Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
University of Toronto Press In Light of Africa
Book SynopsisIn Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a symbol and a geographical and historical place, is vital to understanding the wide range of identities and ideas about racial consciousness that exist in Bahia’s Afro-Brazilian communities.In his ethnographic research Dawson follows the idea of “Africa” from the city of Salvador to the West African coast and back to the hinterlands of the Bahian interior. Along the way, he encounters West African entrepreneurs, Afrobeat musicians, devotees of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, professors of the Yoruba language, and hardscrabble farmers and ranchers, each of whom engages with the “idea of Africa” in their own personal way.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Blackness and Africanity in Brazil and Elsewhere Chapter 2: West African Cultural Brokers in Northeast Brazil Chapter 3: Manifestations of Afro-Brazilian Blackness Chapter 4: Blackness in the Bahian Sertao Chapter 5: Conclusions Notes Bibliography
£24.29
University of Toronto Press Multicultural Cities Toronto New York and Los
Book SynopsisIn Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North America's premier multicultural metropolises - Toronto, New York, and Los AngelesTrade Review'Qadeer brings to bear an in-depth knowledge about multicultural cities, their urban institutions and structures and insights into ways these institutions and structures are evolving and cultural differences negotiated.' -- Carlos Teixeira Journal of Urban Affairs January 2017Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Cultures and the City Chapter 2: Multiculturalism: Diversity Rights and Common Ground Chapter 3: Making Multicultural Cities Chapter 4: Social Geography of Multicultural Cities Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Urban Economy Chapter 6: Patterns of Community Life Chapter 7: Experiences of Living in Multicultural Cities Chapter 8: Political Incorporation and Diversity Chapter 9: Pluralism of Urban Services Chapter 10: Urban Planning for Cultural Diversity Chapter 11: Imagining Multicultural Cities Appendix 1. Theoretical Discourse on Multiculturalism
£28.80
University of Toronto Press Deeply Rooted in the Present
Book SynopsisAsking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage readers to make connections between the case study at hand, their own heritage, and heritage-making efforts in other parts of the world.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Slavery, Quilombos, and Land 2. From Enslavement to Quilombolas 3. Quilombola Identity Conclusion Further Reading Supplementary Exercises References Index
£41.40
Bristol University Press Obama and the Biracial Factor
Book SynopsisObama and the Biracial Factor is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor in the election of President Obama and examines the sociological and political relationship between race, power, and public policy in the United States.Trade Review"Obama and the biracial factor is a crucial addition to the growing work in critical mixed-race studies. This book goes beyond simplistic analyses to demonstrate how mixed-race identity is used to reinforce rather than challenge white supremacy within popular discourse. With the growing debates between scholars who focus on anti-Blackness versus critical race mixed-studies, one may not agree with all the analyses proferred in the text. Nevertheless, this book is an essential addition to this debate." Andrea Smith, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside"Andrew Jolivette presents incisive essays by social scientists and cultural critics about Obama's racial justice successes and stagnations. An historically-informed theme of "post-racism" instead of "post-race" emerges - sober, inspiring, realistic." Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon“Offers a broad and penetrating view of the importance of race in the ongoing development of American politics.” Politic365.com"Obama and the biracial factor offers deep insights into the emergence and early years of the administration of the first biracial President in US history, as well as what it might mean for the future of American politics." Kevin R. Johnson, Dean, UC Davis School of Law"Andrew Jolivette has assembled some of the brightest thinkers at the intersections of race, politics, and social issues. This provocative volume asks and answers critical questions of the early 21st century." Kristen A. Renn, PhD, Associate Professor, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsObama and the biracial factor: An introduction ~ Andrew Jolivette; Race, multiraciality, and the election of Barack Obama: Toward a more perfect union? ~ G. Reginald Daniel; "A Patchwork Heritage" Multiracial citation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father ~ Justin Ponder; Racial revisionism, caste revisited: Whiteness, blackness and Barack Obama ~ Darryl G. Barthe, Jr.; Part II: Beyond black and white identity politics; Obama mamas and mixed race: Hoping for "A More Perfect Union" ~ Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace Yoo; Is 'no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama'? ~ Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain; Mixed race kin-aesthetics in the Age of Obama ~ Wei Ming Dariotis; Mutt like me: Barak Obama and the mixed race experience in historical perspective ~ Zebulon Miletsky; Part III: The battle for a new American majority; A different kind of blackness: The question of Obama's blackness and intraracial variation among African Americans ~ Robert Keith Collins; Avoiding Race or Following the Racial Scripts? Obama and race in the recessionary period of the colorblind era ~ Kathleen Odel Korgen and David L. Brunsma; Barack Obama and the rise to power: Emmett Till revisited ~ Andrew Jolivette
£25.64
Bristol University Press SocialSpatial Segregation
Book SynopsisThis edited volume, bringing together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, offers a new approach to conceptualising segregation.Trade Review"This outstanding collection on segregation deserves to be the “go to text” in the field. I will consult it again and again for both instruction and research. Kudos to the editors." Dr Stephen A. Matthews, Penn State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong; Section 1: Concepts & Methods; Segregation matters; measurement matters ~ Ron Johnston, Mike Poulsen and Jim Forrest; Using a general spatial pattern index to evaluate spatial segregation ~ David Wong; Measuring ‘neighbourhood’ segregation using spatial interaction data~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and Gemma Catney; The Micro-Geography of Segregation: Evidence from Historical US Census Data~ Antonio Páez, Manuel Ruiz, Fernando López and John Logan; Neighbourhood racial diversity and white residential segregation in the United States ~ Richard Wright, Mark Ellis and Steven Holloway; Analysing segregation using individualized neighbourhoods ~ John Östh, Bo Malmberg, and Eva Andersson; The international comparability of ethnicity and collective identity; implications for segregation studies ~ Pablo Mateos; Section 2: Processes; Perspectives on social segregation and migration: spatial scale, mixing and places ~ Ian Shuttleworth, Myles Gould and Paul Barr; “Sleepwalking towards Johannesburg”? Local measures of ethnic segregation between London’s secondary schools, 2003 – 2008/9 ~ Rich Harris; Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process ~ Maarten van Ham and David Manley; Demographic understandings of changes in ethnic residential segregation across the life course ~ Albert Sabater and Nissa Finney; A Tale of Two Cities: Residential Segregation in St. Louis and Cincinnati ~ Sungsoon Hwang; Section 3: Outcomes & Implications; ‘Religious’ concentration and health outcomes in Northern Ireland ~ Gemma Catney; Class Segregation ~ Danny Dorling; Exploring socioeconomic characteristics of ethnically-divided neighbourhoods ~ Kenneth French; Section 4: Conclusions and outcomes; 17. Conclusion: Possible future agendas and summary thoughts ~Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong.
£29.44
Bristol University Press SocialSpatial Segregation
Book SynopsisThis edited volume, bringing together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, offers a new approach to conceptualising segregation.Trade Review"This outstanding collection on segregation deserves to be the “go to text” in the field. I will consult it again and again for both instruction and research. Kudos to the editors." Dr Stephen A. Matthews, Penn State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong; Section 1: Concepts & Methods; Segregation matters; measurement matters ~ Ron Johnston, Mike Poulsen and Jim Forrest; Using a general spatial pattern index to evaluate spatial segregation ~ David Wong; Measuring ‘neighbourhood’ segregation using spatial interaction data~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and Gemma Catney; The Micro-Geography of Segregation: Evidence from Historical US Census Data~ Antonio Páez, Manuel Ruiz, Fernando López and John Logan; Neighbourhood racial diversity and white residential segregation in the United States ~ Richard Wright, Mark Ellis and Steven Holloway; Analysing segregation using individualized neighbourhoods ~ John Östh, Bo Malmberg, and Eva Andersson; The international comparability of ethnicity and collective identity; implications for segregation studies ~ Pablo Mateos; Section 2: Processes; Perspectives on social segregation and migration: spatial scale, mixing and places ~ Ian Shuttleworth, Myles Gould and Paul Barr; “Sleepwalking towards Johannesburg”? Local measures of ethnic segregation between London’s secondary schools, 2003 – 2008/9 ~ Rich Harris; Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process ~ Maarten van Ham and David Manley; Demographic understandings of changes in ethnic residential segregation across the life course ~ Albert Sabater and Nissa Finney; A Tale of Two Cities: Residential Segregation in St. Louis and Cincinnati ~ Sungsoon Hwang; Section 3: Outcomes & Implications; ‘Religious’ concentration and health outcomes in Northern Ireland ~ Gemma Catney; Class Segregation ~ Danny Dorling; Exploring socioeconomic characteristics of ethnically-divided neighbourhoods ~ Kenneth French; Section 4: Conclusions and outcomes; 17. Conclusion: Possible future agendas and summary thoughts ~Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Research and Policy in Ethnic Relations
Book SynopsisThis unique book explores the interaction between the academic research community and those who use its research to inform their social policy interventions, thus raising awareness of the linkages between research and social policy in particular in the area of ethnic relations.Trade Review“This engrossing and timely collection of critical perspectives explores the impact of the commodification of knowledge on contemporary ethnic relations, suggesting an urgent need for establishing a more effective dialogue between policymakers and social scientists.” Professor Michael Meadows, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Brisbane, Australia“A lucid collection at the cutting edge of critical engagement with how academic research may be used or ignored, this book stands out as a novel and distinct contribution to our understanding and will be of vital use to researchers and practitioners alike." Dr Nasar Meer, Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship, Strathclyde University“A richly rewarding collection that challenges both academics and policymakers to think differently about how we can develop better policy agendas in this complex field” Professor John Solomos, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick“Combining reflective and detailed case studies and thoughtful theoretical accounts, this collection provides a well-judged and challenging intervention in how academic research and policymaking in the field of 'ethnic relations' intersect.” Dr Gavan Titley, National University of Ireland MaynoothTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Charles Husband; Constraint and compromise: university researchers, their relation to funders and to policymaking for a multiethnic Britain ~ Charles Husband; ‘Hating to know’: government and social policy research in multicultural Australia ~ Andrew Jakubowicz; In-group identity and the challenges of ethnographic research ~ Yunis Alam; Anthros and pimps doing the God trick: researching Muslim young people ~ M.G. Khan; Reflections of a research funder ~ Emma Stone; The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: linking research, policy and practice ~ Ioannis N. Dimitrakopoulos; The value of research for local authorities: a practitioner perspective ~ Stan Kidd and Tony Reeves
£26.59
Bristol University Press Race Policy and Multiracial Americans
Book SynopsisRace Policy and Multiracial Americans looks at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the USA and how they can be used to promote racial justice. This much-needed book is essential reading for anyone interested in race relations and social justice.Trade Review"Unique in addressing race policy in the US from the perspective of multiracials and it can be used in a variety of courses including social work, psychology, sociology and history. Informative and descriptive in its nature, the book provides a springboard for discussion... the book is a wonderful addition to the current discussion of racial issues and policies in the US." Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 42, 2019"A timely and masterful addition to the literature on multiraciality. It counters any argument that growing numbers of multiracials in the United States are a sign that we are in a post-racial society. The authors argue persuasively that multiracials indicate, rather, the need to adjust current race policies." G. Reginald Daniel, University of California, USA"Brings together the finest scholars to explore how our racial policy impacts the growing population of multiracial Americns. A must read for those who are concerned with the challenges they face." George Yancey, University of North Texas, USATable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Kathleen Odell Korgen; Multiracial Americans throughout the History of the U.S. ~ Tyrone Nagai; National and Local Structures of Inequality: Multiracial Groups’ Profiles Across the United States ~ Mary E. Campbell, Jessica M. Barron; Latinos and Multiracial America ~ Raúl Quiñones Rosado; The Connections among Racial Identity, Social Class, and Public Policy? ~ Nikki Khanna; Multiracial Americans and Racial Discrimination ~ Tina Fernandes Botts; “Should All (or Some) Multiracial Americans Benefit from Affirmative Action Programs?” ~ Daniel N. Lipson; Multiracial Students and Educational Policy ~ Rhina Fernandes Williams & E. Namisi Chilungu; Multiracial Americans in College ~ Marc P. Johnston and Kristen A. Renn; Multiracial Americans, Health Patterns, and Health Policy: Assessment and Recommendations for Ways Forward ~ Jenifer L. Bratter and Chirsta Mason; Racial Identity Among Multiracial Prisoners in the Color-Blind Era ~ Gennifer Furst and Kathleen Odell Korgen; “Multiraciality and the Racial Order: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” ~ Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl, David L. Brunsma; Multiracial Identity and Monoracial Conflict: Toward a New Social Justice framework ~ Andrew Jolivette; Conclusion: Policies for a Racially Just Society ~ Kathleen Odell Korgen.
