Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books
University of Minnesota Press Cinema is the Strongest Weapon: Race-Making and
Book SynopsisA deep dive into Italian cinema under Mussolini’s regime and the filmmakers who used it as a means of antifascist resistance Looking at Italy’s national film industry under the rule of Benito Mussolini and in the era that followed, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon examines how cinema was harnessed as a political tool by both the reigning fascist regime and those who sought to resist it. Covering a range of canonical works alongside many of their neglected contemporaries, this book explores film’s mutable relationship to the apparatuses of state power and racial capitalism. Exploiting realism’s aesthetic, experiential, and affective affordances, Mussolini’s biopolitical project employed cinema to advance an idealized vision of life under fascism and cultivate the basis for a homogenous racial identity. In this book, Lorenzo Fabbri crucially underscores realism’s susceptibility to manipulation from diametrically opposed political perspectives, highlighting the queer, Communist, Jewish, and feminist filmmakers who subverted Mussolini’s notion that “cinema is the regime’s strongest weapon” by developing film narratives and film forms that challenged the prevailing ethno-nationalist ideology. Focusing on an understudied era of film history and Italian cultural production, Fabbri issues an important recontextualization of Italy’s celebrated neorealist movement and the structural ties it shares with its predecessor. Drawing incisive parallels to contemporary debates around race, whiteness, authoritarianism, and politics, he presents an urgent examination into the broader impact of visual media on culture and society. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "Lorenzo Fabbri’s book demonstrates how Italian Fascism wielded the cinematic apparatus to mobilize Italians as a racialized assemblage who would identify with the regime's myriad colonizing projects at home and abroad. That same apparatus was amenable to being hijacked by the resistance (embodied by Visconti and De Sica) to formulate plural, antifascist ways of living. A refreshing and beautifully written work, Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon adds considerable nuance to our understandings of how Fascism works, and is actively contested, through film."—Rhiannon Noel Welch, author of Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy "A richly researched and politically urgent exploration of how cinema under Mussolini worked to assemble Italians into a fascist collectivity mobilized less by ideological consent than racial affect. By attending to filmmaking as race-making, from Luigi Pirandello to Roberto Rossellini, Lorenzo Fabbri illuminates how—building on liberal policies of internal colonization and external colonialism—Italian Fascism embarked on a biopolitical project to forge a unified, ‘whitened’ body politic committed to a melodramatic brand of imperialism. Cinema Is the Strongest Weapon unsettles film histories and theories that pivot on the ‘Year Zero’ of Italian neorealism, challenging us to rethink the entanglements of race, media, and authoritarianism while also attending to how cinema could be made useless for Fascism."—Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments. Fascism and Us Introduction. Race War through Other Media 1. The Government of the Ungovernable: Race and Cinema in Early Italian Film Novels 2. Workers Entering the Military-Industrial Complex: Pirandello’s and Ruttman’s Acciaio 3. White, Red, Blackshirt: Blasetti’s Ecofascist Realism 4. The Shame of Escapism: Camerini’s Anthropological Machines 5. The White Italian Mediterranean: De Robertis, Rossellini, and Fascism’s Melodramatic Imperialism 6. De Sica’s Genre Trouble: Laughing Fascism Away? 7. Queer Antifascism: Visconti’s Ossessione and the Cinema Conspiracy against Ethno-Nationalism Conclusion. On Neorealism: The Ends of the Resistance and the Birth of an Area Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black
Book SynopsisThe long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Americans through targeted advertising. But throughout much of the twentieth century, fast food was developed specifically for White urban and suburban customers, purposefully avoiding Black spaces. In White Burgers, Black Cash, Naa Oyo A. Kwate traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban Black communities.Fast food has historically been tied to the country’s self-image as the land of opportunity and is marketed as one of life’s simple pleasures, but a more insidious history lies at the industry’s core. White Burgers, Black Cash investigates the complex trajectory of restaurant locations from a decided commitment to Whiteness to the disproportionate densities that characterize Black communities today. Kwate expansively charts fast food’s racial and spatial transformation and centers the cities of Chicago, New York City, and Washington, D.C., in a national examination of the biggest brands of today, including White Castle, KFC, Burger King, McDonald’s, and more.Deeply researched, grippingly told, and brimming with surprising details, White Burgers, Black Cash reveals the inequalities embedded in the closest thing Americans have to a national meal.Trade Review"White Burgers, Black Cash is a must read for anyone interested in the politics of food, racial identity, and belonging. Naa Oyo A. Kwate weaves a narrative that dissects Black exploitation, corporations, and socioeconomic divides in communities to help us better understand the timeline of American fast food restaurants, from exclusionary whiteness to the present. You’ll see fast food well beyond its place as a basic quintessential American meal."—Christina Greer, author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream"White Burgers, Black Cash comes crashing through everything you thought you knew about fast food to land as the definitive history of how this industry has become so entrenched in Black communities. Built on a staggering body of evidence, this riveting and accessible exploration of fast food’s troubled racial transformation is necessary reading for anyone concerned about inequitable food environments. A masterpiece."—Bryant Terry, James Beard and NAACP Image Award-winning editor of Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African DiasporaTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: How Did Fast Food Become Black?Part I. White Utopias1. A Fortress of Whiteness: First-Generation Fast Food in the Early Twentieth Century2. Inharmonious Food Groups: Burger Chateaux, Chicken Shacks, and Urban Renewal’s Attack on the Existential Threat of Blackness3. Suburbs and Sundown Towns: The Rise of Second-Generation Fast Food4. Freedom from Panic: American Myth and the Untenability of Black Space5. Delinquents, Disorder, and Death: Racial Violence and Fast Food’s Growing Disrepute at MidcenturyPart II. Racial Turnover6. How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? (Mis)Managing Racial Change and the Advent of Black Operators7. To Banish, Boycott, or Bash? Moderates and Militants Clash in Cleveland8. Government Burgers: Federal Financing of Fast Food in the Ghetto9. You’ve Got to Be In: Black Franchisors and Black Economic PowerPart III. Black Catastrophe10. Blaxploitation: Fast Food Stokes a New Urban Logic11. PUSH and Pull: Black Advertising and Racial Covenants Fuel Fast Food Growth12. Ghetto Wars: Fast Food Tussles for Profits amid Sufferation13. Criminal Chicken: Perceptions of Deviant Black Consumption14. 365 Black: A Racial Transformation CompleteConclusion: The Racial CostsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health
Book SynopsisAn event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis—and even the life-threatening childbirth experience for tennis star Serena Williams—author Anne Pollock takes readers on a journey through the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. She goes beneath the surface to deconstruct the structures that make these events possible, including mass incarceration, police brutality, and the hypervisibility of Black athletes’ bodies. Ultimately, Sickening shows what these shocking events reveal about the everyday racialization of health in the United States.Concluding with a vital examination of racialized healthcare during the COVID pandemic and the Black Lives Matter rebellions of 2020, Sickening cuts through the mind-numbing statistics to vividly portray healthcare inequalities. In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. Trade Review "Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of anti-Blackness within a larger machinery of death-making that—whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly—counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology "For all the ink that has been spilled on racial disparities in disease, there is frustratingly little attention to how racism works and why it both developed and persists. With Sickening, Anne Pollock meticulously illustrates several key theoretical and conceptual principles on race and racism, such as their durability, that have not yet been fully developed in the field of science and technology studies."—Lundy Braun, author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics "A crucial guided analysis of anti-Blackness and its impact on Black people’s ability to live as fully entitled citizens, Pollock’s scholarship is essential medicine for a society in denial about its sickness."—Foreword "This book offers us the tools to think and act critically about workable solutions, as we recognize injustice and realize our part in dismantling systems of inequities. "—Colors of Influence "Sickening is a great book for opening minds, encouraging action, and inspiring advocacy for justice."—American Scientist "In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. "—The Washington Informer "In Sickening, Pollock demonstrates the breadth of her expertise on racism and health, including drawing on major Black leaders in the field—a point she notes has been lacking in research."—Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Terrorism: The Deaths of Black Postal Workers in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks2. Un/natural Disaster: Chronic Disease after Hurricane Katrina3. Mass Incarceration: On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters4. Environmental Racism: Protecting GM’s Machines While Abandoning Flint’s People5. Police Brutality: Enforcing Segregation at a Pool Party6. Reproductive Injustice: Serena Williams’ Birth StoryConclusionNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health
