Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

Book SynopsisThe melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America’s history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist. Instead, they advocate multiculturalism, which promotes ethnic boundaries and distinct group identities. Both models have precedents across the centuries, as Jens Heycke demonstrates in a contribution to the debate that incorporates an international, historical perspective.Heycke surveys multiethnic polities in history, focusing on societies that have shifted between the melting pot and multicultural models. Beginning with ancient Rome, he demonstrates the appeal of a unifying, syncretic identity that diverse individuals can join, regardless of their ethnic or racial origins. He details how early Islam, with its ideal of an inclusive ummah, integrated diverse groups, and even different faiths, into a cohesive and flourishing society. Both civilizations eventually abandoned their integrative ideals in favor of a multicultural paradigm. The consequences of that paradigm shift are instructive for societies that seek to emulate it.In the modern era, many nations have implemented multicultural policies like group preferences to compensate for past injustices or current disparities. Heycke examines some notable examples: Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. These nations were on a rough trajectory toward ethnic tolerance and comity, a trajectory that multicultural policies altered dramatically. They contrast with Botswana, a country that opposes group distinctions so resolutely that it prohibits the collection of racial and ethnic statistics.Since World War II, ethnic conflicts have killed over ten million people. But the consequences of ethnic division go far beyond that. Heycke analyzes those consequences in an international statistical survey of ethnic fractionalization. This survey, combined with the extensive historical record of multiethnic societies, illustrates the staggering costs of accentuating group differences and the benefits of a unifying identity that transcends those differences.Trade Review“Jens Kurt Heycke provides a much-needed, meticulously researched—and courageous—defense of the melting pot from classical antiquity to 21st-century America. His data and analyses show how and why the assimilationist model alone has always unified fractionalized ethnic and racial groups into a coherent national whole. Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire stands as a dire warning to beleaguered Western democracies that have foolishly rejected the melting pot that has so often proven the pathway to their survival and success.”—Victor Davis Hanson, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of Mexifornia: A State of Becoming“The United States has been, from its colonial beginnings, a multiethnic society. It has had to choose between being a melting pot society—assimilating newcomers and, while appreciating different heritages, seeking a single national identity—and a multicultural society, with separate enclaves and official quotas and preferences for those deemed members of different groups. Americans are not the first nation to face such a choice and, in Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire, Jens Kurt Heycke shows how other societies have faced this choice—and why Americans should embrace the melting pot model in the future.”—Michael Barone, senior political analyst, Washington Examiner, and founding co-author, The Almanac of American Politics

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Book SynopsisThe first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots activism in the decades since its decline, Black Power Afterlives represents a major scholarly achievement as well as an important resource for today's activists. Through its focus on the enduring impact of the Black Panther Party, this volume expands the historiography of Black Power studies beyond the 1960s-70s and serves as a bridge between studies of the BPP during its organizational existence and studies of present-day Black activism, allowing today's readers and organizers to situate themselves in a long lineage of liberation movements.Trade Review“What Fujino and Harmachis have done with this collection of articles is comparable in scope to Charles Jones’ The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered), and Judson Jeffries’ Comrades, both superb and deeply critical anthologies, but with a provocative twist: what would be the historical impacts of the Black Panther Party half a century hence? As a young member of the original collective, I can say without contradiction, we were so busy, and often so nerve-wracked that we barely thought about the next 50 minutes, much less 50 years! Fujino and Harmachis show us that history is never done. It runs like a river, sometimes rushing, sometimes meandering, but always moving.” —Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party“Black Power Afterlives constructs an urgently needed bridge between the Black Power era and the Black Lives Matter movements of today. Deftly side stepping well-trod ground, authors trace how the Panthers' international engagements, artistic practices, ideological frameworks and community organizing have continued to influence new generations of activists. By locating the Panthers' richest legacies in the work of students, poor Black folks and Black queer feminists and in the sustained commitment of political prisoners, it reminds readers of the transformative possibilities of struggle.” —Robyn C. Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panthers Party in Oakland“The Black Panther Party’s 1966 armed actions against police brutality in Oakland’s black community reorganized mainstream consciousness in the US. The BPP exposed entrenched notions of gun-ownership as the exclusive right of white Americans. The Party’s armed cop-watch, aesthetic exaltation of blackness, and challenges to capitalism also released black resistance from the state’s ideological grip. Black Power Afterlives is the first book to explore this post-60s reorganization of black consciousness, resistance and humanity. Its intervention is as urgent and rich as the legacy of the Black Panthers.” —Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History“Black Power Afterlives gives us concrete insights into the continuing significance of the Black Panthers without the common iconization and stereotypes. Through carefully chosen writings and interviews we are reminded of the transformative power of movements and real people that envision a far more just and equitable future for humanity and the planet.” —Claude Marks, director, The Freedom Archives“The vivid, engaging, and compelling testimonies that Diane C. Fujino and Matef Harmachis have collected in Black Power Afterlives offer unparalleled insights about the origins, evolution, and continuing influence and impact of the Black Panther Party. This is an indispensable book, one that demonstrates how oppositional social movement organizations fuel future struggles long after they seem to have departed from the scene.” —George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Tender and determined, these meditations on the enduring afterlives of the Black Panther Party illuminate the incandescent dreams of freedom joining one revolutionary generation to another. The essays and conversations—on art and prison, ecology and the spirit—focus on the lessons rank-and-file Panthers have to offer today's rank and file. They remind us of the eternal dedication and determination required of us all.” —Dan Berger, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era“Black Power Afterlives shares important insights about the Black Panther Party and radical activism. Examining an inheritance that bridges two centuries, it explores mobilizations against poverty, exploitation, imprisonment, violence and war. Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalitions sought to wrest victories from police in order to secure "Power to the People." With prescience, Hampton warned that he would not die slipping on icy Chicago streets, and that we either organize with radical intent or forget him. Black Power Afterlives remembers Fred and the sacrifices of those who fought and fight for their communities—especially political prisoners. Recognizing the need to free them all, and our communities, Black Power Afterlives builds an archive and a foundation for continued struggles.” —Joy James, author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics“There are more stories of the deep and continuing legacy of the Black Panthers than can be contained in any one book, but Black Panther Afterlives does a good job at beginning to fill the gap. Editors Fujino and Harmachis present us with a must-read book, essential to a true understanding of the positive ways in which Panther politics can and do enrich our lives today.” —Matt Meyer, secretary-general, International Peace Research Association; co-editor and author, Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions“Black Power Afterlives is full of fascinating accounts of those carrying on the Panther legacy and makes a compelling case for a re-evaluation of the Black Panther Party's lasting political influence.” —Yonas Makoni, CounterfireTable of ContentsContentsForeword | Kathleen CleaverIntroduction | Diane C. Fujino and Matef HarmachisI. The Persistence of the Panther1. Assata Shakur: The Political Life of Political Exile | Teishan A. Latner2. “We Had our Own Community:” Hank Jones, Spaces of Confinement, and a Vision of Abolition Democracy | Diane C. Fujino3. Kiilu Taught Me: Letters to My Comrade | Tina BartolomeII. Sustainability and Spirituality4. A Spiritual Practice for Sustaining Social Justice Activism: An Interview with Ericka Huggins | Diane C. Fujino5. Serving the People and Serving God: The Everyday Work and Mobilizing Force of Dhameera Ahmad | Maryam Kashani6. EcoSocialism from the Inside Out | Quincy SaulIII. Sankofa: Pan-African Internationalism7. The (R)evolution from Black Panther to Pan-Africanism: David Brothers and Dedon Kamathi at the Bus Stop on the Mountain Top of Agit-Prop | Matef Harmachis8. States of Fugitivity: Akinsanya Kambon, Pan-Africanism, and Art-based Knowledge Making | Diane C. FujinoIV. Art, Revolution, and a Social Imaginary9. “Art that Flows from the People:” Emory Douglas, International Solidarity, and the Practice of Co-creation | Diane C. Fujino10. Poetic Justice: Fred Ho’s Music and Politics and the Influence of the Black Power Movement | Ben BarsonV. The Real Dragons Take Flight: On Prisons and Policing11. Legacy: Where We Were, Where We Are, Where We Are Going? | Sekou Odinga and dequi kioni-sadiki12. Black August Organizing to Uplift the Fallen and Release the Captive | Matef Harmachis13. The Making of a Movement: Jericho and Political Prisoners | Jalil Muntaqim14. Dialogical Autonomy: Michael Zinzun, the Coalition Against Police Abuse, and Genocide | João Costa VargasVI. Black Panther Legacies in a Time of Neoliberalism15. Black Student Organizing in the Shadow of the Panthers | Yoel Haile16. Black Queer Feminism and the Movement for Black Lives in the South: An Interview with Mary Hooks of SONG | Diane C. Fujino and Felice Blake17. The Impact of the Panthers: Centering Poor Black Folks in the Black Liberation Movement | Blake Simons18. The Chinese Progressive Association and the Red Door | Alex T. Tom