£24.69
Bristol University Press Education Policy and Racial Biopolitics in
Book SynopsisGulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics and ethnic politics of education in multicultural cities.Trade Review"In this highly original book, Gulson and Webb make an informed and exciting contribution to post-structural approaches to policy analysis." Patrick Bailey, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: education policy and multicultural cities; Policy events; Policy and biopolitics: the event of race-based statistics in Toronto; The (micro)politics of racial neoliberalism; 'Up in the northwest corner of the city': the city, race and locating the school; Difference and recognition; Policy events, race and the future of the city.
£66.50
Bristol University Press Inequality and AfricanAmerican Health
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.Trade Review"The book's comprehensive coverage of racial disparities provides abundant information to help readers grasp an overall view of this issue, as well as premises for future research. A sufficiently broad, specific, timely, and balanced book on African American health issues for anyone." - CHOICE"An interesting and timely book which expands our understanding of how systemic oppressions (racism, gender, and class) intersect with oppressed individuals healthcare attitudes, decisions, and behaviors." Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA"An insightful historical investigation of the structural determinants of African American health inequities. Crucial reading for health scholars across all disciplines." Dawne Marie Mouzon, Assistant Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Theorizing Social Inequalities in Health Race, Racism, and Sickness Slavery and Freedom Part Two: Health and Medicine Health Behaviors in Social Context Medical Care and Health Policy Part Three: Health and Families Economic Decline and Incarceration Love, Sexuality and (Non)Marriage Children’s Health
£75.99
Bristol University Press Inequality and AfricanAmerican Health
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.Trade Review"The book's comprehensive coverage of racial disparities provides abundant information to help readers grasp an overall view of this issue, as well as premises for future research. A sufficiently broad, specific, timely, and balanced book on African American health issues for anyone." - CHOICE"An interesting and timely book which expands our understanding of how systemic oppressions (racism, gender, and class) intersect with oppressed individuals healthcare attitudes, decisions, and behaviors." Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA"An insightful historical investigation of the structural determinants of African American health inequities. Crucial reading for health scholars across all disciplines." Dawne Marie Mouzon, Assistant Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Theorizing Social Inequalities in Health Race, Racism, and Sickness Slavery and Freedom Part Two: Health and Medicine Health Behaviors in Social Context Medical Care and Health Policy Part Three: Health and Families Economic Decline and Incarceration Love, Sexuality and (Non)Marriage Children’s Health
£26.59
Bristol University Press Ethnicity and Old Age
Book SynopsisBy bringing attention to the way that ethnicity and race have been addressed in research on ageing and old age, with a focus on health inequalities, health and social care, intergenerational relationships and caregiving, this book proposes how research can be developed in an ethnicity astute and diversity informed manner.Table of ContentsPart 1: Setting the stage for theorising; Introduction; Population aging and international migration; Ethnicity and race: from essentialism to constructionism; Part II: Theorising via a scoping review: what we know and need to find out; Literature on Health Inequalities; Literature on Health and Social Care ; Literature on Social Relations and Caregiving; A new agenda: where we are at and need to head; Appendix: how the scoping review was conducted.
£71.24
Bristol University Press Understanding Race and Ethnicity
Book SynopsisThis new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism, alongside institutional racism and community cohesion within a broad policy framework.Trade Review"A timely resource packed with theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding and framing of debates of race and ethnicity in contemporary society. Essential reading for students and practitioners alike." Nilufar Ahmed, Swansea University"This is a welcome update, giving a readable, critical and grounded guide to a core field of social policy, which too often slips off the political and social science agendas." Norman Ginsburg, London Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsPART 1: Theoretical, historical and policy contexts; Introduction ~ Gary Craig, Sangeeta Chattoo, Karl Atkin and Ronny Flynn; ‘Race’, ethnicity and social policy: concepts and limitations of current approaches to welfare ~ Sangeeta Chattoo and Karl Atkin; Migration(s): the history and pattern of settlement of the UK’s Black and minority ethnic population ~ Gary Craig; Policy, politics and practice: an historical review and its relevance to current debates ~ Ronny Flynn and Gary Craig; PART 2: ‘Race’, ethnicity and welfare contexts; Poverty and income maintenance ~ Ian Law and Katy Wright; Minority ethnic groups in the labour market ~ Baljinder Virk; Minority ethnic communities and housing ~ Gina Netto and Harris Beider; Understanding the Influence of Ethnicity on Health ~ Saffron Karlsen, Marilyn Roth, Laia Bécares; Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness ~ Simon Dyson and Maria Berghs; Understanding ‘race’, ethnicity and mental health ~ Frank Keating; UK education policy and the place of ‘race’ ~ Uvanney Maylor; Young people, ‘race’ and criminal justice ~ Bankole Cole; Endnote ~ Karl Atkin, Sangeeta Chattoo, Gary Craig and Ronny Flynn; Post-script ~ Samara Linton.
£75.99
Bristol University Press Understanding Race and Ethnicity
Book SynopsisThis new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism, alongside institutional racism and community cohesion within a broad policy framework.Trade Review"A timely resource packed with theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding and framing of debates of race and ethnicity in contemporary society. Essential reading for students and practitioners alike." Nilufar Ahmed, Swansea University"This is a welcome update, giving a readable, critical and grounded guide to a core field of social policy, which too often slips off the political and social science agendas." Norman Ginsburg, London Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsPART 1: Theoretical, historical and policy contexts; Introduction ~ Gary Craig, Sangeeta Chattoo, Karl Atkin and Ronny Flynn; ‘Race’, ethnicity and social policy: concepts and limitations of current approaches to welfare ~ Sangeeta Chattoo and Karl Atkin; Migration(s): the history and pattern of settlement of the UK’s Black and minority ethnic population ~ Gary Craig; Policy, politics and practice: an historical review and its relevance to current debates ~ Ronny Flynn and Gary Craig; PART 2: ‘Race’, ethnicity and welfare contexts; Poverty and income maintenance ~ Ian Law and Katy Wright; Minority ethnic groups in the labour market ~ Baljinder Virk; Minority ethnic communities and housing ~ Gina Netto and Harris Beider; Understanding the Influence of Ethnicity on Health ~ Saffron Karlsen, Marilyn Roth, Laia Bécares; Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness ~ Simon Dyson and Maria Berghs; Understanding ‘race’, ethnicity and mental health ~ Frank Keating; UK education policy and the place of ‘race’ ~ Uvanney Maylor; Young people, ‘race’ and criminal justice ~ Bankole Cole; Endnote ~ Karl Atkin, Sangeeta Chattoo, Gary Craig and Ronny Flynn; Post-script ~ Samara Linton.
£26.59
BUP - Policy Press The Black PhD Experience
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£72.00
Union Square & Co. The Rise of Issa Igwe
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
£14.24
Taylor & Francis Ltd Refugees and Rights
Book SynopsisForced migration is both as ancient as human life on earth and a relatively new subject of interest for human rights scholars. This volume continues the discussion from Migrants and Rights to focus attention on refugees, victims of trafficking and others who cross borders seeking protection from anthropogenic or natural disasters. The opening essays provide historical and conceptual overviews of rights to freedom of movement and asylum; and links between human rights and refugee law. Articles on the principle of non-refoulement in international law explore the occasional disjuncture between the individual's right to protection and the State's rights to protect its national interests. The refugee's rights to due process and the substance of entitlements at law are explored in essays that range across administrative processes; social and cultural rights, including family reunion; detention; and the right of return. There follow four essays that address sexual orientation and refugee righTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I The Challenge of Forced Migrants: Shifting the Discourse from Obligation to Rights: An intellectual history of freedom of movement in international law: the right to leave as a personal liberty, Jane McAdam; The concept of asylum in international law, Rebecca M.M. Wallace and Fraser A.W. Janeczko; Reconceiving refugee law as human rights protection, James C. Hathaway. Part II Non-Refoulement and the Limits of Protection Rights: Non-refoulement, temporary refuge, and the ‘new’ asylum seekers, Guy S. Goodwin-Gill; Expulsion to face torture? Non-refoulement in international law, Aoife Duffy; Non-refoulement on the basis of socio-economic deprivation: the scope of complementary protection in international human rights law, Michelle Foster. Part III The Rights of Refugees: Process and Substance: An asylum seeker’s bill of rights in a non-utopian world, Stephen H. Legomsky; Human rights, refugees, and the right ‘to enjoy’ asylum, Alice Edwards; Dark justice: Australia’s indefinite detention of refugees on security grounds under international human rights law, Ben Saul; Stateless refugees and the right to return: the Bihari refugees of South Asia - part 2, Sumit Sen. Part IV Broadening Protection Rights: Sexual orientation and refugee status determination over the past 20 years: unsteady progress through standard sequences?, Jenni Millbank; Where disability and displacement intersect: asylum seekers and refugees with disabilities, Mary Crock, Christine Ernst and Ron McCallum; Swimming against the tide: why a climate change displacement treaty is not the answer, Jane McAdam; At the border of rights: migration, sex work, and trafficking, Audrey Macklin. Part V Regional Perspectives on Refugee Rights: Past reflections, future insights: African asylum law and policy in historical perspective, Edwin Odhiambo Abuya; Outside the bounds of citizenship: the status of aliens, illegal migrants and refugees in India, B.S. Chimni; Refugee law and protection in Brazil: a model in South America?, Liliana Lyra Jubilut; Australian funded care and maintenance of asylum seekers in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea: all care but no responsibility?, Savitri Taylor. Index.