Book SynopsisAn event-by-event look at how institutionalized racism harms the health of African Americans in the twenty-first century A crucial component of anti-Black racism is the unconscionable disparity in health outcomes between Black and white Americans. Sickening examines this institutionalized inequality through dramatic, concrete events from the past two decades, revealing how unequal living conditions and inadequate medical care have become routine. From the spike in chronic disease after Hurricane Katrina to the lack of protection for Black residents during the Flint water crisis—and even the life-threatening childbirth experience for tennis star Serena Williams—author Anne Pollock takes readers on a journey through the diversity of anti-Black racism operating in healthcare. She goes beneath the surface to deconstruct the structures that make these events possible, including mass incarceration, police brutality, and the hypervisibility of Black athletes’ bodies. Ultimately, Sickening shows what these shocking events reveal about the everyday racialization of health in the United States.Concluding with a vital examination of racialized healthcare during the COVID pandemic and the Black Lives Matter rebellions of 2020, Sickening cuts through the mind-numbing statistics to vividly portray healthcare inequalities. In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. Trade Review "Anne Pollock offers a model and method for situating everyday forms of anti-Blackness within a larger machinery of death-making that—whether it grinds people down slowly or extinguishes them swiftly—counts on our inability to connect the dots. Riveting, infuriating, and essential, Sickening reminds us that neither statistics nor structural analysis will save us, and all those committed to social change must heed the stories we tell (and are told) about racism and inequity if we are to get free."—Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology "For all the ink that has been spilled on racial disparities in disease, there is frustratingly little attention to how racism works and why it both developed and persists. With Sickening, Anne Pollock meticulously illustrates several key theoretical and conceptual principles on race and racism, such as their durability, that have not yet been fully developed in the field of science and technology studies."—Lundy Braun, author of Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics "A crucial guided analysis of anti-Blackness and its impact on Black people’s ability to live as fully entitled citizens, Pollock’s scholarship is essential medicine for a society in denial about its sickness."—Foreword "This book offers us the tools to think and act critically about workable solutions, as we recognize injustice and realize our part in dismantling systems of inequities. "—Colors of Influence "Sickening is a great book for opening minds, encouraging action, and inspiring advocacy for justice."—American Scientist "In a gripping and passionate style, Pollock shows the devastating reality and consequences of systemic racism on the lives and health of Black Americans. "—The Washington Informer "In Sickening, Pollock demonstrates the breadth of her expertise on racism and health, including drawing on major Black leaders in the field—a point she notes has been lacking in research."—Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Terrorism: The Deaths of Black Postal Workers in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks2. Un/natural Disaster: Chronic Disease after Hurricane Katrina3. Mass Incarceration: On the Suspended Sentences of the Scott Sisters4. Environmental Racism: Protecting GM’s Machines While Abandoning Flint’s People5. Police Brutality: Enforcing Segregation at a Pool Party6. Reproductive Injustice: Serena Williams’ Birth StoryConclusionNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Talkin' Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women
Book SynopsisA twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface The twentieth anniversary of the original publication of this influential and prescient work is commemorated with a new edition of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson. In this bold book, of its time and ahead of its time, whiteness is made visible in power relations, presenting a dialogic of how white feminists represent Indigenous women in discourse and how Indigenous women self-present. Moreton-Robinson argues that white feminists benefit from colonization: they are overwhelmingly represented and disproportionately predominant, play the key roles, and constitute the norm, the ordinary, and the standard of womanhood. They do not self-present as white but rather represent themselves as variously classed, sexualized, aged, and abled. The disjuncture between representation and self-presentation of Indigenous women and white feminists illuminates different epistemologies and an incommensurability in the social construction of gender.Not so much a study of white womanhood, Talkin’ Up to the White Woman instead reveals an invisible racialized subject position represented and deployed in power relations with Indigenous women. The subject position occupied by middle-class white women is embedded in material and discursive conditions that shape the nature of power relations between white feminists and Indigenous women—and the unjust structural relationship between white society and Indigenous society. Table of ContentsContents20th Anniversary Preface by Aileen Moreton-RobinsonPreface by Karen BrodkinIntroduction: Talkin’ the TalkChapter OneTellin’ It Straight: Self-Presentation withinIndigenous Women’s Life WritingsChapter TwoLook Out White Woman: Representations of“The White Woman” in Feminist TheoryChapter ThreePuttem “Indigenous Woman”: Representations of the“Indigenous Woman” in White Women’s Ethnographic WritingsChapter FourLittle Bit Woman: Representations of Indigenous Womenin White Australian FeminismChapter FiveWhite Women’s Way: Self-Presentation withinWhite Feminist Academics’ TalkChapter SixTiddas Speakin’ Strong: Indigenous Women’sSelf-Presentation within White Australian FeminismChapter SevenConclusion: Talkin’ Up to the White WomanNotesReferencesIndexWhiteness Matters: Implications ofTalkin’ Up to the White WomanAcknowledgements
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University of Minnesota Press Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White
Book SynopsisHow Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world While much has been written about post-9/11 anti-Muslim racism (often termed Islamophobia), insufficient attention has been given to how anti-Muslim racism operates through law and is a vital part of law’s protection of whiteness. This book fills this gap while also providing a unique new global perspective on white supremacy. Sherene H. Razack, a leading critical race and feminist scholar, takes an innovative approach by situating law within media discourses and historical and contemporary realities. We may think of law as logical, but, argues Razack, its logic breaks down when the subject is Muslim. Tracing how white subjects and majority-white nations in the post-9/11 era have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim, Razack examines four sites of anti-Muslim racism: efforts by American evangelical Christians to ban Islam in the school curriculum; Canadian and European bans on Muslim women’s clothing; racial science and the sentencing of Muslims as terrorists; and American national memory of the torture of Muslims during wars and occupations. Arguing that nothing has to make sense when the subject is Muslim, she maintains that these legal and cultural sites reveal the dread, phobia, hysteria, and desire that mark the encounter between Muslims and the West. Through the prism of racism, Nothing Has to Make Sense argues that the figure of the Muslim reveals a world divided between the deserving and the disposable, where people of European origin are the former and all others are confined in various ways to regimes of disposability. Emerging from critical race theory, and bridging with Islamophobia/critical religious studies, it demonstrates that anti-Muslim racism is a revelatory window into the operation of white supremacy as a global force. Trade Review"Boldly and elegantly, Sherene H. Razack lays bare the affective, legal, and material worlds that protect white supremacy and anti-Muslim racism. Theoretically rigorous while highly accessible, Nothing Has to Make Sense is one of the most urgent books on anti-Muslim racism of our times and a must read for anyone looking for an unflinching analysis of race, class, gender, sexuality, and empire."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago"This is an essential text on race and racisms today, as well as the shifting language of white supremacy in Europe and North America, and their impact globally. We cannot understand the Global North without this timely and persuasive analysis of anti-Muslim affect as the link between Christianity, whiteness, and the colonial phantasms lurking in law and racial sciences. This is a crucial book for our times."—Inderpal Grewal, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Anti-Muslim Racism, Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Law1. “A New Phase of a Very Old War”: Islam and White Conservative Christian Aggrievement2. “I Can Never Tell If You’re Responding to My Smile”: Desiring Muslim Women3. “Terrorism in Their Genes”: Racial Science and the Muslim Terrorist4. “We Didn’t Kill ’em, We Didn’t Cut Their Heads Off”: Torture and the Making of American InnocenceConclusion: Arriving as MuslimAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White
Book SynopsisHow Western nations have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim in the post-9/11 world While much has been written about post-9/11 anti-Muslim racism (often termed Islamophobia), insufficient attention has been given to how anti-Muslim racism operates through law and is a vital part of law’s protection of whiteness. This book fills this gap while also providing a unique new global perspective on white supremacy. Sherene H. Razack, a leading critical race and feminist scholar, takes an innovative approach by situating law within media discourses and historical and contemporary realities. We may think of law as logical, but, argues Razack, its logic breaks down when the subject is Muslim. Tracing how white subjects and majority-white nations in the post-9/11 era have consolidated their whiteness through the figure of the Muslim, Razack examines four sites of anti-Muslim racism: efforts by American evangelical Christians to ban Islam in the school curriculum; Canadian and European bans on Muslim women’s clothing; racial science and the sentencing of Muslims as terrorists; and American national memory of the torture of Muslims during wars and occupations. Arguing that nothing has to make sense when the subject is Muslim, she maintains that these legal and cultural sites reveal the dread, phobia, hysteria, and desire that mark the encounter between Muslims and the West. Through the prism of racism, Nothing Has to Make Sense argues that the figure of the Muslim reveals a world divided between the deserving and the disposable, where people of European origin are the former and all others are confined in various ways to regimes of disposability. Emerging from critical race theory, and bridging with Islamophobia/critical religious studies, it demonstrates that anti-Muslim racism is a revelatory window into the operation of white supremacy as a global force. Trade Review"Boldly and elegantly, Sherene H. Razack lays bare the affective, legal, and material worlds that protect white supremacy and anti-Muslim racism. Theoretically rigorous while highly accessible, Nothing Has to Make Sense is one of the most urgent books on anti-Muslim racism of our times and a must read for anyone looking for an unflinching analysis of race, class, gender, sexuality, and empire."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago"This is an essential text on race and racisms today, as well as the shifting language of white supremacy in Europe and North America, and their impact globally. We cannot understand the Global North without this timely and persuasive analysis of anti-Muslim affect as the link between Christianity, whiteness, and the colonial phantasms lurking in law and racial sciences. This is a crucial book for our times."—Inderpal Grewal, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Anti-Muslim Racism, Whiteness, White Supremacy, and Law1. “A New Phase of a Very Old War”: Islam and White Conservative Christian Aggrievement2. “I Can Never Tell If You’re Responding to My Smile”: Desiring Muslim Women3. “Terrorism in Their Genes”: Racial Science and the Muslim Terrorist4. “We Didn’t Kill ’em, We Didn’t Cut Their Heads Off”: Torture and the Making of American InnocenceConclusion: Arriving as MuslimAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now
