Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Sounding Our Way Home Japanese American
Book SynopsisA product of twenty-five years of archival and primary research, this volume narrates the efforts of three generations of Japanese Americans to reach home' through musicking. Emphasizing the notion of national identity and belonging, the book provokes a discussion about the challenges of nation-building in a democratic society.Trade ReviewBringing together decades of interviews and original archival work, Sounding Our Way Home is the first book to provide a true overview of the full range of the Japanese American musical experience." - W. Anthony Sheppard, author of Extreme Exoticism: Japan in the American Musical Imagination "In Sounding Our Way Home, Susan Miyo Asai weaves together historical and musical analysis, spotlighting the achievements of individual musicians within a broader narrative of Japanese American musicking across generations. This book is an admirable and important contribution to Asian American studies and music history." - Grace Wang, associate professor of American studies at the University of California, DavisTable of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1: The Nexus of Music, Identity, and Politics Chapter 2: Dual Identities: Japanese Immigrant Community, Identity, and Music Chapter 3: Caught on the Cultural Cusp: Nisei Politics of Identity and Music Chapter 4: "Buddhahead Blues": Musical Communities in the US Concentration Camps of World War II Chapter 5: Sansei: The Political Advocacy of Music and a Turn toward the East Epilogue: The Promise of Interracial Music Coalitions Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
£77.35
MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Webspinner Songs Stories and Reflections of
Book SynopsisBorn in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) came to be recognised as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner is based on more than a hundred hours of tape-recorded interviews undertaken with him in the 1980s.
£26.06
Basic Books Tangled Fortunes
Book SynopsisA history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the 150-year fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit
£25.20
University of Massachusetts Press Signifyin(g), Sanctifyin' and Slam Dunking: A
Book SynopsisObservers of American society have long noted the distinctive contribution of African Americans to the nation's cultural life. We find references to African American music and dance, black forms of oral expression, even a black style of playing basketball. But what do such terms really mean? Is it legitimate to talk about a distinct African American aesthetic, or is it simply a vestige of an outmoded racial essentialism? What makes a particular form of cultural expression ""black"", other than the fact that some African Americans may practice it? These are some of the questions addressed in the readings gathered in this volume. The essays spring from a variety of disciplines and cover a range of topics, from the communal ritual of the ring shout to the evolution of rap to the improvisational genius of Michael Jordan. While each piece focuses on a different aspect of African American expressive culture, together they seek to reveal a set of creative principles, techniques and practices - a cultural aesthetic - that is consistent and resilient.
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Copper Canyon Press,U.S. An Authentic Life
Book SynopsisAn Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and family. Sprawling yet urgent, meditative yet lucid, the poems in Jennifer Chang’s anticipated third collection, An Authentic Life, offer a bold examination of a world deeply influenced by war and patriarchy. In dialogues against literature, against philosophy, and against God, Chang interrogates the “fathers” who stand at the center of history. Poems navigate wounds opened by explorations of family and generational trauma, and draw on the author’s experiences as a mother, as the daughter of immigrants, and as a citizen of our deeply divided nation. Here, the patriarchal violence of history becomes intimate, brought down to a domestic scale. A woman sweeping the floor cannot escape thoughts of war, or h
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Broadview Press Ltd Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste
Book SynopsisHagar’s Daughter is Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s first serial novel, published in the Boston-based Colored American Magazine (1901-1902). The novel itself features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations, and extraordinary plot twists. In Part 1, Maryland plantation heirs Hagar Sargeant and Ellis Enson fall in love, marry, and have a daughter. However, Ellis’s covetous younger brother, St. Clair, claims that Hagar is of mixed-race ancestry, putting her and her infant in peril. When Ellis is presumed to be dead, St. Clair sells Hagar and her child into slavery, and they presumably die when Hagar, in despair, leaps into the Potomac River with her daughter. This is the backdrop for Part 2 (set twenty years later), which includes a high-profile murder trial, an abduction plot, and a steady succession of surprises as the young Black maid Venus Johnson assumes male clothing to solve a series of mysteries that are both current and decades-old. The appendices to this Broadview edition feature advertising for the original publication, other writing by Hopkins and her contemporaries, and reviews that situate the work within the popular literature and political culture of its time.Trade Review“John Cullen Gruesser and Alisha R. Knight have recovered a new American classic by novelist and Colored American Magazine editor Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Hagar’s Daughter has it all: political intrigue, murder mystery, star-crossed romance, slave rebellion, and civil war history. A cogent introduction and relevant appendices provide excellent context for both the novice and scholar alike to appreciate the tumultuous US landscape navigated by Hopkins and her peers. The editors’ insightful inclusion of Hopkins’s selected nonfiction and her short story ‘Talma Gordon’ allow for a synergistic reading experience akin to how contemporaneous readers would have encountered the novel in its initial serial form alongside its original, iconic illustrations. This meticulously crafted edition enables a new generation to appreciate one of the most prolific and innovative Black women writers of the early twentieth century.” — Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison“This deliberately curated modern edition of Hagar's Daughter provides a rich contextual literary, social, and historical backdrop for one of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's most engrossing novels. Readers, students, and teachers alike will be engrossed by the novel itself and enriched by the illuminating primary and secondary materials that reveal the challenges of race, prejudice, and family in post-bellum America and illuminate Hopkins's far-reaching creative genius.” — Lois Brown, Arizona State UniversityTable of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Hagar’s Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Appendix A: Hagar’s Daughter Synopsis in the Colored American Magazine (1902) Appendix B: Promoting Hagar’s Daughter 1. Cover of the Colored American Magazine (March 1901) 2. Advertisement for Contending Forces, Colored American Magazine (March 1902) 3. Subscription Advertisement for Colored American Magazine (March 1902) 4. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (March 1902) Appendix C: Race/History 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Hon. Frederick Douglass,” Colored American Magazine (December 1900) 2. John Greenleaf Whittier, “Moloch in State Street” (1851) 3. From “Gen. Robert Smalls,” National Republican (6 March 1886) 4. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Munroe Rogers,” Colored American Magazine (November 1902) Appendix D: The Figure of Hagar 1. Genesis 16 and 21 2. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Artists,” Famous Women of the Negro Race, X, Colored American Magazine (September 1902) 3. Eliza Poitevent Nicholson, “Hagar,” The Cosmopolitan (November 1893) Appendix E: Popular Genres and Literary Experimentation 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Peculiar Sam (1879) 2. Pauline E. Hopkins, “Talma Gordon,” Colored American Magazine (October 1900) 3. Pauline E. Hopkins, “A Dash for Liberty,” Colored American Magazine (August 1901) Appendix F: Gender 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Phenomenal Vocalists,” Famous Women of the Negro Race, I, Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 2. From J. Shirley Shadrach, “Furnace Blasts. II. Black or White—Which Should Be the Young Afro-American’s Choice in Marriage,” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 3. From Pauline E. Hopkins to W[illiam] M[onroe] Trotter (16 April 1905) Appendix G: Borrowings/Plagiarism/Signifying 1. Illustration from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) 2. From William Wells Brown, Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter, Chapter 2 and Chapter 25 (1853) 3. Fanny Driscoll, “Two Women,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (May 1884) Appendix H: Contemporary Responses to Hagar’s Daughter 1. “The Colored Magazine,” Weekly Economist (15 March 1901) 2. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in
Book SynopsisMany thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising that slavery played a part in Canadian history, but it is startling that it has not received widespread attention from the general Canadian public or from historians. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway-slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore black slavery in the Maritimes and revise their understanding of Canadian history.Trade Review“Harvey Amani Whitfield, the leading authority on slavery in the Maritime provinces, here provides an extraordinary collection of documents on the subject. The cruelty of slavery, the harms that it did to enslaved and free Black people, and the myriad forms of slave resistance are fully on display, as much in banal deeds of sale as in powerful first-person accounts by slaves and former slaves.” — Elsbeth Heaman, Department of History, McGill University“Black Slavery in the Maritimes is a welcome and impressive addition to the historiography of slavery in Canada, and vitally necessary for school curricula. Teachers will find this sourcebook useful, as it is a ‘hands on’ tour of slavery in Canada. Additionally, scholars of Black Canadian history, both inside and outside the academy, will be delighted to have this sourcebook in hand.” — Afua Cooper, James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University“Not only does Black Slavery in the Maritimes provide a sourcebook that will be of enormous educational value, but it is also an exceptional work of scholarship. Whitfield combines clear-sighted historical expertise with deeply humane insights, notably in the general and sectional introductions and in the poignant commentaries on each document. This is a documentary history of rare quality.” — John G. Reid, Department of History, Saint Mary’s University“This remarkable collection of documents makes undeniable the everyday reality of Black slavery in the early Maritimes. Whitfield’s introduction and document glosses provide critical historical background while still reserving to the reader a sense of discovery about slavery and its penetration into diverse social, economic, legal, and political aspects of Maritime culture.” — Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies, University of New BrunswickTable of Contents Introduction Chronology Questions to Consider Part I: Runaway Slave Advertisements and Slave for Sale Notices Document 1: Halifax Slaves for Sale in Boston, 1751 Document 2: Slaves for Sale, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1752 Document 3: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Female Slave Named Thursday, Nova Scotia, 1772 Document 4: Slave Wanted Advertisement, Nova Scotia, 1776 Document 5: Runaway Advertisement, James, Nova Scotia, 1781 and 1786 Document 6: Female Slave to be Sold at Public Auction, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 7: Runaway Slave Advertisement, An African Slave, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 8: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dick, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 9: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, Nova Scotia 1783 Document 10: Slave for Sale, “Negro Boy,” New Brunswick, 1784 Document 11: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Hector, New Brunswick, 1784 Document 12: Runaway Advertisement, Unfree Black Laborers, 1784, New Brunswick Document 13: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Jupiter and Clarinda, Nova Scotia, 1784 Document 14: A Family Escapes, Nova Scotia, 1785 Document 15: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year old, Nova Scotia, 1786 Document 16: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year Old boy, New Brunswick, 1786 Document 17: Slaves for Sale Advertisement, A Man and boy, New Brunswick, 1786 Document 18: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, 1786, New Brunswick Document 19: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Five Slaves Escape Caleb Jones, New Brunswick 1786 Document 20: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, Nova Scotia 1786 Document 21: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Teenage Girl, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 22: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Woman, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 23: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Sam and Beller, (siblings) escape, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 24: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Abraham teenager, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 25: Runaway Slave Advertisement, London, Age 18, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 26: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Keziah, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 27: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Black Woman, New Brunswick, 1788 Document 28: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, 1788 Document 