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Book SynopsisThis book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development. This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing.From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politicsat the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC PressTrade ReviewThere is enough quality in this volume to recommend this book to scholars and students interested in development theory and colonization and how both processes might be theorized as mutually constitutive. I have little doubt that the editors and contributors have set down a compelling research agenda that will be carried forward in future publications. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *A thought-provoking collection. [...] This is a valuable set of essays addressing contemporary issues with an eye on the past and revealing some insights into the antecedents of contemporary development rhetoric and techniques. * POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW *This volume adds to a recent debate that revisits the concepts and notions of development rooted in the 'civilising mission' during the colonial era. Hence it explores a hitherto largely ignored, or at least neglected link concerning the continuity of the 'colonial mind' in international relations of today. * NEW ROUTES *Table of ContentsMARK DUFFIELD & VERNON HEWITT Introduction MATT MEREFIELD The Exceptional Inclusion of 'Savages' & 'Barbarians': The Colonial Liberal Bio-politics of Mobility & Development VERNON HEWITT Empire, International Development & the Concept of Good Government HENRIK ASPENGREN Empire: A Question of Hearts? The Social Turn in Colonial Government. Bombay c.1905-25 SUTHAHARAN NADARAJAH 'Conflict Sensitive' Aid & Making Liberal Peace RICHARD SHELDON Development, Poverty & Famines: The Case of the British Empire LISA SMIRL Plain Tales from the Reconstruction Site: Spatial Continuities in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice TOM YOUNG & DAVID WILLIAMS The International Politics of Social Transformation: Trusteeship & Intervention in Historical Perspective MARK DUFFIELD Liberal Interventionism & the Fragile State: Linked by Design? PATRICIA NOXOLO Freedom, Fear & NGOs: Balancing Discourses of Violence & Humanity in Securitising Times APRIL R. BICCUM Theorising Continuities between Empire & Development: Toward a New Theory of History UMA KOTHARI Spatial Practices & Imaginaries: Experiences of Colonial Officers & Development Professionals DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON Decolonising the Borders in Sudan: Ethnic Territories & National Development PAUL KELEMEN 'Individualism is, Indeed, Running Riot': Components of the Social Democratic Model of Development

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Table of ContentsIntroduction xxv Chronology xxxvii Symbols and Abbreviations xxxix Documents, 1860-89 1860 An Item from the Census: The James Burroughs Family 3 1860 An Item from the Census: The Slaves of James Burroughs 5 1860 An Item from the Census: The James Burroughs Farm 7 2 Dec. 1861 An Inventory of the Estate of James Burroughs 9 20 Sept. 1867 Charles Wheeler Sharp to John Kimball 14 20 Nov. 1868 William Davis to John Kimball 17 1870 An Item from the Census: The Washington Ferguson Family 19 13 July 1872 The Minutes of a Republican Rally at Tinkersville 21 Oct. 1872-- June 1875 Items from the Hampton Institute Student Account Book facing 22 1874-75 The Catalog of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute 23 1874-75 A Student Petition to Samuel Chapman Armstrong 46 10 June 1875 Three News Items on the 1875 Graduation Exercises at Hampton Institute 48 10 June 1875 A Certificate of Achievement from Hampton Institute 67 12 Feb. 1877 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 67 27 June--26 July 1877 Six News Items on the West Virginia Capital Campaign 69 Aug. 1877 To the Editor of the Charleston West Virginia Journal 73 26 Mar. 1878 To a Hampton Teacher 74 10 Feb. 1879 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 75 1 July 2879 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 76 1 Aug. 1880 A Paper Read at a Memorial Service at Hampton Institute 77 Sept. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 78 Oct. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 85 Nov. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 92 Dec. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 94 12 Jan. 1881 Edward Sugg to George Henry Corliss, with BTW's Endorsement 101 Jan. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 103 10 Feb. 1881 The Alabama Statute Establishing Tuskegee Normal School 107 Feb. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 110 Mar. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 111 Apr. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 120 31 May 1881 Samuel Chapman Armstrong to George Washington Campbell and Other Trustees of Tuskegee Normal School 127 May 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 128 May 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 132 25 June 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 132 28 June 1881 To Francis Chickering Briggs 133 29 June 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 134 5 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 135 7 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 137 7 July 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 138 9 July 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 139 14 July 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 140 16 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 142 16 July 1881 To Francis Chickering Briggs 143 18 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 144 23 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 145 10 Sept. 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 146 12 Sept. 1881 Olivia A. Davidson to Mary Berry 147 28 Sept. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 149 7 Oct. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 149 3 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 150 12 Nov. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 153 18 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 154 23 Nov. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 156 27 Nov. 1881 To Samuel Chapman Armstrong 156 28 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 157 29 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 157 3 Dec. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 158 4 Dec. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 158 4 Dec. 1881 To Hampton Institute 159 18 Dec. 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 159 10 Jan. 1882 To Oliver Otis Howard 161 Jan. 1882 From [Moses Pierce] 162 Jan. 1882 The Catalog of Tuskegee Normal School 165 13 Feb. 1882 A Circular Appealinrg for Donations 178 21 Feb. 1882 From Oliver Otis Howard 179 24 Mar. 1882 A News Item from the Philadelphia Inquirer 179 ca. 30 Mar. 1882 BTW and Olivia A. Davidson to the Editor of the Southern Workman 185 7 Apr. 1882 A Speech before the Alabama State Teachers' Association 191 11 Apr. 1882 A Recommendation from Henry Clay Armstrong, with the Endorsement of Rufus Willis Cobb 195 15 Apr.--14 July 1882 Three Items from a Notebook 197 22 Apr. 1882 A Recommendation from George Washington Campbell and Waddy Thompson 201 2 May 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 202 8-9 May 1882 Two News Items from the Springfield Daily Republican 203 9 May 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 205 22 June 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 206 19 July 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 207 2 Aug. 1882 The Register of Marriage of BTW and Fanny Norton Smith 207 2 Aug. 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 208 18 Oct. 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 209 23 Oct. 1882 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 209 8 Nov. 1882 The Annual Report of Tuskegee Normal School 210 8 Dec. 1882 Olivia A. Davidson to James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 213 16 Feb. 1883 An Amendment to the Act Establishing Tuskegee Normal School 215 19 Feb. 1883 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 216

