Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
The University of Michigan Press Asian American X
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£19.90
The University of Michigan Press Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies
Book SynopsisProvides an in-depth look at the ecology, history, and politics of land use among the Turkana pastoral people in Northern Kenya. McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock, and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity, and violence.
£29.40
The University of Michigan Press Race Republicans and the Return of the Party of
Book SynopsisPolitical parties have long sought to expand their electoral coalitions by making marginal changes to the way they project themselves to the public. This title offers an analysis of how political parties use racial images to make cosmetic changes to their parties' images, even when the parties do not alter their platforms.
£21.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Commerce in Color
Book SynopsisExamines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events of the period. This book proves that - in America - advertising, publicity, and the development of the modern economy cannot be understood apart from the question of race.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to existing scholarship, Davis's study of the intersection of racial thinking and the emergence of consumer culture makes connections very few scholars have considered. - James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Living Ideology in Cuba
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£69.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Haunted City
Book SynopsisExplores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century to the present day. The book focuses on select historical moments, such as the advent of the minstrel show and the ban on blackface makeup in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, when local performances of racial impersonation inflected regional, national, transnational, and global formations of race.Trade ReviewA persuasive blend of theory and archival research, combined with the author’s own ethnographic investigations . . . Haunted City illuminates the history of the community's engagement with racial performance in a way that no other works have done on this same comprehensive scale."" - Heather Nathans, Tufts University""DuComb draws not only on scholarly and primary materials, but also on his own experiences as a member of a Mummers club . . . Haunted City is a fresh and well-executed look at the American tradition of racial impersonation, grounded in thorough, original discovery research."" - Susan G. Davis, University of Illinois
£64.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Democracy Moving
Book SynopsisAdvancing the theory of oscillation as Black aesthetic praxis, Ariel Nereson celebrates Bill T. Jones as a public intellectual whose practice has contributed to the project of understanding America’s relationship to its troubled past. The book features materials from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s archive, interviews with artists, and photos.Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: Commission Chapter Two: Text Chapter Three: Character Chapter Four: Place Chapter Five: Body Chapter Six: Circulation Coda Works Cited
£65.50
The University of Michigan Press Racing the Great White Way
Book SynopsisChallenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the white-hot creative engine of US theatre during the early 20th century, Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theatre scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of American and transnational theatre.Trade Review“Racing the Great White Way is a fascinating and much-needed reconsideration of Eugene O’Neill’s vexing racial politics, as they play out in several productions and adaptations of his plays. Johnson's research is diligent, and the resulting analysis provides new insight into several notable performances and adaptations of signature O’Neill dramas. This book offers a rich examination on O'Neill's complicated imprint on early 20th Century cultural history.” —Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University“For O’Neill studies, this book could be a game-changer… important and pathbreaking in the historical discourse on racial representation beyond the theatrical. The study also opens the possibility of thinking through the agency of actors in other respects in O’Neill’s plays.” —William Davies King, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Emperor’s Remains Chapter 2: An Algerian in Paris Chapter 3: Broadway’s First Interracial Kiss Chapter 4: Racing Operatic Emperors Chapter 5: Racing the Cut: Black to Ireland Conclusion: What Remains? Bibliography Index
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press MadeUp Asians Yellowface During the Exclusion
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£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press The State You See
Book SynopsisUncovers a racial gap in the way the American government appears in people’s lives. The book makes it clear that public policy changes over the last fifty years have driven all Americans to distrust the government that they see in their lives, even though Americans of different races are not seeing the same kind of government.Trade Review“The State You See offers a welcome and timely addition to the growing literature on public policy and political inequality. Rosenthal’s consideration of the racialized feedback effects of multiple policy experiences fills a critical lacuna in our collective understanding of the politics of public policy.”—Mallory E. SoRelle, Duke University“In The State You See (TSYS) Rosenthal argues that policy in the post-civil rights era has developed such that it is unequally visible to White and Black Americans, and this inequality in turn leads to different responses to declining trust in public institutions. Rosenthal’s book takes up the important task of integrating well known but disparate findings around criminal justice system, public welfare provision, and racial and ethnic politics into a unified theory of racialized policy feedbacks. The State You See represents a major step forward in the study of political learning, and the capacity for the state to shape citizens’ attitudes and behaviors.”—Hannah Walker, University of Texas at AustinTable of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: The Submerged State and the Carceral State Chapter 2. Taxes and Welfare: The Tip of the Iceberg in White America Chapter 3. Police as the Face of Government: State Visibility Among People of Color Chapter 4. Visible in All the Wrong Places: Dual Visibility and American Political Distrust Chapter 5. Invisibility and Membership: How Government Visibility Creates Racially Patterned Political Inequality Chapter 6. Black Lives Matter: Disrupting the Duality Chapter 7. The Politics of Visibility and Prospects for Change Appendix A: Interview Protocol and Post-Interview Survey Appendix B: Ethnographic Research Details Appendix C: Interview Information Appendix D: Dataset Information and Question Wording Notes References Index
£64.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Coping With Poverty
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£35.10
The University of Michigan Press Our Sisters Promised Land
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£23.70
University of California Press The Deadly Ethnic Riot
Book SynopsisConsiders the structure and dynamics of ethnic violence - the deadly ethnic riot - an intense, sudden, lethal attack by civilian members of one ethnic group against another ethnic group. This title examines approximately 150 such riots in about fifty countries, mainly in Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet Union, as well as fifty control cases.Trade Review"Makes an important contribution to our understanding of ethnic conflict [and] will be a source of testable hypotheses for years to come."-Stephen M. Saideman, American Political Science Review "This definitive work is recommended for all academic and larger public libraries."-Library journal "Horowitz's book is comprehensive, illuminating, unprecedented in scope and absolutely fascinating. It may be just the thing for realists-yes, you know them as pessimists-who are looking for some chilly truths about the sphinx that has haunted the century past and may yet haunt the century to come."-Washington Post Book World "This magisterial yet stimulating study is marked by the comprehensiveness of its empirical data, the author's keen analytic sensibility, and his gift for the telling phrase. The Deadly Ethnic Riot is that rare combination of theoretical analysis and practical advice. It not only signals a breakthrough in our understanding of the morphology and dynamics of ethnic riots but offers eminently useful strategies for containing these deadly events."-ScienceTable of ContentsA Note on Place Names 1. Say It with Murder 2. Ethnic Boundaries, Riot Boundaries 3. The Riot Episode 4. Selective Targeting 5. Target-Group Characteristics 6. An Economy of Antipathy: Target Selection and the Imperatives of Violence 7. Organizers and Participants 8. The Occasions for Violence 9. The Social Environment for Killing 10. Location, Diffusion, and Recurrence 11. Aims, Effects, and Functions 12. Violence and Quiescence 13. The Calculus of Passion Index
£27.00
Manchester University Press Orientalism History Theory and the Arts
Book SynopsisThe first major study of Orientalism by a historian of imperialism, this book offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of this vast literature and concludes that western approaches to the Orient have been much more ambiguous and genuinely interactive than Said allowed.Table of ContentsThe Orientalism debate; the Orient and culture and imperialism; Orientalism in art; Orientalism in architecture; Orientalism in design; Orientalism in music; Orientalism in the theatre.