Book SynopsisA call to arms exploring the protest movements of 2020 as they reverberated through the athletic world Starting with the refusal of George Hill of the Milwaukee Bucks to participate in an August 2020 playoff game following the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Grant Farred shows how the Covid-restricted NBA “bubble” released an energy that spurred athletes into radical action. They disrupted athletic normalcy, and in their grief and rage against American racism they demonstrated the true progressivism lacking in even the most reformist-minded politicians and pundits. Farred goes on to trace the radicalism of black athletes in a number of sports, including the WNBA, women’s tennis, the NFL, and NASCAR, locating contemporary athletes in a lineage that runs through Muhammad Ali as well as Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics. Only a Black Athlete Can Save Us Now uses sport as a point of departure to argue that the dystopic crisis of our current moment offers a singular opportunity to reimagine how we live in the world.Forerunners: Ideas First is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.Table of ContentsPrologue1. The NBA and the WNBA Are the Most Progressive Forces in American Politics2. From “Fear the Deer” to “Follow the Deer”3. Out of One, Many4. Reforming the Unreformable5. Nur ein Gott kann uns jetzt Retten6. Strange Things Happen in the Bubble7. “Hey, Chicago, What Do You Say?”8. The WNBA Takes Its Stance9. Colin Kaepernick10. Silence Reverberates11. The Peculiar Science of Black Athletic Entropy12. The Burden of Over-Representation, Curiously Borne by Woods and Jordan13. Change Is Everywhere, or So It Seems14. Change Is Everywhere, Even the NHL15. Biting the Hand That Feeds Them16. A Pause for a Cause17. Ontological Exhaustion18. Inverse Displacement19. Love, Unrequited20. From L.A. to Kenosha21. HarmolodicsAcknowledgments
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University of Minnesota Press A Tender Spirit, A Vital Form: Arlene
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated review of the deeply connected lives and careers of this prominent Minneapolis African American artist-couple Clarence Morgan and Arlene Burke-Morgan are the epitome of an artist-couple: in love with each other and their family, in love with their art, and devoted to faith, values, and culture that encouraged their artistic development, leading to national and international acclaim and recognition. Originally from Philadelphia, the couple lived and worked side by side throughout their long careers, contributing significantly to each other and to the art communities of the Twin Cities, the University of Minnesota, and beyond.For thirty years, Clarence Morgan was a member of the art department at the university; his art, directed toward abstraction, focused on painting, drawing, and printmaking. Arlene Burke-Morgan also taught at the university, and, after early work with textiles, eventually evolved to an approach of abstraction, especially working with clay, drawing, and installations.The catalog for an exhibition at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota in 2023, A Tender Spirit, A Vital Form is prolifically illustrated with reproductions of works by the artists and features essays on their personal histories and artistic practices.Contributors: Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Institute of Art; Tia-Simone Gardner, Macalester College; Bill Gaskins, Maryland Institute College of Art; Nyeema Morgan, interdisciplinary artist.
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University of Minnesota Press The School-Prison Trust
Book SynopsisConsiders colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoplesThe School–Prison Trust describes interrelated histories, ongoing ideologies, and contemporary expressions of what the authors call the “school–prison trust”: a conquest strategy encompassing the boarding school and juvenile prison models, and deployed in the long war against Native peoples. At its heart, the book is a constellation of stories of Indigenous self-determination in the face of this ongoing conquest.Following the stories of an incarcerated young man named Jakes, the authors consider features of school–prison relations for young Native people to ask urgent questions about Indigenous sovereignty, conquest, survivance, and refusal.
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University of Minnesota Press Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the U.S.-Mexico
Book SynopsisA comparative media analysis of the representation of the U.S.–Mexico border Border tunnels at the U.S.–Mexico border are ubiquitous in news, movies, and television, yet, because they remain hidden and inaccessible, the public can encounter them only through media. Analyzing the technologies, institutional politics, narrative tropes, and aesthetic decisions that go into showing border tunnels across multiple forms of media, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez argues that we cannot properly address border issues without attending to—and fully understanding—the fraught relationship between their representation and reality. Llamas-Rodriguez reveals that every media text about border tunnels, whether meant for entertainment, cable news, video games, or speculative design, implicitly takes a position on the politics of the border. The examples laid out in Border Tunnels will teach readers how to look differently at the border as it is commonly presented in various forms of media, from ABC’s Nightline and CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360º to reality TV, propaganda videos, and even digital effects in Hollywood action films. Llamas-Rodriguez examines how creative decisions in the production, promotion, and distribution of these media texts either emphasize or downplay issues such as border security, racial dynamics of migration, and sustainability of the borderlands. Focusing on tunnels to show how media representations can influence all kinds of audiences—even those physically near the border—Border Tunnels helps us make sense of this pressing social issue, ultimately advancing understanding of the U.S.–Mexico border in all of its complexity and precariousness. Trade Review "Don’t miss this provocative and impressive study of the mediated imaginings and construction of the U.S.–Mexico border. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez’s Border Tunnels provides an original and illuminating investigation of the complex and intertwined subjects of U.S.–Mexico relations, media narratives and video games that focus on border security, and the political rhetoric of marginalization." —Mary Beltrán, author of Latino TV: A History "Juan Llamas-Rodriguez pushes the limits of media theory to help us think about borders, tunnels, and the complex social and material interrelations that define the U.S.–Mexico border. Subtle, creative, and theoretically sophisticated, Border Tunnels compels us to look at these material structures as media, as social organizers crafted by popular culture, policy, myth, engineering, and surveillance technologies." —Hector Amaya, author of Trafficking: Narcoculture in Mexico and the United States Table of Contents Contents Introduction: A Media Theory of the Border Tunnel 1. TV News and Spectacle 2. Reality TV and Performativity 3. Digital Animation and Plasticity 4. First-Person Shooters and Racialization 5. Speculative Design and Sustainability Conclusion: Media Theory from the Border Tunnel Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and
Book SynopsisA landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate terrorists, maintain national security operations domestically, and produce certain narratives of conflict. Terrorism on Trial examines the contemporary role that these courts play in the global war on terror and their use as a weapon of war: hunting, criminalizing, and punishing entire communities in the name of national security. Nicole Nguyen advocates for a rethinking of popular understandings of political violence and its root causes, encouraging readers to consider anti-imperial abolitionist alternatives to the criminalization, prosecution, and incarceration of individuals marked as real or perceived terrorists. She exposes how dominant academic discourses, geographical imaginations, and social processes have shaped terrorism prosecutions, as well as how our fundamental misunderstanding of terrorism has led to punitive responses that do little to address the true sources of violence, such as military interventions, colonial occupations, and tyrannical regimes. Nguyen also explores how these criminal proceedings bear on the lives of defendants and families, seeking to understand how legal processes unevenly criminalize and disempower communities of color. A retheorization of terrorism as political violence, Terrorism on Trial invites readers to carefully consider the role of power and politics in the making of armed resistance, addressing the root causes of political violence, with a goal of building toward a less violent and more liberatory world. Trade Review "Through its expansive analysis of anti-Muslim racism and the global war on terror, Terrorism on Trial reveals startling connections across some of the most urgent issues of our times—from U.S. settler colonialism and militarism to policing and global punishment. This book’s contextual approach to resistance and its coalitional approach to race, empire, and abolition provide an urgent foundation for anyone committed to life-affirming futures rooted in transnational BIPOC coalitions and solidarities."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago "Nicole Nguyen’s commanding study exposes how U.S. geopolitics play out in the criminal justice system in cases against people accused of terrorism. She shows how their prosecution—and prosecutability—often relies on allegations constructed from sting operations, Islamophobic impulses, and unfounded or propagandistic claims of the government’s favorite terrorologists."—Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Convicting Detainee #001: Locating the Courts in the Global War on Terror 1. Offensive Lawfare: The Juridification of the Global War on Terror 2. Defining the Bad Guys: Geopolitics, Terrorists, and the Courts 3. The Racialization of Legal Categories: From the Citizen to the Terrorist 4. Terrorologists: Epistemic Injustice in Terrorism Prosecutions 5. Prosecuting Lone Wolves: The Legal Life of Radicalization Theories Conclusion. Abolitionist Futures: Rethinking Power, Politics, and Violence Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and
Book SynopsisA landmark sociological examination of terrorism prosecution in United States courts Rather than functioning as a final arbiter of justice, U.S. domestic courts are increasingly seen as counterterrorism tools that can incapacitate terrorists, maintain national security operations domestically, and produce certain narratives of conflict. Terrorism on Trial examines the contemporary role that these courts play in the global war on terror and their use as a weapon of war: hunting, criminalizing, and punishing entire communities in the name of national security. Nicole Nguyen advocates for a rethinking of popular understandings of political violence and its root causes, encouraging readers to consider anti-imperial abolitionist alternatives to the criminalization, prosecution, and incarceration of individuals marked as real or perceived terrorists. She exposes how dominant academic discourses, geographical imaginations, and social processes have shaped terrorism prosecutions, as well as how our fundamental misunderstanding of terrorism has led to punitive responses that do little to address the true sources of violence, such as military interventions, colonial occupations, and tyrannical regimes. Nguyen also explores how these criminal proceedings bear on the lives of defendants and families, seeking to understand how legal processes unevenly criminalize and disempower communities of color. A retheorization of terrorism as political violence, Terrorism on Trial invites readers to carefully consider the role of power and politics in the making of armed resistance, addressing the root causes of political violence, with a goal of building toward a less violent and more liberatory world. Trade Review "Through its expansive analysis of anti-Muslim racism and the global war on terror, Terrorism on Trial reveals startling connections across some of the most urgent issues of our times—from U.S. settler colonialism and militarism to policing and global punishment. This book’s contextual approach to resistance and its coalitional approach to race, empire, and abolition provide an urgent foundation for anyone committed to life-affirming futures rooted in transnational BIPOC coalitions and solidarities."—Nadine Naber, University of Illinois Chicago "Nicole Nguyen’s commanding study exposes how U.S. geopolitics play out in the criminal justice system in cases against people accused of terrorism. She shows how their prosecution—and prosecutability—often relies on allegations constructed from sting operations, Islamophobic impulses, and unfounded or propagandistic claims of the government’s favorite terrorologists."—Lisa Hajjar, author of The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Convicting Detainee #001: Locating the Courts in the Global War on Terror 1. Offensive Lawfare: The Juridification of the Global War on Terror 2. Defining the Bad Guys: Geopolitics, Terrorists, and the Courts 3. The Racialization of Legal Categories: From the Citizen to the Terrorist 4. Terrorologists: Epistemic Injustice in Terrorism Prosecutions 5. Prosecuting Lone Wolves: The Legal Life of Radicalization Theories Conclusion. Abolitionist Futures: Rethinking Power, Politics, and Violence Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
