Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books
University of California Press How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop examines the programming practices at commercial radio stations in the 1980s and early 1990s to uncover how the radio industry facilitated hip hop's introduction into the musical mainstream. Constructed primarily by the Top 40 radio format, the musical mainstream featured mostly white artists for mostly white audiences. With the introduction of hip hop to these programs, the radio industry was fundamentally altered, as stations struggled to incorporate the genre's diverse audience. At the same time, as artists negotiated expanding audiences and industry pressure to make songs fit within the confines of radio formats, the sound of hip hop changed. Drawing from archival research, Amy Coddington shows how the racial structuring of the radio industry influenced the way hip hop was sold to the American public, and how the genre's growing popularity transformed ideas about who constitutes the mainstream. The author gratefully acknowledges the AMS 75 PAYS Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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University of California Press Retail Inequality Reframing the Food Desert
Book SynopsisRetail Inequality examines the failure of recent efforts to improve Americans' diets by increasing access to healthy food. Based on exhaustive research, this book by Kenneth H. Kolb documents the struggles of two Black neighborhoods in Greenville, South Carolina. For decades, outsiders ignored residents' complaints about the unsavory retail options on their side of townuntil the well-intentioned but flawed food desert concept took hold in popular discourse. Soon after, new allies arrived to help, believing that grocery stores and healthier options were the key to better health. These efforts, however, did not change neighborhood residents' food consumption practices. Retail Inequality explains why and also outlines the history of deindustrialization, urban public policy, and racism that are the cause of unequal access to food today. Kolb identifies retail inequality as the crucial concept to understanding today's debates over gentrification and community development. As this book makes clear, the battle over food deserts was never about foodit was about equality.Trade Review"Kolb helps dispel the food desert media frame that implies that food desert residents choose poor diets. Rather, the problem is racism." * Symbolic Interaction *"Kolb drives home an oft-ignored consideration: Low-income neighborhoods deserve the same food options as wealthy neighborhoods, regardless of whether that leads to healthier diets." * Civil Eats *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments 1. What We Got Wrong 2. A Concept Catches Fire 3. Food Desert Realities: Perception, Money, and Transportation 4. Food Desert Realities: Social Capital, Household Dynamics, and Taste 5. The “Healthy Food” Frame 6. The Problem Solvers 7. A Path Forward Epilogue: Wins and Losses Appendix: Food Desert Media Database Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Walking Mannequins
Book SynopsisIn malls across the United States, clothing retail workers navigate low wages and unpredictable schedules. Despite these problems, they devote time and money to mirror the sleek mannequins stylishly adorned with the latest merchandise. Bringing workers' voices to the fore, sociologists Joya Misra and Kyla Walters demonstrate how employers reproduce gendered and racist beauty standards by regulating workers' size and look. Interactions with customers, coworkers, and managers further reinforce racial hierarchies. New surveillance technologies also lead to ineffective corporate decision-making based on flawed data. By focusing on the interaction of race, gender, and surveillance, Walking Mannequins sheds important new light on the dynamics of retail work in the twenty-first century. Trade Review"Walking Mannequins is an enjoyable and engaging read, and an important contribution to the literature on work and occupations." * Contemporary Sociology *"Misra and Walters’ findings broaden our understanding of the multiple ways race and gender shape the workplace from the relationships people form with their coworkers to unequal labor expectations, dress codes, and surveillance technologies." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"A fascinating and useful read for scholars and students interested in work, gender, emotional and/or aesthetic labor, technology and surveillance, and inequality." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Part I Introduction Introduction “If They Could Put You in the Store as a Mannequin, They Would” 1. Low Wages, Little Training, and Unpredictable Hours “It Makes You Realize How Awful These Retail Jobs Are” Part II Managers, Coworkers, and Customers 2. Multilevel Management and the Service Panopticon “We’ve Only Had One District Manager That Was a Normal Human Being” 3. Coworkers and Belonging “We Are Like a Family”; “If It Weren’t for Work, I Wouldn’t Talk to You” 4. Customer Expectations and Emotional Labor “It’s All about the Customer’s Experience” Part III Aesthetic Labor 5. Beautiful Bodies on the Sales Floor “They Basically Look for People That Look Like the Posters” 6. Modeling the Merchandise “They Always Check You, from Head to Toe” Conclusion Appendix: Research Design and Methods Notes References Index
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University of California Press Walking Mannequins
Book SynopsisIn malls across the United States, clothing retail workers navigate low wages and unpredictable schedules. Despite these problems, they devote time and money to mirror the sleek mannequins stylishly adorned with the latest merchandise. Bringing workers' voices to the fore, sociologists Joya Misra and Kyla Walters demonstrate how employers reproduce gendered and racist beauty standards by regulating workers' size and look. Interactions with customers, coworkers, and managers further reinforce racial hierarchies. New surveillance technologies also lead to ineffective corporate decision-making based on flawed data. By focusing on the interaction of race, gender, and surveillance, Walking Mannequins sheds important new light on the dynamics of retail work in the twenty-first century. Trade Review"Walking Mannequins is an enjoyable and engaging read, and an important contribution to the literature on work and occupations." * Contemporary Sociology *"Misra and Walters’ findings broaden our understanding of the multiple ways race and gender shape the workplace from the relationships people form with their coworkers to unequal labor expectations, dress codes, and surveillance technologies." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"A fascinating and useful read for scholars and students interested in work, gender, emotional and/or aesthetic labor, technology and surveillance, and inequality." * Gender & Society *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Part I Introduction Introduction “If They Could Put You in the Store as a Mannequin, They Would” 1. Low Wages, Little Training, and Unpredictable Hours “It Makes You Realize How Awful These Retail Jobs Are” Part II Managers, Coworkers, and Customers 2. Multilevel Management and the Service Panopticon “We’ve Only Had One District Manager That Was a Normal Human Being” 3. Coworkers and Belonging “We Are Like a Family”; “If It Weren’t for Work, I Wouldn’t Talk to You” 4. Customer Expectations and Emotional Labor “It’s All about the Customer’s Experience” Part III Aesthetic Labor 5. Beautiful Bodies on the Sales Floor “They Basically Look for People That Look Like the Posters” 6. Modeling the Merchandise “They Always Check You, from Head to Toe” Conclusion Appendix: Research Design and Methods Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press From Chinatown to Every Town
Book SynopsisFrom Chinatown to Every Town explores the recent history of Chinese immigration within the United States and the fundamental changes in spatial settlement that have relocated many low-skilled Chinese immigrants from New York City's Chinatown to new immigrant destinations. Using a mixed-method approach over a decade in Chinatown and six destination states, sociologist Zai Liang specifically examines how the expansion and growing popularity of Chinese restaurants has shifted settlement to more rural and faraway areas. Liang's study demonstrates that key players such as employment agencies, Chinatown buses, and restaurant supply shops facilitate the spatial dispersion of immigrants while simultaneously maintaining vital links between Chinatown in Manhattan and new immigrant destinations.Trade Review"The book’s key insight—that spatial assimilation is not just an individual level phenomenon, but rather is shaped by group-level dynamics and institutions—can be applied well beyond the Chinese restaurant industry." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Job Search: From Immigrant Networks to Market-Based Institutions 3. Making the Connection: The Story of the Chinatown Bus 4. Choices for New Immigrant Destinations 5. New Businesses in New Places: Adaptation and Race Relations 6. The Ties That Bind: Between Chinatown in Manhattan and New Immigrant Destinations 7. Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Analysis of Job Locations Notes References Index
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University of California Press A Place at the Nayarit
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A history of the Nayarit that’s really a history of Echo Park that’s really a history of Los Angeles." * Razorcake *"A fascinating study of a single business’s impact on a community." * Alta Magazine *"A Place at the Nayarit is essential for anyone wanting to learn more about the people who tirelessly work to shape the urban landscape." * Journal of Arizona History *"An enthralling microhistory… It is a boon for those looking to better understand the connection between food spaces and identity and also a means to remember a non-archival based history that might otherwise be erased by current-day gentrification of Echo Park." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Placemaking in a New Homeland 1. Finding a Place in Echo Park 2. Tasting Home 3. The Emotional Life of Immigration 4. Venturing Forth 5. Maintaining Ties Epilogue. Losing Places Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Purgatory Citizenship Reentry Race and Abolition
Book SynopsisReentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas, in a journey that is often confusing, complex, and precarious. Making use oflife-history interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color, primarily Black men, Calvin John Smiley finds that reentry requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serveas an extension of the carceral system. No longer behind bars but not fully free, the recently released navigate a state of limbo that deprives them of opportunity and support while leaving them locked in a cycle of perpetual punishment. Warning of the dangers of reformist efforts that only serve to further entrench carceral systems,Purgatory Citizenshipadvocates for abolitionist solutions rooted in the visions of the people most affected.Trade Review"A vivid, microcosmic snapshot… It should be of great interest to scholars and students in sociology, criminology, legal and justice studies, those who work within the nonprofit and government sector, and the justice impacted." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Underdevelopment 2. Purgatory 3. Halfway 4. Body 5. Space 1 6. Abolition Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Purgatory Citizenship
Book SynopsisReentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas, in a journey that is often confusing, complex, and precarious. Making use oflife-history interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color, primarily Black men, Calvin John Smiley finds that reentry requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serveas an extension of the carceral system. No longer behind bars but not fully free, the recently released navigate a state of limbo that deprives them of opportunity and support while leaving them locked in a cycle of perpetual punishment. Warning of the dangers of reformist efforts that only serve to further entrench carceral systems,Purgatory Citizenshipadvocates for abolitionist solutions rooted in the visions of the people most affected.Trade Review"A vivid, microcosmic snapshot… It should be of great interest to scholars and students in sociology, criminology, legal and justice studies, those who work within the nonprofit and government sector, and the justice impacted." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Underdevelopment 2. Purgatory 3. Halfway 4. Body 5. Space 1 6. Abolition Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Refashioning Race How Global Cosmetic Surgery
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: From Standardization to Customization—Race in Cosmetic Surgery PART I GLOBAL EXPERT DISCOURSE 1. Standardizing Noses in Global Cosmetic Surgery 2. Standardizing Techniques: Asian Cosmetic Surgery and the Art and Science of Asian Difference PART II DISCUSSING CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE U.S. AND MALAYSIA 3. “Looking Right”: Crafting Natural Looks in Cosmetic Surgery 4. Race and Customization in the Market for Cosmetic Surgery 5. Customizing Bodies: Seeing Race on the Body Conclusion: The Art and Science of Racial Difference in Global Cosmetic Surgery Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Refashioning Race
Book SynopsisCosmetic surgery was once associated with a one-size-fits-all approach, modifying patients to conform to a single standard of beauty. As this surgery has become more accessible worldwide, changing beauty trends have led to a proliferation of beauty standards for members of different racial groups. Alka V. Menon enters the world of cosmetic surgeons, journeying from a sprawling convention center in Kyoto to boutique clinics in the multicultural countries of the United States and Malaysia. She shows how surgeons generate and apply knowledge using racial categories and how this process is affected by transnational clinical and economic exchanges. Surgeons not only measure and organize but also elaborate upon racial differences in a globalized field of medicine. Focusing on the role of cosmetic surgeons as gatekeepers and producers of desired appearances, Refashioning Raceargues that cosmetic surgeons literallyreshape raceboth on patients' bodies and at the broader level of culture.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: From Standardization to Customization—Race in Cosmetic Surgery PART I GLOBAL EXPERT DISCOURSE 1. Standardizing Noses in Global Cosmetic Surgery 2. Standardizing Techniques: Asian Cosmetic Surgery and the Art and Science of Asian Difference PART II DISCUSSING CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE U.S. AND MALAYSIA 3. “Looking Right”: Crafting Natural Looks in Cosmetic Surgery 4. Race and Customization in the Market for Cosmetic Surgery 5. Customizing Bodies: Seeing Race on the Body Conclusion: The Art and Science of Racial Difference in Global Cosmetic Surgery Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Mike Henderson Before the Fire 19651985
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University of California Press Trash Talk
Book SynopsisWhat racist rumors about Barack Obama tell us about the intractability of racism in American politics. Barack Obama and his family have been the objects of rumors, legends, and conspiracy theories unprecedented in US politics. Outbreaks of anti-Obama lore have occurred in every national election cycle since 2004 and continue to the present daytwo elections after his presidency ended. In Trash Talk, folklorist Patricia A. Turner examines how these thought patterns have grown ever more vitriolic and persistent and what this means for American political culture. Through the lens of attacks on Obama, Trash Talk explores how racist tropes circulate and gain currency. As internet communications expand in reach, rumors and conspiracy theories have become powerful political tools, and new types of lore like the hoax and fake news have taken root. The mainstream press and political establishment dismissed anti-Obama mythology for years, registering concern only when it became difficult toTrade Review"Turner expertly exposes more unsubstantiated, secretive, organized anti-Obama agendas and offers valuable glimpses into what many Americans believe, what they think of others’ beliefs, and, most of all, what they think about who belongs where in U.S. society. An informative read." * Library Journal *"Remember how some said we had reached the post-racial era when Barack Obama was elected president? Patricia A. Turner explains why that’s not only wrong but how the rumors about Obama persisted, twisted and have evolved into the distrust, fake news and conspiracy theories of today." * Ms Magazine *"Trash Talk is an excellent resource for the study of the Obama presidency and the arrival not of a ‘post-racial’ moment but a ‘post-truth’ era with which most are ill-equipped to navigate." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This is not a comforting book; it is a book that alerts one to important realities, so readers ignore it at their peril. Essential." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Flagged Down 2. Articles of Faith 3. Born to Run 4. Michelle Matters 5. Pandemic Levels 6. Obama Legends in the Age of Trump Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Grandmothering While Black
Book SynopsisIn Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). She prioritizes the voices of Black grandmothers through in-depth interviews and ethnographic research at various sitesdoctor's visits, welfare offices, school and day care center appointments, caseworker meetings, and more. Through careful examination, she explores the various forces that compel, constrain, and support Black grandmothers' caregiving. Pittman showcases a fundamental change in the relationship between grandmother and grandchild as grandmothers confront the paradox of fulfilling the social and legal functions of motherhood without the legal rights of the role. Grandmothering While Black illuminates the strategies used by grandmothers to manage their legal marginalization vis-à-vis parents and the state across a range of caregiving arrangements. In Trade Review"A powerful ethnography." * Fostering Families Today *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Mothering While Black 2. Black Grandmothering: Role Expectations, Meanings, and Conflict 3. How Grandmothers Experience and Respond to Coerced Mothering within Informal Kinship Care 4. How Grandmothers Experience and Respond to Coerced Mothering within Formal Kinship Care 5. "He Don’t Get Enough Money to Do All That. And I Don’t Either": Grandmothers' Economic Survival Strategies 6. Managing the Burden and the Blessing Conclusion Appendix: The Five-Tiered System of Kinship Care Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Joy and Pain
