Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Rutgers University Press Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent
Book Synopsis2020 Best Early Career Research Monograph, Monash University MalaysiaDamsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. It combines the investigation of American fan magazines with the analysis of studio documents, and the examination of the narratives of their films, to develop a thorough understanding of the ways in which Negri, Bánky and Goudal were understood within the realm of their contemporary American culture. This discussion places their star personae in the context of whiteness, femininity and Americanization. Every age has its heroines, and they reveal a lot about prevailing attitudes towards women in their respective eras. In the United States, where the stories of rags-to-riches were especially potent, stars could offer models of successful cultural integration.Trade Review"An excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. It engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness." -- Andrew Higson * co-editor of Film Europe and Film America *"Written with engaging clarity and scholarly vigour and founded on first-class archival research, Damsels and Divas is a hugely welcome addition to scholarship on Hollywood stardom in the 1920s. The book shines much-needed light on the extraordinary careers of European female stars Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal as well as the discourses of ethnicity, gender and class that shaped the firmament in which they, as Frymus puts it, ‘shone briefly, but very brightly’." -- Michael Williams * author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past *Lights, Camera, Author! podcast interview with Agata Frymus https://anchor.fm/the-junot-files/episodes/Lights--Camera--Author--26---Agata-Frymus-ecvpra * Lights, Camera, Author! *"An engaging writing style [and a] varied and highly accessible choice of artefacts for analysis." * Early Popular Visual Culture *"The immense amount of archival research Frymus has undertaken is evident throughout, along with the wonderful accompanying images, such as film stills, postcards, magazine articles and full-page colour photographs of magazine covers. Moreover, the vast range of notes supplementing each chapter is also impressive. A fascinating review study of similar but different European stars who worked during Hollywood’s early years and is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding work on film stars and extrafilmic material." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Damsels and Divas ranks with the work of Richard Dyer and Jeanine Basinger as a valuable star study. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Damsels and Divas carves out a space next to Paula Marantz Cohen’s Silent Stars and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001) in regard to silent era stardom and its relationship to the national imaginary." * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Pola Negri and Romance: “Ah Love! It’s Not for Me” 2 Pola Negri as the Vamp: “Temptatious Pola Assailed Picture Citadel by Storm” 3 Vilma Bánky and Whiteness: “The Almost Perfect Anglo-Saxon Type, More English Than the English” 4 Vilma Bánky as the Leading Lady: “Bedecked in Flowing Gowns . . . and Layers of Pearls and Jewels” 5 Vilma Bánky and Marriage: “My Mother Brought Me Up to Be a Wife” 6 Jetta Goudal and Exoticism: “She Looks Like a Beautiful Cossack. She Looks Like an Oriental Princess” 7 Jetta Goudal and Mystery: “A Riddle in the City of Eager Autobiographies” 8 Jetta Goudal and Temperament: “The Most Temperamental Actress” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
£30.40
Rutgers University Press Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent
Book Synopsis2020 Best Early Career Research Monograph, Monash University MalaysiaDamsels and Divas investigates the meanings of Europeanness in Hollywood during the 1920s by charting professional trajectories of three movie stars: Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal. It combines the investigation of American fan magazines with the analysis of studio documents, and the examination of the narratives of their films, to develop a thorough understanding of the ways in which Negri, Bánky and Goudal were understood within the realm of their contemporary American culture. This discussion places their star personae in the context of whiteness, femininity and Americanization. Every age has its heroines, and they reveal a lot about prevailing attitudes towards women in their respective eras. In the United States, where the stories of rags-to-riches were especially potent, stars could offer models of successful cultural integration.Trade Review"An excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. It engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness." -- Andrew Higson * co-editor of Film Europe and Film America *"Written with engaging clarity and scholarly vigour and founded on first-class archival research, Damsels and Divas is a hugely welcome addition to scholarship on Hollywood stardom in the 1920s. The book shines much-needed light on the extraordinary careers of European female stars Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal as well as the discourses of ethnicity, gender and class that shaped the firmament in which they, as Frymus puts it, ‘shone briefly, but very brightly’." -- Michael Williams * author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past *Lights, Camera, Author! podcast interview with Agata Frymus https://anchor.fm/the-junot-files/episodes/Lights--Camera--Author--26---Agata-Frymus-ecvpra * Lights, Camera, Author! *"An engaging writing style [and a] varied and highly accessible choice of artefacts for analysis." * Early Popular Visual Culture *"The immense amount of archival research Frymus has undertaken is evident throughout, along with the wonderful accompanying images, such as film stills, postcards, magazine articles and full-page colour photographs of magazine covers. Moreover, the vast range of notes supplementing each chapter is also impressive. A fascinating review study of similar but different European stars who worked during Hollywood’s early years and is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding work on film stars and extrafilmic material." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Damsels and Divas ranks with the work of Richard Dyer and Jeanine Basinger as a valuable star study. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Damsels and Divas carves out a space next to Paula Marantz Cohen’s Silent Stars and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001) in regard to silent era stardom and its relationship to the national imaginary." * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *"An excellent piece of film history, brilliantly researched and eloquently narrated, Damsels and Divas Sheds new light on well-known figures, while bringing less familiar stars back into the spotlight. It engages with some of the most exciting scholarship about 1920s American cinema, the study of celebrity and representations of the female body, ethnicity and Europeanness." -- Andrew Higson * co-editor of Film Europe and Film America *"Written with engaging clarity and scholarly vigour and founded on first-class archival research, Damsels and Divas is a hugely welcome addition to scholarship on Hollywood stardom in the 1920s. The book shines much-needed light on the extraordinary careers of European female stars Pola Negri, Vilma Bánky and Jetta Goudal as well as the discourses of ethnicity, gender and class that shaped the firmament in which they, as Frymus puts it, ‘shone briefly, but very brightly’." -- Michael Williams * author of Film Stardom and the Ancient Past *Lights, Camera, Author! podcast interview with Agata Frymus https://anchor.fm/the-junot-files/episodes/Lights--Camera--Author--26---Agata-Frymus-ecvpra * Lights, Camera, Author! *"An engaging writing style [and a] varied and highly accessible choice of artefacts for analysis." * Early Popular Visual Culture *"The immense amount of archival research Frymus has undertaken is evident throughout, along with the wonderful accompanying images, such as film stills, postcards, magazine articles and full-page colour photographs of magazine covers. Moreover, the vast range of notes supplementing each chapter is also impressive. A fascinating review study of similar but different European stars who worked during Hollywood’s early years and is a welcome addition to the ever-expanding work on film stars and extrafilmic material." * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *"Damsels and Divas ranks with the work of Richard Dyer and Jeanine Basinger as a valuable star study. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Damsels and Divas carves out a space next to Paula Marantz Cohen’s Silent Stars and the Triumph of the American Myth (2001) in regard to silent era stardom and its relationship to the national imaginary." * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Pola Negri and Romance: “Ah Love! It’s Not for Me” 2 Pola Negri as the Vamp: “Temptatious Pola Assailed Picture Citadel by Storm” 3 Vilma Bánky and Whiteness: “The Almost Perfect Anglo-Saxon Type, More English Than the English” 4 Vilma Bánky as the Leading Lady: “Bedecked in Flowing Gowns . . . and Layers of Pearls and Jewels” 5 Vilma Bánky and Marriage: “My Mother Brought Me Up to Be a Wife” 6 Jetta Goudal and Exoticism: “She Looks Like a Beautiful Cossack. She Looks Like an Oriental Princess” 7 Jetta Goudal and Mystery: “A Riddle in the City of Eager Autobiographies” 8 Jetta Goudal and Temperament: “The Most Temperamental Actress” Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’
Book SynopsisAsian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system.Trade Review"Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance." -- Yolanda Flores Niemann * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia *"A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone—including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders." -- Carmen Gonzalez * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247595 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Recommended." * Choice *"Fight the Tower explicitly challenges readers to action from the opening Women of Color in Academia Manifesto to the conclusion: turn research into action and join the movement to build a new academy of liberatory education that models and “fosters the kind of respect and empathy upon which social justice is built.” * International Examiner *Table of ContentsContents Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in the Academy Shirley Hune Section I: “Fear is the Path to the Dark Side”: Introducing The Fight Waking WP Introduction: “The Time to Fight is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis Section 2: “That’s No Moon!”: Attack of the Institution Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim? WP Chapter 1: Unpacking the Master’s Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the Language of Academic Imperialism Eliza Noh Chapter 2: Investigating Discrimination: Injustice Against Women of Color in the Academy Jane Junn and Mai’a K. Davis Cross Chapter 3: Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee, and Jing Mai Section 3: “You Are Unwise to Lower Your Defenses”: The Phantom Menace The Cost of Speaking WP Chapter 4: Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students Negotiating Power in Academia Shannon Deloso Chapter 5: Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation Of and By Hmong Americans Kaozong N. Mouavangsou Chapter 6: An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School Cindy Nhi Huynh Chapter 7: Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight Akiko Takeyama Chapter 8: How to Leave Academia Rani Neutill Section 4: “Do. Or Do Not. There is No Try”: Radical Love as Pedagogy and Practice She Shall Not Be Moved WP Chapter 9: Attack on the Spirit by the “Rational World” (and Spiritual Recovery from It) Brett J. Esaki Chapter 10: Care Work: The Invisible Labor of Asian American Women in Academia Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace J. Yoo Chapter 11: Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano Chapter 12: Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care) Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales Chapter 13: Resistance is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah! Genevieve Erin O’Brien Chapter 14: Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies Wei Ming Dariotis Section 5: The Academic Awakens: “We Are One with the Force and the Force is One with Us” Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke Wei Ming Dariotis and Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde My Kintsuki WP Epilogue: Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal Resistance Robyn Rodriguez Notes on Contributors Index
£39.95
Rutgers University Press Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars’
Book SynopsisAsian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system.Trade Review"Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance." -- Yolanda Flores Niemann * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia *"A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone—including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders." -- Carmen Gonzalez * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247595 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Recommended." * Choice *"Fight the Tower explicitly challenges readers to action from the opening Women of Color in Academia Manifesto to the conclusion: turn research into action and join the movement to build a new academy of liberatory education that models and “fosters the kind of respect and empathy upon which social justice is built.” * International Examiner *Table of ContentsContents Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in the Academy Shirley Hune Section I: “Fear is the Path to the Dark Side”: Introducing The Fight Waking WP Introduction: “The Time to Fight is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis Section 2: “That’s No Moon!”: Attack of the Institution Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim? WP Chapter 1: Unpacking the Master’s Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the Language of Academic Imperialism Eliza Noh Chapter 2: Investigating Discrimination: Injustice Against Women of Color in the Academy Jane Junn and Mai’a K. Davis Cross Chapter 3: Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee, and Jing Mai Section 3: “You Are Unwise to Lower Your Defenses”: The Phantom Menace The Cost of Speaking WP Chapter 4: Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students Negotiating Power in Academia Shannon Deloso Chapter 5: Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation Of and By Hmong Americans Kaozong N. Mouavangsou Chapter 6: An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School Cindy Nhi Huynh Chapter 7: Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight Akiko Takeyama Chapter 8: How to Leave Academia Rani Neutill Section 4: “Do. Or Do Not. There is No Try”: Radical Love as Pedagogy and Practice She Shall Not Be Moved WP Chapter 9: Attack on the Spirit by the “Rational World” (and Spiritual Recovery from It) Brett J. Esaki Chapter 10: Care Work: The Invisible Labor of Asian American Women in Academia Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace J. Yoo Chapter 11: Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano Chapter 12: Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care) Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales Chapter 13: Resistance is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah! Genevieve Erin O’Brien Chapter 14: Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies Wei Ming Dariotis Section 5: The Academic Awakens: “We Are One with the Force and the Force is One with Us” Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke Wei Ming Dariotis and Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde My Kintsuki WP Epilogue: Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal Resistance Robyn Rodriguez Notes on Contributors Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical
Book SynopsisWinner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century—chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers—Aryans—from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this “Aryan model.” They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines—drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of “modern scholarship.”Trade Review"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Martin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history." -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa,Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * The New Republic *"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Martin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history." -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa,Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * The New Republic *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Transcription and Phonetics Maps and Charts Chronological Table Introduction Background Proposed historical outline Black Athena, Volume I: a summary of the argument Greece European or Levantine? The Egyptian and West Semitic Components of Greek Civilization / a summary of Volume 2 Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx and Other Studies in Egypto-Greek Mythology / a summary of Volume 1 The Ancient Model in Antiquity Pelasgians Ionians Colonization The colonizations in Greek tragedy Herodotos Thucydides Isokrates and Plato Aristotle Theories of colonization and later borrowing in the Hellenistic world Plutarch’s attack on Herodotos The triumph of Egyptian religion Alexander son of Ammon 2 Egyptian wisdom and Greek transmission From the Dark Ages to the Renaissance The murder of Hypatia The collapse of Egypto-Pagan religion Christianity, stars and fish The relics of Egyptian religion: Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism Hermeticism – Greek, Iranian, Chaldaean or Egyptian? Hermeticism and Neo-Platonism under early Christianity, Judaism and Islam Hermeticism in Byzantium and Christian Western Europe Egypt in the Renaissance Copernicus and Hermeticism Hermeticism and Egypt in the 16th century 3 The triumph of Egypt in the 17th and 18th centuries Hermeticism in the 17th century Rosicrucianism: Ancient Egypt in Protestant countries Ancient Egypt in the 18th century The 18th century: China and the Physiocrats The 18th century: England, Egypt and the Freemasons France, Egypt and ‘progress’: the quarrel between Ancients and Moderns Mythology as allegory for Egyptian science The Expedition to Egypt 4 Hostilities to Egypt in the 18th century Christian reaction The ‘triangle’: Christianity and Greece against Egypt The alliance between Greece and Christianity ‘Progress’ against Egypt Europe as the ‘progressive’ continent ‘Progress’ Racism Romanticism Ossian and Homer Romantic Hellenism Winckelmann and Neo-Hellenism in Germany Göttingen 5 Romantic linguistics The rise of India and the fall of Egypt, 1740–1880 The birth of Indo-European The love affair with Sanskrit Schlegelian Romantic linguistics The Oriental Renaissance The fall of China Racism in the early 19th century What colour were the Ancient Egyptians? The national renaissance of modern Egypt Dupuis, Jomard and Champollion Egyptian monotheism or Egyptian polytheism Popular perceptions of Ancient Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries Elliot Smith and ‘diffusionism’ Jomard and the Mystery of the Pyramids 6 Hellenomania, 1 The fall of the Ancient Model, 1790–1830 Friedrich August Wolf and Wilhelm von Humboldt Humboldt’s educational reforms The Philhellenes Dirty Greeks and the Dorians Transitional figures, 1: Hegel and Marx Transitional figures, 2: Heeren Transitional figures, 3: Barthold Niebuhr Petit-Radel and the first attack on the Ancient Model Karl Otfried Müller and the overthrow of the Ancient Model 7 Hellenomania, 2 Transmission of the new scholarship to England and the rise of the Aryan Model, 1830–60 The German model and educational reform in England George Grote Aryans and Hellenes 8 The rise and fall of the Phoenicians, 1830–85 Phoenicians and anti-Semitism What race were the Semites? The linguistic and geographical inferiorities of the Semites The Arnolds Phoenicians and English, 1: the English view Phoenicians and English, 2: the French view Salammbô Moloch The Phoenicians in Greece: 1820–80 Gobineau’s image of Greece Schliemann and the discovery of the ‘Mycenaeans’ Babylon 9 The final solution of the Phoenician problem, 1885–1945 The Greek Renaissance Salomon Reinach Julius Beloch Victor Bérard Akhenaton and the Egyptian Renaissance Arthur Evans and the ‘Minoans’ The peak of anti-Semitism, 1920–39 20th-century Aryanism Taming the alphabet: the final assault on the Phoenicians 10 The post-war situation The return to the Broad Aryan Model, 1945–85 The post-war situation Developments in Classics, 1945–65 The model of autochthonous origin East Mediterranean contacts Mythology Language Ugarit Scholarship and the rise of Israel Cyrus Gordon Astour and Hellenosemitica Astour’s successor? – J. C. Billigmeier An attempt at compromise: Ruth Edwards The return of the Iron Age Phoenicians Naveh and the transmission of the alphabet The return of the Egyptians? The Revised Ancient Model Conclusion Appendix Were the Philistines Greek? Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical