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a transnational study of the impact of musical cultures in the Eastern Baltics—Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Russia—at the end of the Cold War and in the early post-Communist period. Throughout the book, the contributors explore and conceptualize transnational musical collaboration and the diffusion of information, people, and ideas focusing on musical activity which shaped the moral and artistic outlook of several generations. The volume sheds light on the transformative power of politically and socially engaged music and offers a deeper understanding of the artistic potential of societies and its impact on social and political change.Table of ContentsIntroductionRūta Stanevičiūtė and Małgorzata Janicka-SłyszPart One: Cultural Encounters and Musicians’ Networking1. From Ignorance to Familiarity: Lithuanian and Polish Musical Networking During the Cold WarRūta Stanevičiūtė, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre2. On Forms of Memory and Freedom in Polish and Lithuanian Music before and after 1989Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow3. The Musical Meetings in Baranów and Sandomierz as Oases of FreedomDominika Micał, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow4. Rebellion and Identity: A Generational Breakthrough in Polish Music in the 1970sKinga Kiwała, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, KrakowPart Two: The Musical Expression of Cultural and Political Liberation5. The Idea of Freedom in Krzysztof Penderecki’s Works: From Experience to ExpressionIwona Sowińska-Fruhtrunk, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow6. Nodes and Turning Points in the Life and Art of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki as a Resonance of Polish Politics and History in the Second Half of the Twentieth CenturyTeresa Malecka, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow7. The Dimensions of Freedom in Wojciech Marczewski’s Movie Escape from the “Liberty” Cinema and Witold Leszczyński’s Siekierezada (Axiliad): Music Functions in FilmsEwa Czachorowska-Zygor, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow8. Lithuanian Music in Transition: Independent Festivals of the 1980s and 1990sVita Gruodytė, Lithuanian Academy of Music and TheatrePart Three: Music and Politics before and after the Fall9. Disco Culture and the Ritual Journey in the Soviet 1980sKevin C. Karnes, Emory University10. The Ganelin Trio, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and US-Soviet Cultural Exchanges in the 1980sPeter J. Schmelz, Arizona State University11. On the Other Side of Freedom: The Band Miłość and the Polish Yass SceneAndrzej Mądro, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music, Krakow12. Critics’ Choice: New Russian Music Criticism and Leonid DesyatnikovOlga Manulkina, Saint Petersburg State UniversityEditors and ContributorsIndex of Names

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Book SynopsisThis revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern AmericaIn American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous late-nineteenth century focus on wealthy individuals and tycoons while downplaying the very high social and economic stresses they caused. The Age of Discontent reveals that it was not the tycoons, but rather the laborers and farmers, who in a great uprising of popular democracy reinvented the nation for the emerging industrial world never imagined by the Founders. Facing conditions far worse than previously documented, they overcame the frayed social safety net and violent opposition to pull off what the labor leader John Mitchell has described as the Second Emancipation, which addressed a dangerously tilted playing field with government programs and legislation. Based on meticulous primary source research and integrating music, photographs, artworks, and statistical data, this sweeping history places grassroots activists and reformersmany recognized for the first timeat center stage in a fascinating success story of perseverance and commitment.

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Book SynopsisGender equity can't happen without racial equity. We need Shared Sisterhood.Bias persists in organizations and society. Despite efforts that have been made in the last few decades, gender and racioethnic equity still hasn’t been achieved. What's worse, Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latina women are being held back more than their White counterparts.We need to change how we strive for equity. We must move beyond individual solutions toward collective action, where people from historically power-dominant and marginalized groups work together, so that all women experience the benefits of professional growth and equity. We need Shared Sisterhood, and anyone, regardless of gender, can join in.Professor Tina Opie first started Shared Sisterhood as a movement to drive gender and racial equity in organizations. Since then, she and professor Beth A. Livingston have worked together to spread the word to leaders across organizations, with thousands of followers joining the cause. In this book, they explain how to use vulnerability, trust, empathy, and risk-taking to build Shared Sisterhood and break down three key parts of the process: Dig into your own assumptions around racioethnicity, gender, and power Bridge the divide between women of all backgrounds through authentic relationships Advance all women across the organization and beyond Balancing a mix of history, research, and real-life examples—including the authors' own experiences—this book encourages everyone to join Shared Sisterhood and advance equity for all.Trade ReviewNamed one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2022 by Forbes"Readers aiming to create equality at work will find great takeaways here." — Publishers WeeklyAdvance Praise for Shared Sisterhood:"A hopeful and inspiring work that shows us what can be accomplished when White women choose solidarity with their Black sisters." — Robin DiAngelo, author, White Fragility and Nice Racism"If you, like millions of us, desperately wish to find a way to understand each other, bridge our gaps, and work together toward creating a kinder, safer, and more equitable world for everyone, Shared Sisterhood is the way forward." — Amy Cuddy, social psychologist; bestselling author, Presence"In this powerful book on how to build bridges across race and gender divides, Opie and Livingston share actionable advice for handling difficult conversations with compassion and vulnerability—and advancing structural and cultural change in your workplace." — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author, Think Again; host, TED WorkLife podcast"Grounded in the power of partnership of heart, mind, and soul of women, Shared Sisterhood offers a novel approach for overcoming the diversity challenges organizations face." — Tsedal Neeley, Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, Harvard Business School; author, Remote Work Revolution; coauthor, The Digital Mindset"Shared Sisterhood is a blueprint for how women can work together across fraught divides and establish new models of collaboration that have the potential to change the workplace and our lives." — Mehret Mandefro, CEO, Truth Aid Media"Opie and Livingston make a deeply compelling case for the importance of authentic connection between people—and offer a clear, actionable pathway for how we get there as leaders and change makers, one powerful step at a time." — Frances Frei, professor, Harvard Business School; author, Unleashed"Shared Sisterhood provides a step-by-step guide on how to heal relationships across racial differences and use those relationships to form the basis of collective action and actual change. This book is a must read." — Minda Harts, author, The Memo, Right Within, and You Are More Than Magic

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Book SynopsisPostsecondary language classrooms present a profound problem as they become breeding grounds for the perpetuation of racial discrimination and linguistic inequalities. Racialized students encounter numerous barriers, both institutional and individual, that hinder their language learning and overall educational experiences. The prevailing monolingual and monocultural norms marginalize and erase the linguistic and cultural identities of these students, reinforcing power imbalances and maintaining oppressive structures. Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms offers a much-needed solution to address the pervasive issues surrounding race and language within higher education. Edited by Xiangying Huo and Clayton Smith, this transformative book presents an opportunity for scholars, educators, and researchers to confront and challenge the deeply ingrained racism, linguicism, and neo-racism present in language classrooms. Through an intersectional lens, the book not only exposes the complex intersections between race and language but also provides practical strategies to combat these injustices and create inclusive learning environments. With a diverse range of topics, from power dynamics and native speakers to multilingualism and anti-oppressive pedagogies, the book equips readers with the necessary tools to effect meaningful change. It amplifies marginalized voices, highlights lived experiences, and emphasizes the importance of anti-racist and anti-colonial practices in language education. By offering research-based chapters and employing various methodologies, the book empowers educators, administrators, and policymakers to dismantle oppressive systems and cultivate environments that foster racial justice and liberation. Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms catalyzes the transformation of language education in higher institutions. It paves the way for a paradigm shift that prioritizes inclusivity, social justice, and equitable language learning. By engaging scholars, researchers, and educators across disciplines, this book has the potential to reshape language classrooms and dismantle systemic barriers that perpetuate racial discrimination. It is a vital resource for those invested in creating an educational landscape that values and celebrates the diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds of all students, ultimately contributing to a more just and inclusive society.

