Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
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
£107.20
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
£28.90
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
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Global White Supremacy: Anti-Blackness and the
Book SynopsisKnowledge is more expansive than the boundaries of the Western university model and its claim to be the dominant—or only—rigorous house of knowledge. In the former colonies of Europe (e.g., South Africa, Brazil, and Oceania), the curriculum, statues, architectures, and other aspects of the university demonstrate the way in which it is a fixture in empire maintenance. The trajectory of global White supremacy is deeply historical and contemporary—it is a global, transnational, and imperial phenomenon. White supremacy is sustained through the construction of inferiority and anti-Blackness. The context, history, and perspective offered by Collins, Newman, and Jun should serve as an introduction to the disruption of the ways in which university and academic dispositions have and continue to serve as sites of colonial and White supremacist preservation—as well as sites of resistance. Trade Review"Collins, Newman, and Jun offer fresh and thoughtful perspectives on ways that modern universities have long perpetuated Whiteness throughout the world. Global White Supremacy is a must-read primer for anyone working in or studying international higher education." -- Jenny J. Lee * Editor of U.S. Power in International Higher Education (Rutgers University Press, 2021) *"Finally! An authentic and thoughtful account of white supremacy and settler colonialism in higher education that will help lead us towards necessary healing and transformation." -- Kaiwipunikauikawekiu Punihei Lipe * Director of the University of Hawaii Manoa Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center *Table of ContentsPreface: Who We Are and Why It Matters Introduction Part I Ideology 1 Tools of Invasion: A Disposition to Inhabit the Globe 2 Homeland, Diaspora, and Traveling Whiteness 3 The University as Colonizer and Carrier of White Dominance Part II Case Studies 4 Dominant White Minorities and Invasion in Southern Africa 5 Shades of Advantage in Brazil 6 Empty Treaties and Occupied Land in Oceania Conclusion: Decolonized Past and Future Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Authors
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Global White Supremacy: Anti-Blackness and the
Book SynopsisKnowledge is more expansive than the boundaries of the Western university model and its claim to be the dominant—or only—rigorous house of knowledge. In the former colonies of Europe (e.g., South Africa, Brazil, and Oceania), the curriculum, statues, architectures, and other aspects of the university demonstrate the way in which it is a fixture in empire maintenance. The trajectory of global White supremacy is deeply historical and contemporary—it is a global, transnational, and imperial phenomenon. White supremacy is sustained through the construction of inferiority and anti-Blackness. The context, history, and perspective offered by Collins, Newman, and Jun should serve as an introduction to the disruption of the ways in which university and academic dispositions have and continue to serve as sites of colonial and White supremacist preservation—as well as sites of resistance. Trade Review"Collins, Newman, and Jun offer fresh and thoughtful perspectives on ways that modern universities have long perpetuated Whiteness throughout the world. Global White Supremacy is a must-read primer for anyone working in or studying international higher education." -- Jenny J. Lee * Editor of U.S. Power in International Higher Education (Rutgers University Press, 2021) *"Finally! An authentic and thoughtful account of white supremacy and settler colonialism in higher education that will help lead us towards necessary healing and transformation." -- Kaiwipunikauikawekiu Punihei Lipe * Director of the University of Hawaii Manoa Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center *Table of ContentsPreface: Who We Are and Why It Matters Introduction Part I Ideology 1 Tools of Invasion: A Disposition to Inhabit the Globe 2 Homeland, Diaspora, and Traveling Whiteness 3 The University as Colonizer and Carrier of White Dominance Part II Case Studies 4 Dominant White Minorities and Invasion in Southern Africa 5 Shades of Advantage in Brazil 6 Empty Treaties and Occupied Land in Oceania Conclusion: Decolonized Past and Future Acknowledgments Notes Index About the Authors
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Black and Smart: How Black High-Achieving Women
Book SynopsisEven academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates. Table of Contents1. Students Like Jada: Invisible High-Achieving Black Women 2. Beyond Black and Smart 3. Learning While Black and Brilliant 4. Thriving and Threats in Campus Life 5. Performing Authentic Identities 6. Implications for Practice and Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
Rutgers University Press Black and Smart: How Black High-Achieving Women
Book SynopsisEven academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates. Table of Contents1. Students Like Jada: Invisible High-Achieving Black Women 2. Beyond Black and Smart 3. Learning While Black and Brilliant 4. Thriving and Threats in Campus Life 5. Performing Authentic Identities 6. Implications for Practice and Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Fighting Invisibility: Asian Americans in the
Book SynopsisIn Fighting Invisibility, Monica Mong Trieu argues that we must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully understand the nuances of Asian American racialization. By doing this, we face questions such as, historically, who has represented Asian America? Who gets to represent Asian America? This book shifts the primary focus to Midwest Asian America to disrupt—and expand beyond—the existing privileged narratives in United States and Asian American history. Drawing from in-depth interviews, census data, and cultural productions from Asian Americans in Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, this interdisciplinary research examines how post-1950s Midwest Asian Americans navigate identity and belonging, racism, educational settings, resources within co-ethnic communities, and pan-ethnic cultural community. Their experiences and life narratives are heavily framed by three pervasive themes of spatially defined isolation, invisibility, and racialized visibility. Fighting Invisibility makes an important contribution to racialization literature, while also highlighting the necessity to further expand the scope of Asian American history-telling and knowledge production. Trade Review"In this remarkably perceptive book, Trieu’s multilayered narratives of racialization in the Midwest brilliantly contextualize how belonging, representation, and resistance are negotiated." -- Linda Trinh Vo * author of Mobilizing an Asian American Community *"The stories of Asian Americans in the Midwest remain poorly recognized and understood – until now. Fighting Invisibility frames these Asian Americans’ experiences within the context of U.S. racial history and culture, revealing the power of geography in the process. The result is a thought-provoking, highly readable book that should be read from coast to coast." -- Pawan Dhingra * author of Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Introduction: Asian America in America’s Heartland 1 Who Is Midwestern Asian America? A Demographic Overview and Personal Histories of Post-1950s Midwestern Asian Americans 19 “I Only Knew It in Relation to Its Absence”: Isolated and Everyday Ethnics on Spatial Contexts, Community, and Identity 46 “Why Couldn’t I Be White?”: On the Legacy of Colonialism, Racism, and Internalized Racism in the Midwest 64 Crafting “Sharp Weapons” in the Heartland: The Making of Cultural Productions as Racialized Subjects 89 Conclusion 105 Epilogue: A Final Note on Moving Forward for Asian America 109 Appendix: Selected Characteristics of Study Participants 117 Acknowledgments 121 Notes 125 Bibliography 149 Index 000