Book SynopsisWinner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century—chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers—Aryans—from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this “Aryan model.” They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines—drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of “modern scholarship.” This volume is the second in a three-part series concerned with the competition between two historical models for the origins of Greek civilization. Volume II is concerned with the archaeological and documentary evidence for contacts between Egypt and the Levant on the one hand, and the Aegean on the other, during the Bronze Age from c. 34000 BC to c. 1100 BC. These approaches are supplemented by information from later Greek myths, legends, religious cults, and language. The author concludes that contact between the two regions was far more extensive and influential than is generally believed. In the introduction to this volume, Bernal also responds to some reviews and criticism of Volume I of Black Athena. Trade Review"Martin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history." -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa, Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * Newsweek *Table of Contents\Preface and Acknowledgements Transcription and Phonetics Chronological Tables Introduction Intrinsic reasons for preferring the Revised Ancient Model to the Aryan one Some theoretical considerations A summary of the argument Chapter I Crete before the palaces, 7000–2100 bc The ‘diffusionist’ and ‘isolationist’ debate Crete before the 21st century bc Cretan religion in the Early Bronze Age Conclusion Chapter II Egypt’s influence on Boiotia and the peloponnese in the 3rd millennium, I The cultic, mythical and legendary evidence Semelē and Alkmēnē Athena and Athens in Boiotia: The cults of Athena Itōnia and Athena Alalkomena Nēit, the controller of water The battles between Nēit and Seth, Athena and Poseidon Poseidon / Seth Nēit / Athena and Nephthys / Erinys Herakles Conclusion Chapter III Egypt’s influence on Boiotia and the peloponnese in the 3rd millennium, II The archaeological evidence Spartan archaeology: the tomb of Alkmēnē The tomb of Amphion and Zēthos The draining of the Kopais Granaries Irrigation and settlement in the Argolid Drainage and irrigation in Arkadia Parallels between Boiotian and Arkadian place names Social and political structures in Early Helladic Greece Other archaeological traces of Old Kingdom Egypt in the Aegean The end of Early Bronze Age ‘high’ civilization Conclusion Chapter IV The Old Palace Period in Crete and the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, 2100 to 1730 bc Early Minoan III – the Prepalatial Period Lead and spirals The Cretan palaces Crètan writing systems Cultic symbols in Early Palatial Crete Possible Anatolian origins of the bull cult Thunder and sex: Min, Pan and Bwäzä Min and Minos The case against Egyptian influence Mont and Rhadamanthys The survival of the bull cult — Cretan conservatism Conclusion Chapter V Sesōstris, I The archaeological and documentary evidence for the Greek accounts of his conquest The discovery of the Mit Rahina inscription The significance of the inscription as evidence for an Egyptian empire in Asia during the Middle Kingdom Senwosre and Sesōstris The real and the fantastic in the Sesōstris stories Middle Kingdom Egypt’s military capability The background Archaeological evidence for the campaigns Was Sesōstris the destroyer? Sesōstris in Thrace and Scythia? Sesōstris in Colchis? The evidence for Sesōstris’ ‘conquests’ from the Mit Rahina inscription Conclusion Chapter VI Sesōstris, II The cultic, mythical and legendary evidence The Egyptian tradition The traditions of the Levant and Anatolia Thrace and Scythia Colchis: an Egyptian colony? Mesopotamia and Iran The Greek legends of Memnōn and his conquests of Anatolia The case for an Egyptian conquest of Troy c. 1900 bc Sesōstris / Senwosre and Amenemḥ’s conquests: a summary of the evidence Chapter VII The Thera eruption: from the Aegean to China The controversy over dating The eruption re-dated The implications of the re-dating Thera and Kalliste Volcanic allusions in the Exodus story Membliaros and the pall of darkness The myth of Atlantis The Hekla eruption in Iceland China: the historiographical impact The world-wide impact of the Thera eruption Conclusion Chapter VIII The Hyksos The chronology of the 13th Dynasty: chaos in Egypt The chronology of the 15th Dynasty: the beginnings of Hyksos rule The Hyksos capital at Tell el Daba’a The 400-year stela and the Temple of Seth A chronological summary Who were the Hyksos? Different views on the origin and the arrival of the Hyksos The Hyksos as a multinational corporation Horses and chariots: Hurrians and Aryans Hurrians and Hyksos Hyksos material culture The Hyksos and the biblical captivity or sojourn in Egypt Conclusion Chapter IX Crete, Thera and the birth of Mycenaean culture in the i8th and 17th centuries bc A Hyksos invasion? The Cretan new palaces The weapons of Crete in MMIII The flying gallop, the sphinx and the griffin Was there a Hyksos invasion of Crete c. 1730 bc? The Hyksos in Thera? The origins of Mycenaean civilization The Aryanist Model of invasion Between Aryan and Ancient: Frank Stubbings Conclusion: a revision of the Ancient Model Chapter X Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Levantine contacts with the Aegean The documentary evidence Egyptian place names referring to the Aegean The etymology of Danaan Documentary evidence for Egyptian relations with the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age Accuracy and hybridism in Egyptian inscriptions and tomb paintings Why did Cretan princes bring tribute to Egypt? Dating the Mycenaean domination of Crete Crete and Mycenaean missions to Egypt The statue base of Amenōphis III Contacts between Egypt and the Aegean in the late 18th and 19th Dynasties A summary of the evidence from Egyptian documents and paintings Mesopotamian and Ugaritic documents Aegean documents Conclusion Chapter XI Egyptian and Levantine contacts with the Aegean, 1550–1250 bc The archaeological evidence Late Mycenaean Greece The relative isolation of the Aegean 1550–1470 bc Egyptian expansion from c. 1520 to 1420 Pelops and the Achaians: evidence from Anatolia Pelops ‘the crown prince’? The Achaians and the Danaans Archaeological traces of the Achaians Mycenaeans and Hittites Ugarit and Cyprus Mycenaean expansion and the conquests of Tuthmōsis III The merchants of the Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age? The Kaş shipwreck: the sailors The Egyptian Thebes and Mycenae, 1420–1370 bc The foundation deposit plaques The vocabulary of trade The decline of Egyptian influence on the Aegean 1370–1220 bc Phi and Psi figurines and smiting gods Canaanite jars Ivory Conclusion Chapter XII The heroic end to the heroic age The fall of Thebes, Troy and Mycenae 1250–1150 bc Cylinder seals The Boiotian Thebes and the Phoenicians’ arrival Ancient chronographies Kadmos and the alphabet Kadmos and Danaos: Hyksos rulers Problems in the writing of Linear B The treasure of the Kadmeion The Kassite connection The destruction of Thebes A brief survey of Trojan history The date of the Trojan War Thebes and Troy The collapse of Mycenaean civilization Conclusion Conclusion Maps and Charts Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical
Book SynopsisWinner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century—chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers—Aryans—from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this “Aryan model.” They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. This long-awaited third and final volume of the series is concerned with the linguistic evidence that contradicts the Aryan Model of ancient Greece. Bernal shows how nearly 40 percent of the Greek vocabulary has been plausibly derived from two Afroasiatic languages – Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic. He also reveals how these derivations are not limited to matters of trade, but extended to the sophisticated language of politics, religion, and philosophy. This evidence, according to Bernal, greatly strengthens the hypothesis that in Greece an Indo-European-speaking population was culturally dominated by Ancient Egyptian and West Semitic speakers. Provocative, passionate, and colossal in scope, this volume caps a thoughtful rewriting of history that has been stirring academic and political controversy since the publication of the first volume.Trade ReviewMartin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history. -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa,Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * New Republic *Martin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history. -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa,Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * New Republic *Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgments Transcriptions and Phonetics Maps and Charts INTRODUCTION The previous volumes and their reception “Classics has been misunderstood” Anathema from a G.O.M. Outline of Volume 3 Chapter 1 HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND THE IMAGE OF ANCIENT GREEK Nineteenth-century romantic linguistics: The tree and the family Saussure and the twentieth-century epigones of nineteenth-century Indo-European studies Ramification or interlacing Chapter 2 THE “NOSTRATIC” AND “EUROASIATIC” HYPERAND SUPER-FAMILIES Nostratic and Eurasiatic Archaeological evidence for the origin of Nostratic and Euroasiatic Gordon Childe and Colin Renfrew Language and genetics Conclusion Chapter 3 AFROASIATIC, EGYPTIAN AND SEMITIC The origins of African languages and the development of agriculture in Africa The origins and spread of Afroasiatic Conclusion Chapter 4 THE ORIGINS OF INDO-HITTITE AND INDOEUROPEAN AND THEIR CONTACTS WITH OTHER LANGUAGES The origins and diffusion of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European Loans from other languages into PIH Development of an Indo-European gender system based on sex Conclusion Chapter 5 THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 1, PHONOLOGY Greek: Result of a linguistic shift or of language contact? The elements of the Greek linguistic amalgam The phonologies of Indo-Hittite and Indo-European Phonological developments from PIE to Greek Conclusion Chapter 6 THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 2, MORPHOLOGICAL AND SYNTACTICAL DEVELOPMENTS Morphology Syntax Summary on syntactical changes Conclusion Chapter 7 THE GREEK LANGUAGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT: PART 3, LEXICON Introduction The study of lexical borrowings Ancient Greeks’ sense of lexical borrowing Loans from Afroasiatic into Greek and into Albanian or Armenian Conclusion Chapter 8 PHONETIC DEVELOPMENTS IN EGYPTIAN, WEST SEMITIC AND GREEK OVER THE LAST THREE MILLENNIA BCE, AS REFLECTED IN LEXICAL BORROWINGS Introduction Semitic Egyptian Conclusion Chapter 9 GREEK BORROWINGS FROM EGYPTIAN PREFIXES, INCLUDING THE DEFINITE ARTICLES Introduction Greek Borrowings from Egyptian definite article prefixes The Egyptian word pr “house, temple, palace” R- “entry” or local prefix (R)dˆt, “causal prefix” Greek borrowings from Egyptian verbs beginning with dˆ(t)- Conclusion Chapter 10 MAJOR EGYPTIAN TERMS IN GREEK: PART 1 1. Ntr/KÅ 2. OEnΔ 3. M(w)dw, mu'qo" 4. SbÅ 5. Dr, R-dr, drw 6. ÷Mwr,MÅOEt, Moi'ra, Meivromai and MmÅOEt, Ma 7. Ôpr Conclusion Chapter 11 MAJOR EGYPTIAN TERMS IN GREEK: PART 2 nfr (w)/ms nfr/ms Conclusion CONTENTS Chapter 12 SIXTEEN MINOR ROOTS Introduction CONCLUSION Chapter 13 SEMITIC SIBILANTS Introduction Loans of sibilants from Canaanite into Greek Lateral fricatives Sheltered /s/ sC /s/ before consonants Conclusion Chapter 14 MORE SEMITIC LOANS INTO GREEK Introduction Conclusion Chapter 15 SOME EGYPTIAN AND SEMITIC SEMANTIC CLUSTERS IN GREEK Nature and agriculture Cooking Medicine Conclusion Chapter 16 SEMANTIC CLUSTERS: WARFARE, HUNTING AND SHIPPING Weapons, warfare and hunting Shipping Chapter 17 SEMANTIC CLUSTERS: SOCIETY, POLITICS, LAW AND ABSTRACTION Introduction Society Politics Law and order Abstraction Chapter 18 RELIGIOUS TERMINOLOGY Structures Personnel Cult objects Rituals Sacrifices Incense, flowers, scents Aura Mysteries Conclusion Chapter 19 DIVINE NAMES: GODS, MYTHICAL CREATURES, HEROES Introduction: Gods Ôpr, “become” Ôprr, Apollo, Askle\pios, Python and Delphi Apollo the “Aryan” Was Apollo a sun god before the fifth century? Twins, Apollo and Artemis Other Olympians Zeus Nsw Other gods Herodotos’ non-Egyptian divine names Demigods Mythical creatures Some heroes Conclusion Chapter 20 GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES AND PLACE-NAMES Introduction Natural features City names Conclusion Chapter 21 SPARTA Introduction Sparta: *sper and SpÅt Anubis, Hermes and Sparta “Late” borrowings and Lykurgos Lakonian terminology Egyptian? Sparta and death Spartans and Jews Chapter 22 ATHENA AND ATHENS Introduction Summary of the chapter Armor and equipment Athena and her victims Athens as a colony from Sais? Summary of the cultic evidence Etymology of names H˘t ntr (nt) Nt Athe\na(ia) Conclusion CONCLUSION Notes Glossary Greek Words and Names with Proposed Afroasiatic Etymologies Letter Correspondences Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the Voices of
Book SynopsisWinner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada’s South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a broader consideration of South Asian experiences in hockey culture based on field work and interviews conducted with hockey players, parents, and coaches in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This book seeks to inject more “color” into hockey’s historically white dominated narratives and representations by returning hockey culture to its multicultural roots. It encourages alternative and multiple narratives about hockey and cultural citizenship by asking which citizens are able to contribute to the webs of meaning that form the nation’s cultural fabric.Trade Review"Changing on the Fly will force a rethinking of race, hockey, and the politics of citizenship in the social margins. In this pioneering text, Szto’s rich intertextuality highlights the competing and contradictory nature of race and representation in sport. There is nothing else like it." -- Stanley Thangaraj * author of Desi Hoop Dreams *"Changing on the Fly offers an original, powerful analysis of the hockey rink and the racial, national, gendered, and political landscape. Szto's ability to build on existing scholarship all while carving out new areas of analysis and her centering of South Asian Canadians' voices will change the ways we talk about sport, about hockey and about the (South) Asian Diaspora. Stzo is a force who will shape discussions in sports studies for decades to come. The future of sports studies is in good hands with Stzo leading the way." -- David Leonard * author of Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field *"A groundbreaking book. Courtney Szto’s insightful study of hockey’s growing significance in Canadian South Asian communities, as well as challenges faced by racialized Canadians when they play the game, makes an important contribution to the analysis of contemporary Canadian society." -- Richard Gruneau * Simon Fraser University *"This is a desperately-needed intervention from our most influential scholar of race and hockey through both a systematic and nuanced analysis of how multiculturalism and racism shape Canada and its beloved sport, and a powerful account of how those dynamics are experienced." -- Nathan Kalman-Lamb * author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport *"Interview: Dr. Courtney Szto, author of "Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians" https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/episodes/interview-dr-courtney-szto-author-of-changing-on-the-fly-hockey-through-the-voices-of-south-asian-canadians * Burn It All Down podcast *"Changing on the Fly interrogates the culture of hockey honestly, and from a place of love, offering a critique that is meant to change the nature of the sport so that everyone — not just white, straight Canadian men and boys — can truly have a place in it." * The Tyee *"The groundbreaking work of Courtney Szto in Changing on the Fly captures the multiple ways that the Canadian national pastime of ice hockey constitutes an important site to examine the essential izing and shifting realms of race and belonging....[A] call to action and a demand to think about race critically in relation to sport and the nation. Changing on the Fly destabilizes the normative investments in sport and the nation while articulating forms of citizenship that can be liberating. With the increasing discussion and silence around race in professional sports, this book is vital to understanding the expansive infrastructure that secures whiteness and excludes communities of color." * Sociology of Sport Journal *Table of ContentsContents Dedication - iii List of Acronyms - vii Acknowledgements - 1 Introduction - 2 Complicating Canadian Culture - 7 Research Methods - 13 Overview of the Book - 17 Chapter 1 Myth Busting: Hockey, multiculturalism, and Canada - 21 Myth #1: Hockey is Canada - 21 Who or what are we integrating? - 26 Myth #2: Canada is a multicultural haven - 31 Whiteness in Canadian hockey - 38 Citizenship - 41 South Asians in Canada - 44 The Space of Surrey - 48 Chapter 2 Narratives from the Screen: Media and cultural citizenship - 53 Hockey Night in Punjabi - 55 Ethnic (Sports) Media - 59 Breaking Barriers - 62 Co-Authoring One’s Existence - 63 Limits of Ethnic Media - 71 Chapter 3 White Spaces, Different Faces: Policing membership at the rink and in the nation - 78 Who belongs in a space? Who is trespassing? - 79 Self-Identification - 88 Brown - 92 Being the Only One - 98 Chapter 4 Racist Taunts of Just Chirping? - 101 Just chirping? - 105 Was it really racist? - 111 An archive of evidence - 119 Chapter 5 South Asian Masculinities and Femininities - 124 The irony of hockey performativity - 124 South Asian masculinities - 132 Verbal trauma and the body - 138 South Asian femininities - 143 The noisiness of women’s hockey - 149 Chapter 6 Hockey Hurdles and Resilient Subjects: Unpacking forms of capital - 157 Navigating forms of capital - 166 Cost, time, and interconnections with other forms of capital - 166 Language and other aspects of cultural capital - 170 The gatekeepers - 175 Assumptions about diversity: Flaws in logic - 181 Meritocratic and resilient subjects - 185 Chapter 7 Racialized Money and White Fragility: Class and resentment in hockey - 192 Model minorities - 193 Throwing money at hockey - 199 White fragility - 204 Brown out hockey: Capitalism at its best - 209 Chapter 8 Taking Stock: Public memory and the re-telling of hockey in Canada - 217 Hockey Hall of Fame - 220 The role of media - 223 Writing in: DIY citizenship - 226 Conclusion: A commitment to the future - 232 Shifting labor - 235 Writing the wrong - 239 Appendix A: Qualitative methodology - 241 Appendix B: Participant information - 254 Appendix C: British Columbia competitive hockey structure - 256 References - 258 About the author - 296
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Rutgers University Press Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the Voices of
Book SynopsisWinner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada’s South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a broader consideration of South Asian experiences in hockey culture based on field work and interviews conducted with hockey players, parents, and coaches in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This book seeks to inject more “color” into hockey’s historically white dominated narratives and representations by returning hockey culture to its multicultural roots. It encourages alternative and multiple narratives about hockey and cultural citizenship by asking which citizens are able to contribute to the webs of meaning that form the nation’s cultural fabric.Trade Review"Changing on the Fly will force a rethinking of race, hockey, and the politics of citizenship in the social margins. In this pioneering text, Szto’s rich intertextuality highlights the competing and contradictory nature of race and representation in sport. There is nothing else like it." -- Stanley Thangaraj * author of Desi Hoop Dreams *"Changing on the Fly offers an original, powerful analysis of the hockey rink and the racial, national, gendered, and political landscape. Szto's ability to build on existing scholarship all while carving out new areas of analysis and her centering of South Asian Canadians' voices will change the ways we talk about sport, about hockey and about the (South) Asian Diaspora. Stzo is a force who will shape discussions in sports studies for decades to come. The future of sports studies is in good hands with Stzo leading the way." -- David Leonard * author of Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field *"A groundbreaking book. Courtney Szto’s insightful study of hockey’s growing significance in Canadian South Asian communities, as well as challenges faced by racialized Canadians when they play the game, makes an important contribution to the analysis of contemporary Canadian society." -- Richard Gruneau * Simon Fraser University *"This is a desperately-needed intervention from our most influential scholar of race and hockey through both a systematic and nuanced analysis of how multiculturalism and racism shape Canada and its beloved sport, and a powerful account of how those dynamics are experienced." -- Nathan Kalman-Lamb * author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport *"Interview: Dr. Courtney Szto, author of "Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians" https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/episodes/interview-dr-courtney-szto-author-of-changing-on-the-fly-hockey-through-the-voices-of-south-asian-canadians * Burn It All Down podcast *"Changing on the Fly interrogates the culture of hockey honestly, and from a place of love, offering a critique that is meant to change the nature of the sport so that everyone — not just white, straight Canadian men and boys — can truly have a place in it." * The Tyee *"The groundbreaking work of Courtney Szto in Changing on the Fly captures the multiple ways that the Canadian national pastime of ice hockey constitutes an important site to examine the essential izing and shifting realms of race and belonging....[A] call to action and a demand to think about race critically in relation to sport and the nation. Changing on the Fly destabilizes the normative investments in sport and the nation while articulating forms of citizenship that can be liberating. With the increasing discussion and silence around race in professional sports, this book is vital to understanding the expansive infrastructure that secures whiteness and excludes communities of color." * Sociology of Sport Journal *Table of ContentsContents Dedication - iii List of Acronyms - vii Acknowledgements - 1 Introduction - 2 Complicating Canadian Culture - 7 Research Methods - 13 Overview of the Book - 17 Chapter 1 Myth Busting: Hockey, multiculturalism, and Canada - 21 Myth #1: Hockey is Canada - 21 Who or what are we integrating? - 26 Myth #2: Canada is a multicultural haven - 31 Whiteness in Canadian hockey - 38 Citizenship - 41 South Asians in Canada - 44 The Space of Surrey - 48 Chapter 2 Narratives from the Screen: Media and cultural citizenship - 53 Hockey Night in Punjabi - 55 Ethnic (Sports) Media - 59 Breaking Barriers - 62 Co-Authoring One’s Existence - 63 Limits of Ethnic Media - 71 Chapter 3 White Spaces, Different Faces: Policing membership at the rink and in the nation - 78 Who belongs in a space? Who is trespassing? - 79 Self-Identification - 88 Brown - 92 Being the Only One - 98 Chapter 4 Racist Taunts of Just Chirping? - 101 Just chirping? - 105 Was it really racist? - 111 An archive of evidence - 119 Chapter 5 South Asian Masculinities and Femininities - 124 The irony of hockey performativity - 124 South Asian masculinities - 132 Verbal trauma and the body - 138 South Asian femininities - 143 The noisiness of women’s hockey - 149 Chapter 6 Hockey Hurdles and Resilient Subjects: Unpacking forms of capital - 157 Navigating forms of capital - 166 Cost, time, and interconnections with other forms of capital - 166 Language and other aspects of cultural capital - 170 The gatekeepers - 175 Assumptions about diversity: Flaws in logic - 181 Meritocratic and resilient subjects - 185 Chapter 7 Racialized Money and White Fragility: Class and resentment in hockey - 192 Model minorities - 193 Throwing money at hockey - 199 White fragility - 204 Brown out hockey: Capitalism at its best - 209 Chapter 8 Taking Stock: Public memory and the re-telling of hockey in Canada - 217 Hockey Hall of Fame - 220 The role of media - 223 Writing in: DIY citizenship - 226 Conclusion: A commitment to the future - 232 Shifting labor - 235 Writing the wrong - 239 Appendix A: Qualitative methodology - 241 Appendix B: Participant information - 254 Appendix C: British Columbia competitive hockey structure - 256 References - 258 About the author - 296