£454.91
Edinburgh University Press Still French France and the Challenge of
Book SynopsisIs the France of 2015 still French in the same way or to the same degree as the France of 1985? Where do the most significant challenges to Frenchness now lie? These are among the issues addressed by contributors to this volume, spanning a wide range of topics and disciplinary approaches including politics, literature, film and sport.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press If I Survive
Book SynopsisMarking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass' birth, this first collective history and comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Religion of White Rage
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress.
£90.00
Edinburgh University Press Liminal Whiteness in Early Us Fiction
Book SynopsisHannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.Trade Review"As scholars of American literature and history know, White dread has been a haunting presence for a long, long time. Anxious fantasies of replacement, subsumption, diminution: in Liminal Whiteness, Hannah Murray raises these spirits, and gets them to speak in new tongues. Across agile readings of figures from Brockden Brown, Poe and Melville to Robert Montgomery Bird and Frank Webb, Liminal Whiteness vivifies a rich literary counter-history and gives us new purchase on the shifting terrain of reactive White fantasy." -Peter Coviello, University of Illinois Chicago
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press African American Studies
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and practical text on teaching, understanding and practicing African American Studies.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora
Book SynopsisThis book explores the struggles of a minority group Alevis for recognition and representation in Turkey and the diaspora. It examines how they mobilise against state practices and claim their rights, while at the same time negotiating how they define themselves.
£18.99
University of Texas Press Continental Shifts
Book SynopsisA timely, hemispheric examination of the post-NAFTA shift in US discourse surrounding Latinos, which has created dehumanizing representations that equate Latinos with animals and criminals, and of the ways in which Latino cultural producers contest theseTrade Review"Riofrio engages wide swaths of popular culture and literary criticism, using them as a prism for understanding contemporary historical events and public policy." * Choice *"...critically ambitious, highly readable, and furiously passionate. The book indeed provides an exciting contribution to Inter-American studies, Latino Studies, literary and cultural studies, but truly triumphs in the way it models ethically grounded and publicly directed scholarly work." * Symploke *"Both ambitious and comprehensive in scope, this book sheds new light on the discursive racism found in twenty-first-century media forms that has prepared the way for recent anti-immigrant movements…Continental Shifts presents a timely critique of the post-9/11 criminalization of Latinx people. It is a compelling study of how discursive racism and challenging racism affects the experience of being Latinx in the US, as well as Latin American perceptions of that experience." * Journal of American Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Hemispheric Latinidades: Migrating Bodies and the Blurred Borders of Latino Identities 2. Dirty Politics of Representation: Dehumanizing Discourse, Latinidad, and the Struggle for Self-Ascribed Ethnic Identity 3. Spectacles of Incarceration: Biopolitics, Public Shaming, and the Pornography of Prisons 4. Latinos in a Post-9/11 Moment: “American” Identity and the Public Latino Body Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press The Magic Key
Book SynopsisThis much-needed volume provides a comprehensive empirical study of the school experiences of Mexican Americans and those who help them succeed.Table of Contents Foreword by Patricia Gándara A Personal Narrative by Sally Alonzo Bell, PhD Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: Setting the Context 1. Locked Doors; Closed Opportunities: Who Holds the Magic Key? (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Sylvia Hurtado) 2. History's Prism in Education: A Spectrum of Legacies across Centuries of Mexican American Agency; Experience and Activism 1600s–2000s (Victoria-María MacDonald and Jason Rivera) 3. Trend Analyses from 1971 to 2012 on Mexican American/Chicano Freshmen: Are We Making Progress? (Sylvia Hurtado) Part II: Conceptual Understandings 4. An Intersectional Lens: Theorizing an Educational Paradigm of Success (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Sylvia Hurtado) 5. Parental Educational and Gender Expectations: Pushing the Educational Trajectory (Ruth Enid Zambrana and Rebeca Burciaga) 6. Examining the Influence of K–12 School Experiences on the Higher Education Pathway (Ruth Enid Zambrana, Anthony De Jesús, and Brianne A. Dávila) Part III: Contemporary College Experiences 7. The Ivory Tower Is Still White: Chicana/o-Latina/o College Students' Views on Racism, Ethnic Organizations, and Campus Racial Segregation (Nolan L. Cabrera and Sylvia Hurtado) 8. Campus Climate, Intersecting Identities, and Institutional Support among Mexican American College Students (Adriana Ruiz Alvarado and Sylvia Hurtado) Part IV: Implications for Educational Policy and Future Practices in P–16 Pathways and Beyond 9. Mexican American Males' Pathways to Higher Education: Awareness to Achievement (Luis Ponjuan and Victor B. Sáenz) 10. The Role of Educational Policy in Mexican American College Transition and Completion (Frances Contreras) Notes Bibliography Contributing Authors Index
£17.99
University of Texas Press Mexican Americans and the Question of Race
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies and identifications and how they choose to present them to others.Trade ReviewDowling’s text is a much needed addition to and intervention in the conversation of Latino racial identification that should be required reading for Sociology of Race and Latino Studies courses. * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Question of Race Chapter 2. “I’m white ‘cause I’m an American, right?”: The Meanings of Whiteness for Mexican Americans Chapter 3. “We were never white”: Mexican Americans Identifying Outside the Bounds of Whiteness Chapter 4. “In Mexico I was . . .”: Translating Racial Identities Across the Border Chapter 5. “That’s what we call ourselves here”: Mexican Americans and Mexican Immigrants Negotiating Racial Labeling in Daily Life Chapter 6. Re-envisioning Our Understanding of Latino Racial Identity Appendix: Notes on Methodology Notes References Index
£15.19
University of Texas Press The Making of Arab Americans
Book SynopsisUsing previously untapped archives to reclaim a forgotten history, this groundbreaking study traces Arab American advocacy to the early twentieth century, when mass immigration as a result of Arab grievances with Ottoman Turks fostered a unified Arab AmerTable of Contents Acknowledgments Note on Arabic Terms and Names Introduction 1. Arab Populations under Ottoman Rule: A Background 2. The Syrian Nationalism of the Mahjar Press 3. Soldiers for Syria before World War I: The Free Syria Society 4. The Syria Idea and the New Syria Party 5. The Mandate Years and the Diaspora: The Arab National League and a Historical Context for Arab American Narrative 6. The Arab National League and the Emergence of Arab American Identity 7. The Institute of Arab American Affairs: Arab Americans and the New World Order Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£26.99
University of Texas Press The Color of Love
Book SynopsisWinner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2017 Best Publication Award, Section on Body and Embodiment, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2018The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family. Based on interviews and a sixteen-month ethnography of ten working-class Brazilian families, this provocative work sheds light on how families simultaneously resist and reproduce racial hierarchies. Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates the privileges of whiteness by revealing how those with “blacker” feTrade Review"The Color of Love is an insightful treatment of the social psychology of race and the family, ostensibly in Brazil but with observations that have more general applicability." * Social Forces *"Certainly a page turner, Hordge-Freeman makes various scholarly contributions, the biggest being her exploration of how phenotype-based affection can reproduce racial inequality in racialized societies, which hardly any studies of race in the United States and Brazil have done. . . . This book should be read by anyone with an interest in the African Diaspora, race and racism in Brazil, and family socialization practices." * Humanity & Society *"...an important contribution to the growing academic literature on race and color in Brazil. The Color of Love, firmly rooted in the discipline of sociology, is interdisciplinary in the best possible way." * American Journal of Sociology *"The Color of Love provides a necessary narrative that must be included in family research dis-course...I urge family researchers to read [it] to help them in understanding the family unit as a complex societal agent that is capable of resisting and reproducing dominant ideologies and also love." * Journal of Family Theory and Review *"[Hodge-Freeman's] work with an understudied group allows her to add a significant contribution to the field of race. . . . The Color of Love is an excellent ethnographic project." * Symbolic Interaction *"This book makes a great contribution to understanding racial relations in Brazil by considering family and close neighbor relationships, the socialization process, and negotiations of gendered and racialized bodies, from a perspective that dialogues with theories of social stratification, feminist theory while triangulating race, class, and gender." * Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População *"This book undoubtedly offers both theoretical and empirical gems to the sociology of race and inequality as well as to the study of the African diaspora in Latin America and beyond." * Contemporary Sociology *"The ethnographic data on families show that ideas about racial hierarchy operate across a wide range of phenotypes and self-identifications. Hordge-Freeman shows this exceptionally well for Brazil . . . Hordge-Freeman's excellent ethnography interrogates families and bodies as sites of race-making in Brazil." * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. The Face of a Slave Part I. Socialization and Stigma Chapter 1. What's Love Got to Do with It? Racial Stigma and Embodied Capital Chapter 2. Black Bodies, White Casts: Racializing and Gendering Bodies Chapter 3. Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Affective Capital, Stigma, and Racialization Part II. Racial Socialization and Negotiations in Public Culture Chapter 4. Racial Fluency: Reading between and beyond the Color Lines Chapter 5. Mind Your Blackness: Embodied Capital and Spatial Mobility Chapter 6. Antiracism in Transgressive Families Conclusion. The Ties That Bind Appendix A: Research Methods and Positionality Appendix B: Major Interview Topics Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Entre Guadalupe y Malinche
