Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed argue that Islamophobia in France is not the result of individual prejudice or supposed Muslim cultural or racial deficiencies but rather arose out of structures of power and control already in place in France.

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Book SynopsisThe Caribbean has historically been constructed as a region mantled by the fantastic. Andrea Shaw Nevins analyses such imaginings of the Caribbean and interrogates the freighting of Caribbean-infused spaces with characteristics that register as fantastical.

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Book SynopsisA unique and important study, Stepping Forward examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black women in Africa and African diaspora communities from a variety of perspectives in a number of different settings.ThisTrade Review“Catherine Higgs provides an absorbing account of rival black women’s self-help organizations in Cape Province, South Africa, from 1922 to 1952 that considers issues of education and status, class and ethnicity, effects of male outmigration, and even marital infidelity!” * African Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisIn 1863, as the Civil War raged, the escaped slave, abolitionist, and novelist William Wells Brown identified two groups most harmful to his race. “The first and most relentless,” he explained, “are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation.

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Book SynopsisBeginning in 1803, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. These laws instituted barriers against blacks entering the state and placed limits on black testimony against whites.Trade Review“The book is a welcome addition to the literature in the field, not just of studies of slavery and fugitive slavery, but also of constitutional and political history. It tells an important part of a complex story, and its availability to scholars will help to shape our understanding of the history of race and slavery in not only Ohio but the Midwest for generations to come.”“As Middleton makes clear, opposition to slavery was not the same thing as support for African American civil rights, and the Ohio constitution, while prohibiting slavery, placed several restrictions upon African American residents, including denial of the right to vote.”“It is sprinkled with sparking insights and should be of interest to scholars unconcerned with Ohio, the black laws, or this era.”“Stephen Middleton’s scholarship is superb: he mines nearly seventy manuscript collections in seventeen depositories in ten states as well as about fifty major legal cases and sixty newspapers. He weaves together legal and social history in a seamless narrative fabric in nice chronological order from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to the abolition of Ohio’s Black Laws in 1887.”“Black Laws, Middleton persuasively argues, mirrored Southern slave codes.”“Middleton provides a new story of African-American survival and resistance amid systematic, institutionalized racism. Indeed, historians writ large will marvel at Middleton’s ability to weave together, rather seamlessly, local, state, and national law and politics.”

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Book SynopsisGus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship.Trade Review“Much of Reed’s biography remains conjectural, but Bahde does an excellent job of constructing the series of contextual landscapes that support his conjectures. …The Life and Death of Gus Reed contributes to the vein of recent historical scholarship that widens the geographic compass of Reconstruction beyond the South and lengthens its chronological scope beyond 1877. In emphasizing the unsettled state of race relations in the North as well as the South during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, this historiography performs a valuable service.” * American Historical Review, Vol. 120, No. 5, 2015 *“The Life and Death of Gus Reed is a major new interpretation of emancipation and Reconstruction. Bahde weaves together the details of an emblematic life into larger social, political, and legal themes. The result is an ambitious and novel design for a book on this period of history.”“Historians of African Americans and of emancipation will welcome The Life and Death of Gus Reed … Two themes signal new approaches in nineteenth-century American social history. First, Bahde offers a more intimate portrait of the ways in which everyday individuals experienced the American Civil War. In this study, such individuals included free blacks and runaway slaves, antislavery whites, pro-slavery whites, and all manner of Midwesterners who found themselves at a crossroads. … Second, Bahde challenges our assumptions about the history of criminalization and incarceration of African Americans in an age when our society now has no choice but to face the ghosts and demons of our own brand of raced justice.” * Journal of the American Civil War Era *“Bahde has mined a wealth of primary sources … which make The Life and Death of Gus Reed a valuable contribution to the growing literature on Reconstruction in the Midwest.” * H-War *

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Book SynopsisGus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship.Trade Review“Much of Reed’s biography remains conjectural, but Bahde does an excellent job of constructing the series of contextual landscapes that support his conjectures. …The Life and Death of Gus Reed contributes to the vein of recent historical scholarship that widens the geographic compass of Reconstruction beyond the South and lengthens its chronological scope beyond 1877. In emphasizing the unsettled state of race relations in the North as well as the South during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, this historiography performs a valuable service.” * American Historical Review, Vol. 120, No. 5, 2015 *“The Life and Death of Gus Reed is a major new interpretation of emancipation and Reconstruction. Bahde weaves together the details of an emblematic life into larger social, political, and legal themes. The result is an ambitious and novel design for a book on this period of history.”“Historians of African Americans and of emancipation will welcome The Life and Death of Gus Reed … Two themes signal new approaches in nineteenth-century American social history. First, Bahde offers a more intimate portrait of the ways in which everyday individuals experienced the American Civil War. In this study, such individuals included free blacks and runaway slaves, antislavery whites, pro-slavery whites, and all manner of Midwesterners who found themselves at a crossroads. … Second, Bahde challenges our assumptions about the history of criminalization and incarceration of African Americans in an age when our society now has no choice but to face the ghosts and demons of our own brand of raced justice.” * Journal of the American Civil War Era *“Bahde has mined a wealth of primary sources … which make The Life and Death of Gus Reed a valuable contribution to the growing literature on Reconstruction in the Midwest.” * H-War *

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Book SynopsisOrganized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family’s journey north during the second Great Migration.Trade Review“There are many authors, of course, who have written about the people and problems of Appalachia who don’t have eugenicists for pen-pals and mentors. Some of them even anchor frank discussions of social problems within moving personal stories. Otis Trotter’s Keeping Heart, a memoir about growing up poor, sick, and black in Appalachian Ohio springs to mind.” * The Boston Review (adapted from What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia) *“The saga of Otis Trotter and his siblings is an inspiration for anyone with an ounce of empathy. Raised by a widowed mother, they were forced to overcome the debilitating legacy of racial, economic, and political oppression to achieve meaningful, prosperous lives. In many ways their history could serve as a metaphor for African American history. The ‘Trotter Fourteen’ seized control of their destinies through initiative, intelligence, dogged persistence, and by taking care of one another. The Trotter family’s courageous struggle to succeed against improbable odds will uplift the spirit of everyone who reads this book.”“Trotter’s story is the American Dream: in America, one can overcome the obstacles in one’s life through hard work and self-reliance. It will appeal to anyone who is interested in Appalachian studies, African American studies, and especially racial and ethnic diversity in the region.”

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Book SynopsisOrganized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family’s journey north during the second Great Migration.Trade Review“There are many authors, of course, who have written about the people and problems of Appalachia who don’t have eugenicists for pen-pals and mentors. Some of them even anchor frank discussions of social problems within moving personal stories. Otis Trotter’s Keeping Heart, a memoir about growing up poor, sick, and black in Appalachian Ohio springs to mind.” * The Boston Review (adapted from What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia) *“The saga of Otis Trotter and his siblings is an inspiration for anyone with an ounce of empathy. Raised by a widowed mother, they were forced to overcome the debilitating legacy of racial, economic, and political oppression to achieve meaningful, prosperous lives. In many ways their history could serve as a metaphor for African American history. The ‘Trotter Fourteen’ seized control of their destinies through initiative, intelligence, dogged persistence, and by taking care of one another. The Trotter family’s courageous struggle to succeed against improbable odds will uplift the spirit of everyone who reads this book.”“Trotter’s story is the American Dream: in America, one can overcome the obstacles in one’s life through hard work and self-reliance. It will appeal to anyone who is interested in Appalachian studies, African American studies, and especially racial and ethnic diversity in the region.”

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Book SynopsisEncompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur’s study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for the articulation of new political communities and resistance.Trade Review“MacArthur’s exploration of the historiography of ethnicity in Kenya combines theoretical sophistication with innovative and deftly interdisciplinary methodological work, along with a knack for personalized storytelling. In Cartography and the Political Imagination, MacArthur has knit together a diverse and complex array of actors, plot lines, and forms of evidence (archival, cartographic, oral), resulting in a fascinating and important piece of historical scholarship.”“Three intertwined lines of argument are central to the study: ‘imagined communities’ constructed out of perceived concepts of ethnic, religious, linguistic, and genealogical links; the emergence of a particular form of ethnic patriotism consisting of the complex interplay of nativism and cosmopolitanism in African political thought; and how the mobilization of geographic identities rendered the development of ‘cartographic political imaginations.’ … Summing up: Recommended (upper-level undergraduates and above).” * CHOICE *“Cartography is really a fascinating and important study of how the Luyia successfully ‘imagined’ and then created a single ethnic constituency ... Cartography draws on the already rich literature on ethnogenesis … and takes it further in a case study that challenges much of the conventional wisdom about how ethnic identities are made.” * African Studies Review *“The Luyia defy assumptions about African ethnicity. With neither myth of common descent nor shared vernacular speech, this modern community is yet no colonial invention. These least ‘tribal’ of Kenya's peoples mapped their own territory of civic pluralism. In this new departure in ethnic studies, Julie MacArthur persuasively subverts our conventional wisdom.”“Cartography and Political Imagination breaks new ground in Kenyan historiography with its focus on western Kenya. This detailed and sophisticated study argues that Luyia ethnic architects used cartography to create a demographically inclusive, politically pluralistic, and progressive cosmopolitan community. It is refreshing to read a book on Kenya that does not focus on Mau Mau or the Kikuyu. MacArthur's exemplary study of a regional history will be indispensable to scholars of ethnogenesis and cartography in Africa and elsewhere.”“The Luyia have long represented a potential test case for the limits to the invention of ethnicity. MacArthur’s rich study does not disappoint. It reveals how a series of external influences—land pressures, gender panic, and the drawing of administrative boundaries—led the Luyia to define themselves through appeals to locality rather than shared ancestries. Its most fascinating contribution lies in its treatment of Luyia practices of counter-mapping.”

