Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

Book SynopsisA comparative study of a white supremacist organization and a white antiracist organization to understand the underlying similarities of how groups make-meaning of race and whiteness.Trade Review"White Bound is a book that will definitely create a stir in both the academic and the nonacademic communities . . . There is no doubt that White Bound will be viewed as a major contribution in sociology." -- Saher Selod * Humanity & Society *"This book is essential reading! Matthew Hughey expertly uses interview material to demonstrate how current assumptions about whiteness influence two groups as opposite as white nationalists and white antiracists. White Bound makes an important contribution to our understanding of the continuing significance of race in the U.S." -- Ashley W. Doane * University of Hartford *"This is a smart book that calls attention to a number of important sociological lessons . . . Hughey outdid himself in the strength of his argument." -- Nancy DiTomasco * Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews *"Drawing on rich interviews, Matthew Hughey demonstrates the depths and power of the centuries-old white racial frame in the minds of whites in both explicitly racist and openly antiracist groups. Consciously and unconsciously, whites in both make significant use of racialized social capital and white-centered identities, understandings, and meanings. This is a bold study by a savvy new talent in sociology." -- Joe Feagin Texas A&M University * author of Racist America and The White Racial Frame *"[T]he study unearths the meanings white people attach to whiteness and explores how those meanings are enacted across the political spectrum . . . The book excels as an example of great ethnography. Hughey paints a vivid picture that takes the reader inside the daily operations of both [National Equality for All (NEA) and Whites for Racial Justice (WRJ)]." -- Corey D. Fields * American Journal of Sociology *"Hughey offers a provocative effort to plumb the cultural complexity of modern white racial identity. White Bound seeks to illuminate often hidden linkages between racist and antiracist social projects. The book is a worthy addition to the growing literature on whiteness studies." -- Lawrence D. Bobo * Harvard University *"White Bound is a carefully constructed study of the structure and meaning of race, especially whiteness, in the contemporary United States. In an innovative approach, Hughey traces the common logics and similar racial understandings of white racist activists and white antiracist activists to discern the foundational meanings of race in this country. . . Advanced undergraduates and graduate students will find White Bound an excellent model for racial ethnography. It deserves a careful read by all scholars of race and social movements." -- Kathleen Blee * Social Forces *"White Bound is both fascinating and horrifying, and a useful contribution to the sociology of race." -- Terese Jonsson * London School of Economics (LSE) Review of Books *"This book brings a fresh and innovative perspective to the sociological analysis of whiteness . . . The key strength of this book is the simplicity and brilliance of the project design. The juxtaposition of these two apparently politically opposed organizations provides rich ethnographic material for Hughey to theorize and deconstruct the micro-politics that facilitates the meanings of whiteness and the reproduction of white hegemony. Without a doubt a further strength of this book is the richness and depth of the ethnography . . . [T]he merits of this book . . . are considerable." -- Katharine Tyler * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This provocative monograph challenges the taken-for-granted meanings, rules and expectations of whiteness that persist within the supposedly polar opposite white nationalist and anti-racist stances, developing a theory of white identity within a bifurcated political debate . . . The clever thesis blurs the boundaries between 'good whites' and 'bad whites', rendering the white reader intellectually stimulated." -- Kathy A. Mills * Qualitative Research *

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Book SynopsisThis book reveals how a California city's civil rights struggles and racialized local politics were dramatically affected by the city's relationship with the military, and speaks to debates on American urban development, race relations, and civilian/military relationships throughout the twentieth century.Trade Review"McKibben's Racial Beachhead is a well-researched history and an important contribution to U.S. race relations studies." -- Adrian R. Lewis * Journal of African American History *"[McKibben's study] reveals a significant counter-narrative in American social and urban history." -- Heather Fryer * JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY *"The book makes a compelling case against the idea that the federal government was, in all cases and at all times, a culprit in housing discrimination. Consistent with the work of Brilliant and others, Racial Beachhead also contributes to widening the civil rights narrative through its depiction of multiracial movement work encompassing African Americans, Asians, and Latinos, as well as the fault lines among them." -- Clarence Lang * American Studies *"This book will find eager readers among urban, community, military, and civil rights historians, as well as those more generally interested in northern California's history . . . Overall, Racial Beachhead offers a fascinating alternative narrative of racial politics. McKibben provides a crucial addition to recent work on the long, wide civil rights movement, coalition building, and urban politics in twentieth-century California. Racial Beachhead's greatest contribution is its focus on a small, but integrated, military community, enriching our understanding of the American West in the mid-twentieth century." -- Allyson P. Brantley * Journal of American Studies *"The author's carefully crafted history of Seaside offers a glimpse into an untold story of racial integration and harmony on nearly all levels of this unique community. The strength of the work is in the careful historical analysis and use of a variety of sources to bring to life this hidden coastal town that represented great racial progress in practice . . . [B]y placing the developments of this community within a larger social and political context, the author most certainly contributes to a greater understanding of race relations in the twentieth century and the role of the military in facilitating racial integration." -- Laura S. Abrams * Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare *"The author uses an abundance of primary resources, a laudable narrative style, and an intelligent conceptual structure that places this study at an intriguing and valuable crossroads of racial theory, military sociology, and urban studies . . . Recommended." -- B. A. Wineman * CHOICE *"In the voluminous historical literature about race in America, few scholars have addressed how military experiences shaped race relations in the post-World War II decades. Racial Beachhead is a corrective, not only for understanding the impact an army base had on a local community, but how military service influenced the direction of civil rights initiatives. It is a must read!" -- Albert M. Camarillo * Stanford University *"Seaside, California is rich with history and embodies the history of the NAACP and the spirit of inclusion. Racial Beachhead captures the essence of this historic town and its place in history. As a proud graduate of Ord Terrace Elementary School, I believe everyone can learn from Seaside's storied past in creating a more inclusive society." -- Benjamin Todd Jealous * NAACP President and CEO *"McKibben has written a provocative study whose implications extend well beyond the boundaries of its unassuming subject. Racial Beachhead calls into question our conventional understanding of modern American urban history." -- Mark Wild, California State University * Los Angeles *"Racial Beachhead is a fascinatingly splendid book that challenges conventional wisdom about the power of race to shape urban life, the role of the military in generating social change, and the motivating origins of community organizing in the civil rights era. This book illustrates the role of small communities in the transformation of 20th century American society." -- Quintard Taylor * University of Washington *"McKibben has produced a well-researched addition to the scholarship of ethnicity and the military and has shown that our American ideals can be realized in everyday life." -- Liz Throop * H-War *"[T]his book provides a much-needed analysis of race relations in a military town and sheds light on how the loss of large military and federal installations impact minority-majority communities. Racial Beachhead is a welcome addition to the growing literature in Urban Studies and provides a rare window into a world often ignored by scholars." -- Le'Trice Donaldson * National Political Science Review *

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Book SynopsisThrough an examination of North African Jewish youth practices in Paris, Rhinestones explains the production of race, alienation, and intolerance within an understudied European minority population.Trade Review"This study of North African Jewish (Sephardi) adolescents enrolled in Jewish day schools in Paris brings a relatively understudied population to the burgeoning literature on the problem of multiculturalism in postcolonial France . . . [T]here is fascinating material here worthy of further unpacking." -- Andrea L. Smith * American Ethnologist *"[L]ittle attention has been paid to Jewish perceptions of the Muslim Arabs [in France]. In her provocative new book, [...], Kimberly Arkin takes on this topic, and in doing so, provides a brilliant analysis of the complicated legacies of colonialism, antisemitism, and nationalism in contemporary France . . . [Her] book masterfully uses a wide variety of theoretical frameworks to make sense of French day school identity politics, and she artfully fleshes out her anthropological study with extensive use of primary source material." -- Nadia Malinovich * Association for Jewish Studies *"Anyone still concerned that the ethnography of Jewish communities remains wedded to nostalgia, provincialism, or salvage should consult Kimberly Arkin's bracing ethnography of the schooling of young people of 'Sephardi' . . . Arkin shows us that [French Jews], and especially their young people, can provide an unexpected and revealing window on the troubled processes of integration and democracy in Europe today." -- Jonathan Aaron Boyarin * American Anthropologist *"Anthropologist Arkin tackles a sensitive subject: racial views among Sephardic Jewish adolescents in Paris . . . Arkin builds upon existing historiographical themes by exploring the formation and cultivation of French Jewish identity, while adding a useful anthropological perspective on the manifestation of these identity choices . . . [T]he book is well written and engaging, and should be accessible to advanced undergraduates. Summing up: Recommended." -- J. Haus * CHOICE *"This bold book takes on the subject of French Jewish adolescent racism—a topic so 'untouchable' that Arkin was expelled from the school in which she was doing fieldwork after having publicly acknowledged the phenomenon. Through this carefully researched and notably historic ethnographic explanation of a complex subject, Arkin uncovers the way racial understandings and categories were constructed, often unwittingly, by state educational policies, school administrators, and parents, most of whom held quite different and even diametrically opposed views on the nature of French Jewish identity." -- Maud Mandel * Brown University *