29: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Poll, 1791, New Brunswick Document 30: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Statia and Her Family, New Brunswick, 1792 Document 31: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, New Brunswick, 1792 Document 32: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Joseph Odel and Peter Lawrence, Nova Scotia, 1792 Document 33: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Bill/Belfast, Nova Scotia, 1794 Document 34: Slave for Sale, Young Man, New Brunswick, 1799 Document 35: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Gill and Dick, New Brunswick, 1799 Document 36: Female Sold for a Term of Years, Nova Scotia, 1800 Document 37: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Two Slaves, 1802, New Brunswick Document 38: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, New Brunswick, 1806 Document 39: Slave for Sale, Nancy, New Brunswick, 1809 Document 40: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Lidge Escapes Again, New Brunswick 1816 Document 41: Runaway Advertisement, Samuel Hutchings, New Brunswick, 1818 Part II: Letters, Narratives, Newspapers, Petitions Document 42: John Wentworth Letter about his 19 Slaves, Nova Scotia, 1784 Document 43: Petition of Zimri Armstrong about Re-enslavement, New Brunswick, 1785 Document 44: James MacGregor, A Letter to a Clergyman Urging him to set free a Black Girl he held in SLAVERY, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 45: Petition of Thomas Peters to the British Government, 1790 Document 46: John Clarkson’s Diary, Lydia Jackson’s Re-enslavement and Other Observations, 1791 Document 47: Thomas Clarkson, “Some Account of the New Colony at Sierra Leone,” Re-enslavement, 1792 Document 48: David George’s Narrative 1793 Document 49: Boston King’s Narrative, 1798 Document 50: Gradual Emancipation of Jack and Amelia in Prince Edward Island, 1800 Document 51: Joseph Aplin’s Racial Justification for Slavery, 1801 Document 52: Excerpts from OPINIONS OF SEVERAL GENTLEMEN OF THE LAW, ON THE SUBJECT OF NEGRO SERVITUDE IN THE PROVINCE OF NOVA-SCOTIA, 1802 Document 53: Digby Slave-owners’ Petition, Nova Scotia, 1807 Document 54: Petition of Isaac Willoughby, Former Slave, 1834, Nova Scotia Document 55: Article Supporting Slavery and Decrying Free Blacks, 1842, Nova Scotia Part III: Court Cases and Bills of Sale Document 56: Bill of Sale, Young boy from Maryland, 1779, Nova Scotia Document 57: Bill of Sale, Mintur, 1779 Document 58: King v. Jesse Gray, for whipping Pero 100 times, Nova Scotia, 1786 Document 59: Mary Postell Affidavit, Nova Scotia 1791 Document 60: Grand Jury Complaint, Re-enslavement of black boy sent to the West Indies Illegally, Nova Scotia, 1794 Document 61: James DeLancey Complaint Against William Woodin, 1803 Document 62: Supreme Court “Nancy” Case, New Brunswick, 1800 Document 63: Ward Chipman’s Slavery Brief, New Brunswick Supreme Court, 1800 Document 64: R v. Andrews (Indictment of Samuel Andrews Jr.), Slave-owners murder a female slave, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1801 Document 65: Slave Returned to Owner, Supreme Court, Prince Edward Island, 1802 Document 66: Bill of Sale for Percilla, 8 Year Old Girl, 1804, Nova Scotia Document 67: Supreme Court Case, Newspaper Account, New Brunswick, 1806 Part IV: Government Documents Document 68: Governor Cornwallis discusses Captain Bloss and His slaves, 1750 Document 69: An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE, 1781, Prince Edward Island Document 70: Book of Negroes Document 71: Dick Hill, Re-Enslaved, Shelburne, 1787, Nova Scotia (will have to change number because of date) Document 72: An Act for the Regulation & Relief of the free Negroes within the Province of Nova Scotia, (Un-passed), 1789 Document 73: A Bill Relating to Negroes, 6 February 1801, (Un-passed), Legislative Assembly Records, New Brunswick Document 74: AN ACT to repeal an Act made and passed in the twenty-first year of his late Majesty’s reign intituled “An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE,” Statutes of Prince Edward Island, 1825 Document 75: Prince Edward Island and Montserrat Connection, 1828 Part V: Wills and Church Records Document 76: Probate Record of Joseph Totten, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 77: Probate Record of Thomas Leonard, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 78: Probate Record of Anna Lillie (or Ann Lilie), Nova Scotia, 1789 Document 79: Teenage Slave Diana Bastian Burial Note-Her Rape and Pregnancy by George More, Member of Council, Cape Breton, 1792 Document 80: Probate Record of Caleb Fowler, Nova Scotia, 1793 Document 81: Probate Record of George Cornwall, Nova Scotia, 1799 Document 82: Probate Record of Jacob Ellegood Document 83: Probate Record of Benjamin Belcher, Nova Scotia, 1801 Document 84: Probate Record of Jacob Troop, Nova Scotia, 1805 Document 85: Probate Record of Isaac Bonnell, Nova Scotia, 1806 Document 86: Probate Record of William Wanton, New Brunswick, 1812 Document 87: Probate Record of William Schurman (or Schurmann), Prince Edward Island, 1819 Additional Suggested Readings
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University of Massachusetts Press The Pequot War
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidences to trace the evolution of the conflict, he sheds new light on the motivations of the Pequots and their Indian allies. He also provides a reappraisal of the interaction of ideology and self- interest as motivating factors in the Puritan attack on the Pequots.
£21.80
University of South Carolina Press Knowing Who I am: A Black Entrepreneur's Memoir
Book SynopsisEarl M. Middleton (b. 1919) has prospered in ways few African Americans have in the rural South. As owner of a successful business that cuts across racial lines and as a political leader in the cause of civil rights, Middleton has garnered hard-won recognition for his efforts from blacks and whites alike. His life story is at once illustrative of dynamic developments in southern race relations over the past eight decades and inspirational in telling how one individual capitalized on those changes to perpetuate a family legacy of entrepreneurship and service in his community.A World War II veteran, Middleton trained as a Tuskegee Airman in 1942 and then served as an infantry soldier in the Pacific theater. Returning to Orangeburg in 1946, he became a barber and then a restaurant owner before finding his true vocation in real-estate. What is now one of the region's most profitable real estate firms began as a sideline in the back of a barbershop, but Middleton quickly developed a reputation for superior knowledge and inclusive definitions of community that allowed him to succeed.As a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s, Middleton witnessed firsthand the bravery of Orangeburg's citizens. His wife, then the head of South Carolina State's library science department, was jailed for joining a student protest. From these experiences Middleton developed an unconquerable forbearance that complemented his unshakable belief in equality. In 1974, he was elected to the South Carolina General Assembly, where he served for a decade. There he was a founding member of the Legislative Black Caucus and an influential voice on the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Today Middleton is still active in the daily operations of the real-estate business he founded and the agency continues to expand with racially diverse agents serving equally diverse populations.
£24.65
Kent State University Press The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown: How a White
Book SynopsisAn extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century BaltimoreIn 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour of the attack. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiries into the underlying facts. But in this case, Baltimore's white community chose a different path. A coroner's jury declined to attribute the killing to accident or self-defense; the state's attorney indicted McDonald and brought him to trial; and a criminal court jury convicted McDonald of manslaughter.What makes this work so powerful is that many of the issues that the antipolice brutality movement faces today were the very issues faced by black people in nineteenth-century Baltimore.Both Brown and McDonald represented factions in conflict during a period of social upheaval, and both men left home to escape dire conditions. Yet trouble followed both to Baltimore. While the conviction of McDonald was unique, it was not a racially enlightened moment in policing. The killing of Brown was viewed not as racial injustice, but police violence spreading to their neighborhood. White elites saw the police as an uncontrolled force threatening their well-being. The clubbing and shooting of an unarmed black man only a block away from the wealthy residences of Park Avenue represented a breakdown in the social order-but Jim Crow in Baltimore was not in danger.Prior to 1867 a Maryland statute barred African Americans from testifying against whites in proceedings before police magistrates or in any of the state's courts. During the trial of McDonald, the press described the Baltimore police as "blue coated ruffians," and there was a general distrust of the police force by both blacks and whites. Brown's wife, Keziah, gave damning testimony of Officer McDonald's actions. The jury could not agree on verdicts of first- or second-degree murder, and after an attempt to reach a compromise verdict of second-degree murder failed, the majority acquiesced to the manslaughter verdict.The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown adds to the historiography of policing and criminal justice by demonstrating the pivotal role of the coroner's inquest in such cases and by illustrating the importance of social ties and political divisions when a community addresses an episode of police violence.Trade Review"Historian Gordon H. Shufelt's true crime book recounts the 1875 murder of a Black man by a white policeman. While racial police brutality is still not uncommon, the grim distinction surrounding Daniel Brown's death is that, in late nineteenth-century Baltimore, this particular officer was convicted. With factual suspense, the book reconstructs the fateful meeting between Brown and McDonald. A noise complaint regarding a small, non-alcoholic party somehow escalated into Brown being clubbed and shot in his own home. Witnesses recalled McDonald being angry and antagonistic. McDonald, however, insisted that he acted in self-defense. McDonald was found guilty by a white jury—a verdict, Shufelt says, that was intended to quell police overreach, rather than support racial equality. Engrossing."- Foreword; "A close and engrossing look at an obscure 19th-century homicide through a granular and judicious review of archival records. One summer night in 1875, white policeman Patrick McDonald confronted African American Daniel Brown in Brown's Baltimore home after receiving a noise complaint. The encounter ended with McDonald fatally shooting Brown. Surprisingly, given the city's endemic racism at the time, an all-white jury convicted McDonald of manslaughter after hearing testimony that Brown had done nothing violent to provoke the shooting. Shufelt puts that outcome in context, which included distrust of the police force following misconduct during elections that year, and the status of the Black witnesses to the killing; their employment as servants in affluent white homes made them viewed as trustworthy, which Shufelt considers 'the persistence of some elements of a slavery-era culture.' The verdict was not a breakthrough, however, or evidence that white Baltimoreans "objected to the oppression of African Americans" . . . Illuminat[es] race relations and the criminal justice system in post–Civil War Baltimore."- Publishers Weekly
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University of South Carolina Press Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly
Book SynopsisFrom his humble beginnings in Sumter, South Carolina, to his prominence on the Washington, D.C., political scene as the third highest-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, U.S. Congressman James E. Clyburn has led an extraordinary life. In Blessed Experiences, Clyburn tells in his own inspirational words how an African American boy from the Jim Crow-era South was able to beat the odds to achieve great success and become, as President Barack Obama describes him, ""one of a handful of people who, when they speak, the entire Congress listens.Born in 1940 to a civic-minded beautician and a fundamentalist minister, Clyburn began his ascent to leadership at the age of twelve, when he was elected president of his National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth chapter. He broke barriers through peaceful protests and steadfast beliefs in equality and justice. Of his success Clyburn says he was ""blessed with nurturing parents, a supportive family, and loyal friends."" But, he added, ""my life was not just about knocking down doors and lowering barriers. I spent some time marching in the streets and occupying the inside of South Carolina jails."" As a civil rights leader at South Carolina State College, as human affairs commissioner under John C. West and three subsequent governors, and as South Carolina's first African American congressman since 1897, Clyburn has established a long and impressive record of public leadership and advocacy for human rights, education, historic preservation, and economic development. Clyburn was elected to Congress in 1992. Serving as copresident of his freshman class, he rose quickly through the ranks and was elected chair of the Congressional Black Caucus in 1999 and House Democratic Caucus vice chair in 2002. Three years later he was unanimously elected chair of the Democratic Caucus. When Democrats regained the House majority in 2006, Clyburn was elected House majority whip. Now as assistant Democratic leader in the 112th Congress, Clyburn, a self-described independent, prides himself on working to overcome barriers and destroy myths without becoming too predictable. ""I have worked across party lines to further legislative causes, and on occasion publicly differed with some of my allies in the civil rights community,"" says Clyburn. ""My experiences have not always been pleasant, but I have considered all of them blessings."" Blessed Experiences includes a foreword from Emmy Award-winning actress and the congressman's longtime friend Alfre Woodard.