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Book SynopsisDrawing on archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, and documentary evidence, this book uses a cis-oceanic framework to focus on littoral communities. It clarifies the relationship between ethnicity and other kinds of identities by framing research questions around a language family instead of an ethnic, religious, or diasporic group.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, and documentary evidence, this book uses a cis-oceanic framework to focus on littoral communities. It clarifies the relationship between ethnicity and other kinds of identities by framing research questions around a language family instead of an ethnic, religious, or diasporic group.

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Book SynopsisReassembles the Charles W Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre. This work allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated with the tastes of the dominant literary culture of the late nineteenth century, and how that culture both promoted and delimited his work.Trade Review"Finally, we have Charles W. Chesnutt's conjure woman stories as he wrote them, not as Houghton Mifflin edited them. This collection is a landmark in American literary publishing for it helps us to understand the pressures exerted upon all authors and especially on African American writers. More important, these wonderful stories are now available to a new generation of readers."—Cathy N. Davidson"The publication of the conjure tales of Chesnutt constituted a crucial development in the history of African American [literature]. Yet up to now no one has attempted to do what Brodhead has done--namely, collect all the stories in this vein and publish them with an introduction that explains their import individually, serially, and as a collection. . . . His introduction augments the best scholarship that's been done on Chesnutt with his own broad expertise in the history of American fiction and his acute readings of individual Chesnutt tales."—William L. Andrews, University of KansasTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chronology of Composition 23 A Note on the Text 25 Selected Bibliography 27 The Conjure Woman The Goophered Grapevine 31 Po' Sandy 44 Mars Jeems's Nightmare 55 The Conjurer's Revenge 70 Sis' Becky's Pickaninny 82 The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt 94 Hot-Foot Hannibal 107 Related Tales Dave's Neckliss 123 A Deep Sleeper 136 Lonesome Ben 146 The Dumb Witness 158 A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken 172 Tobe's Tribulations 183 The Marked Tree 194

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Book SynopsisExplores the origin of antebellum New Orleans' large, influential, and propertied free black - or libre - population, one that was unique in the South. This book is of interest to scholars in the fields of Latin American history, African American studies, and southern history.Trade Review“Bounded Lives, Bounded Places is an original contribution to the study of colonial Louisiana—an important, but neglected field of study. Hanger focuses upon both ethnic and women’s history, and makes a contribution to comparative history.”—Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Professor of History, Emerita, Rutgers University“Kimberly Hanger traces the origins of antebellum Louisiana’s large and influential free black society to the late eighteenth-century era of Spanish colonial rule, when the entire region, but particularly New Orleans, saw a steady growth in the number of people classified as neither slave nor white. An extraordinarily rich archival trove, especially of government, church and military records, has enabled Hanger to chronicle in remarkable detail the development of this community of libres and their negotiation of the precarious and ambiguous place they occupied in colonial Louisiana society. . . . Hanger fills an important lacuna in the history of free blacks in North America.”—Roderick A. McDonald, Slavery and Abolition“No one has done more to explain the origins of Lousiana’s free people of color than Kimberly Hanger. Hanger’s mastery of both the literature of free blacks in the New World and her deep understanding of the development of colonial Louisiana enables her to place Louisiana’s free people of color in hemisphere perspective, while exposing the fine-grained texture of their daily lives. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places is the best study of free people of color in Spanish Louisiana.”—Ira Berlin, University of Maryland

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Book SynopsisSince 1989 an indigenous political movement - the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI) - has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitan. This title examines this Zapotec Indian movement and shows how COCEI forged a political and cultural path - overcoming oppression in the 1970s to achieve democracy in the 1990s.Trade Review"Decentering the Regime reveals a creative, unorthodox political scientist at work. Rubin integrates trenchant cultural and ethnohistorical analysis into his examination of local, regional, and national politics. In the process, his work takes its place on the cutting edge of research not only on Mexican politics and Latin American social movements, but also on broader, post-structural discussions of hegemony and the contested relationship between state formation and popular culture."—Gilbert M. Joseph, Yale University

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Book SynopsisA study examining how indigenous citizens of the city of Cuzco have been conceived by others and how they have viewed themselves and places these conceptions within the struggle for political identity and representation. It provides readings of everyday concepts such as marketplace identity, religious ritual, grassroots dance and popular culture.Trade Review“This is a gripping book on how and why all the people of the city of Cuzco practice a cruel and elaborate game of discrimination against each other. . . . De la Cadena has successfully shifted the paradigm with which these issues used to be treated. There is enough challenging material in this book to set the standard by which future inquiries into these issues will be measured.” - Enrique Mayer, Hispanic American Historical Review“De la Cadena builds a detailed history of changing categories of social value, carefully distinguishing how the different social classes negotiated their relative status . . . . [Her] project of deconstructing and historicizing colonial categories makes the book interesting and accessible even for non-Latin Americanists.” - Mary H. Moran, Current Anthropology"[E]ngrossing . . . . De la Cadena has produced an invaluable addition to the literature on mestizaje, race, class, and culture in Latin America. The book is richly documented both historically and ethnographically . . . . [A] fascinating and thought-provoking book." - Peter Wade, Journal of Latin American Studies"Marisol de la Cadena provides a detailed ethnographic account spanning nearly a century of changing forms of identity construction and re-construction among diverse ethnic and social strata of the Cuzco area of Peru." - Donna Lee Van Cott, Latin American Research Review"Indigenous Mestizos is a wonderfully detailed analysis of race relations in Peru. The author's thorough research is convincing about the relativity of subaltern positions in regional and city struggles for cultural distinction. This is a groundbreaking contribution to understanding Peru as well as studies on race and ethnicity, education and cultural production in other contexts." - Caroline Yezer, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies“A magnificent study. This is a model of closely interwoven ethnographic and archival research, among the most significant contributions to contemporary Andean history and anthropology in many years.”—Brooke Larson, State University of New York at Stony Brook“Eloquent, engaging, and highly readable. With its synthetic treatment of ethnographic and historical materials this book makes a welcome and highly innovative contribution to both the specialist field of Andean studies and the general fields of cultural anthropology, Latin American studies, and racial and ethnic studies.”—Deborah Poole, New School for Social Research“De la Cadena builds a detailed history of changing categories of social value, carefully distinguishing how the different social classes negotiated their relative status . . . . [Her] project of deconstructing and historicizing colonial categories makes the book interesting and accessible even for non-Latin Americanists.” -- Mary H. Moran * Current Anthropology *“This is a gripping book on how and why all the people of the city of Cuzco practice a cruel and elaborate game of discrimination against each other. . . . De la Cadena has successfully shifted the paradigm with which these issues used to be treated. There is enough challenging material in this book to set the standard by which future inquiries into these issues will be measured.” -- Enrique Mayer * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Indigenous Mestizos is a wonderfully detailed analysis of race relations in Peru. The author's thorough research is convincing about the relativity of subaltern positions in regional and city struggles for cultural distinction. This is a groundbreaking contribution to understanding Peru as well as studies on race and ethnicity, education and cultural production in other contexts." -- Caroline Yezer * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"[E]ngrossing . . . . De la Cadena has produced an invaluable addition to the literature on mestizaje, race, class, and culture in Latin America. The book is richly documented both historically and ethnographically . . . . [A] fascinating and thought-provoking book." -- Peter Wade * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Marisol de la Cadena provides a detailed ethnographic account spanning nearly a century of changing forms of identity construction and re-construction among diverse ethnic and social strata of the Cuzco area of Peru." -- Donna Lee Van Cott * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAbout the Series vii Acknowledgments ix Past Dialogues about Race: An Introduction to the Present 1 1. Decency in 1920 Urban Cuzco: The Cradle of the Indigenistas 44 2. Liberal Indigenistas versus Tawantinsuyu: The Making of the Indian 86 3. Class, Masculinity, and Mestizaje: New Incas and Old Indians 131 4. Insolent Mestizas and Respeto: The Redefinition of Mestizaje 177 5. Cuzquenismo, Respeto, and Discrimination: The Mayordomias of Almudena 231 6 Respeto and Authenticity: Grassroots Intellectuals and De-Indianized Indigenous Culture 272 7. Indigenous Mestizos, De-Indianization, and Discrimination: Cultural Racism in Cuzco 306 Notes 331 Bibliography 367 Index 399

