Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Oxford University Press White Womens Rights
Book SynopsisLouise Newman reinterprets an important period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women''s rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory. At a time when white elites were concerned with imperialist projects and civilizing missions, progressive white women developed an explicit racial ideology to promote their cause, defending patriarchy for primitives while calling for its elimination among the civilized. Exploring how progressive white women at the turn of the century laid the intellectual groundwork for the feminist social movements that followed, Newman''s book thus speaks to contemporary debates concerning the effect of race on current feminist scholarship.Trade ReviewA compelling investigation of how racial questions informed the creation of white feminist thought in the United States ... I highly recommend this book. * Journal of American History *The book opens up the possibility of redirecting the framework through which a discourse of rights, any discourse of rights, can be understood. * Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory *Because its argument is both widely drawn and carefully detailed, Newman's book is engaging, often insightful, and always provocative. * The Journal of American History *
£34.67
Oxford University Press, USA NeoSlave Narratives Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form Race and American Culture
Book SynopsisThis is a study in the political, social, and cultural content of a particular literary form - the novel of slavery cast as a first-person slave narrative. The text explores the complex relationship between nostalgia and critique, and asks how African-American intellectuals made use of this form.Trade ReviewRushdy's book tells us a great deal not just about the four novels he reads closely, but also about the American conceptions of slavery and race in the second half of the Twentieth century; we walk away from Neo Slave Narratives with a multilayered sense of what Rushdy calls the social logic of the form, a logic which demonstrates that form is not extrinsic to historical understanding but rather constitutive of it. In short, Rushdy approaches his texts as complex objects circulating in many intersecting exchanges and listens carefully for the whistling and humming around him. * Eric Gardner, Theory and Cultural Studies *
£98.91
Oxford University Press Saints in Exile
Book SynopsisSaints in Exile studies, from an insider''s perspective, the worship practices and social ethics of the African American family of Holiness, Pentecostal, and Apostolic churches known collectively as the Sanctified Church. Cheryl Sanders identifies the theme of exile, both as an idea and an experience, as the key to understanding the dialectical nature of African American religious and intellectual life, that W.E.B. Du Bois called double-conscious. Sanders''s saints in exile are a people who see themselves as in the world but not of it; their marginalized status is both self-imposed and involuntary, a consequence of racism, sexism and other forms of elitism. When joined with the biblical tropes of homecoming and reconciliation, the concept of exile serves as a vital vantage point from which to identify, critique, and remedy the continued alienation of blacks, women, and the poor in the United States.Sanders''s interpretive approach clarifies many paradoxical features of black existence,Trade ReviewThose who have an affinity for or an interest in the culture of black holiness and Pentecostal churches will gain rich new insights and historical background from Sanders's work. * Christian Century *A valuable piece of work that will fill a void in current scholarship on black church culture. Her 'insider' perspective pays off in insights often missing in black theology. * Robert Franklin, Candler School of Theology *A major contribution to an area of African-American religious studies where there is a great void in the literature....This is definitely very good and very important. * Cheryl T. Gilkes, Colby College *Sanders' study is a very carefully drawn portrait of African American religious experience, and her use of the dialectical axes offers considerable insight and analysis that makes this volume a must read. * Christian Sociologist Newsletter *
£47.02
Oxford University Press A State of Nations
Book SynopsisThis collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on a wide geographic range, from Russia to Central Asia, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Soviet history and politics.Trade ReviewA State of Nations gives a very useful overview of the actual situation of American studies on empire and nation-making from the late tsarist empire to the end of the Stalin era. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsContributors Ronald Gregor Suny and Terry Martin: Introduction Part I: Empire and Nations 1: Ronald Grigor Suny: The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, "National" Identity, and Theories of Empire 2: Terry Martin: An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism Part II: The Revolutionary Conjuncture 3: Joshua Sanborn: Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905-1925 4: Peter Holquist: To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia 5: Adeeb Khalid: Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920 Part III: Forging "Nations" 6: Daniel E. Schafer: Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919-1920 7: Douglas Northrop: Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity Part IV: Stalinism and the Empire of Nations 8: Matt Payne: The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan 9: Peter A. Blitstein: Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-1953 10: Davd Brandenberger: "...It is Imperitive to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority": Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945 Index
£52.25
Oxford University Press The Melancholy of Race
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the minority experience as expressed in works of art by, and about, Asian-Americans and African-Americans. She argues that the racial minority and dominant American culture both suffer from racial melancholia and that this insight is crucial to a productive reimagining of progressive politics. Her discussion ranges from Flower Drum Song to M. Butterfly, Brown v. Board of Education to Anna Deavere Smith'Trade ReviewOne measure of a healthy and thriving literature is the health of its critics and theorists. If measured against the work of Anne Anlin Cheng, Asian-American literature is not only alive and thriving, but in the midst of a renaissance. Her discussion of race theory goes far beyond the often muddled binary discussion of racialized difference, historical chronology, or sociological case study, offering a new view of race and ethnicity in literature and psychoanalysis. * Shawn Wong, University of Washington *
£49.40
Oxford University Press Inc In Search of the Black Fantastic
Book SynopsisPrior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change. But as Richard Iton shows in this provocative and insightful volume, despite the changes brought about by the civil rights movement, and contrary to the wishes of those committed to narrower conceptions of politics, black artists have continued to play a significant role in the making and maintenance of critical social spaces. Iton offers an original portrait of the relationship between popular culture and institutionalized politics tracing the connections between artists such as Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansberry, Richard Pryor, Bob Marley and Erykah Badu and those individuals working in the protest, electoral, and policy making arenas. With an emphasis on questions of class, gender and sexuality-and diaspora and coloniality-the author also illustrates how creative artists destabilize modern notions of the proper location of politics, and politics itself. Ranging from theatre to film, and comedy to literature and contemporary music, In Search of the Black Fantastic is an engaging and sophisticated examination of how black popular culture has challenged our understandings of the aesthetic and its relationship to politics.Trade ReviewA fascinating history and analysis of the nexus of black popular culture and activism from the Jazz Age to the hip-hop era...a timely reminder of the significant influence African American artists and entertainers have had on the political front--not necessarily in enacting laws, but in the symbolic impact of words and actions. * Los Angeles Times *By interweaving many complex issues, In Search of the Black Fantastic moves across the disciplines with ease--politics, history, sociology, American studies, and African American studies--thereby representing one of the most thorough examinations of post-war black culture. * Political Science Quarterly *Iton's work possesses the depth of wide reading in modernist theory and the breadth of wide-open eyes and ears for the popular... challenging, illuminating and groundbreaking. For both lay reader and academician, it may well 'compel a revision of our notions of the political. * Publishers Weekly *A fresh, meticulously well researched study...The book is grounded in a solid historical base, surveying the dilemmas faced by black artists from the Cold War to the present...I strongly recommend In Search of the Black Fantastic to serious scholars of black literature and culture. By so perceptively engaging the relationship between popular art and the politics of marginalized people, it helps to clear the way to a truer, deeper understanding of an important subject which rarely gets such penetrating analysis. * African American Review *Brimming with ideas... In Search of the Black Fantastic offers thought-provoking insights throughout its 400 pages and will certainly stimulate further work in numerous areas of African American history. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsNOTES;; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;; INDEX
£75.05
Oxford University Press Islam and the Blackamerican
