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Book SynopsisPatricia Williams is a lawyer and a professor of commercial law, the great-great-granddaughter of a slave and a white southern lawyer. The Alchemy of Race and Rights is an eloquent autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class.Trade ReviewWilliams is an original and imaginative mind, an unstultified, insubordinate thinker who jumps off cliffs and lands on her feet, who flies close to the sun and never melts her wings. She accomplishes the near impossible: simultaneous depth of engagement in law and world. The alchemical forge she theorizes between race and rights parallels her own method: ‘the making of something out of nothing.’ See what she makes out of sausage, polar bears, Beethoven. See if you can ever shop at Benetton’s again. -- Catharine A. MacKinnon, University of Michigan Law SchoolOne of the most invitingly personal, even vulnerable, books I’ve read… Williams has a knack for keeping you just a bit off balance… Her readings invigorate familiar controversies: If you thought there was nothing new to be said about Howard Beach or Eleanor Bumpurs, Tawana Brawley or Baby M., read Williams on them. But some of the most magical turns of argument flow from far less public events… The law needs a brain…and, even more, a heart and some courage. Certificates won’t help. This book just might. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. * The Nation *Williams melds sophisticated legal scholarship, memoir and allegory into a rich melange that will change perceptions about the substance and spirit of black women… At a time when the nation is wrestling with political correctness or wrongness…Williams’ candor about the law and her life is refreshing… The Alchemy of Race and Rights brings jurisprudence to the people while leaving no doubt that the author is among the finest legal talents among us. -- Evelyn C. White * San Francisco Chronicle *This is a work where style and substance are deeply connected… Writers of feminist jurisprudence first pushed the door open wide some fifteen years ago, and many scholars of color have walked through. Williams’ work is among the best, and the most respected, in this tradition… There is passion in these essays, and there is rage, clarity, confusion, intelligence and tenderness. This is more than the alchemy of race and rights. This is the magic and complexity of life. -- Judy Scales-Trent * Women’s Review of Books *Table of ContentsPART I: Excluding Voices: A Necklace of Thoughts on the Ideology of Style 1. The Brass Ring and the Deep Blue Sea 2. Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt 3. The Death of the Profane PART II: Trial by Text: A Sequence of Sublimation 4. Teleology on the Rocks 5. Crimes Without Passion 6. The Obliging Shell PART III: Ladder to the Light: A Series of Hinged Turning Points 7. Fire and Ice 8. The Pain of Word Bondage 9. Mirrors and Windows PART IV: The Incorruptible Simplicity of Being: A String of Crystalline Paroles 10. Owning the Self in a Disowned World 11. Arm's-Length Intimacies 12. On Being the Object of Property Notes A Word on Categories Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisPhilosopher, psychoanalyst, politician, propagandist, prophet. although difficult to categorise, Frantz Fanon (1925 - 1961) is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and one of our most powerful writers on race and revolution. FANON FOR BEGINNERS provides a clear, detailed introduction to the life and work of the man Jean-Paul Sartre called the voice of the Third World.The book opens with a biography, following Fanon from his birthplace of Martinique through combat in World War II and education in France, to his heroic involvement in the fights for Algerian independence and African decolonisation. After a brief discussion of Fanon''s political and cultural influences, the main section of the book covers the three principal stages of Fanon''s thought:The Search for Black Identity, as presented in Black Skin, White Masks, the stunning diagnosis of racism that Fanon wrote while he was studying medicine and psychoanalysisThe Struggle Against Colonialism, as explained in A Dying Colonialism and Toward the African Revolution, essays Fanon produced when he was actively engaged in Algeria''s war of independenceThe Process of Decolonidation, as analysed in The Wretched of the Earth, the book that extended insights gained in Algeria to Africa and the Third World.FANON FOR BEGINNERS concludes by examining Fanon''s influence on political practice, such as the Black Power Movement in the United States, on literary theory and on political studies. This book will serve as an introduction as well as a tribute to the Frantz Fanon and how his works and words continue to have a profound impact on contemporary cultural debate.

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Book SynopsisThe first biography of this courageous and inspiring champion of freedom and equality.Table of ContentsContents AcknowledgmentsFamily Tree of Yuri Kochiyama Introduction: Change 1. A Colorblind Patriot in Pre-War America2. Concentration Camps and a Growing Awareness of Race3. New York, New Life4. Plunging into Civil Rights5. Meeting Malcolm X6. Transformation of a Revolutionary Nationalist7. Political Prisoners and the Heartbeat of Struggle8. Asian Americans and the Rise of a New Movement9. The Most Incessant Activist Epilogue: The Never Ending Struggle NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Stolen Life—the second volume in his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages with the work of thinkers ranging from Kant to Saidiya Hartman, undertaking an expansive exploration of blackness as it relates to black life and the collective refusal of social death.Trade Review"It's this spirit of the collective effort of study and exchange and resonance, the effort to keep the channels open and keep listening, that has made Moten (or, maybe, 'Moten/s') such a celebrated thinker. At the end of sentences like these, you want to say something like Amen." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Moten’s beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art." -- Lidija Haas * Vulture *"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Moten’s consent not to be a single being, individually titled Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. In this collection of essays stretching back fifteen years, Moten challenges the reader to imagine a radically interconnected aesthetic and political sphere that stretches from Glenn Gould to Fanon to Kant to Theaster Gates, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. This trilogy is one of the great intellectual adventures of our era." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Moten’s trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say they’re essays about art, philosophy, blackness, and the refusal of social death, but I think of them more as a fractal universe forever inviting immersion and exploration, a living force now inhabiting my bookshelf." -- Maggie Nelson * Bookforum *"consent not to be a single being, titled after a phrase of Édouard Glissant’s, ranges across an impressive number of disciplines: black studies, performance studies, aesthetics, phenomenology, ontology, ethnomusicology, jazz history, comparative literature, critical theory, etc. Without announcing its intervention as interdisciplinary–Moten deftly renders discipline beside the point. . . . Taken together, the series amounts to a powerful argument for black study—as an analytic, an impetus, a mode, the collective shout from a radical vista, whose bellow requires nothing less than 'passionate response' (Moten 2003)." -- Mimi Howard * boundary 2 *"Whether reading his poetry or theory, listening to his lectures, Moten will change how you think about almost everything." -- Melissa Chadburn * Literary Hub *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface ix 1. Knowledge of Freedom 1 2. Gestural Critique of Judgment 96 3. Uplift and Criminality 115 4. The New International of Decent Feelings 140 5. Rilya Wilson, Precious Doe, Buried Angel 152 6. Black Op 155 7. The Touring Machine (Flesh Thought Inside Out) 161 8. Seeing Things 183 9. Air Shaft, Rent Party 188 10. Notes on Passage 191 11. Here, There, and Everywhere 213 12. Anassignment Letters 227 13. The Animaternalizing Call 237 14. Erotics of Fugitivity 241 Notes 269 Works Cited 297 Index 309

