Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books
The University of Chicago Press The Paradoxes of Integration
Book SynopsisThe United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society. This title helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships among integration, racial attitudes, and neighborhood life.Trade Review"J. Eric Oliver makes an important new contribution to the scholarship of racial politics in this revealing account which explores social capital and racial difference in order to illustrate the contradictions between integration and intergroup tensions in contemporary American society." - Susan Welch, Pennylvania State University.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Fear of Barbarians
Book SynopsisDrawing on history, anthropology, and politics, and bringing to bear examples ranging from the murder of Theo van Gogh to the French ban on headscarves, this book argues that the West must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values it claims to protect.Trade Review"Fascinating and important.... Now, of all times, there is a need for cool heads, such as Todorov, who approaches the limits of free speech with admirable dexterity." - Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books, on the French edition"
£999.99
University of Chicago Press On my Own Korean Businesses Race Relations in
Book SynopsisIn the Los Angeles riots, 2300 Korean shopkeepers lost their businesses in one day. The riots showed them the fragility of their economic base, since their businesses depended on impoverished, oppressed and rebellious classes. This is an account of Korean-black relations in Chicago and Los Angeles.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1: The State of Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship in America 2: The Social Origins of Korean Immigration to the United States, 1903 to the Present 3: Class, Family, and Ethnicity in Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship 4: Who Is My Neighbor?: Korean-Black Relations in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City 5: Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
MO - University of Illinois Press The Cattell Controversy Race Science and
Book SynopsisInvestigating one of the most significant controversies in contemporary psychologyTrade Review"A masterful contextualization of the life of a major contributor to psychology whose work spanned a dramatic era of growth in experimental psychology."--Journal of the History of Medicine“A thought provoking and systematically laid out argument. . . . Recommended reading to anyone with an interest in the history of the relationship between scientific methods, Western politics and culture.”--Leonardo On-Line“Clearly and meticulously documents Cattell’s segregationist views. . . . Tucker grapples with issues of the relationship between science and political ideology, and the ethical obligations of scientists to the uses of their work. Highly recommended.”--Choice"In analyzing one of the most important controversies in contemporary psychology, Tucker explores a number of important moral issues and shows himself to be a master of ethics as well as history, making judgments only after a meticulous examination of all sides of the issue. This illuminating work is a major contribution to our understanding of one of the major figures in twentieth century psychology."--Barry Mehler, founder and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Academic Racism"With the meticulous research that also characterized his previous work, William H. Tucker has carefully dissected and discredited the claim that the scientific and moral/political projects of psychologist Raymond B. Cattell belonged to separate spheres. Cattell's own words, presented in context by Tucker, show just how important race and eugenics were to Cattell, not just before World War II, but throughout his long career. The lucid, critical account of Cattell's factor analytic work on personality and the detailed context of postwar scientific racism make this an important work for understanding the interplay of science and ideology."--Andrew S. Winston, editor of Defining Difference: Race and Racism in the History of Psychology
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University of Illinois Press The Obama Phenomenon
Book SynopsisPerspectives on the Obama campaign and early administrationTrade Review"These eminent scholars of African American politics provide rich, multigenerational perspectives on the Obama election and the first year of his presidency. A significant and distinctive contribution to the emerging scholarship on Obama that will be useful in African American studies and political science courses."--Robert C. Smith, coauthor of American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom"Outstanding."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Charles P. Henry / Introduction The Election 1.Charles P. Henry / The Jackson and Obama Contributions to a Multiracial Democracy; 2. Martin Kilson / The Electoral Building Blocks of Barack Obama's Victory; 3. Hanes Walton, Jr., Josephine A. V. Allen, Sherman C. Puckett & Donald R. Deskins, Jr. / The Election of Barack Obama and Its Implications for Racial Politics; 4. Julianne Malveaux / Did Race, Class, Gender, Generation, or the Economy trump in the 2008 Elections; 5. Dianne M. Pinderhughes / Race, The Presidency and Obama's First Year; 6. Herb Boyd / Obama and the Media; 7. Scharn Robinson / The Impact of the 2008 Campaign on the Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton Culture 8. Alice Walker / Lest We Forget: An open letter to my sisters who are brave; 9. Maulana Karenga / Barack Obama's Ambivalent Embrace of Blackness; 10. John L. Jackson / Obama, Black Religion, and the Rev. Wright Controversy; 11. Dwight Hopkins / Race, Religion, and the Race for the White House; 12. Ronald Williams II / Barack Obama and the Politics of Racial Representation; 13. Shaun Ossei-Owusu / Barack Obama's Anomalous Relationship with the Hip Hop Community; 14. Ula Taylor / First Lady Michelle Obama, Too Black and Too Strong Policy 15. Robin D. G. Kelley / President Obama, Freedom Democrat or Neo-Liberal; 16. Clarence Lusane / Globalization and the Obama Doctrine; 17. Cheryl Harris / Barack Obama, the Past, Present and Future of Race Remedies Robert L. Allen / Epilogue Contributors
