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Book SynopsisEvery academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position. This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicoTrade Review"Edited by some of the leading race studies scholars—Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz—this collection of essays clearly outlines how the history of contemporary knowledge production and scholarship has a foundation in racially biased disciplinary frameworks, research methodologies, and pedagogical strategies. . . . these essays serve as a guide for all academics." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments: Praying to the Disciplinary Gods with One Eye OpenKimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz 1 • IntroductionKimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz PART ONE : MASKS 2 • The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality Preserves White SupremacyGeorge Lipsitz 3 • Unmasking Colorblindness in the Law: Lessons from the Formation of Critical Race TheoryKimberlé Williams Crenshaw 4 • Masking Legitimized Racism: Indigeneity, Colorblindness, and the Sociology of RaceDwanna L. McKay 5 • On the Transportability, Malleability, and Longevity of Colorblindness: Reproducing White Supremacy in Brazil and South AfricaMarzia Milazzo 6 • How Colorblindness Flourished in the Age of ObamaKimberlé Williams Crenshaw PART TWO : MOVES 7 • The Possessive Investment in Classical Music: Confronting Legacies of White Supremacy in U.S. Schools and Departments of MusicLoren Kajikawa 8 • Powerblind Intersectionality: Feminist Revanchism and Inclusion as a One-Way StreetBarbara Tomlinson 9 • Colorblind IntersectionalityDevon W. Carbado 10 • Causality, Context, and Colorblindness: Equal Educational Opportunity and the Politics of Racist DisavowalLeah N. Gordon 11 • Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment”Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan PART THREE : RESISTANCE AND TRANSFORMATION 12 • They (Color) Blinded Me with Science: Counteracting Coloniality of Knowledge in Hegemonic PsychologyGlenn Adams and Phia S. Salter 13 • Toward a New Research Agenda? Foucault, Whiteness, and Indigenous SovereigntyAileen Moreton-Robinson 14 • Why Black Lives Matter in the HumanitiesFelice Blake 15 • Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances: Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement Is NecessaryPaula Ioanide 16 • Shifting Frames: Pedagogical Interventions in Colorblind Teaching PracticeMilton Reynolds List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisStandard histories of infectious disease celebrate brilliant minds such as Florence Nightingale, John Snow, and Robert Koch. In this unorthodox telling, Jim Downs focuses on a forgotten group of contributors: the conscript soldiers, colonial subjects, and enslaved people whose bodies were the experimental matter on which medical progress relied.Trade ReviewFor those of us looking warily toward future epidemics, this book draws our attention to oft-forgotten sources of medical knowledge…Deserves to be read, particularly now. Few will question the salvational power that epidemiology will likely have in the years to come. -- Suman Seth * Science *Downs has now given global context to nineteenth-century advances in medicine and public health, beyond the dominant histories rooted in Western Europe and the ancient world. In Maladies of Empire, he centers slave ships, people living in colonized countries, prisoners, and wars in the narrative of medical discovery, at the foundation of epidemiology…He recovers lost and untold stories and makes visible things that need to be seen. -- Mary T. Bassett * Nature *[A] searching reappraisal of the origins of epidemiology…Those who lead epidemiology and public health today should read Maladies of Empire. They might wish to reflect on the origins of their discipline, the histories they choose to ignore, the myths they prefer to propagate. And they might wish to consider the debt they—we—owe to those who were, and in some cases still are, abused, mistreated, and manipulated in the name of public health. -- Richard Horton * The Lancet *Maladies of Empire has a captivating writing style, is exhaustively researched, and is persuasive in argumentation. Jim Downs has written a game-changing book. -- Deirdre Cooper Owens, author of Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American GynecologyMaladies of Empire provides an illuminating, painstaking, yet engaging interrogation of original records and sources, filling critical gaps in the development of epidemiology. Indispensable and compelling. -- Harriet A. Washington, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Medical ApartheidExposes how doctors with few clues made concerted efforts to track and understand deadly epidemics at a time when the colonialist enterprise was aggressively remaking the world…[Downs] fleshes out a crucial part of a larger tapestry to help explain the onset of racial segregation in the United States. The people whose experiences he tries to recover ‘appear only as fragments’ in the historical record but they impart a crucial dimension that remains utterly germane to the present. -- John Galbraith Simmons * Los Angeles Review of Books *Connects imperialism, enslavement, and warfare to argue that it is at the intersection of these processes that we can trace the beginnings of modern epidemiological thinking…Not only does such a narrative shed light on the violent foundations of disease control interventions and public health initiatives, but it also implores us to address their inequities in the present. At a time when low-income and middle-income countries struggle for access to vaccines in the COVID-19 pandemic, such an endeavor could not be more urgent. -- Raghav Kishore * The Lancet *Downs has written an eye-popping study of the history of infectious diseases, how they spread, and especially how they have been thwarted by experimentation on the bodies of soldiers, slaves, and colonial subjects. For three centuries medicine transformed science and human longevity by knowledge garnered from battlefields, slave ships, and mass migrations of vulnerable people. This is a timely, brilliant book about some of the brutal ironies in the story of medical progress. Our health today owes so much to the blood and suffering of nameless predecessors. -- David W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of FreedomIn this brilliant and timely book, Jim Downs uncovers the origins of epidemiology in slavery, colonialism, and war. Controlling large populations through violence and burgeoning state bureaucracies allowed for new insights into the genesis and spread of human disease. A most original global history, this book is required reading for historians, medical researchers, and really anyone interested in the origins of modern medicine. -- Sven Beckert, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning Empire of Cotton: A Global HistoryMaladies of Empire is a major contribution to the ongoing investigation of the impact of slavery and colonialism on the modern world. Jim Downs shows how studies of exploited groups helped scientists understand the spread and treatment of infectious disease. At a time when epidemiologists are rightly lauded for their work in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, Downs calls on us not to forget the role, without their consent, of the long forgotten enslaved, colonized, and imprisoned in the development and global dissemination of medical knowledge. -- Eric Foner, author of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the ConstitutionMaladies of Empire shifts the site of medical knowledge from European cities to the international slave trade, colonial lands and wars, and the resulting movement of populations. This vivid and brilliant analysis of these critical sites fundamentally changes our views of the origins of epidemiology and the transnational flow of medical knowledge about disease transmission. This excellent work will surely become required reading for historians of medicine, disease, and empire. -- Evelynn M. Hammonds, coeditor of The Nature of DifferenceIn this meticulously researched and beautifully written work, Jim Downs transforms our understanding of the relationship between the history of medicine, colonialism, and the institution of slavery. Maladies of Empire illuminates the crucial connections between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century comprehension of disease and the evidence gathered from captive Africans, enslaved plantation workers, and soldiers throughout the Atlantic world. Charting the origins of modern epidemiology in the inequities of forced labor, Downs makes foundational contributions to the histories of medicine, colonialism, and slavery. Everyone interested in the connections between race and disease should read Maladies of Empire. -- Jennifer L. Morgan, author of Reckoning with SlaveryA powerful account of the intertwined histories of medicine and empire, within a truly global framework. Simultaneously intimate and sweeping, Maladies of Empire reveals the human side of the development of epidemiology. Inverting the traditional focus on medical men, Downs puts soldiers, prisoners, and enslaved people at the heart of the rise of scientific medicine, providing a compelling account of how our modern-day tools of epidemiology were shaped by war, slavery, and colonialism. -- Erica Charters, author of Disease, War, and the Imperial StateA compelling read for everyone interested in the connection between slavery, colonialism, and war and the advancement of medical knowledge. -- Okori Uneke * International Social Science Review *Relevant reading for historians in a wide variety of fields but especially healthcare historians. By recognizing the experience of the enslaved poor and military in the evolution of medicine, it gives in part a voice to those who usually appear as a statistic while the clinicians are lauded. -- Michael Davidson * British Society for the History of Medicine *Using historiographical techniques developed by Black feminist scholars, Downs’ well-crafted narrative shifts the focus from the actions of individual physicians to the scaffolding that their research was built upon. It carries us from the crowded conditions on slave ships and prisons to filthy battlefields to plantations, reminding us that the data physicians used to develop theories of disease transmission, develop medical procedures, and recommend public health measures was built on a scaffolding of unacknowledged bodies belonging to soldiers, colonial subjects, and enslaved persons. -- Elisabeth Brander * The Watermark *Downs makes a strong argument that epidemiology (and much else in modern medicine) stemmed from close observation of non-European populations under conditions of European oppression: in slave ships, on colonial plantations, and in armies. -- Crawford Kilian * The Tyee *Maladies of Empire puts the public health of the U.S. early republic, antebellum, and Civil War eras into global context with that of the British Empire in a transoceanic discourse about bio-power, race, and medical authority. -- Zachary Dorner * Journal of the Early Republic *Downs’ analysis is innovative and his argument is convincing, buttressed by the wealth of physicians’ reports, correspondence, and medical journals…The book is a fantastic resource for students of medicine and history at any level, as the writing is clear and accessible, and for scholars interested in the global history of disease, especially in the era of COVID-19. -- Andrew Kishuni * Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History *Maladies of Empire is the best kind of transnational history—one that moves seamlessly across space and time, while drawing intricate connections about medical knowledge production in the critical field of epidemiology. Written in accessible prose, this timely book challenges readers to look closely at those hidden figures whose lives contributed to the development of modern medicine. -- Thomas J. Balcerski * Civil War History *If you are an aficionado of medical history, and of writers who try to set the record straight, this is a book for you. -- Patrick Skerrett * Stat *Downs has succeeded in adding an important new work to medical historiography by linking colonialism, slavery, and war, topics usually examined separately, and demonstrating persuasively that in the development of epidemiology, they are not separate at all, but inextricable. -- Jennifer Paxton * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *True world history, ranging from India and the Crimea to Jamaica. Turning the history of epidemiology on its head, inspired by Black feminist theory and criticism, Downs argues…‘how slavery is imprinted on the DNA of epidemiology.’ * New West Indian Guide *Slavery pervades Downs’s book. This theme is presented in an accessible and emotional tone, often transporting the reader to the underbelly of a slave ship or to the shadow of the hickory tree amidst a cotton plantation, to better situate the reader in the realities of forgotten human experiences that informed their contributions to epidemiology. -- Shibani Das * Imperial & Global Forum *An engaging narrative that provides valuable insights into the emergence of modern medicine and science…By elucidating the origins of epidemiology, Maladies of Empire allows public health officials to question whether their methods have any lingering traces of unequal power and control while affording scholars the opportunity to consider the ways in which health and medicine intersected with slavery, empire, and war in the past. -- John Rankin * Journal of World History *A must-read book for historians interested in the intersection of the history of medicine, slavery, and other forms of unfreedom. Downs’s talent for storytelling also makes this book compelling reading for students and lay readers alike. -- Christopher D. E. Willoughby * Black Perspectives *A page-turner…Downs’ peer-reviewed book is an asset to novices as well as public health experts. -- Nontsikelelo O. Mapukata * The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa *Maladies of Empire leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for the people left out of traditional medical histories, some unforgettable stories, and many thought-provoking questions. -- Bradford J. Wood * North Carolina Historical Review *Maladies of Empire demonstrates the benefits of scholarship that crosses national and imperial historiographies, as well as the value of recovering aspects of lives only glimpsed in the archives. Downs’s engaging prose and clear argumentation make this book accessible to an undergraduate audience, as well as informative to senior scholars. -- Sean Morey Smith * Journal of the Civil War Era *Jim Downs has written an ambitious book…[It] is a significant achievement for the sheer number of cases of colonial medical experimentation and epidemiological studies that it brings to our attention and for shifting the focus of the social history of epidemiology to the colonies. It will become a vital text in historical and contemporary discussions on race, medicine, and decolonization. -- Pratik Chakrabarti * American Historical Review *Applying the study of history to medicine can often be uncomfortable, so I had some trepidation as I picked up Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine by Jim Downs. The title certainly grabbed my attention; did these events really transform medicine? After reading this provocative book, it is hard to argue otherwise. -- Michael L. Farrell * Journal of Medical Regulation *