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Book SynopsisThis exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art and literature highlights the vibrant, complicated legacy of a recognizable yet constantly shifting style, from its origins in Enlightenment Europe to the contemporary art and fashion worlds Superfine: Tailoring Black Style explores the history of a style characterized by bold, refined fashions, provocative excess, and a defining relationship with Black masculinity across three centuries. This publication interrogates the origins of the style as an imposed uniform for Black servants in wealthy eighteenth-century European households, through its use as a statement of artistic and political agency during the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement, to the present day, when dandyism is also an essential component of hip-hop aesthetics and popular street wear. Sections highlight qualities of dandy style that resonate across time, including cosmopolitanism, caricature, disguise, ease, ownership, and presence. The book features new photography of garments, accessories, and artworks from about 1700 to the present, as well as current voices in fashion, literature, and art writing on these objects. Including works by celebrated contemporary fashion designers, as well as early designs by anonymous makers, this engaging publication demonstrates how Black style arbiters used the dandy's signature toolsclothing, gesture, and witto break down boundaries and fashion new cultural and social realities. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (May 10October 26, 2025)

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Book SynopsisFinancial TimesBook of the YearTelegraphTop 50 Books of the YearGuardianBook of the YearNew StatesmanBook of the YearRoundly debunks racism's core lie that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power' Reni Eddo-LodgeWhere did the idea of race come from, and what does it mean? In an age of identity politics, DNA ancestry testing and the rise of the far-right, a belief in biological differences between populations is experiencing a resurgence. The truth is: race is a social construct. Our problem is we find this hard to believe.In Superior, award-winning author Angela Saini investigates the concept of race, from its origins to the present day. Engaging with geneticists, anthropologists, historians and social scientists from across the globe, Superior is a rigorous, much needed examination of the insidious and destructive nature of the belief that race is real, and that some groups of people are superior to others.Trade Review‘In this essential book, Angela Saini deftly shows how science and racism have long been intertwined, why that pernicious history continues to this day, and why “race science” is so deeply flawed. Deeply researched, masterfully written, and sorely needed, Superior is an exceptional work by one of the world's best science writers’ Ed Yong ‘This is an essential book on an urgent topic by one of our most authoritative science writers’ Sathnam Sanghera ‘This is an urgent and important book. It contains a warning: you thought racism might be on its way out of science? … You thought wrong’ Observer ‘As in her previous book Inferior, about gender, Saini skilfully brings together interviews with historians, scientists and the objects of racial science themselves to paint a harrowing picture of the influence of race on science and vice versa’ Sunday Times ‘A very good book: informative and chilling … The history she uncovers is eye-opening and heart-breaking; it’s right to be wary of that history repeating’ The Times ‘The concept of “race” persists, even though it is biologically meaningless. This important book considers why … superb’ Guardian ‘…a brilliant and devastating book’ Telegraph

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Book SynopsisExplorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era. Here, in conversation with Jean-Marc Pottiez, he records his ideas and insights into a wide range of issues and personalities, forged by a lifetime of vast experiences and challenges.Trade ReviewI rank Laurens van der Post with the best writers of English - this book confirms my constant admiration and the nobility of his mind -- Raymond Mortimer * Sunday Times *Bushmen, Africa, the relation of man to animals (beautiful stories about elephants), Japan and Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, the forgiveness of enemies, June, spiritual growth, Churchill, Smuts, Mountbatten... Such a rapid catalogue must omit much of what he talks about, but may give some impression of the book's riches * The Times *A deeply thoughtful, engrossing book about his fascinatingly varied life and unusual ideas... Refreshingly unconventional, inspiring, optimistic, wise and true * Sunday Express *Overflows with ideas and insights gained during a long and eventful life * Independent *No one can write more feelingly of Africa... An experience not to be missed * Evening Standard *

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Book SynopsisA powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ''This book is a classic'' Sunday TelegraphTo his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight''s, he is always known as Bageye. There aren''t very many black men in Luton in 1972 and most of them gather there: Summer Wear, Pioneer, Anxious, Tidy Boots - each has his nickname. Bageye already finds it a struggle to feed his family on his wage from Vauxhall Motors, but now his wife Blossom has set her heart on her sons going to private school and she will not settle for anything less.This is the story of a father seen through the eyes of his ten-year-old son. It's a wry and gentle comedy about unfulfilling day jobs and late night poTrade ReviewI loved every word * Independent *[A] vivid and bittersweet window into a vanished world of 1970s suburbia * Metro *A quietly unforgettable book * Guardian *A fabulous example of storytelling * Glasgow Herald *A classic * Spectator *