£23.83
Manchester University Press Writing Black Britain 194898 An Interdisciplinary
Book SynopsisThis anthology brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period. Spanning half a century, it features South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by both leading and lesser-known artists, critics and commentators.Table of Contents1. General introduction2. Section one: 1948 - Late 1960s3. Section two: Late 1960s - mid 1980s4. Section three: Mid 1980s - late 19985. Chronology6. Bibliography
£23.83
Manchester University Press Dwelling Places Postwar Black British Writing
Book SynopsisExplores the venues of black British literary and cultural production across the postwar period. Extending from central London to the outskirts of Glasgow, the book pursues a "devolving" landscape, to consider what an analysis of "dwelling" might contribute to the theories of diaspora discourse.Table of ContentsList of illustrations1. General IntroductionI) Devolving black Britainii) 'Black': A brief British historyiii) Dwelling and diaspora2. Dwelling placesI) Introduction: The 'open door' and the domestic thresholdii) Descending the stairwelliii) Lyons at the circusiv) A 'little land' in London: The gate, the arch and the waterv) Conclusion:'A place to retire to…..'3. The streetI) Introductionii) From basement to pavementiii) Off-street locations: The Mangrove Restaurantiv) Rioting and writing: The street and representationv) Touring the city: The black British flaneurvi) 'Doun de road' : Bluefootednessvii) Brick Laneviii) Conclusion: Yellowbricklane4. SuburbiaI) Introduction: The suburban borderii) Ordinariness, discrepant cosmopolitanism and the Singhsiii) The Black Country, Birmingham and 'Anita and Me'iv) Refurbishing suburbiav) Conclusion: 'here and there…'5. The NorthI) Introduction: 'Another country…'ii) Black Britain beyond the centreiii) Bradford, the Rushdie affair and the re-imagination of landscapeiv) Bradford and the tourist landscapev) Travelling north: Writing an English journeyvi) Conclusion: 'Here'6. Conclusion: Train stations and travel bags
£23.83
Manchester University Press Black Families in Britain as the Site of Struggle
Book SynopsisThis edited book is a valuable contribution to the study of Black families (African and African Caribbean) in the UK. It provides a unique combination of a systematic yet clear-headed approach to the subject with up-to-date and well-researched data.Table of ContentsList of tablesList of figuresList of contributorsForeword Acknowledgements1. Introduction and overview of research with Black families – Laura Serrant-Green, Carl Hylton and Bertha Ochieng2. History and profile of Black families in Britain – Franklin Smith3. Black families and child-rearing practices – Bertha Ochieng 4. Overcoming the ‘triple quandary’: how Black students navigate the obstacles of achievement – Tony Sewell5. Mothering and the family as sites of struggle: theorising ‘race’ and gender through the perspectives of Caribbean mothers in the UK – Tracy Reynolds6. Black UK families and the labour market: an historical review of the continuing difficulties of establishing a firm economic base – Jerome Williams7. Personal social services and locality: UK Black elders and young carers, health care and housing provision – Alice Sawyerr, Carl Hylton and Valerie Moore8. Conceptualisation and effects of social exclusion, racism and discrimination and coping strategies of individuals and families – William (Lez) Henry9. The cultural politics of African Caribbean and West African families in the UK – Perry Stanislas10. Rites of passage and family bonds – Trevor Gordon11. The Black family and sport: its all good … right? – Kevin Hylton12. Creating and sustaining African self-identity in the Western diaspora – Carl Hylton13. Black music as a key revolutionary signifier – Richmond Quarshie14. Spirituality and Black family life – Garnet Parris15. Conclusion: Can you didgeridoo? – Carl Hylton and Bertha OchiengIndex
£81.00
Lexington Books Morals and Manners Among Negro Americans
Book SynopsisRobert A. Wortham is professor in the Department of Sociology at North Carolina Central University.Trade ReviewThe recent spate of monographs on, and reprints of Du Bois's sociological discourse leaves little room to doubt his pioneering contributions to the development of a distinctly "American" sociology. Robert Wortham's reprint of Morals and Manners demonstrates that the innovative empirical sociology of religion Du Bois inaugurated in his 1903 classic, The Negro Church, was endeavored again a decade later. Even the most discerning scholars of Du Bois's sociology will marvel at Wortham's meticulous introduction, which cogently situates Du Bois's "scientific sociology" within the emerging world of sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. In short, Wortham's work here is nothing less than brilliant, as it promises to bring Du Bois's sociological discourse to an even wider audience. This volume symbolizes not simply a much-needed reprint but, even more, a long-awaited revival! -- Reiland Rabaka, author of Dialectics and Against Epistemic ApartheidW. E. B. Du Bois and his colleagues broke so much new ground with their Atlanta University Studies that scholars are still harvesting. We have Robert Wortham to thank for reminding us of Du Bois's many contributions to sociology and the study of cultureand religion.... -- Edward J. Blum, San Diego State UniversityW. E. B. Du Bois and his colleagues broke so much new ground with their Atlanta University Studies that scholars are still harvesting. We have Robert Wortham to thank for reminding us of Du Bois's many contributions to sociology and the study of culture and religion. -- Edward J. Blum, San Diego State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Morals and Manners: An Introduction by Robert A. Wortham Chapter 2 PROGRAM OF THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE Chapter 3 PREFACE Chapter 4 RESOLUTIONS Chapter 5 BIBLIOGRAPHY Chapter 6 1. SCOPE OF THE INQUIRY Chapter 7 2. THE GENERAL PROBLEM Chapter 8 3. THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT Chapter 9 4. GOOD MANNERS Chapter 10 5. SOUND MORALS Chapter 11 6. CLEANLINESS Chapter 12 7. PERSONAL HONESTY Chapter 13 8. HOME LIFE Chapter 14 9. REARING OF CHILDREN Chapter 15 10. AMUSEMENTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Chapter 16 11. CARING FOR OLD PEOPLE Chapter 17 12. THE CHURCH Chapter 18 13. PRESENT CONDITIONS COMPARED WITH PAST Chapter 19 14. CONCLUSION