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Book SynopsisAre antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particuTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2003 "In Racism: A Short History, written in ... [Fredrickson's] characteristically crisp, clear prose, he draws both on a wide range of recent work by others and on nearly half a century of his own writings on immigration, race and nationalism, in the United States and elsewhere, to provide us with a masterly--though not uncontroversial--synthesis... The book is worth reading just for its pathbreaking attempt to tell the stories of anti-Semitism and white supremacy together, while insisting both on their inter-connections and their differences."--Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Times Book Review "Fredrickson deftly combines intellectual with social and political history to explain the emergence of racism and its recent decline. Learned and elegant."--William H. McNeill, The New York Review of Books "Fredrickson [stands] out from a number of distinguished collegues [because of] his continuing urge to widen the comparative framework he uses to try to understand why these relations have developed as they did. Racism: A Short History is his most drastic venture to date--a brisk positioning of Southern racial domination within world history as a whole."--John Dunn, Times Literary Supplement "An erudite comparison of racism and anti-Semitism throughout Western history... Fredrickson offers a scholarly but compelling and accessible narrative."--Publishers Weekly "Fredrickson's book should be celebrated. The chief reason is the text itself. One of only a handful of attempts to cover Western attitudes towards race comprehensively, Fredrickson's Racism is by far the most concise and lucid. It is also the most balanced... [W]hat ultimately makes Fredrickson's book so valuable is its original vision of the major racisms--its view of them as belonging to a coherent historical narrative... Reviewers often apply the term 'path-breaking' to works that simply trim back a few errant branches. But Fredrickson's book really is path-breaking."--Paul Reitter, The Nation "In this incisive and thoughtful essay on the nature and historical trajectory of racism in the modern world, Fredrickson's magisterial command of his subject is on display as he provides a concise overview of racism's rise, climax, and retreat."--Choice "Racism, in short, comes with a history, and it is to scrutinize racism's history and reasoning that Fredrickson decided to write this brisk, intense, incisive probe of the concept and its implications. The result is the best, most erudite introduction to racism available."--Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer "Racism: A Short History is a tour de force within this genre. Richly footnoted and elegantly written, the book is a model of clarity and sophisticated analysis."--Milton Shain, KleioTable of ContentsFOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii INTRODUCTION 1 ONE Religion and the Invention of Racism 15 TWO The Rise of Modern Racism(s): White Supremacy and Antisemitism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 49 THREE Climax and Retreat: Racism in the Twentieth Century 97 EPILOGUE Racism at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century 139 APPENDIX The Concept of Racism in Historical Discourse 151 NOTES 171 INDEX 193

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Book SynopsisThe history and legacy of Indian and Chinese Caribbean indentured labourers who were part of the Windrush generationTrade Review'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration, struggle and celebration that shaped those communities born out of the system of Caribbean indenture' -- Hanif Kureishi, author of 'The Buddha of Suburbia' (Faber & Faber, 2009) 'Through moving and insightful stories and testimonies, the legacies of indenture are powerfully inscribed' -- Hannah Lowe, author of 'Long Time No See' (Periscope, 2015) 'This kaleidoscopic survey illuminates corners of modern Britain that have been overlooked. Filed with vivid stories about the Chinese and Indian contribution to Caribbean culture, it is also a vibrant history of immigration to the UK: a colourful work in every sense' -- Sibghat Kadri QC 'I cried when I read this beautifully furious book on the life, loves and heroic struggles of my brave ancestors, the unfree indentured Indian and Chinese men and women who have been consciously and cruelly written out of British and Caribbean history' -- Heidi Safia Mirza, Professor of Race, Faith and Culture at Goldsmith College, University of London 'Indentured labour was a unique form of labour invented and perfected by the British. This book analyses its history, development and human consequences with remarkable insight and points to its dark moral underside' -- Bhikhu Parekh, political theorist, academic and member of the House of LordsTable of ContentsList of figures Introduction: 'My Father's Journey Made Me Who I Am' Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and David Dabydeen 1. What's in a Face? - Jonathan Phang 2. Black Turkey - David Dabydeen 3. From BG to GB - Elly Niland 4. Made through Movement - Nalini Mohabir 5. Interview: 'Trinidad Implants in you this Wonderful Sense of Carnival' - Bob Ramdhanie 6. A Tribute to the Life of Rudy Narayan (1938-1998) - Lainy Malkani 7. Pepperpot - Gordon Warnecke 8. Scratching the Surface: A Speculative Feminist Visual History of other Windrush Itineraries - Tao Leigh Goffe 9. Everything of Us - Maria del Pilar Kaladeen 10. Three Rivers - Mr Gee 11. Interview: 'Invited then Unwelcomed' - Charlotte Bailey Contributor Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisHilde Lindemann Nelson focuses on the stories of groups of people—including Gypsies, mothers, nurses, and transsexuals—whose identities have been defined by those with the power to speak for them and to constrain the scope of their actions. By placing...Trade ReviewThe nature of identity, especially of groups such as Gypsies, mothers, nurses, and transsexuals is explored by comparing the stories these groups express of themselves against the narratives written about them. * Feminist Academic Press *

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Captivating Technology examine how carceral technologies such as electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms are being deployed to classify and coerce specific populations and whether these innovations can be appropriated and reimagined for more liberatory ends.Trade Review"The book comes at a timely moment, contributing to pressing contemporary conversations about predictive algorithms, bias in AI, new modes of surveillance, and the myriad ways our increasingly technologically mediated lives are experienced unequally along lines of race, class, and gender. . . . Captivating Technology offers a meaningful contribution to public and scholarly discussions of technological (in)justice." -- Naomi Zucker * Somatosphere *"Benjamin presents a rich and original contribution to critical studies of race and technoscience." -- Clara Hick * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Captivating Technology is a powerful and deeply creative text that excavates suppressed histories just as much as it works towards building new futures.” -- Susila Gurusami * Surveillance & Society *“Captivating Technology...is an excellent collection that is compelling both in rich individual chapters and in the synthetic whole.... One of the strengths of this collective volume is its deliberate use of literary technologies.” -- Vivette García-Deister and Anne Pollock * BioSocieties *“[Captivating Technology] is an ideal in action; unfettered by carceral imaginations, scholars can invent different worlds that replace—and not merely, through reform, extend—the discriminatory societies we have made together.” -- David Theodore * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsForeword / Troy Duster xi Acknowledgments / Ruha Benjamin xv Part I. Carceral Techniques from Plantation to Prison 1. Naturalizing Coercion: The Tuskegee Experiments and the Laboratory Life of the Plantation / Britt Rusert 25 2. Consumed by Disease: Medical Archives, Latino Fictions, and Carceral Health Imaginaries / Christopher Perreira 50 3. Billions Served: Prison Food Regimes, Nutritional Punishment, and Gastronomical Resistance / Anthony Ryan Hatch 67 4. Shadows of War, Traces of Policing: The Weaponization of Space and the Sensible Preemption / Andrea Miller 85 5. This Is Not Minority Report: Predictive Policing and Population Racism / R. Joshua Scannell 107 Part II. Surveillance Systems from Facebook to Fast Fashion 6. Racialized Surveillance in the Digital Service Economy / Winifred Poster 133 7. Digital Character in "The Scored Society": FICO, Social Networks, and the Competing Measurements of Creditworthimess / Tamara K. Nopper 170 8. Deception by Design: Digital Skin, Racial Matter, and the New Policing of Child Sexual Exploitation / Mitali Thakor 188 9. Employing the Carceral Imaginary: An Ethnography of Worker Surveillance in the Retail Industry / Madison Van Oort 209 Part III. Retooling Liberation from Abolitionists to Afrofuturists 10. Anti-Racist Technoscience: A Generative Tradition / Ron Eglash 227 11. Techo-Vernacular Creativity and Innovation across the African Diaspora and Global South / Nettrice R. Gaskins 252 12. Making Skin Visible through Liberatory Design / Lorna Roth 275 13. Scratch a Theory, You Find a Biography: A Conversation with Troy Duster 308 14. Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience: A Conversation with Dorothy Roberts 328 Bibliography 349 Contributors 389 Index 393

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Book SynopsisBiko Mandela Gray offers a philosophical eulogy for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Tamir Rice, Alton Sterling, and Sandra Bland that attests to their irreducible significance in the face of unremitting police brutality.Trade Review“[Black Life Matter] is an incredible work examining the lost lives of four key figures in thepost-modern Civil Rights Movement, also known as Black Lives Matter. . . . Mandela Gray does an amazing job at demonstrating, and never forgetting, the recent atrocities and injustices of our culture.” -- Josh Barker * Amsterdam News *“Black Life Matter is a wonderful book that explores the meaning of Black bodies and their corporality as living matter. . . . This book works as an instrument to mourn, honour, and actively remember not only the lives and death of the four victims described in each of the chapters but any other Black life that has been stolen.” -- Felipe Agudelo * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Hands and Braids 31 2. “What I Do?” 55 3. “I Am Irritated, I Really Am” 85 Conclusion 113 Notes 123 Bibliography 149 Index 159

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Book SynopsisArgues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the present, Christopher Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its many forms - including its conventions, paradoxes, and contradictions - is paramount to understanding Black writing.