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Purdue University Press The Challenges of Minoritized Contingent Faculty
Book SynopsisThe Challenges of Minoritized Faculty in Higher Education offers a probing and unvarnished look at the employment challenges of these faculty members in four-year institutions. With dramatic shifts in the faculty workforce and nearly three-quarters of instructional positions in United States institutions now off the tenure track, contingent faculty have become the essential, frontline workers of higher education. Remarkably little research attention has focused on the experiences of minoritized contingent faculty in this new academic underclass. Based on in-depth interviews coupled with extensive research, the book highlights the double marginalization that can occur due to secondary employment status in the academic hierarchy, and the exclusion resulting from the intersectionality of nondominant social identities including race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. As the first-person narratives reveal, these faculty often struggle for acceptance, recognition, and rewards in the day-to-day academic environment, and they can face devaluation of their contributions. As a pragmatic and concrete resource, this book offers proactive workforce strategies and key structural and policy recommendations that will assist academic and administrative leaders, including presidents, provosts, department chairs, and chief diversity officers, in building more inclusive working conditions for contingent faculty.
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University of Massachusetts Press Public in Name Only: The 1939 Alexandria Library
Book SynopsisWhen Alexandria, Virginia's first public library was constructed just a few blocks from his home, Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a young, Black attorney, was appalled to learn that he could not use the library because of his race. Inspired by the legal successes of the NAACP in discrimination cases, he organized a grassroots protest to desegregate the library that his tax dollars supported.Public in Name Only tells the important, but largely forgotten, story of Tucker and a group of Black citizens who agitated for change in the terms and conditions of their lives. Employing the combined strategies of direct-action public protest, nonviolent civil disobedience, and municipal litigation, Tucker's initiative dovetailed with the national priorities and tactics of larger civil rights organizations. While Tucker's campaign did not end with the desegregation of the Alexandria Library, but instead resulted in the creation of a "separate-and-unequal" Jim Crow Black branch, the sit-in demonstration represents a momentous early struggle for racial equity waged through civil rights activism.
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University of Massachusetts Press Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies
Book SynopsisAmong the most influential and insightful thinkers of her generation, Audre Lorde (1934--1992) inspired readers and activists through her poetry, autobiography, essays, and her political action. Most scholars have situated her work within the context of the women's, gay and lesbian, and black civil rights movements within the United States. However, Lorde forged coalitions with women in Europe, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa, and twenty years after her passing, these alliances remain largely undocumented and unexplored. Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies is the first book to systematically document and thoroughly investigate Lorde's influence beyond the United States. Arranged in three thematically interrelated sections -- Archives, Connections, and Work -- the volume brings together scholarly essays, interviews, Lorde's unpublished speech about Europe, and personal reflections and testimonials from key figures throughout the world. Using a range of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors assess the reception, translation, and circulation of Lorde's writing and activism within different communities, audiences, and circles. They also shed new light on the work Lorde inspired across disciplinary borders. In addition the volume editors, contributors include Sarah Cefai, Cassandra Ellerbe-Dueck, Paul M. Farber, Tiffany N. Florvil, Katharina Gerund, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Gloria Joseph, Jackie Kay, Marion Kraft, Christiana Lambrinidis, Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli, Rina Nissim, Chantal Oakes, Lester C. Olson, Pratibha Parmar, Peggy Piesche, Dagmar Schultz, Tamara Lea Spira, and Gloria Wekker.
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University of Massachusetts Press When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory
Book SynopsisHow do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature—how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of adversity. Moving beyond questions of resilience, labor for others, and coping, When Will the Joy Come? focuses on the journeys of over thirty Black women at various stages of their careers. Joy is a mixture of well-being, pleasure, alignment, and purpose that can be elusive for Black women scholars. With racial reckoning and a global pandemic as context, this volume brings together honest and vital essays that ponder how Black women balance fatigue and frustrations in the halls of the ivory tower, and explore where, when, and if joy enters their lives. By carefully contemplating the emotional, physical, and material consequences of their labor, this collection demonstrates that joy is a tactical and strategic component of Black women’s struggle.
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University of Massachusetts Press Jim Crow Networks: African American Periodical
Book SynopsisScholars have paid relatively little attention to the highbrow, middlebrow, and popular periodicals that African Americans read and discussed regularly during the Jim Crow era -- publications such as the Chicago Defender, the Crisis, Ebony, and the Half-Century Magazine. Jim Crow Networks considers how these magazines and newspapers, and their authors, readers, advertisers, and editors worked as part of larger networks of activists and thinkers to advance racial uplift and resist racism during the first half of the twentieth century.As Eurie Dahn demonstrates, authors like James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Jean Toomer wrote in the context of interracial and black periodical networks, which shaped the literature they produced and their concerns about racial violence. This original study also explores the overlooked intersections between the black press and modernist and Harlem Renaissance texts, and highlights key sites where readers and writers worked toward bottom-up sociopolitical changes during a period of legalized segregation.Trade ReviewDahn’s palpable focus on the southern nodes in the African American periodical network furthers the recent important decentering of Harlem and the urban North as the most influential landscape for early to mid-twentieth-century African American literary and print cultural production." —Shawn Anthony Christian, author of The Harlem Renaissance and the Idea of a New Negro Reader
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University of Massachusetts Press White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing
Book SynopsisSometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, ""What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?"" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return-to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way. Alternately honest, funny, and visceral, this powerful collection follows De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan-American woman and learns to navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for her posh college, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in her parents' home country. During the years to follow, she would return to Guatemala again and again, meet ex-guerrillera and genocide survivors, get married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigua, and teach her newborn son about his roots.
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University of Massachusetts Press When Will the Joy Come?: Black Women in the Ivory
Book SynopsisHow do Black women in higher education create, experience, and understand joy? What sustains them? While scholars have long documented sexism, racism, and classism in the academy, one topic has been conspicuously absent from the literature—how Black women academics have found joy in the midst of adversity. Moving beyond questions of resilience, labor for others, and coping, When Will the Joy Come? focuses on the journeys of over thirty Black women at various stages of their careers. Joy is a mixture of well-being, pleasure, alignment, and purpose that can be elusive for Black women scholars. With racial reckoning and a global pandemic as context, this volume brings together honest and vital essays that ponder how Black women balance fatigue and frustrations in the halls of the ivory tower, and explore where, when, and if joy enters their lives. By carefully contemplating the emotional, physical, and material consequences of their labor, this collection demonstrates that joy is a tactical and strategic component of Black women’s struggle.Trade ReviewThe focus on joy makes this collection indispensable among books that consider Black women and women of color in higher education. Readable and engaging, When Will the Joy Come? makes a significant contribution to the intersecting fields of women’s studies, African American studies, and higher education administration."—Shanna Greene Benjamin, author of Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay"The contributors to When Will the Joy Come? offer personal perspectives on the multiple meanings of ‘joy’ for Black women working within the academy. A timely, compelling book."—Carole Boyce Davies, author of Black Women's Rights: Leadership and the Circularities of Power
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University of Massachusetts Press Race in the Crucible of War: African American
Book SynopsisWhen African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their military experiences were shaped by the racial environment of the home front. War is often viewed as a crucible that can transform society, but American race relations proved remarkably durable.In Race in the Crucible of War, Gerald F. Goodwin examines how Black servicemen experienced and interpreted racial issues during their time in Vietnam. Drawing on more than fifty new oral interviews and significant archival research, as well as newspapers, periodicals, memoirs, and documentaries, Goodwin reveals that for many African Americans the front line and the home front were two sides of the same coin. Serving during the same period as the civil rights movement and the race riots in Chicago, Detroit, and dozens of other American cities, these men increasingly connected the racism that they encountered in the barracks and on the battlefields with the tensions and violence that were simmering back home.Trade Review“Goodwin utilizes a wealth of previously unexamined sources to paint a complex and nuanced picture of the experiences of African American servicemen in Vietnam. That alone will ensure this book a spot on many shelves, specialist and non-specialist alike.”—Geoffrey W. Jensen, coeditor of Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War“Race in the Crucible of War expands, refines, and complicates our understanding of the African American military experience in Vietnam and how race and racism structured the U.S. military during a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. It is a towering achievement.”—Robert F. Jefferson, author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America “Goodwin utilizes a wealth of previously unexamined sources to paint a complex and nuanced picture of the experiences of African American servicemen in Vietnam. That alone will ensure this book a spot on many shelves, specialist and non-specialist alike.”—Geoffrey W. Jensen, coeditor of Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War“Race in the Crucible of War expands, refines, and complicates our understanding of the African American military experience in Vietnam and how race and racism structured the U.S. military during a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. It is a towering achievement.”—Robert F. Jefferson, author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America “Goodwin utilizes a wealth of previously unexamined sources to paint a complex and nuanced picture of the experiences of African American servicemen in Vietnam. That alone will ensure this book a spot on many shelves, specialist and non-specialist alike.”—Geoffrey W. Jensen, coeditor of Beyond the Quagmire: New Interpretations of the Vietnam War“Race in the Crucible of War expands, refines, and complicates our understanding of the African American military experience in Vietnam and how race and racism structured the U.S. military during a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. It is a towering achievement.”—Robert F. Jefferson, author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar AmericaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Author’s Note Introduction CHAPTER 1 “We Was Just Us”De-Racialization on the Front Lines of the Vietnam War CHAPTER 2 “Brothers as Many Brothers as They Can Find”: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Death in Vietnam CHAPTER 3 "Tearing the Services Apart”: Racial Violence and the Other War in Vietnam CHAPTER 4 “I Thought of My Own People Back Home”: African American Servicemen and Vietnamese Civilians CHAPTER 5 "You and Me—Same Same” and “They Called Me ‘Monkey’”: Conflicting African American Views of Vietnamese Civilians CHAPTER 6 “We Won’t Shoot You, but We’ll Shoot the White Guy”: African American Views of Vietnamese Communist Forces CHAPTER 7 “I Had Left One War and Come Back to Another”: African Americans Return Home Conclusion Notes Index
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University Press of Mississippi Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in
Book SynopsisBlack and Brown Planets embarks on a timely exploration of the American obsession with color in its look at the sometimes contrary intersections of politics and race in science fiction. The contributors, including De Witt D. Kilgore, Edward James, Lisa Yaszek, and Marleen S. Barr, among others, explore science fiction worlds of possibility (literature, television, and film), lifting blacks, Latin Americans, and indigenous peoples out from the background of this historically white genre.This collection considers the role of race and ethnicity in our visions of the future. The first section emphasizes the political elements of black identity portrayed in science fiction from black America to the vast reaches of interstellar space framed by racial history. In the next section, analysis of indigenous science fiction addresses the effects of colonization, helps discard the emotional and psychological baggage carried from its impact, and recovers ancestral traditions in order to adapt in a post-Native-apocalyptic world. Likewise, this section explores the affinity between science fiction and subjectivity in Latin American cultures from the role of science and industrialization to the effects of being in and moving between two cultures. By infusing more color in this otherwise monochrome genre, Black and Brown Planets imagines alternate racial galaxies with viable political futures in which people of color determine human destiny.