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Rutgers University Press Between Brown and Black: Anti-Racist Activism in
Book SynopsisWith new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians are increasingly doing so. Other segments of the Brazilian black movement are working to influence legislation and implement formal mechanisms that aim to promote racial equality, including Affirmative Action Racial Verification Committees. For advocates of these committees, one needs to be phenotypically black enough to be a more likely target of racism to qualify for Affirmative Action programs. Paradoxically, individuals are told to identify as black but only some people are considered black enough to benefit from these policies. Afro-Brazilians are presented with a whole range of identity choices, from how to classify oneself, to whether one votes for political candidates based on shared racial experiences. Between Brown and Black argues that Afro-Brazilian activists’ continued exploration of blackness confronts anti-blackness while complicating understandings of what it means to be black. Blending linguistic and ethnographic accounts, this book raises complex questions about current black struggles in Brazil and beyond, including the black movements’ political initiatives and antiracist agenda.Trade Review"Silva’s pioneering analysis brings attention to the previously unexplored interstices between browns and blacks in terms of blackness and antiracist work. This much needed, timely, and long-overdue book provides a masterful, nuanced, and above all sensitive, analysis of a very complex topic critical to understanding Brazilian race relations and mixed-race peoples’ identities more broadly." -- G. Reginald Daniel * author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? *"Bringing scholarship on Brazil’s tangled politics of race and racism into the twenty-first century, Silva examines recent shifts in discourse and consciousness among Afro-Brazilians in the era of affirmative action. Anti-racist consciousness building, the practices associated with racial quotas, and the reception of racial messaging in electoral campaigns all come under Silva’s lens. Leaning on Bakhtin’s still trenchant insights, this book provides an accessible and engaging update on a changing nation." -- Robin Sheriff * author of Dreaming Equality: Color, Race and Racism in Urban Brazil *"Silva’s pioneering analysis brings attention to the previously unexplored interstices between browns and blacks in terms of blackness and antiracist work. This much needed, timely, and long-overdue book provides a masterful, nuanced, and above all sensitive, analysis of a very complex topic critical to understanding Brazilian race relations and mixed-race peoples’ identities more broadly." -- G. Reginald Daniel * author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? *"Bringing scholarship on Brazil’s tangled politics of race and racism into the twenty-first century, Silva examines recent shifts in discourse and consciousness among Afro-Brazilians in the era of affirmative action. Anti-racist consciousness building, the practices associated with racial quotas, and the reception of racial messaging in electoral campaigns all come under Silva’s lens. Leaning on Bakhtin’s still trenchant insights, this book provides an accessible and engaging update on a changing nation." -- Robin Sheriff * author of Dreaming Equality: Color, Race and Racism in Urban Brazil *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Black into Brown, Brown into Black: Afro-Brazilians Grapple with Racial Categorization 2. The Language of Afro-Brazilian Antiracist Socialization 3. Performing Ancestors, Claiming Blackness 4. Becoming an Antiracist or “As Black as We Can Be” 5. Who Can Be Black for Affirmative Action Programs in Brazil? 6. The Complex Calculus of Race and Electoral Politics in Salvador Conclusion: Afro-Brazilians’ Black and Brown Antiracism Acknowledgements Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Not Your Mother's Mammy: The Black Domestic
Book SynopsisNot Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of selected media by Alice Childress, Nandi Keyi, Victoria Brown, Kara Walker, Mikalene Thomas, Rene Cox, Lynn Nottage, and others provides examples of generations of domestics who challenged their performative roles of subservience by engaging in subversive actions contradicting the image of the deferential black maid. Through verbal confrontation, mobilization, passive resistance, and performance, black domestics find their voices, exercise their power, and maintain their dignity in the face of humiliation. Not Your Mother’s Mammy brings to life stories of domestics often neglected in academic studies, such as the complexity of interracial homoerotic relationships between workers and employers, or the mental health challenges of domestics that lead to depression and suicide. In line with international movements like #MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard. Trade Review"What Walters achieves is an aesthetic of the black female domestic, a study of the representational dynamics of the figure in film, visual art, and literature. This book is a fascinating showcase of black women's nuanced reimaginings of servitude's long afterlife." -- Kevin Quashie * author of The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture *"Tracey Walters weaves together a fascinating story about power and representation of Black domestic workers across the globe. Her attention to Black women artists and writers offers a compelling and empowering portrait of workers who were anything but silent and deferential. These 'quiet radicals,' as Walters describes them, are inspirational models for our time. This is a book about claiming space, giving voice, and, fundamentally, about remaking Black womanhood." -- Premilla Nadasen * author of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women who Built a Movement *"Challenging mainstream media’s unidimensional portrayal and mis/representation of black female domestic workers as vulnerable and lacking agency, Not Your Mother’s Mammy identifies the myriad ways domestic workers, i.e. essential services workers, engender the politics of subversion and exercise their (labor) rights. This book will certainly influence future studies on labor rights of black female domestic workers." -- Simone A. James Alexander * author of African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Overview: The History of Black Women’s Domestic Labor from the Twentieth Century to the Present Part 1: Quiet Subversion: The Radical Acts of Working-Class Women in the Domestic Sphere 2. Let’s Hear It from the Maid: Alice Childress’s Like One of the Family 3. Dirty Work: The Representation of Undocumented Caribbean Domestic Laborers in Nandi Keyi’s The True Nanny Diaries and Victoria Brown’s Minding Ben 4. Forbidden Kinship: Homoerotic Desire between the Maid and Mistress in Zanele Muholi’s “Massa” and Mina(h) Part 2: We Wear the Mask: Servitude, an Art of Performance and Deception 5. A Sartorial Expression of Frenchness in Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl: A Francophone Revision of Jean Genet’s The Maids 6. Maid in Hollywood: The Art of Performance in Theresa Harris’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark 7. The Art of Dressing Up in Mary Sibande’s Long Live the Dead Queen Part 3: Representing for Laure: African American / Caribbean Women’s Reimaginings of Édouard Manet’s Olympia 8. From the Margin to the Center: The Maid in Édouard Manet’s Olympia and the Politics of Recognition in the Artwork of Mickalene Thomas and Renee Cox 9. Kara Walker’s “Marvelous Sugar Baby ‘Sphinx’”: A Satirical Rendition of the Mammy Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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Rutgers University Press Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White
Book SynopsisWhitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the concept of “whitewashing” in stories that privilege White identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters. To understand whitewashing across various contexts, the book analyzes films produced in Hollywood, Asian American independent production, and US-China co-productions. Through the analysis, the book examines the ways in which whitewashing matters in the project of Whiteness and White racial hegemony. The book contributes to contemporary understanding of mediated representations of race by theorizing whitewashing, contributing to studies of Whiteness in media studies, and producing a counter-imagination of Asian/American representation in Asian-centered stories.Trade Review"David Oh offers a compelling study into the ways that Whiteness has shaped films. His analysis sheds light on the ways how films are influenced, and frames how are they are consumed in a process he calls whitewashing. His brilliant and insightful study challenges how we understand Asian and Asian American media representation.""David C. Oh’s Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture makes a strong case that these are still relevant approaches for scholars and critics seeking to make sense of Hollywood’s continued displacement of Asian characters on-screen, even when box-office analysis confirms over and over that stories about nonwhite characters reap significant financial returns....[I]f Oh’s target is Hollywood, he strikes it with example after example, a repetitive bull’s-eye that shows no mercy for the liberal hypocrisy and creative stagnation of Hollywood’s 'colorblind' racism." * Film Quarterly *"David Oh’s Whitewashing the Movies proffers an incisive and captivating critique of the cinematic Whitewashing work that has stripped Asian American subjectivity since 2008. Oh provides a detailed and thoughtful dissection of the operations and elements in such Whitewashing. And the book does not stop there though; it reimagines what Asian American subjectivities would look like if no such cinematic Whitewashing took place. With this, Oh provides a reimagination of Asian American representational and real worlds (our own cinematic future)." "David C. Oh’s Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture makes a strong case that these are still relevant approaches for scholars and critics seeking to make sense of Hollywood’s continued displacement of Asian characters on-screen, even when box-office analysis confirms over and over that stories about nonwhite characters reap significant financial returns....[I]f Oh’s target is Hollywood, he strikes it with example after example, a repetitive bull’s-eye that shows no mercy for the liberal hypocrisy and creative stagnation of Hollywood’s 'colorblind' racism." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Whitewashing Romance in Hawai’i: Aloha 2 White China Experts, Asian American Twinkies: Shanghai Calling and Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong 3 White Grievance, Heroism, and Postracist, Mixed-Race Inclusion in 47 Ronin 4 Satire and the Villainy of Kim Jong-un: The Interview 5 White Survival in Southeast Asia: No Escape and The Impossible 6 Whitewashing Anime Remakes: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution 7 Transnational Coproduction and the Ambivalence of White Masculine Heroism: The Great Wall, Outcast, and Enter the Warriors Gate Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts: Marvel, Diversity
Book SynopsisMarvel is one of the hottest media companies in the world right now, and its beloved superheroes are all over film, television and comic books. Yet rather than simply cashing in on the popularity of iconic white male characters like Peter Parker, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, Marvel has consciously diversified its lineup of superheroes, courting controversy in the process. Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel’s recasting of certain “legacy heroes,” including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen. If the superhero comic is a quintessentially American creation, then how might the increasing diversification of Marvel’s superhero lineup reveal a fundamental shift in our understanding of American identity? This timely study answers those questions and considers what Marvel’s comics, TV series, and films might teach us about stereotyping, Orientalism, repatriation, whitewashing, and identification. Trade Review"Jeffrey Brown does it again! With his usual compelling style of writing, this time we are treated to a very timely analysis of Marvel’s contemporary multicultural superheroes and their complex entanglements. The significance of this text is its sophisticated way of unpacking the pop cultural panoply of ideology, history, and identity in which the superhero aesthetic is inextricably confined."— Ronald L. Jackson II, co-author of the Comic-Con award winning book, Black Comics "Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel’s recasting of certain 'legacy heroes,' including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen."— Forces of Geek "[Brown] has written a wonderfully readable book whose academic posture does not make it any less appealing to the layperson or the aficionado."— South China Morning Post "Smash Pages QA: Jeffrey A. Brown: The pop culture scholar discusses his latest books on superheroes, diversity and gender"— SmashPagesTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Marvel and Modern America Spider-Analogues: Unmarking and Unmasking White Male Superheroism The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics Superdad: Luke Cage and Heroic Fatherhood in the Civil War Comics Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification and Appropriation Iron Fist: Ethnicity, Appropriation and Repatriation Totally Awesome Asian Heroes vs. Stereotypes A New America: Marvelous Latinx Superheroes Ms. Marvel: A Thoroughly Relatable Muslim Superheroine Afterword: “Because the World Still Needs Heroes” Works Cited
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Rutgers University Press Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican
Book SynopsisSpanning the first half of the twentieth century, Deportes uncovers the hidden experiences of Mexican male and female athletes, teams and leagues and their supporters who fought for a more level playing field on both sides of the border. Despite a widespread belief that Mexicans shunned physical exercise, teamwork or “good sportsmanship,” they proved that they could compete in a wide variety of sports at amateur, semiprofessional, Olympic and professional levels. Some even made their mark in the sports world by becoming the “first” Mexican athlete to reach the big leagues and win Olympic medals or world boxing and tennis titles. These sporting achievements were not theirs alone, an entire cadre of supporters—families, friends, coaches, managers, promoters, sportswriters, and fans—rallied around them and celebrated their athletic success. The Mexican nation and community, at home or abroad, elevated Mexican athletes to sports hero status with a deep sense of cultural and national pride. Alamillo argues that Mexican-origin males and females in the United States used sports to empower themselves and their community by developing and sustaining transnational networks with Mexico. Ultimately, these athletes and their supporters created a “sporting Mexican diaspora” that overcame economic barriers, challenged racial and gender assumptions, forged sporting networks across borders, developed new hybrid identities and raised awareness about civil rights within and beyond the sporting world.Trade Review"Long before today’s humanitarian activists clustered at the U.S.-Mexico border in support of artificially fractured communities and separated families, Mexican athletes—women and men—countered racist, sexist and nationalist sporting projects with their own transnational agency. With careful historical research, José M. Alamillo shows how, during the first half of the Twentieth Century, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans played, watched and wrote about baseball, boxing, basketball, running and other sports. An important book for our time, Deportes unveils a heretofore unwritten history, as it illuminates the possibilities that inhere in diasporic sport networks, to empower and unify, rather than to divide." -- Michael A. Messner * author of Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace *"This book is a real beacon in the growing field of transnational studies and presents a cutting edge historical observation of Latino/a sport in the western hemisphere. José Alamillo’s commanding knowledge of diaspora anchors his scrutiny of the Mexican sporting culture, gender identities and transnational networks. His attractive narrative makes this study very readable, is well-suited for a scholarly and lay audience, and is a must for students in ethnic and gender studies. As well, viewed through a sporting lens, the author’s examination of migration and national identity increases the uniqueness of this compelling work." -- Samuel O. Regalado * author of Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and their Special Hunger *"Filled with unforgettable figures, Deportes provides the first transnational history of organized sports as recreation, occupation, and cultural identity among ethnic Mexicans in the Southwest." -- Vicki L. Ruiz * author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America *"New Books Network - New Books in Latino Studies" interview with José Alamillo https://newbooksnetwork.com/jose-alamillo-deportes-the-making-of-a-sporting-mexican-diaspora-rutgers-up-2020/ * New Books Network - New Books in Latino Studies *"The field of sports studies is experiencing a renaissance, and José Alamillo is at the forefront of it. In Deportes, Alamillo illustrates his mastery of transnational history by telling the story of the role of sport in Mexican American community formation on both sides of the border during the first half of the 20th century. Our understanding of the Mexican American experience is vitally enriched by this pathbreaking scholar’s well-written and impeccably researched book." * Public Books *"Deportes offers a hemispheric approach, spanning the end of the 19th century to the years following World War II. The book documents the creation and evolution of a 'sporting Mexican diaspora' for Mexicans, Mexican immigrants to the United States, and Mexican Americans. Alamillo traces the 'imaginary and material interactions between athletes, team managers, and coaches across national borders as they organize, promote, and compete in sports-related activities.'" * Public Books *"A foundational contribution to interdisciplinary and intersectional analyses of sport in transnational contexts, and a signal work on Mexican American identity creation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." * The Americas *"Long before today’s humanitarian activists clustered at the U.S.-Mexico border in support of artificially fractured communities and separated families, Mexican athletes—women and men—countered racist, sexist and nationalist sporting projects with their own transnational agency. With careful historical research, José M. Alamillo shows how, during the first half of the Twentieth Century, Mexicans and Mexican-Americans played, watched and wrote about baseball, boxing, basketball, running and other sports. An important book for our time, Deportes unveils a heretofore unwritten history, as it illuminates the possibilities that inhere in diasporic sport networks, to empower and unify, rather than to divide." -- Michael A. Messner * author of Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace *"This book is a real beacon in the growing field of transnational studies and presents a cutting edge historical observation of Latino/a sport in the western hemisphere. José Alamillo’s commanding knowledge of diaspora anchors his scrutiny of the Mexican sporting culture, gender identities and transnational networks. His attractive narrative makes this study very readable, is well-suited for a scholarly and lay audience, and is a must for students in ethnic and gender studies. As well, viewed through a sporting lens, the author’s examination of migration and national identity increases the uniqueness of this compelling work." -- Samuel O. Regalado * author of Viva Baseball!: Latin Major Leaguers and their Special Hunger *"Filled with unforgettable figures, Deportes provides the first transnational history of organized sports as recreation, occupation, and cultural identity among ethnic Mexicans in the Southwest." -- Vicki L. Ruiz * author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America *"New Books Network - New Books in Latino Studies" interview with José Alamillo https://newbooksnetwork.com/jose-alamillo-deportes-the-making-of-a-sporting-mexican-diaspora-rutgers-up-2020/ * New Books Network - New Books in Latino Studies *"The field of sports studies is experiencing a renaissance, and José Alamillo is at the forefront of it. In Deportes, Alamillo illustrates his mastery of transnational history by telling the story of the role of sport in Mexican American community formation on both sides of the border during the first half of the 20th century. Our understanding of the Mexican American experience is vitally enriched by this pathbreaking scholar’s well-written and impeccably researched book." * Public Books *"Deportes offers a hemispheric approach, spanning the end of the 19th century to the years following World War II. The book documents the creation and evolution of a 'sporting Mexican diaspora' for Mexicans, Mexican immigrants to the United States, and Mexican Americans. Alamillo traces the 'imaginary and material interactions between athletes, team managers, and coaches across national borders as they organize, promote, and compete in sports-related activities.'" * Public Books *"A foundational contribution to interdisciplinary and intersectional analyses of sport in transnational contexts, and a signal work on Mexican American identity creation during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." * The Americas *"Alamillo’s broad set of topics and wide source base—including individuals’ stories that ordinarily take a backseat to sports superstars—makes this work an important read for those interested in not only sports and Mexican American history but also gender, U.S.-Mexican relations, immigration, and migration." -- Allison D. Huntley * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Deportes, Americanization, and Mexican Sporting Culture 2. El Boxeo, Immigration, and the “Great Brown Hope” 3. Playing Béisbol Across Borders 4. Forging Transnational Sporting Networks 5. Becoming Good Neighbors through Wartime Sports 6. Sporting a New Identity in Postwar America Conclusion Index
