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Book SynopsisHis work is a rare instance of original research told in an engaging and compelling voice.Trade ReviewComplete with personal profiles of past and present DC luminaries, known locally and nationally, in more than 300 pages of text Ruble takes the reader on a journey of U Street's history from its initial development following the arrival of runaway slaves to the city during the Civil War to President Obama's visit to the landmark Ben's Chili Bowl. -- John Muller H-Net Straightforward tale about the District's history with African Americans at the center. Baltimore Afro American [Ruble] weaves the historical tale of the area with profiles of its major personalities, including Howard University founder Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, former Mayor Marion Barry and Radio One Inc. founder Cathy Hughes... After all, it's a lot more than a place to get a half-smoke. -- Matthew Gilmore Washington Business Journal This is a wonderful book... Washington's U Street: A Biography is a meritorious study of a subject of considerable historical importance. Thank you, Mr. Ruble. -- Theodore Hudson Ellingtonia His research is impeccable... very readable and entertaining. Melody & Words A must-read for anyone interested in the tremendously rich history of the U Street neighborhood. 14th & You U Street gives readers many human-interest stories, delivered with a light touch. -- Jane Woodward Elioseff Internet Review of Books Too often, historians forget that Washington, DC, is a city with a history and not just an extension of national politics. Ruble gives readers a history of U Street with a story of a neighborhood that began as a free black community. Choice Groundbreaking... Ruble carefully constructs a biographical history of U Street in northwest Washington that highlights the accomplishments of everyday people in the neighborhood, while simultaneously giving life to the area's buildings, streets, and educational and cultural institutions, particularly those of the African American community. -- Amber N. Wiley H-DC, H-Net Reviews An informative, readable, and well-documented work that seeks to recover the history of the nation's capital from the vantage of its African American residents and one of their most enduring communities. -- David Taft Terry Journal of American History Ruble offers more than a mere chronology of the U Street neighborhood. Washington's U Street: A Biography gives readers a glimpse into the lives of the people-rich and poor, black and white, law-abiding and not-who elevated U Street into the iconic place it is today for Washingtonians, especially African Americans. -- Mary Berger Washington History A welcome gift for anyone interested in Washington or ubran issues in general. -- Bob Cullen Bob Cullen Photography This book is loaded with terrific photos and fascinating sidebars about some of the more interesting people who lived, played, and worked on U Street. -- Patrick M. Reynolds Flashbacks A fine work that sheds light on race relations on U Street and throughout the District. -- Lopez D. Matthews, Jr. Journal of African American History Erudite and refreshing... meticulously recreates the fractious, racial atmosphere around which seminal African American luminaries, working-class blacks, and white residents feuded with one another over-and gave shape to-the interminable, public and private venues that composed U Street throughout the last two centuries of its history. -- Matthew Smalarz, University of Rochester Maryland Historical MagazineTable of ContentsList of ProfilesList of MapsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Washington's Contact Zone1. Ambiguous Roots2. A City "Like the South"3. Confronting the Nation4. "Black Broadway"5. The Last Colony6. Chocolate City7. "The New You"NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisParis, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Afro-ModernismChapter 1. Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of History: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle Chapter 2. "The Only Real White Democracy" and the Language of Liberation: The Great War, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s Chapter 3. "No One, I Am Sure, Is Ever Homesick in Paris": Jessie Fauset's French Imaginary Chapter 4. Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire Chapter 5. Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity Part II: Postwar Paris and the Politics of LiteratureChapter 6. Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes Chapter 7. "One Is Mysteriously Shipwrecked Forever, in the Great New World": James Baldwin from New York to Paris Chapter 8. Making Culture Capital: Présence Africaine and Diasporic Modernity in Post–World War II ParisChapter 9. Richard Wright's "Island of Hallucination" and the Gibson Affair Chapter 10. Entering the Politics of the Outside: Richard Wright's Critique of Marxism and Existentialism Part III: From Négritude to MigritudeChapter 11. René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Négritude as a Black Humanism Chapter 12. Nos Ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and the Paradoxes of Islamic Négritude Chapter 13. Redefining Paris: Transmodernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction Chapter 14. Interurban Paris: Alain Mabanckou's Invisible Cities Afterword: Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia in the Making of Modernism List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisColored Troops, Union military strategy, and race relations during and after the tumultuous Civil War.Trade ReviewThis book is a perfect introduction to its subject for undergraduate students. Interwoven as it is with larger questions of race and masculinity, military organization and professionalism, and nationalism and citizenship students will be introduced to the complexities that surrounded emancipation and the meanings of freedom and the war. -- David Carlson Civil War Book Review This brief and useful study synthesizes a welter of important scholarship on race, soldiering, emancipation, and the quest for citizenship by African Americans... Besides analyzing experiences of African American, Luke and Smith expertly explain civil war Army life and the soldier's craft. Choice In Soldiering for Freedom... independent scholar Bob Luke and historian John D. Smith attempt