Book SynopsisA poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black peopleand how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future. At the Southern California Librarya community organization and an archive of radical and progressive movementsthe author meets a young man, Marley. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty-first century through the lenses of housing, education, health care, social services, and juvenile detention. But Black life is not defined by precarity; it embraces social visions of radical freedom that allow the pursuit of a life of joy beyond systems of oppression. Structured as a record collection of five albums, this innovative book relates Marley's personal encounters with everyday aspects of the carceral state through an ethnographic A side and offers deeper context through an anthropological and archival B side. In Joy and Pain, Marley's experiencesTrade Review"Lively discussions of Black musicians including Ice Cube and Kendrick Lamar pepper the narrative, as do deep dives into the tactics and strategies of advocacy groups such as the Black Panther Party and the California Housing and Action Network. Progressive activists will savor this in-depth portrait of the struggle for justice." * Publishers Weekly *"A creative, intimate ethnography centering on Marley, a charismatic and smart teen but reluctant protagonist. . . . The result is a gripping, up-close portrait of how the carceral state in LA makes Black life so precarious. . . . This innovative, intimate book examines Marley’s joy and pain as he encounters a web of precarity created by housing, education, health care, and social services. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"A work of narrative storytelling, careful historical detail, and [an] homage to a community library that holds together many threads of hope within a system of destruction." * Journal of African American History *"Joy and Pain is a book whose message, dynamic depictions, and political intervention will be appreciated for its clarity and conviction by anyone interested in unpacking the fictions that create and sustain social inequality and the multilayered truths that challenge it." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Look at California ALBUM 1: HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT A Side: A Place Called Home B Side: Manufacturing a Problem ALBUM 2: THE HEART OF REBELLION A Side: A True Education B Side: Watts to the Future ALBUM 3: ALL THAT GLITTERS A Side: Nonprofit Management B Side: All Power to the People ALBUM 4: CRUEL AND BEAUTIFUL A Side: Shelter from Paradise B Side: Socialist Visions ALBUM 5: LIBERATORY VIBES A Side: Freedom Ain’t Free B Side: The Price of Freedom Closing Note: Freedom on the Mind Grounding Materials Works Cited Illustration Credits Index
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University of California Press Self Help Graphics at Fifty A Cornerstone of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The contributors frame Self Help Graphics as an arts organization with the potential to inspire a vision of a more just and inclusive art world, providing new perspectives on the organization and its significant contributions to the Chicano art movement and making Los Angeles a major center for global art." * Design and Culture *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Intangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art Ecologies Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza PART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART 1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibañez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art Tradition JV Decemvirale 2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas/os and Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles Adriana Katzew 3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of Solidarity Mary Thomas PART TWO: THE ATELIER 4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help Graphics Claudia Zapata 5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LA Robb Hernández 6. Self Help Graphics & Art’s Contributions to Chicana/o/x Art Histories Karen Mary Davalos PART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD 7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of Angels Kency Cornejo 8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990s Olga U. Herrera 9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market—a Conversation with Arlene Dávila Arlene Dávila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza Atelier History Self Help Graphics & Art Timeline Further Reading List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Self Help Graphics at Fifty
Book SynopsisThe definitive historyof a cherished East Los Angeles institution over five decades of art making and community building. Self Help Graphics at Fifty celebrates the ongoing legacy of an institution that has had profound aesthetic, economic, and political impact on the formation of Chicanx and Latinx art in the United States. Officially launched in 1973 during the Chicano Movement, Self Help Graphics & Art continues to serve on the cultural front. The institution's commitment to art, dignity for all, and empowerment of Chicanx and Latinx artists appears in every aspect of programming, including the Día de los Muertos festival; the Barrio Mobile Art Studio, which brings art education to underserved schools; and the printmaking program, which offers an accessible medium infused with activist aims. Looking at the multiple genealogies of art that intersect in East Los Angeles, Self Help Graphics at Fifty bears witness to the organization's influential role in US and global art historiTrade Review"The contributors frame Self Help Graphics as an arts organization with the potential to inspire a vision of a more just and inclusive art world, providing new perspectives on the organization and its significant contributions to the Chicano art movement and making Los Angeles a major center for global art." * Design and Culture *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Intangible Registers: Self Help Graphics and the Creation of Sustainable Art Ecologies Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza PART ONE: THE ETHOS OF SELF HELP GRAPHICS & ART 1. Dibujando el Camino: Ibañez y Bueno and the Chicano-Mexican Public Art Tradition JV Decemvirale 2. The Barrio Mobile Art Studio: The History of an Art Education Program for Chicanas/os and Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles Adriana Katzew 3. Generative Networks and Local Circuits: Self Help Graphics and the Visual Politics of Solidarity Mary Thomas PART TWO: THE ATELIER 4. The Future Is Feminist: How the Maestras Atelier Transformed Self Help Graphics Claudia Zapata 5. Unfinished: The Death Worlds of Homombre LA Robb Hernández 6. Self Help Graphics & Art’s Contributions to Chicana/o/x Art Histories Karen Mary Davalos PART THREE: FROM EAST LOS ANGELES TO THE WORLD 7. Central America at Self Help Graphics: Camaraderie and Artmaking in the City of Angels Kency Cornejo 8. Self Help Graphics and Global Circuits of Art in the 1990s Olga U. Herrera 9. Creating Infrastructures of Value: Self Help Graphics and the Art Market—a Conversation with Arlene Dávila Arlene Dávila, Karen Mary Davalos, and Tatiana Reinoza Atelier History Self Help Graphics & Art Timeline Further Reading List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Before Gentrification The Creation of DCs Racial
Book SynopsisDraws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city. This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class. Through the stories of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, Golash-Boza explores how DC came to be the nation's murder capital and incarceration capital, and why it is now a haven for wealthy White people. This troubling history makes clear that the choice to use prisons and policing to solve problems faced by Black communities in the twentieth centuryinstead of investing in schools, community centers, social services, health care, and violence preventionis what made gentrification possible in the twenty-first. Before Gentrification unveils a pattern of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism in DC that has implications for all US cities.Trade Review"Tanya Maria Golash–Boza’s fascinating new book, Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, offers an unflinching critique of the urban disinvestment policies that have destroyed both lives and communities in the nation’s capital." * Washington City Paper *"Golash-Boza grew up in the Petworth district of Washington, DC. . . . Her anger at the displacement going on in Washington, DC is directed at those in power who decided to invest in incarceration instead of working to prevent young people turning to illegal activities by re-opening community centers and programs designed to do exactly that. Her book makes a forceful argument that this was somewhat intentional and certainly preventable." * Counterpunch *"Before Gentrification examines the historical transition in selected older neighborhoods of Washington, DC, from enclaves of stable working- and middle-class households, to those experiencing disinvestment, and finally, to those later transformed by reinvestment. . . . The book is unusually well documented. Nicely supported by maps, tables, graphs, and photographs, it also includes chapter notes, a competent subject index, and a hefty reference list." * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: DISINVESTMENT 1. Dispossession and Displacement 2. The Violence of Disinvestment PART TWO: CARCERAL INVESTMENT 3. Cracking Down: The War on Drugs and Downward Mobility 4. Bringing in the Feds: Targeting Black Middle-Class Neighborhoods PART THREE: REINVESTMENT 5. Chocolate City No More: Gentrification through White Reclamation 6. Racialized Reinvestment: HOPE VI, New Communities, and the End of Public Housing Conclusion: Locked Up and Locked Out Appendix A: Interviewees Appendix B: Oral Histories Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Power of Chinatown
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University of California Press Dancing Down the Barricades
Book SynopsisA deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show businessfrom vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TVDancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Davis was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, antiJim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Frye Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race against the backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better unTrade Review"Davis was caught between warring views of what it meant to be Black in a racist U.S. Jacobson is one of the subtlest commentators on what it means to be caught in such a cultural bind. . . . A subtle, insightful book likely to be on many readers’ radar for its nuanced look at the consequences of a racial divide with roots that, as Jacobson makes clear, are longstanding, systemic, and institutional." * Library Journal, starred review *"In this intriguing deep dive, Yale University historian Jacobson (Roots Too) places singer and actor Sammy Davis Jr. (1925–1990) at the center of the intersection between race, culture, and politics in America. . . . Nuanced, incisive, and frequently surprising, this is a worthy reconsideration of a divisive public figure." * Publishers Weekly *"Jacobson’s own writing style is scholarly yet accessible, not bogged down with too many critical theory buzzwords . . . Particularly dynamic are Jacobson’s discussions of the racial hostilities that Davis and other Black entertainers faced off-stage in Las Vegas." * The Daily Beast *"Within Jacobson’s rich and layered description of the civil rights movement and post-civil rights era, he gives us a detailed and compassionate portrait of Davis; we understand his passion for the civil rights movement as well as why he was called a sellout and ostracized within his Black community. . . . It’s a testament to Jacobson’s sensitivity in writing about Davis that he closes Dancing Down the Barricades without reaching a conclusion about Davis’ authenticity." * NewCityLit *"Not exactly a biography, this subtle, expansive study is a scaffold for a searing assessment of white racism that forced African American entertainers into hard spaces during the long civil rights era. . . . Davis, who interacted personally with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon, emerges as a complex cultural worker whose outstanding artistry allowed him access to worlds that modeled “self-emancipation” from strictures of white racism. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author's Note Preface: The Long Civil Rights Era 1 • Star Rising at Twilight: A Childhood in Vaudeville 2 • "A Concentrated Bunch of Haters": War Time in Wyoming 3 • The All-Negro Cast, and Other Black Spaces 4 • The Vegas Strip, Network TV, and Other White Spaces 5 • "Division Is Not Our Destiny": Interracial Romance and Golden Boy 6 • Writing Wrongs in Yes I Can 7 • "The Skin Commits You": Civil Rights Itinerary Coda: What Is the "Post" of "Post-Civil Rights"? Notes Index
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University of California Press White Power and American Neoliberal Culture
Book SynopsisTrade Review"White Power and American Neoliberal Culture [illuminates] how the domestic sphere functions as a reproductive mechanism for raced and classed inequality and vehemence." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Disaster Whiteness 1 • Starting Points: White Power Neoliberalism / Neoliberal White Power 2 • Immiseration Culture, or How the Family Became a Trope and a Truncheon 3 • Far White Family Values: Strategies for Neoliberal Takeover 4 • The "Family" at the Core of White Power Utopia Conclusions in Strange Times, or Life within the Conjuncture of Neoliberalism and White Power Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Emancipation
Book SynopsisThis stunning exhibition catalog visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond. Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation sits at the intersection of history and contemporary life. Building upon in-depth conversations about representations of enslavement and emancipation at the close of the Civil War, this project originates from an analysis of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward's The Freedman (1863), one of the first bronze representations of a Black person in the United States, and expands into an investigation of how living artists envision emancipation, freedom, and liberation today. Featuring interviews with artists Sadie Barnette, Alfred Conteh, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith, the exhibition catalog explores their practices along with cutting-edge scholarship by Kirsten Pai Buick and Kelvin Parnell, among others, as well as a haunting story of embodiment and exploitation by celebrated science-fiction author N. K. Jemisin. Burdened by failed promises but buoyed by hope, this project is mournful and melancholy yet also reflective and celebratory in its aspirations for a brighter future. Published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art Exhibition dates: Amon Carter Museum of American Art: March 12July 9, 2023 Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University: August 5November 11, 2023 Williams College Museum of Art: February 16June 16, 2024Table of ContentsCONTENTS ARTIST INTERVIEW Jeffrey Meris ARTIST INTERVIEW Sadie Barnette THE FREEDMAN IN MULTIPLE: A LOOK AT ITS CASTING HISTORY Thayer Tolles ARTIST INTERVIEW Maya Freelon AN ANTIDOTE TO MELANCHOLY Margaret C. Adler WALKING AWAKE N. K. Jemisin INDEX
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University of California Press Amalia MesaBains
Book SynopsisThis first major retrospective of Amalia Mesa-Bains unearths her significant contributions to Chicanx/Latinx art and feminism. Best known for her pioneering altar installations, Amalia Mesa-Bains is one of the most innovative feminist and Latinx artists of her generation. In herforty-year career as an artist, activist, educator, and scholar, she has explored theexperiences, spiritual practices, and histories of Mexican American women andaddressed the colonial erasure and recovery of Mexican, African American, andIndigenous Californians. Appropriately called an archaeological practice, Mesa-Bains's art creates sacred spaces imbued with cultural memory, leading viewers on amagical journey of discovery through what might otherwise be lost to existing canons ofhistory. Amalia Mesa-Bains: The Archaeology of Memoryis the exhibition catalog accompanying the first major retrospective of her work, bringing her installations from the 1970s tothe present together for the first time. Featuring an essay by the artist and an interviewwith her, the book also brings together top-tier scholars who explore the ecofeminism, migranthistories, spirituality, and politics of erasure that ground her interdisciplinary practice. As a whole, the book cements Mesa-Bains's place as atrailblazing artist within the history of art. Published in association with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Exhibition dates: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: February 4-August 13, 2023 Phoenix Art Museum: November 2023-March 2024 El Museo del Barrio, New York City: April 2024-August 2024 San Antonio Art Museum: October 2024-January 2025 Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Arts and Culture, Riverside, CA: March 2025-August 2025Table of ContentsContents Director's Foreword Juli Rodrigues Widholm Acknowledgments Laura E. Perez and Maria Esther Fernandez Chapter 1 Amalia Mesa-Bains: Storytelling and the Archaeology of Memory Maria Esther Fernandez Chapter 2 Archaeology of the Immaterial: Absence and Presence in the Installations of Amalia Mesa-Bains Laura E. Perez Chapter 3 Sixty Objects in My Art Life Amalia Mesa-Bains Plates Chapter 4 In Conversation: Amalia Mesa-Bains's Feminisms Lowery Stokes Sims Chapter 5 Unruly Erotic Jennifer A. Gonzales Plates Chapter 6 Flowers and Songs: Memory, Nature, and the Empowered Feminine in the Prints and Books of Amalia Mesa-Bains Adrianna Zavala Chapter 7 The Latino Wunderkammer Tomas Ybarra-Frausto Plates Chronology Exhibition History Selected Bibliography Essay Bibliographies Works in the Exhibition Contributors
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University of California Press America Goddam
Book SynopsisOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022,Kirkus Reviews A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.Publishers WeeklyA powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title,this bookis a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. America, Goddamexplores the combined forceof anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. Combining history, theory, and memoir,America, Goddamrenders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm and death, while the circumstances and traumas of this violence go underreported and understudied. America, Goddam allows readers to understand How Black womenwho have been both victims of anti-Black violence as well as frontline participantsare rarely the focus of Black freedom movements. How Black women have led movements demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Toyin Salau, Riah Milton, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and countless other Black women and girls whose lives have been curtailed by numerous forms of violence. How across generations and centuries, their refusal to remain silent about violence against them led to Black liberation through organizing and radical politics. America, Goddampowerfully demonstrates that the struggle for justice begins with reckoning with the pervasiveness of violence against Black women and girls in the United States.Trade Review"A searing investigation of the violent oppression experienced by Black women and girls in America. . . . Required reading for all Americans." * Kirkus Reviews *"In this fiery debut, Lindsey . . . decries historical and contemporary injustices against Black women in America. Interweaving her own harrowing experiences with astute cultural and political analysis, Lindsey sheds light on how police mistreatment, medical racism, poverty, intracommunal violence, and other social ills place Black women in a condition of 'unlivable living.'. . . Carefully researched and sharply argued, this is a righteous indictment of racism and misogyny." * Publishers Weekly *"This book quickly creates space for the reader to ponder and grow without feeling ashamed of their starting point in the discussion. . . . The debate and exchange between the reader and the author does not call for a change in beliefs, unless desired by the reader, but a realization of the alternative harsh reality that exists for Black girls and women." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Goddam, Goddam, Goddam 1 Say Her Name: Policing Is Violence 2 The Caged Bird Sings: The Criminal Punishment System 3 Up against the Wind: Intracommunal Violence 4 Violability Is a Preexisting Condition: Dying in the Medical Industrial Complex 5 Unlivable: The Deadly Consequences of Poverty 6 They Say I'm Hopeless 7 We Were Not Meant to Survive Epilogue. A Letter to Ma'Khia Bryant Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Menace to Empire