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Book SynopsisWhen French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago''s South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. He learned the Sweet science of bruising, participating in all phases of the pugilist''s strenuous preparation, from shadow-boxing drills to sparring to fighting in the Golden Gloves tournament. In this experimental ethnography of incandescent intensity, the scholar-turned-boxer fleshes out Pierre Bourdieu''s signal concept of habitus, deepening our theoretical grasp of human practice. And he supplies a model for a carnal sociology capable of capturing the taste and ache of action.This expanded anniversary edition features a new preface and postface that take the reader behind the scenes and reveal the making of this classic ethnography. Wacquant reflects on his path to, and uses of, fieldwork based on apprenticeship. He traces the genealogy and draws the anatomy of habitus and explicates how he deployed it as method of inquiry. The postface retraces the trials and tribulations of his gym mates in and out of the gym over the past thirty years, and reflects on what they reveal about the economics of prizefighting, masculinity, and the passion that binds boxers to their craft.Body and Soul marries the analytic rigor of the sociologist with the stylistic grace of the novelist to offer a compelling portrait of a bodily craft and of life and labor in the black American ghetto at century''s end. A subtle investigation and provocative extension of habitus, this expanded anniversary will intrige and excite students and scholars across the social sciences and the humanities.Trade ReviewIt is a well-written, insightful and above all fascinating account which draws the reader in, combining sociological insight with good stories about strong characters. * The Sociological Review *The combination of erudition and a sense of what it feels like to box are immediate characteristics of Wacquant's accessible and vibrant textual strategy. It's a sweet yet scientific style. * Thesis Eleven *A compelling demonstration of a methodology that seeks to reveal the layers of the pugilistic habitus through the researcher's own experiences. * Theory & Psychology *Body and Soul paints a multidimensional picture through prose that is captivating and poetic.... A compelling statement about ghetto life, sports, and male camaraderie * Symbolic Interactionism *[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye... a model account of a personal, embodied sociology. * American Journal of Sociology *Loic Wacquant's Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer is perhaps the best yet sociology of the body—its theorizing is less explicit than is the acuteness of the observations...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort. * Contemporary Sociology *Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis. * Social Forces *[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions. * Qualitative Sociology *A fresh and authoritative treatment. * The Ring: The Bible of Boxing *Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring. * Los Angeles Times *This remarkable and courageous book gives life to Pierre Bourdieu's adage that we 'learn by body: A Frenchman in Chicago sets out to learn about the black ghetto but not through detached observation: he joins the local gym and labors to become a boxer for whom, as for his buddies, 'fighting is my life, my woman, my love.' Though he yearns to become a pro, he never loses sight of the sociology in his quest. Bravo for sticking with science, for this book spells out a stunning lesson in the carnal sociology of where we are and what we are doing. * Jerome Bruner, author of Making Stories *Body & Soul is a dazzling renewal of the endangered craft of narrative, participant sociology. Wacquant's taut rendering of the tension between the haven of the gym and the engulfing ghetto forms the backdrop for an absorbing exploration of the opposition between the manly discipline of the gym and the short, nasty brutalities of the ring. The result is a truly unique and powerful document that successfully translates the gritty routines and grim dignities of social existence without destroying or demeaning its subject. * Orlando Patterson, author of Rituals of Blood *Body & Soul is a gem, destined for a life of classics like Street Corner Society (though much fleshier and juicier and denser), studied over and over again as a pattern to follow, though defying the ability, imagination, and, indeed, humanity of the would-be followers. An act impossible to match. A poem in prose, a work of love and wisdom rolled into one: this is how ethnography should be written, were the ethnographers capable of writing like that. * Zygmunt Bauman, author of Liquid Modernity *A truly exceptional, even historic, piece of research. Brilliantly conceived, beautifully written. personally impassioned and, on multiple levels-sociological theory, social policy, ethnographic methodology-an inspiring book. It gives a bittersweet appreciation of what young black men born in 20th-century urban American ghettos might have become on a larger scale. were they given not an easier route but a more challenging, institutionally honored and indigenously supported rite of passage to adulthood. * Jack Katz, author of Seductions of Crime *With a sociological imagination inspired by Bourdieu and writing that is electric, Wacquant brings to life the pain, sweat, and discipline of boxing, as well as the vivid language, small triumphs, and gritty masculine camaraderie of those who devote themselves to it in rundown gyms on Chicago's South Side. With respect and affection for those who mentored him, he takes us into a lifeworld that offers to some an alternative to the deadly streets of urban wastelands. * Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Veiled Sentiments *Table of ContentsPREFACE TO THE EXPANDED ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WHEN SOCIAL SCIENCE MEETS THE SWEET SCIENCE PROLOGUE THE STREET AND THE RING An Island of Order and Virtue "The Boys Who Beat the Street" A Scientifically Savage Practice The Social Logic of Sparring An Implicit and Collective Pedagogy Managing Bodily Capital FIGHT NIGHT AT THE STUDIO "You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up" Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building An Anxious Afternoon Welcome to Studio Pitiful Preliminaries Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth Make Way for the Exotic Dancers "You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'" "BUSY" LOUIE AT THE GOLDEN GLOVES POSTFACE FORGING THE PUGILISTIC HABITUS: REFLECTIONS ON BECOMING A PRIZEFIGHTER Pathway to the ethnographic craft Habitus comes to the gym For epistemic reflexivity: from flesh to text Appendix: Genealogy and anatomy of habitus THE AFTERLIVES OF CHICAGO PRIZEFIGHTING ACROSS THREE DECADES What they became after the Woodlawn gym closed On the social and symbolic structures of prizefighting Boxing life on the internet and death in a chicago ring Post scriptum: on pugilistic piety LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A NOTE ON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND TRANSCRIPTION INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis Very Short Introduction offers an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. Cheryl A. Wall brings readers to the Harlem of 1920s to identify the cultural themes and issues that engaged writers, musicians, and visual artists alike.Table of ContentsChapter 1. When the Negro Was In Vogue Chapter 2. Defining New Negro Identities Chapter 3. Harlem: City of Dream Chapter 4. What Is Africa to Me? Chapter 5. Strong Roots Sink Down Epilogue: Beyond Harlem Further reading Index

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging collection of essays from a celebrated master of the form.Trade Review"He takes in news from African countries and American cities; but also, by necessity and interest, Asian, European and Latin American culture and history. In short, the world belongs to Cole and is thornily and gloriously allied with his curiosity and his personhood."-- "Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review, on Known and Strange Things" "The forms of resistance depend on the culture they resist, and in our era of generalizations and approximations and sloppiness, Teju Cole's precise and vivid observation and description is an antidote and a joy. This is a book written with a scalpel, a microscope, and walking shoes, full of telling details and sometimes big surprises."-- "Rebecca Solnit, on Known and Strange Things" "[Teju Cole is] an emissary for our best selves. He is sampling himself for our benefit, hoping for enlightenment, and seeking to provide pleasure to us through his art. May his realm expand." -- "Norman Rush, New York Review of Books, on Known and Strange Things" "The places he can go, you feel, are just about limitless." -- "Dwight Garner, New York Times, on Every Day Is for the Thief"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Part One After Caravaggio Part Two: Elegies Room 406 Mama’s Shroud Four Elegies Two Elegies A Letter to John Berger A Quartet for Edward Said Part Three: Shadows Gossamer World: On Santu Mofokeng An Incantation for Marie Cosindas Pictures in the Aftermath Shattered Glass What Does It Mean to Look at This? A Crime Scene at the Border Shadow Cabinet: On Kerry James Marshall Nighted Color: On Lorna Simpson The Blackness of the Panther Restoring the Darkness Part Four: Coming to Our Senses Experience Epiphany Ethics Part Five: In a Dark Time A Time for Refusal Resist, Refuse Through the Door Passages North On Carrying and Being Carried Epilogue Black Paper Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSpecial Citation from the de la Torre Bueno Prize of the Dance Perspectives Foundation, 1997. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1998.

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Book Synopsis An award-winning journalist envisions the future of leadership, excellence, and prosperity in Black America with this 'urgent and pathbreaking' work (Marc Lamont Hill). Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what the future of black leadership should look like and how we can get there. In Conversations in Black, Gordon brings together some of the most prominent voices in black America today, including Stacey Abrams, Harry Belafonte, Charlamagne tha God, Michael Eric Dyson, Alicia Garza, Jemele Hill, Iyanla VanZant, Eric Holder, Killer Mike, Angela Rye, Al Sharpton, T.I., Maxine Waters, and so many more to answer questions about vital topics affecting our nation today, such as: Will the black vote control the 2020 election? Do black lives really matter? After the Obama presidency, are black people better off? Are stereotypical images of people of color changing in Hollywood? How is 'Black Girl Magic' changing the face of black America? Bombarded with media, music, and social media messages that enforce stereotypes of people of color, Gordon sets out to dispel what black power and black excellence really look like today and offers a way forward in a new age of black prosperity and pride. 