Book SynopsisWhy has Islam spread among Blackamericans but not among white Americans or Hispanics? Thus far, no one has offered a convincing answer to this question. The assumption has been that there is an African connection, but the historical record does not bear this out. In Islam and the Blackamerican, Sherman Jackson offers a trenchant examination of the career of Islam among Blackamericans.Trade ReviewDestined to become a fixture in any course dealing with Islam in America, Jackson's treatment of the subject offers many helpful insights while giving a voice to often-ignored Blackamerican Muslims. ...his work will contribute to the lively and growing debate over the place of Islam in America and the role of Blackamerican Muslims in the contemporary American religious scene. * The Virginia Quarterly Review *No one has ever analyzed the actual dynamics of Blackamerican Muslims with more acute insight, or more palpable good will, than Sherman Jackson. For both black and white Americans, Jackson sets forth a vision of Islam that is at once holistic and pragmatic: a source of inner strength, a builder of human character, and a bridge to salvation. This book is required reading for anyone who has ever pondered how the long span of Muslim history connects to the Blackamerican stake in an ongoing and enabling Islamic identity. * Bruce Lawrence, author of New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life *No author is better positioned than Sherman Jackson to write Islam and the Blackamerican. A prominent scholar of Islam and major Muslim leader, Jackson draws on his impeccable scholarship and experience, providing a perspective on the past and charting a future course for Blackamerican Muslims. * John L. Esposito, author of What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam *This seminal examination of Blackamerican Islam is an excellent theoretical seating for and analysis of various communities since the beginning of the twentieth century. What makes this text groundbreaking is that it stands the tradition of the only real religion among African Americans is Christianity on its head. For almost all of the 20th century, Black Christian scholars have claimed hegemony over what is said about religion in the black community without mentioning the influences of Islam or even its increasing adherence. Well, Sherman Jackson has forced a new conversation with a skilled and sophisticated investigation from the point of view of a Blackamerican Islamic scholar. Things will never be the same again in the scholarship around black religion. * Aminah Beverly McCloud, author of African American Islam *A must read for anyone interested in an important and challenging interpretation of Islam and African Americans. * James H. Cone, author of Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Islam and Black Religion 2. The Third Resurrection and the Ghost of Edward Wilmot Blyden 3. Black Orientalism 4. Between Blackamerica, Immigrant Islam, and the Dominant Culture 5. Blackamerican Islam Between Religion, Nationalism, and Spirituality Notes Index
£43.69
Oxford University Press, USA Black Pilgrimage to Islam
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive ethnographic study of African-American Muslims. Drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted over a period of several years, Dannin provides an unprecedented look inside the fascinating and little understood world of black Muslims. He discovers that the well-known and cult-like Nation of Islam represents only a small part of the picture. Many more African-Americans are drawn to Islamic orthodoxy, with its strict adherence to the Qur''an. Dannin takes us to the First Cleveland Mosque, the oldest continuing Muslim institution in America, on to a permament Muslim village in Buffalo, and then inside New York''s maximum-security prisons to hear testimony of the powerful attraction of Islam for individuals in desperate situations. He looks at the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X, and the ongoing warfare between the Nation of Islam and orthodox Muslims. Accessibly written, filled with gripping first-hand testimony, and featuring superb illustrationsTrade Review"an important and ground-breaking book"-- Journal of African American History"I highly recommend this text for those interested in Islam in America, black religion, and American religious ethnography."-- The Journal of Religion"A welcome and important work.this book is an essential acquisition for any student of African American Islam and could be incorporated successfully into courses on wither African American religion or modern Islam."-- The Journal of the American Academy of Religion"[An] effort to promote cross-cultural understanding and to give an image and voice to thousands of African Americans. He succeeds admirably. Among the book's greatest strengths are the Muslims' testimonies of conversion, presented in their own words."--Sonsyrea Tate,The Washington Post Book World"In Black Pilgrimage to Islam, Robert Dannin gives us a rare and fascinating insight into the minds and sensibilities of black Americans who have embraced Islam. His research is impeccable, his judgements are acute, and his prose is uncommonly graceful. This book is an important contribution to American social history." -- Howard Zinn, Author of A People's History of the United States"This book provides a major contribution to our understanding of the process of conversion and its liberating influences in general and of the power of Islamic ideas in transforming rural former African American slaves into urban activists seeking the redemption of society." --Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University"Robert Dannin provides a very informative and useful contribution to the study of African American Islam. He has investigated a great range of sources, through research and personal interviews, and in this work he allows his subjects to speak first-hand about their experiences and beliefs. The result is a work that is unique both in its presentation and in its range." --Jane I. Smith, Author of Islam in America"Fascinating"--Booklist
£25.49
Oxford University Press Inc Forgotten Dead
Book SynopsisMob violence in the United States is usually associated with the southern lynch mobs who terrorized African Americans during the Jim Crow era. This book uncovers what is by contrast a neglected chapter in the story of American racial violence, the lynching of persons of Mexican origin or descent. Over eight decades lynch mobs murdered hundreds of Mexicans, mostly in the American Southwest. Racial prejudice, a lack of respect for local courts, and economic competition all fueled the actions of the mob. Sometimes it was ordinary citizens who committed these acts because of the alleged failure of the criminal justice system; other times the culprits were law enforcement officers themselves. Violence also occurred against the backdrop of continuing tensions along the border between the United States and Mexico aggravated by criminal raids, military escalation, and political revolution. Based on exhaustive research on both sides of the border, the first half of Forgotten Dead explores the cTrade ReviewOverall this work is very well done and provides an extremely important historiographical advance not only for Mexican American historry, but also for the study of lynching, vigilantism, and mob violence in the US. * C. L. Sinclair, Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Note on Terms ; Introduction ; 1. Manifest Destiny and Mob Violence against Mexicans ; 2. Judge Lynch on the Border ; 3. Mexican Resistance to Mob Violence ; 4. Diplomatic Protest and the Decline of Mob Violence ; Conclusion: Remembering the Forgotten Dead ; Appendix A: Confirmed Cases of Mob Violence against Persons of Mexican Origin and Descent in the United States, 1848-1928 ; Appendix B: Unconfirmed Cases of Mob Violence against Persons of Mexican Origin and Descent in the United States, 1848-1928 ; Notes ; Index
£47.99
Oxford University Press The Trouble Between Us
Book SynopsisThe Trouble Between Us looks at the question why a radical interracial women''s movement did not develop in the 1960s and 1970s. It consideres white and black women''s experiences in the civil rights movement, the Black Arts and Black Power movements, including the Black Panther Party, Boston socialist feminism - particularly Bread and Roses, an early white socialist feminist organization, and the Combahee River Collective, a black socialist feminist organization, and Boston feminists'' efforts to develop cross- racial political projects in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The accepted interpretation of this period''s feminism has been that African American wmen did not join the women''s movement because it was racist. But while radical white women were often unconciously or abstractly racist, they were passionately anti-racist in their political objectives and worked hard to develop an interracial movement. At the same time, most radical black women were influenced by the Black Power mTrade ReviewBreines provides valuable insight in a book that could and should be one in a series of close investigations of race and gender relations in U.S. social activism. * Kristin Waters and Carol B. Conaway, The Journal of American History *
£27.49
Oxford University Press Inc Plantation Church
Book SynopsisIn Plantation Church, Noel Leo Erskine investigates the history of the Black Church as it developed both in the United States and the Caribbean after the arrival of enslaved Africans. Typically, when people talk about the Black Church they are referring to African-American churches in the U.S., but in fact, the majority of African slaves were brought to the Caribbean. It was there, Erskine argues, that the Black religious experience was born. The massive Afro-Caribbean population was able to establish a form of Christianity that preserved African Gods and practices, but fused them with Christian teachings, resulting in religions such as Cuba''s Santería. Despite their common ancestry, the Black religious experience in the U.S. was markedly different because African Americans were a political and cultural minority. The Plantation Church became a place of solace and resistance that provided its members with a sense of kinship, not only to each other but also to their ancestral past. DespTrade Review... it is an indispensable addition to the acreage of texts detailing Black Church history ... Noel Leo Erskine has produced a major text of great import, which will continue to stir debate for many years to come. * Anthony G. Reddie, Black Theology: An International Journal *This book is one of those rare scholarly corrections that offers profound wisdom for academic and popular audiences. Noel Erskine mounts compelling evidence that the black religious experience began in the Caribbean and not in the United States. How refreshing that he does so with fluid storytelling and a writing style that urges the reader to pursue each page with expectations of new knowledge. * Dwight N. Hopkins, co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology *A brilliantly provocative and unprecedented book, told with both intimately personal prose and comprehensive and convincing data, with insights that will radically change the way we have conceptualized Black Atlantic religious traditions. This is the book that we have been waiting for. It is truly a tour de force, a must read for all! * Kamari M. Clarke, Professor of Anthropology and International and Area Studies, Yale University *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction: Remembering Ancestors ; 1. Migration, Displacement, Resistance ; 2.The Memory of Africa ; 3.Black Church Experience South of the Border ; 4. Plantation Church ; 5.The Making of the Black World ; 6.Towards A Creolized Ecclesiology ; Bibliography