£53.17
Rlpg/Galleys Holy Land Mosaic
Book SynopsisThe unrelenting conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East is reported daily, but the ongoing dialogue and cooperation between the two is less known. Holy Land Mosaic chronicles the less reported side of the Middle East scene: the ongoing projects of conciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, and between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Daniel Gavron presents a personal journey through the different movements, projects, organizations, and NGOs that promote tolerance and understanding between the two warring peoples, depicting some remarkable Jews and Arabs. Among the projects described are the village of Neve Shalom, where Jews and Arabs have lived together for three decades; the Hand-in-Hand bilingual schools, where Arab and Jewish children study in Hebrew and Arabic; and an Israeli group that rebuilds demolished Arab houses. In no way does the author play down the grim reality of the Middle East conflict, but his narrative shows that the enmity is not endemic. The current atmosphere is far from one of harmony and tranquility, but it can be different.Trade ReviewDaniel Gavron is an indefatigable believer in Israeli-Palestinian coexistence. In this delightful, moving, and thought-provoking book, he tells the stories of many others who in their daily lives translate that belief into reality. -- David Landau, editor in chief, HaaretzWithout overlooking the vicious cycle of hatred and violence in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this remarkable book records many stories of cooperation and friendship between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews in various fields of life. Daniel Gavron presents these little-known glimpses of sanity and hope in a well-written and vivid account. -- Moshe Ma'oz, former director, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University; Harvard UniversityDaniel Gavron's book is a bombshell read. Gavron looks behind the tired cliches for thrilling, living-and-breathing indeed spine-prickling personal stories, full of drama and comedy. A saga of love, hate and almost superhuman endurance, on both sides. The book is also wonderfully useful for its concise summary of the Middle East troubles and as a practical guide in how to jostle if not entirely break the log jam. A terrific and inspiring read. -- Clancy Sigal, National Book Award nominee, journalist, PEN Lifetime Achievement Award WinnerIn its accumulation of small, promising revelations, this book makes a larger impact. * Publishers Weekly, December 2007 *Holy Land Mosaic is an excellent and important book....It should be required reading at schools and universities around the world. -- Sir Arnold Wesker, playwright, playwright and authorUnlike many books about Israel/Palestine relations, this one conveys some optimism. The author...sets out to show that cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians has been viable and productive. While he brilliantly outlines the political history of Israel, Gavron focuses mostly on the individual rather than on the political and social system that developed in Israel....It is an eminently readable and honest book that leaves a bittersweet taste. * Outlook *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Prologue Chapter 2 Chapter One: Human Rights in the Shadow of Conflict Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Courage to Listen Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Refusing to be Enemies Chapter 5 Chapter Four: The Ultimate Symbol of Peace Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Learning together Chapter 7 Chapter Six: Living together Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: Island of Sanity Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: An encounter that spans the centuries Chapter 10 Chapter Nine: Building Blocks of Equality Chapter 11 Chapter Ten: Creativity and Recreation Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven: Donkey Garden of Eden Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve: Academy for the Environment Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen: Thinking together Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen: Joint Media Initiatives Chapter 16 Chapter Fifteen: The Veterans in the Field Chapter 17 Chapter Sixteen: Religious Faith: Problem or Solution Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen: First Among Equals Chapter 19 Epilogue
£80.10
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis A
Book SynopsisAnti-black racism is a stark presence in Chicago, a fact illustrated by significant racial inequality in and around contemporary global city. Drawing his work as a civil rights advocate and investigator in Chicago, Street explains this neo-liberal apartheid and its resulting disparity in terms of persistently and deeply racist societal and institutional practices and policies. Racial Oppression in the Black Metropolis uses the highly relevant historical and sociological laboratory that is Chicago in order to explain the racist societal and institutional practices and policies which still typify the United States. Street challenges dominant neoconservative explanations of the black urban crisis that emphasize personal irresponsibility and cultural failure. Looking to the other side of the ideological isle, he criticizes liberal and social democratic approaches that elevate class over race and challenges many observers'' sharp distinction between present and so-called past racism. In questioning the supposedly inevitable reign of urban-neoliberaism, Street also investigates the real, racial politics of the United States and finds that parties and ideologies matter little on matters of race. This innovative work in urban history and cultural criticism will inform contemporary social science and policy debates for years to come.Trade ReviewRace and racism have a continuing and profound influence in shaping all aspects of American life. Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis not only captures the pernicious impact racism has as an ideological and structural force, but illuminates with clarity, power, and imagination the way in which it is lived and struggled over at the level of daily life. Street has produced what may be one of the most important accounts of both the causes and effects of racism amid vast material inequities in one of America's most important cities. Paul Street has become an essential figure as a critical commentator on race in the United States. This book should be read by everyone who believes in racial justice, democracy, and hope for the future. -- Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interesta bracing look at what has and has not changed in Chicago, Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis is worth the time. * Colorlines *Paul Street has long written some of the most compelling studies of race and class in Chicago history. At the same time he has produced critical material on how structural racism works today and on how public policies and social movements can produce hope and change. This marvelous book brings past and present together, showing just how the glitter of global Chicago rests on and reproduces injustice. -- David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois, and author of History Against MiseryTable of ContentsChapter 1 It'll Take More Than a Hurricane: Race, Place, Chicago and America's "Enduring Shame" Chapter 2 Whitewashing "Global Chicago": Racial Invisibility in the Neoliberal Era Chapter 3 The First and Only True Ghetto Chapter 4 The Second, "Golden Age" Ghetto Chapter 5 The Nadir: The Third and Apocalyptic Ghetto and the Retreat From Race Chapter 6 Metropolitan Apartheid Chapter 7 Savage Inequalities Chapter 8 What's "Racism" Got to Do With It? Chapter 9 Contesting Corporate Urban Neoliberal Racism
£40.85
John Wiley & Sons Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Pe
Book SynopsisAnalyzing a long-neglected element of Irish and Scottish diaspora studies.Trade Review"A principal strength of the volume lies in the quality of the individual contributions...This is, indeed, a large collection - in ways that do credit to the editorship of Morton and Wilson, and to all the contributors." John G. Reid, Canadian Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContributors include J. M. Bumsted (Manitoba), Edward J. Cowan (Glasgow), George Dalgleish (National Museums of Scotland), Marjory Harper (Aberdeen), H.P. Klepak (Royal Military College of Canada), Gillian I. Leitch (Montreal), Roderick MacLeod (McGill), Douglas McCalla (Guelph), Heather McNabb (McCord Museum of Canadian History), Irena Murray (Royal Institute of British Architects), Jock Murray (Dalhousie), Cath Oberholtzer (Trent University), Eileen Stack (McCord Museum of Canadian History), Rene Villeneuve (National Gallery of Canada), and Suzanne Zeller (Wilfrid Laurier)
£27.90
McFarland & Co Inc The First Black United States Marines
Book Synopsis On June 1, 1942, the United States Marine Corps broke a 144-year tradition and enlisted the first black Marines. Three months later, more than 400 black volunteers began their training as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a Marine camp of over five square miles located within Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Informed by personal interviews, this volume takes an in-depth look at the men who braved the color barrier and became the first black Marines. Beginning with a look at the pre-World War II Marine Corps, it examines the creed and contemporary image of the USMC. The main focus is the experiences of the new black Marines. Additional topics include internal Marine perspectives on the admittance of blacks, initially enforced quotas, and the difficulties of segregation. Appendices provide information regarding monthly inductions into the Marine Corps from 1941 to 1945; rank and pay structure; depot and ammunition companies from 1943 to 1946; and Pacific Ocean area units of fire for ground weapons.Trade Reviewsolid, well-researched...in depth...of immense value - Leatherneck Magazine ""brings a significant American story to a larger public"" - The North Carolina Historical Review""describes the fighting experiences of this first group of men to cross the USMC's color barrier"" - Reference & Research Book NewsTable of ContentsTable of ContentsPreface 1Section I. Pre–World War II1. “No Negro, Mulatto, or Indian to be enlisted...” 72. The U.S. Marine Corps—A Very Brief History 103. A Closer Look 194. A Chance to Join “The Club” 23Section II. 1941–1942: The War Begins5. The Exigencies of War 296. Blacks Accept the Challenge 337. American Strategy 388. The First Black Marine Unit 449. Training the First Black Recruits 5410. Changes Come Quickly 66Section III. 194311. Proving Amphibious Doctrine 7312. Segregation Is Still the Rule 7813. Training with the Guns 9014. War Is Serious Business 9715. Change Comes Slowly 10216. A Time of Turmoil 112Section IV. 194417. Activating the 52d Defense Battalion 12518. South Pacific 12919. Leaving the States 13220. The Marianas 13921. Operation Forager Countinues 15922. Moving Out 16723. Pushing Black Marines Through 17724. Garrison Life 188Section V. 1945–194625. No End in Sight 19326. Hounded by the Press 20527. Okinawa—Operation Iceberg 20828. “...A very lovely day...” 21629. Future for Black Marines 22630. A Few of the Men, Continued 231Appendices 235Chapter Notes 241Bibliography 253Index 261
£23.74
LSU Press Blessed Are the Peacemakers Martin Luther King Jr
Book SynopsisMartin Luther King Jr's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. This volume offers a comprehensive history of King's “Letter” and examines its literary appeal.