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Book SynopsisAcclaimed upon its initial American release,Black Poets of the United Statescontinued to spark comment and analysis for years afterward. Jean Wagner's masterpiece delves into the vital union of racial and religious feeling in the Black poets who emerged from 1890 to 1940.Beginning with an analysis of slavery's impact on the Black psyche and religious feeling, Wagner examines the evolution of Black lyrical expression to the end of the nineteenth century. He then moves into a focused study of Paul Laurence Dunbar and his contemporaries, emphasizing their struggle against prevalent stereotypes that stemmed from minstrelsy, popular song, and southern white writing. His look at the twentieth-century Black Renaissance explores the works, themes, concerns, and experiences of poets Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes.Deeply sensitive and remarkably comprehensiveBlack Poets of the United Statescombines encyclopedic knowledge withTrade Review"A monumental work."--Langston Hughes"A matchless study. . . . the best full length study of Black American poetry that has seen print. Wagner has evaluated the major poets from 1890 to 1940 (Dunbar to Hughes) with a superior critical discernment that is wedded to a sociological and psychological approach. . . . The distinguishing factors in Wagner's study are his aggressive grappling with two-sided issues; his lucid, metaphorical prose style; his thorough research; and judicious, carefully reasoned conclusions."--New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsFOREWORD xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix PREFACE xxi Chapter One: INTRODUCTION 3 1. The Negro in the United States 4 Slaves and Free Men 5 The Negro “Inferior and Subservient” 9 The Mark of Oppression 14 2. The Origins of Black Poetry 16 Written Poetry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 16 Folk Poetry 26 PART ONE: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR AND HIS TIME 37 Chapter Two: THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN DUNBAR’S TIME 39 1. The Minstrels 40 2. The Plantation Tradition in Poetry 48 Irwin Russell 51 Joel Chandler Harris 59 Thomas Nelson Page and Armistead C. Gordon 62 3. The South’s Revenge 66 Chapter Three: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR 73 1. Biography 73 Childhood Years 73 Early Successes 75 Fame and Its Drawbacks 77 The End 79 2. Dunbar and the Plantation Tradition 80 Dunbar and the Plantation 81 Dunbar and the South 88 The Poet and His Theme 92 3. Race Consciousness and History 95 Past and Present 96 The Search for Heroes 98 Dunbar and Racial Injustice 101 4. The Poet of the People 104 The Problem of Dialect 105 Dunbar and the Negro Popular Temperament 111 The Themes of Dunbar’s Popular Poetry 115 5. The Lyricism of HEARTBREAK 118 Pessimism and Religious Doubts 121 Chapter Four: DUNBAR’S CONTEMPORARIES 127 1. James Edwin Campbell 129 The Theme of Interracial Love 130 The People in Campbell’s Poetry 133 2. Daniel Webster Davis 138 3. J. Mord Allen 141 PART TWO: THE NEGRO RENAISSANCE 147 Chapter Five: THE NEGRO RENAISSANCE 149 1. New Forces 151 The Role of W. E. B. Du Bois 151 Black Migrations 153 Radicalism and the New Spirit 155 The Rehabilitation of the Negro Past 157 2. The Problem of Self-Definition 160 The Discovery of the Negro and of Negro Art 162 Cultural Dualism and Its Problems 165 Art or Propaganda? 170 3. The Poetry of the Renaissance 172 The Poets and Their Public 173 The Poets and Their Themes 177 Poets in Conflict 190 Section A: IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRITUAL 195 Chapter Six: CLAUDE McKay 197 1. Biography 198 The Jamaican Years 198 The Years in the United States 201 Years of Vagabondage 201 Home to Harlem 203 2. The Jamaican Sources 204 Authenticity of Form 204 Realism of the Peasant Portraits 206 Primacy of the Earth 211 Rejection of the City 215 3. The Lyricism of Militancy 222 Racial Pride 223 Hatred 225 Target of Hatred: Evil 230 The Limits of Hatred 235 4. Exoticism and the Theme of Africa 236 5. Harlem and Negro Art 243 6. The Spiritual Journey 247 Chapter Seven: JEAN TOOMER 259 1. The Destiny of Jean Toomer 260 2. The Poetry of CANE, or, the Pilgrimage to the Origins 264 3. Beyond Race: “Blue Meridian” 272 Chapter Eight: COUNTEE CULLEN 283 1. Cullen’s Life 284 A Mysterious Childhood 284 The Productive Years 287 The Last Years 291 2. The Dictates of the Psyche 291 The Burden of Inferiority 293 Death the Liberator 297 Pride as Solace 299 3. Race and the African Homeland 301 Race in Cullen’s Poetic Universe 302 A Black among Whites 308 Garvey and the African Heritage 315 Africa as a Pagan Symbol 320 4. Christ as Symbol and Reality 329 Christ as a Sign of Self-Contradiction 330 Mysticism and Spiritual Experience 339 “The Black Christ”: A Spiritual Testament 341 Section B: IN SEARCH OF THE PEOPLE 349 Chapter Nine: JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 351 1. Biography 352 From Florida to Broadway 352 In the Service of Country and Race 354 2. Dunbar’s Disciple 356 Poetry in Dialect 356 Religious and Patriotic Conformism 358 3. Johnson and the New Spirit 365 4. Folklore and Race: Their Rehabilitation 372 The Condemnation of Dialect 375 The Experiment of God’s Trombones 377 Chapter Ten: LANGSTON HUGHES 385 1. Biography 386 The Restless Years 386 Early Successes 389 A Literature of Commitment 391 2. From Racial Romanticism to Jazz 393 Racial Romanticism 394 Rebellion: Through a Glass Jazzily 400 3. The Poetry of the Masses 416 The Social Setting of the Blues 417 Class Consciousness 426 Religion and the Masses 437 4. American Democracy: Promises and Reality 444 The American Dream 446 The Poet and Reality 454 5. Toward a Synthesis 461 Conclusion: Langston Hughes and Harlem 473 Chapter Eleven: STERLING BROWN 475 1. Folk Strength and Folk Frailties 476 2. The Tragic Universe of Sterling Brown 481 The Whites’ Conspiracy 482 The Black Man and His Fate 483 The Inanity of Faith 490 3. Means for Survival 496 Chapter Twelve: CONCLUSION 505 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX 513 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT 537 INDEX 547

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageContentsIntroductionErratumSymbols and AbbreviationsDocumentsBibliographyIndex