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Book SynopsisSet during the first two decades of Israeli statehood when Palestinians who managed to remain after 1948 lived under a repressive military regime, Citizen Strangers examines how Arabs and Jews navigated the opposing impulses of exclusion and inclusion in a new state forced by new international norms to grant citizenship and suffrage rights to its unwanted native minority.Trade Review"Citizen Strangers is an extremely important, highly scholarly work on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians . . . The book is based on exemplary original research involving extensive use of both Hebrew and Arabic archives and newspapers, as well as interviews . . . This is an essential work for scholars (including serious nonspecialists) and policy-makers concerned with Israel/Palestine or broadly with ethnic conflict and colonialism. Summing Up: Essential." -- G. E. Perry * CHOICE *"This well-researched book thus provides essential context for current events in the occupied Palestinian Territories and is required reading for anyone interested in exploring the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." -- Kabir Altaf * Dawn *"Robinson's well-researched and detailed account of Israel's dramatic formation period and the creation of what she calls 'a liberal settler state' is a welcome academic addition to Israeli and Palestinian historiography." -- Joseph Dana * The National *"Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates that the treatment of Palestinian citizens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself. Carefully tracing the historical dynamics of the institutions that constructed Palestinian residents as both liberal citizens and colonial subjects, Robinson shows how these institutions also shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order, and society." -- Gershon Shafir, University of California * San Diego *"The paradox that cleaves the title of this exceptional book into two goes to the heart of its revelatory findings: a state that is both liberal and settler-colonial is an oxymoron. Robinson's absorbing, meticulously researched account decisively historicizes Israel's contradictory combination of colonial subordination at home with pretensions to democracy abroad." -- Patrick Wolfe * La Trobe University *"Shira Robinson offers a rich analysis of the politics and laws that shaped Palestinian citizenship in Israel, the complexities of liberalism, and issues of control and domination in settler colonial states to illuminate the historical roots of Israeli politics toward Palestinians today." -- Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah * The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel *"In recent years the concept of settler colonialism has become a fashionable if controversial way of understanding the Palestine-Israel conflict. It draws parallels between the Zionist movement and European settlers in North America, Australia and elsewhere who built their own societies and economies while excluding, dispossessing or eliminating the natives. There are some obvious differences. But Jewish immigrants who were fleeing anti-Semitism were also settlers. Robinson uses that framework to study the Palestinian minority left in Israel after 1948 and the paradox of their being second-class citizens living under a military government, but with democratic rights, and in a Jewish state surrounded by Arab enemies. Superbly researched using archival and a wealth of other sources in Arabic and Hebrew." -- 10 Must-Read Histories Of The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Ian Black, Literary Hub"Shira Robinson has authored a remarkable book. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler Stateprovides a detailed panorama of the many ways in which the Israeli state limited the rights of its Palestinian subjects; it reveals the latter's acts of refusal and resistance; and it provides incredible insights on Israeli perceptions of citizenship and sovereignty.[T]he conceptual and temporal paradigm suggested in this book will inspire many scholars working in the field. Indeed, Citizen Strangers is a great academic achievement that reveals much about the past and helps us understand, with tragic clarity, the realities of the present." -- Orit Bashkin * H-Net Reviews *"Robinson describes techniques of exclusion with a concreteness and detail that is useful and compelling. The book is therefore an important addition to the empirical literature on Israeli treatment of Palestinians, and the theoretical frame leads to further debate about how this treatment is best conceptualized." -- Aziza Khazzoom * American Historical Review *"Robinson's framework succeeds in moving 'beyond the conceptual straitjacket' that tends to trap other studies that examine Zionism purely as a purely settler-colonial movement, precluding any attempts to examine Israel as part of the global history of liberalism. We are encouraged not to view these currents as mutually exclusive; Israeli policies of early statehood encompassed elements of both settler colonialism and liberal democracy." -- Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisSet during the first two decades of Israeli statehood when Palestinians who managed to remain after 1948 lived under a repressive military regime, Citizen Strangers examines how Arabs and Jews navigated the opposing impulses of exclusion and inclusion in a new state forced by new international norms to grant citizenship and suffrage rights to its unwanted native minority.Trade Review"Citizen Strangers is an extremely important, highly scholarly work on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians . . . The book is based on exemplary original research involving extensive use of both Hebrew and Arabic archives and newspapers, as well as interviews . . . This is an essential work for scholars (including serious nonspecialists) and policy-makers concerned with Israel/Palestine or broadly with ethnic conflict and colonialism. Summing Up: Essential." -- G. E. Perry * CHOICE *"This well-researched book thus provides essential context for current events in the occupied Palestinian Territories and is required reading for anyone interested in exploring the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." -- Kabir Altaf * Dawn *"Robinson's well-researched and detailed account of Israel's dramatic formation period and the creation of what she calls 'a liberal settler state' is a welcome academic addition to Israeli and Palestinian historiography." -- Joseph Dana * The National *"Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates that the treatment of Palestinian citizens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself. Carefully tracing the historical dynamics of the institutions that constructed Palestinian residents as both liberal citizens and colonial subjects, Robinson shows how these institutions also shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order, and society." -- Gershon Shafir, University of California * San Diego *"The paradox that cleaves the title of this exceptional book into two goes to the heart of its revelatory findings: a state that is both liberal and settler-colonial is an oxymoron. Robinson's absorbing, meticulously researched account decisively historicizes Israel's contradictory combination of colonial subordination at home with pretensions to democracy abroad." -- Patrick Wolfe * La Trobe University *"Shira Robinson offers a rich analysis of the politics and laws that shaped Palestinian citizenship in Israel, the complexities of liberalism, and issues of control and domination in settler colonial states to illuminate the historical roots of Israeli politics toward Palestinians today." -- Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah * The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel *"In recent years the concept of settler colonialism has become a fashionable if controversial way of understanding the Palestine-Israel conflict. It draws parallels between the Zionist movement and European settlers in North America, Australia and elsewhere who built their own societies and economies while excluding, dispossessing or eliminating the natives. There are some obvious differences. But Jewish immigrants who were fleeing anti-Semitism were also settlers. Robinson uses that framework to study the Palestinian minority left in Israel after 1948 and the paradox of their being second-class citizens living under a military government, but with democratic rights, and in a Jewish state surrounded by Arab enemies. Superbly researched using archival and a wealth of other sources in Arabic and Hebrew." -- 10 Must-Read Histories Of The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Ian Black, Literary Hub"Shira Robinson has authored a remarkable book. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler Stateprovides a detailed panorama of the many ways in which the Israeli state limited the rights of its Palestinian subjects; it reveals the latter's acts of refusal and resistance; and it provides incredible insights on Israeli perceptions of citizenship and sovereignty.[T]he conceptual and temporal paradigm suggested in this book will inspire many scholars working in the field. Indeed, Citizen Strangers is a great academic achievement that reveals much about the past and helps us understand, with tragic clarity, the realities of the present." -- Orit Bashkin * H-Net Reviews *"Robinson describes techniques of exclusion with a concreteness and detail that is useful and compelling. The book is therefore an important addition to the empirical literature on Israeli treatment of Palestinians, and the theoretical frame leads to further debate about how this treatment is best conceptualized." -- Aziza Khazzoom * American Historical Review *"Robinson's framework succeeds in moving 'beyond the conceptual straitjacket' that tends to trap other studies that examine Zionism purely as a purely settler-colonial movement, precluding any attempts to examine Israel as part of the global history of liberalism. We are encouraged not to view these currents as mutually exclusive; Israeli policies of early statehood encompassed elements of both settler colonialism and liberal democracy." -- Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisBeneath the Surface of White Supremacy upends and deepens our understanding of racism, providing a radical alternative to conservatives' and liberals' contorted renderings of the past and false promises for the future.Trade Review"Jung delivers a tour de force on the origins and consequences of US racism. This work of rigorous historical and sociological thought built on empirical data dives into the sundry and varied ways in which white supremacy has been established in the US, particularly as forces of racial domination played out along the black-white color line and amid Latino, Asian, and Native populations . . . Essential." -- M.W. Hughey * CHOICE *"Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy provides a much-needed rebuttal to those who believe we have arrived at a post-racial destination in America. Smart, bold, and illuminating, this book offers an innovative way to understand the mechanisms that maintain racialized hierarchy. Moon-Kie Jung's path-breaking work reminds us all of our collective responsibility for altering racial inequality." -- Tyrone A. Forman * University of Illinois at Chicago *"This brilliant book is certain to become a landmark work in critical race theory, ethnic studies, and the sociology of knowledge. Through its generative explanations, unexpected connections, and previously unknown genealogies, it presents a new theory about the nature of racism that reveals the significance of ideological denial and epistemological suppression in legitimating white supremacy." -- George Lipsitz * author of How Racism Takes Place *"Moon-Kie Jung's new book is a major empirical and theoretical contribution. It reconceptualizes how we understand and study racism, particularly in the United States. Jung is at once historian and social theorist, reader of evidence and interpreter of its significance. Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy is critical sociology at its very best." -- Joan W. Scott * Institute for Advanced Study *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction: Reconsidering Racism and Theory chapter abstractThis introductory chapter begins with a close description and analysis of the homicide of an unarmed Black teen in Champaign, Illinois. On October 9, 2009, the police shot and killed Kiwane Carrington outside a friend's home where he was staying. The officers involved were never charged, much less convicted. The chapter attempts to defamiliarize what has become all too familiar and discern the racial common sense that prevailed in the case. Through this particular example, it raises a multitude of general questions about the workings of racism that the rest of the book takes up. 2Restructuring a Theory of Racism chapter abstractChapter two outlines a new theory of racism, an indispensable, if deeply fraught, concept in the social sciences. It builds on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's structural theory of racism and William Sewell Jr.'s theory of structure. The former goes a long way toward denaturalizing commonsensical views on racism by stressing its structural character. Insightful in myriad ways, it is hindered by an unsatisfactory concept of structure. Integrating, critiquing, and extending Sewell's more cultural and historical understanding of structure, the new theory addresses a number of thorny issues, including scale, meaning, consciousness, and change. To do so, it distinguishes between dominant and subaltern positions, discursive and nondiscursive practices, and performative and reflective discourses. Foregrounding the practical over the representational, the restructured theory squares a host of seemingly contradictory theories and findings in the social-scientific study of racism. 3The Racial Constitution of the U.S. Empire-State chapter abstractAgainst the universal assumption that the United States is and has been a nation-state, chapter three contends that the United States has always been an empire-state, a conceptual shift with potentially sweeping implications. Notably, the reconceptualization provides a firmer basis for understanding the United States as a racial state, requiring none of liberalism's contortions of the past and false promises for the future. For its empirical analysis, the chapter turns to constitutional law of the long nineteenth century. It demonstrates how U.S. state formation has always entailed the racial construction of colonial spaces. Tracing the strange career of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the notorious Supreme Court case associated almost always with slavery and almost never with empire, it argues for a unified framework to analyze the different but linked histories of racial subjection, including those of Asians/Asian Americans, Blacks, Latinas/os, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders. 4The Racial Unconscious of Assimilation Theories chapter abstractChapter four scrutinizes the current social-scientific literature on immigration and immigrants. Over the past two decades, immigration scholars have revitalized assimilation theory to study the large and growing numbers of migrants from Latin America, Asia, and the Caribbean in the United States. Neoclassical and segmented assimilation theories seek to make sense of this current wave of migrants and their offspring that differs in important ways from the last great wave at the turn of the twentieth century. They also recognize and try to overcome the conceptual shortcomings of earlier generations of assimilation theory. Yet the new theories continue to misconstrue race by assuming precisely what should be dissected: the "nation-state" and structures of inequality and domination. Shifting the focus from difference to inequality and domination, the chapter proposes a fundamental reorientation in our theoretical approach, from assimilation to the politics of national belonging. 5Symbolic Coercion and a Massacre of Filipinos chapter abstractChapter five investigates a mostly forgotten massacre that took place in Hawai'i on September 9, 1924. During a protracted strike of Filipino sugar workers, the police shot and killed sixteen strikers on the island of Kaua'i. The incident hardly registered, failing to arouse among non-Filipinos sympathy or questions of legitimacy. How is such immediate consensus in defense of state violence formed? Incorporating W. E. B. Du Bois's concept of double consciousness, the chapter puts forward a critique of Pierre Bourdieu's social theory that challenges his overreliance on the tacit consent of the oppressed as the source of legitimacy. Exposing clear evidence of Filipino strikers' oppositional discourse and practice that went ignored, it proposes the concept of symbolic coercion that refers to the tacit nonrecognition by the dominant. 6Symbolic Perversity and the Mass Suffering of Blacks chapter abstractChapter six proffers the concept of symbolic perversity, the paradoxical but pervasive phenomenon of the relatively powerful's ignorance of their own knowledge. Despite the prevailing liberal notion that the dominant, like all people, would act justly if they knew about this or that injustice, the chapter underscores the idea that they know plenty but tacitly ignore this knowledge that they themselves produce and consume. This deeply patterned ignorance follows a racial logic that devalues the suffering of certain categories of people. To illustrate, statistical and textual analyses of the New York Times, a dominant institution, and its handling of unemployment data produced by the federal government, another dominant institution, are undertaken. The findings on Black unemployment and its news coverage fly in the face of conventional wisdoms that racism in contemporary United States is hard to detect and that nearly everybody believes in racial equality in principle. Conclusion: Denaturalizing Racisms Present and Future chapter abstractThis concluding chapter draws out some of the book's main implications for theory and politics of race through a reflection on the social thought of James Baldwin. It highlights the many points of convergence between the book and Baldwin's ideas, including emphases on history, relations of power, social unconscious, ignorance, immanent critique, violence, chimera of assimilation, and radical change. It also discusses two points of divergence: the need to recognize qualitatively different racisms and the incompatibility of radical antiracism and "America."

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Decentering Citizenship offers a fascinating comparative portrait of three Filipina migrant groups in South Korea. The book is equally a study of domestic advocates of migrants, and of the important effect they have on migrants' well-being. Choo's groundbreaking work will enjoy a wide readership and deserves to be widely taught in undergraduate classes."—Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"With verve and sophistication, Choo captures the plurality of experiences of migrant women in South Korea—their multiple voices, triumphs and trials, and the numerous contradictions they face. Decentering Citizenship is at once a fast-paced and engrossing ethnography and an insightful, often brilliant rumination on citizenship, kinship, and human rights."—Namhee Lee, University of California, Los Angeles"This brilliant book examines the timely topic of international migration with an innovative design of comparative research. Choo vividly demonstrates that the political membership of nationhood and the moral community of humanity are reimagined whenever we confront the question of what kinds of foreigners are 'worthy' of being included."—Pei-Chia Lan, National Taiwan University"As South Koreans wrestle with how to incorporate the growing numbers of foreign workers, marriage migrants, and biracial children, they have had to rethink automatic assumptions about citizenship, national belonging, and Korean identity. In Decentering Citizenship, Hae Yeon Choo tackles these important issues through the lens of Filipina migrants residing in South Korea. This rich ethnography is the first to provide such comparative analysis of a fast-growing immigrant population that is reshaping who South Koreans are and what South Korea is. As such, this book should be on the reading list for anyone who wants to better understand the social revolution that is sweeping South Korea today."—Paul Y. Chang, Pacific Affairs"Decentering Citizenship could be an ideal textbook for courses on international migration and gender at the graduate and undergraduate level"—Pyong Gap Min, Gender & Society"Decentering Citizenship is an ethnographically rich and analytically cogent book that calls for the recognition of migrants' rights through a reimagination of citizenship...This book will be of interest to those interested in migration, human rights, citizenship, and gendered nationalism. Its engaging stories and clear writing make it suitable for both undergraduate and graduate-level teaching."—Sealing Cheng, Anthropological Research"Decentering Citizenship sparks numerous directions for new research, paving the way for other researchers to expand migration studies beyond the "imperial centers" and critically examine how global hierarchies are mediated through daily interactions in ways that shape the citizenship-making process. In short, Decentering Citizenship is a groundbreaking and beautifully written book that will attract a wide audience of scholars and students who are interested in international migration, gender inequality, social movements, and labor studies."—Hyeyoung Kwon, Contemporary Sociology"Decentering Citizenship contributes to the field of critical migration studies by moving beyond the realm of law and policy to examine the spaces of daily life—what Choo calls the 'margins of citizenship'—where questions of migrant rights, entitlements, and belonging are negotiated and reimagined....As the short-term rotation migrant workforce becomes normalized across the world, Hae Yeon Choo's Decentering Citizenship offers us an insightful and well-researched study on the complexities, possibilities, and potential pitfalls of collective efforts to build a polity that enables equal rights and full political membership for migrants."—Yen Le Espiritu, American Journal of Sociology"Decentering Citizenship will be an invaluable resource in years to come for those wishing to explore the experience of ethnic minorities in traditionally homogenous countries, particularly in East Asia....Owing to Korea's rapidly aging population, a reliance on migrant labor appears unlikely to diminish. As the effects of Korea's demographic changes are felt more broadly across Korean society, Decentering Citizenship should be regarded as a cornerstone in the studies of their evolving labor market and the changing nature of Korean citizenship."—Robert York, Korean Studies"Decentering Citizenship offers insights into the formation of potential new ethno-racial-national hierarchies in South Korea, as Filipino women push the boundaries of citizenship. Overall, this book offers strong empirical insights on gender, migration, and citizenship."—Helene K. Lee, International Migration Review"Decentering Citizenship demonstrates the importance of the everyday life and moral community of the migrants as the sites of their rights-claims....Choo's analysis is a rare in-depth and comparative study of migrant activism."—Hyun Ok Park, The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of Contents1. Decentering Citizenship: Perils, Promises, Possibilities 2. The Journey of Global Women: From the Philippines to South Korea 3. Duties, Desires, and Dignity: South Koreans on Migrant Encounters 4. Everyday Politics of Immigration Raids in the Shadow of Citizenship 5. The Making of Migrant Workers and Migrant Women 6. Workers and Working Girls: Gendering the Worker-Citizen 7. Between Women Victims and Mother-Citizens 8 (coda): Migrant Rights and Politics of Solidarity

