Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Hanover Square Press Black on Black
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£17.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Race
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£123.50
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group New York Burning
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER • A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.“Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.” —The New Yorker“A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.” —NewsdayIn New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall. Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence.
£15.26
John Wiley and Sons Ltd History And National Destiny
Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates and evaluates Anthony D. Smith's path-breaking contribution to the study of nations and nationalism. A fresh and critical look at Anthony D. Smith's path-breaking contribution to the study of nations and nationalism. Debates various issues concerning Smith's controversial ethnosymbolic approach. Includes contributions from academics based in the Czech Republic, Norway, the UK and US. Opens up new avenues of research. Table of ContentsIntroduction: History and National Destiny: Monterrey Guibernau (Open University) and John Hutchinson (London School of Economics). 1. Definitions, Periodization and Prospects for the Longue Duree: John A. Armstrong (retired from University of Wisconsin, Madison). 2. Covenant and Continuity: Ethno-Symbolism and the Myth of Divine Election: Bruce Cauthen. 3. The Timelessness of Nations: Walker Connor (Middlebury College). 4. Place, Kinship and the Case for Non-Ethnic Nations: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo). 5. ‘Dominant Ethnicity’ and the ‘Ethnic-Civic’ Dichotomy in the Work of A. D. Smith: Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck College, University of London) and Oliver Zimmer (University of Durham). 6. Ethnicity and Supra-Ethnicity in Corpus Planning: The Hidden Status Agenda in Corpus Planning: Joshua A. Fishman (Yeshiva University, New York). 7. From Ethnic Group Toward the Modern Nation: The Czech Case: Miroslav Hroch (Charles University Prague). 8. Myth Against Myth: The Nation as Ethnic Overlay: John Hutchinson (London School of Economics). 9. Anthony D. Smith on Nations and National Identity: A Critical Assessment: Montserrat Guibernau (Open University). 10. The Ethno-Cultural Roots of National Art: Athena S. Leoussi (University of Reading). 11. Nationalism and Globalisation: Mary Kaldor. 12. Globalising National States: Stein Tønnesson (historian). 13. History and National Destiny: Responses and Clarifications: Anthony D. Smith (London School of Economics). Index.
£20.66
Union Square & Co. The Fire in the Flint
Book SynopsisKenneth Harper, a Black doctor and WWI veteran, returns to his hometown in Georgia to practice medicine after graduating from medical school in the North and completing a residency in France. Having forgotten the realities of life in the Jim Crow South, Dr. Harper initially believes “times have changed” and racial tensions are a thing of the past. But when Dr. Harper helps local Black sharecroppers organize for higher payment, he draws the ire of the Ku Klux Klan—and discovers he has no choice but to join the fight against white supremacy.
£14.24
Bristol University Press Research and Policy in Ethnic Relations
Book SynopsisThis unique book explores the interaction between the academic research community and those who use its research to inform their social policy interventions, thus raising awareness of the linkages between research and social policy in particular in the area of ethnic relations.Trade Review“This engrossing and timely collection of critical perspectives explores the impact of the commodification of knowledge on contemporary ethnic relations, suggesting an urgent need for establishing a more effective dialogue between policymakers and social scientists.” Professor Michael Meadows, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Brisbane, Australia“A lucid collection at the cutting edge of critical engagement with how academic research may be used or ignored, this book stands out as a novel and distinct contribution to our understanding and will be of vital use to researchers and practitioners alike." Dr Nasar Meer, Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship, Strathclyde University“A richly rewarding collection that challenges both academics and policymakers to think differently about how we can develop better policy agendas in this complex field” Professor John Solomos, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick“Combining reflective and detailed case studies and thoughtful theoretical accounts, this collection provides a well-judged and challenging intervention in how academic research and policymaking in the field of 'ethnic relations' intersect.” Dr Gavan Titley, National University of Ireland MaynoothTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Charles Husband; Constraint and compromise: university researchers, their relation to funders and to policymaking for a multiethnic Britain ~ Charles Husband; ‘Hating to know’: government and social policy research in multicultural Australia ~ Andrew Jakubowicz; In-group identity and the challenges of ethnographic research ~ Yunis Alam; Anthros and pimps doing the God trick: researching Muslim young people ~ M.G. Khan; Reflections of a research funder ~ Emma Stone; The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: linking research, policy and practice ~ Ioannis N. Dimitrakopoulos; The value of research for local authorities: a practitioner perspective ~ Stan Kidd and Tony Reeves
£75.99
The University of North Carolina Press Oberlin Hotbed of Abolitionism
Book SynopsisBy exploring the role of Oberlin - the college and the community - in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J. Brent Morris establishes this hotbed of abolitionism as the core of the antislavery movement in the West and as one of the most influential reform groups in antebellum America.Trade ReviewWill invariably interest those eager to understand the historical relationship between the liberal arts and social activism."" - History of Education Quarterly""An engaging and well-written narrative. . . . Anyone with an interest in the history of Oberlin, higher education, the abolitionist movement, and researching these topics, should seriously consider adding Oberlin: Hotbed of Abolitionism to their library."" - Journal of African American History""Provides a thorough overview of the significant role played by Oberlin in abolition and antislavery."" - Journal of American History""Morris provides an insightful analysis of a college and community at the vanguard of abolition...Scholars and students of American history, antebellum reform, and Ohio history will enjoy Morris's energetic prose and engaging work."" - American Historical Review""A necessary and refreshing departure from the standard story of abolitionism."" - The Journal of Southern History""Beautifully and clearly written, and makes for an enjoyable read for readers of this journal who seek a focused history of the Midwest's relevance to national politics and activism."" - Middle West Review
£27.86
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Making Freedom The Underground Railroad and the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA readable and compelling narrative on slaves who sought freedom through the Underground Railroad."" - Florida Historical Quarterly""This slender volume packs a powerful punch. R. J. M. Blackett selects compelling stories that convey the deep and extensive networks essential to the operation of the Underground Railroad, its corrosive effect on the slave system, and role in the ultimate demise of slavery."" - Ohio Valley History""Gracefully written. . . . Clear and supported by evidence."" - The North Carolina Historical Review""[A] riveting book."" - Journal of Southern History""Blackett delivers many vivid accounts of escapes. . . as well as an illuminating discussion of slave catching and the organized kidnapping of free blacks."" - Journal of Interdisciplinary History""Employ[s] memorable microhistories that open[s] the door to . . . big interpretive questions."" - Louisiana History""A must-read for all scholars of American slavery and the [Underground Railroad]"" - West Virginia History""Making Freedom is a well-written and informative volume that provides valuable insights into the thinking undergirding the actions of freedom seekers and their supporters."" - Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography""It deserves its place on the growing shelf of studies of the Underground Railroad."" - The Annals of Iowa""Perceptively demonstrates that although marginalized, oppressed, and persecuted, formerly enslaved African Americans impacted 'the politics of scale' and determined the trajectory of the slavery debate in the United States."" - Journal of African American History""A valuable work of scholarship and an asset among the shelves of libraries both public and personal."" - New York History""The clarity of Blackett's vision make[s] this book suitable for a variety of audiences, including undergraduates, graduate students, and professional historians. Blackett's storytelling makes for compelling writing, while the implications of those stories stimulate thinking."" - Journal of the Civil War Era
£19.51
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Color of Christ The Son of God and the Saga
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe authors' breadth of research is impressive, and their incorporation of material culture is a model for future scholarship." - Journal of American History"[A] compelling study. . . . This work will captivate readers of American religious and racial history." - Library Journal"Thoroughly fascinating." - Booklist
£30.16
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Best of Enemies Movie Edition Race and
Book SynopsisC.P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. Now a major motion picture, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds.
