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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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Book SynopsisShares interests in the intersection of art and ideas. This book takes thirteen pieces of Latino art, each reproduced in color, as occasions for thematic discussions.Trade Review"While there are moments at which the writers arrive at a fresh viewing, they more often use the art as a platform to speak broadly of human life, preferring the wide aperture of much philosophic writing that can lend itself to generalizations. Usefully, the sweeping nature of many statements is offset by the dialogic mode, with both writers as comfortable disagreeing as they are bolstering each other’s insights. While there are moments that lag, there are also moments that shine, especially when Stavans and Gracia draw on their own lived experiences, twining narrative with philosophy." * Publishers Weekly *“These multidisciplinary musings aimed at scholars of art, language, and identity will be enjoyed by those who are content to ponder, wander, and disagree alongside the authors.” -- Lindsay King * Library Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Thirteen 1 1. The Labyrinth of History: Einar and Jamex de la Torre, La reconquista 17 2. The Impostor's Mask: María Brito, Conversation 35 3. On Desecration: Andres Serrano, Piss Christ 49 4. The Death Game: Francisco Oller, El velorio 61 5. A Girl's Innocence: Marian Yampolsky, Elva 75 6. The Thereafter: Carmen Lomas Garza, Heaven and Hell 93 7. The Street as Art: BEAR_TCK, Chicano Graffiti 107 8. Desperate Escape: José Bedia, Siguiendo su instinto 123 9. The Horrors of War: Luis Cruz Azaceta, Slaughter 139 10. The Ambiguity of Madness: Martín Ramírez, No. 111, Untitled (Train and Tunnel) 153 11. I Laugh in Your Race! Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Skull) 167 12. American America: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Above All Things 181 13. Twisted Tongue: Adál, La Spanglish Sandwich Bodega Bag 195 Thirteen Plus One 209 The Artists219 Index 227

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Book SynopsisPresents an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. This book emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith - which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions - and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society.Trade Review"Talking to the Dead is an incredibly rich study, which will reward both a general readership and readers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds." -- Teresa Zackodnik * Feminist Review *"LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant’s Talking to the Dead is well suited for the novice who is unaware of any of the traditions and religious practices of the Gullah/Geechee.... Because of its emphasis on black women, the ethnography also has much to offer to the black feminist or black womanist scholar, especially one with an interest in African Diasporic culture or African derivative belief systems." -- Constance Bailey * Western Folklore *"While talking to the dead, as well as other less ‘flashy’ Gullah/Geechee practices risk being lost in application, Manigault-Bryant and other third generation scholars have ensured they will not be completely erased through an increasingly sophisticated historiography accounting for the diverse perspectives of African American women in the South Carolina lowcountry." -- Douglas R. Valentine * Religion *"This masterful interweaving of these personal narratives of Gullah/Geechee women with the spiritual practice of talking to the dead, particularly in light of the present-day commodification of Gullah/Geechee culture (offered in the terminating chapter) in South Carolina, is the overall strength of this work.... This book, then, is a must read for advanced students and scholars in these areas of study." -- Margarita Simon Guillory * Religious Studies Review *"...Talking to the Dead is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Gullah/Geechee culture and African American religious practices in general....Most importantly, Talking to the Dead not only lays the groundwork for further investigation into the gender dymanics of longstanding Gullah-Geechee religiosity, but also underscores the fact that no study of African American religion can be complete without a thorough investigation of women as believers, practitioners, and cultural leaders." -- Shannen Dee Williams * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue. Talking to the Dead xiii Introduction. Gullah/Geechee Women 1 1. Culture Keepers 24 2. Folk Religion 66 3. "Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time" 104 4. "Sendin' Up My Timbah" 136 5. Lived Memory 172 Epilogue. Between the Living and the Dead 205 Appendix A. Companion Audio Materials 211 Appendix B. Interview Format and Demographics 213 Notes 217 Select Bibliography 251 Index 267

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Book SynopsisIn Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens explores the work of four iconic twentieth-century black male performers—Bert Williams, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte, and Bob Marley—to reveal how racial and sexual difference is both marked by and experienced in the skin.Trade Review“In Skin Acts, Michelle Ann Stephens provides a valuable contribution to the study of race and representation by offering a thorough account of the relationship between black skin and white gaze and the production of difference in twentieth-century US popular culture.” -- Brandi T. Summers * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Skin Acts provides highly productive discourses for anyone interested in black cultural studies, performance theory, and/or racialization." -- Lia T. Bascomb * Contemporary Theatre Review *"The book is well written and rich with analytic detail regarding each of the four case studies, particularly through the use of visual materials. Skin Acts is a valuable contribution to the literatures of race, psychoanalytic theory, masculinity, and performance." -- Devon R. Goss * Men and Masculinities *"Skin Acts is an ambitious and well-researched study that anyone interested in the intersections of psychoanalysis and critical race theory should read." -- Rocío Pichon-Rivière * e-misférica *"By pushing the reader to think about how multiple sites of self-definition and societal gaze create the racial, bodily landscape of the black masculine performer, Stephens makes an important contribution to black masculinity studies and performance studies, and articulates the importance for the field of skin studies. Stephens’s interdisciplinary project effortlessly blends performance theory, psychoanalysis, and historical theories of race, corporeality, and physiognomy to produce an accessible framework for understanding black masculine performers in the twentieth century." -- Brandon J. Manning * Callaloo *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Fleshing Out the Act 1 1. Seeing Faces, Hearing Signs 31 2. Bodylines, Borderlines, Color Lines 71 3. The Problem of Color 111 4. In the Flesh, Living Sound 153 Conclusion. Defacing Race, Rethinking the Skin 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 259 Index 273

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Book SynopsisPresents an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. By looking in depth at this long-standing spiritual practice, this book highlights the subversive ingenuity that lowcountry inhabitants use to thrive spiritually and to maintain a sense of continuity with the past.Trade Review"Talking to the Dead is an incredibly rich study, which will reward both a general readership and readers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds." -- Teresa Zackodnik * Feminist Review *"LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant’s Talking to the Dead is well suited for the novice who is unaware of any of the traditions and religious practices of the Gullah/Geechee.... Because of its emphasis on black women, the ethnography also has much to offer to the black feminist or black womanist scholar, especially one with an interest in African Diasporic culture or African derivative belief systems." -- Constance Bailey * Western Folklore *"While talking to the dead, as well as other less ‘flashy’ Gullah/Geechee practices risk being lost in application, Manigault-Bryant and other third generation scholars have ensured they will not be completely erased through an increasingly sophisticated historiography accounting for the diverse perspectives of African American women in the South Carolina lowcountry." -- Douglas R. Valentine * Religion *"This masterful interweaving of these personal narratives of Gullah/Geechee women with the spiritual practice of talking to the dead, particularly in light of the present-day commodification of Gullah/Geechee culture (offered in the terminating chapter) in South Carolina, is the overall strength of this work.... This book, then, is a must read for advanced students and scholars in these areas of study." -- Margarita Simon Guillory * Religious Studies Review *"...Talking to the Dead is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Gullah/Geechee culture and African American religious practices in general....Most importantly, Talking to the Dead not only lays the groundwork for further investigation into the gender dymanics of longstanding Gullah-Geechee religiosity, but also underscores the fact that no study of African American religion can be complete without a thorough investigation of women as believers, practitioners, and cultural leaders." -- Shannen Dee Williams * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue. Talking to the Dead xiii Introduction. Gullah/Geechee Women 1 1. Culture Keepers 24 2. Folk Religion 66 3. "Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time" 104 4. "Sendin' Up My Timbah" 136 5. Lived Memory 172 Epilogue. Between the Living and the Dead 205 Appendix A. Companion Audio Materials 211 Appendix B. Interview Format and Demographics 213 Notes 217 Select Bibliography 251 Index 267

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating study that ought to be widely read and its implications thoughtfully considered. For scholars, critics, historians, and aficionados of the blues." -- Genevieve Williams * Library Journal *“[McGinley] does a worthy job of explaining how the dominant framing of the blues essentially assigned the very notion of theatrical performance – and, by extension, a performer’s right to develop a stage presence of his/her own choosing – to a gendered, second-class status. The irony turns out to be that said framing was itself a theatrical construct in the first place.” -- Mark Reynolds * PopMatters *“In this concise musical journey of the mise-en-scène of blues music performances, McGinley takes readers to the South, starting with the tent shows of an earlier era and concluding with the current staging of the blues for genre travelers and tourists. … Readers are left with the knowledge of what scenic staging has meant for blues throughout the decades. … Recommended. All readers.” -- T. Emery * Choice *“Staging the Blues will likely become the latest in a line of mould-breaking scholarly works on the blues to have emerged in recent years. McGinley’s emphasis on theatricality brings life to well-worn subjects, and aptly illustrates the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach that is not yet the norm in blues scholarship. This book is quite simply a must for all scholars and students of African American performance culture.” -- Lawrence Davies * Studies in Theatre and Performance *“Tracing the iterative qualities of theatrical blues trappings and their transformation by blues performers, Staging the Blues makes an important contribution to our understanding of the production and performance of race. Its exhaustive archival depth recasts familiar performances and introduces new material that adds to the scholarly repertoire of black performance studies. Most significantly, it establishes a vital conversation between popular theatre and music that provides a model of interdisciplinary performance studies.” -- Shane Vogel * Theatre Research International *"[T]his study will prove to be one of the most captivating additions to the scholarship on the blues to date." -- Tammy L. Kernodle * American Studies *"In short, this book is a must-read. McGinley’s methodology and historical purview tear down those worn-out perceptions of authenticity to reinsert the thespian dynamism of American vernacular music." -- Stephanie Vander Wel * Journal of Southern History *"Staging the Blues complicates and reaches beyond the blues landscape, making it a significant and timely text for scholars and music aficionados alike." -- Emily Rutter * Women & Performance *"Staging the Blues is an exemplary contribution to a new body of performance studies scholarship that embeds music critically in its sociopolitical, cultural, and artistic milieu." -- Joseph Roach * TDR: The Drama Review *"In unpackaging what we thought we knew about blues performances, McGinley powerfully demonstrates their centrality in shaping a musical history for the United States and beyond." -- Patricia R. Schroeder * African American Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Beale on Broadway 1 1. Real Personality: The Blues Actress 31 2. Theater Folk: Huddie Ledbetter on the Stage 82 3. Southern Exposure: Transatlantic Blues 129 4. Highway 61 Revisited: Blues Tourism at Ground Zero 177 Notes 221 Bibliography 257 Index 271

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Book SynopsisThis invaluable archival project documents the impact and spread of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the organization founded by Marcus Garvey in 1914 and led by him until his death in 1940.Trade Review“The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers will take its place among the most important records of the Afro-American experience. . . . ‘The Marcus Garvey Papers’ lays the groundwork for a long overdue reassessment of Marcus Garvey and the legacy of racial pride, nationalism, and concern with Africa he bequeathed to today’s black community." -- Eric Foner * New York Times Book Review *“Until the publication of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, many of the documents necessary for a full assessment of Garvey’s thought or of his movement’s significance have not been easily accessible. Robert A. Hill and his staff . . . have gathered over 30,000 documents from libraries and other sources in many countries. . . . The Garvey papers will reshape our understanding of the history of black nationalism and perhaps increase our understanding of contemporary black politics.” -- Clayborne Carson * The Nation *“Now is our chance, through these important volumes, to finally begin to come to terms with the significance of Garvey’s complex, fascinating career and the meaning of the movement he built.” -- Lawrence W. Levine * The New Republic *“The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers are much more than just the records of an exceptional individual and his organization. . . . The annotated footnotes can be read for profit independent of the documents. The identification of persons frequently goes well beyond brief sketches to become rich biographical entries. . . . [Historians] must rethink not only the place of Garveyism in the context of twentieth-century Afro-American history but, and in some ways more importantly, the place of the Afro-American experience in U.S. and world history during the period.” -- Thom W. Shick * Reviews in American History *Table of ContentsIllustrations xxv Maps xxvii Acknowledgments xxix Introduction xxxiii History of the Edition xli Editorial Principles and Practices xlv Textual Devices li Symbols and Abbreviations liii Repository Symbols liii Manuscript Collection Symbols lv Descriptive Symbols lvi Abbreviations of Published Works lvi Other Symbols and Abbreviations lviii Chronology lxi The Papers Index 375

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fascinating study that ought to be widely read and its implications thoughtfully considered. For scholars, critics, historians, and aficionados of the blues." -- Genevieve Williams * Library Journal *“[McGinley] does a worthy job of explaining how the dominant framing of the blues essentially assigned the very notion of theatrical performance – and, by extension, a performer’s right to develop a stage presence of his/her own choosing – to a gendered, second-class status. The irony turns out to be that said framing was itself a theatrical construct in the first place.” -- Mark Reynolds * PopMatters *“In this concise musical journey of the mise-en-scène of blues music performances, McGinley takes readers to the South, starting with the tent shows of an earlier era and concluding with the current staging of the blues for genre travelers and tourists. … Readers are left with the knowledge of what scenic staging has meant for blues throughout the decades. … Recommended. All readers.” -- T. Emery * Choice *“Staging the Blues will likely become the latest in a line of mould-breaking scholarly works on the blues to have emerged in recent years. McGinley’s emphasis on theatricality brings life to well-worn subjects, and aptly illustrates the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach that is not yet the norm in blues scholarship. This book is quite simply a must for all scholars and students of African American performance culture.” -- Lawrence Davies * Studies in Theatre and Performance *“Tracing the iterative qualities of theatrical blues trappings and their transformation by blues performers, Staging the Blues makes an important contribution to our understanding of the production and performance of race. Its exhaustive archival depth recasts familiar performances and introduces new material that adds to the scholarly repertoire of black performance studies. Most significantly, it establishes a vital conversation between popular theatre and music that provides a model of interdisciplinary performance studies.” -- Shane Vogel * Theatre Research International *"[T]his study will prove to be one of the most captivating additions to the scholarship on the blues to date." -- Tammy L. Kernodle * American Studies *"In short, this book is a must-read. McGinley’s methodology and historical purview tear down those worn-out perceptions of authenticity to reinsert the thespian dynamism of American vernacular music." -- Stephanie Vander Wel * Journal of Southern History *"Staging the Blues complicates and reaches beyond the blues landscape, making it a significant and timely text for scholars and music aficionados alike." -- Emily Rutter * Women & Performance *"Staging the Blues is an exemplary contribution to a new body of performance studies scholarship that embeds music critically in its sociopolitical, cultural, and artistic milieu." -- Joseph Roach * TDR: The Drama Review *"In unpackaging what we thought we knew about blues performances, McGinley powerfully demonstrates their centrality in shaping a musical history for the United States and beyond." -- Patricia R. Schroeder * African American Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Beale on Broadway 1 1. Real Personality: The Blues Actress 31 2. Theater Folk: Huddie Ledbetter on the Stage 82 3. Southern Exposure: Transatlantic Blues 129 4. Highway 61 Revisited: Blues Tourism at Ground Zero 177 Notes 221 Bibliography 257 Index 271