Book SynopsisOne of Smithsonian Magazine's Favorite Books of 2022 This history reveals how radical threats to the United States empire became seditious threats to national security and exposes the antiradical and colonial origins of anti-Asian racism. Menace to Empire transforms familiar themes in American history. This profoundly ambitious history of race and empire traces both the colonial violence and the anticolonial rage that the United States spread across the Pacific between the Philippine-American War and World War II. Moon-Ho Jung argues that the US national security state as we know it was born out of attempts to repress and silence anticolonial subjects, from the Philippines and Hawai?i to California and beyond. Jung examines how various revolutionary movements spanning the Pacific confronted the US empire. In response, the US state closely monitored and brutally suppressed those movements, exaggerating fears of pan-Asian solidarities and sowing anti-Asian racism. Radicalized by thTrade Review"Jung understands that learning about empire involves more than reading about oppressive actions and policies. He invites readers to find examples where people from different backgrounds, interests and worldviews came together to actively oppose empire." * Smithsonian Magazine *"Menace to Empire is a comprehensive study of violence against Asians, the struggle to find their place in the United States and undergoing the adverse effects of the tight security US officials implemented as they grew increasingly suspicious of the influence and intentions of Asians in America." * European Journal of American Culture *"This book deserves to be widely taught, carefully read, and deeply engaged." * Southern California Quarterly *"This sprawling narrative tracks a massive cast of Asian revolutionaries, unionists, anti-imperialists, and leftists as their campaigns drove them to seek inspiration and allies in the United States, London, Japan, Brussels, Hong Kong, and Moscow, with hosts of military and intelligence agents working to suppress them following in hot pursuit. . . . In capturing Asian activists’ extensive travels, complex networks, and shifting coalitions, Menace to Empire recovers the significance of their pursuit of alternative futures." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Jung has written a well-researched and very readable book that will benefit students and would appeal to a wider readership." * International Affairs *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue: Worlds Empire Made Introduction: Reckoning with History and Empire 1. Suppressing Anarchy and Sedition 2. Conflating Race and Revolution 3. Fighting John Bull and Uncle Sam 4. Radicalizing Hawai'i 5. Red and Yellow Make Orange 6. Collaboration and Revolution Conclusion: America Is Not in the Heart Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press A Place at the Nayarit
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A history of the Nayarit that’s really a history of Echo Park that’s really a history of Los Angeles." * Razorcake *"A fascinating study of a single business’s impact on a community." * Alta Magazine *"A Place at the Nayarit is essential for anyone wanting to learn more about the people who tirelessly work to shape the urban landscape." * Journal of Arizona History *"An enthralling microhistory… It is a boon for those looking to better understand the connection between food spaces and identity and also a means to remember a non-archival based history that might otherwise be erased by current-day gentrification of Echo Park." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Placemaking in a New Homeland 1. Finding a Place in Echo Park 2. Tasting Home 3. The Emotional Life of Immigration 4. Venturing Forth 5. Maintaining Ties Epilogue. Losing Places Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Theorizing Multiculturalism
Book SynopsisBrings together the theories of multiculturalism from a multiplicity of philosophical perspectives. By challenging the impasses of the postmodern critique, this book serves to explore the possibility of a grounding work in multiculturalism and diversity without resorting to the foundationalism of traditional philosophy.Trade Review"There is much in this volume that is valuable" The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (reviewer and date unknown). "This exciting collection of key articles will be very useful for teaching and spans a more comprehensive range of topics than any other collection I've seen." Linda Martíin Alcoff, Syracuse University.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. I Post-Hegelian Dialectics of Recognition and Communication. From Redistribution to Recogntion? Dilemmas of Justice in a "Post-Socialist" Age (Nancy Fraser). Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory (Iris Marion Young). A Rejoinder to Iris Young (Nancy Fraser). Recognition, Value, and Equality: A Critique of Charles Taylor’s and Nancy Fraser’s Accounts of Multiculturalism (Lawrence Blum). Ludic, Corporate, and Imperial Multiculturalism of the New World Order (Martin J. Beck Matustik). II Post-Marxism and Issues of Class. Multiculturalism: Consumerist or Transformational? (Bill Martin). Post-Marxist Political Economy and the Culture of the Left (Donald C. Hodges). III Continental and Analytical Feminism. Identity, Difference, and Abjection (Kelly Oliver). Psychological Explanations of Oppression (Ann E. Cudd). IV Corporeal Logic and Sexuate Being. Toward the Domain of Freedom: Interview with Drucilla Cornell by Penny Florence (Drucilla Cornell). Morphing the Body: Irigaray and Butler on Sexual Difference (Tamsin Lorraine). V Critical Race Theory. Alienation and the African-American Experience (Howard McGary). "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again": Interculturalism and Conversation of Races (Robert Bernasconi). VI Postcolonialism and Ethnicity. Fanon and the Subject of Experience (Ronald A. T. Judy). White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of US Higher Education (Ward Churchill). VII Liberalism. Moral Deference (Laurence M. Thomas). "Multiculturalism," Citizenship, Education, and American Liberal Democracy (Lucius Outlaw, Jr.). VIII Pragmatism. Ceremony and Rationality in the Haudenosaunee Tradition (Scott L. Pratt). Educational Multiculturalism, Critical Pluralism, and Deep Democracy (Judith M. Green). Universal Human Liberation: Community and Multiculturalism (Leonard Harris). Index
£39.85
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It aims to give an overview of contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding of race as well as present a general review of recent philosophical discussions.Trade Review"Race offers a diverse and profound examination of the idea of race in the continental tradition, from Kant to contemporary theorists. Perspectives include phenomenology, feminism, multiculturalism, existentialism, and Africana Studies. A valuable research tool for scholarship in race and continental philosophy." Naomi Zack, University at Albany, SUNY "This collection provides a valuable new perspective on one of the most vexing issues of the modern era. Bernasconi is to be commended." Albert Mosley, Smith College "This excellent and wide-ranging anthology is certain to enrich and enliven contemporary philosophical discussion of the concept of race." Michele Moody-Adams, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Kant and the Invention of Race. 1. "Who Invented the Concept of Race?". (Robert Bernasconi). 2. "On the use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy". (Immanuel Kant). Part II: Du Bois and the Conservation of Races. 3. "Du Bois's Anthropological Notion of Race". (Tommy Lott). 4. "The Conservation of Races". (W.E.B. Du Bois). Part III: Nardal and Race Consciousness. 5. "Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters". (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting). 6. "The Awakening of Race Consciousness". (Paulette Nardal). Part IV: The Negritude Movement. 7. "Black Orpheus". (Jean-Paul Sartre). 8. "Negritude and Modernity or Negritude as a Humanism for the Twentieth Century". (Leopold Senghor). Part V: Fanon and the Phenomenology of Race. 9. "Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the Difference of Phenomenology". (Jeremy Weate) 10. "The Lived Experience of the Black". (Frantz Fanon). Part VI: Dumont and the Structuralist Analysis of Race. 11. "Is there a Structuralist Analysis of Racism?". (Kamala Visweswaran). 12. "Caste, Racism and Stratification". (Louis Dumont). Part VII: The Politics of Race. 13. "Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy". (Robert Gooding-Williams). 14. "Conversational Break". (Judith Butler). Part VIII: Phenomenology and Racial Embodiment. 15."Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment". (Linda Alcoff). 16. "The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances". (Robert Bernasconi). Index.
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Wiley Race
Book SynopsisThis volume provides an introduction to the concept of race within philosophy. It gives an overview of the most important contributions by continental philosophers to the understanding or race (focusing on Kant, Du Bois, Senghor, Sartre and Schutz) as well as presenting a general review of recent philosophical discussions.Trade Review"Race offers a diverse and profound examination of the idea of race in the continental tradition, from Kant to contemporary theorists. Perspectives include phenomenology, feminism, multiculturalism, existentialism, and Africana Studies. A valuable research tool for scholarship in race and continental philosophy." Naomi Zack, University at Albany, SUNY "This collection provides a valuable new perspective on one of the most vexing issues of the modern era. Bernasconi is to be commended." Albert Mosley, Smith College "This excellent and wide-ranging anthology is certain to enrich and enliven contemporary philosophical discussion of the concept of race." Michele Moody-Adams, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Kant and the Invention of Race. 1. "Who Invented the Concept of Race?". (Robert Bernasconi). 2. "On the use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy". (Immanuel Kant). Part II: Du Bois and the Conservation of Races. 3. "Du Bois's Anthropological Notion of Race". (Tommy Lott). 4. "The Conservation of Races". (W.E.B. Du Bois). Part III: Nardal and Race Consciousness. 5. "Paulette Nardal, Race Consciousness and Antillean Letters". (T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting). 6. "The Awakening of Race Consciousness". (Paulette Nardal). Part IV: The Negritude Movement. 7. "Black Orpheus". (Jean-Paul Sartre). 8. "Negritude and Modernity or Negritude as a Humanism for the Twentieth Century". (Leopold Senghor). Part V: Fanon and the Phenomenology of Race. 9. "Fanon, Merleau-Ponty and the Difference of Phenomenology". (Jeremy Weate) 10. "The Lived Experience of the Black". (Frantz Fanon). Part VI: Dumont and the Structuralist Analysis of Race. 11. "Is there a Structuralist Analysis of Racism?". (Kamala Visweswaran). 12. "Caste, Racism and Stratification". (Louis Dumont). Part VII: The Politics of Race. 13. "Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy". (Robert Gooding-Williams). 14. "Conversational Break". (Judith Butler). Part VIII: Phenomenology and Racial Embodiment. 15."Toward a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment". (Linda Alcoff). 16. "The Invisibility of Racial Minorities in the Public Realm of Appearances". (Robert Bernasconi). Index.
£38.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race Class Gender and Sexuality
Book Synopsisaeo Offers all the current topics of liberatory scholarship. aeo Readings consist of scholarly, popular, autobiographical, and literary writings that engage issues in racial theory, social and political philosophy, and feminism.Trade Review"This collection provides both classic and creative new analyses of four kinds of social identity that have been the focus of so much recent scholarly research, intellectual debate, and social policy. The excellent selection of papers in each area reflects the valuable resources that these philosophers bring to the project. This first-rate anthology will be a gift not only for philosophers but also for teachers and scholars in many disciplines, and for policy analysts." Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles "A welcome addition...I highly recommend the volume." James Wong, Dialogue, Vol 40.Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Naomi Zack. Part I: Race: Edited by Naomi Zack:. Race: Introduction to the Readings. 1. The Real Status of Blacks Today: Derrick Bell. 2. The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race: Kwame Anthony Appiah. 3. Racism in the Head, Racism in the World: Judith Lichtenburg. 4. The Status of Blacks in Academic Philosophy: Leonard Harris. 5. Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified: Lisa H. Newton. 6. The Morality of Reparation: Bernard R. Boxhill. 7. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon. 8. Prison of Color: Virginia R. Harris. 9. Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy: Naomi Zack. Questions about Race. Recommended Reading for Part One. Part II: Class: Edited by Crispin Sartwell:. Class: Introduction to the Readings. 10. Civil Government is for Defence of Rich Against Poor: Adam Smith. 11. Manifesto of the Communist Party: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 12. Economy and Society: Max Weber. 13. Men and Jobs: Elliot Liebow. 14. Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of the "Other": an Intellectual and Spiritual Journey: Dasiea Cavers-Huff and Janice Kollitz. 15. Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt: Patricia J. Williams. 16. Working-class Culture: Joanna Kadi. Questions about Class. Recommended Reading for Part Two. Part III: Gender: Edited by Laurie Shrage:. Gender: Introduction to the Readings. 17. Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities: Patrick D. Hopkins. 18. Interpreting 'Gender': Linda J. Nicholson. 19. A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy: Susan E. Shapiro. 20. Stages on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality and the Gendered Sublime: Christine Battersby. Questions about Gender. Recommended Reading for Part Three. Part IV: Sexuality: Edited by Laurie Shrage:. Sexuality: Introduction to the Readings. 21. Saint Foucault: David M. Halperin. 22. Refiguring Lesbian Desire: Elizabeth Grosz. 23. Markets in Women's Sexual Labour: Debra Satz. 24. Talking Sex: Bell Hooks. 25. Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement against Sexual Violence: Renée Heberle. Questions about Sexuality. Recommended Reading for Part Four. Part V: Intersections: Edited by Crispin Sartwell:. Intersections: Introduction to the Readings. 26. Mother Tongue: Amy Tan. 27. Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved my Head: Robin D. G. Kelley. 28. The Green Frog Skin: John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. 29. Aren't You in the Wrong Neighbourhood?: William Upski Wimsatt. 30. Sunset Trailer Park: Allan Bérubé with Florence Bérubé. 31. The Culture of Complaint: Robert Hughes. 32. Have We Got a Theory for You!: María C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman. 33. A Long Line of Vendidas: Cherríe Morga. Questions about Intersections. Recommended Reading for Part Five. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race Class Gender and Sexuality
Book SynopsisThis philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorizing on social identity. The editors redirect classic philosophical questions about personal identity to the categories of race, class, gender and sexuality.Trade Review"This collection provides both classic and creative new analyses of four kinds of social identity that have been the focus of so much recent scholarly research, intellectual debate, and social policy. The excellent selection of papers in each area reflects the valuable resources that these philosophers bring to the project. This first-rate anthology will be a gift not only for philosophers but also for teachers and scholars in many disciplines, and for policy analysts." Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles "A welcome addition...I highly recommend the volume." James Wong, Dialogue, Vol 40.Table of ContentsAbout the Editors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Naomi Zack. Part I: Race: Edited by Naomi Zack:. Race: Introduction to the Readings. 1. The Real Status of Blacks Today: Derrick Bell. 2. The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race: Kwame Anthony Appiah. 3. Racism in the Head, Racism in the World: Judith Lichtenburg. 4. The Status of Blacks in Academic Philosophy: Leonard Harris. 5. Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified: Lisa H. Newton. 6. The Morality of Reparation: Bernard R. Boxhill. 7. The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon. 8. Prison of Color: Virginia R. Harris. 9. Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy: Naomi Zack. Questions about Race. Recommended Reading for Part One. Part II: Class: Edited by Crispin Sartwell:. Class: Introduction to the Readings. 10. Civil Government is for Defence of Rich Against Poor: Adam Smith. 11. Manifesto of the Communist Party: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 12. Economy and Society: Max Weber. 13. Men and Jobs: Elliot Liebow. 14. Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of the "Other": an Intellectual and Spiritual Journey: Dasiea Cavers-Huff and Janice Kollitz. 15. Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt: Patricia J. Williams. 16. Working-class Culture: Joanna Kadi. Questions about Class. Recommended Reading for Part Two. Part III: Gender: Edited by Laurie Shrage:. Gender: Introduction to the Readings. 17. Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities: Patrick D. Hopkins. 18. Interpreting 'Gender': Linda J. Nicholson. 19. A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy: Susan E. Shapiro. 20. Stages on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality and the Gendered Sublime: Christine Battersby. Questions about Gender. Recommended Reading for Part Three. Part IV: Sexuality: Edited by Laurie Shrage:. Sexuality: Introduction to the Readings. 21. Saint Foucault: David M. Halperin. 22. Refiguring Lesbian Desire: Elizabeth Grosz. 23. Markets in Women's Sexual Labour: Debra Satz. 24. Talking Sex: Bell Hooks. 25. Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement against Sexual Violence: Renée Heberle. Questions about Sexuality. Recommended Reading for Part Four. Part V: Intersections: Edited by Crispin Sartwell:. Intersections: Introduction to the Readings. 26. Mother Tongue: Amy Tan. 27. Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved my Head: Robin D. G. Kelley. 28. The Green Frog Skin: John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. 29. Aren't You in the Wrong Neighbourhood?: William Upski Wimsatt. 30. Sunset Trailer Park: Allan Bérubé with Florence Bérubé. 31. The Culture of Complaint: Robert Hughes. 32. Have We Got a Theory for You!: María C. Lugones and Elizabeth V. Spelman. 33. A Long Line of Vendidas: Cherríe Morga. Questions about Intersections. Recommended Reading for Part Five. Index.