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Fighting Invisibility: Asian Americans in the
Book SynopsisIn Fighting Invisibility, Monica Mong Trieu argues that we must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully understand the nuances of Asian American racialization. By doing this, we face questions such as, historically, who has represented Asian America? Who gets to represent Asian America? This book shifts the primary focus to Midwest Asian America to disrupt—and expand beyond—the existing privileged narratives in United States and Asian American history. Drawing from in-depth interviews, census data, and cultural productions from Asian Americans in Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, this interdisciplinary research examines how post-1950s Midwest Asian Americans navigate identity and belonging, racism, educational settings, resources within co-ethnic communities, and pan-ethnic cultural community. Their experiences and life narratives are heavily framed by three pervasive themes of spatially defined isolation, invisibility, and racialized visibility. Fighting Invisibility makes an important contribution to racialization literature, while also highlighting the necessity to further expand the scope of Asian American history-telling and knowledge production. Trade Review"In this remarkably perceptive book, Trieu’s multilayered narratives of racialization in the Midwest brilliantly contextualize how belonging, representation, and resistance are negotiated." -- Linda Trinh Vo * author of Mobilizing an Asian American Community *"The stories of Asian Americans in the Midwest remain poorly recognized and understood – until now. Fighting Invisibility frames these Asian Americans’ experiences within the context of U.S. racial history and culture, revealing the power of geography in the process. The result is a thought-provoking, highly readable book that should be read from coast to coast." -- Pawan Dhingra * author of Hyper Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Introduction: Asian America in America’s Heartland 1 Who Is Midwestern Asian America? A Demographic Overview and Personal Histories of Post-1950s Midwestern Asian Americans 19 “I Only Knew It in Relation to Its Absence”: Isolated and Everyday Ethnics on Spatial Contexts, Community, and Identity 46 “Why Couldn’t I Be White?”: On the Legacy of Colonialism, Racism, and Internalized Racism in the Midwest 64 Crafting “Sharp Weapons” in the Heartland: The Making of Cultural Productions as Racialized Subjects 89 Conclusion 105 Epilogue: A Final Note on Moving Forward for Asian America 109 Appendix: Selected Characteristics of Study Participants 117 Acknowledgments 121 Notes 125 Bibliography 149 Index 000
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Reversing the Gaze: What If the Other Were You?
Book SynopsisTired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly recounts her experiences—first across Africa and then as a migrant Black woman in Italy—Makaping describes acts of racist aggression that are wearying and degrading to encounter on a daily basis. She also offers her perspective on how various forms of inequality based on race, color, gender, and class feed off each other. Reversing the Gaze invites readers to confront the question of racism through the retelling of everyday occurrences that we might have experienced as victims, perpetrators, or witnesses. Trade Review"A bold statement about language, identity, and belonging. Makaping’s unparalleled dissection of white Italy is fearless, unnerving, and unfailingly accurate. Without doubt the foundational text of Black Italian studies." -- Derek Duncan * co-editor of Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook *“Combining memoir with the social sciences, Makaping tells us about the challenges of being a black woman in Italy, how double consciousness takes on new meanings, and why the color line remains an unresolved question in twenty-first-century Europe. A pioneering text, a fundamental read.” -- Alessandra Di Maio * author of Wor(l)ds in Progress: A Study of Contemporary Migrant Writings *Table of ContentsForeword: Producing Transnational Black Studies with an Intersectional Approach Caterina Romeo Translators’ Note Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto Editor’s Note Simone BrioniReversing the Gaze Introduction: My Nonaligned Feminism Geneviève Makaping 1. The Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Immigrant Woman 2. End of the Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Woman 3. My Not Very Personal Diary 4. To Belong, But to Which Tribe? 5. Call Me Negra 6. The Difficulty of Dialoguing within the Margin 7. The Anthropology of the Other 8. Harassment and More 9. Daily Experiences 10. The Many Shades of Black 11. Participant Observation of an Eccentric Subject Acknowledgments Glossary References About the Author, Editor, and Translators
£51.85
Rutgers University Press Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of
Book SynopsisLong before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. By launching cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms and engaging as community influencers, Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples paved their own paths to a transnational lifeway during the Trump era. This meant adapting digital technology to their needs, setting up their own infrastructure, and designing new digital formats for re-organizing community life in all its facets—including illness, death and mourning, collective celebrations, sport tournaments, and political meetings—across vast distances. Author Ingrid Kummels shows how mediamakers and users in the Sierra Norte villages and in Los Angeles created a transborder media space and aligned time regimes. By networking from multiple places, they put into practice a communal way of life called Comunalidad and an indigenized American Dream—in real time. Trade Review"This is a fascinating ethnography about Zapotec and Ayuujk mediamakers and their use of synchronic communicative spaces to cross national borders between the US and Mexico, trespassing uneven media structures, economic disparities, and also ethnoracial and gender hierarchies. Beautifully written, Kummels’s ethnography is about migration, displacement, and lively Indigenous-tech communities across borders who dream of better futures to come for them and their offspring."— María Eugenia Ulfe, professor, Department of Social Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú "Without losing sight of troubling transborder geographies, this ethnography richly illustrates how Indigenous migrant communities associated with Oaxaca mobilize communication technologies, in particular social media, to foster collective place-based cultural identities."— Laurel C. Smith, associate professor and associate chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, U "In Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia noted scholar Ingrid Kummels brings to life what it means to be Indigenous in a globalized and constantly changing world. For Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples living in Los Angeles, Oaxacalifornia is a transnationalized space through which people, ideas, money and media message travel constantly reenforcing and changing the sense of identity and belonging for the thousands of Indigenous migrants leading a transnational existence. This is riveting reading.''— Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, director, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, coauthor of Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United StaTable of Contents1 Introduction: Community Life and Media in Times of Crisis 2 Histories of Mediatic Self-Determination: Pioneer Oaxacan Videos Go Transnational 3 Zapotec Dance Epistemologies Online 4 The Fiesta Cycle and Transnational Death: Community Life on Internet Radio 5 Ayuujk Basketball Tournament Broadcasts: Expanding Transborder Community Interactively 6 Turning Fifteen Transnationally: The Politics of Family Movies and Digital Kinning 7 Epilogue: Reloading Comunalidad—Indigeneity on the Ground and on the Air Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£28.90