Book SynopsisEntre Guadalupe y Malinche is the first-ever collection of Tejana literary and artistic production, gathering the writings of more than fifty authors and the artwork of eight artists.Trade Review...the editors have brought together a truly impressive array of Tejana female artists, giving equal time to established names and rising stars. * Santa Fe New Mexican *A volume meriting serious scholarly consideration…As homogeneity increases through processes such as globalization, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche is a reminder of the relevance of regional particularism and how writers and artists respond to notions of place and land through constructions of imagination, memory, and community. * Western American Literature *Entre Guadalupe y Malinche is a vibrant collection…The texts collectively imagine, create, and rewrite Tejana stories into the Texas-Mexican landscape but contest any single notion of a unified experience, be it cultural, gender, or geographical…Entre Guadalupe y Malinche takes the reader on personal journeys of discovery, family, love, and healing all while rooted in the larger paradigm of the decolonial imaginary. * Journal of American Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Women of the Texas-Mexican Earth, by Inés Hernández-Ávila I. Enterrando ombligos/Burying the Umbilical Cord: Tejanas in a Texas Land Inés Hernández-Ávila Introduction Gloria Anzaldúa Border arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera Alicia Gaspar de Alba To Your Shadow Beast: In Memoriam Margo Tamez The Equation of a Circle Susan M. Guerra Holiday Juanita A. Luna Lawhn Man without a Pen Oralia Garza de Cortés Hija del mesquite Inés Hernández-Ávila That’s Tejana María Limón Santiago Raquel Valle-Sentíes Growing Up in Laredo Evangelina Vigil harbor Norma Elia Cantú South Texas in July, 2014 Deborah Paredez Alzheimer’s Aubade Enedina Cásarez Vásquez ¿Y qué nos pasó, Amá? Gloria Amescua Fall into the Fig Susana Rentería Almanza Reflections of la Madre Tierra María Silva Chicana Celeste Guzmán Mendoza Repair Teresa Palomo Acosta My mother’s thimble Laura M. López Growing Up a Texas-Mexican Woman Anel Flores Sinvergüenza on the Banks of the Water Emmy Pérez El Paso~El Valle Raquel Valle-Sentíes River of Lost Dreams Patrisia Gonzales The Pyramid I Call Home Rosemary Catacalos Red Dirt, Atascosa County, Texas Paulita Huerta Garza Amorosamente les saludo Pat Mora A River of Women II. Dolores profundos y la gracia de la vida/Deep Hurts and the Grace of Life Inés Hernández-Ávila Introduction Emma Pérez Between Manifest Destiny and Women’s Rights: Decolonizing Chicana History Yolanda Chávez Leyva “If a woman stands at the door you can’t go in”: Jovita’s Story, April 1914 Beva Sanchez-Padilla The Ballad of Emma Tenayuca Norma Elia Cantú Para Manuela Solis Sager Mary Guerrero Milligan La mentira, or How I Got Through Texas History Teresa Palomo Acosta Casas grandes Aurora Orozco No me quites mi español (and translation) Idioma (and translation) Laura Parra Codina My Mother Used to Read to Me María Herrera-Sobek Summertime Blues Josephine Cásarez Brown Trenzas Are for Mensas D. Letticia Galindo Memories of West Texas Domino Renee Pérez Anticipating a New Life María Herrera-Sobek The Immigrant’s Lament Gloria Amescua Not the Last Pretender Laura Parra Codina Aquí en San Anto/Here in San Anto (author’s translation) Carmen Tafolla Something Severed Beatriz de la Garza Amber Waves of Grain Rosie Castro San Antonio sin Marías Tammy Melody Gómez It Is Possible Mary Margaret Navar El conquistador Angela Valenzuela The Power of Difference Edith Villalobos Silvas I Wanted Mexican but I Got H.E.B. Instead Mary Sue Galindo La Elliott (1935–1970) Rosie Castro Brown Mother Full of Stars Mia K. Stageberg Daughters of Burning Sun III. Arte y semblanza: Tejana Artivists Norma Elia Cantú Introduction Santa Barraza Nora Chapa Mendoza Celeste De Luna Carmen Lomas Garza Verónica Ortegón María Teresa García Pedroche Kathy Vargas Terry Ybañez IV. All Our Relations: Our Connections to Land, Family, Friends Norma Elia Cantú Introduction Sonia Saldívar-Hull (Re)Forming A Chicana Feminist: Transfrontera Memorias Olivia Castellano Tía ire’ne lara silva en trozos/in pieces Inés Hernández-Ávila Skyway Dreams Sylvia Herrera Ábreme la puerta Emmy Pérez We, the Obsessed María Herrera-Sobek Amorcito corazón Liliana Valenzuela A Chilanga Tejana Writer: Notes on the Geography of Shame Aída Hurtado She/Woman/Man B. J. Manriquez Segura An Understanding Edith Villalobos Silvas No More Trenzas Rosie Castro Role Model Enedina Cásarez Vásquez Bad Hair Day Evangelina Vigil nocturne: cuando el destino Dorotea Reyna Moustache Deborah Paredez At the VA Telemetry Ward D. Letticia Galindo Longing for Tejas Blues Juanita Luna Lawhn My Mother’s Cuartito Celeste Guzmán Mendoza Dinner with Dad Aída Hurtado Mothering I Rose Treviño Sueños argentinos Argentine Dreams (author’s translation) Tammy Melody Gómez Woman and Pain María Eugenia Guerra The Garden Teresa Palomo Acosta Forgiving Stephen F. Austin and the old three hundred Paulita Huerta Garza Viva la libertad: Mensaje a las mujeres Long Live Liberty: A Message to Women (translation by Norma E. Cantú) Pat Mora Let Us Hold Hands Norma Elia Cantú Tierra incógnita Rosa-Linda Fregoso Ghosts of a Mexican Past (excerpt) Alicia Gaspar de Alba Asking for Pears: A Limpia Not Just a Love Poem V. (Auto)compromisos y comunidad: Gifts of Powerful, Conscious Loving Inés Hernández-Ávila Introduction Margo Tamez La Dormilona Dreamt of Home from the Shore of Erie Liliana Valenzuela Hoy detengo el curso de los ríos Today I Stop the River in Its Tracks (Translation by Fred Fornoff) Mary Sue Galindo Ya lo verás Rosie Castro Chicanas Never Feared María Silva Con todo respeto para la raza más apreciada, los chicanos (and translation) Tammy Melody Gómez In Finite F Light Aída Hurtado Body I D. Letticia Galindo Tejana Tongues/Lenguas tejanas Norma Elia Cantú Canto a la tierra Dorotea Reyna Reina de copas Mary Sue Galindo In Memory of My Departed Grandmother: Juanita Pérez Mejía 08/25/03–03/11/93 Pat Mora Ofrenda for Lobo Bárbara Renaud González Feliz Navidad, Daddy Evangelina Vigil one dream of so many Laura Parra Codina Sóplame la vida Mary Margaret Navar Plegaria milenaria Millennial Prayer (translation) ire’ne lara silva one-sided conversations with my mother Sylvia Ledesma Luchando por libertad Rosemary Catacalos Picture Postcard from a Painter B. J. Manriquez Segura An Omen Raquel Valle-Sentíes Cuando tú me besas When You Kiss Me (poet’s translation) Susan Guerra My Woman and Her Bird Paulita Huerta Garza Trozos de amor a la vida Pieces of Love to Life Teresa Palomo Acosta Because faith has called me out Evangelina Vigil el silencio Carmen Tafolla Healing a Culture, AD 2000 Epilogue: ¡Adelante y con ganas!, by Norma Elia Cantú Notes Works Cited Further Reading Contributors
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University of Texas Press The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air
Book SynopsisEmploying a creative mix of real and fictive events, objects, and people that subverts assumptions about the archiving and display of historical artifacts, this innovative book both documents and evokes an arts collective that played a significant role in the Chicano movement.Trade ReviewThe Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force deftly transforms the Sacramento-based, Chicanx art collective’s history into an assemblage of artworks, essays, and documents based on a decade’s worth of material gleaned from interviewing, befriending, and working with its members...Sauer’s engagingly unique book is a welcome alternative to traditional narratives and academic archives. In it, she skillfully takes on the challenge of wrangling a history largely gleaned from conversations. While Sauer admits that the texts should not be 'looked upon as sources of historical truth,' her book nevertheless succeeds in channeling the RCAF’s spirit and voice while also helping to reclaim their role in both California and Chicanx history. * US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal *
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University of Texas Press Captivity Beyond Prisons
Book SynopsisEscobar examines the criminalization of Latina (im)migrants, delving into questions of reproduction, technologies of power, and social justice in a prison system that consistently devalues the lives of Latinas.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Shifting the Conversation from (Im)migrant Rights to Abolition Chapter 1. Understanding the Roots of Latina (Im)migrants' Captivity Chapter 2. Reinforcing Gendered Racial Boundaries: Unintended Consequences of (Im)migrant Rights Discourse Chapter 3. Violent Formations: Criminalizing and Disciplining (Im)migrant Women Chapter 4. Domesticating (Im)migration: Coordinating State Violence beyond the Nation-State Chapter 5. Emancipation Is Not Freedom: A Reflection and Critique of Advocacy Abolition Conclusion. Envisioning and Performing Freedom Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press A Promising Problem
Book SynopsisIn this collection of innovative, thought-provoking essays, established and emerging scholars consider the sea changes taking place within Chicana/o scholarship, the shifting racial and political boundaries of Chicana/o communities, and new perspectives oTrade Review"[A Promising Problem's] essays offer fresh insights that make this edited collection a worthwhile read." * Pacific Historical Review *"What is fresh about these essays is their insistence that a multitude of actors, both within and outside of Latina/o communities, has shaped Chicana/o history and identity...A Promising Problem both highlights new work and raises...important questions for continued debate." * Western Historical Quarterly *"The essays assembled [in A Promising Problem] represent a variety of topics and subfields, though Blanton is careful to note that the volume is far from exhaustive or representative of all Chicana/o history. Nonetheless, the collection captures well the field's 'promising problem.'" * Journal of Southern History *"While the essays [in A Promising Problem] represent the broad spectrum of Mexican American history, all authors speak to each other by referencing each other's work and pointing out common findings across chapters. This technique makes for a much more integrated and tightly-woven anthology than is common among such books, indicating that much thought went into crafting the study." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One. Looking In while Stepping Out: Growth, Reassessment, and the Promising Problem of the New Chicana/o History (Carlos Kevin Blanton) Chapter Two. The Accidental Historian; or, How I Found My Groove in Legal History (Michael A. Olivas) Chapter Three. Moving beyond Aztlán: Disrupting Nationalism and Geographic Essentialism in Chicano/a History (Lilia Fernández) Chapter Four. Chicana/o History as Southern History: Race, Place, and the US South (Perla M. Guerrero) Chapter Five. Sacred Spaces: Race, Resistance, and the Politics of Chicana/o and Latina/o Religious History (Felipe Hinojosa) Chapter Six. Chicanas in the US-Mexican Borderlands: Transborder Conversations of Feminism and Anarchism, 1905–1938 (Sonia Hernández) Chapter Seven. Eastside Imaginaries: Toward a Relational and Transnational Chicana/o Cultural History (Luis Alvarez) Select Bibliography of Recent Publications in Chicana/o History Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press Trying to Get Over
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking text focuses on the post-blaxploitation era of American filmmaking and illuminates contributions of directors who, although largely unrecognized, have shaped popular culture over the past quarter century.Trade ReviewTrying to Get Over is required reading for those interested in film at the intersection of racial politics, production histories, and media industries...[Corson] reminds us of the rich and dynamic history of African Americans in Hollywood persistently making films that are now considered cult classics. * Media Industries Journal *Corson provides depth to our knowledge of black filmmaking during the understudied downturn in the decade following Blaxploitation. Understanding changes in the economic and decision-making forces during this time put both the Blaxploitation era and the 1990s into a new context. * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Blaxploitation Reconsidered: African American Directors and the Political Economy of Hollywood 2. Our Man in Hollywood: Creativity and Compromise in the Films of Michael Schultz 3. Writing His Second Act: Sidney Poitier’s Move Behind the Camera 4. Think Locally, Act Globally: Fred “the Hammer” Williamson, Low-Budget Genre Filmmaking, and the Struggle for Self-Definition 5. Outside of Society: Jamaa Fanaka, the LA Rebellion, and the Complications of Independent Filmmaking 6. Dreams Deferred: Untapped Potential, the Transformation of Black Popular Culture, and the Cinematic Legacies of Gilbert Moses and Stan Lathan 7. Dirty Minds Reformed: Celebrity, Power, and the Directorial Turns of Richard Pryor and Prince Conclusion Filmography, 1969–1994 Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Border Contraband
Book SynopsisPresent-day smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border is a professional, often violent, criminal activity. However, it is only the latest chapter in a history of illicit business dealings that stretches back to 1848, when attempts by Mexico and the United States to tax commerce across the Rio Grande upset local trade and caused popular resentment. Rather than acquiesce to what they regarded as arbitrary trade regulations, borderlanders continued to cross goods and accepted many forms of smuggling as just. In Border Contraband, George T. Díaz provides the first history of the common, yet little studied, practice of smuggling across the U.S.-Mexico border. In Part I, he examines the period between 1848 and 1910, when the United States' and Mexico's trade concerns focused on tariff collection and on borderlanders' attempts to avoid paying tariffs by smuggling. Part II begins with the onset of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, when national customs and other security forces on the borderTrade Review"What governments define as illegal and what people consider wrong can differ widely," observes George T. Diaz in this engaging history of smuggling along the Texas-Mexico border... The flesh and blood he gives this history makes it a strong book for classroom adoption... It offers a productive point of departure-a way of conceptualizing the social worlds of smuggling-that will shape scholarly conversations about this region for years to come. " Journal of American History "Historian Diaz provides a lively narrative of the smuggling and trafficking across the Rio Grande River from 1848 to 1945." Choice "A well-researched historical study of smuggling along the Texas-Mexican border. Thorough and innovative ... It is a work well done and worthwhile." Southwestern Historical Quarterly "Diaz's Border Contraband is a gem. His clear and concise writing that brings in theory without all the theoretical jargon will make this an excellent option for upper-division undergraduate courses and graduate courses in both world history and borderlands studies... Unlike many treatments of the U.S.-Mexico border, Diaz's is truly transnational." World History Connected "A solidly researched volume that gives historical background to a contemporary hot topic, Border Contraband also demonstrates how smuggling has been a central part of borderlands Mexican American culture and lore." Journal of American Studies "If one is to understand our current situation with Mexico, one only has to look to Diaz's Border Contraband... a great addition to the history of the US-Mexican borderlands, giving both countries insight into the making of the border. Diaz has set the international research bar high, and as a result scholars and students will greatly benefit from such research." Hispanic American Historical Review "In this insightful and concisely written book, George Diaz shows for how much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries illicit smuggling played a central role in the daily lives of border people." Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Taxing Trade1. Creating a Contrabandista Community, 1848–18812. Rails, Trade, and Traffickers, 1881–1910Part II: Prohibiting Criminal Consumption3. Smugglers in Dangerous Times: Revolution and War, 1910–19194. Narcotics and Prohibition, 1914–19455. Smugglers and Seditionists: States Confront Illicit Traders, 1920–1945Epilogue: Good Deals and Drug DealsAppendix: Songs as SourcesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Texas Press J. Frank Dobie