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Book SynopsisNearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting and contingent nature of Westernness—and also its deep connection to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities of the global South.Trade Review"Western Privilege is a must-read for those interested in race and racialization anywhere. 'Western' and 'white' remain unmarked, static categories in most postcolonial scholarship. In this excellent ethnography, Amélie Le Renard shows ushow these structuring categories are both integral to Gulf social hierarchies and have an enduring global influence."—Neha Vora, Lafayette College"Western Privilege provides a fascinating analysis of Dubai as a hub city of postcolonial globalization. Amélie Le Renard skillfully weaves together consideration of a complex range of issues, such as intersectionality and heteronormativity, to bring new insights to scholars of Arab studies and all who work on globalization and migration."—Pauline Leonard, University of Southampton"Amélie Le Renard's portrait of professional workers in Dubai not only provides an intimate rendering of the workings of privilege, but shows why understanding it must foreground race (particularly whiteness), gender, and sexuality. Western Privilege is a rare intersectional analysis of privilege that is both empirically and theoretically rich."—Shamus R. Khan, Princeton University"Western Privilegecontributes to a discussion about Western hegemony by showing how Westernness and whiteness organise social life in a non-Western context. Moreover, the use of a postcolonial feminist approach allows the author to provide insights into how Westernness is conditioned and shaped by gender, race and class. Besides its scholarly contributions, the book will hopefully prompt those who self-identify as Westerners in the Middle Eastern context to critically examine their own contributions to the social order in question."—Dr Liina Mustonen, London School of Economics Review of Books"Recommended."—S. Waalkes, CHOICE"I applaud Le Renard for a rich and thorough investigation of class, gender, nationality, and race."—Jörg Matthias Determann, Review of Middle East Studies"Western Privilege provides a compelling analysis that speaks to multiple disciplines and regions in the world. It is highly recommended."—Yuting Wang, American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Construction of Skills 2. Structural Advantages in the Job Market 3. Performing Stereotypical Westernness 4. The Heteronormativity of "Guest Families" 5. Relations with Domestic Employees 6. Hedonistic Lifestyles 7. Western Privilege and White Privilege Conclusion

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

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Book SynopsisIf you think TikTok is just an old Ke$ha song and your back feels like it's gonna crack any time you bend over, this Millennial Lotería: El Mid-Life Crisis Expansion Pack is perfect for you. With new cards like El Back Pain, La Insomnia, and El Dad Bod, you'll not only feel seen, but attacked as well. Because if you can't laugh at yourself, Gen Z will do it for you. Millennial Lotería: El Mid-Life Crisis Expansion Pack includes: • 10 new cards • 10 extra game boards • 108 extra bitcoin tokens OMG Important Info: This expansion pack does not contain the full Millennial Lotería game, which is sold separately. If you don't own it yet, make sure to add one to your cart. Like, right now!

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. government conducts a population census every 10 years, adds up the counts by geographic location, and uses the resulting numbers in formulas to allocate seats in the House of Representative and Electoral College, and to make public funding and tax decisions. It has served as an essential tool of representative democracy since 1790. The raw data from the census also serve as a decennial snapshot of the nation, a very long list, organized by household, ideally of all people resident on census day, with additional information on the name, age, race, sex, geographic location, and other characteristics for each individual. Americans recognized early in their history that the raw data, the list, could serve additional governmental functions, and over the centuries, erected guardrails to prevent improper use. They are encapsulated in the presidential proclamations announcing the upcoming census. The information collected from individual households is for aggregated use only, and cannot be used for the “taxation, regulation, or investigation” of individual persons or businesses. Americans have heeded the call to “stand up and be counted.” They also engage in an ongoing conversation to make sure that the information is used properly and ethically, that the census serves as a tool of representative democracy and advances the rights – including human rights -- of all Americans. The record, however, reveals that there have been failures to meet this goal and that as a result the information provided by the responding public sometimes has been misused, causing considerable harm to vulnerable individuals, groups and entities. Today, as governments and social media are suspect for their exploitation of data about individuals, the experience of Americans of Japanese ancestry in the United States during World War II provides a chilling example of such misuse of census data. This book reveals how census officials stepped beyond their normal roles as unobtrusive monitors of American demographic life and helped justify and administer the relocation and incarceration program. Census officials mobilized the substantial administrative and technical resources of the 1940 census, to map the neighbourhoods where Japanese-Americans lived, and planned their systematic removal. The officials then built “census-like” data systems to track the “evacuees” for the duration of the war, monitor their lives in the camps, and certify which “loyal” evacuees might be released from the camps for military or civilian service. After the war, census officials drafted an official history of their activities, but did not publish it. This book has lessons for policy makers and ordinary Americans alike, as we confront the new digital world in which we live. And it speaks to two of the great issues of our time: distrust in the institutions of government and the victimization of minorities.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Before Pearl Harbor. - Chapter 3. December 1941.- Chapter 4. Executive Order 9066.- Chapter 5. June 1942 Evacuation.- Chapter 6. Military Area 2.- Chapter 7. Second War Powers Act.- Chapter 8. Commission of Wartime Reolcation and Internment of Civilians.

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Book SynopsisThis extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic). * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award *An NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Book of the Year *In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional. Only weeks later, Rosa Parks thought about young Emmett as she refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years Trade Review“The Blood of Emmett Till is a work critical not just to our understanding of something that happened in America in 1955 but of what happens in America here and now. It is a jolting and powerful book... swift-flying and meticulously researched.” -- Leonard Pitts * The Washington Post *“An insightful, revealing and important new inquiry into the tragedy that mobilized and energized a generation of Americans to stand and fight against racial bigotry.” -- Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy“Tim Tyson’s genius as a historian, author, and social visionary informs his unique commitment to write truth to power authentically and fearlessly.” -- Dr. Benjamin Chavis, former executive director of the NAACP“What sets Tyson's book apart is the wide-angle lens he uses to examine the lynching, and the ugly parallels between past and present… A terrific writer and storyteller, Tyson compels a closer look at a heinous crime and the consequential decisions, large and small, that made it a national issue.” * Minneapolis Star Tribune *“A critical book... [that] manages to turn the past into prophecy and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it.” -- Vann R. Newkirk II * The Atlantic *“The Blood of Emmett Till unfolds like a movie, moving from scene to reconstructed scene, panning out to help the reader understand the racism and bigotry that crafted the citadel of white supremacy and focusing in on intimate exchanges imbued with meaning....” -- Lawrence Jackson * The Atlanta Journal-Constitution *“No American historian working today captures the nuances of white supremacy and the ways in which it engulfs us all more convincingly than Tyson.” -- Steve Nathans-Kelly * First of the Month *“Astonishingly relevant.... At once thrilling and agonizing.” * Jezebel *“I couldn’t stop reading Timothy Tyson’s The Blood of Emmett Till. It is civil rights history that captivates the reader like a mystery novel....” -- Patricia Bell-Scott, author of The Firebrand and the First Lady“Eloquent and outraged.... A stunning success essential for our times.” -- Nell Irvin Painter, author of The History of White People“It's a beautifully written book, and its importance can't be overstated.” * NPR *“Tyson’s meticulous and absorbing retelling of the events leading up to the horrific lynching in 1955 includes an admission from Till’s accuser that some of her testimony was false.” * New York Times Book Review *“Tim Tyson has universalized the Emmett Till story to make it an American tragedy. His bracing, granular narrative provides fresh insight into the way race has informed and deformed our democratic institutions.” -- Diane McWhorter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home“When good and evil are evident, moral indignation comes easily, and readers might feel self-congratulatory, relieved that we are nothing like that anymore. We need historians like Timothy Tyson to break that spell for us.” * Knoxville News Sentinel *“From one of our finest civil rights historians comes this harrowing, brilliant, and crucial book. The full story of Emmett Till has never before been told. It will terrify you; it should. It will inspire you; it must.” -- Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author of The Family“An account of absorbing and sometimes horrific detail. Comprehensive in scope....” * The New York Times * “Emotional and electric.” * Toronto Star *“Tyson’s powerful narrative sheds new light on the circumstances that led to the murder, makes the case that its influence stretches from the Montgomery bus boycott to the angry protests in Ferguson, Missouri – and argues that the country hasn’t yet come to grips with the roots of any of the above.” * Raleigh News & Observer *“Tyson’s remarkable achievement is that each thread is explored in detail, backstories as well as main events, while he maintains a page-turning readability for what might seem a familiar tale. Cinematically engaging, harrowing, and poignant, Tyson’s monumental work illuminates Emmett Till’s murder and serves as a powerful reminder that certain stories in history merit frequent retelling.” * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *“The Blood of Emmett Till is less concerned with the historical cowardice of Bryant and the white men who effectively lynched Till, and much more invested in the bravery of Emmett Till’s mother, Mamie, and of the courage of the black activists who worked for voting rights and justice amidst the violent horror of life in Mississippi....” * Yes! Weekly *“Neither lurid tale nor political iconography.... Tyson is best with intimacies, when he writes about local people and their relationship to one another and to place. He takes special care with mise en scene, providing a rich portrait of the world of Emmett Till.” * Chapter 16 *“In many ways, Timothy Tyson is the ideal author to explore new details surrounding the lynching death of Emmett Till....” * Winston-Salem Chronicle *“Tim Tyson’s profound eloquence and groundbreaking evidence capture the cries of Emmett Till and the rise of a movement, and will call us to the cause of justice today.” -- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, president of the North Carolina NAACP and author of The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Social Justice Movement“A scathing re-examination.... [Tyson] makes it all new and relevant.” * Winston-Salem Journal *“Groundbreaking new evidence and Tyson’s masterful prose make The Blood of Emmett Till a devastating indictment of America, both past and present.” -- Danielle McGuire, author of At the Dark End of the Street“Tyson gives us a history that challenges everything we thought we knew about Emmett Till.” -- Crystal Feimster, author of Southern Horrors“More than simply a retelling of the story of Till’s death and the subsequent trial, the book incorporates new sources into the narrative… In the course of telling this story, Tyson explores larger, more important lessons about America’s long, bitter struggle with race.” * Greensboro News & Record *“Rip-roaring.... Tyson has produced a brief, sharp re-evaluation of the case, reminding us that a murder 61 years ago still has resonance.” * Star News *“This highly readable book is likely to remain the final account of the Till murder and trial and its impact in the United States and abroad. It will appeal to anyone interested in African American history and the judicial process.” * Library Journal * “Ripe for optioning.” * Hollywood Reporter *“Bolstered by prodigious research... the well-presented details... add atmosphere. In addition, Tyson is masterful at explaining how the Till murder became a major cause of the civil rights movement. Especially resonant today is the author's focus on obtaining voting rights for blacks in Southern states that denied those rights before the Till murder.... Tyson skillfully demonstrates how, in our allegedly post-racial country, a "national racial caste system" remains in place.” * Kirkus Reviews *“Till’s memory burns brighter with each passing year and remains a touchstone for understanding white violence against black men today.” -- William Ferris, co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture“Compelling.... With Tyson’s new book, and Carolyn Bryant Donham’s remarks, we have reason to revisit a period in our history when bigotry, blood, and sacrifice became a call to action. “ * Vanity Fair *“A riveting, richly detailed account of the crime that ignited the civil rights movement.” * Bookpage *“Clear, concise and well-documented.” * Florida Times-Union *“Apply[s] diligent research, scrupulous perspective and a vigorous aptitude for weaving pertinent public and intimate details.” * USA Today *“Skillfully tells the story of the gruesome murder and its still-resonant aftermath.” * Tampa Bay Times *“Drawing on Bryant’s only interview, Tyson reexamines the crime that launched the civil rights movement.” * AARP *“Tyson does an admirable job of condensing and updating information about the case, using a 2006 FBI report on Till’s murder to weave together a historical tapestry.” * Austin American-Statesman *“Tyson’s profound conclusion moves the Emmett Till tragedy into the present time.” * CounterPunch *

