allows oppressed people's freedom dreams to live on." -- Andrea Bolivar * American Ethnologist *
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University of Washington Press The Forging of a Black Community
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University of Washington Press Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká Russians in Tlingit
Book SynopsisTraces the series of events which culminated in the 1802 and 1804 Battles of Sitka, a turning point in the history of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and, ultimately, in the history of America.Trade ReviewI highly recommend this book as well as the earlier volumes in the 'Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature' series. It represents thorough, punctilious scholarship that reflects both multicultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Even readers who do not study Northwest Coast traditions should examine it as a model for ethnohistorical presentation. * Journal of Folklore Research *A quarter-century in the making, it is well worth the wait . . . . Some of the Russian documents appear in translation and print for the first time, as do most of the welcome Tlingit voices, which finally present their point of view to readers. * Alaska History *The monograph is well designed, illustrated and printed by the University of Washington Press. I highly recommend it both for students of Alaska studies and those interested in the Russian-Tlingit relations of the Russian-American period in Alaska. * Juneau Empire *It needs to be stressed that the editors totally succeeded in finding their own way of dealing with this heavily studied topic . . . . they have created an excellent reader that will serve as a resource not only for those who are interested in Tlingit history and Russian America but also for instructors and students who may want to explore Russian imperial, Pacific Northwest, American West, and Native American history. * H-Net *I think that this is the type of work that Franz Boas, the founder of American anthropology, dreamed of seeing one day. Not only is this book a bi-cultural interpretation of two historical events, it is also filled with insights, explanations, and information that the rest of us, as anthropologists and historians, must stand back and admire. * Arctic *A richly detailed book comprised of Tlingit oral narratives, Russian manuscripts and other historic documents that took more than 20 years to complete. * Juneau Empire *The color plates and figures are beautiful and the coverage is comprehensive, making this a model record of motivations, attitudes, and perceptions as well as events. * Book News *Presents documents setting out works of Tlingit oral history in parallel with Russian and other documents referring to the same events, the two 'battles' of Sitka that took place in 1802 and 1804 . . . a most impressive work of scholarship. * Polar Record *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsRussians in Tlingit America: New Perspectives on the Baranov Era, 1792-1818Section I -- The Prelude: First Encounters of Russians and TlingitsSection II -- The First Battle Encounter: Prince William Sound, 1792Section III -- The First Settlement in Tlingit Territory: Yakutat, 1796Section IV -- The Russian Push into Southeast Alaska before 1799Section V -- The Founding of Old Sitka, 1799Section VI - The Battle of 1802 at Old SitkaSection VII - Baranov Returns: The Battle of 1804 at Indian RiverSection VIII - And Life Goes On: 1805-186, 1818Section IX - Bilingual TextsAppendixes Gazetteer Glossary References Index Color Plates Maps and Charts Figures
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University of Washington Press Writing and Law in Late Imperial China
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection of Chinese legal practice with writing in many different social contexts.Trade Review"[F]resh ways . . . to apprehend both legal writing and the ways in which such writing resonated with both popular cultural conceptions and the ideologically driven imperatives of the state. . . . Scholars using legal writing in their own research need to read this book." -- Bradly W. Reed * China Review International *"By treating law as literature, several essays bring methods of literary analysis to bear on legal materials and open up new questions for the study of law in China. By demonstrating the importance of narrativity and rhetoric in legal case records, these scholars do not dwell on how just or unjust was the system, but instead move the focus to how different historical actors adopted narrative strategies to pursue what were often divergent interests." * The Historian *"I recommend this book in the strongest of terms. It makes an exceptionally important