Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Duke University Press Murder on Shades Mountain The Legal Lynching of
Book SynopsisMelanie S. Morrison tells the tragic story of the murder and attempted murder of three young women in 1930s Birmingham, Alabama, and the aftermath, which saw a reign of terror unleashed on the town's black community, the wrongful conviction and death sentencing of Willie Peterson, and a black-led effort to free Peterson.Trade Review(Starred Review) "In this passionate account of Jim Crow–era injustice, educator and activist Morrison exposes how courtrooms 'could function like lynch mobs when the defendant was black.'... Morrison, who is white, shares this painful story with clarity and compassion, emphasizing how much has changed since the 1930s, how much white people need to 'critically interrogate' the past, and how much 'remains to be done' in the fight for justice." * Publishers Weekly *"The author deserves praise for identifying Peterson’s trial as an important precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement. Audiences will be enthralled and angered by this all-too-familiar account of a criminal justice system that was and remains biased against black Americans." -- Karl Helicher * Foreword Reviews *"Morrison digs deeply into period newspapers and archives to uncover this story of injustice long overshadowed by the more famous Scottsboro Boys trial. A thoughtful look into a tale of prejudice and stolen justice that will find many readers who are interested in African American history, the early civil rights movement, and Southern history." -- Chad E. Statler * Library Journal *"Morrison’s book is an ultimate tribute to a man who is seldom mentioned in the Civil Rights Movement, but was a true civil rights hero and who despite torture and mental cruelty always proclaimed his innocence." -- Bill Castanier * Lansing City Pulse *"A straightforward, thoroughly researched nonfiction account of yet another disgraceful episode in Alabama racial history." -- Don Noble * Tuscaloosa News *"An important and timely book.” -- James L. Baggett * Birmingham Watch *"The book ends, as it begins, with a call to each of us to do our own work. In the afterword, poignantly written in the form of a letter to her late father, Morrison states the brutal truth: 'The demonization and criminalization of black men remains a national disgrace.' Eighty-seven years after Willie Peterson was targeted on a Birmingham street corner, there is still much work to be done. This book offers inspiration to keep at it." -- Joyce Hollyday * Sojourners *"iI shifting attention from Scottsboro's sleepy courthouse square to Birmingham's industrialized and highly stratified terrain, Morrison offers fresh perspective on the structural violence that undergirded white supremacy." -- Jason Morgan Ward * Southern Spaces *"Recounted in painstaking detail by Morrison, this near century-old case emerges as a precedent for contemporary discussions of racism in the criminal justice system, reaffirming how firmly rooted racial profiling and the criminalization of blackness are in American culture." -- Ladee Hubbard * TLS *"Morrison succeeds admirably in moving the literature beyond Scottsboro, which has garnered the lion’s share of historians’ attention. Morrison is at her best when she unearths legal records to explain how the criminal justice system was stacked against Peterson. . . . In Morrison’s hands, the Jim Crow justice system avoids caricature and emerges as a living, breathing system in which injustice is that much more evident and pernicious. . . . Compelling and beautifully written." -- David A. Varel * Journal of Southern History *"[Murder on Shades Mountain's] detailed narrative of one little-known crime and its aftermath is powerful and evocative and offers a revealing window into the workings of white supremacy—one that is even more dramatic in some ways than the story of the Scottsboro Boys. . . . Morrison’s work offers a critical reminder that whites must interrogate all the stories about race that they have inherited, even those of white advocates for racial justice." -- Renee Romano * American Historical Review *"Morrison forces the reader to grapple with the precarity of Black life in relation to white supremacist power structures like the criminal justice system.… Murder on Shades Mountain is a crucial text for tracing the genealogy of state-sanctioned anti-Black violence in America." -- Denzel Shabazz * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I. Danger in the Magic City 1. August 4, 1931 15 2. A City Beset by Fear 25 3. Reign of Terror in the Black Community 34 4. Fear, Loathing,and Oblivion in the White Community 45 Part II. Trials and Tribulations 5. The Arrest: September 23, 1931 55 6. Attempted Murder 67 7. Grand Jury Testimonies 76 8. The NAACP Comes to Life 85 9. Mounting the Defense 94 10. House of Pain 113 11. "A Temporarily Dethroned Mind" 116 12. "An Outrageous Spectacle of Injustice" 119 13. A Tumultuous Year 122 Part IV. Never Turning Back 14. Staying on the Firing Line 131 15. Charles Hamilton Houston 134 16. A Lynching in Tuscaloosa 142 17. Moving the Case Forward 150 18. No Negroes Allowed 162 19. A Flood of Letters 168 20. A Multitude of Regrets 172 21. Grave Doubts as to His Guilt 178 22. Jim Crow Justice 185 Epilogue. The Community That Kept Faith 193 Afterword. Letter to My Father 197 Acknowledgments 203 Notes 209 Bibliography 233 Index 241
£27.90
Duke University Press Mounting Frustration
Book SynopsisIn Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan uncovers the moment when the civil rights movement reached New York City's elite art galleries. Focusing on three controversial exhibitions that integrated African American culture and art, Cahan shows how the art world's racial politics is far more complicated than overcoming past exclusions.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
£21.59
University of Pittsburgh Press Regenerating Dixie
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£48.92
University of Pittsburgh Press At the Table of Power
Book SynopsisBoth a cookbook and a culinary history that intertwines social issues, personal stories, and political commentary.
£36.32
University of Pittsburgh Press Traces Of A Stream
Book SynopsisThis work offers a scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers. It focuses on elite 19th-century African American women who used language with consequence.
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press Friendly Liquidation of the Past The
Book SynopsisBased on interviews with more than 100 participants, Van Cott demonstrates how social issues were placed on the constitutional reform agenda and transformed into the nation's highest law. She follows each reform for five years to assess early results of what she calls an emerging model of multicultural constitutionalism.
£46.10
University of Pittsburgh Press To Love the Wind and the Rain
Book SynopsisAn examination of the relationship between African Americans and the environment in U.S. history, "To Love the Wind and the Rain" contains essays covering topics such as slavery, religion, the turpentine industry, gardening, outdoor recreation, women and politics.Trade ReviewFrom slavery to Jim Crow segregation to the eras of civil rights and environmental justice, the authors guide us through a multitude of periods and places, skillfully blending theory with practice while building an environmental history of African America.... The stories... in this volume must be read in the context of the enormity of this oppressive history and the struggles of individuals and communities to overcome its consequences. Set against this historical backdrop, the stories herein become more remarkable as the authors illuminate the vitality of their subjects' lives, the significance of their achievements, and the successes and failures of their work together. In so doing, the writers not only show us how to write a new kind of African American environmental history, but illustrate the ways that writing history can itself become a moral act. - Carolyn Merchant, University of California, Berkeley, from the foreword
£37.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Myths of Harmony Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution Colombia 17951831 Pitt Latin American Series
Book SynopsisCenters on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. This title demonstrates that during Colombia's revolution, free blacks and mulattos (pardos) actively joined and occasionally even led the cause to overthrow the Spanish colonial government.
£42.63
University of Pittsburgh Press Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania
Book SynopsisMaria Bucur explores the interactions between the science of eugenics and modernization efforts in Romania between World Wars I and II.
£42.75
University of Pittsburgh Press Vigorous Core of Our Nationality The
Book SynopsisThe Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period.
£42.75
University of Pittsburgh Press Race and Renaissance
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£29.45
University of Pittsburgh Press South Asian in the MidSouth
Book SynopsisWinner, 2017 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into the South Asian community in Mid-South America to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and cross-cultural understanding.
£42.63
University of Pittsburgh Press Bridges Borders and Breaks
Book SynopsisThis volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the "transnational turn" in American studies.
£42.63
University of Pittsburgh Press Azan on the Moon Entangling Modernity Along Tajikistans Pamir Highway Central Eurasia in Context
Book SynopsisAzan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir Highway in eastern Tajikistan. In the wake of China's rise in Central Asia, people along the Pamir Highway strive to reconcile a modern future with a modern past.
