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Book SynopsisOne of NPR's Books We Love in 2022. Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography In this erudite and piercing biography, best-selling author Reza Aslan proves that one person's actions can have revolutionary consequences that reverberate the world over.Trade Review"An engrossing, entertaining, evocative, and unexpectedly cinematic story, a pleasure to read in that specific way where it’s impossible not to imagine the movie or ten-episode series in your head as you go. For both the facts of the story and Aslan’s unique ability to merge literary flourish with accessible scholarship and historical deep-dives, it’s a page-turner the likes of which are rarely produced in the historical biography genre. For its filling of a major gap in the library of geopolitical history, its resonance with the present-day strife in Iran, its echoes of other historical political battlelines in the region, and its celebration of how sincere faith of any denomination can inform a more noble and humanistic view of international relations, it’s required reading." -- Shana Nys Dambort - LA Weekly"Aslan tells us Baskerville’s story with passion and sweetness." -- Tunku Varadarajan - Wall Street Journal"A rip-roaring tale of a fascinating time in history… Aslan’s vivid storytelling evokes an intriguing cast of courtiers, clerics, desperados and idealists." -- Tara Bahrampour - Washington Post"Reza Aslan has a unique talent for showing how piety and politics can merge, or quarrel, in the hearts of people. An American Martyr in Persia is a fascinating and thoroughly engrossing biography. A triumph." -- Laila Lalami, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, author of Conditional Citizens"An astonishing story that underscores the power of biography. In Reza Aslan’s lyrical voice, Howard Baskerville’s short life comes alive as a fantastical fairy tale—a wild and improbable adventure story. [Aslan] reminds us that Iran’s revolution is quite simply unfinished." -- Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Prometheus"Beautifully written and immensely readable.… Aslan meticulously weaves Iranian–US relations with palace intrigue, Russian and British designs on Persia, and heart-stopping accounts of battles between the forces of democracy and autocracy—some seventy years before another Iranian revolution grabbed the attention of the west." -- Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ"Great read, thoughtful and thought provoking. We must all pay attention to Reza Aslan’s timely reminder that ‘the suffering of any person anywhere is the responsibility of all peoples everywhere.’" -- Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran"Aslan has rediscovered the tale of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of the early twentieth century.… [This story] is a poignant reminder of the extraordinary affinity that historically existed between the peoples of Iran and the United States and raises the hope that this closeness might someday be kindled anew." -- Scott Anderson, author of The Quiet Americans"A remarkable history that echoes to this day, with much to teach us about modern Iran and about ourselves. Read this book and be reminded of the common humanity that can transcend even our own cavernous divides." -- Ben Rhodes, author of After the Fall"Reza Aslan’s An American Martyr in Persia is a stirring reminder of the power of idealism, hope, and courage in the face of tyranny and injustice. The story of Howard Baskerville is as important today as it was in his lifetime, and Aslan’s lucid prose and compelling narrative introduces him to a new generation who will find inspiration in his deeds." -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of The Sympathizer"Replete with fascinating asides into the revolutionary politics of the era and the complex dynamics between Russia, England, and Persia, this is a provocative portrait of an unsung American hero." -- Publishers Weekly"An intriguing read that breathes life into a pivotal moment of Persian/Iranian history." -- Kirkus

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Book SynopsisA collection that showcases the scholarship in Asian American studies from a critical and cultural studies perspective. It takes on a range of topics and concerns, including Asian American film and popular culture; Asian Americans at the dawn of the 21st century; globalization and transnational citizenship; and queer Asian America.Trade Review“A stimulating set of essays from a new generation of Asian American Studies scholars. The collection opens new questions for the field and suggests important theoretical possibilities.” David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Asian American Studies in Its Second Phase: Kent A. Ono (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). PART I: Representations. 1 What is the Political? American Culture and the Example of Viet Nam: Viet Nguyen (University of Southern California). 2 Ethnography, the Cinematic Apparatus, and Asian American Film Studies: Peter Feng (University of Delaware). 3 Culinary Fictions: Immigrant Foodways and Race in Indian American Literature: Anita Mannur (Wesleyan University). PART II: Identities. 4 Foregrounding Native Nationalisms: A Critique of Anti-Nationalist Sentiment in Asian American Studies: Candace Fujikane (University of Hawaii). 5 A World Make-Over? An Asian American Queer Critique: Martin Manalansan IV (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). 6 Asian American Studies Through (Somewhat) Asian Eyes: Integrating “Mixed Race” into the Asian American Discourse: Cynthia Nakashima (University of California at Berkeley). PART III: Disciplines and Methodologies. 7 Asian American Studies and the “Pacific Question”: J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan University). 8 Planet Youth: Asian American Youth Cultures, Citizenship, and Globalization: Sunaina Maira (University of California, Davis). 9 The Problematics of History and Location of Filipino American Studies within Asian American Studies: Helen Toribio (San Francisco State University). 10 Rethinking Asian American Victimhood: Understanding the Complexity of Race and Citizenship in America: Taro Iwata (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Index

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Book SynopsisA collection that showcases the scholarship in Asian American studies from a critical and cultural studies perspective. It takes on a range of topics and concerns, including Asian American film and popular culture; Asian Americans at the dawn of the 21st century; globalization and transnational citizenship; and queer Asian America.Trade Review“A stimulating set of essays from a new generation of Asian American Studies scholars. The collection opens new questions for the field and suggests important theoretical possibilities.” David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Asian American Studies in Its Second Phase: Kent A. Ono (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). PART I: Representations. 1 What is the Political? American Culture and the Example of Viet Nam: Viet Nguyen (University of Southern California). 2 Ethnography, the Cinematic Apparatus, and Asian American Film Studies: Peter Feng (University of Delaware). 3 Culinary Fictions: Immigrant Foodways and Race in Indian American Literature: Anita Mannur (Wesleyan University). PART II: Identities. 4 Foregrounding Native Nationalisms: A Critique of Anti-Nationalist Sentiment in Asian American Studies: Candace Fujikane (University of Hawaii). 5 A World Make-Over? An Asian American Queer Critique: Martin Manalansan IV (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). 6 Asian American Studies Through (Somewhat) Asian Eyes: Integrating “Mixed Race” into the Asian American Discourse: Cynthia Nakashima (University of California at Berkeley). PART III: Disciplines and Methodologies. 7 Asian American Studies and the “Pacific Question”: J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Wesleyan University). 8 Planet Youth: Asian American Youth Cultures, Citizenship, and Globalization: Sunaina Maira (University of California, Davis). 9 The Problematics of History and Location of Filipino American Studies within Asian American Studies: Helen Toribio (San Francisco State University). 10 Rethinking Asian American Victimhood: Understanding the Complexity of Race and Citizenship in America: Taro Iwata (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign). Index