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The East Is Black deepens studies on transnational political activism and knowledge travels. Well organized and accessible, this book will work well in upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on African American studies, media studies, and U.S. Cold War history." -- Cindy I-Fen Cheng * Journal of American History *"As it stands, Robeson Taj Frazier has written a monumentally successful monograph that is close to flawless in assessing other horizons and limits of Cold War China for Black radicals. Frazier has helped to raise the bar for future scholars assessing what C. L.R. James once called the "rise and fall" of world revolution." -- Bill V. Mullen * Black Scholar *"The East is Black is a brilliant work that explores how the People’s Republic of China (prc) inspired the political imaginations of African American radicals during the Cold War.... Overall, The East is Black is a delight to read. Frazier writes in a fluid and compelling manner... [the book] should attract a broad readership among academics and students who are interested in race and radicalism in the United States and Asia." -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Frazier’s The East is Black is a deeply nuanced and well-researched book that enriches the literature on twentieth century black internationalism.... Through careful and in-depth analysis, Frazier has written an important study, which will enhance undergraduate and graduate course syllabi on a range of topics including Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and the modern African Diaspora." -- Keisha N. Blain * American Studies *"The East is Black is a compelling account of transnational interaction between American black political radicals and China from the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the 1970s. Robeson Taj Frazier’s book is a valuable addition to an exploding historiography on transnational contacts between individuals and groups separated by territorial borders but united by commonalities beyond the nation-state." -- Pete Millwood * History *"It is abundantly clear that Frazier’s impressive, granular attention to detail is, in part, what opens up the admirably novel analytical spaces—and affective registers—his study occupies. The East Is Black calmly forgoes the nostalgia for the romance of anti-colonial struggle that pervades much scholarship on Afro-Asian solidarity from the last fifteen years. Instead, Frazier supplements this worthwhile tendency with a commitment to lingering with the fragments, the frustrations, of a struggle that wasn’t to be—a project he enacts expertly, in a manner that bears repeating." -- Ajay Kumar Batra * Amerasia Journal *"The East is Black helps expand the geographic and cultural boundaries of scholarly understandings of the black radical imagination. Frazier’s detailed analysis of the dynamic terrain of Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, and black radicalism insightfully illustrates how African Americans engaged with a fluid global color line in pursuit of a transnational solidarity against white racial capitalism. The study is well worth reading for scholars of African American politics and intellectual thought, but should be equally rewarding for students of modern global history and the Cold War." -- Joseph Parrott * H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: March of the Volunteers 1 Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China 22 1. Ruminations on Eastern Passage 37 2. A Passport Ain't Worth a Cent 72 Part II. The 1960s: The East Is Red and Black 108 3. Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters of the East 117 4. Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle 159 Coda. The 1970s: Rapprochement and the Decline of China's World Revolution 193 Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu 213 Glossary 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 277 Index 303

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The East Is Black deepens studies on transnational political activism and knowledge travels. Well organized and accessible, this book will work well in upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on African American studies, media studies, and U.S. Cold War history." -- Cindy I-Fen Cheng * Journal of American History *"As it stands, Robeson Taj Frazier has written a monumentally successful monograph that is close to flawless in assessing other horizons and limits of Cold War China for Black radicals. Frazier has helped to raise the bar for future scholars assessing what C. L.R. James once called the "rise and fall" of world revolution." -- Bill V. Mullen * Black Scholar *"The East is Black is a brilliant work that explores how the People’s Republic of China (prc) inspired the political imaginations of African American radicals during the Cold War.... Overall, The East is Black is a delight to read. Frazier writes in a fluid and compelling manner... [the book] should attract a broad readership among academics and students who are interested in race and radicalism in the United States and Asia." -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Frazier’s The East is Black is a deeply nuanced and well-researched book that enriches the literature on twentieth century black internationalism.... Through careful and in-depth analysis, Frazier has written an important study, which will enhance undergraduate and graduate course syllabi on a range of topics including Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and the modern African Diaspora." -- Keisha N. Blain * American Studies *"The East is Black is a compelling account of transnational interaction between American black political radicals and China from the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the 1970s. Robeson Taj Frazier’s book is a valuable addition to an exploding historiography on transnational contacts between individuals and groups separated by territorial borders but united by commonalities beyond the nation-state." -- Pete Millwood * History *"It is abundantly clear that Frazier’s impressive, granular attention to detail is, in part, what opens up the admirably novel analytical spaces—and affective registers—his study occupies. The East Is Black calmly forgoes the nostalgia for the romance of anti-colonial struggle that pervades much scholarship on Afro-Asian solidarity from the last fifteen years. Instead, Frazier supplements this worthwhile tendency with a commitment to lingering with the fragments, the frustrations, of a struggle that wasn’t to be—a project he enacts expertly, in a manner that bears repeating." -- Ajay Kumar Batra * Amerasia Journal *"The East is Black helps expand the geographic and cultural boundaries of scholarly understandings of the black radical imagination. Frazier’s detailed analysis of the dynamic terrain of Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, and black radicalism insightfully illustrates how African Americans engaged with a fluid global color line in pursuit of a transnational solidarity against white racial capitalism. The study is well worth reading for scholars of African American politics and intellectual thought, but should be equally rewarding for students of modern global history and the Cold War." -- Joseph Parrott * H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: March of the Volunteers 1 Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China 22 1. Ruminations on Eastern Passage 37 2. A Passport Ain't Worth a Cent 72 Part II. The 1960s: The East Is Red and Black 108 3. Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters of the East 117 4. Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle 159 Coda. The 1970s: Rapprochement and the Decline of China's World Revolution 193 Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu 213 Glossary 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 277 Index 303

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Book SynopsisArt historian Krista Thompson analyzes photographic practices in the Caribbean and the United States to show how African diasporic youth use the process of creating images to represent themselves in the public sphere and to communicate with other Afro-diasporic communities.Trade Review"Thompson’s study of light is nuanced and generative. . . . the structure of each section encourages the reader to embrace a protean reading practice, one that resists firmly embracing a single understanding of light, and of its affects and effects. The result is a powerful project that stands to impact multiple fields, while at the same time challenging how we see and understand black visual practices. In the end, Shine succeeds in reconstituting the very terms of photography and visual technology and their role in the diaspora." -- Autumn Marie Womack * SX Salon *"Shine provides important illumination; it shows that nonelite culture holds up to serious academic scrutiny. Particularly given their reach and popularity, the practices Thompson brings to light cannot go overlooked and unanalyzed." -- John A. Tyson * CAA Reviews *"Ultimately, Shine is a useful application of tools from the field of art history to popular culture and presentation of self in the technological age.... Cultural anthropologists, sociologists specializing in cultural aspects of race and ethnicity, and scholars of media would find this text a valuable read." -- Deinya Phenix * Visual Studies *"Shine, by Krista Thompson, presents a compelling investigation into the transnational aesthetics of hip-hop, bridging distinct visual practices, artistic forms, and modes of visibility in the African diaspora. Situating her work within art history, Thompson provides rich, multisited ethnographic research that spans the United States, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, allowing her to interrogate the intersecting cultures, histories, and media flows of the geopolitical region known as the circum-Caribbean. From street photography in New York to Jamaican dancehall videos, Thompson brings into dialogue disparate visual and embodied practices to provide a thought-provoking study on the mediation of the African diaspora in the circum-Caribbean." -- Eryn Snyder Berger * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction. Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels 11. "Keep It Real": Street Photography, Public Visibility, and Afro-Modernity 472. Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility in Jamaica 1123. Shine, Shimmer, and Splendor: African Diasporic Aesthetics and the Art of Being Seen in the Bahamas 1694. The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop 215Notes 271Bibliography 317Index 335

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this groundbreaking collection of essays explore U.S. overseas empire and settler colonialism within the same analytic framework, revealing the mutually constitutive histories of U.S. colonialism abroad and at home.Trade Review "[T]he strength of Formations of United States Colonialism is in the scope it offers for the reader to make their own connections. As such, the ideas it presents should prove fertile ground for further study." -- Nick Cleaver * Journal of American Studies *"However you read this book, by dipping in to chapters or by reading the whole thing, you will emerge with a deeper understanding of the different facets of the United States’ interactions with indigenous peoples within the United States and outside its national borders. ... This book allows readers to take a step towards acknowledging the intricacies of America’s colonial past, and towards understanding the wider implications of U.S. colonialism, both historically and now." -- Sophie Cooper * U.S. Studies Online *"The volume is a significant resource for U.S. historians and other scholars of American studies who seek to grapple with the place of indigenous people in the development of the United States." -- Malinda Maynor Lowery * Journal of American History *"The volume features an impressive set of rigorous essays on the coloniality of the United States, itself a 'volatile assemblage' of discourses, practices, events, actors and institutions.... I highly recommend the book for both the insightful depth with which it explores the practices of settler colonialism and the range of topics, cases and time periods the contributors examine so well." -- Kevin Bruyneel * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"This volume makes several key contributions to the study of empire and colonialism, especially in regard to Indigeneity and U.S. exceptionalism.... This important collection is recommended for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in Native American and Indigenous studies, American studies, critical ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies. It is required reading for scholars studying and/or teaching U.S. empire. Overall, this book should be widely read and discussed." -- Juliana Hu Pegues * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Formations of United States Colonialism is an ambitious, theoretically innovative collection that builds from and poses generative interventions across fields that include indigenous studies, history, postcolonial theory, critical geography, anthropology, and political science.... In this collection, the themes of storied land, mapping, and cartography, the politics of recognition, and conflicting regimes of racialization, among many others, emerge as signposts for vital and necessary work that connects various formations of United States colonialism and imperialism. While many scholars and activists have understood the continental conquest of North America and United States’ empire-building as discrete projects, this anthology makes a significant intervention in multiple fields and inspires new coalitional possibilities." -- Savannah J. Kilner * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Formations of United States Colonialism is an excellent collection of state-of-the-art essays that critically examine US colonial discourse and grapple with the complexities of cultural decolonization.... Formations of United States Colonialism deserves attention for its historically grounded insights into the complex and dynamics relationship among power, identity, and knowledge. Within its pages, one cannot yet see the outlines of a decolonized world, but one can sense which direction to take to reach it." -- Christopher Powell * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *"This book allows readers to take a step towards acknowledging the intricacies of America’s colonial past, and towards understanding the wider implications of U.S. colonialism, both historically and now." -- Sophie Cooper * U.S. Studies Online *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present / Alyosha Goldstein 1 Part I. Histories in Contention 1. The Specters of Recognition / Joanne Barker 33 2. Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity in the Territorial Southwest / Berenika Byszewski 57 3. The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty / Manu Vimalassery 87 4. A Sorry State: Apology Politics and Legal Fictions in the Court of the Conqueror / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 110 Part II. Colonial Entanglements 5. Missionaries, Slaves, and Indians: Fragmented Colonial Exchanges in the Early American South / Barbara Krauthamer 137 6. American Empire, Hispanism, and the Nationalist Visions of Albizu, Recto, and Grau / Augusto Espiritu 157 7. Becoming Indo-Hispano: Reies Lopez Tijerina and the New Mexican Land Grant Movement / Lorena Oropeza 180 8. Seeking New Fields of Labor: Football and Colonial Political Economies in American Samoa / Fa'anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 207 9. The Kepaniwai (Damming of the Water) Heritage Gardens: Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State / Dean Itsuji Saranillio 233 Part III. Politics of Transposition 10. Our Stories Are Maps Larger Than Can Be Held: Self-Determination and the Normative Force of Law at the Periphery of American Expansionism / Julian Aguon 265 11. Governmentality and Cartographies of Colonial Spaces: The "Progressive Military Map of Porto Rico," 1908-1914 / Lanny Thompson 289 12. "I'm Not Running on My Gender": The 2010 Navajo Nation Presidential Race, Gender, and the Politics of Tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale 316 13. Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire / Vicente L. Rafael 335 Bibliography 361 Contributors 399 Index

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Book SynopsisBlack Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography, showing how the rethinking of place and scale can galvanize the study of black literature.Trade Review"...an illuminating study of place and place-making." -- James S. Finley * Transfers *"Simply put: Black Atlas flows. It is not narratively or conceptually simplistic—far from it ... Madera conducts readers through fluid valences of locale, terrain at once domestic, international, human, and economic." -- Regis M. Fox * Studies in the Novel *"Black Atlas provides a series of inspiring new approaches to earlier African American literature while demonstrating the diverse interpretive possibilities available through a geographically attuned literary criticism." -- Martha Schoolman * Journal of American History *"Making a compelling case for geography as flow (as well as geography and flow) in this examination of African American contributions to literature, Madera provides new insights into the complexities of 'place' that apply to any consideration of the relation between humans and their environments. Highly recommended." -- S. Petersheim * Choice *"Madera’s book illuminates numerous fascinating literary histories that would on their own make Black Atlas a treasure. But she does far more, which is to incisively theorize the relationship between the spatial imagination and literature. Her introduction is a stunning primer on key debates about geography that cuts across the fields of philosophy, literature, and cultural studies; it is essential reading for any literary scholar interested in place and space." -- Mary Caton Lingold * American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. On Meaningful Worlds 1 1. National Geographic: The Writtings of William Wells Brown 24 2. Indigenes of Territory: Martin Delany and James Beckwourth 69 3. This House of Gathering: Axis Americanus 110 4. Civic Geographies and Intentional Communities 151 5. Creole Heteroglossia: Counter-Regionalism and the New Orleans Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson 190 Epilogue. Post Scale: Place as Emergence 211 Notes 219 Bibliography 261 Index 285

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Book SynopsisArt historian Krista Thompson analyzes photographic practices in the Caribbean and the United States to show how African diasporic youth use the process of creating images to represent themselves in the public sphere and to communicate with other Afro-diasporic communities. Trade Review"Thompson’s study of light is nuanced and generative. . . . the structure of each section encourages the reader to embrace a protean reading practice, one that resists firmly embracing a single understanding of light, and of its affects and effects. The result is a powerful project that stands to impact multiple fields, while at the same time challenging how we see and understand black visual practices. In the end, Shine succeeds in reconstituting the very terms of photography and visual technology and their role in the diaspora." -- Autumn Marie Womack * SX Salon *"Shine provides important illumination; it shows that nonelite culture holds up to serious academic scrutiny. Particularly given their reach and popularity, the practices Thompson brings to light cannot go overlooked and unanalyzed." -- John A. Tyson * CAA Reviews *"Ultimately, Shine is a useful application of tools from the field of art history to popular culture and presentation of self in the technological age.... Cultural anthropologists, sociologists specializing in cultural aspects of race and ethnicity, and scholars of media would find this text a valuable read." -- Deinya Phenix * Visual Studies *"Shine, by Krista Thompson, presents a compelling investigation into the transnational aesthetics of hip-hop, bridging distinct visual practices, artistic forms, and modes of visibility in the African diaspora. Situating her work within art history, Thompson provides rich, multisited ethnographic research that spans the United States, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, allowing her to interrogate the intersecting cultures, histories, and media flows of the geopolitical region known as the circum-Caribbean. From street photography in New York to Jamaican dancehall videos, Thompson brings into dialogue disparate visual and embodied practices to provide a thought-provoking study on the mediation of the African diaspora in the circum-Caribbean." -- Eryn Snyder Berger * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction. Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels 11. "Keep It Real": Street Photography, Public Visibility, and Afro-Modernity 472. Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility in Jamaica 1123. Shine, Shimmer, and Splendor: African Diasporic Aesthetics and the Art of Being Seen in the Bahamas 1694. The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop 215Notes 271Bibliography 317Index 335