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Book Synopsis“Shakil is a rare jewel in the work of what it means to heal, repair, and take responsibility... This book is required reading for anyone interested in building a loving, just and diverse world.”—Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher & author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake UpRacial justice without shame or blame.Road-tested tools to start making a difference today.In Deep Diversity, award-winning racial justice educator Shakil Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism using a compassionate, scientific approach that everyone can understand—whether you are Black, Indigenous, a person of color (BIPOC), or white.With clear language and engaging stories that will appeal to readers of Brené Brown and Malcom Gladwell, Choudhury explains how and why well-intentioned people can perpetuate systems of oppression, often unconsciously. Using a trauma-informed approach that removes shame or blame, he offers us the tools to recognize, take authentic responsibility, and enact deep change. In easy-to-absorb chapters, Choudhury interweaves research into the brain and studies on human behavior with hard-won lessons from his career of helping organizations and CEOs create more inclusive environments. He models vulnerability and mistake-making, sharing examples of his own bias-missteps so readers are encouraged into their own racial justice journey without judgment.Readers will come away from the book with practical tools and an understanding of: How to becomes a systems thinker by developing “racial pattern recognition” skills in order to challenge racism and other forms of systemic discrimination when we encounter them, while minimizing the tendency to shame or blame ourselves or others. How to recognize when the unconscious influence of bias, identity, emotions, or power contradict our beliefs about equality, and how to realign our thoughts/words/actions. How to break the racial “prejudice habits” we have all been socialized into since birth, using research-based strategies. How the rise in authoritarianism and income inequality (among other factors) contribute to a rise in hate crimes and racial discrimination, and what to do about it. Traditional approaches to anti-racism overly rely on analyzing history to explain systemic discrimination, which only tells us a part of the story. What’s missing, Choudhury argues, is to understand why humans do what we do, the evolutionary impulses underlying our group-ish nature and our struggles with power, bias, and social dominance. This is why psychology and neuroscience perspectives are critical to integrate into anti-racist work, as is practicing compassion for ourselves and for others. Deep Diversity is a unique, evidence-based approach to racial justice that seeks to overcome feelings of shame that so often block our progress and prevent deep change at individual and systemic levels.Deep Diversity meets you where you’re at, regardless of your identity, class, ability, or belief system, and invites you to come along on a journey of self-discovery, social awareness, and lifelong learning.It’s only just begun.“Choudhury draws on heart-touching stories, research on the brain, and hard-won lessons from real-world interventions to offer useful strategies to know ourselves, and others better.”—New York Times-bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, Rick HansonTrade Review“In Deep Diversity, Shakil reminds us that compassion and love allow us to sidestep the need for shaming and blaming—approaches that so often undermine our message. Urgently insightful.”—Drs. Bryan Nichols and Medria Connolly, Clinical Psychologists and Advocates for Reparations To Descendants of American Slavery“Racism continues to be a defining issue in our lives. Deep Diversity is a call to action that encourages us to look deeply at our patterns. If we uncover what we half-consciously feel and what influences our feelings, can we change our bias? Shakil Choudhury says we can and shows us how through this thoughtful, relevant offering.”—Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Change“This new edition of Deep Diversity illuminates with striking clarity the roots and expressions of racism and cultural divides. It provides a panoramic view of our social landscape and a deep dive into issues of implicit bias, personal and systemic power dynamics, and the potential for healing and racial justice. Shakil Choudhury's insight and compassion provide a welcoming framework for engaging with one of the most important challenges of our times.”—Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening“A breakthrough book about how to achieve the kind of racial equity that goes far beyond traditional notions of ‘diversity’… Everyone working on race issues should read this book.”—Rinku Sen, Former Executive Director, Race Forward and Publisher, Colorlines (New York, NY) “Hands-down the most useful, accessible book I have read on strategies for achieving deep, enduring racial equity… should be required reading for every 21st Century leader.”—Suzanne Hawkes, Convergence Strategies“Gripping, fast-paced, and immediately practical. Drawing on heart-touching stories, research on the brain, and hard-won lessons from real-world interventions … Shakil Choudhury helps us know ourselves better by knowing others better––for our own sake, and for the sake of our fragile shared world.”—Rick Hanson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom“An important analysis to help us achieve the genuine reconciliation that we must achieve between Canadians and Indigenous peoples in order to move forward.”—Arthur Manuel, Neskonlith, Secwepemc Nation, co-author of Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call“We’ve been caught in an anti-oppression Ground Hog Day where we keep repeating Racism, Oppression and Privilege 101. In Deep Diversity, Shakil Choudhury helps us peel back the layers of systemic discrimination to have a more nuanced discussion and rethink strategies to eliminate racism.”—Septembre Anderson“In these wrenching and heartbreaking times, Deep Diversity generously provides tools, reflections, and a path forward. The historical Buddha taught 'hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is the world healed.' Shakil is a rare jewel in the work of what it means to heal, repair, and take responsibility. I am so grateful to Shakil for sharing his wisdom, tenderness, and compassion. This book is required reading for anyone interested in building a loving, just and diverse world.”—Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher & author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake Up“As a pastor in one of the most diverse cities in the world, I am deeply committed to learning how to better love those around me. Deep Diversity is a valuable secular resource for those of us in the faith-based community as we strive to love and relate to those around us.”—Darnell Wilson, Equipping Pastor at Discovery Pointe Church“A valuable read for leaders looking to better understand how to successfully lead today’s increasingly diverse workplace environments. Choudhury helps us to understand what’s behind our inherent biases and beliefs about those different from us, and what we can do to overcome them in order to create a more inclusive workplace environment and worldview.”—Tanveer Naseer, MSc., author of Leadership Vertigo“Deep Diversity is demystifying, moving and resourceful for the seasoned social justice educator as well as for any person interested in moving beyond a tolerance based approach towards racial justice.”—Geraldine Paredes Vasquez, Co-Founder of WHY Bolivia and Co-Chair International Affiliation Group, Latin America – Association for Experiential Education“It was a pleasure to read Deep Diversity! Shakil’s book is thoughtful, insightful and informative. It does a beautiful job of weaving critical frameworks, theories, neuroscience, and mindfulness together to teach readers about inclusion.”—Ritu Bhasin (LL.B. MBA), People Strategist & Diversity Specialist“Deep Diversity is a breakthrough book taking a giant step towards overcoming pervasive racism in our society. Combining in-depth research and analysis with moving personal stories, Choudhury gives us a simple step-by-step approach to overcome centuries of racial hierarchy by understanding each of us is part of the problem and part of the solution.”—Judy Rebick, writer, journalist, activist, author of Occupy This! and Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution“Shakil Choudhury offers a genuinely new and fresh understanding of how we see and so often do not see each other. He offers practical tools for insight and learning in transforming from an “Us versus Them” mentality to a mindset that honours and grows our deep diversity. Meticulously researched and beautifully written in an inviting narrative style, this is a must-read for anyone concerned with race, difference, and diversity.”—James Orbinski, Head of Mission for Doctors Without Borders during Rwandan genocide, author of An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century“While reading this wonderful book, I felt alternately humbled, deeply moved, in admiration, grateful, impatient, and profoundly hopeful – sometimes all at once… Shakil’s willingness to hold his mistakes up for scrutiny and insight invited me to do the same. He matter-of-factly insists that each of us, no matter what body we’re in, has a responsibility to heal the racism in ourselves and in the world around us. It’s infectious because the book doesn’t stop there. Written into every chapter are specific skills we can practice as citizens of the world wanting to live in connection with our neighbours.”—Barb Thomas, social justice facilitator, writer, and activist, co-author of Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations

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Book SynopsisWhat does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial cultures and policies? What can travel tell us about our sense of self, of home, of belonging and identity? Why has the world order become hostile to human mobility, as old as humanity itself, when more people are on the move than ever? Nanjala Nyabola is constantly exploring the world, working with migrants and confronting complex realities challenging common assumptions – both hers and others’. From Nepal to Botswana, Sicily to Haiti, New York to Nairobi, her sharp, humane essays ask tough questions and offer surprising, deeply shocking and sometimes funny answers. It is time we saw the world through her eyes.Trade Review'Reading Travelling While Black feels like engaging in a conversation that I have always wanted to have. … Inspirational, thoughtful and informative' -- The World Today'Travelling While Black constantly urges us to look beyond the self, to larger historical acts, to contextualise our, and others’ lives. All this without losing sight of our humanity.' -- Travel Writing World

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Book SynopsisIn Pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals uses interviews and real-world case studies to delve into how initiatives like self-help groups and community lending have empowered women and contributed to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of poverty reduction (Goal 1) and women's empowerment (Goal 5).