not to break new ground, but to familiarize a wide readership with the findings of current scholarship on black soldiers in the Union Army. For the most part, their succinct book admirably achieves this aim. -- Donald R. Shaffer Michigan War Studies Review Detailed introduction to this important topic. -- Kathryn Shively Meier North Carolina Historical Review ... There is much to admire in Soldiering for Freedom. Luke and Smith have produced an account of wide potential interest for a diverse readership. They combine sound research with a lucid writing style, free of jargon, and uncluttered by digressions into the debates and trends in Civil War literature. The Journal of African American HistoryTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. How Racism Impeded the Recruitment of Black Soldiers2. How Slaves and Freedmen Earned Their Brass Buttons3. How White Officers Learned to Command Black Troops4. How Blacks Became Soldiers5. How Black Troops Gained the Glory and Paid the PriceEpilogueNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisColored Troops, Union military strategy, and race relations during and after the tumultuous Civil War.Trade ReviewThis book is a perfect introduction to its subject for undergraduate students. Interwoven as it is with larger questions of race and masculinity, military organization and professionalism, and nationalism and citizenship students will be introduced to the complexities that surrounded emancipation and the meanings of freedom and the war. -- David Carlson Civil War Book Review This brief and useful study synthesizes a welter of important scholarship on race, soldiering, emancipation, and the quest for citizenship by African Americans... Besides analyzing experiences of African American, Luke and Smith expertly explain civil war Army life and the soldier's craft. Choice In Soldiering for Freedom... independent scholar Bob Luke and historian John D. Smith attempt not to break new ground, but to familiarize a wide readership with the findings of current scholarship on black soldiers in the Union Army. For the most part, their succinct book admirably achieves this aim. -- Donald R. Shaffer Michigan War Studies Review Detailed introduction to this important topic. -- Kathryn Shively Meier North Carolina Historical Review ... There is much to admire in Soldiering for Freedom. Luke and Smith have produced an account of wide potential interest for a diverse readership. They combine sound research with a lucid writing style, free of jargon, and uncluttered by digressions into the debates and trends in Civil War literature. The Journal of African American HistoryTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. How Racism Impeded the Recruitment of Black Soldiers2. How Slaves and Freedmen Earned Their Brass Buttons3. How White Officers Learned to Command Black Troops4. How Blacks Became Soldiers5. How Black Troops Gained the Glory and Paid the PriceEpilogueNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisAn innovative and moving study, The Calendar of Loss illuminates how AIDS mourning confounds and traverses how we have come to think about loss and grief, insisting that the bereaved can confront death in the face of shame and stigma in eloquent ways that imply a fierce political sensibility and a longing for justice.Trade ReviewEarly AIDS mourning, especially by gay men of color, is more than worthy of study. However, with the recent rise of Black Lives Matter, Woubshet's larger questions about the ways in which mourning structures Black subjectivity and the political value of sorrow in the midst of unspeakable loss make this work especially timely. In The Calendar of Loss, Woubshet brings together queer studies and African-Americans' studies to examine a rich and varied "archive of mourning" . . . Herein lies Woubshet's chief contribution to AIDS scholarship, as he reads the mourning of both Black and White gay men through an analytical lens that is explicitly both Black and queer. Whereas much of the critical AIDS scholarship has marginalized people of color, and particularly queer people of color, here they take center stage.—Dan Royles, Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus, National Political Science ReviewWoubshet's text demonstrates the indispensability of the arts to more democratic imaginings of the history, aesthetics, and politics of AIDS. A model of interdisciplinary scholarship, the book develops a new theory of mourning that will be of interest to scholars in African diaspora studies, queer studies, literary studies, gender and sexuality studies, and American studies. Woubshet's engagement with critical theory makes the text appealing to specialists and graduate students, but the author's careful distillation of these theories through lucid prose makes the book accessible to multiple readers, including undergraduates and community activists.—Darius Bost, CallalooTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking for the Dead1. Lyric Mourning2. Archiving the Dead3. Visions of Loss4. Epistles to the DeadConclusionTallying LossNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: Historical BackgroundChapter 1. A Brief History of the Collaborative Minority Engineering Effort: A Personal AccountPart II: Educational SystemsChapter 2. African American Engineering Deans of Majority- Serving Institutions in the United StatesChapter 3. Engineering the Future: African Americans in Doctoral Engineering ProgramsChapter 4. African American Women and Men into Engineering: Are Some Pathways Smoother Than Others?Chapter 5. Clarifying the Contributions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Engineering EducationChapter 6. Beyond the Black- White Minority Experience: Undergraduate Engineering Trends among African AmericansPart III: Workforce ParticipationChapter 7. Profiles of Distinguished African American Engineers at NASAChapter 8. African American Engineers in Business and IndustryChapter 9. Socializing African American Female Engineers into Academic Careers: The Case of the Cross- Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women FacultyChapter 10. Race for the Gold: African Americans— Honorific Awards and RecognitionPart IV: Policies and Programs to Broaden ParticipationChapter 11. College Me, Career Me: Building K–12 Student Identities for Success in EngineeringChapter 12. Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers for African American Students: A Critical Review of Promising and Best PracticesChapter 13. Spelman's Dual- Degree Engineering Program: A Path for Engineering DiversificationChapter 14. Enhancing the Number of African Americans Pursuing the PhD in Engineering: Outcomes and Processes in the Meyerhoff Scholarship ProgramPart V: Future Directions Chapter 15. Challenges and Opportunities for the Next GenerationContributors Index