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War IITrade Review"Alinder's fifty-year perspective yields one of the most balanced and informative books on documentary photographs in general and the internment of Japanese Americans in particular. This is a gem of a book. Essential."--Choice"Alinder handles her material skillfully, and in concise and readable style. Her judgments show an incisive mind, and one that resists oversimplification."--American Journalism"An excellent history of the incarceration . . . this is valuable for anyone interested in Japanese-American history."--Multicultural Review"A beautiful and worthwhile read." -- The Journal of American History"A smart and highly interpretive study."--Nichi Bei Weekly"A powerful, incisive monograph on the varied strategies of photographers and subjects at a time of great upheaval and its aftermath."--American Historical Review"Contributes significantly to making the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans a part of public memory. . . . A book that gracefully navigates the space between academic and public discourse."--American Studies"A sophisticated and deeply historical book that illustrates the multiple roles photographs played in the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. In addition to detailing how U.S. authorities turned photography against Japanese Americans, the book wisely attends to how the internees and their descendants used the medium to tell competing stories of their incarceration, allegiances, and identities. It is a book sure to appeal to photohistorians, art historians, and scholars of Asian American history."--Martin A. Berger, author of Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture "A dark stain on our country's history, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II brought about a wide range of responses, from quiet grief to angry protest. In Moving Images Jasmine Alinder shows how photography was a key participant in this history and how pictures represented, managed, and confronted such a brutal and dehumanizing set of experiences. This is a very fine and timely book."--Anthony Lee, author of A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory TownTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword Roger Daniels xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. When the Innocents Suffer: Dorothea Lange and the War Relocation Authority 23 2. The Landscape of Loyalty: Ansel Adams's Born Free and Equal 44 3. The Right to Represent: Toyo Miyatake's Photographs of Manzanar 75 4. Art/History: Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in the Museum 103 5. Virtual Pilgrimage: The Contemporary Incarceration Photography of Patrick Nagatani and Masumi Hayashi 126 Epilogue 155 Notes 163 Bibliography 189 Index 201

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Trade Review"Griffith adds more white voices of opposition to the racism and nativism of the 1920s, gives more evidence of the global reach of Christian non-governmental organizations, and extends the work of David Hollinger and William Hutchison on the public presence of Protestant liberalism in the twentieth century. " --Journal of American History"The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights expands our understanding of civil rights by illuminating the contribution of liberal white leadership to Asian American equality."--Jon Thares Davidann, author of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941"This illuminating study documents how liberal Protestant activists mobilized against racial discrimination and engaged in interracial coalition-building. Recommended." --Choice"YMCA officials with experience as Protestant missionaries in Japan led the defense of Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Griffith illuminates several decades of anti-racist organizing and writing by a dynamic group of Y leaders, culminating in the group's climactic and courageous defense of Japanese Americans during World War II. This is a substantial research achievement that broadens our understanding of ecumenical Protestantism and of the history of civil rights."--David A. Hollinger, author of After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History"Scholars of religion and Asian American history should have Griffith's book on their shelves, as it provides a necessary intervention into the fields of Christian interethnic and interracial activism." --American Historical Review "Griffith does an excellent job of synthesizing the massive amounts of publications produced by these activists and shows how their approach shifted as they attempted to combat nativists and anti-immigration legislation. . . . Her deep analysis of liberal Protestant rhetoric is the book's greatest strength." --Pacific Historical Review"This is a fascinating book that will challenge everything we think we know about race, empire, missionaries, and race politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Go get this book." --Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisIn this bestselling companion to her pioneering study, Invisible Poets, Joan Sherman continues to make new generations aware of the invisible legacy of nineteenth-century black American poetry. The 171 poems here, by thirty-five men and women, have been transcribed from first editions and are annotated in detail.Trade Review"Ever since Invisible Poets we have needed an informed and comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry in the nineteenth century. Now we have it. No one but Sherman could have done the job so well."--William L. Andrews, author of To Tell a Free StoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 A Note to the Reader 15 George Moses Horton 17 Noah Calwell Cannon 38 Charles Lewis Reason 41 Ann Plato 50 Joshua McCarter Simpson 54 James Monroe Whitfield 71 Daniel Alexander Payne 94 Alfred Gibbs Campbell 102 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 112 Joseph Cephas Holly 146 George Boyer Vashon 153 Elymas Payson Rogers 166 Adah Isaacs Menken 182 James Madison Bell 192 Charlotte L. Forten Grimke 211 Alfred Islay Walden 221 Albery Allson Whitman 236 Henrietta Cordelia Ray 265 John Willis Menard 282 Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin 288 Timothy Thomas Fortune 293 James Edwin Campbell 306 Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. 325 George Clinton Rowe 342 Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard 360 Daniel Webster Davis 365 Edward W. Williams 382 Paul Laurence Dunbar 386 George Marion McClellan 416 Eloise Alberta Veronica Bibb 434 Mary Weston Fordham 441 Frank Barbour Coffin 447 James Ephriam McGirt 456 Samuel Alfred Beadle 464 Priscilla Jane Thompson 472 Bibliography 484 Subject Index 500 Title and Poet Index 504