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Book SynopsisExamines constructions of racial identity through the exploration of passing narratives including forties jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow's memoir Really the BluesTrade Review“Crossing the Line offers a superbly well-developed analysis of narratives of racial passing and a strategy for engaging such narratives. It will set the standard for subsequent treatments of racial passing.”—Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men“Deeply engaging, well-researched, and effective, Crossing the Line is a fine multidisciplinary study not only of passing narratives but of the social, political, and economic struggles that they negotiate in racial terms.”— Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative FormTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation 1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives 2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues 3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949 4. “I’m Through with Passing”: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture 5. “A Most Disagreeable Mirror”: Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me Epilogue: Passing, “Color Blindness,” and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffering a bold reinterpretation of American legal history, the author argues that American labor and occupational laws, enacted by state and federal governments after the Civil War and into the twentieth century, benefited dominant groups in society to the detriment of those who lacked political power.Trade Review“Only One Place of Redress presents a bold reinterpretation of the relationship between governmental regulations of the marketplace and economic opportunity for blacks. Bernstein challenges the conventional wisdom and invites readers to reconsider breezy assumptions about how employment regulations operated.”—James W. Ely, Jr., author of The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights“A provocative revisionist overview of legislation regulating labor relations. This will undoubtedly receive a great deal of attention from historians and students of the Constitution, and for good reason.”—Mark Tushnet, author of Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961–1991Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1. Emigrant Agent Laws 33 2. Licensing Laws 121 3. Railroad Labor Regulations 203 4. Prevailing-Wage Laws 275 5. New Deal Labor Laws 353 Documents Section 1: Federal Acts and Resolutions 486 486 Section 2: State Legislation 519 519 Section 3: Municipal Resolutions 537 Section 4: Advocacy and Activism 560 Section 5: Case Studies of Redress 638 Section 6: Lawsuits 661 Selected Bibliography 673 Contributors 683 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687 687 Index 691

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Book SynopsisRevises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. This work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans.Trade Review“Anna Everett moves African American film criticism and commentary from the margins to the center in this innovative, imaginative, and original book. Superbly researched and engagingly written, Returning the Gaze shows us the necessity of placing race at the center of the history of the American cinema, while at the same time making it clear that any adequate understanding of African American identity needs to acknowledge the centrality of cinema to the practices and processes of U.S. racial formation.”—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness and Time Passages “Everett’s fine book makes an important contribution to our understanding of black cinema, from production to journalism and criticism, as a resistance practice representing every orientation of black culture, from the popular to the political and aesthetic. This one is ‘must’ reading for all interested in black cinema, its issues, and its critical discourse.”—Ed Guerrero, New York UniversityCompelling and of great critical importance, Returning the Gaze makes a major contribution to film studies.”—Dana Polan, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Returning the Gaze 1 1. The Souls of Black Folk in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Black Newspaper Criticism and the Early Cinema, 1909–1916 12 2. The Birth of a Nation and Interventionist Criticism: Resisting Race as Spectacle 59 3. Cinephilia in the Black Renaissance: New Negro Film Criticism, 1916–1930 107 4. Black Modernist Dialectics and the New Deal: Accomodationist and Radical Film Criticism, 1930–1940 179 5. The Recalcitrant Gaze; Critiquing Hollywood in the 1940s 272 Epilogue 314 Notes 317 Works Cited 333 Index 349

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Book SynopsisA major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick's 'Epistemology of the Closet'.Trade Review“A most impressive interrogation into the problematic of black masculine identity as it has manifested in the U.S. context from the late eighteenth century through the present day. Readers from across a range of disciplines will be uniformly impressed by the scope and dexterity of Wallace’s critical intelligence. This is an overwhelmingly admirable achievement and a very important book.”—Phillip Brian Harper, author of Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity“Highly original and deeply probing in its analyses into the intricacies of its topic, Constructing the Black Masculine is a timely and rewarding addition to the study of African American literature, American studies, and race and sexuality. Maurice O. Wallace has a lot to teach.”—Nellie McKay, coeditor of The Norton Anthology of African American LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Spectagraphia 1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity Part Two: No Hiding Place 2. “Are We Men?”: Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865 3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography 4. A Man’s Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being Part Three: Looking B(l)ack 5. “I’m Not Entirely What I Look Like”: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or Jimmy’s FBEye Blues 6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Room Afterword: “What Ails you Polyphemus?”: Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe history of African Americans in film musicals and their reception by Black audiences and critics.Trade Review“African American influence on American music is legendary, but not until Arthur Knight’s Disintegrating the Musical have African American contributions to the Hollywood musical been put in the spotlight. Finally, we have a first-rate book offering a new slant on everything from blackface and Paul Robeson to the film version of Porgy and Bess.”—Rick Altman, University of Iowa“Knight’s fine book is compelling reading that takes black cinema scholarship into new unmapped issues and territories. Notable is Knight's thoroughly innovative and nuanced discussion of ‘blackface’ (and its ‘whiteface’ counterpoint) and how blacks deployed forms of ‘black blackface,’ to discover pain, pleasure and irony in its complexities. Importantly, Knight charts the power of black musical performance, illuminating the schizophrenic disjuncture between the pervasive influence of the black Jazz sound and the simultaneous erasure, segregation, or devaluation of the African American musician's visual presence in mainstream cinema. Disintegrating The Musical casts its arguments in bold, lucid strokes, standing out as a solid contribution to the fields of cinema and performance studies and Jazz scholarship.”—Ed Guerrero, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Disintegrating the Musical 1. Wearing and Tearing the Mask: Blacks on and in Blackface, Live 2. “Fool Acts”: Cinematic Conjunctions of White Blackface and Black Performance 3. Indefinite Talks: Blacks in Blackface, Filmed 4. Black Folk Sold: Hollywood’s Black-Cast Musicals 5. “Aping” Hollywood: Deformation and Mastery in The Duke is Tops and Swing! 6. Jammin’ the Blues: The Sight of Jazz Coda: Bamboozled? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe history of African Americans in film musicals and their reception by Black audiences and critics.Trade Review“African American influence on American music is legendary, but not until Arthur Knight’s Disintegrating the Musical have African American contributions to the Hollywood musical been put in the spotlight. Finally, we have a first-rate book offering a new slant on everything from blackface and Paul Robeson to the film version of Porgy and Bess.”—Rick Altman, University of Iowa“Knight’s fine book is compelling reading that takes black cinema scholarship into new unmapped issues and territories. Notable is Knight's thoroughly innovative and nuanced discussion of ‘blackface’ (and its ‘whiteface’ counterpoint) and how blacks deployed forms of ‘black blackface,’ to discover pain, pleasure and irony in its complexities. Importantly, Knight charts the power of black musical performance, illuminating the schizophrenic disjuncture between the pervasive influence of the black Jazz sound and the simultaneous erasure, segregation, or devaluation of the African American musician's visual presence in mainstream cinema. Disintegrating The Musical casts its arguments in bold, lucid strokes, standing out as a solid contribution to the fields of cinema and performance studies and Jazz scholarship.”—Ed Guerrero, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Disintegrating the Musical 1. Wearing and Tearing the Mask: Blacks on and in Blackface, Live 2. “Fool Acts”: Cinematic Conjunctions of White Blackface and Black Performance 3. Indefinite Talks: Blacks in Blackface, Filmed 4. Black Folk Sold: Hollywood’s Black-Cast Musicals 5. “Aping” Hollywood: Deformation and Mastery in The Duke is Tops and Swing! 6. Jammin’ the Blues: The Sight of Jazz Coda: Bamboozled? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean. Bringing to bear a comparative, diasporic perspective, Robert Carr examines the complex roles race, gender, sexuality, and history have played in the formation of black national identities in the U. S. and Caribbean—particularly in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana—over the past two centuries. He shows how nationalism begins as an impulse emanating 'upwards' from the bottom of the social and economic spectrum and discusses the implications of this phenomenon for understanding democracy and nationalism. Black Nationalism in the New World combines geography, political economy, and subaltern studies in readings of noncanoniTrade Review“Robert Carr’s book places at our disposal a virtually unique comparative study of cultural production in the United States and the Caribbean.”—Hortense Spillers, Cornell University“This book is really smart, interesting, and useful—in short, an incredible addition to scholarship in the areas it addresses. It is an outstanding work.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. F(o)unding Black Capital: Money, Power, Culture, and Revolution in Martin R. Delany’s Blake; or The Huts of America 2. Of What Use Is History? Blood, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity in Pauline Hopkin’s New Woman 3. From Larva to Chrysalis: Multicultural Consciousness and Anticolonial Revolution in Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel 4. The New Man in the Jungle: Chaos, Community, and the Margins of the Nation-State 5. The Masculinization of Mothering: The Oakland Black Panthers and the Black Body Politic 6. A Politics of Change: Sistren, Subalternity, and the Social Pact in the War for Democratic Socialism 7. Geopolitics/Geoculture: Denationalization in the New World Order Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American authors - and on twentieth-century American debates about race, this book remaps black modernism, that reveals the importance of the Soviet experience in the formation of a black transnationalism.Trade Review“A blockbuster study of the Soviet Union’s significance for African American literary and cultural self-fashioning in the twentieth century, researched with an unusually daunting prodigiousness and conceived with a truly geopolitical theoretical intelligence. In attending to questions of travel, of political identities-in-formation, and of subjectivity’s ever-changing subject, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain locates a dialectic of displacement in which an imaginary and actual elsewhere—in this case none other than post-revolutionary Russia—furnishes a space to rearticulate crucial aspects of social and cultural life at home.”—Eric Lott, author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class“A significant book that introduces the Soviet Union to the ‘Black Atlantic’ model of modernism. By examining the works of writers such as Du Bois, McKay, Hughes, and Robeson, the author explains the impact of the Soviet Union on African Americans. This kind of analysis is new—and vital—to literary studies.”—Gerald Horne, author of Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists“In Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain, Kate A. Baldwin has presented the hitherto ignored Soviet response to African American intellectuals and cultural workers. This is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the intellectual and political range of African America in the twentieth century.”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Demand for a New Kind of Person: Black Americans and the Soviet Union, 1922-1963 1. “Not at All God’s White People”: McKay and the Negro in Red 2. Between Harlem and Harlem: Hughes and the Ways of the Veil 3. Du Bois, Russia, and the “Refusal to Be ‘White’” 4. Black Shadows across the Iron Curtain: Robeson’s Stance between Cold War Cultures Epilogue: The Only Television Hostess Who Doesn’t Turn Red Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow do race and nature work as terrains of power? Synthesizing a number of fields - anthropology, cultural studies, and critical race, feminist, and postcolonial theory, this title analyses diverse historical, cultural, and spatial locations.Trade Review“A stunning and original collection. As far as the essays here excavate the many valences of 'race' and 'nature' and the 'racisms' and 'naturalisms' that operate and mobilize them, they are cautiously hopeful, and write eloquently against the reproduction and government of life through these exclusive terms.”—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics"This is a pathbreaking volume on the cultural politics of race, nature, and power. A range of innovative contributions address the most pressing questions regarding the mutually mediating ‘traffic’ between the terms of nature, culture, and race. This book now sets the standard in thinking critically—that is, politically—about the racial cultures of nature, difference, and distinction."—David Theo Goldberg, author of The Racial StateTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nature: Terrains of Power and Practice / Donald S. Moore, Anand Pandian, and Jake Kosek 1 Part One. Calculating Improvements 71 1. After the Great White Error . . . The Great Black Mirage / Paul Gilroy 73 2. Simians, Savages, Skulls, and Sex: Science and Colonial Militarism in Nineteenth-Century South Africa / Zine Magubane 99 3. “The More You Kill the More You Will Live”: The Maya, “Race,” and Biopolitical Hopes fro Peace in Guatemala / Diane M. Nelson 122 Part Two. Landscapes of Purity and Pollution 4. “There is a Land Where Everything is Pure": Linguistic Nationalism and Identity Politics in Germany / Uli Linke 149 5. “On the Raggedy Edge of Risk": Articulations of Race and Nature after Biology / Bruce Braun 175 6. Beyond Ecoliberal “Common Futures": Environmental Justice, Toxic Touring, and a Transcommunal Politics of Place / Giovanna Di Chiro 204 7. Inventing the Heterozygote: Molecular Biology, Racial Identity, and the Narratives of Sickle-Cell Disease, Tay-Sachs, and Cystic Fibrosis / Keith Wailoo 235 8. For the Love of a Good Dog: Webs of Action in the World of Dog Genetics / Donna Haraway 254 9. Intimate Publics: Race, Property, and Personhood / Robyn Wiegman 296 Part Four. The Politics of Representation 321 10. Men in Paradise: Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity / Steven Gregory 323 11. Pulp Fictions of Indigenism / Alcida Ramos 356 12. Masyarakat Adat, Difference, and the Limits of Recognition in Indonesia’s Forest Zone / Tania Murray Li 380 Bibliography 407 Contributors 461 Index 465