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Book SynopsisBroad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.Trade ReviewA grand work... An engaging and entertaining volume that ought to be of interest to anyone with a curiosity about African American migration and African American cultural contributions to American culture. Geographical Review As Rutkoff and Scott take the reader to Chicago's Bud Billiken Day or Houston's Juneteenth, August Wilson's Pittsburgh, or Walter Mosley's Los Angeles, 'the flashes of the West African spirit that black rural southerners brought north' are rendered visible. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Adds considerably to our understanding of this national exodus... The authors, who teach history at Kenyon College, argue that the black migrants preserved many of their West African roots and customs in the move north, just as they had during the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. These authors stress the cultural freedom afforded by holding on to a vision of Africa as the homeland. In preserving their African roots, the black migrants could take pride in where they came from and in who they were in their new circumstances. Wall Street Journal Fly Away represents a useful contribution. -- Brian Ward Journal of World History Fly Away is intended for an academic audience and its footnotes display the depth of the research. However, the authors' engaging style also should appeal to the general reader with an interest in African-American cultural history. Charleston Post and Courier [A] well-written, thought-provoking book. The authors have created a broad-ranging study that is well worth reading. It provides many new ways of thinking about and interpreting the impact of African American migration both on the migrants and the nation. -- Spencer R. Crew Journal of American History Rutkoff and Scott's book is likely to become a staple in undergraduate courses in African American and American Studies. -- Luther Adams American Historical Review Illuminating and impressive cultural history... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Out of Africa2. New Africa3. Negro Capital of the World4. Mules and Men5. Blues Pianos and Tricky Baseballs6. Walkin' Egypt7. Bronzeville's Pinkster Kings8. Dixie Special9. California Dreaming10. Circle UnbrokenNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing court records, letters, and pamphlets, Goetz suggests new ways of approaching and understanding the deeply entwined relationship between Christianity and race in early America.Trade ReviewGoetz has done an impressive job bringing religion to the center of the historiography on race, and her study is a must-read for all scholars interested in the development of race and the role of Protestantism in the Atlantic world. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society In a compact 173 pages, Goetz links race and religion in colonial Virginia in ways that few other scholars have even attempted. Journal of American History This is impressive scholarship grounded in letters, pamphlets, court records, colonial statutes, and a wide array of additional archival and secondary sources... It is a book that will find ready readership in graduate seminars, seminaries, and undergraduate classrooms. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Professor Goetz... is to be warmly applauded for having produced a work of such methodological scope and intellectual sophistication, a most persuasive work that ranks as a major contribution to the field. Slavery and Abolition Goetz posits her thesis in a history of England and Colonial Virginia, providing necessary context while educating readers in the general narrative of English and Virginia history. Choice The Baptism of Early Virginia offers a significant contribution to the growing historiography of religion in colonial Virginia... Goetz's provocative work raises a number of questions... Even if Goetz does not always address these questions, her radical rethinking of religion in colonial Virginia will surely help others answer them. The Baptism of Early Virginia is an important book. History Though much has been written about the complex legal and social construction of race in the seventeenth-century Anglo-Atlantic, Goetz's account of the role of religion in that process is the most thorough yet. William and Mary QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TerminologyIntroduction1. English Christians among the Blackest Nations2. The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-Indian Christian Commonwealth3. Faith in the Blood4. Baptism and the Birth of Race5. Becoming Christian, Becoming White6. The Children of IsraelEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisFocusing on how mirrors were acquired in America and by whom, as well as the profound influence mirrors had, both individually and collectively, on the groups that embraced them, In the Looking Glass is a piece of innovative textual and visual scholarship.Trade ReviewThis brief volume, meticulously footnoted, generously illustrated, and beautifully produced by the Johns Hopkins University Press, could certainly be adopted in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It might well teach history majors and graduate students the value of daring to ask questions for which there are no easy or complete answers, and of painstakingly piecing together fragmentary evidence from a wide range of archival, archaeological, and material collections. Shrum’s intelligent use of cultural theory and interdisciplinary perspectives might also serve as a model for advanced history students.—The History TeacherA superb reflection of the many meanings held by an object usually taken for granted. Highly recommended.—ChoiceShrum's work is required reading for upcoming scholars who are attempting to trace the social life of things in the formation of American identities.