£81.75
University of Delaware Press Black Celebrity: Contemporary Representations of
Book SynopsisBlack Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away from athletes’ and entertainers’ overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Portraits of Black Fame, or The Past as Blueprint for the Present Chapter 1: “my black body / thrown free”: The Legacy of Jack Johnson in Kevin Young’s To Repel Ghosts: The Remix from the Original Masters Chapter 2: “More of a man than you”: The Many Faces of Jack Johnson in Adrian Matejka’s The Big Smoke Chapter 3: “The Sting of Race and Sport”: Revivifying Isaac Burns Murphy in Frank X Walker’s Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride Chapter 4: “the overwhelming evidence of his artistry”: Wiping Away the Minstrel Mask in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark Chapter 5: “Blind Tom, Musical Prodigy of the Age”: Unrecoverability in Jeffery Renard Allen’s Song of the Shank Chapter 6: “Let this belting be our / unbinding”: Reconceptualizing Black Entertainment in Tyehimba Jess’s Olio Bibliography Endnotes Index
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Haymarket Books Community as Rebellion: Women of Color, Academia,
Book SynopsisA meditation on freedom making in the academy for women scholars of color. Weaving personal narrative with political analysis, Community as Rebellion offers a meditation on creating liberatory spaces for students and faculty of color within academia. Much like other women scholars of color, Lorgia García Peña has struggled against the colonizing, racializing, classist, and unequal structures that perpetuate systemic violence within universities. Through personal experiences and analytical reflections, the author invites readers—in particular Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian women—to engage in liberatory practices of boycott, abolition, and radical community-building to combat the academic world’s tokenizing and exploitative structures.García Peña argues that the classroom is key to freedom-making in the university, urging teachers to consider activism and social justice as central to what she calls “teaching in freedom”: a progressive form of collective learning that prioritizes the subjugated knowledge, silenced histories, and epistemologies from the Global South and Indigenous, Black, and brown communities. By teaching in and for freedom, we not only acknowledge the harm that the university has inflicted on our persons and our ways of knowing since its inception, but also create alternative ways to be, create, live, and succeed through our work.Trade Review"A life-saving and life-affirming text, Community as Rebellion offers us the trenchant analysis and fearless strategy radical scholar-activists have long needed. But Lorgia García Peña’s intervention is especially valuable at this moment, as we collectively consider how our most important social institutions might be reimagined beyond the strongholds of white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism more broadly."—Angela Y. Davis, author of Freedom is a Constant Struggle“Community as Rebellion is a must read for anyone serious about confronting institutional racism, sexism, and elitism. Lorgia García Peña, one of her generation's most brilliant scholar-activists, challenges us to confront academia as a ‘colonial and colonizing’ space as the first step toward resistance and transformation. Her own experiences undergird her analysis and serve as a powerful call to action.” —Barbara Ransby, author of Eslanda“Lorgia García Peña is one of the few courageous and brilliant intellectuals grounded in rigorous and visionary grassroots education. This pedagogical guide for genuine freedom struggles is so badly needed in our neo-fascist times!”—Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary“Some key words that I think of when I think of Lorgia García Peña and her work: brilliant, courageous, loving, stubborn, ferocious, truth-teller. Community as Rebellion combines piercing diagnosis with an invitation to think about how we organize resistance and mobilize communities…. Generative and powerful.”—Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University“Unflinching, brilliant, and absolutely necessary. In these pages, Lorgia García Peña shares her experiences—and others’—to reflect on what it means to be ‘the stranger’ in academia: that sole symbol for diversity that still remains an outsider. Unwavering in its clarity and compassion, this powerful book reminds us that true belonging comes from actively building communities unafraid to center care and rebellion. Everyone should read this.” —Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King"‘What does it mean to teach for freedom?’ Dr. García Peña asks and boldly beckons us toward its practice across the policed borders of discipline, nation, theoretical traditions, and entrenched racial categories. A capacious thinker, rigorous researcher, brilliant activist, and path-breaking scholar, Dr. García Peña calls on us not simply, as she writes, to ‘mind the historical gaps’ for long-subjugated stories but alerts us to the ways these gaps have been historically mined in extractive ways in the service of colonial projects and neoliberal calls for diversity. Her astonishing work gathers us under its broad canopy to plot and persevere toward communal rebellion and renewal.” —Deborah Paredez, Columbia University“With characteristic clarity, courage, and conviction, Lorgia García Peña draws on her remarkable history as an engaged scholar and committed activist to demonstrate the necessity of living in community and accompanying others as keys to both personal liberation and social transformation.” —George Lipsitz, author, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness“Community as Rebellion is partly an incisive and deeply personal expose of the neoliberal university and its racializing and patriarchal practices of denigrating women of color scholars while extracting their intellectual, administrative, and emotional labor. But it is, above all, a mandate to transform higher education that begins with recognizing our mutual obligations to each other and to the world we study, extending 'community' beyond the ivory tower, and co-creating with our students new, autonomous intellectual spaces. Lorgia García Peña wrote this book not from a dream or an abstract theory but from building rebel communities for over a decade. She knows that there can be no free education without freedom.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"Community as Rebellion is a powerhouse of a manifesto that tells the truth about structural violence in academia and invites us to do the hard work of dismantling white supremacy as we learn, teach and labor within oppressive institutions. By breaking the code of silence that upholds the university’s racism, colonialism, elitism and sexism, Lorgia Garcìa Peña creates much needed space for marginalized communities to disrupt and transform the politics and praxis of knowledge production. A love letter to ethnic studies and a roadmap for enacting change, this is the book so many of us have been waiting for."— Crystal M. Fleming, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, SUNY Stony BrookTable of ContentsTable of Contents:1. On being “the One”: The first chapter relates the challenges of being tokenized within the academy as a women of color scholar. The chapter provides personal examples and posits a proposition to contrast the individualistic model of success with one of community.2. Complicity: This chapter lays out what the author considers a structure of complicity that sustains unequal labor practices that systematically affect women of color. Based on a series of interviews and autoethnographic interventions, the chapter takes on tenure, labor appropriation, mentoring as some of the main sites of complicity. 3. Freedom: This chapter proposes teaching as an act of freedom making and offers practical examples of how to teach in/for freedom, how to create communities that promote collective learning and engage in justice-making practices in the classroom that can lead to long-term positive changes in our society.4. Ethnic Studies as Rebellion: This final chapter meditates on ethnic studies as a critical site from which to fight against the hegemonic practices of exclusion that uphold Eurocentric and Euro-American knowledge as the only way to see the world while relegating knowledge that comes from everywhere else to the periphery. The chapter is an invitation to rebel through centering subjugated knowledge and the epistemologies of oppressed peoples.