Book SynopsisTaking a fresh look at a landmark Texas writer who hasn’t been the subject of a biography since Lon Tinkle’s 1978 An American Original, this book reveals J. Frank Dobie as a “free-range thinker” who fought for liberal political causes.Table of Contents Acknowledgments A Liberated Mind Part 1: Rebel of the Lost Cause Chapter 1: Along the Ramirenia Chapter 2: The Education of a Brush Countryman, 1904-1912 Chapter 3: From Texas to New York, 1913-1914 Chapter 4: Fighting Conformity, Courting Bertha, 1914-1916 Chapter 5: The Great War, 1915-1919 Part 2: The Rising Star Chapter 6: A Rangeland Epiphany, 1920-1921 Chapter 7: The Making of a Folklorist, 1921-1923 Chapter 8: The Rising Star, 1923-1926 Chapter 9: Voices of the Southwest, 1926-1930 Chapter 10: Regionalism Goes National, 1929-1930 Part 3: Mr. Texas Chapter 11: Dobie in Bloom, 1930-1934 Chapter 12: Into Mexico, 1933-1935 Chapter 13: The Flavor of Texas, 1936 Chapter 14: The Austin Liberals, 1936-1938 Chapter 15: Apache Gold vs. Pale Horse, 1937-1939 Part 4: Texas Needs Brains Chapter 16: The Longhorns, 1939-1941 Chapter 17: True Patriotism and the Singing Governor, 1940-1941 Chapter 18: The Liberal Hero, 1941-1943 Chapter 19: A Contemporary of Himself, 1943-1946 Chapter 20: A Texan in England, 1943-1946 Chapter 21: Texas Needs Brains, 1946-1947 Part 5: Elder Statesman Chapter 22: Coyote Wisdom, 1948-1953 Chapter 23: Elder Statesman, 1951-1958 Chapter 24: Literary Dictator, 1952-1960 Chapter 25: End of an Era, 1955-1959 Part 6: Twilight Chapter 26: One Touch of Nature, Plus, 1960-1962 Chapter 27: Sunset, 1962-1964 Chapter 28: Dobie's Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Nuevo South
Book SynopsisLatinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequently defined the region since before the Civil War. Arriving in southern communities as migrants or refugees, Latinas/os and Asians have experienced both begrudging acceptance and prejudice as their presence confronts and troubles local understandings of race and difference—understandings that have deep roots in each community’s particular racial history, as well as in national fears and anxieties about race.Nuevo South offers the first comparative study showing how Latinas/os and Asians are transforming race and place in the contemporary South. Integrating political, economic, and social analysis, Perla M. Guerrero examines the reception of Vietnamese, Cubans, and Mexicans in northwestern Arkansas communities that were almost completely white until the mid-1970s. She shows how reactions to these refugees and immigrTrade ReviewThis is the first comparative book on the transformation of race and place between Latina/os and Asians in the South. Guerrero challenges future scholars to broaden their understanding of the racial binary to explore and document the region's Latina/o and Asian history. A key contribution to Latina/o studies, Asian American studies, and American studies. * Choice Reviews *I recommend this book to any student examining [immigrant incorporation and race and ethnic relations in the South], especially in new destinations, or the Nuevo South. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *[A]n essential historical view into the longevity of racialization and anti-immigrant hostility...[Guerrero's] larger point is both clear and timely: whether for Vietnamese refugees in Fort Smith, Black students in Little Rock, or Latinx immigrants in Springdale and Rogers, place matters, and the legacies of racialized exclusions persist in uniquely place-based ways. * Great Plains Research *This is a timely publication for Arkansans and historians alike to understand the contemporary role the region plays in the local and national debates on immigration...Nuevo South succeeds in revealing the complexity of race and ethnic relations as Arkansas continues to be a frontier space within which brave new pioneers continue to forge a homeplace. * Fort Smith Historical Society Journal *Nuevo South demonstrates the power of place in defining race...While Guerrero's study calls us to study race in local and place-specific ways, her analysis of the interconnected and historically situated ways race has evolved offers much broader insight into the dynamic process of race-making. * Pacific Historical Review *[A] suggestive look into the fitful ethnoracial transformation of an important southern place. * Journal of Southern History *Perla M. Guerrero’s insightful book Nuevo South is important. She explores the immigration and migration of Vietnamese, Cubans, and Mexicans to northwest Arkansas and the local, state, and federal governments’ different, and often conflicted, responses to these people...This is a good book. * Latino Studies *Comparing the experiences of Vietnamese, Cuban, and Mexican refugees and migrants, Guerrero demonstrates why we need a more nuanced understanding of how these groups, and others, changed the face of the South and its many regional racial thinking. * New Books Network: History *For those interested in studies on comparative immigration, whiteness, and labor and class, Nuevo South opens a window onto the shifting contours of a lesser-known part of the South. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *As the first book to interweave Latina/o studies, Asian American studies, and Southern history, Nuevo South greatly advances all three fields. With its complex coverage of one of the South’s most important cultural and economic areas, it is a must read for any scholar interested in the US South, the rural United States, and migration...Guerrero has produced a groundbreaking work that will be cited for years to come and will likely inspire others to study the many regions of the United States that are changing with, and benefiting from, refugee and immigrant communities. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. New South to Nuevo South: Region, Labor, and Race Chapter 2. Yellow Peril in Arkansas: War, Christianity, and the Regional Racialization of Vietnamese Refugees Chapter 3. Mariel Cubans as an “Objectionable Burden” and “Illegal Aliens” Chapter 4. Latinas/os and Polleras: Social Networks, Multisite Migration, Raids, and Upward Mobility Chapter 5. “Northwest Arkansas’s No. 1 Societal Concern”: “Illegal Aliens,” Acts of Spatial Illegality, and Political Mobilizations Conclusion: Race, Plantation Bloc, and Nuevo South Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before
Book SynopsisWith in-depth explorations of six contemporary American and British films and shows, this pioneering volume spotlights black female characters who play central, subversive roles in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.Trade ReviewWhere No Black Woman Has Gone Before does not pretend to be a comprehensive account of black women in speculative film and television, as Mafe makes clear, but it is the first book-length study of black femininity in this area...By attending to the visual and linguistic coding of black and female characters, Mafe exposes biases less explicit than plain exclusion. * Times Literary Supplement *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before initiates a dialogue about black women in speculative film and television...a compelling contribution to the scholarship on speculative cinema and television, and will serve well scholars, students, and teachers in the field. * Journal of American Culture *Mafe's coda strikes a good balance between reflection and optimism while pointing to possible future directions black women in television and film may go. Mafe's goal of bringing light to subversive portrayals in speculative film and television is laudable and well executed. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before makes a genuine contribution as a pioneering effort in the study of race and gender in sf film and television. * Science Fiction Studies *Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before is concise and accessible with five well-written and theorized chapters…Mafe's narrow focus on representations of black women in non 'obvious block buster films' and in supporting roles raises insightful and useful points about the difference between superficial dismissible black female characters versus complex well-rounded black female characters...Mafe's arguments are sound and her reading of the texts convincing. * Journal of Popular Culture *Ambitious...Mafe’s argument highlights the need for more black female characters in speculative fiction...this text is a first step in the analysis of black female characters in speculative fiction and how difficult it is to find representation when the examples are few and far between. * Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts *[Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before] contributes to the discourse of race and genre in scholarship by expanding upon the complex position of black female characters in film and television that come under the broad banner of 'speculative fiction'...The strength of Mafe's book…lies in her way of reading these films and the black female characters in them. She endorses a mode of spectatorship that allows the conservative and radical tendencies of these films to exist side by side. By doing so, she suggests ways in which black female protagonists can be deconstructive figures, but also open spaces for new styles and tropes in sf. * Science Fiction Film and Television *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: To Boldly Go Chapter 1. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: 28 Days Later Chapter 2. Last One Standing: Alien vs. Predator Chapter 3. The Black Madonna: Children of Men Chapter 4. Thank Heaven for Little Girls: Beasts of the Southern Wild Chapter 5. Intergalactic Companions: Firefly and Doctor Who Coda: Final Frontiers Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Texas Press Managed Migrations