—Christopher Allison, University of Chicago, Journal of Southern HistoryIn the Looking Glass: Mirrors and Identity in Early America is an important contribution to the fields of early American history, material culture studies, and cultural and American studies. Shrum's study will help scholars recognize how the study of records and other historical evidence, in highlighting the silence of certain groups of people, also enables us to see what forces determined those silences.—Chiara Cillerai, St. John's University, Early American LiteratureShrum's accomplishment is to tease out the many meanings that made looking glasses among the most widely owned and used consumer good in early America.—Paul G. E. Clemens, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Reviews in American HistoryRebecca Shrum's [In the Looking Glass] packs a powerful punch. Moving deftly over the course of three centuries, she presents an original, interdisciplinary and utterly fascinating reading of the multiple uses and meanings of mirrors among European Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans . . . an important and thoughtprovoking study of a widely used object, which we all too often take for granted, and its very exceptional history.—Sharon Halevi, University of Haifa, Journal of Social HistoryShrum's thesis builds as a crescendo from detailed, meticulous attention in the initial chapters to the production technologies and marketing of various kinds of mirrors to whites, Africans, and Native Americans to develop her powerful arguments and her claims in the concluding chapters concerning race, racialization, and racism . . . [Shrum] mobilizes a rich body of materials concisely to illustrate and support her thesis.—Lester C. Olson, University of Pittsburgh, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Evolving Technology of the Looking Glass2. First Glimpses3. Looking-Glass Ownership in Early America4. Reliable Mirrors and Troubling Visions5. Fashioning Whiteness6. Mirrors in Black and RedEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisUncompromising Activist is a lively tale that will interest anyone curious about the human elements of the equal rights struggle.Trade ReviewThe greatest strength in Chaddock's account is that it is driven by context. Although Uncompromising Activist focuses on the life of one man, it is a case study in how an individual’s life is defined as much by temporal circumstance as by individual choice.—History: Reviews of New BooksMrs. Chaddock does a fine job in the short space she has to examine Mr. Greener’s life, accomplishments, and disappointments, something that he had to always struggle with. For bringing back to life a voice that has been lost and forgotten, this book does a good job.—San Francisco Book ReviewUncompromising Activist is a lively tale that will interest anyone curious about the human elements of the equal rights struggle.—Mixed Race StudiesHistorians of education and of postbellum Black history will, of course, want to read this book. But so will many others. Chaddock deftly uses Greener's life as a window into each of the times and places in which he lived and into each of the debates in which he engaged. Uncompromising Activist thus would fit nicely into an undergraduate course on either African American or nineteenth-century U.S. history. Readers outside academia would find it a coherent and ample introduction to Black history after the Civil War—a surprising and rare accomplishment for a scholarly book, let alone a scholarly biography . . . Chaddock has written a fascinating account of a man and a world that helped shape our own and that deserve rediscovery.—Michael David Cohen, University of Tennessee, Black PerspectivesAn important addition to the growing corpus of African American biography, this slender volume resurrects to historical memory Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), a semi-obscure figure best known for being the first black graduate of Harvard College. Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, a distinguished professor emerita of education at the University of South Carolina, shows in this clear and straightforward narrative that Greener actually deserves recognition for several other important contributions to civil rights in the early Jim Crow era as well. Readers may even come away wondering why Greener is not placed alongside his more famous contemporaries Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois in the pantheon of great black leaders of his generation.—T. Adams Upchurch, East Georgia State College, Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Boyhood Interrupted2. Being Prepared3. Experiment at Harvard4. An Accidental Academic5. Professing in a Small and Angry Place6. The Brutal Retreat7. Unsettled Advocate8. A Violent Attack and Hopeless Case9. Monumental Plans10. Off White11. Our Man in Vladivostok12. Closure in Black and WhiteEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten in vigorous prose for a wide audience and designed to inform popular debate on the relevance of the Civil War to the racial politics of modern America, Civil War Memories is required reading for informed Americans today.Trade ReviewThe book is full of interesting anecdotes that illustrate the many skirmishes between the competing narratives—History News NetworkCook's work has the advantage of covering the entirety of post-Civil War history, making his the most comprehensive entry in this scholarly debate . . . His consistent attention to electoral politics across time sets his work apart from that of many other authors and makes the book well worth reading.—Annals of IowaCivil War Memories offers a comprehensive treatment of the memory of the nation's most enduring and contested event. In offering a study of Civil War memory since 1865, Cook underscores that memories of the war have never been monolithic. They have always been debated, politicized, and maligned. His attention to the war's differing memories in the modern era reminds us how the Civil War continues to resonate within our own "mystic chords of memory."—Jennifer M. Murray, University of Virginia's College at Wise, Journal of Southern HistoryIn Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865, Robert J. Cook outlines the fight over the memory of the Civil War since Appomattox. It is a tightly argued work that blends adept synthesis with primary source research, and Cook offers an absorbing study of the Civil War's long memory and, implicitly, a meditation on the ways in which various entities "marshal the past so powerfully in the service of the present."—Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Eastern Illinois University, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. A Fractured Country and Its Fractured Memories2. The Resurgent South and Its Lost Cause3. Remembering the Victors' War in the Gilded Age4. The Rocky Road to Sectional ReconciliationPart II5. Distant Drums in an Age of Global Warfare6. Centennial Blues7. AfterlifeConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOgbar does an exemplary job of providing a comprehensive overview of organizations and leaders involved in the Black Power movement.—Journal of Negro EducationTable of ContentsPreface to the Updated EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroduction. For the People and of the People: Black Nationalism,Identity, and Popular CultureChapter 1. An Organization of the Living: The Nation of Islam andBlack Popular CultureChapter 2. "There Go My People": The Civil Rights Movement,Black Nationalism, and Black PowerChapter 3. A Party for the People: The Black Freedom Movementand the Rise of the Black Panther PartyChapter 4. Swimming with the Masses: The Black Panthers,Lumpenism, and Revolutionary CultureChapter 5. "Move Over or We'll Move Over on You": Black Powerand the Decline of the Civil Rights MovementChapter 6. Rainbow Radicalism: The Rise of Radical EthnicNationalismConclusion. Power and the PeopleEpilogue. Black Nationalism after Jim CrowNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe years shortly after the end of World War II saw the beginnings of a new kind of community that blended the characteristics of suburbia with those of the central city. Over the decades these edge citieshave become permanent features of the regional landscape. Originally published in 1996. The years shortly after the end of World War II saw the beginnings of a new kind of community that blended the characteristics of suburbia with those of the central city. Over the decades these edge cities have become permanent features of the regional landscape. In Post-Suburbia, historian Jon Teaford charts the emergence of these areas and explains why and how they developed. Teaford begins by describing the adaptation of traditional units of government to the ideals and demands of the changing world along the metropolitan fringe. He shows how these post-suburban municipalities had to fashion a government that perpetuated the ideals of small-scale village life and yet, at the same time, provideTrade ReviewA pioneering study in the important history of our recent urban past and effectively uses history to produce a better understanding of our post-suburban world.—Planning PerspectivesTable of ContentsChapter 1. New Government for a New MetropolisChapter 2. The Age of the Suburban HavenChapter 3. The Emerging Post-Suburban Pattern, 1945-1960 Chapter 4. Maintaining the Balance of Power Chapter 5. Post-Suburban Imperialists Chapter 6. Recognition and Rebellion Chapter 7. The Pragmatic Compromise Notes Bibliographic Essay Index

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Book SynopsisA fascinating study of how behavioral science shaped twentieth-century politics and the modernist literary period. The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced citizens to automatons capable of interacting with the world in only the most reflexive ways. In Automatic, Timothy Wientzen asks why modernists were deeply anxious about the role of reflexive behaviorsand the susceptibility of bodies to physical stimuliin the new political structures of the twentieth century. Engaging with historical thinking about human behaviors that fundamentally changed the nature of political and literary practice, Wientzen demonstrates the ways in which a politics of reflex came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era. Documenting some of the ways that modernist writers and Table of ContentsIntroduction: Prescribed Tracks1. Prescribed Tracks: Modernism, Modernity, and the Human Automaton2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D. H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late ModernismAfterword: Choice Architects, Where Is Your Vortex? The Politics of Reflex in the Twenty-First CenturyWorks CitedNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA fascinating study of how behavioral science shaped twentieth-century politics and the modernist literary period. The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced citizens to automatons capable of interacting with the world in only the most reflexive ways. In Automatic, Timothy Wientzen asks why modernists were deeply anxious about the role of reflexive behaviorsand the susceptibility of bodies to physical stimuliin the new political structures of the twentieth century. Engaging with historical thinking about human behaviors that fundamentally changed the nature of political and literary practice, Wientzen demonstrates the ways in which a politics of reflex came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era. Documenting some of the ways that modernist writers and Table of ContentsIntroduction: Prescribed Tracks1. Prescribed Tracks: Modernism, Modernity, and the Human Automaton2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D. H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late ModernismAfterword: Choice Architects, Where Is Your Vortex? The Politics of Reflex in the Twenty-First CenturyWorks CitedNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Beginning: Interdependence and Independence in the Four Corners Region, 1540-18682. Divide and Conquer: Misinformation and Manipulation across Dinétah and Hopituskwa3. Fourth World Activism: Editorial Cartoons in the Navajo Times and Qua'Töqti, 1964-19734. Discourse and Discord: The Conversation between the Navajo Times and Qua'Töqti, 19745. Activism in the Aftermath: Protest and Politics, 1974-1998ConclusionAppendix. Drawing Humor: A Conversation with Jack AhasteenNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDr Abdullah Abdurahman (1872-1940) was the first person of colour ever to be elected to political office in South Africa. He represented some of the poorest people in Cape Town on the City Council and then the Provincial Council. First winning a seat in 1904, he was to serve the city for 36 years.

