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Book SynopsisFarm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology has had much to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers—Mexican migrants in particular—in the United States. This book explores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens of visual culture.Trade Review"In Farm Worker Futurism, one comes face-to-face with the techno-fascism that was routed around daily by the collective actions of laborers who hacked the future with anticipatory illuminations and critical disturbances. This not science-fiction, but it is futurity-as-history that drives science-fiction into the present for activist, artists, and critics. Curtis Marez has written a unique and highly accessible book that calls on us to perform the speculative seeding of the future as farm workers to make new worlds grow now."—Ricardo Dominguez, University of California, San Diego"Perhaps the greatest contribution of Farm Worker Futurism lies in its bold, creative, and apt attention to the intersections of labor and art as an inextricable dyad. Indeed, Marez’s attention to art associated with farmworker labor invites similar attention to art and discourse about a fuller range of labor-based cultural production."—American Literary History"Farm Worker Futurism provides additional, much-needed fodder for what critical food scholars claim as the agrarian imaginary and its capacity to thwart policy aimed at increasing social and ecological justice."—H-NetTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Farm Workers in the Machine1. “To the Disinherited Belongs the Future”: Farm Worker Futurism in the 1940s2. From Third Cinema to National Video: Visual Technologies and UFW World Building3. Farm Worker Futurisms in Speculative Culture: George Lucas and Ester HernandezAfterword: Farm Worker Futurism NowAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Measuring Manhood is the book we’ve been hoping for. For two generations, historians have talked about the ways that race, class, and gender are interlocking and co-operational. Carefully and thoughtfully, Melissa N. Stein gathers these plots and lays out a story of intersecting interests and ideologies: a story of knowledge gone mad that is deeply resonant in our time."—Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University"Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written."—Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"Measuring Manhood is well-written and complexly argued. It will be a useful text for courses in the history of medicine, gender, and sexuality studies; American history and science and technology studies. It provides an example of how to do inter-sectional analysis."—Men & Masculinities"A masterful work on the way racial theory, gender and science came together in the long nineteenth century."—Social History of Medicine"A noble effort to reveal the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in the history of American science."—American Historical Review"Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written."—Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"A well-written narrative, Measuring Manhood is a welcome contribution to the histories of science and medicine, race, and sex and sexuality as well to the interdisciplinary fields of American studies and gender studies."—Journal of American History"Anyone interested in how American science used studies of masculinity to aggravate social fears about race would do well to start with Measuring Manhood."—Journal of the History of Sexuality"Melissa Stein offers a meticulously researched history of biological essentialism. Her explicitly intersectional approach is a timely contribution to our understanding of how race and gender together informed the emerging sciences of ethnology, biology, and medicine from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century."—African American Review"Measuring Manhood is a sobering reflection on the fallacies of “objective” research and the role science has played in shaping social and political life. In this present era of advanced genetic research and considerable sociopolitical turmoil, this is a cautionary tale."—New Genetics and Society"Measuring Manhood is an excellent study of the development of the science of masculinity and its roots in race science in the United States during the long nineteenth century."—Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Making Race, Marking Difference1. "Races of Men”: Ethnology in Antebellum America2. An “Equal Beard” for “Equal Voting”: Gender and Citizenship in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Redemption3. Inverts, Perverts, and Primitives: Racial Thought and the American School of Sexology4. Unsexing the Race: Lynching, Castration, and Racial Science5. Walter White, Scientific Racism, and the NAACP Antilynching CampaignEpilogueAcknowledgmentsAppendix. Charting Racial Science: Data and MethodologyNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the resounding musical performances of Mexican American women such as Chelo Silva, Eva Ybarra, Eva Garza, and Selena within Tejano/Chicano musicTrade Review"With Dissonant Divas, Deborah R. Vargas makes us the gift of a more vibrant and expansive soundscape for hemispheric cultural studies. By broadening and interrogating the archive of Mexican and Mexican American popular music, Vargas restores a pantheon of Mejicana recording artists to their place at the center of a musical scene where artists contested the boundaries of gender, sex and nation through innovative performance and subversive self-styling. Like the music it so artfully engages, Dissonant Divas is a landmark text, beautifully conceived and written, with much to offer a wide range of audiences."—Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Yale University"This arrival is at a keen theory of musical dissonance, not unlike many of the culturally entwined elevations already in your own music collection. Dissonant Divas is high quality feminist academic scribing, worth it alone for turning the unfamiliar on to the bold, bawdy boleros of Chado Silva, but has much else to offer as well."—KEXP Radio"Vargas’s sustained engagement of race, class, gender, and sexuality with Chicana/o borderlands music is thoroughly new."—Sounding Out!"Professor Vargas provides a new lens into the identities and histories that emerge from the new cultural space Anzaldua referred to as the borderlands."—New Books Network"An accessible and thought-provoking project seeking not only a space and recognition for these musicians without a Mexican-American sonic landscape, but also creating a site for the emergence of alternative genealogies and topographies."—Latino Studies"In Dissonant Divas, Deborah Vargas examines the lived experiences, musical contributions, and performative transgressions that led a select group of women to not only break new ground as artists and reimagine largely male-dominated canons of Chicano, Tejano and Mexicano popular music styles, but to challenge dominant notions of sound, visibility and integration."—EthnomusicologyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Music, Mejicanas, and the Chicano Wave1. Forgetting the Alamo, Remembering Rosita Fernandez2. Borders, Bullets, Besos: The Boleros of Chelo Silva3. TexMex Conjunto Accordion Masculinity: The Queer Discord of Eva Ybarra and Ventura Alonzo4. Sonido de Las Américas: Crossing South–South Borders with Eva Garza5. Giving Us That Brown Soul: Selena's Departures and ArrivalsEpilogue: The Borderlands Rock Reverb of Gloria Rios and Girl in a ComaAcknowledgmentsNotesPermissionsIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Inhuman Citizenship1. Melancholic Citizenship: The Living Dead and Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone2. Shameful Citizenship: Animal Jouissance and Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son3. Romantic Citizenship: Immigrant–Nation Romance, the Antifetish, and Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker4. Perverse Citizenship: The Death Drive and Suki Kim’s The InterpreterCodaAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"John Arena has written an important book on an important topic. New Orleans stands out because of the travesty associated with Hurricane Katrina; however, Driven from New Orleans tells a much deeper and broader story that could be replicated in many cities. Arena provides a sorely needed account of neoliberal reorganization of American cities with the active support of nominal advocates and representatives of the impoverished populations who are displaced as part of that reorganization. It is a signal contribution to the study of black urban politics, the political economy of urban redevelopment, and the concrete dynamics of urban neoliberalism." —Adolph Reed, Jr., University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Nonprofits and the Revanchist Agenda1.Confronting the New Boss: Struggles for Home and Community in the Post-Segregation Era, 1965–19852.Undoing the Black Urban Regime: Resistance to Displacement and Elite Divisions, 1986–19883.Neoliberalism and Nonprofits: Selling Privatization at St. Thomas, 1989–19954.No Hope in HOPE VI: Dismantling Public Housing from the Nation to the Neighborhood5.When Things Fall Apart: From the Dreams of St. Thomas to the Nightmare of River Gardens, 1996–20026.Whose City Is It? Hurricane Katrina and the Struggle for New Orleans’ Public Housing, 2003–20087.Managing Contradictions: The Coalition to Stop the DemolitionsConclusion: Lessons from New OrleansNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard AokiTrade Review"My friend Richard Aoki was there when Huey P. Newton and I founded our Black Panther Party, discussing political analysis and seeking critique approval of our Ten Point Program. This book is a necessary kind of reading that illuminates my friend’s political revolutionary life’s meaning: Richard Aoki’s reverence." —Bobby Seale, founding Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party"Richard Aoki straddled the worlds of ethnicity by the radical bridge he built through his engagement with an authentic, even saucy American radicalism. Diane C. Fujino unearths Richard’s story with sympathy and warmth, and in the process redeems the legacy of a remarkable American radical." —Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People's History Of The Third World"Samurai among Panthers is a bracing, honest, and revealing biography. The book is a powerful reminder that although social movements operate collectively within social and political contexts, they are ultimately enacted by individuals who, like Richard Aoki, are flawed, complicated, dedicated, and visionary." —Daryl J. Maeda, author of Rethinking the Asian American MovementTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Demystifying the Japanese Radical Cat1. “My Happy Childhood That I Don’t Remember”Disrupting the Deviant–Noble Binary2. “Protecting the Japanese”The Ungrieved Trauma of Internment3. “Learning to Do the West Oakland Dip”Masculinity, Race, and Citizenship in Postwar Oakland4. “I Was a Man by the Standards of the ’Hood”Military Misadventures and Cold War Masculinity5. “My Identification Went with the Aspirations of the Masses”The Old Left, Third World Radicalism, and Vietnam6. “The Greatest Political Opportunity of My Life”Joining the Black Panther Party 7. “Support All Oppressed Peoples”Founding the Asian American Political Alliance8. “Learning to Fly on the Way Down”The TWLF Strike and the Duality of Education9. “A Community-Oriented Academic Unit”The Birth of Asian American Studies10. “An Advocate for the Students”The Counselor, Instructor, and Administrator11. “At Least I Was There”A Rebirth in Activism for Freedom, Justice, and EqualityEpilogue: Reflecting on a Movement IconAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Abolitionist Geographies offers exciting new ways of thinking about place, time, politics, and form in the antislavery writings of such important antebellum writers as Emerson, William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, and Stowe. Drawing on recent work in diasporic and hemispheric studies, Schoolman shows how key writers of the time made use of spatial experimentation to conceive of the nation well beyond North and South sectionalism. Abolitionist Geographies poses a fresh challenge to scholars of the period to address matters of nation and geography more complexly." —Robert S. Levine, author of Dislocating Race and Nation"Whatever else it does in relation to the historiography of antebellum abolition - and indeed it does much - Schoolman’s book teaches us to see this reopening of abolitionist time as an opening of abolitionist space as well."—Antipode"Martha Schoolman's Abolitionist Geographies is a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship that explores connections between the literary and the geographic."—Journal of Historical Geography"In Schoolman’s skilled reading of its geographies, we now have a map to the abolitionist imagination."—Journal of American Studies"Schoolman offers a nuanced, historically and geographically informed understanding of abolitionist discourses, and foregrounds the fine details and rough edges that often compromise cursory readings of abolition. [Abolitionist Geographies] is without doubt an important contribution to the renewed scholarly interest in abolitionist literature."—African American Review"Martha Schoolman’s Abolitionist Geographies contributes significantly to the history of the antislavery movement between British emancipation in 1833 and John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry raid."—Journal of American History"Sophisticated and meticulously researched."—American Literature"A nuanced topography that highlights the contradictory, the quotidian, and the contextual strategies ever present in nineteenth-century abolitionist geographies."—Common-Place"Abolitionist Geographies offers an exciting model of a micropolitical approach to American literatures, where hierarchies, solidarities, and fissures among racial-ethnic groups and what we think of as their literatures emerge in relation to and against regions’ multinational histories."—MELUS"A timely and engaging study of spatial imaginaries and geographical practices in U.S. antislavery literature. "—Emerson Society Papers"Schoolman’s ambitious chronology compellingly argues for the importance of space to abolitionist thought, and demonstrates that geography is a means to remap established genealogies of the abolition movement, and to rethink its canonical literature."