£21.80
Louisiana State University Press Becoming American in Creole New Orleans 18961949
Book SynopsisMoves the history of New Orleans' Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles' encounters with Anglo-American modernism. The author tracks this ethnic transformation through an interrogation of New Orleans's voluntary associations and social sodalities, and its public and parochial schools.
£35.06
Northwestern University Press The Diary and Letter of Kaethe Kollwitz
Book SynopsisOne of the great German Expressionist artists, Kaethe Kollwitz wrote little of herself. But her diary, kept from 1900 to her death in 1945, and her brief essays and letters express, as well as explain, much of the spirit, wisdom, and internal struggle which was eventually transmuted into her art.Trade ReviewAn unforgettable experience." —New York Times Book Review"A valuable and readable work." —Los Angeles Times Book Review"[Kollwitz's] diary and letters . . . provide a dramatic record of German history during the turbulent time that encompassed World War I, the November Revolution, the Weimar Republic and the appearance of Nazism. To these, Kollwitz grants a compassionate, critical, and insightful vision, recording her own witnessing of historical events, her own experience of the everyday in a testimony which is generally recognized as one of the greatest autobiographical German texts of the century. . . . As human documents they have few equals; as historical documents, they are fundamental." —Reinhold Heller
£23.96
Northwestern University Press The Goodman Theatres Festival Latino Six Plays
Book SynopsisDrawn from the first ten years of the Goodman Theatre's renowned biennial festival of Latino plays, the works in this collection expand the definition of Latino theatre, resisting the confines of a particular language, locale, or assumed audience. Instead of focusing on similarities that outline the boundaries of Latino identity, these plays look outward, representing the multiplicity of actual Latino experience. The plays were written and performed sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish; their stories are set in heterogeneous milieus; they're directed at both Latino and non-Latino audiences; and they incorporate cultural or theatrical elements from vastly different traditions. As a group, these plays indicate the extraordinary range of the festival's offerings and show how it has contributed to a more complex notion of what Latino theatre is and can be.
£31.46
Northwestern University Press Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination
Book SynopsisOffers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and non-literary texts.
£29.96
Northwestern University Press Colorblind Tools
Book SynopsisProvides a study of anti-Blackness and white supremacy across four continents that demonstrates that colour-blindness is neither new nor a subtype of racist ideology, but a constitutive technology of racism.Table of Contents Introduction:The Master’sColorblind Tools PART I: THE MAKING OF WHITE NATIONS Chapter 1:Colorblindness and Nation Building Chapter 2: Mestizaje and Racial Genocide PART II: THE ONGOING RACE TO SILENCE RACE Chapter 3: The White Mobilization Against Desegregation and Redistribution Chapter 4:The Perils of White "Antiracism" PART III: DECOLONIAL IMAGINARIES AND COLORBLIND LOGICS Chapter 5: Espousing Liberal Individualism in Cubena's Works Chapter 6: Encountering the Other in Chicana Literature Epilogue: An Undying Colonialism Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£30.36
Northwestern University Press Reclaiming Time
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£23.39
University of Pennsylvania Press W. E. B. Du Bois American Prophet
Book SynopsisPioneering historian, sociologist, editor, novelist, poet, and organizer, W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the twentieth century. While Du Bois is remembered for his monumental contributions to scholarship and civil rights activism, the spiritual aspects of his work have been misunderstood, even negated. W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet, the first religious biography of this leader, illuminates the spirituality that is essential to understanding his efforts and achievements in the political and intellectual world.Often labeled an atheist, Du Bois was in fact deeply and creatively involved with religion. Historian Edward J. Blum reveals how spirituality was central to Du Bois''s approach to Marxism, pan-Africanism, and nuclear disarmament, his support for black churches, and his reckoning of the spiritual wage of white supremacy. His writings, teachings, and prayers served as articles of faith for fellow activists of his day, fTrade Review"Blum's work powerfully evokes both the spirit and substance of Du Bois's moral vision in ways that will greatly benefit students and scholars of American religious and intellectual history for years to come." * Journal of American History *"From comprehensive and original archival research, Blum reveals a Du Bois who from the beginning to the end of his career was obsessed with religion, its rhetoric, typologies, practices, and moral virtues. This book-really, an intervention-is long overdue." * Callaloo *"A greater tribute to the man cannot be found, even in the works of the most seasoned Du Bois scholars." * Church History *"Blum illuminates the entire range of Du Bois's writings, showing him as a prophetic thinker at times, a deliverer of jeremiads, a composer of creeds, an appreciator of the spirituality of everyday folk, and a visionary who anticipated trends in black theology and womanist theology. A truly valuable contribution to African American and American religious history." * Paul Harvey, University of Colorado *"In this eloquent and penetrating book, Edward Blum explores a crucial but neglected aspect of the life and times of W. E. B. Du Bois: the intersection of race and religion. . . . He gives us, as no one else has, a new Du Bois. It is a signal accomplishment and should be required reading for anyone interested in American protest literature and the role of religion in social reform." * John Stauffer, author of The Black Hearts of Men *"Edward Blum has offered us a remarkably fresh, provocative, and searching reading of Du Bois, one that places religion and spirituality at the center of his thought and sensibilities. But he has offered us something more as well: an important engagement with religion and the construction of race-of blackness and whiteness-in America." * Steven Hahn, author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration *"While W. E. B. Du Bois's many prescient ideas on race and the color line are often quoted, he is rarely characterized in the sacred prophetic sense. In this first comprehensive study of the religious meaning and biblical references in Du Bois's writings, Edward Blum brilliantly and movingly renders the complex soul of this intellectual giant, who demanded his people's deliverance from a sin-sick world of racial injustice." * Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, author of Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 *"With this book Edward J. Blum solidified his reputation as one of the most singular and innovative scholars writing on religion and race today." * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Rethinking W.E.B. Du Bois, Rethinking Religion and Race 1. The Hero with a Black Face: Autobiography and the Mythology of the Self 2. Race as Cosmic Sight in The Souls of Black Folk 3. A Dark Monk Who Wrote History and Sociology: The Spiritual Wage of whiteness, the Black Church, and Mystical Africa 4. Black Messiahs and Murderous Whites: Violence and Faith in Literary Expression 5. Christ Was a Communist: Religion for an Aging Leftist Epilogue. The Passing of the Prophet Notes Index Acknowledgments
£26.59
Wayne State University Press The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust
Book SynopsisConsiders the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. Each of the ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection is dedicated to a different country. The case studies provide new insights into Holocaust memory and memory politics.