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Book SynopsisHas multiculturalism failed? Is it time to move on? What is the alternative? Ali Rattansi explores the issues, from national identity and social cohesion to cultural fragmentation and 'political correctness'. Providing a balanced assessment of the truth and falsity of the charges against multiculturalism, he explores new ideas for the future.Trade ReviewAnyone seeking an authoritative analysis of multiculturalism need look no further than this book. Comparative in nature, sophisticated yet accessible, it demolishes the myths that opponents have created around multicultural policies. The author also provides an incisive contribution to where the debate about such poicies should move in the future. * Professor Lord Anthony Giddens *Ali Rattansi has written a highly accessible and academically sound analysis of research outcomes and actual policy measures in Britain and several other West European immigration countries, in particular France and the Netherlands. He argues convincingly that implementing core Western values cannot but lead to a form of multiculturalism, even though most politicians no longer like to give it that name. I highly recommend reading this book. * Han Entzinger, Erasmus University Rotterdam *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. What is multiculturalism? ; 2. Is multiculturalism bad for women? ; 3. Is multiculturalism responsible for social disintegration, ghettos and 'parallel lives'? ; 4. Ethnic minority integration, class inequality and 'community cohesion' ; 5. National identity, belonging and 'the Muslim question' ; 6. Moving on: multiculturalism, interculturalism and transnationalism in a new global era ; References ; Further Reading

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Book SynopsisPeople of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race gone so crazy?Bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting black communities and weakening the social fabric.We''re told to read books and listen to music by people of colour but that wearing certain clothes is ''appropriation.'' We hear that being white automatically gives you privilege and that being black makes you a victim. We want to speak up but fear we''ll be seen as unwoke, or worse, labelled a racist. According to John McWhorter, the problem is that a well-meaning but pernicious form of antiracism has become, not a progressive ideology, but a religion and one that''s illogical, unreachable, and unintentionally neoracist.In Woke Racism, McWhorter reveals the workings of this new religion, from the original sin of ''white privilege'' and the weaponization of cancel culture to ban heretics, to the evangelical fervour of the ''woke mob.'' He shows how this religion that claims to ''dismantle racist structures'' is actually harming his fellow black Americans by infantilizing black people, setting black students up for failure, and passing policies that disproportionately damage black communities. The new religion might be called ''antiracism,'' but it features a racial essentialism that''s barely distinguishable from racist arguments of the past.Fortunately, for all of us, it''s not too late to push back against woke racism. McWhorter shares scripts and encouragement with those trying to deprogramme friends and family. And most importantly, he offers a roadmap to justice that actually will help, not hurt, black people.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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Book SynopsisA genre-bending YA that weaves together inner-city life and awildly dangerous fairytale universe. Rapunzella is imprisoned in an enchanted forest made of her ownAfro and the might of the evil King Charming seems unstoppable. But is it? Can Rapunzella use her power to change the future?

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Book Synopsis2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazine’s declaration that 2014 marked a “transgender tipping point,” was widely believed to signal a civil rights breakthrough for trans communities in the United States. In Terrorizing Gender Mia Fischer challenges this narrative of progress, bringing together transgender, queer, critical race, legal, surveillance, and media studies to analyze the cases of Chelsea Manning, CeCe McDonald, and Monica Jones. Tracing how media and state actors collude in the violent disciplining of these trans women, Fischer exposes the traps of visibility by illustrating that dominant representations of trans people as deceptive, deviant, and threatening are integral to justifying, normalizing, and reinforcing the state-sanctioned violence enacted against them. The heightenedTrade Review“Fischer’s novel approach . . . yields utterly compelling analytical results and promises to make a lasting contribution to work on the racialized surveillance practices of the state by accenting its gendered aspects.”—Rachel Hall, Women’s Studies in Communication“Terrorizing Gender is an incendiary contribution to media studies and transgender studies. With brilliant rigor, Fischer shows how recent U.S. transgender visibility has occasioned a revival of narratives presenting trans people as deviant and threatening. . . . The result, as Fischer masterfully illustrates, is an extremely limited public trans visibility, premised on replicating white supremacy and violent policing of those trans people who do not or will not comply with state regulation. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in transgender politics and media.”—Aren Z. Aizura, assistant professor of gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota, and author of Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment“Mia Fischer’s Terrorizing Gender valuably unsettles normative assumptions and reveals precarious implications of the vaunted transgender ‘tipping point.’. . . Terrorizing Gender’s compelling necropolitical critique floodlights the conditions and obfuscations of trans precarity, and its closing call to embody Tourmaline’s politics of ‘nobodiness’ offers a promising glimpse of visibility’s queer future.”—Charles E. Morris III, professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University and coeditor of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking“Methodologically innovative and theoretically sophisticated, this brave book exposes how transgender people in the United States are increasingly subject to state-sanctioned violence and surveillance practices. . . . This book will occupy a central place on my shelf as it bridges the fields of surveillance, trans, and media studies, and critical race and feminist theory. I can’t wait to teach it.”—Shoshana Magnet, associate professor at the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies, University of Ottawa“An essential resource for students of queer and trans media, and more broadly media studies students seeking to understand the relationship between representation and lived experiences. . . . The substantiation in Terrorizing Gender of the many ways in which (hyper)visibility in the media reproduces and reinforces the state’s regulation of trans lives is a timely and valuable addition to the existing trans, queer, and feminist media scholarship on visibility and will assuredly inform the future of these fields.”—Ash Kinney d’Harcourt, Feminist Media Studies"Terrorizing Gender ultimately asks media scholars to move beyond reductive debates over “good” and “bad” representation, instead pointing to the more insidious ways in which visibility as a directive both obscures more entrenched struggles in marginalized communities as well as contributes directly to increased political violence toward those who are most at risk."—Erique Zhang, International Journal of Communication“Reveal[s] a set of interlocking and coordinated harms, psychic and physical, that course through individual and group actors, mass media representations, and the state.”—Jeanie Austin, RGWS: A Feminist ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Transgender Tipping Point? 1. Pathologizing and Prosecuting a (Gender) Traitor 2. Transpatriotism and Iterations of Empire 3. Blind(ing) (In)justice and the Disposability of Black Life 4. Materializing Hashtag Activism and the #FreeCeCe Campaign 5. Sex Work, Securitainment, and the Transgender Terrorist Coda: The Perils of Transgender Visibility Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMedina Tenour Whiteman stands at the margins of whiteness and Islam. An Anglo-American born to Sufi converts, she feels perennially out of place—not fully at home in Western or Muslim cultures. In this searingly honest memoir, Whiteman contemplates what it means to be an invisible Muslim, examining the pernicious effects of white Muslim privilege and exploring what Muslim identity can mean the world over—in lands of religious diversity and cultural insularity, from Andalusia, Bosnia and Turkey to Zanzibar, India and Iran. Through her travels, she unearths experiences familiar to both Western Muslims and anyone of mixed heritage: a life-long search for belonging and the joys and crises of inhabiting more than one identity.Trade Review‘A sincere and nuanced reflection on race, identity and the author’s experiences as a white Muslim. … [with] beautiful prose and equally beautiful analogies.’ -- The New Arab'Whiteman shows considerable insight, sensitivity, and perception to many of the issues she introspectively ponders over at great length ... a wonderfully interesting and rewarding book, writing in an engaging and compelling style.' * Muslim World Book Review *‘A remarkably balanced, well-researched account of the Muslim world, with nine pages of resource material expanded upon at the back of the book. Each chapter in her book is a mini travelogue comprising of life and historical events crafted with eloquent writing and sharp-witted humour.’ -- The Daily Star'An important contribution to the conversation about diversity that deserves to be widely read. A rare perspective--peaceful, balanced, lucid and attractive. It might well be a glimpse into the future of a British Islam, confident in its identity, at ease with its setting.' -- Leila Aboulela, author of 'Bird Summons', 'Minaret' and 'The Translator''Medina Tenour Whiteman has approached a unique, complicated branch of Muslim identity with sensitivity and nuance. This book shows that faith is more than adherence to ritual--it is also a means to find oneself.' -- Hussein Kesvani, author of 'Follow Me, Akhi''A bold and beautifully written memoir of searing honesty and warmth. Whiteman gracefully grapples with the complex layers of identity, whiteness and culture as she maps out the landscape of her life, all the while drawing in history and belief in her uniquely eloquent style.' -- Remona Aly, journalist and broadcaster