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Book SynopsisMaking Moderate Islam reveals the assumptions about race and gender, as well as the political and economic pressures that, beginning in the mid-twentieth century, have structured demands for religious minorities' "moderation" in the United States.Trade Review"Making Moderate Islam is an important contribution to the urgent questions around Muslims and citizenship. The central characters and debates here are striking, and even dramatic—including a post-9/11 climate, election-year grandstanding, right-wing punditry, think-tank support, and imperial logics of containment—and Corbett does a splendid job of identifying and invoking many of the players, tropes, and consequences of the story of the 'Ground Zero Mosque.'" -- Sohail Daulatzai * author of Black Star, Crescent Moon *"Scholarship on Islam in America has generally overlooked the practices of middle-class Muslims and social elites, who, in the wake of the 2010 'Ground Zero Mosque' controversy, suddenly found themselves under attack despite having played by the rules. By uncovering the historical context of this national anti-Muslim campaign, Corbett demonstrates, in lively prose, how conceptualizations of 'moderate Islam' are the product of an interplay between race, class, and religion in America." -- Kambiz GhaneaBassiri * author of A History of Islam in America *"[T]his is not merely a well-done micro-history with impressive, long-term ethnographic sources. It is, at its core, a book tackling broader and theoretical notions of 'moderate' Islam, American belonging, and the limited acceptance of marginalized bodies within the American body politic...Because Corbett grounds her analysis in the local but focuses throughout on larger issues like race, gender, ethnicity, and religion in America, Making Moderate Islam is a valuable—and eminently teachable—monograph for scholars and students of Islam, America, and religious studies writ large." -- Ilyse R Morgenstein Fuerst * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Corbett's conclusion, that limits to inclusion require communities to work with others to achieve their goals rather than separately or some will advance while others remain behind, extrapolates from the case study central to this book to the wider issue of social inclusion and advancement. This book is highly recommended as a thoroughly researched and riveting discussion of how American Muslims negotiate identity, belonging, and acceptance in the United States." -- Clinton Bennett * Religious Studies Review *"Making Moderate Islam is a highly readable, engaging, and important contribution to the ongoing scholarship of Islam in America. Corbett is to be commended in using the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy as an example of the limits to calls for religious toleration and moderation. The book is also a fascinating introduction to modern American Sufi practice in its various forms."––Salma Ahmad, Reading ReligionTable of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Debating Moderate Islam chapter abstractIn December 2009, Feisal Abdul Rauf announced plans to open a thirteen-story Islamic community center in Manhattan. A prominent imam, Sufi shaykh, and the internationally recognized leader of the Cordoba Initiative (founded in 2004 to "heal" the divide between "Islam and the West"), Rauf designed Cordoba House to educate Americans about the truths Islam shares with other faiths and to exemplify the "moderate Islam" he had spent nearly a decade promoting—most notably in his 2004 book. This chapter briefly introduces Rauf's organizations and his primary message of moderation, outlining the political, economic, racial, and gendered components of his philosophy that will be further explored in the rest of the book. Additionally, it discusses how Rauf's narrative of immigrant assimilation both replicates and obscures the racialized tactics previous religious minorities and immigrants used to claim belonging in the U.S. 1Islamic Traditions and Conservative Liberalisms chapter abstractThis chapter parses the central components of Rauf's narrative of moderate Islam in order to reveal the political, economic, and philosophical similarities between Rauf's thought and that of some of his detractors—in particular, Newt Gingrich. These similarities, derived from Rauf's father's work with Gingrich's mentor (American Enterprise Institute neoliberal pundit, Michael Novak) during an era in which white ethnic religious minorities tried to prove their commitments to capitalism, illuminate the racialized tropes of assimilation and inevitable upward mobility many marginalized religious groups have echoed and adapted while explaining their own traditions in ways that demonstrate compatibility with American free-market capitalism and Protestant-derived secularism. 2Service, Anti-socialism, and Contests to Represent American Muslims chapter abstractChapter Two reveals how Feisal Abdul Rauf's father, a high-profile immigrant imam from whom Rauf derived much of his material, worked with Catholic and Jewish neoliberals in the 1970s while competing with other Muslim leaders—particularly, black Americans—to serve as a spokesperson for Muslims in the U.S. The chapter covers the political and economic developments that have given rise to tensions between many black American Muslims and American Muslims of Arab and South Asian ancestry. These tensions, which involve contests since the 1960s over political representation, religious authority, and economic resources, have inspired both black American and immigrant Muslims to emphasize their embrace of free-market capitalism and their participation in community service as they jockey for influence with American elites. 3Sufism and the Moderate Islam of the New Millennium chapter abstractLocating Rauf's Sufi order within the history of Sufism in the U.S., this chapter tracks Rauf's change from a real estate agent and part-time imam into the leader of the ASMA Society, an organization devoted to promoting Sufism in America. It examines the thinkers and leaders who most influenced Rauf, charts Rauf's journey in co-founding the ASMA Society with Daisy Khan (his wife) and Faiz Khan (no relation), then illuminates how and why Rauf and Khan, like Rauf's Jerrahi shaykh decades earlier, shifted from describing their organization as Sufi in orientation to one devoted to cultural appreciation. This is a strategy (entirely sincere) that Rauf's shaykh had followed when Sufi orders where banned in Turkey, and one Rauf and Khan pursued after 9/11, once Americans began to broadly fear "political Islam." 4From Sufism Without Politics to Politics without Sufism chapter abstractThis chapter maps the creation and evolution of Rauf's and Khan's organizations, the ASMA Society and Cordoba Initiative, discussing Rauf's and Khan's shift from describing their work as Sufi, American, and cultural in orientation to interreligious, international, and policy-oriented. In the process, it shows how Rauf's and Khan's goals and self-presentations changed as they attempted to accomplish their objectives while simultaneously meeting different non-Muslim elites' shifting demands for particular kinds of moderate spokespersons. Initially promoting cultural programs and the aesthetic beauty of Islam as a means of building bridges with other Americans, Rauf and Khan increasingly emphasized political goals as they established relationships with national and international leaders and government officials. In the meantime, they also de-emphasized Sufism, which could pose problems for Rauf's status as a Muslim legal authority in some of the countries where he spoke on behalf of the U.S. State Department. 5The Micro-politics of Moderation chapter abstractChapter Five describes some of the racial and ethnic assumptions underlying Rauf's cultural, sociological, and historical writings and explores how Muslims at Rauf's mosque responded to his teachings. It shows how Rauf positioned Sufism as the bridge between a multitude of differences, including those separating immigrant Muslims from black American Muslims, rich Muslims from poor, Sunni from Shi'a, and (in his words) Islam from the West. It focuses, though, on how Rauf's dervishes struggled with aspects of his definition of moderation—particularly Rauf's insistence that Muslims overcome their own limited cultural traditions so as to align their practice of Islam with American democracy and capitalism. Examining some of the issues New York Sufis faced in trying to live this moderate Islam after 2001, I focus on the ways they adopted and altered such arguments so as to deal with the racial, economic, and political disparities they confronted. 6"The Prophet's Feminism": Women's Labor and Women's Leadership chapter abstractChapter Six examines how Muslims dealt with the gaps between Rauf's and Khan's idea of America and the gendered realities of their daily lives. Promoting women's rights was a central component of Rauf's and Khan's work during the decade after 9/11, and they made the same assertions about women's equality as they did about religious and racial equality, presenting it as a fait accompli. For many women who attended Masjid al-Farah, though, gender equality was more elusive—not because they were Muslim, but because social gains for women in the U.S. failed to meet the hopes and promises of liberal feminists. Chapter Six also looks at how attitudes at the mosque toward women's rights activists and toward female religious leaders who were part of the community varied not just in relation to religious doctrine, but in relation to how much these women engaged in various kinds of community service. 7Islam in the Age of Obama: "What's More American than Service?" chapter abstractAs Rauf and Khan spent increasing amounts of time away over the years in order to pursue their ASMA and Cordoba projects, Rauf enjoined his dervishes to take up greater responsibilities of service to their Sufi order and community. As I discuss in this chapter—which includes a larger examination of the politics, hopes, and fears animating the emphasis on community service among American Muslims since the Islamic center controversy—some of Rauf's dervishes interpreted his instructions to serve and to model moderation in ways other than he intended, leading to disagreements over the nature of the Islamic center project, a split within Rauf's group, and to the ultimate demise of Cordoba House as Rauf envisioned it. Charting the controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque," this chapter concludes with the state of Rauf's organizations five years later. Conclusion: Community Service and the Limits of Inclusion chapter abstractExamining larger Muslim American efforts to prove their patriotism through community service since 2009, the final segment of the book reminds readers of the racism built into dominant U.S. understandings of Muslim moderation and immigrant assimilation. Not only does this account reveal the painful choices that many spokespersons for Muslim Americans face and the gaps between high-minded ideals and the lived experiences of Muslims in the U.S., it also reemphasizes that marginalized groups in America have often gained provisional acceptance (though not always equality) at the expense of others. In so doing, the conclusion to Making Moderate Islam both exposes the power dynamics Muslim Americans are caught in at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as well as calls into question the larger limits of liberal inclusion for religious and racial minorities in the United States and the longer histories of provisional tolerance that have masqueraded as "acceptance."