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Book SynopsisThis book gives readers a broad understanding of the Black Church in America and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world. Explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilemmas Argues that in the Black Church, individual and communal destiny are bound together The author is a Priest in the Episcopal Church and teaches spirituality and Black Church studies at Duke University. Trade Review"This work is a good contribution to the other books that are in the field of African American spirituality." (Expository Times, December 2008) "The key to understanding Battle's fine study of the black church is found in his background as an African American Episcopal priest. His major thesis is that a strong sense of community pervades African American spirituality, which comes from communal African religious traditions and the survival needs of enslaved Africans in a hostile American environment. Although Battle's treatment of the historical material is not new, his emphasis on the communal worship and spirituality of African American Christianity is an important theological direction. Deeply influenced by the theology of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who ordained him, Battle (Virginia Theological Seminary) argues that the communal spirituality of African Americans should be inclusive, eventually "inviting others to be black." He pushes this theme of community and reconciliation with a chapter that elaborates on Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of "the Beloved Community," indicating that the black church can be the fulfillment of that view. He concludes the study with two challenges: a "Churchless Black Church" and a "Womanless Black Church." The book includes a historical time line and a bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists in the field." (Choice) "The African American churches need less absolutizing in order to undertake their great task of addressing the still rampant inequality and structural racism that criminalizes so many of their young males and reduces others to passivity. A radical gospel is needed more than ever, and it is to be hoped that this book will stimulate research to galvanize the churches into reflective action." (Theological Book Review) "An intriguing attempt at building a case for an African American Spirituality that is communal and relational in nature." (Expository Times)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: An Amphibious Worldview. 1. Emergence of What is African. African Warnings. What is African?. 2. The Particularity of African American Spirituality. 3. The Black Church in the Shadow of Slavery. The Scourge of Slavery. The Survival of Africanism. The Emergence of Black Denominations. 4. Communal Worship. The Controversy of Emotionalism. “Spiritual Song” and the Emergence of Black Denominations. African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. African American Baptists Churches. National Baptist Convention, USA. African American Pentecostalism. Black Worship. 5. Inviting Others to Be Black. African vs. Black: Dialectic Tension. James Cone and Desmond Tutu. African and Black: Communal Synthesis. 6. The Black Church as the Beloved Community. King’s View: Prophecy and Nonviolence. African American Responses to King. King’s Dream of the Beloved Community. Communal Antithesis for King. 7. Embodying African American Spirituality. A Churchless Black Church. A Womanless Black Church. The Full Embodiment of the Black Church. Timeline of the Black Church. Websites for Historic Black Denominations. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book gives readers a broad understanding of the Black Church in America and a sense of its uniqueness in the wider world. Explores the history of the Black Church in America, its African roots, beliefs, practices, politics, and contemporary moral dilemmas Argues that in the Black Church, individual and communal destiny are bound together The author is a Priest in the Episcopal Church and teaches spirituality and Black Church studies at Duke University. Trade Review"Michael Battle's book is a wise and bold treatment of the most complex phenomenon in Afro-American life: The Black Church. We need to listen to his words." Cornel West, Princeton University "The key to understanding Battle's fine study of the black church is found in his background as an African American Episcopal priest. His major thesis is that a strong sense of community pervades African American spirituality, which comes from communal African religious traditions and the survival needs of enslaved Africans in a hostile American environment. Although Battle's treatment of the historical material is not new, his emphasis on the communal worship and spirituality of African American Christianity is an important theological direction. Deeply influenced by the theology of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who ordained him, Battle (Virginia Theological Seminary) argues that the communal spirituality of African Americans should be inclusive, eventually "inviting others to be black." He pushes this theme of community and reconciliation with a chapter that elaborates on Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of "the Beloved Community," indicating that the black church can be the fulfillment of that view. He concludes the study with two challenges: a "Churchless Black Church" and a "Womanless Black Church." The book includes a historical time line and a bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists in the field." Choice "The African American churches need less absolutizing in order to undertake their great task of addressing the still rampant inequality and structural racism that criminalizes so many of their young males and reduces others to passivity. A radical gospel is needed more than ever, and it is to be hoped that this book will stimulate research to galvanize the churches into reflective action." Theological Book Review "An intriguing attempt at building a case for an African American Spirituality that is communal and relational in nature." Expository TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Introduction: An Amphibious Worldview xi 1 Emergence of What is African 1 African Warnings 1 What is African? 12 2 The Particularity of African American Spirituality 23 3 The Black Church in the Shadow of Slavery 43 The Scourge of Slavery 46 The Survival of Africanism 57 The Emergence of Black Denominations 60 4 Communal Worship 66 The Controversy of Emotionalism 70 “Spiritual Song” and the Emergence of Black Denominations 72 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 77 Christian Methodist Episcopal Church 77 African American Baptists Churches 78 National Baptist Convention, USA 85 African American Pentecostalism 86 Black Worship 88 5 Inviting Others to Be Black 98 African vs. Black: Dialectic Tension 103 James Cone and Desmond Tutu 106 African and Black: Communal Synthesis 115 6 The Black Church as the Beloved Community 127 King’s View: Prophecy and Nonviolence 133 African American Responses to King 144 King’s Dream of the Beloved Community 152 Communal Antithesis for King 154 7 Embodying African American Spirituality 163 A Churchless Black Church 165 A Womanless Black Church 169 The Full Embodiment of the Black Church 176 Timeline of the Black Church 183 Websites for Historic Black Denominations 203 Bibliography 204 Index 216

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Book SynopsisThis volume celebrates and evaluates Anthony D. Smith's path-breaking contribution to the study of nations and nationalism. A fresh and critical look at Anthony D. Smith's path-breaking contribution to the study of nations and nationalism. Debates various issues concerning Smith's controversial ethnosymbolic approach. Includes contributions from academics based in the Czech Republic, Norway, the UK and US. Opens up new avenues of research. Table of ContentsIntroduction: History and National Destiny: Monterrey Guibernau (Open University) and John Hutchinson (London School of Economics). 1. Definitions, Periodization and Prospects for the Longue Duree: John A. Armstrong (retired from University of Wisconsin, Madison). 2. Covenant and Continuity: Ethno-Symbolism and the Myth of Divine Election: Bruce Cauthen. 3. The Timelessness of Nations: Walker Connor (Middlebury College). 4. Place, Kinship and the Case for Non-Ethnic Nations: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo). 5. ‘Dominant Ethnicity’ and the ‘Ethnic-Civic’ Dichotomy in the Work of A. D. Smith: Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck College, University of London) and Oliver Zimmer (University of Durham). 6. Ethnicity and Supra-Ethnicity in Corpus Planning: The Hidden Status Agenda in Corpus Planning: Joshua A. Fishman (Yeshiva University, New York). 7. From Ethnic Group Toward the Modern Nation: The Czech Case: Miroslav Hroch (Charles University Prague). 8. Myth Against Myth: The Nation as Ethnic Overlay: John Hutchinson (London School of Economics). 9. Anthony D. Smith on Nations and National Identity: A Critical Assessment: Montserrat Guibernau (Open University). 10. The Ethno-Cultural Roots of National Art: Athena S. Leoussi (University of Reading). 11. Nationalism and Globalisation: Mary Kaldor. 12. Globalising National States: Stein Tønnesson (historian). 13. History and National Destiny: Responses and Clarifications: Anthony D. Smith (London School of Economics). Index.