University of Minnesota Press Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and
Book SynopsisDoes media representation advance racial justice? While the past decade has witnessed a push for increased diversity in visual media, Asians on Demand grapples with the pressing question of whether representation is enough to advance racial justice. Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora in North America, Europe, and East Asia, this book uncovers the ways that diasporic artists challenge the narrow—and damaging—conceptions of Asian identity pervading mainstream media. Through an engagement with grassroots activist documentaries, experimental video diaries by undocumented and migrant workers, and works by high-profile media artists such as Hito Steyerl and Ming Wong, Feng-Mei Heberer showcases contemporary video productions that trouble the mainstream culture industry’s insistence on portraying ethnic Asians as congenial to dominant neoliberal values. Undermining the demands placed on Asian subjects to exemplify institutional diversity and individual exceptionalism, this book provides a critical and nuanced set of alternatives to the easily digestible forms generated by online streaming culture and multicultural lip service more broadly. Employing feminist, racial, and queer critiques of the contemporary media landscape, Asians on Demand highlights how the dynamics of Asian representation play out differently in Germany, the United States, Taiwan, and Spain. Rather than accepting the notion that inclusion requires an uncomplicated set of appearances, the works explored in this volume spotlight a staunch resistance to formulating racial identity as an instantly accessible consumer product. Trade Review "Asians on Demand heralds an original, new voice in Asian diasporic media studies. Challenging the uncritical embrace of respectable, normative, 'ready-made' images of Asians on global screens, Feng-Mei Heberer directs our attention to exciting video installations, performance art, and documentaries by Asian filmmakers, artists, and activists that advance searing critiques of the Asian on Demand while also showcasing the erotics, pleasures, and 'political desires' of queer, feminist, and diasporic Asian subjects at the beginning of the twenty-first century."—Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation "Feng-Mei Heberer exposes the twinned logics of Asian racialization and transparent mediation, laying bare their complicity with contemporary neoliberal regimes of commodified diversity. Wonderfully nomadic in its exploration of video practices and rich with acerbic critique, Asians on Demand is an essential resource for an expanded critical cartography of media, diaspora, and race."—Steven Chung, author of Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Asians on Demand and the Refusal to Represent 1. Improper Asiatische Deutsche: The Video Art of Ming Wong and Hito Steyerl 2. Mental Health and Live Fictions: Kristina Wong and Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 3. Stateless Cinema and the Undocument: Miko Revereza, Distancing, and No Data Plan 4. Migrant Erotics: TIWA’s Lesbian Factory and Rainbow Popcorn 5. Me llamo Peng: Self-Care with a Camcorder Acknowledgments Notes Index
£72.00
University of Minnesota Press Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and
Book SynopsisDoes media representation advance racial justice? While the past decade has witnessed a push for increased diversity in visual media, Asians on Demand grapples with the pressing question of whether representation is enough to advance racial justice. Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora in North America, Europe, and East Asia, this book uncovers the ways that diasporic artists challenge the narrow—and damaging—conceptions of Asian identity pervading mainstream media. Through an engagement with grassroots activist documentaries, experimental video diaries by undocumented and migrant workers, and works by high-profile media artists such as Hito Steyerl and Ming Wong, Feng-Mei Heberer showcases contemporary video productions that trouble the mainstream culture industry’s insistence on portraying ethnic Asians as congenial to dominant neoliberal values. Undermining the demands placed on Asian subjects to exemplify institutional diversity and individual exceptionalism, this book provides a critical and nuanced set of alternatives to the easily digestible forms generated by online streaming culture and multicultural lip service more broadly. Employing feminist, racial, and queer critiques of the contemporary media landscape, Asians on Demand highlights how the dynamics of Asian representation play out differently in Germany, the United States, Taiwan, and Spain. Rather than accepting the notion that inclusion requires an uncomplicated set of appearances, the works explored in this volume spotlight a staunch resistance to formulating racial identity as an instantly accessible consumer product. Trade Review "Asians on Demand heralds an original, new voice in Asian diasporic media studies. Challenging the uncritical embrace of respectable, normative, 'ready-made' images of Asians on global screens, Feng-Mei Heberer directs our attention to exciting video installations, performance art, and documentaries by Asian filmmakers, artists, and activists that advance searing critiques of the Asian on Demand while also showcasing the erotics, pleasures, and 'political desires' of queer, feminist, and diasporic Asian subjects at the beginning of the twenty-first century."—Nguyen Tan Hoang, author of A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation "Feng-Mei Heberer exposes the twinned logics of Asian racialization and transparent mediation, laying bare their complicity with contemporary neoliberal regimes of commodified diversity. Wonderfully nomadic in its exploration of video practices and rich with acerbic critique, Asians on Demand is an essential resource for an expanded critical cartography of media, diaspora, and race."—Steven Chung, author of Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-ok and Postwar Cinema Table of Contents Contents Introduction: Asians on Demand and the Refusal to Represent 1. Improper Asiatische Deutsche: The Video Art of Ming Wong and Hito Steyerl 2. Mental Health and Live Fictions: Kristina Wong and Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest 3. Stateless Cinema and the Undocument: Miko Revereza, Distancing, and No Data Plan 4. Migrant Erotics: TIWA’s Lesbian Factory and Rainbow Popcorn 5. Me llamo Peng: Self-Care with a Camcorder Acknowledgments Notes Index
£19.79
University of Minnesota Press Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in
Book SynopsisWhiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive complacency of white self-consciousness White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply as American or human), white writers are exposing a self-awareness of white racialized behavior—from staunch antiracism to virulent forms of xenophobic nationalism. Ugly White People explores representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white American authors, revealing white recognition of the ugly forms whiteness can take. Stephanie Li argues that much of the twenty-first century has been defined by this rising consciousness of whiteness because of the imminent shift to a “majority minority” population and the growing diversification of America’s political, social, and cultural institutions. The result is literature that more directly grapples with whiteness as its own construct rather than a wrongly assumed norm. Li contextualizes a series of literary novels as collectively influenced by changes in racial and political attitudes. Turning to works by Dave Eggers, Sarah Smarsh, J. D. Vance, Claire Messud, Ben Lerner, and others, she traces the responses to white consciousness that breed shared manifestations of ugliness. The tension between acknowledging whiteness as an identity built on domination and the failure to remedy inequalities that have proliferated from this founding injustice is often the source of the ugly whiteness portrayed through these narratives. The questions posed in Ugly White People about the nature and future of whiteness are vital to understanding contemporary race relations in America. From the election of Trump and the rise of white nationalism to Karen memes and the war against critical race theory to the pervasive pattern of behavior among largely liberal-leaning whites, Li elucidates truths about whiteness that challenge any hope of national unity and, most devastatingly, the basic humanity of others. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.Trade Review "Ugly White People is not about the 'racists' but about the way whiteness shapes the subjectivity of all white people. Relying on an elegant and parsimonious textual analysis of the work of contemporary authors, Stephanie Li shows how whites manage to evade while they acknowledge their whiteness, how they consume people of color through racist love, and how they accept whiteness in a way that neglects addressing racism. I highly recommend this book to readers interested in understanding contemporary whiteness."—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University "The best writing critically studying whiteness today intensely engages imbrications of race with other identities, especially class, gender, nationality, and disability. No one does all of that better than Stephanie Li. Addressing literary moments with a sure grasp of history and an adventuresome readings of texts, Ugly White People speaks compellingly to the persisting strength of Trump and white nationalism and to the desire for social media celebrity as something authors both explore and share."—David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right Table of Contents Contents Introduction 1. Disavowing Whiteness: Dave Eggers 2. Eliding White Privilege: J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Sarah Smarsh’s Heartland 3. White Desires: Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs 4. The End of History: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story 5. Self(ish)-Care: Otessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation 6. The Dangers of White Male Speech: Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School Coda Acknowledgments Notes Index
£80.00
University of Minnesota Press Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in
