Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisA collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans.Trade Review“Afro-Asia is a long overdue tribute to the long history of cross-ethnic intellectual connections, as well as a celebration of artistic collaborations, between African Americans and Asian Americans. . . . Fred Ho and Bill Mullen have produced a book that is groundbreaking in its intellectual rigor, as well as aesthetically pleasing. . . . Afro-Asia is highly recommended to anyone interested in how radical ideas and concepts travel through and across cultural boundaries and eventually bloom with new brilliance.” - Carol Huang, Journal of African American History“At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of ‘creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.’” - Manan Desai, Against the Current“Afro Asia preserves and promotes critical thinking and activism in a global culture. Here, with incisive writings from diverse intellectuals, artists, and activists, Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen make a vital contribution towards liberation praxis that challenges the perceived permanence of manufactured distrust and division.”—Joy James, author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics“Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen have assembled a first-rate dossier of Afro-Asian work. It is equal parts lyrical and analytical. Flies like a butterfly; stings like a bee.”—Vijay Prashad, author of Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity“Afro-Asia is a long overdue tribute to the long history of cross-ethnic intellectual connections, as well as a celebration of artistic collaborations, between African Americans and Asian Americans. . . . Fred Ho and Bill Mullen have produced a book that is groundbreaking in its intellectual rigor, as well as aesthetically pleasing. . . . Afro-Asia is highly recommended to anyone interested in how radical ideas and concepts travel through and across cultural boundaries and eventually bloom with new brilliance.” -- Carol Huang * Journal of African American History *“At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of ‘creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.’” -- Manan Desai * Against the Current *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Fred Ho and Bill Mullen 1 Part I. The African and Asian Diasporas in the West: 1800–1950 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Roots to the Black-Asian Conflict / Fred Ho 20 Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847–1898 / Lisa Yun 30 Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War / Daniel Widener 55 Part II. From Bandung to the Black Panthers: National Liberation, the Third World, Mao, and Malcolm Statement Supporting the Afro-American in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism, August 8, 1963 / Mao Zedong 91 Statement by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression, April 16, 1968 / Mao Zedong 94 Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution / Robin D. G. Kelley and Betsy Esch 97 The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast / Fred Ho 155 The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama / Diane C. Fujino 165 Why Do We Lie About Telling the Truth? / Kalamu ya Salaam 198 Part III. Afro/Asian Arts: Catalysts, Collaborations, and the Coltrane Aesthetic The Yellow and the Black / Ishmael Reed 217 Not Just a "Special Issue": Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called by Back / Cheryl Higashida 220 Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds / Fred Ho 256 Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture / Kim Hewitt 265 The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River / royal hartigan with Fred Ho 285 Is Kung Fu Racist? / Ron Wheeler with David Kaufman 291 Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop / Thien-bao Thuc Phi 295 Part IV. Afro/Asia Expressive Writing Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American-Asian American Collaboration / David Mura and Alexs Pate 321 We Don't Stand a Chinaman's Chance Unless We Create a Revolution / Kalamu ya Salaam 354 El Chino / Lisa Yun 359 Samchun in the Grocery Store / Ishle Park 363 Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998 / Maya Almachar Santos 365 Chyna and Me / JoYin C Shih 369 All That / Everett Hoagland 376 Contributors 379 Index 383

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. It focuses on how South Asian Americans, or "Desis," define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology.Trade Review“An excellent, ethnographically rich study of the lives and practices of young South Asian Americans living in Silicon Valley, Desi Land lends itself to use in courses in fields including anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and Asian American studies. What I like best of all is that Shalini Shankar trains her lens on a particular generation’s experience while providing us with a rich cultural history of life in Silicon Valley at the turn of the twenty-first century.”—Purnima Mankekar, author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India“In this exciting book, Shalini Shankar writes about Desi teens in Silicon Valley with deep sympathy, humor, and genuine insight. The high-school students come alive through ethnographic detail, and yet Shankar’s analysis is sharp and thought provoking. Her theoretically sophisticated approach to diversity makes an important contribution to urban anthropology. I will recommend this book to everyone I know—scholars, educators, and advocates—who works with twenty-first-century youth.”—Jan English-Lueck, author of Cultures@SiliconValley“Shalini Shankar’s Desi Land is a loving portrait of young people trying their best to fashion culture and life in jobless America. Thick description and rich analysis of young Desis is an eye-opener, whether you’re wearing your mad tight color contacts or not.”—Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third WorldTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Welcome to Desi Land 1 1. California, Here We Come, Right Back Where We Started From 25 2. Defining Desi Teen Culture 53 3. Living and Desiring Desi Bling Life 80 4. Desi Fashions of Speaking 100 5. Being FOBulous on Multicultural Day 119 6. Remodeling the Model Minority Stereotype 142 7. Dating on the DL and Arranged Marriages 167 8. In the New Millennium 193 Postscript 211 Appendix 1: Student Interview 213 Appendix 2: Faculty Interview 218 Appendix 3: Parent and Relative Interview 220 Appendix 4: Student Survey 223 Notes 225 Glossary of Hindi and Punjabi Terms 237 Bibliography 239 Index 263

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Book SynopsisExamines how specific Party chapters or offshoots emerged, developed, and waned, as well as how the local branches related to their communities and to the national party. This work reveals how Black Panther Party ideologies, goals, and strategies were taken up and adapted throughout the United States.Trade Review“Students of American and African American history will find Liberated Territory enlightening and instructive for illuminating the history of a widely understudied and commonly misconstrued organization. The five essays advance the momentum for continued scholarly research on Black Power’s local impact, which is essential for a better understanding of the movement’s diverse character and national appeal.” - Karen M. Hawkins, North Carolina Historical Review“Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow and their contributors challenge the conventional narrative of the 1960s that focuses predominantly on the liberal civil rights movement, to the exclusion of the radical black power movement, and either evades any discussion of the Black Panther party (BPP) or portrays the organization negatively. . . . These narratives demonstrate the importance of local circumstances in Panther history. . . . Liberated Territory makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on the Black Panther party.” - Floyd W. Hayes III, Journal of American History“Anyone interested in the BPP, or in Black Power activism in overlooked places such as Birmingham, will learn a great deal from Liberated Territory.” - Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Alabama Review“Liberated Territory helps to decenter the Oakland top-down approach to studying the Black Panther Party by critically engaging with the stories of rank and file party members in locations far beyond Oakland. Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow have produced a collection that will quickly become a model for others to emulate.”—Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, author of America’s First Black Town: Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830–1915“Liberated Territory is a very impressive anthology. Its focus on the local histories of the Black Panther Party helps to fill a yawning gap in scholarship and adds to the expanding corpus of innovative scholarship on the black power movement. By developing a broader understanding of the party’s local chapters, people, and politics, the essays shed light on the provincial nature of the party while providing important context for understanding the national organization.”—Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, author of Black Power: Radical Politics and African American Identity“Anyone interested in the BPP, or in Black Power activism in overlooked places such as Birmingham, will learn a great deal from Liberated Territory.” -- Hasan Kwame Jeffries * Alabama Review *“Students of American and African American history will find Liberated Territory enlightening and instructive for illuminating the history of a widely understudied and commonly misconstrued organization. The five essays advance the momentum for continued scholarly research on Black Power’s local impact, which is essential for a better understanding of the movement’s diverse character and national appeal.” -- Karen M. Hawkins * North Carolina Historical Review *“Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow and their contributors challenge the conventional narrative of the 1960s that focuses predominantly on the liberal civil rights movement, to the exclusion of the radical black power movement, and either evades any discussion of the Black Panther party (BPP) or portrays the organization negatively. . . . These narratives demonstrate the importance of local circumstances in Panther history. . . . Liberated Territory makes an important contribution to the growing scholarship on the Black Panther party.” -- Floyd W. Hayes III * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. From Oakland to Omaha: Historicizing the Panthers / Yohuru Williams 1 1. Bringing the Black Panther Party Back In: A Survey / Jama Lazerow and Yohuru Williams 33 2. The Black Panthers at the Water's Edge: Oakland, Boston, and the New Bedford "Riots" of 1970 / Jama Lazerow 85 3. "The Power Belongs to Us and We Belong to the Revolutionary Age": The Alabama Black Liberation Front and the Long Reach of the Black Panther Party / Robert W. Widell Jr. 136 4. Marching Blind: The Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party in Detroit / Ahmad A. Rahman 181 5. "Give Them a Cause to Die For": The Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1969-77 / Yohuru Williams 232 Epilogue. The Black Panther Party in the Disunited States of America: Constitutionalism, Watergate, and the Closing of the Americanists' Minds / Devin Fergus 265 Contributors 295 Index 297

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Book SynopsisReveals how, between the 1880s and the 1930s, writer-activists in Cuba, Mexico, and the US developed narratives and theories of decolonization, of full freedom and equality in the shadow of empire. This book features an array of thinkers who linked local struggles against racial oppression and imperialism to similar struggles in other nations.Trade Review“[An] insightful and thought-provoking series of essays. . . . David Luis-Brown’s primary goal is to expand conventional readings of the selected writers, interrogating their contributions to the complex processes of nationalism, decolonization, anticolonialism, neocolonialism, and notions of hemispheric citizenship. He accomplishes this by deftly weaving together literature, history, and biography. . . . Waves of Decolonization can be rewardingly read across a wide range of academic disciplines.” - Franklin W. Knight, Journal of American History“Careful not to conflate the demands of specific social movements, Luis-Brown lucidly delineates their connections, as, for example, in his discussion of how key figures of the Harlem Renaissance engaged Mexican Revolutionary cultural politics. . . . The last two chapters on primitivism and ethnography, respectively, chart the early-twentieth-century cultural turn that rejected essentialist theories of race while retaining a charged concept of the ‘primitive.’ Luis-Brown underscores the protean ideological valence of each of these discourses; his discussion of the complex positions on race and foreign policy in the ethnographic work of Zora Neale Hurston and Manuel Gamio is a tour de force.” - Claire F. Fox, American Literature“Waves of Decolonization is convincing in its argument for a transnational, decolonizing approach to American studies. It is accessible, grounded, and thorough. It will equally captivate researchers and students of this hemisphere and anyone interested in an alternative understanding of this hemisphere’s intertwined history and destiny. Luis-Brown’s approach is a refreshing and very necessary shift away from the national, ethnolinguistic, and racial boundaries that have most often defined American, African American, Latino, Mexican, Mexican American, Cuban, and Caribbean studies.” - Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez, Hispanic American Historical Review“This insightful study uses a much-needed hemispheric approach to track the listed groups’ reaction to the imperial whirlwind. Meticulously researched and documented, the book presents a literary-historical analysis covering the period from the 1880s to the 1930s. . . . In Waves of Decolonization, Luis-Brown has woven a rich tapestry of the anticolonial and anti-imperial discourse that accompanied the consolidation of U.S. hegemony. The book is a valuable contribution to scholars, students, and laypersons working in such varied fields as American, African, ethnic, Caribbean, and Latin American studies.” - Jorge Chinea, History: Reviews of New Books“David Luis-Brown’s meticulously researched Waves of Decolonization contributes much to the nascent but growing field of transnational and hemispheric studies. . . . [T]he author posits crucial, substantive questions, employing a comparative interdisciplinary methodology with far-reaching implications. In doing so, his study advances and contributes to the continuing transformation of American Studies.” - Maria del Carmen Martinez, E.I.A.L.“Luis-Brown must be commended for his ambitious, multidisciplinary approach. The sheer breadth of understanding he displays about so-called ‘native’, ‘primitive’, or auto-ethnographic works of literature, visual art, and political prose issuing from the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is staggering. . . . David Luis-Brown has written an innovative book which will usefully engage academics and students concerned with Afro-American, American, or comparative literature as well as Caribbean, Mexican, ‘post’ colonial, and transnational studies.” - James Cullingham, Bulletin of Latin American Research“From his perceptive reconsideration of the role of mestizaje in the writings of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Helen Hunt Jackson, to his astute analysis of the redeployments of sentimentalism and primitivism by W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Nicholás Guillén, David Luis-Brown’s careful research and thoughtful critiques demonstrate the necessity of thinking beyond the nation, of viewing race and empire from hemispheric and global perspectives. Waves of Decolonization is at one and the same time a radical revision of our hemisphere’s literary history and proof of the possibility of a post-nationalist and post-imperial American studies.”—George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music“With Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown practices rather than prescribes a transnational American studies, going beyond the purely thematic level to engage with other languages, cultures, and literary histories. Luis-Brown presents a vast amount of literary material and many cross-cultural connections that will be unknown or little known to scholars in U.S. American studies, while he also contributes new understandings of familiar and canonical writers.”—Anna Brickhouse, author of Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere“Waves of Decolonization is convincing in its argument for a transnational, decolonizing approach to American studies. It is accessible, grounded, and thorough. It will equally captivate researchers and students of this hemisphere and anyone interested in an alternative understanding of this hemisphere’s intertwined history and destiny. Luis-Brown’s approach is a refreshing and very necessary shift away from the national, ethnolinguistic, and racial boundaries that have most often defined American, African American, Latino, Mexican, Mexican American, Cuban, and Caribbean studies.” -- Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[An] insightful and thought-provoking series of essays. . . . David Luis-Brown’s primary goal is to expand conventional readings of the selected writers, interrogating their contributions to the complex processes of nationalism, decolonization, anticolonialism, neocolonialism, and notions of hemispheric citizenship. He accomplishes this by deftly weaving together literature, history, and biography. . . . Waves of Decolonization can be rewardingly read across a wide range of academic disciplines.” -- Franklin W. Knight * Journal of American History *“Careful not to conflate the demands of specific social movements, Luis-Brown lucidly delineates their connections, as, for example, in his discussion of how key figures of the Harlem Renaissance engaged Mexican Revolutionary cultural politics. . . . The last two chapters on primitivism and ethnography, respectively, chart the early-twentieth-century cultural turn that rejected essentialist theories of race while retaining a charged concept of the ‘primitive.’ Luis-Brown underscores the protean ideological valence of each of these discourses; his discussion of the complex positions on race and foreign policy in the ethnographic work of Zora Neale Hurston and Manuel Gamio is a tour de force.” -- Claire F. Fox * American Literature *“David Luis-Brown’s meticulously researched Waves of Decolonization contributes much to the nascent but growing field of transnational and hemispheric studies. . . . The author posits crucial, substantive questions, employing a comparative interdisciplinary methodology with far-reaching implications. In doing so, his study advances and contributes to the continuing transformation of American Studies.” -- Maria del Carmen Martinez * EIAL *“Luis-Brown must be commended for his ambitious, multidisciplinary approach. The sheer breadth of understanding he displays about so-called ‘native’, ‘primitive’, or auto-ethnographic works of literature, visual art, and political prose issuing from the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is staggering. . . . David Luis-Brown has written an innovative book which will usefully engage academics and students concerned with Afro-American, American, or comparative literature as well as Caribbean, Mexican, ‘post’ colonial, and transnational studies.” -- James Cullingham * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“This insightful study uses a much-needed hemispheric approach to track the listed groups’ reaction to the imperial whirlwind. Meticulously researched and documented, the book presents a literary-historical analysis covering the period from the 1880s to the 1930s. . . . In Waves of Decolonization, Luis-Brown has woven a rich tapestry of the anticolonial and anti-imperial discourse that accompanied the consolidation of U.S. hegemony. The book is a valuable contribution to scholars, students, and laypersons working in such varied fields as American, African, ethnic, Caribbean, and Latin American studies.” -- Jorge Chinea * History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Waves of Decolonization and Discourses of Hemispheric Citizenship 1 1. "White Slaves" and the "Arrogant Mestiza": Reconfiguring Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don and Ramona 35 2. "The Coming Unities" in "Our America": Decolonization and Anticolonial Messianism in Martí, De Bois, and the Santa de Cabora 67 3. Transnationalisms against the State: Contesting Neocolonialism in the Harlem Renaissance, Cuban Negrismo, and Mexican Indigenismo 147 4. "Rising Tides of Color": Ethnography and Theories of Race and Migration in Boas, Park, Gamio, and Hurston 202 Coda. Waves of Decolonization and Discourses of Hemispheric Citizenship 241 Notes 245 References 301 Index 329

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Book SynopsisExplores how author-activists in the United States, Cuba, and Mexico defined their local strugglesTrade Review“[An] insightful and thought-provoking series of essays. . . . David Luis-Brown’s primary goal is to expand conventional readings of the selected writers, interrogating their contributions to the complex processes of nationalism, decolonization, anticolonialism, neocolonialism, and notions of hemispheric citizenship. He accomplishes this by deftly weaving together literature, history, and biography. . . . Waves of Decolonization can be rewardingly read across a wide range of academic disciplines.” - Franklin W. Knight, Journal of American History“Careful not to conflate the demands of specific social movements, Luis-Brown lucidly delineates their connections, as, for example, in his discussion of how key figures of the Harlem Renaissance engaged Mexican Revolutionary cultural politics. . . . The last two chapters on primitivism and ethnography, respectively, chart the early-twentieth-century cultural turn that rejected essentialist theories of race while retaining a charged concept of the ‘primitive.’ Luis-Brown underscores the protean ideological valence of each of these discourses; his discussion of the complex positions on race and foreign policy in the ethnographic work of Zora Neale Hurston and Manuel Gamio is a tour de force.” - Claire F. Fox, American Literature“Waves of Decolonization is convincing in its argument for a transnational, decolonizing approach to American studies. It is accessible, grounded, and thorough. It will equally captivate researchers and students of this hemisphere and anyone interested in an alternative understanding of this hemisphere’s intertwined history and destiny. Luis-Brown’s approach is a refreshing and very necessary shift away from the national, ethnolinguistic, and racial boundaries that have most often defined American, African American, Latino, Mexican, Mexican American, Cuban, and Caribbean studies.” - Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez, Hispanic American Historical Review“This insightful study uses a much-needed hemispheric approach to track the listed groups’ reaction to the imperial whirlwind. Meticulously researched and documented, the book presents a literary-historical analysis covering the period from the 1880s to the 1930s. . . . In Waves of Decolonization, Luis-Brown has woven a rich tapestry of the anticolonial and anti-imperial discourse that accompanied the consolidation of U.S. hegemony. The book is a valuable contribution to scholars, students, and laypersons working in such varied fields as American, African, ethnic, Caribbean, and Latin American studies.” - Jorge Chinea, History: Reviews of New Books“David Luis-Brown’s meticulously researched Waves of Decolonization contributes much to the nascent but growing field of transnational and hemispheric studies. . . . [T]he author posits crucial, substantive questions, employing a comparative interdisciplinary methodology with far-reaching implications. In doing so, his study advances and contributes to the continuing transformation of American Studies.” - Maria del Carmen Martinez, E.I.A.L.“Luis-Brown must be commended for his ambitious, multidisciplinary approach. The sheer breadth of understanding he displays about so-called ‘native’, ‘primitive’, or auto-ethnographic works of literature, visual art, and political prose issuing from the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is staggering. . . . David Luis-Brown has written an innovative book which will usefully engage academics and students concerned with Afro-American, American, or comparative literature as well as Caribbean, Mexican, ‘post’ colonial, and transnational studies.” - James Cullingham, Bulletin of Latin American Research“From his perceptive reconsideration of the role of mestizaje in the writings of María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Helen Hunt Jackson, to his astute analysis of the redeployments of sentimentalism and primitivism by W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Nicholás Guillén, David Luis-Brown’s careful research and thoughtful critiques demonstrate the necessity of thinking beyond the nation, of viewing race and empire from hemispheric and global perspectives. Waves of Decolonization is at one and the same time a radical revision of our hemisphere’s literary history and proof of the possibility of a post-nationalist and post-imperial American studies.”—George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music“With Waves of Decolonization, David Luis-Brown practices rather than prescribes a transnational American studies, going beyond the purely thematic level to engage with other languages, cultures, and literary histories. Luis-Brown presents a vast amount of literary material and many cross-cultural connections that will be unknown or little known to scholars in U.S. American studies, while he also contributes new understandings of familiar and canonical writers.”—Anna Brickhouse, author of Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere“Waves of Decolonization is convincing in its argument for a transnational, decolonizing approach to American studies. It is accessible, grounded, and thorough. It will equally captivate researchers and students of this hemisphere and anyone interested in an alternative understanding of this hemisphere’s intertwined history and destiny. Luis-Brown’s approach is a refreshing and very necessary shift away from the national, ethnolinguistic, and racial boundaries that have most often defined American, African American, Latino, Mexican, Mexican American, Cuban, and Caribbean studies.” -- Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[An] insightful and thought-provoking series of essays. . . . David Luis-Brown’s primary goal is to expand conventional readings of the selected writers, interrogating their contributions to the complex processes of nationalism, decolonization, anticolonialism, neocolonialism, and notions of hemispheric citizenship. He accomplishes this by deftly weaving together literature, history, and biography. . . . Waves of Decolonization can be rewardingly read across a wide range of academic disciplines.” -- Franklin W. Knight * Journal of American History *“Careful not to conflate the demands of specific social movements, Luis-Brown lucidly delineates their connections, as, for example, in his discussion of how key figures of the Harlem Renaissance engaged Mexican Revolutionary cultural politics. . . . The last two chapters on primitivism and ethnography, respectively, chart the early-twentieth-century cultural turn that rejected essentialist theories of race while retaining a charged concept of the ‘primitive.’ Luis-Brown underscores the protean ideological valence of each of these discourses; his discussion of the complex positions on race and foreign policy in the ethnographic work of Zora Neale Hurston and Manuel Gamio is a tour de force.” -- Claire F. Fox * American Literature *“David Luis-Brown’s meticulously researched Waves of Decolonization contributes much to the nascent but growing field of transnational and hemispheric studies. . . . The author posits crucial, substantive questions, employing a comparative interdisciplinary methodology with far-reaching implications. In doing so, his study advances and contributes to the continuing transformation of American Studies.” -- Maria del Carmen Martinez * EIAL *“Luis-Brown must be commended for his ambitious, multidisciplinary approach. The sheer breadth of understanding he displays about so-called ‘native’, ‘primitive’, or auto-ethnographic works of literature, visual art, and political prose issuing from the Americas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is staggering. . . . David Luis-Brown has written an innovative book which will usefully engage academics and students concerned with Afro-American, American, or comparative literature as well as Caribbean, Mexican, ‘post’ colonial, and transnational studies.” -- James Cullingham * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“This insightful study uses a much-needed hemispheric approach to track the listed groups’ reaction to the imperial whirlwind. Meticulously researched and documented, the book presents a literary-historical analysis covering the period from the 1880s to the 1930s. . . . In Waves of Decolonization, Luis-Brown has woven a rich tapestry of the anticolonial and anti-imperial discourse that accompanied the consolidation of U.S. hegemony. The book is a valuable contribution to scholars, students, and laypersons working in such varied fields as American, African, ethnic, Caribbean, and Latin American studies.” -- Jorge Chinea * History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Waves of Decolonization and Discourses of Hemispheric Citizenship 1 1. "White Slaves" and the "Arrogant Mestiza": Reconfiguring Whiteness in The Squatter and the Don and Ramona 35 2. "The Coming Unities" in "Our America": Decolonization and Anticolonial Messianism in Martí, De Bois, and the Santa de Cabora 67 3. Transnationalisms against the State: Contesting Neocolonialism in the Harlem Renaissance, Cuban Negrismo, and Mexican Indigenismo 147 4. "Rising Tides of Color": Ethnography and Theories of Race and Migration in Boas, Park, Gamio, and Hurston 202 Coda. Waves of Decolonization and Discourses of Hemispheric Citizenship 241 Notes 245 References 301 Index 329