£43.65
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Natural Hierarchies
Book SynopsisThis original and provocative text provides an approach to understanding the emergence and development of social rank through race and caste. The struggles we face in race and ethnic relations today are explored through anthropological, historical and sociological lenses to understand the roots of social hierarchy drawing on examples from the Indian subcontinent, the Caribbean, and mainland America.Trade Review"Natural Hierarchies is an insightful study of the complex ways in which race and social relations are grounded in specific historical and cultural contexts. Through its rare combination of clearly argued theoretical analyses and empirical research it forces all of us working on these questions to rethink our research agendas and key concepts." John Solomos, South Bank University "This wide-ranging book considers political ideologies, European colonialism, and classical and contemporary social theory, especially that of Marx and Levi-Strauss." S. D. Borchert, Lake Erie College. "an interesting work." Contemporary Sociology "Smaje's book is a major contribution to the area. It is ambitious, erudite, and insightful." Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures. Preface. Part I: Race, Caste, and Hierarchy. 1. Race and Caste as Natural Hierarchies. 2. Race. 3. Caste. 4. Hierarchy. 5. History and Ambivalence: a Place in the Sociological Debate. Part II: Theoretical Constructions. 6. Introduction. 7. Essentialism and Anti-essentialism. 8. Structure. 9. Culture, Practice, and Symbol. 10. History. 11. Conclusion. Part III: Economic and Political Formations. 12. Introduction. 13. European capitalism, Indian Capitalism?. 14. Political formations. 15. Europe. 16. India. 17. Nations and Citizenries. Part IV: Race, Slavery, and Colonialism. . 18. Introduction. 19. Slavery. 20. Race and colonial society. 21. Race and Political Thought in Early Modern Europe. Part V: Race, Caste and the Person. . 22. Introduction. 23. Race, Caste and Kinship. 24. Caste, kinship, and Gender in India. 25. Race, Kinship, and Gender in the Caribbean. Part VI: Race, Caste and the Nation. . 26. Introduction. 27. Race and the Creolization in the Caribbean. 28. Euro-creole. 29. Afro-creole. 30. Caudillismo. 31. Caste, communalism, and the Nation in Contemporary India. Part VII: Hierarchy and Politics. . 32. Hierarchy and a Sociology of Politics. 33. Hierarchy and a Politics of Sociology. References. Index.
£45.55
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Cultural Diversity
Book SynopsisCultural Diversity: Its Social Psychology shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about immigration and multiculturalism. Shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about immigration and cultural diversity. Helps readers to understand the processes that have shaped modern societies and the diversity issues they are facing. Reviews research into the socio-psychological factors facilitating or hindering the emergence of plural societies. Focuses on intergroup relationships what happens when people migrate, how they adapt, and what changes are produced by their presence. The issues discussed are contextualised within the traditional accounts of the nation-state, European integration and North American and Australian experiences. Student-friendly features include boxes, summaries, lists of key words, suggestions for further reading and a glossary. Trade Review"At last, a social psychology text that is devoted to understanding the rapidly changing and multicultural nature of liberal democratic societies! Increasing cultural diversity and the forces of globalisation have brought significant challenges to the ways in which nation states manage and organise the coexistence of diverse cultural groups. This book draws on the best that social psychological theory and research has to offer to examine how dominant and non-dominant groups negotiate the complex social and psychological processes implicated in living together within the boundaries of the nation. Students and scholars of social psychology will welcome this innovative application of theories in the field to understand the complex and diverse societies in which we live." Dr Martha Augoustinos, Department of Psychology, Adelaide University "Considering the increased multiculturalism of most societies around the world, nothing could be more timely than this text that discusses the latest social psychological thinking and research. The book is a clear and scholarly work suitable for undergraduate and graduate students unfamiliar with the field. In an accessible and engaging style, Chryssochoou addresses the central issues and debates, discusses in detail some of the key concepts and most salient research, and offers an explanation of classic approaches and theories. The breath of its coverage of the literature is impressive and will help to stimulate further research in the field and also provides the wider audience of social scientists with an excellent introduction to what social psychology has to offer." Dr Maykel Verkuyten, Utrecht University "Far too many texts in social psychology spend so much time outlining answers that they forget to explain why the questions matter in the first place. Xenia Chryssochoou's great achievement in this book is to make us care about the issues that our theories are oriented to and hence make us want to engage with those issues. She addresses what is perhaps the most pressing social issue of our time: how can people live together in culturally diverse societies? She uses this to address the contribution of a broad range of social psychological theories. Her writing is scholarly and balanced and clear. But perhaps most importantly, it is what we sorely lack and urgently need: a passionate social psychology." Professor Stephen Reicher, School of Psychology, St. Andrews University "The tendency to oversimplify cultural differences is a common one, but Chryssochoou manages subtlety and theoretical sophistication in addressing one of the defining issues of our times: how to develop thriving multicultural communities. With succinct summaries of the methods and results of groundbreaking studies and cogent theoretical snapshots in panels and appendices, Chryssochoou does student readers a great service. And by considering immigration from the perspectives of immigrants themselves as well as members of the receiving culture, she moves all of us perceptibly closer to understanding the social and psychological prerequisites for a better, more diverse societal life." Dr John T. Jost, New York University and Stanford University "Until now, no attempts have been made to integrate the many different research traditions that social psychologists use to study cultural diversity. This situation is now changed. Xenia Chryssochoou uses a method of triangulation to link, in a common frame, studies on different aspects of acculturation such as the reciprocal views of cultural minorities and majorities together with processes described by main theories in social psychology. Her book on Cultural Diversity: Its Social Psychology is unique for its exhaustive treatment of the social psychological aspects of the relationships between different cultural groups as well as for the innovative devices used to structure and transmit the message." Willem Doise, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Geneva "An excellent textbook introducing the central issues surrounding the social psychological processes within multicultural societies, with a particular emphasis on migration and ethnic minorities. The perspectives of immigrants and hosts are both examined, with case studies, theoretical snapshots and sidebar definitions of key terms. Later chapters consider issues of living together in a multicultural society and the future of the nation-state within supranational groupings. A book that will interest the general reader as well as the student of social psychology." Scientific and Medical Network Review, Spring 2004 "The book aims to understand the principles of the interaction between the individual and the social in order to understand the functioning of our societies and the constitution of culture." Sage Race Relations AbstractsTable of ContentsForeword by Serge Moscovici vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv What is Social Psychology About? xvi Social Psychology and the Study of Multicultural Societies xviii Cultural Memberships and Understanding of the Social World xx Beliefs About Acculturation: The Coexistence of Different Cultures Under the Same Political and Social Organization xxiv 1 Moving Into New Environments: The Perspective of People Belonging to Non-Dominant Cultural Groups 1 Managing Change, Unfamiliar Environments, and Experiences: Acculturation as a Major Life-Change Event 4 Transmitting and Retaining One’s Cultural Values, and Challenges to Perceptions of the World and of the Self 12 Becoming a Member of the ‘‘New Society’’: Dealing with Devalued/Minority Identities, Prejudice, and Discrimination 20 2 Receiving Immigrants, Perceiving the Other: Reactions of People Belonging to Dominant Cultural Groups 33 Social Psychological Theories of Prejudice 35 Representations of Groups: Stereotypes and Social Categorization 42 Prejudice Linked to Racial Differentiation 45 Constructing ‘‘Otherness’’: Extreme Problematizations of the Outgroup 52 Feeling Threatened: Identity, Change, and Resources 60 3 Living Together in Culturally Diverse Societies 66 Reducing Prejudice: Contact and Categorization Issues 67 Relationships Between Groups: Issues of Negative and Positive Interdependence and Power 73 Superordinate Memberships: The Battle for Group Beliefs 85 4 Towards Cultural Diversity: Representations, Identity, and Social Influence 97 The Nation-State: A Powerful Ingroup 99 Supranational Groups, Multiple Identities, and Founding Myths: Developing New Projects 112 In the Name of Identity: Self-Knowledge and the Politics of Rights, Claims, and Recognition in Culturally Diverse Societies 121 Theoretical Snapshots 128 References 181 Index 209
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Harvard University Press Many Thousands Gone The First Two Centuries of
Book SynopsisA leading historian of southern and African-American life traces the evolution of black society in America from its creation in the early 17th century through the American Revolution. Berlin reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king.Trade ReviewThe American Constitution chose slavery...and the nation justified the choice by formulating an ideology that made blacks into something less than human beings. The result, as historian Ira Berlin argues in a new book on slavery, Many Thousands Gone, is that African slavery became "no longer just one of many forms of subordination—a common enough circumstance in a world ruled by hierarchies—but the foundation on which the social order rested." -- Ellis Cose * Newsweek *Ira Berlin's magisterial [book] is a story of slavery in evolutionary perspective...As a comprehensive study of early North American slavery the work is unexcelled and will be a boon to students and scholars alike. -- Daniel C. Littlefield * Slavery and Abolition *In [Many Thousands Gone], Berlin emphasises that slavery, too often treated by historians as a static institution, was in fact constantly changing. The range of subjects is impressive—from work patterns to family life, naming practices, religions, race relations and modes of resistance. But by organising his account along the axes of space and time, Berlin gives coherence to what would otherwise have been an account overwhelming by its detail and complexity...Many Thousands Gone is likely to remain for years to come the standard account of the first two centuries of slavery in the area that became the United States. -- Eric Foner * London Review of Books *Berlin's study is the best account we have of the beginnings of servitude in America. It is also a reminder of slavery's adaptability. The notion that it was necessarily tied to the production of export staples is false. -- Howard Temperley * Times Literary Supplement *Occasionally we are rewarded with a brave soul willing to impose shape and direction on what has become, for many, a prodigiously confusing historiography. Ira Berlin, like the very best historians who have tackled the problem, brings to the task a formidable record as a researcher and writer in more specialised areas of slave and post-slave studies. The result of Berlin's labours is a vital book, not simply in making sense of historical complexity, but in advancing a new and distinctive argument about the shaping of North America...[Many Thousands Gone has] a sophisticated argument that imposes shape on historical diversity without in the least riding roughshod over the specific local and regional differences that fragment the American slave experience. This is a deceptive book, for it is not simply a general account of slavery in North America. It is a subtle—and beautifully written—argument about the phases of slave history and of that sharp differentiation across time and place that makes slavery so hard to contain within a more generalised format...What emerges is the most original and most persuasive overall study of North American slavery for a very long time...[Many Thousands Gone] is moreover a book with powerful implications for anyone interested in the wider history of America. It is, quite simply, a book of major importance for all historians of North America. -- James Walvin * Times Higher Education Supplement *Many Thousands Gone will challenge just about everything you thought you knew about slavery, especially its dawning...Through this honest and responsible work, perhaps we can begin decoding our Pavlovian responses to the buried racial and experiential triggers we dare not analyze. -- Debra Dickerson * Village Voice *Ira Berlin provides a sweeping survey of slavery and black life in North America...from the early 17th into the early 19th centuries. The result is the best general history we now have of the "peculiar institution" during its first 200 years. Many Thousands Gone is a remarkable book, one that beautifully integrates two centuries of history over a wide geographical area. It is a benchmark study from which students will learn and with which scholars will grapple for many years to come. -- Peter Kolchin * Los Angeles Times *Many Thousands Gone is an imaginatively conceived, brilliantly executed academic history of the experience of African-Americans, from their arrival in Jamestown in 1619, through the early decades of the nineteenth century. With clarity and sympathetic attention, Berlin depicts how, with regional and historical variations, blacks in North America employed a variety of stratagems to confront modify, ameliorate, and even surmount their degraded condition as slaves...Berlin's knowledge of slave life in America is little short of encyclopedic. On virtually every page he illuminates how and to what extent African-Americans in different times and places strove "to negotiate" the terms of their servitude with their masters...This book seems destined to define the terms of discussion for many years to come. -- Haim Chertok * Jerusalem Post *When Americans think about slavery—and try to work through its legacy—they're operating from a misleadingly narrow image: the cotton plantations of the deep South. So says Berlin, who chronicles the slave experience in the 200 years—1619 to 1819—that preceded the antebellum period. It's a horrific picture, but a complex one too, including the dramatically different lives of the first Creole slaves, the long northern enthusiasm for slavery, and ever-present patterns of resistance and renegotiation. * Globe and Mail *In Many Thousands Gone, Ira Berlin tells the complex and neglected story of American slavery from 1619 through about 1810. It is a story most Americans do not know...Berlin has written a sweeping history that builds upon the pioneering work of John Hope Franklin, John Blassingame, Eugene Genovese, Herbert Gutman and Edmund Morgan, and shines as both a comprehensive and astute synthesis of current scholarship and as an original contribution to the field. -- James L. Swanson * Chicago Tribune *In his pathbreaking book on slavery's first two centuries in America, Ira Berlin argues that our historical memory is incomplete, based almost entirely on 19th-century portraits of the "peculiar institution." Underscoring differences within the North American slave experience over time and place, Berlin paints a much more complex picture of slavery's origins and formative years...[and] skillfully unravels slavery's complex evolution. Berlin's foremost contribution is his nuanced analysis of the creolization process. His book is the best study of black life before the "plantation revolution" and its mainspring, slavery, which locked African Americans into an inferior class defined by color...Race, then, as Berlin reminds us, like class, is the product of a particular kind of social construction. It required major demolition—the Civil War—to begin to renovate the structure that slavery and racism built. -- John David Smith * News and Observer *As Ira Berlin makes abundantly clear, racism was an ideology crucial for creating an intellectual and emotional climate that would allow slavery to exist. It gave an institution, albeit a "peculiar" one, the required veneer of "reason"...Berlin explodes several myths and sets in their place a history that honors the complexity of the American past with an unswerving, unsentimental gaze. One myth that Berlin seizes is that of the Old South, the common belief that slavery was for the most part situated below the Mason-Dixon Line. Slavery became a southern phenomenon only after 200 years of American history. These 200 years are Berlin's subject, as he tracks the black presence throughout early America, emphasizing in vivid detail the diversity of slave existence, urban and rural. He underscores the fact that as America was being constructed by slave labor, slaves were living their own lives and creating their own culture, a syncretic mix of African origins...Berlin's argument, and it is brilliantly posed, is that slavery, with all its resonance, haunts America even as the new century is about to begin. -- Michelle Cliff * San Jose Mercury News *Berlin offers a complex picture of how slaves etched out small freedoms under dire circumstances in early America. Their existence was defined by religion, family structure and African inheritance—not just the fact that they were slaves. Many Thousands Gone is not an apology for slavery, but a testament to the willpower of a people to define their own lives under the most dismal conditions. -- Ronald D. Lankford * Roanoke Times *Rather than focus on slavery in the antebellum South, Berlin provides a revealing look at the diverse lives and cultures of the early slaves. * Washington Post Book World *In this masterly work, Ira Berlin has demonstrated that earlier North American slavery had many different forms and meanings that varied over time and from place to place. Slavery and race did not have a fixed character that endured for centuries but were constantly being constructed or reconstructed in response to changing historical circumstances. Many Thousands Gone illuminates the first 200 years of African-American history more effectively than any previous study. -- George M. Fredrickson * New York Times Book Review *This meticulous scholarly study demonstrates how and why slavery took different forms at different times in different colonies and states, and describes the kinds of autonomy that slaves were able to wrest from their masters under each variant of the system. Berlin also stresses slaves' skills and acumen, not to palliate the evil of slavery but to show slaves as something other than victims--as competent, often exceptionally able, men and women. * New Yorker *Ira Berlin, one of this nation's foremost scholars on the slave era...presents a thorough and extensive examination of early slavery...