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to this groundbreaking collection of essays explore U.S. overseas empire and settler colonialism within the same analytic framework, revealing the mutually constitutive histories of U.S. colonialism abroad and at home.Trade Review "[T]he strength of Formations of United States Colonialism is in the scope it offers for the reader to make their own connections. As such, the ideas it presents should prove fertile ground for further study." -- Nick Cleaver * Journal of American Studies *"However you read this book, by dipping in to chapters or by reading the whole thing, you will emerge with a deeper understanding of the different facets of the United States’ interactions with indigenous peoples within the United States and outside its national borders. ... This book allows readers to take a step towards acknowledging the intricacies of America’s colonial past, and towards understanding the wider implications of U.S. colonialism, both historically and now." -- Sophie Cooper * U.S. Studies Online *"The volume is a significant resource for U.S. historians and other scholars of American studies who seek to grapple with the place of indigenous people in the development of the United States." -- Malinda Maynor Lowery * Journal of American History *"The volume features an impressive set of rigorous essays on the coloniality of the United States, itself a 'volatile assemblage' of discourses, practices, events, actors and institutions.... I highly recommend the book for both the insightful depth with which it explores the practices of settler colonialism and the range of topics, cases and time periods the contributors examine so well." -- Kevin Bruyneel * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"This volume makes several key contributions to the study of empire and colonialism, especially in regard to Indigeneity and U.S. exceptionalism.... This important collection is recommended for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in Native American and Indigenous studies, American studies, critical ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies. It is required reading for scholars studying and/or teaching U.S. empire. Overall, this book should be widely read and discussed." -- Juliana Hu Pegues * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Formations of United States Colonialism is an ambitious, theoretically innovative collection that builds from and poses generative interventions across fields that include indigenous studies, history, postcolonial theory, critical geography, anthropology, and political science.... In this collection, the themes of storied land, mapping, and cartography, the politics of recognition, and conflicting regimes of racialization, among many others, emerge as signposts for vital and necessary work that connects various formations of United States colonialism and imperialism. While many scholars and activists have understood the continental conquest of North America and United States’ empire-building as discrete projects, this anthology makes a significant intervention in multiple fields and inspires new coalitional possibilities." -- Savannah J. Kilner * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Formations of United States Colonialism is an excellent collection of state-of-the-art essays that critically examine US colonial discourse and grapple with the complexities of cultural decolonization.... Formations of United States Colonialism deserves attention for its historically grounded insights into the complex and dynamics relationship among power, identity, and knowledge. Within its pages, one cannot yet see the outlines of a decolonized world, but one can sense which direction to take to reach it." -- Christopher Powell * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *"This book allows readers to take a step towards acknowledging the intricacies of America’s colonial past, and towards understanding the wider implications of U.S. colonialism, both historically and now." -- Sophie Cooper * U.S. Studies Online *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present / Alyosha Goldstein 1 Part I. Histories in Contention 1. The Specters of Recognition / Joanne Barker 33 2. Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity in the Territorial Southwest / Berenika Byszewski 57 3. The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty / Manu Vimalassery 87 4. A Sorry State: Apology Politics and Legal Fictions in the Court of the Conqueror / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 110 Part II. Colonial Entanglements 5. Missionaries, Slaves, and Indians: Fragmented Colonial Exchanges in the Early American South / Barbara Krauthamer 137 6. American Empire, Hispanism, and the Nationalist Visions of Albizu, Recto, and Grau / Augusto Espiritu 157 7. Becoming Indo-Hispano: Reies Lopez Tijerina and the New Mexican Land Grant Movement / Lorena Oropeza 180 8. Seeking New Fields of Labor: Football and Colonial Political Economies in American Samoa / Fa'anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 207 9. The Kepaniwai (Damming of the Water) Heritage Gardens: Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State / Dean Itsuji Saranillio 233 Part III. Politics of Transposition 10. Our Stories Are Maps Larger Than Can Be Held: Self-Determination and the Normative Force of Law at the Periphery of American Expansionism / Julian Aguon 265 11. Governmentality and Cartographies of Colonial Spaces: The "Progressive Military Map of Porto Rico," 1908-1914 / Lanny Thompson 289 12. "I'm Not Running on My Gender": The 2010 Navajo Nation Presidential Race, Gender, and the Politics of Tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale 316 13. Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire / Vicente L. Rafael 335 Bibliography 361 Contributors 399 Index

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Book SynopsisRemnants is the spiritual memoir of Civil Rights Movement activist Rosemarie Freeney Harding. She was a religious woman whose spirituality blended several religious practices. Following her death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished her memoir, recorded interviews, her mother's journal entries, poems, previously published essays, and a lifetime of conversations.Trade Review“[A] spirited compilation of ecumenical history, folk wisdom, fiction, memoir, and poetry. . . . The central message of Harding’s life is abiding love, passed down through generations, strengthened in the aftermath of grief, racial terrorism, and trauma. The book also tells the unusual story of Mennonite House, a pioneering center of interracial activism in Atlanta co-founded by Harding and her husband, and offers other insights that shape its powerful narrative.” * Publishers Weekly *"Co-authored by Rachel and her late mother, [Remnants] is in its very composition both intimate and collaborative. ...It is a book of returning to the source as a resource for the future and present. There are lessons about human connection and resilience, and our capacities to be better to one another. Out of the particulars of these two lives, a window opens into Black life more broadly, in all of its complexity and interconnectedness with the vast networks of humanity." -- Imani Perry * Public Books *"Remnants will appeal to those who are interested in religion and social transformation. Social change advocates, justice seekers, grassroots organizers, nonviolent revolutionaries, race critical theorists, theologians, clergy, historians, womanists, ethicists, ancl educators will all find gems within Remnants.... Remnants provides hope for a better humanity." -- Dean J. Johnson * Mennonite Quarterly Review *Table of ContentsForeword: Daughter's Précis / Rachel E. Harding ix 1. (the light) 1 I. Ground 5 2. Rye's Rites (poem) 7 3. Grandma Rye 9 4. There Was a Tree in Starkville . . . 15 5. Daddy's Mark 21 6. Joe Daniels: Getting Unruly 24 7. The Side of the Road 29 8. Papa's Girl 32 II. North 41 9. Snow and Spring in Woodlawn 43 10. Shirley Darden 52 11. Brother Bud's Death 54 12. Death, Dreams, and Secrecy: Things We Carried 57 13. Season 63 14. Elegant Cousins and Original Beauty 66 15. Warmth 71 16. Altgeld Gardens 75 17. Hot Rolls (short fiction) 82 18. Looking for Work 92 19. The Nursing Test 96 20. In Loco Parentis (short fiction) 97 21. Mama Freeney and the Haints 107 22. Height 113 III. South 115 23. Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: African American Indigenous Religion and Activism 117 24. Mennonite House in Atlanta 127 25. The Next-Door Neighbor 137 26. Traveling for the Movement 140 27. Koinonia Farm: Cultivating Conviction 144 28. A Radical Compassion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan, and Marion King-Jackson 155 29. A Song in the Time of Dying: A Memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon 163 30. The Blood House (a story outline) 165 31. Spirit and Struggle: The Mysticism of the Movement 168 IV. The Dharamsala Notebook 179 32. Sunrise after Delhi (poem) 181 33. The Dharamsala Notebook I 182 34. The Dharamsala Notebook II 194 V. Bunting 199 35. The Bunting 201 36. The Workshops and Retreats: Ritual, Remembering, and Medicine 217 VI. The Pachamama Circle 227 37. Pachamama Circle I: Rachel's Dream 229 38. Pachamama Circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets 231 39. Pachamama Circle III: A Choreography of Mothering 237 40. Mama and the Gods 241 AfterWords 243 41. Fugida: Poem for Oyá 245 42. Class Visits: Love, White Southerners, and Black Exceptionalism 247 43. A Little Wind 265 44. (the Call) 268 Appendix: Rosemarie's Genealogies 271 Acknowledgments 283 Index 287

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Book SynopsisRemnants is the spiritual memoir of Civil Rights Movement activist Rosemarie Freeney Harding. She was a religious woman whose spirituality blended several religious practices. Following her death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished her memoir, recorded interviews, her mother's journal entries, poems, previously published essays, and a lifetime of conversations.Trade Review“[A] spirited compilation of ecumenical history, folk wisdom, fiction, memoir, and poetry. . . . The central message of Harding’s life is abiding love, passed down through generations, strengthened in the aftermath of grief, racial terrorism, and trauma. The book also tells the unusual story of Mennonite House, a pioneering center of interracial activism in Atlanta co-founded by Harding and her husband, and offers other insights that shape its powerful narrative.” * Publishers Weekly *"Co-authored by Rachel and her late mother, [Remnants] is in its very composition both intimate and collaborative. ...It is a book of returning to the source as a resource for the future and present. There are lessons about human connection and resilience, and our capacities to be better to one another. Out of the particulars of these two lives, a window opens into Black life more broadly, in all of its complexity and interconnectedness with the vast networks of humanity." -- Imani Perry * Public Books *"Remnants will appeal to those who are interested in religion and social transformation. Social change advocates, justice seekers, grassroots organizers, nonviolent revolutionaries, race critical theorists, theologians, clergy, historians, womanists, ethicists, ancl educators will all find gems within Remnants.... Remnants provides hope for a better humanity." -- Dean J. Johnson * Mennonite Quarterly Review *Table of ContentsForeword: Daughter's Précis / Rachel E. Harding ix 1. (the light) 1 I. Ground 5 2. Rye's Rites (poem) 7 3. Grandma Rye 9 4. There Was a Tree in Starkville . . . 15 5. Daddy's Mark 21 6. Joe Daniels: Getting Unruly 24 7. The Side of the Road 29 8. Papa's Girl 32 II. North 41 9. Snow and Spring in Woodlawn 43 10. Shirley Darden 52 11. Brother Bud's Death 54 12. Death, Dreams, and Secrecy: Things We Carried 57 13. Season 63 14. Elegant Cousins and Original Beauty 66 15. Warmth 71 16. Altgeld Gardens 75 17. Hot Rolls (short fiction) 82 18. Looking for Work 92 19. The Nursing Test 96 20. In Loco Parentis (short fiction) 97 21. Mama Freeney and the Haints 107 22. Height 113 III. South 115 23. Hospitality, Haints, and Healing: African American Indigenous Religion and Activism 117 24. Mennonite House in Atlanta 127 25. The Next-Door Neighbor 137 26. Traveling for the Movement 140 27. Koinonia Farm: Cultivating Conviction 144 28. A Radical Compassion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan, and Marion King-Jackson 155 29. A Song in the Time of Dying: A Memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon 163 30. The Blood House (a story outline) 165 31. Spirit and Struggle: The Mysticism of the Movement 168 IV. The Dharamsala Notebook 179 32. Sunrise after Delhi (poem) 181 33. The Dharamsala Notebook I 182 34. The Dharamsala Notebook II 194 V. Bunting 199 35. The Bunting 201 36. The Workshops and Retreats: Ritual, Remembering, and Medicine 217 VI. The Pachamama Circle 227 37. Pachamama Circle I: Rachel's Dream 229 38. Pachamama Circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets 231 39. Pachamama Circle III: A Choreography of Mothering 237 40. Mama and the Gods 241 AfterWords 243 41. Fugida: Poem for Oyá 245 42. Class Visits: Love, White Southerners, and Black Exceptionalism 247 43. A Little Wind 265 44. (the Call) 268 Appendix: Rosemarie's Genealogies 271 Acknowledgments 283 Index 287

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Book SynopsisAllyson Nadia Field recovers the forgotten body of African American filmmaking from the 1910s which she calls uplift cinema. These films were part of the racial uplift project, which emphasized education, respectability, and self-sufficiency, and weren't only responses to racist representations of African Americans in other films.Trade Review"Allyson Nadia Field in Uplift Cinema has immediately established herself as a leading scholar in the study of early black film..... Uplift Cinema is written in a highly accessible style for historians of all stripes. Most importantly, the volume will be seminal not only for scholars of black film but also for those working in African American history and the early Progressive Era." -- Gerald R. Butters Jr. * Journal of American History *"Allyson Nadia Field has made a vital scholarly contribution; Uplift Cinema is a rich book with much to offer film historians, scholars of African American history, and those interested in visual media. She has expanded our understanding of the scope and range of African American filmmaking and she makes a convincing argument for the continued importance of the film text as a primary source for film historians, even—as with uplift cinema—when it no longer exists in material form." -- Julie Lavelle * Black Camera *"Uplift Cinema is a significant historical interpretation and contribution to the complex, contradictory, multifaceted, and challenging ways nascent African- American film makers and leaders in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century struggled to create positive enduring representative images of black people 'up from slavery.'" -- Theodoric Manley * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Field’s book is, at once, an unprecedented reading of an important set of films and analysis of those works and their effects on filmmakers working in their wake ... and a manifesto and model for doing cinema history when film texts themselves are lost. The detail and depth of Field’s work will make it of most interest to specialists, but her clear writing and organization makes her impressive research accessible to undergraduates and more general readers in film studies, social and cultural history, and American and African American studies." -- Arthur Knight * History *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. The Aesthetics of Uplift: The Hampton-Tuskegee Idea and the Possibility of Failure 33 2. "To Show the Industrial Progress of the Negro Along Industrial Lines": Uplift Cinema Entrepreneurs at Tuskegee Institute, 1909–1913 83 3. "Pictorial Sermons": The Campaign Films of Hampton Institute, 1913–1915 121 4. "A Vicious and Hurtful Play": The Birth of a Nation and The New Era, 1915 151 5. To "Encourage and Uplift": Entrepreneurial Uplift Cinema 185 Epilogue 245 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 311

