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PCCS Books Black Identities and White Therapies: Race,
Book SynopsisThis vibrant new book springs from the continued failure of the counselling and psychotherapy profession to adequately prepare trainees to meet the needs of today’s multi-ethnic, multiracial and multicultural society. The editors, both highly experienced trainers and academics, have gathered together here a group of new and established writers who draw on personal and professional experiences to present an array of fresh ideas and approaches. Their aim is to inform training curricula that would more adequately prepare therapy students to respond sensitively and in culturally appropriate ways to clients of diverse cultural and racial identities. Each chapter presents a challenge to all therapeutic practitioners, whatever their specialist role, to attend to and reflect on their personal and professional attitudes and behaviours in relation to clients of all heritages and origins. Issues addressed include unconscious privilege, ‘othering’, micro-aggressions, broaching, racism, discrimination, the search for meaning, identity complexity, intersectional understanding, heritage, biases and projections, trauma, intergenerational trauma, introjections, projection and decolonisation of the curriculum. This book is a wake-up call to the profession to develop more inclusive models of theory and practice, and to every counsellor, psychotherapist and counselling psychologist to review their professional practice and ensure a better fit between the aspirations and theories of their professional calling and the needs of our multi-ethnic, multiracial and multicultural society today.Trade Review‘This book speaks of the profound need to address the shortcoming of racial competency in therapeutic training and professional practice… reminding us to challenge exclusion, reflect on our practice and address our own positions of power and privilege.’ – Susan Cousins, author of Overcoming Everyday Racism. ‘In this book are rich resources and practical suggestions that will support and challenge us to open our minds and embrace multicultural ways of thinking and working.’ – Janet Tolan, counsellor/psychotherapist, supervisor, tutor and authorTable of ContentsPreface – Colin Lago and Divine Charura, 1. Race, culture and ethnicity: A systemic failure of attention in the psychotherapy profession? – Colin Lago and Divine Charura, 2. The cultural complexity of training counsellors abroad: The case of Afghanistan – Lucia Berdondini, Ali Ahmad Kaveh and Sandra Grieve, 3. Can you talk about race without going pink or feeling uncomfortable? – Delroy Hall, 4. Exploring the racial self in counselling training – Billie-Claire Wright, 5. An anti-racist counselling training model – Courtland C. Lee, 6. ‘Look in the mirror... and just below the surface’: Critical reflection, personal stories and training implications – Valerie Watson, 7. Where are you from? The effects of racism and perceived discrimination on people of colour – Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, 8. Re-imagining the space and context for a therapeutic curriculum: a sketch – Robert Downes and Foluke Taylor, 9. Twin tribes: Exploring unconscious privilege and otherness in counselling and psychotherapy – Dwight Turner, 10. Lifting the white veil of therapy – Neelam Zahid, 11. The legacy of colonial history and the ongoing challenge to therapist training and practice – Vedia Maharaj, 12. Towards the re-emergence of meaning: Existential contributions to working with refugee clients – Benjamin Mark Butler, 13. Who is transforming what? Ideas and reflections on training, practice and supervision in radical mode – Carmen Joanne Ablack, 14. Negotiating the Faustian pact: A psycho-social approach to working with mixed race people – Yvon Guest, 15. Developing a diversity-sensitive psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy: Personal and professional reflections – Lennox K. Thomas, 16. Colour blindness as microaggression: Perspectives on race and ethnicity in counselling and psychotherapy training and practice – Mark Williams, 17. Towards a decolonised psychotherapy research and practice – Divine Charura and Colin Lago, 18. Religion, therapy and mental health treatment in diverse communities: Some critical reflections and radical propositions – Rachel-Rose Burrell, 19. Race and cognitive dissonance: Could supervision be a way of connecting tutors to students? – Fiona A. Beckford, Postscript
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D Giles Ltd Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black
Book SynopsisDetermined presents a concise overview of Black history in Virginia from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia in 1619 through the groundswell of racial justice protests of 2020. These four centuries encompass slavery and emancipation, segregation and the civil rights movement, the election of the first Black president and the rise of Black Lives Matter. Throughout this complex history, Black people have fought for freedom, justice, and opportunity and against oppression, discrimination, and dehumanization. Their efforts have brought meaningful changes to American society by forcing the nation to define the meaning of its highest ideals of democracy and universal equality. Arranged chronologically, this book explores 400 years of Black history through the stories of key figures and events in Virginia that shaped the fight for Black equity. A few of the individuals featured include John Punch, whose punishment for attempting to escape bondage in 1640 began the codification of a system of slavery that spread throughout the original Thirteen Colonies, and Nat Turner, who shocked the nation with a slave revolt in 1831 that challenged the institution of slavery. John Mitchell, Jr. was a journalist-editor who championed Black pride and civil rights in the Jim Crow era, and Barbara Johns led a student protest that became part of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the landmark Supreme Court decision dismantling legalized segregation. A new generation of activists like Zyahna Bryant continues the fight for racial equity today. Illustrations of historical artifacts and images bring to life these and other stories of Black determination and resistance. Determined focuses on Virginia, yet it tells an American story. Black people have shaped the nation’s economic, political, and cultural identity, and Virginia has played a formative and central role in national race relations. This book provides a timely reckoning with America’s fraught history with race and systemic racism. It fosters a greater understanding of the legacies of slavery, segregation, and white supremacy to meet the challenges of today and forge a better tomorrow.Table of ContentsForeword, by Jamie Bosket; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: “First Generations, 1619–1775”; Chapter 2: “Slavery at High Tide, 1775–1865”; Chapter 3: “Progress & Backlash, 1865–1950”; Chapter 4: “Equality Achieved? 1950–Today”; Epilogue; Endnotes; General Bibliography; Index; Image Credits
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Hub City Press A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of
Book SynopsisA New York Times Books New & Noteworthy book • A Most-Anticipated Book from BookPage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Paperback Paris • Glowing reviews and features in Garden & Gun, CNN Philippines, Chapter16, Kirkus Reviews, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more This fierce collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today, who all address a central question: Who is welcome? Kiese Laymon navigates the racial politics of publishing while recording his audiobook in Mississippi. Regina Bradley moves to Indiana and grapples with a landscape devoid of her Southern cultural touchstones, like Popeyes and OutKast. Aruni Kashyap apartment hunts in Athens and encounters a minefield of invasive questions. Frederick McKindra delves into the particularly Southern history of Beyonce's black majorettes. Assembled by editor and essayist Cinelle Barnes, essays in A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South acknowledge that from the DMV to the college basketball court to doctors’ offices, there are no shortage of places of tension in the American South. Urgent, necessary, funny, and poignant, these essays from new and established voices confront the complexities of the South's relationship with race, uncovering the particular difficulties and profound joys of being a Southerner in the 21st century.Trade ReviewA Measure of Belonging challenges the idea of a monolithic Southern culture." --New York Times Book Review "The South on exhibit here does feel new: polygot, multiracial, small-c catholic, urbanized, unwilling to accomodate or overlook the past but instead primed to confront it head-on, and keen to sift the South's virtues--lovingly--from its flaws." --Garden & Gun "Sharp and witty, this collection shows that there are many different ways to live, breathe, thrive and be a person who belongs in the South." --Bookpage, starred review "Cinelle Barnes has compiled the most diverse portrayal of the contemporary South I've read to date. These beautifully-written, clear-eyed essays present the American South through the eyes of its black and brown voices and expand the reader's view of belonging to or hailing from the region. I love this collection and its depictions complicate the South in ways that mainstream America sometimes refuses to believe about our ugly/beautiful South. A Measure of Belonging is a major contribution to the canon of Southern literature and each of the writers give of themselves fully. It is a book for our times. Welcome to the 21st century!" --Crystal Wilkinson, author of The Birds of Opulence "Totally engaging, this informing, thought-provoking collection is valuable for its vision of a South that is not monolithic."--Publishers Weekly "Across the collection, the writers push against the limits of what we think we know about the South." --Kirkus Reviews "A Measure of Belonging is a stark reminder that, behind the draping magnolias and weeping willows, the south has a loaded history, the effects of which still ripple through today’s society. Cinelle Barnes's anthology is but one call to awareness, a call to artful rebellion." --NewPagesTable of ContentsOsayi Endolyn (Atlanta, GA) Soniah Kamal (Atlanta, GA) Jennifer Hope Choi (Charleston, SC) Kiese Laymon (Oxford, MS) Devi Laskar (Atlanta, GA) M. Evelina Galang (Miami, FL) Tiana Clark (Nashville, TN) Latria Graham (Spartanburg, SC) Aruni Kashyap (Athens, GA) Minda Honey (Louisville, KY) Regina Bradley (Kennesaw, GA) Natalia Sylvester (Austin, TX) Christena Cleveland (San Francisco, CA) Nichole Perkins (Brooklyn, NY) Ivelisse Rodriguez (Whitsett, NC) Gary Jackson (Charleston, SC) Frederick McKendra (Little Rock, AR) Toni Jensen (Fayetteville, AR) Diana Cejas (Durham, NC)
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Karma Kara Walker: White Shadows in Blackface
Book SynopsisThemes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historian In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent the United States at the prestigious São Paulo Art Biennial. Curator Robert Hobbs wrote extended essays on her work for this exhibition, and also for her show later that year at the Kunstverein Hannover. Because these essays have not been distributed in the US and remain among the most in-depth and essential investigations of her work, Karma is now republishing them in this new clothbound volume. Among the most celebrated artists of the past three decades, with over 93 solo exhibitions to her credit, including a major survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker is known for her tough, critical, provocative and highly imaginative representations of African Americans and whites reaching back to antebellum times. In his analysis, Hobbs looks at the five main sources of her art: blackface Americana, Harlequin romances, Julia Kristeva’s concept of abjection, Stone Mountain’s racist tourist attraction and the minstrel tradition. Robert Hobbs (born 1946) has written more than 50 books and catalogs, focusing on such artists as Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Lee Krasner, Robert Smithson and Kehinde Wiley. Since 1991 he has held the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art in the School of Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2004 he has served as a visiting professor at Yale University. Now based in New York, Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994; soon afterward, Walker rose to prominence for her large, provocative silhouettes installed directly onto the walls of exhibition spaces.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Navigating Institutional Racism in British
Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the experiences of racism encountered by academics of colour working within British universities. Situated within a critical race theory and postcolonial feminist framework, Sian thoughtfully centres the voices of the interviewed academics, and draws upon her own experiences and reflections through a critical auto-ethnography. Navigating Institutional Racism in British Universities unpacks a range of complex and challenging questions, and engages with the way in which racial politics in the academy interplay and intersect with gender. The book presents a textured narrative around the various barriers facing academics of colour, and enhances understandings of experiences around institutional racism in British universities. Alongside its conceptual and empirical contribution, it develops a series of practical recommendations to encourage and facilitate the active participation of academics of colour in British universities. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. A Brief Reflection on Methods and Conceptual Framings.- 3. Microagressions, Whiteness and the Politics of Exclusion.- 4. Teaching Experiences.- 5. Decolonizing the Curriculum.- 6. Hiring Practices and Career Development.- 7. Resisting Racism in the Academy: 'Wherever We Are, We Belong'.- 8. Looking Ahead: Recommendations for Policy and Practice.- 9. Conclusion: Backlash Blues.