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Book SynopsisIn Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Ho argues that seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.Trade Review"With nuanced, original readings and fluid prose, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture exceeds other studies of multiracialism by presenting a lucid, yet complex meditation on category confusion and epistemological uncertainty and their political stakes for Asian Americans." -- Leslie Bow * author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South *"With a nuanced approach and original analysis, Racial Ambiguity brings comparative ethnic studies and critical race studies into necessary dialogue. Ho skillfully maps the contours of U.S. racial formation by investigating mixed subjectivity and its particular resonances to Asian America." -- Cathy J. Schlund-Vials * author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing *"Looking through the dual lenses of critical and comparative race studies, Ho offers an engaging and provocative reflection on racial categorization, epistemological indeterminacy, and identity complexity in Asian American literature and culture … Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"[Ho's] engagement with the phenomenon of visuality is explicit and interesting." * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Ambiguous Americans: Race and the State of Asian America1 From Enemy Alien to Assimilating American: Yoshiko deLeon and the Mixed-Marriage Policy of the Japanese American Incarceration2 Anti-Sentimental Loss: Stories of Transracial/Transnational Asian American Adult Adoptees in the Blogosphere3 Cablinasian Dreams, Amerasian Realities: Transcending Race in the Twenty-first Century and Other Myths Broken by Tiger Woods4 Ambiguous Movements and Mobile Subjectivity: Passing in between Autobiography and Fiction with Paisley Rekdal and Ruth Ozeki5 Transgressive Texts and Ambiguous Authors: Racial Ambiguity in Asian American LiteratureCoda Ending with Origins: My Own Racial AmbiguityNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. It envisions Southern Anthropocenes as an opening towards forms and ends of life that exceedsâwhile remaining in partial relation withâmodern socio-economic horizons and the determinations of the geo-, eco-, and climate sciences.What happens if Southern Anthroposcenes are allowed to multiply, and room is made for practices of worlding and life that are impossible from within the singular Anthropocene?Key issues include emergent interfaces between beings, ways of living, and worlds; problems of co-existence in and across pluriversal contact zones; explorations of livability under rapidly changing circumstances; speculations about other futures and how to invent them; investigations of more-than human itineraries and entangled territories; and explorations how to collectively invent the portals between ways of thinking and acting on a planet in a critical state. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Sociology, Anthropology, Critical Education, Environmental Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, Geography and Urban Studies.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to examine "migrant-soldiers' in the British army and places the phenomenon of Britain's multicultural army in relation to British culture, history and nationalism. It also explores the impact of war on UK society during the 21st CenturyTrade Review"Riveting and nuanced.' - The Observer "Military Migrants is a 'must read' for people who care about the realities behind the rituals of our militaries. Vron Ware has done such innovative research. The men and women - from Fiji, Nepal, Jamaica, Belize, Ghana - whom the British military recruit to fight Britain's wars come alive on these pages. They have ideas and aspirations and savvy assessments of their own. This is a brilliant book." - Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, USA "This stunning and beautifully written book is essential reading for anyone interested in the multicultural question today." - Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 'The UK Armed Forces reflect the history of the British Empire. This book shows how the British Army in particular has mobilized Foreign and Commonwealth migrant soldiers to serve, what happens to them when they do and after they leave. It is a timely, well written book as the UK and the British Army continue to grapple with what it means to be British in a globalised and multi-cultural world.' - Christopher Dandeker, Kings College London, UK 'So tight is the grip of nationalist mythologies that few realize just how ubiquitous foreign military service is in the modern world. Vron Ware has produced a rich and comprehensive portrait of the experiences of Britain's foreign soldiers and their families. Inequities in pay and conditions, murky immigration statuses, racism, and the quirks of British military culture are all part of the story Ware renders in vivid ethnographic and sociological registers.' Tarak Barkawi, London School of Economics, UK 'If we are what we defend, then Military Migrants takes us to the heart of how we are defended and what this means. It is both a careful, scrupulous book and a riveting journey through our own country as it literally brings home to the reader how the country is taking new shapes while resisting change.' - Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy "The treatment of Foreign and Commonwealth soldiers within the British Armed Forces is being hotly debated, so the publication of this important work will help generate vital debate!" Dr Hugh Milroy, Chief Executive, Veterans Aid, UK 'The ways in which state power attempts to use migration to reinforce its authority are brilliantly explored in Military Migrants. Teeming with unexpected human stories, and showing what we can learn about subjects that might seem closed to scholarly study, Ware's book is a vital meditation on the nation, race, and citizenship.' - David R. Roediger, Contexts, American Sociological Association 'Vron Ware presents a wealth of first hand experience and insights into the rhetoric and reality of army life. This is a book that explains how attempts to modernise the military intersect with hard-to-shift attitudes and more pragmatic needs for recruitment. It is essential reading for understanding the armed forces today and their promotion to the centre of British life over the last ten years.' - Emma Sangster, ForcesWatch, UK 'Military Migrants raises our awareness of and personal encounters with militarism ... The deft weaving of narrative and material culture, articulated through an incisive historical record of defence policy, interacting with civil movements, is expressed with an extraordinary attention to detail, without ever losing track of the broader argument or narrative.' - Ben Wadham, Flinders University, Australia 'An excellent introduction to the political manipulations around citizenship, nationhood, identity and racism in Britain today, and how these structure the working lives and experiences of Commonwealth citizens recruited to the contemporary British Army. This book provides the definitive assessment of what militarised multiculture means for those recruited internationally to fight Britain's war. Anyone wanting to understand how civil-military relations work in contemporary Britain needs to read this book.' - Rachel Woodward, Newcastle University, UK "The bittersweet readability of this book lies in the soldiers' stories. More enlightened military officers and ranks, as well as defence experts, will respect this book for its uncompromisingly rigorous research; this is the definitive work on its subject." - Ed Vulliamy, The ObserverTable of ContentsPreface Introduction For Queen and Commonwealth PART I The Race to Recruit The Promised Land PART II Culture Shock Keeping the Faith PART III Crossing the Line The Force of the Law PART IV Like Coming to Mars Caught in the Crossfire Conclusion Militarized Multiculture Notes Index

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Book SynopsisUses the ethnographic and literary work of Hurston to augment the few official documents and family records to reconstruct the social world of all-black townsTrade Review"In this smart, well-written study of the brilliant, free-spirited writer of Harlem Renaissance renown, Zora Neale Huston, historian Tiffany Patterson deepens our understanding of the, often unexplored, interior lives and culture of residents of early 20th century southern black communities. This is a gem of a book! Tiffany Patterson adroitly captures and illuminates the fascinating complexity of Hurston and the places she represented, inhabited, and imagined."-Darlene Clark Hine, editor, Black Women in America 3 Volumes, Revised and Expanded Edition "Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life is a blockbuster book which gracefully and convincingly challenges established views of Hurston and her region. Especially impressive is the placing of Hurston's life, fiction, and folklore within the history of all-black towns, maroon societies, and nationalist traditions. Patterson portrays a cultural naturalism not obsessed with whites at every turn, and expressive of both love and gender conflict, unity and class/color tension. This book's achievement far transcends the recovery of new sources and hinges on an ability to deploy those sources in a way that makes new our understanding of Hurston, and of the early twentieth century rural south."-David Roediger, University of Illinois, and author of Working Toward Whiteness "Enthusiasts for the work of Zora Neale Hurston will not be disappointed in Tiffany Ruby Patterson's excellent study of Hurston's work... her precise recasting of history through the eyes of one of our most careful observers is a book that never fails to inform or delight... This is a valuable and long-overdue addition to scholarship on Hurston and black life in the South."-Black Issues Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: Rootedness-The History of Private Life1. Reconstructing Past Presents2. Portraits of the South: Zora Neale Hurston's Politics of Place3. A Place between Home and Horror4. Sex and Color in Eatonville, Florida5. A Transient World of Labor6. Patronage: Anatomy of a PredicamentEpilogueNotesIndexPhoto gallery follows page 112

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of this work was published in 1997 and reprinted several times in response to popular demand. It focuses on the multiple hazards of discrimination due to race, gender and class - faced by black women in contact with the criminal justice process of England and Wales. This extensively updated and revised second edition includes substantial information about developments since that time. The text which includes accounts of black women prisoners and other black people concerning their treatment by and impressions of 'the system' - has become key reading for practitioners and students alike.Trade Review'This book was core text when a student some 20 years ago. As a new lecturer I wanted to see if it was as relevant now as then. Although dated it is a book that should be on the reading lists of all criminology and sociology courses': Kate Bramford, University of Worcester.Table of ContentsContents of this NEW 2003 SECOND EDITION include:Extract from the Foreword to the First Edition by Sylvia Denman CBE and a New Introduction by the author, together with extensively revised and extended chapters from the original work: A Combination of Forces; Voices Unheard; Police and Black Women; Probation and Black Women; Experience of the Courts; Beatrice's Case (an account of one black woman's perceptions of her arrest, trial and imprisonment); Black Women and Imprisonment; Hopes and Ambitions, Appendices, Bibliography and Index.