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Limits of Whiteness is cutting-edge scholarship at its best. Beautifully written and insightfully researched, it is essential reading for those interested in the fraught and capacious legacies, and afterlives, of Middle Eastern and American racial projects." -- Sarah Gualtieri * author of Between Arab and White *"In this brilliant, beautifully written, and persuasive book, Maghbouleh demonstrates that Iranian Americans inhabit a complex and contradictory relationship to race. The poignant portraits of second-generation Iranian Americans reveal whiteness to be a volatile social construction, shaped by political, cultural, linguistic, and religious practices that initially might seem to have little to do with race." -- George Lipsitz * author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness *"I've been writing personal essays about Iranians and race for years, but Neda Maghbouleh's The Limits of Whiteness provides a much-needed sociologist's examination. Maghbouleh seamlessly navigates the historical, anthropological, and political, in a work as engaging as it is informative. This trailblazing book should be required reading for anyone interested in race in America, period." -- Porochista Khakpour * author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects and The Last Illusion *"While there is much for a scholar or advanced graduate student of race, migration, or Middle East studies to glean from the text, the book would be a welcome addition to introductory courses in American studies, ethnic studies, anthropology, and sociology, and as shared family reading in Iranian American households. The book is a conversation starter and an insightful, timely analysis of what race means and feels like for brown youth at the limits of whiteness." -- Stephanie Sadre-Orafai * Mashriq and Mahjar *"While numerous sociological studies have examined how Jewish, Italian, and Irish Americans have "become white" over time,...Neda Maghbouleh is interested in how Iranian Americans and those of other Middle Eastern backgrounds have moved back and forth across the color line....Maghbouleh's book illustrates the inadequacy of existing studies of American whiteness." -- Bardia Sinaee * Literary Review of Canada *"Social science studies on race and Iranians, especially full-length books, are few. So this book significantly contributes to the scarce but emerging research on Iranians in diaspora. It also endeavors to better situate the immigration scholarship with that of race. Lastly, The Limits of Whiteness comes at a time when discussions surrounding immigrants and their children continue to take center stage in American political discourse and immigration policy." -- Sahar Sadeghi * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Being White chapter abstractChapter 1 describes how race and racism organize Iranian American lives and shows that for liminal racial groups, whiteness is fickle and volatile. The chapter introduces the concepts "racial hinges" and "racial loopholes" to make sense of the contradictory racial experiences of Iranian Americans. Through the narratives of Roya, a second-generation youth, and the controversy over an anti-Iranian poster, this chapter offers the "limits of whiteness" as an analytic to understand racial problems that, when typically extended to Iranians, are integrated as expressions of "anything but race": that is, ethnic and cultural difference, religious intolerance, or anti-immigrant nativism. 2In the Past chapter abstractChapter 2 takes the reader inside the conflicting racial logics of early twentieth-century court cases and the six-month window in the late 1970s when Iranian Americans were made at once legally white and perhaps irrevocably socially brown during and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In the twenty-first century, Iranian Americans are trapped in racial loopholes in which they are unable to seek legal recourse for on-the-ground racism in workplaces and street-level hate crimes due to their legal whiteness. With American racism in the twenty-first century increasingly drawing on "color-blind" logic, even the most socioeconomically successful Iranian Americans are sanctioned from full inclusion through subtle means, such as residential architecture and design codes in Los Angeles, California. 3At Home chapter abstractFirst- and second-generation Iranian Americans tend to disagree about one key question: Are Iranians white or not? A little-known feature of the Iranian American community is that first-generation immigrants grew up in an Iranian state in which they were formally taught that Iranians are not only white but also the world's original and most racially pure white people. In the American context, first-generation parents' insistence to their American-born children that Iranians are in fact whiter than the European American white peers who racially harass and bully them at school offers little recourse for second-generation youth. From their perspective, the "Aryan myth" of Iranian whiteness and other expressions of "Persian" pride (which are often anti-Arab) is a distressing expression of ethno-racial elitism that fundamentally misunderstands Iranian Americans' actual position in the racial hierarchy in the United States. 4In School chapter abstractIt is through youth's physical proximity to whiteness that they are convinced that Iranians are not white. Faced with racial harassment and sometimes physical violence, second-generation youth repeatedly learn that their brand of white is not white enough to escape racial harassment. This is reflected in the political and social alliances they form with other racialized peers, in their racialized interactions in classrooms, and in their retreat to "inherited nostalgia" for Iran in co-ethnic safe spaces on college campuses. In support of this characterization, Iranian American and other youth from the Middle East and North Africa have successfully petitioned the University of California System for a new non-white racial classification: "SWANA." 5To the Homeland chapter abstractChapter 5 focuses on racial profiling and the visceral experience of traveling that is required of Iranian American youth to visit ancestral homelands. Common concerns about not being "Iranian" enough for one's parents and extended family in Iran are counterpoised against the lived experiences of being "too Iranian" for customs agents and TSA personnel. A collective consciousness about the transformative process of international travel becomes part of Iranian American youth culture, as boys and girls share stories of excitement and disappointment after coming face-to-face with their shifting racialization and inherited nostalgia for the home country. These transnational crossings and direct encounters with their own inherited nostalgia form the raw material for a specific second-generation consciousness that celebrates Iranian heritage, while also forging nonbiological kin networks across diaspora and with other liminal non-white groups. 6At Summer Camp chapter abstractAs second-generation Iranian American youth grow up scattered across the United States and with their extended biological families often dispersed across the world, how do these youth foster and develop a positive collective identity? Camp Ayandeh, a summer camp by and for second-generation Iranian American youth, is one such site in which teenage Iranian Americans create community. Camp Ayandeh provides a powerful corrective against the racialized bullying faced by youth, and rather than run from their de jure non-white identities in the United States, through camp youth learn to embrace it, themselves, and each other. 7Being Brown chapter abstractChapter 7 draws on the author's own biography and her surprising connection to a seminal racial prerequisite case (United States v. Cartozian, 1925) to show how a group can be repeatedly ushered into and shoved out of whiteness, depending on the prevailing winds of the time. As Iranians and other Middle Easterners have served as racial hinges in the project of American whiteness for more than one hundred years, the stark contradiction between their legal racial status and on-the-ground experience is not surprising. Yet what this means in the twenty-first century is that Iranian Americans fall into racial loopholes in which they cannot seek legal recourse for the racial discrimination they face. The experiences of Iranian Americans expose the shifting borderlands of inclusion in the white racial category and the limits of the protections that legal whiteness can afford socially non-white migrants and their children.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a groundbreaking book about one of the least understood groups of people: Filipinos. As a people, we're a lot American, we're definitely Asian, and we're undeniably Latino. The Latinos of Asia is essential reading not only for the Filipino diaspora but for anyone who cares about the mysteries of racial identity." -- Jose Antonio Vargas * Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founder of Define American and #EmergingUS *"Analyzing Filipino American experiences of 'looking Asian but having a Spanish last name' or 'looking Mexican but identifying as Asian,' Ocampo shows how the children of Filipino immigrants constantly challenge the prevailing racial mapping rules in America. The Latinos of Asia is groundbreaking, offering an ingenious perspective on racial dynamics and formation." -- Min Zhou * Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, and co-Author of The Asian American Achievement Paradox *"Are Filipino Americans Asian, Latino, or something else entirely? In this provocative book, Anthony Ocampo deftly combines survey analysis, in-depth interviews, and personal narrative to show that the answer is not a simple one. It depends critically on context and has important implications for matters such as life chances, life choices, and race relations in a rapidly diversifying nation." -- Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor and Associate Dean of Public Policy * University of California Riverside *"Engaging and timely, The Latinos of Asia shatters static, homogenizing, and binary categorizations of Asian Americans and Latinas/os. Presenting powerful testimonials by Filipinos from two Los Angeles communities and centering dynamics in schools and neighborhoods, this must-read book complicates understandings of race, identity, and Los Angeles." -- Gilda L. Ochoa * Author of Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans and the Achievement Gap *"The Latinos of Asia is groundbreaking. Ocampo examines racial identities among Filipino Americans not just in relation to whites, but in relation to other minorities. Through candid and eloquent responses from Filipino American young adults, and engaging links to scholarly discussions, Ocampo tracks the fluidity of race and argues that place matters in how people come to think about themselves." -- Robyn Rodriguez * UC Davis *"The Latinos of Asia presents an innovative analysis of Filipinos as an 'in-between' people straddling the stigmatized immigrant groups from Latin America and model minority newcomer populations from Asia. This book convincingly demonstrates that race is not a fixed characteristic of individuals and groups. Anthony Ocampo's work will capture the imagination of students of immigration, race, and ethnicity alike." -- Rubén Hernández-León * Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies *"In this innovative book, Anthony Ocampo brings to light the ambiguities and ambivalences of a racial identity that is always Filipina/o but also contingently Asian, Latina/o, and even Pacific Islander. Brimming with unexpected findings and insightful explanations, The Latinos of Asia underscores the intrinsic instability and enduring power of race." -- Moon-Kie Jung * author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy *"Anthony Ocampo shows that understanding race in today's America means understanding a group that toes different racial lines: Filipino Americans. Through rich interviews and accessible prose, Ocampo explains how Filipino Americans straddle Latino and Asian racial categories, and what that straddling says about race in the United States today. This is the definitive account of the contemporary Filipino American experience." -- Tomás R. Jiménez * Stanford University; author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans Immigration, and Identity *"Anthony Ocampo's fascinating study illustrates how Filipinos do not fit neatly into American racial categories. His highly accessible narrative carries the reader through different social and institutional contexts that draw Filipinos back and forth over panethnic lines, and challenge our notion of what panethnicity means in America." -- Wendy Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology * The University of British Columbia *"The Latinos of Asia is a very thought-provoking and well-researched book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the diverse cultural and social experiences of Filipino Americans and Asian Americans, especially in terms of their ethnic and racial identities...The Latinos of Asia promises to be a highly regarded work on the contemporary Filipino American experience." -- Jonathan Y. Okamura * Contemporary Sociology *"The Latinos of Asia is an important contribution to the field of sociology and social science understandings of Filipinos in the United States. Although Ocampo's findings may be unique to Filipinos in the Los Angeles area, his work pushes open the door for more sociological research to examine Filipinos in the United States." -- Daniel B. Eisen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"I learned a great deal from The Latinos of Asia. Ocampo's accessible writing style and vast knowledge of what it means to be Filipino in America make the book a page-turner. Ocampo certainly accomplishes what my student observed as the book's major strength—he thoughtfully illuminates factors shaping the racial identity of an important, yet overlooked, ethnic group." -- Emily Walton * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"The Latinos of Asia is essential reading for those interested in understanding the complexity of American race relations. The beautifully written accounts reveal how Filipinos struggle with the role of race and place in America and the implications of this struggle for how they create life goals, choose whom to love, and decide whom they will befriend. Weaving together different stories, Ocampo expertly shows that, by questioning and accepting panethnicity, Filipinos break and remake the rules of race." -- G. Cristina Mora * American Journal of Sociology *"Ocampo's study makes valuable contributions to the theorization of comparative racialization processes in the United States. This book is particularly indispensable to students of Asian American racialization insofar as Ocampo's research demonstrates the undeniable necessity to reframe...the 'racial triangulation' of Asian Americans by more thoroughly accounting for the relational positionality of Latino Americans within that schema."––Alden Sajor Marte-Wood, Journal of Asian American StudiesTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Puzzling Case of Filipino Americans chapter abstractThough classified as Asian by the U.S. Census, Filipinos have Spanish last names, are predominantly Catholic, and frequently encounter racial miscategorization. In other words, Filipinos do not map onto the American racial landscape very neatly, which affects how they experience race in everyday life. This chapter introduces sociological theory relevant to the racial experience of second generation Filipino young adults, who are classified as Asian, but who are culturally linked to Latinos, the emerging new majority in both the city and the state overall. The narratives of Filipinos in Los Angeles illustrate important lessons about the changing dynamics of race relations in an increasingly multiethnic society, how racial barriers persist, and most importantly, how we can break barriers if we more deeply understand the rules of race in everyday life. 2Colonial Legacies chapter abstractHistorical colonialism in the Philippines catalyzed the mass migration of Filipinos to the United States at the start of the twentieth century. However, colonialism has had very different effects on how Filipinos adapt to life in the United States, depending on the racial system that they entered. In the early twentieth century, American colonial policies allowed only for the migration of Filipinos who could work in the agricultural industry and other low skilled labor sectors. Meanwhile, back in the Philippines, American colonial policies were rapidly transforming the Philippines' social, cultural, and institutional landscape. Given the cultural and socioeconomic advantages that Filipinos acquired due to American colonialism, they today are much different from their predecessors—they are middle class, they hold professional jobs, and they live in racially integrated neighborhood because they can speak English. 3Suburban Ethnicity chapter abstractFilipinos do not live in ethnic enclaves. They do not have to. As the previous chapter notes, Filipinos come to this country with socioeconomic resources and a cultural proficiency with the United States that most other immigrants do not possess. Instead, their children grow up in neighborhoods that are middle class and multiethnic. In many ways, their neighborhoods are a preview into the United States of tomorrow. Given the class and racial composition of their neighborhoods, second generation Filipinos come into their ethnic identity differently from other Asians. Other Asians rely on the dense presence of ethnic institutions and homogenous social networks to learn about their ethnic culture. In contrast, Filipinos spend time learning about ethnicity in their families and church. 4The Latinos of Asia chapter abstractGrowing up in Los Angeles, Filipinos develop a keen awareness of the cultural traits they share with Latinos that can be traced back to Spanish colonialism, such as language, last names, and Catholic religion. This shared sense of peoplehood that Filipinos and Latinos develop emerges not through conscious political coalitions, but rather through mundane everyday interactions in the most intimate spaces of neighborhood life. Even though Filipinos are Asian, they do not all live with other Asians, which in turn affects their ability to identify with them panethnically—many Filipinos are openly ambivalent about pan-Asian identity. 5Getting Schooled on Race chapter abstractWithin public middle schools and high schools, which are more socioeconomically diverse and strongly enforce an academic tracking system, Filipinos become distant from their Latino peers due to the divergent ways that teachers and administrators racialize them. Within the educational context, to be Asian is to be a model minority (and vice versa). In the absence of other Asians within the district, Filipinos are more inclined to enroll in the honors and college preparatory tracks, given their socioeconomic advantages over Latinos and other minorities. Their tracking patterns lead to school experiences, which in turn facilitate a sense of Asian racial consciousness—one that is based on the model minority stereotype, rather than culture. For example, Filipinos receive preferential treatment and greater academic push from teachers, which in turn cultivate this Asian American consciousness. Within Catholic schools, the campus climate is intimate, and Filipinos develop deeper connections with their Latino peers. 6"Filipinos Aren't Asian" and Other Lessons from College chapter abstractIn college, Filipinos encounter new rules of race related to their underrepresentation, social activism, and educational politics that they generally do not deal with within neighborhoods and their earlier schooling. Because of their residential patterns of in Los Angeles—their tendency to live in neighborhoods with large numbers of Latinos, rather than other Asians—college is the first opportunity that many Filipinos have to interact more intimately with other Asian ethnicities. In addition, Filipinos' status shifts from high school to college dramatically. In college, Filipinos experience unusually high rates of attrition and, on some campuses, even have the designation of "targeted underrepresented minority." Their increased traffic with other Asians, along with the shift in racial context, prompt many Filipinos to socially distance themselves from other Asians and disidentify from the racial label. Their status and experiences as underrepresented minorities reinforce their connections with Latinos and other non-Asian minority students. 7Racial Dilemmas chapter abstractThe rules of race not only vary by neighborhood and school context, but also by life stage. This chapter narrates the story of Eileen, a Filipina American woman from Carson who has "identity crises" and "identity epiphanies" through her experiences at a public middle school, a private high school, a public university, and most recently, in medical school. Eileen's narrative shows how one person consciously navigates the varying social constructions of both Asian American and Latino identity through different stages of her personal life and education. In her story, Eileen went from strongly identifying as Asian American (in high school) to actively disidentifying from other Asians (in college) to developing a panminority identity with her Latino undergraduate and graduate student peers (in college and medical school). 8Panethnic Possibilities chapter abstractFilipinos admit feeling "in-between" Asians and Latinos, which makes it difficult for others to map them onto the American racial landscape. To complicate matters more, they seem to fluctuate between Asian and Latino racial identification differently between neighborhoods and schools, and between childhood and adulthood—this is because the rules of race change in these different contexts and life stages. Filipinos transgress racial boundaries on a regular basis. This chapter closes with discussions of how Filipinos' unique racial experiences may influence their political involvement, their labor market outcomes, and even their love lives.