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of the language and culture of Project Blowed, a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles.Trade Review“Executive director of The HipHop Archive and one of the leading scholars of hip-hop culture, Morgan has written a thorough, inspiring ethnographic study that looks at West Coast hip-hop culture through the lens of the underground venue known as Project Blowed. . . . The book’s strengths are the numerous fascinating primary sources, especially the excerpts of rhymes recited during battles at Project Blowed and its introductory chapter, in which Morgan offers the best concise scholarly history to date of hip-hop. Essential.” - A.-P. Durand, Choice“Youth across the globe have been marginalized, abused, neglected, and incarcerated, but Marcyliena Morgan gives hope to current and future generations by providing background on the start of hip-hop and revealing its multifaceted layers. . . . The Real Hiphop is a testament to the versatile creativity of underground artists who use words to make change.” - Nicolette Westfall, Feminist Review blog“The Real Hiphop is a book written with the eyes of an ethnographer, the ears of a true hip hop head, and the love of a scholar whose commitment to her subject runs broad and deep. By chronicling the history of an unfairly neglected underground music scene and by championing the potentially transformative influence of a popular music genre more broadly upon the academy, it offers a significant contribution to popular music studies.” - Adam Bradley, Journal of Popular Music Studies“Given the book’s layered treatment of underground hiphop and its practitioners, The Real Hiphop is a strong ethnographic and analytical treatment that is well positioned to be of use to students and scholars acrossa number of disciplines.” - Raymond Codrington, American Ethnologist“Morgan’s musings on power, language, and mistrust feel no less pertinent now than they must have a dozen years ago in Leimart Park.” - Nate Chinen, Pennsylvania Gazette“Marcyliena Morgan’s high-level analysis and incisive explication of how underground hiphop works centers on two brilliant, ethnographic chapters on Project Blowed, one focusing on a Thursday-night MC battle (chapter three) and one on young women’s negotioations of race and feminism in the social world of underground hiphop and in relation to the sexualization of women in commercial hiphop (chapter four).” - Michael Nevin Willard, Southern California Quarterly“The Real Hiphop is a powerful argument for hiphop’s continuing salience and centrality to any serious discussion about the state of contemporary Black life. Marcyliena Morgan unearths the socio-cultural particularities of hiphop as a dynamic musical genre and a complex way of life, and she links her analysis to the ethnographic particulars of Los Angeles, which crackles to life from the opening vignette.”—John L. Jackson Jr., author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America“In The Real Hiphop, Marcyliena Morgan has written a brilliant account of the origins of hiphop and the process through which it is created and evolves, from its most elemental and raw forms into the highly processed and polished versions that have become the lingua franca of popular American culture over the past few decades. Using her considerable skills as an linguistic anthropologist, Morgan—the founder of the world’s only hiphop archive—raises the analysis of hiphop to an entirely new level of scholarship, explicating it as a linguistic, sociological, and political phenomenon. This book is full of astonishing insights and subtle analysis. It is a must read for any student or scholar seeking to understand what is arguably the most important popular cultural phenomenon in the past thirty years.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University“The Real Hiphop is a book written with the eyes of an ethnographer, the ears of a true hip hop head, and the love of a scholar whose commitment to her subject runs broad and deep. By chronicling the history of an unfairly neglected underground music scene and by championing the potentially transformative influence of a popular music genre more broadly upon the academy, it offers a significant contribution to popular music studies.” -- Adam Bradley * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“Executive director of The HipHop Archive and one of the leading scholars of hip-hop culture, Morgan has written a thorough, inspiring ethnographic study that looks at West Coast hip-hop culture through the lens of the underground venue known as Project Blowed. . . . The book’s strengths are the numerous fascinating primary sources, especially the excerpts of rhymes recited during battles at Project Blowed and its introductory chapter, in which Morgan offers the best concise scholarly history to date of hip-hop. Essential.” -- A.-P. Durand * Choice *“Given the book’s layered treatment of underground hiphop and its practitioners, The Real Hiphop is a strong ethnographic and analytical treatment that is well positioned to be of use to students and scholars across a number of disciplines.” -- Raymond Codrington * American Ethnologist *“Marcyliena Morgan’s high-level analysis and incisive explication of how underground hiphop works centers on two brilliant, ethnographic chapters on Project Blowed, one focusing on a Thursday-night MC battle (chapter three) and one on young women’s negotioations of race and feminism in the social world of underground hiphop and in relation to the sexualization of women in commercial hiphop (chapter four).” -- Michael Nevin Willard * Southern California Quarterly *“Morgan’s musings on power, language, and mistrust feel no less pertinent now than they must have a dozen years ago in Leimart Park.” -- Nate Chinen * Pennsylvania Gazette *“Youth across the globe have been marginalized, abused, neglected, and incarcerated, but Marcyliena Morgan gives hope to current and future generations by providing background on the start of hip-hop and revealing its multifaceted layers. . . . The Real Hiphop is a testament to the versatile creativity of underground artists who use words to make change.” -- Nicolette Westfall * Feminist Review blog *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: I Am Hiphop 1 1. The Hippest Corner in LA 21 2. Welcome to the Underground: Building Hiphop Culture and Language 47 3. Thursday Night at Project Blowed 85 4. (Ph)eminists of the New School: Real Women, Tough Politics, and Female Science 131 5. Politics, Discourse, and Drama: "Respect Due" 161 6. It's Hiphop Nation Time: Enter the KAOS 185 Appendix: Transcription Conventions 195 Notes 197 Glossary 207 References 211 Index 223

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic exploration of how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) in the years immediately following September 11, 2001.Trade Review“There are no easy answers in Missing, but Maira offers a nuanced language for understanding what citizenship and dissent mean to these young people during the War on Terror. . . . Missing is impressive for the depth of its analysis of the lives of South Asian Muslim immigrant youth. . . .” - Matt Delmont, American Quarterly“Basing her analysis on ethnographic research, the author captures the sense of disappointment and bewilderment of her informants caught in a double bind while trying to construct an identity that would make them feel secure in the turmoil of this post-911 world. Maira interprets individual representations in light of policy and macro analysis of empire. She shows how nation-state policies influence individual lives in a way that contributes much to the confusion about status and rights experienced by South Asian immigrant Muslim youth.” - Ibrahim G. Aoudé, Teachers College Record“[Missing] provides rich mining grounds to scholars from fields as wide as postcolonialism, cultural studies, sociology and history. In that sense, despite its socio-anthropologically empirical structure, it is a trans-disciplinary book. . . . This is a brave, honest and necessary study.” - Tabish Khair, South Asian Diaspora“Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 is a timely and important contribution to study of life in the post–9/11 United States for Muslim, South Asian, and Arab communities, in general, and for Muslim immigrant youth in a New England high school, in particular. Engaging deeply and comprehensively with theories of empire, race, and cultural citizenship, the author uses richly textured ethnographic material drawn from school, work, home, and protests to chart the different practices and meaning of cultural citizenship in the everyday lives of young people here and in the countries their parents left behind.” - Susan Terrio, American Anthropologist“Maira’s book Missing is a beautifully written analysis, dense with theory and facts. . . . I predict that Maira’s unique study will come to influence many researchers in their ethnic studies.“ - Hedvig Ekerwald, Ethnic and Racial Studies“How is national belonging experienced by South Asian teenagers in post-9/11 America? In a deeply thoughtful and compassionate ethnography, Sunaina Marr Maira explores this question, providing one of the most compelling analyses of citizenship in contemporary America. She introduces us to young people who worry about deportation, racism, and the challenges of schooling in another language, but who also possess an acute analysis of imperialism and are capable of forging a transnational community united as much by Bollywood as by their sudden elevation to Public Enemy Number 1. Maira’s stunning achievement is to give vivid content to state power, providing an up close and personal look at how it is lived and resisted by those whom we relentless evict from political community.”—Sherene H. Razack, author of Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics“Sunaina Marr Maira has authored one of the most important books of our time. Missing is a carefully researched and beautifully written account of the experiences, ideas, and opinions of South Asian Muslim immigrant children in the United States who find themselves deemed enemies of the state through no fault of their own in the aftermath of 9/11. Through a deft blend of ethnography and cultural critique, Maira demonstrates how the expanding reach and power of the nation-state overseas leads to new forms of disciplinary control at home: in schools, workplaces, media imagery, and immigration law.”—George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music“Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 is a timely and important contribution to study of life in the post–9/11 United States for Muslim, South Asian, and Arab communities, in general, and for Muslim immigrant youth in a New England high school, in particular. Engaging deeply and comprehensively with theories of empire, race, and cultural citizenship, the author uses richly textured ethnographic material drawn from school, work, home, and protests to chart the different practices and meaning of cultural citizenship in the everyday lives of young people here and in the countries their parents left behind.” -- Susan Terrio * American Anthropologist *“[Missing] provides rich mining grounds to scholars from fields as wide as postcolonialism, cultural studies, sociology and history. In that sense, despite its socio-anthropologically empirical structure, it is a trans-disciplinary book. . . . This is a brave, honest and necessary study.” -- Tabish Khair * South Asian Diaspora *“Basing her analysis on ethnographic research, the author captures the sense of disappointment and bewilderment of her informants caught in a double bind while trying to construct an identity that would make them feel secure in the turmoil of this post-911 world. Maira interprets individual representations in light of policy and macro analysis of empire. She shows how nation-state policies influence individual lives in a way that contributes much to the confusion about status and rights experienced by South Asian immigrant Muslim youth.” -- Ibrahim G. Aoudé * Teachers College Record *“There are no easy answers in Missing, but Maira offers a nuanced language for understanding what citizenship and dissent mean to these young people during the War on Terror. . . . Missing is impressive for the depth of its analysis of the lives of South Asian Muslim immigrant youth. . . .” -- Matt Delmont * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after 9/11 1 1. Imperial Feelings: U.S. Empire and the War on Terror 37 2. Cultural Citizenship 76 3. Transnational Citizenship: Flexibility and Control 95 4. Economies of Citizenship: Work, Play, and Polyculturalism 128 5. Dissenting Citizenship: Orientalisms, Feminisms, and Dissenting Feelings 190 6. Missing: Fear, Complicity, and Solidarity 258 Appendix. A Note on Methods 291 Notes 293 Bibliography 305 Index 329

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic exploration of how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) in the years immediately following September 11, 2001.Trade Review“There are no easy answers in Missing, but Maira offers a nuanced language for understanding what citizenship and dissent mean to these young people during the War on Terror. . . . Missing is impressive for the depth of its analysis of the lives of South Asian Muslim immigrant youth. . . .” - Matt Delmont, American Quarterly“Basing her analysis on ethnographic research, the author captures the sense of disappointment and bewilderment of her informants caught in a double bind while trying to construct an identity that would make them feel secure in the turmoil of this post-911 world. Maira interprets individual representations in light of policy and macro analysis of empire. She shows how nation-state policies influence individual lives in a way that contributes much to the confusion about status and rights experienced by South Asian immigrant Muslim youth.” - Ibrahim G. Aoudé, Teachers College Record“[Missing] provides rich mining grounds to scholars from fields as wide as postcolonialism, cultural studies, sociology and history. In that sense, despite its socio-anthropologically empirical structure, it is a trans-disciplinary book. . . . This is a brave, honest and necessary study.” - Tabish Khair, South Asian Diaspora“Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 is a timely and important contribution to study of life in the post–9/11 United States for Muslim, South Asian, and Arab communities, in general, and for Muslim immigrant youth in a New England high school, in particular. Engaging deeply and comprehensively with theories of empire, race, and cultural citizenship, the author uses richly textured ethnographic material drawn from school, work, home, and protests to chart the different practices and meaning of cultural citizenship in the everyday lives of young people here and in the countries their parents left behind.” - Susan Terrio, American Anthropologist“Maira’s book Missing is a beautifully written analysis, dense with theory and facts. . . . I predict that Maira’s unique study will come to influence many researchers in their ethnic studies.“ - Hedvig Ekerwald, Ethnic and Racial Studies“How is national belonging experienced by South Asian teenagers in post-9/11 America? In a deeply thoughtful and compassionate ethnography, Sunaina Marr Maira explores this question, providing one of the most compelling analyses of citizenship in contemporary America. She introduces us to young people who worry about deportation, racism, and the challenges of schooling in another language, but who also possess an acute analysis of imperialism and are capable of forging a transnational community united as much by Bollywood as by their sudden elevation to Public Enemy Number 1. Maira’s stunning achievement is to give vivid content to state power, providing an up close and personal look at how it is lived and resisted by those whom we relentless evict from political community.”—Sherene H. Razack, author of Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics“Sunaina Marr Maira has authored one of the most important books of our time. Missing is a carefully researched and beautifully written account of the experiences, ideas, and opinions of South Asian Muslim immigrant children in the United States who find themselves deemed enemies of the state through no fault of their own in the aftermath of 9/11. Through a deft blend of ethnography and cultural critique, Maira demonstrates how the expanding reach and power of the nation-state overseas leads to new forms of disciplinary control at home: in schools, workplaces, media imagery, and immigration law.”—George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music“Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 is a timely and important contribution to study of life in the post–9/11 United States for Muslim, South Asian, and Arab communities, in general, and for Muslim immigrant youth in a New England high school, in particular. Engaging deeply and comprehensively with theories of empire, race, and cultural citizenship, the author uses richly textured ethnographic material drawn from school, work, home, and protests to chart the different practices and meaning of cultural citizenship in the everyday lives of young people here and in the countries their parents left behind.” -- Susan Terrio * American Anthropologist *“[Missing] provides rich mining grounds to scholars from fields as wide as postcolonialism, cultural studies, sociology and history. In that sense, despite its socio-anthropologically empirical structure, it is a trans-disciplinary book. . . . This is a brave, honest and necessary study.” -- Tabish Khair * South Asian Diaspora *“Basing her analysis on ethnographic research, the author captures the sense of disappointment and bewilderment of her informants caught in a double bind while trying to construct an identity that would make them feel secure in the turmoil of this post-911 world. Maira interprets individual representations in light of policy and macro analysis of empire. She shows how nation-state policies influence individual lives in a way that contributes much to the confusion about status and rights experienced by South Asian immigrant Muslim youth.” -- Ibrahim G. Aoudé * Teachers College Record *“There are no easy answers in Missing, but Maira offers a nuanced language for understanding what citizenship and dissent mean to these young people during the War on Terror. . . . Missing is impressive for the depth of its analysis of the lives of South Asian Muslim immigrant youth. . . .” -- Matt Delmont * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after 9/11 1 1. Imperial Feelings: U.S. Empire and the War on Terror 37 2. Cultural Citizenship 76 3. Transnational Citizenship: Flexibility and Control 95 4. Economies of Citizenship: Work, Play, and Polyculturalism 128 5. Dissenting Citizenship: Orientalisms, Feminisms, and Dissenting Feelings 190 6. Missing: Fear, Complicity, and Solidarity 258 Appendix. A Note on Methods 291 Notes 293 Bibliography 305 Index 329

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Book SynopsisA feminist analysis of the Chicano family that sees it as a site of political struggle with patriarchal masculinity, nationalism, and homophobia.Trade Review“Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Next of Kin and would recommend it highly. I plan to include it the next time I teach a gender and migration course. I think it would work well for upper-division undergraduate as well as graduate students.” - Leah Schmalzbauer, International Journal of Sociology of the Family“[T]he publication of Rodríguez’s book is exceptionally timely given widespread prejudices many Chicanos–Chicanas are still facing. The book is engagingly written and will certainly be of great value for specialists in the Americas, queer and feminist theory, cultural studies, popular culture, kinship, and migration.” - Julia Pauli, American Anthropologist“The centrality of the family to Chicano culture is indisputable. One of Next of Kin’s merits lies in its push to expand the notion of exactly who makes up this family. The cultural studies approach, which allows for the analysis of various modes of cultural expression, explains the general absence of canonical literary texts, many of which prominently feature both biological and fictive representations of family. Rodríguez counters this by critically engaging a rich variety of cultural practices, all of great relevance to the reconfiguration of la familia Chicana.” - José Pablo Villalobos, Camino Real“By studying the works of writers, filmmakers, painters, and musicians, Rodríguez assembles a rich cultural study and illustrates how ‘alternative’ family configurations (as opposed to the husband-dominated model) have existed in Chicano culture longer than previously thought. . . .” - Charlie Vázquez“Next of Kin offers one of the most cogent articulations of Chicana/o cultural critique to date. Through elegant readings of a dynamic archive of Chicano literary and popular culture, Richard T. Rodríguez scrutinizes the cultural authority of the biological Chicana/o family, critiquing its exclusionary impulses and championing transformative reconfigurations of la familia. Along the way, he provides a nuanced consideration of Chicana/o political and cultural history.”—José Esteban Muñoz, author of Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics“A gorgeous tapestry of cultural forms and interpretive brilliance, Next of Kin reopens the debate over our conflicted understandings of la familia in light of the challenges produced by feminism and queer studies. A must read for all those interested in Chicana and Chicano politics, fiction, film, photography, performance, and painting. Richard T. Rodríguez has given us a map with which to negotiate the twenty-first century uses of the family.”—George Mariscal, author of Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975“[T]he publication of Rodríguez’s book is exceptionally timely given widespread prejudices many Chicanos–Chicanas are still facing. The book is engagingly written and will certainly be of great value for specialists in the Americas, queer and feminist theory, cultural studies, popular culture, kinship, and migration.” -- Julia Pauli * American Anthropologist *“By studying the works of writers, filmmakers, painters, and musicians, Rodríguez assembles a rich cultural study and illustrates how ‘alternative’ family configurations (as opposed to the husband-dominated model) have existed in Chicano culture longer than previously thought. . . .” -- Charlie Vázquez“Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed Next of Kin and would recommend it highly. I plan to include it the next time I teach a gender and migration course. I think it would work well for upper-division undergraduate as well as graduate students.” -- Leah Schmalzbauer * International Journal of Sociology of the Family *“The centrality of the family to Chicano culture is indisputable. One of Next of Kin’s merits lies in its push to expand the notion of exactly who makes up this family. The cultural studies approach, which allows for the analysis of various modes of cultural expression, explains the general absence of canonical literary texts, many of which prominently feature both biological and fictive representations of family. Rodríguez counters this by critically engaging a rich variety of cultural practices, all of great relevance to the reconfiguration of la familia Chicana.” -- José Pablo Villalobos * Camino Real *Table of ContentsAbout the Series v Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Staking Family Claims 1 Reappraising the Archive 19 Shooting the Patriarch 55 The Verse of the Godfather 95 Carnal Knowledge 135 Afterword: Making Queer Familia 167 Notes 177 Bibliography 211 Discography 235 Filmography 237 Index 239