Book SynopsisManaged Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century.Trade ReviewManaged Migrations proposes new ways to look at labor, grower, and government interplay in developing a social system and workspace in South Texas's agricultural border region...While other historians have described the development of stable, segregated Mexican colonias within American communities before the 1970s, Salinas's unique contribution to the field is the description of a distinctive transborder farmworker community, an amalgam of social and work space that turned out to be fragile and dependent on highly local conditions. * Journal of Southern History *[Managed Migrations] provides textured, engaging coverage of border labor issues…an engaging addition to the literature on labor and immigration at the Texas-Mexico border. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Salinas offers up a worthy addition to the burgeoning literature on Texas….[Managed Migrations] makes deep analytical arguments about the connections between the South's system of labor immobility that derives from plantation agriculture and the West's free labor ideology rooted in mobility. Salinas's book ultimately shows how these two contradictory traditions combined in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Managed Migrations provides a grounded history of Texas agribusiness in El Paso and the Rio Grande valley, and of its relationship to undocumented Mexican immigration and border enforcement…Managed Migrations will be deeply useful to historians of the U.S.-Mexico border and twentieth-century U.S. agribusiness and immigration. It will also be of value to anyone interested in the contemporary U.S.-Mexico borderlands--where border enforcement continues to manage labor and shape national politics. * Journal of American History *Managed Migrations is a study as paramount as it is timely…Cristina Salinas delivers a profound study of the ways that US and Mexican federal, state, and local governments sought to manage workers' migrations, and she ensures that the first-hand experiences of migrant workers are at the center of her transformative storytelling...Managed Migrations is a must-read. * Agricultural History *A splendid analysis of farmworker mobility in the US-Mexico borderlands…As lucid, interdisciplinary work, Managed Migrations should be prized by scholars of migrations, environments, and the carceral state…The book is comprehensive, beautifully crafted, and worth consideration by scholars across the discipline. * H-Net Reviews *Managed Migrations is an important contribution to the literatures on Mexican immigration, the ethnic-Mexican diaspora, and the South Texas borderlands in that it brings a careful and nuanced view to what drove the migration system during the first half of the twentieth century. Workers, growers, and government officials are all given fair inclusion here. As such, Managed Migrations is a telling example of borderlands history, which focuses on what happens when people from different social groups or nation states come together and interact. Unfortunately, for the workers themselves the results seem overwhelmingly stark. * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Managed Migrations addresses the central question of how, against all the evidence of this dysfunctional and racialized migration and labor system, the blame has historically been placed on undocumented migrants rather than on those who created it, maintain it, and continue to benefit from the exploitation of migrants’ precarious status. * American Historical Review *Managed Migrations is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students and would fit well in courses on the US-Mexico border, immigration, and labor history. Given the ongoing criminalization of undocumented workers and growers’ use of these workers not just in South Texas, but across the nation, it should be required reading for immigration activists and policymakers. As a reader, it is my (perhaps, overly idealistic) hope that the stories Salinas tells will inspire dramatic, meaningful reform of immigration laws and enforcement. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *An essential read if you want to understand how workers are managed by national (Mexico and US), state, and local actors. * Five Books, "The Best Books on Migrant Workers" *Salinas provides an engagingly written study that immerses readers in the agriculturally powerful region of South Texas...Salinas shows how growers shaped immigration law, the Border Patrol, and influenced demands for seasonal agricultural labor...Managed Migrations is a strong contribution to recent historiographies of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, United States history, immigration history, Mexican American and Latina/o history, and labor history. The book offers a compelling narrative for both specialists and those unfamiliar with the subject. * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Managed Migrations
Book Synopsis2020 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Book Award Winner Honorable Mention, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, Texas Institute of Letters, 2019Managed Migrations examines the concurrent development of a border agricultural industry and changing methods of border enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas during the past century. Needed at one moment, scorned at others, Mexican agricultural workers have moved back and forth across the US–Mexico border for the past century. In South Texas, Anglo growers’ dreams of creating a modern agricultural empire depended on continuous access to Mexican workers. While this access was officially regulated by immigration laws and policy promulgated in Washington, DC, in practice the migration of Mexican labor involved daily, on-the-ground negotiations among growers, workers, and the US Border Patrol. In a very real sense, these groups setTrade ReviewManaged Migrations proposes new ways to look at labor, grower, and government interplay in developing a social system and workspace in South Texas's agricultural border region...While other historians have described the development of stable, segregated Mexican colonias within American communities before the 1970s, Salinas's unique contribution to the field is the description of a distinctive transborder farmworker community, an amalgam of social and work space that turned out to be fragile and dependent on highly local conditions. * Journal of Southern History *[Managed Migrations] provides textured, engaging coverage of border labor issues…an engaging addition to the literature on labor and immigration at the Texas-Mexico border. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Salinas offers up a worthy addition to the burgeoning literature on Texas….[Managed Migrations] makes deep analytical arguments about the connections between the South's system of labor immobility that derives from plantation agriculture and the West's free labor ideology rooted in mobility. Salinas's book ultimately shows how these two contradictory traditions combined in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Managed Migrations provides a grounded history of Texas agribusiness in El Paso and the Rio Grande valley, and of its relationship to undocumented Mexican immigration and border enforcement…Managed Migrations will be deeply useful to historians of the U.S.-Mexico border and twentieth-century U.S. agribusiness and immigration. It will also be of value to anyone interested in the contemporary U.S.-Mexico borderlands--where border enforcement continues to manage labor and shape national politics. * Journal of American History *Managed Migrations is a study as paramount as it is timely…Cristina Salinas delivers a profound study of the ways that US and Mexican federal, state, and local governments sought to manage workers' migrations, and she ensures that the first-hand experiences of migrant workers are at the center of her transformative storytelling...Managed Migrations is a must-read. * Agricultural History *A splendid analysis of farmworker mobility in the US-Mexico borderlands…As lucid, interdisciplinary work, Managed Migrations should be prized by scholars of migrations, environments, and the carceral state…The book is comprehensive, beautifully crafted, and worth consideration by scholars across the discipline. * H-Net Reviews *Managed Migrations is an important contribution to the literatures on Mexican immigration, the ethnic-Mexican diaspora, and the South Texas borderlands in that it brings a careful and nuanced view to what drove the migration system during the first half of the twentieth century. Workers, growers, and government officials are all given fair inclusion here. As such, Managed Migrations is a telling example of borderlands history, which focuses on what happens when people from different social groups or nation states come together and interact. Unfortunately, for the workers themselves the results seem overwhelmingly stark. * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Managed Migrations addresses the central question of how, against all the evidence of this dysfunctional and racialized migration and labor system, the blame has historically been placed on undocumented migrants rather than on those who created it, maintain it, and continue to benefit from the exploitation of migrants’ precarious status. * American Historical Review *Managed Migrations is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students and would fit well in courses on the US-Mexico border, immigration, and labor history. Given the ongoing criminalization of undocumented workers and growers’ use of these workers not just in South Texas, but across the nation, it should be required reading for immigration activists and policymakers. As a reader, it is my (perhaps, overly idealistic) hope that the stories Salinas tells will inspire dramatic, meaningful reform of immigration laws and enforcement. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *An essential read if you want to understand how workers are managed by national (Mexico and US), state, and local actors. * Five Books, "The Best Books on Migrant Workers" *Salinas provides an engagingly written study that immerses readers in the agriculturally powerful region of South Texas...Salinas shows how growers shaped immigration law, the Border Patrol, and influenced demands for seasonal agricultural labor...Managed Migrations is a strong contribution to recent historiographies of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, United States history, immigration history, Mexican American and Latina/o history, and labor history. The book offers a compelling narrative for both specialists and those unfamiliar with the subject. * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico”: Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas Chapter 2. The Social Space of Agriculture Chapter 3. The Flexible Border: Mobility within Restriction in US Immigration Laws and Enforcement Chapter 4. Exploitative Villain or Community Leader? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility Chapter 5. El Paso/The Passage: The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility Chapter 6. The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Si Ella Puede
Book Synopsis Winner, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Latina/o Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2020 Since the 1950s, Latina activist Dolores Huerta has been a fervent leader and organizer in the struggle for farmworkers’ rights within the Latina/o community. A cofounder of the United Farm Workers union in the 1960s alongside César Chávez, Huerta was a union vice president for nearly four decades before starting her own foundation in the early 2000s. She continues to act as a dynamic speaker, passionate lobbyist, and dedicated figure for social and political change, but her crucial contributions and commanding presence have often been overshadowed by those of Chávez and other leaders in the Chicana/o movement. In this new study, Stacey K. Sowards closely examines Huerta’s rhetorical skills both in and out of the public Trade Review[Sí, Ella Puede!] opens an important conversation about Dolores Huerta as a major figure of twentieth-century civil rights organizing…Sowards's integration of Chicana and Latina feminist theories, emphasis on agency in the context of social movements, and incorporation of archival materials invites historians, sociologists, feminist studies scholars, and Latinx studies scholars to consider new frameworks that increase the visibility of the social movement activism of women of color. * Journal of Arizona History *¡Si, Ella Puede! foregrounds the rich, complex, and often contradictory narratives by and about Huerta’s 60-year legacy of activism. From a rhetorical perspective using oral history interviews, witness accounts, secondary sources along with a collection of selected archival material, Sowards makes the case for including Huerta’s corpus of speeches, letters, and testimonies related to her grassroots mobilizing efforts on behalf of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) in the canon of Chicana political rhetoric and post-World War II U.S. civil rights history. * Quarterly Journal of Speech *Shifting the focus from male leadership in historical and rhetorical scholarship about the UFW and the Chicano/a movement, Sowards instead centers the role of women and their activism. To achieve this, the book relies on impressive archival research, ethnography, and interviews...Sowards’s timely book brings to the forefront how women activists have strategically used their varied identities to shape and deploy their rhetorical agency, gain power, and advance social justice causes. Sowards’s study is likely to inspire future studies in Chicana/Latina rhetorics, potentially bringing attention to obfuscated figures such as Helen Chávez, Hope López, and Jessica Govea. * Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society *[¡Sí, Ella Puede!] provides a holistic analysis of the structural and intersectional factors that shaped her agential tactics and enabled Huerta to inspire her audiences. The text is a valuable read for students and educators of rhetorical discourse and those interested in marginal forms of oratorical expression...¡Sí, Ella Puede! is a powerful rhetorical tool and a necessary call for the continued examination of past and present marginalized rhetorics. * Women's Studies in Communication *¡Sí, Ella Puede! offers an important intervention and a refreshing, intimate reassessment of Huerta...Sowards offers a compelling look at the evolution of an activist and leader. Huerta’s life and language are front and center, demonstrating why and how she played such a significant role in the UFW and, further, how women at the margins of dominant society can exercise rhetorical agency. As such, historians of the UFW will find this study of much interest, as will scholars of social movements...¡Sí, Ella Puede! is a rigorous and engaging exploration of the life, rhetoric, and legacy of a remarkable figure. * Pacific Historical Review *¡Sí, Ella Puede! is an important addition to recent scholarship on the United Farm Workers union (UFW) and the farmworker social movement...this is a valuable work that advances our understanding of the political and personal struggles of women in the construction of the UFW and the contemporary farmworker movement. !Sí, Ella Puede! is a welcome addition to the new body of scholarship on this historic movement, which will be useful to students and scholars in the fields of Chicana/o studies, US ethnic studies, US gender studies, and US labor studies. * Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Farm Worker Organizing and the Advent of the UFW: 1900 to 1993 Chapter 2. Dolores Huerta’s Life: Intersectional Habitus as Rhetorical Agency Chapter 3. Letters to César Chávez: Building Collaborative Agency Chapter 4. Motherhood, Familia, Emotionality: Strategic Use of Gendered Public Persona Chapter 5. Public Persona of Differential Bravery through Collaborative Egalitarianism and Courageous Optimism Chapter 6. Dolores Huerta, Iconicity, and Social Movements Epilogue References Index