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Haymarket Books Blood in the Face: White Nationalism from the
Book SynopsisIn 1990, Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture was the first book to uncover the contours, beliefs, leaders, and wider influence of the American racist far right movement. It told their story from the inside out, complete with interviews, recruiting pamphlets, cartoons, rants, sermons, threats, police reports, and more. The accompanying analysis by veteran investigative reporter James Ridgeway detailed the movement 's volatile history and its expansion beginning in the 1980s, insisting that the groups making up this "fringe" culture were too powerful—and too much a part of American culture—to be ignored or dismissed.When the book 's prescience about the dangers of the racist far-right became manifest in the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, a second edition of Blood in the Face was released with a new introduction charting the rise of the Militia Movement to which Timothy McVeigh and his co-conspirators were connected. Since then, both the book and the documentary film that accompanied its release (also titled Blood in the Face), have earned cult followings.In the past 25 years, Ridgeway 's final warning—that the "fringe was becoming part of the fabric" of American politics and culture—has come to chilling fruition in the rise of the Tea Party, the racist backlash against the presidency of Barack Obama, the resurgence of anti-immigrant Nativism, the growth of racist far-right media, and the election of Donald Trump with the thunderous support of white nationalists.Trade Review"Few listened when journalist James Ridgeway sounded the alarm about the resurgent far-right. Hand this book to anyone who thinks that the racist movement ended with the Trump presidency."—James Tracy, Co-author No Fascist USA: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today's Movements"[A] guidebook through the nether regions of the racist universe." —New York Times"Ridgeway is a skilled guide through the bewildering and amorphous network of racists, radical tax resisters, skinheads, Nazis and Klansmen that composes what he terms 'an organized and, at times, violent, new far-right movement." —Los Angeles Times"[A] comprehensive view of racist politics in the United States (with some reference to Western European politics)." —Library Journal"With startling detail, this volume sets forth the violent histories of such organizations as the Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1866 by six former Confederate soldiers; the John Birch Society, an anti civil rights group masquerading as an anti Communist force; and the Po sse Comitatus, whose members gather in posses to "protect" the white race from the scourge of Jews, blacks and other minorities. Examining their influence on the political climate of the U.S., Ridgeway profiles such leaders as David Dukes, the former head of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Louisiana who ran for the Senate in 1990. Readers may feel overwhelmed by the amount of information this fascinating book imparts...." —Publishers Weekly"Clear and comprehensive." —Kirkus"[P]aint[s] a worrying picture of groups and ideologies that inspire Dylann Roof." —Guardian
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University of South Carolina Press Monumental Harm: Reckoning with Jim Crow Era
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the American South. At the heart of the debate is the question of what these monuments represent. The arguments and counterarguments are formulated around sets of assumptions grounded in Southern history, politics, culture, and race relations. Comprehending and evaluating accurately the associated claims and counterclaims calls for a careful examination of facts and legal considerations relevant to each side's assertations. In Monumental Harm, Roger C. Hartley offers a road map to addressing and resolving this acrimonious debate.Although history and popular memory play a vital role in the discussion, there have been distortions of both parts. Monumental Harm reviews the fact-based history of the initial raising of these monuments and distinguishes it from the popular memory held by many Confederate-monument supporters. Hartley also addresses concerns regarding the potential erasure of history and the harm these monuments have caused the African American community over the years, as well as the role they continue to play in politics and power.The recent rise in White nationalism and the video-recorded murders of Black citizens at the hands of White police officers have led to nationwide demonstrations and increased scrutiny of Confederate monuments on public land. As injustice is laid bare and tempers flare, the need for a peaceful resolution becomes ever-more necessary. Monumental Harm offers a way to break the rhetorical deadlock, urging that we evaluate the issue through the lens of the U.S. Constitution while employing the overarching democratic principle that no right is absolute. Through constructive discourse and good-faith compromise, a more perfect union is within reach.
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Nightboat Books Permanent Record
Book SynopsisA visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Brown, and many new and emerging voices.Inspired by Naima Yael Tokunow’s research into the Black American record (and its purposeful scarceness), Permanent Record asks, what do we gain when we engage with our flawed cultural systems of remembrance? How does questioning and creating a deep relationship to the archive, and in some cases, spinning thread from air where there is none, allow us to prefigure the world that we want? Including reflections on identity and language, diasporic and first generation lived experiences, and responses to the ways the record upholds harm and provides incomplete understandings, Permanent Record hopes to reframe what gets to be a part of collective remembrance, exploring “possibilities for speculating beyond recorded multiplicity.”
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Lawrence Hill Books The Afrofuturist Evolution
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John F Blair Publisher The Opposite of Cruelty
Book SynopsisSteven Leyva’s second collection of poetry renders beauty through a Black man’s lens in a post-pandemic world populated with superheroes and characters from ancient mythology.In The Opposite of Cruelty, Steven Leyva’s poems ask readers to see and remember beauty when the world seems to be in ruins, to notice and praise “the industrious cherry // trees budding despite a summer / full of bullets to come.” For Leyva, beauty can be found in lineage and memory, in the heroes of the comics and TV shows he watched as a boy, in taking his children to the movies to see an afro-latino Spider-man on the big screen, and in doing so passing down that beauty, those means of survival. In these sonnets and urban pastorals you’ll find Selena, UGK and Outkast, Storm, Static, and Batman, as well as Sisyphus, Medusa, Perseus, and Grendel. This weaving of modern culture and the ancient world calls attention to our need for stories, how heroes and villains take up residence inside us, how important it is to see one’s self represented in art and film. This book does not look away from life''s hard and cruel moments, it simply dares to ask “What is the opposite of cruelty?” The answers: The beauty of a Black boy in his school picture, the beauty of one man’s hand touching another man’s face at the barber, the beauty of a family home or a memory of what it once was, "not a season of phantasmal peace, but what’s left / when the world’s terrors retreat.”
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Random House Publishing Group The Latina AntiDiet
Book SynopsisBreak away from diet culture while still honoring your body and incorporating cultural foods in this fresh, expansive guide from the registered dietitian and creator of Your Latina Nutritionist.?Witty and warm, The Latina Anti-Diet is the perfect way to begin to heal your relationship with food and by proxy your body.??Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood FeminismDiet culture is facing a reckoning, and intuitive eating has been leading the charge. The movement has taken the internet by storm, encouraging us to stop dieting and make food choices that feel good for our bodies rather than follow influencers and their shakes. But intuitive eating is missing a key ingredient: culture. Like many movements, intuitive eating has become co-opted by a select few?placing the focus on ?mainstream? food while discounting cultural cuisines. But how can we gain a healthy attitude toward food when our foods?our arroz, habichuelas, and plátanos?are left out of the conversation? Dalina Soto is here to add them back to our plates. As a registered dietitian, Soto understands the pros and cons of intuitive eating. As a first-generation Dominican American, she?s also seen firsthand how this movement has only catered to a certain demographic. With her easy-to-follow CHULA method, Soto teaches us how to? Challenge negative thoughts? Honor ourbodies and health? Understand our needs? Listen to our hunger? Acknowledge our emotionsShegives us tools to confront diet culture and the whitewashing of food so we can go back to eating what we love while managing our health. Engaging and incisive, The Latina Anti-Diet is for everyone who?s been told to lay off the tortillas and swap their white rice for brown. Soto shows us that food is so much more than calories; it?s about celebrating our culture and living a life full of flavor.
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University of Utah Press,U.S. Western Journeys
Book SynopsisIn Western Journeys, Teow Lim Goh charts her journeys immigrating from Singapore and spending the last fifteen years living in and exploring the American West. Goh chronicles her lived experiences while building on the longer history of immigrants from Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, bringing various, and often new insights to places, the historical record, and memory. These vital essays consider how we access truth in the face of erasure. In exploring history, nature, politics, and art, Goh asks, “What does it mean for an immigrant to be at home?” Looking beyond the captivating landscapes of the American West, Goh uncovers stories of the Chinese people who came to America during the exclusion era, the Indigenous peoples who have been written out of popular narratives, and the mountaineers’ merciless ambitions, among many others. She examines the links between the transcontinental railroad, the cowboy myth, and the anti-Chinese prejudice that persists today. These essays explore such subjects as the early efforts to climb Colorado’s highest peaks, the massacre of Chinese miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and the increasingly destructive fire seasons in the West. Goh’s essays create a complex, varied, and sometimes contradictory story of people and landscape that asks more questions than it answers.Trade ReviewWestern Journeys is compelling, powerful, and important. The erasure that Goh wants to combat can only be addressed one word at a time. That is the power and the pain of recovery—it is slow—but once the hidden gets pulled into the light it cannot be lost again. Each of these essays is an act of hauling the past into the present, of naming what many might prefer to ignore or deny."—Jennifer Sinor, author of Sky Songs: Meditations on Loving a Broken World and Ordinary Trauma"The writing in Western Journeys is gorgeous, alternatingly spare and lush, in explicating how Teow Lim Goh found her writerly voice as an immigrant enthralled by an American West built upon the legislated and violent erasure of non-whites."—Michelle Liu, University of WashingtonTable of Contents I: Beyond the Myths Hollywood Pilgrims Coastlines Dreams of Golden Mountain Firecracker At the Ruins II: Ordinary Legacies Western Journeys Ascent The Ideology of Paradise A Memory of Hills At the Ponds III: Visions of Land The Road Home: On Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Over the River Flowers of Prison: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Split Footsteps on the Sea Letter to the Arctic IV: Apocalypses Borders and Citizens Refuge: Rocky Flats, Colorado The Ghosts of Bitter Creek Home Lands Fire SeasonV: Off the Page The Stories that Bind Us The Subjective Passions Lost and Found: On Kate Zambreno’s Heroines On Tenacity The Dehumanizing Politics of Likability Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments
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Not Avail What Color Is Your Hand De Qué Color Es Tu Mano
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Atria/Primero Sueno Press Latinoland Spanish Edition
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Mango Media Protecting My Peace
Book SynopsisAncestral Self-Care Practices for Black WomenFrom navigating hostile work environments and healing from trauma to exploring African American home remedies and promoting holistic well-being, Protecting My Peace is a comprehensive guide for black women seeking to prioritize their mental, emotional, and physical health.Reclaim your peace. Protecting My Peace: Embracing Inner Beauty and Ancestral Power focuses on transforming self-perception, recreating ancestral traditions, and channeling the spiritual power of the African feminine divine. Delve into transformative self-care practices and go beyond traditional approaches to physical and mental well-being. Find strategies to connect with ancestral roots, embrace spirituality, and foster personal growth. Prioritize your mental, emotional, and physical health with practical advice on African American home remedies, how to be healthy, and overcoming trauma. Rediscover your inner strength. Enter a transformative journey toward self-acceptance and belonging. Learn to perceive physical beauty through a fresh lens, embrace your whole self, and let your spirit radiate with the essence of your African ancestry.A must-read for black women seeking to reclaim their power and well-being. Understand the philosophy of the African feminine divine. Find empowerment in the idea that places women of the African diaspora at the heart of their cultures. Learn how embracing this power can improve self-confidence, self-esteem, mental health, and emotional well-being.Inside, you’ll find: An exploration of the perception of physical beauty The sense of peace that comes with fully embracing our ancestral traditions An introduction to the philosophy of the African feminine divine If you liked Emotional Self-Care for Black Women, Real Self-Care, or I’m Not Yelling, you’ll love Protecting My Peace.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Movement and Dance Chapter 2: Plant-Based Diet and Natural Remedies Chapter 3: Feminine Power Chapter 4: Beauty and Wellbeing Chapter 5: Music and Drumming Chapter 6: Ritual and the Ancestors Chapter 7: Joy and Community Chapter 8: Meditation and Affirmations ConclusionDETAILED TOC Introduction: The introduction sets the tone for the book, outlining its purpose and what readers can expect from it. It highlights the focus on professional Black women and the unique challenges they face in the workplace. Chapter 1: Movement and Dance at Work: This chapter explores how movement and dance can help professional women express themselves, release work-related stress and tension, and improve overall well-being. Chapter 2: Plant-Based Diet and Natural Remedies for the Working Woman: The author discusses the benefits of a plant-based diet and natural remedies for maintaining physical and mental health in a demanding work environment. Chapter 3: Feminine Power in the Workplace: This chapter focuses on embracing feminine power and the strength that comes with it, despite societal expectations and norms that may attempt to suppress it in professional settings. Chapter 4: Beauty, Wellbeing, and the Professional Woman: The author discusses self-love and recognizing one's beauty and worth, regardless of external societal pressures and standards, while navigating the workplace. Chapter 5: Music and Drumming for Workplace Empowerment: This chapter explores the power of music and drumming as a means of expression, empowerment, and healing in professional environments. Chapter 6: Ritual, Ancestors, and the Working Woman: This chapter discusses the importance of connecting with ancestors and engaging in ritual practices to find strength and guidance in difficult times, especially when facing challenges in the workplace. Chapter 7: Joy, Community, and the Professional Sisterhood: This chapter emphasizes the importance of community and finding joy amid struggle and oppression through building supportive relationships and engaging in uplifting activities with fellow professional women. Chapter 8: Meditation and Affirmations for the Workplace: The author discusses the benefits of meditation and affirmations for mental and emotional well-being and provides practical tips for incorporating these practices into daily work routines. Conclusion: The conclusion summarizes the book's central themes and encourages readers to continue their self-love, healing, and empowerment journey as they navigate the professional world.