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Book SynopsisThis volume shows mental health providers how to integrate cultural factors into cognitive behavior therapy.Table of ContentsContributors Foreword Christine A. Padesky Acknowledgements Introduction Pamela A. HaysPart I: Ethnic Minority Cultural Populations Chapter 1: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With American Indians Justin Douglas McDonald, John Gonzalez, and Emily Sargent Chapter 2: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Alaska Native People Pamela A. Hays Chapter 3: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Latinxs Kurt C. Organista Chapter 4: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With African Americans Shalonda Kelly Chapter 5: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Asian Americans Gayle Y. Iwamasa, Curtis Hsia, and Devon Hinton Chapter 6: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With South Asian Americans Sheetal Shah and Nita Tewari Chapter 7: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With People of Arab Heritage Pamela A. Hays and Nuha Abudabbeh Chapter 8: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Orthodox Jews Steven Friedman, Cheryl M. Paradis, and Daniel CukorPart II: Additional Minority Cultural Populations Chapter 9: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Culturally Diverse Older Adults Angela W. Lau and Lisa M. Kinoshita Chapter 10: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Disabilities Linda R. Mona, H’Sien Hayward, and Rebecca P. Cameron Chapter 11: Affirmative Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Sexual and Gender Minority People Kimberly F. Balsam, Christopher R. Martell, Kyle P. Jones, and Steven A. SafrenPart III: Supervision Chapter 12: Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinical Supervision Gayle Y. Iwamasa, Shilpa P. Regan, and Kristen H. Sorocco Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisThis bookisanin-depth practical guideformental health practitionersworkingacross diverse theoretical orientations to provide mental health services tailored to the needs of refugees. These needs are felt more keenly than ever asdisplacedpopulationscontinue togrow.Refugees often experience high rates of psychological distress, andappropriate mental health care servicesremainseverely underdeveloped.Chapters in this edited volume outlineresearch-supported psychological interventions that can beusedin a culturally sensitive manner.Theycover important topics likecultural humility, issues in screening and assessments, and specific ethical dilemmas when working with refugees. The book explores the ways in which Western interventions such as cognitive behavior therapy, group therapy,expressivetherapy, andschool-based programs have been adapted to serve resettledrefugeepopulations. Strengths and limitations of these approaches as well as recommendations for incorpTable of Contents Contributors 1. Introduction to Refugee Mental Health 2. Primer on Understanding the Refugee Experience 3. Engaging Refugees With Cultural Humility 4. Ethical Considerations and Challenges in Working With Refugees 5. A Culturally Responsive Intervention for Modern-Day Refugees: A Multiphase Model of Psychotherapy, Social Justice, and Human Rights 6. Culturally Adapted Therapeutic Approaches: The Healing Environment and Restorative Therapy Model 7. Screening and Assessing Refugee Mental Health Needs 8. School-Based Mental Health Interventions and Other Therapies to Help Refugee Children Explore Previous Exposure to Trauma 9. Treatment for Refugee Children and Their Families 10. Peer Group and Community-Based Strategies for Supporting Refugee Mental Health 11. Integrating Indigenous and Traditional Practices in Refugee Mental Health Therapy 12. Research and Resources in Refugee Mental Health: Reflections and Future Directions Moving Forward Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisThis updated edition helps therapists understand the complex, overlapping cultural and social influences that make each client unique.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I. Becoming a Culturally Responsive Therapist Diversity, Complexity, and Intersectionality Essential Knowledge and Qualities Your Cultural Self-Assessment Part II. Making Meaningful Connections That’s Not What I Meant: Finding the Right Words Intersectionality: The Complexities of Identity Creating a Positive Therapeutic Alliance Part III. Sorting Things Out Conducting a Culturally Responsive Assessment Understanding Trauma Culturally Responsive Testing Making a Culturally Responsive Diagnosis Part IV. Beyond the Treatment Manuals Culturally Responsive Therapy: An Integrative Approach Culturally Adapted Tools and Techniques Indigenous, Creative, Mindfulness, and Social Justice Interventions Pulling It All Together: A Complex Case Conclusion References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn this book, distinguished psychologists Melba J. T. Vasquez and Josephine D. Johnson offer a carefully constructed overview of the history, theory, and practice of multicultural therapy, with case