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Book SynopsisFrom the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of today – this book tells the story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th-century until today.Trade Review‘A spectacular, stimulating work, full of intriguing information.’ Sunday Times ‘This cocktail of literary archaeology, social critique and storytelling reopens a window on a marginalised world.’ Observer ‘A fine, unusually insightful and stylishly written piece of work, a valuable, zesty contribution to the growing body of literature on black writers by black writers.’ Daily Telegraph

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Book SynopsisShow Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers -- among them Paul Robeson -- made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.Trade ReviewA fascinating look at how Show Boat helped shape the American musical form and the significant role it continues to play in our conversation about race. Todd Decker has compiled an exhaustive, engaging, and immensely readable cultural history that resonates with the same vibrant emotional impact of the musical itself. * Susan Stroman, Director & Choreographer *Traveling through seemingly familiar territory, one makes startling new discoveries on every page about American music, theater, identity, and racial history. Decker demonstrates forcefully and conclusively why Show Boat was and remains the 'most important [American] musical ever made.' * Thomas L. Riis, Director, American Music Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder *Todd Decker opens a wide window on the extraordinary cultural reach of Show Boat, with special focus on its racial complexities. For Decker, Show Boat is not a fixed text but rather a fascinating and fluid performance object that shifts with the social codes and commercial demands of its many eras. * Carol J. Oja, Professor, Harvard University, and author of Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s *A well written, thoroughly researched and cogently presented new study on one of the most studied and, for that matter, most deserving of study musicals of the twentieth century. * Brad Hathaway - Theater Shelf *An excellent overview of all aspects of the show...Decker demonstrates a fine command of sources, furnishes good documentation, and includes some photos, illustrations, and musical examples...Recommended. * Choice *Decker offers a persuasive argument for the continued relevance of this classic musical, [demonstrating] the productive potential for historiographies of American musical theatre written across rather than 'along divided racial lines.' * Theatre Journal *[A] fascinating read about one of the true classics of the American stage. * Studies in Musical Theatre *...There is a great deal to ponder in it. * JAMS *Table of ContentsForeword by Geoffrey Block ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Magnolia's Black Voice ; Part One: Making ; 1. A Ferber Plot ; 2. The Robeson Plan ; 3. The Morgan Plan ; 4. A Ziegfeld Soprano and a Shubert Tenor ; 5. Colored Chorus Curtains ; Part Two: Remaking ; 6. Featuring Robeson: 1928-1940 ; 7. Broadway Black, Hollywood White: 1943-1957 ; 8. Landmark Status: 1954-1989 ; 9. Queenie's Laugh: 1966-1998 ; Epilogue ; Appendix 1 Cast of Characters ; Appendix 2 Archival Sources for the 1927 Broadway Production ; Appendix 3 Select Stage and Screen Versions (1928-1998) ; References ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe first full-scale sociological survey of the assimilation of minorities in America, this classic work presents significant conclusions about the problems of prejudice and discrimination in America and offers positive suggestions for the achievement of a healthy balance among societal, subgroup, and individual needs.Trade ReviewImportant and entirely admirable....Gordon's review of theories of Anglo-conformity, the melting pot, and cultural pluralism is the best I have ever seen. Specialists in intergroup relations will find Gordon's book a most useful addition to their personal bookshelves and an indispensable newcomer to their pedagogical repertoire. * American Sociological Review *

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Book SynopsisOwens' fascinating study explores the personality and behavior of the slave within the context of what it meant to be a slave. Based on a variety of plantation records, diaries, slave narratives, travelers' accounts, and other items bearing on the slave's experiences in his relationships to slaveholders, it concentrates on the years between 1770 and 1865.Trade Review"A major work because of its unprecedented use of plantation records to augment ex-slave autobiographies and narratives...[It] establishes Leslie Howard Owens as a major historian of Afro-American slavery."--The New Republic "Provides a fuller description of slave life than can be found elsewhere."--Journal of Southern History "Excellent book...[It offers] great insight into the lives of the slaves as well as providing a good demonstration of historical methodology."--Terence Roehrig, Cardinal Stritch College "A work of original scholarship presented in an accessible and 'student-friendly' style."--John Rhinehart, San Bernadino Valley College

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Book SynopsisAn intimate and sensitive psychological portrait, a well informed intellectual sketch, and and unusually readable scientific treatise, this biography of Carver has a depth and a breadth of research rarely found in such studies.Trade ReviewA superb book that will supplant the two dozen or so Carver biographies already on the library shelves. It is an engaging treatment of a fascinating man. * History: Reviews of New Books *A remarkable study of a remarkable man. * The History Teacher *An intimate and sensitive psychological portrait, a well-informed intellectual sketch, and an unusually readable scientific treatise, this biography of Carver has a depth and a breadth of research rarely found in such studies. * John Blassingame, Yale University *

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Book SynopsisBorn into an affluent and politically active black family, Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837-1914) was a scholar, reformer, teacher, and writer. Her journals describe her privileged childhood, her sporadic teaching career, her involvement with the anti-slavery movement, her eighteen months teaching the contraband slaves of the South Carolina Sea Islands during the Civil War, and her later work as poet and essayist. Thanks to her keen observation amd meticulous accounts of the people and events that shaped her life, her journals provide a unique and personal view of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.Trade ReviewCharlotte Grimke 1837-1914 was such a keen observer and meticulous recorder of the events of her day, her journal survives as an important chronicle of one woman's struggles and accomplishments during this most important era in U.S. history. * Brenda Stevenson, in her Introduction *

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Book SynopsisConsidered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers an unparalleled view into the thought of black women writers in nineteenth-century America. A leading black spokeswoman of her time, Anna Julia Cooper came of age during a conservative wave in the black community, a time when men completely dominated African-American intellectual and political ideas. In these essays, Cooper criticizes black men for securing higher education for themselves through the ministry, while erecting roadblocks to deny women access to those same opportunities, and denounces the elitism and provinciality of the white women''s movement. Passionately committed to women''s independence, Cooper espoused higher education as the essential key to ending women''s physical, emotional, and economic dependence on men.Trade ReviewAn excellent book....Highly complex but not complicated. * James N. Upton, Ohio State University "A first-class series of essays that cut to the heart of the issues as much today as when it was first published.Robert Carr, George Mason University *A very useful and thorough presentation of black woman's lives during the post-reconstruction era. * James N. Upton, Ohio State University *So glad to have this important text available for my course. * Elizabeth Keyser, Hollins College *A brilliant example of how to discuss together the issues of both gender and race, one of the first in US American discourse to so approach such matters. * Dr. Imafedia Okhamafe, University of Nebraska *