£17.81
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Arise Africa Roar China Black and Chinese
Book SynopsisExplores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War - journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.
£31.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare A Journey into
Book SynopsisFrom 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United Statesûa journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage.Trade ReviewPerforms a feat of historical forensics. . . . Tells the story of [the enslaved peoples'] voyage on the Hare and recovers their identities as people, not just slaves." - Zocalo Public Square"Offers readers a devastating picture of the practices that ravaged West African societies while forming the foundation of colonial America's economy." - Publishers Weekly"A well-researched account of a slave ship that highlights the larger experience of those involved in the transatlantic slave trade. Recommended." - CHOICE"An innovative and timely addition to the historiography of the Atlantic slave trade. . . . A synthesis of the cast and intricate worlds across continents that produced one of the great tragedies in world history." - H-Net Reviews"A deeply researched and elegantly written book that takes full advantage of one of micro-history's greatest strengths -- capturing a sense of historical events unfolding in a real world for real people." - Reviews in American History"Kelley's extensive research and use of deductive reasoning has crafted a remarkably detailed narrative of the voyage from beginning to end. . . . Very strongly recommended." - Civil War News"An important book that not only shows how the slave trade operated, but also provides a clearer picture of the victims' origins, language, and methods of survival." - Kirkus Reviews"Kelley's book is the best biography of a slave ship that sailed from British North America." - Journal of African History"Possibly the best book on a single slave voyage. . . . Paints on a human scale the larger picture of forced Atlantic passages. . . . Provides rich details about how the slave sale took place and who the purchasers were." - William and Mary Quarterly
£25.46
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Julius Chambers A Life in the Legal Struggle for
Book SynopsisBorn in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge as the nation’s leading African American civil rights attorney. This biography connects the details of Chambers’s life to the wider struggle to secure racial equality through the development of modern civil rights law.
£30.36
The University of North Carolina Press Civil Rights Culture Wars
Book SynopsisIn 1970s Mississippi, educators faced a crucial choice between continuing to teach a white supremacist view of history or offering students a more enlightened multiracial view of their state's past. This book explores the story of a controversial ninth-grade history textbook and the court case that allowed its adoption with state funds.Trade ReviewEagles] builds his narrative around primary sources. . . . He not only sets the stage for the story, he gives us succinct biographical information on the players." - Jackson Clarion-Ledger"Eagles helps us recognize the significance of . . . cultural action through his detailed and clearly written account of the conflicts over Mississippi: Conflict and Change." - Educational Policy"Eagles deserves our gratitude for bringing a landmark case back into the limelight." - American Historical Review"Eagles's imaginative recovery of a civil rights moment informs readers about the accomplishment of two courageous professors from Tougaloo and Millsaps Colleges. . . . Congratulations to Eagles and the University of North Carolina Press on their splendid achievement in this pathbreaking publication. Essential." - Choice
£28.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Lawyer Jailer Ally Foe Complicity and Conscience
Book SynopsisIn re-creating the daily lives of War Relocation Authority attorneys, Eric Muller adds colour, nuance, and pathos to the historical record by creating narrative and dialogue, illustrating how the lawyers' backgrounds, temperaments, circumstances, and personalities shaped their engagements with the unjust system they helped operate.Trade ReviewVivid. . . . For readers interested in human rights, concentration camps, or the legal history of this period, this is an important work."—Library Journal In a powerful yet easily read narrative, Muller documents with precision the tension these lawyers experienced attempting to do good while working in a fundamentally unjust system. Based on meticulous research . . . . a thought-provoking study of the role of the legal profession in society and the power of individual responsibility, even with its imperfections."—American Bar Association [A] brilliant book . . . . a masterpiece . . . . an important yet understudied topic.—Art Hansen, Nichi Bei News
£23.70
The University of North Carolina Press I Cannot Write My Life
Book SynopsisOmar ibn Said (1770-1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James Owen, brother of Governor John Owen. Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst here weave fresh and accurate translations of Omar's eighteen surviving writings.Trade ReviewDrawing on scrupulous close readings of Said's work, Lo and Ernst make a worthy contribution to the scholarship on slavery in America and testify to the importance of evidence left behind by enslaved people themselves. This edifies."—Publishers Weekly
£73.80
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Before Busing A History of Bostons Long Black
Book SynopsisTells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. The book reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle.
£78.40
The University of North Carolina Press An Army Afire
Book SynopsisAcclaimed military historian Beth Bailey shows how the US Army experienced, defined, and tried to solve racism and racial tension (in its own words, the problem of race') in the Vietnam War era.Trade ReviewA detailed examination of the U.S. Army's efforts to address "the problem of race" in the late 1960s and early '70s . . . . [Bailey's] in-depth reporting on the Army's attempts to "assess and address Black soldiers' complaints" sheds light on what was accomplished, as well as how far there is left to go. It's a valuable study of the challenges to institutional reform."—Publishers Weekly Bailey's account of the way the army responded to the growing crisis is original and informative."—Eric Foner, London Review of Books Bailey has done a great service by exploring the military side of the "racial crisis" of the 1960s and '70s, a topic that has been underexplored by historians . . . . insightful."—Randal Maurice Jelks, Los Angeles Review of Books
£26.06
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Ambivalent Affinities A Political History of
Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash.
£23.96
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Half in Shadow The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y.
Book SynopsisNellie McKay was a pivotal figure in contemporary American letters. She is best known for coediting the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Shanna Greene Benjamin examines McKay's path through the professoriate to learn about the strategies, sacrifices, and successes of contemporary Black women in the American academy.
