Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisInvestigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population,the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. Based on a variety of archival and printed primary sources, this book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenth-century Cuban patriarchy rested. This book investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters on motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean's longest lasting slave society. Sarah L. Franklin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Patriarchy, Paternalism, and theDevelopment of the Slave Society Virgins and Mothers Wives Pupils The Needy Wet Nurses Conclusion: Shifting Landscape Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisManhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring intellectual and historical clarity to our understanding of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey. Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes to an evolving body of historical scholarship arguing that the lives of bondpeople in America were shaped not only by the powerful forces of racial oppression, but also by their own notions of gender. The volume uses previously understudied, white-authored, nineteenth-century literature about central New Jersey slaves as a point of departure. Reading beyond the racist assumptionsof the authors, it contends that the precarious day-to-day existence of the three protagonists -- Yombo Melick, Dick Melick, and Quamino Buccau (Smock) -- provides revealing evidence about the various elements of "slave manhood" that gave real meaning to their oppressed lives. Kenneth E. Marshall is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oswego.Trade ReviewMr. Marshall's book ranges beyond these three men and their lives to look at general aspects of American slavery and its legacy for African-Americans in America today. * BLACK & ASIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER *Compelling. . . Marshall successfully reads against the grain of long-ignored published historical sources, makes a strong case for the consideration of slavery in the rural North, and smartly balances analytic precision with interpretive framework. * PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY: A JOURNAL OF MID-ATLANTIC STUDIES *Manhood Enslaved is most successful in its richly detailed portrayal of the many-faceted daily lives of enslaved people in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century New Jersey. * JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Ain't No Account" Black Images in White Minds Powerful and Righteous "His Disposition Was Not in Any Sense Agreeable" Threat of a (Christian) Bondman Work, Family, and Day-to-Day Survival on an Old Farm Epilogue: "Losing It" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era. Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred. Drawing on records from New York's children's courts, Harlem's public schools, Columbia University, and the Department of Hospitals, Dennis Doyle tells here the story of the American psychiatrists and civil servants who helped codify in New York's mental health policies the view that blacks and whites are psychological equals. The book examines in particular the events through which these racial liberals working in Harlem gained a foothold within New York's public institutions, creating inclusive public policies and ostensibly race-neutral standards of care. Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968 not only contributes to the growing body of historiography on race and medical institutions in the civil rights era but, more importantly, shows how inveterate racial prejudices within public policy can be overcome. Dennis A. Doyle is assistant professor of history at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched. . . . Doyle's work is a historiography of midcentury psychiatry's struggles with race embedded in the history of the conservatism of the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights in New York City. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division medical humanities and graduate collections. * CHOICE *Fascinating . . . Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem is copiously researched, is nuanced in its historical analysis and offers a well-crafted narrative. . . . It is critical reading for anyone interested in the historic relationship between psychiatry, mental health disparities, mass incarceration and twentieth-century civil rights activism. * MEDICAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Before Racial Liberalism: Depression-Era Harlem and Psychiatry, 1936 Everyone's Children: Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Justine Wise Polier's Courtroom, 1936-41 Psychiatry Goes to School: Child Guidance and the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, 1940-42 Psychiatry for Harlem: Wartime Activism and the Black Community's Mental Health Needs, 1942-45 The Quiet One: Racial Representation in Popular Media and Psychiatric Literature, 1942-53 Psychiatry Comes to Harlem Hospital: Community Psychiatry ,Aftercare, and Columbia University, 1947-62 The Limits of Racial Liberalism: Harlem Hospital and the Black Community, 1963-68 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis final volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography records the remarkable achievements and experiences of Ira Aldridge in the last years of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, the fourth volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography, places on record Aldridge's remarkable achievements and experiences in the final phase of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. His first Continental tour in 1852-1855 had been a spectacular success, and though he returned to Britain periodically afterwards, he spent much of the remainder of his career entertaining audiences in central and eastern Europe, mainly in Ukraine and Russia. His Shakespearean performances in St. Petersburg in 1858 and Moscow in 1862 were among his greatest triumphs and led to numerous appearances elsewhere in provincial cities and towns. During his forty-three years on stage in Europe, Ira Aldridge traveled more widely and won more honors, decorations, and awards than any other actor of his day. He is remembered not only as a talented thespian but also as a very visible representative of his race, someone who changed European perceptions of black people through the sheer brilliance of his artistry on stage. And by doing so, he helped to humanize the image of Africans andtheir descendants in Europe at an important transitional moment in history, when the movement to abolish slavery was gathering force and winning international acceptance. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African literatures at the University of Texas at Austin.Trade ReviewThrough his thorough mining of a vast array of European archives, Lindfors surpasses all previous studies in recounting the actions of, and wildly contradictory viewpoints towards, this seminal figure ... his absolute mastery of the sources and deep understanding of Aldridge and the period lead to probing insights. * THEATRE JOURNAL *With Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, Berth Lindfors concludes what will surely remain the definitive biography of the great nineteenth-century African American actor, Ira Aldridge, for many a decade ... Through an exhaustive search of local reviews and commentary he is able not only to follow Aldridge on his travels, but also to provide a wide range of observations on the actor's technique and artistic success. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURE *Winner of the Theatre Library Association's 2015 George Freedley Award Special Jury Prize * . *Lindfors's four-volume biography is destined to become the standard life of Aldridge, without equal in the future. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Readjusting to Britain Crim. Con. On the Road Again Stockholm The Second Continental Tour Pest and Buda A Short Break The Third Continental Tour Home Again The Fourth Continental Tour The Fifth Continental Tour The Sixth Continental Tour Taking a Break The Seventh Continental Tour Another Break The Eighth Continental Tour The Ninth Continental Tour Final Acts Postmortem Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US presidential election Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Trump harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great Again. This collection of essays looks at the often vitriolic rhetoric that characterized the election: "nasty women" vs. "deplorables"; "bad hombres" and "Crooked Hillary"; analyzing the struggle and its result through the lenses of gender, race, and their intersections, and with particular attention to the roles of memory, performance, narrative, and social media. Contributors examine the ways that gender and racial hierarchies intersected and reinforced one another throughout the campaign season. Trump's association of Mexican immigrants with crime, and specifically with rape, for example, drew upon a long history of fearmongering that stereotypes Mexican men--and men of other immigrant and minority groups--as sexual aggressors against white women. At the same time, in response to both Trump'smisogynistic rhetoric and the iconic power of Clinton's candidacy, feminist consciousness grew steadily across the nation. Analyzing these phenomena, the volume's authors--both journalists and academics--engage with prominent debates in their diverse fields, while an epilogue by the editors considers recent ongoing developments like the #metoo movement. CHRISTINE A. KRAY is Associate Professor of Anthropology, TAMAR W. CARROLL is Associate Professor of History, and HINDA MANDELL is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, all at Rochester Institute of Technology.Trade ReviewMight take on the mantle of opening salvo in what is likely to be a fruitful and troubling subfield of presidential history: Trump Studies. * HISTORY *Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell have assembled a superb interdisciplinary group of authors to analyze a recent political history in which the politics of identity played a large, as yet barely analyzed role. A must-read for organizers, scholars, politicians, and students of politics who are trying to reverse the effects of Trumpism on our national political culture. -- -- Claire Potter, The New SchoolNasty Women and Bad Hombres does it right. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and writers comes together to think through how Donald Trump, a reality-TV star with no political experience, could pull off an electoral upset against Hillary Clinton, an intelligent, highly qualified candidate with years of experience in public service. Among other things, contributors illuminate the functionings of widespread internalized antifeminism among women, hashtag feminism, and slut-shaming; recognize African American women as torchbearers; and consider the use of misogynist and feminist popular cultural artifacts then and now. Simultaneously broad-based and focused, Nasty Women and Bad Hombres does an excellent job of laying out how we got here and pondering what to do next. -- -- Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern UniversityAccessible and timely, this collection demonstrates the strength of interdisciplinary collaboration, with strong contributions from historians to political scientists, philosophers to communications scholars, with the added perspective of contemporary feminist activists. The focus on the gendered and racialized rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, and how it mobilized voters, both women and men, makes the collection a valuable contribution to intersectional scholarship of the American presidency. --Aidan Smith, Tulane University -- Aidan Smith, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Historical Imagination and Fault Lines of the Electorate - Christine A. Kray and Tamar W. Carroll and Hinda Mandell PART 1. AGGRESSIVE AND SUBORDINATE MASCULINITIES From (Castrating) Bitch to (Big) Nuts: Genital Politics in 2016 Election Campaign Paraphernalia - Jane Caputi Trump in the Land of Oz: Pathologizing Hillary Clinton and the Feminine Body - Roy Schwartzman and Jenni M. Simon The Border, Bad Hombres, and the Billionaire: Hyper-Masculinity and Anti-Mexican Stereotypes in Trump's 2016 Presidential Campaign - Joshua D. Martin The Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Early Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory and Trump's Campaign - O. Nicholas Robertson America, Meet Your New Dad: Tim Kaine and Subordinate Masculinity - Beth L. Boser and R. Brandon Anderson PART 2. FEMINIST PREDECESSORS Please Put Stickers on Shirley Chisholm's Grave: Assessing the Legacy of a Black Feminist Pioneer - Barbara Winslow Commemoration and Contestation: Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama - Michael J. Brown Dressing Up for a Campaign: Hillary Clinton, Suffragists, and the Politics of Fashion - Einav Rabinovitch-Fox 100 Years of Campaign Imagery: From Woman Suffrage Postcards to Hillary Clinton - Ana Stevenson The Impossibilities of Hillary Clinton as a Self-Made Woman - Joanna Weiss PART 3. BAKING COOKIES AND GRABBING PUSSIES: MISOGYNY AND SEXUAL POLITICS The Woman They Love to Hate: Hillary Clinton and the Evangelicals - Mark Ward Sr. "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Jiyoung Lee "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Carol M. Liebler "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Neal J. Powless "I'm Not Voting for Her": Internalized Misogyny, Feminism, and Gender Consciousness in the 2016 Election - Pamela Aronson Confronting "Bimbo Eruptions" and the Legacy of Bill Clinton's Scandal: Slut-Shaming and the 2016 Presidential Campaigns - Leora Tanenbaum How to Turn a Bernie Bro into a Russian Bot - Steve Almond PART 4. ELECTION DAY: REWRITING PAST AND FUTURE #WomenCanStopTrump: Intimate Publics in the Twitterverse - Gina Masullo Chen and Kelsey N. Whipple A Renaissance of Feminist Ritual: Susan B. Anthony's Gravesite on Election Day - Christine A. Kray Birthing Family Narrative and Baby on Election Day - Hinda Mandell Left Behind - Rachel Parsons This is Vienna: Parents of Transgender Children from Pride to Survival in the Aftermath of the 2016 Election - Sally Campbell Galman Triumph of the Constitution: American Muslims and Religious Liberty - Asma Uddin PART5. THE FUTURE IS FEMALE(?): CRITICAL REFLECTIONS AND FEMINIST FUTURES "When they go low, we go high": African American Women Torchbearers for Democracy and the 2016 Democratic National Convention - De Anna J. Reese "When they go low, we go high": African American Women Torchbearers for Democracy and the 2016 Democratic National Convention - Delia C. Gillis Amnesia and Politics in the Mount Hope Cemetery: Toward a Critical History of Race and Gender - Katie Terezakis Beware! Benevolent Patriarchy: Election 2016 and Why No One Can Save Us but Ourselves - Jamia Wilson Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Tamar W. Carroll Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Hinda Mandell Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Christine A. Kray Chronology