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Double 9 Booksllp Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
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Hay House Inc Black Goddess within Oracle
Book SynopsisPreviously published as a 13-card indie deck, this expanded 44-card oracle deck depicts African goddesses using unretouched photos of real women that is sure to appeal to users of the African Goddess Rising Oracle deck.The Black Goddess Within Oracle deck changes the narrative of Black bodies, Black women, and Black people through the distribution of images of Goddesses from all over Africa. By illustrating the divinity, power, and purpose inherent in the Black lived experience, these images illuminate Black humanity and beauty while inspiring deep insight.To create the deck the author took a group of Black women through a transformative process while on retreat, which culminated in a photo shoot of each participant meeting the Goddess. These Goddess photos were given an aura of magic, medicine, and mysticism to inspire and provide images of positivity and change.Writes Giavanni: I created the Black Goddess Within Oracle Deck to be
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Hauser & Wirth Cheryl Johnson-Odim & Rashid Johnson:
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Yale University Press Alain Locke and the Visual Arts
Book SynopsisA fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem RenaissanceTrade Review“Reflecting on works by Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Loïs Mailou Jones, and others, Mercer demonstrates that mourning was central to Harlem Renaissance Africanism. . . . In a striking interpretation of Jones’s celebrated painting Les Fétiches (1938), which depicts an ensemble of African statuary swirling in a charged darkness, he writes that the work embodies not a straightforward reclamation of roots but the tragedy and the promise of diaspora.”—Julian Lucas, New Yorker“Mercer’s sumptuously illustrated study . . . succeeds in positioning Locke as an important philosophical voice in the ‘not yet finalized story of Afro-modern art and culture.’”—Douglas Field, Times Literary SupplementShortlisted for the MSA Book Prize2024 recipient of CAA's Frank Jewitt Mather Award for Criticism2023 Josephine Miles Award Winner, sponsored by PEN Oakland“In this brilliantly argued book, Kobena Mercer convinces us that it was the visual art of Africa and the New Negro Renaissance that fashioned the queer international modernity we love today.”—Jeffrey C. Stewart, author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, and editor of The New Negro Aesthetic: Selected Writings by Alain Locke“Kobena Mercer’s highly original work virtually defines the field of Locke’s views concerning the visual arts and will be indispensable to Locke studies in the future.”—Charles Molesworth, Queens College, CUNY“A meticulous, complex, and poignant account of the profound entanglements that condition Modernist aesthetics as we know it today. Through the key figure of Alain Locke, Mercer traces how African American artists of the Harlem Renaissance confronted, negotiated, trafficked, reimagined, and ultimately re-valued the objects of their ‘ancestral origins.’”—Anne Anlin Cheng, author of Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface“This masterful and indispensable reassessment upends Locke’s persistent caricature as a dogmatic ancestralist and synthesizes the complexities of his sprawling oeuvre and his sexuality into a fresh, compelling account of his Afromodern aesthetic philosophy.”—John Ott, James Madison University
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University of California Press Black Lives White Lives
Book SynopsisNow with a new foreword, this timely reissuefeatures aremarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a new generation of activists. One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight-foot cross on his front lawn. I felt my life wasn't worth a penny with a hole in it. Twenty-four years later, Spence had become a respected pillar of that same Mississippi town, serving as its first Black alderman. The story of Howard Spence is just one of the remarkable personal dramas recounted inBlack Lives, White Lives. Beginning in 1968, Bob Blauner and a team of interviewers recorded the words of those caught up in the crucible of rapid racial, social, and political change. Unlike most retrospective oral histories, these interviews capture the intense racial tension of 1968 in real time, as peopTrade Review"A compelling window into American race relations in the second half of the 20th century. But more than that, thanks to Blauner’s vision and the skill of his team of researchers, the book has the feel of a sociological classic." * Society for US Intellectual History *Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Gerald Early Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE 1968 Surviving the Sixties Integration or Black Power? The Great Debate 1. The Politics of Manhood and the Southern Black Experience Florence Grier “My father was from Alabama” Len Davis “Promised Land is just like the old plantation” Howard Spence “I wouldn’t want to treat anybody like I’ve been treated in Mississippi” 2. Whites on the Front Lines of Racial Conflict Joe Rypins “Stokely Carmichael ain’t no better than me” Gladys Hunt “You break your neck to do something, and they give you a hard time” Joan Keres “Sometimes you wish you were black” Virginia Lawrence “I was the wrong color in my black man’s eyes” 3. Four Black Women and the Consciousness of the Sixties Florence Grier “I’m tired of being scared” Millie Harding “This is no dream world, baby” Vera Brooke “Those that came from a different social experience I feared” Elena Albert “Something happened in my childhood I’ve never forgotten” 4. White Backlash: The Fear of a Black Majority and Other Nightmares Maude Wiley “They’re afraid the colored people are gonna move in and take over” George Hendrickson “We’ve got the lowest, poorest type” William Singer “We didn’t have a great sense of racial awareness” Bill Harcliff “It’s just a strong apartheid on the street” Diane Harcliff “The whole racial thing makes me burst with sadness” 5. Black Youth and the Ghetto Streets Richard Simmons “White boys, they’re always innocent” Larry Dillard “I would like to kill a white man, just to put it on the books” Sarah Williams “The marching and demonstrations is stupid” Harold Sampson “Denying you the right to be a man” 6. The Paradox of Working-Class Racism Lawrence Adams “They’ve got the right to have every human dignity that I have” Jim Corey “If I can help a colored man without hurting myself, I haven’t got anything to lose” Dick Cunningham “My oldest daughter married a black man” 7. Black Workers: New Options and Old Problems Richard Holmes “The Negro don’t want to work” Len Davis “The postal system has become a Negro-type job” Mark Anthony Holder “Being a man is being part of the world” Jim Pettit “These people had been treating me bad all my life, and I didn’t know it” Frank Casey “They call me an instigator” Carleta Reeves “I’d come home bitching and yelling” Henry Smith “This was my means of retaliating” PART TWO 1978–1987 Growing Older in the Seventies and Eighties The Ambiguities of Racial Change 8. “Still in the Struggle”: Black Activists Ten Years Later Howard Spence “I’m going to protect this land” Millie Harding “Dealing with the human issues” Florence Grier “I haven’t changed that much” 9. White Lives and the Limits of Integration George Hendrickson “The man is a damn fool who won’t change his mind” Maude Wiley “That was such a strong time of change” Virginia Lawrence “The world changed exactly the way I was going” William Singer “We’ve turned life itself into a quota business” Bill Harcliff “What I really do is live in a white neighborhood” 10. Black Youth: The Worsening Crisis Richard Simmons “The American black man is a dying species” Larry Dillard “Without [the Black Panthers], my generation would be a different generation” Sarah Williams “I had him and everything just changed” Jim Pettit “Two counts against me: I’m black and I’m gay” 11. Blue-Collar Men in a Tight Economy Jim Corey “He’s just a boy, Daddy” Dick Cunningham “Even Walnut Creek, it’s integrating” Lawrence Adams “The federal government and AT&T screwed up” Joe Rypins “Smelling like a rose” Mark Anthony Holder “Peoples of forty, they’re no longer thinking about a race thing” 12. Men, Women, and Opportunity Harold Sampson “I have not been able to achieve selfhood through the civil rights movement” Frank Casey “If they had gave me the green light” Carleta Reeves “To grow and develop with the times” Henry Smith “If I were a white guy . . .” 13. Keeping the Spirit of the Sixties Alive Vera Brooke “The caring factor” Joan Keres “The way that you view humanity and the earth, those are the main things” Len Davis “My whole damn culture’s gone” Elena Albert “I as an individual will continue to resist” Conclusion Appendix: Methodology Notes Bibliographic Essay
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University of California Press Exilee and Temps Morts
Book SynopsisTrade Review"There is a deep pleasure to be found in attending to Cha’s intricate, ever inventive use of sound, punctuation, form, and syntax. It’s painful to think of what else Cha would have done if her life hadn’t been curtailed. Her existing work is so original and wide-ranging that reading it feels like emerging from a tangle into an open glade. What’s here is both not enough and a plenitude." * New Yorker *
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University of Minnesota Press Red Skin White Masks Rejecting the Colonial
Book SynopsisTrade Review"While Red Skin, White Masks focuses on indigenous experiences in Canada, it is immediately applicable to understanding the false promise of recognition, liberal pluralism, and reconciliation at the heart of colonial relationships between indigenous peoples and nation-states elsewhere. Glen Sean Coulthard is able to bring a remarkably distinctive and provocative look at issues of power and opposition relevant to anyone concerned with what constitutes and perpetuates imperialist state formations and what indigenous alternatives offer in regards to freedom."—Joanne Barker, San Francisco State University"Red Skin, White Masks offers a sustained, well-informed, and sophisticated critique of the recognition paradigm as an effective theoretical frame for projects of decolonization."—Paul Patton, University of New South Wales"Red Skin, White Masks is not only a landmark contribution to political theory, it is also a call to action."—Briarpatch Magazine"A must read."—Contemporary Political Theory"Highly recommended for those interested in understanding Indigenous movements and social movements in particular."—CHOICE"Coulthard proposes a new narrative of Canadian history in which non-Aboriginals will have to recognize that our society is fundamentally shaped by Aboriginal culture and come to terms with a much greater level of power sharing than we so far have contemplated."—GEIST"A timely book, resonant with the frustration of Indigenous communities who have pursued formal political negotiations with the Canadian settler colonial state for decades without meaningful change."—Antipode"Coulthard’s fundamental insight is that we urgently need a new theory and practice of settler decolonization."—Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal "The rich ideas that are shared throughout the book serve to raise the consciousness of not only non-Aboriginal readers, but those who are First Nations and committed to the continued examinations of the critical thresholds of colonial practices."—The Canadian Journal of Native Studies"U.S. historians should heed the example set by Coulthard so that readers can better understand the self-determination activities and efforts of native nations today."—Journal of American History"A brilliant contribution to the fields of political theory and critical Indigenous studies, offering remarkable explanatory power for state-Indigenous relations in Canada today."—Stefan Andreas Kipfer in AAG Review of Books"Red Skin, White Masks provides a much needed analysis of Indigenous struggles articulated through a politics fueled not by harmony and pacification, but by grounded theory, which wraps us in an affective decolonial terrain that fosters a commitment to mobilize ourselves."—Sarah Hunt in AAG Review of Books"Red Skin, White Masks deserves to be widely read, in political philosophy and by all those concerned with furthering justice in an unequal, unjust world."—Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory"His critical discussions of the theories of recognition, multiculturalism and identity politics are fresh and engaging."—Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction. Subjects of Empire 1. The Politics of Recognition in Colonial Contexts 2. For the Land: The Dene Nation’s Struggle for Self-Determination 3. Essentialism and the Gendered Politics of Aboriginal Self-Government 4. Seeing Red: Reconciliation and Resentment 5. The Plunge into the Chasm of the Past: Fanon, Self-Recognition, and Decolonization Conclusion. Lessons from Idle No More: The Future of Indigenous Activism Notes Index
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New York University Press Algorithms of Oppression