[He] considers the evolution of slavery, and the changing nature of how slaves were treated. Though he never understates the violence and domination practiced by slaveholders, Berlin introduces the notion that slavery during its first two centuries was a "negotiated relationship," even if that relationship was "so profoundly asymmetrical" that most discount even the "notion of negotiation" between the owner and the owned. -- Renée Graham * Boston Sunday Globe *In Many Thousands Gone, Ira Berlin has produced an intriguing and compelling new interpretation that is one of the most significant books about slavery in several years...Berlin's work is an impressive and masterfully written narrative. He provides a clearer picture of slavery, which has often been clouded by imprecise accounts. As he astutely concludes, slavery's effects still persist as an unwelcome guest in American society. -- John A. Hardin * Lexington Herald Leader *By concentrating on slavery in North America from the early years of settlement through the Revolution, Ira Berlin restores historical depth and a human face to a field usually mired in angry polemic and narrow quanitification. This rich and well-written narrative—the best book on American slavery since Eugene Genovese's Roll, Jordan, Roll—challenges traditional accounts...Many Thousands Gone shows how we must place American history and the contemporary American dilemma of race and cultural heritage in the hemispheric and Atlantic context to comprehend fully America's peculiarities and uniqueness. * Foreign Affairs *Today's correct historian can be as guilty of over simplification as yesterday's apologist for slavery, but Berlin scrupulously resists any such temptations. His emphasis is on subtlety and complexity...According to Berlin the history of the first two of slavery's three centuries in North America reveals nothing so much as change, ambiguity and "messy, inchoate reality." For this reason alone his book has great value and importance; it is also lucid, measured and entirely persuasive...Indeed, for all the oppression it documents, Many Thousands Gone can be read not as a chronicle of denial and enslavement but as evidence of the irresistible impulse for freedom. In this sense Berlin's book is an affirmation, not merely of the fortitude and dignity of the slaves (a matter of grave concern to many of today's historians) but of the capacity of American democracy--despite its shortcomings--to live up to its promises. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post *[Top 10 Pick for 1998, Nonfiction Category, Christian Science Monitor][This is] a monumental, sweeping study of the evolution of America's "peculiar institution" from the earliest white settlement through the early Republic period. Berlin, one of the foremost historians of American slavery, has written an addition to the canon of essential works on the subject...Many Thousands Gone makes clear that slavery at no point achieved the "stable maturity" that many historians have ascribed to the 19th century period. -- Neal M. Rosendorf * Christian Science Monitor *Ira Berlin has helped to shape the recent literature on slavery in the United States...Many Thousands Gone represents Mr. Berlin's most ambitious undertaking to date and a sharp temporal departure from his previous books, for he has backtracked from the 19th century to write a 200-year history of slavery on the North American mainland that begins with the African background to England's settlement of the colonial Chesapeake in the early 17th century...[He] has written a major synthesis that will surely draw praise from the academy. -- Robert L. Paquette * Washington Times *In each society and in each generation slaves adjusted and adapted to their conditions. Blacks never were exclusively the hapless victims of the "white devil" of history or the obsequious Sambos of the "Gone With The Wind" model. Berlin's greatest achievement is finally correcting the misconceptions black and white Americans have about how slavery operated in this nation. -- Gregory Kane * Baltimore Sun *Berlin, who has already contributed significantly to the literature, here brings together in a magisterial synthesis much of what has now been learned about slave life during its first two centuries within the present United States...Berlin's achievement is to order the resulting variety by identifying four different regions with four different economies (the Chesapeake, the eastern tidewater from South Carolina to Florida, the Mississippi Valley, and the North) and by dividing the social developments of two centuries in each region into three periods, which he designates as the charter generations, the plantation generations, and the Revolutionary generations, stopping short of the heyday of slavery in the antebellum decades of the nineteenth century. -- Edmund S. Morgan * New York Review of Books *Synthesizing a generation of scholarship, Berlin provides a sweeping survey of slavery and black life in North America (the European colonies that became the United States) from the early 17th into the early 19th centuries. The result is the best general history we now have of the 'peculiar institution' during its first 200 years...Many Thousands Gone is a remarkable book, one that beautifully integrates two centuries of history over a wide geographical area. It is a benchmark study from which students will learn and with which scholars will grapple for many years to come. -- Peter Kolchin * Los Angeles Times Book Review *An original, eye-opening study in which Berlin most persuasively argues that slavery was no monolithic institution but one that evolved in different ways in different places, and did not become the 'slave society' so well known to students of American history until relatively late in its long, painful development. -- Jonathan Yardley * Washington Post Book World *No general synthesis existed to pull all of [the] fragments of scholarship together and present a coherent narrative of the first two centuries of North American slavery—until now. Ira Berlin's splendid study tells us what we need to know about how the peculiar institution of antebellum America got that way over the previous 200 years. The scholarship of this study is astonishing. Berlin appears to have read every secondary source and every published primary source—not all of this in English—relevant to the subject. Yet this burden of scholarship does not weigh down the text with dull, heavy prose. Quite the contrary; Berlin has accomplished a small miracle of organization, compression, and skillful exposition...Many Thousands Gone is essential reading for all those interested in the history of African Americans and of race relations in this country. Berlin writes this history more from the viewpoint of the slaves than that of the master. This is all to the good, for it helps redress the balance of most studies of slavery. Black people herein are not merely victims; they help make their own history, a history in which many of them gained freedom and formed a distinctive culture long before the Emancipation Proclamation. Indeed, this is as much a history of freedom as of slavery, a story of success against the odds as well as a story of exploitation and cruelty. -- James M. McPherson * Journal of Blacks in Higher Education *[Berlin] draws on recent scholarship to sketch in the contours of the slave experience in colonial Florida and Louisiana, reminding us that the ancestors of many black Americans learned to speak Spanish or French long before they ever heard English. Berlin paints deftly with a broad brush, and his trim narrative is informed and gripping...Berlin documents the high hopes for freedom, the desperate attempts to gain liberty, and the deep sense of disappointment and betrayal that led slaves to form conspiracies from Richmond, Virginia to Pointe Coupee, Louisiana. -- Peter H. Wood * Brightleaf *Berlin crafts a deft synthesis of the many regional studies that have slowly been changing our understanding of slavery...No one before Berlin has made sense of these works altogether, as a unified field of inquiry. There is originality in Berlin's synthesis, as historical events and cultural tendencies take on new and fresh meanings. Further, his distillation of the burgeoning field is highly valuable. It is a brilliant summary for general readers and newcomers to the field; it will be a standard work for graduate students preparing for exams, and many a burdened faculty member who needs a quick overview in order to prepare lectures will dog-ear its pages. -- Joyce E. Chaplin * Reviews in American History *Many Thousands Gone is an investigation of the ways in which freedom and slavery were negotiated between slaves and slave owners, making the point that no matter how powerful the slave owner became, the culture and the actions of the slave were never completely in his power. Thus, the history of slavery becomes, in part, a history of strategies--some partial failures, some partial successes--for establishing African American self-determination in a time of slavery...By beginning with the assumption that slavery was not one thing but was instituted and experienced in a variety of distinct ways, Many Thousands Gone allows readers to glimpse a more nuanced picture of the strivings and accomplishments of the souls and bodies caught in slavery's meshes, enriching rather than compromising the understanding of the institution's true harmful nature. -- Thomas Cassidy * Magill's Literary Annual *In his pathbreaking book on slavery's first two centuries in America, Ira Berlin argues that our historical memory is incomplete, based almost entirely on 19th-century portraits of the 'peculiar institution.' Underscoring differences within the North America slave experience over time and place, Berlin paints a much more complex picture of slavery's origins and formative years. -- John David Smith * Raleigh News & Observer *This important study successfully synthesizes insights of the past 40 years while advancing new scholarship which emphasizes the shifting definition of both race and slavery in North America...Many Thousands Gone is a well-written, provocative reappraisal of the first 200 years of North American slavery. -- Marion Lucas * Bowling Green News *[Many Thousands Gone] is a serious study that the general public will find interesting and useful...As an introduction to the new history of slavery in North America, especially in the long era prior to the 'Old South,' one could do little better than to buy this book. -- Douglas B. Chambers * The Commercial Appeal *A noted historian with other books on slavery, Mr. Berlin focuses in this latest work on what slavery meant during the 1600s and 1700s. And one of his major points, carefully documented and argued, is that slavery and race then were not always what we think of them as being now...What's refreshing about his analysis is how many layers of African-American life he is able to penetrate. Drawing upon Dutch, French, Spanish and English documents, he looks globally at how the African diaspora of slaves shaped North American communities. -- Meta G. Carstarphen * Dallas Morning News *Berlin has written an imaginative, detailed account of American slavery from its origins at the beginning of the 17th century through the Revolution...A major contribution to the study of slavery in the United States. -- Anthony O. Edmonds * Library Journal *Many Thousands Gone...is a sweeping scholarly study of four kinds of slave society...those in the Northern colonies, the Chesapeake Bay area, the Carolina low country, and the lower Mississippi valley...One of Mr. Berlin's most striking realizations....[was how] slaves had had such different experiences of slavery. Some had been skilled laborers, others small farmers, still others plantation workers...'What Ira has done is to etch the patterns,' says Ronald Hoffman, director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in Williamsburg, Virginia. 'He's developed a model of how slavery changed that's going to be enormously important'...More than just highlighting diversity, the patterns that Mr. Berlin draws in his scholarship also throw into relief changes in the nature of slavery...Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia University, says, 'In a way that no one else has done, Berlin takes the entire area of what became the United States and gives us a genuine transcontinental perspective. That has tremendous force in driving home the point that slavery was never static, but an evolving institution...The field today is ripe for broad debate and Berlin's superb synthesis is just the work to spark it.' -- Karen J. Winkler * Chronicle of Higher Education *Through his scholarship and leadership, Ira Berlin has recast the way we conceive of the history of African Americans and their relationship to other Americans...Covering a vast terrain and chronological span, the author gives us a fuller portrayal of slavery's formative stages in this country than we have ever possessed. The book is a work of synthesis, harvesting the research and insights of hundreds of historians who have focused on one place, time, or issue. Though the book contains no original archival research, it is a rare student of the American past who will not be surprised by something in virtually every chapter. It is the pattern of slavery that is significant here, the variations and consistencies across the continent and across the centuries. Berlin follows no one historiographical tradition, but weaves among several, taking the best of each...[The] combination of context and change, as well as negotiation and material grounding, gives Berlin a nuanced, yet powerful way of understanding slavery. The keys for Berlin's interpretation are not simple and familiar ones such as 'race' or 'capitalism,' but distinctly complicated conceptions with which we have become familiar in this decade: negotiation, complexity, agency, multiplicity, indeterminacy, and interaction. Berlin manages to portray slavery as both fundamentally important and highly contingent, an analytical juggling act that would have failed in less skillful hands. -- Edward L. Ayers * The Historian *The history of slavery in North America is not as simple, clear-cut or tidy as is often believed. That is the message of this impeccably presented history of American slavery from 1619, when John Rolfe brought 'twenty Negars' to the Jamestown colony, to the 1820s, when the spirit of emancipation began to take hold in the North...[Berlin's] distinctions have continuing resonance, as [he] shows that once a society with slaves became a slave society, all blacks--free or not--could come to be regarded as slaves: in short, how an economic system became racism...The book holds many surprises gleaned from the facts, whether in its portrait of New York as a major slave city or its descriptions of free enterprise at work among slaves. The economic and historical research presented here is impressive. But what gives the book an additional dimension is its deftly employed social insights. * Publishers Weekly *Rather than focus on the much studied slavery of the antebellum South, Berlin examines the earlier history of slavery throughout North America and how it affected the consequent nature and evolution of the peculiar institution...He traces the first African presence in the Americas to a 'charter generation' that was multilingual and multicultural, through the 'plantation generation' that adjusted its African culture to the various regions of the U.S., and, finally, the 'revolutionary generation' that began to challenge U.S. ideals of liberty and freedom in the face of slavery. Throughout this fascinating book, Berlin deftly outlines the human negotiations that went on even in so unequal a relationship as master-slave. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *In a real contribution to the literature of American slavery, Berlin sketches the complex evolution of that institution in the American colonies and the early US...[He] traces the development of a 'society with slaves'—that is, in which slavery was a marginal institution that represented only one among many labor sources—into a 'slave society' in which slavery was not only central to the economy but formed the basis of all social institutions...A cogently argued, well-researched narrative that points to the complex nature of American slavery, the falsity of many of our stereotypes, and the unique world wrought by the slaves themselves. * Kirkus Reviews *Berlin's adept mixture of economic and social history enlarges our understanding of colonial slavery and contributes fascinating new insights...