—Year’s Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: What Is Abolitionist Geography?1. Emerson's Hemisphere2. August First and the Practice of Disunion3. William Wells Brown's Critical Cosmopolitanism4. Uncle Tom's Cabin's Anti-Expansionism5. The Maroon's Moment, 1856–1861AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review "This comparative study of community policies related to welfare and community participation is well organized, well writen, and well documented. The narrative moves along, not dwelling too long on one individual or organization, yet it also contains extremely apt quotations from policy makers and activists that vividly conveey their ideas. The attention to gender, female homemaker and male breadwinner, and contestations of that is equally efficient and well conceived, enriching the book. The influence of African Americans and their ideas on contestations over inclusion and welfare policies in Japan is equally compact and relevant." —Kathleen Uno, Temple University"A fascinating addition to the literature on the War on Poverty."—Journal of American History"Reinventing Citizenship leaves the reader with the opportunity to question how contemporary efforts to address poverty and economic inequality might resonate within a transnational context."—Law, Culture, and the Humanities Journal"Reinventing Citizenship is important for exploring the little-known differences and similarities between black welfare activists in Los Angeles and their Korean counterparts in Japan, and for its rare demonstration of the transnational ties that bound them."—American Historical Review"Reinventing Citizenship is a work of solid research, whose comparative approach compels readers to think about state welfare and social movements in the late 1900s globally and expansively, something Americanists should do more in general."—Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Los Angeles and Kawasaki as Arenas of Struggle over Citizenship1. Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The Origins of the U.S. Community Action Program2. Fostering Community and Nationhood: Japan's Model Community Program3. Struggling for Political Voice: Race and the Politics of Welfare in Los Angeles4. Recasting the Community Action Program: The Pursuit of Race, Class, and Gender Equality in Los Angeles5. Translating Black Theology into Korean Activism: The Hitachi Employment Discrimination Trial6. Voicing Alternative Visions of Citizenship: The "Kawasaki System" of WelfareConclusion: The Interconnectedness of Oppression and FreedomAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sangay K. Mishra’s book is the first of its kind involving the politics of South Asians in the United States. Desis Divided fills an important gap in the study of Asian American politics and speaks to a larger literature on minority political incorporation, showing both the strengths and limitations of Desi political involvement."—Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside"Mishra paints a picture of a community whose heterogeneity has manifested itself in remarkable ways. There was so much about the South Asian American political experience that I did not truly appreciate until I read Desis Divided."—The Aerogram"Recommended."—CHOICE"An important, fresh take on the study of immigrant political behavior."—Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Situating Desis in U.S. Ethnoracial Politics1. South Asian Americans and Immigration Regimes: Exclusion, Ghadar Rebellion, and Silicon Valley2. Political Incorporation and New Immigrants: Beyond Racial Solidarity3. Race, Religion, and Communities: South Asians in the Post-9/11 United States4. Mapping the Modes of Mobilization5. Transnationalism and Political Participation: The Challenges of “In-Between” Americans6. Diasporic Nationalism and Fragments WithinConclusion: Negotiating Identities and Crafting SolidaritiesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood in Salvador, Brazil’s city center, Black Women against the Land Grab explores how black women’s views on development have radicalized local communities to demand justice and social change. Keisha-Khan Y. Perry describes the key role of local women activists in the citywide movement for land and housing rights. Trade Review"Black Women against the Land Grab makes a unique and overdue contribution to our understanding of social movements in Brazil. In a bold intervention from the tendency to ignore women’s participation in struggles for land rights and access to basic resources, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry paints women as the categorical leaders in resisting ‘development’ plans that amount to expelling poor, black communities from their historical homes. Her long-term involvement with the Gamboa de Baixo community in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and unabashed advocacy for their cause, results in an electrifying ethnography that showcases the wry humor and perceptive analyses of grassroot community activists." —Sarah Hautzinger, author of Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil"Black Women against the Land Grab is an excellent treatment of the production of racialized space in Brazil. This book will be a useful contribution to future scholarship concerning anti-racist resistance and struggles for land and water across the black diaspora."—Anthropological Quarterly"Obligatory reading for anybody interested in racism, grassroots politics, and the exclusionary effects of urban renewal."—Antipode"Essential."—CHOICE"Stimulating and well-researched."—Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology"A real contribution to both social change and social justice research."—Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"This book is of central importance for those in the social sciences and humanities that are interested in the role of women in grassroots organizations."—Journal of Latin American Geography "An invaluable contribution."—Cultural Geographies"A detailed and moving book."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"Black Women against the Land Grab contains an enjoyable ethnography, and will be useful to scholars interested in the intersections between race and gentrification in Latin America."—Luso-Brazilian Review"An example of an empirical investigation conducted by a committed activist, a feature that provides the book with intensity and engagement from the author."—Political Studies Review"Keisha-Khan Perry’s intimate look at the grassroots struggles of black women for urban land rights in Salvador, Bahia, is an important reminder of the need to examine the relationships between material need, personal identity, and political action."—The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History"Suitable for students of gender politics, Africana and cultural studies, and readers interested in land rights and land distribution."—Bulletin of Latin American Research"Keisha-Khan Perry’s brilliant ethnography reveals not only the complexity of Brazil’s young democracy but also the interconnections among conceptions of gender, race, community, and 'development.'"—Transforming Anthropology"Well written, well organized, and accessible . . . a welcome read for both Brazilian specialists and a general public who may be interested in understanding why the World Cup and Olympic protests started in Brazil’s favelas (slums)."—Contemporary Sociology"Throughout Black Women against the Land Grab, Perry provides thorough explanations of both the history and current state of the land rights conflict in Salvador, which clearly come from her background as a social scientist with theoretical interests in black feminism, critical race theory, and urban studies. She explores various examples of the intersectionality of race, gender, and class within the context of the Gamboa de Baixo neighborhood organization’s activities and, as a participant-observer, offers a unique perspective that combines detailed, firsthand accounts of the conflict with the contextualization of social scientific theories."—The Oral History Review"It is written in an accessible and engaging style and aptly contributes to intersectional analysis of race, gender, and class."—Humanity and SocietyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Diasporic Blackness and Afro-Brazilian Agency1. Engendering the Grassroots2. The Gendered Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion3. The Black Movement’s Foot Soldiers4. Violent Policing and Disposing Urban Landscapes5. “The Women Gather Crying”: Everyday Violence and Community6. Politics Is a Women’s ThingConclusion. Above the Asphalt: From the Margins to the Center of Black Diaspora PoliticsBibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Remarkably provocative and perceptive, Academic Profiling is a meticulously researched and masterfully argued comparative study of how the system of schooling, contrary to the rhetoric of equal opportunities, re-enforces the achievement gap and reproduces disparities. With ethnographic insight and analytical precision, Gilda L. Ochoa details how immigration, racialization, class, and gender differentially impacts the educational trajectories for Asian and Latino students, and presents compelling lessons for transforming the context, culture, and process of learning." —Linda Vo, University of California, Irvine "In the absence of an all-encompassing social movement, Ochoa demonstrates how only a courageous, power-conscious, counter-hegemonic curriculum can act as a counterweight to divisive policies and practices like student tracking. Ochoa has done the important work of addressing the complexities of Latino/a and Asian American schooling in one community and given us a language, framework, and perspective with which to discuss and critique it." —Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas, Austin"By centering students’ experiences, in Academic Profiling Ochoa exposes the many faults in our educational system and the ways that students and our communities are hurt."—Pomona College News"A valuable and long overdue piece of research on the achievement gap."—Sociological Inquiry"An ambitious ethnographic study of a single racially diverse high school in southern California. This book stands out because it moves beyond the conventional black/white comparison and instead systematically compares Latino and Asian American students, an important contribution because of the increasingly diverse racial makeup of the United States."—American Journal of Sociology"Powerful and purposeful in both argument and research, Gilda L. Ochoa unapologetically calls attention to the ways in which lived disparities of Latinos and Asian Americans in school lead to more than just gaps in achievement."—Latino Studies"Some of the strengths of Academic Profiling lie in its rich data, its ability to turn the rhetoric of equal opportunity on its head, and Ochoa’s awareness of her influence as a Latina researcher. Her work clearly shows that while teachers emphasize freedom of choice, students are not all equally free."—Anthropology & Education QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Academic Profiling at a Southern California High SchoolPart I: Prevailing Ideologies and School Structures1. Framing the “Gap”: Dominant Discourses of Achievement2. Welcome to High School: Tracking from Middle School to International Baccalaureate ProgramsPart II: School Practices and Family Resources3. “I’m Watching Your Group”: Regulating Students Unequally4. “Parents Spend Half a Million on Tutoring”: Standardized Tests and Tutoring GapsPart III: Everyday Relationships and Forms of Resistance5. “They Just Judge Us by Our Cover”: Students’ Everyday Experiences with Race6. “Breaking the Mindset”: Forms of Resistance and Change7. Processes of Change: Cycles of Reflection, Dialogue, and ImplementationConclusion: Possibilities and Pitfalls in Any School U.S.A.Appendix: Student Participants, Staffulty, and ParentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Introducing a new interpretive framework with fresh and original analysis, Signithia Fordham is doing something really unique here. Her grounded, intersectional investigation of girls' peer-to-peer conflict is in constant interplay with an exploration of symbolic violence in girls' lives in different circumstances and on multiple levels, challenging our taken-for-granted notions not only about girls, but about the larger forces at play in our own lives."—Lyn Mikel Brown, author of Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls"In a no-holds-barred account, Signithia Fordham critically interrogates the enculturated forms of symbolic violence whose misrecognition sustains gendered, racialized, and classed inequalities in schools and, ultimately, in the wider U.S. society. She has produced a sophisticated intersectional study of the interplay between stigma, privilege, and power."—Faye V. Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign"Downed by Friendly Fire will become a text that demands reconceptualization of what we come to know as violence in schools. It requires a closer look at the intersections of race and gender violence while holding one accountable in the ways that privilege and power are enacted systematically. A book that I recommend to teachers, administrators, and researchers alike."—Education ReviewTable of ContentsContents Prelude: Who Has Seen the Headwinds? Introduction: Violence—By Another Name? 1. Frienemies and Friendly Fire at Underground Railroad High 2. Last Stop on the Underground Railroad, First Stop of Refried Segregation: Setting and Methodology 3. Nadine: Words as Violence and Misrecognition 4. Brittany: She Talks Like a Black Girl 5. Keyshia: The Black Girl’s Two-Step 6. Chloe: Goldilocks, and Girls Who Are Not 7. Ally: Size Matters Conclusion: Excavating, Resuscitating and Rehabilitating Violence—By Another Name Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review "Katharine Capshaw’s new study—intersecting photography, children’s literature, and the civil rights movement—is a rich and strikingly original addition to the growing scholarship on African American childhood. Many scholars will appreciate and be indebted to this important work." —Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis "Capshaw’s analysis and contextualization of the works in question break entirely new ground, offering original ways of thinking about how the photographic book operated as a medium particularly suited to African-American authors, child readers, and messages about civil rights." —Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin"This is an important and engaging book that offers one of the few extended discussions of depictions of black childhood. "—International Review of Children’s Literature"Civil Rights Childhood will no doubt be an influential text in our understanding of the visual representations of black childhood now and in our future."