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Roots of Rough Justice
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the foundations of lynching in American social history. Scrutinizing the vigilante movements and lynching violence that occurred in the middle decades of the nineteenth century on the Southern, Midwestern, and far Western frontiers, this book offers insights into collective violence in the pre-Civil War era.Trade Review"Outlines just how barbaric civilizations can be, how barbarism is in fact institutionalized as a putative means of preserving civilization from barbarism."--Canadian Journal of History "Provocative prequel to Michael Pfeifer's important comparative portrait of lynching in America, Rough Justice."--The Annals of Iowa"A must read for anyone interested in lynching and vigilantism, the development of law and criminal justice, and the antebellum period."--Southern Historian"Pfeifer's keenly focused book builds on work that he did in Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 (Urbana, 2004). He excels in exploring Anglo-American thought and practice regarding extralegal justice from the colonial through the antebellum period."--The Journal of Southern History"Thoughtfully written and adds new levels of complexity by placing lynching in a larger historical and global context."--The Journal of American History "It is not hyperbole to assert that Pfeifer guides historians to higher levels of sophistication in scrutinizing the history of American lynching in a global context. . . . Pfeifer stands on solid ground by demonstrating with power and clarity, the persisting racial dimensions of lunching from a comparative perspective. . . . The book is endlessly fresh, unceasingly sharp, and always clear and persuasive."--Louisiana History "A valuable, thoughtful, concise, and long overdue contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on lynching. Michael J. Pfeifer extends the historical treatment of lynching back in time and ties the history of mob violence to the broad currents of nineteenth-century American history. His work will be foundational to all subsequent scholarship on lynching, both before and after the Civil War."--W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930"Michael J. Pfeifer's research is impressive, covering both an extensive period of time and many geographic regions. The vast majority of work on mob violence takes place after 1880, and there has been a great need for careful scholarship like this on the earlier period."--William D. Carrigan, author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836–1916
£999.99
MIT Press Ltd In the Black Fantastic
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative and artistically ambitious, In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora. Embracing the mythic and the speculative, it recycles and reconfigures elements of fable, folklore, science fiction, spiritual traditions, ceremonial pageantry, and the legacies of Afrofuturism. In works that span photography, painting, sculpture, cinema, graphic arts, music and architecture, In the Black Fantastic shows how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender and identity. Standing apart from Western narratives of progress and modernity premised on the historical subjugation of people of color, In the Black Fantastic celebrates the ways that Black artists draw
£33.96
MIT Press Ltd The Myth That Made Us
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University of Washington Press The Indonesian Rural Economy
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of TablesList of FiguresContributorsAcknowledgementsGlossaryForeword by Hal HillPart I: The Development Context1. The Indonesian Rural Economy--Thomas R. Leinbach2. The Changing Importance of Off-Farm Income for Agricultural Households in Indonesia--Anne Booth3. The Economic Policy Environment for Small Rural Enterprises in Indonesia--Peter van Diermen4. The Contribution of Household and Small Manufacturing Establishments to the Rural Economy--Robert RicePart II: Entrepreneurship, Gender and Mobility Issues5. International Labour Migration and Rural Dynamics: A Study of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara--Graeme Hugo6. Gender, Socio-Spatial Networks, and Rural Non-Farm Work Among Migrants in West Java--Rachel Silvey7. Micro and Small-Scale Enterprises in Java: A Gender-Based Comparative Analysis of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Performance of Enterprises--Surendhra P. Singh, Harsha N. Mookherjee and Safdar Muhammad8. Migrant Entrepreneurs in East Indonesia--Marthen L. nDoen, Cees Gorter, Peter Nijkamp and Piet RietveldPart III: Indonesia's Rural Non-Farm Economy: Cast Studies and Policy Development9. Small Enterprises, Fungibility and South Sumatran Transmigration Livelihood Strategies--Thomas R. Leinbach10. Transitions to Non-Farm Employment and the Growth of the Rattan Industry: The Example of Desa Buyut, Cirebon--Social Monitoring and Qualitative Analysis Team, The SMERU Institute11. Policy Implications for RNFEs: Lessons from PARUL Project in Indonesia--Hugh Emrys Evans12. The Indonesian Rural Economy: Insights and Prospects--Thomas R. LeinbachIndex