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Learning to Become Turkmen
Book SynopsisLearning to Become Turkmen examines the ways in which the iconography of everyday life—in dramatically different alphabets, multiple languages, and shifting education policies—reflects the evolution of Turkmen society in Central Asia over the past century.Trade ReviewLearning to Become Turkmen is unique in several respects. There are very few books in English on the history of Turkmens and Turkmenistan, and no other book-length treatment of its language and culture. Clement does an excellent job of broadening the analysis to make it relevant to scholars beyond the handful of 'Turkmenologists' in Western academia."" - Adrienne Lynn Edgar, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan
£42.75
Fordham University Press Freedwomen and the Freedmens Bureau Race Gender
Book SynopsisCongress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - more commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau - in March 1865. Upon its creation this temporary federal agency assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the war-torn South.Trade Review"Farmer-Kaiser's contribution adds to our understanding of where conflicting philosophies in terms of class, geography, race, and gender collided in the Reconstruction-era South." -Civil War Monitor "This work is essential for understanding not only the Fredmen's Bureau's policies but also the plight of black women in the first years of emancipation." -Virginia Magazine "Farmer-Kaiser's contribution to the literature is significant in that she is the first scholar to examine in a book-length study how the polities of the Freedmen's Bureau were shaped by gender ideologies." -H-Net Reviews "Freedwomen and the Freedmen's bureau is well researched and written... Mary Farmer-Kaiser has produced an important work that furthers our understanding of the complexities of the Reconstruction era." -Southwestern Historical Quarterly "Overall, this is a first-rate work that is long overdue in Reconstruction historiography." -- -Rebecca A. Kosary University of North Carolina at Charlotte "Mary Farmer-Kaiser's much-anticipated and excellent new book, Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau, offers the first systematic examination of what she calls 'the gendered nature of bureau work.' In masterful fashion, she explores the work of the Freedmen's Bureau as an institution while simultaneously placing the former slaves, women in particular, at the center of her analysis. In doing so, she convincingly demonstrates, in refreshingly clear and jargon-free prose, that issues of gender are essential to any understanding of the bureau and of emancipation. -- -John C. Rodrigue Stonehill College, author of Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880 "Farmer-Kaiser made extensive use of field office records and the commissioner and assistant commissioner records for Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, chosen for quality and the geographic, demographic, and economic diversity they presented." -American Historical Review
£78.30
Fordham University Press Objects and Objections of Ethnography
Book SynopsisThe major contribution of anthropology to the intellectual and the political world has been to show the worthiness of attending to the peoples and cultures of the world. But, due to the modification of treatment of differences, the emphasis has then been put on recognizing similarities. This title features essays that are against this trend.Trade Review"To read this book of essays by James Siegel is to embark on that rarest and most exciting of journeys; in the process of moving with him across the varied terrain of his own intellectual career, one's thought is transformed. Objects and Objections of Ethnography comprises old and new essays on classical topics in social anthropology, considered anew as contemporary questions and addressed with uncompromising originality. In places as far flung as Paris and Atjeh, Siegel meditates on the idea of the fetish, the relationship between the living and the dead, and the question of the stranger. Here too are analyses of the state and the politics of recognition, of the discourse of ethnicity, of trauma theory and the sublime, and of the anxieties afflicting museology today. At times startling, sometimes perplexing, always brave, frequently beautiful, and ultimately persuasive, this book is a challenge and a joy to read. In my opinion, no other anthropologist writing today can lay stronger claim to the word 'brilliant.'" -- -Rosalind C. Morris Columbia University "Jim Siegel is one of the strongest thinkers in the discipline of anthropology. Academic careers have been made on the basis of one good idea. Each of these essays develops a whole flotilla of good ideas, while placing the methods and objects of anthropology in an entirely new light. An outstanding work." -- -Danilyn Rutherford University of California, Santa Cruz
£63.00
Fordham University Press Objects and Objections of Ethnography
Book SynopsisThe major contribution of anthropology to the intellectual and the political world has been to show the worthiness of attending to the people and cultures of the world. But, due to the modification of the treatment of differences, the emphasis has then been put on recognizing similarities. This title features essays that are against this trend.Trade Review"To read this book of essays by James Siegel is to embark on that rarest and most exciting of journeys; in the process of moving with him across the varied terrain of his own intellectual career, one's thought is transformed. Objects and Objections of Ethnography comprises old and new essays on classical topics in social anthropology, considered anew as contemporary questions and addressed with uncompromising originality. In places as far flung as Paris and Atjeh, Siegel meditates on the idea of the fetish, the relationship between the living and the dead, and the question of the stranger. Here too are analyses of the state and the politics of recognition, of the discourse of ethnicity, of trauma theory and the sublime, and of the anxieties afflicting museology today. At times startling, sometimes perplexing, always brave, frequently beautiful, and ultimately persuasive, this book is a challenge and a joy to read. In my opinion, no other anthropologist writing today can lay stronger claim to the word 'brilliant.'" -- -Rosalind C. Morris Columbia University "Jim Siegel is one of the strongest thinkers in the discipline of anthropology. Academic careers have been made on the basis of one good idea. Each of these essays develops a whole flotilla of good ideas, while placing the methods and objects of anthropology in an entirely new light. An outstanding work." -- -Danilyn Rutherford University of California, Santa Cruz
£27.90
Fordham University Press A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I commit this story of the Negro's martial prowess to my countrymen, regardless of section or race, creed or party; entertaining the belief that neither sectional malice nor party rancor can ever obliterate a record that is now, happily in the progress of events, not only the proud and priceless heritage of a race, but the glory of a nation." -- -George Washington WilliamsTable of ContentsIntroduction Preface 1: Introductory: Negro Soldiers in Ancient Times 2: Negro Soldiers in Modern Times 3: Antecedent Facts--Foreshadowing Events 4: Military Rendition of Slaves 5: The Negro Volunteer--Military Employment of Negros 6: Military Status of Negro Troops 7: Negro Idiosyncracies 8: The Outlook 9: Negro Troops in Battle--Department of the Southr (1862--1865) 10: In the Mississippi Valley (1863) 11: The Army of the Potomac (1865) 12: The Fort Pillow Massacre (1864) 13: In the Army of the Cumberland (1864) 14: The Army of the James (1865) 15: As Prisoners of War 16: The Cloud of Witnesses Index
£23.39
Fordham University Press Voices of Italian America
Book SynopsisVoices of Italian America presents the first authoritative study and anthology of the largely Italian-language literature written and published in the U.S. from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880-1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before and after WWII.Trade Review"Marazzi's work is certainly a worthy endeavor, and the excellent translation by Ann Goldstein documents for the English reader the existence of a large body of literature of emigration." -Journal of Modern Italian Studies "A brilliant introduction to a forgotten subject, of immense importance to both Italian and American culture. These are marvelous texts, outstandingly translated by Ann Goldstein. Martino Marazzi deserves our gratitude for making all this available." -- -David Freedberg Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies "...Marazzi's anthology bristles with serial gangster fiction, breathless flapper romances, and impassioned tales of triumph over poverty, all of which make for a sharp contrast with his erudite elucidation of their historical context. The result is a glimpse of a largely forgotten literary heritage and of the life of what one epigraph calls 'the Italian immigrant in the land of America who, enduring danger and derision, built a nation that never became a homeland.'" -The New Yorker "Martino Marazzi has mined hundreds of Italian-language periodicals published in the United States from mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Now he presents a major introduction to the literature of the Italian migration in this stunning anthology. Anyone interested in Italian American literature, culture, or history should own a copy of this book." -- -Robert Viscusi The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowlegements Introduction 1. The Novel of the Italian America 2. Stowaway on Board: Ezio Taddei 3. The New World of the Second Generation: Pietro di Donato and John Fante 4. Poetry of the Italian Americans 5. Prose of Testimony: The Color Line 6. At Ellis Island 7. Italian Americans and Italian Writers Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Fordham University Press The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the