£27.71
University of Arizona Press Mexican Americans and the Environment Tierra Y
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£19.96
University of Arizona Press A Poets Truth Conversations with LatinoLatina
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£19.16
The University of Arizona Press Mexican Americans and the Politics of Diversity
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£18.66
University of Arizona Press Thinking En Espanol Interviews with Critics of
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£28.46
The University of Arizona Press Barrio Dreams Selected Plays Camino del Sol
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£21.56
University of Arizona Press Latino Placemaking and Planning
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£18.66
University of Arizona Press Intersectional Chicana Feminisms
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£21.56
University of Arizona Press All They Will Call You
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Escape from New York The New Negro Renaissance
Book SynopsisIn the midst of vast cultural and political shifts in the early twentieth century, politicians and cultural observers variously hailed and decried the rise of the "New Negro." This phenomenon was most clearly manifest in the United States through the outpouring of Black arts and letters and social commentary known as the Harlem Renaissance.Trade Review"This anthology succeeds in liberating New Negro studies from Harlem and its traditional temporal, gender, and class confines."—Journal of African American History"This collection of essays registers the polyvalent, internationalist, and coalition-building character of the New Negro movement more comprehensively than any other text to date. Escape from New York is essential reading for those who study and teach black modernism, black internationalism, and the Harlem Renaissance."—Cultural CritiqueTable of ContentsContentsForewordRobin D.G. KelleyIntroduction: New Negroes Forging a New WorldDavarian L. BaldwinI. The Diasporic Outlook1. “Brightest Africa” in the New Negro ImaginationJeannette Eileen Jones2. Cuban Negrismo, Mexican Indigenismo: Contesting Neocolonialism in the New Negro MovementDavid Luis-Brown3. An International African Opinion: Amy Ashwood Garvey and C. L. R. James in Black Radical LondonMinkah MakalaniII. New (Negro) Frontiers4. The New Negro’s Brown Brother: Black American and Filipino Boxers and the “Rising Tide of Color”Theresa Runstedtler5. The New Negro of the Pacific: How African Americans Forged Solidarity with JapanYuichiro Onishi6. “A Small Man in Big Spaces”: The New Negro, the Mestizo, and Jean Toomer’s SouthwestEmily LutenskiIII. The Garvey Movement7. Making New Negroes in Cuba: Garveyism as a Transcultural MovementFrank Guridy8. Reconfiguring the Roots and Routes of New Negro Activism: The Garvey Movement in New OrleansClaudrena HaroldIV. Engendering the Experience9. Black Modernist Women at the Parisian CrossroadsJennifer Wilks10. A Mobilized Diaspora: The First World War and Black Soldiers as New NegroesChad Williams11. Climbing the Hilltop: In Search of a New Negro Womanhood at Howard UniversityTreva Lindsey12. New Negro Marriages and the Everyday Challenges of Upward MobilityAnastasia CurwoodV. Consumer Culture13. “You Just Can’t Keep the Music Unless You Move With It”: The Great Migration and the Black Cultural Politics of Jazz in New Orleans and ChicagoCharles Lester14. New Negroes at the Beach: At Work and Play Outside the Black MetropolisAndrew KahrlVI. Home to Harlem15. “Home to Harlem” Again: Claude McKay and the Masculine Imaginary of Black CommunityThabiti Lewis16. Not Just a World Problem: Segregation, Police Brutality, and New Negro Politics in New York CityShannon KingVIII. Speakeasy: Reflecting on the New New Negro Studies17. The Conjunctural Field of New Negro StudiesMichelle Ann Stephens18. Underground to Harlem: Rumblings and Clickety-Clacks of DiasporaMark Anthony Neal19. The Gendering of Place in the Great EscapeTracy Sharpley-WhitingAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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The University of Alabama Press A Cuban City Segregated
Book SynopsisDrawing on the insights of intersectional feminism, Bonnie Lucero shows that the key to understanding racial segregation in Cuba is recognising the often unspoken ways specifically classed notions and practices of gender shaped the historical production of race and racial inequality.Trade ReviewAn insightful and well-researched microhistory of the range of dynamics that shaped race relations, urban order, and sexual labor in Cienfuegos. A Cuban City, Segregated joins an increasingly rich historiography centered on the political and social history - especially with regard to race and gender - of Cuba during the nineteenth century."" - Tiffany A. Sippial, author of Prostitution, Modernity, and the Making of the Cuban Republic, 1840–1920""This is an excellent study of the construction of urban order in a nineteenth-century Cuban city and a unique contribution to several bodies of literature in the field, especially Latin American urban history, studies of race and slavery, and Cuban studies."" - Guadalupe García, author of Beyond the Walled City: Colonial Exclusion in Havana and coeditor of Imprints of Revolution: Visual Representations of ResistanceTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Introduction: Urban Orderand Racial Exclusion 1. A White Colony in the Age of ""Africanization,"" 1790–1830s 2. A Town of Racial Enclaves, 1840–1860s 3. Freedom and Marginality in a Divided City, 1860–1890s 4. Negotiating Exclusion in the Historic City Center, 1890s 5. Consolidating a White City Center under US Rule Conclusion: Reclaiming Urban Space in the Early Republic Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Standing Before the Shouting Mob Lenoir Chambers
Book SynopsisA portrayal of Lenoir Chambers' campaign for racial justice.Trade ReviewThe book's principal contribution is its persuasive portrait of a thoroughly admirable and courageous journalist.... An important, well-researched, and well-written contribution. - Journal of American History ""Chambers was among only four of 53 southern journalists who consistently supported the 1954 Brown decision, [and] he received the Pulitzer Prize for his influential editorials - the Pilot was second in circulation among Virginia's newspapers - during Norfolk's school closings. Chambers represented, writes Leidholdt, the best of the South: genteel manners, courage, democratic beliefs, adherence to law, and rejection of intolerance."" - Journal of Southern History