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Book SynopsisOn the Nature of Prejudice commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Gordon Allport's classic work on prejudice and discrimination by examining the current state of knowledge in the field. A distinguished collection of international scholars considers Allport's impact on the field, reviews recent developments, and identifies promising directions for future investigation. Organized around Allport''s central themes, this book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive view of where the field has been, where it is now, and where it is going.Trade Review"To simultaneously take stock of research on prejudice and mark the 50th anniversary of Gordon Allport's The Nature of Prejudice, a prolific group of 44 authors collaborated to produce a set of reviews that will surely guide the next 50 years of prejudice research. The resulting book, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years After Allport, reveals such a rich sense of dialogue, cooperation, and thoughtful regard for posterity that it reads like no ordinary academic text. Words like “wide-ranging,” “respectful,” “scholarly,” “comprehensive,” and “truly ground-breaking” came to mind as I read deliberations about why Allport's work remains so influential today, the new insights that have emerged in the field, and potential directions for future investigations." PsycCRITIQUES "This outstanding volume is more than just a well-written and entertaining homage to the work of Gordon Allport, arguably one of the most influential and insightful students of prejudice in the 20th century. In addition, this book has managed to assemble most of the leading scholars in the field and induce them to think clearly and succinctly about our present state of knowledge and to sketch out the several theoretical issues that remain to be clarified by future research. The overall result is a volume that is simply a tour de force and a “must read” for anyone seriously interested in deepening their understanding of the frustratingly complex issues of prejudice and intergroup conflict in the modern world." James Sidanius, UCLA “Even while acknowledging that Gordon Allport continues to dominate the agenda for prejudice research, this volume's contributions reveal many new insights based on the original and wide-ranging research of the authors - often calling for revision of Allport's thinking.” Anthony G. Greenwald, University of Washington “The idea of building an edited volume around Allport’s classic book is brilliant, and the timing could not be better.” Marilynn Brewer, Ohio State University "This book is an impressive addition to the literature in social psychology... certainly an excellent 'one stop-shop' for mainstream social psychology research on prejudice." Kenneth McKenzie, Trinity College, Dublin. Social Psychologyical Review, April 2006 "All in all, there can be no doubt that Gordon Allport laid the foundation for research on prejudice. However, we think the editors and authors of this volume have successfully built on that solid base by adding their own theoretical and empirical layers, ones that further strengthen the field’s knowledge for the future." American Journal of Psychology Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Foreword by Victoria M. Esses. Preface. 1. Introduction: Reflecting on The Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years after Allport. (John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick and Laurie A. Rudman). Part I: Preferential Thinking. 2. What is the Problem? Prejudice as an Attitude-in-Context. (Alice H. Eagly and Amanda B. Diekman). 3. Social Cognition and Prejudgment. (Susan T. Fiske). 4. Ingroup Affiliations and Prejudice. (Rupert Brown and Hanna Zagefka). 5. Categorization, Recategorization, and Intergroup Bias. (Samuel L. Gaertner and John F. Dovidio). 6. Paternalism and the "Rejection" of Outgroups. (Mary R. Jackman). 7. Rejection of Women? Beyond Prejudice as Antipathy. (Laurie A. Rudman). Part II: Group Differences. 8. Group Differences and Stereotype Accuracy. (Charles M. Judd and Bernadette Park). 9. The Psychological Impact of Prejudice. (Brenda Major and S. Brooke Vick). 10. Mechanisms for Coping with Victimization: Self-Protection Plus Self-Enhancement. (James M. Jones). Part III: Perceiving and Thinking About Group Differences. 11. Cognitive Process: Reality Constraints and Integrity Concerns in Social Perception. (Vincent Yzerbyt and Olivier Cornielle). 12. Linguistic Factors: Antilocutions, Ethnonyms, Ethnophaulisms, and Other Varieties of Hate Speech. (Brian Mullen and Tirza Leader). 13. Stereotypes in Our Culture. John T. Jost (New York University) and David L. Hamilton (University of California, Santa Barbara). Part IV: Sociocultural Factors. 14. Instrumental Relations Among Groups: Group Competition, Conflict, and Prejudice. (Victoria M. Esses, Lynne M. Jackson, John F. Dovidio, and Gordon Hodson). 15. Choice of Scapegoats. (Peter Glick). 16. Allport's Intergroup Contact Hypothesis: Its History and Influence. (Thomas F. Pettigrew and Linda R. Tropp). 17. Intergroup Contact: When Does it Work, and Why? (Jared B. Kenworthy, Rhiannon N. Turner, Miles Hewstone, Alberto Voci). Part V. Acquiring Prejudice. 18. Conformity and Prejudice. (Christian S. Crandall and Charles Stangor). 19. The Development of Prejudice in Childhood and Adolescence. (Frances E. Aboud). 20. Breaking the Prejudice Habit: Allport's "Inner Conflict" Revisited. (Patricia G. Devine). 21. Inner Conflict in the Political Psychology of Racism. (David O. Sears). Part VI. The Dynamics of Prejudice. 22. Aggression, Hatred, and Other Emotions. (Eliot R. Smith and Diane M. Mackie). 23. Allport's "Living Inkblots": The Role of Defensive Projection in Stereotyping and Prejudice. (Leonard S. Newman and Tracy L. Caldwell). Part VII. Character Structure. 24. Personality and Prejudice. (John Duckitt). 25. Religion and Prejudice. (C. Daniel Batson and E. L. Stocks). Part VIII. Reducing Group Tensions. 26. Intergroup Relations Program Evaluation. (Walter G. Stephan and Cookie White Stephan). Author Index. Subject Index

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Book SynopsisCritical Pedagogy and Race argues that a rigorous engagement with race is a priority for educators concerned with equality in schools and in society. * A landmark collection arguing that engaging with race at both conceptual and practical levels is a priority for educators.Trade ReviewIn this text, critical race theory in education approaches its adolescence. It has moved from the dependency of infancy where it could only be made understandable in the context of legal scholarship, to the uncertain steps of childhood where it kept looking elsewhere for approval, to the exciting, brash, and even rebellious period of its teenaged years. In this text it seeks its identity, defines a new way of being, and makes adults pay attention. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison A book for all concerned about education for multiracial democracy. Critical pedagogy here meets critical race theory for the first time in a substantial framing. These pioneering scholars of education and communications go where few have gone before to develop a vital pedagogy taking institutionalized racism seriously. Formulating an educational perspective foregrounding white racism and privilege, these savvy educators press for a deep consideration of major anti-racist strategies in 21st century education. Joe R. Feagin, Texas University Table of ContentsEditorial (Michael A. Peters). Foreword (Zeus Leonardo). Introduction—‘Racism’ and ‘New Racism’: The contours of racial dynamics in contemporary America (Eduardo Bonna-Silva). 