Rutgers University Press Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of
Book SynopsisLong before the COVID-19 crisis, Mexican Indigenous peoples were faced with organizing their lives from afar, between villages in the Oaxacan Sierra Norte and the urban districts of Los Angeles, as a result of unauthorized migration and the restrictive border between Mexico and the United States. By launching cutting-edge Internet radio stations and multimedia platforms and engaging as community influencers, Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples paved their own paths to a transnational lifeway during the Trump era. This meant adapting digital technology to their needs, setting up their own infrastructure, and designing new digital formats for re-organizing community life in all its facets—including illness, death and mourning, collective celebrations, sport tournaments, and political meetings—across vast distances. Author Ingrid Kummels shows how mediamakers and users in the Sierra Norte villages and in Los Angeles created a transborder media space and aligned time regimes. By networking from multiple places, they put into practice a communal way of life called Comunalidad and an indigenized American Dream—in real time. Trade Review"In Indigeneity in Real Time: The Digital Making of Oaxacalifornia noted scholar Ingrid Kummels brings to life what it means to be Indigenous in a globalized and constantly changing world. For Zapotec and Ayuujk peoples living in Los Angeles, Oaxacalifornia is a transnationalized space through which people, ideas, money and media message travel constantly reenforcing and changing the sense of identity and belonging for the thousands of Indigenous migrants leading a transnational existence. This is riveting reading.'' -- Gaspar Rivera-Salgado * director, UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, coauthor of Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United Sta *"This is a fascinating ethnography about Zapotec and Ayuujk mediamakers and their use of synchronic communicative spaces to cross national borders between the US and Mexico, trespassing uneven media structures, economic disparities, and also ethnoracial and gender hierarchies. Beautifully written, Kummels’s ethnography is about migration, displacement, and lively Indigenous-tech communities across borders who dream of better futures to come for them and their offspring." -- María Eugenia Ulfe * professor, Department of Social Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú *"Without losing sight of troubling transborder geographies, this ethnography richly illustrates how Indigenous migrant communities associated with Oaxaca mobilize communication technologies, in particular social media, to foster collective place-based cultural identities." -- Laurel C. Smith * associate professor and associate chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, U *Table of Contents 1 Introduction: Community Life and Media in Times of Crisis 2 Histories of Mediatic Self-Determination: Pioneer Oaxacan Videos Go Transnational 3 Zapotec Dance Epistemologies Online 4 The Fiesta Cycle and Transnational Death: Community Life on Internet Radio 5 Ayuujk Basketball Tournament Broadcasts: Expanding Transborder Community Interactively 6 Turning Fifteen Transnationally: The Politics of Family Movies and Digital Kinning 7 Epilogue: Reloading Comunalidad—Indigeneity on the Ground and on the Air Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the
Book SynopsisWays of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn’t mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people’s struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode. An interview with the author (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-francesca-meloni-about-her-book-ways-of-belonging-undocumented-youth-in-the-shadow-of-illegality.html)Trade Review"Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization.' By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multidimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing."— Jacqueline Bhabha, author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age "Ways of Belonging examines what it means when young people reside in a place while not being of that place and how they carve out spaces of their own in the face of uncertainty and invisibility. Based on an impressive study, this remarkable book shines an important light on the nuances of contemporary migration and the policies that have produced ambiguous belonging. Theoretically insightful, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this is a must-read for scholars and policymakers alike." — Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America "Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policymakers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience."— Carola Suárez-Orozco, coeditor of Transitions: The Development of Children of ImmigrantsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Removable Children 2 Hidden Traces 3 Failing to Be Called 4 Getting Used to Here 5 Double Binds 6 Hopes and Departures Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the
Book SynopsisWays of Belonging examines the experiences of undocumented young people who are excluded from K–12 schools in Canada and are rendered invisible to the education system. Canadian law doesn’t mention the existence of undocumented children, and thus their access to education rests on discretionary practices and is often denied altogether. This book brings the stories of undocumented young people vividly alive, putting them into conversation with the perspectives of the different actors in schools and courts who fail to include these young people. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Francesca Meloni shows how ambivalence shapes the lives of young people who are caught between the desire to belong and the impossibility of fully belonging. Meloni pays close attention to these young people’s struggles and hopes, showing us what it means to belong and to endure in contexts of social exclusion. Ways of Belonging reveals the opacities and failures of a system that excludes children from education and puts their lives in invisibility mode.An interview with the author (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/news-views/book-interviews/items/interview-with-francesca-meloni-about-her-book-ways-of-belonging-undocumented-youth-in-the-shadow-of-illegality.html)Trade Review"Ways of Belonging provides sophisticated and empathic insights into how young people whose lives are shaped by legal liminality and an ambivalent national reception navigate these vulnerabilities while concurrently exerting agency. A must-read for developmentalists, educators, policymakers, human rights advocates, or, frankly, anyone with a social conscience." -- Carola Suárez-Orozco * coeditor of Transitions: The Development of Children of Immigrants *"Meloni's book usefully contributes to a growing literature that probes the nuances involved in processes of migrant 'illegalization.' By avoiding simplistic accounts of state oppression and victimization, she proposes a multidimensional framework for understanding how people who are 'vanished' may, nevertheless, generate affective strategies that enable layered ways of surviving and even flourishing." -- Jacqueline Bhabha * author of Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age *"Ways of Belonging examines what it means when young people reside in a place while not being of that place and how they carve out spaces of their own in the face of uncertainty and invisibility. Based on an impressive study, this remarkable book shines an important light on the nuances of contemporary migration and the policies that have produced ambiguous belonging. Theoretically insightful, rigorously researched, and compellingly argued, this is a must-read for scholars and policymakers alike." -- Roberto G. Gonzales * author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America *Table of Contents Introduction 1 Removable Children 2 Hidden Traces 3 Failing to Be Called 4 Getting Used to Here 5 Double Binds 6 Hopes and Departures ConclusionAcknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in