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Book Synopsis The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African Americans; at the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity, and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short storieTrade Review“[R]equired reading for all Latinos. . . . This important reader provides critical information from a wide variety of approaches on the evolution and current realities of Black Latinos and Latinas. From poetic to musical to social scientific sources, this is a powerful 360-degree treatment of the subject.” - Angelo Falcón, National Institute for Latino Policy Book Notes“This exciting collection is a great resource for anyone interested in Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, or American Studies.” - Jenell Navarro, Women’s Studies“As a collection of pieces, many of which have been published previously, The Afro-Latin@ Reader ultimately serves as a compact archive of materials from various academic disciplines and creative genres that details the Afro-Latina/o experience in the United States. . . . The Afro-Latin@ Reader makes accessible to students, scholars, and the general public a virtually ignored set of important contributions, not only to the study of Afro-Latina/os, but to the discourse about race in the United States more generally.” - Petra R. Rivera, Transition“The collected works in The Afro-Latin@ Reader broaden definitions of blackness and latinidad and reveal the multiple ways in which Afro-Latino/as navigate national and cultural histories that have consistently denigrated or dismissed their African heritage and challenge US racial classifications that dismiss their cultural background and linguistic difference. The Afro-Latin@ Reader invites us to move beyond a binary understanding of racial identity and to embrace the allegiances that may be forged and, in many instances, have been forged among Afro-Latino/as, Latinos/as, African Americans, and other underrepresented groups in the US.” - Sobeira Latorre, Anthurium: A Caribbean StudiesJournal“The Afro-Latin@ Reader assembles in one place an extraordinary range of articles, chapters, and first-person accounts of Afro-Latin@ identity. These pieces show that explorations of Afro-Latin@ identities quickly reveal significant hidden histories of racialization, colonization, exploitation, and social mobilization. They complicate our understanding of the U.S. racial order and its complex systems of inclusion and exclusion. This collection is a much-needed addition to scholarship in ethnic studies.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger“The Afro-Latin@ Reader is a superb collection, one that I cannot wait to use in my own courses. For some time now, scholars have engaged the history and anthropology of Black populations in Latin America, but the scholarship on the Afro-Latin@ presence (as configured on this side of the Rio Grande) has been more episodic and, to some extent, under-theorized. The breadth of The Afro-Latin@ Reader, as well as its effort to actually define the entire field, makes it a unique scholarly contribution.”—Ben Vinson III, co-author of African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean“[R]equired reading for all Latinos. . . . This important reader provides critical information from a wide variety of approaches on the evolution and current realities of Black Latinos and Latinas. From poetic to musical to social scientific sources, this is a powerful 360-degree treatment of the subject.” -- Angelo Falcón * National Institute for Latino Policy Book Notes *“As a collection of pieces, many of which have been published previously, The Afro-Latin@ Reader ultimately serves as a compact archive of materials from various academic disciplines and creative genres that details the Afro-Latina/o experience in the United States. . . . The Afro-Latin@ Reader makes accessible to students, scholars, and the general public a virtually ignored set of important contributions, not only to the study of Afro-Latina/os, but to the discourse about race in the United States more generally.” -- Petra R. Rivera * Transition *“The collected works in The Afro-Latin@ Reader broaden definitions of blackness and latinidad and reveal the multiple ways in which Afro-Latino/as navigate national and cultural histories that have consistently denigrated or dismissed their African heritage and challenge US racial classifications that dismiss their cultural background and linguistic difference. The Afro-Latin@ Reader invites us to move beyond a binary understanding of racial identity and to embrace the allegiances that may be forged and, in many instances, have been forged among Afro-Latino/as, Latinos/as, African Americans, and other underrepresented groups in the US.” -- Sobeira Latorre * Anthurium *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Editorial Note xv Introduction 1 I. Historical Background before 1900 The Earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood 19 Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afroamericans of the Southwest / Jack D. Forbes 27 Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould 38 Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum 51 Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum / Adrian Castro 62 II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Excerpt from Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges / Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 67 The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof 70 Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault 92 III. Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo 99 A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches / Jesus Colon 113 Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabel 120 An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Baseball / Adrian Burgos Jr. 127 Changing Identities: An Afro-Latino Family Portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera 142 Eso era tremendo!: An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers / Graciela Perez Gutierrez 150 IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music From "Indianola" to "No Colá": The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician / Ruth Glasser 157 Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera 176 Bauzá–Gillespie–Latin/JAzz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno 177 Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodriguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. Garcia 187 Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores 199 Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain / Tato Laviera 207 V. Black Latin@ Sixties Hair Conking: Buy Black / Carlos Cooks 211 Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera 215 Down These Mean Streets / Piri Thomas 219 African Things / Victor Hernandez Cruz 232 Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me" / Sandra Maria Esteves 233 Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzman 235 Excerpt from Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger / Felipe Luciano 244 The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega 245 Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity / Luis Barrios 252 Discovering Myself / Un Testimonio / Josefina Baez 266 VI. Afro-Latinas The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society / Angela Jorge 269 Something Latino Was Up with Us / Spring Redd 276 Excerpt from Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises / Mariposa (María Teresa Fernandez) 280 Latinegras: Desired Women—Undesirable Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen 282 Letter to a Friend / Nilaja Sun 296 Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects / Ana M. Lara 298 The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo / Marianela Medrano 314 VII. Public Images and (Mis)Representations Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernandez / Miriam Jimenez Roman 319 Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination within the Latino Community / Carlos Flores 323 Displaying Identity: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. / Ginetta E. B. Candelario 326 Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez / Yeidy M. Rivero 343 Can BET Make You Black? Remixing and Reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television / Ejima Baker 358 The Afro-Latino Connection: Can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? / Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille 364 VIII. Afro-Latin@s in the Hip Hop Zone Ghettocentricity, Blackness, and Pan-Latinidad / Raquel Z. Rivera 373 Chicano Rap Roots: Afro-Mexico and Black-Brown Cultural Exchange / Pancho McFarland 387 The Rise and Fall of Reggaeton: From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderon and Beyond / Wayne Marshall 396 Do Platanos Go wit' Collard Greens? / David Lamb 404 Divas Don't Yield / Sofia Quintero 411 IX. Living Afro-Latinidads An Afro-Latina's Quest for Inclusion / Yvette Modestin 417 Retracing Migration: From Samana to New York and Back Again / Ryan Mann-Hamilton 422 Negotiating among Invisibilities: Tales of Afro-Latinidades in the United States / Vielka Cecilia Hoy 426 We Are Black Too: Experiences of a Honduran Garifuna / Aida Lambert 431 Profile of an Afro-Latina: Black, Mexican, Both / Maria Rosario Jackson 434 Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio Lopez 439 Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 445 Divisible Blackness: Reflections on Heterogeneity and Racial Identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant 453 Nigger-Reecan Blues / Willie Perdomo 467 X. Afro-Latin@s: Present and Future Tenses How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans / John R. Logan 471 Bleach in the Rainbow: Latino Ethnicity and Preferences for Whiteness / William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton 485 Brown Like Me? / Ed Morales 499 Against the Myth of Racial Harmony in Puerto Rico / Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies Project 508 Mexican Ways, African Roots / Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson 512 Afro-Latin@s and the Latino Workplace / Tanya Kateri Hernandez 520 Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latina/o Identities and Coalitions 527 Afro-Latinism in United States Society: A Commentary / James Jennings 540 Sources and Permissions 547 Contributors 551 Index 559

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Book SynopsisA kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States, addressing history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including essays, memoirs, journalism, poetry, and interviews.Trade Review“[R]equired reading for all Latinos. . . . This important reader provides critical information from a wide variety of approaches on the evolution and current realities of Black Latinos and Latinas. From poetic to musical to social scientific sources, this is a powerful 360-degree treatment of the subject.” - Angelo Falcón, National Institute for Latino Policy Book Notes“This exciting collection is a great resource for anyone interested in Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, or American Studies.” - Jenell Navarro, Women’s Studies“As a collection of pieces, many of which have been published previously, The Afro-Latin@ Reader ultimately serves as a compact archive of materials from various academic disciplines and creative genres that details the Afro-Latina/o experience in the United States. . . . The Afro-Latin@ Reader makes accessible to students, scholars, and the general public a virtually ignored set of important contributions, not only to the study of Afro-Latina/os, but to the discourse about race in the United States more generally.” - Petra R. Rivera, Transition“The collected works in The Afro-Latin@ Reader broaden definitions of blackness and latinidad and reveal the multiple ways in which Afro-Latino/as navigate national and cultural histories that have consistently denigrated or dismissed their African heritage and challenge US racial classifications that dismiss their cultural background and linguistic difference. The Afro-Latin@ Reader invites us to move beyond a binary understanding of racial identity and to embrace the allegiances that may be forged and, in many instances, have been forged among Afro-Latino/as, Latinos/as, African Americans, and other underrepresented groups in the US.” - Sobeira Latorre, Anthurium: A Caribbean StudiesJournal“The Afro-Latin@ Reader assembles in one place an extraordinary range of articles, chapters, and first-person accounts of Afro-Latin@ identity. These pieces show that explorations of Afro-Latin@ identities quickly reveal significant hidden histories of racialization, colonization, exploitation, and social mobilization. They complicate our understanding of the U.S. racial order and its complex systems of inclusion and exclusion. This collection is a much-needed addition to scholarship in ethnic studies.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger“The Afro-Latin@ Reader is a superb collection, one that I cannot wait to use in my own courses. For some time now, scholars have engaged the history and anthropology of Black populations in Latin America, but the scholarship on the Afro-Latin@ presence (as configured on this side of the Rio Grande) has been more episodic and, to some extent, under-theorized. The breadth of The Afro-Latin@ Reader, as well as its effort to actually define the entire field, makes it a unique scholarly contribution.”—Ben Vinson III, co-author of African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean“[R]equired reading for all Latinos. . . . This important reader provides critical information from a wide variety of approaches on the evolution and current realities of Black Latinos and Latinas. From poetic to musical to social scientific sources, this is a powerful 360-degree treatment of the subject.” -- Angelo Falcón * National Institute for Latino Policy Book Notes *“As a collection of pieces, many of which have been published previously, The Afro-Latin@ Reader ultimately serves as a compact archive of materials from various academic disciplines and creative genres that details the Afro-Latina/o experience in the United States. . . . The Afro-Latin@ Reader makes accessible to students, scholars, and the general public a virtually ignored set of important contributions, not only to the study of Afro-Latina/os, but to the discourse about race in the United States more generally.” -- Petra R. Rivera * Transition *“The collected works in The Afro-Latin@ Reader broaden definitions of blackness and latinidad and reveal the multiple ways in which Afro-Latino/as navigate national and cultural histories that have consistently denigrated or dismissed their African heritage and challenge US racial classifications that dismiss their cultural background and linguistic difference. The Afro-Latin@ Reader invites us to move beyond a binary understanding of racial identity and to embrace the allegiances that may be forged and, in many instances, have been forged among Afro-Latino/as, Latinos/as, African Americans, and other underrepresented groups in the US.” -- Sobeira Latorre * Anthurium *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Editorial Note xv Introduction 1 I. Historical Background before 1900 The Earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood 19 Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afroamericans of the Southwest / Jack D. Forbes 27 Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould 38 Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum 51 Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum / Adrian Castro 62 II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Excerpt from Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges / Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 67 The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof 70 Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault 92 III. Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo 99 A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches / Jesus Colon 113 Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabel 120 An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Baseball / Adrian Burgos Jr. 127 Changing Identities: An Afro-Latino Family Portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera 142 Eso era tremendo!: An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers / Graciela Perez Gutierrez 150 IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music From "Indianola" to "No Colá": The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician / Ruth Glasser 157 Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera 176 Bauzá–Gillespie–Latin/JAzz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno 177 Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodriguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. Garcia 187 Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores 199 Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain / Tato Laviera 207 V. Black Latin@ Sixties Hair Conking: Buy Black / Carlos Cooks 211 Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera 215 Down These Mean Streets / Piri Thomas 219 African Things / Victor Hernandez Cruz 232 Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me" / Sandra Maria Esteves 233 Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzman 235 Excerpt from Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger / Felipe Luciano 244 The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega 245 Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity / Luis Barrios 252 Discovering Myself / Un Testimonio / Josefina Baez 266 VI. Afro-Latinas The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society / Angela Jorge 269 Something Latino Was Up with Us / Spring Redd 276 Excerpt from Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises / Mariposa (María Teresa Fernandez) 280 Latinegras: Desired Women—Undesirable Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen 282 Letter to a Friend / Nilaja Sun 296 Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects / Ana M. Lara 298 The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo / Marianela Medrano 314 VII. Public Images and (Mis)Representations Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernandez / Miriam Jimenez Roman 319 Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination within the Latino Community / Carlos Flores 323 Displaying Identity: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. / Ginetta E. B. Candelario 326 Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez / Yeidy M. Rivero 343 Can BET Make You Black? Remixing and Reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television / Ejima Baker 358 The Afro-Latino Connection: Can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? / Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille 364 VIII. Afro-Latin@s in the Hip Hop Zone Ghettocentricity, Blackness, and Pan-Latinidad / Raquel Z. Rivera 373 Chicano Rap Roots: Afro-Mexico and Black-Brown Cultural Exchange / Pancho McFarland 387 The Rise and Fall of Reggaeton: From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderon and Beyond / Wayne Marshall 396 Do Platanos Go wit' Collard Greens? / David Lamb 404 Divas Don't Yield / Sofia Quintero 411 IX. Living Afro-Latinidads An Afro-Latina's Quest for Inclusion / Yvette Modestin 417 Retracing Migration: From Samana to New York and Back Again / Ryan Mann-Hamilton 422 Negotiating among Invisibilities: Tales of Afro-Latinidades in the United States / Vielka Cecilia Hoy 426 We Are Black Too: Experiences of a Honduran Garifuna / Aida Lambert 431 Profile of an Afro-Latina: Black, Mexican, Both / Maria Rosario Jackson 434 Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio Lopez 439 Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 445 Divisible Blackness: Reflections on Heterogeneity and Racial Identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant 453 Nigger-Reecan Blues / Willie Perdomo 467 X. Afro-Latin@s: Present and Future Tenses How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans / John R. Logan 471 Bleach in the Rainbow: Latino Ethnicity and Preferences for Whiteness / William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton 485 Brown Like Me? / Ed Morales 499 Against the Myth of Racial Harmony in Puerto Rico / Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies Project 508 Mexican Ways, African Roots / Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson 512 Afro-Latin@s and the Latino Workplace / Tanya Kateri Hernandez 520 Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latina/o Identities and Coalitions 527 Afro-Latinism in United States Society: A Commentary / James Jennings 540 Sources and Permissions 547 Contributors 551 Index 559

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Book SynopsisArguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that address those “monstrous intimacies” and their repetition as constitutive of post-slavery subjectivity. Her illuminating readings juxtapose Frederick Douglass’s narrative of witnessing the brutal beating of his Aunt Hester with Essie Mae Washington-Williams’s declaration of freedom in Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond, as well as the “generational genital fantasies” depicted in Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora with a firsthand account of such “monstrous intimacies” in the journals of an antebellum South Carolina senator, slaveholder, and vocal critic of miscegenation. Sharpe explores the South African–born writer Bessie Head&rsquTrade Review“Through compelling and intricate readings of visual and written texts, Sharpe is concerned with unpacking the intersection between violence, sex, and subjectivity in post-slavery subjects. Sharpe’s work is a poignant reflection on historical time and convincingly deals with the ways that the horrors of the past continue to structure the present. . . . Sharpe’s book is an eloquent and at times challenging analysis of the construction of post-slavery subjects as subjects who are by no means ‘post’ but continue to be structured by the past that is not quite past.” - Sam McBean, Elevate Difference“This is a bold, challenging book which is unrelenting in its interpretation of slavery and the effects it has had on subsequent generations, black and white. In effect, the monstrous intimacies continue.” - Danielle Mulholland, M/C Reviews“Sharpe’s Monstrous Intimacies succeeds in illuminating the complex entanglements of desire and horror at the heart of Black and White subjectification ‘after’ slavery. More profoundly, this text powerfully balances the fact of history’s monstrous persistence and the desire for what she identifies, after Dionne Brand, as a modality of Black life unhinged to historical narrative (129).” - Sarah Cervenak, Women’s Studies“The materials in Monstrous Intimacies register as being profoundly relevant not only for African American literature, but also for studies of the history of slavery in relation to the U.S. South. Moreover, her second chapter, focusing on the literature and culture of South Africa, addresses histories of racism, colonialism, and imperialism and speaks to discourses on the global South.” - Riché Richardson, Southern Literary Journal"Overall…Sharpe successfully demonstrates the presence of "monstrous intimacies" in each chapter. Most importantly, she creates a methodology for understanding the psychological development of post-slavery subjects and the seductive story-telling that represents his or her experience." - Denia Fraser, Kritikon Litterarum“Monstrous Intimacies is a remarkable study, lucid, engaging, and thoroughly engrossing.”—Sharon Patricia Holland, author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity“Monstrous Intimacies is an original, enriching look at the variety of artistic forms and practices that interrogate the illness of the post-slavery subject. It is international in its scope, interdisciplinary in its approach, and consistently intelligent in its execution.”—Ashraf Rushdy, author of Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction“Sharpe’s Monstrous Intimacies succeeds in illuminating the complex entanglements of desire and horror at the heart of Black and White subjectification ‘after’ slavery. More profoundly, this text powerfully balances the fact of history’s monstrous persistence and the desire for what she identifies, after Dionne Brand, as a modality of Black life unhinged to historical narrative (129).” -- Sarah Cervenak * Women's Studies *“This is a bold, challenging book which is unrelenting in its interpretation of slavery and the effects it has had on subsequent generations, black and white. In effect, the monstrous intimacies continue.” -- Danielle Mulholland * M/C Reviews *“Through compelling and intricate readings of visual and written texts, Sharpe is concerned with unpacking the intersection between violence, sex, and subjectivity in post-slavery subjects. Sharpe’s work is a poignant reflection on historical time and convincingly deals with the ways that the horrors of the past continue to structure the present. . . . Sharpe’s book is an eloquent and at times challenging analysis of the construction of post-slavery subjects as subjects who are by no means ‘post’ but continue to be structured by the past that is not quite past.” -- Sam McBean * Elevate Difference *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Monstrous Intimacies: Surviving Slavery, Bearing Freedom 1 1. Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Reading the "Days That Were Pages of Hysteria" 27 2. Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru Redemption, Subjectification, and the Problem of Liberation 67 3. Isaac Julien's The Attendant and the Sadomasochism of Everyday Black Life 111 4. Kara Walker's Monstrous Intimacies 153 Notes 189 Bibliography 223 Index 243

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Book SynopsisThe majority of undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - including a large population of Korean American students - come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. This book explores the tensions between liberal ideals and the particularities of race, family, and community in the contemporary university.Trade Review“Abelmann’s study is a layered work. Her research drills down into the layers of campus dynamics, student psychology and the cultural dissonance experienced by Korean Americas of the second generation.” - Bill Drucker, Korean Quarterly“[T]he book captures an important segment of the continuously evolving story of racial diversity in higher education. It demonstrates how race does nothave to result in explicit racism to matter in students’ lives and that racial realities are much more complex. I hope that readers gain a fuller understanding of this subset of Asian American students, see parallels with other communities of color, and be challenged to reimagine liberaleducation.” - Julie J. Park, Journal of Educational Research“Abelmann presents compelling arguments regarding the experiences of Korean American students at university and how university rhetoric fails to manifest itself in the reality of acceptance of difference. . . . A volume to be applauded for its research, evidence driven conclusions and well considered arguments.” - Danielle Mulholland, M/C Reviews“Nancy Abelmann’s ethnographic study of Korean American students attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign could not be more timely. . . . [R]efreshingly engaging and accessible. . .” - Min Hyoung Song, Journal of Asian Studies“The Intimate University is a work that will be one of the most valuable referents for anyone interested in, among other things, issues of migration; minorities and their segregation in the United States; the university as an institution; Korean American society; and multiculturalism and diversity.” - Okpyo Moon, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“The Intimate University tells an emotionally charged story of Korean American life on and off the campus of a large public research university in the American Midwest. It dispels the myths and stereotypes about Asian Americans through the different voices of college students and their relatives and through the author’s nuanced analysis and culturally sensitive interpretation.”—Min Zhou, author of Contemporary Chinese America“Nancy Abelmann brings to light the oft-hidden maneuverings that Asian Americans have to perform in schools as students of color and, at the same time, students whose color ‘does not count’ by virtue of their alleged overrepresentation or overachievement. The Intimate University is an incisive and provocative account of university schooling as a site for navigating the intricacies and contradictions of race, immigration, community formation, and identity.”—Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans“Nancy Abelmann’s stunning portrait of Korean American university life will cause us to rethink our understanding of multiculturalism and diversity in the academy. This valuable and sobering account of one minority group’s experience also speaks more broadly to the intersection of race, religion, and identity, revealing the paradoxical notions on which American diversity is based. Don’t miss this book!”—Cathy Small, aka Rebekah Nathan, author of My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student“The Intimate University is a work that will be one of the most valuable referents for anyone interested in, among other things, issues of migration; minorities and their segregation in the United States; the university as an institution; Korean American society; and multiculturalism and diversity.” -- Okpyo Moon * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“[T]he book captures an important segment of the continuously evolving story of racial diversity in higher education. It demonstrates how race does not have to result in explicit racism to matter in students’ lives and that racial realities are much more complex. I hope that readers gain a fuller understanding of this subset of Asian American students, see parallels with other communities of color, and be challenged to reimagine liberal education.” -- Julie J. Park * Journal of Educational Research *“Abelmann presents compelling arguments regarding the experiences of Korean American students at university and how university rhetoric fails to manifest itself in the reality of acceptance of difference. . . . A volume to be applauded for its research, evidence driven conclusions and well considered arguments.” -- Danielle Mulholland * M/C Reviews *“Abelmann’s study is a layered work. Her research drills down into the layers of campus dynamics, student psychology and the cultural dissonance experienced by Korean Americas of the second generation.” -- Bill Drucker * Korean Quarterly *“Nancy Abelmann’s ethnographic study of Korean American students attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign could not be more timely. . . . [R]efreshingly engaging and accessible. . .” -- Min Hyoung Song * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: The Landscape 1. Here and There in Chicagoland Korean America 23 2. The Evangelical Challenge to College and Family 43 3. Shattered Liberal Dreams 66 Part II: Family 4. An (Anti-)Asian American Pre-med 87 5. Family versus Alma Mater 106 6. Intimate Traces 123 7. It's a Girl Thing 143 Conclusion 158 Notes 169 Bibliography 183 Index 195