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Book SynopsisFirst published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of encouragement and opportunity. Not only a prolific writer for the journal, Pauline Hopkins also served as one of its powerful editorial forces. This volume of her magazine novels, which appeared serially in the journal between March 1901 and November 1903, reveals Hopkins'' commitment to fiction as a vehicle for social change. She weaves important political themes into the narrative formulas of nineteenth-century dime-store novels and story papers, which emphasize suspense, action, complex plotting, multiple and false identities, and the use of disguise. Offering both instruction and entertainment, Hopkins'' novels also expose the limitations of popular American narrative forms when telling the stories of black characters.Trade ReviewBrilliant....It is not hard to imagine that, once her fiction is given the attention it deserves, Hopkins could replace Chestnutt as the foremost black novelist of the period. * Eric J. Sundquist in The New York Times Book Review *The three novels published in the Schomburg Library for the first time since their appearance in The Colored American Magazine from 1901 to 1903 not only represent an early example of black people producing popular fiction for and about themselves, but extend the cultural and political discourse introduced in Harper's novel [Iola Leroy]. * The Women's Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisThis textbook has been designed to confront a central issue in the study of 19th-century Afro-American literature - the question of how to analyse and evaluate the autobiographical tradition of ex-slaves.Trade Review`An imnpressive collection.' New York Times Book Review`This important collection of essays provides the most complete and cogent analysis of the slave narratives to date, and it demonstrates, again, that the narratives had and continue to have many uses ... The essays make a strong case for opening the historical and literary canon to include the slave narratives and testify to their enduring significance.' Library Journal`The Slave's Narrative is the most sophisticated and comprehensive book we have yet on the central issue facing students of 19th Century Afro-American literature: the question of how to analyse and evaluate the autobiographical tradition of ex-slaves. ...it is unlikely that any single collection of essays could do greater justice than The Slave's Tale has to the breadth, vitality, and untapped potential of this topic and the discourse it has generated.'William L. Andrews, University of Wisconsin, (BALF Spring/Summer 1986)Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Language of Slavery, xi 1. Written by Themselves, Views and Reviews, 1750-1861 The Life of Job Ben Solomon, 4 - Anonymous The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African; Written by Himself, 5 The Life and Adventures of a Fugitive Slave, 6 - Anonymous Narrative of James Williams, 8 - Anonymous The Narrative of Juan Manzano, 15 - Anonymous Narratives of Fugitive Slaves, 19 - Ephraim Peabody Life of Henry Bibb, 28 - Anonymous The Life and Bondage of Frederick Douglass, 30 - Anonymous Kidnapped and Ransomed, 31 - - Anonymous Linda: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, 32 - Anonymous 2. The Slave Narratives as History On Dialect Usage, 37 - Sterling A. Brown The Art and Science of Reading WPA Slave Narratives, 40 - Paul D. Escott History from Slave Sources, 48 - C. Vann Woodward Charles Chesnutt and the WPA Narratives: The Oral and the Literate Roots of Afro-American Literature, 59 - John Edgar Wideman Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems, 78 - John W. Blassingame Plantation Factories and the Slave Work Ethic, 98 - Gerald Jaynes The Making of a Fugitive Slave Narrative: Josiah Henson and Uncle Tom -- A Case Study, 112 - Robin W. Winks 3. The Slave Narratives as Literature "I Was Born": Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature, 148 - James Olney Three West African Writers of the 1870s, 175 - Paul Edwards Crushed Geraniums: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Language of Slavery, 199 - Susan Willis I Rose and Found My Voice: Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives, 225 - Robert Burns Stepto Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave, 242 - Houston A. Baker, Jr. Text and Contexts of Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, 262 - Jean Fagan Yellin The Slave Narrators and the Picaresque Mode: Archetypes for Modern Black Personae, 283 - Charles H. Nichols Singing Swords: The Literary Legacy of Slavery, 298 - Melvin Dixon Bibliography, 319 Index, 331

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Book SynopsisThis is a reissue of Native American Tribalism with a new Introduction by Peter Iverson. In this book the late D''Arcy McNickle, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan, member of the Flathead Tribe of Montana, and founding member of the National Congress of American Indians reviews the history of almost four hundred years of contact between North American Indians and the dominant - and often domineering - Western civilization. McNickle shows that contrary to the white man''s early expectations, the Indians of North America have maintained their cultural identity, social organization, size, locations of their population, and unique position before the law. He points out that even while stigmatized with the generalization of being an inferior race, harsh treatment by the white North American cultures, and severe obstacles such as epidemics of small pox, Indians have managed to remain an ethnic cultural enclave within American and Canadian society from colonial timesTrade Review"One of the best books I've seen on the subject."--Steven Kane, RISD "A classic treatise about the ability of Native Americans to maintain their cultural identity despite 500 years of cultural oppression."--Gregory R. Campbell, University of Montana "I am glad to have this old "classic" in an accessible new reprinting."--C.I. Mason, University of Wisconsin "As terrific as it ever was. Shows that Native Americans are not artifacts of the past, but part of a vibrant, surviving culture."--Larry Zimmerman, University of South Dakota "Offers a valuable perspective from an important period of challenges for the tribes of North America."--Howard Meredith, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma "An excellent, concise treatment of Native American-U.S. Government relations."--Douglas D. Anderson, Brown University "Brief but still comprehensive. The illustrations are excellent. Overall, a solid work as an introduction to the history of Indian tribes from colonial times to the 1970s."--S. Carol Berg, College of St. Benedict "An affordable reprint of a true classic on the trail of Indian history. Iverson's introduction is useful in placing McNickle's work in its progressive context."--Books of the Southwest "One of the best books I've seen on the subject."--Steven Kane, RISD "A classic treatise about the ability of Native Americans to maintain their cultural identity despite 500 years of cultural oppression."--Gregory R. Campbell, University of Montana "I am glad to have this old "classic" in an accessible new reprinting."--C.I. Mason, University of Wisconsin "As terrific as it ever was. Shows that Native Americans are not artifacts of the past, but part of a vibrant, surviving culture."--Larry Zimmerman, University of South Dakota "Offers a valuable perspective from an important period of challenges for the tribes of North America."--Howard Meredith, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma "An excellent, concise treatment of Native American-U.S. Government relations."--Douglas D. Anderson, Brown University "Brief but still comprehensive. The illustrations are excellent. Overall, a solid work as an introduction to the history of Indian tribes from colonial times to the 1970s."--S. Carol Berg, College of St. Benedict "An affordable reprint of a true classic on the trail of Indian history. Iverson's introduction is useful in placing McNickle's work in its progressive context."--Books of the Southwest "A great book!"--Charles Cambridge, University of Colorado at Boulder