[N]ovel insights permeate nearly every page...Authoritative, original, beautifully organized and composed, Many Thousands Gone is a striking combination of black history and the study of the evolution of slavery. Any reader intrigued by the tumultuous, shifting account of early American slavery and the people who made it need look no further than this state-of-the-art achievement by a masterful historian. -- Graham Russell Hodges * America *Berlin repeatedly recalibrates the received story of slavery, all the while revising the record with numerous therapeutic reinterpretations...To see enslaved people as Berlin does, that is sequentially as the charter generations, the plantation generations, and the revolutionary generations, is to see them as different populations facing different concerns at different times. In this way he restores to millions of black people a degree of personhood that is finally profoundly liberating. For if enslaved people are seen as participating actively in their own social formation, they are then granted fundamental humanity that the proponents of chattel slavery tried so hard to eradicate. * American Studies International *[Berlin presents] a full-scale interpretation of the complexity and diversity of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century African-American slave life and work. His five-hundred-page book,Many Thousands Gone, is the most comprehensive study yet produced of the first two centuries of slavery in North America. Berlin is, of course, well qualified for his ambitious task, for he has spent his entire career studying American slavery and facilitating the work of other scholars in this field...Berlin has his own distinctive argument, which endows the book with originality and power. -- Richard S. Dunn * William and Mary Quarterly *In this book, Berlin, has produced a masterly synthesis of the vast body of research hundreds of scholars have done on the first two centuries of slavery in British, French, and Spanish North America, a portrait of highly fortuitous change that should leave a telltale stamp on all future treatments of New World slavery. -- David Brion Davis * American Historical Review *Table of Contents* Prologue: Making Slavery, Making Race * Societies with Slaves: The Charter Generations * Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake * Expansion of Creole Society in the North * Divergent Paths in the Lowcountry * Devolution in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Slave Societies: The Plantation Generations * The Tobacco Revolution in the Chesapeake * The Rice Revolution in the Lowcountry * Growth and the Transformation of Black Life in the North * Stagnation and Transformation in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Slave and Free: The Revolutionary Generations * The Slow Death of Slavery in the North * The Union of African-American Society in the Upper South * Fragmentation in the Lower South * Slavery and Freedom in the Lower Mississippi Valley * Epilogue: Making Race, Making Slavery * Tables * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press The Cold War and the Color Line
Book SynopsisThe Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths—Southern Africa and the American South—as the primary sites of white authority’s last stand.Trade Review[Borstelmann traces] the constellation of racial challenges each administration faced (focusing particularly on African affairs abroad and African American civil rights at home), rather than highlighting the crises that made headlines… By avoiding the crutch of ‘turning points’ for storytelling convenience, he makes a convincing case that no single event can be untied from a constantly thickening web of connections among civil rights, American foreign policy, and world affairs. -- Jesse Berrett * Village Voice *Borstelmann…analyzes the history of white supremacy in relation to the history of the Cold War, with particular emphasis on both African Americans and Africa. In a book that makes a good supplement to Mary Dudziak’s Cold War Civil Rights, he dissects the history of U.S. domestic race relations and foreign relations over the past half-century… This book provides new insights into the dynamics of American foreign policy and international affairs and will undoubtedly be a useful and welcome addition to the literature on U.S. foreign policy and race relations. Recommended. -- Edward G. McCormack * Library Journal *In rich, informing detail enlivened with telling anecdote, Cornell historian Borstelmann unites under one umbrella two commonly separated strains of the U.S. post-WWII experience: our domestic political and cultural history, where the Civil Rights movement holds center stage, and our foreign policy, where the Cold War looms largest… No history could be more timely or more cogent. This densely detailed book, wide ranging in its sources, contains lessons that could play a vital role in reshaping American foreign and domestic policy. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue 1. Race and Foreign Relations before 1945 2. Jim Crow's Coming Out 3. The Last Hurrah of the Old Color Line 4. Revolutions in the American South and Southern Africa 5. The Perilous Path to Equality 6. The End of the Cold War and White Supremacy Epilogue Notes Archives and Manuscript Collections Index
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Harvard University Press An Unchosen People
Book SynopsisConventional histories of modern Jewish politics emphasize the agency offered by Zionism, liberalism, and socialism. Kenneth B. Moss traces a darker reckoning with powerlessness amid grave dangers in Europe’s largest Jewish community, recovering a search for realism about minority experience, the nation-state, and the making of a future.Trade ReviewScholars of Jewish history have devoted a great deal of attention to interwar Poland as the site of a cultural efflorescence that emerged out of the devastation of World War I…Now Kenneth B. Moss…has come to complicate the story, in ways at once surprising and intuitive, in his new book An Unchosen People…The reluctant recourse to Zionism tells us a good deal about the limited agency and sense of futurelessness found among Polish Jews in this age of cultural pessimism. It is a story exceptionally well told…a brilliant affective history of Jewish political culture in interwar Poland…It is one of the merits of Moss’s fine book to show that, for Polish Jews even before the German invasion of 1939, immigration to Palestine was nothing more or less than a path of escape from a hellish abyss, the full depths of which they could not yet imagine. -- David N. Myers * Los Angeles Review of Books *An insightful, incisive, thoroughly documented study of how interwar Polish Jews understood their situation in real time…In a tour de force of investigation and erudition, [Moss] has uncovered troves of unpublished private correspondence, journals, notes, and memoranda that, taken together with a substantial body of published works, constitute an ongoing conversation in Yiddish, Polish, and Hebrew among some two dozen guiding figures who tried to predict where the increasingly treacherous currents might lead and what Jews might do in response. -- David Engel * Jewish Review of Books *An original, provocative, inspiring, challenging, and even haunting book. -- Piotr J. Wróbel * Journal of Modern History *Unsettling and important…The poignancy of this carefully researched and thoughtful volume lies not only in the story it recounts but in the way it surreptitiously causes the reader to reflect on the fragility of democracy and the rise of extrusionary nationalism in our day. -- Robert Brym * Canadian Jewish Studies *One of the most important studies of Polish Jewry to appear in years, An Unchosen People is a deeply original exploration of how Jewish political thought in interwar Poland grappled with rising antisemitism and a growing sense of Jewish vulnerability. -- Samuel D. Kassow, author of Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw GhettoWith stunning erudition and deep compassion for its subjects, An Unchosen People portrays an interwar Polish-Jewish community shaped and sustained by a sense of desperation in the face of a bleak future. Moss’s book bristles with insights about the relationship between global economic crisis, political extremism, and Jewish national identifications in the twentieth century. -- Derek Penslar, author of Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic LeaderA profound, eloquently narrated study germane not only to the debates over the 1930s ‘Jewish Question’ but also to our engagement today with racism and political alienation. Moss makes clear that Jews were becoming increasingly convinced their identity-politics ideologies were no match for the incipient ethnochauvinism and fascism already ensconced in the politics of Central Europe. This is a work that resonates quite beyond Jewish history in addressing the precariousness of liberal and progressive ideals in illiberal times. -- Eli Lederhendler, The Hebrew University of JerusalemA brilliant new account of Jewish political thought and activism in interwar Poland. Moss tells a troubling story of how a politically, socially, and religiously diverse Jewish community confronted questions about belonging and the possibilities for a future in Poland, Palestine, or elsewhere abroad. In the process he reframes the history of Zionism, diasporism, and interwar Polish-Jewish life itself. This is essential reading for anyone interested in Jewish history, East European history, and the history of minorities in Europe and beyond. -- Tara Zahra, author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free WorldA landmark publication that brilliantly reinterprets the arc of Eastern European Jewish history. Well before the Holocaust, Moss demonstrates, Polish fascism and antisemitism had bankrupted every extant Jewish political ideology—from Communism to Zionism to liberalism to religious Orthodoxy—leaving Polish Jews a futureless people as they entered the fateful era of war and genocide. Never have we had such a fine-grained historical analysis of the Polish-Jewish predicament framed against the backdrop of the crisis of Western modernity. The result is a revelatory book. -- James Loeffler, author of Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth CenturyAn Unchosen People deftly illuminates the struggle of Polish Jews to come to terms with modernity in general and with the growing threat to their everyday existence in the crucial period of 1928–1935. Moss analyzes the complex arguments among Jews about how to meet the fearsome challenges of discrimination, racial antisemitism, and poverty that emerged with the Depression, the rise of Hitler, and the growing virulence of Polish nationalism. An essential read for any student of modern Polish-Jewish history. -- Norman M. Naimark, author of Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for SovereigntyThis fascinating, masterfully written book is a breakthrough in our understanding of Jewish political thinking in interwar Poland. Moss shows both the devastating effects of ethnic nationalism and fascism on Polish Jews and the novel ways in which Jews reacted. An essential work for readers interested in Jewish politics in Eastern Europe and issues of emigration and transnationalism, as well as crucial background for Polish-Jewish relations before and during the Holocaust. -- Kamil Kijek, University of WrocławMoss has produced a grand history of Jewish political disillusionment—the equivalent of a photographic negative in which the polychromatic period of interwar Polish-Jewish history, full of cultural vitality, is transformed into a sepia-tinted frame marked by despair and fear for the future. In the spirit of Wilderson’s Afropessimism, Moss marshals his unparalleled skills as historian and thinker to capture an ominous and chilling moment of Judeopessimism. -- David N. Myers, coauthor of American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York
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Harvard University Press The Economics of Race in the United States
Book SynopsisBrendan OâFlaherty brings the tools of economic analysisâincentives, equilibrium, optimizationâto bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.Trade ReviewO’Flaherty brings us a wealth of data-driven facts on how race still matters in America. -- Paul Flahive * Texas Public Radio *A harsh, undeniable fact about U.S. society is that socioeconomic status is stratified by race and ethnicity. The contribution of economists to the study of the contentious issues of race and ethnicity has been minimal--that is, until O’Flaherty crafted this pathbreaking study that shows how racial differences among blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans remain a powerful determinant in the lives of 21st-century Americans. The author should be praised for striking a fine balance of applied economic theory and empirical analysis of the U.S. Census to explore and analyze socioeconomic status by intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender. All relevant topics are covered in the book, including gaps in education, income, employment, health, and levels of incarceration. Because racial inequality continues in the 21st century, and renewed racial tensions are actually simmering, this book is undoubtedly timely and the must-read text for anyone in the social sciences interested in surveying the economics of race and racism in the U.S. -- S. Chaudhuri * Choice *A terrific contribution to the literature on race and economics. -- Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York UniversityAn amazing book that should become a standard reference and must-read text for economists and other social scientists who study race and racial inequality. It is both deep and comprehensive, and has several blinding insights relating racial inequality to the fundamental workings of society. -- Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley
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Princeton University Press Colormute
Book SynopsisViewing race talk through the lens of a California high school and district, this book draws on three years of ethnographic research on everyday race labeling in education. It discusses the role race plays in everyday and policy talk about such familiar topics as discipline, achievement, curriculum reform, and educational inequality.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Critics' Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the 2005 Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association "Pollock attacks the topic with strength, providing a clear, compelling, and well-written argument. She helps readers cultivate greater understanding of the pitfalls and possibilities of daily race talk. A necessary and important work in fostering ongoing conversations about dismantling racial inequality in the United States."--Library Journal "The dilemma at the heart of this book is the same dilemma at the heart of US society: practically no available form of public discourse about racial topics or issues actually engages with what race i... This book's ethnographic setting, detailed observations, and transcripts provide a close-up look at a vexing everyday issue, demonstrating an important performative dimension in the generation of racialization."--Bonnie Urciuoli,Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 One WeDon't Belong to Simple Race Groups, but We Do 18 Two Race Doesn't Matter, but It Does 44 Three TheDe-Raced Words We Use When Discussing Plans for Racial Equality Can Actually Keep Us from Discussing Ways to Make Opportunities Racially Equal 74 Four The More Complex Inequality Seems to Get, the More Simplistic Inequality Analysis Seems to Become 109 Five TheQuestions We Ask Most about RaceAretheVery Questions We Most Suppress 147 Six Although Talking in Racial Terms Can Make Race Matter, Not Talking in Racial Terms Can Make Race Matter Too 172 Moving Forward 210 Practically Speaking: Words for Educators in Particular 220 Note 227 Bibliography 251
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Princeton University Press The Price of Whiteness