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Book SynopsisExamines the new forms of racism in American life and the political responses to themTrade Review"Her book offers a refreshing view of the politics on the ground, where people matter more than identities and the ideologies embedded within them." Ms. Magazine "Collins' lucid observations form the backdrop of her sustained engagement with nationalism, feminism, and racism in a collection that includes signature essays on topics as diverse as American national identity, the contemporary relevance of Afro centrism, and women's agency in black community politics." - Signs "Collins's work is always a pleasure to read. She deftly weaves historical analyses, popular culture, literature, and theory to produce a complex portrait of ongoing and systematic racism, relentlessly highlighting the interconnected dynamics of gender inequality as well as other systems of oppression. Each of these essays makes clear that any political response to racism must incorporate an intersectional approach." Gender and Society "The book can serve as good primer...Hill Collins' writing is always composed with a synthesis of historical analyses, popular culture, literature and theory that is often lacking in other academics' social scientific treatises. Any of the six essays within the text makes a clear case that either an organized-collective or individual response to racism, sexism, or capitalism must incorporate an intersectional approach." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society "The six essays in this volume explore the political realities of the period from the end of Black Power to the ascendancy of hip hop. They focus on the relationship between new racial formations and on political responses to them...A theme of the volume is Hill's endeavour to theorise intersectionality, and she focuses on the intersections between race, nation, and gender, to a lesser extent, social class. The aim of this book is to make a case for anti racist group based political struggles that respect individual and human rights which embrace a global analysis of how our lives are interconnected, and are informed by feminism and nationalism." Sage Race Relations Abstracts "In her new book Patricia Hill Collins reminds us why she is one of the most prolific and insightful sociologists to diagnose contemporary racial and sexual politics."-The African American Review, Spring 2008

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Book SynopsisFavelas, or shantytowns, are where cocaine is mainly sold in Rio de Janeiro. There are some six hundred favelas in the city, and most of them are controlled by well-organized and heavily armed drug gangs. The struggle for the massive profits from this drug trade has resulted in what are increasingly violent and deadly confrontations between rival drug gangs and a corrupt and brutal police force, that have transformed parts of the city into a war-zone. Lucia tells the story of one woman who was once intimately involved with drug gang life in Rio throughout the 1990s. Through a series of conversations with the author, Lucia describes conditions of poverty, violence, and injustice that are simply unimaginable to outsiders. In doing so, she explains why women like her become involved with drugs and gangs, and why this situation is unlikely to change.Trade Review"Rio de Janeiro is under siege. The poor communities and the favelas on the hills are submitted to a mix of terror and populism by the drug traffickers. The affluent classes live under fear of organized crime. Most of the police are involved in corruption and lethal violence. Despite this overwhelming presence, life in the favelas is not well known. Robert Gay has written a rigorous, but at the same time compassionate, study of the complex strategies for survival in those surroundings. In this outstanding book we are able to hear, through Lucia, the voice of those brave (and neglected) survivors."-Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, and former Secretary of State for Human Rights, Brazil "Lucia is an outstanding book. Robert Gay does a splendid job of laying out and expanding the lives of Lucia and of those who intersect with her. He makes them live by explaining social organizations and institutions-gangs, prison, school, work, economy and religion-within the context of people's lives. Gay offers a rich, superbly readable narrative that develops these important themes. Lucia provides depth and breadth to a subject about which there is little empirical research; it teaches sociology in an interesting and informed way."-Martha Huggins, Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations, Tulane University "If you can no longer recall the stomach-churning depictions of Rio de Janeiro favelas from the 2002 film City of God, this true account of one mujer's life in the Brazilian underworld-trying to survive local gangs and merciless rule of her drug-lord boyfriend-will bring it all back."-LatinaTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Getting In Lucia's House2. Rogerio Drug Gangs3. Marcos Police4. Bruno Prison5. School Education6. Work Economy7. Born Again Religion8. Getting Out Last CallEpilogueNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisUnderscores the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed during the exclusion eraTrade Review"Taken together, these essays offer a concise and worthwhile introduction to the state of the field in Chinese American social history."- Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsThe collection's topics (and contributors) include: changing patterns of Chinese immigration and strategies for circumventing exclusion laws (Erika Lee); Chinese trade networks that facilitated Chinese migration (Madeline Hsu); female migration, marriage, and family formation (Sucheng Chan); Chinese herbalists in America (Haiming Liu); the significance of Chinese Americans' economic ties with China (Yong Chen); Chinese American debates about ideological currents in China (Shehong Chen); the role of Chinese-language schools in the United States in promoting ethnic "authenticity" (Him Mark Lai); and two classic autobiographies that reflect an emerging Chinese American consciousness (Xiao-huang Yin).

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Book SynopsisLooking at the films of the prolific, often controversial, and always provocative directorTrade Review"The Spike Lee Reader includes new and several well-known pieces previously published about Lee's work. The previously published pieces work seamlessly with the newer additions. These pieces provide a foundation to remind readers of the discourse established in response to the first decade of his career concerning representations of gender, sexuality, and class... The Spike Lee Reader is a necessary addition to the library of researchers and scholars in film and cultural studies. It is also a theoretically rich, interdisciplinary text that will be of use for upper division undergraduate and graduate courses on film, popular culture, and Ethnic Studies." -American StudiesTable of ContentsThe Spike Lee Reader Table of Contents Acknowledgements We've Gotta Have It: Spike Lee, African American Film, and Cinema Studies Paula J. Massood Chapter 1'Whose Pussy is This': A Feminist Comment bell hooks Chapter 2 Programming with School Daze Toni Cade Bambara Chapter 3 Spike Lee and Black Women Michele Wallace Chapter 4 But Compared to What?: Reading Realism, Representation, and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse Wahneema Lubiano Chapter 5 The Double Truth, Ruth: Do the Right Thing and the Culture of Ambiguity James C. McKelly Chapter 6 Spike Lee and the Fever in the Racial Jungle Ed Guerrero Chapter 7'Spike, Don't Mess Malcolm Up': Courting Controversy and Control in Malcolm X-The Movie Anna Everett Chapter 8 Through the Looking Glass and Over the Rainbow: Exploring the Fairy Tale in Spike Lee's Crooklyn Mark D. Cunningham Chapter 9 Clockers (Spike Lee 1995): Adaptation in Black Keith M. Harris Chapter 10 Reel Men: Get on the Bus and the Shifting Terrain of Black Masculinities S. Craig Watkins Chapter 11 We Shall Overcome: Preserving History and Memory in 4 Little Girls Christine Acham Chapter 12 Spike Lee Meets Aaron Copeland Krin Gabbard Chapter 13 Race and Black American Film Noir: Summer of Sam as Lynching Parable Dan Flory Chapter 14 Racial Kitsch and Black Performance Tavia Nyong'o Chapter 15 I Be Smackin' My Hoes': Paradox and Authenticity in Bamboozled Beretta Smith-Shomade Chapter 16 De Profundis: A Love letter from the Inside Man David Gerstner Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Filmography (including exec. prod. credits and television segments) Index