£23.76
The University of North Carolina Press Arise Africa Roar China
Book SynopsisExplores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War - journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.Trade ReviewA History Today 2022 Book of the Year! A Book Authority 2022 Best New African American History Book and Best Politics Ebook"This tour-de-force of research connects the scholarship on Black internationalism, Chinese American studies, modern Chinese popular culture and politics, Black Diasporas, and transnational studies. . . . Arise, Africa! Roar, China! will surely stimulate more research on Sino-African diaspora history and the transnationality of modern Chinese history in the future."—Chinese Historical Review"Ambitious in its scope and inspiring in its subject material. Gao's provocative book demonstrates the importance of transpacific and translingual approaches in modern Chinese and African American history. It offers a new perspective on Sino-American relations through five compelling case studies that have rarely been examined side-by-side. . . . A pleasure to read and a layered work of scholarship that invites further rereading, revisiting, and reflection."—Modern Chinese Literature & Culture"Gao is by any measure a talented and engaging writer who brings her fascinating subjects vividly to life. . . . Gao tells a good story, actually five, and tells them very well. That the stories and protagonists are all linked yields a book is far more than the sum of its parts."—Asian Review of Books"A most impressive display of transnational research which furthers the important field of African American internationalism."—Peace & Change"Profoundly impressed . . . and dazzled by the creative approach [Gao] took to documenting and contextualizing the many different kinds of connections that existed between W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Liu Liangmo, and Sylvia Silan Chen. . . . reveal[s] the potential of transnational history to tell enormous stories in exciting and revelatory ways. . . . truly excellent scholarship."—Sheyda Jahanbani, Chair of the Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Committee at SHAFR"Gao's innovative research enriches the current English-language scholarship on Sino-African American interactions, advancing our understanding of Sino-U.S. relations and Black internationalism from a once-overlooked aspect of modern Chinese history."—Chinese Historical Review
£22.46
The University of North Carolina Press The Haitians
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping history, Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti begins with a reconstruction of how individuals from Africa, in the midst of the golden age of imperialism, created a sovereign society based on political imagination and a radical rejection of the colonial order, persisting even through the US occupation in 1915.
£33.56
AuthorHouse Papas Letters
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£11.21
Duke University Press Art for Peoples Sake
Book SynopsisRebecca Zorach traces the little-told story of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, showing how its artistic innovations, institution building, and community engagement helped the residents of Chicago's South and West Sides respond to social, political, and economic marginalization.Trade Review"Both fresh and refreshing, Zorach's book on the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in Chicago engages from the very first paragraph and fires on all cylinders—looking at the subject not only from inside the BAM but also in terms of how it challenged traditional art history. . . . Highly recommended. All readers." -- K. P. Buick * Choice *"Using interviews, archival collections, poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, historic census data, and other documentation, Zorach provides a detailed story of the artists, residents, and educators who worked together to transform Chicago communities struggling with the spatial constraints of systematic racism. . . . This would serve well as a resource on the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, community mural history, and African American art history. It is highly recommended for all libraries." -- Stacy R. Williams * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"Zorach makes a rich contribution to the field of art history that has largely ignored the Black Arts Movement. . . . rt for People’s Sake should be required reading for artists, non-profit organizations, community organizers, and scholars interested in social movements, education, and art history." -- Tracey Johnson * Black Perspectives *"[A] clearly written, engaging study." -- Miguel de Baca * Art History *"With Art for People’s Sake, Rebecca Zorach makes a valuable intervention in art historical discourse. Zorach emphasizes the importance of the Black Arts Movement for better understanding artistic engagement with site-specificity, social practice, and performance art." -- Benjamin Jones * CAA Reviews *"Thoughtfully argued and beautifully written and illustrated, this book will be a vital resource for scholars and students of visual culture, art history, urban history, and communication studies interested in the dynamics of race, collaboration, imagination, and politics. Many of its images (of which there are an astonishing number) are vital to understanding Chicago, the Black Arts Movement, and their dynamic relationship to place, politics, and culture." -- Caitlin Frances Bruce * Winterthur Portfolio *“In this superb addition to scholarship on the Black Arts Movement, Rebecca Zorach captures luminously how black visual artists of the late 1960s and early 1970s strove to situate themselves and their artworks.” -- Daniel Matlin * Journal of American Studies *"Art for People's Sake is an important addition to the new scholarship on radical Black Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . One gets a vital portrait of Black Arts in arguably the most enduring and influential center of the movement." -- James Smethurst * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago 1 1. Claiming Space, Being in Public 30 2. Cultural Nationalism and Community Culture 85 3. An Experimental Friendship 124 4. The Black Family 179 5. Until the Walls Come Down 215 6. Starring the Black Community 257 Notes 299 Bibliography 349 Index 375
£22.79
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Faulkner and Slavery
Book SynopsisThe first collection to address the myriad legacies of African chattel slavery in the writings and personal history of one of the twentieth century’s most incisive authors on US slavery and the long ordeal of race in the Americas.
£27.00
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisContributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideology and postracialism on YASF, a genre that is often seen as progressive in its representation of adolescent protagonists. Simply put, colorblindness silences those who believe--and whose experiences demonstrate--that race and racism do continue to matter. In examining how some YASF texts normalize many of our social structures and hierarchies, this collection examines how race and racism are represented in the genre and considers how hierarchies of race are reinscribed in some texts and transgressed in others. Contributors point toward the potential of YASF to address and interrogate racial inequities in the contemporary West and beyond. They critique texts that fall short of this possibility, and they articulate ways in which readers and critics alike might nonetheless locate diversity within narratives. This is a collection troubled by the lingering emphasis on colorblindness in YASF, but it is also the work of scholars who love the genre and celebrate its progress toward inclusivity, and who further see in it an enduring future for intersectional identity.