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography examining the history of Korean adoption to West, the emergence of a distinctive adoptee collective identity, and adoptee returns to Korea in relation to South Korean modernity and globalization.Trade Review“Adopted Territory is the best and most thorough treatment of transnational adoption that I have seen. Eleana J. Kim provides sophisticated analyses of Korean overseas adoption to the United States, and South Korean history and state politics, within the contexts of cold war geopolitics and the rise of the American empire, while also attending to issues of nation, race, citizenship, gender, social class, and culture. The breadth, depth, and scope of Kim’s analyses contribute importantly to our understanding of the people and the phenomenon. Her well-contextualized and sensitive discussions of adoptee subjectivities are of particular interest.”—Elaine H. Kim, University of California, Berkeley“This truly remarkable ethnography chronicles the birth and first generation of the global Korean adoptee movement. Adopted Territory brilliantly asserts that the movement is born of a powerful historical conjuncture among: the U.S.’s millennial culture of multiculturalism; South Korea’s aggressive globalization regimes and emergent democratic civil society; and adoptees coming of age. Adopted Territory offers also a sophisticated study of family, kinship, and nation through the challenging lens of adoption which Eleana J. Kim declares a veritable ‘catalyst for social transformation.’ A beautifully crafted multi-sited ethnography, Adopted Territory will no doubt enjoy a vibrant intellectual life.”—Nancy Abelmann, author of The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation“By examining the dynamic history and relations among the concerned state actors, international and domestic adoption agencies, adoptee advocacy groups, and individual adoptees and their self-governance groups, Kim expands existing scholarship within Korean studies on the geopolitics of intimacy . . . and neoliberal and developmentalist modernity. . . . Adopted Territory may be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of Korean studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and anthropology.” -- EuyRyung Jun * Journal of Asian Studies *“Students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, transnational identity and Korean and Asian American Studies will find Dr. Kim’s ethnography particularly informative. . . . Adopted Territory cogently argues the transformative potential of adoptee discourses on the inaccurate representations of adoptees as orphans and children, and the ideal family as a nuclear unit, and on challenging the state in social welfare provision. At the very least, for readers, it will re-shape conceptualizations of Korean identity and belonging.” -- Ann H. Kim * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Adopted Territory is truly a groundbreaking publication. It not only contributes to the new fields of Korean adoption studies, adoption cultural studies and critical adoption studies that have emerged lately, but also to the unfortunately still too territorialized fields of Asian studies and Korean studies, which still need to become transnationalized and not just include diasporic Asians and Koreans on the research agenda, but also embrace such previously discarded, forgotten and ‘non-authentic’ subjects as adoptees living in Western countries.” -- Tobias Hübinette * Pacific Affairs *“Adopted Territory, Eleana Kim’s powerful and innovative book about Korean transnational adoption, brings both intellectual rigor and a fresh approach to the study of adoptive kinship.” -- Barbara Yngvesson * American Ethnologist *“The many strengths of Adopted Territory are solidified by Kim’s lucid and stylishly crafted prose. One is propelled through the book by a beautiful balance of detailed empirical accounts and judicious use of cultural theory. . . . Kim’s work is an altogether new treatment of a number of themes known to transnational adoption scholars, defamiliarizing territory we thought we knew. At the same time, it will familiarize scholars from a number of other fields with the importance of adoptees’ stories and histories to transnational counterpublics.” -- Sara Dorow * Contemporary Sociology *“Adopted Territory is a tour de force, masterfully traversing a complex transnational terrain that is at once overtly public involving multiple vested interests and competing agendas, and intensely personal and emotive.” -- Jessica Walton * Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Notes on Transliteration, Terminology, and Pseudonyms xiii Abbreviations xvii Introduction: Understanding Transnational Korean Adoption 1 Part I 1. "Waifs" and "Orphans": The Origins of Korean Adoption 43 2. Adoptee Kinship 83 3. Adoptee Cultural Citizenship 101 4. Public Intimacies and Private Politics 133 Part II 5. Our Adoptee, Our Alien: Adoptees as Specters of Family and Foreignness in Global Korea 171 6. Made in Korea: Adopted Koreans and Native Koreans in the Motherland 211 7. Beyond Good and Evil: The Moral Economies of Children and Their Best Interests in a Global Age 249 Notes 269 Works Cited 291 Index 311

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Book SynopsisVolume XI of the Marcus Garvey papersTrade Review“The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920 is a valuable resource for scholars and students of the man and the movement. Though not an exhaustive compilation of documents from the period, the historical commentaries, chronologies, and primary documents in this volume serve as a thorough introduction to this important period in history and successfully integrates the history of Garvey and his impact on the global African diaspora into world history.” -- Glenn A. Chambers * Journal of World History *"By making such archival material widely available, the much-anticipated 'Caribbean Series' . . . is sure to expand the study of what Emory Tolbert has called 'outpost Garveyism' in the Caribbean' . . . Researches interested in a variety of questions about the daily experiences of West Indians at home and abroad will benefit from The UNIA Papers' latest edition." -- Frances Peace Sullivan * Caribbean Studies *“With more than four hundred documents to support Hill’s insights, The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920 is a treasure trove for scholars. . . . This volume is a superb addition to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. The documents and the generalintroduction continue to shed new light upon the complex leader and the activities of the organization. The scholarly community will be intriguedby this new installment and will eagerly await the publication of the other volumes in the Caribbean series and the completion of the collection.” -- Shawn Leigh Alexander * Journal of American History *"The wealth of primary sources is extraordinary and the information presented is annotated extremely thoroughly. A reader of this volume, as well as Volumes XII and XIII, could not ask for more careful and detailed notes,which add context and deeper meaning to the included sources." -- Catherine B. Abbott * Nova Religio *

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Book SynopsisAn account of how anthropology has responded to and helped shape ideas about race and culture in the United States, and how its ideas have been appropriated to different ends.Trade Review“Baker convincingly shows anthropology's role in a struggle to move the nation from a biological understanding of race. . . [A]n entirely brilliant book.” - Anthony J. Lemelle Jr., Journal of African American Studies“[A] many-layered analysis. . . . As Baker documents, since the 1950s white-supremacist and anti-Semitic organizations have argued for the existence of a Boas conspiracy that promotes racial amalgamation, degeneration, and equality. The tangled roots of race and culture, Baker argues, continue to trip us up.” - Julia E. Liss, Journal of American History“Written with an ironic sense of humor, Baker succeeds in ferreting out littleknown material and enhances and broadens our understanding of the history of anthropology as well as the discipline’s relationship to past and present political currents.” - Vernon J. Williams Jr., American Studies“Lee Baker is almost peerless as a social, political, and intellectual historian of anthropology, its entanglements with emerging ideas like race and culture, and its collisions with public policy and the law. . . . The book is a great read, filled with engaging untold stories gleaned from archives and primary documents.” - Brett Williams, American Anthropologist“In these fascinating essays, Lee D. Baker interrogates several key dichotomies (culture/race, Native Americans/African Americans, anthropology/sociology) to cast new light on the history of American anthropology. He asks anthropologists to think again about the peculiar combination of progressive and conservative arguments that anthropological theories of culture and race seem always to reproduce.”—Richard Handler, University of Virginia“In this smart and provocative book, Lee D. Baker takes on a terribly important topic: the transformations in the discipline of anthropology as it relates to race and culture. Among other things, Baker raises very good questions about how anthropology ‘treats’ Native Americans versus African Americans. The answers aren’t going to make anyone feel good, but they are going to make people think. I learned a lot from this thoughtful work.”—Jonathan Holloway, co-editor of Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century“Lee D. Baker’s new book astutely and convincingly argues for new ways of reading the ways anthropology has treated the racial politics of culture and the cultural politics of race. These precise, masterfully researched and elegantly written vignettes map new vistas for understanding the critical crucible in which Native American and African American experiences illuminate each other through academic research and institutions. Baker’s insights are fresh, basic, and important.”—Robert Warrior, President, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association“[A] many-layered analysis. . . . As Baker documents, since the 1950s white-supremacist and anti-Semitic organizations have argued for the existence of a Boas conspiracy that promotes racial amalgamation, degeneration, and equality. The tangled roots of race and culture, Baker argues, continue to trip us up.” -- Julia E. Liss * Journal of American History *“Baker convincingly shows anthropology's role in a struggle to move the nation from a biological understanding of race. . . [A]n entirely brilliant book.” -- Anthony J. Lemelle Jr. * Journal of African American Studies *“Lee Baker is almost peerless as a social, political, and intellectual historian of anthropology, its entanglements with emerging ideas like race and culture, and its collisions with public policy and the law. . . . The book is a great read, filled with engaging untold stories gleaned from archives and primary documents.” -- Brett Williams * American Anthropologist *“Written with an ironic sense of humor, Baker succeeds in ferreting out little known material and enhances and broadens our understanding of the history of anthropology as well as the discipline’s relationship to past and present political currents.” -- Vernon J. Williams Jr. * American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface: Questions ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Research, Reform, and Racial Uplift 33 2. Fabricating the Authentic and the Politics of the Real 66 3. Race, Relevance, and Daniel G. Brinton's Ill-fated Bid for Prominence 117 4. The Cult of Franz Boas and His "Conspiracy" to Destroy the White Race 156 Notes 221 Works Cited 235 Index 265

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Book SynopsisAn argument that the fantasy of an inscrutable East has functioned as a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core.Trade Review“[T]he book is an interesting read. Moreover, it makes a vibrant contribution to the important area of film studies that attends to ways of reading the other within diverse cultural and cinematic frameworks and this is to be welcomed.” - Belinda Smaill, Screening the Past“King's own arcade of analysis remains a formidable structure. With critical equanimity, she interweaves a variety of discourses—between psychoanalysis and phenomenology; film theory and cultural history; even classical Hollywood and experimental works—to undo the notion of their opposition and instead reveal their mutual investment. This book is a foundational work for future studies of not only the West's cultural interplay with East Asia, but broader concerns of alterity and the enigmatic in Hollywood itself.” - Ana Salzberg, Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature“The Orient is not just a cast of stereotypes but a visual world as well. With brilliance and gorgeous prose, Homay King uncovers the mise-en-scène of Orientalism and the cinema. She examines what is at stake when ‘Asia’ comes to stand in for an unintelligible alterity—an enigmatic signifier—that animates our psychic lives. Elegant and sophisticated, this tour de force sets a new standard for film theory, visual culture, psychoanalysis, and studies of race.”—David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy“With Lost in Translation, her powerful analysis of Asia as an ‘enigmatic signifier’ for those who inhabit ‘the West,’ Homay King stages a compelling encounter between psychoanalytic theory, especially as reformulated in the texts of Jean Laplanche, and the politics of racial, national, and ethnic representation. Identifying East and West alike as sites of internal alterity, this smart, provocative, and persuasive book resists the familiar reductiveness of multiculturalist piety in order to insist on the ongoing work of finding ourselves, no less than our others, as always already in translation.”—Lee Edelman, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive“[T]he book is an interesting read. Moreover, it makes a vibrant contribution to the important area of film studies that attends to ways of reading the other within diverse cultural and cinematic frameworks and this is to be welcomed.” -- Belinda Smaill * Screening the Past *“King's own arcade of analysis remains a formidable structure. With critical equanimity, she interweaves a variety of discourses—between psychoanalysis and phenomenology; film theory and cultural history; even classical Hollywood and experimental works—to undo the notion of their opposition and instead reveal their mutual investment. This book is a foundational work for future studies of not only the West's cultural interplay with East Asia, but broader concerns of alterity and the enigmatic in Hollywood itself.” -- Ana Salzberg * Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature *“In Lost in Translation by Homay King, we can review notions of image, signification, message, and translation, primarily in American films, where mise-en-scène depicts East Asian Orientalist tropes. . . . What I especially appreciate in this undertaking is King’s elegant prose style, as well as aesthetic distance resulting from the close readings of individual film texts.” -- Diane Borden * fort da *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Enigmatic Signifier 2. The Shanghai Gesture 3. The Chinatown Syndrome 4. The Great Wall 5. The Lost Girls Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn argument that the fantasy of an inscrutable East has functioned as a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core.Trade Review“[T]he book is an interesting read. Moreover, it makes a vibrant contribution to the important area of film studies that attends to ways of reading the other within diverse cultural and cinematic frameworks and this is to be welcomed.” - Belinda Smaill, Screening the Past“King's own arcade of analysis remains a formidable structure. With critical equanimity, she interweaves a variety of discourses—between psychoanalysis and phenomenology; film theory and cultural history; even classical Hollywood and experimental works—to undo the notion of their opposition and instead reveal their mutual investment. This book is a foundational work for future studies of not only the West's cultural interplay with East Asia, but broader concerns of alterity and the enigmatic in Hollywood itself.” - Ana Salzberg, Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature“The Orient is not just a cast of stereotypes but a visual world as well. With brilliance and gorgeous prose, Homay King uncovers the mise-en-scène of Orientalism and the cinema. She examines what is at stake when ‘Asia’ comes to stand in for an unintelligible alterity—an enigmatic signifier—that animates our psychic lives. Elegant and sophisticated, this tour de force sets a new standard for film theory, visual culture, psychoanalysis, and studies of race.”—David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy“With Lost in Translation, her powerful analysis of Asia as an ‘enigmatic signifier’ for those who inhabit ‘the West,’ Homay King stages a compelling encounter between psychoanalytic theory, especially as reformulated in the texts of Jean Laplanche, and the politics of racial, national, and ethnic representation. Identifying East and West alike as sites of internal alterity, this smart, provocative, and persuasive book resists the familiar reductiveness of multiculturalist piety in order to insist on the ongoing work of finding ourselves, no less than our others, as always already in translation.”—Lee Edelman, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive“[T]he book is an interesting read. Moreover, it makes a vibrant contribution to the important area of film studies that attends to ways of reading the other within diverse cultural and cinematic frameworks and this is to be welcomed.” -- Belinda Smaill * Screening the Past *“King's own arcade of analysis remains a formidable structure. With critical equanimity, she interweaves a variety of discourses—between psychoanalysis and phenomenology; film theory and cultural history; even classical Hollywood and experimental works—to undo the notion of their opposition and instead reveal their mutual investment. This book is a foundational work for future studies of not only the West's cultural interplay with East Asia, but broader concerns of alterity and the enigmatic in Hollywood itself.” -- Ana Salzberg * Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature *“In Lost in Translation by Homay King, we can review notions of image, signification, message, and translation, primarily in American films, where mise-en-scène depicts East Asian Orientalist tropes. . . . What I especially appreciate in this undertaking is King’s elegant prose style, as well as aesthetic distance resulting from the close readings of individual film texts.” -- Diane Borden * fort da *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Enigmatic Signifier 2. The Shanghai Gesture 3. The Chinatown Syndrome 4. The Great Wall 5. The Lost Girls Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography exploring the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists.Trade Review“As the first ethnography of South Asian American hip hop artists, this book is a welcome contribution to the study of hip hop, cultural ownership, and South Asian and black relations. The perspectives of Sharma and the desi hip hop artists at the centre of this study help to move the discussion beyond insular views of South Asian American youth culture to consider alternate subcultural identities and cross-racial alliances. . . . Sharma’s insightful and well-researched book has broadened the dialog regarding the role of musical communities in the forging of black and brown diasporic alliances.” - Carl Clements, Journal of Intercultural Studies“Hip Hop Desis is an exceptional book . . . Eschewing traditional analyses of relations between Asian and African Americans, Sharma convincingly shows how desis’ embrace of hip hop disrupts existing social divisions, and generates new possibilities for envisioning a ‘global race consciousness.’” - Justin Scarimbolo, Notes“This is a powerhouse of a contribution to the study of hip-hop culture. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” - A. C. Shahriari, Choice“If anyone doubts that the hip hop desis have become a cultural phenomenon, reading Sharma's Hip Hop Desis . . . could challenge the notion.” - Arthur Pais, India Abroad“This book will be of interest to critical race scholars, cultural sociologists, and interdisciplinary scholars of hip-hop as well as South Asian Americanists. It is an important contribution to the general literature on immigration and immigrants and the scholarship on racism.” - Bandana Purkayastha, American Journal of Sociology“Hip Hop Desis is peopled with young, innovative characters who want to break out of the restraints that surround them: restraints of community and of stereotype. They are a joy to read about, and Nitasha Tamar Sharma takes us along with her generous analysis. We learn a lot about the magnificence of hip hop culture, how it draws people in and draws them to grow outwards. All of this makes Hip Hop Desis first-rate.”—Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World“Investigating the meaning of hip hop for a dedicated group of South Asian American producers, DJs, rappers, and enthusiasts, Nitasha Tamar Sharma does important work illuminating the complexities of the racial order in the United States. She shows how identities formed through consumption and creative expression shape and reflect civic and political identities.”—George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music“This bold, innovative critique of an under-explored area of hip hop culture significantly expands the field of hip hop scholarship. With this book, Nitasha Tamar Sharma makes an important contribution to our understanding of the complex ways that youth from various racial, ethnic, and national backgrounds are absorbing hip hop culture, respecting its cultural origins, and reshaping it in their own image.”—Bakari Kitwana, author of The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture“As the first ethnography of South Asian American hip hop artists, this book is a welcome contribution to the study of hip hop, cultural ownership, and South Asian and black relations. The perspectives of Sharma and the desi hip hop artists at the centre of this study help to move the discussion beyond insular views of South Asian American youth culture to consider alternate subcultural identities and cross-racial alliances. . . . Sharma’s insightful and well-researched book has broadened the dialog regarding the role of musical communities in the forging of black and brown diasporic alliances.” -- Carl Clements * Journal of Intercultural Studies *“If anyone doubts that the hip hop desis have become a cultural phenomenon, reading Sharma's Hip Hop Desis . . . could challenge the notion.” -- Arthur Pais * India Abroad *“This book will be of interest to critical race scholars, cultural sociologists, and interdisciplinary scholars of hip-hop as well as South Asian Americanists. It is an important contribution to the general literature on immigration and immigrants and the scholarship on racism.” -- Bandana Purkayastha * American Journal of Sociology *“This is a powerhouse of a contribution to the study of hip-hop culture. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- A. C. Shahriari * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Claiming Space, Making Race 1 1. Alternative Ethnics: Rotten Coconuts and Ethnic Hip Hop 37 2. Making Race: Desi Racial Identities, South Asian and Black Relations, and Racialized Hip Hop 88 3. Flipping the Gender Script: Gender and Sexuality in South Asian and Hip Hop America 138 4. The Appeal of Hip Hop, Ownership, and the Politics of Location 190 5. Sampling South Asians: Dual Flows of Appropriation and the Possibilities of Authenticity 234 Conclusion: Turning Thoughts into Action through the Politics of Identification 283 Notes 301 References 315 Index 335

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Book SynopsisEssays recovering the forgotten and downplayed histories of blacks in Central America, demonstrating the centrality of African Americans to the regions history from the earliest colonial times to the present.Trade Review“This enlightening collection is destined to become essential reading for all those interested in the history of race, particularly as it pertains to the black presence in Central America. With its meticulous research, rich interpretive frameworks, and broad chronological sweep from the early colonial period into modern times, Blacks and Blackness in Central America will change how we think about racial mixture, nation-building, African survivals, black identity, and the development of society in Latin America. Thanks to this book, ‘Afro-Central America’ will become standard language in the vocabulary of the African Diaspora.”—Ben Vinson III, author of Bearing Arms for His Majesty: The Free-Colored Militia in Colonial Mexico“This important collection of essays puts Central America firmly on the African Diaspora map. Blacks and Blackness in Central America is the one-stop volume that gathers together the leading scholars of the topic. They offer clear windows into their many years of research and discovery, collectively convincing the reader that Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica were far from marginal to the historical trajectories of people of African descent in the Americas.”—Matthew Restall, author of The Black Middle: Africans, Mayas, and Spaniards in Colonial Yucatan“... [T]aken together, the essays in the volume go a long way toward addressing the complicated and messy topic of the history of blacks in Central America, and they certainly have the potential to lead to studies that will indeed transform the ways we think about the Atlantic world, race in Central America, and the construction of national identities.” -- Elizabeth W. Kiddy * History: Reviews of New Books *“A trailblazing effort, this volume represents an important contribution to Central American historiography and African diaspora studies. It should be considered required reading for students and specialists alike.” -- Andrew Fisher * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“All the essays in this excellent volume, whether in colonial or post-colonial contexts across Central America, offer a new vision of blacks and blackness in the region.” -- Dario A. Euraque * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“[A] captivating addition to the growing historiographical discussion on race. Africans have populated the shores of Central America since the 1500s. Yet rarely has a single work brought together such diligent contributing authors who provide the depths of discussion in such fascinating, unraveling ways. -- Margery Coulson-Clark * Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians *“[A] major contribution to the scholarly literature. . . .” -- Anne S. Macpherson * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe 1 Part I. Colonial Worlds of Slavery and Freedom Angolans in Amatitlán: Sugar, African Immigrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken 27 Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750 / Russell Lohse 57 Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 1600-1787 / Karl H. Offen 92 Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez 130 Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk 150 Part II. Nation Building and Reinscribing Race "The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe 177 What Difference did Color Make? Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson 209 Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker 246 Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British Western Indians in Central America, 1870-1940 / Lara Putnam 278 White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle 307 The Slow Ascent of the Marginalized: Afro-Descendents in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando 334 Bibliography 353 Contributors 385 Index 389