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The University of Alabama Press Show Us How You Do It Marshall Keeble and the
Book SynopsisA major figure in southern black restorationist church historyTrade Review""Robinson's findings challenge two long-established wisdoms: that there was (or is) such a thing as the black church, an intangible entity encompassing the unique religious experience of African Americans; and that Jim Crow was the cultural message pervading life in the New South.""Journal of Southern History|Historians of African American and Anglo American Christianity will learn tremendously from Robinson’s research on the ambivalent strategies of whites who desired to convert blacks to their denomination as a means of maintaining white supremacism. Those seeking to understand southern culture and history more acutely will seize upon the nuance that springs from the volume’s discussion of race and religion, with great reward. Perhaps most importantly, those who have been overzealous in reducing African American Christianity to the caricature of the prophetic vanguard will find here a disciplined, sobering study of socially conservative African American Christianity that adds considerably to our knowledge of the nation’s racial and religious past.”Journal of American Ethnic History| Show Us How You Do It offers an important contribution to southern religious and race relations in Churches of Christ.” Hans Rollmann, Professor, Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland This book provides an account of a distinctive black tradition and its relation to white churches that is not represented in the current history of the black church in America. The book is based on sound research. It is well-written.” D. Newell Williams, President and Professor of Modern and American Church History, Brite Divinity School at Forth Worth, Texas
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University of Hawai'i Press Tautai Samoa World History and the Life of Taisi
Book SynopsisTells the story of a man who came from the edge of a mighty empire and then challenged it at its very heart. This biography of Ta'isi O.F. Nelson chronicles the life of a man described as the archenemy of New Zealand and its greater whole, the British Empire. This is a powerful and passionate story that touches on shared histories and causes that have animated populations across the world.
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University of Missouri Press George Washington Carver
Book SynopsisGeorge Washington Carver (1864-1943) is best known for developing new uses for agricultural crops and teaching methods of soil improvement to southern farmers. This annotated selection of his letters and other writings from the collections at the Tuskegee Institute and the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri, reveals the forces that shaped his creative genius.Trade ReviewKremer’s background and transitional comments, along with Carver’s writings, succeed in bringing Carver to life; helping readers to encounter, empathize with, and appreciate this complex, often contradictory man."" - The Journal of Southern History, for the first edition
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper
Book SynopsisThis collection is a major contribution to the reconstruction of gender balance in African-American history âManning Marable, Columbia UniversityTrade ReviewThanks to this much-awaited edition with its excellent introduction, Anna Julia Cooper will no longer be merely a citation in the indices of works on women and people of color. As their title aptly announces, Esme Bhan and Charles Lemert have retrieved for us The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper. -- David Levering Lewis, Rutgers University, historian and author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, winner of the Pulitzer Prize fA much-needed addition to the dearth of primary sources which will illuminate one of history's most important feminist figures. -- Paula Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in AmericaCooper may be the founding figure in contemporary writings bringing together race, class, and gender—the foremother of today's influential black feminist writers. This collection is a major contribution to the reconstruction of gender balance in African American history. -- Manning Marable, M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies, Columbia UniversityWriting over a fifty-year period, Cooper not only participated in the ongoing dialogue over race relations and racial uplift in the United States, but also turned a scholarly lens on the history of the slave trade and the development of the Black Atlantic. She belongs in the company of W.E.B. Du Bois. -- Carla L. Peterson, author of Doers of the Word: African American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880)Historians, literary critics, and general readers alike will appreciate having access to Cooper's viewpoints. -- Kathryn L. Seidel, University of Central Florida * Journal of Southern History *The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper is, quite simply, a fine collection. Carefully edited, it contributes greatly to the study of the history of this country. -- Cally L. Waite, Teachers College, Columbia University * History of Education Quarterly *This is an impressive, meticulously researched, and wonderfully written study. It does much to further our understanding of southern women—black and white, conservative and progressive—and their efforts to expand the public role of women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. -- Christina Greene, University of South Florida * National Women's Studies Association Journal *This is a good selection of 29 of [Cooper's] writings on varied subjects ranging from her A Voice from the South (1892) to her "Hitler and the Negro" (1942). . . . Theoretical scholars debate how to characterize her; the gracefully written introductions in this valuable volume deftly put the debates in perspective. . . . Highly recommended. -- J. H. Smith, Wake Forest University * CHOICE *Charles Lemert and Esme Bhan's collection serves a timely purpose. A number of Cooper's less familiar writtings, many previously unpublished or virtually inaccesssible, are also included in this compilation and demonstrate the range of her interests, from race politics to the role of humor in teaching. Lemert and Bhan's introduction provides a