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Book SynopsisThe relation between history and memory has become an object of increasing attention among historians and literary critics. Through a team of leading scholars, this volume offers a complex picture of the dynamic ways in which an African-American historical identity constantly invents and transmits itself in books, art, performance, and oral documents.Trade Review...an excellent collection of pieces that makes one more aware of the major markets and repositories of an African American identity and culture, while it helps one recognize the important role of contemporary, collective action in the shaping of that identity. * Journal of American Ethnic History *...an excellent collection of pieces that makes one more aware of the major markets and repositories of an African American identity and culture, while it helps one recognize the important role of contemporary, collective action in the shaping of that identity. * Journal of American Ethnic History *

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Book SynopsisUpon his arrival in the North, Frederick Douglass found, to his utter astonishment, persons who could speak of the singing among slaves as the evidence of their contentment and happiness. As late as 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois observed that African American spirituals had led naive whites to believe that life was joyous to the black slave, careless and happy. While these misconceptions have largely disappeared, the history of African American culture--and its importance to American history as a whole--is still a subject little understood by the majority of Americans. In Going Through the Storm, Sterling Stuckey offers a compelling look at one of the world''s richest cultural traditions. He traces the fertile legacy of African American art from its roots in tribal myth, through its blossoming in slave music and dance, to its fruition in the great gospel-singing movements of the 1960s. In the process he shows how this tradition, grounded as it was in adversity, represents one of the great triumTrade Review"Stuckey skillfully explores the lives and/or cultural theory of significant personalities...to reveal crucial African cultural connections in the New World that are vital to African survival and transcendence."--Journal of American Ethnic History "Plenty of history and culture of all Afro-American artistic endeavors is included in a study which will attract readers seeking to link Afro-American culture and history with artistic evolution."--Diane C. Donovan, The Midwest Book Review

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive history of antisemitism in America. Dinnerstein draws on an extraordinary number of sources and provides a cogently argued yet complex narrative for the history of this prejudice from its roots in Colonial America to the rantings of Henry Ford and present day prejudices.Trade ReviewDinnerstein has delved into a number of differenct disciplines, including theology, psychology and sociology. Equally impressive in scope is his use of original archival sources...following the dearth of Jacob Rader Marcus, Dinnerstien should rightfully inherit his title as the greatest living historian of American Jews. This book will no doubt become a benchmark for future historians. * Patterns of Prejudice *

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Book SynopsisBold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music.Trade Review"Diligently traces the history of Black music--its African influences and evolution."--Emerge "Dares to take on the whole span of black musical history."--Chicago Tribune "Important...An exceptionally erudite and thoroughly readable work."--I.S.A.M. Newsletter "Impressive."--Booklist "[I]t brilliantly illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths, and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution and enduring vitality of African-American music....Floyd clearly shows that black folk culture remains a driving force in the black music of America, a force with the power to enrich cultures the world over."--Black Media News "Samuel A. Floyd Jr...illuminates the connections between the music, myths, and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution of African-American music."--The Washington Post Book World "A classic study inspired by pioneering monographs, it advocates a fresh critical account founded in the forms and traditions of the music itself."--Come-All-Ye of Legacy Books "Floyd's theories give him a solid basis by which to make judgments about black music, and also to describe that music."--Fanfare "In this singularly focused and highly articulate study, [Floyd] is attempting to place in proper perspective the true foundation of all forms of African-American music, a complex of several related core-culture practices generally ignored in previous histories. His work can only be judged fairly by its adherence to his intentions, and on that score he succeeds beyond measure."--The Mississippi Rag "A deeply personal and passionate book that dares to take on the whole span of black musical history, from ancient Africa to modern America....Striking....Bold....Never before has a black musical history drawn such sweeping links between centuries past and present, and Floyd is one of the few writers with the scholarly techniques, the musical training and the personal passion to make them persuasive."--The Chicago Tribune "An important contribution to scholarship on African-American music....By examining the ways in which a concern with the vernacular was reflected in diverse forms of African-American musical expression, from classical compositions to gospel music and blues, Floyd offers fresh readings of creative cultural production in its broadest reaches during the period....Floyd deploys his sophisticated theoretical framework in fruitful ways....The range of this book...is impressive....Floyd makes deft use of the tools of critical theory, yet his lucid writing style avoids the dense jargon often associated with this approach. As a result, The Power of Black Music is an exceptionally erudite and thoroughly readable work."--I.S.A.M. Newsletter "Floyd...diligently traces the history of Black music in America (the jazz of New Orleans funeral parades, blues, bebop, 1960s concert hall composers, rock)--its African influences and evolution."--Emerge "Floyd's work shows an uncanny coordination of ear, heart, and intellect. The author brings his subject into the realm of ideas while manifesting a love for the music and respect for the people who have made it. His grasp of the continuity of ring-shout values, and of what it means to Signify musically, uncovers and explains the vital core of African-American music making more convincingly than any other account I have read."--Richard Crawford, Professor of Music, University of Michigan "The most scholarly and imaginative exploration yet of the origins and development of black music....An invaluable contribution."--Sterling Stuckey, Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside "African American music deserves but seldom gets as much attention from academics as from music critics. Floyd takes a rare scholarly approach to it and sets a standard for subsequent studies. The range of genres he discusses is comprehensive...and the connections he makes are particularly perceptive....Academics, critics, scholars, and fans alike stand to gain much from carefully reading this impressive work."--Booklist "Offers a new way of listening to the music of Black America and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music."--National Black Employment Directory "Scholarly but never stuffy...a lively historical overview of all styles of African-American music....Contributing mightily to the book's excitement is Floyd's willingness to interpret music through folklore, literary criticism and soulful personal memories."--Pulse (Tower Records publication) "A sweeping, selective overview of black music in the US, beginning with the role of music in African society."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1: African Music, Religion, and Narrative 2: Transformations 3: Syncretization and Synthesis: Folk and Written Traditions 4: African-American Modernism, Signifyin(g), and Black Music 5: The Negro Renaissance: Harlem and Chicago Flowerings 6: Transitions: Function and Difference in Myth and Ritual 7: Continuity and Discontinuity: The Fifties 8: The Sixties and After 9: Troping the Blues: From Spirituals to the COncert Hall 10: The Object of Call-Response: The Signifyin(g) Symbol 11: Implications and Conclusions Appendix