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Book SynopsisWhile forced marriage and 'honour-based' violence attract media attention, little is known about the issues and experiences of South Asian women and children who are affected by gendered violence.This book explores the key theoretical and empirical issues involved in gendered violence, ethnicity and South Asian communities. The editors draw together leading researchers and practitioners to provide a critical reflection of contemporary debates and consider how these reflections can inform policy, research and practice. The contributors consider the primacy of religion and culture, and how South Asian women face multiple and intersecting forms of violence. Future directions for facilitating improved services for survivors of violence against women from different racial and ethnic backgrounds are also proposed.Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities will have widespread relevance for professional academics, researchers, students, policy makers, practitioners and anyone concerned with gendered violence within South Asian communities.Trade ReviewIts sounds a bleak picture, but it is not, because the book is a testimony to the strength, solidarity and persistence of the resistance movement. It is a call for unity, it is a pledge and a promise that these contributor activists and their alliances with others will continue to challenge and contest the dominant narratives which shape and define the perception of South Asian women by the mainstream community in policy, politics and the law and bring justice to South Asian women victims of domestic violence. -- Journal of Social Welfare & Family Lawthis text is very enlightening... Editors Thiara and Gil successfully provide the reader with a microscopic view of South Asian VAW, revealing the complex weaving soft is tapestry. Each of the articles poignantly weaves in and out micro-and macro-perspectives, such a UK policy and its perspective on immigration, and though seemingly well intentioned, in actuality it harms the women it attempts to protect. Their lens advances knowledge about this important topic and allows for those in academia, research, policy and the public, to grasp a better understanding of violence against South Asian women. -- The Howard Journal of Criminal JusticeOverall this book is excellent in this presentation and organisation. It is ideal for those wishing to enhance their knowledge on the issues affecting south Asian women and the multiple disadvantages they experience. -- Professional Social WorkThis is a well written book that follows in a rich tradition of studying gender-based violence against women from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in the West... However, the strength of the book under review is that it offers a fresh look at the issue, moving beyond the issues of domestic violence and honour-related violence, addressing, in addition, issues often under-researched in this area, including: questions of masculinities, the concept of 'multiculturalism', child contact and post separation violence, the role of Shariah councils, and policy interventions including the domestic violence concession for immigrant women on a spousal visa. The book also provides a strong policy focus, in addition to offering a much needed theoretical base to understand these varied issues... The book concludes on a positive note, suggesting ways in which existing policy and practice could work together to protect South Asian women from violence by putting their needs first. This, I suggest, is one of the many strengths of this book - its ability to both analyse and to challenge existing structures of discrimination, inequality and gender-based violence. Other areas of strength are the ways in which South Asian women are never treated as a homogenous category or as passive victims, but, where possible, their agency and heterogeneity are acknowledged... Within the examination of structural inequalities, it also addresses the important issue of problems and gaps in existing policies, including policies on forced marriage and immigration and multiculturalism. In short, this book is a pleasure to read and will be an invaluable addition to the literature on ethnic minority communities and gender-based violence. -- British Journal of Social WorkOverall, it is a well edited and balanced collection which provides a good introduction to the field while not shying away from the detail needed to fully describe and analyse the complex policy and practice issues. Thiara and Gill are ideally positioned to edit this collection, since they are both actively involved in the international movement to combat violence against women and hold key policy and practice expositions alongside their academic roles. This undoubtedly has helped them secure contributions from key activists in the field, meaning the book does not suffer from being overly theoretical or 'dry'... Patel and Siddique's chapter provides an essential documentation of their success in this legal challenge, which will be of interest to feminist activists, practitioners and academics internationally... Like so many of the other chapters, Gill and Mitra-Kahn manage to effectively synthesise theory, policy, practice and politics. The result is an excellent overview of the Force Marriage Civil Protection Act (2007) and debates around civil and criminal law approaches...Thiara and Gill state that they wish to link past discourses on "race", ethnicity and nationality, and violence against women, to make connections within theory and politics and to bring together a range of activists and researchers. They have certainly achieved this here. They challenge their readers to reflect on their location within social divisions and systems of oppression, whether they are influenced by the wider construction and representation of South Asian women and whether they contribute to the reinforcement of such representations and oppressions. More importantly, they ask how these representations and oppressions can be challenged. The collection contributes to this by providing clear analysis of the debates and theories concerning violence against South Asian women, assessing particularly the responses in legislation and policy, and the intersection of culture, 'race'. ethnicity and gender within these responses... Kelly describes the book as a "historic collection that documents, recognises and renews the contribution to the UK movement against violence against women by South Asian feminists; contributions made as researchers, as activists, as practitioners". In our opinion, this is an accurate description of Thiara and Gill's collection and we would class it as essential reading for all involved in the international movement against violence against women. -- Race & ClassThis book is powerful, challenging and inspirational, and is an important contribution to debates on the complex intersections between ethnicity, gender and inequality, as well as on human rights and violence against women. Thiara and Gill and the contributors to this text skilfully unpick the flawed thinking and policy initiatives directed at gender-based violence over the past 30 years and especially in the post 9/11 period community cohesion and anti-terrorism initiatives. -- Dr Lorraine Radford, Head of Research, NSPCCThis is a stimulating and provocative collection which explores the difficult concepts of 'multiculturalism', 'ethnic identity' and 'secularisation' in relation to gendered violence. The authors challenge myths and stereotypes about the 'Asian' experience in relation to interpersonal violence without oversimplifying or homogenising black and minority ethnic (BME) women's experiences. Despite cataloguing the ongoing struggles against racism and misogyny, and the intersection of both, the editors conclude the text with optimism; an additional reason to recommend this text to all policy makers, practitioners, academics and students, as well as those interested in the provenance of BME anti-violence organisations and current UK policy. -- Dr Melanie McCarry, School for Policy Studies, University of BristolA wide-ranging, timely and empirically informed analysis of the different forms of violence and human rights violations faced by women at the intersection of gender, ethnicity and class, and the shortcomings of existing legal and policy frameworks for dealing with them. It engages with important conceptual and political debates in the area and develops a sophisticated theoretical and political framework for addressing violence against women within multiculturalists policy and practice. In so doing, it problematises existing assumptions about the role of culture, and provides a much more nuanced intersectionality framework for dealing with this important issue in modern society. It will fill an important gap in the literature and should be widely read. -- Floya Anthias, Professor of Sociology and Social Justice, Roehampton UniversityTable of ContentsForeword. Professor Liz Kelly. Introduction. Ravi K Thiara, University of Warwick and Aisha K Gill, Roehampton University. Chapter 1. Understanding Violence against South Asian Women: What it Means for Practice. Ravi K Thiara and Aisha K Gill. Chapter 2. Charting South Asian Women's Struggles against Gender-based Violence. Amrit Wilson, University of Huddersfield and Royal Holloway College. Chapter 3. Masculinities and Violence against Women in South Asian Communities: Transnational Perspectives. Marzia Balzani, Roehampton University. Chapter 4. Shrinking Secular Spaces: Asian Women at the Intersect of Race, Religion and Gender. Pragna Patel and Hannana Siddiqui, Southall Black Sisters. Chapter 5. Moving Toward a 'Multiculturalism Without Culture': Constructing a Victim-Friendly Human Rights Approach to Forced Marriage in the UK. Aisha K Gill and Trishima Mitra-Kahn, Roehampton University. Chapter 6. Continuing Control: Child Contact and Post-separation Violence. Ravi K Thiara. Chapter 7. Shariah Councils and the Resolution of Matrimonial Disputes: Gender and Justice in the 'Shadow' of the Law. Samia Bano, University of Reading. Chapter 8. Protection for All? The Failures of the Domestic Violence Rule for (Im)migrant Women. Kaveri Sharma, London Metropolitan University and Aisha K Gill. Chapter 9. Conclusion: Looking to the Future. Aisha K Gill and Ravi K Thiara. 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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation be- came so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment abroad, hoping to find the keys to wealth and power on the distant shores of Europe. Instead, they discovered the notion of 'race', and used new evolutionary theories from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to present a universe red in tooth and claw in which 'yellows' competed with 'whites' in a deadly struggle for survival. After the fall of the empire in 1911, prominent politicians and writers in republican China continued to measure, classify and rank people from around the world ac- cording to their supposed biological features, all in the name of science. Racial thinking remains popular in the People's Republic of China, as serologists, geneticists and anthropometrists continue to interpret human variation in terms of 'race'. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter taking the reader up to the twenty-first century.Trade Review'In his brilliant book Dikotter explains how traditional notions about culturally inferior "barbarians" intermingled with Western forms of scientific racism to form a distinctively Chinese racial consciousness in the 20th century.' -- Forbes Magazine'[A] provocative ... groundbreaking work.' -- The New York Review of Books'Frank Dikötter's luminous study should be essential reading not just for sinologists but for historians interested in the construction of symbolic universes. Dikötter's study of the rise of Chinese racial thought also sheds much light upon the meanings of racialism in the West.' -- Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine'Frank Dikötter's important pioneering work establishes that ideas and perceptions of race in the "Middle Kingdom" have been no less ethnocentric than in Europe.' -- Times Literary Supplement'In The Discourse of Race in Modern China Dikötter shatters conventional notions about China's being relatively free of racism.' -- International Herald Tribune'Careful and dispassionate … provides a comprehensive and stimulating interpretative framework throughout, firmly grounded in attention to detail and a sensitivity to Chinese ideas and nuances of language. A major contribution in the field of modern Chinese history.' -- Asian Affairs'The subject is of premier importance, but it has been in effect suppressed, owing to a combination of timidity, embarrassment, and political unfashionability. But the discourse to which Dikötter refers is there, is very basic to the literature, and absolutely demands serious and dispassionate study. This is what Dikötter provides, in a work drawn along by the powerful logic of the author's argument, and by the distinctiveness and coherence of his conceptual approach.' -- William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University'This book is a fascinating study of a topic that is both extremely important and highly sensitive: how the Chinese have viewed other ethnic groups across time. The issue of racial differences constitutes a highly masked and oblique discourse in modern China. This is the first book to analyse that shielded rhetoric directly.' -- Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley'Dr Dikötter offers us a pioneering study in an important field. ... His book should be of interest to all who are concern about the misuse of the idea of race.' -- Michael Banton, University of BristolAnyone interested in Chinese perceptions of themselves, or in theoretical issues of race in general, should read this book. It has a wealth of detail and one can only hope that it stimulates other studies of non-Western racism.' -- Grant Evans, Far Eastern Economic Review'This book belongs to a very small minority of academic books on China in that it relates things worth knowing and continues, page after page, to provide intellectual stimulus.' -- W. J. F. Jenner, Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs'Unusually well written, succinct, to the point. ... The book is poised to become a classic on its topic.' -- Flemming Christiansen, Journal of Communist Studies'This short, powerful, luminous book, a model of taut argument and relentless logic, draws on a formidable breadth of scholarship. Dikötter has apparently read everything in every language in every sort of publication in every relevant field, and uses it with masterly selectivity. His writing style is concise, elegant and dense, lit by flashes of dry humour.' -- Gregor Benton, SOAS Bulletin'While it is impressively based on a wide range of Chinese writings skilfully translated, it has entailed considerable research in the fields of anthropology, sociology, genetics and education methods. ... His book is a rewarding one which will throw indirect light on many problems of interest to historians.' -- English Historical Review'Concise and briskly written ... Frank Dikötter has written a book about a highly sensitive -- indeed, potentially explosive -- subject. His handling of this subject, while sacrificing nothing in the way of candor, is fair and even-handed.' -- Paul Cohen, Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient'Dikötter's study of the discourse of race in modern China is a brilliant pioneering work of an important and neglected topic.' -- G.E.R. Lloyd, Discourse and Theory'A stimulating, insightful, and well-researched study of an important topic.' -- C. Montgomery Broaded, Contemporary Sociology'A pioneering and, in many ways, courageous work.' -- Ethnic and Racial Studies'Dikötter has read a great swath of material, highbrow and popular ... and has distilled it intelligently into a book that broadly curious historians of medicine will find enlightening and useful.' -- Nathan Sivin, Social History of Medicine'Extremely well researched with an objectivity, one might say almost detached or dispassionate presentation, that is necessary for such a sensitive topic.' -- Ruth Meserve, Journal of Asian History'A thoughtful and original book.' -- Stephan Feuchtwang, Anthropology Today'The book is a highly scholarly study, documented with extreme care and reference to an enormous range of sources in a variety of languages ... written in a clear and crisp style.' -- Asian Studies Review