Book SynopsisA revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms Run a Google search for black girlswhat will you find? Big Booty and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in white girls, the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about why black women are so sassy or why black women are so angry presents a disturbing portrait of black womanhood in modern society. In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminaTrade ReviewRather than being a neutral arbiter that sorts content by quality, Noble argues that search engines are easily gamed in ways that reflect discriminatory practices. Even without malevolent actors, search engines may be perpetuating racist stereotypes. * Chicago Tribune *Nobles thesis is a new tune in the ever-louder chorus that, in light of the dominance of the big tech companies, is singing for 'protections and attention that work in service of the public'. * The Financial Times *[P]resents convincing evidence of the need for closer scrutiny and regulation of search engine[s].A thought-provoking, well-researched work. * Library Journal *Noble argues...that the web is ...a machine of oppression...[Her] central insight - that nothing about internet search and retrieval is political neutral - is made...through the accumulation of alarming and disturbing examples. [She] makes a compelling case that pervasive racism online inflames racist violence IRL. * Los Angeles Review of Books *A distressing account of algorithms run amok. * Kirkus Reviews *Algorithms of Oppressionis a wakeup call to bring awareness to the biases of the internet, and should motivate all concerned people to ask why those biases exist, and who they benefit. * New York Journal of Books *Noble offers a compelling look into the structure of digitized informationmost of it driven by advertising revenueand how it perpetuates racist assumptions and ideologies. * Pacific Standard *Noble makes a strong case that present technologies and search engines are not just imperfect, but they enact actual harm to people and communities. * Popmatters.com *50 Best Book of 2018 So Far, "There's been a growing swell of concern in the academic community about the stranglehold that commercial (for-profit) search engines have over access to information in our world. Safiya Umoja Noble builds on this body of work...to demonstrate that search engines, and in particular Google, are not simply imperfect machines, but systems designed by humans in ways that replicate the power structures of the western countries where they are built, complete with all the sexism and racism that are built into those structures. * Popmatters.com *Noble demolishes the popular assumption that Google is a values-free tool with no agenda...She astutely questions the wisdom of turning so much of our data and intellectual capital over to a corporate monopoly.Nobles study should prompt some soul-searching about our reliance on commercial search engines and about digital social equity. * STARRED Booklist *Nobles incisive work centers around the fact that, at present, Googles search engine promotes structural inequality through multiple examples and that this is not just a & design problem but an inherent political problem that has shaped the entirety of twentieth-century technology design. In addition to her illustrative examples and incisive criticism, Noble offers practicable policy solutions. * Metascience *In Algorithms of Oppression, [Noble] offers her readers a lens to discover, analyze, and critique the search engine algorithms that perpetuate stereotypes and racist beliefs[This] book will be of great interest to academic librarians who teach information literacy courses, as well as students and faculty in computer science, ethnic studies, gender studies, and mass communications. * Choice *A good read for anyone interested in how bias can be expressed by lines of code. Even those already familiar with the issues will find new insight in the connections and impact Noble outlines. The book is accessible even to those who are not well-versed in the technology of search engines. -- The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion"Algorithms of Oppression succeeds as a critical intervention, one with a clear commitment to engaged scholarship that should lead to policy changes as well as changes in a field too white, American and male. For readers of this journal, the book is a powerful example of the vital contributions of Black Feminist Technology Studies... Noble demonstrates that engaged, intersectional and accessible writing can and indeed does make a difference." -- The International Journal of Press/PoliticsOften assumed by both developers and the general public to be value-neutral, the algorithmic structures through which human beings create, organize, and access content online are, Noble effectively argues, inescapably shaped by the logics of oppression that shape our interconnected lives … Algorithms provides a strong introduction, with concrete and replicable examples of algorithmic oppression, for those beginning to think critically about our internet-centric information ecosystem. For those already steeped in the rapidly growing literature of critical librarian and information studies, Algorithms will be a valuable addition to our corpus of texts that blend theory and practice, both documenting the problematic nature of where we are and the possibility of where we might arrive in future if we fight, collectively, to make it so. -- New England ArchivistsAlgorithms of Oppression offers a sobering portrait of the impact of our reliance on quick, freely accessible searches. Foregrounding her discussion in the context of the technological mechanisms and decision‐makers that drive results, Noble forces the reader to confront the rarely discussed risks and long‐term costs associated with easy‐to‐access, corporate‐sponsored information. -- Teachers College RecordAll search results are not created equal. Through deft analyses of software, society, and superiority, Noble exposes both the motivations and mathematics that make a & technologically redlined internet. Read this book to understand how supposedly race neutral zeros and ones simply dont add up. -- Matthew W. Hughey,Author of White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of RaceSafiya Noble has produced an outstanding book that raises clear alarms about the ways Google quietly shapes our lives, minds, and attitudes. Noble writes with urgency and clarity. This book is essential for anyone hoping to understand our current information ecosystem. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan,Author of The Googlization of Everything — and Why We Should WorrySafiya Nobles compelling and accessible book is an impressive survey of the impact of search and other algorithms on our understandings of racial and gender identity. Her study raises crucial questions regarding the power and control of algorithms, and is essential reading for understanding the way media works in the contemporary moment. -- Sarah Banet-Weiser,Author of Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand CultureAlgorithms of Oppression shines a light not only on the way that new technologies both reaffirm hegemonies of the past and impose constraints on our futures, but also on how we ourselves are interpellated daily and voluntarily into these algorithmic processes. * This Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Illustrates not only how the platforms and programmes we use in our daily life are created and built within a specific economic, racial, and gendered context, but that that context and those platforms enact and reinforce oppressive social relationships as we use them. * Archifacts *
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University of Minnesota Press Crip Negativity
Book SynopsisImagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion In the thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law, the lives of disabled people have not improved nearly as much as activists and politicians had hoped. In Crip Negativity, J. Logan Smilges shows us what’s gone wrong and what we can do to fix it.Leveling a strong critique of the category of disability and liberal disability politics, Smilges asks and imagines what horizons might exist for the liberation of those oppressed by ableism—beyond access and inclusion. Inspired by models of negativity in queer studies, Black studies, and crip theory, Smilges proposes that bad crip feelings might help all of us to care gently for one another, even as we demand more from the world than we currently believe to be possible.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
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Penguin Books Ltd Midnight on the Potomac
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Harvard University Press Accounting for Slavery
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewExamine[s] how slavery laid the foundation of American capitalism, including the invention of financial instruments, such as bonds that used enslaved people as collateral. -- Parul Sehgal * New York Times *Slavery in the United States was a business. A morally reprehensible—and very profitable business. Much of the research around the business history of slavery focuses on the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the business interests that fueled it. The common narrative is that today’s modern management techniques were developed in the factories in England and the industrialized North of the United States, not the plantations of the Caribbean and the American South. According to a new book by historian Caitlin Rosenthal, that narrative is wrong… Rosenthal argues that slaveholders in the American South and Caribbean were using advanced management and accounting techniques long before their northern counterparts. Techniques that are still used by businesses today. * Marketplace *Absolutely compelling. -- Diane Coyle * Five Books *[This] history of the accounting and management of slave plantations in the Americas goes a long way towards puncturing common-sense narratives of free market economics. -- Martin Myers * Times Higher Education *Valuable…Rosenthal proves that precise calculation of labor productivity took root in the slave economy. The irony is that it was more aggressively calculated there than among many Northern manufacturers of the time. -- Jeremy Ray Jewell * Arts Fuse *Looks at how sugar and cotton plantations organised and tracked production. It is a fascinating yet horrifying history of how planters saw the slaves they profited from—and how they drove up production…Challenges many dominant ideas about capitalism, class and progress. -- Sadie Robinson * Socialist Worker *Full of insights into the history of Atlantic slavery, Accounting for Slavery will force its readers to look with fresh eyes at the many freedoms and unfreedoms of the modern American workplace. This is an original book, which uniquely draws from and speaks to many disciplines, while written compellingly for a wide audience. -- Jonathan Levy, University of ChicagoBy paying close attention to slaveholders’ methods of keeping accounts, Caitlin Rosenthal shows how and why they tried to reduce human beings to marks on a ledger. Anyone concerned with the sometimes dark history of management, data, and modern accounting practices needs to read this brilliant, carefully argued book. -- W. Caleb McDaniel, Rice University
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Ohio University Press Safari Nation A Social History of the Kruger
Book SynopsisSafari Nation tells the history of the Kruger National Park through a black perspective, helping explain why Africa’s national parks—often derided by scholars as colonial impositions—survived the end of white rule on the continent.Trade Review“In Safari Nation, the Kruger Park and South African ideas of nature and nationality are revealed in profoundly new and insightful ways. Jacob Dlamini captures South African experiences of nature and leisure that have largely escaped the historical profession, focusing his sharp eye on the significant minority of black South Africans who managed to live ’with—as opposed to under—colonialism and apartheid.’ An enjoyable book, full of surprises.” -- Saul Dubow, author of South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights“An innovative work of intellectual, political, and social history, Safari Nation advances a compelling new explanation for why the ANC government has chosen not to dismantle colonial-era conservation projects whose origins lie in the dispossession of countless black families. Dlamini’s skillful storytelling throughout the book manages to balance compassion and concern for justice with careful empirical detail in a direct, graceful prose that makes Safari Nation an enjoyable read from start to finish.” -- Heidi Gengenbach, author of Binding Memories: Women as Makers and Tellers of History in Magude, Mozambique“Safari Nation is a highly original treatment of the history of Kruger National Park from a black perspective. Dlamini does not pursue a polarized interpretation of the park and conservation as simply white/colonial constructs but instead develops a growing literature that presents African people as engaged in many different facets of park history, as agents, and conservationists.” -- William Beinart, author of Rise of Conservation in South Africa“This book is about nature and black South Africans, but not as daughters and sons of the soil. Rather, Jacob Dlamini describes people on the move towards Kruger National Park, a place where conservation meant racial exclusion. On their way, they made a space of belonging through political effort, not nativism. Following its own eclectic route through rural reserves, cities, and mines, from Table Mountain to the lowveld, Safari Nation offers a bold argument that by making claim on the more-than-human world, black South Africans created an inclusive nation.” -- Nancy Jacobs, author of Birders of Africa: History of a Network“Safari Nation is more than a social history of KNP. It is a history of black South Africans opposed to injustice engaging with the land, leisure, what it means to be South African, and ‘ways of being’ under colonialism, apartheid, and a still unequal nation…. Indeed, Dlamini’s history of Kruger National Park makes a bold and hopeful statement about conservation and the land question in South Africa.” -- Jill E. Kelly * American Historical Review *
£26.09