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Book SynopsisAn unflinching look at white supremacy revealing the many ways that white people profit from identity politics and group privilegesTrade Review"If we could only take one book with us into the 21st century, this is the one I would choose. With lucidity and passion, George Lipsitz reveals that so-called 'color-blind' public policy actually contributes to the maintenance of racism; that white privilege and the demonizing of colored people are two sides of the same coin; and that whiteness is both a huge subsidy as well as a noose around the necks of working-class white folk. His insights into how the color line works in the realm of public policy, politics, and culture, and what we must do to destroy it, can save our lives." -Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bill Moore's Body 1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness 2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege 3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics 4. Whiteness and War 5. How Whiteness Works: Inheritance, Wealth, and Health 6. White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson 7. Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics 8. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac": Antiblack Racism and White Identity 9. "Frantic to Join...the Japanese Army": Beyond the Black-White Binary 10. California: The Mississippi of the 1990s Notes Acknowledgments [to come] Index

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Book SynopsisFifteen gripping and inspiring stories told by young Vietnamese who came to the US after the fall of Saigon and during the "boat people" exodus are contextualized within a succinct history of Vietnam and the international politics of refugee resettlementTrade Review"[T]he autobiographical accounts reveal key themes in the Vietnamese American experience and address important historiographical topics...this book contributes to refugee history, an important if understudied aspect of the immigrant experience. Includes a useful bibliography and videography. Highly recommended." —ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Vietnamese Names Part I: Historical Overview Chapter 1. Vietnam before the Mid-nineteenth Century Chapter 2. French Colonial Rule and Vietnamese Resistance Chapter 3. Communism and Nationalism Chapter 4. The 1945 August Revolution Chapter 5. The First Indochina War Chapter 6. The American Involvement in Vietnam Chapter 7. The Fall of Saigon and Its Aftermath Chapter 8. The Plight of the Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam Chapter 9. An International Refugee Crisis Chapter 10. Ending the Indochinese Refugee Exodus Part II: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings Chapter 11. A Tragedy: From Vietnam to America Chapter 12. A Journey Called Freedom Chapter 13. My Autobiography Chapter 14. How It Feels to be an Asian American Chapter 15. Integrity Through Change Chapter 16. A Place to Call Home Chapter 17. The Coming of Age of a Chinese-Vietnamese American Chapter 18. My Father and I Chapter 19. The Pain in My Heart Chapter 20. The Never Ending Struggle Chapter 21. An Unfinished Journey Chapter 22. From Vietnam to Germany to the United States Chapter 23. Vietnam Memories in America Chapter 24. My Transition to Being an Asian American Chapter 25. At That Time in My Life Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Selected Videography Index

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Book SynopsisCould the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The authors consider the origins and development of the U.S. nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism; and their lived reality. Tensions in the American Dream also addresses the relevancy of nation to empire in the context of the historical world capitalist system. The authors ask, is the American Dream a reality only questioned by those unwilling or unable to achieve it? What is the "good life" and how is it particularly "American"?Table of ContentsList of TablesPrefacePART I. INTRODUCTION1. Key Questions and Concepts2. Citizenship and Nation3. The Shifting Terrain Makes Clear the Tensions in the American DreamPART II. STORIES OF MY AMERICA4. Reflections on the Structural Logic of the System5. Thoughts on the Current Juncture6. Perspectives on the American Dream7. Expressions of Revolt against the SystemsPART III. TENSIONS IN THE AMERICAN DREAM: RHETORIC, REVERIE, OR REALITY?8. Nation: Empire or Liberation9. Racial Nationalism and the Multiple Crises of the U.S. Nation10. Going Forward, with Reflections on the Revolts of the Past Decade Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how Chinese Americans ventured beyond the confines of Chinatown by joining the military and working in defense industriesTrade Review"Wong's book on the experiences of Chinese Americans during World War II will not only go a long way to fill in the gaps but also challenge students to think critically about social change for Asian Americans during Word War II. He skillfully employs numerous quotes from newspaper sources and interviews to tell this complicated history of ethnic tensions and racial formation. Americans First is a terrific book for course use. By illuminating a little known area of Asian American history, the book provokes much discussion and debate." —Mary Ting Yi Lui, Yale University"Americans First is insightful, beautifully written and highly readable from beginning to end.... an excellent reference for anyone interested in Asian American history, US-China relations, identity politics and migration studies." —The Journal of Chinese OverseasTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Chinese America before the War; 2. Chinatown Goes to War; 3. The "Good Asian" in the "Good War"; 4. Hawai'i's Local Warriors; 5. The Fourteenth Air Service Group; 6.Into the Mainstream; Appendix: Employment Tables; Notes; Acknowlegments; Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive examination of Black AmericansTrade Review"[T]his book should be of interest to scholars and students of the Court, public opinion, and American politics more broadly. Clawson and Waltenburg present a well researched book for scholars and students who wish to know about interactions between the Court and African Americans, the effect of decisions on public opinion, and understand the dynamics of diffuse support for the Court."—The Journal of Politics"One of the book's many strengths is its multidimensional approach to answering this core question: Why do African-Americans view the Court, and thus the U.S. regime, as legitimate? The authors provide a cogent, compact summary of Civil Rights history and how blacks' innovative public-interest-law strategy brought litigation to the federal courts.... [The] book's experimental, archival and survey data provides a more nuanced portrait of black attitudes toward the Supreme Court." —Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface 1. Legitimacy and American Democracy 2. Blacks, Civil Rights, and the Supreme Court 3. Establishing the Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity 4. Different Presses, Different Frames: Black and Mainstream Press Coverage of a Supreme Court Decision 5. Media Framing and the Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity 6. The Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity among African Americans: Support for Capital Punsihment and Affirmative Action 7. The Casual Relationship between Public Opinion toward the Court and Its Policies: The University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases 8. Conclusion Appendix A: Stimulus for Legitimacy Experiment Appendix B: List of Black Newspapers Appendix C: Stimulus for Media Framing Experiment Appendix D: Question Wording for Media Framing Experiment Appendix E: Blacks and the U.S. Supreme Court Survey Notes Reference Index

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection of essays on the history of political and cultural ties between Africa and Russia/the Soviet Union.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico of Afro-Mexicans, and the socioracial terms that form a ubiquitous part of Mexican racial identity.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the role played by minority writers working in English.

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Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation.  Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared light-skinned woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in orchestrated chaos with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Mommy, a fiercely protective woman with dark eyes full of pep and fire, herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion—and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned. At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. God is the color of water, Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through college—and most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University. Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.

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Book SynopsisThe history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs of the era to focus on images of everyday activists who fought campaigns against segregation, police brutality, and job discrimination from Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles to Seattle, Des Moines, Wichita, and Spokane. With images by photojournalists, artists, and activists including Bob Adelman, Charles Brittin, Leonard Freed, Diana Davies, Matt Herron, Gordon Parks, and many others, North of Dixie offers a broader and more complex view of the American civil rights movement than is usually presented in books, television, and film. North of Dixie also considers the camera as a tool that served both those in support of the movement and against it. Photographs inspired activists, galvanized public support, and implored local and national politicians to act, but they also provided means of surveillance and repression that were used against movement participants. North of Dixie brings to light numerous long-forgotten or previously unknown images and illuminates the multifaceted story of the civil rights movement in the American North and West.Trade Review"With over one hundred images, many never before published, North of Dixie offers a complex and inclusive view of the civil rights era in America."--African American Intellectual History Society "A hard-hitting photographic look at the fight for civil rights."--On Milwaukee "This compendium demonstrates how many mid-century civil rights struggles were waged far above the Mason-Dixon line. With requisite coverage of famed leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, the survey also reveals hundreds of unknown activists and unsung heroes from myriad walks of life, united in a courageous struggle for social change, dignity, and survival."--American Photo, The Best Photography Books of the Year: 2016 "North of Dixie is a stunning compilation of photos, combining images of strength and reserve evident in activists in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Los Angeles with images of the backlash they faced."--Huffington Post "As the overwhelming negative issues of race persist in tearing away at the soul of our nation, America needs to be more enlightened on the history of this subject and how it continues to demand resolve morally and politically. As Dr. King often said, 'If the issue of race is not squarely debated and favorably brought to closure this nation will not survive.' North of Dixie makes this tragic story of our nation worthy of our attention. It helps us understand the ways in which this tragedy can be addressed. This opportunity should not be missed." --Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, and social activist "Powerful and compelling."--Yahoo "The imagery in [Speltz's] book, North of Dixie: Civil Rights beyond the South (available in November), captures the essence of the violent climate toward grassroots activists and civilians alike who participated in peaceful protests."--Daily Beast "A much-welcome corrective to standard histories, as well as journalistic coverage at the time, which focused on Jim Crow segregation in the South, especially as captured in some historic, disturbing and indelible images of the day."-New York Times

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Book SynopsisThe first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but ground breaking singer.