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University of Washington Press Legends of the Building of Old Peking
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChan carries us through seemingly inexhaustible trains of legends, of Nazha of Tantric Buddhist origin and a Chinese Buddhist-Daoist advisor to Qubilai Qaghan in the design of his capital city. We are taken from Yuan through Ming and Qing to modern times... It remains to advise the reader to keep close attention to the line, where it exists, between 'history' and 'legend.' Chan walks carefully in his account, and the reader should emulate his gait. Journal of Asian History This book is rich in sources, information, and analysis, and with careful exploration of the filiation and intermingling of these legends, Chan's work opens up new and important vistas for thinking about urban culture and the evolution of the popular imagination over time. Journal of Asian Studies A meticulous study of the folklore surrounding the now largely-vanished Beijing walls... [A]n important contribution to Beijing historiography, illuminating its cultural, relingion, and ethnic complexities from a hitherto neglected angle. Legends of the Building of Old Peking throws significant light on the cultural, the religious, and the ethnic richness of one of the world's greatest cities. Journal of Chinese ReligionsTable of ContentsNote on SpellingList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction-- The Historical Background-- The Cosmological Concepts of Imperial Cities-- The Planning of Imperial Cities-- Legends of Dadu and Peking PART I: The "Nesha City" of Old Peking: Origins and Transformations Chapter 1: Liu Bingzhong, Nazha, and the Building of Yuan "Great Capital"-- The Historical Background-- Liu Bingzhong's City Plan-- The Nazha Cheng Legend-- The Nazha Cheng Saga-- Myth and Reality Chapter 2: Liu Bowen, Nezha, and the Building of Ming Peking-- The Historical Background-- The Genesis of the "Northern Capital"-- The Imperial City Plan-- New Nazha Cheng Legend-- Lui Bowen's Legends-- Nezha Cheng Legend Analyzed PART II: "Siting by Bowshot": Locating the City of Ming Peking Chapter 3: The Mongolian Story of How Emperor Yongle Built the City of Peking-- The Historical Background-- Anatomy of the Folkloric Legend-- Impact on the Nezha Cheng Legend Chapter 4: The Stories of Liu Bowen, Yao Guangxiao, and Shen Wansan Building the City of Peking -- The Folkloric Background-- "Lui Bowen Built the City of Peking"Lui Bowen, Xu Da, and Shen WansanLui Bowen, the Dragon King, and Warrior Gao LiangGoa Liang, Shen Wansan and the Dragon King-- "How was the City of Peking Built?"Yao Guangxiao and the Prince of YanThe Prince of Yan and Shen Wansan-- The Folkloric Legacy EpiloguePART III: Appendices1. The Eight-Armed Nezha City (1)2. The Eight-Armed Nexha City (2)3. Book of the Story of How Emperor Yung-lo of the Great Ming Built the City of Peking - The Yuan Prince - The True Prince4. Lui Bowen Building the City of Peking5. How was the City of Peking Built?GlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
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Hachette Books A Stone Is Most Precious Where It Belongs
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£23.20
Hachette Books Twin Cities
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£23.20
Hachette Books The World of Nancy Kwan
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Hachette Books My Boy Will Die of Sorrow
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Legacy Lit Black Boy Smile
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Legacy Lit Inheritance
Book SynopsisIn this unflinching, honest narrative, an award-winning journalist discovers his family’s heritage as slave owners in the South and grapples openly with his whiteness to inspire others to do the same. 'Bracing, candid, and rueful.' —Kirkus Baynard Woods thought he had escaped the backwards ways of the South Carolina he grew up in, a world defined by country music, NASCAR, and the confederacy. But when a white guy from his hometown of Columbia, S.C.—also the birthplace of secession— massacred nine Black people in Charleston in the name of Southern whiteness, Woods began to delve into his family’s history—and the ways that history has affected his own life. Upon discovering that his family—both the Baynards and the Woodses—collectively claimed ownership of more than 700 people in 1860 and that his great-grandfather had assassinated a Black politician in 1871, Woods realized his own name was a confederate monument. With assiduous research and brutal self-analysis, Woods uncovers the details of his family’s crimes and all of the mundane ways he inherited them…and their coverup. Along with his name, he had inherited privilege, wealth, and all the lies that his ancestors passed down through the generations. At a time where Southern states are embracing a return to authoritarian, anti-democratic principles, Woods' analysis of how we inherited our whiteness from the twisted psychology of Southern slavers is both trenchant and urgent—but always cast against the foibles and failures of his own life. Unflinching and uninhibited, Inheritance is a no-holds-barred memoir that exposes the story from Trump country that you haven’t heard while excavating what it means to reckon with whiteness in America today and what it might mean to begin to repair the past.