Book SynopsisMixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama inconsequential in conversations about race and performance. Since the nineteenth century, however, these plays have long advocated for the social significance of multiracial Asian people. Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Experience in American Drama traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater from the late-nineteenth century to the present day and explores the ways that mixed-race Asian identity transforms our understanding of race. Mixed-Asian playwrights harness theater’s generative power to enact performances of “double liminality” and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.Trade Review"This book brilliantly argues for theater as a rich archive for understanding both the mixed-Asian experience and historical perceptions of multiraciality across the late nineteenth to early twenty-first century in the United States. Through cogent script analysis and fascinating biographical work on several under researched hapa playwrights, Heinrich insists on a consideration of the mixed-race experience as fundamentally distinct from representations of monoraciality. As such, mixed race theory has the potential to critique some of the monoracial presumptions of our prevailing discourse on race." -- SanSan Kwan * author of Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration *“Heinrich is brilliant, and her subject is fascinating. I loved every one of these chapters and found each one challenging in different and surprising ways. Race and Role seems destined to take its place in the canon of Asian American cultural studies.” -- Paul Spickard * author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity *Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1: Stages of Denial Chapter 2: Tragic Eurasians: Mixed-Asian Dramas in the Late-Nineteenth Century Chapter 3: Shape Shifting Performances in the Twentieth Century Chapter 4: Cosmopolitan Identity in Mixed Dramatic Forms Chapter 5: Multiraciality in the Post-racial Era Chapter 6: Beyond Monoracial Hierarchies: Recovering Lost Selves Acknowledgments Notes Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in
Book SynopsisMixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama inconsequential in conversations about race and performance. Since the nineteenth century, however, these plays have long advocated for the social significance of multiracial Asian people. Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Experience in American Drama traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater from the late-nineteenth century to the present day and explores the ways that mixed-race Asian identity transforms our understanding of race. Mixed-Asian playwrights harness theater’s generative power to enact performances of “double liminality” and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.Trade Review"This book brilliantly argues for theater as a rich archive for understanding both the mixed-Asian experience and historical perceptions of multiraciality across the late nineteenth to early twenty-first century in the United States. Through cogent script analysis and fascinating biographical work on several under researched hapa playwrights, Heinrich insists on a consideration of the mixed-race experience as fundamentally distinct from representations of monoraciality. As such, mixed race theory has the potential to critique some of the monoracial presumptions of our prevailing discourse on race." -- SanSan Kwan * author of Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration *“Heinrich is brilliant, and her subject is fascinating. I loved every one of these chapters and found each one challenging in different and surprising ways. Race and Role seems destined to take its place in the canon of Asian American cultural studies.” -- Paul Spickard * author of Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity *Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1: Stages of Denial Chapter 2: Tragic Eurasians: Mixed-Asian Dramas in the Late-Nineteenth Century Chapter 3: Shape Shifting Performances in the Twentieth Century Chapter 4: Cosmopolitan Identity in Mixed Dramatic Forms Chapter 5: Multiraciality in the Post-racial Era Chapter 6: Beyond Monoracial Hierarchies: Recovering Lost Selves Acknowledgments Notes Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press The Activist Collector: Lida Clanton Broner’s
Book SynopsisPublished by the Newark Museum. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press. “After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers.” So wrote Lida Clanton Broner (1895–1982), an African American housekeeper and hairstylist from Newark, New Jersey, upon her return from an extraordinary nine-month journey to South Africa in 1938. This epic trip was motivated not only by Broner’s sense of ancestral heritage, but also a grassroots resolve to connect the socio-political concerns of African Americans with those of black South Africans under the segregationist policies of the time. During her travels, this woman of modest means circulated among South Africa’s Black intellectual elite, including many leaders of South Africa’s freedom struggle. Her lectures at Black schools on “race consciousness and race pride” had a decidedly political bent, even as she was presented as an “American beauty specialist.” How did Broner—a working class mother—come to be a globally connected activist? What were her experiences as an African American woman in segregated South Africa and how did she further her work after her return? Broner’s remarkable story is the subject of this book, which draws upon a deep visual and documentary record now held in the collection of the Newark Museum of Art. This extraordinary archive includes more than one hundred and fifty objects, ranging from beadwork and pottery to mission school crafts, acquired by Broner in South Africa, along with her diary, correspondence, scrapbooks, and hundreds of photographs with handwritten notations. Trade Review“Christa Clarke’s The Activist Collector, a triumph of archival research and art historical scholarship, is a revelation of the astonishing degree to which symbolic and spiritual connections to South Africa were shared by African Americans at every social level as much as a century ago. Clarke’s work demonstrates in stunning detail that consciousness of Black African culture and politics and truly ‘Pan-African’ artistic sensibility were not merely embraced by exemplars of the African American intellectual elite, but were much more broadly-based, and shared across black social classes. In stunningly insightful analyses of the collection of art objects that Lida Clanton Broner gathered as she engaged in a one-woman campaign for black liberation throughout apartheid South Africa almost a century ago, Clarke has resurrected from the archives a story that reveals the power and magic of courage, imagination, and the belief that the battle for freedom must be pursued one speech and one art object at a time.” -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard UniversityFrom hairstylist and housekeeper to grassroots activist, Ms. Broner led an extraordinary life. The granddaughter of enslaved Africans, she was determined to visit her ancestral home. Her history with us began in 1943 with an exhibition of objects and artifacts she collected (and later donated to the Museum) during her 1938 trip to South Africa. That installation was among the very first museum exhibitions to focus on the art of South Africa and may well have been the first museum presentation of a collection by an African American woman. -- Linda C. Harrison, Director & CEO, The Newark Museum of Art * from the foreword *Table of Contents1 A Transatlantic Friendship 2 From Personal Pilgrimage to Political Purpose 3 “Welcome to Africa!” 4 Onward and Inward to the Transvaal and Natal 5 Return to the Eastern Cape and Voyage Home 6 Activist Exhibitions 7 The Newark Museum and Beyond Epilogue “Mother of the Oceans”