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Book SynopsisBeneath the Surface of White Supremacy upends and deepens our understanding of racism, providing a radical alternative to conservatives' and liberals' contorted renderings of the past and false promises for the future.Trade Review"Jung delivers a tour de force on the origins and consequences of US racism. This work of rigorous historical and sociological thought built on empirical data dives into the sundry and varied ways in which white supremacy has been established in the US, particularly as forces of racial domination played out along the black-white color line and amid Latino, Asian, and Native populations . . . Essential." -- M.W. Hughey * CHOICE *"Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy provides a much-needed rebuttal to those who believe we have arrived at a post-racial destination in America. Smart, bold, and illuminating, this book offers an innovative way to understand the mechanisms that maintain racialized hierarchy. Moon-Kie Jung's path-breaking work reminds us all of our collective responsibility for altering racial inequality." -- Tyrone A. Forman * University of Illinois at Chicago *"This brilliant book is certain to become a landmark work in critical race theory, ethnic studies, and the sociology of knowledge. Through its generative explanations, unexpected connections, and previously unknown genealogies, it presents a new theory about the nature of racism that reveals the significance of ideological denial and epistemological suppression in legitimating white supremacy." -- George Lipsitz * author of How Racism Takes Place *"Moon-Kie Jung's new book is a major empirical and theoretical contribution. It reconceptualizes how we understand and study racism, particularly in the United States. Jung is at once historian and social theorist, reader of evidence and interpreter of its significance. Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy is critical sociology at its very best." -- Joan W. Scott * Institute for Advanced Study *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Introduction: Reconsidering Racism and Theory chapter abstractThis introductory chapter begins with a close description and analysis of the homicide of an unarmed Black teen in Champaign, Illinois. On October 9, 2009, the police shot and killed Kiwane Carrington outside a friend's home where he was staying. The officers involved were never charged, much less convicted. The chapter attempts to defamiliarize what has become all too familiar and discern the racial common sense that prevailed in the case. Through this particular example, it raises a multitude of general questions about the workings of racism that the rest of the book takes up. 2Restructuring a Theory of Racism chapter abstractChapter two outlines a new theory of racism, an indispensable, if deeply fraught, concept in the social sciences. It builds on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's structural theory of racism and William Sewell Jr.'s theory of structure. The former goes a long way toward denaturalizing commonsensical views on racism by stressing its structural character. Insightful in myriad ways, it is hindered by an unsatisfactory concept of structure. Integrating, critiquing, and extending Sewell's more cultural and historical understanding of structure, the new theory addresses a number of thorny issues, including scale, meaning, consciousness, and change. To do so, it distinguishes between dominant and subaltern positions, discursive and nondiscursive practices, and performative and reflective discourses. Foregrounding the practical over the representational, the restructured theory squares a host of seemingly contradictory theories and findings in the social-scientific study of racism. 3The Racial Constitution of the U.S. Empire-State chapter abstractAgainst the universal assumption that the United States is and has been a nation-state, chapter three contends that the United States has always been an empire-state, a conceptual shift with potentially sweeping implications. Notably, the reconceptualization provides a firmer basis for understanding the United States as a racial state, requiring none of liberalism's contortions of the past and false promises for the future. For its empirical analysis, the chapter turns to constitutional law of the long nineteenth century. It demonstrates how U.S. state formation has always entailed the racial construction of colonial spaces. Tracing the strange career of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the notorious Supreme Court case associated almost always with slavery and almost never with empire, it argues for a unified framework to analyze the different but linked histories of racial subjection, including those of Asians/Asian Americans, Blacks, Latinas/os, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders. 4The Racial Unconscious of Assimilation Theories chapter abstractChapter four scrutinizes the current social-scientific literature on immigration and immigrants. Over the past two decades, immigration scholars have revitalized assimilation theory to study the large and growing numbers of migrants from Latin America, Asia, and the Caribbean in the United States. Neoclassical and segmented assimilation theories seek to make sense of this current wave of migrants and their offspring that differs in important ways from the last great wave at the turn of the twentieth century. They also recognize and try to overcome the conceptual shortcomings of earlier generations of assimilation theory. Yet the new theories continue to misconstrue race by assuming precisely what should be dissected: the "nation-state" and structures of inequality and domination. Shifting the focus from difference to inequality and domination, the chapter proposes a fundamental reorientation in our theoretical approach, from assimilation to the politics of national belonging. 5Symbolic Coercion and a Massacre of Filipinos chapter abstractChapter five investigates a mostly forgotten massacre that took place in Hawai'i on September 9, 1924. During a protracted strike of Filipino sugar workers, the police shot and killed sixteen strikers on the island of Kaua'i. The incident hardly registered, failing to arouse among non-Filipinos sympathy or questions of legitimacy. How is such immediate consensus in defense of state violence formed? Incorporating W. E. B. Du Bois's concept of double consciousness, the chapter puts forward a critique of Pierre Bourdieu's social theory that challenges his overreliance on the tacit consent of the oppressed as the source of legitimacy. Exposing clear evidence of Filipino strikers' oppositional discourse and practice that went ignored, it proposes the concept of symbolic coercion that refers to the tacit nonrecognition by the dominant. 6Symbolic Perversity and the Mass Suffering of Blacks chapter abstractChapter six proffers the concept of symbolic perversity, the paradoxical but pervasive phenomenon of the relatively powerful's ignorance of their own knowledge. Despite the prevailing liberal notion that the dominant, like all people, would act justly if they knew about this or that injustice, the chapter underscores the idea that they know plenty but tacitly ignore this knowledge that they themselves produce and consume. This deeply patterned ignorance follows a racial logic that devalues the suffering of certain categories of people. To illustrate, statistical and textual analyses of the New York Times, a dominant institution, and its handling of unemployment data produced by the federal government, another dominant institution, are undertaken. The findings on Black unemployment and its news coverage fly in the face of conventional wisdoms that racism in contemporary United States is hard to detect and that nearly everybody believes in racial equality in principle. Conclusion: Denaturalizing Racisms Present and Future chapter abstractThis concluding chapter draws out some of the book's main implications for theory and politics of race through a reflection on the social thought of James Baldwin. It highlights the many points of convergence between the book and Baldwin's ideas, including emphases on history, relations of power, social unconscious, ignorance, immanent critique, violence, chimera of assimilation, and radical change. It also discusses two points of divergence: the need to recognize qualitatively different racisms and the incompatibility of radical antiracism and "America."

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a groundbreaking book about one of the least understood groups of people: Filipinos. As a people, we're a lot American, we're definitely Asian, and we're undeniably Latino. The Latinos of Asia is essential reading not only for the Filipino diaspora but for anyone who cares about the mysteries of racial identity." -- Jose Antonio Vargas * Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and founder of Define American and #EmergingUS *"Analyzing Filipino American experiences of 'looking Asian but having a Spanish last name' or 'looking Mexican but identifying as Asian,' Ocampo shows how the children of Filipino immigrants constantly challenge the prevailing racial mapping rules in America. The Latinos of Asia is groundbreaking, offering an ingenious perspective on racial dynamics and formation." -- Min Zhou * Tan Lark Sye Chair Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, and co-Author of The Asian American Achievement Paradox *"Are Filipino Americans Asian, Latino, or something else entirely? In this provocative book, Anthony Ocampo deftly combines survey analysis, in-depth interviews, and personal narrative to show that the answer is not a simple one. It depends critically on context and has important implications for matters such as life chances, life choices, and race relations in a rapidly diversifying nation." -- Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor and Associate Dean of Public Policy * University of California Riverside *"Engaging and timely, The Latinos of Asia shatters static, homogenizing, and binary categorizations of Asian Americans and Latinas/os. Presenting powerful testimonials by Filipinos from two Los Angeles communities and centering dynamics in schools and neighborhoods, this must-read book complicates understandings of race, identity, and Los Angeles." -- Gilda L. Ochoa * Author of Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans and the Achievement Gap *"The Latinos of Asia is groundbreaking. Ocampo examines racial identities among Filipino Americans not just in relation to whites, but in relation to other minorities. Through candid and eloquent responses from Filipino American young adults, and engaging links to scholarly discussions, Ocampo tracks the fluidity of race and argues that place matters in how people come to think about themselves." -- Robyn Rodriguez * UC Davis *"The Latinos of Asia presents an innovative analysis of Filipinos as an 'in-between' people straddling the stigmatized immigrant groups from Latin America and model minority newcomer populations from Asia. This book convincingly demonstrates that race is not a fixed characteristic of individuals and groups. Anthony Ocampo's work will capture the imagination of students of immigration, race, and ethnicity alike." -- Rubén Hernández-León * Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies *"In this innovative book, Anthony Ocampo brings to light the ambiguities and ambivalences of a racial identity that is always Filipina/o but also contingently Asian, Latina/o, and even Pacific Islander. Brimming with unexpected findings and insightful explanations, The Latinos of Asia underscores the intrinsic instability and enduring power of race." -- Moon-Kie Jung * author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy *"Anthony Ocampo shows that understanding race in today's America means understanding a group that toes different racial lines: Filipino Americans. Through rich interviews and accessible prose, Ocampo explains how Filipino Americans straddle Latino and Asian racial categories, and what that straddling says about race in the United States today. This is the definitive account of the contemporary Filipino American experience." -- Tomás R. Jiménez * Stanford University; author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans Immigration, and Identity *"Anthony Ocampo's fascinating study illustrates how Filipinos do not fit neatly into American racial categories. His highly accessible narrative carries the reader through different social and institutional contexts that draw Filipinos back and forth over panethnic lines, and challenge our notion of what panethnicity means in America." -- Wendy Roth, Associate Professor of Sociology * The University of British Columbia *"The Latinos of Asia is a very thought-provoking and well-researched book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the diverse cultural and social experiences of Filipino Americans and Asian Americans, especially in terms of their ethnic and racial identities...The Latinos of Asia promises to be a highly regarded work on the contemporary Filipino American experience." -- Jonathan Y. Okamura * Contemporary Sociology *"The Latinos of Asia is an important contribution to the field of sociology and social science understandings of Filipinos in the United States. Although Ocampo's findings may be unique to Filipinos in the Los Angeles area, his work pushes open the door for more sociological research to examine Filipinos in the United States." -- Daniel B. Eisen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"I learned a great deal from The Latinos of Asia. Ocampo's accessible writing style and vast knowledge of what it means to be Filipino in America make the book a page-turner. Ocampo certainly accomplishes what my student observed as the book's major strength—he thoughtfully illuminates factors shaping the racial identity of an important, yet overlooked, ethnic group." -- Emily Walton * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"The Latinos of Asia is essential reading for those interested in understanding the complexity of American race relations. The beautifully written accounts reveal how Filipinos struggle with the role of race and place in America and the implications of this struggle for how they create life goals, choose whom to love, and decide whom they will befriend. Weaving together different stories, Ocampo expertly shows that, by questioning and accepting panethnicity, Filipinos break and remake the rules of race." -- G. Cristina Mora * American Journal of Sociology *"Ocampo's study makes valuable contributions to the theorization of comparative racialization processes in the United States. This book is particularly indispensable to students of Asian American racialization insofar as Ocampo's research demonstrates the undeniable necessity to reframe...the 'racial triangulation' of Asian Americans by more thoroughly accounting for the relational positionality of Latino Americans within that schema."––Alden Sajor Marte-Wood, Journal of Asian American StudiesTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1The Puzzling Case of Filipino Americans chapter abstractThough classified as Asian by the U.S. Census, Filipinos have Spanish last names, are predominantly Catholic, and frequently encounter racial miscategorization. In other words, Filipinos do not map onto the American racial landscape very neatly, which affects how they experience race in everyday life. This chapter introduces sociological theory relevant to the racial experience of second generation Filipino young adults, who are classified as Asian, but who are culturally linked to Latinos, the emerging new majority in both the city and the state overall. The narratives of Filipinos in Los Angeles illustrate important lessons about the changing dynamics of race relations in an increasingly multiethnic society, how racial barriers persist, and most importantly, how we can break barriers if we more deeply understand the rules of race in everyday life. 2Colonial Legacies chapter abstractHistorical colonialism in the Philippines catalyzed the mass migration of Filipinos to the United States at the start of the twentieth century. However, colonialism has had very different effects on how Filipinos adapt to life in the United States, depending on the racial system that they entered. In the early twentieth century, American colonial policies allowed only for the migration of Filipinos who could work in the agricultural industry and other low skilled labor sectors. Meanwhile, back in the Philippines, American colonial policies were rapidly transforming the Philippines' social, cultural, and institutional landscape. Given the cultural and socioeconomic advantages that Filipinos acquired due to American colonialism, they today are much different from their predecessors—they are middle class, they hold professional jobs, and they live in racially integrated neighborhood because they can speak English. 3Suburban Ethnicity chapter abstractFilipinos do not live in ethnic enclaves. They do not have to. As the previous chapter notes, Filipinos come to this country with socioeconomic resources and a cultural proficiency with the United States that most other immigrants do not possess. Instead, their children grow up in neighborhoods that are middle class and multiethnic. In many ways, their neighborhoods are a preview into the United States of tomorrow. Given the class and racial composition of their neighborhoods, second generation Filipinos come into their ethnic identity differently from other Asians. Other Asians rely on the dense presence of ethnic institutions and homogenous social networks to learn about their ethnic culture. In contrast, Filipinos spend time learning about ethnicity in their families and church. 4The Latinos of Asia chapter abstractGrowing up in Los Angeles, Filipinos develop a keen awareness of the cultural traits they share with Latinos that can be traced back to Spanish colonialism, such as language, last names, and Catholic religion. This shared sense of peoplehood that Filipinos and Latinos develop emerges not through conscious political coalitions, but rather through mundane everyday interactions in the most intimate spaces of neighborhood life. Even though Filipinos are Asian, they do not all live with other Asians, which in turn affects their ability to identify with them panethnically—many Filipinos are openly ambivalent about pan-Asian identity. 5Getting Schooled on Race chapter abstractWithin public middle schools and high schools, which are more socioeconomically diverse and strongly enforce an academic tracking system, Filipinos become distant from their Latino peers due to the divergent ways that teachers and administrators racialize them. Within the educational context, to be Asian is to be a model minority (and vice versa). In the absence of other Asians within the district, Filipinos are more inclined to enroll in the honors and college preparatory tracks, given their socioeconomic advantages over Latinos and other minorities. Their tracking patterns lead to school experiences, which in turn facilitate a sense of Asian racial consciousness—one that is based on the model minority stereotype, rather than culture. For example, Filipinos receive preferential treatment and greater academic push from teachers, which in turn cultivate this Asian American consciousness. Within Catholic schools, the campus climate is intimate, and Filipinos develop deeper connections with their Latino peers. 6"Filipinos Aren't Asian" and Other Lessons from College chapter abstractIn college, Filipinos encounter new rules of race related to their underrepresentation, social activism, and educational politics that they generally do not deal with within neighborhoods and their earlier schooling. Because of their residential patterns of in Los Angeles—their tendency to live in neighborhoods with large numbers of Latinos, rather than other Asians—college is the first opportunity that many Filipinos have to interact more intimately with other Asian ethnicities. In addition, Filipinos' status shifts from high school to college dramatically. In college, Filipinos experience unusually high rates of attrition and, on some campuses, even have the designation of "targeted underrepresented minority." Their increased traffic with other Asians, along with the shift in racial context, prompt many Filipinos to socially distance themselves from other Asians and disidentify from the racial label. Their status and experiences as underrepresented minorities reinforce their connections with Latinos and other non-Asian minority students. 7Racial Dilemmas chapter abstractThe rules of race not only vary by neighborhood and school context, but also by life stage. This chapter narrates the story of Eileen, a Filipina American woman from Carson who has "identity crises" and "identity epiphanies" through her experiences at a public middle school, a private high school, a public university, and most recently, in medical school. Eileen's narrative shows how one person consciously navigates the varying social constructions of both Asian American and Latino identity through different stages of her personal life and education. In her story, Eileen went from strongly identifying as Asian American (in high school) to actively disidentifying from other Asians (in college) to developing a panminority identity with her Latino undergraduate and graduate student peers (in college and medical school). 8Panethnic Possibilities chapter abstractFilipinos admit feeling "in-between" Asians and Latinos, which makes it difficult for others to map them onto the American racial landscape. To complicate matters more, they seem to fluctuate between Asian and Latino racial identification differently between neighborhoods and schools, and between childhood and adulthood—this is because the rules of race change in these different contexts and life stages. Filipinos transgress racial boundaries on a regular basis. This chapter closes with discussions of how Filipinos' unique racial experiences may influence their political involvement, their labor market outcomes, and even their love lives.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Decentering Citizenship offers a fascinating comparative portrait of three Filipina migrant groups in South Korea. The book is equally a study of domestic advocates of migrants, and of the important effect they have on migrants' well-being. Choo's groundbreaking work will enjoy a wide readership and deserves to be widely taught in undergraduate classes."—Nancy Abelmann, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"With verve and sophistication, Choo captures the plurality of experiences of migrant women in South Korea—their multiple voices, triumphs and trials, and the numerous contradictions they face. Decentering Citizenship is at once a fast-paced and engrossing ethnography and an insightful, often brilliant rumination on citizenship, kinship, and human rights."—Namhee Lee, University of California, Los Angeles"This brilliant book examines the timely topic of international migration with an innovative design of comparative research. Choo vividly demonstrates that the political membership of nationhood and the moral community of humanity are reimagined whenever we confront the question of what kinds of foreigners are 'worthy' of being included."—Pei-Chia Lan, National Taiwan University"As South Koreans wrestle with how to incorporate the growing numbers of foreign workers, marriage migrants, and biracial children, they have had to rethink automatic assumptions about citizenship, national belonging, and Korean identity. In Decentering Citizenship, Hae Yeon Choo tackles these important issues through the lens of Filipina migrants residing in South Korea. This rich ethnography is the first to provide such comparative analysis of a fast-growing immigrant population that is reshaping who South Koreans are and what South Korea is. As such, this book should be on the reading list for anyone who wants to better understand the social revolution that is sweeping South Korea today."—Paul Y. Chang, Pacific Affairs"Decentering Citizenship could be an ideal textbook for courses on international migration and gender at the graduate and undergraduate level"—Pyong Gap Min, Gender & Society"Decentering Citizenship is an ethnographically rich and analytically cogent book that calls for the recognition of migrants' rights through a reimagination of citizenship...This book will be of interest to those interested in migration, human rights, citizenship, and gendered nationalism. Its engaging stories and clear writing make it suitable for both undergraduate and graduate-level teaching."—Sealing Cheng, Anthropological Research"Decentering Citizenship sparks numerous directions for new research, paving the way for other researchers to expand migration studies beyond the "imperial centers" and critically examine how global hierarchies are mediated through daily interactions in ways that shape the citizenship-making process. In short, Decentering Citizenship is a groundbreaking and beautifully written book that will attract a wide audience of scholars and students who are interested in international migration, gender inequality, social movements, and labor studies."—Hyeyoung Kwon, Contemporary Sociology"Decentering Citizenship contributes to the field of critical migration studies by moving beyond the realm of law and policy to examine the spaces of daily life—what Choo calls the 'margins of citizenship'—where questions of migrant rights, entitlements, and belonging are negotiated and reimagined....As the short-term rotation migrant workforce becomes normalized across the world, Hae Yeon Choo's Decentering Citizenship offers us an insightful and well-researched study on the complexities, possibilities, and potential pitfalls of collective efforts to build a polity that enables equal rights and full political membership for migrants."—Yen Le Espiritu, American Journal of Sociology"Decentering Citizenship will be an invaluable resource in years to come for those wishing to explore the experience of ethnic minorities in traditionally homogenous countries, particularly in East Asia....Owing to Korea's rapidly aging population, a reliance on migrant labor appears unlikely to diminish. As the effects of Korea's demographic changes are felt more broadly across Korean society, Decentering Citizenship should be regarded as a cornerstone in the studies of their evolving labor market and the changing nature of Korean citizenship."—Robert York, Korean Studies"Decentering Citizenship offers insights into the formation of potential new ethno-racial-national hierarchies in South Korea, as Filipino women push the boundaries of citizenship. Overall, this book offers strong empirical insights on gender, migration, and citizenship."—Helene K. Lee, International Migration Review"Decentering Citizenship demonstrates the importance of the everyday life and moral community of the migrants as the sites of their rights-claims....Choo's analysis is a rare in-depth and comparative study of migrant activism."—Hyun Ok Park, The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of Contents1. Decentering Citizenship: Perils, Promises, Possibilities 2. The Journey of Global Women: From the Philippines to South Korea 3. Duties, Desires, and Dignity: South Koreans on Migrant Encounters 4. Everyday Politics of Immigration Raids in the Shadow of Citizenship 5. The Making of Migrant Workers and Migrant Women 6. Workers and Working Girls: Gendering the Worker-Citizen 7. Between Women Victims and Mother-Citizens 8 (coda): Migrant Rights and Politics of Solidarity