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Book SynopsisPaul Robeson''s Voices is a meditation on Robeson''s singing, a study of the artist''s life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson''s voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned in the contexts of singing practices, in recital, concert, and recorded performance, and as subject of identification. Olwage asks: how does the voice encapsulate modes of subjectivity, of being?Combining deep archival research with musicological theory, this book is a study of voice as central to Robeson''s sense of self and his politics. Paul Robeson''s Voices charts the dialectal process of Robeson''s vocal and self-discovery, documenting some of the ways Robeson''s practice revised the traditions of concert singing in the first half of the twentieth century and how his voice manifested as resistance.Trade Review“The key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents.” - Nina Eidsheim, author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American MusicThe key to understanding Paul Robeson's global humanitarian legacy and cosmopolitan musical imagination, Grant Olwage proposes, can be found by listening to his vocal intelligence, technique, and music-historical awareness. Bold, clear, lyrical, deeply researched and including new archival material, Olwage's polyvocal narrative follows Robeson's 'voices' across continents. * Nina Eidsheim, Author of The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music. *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Companion Website Introduction: Voice-Thinking 1. Becoming Paul Robeson's Voice 2.

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Book SynopsisBeware Euphoria uncovers the roots of America''s moral obsession with drug regulation, offering a lively and fascinating history of the nation''s racialized fear of intoxication. Challenging the idea that early antidrug laws in the US arose from racial animus, George Fisher instead shows in textured detail how US drug laws were driven by a deep-seated cultural taboo against euphoria and a preoccupation with white moral integrity.From nineteenth-century opium dens to the war on cocaine and cannabis, and more, Fisher offers a vivid tour of the sites of conflict, along with a convincing case for how the moral discourses and social contexts of the day pit drugs against the law. Bringing this history up to the present, Fisher shows how the racial dynamic has changed dramatically. As harsher penalties swell prisons with mostly nonwhite dealers, antidrug laws have come under renewed scrutiny as a tool of racial oppression. The book closes with an examination of cannabis legalization, driven i

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Book SynopsisRobert A. Margo mines a wealth of newly available census data and school district records to explore the experience of blacks in the American economy. Identifying the links between educational expenditures, racial discrimination, and occupational mobility, he clarifies the costs of segregation.

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Book SynopsisIn popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK participated in and penetrated popular American culture, reaching far beyond its paying membership to become part of modern American society. The Klan owned radio stations, newspapers, and sports teams, and its members created popular films, pulp novels, music, and more. Harcourt shows how the Klan's racist and nativist ideology became subsumed in sunnier popular portrayals of heroic vigilantism. In the process he challenges prevailing depictions of the 1920s, which may be best understood not as the Jazz Age or the Age of Prohibition, but as the Age of the Klan. Ku Klux Kulture gives us an unsettling glimpse into the past, arguing that the Klan did not die so much as melt into America's prevailingTrade Review"This sobering and important book powerfully explains the relationship of Ku Klux Klan members and the broader 'Klannish' movement to the emergence of modern American culture in the 1920s. In a time when white supremacy was widespread and unapologetic, the Ku Klux Klan was enormously popular. Drawing on an impressive body of research, Harcourt shows us the remarkable extent to which the Klan became central to American culture of the day. Klan newspapers proliferated nationally and gained huge circulations. Klannish Americans played songs like 'Onward Christian Klansman' and 'Daddy Swiped our Last Clean Sheet and Joined the Ku Klux Klan' on their phonographs and radios; indeed, a Klan-controlled radio station became the fifth most powerful in the nation. Popular books catered to cultural fascination with the Klan. Major publishers nudged authors to take a pro-Klan tone, as readers cancelled subscriptions to publications critical of the Klan. Klan baseball teams and basketball teams were widespread, and sometimes sensationally competed against Catholic, Jewish, and African-American rivals. While Harcourt shows that many found the Klan profoundly un-American, it was very much present at the creation of, and influenced the shape of modern popular culture."--Elaine Frantz "author of Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan during Reconstruction " "Offers some useful background information. . . . An exhaustive survey of Klansmen's appearances, variously as heroes or villains, in the era's novels, movies, songs, plays, musicals, and more." --Adam Hochschild "New York Review of Books " "An impressive work of archival history. . . .The book is essential reading, because it shows that, rather than a radical fringe group, the 1920s KKK was a central, well-respected part of white Protestant culture."--Raphael Magarik "The Forward " "An intriguing exploration of the rise and fall of the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan. . .Recommended."--Choice "In this detailed and impressively researched book, Harcourt demonstrates that the Ku Klux Klan was embedded in the popular culture of the 1920s, showing that the Klan absorbed and took part in distinctive aspects of American popular culture, including movies, music, print media, radio, and sports. The book clearly establishes the Klan's presence in American popular culture during the 1920s, which in itself is an important contribution to the debates concerning the representativeness, relative modernity, and impact of the Klan on American life, despite its political failures. This is an important and original book in Klan historiography."--Thomas R. Pegram "author of One Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s " "An outstanding book that will appeal to laypersons and scholars alike. It deserves a wide readership . .With sharp analysis and clear writing, Harcourt has substantially increased our understanding of racism and xenophobia in the 1920s and identified new directions for further inquiry."--The Annals of Iowa "A valuable resource for anyone researching American culture during the 1920s."--American Journalism "A superb piece of scholarship. . .[Harcourt] is particularly good at showing how anti-Klan cultural productions helped legitimatize the Klan's views."--Eric Herschthal "The New Republic " "With this impressively researched monograph, historian Felix Harcourt works to dislodge a stubborn myth about the 1920s Ku Klux Klan: that the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire operated at the margins of American life."--The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era "Ku Klux Kulture breaks new ground. . .A handy reference work that will be much used. . .Harcourt piles on the evidence to support the book's thesis that the Klan, both as subject and consumer, was at the center of American popular culture in the 1920s."--Arkansas Review

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Book SynopsisBy employing new 'optics' and a comparative approach, this book helps us recognize the unexpected and unsettling connections between America's 'western' empire and Nazi Germany's 'eastern' empire, linking histories previously thought of as totally unrelated and leading readers towards a deep revisioning of the 'American West' and the 'Nazi East'.Trade Review“This book provides a valuable and uncharted insight into two dark moments of history. Kakel deserves considerable credit for tackling such an important and scarcely addressed topic. … Kakel’s work provides a fascinating and detailed assessment of two atrocity-laden nationalist projects and does so by unearthing profound insight without obscuring the individual histories. Any scholar of transnational history would do well to read this work and incorporate its lessons and approach into their own work and teaching models.” (Derrick J. Angermeier, H-War, H-Net Reviews, March 2018)Table of ContentsMaps and Illustrations Preface Introduction PART I: CONTINENTAL IMPERIALISM Empire: National Projects of 'Space' and 'Race' Racial 'Othering': 'Manufacturing Difference' PART II: SETTLER COLONIALISM Conquest and Expansion: 'Obtaining' New 'Living Space' Colonization: 'Peopling' the Empire 'Out-Group' Policy: 'Eliminating' the 'Natives' PART III: FRONTIER GENOCIDE War and Genocide: 'Cleansing' the Lebensraum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing that transnational studies reinforce essentialist conceptions of identity and cultural authenticity in diasporic communities, and thus frustrate the promotion of ethnic co-existence and social cohesion in multi-ethnic societies.Trade Review'The study reveals a greater complexity to Chinese life in Britain than has been assumed to be the case, and clearly shows how a distinct identity has emerged and is now threatened, as young modern Chinese rely less on ethnic customs forged over the last century. The book also provides a useful case study of exclusionary practices of the dominant white society in Britain, and how they have influenced, for good and bad, British Chinese identity.' - CHOICE 'A reawakening, a rejection of infatuation with fashionable theories and concepts. The authors have stayed close and true to the studies of Chinese diaspora...Thus, the book is a valuable contribution towards to the understanding of similarities and more importantly diversities among Chinese communities.' - Yow Cheun Hoe, East Asia 'The most ambitious publication to date about the often overlooked Chinese population. The work offers a blend of history and anthropology that combines empirical depth with analytical perceptiveness. It demonstrates an unparallelled historical depth of scholarship. The book places Chinese in Britain in comparative context with Chinese migrants in other parts of Europe and North America. The authors' critique of transnationalism offers a starting point for a wider reflection on the state of Chinese migrant studies today.' - David Parker, Diaspora 'A major breakthrough in the study of European Chinese history and society that deserves a close reading by anyone interested in diasporic Chinese affairs. I suggest the authors and publisher consider bringing out a Chinese version to benefit those with no English.' - Liu Hong, International Journal of Diasporic Chinese Studies 'A comprehensive survey of the social and economic experiences of this group in an often unwelcoming host society. While the book's primary intended audience is scholars of the sociology of globalization and transnational studies and its primary focus is the twentieth century, there is much in this clearly written, thoroughly researched, and theoretically provocative account to interest a wider readership in Victorian studies. As we once again enter an era marked by profound ambivalence regarding China's role on the world stage, Benton and Gomez's work provides a timely antidote to all-too-common assumptions regarding the supposed ethnic unity of the Chinese and the historical novelty of their current economic prominence in national and international affairs.' - David Porter, Victorian Studies 'The first comprehensive study of the long history of Chinese migration to Britain. It corrects many misunderstandings in transnational studies and is a must-read for those studying Chinese migration, transnationalism, Chinese identity and British-Chinese relations. It will also be important for those who take an interest in Chinese business practices in Britain.' - Elena Barabantseva, The China Journal 'Does a great job of providing an unusually rich amount of detail on the Chinese historical presence in Britain.' - Leo Douw, China Information 'The most substantial monograph on the Chinese in Britain to date.' - Pal Nyiri, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Migration and Settlement The Chinese Economy in Britain Institutions and Divisions Transnationalism British Racism and the Shaping of the Chinese Community Ethnic Culture and Identity Conclusions Appendices: Companies Owned by British Chinese