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Book SynopsisMarcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan-the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have made a profound impact on the development of radical politics in the United States is extensive. In this magisterial and lavishly illustrated work, Winston James focuses on the twentieth century's first waves of immigrants from the Caribbean and their contribution to political dissidence in America.Examining the way in which the characteristics of the societies they left shaped their perceptions of the land to which they traveled, Winston James draws sharp differences between Hispanic, Anglophone, and other non-Hispanic arrivals. He explores the interconnections between the Cuban independence struggle, Puerto Rican nationalism, Afro-American feminism, and black communism in the first turbulent decades of the twentieth century. He also provides fascinating insights into the peculiarities of Puerto Rican radicalism's impact in New York City and recounts the remarkable story of Afro-Cuban radicalism in Florida. Virgin Islander Hubert Harrison, whom A. Philip Randolph dubbed 'the father of Harlem radicalism', is rescued from the historical shadows by James's analysis of his pioneering contribution to Afro-America's radical tradition. In addition to a subtle re-examination of Garvey's Universal Negro Movement Association-including the exertions and contributions of its female members-James provides the most detailed exploration so far undertaken of Cyril Briggs and his little-known but important African Blood Brotherhood.This diligently researched, wide ranging and sophisticated book will be welcomed by all those interested in the Caribbean and its émigrés, the Afro-American current within America's radical tradition, and the history, politics, and culture of the African diaspora.Trade ReviewSuperbly written, full of well-digested and considered detail, it is a historic chronicle. -- Edward SaidA brilliant, nuanced and sensitive re-examination of the history of Caribbean radicals and radicalism in the United States. James's book will survive for many years as the standard work on the subject and establishes the author as one of the premier scholars of the African Diaspora. -- Colin Palmer, City University of New YorkA major historical contribution to the 'hidden history' of the African diaspora . richly detailed, powerful and compelling. -- Stuart Hall, The Open UniversityImaginatively written in addition to its solid scholarly base, this book breaks significant new ground in our understanding of modern black American radicalism. -- Arnold Rampersad, Princeton UniversityIn this thoroughly researched and tightly argued book Winston James has revealed and explained the prominent role of Afro-Caribbean immigrants in socialist, communist and nationalist struggles in the United States, whilst rescuing the topic from the stereotypes that have long surrounded it. -- David Montgomery, Yale UniversityJames elucidates, as no one has done before him, just how profound were the Caribbean contributions that enriched the soil of American radicalism . A truly prodigious and imaginative reconstruction [which] heralds a genuine renascence of radical scholarship in the best Caribbean tradition. -- Robert A. Hill, University of California, Los AngelesPowerfully argued and provocative, Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia literally reframes our understanding of the African-American experience. -- Thomas C. Holt, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisA short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai’s latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexuality—always tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power. These stories transport the reader, variously: to rural China, where a city doctor harvests organs to fund a wedding and a future for his family; on a vacation to France, where a white mother and her biracial daughter cannot escape their fraught relationship; inside the unexpected romance of two Chinese-American women living abroad in China; and finally, to a future Chinese colony on Mars, where an aging working-class woman lands a job as a nanny. Chai's stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world.Trade Review"This slim but wide-ranging work is a great achievement."—STARRED Review, Publishers Weekly"Chai bears cleareyed witness, with righteous anger swirling beneath her pellucid prose."—Kirkus“May-lee Chai's abundant gifts as a writer are on full display in this collection. In these stories we find people displaced, people who find themselves, by choice or by accident, navigating foreign lands and strange worlds, looking for the way home. With invention and nuance, Chai creates a sense of heightened awareness, of distance, both physical and emotional. Illuminating, heartbreaking, and yet also very funny, Tomorrow in Shanghai is a rewarding and entertaining read."—Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown"There’s a beautiful directness in these stories that is itself a kind of moral courage. This collection is full of heartbreak and love, unbearable yearning and fulfillment, and, over and over again, the pain of not being seen—and in May-lee Chai’s sentences, there is wondrous seeing. Tomorrow in Shanghai is a superb and powerfully affecting collection."—Clare Beams, Bard Fiction Prize-winning author of We Show What We Have Learned and The Illness Lesson"Tomorrow in Shanghai by May-lee Chai is an insightful, empathetic collection with a vast and imaginative range. These stories and narrators across the Chinese diaspora examine the complexity of familial relationships, probe our most formative experiences and memories, and ask what it means to belong."—K-Ming Chang, Bestiary“Chai plunges into the caverns of the human experience and untaps a rich bounty. Tomorrow in Shanghai is a tribute not only to Chinese immigrants but to anyone who has seen the American dream come up short."—Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of A Kind of Freedom (longlisted for the National Book Award) and The Revisioners (winner of the NAACP Image Award) Table of ContentsTable of Contents Tomorrow in Shanghai Life on Mars Monkey King of Sichuan Hong's Mother White Rabbits Jia Slow Train to Beijing The Nanny