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Book SynopsisThe story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place. Ernest Thompson dedicated his life to organizing the powerless. This lively, illustrated personal narrative of his work shows the great contribution that people’s coalitions can make to the struggle for equality and freedom. Thompson cut his teeth organizing one of the great industrial unions, the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, and brought his organizing skills and commitment to coalition building to Orange, New Jersey. He built a strong organization and skillfully led fights for school desegregation, black political representation, and strong government in a city he initially thought of as a “dirty Jim Crow town going nowhere.” Thompson came to love the City of Orange and its caring citizens, seeing in its struggles a microcosm of America. This story of people’s power is meant for all who struggle for human rights, economic opportunity, decent housing, effective education, and a chance for children to have a better life. Ernest Thompson (1906-1971) grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on a farm that had been given to his family at the end of the Civil War. The family was very poor and oppressed by racist practices. Thompson was determined to get away and to obtain power. He migrated to Jersey City, where he became part of the union organizing movement that built the Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO). He became the first African American to hold a fulltime organizing position with his union, the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). He eventually headed UE’s innovative Fair Employment Practices program and fought for equal rights and pay for women and minority workers. Thompson also helped build the National Negro Labor Council, 1951-1956, and served as its director of organizing. In 1956, under the onslaught of the McCarthy era, UE was split in two, and Thompson lost his job. His wife, Margaret Thompson, brought the local school segregation to his attention. Ernie “Home” Thompson organized to desegregate the regional schools, building strong coalitions and political power for the black community that ultimately served all the people of Orange.Trade Review"Thompson helped people see that what’s morally right is politically astute and that the racist and classist power structures you are fighting against want nothing more than for you to fight among yourselves, rather than organize. Organizing, when it’s done right, when people really listen to themselves and each other, isn’t just about winning a race or a campaign. It is a collective act of love. More than anything, Ernie Thompson shows us how to love." -- Robert Sullivan * author, My American Revolution *"Homeboy Came to Orange is an essential read for anyone who wants to organize for change in their towns, schools, churches or communities. It is a story that is at once inspiring, challenging, and unwavering." -- Terri Baltimore * Director of Community Engagement, Hill House Association *"The re-release of Ernie Thompson's book about his rich life as an anti-racism union organizer should be read by young (and other) human beings who have decided to hold church in the streets, courts, state houses, and ballot boxes in the south (and other) parts of the U.S., against the white nationalism of the fake GOP." -- Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, * co-director of the New Poor People's Campaign, architect of the Moral Monday Movement, and past president of the NC NAACP. *"This book encourages the reader to not be complacent with injustice anywhere and to draw from their own strengths to build coalitions that work to actualize a People's Democracy rooted in universal equality (equity)." -- Rev. Dr. Anika Whitfield of Little Rock

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Book SynopsisIt’s hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African Americans. Before the Civil War, masters confined their slaves to their property, while free black people found themselves regularly stopped, questioned, and even kidnapped. Restrictions on movement before Emancipation carried over, in different forms, into Reconstruction and beyond; for most of the 20th century, many white Americans felt blithely comfortable denying their black countrymen the right to travel freely on trains and buses. Yet it became more difficult to shackle someone who was cruising along a highway at 45 miles per hour. In Driving While Black, the acclaimed historian Gretchen Sorin reveals how the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. She recounts the creation of a parallel, unseen world of black motorists, who relied on travel guides, black only businesses, and informal communications networks to keep them safe. From coast to coast, mom and pop guest houses and tourist homes, beauty parlors, and even large hotels—including New York’s Hotel Theresa, the Hampton House in Miami, or the Dunbar Hotel in Los Angeles—as well as night clubs and restaurants like New Orleans’ Dooky Chase and Atlanta’s Paschal’s, fed travelers and provided places to stay the night. At the heart of Sorin’s story is Victor and Alma Green’s famous Green Book, a travel guide begun in 1936, which helped grant black Americans that most basic American rite, the family vacation. As Sorin demonstrates, black travel guides and black-only businesses encouraged a new way of resisting oppression. Black Americans could be confident of finding welcoming establishments as they traveled for vacation or for business. Civil Rights workers learned where to stay and where to eat in the South between marches and protests. As Driving While Black reminds us, the Civil Rights Movement was just that—a movement of black people and their allies in defiance of local law and custom. At the same time, she shows that the car, despite the freedoms it offered, brought black people up against new challenges, from segregated ambulance services to unwarranted traffic stops, and the racist violence that too often followed. Interwoven with Sorin’s own family history and enhanced by dozens of little known images, Driving While Black charts how the automobile fundamentally reshaped African American life, and opens up an entirely new view onto one of the most important issues of our time.Trade Review"Make[s] powerfully clear the magnitude of the injustices and harrowing encounters endured by African-Americans traveling by ‘open’ road, as well as of their quiet acts of rebellion and protest, which went far beyond having to find alternative places to eat, sleep and buy gas…. Deeply researched… Driving While Black is more focused on the history of African-American car ownership and travel, exploring why both have been so important to African-American life.... A scholarly examination of the history of black mobility in this country from the antebellum period to now, including the ongoing quest by whites in power to deny or restrict that mobility." -- Bridgett M. Davis, New York Times Book Review"This excellent history illuminates how car ownership provided a measure of safety and independence and also played a vital role in the civil-rights movement." -- New Yorker"Lucidly written and generously illustrated with photos and artifacts, this rigorous and entertaining history deserves a wide readership." -- Publishers Weekly [starred review]"Unlike some of the more familiar narratives—the march from Selma to Montgomery that culminated in the Voting Rights Act, or Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated anti-miscegenation laws—the story Sorin tells does not conclude with a victory but with today’s crisis of mass incarceration. . . . Driving While Black highlights the dangers of such discrimination by describing the necessities that were denied to black Americans as they traveled. . . . Her argument raises an intriguing question: Can consumerism count as activism? . . . Had Driving While Black ended with the Civil Rights Act and Heart of Atlanta Motel, it would have hewed to traditional narratives of the civil rights movement, which typically begin with a struggle against legalized discrimination, climax with nonviolent protest, and conclude with a legislative or courtroom victory. But a triumphant history that ends with a hard-won anti-discrimination law would seem naive today, especially when poverty and injustice exact an uneven toll on people of color. Instead, Driving While Black jumps to the 1990s and continues to the present day in its epilogue." -- Sarah A. Seo, New York Review of Books"Driving While Black is a marvel. It is the work of a brilliant mind and a beautiful heart. Sorin, a professor at State University of New York at Albany, dazzles with plain language. She writes in a way that academics and laypersons will both admire. Sorin combines impeccable, exhaustive research and personal stories with a seamless elegance, somehow managing to hold the object under examination far enough away to consider it fully and close enough to really inhabit it." -- Michael Kleber-Diggs - Minneapolis Star-Tribune"The sweeping story of African Americans and automobiles—a tale of mobility and mobilization that helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement." -- Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian"A riveting story on how the automobile opened up opportunities for blacks in the U.S…. In Sorin’s work, her prose and talent for turning examples into captivating stories prevent the book from being a mere sociological study of how black travel changed the nation. Instead, she blends her own family’s history, and those who experienced the black travel revolution, to make the book enjoyable and noteworthy since it shows how the changes ushered in civil rights." -- Russell Contreras, Associated Press"Driving While Black also chronicles the rise of car culture in tandem with rock ‘n’ roll music (Chuck Berry loved his Cadillacs), as well as the vast network of black-friendly establishments outlined in the popular Green Book. Feeling gassed up yet? Grab this book to-go and get to reading." -- Matt Gifford, BookPage"Sorin’s engaging account of black motoring exposes a rough road in race relations but also a technology’s impact on black freedom. A great resource for people learning about black freedoms—and the fragility of those freedoms—in the automobile era and during the civil rights movement." -- Library Journal"An eye-opening history of the terrible discrimination practiced routinely against African American drivers. . . [A] powerful story. . . The author provides an in-depth look at the significance of Victor Green’s (literally) lifesaving The Green Book. . . A pleasing combination of terrific research and storytelling and engaging period visuals." -- Kirkus Reviews"Gretchen Sorin has spent decades exploring this deeply researched, acutely felt, and penetrating study of race, space, and mobility in America—and a lifetime thinking about the issues and experiences that underlie it. No one who reads Driving While Black can fail to be moved and wonderstruck by how far American society has come in the last century and a half in forwarding the dream of equal mobility for all, and by how far we still have to go." -- Ric Burns, documentary filmmaker"With chronological sweep and intimate detail, Gretchen Sorin takes us on an unsettling road trip, showing us how African American travelers met with indignities, discrimination, and violence, and how they fought for their basic dignity. From the famous Green Book to black-run lakeside resorts, Sorin offers a powerful revision of the romance of roadside Americana." -- Thomas J. Sugrue, author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North"Driving While Black is painful, poignant, and powerful. White America cannot imagine being unwelcomed and unwanted in stopping for a meal or a motel room on a long trip. But the fact is that this was for decades the harsh reality for millions of our fellow citizens. Through compelling and extensive interviews, illustrations, and evidence, Gretchen Sorin has meticulously documented yet another disturbing aspect of racism in our national life." -- Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor of History, Columbia University"This is the first authoritative book about the actual social, economic, and political history of African-Americans and cars. Sorin’s accessible style invites the reader see how the open road looked from black people’s points of view. Interspersed with anecdotes and family stories, her history is authoritative, pungent, and personal. This volume is a ground-breaking roadmap of the black experience behind the wheel." -- Fath Davis Ruffins, Curator, National Museum of American History

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Book SynopsisEvery day, young Charles White’s mother takes him the Chicago Public Library, where the librarians look after him until she picks him up again after work, at six o’clock. At the library Charles looks carefully at the picture books the librarians give him and also at the people around him, later drawing what he sees on scraps of paper at home. He learns to be patient and observant—and, by watching art students painting in the park, how to mix and use oil paints. As he grows into an artist, he paints the people he sees and admires. Ultimately, Charles becomes a great artist whose works now hang in museums throughout the United States. Written and illustrated by White’s son, C. Ian White, and featuring full-color reproductions of Charles White’s artworks, this deeply personal story traces the childhood influences that inspired young Charles to become an artist and a teacher.