Book SynopsisWhiteness revealed: an analysis of the destructive complacency of white self-consciousness White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing themselves as distinctly racialized (not simply as American or human), white writers are exposing a self-awareness of white racialized behavior—from staunch antiracism to virulent forms of xenophobic nationalism. Ugly White People explores representations of whiteness from twenty-first-century white American authors, revealing white recognition of the ugly forms whiteness can take. Stephanie Li argues that much of the twenty-first century has been defined by this rising consciousness of whiteness because of the imminent shift to a “majority minority” population and the growing diversification of America’s political, social, and cultural institutions. The result is literature that more directly grapples with whiteness as its own construct rather than a wrongly assumed norm. Li contextualizes a series of literary novels as collectively influenced by changes in racial and political attitudes. Turning to works by Dave Eggers, Sarah Smarsh, J. D. Vance, Claire Messud, Ben Lerner, and others, she traces the responses to white consciousness that breed shared manifestations of ugliness. The tension between acknowledging whiteness as an identity built on domination and the failure to remedy inequalities that have proliferated from this founding injustice is often the source of the ugly whiteness portrayed through these narratives. The questions posed in Ugly White People about the nature and future of whiteness are vital to understanding contemporary race relations in America. From the election of Trump and the rise of white nationalism to Karen memes and the war against critical race theory to the pervasive pattern of behavior among largely liberal-leaning whites, Li elucidates truths about whiteness that challenge any hope of national unity and, most devastatingly, the basic humanity of others. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.Trade Review "Ugly White People is not about the 'racists' but about the way whiteness shapes the subjectivity of all white people. Relying on an elegant and parsimonious textual analysis of the work of contemporary authors, Stephanie Li shows how whites manage to evade while they acknowledge their whiteness, how they consume people of color through racist love, and how they accept whiteness in a way that neglects addressing racism. I highly recommend this book to readers interested in understanding contemporary whiteness."—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University "The best writing critically studying whiteness today intensely engages imbrications of race with other identities, especially class, gender, nationality, and disability. No one does all of that better than Stephanie Li. Addressing literary moments with a sure grasp of history and an adventuresome readings of texts, Ugly White People speaks compellingly to the persisting strength of Trump and white nationalism and to the desire for social media celebrity as something authors both explore and share."—David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the Right Table of Contents Contents Introduction 1. Disavowing Whiteness: Dave Eggers 2. Eliding White Privilege: J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy and Sarah Smarsh’s Heartland 3. White Desires: Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs 4. The End of History: Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story 5. Self(ish)-Care: Otessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation 6. The Dangers of White Male Speech: Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School Coda Acknowledgments Notes Index
£21.59
Bristol University Press Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in
Book SynopsisDisproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) refers to the proportional overrepresentation of minority youth at each step of the juvenile justice system. This book addresses the issue of color-blind racism through an examination of the circular logic used by the juvenile justice system to criminalize non-White youth. Drawing on original data, including interviews with court and probation officers and juvenile self-reports, the authors call for a need to understand racial and ethnic inequality in the juvenile justice system from a structural perspective rather than simply at the level of individual bias. This unique research will contribute to larger discussions on how race operates in the United States.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Policy Born Out of Racist Myth Occam’s Razor: Racial/Ethnic Inequality Throughout Society Law Enforcement Contact with Juveniles: Arrests and Citations The Juvenile Justice System: Intake Decisions and Outcomes Juvenile Self-Reports of Deviant and Criminal Behaviour Data Issues and the Case for Self-Report Data Police, Juvenile Court and Juvenile Specialist Interviews Conclusion and Discussion
£76.00
Bristol University Press Racial Diversity in Contemporary France: The Case
Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique perspective on contemporary France by focusing on racial diversity, race, and racism as central features of French society and identity. Marie des Neiges Léonard critically reviews contentious public policies and significant issues, including reactions to the terrorist attack against satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and policies regarding the Islamic veil, revealing how color-blind racism plays a role in the persistence of racial inequality for French racial minorities. Drawing from American sociological frameworks, this outstanding study presents a new way of thinking in the study of racial identity politics in today’s France.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Race and Racism: Framing the Debate 3. The French Model of Integration and Colorblind Racism 4. Counting Racial Diversity: Naming and Numbering 5. Rioting the Residences and Reclaiming the Republic 6. Islam and the Republic 7. Rethinking Integration and Racial Identity: Beyond the French Exception
£76.00
Bristol University Press The Roots of Racism: The Politics of White
Book SynopsisRacism has deep roots in both the United States and Europe. This important book examines the past, present, and future of racist ideas and politics. It describes how policies have developed over a long history of European and White American dominance of political institutions that maintain White supremacy. Givens examines the connections between immigration policy and racism that have contributed to the rise of anti-immigrant, radical-right parties in Europe, the rise of Trumpism in the US, and the Brexit vote in the UK. This book provides a vital springboard for people, organizations, and politicians who want to dismantle structural racism and discrimination.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Structural Racism is the Problem of the 21st Century Political Science, International Relations, and the Normalization of White Supremacy The Social and Geographical Construction of Race – A Transatlantic History Ties that Bind: Slavery and Colonialism Post-War Transitions: The Conflation of Immigration and Race Immigration, Race and Citizenship From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter Party Politics, the Radical Right and Race in the 21st Century Elections, Protest and Insurrection Conclusion: Finding a Path Forward
£76.50
Bristol University Press Reimagining Black Art and Criminology: A New
Book SynopsisIt is time to disrupt current criminological discourses which still exclude the perspectives of black scholars. Through the lens of black art, Martin Glynn explores the relevance black artistic contributions have for understanding crime and justice. Through art forms including black crime fiction, black theatre and black music, this book brings much needed attention to marginalized perspectives within mainstream criminology. Refining academic and professional understandings of race, racialization and intersectional aspects of crime, this text provides a platform for the contributions to criminology which are currently rendered invisible.Table of ContentsReimagining a Black Art Infused Criminology The People Speak: The Importance of Black Arts Movements Shadow People: Black Crime Fiction as Counter-Narrative Staging the Truth: Black Theatre and the Politics of Black Criminality Beyond The Wire: The Racialization of Crime in Film and TV Strange Fruit: Black Music (Re)presenting the Race and Crime Of Mules and Men: Oral Storytelling and the Racialization of Crime Seeing the Story: Visual Art and the Racialization of Crime Speaking Data and Telling Stories Locating the Researcher: (Auto)-Ethnography, Race, and the Researcher Towards a Black Arts Infused Criminology
£76.50
Bristol University Press Queer Politics in Contemporary Turkey
Book SynopsisDrawing on the words and stories of queer Turkish activists, this book aims to unravel the complexities of queer lives in Turkey. In doing so, it challenges dominant conceptualizations of the queer Turkish experience within critical security discourses. The book argues that while queer Turks are subjected to ceaseless forms of insecurity in their governance, opportunities for emancipatory resistance have emerged alongside these abuses. It identifies the ways in which the state, the family, Turkish Islam and other socially-mediated processes and agencies can expose or protect queers from violence in the Turkish community.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Ambiguities of Queer Research 2. Turkish Governmentality: A Genealogy of Heteropatriarchal Nationalism 3. Assembling Turkish Queers 4. Assembing Trans Identity 5. The Queer Common Conclusion
£76.00
Bristol University Press Reparations and Anti-Black Racism: A
Book SynopsisThe Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer. Police shootings and incarceration inequalities in the US and UK are just two examples of the legacy of slavery today. This book offers a criminological exploration of the case for slavery and anti-Black racism reparations in the context of the enduring harms and differential treatment of Black citizens. Through critical analysis of legal arguments and reviewing recent court actions, it refutes the policy perspectives that argue against reparations. Highlighting the human rights abuses inherent to and arising from slavery and ongoing racism, this book calls for governments to take responsibility for the impact of ongoing racialized injustice.Table of Contents1. Black Lives Matter: The Legacy of Slavery 2. Slavery and Reparations: A Criminological View 3. Reparations Litigation: An Overview 4. Victims of Slavery and Reparations: Who Suffers? 5. A Comparative Analysis of Reparations 6. Unjust Enrichment and the Socio-Legal Case for Reparations 7. The ‘Value’ of Reparations? 8. The Nature of Reparations 9. Reparations in the 21st Century: Contemporary Debates and Issues on Reparations
£76.50
Bristol University Press Reparations and Anti-Black Racism: A
Book SynopsisThe Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer. Police shootings and incarceration inequalities in the US and UK are just two examples of the legacy of slavery today. This book offers a criminological exploration of the case for slavery and anti-Black racism reparations in the context of the enduring harms and differential treatment of Black citizens. Through critical analysis of legal arguments and reviewing recent court actions, it refutes the policy perspectives that argue against reparations. Highlighting the human rights abuses inherent to and arising from slavery and ongoing racism, this book calls for governments to take responsibility for the impact of ongoing racialized injustice.Table of Contents1. Black Lives Matter: The Legacy of Slavery 2. Slavery and Reparations: A Criminological View 3. Reparations Litigation: An Overview 4. Victims of Slavery and Reparations: Who Suffers? 5. A Comparative Analysis of Reparations 6. Unjust Enrichment and the Socio-Legal Case for Reparations 7. The ‘Value’ of Reparations? 8. The Nature of Reparations 9. Reparations in the 21st Century: Contemporary Debates and Issues on Reparations
£23.74
Bristol University Press Understanding Muslim Family Life
Book SynopsisThis book offers an innovative perspective on Muslim family life in British society. It explores key issues including diverse forms of family, gender, generation, race, ethnicity and class, informing solutions for inequalities. It demonstrates how a better understanding of Muslim family life can inform policies to address inequalities.