£27.96
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Intersecting Aesthetics Literary Adaptations and
Book SynopsisIlluminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Contributors to this collection reveal how Black literary and filmic texts are sites of negotiation between dominant and resistant perspectives, exploring how race-inflected cultural norms have influenced studio and independent film depictions.Trade ReviewIntersecting Aesthetics is a pivotal work from leading scholars in African American film studies. The influence of this collection will reach long into the future." - Gerald Butters, coeditor of Beyond Blaxploitation
£81.75
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Intersecting Aesthetics Literary Adaptations and
Book SynopsisIlluminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations during the twentieth century. Contributors to this collection reveal how Black literary and filmic texts are sites of negotiation between dominant and resistant perspectives, exploring how race-inflected cultural norms have influenced studio and independent film depictions.Trade ReviewIntersecting Aesthetics is a pivotal work from leading scholars in African American film studies. The influence of this collection will reach long into the future." - Gerald Butters, coeditor of Beyond Blaxploitation
£23.70
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sounding Our Way Home Japanese American
Book SynopsisA product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, this volume narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach home' through musicking. Emphasizing the notion of national identity and belonging, the book provokes a discussion about the challenges of nation-building in a democratic society.Trade ReviewBringing together decades of interviews and original archival work, Sounding Our Way Home is the first book to provide a true overview of the full range of the Japanese American musical experience." - W. Anthony Sheppard, author of Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination "In Sounding Our Way Home, Susan Miyo Asai weaves together historical and musical analysis, spotlighting the achievements of individual musicians within a broader narrative of Japanese American musicking across generations. This book is an admirable and important contribution to Asian American studies and music history." - Grace Wang, associate professor of American studies at the University of California, DavisTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: The Nexus of Music, Identity, and Politics Chapter 2: Dual Identities: Japanese Immigrant Community, Identity, and Music Chapter 3: Caught on the Cultural Cusp: Nisei Politics of Identity and Music Chapter 4: "Buddhahead Blues": Musical Communities in the US Concentration Camps of World War II Chapter 5: Sansei: The Political Advocacy of Music and a Turn toward the East Epilogue: The Promise of Interracial Music Coalitions Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Webspinner Songs Stories and Reflections of
Book SynopsisBorn in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) came to be recognised as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews undertaken with him in the 1980s.
£26.06
Basic Books Tangled Fortunes
Book SynopsisA history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the 150-year fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit
£25.20
University of Massachusetts Press Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin' and Slam Dunking: A
Book SynopsisObservers of American society have long noted the distinctive contribution of African Americans to the nation's cultural life. We find references to African American music and dance, black forms of oral expression, even a black style of playing basketball. But what do such terms really mean? Is it legitimate to talk about a distinct African American aesthetic, or is it simply a vestige of an outmoded racial essentialism? What makes a particular form of cultural expression ""black"", other than the fact that some African Americans may practice it? These are some of the questions addressed in the readings gathered in this volume. The essays spring from a variety of disciplines and cover a range of topics, from the communal ritual of the ring shout to the evolution of rap to the improvisational genius of Michael Jordan. While each piece focuses on a different aspect of African American expressive culture, together they seek to reveal a set of creative principles, techniques and practices - a cultural aesthetic - that is consistent and resilient.
£26.06
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. An Authentic Life
Book SynopsisAn Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and family. Sprawling yet urgent, meditative yet lucid, the poems in Jennifer Chang’s anticipated third collection, An Authentic Life, offer a bold examination of a world deeply influenced by war and patriarchy. In dialogues against literature, against philosophy, and against God, Chang interrogates the “fathers” who stand at the center of history. Poems navigate wounds opened by explorations of family and generational trauma, and draw on the author’s experiences as a mother, as the daughter of immigrants, and as a citizen of our deeply divided nation. Here, the patriarchal violence of history becomes intimate, brought down to a domestic scale. A woman sweeping the floor cannot escape thoughts of war, or h
£12.34
Broadview Press Ltd Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste
Book SynopsisHagar’s Daughter is Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-1902). The novel itself features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations, and extraordinary plot twists. In Part 1, Maryland plantation heirs Hagar Sargeant and Ellis Enson fall in love, marry, and have a daughter. However, Ellis’s covetous younger brother, St. Clair, claims that Hagar is of mixed-race ancestry, putting her and her infant in peril. When Ellis is presumed to be dead, St. Clair sells Hagar and her child into slavery, and they presumably die when Hagar, in despair, leaps into the Potomac River with her daughter. This is the backdrop for Part 2 (set twenty years later), which includes a high-profile murder trial, an abduction plot, and a steady succession of surprises as the young Black maid Venus Johnson assumes male clothing to solve a series of mysteries that are both current and decades-old. The appendices to this Broadview edition feature advertising for the original publication, other writing by Hopkins and her contemporaries, and reviews that situate the work within the popular literature and political culture of its time.Trade Review“John Cullen Gruesser and Alisha R. Knight have recovered a new American classic by novelist and Colored American Magazine editor Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Hagar’s Daughter has it all: political intrigue, murder mystery, star-crossed romance, slave rebellion, and civil war history. A cogent introduction and relevant appendices provide excellent context for both the novice and scholar alike to appreciate the tumultuous US landscape navigated by Hopkins and her peers. The editors’ insightful inclusion of Hopkins’s selected nonfiction and her short story ‘Talma Gordon’ allow for a synergistic reading experience akin to how contemporaneous readers would have encountered the novel in its initial serial form alongside its original, iconic illustrations. This meticulously crafted edition enables a new generation to appreciate one of the most prolific and innovative Black women writers of the early twentieth century.” — Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison“This deliberately curated modern edition of Hagar's Daughter provides a rich contextual literary, social, and historical backdrop for one of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's most engrossing novels. Readers, students, and teachers alike will be engrossed by the novel itself and enriched by the illuminating primary and secondary materials that reveal the challenges of race, prejudice, and family in post-bellum America and illuminate Hopkins's far-reaching creative genius.” — Lois Brown, Arizona State UniversityTable of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Hagar’s Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Appendix A: Hagar’s Daughter Synopsis in the Colored American Magazine (1902) Appendix B: Promoting Hagar’s Daughter 1. Cover of the Colored American Magazine (March 1901) 2. Advertisement for Contending Forces, Colored American Magazine (March 1902) 3. Subscription Advertisement for Colored American Magazine (March 1902) 4. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (March 1902) Appendix C: Race/History 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Hon. Frederick Douglass,” Colored American Magazine (December 1900) 2. John Greenleaf Whittier, “Moloch in State Street” (1851) 3. From “Gen. Robert Smalls,” National Republican (6 March 1886) 4. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Munroe Rogers,” Colored American Magazine (November 1902) Appendix D: The Figure of Hagar 1. Genesis 16 and 21 2. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Artists,” Famous Women of the Negro Race, X, Colored American Magazine (September 1902) 3. Eliza Poitevent Nicholson, “Hagar,” The Cosmopolitan (November 1893) Appendix E: Popular Genres and Literary Experimentation 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Peculiar Sam (1879) 2. Pauline E. Hopkins, “Talma Gordon,” Colored American Magazine (October 1900) 3. Pauline E. Hopkins, “A Dash for Liberty,” Colored American Magazine (August 1901) Appendix F: Gender 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Phenomenal Vocalists,” Famous Women of the Negro Race, I, Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 2. From J. Shirley Shadrach, “Furnace Blasts. II. Black or White—Which Should Be the Young Afro-American’s Choice in Marriage,” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 3. From Pauline E. Hopkins to W[illiam] M[onroe] Trotter (16 April 1905) Appendix G: Borrowings/Plagiarism/Signifying 1. Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) 2. From William Wells Brown, Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter, Chapter 2 and Chapter 25 (1853) 3. Fanny Driscoll, “Two Women,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (May 1884) Appendix H: Contemporary Responses to Hagar’s Daughter 1. “The Colored Magazine,” Weekly Economist (15 March 1901) 2. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in
Book SynopsisMany thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising that slavery played a part in Canadian history, but it is startling that it has not received widespread attention from the general Canadian public or from historians. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway-slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore black slavery in the Maritimes and revise their understanding of Canadian history.Trade Review“Harvey Amani Whitfield, the leading authority on slavery in the Maritime provinces, here provides an extraordinary collection of documents on the subject. The cruelty of slavery, the harms that it did to enslaved and free Black people, and the myriad forms of slave resistance are fully on display, as much in banal deeds of sale as in powerful first-person accounts by slaves and former slaves.” — Elsbeth Heaman, Department of History, McGill University“Black Slavery in the Maritimes is a welcome and impressive addition to the historiography of slavery in Canada, and vitally necessary for school curricula. Teachers will find this sourcebook useful, as it is a ‘hands on’ tour of slavery in Canada. Additionally, scholars of Black Canadian history, both inside and outside the academy, will be delighted to have this sourcebook in hand.” — Afua Cooper, James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University“Not only does Black Slavery in the Maritimes provide a sourcebook that will be of enormous educational value, but it is also an exceptional work of scholarship. Whitfield combines clear-sighted historical expertise with deeply humane insights, notably in the general and sectional introductions and in the poignant commentaries on each document. This is a documentary history of rare quality.” — John G. Reid, Department of History, Saint Mary’s University“This remarkable collection of documents makes undeniable the everyday reality of Black slavery in the early Maritimes. Whitfield’s introduction and document glosses provide critical historical background while still reserving to the reader a sense of discovery about slavery and its penetration into diverse social, economic, legal, and political aspects of Maritime culture.” — Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies, University of New BrunswickTable of Contents Introduction Chronology Questions to Consider Part I: Runaway Slave Advertisements and Slave for Sale Notices Document 1: Halifax Slaves for Sale in Boston, 1751 Document 2: Slaves for Sale, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1752 Document 3: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Female Slave Named Thursday, Nova Scotia, 1772 Document 4: Slave Wanted Advertisement, Nova Scotia, 1776 Document 5: Runaway Advertisement, James, Nova Scotia, 1781 and 1786 Document 6: Female Slave to be Sold at Public Auction, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 7: Runaway Slave Advertisement, An African Slave, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 8: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dick, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 9: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, Nova Scotia 1783 Document 10: Slave for Sale, “Negro Boy,” New Brunswick, 1784 Document 11: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Hector, New Brunswick, 1784 Document 12: Runaway Advertisement, Unfree Black Laborers, 1784, New Brunswick Document 13: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Jupiter and Clarinda, Nova Scotia, 1784 Document 14: A Family Escapes, Nova Scotia, 1785 Document 15: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year old, Nova Scotia, 1786 Document 16: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year Old boy, New Brunswick, 1786 Document 17: Slaves for Sale Advertisement, A Man and boy, New Brunswick, 1786 Document 18: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, 1786, New Brunswick Document 19: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Five Slaves Escape Caleb Jones, New Brunswick 1786 Document 20: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, Nova Scotia 1786 Document 21: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Teenage Girl, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 22: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Woman, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 23: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Sam and Beller, (siblings) escape, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 24: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Abraham teenager, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 25: Runaway Slave Advertisement, London, Age 18, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 26: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Keziah, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 27: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Black Woman, New Brunswick, 1788 Document 28: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, 1788 Document 29: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Poll, 1791, New Brunswick Document 30: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Statia and Her Family, New Brunswick, 1792 Document 31: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, New Brunswick, 1792 Document 32: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Joseph Odel and Peter Lawrence, Nova Scotia, 1792 Document 33: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Bill/Belfast, Nova Scotia, 1794 Document 34: Slave for Sale, Young Man, New Brunswick, 1799 Document 35: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Gill and Dick, New Brunswick, 1799 Document 36: Female Sold for a Term of Years, Nova Scotia, 1800 Document 37: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Two Slaves, 1802, New Brunswick Document 38: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, New Brunswick, 1806 Document 39: Slave for Sale, Nancy, New Brunswick, 1809 Document 40: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Lidge Escapes Again, New Brunswick 1816 Document 41: Runaway Advertisement, Samuel Hutchings, New Brunswick, 1818 Part II: Letters, Narratives, Newspapers, Petitions Document 42: John Wentworth Letter about his 19 Slaves, Nova Scotia, 1784 Document 43: Petition of Zimri Armstrong about Re-enslavement, New Brunswick, 1785 Document 44: James MacGregor, A Letter to a Clergyman Urging him to set free a Black Girl he held in SLAVERY, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 45: Petition of Thomas Peters to the British Government, 1790 Document 46: John Clarkson’s Diary, Lydia Jackson’s Re-enslavement and Other Observations, 1791 Document 47: Thomas Clarkson, “Some Account of the New Colony at Sierra Leone,” Re-enslavement, 1792 Document 48: David George’s Narrative 1793 Document 49: Boston King’s Narrative, 1798 Document 50: Gradual Emancipation of Jack and Amelia in Prince Edward Island, 1800 Document 51: Joseph Aplin’s Racial Justification for Slavery, 1801 Document 52: Excerpts from OPINIONS OF SEVERAL GENTLEMEN OF THE LAW, ON THE SUBJECT OF NEGRO SERVITUDE IN THE PROVINCE OF NOVA-SCOTIA, 1802 Document 53: Digby Slave-owners’ Petition, Nova Scotia, 1807 Document 54: Petition of Isaac Willoughby, Former Slave, 1834, Nova Scotia Document 55: Article Supporting