—MELUS"A fascinating, well-conceived and empirically rich study."—Visual Studies"To read Capshaw is. . . to receive a lesson on the cultural importance and responsibility of literary scholarship. Civil Rights Childhood not only advances our scholarly understanding of the politics of childhood, but also enables readers to better contextualize so many of the images and injustices we continue to encounter."—International Research Society for Children’s Literature"Deeply researched and engagingly written."—Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth"Civil Rights Childhood is notable for its steadfast and vocal commitment to its political project. Capshaw’s continual engagement with the real implications of the work she analyzes and also of her own would make this book a useful one to use in the classroom."—CAA Reviews"Impeccably researched. Capshaw does some incredibly impressive literary recovery work, shedding light on texts completely unfamiliar to many contemporary scholars of either children’s literature or African American studies."—Children’s Literature Association QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Friendship, Sympathy, Social Change2. Pictures and Nonfiction: Conduct and Coffee Tables3. Today: Framing Freedom in Mississippi4. The Black Arts Movement: Childhood as Liberatory Process5. Blurring the Childhood Image: Representations of the Civil Rights NarrativeConclusion: A Text for TrayvonAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Black Reproductive is a stunning work of theory and criticism. Sara Clarke Kaplan skillfully shows us how the appropriation, management, and policing of Black procreative, domestic, and quotidian reproduction has been a key mode of anti-blackness and, at the same time, a site of possibility for the articulation and practice of Black freedom. With keen attention to a wide range of policies, practices, and Black feminist refusals of the Black reproductive, Kaplan unfolds a moving story of the Black woman’s body and its reproductive labor as the scene of death and theft but also defiance and fugitivity. This brilliant elaboration of the Black reproductive not only challenges our concepts for analyzing anti-black terror but also reveals how Black women writers and artists effect a glitch in the machine of the Black reproductive, the very machine of terror. This is deep, urgent, moving scholarship for our time."—Erica R. Edwards, Rutgers University"If the control of Black reproduction has been central to conditions of Black subjection, Sara Clarke Kaplan’s The Black Reproductive argues that a vision of Black freedom requires contending with the reproductive. She stages provocative readings of literary and cultural texts that emphasize the urgency of reading Black freedom through the lens of reproduction. Ultimately, Kaplan offers a vision of Black feminist theory that points us toward imagining collective freedom."—Jennifer C. Nash, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Toward a Black Feminist Politics of Freedom1. Ain’t Your Mama on the Pancake Box?: Aunt Jemima and the Reproduction of the Racial State2. Love and Violence/Maternity and Death: Enslaved Infanticide and Monstrous Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved3. Hysterical Bodies as Embodied History: Corregidora’s Genealogy of Resistance4. Our Founding (M)Other: Sally Hemings and the Problem of Miscegenation5. “A Picture of Me and my Mother”: Planned Parenthood, Precious, and the Rationalization of Black ReproductivityCoda: Lest We Forget: A Litany for SurvivalAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Black Reproductive is a stunning work of theory and criticism. Sara Clarke Kaplan skillfully shows us how the appropriation, management, and policing of Black procreative, domestic, and quotidian reproduction has been a key mode of anti-blackness and, at the same time, a site of possibility for the articulation and practice of Black freedom. With keen attention to a wide range of policies, practices, and Black feminist refusals of the Black reproductive, Kaplan unfolds a moving story of the Black woman’s body and its reproductive labor as the scene of death and theft but also defiance and fugitivity. This brilliant elaboration of the Black reproductive not only challenges our concepts for analyzing anti-black terror but also reveals how Black women writers and artists effect a glitch in the machine of the Black reproductive, the very machine of terror. This is deep, urgent, moving scholarship for our time."—Erica R. Edwards, Rutgers University"If the control of Black reproduction has been central to conditions of Black subjection, Sara Clarke Kaplan’s The Black Reproductive argues that a vision of Black freedom requires contending with the reproductive. She stages provocative readings of literary and cultural texts that emphasize the urgency of reading Black freedom through the lens of reproduction. Ultimately, Kaplan offers a vision of Black feminist theory that points us toward imagining collective freedom."—Jennifer C. Nash, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Toward a Black Feminist Politics of Freedom1. Ain’t Your Mama on the Pancake Box?: Aunt Jemima and the Reproduction of the Racial State2. Love and Violence/Maternity and Death: Enslaved Infanticide and Monstrous Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved3. Hysterical Bodies as Embodied History: Corregidora’s Genealogy of Resistance4. Our Founding (M)Other: Sally Hemings and the Problem of Miscegenation5. “A Picture of Me and my Mother”: Planned Parenthood, Precious, and the Rationalization of Black ReproductivityCoda: Lest We Forget: A Litany for SurvivalAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this sensitive, detailed ethnography, Freeden Blume Oeur takes readers into the world of all-male public schooling for African American boys. With clean, lucid prose and erudite analysis, Black Boys Apart challenges readers to rethink Black masculinity and education. Providing much-needed wisdom and humanity to the fractious school choice debate, this book is both timely and sure to make an enduring impact. An outstanding achievement."—Edward Morris, author of Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education"In Black Boys Apart, Freeden Blume Oeur demonstrates why he is one of the emerging go-to critical thinkers on the intersections of race and gender in schooling. In this descriptive and engaging book, we read of Blume Oeur’s bold multidisciplinary exploration and interrogation of the linkages among academic achievement, the politics of respectability, and the socialization of boys as men through dominant (and questionable) views of masculinity."—Prudence Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools"This book encourages the reader to think beyond traditional narratives, think more about the ‘hidden curriculum’ of schools, and understand the lived experiences of these young black men in his study."—New Books Network"The book brilliantly illustrates the surprising success of this holistic method of education, which mixes democratic empowerment, strict discipline — and intentional racial segregation and sex separation — with a warm, loving environment of Black brotherhood."—Chill Magazine"With the present-day emphasis on privatization, choice, and market-place solutions in the American school system, Freeden Blume Oeur’s work stands out as a timely and relevant piece of scholarship."—Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reform, Respectability, and the Crisis of Young Black Men1. A Tale of Two (Neoliberal) Schools: The Origins of Perry High and Northside Academy2. Contradictory Discourses: Separating Boys and Girls3. Teaching Black Boys: From Cultural Relevance to Culturally Irrelevant Latin4. Black Male Belonging: Race Leadership, Role Modeling, and Brotherhood5. Heroic Family Men and Ambitious Entrepreneurs: The Making of Black MenConclusion: Hoping and Hustling TogetherAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Interview and Student DataNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Living Cargo is an elegant and beautifully imagined book that reactivates archival records and makes them speak anew."—Shane Vogel, Indiana University"Grounded in rigorous theoretical inquiry, archival research, and sophisticated textual analysis, Living Cargo is a rich and nuanced contribution to black Atlantic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural theory."—Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsContents Introduction. History Unhoused: Performing the Life of Human Bio-Cargo Part I. History and Human Cargo 1. Beautiful Remnants, Brutal Remains: Dwelling on the Melancholy Archive 2. Living Rough: The Disposition and Dispensation of Aleatory Life Part II. Assembling Human Bio-Cargo 3. Compound Fractures: Archival Constellations, Narrative Violations 4. Blood Pressures: Queer Inheritance and Intimate Affiliations Part III. Exorbitant Life in an Age of Austerity 5. Bespoke History: Redressing the Past, Tailoring the Present, Fashioning the Future 6. @Bristol: Dissident Publics in a Neoliberal City Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisElusive Jannah is a remarkable portrait of the very different experiences of Somali migrants in the UAE, South Africa, and the United States. Cawo M. Abdi clearly reveals the importance of immigration policies in the migrant experience.Trade Review"This is a powerful and beautiful ethnography of members of the Somali Diaspora dealing with the opportunities and disadvantages of life in three points of settlement. Cawo M. Abdi gets very close to the subjects and depicts their outlooks, strategies, and trials in a convincing and rich manner."—Steven J. Gold, Michigan State University"Elusive Jannah provides a fascinating window into the identities, strategies, and struggles of Somalis in three very different national contexts. Based on ethnographic research in the United States, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates, this is an engaging, well-written, and welcome addition to the comparative study of international migration."—Nancy Foner, coauthor of Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe"The book remains a valuable contribution to studies of international migration and it is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in Somalia and its diaspora."—African Affairs"The multiplicity of experiences and diverse contexts highlighted by Cawo drive home the complexities of diasporic lives,making this book an important resource for both area and diaspora studies."—International Migration Review"Elusive Jannah offers depth and breadth to the literature on Somali diaspora groups and more generally to studies of international migration and migrant incorporation and belonging. It deserves to be widely read for its beautiful ethnography and insightful analysis of belonging and mobility in an age of stratified globalization and migration."—American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Muslim African Refugees and Border Politics1. The Genesis of Contemporary Somali Migrations2. United Arab Emirates: Partial Belonging and Temporary Visas3. South Africa: Insecurity in Racialized Spaces4. United States: Slippery Jannah?Conclusion: Muslim African Refugees in Perpetual PassageNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Damien M. Sojoyner fills a significant gap in literature by problematizing the school-to-prison pipeline, offering a more nuanced analytical frame than the one represented in most contemporary popular discourse. First Strike helps us understand what is happening to young people in under-resourced schools and the ways that their experience reflects an eroding commitment to education in favor of punishment."—Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois at Chicago"Sojoyner provides a masterful narrative of Black Los Angeles against the backdrop of mass incarceration and the criminalization of Black children. Scholars and educators should heed Sojoyner’s call to challenge the ‘school-to-prison’ discourse to the more historically grounded ‘enclosures.’"—Maisha T. Winn, Chancellor’s Leadership Professor, University of California, Davis"Sojoyner’s sweeping analysis of enclosures presents a compelling vision of what ethnography can accomplish in tandem with historical analysis."—PoLAR "First Strike pushes anthropological analysis beyond the ethnographic by drawing upon history, policy, and social geography to build a theory of power that accounts for the force of the state as a reactionary response to the radical potential of Black liberation."—Anthropological Quarterly "First Strike contributes crucially to theories of black liberation vis-à-vis education, namely, literatures working to disrupt antiblack narratives of cultural failure within educational policy circles." —American EthnologistTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Problematic History between Schools and Prisons1. The Problem of Black Genius: Black Cultural Enclosures2. In the Belly of the Beast: Ideological Expansion3. Land of Smoke and Mirrors: The Meaning of Punishment and Control4. Troubled Man: Limitations of the Masculinity Solution5. By All Means Possible: The Historical Struggle over Black EducationConclusion: Reading the Past and Listening to the PresentAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBy studying the multiracial Jewish organisation Hatzaad Harishon, Janice W. Fernheimerâs Stepping into Zion considers the question âœWho is a Jew?â - a critical rhetorical issue with far-reaching consequences for Jews and non-Jews alike. Hatzaad Harishon (âœThe First Stepâ) was a New York-based, multiracial Jewish organisation that worked to increase recognition and legitimacy of black Jews in the sixties and seventies. In Stepping into Zion, Janice W. Fernheimer examines the history and archives of Hatzaad Harishon to illuminate the definition and borders of Jewish identity, which have critical relevance to Jews of all traditions as well as to non-Jews. Fernheimer focuses on a period when white Jewish identity was in flux and deeply influenced by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In 1964, white and black Jews formed Hatzaad Harishon to foster interaction and unity between black and white Jewish communities. They raised the question of who or what constitutes Jewishness