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Book Synopsis?A well-written, deeply personal saga that acknowledges the resonance of historical identity, art, and literature in our present lives.??KIRKUS REVIEWS1570: A street teems with activity in Renaissance Lisbon: boatmen unload passengers as jugglers entertain the crowd and vendors hawk their goods. The crowd is large, and more than half of it is Black. Most are enslaved African people performing an array of duties, but there are free Africans too, and somebody else: a Black knight astride a horse.Four hundred and fifty years later, novelist and journalist Joaquim Arena stands in a museum, transfixed by the character depicted on this canvas by an anonymous Flemish painter. He doesn?t know it yet, but the knight is Joao de Sá Panasco, a one-time slave who nevertheless became an Afro-Portuguese nobleman. So begins Under Our Skin, a wide-ranging investigation that seeks to know the people of the early African diaspora, and tell their stories.Arena was born in the tiny state of Cape Verde, a small chain of islands off the West Coast of Africa which were uninhabited before Portugal chose them for a slave-trade post?a place made famous in part by Herman Melville''s essay on the nature of Cape Verdeans (known as ''Gees'') who were common fixtures on whaling vessels.With this awareness, Arena creates a hybrid text of travel writing, memoir, and history, filled with portraits of complex and fascinating characters. There is Dido Elizabeth Belle, the daughter of a slave raised a gentlewoman in England; Abraham Petrovitch Gannibal, abducted from Africa as a boy, only to be groomed as a nobleman under Peter the Great; Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a Haitian slave, who became a French general in the Napoleonic Wars; Jacobus Capitein, from Ghana, who studies at a European university only to become a pro-slavery Christian minister in the Netherlands; and Carlos Marcelino da Graça or ?Sweet Daddy Grace?, from Cape Verde, who became an incredibly influential and successful church leader and faith healer in the United States.Triggered by the death of his adoptive father, Arena interlaces the stories of historical figures with those of his own childhood in Cape Verde, as well as his early years in Lisbon. Like many Cape Verdeans, his step-father was a seaman and heavy drinker whose death provides a springboard for connection to the Cape Verde immigrant experience at large. Arena ties these stories to the wider diasporas connecting the island to Europe, the US, and finally, back to Africa. In the end, the author heads to the southern tip of Portugal, known as the Algarve, where 230 Africans were brought in 1444, marking the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade. With a skillful translation by Jethro Soutar that captures Arena?s insightful, accessible style, Under Our Skin is a story unlike anything else. Of it the Jornal Económico, a leading newspaper in Portugal, has called it ?the closest thing? the Portuguese language has to W.G. Sebald.

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement. Highlighting the frequently ignored decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Burrell documents a radical cohort of theatre artists who became critical players in the fight for civil rights both onstage and offstage, between the Popular Front and the Black Arts Movement periods. The Civil Rights Theatre Movement recovers knowledge of little-known groups like the Negro Playwrights Company and reconsiders Broadway hits including Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, showing how theatre artists staged radically innovative performances that protested Jim Crow and U.S. imperialism amidst a repressive Cold War atmosphere. By conceiving of class and gender as intertwining aspects of racism, this book reveals how civil rights theatre artists challenged audiences to reimagine the fundamental character of American democracy.Trade Review“The Civil Rights Theatre Movement should be on the reading list of any scholar interested in civil rights culture, the history of American theatre in the 20th century, or the history of radicalism in the United States.” (Madeline Steiner, gothamcenter.org, February 23, 2021)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Negro People's Theatre and the Emergence of the Civil Rights Theatre Movement.- Chapter 3: "An American Dilemma": Dramas of the Returning Negro Soldier.- Chapter 4: Rescripting the Negro Problem: The Cold War-Civil Rights Play.- Chapter 5: "To Be a Man": Progressive Masculinities in Lorraine Hansberry's Cold War-Civil Rights Plays.- Chapter 6: Alice Childress's Wedding Band and the Black Feminist Nation.- Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the experiences of racism encountered by academics of colour working within British universities. Situated within a critical race theory and postcolonial feminist framework, Sian thoughtfully centres the voices of the interviewed academics, and draws upon her own experiences and reflections through a critical auto-ethnography. Navigating Institutional Racism in British Universities unpacks a range of complex and challenging questions, and engages with the way in which racial politics in the academy interplay and intersect with gender. The book presents a textured narrative around the various barriers facing academics of colour, and enhances understandings of experiences around institutional racism in British universities. Alongside its conceptual and empirical contribution, it develops a series of practical recommendations to encourage and facilitate the active participation of academics of colour in British universities. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. A Brief Reflection on Methods and Conceptual Framings.- 3. Microagressions, Whiteness and the Politics of Exclusion.- 4. Teaching Experiences.- 5. Decolonizing the Curriculum.- 6. Hiring Practices and Career Development.- 7. Resisting Racism in the Academy: 'Wherever We Are, We Belong'.- 8. Looking Ahead: Recommendations for Policy and Practice.- 9. Conclusion: Backlash Blues.

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the narrative of Northern England as a failed space of multiculturalism, drawing on a historically-contextualised discussion of ethnic relations to argue that multiculturalism has been more successful and locally situated than these assumptions allow.The authors examine the interplay between ‘race’, space and place to analyse how profound economic change, the evolving nature of the state, individual racism, and the local creation and enactment of multiculturalist policies have all contributed to shaping the trajectory of ethnic/faith identities and inter-community relations at a local level. In doing so, the book analyses both change and continuity in discussion of, and national/local state policy towards, ethnic relations, particularly around the supposed segregation/integration dichotomy, and the ways in which racialised ‘events’ are perceived and ‘identities’ are created and reflected in state policy operations. Drawing on the authors’ long involvement in empirical research, policy and practice around ethnicity, ‘race’ and racism in the Northern England, they effectively support critical and situated analysis of controversial, racialised issues, and set these geographically specific findings in the context of wider international experiences of and tensions around growing ethnic diversity in the context of profound economic and social changes.Trade Review“The text moves from a general discussion of multiculturalism and ethnic minority settlement in the North of England towards more focussed chapters on policy issues, black and Muslim community and cultural responses, as well as an especially valuable section on white working class community reactions. ... this volume is well worth reading.” (Greg Smith, williamtemplefoundation.org.uk, November 6, 2020)Table of Contents1. Introduction: 'Race', Space and Place in Northern England.- 2. Failed Spaces of Multiculturalism?.- 3. Parallel Lives?.- 4. Policy: From Assimilation to Integration?.- 5. Black, Asian and the Muslim Cool.- 6. From the Oppressive Majority to Oppressed Minority? Changing White Self-identifications.- 7. Educated to be Separate?.- 8. Conclusion: Not Such a 'Failure' - A Multiculturalism Space in Development.