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Rutgers University Press Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves
Book SynopsisMany of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people change, self-alteration is also a practical care—can I change, and how? Self-Alteration: How People Change Themselves across Cultures explores and analyzes these apparently universal hopes and their related existential dilemmas. The essays here come at the subject of the self and its becoming through case studies of modes of transformation of the self. They do this with social processes and projects that reveal how the self acquires a non-trivial new meaning in and through its very process of alteration. By focusing on ways we are allowed to change ourselves, including through religious and spiritual traditions and innovations, embodied participation in therapeutic programs like psychoanalysis and gendered care services, and political activism or relationships with animals, the authors in this volume create a model for cross-cultural or global analysis of social-self change that leads to fresh ways of addressing the 'self' itself. Trade Review"This remarkable volume casts new light on our understanding of selfhood, by looking at the ways different people in different contexts alter themselves."— Jon P. Mitchell, author of Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta "Anthropology has only recently focused on one of the basic human experiences: that people set out to change themselves, and they do so using the tools that their culture offers to them. This volume presents a rich array of observations around this theme to carry the conversation forward."— Tanya Luhrmann, author of How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible OthersTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: A Time for Change: Modes of Self-Alteration Jean-Paul Baldacchino and Christopher Houston Part I: Religious Cultures, Spiritual Practices, and Self-Alteration Chapter 2 Exemplary Masters, Exemplary Reeds: Pedagogies of Self-Alteration in Sufi Music Banu Şenay Chapter 3 Re-imagining Self and Self-Alteration in Contemporary New Age, Pagan and Neo-Shamanic Spiritualities Kathryn Rountree Chapter 4 Wounded by Grace: Becoming a Prophet in an Evangelical Revival in Solomon Islands Jaap Timmer Part II: Self-Alteration and Political Activism Chapter 5 Fabricating the New Man and Woman: Self-Alteration Through Revolutionary Socialism Christopher Houston Chapter 6 Transcendental Terror: Zen Self-Transformation through White Supremacist Atrocity, from Nazi Germany to Utøya and Christchurch Max Harwood Part III: Gendered Bodies and Therapeutic Interventions Chapter 7 Beautiful, Moral, Functional: Bodily Self-Alteration in an Italian Centre for Eating Disorders Gisella Orsini Chapter 8 Porous Individuality as Self-Alteration: Commercial Self-Improvement in Urban China Gil Hizi Chapter 9 How Is Psychoanalysis a Mode of Self-Alteration? Anthropological Interrogations Jean-Paul Baldacchino Part IV: Self-Alteration, The Human, and the More-Than-Human Chapter 10 Mutualistic Self-Alteration: Human-Pigeon Assemblages in Rural Pakistan Muhammad A. Kavesh Chapter 11 Self-Alteration as Human Capacity and as Cosmopolitan Right Nigel Rapport Part V: Afterword Chapter 12 Making Oneself Otherwise: Reflections on Natality Michael Jackson Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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Simon & Schuster Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really
Book SynopsisPeabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identity in America, unearthed through her decade-long work at The Race Card Project.The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send. The answers, though, have been challenging and complicated. In the twelve years since award-winning journalist Michele Norris first posed that question, over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor, spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity, and class. Even at just six words, the micro-essays can pack quite a punch, revealing, fear, pain, triumph, and sometimes humor. Responses such as: You’re Pretty for a Black girl. White privilege, enjoy it, earned it. Lady, I don’t want your purse. My ancestors massacred Indians near here. Urban living has made me racist. I’m only Asian when it’s convenient. Many go even further than just six words, submitting backstories, photos, and heirlooms: a collection much like a scrapbook of American candor you rarely get to see. Our Hidden Conversations is a unique compilation of stories, richly reported essays, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era. This powerful book offers an honest, if sometimes uncomfortable, conversation about race and identity, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts, private discussions, and long submerged memories. The breadth of this work came as a surprise to Norris. For most of the twelve years she has collected these stories, many were submitted by white respondents. This unexpected panorama provides a rare 360-degree view of how Americans see themselves and one another. Our Hidden Conversations reminds us that even during times of great division, honesty, grace, and a willing ear can provide a bridge toward empathy and maybe even understanding.Trade Review“A remarkable book. By letting Americans of every walk of life share their deepest, most personal—and sometimes contradictory—attitudes on race, it takes us past the usual polarizing debates and points us toward the possibility of greater understanding." — Barack Obama, on X “A testament to that journey. Featuring photos and stories on race from people all over America, it highlights the truths of the American experience — and shares everything, even the messy bits. It's an incredible read." — Michelle Obama, on Instagram “A stunning book and a gift to our nation. Anchored by more than a decade of research and engagement with Americans across the country, Michele Norris takes us on a journey into the heart of this country’s painful, complex and unrelenting battle with the salience and significance of race in our lives.” — Sherrilyn Ifill, Howard Law School, and former President & Director-Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund “An important, compelling work. In an extremely unique way, Norris captures private, poignant and instructive stories that are a guide to racial knowledge that can lead to the understanding and healing we so desperately need. Ultimately, she shows that we need not fear the issues we must all confront.” — Eric H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States and author of Our Unfinished March “When ordinary people, talk, extraordinary truths are revealed. Michele Norris has an extraordinary gift – she is able to coax people into revealing their profound beliefs about race. This book is a safe space where difficult conversations become healing