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Hachette Books Miseducated
Book Synopsis An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven.Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his passing grades a nod to his skill on the basketball court, not his presence in the classroom. He turned to the streets and drug deals by fourteen, saved only by the dream of basketball stardom. When he suffered a career-ending injury during his first semester at a Division I school, he dropped out of college, toiling on an assembly line, until depression drove him to the edge. Miraculously, his life was spared.Returning to college, Fleming was determined to reinvent himself as a scholar—to replace illiteracy with mastery over language, to go from being ignored and unseen to commanding attention. He immersed himself in the work of Black thinkers from the Harlem Renaissance to present day. Crucially, he found debate, which became the means by which he transformed his life and the tool he would use to transform the lives of others—teaching underserved kids to be intrusive in places that are not inclusive, eventually at Harvard University, where he would make champions and history.Through his personal narrative, readers witness Fleming’s transformation, self-education, and how he takes what he learns about words and power to help others like himself. Miseducated is an honest memoir about resilience, visibility, role models, and overcoming all expectations.
£20.89
Zondervan The Latin Hit Maker
Book SynopsisFor the first time, music legend Rudy Pérez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage. Named the most successful Latin songwriter in history, Rudy Pérez is the creator behind some of the bestselling records of Beyoncé, Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, and IL Divo.In his one-of-a-kind memoir, Rudy tells about his childhood in Cuba and the heart-gripping visits to his father in prison during the height of the communist revolution. Tracing his family''s perilous escape on one of the last Freedom Flights to America, Rudy opens up about the years of poverty and growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood. These memories contrast with tender moments of dancing to the stereo with his siblings, nodding along to his mother''s classical favorites, and swaying to blues melodies with his father. At a young age, Rudy tried his hand at recreating the music he loved, and his talent led him
£17.09
Little, Brown & Company Under Red Skies
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£21.60
Little Brown and Company The Hungry Season
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£24.00
Back Bay Books The Good Immigrant
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£16.19
Heinemann Educational Books One Classroom Many Worlds
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£39.50
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ordinary Notes
Book SynopsisA finalist for the National Book Award in NonfictionA finalist for the National Book Critics'' Circle Award in NonfictionNamed a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, NPR, New York Magazine, Kirkus, and Barnes and NobleCritically acclaimed author of In the Wake, Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility (Saidiya Hartman).A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the pastpublic ones alongside others that are poignantly personaltogether with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The th
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Random House USA Inc Under the Skin
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A stunning exposé of why Black people in our society 'live sicker and die quicker'—an eye-opening game changer.—Oprah DailyFrom an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.In 2018, Linda Villarosa's New York Times Magazine article on maternal and infant mortality among black mothers and babies in America caused an awakening. Hundreds of studies had previously established a link between racial discrimination and the health of Black Americans, with little progress toward solutions. But Villarosa's article exposing that a Black woman with a college education is as likely to die or nearly die in childbirth as a white woman with an eighth grade education made racial dis
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Doubleday Canada Red Pockets
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WW Norton & Co Life Without a Recipe
Book SynopsisA “bold, luscious” memoir, “indispensable to anyone trying to forge their own truer path” (Ruth Reichl).Trade Review"Pure delight.