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Rutgers University Press Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence,
Book SynopsisFar too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black families and the inter-generational perpetuation of social chaos and untimely death. Young people are repeatedly ripped away from life by violence, while many men are locked away in prisons. In neighborhoods like those of Wilmington, Delaware, residents routinely face the pressures of violence, death, and incarceration. Murder Town, USA is thus a timely ethnography with an innovative structure: the authors helped organize fifteen residents formerly involved with the streets and/or the criminal justice system to document the relationship between structural opportunity and experiences with violence in Wilmington's Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods. Earlier scholars offered rich cultural analysis of violence in low-income Black communities, and yet this literature has mostly conceptualized violence through frameworks of personal responsibility or individual accountability. And even if acknowledging the pressure of structural inequality, most earlier researchers describe violence as the ultimate result of some moral failing, a propensity for crime, and the notion of helplessness. Instead, in Murder Town USA, Payne, Hitchens, and Chamber, along with their collaborative team of street ethnographers, instead offer a radical re-conceptualization of violence in low-income Black communities by describing the penchant for violence and involvement in crime overall to be a logical, "resilient" response to the perverse context of structural inequality.Trade Review“Murder Town, USA covers essential terrain for sociologists and other social scientists to more aggressively venture into such that the complexities of contemporary African-American life can be more fully unpacked. The scholarship is sound and the writing is clear.” -- Alford A. Young Jr. * author of From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work *“Most debates about the urban gun violence epidemic exclude the voices of those who are most grievously impacted. By centering the experiences of street-identified residents of Wilmington, Delaware and situating them within their structural context, Murder Town, USA is required reading for anyone in search of solutions.” -- Jamie J. Fader * author of On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Street Identity, Structural Violence, and Street PAR 1 Part I: Context of Opportunity and Violence 1 A City of Banks: A Long Legacy of Economic Violence and Crime 27 2 “Welcome to Wilmington—A Place to Be Somebody”: Negotiating City Culture and Building Rapport 41 3 “Murder Town, USA”: Reframing Gun Violence and Resilience in a Small City 57 Part II: Management, Containment, and the Social Control of Black Wilmington 4 "I'm Still Waiting Man . . . on That Golden Ticket!" Education and Economic Justice, a Dream Deferred––in Perpetuity 87 5 “F-ck the Police!” Standing Up to the Policing Machine 113 6 “I Don’t Let These Felonies Hold Me Back!” HowThe Streets Radically Reframed Re-entry 135 Part III: Street Agency: Coping with and Ending the Structural Violence Complex 7 “Brenda’s Got a Baby”: Competing Roles of Black Women as Matriarchs and Hustlers 157 8 “Street Love”: How Psychological and Social Well-Being Interrupts Gun Violence 181 9 “Winter is Coming!” White Walkers, Revolutionary Change, and the Streets Call for Structural Transformation 196 Conclusion: Calling for a Radical Street Ethnography: Street PAR, SOR Theory, and the Bottom Caste 217 Notes 233 Bibliography 263 Index 000
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Rutgers University Press Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization, and the
Book SynopsisIn Caribes 2.0, author Jossianna Arroyo looks at the Caribbean mediasphere in the twenty-first century. Arroyo argues that we have seen a return to tropes such as blackface, brownface, cultural and ethnic stereotypes, and violent representations of the poor, the marginalized, and the racialized. Caribes 2.0 looks at these tropes as well as the work of writers, vloggers, performers, and photographers that have become media figures or have used new media platforms to promote their work and examines how they are challenging and negotiating these media representations. It analyzes contemporary Caribbean cultures to discuss, taste, guides, and actions (social and virtual) that shape Caribbean global communities today. Departing from Edouard Glissant’s insight that “Caribbean reality might not be accessed by remote control” the book considers what types of political and social agencies are created by mediation. Caribes 2.0 deviates from these historical-globalized views of subjected, colonized Caribbean bodies, and their material conditions, to examine the relationship between the local and the global in contemporary Caribbean cultures, and the role that media is playing in the invisibility or hyper-visibilty of Caribbean cultures in the islands and the U.S. diaspora. Trade Review"Jossianna Arroyo offers a magistral deconstruction of 21st-century forms of necropolitics insidiously wielded via Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and other digital platforms; television; and literary and cinematic production. With sophisticated straightforwardness, Arroyo compels us to critically look at the too-familiar imagery accompanying the invention and reproduction of Caribbean otherness across centuries and nations." -- Odette Casamayor-Cisneros * associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, University of Pennsylv *“Caribes 2.0 offers canny insight into the logics of visibility, performance and politics that blossom in the mediascapes of a globalized Caribe. Refusing easy takes, the book tracks the afterlives of slavery and ongoing anti-Black racism as they morph and reassemble in twenty-first-century Caribbean media. Moving seamlessly between TikTok and Televisa, Santo Domingo and Orlando, Arroyo offers fascinating readings of what 'viral' racial images and outlaw performativity reveal about neoliberal codes for self-making—and their refusal.” -- Rachel Price * associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University *Table of Contents 1 Caribbean Mediascapes: After the Image 2 Enacting Others: Blackface, Brownface, and Caribbean Selves 3 Ratchetness and Vlogging the Self 4 Cities of the Dead: Performing Life in the Caribbean 5 Indebted Citizenships and Afterlives of Disaster Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
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Rutgers University Press Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The
Book SynopsisChild maltreatment occurs in the Black community at higher rates than any other racial group. Given the prevalence of child maltreatment risk factors in the Black community, such as being in a low-income family, single parent family, greater exposure to physical discipline, and less access to services and resources, it is not surprising but nonetheless concerning that Black children are at greater risk for abuse and/or neglect. Unearthing the cause and effect between the challenges faced by the Black community and the life outcomes for Black children is key to making positive changes happen. Through a feminist and womanist lens, the authors unpack the range of factors that intersect and impact the Black community that are necessary to address to effectively protect Black children. Understanding how to prevent maltreatment and promote health and wellness are essential to adequately address maltreatment so as to protect and empower Black children.Trade Review"Phillips, Moore-Lobban, and Fuentes splendidly deliver a detailed and excellent conversation regarding the maltreatment of Black young bodies in the US. Their holistic lens truly captures the barriers and systems of oppression that impact these youths, and their approach to the topic is rooted in cultural humility. This approach, if used properly, could lead to both a better understanding of the dynamics involved in US Black child maltreatment, and a decrease in the number of Black youths mistreated." -- Terence Fitzgerald * author of Black Males and Racism: Improving the Schooling and Life Chances of African Americans *"Practical and comprehensive, this is an invaluable resource for the child welfare community and all human service professionals. The causes, effects, and prevention efforts associated with maltreatment of Black children are meticulously addressed. Historical underpinnings and social structures that speak to unique challenges Black families face, and strengths inherent within the Black community are appropriately chronicled. With this book, the authors make a significant contribution to the literature base." -- Keith A. Alford * Dean and Professor of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work *"Phillips, Moore-Lobban, and Fuentes splendidly deliver a detailed and excellent conversation regarding the maltreatment of Black young bodies in the US. Their holistic lens truly captures the barriers and systems of oppression that impact these youths, and their approach to the topic is rooted in cultural humility. This approach, if used properly, could lead to both a better understanding of the dynamics involved in US Black child maltreatment, and a decrease in the number of Black youths mistreated." -- Terence Fitzgerald * author of Black Males and Racism: Improving the Schooling and Life Chances of African Americans *"Practical and comprehensive, this is an invaluable resource for the child welfare community and all human service professionals. The causes, effects, and prevention efforts associated with maltreatment of Black children are meticulously addressed. Historical underpinnings and social structures that speak to unique challenges Black families face, and strengths inherent within the Black community are appropriately chronicled. With this book, the authors make a significant contribution to the literature base." -- Keith A. Alford * Dean and Professor of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Understanding Black Families2 The Epidemiology of Maltreatment of Black Children3 Exploring the Child Welfare System4 Child Maltreatment Prevention and Intervention5 Promoting Health and Wellness6 Advocacy and Child Welfare Reform7 Application of Prevention and Intervention: A Case Study8 Conclusion: What the Future Should HoldRecommended Readings and ResourcesReferencesIndex
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The
Book SynopsisChild maltreatment occurs in the Black community at higher rates than any other racial group. Given the prevalence of child maltreatment risk factors in the Black community, such as being in a low-income family, single parent family, greater exposure to physical discipline, and less access to services and resources, it is not surprising but nonetheless concerning that Black children are at greater risk for abuse and/or neglect. Unearthing the cause and effect between the challenges faced by the Black community and the life outcomes for Black children is key to making positive changes happen. Through a feminist and womanist lens, the authors unpack the range of factors that intersect and impact the Black community that are necessary to address to effectively protect Black children. Understanding how to prevent maltreatment and promote health and wellness are essential to adequately address maltreatment so as to protect and empower Black children.Trade Review"Phillips, Moore-Lobban, and Fuentes splendidly deliver a detailed and excellent conversation regarding the maltreatment of Black young bodies in the US. Their holistic lens truly captures the barriers and systems of oppression that impact these youths, and their approach to the topic is rooted in cultural humility. This approach, if used properly, could lead to both a better understanding of the dynamics involved in US Black child maltreatment, and a decrease in the number of Black youths mistreated." -- Terence Fitzgerald * author of Black Males and Racism: Improving the Schooling and Life Chances of African Americans *"Practical and comprehensive, this is an invaluable resource for the child welfare community and all human service professionals. The causes, effects, and prevention efforts associated with maltreatment of Black children are meticulously addressed. Historical underpinnings and social structures that speak to unique challenges Black families face, and strengths inherent within the Black community are appropriately chronicled. With this book, the authors make a significant contribution to the literature base." -- Keith A. Alford * Dean and Professor of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work *"Phillips, Moore-Lobban, and Fuentes splendidly deliver a detailed and excellent conversation regarding the maltreatment of Black young bodies in the US. Their holistic lens truly captures the barriers and systems of oppression that impact these youths, and their approach to the topic is rooted in cultural humility. This approach, if used properly, could lead to both a better understanding of the dynamics involved in US Black child maltreatment, and a decrease in the number of Black youths mistreated." -- Terence Fitzgerald * author of Black Males and Racism: Improving the Schooling and Life Chances of African Americans *"Practical and comprehensive, this is an invaluable resource for the child welfare community and all human service professionals. The causes, effects, and prevention efforts associated with maltreatment of Black children are meticulously addressed. Historical underpinnings and social structures that speak to unique challenges Black families face, and strengths inherent within the Black community are appropriately chronicled. With this book, the authors make a significant contribution to the literature base." -- Keith A. Alford * Dean and Professor of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Understanding Black Families2 The Epidemiology of Maltreatment of Black Children3 Exploring the Child Welfare System4 Child Maltreatment Prevention and Intervention5 Promoting Health and Wellness6 Advocacy and Child Welfare Reform7 Application of Prevention and Intervention: A Case Study8 Conclusion: What the Future Should HoldRecommended Readings and ResourcesReferencesIndex
£23.79
Rutgers University Press The Guise of Exceptionalism: Unmasking the
Book SynopsisThe Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include €the groups it had once excluded.Trade Review"In the era of Black Lives Matter and the mobilization of Black and Brown people to affirm their identity and belonging in America, Robert Fatton has successfully combined a transnational approach to offer the reader a new perspective on race relations, class and power in America in the twenty-first century."— François Pierre-Louis Jr., co-editor of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York "In this extraordinary book,Robert Fatton offers a trenchant comparative analysis of the ideology of exceptionalism as it was deployed in the United States and Haiti to extol the world-shaking revolutions that led to the first two independent nation-states in the New World, in 1776 and 1804, respectively."— New West Indian Guide "The Guise of Exceptionalism offers tremendous resources for thinking in complex terms about a world in which nationalism persistently takes on more dangerous and destructive expressions."— Perspectives on Politics “In this engaging and lucid work, Fatton brilliantly analyzes and critiques ideologies of national exceptionalism. In the process, he demonstrates the interpretive power of comparison, urging us to re-think the intertwined futures of Haiti and the U.S. by refusing myths and narratives that distort their national histories.”— Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of HistoryTable of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 American Exceptionalism Chapter 3 Exceptionalism and “Unthinkability” Chapter 4 Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti Chapter 5 The American Occupation and Haiti’s Exceptionalism Chapter 6 Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 7 Dictatorship, Democratization, And Exceptionalism Chapter 8 The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism Chapter 9 Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism Chapter 10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community
Book SynopsisIn From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga’s research is timely, especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented immigration of women and minors from Latin America, many of whom seek human rights protection or to reunite with families in the US. From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at the agency and contributions that women make with their imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and sending community. Ultimately the book contributes further understanding to the heterogeneity of Latin American immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean and indigenous migrant women in New York. Trade Review“Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding.” -- Miguel Centeno * Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University *"This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market." -- Nancy López * co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press) *Table of Contents Prologue 1 Introduction 2 The Migration of Women and Race: A Typology 3 The New Spaces and Faces of Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York City 4 “Unos Duermen de Noche y Otros de Día”: The Living Arrangements of Undocumented Families 5 An Intersectional View at Social Mobility, Race, and Migration 6 “¡Y Ellos Pensaban que Yo Era Blanca!” Racial Capital and Ambiguous Identities Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£28.90
Rutgers University Press From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community
Book SynopsisIn From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga’s research is timely, especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented immigration of women and minors from Latin America, many of whom seek human rights protection or to reunite with families in the US. From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at the agency and contributions that women make with their imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and sending community. Ultimately the book contributes further understanding to the heterogeneity of Latin American immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean and indigenous migrant women in New York. Trade Review"Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding." — Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University "This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market."— Nancy López, co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press) "Norma Fuentes's new book draws on many years of fieldwork and contributes important insights on Dominican and Mexican women’s lives and life chances in New York. Focusing on these increasingly female migration flows, particularly interesting is that Fuentes notes how their lives and welfare are affected by their phenotype and how they fit into local racial hierarchies." — Robert Smith, author of Mexican New York: Transnational Worlds of New Immigrants "This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market."— Nancy López, co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press) “Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding.”— Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPrologue 1 Introduction 2 The Migration of Women and Race: A Typology 3 The New Spaces and Faces of Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York City 4 “Unos Duermen de Noche y Otros de Día”: The Living Arrangements of Undocumented Families 5 An Intersectional View at Social Mobility, Race, and Migration 6 “¡Y Ellos Pensaban que Yo Era Blanca!” Racial Capital and Ambiguous Identities Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The