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Book Synopsis“An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”—Ibram X. Kendi features an expansive new introduction by the author.—Angela Y. Davis is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction, Angela Davis’s autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle with echoes in our own time.

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Book SynopsisBlack Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away from athletes’ and entertainers’ overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Portraits of Black Fame, or The Past as Blueprint for the Present Chapter 1: “my black body / thrown free”: The Legacy of Jack Johnson in Kevin Young’s To Repel Ghosts: The Remix from the Original Masters Chapter 2: “More of a man than you”: The Many Faces of Jack Johnson in Adrian Matejka’s The Big Smoke Chapter 3: “The Sting of Race and Sport”: Revivifying Isaac Burns Murphy in Frank X Walker’s Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Chapter 4: “the overwhelming evidence of his artistry”: Wiping Away the Minstrel Mask in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark Chapter 5: “Blind Tom, Musical Prodigy of the Age”: Unrecoverability in Jeffery Renard Allen’s Song of the Shank Chapter 6: “Let this belting be our / unbinding”: Reconceptualizing Black Entertainment in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio Bibliography Endnotes Index

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Book SynopsisAn unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift. What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take? In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us. It manifests as alcoholism and post-traumatic stress; it finds echoes in her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, and in the ways in which she builds her own interracial family. To heal, Ford tries a wide range of therapies, lifestyle changes, and recovery meetings. ?Anything,? she writes, ?to keep from going back there.? But what she learns is that she needs to go back there, to return to her female ancestors, and unearth what she can about them to start to feel whole.

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Book SynopsisExamines transformational moments and liberation movements in the decolonization of inherited Western academic traditions in Africa. This book explores how decolonization and decoloniality provide liberationist knowledge to question and replace the hegemony of Western knowledge systems imposed on Africa. It critically examines the silencing and exclusion of subalterns in global knowledge production and the far-reaching implications of this for pedagogy and policy. As global power is concentrated in the global north where Eurocentrism and white supremacy validate the monopoly of knowledge and its centrality and universality, African perspectives continue to be marginalized or excluded in research, creating the problem of misrepresentation of the continent. It is to this challenge that this book has responded&emdash;the urgent need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism in the academy and research methodologies. Coloniality is seen not only as a historical phenomenon but also as an ethnocentric continuum, dominating all aspects of present life, especially monopolizing human epistemology, the threshold of human existence, and even development activities. This book provides a balanced overview of what a feasible decoloniality should be. It is all-inclusive, aggregating differing perspectives, including decolonial feminist and LGBTQ thought. It deploys a holistic approach that critiques the limitations to decoloniality, the impediments that culminated in the failure of the late 20th century struggle for decoloniality, and the problems associated with current African resistance to academic decoloniality. The book closes with a discussion of African futurism. Seen as the advanced stage of decoloniality, African futurism involves the application of "traditional" (indigenous) instruments of articulation and cohesion such as Afro-spirituality, myths, folklore, and indigenous techno-scientific innovations, deployed in their capacity to drive, harness, and actualize future possibilities.Trade ReviewIn this comprehensive book, Africanist Falola (Univ. of Texas, Austin) meticulously explores the origins of the Eurocentric academic, socioeconomic, and political onslaught on Africa. [...] Highly recommended. * CHOICE *The book demonstrates Falola as a master of the protocols of writing a generally accessible academic book which is yet summative of the field in question, engaging significantly with its constitutive ideas. On account of the sheer scope of the work in terms of its sweeping coverage of practically every aspect of the subject, and its analytical range, the extensiveness of its engagement with the relevant issues and ideas in almost every aspect of African Studies, anyone who wants to gain an overview of the subject in depth is likely to find this book indispensable. -- Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju * New Times *This massive book on the question of decolonizing African studies appears to be the first of its kind from a single author. It is only fitting that it is written by a scholar of Professor Falola's stature, who has spent several decades reflecting on these issues. Students and scholars of Africa would benefit from making it part of their required reading. -- David Ngong * Journal of Religion in Africa *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Decolonial Moments Part A: Epistemologies and Methodologies 1. Decoloniality and Decolonizing Knowledge 2. Eurocentrism and Intellectual Imperialism 3. Epistemologies of Intellectual Liberation 4. Decolonizing Knowledge in Africa 5. Decolonizing Research Methodology 6. Oral Tradition: Cultural Analysis and Epistemic Value Part B: Agencies and Voices 7. Voices of Decolonization 8. Voices of Decoloniality 9 Decoloniality: A Critique 10. Women's Voices on Decolonization 11. Empowering Marginal Voices: LGBTQ and African Studies Part C: Intellectual Spaces 12. Decolonizing the African Academy 13. Decolonizing Knowledge Through Language 14. Decolonizing of African Literature 15. Identity and the African Feminist Writers 16. Decolonizing African Aesthetics 17. Decolonizing African History 18. Decolonizing African Religion 19. Decolonizing African Philosophy 20. African Futurism

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Book SynopsisYour journey to healing and wholeness after domestic violence begins here.Domestic violence is about power and control. As a Black woman and a survivor of domestic violence, you have had your power taken away from you against your will. You are not alone, and there are tools you can use to feel whole and in control of your life again. Written by two psychologists and experts in BIPOC mental health, this book will show you how to start healing—mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), this compassionate book addresses the unique struggles faced by Black women who have experienced domestic violence. You’ll find practical and empowering skills to help you understand and heal from trauma, leave harmful situations, and regain a sense of safety and freedom. You’ll also learn how to build a safety net, trust yourself—and others—again, and let go of the shame and guilt resulting from your experience. Finally, you’ll discover ways to reclaim your self-worth, set boundaries in your relationships, and make room for self-care in your day-to-day life.If you’re ready to leave—or have already left—an abusive situation, this book can help you heal from the trauma of domestic violence and discover personal freedom in mind, body, and spirit.