Book Synopsisthe essential reference for those seeking to understand the most profound registers of this major American thinker.Trade Review"Generations of scholars have given attention to various writings by W.E.B. Du Bois. Few of us, however, have had the courage, determination, and fortitude to inhabit the whole of his historically-situated oeuvre in order to think with Du Bois as he thought. Nahum Chandler, an exemplary critical hermeneuticist, continues to live an inhabitation of Du Bois' thought. And through his critical commentary on Du Bois' "essential early essays" that he has assembled in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Chandler calls us to the responsibility to forge enhanced, even new, appreciations of Du Bois' articulated thought, and to "grappling in thought and critical reflection with the implacable matters of existence in our time." In reading these essays via an inhabitation, one cannot but experience the profound ethical and intellectual forcefulness of Chandler's inhabitation and calling." -- -Lucius T. Outlaw Vanderbilt University "This definitive collection of W. E. B. Du Bois's early essays, some having never appeared in print before, is not just another anthology among the hundreds. It is a seminal contribution to the history of modern thought. Compiled and edited by the world's preeminent scholar of early Du Boisian thought, these texts represent his most generative period, when Du Bois engaged every discipline, helped construct modern social science, employed critical inquiry as a weapon of antiracism and political liberation, and always set his sites on the entire world. We know this not by the essays alone, but by Nahum Dimitri Chandler's brilliant, original, and quite riveting introduction. If you are coming to Du Bois for the first time of the 500th time, this book is a must-read." -- -Robin D. G. Kelley author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Chandler's collection makes available, for the first time, a systematic, chronological tour of Du Bois's evolving vision of the global color line, as that vision was developed in the crucial opening years of his publishing life. Students ... can follow here the trajectory of this influential intellectual project, step by step. This volume provides a revelatory point of entry into the early thought of Du Bois and a valuable resource for all those interested in African American intellectual history and the sociology of race." -- -Seth Moglen Lehigh UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction by Nahum Dimitri Chandler i-xliv 1894 1. The Afro-American (circa 1894) 1897 2. The Conservation of Races (1897) 3. Strivings of the Negro People (1897) 1898 4. The Study of the Negro Problems (1898) 1900 5. The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900) 6. The Spirit of Modern Europe (1900) 1901 7. The Freedmen's Bureau (1901) 8. The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South (1901) 1903 9. The Talented Tenth (1903) 1904 10. The Development of a People (1904) 1905 11. Sociology Hesitant (circa 1905) 1906 12. Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) References Acknowledgements
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Fordham University Press The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the
Book Synopsisthe essential reference for those seeking to understand the most profound registers of this major American thinker.Trade Review"Generations of scholars have given attention to various writings by W.E.B. Du Bois. Few of us, however, have had the courage, determination, and fortitude to inhabit the whole of his historically-situated oeuvre in order to think with Du Bois as he thought. Nahum Chandler, an exemplary critical hermeneuticist, continues to live an inhabitation of Du Bois' thought. And through his critical commentary on Du Bois' "essential early essays" that he has assembled in The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Chandler calls us to the responsibility to forge enhanced, even new, appreciations of Du Bois' articulated thought, and to "grappling in thought and critical reflection with the implacable matters of existence in our time." In reading these essays via an inhabitation, one cannot but experience the profound ethical and intellectual forcefulness of Chandler's inhabitation and calling." -- -Lucius T. Outlaw Vanderbilt University "This definitive collection of W. E. B. Du Bois's early essays, some having never appeared in print before, is not just another anthology among the hundreds. It is a seminal contribution to the history of modern thought. Compiled and edited by the world's preeminent scholar of early Du Boisian thought, these texts represent his most generative period, when Du Bois engaged every discipline, helped construct modern social science, employed critical inquiry as a weapon of antiracism and political liberation, and always set his sites on the entire world. We know this not by the essays alone, but by Nahum Dimitri Chandler's brilliant, original, and quite riveting introduction. If you are coming to Du Bois for the first time of the 500th time, this book is a must-read." -- -Robin D. G. Kelley author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "Chandler's collection makes available, for the first time, a systematic, chronological tour of Du Bois's evolving vision of the global color line, as that vision was developed in the crucial opening years of his publishing life. Students ... can follow here the trajectory of this influential intellectual project, step by step. This volume provides a revelatory point of entry into the early thought of Du Bois and a valuable resource for all those interested in African American intellectual history and the sociology of race." -- -Seth Moglen Lehigh UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction by Nahum Dimitri Chandler i-xliv 1894 1. The Afro-American (circa 1894) 1897 2. The Conservation of Races (1897) 3. Strivings of the Negro People (1897) 1898 4. The Study of the Negro Problems (1898) 1900 5. The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind (1900) 6. The Spirit of Modern Europe (1900) 1901 7. The Freedmen's Bureau (1901) 8. The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South (1901) 1903 9. The Talented Tenth (1903) 1904 10. The Development of a People (1904) 1905 11. Sociology Hesitant (circa 1905) 1906 12. Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten (The Negro Question in the United States) (1906) References Acknowledgements
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Fordham University Press Creolizing Political Theory
Book SynopsisAsking whether it is possible to develop an approach to studying political life that reflects its heterogeneity, Jane Anna Gordon offers the creolization of political theory as a response. Offering a critique of mere comparison, Gordon demonstrates the generative capacity of creolization through bringing together across time and place the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Frantz Fanon.Trade ReviewThis book offers a fresh perspective on the concept of creolization and on salient debates in political theory concerning multiculturalism, comparative analysis, (trans)nationalism, and globalization, just to name a few; it therefore makes an important contribution to the field of political theory, as well as to many others." -- -Charles Walls Bard College or Independent Scholar "Creolizing Political Theory is a brilliant and innovative exercise in political theory. Through its creolized and highly nuanced reading of Rousseau - through Fanon - on the challenges confronting the practice of politics in the modern age, this work succeeds in taking both political theory and creole theory in new and enlightening directions. Further, it demonstrates ever so clearly the valuable contributions that Africana political theory can make to core concerns of Western political theory. A must read for scholars in the fields of political theory, Africana thought, and creole theory." -- -Paget Henry Brown University "Hello, Jean-Jacques! Hello, Frantz! An unexpected encounter between Rousseau, eighteen-century Swiss-born philosopher, and Fanon, twentieth-century psychiatrist and political visionary of Caribbean origin, is theory from the North meeting theory from the South. And thinking with creolization, a multifaceted notion with a history of crossing boundaries, opens new challenges for political studies as it does for other human sciences. Jane Anna Gordon is an incisive guide to its potential." -- -Ulf Hannerz Stockholm University, author of Transnational ConnectionsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Delegitimating Decadent Discourses of Inquiry 2. Decolonizing Disciplinary Methods 3. Squaring the Circle: Rousseau's General Will 4. Creolizing the General Will: Fanonian National Consciousness 5. Thinking through Creolization Conclusion Notes References Index