Pluto Press Whatever Happened to Antisemitism
Book SynopsisA clear-sighted exploration of how antisemitism has been politicised, and the damaging consequences of its redefinitionTrade Review'Nobody unpacks the confusions currently circulating around antisemitism, nor the complexities of Jewish identity, better than Antony Lerman. This elegantly written, erudite book is essential reading for all of us, whatever our identifications' -- Lynne Segal, author of 'Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy''An urgently needed book. The contemporary debate about antisemitism is both incoherent and appalling. Faced with this hot mess, Antony Lerman offers a cool, well-reasoned, deeply learned and morally courageous meditation on what antisemitism is and isn't' -- Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at 'Jewish Currents''We desperately need this book [...] An essential tool to understand the weaponisation of antisemitism and its dangerous impact on free speech, Palestinian rights, and the very real threat of actual antisemitism' -- Rebecca Vilkomerson, former Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace'This important, essential book by a leading expert on antisemitism offers a nuanced history of the use and abuse of the fight against the world's oldest hatred. It powerfully unmasks the successful effort to twist the battle against antisemitism into a defense of the indefensible: Israel's subjugation of millions of people on the basis of their national and ethnic identity' -- Nathan Thrall, author of 'The Only Language They Understand''The best book I have read on why anti-Zionism has been equated with antisemitism and how the 'new antisemitism' has been mobilised for political gain' -- Neve Gordon, co-author of 'The Human Right to Dominate'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms and abbreviations Introduction 1. Varieties of Confusion in Understandings of Antisemitism 2. The Use and Abuse of Antisemitic Stereotypes and Tropes 3. Motivated by Antisemitism? Challenges to Zionism 1975–1989 4. ‘New Antisemitism’: Competing Narratives and the Consequences of Politicisation 5. The Development of Institutions Combatting Antisemitism 1970s–2000 6. The Turning Point: ‘New Antisemitism’ and the New Millennium 7. The Codification of ‘New Antisemitism’: The EUMC ‘Working Definition’ 8. Responding to ‘New Antisemitism’: a Transnational Field of Racial Governance 9. The Redefinition Project and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’ Exposed 10. Human Rights: The ‘Mask Under Which the Teaching of Antisemitic Contempt for Israel is Carried Out’ 11. Geopolitics, Israel and the Authentication of ‘New Antisemitism’ 12. ‘War’ Discourse and its Limitations 13. ‘Jewish Power’, Medical Analogies and ‘Eradication’ Discourse 14. Apocalypticism: Defining the Discourse, Writing the Headlines and Generating Moral Panics 15. Against Typological Thinking: Summary and Conclusions Appendix: The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism Notes Index
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Cornell University Press The Just City
Book SynopsisSusan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development, combining progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity.Trade Review[Fainstein's] work deepens, enriches, and extends deliberative planning theory in complementary rather than antagonistic ways. Like the idea of justice itself, The Just City is not the last word concluding a debate. More important, it is a trenchant, penetrating, and reasoned contribution to precisely that discursive and contested, but necessary and fruitful deliberative process that fuels the hope for progress toward realization of the just city. -- Sarah J. Peterson * Journal of Planning Education and Research *The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban areas is to be reversed. Recommended. * Choice *Susan Fainstein's book is the result of some 20 years of intense research and thinking on the subject of the 'just city,' and it seems likely to me to become something of a classic.... Fainstein's slightly deadpan style serves only to make her accounts more compelling. A recent history of planning in London, written with equality, democracy and diversity in mind, is really useful as a teaching tool. Here the Docklands development, Coin Street and the 2012 Olympics are placed under scrutiny, with the last of those three, perhaps not surprisingly, receiving poor marks on the grounds of equity not least because the 'huge expenditure involved took away resources from other parts of London and the country more widely without providing them any benefits beyond the glory of hosting the Games.'... She notes that there are two possible responses to the injustices illustrated by the book. The first is to recognize the impossibility of achieving even small amounts of justice within the dominant system of global capitalism. The second, which is one that Fainstein herself adheres to, is that much can be achieved through incremental change. The book's final chapter is therefore devoted to a discussion of policies that are conducive to social justice in cities. Her vision is of a world where market forces no longer dominate decisions about city planning and justice drives the world of policy. -- Flora Samuel * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Toward an Urban Theory of Justice 1. Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Justice 2. Justice and Urban Transformation: Planning in Context 3. New York 4. London 5. Amsterdam: A Just City? 6. Conclusion: Toward the Just City References Index
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University of Minnesota Press Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization
Book SynopsisThis vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system.Liat Ben-Moshe provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability’s rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.Trade Review"Decarcerating Disability is a groundbreaking feminist study of the affinities, interrelations, and contradictions between prison abolition and psychiatric deinstitutionalization. Emphasizing the need for a more expansive field of critical carceral studies, Liat Ben-Moshe compellingly demonstrates the important lessons we can discover through serious engagements with radical disability movements. Scholars and activists alike should read this book without delay!"—Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz"In Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe carefully and incisively models an intersectional approach to abolition grounded in feminist, queer, and crip of color critique. Moving beyond demands for inclusion and critiques of overrepresentation, Ben-Moshe makes a powerful and persuasive case for a disability studies that recognizes state violence as central to its work and the carceral industrial complex as a site for queer coalitions for racial and disability justice. In so doing, she paves the way for thinking not only disability and disability studies differently, but also liberation itself."—Alison Kafer, University of Texas at Austin"Decarcerating Disability is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding and dismantling the interlocking systems of incarceration that shape the contemporary political landscape and shorten so many lives. Liat Ben-Moshe shows how the effectiveness of abolitionist work has been limited by the marginalization of disability and anti-sanism analysis and advocacy. She not only exposes how much contemporary abolitionists have to learn from historical struggles for deinstitutionalization, she also demonstrates a more truly intersectional method of abolitionist scholar-activism that we urgently need. This book is both a corrective intervention and a path-breaking tool for developing better strategy toward the world that those who seek liberation are fighting to build."—Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law"Ben-Moshe outlines how people fought for a new paradigm in mental health treatment before. Beginning in the 1960s, widespread deinstitutionalization sparked by disability activists shut down asylums across the country. Many see this movement now as a failure because it led to more people with mental illness being herded into jails and prisons. But Ben-Moshe argues that this was a pivotal step in abolition by grassroots organizing."—Teen Vogue"Examining decarceration and deinstitutionalisation within the same frame is vitally important...the book challenges us to think about the range of carceral facilities that exist."—Race & Class"A groundbreaking connection between disability justice and prison abolition."—Public Books "Decarcerating Disability should be read not only by students and scholars of African-American studies, criminology, critical theory, gender studies, law, or sociology, nor only by policy makers, but by all who are concerned about disability, gender, or racial justice."—American Journal of Sociology "Each chapter of Decarcerating Disability serves as a fantastic example of the knowledges, perspectives, and genealogies that are made possible when disability and madness are the lenses through which a queer of color critique is engaged."—Disability Studies Quarterly"Decarcerating Disability is an impressive text that powerfully argues for robust coalitional politics to challenge the logic of incarceration. Entire syllabi and reading groups can be structured around this text as Ben-Moshe opens up much to consider, especially how to effectively demand carceral-free futures, while also valuing disability. "—Ethnic Studies Review"Decarcerating disability: Deinstitutionalization and prison abolition is abold and challenging critical intervention, which puts critical disability studies, deinstitutionalisation, decarceration, and abolition theory and scholarship into closer conversation with each other. In so doing, the book has pushed these fields forward in new and, interesting ways. The book’s strongest contribution is its attempt to transform, redefine, and reframe what disability studies is and can be about, its appeal to frame and address issues of incarceration and decarceration as disability and carceral abolition issues, and the generative groundwork laid for fostering coalitional, liberatory politics and ideas."—Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology"[A]n important book that offers both a sweeping genealogy of disability and itsentangled history with race and incarceration, and rallying cry for abolitionism."—Journal of Constructivist Psychology"Ben-Moshe offers a detailed history of institutionalization and incarceration primarily in the United States. In putting institutionalization and incarceration in conversation, Ben-Moshe offers a larger consideration around the systems that keep certain individuals enclosed and the implications of deinstitutionalization as a movement versus louder for total prison abolition. A major intervention of Ben-Moshe’s book is the different approaches to and opinions of institutions as opposed to prison systems across the United States."—Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction: The Case for Intersecting Disability, Imprisonment, and Deinstitutionalization1. The Perfect Storm: Origin Stories of Deinstitutionalization2. Abolition in Deinstitutionalization: Normalization and the Myth of Mental Illness 3. Abolition as Knowledge and Ways of Unknowing4. Why Prisons Are Not “the New Asylums”5. Resistance to Inclusion and Community Living: NIMBY, Desegregation, and Race-Ability6. Political and Affective Economies of Closing Carceral Enclosures7. Institutional and Prison Reform Litigation: From Politicization to the Governable Iron CageEpilogue: Abolition NowAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press European Others
Book SynopsisConsiders the complications of race, religion, sexuality, and gender in Europeanizing from belowTrade Review "European Others is a ground-breaking study, a theoretical adventure, and a major contribution to the literature on European racisms, queer diaspora, immigration, queer subcultures, and queer of color critique. No other scholar, to put it plainly, has worked on these materials in this way; no other scholar has managed to launch the critique of European nationalisms from the vantage point of queer of color subcultural groups; and no other scholar has been able to weave together the strands of sexuality, gender, race, and resistance in such a daring and compelling way." —Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure"Fatima El-Tayeb’s bold and graceful new book is an electrifying piece of original scholarship on contemporary ‘vernacular’ cultures of community-building in Europe. The world’s leading expert on minoritarian countercultures of art and activism in western Europe today, El-Tayeb sets entirely new standards for intersectional theories of race and sexuality in an age of accelerated transformation. Greater even than the sum of its very incisive parts, El-Tayeb’s European Others focuses on the lived experience of marginalized social groups to craft a new critical idiom for conceptualizing Europe, globalization, diaspora, and marginalization itself." —Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theorizing Urban Minority Communities in Postnational Europe1. “Stranger in My Own Country”: European Identities, Migration, and Diasporic Soundscapes2. Dimensions of Diaspora: Women of Color Feminism, Black Europe, and Queer Memory Discourses3. Secular Submissions: Muslim Europeans, Female Bodies, and Performative Politics4. “Because It Is Our Stepfatherland”: Queering European Public SpacesConclusion: “An Infinite and Undefinable Movement”NotesBibliographyIndex
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Distributed Art Publishers Nick Cave: Forothermore