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"South Central Is Home offers an illuminating history of one of America's most iconic communities in transition—from the War on Poverty to the War on Drugs. In prose as vivid as her subjects, Abigail Rosas beautifully captures the struggles, tensions, and aspirations of people typically portrayed as perpetrators or victims of unremitting violence—reminding readers that South Central Los Angeles is, indeed, home." -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original *"Finding seeds of hope for a better racial future in the stories she uncovers, Abigail Rosas offers profound insights into how ordinary folks did extraordinary things, the remarkable possibilities and limits of multi-racialism, and sweeping transformations in urban life since World War II. South Central Is Home is a compelling, timely, and imaginative book." -- Luis Alvarez * University of California, San Diego *"Interdisciplinary in scope and accessible to scholars of race, power, and urbanization, as well as practitioners working with communities at the intersection of these processes, this volume probes how distinct black and brown communities emerged, grew, and shaped each other in LA since the 1960s. Rosas...effectively engages with archival material and several detailed oral histories....Highly recommended." -- J. deGuzman * CHOICE *"Books like Rosas's help to fill an enormous void in both the urban and historical literatures where historical communities of color are often described too simplistically....South Central Is Home is a very well written urban history that should be a starting point and guide for all future work on the history of South Central and should be mandatory reading for undergraduate and graduate students in both introductory and higher-level social science courses." -- Robert Vargas * American Journal of Sociology *"For young scholars, [South Central Is Home] provides a model for writing about communities that formed us, communities that we unapologetically love. ....[By] disentangling the rich history of South Central, Rosas shows us the future of cities across the United States." -- Claudia Sandoval * Boom California *"South Central Is Home covers many of the issues found in interracial urban communities across America, and offers us a better understanding of the notions of race, community and place." -- Juan Manuel Niño * Journal of Urban Affairs *"This is a thoughtful, insightful, and at times, personal history of South Central as a particular space and place. South Central is Home provides important contributions to our understanding of the City of Los Angeles, the community of South Central, and the often complicated and complex relationships between Latino/as and African Americans in that community." -- Robert Bauman * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Uncovering Black and Latina/o Relations chapter abstractThe Introduction explains the historical configuration of South Central Los Angeles's demographic change from a predominantly African American community to a multiracial African American and Latina/o immigrant community. It posits that daily acts of community racialization and activism defined resident belonging and investment in this racially diverse community. The chapter examines how it is important to enrich existing scholarship by reconceptualizing South Central as a racialized space and community forged and sustained by African Americans and Latina/os' sharing South Central as their home. As neighbors, entrepreneurs, homeowners, political advocates and representatives, teachers, parents, and students, South Central residents refused to be overwhelmed by U.S. national discourses and policies on crime, poverty, education, immigration, and public health and to live isolated from each other or to abandon or forfeit thriving together and as members of this community. 1Placemaking in Our Community: Race Enterprise and the War on Poverty chapter abstractThis chapter introduces African American migration from the U.S. South to Los Angeles as foundational to South Central being understood nationally as an overwhelmingly African American community in the post–World War II period. An in-depth consideration of the emergence and influence of African American entrepreneurship in South Central's business sector reveals the power behind African American migrants spearheading the establishment of Broadway Federal Bank, a minority-owned bank in South Central. By the 1960s, however, the economic realities of South Central and Watts were increasingly defined as working class, working poor, and poor. The introduction of War on Poverty funding and programs would play a role in the relationships fostered between African American and Mexican American activists and advocates. 2"Let's Get Them Off to a Headstart!" Community Investment in Head Start chapter abstractThis chapter centers on African American and Latina/o South Central residents' struggles to establish, lead, teach, and benefit from Head Start programs throughout South Central. This consideration of the War on Poverty pre-school education program's vision, design, and implementation elucidates how this program brought African American and Latina/o South Central residents together to forge an approach to "school readiness" that lived up to their expectations for the future of their children, families, and community. 3"The Wave of the Future": The Emergence of Community Health Clinics chapter abstractThis chapter historicizes late mid-twentieth-century South Central African American and Latina/o residents' community investment in the building of a hospital and community and health centers "where the poorest and most humble can be treated with respect and feel they belong." It argues that in the wake of the 1965 uprisings, South Central residents, U.S. political officials, and physicians waged an interracial campaign for this community to have access to a hospital and community health clinics that would meet the diversity of South Central residents' health care needs. The chapter showcases African American and Latina/o residents' unwavering resolve to act together and in support of community wellness as a formative step to asserting their community's humanity, investment, and power. 4Becoming "Bonafide" Residents: Developing Relational Community Formation chapter abstractThis chapter advances our understanding of the impact of U.S. immigration policy on the resolve of Latina/o immigrant South Central residents to invest themselves in forging a sense of community and home alongside and with their African American neighbors. The chapter elucidates the shared racialization of Latina/o immigrant and African American South Central residents' experience. The emotive range of feelings framing this demographic change speaks to this community's relational interracial formation, humanity, and livelihood. 5Teaching Together: Interracial Community Organizing chapter abstractThis chapter considers the enduring reach of Head Start centers in South Central throughout the 1980s. In the midst of neighborhood demographic change, Head Start classrooms implemented a multiracial and multicultural approach to early childhood education and community activism that resonated with South Central African American and Latina residents. By focusing on the goals of the educational curriculum framing Head Start, as well as this program's teachers' receptiveness to training African American and Latina immigrant parents and residents to participate in the teaching of the program's curriculum, the chapter provides an analysis of the lasting legacies of Head Start's benefits. The collaborative efforts of these women points to the importance of locating and learning from the power of investing in the educational attainment of South Central as a community of dedicated and promising children and women. 6Celebrating Diversity: Selective Inclusion in a Multiracial City chapter abstractThis chapter reveals narratives of selectively acknowledging the ways demographic change and immigrant diversity influence community relations, opportunities, and life in South Central Los Angeles. The interracial tension between African American, Korean immigrant, and Latina/o immigrant South Central entrepreneurs and residents was the result of heavy policing and profiling in the community, escalation of the drug epidemic, anxiety over immigrant enforcement, and the national and local government economic disinvestment. The chapter examines these lived 1980s realities to argue that the indignities of underemployment, police brutality, immigrant enforcement, a drug epidemic, diminished educational opportunities, and poverty culminated in the 1992 uprising. It concludes with the community's commitment to not becoming undone by such instability, to magnify their resilience. 7Banking in South Central: The Limitations of Race Enterprises chapter abstractThis chapter returns to Broadway Federal Bank in the wake of the 1992 uprisings to investigate this race enterprise's longevity and commitment to the community. The race-based politics that framed this establishment's management had to embrace the realization that to thrive and genuinely serve the South Central community it had to cater to an African American and increasingly Latina/o immigrant clientele. The economic and social realities framing South Central's community life leading up to and after the 1992 Los Angeles Uprisings has compelled some of South Central's most invested community entrepreneurs and residents to face demographic and social change with an outlook that cannot underestimate the multiracial configuration and needs of this community. Epilogue chapter abstractThis final chapter alerts readers to the urgency of learning from South Central's history of relational community formation and solidarity. By identifying and discussing contemporary local South Central branding efforts, informal economies, and electoral campaigns shaping this community's current neighborhood interactions and investments, the chapter elaborates on the importance of building on the investments, relationships, and ties that have sustained community building, placemaking, and friendships in South Central. The onset of gentrification and the rise in underemployment, homelessness, border enforcement, white supremacy movements, and police brutality are highlighted as realities that render an inclusive approach toward race and community as important to maintaining a sense of home.

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Book SynopsisIn 1921, over the course of twelve hours, white Tulsans reduced one of the America's most prosperous black communities to rubble and killed an estimated 300 people. This volume, featuring more than 175 photographs, along with oral testimonies, shines a new spotlight on the race massacre from the vantage point of its victims and survivors.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1933, this study on race and state was motivated by the rise of National Socialism in Germany. It analyzes contemporary race theories and traces the rise of the modern race idea, analyzing why race ideas became successful in Germany.Trade ReviewThe best historical account of race-thinking in the pattern of a `history of ideas." —Hannah Arendt from Origins of Totalitarianism

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Book SynopsisIn this investigative look into Kentucky's race relations from the end of the Civil War to 1940, George Wright brings to light a consistent pattern of legally sanctioned and extralegal violence employed to ensure that blacks knew their “place” after the war.

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Book SynopsisSurveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960.

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Book SynopsisExplores the epistemological possibilities of the Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its constitutive African diasporas across multiple poetic, visual, and cultural permutations.

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Book SynopsisThe use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Élodie Edwards-Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual history of early psychiatric theories that defined the Black body as a locus for specific pathologies. Edwards-Grossi also reveals the subtle, localized techniques of resistance later employed by Black patients to confront medical power. Her work shows the continuous politicization of science and theories on insanity in the context of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South.

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Book SynopsisOffers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland charts Ellison’s evolving attitudes on several central topics including democracy, race, identity, social community, place, and political expression.

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Book SynopsisHere, Walter Parker offers a contribution to the debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favour a cultural literacy approach. Parker demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity.Trade Review“At a moment in time when our connection to the nation seems superficial and jingoistic, Walter Parker offers us a vehicle to reach our ideal of deliberative, committed civic participation for every citizen. This book explores the hard work of citizen-making in a diverse and complex society where individual and group interests often are in conflict. Parker makes us realize that in a democracy ‘public’ is not a dirty word and schooling should not be punishment.” ― Gloria Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison“This book deals in an engaging and thought-provoking way with both social realities and democratic possibilities―exactly what I try to do in my classroom.”―Wendy Ewbank, teacher, Seattle Girls’ School

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Book SynopsisReveals the vibrant, transnational, and multiethnic world of working-class women's politics. This title presents the Italian working-class women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement.