£34.67
Oxford University Press Becoming African in America
Book SynopsisThe first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as African but rather as members of ethnic groups such as the Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury reveals how an African identity emerged in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of African from a degrading term connoting savage people to a word that was a source of pride and unity for the diverse victims of the Atlantic slave trade. In this wide-ranging work, Sidbury first examines the work of black writers - such as Ignatius Sancho in England and Phillis Wheatley in America - who created a narrative of African identity that took its meaning from the diaspora, a narrative that began with enslavement and the experience of the Middle Passage, allowing people of various ethnic backgrounds to become African by virtue of sharing the oppression of slavery. He looks at political activists who worked within the emerging antislavery moment in England and North America inTrade Review...a fine and welcome addition to the literature on the history of the African diaspora and the black Atlantic world...the book...will serve as a generative source for further research and inquiry. There can be no greater tribute to a person's scholarship, nor any greater reward. * Michael A. Gomez, African History *Taking us on a journey that stretches from New York and Philadelphia to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leon, Jim Sidbury tells an elegant tale of how several generations of thinkers shaped, pursued, and transformed the idea of Africa. In the process, he provides a deeply engaging, and deeply human, portrait of intellectuals and communities in motion and in struggle. * Laurent Dubois, Duke University *The most sophisticated, best researched, and subtly argued book yet on the complex story of how Africans became African Americans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This is a genuinely Atlantic book in its scope and importance. * David W. Blight, author of A Slave No More *An outstanding, detailed survey emerges which blendsrich source writings with a history of ethnic identity development. * The Bookwatch *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; EPILOGUE THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OF 1850 AND RENEWED ASSERTIONS OF AFRICAN IDENTITY
£27.49
Oxford University Press Multicultural Odysseys
Book SynopsisWe are currently witnessing the global diffusion of multiculturalism, both as a political discourse and as a set of international legal norms. States today are under increasing international scrutiny regarding their treatment of ethnocultural groups, and are expected to meet evolving international standards regarding the rights of indigenous peoples, national minorities, and immigrants. This phenomenon represents a veritable revolution in international relations, yet has received little public or scholarly attention. In this book, Kymlicka examines the factors underlying this change, and the challenges it raises. Against those critics who argue that multiculturalism is a threat to universal human rights, Kymlicka shows that the sort of multiculturalism that is being globalized is inspired and constrained by the human rights revolution, and embedded in a framework of liberal-democratic values. However, the formulation and implementation of these international norms has generated a numbeTrade Review...it is the first of its kind in breadth and depth of research...A theoretician, Kymlicka is at home writing conceptually, but his writing is wonderfully clear...he has offered a hugely important volume, and a readable one at that. * Jenifer Curtis, in Globe and Mail *Table of ContentsPART I: THE (RE)-INTERNATIONALIZATION OF STATE-MINORITY RELATIONS; PART II: MAKING SENSE OF LIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM; PART III: PARADOXES IN THE GLOBAL DIFFUSION OF LIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM
£80.74
Oxford University Press The Color of Citizenship
Book SynopsisThe role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most perplexing puzzles of modernity. While political thought has been slow to take up this puzzle, Diego von Vacano suggests that the tradition of Latin American and Hispanic political thought, which has long considered the place of mixed-race peoples throughout the Americas, is uniquely well-positioned to provide useful ways of thinking about the connections between race and citizenship. As he argues, debates in the United States about multiracial identity, the possibility of a post-racial world in the aftermath of Barack Obama, and demographic changes owed to the age of mass migration will inevitably have to confront the intellectual tradition related to racial admixture that comes to us from Latin America.Von Vacano compares the way that race is conceived across the writings of four thinkers, and across four different eras: the Spanish friar Bartolomé de Las Casas writing in the context of empire; Simón BolivarTrade ReviewDiego von Vacano puts Latin American and Hispanic political thought in the forefront as he examines, with originality and precision, the role that race has played and can play in both political thought and theory. As a central factor of the lived experience of individuals in the modern world, race as a synthetic concept illuminates the workings of politics, power, and citizenship and challenges the ways in which race has traditionally been elided in Western political thought. * Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University *Diego von Vacano's important new book forces us to rethink central assumptions about modernity and race that have long been part of European and North American intellectual traditions. Through the writings of four major Spanish American intellectuals, spanning fully 400 years, 'The Color of Citizenship' explores the evolution of racial ideas based on mixture and fluidity rather than purity and stability. With 'The Color of Citizenship', the important contributions of Latin Americans to thinking about race can no longer be ignored. * Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University *The Color of Citizenship' is an excellent genealogy of racial thinking and post-colonial states in the Americas. Scholars of philosophy, political theory, and race will better understand the complicated and 'synthetic' nature of racial discourse in the Americas from reading this book. * Mark Q. Sawyer, Professor of Political Science & African American Studies, UCLA *By examining what a selected number of Spanish American thinkers had to say about race, regardless of their politics, Diego von Vacano's book is a most valuable contribution on various fronts. It offers a fruitful and exceptional interdisciplinary engagement between political philosophy and the history of ideas, which is also an invitation to take more seriously Latin American political thinkers. More substantially, it traces a 'particular intellectual tradition' towards a 'modern synthetic conceptualization of race,' one that accepts the values of miscegenation against hierarchical and dualistic paradigms of race. By placing a reconceptualised notion of race at the centre of political philosophy, von Vacano identifies the basis of a universally inclusive notion of citizenship. What is discussed here is undoubtedly relevant to key debates in our contemporary societies. * Eduardo Posada-Carbo, Latin American Centre, Oxford University *This stunningly original and thoughtful work demonstrates the tremendous potential of comparative political theory. Highly recommended * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Paradox of Empire: Las Casas and the Birth of Race ; 2. Mixed into Unity: Race and Republic in the Thought of Simon Bolivar ; 3. Race and Nation in the Democratic Caesarism of Vallenilla Lanz ; 4. The Citizenship of Beauty: Jose Vasconcelos's Aesthetic Synthesis of Race ; Conclusion: Making Race Visible to Political Theory
£41.32
Oxford University Press Brokering Belonging
Book SynopsisBrokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese brokers, ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. At the time, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles as representatives to the larger society. Brokers'' work reveals the changing boundaries between Chinese and Anglo worlds, and how tensions among Chinese shaped them.By reinserting Chinese back into mainstream politics, Brokering Belonging alters common understandings of how legally alien groups'' helped create modern immigrant nations. Over several generations, brokers deeply embedded Chinese immigrants in the larger Canadian, U.S. and Chinese politics of their time. On the 19th century Western frontier, bilingual Chinese businessmen competed with each other to represent their community. By the early 1920s, a new generation of brokers based in social movements challenged traditional brokers, shifting the poweTrade ReviewHighly innovative .This study of politics from the middle will shape the way political, immigration, and ethnic historians view power politics. * American Historical Review *Lisa Mar has written a history from neither above nor below, but from the middle. Her account of Chinese Canadian immigrant brokers during the exclusion era shows an active world of politics taking place 'off stage,' in patronage deals made in the back rooms of political parties, law offices, and in the Chinese-language press. This is a fascinating study that changes the way we think about Chinese immigrant communities and the ways in which power operates. * Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University *Lisa Mar's work uncovers the complex political and social life in Vancouver's Chinese community to a depth that goes beyond earlier scholarship. Mar's ability to follow the lives of the 'brokers' who could operate both in Chinese and English language worlds-tracing their ability to translate and represent each side to the other and to take advantage of their advantageous position as go-betweens-gives us insights into the complicated world of political deal-making and betrayal that almost no other scholar has been able to achieve. * Henry Yu, author of Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America *Brokering Belonging reinscribes general scholarship concerning ethnicity and immigration with the adventures of politically adroit, transnational yet highly acculturated Chinese Canadian 'brokers' who successfully strategized for greater access and rights on behalf of an otherwise legally and ideologically marginal minority population. Despite the inherent contradictions between their roles as advocates, interpreters, and influence peddlers, Mar persuasively argues that brokers made it possible for even small immigrant groups to sink roots into hostile soil. * Madeline Y. Hsu, University of Texas at Austin *Short but riveting...A work that is vast in its implications...By using transnational lives and experiences to inform our understanding of the Chinese experience in Canada, Mar offers a convincing portrait of how transnationalism and national experiences intersect and effectively broadens the scope of the national lens. * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY
£32.49
Oxford University Press Salsa Rising New York Latin Music of the Sixties Generation
Book SynopsisSalsa Rising provides the first full-length historical account of Latin Music in this city guided by close critical attention to issues of tradition and experimentation, authenticity and dilution, and the often clashing roles of cultural communities and the commercial recording industry in the shaping of musical practices and tastes.Trade ReviewThe book is sure to become an indispensable point of reference in the cultural history of salsa. * Juan Carlos Quintero-Herencia, New West Indian Guide *in this vividly narrated account he [Flores] narrows his focus from a wholesale history of so-called Latin music to a specific cultural moment in a single (albeit uniquely large and diverse) city ... most illuminating. * Brian Morton, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Guaracha to Mambo: Style Shifts of the Earlier Generations (1930-60) Chapter 1. Pachanga Alegre Chapter 2. La PerfectaFit Chapter 3. Boogaloo Soul Chapter 4. Revolt in Típico Chapter 5. Fania's Latin Thing Chapter 6. Salsoul Challenges Coda
£30.49
Oxford University Press Creating Their Own Image
Trade ReviewCreating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists is an exemplary piece of scholarship. Rich in information and images, it is contextualized in socio-economic, political and artistic facts. This tome is a brilliant history reflecting the aesthetics and the social and metaphysical traditions of African-American women artists and their artistry. A Must Read!! * Tritobia Hayes-Benjamin, Howard University *Farrington's survey work fills gaps in the history of American art, and should keep these artists from being overlooked in the future.. * CHOICE *A clearly written and beautifully illustrated text that presents the myriad and nuanced experiences, visions, and talents of African-American women artists. * April F. Masten, Reviews in American History *From 'women's work' in fabric art of the slavery era to 'post-black' artists working in a stunning range of styles and mediums, Lisa Farrington's Creating Their Own Image presents an important survey of the extraordinary contributions African-American women artists---unknown and known, past and present---have made and continue to make to our visual culture. This is a book we will consult, and enjoy, often. * Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University *Farrington gives the reader a layered narrative and a dazzling array of artworks.... It is the kind of book anyone interested in art, women's art, or African American art will want to own and refer to constantly. Anyone teaching women's studies, gender studies, or African American women's studies will want to own this as well. * History *Table of Contents1. THE IMAGE; 8. ABSTRACT EXPLORATIONS; NOTES/ BIBLIOGRAPHY/ INDEX
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Oxford University Press Inc Death or Liberty
Book SynopsisIn Death or Liberty, Douglas R. Egerton offers a sweeping chronicle of African American history stretching from Britain''s 1763 victory in the Seven Years'' War to the election of slaveholder Thomas Jefferson as president in 1800. While American slavery is usually identified with antebellum cotton plantations, Egerton shows that on the eve of the Revolution it encompassed everything from wading in the South Carolina rice fields to carting goods around Manhattan to serving the households of Boston''s elite. More important, he recaptures the drama of slaves, freed blacks, and white reformers fighting to make the young nation fulfill its republican slogans. Although this struggle often unfolded in the corridors of power, Egerton pays special attention to what black Americans did for themselves in these decades, and his narrative brims with compelling portraits of forgotten African American activists and rebels, who battled huge odds and succeeded in finding liberty--if never equality--onlTrade ReviewThe monumental accomplishments of Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington seem trivial in comparison to what many of their African American contemporaries achieved. Seizing the unprecedented opportunities presented by the Revolutionary War, thousands of enslaved Americans - including slaves owned by Jefferson and Washington - made their own declarations of independence and undertook the arduous and perilous journey from slave to freedom. Now, for the first time, the scores of recent investigations of black participation in the American Revolution have been synthesized into an elegant and seamless narrative. In Death or Liberty - a title taken not from Patrick Henry but from a participant in Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800 -Douglas Egerton shows that African Americans not only extracted the most liberty from the Revolutionary experience but also paid the highest price for it. * Woody Holton, University of Richmond *Slowly, American understanding of the vital Revolutionary era is becoming more open, subtle, and realistic. Douglas Egerton's suggestive book uses real lives to weave surprising new threads into this familiar old flag. * Peter H. Wood, author of Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America *In this highly readable account Douglas Egerton weaves together the stories of black and white men and women in a seamless and deeply human telling of the American Revolutionary war. Even scholars familiar with the subject matter will find fresh and original insights on virtually every aspect of American Revolutionary history. * Sylvia R. Frey, author of Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Trials of William Lee: A Life in the Age of Revolution ; One: Equiano's World: The British Atlantic Empire in 1763 ; Two: Richard's Cup: Slavery and the Coming of the Revolution ; Three: The Transformation of Colonel Tye: Black Combatants and the War ; Four: Quok Walker's Suit: Emancipation in the North ; Five: Absalom's "Meritorious Service": Antislavery in the Upper South ; Six: Captain Vesey's Cargo: Continuity in Georgia and the Carolinas ; Seven: Mum Bett Takes a Name: The Emergence of Free Black Communities ; Eight: Harry Washington's Atlantic Crossings: The Migrations of Black Loyalists ; Nine: A Suspicion Only: Racism in the Early Republic ; Ten: Eli Whitney's Cotton Engine: Expansion and Rebellion ; Epilogue: General Gabriel's Flag: Unsuccessful Coda to the Revolution ; Notes
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Oxford University Press The Works of Alain Locke
Book SynopsisThis book features a comprehensive collection of essays by Alain Locke (1885-1954), the most formidable African American public intellectual of his generation. It is by far the largest collection of his brilliant essays, gathered from a career that spanned forty years. The range of the work covers an impressively broad field of subjects: philosophy, literary criticism, art and music criticism, value theory, race, politics, and multiculturalism. His inquisitive mind, his refined taste and his pragmatic temperament brought him renown as the godfather of the Harlem Renaissance. But his contributions to many fields extended well beyond that remarkable period, to the very beginning of the civil rights movement. Locke''s standing among today''s readers will be secured through this presentation of his skillful writing and impressive thought. By virtue of his learning and his commitment to intellectual excellence, Locke can now be seen in the sweep of American culture. Here he can take his rigTrade ReviewMolesworth has compiled fascinating essays on art, aesthetics, race, and democracy written by Locke well before and after, not just during, his so-called deanship of the New Negro Renaissance in the 1920s. Anyone interested in Locke and his place in American intellectual history should read this book. * Gene Jarrett, author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature *Table of ContentsForeword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; Introduction ; Note on the Text and Acknowledgments ; I. Literature ; 1. On Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905) ; 2."The Romantic Movement As Expressed by John Keats" (1907) ; 3. "Emile Verhaeren" (1917) ; 4. "Colonial Literature of France" (1923) ; 5. "The Younger Literary Movement" (1923); co authored with Du Bois ; 6. Review of Countee Cullen's Color (1926) ; 7. Review of Langston Hughes The Weary Blues (1926) ; 8. Review of Langston Hughes' Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927) ; 9. "The Poetry of Negro Life" (Preface to Four Negro Poets, 1926) ; 10. "American Literary Tradition and the Negro"(1926) ; 11. Review of FIRE!!(1927) ; 12. "Message of the Negro Poets"(1927) ; 13. Foreword to Georgia Douglas Johnson's An Autumn Love Cycle (1928) ; 14 ."Both Sides of the Color Line" (Review of W. Thurman and J. Fauset (1929) ; 15. "Negro Minority in American Literature"(1946) ; II. Art, Drama and Music ; 1. "Steps Toward the Negro Theatre" (1922) ; 2. "A Note on African Art" (1924) ; 3. "The Negro Spirituals" (1925) ; 4. "More of the Negro in Art" (1925) ; 5. "The Negro and the American Stage" (1926) ; 6. "Drama of Negro Life" (1926) ; 7. "The Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection" (1927) ; 8. "The American Negro as Artist" (1931) ; 9. "Toward a Critique of Negro Music"(1934) ; 10. Excerpt from The Negro and His Music (1936) ; 11. Excerpt from Negro Art: Past and Present (1936) ; 12. "Negro Music Goes to Par" (1939) ; 13. "Broadway and Negro Drama" (1941) ; III. Esthetics ; 1. "Impressions of Luxor"(1923) ; 2. "Internationalism: Friend or Foe? (1925) ; 3. "Negro Youth Speaks" (1925) ; 4. "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts" (1925) ; 5. "African Art: Classic Style" (1935) ; 6. "Negro in American Culture"(1929) ; 7. "Our Little Renaissance" (1927) ; 8. "Beauty Instead of Ashes" (1928) ; 9. "Art or Propaganda?" (1928) ; 10. "Beauty and the Provinces" (1929) ; 11. "Spiritual Truancy" (1928, on Claude McKay) ; 12. "Propaganda - or Poetry?" (1936) ; 13. "The Negro's Contribution to American Culture" (1939) ; IV. Race ; 1."Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations" (1915) ; 2. "Apropos of Africa" (1924) ; 3. "The Concept of Race as Applied to Social Culture" (1924) ; 4. "The Problem of Race Classification" (1923) ; 5. "Should the Negro be Encouraged to Cultural Equality" (1927) ; 6. "Contribution of Race to Culture" (1930) ; 7. "Slavery in the Modern Manner"(1931) ; 8. "Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane" (1936) ; 9. Foreword to Frederick Douglass's Life and Times(1940) ; 10. "Whither Race Relations? A Critical Commentary" (1944) ; 11. "The Negro in the Three Americas" (1944) ; A SPECIAL SECTION: ; When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Cultural Contacts (1942): Interchapters, written by Locke. ; V. Value and Culture ; 1. "Oxford by A Negro Student" (1909) ; 2."The American Temperament" (1911) ; 3. "The Ethics of Culture" (1923) ; 4. "The New Negro" (1925) ; 5. "Values and Imperatives" (1935) ; 6. "Value" (1935) ; 7. "A Functional View of Value Ultimates"(1945) ; 8. "Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension of Culture" (1950) ; 9. "Frontiers of Culture" (1950) ; 10. "Values That Matter" (Review of Perry, 1954) ; 11. "Freud and Scientific Morality" (n.d.) ; VI. Democracy ; 1. "The Mandate System: A New Code of Empire"(1927) ; 2. "The Negro Vote and the New Deal" (1936) ; 3. "Ballad for Democracy" (1940) ; 4. "Color: Unfinished Business of Democracy" (1942) ; 5. "Democracy Faces a World Order" (1942) ; 6. "Cultural Relativism and Ideological Peace"(1942) ; 7. "Moral Imperatives for World Order" (1944) ; 8. Review of Du Bois's Color and Democracy (1945) ; 9. "Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy" (1946) ; 10. "Pluralism and Ideological Peace"(1947) ; Index