£77.39
Bristol University Press Racial Justice and the Limits of Law
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£72.00
Bristol University Press Ethnographic Methods in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller
Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This collection scrutinizes the methodological and ethical challenges that researchers face when working with and for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in the context of global crises. Contributors assess the impact of the pandemic on their engaged research, evaluating novel methods and technologies. They reveal how current research practice blurs the borders between activism and scholarship, and they argue the need for innovative collaborations with local communities. Showcasing emerging aspects of GRT-related scholarship, this book makes a key contribution to larger debates on the positionality of researchers and the politics of research, and affirms the continued value of rigorous ethnography.
£72.00
Bristol University Press Peer Relationships at School
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£40.50
Broadview Press Ltd Re-Situating Identities: The Politics of Race,
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£23.42
University of Arkansas Press Race Relations in the Bahamas, 1784-1834
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£34.36
University of Massachusetts Press Passing for White: Race, Religion and the Healy
Book SynopsisThe story of a mixed-race family, Michael Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia; his African American slave and wife Eliza, and their nine children, negotiating the terrain of race and ethnicity in 19th century America. Legally slaves these brothers and sisters were smuggled north prior to the Civil War to be educated. Working at the intersection of church history and racial and ethnic, James O'Toole demonstrates that racial categories have been more fluid than law and custom admit. The Healys found freedom and extraordinary achievement by embracing their Irish heritage and the Catholic faith, while distancing themselves from their African roots and slave status.
£21.80
Temple University Press,U.S. White Boy: A Memoir
Book SynopsisHow does a Jewish boy who spent the bulk of his childhood on the basketball courts of Brooklyn wind up teaching in one of the city's pioneering black studies departments? Naison's odyssey begins as Brooklyn public schools respond to a new wave of Black migrants and Caribbean immigrants, and established residents flee to virtually all-white parts of the city or suburbs. Already alienated by his parents' stance on race issues and their ambitions for him, he has started on a separate ideological path by the time he enters Columbia College. Once he embarks on a long-term interracial relationship, becomes a member of SDS, focuses his historical work on black activists, and organizes community groups in the Bronx, his immersion in the radical politics of the 1960s has emerged as the center of his life. Determined to keep his ties to the Black community, even when the New Left splits along racial lines, Naison joined the fledgling African American studies program at Fordham, remarkable then as now for its commitment to interracial education. This memoir offers more than a participant's account of the New Left's racial dynamics; it eloquently speaks to the ways in which political commitments emerge from and are infused with the personal choices we all make. Author note: Mark D. Naison is Professor of African American Studies and History as well as Director of Urban Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Communists in Harlem During the Depression.Trade Review"When W.E.B. Du Bois wisely cautioned in The Souls of Black Folk that 'he would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa,' might he have had some future Mark Naison in mind? In any case, if a shade of doubt had ever existed about this white boy's qualifications to teach and write African American history, Naison's engrossing, tumultuous memoir ought assure the author a place of honor not only among his professional peers of color but in the front ranks of all those for whom differences based on ideas and ideals-not on color or gender or class-are the only ones that matter."-David Levering Lewis, Martin Luther King, Jr., University Professor at Rutgers University and twice recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1994 and 2001 "White Boy is a happy exception to the absence of autobiographical writings of historians of social movements. It is also an inspired intervention into the history of Black Studies. Its ability to sustain optimism regarding interracialism while acknowledging the costs of long histories and deep structures of division makes the book a great asset."-David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois, and author of Colored White: Transcending The Racial Past "White Boy is one of the most fascinating memoirs I've read in a while. It does much more than provide us with an interesting coming-of-age tale of a smart Jewish kid who discovered and fell in love with black life and culture-a love, like all loves, full of discord and mad misunderstandings. Instead, Naison tries to be self-reflexive along the way, providing social historical contexts while attempting to reconstruct his own sense of naivete he experienced at the moment of certain cultural encounters. Chock full of stories, White Boy will be an important and much debated book."-Robin D. G.Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America "...forthright and thoughtful memoir... An adroit writer with a winning voice, Naison avoids romanticizing his activist days; he is at times also critical of New Left tactics (particularly those that reinforced racial polarization among activists), and he interrogates his own interest in and identification with black culture."-Choice "Naison [writes] with unsparing honesty and personal revelation... Naison's memoir grows in importance. It has raised some crucial issues, many of which go to the heart of the continuing search for racial justice and interracial unity. It should be read widely and debated vigorously."-Science and Society "In this forthright and thoughtful memoir, Naison, who became, in the early 1970s, one of the first professors (and the only white man) at Fordham's new Institute of Afro-American Studies, recalls a lifetime of fascination with black history and culture and of antidiscrimination activism. ...An adroit writer with a winning voice, Naison avoids romanticizing his activist days; ...he interrogates his own interest in and identification with black culture."-Publishers Weekly "...engrossing... more than just a political memoir... White Boy is an extraordinary, valuable and often funny memoir in which Naison relates his personal odyssey against the social ferment of the 1960s and early 1970s."-The Nation "In a world where academic language waters down essential issues of truth and commercially driven art warps beauty, Naison's attempt to keep it real should be applauded."-Socialism and Democracy OnlineTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Crown Heights in the 1950s2. Race Conscious3. Looking Down on Harlem4. Meeting Ruthie5. Contested Territory6. Ball of Confusion7. Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide8. Bringing the War Home9. A White Man in Black Studies10. Riders on the Storm11. Close to the Edge
£23.39
University of North Texas Press,U.S. Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in
Book SynopsisChanging Perspectives charts the pivotal period in Houston's history when Jewish and Black leadership eventually came together to work for positive change. This is a story of two communities, both of which struggled to claim the rights and privileges they desired. Previous scholars of Southern Jewish history have argued that Black-Jewish relations did not exist in the South. However, during the 1930s to the 1980s, Jews and Blacks in Houston interacted in diverse and oftentimes surprising ways. The distance between Houston's Jews and Blacks diminished after changing demographics, the end of segregation, city redistricting, and the emergence of Black political power. Allison Schottenstein shows that Black-Jewish relations did exist during the Long Civil Rights Movement in Houston.Trade ReviewChanging Perspectives provides a wealth of detail on how Houston's Jews navigated the racial politics of the places they lived." - Hasia R. Diner, author of The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000
£26.96
Texas A & M University Press Mexican Americans and Sports: A Reader on
Book SynopsisFor at least a century, across the United States, Mexican American athletes have actively participated in community-based, interscholastic, and professional sports. The people of the ranchos and the barrios have used sport for recreation, leisure, and community bonding. Until now, though, relatively few historians have focused on the sports participation of Latinos, including the numerically preponderant Mexican Americans. This volume gathers an important collection of such studies, arranged in rough chronological order, spanning the period from the late 1920s through the present. They survey and analyze sporting experiences and organizations, as well as their impact on communal and individual lives. Contributions spotlight diverse fields of athletic endeavor: baseball, football, soccer, boxing, track, and softball. ""Mexican Americans and Sports"" contributes to the emerging understanding of the value of sport to minority populations in communities throughout the United States. Those interested in sports history will benefit from the book's focus on under-studied Mexican American participation, and those interested in Mexican American history will welcome the insight into this aspect of the group's social history.