Book SynopsisWith a wealth of images and commentary, this is the essential career survey of Cave's socially responsive art The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: Forothermore highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. Addressing topics ranging from art history to social justice, Nick Cave: Forothermore includes essays from Naomi Beckwith, Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson and Meida Teresa McNeal. Punctuating these contributions are interviews with the artist exploring his life, work and teaching practice, as well as a roundtable discussion between Cave and dancer Damita Jo Freeman, musician Nona Hendryx and publisher Linda Johnson Rice on Cave's art and influences, as well as pivotal cultural phenomena from Soul Train to Ebony magazine. Nick Cave: Forothermore reveals the way art, music, fashion and performance can help us envision a more just future. Nick Cave (born 1959) is an artist and educator working between the visual and performing arts through a wide range of mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, sound and performance. Cave is well known for his Soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, initially created in direct response to the police beating of Rodney King in 1991. Cave has had major exhibitions at MASS MoCA (2016), Cranbrook Art Museum (2015), Saint Louis Art Museum (2014–15), ICA Boston (2014), Denver Art Museum (2013), Seattle Art Museum (2011) and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2009), among others. Cave lives and works in Chicago.Trade ReviewThis book shows what a tour de force of originality he is, and it also absolutely forces you to think. -- Gina Mayfield * Dallas Morning News *Achieves a paradoxical tone of elegiac flamboyance in his work, confronting the spectre of anti-Black brutality with glittering feats of assemblage and couturier-level craft. -- Johanna Fateman * New Yorker *With explosions of color and materiality, Cave has his own enigmatic ways to funnel the funk through histories of adversity. -- Debra Brehmer * Hyperallergic *His hundreds of subsequent Soundsuits, which produce a cacophony of noise when combined with movement, contain infinite contradictions: obfuscation and hypervisibility, refuge and escape—somber reminders of injustice and joyful imaginings of a more utopic future. -- Madison Reid * Vanity Fair *
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Yale University Press Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World
Book SynopsisIllustrated essays that broaden our understanding of modernism by centering Black artists and experiences, with a contribution featuring the work of Venice Biennale Golden Lion winner Simone Leigh
£42.75
University of Toronto Press Simply Institutional Ethnography
Book SynopsisInstitutional ethnography (IE) originated as a feminist alternative to sociologies defining people as the objects of study. Instead, IE explores the social relations that dominate the life of the particular subject in focus. Simply Institutional Ethnography is written by two pioneers in the field and grounded in decades of ground-breaking work. Dorothy Smith and Alison Griffith lay out the basics of how institutional ethnography proceeds as a sociology. The book introduces the concepts Discourse, Work, Text that institutional ethnographers have found to be key ideas used to organize what they learn from the study of people’s experience. Simply Institutional Ethnography builds an ethnography that makes this material visible as coordinated sequences of social relations that reach beyond the particularities of local experience. In explicating the foundations of IE and its principal concepts, Simply Institutional Ethnography reflects on the ways in wTrade Review"This book serves as a fitting legacy of the work of authors Smith and Griffith, two pioneers in the field of institutional ethnography, both of whom passed away prior to this book's publication. The authors encapsulate decades of their efforts to create and develop this particularly unique form of sociology and document its conceptual and theoretical refinement along the way. The result is a sophisticated, comprehensive overview that, although rather complex at times, nonetheless lays out for readers the promise and potential of this approach to studying human lived behavior an.d the myriad institutions in which such behavior is embedded." -- J. R. Mitrano, Central Connecticut State University * CHOICE *“In this slim volume, the authors encapsulate decades of their efforts to create and develop this particularly unique form of sociology and document its conceptual and theoretical refinement along the way. The result is a sophisticated, comprehensive overview that lays out for readers the promise and potential of this approach to studying human lived behavior and the myriad institutions in which such behavior is embedded.” -- J.R. Mitrano, Central Connecticut State University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Introducing Institutional Ethnography 1. Introduction 2. People’s Experience as the Ethnographic Resource Part II: Useful Concepts 3. Concepts but Not Theory 4. Discourse 5. Work 6. Texts Part III: The Ethnographic Dialogue 7. Transition to the Ethnography 8. Exploring Ruling Relations 9. Institutional Circuits: From Actual to Textual 10. Making Change from Below Part IV 11. In Conclusion
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WW Norton & Co Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the
Book SynopsisIn a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in America and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe’s dehumanising engagement with the “darkest” continent. Born in Blackness dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures whose stories have been repeatedly etiolated and erased over centuries, from unimaginably rich medieval African emperors who traded with Asia; to Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers; to ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage. In doing so, French tells the story of gold, tobacco, sugar and cotton—and the greatest “commodity” of all, the millions of people brought in chains from Africa to the New World, whose reclaimed histories fundamentally help explain our present world.Trade Review"Born in Blackness is enlivened with personal anecdotes… I found the book to be searing, humbling and essential reading." -- Nigel Cliff - The New York Times"There are few words that can express the resounding impact of French’s breathtaking work on the known historiography of African and African American history . . . Highly recommended for any audience." -- Monique Martinez - Library Journal"The way we think about history is entirely wrong, says Howard W French at the start of this magnificent, powerful and absorbing book... This is not a comfortable or comforting read, but it is beautifully done; a masterpiece even... French writes with the elegance you would expect from a distinguished foreign correspondent, and with the passion of someone deeply committed to providing a corrective." -- Peter Frankopan - The Observer"A recasting of the history of the modern world that places Africa and Africans at the centre of the story. French argues that the rise of the west to global dominance was made possible by the exploration and exploitation of Africa—and, above all, by the slave trade. He recounts the destruction of complex African societies and the scale and brutality of slavery. At the time of Black Lives Matter this is an intensely political message. But French’s book is no work of propaganda and has been hailed as a “masterpiece” by Peter Frankopan, professor of global history at Oxford." -- Financial Times"A very personal book—written with a steely and elegant indignation—it is also an impressively detailed historical account of the role of Africa and Africans in the development of Europe and the Americas... If the strength of Mr. French’s book lies in its quiet but adamant righteousness, it rests also in its empirical force.... It is his view—with which few would rush to argue after reading Born in Blackness—that the sooner the ‘denial’ about the role slaves played in creating America’s prosperity is put to rest, the better Americans as a people will come to understand ‘their country’s true place in world history.’" -- Tunku Varadarajan - Wall Street Journal"Born in Blackness is an extraordinary book that draws deep on [French’s] decades of experience as he seeks to explain the circumstances of Africa’s history with Europeans who were first attracted to the continent in the search of gold and slaves... French’s narrative is a bold retelling of what has often been told, but with additional details that might have escaped the attention of many historians… In many surprising ways, [Born in Blackness] provides a brilliantly argued case for recognition of Africa’s immense contribution to modernity." -- Stephen Williams - African Business"French writes not only to correct the historical record but to urge readers to understand how their world has been made by Africa’s contributions. Born in Blackness is therefore an entry into a larger debate about how to reckon with the past...For French, transforming the way we perceive ourselves as citizens of the most powerful country in the world, and transforming how we understand the part Africans played in building it, are necessary steps toward justice and quality" -- Adom Getachew - The New York Review of Books
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HarperCollins Publishers Whites On Race and Other Falsehoods
Book SynopsisAn important, timely personal essay' OBSERVER BEST BOOKS OF 2020Not taking any bullshitsharp and stylishbrutal' GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARIn this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, whiteness, and the mental labour required of Black people to navigate the two.Presented as a record of Uwagba's observations on this era-defining moment in history that is, George Floyd's brutal murder and the subsequent protests and scrutiny of institutional racism Whites explores the colossal burden of whiteness, as told by someone who is in her own words, a reluctant expert'.What is it like to endure both racism and white efforts at anti-racism, sometimes from the very same people? How do Black people navigate the gap between what they know to be true, and the version of events that white society can bring itself to tolerate? What does true allyship actually look like and is it even possible?Addressing complex interracial dynamics and longstanding tTrade Review Praise for Whites: ‘A searing text from a writer who takes no prisoners’ THE GUARDIAN ‘An eloquent, heartfelt mini-memoir. Otegha Uwagba examines the subtle ways in which fighting racism is hampered not only by those who are obviously racist, but more perniciously by those who believe themselves to be anti-racist.’ Angela Saini, author of Inferior and Superior ‘Clear-sighted, compelling and very, very necessary’ Michael Donkor, author of Hold "Devoured this. Sharp, pointed, clear and brutal stuff." Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant Praise for Little Black Book: ‘A must-read for anyone looking to be as prolific as Uwagba herself’ Sunday Times ‘Otegha Uwagba is one of London's new generation of female CEOs’ Evening Standard ‘Otegha Uwagba has the answer to all your creative career challenges…this book is a must-read guide for all creative women looking to navigate the world of work’ Elle ‘Avoids all the clichés of the “self-help” genre’ Dazed There’s no fluff in here, it’s all solid gold – recommend 100%’ Emma Gannon, author of book and podcast CTRL-ALT-DELETE ‘All you lot should get your hands on this. Currently on my way to do a speech and shitting myself,but Chapter 4 on public speaking is allowing me to breathe’ Charlie Cuff, gal-dem ‘If, like me, you love talking and thinking about your career – and hope to constantly evolve it – this one is for you’ Natasha Lunn, Red Magazine ‘Buy this BRILLIANT book (especially if you’re a woman in the creative industries, but basically buy it if you’re anyone)’ Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail
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HarperCollins Publishers Dark and Shallow Lies
Book SynopsisNOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! AN INTENSE AND BROODING THRILLER ' THE OBSERVERA intensely romantic and atmospheric thriller for young adults, full of twists and turns with a simmering supernatural undercurrent. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Karen McManus and Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads SingWhen seventeen-year-old Grey makes her annual visit to La Cachette, Louisiana the tiny bayou town that proclaims to be the Psychic Capital of the World she knows it will be different from past years: her childhood best friend Elora went missing several months earlier and no one is telling the truth about the night she disappears.Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding somethingher grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to Trade Review‘Dark and Shallow Lies oozes atmosphere and dread […] An intense and brooding thriller laced with the supernatural and killer twists.’ – Observer ‘A page-turning thriller . . .’ – IRISH TIMES “Few books have stuck with me quite as much as Dark and Shallow Lies did this year. Like its ominous and isolated Louisiana bayou setting, Ginny Myers Sain’s debut YA novel is a story that’s as alluring as it is unnerving and unfathomable. Blending small-town supernatural thrills with a haunting coming-of-age murder mystery, it’s the kind of deeply atmospheric book that makes you live every second with its heart-breaking cast of young and troubled characters. Taking place, as Ginny Myers Sain describes it, in the “in-between spaces where magic feels most possible”, it’s a story that crackles off the page and into readers’ hearts, where it will stay for a long time to come.” Culturefly “Don’t even try to resist—Ginny Myers Sain will lure you into the spellbinding world of the deep Louisiana bayou with this riveting missing girl mystery populated by a bewitching cast of characters; spun to life in lush, atmospheric prose; and teeming with a dark mythology that is part folklore, part psychic mysticism, and entirely compelling.” —Kit Frick, author of I Killed Zoe Spanos “Haunting and arresting, this is one stunning debut. Ginny Myers Sain has written a totally engrossing small-town mystery about what happens when you finally dig up long-buried secrets.” —Jessica Goodman, bestselling author of They Wish They Were Us