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Oxford University Press Democracy Remixed
Book SynopsisIn Democracy Remixed, award-winning scholar Cathy J. Cohen offers an authoritative and empirically powerful analysis of the state of black youth in America today. Utilizing the results from the Black Youth Project, a groundbreaking nationwide survey, Cohen focuses on what young Black Americans actually experience and think--and underscores the political repercussions. Featuring stories from cities across the country, she reveals that black youth want, in large part, what most Americans want--a good job, a fulfilling life, safety, respect, and equality. But while this generation has much in common with the rest of America, they also believe that equality does not yet exist, at least not in their lives. Many believe that they are treated as second-class citizens. Moreover, for many the future seems bleak when they look at their neighborhoods, their schools, and even their own lives and choices. Through their words, these young people provide a complex and balanced picture of the intersecTrade ReviewClear, hones, and insightful, Cohen authors an incredibly important and well-researched book that provides and analysis of the state of black youth in the US today. The real contribution of this book is Cohen's success at connecting politics and culture to demonstrate that black youth continue to be promised equality, but the structures in place limit that possibility...Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of Contents1. "My Petition": Black Youth and the Promise of Democratic Citizenship ; 2. "Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It": Bill Cosby, Don Imus, and Black Moral Panics ; 3. "Baby Mama": Black Love, Black Deviance, and the Sexual Politics of Morality ; 4. "Minoritiy Report": Kanye West, Barack Obama, and Political Alienation (with Jamila Celestine-Michener) ; 5. "Fight the Power": From Jena to the White House ; 6. "My President Is Black": Barack Obama and the Postracial Illusion ; Epilogue Policy and Politics ; Appendix A
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Oxford University Press Slave Culture
Book SynopsisTwenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey''s ground-breaking study, Slave Culture. A leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, Stuckey explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion that has had profound implications for theories of black liberation and race relations in America.Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an intrinsic Pan-African impulse that contributed to the formation of the black ethos in slavery. He presents fascinating profiles of such nineteenth-century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, as well as detailed examinations into the lives and careers of W.E.B. DuTrade ReviewA splendid addition to the rich literature on the lives of blacks under slavery. * The Philadelphia Inquirer *Table of ContentsForeword by John Stauffer ; 1. Introduction: Slavery and the Circle of Culture ; 2. David Walker: In Defense of African Rights and Liberty ; 3. Henry HIghland Garnet: Nationalism, Class Analysis, and Revolution ; 4. Identity and Ideology: The Names Controversy ; 5. W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Cultural Reality and the Meaning of Freedom ; 6. On Being African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice ; Notes ; Index
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Oxford University Press Race Space and Riots in Chicago New York and Los Angeles
Trade ReviewWell researched, clearly written, and even more comprehensive than it claims...offers readers a concise study of twentieth-century urban racial violence in the three selected cities and serves as a good starting point for those interested in researching urban racial violence in more depth. * African American Review *Abu-Lughod brings to this new book on riots an enormous amount of knowledge about the economic context of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles...this book provides good fodder for debate...and contains some provocative commentary and thoughtful discussion of riots, American style. * Political Science Quarterly *Seeks to shed light on the ever changing nature of race relations in American cities and in America at large... The individual chapters on politics, race relations and civil unrest in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles are masterful, describing the long-term transformations of the each city's spatial, racial, and political character and locating each riot event within those transformative moments... ultimately a rewarding read. * Urban Affairs *In this new book, she Abu-Lughod neatly balances the historical facts of each of these cities with a deeply informed interpretation that clearly advances our knowledge of how both large and small riots unfold... rich with evidence and insight... As an urbanist, the author is without parallel when she dissects the U.S. federal effort to address the housing needs of the population. * Anthropological Quarterly *Abu-Lughod should be commended for her scholarly contribution and for drawing attention to these pivotal events as important signs or indicators of tectonic shifts" (pp. 255, 260) taking place in the racial and political landscape of American cities...As Abu-Lughod convincingly argues, the future of urban areas, and the likelihood of future riots, will indeed depend on how American society chooses to deal with the enduring issues of racial and spatial inequality.. * City & Community *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ; List of Maps ; List of Tables ; CHAPTER 1. An Overview of Race Riots in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles ; PART I - CHICAGO'S STRUGGLES TO CONTROL SPACE ; CHAPTER 2. The Bloody Riot of 1919 and its Consequences ; CHAPTER 3. The Black Uprising after King's Assassination in 1968 ; Epilogue post-1968 ; PART II - NEW YORK'S STRUGGLES FOR EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ; CHAPTER 4. The Harlem Revolts of 1935 and 1943 ; CHAPTER 5. The Harlem-Bedford Stuyvesant Uprising of 1964 ; Epilogue ; PART III - LOS ANGELES' FUTILE UPRISINGS ; CHAPTER 6. The Watts Rebellion of 1965 ; CHAPTER 7. Riot Redux: South Central, 1992 ; Epilogue ; CHAPTER 8. Explaining Differences, Predicting Convergence ; A Look to the Future ; Bibliographies ; General and Comparative Sources ; The Chicago Case ; The New York Case ; The Los Angeles Case ; Index
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Oxford University Press Memoir of Toussaint Louverture
Book SynopsisHere is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture''s hand never before published.Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture''s career as a slave, rebel, and governor. Girard provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture''s life, and analyzes the significance of the memoirs and letters from a historical and linguistic perspective. The book includes a full transcript, in the original French, of Louverture''s handwritten memoirs. The English translation appears side by side with the original. The memoirs contain idiosyncrasies and stylistic variations of interest to linguists. Scholarly interest in the Haitian Revolution and the life of Toussaint Louverture has increased over the past decade. LouverTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Preface to the Transcript and English Translation ; Map of Place Names Mentioned in the Memoir ; Memoire du General Toussaint Louverture:Transcript ; Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture: English Translation ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA The Time Is Always Now
Book SynopsisIt is widely accepted that the liberal project in America, which was so powerful for most of the twentieth century, has been in crisis for decades. Voters have rebelled against it, the right built its resurgence on antipathy to liberalism, and even the left played a part in its demise. In short, it has died by a thousand cuts. But even as its fortunes in public life and the world of politics declined, there was a renaissance in liberal political theory and philosophy, where sophisticated defenses of and rationales for liberalism came to dominate the field. Why did a re-energized defense of liberalism, especially in the works of Robert Putnam, Michael Sandel, Robert Bellah, and John Rawls (to name four), fail to take hold? There have been many answers on offer for liberalism''s anemic approval ratings, but as Nick Bromell shows in The Time is Always Now, we may have been looking in the wrong places and using the wrong defenses for liberal democracy. Focusing on the long history of black political participation and protest, Bromell contends that it offers object lessons for liberalism. From the 1830s to the present, black intellectuals have almost necessarily identified with the subjugated and demanded that every person''s inherent dignity be recognized. Despite the fact that this tradition has lasted nearly two centuries, political philosophers have mostly ignored it as an inspiration for reconstructing democracy on more egalitarian grounds. Bromell argues that blacks'' reflections on their painful experience and their ability to advocate for people ''both black and more than black'' (an Obama quote) provides us with the foundation for constructing a democracy that is less angry and more welcoming of a cosmopolitan polity. While this is not a history book, Bromell comes out of an American studies tradition that insists on the importance of historical and social context in shaping ideas. Concise yet sweeping in scope, Black and More than Black will force people who think hard about democracy to incorporate the insights of black Americans over