1. The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the discourse of ‘white privilege’ (Zeus Leonardo). 2. Whiteness and Critical Pedagogy (Ricky Lee Allen). 3. Maintaining Social Justice Hopes within Academic Realities: A Freirean approach to critical race/LatCrit pedagogy (Daniel G. Solorzano and Tara J. Rosso). 4. The Social Construction of Difference and the Quest for Educational Equality (James A. Banks). 5. Anti-racism: From policy to praxis (David Gillborn). 6. Critical Race Theory, Afrocentricity, and their Relationship to Critical Pedagogy (Marvin Lynn). 7. Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of ‘difference’ (Valerie Scatamburlo-D’Annibale and Peter McLaren). 8. Actions Following Words: Critical race theory connects to critical pedagogy (Laurence Parker and David O. Stovall). 9. Race, Class, and Gender in Education Research: Surveying the political terrain (Michele Foster). 10. An Apartheid of Knowledge in Academia: The struggle over the ‘legitimate’ knowledge of faculty of color (Delores Delgado Bernal and Octavio Villalpando). 11 Postcolonial Literature and the Curricular Imagination: Wilson Harris and the pedagogical implications of the carnivalesque (Cameron McCarthy and Greg Dimitriadis). Notes on Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisA rich and engrossing account of ''sexual outlaws'' in the Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic law requires strict separation of the sexes and different rules of behavior for women and men in virtually every facet of life. The first ethnographic study of sexual minorities in Africa, and one of very few works on sexual minorities in the Islamic world Engagingly written, combining innovative, ethnographic narrative with analyses of sociolinguistic transcripts, historical texts, and popular media, including video, film, newspapers, and song-poetry Analyzes the social experiences and expressive culture of yan daudu (feminine men in Nigerian Hausaland) in relation to local, national, and global debates over gender and sexuality at the turn of the twenty-first century Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize in the category of Outstanding Monograph Trade Review"This text provides some challenging insights into the whole arena of identity construction at individual and group levels." (PsycCRITIQUES, January 2010) "Both scholarly and enthralling, Allah Made Us succeeds in introducing us to a fascinating world usually hidden from Western view, as well as making a strong case for how sexual and gender expression and—its transgression—is deeply embedded in individual cultures." (Gay & Lesbian Review, November 2009)Table of ContentsList of Figures viii Acknowledgments ix Notes on Orthography, Translation and Transcription xiii 1 Introducing 'Yan Daudu 1 2 People of the Bariki 29 3 Out in the Open 61 4 Women's Talk, Men's Secrets 89 5 Playing with Faith 117 6 Men on Film 143 7 Lost and Found in Translation 175 Epilogue: May God Keep a Secret 196 Glossary of Hausa terms 206 Bibliography 210 Index 228

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Book SynopsisLatinas in Popular Culture explores the way Latina representations have exploded onto mainstream popular culture--and into American consciousness.Trade Review“It is destined to quickly become a landmark text and valuable archival resource for all scholars of media and popular culture, regardless of specialization, but will be of particular interest to those with interests in Latina/o/x Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Girl Studies, and Disney Studies.” - Global Media Journal –German Edition, Vol. 11 No. 2 (2021): Autumn/Winter 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1 Continuities and Ruptures: The Gender of Latinidad 1 2 Spitfire Transition Tales: The Production of a Career 25 3 An Unambivalent Structure of Ambivalence: Disney’s Production of Latina Princesses 73 4 Latina/o Media Utopias: The Ideal Place or No Place 117 References 163 Index 183

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Book SynopsisThis volume considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups. Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicity, health, and health care Considers the implications of national and international social, political, and economic realities for health and health care provision to minority ethnic groups Represents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnic groups, refugees, and asylum seekers across the world Includes international comparisons between Caribbean migrants to the US and UK, the provision of interpreters in general practice and the variations in uptake of disability living allowance across ethnic groups Trade Review"This book, edited by two sociologists who have helped delineate the field, brings the reader up to date through seven empirical studies in ethnicity and health care, covering self-reported health, nutrition, depression, end-of-life care, diabetes, chronic illness and interpretation . " (Sociology of Health & Illness, 2009) Table of Contents1. Locating Ethnicity and Health: Exploring Concepts and Contexts (Waqar Ahmad and Hannah Bradby). 2. The Black Diaspora and Health Inequalities in the US and England: Does Where You Go and How You Get There Make a Difference? (James Nazroo). 3. Race and Nutrition: An Investigation of Black-White Differences in Health-related Nutritional Behaviours (Peter Riley Bahr). 4. Describing Depression: Ethnicity and the Use of Somatic Imagery in Accounts of Mental Distress (Sara Mallinson and Jennie Popay). 5. Hospice or Home? Expectations of End-of-life Care among White and Chinese Older People in the UK (Jane Seymour, Sheila Payne, Alice Chapman and Margaret Holloway). 6. Contextualising Accounts of Illness: Notions of Responsibility and Blame in White and South Asian Respondents’ Accounts of Diabetes Causation (Julia Lawton, Naureen Ahmad, Elizabeth Peel and Nina Hallowell). 7. Long-term Health Conditions and Disability Living Allowance: Exploring Ethnic Differences and Similarities in Access (Sarah Salway, Lucinda Platt, Kaveri Harriss and Punita Chowbey). 8. Interpreted Consultations as ‘Business as Usual’? An Analysis of Organisational Routines in General Practices (Trisha Greenhalgh, Christopher Voisey and Nadia Robb). Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Ethnic Dimension in American History is a thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States. Considering ethnicity in terms of race, language, religion and national origin, this important text examines its effects on social relations, public policy and economic development. A thorough survey of the role that ethnicity has played in shaping the history of the United States, including the effects of ethnicity on social relations, public policy and economic development Includes histories of a wide range of ethnic groups including African Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Chinese, Europeans, Japanese, Muslims, Koreans, and Latinos Examines the interaction of ethnic groups with one another and the dynamic processes of acculturation, modernization, and assimilation; as well as the history of immigration Revised and updated material in the fourth edition reflects current thinkiTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I Worlds Collide: Indian People, Africans, and Europeans in Colonial America 7 1 The First Americans 17 2 The European Migrations 29 3 Ethnicity and Manifest Destiny 58 4 African Americans in the Early Years 92 Conclusion: Ethnic America in 1890 113 Part II Ethnic America in Transition, 1890–1945 121 5 The Age of the New Immigrants 128 6 American Jews 151 7 Asian America, 1882–1945 165 8 The Nativist Reaction 179 9 Native Americans: The Assault on Tribalism 191 10 Jim Crow and Ghettos: African Americans 205 11 Mexican Americans 218 Conclusion: Ethnic America in 1945 230 Part III Change and Continuity in Ethnic America, 1945 to the Present 241 12 The African Americans 246 13 The Latino Mosaic 263 14 Asian Americans in the Modern World 282 15 The Newest Arrivals 298 16 Native Americans in the Modern World 314 17 White Ethnics in Modern America 329 Conclusion: Ethnic America in 2010 345 Selected Readings 357 Index 364