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Penguin Books Ltd They Cant Kill Us All
Book Synopsis**Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose**''A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter ... Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America ... essential reading'' Junot Díaz, The New York Times, Books of 2016''Electric ... so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart'' Dwight Garner, The New York Times, ''A Top Ten Book of 2016''''I''d recommend everyone to read this book ... it''s not just statistics, it''s not just the information, but it''s the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it. I really enjoyed it'' Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central''s ''The Daily Show''A deeply reported book on the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement, offering unparalleled insight inTrade ReviewA courageous chronicle of how police violence sparked a political movement ... A century and a half after slavery, and 50 years since the end of legal segregation, They Can't Kill Us All impressively brings us up to date with America's fraught history of racial injustice -- K Biswas * New Statesman *A devastating front-line account of the police killings and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter. In his quest to understand how and why this movement sprang up when it did, Lowery seems to have been everywhere and spoken to everyone (his interview of Alicia Garza is especially noteworthy). Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America, exposing the malign disavowals and horrendous racial structures and logics that make the unjust deaths of young men like Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Sean Bell not only possible but inevitable. As a primer for the Black Lives Matter movement and as a meditation on the death-grip that white supremacy has on the American soul, "They Can't Kill Us All" is essential reading -- Junot Diaz, 'Book of the Year' * The New York Times *Electric... So well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart... Valuable for many reasons -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *Lowery is unflinchingly honest...a skillful reporter and storyteller. He takes the reader through the laborious task of reportage with a humanity and forthrightness, making this book more than just a catalog of tragedy. He succinctly presents a story of human grief * New York Times Book Review *You've really captured it. One reason I'd recommend everyone to read this book is because it's not just statistics, it's not just the information, but it's the connective tissue that shows the human story behind it. I really enjoyed it * Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show' *Vital and important. * Washington Post *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Immigrant Superpower
Book SynopsisIn The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has long been a source of American strength and that exceptional immigrants have been crucial to American exceptionalism. Deftly combining stories of immigrants who have contributed to the American experience with analysis of the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment, Kane's impassioned view of how immigration has made America great stands in contrast to the broken and dysfunctionaldebate about immigration.Trade ReviewA well-informed analysis of a perennial problem. * Kirkus *Table of ContentsList of Boxes, Tables, and Figures Acknowledgements PART I. LIFE AND DEATH 1. Oaths 2. Threats 3. Invasions PART II. PEOPLE AND TRIBE 4. Origins 5. Presidents 6. Eras 7. Walls 8. Divides PART III. RESOURCES AND RIVALRY 9. Brawn 10. Bravery 11. Brains PART IV. MICRO AND MACRO 12. Narratives 13. Economies 14. Cultures 15. Americans 16. Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Serving Herself
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA sprawling—and in many ways outstanding—biography...[that] uses the story of Althea Gibson—'the preeminent African American female athlete of the twentieth century'—to explore the history of integration in American sports....Honest, sympathetic and nuanced, a labor of love and respect that should go a long way to remedy the unpardonable disappearance of Althea Gibson from the American imagination. * Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journal *Brown's narrative is at its best when it contextualizes the most consequential moments in Gibson's career within the backdrop of broader racial tensions....Serving Herself is a stark reminder of how, in some ways, little has changed in tennis since Gibson's trailblazing career began more than three-quarters of a century ago—and how hard it still is for a Black woman to succeed in the sport. * Kelsey Butler, Bloomberg *A monumental, comprehensive biography that blends Gibson's remarkable athletic accomplishments with the inspirational story of how she lived through the Jim Crow era and navigated segregation, racism, and gender discrimination, all the while fighting for the integration of sports. After triumphing at Wimbledon, Gibson pledged to 'wear the title with dignity and humility'; this fine tribute makes clear that she did just that. * Booklist (starred review) *Brown's absorbing exploration of Gibson's lengthy athletic career...introduces the elite 'high-toned and ultra-white' world of tennis and golf in an accessible and entertaining way....The book is not just for sports fans: it is set against the vivid backdrop of twentieth century social history, detailing the growth of women's athletics, integration, and the 1970s golf and tennis explosion, arcing upwards even as Gibson lost power and speed. Serving Herself traces a tennis player's iconoclastic journey to athletic greatness. * Foreword (starred review) *A highly recommended, inspirational title....With interviews, personal correspondence, newspaper articles, archives, records, and recordings, Brown gives readers a full portrait of Gibson. * Library Journal (starred review) *An in-depth look at how racism and homophobia challenged the life of a sports superstar. Brown...makes her book debut with a thoroughly researched, insightful biography of Althea Gibson....A palpable portrait of an aggressive, ambitious woman whose race made her an outsider in the White-dominated sports world and whose gender nonconformity—refusal to meet expectations about how a Black woman should look and behave—made her a social misfit....Brown sensitively examines Gibson's refusal to be seen as 'a representative' of her race, offering context for her views on social justice, women's rights, and African American causes. * Kirkus *Ashley Brown's riveting and truly stunning biography of Althea Gibson fills a gaping hole in the historical literature on the experiences and contributions of African American athletes. Brown's comprehensive and insightful account of Gibson's extraordinary odyssey-a life filled with both triumph and disappointment, ranging from the streets of Harlem to the hallowed tennis courts of Wimbledon and Forest Hills-offers an unblinking look at the challenges that racial and gender discrimination posed for even the most talented of African American women. * Raymond Arsenault, author of Arthur Ashe: A Life *Ashley Brown's critical feminist biography of Althea Gibson places her squarely-and queerly-at the center of mid-twentieth century American history. Thanks to a perfect match between subject and biographer, Althea Gibson will finally get the recognition and respect she craved and so often lacked during her lifetime. * Susan Ware, author of Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports *Tennis is a sport that imposes the rigid boundary of its rectangular court. The tennis champion Althea Gibson, however, devoted her life on and off the court to variously defying, finessing, transgressing, and transcending period norms of race, class, and gender. In this incisive, engaging biography, Ashley Brown both restores Gibson to her place in the athletic pantheon and unflinchingly illustrates the price she paid. * Samuel G. Freedman, author of Breaking the Line: The Season in Black College Football That Transformed the Sport and Changed the Course of Civil Rights *What does it mean to be an individual when everyone else insists that you are foremost a representative of a category? Althea Gibson, one of the most important sports figures of the twentieth century, constantly juggled the challenges of breaking barriers in the elite worlds of tennis and golf and wanting to compete at the highest levels without the baggage that 'the first Black' and/or 'the first woman' routinely faced. Ashley Brown's comprehensive biography offers searing insight into the history of sports integration through the life of this scrutinized, underappreciated, and underpaid pioneer in Jim Crow America. It is crucial that we know and remember this not-so-distant history that paved the way for latter-day tennis stars like Serena Williams and Venus Williams. * Tera W. Hunter, author of Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century *Brown (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison) has revised her 2017 dissertation on Althea Gibson into a highly readable book... This stellar biography stands as a tribute to the bravery and perseverance of a pioneer. * Choice *Brown has provided a microscopic account of the life and times of Althea Gibson. She not only provides detailed information on Gibson's tennis and sporting ups and downs, but also her personal life and her attitudes to major issues of her times. Brown carefully examines and provides valuable information on the internal dynamics and operation of the various orbits that Gibson interacted with, in both America and overseas. She also has an acute sense for the major shifts and changes that occurred in America and weaves together this broader information with the minutiae of Gibson's life. Brown writes with insight and understanding in what can only be described as a splendid and outstanding work of scholarship on Althea Gibson, this champion tennis player. * Braham Dabscheck, Sporting Traditions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Coming Up the Hard Way Chapter 2 A Queer Cosmopolitan Chapter 3 The Making of a Strong Black (Woman) Contender in the South Chapter 4 From Florida A&M to Forest Hills Chapter 5 Dis/Integration Chapter 6 Resurfacing Chapter 7 Press(ing) Matters Chapter 8 Changeover Chapter 9 Finding Fault with a Winner Chapter 10 Game Over Chapter 11 New Frontiers Chapter 12 A Winner Who Hasnât Won Yet Chapter 13 The Harvest Chapter 14 Two Deaths Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Scars on the Land An Environmental History of
Book SynopsisScars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.Trade ReviewDavid Silkenat has written an astoundingly original history of southern slavery. To the crimes against humanity committed by enslavers, one can add environmental destruction. It is the enslaved, whose interactions with the flora, fauna, and landscape allow them to create alternative geographies of freedom, who emerge as stewards of the south. Scars on the Land reveals perceptively the long afterlives of slavery all around us. * Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition *This beautifully crafted book provides a striking new context for understanding southern slavery. Silkenat takes us deep into the South's fields, forests, and swamps, showing how the natural world shaped the daily lives of enslaved and enslavers alike. At the same time, we see how slavery remade the southern landscape and how African American knowledge of the environment eventually helped facilitate emancipation. Readers will never think of the South's 'peculiar institution' in the same way again. * Timothy Silver, co-author of An Environmental History of the Civil War *Here we see the outline of a three-dimensional history of slavery: one in which 'power' and 'resistance' and 'work' and 'agency' are to be understood as dynamic material processes. The system's ecological and spatial aspects are understood by David Silkenat as both the determining parameters and agonistic products of its economic and racial aspects. * Walter Johnson, author of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States *Synthesizing decades of scholarship in slavery and environmental studies, and offering a new interpretative framework, Scars on the Land expands our understanding of the environmental and human disaster that was built into the business model of racial slavery in the US South and integral to its power. In this timely and illuminating book, Silkenat refuses to let us forget that the devastation of black life was of a piece with the deep entanglement of the expansionary visions and policies of slaveholders that laid waste to the land with a force peculiar to slavery. He makes clear how, in the production of cash crops, the mining of coal, or the tapping of pine trees for tar, slavery and environmental devastation went hand in hand and at tremendous cost to black life and in the years before the Civil War, a narrowing of the possibilities of black freedom. * Thavolia Glymph, author of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation *This volume resolves a notable historiographic absence in the literature of slavery as well as in American environmental history....Silkenat...demonstrates