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking historical narrative of corruption and economic success in Mexico, this book provides a new way to understand the scope and impact of crony capitalism on institutional development in Mexico.Trade Review“This is a compelling case study of crony capitalism in Mexico, one that previously has not been studied at such length. Galindo makes a convincing argument that neither the neo-institutionalists nor those who focus on social networks fully capture the structural foundations for Mexican capitalism. Formal institutions were often much stronger than neo-institutionalists recognize, according to Galindo, though they were too weak to curb the crony capitalism and corruption endemic to Mexican modernization, as other scholars might argue. In this, Galindo stakes important new ground that seeks to understand social networks and institutions in relation to each other.” —Susan M. Gauss, author of Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s “This study helps explain one of the most intractable problems in Mexican history over the last century and a half, which is the marriage of business and politics at the highest levels. The author explores the trajectory of one of the most powerful business families that has survived and prospered in Mexico and hence helps to explain legacies of oligopolies, political authoritarianism, and corruption in the long run.”—Carlos Marichal Salinas, author of Bankruptcy of Empire: Mexican Silver and the Wars between Spain, Britain and France, 1760–1810“An impressive and amply documented study of the migration of French capital to Mexico. Galindo focuses on the Jean family and its ties to other immigrant ‘Barcelonnettes’ to draw out the broader implications of crony capitalism for Mexico and elsewhere. Empirically informed and theoretically sophisticated, Galindo's work will be of interest to a wide range of students in history, development studies, and political science alike.” —Richard J. Salvucci, author of Politics, Markets, and Mexico's "London Debt," 1823–1887 “JosÉ Galindo's detailed historical analysis of crony capitalism in Mexico broadens our understanding of the development and dynamic of this important pattern of corruption. Focusing on the Jean family from the French region of Barcelonnette, the study masterfully highlights not only businesses adapt to weak formal institutions, but the nature of the informal institutions that forge close and reciprocal relationships linking business to state officials. The book contributes to recent historical works on corruption in Mexico focusing on cultural factors by emphasizing the underlying institutional causal factors and tracing the political and economic consequences of crony capitalism. Ethnic Entrepreneurs, Crony Capitalism, and the Making of the Franco-Mexican Elite is a must read for those interested in the history of corruption in Mexico.” —Stephen D. Morris, author of Gringolandia: Mexican Identity and Perceptions of the United States