Slavery and Decrying Free Blacks, 1842, Nova Scotia Part III: Court Cases and Bills of Sale Document 56: Bill of Sale, Young boy from Maryland, 1779, Nova Scotia Document 57: Bill of Sale, Mintur, 1779 Document 58: King v. Jesse Gray, for whipping Pero 100 times, Nova Scotia, 1786 Document 59: Mary Postell Affidavit, Nova Scotia 1791 Document 60: Grand Jury Complaint, Re-enslavement of black boy sent to the West Indies Illegally, Nova Scotia, 1794 Document 61: James DeLancey Complaint Against William Woodin, 1803 Document 62: Supreme Court “Nancy” Case, New Brunswick, 1800 Document 63: Ward Chipman’s Slavery Brief, New Brunswick Supreme Court, 1800 Document 64: R v. Andrews (Indictment of Samuel Andrews Jr.), Slave-owners murder a female slave, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1801 Document 65: Slave Returned to Owner, Supreme Court, Prince Edward Island, 1802 Document 66: Bill of Sale for Percilla, 8 Year Old Girl, 1804, Nova Scotia Document 67: Supreme Court Case, Newspaper Account, New Brunswick, 1806 Part IV: Government Documents Document 68: Governor Cornwallis discusses Captain Bloss and His slaves, 1750 Document 69: An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE, 1781, Prince Edward Island Document 70: Book of Negroes Document 71: Dick Hill, Re-Enslaved, Shelburne, 1787, Nova Scotia (will have to change number because of date) Document 72: An Act for the Regulation & Relief of the free Negroes within the Province of Nova Scotia, (Un-passed), 1789 Document 73: A Bill Relating to Negroes, 6 February 1801, (Un-passed), Legislative Assembly Records, New Brunswick Document 74: AN ACT to repeal an Act made and passed in the twenty-first year of his late Majesty’s reign intituled “An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE,” Statutes of Prince Edward Island, 1825 Document 75: Prince Edward Island and Montserrat Connection, 1828 Part V: Wills and Church Records Document 76: Probate Record of Joseph Totten, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 77: Probate Record of Thomas Leonard, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 78: Probate Record of Anna Lillie (or Ann Lilie), Nova Scotia, 1789 Document 79: Teenage Slave Diana Bastian Burial Note-Her Rape and Pregnancy by George More, Member of Council, Cape Breton, 1792 Document 80: Probate Record of Caleb Fowler, Nova Scotia, 1793 Document 81: Probate Record of George Cornwall, Nova Scotia, 1799 Document 82: Probate Record of Jacob Ellegood Document 83: Probate Record of Benjamin Belcher, Nova Scotia, 1801 Document 84: Probate Record of Jacob Troop, Nova Scotia, 1805 Document 85: Probate Record of Isaac Bonnell, Nova Scotia, 1806 Document 86: Probate Record of William Wanton, New Brunswick, 1812 Document 87: Probate Record of William Schurman (or Schurmann), Prince Edward Island, 1819 Additional Suggested Readings
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University of Massachusetts Press The Pequot War
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidences to trace the evolution of the conflict, he sheds new light on the motivations of the Pequots and their Indian allies. He also provides a reappraisal of the interaction of ideology and self- interest as motivating factors in the Puritan attack on the Pequots.
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University of South Carolina Press Knowing Who I am: A Black Entrepreneur's Memoir
Book SynopsisEarl M. Middleton (b. 1919) has prospered in ways few African Americans have in the rural South. As owner of a successful business that cuts across racial lines and as a political leader in the cause of civil rights, Middleton has garnered hard-won recognition for his efforts from blacks and whites alike. His life story is at once illustrative of dynamic developments in southern race relations over the past eight decades and inspirational in telling how one individual capitalized on those changes to perpetuate a family legacy of entrepreneurship and service in his community.A World War II veteran, Middleton trained as a Tuskegee Airman in 1942 and then served as an infantry soldier in the Pacific theater. Returning to Orangeburg in 1946, he became a barber and then a restaurant owner before finding his true vocation in real-estate. What is now one of the region's most profitable real estate firms began as a sideline in the back of a barbershop, but Middleton quickly developed a reputation for superior knowledge and inclusive definitions of community that allowed him to succeed.As a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s, Middleton witnessed firsthand the bravery of Orangeburg's citizens. His wife, then the head of South Carolina State's library science department, was jailed for joining a student protest. From these experiences Middleton developed an unconquerable forbearance that complemented his unshakable belief in equality. In 1974, he was elected to the South Carolina General Assembly, where he served for a decade. There he was a founding member of the Legislative Black Caucus and an influential voice on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Today Middleton is still active in the daily operations of the real-estate business he founded and the agency continues to expand with racially diverse agents serving equally diverse populations.
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Kent State University Press The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century BaltimoreIn 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour of the attack. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiries into the underlying facts. But in this case, Baltimore's white community chose a different path. A coroner's jury declined to attribute the killing to accident or self-defense; the state's attorney indicted McDonald and brought him to trial; and a criminal court jury convicted McDonald of manslaughter.What makes this work so powerful is that many of the issues that the antipolice brutality movement faces today were the very issues faced by black people in nineteenth-century Baltimore.Both Brown and McDonald represented factions in conflict during a period of social upheaval, and both men left home to escape dire conditions. Yet trouble followed both to Baltimore. While the conviction of McDonald was unique, it was not a racially enlightened moment in policing. The killing of Brown was viewed not as racial injustice, but police violence spreading to their neighborhood. White elites saw the police as an uncontrolled force threatening their well-being. The clubbing and shooting of an unarmed black man only a block away from the wealthy residences of Park Avenue represented a breakdown in the social order-but Jim Crow in Baltimore was not in danger.Prior to 1867 a Maryland statute barred African Americans from testifying against whites in proceedings before police magistrates or in any of the state's courts. During the trial of McDonald, the press described the Baltimore police as "blue coated ruffians," and there was a general distrust of the police force by both blacks and whites. Brown's wife, Keziah, gave damning testimony of Officer McDonald's actions. The jury could not agree on verdicts of first- or second-degree murder, and after an attempt to reach a compromise verdict of second-degree murder failed, the majority acquiesced to the manslaughter verdict.The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown adds to the historiography of policing and criminal justice by demonstrating the pivotal role of the coroner's inquest in such cases and by illustrating the importance of social ties and political divisions when a community addresses an episode of police violence.Trade Review"Historian Gordon H. Shufelt's true crime book recounts the 1875 murder of a Black man by a white policeman. While racial police brutality is still not uncommon, the grim distinction surrounding Daniel Brown's death is that, in late nineteenth-century Baltimore, this particular officer was convicted. With factual suspense, the book reconstructs the fateful meeting between Brown and McDonald. A noise complaint regarding a small, non-alcoholic party somehow escalated into Brown being clubbed and shot in his own home. Witnesses recalled McDonald being angry and antagonistic. McDonald, however, insisted that he acted in self-defense. McDonald was found guilty by a white jury—a verdict, Shufelt says, that was intended to quell police overreach, rather than support racial equality. Engrossing."- Foreword; "A close and engrossing look at an obscure 19th-century homicide through a granular and judicious review of archival records. One summer night in 1875, white policeman Patrick McDonald confronted African American Daniel Brown in Brown's Baltimore home after receiving a noise complaint. The encounter ended with McDonald fatally shooting Brown. Surprisingly, given the city's endemic racism at the time, an all-white jury convicted McDonald of manslaughter after hearing testimony that Brown had done nothing violent to provoke the shooting. Shufelt puts that outcome in context, which included distrust of the police force following misconduct during elections that year, and the status of the Black witnesses to the killing; their employment as servants in affluent white homes made them viewed as trustworthy, which Shufelt considers 'the persistence of some elements of a slavery-era culture.' The verdict was not a breakthrough, however, or evidence that white Baltimoreans "objected to the oppression of African Americans" . . . Illuminat[es] race relations and the criminal justice system in post–Civil War Baltimore."- Publishers Weekly