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Book SynopsisAnthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage.Trade Review"In this far-reaching work, Rachael Miyung Joo reveals transnational sport as a powerful lens for observing the making of 'global Koreanness.' From the South Korean golfer Se Ri Pak and the baseball player Chan Ho Park to the Korean adoptee and Olympic skier Toby Dawson and the mixed-race Korean NFL player Hines Ward, and from the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan to North–South Korea sporting matches, we learn not only of adoring fan bases, but more expansively of South Korean, Korean American, and transnational Korean publics whose affinities and potentials far exceed sport. Transnational Sport beautifully demonstrates the power and pleasures of sport, as well as its enormous scholarly reach."—Nancy Abelmann, author of The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation"To be part of the international sports community means, in our moment, to live paradoxically: to simultaneously support from within the nation and to express that support across national boundaries in such a way as to almost invalidate the nation. Transnational Sport is a dedicated study of this dilemma. Rachael Miyung Joo delineates the difficult, sometimes conflicting ways in which the national and the transnational cohabit in the global Korean sports community. Written with passion and a sympathetic critical eye, Transnational Sport lends a vivacity and a certain pathos to the standing of Korean athletes, such as the baseballer Chan Ho Park, the golfer Se Ri Pak, and the Olympic gold-medalist figure skater Kim Yuna."—Grant Farred, author of Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football“Joo’s use of ethnographic material, participant observation, and interviews are justifiably necessary and highly enriching to her study of the negotiations between gender, media, and global Korea.” -- Myoung-Sun Song * International Journal of Communication *“Transnational Sport is an accessible yet rigorously written book that will help closely investigate the world that transnational/Korean media sport has made. Thus, the book is highly recommended for courses on, as well as for scholars and students in the fields of, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies of sport; Asian American studies; and Asian studies.” -- Jin-Kyung Park * Journal of Asian Studies *“Transnational Sport makes an excellent contribution to both Korean and Korean American studies by offering thoughtful analyses of wide-ranging interesting data and critical ethnographic commentaries on the sociocultural and political economic significance of transnational media sport.” -- Chunghee Sarah Soh * American Ethnologist *“Rachael Miyung Joo presents a well-rounded look at transnational sport in her book. It covers many important and interesting topics. . . .[The] content of each topic is informative and the analysis, inspiring. . . . The various topics discussed in the book offer multiple entries for worthwhile comparison beyond South Korea alone.” -- Hsueh-cheng Yen * Asian Anthropology *"Writing in clear authoritative prose and avoiding the jargon of historical discourse and examined identity, Joo provides clear explanations in each chapter of her main points and conclusions. . . . Recommended." -- K. Lynass * Choice *"Joo... advance[s] our understanding of the key roles that sports play in gendering societies in Asia, but with clear application to other parts of the world. [Transnational Sport is] invaluable for researchers, and I highly recommend [the book] for classroom use." -- Yunxiang Gao * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration xiii Introduction: Manufacturing Koreanness through Transnational Sport 1 Part I. Situating Transnational Media Sport 1. To Be a Global Player: Sport and Korean Developmental Nationalisms 35 2. A Leveraged Playing Field: U.S. Multiculturalism and Korean Athletes 65 Part II. Reading Masculinities and Femininities through Transnational Athletes 3. Playing Hard Ball: The Athletic Body and Korean/American Masculinities 101 4. Traveling Ladies: Neoliberalism and the Female Athlete 131 Part III. The Transnational Publics of the World Cup 5. Nation Love: The Feminized Publics of the Korean World Cup 163 6. Home Field Advantage: Nation, Race, and Transnational Media Sport in Los Angeles's Koreatown 194 7. Generations Connect: Discourses of Generation and the Emergence of Transnational Youth Cultures 222 Conclusion: The Political Potentiality of Sport 250 Notes 267 References 303 Index 323

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Book SynopsisSelections of writing by the influential art critic and curator Kellie Jones reveal her role in bringing attention to the work of African American, African, Latin American, and women artists.Trade Review“EyeMinded is an impressive collection of essays by Kellie Jones, a much sought after scholar, prolific writer, and extraordinary curator whose works I have admired for many years. She began her career in the mid-1980s, uncovering and recovering African and African American artists by organizing exhibitions, writing essays, and lecturing on some of the then lesser-known artists. I believe that she was instrumental in introducing to a larger and contemporary public the works of black artists of the African diaspora, including some of the most noted artists working today.”—Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present“Kellie Jones, supported by a remarkable family of artists and intellectuals, has provided a plethora of razor-sharp insights and creative testimonials to the greater arts and scholarly communities for years. As this important book makes amber clear, Professor Jones’ astute observations and in-depth analyses of African American art are invaluable resources to contemporary studies and, arguably, equivalent to the notable essays of art history’s earlier, admired critics and chroniclers.”—Richard J. Powell, author of Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture“This extraordinary collection reveals Kellie Jones as a discerning architect of the multicultural art landscape of the last few decades. Informed by her keen eye and incisive intellect, Jones’s definitive takes on artists, including Lorna Simpson, Martin Puryear, and David Hammons, make this book a must-read for anyone interested in American art from the 1980s forward. And then, on top of Jones’s own shimmering intellectual accomplishment in these pages, EyeMinded is something else as well: a conversation between an American family of arts and letters as illustrious as the Lowells or the Jameses. This book will stand apart for that reason alone, for few American families have contributed so richly to the arts, letters, and sounds of their generations as the Joneses. Here comes Dr. Kellie Jones, ‘eye-minded,’ and she’s bringing her people with her.”—Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University“EyeMinded is at the top of my summer reading list.” -- Lauren Haynes * Studio Magazine *“Kellie Jones has had a fascinating life in art. This collection of essays offers vivid glimpses into the childhood and professional experience of this noted art historian and curator. . . . Everything Kellie Jones and her brilliant family have to say on art and life is both welcome and stimulating.” -- Michele Wallace * International Review of African American Art *“Kellie Jones’ superb book, EyeMinded, traces the relationship between the visual and the social in contemporary art and, by so doing, teaches us how to see. . . . The book is a must-read for art historians and museum curators, just as for those within the field of cultural studies who aspire to an interdisciplinary approach.” -- Liana Giorgi * New York Journal of Books *“EyeMinded is compelling testimony to the ways in which Kellie Jones was able to both contribute to, and comment on, the astonishing quantum shifts in art and curatorial practices that the 1980s and 1990s gave rise to. . . . [A] major contribution to aspects of art history that too often are relegated to the periphery within both the academy and contemporary art criticism. In this regard, we have much to thank Jones for, as this volume will be an indispensable aid to students, professors, and general audiences, many of whom might not have easy access to Jones’s writings, in their original form and assorted contexts.” -- Eddie Chambers * Journal of American Studies *"Scholarly but also deeply personal, it shows the particular way Jones conceives, or reconceives, the undertaking of art history. EyeMinded was not so much written as curated, an assemblage of reviews, interviews, essays, photographs—and, most interesting of all, essays by Jones’ parents, sister and husband." -- Rand Richards Cooper * Amherst Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. "Art in the Family" 1 Part One. On Diaspora 1. EyeMinded: Commentary / Amiri Baraka 37 2. Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note / Amiri Baraka 41 3. A.K.A. Saartjie: The Hottentot Venus in Context (Some Reflections and a Dialogue) 1998/2004 43 4. Tracey Rose: Postapartheid Playground 69 5. (Un)Seen and Overheard: Pictures by Loran Simpson 81 6. Life's Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s 125 7. Interview with Kcho 135 8. The Structure of Myth and the Potency of Magic 145 Part Two. In Visioning 9. Seeing Through: Commentary / Hettie Jones 159 10. In the Eye of the Beholder / Hettie Jones 163 11. To/From Los Angeles with Betye Saar 165 12. Crown Jewels 177 13. Dawoud Bey: Portraits in the Theater of Desire 187 14. Pat Ward Williams: Photography and Social/Personal History 207 15. Interview with Howardena Pindell 215 16: Eye-Minded: Martin Puryear 235 17. Large As Life: Contemporary Photography 241 18. An Interview with David Hammons 247 Part Three. Making Multiculturalism 19. Excuse Me While I Kiss the Sky & Then Fly and Touch Down: Commentary / Lisa Jones 263 20. How I Invented Multiculturalism / Lisa Jones 273 21. Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel in the (Re)Mix 277 22. In the Thick of It: David Hammons and Hair Culture in the 1970s 297 23. Domestic Prayer 305 24. Critical Curators: Interview with Kellie Jones 309 25. Poets of a New Style of Speak: Cuban Artists of This Generation 317 26. In Their Own Image 329 27. Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: What's Wrong with This Picture? 341 28. Blues to the Future 343 Part Four. Abstract Truths 29. Them There Eyes: On Connections and the Visual: Commentary / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. 349 30. Free Jazz and the Price of Black Musical Abstraction / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. 353 31. To the Max: Energy and Experimentation 363 32. It's Not Enough to Say "Black is Beautiful": Abstraction at the Whitney, 1969–1974 397 33. Black West: Thoughts on Art in Los Angeles 427 34. Brothers and Sisters 459 35. Bill T. Jones 469 36. Abstract Expressionism: The Missing Link 473 37. Norman Lewis: The Black Paintings 483

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Book SynopsisAn ethnographic analysis of the racial consciousness of white transracial women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom.Trade Review“By building her argument through images, as well as statistics and anecdotes, Twine opposes nearly a century of prejudice against visual evidence within sociology. . . . A White Side of Black Britain . . . seems destined to become a landmark in the field. . .” - Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent“Twine is also an expert storyteller, and it is through the book’s richly detailed stories that she demonstrates the importance of researching transracial intimacy to gain a better understanding of race, class, and gender, along with nationalism and ethnic tensions. . . . The research strategies and microsociological dynamics that Twine has identified in this book will undoubtedly prove essential for any scholar undertaking such difficult and valuable projects.” - Erik Love, Jadaliyya“France Windance Twine’s A White Side of Black Britain is a lovely andimportant book. It is lovely because it is carefully researched, finelycrafted, and illustrated with compelling photographs that add dimensionto the study and its methodology. It is important because its ethnographicfocus on white women’s participation in British multiracial families givesit an extraordinary vantage point from which to explore the everydayconstitution and contestation of racial borders, boundaries, and identitiesalong the double axis of class and gender.” - Elizabeth Long, American Journal of Sociology“A White Side of Black Britain raises important questions such as how white women are raising children as members of black–white interracial families, what meanings are attributed to their whiteness and how class inequality, gender regimes and prescriptions for respectable femininity mediate the ways that white women are evaluated in transracial families. The way in which Twine features and captures the conversations in the book throughlanguage and illustrations make the book appealing to a range of audiences.” - Victoria Showunmi, European Journal of Women’s Studies“A White Side of Black Britain is likely to become a landmark text in the fields of ‘mixed race’ and whiteness studies. France Winddance Twine offers a sympathetic and generous treatment of a complex and fraught subject, and she combines compelling, intimate vignettes and photos with nuanced analysis and thought-provoking links to contemporary debates.”—Claire Alexander, author of The Art of Being Black“What happens to the racial consciousness of white women who marry black men and have black children? France Winddance Twine reveals through a deep and extensive ethnography with more than forty white women in such relationships how their consciousness changes, allowing them to become sensitive and adept at recognizing and dealing with racism. This is truly original research that deserves a wide readership.”—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism without Racists“A White Side of Black Britain raises important questions such as how white women are raising children as members of black–white interracial families, what meanings are attributed to their whiteness and how class inequality, gender regimes and prescriptions for respectable femininity mediate the ways that white women are evaluated in transracial families. The way in which Twine features and captures the conversations in the book through language and illustrations make the book appealing to a range of audiences.” -- Victoria Showunmi * European Journal of Women's Studies *“By building her argument through images, as well as statistics and anecdotes, Twine opposes nearly a century of prejudice against visual evidence within sociology. . . . A White Side of Black Britain . . . seems destined to become a landmark in the field. . .” -- Charles Donelan * Santa Barbara Independent *“France Windance Twine’s A White Side of Black Britain is a lovely and important book. It is lovely because it is carefully researched, finely crafted, and illustrated with compelling photographs that add dimension to the study and its methodology. It is important because its ethnographic focus on white women’s participation in British multiracial families gives it an extraordinary vantage point from which to explore the everyday constitution and contestation of racial borders, boundaries, and identities along the double axis of class and gender.” -- Elizabeth Long * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Territories of Whiteness in Black Britain 1 1. A Class Analysis of Interracial Intimacy 31 2. Disciplining Racial Dissidents: Transgressive Women, Transracial Mothers 60 3. The Concept of Racial Literacy 89 4. Racial Literacy in Practice 116 5. Written on the Body: Ethnic Capital and Black Cultural Production 146 6. Archives of Interracial Intimacies: Race, Respectability, and Family Photographs 171 7. White Like Who? Status, Stigma, and the Social Meanings of Whiteness 195 8. Gender Gaps in the Experience of Interracial Intimacy 223 Conclusion: Constricted Eyes and Racial Visions 257 Notes 267 References 279 Index 297

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Book SynopsisEthnographic research in Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States helps to explain how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced in the context of American empire and its War on Terror.Trade Review“Terrifying Muslims will be of great interest for those interested in a better understanding of the cultural and historical roots of the Pakistani diaspora. It will also appeal to those seeking to explore potential intersections between the fields of critical race studies and anthropology.” - Roberto J. González, Journal of Anthropological Research“Terrifying Muslims is a timely and necessary project, one that makes important interventions into both U.S. ethnic studies and South Asian studies. Junaid Rana persuasively shows that the current War on Terror and the Islamophobia that buttresses it can only be understood through a long historical view that situates current migrations in relation to colonial forms of labor exploitation such as slavery and indentureship.”—Gayatri Gopinath, author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures“Junaid Rana’s Terrifying Muslims is a road map against Islamophobia. Muslim migrants do not travel to erect minarets alone. They come because their homelands are wrecked by transnational capital, they come in search of work and dignity; their presence signals only this, and not some cataclysmic story of the clash of civilizations. Rana rehabilitates the ordinariness of migration in the context of forces that insist on making the migrant extraordinary. Crucial reading for terrible times.”—Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World“This book is an important, innovative, and much-needed intervention into current debates about migration, globalization, the War on Terror, Muslim identities, racialization, and labor. It offers a transnational analysis connecting South Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, as well as an astute framework linking questions of religion, race, class, sovereignty, and gender. In addition, it fills a glaring gap in Asian American and South Asian studies, where there has been little research on the Pakistani diaspora.”—Sunaina Marr Maira, author of Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11“Terrifying Muslims will be of great interest for those interested in a better understanding of the cultural and historical roots of the Pakistani diaspora. It will also appeal to those seeking to explore potential intersections between the fields of critical race studies and anthropology.” -- Roberto J. González * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Terrifying Muslims stands out in a crowded field. This is one of very few books to make consistently the point that the problem of Islamophobia is not new. . . . This book will no doubt prove critically important to anyone interested in race, labor, immigration, or Islamophobia." -- Erik Love * Contemporary Sociology *“Terrifying Muslims is an exemplary study and should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of transnational labor movements and the predicament of Muslims in the early 21st century.” -- Ahmed Afzal * American Anthropologist *“Junaid Rana has written a timely book that historically situates the concept of ‘race’ to illuminate the bind between religion and race in the construction of the racialised ‘Muslim’. . . . Terrifying Muslims is an insightful work as relevant for human rights activists as it is for historians, South Asian specialists, students of migration, policy-makers and popular culture enthusiasts.” -- Mamta Sachan Kumar * South Asia *"Terrifying Muslims makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on race and religion.... In sum, this is an excellent book and would be of interest to scholars across a number of disciplines." -- Beesan Sarrouh * Journal of International Migration and Integration *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Migrants in a Neoliberal World 1 Part I. Racializing Muslims 1. Islam and Racism 25 2. Racial Panic, Islamic Peril, and Terror 50 3. Imperial Targets 74 Part II. Globalizing Labor 4. Labor Diaspora and the Global Racial System 97 5. Migration, Illegality, and the Security State 134 6. The Muslim Body 153 Conclusion. Racial Feelings in the Post-9/11 World 174 Notes 181 References 203 Index 221

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Book SynopsisAn argument for a cultural bioethics that recognizes and attempts to address the greater vulnerability to exploitation experienced by groups including African Americans and women in medical and legal contexts.Trade Review“In her exceptional book, Holloway turns to literature to ‘illustrate matters of ethical concern and to assist listeners in hearing a patient’s story, in order to develop a more thoughtful perspective on treatment.’ . . . Holloway offers incisive comments that relate fictional episodes to real-life events, enhancing the ability of both to reveal the deep connections that bind ethics to culture, race, and gender. Private Bodies, Public Texts invites health professionals, lawyers and ethicists to honor those connections.” - Karunesh Tuli, ForeWord Reviews‘[Holloway] offers a cultural bioethics that may be able to help us understand and navigate the complex narratives we are co-creating.” - Brent Winter, News and Observer“Private Bodies, Public Texts is a creative and complicated call to do bioethics differently. . . . Holloway's encyclopedic collection of legal and bioethical cases, melded with captivating fiction and discriminating analyses, make this book nourishing sustenance for anyone who believes that bioethicshas a way to go in understanding not only that race and gender matter but also how they matter.” - Charlene Galarneau, Women’s Review of Books“The strength of Private Bodies, Public Texts is that it effectively demonstrates how the moral subject of bioethics is universal and impartial only insofar as it assumes the perspective of white, middle-class men.” - Stephanie Jenkins, Signs“Holloway’s book is undoubtedly a significant achievement, especially in its deep exposition of how racial and gender constructs shape and frame attitudes, practices, and beliefs towards the value of privacy in medicine and science. Scholars using tools drawn from narrative and cultural studies in bioethical inquiry will find in Holloway’s approach a model for the potential of such frameworks to enrich and thicken bioethical analysis and a road map for important and developing modalities in second-generation American bioethics.” - Daniel S. Goldberg, Journal of Medical Humanties“Private Bodies/Public Texts is an illuminating meditation on the social construction of personal identity, with special focus on gender and racial categorizations in biomedical ethics. Drawing on diverse sources from medicine, law and literature, Karla FC Holloway shows how devalued gender and racial identities not only set the stage for past biomedical abuses but are ironically replicated in the paradigmatic examples that contemporary bioethics invokes in the supposed service of correcting those abuses. This is a subtle, challenging book.”—Robert A. Burt, Alexander M. Bickel Professor of Law, Yale University“Private Bodies/Public Texts is as powerful as it is beautifully written. Karla FC Holloway’s is a very different kind of bioethics, one that challenges us to think both more broadly and more specifically about what privacy and justice mean. And she reminds us, with sometimes piercing insight, just how critical gender and race can be in making meaning out of both.”—Ruth R. Faden, Director, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics“Karla FC Holloway has written an important book that challenges the objectification of patients’ stories that is so common in the practice of bioethics. She persuasively argues for a cultural ethics, an ethics which gives constitutive weight to the cultural context of those stories, especially the cultural contexts of race and gender identity. Using this approach, she presents crucial new insights into issues of reproduction, clinical trials, genomics and death and dying. Her discussion of the events at Memorial Medical Center after Katrina will become a classic in the field. But most importantly, she shows us that the practice of bioethics must change if it is to successfully relate to the issues raised by the thick narratives of reality.”—Baruch A. Brody, Baylor College of Medicine“Private Bodies, Public Texts is a creative and complicated call to do bioethics differently. . . . Holloway's encyclopedic collection of legal and bioethical cases, melded with captivating fiction and discriminating analyses, make this book nourishing sustenance for anyone who believes that bioethics has a way to go in understanding not only that race and gender matter but also how they matter.” -- Charlene Galarneau * Women's Review of Books *“Holloway’s book is undoubtedly a significant achievement, especially in its deep exposition of how racial and gender constructs shape and frame attitudes, practices, and beliefs towards the value of privacy in medicine and science. Scholars using tools drawn from narrative and cultural studies in bioethical inquiry will find in Holloway’s approach a model for the potential of such frameworks to enrich and thicken bioethical analysis and a road map for important and developing modalities in second-generation American bioethics.” -- Daniel S. Goldberg * Journal of Medical Humanities *“In her exceptional book, Holloway turns to literature to ‘illustrate matters of ethical concern and to assist listeners in hearing a patient’s story, in order to develop a more thoughtful perspective on treatment.’ . . . Holloway offers incisive comments that relate fictional episodes to real-life events, enhancing the ability of both to reveal the deep connections that bind ethics to culture, race, and gender. Private Bodies, Public Texts invites health professionals, lawyers and ethicists to honor those connections.” -- Karunesh Tuli * Foreword Reviews *“The strength of Private Bodies, Public Texts is that it effectively demonstrates how the moral subject of bioethics is universal and impartial only insofar as it assumes the perspective of white, middle-class men.” -- Stephanie Jenkins * Signs *‘[Holloway] offers a cultural bioethics that may be able to help us understand and navigate the complex narratives we are co-creating.” -- Brent Winter * News & Observer *“...Holloway’s Private Bodies, Public Texts, is a tour de force of interdisciplinary analysis...All of Holloway’s disciplinary investments are evident in this book, as she deftly weaves between works of American literature, landmark cases in American legal history, and moments in the history of American medical experimentation to advance her argument.” -- José E. Limón * American Literature *Table of ContentsPreface xv Acknowledgements xxi Introduction. The Law of the Body 1 1. Bloodchild 25 2. Cartographies of Desire 67 3. Who's Got the Body? 101 4. Immortality in Cultures 137 Notes 173 Bibliography 199 Index 211