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and moving second book of poems from Clint Smith, the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of How the Word is Passed.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Undocumented Politics provides rich theoretical advances to literature on transnational political strategies, the role of local-level contexts, and immigrant 'illegality.' . . . a powerful read that contributes to the literature on international migration, undocumented immigrants, and gender." * ILR Review *"I highly recommend this engaging and elegant monograph, suitable for students and researchers of migration and borders." * American Journal of Sociology *"Andrews has delivered an insightful, well-researched exposition on Mexican migration in the United States. . . . Undocumented Politics successfully showcases the ways that undocumented migrant women have self-advocated, despite their lack of access to legal and electoral outlets of political activism." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Legacies of (In)Equity 2. “Illegality” under Two Local Modes of Control 3. Stoicism and Striving in the Face of Exclusion 4. Cross-Border Fights, Rifts, and Ties 5. Pathways to Hometown Change Conclusion Methodological Appendix: Listening to Difference Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Being Brown reads, and feels, like the right book at the right time. The dream of the ‘Brown Democratic Commons’ that drives so much of Lázaro Lima’s thought, and his hope, in this transformative study has never felt so possible, and so impossible, at the same time." * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction. On Being Brown in the Democratic Commons Part I. A latina for the nation 1. Sonia Sotomayor and “the Latino Question” 2. Sonia Sotomayor’s Elusive Embrace Part II. Losing Sonia Sotomayor 3. Sonia Sotomayor, the Mediapheme 4. Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of Debt Coda. Thinking Otherwise: Sonia Sotomayor and the Emergence of Latino Legal Thought Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWritten and illustrated by creators from across the Asian continent,Bedtime Stories showcases a curated collection of favourite talesfrom Asian history, based on important figures and events fromaround the world. Each story is the ideal length to read at bedtimeas well as any moment when young readers are looking for aninspirational read!

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Book SynopsisA fully revised and updated edition of a vitally important piece of black British historyTrade ReviewA powerful, revelatory counterbalance to the whitewashing of British history -- Bernardine Evaristo

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Book Synopsis“As poet, prophet, and priest, Thurman builds upon a powerful legacy of ancestral hope: belief in a liberating God who can always be found ‘in and among the struggling.’”—Yolanda PierceA universal beacon of hope and endurance for people of all faiths seeking to meet the challenges, uncertainties, and joys of lifeHoward Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart is a beautiful collection of over 150 prayers, poems, and meditations on prayer, community, and the joys and rituals of life by one of our greatest spiritual leaders. Thurman, a spiritualist and mystic, was renowned for the quiet beauty of his reflections on humanity and our relationship with God.In a new foreword, Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University’s School of Divinity, calls attention to the justice-centered theological framework of Thurman’s words. Pierce notes how Thurman brings to light an image of God who can always be found &ld

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Book SynopsisUsing the multiple meanings of “wake” to illustrate the ways Black lives are determined by slavery’s afterlives, Christina Sharpe weaves personal experiences with readings of literary and artistic representations of Black life and death to examine what survives in the face of insistent violence and the possibilities for resistance.Trade Review"This could have been a one thousand page book, filled with 'evidence,' citations and systematic 'proof,' but instead it is an earned, slim volume of poetic, intellectual and, in fact, spiritual enactment of struggle. In this way, In The Wake is an effective, personal conversation with the reader that uses both fact, image, and emotion, legitimately, to illuminate argument." -- Sarah Schulman * Lambda Literary Review *"With In the Wake, Christina Sharpe looks out from the text and really tries to see us, both those here and gone, living and dead, in the wake, for all we are. We might begin, anew, by carefully looking back—double emphasis on care." -- John Murillo III * Make *"In the Wake is a necessary chapter in a lengthy tome of ending white supremacy." -- Jonathan Russell Clark * Literary Hub *"Mourning can be and has been a politics, but it must avoid becoming only a litany of horrors. Refusing melancholy in favor of care, In the Wake understands mourning as a practice embedded in living, and vice versa. Sharpe’s beautiful book enacts this indistinctness through pulling language apart and putting it to new purposes." -- Hannah Black * 4Columns *(Best Books of 2016) "The book that will live on in me from this year is Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake, on living in the wake of the catastrophic violence of legal chattel slavery. In the Wake speaks in so many multiple ways (poetry, memory, theory, images) and does so in language that is never still. It is, in part, about keeping watch, not unseeing the violence that has become normative, being in the hold, holding on and still living." -- Madeleine Thien * The Guardian *"In the Wake is work that holds space for what is unbearable and insists on letting it remain unbearable." -- Johanna Hedva * Mask Magazine *"[A] masterclass on form, and a must-read for those of us committed to the beautiful sentence, as well as the work of what is commonly called theory." -- Joshua Bennett * Poets & Writers *"Christina Sharpe [is] one of the boldest and most brilliant academics of our time. . . . In the Wake is one of those rare academic books at once rigorously argued and multiply engaging: intellectually, stylistically, emotionally." -- David Chariandy * Transition *"The present is saturated with grief about black lives in the wake of violence, being awake to the deaths and erasures can potentially create a future that can expand on being in the wake for more liveable lives of the black diaspora. It can also be the site of wake work, of attempts at creating social justice out of the metaphor Sharpe gives us.... Sharpe’s work has come at the right time." -- Angelina Eimannsberger * Indulgence *"In Sharpe’s probing work, the specter of slavery continues to haunt black subjects long after its abolition.... Sharpe’s book ... creates fruitful lines of exploration for political theorists concerned about the ethos of citizenship necessary for confronting white supremacy." -- Alex Zamalin * Political Theory *"[A]t once meditative and theoretical, stylistically meticulous and spacious, intensely personal and a work of assembly.” -- Matt Hooley * Antipode *"My most valuable discovery [in 2018] was the work of Christina Sharpe, a scholar of breathtaking range whose most recent book is In the Wake, about the aftershocks of chattel slavery in the Americas." -- Parul Sehgal * New York Times *"Sharpe traces every wound back to every knife back to every bladesmith. I've been both protector and prey, both war and prayer: In the Wake helps answer each clash, it draws a thread through the multitudes of our grief. How Black life pays for its offering and for its pain and for its gift. . . . This book here is a guide, a deeply personal and intellectual exploration of Blackness, it gives us a complete look at how our beginning shapes our end." -- Mustafa * CBC Books *Table of Contents1. The Wake 1 2. The Ship 25 3. The Hold 68 4. The Weather 102 Notes 135 References 153 Index 163

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Book SynopsisThe first book to highlight Asian diasporic women and nonbinary artists engaged with figurative painting, sculpture, and drawing.Genny Lim?s poem ?Wonder Woman? follows a narrator who observes the everyday lives of Asian women?across generations, countries, and socioeconomic backgrounds?wondering if their experiences reflect her own. The poem centers Asian women as its protagonists and asks what commonalities exist between them.Often underrepresented in museum collections and important exhibitions, Asian diasporic women and nonbinary artists are now receiving recognition; this book expands on two landmark shows of figurative art curated by Kathy Huang, organized in response to increasing anti-Asian racism and violence during the Covid-19 pandemic.The forty featured artists, each represented with four or more works and a personal statement, subvert stereotypes and assert their identities in places where they have historically been marginalized. While some featured artists explore identity through self-portraiture, others depict the heroines in their lives, offering works that highlight family, community, and history. Several of the works address colonial and patriarchal structures in the West, legends, and myths. With essays, paintings, sculptures, and drawings created within the last four years, this book is a current, open-ended collection of contemporary Asian diasporic experiences.