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University of South Carolina Press Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly
Book SynopsisFrom his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an extraordinary life. In Blessed Experiences, Clyburn tells in his own inspirational words how an African American boy from the Jim Crow-era South was able to beat the odds to achieve great success and become, as President Barack Obama describes him, ""one of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens.Born in 1940 to a civic-minded beautician and a fundamentalist minister, Clyburn began his ascent to leadership at the age of twelve, when he was elected president of his National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth chapter. He broke barriers through peaceful protests and steadfast beliefs in equality and justice. Of his success Clyburn says he was ""blessed with nurturing parents, a supportive family, and loyal friends."" But, he added, ""my life was not just about knocking down doors and lowering barriers. I spent some time marching in the streets and occupying the inside of South Carolina jails."" As a civil rights leader at South Carolina State College, as human affairs commissioner under John C. West and three subsequent governors, and as South Carolina's first African American congressman since 1897, Clyburn has established a long and impressive record of public leadership and advocacy for human rights, education, historic preservation, and economic development. Clyburn was elected to Congress in 1992. Serving as copresident of his freshman class, he rose quickly through the ranks and was elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1999 and House Democratic Caucus vice chair in 2002. Three years later he was unanimously elected chair of the Democratic Caucus. When Democrats regained the House majority in 2006, Clyburn was elected House majority whip. Now as assistant Democratic leader in the 112th Congress, Clyburn, a self-described independent, prides himself on working to overcome barriers and destroy myths without becoming too predictable. ""I have worked across party lines to further legislative causes, and on occasion publicly differed with some of my allies in the civil rights community,"" says Clyburn. ""My experiences have not always been pleasant, but I have considered all of them blessings."" Blessed Experiences includes a foreword from Emmy Award-winning actress and the congressman's longtime friend Alfre Woodard.
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Purdue University Press The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty
Book SynopsisThe Challenges of Minoritized Faculty in Higher Education offers a probing and unvarnished look at the employment challenges of these faculty members in four-year institutions. With dramatic shifts in the faculty workforce and nearly three-quarters of instructional positions in United States institutions now off the tenure track, contingent faculty have become the essential, frontline workers of higher education. Remarkably little research attention has focused on the experiences of minoritized contingent faculty in this new academic underclass. Based on in-depth interviews coupled with extensive research, the book highlights the double marginalization that can occur due to secondary employment status in the academic hierarchy, and the exclusion resulting from the intersectionality of nondominant social identities including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. As the first-person narratives reveal, these faculty often struggle for acceptance, recognition, and rewards in the day-to-day academic environment, and they can face devaluation of their contributions. As a pragmatic and concrete resource, this book offers proactive workforce strategies and key structural and policy recommendations that will assist academic and administrative leaders, including presidents, provosts, department chairs, and chief diversity officers, in building more inclusive working conditions for contingent faculty.
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University of Massachusetts Press Public in Name Only: The 1939 Alexandria Library
Book SynopsisWhen Alexandria, Virginia's first public library was constructed just a few blocks from his home, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a young, Black attorney, was appalled to learn that he could not use the library because of his race. Inspired by the legal successes of the NAACP in discrimination cases, he organized a grassroots protest to desegregate the library that his tax dollars supported.Public in Name Only tells the important, but largely forgotten, story of Tucker and a group of Black citizens who agitated for change in the terms and conditions of their lives. Employing the combined strategies of direct-action public protest, nonviolent civil disobedience, and municipal litigation, Tucker's initiative dovetailed with the national priorities and tactics of larger civil rights organizations. While Tucker's campaign did not end with the desegregation of the Alexandria Library, but instead resulted in the creation of a "separate-and-unequal" Jim Crow Black branch, the sit-in demonstration represents a momentous early struggle for racial equity waged through civil rights activism.
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University of Massachusetts Press Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies
Book SynopsisAmong the most influential and insightful thinkers of her generation, Audre Lorde (1934--1992) inspired readers and activists through her poetry, autobiography, essays, and her political action. Most scholars have situated her work within the context of the women's, gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within the United States. However, Lorde forged coalitions with women in Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa, and twenty years after her passing, these alliances remain largely undocumented and unexplored. Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies is the first book to systematically document and thoroughly investigate Lorde's influence beyond the United States. Arranged in three thematically interrelated sections -- Archives, Connections, and Work -- the volume brings together scholarly essays, interviews, Lorde's unpublished speech about Europe, and personal reflections and testimonials from key figures throughout the world. Using a range of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors assess the reception, translation, and circulation of Lorde's writing and activism within different communities, audiences, and circles. They also shed new light on the work Lorde inspired across disciplinary borders. In addition the volume editors, contributors include Sarah Cefai, Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck, Paul M. Farber, Tiffany N. Florvil, Katharina Gerund, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Gloria Joseph, Jackie Kay, Marion Kraft, Christiana Lambrinidis, Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli, Rina Nissim, Chantal Oakes, Lester C. Olson, Pratibha Parmar, Peggy Piesche, Dagmar Schultz, Tamara Lea Spira, and Gloria Wekker.
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University of Massachusetts Press When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory
Book SynopsisHow do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature—how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of adversity. Moving beyond questions of resilience, labor for others, and coping, When Will the Joy Come? focuses on the journeys of over thirty Black women at various stages of their careers. Joy is a mixture of well-being, pleasure, alignment, and purpose that can be elusive for Black women scholars. With racial reckoning and a global pandemic as context, this volume brings together honest and vital essays that ponder how Black women balance fatigue and frustrations in the halls of the ivory tower, and explore where, when, and if joy enters their lives. By carefully contemplating the emotional, physical, and material consequences of their labor, this collection demonstrates that joy is a tactical and strategic component of Black women’s struggle.