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Book SynopsisA succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective. Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay Table of ContentsList of Figures x Series Editors’ Preface xi Preface to the New Edition xiii Preface xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1 ‘‘Death’s Gwineter Lay His Cold Icy Hands on Me’’: Enslavement 40 1 A European Slave Trader, John Barbot, Describes the African Slave Trade (1682) 42 2 A Muslim Merchant, Ayubah Suleiman Diallo, Recalls His Capture and Enslavement (1733) 45 3 An Employee of Britain’s Royal African Company Describes the Workings of the Slave Trade (1738) 48 4 Olaudah Equiano, an 11-Year-Old Ibo from Nigeria, Remembers His Kidnapping into Slavery (1789) 49 5 A Scottish Explorer, Mungo Park, Offers a Graphic Account of the African Slave Trade (1797) 51 6 Venture Smith Relates the Story of His Kidnapping at the Age of Six (1798) 52 Chapter 2 ‘‘God’s A-Gwineter Trouble de Water’’: The Middle Passage and Arrival 57 1 A European Slave Trader, James Barbot, Jr., Describes a Shipboard Revolt by Enslaved Africans (1700) 59 2 Olaudah Equiano, Who Was Born in Eastern Nigeria, Describes the Horrors of the Middle Passage (1789) 62 3 A Doctor, Alexander Falconbridge, Describes Conditions on an English Slaver (1788) 65 4 Olaudah Equiano Describes His Arrival in the New World (1789) 70 5 An English Physician, Alexander Falconbridge, Describes the Treatment of Newly Arrived Slaves in the West Indies (1788) 71 Chapter 3 ‘‘A Change is Gonna Come’’: Slavery in the Era of the American Revolution 74 1 The Poet Phillis Wheatley Writes about Freedom and Equal Rights (1774) 75 2 Massachusetts Slaves Petition for Freedom (1774) 76 3 Virginia’s Royal Governor Promises Freedom to Slaves Who Join the British Army (1775) 78 4 Virginia’s Assembly Denounces Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (1775) 79 5 Connecticut Slaves Petition for Freedom (1779) 80 6 Boston King, a Black Loyalist, Seeks Freedom Behind British Lines (1798) 82 7 A Participant in Gabriel’s Rebellion Explains Why He Took Part in the Attempted Insurrection (1812) 84 8 Gabriel’s Brother Explains the Rebellion’s Objectives (1800) 84 9 President Thomas Jefferson Tries to Arrange for the Deportation of Men Involved in Gabriel’s Rebellion (1802) 85 Chapter 4 ‘‘We Raise de Wheat, Dey Gib Us de Corn’’: Conditions of Life 87 1 A Free Black Kidnapped from New York, Solomon Northrup, Describes the Working Conditions of Slaves on a Louisiana Cotton Plantation (1853) 88 2 Charles Ball, a Slave in Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia, Compares Working Conditions on Tobaccoand Cotton Plantations (1858) 89 3 Josiah Henson, a Maryland Slave, Describes Slave Housing, Diet, and Clothing (1877) 91 4 Francis Henderson, Who Was a Slave near Washington, D.C., Describes Living Conditions Under Slavery (1856) 93 5 A South Carolina Slave, Jacob Stroyer, Recalls the Material Conditions of Slave Life (1898) 94 6 A Former Virginia Slave, James Martin, Remembers a Slave Auction (1937) 95 7 Elizabeth Keckley, Born into Slavery in Virginia, Describes a Slave Sale (1868) 96 Chapter 5 ‘‘Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen’’: Visual History of Slavery 98 1 The Inspection and Sale of an African Captive Along the West African Coast (1854) 99 2 An Illustration of the Layout of a Slave Ship (1807) 100 3 Enslaved Africans on the Deck of a Slave Ship (1860) 102 4 Two Slave Sale Advertisements (1859, c.1780s) 103 5 A Fugitive Slave Advertisement (1774) 105 6 An Illustration of a Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia (1856) 107 7 Five Generations of a Slave Family (c.1850s) 108 8 An Engraving Illustrating Nat Turner’s Insurrection (c.1831) 109 9 A Plantation Manual Offers Detailed Instructions to Overseers about How They Are to Treat Nursing Mothers (1857–1858) 110 10 African Americans in Baltimore Celebrate the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, Extending the Vote to Black Men (1870) 111 Chapter 6 ‘‘O Mother Don’t You Weep’’: Women, Children, and Families 114 1 Harriet Jacobs Describes Her Efforts to Escape Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Abuse (1861) 115 2 Bethany Veney Describes How She Aborted a Slave Sale (1889) 119 3 Susie King Taylor Escapes to Freedom During the Civil War (1902) 121 4 Jacob Stroyer Recalls the Formative Experiences of His Childhood (1898) 123 5 James W. C. Pennington Analyzes the Impact of Slavery upon Childhood (1849) 126 6 Lunsford Lane Describes the Moment When He First Recognized the Meaning of Slavery (1842) 128 7 Laura Spicer Learns that Her Husband, Who Had Been Sold Away, Has Taken Another Wife (1869) 130 8 An Overseer Attempts to Rape Josiah Henson’s Mother (1877) 132 9 Lewis Clarke Discusses the Impact of Slavery on Family Life (1846) 135 Chapter 7 ‘‘Go Home to My Lord and Be Free’’: Religion 138 1 Olaudah Equiano, from Eastern Nigeria, Describes West African Religious Beliefs and Practices (1789) 139 2 Charles Ball, a Slave in Maryland, Remembers a Slave Funeral, which Incorporated Traditional African Customs (1837) 142 3 Peter Randolph, a Former Virginia Slave, Describes the Religious Gatherings Slaves Held Outside of Their Masters’ Supervision (1893) 142 4 Henry Bibb, Who Toiled in Slavery in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Arkansas, Discusses ‘‘Conjuration’’ (1849) 145 Chapter 8 ‘‘Oppressed So Hard They Could Not Stand’’: Punishment 148 1 Frederick Douglass, a Fugitive Slave from Maryland, Describes the Circumstances that Prompted Masters to Whip Slaves (1845) 149 2 Elizabeth Keckley of Virginia Describes a Lashing She Received (1868) 150 3 John Brown, Born into Slavery in Virginia, Has Bells and Horns Fastened on His Head (1855) 152 4 William Wells Brown, a Missouri Slave Driver, Is Tied Up in a Smokehouse (1847) 153 5 Moses Roper, a Slave in Georgia and the Carolinas, Is Punished for Attempting to Run Away (1837) 154 6 A Kentucky Slave, Lewis Clarke, Describes the Implements His Mistress Used to Beat Him (1846) 155 Chapter 9 ‘‘Let My People Go’’: Resistance and Flight 157 1 Frederick Douglass Resists a Slave Breaker (1845) 158 2 Nat Turner, a Baptist Preacher in Virginia, Describes His Revolt Against Slavery (1831) 163 3 Harriet Tubman, a Former Maryland Slave, Sneaks into the South to Free Slaves (1872) 167 4 Harriet Tubman’s Life and Methods for Liberating Slaves (1863, 1865) 169 5 Levi Coffin, the ‘‘President’’ of the Underground Railroad, Assists Fugitives to Escape Slavery (1876) 172 6 A Maryland Slave, Margaret Ward, Follows the North Star to Freedom (1879) 174 7 Frederick Douglass Borrows a Sailor’s Papers to Escape Slavery (1855, 1895) 177 8 Henry ‘‘Box’’ Brown of Virginia Escapes Slavery in a Sealed Box (1872) 179 9 Margaret Garner, a Fugitive Slave from Kentucky, Kills Her Daughter Rather Than See Her Returned to Slavery (1876) 181 Chapter 10 ‘‘The Walls Came Tumblin’ Down’’: Emancipation 184 1 Hannah Johnson, the Mother of a Black Soldier, Pleads with President Abraham Lincoln Not to Rescind the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 185 2 Private Thomas Long Assesses the Meaning of Black Military Service During the Civil War (1870) 186 3 Corporal Jackson Cherry Appeals for Equal Opportunity for Former Slaves (1865) 187 4 Jourdon Anderson, a former Tennessee Slave, Declines His Former Master’s Invitation to Return to His Plantation (1865) 188 5 Major General Rufus Saxon Assesses the Freedmen’s Aspirations (1866) 190 6 Colonel Samuel Thomas Describes the Attitudes of Ex-Confederates Toward the Freedmen (1865) 191 7 Francis L. Cardozo of South Carolina Asks for Land for the Freedmen (1868) 192 8 The Rev. Elias Hill Is Attacked by the Ku Klux Klan (1872) 193 9 Henry Blake, a Former Arkansas Slave, Describes Sharecropping (1937) 194 10 Frederick Douglass Assesses the Condition of the Freedmen (1880) 195 Bibliographical Essay 198 Bibliography 204 Index 236