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Book SynopsisExamines the ways popular protests are experienced and remembered by those who participate in them. This book focuses on the roles of two young women, Nana and Laura, in uprisings in Argentina. It offers discussions of resistance and the combined effects of globalization, neoliberal economic policies, and political corruption in Argentina.Trade Review”Contentious Lives dares to present the lives of two women who lived hard times but at a certain moment plunged into popular movements and then had to bear the consequences of their participation, to make sense of what they had done, and to fashion new relations with other people. The two women have entrusted Javier Auyero with stories few others would want to see in print: stories of suffering, indiscretion, indecision, bitterness, regret, and passion.”—Charles Tilly, Columbia University”Javier Auyero proves that you can go home again—and that with the proper experience elsewhere you can see more than you would have noticed if you had never left. Returning to his native Argentina as a sympathetic, well trained observer of political conflict, he shows us how intense personal lives and passionate political participation connect with each other. Auyero tells stories of Argentinian political and economic crises from an entirely fresh perspective.”—Viviana Zelizer, Princeton UniversityTable of Contents5. The Lived 1993: The Coming and Making of the Explosion 115 6. The Lived Sixteenth: The Feast and the Remains of the Riot 137 7. Nana’s Life: “Thirty-six Years of Crap” 153 8. Contested Memories 172 Conclusions: Ethnography and Recognition 191 Appendix. On Fieldwork, Theory, and the Question of Biography 201 Notes 209 References 217 Index 229 About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: On the Intersection of Individual and Collective Biographies and Protest 1 Part I. The Picketer 15 1. The Day before the Pueblada: A Town on the Edge 29 2. Laura’s Life: “How Did I Fall So Far?” 48 3. Being-in-the-Road: Insurgent Identities 60 4. After the Road: Contentious Legacies 89 Part II. The Queen of the Riot 101

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Book SynopsisArgues for re framing Asian American studies as a study defined not by its subjects and objects, but by its critique. This book examines Asian American literature and US legal discourse for the normative claims about race, gender, and sexuality.Trade Review"Kandice Chuh argues that in the current study of Asian Americans, the critique of social inequality must overcome the impossible insistence on a uniform ethnic subject. She performs a daring deconstruction of the recurrence to ideas of authenticity and identity, discusses the pitfalls of essentialized concepts of 'activism' and 'community,' and encourages us to put the case of Asian Americans towards a more general critique of racialized U.S. society. Her intervention challenges us to think differently, to ‘imagine otherwise.’"—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics“Imagine Otherwise is a provocative work. It questions the terms in which Asian American studies have been understood and offers a set of exciting theoretical alternatives, each of which is substantiated by close readings of literary texts. Our understanding of Asian American subjectivity is significantly enhanced in the process.”—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial FrontierTable of ContentsPreface: Imagine Otherwise ix Introduction: On Asian Americanist Critique 1 1. Against Uniform Subjectivity: Remembering "Filipino America” 31 2. Nikkei Internment: Determined Identities/Undecidable Meanings 58 3. "One Hundred Percent Korean”: On Space and Subjectivity 85 4. (Dis)Owning America 112 Conclusion: When Difference Meets Itself 147 Notes 153 Works Cited 187 Index 211

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Book SynopsisExamines the various ways that blackness is appropriated and performed - toward widely divergent ends - both within and outside African American culture. This title develops from the contention that blackness in the United States is necessarily a politicized identity trope - avowed and disavowed, attractive and repellant, fixed and malleable.Trade Review"With Appropriating Blackness, E. Patrick Johnson has given us a book worthy of the breadth its title signals. It is written in an excellent and refreshingly clear prose style which sacrifices nothing in the way of complexity of the ideas being presented. Johnson makes his observations about the relatedness of performance and blackness more compelling with each successive case study."—Dwight A. McBride, coeditor of Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction"Appropriating Blackness is a wonderful study that makes important and timely contributions across many fields. E. Patrick Johnson is a skilled reader of texts and offers useful introductions to complex theories of race, sexuality, and culture.”—David Román, author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDSTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction "Blackness" and Authenticity: What's Performance Got to Do with It? 1 1. The Pot is Brewing: Marlon Riggs's Black Is . . . Black Ain't 17 2. Manifest Faggotry: Queering Masculinity in African American Culture 48 3. Mother Knows Best: Blackness and Transgressive Domestic Space 76 4. "Nevah Had uh Cross Word": Mammy and the Trope of Black Womanhood 104 5. Sounds of Blackness Down Under: The Cafe of the Gate of Salvation 160 6. Performance and/as Pedagogy: Performing Blackness in the Classroom 219 Appendix A Mary Rhyne's Narrative 257 Appendix B Interview with Mrs. Smith 311 Notes 315 Bibliography 345 Index 361