time, from James McCune Smith to W.E.B. DuBois to Barack Obama.Trade ReviewIn this fine book, Nick Bromell's aim is to think through the ontological, epistemological, ethical and political registers of racial inequality, prejudice, and domination and to unleash the powers of imagination and vision on behalf of a new, more just social order and a transformed public philosophy. In the process, he enacts the 'now' on behalf of which he writes, with empathic and imaginative readings of major texts of political theory and literature, oriented by the worlds of African American letters and critical race theory. Synthetic and innovative, political, historical and literary, The Time Is Always Now will interest anyone who cares about US racial politics, 19th- and 20th-century American literature, democratic theory and black political thought. * Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media, and Political Science, Brown University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: <"'Black and More than Black'>" ; Chapter One: <"The Tension Perpetually Sustained>" ; Democratic Indignation and the Dynamics of Black Philosophy ; Chapter Two: <"An Almost Contemptuous Fairness>" ; Styles of Democratic Indignation ; Chapter Three: <"This Is Personal>" ; Human Relationships and the Production of Democratic Dignity ; Chapter Four: <"The Network of Complex Relationships Which Bind Us Together>" ; Chesnutt, Larsen, and Baldwin on Seeing and Knowing Others ; Chapter Five: <"The Full Understanding of My Relationship to America>" ; Black Imaginings of Patriotic Cosmopolitanism ; Chapter Six: <"The Moral Force of the Universe>" ; Faith and Pluralism in the Black Democratic Imagination ; Chapter Seven: <"The Moment We're In>" ; The Democratic Imagination of Barack Obama
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mental Health Race and Culture
Book SynopsisThis is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approaches, this text offers an illuminating account of mental health and mental disorder seen cross-culturally and internationally.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Locating Urban Conflicts Ethnicity Nationalism and the Everyday
Book SynopsisCities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. This book brings together key themes that dominate our current attention including emerging areas of contestation in rapidly changing and modernising cities and the effects of extreme and/or enduring conflicts upon ordinary civilian life.Trade Review“Wendy Pullan and Britt Baillie’s edited book brings together a series of multidisciplinary essays exploring how cities are shaped by ethnonational and religious conflicts. … The resulting book is a collection of essays that offers stimulating insights and raises important questions about urban conflicts. … Locating Urban Conflicts is a book that blends relevant work for scholars trying to make sense of the modern spatialities of structural violence.” (Omar Jabary Salamanca, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 145 (178), Winter, 2016)"An invaluable tool for any researcher interested in urban conflict studies. The three themes studying the phenomenon of urban conflict enable the reader to comprehend the multiple and overlapping layers of power, politics and space in fracturing and/or reconfiguring life of ordinary people in cities. As such, it is well-placed to offer a rich domain for understanding various ways to locate urban conflict "both inside and in between cities" (page 1) and emphasises the notions of socio-spatial practices in conflict studies. ... Examining the role of cities in urban conflict, the book is definitely one of the seminal works which delve into the deep relationship between people, everyday life and cities." - Urban Geography Research Group, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction; Wendy Pullan and Britt Baillie 2. Spatial Discontinuities: Conflict Infrastructures in Contested Cities; Wendy Pullan 3. Violence and Urban Architecture: Events at the Ensemble of the Odessa Steps in 1904-5; Caroline Humphrey 4. Borderlands of the EU: The Spanish Enclave of Ceuta in Morocco; Felipe Hernandez and Maximilian Sternberg 5. Security and the Holy Places of Jerusalem: The 'Hebronisation' of the Old City and Adjacent Areas; Michael Dumper 6. Speaking in the Silence: Youthful Negotiations of Beirut's Postwar Spaces and Memories; Craig Larkin 7. Memorialising the 'Martyred City': Negotiating Vukovar's Wartime Past; Britt Baillie 8. Joint Israeli-Palestinian Political Activity in Jerusalem: Characteristics and Challenges; Hillel Cohen 9. How do Israeli (Jewish) Protest Groups Envision a Political Solution to the Jerusalem Question?; Amneh Badran 10. Urban Planning and the Remaking of the Public Sphere in Ottoman Palestine; Salim Tamari 11. Imperial Ethnocracy and Demography: Foundations of Ethno-National Conflict in Belfast and Jerusalem; James Anderson 12. Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: Reflections on the Ordinary Spaces of Division and Unification in Berlin; Allan Cochrane 13. Territorialities of Capital and Place in 'Post-Conflict' Belfast; Milena Komarova and Liam O'Dowd
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ABC-CLIO Afrocentrism and World Politics Towards a New Paradigm
Book SynopsisThis study presents a refined Afrocentric critique of world politics. Rejecting earlier wholesale condemnations of Eurocentrism, the author instead roots Afrocentrism in its capacity to offer itself as a worldview supportive of scientific paradigms suggesting social science theory. Arguing that African peoplestheir history and humanityare denigrated in many Eurocentric analyses, Henderson makes clear that Africans in particular, though not exclusively, must promote paradigms rooted in their own historical image and interests. The author offers kimira, an historical African-centered paradigm rooted in an analysis of cultural groups, as a distinct framework for explicating global political dynamics, and an appropriate starting point toward a new understanding of international affairs.Table of ContentsIntroduction A Different Level of Analysis Problem Paradigms of Eurocentric World Politics Afrocentrism and World Politics Towards a Reconstruction and Synthesis of Afrocentric Political Theory A Kimira Paradigm of World Politics Conclusion References Index
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ABC-CLIO African American Women and HIVAIDS
Book SynopsisFocusing attention on the primary population of women impacted by AIDS, this book presents culturally sensitive responses that meet the specific needs of African American women.An historical and current overview of the alarming HIV infection rate among African Americans, in particular women, introduces the crisis.Table of ContentsForeword by Mindy Thompson Fullilove Introduction Reconstructing the Reality about African American Women and HIV/AIDS The Sociocultural Construction of AIDS among African-American Women by Dorie J. Gilbert Deep within the Well: The Voices of African-American Women Living with HIV/AIDS by Ednita M. Wright Substance Abuse and African Americans: The Need for Africentric-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Models by Cheryl T. Grills The Collective Impact: Women, HIV-Affected Families, and Communities Impacted by and Responding to AIDS HIV-Positive African American Women and Their Families: Barriers to Effective Family Coping by Sharon E. Williams HIV-Affected African American Children and Adolescents: Intersecting Vulnerabilities by Dorie J. Gilbert Focus on Solutions: Harlem Dowling-West Side Center for Children and Family Services: A Comprehensive Response to Working with HIV-Affected Families by Melba Butler and T. Chedgzsey Smith-McKeever Transformations: African-American HIV-Positive Women become Peer Educators and Activist in AIDS Prevention by Mildred Williamson Making a Way Out of No Way: Spirituality as Coping among HIV-Positive African American Women by Ednita M. Wright Focus on Solutions: The Balm in Gilead: The Black Church Responds to AIDS Interview with Pernessa Seele African American Adolescent Females: Invisible and At-Risk African American Adolescent Girls: Neglected and Disrespected by Ella Mitzell Kelly Focus on Solutions: A Mother-Daughter Community-Based Prevention Program by Barbara Dancy Focus on Solutions: A Culturally Tailored, Computerized Prevention Program Targeting African American Females on College Campuses by Heather A. Katz Community and Policy Action: Critical Responses Culturally Grounded Responses: HIV/AIDS Practice and Counseling Issues for African American Women by Patricia Stewart Focus on Solutions: Blacks Assisting Blacks against AIDS (St. Louis, Mo.) by Dana Williams An Analysis of HIV/AIDS Policy and African American Women: From Apathy to Action by Tonya E. Perry
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ABC-CLIO The African American Entrepreneur
Book SynopsisBesides providing a penetrating glimpse into the world of black entrepreneurship both past and present, this book urges African Americans to gain financial independence as entrepreneurs. As Rogers points out, reading about remarkable African American entrepreneurs can inspire readers to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset.Trade ReviewRecommended. General readers and lower-division students. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Foundations of Excellence: The African American Entrepreneur from Slavery to the Present Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship as a Key Factor in the Black Quest for Economic Parity Chapter 2 The Black Economic Journey from the 1600s to the Civil War Chapter 3 The Reconstruction Era: 1867-1877 Chapter 4 Government-Imposed Segregation: Jim Crow Dances with the U.S. Supreme Court Chapter 5 Black Economic Enclaves under Government-Imposed Segregation Chapter 6 Black Thought Leaders and Entrepreneurs of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries Chapter 7 The Civil Rights Era and the End of American Apartheid: The 1950s to the Present Chapter 8 Black Thought Leaders and Entrepreneurs from the Civil Rights Era to the Present Chapter 9 A Parting Look at the Foundations of Black Entrepreneurial Excellence Part II Building Future Excellence: A Primer For Aspiring Entrepreneurs Introduction Chapter 10 Developing Your Ideas Chapter 11 Creating the Legal Framework for Your Business Chapter 12 Things You Should Know about Intellectual Property Chapter 13 Building Your Business Plan Chapter 14 Raising Capital for Your Business Chapter 15 Tax Matters for Business Owners Chapter 16 Estate Planning: Securing Your Future and Your Legacy Conclusion Appendices Appendix I 7(a) Loans—SBA Program Office Appendix II Micro-Loans—SBA Program Office Appendix III CDC/504 Program—SBA Program Office Bibliography Index
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Random House USA Inc Remembering Malcolm
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Penguin Random House LLC Invented Lives Narratives of Black Women 18601960