£81.90
Fordham University Press Civil Rights in New York City
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s, most U.S. History has been written as if the civil rights movement were primarily or entirely a Southern history. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that demonstrates the importance of the Northern movement.Trade Review"Clarence Taylor long has been recognized as the most important historian of this nation's most important city: New York. Now he has assembled a veritable "Dream Team" of scholars who contribute their own unique expertise in shedding light on how and why Gotham engaged the critically profound question of Civil Rights in the way it did. This book, as a consequence, is a monumental contribution to the history of Civil Rights, African-American History, Urban History, Latino History and--most of all--the history of New York City." -- -Gerald Horne author, of 'Mau Mau in Harlem? The U.S. and the Liberation of Kenya' "Several monographs on [this subject] have been written, but none rival this one in terms of breadth or depth." -- -Peter B. Levy York College "Attempts to provide some balance through 10 academic essays that cast light on struggles between blacks and organized labor, civil rights and the cold war, discrimination that extended even to garbage collection, and the competing visions of Mayors David N. Dinkins and Rudolph W. Giuliani." -The New York Times "I've been waiting for such a book for years. Anyone interested in postwar New York or the modern civil rights movement needs to read this book. The history of the black freedom struggle looks much different when we widen our gaze from the Cradle of the Confederacy to the home of Ellis Island." -- -Jeanne Theoharis Brooklyn College of CUNY "The book, edited by Professor Taylor, revives the forgotten roles of figures like Ella Baker of the N.A.A.C.P., Robert Moses and Bayard Rustin..." -The New York TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 To Be a Good American: The New York City Teachers Union and Race during the Second World War Clarence Taylor 2 Cops, Schools, and Communism: Local Politics and Global Ideologiess--New York City in the 1950s Barbara Ransby 3 'Taxation without Sanitation Is Tyranny': Civil Rights Struggles over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York, during the Fall of 1962 Brian Purnell 4 Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City Peter Eisenstadt 5 Conservative and Liberal Opposition to the New York City School-Integration Campaign Clarence Taylor 6 The Dead End of Despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice Daniel Perlstein 7 The Young Lords and the Social and Structural Roots of Late Sixties Urban Radicalism Johanna Fernandez 8 'Brooklyn College Belongs to Us': Black Students and the Transformation of Public Higher Education in New York City Martha Biondi 9 Racial Events, Diplomacy, and Dinkins's Image Wilbur C. Rich 10 'One City, One Standard': The Struggle for Equality in Rudolph Giuliani's New York Jerald Podair Notes List of Contributors Index
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Fordham University Press Home Uprooted
Book SynopsisOffers an exploration of the oral histories of three generations of refugees from India's Partition. This book focuses on the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of participants from ten Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi.Trade Review"Chawla employs a lyrical writing style that is able to collapse the boundaries between ethnography and autobiography, and between academic history and personal reflection." -Oral History "Home, Uprooted is a beautifully written, theoretically sophisticated and disarmingly fluid analysis of the idea of home through oral histories with three generations of Partition refugees from Delhi, India. Devika Chawla explores what home means to those who have been displaced; how the notion of home has a life of it's own, and why it is important to tell this story of an Un/homely Partition. Whether the Partition maintains a spectral presence or an embodied materiality in each rendition of home, in every story that she tells us, Chawla moves effortlessly through the shifting contours of loss, belonging and memory. Beyond history, beyond ethnography, this book is among the first of its kind in both - its passionate destabilizing of any fixed notion of home and its narrative form, which carefully combines personal history and autobiography with stories shared by other participants in the project. The book offers a much needed critical reflection on method, and a trenchant critique of Self/Other binaries by centering stories told and heard via multiple encounters between self, ethnographer, storyteller and interlocutor. Engaging and accessible in terms of writing style, Home, Uprooted will appeal to a large audience beyond the academy, and is a MUST read for anyone in the fields of Cultural Studies, Communication, Anthropology and Women's & Gender Studies." -- -Himika Bhattacharya Syracuse University "Chawla's family story is woven throughout the book, and many of its most moving moments are deeply personal." -- Corine Colbert, Ohio University -PerspectivesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Beginnings-In Headnotes 2. Fieldwork-Homework 3. A Story Travels 4. Home Outside Home 5. Adrift-Reluctant Nomads 6. Hearth Crossings 7. Remnants 8. My Father, My Interlocutor Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Sabato Rodias Towers in Watts
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers groundbreaking critical essays on Sabato (Simon) Rodia's renowned Watts Towers (Los Angeles, California) from diverse disciplinary perspectives, extensively highlighting his migration context as never before, as well as the Towers in the context of human and community development within the "Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative."Trade Review"This volume is more than a simple extrapolation of the many meanings of a particular folk object. It appeals to those interested in folk art and material culture, twentieth-century Italian American history and culture, and folklore in the public sector. It is a book of searching, of meditations and possibilities, of the enduring relationship between artists, their work, their communities, and the difference that collaborative advocacy for art can make." -Jeffrey Howard, Journal of Folklore Research "... a worthy volume that will be indispensable reading for anyone who has admired the Watts Towers." -- -Lawrence Rainey Modernism/Modernity "Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development is one of the most exciting collections of essays I have read in a long time. It does so much more than explore the fascinating history of Rodia's unique creation; this volume truly captures the rich, variegated, diverse, and transcontinental human drama surrounding the Towers. This book approaches Rodia's Towers much like a visitor would, by taking them in from a distance and then close-up, seeking various angles and perspectives and exploring their setting. This approach makes reading Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts an experience and a journey of discovery where, in the end, the mysteries merge into a grand revelation of the nature of human creative aspiration." -- -Paul D'Ambrosio President and CEO, Fenimore Art Museum & The Farmers' Museum "This book invites readers to develop an appreciation for the nontraditional art that Simon Rodia's towers so heroically represent. . Above all, beyond its scholarly and informative impact, this book can inspire a broadrer vision of human creativity." -Paul Von Blum, Truth Dig "...'Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, Development presents rich perspectives from academics, writers, artists, city administrators and community organizers." -UCLA Magazine "Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts offer a rich array of perspectives on the creative work of the eccentric immigrant laborer who created one of the most mysterious landmarks of Los Angeles. Whether they are interested in untrained artists, folklore, immigration, cultural and class politics, historical preservation, Italian American life, or multi-cultural neighborhoods and their identities, readers will find unique and diverse provocations in this this lovingly and astutely assembled book." -- -Donna Gabaccia Professor of History, University of MinnesotaTable of Contentsi. Table of Contents ii. Acknowledgements iii. Contributors Introduction Luisa Del Giudice, Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts and the Search for Common Ground 1. Situating Sabato Rodia and The Watts Towers: Art Movements, Cultural Contexts, and Migrations 1.1 Jo Farb Hernandez, Local Art, Global Issues: Tales of Survival and Demise Among Contemporary Art Environments 1.2 Guglielmo Bilancioni, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Simon Rodia and Fantastic Architecture 1.3 Paul A. Harris, The Poetic Concrete of Sam Rodia's Watts Towers and the Concrete Poetry of Ronald Johnson 1.4 Thomas Harrison, Without Precedent: The Watts Towers 1.5 Richard Candida Smith, An Era of Grand Ambitions: Sam Rodia and California Modernism 1.6 Laura E. Ruberto, A California Detour on the Road to Italy: The Hubcap Ranch, the Napa Valley, and Italian American Identity 1.7 Felice Ceparano, The Gigli of Nola Festival in the Nineteenth Century 1.8 Kenneth Scambray, California and the Italian Immigrant Experience: The Artistic and Literary Contexts of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers 1.9 Luisa Del Giudice, Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migration, and Italian Imaginaries 1.10 Joseph Sciorra, "Why a Man Makes the Shoes?": Italian American Art and Philosophy in Sabato Rodia's Watts Towers 1.11 George Epolito, Parallel Expression: Revealing the Artistic Contributions of Italian Immigrants in South America During the Era of Simon Rodia 2. The Watts Towers Contested: Conservation, Guardianship, and Cultural Heritage 2.1 Jeanne Morgan, CSRTW- Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts: Fifty Years of Guardianship 2.2 Jeffrey Herr, Simon Rodia's Towers: A Status Report 2.3 Sarah Schrank, Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of the Los Angeles' Watts Towers 2.4 Monica Barra, Reading the Watts Towers, Teaching Los Angeles: Story Telling and Public Art 2.5 Katia Ballacchino, Spires and Towers Between Tangible, Intangible and Contested Transnational Culture/Heritage 3. The Watts Towers & Community Development 3.1 Artists in Conversation: John Outterbridge, Judson Powell, Charles Dickson, Augustine Aguirre, Betye Saar, Kenzi Shiokawa (Panel moderated by Rosie Lee Hooks, Saturday, October 23, 2010, 121 Dodd Hall, UCLA) 3.2 Gail Brown, From Where I'm Standing Photo-Documentary Workshops at Watts Towers Arts Center: Building Community Through Self-Awareness and Self-Expression 3.3 Shirmel Hayden, The Watts Towers: Simon Rodia Fights Back Afterword Luisa Del Giudice, Personal Reflections on the Watts Towers Common Ground Initiative Appendices Appendix A1 - Conversations with Rodia 1953 - 1964 A.1.1 Interview of S. Rodia, with William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky, Watts, 1953. A.1.2. Interview with Simon Rodia (Excerpts) by William Hale and Ray Wisniewsky, Watts, 1953. A.1.3. Conversation with Sam Rodia, by Mae Babitz and Jeanne Morgan, Martinez, California, September 1960. A.1.4 Interviews, Part A, B, C with S. Rodia, by Ed Farrell, Jody Farrell, Bud Goldstone, Seymour Rosen, Martinez; University of California, Berkeley; and San Francisco Museum, California, September 1960. A.1.5 Report on Visits to Simon Rodia to CSRTW, from Jody Farrell (Bud Goldstone, Seymour Rosen, Ed Farrell and Jody Farrell), Martinez and Berkeley, California, October 17, 1961; and San Francisco Museum of Art, October 19, 1961. A.1.6 Letter to the CSRTW, by Claudio Segre [Segre], Re: Visit with Rodia in Martinez, California, January 25, 1962. A.1.7 "New Yorker Reporter Visits Rodia," Report to the CSRTW, Re: Interview with Simon Rodia and Relatives, by Calvin Trillin, Nicholas King, Jeanne Morgan, Beniamino Bufano, Martinez, California, August 30, 1964. A.1.8 Conversations with Rodia, Report by Jeanne Morgan, Re: Visits in Martinez, California, May 20, June 15, July 5, August 10, Sept. 10, 1964, and comments on New Yorker visit of Aug. 30, 1964. A.1.10 Last Conversation with Sam Rodia, Report by Jeanne Morgan, Re: Visit in Martinez, California, December 22, 1964. A.1.11 Interview, Part A and B, with S. Rodia, by Norma Ashley-David, Martinez, California, March [1964?]. A.1.12 Interview (Excerpts) with Rodia's Neighbors, Long Beach, California, by Bud Goldstone, 1963. A.4.13 Interview with S. Rodia, by Nicholas King, Martinez, California, September, 1990. Appendix A2 - CSRTW Campaign to Save the Watts Towers A.2.1 Nancie Cavanna Song Score, "Please Don't Tear Down the Towers" A.2.2 Campaign to Save the Watts Towers: Correspondence A.2.3 Miscellaneous Documents
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Fordham University Press The Historical Uncanny Disability Ethnicity and
Book SynopsisComparative study of the commemoration of the Nazi euthanasia program in Germany and the memory of Fascism and the Nazi occupation in and around Trieste. Explains why these memories have been marginalized from the discourse on the Holocaust and makes a case for why they are essential to grapple with.Trade Review"...an ambitious and highly engaging work." -- -Sarah Clift University of King's College "Susanne Knittel's study of 'disability, ethnicity, and the politics of Holocaust memory' is an extraordinarily original addition to the contemporary literature of Holocaust memory studies. In her focus on previously under-examined sites of memory (such as those commemorating the Nazis' mass-murder of the disabled) and under-studied dimensions of the Holocaust (such as perpetrators 'from Grafeneck to the Risiera'), Knittel's work not only expands the field but exemplifies the best, most profound new work in Holocaust memory studies I have seen in the last several years. It is absolutely essential reading." -- -James E. Young author of The Texture of Memory and At Memory's Edge "'The Historical Uncanny' draws on literary, artistic, and other realms in a study of memorials for the Nazi euthanasia program against the mentally ill and disabled, and for the persecution of Jews, Croats, and Slovenes in and near Trieste." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Susanne Knittel's book is beautifully written and original. It will inspire a necessary and overdue dialogue between Holocaust studies, memory studies, and disability studies." -- -Michael Rothberg author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization "The Historical Uncanny starts with the fact that it was the same group of German men who organized, supervised, and carried out the killing of the mentally ill and disabled in Grafeneck in 1940 and the deportation and killing of Jews and partisans at the Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste in 1943. The multi-directionality of perpetrator history on the killing fields across Europe generates new insights into the neglected links between eugenics, the Holocaust, and the role of Italian colonialism toward Slovenians and Croats. Past and present of two seemingly very different sites are woven together in illuminating readings of archival research, memorial sites and practices, exhibitions, television series, and literary texts. An exceptionally rich study in perpetrator history and nationally distinct memory politics in today's Europe." -- -Andreas Huyssen Columbia University "The Historical Uncanny is a compelling and highly original study of two interlinked, 'asymmetrical' sites of European history and memory: Grafeneck and Trieste, Germany and Italy, disability and race, euthanasia, ethnic persecution and genocide. Knittel builds on and challenges some of the most important recent insights into Holocaust memory, weaving around her two case studies a fascinating web of 'multidirectional' connections, biographical, spatial, representational and conceptual." -- -Robert S.C. Gordon University of Cambridge, author of The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Dedication Introduction Part I 1. Remembering Euthanasia: Grafeneck and the Struggle for Memory 2. Bridging the Silence, Part I: The Disabled Enabler 3. Bridging the Silence, Part II: The Vicarious Witness Intermezzo 4. Lethal Trajectories: Perpetrators from Grafeneck to the Risiera Part II 5. Black Holes and Revelations: The Risiera, the Foibe, and the Making of an "Italian Tragedy" 6. A Severed Branch: The Memory of Fascism on Stage and Screen 7. Bridging the Silence, Part III: Trieste and the Language of Belonging Conclusion Bibliography
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Fordham University Press Too Great a Burden to Bear The Struggle and
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on Bureau agents at a more personal level. The answers illuminate who officials believed qualified–or not–to oversee the freedpeople’s transition to freedom. Officials in Texas desired those able to meet emancipation’s challenges. That meant northern-born, mature, white men from the middle and upper-middle class, and generally with military experience.Trade Review"Rooted in bureau, census, and military records, Bean's research is nothing short of exhaustive...this is a solid study-accessibly written and deftly argued." -- -Dr. Brlan Matthew Jordan Civil War News "Christopher Bean's Too Great a Burden to Bear makes a significant contribution to Reconstruction studies. Deftly combining storytelling with systematic quantitative analyses of the evidence, Bean offers new information, not just on the agents themselves, but also on the largest issues in Reconstruction historiography." -- -J. William HarrisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. "A Stranger Amongst Strangers": Who Were the Subassistant Commissioners? 2. "The Post of Greatest Peril": The E. M. Gregory Era, September 1865-April 1866 3. Conservative Phoenix: The J. B. Kiddoo Era, May 1866-Summer 1866 4. Bureau Expansion, Bureau Courts, and the Black Code: The J. B. Kiddoo Era, Summer 1866-November 1866 5. The Bureau's Highwater Mark: The J. B. Kiddoo Era, November 1866-January 1867 6. "They Must Vote with the Party That Shed Their Blood ... In Giving Them Liberty": Bureau Agents, Politics, and the Bureau's New Order: The Charles Griffin Era, January 1867-Summer 1867 7. Violence, Frustration, and Yellow Fever: The Charles Griffin Era, Summer-Fall 1867 8. General Orders No. 40 and the Freedmen's Bureau's End: The J. J. Reynolds Era, September 1867-December 1868 Conclusion: The Subassistant Commissioners in Texas Appendix A Appendix B Notes Bibliography Index
£111.60
Fordham University Press Academics in Action A Model for CommunityEngaged