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Book SynopsisOliver Wang chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds.Trade Review“Wang's account strikes a careful balance between oral history and analysis, grounded in ethnography while also working to interpret and elaborate the significance of the story. … [W]ith an annotated oral history at its core, Legions Of Boom is centred on the words of the scene's participants and Wang's insightful perspectives as a scholar, a journalist and a DJ.” -- Wayne Marshall * The Wire *"It's not easy to write a book that works both as an academic text and is readily accessible to the general public, but Wang does an excellent job walking that line with Legions of Boom. His research is great, and he explains things in a way that is very easy to digest. I couldn’t recommend this book enough." -- Chi Chi * Scratched Vinyl *"This highly readable book significantly advances our understandings of music scenes and their symbiotic relationship with marginalized communities of youth. Since historically Filipino Americans have been excluded from U.S. racial/ethnic discourse, Wang does sociology a tremendous service in shining further light on a key aspect of this important group’s history." -- Anthony Kwame Harrison * American Journal of Sociology *"The greatest strength of Wang’s work, above and beyond providing important historical documentation of a neglected musical scene, is that he offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis that highlights how social class, gender, and ethnicity structure the distribution of various types of capital (symbolic, erotic, cultural, economic) within mobile DJing." -- Athena Elafros * Contemporary Sociology *"Wang writes in an accessible style appealing to both scholars and casual readers.... Legions of Boom is a substantial work that shines light on yet another example of a musical genre’s relation to the formation and maintenance of cultural identities." -- Niel Scobie * Perfect Beat *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue. The Gig 1 Introduction. A Legion of Boom 7 1. Cue it Up: Social Preconditions for the Mobile Scene 29 2. Team Building: Mobile Crew Formations 49 3. Unlimited Creations: The Mobile Scene Takes Off 79 4. Imaginings: Building Community in the Showcase Era 95 5. Take Me Out with the Fader: The Decline of the Mobile Scene 125 Conclusion. Echo Effects 151 Appendix 1. Captians of the Field: San Francisco Drill Teams 163 Appendix 2. Born Versus Sworn: Filipino American Youth Gangs 167 Notes 173 References 203 Index 213

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Book SynopsisPrior to 1967 fewer than a dozen museum exhibitions had featured the work of African American artists. And by the time the civil rights movement reached the American art museum, it had already crested: the first public demonstrations to integrate museums occurred in late 1968, twenty years after the desegregation of the military and fourteen years after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan investigates the strategies African American artists and museum professionals employed as they wrangled over access to and the direction of New York City''s elite museums. Drawing on numerous interviews with artists and analyses of internal museum documents, Cahan gives a detailed and at times surprising picture of the institutional and social forces that both drove and inhibited racial justice in New York''s museums. Cahan focuses on high-profile and wildly contested exhibitions that attempted to integrate African American culture Trade Review"Using a number of interviews with artists and an analysis of internal museum documents, Cahan perfectly renders the tenor of those volatile times. The elites of the art museum world are brought to task for their misguided attempts at inclusiveness and subtle (and not-so-subtle) attempts to preserve the status quo. Anyone interested in American art and society will find plenty to ponder in this thoughtful work." -- Carolyn Mulac * Booklist *"Cahan should be lauded for her meticulous investigations, starting her research in 1990, and conducting numerous interviews with the artists and administrators in question. She relays a taxonomical breadth of information that is as nauseating as it is intoxicating." -- Terence Trouillot * BOMB *(Starred Review) "This essential publication, focusing exclusively on New York City’s art museums in the wake of the civil rights movement, shines a revealing light on the artists, museum staff, and activists who were involved in the effort to force large art institutions to 'face artists’ demands for justice and equality.' . . . This thorough and unrelenting examination gives invaluable history as well as context for the present struggle to create and maintain diversity in art museums." * Publishers Weekly *"... [W]e owe Cahan a debt. American museums in the late 1960s and early '70s were suffused with the same racist assumptions and practices as other major social institutions. Many individuals within the cultural realm-curators, artists, critics, trustees and directors—acted disingenuously, even scandalously at times. While the prospect of a 'post-racial' society clearly continues to elude us in the era of Black Lives Matter, reexamining a selection of the exhibitions from a time of significant social upheaval can help us understand the ways in which we have changed, and how much further we have to go to achieve equality of opportunity and just representation." -- Steven C. Dubin * Art in America *"Mounting Frustration is likely a report more relevant than any CNN production. . . . Aside from simply telling a story, Cahan spent five years working as a senior curator and arts program director for the Collection of Eileen and Peter Norton and Peter Norton Family Foundation. There, she assisted the Nortons in their mission to support emerging black artists. She has also done more written work and service related to social inequalities in the art community." -- Zuri Ward * Blavity *"[M]eticulously researched. . . . As Mounting Frustration persuasively establishes, major museums in the US have historically done a deplorable job of representing black artists, other artists of color, and women artists, who are tokenized by ever-churning cycles of celebration and dismissal—what Cahan calls 'waves'—in part because large art institutions are not only dependent on but impregnated with the ideology of the ruling class that funds them." -- Julia Bryan-Wilson * Artforum *"Mounting Frustration comprises well-researched, elegantly crafted case studies of the museum world in New York City during the rise of the Black Power movement. Telling the stories from the perspective of someone who worked in the trenches, Cahan offers the kind of insights and perspectives available to only those who understand the inner workings of institutions. . . . this book is vital for any inquiry into US museums and how those museums continue to take shape. Her pointed and precise use of archival material makes this book not just a history but also a model for scholarly inquiry. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- K. P. Buick * Choice *"With an extensive bibliography and list of notes, Cahan does a thorough job of providing a detailed historical overview and analyses of the struggles African Americans faced with exhibiting their work in New York City museums. Highly recommended for students and faculty studying, and anyone interested in, museum studies, art history, and ethnic studies." -- Tina Chan * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"Mounting Frustration powerfully zeroes in on the moment museums were forced to address the neglect of artists of color, mapping artists’ ways of fighting the establishment and the ways in which artists and administrators chose to take action. . . . [W]hile critique can often read as a sermon, or laundry list, of how things should be, Cahan has instead researched and presented a chronology of museums’ misguided practices that have helped maintain the art world as a place for racially privileged elites and the methods that curators and administrators used to do so—despite heavy resistance from artists and the public since the ’60s." -- Alexandra Fowle * The Brooklyn Rail *"Mounting Frustration is a crucial read for anyone who is interested in understanding why the New York art world looks the way it does. The book also furthers an understanding of how activism and negotiation can be used to change institutions going forward." -- Isaac Kaplan * Artsy *"Cahan’s meticulously researched book makes an important contribution to understanding the strategies that the art world used to maintain prerogatives of power and position— a shameful story dispassionately and insightfully told." -- Peter M. Rutkoff * Journal of American History *"Calling on meticulous archival research alongside twenty years of individual interviews with combatants from both sides, Susan Cahan has produced a major contribution to the institutional and intellectual history of American art museums.... A must-read book for anyone who wants to understand the issues of race in the art world system, both then and now." -- Fath Davis Ruffins * Winterthur Portfolio *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Electronic Refractions II at the Studio Museum in Harlem 13 2. Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 31 3. Contemporary Back Artists in America at the Whitney Museum of American Art 109 4. Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual and The Sculpture of Richard Hunt at the Museum of Modern Art 171 Epilogue 253 Notes 269 Bibliography 319 Index 335

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Book SynopsisOliver Wang chronicles the history of the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American mobile DJ scene of the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. He shows how DJ crews helped unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave its members social status and brotherhood, and drew huge crowds.Trade Review“Wang's account strikes a careful balance between oral history and analysis, grounded in ethnography while also working to interpret and elaborate the significance of the story. … [W]ith an annotated oral history at its core, Legions Of Boom is centred on the words of the scene's participants and Wang's insightful perspectives as a scholar, a journalist and a DJ.” -- Wayne Marshall * The Wire *"It's not easy to write a book that works both as an academic text and is readily accessible to the general public, but Wang does an excellent job walking that line with Legions of Boom. His research is great, and he explains things in a way that is very easy to digest. I couldn’t recommend this book enough." -- Chi Chi * Scratched Vinyl *"This highly readable book significantly advances our understandings of music scenes and their symbiotic relationship with marginalized communities of youth. Since historically Filipino Americans have been excluded from U.S. racial/ethnic discourse, Wang does sociology a tremendous service in shining further light on a key aspect of this important group’s history." -- Anthony Kwame Harrison * American Journal of Sociology *"The greatest strength of Wang’s work, above and beyond providing important historical documentation of a neglected musical scene, is that he offers a sophisticated theoretical analysis that highlights how social class, gender, and ethnicity structure the distribution of various types of capital (symbolic, erotic, cultural, economic) within mobile DJing." -- Athena Elafros * Contemporary Sociology *"Wang writes in an accessible style appealing to both scholars and casual readers.... Legions of Boom is a substantial work that shines light on yet another example of a musical genre’s relation to the formation and maintenance of cultural identities." -- Niel Scobie * Perfect Beat *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue. The Gig 1 Introduction. A Legion of Boom 7 1. Cue it Up: Social Preconditions for the Mobile Scene 29 2. Team Building: Mobile Crew Formations 49 3. Unlimited Creations: The Mobile Scene Takes Off 79 4. Imaginings: Building Community in the Showcase Era 95 5. Take Me Out with the Fader: The Decline of the Mobile Scene 125 Conclusion. Echo Effects 151 Appendix 1. Captians of the Field: San Francisco Drill Teams 163 Appendix 2. Born Versus Sworn: Filipino American Youth Gangs 167 Notes 173 References 203 Index 213

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Book SynopsisAllyson Nadia Field recovers the forgotten body of African American filmmaking from the 1910s which she calls uplift cinema. These films were part of the racial uplift project, which emphasized education, respectability, and self-sufficiency, and weren't only responses to racist representations of African Americans in other films.Trade Review"Allyson Nadia Field in Uplift Cinema has immediately established herself as a leading scholar in the study of early black film..... Uplift Cinema is written in a highly accessible style for historians of all stripes. Most importantly, the volume will be seminal not only for scholars of black film but also for those working in African American history and the early Progressive Era." -- Gerald R. Butters Jr. * Journal of American History *"Allyson Nadia Field has made a vital scholarly contribution; Uplift Cinema is a rich book with much to offer film historians, scholars of African American history, and those interested in visual media. She has expanded our understanding of the scope and range of African American filmmaking and she makes a convincing argument for the continued importance of the film text as a primary source for film historians, even—as with uplift cinema—when it no longer exists in material form." -- Julie Lavelle * Black Camera *"Uplift Cinema is a significant historical interpretation and contribution to the complex, contradictory, multifaceted, and challenging ways nascent African- American film makers and leaders in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century struggled to create positive enduring representative images of black people 'up from slavery.'" -- Theodoric Manley * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Field’s book is, at once, an unprecedented reading of an important set of films and analysis of those works and their effects on filmmakers working in their wake ... and a manifesto and model for doing cinema history when film texts themselves are lost. The detail and depth of Field’s work will make it of most interest to specialists, but her clear writing and organization makes her impressive research accessible to undergraduates and more general readers in film studies, social and cultural history, and American and African American studies." -- Arthur Knight * History *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. The Aesthetics of Uplift: The Hampton-Tuskegee Idea and the Possibility of Failure 33 2. "To Show the Industrial Progress of the Negro Along Industrial Lines": Uplift Cinema Entrepreneurs at Tuskegee Institute, 1909–1913 83 3. "Pictorial Sermons": The Campaign Films of Hampton Institute, 1913–1915 121 4. "A Vicious and Hurtful Play": The Birth of a Nation and The New Era, 1915 151 5. To "Encourage and Uplift": Entrepreneurial Uplift Cinema 185 Epilogue 245 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 311

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Book SynopsisNadia Ellis theorizes the experience of belonging to the African diaspora as living within the space between the land and the soul. She uses a utopian concept of queerness and analyses of African American and Caribbean writers, musicians, and artists to show how diaspora is a mode of feeling and belonging.Trade Review"Territories of the Soul offers a powerful reconceptualization of the African diaspora. . . . Ellis presents an important new way of seeing and writing diaspora, one that challenges queer theory and diaspora studies to explore the structural similarities of black diaspora and queer identity." -- Leah Rosenberg * African American Review *"Territories of the Soul provides a compelling and interrogative look into black life and black culture and the idea of transcendence through the concept of the imagination and land spatiality in a queered diaspora." -- Palimpsest Editorial Collective * Palimpsest *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Queer Elsewhere of Black Diaspora 1 1. The Attachments of C. L. R. James 18 2. The Fraternal Agonies of Baldwin and Lamming 62 3. Andrew Salkey and the Queer Diasporic 95 4. Burning Spear and Nathaniel Mackey at Large 147 Epilogue. Dancehall's Urban Possessions 177 Notes 192 Bibliography 221 Index 233

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Book SynopsisSimone Browne shows how racial ideologies and the long history of policing black bodies under transatlantic slavery structure contemporary surveillance technologies and practices. Analyzing a wide array of archival and contemporary texts, she demonstrates how surveillance reifies boundaries, borders, and bodies around racial lines.Trade Review"Dark Matters reframes surveillance studies in a way that will spark interrogations regarding the historical, racialized origins of surveillance theory and practice, while presenting a robust entryway to the field’s current debates for new readers. Dark Matters offers a model of interdisciplinary feminist scholarship for media scholars invested in critical race inquiry, visual analysis, and archival study. At a moment when surveillance practices permeate livelihood, Browne’s contribution here is an invaluable resource for examining the contemporary moment of #BlackLivesMatter, police brutality, and strategies for future resistance." -- Racquel M. Gonzales * Feminist Media Studies *"Dark Matters provides an invaluable perspective on surveillance and reminds us that the history of the surveillance of blackness has a unique and important roll to play in our understanding and analysis of contemporary surveillance." -- Jeramie D. Scott * Epic.org *"With Dark Matters, Simone Browne delivers a theoretical tour de force to the field of Surveillance Studies by bringing blackness, black life, and the black subject—dark matter—into focus. . . . Browne's work is a must-read for those interested in examining the complexities of surveillance and attendant ongoing, embodied, political struggles." -- Megan M. Wood * Surveillance & Society *"Through her analyses of maps, newspaper articles, fugitive slave advertisements, slave narratives, personal correspondence, government documents, memoirs, and treaties, Brown exposes how blackness was shaped and produced through surveillance practices during slavery." -- Brandi Thompson Summers * Public Books *"Dark Matters is a powerful book, which stems partly from the subject matter and partly from Browne’s simultaneously lucid and forceful writing. It is also a book that feels increasingly necessary, helping us to ask not only about the policies, processes and technologies that govern civil liberties, but also about whose bodies and freedoms are most controlled and curtailed." -- Jessa Lingel * Catalyst *"Each chapter of Dark Matters presents a different archive of racializing surveillance paired with reflections on black cultural production Browne reads as dark sousveillance. At each turn, Browne encourages us to see in slavery and its afterlife new modes of control, old ways of studying them, and potential paths of resistance." -- Daniel Greene * boundary 2 *"Dark Matters is an invaluable study that showcases how surveillance, historically and contemporarily, is rooted in anti-Blackness. Through utilizing a Black feminist methodology and centering the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the genealogy of surveillance, Browne demonstrates how the workings and technologies of domination, surveillance and governance utilized during slavery pre-figure and haunt the historical present. While the specific technologies have become far more advanced, the brutal fact of anti-Blackness remains the bedrock of surveillance practices to date." -- Tyrone S. Palmer * Souls *"Dark Matters is of great importance not just because it illuminates historical and contemporary surveillance technologies of (anti)blackness, but equally because it opens up a series of questions around geography, race, power, and surveillance." -- Hidefumi Nishiyama * Theory & Event *"Browne’s Dark Matters is a groundbreaking and field-changing study important for cultural criticism broadly and surveillance studies in particular. Moreover, it is especially timely given the ways the issues she raises intersect with debates about police violence and mass surveillance, among others." -- Shaka McGlotten * American Journal of Sociology *"What does Blackness have to do within the modern surveillance state? Beautiful and theoretical, Simone Browne details how Black life from slavery to the present has been subjugated by the constancy of being watched and how Black people have resisted." * Zora, 100 greatest books ever written by African American women *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction, and Other Dark Matters 1 1. Notes on Surveillance Studies: Through the Door of No Return 31 2. "Everybody's Got a Little Light under the Sun": The Making of the Book of Negroes 63 3. B®anding Blackness: Biometric Technology and the Surveillance of Blackness 89 4. "What Did TSA Find in Solange's Fro?": Security Theater at the Airport 131 Epilogue. When Blackness Enters the Frame 161 Notes 165 Bibliography 191 Index 203