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Book SynopsisThe historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois’s double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–⁠led revolt in Brazil’s “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-⁠Latin America as it gains increased visibility. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Maddox offers us a refreshingly provocative revision of Black Atlantic theory and African diasporic authorship across Luso-Hispanic communities. His insightful readings will further enrich our understanding of the complex and nonlinear facets of African diasporic Blackness, Black Atlantic religious traditions, and Black women in impactful, new ways." -- Nick Jones * author of Staging Habla de Negros *"John Maddox’s Challenging the Black Atlantic is as monumental as the historical sagas the book studies. . . . Originally conceived, meticulously researched, and well written and argued, the book is an intellectually sophisticated interdisciplinary study that will certainly leave its vital mark in the field of Afro-diaspora studies for years to come. A must read!” -- Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte * author of Writing Identity: The Politics of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature *"An innovative and ground-breaking attempt to examine the nuances of the Black Atlantic Theory via diaspora...highly recommended for a variety of audiences." * Hispania *"Maddox succeeds in adding to the Black Atlantic paradigm, taking it in a decidedly Latin-American direction. At the center of his theoretical intervention, he compellingly offers Zapata’s version of the Nuevo Munto as a foundational construct—a search for a profoundly historical and spiritual recognition of African identity, and a vision of just world for the present and future." * Religion and the Arts *"Maddox offers us a refreshingly provocative revision of Black Atlantic theory and African diasporic authorship across Luso-Hispanic communities. His insightful readings will further enrich our understanding of the complex and nonlinear facets of African diasporic Blackness, Black Atlantic religious traditions, and Black women in impactful, new ways." -- Nick Jones * author of Staging Habla de Negros *"John Maddox’s Challenging the Black Atlantic is as monumental as the historical sagas the book studies. . . . Originally conceived, meticulously researched, and well written and argued, the book is an intellectually sophisticated interdisciplinary study that will certainly leave its vital mark in the field of Afro-diaspora studies for years to come. A must read!” -- Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte * author of Writing Identity: The Politics of Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature *"An innovative and ground-breaking attempt to examine the nuances of the Black Atlantic Theory via diaspora...highly recommended for a variety of audiences." * Hispania *"Maddox succeeds in adding to the Black Atlantic paradigm, taking it in a decidedly Latin-American direction. At the center of his theoretical intervention, he compellingly offers Zapata’s version of the Nuevo Munto as a foundational construct—a search for a profoundly historical and spiritual recognition of African identity, and a vision of just world for the present and future." * Religion and the Arts *Table of Contents Introduction: This Book, Manuel Zapata Olivella, and Ana Maria Gonçalves a Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920–2004) b Zapataolivellismo i The U.S. Context ii The Latin American Context c Ana Maria Gonçalves (b.1970) d The Bourgeoning Criticism on Ana Maria Gonçalves e Changó and Defeito: Summaries i Changó el gran putas (1983) ii Um defeito de cor (2006) 1 Myth, Literature, and History in Zapata a Muntu, Nuevo Muntu, and Changó’s Curse i Influences ii Placide Tempels and the Muntu iii The Curse b The Origin Myth of Benkos Bioho 2 Afro-Brazil in Defeito and Changó a Luís Gama: History, Myth, and Literature b Luísa Mahin: From Poetry to History c Quilombos in Changó i Aleijadinho and Zumbi d Quilombos and Terreiros of Defeito i Gender and Myth in Dahomey e Conclusion 3 Double Consciousness and Nation in Gilroy and Zapata a The Black Atlantic and the Nuevo Muntu i The Black Atlantic: Summary ii After The Black Atlantic iii Representative Critics of Gilroy in the Anglophone Tradition b Du Bois in Changó i Zapata’s Du Bois ii Double Consciousness iii Music, Orality, and the Sea iv The African Diaspora is part of a New World History beyond the Nation c. Zapata, Precursor of Today’s Latin Americanist Critics of Gilroy 4 Women, Gender, and the Nuevo Muntu a The Black Atlantic from an Afro-Brasileira’s Point of View i. Domingos Álvares and the Black Atlantic Kingdom of Dahomey ii. Gonçalves and Antônio Olinto’s Black Atlantic iii. Luís Gama’s Brazil in the Black Atlantic b Rape in the Novels of Zapata and Gonçalves i. Sons of God and the She-Devil ii. Mother Africa iii. Gonçalves’s Raw Realism of Rape c Changó / Santa Bárbara and Queer Characters d Agne Brown and the Apocalypse Conclusion: The Nuevo Muntu Today and Tomorrow a El Putas, U.S.A. b Nuevo Muntu History and Gonçalves’s Journalism c Afrofuturism i Brazil ii Latinx-futurism iii Ana Maria Gonçalves Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWho are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin’s epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, “Miss Lizzie,” figures prominently in four anthologies from the country’s Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record.Trade Review“Mayaya Rising is a nuanced continuation of Duke’s 2008 work, Literary Passions, Ideological Commitment, wherein the author critically examines the nationalist practices that impede self-actualization of Black female historical representation in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Colombia. . . . That which Duke accomplishes with this work is critically establishing a female-centric revisionist history located within the contributions of Afro-descendant cultural practitioners whose literary, artistic, and activist endeavors continue to shape and enrich national narratives in these countries.”— Antonio Tillis, editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature “Mayaya Rising tells the stories, and the stories of telling the stories, of an incredible set of previously ignored Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women. It makes clear the iconic potential of these women, the work that icons do, and the work it takes to productively iconize Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women.”— Keja Valens, author of Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature “Dawn Duke’s study of black women writers in the Hispanic Caribbean—its continental components included—breaks important new ground. Its intersectional stress on race and gender illuminates the path of authors who draw strength from feminist and anti-racist legacies owed to iconic ancestresses. The cultural and linguistic diversity of this literary corpus pulverizes homogenizing assumptions about ‘Spanish American’ literature.”— Silvio Torres-Saillant, coauthor of The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat “[A] carefully detailed and focused discussion of Afro-Latina/Caribbean women writers from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Colombia. Duke discusses strategies of resistance, recuperation of memory, and rewritings of history, centering her reading of Afro-diasporic women’s literature transversally within Hispanic Caribbean and Latin American Literature Studies. It is a much-needed repositioning . . . ‘Enhorabuena,’ Dawn Duke. As an Afro-Boricua writer, I celebrate Mayaya Rising. Latin American and Caribbean Literary Studies need more books like this.”— Mayra Santos-Febres, author of La amante de GardelTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Fundamentals of Glory PART I A Cuban/Dominican Case Study 1 Teodora and Micaela Ginés: Myth or History? 2 The Invention of History through Poetry: A Dominican Initiative PART II A Nicaraguan Case Study 3 Tracing the Dance Steps of a “British” Subject: Miss Lizzie’s Palo de Mayo 4 From “Mayaya las im key” to Creole Women’s Writings PART III A Colombian Case Study 5 Rituals of Alegría and Ponchera: The Enterprising Palenqueras 6 Palenquera Writings: A Twenty-First-Century Movement Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWho are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin’s epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, “Miss Lizzie,” figures prominently in four anthologies from the country’s Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record.Trade Review“Mayaya Rising tells the stories, and the stories of telling the stories, of an incredible set of previously ignored Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women. It makes clear the iconic potential of these women, the work that icons do, and the work it takes to productively iconize Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women.”— Keja Valens, author of Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature “[A] carefully detailed and focused discussion of Afro-Latina/Caribbean women writers from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Colombia. Duke discusses strategies of resistance, recuperation of memory, and rewritings of history, centering her reading of Afro-diasporic women’s literature transversally within Hispanic Caribbean and Latin American Literature Studies. It is a much-needed repositioning . . . ‘Enhorabuena,’ Dawn Duke. As an Afro-Boricua writer, I celebrate Mayaya Rising. Latin American and Caribbean Literary Studies need more books like this.”— Mayra Santos-Febres, author of La amante de Gardel “Dawn Duke’s study of black women writers in the Hispanic Caribbean—its continental components included—breaks important new ground. Its intersectional stress on race and gender illuminates the path of authors who draw strength from feminist and anti-racist legacies owed to iconic ancestresses. The cultural and linguistic diversity of this literary corpus pulverizes homogenizing assumptions about ‘Spanish American’ literature.”— Silvio Torres-Saillant, coauthor of The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat “Mayaya Rising is a nuanced continuation of Duke’s 2008 work, Literary Passions, Ideological Commitment, wherein the author critically examines the nationalist practices that impede self-actualization of Black female historical representation in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Colombia. . . . That which Duke accomplishes with this work is critically establishing a female-centric revisionist history located within the contributions of Afro-descendant cultural practitioners whose literary, artistic, and activist endeavors continue to shape and enrich national narratives in these countries.”— Antonio Tillis, editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature “Mayaya Rising tells the stories, and the stories of telling the stories, of an incredible set of previously ignored Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women. It makes clear the iconic potential of these women, the work that icons do, and the work it takes to productively iconize Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women.”— Keja Valens, author of Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature “[A] carefully detailed and focused discussion of Afro-Latina/Caribbean women writers from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Colombia. Duke discusses strategies of resistance, recuperation of memory, and rewritings of history, centering her reading of Afro-diasporic women’s literature transversally within Hispanic Caribbean and Latin American Literature Studies. It is a much-needed repositioning . . . ‘Enhorabuena,’ Dawn Duke. As an Afro-Boricua writer, I celebrate Mayaya Rising. Latin American and Caribbean Literary Studies need more books like this.”— Mayra Santos-Febres, author of La amante de Gardel “Dawn Duke’s study of black women writers in the Hispanic Caribbean—its continental components included—breaks important new ground. Its intersectional stress on race and gender illuminates the path of authors who draw strength from feminist and anti-racist legacies owed to iconic ancestresses. The cultural and linguistic diversity of this literary corpus pulverizes homogenizing assumptions about ‘Spanish American’ literature.”— Silvio Torres-Saillant, coauthor of The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat “Mayaya Rising is a nuanced continuation of Duke’s 2008 work, Literary Passions, Ideological Commitment, wherein the author critically examines the nationalist practices that impede self-actualization of Black female historical representation in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Colombia. . . . That which Duke accomplishes with this work is critically establishing a female-centric revisionist history located within the contributions of Afro-descendant cultural practitioners whose literary, artistic, and activist endeavors continue to shape and enrich national narratives in these countries.”— Antonio Tillis, editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Fundamentals of Glory PART I A Cuban/Dominican Case Study 1 Teodora and Micaela Ginés: Myth or History? 2 The Invention of History through Poetry: A Dominican Initiative PART II A Nicaraguan Case Study 3 Tracing the Dance Steps of a “British” Subject: Miss Lizzie’s Palo de Mayo 4 From “Mayaya las im key” to Creole Women’s Writings PART III A Colombian Case Study 5 Rituals of Alegría and Ponchera: The Enterprising Palenqueras 6 Palenquera Writings: A Twenty-First-Century Movement Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1908 Muriel Matters, known as 'that daring Australian girl', chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women, thus becoming the first woman to make a speech in the House. The following year she made headlines around the world when she took to the sky over the Houses of Parliament in an airship emblazoned with 'Votes for Women'.A trailblazer in the suffrage movement, Muriel toured England in a horse-drawn caravan to promote the cause. But feminism was just one of her passions: Muriel's zeal for social change also saw her run for Parliament, campaign for prison reform, promote Maria Montessori's teaching methods and defend the poor. In this inspiring and long-overdue biography, bestselling author Robert Wainwright introduces us to an intelligent, spirited and brave woman who fought tirelessly for others in a world far from equal.Trade Review[Wainwright] succeeds marvellously in bringing to life a woman who until recently was little more than a name in the history of the suffragette movement. * The Spectator *Muriel Matters's name is apt: she certainly does matter...[a] highly readable biography. * Daily Mail *A long-overdue biography of the most inspiring woman you've never heard of. * All About History *The charm of Wainwright's biography is that he makes us see what an engaging, admirable and sometimes heroic quality it is to be a life-enhancer like Sheila. * Daily Mail, on SHEILA *As social history Sheila Chisholm's life is fascinating... it's undeniably enjoyable to read of all that glitter and gold. -- Selina Hastings * The Spectator, on SHEILA *Nothing short of impressive... Wainwright has revived a legend. * The Lady, on SHEILA *A] compelling biography... As a study of a man whose greatness we would do well to remember and applaud, it sparkles. * The Independent, on THE MAVERICK MOUNTAINEER *Wainwright chronicles it all with aplomb... Wainwright has done a fine job of rescuing his protagonist from the footnotes of climbing history. * Daily Telegraph, on THE MAVERICK MOUNTAINEER *

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Book SynopsisSince childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the south where he could break free from the constraints of everyday life. Those two worlds – the north, marked by the haunting saga of family life, its history and material practices, and the south, a place defined by travel and escape – formed the two halves of Fabijančić’s Croatian life. Over time, he observed Srebrnjak become a white-collar weekend retreat, the community of peasants of the 1970s, to which he was first introduced, only a distant memory. From the continental interior of green valleys and plum orchards to the austere and skeletal karst coast, Drink in the Summer is a unique record of a place and people now lost to time, a description of a country’s varied landscapes, and a journey of discovery, freedom, beauty, and love.