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how Indigenous women's migration contributes to women's empowerment in their home communities in Guatemala. This decolonial ethnographic analysis of Kaqchikel Maya women's linguistic and cultural activism demonstrates that marginalized people can and do experience empowerment and hope for the future of their communities.Trade Review“Bennett gives a unique and intimate look into the lives of Maya women activists and their fight to preserve Maya cultural and linguistic values in their rapidly globalizing communities. Good Maya Women makes several original contributions: first, it is multilingual, representing the voices of the Kaqchikel women whose lives she presents in their own words and in their own language; second, it looks at woman as the agents of cultural preservation and change, highlighting their power and unique status in their communities; finally, it considers how Maya communities resist and accommodate globalization.” —S. Ashley Kistler, editor of Faces of Resistance: Maya Heroes, Power, and Identity“Bennett deftly weaves together the words of the good Maya women that she interviews with cutting-edge sociolinguistic theories of identity, indexicality, intersectionality, and enregisterment, while engaging with wider discourses of glocalization and neoliberalism. Bennett’s fluency in the Kaqchikel Maya language and long-term engagement with these communities allows the women’s voices to shine through brightly.”—Judith M. Maxwell, coauthor of La ütz awäch?: Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language“Maya women have been variously portrayed as valiant heroes conserving traditional dress and language, as tragic victims of the double discrimination faced by Indigenous peoples and women, and as iconic symbols of Guatemalan tourism brochures and souvenir markets. In this remarkable book, Bennett uses her extensive knowledge of Kaqchikel Mayan to uncover the nuances and complexities of what it means to be a ‘good’ Maya woman. Focusing on the discourse of return migrants, this book builds an understanding of Maya women from their lived experience and the back and forth of social interactions. Bennett uses this perspective to interrogate developmentalist views of empowerment and Western traditions of feminism in novel and productive ways. She provides a new and valuable view of Maya women in Guatemala, but also makes an important contribution to understanding the role of grassroots activists and intellectuals in cultural and political change.”—Edward F. Fischer, author of The Good Life: Aspiration, Dignity, and the Anthropology of Wellbeing