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Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada Talking with Mother Earth Hablando con Madre
Book SynopsisAn Americas Award Commended TitleRaw, honest and powerful, these moving bilingual poems by noted Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta explore a young Indigenous boy''s connection to Mother Earth and how he is healed from the terrible wounds of racism he has endured. Tetl has learned from his grandmother about the spirituality of his ancestors, about how they viewed the earth as alive with sacred meaning. This helps him move from doubt and fear, created by the taunts of other children, to self-acceptance and a discovery of his love for nature.Mountains, wind, corn and stones all speak to Tetl, almost seeming to vibrate with life. He feels deep roots in them and, through them, he learns to speak and sing. They reveal his Nahuatl self and he realizes that he is special, beautiful and sacred.These gripping poems have something to teach us all, perhaps especially those who have been either intentionally or casually cruel or racist, as well as those who have been t
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Liverpool University Press British Trade with Spanish America, 1763-1808
Book SynopsisIn this erudite and comprehensive study Adrian Pearce offers a detailed survey of British trade with Spanish America in the latter half of the eighteenth century drawing together a variety of sources and looking at all aspects of commercial activity. The history and vicissitudes of the free port system are documented in a much fuller way than heretofore and the interests of competing interest groups are mapped out. Pearce re-examines the share of British export trade provided through Spanish America in one of the most important interventions in the field in recent years.Trade ReviewReviews'This is without doubt the most important contribution to Anglo-Spanish (and Latin) American trade history since D.C.M. Platt’s Latin America and British Trade, 1806-1914 (London: Adam & Charles Black, 1972)... This is an outstanding monograph, very well written, very engaging, which I am sure will become the definitive work on this subject.'Manuel Llorca-Jaña, Business History'Pearce concedes that some of his conclusions are provisional – an almost unnecessarily modest remark since many readers will be at a loss to suggest what more he might have done... His argument is credible precisely because it is so well rooted in the records of the age.' David Maclean, Journal of British Studies * Journal of British Studies *All students of colonial Spanish American history and British imperial and economic history should read this fine study. Mark Burkholder, International History Review * International History Review *'His research in twelve archives in six countries...is incredibly impressive. The presentation of the research findings is exemplary; Pearce is always cautious, presenting alternative interpretations to test his own argument, and seeking points of strength among his collation of fragmentary and incomplete sources.' Matthew Brown, Bulletin of Latin American Research'This ambitious work manages difficult, complex material in a carefully reasoned, engaging manner. The first comprehensive treatment of Britain’s trade with Spanish America in modern times, it will undoubtedly remain the standard work for years to come.' Allan Kuethe, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies * Bulletin of Hispanic Studies *'Pearce’s detailed and cautious study is of great interest... Magnificent.' Renate Pieper, Anuario de Estudios Americanos'Moves..towards a broader and more modern vision that goes beyond the strictly national horizon, to seek to throw light on problems common to the mercantilist nations and their (diverse or similar) means of participation in European trade with the Atlantic.' Ana Crespo Solana, Revista de Indias * Revista de Indias *Table of Contents List of Tables and Maps Preface List of Abbreviations Note on Exchange Rates and Values Introductory Essay by Professor John R. Fisher 1 The Origins of British Trade with the Spanish Colonies, Sixteenth Century to 1763 2 The ‘Spanish Trade’, 1763-83: Geographical Expansion and the Free Ports 3 The Comercio de Colonias and the Consolidation of the Free Port System, 1783-96 4 Trade during Wartime (1796-1808): The Spanish Licensed Trade in the British West Indies 5 Trade during Wartime (1796-1808): British Contraband and the Spanish-American Perspective 6 Trade during Wartime (1796-1808): Neutral Trade, the Bullion Contracts, and the ‘Secret Trade’ 7 Conclusions Maps Statistical Appendix: British Trade with the Spanish Colonies, 1788-95 Note on Archival Sources Bibliography for the Study of British Trade with the Spanish Colonies Index
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Liverpool University Press Featuring Post-National Spain. Film Essays.
Book SynopsisIn the last quarter of the twentieth century a considerable number of Spanish films were involved in the task of essaying the nation, that is, of attempting to make it or make it over, of trying to reshape a national identity inexorably dictated by General Francisco Franco up to his death. The book explores four major issues in this regard: 1) the filmic negotiations of the borders of the nation, focusing particularly on the debated and controversial development of Basque cinema vis-à-vis the films produced in the rest of Spain; 2) the persistence of the old obsession with violence, thought of as an inescapable native trait, in a large amount of post-dictatorial films; 3) the newfound insatiable appetite for cinematic travelling, for going out and coming in through all possible variations of the road and travel movie genres; 4) and the vindication of the mother qua a benign emblem of the land and its people, of the nation. There is a narrative in Spanish cinema, taken as a collective discourse, which ties together these four cinematic topoi and proposes a nation whose specificity must be precisely its impurity—difference within as essence—a hybrid nation located in temporal and spatial rendezvous of past and present, tradition and novelty, centre and margin, inside and outside, on and beyond.Trade ReviewReviews 'Zamora's insightful observations and reflections, bolstered by illustrations, further understanding of how many recent Spanish fiction and nonfiction features have fruitfully undertaken the task of “essaying”—his term—the post-Franco nation. The thorough scholarly apparatus includes an extensive bibliography, and the volume was meticulously produced.' D West, CHOICE'Expansive in scope and analytically incisive, Featuring Post-National Spain makes a valuable and dynamic contribution to the fields of Hispanic Studies and Film and Visual Culture.' Fiona Noble, Bulletin of Spanish Visual StudiesTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsPrologue1. Borders (The Exemplary Basque Case)2. Violence (Spanish Eyes)3. Travel (The Transhumant Model)4. Mothers5. Final Remarks (For an Impure Nation)Works CitedIndex of NamesIndex of Film Titles and Directors
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Liverpool University Press Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain
Book SynopsisOver the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an extraordinary wealth of television drama. Drawing on both national practices of production and reception and international theories of textual analysis this book offers the first study of contemporary quality TV drama in two countries where television has displaced cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative. As dramatized societies, Spain and Mexico are thus at once reflected and refracted by the new series on the small screen.Trade ReviewReviews ‘A groundbreaking contribution to Hispanic cultural and media studies. Highly readable and well structured, the volume is a unique comparative transnational study of the two principal Spanish-language television markets/industries/cultures. Such comparative scholarship requires expertise on many levels in the two media cultures as well as a grasp of conceptual and theoretic underpinnings of mass media in the context of cultural studies, all of which Smith has in abundance and he uses his knowledge to provide a richly detailed and stimulating reading.’ Professor Marvin D'Lugo, Clark University'Dramatized Societies is an extremely valuable contribution to cultural studies. The balanced combination of introductory critical discourses on relevant issues and close readings of individual works offers a very useful and fertile grounding for seminars and classes on contemporary Spanish and Latin-American television.'Mario Santana, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies‘Clear, yet erudite and peppered with witty asides, this book is as informative as it is pleasurable … This book works on multiple levels. Not only does it shed light upon little-known quality TV series, but on a meta-critical level, it is a model for successfully approaching the challenges of television studies.’ Olivia Cosentino, Revista de Estudios HispánicosTable of ContentsIntroduction: Cold Opens Part I: Spain 1 The TV Mini-series as historical memory: from the 23-F (TVE-1, 2009) to Marisol (Antena 3, 2009) (6803) 2 Transnational telenovela redux: Sin tetas no hay paraíso(Telecinco, 2008-9) (11162) 3 Youth culture in television: El internado (Antena 3, 2007-10), Física o química (Antena 3, 2008-11) (10513) 4 Post-colonial TV: El tiempo entre costuras (Antena 3, 2013-14) and El Príncipe (Telecinco, 2014) (13552) Part II: Mexico 5 Educational TV: XY (Canal 11, 2009-12) (11448) 6 Aesthetic TV: Soy tu fan (Canal 11, 2010-12), Pacientes(Canal 11, 2012-13) (9106) 7 Race on TV: Crónica de castas (Canal 11, 2014) (9876) 8 HBO Latino Effect: Capadocia (HBO Latino, 2008-12)(11442) Conclusion: Love Bites
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Liverpool University Press La Tribuna
Book SynopsisEmilia Pardo Bazán was born in the Galician town of A Coruña into a noble family who nurtured her lifelong thirst for knowledge. She is undoubtedly the most controversial, influential and prolific Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, publishing a vast number of essays, social commentaries, articles, reviews, poems, plays, novels, novellas and short stories. Her third novel, La Tribuna, heralds a new age in Spanish literature, a naturalist work of fiction that examines the situation of contemporary women workers. The author's preparation for the novel involved reading and consulting contemporary pamphlets and newspapers, as well as spending two months in a Galician tobacco factory observing and listening to conversations. This method, common in English writers like Dickens and frequently adopted in France by the masters of Realism, was almost unprecedented in Spain. Set against a background of turmoil and civil unrest, La Tribuna reflects the author's interest in the position of women in Spanish society. The working-class heroine, Amparo, develops from a shapeless, apolitical street urchin into a masterpiece of femininity, a charismatic orator who becomes a 'tribune' of the people. At the same time, however, she allows herself to be seduced by a prosperous middle-class youth whose promises prove to be just as empty as the revolutionary slogans in which she believes so fervently.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Foreword 2. Emilia Pardo Bazán: her life 3. Feminism 4. The social and political background: revolution and republicanism 5. The literary context: Realism, Naturalism and other -isms 6. Emilia Pardo Bazán: her works 7. La Tribuna 8. Language 9. Translation Bibliography La Tribuna/The Tribune Notes