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Book SynopsisForeign Fighters and the Extreme Right is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists leaving their home countries to join armed groups fighting in civil wars and other armed conflicts.The phenomenon known as âForeign Fightersâ has so far mainly been looked at in the context of Jihadist groups like ISIS recruiting fighters from all over the world for the Syrian and Iraqi conflicts. Widely unnoticed, the war ongoing in Ukraine has also resulted in a stream of foreign recruits but with a totally different ideology. Right-wing extremists from many countries have travelled to Ukraine in order to take part in the armed conflict against Russia. Many have already returned to their countries of origin, mostly unnoticed and unhindered by law enforcement agencies. Looking more carefully, one also can see a much longer history of right-wing extremist foreign fighting in various conflicts, for example, the Yugoslavian war, the Algerian conflict and in South America in the aftermath of the Vietnam war. Bringing together world- leading experts on right- wing extremism and terrorism, this collection of extreme right-wing foreign fighting case studies since the end of the Second World War sheds light on a topic with significant importance, which has yet remained mostly in the dark.This book will be of interest to all those with an interest in small wars, terrorism, peace and conflict studies and right-wing extremism.

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Book SynopsisBengalis have been great travellers for centuries and are famous for recreating their way of life wherever they go. This book critically analyses skilled Bengali migration within and beyond India and looks at landscapes created by the Bengali diaspora beyond the terrain of their homeland, ranging from those of nostalgia and imagination (Durga Puja/Saraswati Puja) to those of subjugation and loss of identity.This book demonstrates the relationship between landscape and diaspora in terms of perception, imagination, space and place, ethnicity, race, caste, and class. With case studies from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Dehra Dun, Oxford, Aberdeen, New York, and the Bay Area (USA), it brings together themes like evolution of the Bengali diaspora, transnationalism and identity, stratification and segregation, urban social space, adaptation and assimilation, and questions of discrimination from other communities.Drawing on ethnographic accounts of over 300 skilled Bengalis, the

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1983 Which Way is Up presents a selection of Bob Connell's writings on three key issues of modern social analysis- sex and gender, class and power, and culture. The essays range from psychoanalysis and contemporary feminism to the role theory, from the analysis of class and culture to the debate about intellectuals and the new class'. In critically reviewing contemporary thought on these issues, the author has developed a perspective centred on the analysis of social practice. Easy to read, often witty, the essays represent an attempt to shift social theory into the real world of the late twentieth century, to go beyond the limits of orthodox sociology and radical dogmas, to think through theoretical questions without losing touch with practical politics. This is a must read for students and scholars of sociology. Table of ContentsPreface Part I 1. Dr Freud and the course of history 2. Men’s bodies 3. Crisis tendencies in patriarchy and capitalism 4. How should we theorise patriarchy? 5. Class, gender and Sartre’s theory of practice Part II 6. Logic and politics in theories of class 7. Complexities of fury leave…A critique of the Althusserian approach to class 8. The black box of habit on the wings of history: reflections on the theory of social reproduction 9. Class formation on a world scale Part III 10. The concept of role and what to do with it 11. ‘The glory of God and the permissible delectation of the spirit’. J. S. Bach- some sociological notes 12. The Porpoise and the elephant: Birmingham on class, culture, and education 13. Intellectuals and intellectual work References Name Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisWho am I, and where am I going in life? This book explores the fascinating study of identity development, addressing how people navigate these fundamental questions throughout their lives. In an increasingly complex and globalised world, where choices and information abound, the book provides a comprehensive introduction to the foundations, theories, and applications of identity development, offering readers valuable insights into how we form our understanding of who we are.Readers will gain essential knowledge on identity development, including its foundations, key theories, and methods of measurement, with opportunities to try widely used questionnaires themselves. The book also examines how identity research informs policy and addresses current and emerging topics in the field. By connecting identity development to interpersonal relationships, mental health, career choices, and professional growth, readers will discover how this knowledge can be applied to enhance their understanding of themselves and others.This book is ideal for students in psychology, youth studies, pedagogical science, child study and human development, and family studies programs. It provides an accessible and engaging introduction to identity development, making it a valuable resource for anyone seeking to understand the lifelong process of navigating life paths and making meaningful choices.

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Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in AmericaIn this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers and thinkers to speak on race. From Claudia Rankine to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Kiese Laymon to Carol Anderson, these voices shine a light on the darkest corners of American history, wrestle with the struggles the country faces today and imagine a better future. Envisioned as a response to The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin's groundbreaking 1963 essay collection, The Fire This Time considers the black experience in modern America. Significant progress has been made in the fifty years since Baldwin''s essays were published, but America is a long distance away from a post-racial society a truth that must be confronted if the country is to continue to wTrade ReviewA harrowing yet hopeful book about race * Observer *A stirring anthology that takes more cues from Baldwin than just its title ... Every poem and essay in Ward’s volume remains grounded in a harsh reality * New York Review of Books *Mixing anecdote, humour, passion, fear, anger and a call to arms, it’s a powerful read -- Unmissable Books to Read this Spring * Stylist *Powerful ... Alive with purpose, conviction and intellect * New York Times *To Baldwin’s call we now have a choral response – one that should be read by every one of us committed to the cause of equality and freedom -- Jelani Cobb, Professor of Journalism at Columbia UniversityThis is a book to pick up and tuck under our hearts to see what we can build -- Nikki Giovanni, poetWith this gorgeous chorus - Ward has done the same [as her ancestors]: she has created a world, a space, the one she, herself, was seeking. A new type of belonging, a new place to belong, is exactly what she has given us * LA Review of Books *This is a book that seeks to place the shock of our own times into historical context and, most importantly, to move these times forward * Vogue *