Book SynopsisThis edited volume, Academics in Action! describes a multi-disciplinary model informed by the educational philosophy of John Dewey wherein students and faculty work with communities, learn from them, and combing findings from theory and research to develop solutions to solve community problems. The volume offers innovative examples of community-engaged research, teaching, and service.Trade Review"Academics in Action shows how the cooperation of academics and community-based organizations can provide teaching and learning that can substantially transform the world toward greater justice." -- -Jeannine Hill Fletcher author of Motherhood as Metaphor: Engendering Interreligious Dialogue "Academics in Action: A Model for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Service, is a distinctive volume that could potentially inspire colleges and universities to adopt a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to service learning! Since institutions of higher learning are positioned to demonstrate their importance as agents of change, they can show us the significance of compassionate and knowledgeable leadership as it relates to the greater global good. This exceptional book also embraces qualitative and quantitative research. Combining these forms of study strengthens validity and positivistic interpretations of results and findings, leaving readers with noteworthy conclusions and strong implications for future practice at their institutions." -- -Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt Le Moyne College Professor EmeritaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Theories, Frameworks, and Experiences Chapter 1: "John Dewey, Participatory Democracy and University-Community Partnerships by Bob Innes, Leigh Gilchist, Susan Friedman, and Kristen Tompkins Chapter 2: "The Ethical Foundations of Human and Organizational Development Programs: The EHDC across the Curriculum, by Paul Dokecki, Linda Isaacs, Hasina Mohyuddin, and Mark McCormack Chapter 3: Faculty and Student Experiences as a Model for Academic Action" by Oluchi Nwosu, Emily Hennessey, Emily Burchfield, Sandra Barnes, Lauren Brinkley-Rubenstein, and Sharon Shields Part II: Implications and Responses: Academics in Action! Chapter 4: "Using Research to Guide Efforts to Prevent and End Homelessness" by Beth Shinn, Lindsay Mayberry, Andrew Greer, Ben Fisher, Jessica Gibbons, and Vera Chatman Chapter 5: "Ecological Research Promoting Positive Youth Development" by Carol T. Nixon, Bernadette Doykos, Velma M. Murry, Maury Nation, Nina Martin, Alley Pickren, and Joseph Gardella Chapter 6: "Putting Boyer's Four Types of Scholarship into Practice: A Community Research and Action Perspective on Public Health" by Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, William L. Turner, Vera Chatman, Laurel Lunn and Abbey Mann Chapter 7: "Conducting Research on Comprehensive Community Development Initiatives: Balancing Methodological Rigor and Community Responsiveness" by Kimberly Bess, Bernadette Doykos, Joanna Geller, Krista Craven, and Maury Nation Part III: Academic Structures that Foster Synergy, Collaboration, and Courses Chapter 8: "The Field School in Intercultural Education as a Model for International Service-Learning and Collaborative Action-Research Training" by Holly Karakos, Doug Perkins, Joanna Geller, Ben Fisher, , Nikolay Mihaylov, Sharon Shields, Laurel Lunn, and Neal Palmer Chapter 9: "An Interfaith Research Group Seeks to Understand Interfaith Community Groups: Creating a Mosaic of Personal Religious Values and Narratives" by Paul Dokecki, Linda Isaacs, Hasina Mohyuddin, and Mark McCormack Chapter 10: "Practicum Outcomes and Their Contributions" by Heather Smith, Vicki Davis, Beth Shinn, and Stephanie Zuckerman Chapter 11: "Can Philosophy, Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice Come Together to Guide Professional Education?" by Linda Isaacs, Sharon Shields, Craig Anne Heflinger, Paul Speer,Neal Palmer, Brendan O'Conner, and Allison McGuire Chapter 12:, "Links to Human Development, Social Justice, and Human Ecology or HDC's Roots from Dewey and Kohlberg", Andy Finch, Gina Frieden, Nina Martin, and Bethany Pittman Volume Conclusion
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Fordham University Press Educational Reconstruction African American
Book SynopsisBook explores the post-Civil War creation of African American public schools in Richmond, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama. Urban African Americans and their partners redefined American citizenship, created essential educational resources, and ensured that children had access to a quality education taught by African American teachers at the turn-of-the-twentieth century.Trade Review"... A significant contribution to our understanding of the long Reconstruction era, and to the origins of Booker T. Washington's ascendancy." -- -Mike FitzgeraldTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Envisioning Citizenship and the African American Schoolhouse 1. Remaking the Former Confederate Capital: Black Richmonders and the Transition to Public Schools, 1865-70 2. No Longer Slaves: Black Mobilians and the Hard Struggle for Schools, 1865-70 Part II: Creating Essential Partners and Resources 3. To "Do That Which Is Best": Richmond Colored Normal and the Development of Public Schoolteachers 4. Remaking Old Blue College: Emerson Normal and Addressing the Need for Public Schoolteachers Part III: Integrating the African American Schoolhouse 5. Shifting Strategies: Black Richmonders' Quest for Quality Public Schools 6. Rethinking Partners: Black Mobilians' Struggle for Quality Public Schools Part IV: Perfecting the African American Schoolhouse 7. Walking Slowly But Surely: The Readjusters and the Quality School Campaigns in Richmond 8. Still Crawling: Black Mobilians' Struggle For Quality Schools Continues Epilogue: The Blair Education Bill and the Death of Educational Reconstruction, 1890 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Educational Reconstruction African American
Book SynopsisBook explores the post-Civil War creation of African American public schools in Richmond, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama. Urban African Americans and their partners redefined American citizenship, created essential educational resources, and ensured that children had access to a quality education taught by African American teachers at the turn-of-the-twentieth century.Trade Review"... A significant contribution to our understanding of the long Reconstruction era, and to the origins of Booker T. Washington's ascendancy." -- -Mike FitzgeraldTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Envisioning Citizenship and the African American Schoolhouse 1. Remaking the Former Confederate Capital: Black Richmonders and the Transition to Public Schools, 1865-70 2. No Longer Slaves: Black Mobilians and the Hard Struggle for Schools, 1865-70 Part II: Creating Essential Partners and Resources 3. To "Do That Which Is Best": Richmond Colored Normal and the Development of Public Schoolteachers 4. Remaking Old Blue College: Emerson Normal and Addressing the Need for Public Schoolteachers Part III: Integrating the African American Schoolhouse 5. Shifting Strategies: Black Richmonders' Quest for Quality Public Schools 6. Rethinking Partners: Black Mobilians' Struggle for Quality Public Schools Part IV: Perfecting the African American Schoolhouse 7. Walking Slowly But Surely: The Readjusters and the Quality School Campaigns in Richmond 8. Still Crawling: Black Mobilians' Struggle For Quality Schools Continues Epilogue: The Blair Education Bill and the Death of Educational Reconstruction, 1890 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Tricksters and Cosmopolitans CrossCultural
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn examining these cross-cultural collaborations between Asian and Asian American authors and their mostly white U.S. editors and publishers Trickster-Cosmopolitanism adds what's missing from the current scholarship on the publishing history of Asian American writing. -- -Donald E. Pease Dartmouth College "A timely and groundbreaking study of Asian American literary production in the age of globalization. Through the double lenses of textual analysis and publication history, it sheds new light on what Magosaki calls 'trickster cosmopolitanism,' an interesting term she develops from 'Signifying' as defined in Afro-American literary history and applies to her study of the work of Asian American women writers. Tricksters Cosmopolitanism is a unique book that makes important contribution to Asian American literature and global and feminist studies." -- -Yunte Huang University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Trickster Poetics at the Turn of the Century: Charles Chesnutt, Sui Sin Far, and Allies in the East Coast Publishing Industry (1) Locating Trickster Poetics Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Walter Hines Page (2) Silence as Signifying Sui Sin Far's Short Stories, The Independent, and William Hayes Ward Chapter 2 The Making of the Cosmopolitan Subject: Jessica Hagedorn, San Francisco, and Multiculturalism in the Age of Globalization (1) San Francisco's Avant-Garde Literary Scene Yardbird Publishing, Shameless Hussey Press, and Third World Communications (2) A Star is Born Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food" (3) The Death of the Artist Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food," Side B (4) Stephen Vincent, Momo's Press, and the Crafting of "Pet Food" Chapter 3 L.A.-Paris-N.Y: Karen Tei Yamashita, Monique Truong, Min Jin Lee, and the Changing Parameters of Literary Production at the New Turn of the Century (1) L.A. Vie En Orange Animating the Global South in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1998) (2) The Impossible Book Identifying the Imperial-Colonial Register in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2004) (3) Chick Lit Goes to Wall Street Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires (2006) Acknowledgements