Book SynopsisDocuments the uneasy place Jews have held in America's racial culture since the late nineteenth century. This book traces Jews' often tumultuous encounter with race from the 1870s through World War II, when they became vested as part of America's white mainstream and abandoned the practice of describing themselves in racial terms.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for the Jewish Literature Choice Award Finalist for the 2007 Weinberg Judaic Studies Institute Book Award Winner of the 2006 Theodore Saloutos Prize, Immigration and Ethnic History Society Co-Winner of the 2006 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society Finalist for the 2006 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, Jewish Book Council "In this original, boldly conceptualized and well-researched inquiry into the complicated intersections of 'race' and Jewish-American identity, Goldstein explores how Jewish immigrants gradually began to understand themselves as 'white' (i.e., fully European) when most of America did not."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A palimpsest layering institutional, communal, literary, religious, and visual materials, Goldstein's study moves deftly and amusingly through periods and across cultural domains to show how the Jews came to describe themselves... Goldstein's presentation of a century and a half of Jewish 'negotiation' of whiteness is fascinating chapter by chapter, and deft in communicating the bewildering diversity and reactivity of Jewish relationships to the black community."--Elisa New, New Republic "More than any other historian to date, Goldstein ... shows the changing ways in which Jewish Americans themselves argued either for their own racial particularity, or for their inclusions as whites, or for both."--David Roediger, Chronicle of Higher Education "Essential reading for understanding ethnic/race relations and Jewish identity. Goldstein provides an excellent history of Jewish efforts to place themselves within the American racial hierarchy."--Ronald H. Bayor, Southern Jewish History "Eric Goldstein demonstrates in this intriguing and insightful study [that] it would be much too short-sighted to regard race solely as a problematic concept imposed on American Jews in order to marginalize them."--Tobias Brinkmann, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies "Eric L. Goldstein has written a penetrating and illuminating account of US Jews' entanglement with 'race' from the last third of the 19th century to the present... [T]his is a thought-provoking text that deserves a wide readership."--Choice "This is a field well-trodden in recent years, but Eric L. Goldstein adds both earnest research and close interpretation to the inherently limitless question of Jewish-American 'identity.' "--American Historical Review "Eric L. Goldstein's book should be among the very first stops for those wishing to approach the subject of Jews and race in America... It is broad, well researched, compellingly told, extraordinarily nuanced, and it comes as a kind of savior to an area of scholarship that has suffered from large gaps regarding basic historical fact."--Michael Alexander, American Jewish History "Eric Goldstein, an American historian, has written a fascinating, meticulously documented book that ... shows that American Jews' definition of the Jewish collectivity, for themselves as well as for others, has undergone significant change over the past two centuries, to a large extent reflecting their varying sense of security in American society."--Chaim I. Waxman, Jewish Political Studies Review "Goldstein's The Price of Whiteness is a valuable addition to the study of the American Jewish community in the twentieth century... Even though Jews are likely to remain ambivalent on what is a Jew, Goldstein's book has provided much solid research, thoughtful reflection, and added insight on this question. The book is recommended without hesitation or reservation."--Saul Lerner, Shofar "The Price of Whiteness is technically solid, with insightful writing and organization... The Price of Whiteness is even more relevant than Goldstein is willing to claim. This is a highly readable, well-researched, and equitable examination of one of the most interesting topics in American Jewish history and a book worthy of consideration for course adoption in this field."--Glen Anthony Harris, American Jewish Archives Journal "[An] imaginative, provocative, and well-researched book."--Edward S. Shapiro, Congress MonthlyTable of ContentsLIST OF FIGURES ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION 1 PART I: THE JEWISH "RACE" IN AMERICA, 1875-1895 CHAPTER 1: "Different Blood Flows in Our Veins": Race and Jewish Self-Definition in Late-Nineteenth-Century America 11 PART II: JEWS IN BLACK AND WHITE, 1896-1918 CHAPTER 2: The Unstable Other: Locating Jews in Progressive Era American Racial Discourse 35 CHAPTER 3: "Now Is the Time to Show Your True Colors": The Jewish Approach to African Americans 51 CHAPTER 4: "What Are We?":Jewishness between Race and Religion 86 PART III: CONFRONTING JEWISH DIFFERENCE, 1919-1935 CHAPTER 5: Race and the "Jewish Problem" in Interwar America 119 CHAPTER 6: "A White Race of Another Kind"? 138 CHAPTER 7: Wrestling with Racial Jewishness 165 PART IV: FROM OLD CHALLENGES TO NEW, 1936-1950 CHAPTER 8: World War II and the Transformation of Jewish Racial Identity 189 EPILOGUE: Jews, Whiteness, and "Tribalism" in Multicultural America 209 NOTES 241 INDEX 293
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Princeton University Press When Ways of Life Collide
Book SynopsisThe Dutch government had funded separate schools, housing projects and community organizations for Muslim immigrants, all under the umbrella of multiculturalism. But the reality of terrorism and radicalization of Muslim immigrants has shattered that dream. This work demonstrates that there are deep conflicts of values in the Netherlands.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Robert E. Lane Award, Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Association "The authors of When Ways of Life Collide deem the Dutch multicultural experiment to be a grand and unequivocal failure. In their view, multiculturalism and liberal democracy are fundamentally incompatible. Their argument is a relatively simple one: By encouraging 'difference' among ethnic subgroups, multiculturalism ends up turning these groups into targets of resentment and thereby insuring their rejection by the majority culture."--Richard Wolin, The Nation "Sniderman and Hagendoorn expertly describe how, beginning in the 1980s, elite politicians and academics in the Netherlands advocated for an extreme form of accommodation for Dutch immigrants."--T.D. Boswell, Choice "When Ways of Life Collide is a provocative, yet empirical assessment of intrinsic, yet nebulous multiculturalism in today's society."--David Marx, David Marx.co.uk "When Ways of Life Collide is a clever book that offers insight into the attitudinal mechanics of prejudice. These are important issues with high political salience that should interest students of the Netherlands and many other countries around the world."--Rahsaan Maxwell, Review of Middle East Studies "This thought-provoking book provides many interesting insights into the relationships between a culture's values, prejudice, perceived cultural and economic threats, and exclusionary reactions against immigrants, derived from the analysis of a skillfully designed survey. It is relevant to a wide audience concerned with attitudes towards immigrant minorities, immigration, and multiculturalism, as well as to those interested in innovations in survey design."--Eline A. de Rooij, European Sociological ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi CHAPTER ONE: Introduction 1 CHAPTER TWO: Muslims 17 CHAPTER THREE: Prejudice 43 CHAPTER FOUR: Identity 71 CHAPTER FIVE: Top-Down Politics 100 CHAPTER SIX: Tolerance 123 A Note about the Data 139 Bibliography 141 Index149
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Princeton University Press No Longer Separate Not Yet Equal Race and Class
Book SynopsisArguing that elite higher education contributes to both social mobility and inequality, the authors investigate such areas as admission advantages for minorities, academic achievement gaps tied to race and class, unequal burdens in paying for tuition, and satisfaction with college experiences.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association "Both supporters and opponents of affirmative action are likely to find ammunition in Thomas J. Espenshade's and Alexandria Walton Radford's book... The authors provide a fascinating peek inside the admissions process at several unnamed universities."--Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Book, the online review at New Republic "This is a big book, exhaustively researched and packed full of facts, numbers, and prose... No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal is a must-have reference for everyone who pays attention to race and class controversies in higher education."--Robert VerBruggen, National Review "Ultimately, [the authors] argue that the most important step toward eliminating inequity in higher education and society is to close the achievement gap, and they call for the creation of an effort on the scale of the Manhattan Project to do it."--Angela P. Dodson, Diverse Education "With this incisive new book, Espenshade and Walton Radford explore the dynamics of differential college access and success in extraordinary detail... The book's most significant contribution may be its persuasive, data-based analysis of affirmative action. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in higher education's role in creating a more equitable society."--Diversity & Democracy "The authors cover a broad range of elite college admission issues that go beyond race and class, offering detailed perspectives on affirmative action. Researchers of equity issues in higher education, particularly in the selective college admission process as well as college counseling professionals will find, in this thorough and extensive work of research, tools to help clear up what may seem 'mysterious or secret' in the selective college admission process."--Joe Adegboyega-Edun, NACACNet "Espenshade and Radford have produced a highly valuable book packed with useful race-based information relating to admission, academic performance, and ethnic group interaction on elite college campuses... The data offers sound arguments for the need to not only continue race-sensitive affirmative action both in college and graduate school admissions but also in the workplace."--Journal of Blacks in Higher Education "The thoughtful work of Espenshade and Radford represented in this significant volume should be just the beginning of the next phase of the ongoing national conversation about he role of higher education in providing equality of opportunity and social mobility. This book provides a useful framework for additional research and policy development."--Jonathan Alger, Journal of College and University Law "Espenshade and Radford have produced the most comprehensive and best study yet of admissions and race relations in America's leading colleges and universities."--Steven Brint, American Journal of EducationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xvii Chapter One: Overview 1 Chapter Two: Preparing for College 14 Chapter Three: What Counts in Being Admitted? 62 Chapter Four: The Entering Freshman Class 130 Chapter Five: Mixing and Mingling on Campus 176 Chapter Six: Academic Performance 226 Chapter Seven: Shouldering the Financial Burden 263 Chapter Eight: Broader Perspectives on the Selective College Experience 298 Chapter Nine: Do We Still Need Affirmative Action? 339 Chapter Ten: Where Do We Go from Here? 378 Appendix A: The NSCE Database 411 Appendix B: Notes on Methodology 431 Appendix C: Additional Tables 462 References 483 Index 523
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Princeton University Press When the State Speaks What Should It Say
Book SynopsisProposes a new approach called value democracy. This title argues that the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its various expressive capacities: publicly criticizing, giving reasons to reject, and other discriminatory viewpoints.Trade Review"[T]his book's argument is very strong, and its attention to anticipating and rebutting objections is both exceptional and laudable. When the State Speaks is likely to become the standard political-liberal treatise on the ways in which a democratic state should treat inegalitarian viewpoints--no small achievement given the persistence and quality of debates in this area."--Andrew Sabl, Perspectives on Politics "This stimulating and carefully argued book makes a substantial contribution to the debate over how liberal states should respond to illiberal groups within their borders. The topic is timely and important, and even readers who disagree with Corey Brettschneider's positions will find that his arguments repay close attention."--David McCabe, Political Science Quarterly "This is a really good book. Brettschneider's When the State Speaks is both provocative and persuasive, resolving a stubborn conflict within democratic theory in a way many will initially reject, but which he argues for so effectively that, by the end, the controversial appears the commonsensical... [T]his is a useful book, clearly written and well-argued. It is a great addition to political theory."--Sarah Conly, Res Publica "I strongly recommend this book. It deserves serious reflection and critical discussion."--John A. Dick, Ethical Perspectives "Brettschneider's [book] ... is a carefully argued and coherent defense of the American approach, a defense more thoughtful, more internally consistent, and more connected with the relevant philosophical literature than will ever plausibly be located in a judicial opinion. His connection of issues about government speech with the political theory literature on neutrality is innovative, analytically deep, and careful, and his discussion of free speech theory and doctrine, while less innovative, is nevertheless rigorous, accurate, and well aimed at exactly the target of his interest."--Frederick Schauer, Political TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction Averting Two Dystopias An Introduction to Value Democracy 1 Chapter One The Principle of Public Relevance and Democratic Persuasion Value Democracy's Two Guiding Ideas 24 Chapter Two Publicly Justifiable Privacy and Reflective Revision by Citizens 51 Chapter Three When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? Democratic Persuasion and the Freedom of Expression 71 Chapter Four Democratic Persuasion and State Subsidy 109 Chapter Five Religious Freedom and the Reasons for Rights 142 Conclusion Value Democracy at Home and Abroad 168 Notes 175 Bibliography 199 Index 207
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Princeton University Press Why Americans Dont Join the Party Race
Book SynopsisExamining partisan attachments across the four primary racial groups - African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and whites - in the United States, this book offers an account of how race and immigration influence the relationship that Americans have - or fail to have - with the Democratic and Republican parties.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association "This is a major advance in the study of opinion and parties. The book is well written and documented, and it contains a useful index and bibliography."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vii Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: Party Identification: The Historical and Ontological Origins of a Concept 33 Chapter 3: Identity, Ideology, Information, and the Dimensionality of Nonpartisanship 61 Chapter 4: Leaving the Mule Behind: Independents and African American Partisanship 103 Chapter 5: What Does It Mean to Be a Partisan? 145 Chapter 6: The Sequential Logic of Latino and Asian American Partisanship 179 Chapter 7: Beyond the Middle: Ambivalence, Extremism, and White Nonpartisans 207 Chapter 8: The Electoral Implications of Nonpartisanship 239 Chapter 9: Conclusion 276 Bibliography 291 Index 321
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Princeton University Press Melancholia of Freedom Social Life in an Indian
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied post apartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2013 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association "Hansen's analysis of the 'mutual nonrecognition' between citizens of India and African origin and his critical interrogation of the concept of diaspora are especially powerful... The book will be an asset to scholars and students seeking to understand urban South Africa, transnationalism, and religious transformation."--Choice "Hansen's book is definitely a very important one... [S]tudents of segregation, ethnic conflict, urban space, identity, religion, migration, music and cinema will all find something of interest here. More generally, Melancholia of Freedom offers a fascinating insight into the fate of minority groups, and the boundary work they engage in... Hansen's account allows us to better understand the processes through which minorities maintain identity and sociability in difficult contexts."--Juliette Galonnier, booksandideas.net "As depressing as this conclusion is, the author makes a compelling case for his interpretation. He brilliantly weaves the present into the past, and explains convincingly the foundation of anxieties that prevail in Chatsworth."--Surendra Bhana, Journal of Natal and Zulu HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Under the Gaze: Freedom and Race after Apartheid 3 Freedom and Sovereignty after Apartheid 9 Melancholia of Freedom 15 Between Irrelevance and Irreverence: "Our Culture" after Apartheid 17 Structure of the Book 20 Methods and Material 24 CHAPTER 1 Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa 26 The Asiatic Question 27 The New Hygienic Indian 32 Census et Censura 35 The New Indian Social Body 38 Policing the Internal Frontier 46 Containing the Bush: Crime and Vigilantes in the Age of Democratic Policing 51 CHAPTER 2 Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy 59 From Kinship to Family 59 The New Indian Woman and the Family House 64 Tongues without Speech: Caste as Language Community 74 "Our Culture" as Embarrassment 77 Cultural Intimacy and Embarrassment: Charous and Lahnees 79 Class and Charou Names 82 Performing in the Gaze: The Indian Public Sphere 84 Joke-Work on a Saturday Morning 87 Comic Belief? Laughter and Cultural Intimacy 91 Charou 4 Eva: Domesticity Lost and Refound 95 CHAPTER 3 Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition 97 AmaKula and amaZulu on the Colonial Estates 99 Durban, January 1949: "The Largest Race Riot in the World" 102 Cato Manor and the Urban Zulu 107 The Indian "1949 Syndrome" as a Social Text 110 The Syndrome Affirmed: Inanda 1985 116 Racism's Two Bodies 119 Racial Practice, Indian-Style 123 Africans at Our Doorsteps 127 Somatic Anxieties 131 Nonrecognition and the Elusive Master 136 CHAPTER 4 Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech 142 Local Affairs and the Problem of Indian Speech 145 The House of Delhigoats 151 "Scandals Are the Foundations of the State" 155 Who Speaks for the Community? The Particular as Universalist Gesture 160 The Only Good Indian Is a Poor Indian: The ANC and the Indian Townships 163 "All the Way": On the Ways of the Tiger 167 From Tragedy to Comedy: Politics as a Form of Enjoyment 171 CHAPTER 5 Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City 176 The Steel Cages of Modernity 177 Driving while Brown 179 (Auto)mobility in the Postapartheid City 182 Vehicular Vernacular: Visual and Sonic 185 Taxis, Charou-Style 188 Conclusion: "Indianness," African-Style 197 CHAPTER 6 The Unwieldy Fetish: Desi Fantasies, Roots Tourism, and Diasporic Desires 200 India as an Unwieldy Fetish 201 The Spiritual Homeland 203 Seeking Ancestral Roots 203 Finding Spiritual Truth 207 Catalysts of Modernity 209 Global Desi Dreamscapes: The Revival of Bollywood in South Africa 211 "What Does This Film Make of Me?" 212 Plot Summary 214 Who Are We Indians, After All? 217 Diaspora and the Unwieldy Fetish 220 CHAPTER 7 Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives 223 Hinduism in Translation 226 Religious Practices, Hindu Missionaries, and Cultural Purification 228 A Nervous Relationship: Contemporary Hindu Practices in the Townships 231 The Call of Global Hinduism 236 Globalized Islam and the Impurities of the Past 239 Muslim Durban 240 Deculturation and the Invention of the Pure Muslim 247 "Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz?" 252 Da'wah in the Township 256 Reaching for the Universal 259 CHAPTER 8 The Saved and the Backsliders: The Charou Soul and the Instability of Belief 261 The Fragility of the Charou Soul 266 Signs of the Spirit 269 Reconfiguring Patriarchy and Gendered Surveillance 270 On Suits and Sermons 273 Looking like Kentucky ... 277 Race, Gender, Body 282 Between Vessel and Substance: On the Exteriority of the Soul 286 Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the "African Personality" 290 Notes 297 References 325 Index 345