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives.Trade Review“Tacit Subjects is a joy to read, an important piece of ethnographic scholarship, and a crucial node for a more enlightened and progressive understanding of queer lives lived on the edges of nations, histories, and cultures. Carlos Ulises Decena meticulously engages with, departs from, energizes, and reframes recent LBGTQ scholarship. He exhorts us to consider alternative modes of queer habitations ensconced in histories of racialized migration, colonial occupations, poverty, dictatorship, and humdrum existence in late-capitalist America.” —Martin Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora“Without a doubt, Tacit Subjects is the most intelligent and coherent book on Latino homosexuality (and homosociality) that I have read in a very long time. It is a corrective to many readings of the Latina/o dynamic around disclosure, as well as the imperative of revelation that seems to mark most of the work in Anglo-American LGBTQ studies. It is a trenchant and powerful call for us to listen carefully to what others say and understand how their wisdom can teach us to abandon our preconceived notions of normativity.”—José Quiroga, author of Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America“[T]his book provides a compelling look at the lives of samesex loving Dominican immigrant men. It is a powerful piece of work, which will be ofgreat interest to those in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, sexuality/queer studies, globalisation and public health.” -- Ian W. Holloway * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Overall, Tacit Subjects develops new theoretical terrains in sexuality, masculinity, and migration studies through its deep and personal engagement with the complex lives of a group of Dominican immigrant men living in New York City. It will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, and I for one will be using it in my gender and sexuality courses as part of a sophisticated suite of texts exploring the movement, organization, and transformation of sexual desires and identities within and across Dominican borders.” -- David A. B. Murray * GLQ *“A thoughtful discussion of the connections among linguistic practice, masculinity, and sexual sameness in the Santo Dominican diaspora. . . . Tacit Subjects shows why studies of the Dominican diaspora must pay attention to discursive practices. More than that, Decena’s work challenges the rest of us to mobilize narrative data in ways that give ethnographic subjects in any location adequate spaces to speak for themselves.” -- William L. Leap * American Ethnologist *“There is much packed into this worthwhile book. Its achievements are many, among them the rare capacity of a scholarly book to intertwine complex theorization with the kind of vibrant ethnographic storytelling that this text captures. . . . [R]eaders across the social sciences and humanities, will find this an intriguing, elucidatory and captivating read. It is an important contribution to the multiple, intersecting fields of anthropology, gender studies, masculinity studies, queer studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies and sociology, among others.” -- Diana J. Fox * A Contracorriente *“This is an absorbing and challenging examination of homoracial transnational erotics. It is a very careful and layered autoethnography cum-participant observation and life history interview study of 25 Dominican immigrant men in New York City.... As such, this volume presents a nuanceddisarticulation of dominicanidad (Dominican identity) with telling comments as to the nature of transnational desires and relations, and pointed conclusions as to the complex construction and performance of identity in general.... This book not only adds a tacit and homosexual dimension to migrant studies, but it is also an invaluable corrective to the often static portrayal of migrant identity.” -- Jonathan Skinner * Social Anthropology *“His theoretical constructs always seem appropriate to the data he has gathered. He introduces and elaborates them in ways that illuminate the data while simultaneously emerging from the data...rarely have I seen the movement among culture, material circumstances, politics, and political identity so well and so thoroughly accomplished as in Decena’s beautifully written book.” -- Michael Hames-Garcia * American Anthropologist *“Decena unpacks the meanings behind the boundaries and links created by those in his study, focusing on their perceptions of other Dominicans in relation to their own positions as marginal, working-class, immigrant people attempting to advance based on a social status hierarchy in a host country. Tacit Subjects is clearly a must read for any scholar interested in race, class, sexualities and migration.” -- Katie L. Acosta * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Tacit Subjects 17 Part I. Leaving Living in the Mental Island 39 2. Moving Portraits 41 3. Desencontrando la dominicanidad in New York City 67 Part II. Body Languages 107 4. Eso se nota: Scenes from Queer Childhoods 111 5. Code Swishing 139 Part III. Colonial Zones 173 6. Virando la dominicanidad 177 7. To Be Someone, To Be Somewhere: Erotic Returns and U.S.-Caribbean Circuits of Desire 205 Epilogue 239 Notes 241 Bibliography 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives.Trade Review“Tacit Subjects is a joy to read, an important piece of ethnographic scholarship, and a crucial node for a more enlightened and progressive understanding of queer lives lived on the edges of nations, histories, and cultures. Carlos Ulises Decena meticulously engages with, departs from, energizes, and reframes recent LBGTQ scholarship. He exhorts us to consider alternative modes of queer habitations ensconced in histories of racialized migration, colonial occupations, poverty, dictatorship, and humdrum existence in late-capitalist America.” —Martin Manalansan IV, author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora“Without a doubt, Tacit Subjects is the most intelligent and coherent book on Latino homosexuality (and homosociality) that I have read in a very long time. It is a corrective to many readings of the Latina/o dynamic around disclosure, as well as the imperative of revelation that seems to mark most of the work in Anglo-American LGBTQ studies. It is a trenchant and powerful call for us to listen carefully to what others say and understand how their wisdom can teach us to abandon our preconceived notions of normativity.”—José Quiroga, author of Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America“[T]his book provides a compelling look at the lives of samesex loving Dominican immigrant men. It is a powerful piece of work, which will be ofgreat interest to those in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, sexuality/queer studies, globalisation and public health.” -- Ian W. Holloway * Culture, Health & Sexuality *“Overall, Tacit Subjects develops new theoretical terrains in sexuality, masculinity, and migration studies through its deep and personal engagement with the complex lives of a group of Dominican immigrant men living in New York City. It will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, and I for one will be using it in my gender and sexuality courses as part of a sophisticated suite of texts exploring the movement, organization, and transformation of sexual desires and identities within and across Dominican borders.” -- David A. B. Murray * GLQ *“A thoughtful discussion of the connections among linguistic practice, masculinity, and sexual sameness in the Santo Dominican diaspora. . . . Tacit Subjects shows why studies of the Dominican diaspora must pay attention to discursive practices. More than that, Decena’s work challenges the rest of us to mobilize narrative data in ways that give ethnographic subjects in any location adequate spaces to speak for themselves.” -- William L. Leap * American Ethnologist *“There is much packed into this worthwhile book. Its achievements are many, among them the rare capacity of a scholarly book to intertwine complex theorization with the kind of vibrant ethnographic storytelling that this text captures. . . . [R]eaders across the social sciences and humanities, will find this an intriguing, elucidatory and captivating read. It is an important contribution to the multiple, intersecting fields of anthropology, gender studies, masculinity studies, queer studies, Latin American and Caribbean studies and sociology, among others.” -- Diana J. Fox * A Contracorriente *“This is an absorbing and challenging examination of homoracial transnational erotics. It is a very careful and layered autoethnography cum-participant observation and life history interview study of 25 Dominican immigrant men in New York City.... As such, this volume presents a nuanceddisarticulation of dominicanidad (Dominican identity) with telling comments as to the nature of transnational desires and relations, and pointed conclusions as to the complex construction and performance of identity in general.... This book not only adds a tacit and homosexual dimension to migrant studies, but it is also an invaluable corrective to the often static portrayal of migrant identity.” -- Jonathan Skinner * Social Anthropology *“His theoretical constructs always seem appropriate to the data he has gathered. He introduces and elaborates them in ways that illuminate the data while simultaneously emerging from the data...rarely have I seen the movement among culture, material circumstances, politics, and political identity so well and so thoroughly accomplished as in Decena’s beautifully written book.” -- Michael Hames-Garcia * American Anthropologist *“Decena unpacks the meanings behind the boundaries and links created by those in his study, focusing on their perceptions of other Dominicans in relation to their own positions as marginal, working-class, immigrant people attempting to advance based on a social status hierarchy in a host country. Tacit Subjects is clearly a must read for any scholar interested in race, class, sexualities and migration.” -- Katie L. Acosta * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Tacit Subjects 17 Part I. Leaving Living in the Mental Island 39 2. Moving Portraits 41 3. Desencontrando la dominicanidad in New York City 67 Part II. Body Languages 107 4. Eso se nota: Scenes from Queer Childhoods 111 5. Code Swishing 139 Part III. Colonial Zones 173 6. Virando la dominicanidad 177 7. To Be Someone, To Be Somewhere: Erotic Returns and U.S.-Caribbean Circuits of Desire 205 Epilogue 239 Notes 241 Bibliography 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisThe difficulties college-educated black women face when trying to date, marry, and have childrenTrade Review“Inequalities of Love is an important and innovative book. It combines rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods in order to give both a macro-demographic portrait and an intimate individual-level account of family-formation decisions, choices, contexts, and constraints. It moves away from the simplistic causal arguments about the relationship between childbearing and socioeconomic outcomes by refocusing our attention on systems of meaning and evaluation, and by expanding the conversation beyond pure economic attainment to include status attainment. Inequalities of Love is an imminently smart book that will appeal to sociologists, demographers, human development scholars, and policy researchers.”—Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City“I found Inequalities of Love fascinating and innovative. Many authors throw around rhetoric about the ‘intersections’ of gender, race, and class, but Averil Y. Clarke has really given us an intersectional analysis. Her unique combination of qualitative interviews and skilled analysis of demographic data produces a new understanding of how race and class create unequal access to ‘love,’ serious relationships, and marriage.”—Paula England, co-editor of Unmarried Couples with Children“Clarke gives a nuanced insight into the perils of success and how it can actually endanger black professional women’s future prospects of finding a ‘Mr. Right’ in the 21st century. The book will clearly add variety and debate to the role for women in society from a womanist and feminist perspective, and will be very useful to black women embarking on professional careers. Recommended. All levels/libraries.” -- M. Christian * Choice *“Inequalities of Love is a necessary study on the dating practices, challenges, and outcomes for college-educated black women.... Overall, Clarke’s work is well written, adequately organized, and is both theoretical engaged and grounded.” -- Kris Marsh * International Journal of Sociology *“It is theoretically rich and compelling. Detailed statistical analyses of national data are combined with fascinating narratives from interviewees in ways that reveal processes that underlie class formation and maintenance. Moreover, the author aims to move inequality scholarship in a new direction—the consideration of inequalities in love and reproduction. The book is an excellent choice for scholars and teachers in the fields of gender, family studies, and social inequality.” -- Shirley A. Hill * Contemporary Sociology *“Inequalities of Love… is a testament to the notion that sometimes the simplest explanation does not provide the most accurate understanding…. I recommend this book to anyone who seeks literature on the female (and human) experience, which moves away from a singular construction of behavior toward a more holistic stance in assessing human action.” -- Megan Douglass * Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy *Table of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Inequality: What's Love Got to Do with It? 1 1. School: Makin' It 41 2. Family: Unequal Roads to It 89 3. Marriage: "I Do" It When and If I Can 115 4. Sex: Is Everybody Doing It? 159 5. Contraception: To Plan It or Not to Plan It 193 6. Abortion: The Usefulness of It 231 Conclusion. Love Notes 271 Appendix 287 Notes 317 References 371 Index 403

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Book SynopsisHow immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from MexicoTrade Review“I’m Neither Here nor There is a powerful, highly original ethnography about the complexities of the Mexican migrant and Mexican American population in the United States. By drawing primarily on work by scholars of color about people of color, Patricia Zavella decenters staid ways of understanding immigration, such as assimilation and the underclass models. Her use of the concepts of peripheral vision, double vision, and border thinking are particularly effective, as is her political-economic analysis of capitalism and neoliberalism in Santa Cruz County, California, and the poverty and challenges that they create for the area’s working poor.”—Lynn Stephen, author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon“Among the most original and important contributions of I’m Neither Here nor There are: its focus on one California region, which helps us to see that migrants do not come to an undifferentiated ‘United States,’ but rather to specific locations with distinct regional economic and social dynamics; its sensitivity to gender and sexuality as key sites where social change gets registered in the lives of individuals; and its brilliant discussions of the popular music of Los Tigres del Norte, Quetzal, and Lila Downs as repositories of collective memory, sites of moral instruction, and mechanisms for calling old and new communities into being through performance. Patricia Zavella also makes clear the causes and consequences of residential density and overcrowding in immigrant communities, surely one of the most important but least understood features of contemporary immigrant life. I’m Neither Here nor There is an outstanding work that will be welcomed by specialists as well as general readers. It makes unique and valuable contributions to scholarship and civic life and presents an exemplary model of sophisticated and socially engaged research.”—George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“This is the way ethnography should be written: with stories that entice, analysis that dazzles, and just the right mix of humor, music, and in-your-face dignidad. Border and migration studies will never be the same after Patricia Zavella’s impassioned new book, I’m Neither Here nor There.”—Matthew Gutmann, Brown University“I’m Neither Here nor There is a compelling examination of structures of difference, of becoming and belonging, and of forms of border thinking that map spatio-conceptual cosmos and the human integuments that hold them together through ‘transcommunal subjectivity.’... If only every book were as intellectually productive, ethically inspiring, and politically compelling.” -- Scott Catey * North American Dialogue *“Patricia Zavella’s timely I’m Neither Here Nor There serves as an example of a broadly accessible approach to the study of the working poor. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in central California, Zavella analyses the daily challenges encountered by Santa Cruz County’s Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans, with an eye towards issues of family, gender, sexuality and legal status.” -- Angela S. García * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“With detail and sensitivity, Zavella illustrates how changing gender roles and generational expectations are affecting and transforming Mexican diaspora communities as migrants create inventive strategies for survival…. Theoretically sophisticated yet written in an accessible style, this book is especially apropos for graduate courses dealing with themes of globalization, immigration, transnationalism, and border life and is also recommended for general readers interested in these themes.” -- Regina Marchi * American Ethnologist *“The breadth of Patricia Zavella’s I’m Neither Here Nor There is staggering.... It is undeniable that Zavella is a rigorous, experienced, and sophisticated ethnographer who has made a monumental and original contribution with I’m Neither Here Nor There.... [It] amplifies the words of marginalized people who 'cannot shout' (p. xii) yet justifiably 'eel entitled to dignity in exchange for their labor'(p. xi).” -- Chad Broughton * American Journal of Sociology *“Zavella’s book is an important read for scholars of migration, transnationalism, citizenship, and political economy, as well as those whose work engages gender, sexuality and race. While set in the US, Zavella’s conceptual frame and analysis can be a useful tool for Canadian scholars, particularly those working in the areas of migrant integration, immigration status and radicalized poverty.” -- Paloma E. Villegas * Labour/Le Travail *“I’m Neither Here nor There by Patricia Zavella is impassioned, nuanced, powerful, and politically compelling. Above all, it is stunningly comprehensive in a way that only a senior scholar who has wrestled with her own research and chewed on existing scholarship for years can deliver. In one way or another, I’m Neither Here nor There addresses virtually every issue facing migrants in the U.S. and does so with remarkable sophistication.” -- Steve Striffler * International Migration Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Mexican Diaspora in the United States 1 1. Crossings 25 2. Migrations 55 3. The Working Poor 89 4. Migrant Family Formations 123 5. The Divided Home 157 6. Transnational Cultural Memory 190 Epilogue 226 Appendix. Research Participants 233 Notes 239 References 281 Index 319

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Book SynopsisSaldívar is one of the founders of border studies and one of the most respected senior scholars in American Studies. In this work he introduces the term trans-Americanity as a frame for thinking more hemispherically within a global, world-systems frame.Trade Review"Trans-Americanity is a magnificent, visionary book. I cannot think of another scholar working today who has helped to instantiate new fields and new lines of inquiry in the manner of José David Saldívar. He is an unusually generous and curious scholar, one who is perfectly willing to rethink earlier assumptions, appreciate the insights of his critics, and read broadly across disciplines. These strengths contribute to what I believe will be an extremely influential text, one that will be widely taught and carefully reviewed."—Mary Pat Brady, author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space"Intent on discerning the common concerns of subaltern studies, global coloniality, and transmodernity, José David Saldívar examines persistent motifs and literary themes in the imaginative literature of Greater Mexico and South Asia. Individually and collectively, the minoritized writings that he discusses articulate new epistemological grounds for critiquing a transmodern world governed by global capitalism and new forms of coloniality. Saldívar advocates an 'Americanity' that opens up the idea of America to contexts well beyond the United States, Latin America, and the Western Hemisphere."—Donald E. Pease, author of The New American Exceptionalism“Saldívar is one of the boldest and most important scholars in American Studies today. Like few others, he engages what Martí calls Nuestra América, and for that he should be congratulated. Trans-Americanity is well worth reading.” -- Paul B. Wickelson * Rocky Mountain Review *“Saldıvar is one of the more interesting contemporary scholars in the field of American Studies. . .. [A]n excitingly inventive book that is sure to generate new avenues of scholarly inquiry.” -- Seth Horton * Journal of American Culture *“Trans-Americanity is extraordinarily ambitious in its scope. . . . By providing conceptual linkages between authors and texts that are rarely read or taught together, Saldívar provides a critical map for scholars seeking to transnationalize American and US Latina/o studies.” -- Julie Minich * Journal of American Studies *“Trans-Americanity’s seven chapters, useful preface, and experimental ending offer broad intellectual coverage of Latin America, South Asia, and the Americas from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.” -- Karen Mary Davalos * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface: Americanity Otherwise ix Acknowledgments xxix 1. Unsettling Race, Coloniality, and Caste in Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera, Martínez's Parrot in the Oven, and Roy's The God of Small Things 1 2. Migratory Locations: Subaltern Modernity and José Martí's Trans-American Cultural Criticism 31 3. Looking Awry at the War of 1898: Theodore Roosevelt versus Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo 57 4. In Search of the "Mexican Elvis": Border Matters, Americanity, and Post–State-centric Thinking 75 5. Making U.S. Democracy Surreal: Political Race, Transmodern Realism, and the Miner's Canary 90 6. The Outernational Origins of Chicano/a Literature: Paredes's Asian-Pacific Routes and Hinojosa's Cuban Casa de las Américas Roots 123 7. Transnationalism Contested: On Sandra Cisnero's The House on Mango Street and Caramelo or Puro Cuento 152 Appendix: On the Borderlands of U.S. Empire: The Limitations of Geography, Ideology, and Discipline 183 Notes 213 References 239 Index 257

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Book SynopsisExplores the lives and self-understanding of Mexicans of African descent living in the agricultural village of San Nicolas on the Pacific coast of Mexico.Trade Review"In the 1940s, when Mexican anthropologist Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán first brought Afromexicans into academic and public discussion, African presence in Mexico had been under erasure for so long that Mexican national identity had elided Africa altogether. Today, Mexico’s 'Third Root' has gained national and international recognition. This process has gone hand in glove with a new politics of identity. Laura A. Lewis's ethnohistorical study of race probes the local politics of autochthony, nationality, and citizenship in the Pacific heartland of Afromexico."—Claudio Lomnitz, author of Death and the Idea of Mexico"The kind of great ethnography much needed in research on Latin American blackness: Laura A. Lewis puts a crimp in recent multiculturalist constructions of Afromexican 'blackness'—but also in Mexican mestizo nationalism—by revealing local meanings attached to being moreno as a complex historical mixture of blackness and indigenousness."—Peter Wade, author of Race and Sex in Latin America“This delightful book, based on well over a decade of research in Mexico and the United States . . . traces the history and social relations of a self-described moreno community from the colonial period to its contemporary diasporic dispersal to the United States.” -- Leigh Binford * American Ethnologist *“As Lewis takes us, along with the people she has studied, to the edge of the present and before a tentative future, she maintains a narrbative richly textured with research and detail yet poignant and engagingly clear in its composition.” -- Matthew Restall * Hispanic American Historical Review *“This ambitious ethnography…. presents a very useful history of the Costa Chica region that specialists will relish. The book also includes a well-researched discussion of the anthropological work of central pioneers in the field of Afro-Mexican studies…. Where Lewis most successfully brings to bear her wealth of experience in the region is in her discussions of transmigration and the persistence of family ties despite the economic challenges that often separate families across borders.” -- Bobby Vaughn * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Lay of the Land 15 2. Identity in Discourse: The "Race" Has Been Lost 55 3. Identity in Performance 85 4. Africa in Mexico: An Intellectual History 119 5. Culture Work: So Much Money 155 6. Being from Here 189 7. A Family Divided? Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces 231 8. Transnationalism, Place, and the Mundane 265 Conclusion. What's in a Name? 305 Notes 323 Bibliography 341 Index 363