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University of Texas Press Beyoncé in Formation
Book SynopsisMaking headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omise'eke Tinsley's undergraduate course Beyoncé Feminism, Rihanna Womanism has inspired students from all walks of life. In Beyoncé in Formation, Tinsley now takes her rich observations beyond the classroom, using the blockbuster album and video Lemonade as a soundtrack for vital new-millennium narratives. Woven with candid observations about her life as a feminist scholar of African studies and a cisgender femme married to a trans spouse, Tinsley's Femme-onade mixtape explores myriad facets of black women's sexuality and gender. Turning to Beyoncé's Don't Hurt Yourself, Tinsley assesses black feminist critiques of marriage and then considers the models of motherhood offered in Daddy Lessons, interspersing these passages with memories from Tinsley's multiracial family history. Her chapters on nontraditional bonds culminate in a discussion of contemporary LGBT politics through the lens of the internet-breaking video Formation, underscoring why Beyoncé's black femme-inism isn't only for ciswomen. From pleasure politics and the struggle for black women's reproductive justice to the subtext of blues and country music traditions, the landscape in this tour is populated by activists and artists (including Loretta Lynn) and infused with vibrant interpretations of Queen Bey's provocative, peerless imagery and lyrics. In the tradition of Roxanne Gay's Bad Feminist and Jill Lepore's best-selling cultural histories, Beyoncé in Formation is the work of a daring intellectual who is poised to spark a new conversation about freedom and identity in America.Trade ReviewLemonade is proving to be a modern Mona Lisa, a work of art ripe for both academic analysis and inner reflection—modes Tinsley mixes and remixes in this lively, erudite memoir-cum-cultural critique that uses Queen Bey’s seminal album to examine her own life as a black Southern femme. * O, The Oprah Magazine *An incisive, spiraling celebration of Southern black women. * Publishers Weekly *You'll come away from each chapter with a new appreciation of what Beyoncé has meant to women, particularly black women, across the country. * The Current *Sure to appeal to scholars and pop-culture enthusiasts alike, this provocative book works to blur the lines between straight and gay black feminism. . . Lively and intelligent reading. * Kirkus Reviews *[Translates] the visual and audio to another plane entirely, and will undoubtedly inspire much rewatching and relistening. * Booklist *Tinsley...brings tremendous gusto to her critique of Beyonce's 2016 album Lemonade. * Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2018 *Tinsley's…critical analysis of black women's sexuality, gender, and identity through the gaze of Beyoncé and the Lemonade album is especially important as her queer black perspective dissects Queen Bey in a way that only a black women-loving black woman could. * The Feminist Press *[Tinsley's] approach…keeps the text accessible to music fans while underlining the book's central thesis: that Lemonade is one of the great black feminist works of this century and it deserves an exalted place in the canon of women's studies. * austin360 *Part memoir, part pop-culture scholarship, this slim, engaging book uses Beyoncé as a springboard for wide-ranging ruminations on sexuality, motherhood, and activism, among other big ideas. * Texas Observer *Beyoncé in Formation is a remarkably pleasing book. It takes the reader by the hand and, skipping delightedly, leads her into a universe of happy, sexy, loving fandom, where Beyoncé is queen and all are welcome at worship. * Houston Chronicle *With all the headlines it generated upon its release, it's hard to believe there's anything left to say about Beyoncé's Lemonade. Yet, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley…manages to find new meaning in this cultural analysis of the already iconic record. * Exclaim *An insightful cultural reading of the performer combined with memoir. * The Globe and Mail *...expands on [Tinsley's] popular course in a vibrant blend of memoir and cultural analysis. * Broadly *Tinsley's tone and use of first-person perspective throughout Beyoncé in Formation invites readers to likewise contemplate their relationship to Lemonade's themes. She writes with familiarity and authority all at once. I thought I 'got' Lemonade before, but Beyoncé in Formation inspired me to dig deeper. * Women's Review of Books *A call for solidarity among Black feminists, this painfully beautiful read reminds us that none of us are free until we are all free. * Bust Magazine *A smart, eye-opening examination. * Toronto Star *This 'mixtape' memoir is an empowering presentation that encourages readers to think outside the box...when it comes to defining feminism. * Philadelphia Tribune *Part scholarly treatise and part family history, part lavish scrapbook and part justice-oriented advocacy—you've never read a book quite like this. * The Millions *Accessible and compulsively readable. The Beyhive will ride with [Tinsley's] breathless video analyses, but I especially love Tinsley's candid stories about her own life and loves. * The Rumpus *Tinsley's commitment to theorizing Black queer femme gender and sexuality opens up a space for lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer Black women that most Black feminist projects neglect to address…Tinsley demonstrates the Black feminist practice of bringing one's self into their writing without overshadowing the larger contributions of their research much like the 2018 books Thick by Tressie M. Cottom and Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of Contents Introduction: For the Texas Bama Femme Family Album: Making Lemonade Out of Marriage, Motherhood, and Southern Tradition Queen Bee Blues Mama Said Shoot “Most Bomb Pussy”: Toward a Black Feminist Pleasure Politics Love the Grind Unapologetically Femme Calling for Freedom: Black Women’s Activism in the US South Freedom, Too I Came to Slay Outro: I Know Beyoncé Loves Black Femmes Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Quinceanera Style
Book SynopsisWinner of the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women''s Studies, Popular Culture AssociationCo-winner of the Elli Kongas Maranda Prize, Women''s Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS) A dynamic study of social negotiation and consumerism in the coming-of-age quinceañera celebration and the impact of normalizing spectacles of luxury. Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl’s transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwTrade ReviewNo prior scholarly approach to [the quinceañera] compares with Rachel Valentina González's brilliant analysis...Quinceañera Style delivers on its promise to bring out an analysis for the twenty-first century of an established yet ever-evolving tradition in the Americas...In more ways than one, Quinceañera Style articulates the underlying reasons why families would spend beyond their means to honor their daughter’s transition from childhood to adulthood. * Journal of Folklore Research *A richly nuanced study. * New Books in Folklore *Quinceañera Style provides a unique and thorough analysis of quinceañeras unlike any currently available…Based on extensive research and employing different methods, such as representational analysis and ethnography, this text has the potential for vast transnational and interdisciplinary reach...the book makes significant scholarly interventions and successfully offers girlhood, media, gender, folklore, and Latinx studies scholars means of expanding understandings of quinceañeras through an intersectional lens. * Women's Studies in Communication *Rachel Valentina González has written the anticipated twenty-first-century analysis of quinceañera practices...It is a long-overdue book and one for every scholar of folklore and Latinx cultural studies...Quinceañera Style is a powerful vehicle for understanding the hypervisibility and invisibility of Latinx residents in US public space and how class performance further initiates belonging and exclusion. It is recommended for graduate students and scholars interested in rethinking heritage studies, ethnic studies, American studies, and humanities analyses of consumption, digital realms, and marketing. * Journal of American Folklore *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction. Coming Out Latinx Chapter 1. Quinceañera Style and Class Performativity Chapter 2. Identity off the Rack: Selling Quinceañera Dresses and Manufacturing Identities in the Experience Economy Chapter 3. Coming of Age in the Digital Barrio: Quinceañera as a Product in Cultural Economies Online Chapter 4. Made in Mexico, USA: Beauty Professionals and the Manufacturing of Quinceañera Beauty Culture Chapter 5. Ambivalent Embodiment: Reconstituting Quinceañera Performance Space Conclusion. Rights/Rites and Representation: Reading Latinx Social Performance Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Texas Press meXicana Fashions
Book SynopsisFifteen scholars examine the social identities, class hierarchies, regionalisms, and other codes of communication that are exhibited or perceived in meXicana clothing styles.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest strengths of this work is its commitment to combatting a tendency toward essentialism in dress studies, particularly for what typically gets deemed 'ethnic,' 'minority,” or 'subcultural' dress, by underscoring the complex, inconsistent, and sometimes contradictory ways we may experience self and how we variously perform those intersectional identities...The chapters of meXicana Fashions demonstrate many thoughtful attempts to interrogate old and invent new terms, categories, and concepts for identification and analysis...For folklorists, dress scholars, and those interested in material culture, media, and gender studies, there is a lot to value here. * Journal of Folklore Research *[meXicana Fashions's] editors' intentions of initiating discussion, questioning, and exploration of the significance of fashion, self adornment, and the economics of self fashioning are well served by this diversity of current writings by meXicanas and women of Colour searching for social and self identity outside of the hegemonic fashion industry. This book would be an important point of reference within Mexican American studies and particularly in studies of dress and the creation of both personal and social identity. It is a useful source for complexities of dress, adornment, and the constructions and reconstructions of cultural identities. * Journal of Dress History *This book is a jewel of fashion knowledge and should be a part of every fashion library to learn how clothing can be used for personal identity and more so, a form of respect for society as a whole – a respect through ‘fashion for all’ and one always evolving within our likes and differences. Change is what makes up the ideal of fashion. * Fashion, Style & Popular Culture *[meXicana Fashions] presents the academy with an inspirational model for weaving authenticity and authority alongside the rigors of multimedium and multimethodological research. The result is an insightful and innovate book for those interested in fashion theory, cultural theory, identity politics, textile arts, Latinx/Xicana/Indigenous identity, history, art, and literature, as well as pedagogy. * New Mexico Historical Review *I have been waiting years for this book...The editors are courageous in their refusal of conformity, even at the level of citation styles, and they appear to model for us what academic diversity can look like in print…the book is a delightful and recommended read. * Chiricú Journal *Table of Contents Introduction (Aída Hurtado and Norma E. Cantú) Section I. Rendering of Self: Personal Narratives/Personal Adornment Chapter 1. Wearing Identity: Chicanas and Huipiles (Norma E. Cantú) Chapter 2. Con el huipil en la mente: The Metamorphosis of a Chicana (Josie Méndez-Negrete) Chapter 3. “Rebozos, huipiles, y ¿Qué?”: Chicana Self-Fashioning in the Academy (Micaela Díaz-Sánchez) Chapter 4. Por la facha y por el traje, se conoce al personaje: Tales about Attire as Resistance and Performativity in a Chicana’s Life Trajectory (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs) Chapter 5. A Familial Legacy of meXicana Style (Domino Renee Perez) Section II. The Politics of Dress: Saying It Loud/Saying It Clear Chapter 6. Buying the Dream: Relating “Traditional” Dress to Consumer Practices within US Quinceañeras (Rachel Valentina González-Martin) Chapter 7. Visuality, Corporality, and Power (Aída Hurtado) Chapter 8. Black, Brown, and Fa(t)shionable: The Role of Fat Women of Color in the Rise of Body Positivity (Jade D. Petermon) Chapter 9. Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles (Laura Pérez) Chapter 10. “Fierce and Fearless”: Dress and Identity in Rigoberto González’s The Mariposa Club (Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez) Section III. The Politics of Entrepreneurship: Making (It)/Selling (It)) Chapter 11. Lydia Mendoza, “Reina de la Música Tejana”: Self-Stylizing Mexicanidad through China Poblana in the US-Mexico Borderlands (Marci R. McMahon) Chapter 12. (Ad)Dressing Chicana/Latina Femininities: Consumption, Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Style in Latina Fashion (Stacy I. Macías) Chapter 13. Urban Xican/x-Indigenous Fashion Show ARTivism: Experimental Ethnographies and Perform-Antics in Three Actos (Chela Sandoval, Amber Rose González, and Felicia Montes) Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press The Color Pynk Black Femme Art for Survival