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Book SynopsisN. Chabani Manganyi is one of South Africa’s most eminent intellectuals and an astute social and political observer of his time. He has had a distinguished career in psychology, education and in government, and has written widely on subjects relating to ethno-psychiatry, autobiography, black artists and race.Being-Black-in-the-World, one of his first publications, was written in 1973 at a time of global socio-political change and renewed resistance to the brutality of apartheid rule, including the Durban strikes of 1973 and the emergence of Black Consciousness. Publication of the book was delayed until the young Manganyi had left the country (to study at Yale University) as his publishers feared that the apartheid censorship board and security forces would prohibit him from leaving the country, and perhaps even incarcerate him, for being a ‘radical revolutionary’. Like Fanon in Black Skins, White Masks, Manganyi expressed the vileness of the racist order and its effect on the human condition.While the essays in this book are clearly situated in the material and social conditions of that time, they also have a timelessness that speaks to our contemporary concerns regarding black subjectivity, affectivity and corporeality; the persistence of a racial (and racist) order; and the possibilities of a renewed de-colonial project. Each of these short essays can be read as self-contained reflections on what it meant to be black during the apartheid years. At the same time, Manganyi weaves a tight and interconnected argument that gives the book a quiet cohesiveness. He is a master of understatement, and yet this does not stop him from making incisive political criticisms of black subjugation under apartheid. The essays will reward close study for anyone trying to make sense of black subjectivity and the persistence of white insensitivity to black suffering. Ahead of its time, the ideas in this book are an exemplary demonstration of what a thoroughgoing and rigorous de-colonial critique should entail.Table of Contents Foreword Garth Stevens Introduction Chapter 1 Who Are the Urban Africans? Chapter 2 Black Consciousness Chapter 3 Us and Them Chapter 4 Being-black-in-the-world Chapter 5 Nausea Chapter 6 Reflections of a Black Clinician Chapter 7 The Meaning of Change Chapter 8 Postscriptum African Time Afterword - Njabulo S. Ndebele

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Book SynopsisProcesses of social change brought about by international migration usually entail multiple kinds of diversification affecting ethnicities and identities, languages, gender balances, social statuses, skills and more. Compiled and introduced by a leading figure in the field, Migration and Diversity draws together key social scientific studies addressing varieties of migration-driven diversification. Contributions also examine state responses to, and the wider effects of, the new social, economic and political configurations that arise from migration. Combining empirical and theoretical works, this volume will be useful for undergraduate and graduate students through to professional scholars engaging in some of the most topical issues of today.Trade Review‘In sum, Migration and Diversity is an impressive collection of journal articles that raises critical issues on key dimensions of international migration and social integration from a comparative, historical lens. . . this book is a must read for scholars interested in the nexus between migration and diversity.’ -- Asian and Pacific Migration JournalTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Steven Vertovec PART I MIGRATION AND DIVERSITY IN HISTORY 1. Dirk Hoerder (2002), ‘Worlds in Motion, Cultures in Contact’ 2. Peter Heather (2009), ‘The End of Migration and the Birth of Europe’ 3. Adam McKeown (2004), ‘Global Migration, 1846–1940’ 4. Nora Lafi (2011), ‘The Ottoman Urban Governance of Migrations and the Stakes of Modernity’ 5. Peter T. Alter (1996), ‘The Creation of Multi-Ethnic Peoplehood: The Wilkeson, Washington Experience’ PART II CONCEIVING DIVERSITY TODAY 6. Sara Ahmed (2007), ‘The Language of Diversity’ 7. Thomas Faist (2009), ‘Diversity – A New Mode of Incorporation?’ 8. Natalka Patsiurko, John L. Campbell and John A. Hall (2012), ‘Measuring Cultural Diversity: Ethnic, Linguistic and Religious Fractionalization in the OECD’ 9. Steven Vertovec (2012), ‘”Diversity” and the Social Imaginary’ 10. Peter J. Aspinall (2009), ‘The Future of Ethnicity Classifications’ PART III IMPACTS OF MIGRATION AND DIVERSITY 11. Graeme Hugo (2005), Migrants in Society: Diversity and Cohesion, Geneva, Switzerland: Global Commission on International Migration 12. Alberto Alesina and Eliana La Ferrara (2005), ‘Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance’ 13. Dana Schüler and Julian Weisbrod (2010), ‘Ethnic Fractionalisation, Migration and Growth’ 14. Steffen Mau and Christoph Burkhardt (2009), ‘Migration and Welfare State Solidarity in Western Europe’ 15. Gary P. Freeman (2009), ‘Immigration, Diversity, and Welfare Chauvinism’ PART IV POLICIES AND PRACTICES 16. Stephen Castles (1995), ‘How Nation-States Respond to Immigration and Ethnic Diversity’ 17. Wolfgang Bosswick, Friedrich Heckmann and Doris Lüken-Klaßen (2007), Diversity Policy in the City: Background Paper for the 2nd Meeting of the CLIP Network in Brussels, Bamberg, Germany: European Forum for Migration Studies 18. John Wrench (2004), ‘Managing Diversity, Fighting Racism or Combating Discrimination? A Critical Exploration’ 19. Gabriel N. Toggenburg (2005), ‘Who is Managing Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in the European Condominium? The Moments of Entry, Integration and Preservation’ 20. Nick Johns (2004), ‘Ethnic Diversity Policy: Perceptions within the NHS’ PART V THE DIVERSITY AND COHESION DEBATE 21. Robert D. Putnam (2007), ‘E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century – The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture,’ 22. James Laurence (2011), ‘The Effect of Ethnic Diversity and Community Disadvantage on Social Cohesion: A Multi-Level Analysis of Social Capital and Interethnic Relations in UK Communities’ 23. Dietlind Stolle, Stuart Soroka and Richard Johnston (2008), ‘When Does Diversity Erode Trust? Neighborhood Diversity, Interpersonal Trust and the Mediating Effect of Social Interactions’ 24. Alejandro Portes and Erik Vickstrom (2011), ‘Diversity, Social Capital, and Cohesion’ 25. Christel Kessler and Irene Bloemraad (2010), ‘Does Immigration Erode Social Capital? The Conditional Effects of Immigration-Generated Diversity on Trust, Membership, and Participation across 19 Countries, 1981–2000’ PART VI EVERYDAY DIVERSITY 26. Kirsten Simonsen (2008), ‘Practice, Narrative and the “Multicultural City”: A Copenhagen Case’ 27. Suzanne M. Hall (2010) ‘Picturing Difference: Juxtaposition, Collage and Layering of a Multi-ethnic Street’ 28. Maria Hudson, Joan Phillips and Kathryn Ray (2009) ‘”Rubbing Along with the Neighbours” – Everyday Interactions in a Diverse Neighbourhood in the North of England’ 29. Ralph Grillo (2002), ‘Immigration and the Politics of Recognizing Difference in Italy’ 30. Joyce M. Bell and Douglas Hartmann (2007), ‘Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of “Happy Talk”’ PART VII SUPER-DIVERSITY 31. Steven Vertovec (2007), ‘Super-diversity and its Implications,’ 32. Peter A. Kraus (2012), ‘The Politics of Complex Diversity: A European Perspective’ 33. Jan Blommaert and Ben Rampton (2011), ‘Language and Superdiversity’ 34. Jenny Phillimore (2010), ‘Approaches to Health Provision in the Age of Super-Diversity: Accessing the NHS in Britain’s Most Diverse City,’ 35. Susanne Wessendorf (2010), ‘Commonplace Diversity: Social Interactions in a Super-diverse Context’ Index

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Book SynopsisIt is the long, hot summer of 1963 and New York is filled with lovers, dreamers and protestors. Young African-American women grow out their hair and discover the taste of new freedoms. Young men, white and black, travel south to fight against segregation, praying for a society in which love is colour-free. Written in the late 1960s and early 1970s but overlooked in Kathleen Collins's lifetime, these stories mark the debut of a masterful writer whose electrifying voice was almost lost to history.