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Book SynopsisA feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.Trade Review“Heroic rescue narratives of 'orphaned’ brown babies—from the adoption of Native children to the fairytale story of Zahara Jolie-Pitt—often crumble under scrutiny. Briggs, who adopted a Mexican-American daughter, looks unflinchingly at the disturbing history of U.S. adoption across race and borders.” - Ms. Magazine“Briggs shines a bright light on the ‘politics of transracial and transnational adoption.’ . . . Her provocative retelling of recent adoption history emphasizes that conservative economic forces have steadily eroded state support of children in institutions or through foster care, promoting adoption as the better alternative.” - Martha Nichols, Women’s Review of Books“[I]n juxtaposing histories and current realities of domestic interracial adoption with those of transnational adoption from Latin America, Briggs’s work contributes to the ongoing scholarly conversation about motherhood as a key battleground in global struggles over power, rights, and wellbeing.” - Clare Daniel, H-Net Reviews“In Somebody’s Children, Laura Briggs reminds us that [transnational] adoptions are not only about how children and parents are joined across borders. They are also just as significantly about how so many children came to be defined as adoptable in the first place.” - Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, HAHR“[Briggs] provides a refreshing and long-overdue feminist/womanist perspective on transracial and transnational adoption practices…. This book presents a powerful argument for a reexamination and reshaping of transracial and transnational adoption policy and practices.” - Robin Spath, Affilia“Her work shines a light on the difficult path to creating and maintaining a stance of solidarity with the poor and disenfranchised… Scholars of race, kinship, human rights, cultural politics, and U.S. and Latin American history will find the book valuable and engrossing, and might even be tempted to do more reading or research on adoption.” - Sara Dorow, Reviews in American History"For decades, a child-saving ideology that devalues the bonds of children of color with their families and communities has served to mask social, economic, and political inequities in the United States and abroad. Laura Briggs's astute analysis exposes the historical struggles underlying this devaluation in domestic and foreign policies. Somebody's Children is essential reading for everyone concerned about the politics of adoption and the equal dignity of families worldwide."—Dorothy Roberts, author of the books Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Fatal Invention"I have been longing for someone to write this book for a number of years—and how fortunate we are that Laura Briggs has made this her project; she is an outstanding scholar and thinker. A brilliant and wide-ranging book, Somebody's Children makes a powerful contribution to the study of adoption. The public policy implications of Briggs's work are stunning, and I hope this book will contribute to reshaping adoption practice in the United States."—Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America“Briggs shines a bright light on the ‘politics of transracial and transnational adoption.’ . . . Her provocative retelling of recent adoption history emphasizes that conservative economic forces have steadily eroded state support of children in institutions or through foster care, promoting adoption as the better alternative.” -- Martha Nichols * Women's Review of Books *“Heroic rescue narratives of 'orphaned’ brown babies—from the adoption of Native children to the fairytale story of Zahara Jolie-Pitt—often crumble under scrutiny. Briggs, who adopted a Mexican-American daughter, looks unflinchingly at the disturbing history of U.S. adoption across race and borders.” * Ms. *"In Somebody’s Children, Laura Briggs reminds us that [transnational] adoptions are not only about how children and parents are joined across borders. They are also just as significantly about how so many children came to be defined as adoptable in the first place." -- Jessaca B. Leinaweaver * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[Briggs] provides a refreshing and long-overdue feminist/womanist perspective on transracial and transnational adoption practices…. This book presents a powerful argument for a reexamination and reshaping of transracial and transnational adoption policy and practices.” -- Robin Spath * Affilia *“Somebody’s Children offers a critically engaged history of the state politics of transnational and transracial adoption.” -- Kim Park Nelson * Signs *“As the book’s title suggests, adopted children were ‘somebody’s children,; a fact disturbingly absent from most adoption narratives. Briggs does history and family law a great service by bringing that truth to light.” -- Joanna L. Grossman * Journal of American History *“Briggs provides us with a powerful and penetrating account of the politics of transracial and transnational adoption in the USA. Through a painstaking and thorough historical analysis, Briggs articulates a nuanced account of politics, policy and practice in relation to the most vulnerable children and families – in both domestic and international adoptions. . . . The book will be of interest to scholars of child welfare and adoption, race and ethnicity, human rights, and cultural history. It should be essential reading for practitioners and policymakers in the field of adoption.” -- Ravinder Barn * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Transracial Adoption in the United States 1. African American Children and Adoption, 1950–1975 27 2. The Making of the Indian Child Welfare Act, 1922–1978 59 3. "Crack Babies," Race, and Adoption Reform, 1975–2000 94 Part II. Transnational Adoption and Latin America 4. From Refugees to Madonnas of the Cold War 129 5. Uncivil Wars 160 6. Latin American Family Values 197 Part III. Emerging Fights Over the Politics of Adoption 7. Gay and Lesbian Adoption in the United States 241 Epilogue. U.S. Immigrants: The Next Fight over Race, Adoption, and Foster Care? 269 Notes 285 Bibliography 319 Index 353

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Book SynopsisIn River of Hope, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez examines state formation, cultural change, and the construction of identity in the lower Rio Grande region during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Trade Review"River of Hope not only documents the history of the Rio Grande area in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but also provides a model for integrating the concerns of Chicana/o studies scholars, historians of the U.S. West, scholars of gender and ethnicity, theorists of state formation, and political scientists who study 'everyday forms of resistance.' An extraordinary contribution, the book opens up a wide-ranging discussion about the interplay between local and national discourses, particularly in places located on the peripheries of power and at times of rapid social, cultural, legal, and political change. This is genuinely original scholarship."—Susan Lee Johnson, author of Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush"River of Hope tells the complex story of how Spanish colonists settled Texas-Tamaulipas, how they became neglected Mexican citizens, and ultimately, how they were transformed into unwanted American citizens as subjects of the United States. In this rich and nuanced work, Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez illuminates the struggles over land, identity, and love as native nations, Spain, Mexico, and the United States competed for this terrain."—Ramón A. Gutiérrez, coeditor of Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges"A sweeping, path-breaking achievement, River of Hope will stand as a benchmark study of the borderlands for decades to come. It is a compelling political and social history of identity formations, community building, and overlapping conquests from the earliest Spanish colonial settlements to nineteenth-century Euro-American towns. Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez interrogates how the people who called las villas del norte home created meaning in their lives against a backdrop of state formation, disenfranchisement, and violence."—Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America“A first-rate analysis of the dynamic and varied ways that the inhabitants of the Rio Grande borderlands formulated their identities in relation to rapid and volatile geopolitical change.” -- Eric V. Meeks * American Historical Review *“Deeply researched and elegantly written, this book is a required purchase for any border studies collection. Summing Up: Essential.” -- J. A. Stuntz * Choice *“Scholars and students of western, borderlands, Native American, Chicana-Chicano, and gender history are the books[‘s] primary audience, but the explorations of identity, state power, individual agency, and gender will benefit scholars from a wide range of fields. … [It] provide[s] valuable insights into the uneven process of incorporation and the ways in which people negotiate their place between and in different empires and nation-states.” -- Alicia M. Dewey * History: Reviews of New Books *"[A]n excellent historical backdrop to Mexican American civil rights history and contemporary discussions of Latina/o citizenship. Valerio-Jimenez's superb study will animate courses and appeal to readers interested in southern, borderlands, and Chicana/o history." -- Mark Allan Goldberg * Journal of Southern History *“Overall, this book is a good example of borderland studies that examine state formation and the construction of identity. The author uses a wide array of sources and places the history of the settlers in the region in the context of changing political authorities…. [I]t is a solid contribution to Chicano studies and borderlands history.” -- Armando Alonzo * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *“In sum, River of Hope provides us with an empirically rich and wonderfully argued examination of an understudied area of the Mexico-U.S. border region.” -- Andrae Marak * Western Historical Quarterly *"Wonderfully researched and engagingly written, River of Hope deserves to be read alongside other classic regional case studies of nineteenth-century American political life." -- John Mckiernan-González * Hispanic American Historical Review *"This monograph delivers a pathbreaking analysis that leaves enough unexplored questions for future generations of scholars to elevate this borderland to one that should prove every bit as rich as the Mississippi River Delta, the Great Lakes, or the middle Rio Grande Valley." -- Morgan LaBin Veraluz * Journal of American Ethnic History *Table of ContentsList of Maps, Figures, and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Constructing Vecinos, Constructing Indios: Complex Interdependence 17 2. Fragmented Communities: Class and Gender Hierarchies 51 3. Opposing Forces: Political Loyalty and Trade 92 4. Bandidos or Citizens? Everyday Forms of Resistance to Political and Legal Changes 129 5. Divorcées, Rancheros, and Peons: Changing Class and Gender Relations 176 6. Contested Citizenship: The Enduring Roles of Race and Class 222 Conclusion 275 Notes 287 Bibliography 333 Index 355

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Gilberto Rosas draws on his in-depth ethnographic research among the members of Barrio Libre to understand why they have embraced criminality and how neoliberalism and security policies on both sides of the border have affected the youths' descent into Barrio Libre.Trade Review"Gilberto Rosas's exploration of the seamy underbelly of neoliberal state sovereignty in the sewer tunnels beneath the US-Mexico border takes us to a vexed and murky place, both ethnographically and theoretically. His work invites us to consider provocative and urgent questions about the deep complicity between policing and criminality, and the racialized relegation of human life to abjection and unnatural death on the new frontier. Rosas's insistence upon directing our critical gaze to a dark and dank place of subjection, power, and violence ought to instigate vital new lines of debate in the study of border enforcement and subjectivity within the wild zones of state power."—Nicholas De Genova, coeditor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement"In this raw and compelling ethnography, Gilberto Rosas grapples with the violence, racism, and determined attempts by border youth to build their own sense of freedom in the cage of the US-Mexico border and its economy of escalating inequalities. Barrio Libre is a significant contribution to border and borderlands studies, one that enriches our understanding of the lives of youth."—Lynn Stephen, author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon“A theoretically sophisticated study, albeit sustained with ample ethnographic detail, often communicated via precise vignettes and anecdotes. A short study, digestible over several sessions, it is accessible to advanced undergraduates though particularly useful in graduate level classes focusing on ethnicity and immigration, borders, Mexico and the United States, among others, and should find a place in courses in anthropology, sociology, political science, international studies and other areas.” -- Leigh Binford * Social Forces *“This book would be a great choice for a graduate seminar on violence, conflict, immigration, human rights, the U.S.-Mexico border, or political geography, as it is rich with theoretical interest and ripe for challenging discussion. . . . Barrio Libre is an excellent book that shines a bright light through the dark passageways running under the Mexico-U.S. border and, like it or not, shows us what is there.” -- Margaret Wilder * Journal of Latin American Geography *“The strength of [Rosas's] work is in his ability to analyze with authority and depth both sides of the border politic that historically gave birth to the intense violence that exists today. He deftly articulates the dehumanizing practices of both Mexican and U.S. economies and powers that practice neoliberalism, which has led to the new low-intensity warfare and militarized policing prevalent at this cross-border region.” -- Cynthia Bejarano * The Americas *“Gilberto Rosas’ Barrio Libre offers its readers a thoughtful and complex (re)theorizing of the Mexico/US border, the various subjects that inhabit it, and the violence that has become so much a part of securing the border and the nations it divides.” -- Cristina Jo Pérez * Powerlines *“The concise book uses well-chosen vignettes to show the reader ethnographically and theoretically what the point of view of the youth in Barrio Libre can teach scholars about contemporary racial and national politics with regard to migration and the construction of national security threats in Mexico and the United States.” -- Connie McGuire * PoLAR *"Scholars from a range of disciplines will find several valuable insights in this text. Latin Americanists will appreciate the rich and meaningful references to the borderlands... Scholars working on new forms of humanism will be drawn to Rosas’ ability to draw out the textures of fragile human forms of life by means of an ethnographic attention to imminent death, framed complimentary to other ideas of slow death and cruel optimism." -- Emily A. Lynch * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Criminalizing Depths of State and Other Shit 3 1. Other Nightmares and the Rise of the New Frontier 29 2. Against Mexico: Thickening Delinquency of the New Frontier 55 3. Low-Intensity Reinforcements: Cholos, Chúntaros, and the "Criminal" Abandonments of the New Frontier 73 Interlude. Post-September 11 at the New Frontier 89 4. Against the United States: The Violent Inaugurations and Delinquent Exceptions of the New Frontier 95 5. Oozing Barrio Libre and the Pathological Ends of Life 115 Interlude. Nervous Cocks at the New Frontier 133 Conclusion. The New Frontier Thickens 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 163 Index 183

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Book SynopsisIn Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker—turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.Trade Review"Sites of Slavery is a meticulously researched, persuasively argued, beautifully written, and intellectually daring study of contemporary narratives of slavery. Through her dazzling readings of fiction, drama, dance, cinema, visual art, heritage tourism, reparations legal cases, and critical race historiographies, Salamishah Tillet demonstrates how a range of African American artists, writers, and intellectuals respond to the contemporary 'crisis of citizenship' by foregrounding a 'democratic aesthetic' in their representations of slavery. This book will transform the way we think about the place of African American cultural production in relation to 'post–civil rights era' political discourse."—Valerie Smith, author of Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination"Sites of Slavery is an original contribution to the scholarship on memory, representation, and New World slavery. With keen insight and dazzling analysis, Salamishah Tillet attends to the implications that contemporary representations of slavery have for our understanding of the history of slavery in the United States and of African American identity. This book crosses disciplines to offer a compelling view of the many ways that slavery lives in the contemporary imagination and colors the way we see our past, our present, and our future."—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University“. . . . judged on its own philosophical and analytical terms, Sites of Slavery offers a powerful and strikingly original take on contemporary African American ‘rituals of collective recuperative forms of recognition, and revisionist forms of historiography’( p. 4).” -- Scot A. French * Journal of American History *“Sites of Slavery is an innovative synthesis of connecting historical memory, reflected in the cultural productions of African American artists, scholars, and writers who draw on the past to understand the present.” -- Robert Anthony Bennett, III * Spectrum *“Tillet’s work is valuable to scholars because of its careful illumination of diverse conceptions of slavery, freedom, and citizenship. Sites of Slavery is a useful book that contributes to our understanding of the challenges of contemporary neo-slave 'narratives' across several genres.” -- Christine L. Montgomery * Black Scholar *“Ultimately, Tillet’s book has broad relevance to Americanists in historical periods stretching from the nineteenth century to the present, with archives crossing boundaries from the photographic to the juridical and methodological approaches from spatial theory to psychoanalysis. It is an impressive accomplishment.” -- Jennie Lightweis-Goff, * Journal of American Culture *“The greatest attribute of Sites of Slavery is its analytical framework in which the author employs a wide range of sources, including novels, photographs, installations, plays, films, pictures, official discourses, lawsuits, and scholarly monographs. The book offers a provocative snapshot to examine the problem of representations of slavery and the relations between history and fiction. . . . [T]he book is highly readable and a prospective addition to syllabi of graduate and undergraduate courses on African American and African diaspora studies.” -- Ana Lucia Araujo * Journal of American Ethnic History *“Sites of Slavery is a meticulously researched, compelling addition to a growing body of literature concerning race and the post-Civil Rights moment. Salamishah Tillet effortlessly analyzes a range of interdisciplinary materials, positing riveting examinations of how writers, artists, and intellectuals critique America’s hypocrisies and impact conversations about the possibilities for Black social life and a true racial democracy in the United States.” -- Michelle D. Commander * Callaloo *"Salamishah Tillet’s Sites of Slavery brilliantly explores aesthetic and political appropriations of chattel slavery by 'African American writers, artists, and intellectuals' in 'the post–civil rights' era." -- James Edward Ford * Novel *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Peculiar Citizenships 1 1. Freedom in a Bondsmaid's Arms: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and the Persistence of African American Memory 19 2. The Milder and More Amusing Phases of Slavery: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Satire 51 3. A Race of Angels: (Trans)Nationalism, African American Tourism, and the Slave Forts 95 4. What Have We Done to Weigh So Little on Their Scale: Mnemonic Restitution and the Aesthetics of Racial Reparations 133 Epilogue. The President's House, Freedom, and Slavery in the Age of Obama 169 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 217

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Book SynopsisShows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific FilipinaTrade Review“Cruz’s project has many strengths. . . . Transpacific Femininities provides a nuanced perspective to existing literature on women’s history, colonialism in the Pacific, Asian American studies, and transnational studies at large.” -- Joanne L. Rondilla * Journal of Asian Studies *"This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in Asian, American and Gender Studies, and across the disciplines of Sociology, Geography, History, and Anthropology. It is a rich historical account that does a lot of conceptual work with great subtlety. Transpacific Femininities is written to be widely accessible and could be easily used in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate classes." -- Geraldine Pratt * Pacific Affairs *“Cruz’s analysis is challenging and often subtle, for, as she maintains, the modern woman in the Philippines was not always simply westernized but was a blended cultural hybrid…Readers in the field of ethnic feminist literature will appreciate her annotations, her summaries of hard to find literary texts, and her discussion of the arguments of other scholars.” -- Frederick J. Augustyn * Journal of American Culture *“Transpacific Femininities re-frames and expands the boundaries of the study of race, gender, and empire in Philippine and Filipino American studies in a compelling transnational and global context. It is essential reading for students and scholars of Philippine, Asian American, and gender and women’s studies.” -- Catherine Ceniza Choy * Journal of American Ethnic History *"A GOAT work of scholarship and criticism, with a staggeringly wide historical scope and a generous, approachable readability. Denise Cruz brings us from the colonial era to the Cold War, and gives us a much-needed feminist historicist approach to thinking about everything from national heroism, to class, colorism, and the ways in which the costs of war and empire are often borne on the bodies of women." -- Elaine Castillo * Electric Lit *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Transpacific Filipinas, Made and Remade 1 1. Cartographies of the Transpacific Filipina 31 2. Nationalism, Modernity, and Feminism's Haunted Intersections 67 3. Plotting a Transpacific Filipina's Destiny: Romances of Elite Exceptionalism 111 4. New Order Practicality and Guerrilla Domesticity: The Pacific War's Filipina 149 5. "Pointing to the Heart": Cold War Makings of the Transpacific Filipina 185 Epilogue. Transpacific Femininities, Multimedia Archives, and the Global Marketplace 219 Notes 237 Bibliography 261 Index 283

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Book SynopsisShows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific FilipinaTrade Review“Cruz’s project has many strengths. . . . Transpacific Femininities provides a nuanced perspective to existing literature on women’s history, colonialism in the Pacific, Asian American studies, and transnational studies at large.” -- Joanne L. Rondilla * Journal of Asian Studies *"This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in Asian, American and Gender Studies, and across the disciplines of Sociology, Geography, History, and Anthropology. It is a rich historical account that does a lot of conceptual work with great subtlety. Transpacific Femininities is written to be widely accessible and could be easily used in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate classes." -- Geraldine Pratt * Pacific Affairs *“Cruz’s analysis is challenging and often subtle, for, as she maintains, the modern woman in the Philippines was not always simply westernized but was a blended cultural hybrid…Readers in the field of ethnic feminist literature will appreciate her annotations, her summaries of hard to find literary texts, and her discussion of the arguments of other scholars.” -- Frederick J. Augustyn * Journal of American Culture *“Transpacific Femininities re-frames and expands the boundaries of the study of race, gender, and empire in Philippine and Filipino American studies in a compelling transnational and global context. It is essential reading for students and scholars of Philippine, Asian American, and gender and women’s studies.” -- Catherine Ceniza Choy * Journal of American Ethnic History *"A GOAT work of scholarship and criticism, with a staggeringly wide historical scope and a generous, approachable readability. Denise Cruz brings us from the colonial era to the Cold War, and gives us a much-needed feminist historicist approach to thinking about everything from national heroism, to class, colorism, and the ways in which the costs of war and empire are often borne on the bodies of women." -- Elaine Castillo * Electric Lit *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Transpacific Filipinas, Made and Remade 1 1. Cartographies of the Transpacific Filipina 31 2. Nationalism, Modernity, and Feminism's Haunted Intersections 67 3. Plotting a Transpacific Filipina's Destiny: Romances of Elite Exceptionalism 111 4. New Order Practicality and Guerrilla Domesticity: The Pacific War's Filipina 149 5. "Pointing to the Heart": Cold War Makings of the Transpacific Filipina 185 Epilogue. Transpacific Femininities, Multimedia Archives, and the Global Marketplace 219 Notes 237 Bibliography 261 Index 283