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Book SynopsisAlex Zamalin offers a groundbreaking examination of African American visions of utopia and their counterutopian counterparts. Considering figures linked to racial separatism, postracialism, anticolonialism, Pan-Africanism, and Afrofuturism, he argues that the black utopian tradition continues to challenge American political thought and culture.Trade ReviewFor its recovery of utopian thinking as creatively and politically productive in African American literature, however, Zamalin earns high marks. -- Joel Wendland-Liu, Grand Valley State University * Journal of American Ethnic History *What makes this book worth examining are the vivid, detailed dreams envisioned — and made concrete — despite oppression, despite years of torture. -- Rochelle Spencer * On the Sewall *An instructive guide for all those who are interested in deepening their knowledge of American history and thinking critically about American politics. . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Covering considerable ground with unusual eloquence and depth, Alex Zamalin brilliantly elucidates the contours of a black utopian tradition that poses a forceful challenge to our contemporary modes of political theorizing. Like the utopias and dystopias it delineates, Black Utopia both inspires and unsettles the reader in critically productive ways. This is first-rate scholarship. -- Simon Stow, John Marshall Professor of Government and American Studies, College of William and MaryCrisply written and compellingly argued, Black Utopia traces a remarkable genealogy of black utopian and anti-utopian thought from Martin Delany in the early nineteenth century to Octavia Butler in the early twenty-first. A versatile cultural historian and political theorist, Alex Zamalin reveals that the democratic hope for racial equality and social justice has historically overcome dystopian conditions, ranging from slavery to present-day racism, while animating the African American intellectual imagination. -- Gene Andrew Jarrett, author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American LiteratureAlex Zamalin's focus in this engaging text is the underside of the more familiar modes of African American writing. From this hidden ground, he captures imaginative creations that have been fed by African American doubts, fears, and despair about democracy and racial equality in America. These creations have been both utopian and dystopian as opposed to strategic and reformist. Beginning with Martin Delany and concluding with Octavia Butler, Black Utopia is an exquisite introduction to this more hidden strain of African American thought. -- Paget Henry, author of Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean PhilosophyAlex Zamalin balances generosity and critique in a careful yet energetic and buoyant manner. -- Joseph Winters, author of Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of ProgressTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Utopia and Black American Thought1. Martin Delany’s Experiment in Escape2. Turn-of-the-Century Black Literary Utopianism3. W. E. B. Du Bois’s World of Utopian Intimacy4. George S. Schuyler, Irony, and Utopia5. Richard Wright’s Black Power and Anticolonial Antiutopianism6. Sun Ra and Cosmic Blackness7. Samuel Delany and the Ambiguity of Utopia8. Octavia Butler and the Politics of Utopian TranscendenceConclusion: Black Utopia and the Contemporary Political ImaginationNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberatioTrade Review"Argues for a more expansive field of Black intellectual history that includes, not just other genres of writing, but also art and cultural practices of specific communities. . . and race-conscious social organizations and institutions, such as the early Black masonic lodges and later HBCUs and the 'Divine Nine' fraternities and sororities that sent forth generations of Black activists, scholars, and artists." --Society for U.S. Intellectual History "Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and well-documented. . . The Black Intellectual Tradition provides information and insights of great value to educators and scholars of all disciplines, genders, and racial/ethnic identities." --Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Writing Revolutions's specific focus on the anarchist press sheds necessary light on the complexity of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century anarchist networks among a variety of Hispanophone social groups from the U.S., Latin America, and Europe." --American Periodicals"High-quality and worth reading. " --Anarcho-Syndicalist Review"This phenomenal collection brings to light the breadth, depth, and interconnectedness of the Spanish-speaking anarchist movement in the United States, as well as the transnational networks that linked it to Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Essential reading for anyone interested in either anarchism or Hispanic labor and radicalism."--Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in the United States"Anarchism in the United States was so misunderstood and feared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that governmental authorities at all levels worked their hardest to obliterate it, smash its presses and deport or imprison its leaders. Government mail censors, G-men, local sheriffs, not to mention political hacks and journalists were so successful in their persecution that most of the documents necessary to study this idealistic, social justice movement were destroyed and are still missing today. The editors and authors of the well documented, enlightening essays in Writing Revolution have done the yeomen’s work of tracking down a good portion of this legacy that was so important in educating workers and establishing the rights they still vouchsafe today. Castañeda and Feu, inveterate researchers into Latino history and identity, have taken the lead in restoring the role played by Spanish-language anarchist print in the development of Latino working-class culture. That the editors and writers here were able to trace the transnational networks of the Hispanic anarchists, as well as locate and study such a large sampling of their periodicals and documents has not only the potential of filling gaps in our history but also of providing a whole new corpus of texts that will put a lie to the concept that only the victors get to tell their stories. Castañeda, Feu, and their collaborators have restored the testimonies of so many activists and organic intellectuals that it will take many other scholars years to follow up on and study their discoveries."--Nicolás Kanellos, author of Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno"This new collection edited by Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu fills a substantial historiographical gap in the English language on Hispanic anarchism in the United States. The collection is sprawling in its ambition, with chapters ranging from discussions of early Spanish Republicanism and important but largely forgotten figures to analyses of individual newspapers and magazines. Despite this conglomeration of topics, the book flows easily, thanks in part to its chronological and thematic organization. " --The Volunteer

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn insightful critique of ethnomusicology that challenges its colonialist roots and the resulting inequalities and exclusionary practices. At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice provides multiple paths to restructuring the discipline around the ideologies of social justice. In the process, the 'new norm' embraces difference—the ideas, opinions, approaches, and priorities of historically marginalized groups. This book turns the discipline on its head with the goal of encouraging ethnomusicologists to engage in self-reflection on how we research, teach and practice ethnomusicology. At the Crossroads of Music and Social Justice is an ideal companion for monographs on the history of the field. -- Portia K. Maultsby, coeditor of Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation and African American Music: An Introduction, 2nd ed.The book's emphasis on a justice-oriented ethnomusicology offers hope. Gathering what could be called testimonio-like narratives by established scholars, the editors work to reimagine the field as one that is justice-oriented and in the process take the pulse of this exciting and necessary discipline. The editors have culled the work of authors to present the pedagogical implications as well as the practice of a social justice approach to the study of music and to performance. They are spot on in grouping the chapters around four main themes: Truth Telling and Listening Lovingly, Radical Inclusivity, Coalition Building, and Direct Action. The contributors' voices build a coherent picture through intriguing explorations of the field and offer new directions toward a justice-oriented ethnomusicology. -- Norma E. Cantú, Trinity UniversityTable of ContentsPreface, by Andrew G. Snyder and Katelyn E. BestAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Pathways toward a Justice-Oriented Ethnomusicology, by David A. McDonaldPart I: Truth Telling and Listening Lovingly1. Diversity on Repeat: The Deceptive Cadence of Social Domination in Ethnomusicology, by Kyra D. Gaunt2. Social Justice and My Work as a Music Scholar, Teacher, and Artist, by Steven Loza3. Punk and Politics and Transforming Musical Academe, by Brenda M. Romero4. Going Forward with Vigilance: American Indian Music is Always There, by Charlotte W. Heth5. Deliver Me from Danger, Èşù-Elgbára! Musical Offerings in Social Justice, by Paul AusterlitzPart II: Radical Inclusivity6. Ethnocentrism 2.0: Hearing-Centrism, Inclusivity, and Musical Expression in Deaf Culture, by Katelyn E. Best7. Pink Menno Hymn Sings: Queerness, Inclusivity, and the Mennonite Church, by Katie J. Graber8. Unsettling Euro-American Conceptions of Race in the Egyptian Independent Music Scene, by Darci Sprengel9. Reclaiming Nanook of the North, Tanya Tagaq's Sonic and Performative Counterpoints to Inuit Stereotypes, by Ho Chak Law10. "If I Could Go Back in Time": Rethinking Popular Culture, Social Justice, and the Compassionate Gaze in Palestine, by David A. McDonaldPart III: Coalition Building11. Promoting Social Justice through Traditional Irish Music: A New Model for Applied Research, by Alexandria Carrico12. The Sonic Politics of Interracial Coalitions, by Susan M. Asai13. "¡Vamos a Pelear en la Guerra!": Musical Manifestations of Coalition Building in the South Texas Chicano Movement, by Erin E. BauerPart IV: Direct Action14. "Music is Liberation": The Brass Liberation Orchestra and Direct Action, by Andrew G. Snyder15. Ecological Frictions and Borderless Futures: Art and Activism on a Sailing Ship, by Rebekah E. Moore16. Raising the Imperative for Direct Action, by Susan M. Asai17. Circling Back on Direct Action: On Difference and Representation, by Brenda M. RomeroList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWhy has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighbourly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? This title delves into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian imagination grew, to reveal how Christianity's highly refined process of socialization has inadvertently created and maintained segregated societies.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2011 American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in the Constructive-Reflective Study of Religion categoryWinner of the 2015 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion presented by the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville"Jennings excavates the major theological issues involved as the old world encountered—violently—the new and engaged in displacement and racialization of the 'subjugated' peoples. At stake is a whole way of conceiving the self, the other, and the world of their mutual relations."—Miroslav Volf, Yale University"There is no study that I know of that traces with such detail, consistency, insight, historical depth and geographic spread, the links between racism, capitalism and Christian theology. A brilliant piece of work."—Walter Mignolo, Duke University"How did Christianity become so closely identified with racial segregation and oppression? Jennings successfully addresses a question that others have taken for granted or left unanswered. This original and important book has the potential to change the way theology is done henceforth in America."—Cheryl Sanders, Howard University