contribution both to the study of law and to the study of literature and their intimate and inextricable relations in late imperial China." * Chinese Literature *"Writing and Law in Late Imperial China is a very substantial addition to the revived and now flourishing discourse on law, culture and society in late-imperial China. It cleverly extends our knowledge . . . . [and] points the way for future language and law research on imperial China." * China Quarterly *"Will prove valuable and stimulating to the field of Chinese legal studies." * Journal of Asian Studies *"The worth of the topic and its coverage here can hardly be over-stated. We are increasingly appreciating the Chinese interest—- literary as well as personally relevant—- in the law over the millennia. Indeed, Chinese fascination seems to transcend that in the West, because for many Chinese, disputes and their litigation begun during life might continue in the hereafter, not toward a remote Judgment Day, but toward concrete justice in an underworld tribunal." * Journal of Asian History *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations and Terminology Introduction: Writing and the Law / Robert E. Hegel Part One | Rhetoric and Persuasion 1. Making a Case: Characterizing the Filial Son / Maram Epstein 2. Explaining the Shrew: Narratives of Spousal Violence and the Critique of Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Criminal Cases / Janet Theiss 3. Between Oral and Written Cultures: Buddhist Monks in Qing Legal Plaints / Yasuhiko Karasawa 4. The Art of Persuasian in Literature and Law / Robert E. Hegel Part Two | Legal Discourse and the Power of the State 5. Filial Felons: Leniency and Legal Reasoning in Qing China / Thomas Buoye 6. The Discourse on Insolvency and Negligence in Eighteenth-Century China / Pengsheng Chiu 7. Poverty Tales and Statutory Politics in Mid-Qing Fraud Cases / Mark McNicholas 8. Indictment Rituals and the Judicial Continuum in Late Imperial China / Paul R. Katz Part Three | Literature and Legal Procedure 9. Reading Court Cases from the Song and the Ming: Fact and Fiction, Law and Literature / James St. Andre 10. Beyond Bao: Moral Ambiguity and the Law in Late Imperial Chinese Narrative Literature / Daniel M. Youd 11. Genre and Justice in Late Qing China: Wu Woyao's Strange Case of Nine Murders and Its Antecedents / Katherine Carlitz Part Four | Retrospective 12. Interpretive Communities: Legal Meaning in Qing Law / Jonathan Ocko Glossary Bibliography Contributors Index
£38.30
University of Washington Press Klallam Dictionary
Book SynopsisIincludes over 9,000 entries, a grammatical sketch, and numerous indexes, along with a wealth of cultural informationTrade Review". . . this dictionary represents a seminal contribution to pedagogy and to future scholarly studies of the language. The compiler's achievement embodies the best results of linguistic documentation in the modern context of language revitalization. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Timothy Montler’s Klallam Dictionary is much more than a listing of words in Klallam and English. It is a beautiful, solid volume of information that has potential to be useful to a wide range of people…. from historians and language learners and teachers to linguists." -- Suzanne Urbanczyk * BC Studies *"Klallam people from all over the Peninsula and beyond turned out for a recent signing ceremony for the dictionary in Port Angeles. Some cradled the book like a baby. Many already had decided where such an important book would be kept in their home. . ." * Lynda Mapes *"The new Klallam Dictionary— celebrated at the gathering of Klallam people from Elwha, Jamestown, and Port Gamble— holds the future of the language. And it holds a lot of history." -- Richard Walker * North Kitsap Herald *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Contributing Native-Speaking Elders A Brief Introduction to the Klallam Language The Klallam Sounds The Klallam Word The Klallam Sentence About the Dictionary Organization of Entries Example Entry List of Abbreviations References Klallam-English Dictionary English-Klallam Index Klallam Affix Index Prefixes Suffixes Lexical Suffixes Klallam Root Index
£91.67
University of Washington Press Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries
Book SynopsisClarifies the significance and function of reliquaries from excavations of Gandharan monastery sites around modern Peshawar
£78.14
University of Washington Press Yokohama California