£16.11
Baker Publishing Group Reparations – A Christian Call for Repentance and
Book SynopsisChristianity Today 2022 Book Award Winner (Politics & Public Life) Outreach 2022 Resource of the Year (Social Issues and Justice) Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for Religion "Kwon and Thompson's eloquent reasoning will help Christians broaden their understanding of the contemporary conversation over reparations."--Publishers Weekly "A thoughtful approach to a vital topic."--Library Journal Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never before. While public conversations regarding the realities of racial division and inequalities have surged in recent years, so has the public outcry to work toward the long-awaited healing of these wounds. But American Christianity, with its tendency to view the ministry of reconciliation as its sole response to racial injustice, and its isolation from those who labor most diligently to address these things, is underequipped to offer solutions. Because of this, the church needs a new perspective on its responsibility for the deep racial brokenness at the heart of American culture and on what it can do to repair that brokenness. This book makes a compelling historical and theological case for the church's obligation to provide reparations for the oppression of African Americans. Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson articulate the church's responsibility for its promotion and preservation of white supremacy throughout history, investigate the Bible's call to repair our racial brokenness, and offer a vision for the work of reparation at the local level. They lead readers toward a moral imagination that views reparations as a long-overdue and necessary step in our collective journey toward healing and wholeness. Christians are awakening to the legacy of racism in America like never before. Reparations explores the church's responsibility for the deep racial brokenness at the heart of American culture, investigates the Bible's call to repair it, and offers a vision for the work of reparation at the local level. The authors lead readers toward a moral imagination that views reparations as a long-overdue and necessary step in our collective journey toward healing and wholeness. This book won a Christianity Today 2022 Book Award (Politics & Public Life) and an Outreach 2022 Resource of the Year Award (Social Issues and Justice). It was also a Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for Religion. "Kwon and Thompson's eloquent reasoning will help Christians broaden their understanding of the contemporary conversation over reparations."--Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Generations without Recompense 1. The Call to See2. Seeing the Reality of White Supremacy3. Seeing the Effect of White Supremacy4. The Call to Own5. Owning the Ethic of Restitution6. Owning the Ethic of Restoration7. The Call to RepairEpilogueIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. The End of White World Supremacy: Black
Book SynopsisHow the marginalization of African Americans turned into a social phenomenon for the US and the worldTrade Review“Rod Bush has produced an outstanding and original work that will allow scholars to effectively reframe many central issues pertaining to the history of race-based social movements and Black political thought specifically and radical social movements of the past 40 years more generally.”—David Baronov, Associate Professor of Sociology, St. John Fisher CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: “The Handwriting on the Wall”PART I: Theory 1. The Peculiar Internationalism of Black Nationalism 2. The Sociology of the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois and the End of White World Supremacy 3. The Class- First, Race- First Debate: The Contradictions of Nationalism and Internationalism and the Stratification of the World- System4. Black Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Critique of Masculinist Models of LiberationPART II: Radical Social Movements 5. The Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for the Redemption of America 6. Black Power, the American Dream, and the Spirit of Bandung: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Age of World Revolution Notes Bibliography Index
£61.60
Temple University Press,U.S. The End of White World Supremacy: Black
Book SynopsisHow the marginalization of African Americans turned into a social phenomenon for the US and the worldTrade Review“Rod Bush has produced an outstanding and original work that will allow scholars to effectively reframe many central issues pertaining to the history of race-based social movements and Black political thought specifically and radical social movements of the past 40 years more generally.”—David Baronov, Associate Professor of Sociology, St. John Fisher CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: “The Handwriting on the Wall”PART I: Theory 1. The Peculiar Internationalism of Black Nationalism 2. The Sociology of the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois and the End of White World Supremacy 3. The Class- First, Race- First Debate: The Contradictions of Nationalism and Internationalism and the Stratification of the World- System4. Black Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Critique of Masculinist Models of LiberationPART II: Radical Social Movements 5. The Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for the Redemption of America 6. Black Power, the American Dream, and the Spirit of Bandung: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Age of World Revolution Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Race and Class Matters at an Elite College
Book SynopsisHow race and class collide at a prestigious liberal arts collegeTrade Review"Finally, a case study that skillfully unpacks the problems of race and privilege, the less visible inheritance of social class, and the well-intentioned but unfinished campus efforts at environmental engineering. Elizabeth Aries’ insights and recommendations are as serious and relevant as the vexing challenges our colleges face."—Eugene M. Tobin, Program Officer for the Liberal Arts Colleges Program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former President of Hamilton College, and co-author of Equity and Excellence in American Higher EducationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Becoming a More Diverse College: Challenges and Benefits 2. Investigating Race and Class Matters on Campus 3. First Encounters with Race and Class 4. Negotiating Class Differences 5. Relationships across Race and Class 6. Learning from Racial Diversity 7. Learning from Class-Based Diversity 8. Negotiating Racial Issues 9. As the Year Ended 10. Meeting the Challenges of Diversity Appendix A: On-Line Survey Measures Appendix B: Interview Questions Notes Reference Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i
Book SynopsisChallenges the misconception of Hawai'i as a racial paradise by analyzing how ethnic inequality is maintained among its constituent groupsTrade Review"What is most compelling about Ethnicity and Inequality in Hawai'i is the detail and historiography. Okamura's knowledge of local issues and ethnic identity in Hawai'i is impressive. This book will make a wonderful contribution to conversations about race and ethnicity in American studies, ethnic studies, and perhaps sociology too." -Dana Takagi, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa CruzTable of Contents1: Introduction; 2: Changing Ethnic Differences; 3: Socioeconomic Inequality and Ethnicity; 4: Educational Inequality and Ethnicity; 5: Constructing Ethnic Identities, Constructing Differences; 6: Japanese Americans: Toward Symbolic Identity; 7: Filipino Americans: Model Minority or Dogeaters?; 8: Conclusion
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Temple University Press,U.S. Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested
Book SynopsisA new perspective that helps us understand the damaged social relations that incubate racial and sexual discriminationTrade Review"Brilliant and fascinating...one of the smartest social science books, I can recall reading."—Barbara Reskin, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Evidently 1. Discrimination in the Era of Contested Prejudice: Fundamental Bases 2. Experimental Realities and Public Contestation 3. From Condoned Exploitive Relations to the Era of Contested Prejudice 4. Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Dominant Legal Perspectives 5. Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Critical Legal Perspectives and the Critique of the Dominant Legal View 6. Defining Discrimination Effects: An Asocial Scientific Method 7. Discrimination as a (Damaged) Social Relation 8. Epistemological Foundations for Studying Effects of Discrimination as a Social Relation 9. Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice Appendix A: Commentary on Methods of Data Analysis for Chapter 2 Appendix B:Commentary on Simulations for Chapter 5 Reference Index
£51.20
Temple University Press,U.S. Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested
Book SynopsisA new perspective that helps us understand the damaged social relations that incubate racial and sexual discriminationTrade Review"Brilliant and fascinating...one of the smartest social science books, I can recall reading."—Barbara Reskin, University of WashingtonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Evidently 1. Discrimination in the Era of Contested Prejudice: Fundamental Bases 2. Experimental Realities and Public Contestation 3. From Condoned Exploitive Relations to the Era of Contested Prejudice 4. Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Dominant Legal Perspectives 5. Defining, Finding, and Remedying Discrimination: Critical Legal Perspectives and the Critique of the Dominant Legal View 6. Defining Discrimination Effects: An Asocial Scientific Method 7. Discrimination as a (Damaged) Social Relation 8. Epistemological Foundations for Studying Effects of Discrimination as a Social Relation 9. Theorizing Discrimination in an Era of Contested Prejudice Appendix A: Commentary on Methods of Data Analysis for Chapter 2 Appendix B:Commentary on Simulations for Chapter 5 Reference Index
£26.99
Information Age Publishing Critical Race Theory Perspectives on the Social Studies: the Profession, Policies, and Curriculum
Book SynopsisThis text offers critical race perspectives on social studies. It is divided into four sections which focus on: the profession; the policies; the curriculum; and the technology.