… Beautiful and lyrical." -- Jim Carmin - Oregonian"About a lust for life, about the jumble of joy and fear and surprise and even pain. It’s about that soft cookie with the crunch inside and the slice of cake with an unexpected lay of tartness. In the end, all of it tastes sweet." -- Amy Driscoll - Miami Herald"With a tenderness that never dips into nostalgia, Abu-Jaber weaves together the stories of those closest to her….Abu-Jaber renders her relationships to both food and family in rich, joyful detail." -- Amanda Winterroth - Booklist"[A] deliciously candid story….Generously seasoned by an abiding love of food and a keen eye for the nuances of human relationships, this book is a reminder that however unpredictable it may be, life is a dish to be savored. A delectably warm and wise memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews"This bold, luscious memoir is both recollection and guide. Brimming with great meals and family struggle, it walks a path between cultural traditions and American individualism. A vivid story of one writer’s journey to build a creative life, one lived ‘without recipes,’ this book will be indispensable to anyone trying to forge their own truer path." -- Ruth Reichl"Wonderfully written, honest, funny, and deeply heart-touching, Diana Abu-Jaber’s memoir is a joyous read that speaks to the creative spirit in us all." -- Heidi W. Durrow, New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky"Filled with visceral joys and literary beauty as well as soulful honesty and a gripping story. Diana Abu-Jaber writes trenchantly and gorgeously about family, marriage, and motherhood with insights and connections that feel hard-won and richly earned. Her sharp intelligence and unsparing self-knowledge bristle on every page alongside her passionate brio for life in all its flavors and complexities." -- Kate Christensen, author of Blue Plate Special and The Great Man
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WW Norton & Co A Colony in a Nation
Book SynopsisNew York Times Bestseller New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry. -Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and MeTrade Review"Hayes’s forceful analysis…compel[s] readers to wrestle with some very tough questions about the nature of American democracy." -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad - New York Times Book Review"[Hayes is] the young left’s most erudite and urgent interpreter." -- Rachel Maddow"[P]erhaps the first significant theorization on race of the Trump era." -- Matthew Pulver - Salon"A Colony in a Nation is a highly original analysis of America’s arbitrary and erratic criminal justice system. Indeed, by Hayes’s lights, the system is not erratic at all—it treats one group of Americans as citizens, and another as the colonized. This is an essential and groundbreaking text in the effort to understand how American criminal justice went so badly awry." -- Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of Between the World and Me"Terrific and really important." -- Rebecca Traister"A timely and impassioned argument for social justice." -- Kirkus Reviews"This readable and thoughtful work will appeal to readers interested in civil rights and criminal justice, and is especially insightful." -- William D. Pederson - Library Journal"Important, persuasive.…[A Colony in a Nation] can help Americans begin to heal." -- Publishers Weekly"Chris Hayes’ ominous account of what’s ailing America… [offers a] rare view into a wide racial and class cross-section of society." -- Ryan Cooper - The Week"An up-to-date (and masterfully interwoven) blend of statistics, history, and analysis." -- Peter C. Baker - Pacific Standard
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WW Norton & Co Virology
Book SynopsisFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Literary Hub A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in eleven striking essays.Trade Review"Osmundson writes with the disarming voice of that teacher who makes science cool, even radical. His thought is discursive, his questioning accretive. He contains — and covers — multitudes: How are white people to stop spreading the lethal disease of “whiteness”? How does capitalism limit the imagination? Is evolution quintessentially queer? The task of following his leaps and swerves, while occasionally challenging, is its own reward, a chance to collaborate with a mind at work." -- John Okrent - New York Times Book Review"Virology is a brilliant book, both playful and serious, showing us all how viruses live with us, as we live with them. Drawing on queer theory, Osmundson offers a way of understanding care in the midst of anguish and anxiety as well as desire and hope. The viral world is the ordinary world of life and death, of caring for one another in our vulnerability and persistence. This book explains the science of virology for our times, offering a compassionate education for all of us disoriented in pandemic times. This book is queer pedagogy at its best: non-patronizing, thoroughly smart, and full of urgent and caring knowledge that beckons us to get closer again with caution and passion." -- Judith Butler"Joe Osmundson’s Virology is an incisive look at our relationship to earth’s most plentiful life form — how we live with viruses and how viruses live in and through us. But more than this, it is a compelling examination of the tension between avoidance and exposure, safety and risk, preservation of the self and openness to evolution and change. This book is a potent medicine for our times." -- Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Reckonings"Joseph Osmundson's Virology made me gay for viruses. Seriously. Virology is a tour de force that uses queer theory to teach us about the science of viruses. Along the way, we are forced to reckon with the reality that far from being villainous little creatures, viruses are actually fascinating almost-life forms. Virology brilliantly revises the frameworks we use to talk about life in a world filled with viruses and reminds us that our relationship with science and scientific phenomena is