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mori’s superbly structured short stories are . . . tender, evocative episodes of growing up as a Japanese American prior to World War II." * San Francisco Chronicle *"Mori is unafraid to let the humanity of his characters and himself shine through bravely." * Oakland Tribune *"A unique record of Japanese American life in Northern California in the decades just before World War II." * Exploration in Sights and Sounds *"Originally published in 1949, these twenty-two stories present subtle glimpses into the lives of Japanese-Americans in their neighborhood in Oakland, California, aka 'Yokohama.' Mori has a delicate touch, and the stories have more than a passing resemblance to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919)." * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the 2015 Edition by Xiaojing Zhou Standing on Seventh Street: An Introduction to the 1985 Edition by Lawson Fusao Inada Introduction to the Original Edition by William Saroyan Tomorrow Is Coming, Children The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts The Seventh Street Philosopher My Mother Stands on Her Head Toshio Mori The End of the Line Say It with Flowers Akira Yano Lil’ Yokohama The Finance over at Doi’s Three Japanese Mothers The All-American Girl The Chessmen Nodas in America The Eggs of the World He Who Has the Laughing Face Slant-Eyed Americans The Trees The Six Rows of Pompons Business at Eleven The Brothers
£23.60
University of Washington Press Stories Old and New
Book SynopsisStories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong's Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng's three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early fiction and for their detailed depiction of daily life among a broad range of social classes. The stories are populated by scholars and courtesans, spirits and ghosts, Buddhist monks and nuns, pirates and emperors, and officials both virtuous and corrupt. The streets and abodes of late-Ming China come alive in Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang's smooth and colorful translation of these entertaining tales. Stories Old and New has long been popular in China and has been published there in numerous editions. Although some of the stories have appeared in English translations in journals and anthologiesTrade Review"As a truly complete collection of vernacular stories, [this volume] clearly sets a new standard for the English-speaking world." * Review of Bibliography in Sinology *"An important addition to any collection supporting Asian literature in translation or Chinese history." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Translators’ Note Chronology of Chinese Dynasties Title Page from the 1620 Edition Preface to the 1620 Edition 1) Jiang Zingge Reencounters His Pearl Shirt 2) Censor Chen Ingeniously Solves the Case of the Gold Hairpins and Brooches 3) Han the Fifth Sells Her Charms in New Bridge Town 4) Ruan San Redeems His Debt in Leisurely Clouds Nunnery 5) Penniless Ma Zhou Meets His Opportunity through a Woman Selling Pancakes 6) Lord Ge Gives Away Pearl Maiden 7) Yang Jiao’ai Lays Down His Life for the Sake of Friendship 8) Wu Bao’an Abandons His Family to Ransom His Friend 9) Duke Pei of Jin Returns a Concubine to Her Rightful Husband 10) Magistrate Teng Settles the Case of Inheritance with Ghostly Cleverness 11) Zhao Bosheng Meets with Emperor Renzong in a Teahouse 12) Zhang Daoling Tests Zhao Sheng Seven Times 14) Chen Xiyi Rejects Four Appointments from the Imperial court 15) The Dragon-and-Tiger Reunion of Shi Hongzhao the Minister and his Friend the King 16) The Chicken-and-Millet Dinner for Fan Juqing, Friend in Life and Death 17) Shan Fulang’s Happy Marriage in Quanzhou 18) Yang Balao’s Extraordinary Family Reunion in the Land of Yue 19) Yang Qianzhi Meets a Monk Knight-Errant on a Journey by Boat 20) Chen Congshan Loses His Wife on Mei Ridge 21) Qian Poliu Begins His Career in Lin’an 22) Zheng Huchen Seeks Revenge in Mumian Temple 23) Zhang Shunmei Finds a Fair Lady during the Lantern Festival 24) Yang Siwen Meets an Old Acquaintance in Yanshan 25) Yan Pingzhong Kills Three Men with Two Peaches 26) Shen Ziu Causes Seven Deaths with One Bird 27) Jin Yunu Beats the Heartless Man 28) Li Xiuqing Marries the Virgin Huang with Honor 29) Monk Moon Bright Redeems Willow Green 30) Abbot Mingwu Redeems Abbot Wujie 31) Sima Mao Disrupts Order in the Underworld and Sits in Judgement 32) Humu Di Intones Poems and Visits the Netherworld 33) Old Man Zhang Grows Melons and Marries Wennu 34) Mr. Li Saves a Snake and Wins Chenxin 35) The Monk with a Note Cleverly Tricks Huangfu’s Wife 36) Song the Fourth Greatly Torments Tightwad Zhang 37) Emperor Wudi of the Liang Dynasty Goes to the Land of Extreme Bliss through Ceaseless Cultivation 38) Ren the Filial Son with a Fiery Disposition Becomes a God 39) Wang Xinzhi Dies to Save the Entire Family 40) Shen Xiaoxia Encounters the Expedition Memorials Notes Bibliography
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