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Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary collection on the regional organization and varied expressions of the Scottish Heritage movement in the Canadian Maritimes, New England, and the American South. This work is a study of ethnicity and identity, the renegotiation of history and cultural memory into heritage, and the public performance and creation of tradition.Trade ReviewTransatlantic Scots is a sophisticated theoretical treatment written in a lively and readable style.... This is a terrific collection. - Sydel Silverman, City University of New York

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Trade ReviewJews have long been in the vanguard of the struggle for civil liberties in America. But as this excellent new collection demonstrates, the American Jewish community's reaction to the black civil rights movement was less enthusiastic than many may realize or be willing to accept.... Many of the most provocative points concern northern Jewish ambivalence toward African-Americans and integration.... A carefully crafted and subtle collection that will interest scholars of American Jewish history, black-Jewish relations, and the American civil rights movement. - AJS Review ""This collection is organized around a familiar yet still unsettled question: did Jews in the South resist white supremacy? If so, did they act out of narrow self-interest or a larger humanitarian vision? Was Jewish opposition to white racism the result of a few individuals who happened to be Jews, or a prophetic mission on the part of Jews as a group? The book... offers a more specific and grounded understanding of what life was like for southern rabbis caught between the caution and conservatism of their congregations and the moral imperatives of their faith. In doing so, the book allows us to reposition the question from whether a black-Jewish coalition was genuine or mythical, to how activities of rabbis contributed to changing the racial situation in the South. There [is] a wealth of useful and thought provoking material in these pages."" - Journal of Southern History