always social." -- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Disordered Cosmos"I have absolutely no idea how Osmundson made a book this timely, this timeless, this packed with contents and styles we aren't supposed to experience in one text. Virology is devastating in its soulful brilliance. Rigor just became cool as **** and pleasurable again." -- Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy"Inquisitive, bold, and lyrical, Virology offers a captivating and very queer look at our present moment through the lens of someone who knows more than most of us about the science behind our shared catastrophe." -- Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood"To read Joseph Osmundson’s mind at work is such a pleasure. The tendrils of Virology go deep: to the pandemic, queerness, memes, futurity, and what it means to hold both love and despair, to live awake to both the world’s beauty and its harm. This is a profoundly necessary, urgently of-the-moment collection, one I’ll keep thinking about for a long time to come." -- Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body"The essays in Virology are beyond impressive. This is precision work, cutting and thoughtful, done with the deft hand of a wildly skilled writer. Joseph Osmundson has given us something precious with this important collection. It is a tribute to humanity. It is an ode to life." -- Kristin Arnett, author of With Teeth"Virology is a powerhouse of a collection, the work of a colossal mind, and these essays about viruses, risk, science, life, safety, queerness, and more are as urgent as they will prove lasting. Hallelujah for this book and for Joseph Osmundson." -- R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries"Both [Joseph Osmundson’s] science and his writing chops are on full display in this stunner of an essay collection, which elegantly illustrates how microscopically tiny viruses like COVID-19 and HIV, which lead a simple existence, can have enormously complicated effects on the sociopolitical (and ultimately interpersonal) human worlds. The way Osmundson draws meaning from a queer experience of viruses is incredibly moving, ultimately resulting in a rage-filled call to action. Not to mention, it’s some of the most beautiful writing I’ve read in a long time." -- Sarah Neilson - them"Joseph Osmundson uses his training as a virologist to illustrate how viruses have shaped and will continue to shape our lives, with language that is gripping and straightforward. Scientifically sound and exceptionally perceptive" -- David Vogel - Vulture"Osmundson has created a stunningly beautiful and important book." -- Sarah Neilson - Shondaland"Luckily, we have Joseph Osmundson—an actual virologist—who writes with elegance and insight about the intersection of the real and the metaphorical, moving through topics like the legacy of HIV/AIDS, the long-term impact of Covid variants, and the effects of a prolonged pandemic on our systems of power. This is very much a book of our times." -- Literary Hub"In this scrupulous and impassioned manifesto, Osmundson, a microbiologist and activist (and podcaster!), looks at the nature of disease—and its impact on individuals and communities—through a distinctly queer lens." -- Michelle Hart - Electric Literature"A unique and singular archive of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), HIV/AIDS, queer theory, sociopolitical criticism, and a record of the viruses that are present in our guts, on our skin, and in our blood…Osmundson turns hard science into juicy, racy-queer reality accessible to anyone who decides to buy the book, read it, and live it." -- Mark William Norby - Bay Area Reporter"This wide-ranging collection of essays is a meditation on society’s complicated relationship with viruses. In pondering SARS-CoV-2, HIV and more, Osmundson calls for more equitable access to medical care." -- Science News (a Top Book of 2022)"Joseph Osmundson brings both his background in microbiology and a deft approach to language to a meditation on how viruses have affected — and continue to affect — even the smallest of quotidian moments." -- Tobias Carroll - InsideHook"Virology is an ambitious book that succeeds in its efforts to shed light on viruses with science writing, yes, but also to shed light on the messy realities of life with queer theory, journey entries, archival data, personal essays, and above all else, naked honesty…The lessons I need — the lessons we all need — exist in this book." -- Vanessa Friedman - Autostraddle"A welcome, well-informed, queer-positive study of the blind spots a pandemic reveals." -- Kirkus (starred review)"Original and bubbling with curiosity, this is a masterful achievement." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Osmundson writes with hope for a world where racial inequities are addressed and people treat each other with love and kindness. Just as viruses change and mutate, so, too, can people." -- Ragan O'Malley - Library Journal (starred review)"A collection that weaves together the raggedness of the personal with the chaos of the political, Virology will take its place next to Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor and Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals as a model for cultural criticism. Sparkling prose, glittering insights, lucid thinking and accessible writing about sometimes difficult topics makes Virology a must-read. It’s one of the best science and medicine books of the year." -- Bookpage (starred review)