Book SynopsisThis book is part of a concentrated series of books that examines child maltreatment across cultural groups. Specifically, this volume examines core concepts relevant to Latinx families (e.g., familismo, acculturation, spirituality, oppression) as they relate to child maltreatment in the United States. While there are vast differences across Latinx families, authors use critical race and feminist theories to explore the impact of differences based on gender, race, immigration status, and country of origin. The book begins by contextualizing child maltreatment in Latinx families within the pervasive structural racism and inequality in the United States and addressing unique traumas experienced by Latinx families resulting from that inequity. Subsequent chapters address prevention of child maltreatment, responses to maltreatment and healing from trauma with an emphasis on resilience within the Latinx community. Three case studies are used to illustrate and apply concepts from each chapter. Trade Review"A refreshing and nuanced perspective that debunks colonialist narratives on child maltreatment and centers cultural context in discourse on origins of and interventions for maltreatment, this book takes an intersectional approach in identifying challenges and recommending how to support safe, stable and nurturing parenting in an increasingly diverse U.S. population. A critical resource for practitioners, policy makers and researchers alike." -- Megan Finno-Velasquez * Associate Professor and Director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, New Mexico State University *"This book provides an expansive and insightful account of the economic, political, social, and structural drivers of child maltreatment in the United States. Case studies, prevention strategies, and treatment and policy recommendations are grounded in a cultural perspective that highlights the strengths of Latinx children and families. This book is a key resource for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines that focus on child protection, child well-being, and anti-oppressive practice and should be a required reading for anyone who works intimately in Latinx communities." -- Jodi Berger Cardoso * Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Houston *"A refreshing and nuanced perspective that debunks colonialist narratives on child maltreatment and centers cultural context in discourse on origins of and interventions for maltreatment, this book takes an intersectional approach in identifying challenges and recommending how to support safe, stable and nurturing parenting in an increasingly diverse U.S. population. A critical resource for practitioners, policy makers and researchers alike." -- Megan Finno-Velasquez * Associate Professor and Director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, New Mexico State Un *"This book provides an expansive and insightful account of the economic, political, social, and structural drivers of child maltreatment in the United States. Case studies, prevention strategies, and treatment and policy recommendations are grounded in a cultural perspective that highlights the strengths of Latinx children and families. This book is a key resource for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines that focus on child protection, child well-being, and anti-oppressive practice and should be a required reading for anyone who works intimately in Latinx communities." -- Jodi Berger Cardoso * Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Houston *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Contextual and Cultural Considerations for Understanding Latinx Families in the United States 2. Understanding Child Maltreatment in the Latinx Population 3. Trauma and Its Impact on Latinx Families 4. Parenting and Discipline in Latinx Families 5. Preventing Child Maltreatment among Latinx Families in the United States6. Providing Targeted Child Maltreatment Interventions to Latinx Families 7. Promoting Resilience and Healing in Latinx Families 8. Conclusion: Future DirectionsReferencesIndex
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Preventing Child Maltreatment in the U.S.: The
Book SynopsisThis book is part of a concentrated series of books that examines child maltreatment across cultural groups. Specifically, this volume examines core concepts relevant to Latinx families (e.g., familismo, acculturation, spirituality, oppression) as they relate to child maltreatment in the United States. While there are vast differences across Latinx families, authors use critical race and feminist theories to explore the impact of differences based on gender, race, immigration status, and country of origin. The book begins by contextualizing child maltreatment in Latinx families within the pervasive structural racism and inequality in the United States and addressing unique traumas experienced by Latinx families resulting from that inequity. Subsequent chapters address prevention of child maltreatment, responses to maltreatment and healing from trauma with an emphasis on resilience within the Latinx community. Three case studies are used to illustrate and apply concepts from each chapter. Trade Review"A refreshing and nuanced perspective that debunks colonialist narratives on child maltreatment and centers cultural context in discourse on origins of and interventions for maltreatment, this book takes an intersectional approach in identifying challenges and recommending how to support safe, stable and nurturing parenting in an increasingly diverse U.S. population. A critical resource for practitioners, policy makers and researchers alike." -- Megan Finno-Velasquez * Associate Professor and Director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, New Mexico State University *"This book provides an expansive and insightful account of the economic, political, social, and structural drivers of child maltreatment in the United States. Case studies, prevention strategies, and treatment and policy recommendations are grounded in a cultural perspective that highlights the strengths of Latinx children and families. This book is a key resource for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines that focus on child protection, child well-being, and anti-oppressive practice and should be a required reading for anyone who works intimately in Latinx communities." -- Jodi Berger Cardoso * Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Houston *"A refreshing and nuanced perspective that debunks colonialist narratives on child maltreatment and centers cultural context in discourse on origins of and interventions for maltreatment, this book takes an intersectional approach in identifying challenges and recommending how to support safe, stable and nurturing parenting in an increasingly diverse U.S. population. A critical resource for practitioners, policy makers and researchers alike." -- Megan Finno-Velasquez * Associate Professor and Director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, New Mexico State Un *"This book provides an expansive and insightful account of the economic, political, social, and structural drivers of child maltreatment in the United States. Case studies, prevention strategies, and treatment and policy recommendations are grounded in a cultural perspective that highlights the strengths of Latinx children and families. This book is a key resource for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines that focus on child protection, child well-being, and anti-oppressive practice and should be a required reading for anyone who works intimately in Latinx communities." -- Jodi Berger Cardoso * Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Houston *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Contextual and Cultural Considerations for Understanding Latinx Families in the United States 2. Understanding Child Maltreatment in the Latinx Population 3. Trauma and Its Impact on Latinx Families 4. Parenting and Discipline in Latinx Families 5. Preventing Child Maltreatment among Latinx Families in the United States6. Providing Targeted Child Maltreatment Interventions to Latinx Families 7. Promoting Resilience and Healing in Latinx Families 8. Conclusion: Future DirectionsReferencesIndex
£23.39
Rutgers University Press Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media
Book SynopsisWith the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and super-niche audiences are developing across a wide range of platforms. Minority communities such as immigrants and refugees have long been pioneers in this space, operating ethnic media outlets with limited staff and funding to produce content that is relevant and accessible to their specific community. Micro Media Industries explores the specific case of Hmong American media, showing how an extremely small population can maintain a robust and thriving media ecology in spite of resource limitations and an inability to scale up. Based on six years of fieldwork in Hmong American communities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, it analyzes the unique opportunities and challenges facing Hmong newspapers, radio, television, podcasts, YouTube, social media, and other emerging platforms. It argues that micro media industries, rather than being dismissed or trivialized, ought to be held up as models of media innovation that can counter the increasing power of mainstream media. Trade Review“Micro Media Industries accomplishes the difficult task of describing the media worlds of Hmong Americans with depth and complexity while also analyzing the broader phenomenon of micro media production to give us a new way of understanding the importance of self-representation and the structuring role of media in creating social ties.” -- LeiLani Nishime * author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture *"A brilliant and moving account of what the vibrant Hmong American mediascape tells us about promises and perils of minority media production and circulation in an era of platform capitalism." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *“Micro Media Industries accomplishes the difficult task of describing the media worlds of Hmong Americans with depth and complexity while also analyzing the broader phenomenon of micro media production to give us a new way of understanding the importance of self-representation and the structuring role of media in creating social ties.” -- LeiLani Nishime * author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture *"A brilliant and moving account of what the vibrant Hmong American mediascape tells us about promises and perils of minority media production and circulation in an era of platform capitalism." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Significance of Micro Media Industries 2 Without a Newsroom: Journalism and the Micro Media Empire 3 TV without Television: YouTube and Digital Video 4 Global Participatory Networks: Teleconference Radio Programs 5 Queer Sounds: Podcasting and Audio Archives 6 Alternative Aspirational Labor: Influencers and Social Media Producers 7 Conclusion: Beyond Hmong American Media Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Micro Media Industries: Hmong American Media
Book SynopsisWith the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and super-niche audiences are developing across a wide range of platforms. Minority communities such as immigrants and refugees have long been pioneers in this space, operating ethnic media outlets with limited staff and funding to produce content that is relevant and accessible to their specific community. Micro Media Industries explores the specific case of Hmong American media, showing how an extremely small population can maintain a robust and thriving media ecology in spite of resource limitations and an inability to scale up. Based on six years of fieldwork in Hmong American communities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, it analyzes the unique opportunities and challenges facing Hmong newspapers, radio, television, podcasts, YouTube, social media, and other emerging platforms. It argues that micro media industries, rather than being dismissed or trivialized, ought to be held up as models of media innovation that can counter the increasing power of mainstream media. Trade Review“Micro Media Industries accomplishes the difficult task of describing the media worlds of Hmong Americans with depth and complexity while also analyzing the broader phenomenon of micro media production to give us a new way of understanding the importance of self-representation and the structuring role of media in creating social ties.” -- LeiLani Nishime * author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture *"A brilliant and moving account of what the vibrant Hmong American mediascape tells us about promises and perils of minority media production and circulation in an era of platform capitalism." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *“Micro Media Industries accomplishes the difficult task of describing the media worlds of Hmong Americans with depth and complexity while also analyzing the broader phenomenon of micro media production to give us a new way of understanding the importance of self-representation and the structuring role of media in creating social ties.” -- LeiLani Nishime * author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture *"A brilliant and moving account of what the vibrant Hmong American mediascape tells us about promises and perils of minority media production and circulation in an era of platform capitalism." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Significance of Micro Media Industries 2 Without a Newsroom: Journalism and the Micro Media Empire 3 TV without Television: YouTube and Digital Video 4 Global Participatory Networks: Teleconference Radio Programs 5 Queer Sounds: Podcasting and Audio Archives 6 Alternative Aspirational Labor: Influencers and Social Media Producers 7 Conclusion: Beyond Hmong American Media Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and the correctional officers charged with their care, custody, and control produce and reproduce hegemonic racial ideologies. Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Under these conditions, it shouldn’t be surprising, but is rarely considered, that such daily interactions produce and reproduce white racial resentment among many correctional officers and fuel the racialized tensions that prisoners often describe as the worst forms of dehumanization. Way Down in the Hole concludes with recommendations for reducing the use of solitary confinement, reforming its use in a limited context, and most importantly, creating an environment in which prisoners and staff co-exist in ways that recognize their individual humanity and reduce rather than reproduce racial antagonisms and racial resentment.Way Down the Hole Video 1 (https://youtu.be/UuAB63fhge0)Way Down the Hole Video 2 (https://youtu.be/TwEuw1cTrcQ)Way Down the Hole Video 3 (https://youtu.be/bOcBv_UnHIs)Way Down the Hole Video 4 (https://youtu.be/cx_l1S8D77c)Trade Review“A stunning exposé and call to change, Way Down in the Hole lays bare the racism of our criminal justice system as it extends into the horror of solitary confinement. No stone is left unturned; Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith have made us aware.” -- Mary Buser * author of Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York’s Notorious Jail *“With passion, clarity, and sociological depth, Professors Hattery and Smith analyze and deconstruct the highest stage of white supremacy in contemporary America: solitary confinement. Way Down in the Hole is antiracist ethnography at its best, an instant classic.” -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva * author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America *“Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery provide us with a startling view of how solitary confinement in U.S. prisons both dehumanizes and racializes. Way Down in the Hole is an insightful analysis of this abuse and the structure of racist lies within society by which it is maintained.” -- Rory McVeigh * author of The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment *“A stunning exposé and call to change, Way Down in the Hole lays bare the racism of our criminal justice system as it extends into the horror of solitary confinement. No stone is left unturned; Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith have made us aware.” -- Mary Buser * author of Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York’s Notorious Jail *“With passion, clarity, and sociological depth, Professors Hattery and Smith analyze and deconstruct the highest stage of white supremacy in contemporary America: solitary confinement. Way Down in the Hole is antiracist ethnography at its best, an instant classic.” -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva * author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in Ame *“Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery provide us with a startling view of how solitary confinement in U.S. prisons both dehumanizes and racializes. Way Down in the Hole is an insightful analysis of this abuse and the structure of racist lies within society by which it is maintained.” -- Rory McVeigh * author of The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part 1: The Hole Chapter 1: A Day in the Hole Chapter 2: Solitary Confinement in Context Chapter 3: Ideal types Part 2: Scholar’s Story Chapter 4: Recruiting Inmates Chapter 5: Getting to the hole Chapter 6: Scholar’s Story Chapter 7: Racism in Solitary Chapter 8: The cell assignment Chapter 9: It’s “culture” not “race’ Part 3: CO Porter and Dr. Emma Chapter 10: Prison Sitings Chapter 11: Prison Town--Larrabee Chapter 12: Dr. Emma and the Professional Staff Chapter 13: Microtel Chapter 14 It’s either this or the coal mine Chapter 15: Sometimes I sleep in my car Part 4: Fifty’s Story Chapter 16: Dehumanization Chapter 17: Language Chapter 18: Studies with Monkeys Chapter 19: Choosing the hole Chapter 20: Hygiene products Chapter 21: The mirror Chapter 22: Food Chapter 23: Time Chapter 24: Mail Chapter 25: Extreme violence Part 5: Marina’s Story Chapter 26: Welcome to SCI-Women Chapter 27: The women’s hole Chapter 28: Meeting the Mass Killer: Solitary confinement is her “home” Chapter 29: The BMU Chapter 30: CO Lisa Chapter 31: Wendi Chapter 32: Marina Part 6: CO Travis Chapter 33: We are Trump’s Forgotten Chapter 34: Solitary should be “hard” time: this isn’t a daycare! Chapter 35: Correctional PTSD Chapter 36: Faking mental illness to get a candy bar Chapter 37: “Therapy” with Dr. Emma Chapter 38: Programming Chapter 39: TVs, Trays and [Flush] Toilets Chapter 40: The Flipped Script Chapter 41: The Job of the CO, Work of the CO Chapter 42: Contact and intimate surveillance Chapter 43: White racial resentment Part 7: White Supremacy and the Lies White People Tell Themselves Chapter 44: The Lie Built on a Foundation of White Supremacy Chapter 45: Critical Race Theory: The Lie is Confirmed in Solitary Confinement Chapter 46: Yet Another Lie: To be Black is to be a Criminal Chapter 47: From Solitary to the Streets Chapter 48: What about those who “chose” solitary? Chapter 49: Emancipated Slave and the White Sharecropper Chapter 50: Dying By Whiteness Chapter 51: Solitary Confinement: Reducing rather than (Re) Producing White Racial Resentment Chapter 52: Strangers in their Own Land Chapter 53: The Lies the COs Tell Themselves Chapter 54: January 6, 2021---White nationalists storm the US Capitol Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy, and the
Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and the correctional officers charged with their care, custody, and control produce and reproduce hegemonic racial ideologies. Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Under these conditions, it shouldn’t be surprising, but is rarely considered, that such daily interactions produce and reproduce white racial resentment among many correctional officers and fuel the racialized tensions that prisoners often describe as the worst forms of dehumanization. Way Down in the Hole concludes with recommendations for reducing the use of solitary confinement, reforming its use in a limited context, and most importantly, creating an environment in which prisoners and staff co-exist in ways that recognize their individual humanity and reduce rather than reproduce racial antagonisms and racial resentment.Way Down the Hole Video 1 (https://youtu.be/UuAB63fhge0)Way Down the Hole Video 2 (https://youtu.be/TwEuw1cTrcQ)Way Down the Hole Video 3 (https://youtu.be/bOcBv_UnHIs)Way Down the Hole Video 4 (https://youtu.be/cx_l1S8D77c)Trade Review“A stunning exposé and call to change, Way Down in the Hole lays bare the racism of our criminal justice system as it extends into the horror of solitary confinement. No stone is left unturned; Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith have made us aware.” -- Mary Buser * author of Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York’s Notorious Jail *“With passion, clarity, and sociological depth, Professors Hattery and Smith analyze and deconstruct the highest stage of white supremacy in contemporary America: solitary confinement. Way Down in the Hole is antiracist ethnography at its best, an instant classic.” -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva * author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America *“Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery provide us with a startling view of how solitary confinement in U.S. prisons both dehumanizes and racializes. Way Down in the Hole is an insightful analysis of this abuse and the structure of racist lies within society by which it is maintained.” -- Rory McVeigh * author of The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment *“A stunning exposé and call to change, Way Down in the Hole lays bare the racism of our criminal justice system as it extends into the horror of solitary confinement. No stone is left unturned; Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith have made us aware.” -- Mary Buser * author of Lockdown on Rikers: Shocking Stories of Abuse and Injustice at New York’s Notorious Jail *“With passion, clarity, and sociological depth, Professors Hattery and Smith analyze and deconstruct the highest stage of white supremacy in contemporary America: solitary confinement. Way Down in the Hole is antiracist ethnography at its best, an instant classic.” -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva * author of Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in Ame *“Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery provide us with a startling view of how solitary confinement in U.S. prisons both dehumanizes and racializes. Way Down in the Hole is an insightful analysis of this abuse and the structure of racist lies within society by which it is maintained.” -- Rory McVeigh * author of The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Part 1: The Hole Chapter 1: A Day in the Hole Chapter 2: Solitary Confinement in Context Chapter 3: Ideal types Part 2: Scholar’s Story Chapter 4: Recruiting Inmates Chapter 5: Getting to the hole Chapter 6: Scholar’s Story Chapter 7: Racism in Solitary Chapter 8: The cell assignment Chapter 9: It’s “culture” not “race’ Part 3: CO Porter and Dr. Emma Chapter 10: Prison Sitings Chapter 11: Prison Town--Larrabee Chapter 12: Dr. Emma and the Professional Staff Chapter 13: Microtel Chapter 14 It’s either this or the coal mine Chapter 15: Sometimes I sleep in my car Part 4: Fifty’s Story Chapter 16: Dehumanization Chapter 17: Language Chapter 18: Studies with Monkeys Chapter 19: Choosing the hole Chapter 20: Hygiene products Chapter 21: The mirror Chapter 22: Food Chapter 23: Time Chapter 24: Mail Chapter 25: Extreme violence Part 5: Marina’s Story Chapter 26: Welcome to SCI-Women Chapter 27: The women’s hole Chapter 28: Meeting the Mass Killer: Solitary confinement is her “home” Chapter 29: The BMU Chapter 30: CO Lisa Chapter 31: Wendi Chapter 32: Marina Part 6: CO Travis Chapter 33: We are Trump’s Forgotten Chapter 34: Solitary should be “hard” time: this isn’t a daycare! Chapter 35: Correctional PTSD Chapter 36: Faking mental illness to get a candy bar Chapter 37: “Therapy” with Dr. Emma Chapter 38: Programming Chapter 39: TVs, Trays and [Flush] Toilets Chapter 40: The Flipped Script Chapter 41: The Job of the CO, Work of the CO Chapter 42: Contact and intimate surveillance Chapter 43: White racial resentment Part 7: White Supremacy and the Lies White People Tell Themselves Chapter 44: The Lie Built on a Foundation of White Supremacy Chapter 45: Critical Race Theory: The Lie is Confirmed in Solitary Confinement Chapter 46: Yet Another Lie: To be Black is to be a Criminal Chapter 47: From Solitary to the Streets Chapter 48: What about those who “chose” solitary? Chapter 49: Emancipated Slave and the White Sharecropper Chapter 50: Dying By Whiteness Chapter 51: Solitary Confinement: Reducing rather than (Re) Producing White Racial Resentment Chapter 52: Strangers in their Own Land Chapter 53: The Lies the COs Tell Themselves Chapter 54: January 6, 2021---White nationalists storm the US Capitol Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£59.50