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Book SynopsisThe Picts offers a broad survey of the historical and cultural developments of the people of northern Britain between AD 300 and AD 900. Dispelling the notion of the Picts as savages, they are revealed to be both politically successful and one of the most artistically sophisticated peoples of Europe.Trade Review“This exercise completes a superb and comprehensive survey of what is currently known about the Picts. The book also contains a lucid summary, and will be useful for both scholars and the general public.” (Hereditasnexus, 6 October 2015)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vi List of Lineages and Maps vii Preface and Acknowledgments viii Methodology x Abbreviations xii Introducing the Picts 1 1 Picts and Romans 15 2 Myth and Reality 40 3 The Early Middle Ages 57 4 People and Work 95 5 Spirituality 134 6 Art 162 7 Conquest and Obscurity 182 8 Literature and Remembrance 207 Conclusion 233 Select Bibliography 240 Index 255

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Book SynopsisAll papers concentrate on empirical findings throughout Europe as well as cross-national comparisons. This research reveals both consistent patterns and intriguing differences across countries. New research data from Western and Eastern European surveys and experiments New theoretical conceptualizations of prejudice Multi-disciplinary approaches Debate on policy making with reference to non European countries Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. I Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination: Andreas Zick, Thomas F. Pettigrew, and Ulrich Wagner. RESEARCH AND THEORY. II Everyday Racism as Predictor of Political racism in Flemish Belgium: Jacque Billiet and Hans de Witte. III More than Two Decades of Changing Ethnic Attitudes in the Netherlands: Marcel Coenders, Marcel Lubbers, Peer Scheepers, and Maykel Verkuyten. IV Black Immigrants in Portugal: Luso-tropicalism and Prejudice: Jorge Vala, Diniz Lopes, and Marcus Lima. V Post-conflict Reconciliation: Intergroup Forgiveness and Implicit Biases in Northern Ireland: Tania Tam, Miles Hewstone, Jared Kenworthy, Ed Chairns, Claudia Marinetti, Leo Gedens, and Brian Parkinson. VI Types of Identification and Intergroup Differentiation in the Russian Federation: Anca Minescu, Louk Hagendoorn, and Edwin Poppe. VII Anti-Semitic Attitudes in Europe - a Comparative Perspective: Werner Bergmann. VIII The Syndrome of Group-Focused Enmity: The Interrelation of Prejudices Tested with Multiple Cross-Sectional and Panel data: Andreas Zick, Carina Wolf, Beate Küpper, Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt, and Wilhelm Heitmeyer. IX Relative Deprivation and Intergroup Prejudice: Thomas F. Pettigrew, Oliver Christ, Ulrich Wagner, Roel W. Meertens, Rolf van Dick, and Andreas Zick. X Prejudice and Group-Related Behavior in Germany: Ulrich Wagner, Oliver Christ, and Thomas F. Pettigrew. COMMENTARY. XI Viewing Intergroup Relations in Europe through Allport’s Lens Model of Prejudice: Walter G. Stephan

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Book SynopsisHis work is a rare instance of original research told in an engaging and compelling voice.Trade ReviewComplete with personal profiles of past and present DC luminaries, known locally and nationally, in more than 300 pages of text Ruble takes the reader on a journey of U Street's history from its initial development following the arrival of runaway slaves to the city during the Civil War to President Obama's visit to the landmark Ben's Chili Bowl. -- John Muller H-Net Straightforward tale about the District's history with African Americans at the center. Baltimore Afro American [Ruble] weaves the historical tale of the area with profiles of its major personalities, including Howard University founder Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, former Mayor Marion Barry and Radio One Inc. founder Cathy Hughes... After all, it's a lot more than a place to get a half-smoke. -- Matthew Gilmore Washington Business Journal This is a wonderful book... Washington's U Street: A Biography is a meritorious study of a subject of considerable historical importance. Thank you, Mr. Ruble. -- Theodore Hudson Ellingtonia His research is impeccable... very readable and entertaining. Melody & Words A must-read for anyone interested in the tremendously rich history of the U Street neighborhood. 14th & You U Street gives readers many human-interest stories, delivered with a light touch. -- Jane Woodward Elioseff Internet Review of Books Too often, historians forget that Washington, DC, is a city with a history and not just an extension of national politics. Ruble gives readers a history of U Street with a story of a neighborhood that began as a free black community. Choice Groundbreaking... Ruble carefully constructs a biographical history of U Street in northwest Washington that highlights the accomplishments of everyday people in the neighborhood, while simultaneously giving life to the area's buildings, streets, and educational and cultural institutions, particularly those of the African American community. -- Amber N. Wiley H-DC, H-Net Reviews An informative, readable, and well-documented work that seeks to recover the history of the nation's capital from the vantage of its African American residents and one of their most enduring communities. -- David Taft Terry Journal of American History Ruble offers more than a mere chronology of the U Street neighborhood. Washington's U Street: A Biography gives readers a glimpse into the lives of the people-rich and poor, black and white, law-abiding and not-who elevated U Street into the iconic place it is today for Washingtonians, especially African Americans. -- Mary Berger Washington History A welcome gift for anyone interested in Washington or ubran issues in general. -- Bob Cullen Bob Cullen Photography This book is loaded with terrific photos and fascinating sidebars about some of the more interesting people who lived, played, and worked on U Street. -- Patrick M. Reynolds Flashbacks A fine work that sheds light on race relations on U Street and throughout the District. -- Lopez D. Matthews, Jr. Journal of African American History Erudite and refreshing... meticulously recreates the fractious, racial atmosphere around which seminal African American luminaries, working-class blacks, and white residents feuded with one another over-and gave shape to-the interminable, public and private venues that composed U Street throughout the last two centuries of its history. -- Matthew Smalarz, University of Rochester Maryland Historical MagazineTable of ContentsList of ProfilesList of MapsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: Washington's Contact Zone1. Ambiguous Roots2. A City "Like the South"3. Confronting the Nation4. "Black Broadway"5. The Last Colony6. Chocolate City7. "The New You"NotesAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisParis, Capital of the Black Atlantic is unique both in its focus on literary fiction as a formal and sociological category and in the range of examples it brings to bear on the question of Paris as an imaginary capital of diasporic consciousness.