examples and ties to current events that bring the text to life. While multicultural competence in psychotherapy has become part of the mainstream fundamental knowledge and skill set required for effective practice, now more than ever, it requires increased understanding and sophistication on the part of the professional. The multiculturally competent therapist must be prepared to address their own behaviors and cultural assumptions, those of their clients, and the relationship between the two.The book covers the development of multicultural competence and cultivation of cultural humility; explores relationships with other major systems of therapy; and analyzes its applications, effectiveness, and limitations. Chapters discuss the therapeutic process, integrating multiTable of ContentsDedications Table of Contents Series Preface How to Use This Book With APA Psychotherapy Videos Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. History Chapter 3. Theory, Goals, and Key Concepts Chapter 4.. Therapeutic Process: Primary Change Mechanisms Chapter 5. Evaluation: Integrating Multiculturalism and Social Justice in Psychological Theories of Change Chapter 6. Multiculturalism in Education, Training, and Professional Development Chapter 7. Summary Glossary of Key Terms ​Suggested Readings References Index About the Authors About the Series Editors

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys the historical context of substance use disorders in communities of color and offers strategies to support and empower them.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction to Substance Use Disorders in Diverse Ethnoracial Groups: Understanding How We Got HereEdward C. Chang and Christina A. DowneyPart I. Overview of Cultural Competence Chapter 1. The Need for Cultural Competence in Understanding and Intervening With Substance Use DisordersChristina A. DowneyPart II. Substance Use in Black/African American Communities Chapter 2. Scope and Historical Origins of Substance Use Disorders Among Black American CommunitiesTamika C. B. Zapolski, Alia Rowe, Rieanna S. McPhie, and Maney Darby Chapter 3. Culturally Competent Substance Abuse Treatment for Black American CommunitiesMichelle L. Redmond, Rhonda K. Lewis, Tasha Parker, Rosalind Canare, Dyan Dickens, and Stormy Malone Chapter 4. Preventing Substance Use in Black Youth: What Is Available and What Is Missing?A. Kathleen Burlew, Brittany D. Miller-Roenigk, Caravella McCuistian, Randi D. Burlew, and Bridgette J. PeteetPart III. Substance Use in Asian American/Pacific Islander Communities Chapter 5. Substance Use Trends and Patterns Among Asian American and Pacific Islander CommunitiesAthena Park, Aylin Kaya, Jennifer King, Lauren Pandes-Carter, and Derek Kenji Iwamoto Chapter 6. Culturally Competent Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders for Asian American CommunitiesGloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Anthony King, and Nolan Zane Chapter 7. Prevention of Substance Use Disorders in Asian American Adolescents: A Review of Family-Based InterventionsYoonsun Choi, Michael Park, Dina Drankus Pekelnicky, Mina Lee, and Tae Yeun KimPart IV. Substance Use in Latino/Latina/Latinx/Hispanic Communities Chapter 8. Culturally Competent Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Latino American CommunitiesLuz M. López and Jocelyn Melian Chapter 9. Prevention of Substance Use Disorders in Latino/Latina American CommunitiesAlyssa Lozano, Alejandra Fernandez, Yannine Estrada, and Guillermo PradoPart V. Substance Use in Native American/Alaska Native Communities Chapter 10. Scope and Historical Origins of Substance Use Disorders Among Native American CommunitiesTeresa (Tessa) Evans-Campbell and Karina Walters Chapter 11. Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities: A Cultural and Practice Review and Call for DevelopmentLaurence Armand French and Christina A. Downey Chapter 12. Interventions for Substance Use Disorders in American Indian/Alaska Native CommunitiesEric F. Wagner, John Lowe, and Julie Ann BaldwinPart VI. Our Multicultural, Multiethnic Future and Substance Use Disorder Chapter 13. Integrating a Multicultural, Multiethnic Perspective Into Substance Use Training: Preparing Clinicians for the FutureChristina A. Downey and Edward C. Chang Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an expert synthesis of the scholarly literature on approaches to decolonial psychology.Table of ContentsContributors Series ForewordFrederick T. L. Leong ForewordGayle Skawen:nio Morse and Marie C. Weil Acknowledgments Introduction: Decoloniality as a Transformative Force in Psychology: An Orientation to This BookHector Y. Adames, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, and Lillian Comas-DíazPart I. History and Knowledge Chapter 1. Colonial Mentality: Manifestations, Operations, and Psychological ImplicationsHannah L. Rebadulla, Jonathan U. Guerrero, and E. J. R. David Chapter 2. Naming and Unlearning Psychological ColonialityCristalís Capielo Rosario, Eduardo Lugo-Hernández, and Loíza A. DeJesús Sullivan Chapter 3. Engaging With Decoloniality, Decolonization, and Histories of