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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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Book SynopsisFocuses on the Colombian Violencia, the undeclared civil war between the Liberal and Conservative parties that raged from the late 1940s to early 1960s. It presents the information as a narrative history. There is also an array of appendices, maps, and photographs.

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Book SynopsisWhat I Say is an anthology of formally experimental and innovative poetry by black writers in America from 1977 to the present that allows readers to map the independent routes by which various poets reached their particular modes of aesthetic experimentation. What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, covers the period from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. In What I Say, editors Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey have assembled a comprehensive and dynamic collection that brings this pivotal work up to the present day. The elder poets in this collection, such as Nathaniel Mackey, C. S. Giscombe, Will Alexander, and Ron Allen, came of age during and were powerfully influenced by the Black Arts Movement, and What I Say grounds the c

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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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Book SynopsisExamines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century. By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, this study demonstrates that African American Protestants were acutely aware of the manner in which white Christianity operated and how they could use that knowledge to justify social change.Trade ReviewMathews deals with the connection between African American religion and the quest for racial equality. Her focus is unique: she looks at the subject from the perspective fundamentalism, as practiced by conservative Protestants, both black and white, in the years from 1915 to 1941. Recommended."" - Choice""Doctrine and Race—which considers the evolution of black evangelicals during the interwar period through their struggle with the modernist controversies and white fundamentalism’s rise—is an extremely welcome contribution to the study of black religious history."" - Clarence E. Hardy III, author of James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture