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Book SynopsisDelightfully creepy. Ghostly good fun. A school for magic like no other. Despite a lifetime of breaking the rules, twelve-year-old Issa Igwe never expected to land in witch prison. At least that's what she calls The Siren School outside of its hallowed halls. It's actually the country's most prestigious boarding school for magically gifted girls, and Issa's parents insist that she attend . . . even though the school's creepy history is the stuff of legend. When a devastating loss overturns Issa's world, Issa decides to break one of her new school's biggest rules of all: she's going to use bitter magic to turn back time. To succeed, she must snatch sleep-inducing feathers from the backs of magical creatures, sneak out while avoiding the Night Childrenwhoever they areand even raise the dead. Her nighttime explorations bring the school's darkest secrets to light, and reveal a new power within Issa herself. It turns out that a rule-breaker might be just what The Siren School needs to

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Book SynopsisIn order to know where you're going, you must know where you've been. In her debut book, podcaster, priestess, and all-around badass witch Juju Bae teaches you how to connect with your ancestors, as well as how to create a spiritual practice that respectfully incorporates their wisdom while remaining uniquely yours. It's also the story of the necessity and vitality of Black spirituality, from the Yoruba pantheon of Ifa to the freedom-fighting origins of Black American Hoodoo. You will learn: History: An overview of Africana Spirituality in the United States and beyond, including information on ATRs (African Traditional Religions) like Ifa and ADRs (African Diasporan/Derived Religions) such as Hoodoo. Altar-building: How to create and incorporate a place to venerate and commune with your ancestors, including a guide to offerings and prayers. Ritual: Practices you can use to cleanse yourself and your space and attract prosperity and protection, while safely opening the channels of commun

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Book Synopsis Since the publication of earlier editions of this book, China''s political and economic landscapes have changed dramatically, with the rise of new leadership, evolving alliances, tariff wars, educational policies and technological advancements. Focusing on Chinese-American ventures, this expanded and revised edition chronicles the investments that have marked China''s astonishing growth in the 21st century. Adding another dimension to the exploration of Chinese-American commerce, this edition discusses China''s roots in Confucian identity and its effect on modern business culture. Case studies of American businesses that have been successful in China are included. Reflecting upon the changing nature of Chinese consumerism and international corporate behavior, the authors close with specific suggestions for those interested in doing business in China.Trade ReviewReviews of previous editions: ""recommended"" - Choice""an excellent introduction to current Chinese culture"" - Catholic Library World.

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Book SynopsisIn Black Feminism Reimagined Jennifer C. Nash reframes black feminism''s engagement with intersectionality, often celebrated as its primary intellectual and political contribution to feminist theory. Charting the institutional history and contemporary uses of intersectionality in the academy, Nash outlines how women''s studies has both elevated intersectionality to the discipline''s primary program-building initiative and cast intersectionality as a threat to feminism''s coherence. As intersectionality has become a central feminist preoccupation, Nash argues that black feminism has been marked by a single affect—defensiveness—manifested by efforts to police intersectionality''s usages and circulations. Nash contends that only by letting go of this deeply alluring protectionist stance, the desire to make property of knowledge, can black feminists reimagine intellectual production in ways that unleash black feminist theory''s visionary world-making possibilities.<Trade Review"What Nash does in Black Feminism Reimagined is new, brave, and important." -- Chelsea Johnson * Women's Review of Books *"This book brings charged feminist issues, anxieties, and negative affects to the surface for the field of women’s studies to confront making for a challenging yet necessary read." -- Tiffany Lethabo King * Feminist Formations *"This is a book that generates messy feelings, that forges counterintuitive intimacies, that asks and answers difficult questions about a field that is still too often denied a brief— at least in the US academy— as a crucial site of intellectual motility, critical inquiry, and capacious knowledge production." -- Shoniqua Roach * Syndicate *"Black Feminism Reimagined is an invitation to explore the radical openness of Black feminism and the diversity of its potential expressions." -- James Bliss * Syndicate *"[This] book has created a moment in the academy that calls us to practice radical honesty. [Its] honesty about the affect and feelings that Black feminism— and particularly intersectionality— produce in the academy is a rare and refreshing break from the norms of bourgeois pretense and protocols of politesse." -- Tiffany King * Syndicate *"Black Feminism Reimagined invites us to think about which sites of black feminism have been emphasized and which have been foreclosed in its multi-decade tarrying with the academy." -- Amber Musser * Syndicate *"Nash provides an important new examination of intersectionality and Black feminism, one that will shape women’s studies and feminist theory well into the future. Challenging yet enlightening, this book is sharp and nuanced and necessary. It’s your end-of-year #RequiredReading." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Feeling Black Feminism 1 1. A Love Letter from a Critic, or Notes on the Intersectionality Wars 33 2. The Politics of Reading 59 3. Surrender 81 4. Love in the Time of Death 111 Coda: Some of Us are Tired 133 Notes 139 Bibliography 157 Index 165

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Book SynopsisMejdulene Bernard Shomali examines homoeroticism and nonnormative sexualities between Arab women in transnational Arab literature, art, and film to show how women, femmes, and nonbinary people disrupt stereotypical and Orientalist representations of the “Arab woman.”Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. A Thousand and One Scheherazades: Arab Femininities and Foreclosing Discourses 27 2. Between Women: Homoeroticism in Golden Era Egyptian Cinema 58 3. Longing in Arabic: Ambivalent Identities in Arabic Novels 90 4. Love Letters: Queer Intimacies and the Arabic Language 119 5. Sahq: Queer Femme Futures 138 Notes 175 Bibliography 187 Index 199