Rutgers University Press Immigrant Agency: Hmong American Movements and
Book SynopsisThrough a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency shows how Hmong, despite being one of America’s most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to make sustained claims on and have their interests represented in public policies. The author, Yang Sao Xiong argues that the key to understanding how immigrants incorporate themselves politically is to understand how they mobilize collective action and make choices in circumstances far from racially neutral. Immigrant groups, in response to political threats or opportunities or both, mobilize collective action and make strategic choices about how to position themselves vis-à-vis other minority groups, how to construct group identities, and how to deploy various tactics in order to engage with the U.S. political system and influence policy. In response to immigrants’ collective claims, the racial state engages in racialization which undermines immigrants’ political standing and perpetuates their marginalization.Trade Review"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *Table of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresList of MapsList of Abbreviations1 Immigrant Agency2 History and Contexts of Exit3 Campaign for Justice4 Battle for Naturalization5 Movement for Inclusion6 Racialized Political Incorporation and Immigrant RightsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Babylost: Racism, Survival, and the Quiet
Book SynopsisThe U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.Trade Review“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbsence Abuse Angel Babies AwarenessBabyland Black Infant Mortality Blame BreastfeedingChildren’s Rights CIA World Factbook Congressional Black Caucus CubaDads Deprivation Disability DoulasEmptiness Envy EpigeneticsFolic acid Fracking FrankensteinGrief GuiltHopeInfant Mortality Rate InfanticideJapanKangaroo CareLifeMaternal Mortality Medicaid Memphis Mother’s DayNeonatology NursesObstetric Violence OhioPlacenta Prematurity Prenatal CareQuietRacism Rainbow Baby Reproductive JusticeStillbirth SurvivalTahlequah TraumaUrgency VulnerabilityWashington, D.C. Weathering Women’s HealthXenophobia Y earning ZIP Code
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Asian American History
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and gender roles, assimilation and multiculturalism, panethnicity and identity, transnationalism and globalization, and new challenges and opportunities. It is an up-to-date and easily accessible resource for high school and college students, as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history. Asian American History: Covers the major and minor Asian American ethnic groups. It presents the myriad and poignant stories of a diverse body of Asian Americans, from illiterate immigrants to influential individuals, within a broad and comparative framework, offering microscopic narratives as well as macroscopic analysis and overviews. Utilizes both primary and secondary sources, employs data and surveys, and incorporates most recent scholarly discourses. Attractive and accessible by incorporating voices and illustrations of the contemporaries and by using straightforward language and concise syntax, while maintaining a reasonable level of scholarly depth. Special features: Each chapter features Significant Events, Sidebars incorporating primary sources or scholarly debates, Review Questions, and Further Readings to aid and enhance student learning experience. Bibliographies, charts, maps, photographs and tables are included. Written by a preeminent historian with four decades of teaching, research, and publishing experiences in Asian American history, it is the best book on the subject to date. Trade Review"This is an excellent introduction to Asian Americans. It is thorough and thoughtful, especially because it includes the diversity of the many communities who make up this fast-growing population. This would be easy to teach from and learn from. It offers a solid historical foundation for further discussion in the classroom, and it belongs on the syllabus."— Frank H. Wu, President of Queens College, City University of New York "Asian American History is a well-documented, comprehensive textbook. Major themes of the Asian American historic experience--racism and resistance, work, and family--as well as the rich, ethnic particularities of each group are integrated to offer a full picture of our communities. Further, Ling covers emerging themes, such as new community formations and transnational shifts, to address the pressing issues of Asian Americans."— Russell Jeung, professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, California, and co-founder of "Huping Ling’s Asian American History is an important contribution to the growing scholarship that examines the collective experiences of Asian American communities in the U.S. Utilizing the latest source materials, interdisciplinary methodologies, and a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, this study provides an indispensable account of both historical and current events."— Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (Rutgers University “Professor Huping Ling's book is an important read that provides us with a concise understanding of the multiple dimensions of Asian American history. Important key terms, timelines, primary sources, and study questions provide important tools for deepened understanding and application.”— Harvey Dong, coeditor of Mountain Movers: Student Activism & the Emergence of Asian American Studies "Huping Ling’s Asian American History offers a nuanced perspective to bridge the past and present over the span of more than 250 years in the making and remaking of Asian America. It shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their native-born offspring strive to become an integral part of the American nation — an invaluable resource for educators, scholars, and anyone interested in understanding multicultural America."— Min Zhou, Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA "Enchanting, meticulous, and informative, Asian American History offers the most updated, all-encompassing portrayal of Asian American history since the 1760s. Its transnational perspective, interdisciplinary approach, incorporation of new scholarship, fascinating stories, and user-friendly features make it one of the finest textbooks on the history of Asian Americans." — Philip Q. Yang, author of Asian Immigration to the United States “Asian American History builds on and extends the research of scholars in recent decades, including pioneers like Ronald Takaki, Sucheng Chan, and Roger Daniels. It offers encyclopedic coverage and insightful analyses of both broad historical and cultural backgrounds of Asian immigration and vital issues concerning Asian Americans. Readers will also have ample opportunity to hear personal stories and direct voices from individual Asian Americans. Its clear organization, lucid style, and impeccable research make this volume a welcome resource for scholars and a valuable textbook for high-school and college classes on the history and experiences of Asian Americans.” — Yong Chen, author of Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in AmericaTable of ContentsPreface ix PART I Coming to America, 1765-1840s 1 ROOTS OF ASIAN MIGRATION TO AMERICA 2 Cultural Heritage of Asian Migrants 3 Global Context for Asian Migration 10 Asian Context and Patterns of Migration 14 Roots of Asian Migration to America in Historical Perspective 25 2 RESTRICTIONS AND RESISTANCES 28 Racial Prejudice 31 Economic Sanctions 32 Physical Violence 35 Exclusion Laws and Policies 40 The Enforcement of Exclusion Laws 42 Protests against Exclusion and Discrimination 50 Asian Immigration Restrictions and Resistance in Historical Perspective 56 PART II Asian American Experiences, 1840s-1965 3 LABOR 60 Sugar Plantations, Mines, and Railroads 62 Urban Niche Economy 69 Niche in Agriculture 85 Labor in Historical Perspective 88 4 DEFINING HOME AND COMMUNITY 92 Domesticity and Innovative Family Formations 94 Changing Gender Roles 110 The Second-Generation "Dilemma" 113 Ethnic Community Building 116 Asian Immigrant Home and Community in Historical Perspective 125 5 WORLD WAR II: A TURNING POINT 130 Changing Public Mood 132 In Military Services 134 Home Front 137 End of Exclusion 139 Japanese Internment 140 Asian Americans and World War II in Historical Perspective 156 PART III Contemporary Asian Americans, 1965-2020s 6 NEW WAVES OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES 162 A More Gender-Balanced Society 164 Effects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 169 Southeast Asian Americans 174 Plights and Potentials of Undocumented Immigrants 185 "The Quiet Migration": Transnational Transracial Adoption 194 New Waves of Immigrants in Historical Perspective 200 7 MOVING UPWARD 206 Educational Attainments 207 New Patterns of Employment and Economic Potentials and Constraints 213 Political Incorporation 222 Myth and Reality of "Model Minority" 229 Asian American Upward Mobility in Historical Perspective 232 8 NEW FORMATIONS OF ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 236 Urban Enclaves (1850s) 238 Transnational Urban and Suburban Communities and Cyber Communities (1990s) 254 Asian American Communities in Historical Perspective 264 PART IV The Future of Asian America, 2020s– 9 THEORIZING ASIAN AMERICA: SIGNIFICANT THEORIES AND ISSUES 270 Asian American Movement and the Construction of Pan-Asian Ethnicity 272 Challenges of Asian American Identities in Recent Decades 275 Asian American Panethnicity in Historical Perspective 293 10 THE FUTURE OF ASIAN AMERICA UNDER GLOBALIZATION 298 China Rise / Asian Rise versus the U.S. Decline 298 Importance of Global Collaboration and Various Prescriptions 305 New Trends of Migration and Assimilation under Globalization 307 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Asian American Communities 314 Asian Americans under Globalization in Historical Perspective 320 CHRONOLOGY 323 NOTES 333 INDEX 000
£39.95
Rutgers University Press Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration,
Book SynopsisThe term “Heartland” in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in California, Hawaii, and New York in the recent decades, the Heartland region has emerged as a growing interest of Asian American studies. Focused on the Heartland cities of Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, this book draws rich evidences from various government records, personal stories and interviews, and media reports, and sheds light on the commonalities and uniqueness of the region, as compared to the Asian American communities on the East and West Coast and Hawaii. Some of the poignant stories such as “the Three Moy Brothers,” “Alla Lee,” and “Save Sam Wah Laundry” told in the book are powerful reflections of Asian American history. Trade Review"Analyzing the transnational migration, economic activities, marriages and families, social organizations, and community transformations of Chinese Americans in Chicago and St. Louis, Chinese Americans in the Heartland makes a significant contribution to the literature in Chinese American studies and Asian American studies and shifts the heartland research from the margin closer to the center. This excellent book sets an example for other location-specific historical analyses of Asian America to follow." -- Philip Q. Yang * author of Asian Immigration to the United States *"Professor Huping Ling is a pioneering chronicler of the movement and settling of Chinese and other Asian migrants to the US Midwest. Building on her prior books, she lays the foundation for understanding the rapidly emergent regional, racial, and nuanced ethnic racialized politics of the 'American heartland'—a sociological history that coastal-oriented scholars have largely ignored. Chinese Americans in the Heartland is a valuable, meticulously researched transnational history." -- John Kuo Wei Tchen * co-editor of Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear *Table of ContentsIllustrations A Note on Translation and Terminology 1. Introduction: Defining the Asian American Heartland and Its Significance Part I. Transnational Migration and Work 2. Transnational Migration and Businesses in Chinese Chicago, 1870s-1930s 3. Building “Hop Alley”: Myth and Reality of Chinatown in St. Louis, 1860s-1930s 4. Intellectual Tradition of Heartland: Chicago School and Beyond Part II. Marriage, Family, and Community Organizations 5. Family and Marriage in Heartland, 1880s-1940s 6. Living Heartland: 1860s-1950s 7. Governing Heartland: On Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906-1966 Part III. New Community Structures 8. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the Formation of Cultural Community in St. Louis 9. The Tripartite Community in Chicago 10. Conclusion: Convergences and Divergences References
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Asian American History
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and gender roles, assimilation and multiculturalism, panethnicity and identity, transnationalism and globalization, and new challenges and opportunities. It is an up-to-date and easily accessible resource for high school and college students, as well as anyone who is interested in Asian American history. Asian American History: Covers the major and minor Asian American ethnic groups. It presents the myriad and poignant stories of a diverse body of Asian Americans, from illiterate immigrants to influential individuals, within a broad and comparative framework, offering microscopic narratives as well as macroscopic analysis and overviews. Utilizes both primary and secondary sources, employs data and surveys, and incorporates most recent scholarly discourses. Attractive and accessible by incorporating voices and illustrations of the contemporaries and by using straightforward language and concise syntax, while maintaining a reasonable level of scholarly depth. Special features: Each chapter features Significant Events, Sidebars incorporating primary sources or scholarly debates, Review Questions, and Further Readings to aid and enhance student learning experience. Bibliographies, charts, maps, photographs and tables are included. Written by a preeminent historian with four decades of teaching, research, and publishing experiences in Asian American history, it is the best book on the subject to date. Trade Review"This is an excellent introduction to Asian Americans. It is thorough and thoughtful, especially because it includes the diversity of the many communities who make up this fast-growing population. This would be easy to teach from and learn from. It offers a solid historical foundation for further discussion in the classroom, and it belongs on the syllabus."— Frank H. Wu, President of Queens College, City University of New York "Asian American History is a well-documented, comprehensive textbook. Major themes of the Asian American historic experience--racism and resistance, work, and family--as well as the rich, ethnic particularities of each group are integrated to offer a full picture of our communities. Further, Ling covers emerging themes, such as new community formations and transnational shifts, to address the pressing issues of Asian Americans."— Russell Jeung, professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University, California, and co-founder of "Huping Ling’s Asian American History is an important contribution to the growing scholarship that examines the collective experiences of Asian American communities in the U.S. Utilizing the latest source materials, interdisciplinary methodologies, and a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, this study provides an indispensable account of both historical and current events."— Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (Rutgers University “Professor Huping Ling's book is an important read that provides us with a concise understanding of the multiple dimensions of Asian American history. Important key terms, timelines, primary sources, and study questions provide important tools for deepened understanding and application.”— Harvey Dong, coeditor of Mountain Movers: Student Activism & the Emergence of Asian American Studies "Huping Ling’s Asian American History offers a nuanced perspective to bridge the past and present over the span of more than 250 years in the making and remaking of Asian America. It shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their native-born offspring strive to become an integral part of the American nation — an invaluable resource for educators, scholars, and anyone interested in understanding multicultural America."— Min Zhou, Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA "Enchanting, meticulous, and informative, Asian American History offers the most updated, all-encompassing portrayal of Asian American history since the 1760s. Its transnational perspective, interdisciplinary approach, incorporation of new scholarship, fascinating stories, and user-friendly features make it one of the finest textbooks on the history of Asian Americans." — Philip Q. Yang, author of Asian Immigration to the United States “Asian American History builds on and extends the research of scholars in recent decades, including pioneers like Ronald Takaki, Sucheng Chan, and Roger Daniels. It offers encyclopedic coverage and insightful analyses of both broad historical and cultural backgrounds of Asian immigration and vital issues concerning Asian Americans. Readers will also have ample opportunity to hear personal stories and direct voices from individual Asian Americans. Its clear organization, lucid style, and impeccable research make this volume a welcome resource for scholars and a valuable textbook for high-school and college classes on the history and experiences of Asian Americans.” — Yong Chen, author of Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in AmericaTable of ContentsPreface ix PART I Coming to America, 1765-1840s 1 ROOTS OF ASIAN MIGRATION TO AMERICA 2 Cultural Heritage of Asian Migrants 3 Global Context for Asian Migration 10 Asian Context and Patterns of Migration 14 Roots of Asian Migration to America in Historical Perspective 25 2 RESTRICTIONS AND RESISTANCES 28 Racial Prejudice 31 Economic Sanctions 32 Physical Violence 35 Exclusion Laws and Policies 40 The Enforcement of Exclusion Laws 42 Protests against Exclusion and Discrimination 50 Asian Immigration Restrictions and Resistance in Historical Perspective 56 PART II Asian American Experiences, 1840s-1965 3 LABOR 60 Sugar Plantations, Mines, and Railroads 62 Urban Niche Economy 69 Niche in Agriculture 85 Labor in Historical Perspective 88 4 DEFINING HOME AND COMMUNITY 92 Domesticity and Innovative Family Formations 94 Changing Gender Roles 110 The Second-Generation "Dilemma" 113 Ethnic Community Building 116 Asian Immigrant Home and Community in Historical Perspective 125 5 WORLD WAR II: A TURNING POINT 130 Changing Public Mood 132 In Military Services 134 Home Front 137 End of Exclusion 139 Japanese Internment 140 Asian Americans and World War II in Historical Perspective 156 PART III Contemporary Asian Americans, 1965-2020s 6 NEW WAVES OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES 162 A More Gender-Balanced Society 164 Effects of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 169 Southeast Asian Americans 174 Plights and Potentials of Undocumented Immigrants 185 "The Quiet Migration": Transnational Transracial Adoption 194 New Waves of Immigrants in Historical Perspective 200 7 MOVING UPWARD 206 Educational Attainments 207 New Patterns of Employment and Economic Potentials and Constraints 213 Political Incorporation 222 Myth and Reality of "Model Minority" 229 Asian American Upward Mobility in Historical Perspective 232 8 NEW FORMATIONS OF ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES 236 Urban Enclaves (1850s) 238 Transnational Urban and Suburban Communities and Cyber Communities (1990s) 254 Asian American Communities in Historical Perspective 264 PART IV The Future of Asian America, 2020s– 9 THEORIZING ASIAN AMERICA: SIGNIFICANT THEORIES AND ISSUES 270 Asian American Movement and the Construction of Pan-Asian Ethnicity 272 Challenges of Asian American Identities in Recent Decades 275 Asian American Panethnicity in Historical Perspective 293 10 THE FUTURE OF ASIAN AMERICA UNDER GLOBALIZATION 298 China Rise / Asian Rise versus the U.S. Decline 298 Importance of Global Collaboration and Various Prescriptions 305 New Trends of Migration and Assimilation under Globalization 307 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Asian American Communities 314 Asian Americans under Globalization in Historical Perspective 320 CHRONOLOGY 323 NOTES 333 INDEX 000