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WW Norton & Co In Search of the Racial Frontier African Americans in the American West 15281990
Book SynopsisAn enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come. -David Nicholson, Washington PostTrade Review"[Rich] in scope and scholarly detail?it will certainly stand as the definitive work on the subject for some time to come." -- James A. Miller - Boston Globe"[B]y far the most complete general history of blacks in the West." -- Scott L. Malcolmson - Newsday"Those looking for a solid overview of the African-American presence in our region would do well to let Quintard Taylor be their guide." -- John C. Walter - Seattle Times"An absorbing chronicle." -- Publishers Weekly
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Black British Feminism A Reader
Book SynopsisBlack British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, ''black'' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an overview of black feminism in Britain as it has developed during the last two decades.Among the topics covered are:* white feminism* political activism* ''mixed-race'' identity* class differences* cultural hybridity* autobiography* black beauty* religious fundamentalism* national belonging* lesbian identity* postcolonial space* popular cultureThis timely and important book is essential reading for students and scholars of cultural studies, women''s studies, sociology, literature and postcolonial studies.Trade Review'A must for anyone with an interest in gender issues written from a Black British context.' - Pride Magazine'This new collection brings together articles which have had an important influence on British Feminism ... the complex and sometimes strained effort to comprehend how to define space and change one's place presents the reader with a glimpse of new possibilities.' - Sage Race Relations Abstracts, May 1998'This collection of essays by black feminists is the first one entirely related to the black women's experience in Britain, and as such is a welcome and important addition to feminist scholarship. This is a diverse, scholarly and highly interesting collection of essays which make a serious contribution to our knowledge of the situation of black women in Britain today.' - Fawcett Library Newsletter, May 1998'An astute selection of essays with a genuinely multidisciplinary orientation a landmark book making accessible a significant proportion of the history of black feminism in late twentieth-century Britain.' - Interventions 1(4)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors Introduction: Mapping a Geneology of Black British Feminism Heidi Safia Mirza, South Bank University I. Shaping the Debate 1. Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain Amrit Wilson 2. Black Women, the Economic Crisis and the British State Amina Mama 3. Heart of the Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe 4. White Woman Listen! Black Feminism and the Boudaries of Sisterhood Hazel V. Carby 5. Challenging Imperial Feminism Valarie Amos and Pratibha Parmar 6. Transforming Socialist Feminism: The Challenge of Racism Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Margaret Coulson 7. Theories of Gender and Black Families Anne Phoenix 8. Other Kinds of Dreams Pratibha Parmar 9. Feminism and the Challenge of Racism: Deviance or Difference? Razia Aziz II. Defining Our Space 10. Raregrooves and Raregroovers: A Matter of Taste, Difference and Identity Bibi Bakare-Yusuf 11. (Mis)Representing the Black (Super)Woman Tracey Reynolds 12. Shades of Blackness: Young Black Female Constructions of Beauty Debbie Weekes, Nottingham Trent University 13. Diaspora's Daughters, Africa's Orphans?: On Lineage, Authenticity, and 'Mixed-Race' Identity Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, University of East London 14. 'It's a sun tan, isn't it?': Auto-biography as an Identificatory Practice Sara Ahmed, Lancaster University 15. Charting the Spaces of (un)Location: On Theorising Diaspora Magdalene Ang-Lygate 16. Fractured or Flexible Identities? Life Histories of 'Black' Diasporic Women in Britain Naz Rassool, University of Reading 17. In my Father's House there are Many Mansions: The Nation and the Postcolonial Desire Nalini Persram 18. Two Stories, Three Lovers and the Creation of Meaning in a Black Lesbian Autobiography: A Diary Consuelo Rivera Fuentes, Lancaster University 19. My Body, Myself: How Does a Black Woman Do Sociology? Felly Nkweto Simmonds, University of Northumbria, Newcastle Upon Tyne 20. The Fabulous Adventures of the Mahogany Princesses Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of Birmingham III. Changing Our Place 21. Third Wave Feminism and Black Women's Activism Pragna Patel 22. Black Women in Education: A Collective Movement for Social Change Heidi Safia Mirza, South Bank University, London 23. The Language of 'Womanism': Rethinking 'Difference' Helen (charles) Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis The Official History of the Falklands Campaign Volume 2
Book SynopsisIn the second volume of his official history of the Falklands Campaign, Lawrence Freedman provides a detailed and authoritative account of one of the most extraordinary periods in recent British political history and a vivid portrayal of a government at war.After the shock of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands in April 1982, Margaret Thatcher faced the crisis that came to define her premiership as she determined to recover the islands. The book covers all aspects of the campaign - economic and diplomatic as well as military - demonstrating the extent of the gamble that the government took. There are important accounts of the tensions in relations with the United States, concerns among the military commanders about the risks they were expected to take, the problems of dealing with the media and the attempts to reach a negotiated settlement. This definitive account describes in dramatic detail events such as the sinking of the Belgrano, the Battle of GooseTrade Review'a masterpiece of even-handed scholarship, and will undoubtedly remain the definitive word on the conflict.’Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph‘Freedman is not just a good historian but a terse, readable writer. This is a fine book about modern war, warts and all, in an age when such evenly balanced conflicts are rare.’Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times‘Freedman has the rare gift of offering both strategic guidance and a fine grasp of tactical details.’Jeremy Black‘In Lawrence Freedman, the campaign has found an impeccable chronicler’Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph‘Official this history certainly is, and something more. But is it definitive, critics may cry? With its personal panache and incisiveness, it is better than that – at least for this critic.' Robert Fox, Evening Standard‘fascinating, balanced, fantastically well-researched and well-written.’ Andrew Roberts, New Statesman'I highly recommend both volumes ... a must-have for serious students of this period', The Northern Mariner'a masterpiece of even-handed scholarship, and will undoubtedly remain the definitive word on the conflict.’Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph‘Freedman is not just a good historian but a terse, readable writer. This is a fine book about modern war, warts and all, in an age when such evenly balanced conflicts are rare.’Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times‘Freedman has the rare gift of offering both strategic guidance and a fine grasp of tactical details.’Jeremy Black‘In Lawrence Freedman, the campaign has found an impeccable chronicler’Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph‘Official this history certainly is, and something more. But is it definitive, critics may cry? With its personal panache and incisiveness, it is better than that – at least for this critic.' Robert Fox, Evening Standard‘fascinating, balanced, fantastically well-researched and well-written.’ Andrew Roberts, New Statesman'I highly recommend both volumes ... a must-have for serious students of this period', The Northern MarinerTable of ContentsIntroduction. Acknowledgements. Timings. Section 1: At War Section 2: Options for a Settlement Section 3: Operation Sutton Section 4: The Peruvian Initiative Section 5: American Support Section 6: Enforcing the Exclusion Zone Section 7: International Opinion Section 8: The Changing Military Balance Section 9: Fortress Falklands Section 10: The Franks Report
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Welcome to the Jungle
Book SynopsisWelcome to the Jungle brings a black British perspective to the critical reading of a wide range of cultural texts, events and experiences arising from volatile transformations in the politics of ethnicity, sexuality and race during the 1980s. The ten essays collected here examine new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art exerging with a new generation of black British artists, and interprets this prolific creativity within a sociological framework that reveals fresh perspectives on the bewildering complexity of identity and diversity in an era of postmodernity. Kobena Mercer documents a wealth of insights opened up by the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain as a unique domain of diaspora.Trade Review"A passionate and detailed history of the New Black British Cultural Studies by one of the major players in its making. In its attention to "the formal and strategic aesthetics of hybridity," and to the differences and alliances between Black US and Black British, this book is indeed "intranational and outernational." -- Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: Monster Metaphors; 2: Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination; 3: Recoding Narratives of Race and Nation; 4: Black Hair/Style Politics; 5: Black Masculinity and the Sexual Politics of Race; 6: Reading Racial Fetishism; 7: Dark & Lovely; 8: Black Art and the Burden of Representation; 9: Welcome to the Jungle; 10: “1968”
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Basic Books Out Of America
Book SynopsisNothing in Keith Richburg''s long and respected journalistic career at the Washington Post prepared him for what he would encounter as the paper''s correspondent in Africa. He found a continent where brutal murder had become routine, where dictators and warlords silenced dissent with machine guns and machetes, and where starvation had become depressingly common. With a great deal of personal anguish, Richburg faced a difficult question: If this is Africa, what does it mean to be an African American? In this provocative and unvarnished account of his three years on the continent of his ancestors, Richburg takes us on a extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to South Africa, showing how he confronted the divide between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity.