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Random House USA Inc My Broken Language
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Random House USA Inc Crux
Book SynopsisA daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death—now with a new afterwordPEN America Literary Award Winner • “The kind of memoir that seems to redefine the genre.”—Los Angeles Review of Books From renowned journalist Jean Guerrero, here is the haunting story of a daughter’s mission to save her father from his demons and to save herself from destruction. Marco Antonio was raised in Mexico, then migrated to California, where he met Jean’s mother, Jeannette, a Puerto Rican woman just out of med school. Marco is a self-taught genius at building things—including mythologies about himself and the hidden forces that drive us. When he goes on the run, Jean follows and embarks on an investigative journey between cultures and languages, the earthly and the mystical, truth and fiction. A distinctive memoir about the search for an elusive parent, Crux is both a riveting adventure story and a profoundly original exploration of the mysteries of our world, our most intimate relationships, and ourselves.“[Guerrero] writes poetically about borders as a metaphor for the boundary of identity between father and daughter and the porous connective tissues that bind them.”—The National Book Review
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Random House USA Inc The Undocumented Americans
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation.“Karla’s book sheds light on people’s personal experiences and allows their stories to be told and their voices to be heard.”—Selena GomezFINALIST FOR THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD AWARD • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, NPR, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, BOOK RIOT, LIBRARY JOURNAL, AND TIMEWriter Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she’d tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration law
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Random House USA Inc Gloria Rising Julians World
Book SynopsisIf you loved The Stories Julian Tells, wait until you hear about the adventures of his best friend, Gloria! The Julian's World chapter book series is all about friendship, family, and imagination! What if your dream came true . . . and nobody believed you? When Gloria goes to the store to buy an onion, she can’t believe who she meets! A real astronaut named Dr. Grace Street. Dr. Street explains to Gloria that problems aren’t always as big as they seem. And that’s good news! Because Gloria’s problem feels gigantic. She can’t seem to do anything to please her teacher, Mrs. Yardley. When Gloria writes a report about meeting Dr. Street, Mrs. Yardley doesn’t believe her. How can Gloria prove she’s telling the truth?Kids will be thrilled by the possibility of running into an astronaut in the checkout line. —The Bulletin, RecommendedTrade Review“Cameron’s crisply direct advice, all of which is right on, ranges from practical items . . . to profound character-building insights—and the learning goes on in an author’s note citing Internet resources about space exploration.”—Kirkus Reviews“Kids will be thrilled by the possibility of running into an astronaut in the checkout line.”—The Bulletin, Recommended
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The University of Michigan Press Immersions in Cultural Difference
Book SynopsisIn a time of intensifying xenophobia and anti-immigration measures, this book examines the impulse to acquire a deeper understanding of cultural others. Immersions in Cultural Difference takes readers into the heart of immersive simulations. The author queries the ethical stakes of these encounters, including her own in relation to the field research she undertakes.Trade ReviewThe diversity of the detailed and often gripping case studies, and their presentation in theoretically appropriate contexts, make for an original and thought-provoking take on how performance is deployed far beyond the cultural sector. Why simulations have become so pervasive and, at the same time, so often troubling forms the core of Alvarez’s discussion. The book’s attentiveness to political, ethical and moral questions is both admirable and important."" - Susan Bennett, University of Calgary""Meticulous in its research and field work, its theorization, and its interrogative self-positioning, Immersions in Cultural Difference also provides a compelling experience that takes the reader through the complexities of immersive simulation… a major contribution to performance studies."" - Ric Knowles, University of Guelph
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The University of Michigan Press Contested Terrain
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The University of Michigan Press Making Human
Book SynopsisDifferences between human beings have long been used to justify a range of degrading, exclusionary, and murderous practices that strip people of their humanity and dignity. While considerable scholarship has been devoted to such dehumanization, Matthew S. Weinert asks how we might conceive its reverse - humanization, or what it means to “make human.”