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Kent State University Press Black Hair in a White World
Book SynopsisA critical and nuanced look at societal perceptions of Black hair, past and present Black Hair in a White World is an in-depth study of the cultural history, perceptions, and increasing acceptance of Black hair in the broader American society. The essays in this anthology discuss representations and responses to Black hair, including analysis of research findings about marketing messages and depictions of Black hair in popular culture, discussions of workplace discrimination, and stories about the origins of the natural hair movement and how many Black people have learned to embrace and celebrate their natural hair.Beginning with a close analysis of historical and contemporary books, media, and ads, Black Hair in a White World illustrates both positive and negative responses to Black hair. In the second section, Ellington features contributions from diverse scholars and activists who argue that natural Black hair has often explicitly been––and still is––criticized by non-Blacks and Blacks who believe that the natural texture of Black hair is a problem that must be solved and believe that natural Black hair is unacceptable, unprofessional, and unattractive. Authors of the volume's final essays conclude by pushing against this narrative and describing the emergence of the natural hair movement, which has pushed for increased mainstream acceptance of Black hair.Black Hair in a White World is a groundbreaking, serious examination of perceptions of Black hair and makes an important contribution to ongoing discussions about gender, sociology, and self-expression.Trade Review"Tameka Ellington's Black Hair in a White World is a welcome addition to the canon of Black hair scholarship. Offering an accessible combination of academic research and pop culture analysis, the book provides a rigorous, yet loving examination of Black hair in multiple dimensions. From beauty culture to children's media, the essays in this collection paint a dynamic picture of a complicated topic, while challenging popular stereotypes and myths. Black Hair in a White World belongs on university bookshelves and the coffee tables of the culturally curious."—Lori L. Tharps, coauthor of Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America "One cannot claim to know Black women without knowing Black hair. Its history, the divisions it has created within Black communities, and how it is viewed and (un)welcomed in white spaces. Grounded in scientific research, Black Hair in a White World is an excellent tool for those who teach or conduct research on Black women."—Angela Neal-Barnett, PhD, author of Soothe Your Nerves: The Black Woman's Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Fear "A collection of essays so naturally woven together, making for a raw and stunningly honest deep dive, untangling the history that is our Black hair culture. Black Hair in a White World is a call to action for society to reject white standards of beauty for all and accept Black people as they embrace their crowns in all its natural glory."—Sia Nyorkor, Emmy- and award-winning news anchor & reporter, WOIO-TV, CBS Cleveland, Ohio "Black Hair in a White World is an enlightening, extensive collection of Black female scholars that share their historical accounts, healing stories, insights, and research on the institutional hierarchy of 'texturism' in this country and around the world. Dr. Ellington has provided our community with a historical platform and the eternal standards for the Black community to continue to embrace and truly rejoice in the experience of their textured hair journey." —Diane C. Bailey, beauty entrepreneur, advocate, author, global ambassador, and master stylist.
£28.46
University of Iowa Press Performing Whitely in the Postcolony: Afrikaners in South African Theatrical and Public Life
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to perform whiteness in the postcolonial era? To answer this question—crucial for understanding the changing meanings of race in the twenty-first century—Megan Lewis examines the ways that members of South Africa’s Afrikaner minority have performed themselves into, around, and out of power from the colonial period to the postcolony. The nation’s first European settlers and in the twentieth century the architects of apartheid, since 1994 Afrikaners have been citizens of a multicultural, multilingual democracy. How have they enacted their whiteness in the past, and how do they do so now?Performing Whitely examines the multiple speech acts, political acts, and theatrical acts of the Afrikaner volk or nation in theatrical and public life, including pageants, museum sites, film, and popular music as well as theatrical productions. Lewis explores the diverse ways in which Afrikaners perform whitely, and the tactics they use, including nostalgia, melodrama, queering, abjection, and kitsch. She first investigates the way that apartheid’s architects leveraged whiteness in support of their nation-building efforts in the early twentieth century. She then turns to apartheid- and postapartheid– era performances, including those of Pieter-Dirk Uys, whose alter ego Evita Bezuidenhout became the nation’s favourite brutally frank, queer Afrikaner aunty. Attracting huge crowds nostalgic for the past, Deon Opperman simultaneously depicts a heroic Boer history in his musical melodramas and reflects upon the desire for it. By contrast, Peter Van Heerden performs visceral abjections of the iconic white, male Afrikaner body, and the musicians Jack Parow and Die Antwoord turn Afrikaner history and identity politics into kitsch. A case study of the South African experience, Performing Whitely also offers parables for global whitenesses in the postcolonial era.
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University of Iowa Press Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives
Book SynopsisHow does contemporary literature contend with the power and responsibility of authorship, particularly when considering marginalized groups? How have the works of multiethnic authors challenged the notion that writing and authorship are neutral or universal? In Novel Subjects, Leah Milne offers a new way to look at multicultural literature by focusing on scenes of writing in contemporary works by authors with marginalized identities. These scenes, she argues, establish authorship as a form of radical self-care-a term we owe to Audre Lorde, who defines self-care as self-preservation and 'an act of political warfare.' In engaging in this battle, the works discussed in this study confront limitations on ethnicity and nationality wrought by the institutionalization of multiculturalism. They also focus on identities whose mere presence on the cultural landscape is often perceived as vindictive or willful. Analyzing recent texts by Carmen Maria Machado, Louise Erdrich, Ruth Ozeki, Toni Morrison, and more, Milne connects works across cultures and nationalities in search of reasons for this recent trend of depicting writers as characters in multicultural texts. Her exploration uncovers fiction that embrace unacceptable or marginalized modes of storytelling-such as plagiarism, historical revisions, jokes, and lies-as well as inauthentic, invisible, and unexceptional subjects. These works ultimately reveal a shared goal of expanding the borders of belonging in ethnic and cultural groups, and thus add to the ever-evolving conversations surrounding both multicultural literature and self-care.Trade ReviewMilne offers a bold intervention in the field of contemporary American literature: a defense of multiculturalism at a time when it seems to have been largely abandoned except in corporate circles. When so much of American political discourse seems to be beholden to a resurgent anti-immigrant ethnonationalism, such a defense is welcome." - Min Hyoung Song, author, The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American"The themes Milne engages are quite important to American literature, contemporary fiction, multiethnic literature, and ethnic studies-there aren't enough works that engage with contemporary ethnic American literature, especially when thinking through issues of narratology and intersectionality. Studies and comparative analyses of this kind are the most innovative in the field and are what students are looking for." - Jennifer Ho, coeditor, Narrative, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States
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University of Iowa Press Heir to the Crescent Moon
Book SynopsisFrom age five, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power–era converts to Islam, feels drawn to the faith even as her father, a devoted Muslim, introduces her to and, at the same time, distances her from it. Abdur-Rahman’s father and mother abandoned their Harlem mosque before she was born and divorced when she was twelve. Forced apart from her father—her portal into Islam—she yearns to reconnect with the religion and, through it, reconnect with him. In Heir to the Crescent Moon, Abdur-Rahman’s longing to comprehend her father’s complicated relationship with Islam leads her first to recount her own history, and then delves into her father’s past. She journeys from the Christian righteousness of Adam Clayton Powell Jr.’s 1950s Harlem, through the Malcolm X–inspired college activism of the late 1960s, to the unfulfilled potential of the early 1970s Black American Muslim movement. Told at times with lighthearted humor or heartbreaking candor, Abdur-Rahman’s story of adolescent Arabic lessons, fasting, and Muslim mosque, funeral, and Eid services speaks to the challenges of bridging generational and cultural divides and what it takes to maintain family amidst personal and societal upheaval. She weaves a vital tale about a family: Black, Muslim, and distinctly American.
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University of South Carolina Press South Carolina's Turkish People: A History and Ethnology
Book SynopsisThe story of misunderstood immigrants and their struggle to gain recognition and acceptance in the rural SouthDespite its reputation as a melting pot of ethnicities and races, the United States has a well-documented history of immigrants who have struggled through isolation, segregation, discrimination, oppression, and assimilation. South Carolina is home to one such group— known historically and derisively as “the Turks”—which can trace its oral history back to Joseph Benenhaley, an Ottoman refugee from Old World conflict. According to its traditional narrative, Benenhaley served with Gen. Thomas Sumter in the Revolutionary War. His dark-hued descendants lived insular lives in rural Sumter County for the next two centuries, and only in recent decades have they enjoyed the full blessings of the American experience.Early scholars ignored the Turkish tale and labeled these people “tri-racial isolates” and later writers disparaged them as “so-called Turks.” But members of the group have persisted in claiming Turkish descent and living reclusively for generations. Now, in South Carolina’s Turkish People, Terri Ann Ognibene and Glen Browder confirm the group’s traditional narrative through exhaustive original research and oral interviews.In search of definitive documentation, Browder combed through a long list of primary sources, including historical reports, public records, and private papers. He also devised new evidence, such as a reconstruction of Turkish lineage of the 1800s through genealogical analysis and genetic testing. Ognibene, a descendant of the state’s Turkish population, conducted personal interviews with her relatives who had been in the community since the 1900s. They talked at length and passionately about their cultural identity, their struggle for equal rights, and the mixed benefits of assimilation. Ognibene and Browder’s findings are clear. South Carolina’s Turkish people finally know and can celebrate their heritage.
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Michigan State University Press Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and
Book SynopsisPaul Radin, famed ethnographer of the Winnebago, joined Fisk University in the late 1920s. During his three-year appointment, he and graduate student Andrew Polk-Watson collected autobiographies and religious conversion narratives from elderly African Americans. Their texts represent the first systematic record of slavery as told by former slaves.That innovative, subject-centred research complemented like-minded scholarship by African American historians reacting against the disparaging portrayals of black people by white historians. Radin’s manuscript focusing on this research was never published. Utilizing the Fisk archives, the unpublished manuscript, and other archival and published sources, this book revisits the Radin-Watson collection and allied research at Fisk. Radin regarded each narrative as the unimpeachable self-representation of a unique, thoughtful individual, precisely the perspective marking his earlier Winnebago work.As a radical humanist within Boasian anthropology, Radin was an outspoken critic of racial explanations of human affairs then pervading not only popular thinking but also historical and sociological scholarship. His research among African Americans and Native Americans thus places him in the vanguard of the anti-racist scholarship marking American anthropology.Anthropology and Radical Humanism sets Paul Radin’s findings within the broader context of his discipline, African American culture, and his career-defining work among the Winnebago.
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