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Afro-ModernismChapter 1. Cultural Artifacts and the Narrative of History: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Exhibiting of Culture at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle Chapter 2. "The Only Real White Democracy" and the Language of Liberation: The Great War, France, and African American Culture in the 1920s Chapter 3. "No One, I Am Sure, Is Ever Homesick in Paris": Jessie Fauset's French Imaginary Chapter 4. Writing Home: Comparative Black Modernism and Form in Jean Toomer and Aimé Césaire Chapter 5. Embodied Fictions, Melancholy Migrations: Josephine Baker's Cinematic Celebrity Part II: Postwar Paris and the Politics of LiteratureChapter 6. Assuming the Position: Fugitivity and Futurity in the Work of Chester Himes Chapter 7. "One Is Mysteriously Shipwrecked Forever, in the Great New World": James Baldwin from New York to Paris Chapter 8. Making Culture Capital: Présence Africaine and Diasporic Modernity in Post–World War II ParisChapter 9. Richard Wright's "Island of Hallucination" and the Gibson Affair Chapter 10. Entering the Politics of the Outside: Richard Wright's Critique of Marxism and Existentialism Part III: From Négritude to MigritudeChapter 11. René, Louis, and Léopold: Senghorian Négritude as a Black Humanism Chapter 12. Nos Ancêtres, les Diallobés: Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure and the Paradoxes of Islamic Négritude Chapter 13. Redefining Paris: Transmodernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction Chapter 14. Interurban Paris: Alain Mabanckou's Invisible Cities Afterword: Europhilia, Francophilia, Negrophilia in the Making of Modernism List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBroad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.Trade ReviewA grand work... An engaging and entertaining volume that ought to be of interest to anyone with a curiosity about African American migration and African American cultural contributions to American culture. Geographical Review As Rutkoff and Scott take the reader to Chicago's Bud Billiken Day or Houston's Juneteenth, August Wilson's Pittsburgh, or Walter Mosley's Los Angeles, 'the flashes of the West African spirit that black rural southerners brought north' are rendered visible. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Adds considerably to our understanding of this national exodus... The authors, who teach history at Kenyon College, argue that the black migrants preserved many of their West African roots and customs in the move north, just as they had during the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. These authors stress the cultural freedom afforded by holding on to a vision of Africa as the homeland. In preserving their African roots, the black migrants could take pride in where they came from and in who they were in their new circumstances. Wall Street Journal Fly Away represents a useful contribution. -- Brian Ward Journal of World History Fly Away is intended for an academic audience and its footnotes display the depth of the research. However, the authors' engaging style also should appeal to the general reader with an interest in African-American cultural history. Charleston Post and Courier [A] well-written, thought-provoking book. The authors have created a broad-ranging study that is well worth reading. It provides many new ways of thinking about and interpreting the impact of African American migration both on the migrants and the nation. -- Spencer R. Crew Journal of American History Rutkoff and Scott's book is likely to become a staple in undergraduate courses in African American and American Studies. -- Luther Adams American Historical Review Illuminating and impressive cultural history... Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Out of Africa2. New Africa3. Negro Capital of the World4. Mules and Men5. Blues Pianos and Tricky Baseballs6. Walkin' Egypt7. Bronzeville's Pinkster Kings8. Dixie Special9. California Dreaming10. Circle UnbrokenNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing court records, letters, and pamphlets, Goetz suggests new ways of approaching and understanding the deeply entwined relationship between Christianity and race in early America.Trade ReviewGoetz has done an impressive job bringing religion to the center of the historiography on race, and her study is a must-read for all scholars interested in the development of race and the role of Protestantism in the Atlantic world. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society In a compact 173 pages, Goetz links race and religion in colonial Virginia in ways that few other scholars have even attempted. Journal of American History This is impressive scholarship grounded in letters, pamphlets, court records, colonial statutes, and a wide array of additional archival and secondary sources... It is a book that will find ready readership in graduate seminars, seminaries, and undergraduate classrooms. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Professor Goetz... is to be warmly applauded for having produced a work of such methodological scope and intellectual sophistication, a most persuasive work that ranks as a major contribution to the field. Slavery and Abolition Goetz posits her thesis in a history of England and Colonial Virginia, providing necessary context while educating readers in the general narrative of English and Virginia history. Choice The Baptism of Early Virginia offers a significant contribution to the growing historiography of religion in colonial Virginia... Goetz's provocative work raises a number of questions... Even if Goetz does not always address these questions, her radical rethinking of religion in colonial Virginia will surely help others answer them. The Baptism of Early Virginia is an important book. History Though much has been written about the complex legal and social construction of race in the seventeenth-century Anglo-Atlantic, Goetz's account of the role of religion in that process is the most thorough yet. William and Mary QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TerminologyIntroduction1. English Christians among the Blackest Nations2. The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-Indian Christian Commonwealth3. Faith in the Blood4. Baptism and the Birth of Race5. Becoming Christian, Becoming White6. The Children of IsraelEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten in vigorous prose for a wide audience and designed to inform popular debate on the relevance of the Civil War to the racial politics of modern America, Civil War Memories is required reading for informed Americans today.Trade ReviewThe book is full of interesting anecdotes that illustrate the many skirmishes between the competing narratives—History News NetworkCook's work has the advantage of covering the entirety of post-Civil War history, making his the most comprehensive entry in this scholarly debate . . . His consistent attention to electoral politics across time sets his work apart from that of many other authors and makes the book well worth reading.