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Book SynopsisTransnational ethnic identity issues studied through an ethnography of Chinese American visits to Chinese villages organized under a program set up by the Chinese governmentTrade Review“Andrea Louie provides an engaging ethnography of the dual investment of mainland Chinese and Chinese American youth in defining what it is to be Chinese in diaspora. Louie’s attention to the role of the Chinese state in fostering ‘geneological tourism’ helps to break new ground in Asian American and diaspora studies.”—Kamala Visweswaran, author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography“Andrea Louie seamlessly guides a discussion of China and Chinese America from the difficult topography of race and nation to the heartfelt search for the understanding of ancestry and home.”—Shawn Wong, author of the novel American Knees“Andrea Louie’s work heralds a new and important phase in the anthropology of transnationalism and globalization. She has produced a very convincing and elegantly nuanced ethnographic exploration of Chinese and Chinese American negotiations of ‘Chineseness.’”—Martin F. Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the DiasporaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: On Boundary Crossings 1 1 Identities Fixed in Place: Ancestral Villages and Chinese/Chinese American Roots 39 2 Welcome Home!(?): Crafting a Sense of Place in the United States through the In Search of Roots Homeland Tour 69 3 Crafting Chinese American Identities: Roots Narratives in the Context of U.S. Multiculturalism 95 4 The Feng Shui Has Taken a Turn (feng shui lun liu zhuan): Changing Views of the Guangdong Chinese toward Life Abroad Following the Open Policy 127 5 The Descendants of the Dragon Gather: The Youth Festival as Encounter between the Chinese and the Chinese American Other 161 6 Remaking Places and Renegotiating Chineseness 189 Epilogue 205 Notes 211 Bibliography 229 Index 239

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Book SynopsisA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and GermanyTrade Review“An important book for scholars of the African diaspora, Becoming Black puts the word ‘diaspora’ back into African American studies. There are bold new conversations here.”—Sharon Holland, author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity“Becoming Black yields a complex and differentiated understanding of Enlightenment discourses on race and offers a framework for comparing the different models of subjecthood that underwrote the varying histories of colonialism and slavery. It is unique in that it brings Afro-German and Afro-French writings into dialogue with Afro-British and African American texts. There is no existing study of the African diaspora that brings such a range of national traditions together.”—Madhu Dubey, author of Signs and Cities: Black Literary PostmodernismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West 1 1. The European and American Invention of the Black Other 27 2. The Trope of Masking in the Works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aime Cesaire 66 3. Some Women Disappear: Frantz Fanon's Legacy in Black Nationalist Thought and the Black (Male) Subject 111 4. How I Got Ovah: Masking to Motherhood and the Diasporic Black Female Subject 136 5. The Urban Diaspora: Black Subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris 183 Epilogue: If the Black Is a Subject, Can the Subaltern Speak? 229 Notes 233 Bibliography 261 Index 269

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Book SynopsisThe first book analyzing the artistic production and critical reception of Kara Walker, a young African-American artist whose controversial work deals with unsettling themes of racism.Trade Review“Seeing the Unspeakable is an extremely important work. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is the first writer to place this controversial young artist’s work firmly in an art historical perspective. She combines careful scrutiny of the art’s formal traits with wide-ranging iconographic analysis, canny theoretical interpretation, and a revelatory examination of the work’s critical reception. The result is an extraordinary piece of scholarship.”—Judith Wilson, University of California, Irvine“It is not easy to write a scholarly work on a living artist whose talent for generating controversy at times obscures her formidable creative talent. However, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw has done it, with remarkable intelligence and style. She brilliantly contextualizes Kara Walker’s work in terms of art history and African American history in a book that will be of tremendous value to scholars across many disciplines.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Tracing Race and Representation 11 2. The “Rememory” of Slavery 37 3. The Lactation of John Brown 67 4. Censorship and Reception 103 5. Final Cut 125 Conclusion 153 Notes 157 Index 187

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Book SynopsisCombines legal and historical analysis to address the implications of Brown v. Board of Education , showing that the resolution of racial segregation in schools transformed the lives of ordinary citizens in broader ways than has previously been assumed.Trade Review“From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court combines well-crafted accounts that are both top-down and bottom-up (sometimes within the same essay). This intellectually stimulating approach generates unanticipated synergies, new ways of understanding the persisting struggle for racial justice.”—David L. Kirp, author of Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education“This book does a wonderful job of bringing history to life by revealing the human stories behind the Supreme Court’s famous decision. Each contribution offers a rich and textured picture of how Brown touched individual lives, prompting hope, fear, courage, and despair.”—Rachel F. Moran, author of Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and RomanceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Peter F. Lau 1 Part I: Historical Contexts: Views from the Grassroots Plessy and Early Challenges to the Doctrine of “Separate, but Equal” / Blair L. M. Kelley 19 Tapestries of Resistance: Episodes of School Segregation and Desegregation in the Western United States / Vicki L. Ruiz 44 Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina / Raymond Gavins 68 “Liberating Lifescripts”: Price Edward County, Virginia, and the Roots of Brown v. Board of Education / Kara Miles Turner 88 From the Periphery to the Center: Clarendon County, South Carolina, Brown, and the Struggle for Democracy and Equality in America / Peter F. Lau 105 Part II: Advocates, Judges, and the Making of Brown A Civil Rights Vanguard: Black Attorneys and the NAACP in Virginia / Larissa M. Smith 129 Prelude to Brown: Education and the Struggle for Racial Justice during the NAACP’s Formative Decades, 1909-1934 / Patricia Sullivan 154 J. Waties Waring and the Making of Liberal Jurisprudence in Postwar America / Christopher W. Schmidt 173 Brown v. Board of Education: Law of Politics? / Michael J. Klarman 198 Part III: Historical Impact: Views from the Grassroots The Impact of Lawyer-Client Disengagement on the NAACP’s Campaign to Implement Brown v. Board of Education in Atlanta / Tomiko Brown-Nagin 227 “The New Negro Ain’t Scared No More!”: Black Women’s Activism in North Carolina and the Meaning of Brown / Christina Greene 245 The Rural-Urban Matrix in the 1950s South: Rethinking Racial Struggles in Memphis / Laurie B. Green 270 New York, Puerto Ricans, and the Dilemmas of Integration / Madeleine E. Lopez 300 Part IV: Life, Law, and Culture in Post-Brown America “Stretching Out”: Living and Remembering Brown , 1945-1970 / Waldo E. Martin Jr. 321 The Supreme Court’s Two Principles of Equality, From Brown to 2003 / Mark V. Tushnet 340 Brown v. Board of Education and its Impact on Black Education in America / Davison M. Douglas 361 Conclusion: Brown and Historical Memory / Peter F. Lau 383 Bibliography 387 Notes on the Contributors 391 Index 395

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Book SynopsisGenerates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnectedTrade Review“Beautifully written, theoretically sophisticated, and passionately iconoclastic, Odd Tribes should be required reading for anyone interested in the study of race and social inequalities. Its difficult lessons—for both liberal academics and antiracist practitioners—need to be absorbed and understood.”—Matt Wray, coeditor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness“For John Hartigan Jr., race is not a fixed, abstract social fact but a fluid, heterogeneous, situated field of racializing practices. Odd Tribes deftly develops this approach through a series of lively accounts of how lower-class whites have been racialized in ways that simultaneously normalize whiteness. An elegant, fresh, provocative, often surprising, and ultimately hopeful work that argues forcefully for a cultural perspective on racial matters.”—Susan Harding, author of The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics"[A]n important and critical engagement with what is sometimes called 'whiteness studies.' . . . Using his research in Detroit, Hartigan convincingly traces the varied and varying way in which race is lived in a context that is highly racialized, and yet not all social encounters are necessarily about race." -- Bridget Byrne * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I 1. Picturing the Underclass: Myth Making in the Inner City 33 2. Blood Will Tell: The Nationalization of White Trash 59 3. Unpopular Culture: The Case of White Trash 109 4. Reading Trash: Deliverance and the Cultural Poetics of White Trash 135 5. Talking Trash: White Poverty and Marked Forms of Whiteness 147 6. Green Ghettos and the White Underclass 167 Part II 7. Establishing the Fact of Whiteness 187 8. Locating White Detroit 205 9. Object Lessons in Whiteness: Antiracism and the Study of White Folks 231 10. Cultural Analysis: The Case of Race 257 Notes 289 Reference 327 Index 355