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Book SynopsisIn this vivid and timely book, Gary May provides a detailed history of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He tells the story of those activists who fought to ensure that all Americans would have the right to vote and outlines the political battles in Washington prior to the law's passage.Trade Review"Gary May's compelling book about the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is both timely and deeply historical. . . . The second half of the book examines in fascinating detail the passage of the law itself and its aftermath. May is careful to include and address critiques of the act from political and legal perspectives." -- Margaret M. Russell * California Lawyer *"Bending Toward Justice is a book of the classical phase [of the Civil Rights Movement], a lively and unabashedly partisan account of Selma and the Voting Rights Act. . . . May tells the story in his own way, and he is able to add many details." -- Louis Menand * The New Yorker *"An illuminating history of a law that remains all too relevant." * Booklist *"Have we—at long last—overcome? Not yet, University of Delaware historian Gary May makes clear in his exemplary account of the landmark law." -- Kevin Boyle * Washington Post *"Compelling. . . . This lucid investigation of the [Voting Rights Act's] history relates its critical importance to American democracy." * Library Journal *"May accomplishes what he set out to do, rendering 'a dramatic account of the struggle that finally won African Americans the ballot.' It's a story that is chilling in many ways and inspiring in others. . . . May explores the testy relationship between the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Lyndon B. Johnson with nuance and detail. . . . And May's account of Johnson facing down Alabama Gov. George Wallace over Wallace's refusal to force county registrars to register black voters is one of the best descriptions anywhere of the fabled 'LBJ Treatment.'" -- Paul Jablow * Philadelphia Inquirer *"Anyone interested in understanding the extent of the damage, actual and symbolic, to the voting rights of racial and ethnic minorities caused by this monumental decision [Shelby County v. Holder] would do well to read May's book. . . . Once the reader has finished the book, she will have a good grasp of the long, hard, often dangerous battle Blacks and their allies have fought since the end of Reconstruction to achieve equal voting rights, the terrible sacrifices champions of voting rights—particularly southern Blacks—have made in behalf of this goal, and the importance the VRA has had in partially achieving the goal." -- Chandler Davidson * African American Review *"May’s book is a great introduction to voting rights at a moment when the subject is drawing more attention than any time since 1965." -- Ari Berman * The Nation *"May’s lively and cogent history of the Voting Rights Act is indispensable reading for anyone concerned about the erosion of voting rights that has accompanied the election of Barack Obama, America’s first black president, especially as the issue is still up for debate. . . . May has constructed a vivid, fast-paced morality tale. . . . By focusing on Selma, May pays tribute to the courage of otherwise ordinary people and makes a case for the continued relevance of this legislation.” * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Most Powerful Instrument ix Preface to the Paperback Edition xxiii 1. Planting the Seed 1 2. An Ideal Place 25 3. "Give Us the Ballot!" 53 4. Nothing Can Stop Us 85 5. To the Promised Land 125 6. The Die is Cast 149 7. Breaking Down Injustice 171 8. Where the Votes Are 203 9. The Struggle of a Lifetime 237 Acknowledgments 255 Notes 257 Index 303

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Book SynopsisNadia Ellis theorizes the experience of belonging to the African diaspora as living within the space between the land and the soul. She uses a utopian concept of queerness and analyses of African American and Caribbean writers, musicians, and artists to show how diaspora is a mode of feeling and belonging.Trade Review"Territories of the Soul offers a powerful reconceptualization of the African diaspora. . . . Ellis presents an important new way of seeing and writing diaspora, one that challenges queer theory and diaspora studies to explore the structural similarities of black diaspora and queer identity." -- Leah Rosenberg * African American Review *"Territories of the Soul provides a compelling and interrogative look into black life and black culture and the idea of transcendence through the concept of the imagination and land spatiality in a queered diaspora." -- Palimpsest Editorial Collective * Palimpsest *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Queer Elsewhere of Black Diaspora 1 1. The Attachments of C. L. R. James 18 2. The Fraternal Agonies of Baldwin and Lamming 62 3. Andrew Salkey and the Queer Diasporic 95 4. Burning Spear and Nathaniel Mackey at Large 147 Epilogue. Dancehall's Urban Possessions 177 Notes 192 Bibliography 221 Index 233

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Book SynopsisIn Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter''s residents—who range in age from fifteen to twenty-two—employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women''s experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit''s history, the Great Migration, dTrade Review"Cox shows that 'Black girls’ lives matter' and how their voices articulate that. This ethnographic study of young black women and girls is an essential read and companion to the larger picture of African American lives in urban settings, which are often mired in poverty, crime, and despair. However, this rare study brings hope rather than hopelessness as it delves into the heart of human expression and gives voice to a will to live beyond any limitations of what poverty may dictate in contemporary North America." -- M. Christian * Choice *"This lively book, Cox’s account of her work as a participant-observer in a Detroit homeless shelter for teen girls, reveals both the many obstacles faced by young women of color and the creative ways in which they use self-expression (language, music, fashion, and dance) to find a new way to live otherwise. The stories, harrowing and fascinating, shine a light on the lives of our least empowered citizens—teenage African American girls—while Cox’s thinking helps us see the power of being able to shape-shift." -- Anne Fernald * Public Books *"A creative and compelling ethnographic study, Shapeshifters challenges us to revise the ways we think, write, and theorize about young black women, starting with making their voices and self-analyses the subject of the book. Rather than analyzing the girls’ narratives through the lens of academic theories, even those of black feminists, Cox asks that 'we open ourselves up to a conversation with them.'" -- Farah Jasmine Griffin * Public Books *"Shapeshifters is an engaging, powerful read of the lived experience of young Black girls’ lives that intersects with race, class, gender, and agency, providing a fresh perspective on citizenship, change, and standpoint." -- Olivia R. Hetzler * Gender & Society *"While so much urban ethnography excludes women altogether, and black women in particular, Shapeshifters centers young black women, not simply as the subject of the book, but as authors of a world. Shapeshifters proceeds from a position in which black life matters, where young women are sharp eyed critics and citizen-subjects all too aware of where their rights and responsibilities are limited or truncated, and further aware (and willing) to adopt the innovative tactics they need to surmount or work around said limitations." -- Sameena Mulla * Anthropoliteia *"It is movement—its unpredictability, its interactions with space, and its many evolutions—that organizes Cox’s work and makes it an invaluable contribution to studies of black girlhood, feminist theory, and ethnography." -- Danielle Bainbridge * TDR: The Drama Review *"Shapeshifters is a courageous and rich exploration of the lives of power and agency of Black girls and women. . . . A theoretically rich and ethnographically sound body of work." -- Denice D. Nabinett * Journal of Negro Education *"Any serious scholar working at the intersection of race and gender, or at the nexus where theories of identity meet conceptualizations of a just and inclusive polity, will benefit from taking the time to engage with Cox’s work." -- John L. Jackson Jr * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Part I. Terrain Introduction 3 1. "We Came Here to Be Different": The Brown Family and Remapping Detroit 38 Part II. Scripts 2. Renovations 81 3. Narratives of Protest and Play 122 Part III. Bodies 4. Sex, Gender, and Scripted Bodies 155 5. The Move Experiment 185 Epilogue 237 Notes 243 References 263 Index 273

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Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of the Fresh Start homeless shelter in Detroit, Aimee Meredith Cox shows how the shelter's residents—young black women whose average age is twenty—critique their social marginalization and find creative ways to exercise their agency.Trade Review"Cox shows that 'Black girls’ lives matter' and how their voices articulate that. This ethnographic study of young black women and girls is an essential read and companion to the larger picture of African American lives in urban settings, which are often mired in poverty, crime, and despair. However, this rare study brings hope rather than hopelessness as it delves into the heart of human expression and gives voice to a will to live beyond any limitations of what poverty may dictate in contemporary North America." -- M. Christian * Choice *"This lively book, Cox’s account of her work as a participant-observer in a Detroit homeless shelter for teen girls, reveals both the many obstacles faced by young women of color and the creative ways in which they use self-expression (language, music, fashion, and dance) to find a new way to live otherwise. The stories, harrowing and fascinating, shine a light on the lives of our least empowered citizens—teenage African American girls—while Cox’s thinking helps us see the power of being able to shape-shift." -- Anne Fernald * Public Books *"A creative and compelling ethnographic study, Shapeshifters challenges us to revise the ways we think, write, and theorize about young black women, starting with making their voices and self-analyses the subject of the book. Rather than analyzing the girls’ narratives through the lens of academic theories, even those of black feminists, Cox asks that 'we open ourselves up to a conversation with them.'" -- Farah Jasmine Griffin * Public Books *"Shapeshifters is an engaging, powerful read of the lived experience of young Black girls’ lives that intersects with race, class, gender, and agency, providing a fresh perspective on citizenship, change, and standpoint." -- Olivia R. Hetzler * Gender & Society *"While so much urban ethnography excludes women altogether, and black women in particular, Shapeshifters centers young black women, not simply as the subject of the book, but as authors of a world. Shapeshifters proceeds from a position in which black life matters, where young women are sharp eyed critics and citizen-subjects all too aware of where their rights and responsibilities are limited or truncated, and further aware (and willing) to adopt the innovative tactics they need to surmount or work around said limitations." -- Sameena Mulla * Anthropoliteia *"It is movement—its unpredictability, its interactions with space, and its many evolutions—that organizes Cox’s work and makes it an invaluable contribution to studies of black girlhood, feminist theory, and ethnography." -- Danielle Bainbridge * TDR: The Drama Review *"Shapeshifters is a courageous and rich exploration of the lives of power and agency of Black girls and women. . . . A theoretically rich and ethnographically sound body of work." -- Denice D. Nabinett * Journal of Negro Education *"Any serious scholar working at the intersection of race and gender, or at the nexus where theories of identity meet conceptualizations of a just and inclusive polity, will benefit from taking the time to engage with Cox’s work." -- John L. Jackson Jr * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Part I. Terrain Introduction 3 1. "We Came Here to Be Different": The Brown Family and Remapping Detroit 38 Part II. Scripts 2. Renovations 81 3. Narratives of Protest and Play 122 Part III. Bodies 4. Sex, Gender, and Scripted Bodies 155 5. The Move Experiment 185 Epilogue 237 Notes 243 References 263 Index 273

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Book SynopsisPetra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how the popular music style reggaetón offers a space for Puerto Rican musicians to express identities that center blackness, forge links across the African diaspora, and critique the popular Puerto Rican discourse of racial democracy, which conceals racism and marginalizes black Puerto Ricans.Trade Review"Remixing Reggaeton adroitly accomplishes the twin tasks of providing readers with a comprehensive chronological account of reggaeton’s development until the present, while at the same time placing its trajectory within the context of changing race relations and contested racial identities in Puerto Rico and beyond." -- Deborah Pacini Hernandez * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"In Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau has created an insightful and engaging work of music scholarship that forms an important contribution to the literature on Caribbean and Latin American music." -- Gregory J. Robinson * Music Reference Services Quarterly *"Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s Remixing Reggaetón presents an insightful reading of reggaetón as a discursive cultural practice inextricably linked to the experience of blackness in the African diaspora.... Well written and organized, and convincingly argued, her timely study resonates with and contributes significantly to current academic understandings of music, race, gender, sexuality, and nation, and their intersections within the context of the African diaspora." -- Francisco D. Lara * Notes *"Remixing Reggaetón makes an extensive contribution to the literature on both Puerto Rican and African diaspora studies. . . . The book offers a refreshing take on the potentiality of cultural production to rewrite the narrative of la gran familia puertorriqueña and generate more inclusive notions of Puerto Ricanness. In the end, Rivera-Rideau not only decenters whiteness in her work, but also foregrounds the messiness of Puerto Rican identities." -- Julie Torres * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Iintroduction. Reggaetón Takes Its Place 1 1. Iron Fist against Rap 21 2. The Perils of Perreo 52 3. Loíza 81 4. Fingernails con Feeling 104 5. Enter the Hurbans 130 Conclusion. Reggaetón’s Limits, Possibilities, and Futures 159 Notes 171 Bibliography 199 Index 215

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Book SynopsisPetra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how the popular music style reggaetón offers a space for Puerto Rican musicians to express identities that center blackness, forge links across the African diaspora, and critique the popular Puerto Rican discourse of racial democracy, which conceals racism and marginalizes black Puerto Ricans.Trade Review"Remixing Reggaeton adroitly accomplishes the twin tasks of providing readers with a comprehensive chronological account of reggaeton’s development until the present, while at the same time placing its trajectory within the context of changing race relations and contested racial identities in Puerto Rico and beyond." -- Deborah Pacini Hernandez * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"In Remixing Reggaetón: The Cultural Politics of Race in Puerto Rico, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau has created an insightful and engaging work of music scholarship that forms an important contribution to the literature on Caribbean and Latin American music." -- Gregory J. Robinson * Music Reference Services Quarterly *"Petra R. Rivera-Rideau’s Remixing Reggaetón presents an insightful reading of reggaetón as a discursive cultural practice inextricably linked to the experience of blackness in the African diaspora.... Well written and organized, and convincingly argued, her timely study resonates with and contributes significantly to current academic understandings of music, race, gender, sexuality, and nation, and their intersections within the context of the African diaspora." -- Francisco D. Lara * Notes *"Remixing Reggaetón makes an extensive contribution to the literature on both Puerto Rican and African diaspora studies. . . . The book offers a refreshing take on the potentiality of cultural production to rewrite the narrative of la gran familia puertorriqueña and generate more inclusive notions of Puerto Ricanness. In the end, Rivera-Rideau not only decenters whiteness in her work, but also foregrounds the messiness of Puerto Rican identities." -- Julie Torres * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Iintroduction. Reggaetón Takes Its Place 1 1. Iron Fist against Rap 21 2. The Perils of Perreo 52 3. Loíza 81 4. Fingernails con Feeling 104 5. Enter the Hurbans 130 Conclusion. Reggaetón’s Limits, Possibilities, and Futures 159 Notes 171 Bibliography 199 Index 215