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Fordham University Press Tricksters and Cosmopolitans CrossCultural
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn examining these cross-cultural collaborations between Asian and Asian American authors and their mostly white U.S. editors and publishers Trickster-Cosmopolitanism adds what's missing from the current scholarship on the publishing history of Asian American writing. -- -Donald E. Pease Dartmouth College "A timely and groundbreaking study of Asian American literary production in the age of globalization. Through the double lenses of textual analysis and publication history, it sheds new light on what Magosaki calls 'trickster cosmopolitanism,' an interesting term she develops from 'Signifying' as defined in Afro-American literary history and applies to her study of the work of Asian American women writers. Tricksters Cosmopolitanism is a unique book that makes important contribution to Asian American literature and global and feminist studies." -- -Yunte Huang University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Trickster Poetics at the Turn of the Century: Charles Chesnutt, Sui Sin Far, and Allies in the East Coast Publishing Industry (1) Locating Trickster Poetics Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Walter Hines Page (2) Silence as Signifying Sui Sin Far's Short Stories, The Independent, and William Hayes Ward Chapter 2 The Making of the Cosmopolitan Subject: Jessica Hagedorn, San Francisco, and Multiculturalism in the Age of Globalization (1) San Francisco's Avant-Garde Literary Scene Yardbird Publishing, Shameless Hussey Press, and Third World Communications (2) A Star is Born Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food" (3) The Death of the Artist Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food," Side B (4) Stephen Vincent, Momo's Press, and the Crafting of "Pet Food" Chapter 3 L.A.-Paris-N.Y: Karen Tei Yamashita, Monique Truong, Min Jin Lee, and the Changing Parameters of Literary Production at the New Turn of the Century (1) L.A. Vie En Orange Animating the Global South in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1998) (2) The Impossible Book Identifying the Imperial-Colonial Register in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2004) (3) Chick Lit Goes to Wall Street Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires (2006) Acknowledgements
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Fordham University Press Too Great a Burden to Bear
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on Bureau agents at a more personal level. The answers illuminate who officials believed qualified–or not–to oversee the freedpeople’s transition to freedom. Officials in Texas desired those able to meet emancipation’s challenges. That meant northern-born, mature, white men from the middle and upper-middle class, and generally with military experience.Trade Review"Rooted in bureau, census, and military records, Bean's research is nothing short of exhaustive...this is a solid study-accessibly written and deftly argued." -- -Dr. Brlan Matthew Jordan Civil War News "Christopher Bean's Too Great a Burden to Bear makes a significant contribution to Reconstruction studies. Deftly combining storytelling with systematic quantitative analyses of the evidence, Bean offers new information, not just on the agents themselves, but also on the largest issues in Reconstruction historiography." -- -J. William HarrisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. "A Stranger Amongst Strangers": Who Were the Subassistant Commissioners? 2. "The Post of Greatest Peril": The E. M. Gregory Era, September 1865-April 1866 3. Conservative Phoenix: The J. B. Kiddoo Era, May 1866-Summer 1866 4. Bureau Expansion, Bureau Courts, and the Black Code: The J. B. Kiddoo Era, Summer 1866-November 1866 5. The Bureau's Highwater Mark: The J. B. Kiddoo Era, November 1866-January 1867 6. "They Must Vote with the Party That Shed Their Blood ... In Giving Them Liberty": Bureau Agents, Politics, and the Bureau's New Order: The Charles Griffin Era, January 1867-Summer 1867 7. Violence, Frustration, and Yellow Fever: The Charles Griffin Era, Summer-Fall 1867 8. General Orders No. 40 and the Freedmen's Bureau's End: The J. J. Reynolds Era, September 1867-December 1868 Conclusion: The Subassistant Commissioners in Texas Appendix A Appendix B Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press The Retreats of Reconstruction Race Leisure and
Book SynopsisThis book examines how de facto segregation unfolded and operated at the New Jersey shore after the Civil War. Weaving together histories of race, leisure, and consumption, it argues that the politics of mass consumption contained early desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Crow.Trade Review"Breaking away from the usual debates concerning post-Civil War America, David E. Goldberg explores race relations on the Jersey Shore in ways that should attract the attention not only of scholars of segregation but also of consumerism, leisure, and African American life in the North. There are good stories here ranging from the founding of Asbury Park to the lives of African American waiters as well as challenging ideas that stretch beyond the old narratives concerning the rise of Jim Crow in Northern states." -- -Paul A. Cimbala Fordham UniversityTable of ContentsAbstract Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Reconstructing Jim Crow Chapter Two: Occupying Jim Crow Chapter Three: Marketing and Managing Jim Crow Chapter Four: Boycotting Jim Crow Chapter Five: Cleaning Up Jim Crow Conclusion: Bibliography
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ME - Fordham University Press The Retreats of Reconstruction Race Leisure and
Book SynopsisThis book examines how de facto segregation unfolded and operated at the New Jersey shore after the Civil War. Weaving together histories of race, leisure, and consumption, it argues that the politics of mass consumption contained early desegregation efforts and prolonged Jim Crow.Trade Review"Breaking away from the usual debates concerning post-Civil War America, David E. Goldberg explores race relations on the Jersey Shore in ways that should attract the attention not only of scholars of segregation but also of consumerism, leisure, and African American life in the North. There are good stories here ranging from the founding of Asbury Park to the lives of African American waiters as well as challenging ideas that stretch beyond the old narratives concerning the rise of Jim Crow in Northern states." -- -Paul A. Cimbala Fordham UniversityTable of ContentsAbstract Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Reconstructing Jim Crow Chapter Two: Occupying Jim Crow Chapter Three: Marketing and Managing Jim Crow Chapter Four: Boycotting Jim Crow Chapter Five: Cleaning Up Jim Crow Conclusion: Bibliography
£999.99
Fordham University Press Fugitive Testimony On the Visual Logic of Slave
Book SynopsisFugitive Testimony examines African American slave narratives in light of contemporary artists’ use of the genre within their visual art at the end of the twentieth century. It identifies a sustained representational strategy employed by black cultural producers across time to challenge the racial presumptions that manifest as artistic constraints.Trade Review"In this original book Janet Neary views nineteenth-century slave narratives through the lens of contemporary art. This innovative strategy enables her to bring into focus the visual work of slave narratives and their resistance to the conventions of authentication. This is an important book that demonstrates how literature participates in the concerns of visual culture and how nineteenth-century problems of race and representation persist in the present." -- -Shawn Michelle Smith School of the Art Institute of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Fugitive Testimony Chapter 1: Sight Unseen: Contemporary Visual Slave Narratives Chapter 2: Behind the Scenes and Inside Out: Elizabeth Keckly's Use of the Slave Narrative Form Chapter 3: Optical Allusions: Textual Visuality in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Chapter 4: "The Shadow of the Cloud": Racial Speculation and Cultural Vision in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave Chapter 5: Gestures Against Movements: Henry Box Brown and Economies of Narrative Performance Epilogue: Racial Violence, Racial Capitalism, and Reading Revolution Harriet Jacobs, John Jones, Kerry James Marshall, and Kyle Baker Acknowledgments Index
£71.10
Fordham University Press Before the Fires