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Book SynopsisGenerates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnectedTrade Review“Beautifully written, theoretically sophisticated, and passionately iconoclastic, Odd Tribes should be required reading for anyone interested in the study of race and social inequalities. Its difficult lessons—for both liberal academics and antiracist practitioners—need to be absorbed and understood.”—Matt Wray, coeditor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness“For John Hartigan Jr., race is not a fixed, abstract social fact but a fluid, heterogeneous, situated field of racializing practices. Odd Tribes deftly develops this approach through a series of lively accounts of how lower-class whites have been racialized in ways that simultaneously normalize whiteness. An elegant, fresh, provocative, often surprising, and ultimately hopeful work that argues forcefully for a cultural perspective on racial matters.”—Susan Harding, author of The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics"[A]n important and critical engagement with what is sometimes called 'whiteness studies.' . . . Using his research in Detroit, Hartigan convincingly traces the varied and varying way in which race is lived in a context that is highly racialized, and yet not all social encounters are necessarily about race." -- Bridget Byrne * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I 1. Picturing the Underclass: Myth Making in the Inner City 33 2. Blood Will Tell: The Nationalization of White Trash 59 3. Unpopular Culture: The Case of White Trash 109 4. Reading Trash: Deliverance and the Cultural Poetics of White Trash 135 5. Talking Trash: White Poverty and Marked Forms of Whiteness 147 6. Green Ghettos and the White Underclass 167 Part II 7. Establishing the Fact of Whiteness 187 8. Locating White Detroit 205 9. Object Lessons in Whiteness: Antiracism and the Study of White Folks 231 10. Cultural Analysis: The Case of Race 257 Notes 289 Reference 327 Index 355

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Book SynopsisExamines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernismTrade Review“Louis Chude-Sokei’s innovative study not only brings overdue attention to Bert Williams. It deepens our understanding of black modernity and redirects the study of minstrelsy as well. A rich, wide-ranging book, it is filled with resonant insights and brilliant collocations.”—Nathaniel Mackey, author of Paracritical Hinge“With theoretical verve and archival aplomb, Louis Chude-Sokei explores an open secret that we too often have preferred to ignore: the central role of black minstrelsy in the origins of the Harlem Renaissance. Starting with the simple fact of Bert Williams’s Caribbean origins, he finds the multiple layers of masquerade in any performance of ‘race.’ A timely, often profound portrait of the dynamics of intraracial difference in diaspora.”—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Black Minstrel, Black Modernism 17 2. Migrations of a Mask 46 3. Theorizing Black-on-Black Cross-Culturality 82 4. The Global Economy of Minstrelsy 114 5. In Dahomy 161 6. Claude McKay’s Calypso 207 Notes 249 Bibliography 263 Index 272

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Book SynopsisExamines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernismTrade Review“Louis Chude-Sokei’s innovative study not only brings overdue attention to Bert Williams. It deepens our understanding of black modernity and redirects the study of minstrelsy as well. A rich, wide-ranging book, it is filled with resonant insights and brilliant collocations.”—Nathaniel Mackey, author of Paracritical Hinge“With theoretical verve and archival aplomb, Louis Chude-Sokei explores an open secret that we too often have preferred to ignore: the central role of black minstrelsy in the origins of the Harlem Renaissance. Starting with the simple fact of Bert Williams’s Caribbean origins, he finds the multiple layers of masquerade in any performance of ‘race.’ A timely, often profound portrait of the dynamics of intraracial difference in diaspora.”—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Black Minstrel, Black Modernism 17 2. Migrations of a Mask 46 3. Theorizing Black-on-Black Cross-Culturality 82 4. The Global Economy of Minstrelsy 114 5. In Dahomy 161 6. Claude McKay’s Calypso 207 Notes 249 Bibliography 263 Index 272

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Book SynopsisA cultural history of activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the "long 1960s."Trade Review“I read Soul Power with a combination of pleasure and intellectual profit that is rare to come across in academic writing these days. There is so much fresh material here, supported by provocative theses. The result is a welcome challenge to the seasoned reader of postwar American culture and politics.”—Andrew Ross, author of Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai“In Soul Power, Cynthia A. Young recovers the important hidden history of internationalism and world-transcending citizenship within the U.S. Black Freedom movement of the mid-twentieth century. This lively, engrossing, and engaging study reveals how commitments to global justice permeated the actions and ideas of Black trade union organizers, armed self-defense groups, community-based nationalists, visionary filmmakers, and radical feminists. Young demonstrates that the ferment and upheaval in Black communities in the mid-twentieth century did not just generate demands for equal rights inside the U.S. nation but raised as well programs aimed at ending imperialism, colonialism, and exploitation around the world.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger“Soul Power is a significant contribution to the study of US radicalism, highlighting the roles African Americans and other people of color played in these movements. Considering the ambitious range of her project, Young delivers an admirable mix of breadth and depth, covering a number of individuals and organizations and their relevance to the development of the US Third World Left. The carefully chronicled historiography provides a valuable foundation for further investigations of this period.” -- Rychetta N. Watkins * MELUS *“[T]he great virtue of Soul Power is to complicate our understandings of 1960s-era social movements. Soul Power successfully challenges New Left narratives that place the activities of white middleclass youths at their center, and civil rights narratives that concentrate on the struggle against racial oppression while ignoring that against class oppression. By focusing on a series of important, fascinating, and neglected historical actors, Young offers us a much richer understanding of the 1960s-era left.” -- Daniel Geary * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Havana Up in Harlem and Down in Monroe: Armed Revolt and the Making of a Cultural Revolution 18 2. Union Power, Soul Power: Class Struggle by Cultural Means 54 3. Newsreel: Rethinking the Filmmaking Arm of the New Left 100 4. Third World Newsreel Visualizes the Internal Colony 145 5. Angela Y. Davis and U.S. Third World Left Theory and Praxis 184 6. Shot in Watts: Film and State Violence in the 1970s 209 Coda 245 Notes 253 Bibliography and Filmography 271 Index 295

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Book SynopsisEthnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy.Trade Review“Frontiers of Capital is a synthetic state-of-the-art account of anthropology’s contribution to thinking about the current economic moment. The essays are—without exception—brilliant ethnographic excursions into the terrain of what the editors call the ‘New Economy.’ Together they enable an understanding of the post–Cold War, neoliberal, information-saturated, finance-capital-dominated world we inhabit.”—Charles Piot, author of Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa“Capital will go anywhere if there is a profit to be turned or value to be found. That is its nature. This important collection provides a further chapter in this natural history, but one which has a much greater range, not least because it deploys a range of ethnographic techniques which allow it to cover the full spectrum of the ways and wheres in which the global economy works. An important and inspirational book which is willing to tread the delicate dividing line between within and without the system.”—Nigel Thrift, author of Knowing Capitalism“[A]n interesting and provocative set of chapters. . . . [T]he strength of the collection lies in the ways in which the authors weave clear ethnographic discussions with rich theoretical concerns. Combined ethnography and theory allow us to more clearly understand the give and take that exists between the creators and users of new technologies.” -- Jeffrey H. Cohen * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher 1 I. Circuits of Knowledge Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus 33 Trading on Numbers / Caitlin Zaloom 58 Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge / Annelise Riles 86 The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting / Greg Downey 108 Intersecting Geographies? ICTS and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone 133 II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai / Aihwa Ong 163 Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban “Regeneration” as Global Urban Strategy / Neil Smith 191 Navigating Wall Street Women’s Gendered Networks in the New Economy / Melissa S. Fisher 209 Developing Community Software in a Commodity World / Siobhán O’Mahony 237 Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 267 Guerilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery / Paul A. Silverstein 282 Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge / Saskia Sassen 305 Bibliography 317 Contributors 357 Index 361

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Book SynopsisEthnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy.Trade Review“Frontiers of Capital is a synthetic state-of-the-art account of anthropology’s contribution to thinking about the current economic moment. The essays are—without exception—brilliant ethnographic excursions into the terrain of what the editors call the ‘New Economy.’ Together they enable an understanding of the post–Cold War, neoliberal, information-saturated, finance-capital-dominated world we inhabit.”—Charles Piot, author of Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa“Capital will go anywhere if there is a profit to be turned or value to be found. That is its nature. This important collection provides a further chapter in this natural history, but one which has a much greater range, not least because it deploys a range of ethnographic techniques which allow it to cover the full spectrum of the ways and wheres in which the global economy works. An important and inspirational book which is willing to tread the delicate dividing line between within and without the system.”—Nigel Thrift, author of Knowing Capitalism“[A]n interesting and provocative set of chapters. . . . [T]he strength of the collection lies in the ways in which the authors weave clear ethnographic discussions with rich theoretical concerns. Combined ethnography and theory allow us to more clearly understand the give and take that exists between the creators and users of new technologies.” -- Jeffrey H. Cohen * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: The Anthropology of Capital and the Frontiers of Ethnography / Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher 1 I. Circuits of Knowledge Fast Capitalism: Para-Ethnography and the Rise of the Symbolic Analyst / Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus 33 Trading on Numbers / Caitlin Zaloom 58 Real Time: Unwinding Technocratic and Anthropological Knowledge / Annelise Riles 86 The Information Economy in No-Holds-Barred Fighting / Greg Downey 108 Intersecting Geographies? ICTS and Other Virtualities in Urban Africa / AbdouMaliq Simone 133 II. New Subjects, Novel Socialities Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitans, and Guanxi in Shanghai / Aihwa Ong 163 Gentrification Generalized: From Local Anomaly to Urban “Regeneration” as Global Urban Strategy / Neil Smith 191 Navigating Wall Street Women’s Gendered Networks in the New Economy / Melissa S. Fisher 209 Developing Community Software in a Commodity World / Siobhán O’Mahony 237 Reflections on Youth, from the Past to the Postcolony / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff 267 Guerilla Capitalism and Ghettocentric Cosmopolitanism on the French Urban Periphery / Paul A. Silverstein 282 Afterword: Knowledge Practices and Subject Making at the Edge / Saskia Sassen 305 Bibliography 317 Contributors 357 Index 361