that the environmental history of slavery is not a simple matter of evaluating the impersonal forces of the South's ecology on enslaved men and women. One of the book's strengths is demonstrating how much of the environment itself was subject to the very human actions of enslavement and enslaved labor...The thematic chapters provide readers with a depth of analysis that richly incorporates African American primary source...and offers readers a tightly focused examination of the role that soil, rivers, forests, animals, and swamps played in the lives of slaves...This volume will be of enormous value in bringing these topics to the attention of students, laypersons, or environmental historians. * Nicholas Cox, H-CivWar *Scars Upon the Land's lively pace, vivid examples, and sensitive construction clearly demonstrate both how the landscape affected enslaved people and how they interacted with and shaped their environment. The book brings to bear a mountainous bibliography of primary accounts and secondary interpretations to explore this tension. Scars Upon the Land manages all this material elegantly...The book sweeps the reader across the South from eastern turpentine forests to Mississippi River levees, presenting familiar narratives in new ways and making connections that many students of slavery may not otherwise think to probe, like the links between the weather and white fears of slave revolt...informative yet readable and could easily be assigned to undergraduate student...in southern, African American, and nineteenth-century history. * Kelly Houston Jones, American Nineteenth Century History *With compelling prose, a convincing re-reading of primary and secondary sources, and an effective organization, this book offers an excellent overview of the complicated cause-and-effect relationships between human enslavement and environmental change in disparate spaces over a long period of time...The book's most important accomplishment is that within each setting, readers encounter the natural world through the eyes, hands, and labour of enslaved people. * James C. Giesen, Slavery & Abolition *It is an incisive and ramifying book, one that deserves a wide readership and a prominent place on the bookshelf of scholars. * Rich Newman, Civil War Book Review, Vol. 26 *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 An Exhausted Soil Chapter 2 An Animal Without Hope Chapter 3 Dragged Out by the Roots Chapter 4 Breeches in the Levee Chapter 5 A Southern Cyclone Chapter 6 An Inhospitable Refuge Chapter 7 Landscape of Freedom Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Stories of Survival
Book SynopsisCollege suicides are a growing social problem in the United States. Suicide is the second leading cause of death on university campuses and more than half of all college students report experiencing some level of suicide ideation in their lifetime. Asian American students are particularly vulnerable to suicide ideation, yet these students also show strong resiliency, leading to lower rates of suicide deaths than their peers.Stories of Survival explores the paradox of suicide vulnerability and resiliency among Asian American college students using one-on-one interviews collected during the global pandemic. This narrative research uses a strength-based approach to understand how Asian American college students live with their suicidal tendencies. It offers a deeply felt examination of the history of mental health challenges that the Asian American undergraduate population facefrom intergenerational trauma to racial microaggressionsand the coping strategies, protective factors, and life s
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The University of Chicago Press Some White Folks
Book SynopsisA pioneering exploration of the unexamined roots and effect of racial sympathy within American politics. There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. This is a book about white people who feel that distress. For decades, political scientists have studied the effects of white racial prejudice, but Jennifer Chudy shows that white racial sympathy for Black Americans' suffering is also a potent force in modern American politics. Grounded in the history of Black-white relations in America, racial sympathy is unique. It is not equivalent to a low level of racial prejudice or sympathy for other marginalized groups.Some White Folks reveals how racial sympathy shapes a significant number of white Americans' opinions on policy areas ranging from the social welfare state to the criminal justice system. Under certain circumstances, it can also spur actionalthough effects on political behavior are weaker and less consistent, for reasons Chud
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd How to Raise a Global Citizen
Book SynopsisA cheerful, optimistic handbook for parents and carers shaping the next generation of responsible global citizens - ready to change the world for the better!Our children have the energy, capacity, and passion to create and nurture a global culture in which inclusion, acceptance, respect, and participation are the core values that underpin a human being''s every interaction. As parents and carers, our job is to help our children take their first steps along that path.Raising truly globally minded, and socially conscious children happens at home and in the community. Children can be inspired, equipped, and mobilized to make a difference in the world. By encouraging values such as responsible and kind use of social media, respect, open mindedness, empathy, a sense of community, parents can help to shape a new generation of emotionally intelligent, outward-looking, politically ethical world citizens.Relevant to parents of children of all ages - from toddle
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University of Washington Press The Borders of AIDS
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[I]mmediately urgent and immensely creative monograph." * Peitho Journal *"In this important monograph, Chávez eloquently interrogates the concept of national belonging as it relates to race, disease, power, and morality in the US. She clearly and articulately expresses her core thesis of the alienizing logic of exclusion and offers a fresh and insightful contribution to existing histories of the early years of the ongoing AIDS crisis by repositioning themes of race and immigration into the central frame of this narrative." * Connections *"[P]rovides a multifaceted narrative analysis of the dual policy frameworks of quarantine and immigration-related bans and detention as the United States coped with the rise of HIV/AIDS in the last quarter of the twentieth century. [Chávez’s]work represents an admirable effort to integrate relevant voices from a variety of strata. Naturally, all historical work in the contemporary era should endeavor to do the same, but the tapestry Chávez weaves through her diverse employment of sources proffers truly unique perspectives in her field." * H-Net Reviews *"This book made me hopeful about what scholarship can be and do. Chávez plays with time, drawing connections between the Reconstruction era, the AIDS epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, but always carefully. Chávez is confident about her political commitments, while not afraid to admit what she and we do not yet know. And perhaps most importantly, she allows oppressed people's freedom dreams to live on." -- Andrea Bolivar * American Ethnologist *
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Yale University Press My Soul Is a Witness The Traumatic Afterlife of
Book SynopsisAn intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its traumaTrade Review“A compassionate, sensitive, and insightful meditation on where to discern the hidden memories of the collective trauma of lynching and where to discover the manifest forms of African American resistance and resilience in response to it.”—Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, author of American Lynching“My Soul Is a Witness examines the oral histories, literature, art, and music that constitute the living memory of lynching. It’s an exceptionally researched, exquisitely written, and important book.”—Julie Buckner Armstrong, author of Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching“Mari Crabtree has written a hauntingly beautiful book, telling the stories of those whose lives have been weighed down by the traumatic memory of lynching and a nation haunted by the traumatic memory of what it has done and what it tries not to remember. Powerful. Disturbing. Brilliant. A must read!”—Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton University
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Yale University Press Isaac Murphy The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
Book SynopsisThe rise and fall of one of America’s first Black sports celebritiesTrade Review“Deeply and impressively researched. . . . Ms. Mooney pieces together a narrative with an arc so tight and clean that it’s a wonder it actually happened. . . . It reads, in other words, like a novel, and that is because the author brought not just rigor, but craft.”—Max Watman, Wall Street Journal“Isaac Murphy is a concise, yet highly informative, detailed rendering of the world of thoroughbred horses and jockeys, the Black struggle during the Nadir, and the impact of an extraordinary Black athlete.”—Gerald L. Early, author of A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports“An eloquent, deeply insightful portrait of an extraordinary athlete at a time when this nation hovered between rising above old racial wrongs and plunging back into a racist abyss. Isaac Murphy’s brilliant career and heartbreaking decline embody this era’s great potential and its tragic end. Required reading for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping sports, race, and national character in the nineteenth century and beyond.”—Pamela Grundy, co-author of Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball“Mooney deftly contextualizes one of the most significant figures in horseracing history. Anyone interested in how American sports and society reflect and affect each other should read this book.”—James C. Nicholson, author of Racing for America: The Horserace of the Century and the Redemption of a Sport
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Hachette Books American Sirens
Book SynopsisThe extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America’s first paramedics and set the gold standard for emergency medicine around the world, only to have their story and their legacy erased—until now.In American Sirens, acclaimed journalist and paramedic Kevin Hazzard tells the dramatic story of how a group of young, undereducated Black men forged a new frontier of healthcare. He follows a rich cast of characters that includes John Moon, an orphan who found his calling as a paramedic; Peter Safar, the Nobel Prize-nominated physician who in
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc In Sensorium
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Black Women Agency and the New Black Feminism
Book SynopsisThe powerful BeyoncÃ, formidable Rihanna, and the incalculable Nikki Minaj. Their images lead one to wonder: are they a new incarnation of black feminism and black womenâs agency, or are they only pure fantasy in which, instead of having agency, they are in fact the products of the forces of patriarchy and commercialism? More broadly, one can ask whether black women in general are only being led to believe that they have power but are really being drawn back into more complicated systems of exploitation and oppression. Or, are black women subverting patriarchy by challenging notions of their subordinate and exploitable sexuality? In other words, âwho is playing whoâ?Black Women, Agency, and the New Black Feminism identifies a generational divide between traditional black feminists and younger black women. While traditional black feminists may see, for example, sexualized images of black women negatively and as an impediment to progress, younger black women tend to embrace these new images and see them in a positive light. After carefully setting up this divide, this enlightening book will suggest that a more complex understanding of black feminist agency needs to be developed, one that is adapted to the complexities faced by the younger generation in todayâs world.Arguing the concept of agency as an important theme for black feminism, this innovative title will appeal to scholars, teachers, and students interested in black feminist and feminist philosophy, identity construction, subjectivity and agency, race, gender, and class. Table of ContentsIntroduction Agency Born of Struggle Chapter One THE CONSTRUCTED AGENT: POSTMODERNISM, WHITE FEMINISM AND BLACK MALE AGENCY Chapter Two HISTORICIZING AGENCY IN THE BLACK FEMINIST TRADITION: A PHENMENOLOGY OF THE BLACK FEMALE BODY Chapter Three MILLENNIALS: BLACK WOMEN FORMING AND TRANSFORMING AGENCY Chapter Four MILLENNIALS: BLACK WOMEN FORMING AND TRANSFORMING AGENCY Chapter Five THE THINGS THEY CONTINUE TO CARRY: BLACK WOMEN’S AGENCY TODAY AND TOMORROW Chapter Six CONCLUSION: ON THE GREAYNESS OF GRAY Bibliography
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WW Norton & Co Read Until You Understand
Book Synopsis“A masterpiece... Farah Jasmine Griffin’s magical words enchant and empower us like those of her towering heroes.”—Cornel WestTrade Review"Slim and quietly captivating... This a life lived among books, then reinterpreted through them." -- Carlos Lozada - The Washington Post
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Taylor & Francis Strange Encounters