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Basic Books The HipHop Generation Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture
Book SynopsisThe Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America''s sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation''s disproportionate social and political troubles, and celebrates the activism and politics that may herald the beginning of a new phase of African-American empowerment.
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Cambridge University Press Immigration Ethnicity and National Identity in Brazil 1808 to the Present
Book SynopsisImmigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country and how national identity was formed as they became Brazilians.Trade Review'A crowning achievement by the premier historian of immigration to Brazil. In this highly readable book, Lesser shows how immigrants from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East helped create new ways of being white, of being nonwhite, and of being Brazilian, and in so doing, helped create modern Brazil.' George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh'Jeff Lesser is on intimate terms with Brazilian history and is an authoritative guide to this topic. His new overview of immigration to Brazil will richly reward its readership. [He] studies immigration as a process, not simply an event. [He] concentrates on the immigrants' interactions with the state and their participation in larger social and political currents. This is better than the older approach that tends to isolate immigrants (usually a single ethnic group) in the mind's eye, focusing on what they did not share with non-immigrants. In sum, Lesser shows us that to pull immigrants out of Brazil's living collage is to misunderstand them and their experience. Highly recommended!' John Charles Chasteen, University of North CarolinaThis fascinating and lively book teaches us that to understand ethnicity and immigration we must consider Brazil, and to understand Brazil we must consider immigration and ethnicity.' Jerry Dávila, University of Illinois'Jeffrey Lesser masterfully surveys the history of immigration to Brazil (and to some extent, from Brazil) through the lens of ethnicity. He has digested a vast literature in English and Portuguese to produce a concise and well-crafted volume that will become the standard survey of the subject.' Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University'In this engaging and provocative book, historian Jeffrey Lesser demonstrates how central immigration has been, and continues to be, in struggles over Brazilian national identity. Weaving together his prodigious knowledge of postcolonial Brazilian history and the diverse experiences of the many immigrant ethnic groups in Brazil, Lesser produces a portrait of Brazilian society since independence that challenges and revises both scholarly and popular notions of what it means to be Brazilian.' Barbara Weinstein, New York University'This book is accessible enough for the general reader, though the best use will be in an undergraduate course on Brazilian history or a course on race and ethnicity in Brazil or Latin America more broadly.' Colonial Latin American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Creating Brazilians; 2. From Central Europe and Asia: immigration schemes, 1822–70; 3. Mass migrations, 1880–1920; 4. The creation of Euro-Brazilian identities; 5. How Arabs became Jews, 1880–1940; 6. Asianizing Brazil: new immigrants and new identities, 1900–55; 7. Epilogue: the song remains the same.
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Cambridge University Press African American Religions 15002000
Book SynopsisThis book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines how African American religions have been shaped by early relations between sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, American imperial practices in the 1700s and 1800s, and FBI repression in the twentieth century.Trade Review'Not a conventional survey of African American religion, which might trace religious origins and developments, this book is a groundbreaking exploration of the conditions of possibility for thinking about African American religion. Transatlantic empires, colonial enclosures, and political engagements, as Sylvester Johnson shows, are more than historical contexts; they are forces of religious formation. The book is an important contribution to the study of African American religion and the study of religion.' David Chidester, author of Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion'Sylvester Johnson, through his exploration of the economies of space, time, and discourse, reorders the materialities of the Atlantic world formation, allowing for a fresh interpretation of African Americans, religion, and modernity itself. In this work, African American diasporic religion can be seen as an epistemological probe enabling a critique of regnant notions while opening up new sources of data.' Charles H. Long, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara'Sylvester Johnson's book provides a new interpretation of the beginning and formation of what has often been termed a slave religion, but in a more refreshing and in-depth manner than previous books on the subject. This is an interdisciplinary work that bridges the gap between the old African spirituality on the slave coasts of Africa and the emerging New World religions practiced by Africans across the Atlantic. By so doing, Johnson has given new meaning to what African diaspora religions should mean in the discipline. The historical context in which he places the impact of colonialism, democracy, and freedom in the formation of slave religions surpasses what is available in the literature. This work will appeal to many disciplines, including religion, history, and African American and African studies.' Jacob Olupona, Harvard University, Massachusetts'This superb book locates African American religions in the context of the development of colonial empire in the Atlantic world. By placing religion in the conflicted network of geopolitics, economic exploitation, and ideological struggles over domination, race, and freedom, Johnson develops a fresh and sophisticated narrative of the history of black religion, freedom, and colonialism. This book will be mandatory reading for anyone interested in African American and Atlantic world history.' Albert J. Raboteau, author of Slave Religion'In this brilliant work Johnson offers an innovative examination and interpretation of the intersection of African American religions, colonialism, democracy, and freedom. He approaches the subject chronologically, in three time periods … A major contribution to the literature on African American religions, this book is a tour de force. Summing up: essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' L. H. Mamiya, Choice'Johnson's book provides a persuasive, innovative, and broader global framework to understand African American religions that should be required reading for current and future scholars of black religion and American religious history.' Julius H. Bailey, The American Historical Review'… Johnson's African American Religions, 1500–2000 is a work of great clarity, passion and power that deserves deep and fervent reading for years to come.' Juan M. Floyd-Thomas, Black Theology'A century of work in slavery studies and critical race theory has exposed the terrors that underwrite American democratic freedom. Johnson's ambitious text steps into this multifaceted conversation … and reinterprets the history of African American religion through the lens of its central arguments …' Lucia Hulsether, Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Black Atlantic religion and Afro-European commerce; 2. On religious matters; 3. Colonial governance and religious subjectivity; 4. Stateless bodies, African missions, and the Black Christian settler colony; 5. Black political theology, white redemption, and soldiers for empire; 6. Garveyism, anticolonialism, and state repression of Black religions; 7. Fundamentalism, counterintelligence, and the 'negro rebellion'; 8. Black religion, the security state, and the racialization of Islam; 9. Conclusion. Black religion, freedom, and colonialism.
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Cambridge University Press Games Against Nature
Book SynopsisRobert Harms explores nature and culture in the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the Zaire River. Increasing population impinged upon the limits of available resources in the late eighteenth century, eventually resulting in civil war in the 1960s.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The antecedents; 3. The tactics; 4; The strategies; 5. The Drylands; 6. The river; 7. The core; 8. The region; 9. The traders; 10. The troubles; 11. The opportunities; 12. The battle; 13. Conclusion: nature and culture.
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Cambridge University Press Central Africans Atlantic Creoles and the Foundation of the Americas 15851660
Book SynopsisThis book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture, places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies.Trade Review"A good addition to the historiography of the Atlantic slave trade." -Choice"Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 is a compelling and well-researched account of the earliest days of Atlantic slavery that will reward students and academics, especially those who reject the notion that we cannot untangle the ultimate origins and cultural antecedents of the first African slaves." -John Roby, African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter"This extremely important and informative book should put to rest any conceivable effort to minimize the brutally destructive impact of the Atlantic slave trade upon Africa and Africans or to blame the victims." -Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History"...important contribution...to the history of Atlantic slavery." -Gayle K. Brunelle, H-AtlanticTable of Contents1. Privateering, colonial expansion and the African presence in Early Anglo-Dutch Settlements; 2. The Portuguese, Kongo and Ndongo and the origins of Atlantic Creole culture to 1607; 3. Wars, civil unrest and the dynamics of enslavement in West Central Africa, 1607–60; 4. Atlantic Creole culture: patterns of transformation and adaptations, 1607–60; 5. Shifting status and the foundation of African-American communities: Atlantic Creoles in the early Anglo-Dutch colonies; 6. Becoming slaves: Atlantic Creoles and the defining of status.
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Authors Choice Press Akan Protocol Remembering the Traditions of Our Ancestors
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Solid Rock Book Publishing Rising Up From the Blood A Legacy Reclaimed A Bridge Forward The Autobiography of Sarah Washington ONeal Rush The GreatGranddaughter of Booker T Washington
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