£78.20
Rutgers University Press Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration,
Book SynopsisThe term “Heartland” in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in California, Hawaii, and New York in the recent decades, the Heartland region has emerged as a growing interest of Asian American studies. Focused on the Heartland cities of Chicago, Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri, this book draws rich evidences from various government records, personal stories and interviews, and media reports, and sheds light on the commonalities and uniqueness of the region, as compared to the Asian American communities on the East and West Coast and Hawaii. Some of the poignant stories such as “the Three Moy Brothers,” “Alla Lee,” and “Save Sam Wah Laundry” told in the book are powerful reflections of Asian American history. Trade Review"Analyzing the transnational migration, economic activities, marriages and families, social organizations, and community transformations of Chinese Americans in Chicago and St. Louis, Chinese Americans in the Heartland makes a significant contribution to the literature in Chinese American studies and Asian American studies and shifts the heartland research from the margin closer to the center. This excellent book sets an example for other location-specific historical analyses of Asian America to follow." -- Philip Q. Yang * author of Asian Immigration to the United States *"Professor Huping Ling is a pioneering chronicler of the movement and settling of Chinese and other Asian migrants to the US Midwest. Building on her prior books, she lays the foundation for understanding the rapidly emergent regional, racial, and nuanced ethnic racialized politics of the 'American heartland'—a sociological history that coastal-oriented scholars have largely ignored. Chinese Americans in the Heartland is a valuable, meticulously researched transnational history." -- John Kuo Wei Tchen * co-editor of Yellow Peril! An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear *Table of ContentsIllustrations A Note on Translation and Terminology 1. Introduction: Defining the Asian American Heartland and Its Significance Part I. Transnational Migration and Work 2. Transnational Migration and Businesses in Chinese Chicago, 1870s-1930s 3. Building “Hop Alley”: Myth and Reality of Chinatown in St. Louis, 1860s-1930s 4. Intellectual Tradition of Heartland: Chicago School and Beyond Part II. Marriage, Family, and Community Organizations 5. Family and Marriage in Heartland, 1880s-1940s 6. Living Heartland: 1860s-1950s 7. Governing Heartland: On Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906-1966 Part III. New Community Structures 8. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the Formation of Cultural Community in St. Louis 9. The Tripartite Community in Chicago 10. Conclusion: Convergences and Divergences References
£32.30
Rutgers University Press Importing Care, Faithful Service: Filipino and
Book SynopsisEvery year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, they enter the country at a time, not unlike the past, when the American social and political climate is once again increasingly unwelcoming to them as immigrants. Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, collected over a four-year period, this study explores the role Catholicism plays in shaping the professional and community lives of foreign-born Filipino and Indian American nurses in the face of these challenges, while working at a Veterans hospital. Their stories provide unique insights into the often-unseen roles race, religion and gender play in the daily lives of new immigrants employed in American healthcare. In many ways, these nurses find themselves foreign in more ways than just their nativity. Seeing nursing as a religious calling, they care for their patients, both at the hospital and in the wider community, with a sense of divine purpose but must also confront the cultural tensions and disconnects between how they were raised and trained in another country and the legal separation of church and state. How they cope with and engage these tensions and disconnects plays an important role in not only shaping how they see themselves as Catholic nurses but their place in the new American story. Trade ReviewThis book is important for its examination of the role of Catholicism within the context of nursing in a U.S. government hospital. It will capture the attention of many audiences as we think about what it means to be Catholic and Asian American in the United States today. How Filipino and Indian American nurses have influenced nursing in America, and how they, in turn, have been challenged by American culture are vital issues of study. -- Barbra Mann Wall * author of American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions *"Cherry does an excellent job bringing us inside the experiences of nurses working at the Houston VA and putting their work there—and the VA itself—in broader historical contexts. The material gathered and shared is richly descriptive and informative. Every chapter made me think about something I had not before, and to consider the experiences of healthcare providers in new ways." -- Wendy Cadge * author of Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion *This book is important for its examination of the role of Catholicism within the context of nursing in a U.S. government hospital. It will capture the attention of many audiences as we think about what it means to be Catholic and Asian American in the United States today. How Filipino and Indian American nurses have influenced nursing in America, and how they, in turn, have been challenged by American culture are vital issues of study. -- Barbra Mann Wall * author of American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions *"Cherry does an excellent job bringing us inside the experiences of nurses working at the Houston VA and putting their work there—and the VA itself—in broader historical contexts. The material gathered and shared is richly descriptive and informative. Every chapter made me think about something I had not before, and to consider the experiences of healthcare providers in new ways." -- Wendy Cadge * author of Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsChapter One: Veterans and a Crisis of Care Chapter Two: Colonialism, Christian Culture and Nursing Care Chapter Three: New American Battlefields Chapter Four: Understanding and Coping with the Trauma of War Chapter Five: Faith and the Practice of Care Chapter Six: Extending Health and Care to Community Chapter Seven: Who Will Care for America?
£26.35
Rutgers University Press Importing Care, Faithful Service: Filipino and
Book SynopsisEvery year thousands of foreign-born Filipino and Indian nurses immigrate to the United States. Despite being well trained and desperately needed, they enter the country at a time, not unlike the past, when the American social and political climate is once again increasingly unwelcoming to them as immigrants. Drawing on rich ethnographic and survey data, collected over a four-year period, this study explores the role Catholicism plays in shaping the professional and community lives of foreign-born Filipino and Indian American nurses in the face of these challenges, while working at a Veterans hospital. Their stories provide unique insights into the often-unseen roles race, religion and gender play in the daily lives of new immigrants employed in American healthcare. In many ways, these nurses find themselves foreign in more ways than just their nativity. Seeing nursing as a religious calling, they care for their patients, both at the hospital and in the wider community, with a sense of divine purpose but must also confront the cultural tensions and disconnects between how they were raised and trained in another country and the legal separation of church and state. How they cope with and engage these tensions and disconnects plays an important role in not only shaping how they see themselves as Catholic nurses but their place in the new American story. Trade ReviewThis book is important for its examination of the role of Catholicism within the context of nursing in a U.S. government hospital. It will capture the attention of many audiences as we think about what it means to be Catholic and Asian American in the United States today. How Filipino and Indian American nurses have influenced nursing in America, and how they, in turn, have been challenged by American culture are vital issues of study. -- Barbra Mann Wall * author of American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions *"Cherry does an excellent job bringing us inside the experiences of nurses working at the Houston VA and putting their work there—and the VA itself—in broader historical contexts. The material gathered and shared is richly descriptive and informative. Every chapter made me think about something I had not before, and to consider the experiences of healthcare providers in new ways." -- Wendy Cadge * author of Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion *This book is important for its examination of the role of Catholicism within the context of nursing in a U.S. government hospital. It will capture the attention of many audiences as we think about what it means to be Catholic and Asian American in the United States today. How Filipino and Indian American nurses have influenced nursing in America, and how they, in turn, have been challenged by American culture are vital issues of study. -- Barbra Mann Wall * author of American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions *"Cherry does an excellent job bringing us inside the experiences of nurses working at the Houston VA and putting their work there—and the VA itself—in broader historical contexts. The material gathered and shared is richly descriptive and informative. Every chapter made me think about something I had not before, and to consider the experiences of healthcare providers in new ways." -- Wendy Cadge * author of Religion on the Edge: De-centering and Re-centering the Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsChapter One: Veterans and a Crisis of Care Chapter Two: Colonialism, Christian Culture and Nursing Care Chapter Three: New American Battlefields Chapter Four: Understanding and Coping with the Trauma of War Chapter Five: Faith and the Practice of Care Chapter Six: Extending Health and Care to Community Chapter Seven: Who Will Care for America?
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Transnational Cultural Flow from Home: Korean
Book SynopsisWhen the first wave of post-1965 Korean immigrants arrived in the New York-New Jersey area in the early 1970s, they were reliant on retail and service businesses in the minority neighborhoods where they were. This caused ongoing conflicts with customers in black neighborhoods of New York City, with white suppliers at Hunts Point Produce Market, and with city government agencies that regulated small business activities. In addition, because of the times, Korean immigrants had very little contact with their homeland. Korean immigrants in the area were highly segregated from both the mainstream New York society and South Korea. However, after the 1990 Immigration Act, Korean immigrants with professional and managerial backgrounds have found occupations in the mainstream economy. Korean community leaders also engaged in active political campaigns to get Korean candidates elected as city council members and higher levels of legislative positions in the area. The Korean community's integration into mainstream society also increasingly developed stronger transnational ties to their homeland and spurred the inclusion of "everyday Korean life" in the NY-NJ area.Transnational Cultural Flow from Home examines New York Korean immigrants’ collective efforts to preserve their cultural traditions and cultural practices and their efforts to transmit and promote them to New Yorkers by focusing on the Korean cultural elements such as language, foods, cultural festivals, and traditional and contemporary performing arts. This publication was supported by the 2022 Korean Studies Grant Program of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2022-P-009). Trade Review"Full of rich and fascinating material on the Korean community in the New York area, this valuable book shows that, at the same time as Korean immigrants have become increasingly incorporated into American society, they also seek to preserve and promote a wide range of homeland cultural practices and traditions." -- Nancy Foner * author of One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America *"In this innovative and rigorous investigation of Koreans’ engagement with transnational cultural linkages to their homeland, Pyong Gap Min finds that migrants’ participation in activities that promote Korean ethnic culture facilitates both their assimilation to host country activities and their involvement in transnational cultural linkages embedded in the country of origin. This analysis significantly advances our understanding of Korean immigrants’ adaptation to the US while providing a compelling challenge to classical theories of immigrant assimilation more generally." -- Steven J. Gold * author of The Israeli Diaspora *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 The Korean Community in Greater New York 3 Transnational Cultural Events Held in the Korean Community in 2001 and 2014 4 Korean-Language Schools 5 The Movement to Promote Korean to American Schools 6 Korean Food 7 Korean Cultural Festivals and Parades 8 Korean Traditional Performing Arts 9 Korean Contemporary Music and Dance Performances 10 Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£32.30
Rutgers University Press Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and
Book SynopsisHistories of gay and lesbian urban life typically focus on major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, opportunity-filled destinations for LGBTQ migrants from across the country. Yet there are many other queer communities in economically depressed cities with majority Black and Hispanic populations that receive far less attention. Though just a few miles from New York, Newark is one of these cities, and its queer histories have been neglected—until now. Queer Newark charts a history in which working-class people of color are the central actors and in which violence, poverty, and homophobia could never suppress joy, resistance, love, and desire. Drawing from rare archives that range from oral histories to vice squad reports, this collection’s authors uncover the sites and people of Newark’s queer past in bars, discos, ballrooms, and churches. Exploring the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality, they offer fresh perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, community relations with police, Latinx immigration, and gentrification, while considering how to best tell the rich and complex stories of queer urban life. Queer Newark reveals a new side of New Jersey’s largest city while rewriting the history of LGBTQ life in America. Trade Review"While it amazes me to be part of any history, I was honored to have been included in the queer history of Newark, New Jersey. Working with the LGBTQ+ community, I had no idea I was helping to create a stronger, more resilient story. Queer Newark documents our journeys, with the end result being this must-read tome." -- Gary Paul Wright * founder and executive director of the African American Office of Gay Concerns *Table of ContentsIntroduction Whitney Strub Chapter 1: Sodom on the Passaic: Excavating Early Queer Histories of Newark, 1870s-1940s Peter Savastano and Timothy Stewart-Winter Chapter 2: The View from Mulberry and Market: Revisiting Newark’s Forgotten Gay and Lesbian Nightlife Anna Lvovsky Oral History excerpt #1: John Chapter 3: Toward a Queer Newark Left: Sexuality and Activism in the New Left and Black Power Eras Whitney Strub Oral History excerpt #2: Yvonne Hernandez Chapter 4: Glitter on Halsey Street: Queer and Trans World-Making in Newark, 1970s-present Kristyn Scorsone Oral History excerpt #3: Angela Raine Chapter 5: Project Fire: AIDS, Erasure, and Black Queer Organizing in Newark Jason Chernesky Chapter 6: Ballroom Interlude The Queer Newark Oral History Project Chapter 7: At Home in the Hood: Black Queer Women Resisting Narratives of Violence and Plotting Life at the G Corner LeiLani Dowell Oral History excerpt #4: June Dowell-Burton Chapter 8: Let’s Talk about Sex, Baby!: Queer Newark Oral Histories, La’Raine Magazine, and the Politics of Sex in the Archive Dominique Rocker Chapter 9: “Temos Muitas Coisas Pra Fazer”: Market Identities and Queer Community Building in the Brazilian Ironbound and Greater Queer Newark Yamil Avivi Oral History excerpt #5: Alicia Heath-Toby Chapter 10: “Newark Police Don’t Do Nothing for Me; They Don’t Protect and Serve”: Policing LGBTQ+ Communities Danielle M. Shields and Carse Ramos Chapter 11: “I’m Walking Here”: Reframing Queer History Through a Walking Tour Mary Rizzo and Christina Strasburger Epilogue: Remembering Sakia, Remembering Ourselves Zenzele Isoke Acknowledgments Notes References Notes on Contributors Index
£21.59
Rutgers University Press From Honolulu to Brooklyn: Running the American
Book SynopsisFrom 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from Hawaiʻ i barnstormed the U.S. mainland. While initially all Chinese, the Travelers became more multiethnic and multiracial with ballplayers possessing Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and European ancestries. As a group and as individuals the Travelers' experiences represent a still much too marginalized facet of baseball and sport history. Arguably, they traveled more miles and played in more ball parks in the American empire than any other group of ballplayers of their time. Outside of the major leagues, they were likely the most famous nine of the 1910s, dominating their college opponents and more than holding their own against top-flight white and black independent teams. And once the Travelers’ journeys were done, a team leader and star Buck Lai gained fame in independent baseball on the East Coast of the U.S., while former teammates ran base paths and ran for political office as they confronted racism and colonialism in Hawaiʻ i.Trade Review"Joel Franks, a pioneer in Asian Pacific American sports, continues to forge new ground in this area of study with his most recent and elegantly written story of a Hawaiian baseball team’s sojourns through the U.S. mainland during one of the nation’s most racist periods of time. His attention to context alongside a moving narrative propels the significance of the club’s trials and tribulations." -- Samuel O. Regalado * author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Le *"Joel Franks has resurrected the story of Buck Lai and his Hawaiian baseball team, shedding light on a person who might have been the Asian American equivalent of Jackie Robinson. Despite the racism of the era, Buck Lai became a success story worthy of remembrance and emulation." -- Gerald R. Gems * author of Sport History: The Basics *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Defying Assumptions: Baseball, Asians, and Hawaiʻ i Chapter Two: The Travelers from Hawaiʻ i: Culture, Capitalism, and Baseball Chapter Three: The Travelers Take the Field Chapter Four: Crossings of Baseball’s Racial Fault Lines, 1917-1918 Chapter Five: Peripatetic Pros: 1919-1934 Chapter Six: The Travelers Back Home: Hawaiʻ i Between the Wars Chapter Seven: Buck Lai’s Journeys, 1935-1937 Chapter Eight: Playing in the Twilight Conclusion Acknowledgements
£107.20
Rutgers University Press From Honolulu to Brooklyn: Running the American
Book SynopsisFrom 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from Hawaiʻ i barnstormed the U.S. mainland. While initially all Chinese, the Travelers became more multiethnic and multiracial with ballplayers possessing Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and European ancestries. As a group and as individuals the Travelers' experiences represent a still much too marginalized facet of baseball and sport history. Arguably, they traveled more miles and played in more ball parks in the American empire than any other group of ballplayers of their time. Outside of the major leagues, they were likely the most famous nine of the 1910s, dominating their college opponents and more than holding their own against top-flight white and black independent teams. And once the Travelers’ journeys were done, a team leader and star Buck Lai gained fame in independent baseball on the East Coast of the U.S., while former teammates ran base paths and ran for political office as they confronted racism and colonialism in Hawaiʻ i.Trade Review"Joel Franks, a pioneer in Asian Pacific American sports, continues to forge new ground in this area of study with his most recent and elegantly written story of a Hawaiian baseball team’s sojourns through the U.S. mainland during one of the nation’s most racist periods of time. His attention to context alongside a moving narrative propels the significance of the club’s trials and tribulations." -- Samuel O. Regalado * author of Nikkei Baseball: Japanese American Players from Immigration and Internment to the Major Le *"Joel Franks has resurrected the story of Buck Lai and his Hawaiian baseball team, shedding light on a person who might have been the Asian American equivalent of Jackie Robinson. Despite the racism of the era, Buck Lai became a success story worthy of remembrance and emulation." -- Gerald R. Gems * author of Sport History: The Basics *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Defying Assumptions: Baseball, Asians, and Hawaiʻ i Chapter Two: The Travelers from Hawaiʻ i: Culture, Capitalism, and Baseball Chapter Three: The Travelers Take the Field Chapter Four: Crossings of Baseball’s Racial Fault Lines, 1917-1918 Chapter Five: Peripatetic Pros: 1919-1934 Chapter Six: The Travelers Back Home: Hawaiʻ i Between the Wars Chapter Seven: Buck Lai’s Journeys, 1935-1937 Chapter Eight: Playing in the Twilight Conclusion Acknowledgements