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in two volumes between 1923 and 1925, Africa for Africans: Or, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey is a compilation of letters, speeches and essays by one of the Fathers of Pan-Africanism.Hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr. as, "the first man of color. . . to make the Negro feel like he was somebody," Marcus Garvey was a polarizing yet influential figure whose legacy continues to be felt today. These philosophies, collected by Amy Jacques Garvey, his second wife and a pioneering journalist, chronicle Garvey's initial impressions and recollections of America, the formation of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), his imprisonment and subsequent trial over the Black Star Line, and his scathing opinions of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).Including such pieces as, "An Appeal to the Soul of White America," "The Negro's Greatest Enemy," and "Declaration of Rights of the Negroes of the World," Africa for Africans; Or, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey is an essential piece of Black history, professionally typeset and reimagined for modern readers.Table of ContentsA Word on The Philosophies of Marcus Garvey VOLUME I Preface Part I Epigrams Part II Propaganda Slavery Force Education Miscegenation Prejudice Radicalism Government Evolution & the Result Poverty Power Universal Suspicion Dissertation on Man Race Assimilation Christianity The Function of Man Traitors Part III Present Day Civilization Divine Apportionment of Earth Universal Unrest in 1922 World Disarmament Cause of Wars World Readjustment The Fall of Governments Great Ideals Know No Nationality Purpose of Creation Purity of Race Man know Thyself A Solution for World Peace in 1922 God as a War Lord The Image of God Part IV The Slave Trade Negroes’ Status Under Alien Governments The Negro as an Industrial Makeshift Lack of Cooperation in the Negro Race White man’s Solution for the Negro Problem in America The True Solution of the Negro Problem White Propaganda about Africa The Three Stages of the Negro in Contact with the White Man Booker T. Washington’s Program Belief that Race Problem will Adjust Itself a Fallacy Examples of white Christian Control of Africa The Thought behind their deeds Similarity of Persecution Shall the Negro be exterminated? Africa for the Africans The Future As I see it Part V Emancipation Speech Christmas Message Easter Sermon Convention Speech Statement on arrest VOLUME II Preface Part I: An Appeal to White America An Appeal to White America Racial Reforms and Reformers The Crime of Injustice World Materialism Who and What Is a Negro An Appeal to the Conscience of the Black Race Christ, the First Great Reformer The Negro’s Place in World Reorganization Aims and Objects of Movement, etc. Will Negroes Succumb to the White Man’s Plan, etc. An Analysis of Warren G. Harding An Expose of the Caste System Among Negroes Africa’s Wealth The Negro, Communism and His Friend Capitalism and the State Governing the Ideal State The “Colored” of Negro Press What We Believe History of the Negro The Internal Prejudices of Negroes A Tribute to the Late Sir Isaiah Morter A Speech on the Principles of U.N.I.A A Speech Delivered at Carnegie Hall A Speech on Disarmament Conference, Telegram Sent and Reply A Speech Delivered at Madison Square Garden The Negroes Greatest Enemy Declaration of Rights of the Negroes of the World Part II: United States of America vs. Marcus Garvey Was Justice Defeated? Brief for Plaintiff-in-Error Testimony of Mailing Clerk Decision of Circuit Court of Appeals Stripping the Effect to Show Crime Last Speech Before Incarceration in Tombs Prison Address to Jury at Close of Trial Statement to the Press on Release From the Tombs Prison First Speech After Release From the Tombs Prison First Message From Atlanta Prison Using the Government, etc., to Defeat Justice Application for Pardon and Reply A Strange Comparison Salaries to Officers of U.N.I.A & Oaths They Took A Race That Steals From and Double Crosses Itself Eight Negroes vs. Marcus Garvey W.E.B. Dubois—A Hater of Dark People Why I Have Not Spoken in Chicago A Message From Atlanta, August, 1925 Statement of Conviction How Alleged Crimes Are Disposed Of The Ideal of Two Races An Answer to the Appeal (Speech by Mr. John Powell) Part III The Plot Scene Africa Scene Liberia, W. Africa, etc. Letter From Com. Garcia to Pres. King and Reply Liberian Committees, Suggestions, etc. Petition to Liberian Senate Robbing the Negro’s Values Scene Aboard Ship “Paris” Eli Garcia’s Confidential Report Scene League of Nations Scene Harlem The Betrayal of a Struggling Race

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Book SynopsisDisrupting White Mindfulness offers a timely commentary on the dominant narratives that shape the mindfulness industry - whiteness, postracialism and neoliberalism. Its positioning as ‘apolitical’ forges institutions that fit comfortably into increasingly divided societies. The race-gender profile of these institutions reveals a White, middle-class profile of decision-makers, educators and staff that is mirrored in its audiences. Mechanisms that recycle the industry’s whiteness include corporatist pedagogies, edicts of authority, disengagement with difference and inappropriate uses of mindfulness that distance People of the Global Majority. A growing emergent movement focused on a justice-infused mindfulness and liberatory wellbeing decolonises mindfulness and de-centres whiteness. Its premise in indigenous, global South, queer knowledges leverages difference to produce multiple solutions focused on liberation. There is room for White Mindfulness to change.Trade Review‘Karelse delivers a cracking Black Feminist call to decolonise "Wellbeing" with her forensic exposé of the darkside of the White Mindfulness industry and its colonial co-option of Eastern teachings for Western gain.’Heidi Safia Mirza, author of Race, Gender and Educational Desire ‘Disrupting White Mindfulness offers a generous and critical lens of exploration helping to free the ancient practice of mindfulness from systems of dominance, restoring the practice back to its original project of liberation for all who seek it.’ Lama Rod Owens, author of Love and Rage and co-author of Radical Dharma‘Karelse importantly invites the mindful to reimagine their communities, untethering themselves from the de facto white, colonial cultures that undergird and infuse their most popular forms. She instead encourages others to imagine along with her how such practices can be used to foster a more inclusive and just world through intrapersonal and collective reflection, new forms of community building, and action.’Jamie Kucinskas, author of The Mindful Elite: Mobilising from the Inside Out and Situating spirituality: Context, Practice, Power -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: encountering the world of White MindfulnessPart I: The roots of exclusion and Othering1 Othering: the roots of colonisation and Orientalism2 Cementing whiteness: inclusion through a neoliberal, postracial lens3 Western Buddhism: a postracial precursor to White MindfulnessPart II: Wrapping Mindfulness in whiteness4 Stuck in whiteness: patterns in Western mindfulness organisations5 Reproducing whiteness: pedagogies of limitation6 Corporatising education: metrics, tools, and neoliberal skillsPart III: Embodying justice, changing worlds7 White Mindfulness, Black Lives Matter, and social transformation8 Taking back the future: beyond Eurocentric temporality9 Disrupting space: the politics of pain and emotion10 Politicised twenty-first century mindfulness: creating futures of belongingConclusion: embodied liberation and worldmakingIndex

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Book SynopsisScience, like most fields, is set up for men to succeed, and is rife with racism, sexism, and shortsightedness as a result. But as Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein makes brilliantly clear, we all have a right to know the night sky. One of the leading physicists of her generation, she is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics.You will enjoy -- and share -- her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter -- all with a new spin and rhythm informed by pop culture, hip hop, politics, and Star Trek. This vision of the cosmos is vibrant, inclusive and buoyantly non-traditional.By welcoming the insights of those who have been left out for too long, we expand our understanding of the universe and our place in it. The Disordered Cosmos is a vision for a world without prejudice that allows everyone to view the wonders of the universe through the same starry eyes.

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Book SynopsisIn Black Swim, Nicholas Goodly casts a spell to transform darkness into perfect darkness. This stunning debut collection is at once “forged from the hurt parts of the ground,” and “proof of a miracle,” spinning ache and sweat and sweetness into a new model of feeling through language. Black people, queer/trans/nonbinary people, flamboyant people, lonely people, gaudy people, kind people, witches, artists, and angry people will meet themselves and each other in these pages. Amidst death and against injustice, Goodly’s poems bear gifts for and from the ancestors—a necklace, a mirror, a form of offered prayer: “If there is a purpose in this life / let me wash my face in it.”