Book SynopsisThe Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment, and ideas. In the first full-length study of Black queer, cis-, and trans-femininity, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley argues that this creative work offers a distinctive challenge to power structures that limit how we color, gender, and explore freedom. Tinsley engages 2017-2020 Black femme cultural production that colorfully and provocatively imagines freedom in the stark white face of its impossibility. Looking to the music of Janelle Monae and Kelsey Lu, Janet Mock's writing for the television show Pose, the fashion of Indya Moore and (F)empower, and the films of Tourmaline and Juliana Huxtable, as well as poetry and novels, The Color Pynk conceptualizes Black femme as a set of consciously, continually rescripteTrade ReviewThis is not just a book. This is a function. So the question is, what are you going to wear to this gathering? Omise'eke Tinsley gathers us once again, turning her brilliance to creative femmifestations of black femme fierceness in the so-called Trump Era. (Or what I prefer to think of as the Tourmaline Ascendency.) Theorists, fashionistas, sweethearts, and innovators: we are all here in loving revelation. I wear a quilted robe the color of a rose from my grandmother’s garden. I wear a hot-pynk, ribbed tank top screenprinted by a black lesbian yogi. I suggest you wear your curiousity, your vulnerability, and your desire to look like love. -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine MammalsIn The Color Pynk Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley pays homage to the foremothers of Black feminism by developing a Black femme reading practice. Tinsley’s analyses of Black femme cultural production are rendered poetically and with the deft critical eye we have come to expect of her. Indeed, Tinsley’s is one of the most important voices of her generation. -- E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love WomenA beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming. Conjuring a Black femme future with each sentence, Tinsley writes in collaborative solidarity and with love for Black femmes of all shades and genders. With her lyrical prose — in her words a 'joy-tinted freedom song for the twenty-first century'—The Color Pynk manifests Black femme freedom, now and forever. * Autostraddle *Table of Contents Prologue: For Alice Walker Introduction: Femme-inist Is to Feminist as Pynk Is to Pink Part One: Pussy Power and Nonbinary Vaginas Janelle Monáe: Fem Futures, Pynk Pants, and Pussy Power Indya Moore: Nonbinary Wild Vagina Dresses and Biologically Femme Penises Part Two: Hymns for Crazy Black Femmes Kelsey Lu: Braids, Twists, and the Shapes of Black Femme Depression Tourmaline: Head Scarves and Freedom Dreams Part Three: Black Femme Environmentalism for the Futa (F)empower: Swimwear, Wade-Ins, and Trashy Ecofeminism Juliana Huxtable: Black Witch-Cunt Lipstick and Kinky Vegan Femme-inism Conclusion: Where Is the Black in Black Femme Freedom? Epilogue: For My Child Afterword by Candice Lyons: Pynk Parlance, a Glossary Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Apostles of Change
Book Synopsis2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book, International Latino Book AwardsWinner of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book AwardUnraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into staging grounds for protest against urban renewal and displacement. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline. An urban crisis fueled by federal policy wreaked destruction and displacement on poor and working-class families. The urban drama included religious institutions, themselves undergoing fundamental change, that debated whether to stay in the city or move to the suburbs. Against the backdrop of the Black and Brown Power movements, which challenged economic inequality and white supremacy, young Latino radicals began occupying churches and disrupting services to compel churchTrade ReviewHinojosa does an excellent job of showing the importance of religious spaces to Latina/o justice movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s—a reality that has often been overlooked by historians…[Apostles of Change] is important for anyone interested in social movements, Latina/o history, and urban studies. The case studies also offer wisdom that community workers and activists might draw on for their work. * The Christian Century *Written in clear and engaging prose, Hinojosa’s Apostles of Change is an important work that teaches us that people can be agents in the creation of a brighter future for themselves and their community. This work is well researched and will only become more influential in years to come, particularly in the fields of Latino religious studies, Latino Civil Rights, as well as Mexican American history. * Western Historical Quarterly *In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Latino activists occupied church buildings across the country as a way of taking back control of their communities and calling attention to local residents’ poverty, lack of educational opportunities and displacement amid revitalization plans that hiked up rents...Hinojosa gives this little remembered movement a new look. * Religion News Service *[Apostles of Change] highlights the organizing of community members, organizers, and activists as they transformed churches into staging grounds to challenge poverty, racism, urban renewal, and police brutality...In redefining the politics of faith, Hinojosa analyzes the histories of organizing from spaces of occupation to spaces of sanctuary within churches. Apostles of Change is a vital addition to the research on social movements within religious studies, Chicana/o/x studies, and Latina/o/x studies. * CHOICE *In fifty years of incredible productivity in Chicano history, surprisingly few studies of religious history were written. One of the exciting new changes in this historiography is the increased study of religion, especially the link between religion and community activism. A new generation of historians is leading the way, and Felipe Hinojosa is a key member of this vanguard...In successfully resurrecting these histories, Hinojosa has written a significant addition to the growing historiography of Chicano/Latino religious history. Well-written and organized, it should be welcomed by historians of the Chicano/Latino experience and by those interested in American religions. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Apostles of Change accomplishes Hinojosa’s goals of providing a religious history of 'Latina/o freedom movements,' and a social movement history of religion...Apostles of Change is a welcomed contribution to the literature on Latina/o political movements for its utilization of religion and urban history as frameworks of analysis. Scholars of social movements, urban history, and religion will find Hinojosa’s study imperative for understanding how grassroots activists challenged gentrification, discrimination, and power that connects the stories in the book to present obstacles facing Latina/os. * Pacific Historical Review *Hinojosa takes seriously both the religiosity of seemingly secular activists and the politics of organized religion; at the nexus, he charts a new Latina/o religious history that took its cues directly from the streets...Hinojosa's occupiers offered radical visions for their community's liberation, breathed new life into their barrios, and remade their spiritual universes in both theological and practical terms. They were true apostles of change. Hinojosa's account of their exploits is a must-read for historians of social movements, religion, and working-class studies alike. * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *A revolutionary contribution to Latinx church history in the United States...Apostles of Change is an expertly crafted text that integrates first-hand testimony, archive, and historical sources to present this lesser-known side of Latinx activism in American history. * Perspectivas *Apostles of Change is expertly researched and written—a tribute to 'short but fertile' moments that bring religion to the forefront of Latinx social movements. * Marginalia Review of Books *Hinojosa provides an in-depth understanding of how faith-based politics and social movements—rooted in religious institutions and neighborhoods across the nation—became central to civil rights activism, self-determination, and neighborhood empowerment...Apostles of Change is a welcome addition to the fields of civil rights history, religious history, and urban history...Hinojosa’s excellent study leaves the reader wanting to know more about how these occupations affected other cities in their regions. Indeed, he has set a foundation for future scholars to build on with this wealth of knowledge of occupations, movements, and activism. * Journal of Southern History *Apostles of Change is a game-changer in how we view U.S. Latina/o history. In this meticulously crafted and researched book, the author urges his reader to move beyond the single-origin narratives that historians tend to embrace and retell about movements, in favor of a more complex, multi-layered story...Apostles of Change is a must-read for anyone interested in U.S. Latina/o history and in how Latinas and Latinos worked to raise awareness of the entanglements of racism, white privilege, and institutional churches’ complicity in perpetuating broken systems...I am grateful to the author for his revisionist work that is essential reading for anyone interested in U.S. history. * Catholic Historical Review *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The People’s Church 1. Thunder in Chicago’s Lincoln Park 2. “People—Yes, Cathedrals—No!” in Los Angeles 3. The People’s Church in East Harlem 4. Magic in Houston’s Northside Barrio Conclusion: When History Dreams Notes Bibliography Index
£19.19
University of Texas Press Brown Trans Figurations Rethinking Race Gender
Book SynopsisOne of the first books focused solely on the trans Latinx experience, Brown Trans Figurations describes how transness and brownness interact within queer, trans, and Latinx historical narratives and material contexts.Trade Review[Brown Trans Figurations'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. * Publishers Weekly *A needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [Brown Trans Figurations] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brown Trans Figurations is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina/o/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...Brown Trans Figurations is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina/o studies in profound ways. * Latino Studies *Everyone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. * International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together Chapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive Chapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other Chapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands Chapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities Coda: Reading with the X Notes References Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Roots of Resistance A Story of Gender Race and
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University of Texas Press Reverberations of Racial Violence
Book SynopsisA trenchant collection of essays that details systematic, extralegal killings of Mexicans along the US southern border in the 1910s and explores the role of officially sanctioned violence in the history of US nation-building.
£33.25