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a philosophical interpretation and critical analysis of the African cultural experience in modern times. In their attempt to evolve ways of life appropriate to our modern world culture, says Kwame Gyekye, African people and societies face a number of challenges, some stemming from the values and practices of their traditional cultures, and others representing the legacy of European colonialism. Defending the cross-cultural applicability of philosophical concepts developed in Western culture, Kwame Gyekye attempts to show the usefulness of such concepts in addressing a wide range of specifically African problems. Among the issues he considers are: economic development, nation-building, the evolution of viable and appropriate democratic political institutions, the development of appropriate and credible ideologies, political corruption, and the crumbling of traditional moral standards in the wake of rapid social change. Throughout, Gyekye challenges the notion that moderTrade ReviewDr. Gyekye makes wonderfully illuminating contribution to theoretical debates, while also having acute remarks to make on their practical political implications. Moreover this book contains a penetrating discussion of African culture. It is a genuinely exciting book. * Alasdair MacIntyre, Duke University *Gyekye makes wonderfully illuminating contributions to theoretical debate, while also having acute remarks to make on their practical political implications. Moreover, this book contains a penetrating discussion of African culture. It is a genuinely exciting achievement. * Alasdair MacIntyre, Duke University *I find this an excellent work on a topic which has been generally overlooked in the historiography of Africa. Not only does the author discuss philosophies of Africa, but how these philosophies in terms of traditions must compete in a changing world. * Sundiata A.K.M. Djata, Northern Illinois University *An excellent text and ueful in a variety of courses. It combines traditional African ideas with modern concepts very effectively. * Dennis Brutus, University of Pittsburgh *

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Book SynopsisThis collection of 12 original essays brings together two themes of American culture - law and race. Cases discussed include Amistad, Dred Scott, Regents v. Bakke and O.J. Simpson.Trade Review"Overall, Gordon-Reed had compiled a fascinating collection by impressive scholars on important racially-oriented trials" Daniel Lipson, Law and Politics Book Review"Together, the twelve cases in Race on Trial cover a long span of U.S legal history, anf the authors provide fascinating biographies of the litigants behind the court cases" Daniel Lipson, Law and Politics Book Review

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Book SynopsisIn Shades of Freedom, A. Leon Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between the law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present. The issue of racial inferiority is central to this volume, as Higginbotham documents how early white perceptions of black inferiority slowly became codified into law. In Shades of Freedom, a noted scholar and a celebrated jurist offers a work of magnificent scope, insight, and passion. Ranging from the earliest colonial times to the present, it is a superb work of history and a mirror to the American soul.Trade ReviewReviews of the cloth edition: "Judge Higginbotham's book is customarily well researched, extensively documented, persuasively written, and offers compelling insights on the painfully slow process of racial progress in America. While W.E.B. DuBois reminded us that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, Judge Higginbotham has documented DuBois's prophecy in Shades of Freedom, the seminal work on race in the legal system for the twenty-first century."--Charles J. Ogletree, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School"In his powerful treatise, Judge Higginbotham has exposed both the pathology and the potential of the law in either eliminating or perpetuating racial injustice. He has written with the eloquence of a Martin Luther King, the scholarship of a W.E.B. DuBois, and the superb legal craftsmanship and wisdom of Chief Justice Warren and Thurgood Marshall. For all individuals who believe that history is relevant, Shades of Freedom must be read and reflected on. A must-read book for every generation of Americans."--Kweisi Mfume, President & CEO, NAACP"Shades of Freedom is a worthy successor to In the Matter of Color. With eloquence and authority, Judge Higginbotham chronicles and analyzes the long, sordid history of the use of law in establishing and maintaining a system in which 'Equal Justice Under Law' is a mockery of the actual practice. Anyone interested in race in America should read this important book."--John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus, Duke University"Shades of Freedom magnificently reflects on the systematic denial and betrayal of our past and present rights to full liberty and justice, while providing a sobering and disturbing prognosis of our future progress in achieving our full Constitutional guarantees. It superimposes a historical mosaic of denial and unkept promises. The Judge brilliantly chronicles the insidious patterns of racism that have always short-circuited our quest for unconditional freedom, as embraced by America's most enduring concept 'We the People.' In Shades of Freedom, as in In the Matter of Color, Judge Higginbotham passionately sounds the trumpet for a Rainbow of Freedom for 'We the People.'"--Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, President/Founder, The Bethune-DuBois Fund"Judge Higginbotham is once again the smithy, wielding, as a mighty hammer, his powerful intellect, scholarship, historical, and logic, in the forge of justice, seeking to reshape on the anvil of the Constitution, minds badly twisted by racism. In this classic work, Shades of Freedom, Higginbotham takes his readers through historical and social time zones with their sunlight and shadows, showing forward movement and retreat. Given the confused state of race relations today this remarkable book could not be more timely."--Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit"Higginbotham's masterful work is a compelling and convincing examination of how the law developed the official American doctrine of racial inferiority."--Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton"Once again, this great freedom fighter, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., has masterfully presented a remarkable and refreshingly honest assessment of the role of race in American society and law. With great clarity and perception, Higginbotham exposes underlying cultural assumptions of inferiority and the impact such assumptions have on our collective progress. Shades of Freedom is aptly entitled because in describing the vast spectrum of freedoms enjoyed by African Americans today, it serves as a poignant reminder that there are many miles yet to travel on the road to freedom and equality."--Honorable Damon J. Keith, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit"In my lifetime, two giants of the bench did not make the Supreme Court: Learned Hand and Leon Higginbotham. Now one has written a book that you would expect from him: eloquent, scholarly, compassionate, and a ringing call for justice."--Senator Paul Simon"In Shades of Freedom one of our greatest legal minds makes a powerful case for turning the use of law to the service of justice. Judge Higginbotham carefully explains the role of law in reinforcing the concept of African American inferiority since the colonial period."--Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania, and Chairperson, United States Commission on Civil Rights"Eighteen years is a long time to hold one's breath, but it has been worth the pain and effort. Shades of Freedom is in its own way as remarkable a book as Leon Higginbotham's magnificent In The Matter of Color. It reflects the same mastery of historical research, passion for equality and the rule of law, and judicial temperament. With the publication of this volume, Judge Higginbotham confirms my judgement that he is our leading judicial scholar, and my hope that, with his leadership, this nation will resume its progress toward equal protection of the law for all."--Stanley N. Katz, President, American Council for Learned Societies, and Professor, The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

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