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Liverpool University Press La Tribuna
Book SynopsisEmilia Pardo Bazán was born in the Galician town of A Coruña into a noble family who nurtured her lifelong thirst for knowledge. She is undoubtedly the most controversial, influential and prolific Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, publishing a vast number of essays, social commentaries, articles, reviews, poems, plays, novels, novellas and short stories. Her third novel, La Tribuna, heralds a new age in Spanish literature, a naturalist work of fiction that examines the situation of contemporary women workers. The author's preparation for the novel involved reading and consulting contemporary pamphlets and newspapers, as well as spending two months in a Galician tobacco factory observing and listening to conversations. This method, common in English writers like Dickens and frequently adopted in France by the masters of Realism, was almost unprecedented in Spain. Set against a background of turmoil and civil unrest, La Tribuna reflects the author's interest in the position of women in Spanish society. The working-class heroine, Amparo, develops from a shapeless, apolitical street urchin into a masterpiece of femininity, a charismatic orator who becomes a 'tribune' of the people. At the same time, however, she allows herself to be seduced by a prosperous middle-class youth whose promises prove to be just as empty as the revolutionary slogans in which she believes so fervently.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Foreword 2. Emilia Pardo Bazán: her life 3. Feminism 4. The social and political background: revolution and republicanism 5. The literary context: Realism, Naturalism and other -isms 6. Emilia Pardo Bazán: her works 7. La Tribuna 8. Language 9. Translation Bibliography La Tribuna/The Tribune Notes
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Liverpool University Press Peripheral Visions / Global Sounds: From Galicia
Book SynopsisGalician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viiIntroduction: Peripheries are not what they used to be 1Part 1 Roots and Routes: Remapping Galician Culture in the Global Age1 Peripheral Visions, Global Positions 192 Deterritorialization and Deperipheralization: Galician Studies atthe Global Crossroads 443 Sound and Vision: All Roads Lead to Santiago 74Part 2 Peripheral Visions4 Made in Galicia: Making the Invisible Visible 1035 Reimagining Galician Cinema: Utopian Visions? 1206 The Galician Magic Kingdom: Nation and Animation from theGlocal Forest 1427 A Peripheral Focus: The Rebirth of the Novo Cinema Galego 168Part 3 Global Sounds8 Peripheral Movidas: Cannibalizing Galicia 2099 Smells Like Wild Spirit: Galician Rock Bravú, Between theRurban and the Glocal 23910 Bagpipes, Bouzoukis, and Bodhráns: The Reinvention ofGalician Folk Music 266Coda: Leaving the Periphery Behind 294Works Cited 309Index 321
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Emerald Publishing Limited Dougla Poetics
Book SynopsisRooted in lived experiences and real conversations, this book challenges mixed-race studies which often prioritise Black/white binaries in the Global North while excluding multiracial experiences across the Global South.
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Liverpool University Press The Ghost in the Constitution: Historical Memory
Book SynopsisThe Ghost in the Constitution offers a reflection on the political use of the concept of historical memory foregrounding the case of Spain. The book analyses the philosophical implications of the transference of the notion of memory from the individual consciousness to the collective subject and considers the conflation of epistemology with ethics. A subtheme is the origins and transmission of political violence, and its endurance in the form of symbolic violence and “negationism” in the post-Franco era. Some chapters treat of specific “traumatic” phenomena such as the bombing of Guernica and the Holocaust.Trade ReviewReviews 'Intellectually engaging, thoughtful, coherent, and logically developed. Resina writes with an elegance of style uncommon among scholars ...the most apt synthesis and expansion of ideas on memory and latency that I have read in recent years.' David Herzberger, University of California Riverside‘There is ample thought-provoking material and some stimulating insight in The Ghost in the Constitution, resulting from extensive research presented in polished writing.’José Colmeiro, Journal of Spanish Cultural StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Historical Memory and the Limits of Retrospection 9 2 Why Memory? Reflections on a Politics of Mourning 22 3 Memory and Imputation 39 4 Denial and the Ethics of Memory 58 5 Warming Up for the War: The Cultural Transmission of Violence in Spain since the Early Twentieth Century 72 6 Guernica as a Sign of History 103 7 Delenda est Catalonia: The Unwelcome Memory 114 8 Allez, Allez! The 1939 Exodus from Catalonia and Internment in French Concentration Camps 135 9 The Corpse in One’s Bed: Mercè Rodoreda and the Concentrationary Universe 147 10 Transatlantic Reversals: Exile and Anti-History 155 11 The Weight of Memory and the Lightness of Oblivion: The Dead of the Spanish Civil War 168 12 Between Testimony and Fiction: Jorge Semprún’s Autobiographical Memory 184 13 It Wasn’t This: Latency and Epiphenomenon of the Transition 224 14 Window of Opportunity: The Television Documentary as After-Image of the War 243 15 Anachronism and Latency in Spanish Democracy 260 16 Negationism and Freedom of Speech 276 17 Exhaustion of the Transition Pact: Revisionism and Symbolic Violence 292 Bibliography 307 Index 323
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Liverpool University Press Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and
Book SynopsisThis book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the largest Muslim population of the world, as well as sizeable ethnic and religious minorities comprising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities. Hot sex is a major media selling point, particularly in Indonesia. Heteronormativity entails a system of symbolic violence in the sense that it punishes those that it excludes and polices those that it includes; the ways its powers are subverted are likewise symbolic. Passionate aesthetics refers to the dynamics, motivations, codes of behavior and presentation, subjectivities and identities that together make up the complex workings of erotic attraction, sexual relations and partnerships patterns. By charting the lives of women who live beyond the boundaries of the heteronormative, commonalities are revealed; boundaries and regulatory mechanisms in the context of symbolic violence are delineated; and the issue of the struggle for sexual rights for marginalised groups, and their open rebellion, brought to the fore. At the heart of the book lies elaboration of the ways Asian families are constructed -- their social, economic, sexual and religious agency, and how these engage with state-led values.Table of ContentsThe Essays; Apparatus; Translations into English; Style, notes, & chronology; Using the Works Cited; A Biography of Laura Esquivel; An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism; Like Water for Chocolate Like Water for Chocolate: The novels early critical reception; Like Water for Chocolate: The novel & the critics; Like Water for Chocolate: The film & the critics; The Law of Love; Swift as Desire; Malinche: A Novel; Future directions in Esquivel criticism; Laura Esquivels Mexican Chocolate; El chocolate mexicano de Laura Esquivel; Crossing Gender Borders: Subversion of Cinematic Melodrama in Like Water for Chocolate; Unmasked Men: Sex Roles in Like Water for Chocolate; The Absence of God & the Presence of Ancestors in Laura Esquivels Like Water for Chocolate; Gendered Spaces, Gendered Knowledge: A Cultural Geography of Kitchenspace in Central Mexico; Transformation, Code, & Mimesis: Healing the Family in Like Water for Chocolate; Cultural Identity & the Cosmos: Laura Esquivels Predictions for a New Millennium in The Law of Love; Laura Esquivels Quantum Leap in The Law of Love; The Two Mexicos of Swift as Desire; Malinche: Fleshing out the Foundational Fictions of the Conquest of Mexico; Esquivels Malinalli: Refusing the Last Word on La Malinche; Esquivels Fiction in the Context of Latin American Womens Writing; Glossary of Spanish & Nahuatl Words & Phrases; Index.
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Liverpool University Press Southeast Asian Migration: People on the Move in
Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war, engenders personal, familial, and spiritual dislocation, and provokes a questioning of identity and belonging. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America, and Europe that highlight these trends and perspectives on Southeast Asian migration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach -- with contributions from sociology, political science, anthropology, and history -- and anchored in empirical case studies from various Southeast Asian countries, it extends the scope of inquiry beyond the economic concerns of migration, and beyond a single country source or destination, and disciplinary focus. Analytic focus is placed on the forces and factors that shape migration trajectories and migrant incorporation experiences in Asia and Europe; the impact of migration and immigration status on individuals, families, and institutions, on questions of equity, inclusion, and identity; and the triangulated relationships between diasporic communities, the sending and receiving countries. Of particular importance is the scholarly attention to lesser known populations and issues such as Vietnamese in Poland, children and the 1.5 generation immigrants, health and mental consequences of state sponsored violence and protracted encampment, ethnic media, and the challenges of both transnational parenting and family reunification. In examining the complex and creative negotiations that immigrants engage locally and transnationally in their daily lives, it foregrounds immigrant resilience in the strategies they adopt not only to survive but thrive in displacement.