£28.90
Rutgers University Press Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the
Book SynopsisTranspacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are. Trade Review"Transpacific Cartographies is particularly refreshing and capacious. Focusing on the 'new immigrants' to the U.S. from China since the 1980s, this book expands the study of Chinese American experience to transnational and translingual negotiations in the dire times of Sinophobia and U.S.-China contention. Carefully engaging Sinophone texts with discourses of diaspora and geocriticism, Li sheds light on the powers of mapping and 'homemaking' with which Chinese diasporic communities navigate being and belonging." -- Chih-ming Wang * author of Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America *"Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Melody Li’s focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of “home” from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant." -- Rob Sean Wilson * author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Mapping Experiences of De/Reterritorialization: Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal 2 Cartographing Carceral Dystopia in the Mao Era: Yan Geling’s The Criminal Lu Yanshi 3 Affective Mapping of Touristic Diasporic Experience 4 Palimpsestic Map of the American and Chinese Dreams: Contested Sites in Overseas Chinese Immigrant Stories Coda: Charting an Online Chinese Diasporic Literary Map Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the
Book SynopsisTranspacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are. Trade Review"Transpacific Cartographies is particularly refreshing and capacious. Focusing on the 'new immigrants' to the U.S. from China since the 1980s, this book expands the study of Chinese American experience to transnational and translingual negotiations in the dire times of Sinophobia and U.S.-China contention. Carefully engaging Sinophone texts with discourses of diaspora and geocriticism, Li sheds light on the powers of mapping and 'homemaking' with which Chinese diasporic communities navigate being and belonging." -- Chih-ming Wang * author of Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Remaking of Asian America *"Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Melody Li’s focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of “home” from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant." -- Rob Sean Wilson * author of Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge and Beyond *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Mapping Experiences of De/Reterritorialization: Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal 2 Cartographing Carceral Dystopia in the Mao Era: Yan Geling’s The Criminal Lu Yanshi 3 Affective Mapping of Touristic Diasporic Experience 4 Palimpsestic Map of the American and Chinese Dreams: Contested Sites in Overseas Chinese Immigrant Stories Coda: Charting an Online Chinese Diasporic Literary Map Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press From Protest to President: A Social Justice
Book SynopsisFrom Protest to President describes an inspirational odyssey of a young, Black activist coming of age in Mississippi and Chicago in the tumultuous 1960s and '70s, culminating in a notable thirty-five-year presidency at Thomas Edison State University. From barbershop encounters with Malcolm X to death threats at Illinois State University and gunfire at Towson State, Pruitt provides a powerful narrative poised at the intersection of social justice, higher education and politics. He recounts leadership experiences at HBCUs and public universities across the country, as he advocated for autonomy at Morgan State and fought to preserve Tennessee State University. His steadfast activism, integrity and courage led to groundbreaking work in providing access to higher education for working adults and the military. From his days as a student protester in high school and college to his appearances on Capitol Hill, Pruitt has earned the reputation as a candid and influential leader in higher education. Trade Review"George Pruitt’s sense of decency, intelligence, and integrity shines through From Protest to President. He shaped and built one of the most interesting educational institutions in our country. Dr. Pruitt has written a truly American story." -- Thomas H. Kean * Former Governor, State of New Jersey *"From Protest to President reveals Dr. George Pruitt as a man of principle, passion, and stamina: one of the most important voices for social equity and quality in higher education. Wherever Pruitt happened to be, transformation occurred." -- R. Barbara Gitenstein * President Emerita, The College of New Jersey *"From Protest to President is a book about citizenship and the great possibilities that can be achieved in this amazing country, a journey Pruitt navigated with persistence and class. Dr. George Pruitt is a treasure, and From Protest to President a gem." -- Jonathan Scott Holloway * President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey *Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Acknowledgements Index
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Rutgers University Press Spirits in the Consulting Room: Eight Tales of
Book SynopsisFor any country that has a large and diverse migrant population, it is a struggle to connect these people to the country’s institutions, including the healthcare system, which can be overwhelming in its complexity. Cultural and language barriers often make it difficult for doctors to fully understand the symptoms of their migrant patients, reach accurate diagnoses, or properly treat their suffering. Thus, medical practitioners must attempt new, innovative practices in order to reach patients where they are and convince them to accept treatment from doctors they don’t totally understand. In France, Serge Bouznah and Catherine Lewertowski have pioneered one such practice—that of transcultural mediation. Drawn from two decades of their experience with transcultural mediation, Spirits in the Consulting Room tells the stories of eight patients—mainly migrants—and their families. Each chapter focuses on a different patient, and Christelle, Djibril, Moncef, Alhassane, Jacinthe, Amy, Cyril, Alice, and Pierre leap off the page as distinct people with unique situations. Together, these chapters reveal how patients’ comprehension of their symptoms is shaped by their cultural background, while recounting the challenges of translating that into terms the doctors can grasp. The book shows how trained transcultural mediators can help to redress the power imbalance between doctors and the migrants they treat, providing patients with advocates who respect the authority of their background and experiences and don’t just take the side of the medical professionals. The groundbreaking insights modeled in this book can be applied to any medical situation where doctors and patients find themselves speaking different languages. Trade Review"The Spirits in the Consulting Room is a must-read for all who wish to immerse themselves in eight heart-wrenching cases that rely on transcultural or intercultural mediation in healthcare. A great tool to equip healthcare providers or anyone working with diverse patients, this book vividly showcases how to consider a more intercultural approach and empower patients with the agency they need to help transform their conditions from a human perspective.""The Spirits in the Consulting Room is a must-read for all who wish to immerse themselves in eight heart-wrenching cases that rely on transcultural or intercultural mediation in healthcare. A great tool to equip healthcare providers or anyone working with diverse patients, this book vividly showcases how to consider a more intercultural approach and empower patients with the agency they need to help transform their conditions from a human perspective." -- Izabel E. T. de V. Souza * author of Intercultural Mediation in Healthcare: From the Professional Medical Interpreters' Perspec *"This wonderful book is a compelling invitation to listen closely, not only to the complexity of human narratives of suffering, but also to the way they weave across cultural and social divides. The plurality and beauty of the stories evoked here contribute to this weaving, building bridges between universal culture and the individual human experience. An inspiring book, worth fully inhabiting and meditating upon, which also provides critical tools we can use to improve our healing practices." -- Cécile Rousseau * coeditor of Working with Refugee Families: Trauma and Exile in Family Relationships *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Javier I. Escobar Foreword by Jaswant Guzder Prologue: “When I was two years old, I killed my grandmother” Introduction 1. The Title Deed of Grandfather Léon 2. An Angry Man 3. “If You’re a Human Being, Change Your Skin Immediately!” 4. Who Will Carry the Parasol for Me? 5. When the Black Cat Bit 6. The Curse 7. Leave Me Out of All This! 8. A Defaced Skin Conclusion Notes References Index
£21.59
Rutgers University Press Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists
Book SynopsisCombining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic book to examine the ways that racial identification and activation matters in their understanding of news. This adds to the existing literature on race and the sociology of news by examining intra-racial differences in the ways they navigate and understand White newsrooms. Employing in-depth interviews with twenty Asian American journalists who are actively working in large and small newsrooms across the United States, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work argues that Asian American reporters for whom racial identities are important questioned what counted as news, questioned the implicitly White perspective of objectivity, and actively worked toward providing more complex, substantive coverage of Asian American communities. For Asian American reporters for whom racial identity was not meaningful, they were more invested in existing professional norms. Regardless, all journalists understood that news is a predominantly and culturally White institution. Trade Review"In a time of racial reckoning and COVID-19 inequalities, Oh and Min offer a timely and groundbreaking book on Asian American journalists’ experiences within white newsrooms. The rich interview data provide fresh and deep insights into the complex struggles and unique positionality of being both Asian American and a journalist in the U.S. today. This book is a must-read for those in journalism, media, cultural studies, and ethnic studies."— Srividya Ramasubramanian, author of Quantitative Research Methods in Communication: The Power of Numbers for Social Justice "David Oh and Seong Jae Min produced a critical book that illuminates the reality of Asian American journalists working in white American newsrooms. Navigating White News successfully argues why race and identity matter when journalists cover BIPOC communities and marginalized groups. This book can help newsrooms and universities reexamine their relationships with BIPOC journalists, especially Asian American reporters who have been ignored, looked over, and misunderstood for far too long."— Kristina Vera-Phillips, Vice President of Journalism Programs at the Association for Asian American JournalistsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Asian American Reporters’ Racial and Ethnic Identifications White Normativity in the Newsroom Navigating White Newsrooms What Counts as News Covering Asian America COVID-19 and Coping with Gendered Racist Harms Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index vii 1 14 36 55 81 100 118 136 145 147 149 000
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists
Book SynopsisCombining critical race studies with cultural production studies, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work is the only academic book to examine the ways that racial identification and activation matters in their understanding of news. This adds to the existing literature on race and the sociology of news by examining intra-racial differences in the ways they navigate and understand White newsrooms. Employing in-depth interviews with twenty Asian American journalists who are actively working in large and small newsrooms across the United States, Navigating White News: Asian American Journalists at Work argues that Asian American reporters for whom racial identities are important questioned what counted as news, questioned the implicitly White perspective of objectivity, and actively worked toward providing more complex, substantive coverage of Asian American communities. For Asian American reporters for whom racial identity was not meaningful, they were more invested in existing professional norms. Regardless, all journalists understood that news is a predominantly and culturally White institution. Trade Review"In a time of racial reckoning and COVID-19 inequalities, Oh and Min offer a timely and groundbreaking book on Asian American journalists’ experiences within white newsrooms. The rich interview data provide fresh and deep insights into the complex struggles and unique positionality of being both Asian American and a journalist in the U.S. today. This book is a must-read for those in journalism, media, cultural studies, and ethnic studies."— Srividya Ramasubramanian, author of Quantitative Research Methods in Communication: The Power of Numbers for Social Justice "David Oh and Seong Jae Min produced a critical book that illuminates the reality of Asian American journalists working in white American newsrooms. Navigating White News successfully argues why race and identity matter when journalists cover BIPOC communities and marginalized groups. This book can help newsrooms and universities reexamine their relationships with BIPOC journalists, especially Asian American reporters who have been ignored, looked over, and misunderstood for far too long."— Kristina Vera-Phillips, Vice President of Journalism Programs at the Association for Asian American JournalistsTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Asian American Reporters’ Racial and Ethnic Identifications White Normativity in the Newsroom Navigating White Newsrooms What Counts as News Covering Asian America COVID-19 and Coping with Gendered Racist Harms Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index vii 1 14 36 55 81 100 118 136 145 147 149 000
£107.20
Rutgers University Press The Puerto Rican Problem in Postwar New York
Book SynopsisThe "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the “Puerto Rican problem” campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that arose in reaction to the entry of Puerto Rican migrants to the city after 1945. The “problem” narrative influenced their incorporation in New York City and other regions of the United States where they settled. The anti-Puerto Rican campaign led to the formulation of public policies by the governments of Puerto Rico and New York City seeking to ease their incorporation in the city. Notions intrinsic to this narrative later entered American academia (like the “culture of poverty”) and American popular culture (e.g., West Side Story), which reproduced many of the stereotypes associated with Puerto Ricans at that time and shaped the way in which Puerto Ricans were studied and perceived by Americans. Trade Review"Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis." -- Jorge Duany * author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know *"The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies." -- Edna Acosta-Belén * Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY *"Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis." -- Jorge Duany * author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know *"The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies." -- Edna Acosta-Belén * Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY *Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Study of Puerto Rican Migration and Incorporation in the United States 2 The “Puerto Rican Problem” Campaign in New York City 3 Dealing with the “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City 4 The “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City and Puerto Rico’s Migration Policy 5 Marcantonio, the “Puerto Rican Problem,” and the 1949 Mayoral Election in New York City 6 The Mayor’s Committee on Puerto Rican Affairs 7 The Demise of MCPRA and the Redefinition of the “Puerto Rican Problem” 8 In the Aftermath of the “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£26.35
Rutgers University Press The Puerto Rican Problem in Postwar New York
Book SynopsisThe "Puerto-Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City presents the first comprehensive examination of the emergence, evolution, and consequences of the “Puerto Rican problem” campaign and narrative in New York City from 1945 to 1960. This notion originated in an intense public campaign that arose in reaction to the entry of Puerto Rican migrants to the city after 1945. The “problem” narrative influenced their incorporation in New York City and other regions of the United States where they settled. The anti-Puerto Rican campaign led to the formulation of public policies by the governments of Puerto Rico and New York City seeking to ease their incorporation in the city. Notions intrinsic to this narrative later entered American academia (like the “culture of poverty”) and American popular culture (e.g., West Side Story), which reproduced many of the stereotypes associated with Puerto Ricans at that time and shaped the way in which Puerto Ricans were studied and perceived by Americans. Trade Review"Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis." -- Jorge Duany * author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know *"The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies." -- Edna Acosta-Belén * Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY *"Meticulously researched and politically savvy, Edgardo Meléndez illuminates how the mainstream U.S. press, government agencies, academia, and public opinion mistreated the Puerto Rican exodus after 1945. A highly readable, insightful, and thought-provoking analysis." -- Jorge Duany * author of Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know *"The first in-depth study of the origins, ingrained biases, and stereotypes of the 'Puerto Rican problem' discourses propagated in most of the early post-World War II mass migration research about the Puerto Rican community. An outstanding and indispensable addition to Puerto Rican migration studies." -- Edna Acosta-Belén * Distinguished Professor Emerita, University at Albany, SUNY *Table of Contents Introduction 1 The Study of Puerto Rican Migration and Incorporation in the United States 2 The “Puerto Rican Problem” Campaign in New York City 3 Dealing with the “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City 4 The “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City and Puerto Rico’s Migration Policy 5 Marcantonio, the “Puerto Rican Problem,” and the 1949 Mayoral Election in New York City 6 The Mayor’s Committee on Puerto Rican Affairs 7 The Demise of MCPRA and the Redefinition of the “Puerto Rican Problem” 8 In the Aftermath of the “Puerto Rican Problem” in New York City Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Powerful Devices: Prayer and the Political Praxis
Book SynopsisPowerful Devices studies spiritual warfare performances as an apparatus for disestablishing structures of power and knowledge, and establishing righteousness in their stead. Drawing on performance studies’ emphasis on radicality and breaking of social norms as devices of social transformation, the book demonstrates how Christian groups with dominant cultural power but who perceive themselves as embattled wield the ideas of performance activism. Combining religious studies with ethnography, Powerful Devices explores Nigerian Pentecostals and US Evangelicals’ praxis of transnational spiritual warfare. By closely studying spiritual warfare prayers as a “device,” Powerful Devices shows how the rituals of prayer enable an apprehension of time, paradigms of self-enhancement, and the subversion of politics and authority. A critical intervention, Powerful Devices explores charismatic Christianity’s relationship to science and secular authority, technology and temporality, neoliberalism, and reactionary ideology.Trade Review"A dazzling portrait of the contemporary Nigerian Pentecostal spiritual warfare prayer “showdown” with 'the new demons that modernity has vomited.' Adelakun shows how the rise of Pentecostalism is imbricated with neoliberalism, giving rise to new subjectivities, identities, and imaginaries ready for apocalyptic battle." -- Elizabeth McAlister * author of Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora *"Powerful Devices provides an original, nuanced counterpoint to prevailing scholarship on Pentecostal Christianity in Nigeria. With deep insights into the performative nature of prayer, Abimbola Adelakun charts a new course for understanding Pentecostalism’s growth in Nigeria and beyond that will continue to shape the field for years to come." -- Jacob K. Olupona * author of City of 201 Gods: Ilé-Ifè in Time, Space, and the Imagination *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Spiritual Warriors: Powerful Devices and the Devices of PowerChapter 1: Aborting Satanic Pregnancies: Prayer as Apocalyptic DevicesChapter 2: Rehearsing Authority: Spiritual Warriors as God’s Human WeaponsChapter 3: The Noisome Pestilence: COVID-19 Pandemic and Conspirituality of “Fake Science”Chapter 4: Churches Going Virtual: Empty Auditoriums and the Essential Services of PrayerConclusion: Jesus Has WonAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
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