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The University of Michigan Press Performing the Intercultural City
Book SynopsisIn 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto - a representative global city in this multicultural country - stages diversity through its many intercultural theatre companies and troupes.Trade ReviewReaches beyond the particular context of Toronto to engage the issues of cosmopolitan cultural formations in the 21st century. Artists will be engaged by the case studies that explore unique dramaturgies and aesthetics, and academics by this in-depth study in the performativity of culture and identity formation. The book extends a model for studying intercultural dynamics in new ways."" - Ann Elizabeth Armstrong, Miami University of Ohio""Challenges us to develop a holistic methodology that honors the full complexity of the intercultural. [The book’s] deft integration of contemporary critical approaches with indigenous ontologies and participatory ethnography is a magnificent achievement, one that will impact our field deeply."" - Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Random House USA Inc Dapper Dan Made in Harlem A Memoir
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hustle, love, and a singular determination to live our dreams out loud.”—Ava DuVernay, director of Selma, 13th, and A Wrinkle in TimeNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VANITY FAIR • DAPPER DAN NAMED ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD With his now-legendary store on 125th Street in Harlem, Dapper Dan pioneered high-end streetwear in the 1980s, remixing classic luxury-brand logos into his own innovative, glamorous designs. But before he reinvented haute couture, he was a hungry boy with holes in his shoes, a teen who daringly gambled drug dealers out of their money, and a young man in a prison cell who found no
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Penguin Putnam Inc Facing the Mountain
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Penguin Putnam Inc On the Other Side of Freedom
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Penguin Putnam Inc More Than Enough
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Random House USA Inc Constructing a Nervous System
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ? From one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir as electric as the title suggests (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom).A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers WeeklyThe Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others?her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. In Constructing a Nervous System, Jefferson shatters her self into pieces and recombines them into a new and vital apparatus on the page, fusing the criticism that she is known for, fragments of the family members she grieves for, and signal moments from her life, as well as the words of those who have peopled her past and accompanied her in her solitude, dramatized here like never before. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author?s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent?s voice. W. E. B. Du Bois and George Eliot meet illicitly. The muscles and movements of a ballerina are spliced with those of an Olympic runner, becoming a template for what a black female body can be. The result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching. Jefferson interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the fissures at the center of American cultural life.
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Random House USA Inc Begin Again
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? ?A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.??Time James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune ? One of Esquire?s Best Biographies of All Time ?Winner of the Stowe Prize ? Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice?Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.??James BaldwinBegin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America?s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin?s ?after times,? argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement?s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism.In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography?drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews?with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism?s continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.
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Random House USA Inc A Sin by Any Other Name
Book SynopsisA descendant of Confederate General Robert E. Lee chronicles his story of growing up with the South's most honored name, and the moments that forced him to confront the privilege, racism, and subversion of human dignity that came with it. With a foreword by Rev. Dr. Bernice A. King. The Reverend Robert W. Lee was a little-known pastor at a small church in North Carolina until the Charlottesville protests, when he went public with his denunciation of white supremacy in a captivating speech at the MTV Video Music Awards. Support poured in from around the country, but so did threats of violence from people who opposed the Reverend's message. In this riveting memoir, he narrates what it was like growing up as a Lee in the South, an experience that was colored by the world of the white Christian majority. He describes the widespread nostalgia for the Lost Cause and his gradual awakening to the unspoken assumptions of white supremacy which had, almost without him knowing it, distorted his values and even his Christian faith. In particular, Lee examines how many white Christians continue to be complicit in a culture of racism and injustice, and how after leaving his pulpit, he was welcomed into a growing movement of activists all across the South who are charting a new course for the region. A Sin by Any Other Name is a love letter to the South, from the South, by a Lee—and an unforgettable call for change and renewal.
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Random House Publishing Group Gather Me
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Clarion Books The Voice That Challenged a Nation
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Random House USA Inc For the People
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Not Stated Redeeming Justice
Book Synopsis?A moving and beautifully crafted memoir.??SCOTT TUROW ?A daring act of justified defiance.??SHAKA SENGHOR ?Nothing less than heroic.??JOHN GRISHAM He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn?t commit. Now a pioneering lawyer, he recalls the journey that led to his exoneration?and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought him back from the edge of despair through letters of prayer and encouragement, Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongfully convicted, and won his release after nearly ten years in prison.But the journey was far from over. Adams took the lessons he learned through his incarceration and worked his way through law school with the goal of helping those who, like himself, had faced our legal system at its worst. After earning his law degree, he worked with the New York Innocence Project, becoming the first exoneree ever hired by the nonprofit as a lawyer. In his first case with the Innocence Project, he argued before the same court that had convicted him a decade earlier?and won.In thisilluminatingstory of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how the lack of equal representation in our courts is a failure not only of empathy but of our collective ability to uncover the truth.Redeeming Justiceis an unforgettable firsthand account of the limits?and possibilities?of our country?s system of law.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Ground Breaking
Book SynopsisHousatonic Book Award WinnerLonglisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in NonfictionShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize One of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” One of The Oklahoman's “15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year Anniversary Approaches” A The Week book of the weekAs seen in documentaries on the History Channel, CNN, and Lebron James’s SpringHill ProductionsAnd then they were gone. More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors’ offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air. Over the course of
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