Book SynopsisExamining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism.A diverse range of texts are analyzed which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has alternatively been expelled as the origin of danger - such as in neighbourhood watch, or celebrated as the origin of difference - as in multiculturalism. The author argues that both of these standpoints are problematic as they involve 'stranger fetishism'; they assume that the stranger 'has a life of its own'.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Stranger Fetishism and Post-Coloniality 2. Recognising Strangers 3. Knowing Strangers 4. Embodying Strangers 5. Home and Away: Narratives of Migration and Estrangement 6. Multiculturalism and the Proximity of Strangers 7. Going Strange, Going Native 8. Ethical Encounters: The Other, Others and Strangers 9. Close Encounters: Feminism and/in 'The Globe' 10. References
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University of California Press Boyle Heights
Book SynopsisThe radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.George J. Sánchez The vision for America's cross-cultural future lies beyond the multicultural myth of the great melting pot. That idea of diversity often imagined ethnically distinct urban districtsthe Little Italys, Koreatowns, and Jewish quarters of American citiesbuilt up over generations and occupying spaces that excluded one another. But the neighborhood of Boyle Heights shows us something altogether different: a dynamic, multiracial community that has forged solidarity through a history of social and political upheaval. Boyle Heights is an in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing the potent experiences of its residents, from early contact between Spanish colonizers and native Californians to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the hunt for hTrade Review"Pathbreaking civic history. . . . A historical journey through the beginning, middle, and present of one of Los Angeles’s most prominent neighborhoods. Sánchez counters the fear that shrouds its image and allows us to understand why this neighborhood is the way it is — powerful and pure of heart." * Los Angeles Review of Books *“In the annals of Chicanx history, only a few historians stand heads and shoulders above the rest. One of those is George J. Sánchez whose recent publication . . . leaves off where his award-winning Becoming Mexican American made its mark roughly three decades ago.” * Latino Book Review *"A remarkable book." * Housing Studies *"The author has written this valuable history in clear and concise language. Scholars as well as civic activists and government officials concerned with social and racial justice and with urban planning will find the book useful and enlightening. It would also work well in graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses concerned with those areas. The interested layperson will find it straightforward and comprehensible." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Coherent, sweeping, dazzling." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Illustrations Preface Chapter One • Introduction: A Multiracial Map for America Chapter Two • Making Los Angeles Chapter Three • From Global Movements to Urban Apartheid Chapter Four • Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods Chapter Five • Witnesses to Internment Chapter Six • The Exodus from the Eastside Chapter Seven • Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism Chapter Eight • Black and Brown Power in the Barrio Chapter Nine • Creating Sanctuary Chapter Ten • Remembering Boyle Heights Time Line Mayor and City Council Lists Notes Bibliography Index
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Minzhi Xing Red Sky
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Pluto Press Staying Power
Book SynopsisThe classic history of black people in Britain, an epic story that spans the Roman conquest to the present day.Trade Review'Encyclopedic, courageous and passionately written there is no more important and no more ground breaking a book on Black British history than Staying Power. Everyone who has researched or written on the subject since its publication in 1984 owes something to Fryer' -- David Olusoga, author of 'Black and British: A Forgotten History''Wonderful' -- Lenny Henry'Rare in its mastery' -- CLR James'A fascinating account of the growth of the black community in Britain over the past centuries' -- Guardian'For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain Mr Fryer has my deep gratitude. An invaluable book, which manages the rare feat of combining scholarship with readability' -- Salman RushdieTable of ContentsForeword by Gary Younge Introduction by Paul Gilroy Preface 1. 'Those Kinde of People' 2. 'Necessary Implements' 3. Britain's Slave Ports 4. The Black Community Takes Shape 5. Eighteenth-Century Voices 6. Slavery and the Law 7. The Rise of English Racism 8. Up from Slavery 9. Challenges to Empire 10. Under Attack 11. The Settlers 12. The New Generation Appendices Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index
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Pluto Press To Exist is to Resist
Book SynopsisIn a divided continent, Black women and women of colour come together to undertake creative resistances and imagine radical new futures.Trade Review'Centring the Black experience in Europe is a bold and empowering act. This anthology offers crucial insights into what it means to navigate this region as a black female body. I truly welcome the publication of this book.' -- Jeannette Ehlers, Visual Artist'To read this book is to fully engage in an understanding of Black Feminism and Afrofeminism praxis. It is to discover the plurality of experiences, so that a political sisterhood and a global liberation can be born' -- Laura Nsafou, blogger at Mrs. Roots and author of 'Like A Million Black Butterflies'Table of ContentsList of Figures Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction: On the Problems and Possibilities of European Black Feminism and Afrofeminism - Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande Part II: Resistance, Solidarity and Coalition-Building 2. The Collective Mobilisation of African Women in Athens 'United We Stand' - Viki Zaphiriou-Zarifi 3. Making Space: Black and Womxn of Colour Feminist Activism in Madrid - Nadia Nadesan 4. Those Who Fight For Us Without Us Are Against Us: Afrofeminist Activism in France - Mwasi Collectif 5. Afro Women's Activism in Belgium: Questioning Diversity and Solidarity - Nicole Grégoire and Modi Ntambwe 6. A Black Feminist's Guide to Improper Activism - Claire Heuchan Part III: Emotions, Affect and Intimate Relations 7. Revisiting the Home as a Site of Freedom and Resistance - Gabriella Beckles-Raymond 8. Uses of Black/African Literature and Afrofeminist Literary Spaces by Women of Colour in French-Speaking Switzerland - Pamela Ohene-Nyako 9. 'Blackness Disrupts My Germanness.' On Embodiment and Questions of Identity and Belonging among Women of Colour in Germany - Johanna Melissa Lukate 10. Love and Affection: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship Between Women of Colour - Ego Ahaiwe Sowinske and Nazmia Jamal 11. Black Pete, Black Motherhood and Womanist Ethics - Lubumbe Van de Velde 12. Warriors and Survivors: The Eartha Kitt Files - Alecia McKenzie Part IV: Surviving the Academy 13. In the Changing Light; Daring to Be Powerful - Yesim Deveci 14. Cruel Ironies: The Afterlife of Black Womxn's Intervention - Cruel Ironies Collective 15. Creating a Space within the German Academy - Melody Howse 16. A Manifesto for Survival - Sadiah Qureshi 17. At the Margin of Institutional Whiteness: Black Women in Danish Academia - Oda-Kange Midtvage Diallo 18. Africanist Sista-hood in Britain: Creating Our Own Pathways - Chijioke Obasi Part V: Digital and Creative Labour 19. But Some of Us Are Tired: Black Women's 'Personal Feminist Essays' in the Digital Sphere - Kesiena Boom 20. Coming to Movement: African Diasporic Women in British Dance - Tia-Monique Uzor 21. Through Our Lens: Filming Our Resistance. Does the Future Look Black in Europe? - Dorett Jones 22. When We Heal: Creative Practice as a Means of Activism and Self-Preservation - Stacie CC Graham Notes on Contributors Index
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Pluto Press Tangled in Terror
Book SynopsisThe roots of Islamophobia run deep and affect us all. We must resist it togetherTrade Review'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' -- 'gal-dem''Courageously makes explicit the implicit unfreedoms of our society' -- Lowkey, rapper and activist'I am profoundly grateful to Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan for writing this book. It is brave. It is necessary. It is true. It is what we Muslims have been waiting for. A brilliant, powerful and moving account of Islamophobia, not as an individual moral deficiency, but as rooted in colonial histories of white supremacy and global capitalism. For me, Tangled in Terror triggered long-felt pain, anger, grief at the abuse, torture and genocidal violence Muslims are made to suffer the world over. Violence which not only evades accountability, but seems at times not even to register as harm. Manzoor-Khan carefully traces the origins and shape of the historical and ongoing terrorisation of Muslims, revealing untold injustices, and showing us how to untangle ourselves from terror and instead find threads of resistance' -- Nadine El-Enany, author of '(B)ordering Britain' and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Race and Law'A fearless writer who cuts through nonsense. Suhaiymah's voice is one of the most exciting of her generation' -- Fatima Manji, award-winning broadcaster and journalist for Channel 4 News'This is the first time the breadth and depth of the Islamophobia we face has been collated in one place and analysed with such precision. It really feels like 'our' book' -- Moazzam Begg, a former prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, author of 'Enemy Combatant' and outreach director for CAGE'A surgical, unflinching account of the forces that have converged to cast Muslims as a permanent threat while profiting off our marginalisation' -- Aamer Rahman, writer and comedian'Suhaiymah's writing is fierce and clarifying. She understands that the task is to resist oversimplified definitions of Islamophobia and instead turn the reader's attention toward its political function - how it increases proximity to violence and impoverishes us all' -- Lola Olufemi, author of ‘Feminism, Interrupted’'Hugely important, unflinching and rigorous' -- Preti Taneja, author of the Desmond Elliot Prize-winning book 'We That Are Young''One of Britain’s most promising young voices’ -- Priyamvada Gopal, author of ‘Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance & British Dissent’'Unapologetically abolitionist, 'Tangled in Terror' resonates as a powerful act of refusal and resistance. It lays the foundations for a resistance that unequivocally demands an end to ALL forms of violence and ALL forms of racism, together' -- Helen Brewer, migrant justice activist, and a member of the Stansted 15'Offers a rich account of the ways Islamophobia upholds systems of extraction, exploitation and domination, propelled by the urgency of our collective political predicament' -- Sita Balani, co-author of 'Empire's Endgame''A deeply insightful intervention on the ongoing entrenchment of white supremacy and islamophobia. 'Tangled in Terror' is a motivator, to understand, reflect, and take action in deliberate, radical and life-affirming ways' -- Cradle Community, an abolitionist collective'This eloquent book dissects the structures of power which create, uphold and perpetuate Islamophobia and tells us what it is like to be a Muslim woman in this intensely hostile climate' -- Amrit Wilson, writer, journalist and activist'Conveys the trauma that is so often unspoken of in discussions of state enabled bigotry against Muslims, written with deep clarity' -- Omar Suleiman, scholar, civil rights leader, writer and public speaker'Tangled in Terror' brought tears to my eyes and fire to my heart. The gift of this book is feeling the world changing around you with each word. An astounding, ground-shaking piece of work.' -- Sabrina Mahfouz, playwright, poet, writer and editor of 'The Things I Would Tell You''A bold, brave and brilliant account of Islamophobia as a global system of domination and as a continuation of a colonial project, written with clarity and compassion' -- Sara Ahmed, independent scholar and author of 'Complaint!''Suhaiymah has produced crystal clarity out of the darkest fog. ‘Tangled In Terror’ is a visceral dissection of the industry of Islamophobia' -- Inua Ellams, award-winning playwright and poet‘A fresh perspective … looks beyond entrenched narratives of Islamophobia to offer a new thesis’ -- Mariyah Zaman, ‘gal-dem’‘Illuminating and incisive’ -- ‘Huck’‘Written with such clarity. It’s really validating, as a Muslim woman, to have someone say exactly what you’re thinking’ -- Nadia Saeed, ‘PEN Transmissions’‘An essential book, not only for Muslims but for anyone wanting to learn and understand more about the roots and current reality of Islamophobia. It’s an enriching and insightful read into what discussions around Islamophobia should be focusing on and where our energies should be prioritised. In the face of so much division and hate, it’s also a book of hope’ -- Shahed Ezaydi, ‘Amaliah’Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Not what it is but what it does 1. A history of race-making: Inventing ‘the Muslim threat’ 2. Never-ending pillaging in the name of international security 3. Who is safer when the nation is secure? 4. Racist prediction as public duty: Prevent 5. Whose parallel lives? Which British values? 6. The revolution must be counter-extremist: Co-opting resistance 7. Compromising Islam for patriotism: A secular state? A Western Islam? 8. Destroying life and hoarding wealth in the name of border security 9. The feminist and queer-friendly West? The patriarchal rest? 10. Islamophobia’s beneficiaries Conclusion: A safe world on our own terms
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