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Book SynopsisGerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s.Trade Review"Sider's stories—whether about cockroach races in immigrant homes, degrading labor conditions or the claims and failures of police violence—provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived." * The Triangle Tribune *"... students said that Race Becomes Tomorrow significantly advanced their understanding of race in the United States. This is an important achievement. Undergraduates, graduate students, and seasoned scholars will find value in Race Becomes Tomorrow. Indeed, the book is appropriate for anyone interested in a vivid ethnographic account of what race does in the United States." -- Charles Price * American Anthropologist *"While [Sider] claims that his book is for a new generation of activists, as someone who has done research for years on race formation in the United States I would add that it is a book for scholars as well." -- Yolanda T. Moses * American Ethnologist *"Anthropologists who regard their discipline as inseparable from radical politics will welcome this book." -- Jack Glazier * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Race Becomes Tomorrow offers us tools for struggle built from the tactics that vulnerable populations have always used in order to make livable worlds for themselves.” -- Michelle Munyikwa * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Past History 1 Part I. Stories 1. Did the Conk Rag Lose? 21 2. The Waters of Death and Life 47 3. Cockroach Racing 71 Part II. Culturing Words 4. Naming Troubles 91 5. State Making 117 6. F&N: Intimacy, Distance, Anger 137 Part III. Beyond 7. Living in the Beyond 145 8. "Out Here It's Dog Eat Dog and Vice Versa" 153 Part IV. Living Contradictions 9. Civil Society and Civil Rights on One Leg 175 10. "We Die in Harness . . . ": The Tomorrows of Vulnerable People 195 Appendix. Demographic Post-Civil Rights History of African American Towns in Robeson County 205 References 215 Index 219

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Book SynopsisLight in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.Trade Review"Published more than a decade after Anzaldúa’s death, the collection of essays is a welcomed resource for scholars and students of Anzaldúa, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, and American studies. Overall, Anzaldúa’s chapters and Keating’s editorial work are of the highest caliber and great additions to the body of Anzaldúa’s work." -- Monica Montelongo Flores * Southwestern American Literature *"[T]he publication of a new book of [Anzaldua's] writing provides a glorious new opportunity to revel in her brilliant mind.... In our contemporary world of intense binary thinking and wall building, Gloria Anzaldúa’s insights provide an inspiring way forward." -- Susan Noyes Platt * Raven Chronicles *"The publication of Gloría Anzaldúa's Light in the Dark/ Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality eleven years after her death in 2004 is a highly anticipated—and enormously important—event in feminist scholarship, one that takes both philosophy and activism in new directions. The manuscript ... makes significant philosophical contributions to feminism, epistemology, aesthetics, ontology, critical philosophy of race, and social and political thought at the same time that it calls into question how we conceive of and organize these areas of study to begin with." -- Natalie Cisneros * Hypatia Reviews online *"Moving from the intricate Tex-Mex-rootedness of Borderlands to the more spiritual, historical-mythical, liminal negotiation zone of Light in the Darkness, Anzaldúa continues her examination of in-between spaces. Her concept of nepantla enables multiple thematic and stylistic lines to intersect, defining possible spaces of cultural transformation." -- Romana Radlwimmer * Women's Review of Books *"Throughout Light, Anzaldúa courageously offers up her lived experiences to argue for the importance of spirituality, theories in the flesh, and the female body.... Scholars invested in intellectual praxis will find a powerful guide to social justice inquiry within this publication." -- Robert Gutierrez-Perez * Women's Studies in Communication *"Perhaps the book’s greatest strength is Keating’s vast editorial knowledge.... Under Keating’s care, Light in the Dark continues Anzaldúa’s metaphysical philosophies, reiterating, expanding, and inspiring consciousness building and setting innovative directions for future Chicana/o studies.... The text offers a new way of decolonizing the mind, transforming the world, and reaching out into the universe." -- Iracema M. Quintero * Aztlán *"Light in the Dark is not only a previously missing piece of Anzaldúa’s oeuvre, important to the growing field of scholarship on Anzaldúa, but also a text that speaks broadly across disciplines and will surely influence scholarship in women’s studies, philosophy, politics, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, border studies, native studies, sexuality studies and beyond." -- Michelle R. Martin-Baron * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"This text would serve as an excellent book in a literature course, and could be used as the capstone of Anzaldúa’s other writings. Keating has done an excellent job of editing this piece—she has made it easy to forget that the work was published after Anzaldúa’s death." -- Fawn-Amber Montoya * The Americas *Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldúa's Twenty-First-Century Imperative ix Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear 1 1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño 9 2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities 23 3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera 47 4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism 65 5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process 95 6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts 117 Agradecimientos | Acknowledgements 161 Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline) 165 Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's Health 171 Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2 176 Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4 180 Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters' Development 190 Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume 200 Notes 205 Glossary 241 References 247 Index 257

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Book SynopsisIn Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation.Trade Review"Saldana-Portillo’s monograph makes critical contributions to the fields of indigenous studies, borderlands studies, American studies, Mexican studies, Chicano/a studies, gender studies, transnational studies, western legal studies, and Southwest studies—just to name a few. Indian Given truly has the potential to help set the agenda in multiple disciplines." -- John Gram * H-Net Reviews *"An eclectic, informative, and entertaining work. . . . Saldaña-Portillo’s work will certainly be an eye-opener for anyone who picks it up." -- F. Todd Smith * American Historical Review *“Indian Given will be of great interest to scholars and university students who explore issues of Indigeneity in Mexico and the United States. Its interdisciplinary inquiry makes an important contribution to the field of Indigenous studies.” -- Emilio del Valle Escalante * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Saldaña-Portillo illuminates the racial process in which indigenous people have been central to the continuous colonial and national space-making projects of Mexico and the United States." -- Jorge Ramirez * Radical History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. It Remains to Be Seen: Indians in the Landscape of America 1 1. Savages Welcomed: Imputations of Indigenous Humanity in Early Colonialisms 33 2. Affect in the Archive: Apostates, Profligates, Petty Thieves, and the Indians of the Spanish and U.S. Borderlands 66 3. Mapping Economies of Death: From Mexican Independence to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 108 4. Adjudicating Exception: The Fate of the Indio Bárbaro in the U.S. Courts (1869–1954) 154 5. Losing It! Melancholic Incorporations in Aztlán 195 Conclusion. The Afterlives of the Indio Bárbaro 233 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 319

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Book SynopsisGerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his childhood, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s.Trade Review"Sider's stories—whether about cockroach races in immigrant homes, degrading labor conditions or the claims and failures of police violence—provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived." * The Triangle Tribune *"... students said that Race Becomes Tomorrow significantly advanced their understanding of race in the United States. This is an important achievement. Undergraduates, graduate students, and seasoned scholars will find value in Race Becomes Tomorrow. Indeed, the book is appropriate for anyone interested in a vivid ethnographic account of what race does in the United States." -- Charles Price * American Anthropologist *"While [Sider] claims that his book is for a new generation of activists, as someone who has done research for years on race formation in the United States I would add that it is a book for scholars as well." -- Yolanda T. Moses * American Ethnologist *"Anthropologists who regard their discipline as inseparable from radical politics will welcome this book." -- Jack Glazier * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Race Becomes Tomorrow offers us tools for struggle built from the tactics that vulnerable populations have always used in order to make livable worlds for themselves.” -- Michelle Munyikwa * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Past History 1 Part I. Stories 1. Did the Conk Rag Lose? 21 2. The Waters of Death and Life 47 3. Cockroach Racing 71 Part II. Culturing Words 4. Naming Troubles 91 5. State Making 117 6. F&N: Intimacy, Distance, Anger 137 Part III. Beyond 7. Living in the Beyond 145 8. "Out Here It's Dog Eat Dog and Vice Versa" 153 Part IV. Living Contradictions 9. Civil Society and Civil Rights on One Leg 175 10. "We Die in Harness . . . ": The Tomorrows of Vulnerable People 195 Appendix. Demographic Post-Civil Rights History of African American Towns in Robeson County 205 References 215 Index 219

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Book SynopsisIn Indian Given María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo provides a sweeping historical and comparative analysis of racial ideologies in Mexico and the United States from 1550 to the present to show how indigenous peoples provided the condition of possibility for the emergence of each nation.Trade Review"Saldana-Portillo’s monograph makes critical contributions to the fields of indigenous studies, borderlands studies, American studies, Mexican studies, Chicano/a studies, gender studies, transnational studies, western legal studies, and Southwest studies—just to name a few. Indian Given truly has the potential to help set the agenda in multiple disciplines." -- John Gram * H-Net Reviews *"An eclectic, informative, and entertaining work. . . . Saldaña-Portillo’s work will certainly be an eye-opener for anyone who picks it up." -- F. Todd Smith * American Historical Review *“Indian Given will be of great interest to scholars and university students who explore issues of Indigeneity in Mexico and the United States. Its interdisciplinary inquiry makes an important contribution to the field of Indigenous studies.” -- Emilio del Valle Escalante * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Saldaña-Portillo illuminates the racial process in which indigenous people have been central to the continuous colonial and national space-making projects of Mexico and the United States." -- Jorge Ramirez * Radical History Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. It Remains to Be Seen: Indians in the Landscape of America 1 1. Savages Welcomed: Imputations of Indigenous Humanity in Early Colonialisms 33 2. Affect in the Archive: Apostates, Profligates, Petty Thieves, and the Indians of the Spanish and U.S. Borderlands 66 3. Mapping Economies of Death: From Mexican Independence to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 108 4. Adjudicating Exception: The Fate of the Indio Bárbaro in the U.S. Courts (1869–1954) 154 5. Losing It! Melancholic Incorporations in Aztlán 195 Conclusion. The Afterlives of the Indio Bárbaro 233 Notes 259 Bibliography 299 Index 319

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection considers how Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz's aesthetic and activist practice reflect an unprecedented maturation of a shift in American letters toward a hemispheric and planetary culture. Career spanning, the essays examine the intersections of race, Afro-Latinidad, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, and power in Díaz's work.Trade Review"Essential reading for casual readers as well as students and scholars of Junot Díaz's literary production." -- Marisel Moreno * Modern Fiction Studies *"A groundbreaking publication which unpacks the levels of complexity of Díaz’s writing and paves the way for future lines of inquiry into his work." -- Laura Gallon * Textual Practice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Editors' Introduction. Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination: From Island to Empire / Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and José David Saldívar 1 Part I. Activist Aesthetics 1. Against the "Discursive Latino": On the Politics and Praxis of Junot Díaz's Latinidad / Arlene Dávila 33 2. The Decolonizer's Guide to Disability / Julie Avril Minich 49 3. Laughing through a Broken Mouth in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Lyn Di Iorio 69 4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cannibalist: Reading Yunior (Writing) in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Monica Hanna 89 Part II. Mapping Literary Geographies 5. Artistry, Ancestry, and Americanness in the Works of Junot Díaz / Silvio Torres-Saillant 115 6. This Is How You Lose it: Navigating Dominicanidad in Junot Díaz's Drown / Ylce Irizarry 147 7. Latino/a Deracination and the New Latin American Novel / Claudia Milian 173 8. Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form as Ruin-Reading / Jennifer Harford Vargas 201 Part III. Doing Race in Spanglish 9. Dismantling the Master's House: The Decolonial Literary Imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot Díaz / Paula M. L. Moya 231 10. Now Check It: Junot Díaz's Wondrous Spanglish / Glenda R. Carpio 257 11. A Planetary Warning?: The Multilayered Caribbean Zombie in "Monstro" / Sarah Quesada 291 Part IV. Desiring Decolonization 12. Junot Díaz's Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love / José David Saldívar 321 13. Sucia Love: Losing, Lying, and Leaving in Junot Díaz's This Is How You Lose Her / Deborah R. Vargas 351 14. "Christe Apocalyptus": Prospero in the Caribbean and the Art of Power / Ramón Saldívar 377 15. The Search for Decolonial Love: A Conversation between Junot Díaz and Paula M. L. Moya 391 Bibliography 403 Contributors 425 Index 431

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection considers how Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz's aesthetic and activist practice reflect an unprecedented maturation of a shift in American letters toward a hemispheric and planetary culture. Career spanning, the essays examine the intersections of race, Afro-Latinidad, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, and power in Díaz's work.Trade Review"Essential reading for casual readers as well as students and scholars of Junot Díaz's literary production." -- Marisel Moreno * Modern Fiction Studies *"A groundbreaking publication which unpacks the levels of complexity of Díaz’s writing and paves the way for future lines of inquiry into his work." -- Laura Gallon * Textual Practice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Editors' Introduction. Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination: From Island to Empire / Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and José David Saldívar 1 Part I. Activist Aesthetics 1. Against the "Discursive Latino": On the Politics and Praxis of Junot Díaz's Latinidad / Arlene Dávila 33 2. The Decolonizer's Guide to Disability / Julie Avril Minich 49 3. Laughing through a Broken Mouth in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Lyn Di Iorio 69 4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cannibalist: Reading Yunior (Writing) in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Monica Hanna 89 Part II. Mapping Literary Geographies 5. Artistry, Ancestry, and Americanness in the Works of Junot Díaz / Silvio Torres-Saillant 115 6. This Is How You Lose it: Navigating Dominicanidad in Junot Díaz's Drown / Ylce Irizarry 147 7. Latino/a Deracination and the New Latin American Novel / Claudia Milian 173 8. Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form as Ruin-Reading / Jennifer Harford Vargas 201 Part III. Doing Race in Spanglish 9. Dismantling the Master's House: The Decolonial Literary Imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot Díaz / Paula M. L. Moya 231 10. Now Check It: Junot Díaz's Wondrous Spanglish / Glenda R. Carpio 257 11. A Planetary Warning?: The Multilayered Caribbean Zombie in "Monstro" / Sarah Quesada 291 Part IV. Desiring Decolonization 12. Junot Díaz's Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love / José David Saldívar 321 13. Sucia Love: Losing, Lying, and Leaving in Junot Díaz's This Is How You Lose Her / Deborah R. Vargas 351 14. "Christe Apocalyptus": Prospero in the Caribbean and the Art of Power / Ramón Saldívar 377 15. The Search for Decolonial Love: A Conversation between Junot Díaz and Paula M. L. Moya 391 Bibliography 403 Contributors 425 Index 431