Psychology OtherwiseSunil Bhatia, Wahbie Long, Wade Pickren, and Alexandra RutherfordPart II. Science, Methods, and Epistemic Justice Chapter 4. Decolonizing and Building Liberatory Psychological SciencesHelen A. Neville, B. Andi Lee, and Amir H. Maghsoodi Chapter 5. Beyond Decolonization: Anticolonial Methodologies for Indigenous Futurity in Psychological Research Jillian Fish and Joseph P. Gone Chapter 6. Disciplinary Disruptions: Strategies Toward a Decolonial Community Psychology PraxisJesica Siham Fernández Chapter 7. Decolonizing in a Transnational Feminist Commons Perched Precariously Between the Academy and Movements for JusticeAdreanne Ormond, Puleng Segalo, María Elena Torre, and Michelle FinePart III. Education, Professional Training, and Mentoring Chapter 8. Decolonizing the High School and Undergraduate CurriculumEdil Torres Rivera and Ivelisse Torres Fernandez Chapter 9. Unlearning Colonial Practices and (Re)envisioning Graduate Education in Psychology Carrie L. Castañeda-Sound, Miguel Gallardo, and Susana O. Salgado Chapter 10. The Decolonial Mentoring Framework: Advancing an Anticolonial Future in Psychology and BeyondMackenzie T. Goertz, Hector Y. Adames, Chelsea Parker, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Radia DeLuna​, and Jessica G. Perez-Chavez Chapter 11. Wise Face, Firm Heart: Ethics and Decolonial PsychologyMelinda A. GarcíaPart IV. Psychotherapies Chapter 12. Decolonial Psychotherapy: Joining the Circle, Healing the WoundLillian Comas-Díaz and Frederick M. Jacobsen Chapter 13. Decolonizing Psychoanalysis: Anti-Blackness, Coloniality, and a New Premise for Psychoanalytic TreatmentDaniel Jose Gaztambide, Fabo Feliciano-Graniela, Jose Luiggi-Hernandez, and Edlyane Veronica Medina Escobar Chapter 14. Decolonizing Feminist TherapyThema Bryant, Carolyn Zerbe Enns, and Yuying TsongPart V. Queer Futures, Self-Care, and Community Care Chapter 15. Moving Psychology Toward Anticolonial Queer FuturesDella V. Mosley, Pearis L. Jean, Brittany Bridges, Maria Sobrino, Jeannette Mejia, Sunshine Adam, Garrett Ross, and Roberto Abreu Chapter 16. Your Self-Care Is Made of Capitalism: A Decolonial Approach to Self and Community CareArianne E. Miller and Nellie Tran Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisThis bookprovides a theoretical framework for empirically examining the impact of violence on marginalized peoples across the lifespan.Table of ContentsForeword: Thema Bryant Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: What's Racism Got To Do With It? Black Women & Girls, Sexual Abuse & Liberation Chapter 2: Black Women & Girls: Racism & Intersectional Oppression Chapter 3: The 'Rape Problem' & Secondary Marginalization Against Black Women & Girls Chapter 4: Cultural Betrayal Trauma Theory: Framework, Evidence, & Future Directions Chapter 5: Culturally Competent Trauma Therapy: Holistic Healing Chapter 6: Radical Healing in the Black Community Chapter 7: Institutional Courage to Change the World Conclusion: What Does It All Mean? From Micro- to Macro-Level Change

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Book Synopsis While psychoanalytic scholars often address specific aspects of diversity such as gender, race, immigration, religion, sexual orientation, and social class, the literature lacks a set of core principles to inform and support culturally competent practice. This approachable volume, now available in paperback,responds to that pressing need. Drawing on the contributions of psychoanalytic scholars as well as multicultural and feminist psychologists, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra presents a theoretical framework that reflects the realities of clients’ lives and addresses the complex sociocultural issues that influence their psychological health. Psychoanalytic theory proves to be particularly valuable in exploring unconscious processes, recurrent themes, and transference and counter-transference. In examining these questions, the author provides engaging case illustrations from her own clinical practice, as well as findings from her research with youth ofTrade Review“Tummala-Narra has gathered our dispersed ideas in psychoanalytic thinking about difference and expertly fashioned an important and clinically astute framework. Her ideas are rich and generative. Reading her book was invigorating and challenging, like a consult with a wise and trusted colleague.” — PsycCRITIQUES®Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Historical Overview and Critique of the Psychoanalytic Approach to Culture and Context Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Understanding of Diversity Cultural Competence From a Psychoanalytic Perspective Attending to Indigenous Narrative Considering the Role of Language and Affect Addressing Social Oppression and Traumatic Stress Recognizing the Complexity of Cultural Identifications Expanding Self-Examination: Cultural Context in the Life and Work of the Therapist Implications of a Culturally Informed Psychoanalytic Perspective: Some Thoughts on Future Directions References Index About the Author

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