exchanges.” — Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage "The brilliant Michele Norris has spent fourteen years getting people to open up about race — starting with six words. The result of her noble project is this beautiful and inspiring book. It can help us all cultivate communities of bridge builders so that we can talk about race with both candor and love.” — Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker “Candid, unsettling and brilliant, the Race Card Project is a rare window into the enigma of race and the ways in which people make sense of it. In Our Hidden Conversations, Michele Norris has brought together a vista of personal truths that are as indelible as the issue they’re responding to.” — Jelani Cobb, Dean, Columbia Journalism School "Michele Norris is one of our most important chroniclers of American life. The stories captured in this book reveal the complexity, nuance, and dynamism of race in America. It is an indispensable resource for all of us.” — Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling Author of How The Word is Passed “As an immigrant, I always dreamed of an America where all are welcome. I still do. That dream is powerful, but we know it’s not the whole story. Michele Norris has the rare courage, understanding and grace to tell the American stories we prefer to keep silent — and the ones we should be proud of telling." — José Andrés, chef and humanitarian “Our Hidden Conversations is a unique, troubling, tough and beautiful book, a study of people sharing their thoughts and stories about racism. It sometimes broke my heart, other times surprised me, always challenged me, and ultimately left me uplifted, and with hope, because truth heals." — Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird“Notable… Norris offers crucial insight into how Americans think about race, combining the painful with the inspiring.” — Kirkus Reviews "This is an eye-opening read and an affecting examination of how race affects our lives.” — Booklist Review
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Daraja Press The Revolutionary Meaning Of The George Floyd
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Daraja Press The Imperative Of Utu/ubuntu In Africana
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Hansebooks Handbuch der Geschichte Österreichs
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Hansebooks Indonesien oder die Inseln des Malayischen
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Hansebooks Ostfriesland in Bildern und Skizzen: Land und
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Hansebooks Bilder aus Japan
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Hansebooks Persien das Land und seine Bewohner:
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Brill Fink Karl Marx: Philosophie Für Einsteiger
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Brill Fink Geschichte Der Sozialen Arbeit: Eine Illustrierte
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Transcript Verlag Fragments of Solidarity: An Ethnography of an
Book SynopsisHow is solidarity understood by the people who practice it actively and daily? What is the role of solidarity in reconciling the relationship of individuals with the collective demands of communities that fight for the rights of others? Based on a variety of anthropological, sociological, and philosophical writings as well as ethnographic research, Maria Giannoula takes an elaborated look at the emotional and spiritual aspects of political participation within an activist group in Greece in the 2010s. This study is a valuable resource for those researching social movements and alternative communities, focusing on the ways in which individuals organise their own forms of activism.
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Sternberg Press Bad Infinity: Selected Writings
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Tuttle Publishing The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter:
Book SynopsisGet to know the inhabitants of a tiny Japanese island—and their unusual stories and secrets—through this fascinating, intimate collection of portraits."This book beautifully describes the residents of tiny Shiraishi Island as well as telling how Amy herself came to be in such a fascinating little corner of Japan…Amy herself, with this book, has shown herself an integral part of this preservation. —Rebecca Otowa, author of At Home in JapanWhen American journalist Amy Chavez moved to the tiny island of Shiraishi (population 430), she rented a house from an elderly woman named Eiko, who left many of her most cherished possessions in the house—including a portrait of Emperor Hirohito and a family altar bearing the spirit tablet of her late husband. Why did she abandon these things? And why did her tombstone later bear the name of a daughter no one knew? These are just some of the mysteries Amy pursues as she explores the lives of Shiraishi's elusive residents. The 31 revealing accounts in this book include: The story of 40-year-old fisherman Hiro, one of two octopus hunters left on the island, who moved back to his home island to fill a void left by his brother who died in a boating accident. A Buddhist priest, eighty-eight, who reflects on his childhood during the war years, witnessing fighter pilots hiding in bunkers on the back side of the island. A "pufferfish widow," so named because her husband died after accidentally eating a poisonous pufferfish. The ex-postmaster who talks about hiking over the mountains at night to deliver telegrams at a time when there were only 17 telephone numbers on the island. Interspersed with the author's reflections on her own life on the island, these stories paint an evocative picture of the dramatic changes which have taken place in Japanese society across nearly a century. Fascinating insights into local superstitions and folklore, memories of the war and the bombing of nearby Hiroshima, and of Shiraishi's heyday as a resort in the 1960s and 70s are interspersed with accounts of common modern-day problems like the collapse of the local economy and a rapidly-aging community which has fewer residents each year.Trade Review"When it comes to writers on Japan, Amy Chavez is as good as it gets. Her works convey such energy, enthusiasm and richness of detail that everything she writes is a joy to read." --Robert Whiting, author of You Gotta Have Wa"The chat will surely be a treat for fans of Amy's work. For those stumbling across her work for the first time, I am certain you'll enjoy all that is discussed and covered in this compelling talk." -- The Life As A…Podcast"Once in a great while, you come across a book so compelling, interesting, and important that you want to share it with everyone. Such is the case with the latest book from author Amy Chavez, entitled The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter: Discovering a Lost Way of Life on a Secluded Japanese Island…" -- Dr. Jessie Voigts, Wandering Educators
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Zubaan A Passionate Life – Writings by and on Kamladevi
Book SynopsisKamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discussions of and studies on Indian women and independence. But in more mainstream histories she remains relatively unknown. A Passionate Life brings together for the first time a collection of Kamaladevi's writings on the subjects closest to her heart. These essays include a close look at the lives of tribal peoples in India, the sustaining of handicrafts and handicraft workers, and issues of history. In doing so, the volume questions not only our methods of writing and recovering history which leave out lives as important as hers but also shows how the surfacing of histories like Kamaladevi's can enrich, expand, and add nuance to our understanding of the making of modern India. Crucial new essays and commentary by the editors accompany Kamaladevi's writings.