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Book SynopsisEssays examining how Irish identity is performed and commodified in the contemporary transnational environment, in Frank McCourt's writing, the explosion of Irish-themed merchandising, the practices of heritage seekers and in the movie The Crying GameTrade Review“Diane Negra has built a dynamic cultural studies anthology from the sophisticated research of a new generation of scholars. ‘Irishness,’ still an attractive or scandalous stereotype, is here understood through reflection on nation, ethnicity, class, and gender—reflection that is in turn animated by the obtuseness of ‘Irishness’ in its newly global situation. Expressing a variety of views through vivid examples, this anthology becomes itself exemplary.”—Dudley Andrew, Yale University“The essays in this collection are to Irish studies what B. B. King and the Chicago Blues are to the Delta Blues: they draw on an existing body of work, virtuosically extend it, and at the same time electrify it, creating new forms in the process. In this respect, this collection is the book that many in Irish studies have been waiting for.”—Margot Backus, author of The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order“This sparkling, sophisticated, and original collection analyzes such diverse topics as the genealogical quest for Irish roots, Celtic white supremacists, and post–September 11 identity politics. Provocatively, Diane Negra suggests that ‘Irishness’ has become a way for Americans to claim a safe and fashionable ethnic identity. Essential reading for Irish and American cultural studies.”—Elizabeth Cullingford, author of Ireland’s Others: Gender and Ethnicity in Irish Literature and Popular CultureTable of ContentsThe Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture / Diane Negra 1 “Still ‘Black’ and ‘Proud’”: Irish America and the Racial Politics of Hibernophilia / Catherine M. Eagan 20 The Wearing of the Green: Performing Irishness in the Fox Wartime Musical / Sean Griffin 64 “The Best Kept Secret in Retail”: Selling Irishness in Contemporary America / Natasha Casey 84 “Papa Don’t Preach”: Pregnancy and Performance in Contemporary Irish Cinema / Maria Pramaggiore 110 rish Roots: Genealogy and the Performance of Irishness / Stephanie Rains 130 Ray Charles on Hyndford Street: Van Morrison’s Caledonian Soul / Lauren Onkey 161 Garth Brooks in Ireland, or, Play That Country Music, Whiteboys / Mary McGlynn 196 “Does the Rug Match the Carpet?”: Race, Gender, and the Redheaded Woman / Amanda Third 220 Dead, White, and Male: Irishness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel / Gerardine Meaney 254 “A Bit of Traveller in Everybody”: Traveller Identities in Irish and American Culture / Maeve Connolly 282 Feeling Éire(y): On Irish-Caribbean Popular Culture / Michael Malouf 318 Irishness, Innocence, and American Identity Politics before and after September 11 / Diane Negra 354 Contributors 373 Index 377

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Book SynopsisGilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant achievement of exceptional people hewing to a relational ethic of strict self-discipline for the common good. This title demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the 'normal' American.Trade Review“The Heart of Whiteness is brilliant; it has the capacity to transform what we thought we knew about both race and sexuality in the twentieth century. Furthermore, in Julian Carter’s hands ‘normal’ takes on a meaning that is so specific, clear, and historically on-target that nobody will be able to see twentieth-century normality in the same way after reading her book.”—Gail Bederman, author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917“In this smart and provocative book, Julian B. Carter argues that the concept of ‘the normal’ in America results from an interlocking though disavowed set of relationships between whiteness and heterosexuality. . . . Carter’s source materials are well chosen and consistently interesting. . . . This is a brilliant book, certain to invigorate our understanding of whiteness and heterosexuality as they presided at the birth of American normality.” -- Mason Stokes * American Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Search for Norma 1 1. Barbarians Are Not Nervous 42 2. The Marriage Crisis 75 3. Birds, Bees, and the Future of the Race: Making Whiteness Normal 118 Epilogue. Regarding Racial/Erotic Politics 153 Notes 161 Bibliography 195 Index 211

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Book SynopsisBrings together primary and secondary documents related to the reparations movement in the United States. While the movement is united in its goal of "repairing" the injustices to African Americans that have followed from the long history of slavery and Jim Crow, this title reveals the range of opinions as to the form that repair might take.Trade Review“A truly impressive achievement in its range of approaches, depth of analysis, and variety of sources, this book should immediately become the definitive text on the subject of reparations for black Americans.”— Charles W. Mills, John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University“It will be far harder to dismiss the deeply resonant and persistent demand for reparations in the wake of this remarkable collection of interdisciplinary research and historical documentation. This monumental work is ideal for teaching how history and policy intersect.”—David Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“For educators, this book is fundamentally useful. . . . Most helpful for the classroom, though, is the final section of primary sources. These include federal acts and resolutions, state legislation, municipal resolutions, seminal documents from activist organizations, case studies of redress, and opinions from key lawsuits. I doubt there is another work that houses these reparations-specific documents with this level of precision. Nor is there one volume with as much intellectual depth and breadth on this crucial topic.” -- Robert Samuel Smith * Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsPreface xiii Acknowledgments xix On Redress for Racial Injustice / Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto 1 Part 1. Racial Inequality and White Privilege Racial Injustices in U.S. History and Their Legacy / David Lyons 33 Race Preferences and Race Privileges / Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman 55 A Sociology of Wealth and Racial Inequality / Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro 91 Part 2. Law, Citizenship, and the State The Case for Reparations / Robert Fullinwider 121 Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations / James Bolner 134 The Constitutionality of Black Reparations / Boris L. Bittker and Roy L. Brooks 143 The Theory of Restitution: The African American Case / Richard America 160 Reparations to African Americans? / J. Angelo Corlett 170 Part 3. Reparations: Formation and Modes of Redress "A Day of Reckoning": Dreams of Reparations / Robin D. G. Kelley 203 Forty Acres, or, An Act of Bad Faith / Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie 222 The Economic Basis for Reparations to Black America / Robert S. Browne 238 The Political Economy of Ending Racism and the World Conference against Racism: The Economics of Reparations / William Darity Jr. and Dania Frank 249 The Rise of the Reparations Movement / Martha Biondi 255 Part 4. Case Studies of Injustice and Intervention Nineteenth-Century New York City's Complicity with Slavery: Documenting the Case for Reparations / Alan Singer 275 Railroads, Race, and Reparations / Theodore Kornweibel Jr. 294 Reparations: A Viable Strategy to Address the Enigma of African American Health / David R. Williams and Chiquita Collins 305 Residential Segregation and Persistent Urban Poverty / Douglas S. Massey 331 Part 5. Mobilizing Strategies The Politics of Racial Reparations / Charles P. Henry 353 The Case for U.S. Reparations to African Americans / Adrienne D. Davis 371 The Promises and Pitfalls of Reparations / Yusuf Nuruddin 379 Reparation as Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow / Robert Johnson Jr. 402 What's Next? Japanese American Redress and African American Reparations / Eric K. Yamamoto 411 The Reparations Movement: An Assessment of Recent and Current Activism / Sam Anderson, Muntu Matsimela, and Yusuf Nuruddin 427 Reparations: Strategic Considerations for Black Americans / C. J. Munford 447 Tulsa Reparations: The Survivors' Story / Charles J. Ogletree Jr. 452 Race for Power: The Global Balance of Power and Reparations / Gerald Horne 469 Documents Section 1. Federal Acts and Resolutions 485 Section 2. State Legislation 518 Section 3. Municipal Resolutions 536 Section 4. Advocacy and Activism 559 Section 5. Case Studies of Redress 637 Section 6. Lawsuits 660 Selected Bibliography 673 Contributors 683 Acknowledgment of Copyrights 687 Index 691