comprehensive overview of Cooper's life and interactions with other black intellectuals, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Charlotte Grimke, and Mary Church Terrell. The editors have chosen wisely from a lifetime of work. * Washington History *The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper will surely be an instructive and engaging read for those interested in African American educational history or feminist philosophy, as well as for those who enjoy reading astute observations on race, gender, and class in society. * Harvard Educational Review *The writings of this influential African American activist make for powerful reading. * Waterwheel *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Anna Julia Cooper: The Colored Woman's Office Part 2 I. The Colored Woman’s Office: A Voice from the South Chapter 3 Our Raison d'Etre (1892) Chapter 4 Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (1886) Chapter 5 The Higher Education of Women (1890-1891) Chapter 6 "Woman versus the Indian" (1891-1892) Chapter 7 The Status of Woman in America (1892) Part 8 II. Race and Culture: A Voice from the South Chapter 9 Has America a Race Problem? If So, How Can It Best Be Solved? (1892) Chapter 10 The Negro As Presented in American Literature (1892) Chapter 11 What Are We Worth? (1892) Chapter 12 The Gain from a Belief (1892) Part 13 III. The Range of Cooper’s Voice: Feminism, Social Service, Education, and Race Politics Chapter 14 The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation: A Response to Fannie Barrier Williams (1893) Chapter 15 The Ethics of the Negro Question (1902) Chapter 16 The Social Settlement: What It Is, and What It Does (1913) Chapter 17 Sketches from a Teacher's Notebook: Loss of Speech through Isolation (1923?) Chapter 18 Foreword to Le Pelerinage de Charlemagne (1925) Chapter 19 The Humor of Teaching (1930) Chapter 20 My Racial Philosophy (1930) Chapter 21 The Negro's Dialect (1930s?) Chapter 22 On Education (1930s?) Angry Saxons and Negro Education (1938) Chapter 23 Hitler and the Negro (1942?) Part 24 IV. World Politics, Race, and Slavery: The Historical Studies Chapter 25 The Social Conditions of the French-American Colonies: The Class Structure (1925) Chapter 26 Black Slavery and the French Nation (1925) Chapter 27 Equality of Races and the Democratic Movement (1925) Chapter 28 Legislative Measures Concerning Slavery in the United States: 1787-1850 (1925) Part 29 V. Reflections on Her Life: Memoirs, Occasional Writings, Letters: 1925-1958 Chapter 30 The Early Years in Washington: Reminiscences of Life with the Grimkes (1951) Chapter 31 The Third Step: Cooper's Memoir of the Sorbonne Doctorate (1945-1950?) Chapter 32 Selected Letters and Other Writings (1925-1958) Chapter 33 The Life of Anna Julia Cooper: A Chronology Chapter 34 Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers After Postcolonialism
Book SynopsisThis innovative analysis of the Philippine historical crisis is accompanied by a critique of a U.S. racial formation in which Filipinos constitute the largest Asian group. Literary and artistic expressions by Filipinos manifest a new emerging identity defined by the multicultural debates crossing the Pacific, transforming the Philippines into a borderland of East and West. Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space between past and present. Between the memory of colonial experience and an emergent nation-making dream, can a meaningful future be envisioned? This provocative book explores this problematic zone of difference through a critique of the Western production of knowledge in the context of local resistance. While Americanization of the Filipino continues, the encounter of globalizing and nationalizing forces has precipitated a profound political and social crisis whose outcome may be a paradigmaticTrade ReviewWith his usual hardhitting candor and penetrating insight, E. San Juan, Jr., invites readers to join him in a post-postcolonial interrogation of the Philippine 'problematique' within the context of both American imperialism studies and Asian American studies. To be sure, The Filipino in the United States is a concrete historical phenomenon, but becoming Filipino in the Diaspora continues to be a process of dialectical struggle. -- Evelyn Hu-DeHart, University of Colorado at BoulderThis is a great book, full of life and passion, conviction and commitment—all built upon a bedrock of solid literary, cultural, historical, and political analysis. This will be regarded, I believe, as possibly his very best work. -- Paul Wong, University of MichiganThis collection is an indispensable part of Philippine studies. * Multicultural Review *In one of the most thoroug, hard-hitting, perspicacious analyses on the subject, San Juan dismantels the myths surrounding US-Philippine relations and lays bare the harsh realities US imperialism has wrought on its former "showcase of democracy". * Against the Current *In this trenchant survey of both the historyand contemporary status of relations between the Philippines and the United States, E. San Juan…display[s] his talent for provocative analysis. * Pilipinas *It is critical to lay bare the reality of the Diaspora experience through the prism of those who have the skills to articulate it. San Juan gives this expression throughout with a powerful critique of Eurocentric universalism and the myths of multiculturalism. He has provided a provocative analysis of how the fashionable liberal vocabulary of transnationalism has obfuscated what in reality are modes of domination. San Juan's optic is unique, placing him alone at the cutting edge of a progressive counter attack against the orthodoxy of the academy. -- Sam Noumoff, McGill UniversityOne of the most thorough, hard-hitting, perspicaious analyses on the subject. * Journal of Contemporary Asia *This book is a must read for Philippine specialists as well as specialists of Asian-American affairs. * Journal of Asian and African Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Symbolic Trajectories of the Asian Diaspora Chapter 3 Historicizing the Space of Asian America Chapter 4 Specters of United States Imperialism Chapter 5 From Neocolonial Representations to National-Democratic Allegory Chapter 6 Displacing Borders of Misrecognition: On Jessica Hagedorn's Fictions Chapter 7 Kidlat Tahimik's Cinema of the Naïve Subaltern Chapter 8 Prospects and Problems of Revolutionary Transformation Chapter 9 Afterword Chapter 10 Appendix: Writing and the Asian Diaspora
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