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Book SynopsisThe rediscovery of a pivotal figure in Black history and his importance and influence in the struggle against slavery and discriminationTrade Review“Samuel Ringgold Ward’s fascinating life is emblematic of the netherworld between slavery and freedom that many Black Americans navigated during the nineteenth century. Smart and well told, Blackett’s biography gives us a truly diasporic account of the struggles of one such important figure.”—Claude A. Clegg III, author of The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia“This peripatetic former slave, abolitionist, journalist, and preacher who crossed nineteenth-century American, Canadian, British, and Jamaican borders has long eluded biographers. No longer. Through studious research, window-pane prose, and sober judgments, eminent historian R. J. M. Blackett finally grasps the fascinating Samuel Ward.”—Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, author of Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America’s Coastal Slave Trade“Ward emerges from Richard Blackett’s superb biography as a towering presence in the international antislavery movement who never shrank from ‘troubling the waters’ in his pursuit of racial justice.”—Julie Winch, author of A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten

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Book SynopsisA collection of illustrated essays highlights the works of influential Black artists from Washington, DC, from the 1920s to the present

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Book SynopsisIn recent years there has been a steady increase in the racial and ethnic diversity of the playing workforce in many sports around the world. However, there has been a minimal throughput of racial and ethnic minorities into coaching and leadership positions. This book brings together leading researchers from around the world to examine key questions around race', ethnicity and racism in sports coaching.The book focuses specifically on the ways in which race', ethnicity and racism operate, and how they are experienced and addressed (or not) within the socio-cultural sphere of sports coaching. Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, it examines macro- (societal), meso- (organisational), and micro- (individual) level barriers to racial and ethnic diversity as well as the positive action initiatives designed to help overcome them. Featuring multi-disciplinary perspectives, the book is arranged into three thematic sections, addressing the central topics of representation Table of ContentsIntroduction: ‘Race’, Ethnicity and Racism in Sports Coaching, Part I: Representation and racialised barriers in sports coaching, 1. The under-representation of racial minorities in coaching and leadership positions in the United States, 2. ‘Fit for doing but not fit for organising’: Racisms, stereotypes and networks in coaching in professional football in Europe, 3. Is there a glass ceiling or can racial and ethnic barriers be overcome? A study on leadership positions in professional Belgian football among African coaches, 4. Race, ethnicity, whiteness and mediated stereotypes in football coaching. The Dutch context, 5. British Asian football coaches: Exploring the barriers and advocating action in English football, Part II: Racialised identities, diversity and intersectionality in sports coaching, 6. Finding the ‘natural’: Talent identification and racialisation in sports coaching and selection practices in Australia, 7. A Freirean perspective on coaching and indigenous players’ journeys to the NRL and AFL: From freedom to oppression?, 8. Black women, intersectionality and sport coaching, 9. Beyond the Xs and Os: The representation of black college coaches, 10. Transnational coaches: A critical exploration of intersections of race/ethnicity and gender, Part III: Formalised racial equality interventions in sports coaching, 11. When the law won’t work: The US National Football League’s extra-judicial approach to addressing employment discrimination in coaching, 12. Using reflexive regulation to increase the racial diversity of professional football coaching in England: the EFL voluntary code of recruitment, 13. Game changer or empty promise? The EFL mandatory code of coach recruitment in men’s professional football youth academies in England, Part IV: Conclusions, 14. Priorities for researching ‘race’, ethnicity and racism in sports coaching and recommendations for future practice

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Book SynopsisInvisible Voices explores the intersection of criminology and history as a way of contextualizing the historical black presence in crime and punishment in the UK. Through case studies, court transcripts, and biographical accounts it reimagines the understanding/s of the role of history in shaping contemporary perceptions. The book: Moves beyond the confines of presenting criminological history' as monocultural Demonstrates how mainstream criminology' is complicit in obscuring hidden criminological histories'' Critically assesses the implications regarding the positioning of the black presence' within the discipline of criminology Revises current thinking around excluded, marginalized, and muted histories, when looking at crime and punishment' as a whole. The opening chapters lay the foundation for locating the historical black presence in crime and punishment, whilst offering practicalTrade Review‘Thrillingly unique and meticulously researched, Glynn provides an urgent re-imagination of criminology as we know it.’David Lammy, MP‘Glynn makes an impassioned plea to locate the historical within the contemporary and black presence within the absence. The collation of historical sources invite the reader to envision an illuminating black historical criminological imagination that offers an important disciplinary contribution.’Professor Coretta Phillips, London School of Economics and Political Science‘Black people’s presence in the history of criminal justice in the UK suffers from a fate even worse than the "enormous condescension of posterity" that E. P. Thompson says was imposed on the English working class. With this book Glynn supplies a corrective as he rescues black "activists, advocates, revolutionaries, writers and artists" from the oblivion of white erasure. Out of the archives rise the voices of black people from the 17th, 18th, and 19th century. Court transcripts, crime registers, slave trades, and other sources provide a presence that Glynn fashions into an important narrative. It is a narrative against condescension and oppression that points to a richer future for criminology.’Rod Earle, Senior Lecturer in Youth Justice, The Open University'Glynn argues that the discipline of criminology cannot continue to be shaped by "academic neutrality" which often involves omitting the historical experiences of Black people. Glynn shares real accounts of the brutalisation and dehumanisation that slaves were subjected to. He provides an evidence-based backdrop to the powerful points he makes about the ties of slavery to present-day systemic racism. Glynn also shares evidence of an ex-slave providing testimony in court; perhaps you were - as Glynn was - unaware that ex-slaves were permitted to testify in court. In sharing this account, Glynn highlights that the version of the history of the UK’s justice system most commonly cited is limited and excludes historic and significant Black voices. We often learn of White trailblazers or ‘elite’ Black figures active in the abolitionist movement but seem to have collective amnesia when it comes to Black activists, writers, speakers, potent forces for social progress for centuries. Glynn argues that unless we admit - academically and in society at large - that "the historical other’" continue to be reproduced in modern systems of oppression, "a continuing legacy of racialized dominance" will be perpetuated.' Mia Edwards, Policy and Communications Officer, Alliance for Youth JusticeTable of ContentsSECTION 1 Locating the Black Presence in Crime and Punishment Prologue CHAPTER 1 Towards a Black (Historical) Criminological Imagination CHAPTER 2 Researching the Black Presence in Crime and Punishment CHAPTER 3 Gathering the Information CHAPTER 4 Don’t Gaslight Me, Slavery Matters SECTION 2 Trials and Transcripts CHAPTER 5 The Case of Arthur William Hodge CHAPTER 6 The Case of John Kimber CHAPTER 7 The Case of Sir Thomas Picton CHAPTER 8 The Case of William Woodcock CHAPTER 9 The Case of John Hogan SECTION 3 Black Voices Speak CHAPTER 10 Visible Voices Provocation The Case of James Sommersett – The Negro Case Olaudah Equiano Mary Prince Ottobah Cugoano CHAPTER 11 Activists, Participants, and Rulers Provocation William Davidson – Cato Street Conspiracy William Cuffay The Chartist Movement Robert Wedderburn The Ten-Point Program Black Police Officers Robert Branford, 1817–1869: London Police Superintendent John Kent 190 Richard ‘King Dick’ Crafus CHAPTER 12 McNaughton and Black Rage Epilogue Criminologist as Historian

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Book SynopsisA frank appraisal of the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa, this study explores social conditions and political constraints, and proposes both options for a new South Africa and a post-Cold War foreign policy for Southern Africa as a whole.

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Book SynopsisThe ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of capitalism.Trade Review"In his usual grippingly lucid prose, Ghassan Hage gives us here an insightful critique of the intrinsic connection between racism and speciesism in their most 'ungovernable' contemporary expressions, namely, Islamophobia and the planetary ecological catastrophe. He thereby exposes the politico-metaphysical foundations of Western colonialism alongside with the colonialist – in the broadest and deepest sense – foundations of Western metaphysics, particularly in its capitalist expression with its relentless need of so–called primitive accumulation. By showing, with the help of anthropological classics such as Mauss and Lévy-Bruhl, that our own anthropotechnics of 'generalized domestication' (one of the most innovative concepts of this book) is by no means the only human way of ecologizing – of making ourselves at home in the world – Hage offers us a nuanced, subtle analysis of the metonymic and metaphorical wolves that haunt the obsessive 'mono-realist' project of capitalism, whose glaring failure is now forcing us to pay increased attention to the counter-hegemonic modes of existence (re)emerging through the widening cracks in the ecocidal and racist-colonial nomos of Modernity." —Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The National Museum of Brazil"[This fine book speaks] to the deep healing in people's relations with each other and with the earth that's needed if we are to meaningfully address the damage being done to both our social and natural environments. [Hage] sheds persuasive light on why action on climate change is stalled at the level of talk, by linking it to racism. To him this signals the (largely white male) elites projecting their fear of loss of power onto the racialized 'other' to avoid coming to terms with their need for power through domination, which underlies the environmental crisis in the first place. […] Anyone interested in helping to break this impasse by better understanding it will find this book invaluable."—Watershed Sentinel"Hage has written a rich and profoundly thought-provoking and original monograph on the intertwining of anti-racism and environmentalism."Politics, Religion & IdeologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Islamophobia and the becoming-wolf of the Muslim other 2 Islamophobia and the dynamics of ecological and colonial over-exploitaion 3 The elementary structures of generalized domestication Conclusion: Negotiating the wolf

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Book SynopsisThe Irish have always been proud of their contribution to Manchester. Alan Keegan and Danny Claffey's Irish Manchester: A Third Selection combines many previously unpublished photographs with well-researched captions to create a fascinating picture of the Irish community in the city.