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Book SynopsisIn her fourth collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger further proves herself as a singular poet of astonishing emotional depth and formal range. Hold Your Own is a steadfast search for peace, self acceptance, and pleasure in a world that makes those basic rights an everyday challenge for Black women. Through her signature blend of sharp social critiques and tender lyric supplications, Nikki Wallschlaeger plumbs the depths of emotional experience with fearless agency and exciting poetic experimentation. She brings the public into the personal and vice versa, intimately revealing—like a livewire into the soul—a singular entity, a person, profoundly impacted by family, community, nation, and world.And she does it all through staggeringly diverse approaches to writing. Whether excavating childhood injustices in probing prose sequences or crafting formally energized declarations that could

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Book SynopsisBlade by Blade is an unflinching field journal of grief, loss, and discovery set against the California wilderness. Danusha Laméris’s third book, Blade by Blade, is a book of hungers: Hunger for the bright glare of poppies, for the hidden name of the beloved, for the cracked continental edge, for all we keep in “the heart’s farthest chambers.” Seeking a way back to joy following the deaths of her son and brother, the poet finds wonder in the furred legs of a caterpillar, in egrets, elephants, and elk, solace in the seagull’s speckled egg. Here we taste a longing to kiss in the dark corner of the gym, to leap into a volcano’s molten fire, to be unraveled, undone thread by thread, made one with all things. Microscopic and tidal, earthquake and fire-prone, Blade by Blade thrives

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Book SynopsisA history of the Ferris Institute and its African American students during the Jim Crow era.

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Book SynopsisAs an African American cultural anthropologist and CEO of an urban research institute, D.B. Maroon is intimately involved with the nation’s struggle to realize its promises equally for all people. Her work is to put those stories into the big picture of American culture—past, present, and future. Intersectional, personal, and hard-hitting in places, while ultimately centering on truth, love and perseverance, Black Lives, American Love weaves the stories of America’s pursuits with Maroon’s own experiences. The result is a personal biography of America offered from the thoughtful viewpoint of a Black anthropologist. The essays take on some of the country’s fiercest debates and most profound challenges with an unflinching style: from the invention of race and debates about the 1619 project, to the rippling impacts of resurgent White Nationalism, the birth of Black Lives Matter Movement, and the ongoing traumas of police brutality. Yet within its pages is the hopeful continuance of the Black community, the striving for better, the grappling with the hurt in order to soothe it with love, and to heal it with peace.Black Lives, American Love is arelentless truth-telling about America’s failures to its Black population—yet itis also a discussion on how we might all do more to secure America’s still vastlybeautiful possibilities of liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all rather than afew.

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Book SynopsisFill the void. Lift your voice. Say Her Name. Black women, girls, and femmes as young as seven and as old as ninety-three have been killed by the police, though we rarely hear their names or learn their stories. Breonna Taylor, Alberta Spruill, Rekia Boyd, Shantel Davis, Shelly Frey, Kayla Moore, Kyam Livingston, Miriam Carey, Michelle Cusseaux, and Tanisha Anderson are among the many lives that should have been. #SayHerName provides an analytical framework for understanding Black women's susceptibility to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, and it explains how—through black feminist storytelling and ritual—we can effectively mobilize various communities and empower them to advocate for racial justice. Centering Black women’s experiences in police violence and gender violence discourses sends the powerful message that, in fact, all Black lives matter and that the police cannot kill without consequence. This is a powerful story of Black feminist practice, community-building, enablement, and Black feminist reckoning.Trade Review“The lack of visibility of Black women has changed—and the incredible work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, African American Policy Forum, and the #SayHerName campaign are examples of this. So is this powerful book.” —Janelle Monáe, from the Foreword “Kimberlé Crenshaw is a national treasure.” —Kerry Washington “The United States does not value Black life—and white supremacy threatens all of humanity. The Black women’s stories of state violence and public silence featured in this powerful and inspiring book are extremely important. We bear children, so when they are robbed from us, it’s like our own breath is taken away. We thank the #SayHerName campaign and Kimberlé Crenshaw and Janelle Monáe for uplifting our stories. The African American Policy Forum is a vital platform for Black voices.” —Samaria Rice, founder, Tamir Rice Foundation, and mother of Tamir Rice "Reading #SayHerName is an act of solidarity, refusal, and love. Every piercing story in this book, every Black woman heartlessly murdered by the police, had a mother, a sister, a family, a community. Every one of them matters." —V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of The Vagina Monologues and Reckoning "In addition to breaking the silence by offering poignant and loving stories of the black girls and women violated by state violence, #SayHerName also documents the organizations and strategies that have been created to combat that violence. In its powerful accumulation of memories and testimonies, we should read this book, then, as providing the resources for a much-needed movement.” —Roderick A. Ferguson, Yale University

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Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with exactly the book we need in these unsettling times."Yes, please. I'll have another dose of delight." -Margaret Roach, New York TimesIn Ross Gay's new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America's most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight.For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the "nefarious" scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world-sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbour's fig tree-and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us.The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savour and share.

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Book SynopsisA collection of love poems addressed to an adverb, Anon meditates on the temporal “at once” between desire and language. From the playful verses of Slovenia's Tomaž Šalamun to the brushstrokes of an Edo period painting, Two Gibbons Reaching for the Moon by Japan's Ito Jakuchu, a character for the displaced Beloved emerges in this tapestry of time and art across borders. In Anon, the Beloved reflects: How might translating a human experience, from one language to the next, be an act of longing for the anonymous Other? Or how might this longing for beauty, and the wordless face, heal us both? How might Eros, in exile, respond? With these questions, Vietnam's Mekong delta becomes the book's central force. Endangered gibbons swing from the ruins of ecocide, and each image―rose, ape, and river―weaves itself into an undercurrent of postcolonial time.

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Book SynopsisFor twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women's movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey, Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.Journalist and human rights activist Rafia Zakaria's foreword to this new edition is an impassioned letter in two parts: the first to Western feminists; the second to feminists in the Global South, entreating them to use this "compendium of female courage" as a bridge between women of different nations.Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World was chosen as one of the top twenty Feminist Classics of this Wave, 1970-1990, by Ms. magazine, and won the Feminist Fortnight Award in the UK.Trade ReviewAn ambitious book . valuable and compelling. * New Society *Excellently researched and interesting . well worth a read. * Everywoman *Seek out the book . Its sheer scope . not only allows for fascinating comparisons but also shows Third World women defining themselves and being influenced by other Third World women rather than in relation to the West . The book proves that feminist ideas and movements are not an import from the West [and] shows clearly that the tradition of women's struggles is firmly embedded in these countries' histories. -- Rahila Gupta * OutWrite *

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