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Princeton University Press On the Muslim Question
Book SynopsisIn the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. This title demolishes the notion that there is a "clash of civilizations" between the West and Islam.Trade Review"Is there a clash of civilizations, as Samuel Huntington maintained, between the Muslim world and the West? Norton's response will be of interest to students of geopolitics and Islamic studies."--Kirkus Reviews "She scores many hits, and illuminates the smug racism behind much recent blazoning of Enlightenment values."--Paul Laity, Prospect "Two strengths make Norton's work stand out in the crowded field of books that address Islam and democracy. First is her insistence on considering Islamic voices of the past and present, from medieval philosopher al-Farabi to Qutb and Ramadan, as conversation partners within the Western tradition. Second is her concise rebuttal of prominent philosophers, in particular Jacques Derrida, John Rawls and Slovaj Zizek, each of whom has perceived a danger in the nature of Islam."--Steve Young, Christian Century "Professor Anne Norton of the University of Pennsylvania, is a liberal academic who takes on all the anti-Muslim hysterics, right wing paranoiacs and sloppy thinkers in this measured and profoundly thought-provoking book."--Charles H. Middleburgh, Middleburgh Blog "Anne Norton provides us with a window into the interaction between European versions of modernity and the Islamic experience, drawing attention to how Muslims often face resistance and hatred as they enter into previously constituted elements of European society."--Tikkun "Anne Norton's On the Muslim Question ... is distinguished by moral daring and intellectual perspicacity, that is bold and passionate in tone but also rigorous and academic in substance... Anne Norton's scholarly effort, as much an academic tract as a pamphlet and a political statement, redeems all those promises and amply testifies to the intellectual and moral resources of the academy as well as its integrity."--S. Parvez Manzoor, Muslim World Book Review "Anne Norton ... has written an incisive volume analyzing a question at the heart of a number of contemporary vexing domestic and foreign policy issues. She brings to the task an impressive command of the subject matter as well as exceptional insight and judgment as a political theorist."--Mujeeb Khan, H-Net Reviews "[T]he book is an insightful analysis of the way Islam and Muslims figure in contemporary discourses, and it should be read by students and scholars interested in representations of Islam and Muslims. I recommend it."--Lasse Thomassen, Political Studies Review and Political Theory "This will be excellent and important reading for missiologists, social anthropologists, political scientists, and others."--Bruce Campbell Moyer, Seminary Studies "On the Muslim Question, is an indispensable reading for scholars as well as those interested in understanding the complex relationship between Islam and the West."--Asif Mohiuddin, Islam and Civilisational Renewal "On the Muslim Question combines virtues rarely found in one place. It is scrupulously attentive to the everyday facts about the ways in which the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds interact and devastatingly sharp about the way in which the facts undermine a lot of high-flown commentary on the supposed threat the Muslim world poses to the West... [Norton] is a witty and graceful writer... On The Muslim Question is a triumph."--Alan Ryan, Journal of Church and StateTable of ContentsForeword by Ruth O'Brien ix Introduction On the Muslim Question: Philosophy, Politics, and the Western Street 1 Part I Muslim Questions* Chapter 1 Freedom of Speech 15 * Chapter 2 Sex and Sexuality 45 * Chapter 3 Women and War 67 * Chapter 4 Terror 82 * Chapter 5 Equality 94 * Chapter 6 Democracy 118 Part II In the Western Street* Chapter 7 Where Is Europe? 141 * Chapter 8 "Islamofascism" and the Burden of the Holocaust 164 * Chapter 9 In the American Desert 176 * Chapter 10 There Is No Clash of Civilizations 195 Acknowledgments 229 Notes 233 Index 247
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Princeton University Press Equal Recognition The Moral Foundations of
Book SynopsisConflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. This book reasserts the case in favor of liberal multiculturalism by developing a new ethical defense of minority rights.Trade Review"Patten's book, well written, clear, and well argued, is now the best liberal case for recognition. It is also an important rethinking of the idea of liberal neutrality."--Jeff Spinner-Halev, The Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface vii 1. Introduction: Liberalism and the Accommodation of Cultural Diversity 1 1.1. Competing Interpretations of Liberalism 1 1.2. Why the Case for Liberal Culturalism Needs to Be Restated 6 1.3. Four Distinctions, Plus One More 11 1.4. The Main Argument of the Book 27 1.5. Overview 34 2. Rethinking Culture: The Social Lineage Account 38 2.1. The Dilemma of Essentialism 38 2.2. The Critique of Essentialism 40 2.3. Cultural Continuity 45 2.4. The Social Lineage Account 50 2.5. Some Related Concepts 57 2.6. The Normative Significance of Culture: A First Glance 65 3. Why Does Culture Matter? 69 3.1. Options Disadvantage 69 3.2. Culture as Context of Choice 73 3.3. The Access Account 78 3.4. The Adequacy Account 92 3.5. Cultural Preservation versus Fair Treatment of Cultures 102 4. Liberal Neutrality: A Reinterpretation and Defense 104 4.1. An Unfashionable Idea 104 4.2. Neutrality as a Downstream Value 108 4.3. Conceptions of Neutrality 111 4.4. Institutions of Neutrality 119 4.5. The Fairness Justification of Neutrality 123 4.6. The Value of Self-Determination 131 4.7. Fairness and Neutral Treatment 137 5. Equal Recognition 149 5.1. Justice and Cultural Decline: Three Views 149 5.2. Recognition 156 5.3. Recognition and Justice 164 5.4. Equal Recognition versus Liberal Nationalism 171 5.5. The Objection from Expensive Tastes 177 5.6. Is Full Proceduralism Enough? 182 6. Equal Recognition and Language Rights 186 6.1. Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights 186 6.2. Three Kinds of Language Rights 188 6.3. Two Models: Nation Building and Language Preservation 192 6.4. The Equal Recognition Model 196 6.5. The Case for Equal Recognition 201 6.6. The Nation-Building Challenge 205 6.7. The Language Preservation Challenge--Weak Versions 210 6.8. The Language Preservation Challenge--Stronger Versions 216 6.9. Equal Recognition versus the Territoriality Principle 227 7. Democratic Secession from a Multinational State 232 7.1. Theories of Secession 232 7.2. The Failure-of-Recognition Condition 237 7.3. The Equal Recognition of National Identity 242 7.4. The Democracy Argument 256 7.5. The Confederal Alternative 261 7.6. Practical Implications 264 8. Immigrants, National Minorities, and Minority Rights 269 8.1. The Immigrant/National Minority Dichotomy 269 8.2. How Voluntary Is the Decision to Emigrate? 275 8.3. Are Cultural Rights Alienable? 281 8.4. Is the Receiving Society Acting Permissibly? 285 8.5. The Limits of Voluntary Acceptance 294 References 299 Index 311
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Princeton University Press After Civil Rights
Book SynopsisRace is now relevant not only in negative cases of discrimination, but in more positive ways as well. This book examines this emerging strategy in a range of employment situations, including the low-skilled sector, professional and white-collar jobs, and entertainment and media.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University Finalist for the 2014 Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change National Book Award, The University of Memphis Honorable Mention for the 2015 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, Racial and Ethnic Minorities Section of the American Sociological Association "After Civil Rights makes a compelling case for the pervasiveness of race-conscious employment practices."--Glenn Altschuler, Florida Courier "John Skrentny, Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC-San Diego, gives readers a well-researched, thoroughly documented and provocative work, presenting his theory for how employers view race in the workplace in the USA... Skrentny's chapter on racial realism, and its corollary, immigrant realism, in the low-wage workplace, is one I wish I had written... His account of how the law works in practice and on the ground is a great read for those interested in legal studies, history, political science, sociology or civil rights."--Leticia Saucedo, LSE Review of Books "If you want to explore deeper social policy, it is worth a read."--Barry H. Dyller, Trial "With the book's over 1,300 notes, scores of case law findings, and dozens of studies on race and labor market outcomes, it is impossible not to be impressed by Skrentny's erudition, research prowess, and deft ability to link multiple academic disciplines under one driving question... If you are a race, labor, immigration, or legal scholar you should absolutely read this book. You will never think about Title VII or the intersection of race and employment decisions in the same way again."--Charles A. Gallagher, American Journal of Sociology "Skrentny shows that in many sectors of the labor market, race is used in ways that were unanticipated when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was enacted... [His] account of racial realism in the low-skilled sector is chilling."--Kevin Lang, Journal of Economic Literature "This book skillfully presents comprehensive empirical research and is written in a conversational style accessible to a wide audience."--Nigel Carter, Transfer "[An] important and thought-provoking book."--Anthony S. Chen, Social Service Review "Skrentny has authored a fascinating book that is filled with law, information about how employers operate notwithstanding the law, and empirical evidence that supports and, at times, contradicts some employers' beliefs about the usefulness of employing race as a qualifier for jobs. This empirical research should be useful to lawyers who litigate these cases using Title VII. And Skrentny comes up with a cross-disciplinary approach to solving problems. Not all of his solutions are politically or constitutionally possible, but the legislative solutions he suggests are interesting and innovative, and, perhaps in the future, may be effective."--Ann C. McGinley, Tulsa Law Review "After Civil Rights not only contributes valuably to our understanding of how race figures into employment practices at the contemporary American workplace, it also succeeds in making the case for renewing the debate about where law and public policy should go from here."--Anthony S. Chen, Social Service Review "Sociologist John D. Skrentny has written an important and original book examining the fundamental role played by race in hiring and other personnel decisions in the modern American workplace. The originality of his premise calls attention to a phenomenon that everyone knows about but rarely discusses as he investigates the ways in which racial considerations are taken into account by employers for a wide range of reasons, even though in principle this practice was prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and justly celebrated as a landmark statute of historic importance. Skrentny obtains remarkable mileage by exploring this simple yet apparently paradoxical state of affairs in depth and by avoiding judgmental impulses that frequently arise."--Gavin Wright, Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi Chapter 1 Managing Race in the American Workplace 1 Chapter 2 Leverage Racial Realism in the Professions and Business 38 Chapter 3 We the People Racial Realism in Politics and Government 89 Chapter 4 Displaying Race for Dollars Racial Realism in Media and Entertainment 153 Chapter 5 The Jungle Revisited? Racial Realism in the Low-Skilled Sector 216 Chapter 6 Bringing Practice, Law, and Values Together 265 Notes 291 Index 383
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Princeton University Press No Longer Separate Not Yet Equal Race and Class
Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body? No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal pulls back the curtain on the selective college experience and takes a rigorous and comprehensive look at how race and social class impact each stage--from apTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association "Both supporters and opponents of affirmative action are likely to find ammunition in Thomas J. Espenshade's and Alexandria Walton Radford's book... The authors provide a fascinating peek inside the admissions process at several unnamed universities."--Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Book, the online review at New Republic "This is a big book, exhaustively researched and packed full of facts, numbers, and prose... No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal is a must-have reference for everyone who pays attention to race and class controversies in higher education."--Robert VerBruggen, National Review "Ultimately, [the authors] argue that the most important step toward eliminating inequity in higher education and society is to close the achievement gap, and they call for the creation of an effort on the scale of the Manhattan Project to do it."--Angela P. Dodson, Diverse Education "With this incisive new book, Espenshade and Walton Radford explore the dynamics of differential college access and success in extraordinary detail... The book's most significant contribution may be its persuasive, data-based analysis of affirmative action. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in higher education's role in creating a more equitable society."--Diversity & Democracy "The authors cover a broad range of elite college admission issues that go beyond race and class, offering detailed perspectives on affirmative action. Researchers of equity issues in higher education, particularly in the selective college admission process as well as college counseling professionals will find, in this thorough and extensive work of research, tools to help clear up what may seem 'mysterious or secret' in the selective college admission process."--Joe Adegboyega-Edun, NACACNet "Espenshade and Radford have produced a highly valuable book packed with useful race-based information relating to admission, academic performance, and ethnic group interaction on elite college campuses... The data offers sound arguments for the need to not only continue race-sensitive affirmative action both in college and graduate school admissions but also in the workplace."--Journal of Blacks in Higher Education "The thoughtful work of Espenshade and Radford represented in this significant volume should be just the beginning of the next phase of the ongoing national conversation about he role of higher education in providing equality of opportunity and social mobility. This book provides a useful framework for additional research and policy development."--Jonathan Alger, Journal of College and University Law "Espenshade and Radford have produced the most comprehensive and best study yet of admissions and race relations in America's leading colleges and universities."--Steven Brint, American Journal of EducationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xvii Chapter One: Overview 1 Chapter Two: Preparing for College 14 Chapter Three: What Counts in Being Admitted? 62 Chapter Four: The Entering Freshman Class 130 Chapter Five: Mixing and Mingling on Campus 176 Chapter Six: Academic Performance 226 Chapter Seven: Shouldering the Financial Burden 263 Chapter Eight: Broader Perspectives on the Selective College Experience 298 Chapter Nine: Do We Still Need Affirmative Action? 339 Chapter Ten: Where Do We Go from Here? 378 Appendix A: The NSCE Database 411 Appendix B: Notes on Methodology 431 Appendix C: Additional Tables 462 References 483 Index 523
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Princeton University Press Building an American Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2018 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association""Winner of the 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""Groundbreaking. . . . The book’s central contribution is to show how the adaptations of American institutions intersected with America’s racial orders.. . . . It will be essential reading for scholars and students, graduate and undergraduate, of APD, American politics, and of the legacies and contemporary practices of settler colonialism in other countries."---David Bateman, Journal of Politics"Paul Frymer has written one of the best available accounts of the United States’ long and troubled history as a white settler nation. For anyone wanting to know why that particular form of nationalism continues to resonate so forcefully today, Building an American Empire should be required reading."---Eliga Gould, Diplomatic History"Building an American Empire is, in short, a terrific book—important, thoughtful, provocative, and seminal."---Todd Estes, American Political Thought"Paul Frymer’s excellent new book interrogates our most enduring myth—the Taming of the West—and in its place delivers a rich analysis of how U.S. leaders decided which territories and peoples would be included in the American civilizational project. His account puts original insights about space and race . . . at the center of our national story."---Thomas Ogorzalek, Political Science Quarterly"Building an American Empire is a valuable contribution to the conversation on the rise of the American national state."---William H. Bergmann, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction 1 2 Boundaries and Movement 32 3 "Advancing Compactly as We Multiply" 72 4 Homesteading and Manufacturing Whiteness 128 5 The Limits of Manifest Destiny 172 6 A Second Removal? The Rise and Defeat of Black Colonization 220 7 America's Settler Empire at the End of the Frontier 263 Index 283
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