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Book SynopsisA history tracing the growth of Stockton, California's Filipina/o American community, the birth and eventual destruction of the neighborhood of Little Manila, and recent efforts to remember and preserve it.Trade Review“[An] engaging account of the Filipino American experience in the 20th century. . . . It expands and deepens our knowledge of that past beyond Bulosan’s riveting account of the Filipino American experience in the first half of the 20th Century. Of course, it helps that Dawn Mabalon is retelling the history of her own family and her own community.” -- Benjamin Pimentel * Phillipine Daily Inquirer *"Little Manila Is in the Heart is a triumph of Filipina/o American history and American studies. There is no other scholarly analysis of the dynamic and vibrant Filipina/o American experience central to the development of Stockton's urban life and the larger San Joaquin Delta, a key area of California's agribusiness. Moreover, Dawn Bohulano Mabalon is a masterful storyteller. She draws on oral histories to illuminate the pain and joy of building, sustaining, losing, and attempting to preserve Little Manila in Stockton, weaving in with great finesse family history, archival research, and her own activism on behalf of Little Manila's preservation."—Catherine Ceniza Choy, author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History“Mabalon’s text is not merely a history of a community, but a study of how that community has been remembered and forgotten, given the redevelopment and gentrification policies that demolished most of Little Manila’s buildings after the 1960s.” -- Christopher Patterson * International Examiner *"Offering new and exciting insights into the Filipina/o American experience, Little Manila Is in the Heart is a painstakingly researched history of the Filipina/o American community in Stockton. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon connects that local history to national and global phenomena; examines in depth the roles of gender, religion, and community organizing within Stockton's Filipina/o American community; and carefully documents the role of development on an urban Asian American community over the past several decades."—Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony, author of American Workers, Colonial Power: Philippine Seattle and the Transpacific West, 1919–1941“Mabalon’s work reminds us of the precious importance of engaging in conversation with our elders. As a fellow third generation Filipina American, almost twenty years older than the author, I had often felt alone in seeking out the stories of my grandparents and ancestors, then writing about them in order to keep them alive for all generations. Mabalon—author, professor, and community activist—sets the bar for projects such as these to new heights. Justly so, because ‘A community worth saving is a community worth writing about. And vice versa.’” -- Lisa Suguitan Melnick * Positively Filipino blog *“This extensive book has valuable information for multiple audiences, including ethnic studies academics, students of ethnic studies, and general readers interested in labor, gender, intergenerational relations, urban studies, race, and the everyday lives of Filipina/os in the twentieth century.” -- JoAnna Poblete * Journal of American History *“I expect that Little Manila will become a staple in courses focused upon histories of California, immigration, and labor.” -- Allison Varzally * American Historical Review *"By acknowledging Filipino community formation in a context of intercultural relations while also privileging uniquely Filipina/o stories, the author effectively weaves oral accounts into her narrative, offering a human dimension to the urban history of Little Manila that would otherwise remain lost in the past." -- Naomi Alisa Calnitsky * Oral History Review *"Little Manila Is in the Heart is a much-loved masterpiece of ethnography, history and activism all at once, centering on the titular Little Manila of downtown Stockton, California. Mabalon’s writing is as sharp as it is loving and accessible, and the way she traces the community’s origins to its contemporary struggles against gentrification could be fruitfully linked to similar struggles around the country, particularly the rapidly changing Bay Area. Rest in power, Dawn." -- Elaine Castillo * Electric Lit *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Remembering Little Manila 1 Part I. Putting Down Roots: 1898–1940s 23 1. From the Provinces to the Delta: Life on the Eve of Emigration to the United States 25 2. Toiling in the "Valley of Opportunity" 61 3. Making a Filipina/o American World in Stockton 101 Part II. Growing a Community: 1930s–1960s 149 4. Women, Families, and the Second Generation 151 5. Searching for Spiritual Sustenance 192 6. The Watershed of World War II 217 Part III. Destruction and Displacement: 1950s–2010 267 7. Losing El Dorado Street 269 8. Building a Filipina/o American Movement in Stockton 299 Epilogue. Coming Home to Little Manila 335 Notes 351 Bibliography 403 Index 423

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Book SynopsisIn Medicating Race, Anne Pollock traces the intersecting discourses of race, pharmaceuticals, and heart disease in the United States over the past century, from the founding of cardiology through the FDA's approval of BiDil, the first drug sanctioned for use in a specific race.Trade Review“Both provocative and important for the study of race and/in medicine. . . . Pollock’s book serves well in highlighting the importance of considering the entirety of the social world (including the biomedical) with the same political and moral concerns borne by more traditional social theory.” -- Colin Halverson * Somatosphere *"Medicating Race charts a new course in critical race studies in biomedicine, one that takes seriously the vital importance of healing, the 'durable preoccupation' with race, and the somatic toll of racism. Anne Pollock asks us to revisit some of our most cherished assumptions about race and biomedicine in this theoretically informed and usefully provocative exploration of the social meanings of heart disease."—Alondra Nelson, author of Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination“This book is masterfully performative and empirically rich, offering insight to scholars of race, feminist science and technology studies, medical anthropology and sociology.” -- Alexandra A. Choby * Sociology of Health & Illness *"Based on exceptionally thorough scholarship and full of thought-provoking ideas, Medicating Race addresses one of the most perplexing and contentious topics in biomedical research and medical practice during the past century: race and its implications for health, disease, and treatment. Anne Pollock is trained in science and technology studies and is sensitive to the complexities of knowledge, politics, markets, and social categories. In this original study, she reveals how the modern history of heart disease is intertwined not only with the emergence and growth of the field of cardiology but also with civil rights struggles, pharmaceutical drug development and marketing, and changing notions of the biological and social meanings of race."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research“[Pollock] offers a richer contextualization of the way race figures in medicine that positions medical science not as an exclusive or absolute authority, but one among many forms of ordering and reasoning about the simultaneously social and technical world we inhabit. .. Pollock above all makes clear how different forms of knowledge, belief and reasoning are woven through the forms of collective organization and stratification sociology seeks to understand.” -- Erik Aarden * Sociology *“Pollock provides insights for scholars interested in the mechanisms by which ‘race’structures medical practice, scientific knowledge development and pharmaceutical capital in the USA. She develops a compelling historical account of the varied meanings and significance of ‘race’ in the longer development of medical knowledge and practices constitutive of heart disease and, by extension, the wider field of American medicine.” -- James T. Roanea * Global Public Health *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Racial Preoccupations and Early Cardiology 28 2. Making Normal Populations and Making Difference in the Framingham and Jackson Heart Studies 52 3. The Durability of African American Hypertension as a Disease Category 83 4. The Slavery Hypothesis beyond Genetic Determinism 107 5. Thiazide Diuretics at a Nexus of Associations: Racialized, Proven, Old, Cheap 131 6. BiDil: Medicating the Intersection of Race and Heart Failure 155 Conclusion 180 Notes 197 Works Cited 225 Index 253

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Book SynopsisSoo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism, focusing on the political conditions that enable—and limit—youth of color from achieving meaningful change given the entrenchment of nonprofits within the logic of the neoliberal state.Trade Review"Providing a model of activist ethnographic research, Soo Ah Kwon constructively engages with the activism of the youth of color whom she studies without oversimplifying the contradictory circumstances within which they work. Kwon respects their intellectual analyses and political contributions. At the same time, she demonstrates that youth organizing is often shaped by the very discourses that it seeks to resist. Uncivil Youth is a compelling examination of the intersections of youth organizing, governmentality, and the 'nonprofit industrial complex.'"—Andrea Smith, author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances"This is a wonderful ethnographic study of Asian and Pacific Islander youth activism in Oakland and the youth organizing movement that has been likened to a 'new civil rights movement.' Soo Ah Kwon astutely uncovers what makes possible the 'power of the youth' at a moment when grassroots organizing has been reshaped by nonprofit organizations and neoliberal governance. The book interrogates how the category of 'youth of color' has been absorbed into depoliticized programs for self-help, as well as how young activists challenge the state's discourse of democratic citizenship and the criminalization of immigrant and refugee youth. This is a must-read for scholars, students, youth workers, activists, and general audiences alike."—Sunaina Marr Maira, author of Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11“In this definitive text examining youth engagement among Asian American youth, Kwon (Univ. of Illinois) takes readers on an ethnographic journey to explore afterschool initiatives and other community-based projects, and shows how these initiatives serve as protective factors against juvenile delinquency. . . . Highly recommended.” -- D. E. Kelly * Choice *“This book would be very well placed on advanced undergraduate or Masters’ programmes’ reading lists—as much for the substantive content as for Kwon’s approach, style and appreciative analysis. The latter will doubtless generate excellent student discussions. For the rest of us, and particularly those interested in subjectification processes, the concept of citizenship or youth justice, this is definitely one to read.” -- Jo Phoenix * British Journal of Criminology *“Kwon’s investigation is an elegantly reasoned, well supported, and exceedingly timely intervention into contemporary scholarship on activism and youth. Her smart historicization of the state’s interest in youth and her interdisciplinary exploration of systems of power and youth organizing make this book an important critique of and addition to bodies of scholarship invested in examining activism, neoliberalism, citizenship, race, and social justice.” -- Anne Mai Yee Jansen * Journal of Asian American Studies *“As an academic, theoretical work, Kwon’s book is excellent. It is extremely well-grounded in literature from a variety of social sciences and raises provocative questions that we, as a society, should be asking ourselves. How do we view youth of color? How do we define at-risk youth, and why? What are the ethics around current immigration law, and how does this impact the next generation? And, ultimately, are we truly preparing all youth to become good citizens in a democracy or are we leading them into activities that will leave them prematurely jaded about the process?” -- Edward Janak * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Civilizing Youth against Delinquency 27 2. Youth Organizing and the Nonprofitization of Activism 45 3. Organizing against Youth Criminalization 73 4. Confronting the State 95 Conclusion 121 Notes 131 References 149 Index 165

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Book SynopsisA new generation of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention since the 1990s. Min Hyoung Song argues that their diverse work pushes against existing ways of thinking about race.Trade Review"In this work of celebration and criticism, Min Hyoung Song charts a new path forward for engaging the latest—and the most successful—wave of Asian American literature. In addition to offering some amazing literary criticism and analysis, Song interviews some of today's most important Asian American writers to discuss their work and life. The resulting book is in equal measure a stunning work of literary criticism and a fascinating social commentary on how Asian American literature is produced and read."—Edward J. W. Park, coauthor of Probationary Americans: Contemporary Immigration Policies and the Shaping of Asian American Communities"Min Hyoung Song makes a persuasive case for a return to deep reading: the careful, loving attention to the literary text, couched within a social and political consciousness. He reminds us of the beauty to be found within the pages of the Asian American novel, short story, and poem, as well as of the brilliant testimony embedded in those works, evidence of the experiences of both the children of 1965 and their parents. Song's ambitious book not only surveys the growing field of contemporary Asian American literature, but is itself a milestone in Asian American literary history."—Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America“Applying an impressive battery of data from social studies, Song deftly moves his argument toward a poststructuralist close reading...informed by an awareness that expectations based on the race of the author often creep into the unconscious of both writer and reader...Highly recommended.” -- K.Liu * Choice *"Song's study is timely and valuable. Unfailingly engaging and generous, it places Asian American literature in a broader context and demonstrates how humanities scholars can take up the necessary task of explaining themselves to a broader public audience." -- Yoon Sun Lee * Journal of American Studies *“[O]ffers a comprehensive assessment of important trends and critical concerns by a leading mind in the field, and charts a course for future inquiry. If we can imagine such a genre, it is a watershed book.” -- Joseph Jonghyun Jeon * Twentieth-Century Literature *“[T]his book makes a valuable contribution to novel theory and should be of interest to readers intent on understanding how the big, ambitious novels of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century work.” * Forum for Modern Language Studies *“While The Children of 1965 leaves much to be admired, indeed, can be considered a tour de force of literary criticism, it is the conclusion that is especially powerful and is the payoff for reading the monograph. Reverting away from the academic third-person voice of the previous pages, the conclusion’s first-person musings challenge literary critics to make ourselves relevant to the field that we have spent years and decades studying.” -- Jennifer Ho * Journal of Asian American Studies *"[Song] lucidly weaves together appropriate invocations of criticism and theory with attentive and fine-grained exegesis of novels, short stories, and graphic novels, along with occasional author interviews he himself conducted." -- Victor Bascara * American Literary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction. "We All Have Our Reasons" 1 Part I. Impositions of Form 1. Theorizing Expectations 29 2. The Trope of the Lost Manuscript 59 3. Not Ethnic Literature 81 4. American Personhood 104 Part II. Lines of Flight 5. Comics and the Changing Meaning of Race 127 6. Allegory and the Child in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction 152 7. Becoming Planetary 179 8. Desert–Orient–Nomad 197 Conclusion. World-Making 220 Acknowledgments 239 Appendix. Contemporary Asian American Literature 101 241 Notes 245 Works Cited 261 Index 271

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Book SynopsisSalsa Crossings is an ethnography describing how hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of migration, citizenship, and belonging, are enacted on and off the dance floors of Los Angeles salsa clubs.Trade Review"Salsa Crossings is a nuanced ethnography of the embodied pleasures, struggles, and sociopolitical aspirations that Latinos enact in L.A. salsa clubs. Cindy García analyzes the relationships among dancers, club promoters, wallflowers, and socializers as they negotiate the issues of belonging and exclusion that animate latinidad. She brilliantly positions the libidinal economies and stylistic hierarchies of salsa dancing in Los Angeles within the larger political economy of and among Latinos in the United States. This book makes important and illuminating contributions to the fields of dance and Latino studies."—Deborah Paredez, author of Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory"With her skilled recognition of the meanings and genealogies of dance styles, Cindy García sets the record straight by illuminating the social hierarchies and conflicts emerging in the salsa clubs of Los Angeles. Scholars of salsa dancing who have focused on the Caribbean and New York until now will no longer be able to ignore California and the West Coast."—Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures“Readers concerned with Latina/o studies, salsa dance, ethnography, cultural and national identity will be interested in this book. Through her wonderfully descriptive ethnographic storytelling, Garcia offers a cogent study of the power systems emerging from a particular culture’s struggle to deal with contradictions and inequalities brought on by globalization, migration, and transnational labor practices.” -- James Moreno * Dance Chronicle *“In her introduction and title, García promises a bold new approach to analyzing salsa dance…. García is at her best when she is thick in everynight action and thick in description. This approach yields brilliant moments, such as when she meditates on the meaning of the preference for arm styling over hip movement in studio salsa, or eavesdrops on the conversations among girlfriends in a nightclub restroom.” -- Celeste Fraser Delgado * Dance Research Journal *“[Garcia’s] vibrant study extends well beyond a mere examination of an evolving art form...García’s potent, lively text goes a long way to fill a void and to bring an art form dependent on movement into full flight in the reader’s imagination. For those interested in dance, Latino or otherwise, and complex issues of race, gender, and social hierarchies, this is an indispensible study on the richness of an evolving dance form… Highly recommended.” -- J. Fisher * Choice *“Through her experience as a dance ethnographer in a heated urban performance space, Cindy García is able to show – in a highly detailed and refined fashion – how the salsa environment is a prism of immigration and integration problems, globalization and its standardizations and codifications, and contested enactments of ‘Latinidad’ in the US today.” -- Jonathan Skinner * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"[A] valuable contribution to literature in dance and ethnic studies. Whether she is painting a vignette in one of the many loosely disguised L.A. clubs that figures prominently in the text or delving into theories of ethnic identity, Garcia’s prose is captivating and easily accessible to the nonspecialist. Her focus on how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, sexuality, and class on the dance floor continues to expand the work of scholars who are illuminating how dancing bodies construct and disrupt hierarchies of power." -- Juliet McMains * American Anthropologist *“Another of the book’s strengths is its readability. Rare is the scholarly monograph that genuinely speaks to the “educated general reader” while retaining the scholarly rigor necessary to make a significant contribution to academic debates…. In summary, Salsa Crossings is an important look at a topic that until now has been neglected in scholarly investigations of dance and that also adds much to the broader field of Latina/o and Chicana/o cultural studies. It is a useful source for scholars researching questions of Latina/o embodiment that will also prove quite teachable.” -- Julie Avril Minich * Aztlán *"In Salsa Crossings, Cindy García expertly weaves description and analysis in her first-person narrative, taking the reader along as she navigates the Los Angeles salsa scene, both on and off the dance floor." -- Ana Paula Hofling * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAbout the Series ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Salsa's Lopsided Global Flow 1 1. The Salsa Wars 21 2. Dancing Salsa Wrong 43 3. Un/Sequined Corporealities 66 4. Circulations of Gender and Power 94 5. "Don't Leave Me, Celia!": Salsera Homosociality and Latina Corporealities 124 Conclusion 147 Notes 155 References 165 Index 177

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Book SynopsisLegal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim and a virtuoso survey of the ways that black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery.Trade Review"Holloway has written a sterling account of the convergence of literary and legal narratives in constructing American racial identities . . . This book will engage scholars in African American studies and American studies in the coming years." -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“Holloway's writing is elegantly structured and multifaceted; the analytical language she uses is bright with imagery.” -- Jo Manby * Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World *“Karla FC Holloway’s most recent book is a remarkable creative and critical work that pushes the boundaries of interdisciplinarity in law, literature, history, and critical race theory. … Holloway uses the marginality of black literature as an argument for its central role in the legal and literary construction of nation and nationality. Finding the margins at the center and the center in the margins is precisely the kind of appealing paradox that makes this book so powerful.” -- Dan Farbman * Law, Culture, and the Humanities *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Bound by Law 1 Intimate Intersectionalities—Scalar Reflections 5 Public Fictions, Private Facts 9 Simile as Precedent 13 Property, Contract, and Evidentiary Values 17 1. The Claims of Property: On Being and Belonging 23 The Capital in Question 27 Imagined Liberalism 35 Mapping Racial Reason 41 Being in Place: Landscape, Never Inscape 49 2. Bodies as Evidence (of Things Not Seen) 55 Secondhand Tales and Hearsay 59 Black Legibility—Can I Get a Witness? 72 Trying to Read Me 77 3. Composing Contract 89 "A novel-like tenor" 93 Passing and Protection 96 A Secluded Colored Neighborhood 102 Epilogue. When and Where "All the Dark-Glass Boys" Enter 111 A Contagion of Madness 113 Notes 127 References 139 Acknowledgments 145 Index 147

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Book SynopsisChronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C L R James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. This book reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James' intellectual and political trajectory.Trade Review"Høgsbjerg has produced an invaluable addition to both British and Caribbean labour scholarship and has written it in such an accessible way that its stirring and provocative narrative ought to inspire thought and action." -- Chris Searle * Morning Star *"This impressively researched, well-written and accessible book demonstrates that James's time in Britain was a period of fertile intellectual growth for this inspirational writer and activist." -- Brian Richardson * Socialist Review *"Christian Høgsbjerg’s C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain sets a new standard in James Studies for he has combed key archival sources bringing increased insight and factual detail to considerations of his life and work. . . . We find Christian Høgsbjerg’s C.L.R. James in his study literally on fire, not merely researching revolutionary history and writing cricket columns. With his sweater accidentally aflame from the heater in his small room, smoke fills the home where he is a guest but he doesn’t notice. Someone has to tell him: 'Nello you are on fire.' James doesn’t understand at first, and then anxiously replies: 'Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!' This is an apt tale to advertise the vibrant quality of C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain." -- Matthew Quest * Insurgent Notes *"More than any other contemporary writer on James, Christian Høgsbjerg appreciates how provisional and incomplete our understanding of this intellectual agenda has actually been. . . . Anyone with an interest in black protest, literary London, and/or left politics in the 1930s will enjoy this smart, factually grounded yet thematically rich biographical study." -- Kent Worcester * New Politics *"Høgsbjerg does a masterful job of recounting this history in tremendous detail. James himself is now an increasingly well-known figure, particularly in the fields of literary and postcolonial studies. Yet, as Høgsbjerg argues, the details of his life, particularly his political transformations and commitments, have preoccupied recent scholars rather less, and often to the detriment of their scholarship. It seems remarkable, indeed, that Høgsbjerg’s is the first detailed study of James’s years in Britain. . . ." -- Daniel Whittall * Antipode *“Høgsbjerg’s biography is an essential piece of the history of C.L.R. James. It is first and foremost an intellectual history which demonstrates how both theory and politics form and are formulated over years. And it provides proof that the revolution will not come without sustained intellectual engagement.” -- Yasmin Nair * Monthly Review *“This is an exceptional study and a necessary book for anyone concerned with understanding James’ life and work, or interested in the wider history of black radical and socialist politics in the twentieth century. As Høgsbjerg rightly concludes, James’ life and work remains, in many respects, an important resource of hope and inspiration for contemporary readers.” -- Andrew Smith * Race & Class *“There is a great deal to commend in this book — to both the expert and those newly introduced to James and his work. Thankfully, Høgsbjerg takes us from James’s classrooms in Trinidad to pub-crawls in London, and ultimately, to a world of exceedingly rich political activism and thought that often defies easy categorization. … For those looking to grasp today’s interconnected travails of racial, class, and cultural alienation brought about by the shortcomings of global capitalism and hyper-nationalism, they would do well to add Høgsbjerg’s delightful and poignant history to their shelves.” -- Saladin Ambar * Canadian Journal of History *"When James left Britain for the United States in 1938 he had moved from Victorian elitism to revolutionary socialism. This book expertly charts his development. It will not only be of value to C L R James scholars but to anyone who has an interest in British history." -- Rhys Williams * International Socialism *"Drawing upon under-utilized and newly-released sources, C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain interweaves the diverse strands of James’s thought and activism in a lucid account of this important moment in the life of one of the twentieth century’s most creative and original thinkers.... C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain offers further confirmation of the centrality of James’s writings to the archives of decolonization in the twentieth century." -- Marc Matera * Anthurium *“A magnificent contribution to our understanding of the twentieth-century Caribbean.” -- Bill Schwarz * Wasafiri *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction. Revolutionaries, Artists, and Wicket-Keepers: C. L. R. James's Place in History 1 1. We Lived According to the Tenets of Matthew Arnold: Colonial Victorianism and the Creative Realism of the Young C. L. R. James 17 2. Red Nelson: The English Working Class and the Making of C. L. R. James 38 3. Imperialism Must Be Destroyed: C. L. R. James, Race, and Revolutionary Politics 65 4. The Humbler Type of Cricket Scribe: C. L. R. James on Sport, Culture, and Society 125 5. There Is No Drama Like the Drama of History: The Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, and the Haitian Revolution 158 Conclusion. To Exploit a Larger World to Conquer: C. L. R. James's Intellectual Conquest of Imperial Britain 199 Notes 217 Bibliography 259 Index 283

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