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Book SynopsisThe situation of the Roma in Europe, especially in the former communist states, is one of the more important human rights issues on the agenda of the international community, especially in the Euro-Atlantic bodies of integration. Within European states that have Roma populations there is a growing awareness that the matter must be confronted, and that there is a need for a concentrated effort to solve social problems and ease tensions between the Roma and the European nations among which they dwell. This volume is the result of an international conference held at Tel Aviv University in December 2002. The conference, one of the largest held among the academic community in the last decade, served as a unique forum for a multidisciplinary discussion on the past and present of the Roma in which both Roma and non-Roma scholars from various countries engaged.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Foreword, Yehuda Bauer; Introduction, Roni Stauber and Raphael Vago; Religious Minorities, Vagabonds and Gypsies in Early Modern Europe, Shulamith Shahar; The Campaign against the Restless: Criminal Biology and the Stigmatization of the Gypsies, 1890 1960, Peter Widmann; Jews, Gypsies and Soviet Prisoners of War: Comparing Nazi Persecutions, Michael Zimmermann; Nazi and Postwar Policy against Roma and Sinti in Austria, Erika Thurner; Story, History and Memory: A Case Study of the Roma at the Komarom Camp in Hungary, Katalin Katz; Romanian Public Reaction to the Deportation of Gypsies to Transnistria, Viorel Achim; Gypsies in Germany--German Gypsies? Identity and Politics of Sinti and Roma in Germany, Gilad Margalit and Yaron Matras; The Politics of Memory--Jews and Roma Commemorate Their Tragedy, Roni Stauber and Raphael Vago; Human Rights and Roma Policy Formation in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, Eva Sobotka; Central European Roma Policy: National Minority Elites, National States and the EU, Pal Tamas; List of Contributors; Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents thirteen chapters which probe the “tales less told” and “pathways less traveled” in refugee camp living. Rohingya camps in Bangladesh since August 2017 supply these “tales” and “pathways”. They dwell upon/reflect camp violence, sexual/gender discrimination, intersectionality, justice, the sudden COVID camp entry, human security, children education, innovation, and relocation plans. Built largely upon field trips, these narratives interestingly interweave with both theoretical threads (hypotheses) and tapestries (net-effects), feeding into the security-driven pulls of political realism, or disseminating from humanitarian-driven socioeconomic pushes, but mostly combining them. Post-ethnic cleansing and post-exodus windows open up a murky future for Rohingya and global refugees. We learn of positive offshoots (of camp innovations exposing civil society relevance) and negative (like human and sex trafficking beyond Bangladeshi and Myanmar borders), as of navigating (a) local–global linkages of every dynamic and (b) fast-moving current circumstances against stoic historical leftovers. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Forget-me-nots From Rohingya Camps: Dark Experiences & Tales not Told.- 2. Ethnicity, Identity, & Rohingya Security: At the ‘Olive-tree’-‘Lexus’ Crossroads.- 3. Rohingya Conundrum: Cutting the Gordian Knot.- 4. The Political Economy of Religion & Security: Tracing Rohingya Camp Violence.- 5. From Disorganized Hypocrisy to Political Neo-medievalism? Rohingya Crises in Bangladesh.- 6. Identity ‘Intersectionality’ & Cox’s Bazaar Refugees: Remaking Rohingyas.- 7. Sexual/Gender Camp Violence & Institutional Response Limits: Rohingyas in Bangladesh.- 8. Return, Citizenship, & Justice in the Eye of Rohingya Women: Imagined Terrain?.- 9. Vulnerability & Humanitarian Emergencies: Fate of Rohingya Women amid COVID—19.- 10. Rohingya Refugees & Human Security: Foreign Policy Reform Needs.- 11. Rohingya Refugee-camp Innovations: Reinvigorating Humanitarianism.- 12. Rohingya Refugee & Classroom Children: Cultivating A Lost Generation.- 13. Rohingya Refugee Future: History, Memory, & Relocation.- 14. Conclusion: Squaring the Circle.

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Book SynopsisA story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler''s mixed-heritage family, over three centuries. Whether or not we trace our families from beyond the shores of Britain, we British people deserve a better understanding of our shared past, and opportunities to explore and recognise the complexities and contractions of empire. Careless or wilful amnesia has allowed the British migration narrative to begin in the mid-twentieth century, with migrants from India, Pakistan and the Caribbean forming the foundation of present-day multicultural Britain. A racist fixation means that some twenty-first-century Britons fantasise that people of colour arrived after World War Two, without any link to the country, to exploit the British welfare state and British hospitality.For people of colour the questions, Where are you from? No, where are you really from? often imply more than simple curiosity. They are politicTrade ReviewLovely, perceptive and timely... weaving the threads of colonialism, migration, mixed-race relationships and other life experiences into the tapestry of Britishness today, it is wonderful * Yasmin Alibhai-Brown *The power is in the gentle, almost lyrically intimate force of the tale and its many messages, so courageously put, with generosity. Timely, affecting, and so darn necessary at this moment. Thank you, Audrey Osler, I say * Philippe Sands *

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Book SynopsisSilver medalist for the IPPY award for Current Events in 2016!Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams is a moral call, a harkening and quickening of the spirit, a demand for recognition for those whose voices are whispered. Julius Bailey straddles the fence of social-science research and philosophy, using empirical data and current affairs to direct his empathy-laced discourse. He turns his eye to President Obama and his critics, racism, income inequality, poverty, and xenophobia, guided by a prophetic thread that calls like-minded visionaries and progressives to action. The book is an honest look at the current state of our professed city on a hill and the destruction left on the darker sides of town.Trade Review“Julius Bailey is a grand prophetic intellectual with deep roots in the Black freedom struggle and genuine routes to new radical democratic possibilities. Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams is a courageous and powerful text, indispensable for any serious reflection about the future of America and the world!” — Cornel West, author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters“Julius Bailey has written our generation’s Race Matters. There are many books in the canon of ‘Obama,’ but Bailey seeks to answer questions around moral reasoning and provides a clarion call for change.” — Duchess Harris, Professor and Chair of American Studies, Macalester College“This is Julius Bailey’s most important work to date. The book provides a critical, urgent, and courageous meditation on the current American racial landscape. Drawing from Western philosophy, prophetic criticism, and Black arts and culture, Bailey spotlights the political, economic, and existential challenges confronted by the American body politic. Equally important, he offers a pathway for creating a more humane, loving, safe, and just world.” — Marc Lamont Hill, Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Morehouse College, and CNN Political Commentator“Dr. Bailey hits the nail on the head … as he perspicaciously confronts and reverses the flawed discourse of success specific to racism in America. As only he can, he sharpens the readers’ thinking with a much-needed cultural candor unique to his profound intellect. Dr. Bailey is masterful here in calling out cowardice and calling for courage.” — Dr. Chandra Gill, CEO, Blackademically Speaking EnterprisesTable of ContentsForeword by Rev. Dr. Michael L. PflegerAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: “I, Too, Sing America”Chapter 1: “I Can’t Breathe!” “So What! F✻✻✻ Your Breath”Chapter 2: Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial AmericaChapter 3: Racism: The Long March to Freedom and the New Jim CrowChapter 4: Xenophobia: America Inside OutChapter 5: Poverty: A Load Too Heavy to BearChapter 6: Income Inequality: The Unbridgeable GapChapter 7: Repositioning the Moral ArcWorks Cited

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Book SynopsisBy examining Jewish experiences between the American Civil War and the African American Civil Rights Revolution, this book focuses on citizens who usually spent their daily lives in Black and white “peoplehoods.” Some of the white ones, commanding the nation’s “public square,” structured a segregated republic and capitalist economy that would experience WWII and the news about the Holocaust that murdered millions of Jews. This political economy sustained a hierarchy of privatized ethnic groups whose race and religion, in their norms of “ethnicking,” was used to deprive them of legal and equal collective standing. This Was America is a book about those privatized identities that the years of the Civil Rights Revolution would bring into the republic’s public square.Trade Review“Korman... has written an important and timely history focusing primarily on Black and Jewish Americans, as well as other ethnic groups, as they found themselves isolated from the 'public square' of American life over a century. ... Recommended.”— J. Fischel, emeritus, Millersville University, CHOICE (September 2023 Vol. 61 No. 1)Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: Republican Ethnicking1. Veritas2. Races3. Promised Lands by Religion4. Ethnicking5. Profiling6. Peoplehood CitizensPart Two: Republican Discipline7. Safeguarding the Public Square8. Screening and Quarantines9. At Work in Danzig10. Nationalizing Secular Peoplehoods11. Battling Citizens12. Bending HierarchiesPart Three: Last Words13. Pasts in US14. US in the Public Square15. Ethnicking in Plain SightEpilogue