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Book SynopsisIn Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Trade Review"[T]he histories Ahuja offers in Bioinsecurities can help us to move away from the default mode of racialized panic toward more critical discourses and practices of care in the context of epidemics that cross borders and harm unevenly." -- Martha Kenney * Feminist Formations *"After decades of publications on biosecurity, Ahuja’s title—Bioinsecurities—promises something different. . . . Ahuja has five or six analytic balls in the air at once. It is the genre that encourages and allows this, and the scholarly juggling should be applauded. The book is not and should not be read as a history of medicine, and yet it will profitably be read by medical historians." -- Alison Bashford * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“The book navigates wide-ranging cultural, scientific, and state archives with stunning clarity, all without compromising the complexity of its argument. As a result, Bioinsecurities carves out fresh possibilities for the medical humanities, as novels and short stories, films and photographs, memoirs and epistles appear side-by-side with government reports, immigration acts, and lab research to document tensions and struggles inhering the biopolitical relations of a modern U.S. security state.” -- James Fitz Gerald * symploke *“Bioinsecurities is an important book that speaks to the intertwined racial projects of military, imperial securitization, and disease control, which is particularly timely.” -- Claire Laurier Decoteau * Technology and Culture *"Incisive vivisection of the interspecies politics of American empire and global biosecurity. . . . Ahuja’s work offers trenchant and timely political diagnoses that should attract a wide readership, particularly as it spans (and highlights the linkages between) the humanities, social sciences, and STEM fields. . . . With its comparative, multi-cited, and interdisciplinary analysis, Bioinsecurities offers an important and timely contribution to our understanding of the interspecies dimension of US empire and its possible futures." -- Shanon Fitzpatrick * Journal of American Studies *"Bioinsecurities describes with vivid detail how empire operates on a scale that is at once global and microscopic, stretching from the Hawai’ian territo-ries to the Panama Canal Zone to US-occupied Iraq." -- Russ Castronovo * American Literature *“This is a theoretically ambitious project that draws on both biopolitics and posthumanism—two bodies of thought that have tended to sit somewhat uneasily together.... Bioinsecurities makes a valuable contribution to understanding the nexus of imperial power, species, and the human.” -- Courtney Addison * New Genetics and Society *Table of ContentsPreface: Empire in Life vii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. Dread Life: Disease Interventions and the Intimacies of Empire 1 1. "An Atmosphere of Leprosy": Hansen's Disease, the Dependent Body, and the Transoceanic Politics of Hawaiian Annexation 29 2. Medicalized States of War: Venereal Disease and the Risks of Occupation in Wartime Panamá 71 3. Domesticating Immunity: The Polio Scare, Cold War Mobility, and the Vivisected Primate 101 4. Staging Smallpox: Reanimating Variola in the Iraq War 133 5. Refugee Medicine, HIV, and a "Humanitarian Camp" at Guantánamo 169 Epilogue. Species War and the Planetary Horizon of Security 195 Notes 207 Bibliography 231 Index 249

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Book SynopsisContaining nine performance scripts by black and Latino/a queer playwrights and performance artists—each accompanied by an interview and essay, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of sexuality, blackness, and Latinidad.Trade Review"[T]he Blacktino works as presented in this collection rankle and disturb, taunt and tantalize, ripping back skin and exposing raw nerves like no other." -- Timothy Francis Barry * Brooklyn Rail *"A groundbreaking project...." -- Claudia Sofía Garriga-López * TSQ *"It is not only that all these voices matter and deserve to be heard but also (and even more so) that, when these voices are heard together in the space of the same printed text, they mean more—and differently—than they would in the small theatre spaces where they were originally performed." -- Shane Breaux * Theatre Survey *"In bringing together the performance scripts of primarily Black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists working in the United States, the book offers a survey of some of the most arresting work in this rising field." -- Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez * Chiricú Journal *“This collection is a call for more collections that empower, (re)member, and advocate for queer people of color. It is an excellent choice for artists, activists, and academics interested in the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality (and more); cultural performances of power and resistance; and the potentiality of queer of color worldmaking.” -- Robert Gutierrez-Perez * Text and Performance Quarterly *“Blacktino Queer Performance is an essential read for scholars of performance, queer theory, and critical race studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach provides multiple perspectives through intertextual and intercultural critique.” -- Sarah Stefana Smith * CAA Reviews *"Blacktino Queer Performance serves as a timely consideration of the work of contemporary artists identifying as interracial and as queer, and as an interdisciplinary, lyrical imagining of the very notion of intersectionality." -- Nevarez Encinias * TDR: The Drama Review *“Blacktino decolonizes queer performance, emancipating it from the homonormative whiteness of mainstream queer theory. The work of Johnson and Rivera-Servera interjects a critical intervention into the fields of racial and queer performance studies…. Johnson and Rivera-Servera offer an in-depth cultural critique that engages a vast array of artists and scholars, and they challenge their readers to seek out queer performance outside of the pages of their volume.” -- Kerry L. Goldmann * Ufahamu *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer Performance / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 1 Part I. The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Sharon Bridgforth 21 1. Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth's The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Matt Richardson 62 2. Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Sandra L. Richards 78 Part II. Machos / Teatro Luna 89 3. Voicing Masculinity / Tamara Roberts 154 4. Interview with Coya Paz / Patricial Ybarra 167 Part III. Strange Fruit: A Performance about Identity Politics / E. Patrick Johnson 179 5. Passing Strange: E. Patrick Johnson's Strange Fruit / Jennifer DeVere Brody 213 6. Interview with E. Patrick Johnson / Bernadette Marie Calafell 229 Part IV. Ah mén / Javier Cardona, translated by Micu and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 243 7. Homosociality and Its Discontents: Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona's Ah mén / Celiany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez 264 8. Interview with Javier Cardona / Jossianna Arroyo, translated by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 275 Part V. Dancin' the Down Low / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. 285 9. Queering Black Identity and Desire: Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr.'s Dancin' the Down Low / Lisa B. Thompson 230 10. Interview with Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr. / John Keene 331 Part VI. Cuban Hustle / Cedric Brown 345 11. Love and Money: Performing Black Queer Diasporic Desire in Cuban Hustle / Marlon M. Bailey 372 12. Interview with Cedric Brown / D. Soyini Madison 387 Part VII. Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love / Pamela Booker 395 13. "Public Intimacy": Women-Loving-Women as Dramaturgical Transgressions / Omi Osun Joni L. Jones 439 14. Interview with Pamela Booker / Tavia Nyong'o 454 Part VIII. Berserker / Paul Outlaw 461 15. What's Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers? Paul Outlaw's Beserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness / Charles I. Nero 486 16. Interview with Paul Outlaw / Vershawn Ashanti Young 498 Part IX. I Just Love Andy Gibb: A Play in One Act / Charles Rice-González 509 17. Learning to Unlove Andy Gibb: Race, Beauty, and the Erotics of Puerto Rican Black Queer Pedagogy / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 542 18. Interview with Charles Rice-González / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 555 Contributors 563 Index 569

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Book SynopsisContaining nine performance scripts by black and Latino/a queer playwrights and performance artists—each accompanied by an interview and essay, Blacktino Queer Performance approaches the interrelations of sexuality, blackness, and Latinidad.Trade Review"[T]he Blacktino works as presented in this collection rankle and disturb, taunt and tantalize, ripping back skin and exposing raw nerves like no other." -- Timothy Francis Barry * Brooklyn Rail *"A groundbreaking project...." -- Claudia Sofía Garriga-López * TSQ *"It is not only that all these voices matter and deserve to be heard but also (and even more so) that, when these voices are heard together in the space of the same printed text, they mean more—and differently—than they would in the small theatre spaces where they were originally performed." -- Shane Breaux * Theatre Survey *"In bringing together the performance scripts of primarily Black and Latina/o queer playwrights and performance artists working in the United States, the book offers a survey of some of the most arresting work in this rising field." -- Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez * Chiricú Journal *“This collection is a call for more collections that empower, (re)member, and advocate for queer people of color. It is an excellent choice for artists, activists, and academics interested in the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality (and more); cultural performances of power and resistance; and the potentiality of queer of color worldmaking.” -- Robert Gutierrez-Perez * Text and Performance Quarterly *“Blacktino Queer Performance is an essential read for scholars of performance, queer theory, and critical race studies. Its cross-disciplinary approach provides multiple perspectives through intertextual and intercultural critique.” -- Sarah Stefana Smith * CAA Reviews *"Blacktino Queer Performance serves as a timely consideration of the work of contemporary artists identifying as interracial and as queer, and as an interdisciplinary, lyrical imagining of the very notion of intersectionality." -- Nevarez Encinias * TDR: The Drama Review *“Blacktino decolonizes queer performance, emancipating it from the homonormative whiteness of mainstream queer theory. The work of Johnson and Rivera-Servera interjects a critical intervention into the fields of racial and queer performance studies…. Johnson and Rivera-Servera offer an in-depth cultural critique that engages a vast array of artists and scholars, and they challenge their readers to seek out queer performance outside of the pages of their volume.” -- Kerry L. Goldmann * Ufahamu *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Ethnoracial Intimacies in Blacktino Queer Performance / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 1 Part I. The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Sharon Bridgforth 21 1. Reinventing the Black Southern Community in Sharon Bridgforth's The love conjure/blues Text Installation / Matt Richardson 62 2. Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Sandra L. Richards 78 Part II. Machos / Teatro Luna 89 3. Voicing Masculinity / Tamara Roberts 154 4. Interview with Coya Paz / Patricial Ybarra 167 Part III. Strange Fruit: A Performance about Identity Politics / E. Patrick Johnson 179 5. Passing Strange: E. Patrick Johnson's Strange Fruit / Jennifer DeVere Brody 213 6. Interview with E. Patrick Johnson / Bernadette Marie Calafell 229 Part IV. Ah mén / Javier Cardona, translated by Micu and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 243 7. Homosociality and Its Discontents: Puerto Rican Masculinities in Javier Cardona's Ah mén / Celiany Rivera-Velázquez and Beliza Torres Narváez 264 8. Interview with Javier Cardona / Jossianna Arroyo, translated by Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 275 Part V. Dancin' the Down Low / Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. 285 9. Queering Black Identity and Desire: Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr.'s Dancin' the Down Low / Lisa B. Thompson 230 10. Interview with Jeffrey Q. McClune Jr. / John Keene 331 Part VI. Cuban Hustle / Cedric Brown 345 11. Love and Money: Performing Black Queer Diasporic Desire in Cuban Hustle / Marlon M. Bailey 372 12. Interview with Cedric Brown / D. Soyini Madison 387 Part VII. Seens from the Unexpectedness of Love / Pamela Booker 395 13. "Public Intimacy": Women-Loving-Women as Dramaturgical Transgressions / Omi Osun Joni L. Jones 439 14. Interview with Pamela Booker / Tavia Nyong'o 454 Part VIII. Berserker / Paul Outlaw 461 15. What's Nat Turner Doing Up in Here with All These Queers? Paul Outlaw's Beserker; A Black Gay Meditation on Interracial Desire and Disappearing Blackness / Charles I. Nero 486 16. Interview with Paul Outlaw / Vershawn Ashanti Young 498 Part IX. I Just Love Andy Gibb: A Play in One Act / Charles Rice-González 509 17. Learning to Unlove Andy Gibb: Race, Beauty, and the Erotics of Puerto Rican Black Queer Pedagogy / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes 542 18. Interview with Charles Rice-González / Ramón H. Rivera-Servera 555 Contributors 563 Index 569

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Book SynopsisIn Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with Asian racialization and capitalism, showing how the conflation of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United states with the abstract dimensions of capital became settler colonialism's defining feature.Trade Review"Ikyo Day’s book will take its place amongst important work that theorizes, historicizes and offers a way to speak to the intersections of capitalism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and migration in white settler contexts." -- Kevin Bruyneel * Theory & Event *"Day deftly retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. . . . [A] valuable resource." -- Sumiko Braun * Amerasia Journal *“Alien Capital is a persuasive and thought-provoking study, challenging scholars to rethink historical interpretations of settler colonialism, immigration, labor, and race in North America.” -- Allan E. S. Lumba * Western Historical Quarterly *“Insightful, intersectional cultural criticism.... I highly recommend Alien Capital for Native American and Indigenous studies scholars with an interest in settler-colonialism, critical ethnic studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, visual cultures, and literature.” -- Beenash Jafri * Native American and Indigenous Studies *“Alien Capital . . . puts forward a much-needed account that unwaveringly reformulates the terms through which settler colonialism might be examined and contested from an Asian diasporic perspective.” -- Szu Shen * Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas *"Day offers us a new way of understanding how settler colonialism capitalism articulates race and provides new analytical tools for pushing forward settler colonial studies, cultural studies, and Asian American Studies." -- Faye Caronan * Pacific Historical Review *"Day’s work provides a valuable look at settler colonialism and its ramifications for the East Asian peoples of Canada and the United States." -- Diana L. Ahmad * American Historical Review *"Alien Capital offers a necessary and deeply welcome investigation into the intersections of race, indigeneity, and white settler colonialism." -- Lily Cho * English Studies in Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The New Jews: Settler Colonialism and the Personification of Capitalism 1 1. Sex, Time, and the Transcontinental Railroad: Abstract Labor and the Queer Temporalities of History 2 41 2. Unnatural Landscapes: Romantic Anticapitalism and Alien Degeneracy 73 3. Japanese Internment and the Mutation of Labor 115 4. The New Ninteteenth Century: Neoliberal Borders, the City, and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism 151 Epilogue. The Revenge of the Iron Chink 191 Notes 199 Bibliography 223 Index 235 Credits 243

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Book SynopsisIn this set of essays that cover the period from 1992 to 2012, Kobena Mercer uses a diasporic model of criticism to analyze the cross-cultural aesthetic practice of African American and black British artists and to show how their refiguring of visual representations of blackness transform perceptions of race. Trade Review"Travel & See benefits from a retrospective gaze; Mercer’s 30-year career gives him a judicious distance on some highly charged aesthetic movements and issues.... Mercer’s volume ... does not simply collect his past writings; it forces us to see international modernism in a way that has implications for future scholarship both within and beyond the field of black diasporic art. Travel & See posits Mercer as a chronicler not only of the field of contemporary art of the Afro-modern world, but of the inextricable ties of black diasporic and modernism itself." -- Sarah Lewis * Art in America *"Travel & See is an essential addition to any art historian’s library.... With Travel & See, Mercer further establishes himself as a leading figure in the field while also modeling the type of work that still needs to be done. The volume shows how Mercer’s writing redefined contemporary art history just as much as it shows how black diaspora artists changed contemporary art." -- Uchenna Itam * Shift *"Mercer's optimistic spirit encourages the reader to dare to travel in space and time in order to see better." -- Maureen Murphy * Critique d'art *"Subtleties of thought and elegance of expression are characteristic of Mercer's writings, read avidly by those art historians who have sought insight into Black British Cultural Studies, increasingly influential over the last thirty years. Mercer's essays offer a welcome contrast to art‐historical scholarship aimed at the specialist, and also to criticism on the contemporary arts of the African and Asian diasporas." -- Amna Malik * Art History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I. Art's Critique of Representation 37 1. The Fragile Inheritors 39 2. Busy in the Ruins of Wretched Phantasia 50 Part II. Differential Proliferations 87 3. Marronage of the Wandering Eye: Keith Piper 89 4. Mortal Coil: Eros and Diaspora in the Photographs of Rotimi Fani-Kayode 97 5. Avid Iconographies: Isaac Julien 129 6. Art That Is Ethnic is Inverted Commas: Yinka Shonibare 147 Part III. Global Modernities 155 7. Home from Home: Portraits from Places in Between 157 8. African Photography in Contemporary Visual Culture 170 9. Ethnicity and Internationality: New British Art and Diaspora-Based Blackness 186 10. Documenta 11 207 Part IV. Detours and Returns 215 11. A Sociography of Diaspora 217 12. Diaspora Aesthetics and Visual Culture 227 13. Art History after Globalization: Formations of the Colonial Modern 248 14. The Cross-Cultural and the Contemporary 262 Part V. Journeying 277 15. Postcolonial Trauerspiel: Black Audio Film Collective 279 16. Archive and Dépaysement in the Art of Renée Green 294 17. Kerry James Marshall: The Painter of Afro-Modern Life 310 18. Hew Locke's Postcolonial Baroque 321 Bibliography 347 Index 357