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Book SynopsisOffers original conclusions explaining why Jackson County became the bloodiest region in Reconstruction Florida. The Jackson County War focuses on the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau, the emergence of white ‘Regulators’, and the development of African American political consciousness and leadership.Trade Review“Weinfeld’s work adds to our understanding of the period because it is the first book-length examination of Floridians’ use of terror to restrict the freedom enjoyed by African Americans. Moreover, the work illustrates the forces the reader to confront the extreme lengths many white Jackson County residents went to ensure the continuance of their privileged status after the South’s defeat in the Civil War.”—Civil War History“Weinfeld demonstrates the relevance of this history through his scholarship and writings, while reintroducing the Jackson County War to a new generation of students, lay and professional historians. Those interested in Florida politics, Reconstruction, race relations, racial violence, Southern history and the Civil War will enjoy this work.”— Florida Historical Quarterly“ . . . The Jackson County War represents the best in local history, providing students as well as scholars with a meaningful examination of violence during the turbulent post-Civil War era. This book is a must-read for everyone who is interested in learning more about grassroots Reconstruction in Florida.”— Journal of Southern History".... Weinfeld skillfully and colorfully tells the dramatic story of a place that plunged into a nightmare of terrorism and bloodshed." -- Paul Searles, Lyndon State Univ. Vermont History winter/spring 2013”As exciting as combat was during the war, the postwar Reconstruction era in the panhandle of Florida was a hard struggle for both races with the occasional murder of a freedman keeping blacks and white suspicious of each other. And then the Klan came along…. This book is a finely detailed account of everyday life under Reconstruction….The Jackson County War does not dwell on the politics of Reconstruction, but it is rich in the daily details of what life was like for several years after the war. White planters did not like the growing independence of their former slaves, and the former slaves were often unable to leave those same plantations because they had nowhere to go. Still, they wanted to make a better, more independent life for themselves. This is a sad but informative tale of Reconstruction at the grassroots level. - Civil War News“Daniel Weinfeld’s The Jackson County War is a superbly written account of the violence that rocked this county in the Florida panhandle between early 1869 and the end of 1871, as neighbors murdered neighbors in a killing spree that took between 100 and 200 lives. Weinberg traces the events and looks at why Reconstruction violence was so much worse in this one county than in the rest of Florida. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War--indeed, in a very real sense, the continuation of the war--including the activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the abortive struggle of the former slaves and their white allies to maintain the gains they had made.”—North & South magazine“Researched in-depth and written in an articulate, straightforward manner, The Jackson County War by far represents the single best available source for information on crucial events of Florida’s Reconstruction experience as well as a provocative analysis of the realities of southern post–Civil War violence and the dynamics of partisan expression as an underlying factor in molding southern historiography.”—Canter Brown Jr., author of Florida’s Black Public Officials, 1867-1924

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Book SynopsisPresents the 1935 autobiography of Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz, an Orthodox Jew whose lively recounting of his life in Tsarist Russia and his immigration to San Antonio, Texas, in 1910 captures turbulent changes in early twentieth-century Jewish history.Trade Review“The text itself is an insightful description of events experienced in a life lived in great extremes. . . . Gurwitz’s recollections of his days in Europe give the reader insight into a world lost to Nazi destruction. Thankfully, Bryan Stone’s commentary adds an explanative background such that the reader gains an understanding of the interaction of ideas of the times. In as much as Jewish life in Texas is still very much yet-to-be recorded history, these writings open new windows on traditional observance influenced by new Jewish movements, particularly in the United States.”— American Jewish Archives Journal“This exceptionally rich memoir will immediately captivate readers with an introduction that appeals to the interests of academics, yet is accessible to general readers. Poetic, with scenes of tension that impel one to keep reading, the story sustains interest throughout.”—Jeffrey S. Gurock, author of Orthodox Jews in America“Gurwitz's memoir provides an almost unmatched glimpse into the daily life, folk and foodways, educational system, and family patterns of traditional East European Jews of the place and time—a real-life Fiddler on the Roof. The detail of the life of a yeshivah student and young Jewish functionary, as well as of Hassidic life are extraordinary yet this story goes beyond that to show Gurwitz’s middle age attempts to maintain tradition after immigrating to San Antonio, Texas. Bryan Edward Stone’s outstanding introduction and commentary places the memoir in historical context and highlights the important themes.”—Mark K. Bauman, editor of Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History and coeditor of The Quiet Voices: Southern Rabbis and Black Civil Rights, 1880s to 1990s

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Book SynopsisProvides the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the ‘Black Carib’, whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua.

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Book SynopsisTells the story of how Dreamers in the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant rights and empower undocumented youth to proudly represent their lives and identities, all while under the ever-present threat of detention and deportation.Trade Review“Dreamer Nation is an elegantly written and thoroughly researched rhetorical history of undocumented youth activism during the Obama years. Ribero’s book will be beneficial to readers interested in social movements, queer of color critique, decolonial feminism, and anyone interested in immigration politics.”- J. David Cisneros, author of The Border Crossed Us: Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity

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Book SynopsisThough there are studies devoted to aspects of Martin Luther King Jr.’s intellectual thought, no one has yet undertaken a comprehensive study of King’s overarching theory of political service. Justin Rose draws on Martin Luther King Jr.’s sermons, political speeches, and writings to construct and conceptualise King’s politics as a unified theory.

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Book SynopsisExplores women of colour's grassroots leadership in organisations that are not singularly identified with feminism. Centred in New York City, Pushing Back brings an intersectional perspective to communities of colour as it addresses injustices tied to domestic work, housing, and environmental policies and practices.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

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Book SynopsisTakes OutKast’s aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. These essays collectively offer a vision of OutKast as a key shaper of conceptions of the twenty-first-century South.

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Book SynopsisAvailable for the first time in English, Maroons in Guyane reviews the history of Maroon peoples in Guyane, explains how these groups differ from one another, and analyses their current situations in the bustling, multicultural world of this far-flung outpost of the French Republic.

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Book SynopsisTraces the development and trajectory of the individual newspapers of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate, evaluating those with surviving issues, and presenting them as they existed in proximity to their Atlanta hub. In so doing, he emphasizes the thread of practical radicalism that ran through Syndicate editorial policy.

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Book SynopsisPauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era. This collection of essays constitutes a new phase in the full historical and literary recovery of her work.

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