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Hansib Publishing (Caribbean) Ltd The Empty Sleeve
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Independently Published Scoperti i Guerrieri di Terracotta
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Independently Published Paul Reeve on Race & Priesthood
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Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company) Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Bearing the Cross
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Memorial Drive
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Such Good Girls
Book SynopsisEdgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survive World War II—who went on to lead remarkable lives in New York City.Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding. In Such Good Girls, R. D. Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girls.Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, who spent the war years believing she was an anti-Semitic Catholic schoolgirl, eventually became an esteemed radiation oncologist. Flora Hogman, protected by a succession of Christians, emerged from the war a lonely, lost orphan, but became a psychologist who pioneered the study of hidden child survivors. Unlike Anne Frank, Carla Lessing made it through the war concealed with her
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Run, don’t walk, to buy this book about the amazing life and career of Ursula Burns, who rose to lead and help save the Fortune 500 company, Xerox. If you’re looking for life and business lessons about how to navigate both as a black woman, this book is for you. If you’re wondering why girls should study STEM subjects and become engineers in our changing economy, you’ll understand why. And if you’re ready to be inspired during this difficult time in America, Ursula’s story of being a poor immigrant’s daughter delivers.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton “Ursula Burns’ journey toward becoming the first Black woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company is fascinating and surprising. And, her views of the corporate landscape as it relates to our personal lives is priceless. Wish I’d had this enlightening memoir at the start of my business career. It’s perfect for any person who dreams big and wants more for the world in terms of greater human compassion.” — Katrina Adams, author of Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One “Often, when we think of big business we think money, power, and product. But, when Ursula Burns speaks of the corporate world she celebrates and brings to light the people—the human component—that makes all things possible. This book is a wonderful tribute to the American worker.” — Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation “With its focus on business and leadership, Burns' writing is refreshingly lucid, crisp, and jargon-free, making readers feel as if in conversation with the author, hearing about her time at Xerox and other fascinating stories, such as her meetings with former President Obama. Readers will find this business memoir through the lens of a Black woman to be both engrossing and eye-opening.” — Booklist
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Raceless
Book SynopsisA Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the YearFreshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growing up mixed race... and she writes beautifully about questions of identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding our particular place in the world.” -New York Times Book ReviewFrom The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—through the author’s own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black.Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a t
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HarperCollins The Twilight Garden
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Pearson Education Limited Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader Documents
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement.A record of one of the greatest and most turbulent movements of this century, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader is essential for anyone interested in learning how far the American civil rights movements has come and how far it has to go.Included are the Supreme Court's Brown vs Board of Education decision in its entirety; speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., and his famous Letter from Birmingham City Jail; an interview with Rosa Parks; selections from Malcolm X Speaks; Black Panther Bobby Seale's Seize the Time; Ralph Abernathy's controversial And the Walls Came Tumbling Down; a piece by Herman Badillo on the infamous Attica prison uprising; addresses by Harold Washington, Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandel, and much more. “An important volume for students and professionals whTrade Review“An important volume for students and professionals who wish to grasp the basic nature of the civil rights movement and how it changed America in fundamental ways.” —Aldon Morris, Northwestern University“A remarkable collection . . . Indispensable.” —William H. Harris, Texas Southern UniversityTable of ContentsPrologueWe the People: The Long Journey Toward a More Perfect Unionby Vincent HardingChapter One:Awakenings (1954-1956)Introduction by Vincent HardingArticles on the Emmett Till Case"Coming of Age in Mississippi," by Anne MoodyA Letter from the Women's Political Council to the Mayor of Montgomery, AlabamaInterview with Rosa Parks"The Movement Gathers Momentum," by Martin Luther King, Jr.Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., at Holt Street Baptist Church"At Holt Street Baptist Church," by joe AzbellResolution of the Citizens' Mass Meeting, December 5, 1955"Desegregation at Last," by Martin Luther King, Jr.Chapter Two:Fighting Back (1957-1962)Introduction by Darlene Clark HineBrown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al."How Children Learn About Race," by Kenneth B. Clark"The Atlanta Decalration," by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"Black Monday: Segregation or Amalgamation...America Has Its Choice," by Tom P. BradyBrown v. Board of Education-The Implementation Descision"The Long Shadow of Little Rock," by Daisy BatesA Roundtable DiscussionChapter Three:Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)Introduction by Clayborne Carson"Is Violence Necessary in Combat Injustice? For the Positive: Williams Says 'We Must Fight Back,'" by Robert F. Williams"The Social Organization of Non Violence," by Martin Luther King, Jr.Interview with Franklin McCain"An Appeal for Human Rights""Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose""Bigger than a Hamburger," by Ella J. Baker"A Conference on the Sit-Ins," by Ted Dienstfrey"In Pursuit of Freedom," by William MahoneyInterview