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitan Spaces in Odesa: A Case Study of an Urban Context is the first book to explore Odesa’s cosmopolitan spaces in an urban context from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Leading scholars shed new light on encounters between Jewish, Ukrainian, and Russian cultures. They debate different understandings of cosmopolitanism as they are reflected in Odesa’s rich multilingual culture, ranging from intellectual history and education to music, opera, and literature. The issues of language and interethnic tensions, imperialist repression, and language choice are still with us today. Moreover, the book affords a historical view of what lay behind the Odesa myth, as well as insights into the Jewish and Ukrainian cultural revivals of the early twentieth century.Trade Review"A rich, consistently fascinating volume that provides more than ample evidence of the fascination inspired by this city - forever intertwined, of course, with a complex welter of mythology. With use of a wide range of sources, the book is testimony to a scholarly arena that continues to attract impressive talent." — Steven J. Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMirja Lecke and Efraim Sicher 1. Localism and Cosmopolitanism in Odesa: The Case of the Odesan Literary-Artistic Society, 1898–1914Guido Hausmann2. The Ukrainian Odes(s)a of Vladimir JabotinskyYohanan Petrovsky-Shtern3. Merchants, Clerks, and Intellectuals: The Social Underpinnings of the Emergence of Modern Jewish Culture in Late Nineteenth-Century OdesaSvetlana Natkovich4. Elitism and Cosmopolitanism: The Jewish Intelligentsia in Odesa’s School Debates of 1902Brian Horowitz5. Ethnic Violence in a Cosmopolitan City: The October 1905 Pogrom in OdesaRobert Weinberg6. The Cosmopolitan Soundscape of OdesaAnat Rubinstein7. Gender, Poetry, and Song: Vera Inber and Isa Kremer in OdesaMirja Lecke8. The End of Cosmopolitan Time: Between Myth and Accommodation in Babel’s Odesa StoriesEfraim Sicher9. Where the Steppe Meets the Sea: Odesa in the Ukrainian City TextOleksandr Zabirko10. The Ukrainization of Odes(s)a? On the Languages of Odesa and Their UseAbel Polese11. Rereading Babel in Post-Maidan Odesa: Boris Khersonsky’s Critical CosmopolitanismAmelia M. GlaserContributorsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"As the public, scholars, writers, and creatives continue to engage with Hurston through ongoing book releases, studies, documentaries, and festivals, Freeman Marshall’s work provides an important intervention that calls us to think about how we reconstruct and deploy Hurston as not only a talented storyteller and incisive ethnographer but also a consummate intellectual." --Another Chicago"Freeman Marshall makes clear that Hurston’s reputation as an anthropologist has been undermined by the glamour of her rediscovery and subsequent literary 'canonization' . . . . Freeman Marshall also compellingly argues that 'Hurston’s anthropological work has not been more fully recognized within the field of anthropology in part due to the marginalization of American folklore and in, in particular, African American folklore within the discipline.' Hopefully, with this new study, Hurston’s contributions to anthropology will finally be recognized." --Southern Review of Books"Doomed to obscurity, Zora Neale Hurston was then resurrected as a 'founding mother' of Black literature and folklore. Yet her pioneering work in African diaspora ethnography and anthropology, especially her work in Haiti, remains little-known. . . . Marshall concludes that Hurston’s refusal to be defined as 'tragically colored' formed her genius as she 'embraces . . . the right to feel and be herself, idiosyncratic and sometimes puzzling, like any member of the human race.'" --Booklist starred review"An insightful read about how academic obscurity can pigeonhole the legacy of Black women thinkers. Hurston’s fascination, esteem, and passion to capture, preserve and return to the African diaspora their new world folk traditions used academic methods and Africana means to share our interior selves. . . . Freeman Marshall contends that 'contextualization and a commitment to interdisciplinarity remain central' to excavating Hurston. This excavation serves as a prism through which collective literary and cultural works can contribute to transformative ways of reading and understanding the hybrid Black feminist agency and legacy crafted by Zora Neale Hurston by her people for her people and humanity writ large." --Black Perspectives"A fascinating examination into the work of Zora Neale Hurston as an anthropologist, which has been all but forgotten, especially in comparison to her work as a writer and cultural icon. " --Ms. Magazine“Jennifer Freeman Marshall combines razor sharp analysis and clear prose that compel the reader to think carefully and critically about why Zora Neale Hurston is lionized in literature and marginalized in anthropology. Like a quilt, Freeman Marshall’s book has a strong frame, an aesthetically pleasing design, and an impeccable yet creative logic.”--Lee D. Baker, author of Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture"Freeman Marshall unfolds a Hurston whose anthropological work contributed to her ramified sense of difference and variegation in the lived world. Hurston emerges as situated simultaneously in her selfhood and her experience as a Black woman. As an anthropologist, Hurston tells stories that are 'multiple and ... grounded by ... diverse communities.’ Recommended." --Choice"Undoubtedly, Ain't I an Anthropologist should be essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, as well as African American literature and folklore studies. With its careful and exhaustive documentation of the Black feminist literary and anthropological scholarship on Hurston's oeuvre, this book is both an archive and a treasure trove of information about Zora Neale Hurston that teaches us how to approach her work in new ways." --American AnthropologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: “Twice as Much Praise or Twice as Much Blame” On Firsts, Foremothers, and “The Walker Effect” Signifying “Texts”: The Race for Hurston Deconstructing an Icon: Tradition and Authority “Ain’t I an Anthropologist?” Mules and Men: “Negro folklore [. . .] is still in the making” The author arrives at no conclusion”? Reading Tell My Horse Notes Works CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisCovers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable from the study of texts and their technologies.Trade ReviewOffering wide-ranging subjects and approaches, these essays usefully extend conversations in print culture studies that have grown even more intense and even more important over the last decade. This is a powerful collection."" - Eric Gardner, author of Black Print Unbound: The ""Christian Recorder,"" African American Literature, and Periodical Culture""This is an important field, and the work collected here is exciting in its range and diversity of voices, methods, and insights."" - Stephanie Browner, The New School

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Book SynopsisExploring the art and life of this important American artist whose work bridged the gaps between abstraction, feminism, and BlacknessTrade Review“Cowan’s focus on the influence of Africa and African textiles on Howardena Pindell’s work and her convincing presentation of abstraction as politically meaningful make this book entirely unique.”—Lisa Farrington, Howard University“Cowan creates an important and compelling analysis of the life and career of a grossly understudied American artist. This book has the potential to change the way we understand Howardena Pindell.”—Jordana Moore Saggese, University of Maryland

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Book SynopsisA timely reconsideration of the history of photography that places Black studio photographers, and their subjects, at the center

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Book SynopsisThe making of a culture of Black male respectability at Morehouse that underlines conservative notions of gender and classby a former Spelman student who was once Miss Morehouse. How does it feel to be groomed as the solution to a national Black male problem? This is the guiding paradox of Respectable,an in-depth examination of graduates of Morehouse College, the nation's only historically Black college for men. While Black male collegians are often culturally fetishized for beating the odds, the image of Black male success that Morehouse assiduously promotes and celebrates is belied by many of the realities that challenge the students on this campus. Saida Grundy offers a unique insider perspective: a graduate of Spelman college and a former Miss Morehouse, Grundy crafts an incisive feminist and sociological account informed by her personal insights and scholarly expertise. Respectablegathers the experiences of former students and others connected to Morehouse to illustrate the narrow, conservative vision of masculinity molded at a competitive Black institution. The thirty-two men interviewed unveil a culture that forges confining ideas of respectable Black manhood within a context of relentless peer competition and sexual violence, measured against unattainable archetypes of idealized racial leadership. Grundy underlines the high costs of making these menthe experiences of low-income students who navigate class issues at Morehouse, the widespread homophobia laced throughout the college's notions of Black male respectability, and the crushingly conformist expectations of a college that sees itself as making good Black men. As Morehouse's problems continue to pour out into national newsfeeds, this book contextualizes these issues not as a defect of Black masculinity, but as a critique of what happens when an institution services an imagination of what Black men should be, at the expense of more fully understanding the many ways these young people see themselves.Trade Review"Today, I am honored to introduce @saigrundy, the Assistant Director of Narrative @AntiracismCtr. I've long admired her candor, her scholarship, her encyclopedic knowledge, and her deft ability to translate her scholarship and knowledge to everyday people.” * Saida Grundy Instagram *"Respectable is sure to attract scholars who study masculinities and racialized institutions. . . .a great addition to courses that aim to give students a contemporary example of the theoretical promise of the sociology of culture." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Respectable uses the specific to deeply explore the intersection of racism, sexism, and class inequality in ways that should enrich any study of contemporary social inequality." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction 1 The Masculine Arc of Uplift 2 Branding the Man 3 Of Our Sexual Strivings 4 Who among You Will Lead? Conclusion: The Journey Back Acknowledgments Appendix A: Respondent Demographics Appendix B: Participant Screening Questionnaire Appendix C: Informed Consent Contract Notes Index

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