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Book SynopsisThis enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response. The contributors comprise writers, poets and artists from the three largest Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and beyond. They show how issues of migration are addressed through a variety of different media such as theological debate and shared community action, poetry and art.As issues of migration are an important factor in so many political and social debates, faith communities are looking for guidance on how to deepen their theological understanding of migration. This book helps them to reflect on their own practices and experiences, learn from their own traditions and engage in dialogue with diverse communities.*All royalties from book sales will be donated to The Helen Bamber Foundation - a UK-based charity that supports people who have survived extreme physical, sexual and psychological violence.*Trade ReviewThe great paradox of migration through the ages is that in the journeying out, we find, or are at least searching for, home. Mapping Faith does justice to this storied paradox, so formative for Jews, Christians and Muslims, by weaving together narrative, theology, scriptural reflection, poetry and art. The result is a compelling and very human celebration of traditioned faith in a world on the move. -- Revd Dr Richard Sudworth, Secretary for Inter Religious Affairs to the Archbishop of CanterburyReading Mapping Faith affords any reader with so many truly accessible and engaging perspectives on migration in the Abrahamic religions. From dialogue partners to poets to theologians to artists, this collection has something to fascinate everyone. Mosques, synagogues, and churches, not to mention seminaries, all need this on their library shelves! -- Rabbi Dr Deborah Kahn-Harris, Principal, Leo Baeck College (London)This is a fantastic, unique coming together of writings by people from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. It is thought-provoking, challenging and moving. It is personal as well as community focused and will serve as a crucial resource to encourage us all to critically think more about time, place, people, identity, home, faith and what those things mean for us all. -- Julie Siddiqi, Founder - Thrive TogetherTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction by Lia Shimada; Part 1: Faith Encounters; 1. 35 Chapel Walk: Art, community, encounter by Faiza Omar and Ric Stott; 2. Radical Jewish Welcome: A reflection on shelter, Sukkot and Calais by Oliver Joseph; 3. 'God Squad': Multi-faith chaplaincy in Canary Wharf by Ibrahim Mogra; 4. Interfaith, Interchurch, InterTidal: A Jew(ish) tribute to resilience by Katy Radford; 5. Beauty for Ashes and the Oil of Gladness: God in exile, asylum seekers and the journey to hope by Julie Khovacs and Ivan Khovacs; 6. My 'Migration to Migration' in Orthodox Judaism by David Mason; 7. Christian-Muslim Dialogue: An encounter with a Christian minister by Hassan Rabbani; 8. Mapping Theology by Katherine Baxter; Image: Abraham's Journeys by Katherine Baxter; Image: Holy Lands by Katherine Baxter; 9. Poetry by Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé; 10. Poetry by Yvonne Green; Part 2: Sacred Text; 11. Scriptural Reasoning by Rachel Godfrey; 12. Translation and Re-centering Aisha in the Hadith Canon by Sofia Rehman; 13. Difference without Domination: Listening for religious attunement in times of polarization by Michael Nausner; 14. Wandering Jews: Mobilizing exile to create communities and change by Robyn Ashworth-Steen; 15. Welcoming Refugees: The Canaanite woman and breaking down borders by Sheila Curran; 16. Prophetic Narratives of Migration and Resilience by Sayed Razawi; 17. What is a refuge for migrant women? Testimony, witness-bearing and 'The Rape of Tamar' by Alison Phipps; 18. Taking the Talmud for a Walk by Jacqueline Nicholls; Image: Shabbat 33 and 34 by Jacqueline Nicholls; Image: Disrupting the text by Jacqueline Nicholls; 19. The Language of Shame by Aviva Dautch; Poetry by Aviva Dautch; 20. Poetry by Pádraig Ó Tuama; Part 3: Diaspora; 21. Keeping Faith in the Diaspora: The story of Tumelo's three congregations by Harvey Kwiyani; 22. 'Muhajir': A personal journey of art, faith and museum objects by Hajra Williams; 23. The Montefiore Letters: Migrations of Jews to the Holy Land in the early 19th century by Sally Style; 24. Far from Home: Faith, fellowship and Filipino community by Filipino Community in Harmony, Action, Mobilization and Prayer; 25. Somali and New Scot: Faith, migration and community by Mohamed Omar; 26. Home is Exile and Exile is Home by Jennifer Langer; 27. Four Images by Issam Kourbaj; Image: Strike by Issam Kourbaj; Image: Dark Water, Burning World by Issam Kourbaj; Image: Lost by Issam Kourbaj; Image: Another Day Lost by Issam Kourbaj; 'Lesbos 2016' by Ruth Padel; 28. The Thread of Faith: Academic research, faith and community by Nazneen Ahmed; Poetry by Nazneen Ahmed; 29. Poetry by Amir Darwish; Continuing the conversation; Contributor bios

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Book SynopsisAll white people understand cultural differences from a platform of relative privilege, affecting their personal and professional interactions. How should they respond when confronted with this knowledge? This introductory book looks at the concept of whiteness, and shows how individuals can 'unmask' their own whiteness and take meaningful steps to break down unconscious bias and structural racism.Exploring how colonial history resulted in white privilege, this book examines how that privilege manifests today in a culturally diverse world, and the links between the rise in far-right politics and anti-immigration rhetoric that led to Brexit and Donald Trump's election. It looks at the pressures on privilege and white populations, with candid reflections on how even well-meaning white people may project unconscious bias in their everyday lives. There are also dedicated chapters on training to raise awareness of white privilege in professional organizations.Trade ReviewIn this book Judy Ryde makes an impassioned and well-argued contribution to the ever-growing body of work on whiteness which is designed to challenge what people who are read as racially white think about themselves. Building on her earlier contribution rooted in her work in caring professions and particularly psychotherapy, this new work takes a broader stance to consider the social damage wreaked by socially constructed racial hierarchy where whiteness is positioned at the pinnacle. Anyone interested in making reparation for the privileges and wages of whiteness should read this book. -- Dr Shona Hunter, reader in Race Education and Decoloniality at Leeds Beckett University, and author of Power Politics and the Emotions: Impossible GovernanceA long awaited and comprehensive resource for all interested in how white people are still benefiting by their privilege and the role that white supremacy plays in our understanding of this. It is an unusual book as Judy is herself white. Essential reading if you identify as white and if you don't. -- Rotimi Akinsete, therapeutic counsellor, clinical supervisor, Director of Wellbeing at the University of Surrey and founder and director of Black Men on the Couch, focussing on psychotherapy and identity politics of African and Caribbean men and boys.Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book not only charts where white privilege comes from, but also offers possible ways we can start to challenge society's structural inequalities. In doing so, it boldly examines one of the most divisive, yet important and powerful, social constructs of our time: race. -- Sarah Hackett, Reader in Modern European History, Bath Spa University and author of Foreigners, Minorities and Integration: The Muslim Immigrant Experience in Britain and GermanyThis book will appeal to those of a critical/radical persuasion but that should not stop all practitioners from heeding its message. * Professional Social Work Magazine *Table of ContentsPart One: Facing Up to White Privilege. 1. Introduction. 2. A Short History of Whiteness. 3. How are White People Privileged? Part Two: The Effects of White Privilege. 4. White Awareness within a Culturally Diverse World. 5. White Privilege Under Pressure. 6. Features of Cultural Difference. Part Three: Making Personal and Societal Changes. 7. How Can We Connect White Privilege and Other Forms of Oppression? 8. Towards a Systemic and Participatory Worldview. 9. How to Uncover Your Own Whiteness. 10. Encouraging Societal Changes in White Awareness. 11. Consultancy and Training for White Awareness in Organizations. 12. Reparatory Justice. 13. Where Next for White People? 14. Conclusion: And Now Towards the Needs of the Future.

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Book SynopsisA daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation. Who would you rather pray to? Beyoncé or white Jesus? Jamal grew up Catholic in a Caribbean household, but would rather light a candle and worship celebrities than white saints. Combining African diasporic ritual, music and storytelling, Idol is a spiritual journey that asks what happens when you don’t see yourself represented – featuring a host of celebrity appearances.

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Book SynopsisWhen Emmett Till was murdered aged fourteen for allegedly whistling at a white woman, photographs of his destroyed face became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. A decade earlier Emmett's father, Louis, had also been killed - court-martialled and hanged. Though the circumstances could hardly have been more different, behind both deaths stood the same crime, of being black.In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman, born the same year as Emmett Till, investigates the tragic fates of father and son. Mixing research, memoir and imagination, this book is an essential commentary on racism in America - illuminating, humane and profound.Trade ReviewAt times melancholy, at others raw and rippling with rage, Wideman masterfully weaves together memory, history and archival documents . . . Haunting, provocative, and inspired * * Washington Post * *This is a book unlike any other . . . Offers a deeply personal inquiry into the life and death of Louis Till . . . Wideman stares down the gaps in the military court records, reading and writing between the lines to reveal the fatal uncertainties of black life * * Guardian * *A mercurial coupling of fact and fiction from a profound writer -- RICHARD FORDA quietly harrowing postscript to the tragedy of Emmett Till . . . A searching account * * New York Times Book Review * *A great American writer -- JOY WILLIAMSA genre-defying mix of history, biography, and memoir * * Philadelphia Inquirer * *Haunting * * New York Magazine * *A book seething with the passion and sense of outrage behind the Black Lives Matter movement that also traces specific roots of the movement's genealogy * * Kirkus Reviews * *

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