with Robert Zellner"Eve of Nonviolent Revolution?," by James M. Lawson, Jr.Chapter Four:No Easy Walk (1961-1963)Introduction by David J. GarrowOrganizing in Albany, Georgia, by Charles SherrodLetter from the Albany Movement to the Albany City Commission, January 23, 1962Interview with Bernice ReagonLetter from Albany Merchant Leonard Gilberg to Albany Police Chief Laurie Prichett, July 23, 1962"Birmingham: People in Motion," by the Alambama Christian Movement for Human RightsWiretap Transcript of Phone Connversation Between Martin Luther King, Jr., and Coretta Scott King, April 15, 1963"Letter from Birmingham City Jail," by Martin Luther King, Jr.The Birmingham Truce Agreement, May 10, 1963President John F. Kennedy's Nationally Televised Speech, June 11, 1963Original Text of Speech to Be Delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, by John LewisChapter Four:Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964)Introduction by Clayborne Carson"Mississippi: 1961-1962," by Robert Moses"To Praise our Bridges," by Fannie Lou Hamer"Interim Report of the United States Commision on Civil Rights, April 16, 1963""Freedom Summer," by Sally Belfrage"Mississippi at Atlantic City," by Charles M. SherrodStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Brief Report on Guinea, by James Forman"The Trip," by John Lewis and Donald Harris"To Mississippi Youth," by Malcolm X"From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement," by Bayard RustinChapter Six:Bridge to Freedom (1965)Introduction by David J. Garrow"Early Attempts at Betterment," by Amelia Platts Boynton"A Letter from a Selma, Alabama, Jail," by Martin Luther King, Jr."A Midnight Plane to Alabama: Journey of Conscience," by George B. LeonardSNCC-SCLC Relations, by James FormanPersonal Letter from Murial and Art Lewis to Her Mother, Selma, Alabama, March 19, 1965"Our God is Marching On!," by Martin Luther King, Jr.Interlude:We The People: The Struggle Continuesby Vincent HardingChapter Eleven:The Time Has Come (1964-1966)Introduction by Clayborne Carson"Message to the Grass Roots," by Malcolm X"Malcolm," by Sonia Sanchez"Black Belt Election: New Day A'Coming," by Stokely Charmichael and Charles V. HamiltonLowndes County Freedom Organization Pamphlet"How the Black Panther Party Was Organized," by John Hulett"From Black Consciousness to Black Power," by Cleveland Sellers and Robert Terrell"What We Want," by Stokely Charmichael"Black Power: A Voice Within," by Ruth Turner PerotChapter Eight:Two Societies (1965-1968)Introduction by Darlene Clark Hine"A Proposal by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of the Development of a Nonviolent Action Movement for the Greater Chicago Area"Demands Placed on the Door of Chicago City Hall by Martin Luther King, Jr., July 10, 1966"Agreement of the Subcommittee to the Conference on Fair Housing Convened by the Chicago Conference on Religion and Race"Interview with Kinda Bryant Hall"Profiles of Disorder...Detroit""A Man's Life," by Roger WilkinsChapter Nine:Power! (1966-1968)Introduction by Gerald Gill"Taking Over," by Carl B. StokesInterview with Thompson J. "Mike" GainesInterview with Geraldine Williams"The Founding of the Black Panther Party" and "Patrolling," by Huey P. Newton"Seize the Time," by Bobby SealeInterview with Delores Torres"A JHS 271 Teacher Tell It Like He Sees It," by Charles S. IsaacsInterview with Karriema Jordan"Anti-Semitism?-A Statement by the Teachers of Ocean Hill-Brownsville to the People of New York"Chapter Ten:The Promised Land (1967-1968)Introduction by David J. Garrow"A Time to Break Silence," by Martin Luther King, Jr."Conversation with Martin Luther King""I See the Promised Land," by Martin Luther King, Jr."My Last Letter to Martin," by Ralph David Abernathy"On the Case in Resurrection City," by Charlayne A. HunterChapter Eleven:Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972)Introduction by Gerald Gill"...I'm the Greatest,' a poem by Cassius Clay""The Greatest," by Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham"Muhammad Ali-The Measure of a Man," from FreedomwaysInterview with Paula GiddingsAn Open Letter Sent to Howard President James M. NabritInterview with Tony Gittens"The Nature and Needs of the Black University," by Gerald McWorter"It's Nation Time," by Amari Baraka"We Must Pave the Way: An Independent Black Political Thrust," by Richard Hatcher"National Black Political Agenda. The Gary Declaration: Black Politics at the Crossroads"Chapter Twelve:A Nation of Law?Introduction by Gerald Gill"Fred Speaks"Interview with Akua Njere (Deborah Johnson)"Search and Destroy: A Report by the Commission of Inquiry into the Black Panthers and the Police," Roy Wilkins and Ramsey Clark, Chairmen"The FBI's Efforts to Disrupt and Neutralize the Black Panther Party""Angela Davis: An Autobiography"Letter From George JacksonAttica Prisoners' Demands"Negotiations and Failure," by Herman Badillo and Milton Haynes"The Brothers of Attica," by Richard X. ClarkChapter Thirteen:The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980)Introduction by Gerald GillStatement to the Boston School Committee, June 11, 1963"Death at an Early Age," by Jonathan KozulTallulah Morgan et al. v. James W. Hennigan et al.Commencement Address as Howard University by Lyndon B. JohnsonInaugural Address by Mayor Maynard Jackson"Can Atlanta Succeed Where America Has Failed? An Exclusive Atlanta Magazine Interview with Mayor Maynard Jackson as He Completes Hits First 500 Days in Office"Amicus Curiae Brief in Regents of University of Californias v. Allan BakkeRegents University of California v. Allan Bakke (The Supreme Court Judgement), June 28, 1978Regents University of California v. Allan Bakke (Justice Marshall's Dissent), June 28, 1978"Whites Say I Must Be on Easy Street," by Nell Irvin PainterChapter Fourteen:Back to the Movement (1979-mid-1980s)Introduction by Vincent Harding"A Historic Look at Our Neighborhoods," by the Black Archives, History and Research Foundation of South Florida"Death Watch," by Marvin Dunn"Confronting racial Isolation in Miami," by the U.S. Commission on Civil RightsInterview with Edward GardnerHarold Washington's Announcement of Candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for Mayor of Chicago"Harold Washington: uniting Chicago for All People"Harold Washington's Inaugural Speech"Of Harold Washington," by Gwendolyn Brooks"Address by the Reverend Jesse Jackson," Democratic National Connvention, San Francisco, July 17, 1984Interview with Unita Blackwell"Platform Presentation by Mayor Henry G. Cisneros," Democratic National Convention, San Francisco, July 17, 1984Address to the National College and University Student Conference, Shen TongAddress by Nelson MandelaAbout the General AuthorsThe Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader Publishing Project StaffEyes on the Prize: The Film and Publishing ProjectNotes on SourcesIndex
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