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University of Massachusetts Press Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical
Book SynopsisScholars have paid relatively little attention to the highbrow, middlebrow, and popular periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era -- publications such as the Chicago Defender, the Crisis, Ebony, and the Half-Century Magazine. Jim Crow Networks considers how these magazines and newspapers, and their authors, readers, advertisers, and editors worked as part of larger networks of activists and thinkers to advance racial uplift and resist racism during the first half of the twentieth century.As Eurie Dahn demonstrates, authors like James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Jean Toomer wrote in the context of interracial and black periodical networks, which shaped the literature they produced and their concerns about racial violence. This original study also explores the overlooked intersections between the black press and modernist and Harlem Renaissance texts, and highlights key sites where readers and writers worked toward bottom-up sociopolitical changes during a period of legalized segregation.Trade ReviewDahn’s palpable focus on the southern nodes in the African American periodical network furthers the recent important decentering of Harlem and the urban North as the most influential landscape for early to mid-twentieth-century African American literary and print cultural production." —Shawn Anthony Christian, author of The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader
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University of Massachusetts Press White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing
Book SynopsisSometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, ""What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?"" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return-to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way. Alternately honest, funny, and visceral, this powerful collection follows De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan-American woman and learns to navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for her posh college, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in her parents' home country. During the years to follow, she would return to Guatemala again and again, meet ex-guerrillera and genocide survivors, get married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigua, and teach her newborn son about his roots.
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University of Massachusetts Press When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory
Book SynopsisHow do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature—how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of adversity. Moving beyond questions of resilience, labor for others, and coping, When Will the Joy Come? focuses on the journeys of over thirty Black women at various stages of their careers. Joy is a mixture of well-being, pleasure, alignment, and purpose that can be elusive for Black women scholars. With racial reckoning and a global pandemic as context, this volume brings together honest and vital essays that ponder how Black women balance fatigue and frustrations in the halls of the ivory tower, and explore where, when, and if joy enters their lives. By carefully contemplating the emotional, physical, and material consequences of their labor, this collection demonstrates that joy is a tactical and strategic component of Black women’s struggle.Trade ReviewThe focus on joy makes this collection indispensable among books that consider Black women and women of color in higher education. Readable and engaging, When Will the Joy Come? makes a significant contribution to the intersecting fields of women’s studies, African American studies, and higher education administration."—Shanna Greene Benjamin, author of Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay"The contributors to When Will the Joy Come? offer personal perspectives on the multiple meanings of ‘joy’ for Black women working within the academy. A timely, compelling book."—Carole Boyce Davies, author of Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power
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University of Massachusetts Press Race in the Crucible of War: African American
Book SynopsisWhen African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their military experiences were shaped by the racial environment of the home front. War is often viewed as a crucible that can transform society, but American race relations proved remarkably durable.In Race in the Crucible of War, Gerald F. Goodwin examines how Black servicemen experienced and interpreted racial issues during their time in Vietnam. Drawing on more than fifty new oral interviews and significant archival research, as well as newspapers, periodicals, memoirs, and documentaries, Goodwin reveals that for many African Americans the front line and the home front were two sides of the same coin. Serving during the same period as the civil rights movement and the race riots in Chicago, Detroit, and dozens of other American cities, these men increasingly connected the racism that they encountered in the barracks and on the battlefields with the tensions and violence that were simmering back home.Trade Review“Goodwin utilizes a wealth of previously unexamined sources to paint a complex and nuanced picture of the experiences of African American servicemen in Vietnam. That alone will ensure this book a spot on many shelves, specialist and non-specialist alike.”—Geoffrey W. Jensen, coeditor of Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War“Race in the Crucible of War expands, refines, and complicates our understanding of the African American military experience in Vietnam and how race and racism structured the U.S. military during a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. It is a towering achievement.”—Robert F. Jefferson, author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America “Goodwin utilizes a wealth of previously unexamined sources to paint a complex and nuanced picture of the experiences of African American servicemen in Vietnam. That alone will ensure this book a spot on many shelves, specialist and non-specialist alike.”—Geoffrey W. Jensen, coeditor of Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War“Race in the Crucible of War expands, refines, and complicates our understanding of the African American military experience in Vietnam and how race and racism structured the U.S. military during a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. It is a towering achievement.”—Robert F. Jefferson, author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America “Goodwin utilizes a wealth of previously unexamined sources to paint a complex and nuanced picture of the experiences of African American servicemen in Vietnam. That alone will ensure this book a spot on many shelves, specialist and non-specialist alike.”—Geoffrey W. Jensen, coeditor of Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War“Race in the Crucible of War expands, refines, and complicates our understanding of the African American military experience in Vietnam and how race and racism structured the U.S. military during a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. It is a towering achievement.”—Robert F. Jefferson, author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar AmericaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Author’s Note Introduction CHAPTER 1 “We Was Just Us”De-Racialization on the Front Lines of the Vietnam War CHAPTER 2 “Brothers as Many Brothers as They Can Find”: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Death in Vietnam CHAPTER 3 "Tearing the Services Apart”: Racial Violence and the Other War in Vietnam CHAPTER 4 “I Thought of My Own People Back Home”: African American Servicemen and Vietnamese Civilians CHAPTER 5 "You and Me—Same Same” and “They Called Me ‘Monkey’”: Conflicting African American Views of Vietnamese Civilians CHAPTER 6 “We Won’t Shoot You, but We’ll Shoot the White Guy”: African American Views of Vietnamese Communist Forces CHAPTER 7 “I Had Left One War and Come Back to Another”: African Americans Return Home Conclusion Notes Index
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University Press of Mississippi Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in
Book SynopsisBlack and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among others, explore science fiction worlds of possibility (literature, television, and film), lifting blacks, Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples out from the background of this historically white genre.This collection considers the role of race and ethnicity in our visions of the future. The first section emphasizes the political elements of black identity portrayed in science fiction from black America to the vast reaches of interstellar space framed by racial history. In the next section, analysis of indigenous science fiction addresses the effects of colonization, helps discard the emotional and psychological baggage carried from its impact, and recovers ancestral traditions in order to adapt in a post-Native-apocalyptic world. Likewise, this section explores the affinity between science fiction and subjectivity in Latin American cultures from the role of science and industrialization to the effects of being in and moving between two cultures. By infusing more color in this otherwise monochrome genre, Black and Brown Planets imagines alternate racial galaxies with viable political futures in which people of color determine human destiny.
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