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Liverpool University Press Contemporary Central American Fiction: Gender,
Book SynopsisThis book is a series of original, critical meditations on short stories and novels from Central America between 1995 and 2016. During the Cold War, literary art in Central America, as in Latin America in general, was strongly over-determined by the politics of the Cold War, which gave rise to popular struggle and three major armed civil wars in the 1970s and 1980s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The period produced intense literary activity with political ideology central, personified by social denunciation in the testimonial novel and revolutionary poetry. Since then, though themes of violence are still at much of its core, Central American fiction has become more complex. We have witnessed a resurgence of literary writing and criticism with a focus squarely on the artistic side of narrative art: writing aware of its own figurative manoeuvres and inventiveness, its philosophical and affective dimensions, and its carefully crafted syntax. This collection of essays by Jeffrey Browitt attempts to trace some of the contours of this new literature and the contemporary subjectivities of its writers through close readings of Guatemalas Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Eduardo Halfon and Denise Phe-Funchal; Nicaraguas Franz Galich and Sergio Ramirez; Belizes David Ruiz Puga; El Salvadors Jacinta Escudos and Claudia Hernandez; and Costa Ricas Carlos Cortes. Key themes are gender, subjectivity and affect as these intersect with the deconstruction of the family, hegemonic masculinity, motherhood, revolutionary romanticism, and the relationship of humans with animals.
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Liverpool University Press South American Independence: Gender, Politics,
Book SynopsisThe struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, the book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. Through studies of both published and unpublished writings, South American Independence reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.Trade ReviewA novel, original, suggestive, and profoundly thought-provoking study of Latin American independence. I genuinely think this is a classic in the making. Will Fowler, University of St AndrewsThe authors should be praised for in covering several hitherto unknown or forgotten texts, mainly those written by women, as well as for a cautious analysis of these and the scholarly literature written on the subject. ...a valuable contribution to the study if gender roles and female agency in the first half of the nineteenth century in Latin America, and a fine example of the important of an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American independence.Hispanic American Historical Review, Volume 88, No. 3This book offers an appealing blend of history and literary criticism, with the added benefit on an important focus on women and gender, a theme long neglected in studies of South American Independence. It could be used successfully in upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in history, literature and Latin American studies. And it goes without saying that for scholars of the independence era it is an important addition to bibliographies and book-shelves.Latin American Studies, Volume 41Table of Contents List of plates Acknowledgements Part I 1. South American Independence: War, Liberty, Gender, Text 2. Figuring the Feminine: The Writings of Simón Bolivar (1783-1830) 3. Troped Out of History: Gender Slippage and Woman in the Poetry of Andrés Bello 4. Competing Masculinities and Political Discourse: The Writings of Esteban Echeverria (1805-51) 5. Satirised Woman and Counter-Strategies Part II 6. Women, War and Spanish American Independence 7. Women, Letter-Writing and the Wars of Independence in Chile 8. Gender, Patriotism and Social Capital: Josefa Acevedo and Mercedes Martin 9. Gender and Revolution in Southern Brazil: Restitching the Farroupilha Revolt in the Works of Delfina Benigna da Cunha and Ana de Barandas 10. Juana Manso (1819-75): Women in History 11. Conclusions: South America, Gender, Politics, Text Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press The Reinvention of Mexico: National Ideology in a
Book SynopsisThe Reinvention of Mexico explores the ideological conflict between neoliberalism and nationalism that has been at the core of economic and political developments in Latin America since the mid-1980s. It focuses on Mexico, which offers a unique opportunity to study one of the ruptures in 20th-century political thought that has come to define an era of unprecedented globalization. The book examines how neoliberals dismantling the statist economy in Mexico under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-94) confronted the dominant, official ideology upon which the country’s development had hitherto been based: revolutionary nationalism. It also considers how intellectuals and the main political forces to the left and right of the PRI grappled with the issues generated by the climate of market reform, in a period when there appeared to be few ideological alternatives to it, and the broader effort to reconcile economic liberalism with revolutionary nationalism that Salinas was attempting. Showing that the case of Mexico during the 1990s had important implications for the study of nationalism, the book offers timely insights into national responses to globalization and the form taken by debates about the most appropriate vision of political economy in Latin America. The highly contested result of Mexico’s 2006 election demonstrated the extent to which the fateful ideological conflict between neoliberalism and nationalism remains unresolved.Trade ReviewReviews'Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections.'Choice, Vol. 48, No. 11'Those who desire a thorough exploration of its content, or the definitive account of the PRI's attempt to redefine it in the 1990s, would do well to read this book.'Latin American Studies, Vol. 43'An invaluable contribution to the area of the discursive analysis of nationalism and in particular its interplay with liberalism.' Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 31, No. 4Table of Contents Preface I Nationalism and Liberalism Introduction 1. From Nation-Building to Crisis II Construction: State Discourses 2. ‘New Nationalism’ and ‘Social Liberalism’ 3. The Reform of Article 27 4. Free Trade III Contestation: Opposition Discourses 5. The Intellectual Reassessment of National Ideology 6. Nationalism and the Left: The PRD 7. Nationalism and the Right: The PAN Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press The Poem of Fernan Gonzalez
Book SynopsisFernan Gonzalez lived from about AD 910 to 970. The popular image of him is of a fearsome warrior who gave his people protection from their enemies (both Muslim and Christian), and a wise and respected lord who enabled them to live in security and harmony. He was generally accepted to have played a strategic role in achieving independence for Castile and freeing it from dominance by the kingdom of Leon. The Poema de Fernan Gonzalez was composed (by an unknown author) in the mid-thirteenth century as an enduring celebration of his triumphs and account of his life and deeds. Fact and legend have become intertwined and there is much within its stanzas that is certainly not closely based on historic facts! This new translation is set against a detailed study of the historic context of the Castillian conflicts and a factual account of the life and achievements of Fernan Gonzalez. The political situation of the time in which the poem was composed is also considered, as is the manner in which the‘history' it espouses came to be handed down over three centuries, the possibility of a pre-existing rich oral tradition surrounding this iconic figure, and the possible sources employed by the poet in constructing the poem.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map of the county of Castile after 932 as depicted in the Poema de Fernán González Map of the Iberian Peninsula in 1252 From the Islamic invasion to the reign of Alfonso X: a chronology The dynasty of the counts of Castile in the early tenth century The rulers of Castile (House of Burgundy): 1126-1284 Illustrations Introduction 1. The tale of Fernán González (i) The figure of Fernán González: the intertwining of fact and legend (ii) The manuscript of the Poema de Fernán González and evidence of its missing content (iii) The account of the hero’s deeds in the Poema de Fernán González and its relationship with historical fact (iv) The epic,‘popular’ and ‘learned’ (v) The Poema de Fernán González and epic tradition 2. Inventing the past: a tenth-century hero in a thirteenth-century context (i) The recovery of Christian Spain, the rise of the kingdom of León and the emergence of the county of Castile (ii) The career and achievements of Fernán González (iii) After Fernán González: the age of al-Mansur, conflict among the Christian kingdoms and their eventual supremacy over the Muslims (iv) The twelfth century: the re-emergence of Navarre and rivalry between Castile and León (v) The Plantagenets, the Castilian monarchy and an age of triumph (vi) The Castilian court: a centre of learning and literary creation (vii) The invention of a historical tradition (viii) The monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza and its part in the development of a tradition (ix) The reign of Alfonso X, the crisis of 1253-1255 and the African crusade: the background to the composition of the Poema de Fernán González 3. Men of learning and juglares: the art of the mester de clerecía and the use of stylistic features associated with oral poetry (i) The Libro de Alexandre and the mester de clerecía (ii) Elements of oral narrative poetry incorporated in the work of the clerecía poets: direct speech, direct address and features of the spoken language (iii) Other features of oral-formulaic style:‘epic’ epithets, ‘pair phrases’ and ‘physical expressions’ (iv) The Poema de Fernán González and the world of learning (v) The construction of the Poema: features of folk narrative? (vi) The creation of the Poema: drawing together the materials 4. Kingship and the social order, conquest and crusade: the themes of the Poema de Fernán González (i) The portrait of the hero (ii) Sancha: a heroine in a masculine world of conflict (iii) Castile and the Castilians: a chosen people (iv) The Crown of Castile under Alfonso X: king and state, loyalty and treachery (v) Fernán González: a model and inspiration for a thirteenth-century monarch in a time of conflict (vi) Castile and León (vii) Christianity and Islam: the ruler’s duty (viii) Interpreting the Poema (ix) Binding the poem together: the image of the hunt 5. Note on the Spanish text 6. The translation Select bibliography The POEMA DE FERNÁN GONZÁLEZ: text, translation and notes
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Liverpool University Press Miguel de Unamuno: An Anthology of his Poetry
Book SynopsisMiguel de Unamuno, one of Spain's foremost literary figures, is better known for his essays and novels than for his poetry. Yet it was as a poet that he wished to be remembered and it is in his poems that he reveals the most intimate and sensitive part of his complex personality. To truly get to know Unamuno as creator it is necessary to read his poetry. This anthology of 50 poems, though modest in comparison to his large poetic output, offers the reader some of his most characteristic poems, with an English version prepared by a well-known Unamuno scholar. The English renderings are sufficiently free to allow for the use of rhyme and regular metre, but strive to capture Unamuno's highly personal way of looking at our human circumstance and destiny. In effect the anthology offers a way of approaching Unamuno that differs significantly from an approach via his prose works: it projects a more meditative and warm-hearted individual than the combative Unamuno of popular perception. The 50 poems, each with a short commentary relating it to Unamuno's personal circumstances and to his thought, are arranged under six headings: (1) Family and Home; (2) God and Mortality; (3) The Land; (4) Exile; (5) Language and Poetry; (6) Philosophical Meditations. The anthology thus offers a microcosm of Unamuno's poetic world and should be useful to those who have little or no knowledge of him. It provides a way of learning something about the man and the writer through a part of his production that has received less attention than it deserves and which projects a significantly different image from the widespread view we have of him. The poems are preceded by a substantial introduction which explores the importance and relevance of Unamuno's poetry, his major themes, and his style.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Unamuno's Poetic Production Poetic Themes: Home Life The Land Writing. Mortality The Translation Editions of Unamuno's Poetry Select Bibliography I FAMILY AND HOME 1 Volviendo a casa Returning Home 2 El hogar Home 3 Dulce, silencioso pensamiento Sweet, Silent Thought 4 Al nino enfermo To the Sick Child 5 En la muerte de Concha Upon the Death of Concha 6 En mi estudio In my Study 7 El nino y el muneco The Child and the Doll 8 La presencia de Concha Concha's Presence II GOD AND MORTALITY 9 Silencios vacios Empty Silence 10 Para despues de mi muerte After I Cease to Be 11 Leyendo un libro vivo de un Reading the Living Book of a amigo muerto Dead Friend 12 A la espera Waiting 13 Rios de mi vida Rivers of my Life 14 Irrequietum cor Restless Heart 15 La oracion del ateo The Atheist's Prayer
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