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Book SynopsisIn Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with Asian racialization and capitalism, showing how the conflation of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United states with the abstract dimensions of capital became settler colonialism's defining feature.Trade Review"Ikyo Day’s book will take its place amongst important work that theorizes, historicizes and offers a way to speak to the intersections of capitalism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and migration in white settler contexts." -- Kevin Bruyneel * Theory & Event *"Day deftly retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. . . . [A] valuable resource." -- Sumiko Braun * Amerasia Journal *“Alien Capital is a persuasive and thought-provoking study, challenging scholars to rethink historical interpretations of settler colonialism, immigration, labor, and race in North America.” -- Allan E. S. Lumba * Western Historical Quarterly *“Insightful, intersectional cultural criticism.... I highly recommend Alien Capital for Native American and Indigenous studies scholars with an interest in settler-colonialism, critical ethnic studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, visual cultures, and literature.” -- Beenash Jafri * Native American and Indigenous Studies *“Alien Capital . . . puts forward a much-needed account that unwaveringly reformulates the terms through which settler colonialism might be examined and contested from an Asian diasporic perspective.” -- Szu Shen * Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas *"Day offers us a new way of understanding how settler colonialism capitalism articulates race and provides new analytical tools for pushing forward settler colonial studies, cultural studies, and Asian American Studies." -- Faye Caronan * Pacific Historical Review *"Day’s work provides a valuable look at settler colonialism and its ramifications for the East Asian peoples of Canada and the United States." -- Diana L. Ahmad * American Historical Review *"Alien Capital offers a necessary and deeply welcome investigation into the intersections of race, indigeneity, and white settler colonialism." -- Lily Cho * English Studies in Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The New Jews: Settler Colonialism and the Personification of Capitalism 1 1. Sex, Time, and the Transcontinental Railroad: Abstract Labor and the Queer Temporalities of History 2 41 2. Unnatural Landscapes: Romantic Anticapitalism and Alien Degeneracy 73 3. Japanese Internment and the Mutation of Labor 115 4. The New Ninteteenth Century: Neoliberal Borders, the City, and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism 151 Epilogue. The Revenge of the Iron Chink 191 Notes 199 Bibliography 223 Index 235 Credits 243

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Book SynopsisVolume XIII of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers covers the period between August 1921 and August 1922. During this particularly tumultuous time, Garvey suffered legal, political, and financial trouble, while the UNIA struggled to grow throughout the Caribbean.Trade Review"The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers will take its place among the most important records of the Afro-American experience. . . . The Marcus Garvey Papers lays the groundwork for a long overdue reassessment of Marcus Garvey and the legacy of racial pride, nationalism, and concern with Africa he bequeathed to today's black community." -- Eric Foner * New York Times Book Review *"Until the publication of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, many of the documents necessary for a full assessment of Garvey's thought or of his movement's significance have not been easily accessible. Robert A. Hill and his staff . . . have gathered over 30,000 documents from libraries and other sources in many countries. . . . The Garvey papers will reshape our understanding of the history of black nationalism and perhaps increase our understanding of contemporary black politics." -- Clayborne Carson * The Nation *"Now is our chance, through these important volumes, to finally begin to come to terms with the significance of Garvey's complex, fascinating career and the meaning of the movement he built." -- Lawrence W. Levine * The New Republic *"The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers are much more than just the records of an exceptional individual and his organization. . . . The annotated footnotes can be read for profit independent of the documents. The identification of persons frequently goes well beyond brief sketches to become rich biographical entries. . . . [Historians] must rethink not only the place of Garveyism in the context of twentieth-century Afro-American history but, and in some ways more importantly, the place of the Afro-American experience in U.S. and world history during the period." -- Thom W. Schick * Reviews in American History *

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Book SynopsisMy Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology in which she uses everyday items to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning.Trade Review"Chin composes a sprawling paean to the joy of stuff and the impossibility of our ever eschewing it. In My Life With Things, she is winningly alert to the ambivalence around our acts of consumption, both the awful guilt and the immeasurable pleasure nonetheless." -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *"My Life with Things is a refreshing and honest book, which gives a rich insight into the experience of engaging with auto-ethnography. It should certainly appeal to the more adventurous, less conventional academic from across the social sciences and not just anthropology, the author’s home discipline.... At the end of the day, researchers interested in anthropology, auto-ethnography and/or consumption looking for an insider account complete with warts and all, should find this an invaluable companion." -- Christina Goulding * Consumption Markets & Culture *"With herself as both subject and object of study, Chin . . . weaves a highly personal, idiosyncratic, and explanatory narrative. Ever the provocateur, she brings her own consumer diaries over the span of several years into conversation with the likes of Karl Marx, not only at a theoretical level but also as biographical touchstones. The narratives, structured around the themes of inheritance, survival, and love, detail the author’s close relationship with the everyday items that surround her. The results can be exhilarating, giving readers self-reflexive pause on the consumptive world and how they got there." -- C. R. Yano * Choice *"My Life with Things is a strange yet fascinating look at our cultural preoccupation with owning and communing with physical objects. Chin uses her anthropological background to present an autoethnography, combining research, theory, and personal writing to criticize (and commiserate with) our love of objects." -- Jess Kibler * Bitch *"Elizabeth Chin’s My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries, is a fantastic book. I can’t imagine anyone reading it and not wanting to become an anthropologist. It is also one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time, with actual laugh-out-loud moments." -- Ben Highmore * New Formations *"Part academic study and part personal essay, My Life with Things offers both casual and scholarly readers an entryway into conversation about the place of material possessions in our lives.... [A] nuanced reflection on both the fact that we are inescapably tied to our possessions and the ways they connect us to our loved ones and neighbors around the world." -- Lee Hull Moses * Christian Century *“My Life with Things is thought-provoking in the best sense of the term. It poses new questions, approaches old ones in fresh ways, and tugs at the complex heart of people’s relationship to the things they have and the things they want.” -- Carrie M. Lane * American Ethnologist *"In the end this book, as Chin tells us, is a focus on moments, rife with the complexities and contradictions of everyday life. Just as in other life moments and journeys, it is full of fodder for contemplation and discussion as well as catalysts for new perspectives. I can imagine it as a resource for teachers as well as students, and I envision many imaginative and lively discussions based on objects described in this book as well as the particular objects animating others’ lives and relationships." -- Patricia L. Sunderland * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 3 2. The Entries 37 My Life with Things 37 Learn to Love Stuff 38 Banky 40 A Digression on the Topic of the Transitional Object 42 Cebebrate! 56 My Purple Shoes 58 Newspapers 61 Rose Nails 63 The Window Shade 67 Napkins 69 My White Man's Tooth 72 Should I Be Straighter 76 Cyberfucked 79 Knobs 80 Glasses 82 Curing Rug Lust 85 Window Shopping Online 89 Catalogs 92 Other People's Labor 95 Making Roots/Making Routes 98 My Closet(s) 101 Joining the MRE 108 Fun Shopping 114 Preschool Birthday Parties 114 Xena Warrior Consumer Princess 118 I Love Your Nail Polish 120 Little Benches 123 The Kiss 126 Are There Malls in Haiti? 127 Baby Number Two Turned Me into Economic Man 129 Pictures of the Rice Grain 132 Panting in Ikea 136 Capitalism Makes Me Sick 139 My Grandmother's Rings 147 Anorectic Energy 157 Mi-Mi's Piano 162 Dream-Filled Prescriptions 169 The Turquoise Arrowhead 170 Turning The Tables 173 Minnie Mouse Earring Holder 176 Make Yourself a Beloved Person 181 3. Writing as Practice and Process 187 4. This Never Happened 203 Notes 221 Bibliography 227 Index 235

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the possibilities opened up by Ethnic Studies, this volume promotes open dialogue, discussion, and debate regarding Critical Ethnic Studies' expansive, politically complex, and intellectually rich concerns on topics ranging from multiculturalism and the neoliberal university to the militarized security state.Trade Review"This ambitious new collection from the Critical Ethnic Studies Association successfully stakes out important intellectual and political stances in the field of ethnic studies." -- N. Barnd * Choice *"The ground-breaking aspect of this volume is that it underscores the urgency to train new scholars and thinkers that can help reformulate and rethink complex issues such as racism, ethnicity and hate crimes, all characteristics of the zeitgeist." -- Natascha Adama * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsPreface / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective ix Introduction: A Sightline / Critical Ethnic Studies Editorial Collective 1 I. The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights 17 1. "As Though It Were Our Own": Against a Politics of Identification / Shana L. Redmond 19 2. Juan Crow: Progressive Mutations of the Black-White Binary / John D. Marquez 43 3. Can the Line Move? Antiblackness and a Diasporic Logic of Forced Social Epidermalizaton / João H. Costa Vargas 63 4. (Re)producing the Nation: Treaty Rights, Gay Marriage, and the Settler State / Lindsey Schneider 92 5. Hateful Travels: Queering Ethnic Studies in a Context of Criminalization, Pathologization, and Globalization / Jin Haritaworn 106 6. Critical Contradictions: A Conversion among Glen Coulthard, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See / Moderated by Sarita Echavez See 138 II. Critical Ethnic Studies Projects Meet the Neoliberal University 159 7. A Better Life? Asian Americans and the Necropolitics of Higher Education / Long T. Bui 161 8. Notes from a Member of the Demographic Threat: This Is What "We Are All Palestinians" Really Means / Nada Elia 175 9. Restructuring, Resistance, and Knowledge Production on Campus: The Story of the Department of Equity Studies at York University / Tania Das Gupta 190 10. "The Goal of the Revolution Is the Elimination of Anxiety": On the Right to Abundance in a Time of Artificial Scarcity / David Lloyd 203 11. Subjucated Knowledges: Activism, Scholarship, and Ethnic Studies Ways of Knowing / Dan Berger 215 III. The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital 229 12. Becoming Disabled / Becoming Black: Crippin' Critical Ethnic Studies from the Periphery / Nirmala Erevelles 231 13. Arts and Crafts, Elsewhere and Home, Mama & Me: Defying Transnormativity through Bobby Cheung's Creative Modalities of Resignification / Bo Leungsuraswat 252 14. Indra Sinha's Melancholic Citizenship: Marking the Violence of Uneven Development in Animal's People / Andrew uzendoski 269 15. Cocoa Chandelier's Confessional: Kanaka Maoli Performance and Aloha in Drag / Stephanie Nohelani Teves 281 IV. Militarism, Empire, and War: The Security State and States of Insecurity 201 16. Surrogates and Subcontractors: Flexibility and Obscurity in U.S. Immigrant Detention / David M. Hernández 303 17. Of "Mates" and Men: The Comparative Racial Politics of Filipino Naval Enlistment, circa 1941-1943 / Jason Luna Gavilan 326 18. The Thickening Borderlands: Bastard Mestiz@s, "Illegal" Possibilities, and Globalizing Migrant Life / Gilberto Rosas 344 19. Up in the Air and on the Skin: Drone Warfare and the Queer Calculus of Pain / Ronak K. Kapadai 360 20. Empire's Verticality: The Af-Pak Frontier, Visual Culture, and Racialization from Above / Keith P. Feldman 376 V. Fugitive Socialities and Alternative Futures 21. Decolonization, "Race," and Remaindered Life under Empire / Neferti X. M. Tadiar 395 22. Critical Ethnic Studies, Identity Politics, and the Right-Left Convergence / Ella Shohat and Robert Stam 416 23. Césaire's Gift and the Decolonial Turn / Nelson Maldonado-Torres / 435 24. Checkered Choices, Political Associations: The Unarticulated Racial Identity of La 24. Asociación Nacional México-Americana / Laura Pulido 463 25. Racializing Biopolitics and Bare Life / Alexander G. Weheliye 477 Bibliography 495 Contributors 535 Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Exiled Home constitutes a timely and sophisticated scholarly piece that entails a thorough methodological discussion and makes for fascinating reading. By placing deportation within an institutional and policy context and considering the experiences of undocumented immigrants raised in or deported from the host country, the book complements an existing literature that is largely concerned with the reasons for migration, the situation of adult immigrants, and the impact of remittances. The work makes an impassioned plea to legalize youths who are US citizens in all but immigration status and should prove of interest in both academic and policy circles." -- Sonja Wolf * International Migration Review *"At a time when more people than ever are being displaced from their homelands, Coutin’s vivid, youth-centered analysis offers a potent and instructive understanding both of those who migrate and of those who are exiled home." -- Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz * American Anthropologist *"An illuminating example of how to effectively and creatively mesh theory with qualitative data. . . . A carefully crafted, humane portrayal of the broad-ranging and common experiences of Salvadoran migrant children living in the United States and those violently reinserted in El Salvador." -- Shirley A. Heying * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Exiled Home is a testament to many things—the importance of fieldwork, the significance of critical thought, the power of political participation—but the book also evidences the gift of longstanding ethnographic engagements." -- Kevin Lewis O'Neill * Anthropological Quarterly *"For anyone wishing to understand what is at stake with the cancelation of TPS and DACA, the proposed changes to make asylum even harder to get, or the waves of caravans coming out of Central America, [Exiled Home] is essential. It will be useful and timely for courses from any discipline on immigration as well as political and legal anthropology." -- Amelia Frank-Vitale * Border Criminologies *"Focusing on Salvadoran migration, the book not only shows that Central American migration to the US is not new, but also that Salvadorans’ migratory experience is characterized by different forms of violence and uncertainty that are not bounded to national territories or categories. Exiled Home contributes to understanding how Salvadoran youth migrants expand what it means to be Salvadoran and American." -- Lurio Gutiérrez Rivera * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“Exiled Home is an invaluable text, in which Susan Bibler Coutin builds upon her decades of critical ethnographic engagement with the Salvadoran diaspora to produce a theoretically rich and textured analysis of the children and youth who migrated with their families to the United States during the Salvadoran civil war (1980-92).” -- Irina Carlota Silber * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Violence and Silence 21 2. Living in the Gap 55 3. Dreams 95 4. Exiled Home through Deportation 129 5. Biographies and Nations 165 Conclusion. Re/membering Exiled Homes 205 Appendix 227 Notes 231 References 241 Index 265

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