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Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.Trade Review"This is a powerful book filled with important, paradigm-shifting ideas about the presentation of African Americans in print and the media. Though not suited to the casual reader, its contents are thought provoking and address contemporary race issues in ways that scholarship on the history of print and readership rarely does." * Journal of American History *"In this impressively researched and provocative study, Jeannine Marie DeLombard argues for an alternative literary and legal history of early black writing and, more broadly, nineteenth-century cultural formations of racial subjectivity." * New England Quarterly *"DeLombard's expertly researched book stands as a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and her arguments on the foundational nexus of race, criminality, and citizenship offer scholars of English and history much to consider. In the Shadow of the Gallows, with DeLombard's deft analysis of early American literature, persuasively pushes back the plantation-to-prison narrative to the very founding of the nation, and demonstrates the importance of criminality in the development of early black subjectivity." * Law and History Review *"DeLombard ingeniously shows from deep research how much the creation of an African American 'voice' stemmed from ancient assumptions about race, criminality, and guilt. Her reading of Frederick Douglass's arrest and jailing as a young slave rebel is alone worth the price of this book, but she demands that we see race, literature, and citizenship in the age of the Civil War as a national crucible played out in courts, on gallows, in jails, and ultimately on the printed page." * David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era *"In her exquisitely written In the Shadow of the Gallows, Jeannine DeLombard reads early American criminal law in conjunction with the idea of social contract to illustrate the intricacies of political belonging from the early Republic through the antebellum period. Through the double helix of print and legal history, she chronicles the metamorphic role of authorship in African Americans' bids for enfranchisement against the backdrop of a nation entangled in contradictory definitions of personhood and property and of criminality and civility. Exemplary of humanities scholarship at its best, the book establishes the connections between American literature and the African American struggle for civic inclusion." * Priscilla Wald, Duke University *"I have long thought that DeLombard is at the absolute top of the scholars working on law and literature in North America, and In the Shadow of the Gallows confirms her status." * Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *"The significance of DeLombard's project can be measured by the centrality of its claims to a wide variety of fields. The issues that DeLombard takes up here strike at the heart of the current disciplinary configurations defining not only American and African American literary studies but also American and African American history and critical race studies." * Lloyd Pratt, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsIntroduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man PART I Chapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact Chapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self PART II Chapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America Chapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship Chapter 6. Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThrough the relationships between the African American civil rights groups of the 1960s and 1970s and the United Farm Workers, a primarily Mexican American union, To March for Others examines the complexities of forming coalitions across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic divides in pursuit of justice and equality.Trade Review"Araiza's thoughtful analysis of the varying intersections of the UFW and black civil rights organizations . . . should lead scholars of the period to explore and examine further the different levels of cooperation and involvement between black and brown civil rights organizations. Her compelling work is an important reminder that these relationships were not one-dimensional or stagnant, but evolving and dynamic. To March for Others makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the long civil rights era." * American Historical Review *"Araiza has recovered the heroic efforts of leaders who forged effective multiracial coalitions by crossing the treacherous ground where class, geography, and organizational ideology and method intersected. . . . To March for Others is also useful as a crash course in the history of the UFW, and it serves as a solid refresher of the civil rights movement's major organizations and leaders, making it useful for undergraduate classes on the civil rights movement and postwar America." * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History *"To March For Others is essential reading for those seeking to broaden their understanding of the Civil Rights Movement and for those with an eye to the future of minority coalitions." * Pacific Historical Review *"Araiza's focus on coalitions is a welcome contribution to the literature of social movements in the United States." * Journal of American History *"A well-written, nuanced, and thought-provoking contribution. To March for Others joins a growing body of scholarship that looks at ethno-racial groups not only comparatively but relationally, and advances our understanding of the factors necessary for alliances across racial and other divides." * Shana Bernstein, author of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles *"A solid and persuasive argument on the importance of pursuing multiracial politics of civil rights and economic justice simultaneously. To March for Others is at the cutting edge of work about black-brown coalitions." * Thomas Jackson, author of From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. This Is How a Movement Begins Chapter 2. To Wage Our Own War of Liberation Chapter 3. Consumers Who Understand Hunger and Joblessness Chapter 4. More Mutual Respect than Ever in Our History Chapter 5. A Natural Alliance of Poor People Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds—politicians, journalists, ministers, writers, educators, artists, and diplomats—identified new and urgent connections with Haiti, a nation long understood as an example of black self-determination. They celebrated not only its diplomatic recognition by the United States but also the renewed relevance of the Haitian Revolution.While a number of African American leaders defended the sovereignty of a black republic whose fate they saw as intertwined with their own, others expressed concern over Haiti''s fitness as a model black republic, scrutinizing whether the nation truly reflected the civilized progress of the black race. Influenced by the imperialist rhetoric of their day, many African AmerTrade Review"In this far-ranging and deeply researched book, Brandon R. Byrd examines post–Civil War African American engagement with Haiti. Byrd boldly extends the record on African American views of Haiti right up to the US occupation of Haiti in the early twentieth century...Byrd’s work is an important corrective and deserves praise for bringing together in one study the broad question of Haiti’s presence in African American consciousness. His book will be an immensely valuable reference tool for scholars into the future and is amajor contribution to the growing scholarship on African Americans enduring preoccupation and identification with Haiti." * The Journal of African American History *"Byrd reinterprets intellectual history by placing Haiti at the centre of the Black Atlantic’s freedom dreams. Though scholars suggest that Haiti was fertile ground for Black thinkers to nurture ideas about self-determination, Byrd guides us through their imagined garden, exposing its lushness during the oft-overlooked post-emancipation period. This gorgeously written and rigorously researched text makes an indispensable contribution to Black history and will transform how intellectual historians engage with the Black Atlantic." * American Nineteenth Century History *"[D]eep and elegant . . . Byrd fills a signiflcant gap in scholarship by focusing on the relationship of Haiti and the U.S. during emancipation, Reconstruction, and the establishment of Jim Crow . . . Byrd's argument is striking and sound. His book reminds readers that American identity has always been bound up, for better or worse, with the fate of its neighbors." * Anglican and Episcopal History *"Brandon Byrd's examination of African Americans' concern with Haiti during the years from the US Civil War to the start of the occupation fills an important gap in scholarship. Using materials ranging from diplomatic archives to plays and public celebrations, Byrd shows the many ways in which black Americans imagined the Caribbean republic as their own status changed, from the hopes of the Reconstruction period to the increasingly difficult conditions of the Jim Crow era. He also convincingly demonstrates that any history of US foreign relations during this period needs to take the opinions and actions of African Americans into account." * H-DIPLO *"An innovative intellectual history of black possibility, The Black Republic wonderfully recovers a forgotten period in American history when the future of the world was unknown and Haiti loomed over the political visions of white supremacists and black revolutionaries alike. Brandon R. Byrd demonstrates how merely the idea of Haiti has long been central to the Western political imagination-as a litmus test for black self-determination, a warning about the dangers of Negro rule, or as a crossroads for America's imperial ambitions." * Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life *"In this extraordinary book, Brandon R. Byrd both rewrites the history of Black internationalism, locating Haiti firmly at its center, and offers a refreshingly nuanced reconsideration of the many ways that US African Americans engaged with the 'Black Republic' after the American Civil War." * Marlene L. Daut, author of Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism *"Brandon R. Byrd tracks the history of an idea, possibly even an aspiration, of how Haiti haunted African American political thought in myriad ways, while also demonstrating the vexed relationship various U.S. black thinkers had with the first black independent republic. The Black Republic will prove an invaluable work of scholarship that will transform how historians and scholars more generally approach black political thought and black intellectual life." * Minkah Makalani, author of In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917-1939 *Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction. The Ideas of Haiti and Black Internationalism Chapter 1. Emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Quandary of Haiti Chapter 2. The Reinventions of Haiti After Reconstruction Chapter 3. The Vexing Inspiration of Haiti in the Age of Imperialism and Jim Crow Chapter 4. Haiti, the Negro Problem, and the Transnational Politics of Racial Uplift Chapter 5. W. E. B. Du Bois, the Occupation, and Radical Black Internationalism Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Biner’s book is an impressive account of the ways in which people live a life with the dead and the past in the present, and how death itself is never far away; it’s a book how people navigate through the pain, injury and loss of others as well as that of themselves. It’s an account of the ways in which people live a precarious life. Ultimately, it’s a book about hope for a better, different life. But it’s also a book that shows the suffocating effects of that hope being ravaged by new rounds of violence as the possibility of a livable life sways back and forth between sheer phantasy and toxic asset" * Politics, Religion & Ideology *"States of Dispossession is a highly original and rich ethnographic and theoretical work on violence in the Kurdish region of Turkey. It fills a pressing need." * Lale Yalçin-Heckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology *"Zerrin Özlem Biner's book offers sharp analysis of how past violence, the built environment, and law shape the circumstances in which different people in the city of Mardin in southeast Turkey confront the present and envision futures." * Stef Jansen, Manchester University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1. Cementing the Past with the Future: The Materiality of Stone and Concrete Chapter 2. Ruined Heritage Chapter 3. Digging with the Cin Chapter 4. Living as if Indebted Chapter 5. Beneath the Wall Surrounding the Mor Gabriel Monastery Chapter 6. Loss, Compensation, and Debt Epilogue Notes References Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisCitizenship in the nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over the fundamental questions of who could be a citizen, how a person attained the status, and the particular privileges citizenship afforded. Indeed, as late as 1862, U.S. Attorney General Edward Bates observed that citizenship was now as little understood in its details and elements, and the question as open to argument and speculative criticism as it was at the founding of the Government.Black people suffered under this ambiguity, but also seized on it in efforts to transform their nominal freedom. By claiming that they were citizens in their demands for specific rights, they were, Christopher James Bonner argues, at the center of creating the very meaning of American citizenship. In the decades before and after Bates''s lament, free African Americans used newspapers, public gatherings, and convTrade Review"In Remaking the Republic, Christopher James Bonner examines the early political struggles of free African Americans that helped to define citizenship after the Civil War, as well as the tools they used...One of the strengths of Bonner’s book lies in his recovering of the ideas and lives of the largely unknown Black activists involved in these conventions, like Samuel H. Davis and William C. Munroe." * The New York Review of Books *"Remaking the Republic makes an important contribution to the intellectual, political, and legal history of the United States...[N]ot simply a snapshot of free Black Americans’ lives in the nineteenth century, [it] is also an origin story that acknowledges and critically surveys the integral role of free Black Americans in the making of American citizenship." * Journal of the Civil War Era *"Christopher Bonner’s well-researched book deftly explores specific forms of political work that Black activists pursued in the fight for citizenship in the United States...Bonner’s writing and analysis compels readers to appreciate the diversity of thought as a hallmark of Black protest politics and the intellectual labor of Black activists in constructing the American Republic." * Early American Literature *"[A] rich analysis of how American citizenship was fashioned and defended by African American politicking...By emphasizing the influence of Black activism on the development of American citizenship, Bonner reinforces the need for historians to explore extra-legal modes of belonging. Ultimately, the texture of what it means to be an American citizen can only be fully understood through the lens of those making claims to it." * American Nineteenth Century History *"In Remaking the Republic, Christopher James Bonner provides a detailed account of how African Americans, especially in the antebellum North, participated in a constitutional dialogue about who is a “citizen” and about what legal and political rights go along with citizenship.Bonner has mined primary resources to produce a scholarly gem that enriches our knowledge on this valuable subject." * The North Carolina Historical Review *"How could free black people in the antebellum era, relegated to an apparent caste status, sustain hope in a future in America? By making and remaking the idea of legal belonging through a fascinating array of grassroots politics and protest, argues Christopher James Bonner. With deep research and persuasive writing, Bonner demonstrates that the sheer 'uncertainty' of American definitions of citizenship opened ways on the margins for blacks to exploit and forge the developing republic before emancipation. This book is full of riveting stories about race and the American political imagination, of how freedom and citizenship took root in a hostile legal soil, and about the enduring power of collective struggle, however rancorous the schisms or how high the racist obstacles. Antebellum blacks used events and the nation's own creeds to make their future American." * David W. Blight, author of the Pulitizer Prize-winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom *"Remaking the Republic is a must read for anyone seeking to understand how citizenship has evolved in the United States. Christopher James Bonner show us how black Americans were the first architects of national belonging in the early republic. His ambitious research tells a story about how they countered the racism of colonization schemes and black laws with a shrewd insistence upon their rights as citizens. This inspiring quest contains indispensable lessons about the past and for our own time." * Martha Jones, author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America *"By taking us inside black activists' multifaceted fight for inclusion across much of the nineteenth century, Christopher James Bonner has crafted one of the most compelling, comprehensive stories about black citizenship in all its many manifestations to date." * Anne Twitty, author of Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857 *

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Book SynopsisOffers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics through the stories of a remarkable cross section of Black women who attended the 1977 National Women’s Conference. These women advocated for civil and women’s rights but also for accessibility, lesbians, sex workers, welfare recipients, labourers, and children.

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Book SynopsisExamines literary and cultural representations of Miami alongside the city’s material realities to challenge the image of South Florida as a diverse cosmopolitan paradise. Tatiana McInnis discusses how this favorable ‘melting pot’ narrative depends on the obfuscation of racialized violence against people of African descent.

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Book SynopsisDetails how African American women used literacy lessons to crack white supremacy and sow seeds for collective action during the civil rights movement. Deanna Gillespie traces the history of the Citizenship Education Program, an initiative that taught people to read and write in preparation for literacy tests required for voter registration.