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Book SynopsisWhite by Law was published in 1996 to immense critical acclaim, and established Ian Haney López as one of the most exciting and talented young minds in the legal academy. The first book to fully explore the social and specifically legal construction of race, White by Law inspired a generation of critical race theorists and others interested in the intersection of race and law in American society. Today, it is used and cited widely by not only legal scholars but many others interested in race, ethnicity, culture, politics, gender, and similar socially fabricated facets of American society.In the first edition of White by Law, Haney López traced the reasoning employed by the courts in their efforts to justify the whiteness of some and the non-whiteness of others, and revealed the criteria that were used, often arbitrarily, to determine whiteness, and thus citizenship: skin color, facial features, national origin, language, culture, ancestry, scientific opiniTrade ReviewWhite by Law remains the definitive work on how American law constructed a & white race at the turn of the twentieth century. Haney López has added a chapter to the new edition, a sobering analysis of how, in our own time, 'colorblind' law and policy threaten to perpetuate, not eliminate, racial inequality. A must-read -- Mae M. Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern AmericaTen years after its initial publication, White by Law remains the definitive treatment of the naturalization cases, and provides a compelling account of the role of law in constructing race. A wonderful combination of thematic development and historical excavation, one leaves this revised edition with a thoroughgoing understanding of the ways in which citizenship functioned not only to include and exclude but as a process through which people quite literally became white by law. -- Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, UCLA School of LawPraise for the 10th Anniversary Edition White by Law remains one of the most significant and generative entries in the crowded field of & whiteness studies. Ian Haney López has crafted a brilliant study, not merely of how & race figures in the juridical logic of U.S. citizenship, but of the ways in which law fully participates in the wholesale manufacture of those naturalized groupings we know as 'races.' A terribly important work. -- Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights AmericaPraise for the 1st edition: Haney López performs a major service for anyone truly interested in understanding contemporary debates over racial and ethnic politics. . . . A sobering and crucial lesson for a society committed to equality and fairness. -- Martha Minow,Harvard Law SchoolHere is one work that proved challenging to review with a fresh eye, having been widely reviewed and discussed since its original publication more than 10 years ago….While one’s first question upon picking up such a book could easily be & why bother? with the re-release of an older work, in this case, the strategy works….[T]he addition of the author’s personal narrative in the Preface and his intriguing view into the future with the new conclusion will add to the book’s pedagogical value. In sum, Haney Lopez has provided a piece of scholarship worthy of bringing out a curtain call on its 10th anniversary. * Law and Politics Review *Table of ContentsPreface to the Revised and Updated Edition Acknowledgments A Note on Whiteness 1. White Lines 2. Racial Restrictions in the Law of Citizenship 3. The Prerequisite Cases 4. Ozawa and Thind 5. The Legal Construction of Race 6. White Race-Consciousness 7. The Value to Whites of Whiteness 8. Colorblind White Dominance Appendix A. The Racial Prerequisite CasesAppendix B. Excerpts from Selected Prerequisite Cases Notes Bibliography Table of Legal Authorities Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lynn Mie Itagaki's book is an incisive critique of the civil racism that has become dominant in both liberal and conservative discourses of race in the post-Civil Rights era."—Daniel Kim, Brown University"Given recent urban unrest that lays bare tensions between state power, late capitalism, and race, this is a timely book."—CHOICE"Civil Racism considerably advances literature on the concept of racial civility. Lynn Mie Itagaki's text will be of significant interest to race—specifically those in Asian American studies—and feminist scholars, pushing readers to consider how systems of oppression manifest in insidious forms such as civility."—Journal of Asian American Studies"Exceptionally timely."—American Literary History"Much-needed contribution."—Critical Ethnic Studies "As a sociologist coming to this work, I found Itagaki’s elaboration of civil racism theoretically rich and relevant for many other facets of race relations in the US post-Cold War context. [...] I appreciated Itagaki’s careful use and analysis of language. Calling the events that occurred in 1992 a rebellion instead of a riot provides insight into how the rest of her book centers the subversion of people of color in the face of state oppression. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about race, intersectionality, citizenship, and critical literary/media analysis." —Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies AssociationTable of ContentsContentsA Note on TerminologyPrefaceIntroduction: The 1992 Los Angeles CrisisPart I: Racial Civility1. Model Family Values and Sentimentalizing the Crisis2. In/Civility, with Colorblindness and Equal Treatment for All3. The Territorialization of Civility, the Spatialization of RevengePart II: Counterdiscourse of Civility4. At the End of Tragedy5. The Media Spectacle of Racial DisasterEpilogue: Lives That MatterAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations | ix Introduction: Two Minds | 1 1 “Whiteness Visible”: Critical Whiteness Studies and O’Connor’s Fiction | 13 2 Race, Politics, and the Double Mind: Flannery’s Correspondence versus O’Connor’s Fiction | 36 3 Theology, Religion, and Race: Constant Conversion and the Beginning of Vision | 70 4 “Africanist Presence” and the Role of Black Bodies | 97 5 The Failure and Promise of Communion | 125 Acknowledgments | 145 Works Cited | 149 Index | 155

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely political and historical study of racism in America, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy is informatively enhanced with the inclusion of fifty-two pages of Notes and a fourteen page Index. Of particular relevance and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, college, and university library Contemporary Social Issues, African-American Racial/Political History, and African/American Demographic Studies collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, political activists, governmental policy makers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy is also available in a digital book format."—Midwest Book Review"Dr. Clarence Lusane’s recently published Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriett Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy, walks us through the history of the faces that adorn American currency and all the arguments for and against Tubman’s ascension to be the face of the twenty. He adroitly covers a vast historical landscape with poetry and precision and places the “Tubman Debate” into the context of current racial hierarchies and politics."—Romi Mahajan, Countercurrents"Thoughtfully balanced and nuanced, Twenty Dollars and Change explores the ways that American hero and national icon Harriet Tubman resonates across racial, gender, and political divides. Lusane captures not only the significance of historic symbols, but how winning the fight over representation and memory advances the ongoing struggles for racial justice and democracy right now." —Janell Hobson, editor of Ms. Magazine's Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project and author of When God Lost Her Tongue: Historical Consciousness and the Black Feminist Imagination "Twenty Dollars and Change offers a metaphor about two Americas: one striving to live up to its promise of justice and liberty, and the other mired in the bloody legacy of white supremacy. The historical arc Lusane provides demonstrates that the freedom struggle changes its cast of characters over time, but never forsakes its hope for liberation. A great and refreshing read."—Loretta Ross, author of Calling In the Calling Out Culture "Twenty Dollars and Change travels the back alleys of fear of racist white America. . . .Harriet Tubman’s image on the money is an opportunity to establish the symbol of democracy she wanted, one where actions led by a conceived idea of being inferior or superior are crushed. Clarence Lusane has put it where the goats can get it. An extraordinary and wonderful book."—Tina Wyatt, great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman, co-founder of Harriet Tubman Day, Washington D.C. "In this original and brilliantly conceived book, acclaimed political scientist Clarence Lusane offers an incisive analysis of how racism and inequality shaped—and continues to shape—American society."—Keisha N. Blain, coeditor, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 "Twenty Dollars and Change is a future-gazing guide to who we must be to become who we claim to be." —Kali Holloway, columnist for The Nation and The Daily Beast (from the foreword) "Urgent and inspiring, Twenty Dollars and Change should compel the U.S. Treasury to make real our core value of equality for all with currency images that honor the contributions and humanity of African Americans, Native Americans, women, and all marginalized people of this country. Dr. Lusane sees Tubman as a Founding Mother of American democracy yet to come, and offers a persuasive case how a new twenty and change can get us there sooner.”—Barbara Ortiz Howard, Founder of “Women on 20s” "Twenty Dollars and Change offers powerful analyses of race and U.S. history and our present crucible moment. . . . A must read." —Barbara Ransby, author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century "As challenges to racial justice, women's rights, and democracy itself intensify, Lusane's sober and historically rooted analysis provides much needed clarity and insight. . . .Twenty Dollars and Change is exactly the book we need at this moment."—Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, CA "Clarence Lusane reminds us that we all can contribute enormously to a more perfect society based on the dignity, diversity, and democracy of the peoples. In that spirit, and with great clarity and integrity, Lusane calls on us to wake up, fight back, and never back down until justice prevails." —Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne Hodulgee Muscogee), Writer, Editor, Curator, Native Indigenous Rights Advocate, and Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom "Lusane teaches us of the starkly contrasting lives of Tubman and Jackson, and captures blow-by-blow the intricacies of the struggles over changing currency before connecting them to broader ones in the moment of Donald Trump and George Floyd."—David Roediger, author of Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White"Clarence Lusane's Twenty Dollars and Change is truly impressive—a genuinely sweeping work.” —Tom Engelhardt, editor of TomDispatch, and author of A Nation Unmade by WarTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTSForeword by Kali HollowayPrefaceIntroductionI. TWENTY DOLLARSOne: Symbolism MattersTwo: Harriet Tubman Represents Solidarity, Struggle, and Genuine DemocracyThree: Andrew Jackson’s Face Is a Meme for White SupremacyFour: The Movement to Transform the Faces on U.S. CurrencyFive: The Tubman Twenty—Black Support and OppositionSix: Conservative Hostility to the Tubman TwentyII. AND CHANGESeven: Fear of a Diverse AmericaEight: From 1619 to Covid-19, Racism is a Pre-existing ConditionNine: The George Floyd CatalystTen: Abolishing Symbols of White SupremacyEleven: Black Voters MatterConclusion: Good Trouble and a Harriet Tubman–Inspired FutureAcknowledgmentsBibliographyEndnotesIndex About the Author

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