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Book SynopsisAn innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States.Trade Review“Black behind the Ears makes important contributions to our understanding of the Dominican experience. In this book, Ginetta E. B. Candelario shows processes of identity formation among Dominicans in different historical and geographical contexts, and she looks at the nuanced relationship between ethnic and racial identities. In my opinion, this is one of the best books written on the subject of racial, ethnic, and national identity formation in general.”—José Itzigsohn, author of Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Regulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic“Based on first-rate ethnographic and historical research, Black behind the Ears provides fresh and original insights into the construction and representation of racial identities in the Dominican Republic and the United States. It is the most comprehensive, focused, and balanced treatment to date of Dominican racial and gender ideologies in the United States.”—Jorge Duany, author of The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States“Ginetta E. B. Candelario’s Black behind the Ears argues compellingly that any serious effort to understand Dominican ideas and practices of race in the ancestral homeland as well as in the diaspora requires a large conceptual framework, a triangular geography of knowledge, and a cultural history formed by Dominican nation-building projects, the difficult plight of the Haitian Republic in the midst of a negrophobic world, the impact of U.S. racial thought, and the Latin American glorification of the Hispanic heritage. Candelario’s book remarkably dares to bring apparently disparate discursive sites to interact convincingly and engagingly in her analysis. The author renders facile readings of the Dominican chapter of the black experience in the Americas as exceptional or pathological simply unsustainable. She shows instead that it invites White Americans, African Americans, and other Latinos to revisit long-held assumptions about racial categories, ethnic identity, nationality, and the ideologies behind taking the ‘visible’ for ‘real’ in matters of race.”—Silvio Torres-Saillant, coauthor of The Dominican Americans“Black behind the Ears is a fascinating, richly documented, and innovative exploration of racial, ethnic and national identity formation in the Dominican Republic and among the Dominican diaspora in the United States. . . . In exploring the paradoxes of Dominican ethno-racial identity so creatively, Candelario has produced a fascinating template for scholars and students of race, ethnicity and national identity in general.” -- Sherri Grasmuck * Contemporary Sociology *“[A] stimulating book. . . . Candelario breaks new ground with her analysis of racial formation in Dominican communities in the United States . . . . [Black Behind the Ears] should be widely read by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists in the fields of Latin American and Latina/o studies.” -- Frank Andre Guridy * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[G]roundbreaking. . . . Black Behind the Ears is a well-researched analysis of the cultural sites through which various actors produce racial understandings in relation to national discourses. It is an important contribution to the study of race, gender and national identity within the Dominican Republic and its US-based migrant communities.” -- Takkara Brunson * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“With this book we are taken deeper into the complicated world of Latinidad--both in its abstract cogitations and its grounded, experienced reality. . . . Candelario’s book is an important contribution to the field of Latino studies.” -- Anani Dzidzienyo * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsFigures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. "We Declare That We Are Indians": Dominican Identity Displays and Discourses in Travel Writing, Museums, Beauty Shops, and Bodies 1 1. "It Is Said That Haiti Is Getting Blacker and Blacker": Traveling Narratives of Dominican Identity 35 2. "The Africans have No [Public] History": The Museo del Hombre Dominicano and Indigenous Displays of Dominican Identity 83 3. "I Could Go the African American Route": Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. 129 4. "They Are Taken into Account for Their Opinions": Making Community and Displaying Identity at a Dominican Beauty Shop in New York City 177 5. "Black Women are Confusing, but the Hair Lets You Know": Perceiving the Boundaries of Dominicanidad 223 Conclusion: "Black Behind the Ears, and Up Front, Too": Ideological Code Switching and Ambiguity in Dominican Identities 256 Notes 265 References 297 Index 323

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Book SynopsisSuitable for scholars in critical race and ethnic studies to engage with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, this title argues that Lacanian theory has the potential to begin rectifying the deeply flawed way that ethnic and racialized subjects have been conceptualized in North America since the mid-twentieth century.Trade Review“Dead Subjects offers an approach that could remediate many of the impasses and failures of the ego-psychological underpinnings of contemporary ideas of ethnicity and identification. These ideas have had a strong impact not only on academic ethnic studies but also on the very shaping of American law. Antonio Viego provides an important alternative model to them that will have immediate academic relevance. I also think that the influence of Dead Subjects may well be broader than the American case that Viego emphasizes. As thinkers all over the world struggle to frame new ways of dealing with immigrant and ethnic identities, the book can serve as an important guidepost. Viego’s carefully drawn distinction between the ego and the subject, based on Lacan’s work, is key to the new model.”—Juliet Flower MacCannell, author of Figuring Lacan: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious“A strikingly original contribution, Dead Subjects represents a new and sophisticated movement in Latino/a studies and the critical discourse on race and psychoanalysis. Arguing that the psychic realm should be read along with the social if our analysis of ethnic/racial subjectivity is ever to surpass ‘weak multiculturalism,’ Antonio Viego situates Lacanian analysis through carefully chosen case studies and examples. He reveals Lacanian thought as relevant in a way that will be nothing short of startling for most readers.”—José Esteban Muñoz, author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: All the Things You Can’t Be By Now 1 Chapter 1: Hollowed Be Thy Name 30 Chapter 2: Subjects-Desire, Not Egos-Pleasures 48 Chapter 3: Browned, Skinned, Educated, and Protected 75 Chapter 4: Latino Studies’ Barred Subject and Lacan’s Border Subject, or Why the Hysteric Speaks in Spanglish 108 Chapter 5: Hysterical Ties, Latino Amnesia, and the Sinthomestiza Subject 138 Chapter 6: Emma Perez Dreams the Breach: Rubbing Chicano History and Historicism ‘til It Bleeds 165 Chapter 7: The Clinical, the Speculative, and What Must Be Made Up in the Space between Them 196 Conclusion: Ruining the Ethnic-Racialized Self and Precipitating the Subject 224 Notes 243 Bibliography 267 Index 279

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Book SynopsisPresents a pioneering exploration of Asian American visual art. This title focuses on works produced during the watershed 1990s, when surging Asian immigration had significantly altered the demographic, cultural, and political contours of Asian America, and a renaissance in Asian American art and visual culture was well underway.Trade Review“Machida explains that this book is intended to contribute to a dialogue amongst artists and scholars regarding the issues of art and the Asian American Diaspora. As an academic (Associate Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut) and an author, she contextualizes herself as an actor in this dialogue, an approach that is quite compelling. This book would be particularly appropriate for upper level discussion seminars on issues relating to historical and critical theory, as well as Asian American art. Machida’s exploration of the issues also provides a starting point for future Asian American exhibitions and food for thought for curatorship in this area.” - Heather Kline, ARLIS/NA Reviews“Unsettled Visions documents the compelling work of contemporary Asian American artists challenging and critiquing issues of racial identity and representation. . . . [A] valuable contribution to the growing area of scholarship in Asian American visual art. . . .” - Rose M. Kim, Visual Studies“This solid and remarkable volume should be essential reading for those interested in critical race theory and visual cultures, and is sure to encouragefurther study of these artists.” - Alexandra Chang, Woman’s Art Journal“Margo Machida’s Unsettled Visions suggests a refreshingly useful way to study ethnicity. . . . This book will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in visual, cultural, and spatial practices, Asian American and ethnic studies, visual culture, cultural studies, material culture, performance studies, and architecture.” - Arijit Sen, Journal of American Ethnic History“Unsettled Visions is an engaging and extremely significant book beyond the fact that it is the first study to examine Asian American visual productions in a systematic way. It sets a high standard and will be the model for works that follow.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History“For years, Margo Machida was practically the only person to bring Asian American artists into what were then the ‘multicultural’ debates, and the only writer/participant to cover their activities and art with a high degree of social vision and intellectual passion. With Unsettled Visions, she has produced a work of amazing breadth, positioning each artist’s work in an internationally historical, political, and theoretical context that considerably deepens my own understanding of art I have been familiar with for years.”—Lucy R. Lippard, author of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America“This is a foundational text for appreciating and interpreting contemporary Asian American art. It is an intelligent and intelligible work built on many years of dedicated research and original thinking. Margo Machida has obviously been inspired by deep encounters with the art emanating from this marvelously complex demographic. Unsettled Visions has set the standard for the field.”—Franklin Odo, Director, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program“Unsettled Visions documents the compelling work of contemporary Asian American artists challenging and critiquing issues of racial identity and representation. . . . [A] valuable contribution to the growing area of scholarship in Asian American visual art. . . .” -- Rose M. Kim * Visual Studies *“Machida explains that this book is intended to contribute to a dialogue amongst artists and scholars regarding the issues of art and the Asian American Diaspora. As an academic (Associate Professor of Art History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut) and an author, she contextualizes herself as an actor in this dialogue, an approach that is quite compelling. This book would be particularly appropriate for upper level discussion seminars on issues relating to historical and critical theory, as well as Asian American art. Machida’s exploration of the issues also provides a starting point for future Asian American exhibitions and food for thought for curatorship in this area.” -- Heather Kline * ARLIS/NA Reviews *“Margo Machida’s Unsettled Visions suggests a refreshingly useful way to study ethnicity. . . . This book will appeal to a wide variety of scholars interested in visual, cultural, and spatial practices, Asian American and ethnic studies, visual culture, cultural studies, material culture, performance studies, and architecture.” -- Arijit Sen * Journal of American Ethnic History *“This solid and remarkable volume should be essential reading for those interested in critical race theory and visual cultures, and is sure to encourage further study of these artists.” -- Alexandra Chang * Woman's Art Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Art, Asian America, and the Social Imaginary: A Poetics of Positionality 1 1. A Play of Positionalities: Reconsidering Identification 17 2. Othering: Primitivism, Orientalism, and Stereotyping 57 3. Trauma, Social Memory, and Art 120 4. Migration, Mixing, and Place 194 Epilogue: Toward an Ongoing Dialogue 271 Notes 283 Bibliography 321 Index 353

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