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Book SynopsisAn assessment of how race, class, and gender shape social identity in the United States. The author argues that changes in racial assignment have shaped the ways American Jews of different eras have constructed their own ethnoracial identities.Trade Review"An insightful interpretation of the complexities of Jewish ethnoracial identity, in the context of a multicultural America stratified by gender, race and class that is both theoretically rich and deeply personal. By interrogating how Jews were integrated within the framework of whiteness. Brodkin illustrates just how difficult it may be to deracialize American society and culture." -- Manning MarableTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. How Did Jews Become White Folks? 2. Race Making 3. Race, Gender, and Virtue in Civic Discourse 4. Not Quite White: Gender and Jewish Identity 5. A Whiteness of Our Own? Jewishness and Whiteness in the 1950s and 1960s Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTraces the struggles and achievements of Japanese Americans in claiming their place in American society. This title outlines three forces shaping ethnic groups in general: shared interests, shared institutions, and shared culture, and chronicles the Japanese American experience within this framework.Trade Review" The book is well researched and clearly written, and it provides the reader with perhaps the best single volume on the overall historical experience of Japanese Americans." -- Robert C. Sims * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Figures List of Tables Preface to the Revised Edition Acknowledgements to the First Edition 1 Japanese Americans and Ethnicity 2 The Japan They Left 3 Emigrants and Frontiersmen 4 Immigrants and Family Folk 5 Born in America 6 Internment 7 Since World War II Appendix: Tables Bibliographic Essay: The State of Japanese American History, 1994 Further Bibliographic Essay: Writing Japanese American History, 1994-2007 Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn an adult-dominated society, teenagers are often shut out of participation in politics. We Fight to Win offers a compelling account of young people''s attempts to get involved in community politics, and documents the battles waged to form youth movements and create social change in schools and neighborhoods.Hava Rachel Gordon compares the struggles and successes of two very different youth movements: a mostly white, middle-class youth activist network in Portland, Oregon, and a working-class network of minority youth in Oakland, California. She examines how these young activists navigate schools, families, community organizations, and the mainstream media, and employ a variety of strategies to make their voices heard on some of today''s most pressing issuesùwar, school funding, the environmental crisis, the prison industrial complex, standardized testing, corporate accountability, and educational reform. We Fight to Win is one of the first books to focus onTrade Review"This book provides much insight into youth activism. We Fight to Win is written in lively prose and demonstrates that many youth are determined to engage inactivism to live out their convictions, even when adults attempt to stand in their way. I highly recommend it." -- Kraig Beyerlein * Social Forces *"Gordon successfully broadens our understanding of the salience of age as it is ordered by race, class, and gender to the formation of political consciousness, political action, civic engagement and participation in social movements. She makes visible the rich dimensions involved in understanding how youth come to participate in the public sphere and in social movement, but also how forces conspire to preclude such participation." -- Amy L. Best * author of Fast Car, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars *"Well researched, the book challenges readers to rethink the involvement and engagement of youth in society. Highly recommended." * Choice *

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Trade Review"With clear writing, sound methodology, and compelling analysis, When Diversity Drops makes a strong argument that will be of interest to scholars of race, evangelism, campus life, and social theory." -- Paul Bramadat * University of Victoria *"Park’s groundbreaking work shows us what happens to students’ capacity for bridging racial divides and reconciling conflicts under either color-blind or race-conscious conditions. She provides a remarkably fresh approach that forces us to reconsider the impact of diversity." -- Mitchell J. Chang * University of California, Los Angeles *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A highly readable, tightly argued, and compelling book." * Marginalia Review of Books *"Mulder's study is an important effort that shows how congregational polity can have long-term neighborhood implications. Highly recommended." * Choice *"A sobering wake-up call for American evangelicals to see how their faith played a hand in creating ghettos and oppressing others. Shades of White Flight is simply a must-read for those researching and working on the front lines of addressing racial inequality." * Sociology of Religion *"Shades of White Flight serves as an excellent entry into this new and promising field of research." * Review of Religious Research *"This micro-history brings attention to the need to consider the role of religious institutions in shaping attitudes about place, and therefore how they contribute to the shape of urban spaces in America." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *"Scholars of urban sociology, urban history, and religious institutions will find this book appealing as it sheds light on how evangelical Protestant denominations responded to urban demographic change. The book highlights the complicated role such churches play in urban neighborhoods." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Shades of White Flight is a fascinating book on race, religion, and urbanization that provides key insights on how a uniquely American brand of evangelicalism unintentionally contributed to 'white flight' in Chicago." -- Gerardo Martí * author of Worship across the Racial Divide: Religious Music and the Multiracial Congregation *"A profound work. Mark Mulder, an astute observer of urban life and rising star in the field, opens our eyes to the role of religion in today’s intense segregation patterns and neighborhood disinvestment. I could not put this book down." -- Michael O. Emerson * Allyn & Gladys Cline Professor of Sociology, Rice University *"[Mulder's] s categories of polity, precedence, and place will prove useful guideposts to those wishing to undertake this task. The book should also serve as a cautionary tale for white evangelicals as they continue to make decisions about the location and relocation of their congregations." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of MapsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Irony of Religion and Racial Segregation Part One The Evolution of an Evangelical Denomination 2 Mobility and Insularity3 Shuttered in Chicago4 A Case Study of the Closed Community: The Disrupted Integration of Timothy Christian School Part Two City and Neighborhood Change 5 Chicago: A Brief History of African American In-Migration and White Reaction6 The Black Belt Reaches Englewood and Roseland Part Three Congregations Respond to Neighborhood Change 7 The Insignificance of Place8 The Significance of Polity9 Second Roseland (CRC) Leaves the City10 A Contrast between Sister Denominations11 Conclusion: The Continuing Resonance of Religion in Race and Urban Patterns NotesBibliographyIndex

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Trade Review"An urgent, moving and compassionate book … Prison and Social Death will appeal to general readers and academics alike, and should be required reading for anyone who desires a better understanding of the American penal system and race relations, contemporary human rights issues, and the sort of reforms that will have to be made before we can say with any real confidence that we live in a decent society." * PopMatters *"An eye-opening account of one county prison system and how it operates to take away liberties of those incarcerated and obstruct the same liberties after release … Recommended. Graduate students in sociology and criminology; criminal justice professionals." * CHOICE *"What sets Price's work apart from many others who have concisely written about the problems and ironies inherent in America's extremely punitive criminal justice system is his up-close and personal narrative approach to and discussion of his subject ... Price's narrative style facilitates readers more easily sitting back to reflect on his work, empathizing with his disappointments, and concluding that America's criminal justice and correctional practices are not cruel and unusual but are instead uniquely cruel and usual in ways that create the abyss that ironically contributes to the very social conditions and crime rates that policy makers use to rationalize those practices." * PsycCRITIQUES *"Prison and Social Death is an engaging, thought-provoking analysis of the continuing U.S. prison crisis. Price provides valuable insights about the interconnectedness of gender, race, and (in)justice in the United States. This nuanced account will be compelling and useful for academics and activists alike." -- Jodie Lawston * chair, department of women’s studies, California State University, San Marcos *"Prison and Social Death offers a look into the carceral state through a methodologically delicate participatory action research project. Beautifully written, profoundly human, and politically devastating, the text doubles as a critical history of the contemporary over-incarcerated United States and as a compelling exemplar of movement-based activist research. A significant text for students of prison studies, critical participatory methods and community based policy research." -- Michelle Fine * Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I Elements of Social Death 1 Crossing the Abyss: The Study of Social Death2 Natal Alienation 3 Humiliation Part II Method and a History of Social Death 4 Dissemblance and Creativity: Toward a Methodology for Studying State Violence5 Racism, Prison, and the Legacies of Slavery 6 The Birth of the Penitentiary Part III Abolition Democracy 7 “Doesn’t Everyone Know Someone in Prison or on Parole?”8 Spirit Murder: Reentry, Dispossession, and Enduring Stigma9 States of Grace: Social Life against Social Death10 Conclusion: Failure and Abolition Democracy NotesReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"An urgent, moving and compassionate book … Prison and Social Death will appeal to general readers and academics alike, and should be required reading for anyone who desires a better understanding of the American penal system and race relations, contemporary human rights issues, and the sort of reforms that will have to be made before we can say with any real confidence that we live in a decent society." * PopMatters *"An eye-opening account of one county prison system and how it operates to take away liberties of those incarcerated and obstruct the same liberties after release … Recommended. Graduate students in sociology and criminology; criminal justice professionals." * CHOICE *"What sets Price's work apart from many others who have concisely written about the problems and ironies inherent in America's extremely punitive criminal justice system is his up-close and personal narrative approach to and discussion of his subject ... Price's narrative style facilitates readers more easily sitting back to reflect on his work, empathizing with his disappointments, and concluding that America's criminal justice and correctional practices are not cruel and unusual but are instead uniquely cruel and usual in ways that create the abyss that ironically contributes to the very social conditions and crime rates that policy makers use to rationalize those practices." * PsycCRITIQUES *"Prison and Social Death is an engaging, thought-provoking analysis of the continuing U.S. prison crisis. Price provides valuable insights about the interconnectedness of gender, race, and (in)justice in the United States. This nuanced account will be compelling and useful for academics and activists alike." -- Jodie Lawston * chair, department of women’s studies, California State University, San Marcos *"Prison and Social Death offers a look into the carceral state through a methodologically delicate participatory action research project. Beautifully written, profoundly human, and politically devastating, the text doubles as a critical history of the contemporary over-incarcerated United States and as a compelling exemplar of movement-based activist research. A significant text for students of prison studies, critical participatory methods and community based policy research." -- Michelle Fine * Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I Elements of Social Death 1 Crossing the Abyss: The Study of Social Death2 Natal Alienation 3 Humiliation Part II Method and a History of Social Death 4 Dissemblance and Creativity: Toward a Methodology for Studying State Violence5 Racism, Prison, and the Legacies of Slavery 6 The Birth of the Penitentiary Part III Abolition Democracy 7 “Doesn’t Everyone Know Someone in Prison or on Parole?”8 Spirit Murder: Reentry, Dispossession, and Enduring Stigma9 States of Grace: Social Life against Social Death10 Conclusion: Failure and Abolition Democracy NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Road to Citizenship is an important addition to the recent scholarly efforts to examine and understand the naturalization process primarily in the United States, but with cohesive and well-integrated comparative material from Canada, Australia, and Europe as well." -- Luis F. B. Plascencia * author of Disenchanting Citizenship: Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging *"Citizenship matters. But as Aptekar reveals in this superb book, its egalitarian promise is in question. Drawing on government statistics, immigrants’ own words and highly original analyses of naturalization speeches, Aptekar shows that immigrants’ citizenship is fraught by inequality." -- Irene Bloemraad * professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley *"Citizenship matters because, among other things, naturalized immigrants are able to vote, compete for jobs unavailable to noncitizens, receive priority for family members who also wish to immigrate to the US, and enjoy protection against deportation. Aptekar should know, because she experienced the naturalization process as an immigrant from Russia ... Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"An excellent book for policymakers, politicians, and academia in undergraduate immigration and inequality classes in sociology and other policy-related disciplines." * Social Forces *"Presents a clear picture of the naturalization experience in contemporary America … Aptekar's creative data collection and theoretical discussion distinguish The Road to Citizenship from much of the research in immigration studies." * International Migration Review *"The Road to Citizenship is an important addition to the recent scholarly efforts to examine and understand the naturalization process primarily in the United States, but with cohesive and well-integrated comparative material from Canada, Australia, and Europe as well." -- Luis F. B. Plascencia * author of Disenchanting Citizenship: Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging *"Citizenship matters. But as Aptekar reveals in this superb book, its egalitarian promise is in question. Drawing on government statistics, immigrants’ own words and highly original analyses of naturalization speeches, Aptekar shows that immigrants’ citizenship is fraught by inequality." -- Irene Bloemraad * professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley *"Citizenship matters because, among other things, naturalized immigrants are able to vote, compete for jobs unavailable to noncitizens, receive priority for family members who also wish to immigrate to the US, and enjoy protection against deportation. Aptekar should know, because she experienced the naturalization process as an immigrant from Russia ... Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"An excellent book for policymakers, politicians, and academia in undergraduate immigration and inequality classes in sociology and other policy-related disciplines." * Social Forces *"Presents a clear picture of the naturalization experience in contemporary America … Aptekar's creative data collection and theoretical discussion distinguish The Road to Citizenship from much of the research in immigration studies." * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Roads to CitizenshipChapter 2 Citizenship and InequalityChapter 3 Voices of ImmigrantsChapter 4 Citizenship CeremoniesChapter 5 Welcoming and DefiningChapter 6 Naturalization in Theory and PracticeAppendix Results of Multivariate Analysis Predicting Citizenship Status among ImmigrantsNotesReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"[Invisible Asians] invites readers to experience the fascinating stories of Koran adoptees and their earnest search for racial and national identity." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"In this accessible and original work, Kim Park Nelson explores the complexity of historical and contemporary Korean American adoptee identity and experience." -- Catherine Ceniza Choy * author of Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America *"Invisible Asians brilliantly explores how adoptees from Asia have transformed our understandings of race in relation to the Asian (American) diaspora. Park Nelson's fascinating research enables her to take on key questions of representation, economics, and U.S. imperialism." -- Laura Briggs * author of Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption *"A timely and insightful critical examination of race, adoption, nationality, and belonging in Asian America....a well-crafted and engaging book that advances scholarship on race and adoption as it relates to Asian America." * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TextIntroduction: A History of Korean American Adoption in Print1 A Korean American Adoption Ethnography: Method, Theory, and Experience2 “Eligible Alien Orphan”: The Cold War Korean Adoptee3 Adoption Research Discourse and the Rise of Transnational Adoption, 1974–19874 An Adoptee for Every Lake: Multiculturalism, Minnesota, and the Korean Transracial Adoptee5 Adoptees as White Koreans: Identity, Racial Visibility, and the Politics of Passing among Korean American Adoptees6 Uri Nara, Our Country: Korean American Adoptees in the Global AgeConclusion: The Ends of Korean AdoptionNotesBibliographyIndex

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