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As hip-hop has become a metaphor for the ingenuity and perseverance of a generation of black and Latino/a youth raised in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Mark Naison and Robert Gumbs's oral history of the region is a timely reminder of the brilliance incubated in the South Bronx two generations Before the Fires." -- -Mark Anthony Neal author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities "Before the Fires is an excellent oral history-profound, moving and skillfully executed. It will compel readers to revise their understandings of both the South Bronx and New York City." -- -Robert W. Snyder Rutgers University- NewarkTable of ContentsIntroduction, Professor Mark Naison Preface, Robert Gumbs 1. Vincent Harding (1931?2014) 2. Howie Evans (1934?) 3. Henry Pruitt (1934?) 4. Arthur Crier (1935?2004) 5. Gene Norman (1935?) 6. Beatrice Bergland (1936?) 7. Jacqueline Smith Bonneau (1938?) 8. Hetty Fox (1938?) 9. James Pruitt (1938?) 10. Paul Himmelstein (1941?) 11. Joseph Orange (1941?) 12. Jimmy Owens, (1943?) 13. Andrea Ramsey (1943?) 14. Daphne Moss (1947?) 15. Victoria Archibald?Good (1947?) 16. Taur Orange (1955?) Appendix, Walking Tour
£73.80
Fordham University Press Before the Fires An Oral History of African
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As hip-hop has become a metaphor for the ingenuity and perseverance of a generation of black and Latino/a youth raised in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Mark Naison and Robert Gumbs's oral history of the region is a timely reminder of the brilliance incubated in the South Bronx two generations Before the Fires." -- -Mark Anthony Neal author of Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities "Before the Fires is an excellent oral history-profound, moving and skillfully executed. It will compel readers to revise their understandings of both the South Bronx and New York City." -- -Robert W. Snyder Rutgers University- NewarkTable of ContentsIntroduction, Professor Mark Naison Preface, Robert Gumbs 1. Vincent Harding (1931?2014) 2. Howie Evans (1934?) 3. Henry Pruitt (1934?) 4. Arthur Crier (1935?2004) 5. Gene Norman (1935?) 6. Beatrice Bergland (1936?) 7. Jacqueline Smith Bonneau (1938?) 8. Hetty Fox (1938?) 9. James Pruitt (1938?) 10. Paul Himmelstein (1941?) 11. Joseph Orange (1941?) 12. Jimmy Owens, (1943?) 13. Andrea Ramsey (1943?) 14. Daphne Moss (1947?) 15. Victoria Archibald?Good (1947?) 16. Taur Orange (1955?) Appendix, Walking Tour
£19.94
Fordham University Press Bilingual Brokers Race Literature and Language
Book SynopsisBilingual Brokers examines bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latino literature through postwar debates on bilingualism to illustrate a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of value for racialized subjects crystallizes at the intersections of language and racial difference and is used in deliberations of social worthiness.Trade Review"Bilingual Brokers offers a compelling and convincing account of the shifting reception and representations of bilingualism, as it has been received in a predominantly monolingual American culture and society. It probes with insight the implications of these changes for Asian Americans and Latino communities, especially since the dramatic demographic changes in the size and constituencies of both following sweeping reforms in immigration law and global economic restructuring in the 1960s." -- -Crystal Parikh New York University
£999.99
Fordham University Press Bilingual Brokers
Book SynopsisBilingual Brokers examines bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latino literature through postwar debates on bilingualism to illustrate a regime of flexible inclusion where an economic calculus of value for racialized subjects crystallizes at the intersections of language and racial difference and is used in deliberations of social worthiness.Trade Review"Bilingual Brokers offers a compelling and convincing account of the shifting reception and representations of bilingualism, as it has been received in a predominantly monolingual American culture and society. It probes with insight the implications of these changes for Asian Americans and Latino communities, especially since the dramatic demographic changes in the size and constituencies of both following sweeping reforms in immigration law and global economic restructuring in the 1960s." -- -Crystal Parikh New York University
£19.79
Fordham University Press Racial Worldmaking
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between race representation and popular fiction from 1893 to the present, as well as its impact on historiography, economics, and law.Trade Review"In a book that pays equal attention to the protocols and history of genre reading and to contemporary critical theories of race, Mark Jerng shows how techniques of worldbuilding in science fiction and fantasy and attention to setting as site of literary innovation define textual and interpretive strategies for producing race at levels other than biological differences or overtly racialized characters or authors, shifting the analysis of race and racism away from visual epistemology to allow them to be understood as embedded in fictional worlds." -- -Thomas Foster author of The Souls of Cyberfolk: Posthumanism as Vernacular Theory "Racial Worldmaking meets the irresistible demand for scholarship that recognizes the central role of perceiving and speculating about race in American literature and culture. By situating race as a structuring principle within legal doctrines, literary traditions, and economic philosophies, Jerng interrogates the fictions that buttress dominant racial ideologies and calls attention to the imaginative work performed by thinkers who take racism seriously. Racial Worldmaking moves beyond disciplinary conventions to apply lessons learned from critical race theories and advance vital lines of inquiry inaugurated by Black and Asian American intellectuals." -- -andre carrington author of Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science FictionTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Racial Worldmaking Part I. Yellow Peril Genres Chapter 1. Worlds of Color Chapter 2. Futures Past of Asiatic Racialization Part II. Plantation Romance Chapter 3. Romance and Racism after the Civil War Chapter 4. Reconstructing Racial Perception Part III. Sword and Sorcery Chapter 5. The “Facts” of Blackness and Anthropological Worlds Chapter 6. Fantasies of Blackness and Racial Capitalism Part IV. Alternate History Chapter 7. Racial Counterfactuals and the Uncertain Event of Emancipation Chapter 8. World War II and Uncertain Forms of Racial Organization Conclusion: Towards an Anti-racist Racial Worldmaking Notes Index
£85.50
Fordham University Press Education at War The Fight for Students of Color
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£78.30
Fordham University Press Education at War
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£22.79
Fordham University Press Latinx Literature Unbound
Book SynopsisLatinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What We Talk about When We Talk About Latina/o Literature Chapter 1: Brown Like Me?: The Author Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies Chapter 2: Confounding the Mimetic: The Meta-Fictional Challenge to Representation Chapter 3: From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story Chapter 4: The Lyric, or, A Radical Singularity in Latina/o Verse Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Limits
£78.30
Fordham University Press Latinx Literature Unbound Undoing Ethnic
Book SynopsisLatinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.Table of ContentsIntroduction: What We Talk about When We Talk About Latina/o Literature Chapter 1: Brown Like Me?: The Author Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies Chapter 2: Confounding the Mimetic: The Meta-Fictional Challenge to Representation Chapter 3: From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story Chapter 4: The Lyric, or, A Radical Singularity in Latina/o Verse Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Limits
£23.39
Fordham University Press A Great Sacrifice Northern Black Soldiers Their
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.Table of ContentsList of Figures xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction | 1 1 Life in the North: Before the War | 11 2 A Grand Opportunity: 1861 and 1862 | 19 3 The Forming of Black Regiments and Success in Battle | 28 4 The Unequal Pay Issue | 44 5 Violence on Two Fronts | 81 6 Information Requests | 98 7 Discharge Requests | 120 8 The Conclusion of the War | 130 9 After the War: A Different Kind of Battle | 135 10 Even Farther Away from Home: Occupation Duty Continues | 156 11 Home Again | 178 Appendix: Northern Black Regiments 185 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 189 Cited Literature 237 Index 249
£27.90
Fordham University Press A Great Sacrifice Northern Black Soldiers Their
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes the effects of the Civil War on northern black families as they sacrificed for a Union victory. This book especially studies the effects of the war on these families as they and their soldiers fully supported the Union war effort and strived to gain full American citizenship.Table of ContentsList of Figures xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction | 1 1 Life in the North: Before the War | 11 2 A Grand Opportunity: 1861 and 1862 | 19 3 The Forming of Black Regiments and Success in Battle | 28 4 The Unequal Pay Issue | 44 5 Violence on Two Fronts | 81 6 Information Requests | 98 7 Discharge Requests | 120 8 The Conclusion of the War | 130 9 After the War: A Different Kind of Battle | 135 10 Even Farther Away from Home: Occupation Duty Continues | 156 11 Home Again | 178 Appendix: Northern Black Regiments 185 Acknowledgments 187 Notes 189 Cited Literature 237 Index 249
£111.60