—Annals of IowaCivil War Memories offers a comprehensive treatment of the memory of the nation's most enduring and contested event. In offering a study of Civil War memory since 1865, Cook underscores that memories of the war have never been monolithic. They have always been debated, politicized, and maligned. His attention to the war's differing memories in the modern era reminds us how the Civil War continues to resonate within our own "mystic chords of memory."—Jennifer M. Murray, University of Virginia's College at Wise, Journal of Southern HistoryIn Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865, Robert J. Cook outlines the fight over the memory of the Civil War since Appomattox. It is a tightly argued work that blends adept synthesis with primary source research, and Cook offers an absorbing study of the Civil War's long memory and, implicitly, a meditation on the ways in which various entities "marshal the past so powerfully in the service of the present."—Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Eastern Illinois University, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. A Fractured Country and Its Fractured Memories2. The Resurgent South and Its Lost Cause3. Remembering the Victors' War in the Gilded Age4. The Rocky Road to Sectional ReconciliationPart II5. Distant Drums in an Age of Global Warfare6. Centennial Blues7. AfterlifeConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe years shortly after the end of World War II saw the beginnings of a new kind of community that blended the characteristics of suburbia with those of the central city. Over the decades these edge citieshave become permanent features of the regional landscape. Originally published in 1996. The years shortly after the end of World War II saw the beginnings of a new kind of community that blended the characteristics of suburbia with those of the central city. Over the decades these edge cities have become permanent features of the regional landscape. In Post-Suburbia, historian Jon Teaford charts the emergence of these areas and explains why and how they developed. Teaford begins by describing the adaptation of traditional units of government to the ideals and demands of the changing world along the metropolitan fringe. He shows how these post-suburban municipalities had to fashion a government that perpetuated the ideals of small-scale village life and yet, at the same time, provideTrade ReviewA pioneering study in the important history of our recent urban past and effectively uses history to produce a better understanding of our post-suburban world.—Planning PerspectivesTable of ContentsChapter 1. New Government for a New MetropolisChapter 2. The Age of the Suburban HavenChapter 3. The Emerging Post-Suburban Pattern, 1945-1960 Chapter 4. Maintaining the Balance of Power Chapter 5. Post-Suburban Imperialists Chapter 6. Recognition and Rebellion Chapter 7. The Pragmatic Compromise Notes Bibliographic Essay Index

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Book SynopsisA fascinating study of how behavioral science shaped twentieth-century politics and the modernist literary period. The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced citizens to automatons capable of interacting with the world in only the most reflexive ways. In Automatic, Timothy Wientzen asks why modernists were deeply anxious about the role of reflexive behaviorsand the susceptibility of bodies to physical stimuliin the new political structures of the twentieth century. Engaging with historical thinking about human behaviors that fundamentally changed the nature of political and literary practice, Wientzen demonstrates the ways in which a politics of reflex came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era. Documenting some of the ways that modernist writers and Table of ContentsIntroduction: Prescribed Tracks1. Prescribed Tracks: Modernism, Modernity, and the Human Automaton2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D. H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late ModernismAfterword: Choice Architects, Where Is Your Vortex? The Politics of Reflex in the Twenty-First CenturyWorks CitedNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume shows mental health providers how to integrate cultural factors into cognitive behavior therapy.Table of ContentsContributors Foreword Christine A. Padesky Acknowledgements Introduction Pamela A. HaysPart I: Ethnic Minority Cultural Populations Chapter 1: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With American Indians Justin Douglas McDonald, John Gonzalez, and Emily Sargent Chapter 2: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Alaska Native People Pamela A. Hays Chapter 3: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Latinxs Kurt C. Organista Chapter 4: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With African Americans Shalonda Kelly Chapter 5: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Asian Americans Gayle Y. Iwamasa, Curtis Hsia, and Devon Hinton Chapter 6: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With South Asian Americans Sheetal Shah and Nita Tewari Chapter 7: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With People of Arab Heritage Pamela A. Hays and Nuha Abudabbeh Chapter 8: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Orthodox Jews Steven Friedman, Cheryl M. Paradis, and Daniel CukorPart II: Additional Minority Cultural Populations Chapter 9: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Culturally Diverse Older Adults Angela W. Lau and Lisa M. Kinoshita Chapter 10: Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Disabilities Linda R. Mona, H’Sien Hayward, and Rebecca P. Cameron Chapter 11: Affirmative Cognitive Behavior Therapy With Sexual and Gender Minority People Kimberly F. Balsam, Christopher R. Martell, Kyle P. Jones, and Steven A. SafrenPart III: Supervision Chapter 12: Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy Clinical Supervision Gayle Y. Iwamasa, Shilpa P. Regan, and Kristen H. Sorocco Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisThis updated edition helps therapists understand the complex, overlapping cultural and social influences that make each client unique.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I. Becoming a Culturally Responsive Therapist Diversity, Complexity, and Intersectionality Essential Knowledge and Qualities Your Cultural Self-Assessment Part II. Making Meaningful Connections That’s Not What I Meant: Finding the Right Words Intersectionality: The Complexities of Identity Creating a Positive Therapeutic Alliance Part III. Sorting Things Out Conducting a Culturally Responsive Assessment Understanding Trauma Culturally Responsive Testing Making a Culturally Responsive Diagnosis Part IV. Beyond the Treatment Manuals Culturally Responsive Therapy: An Integrative Approach Culturally Adapted Tools and Techniques Indigenous, Creative, Mindfulness, and Social Justice Interventions Pulling It All Together: A Complex Case Conclusion References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys the historical context of substance use disorders in communities of color and offers strategies to support and empower them.Table of ContentsContributors Introduction to Substance Use Disorders in Diverse Ethnoracial Groups: Understanding How We Got HereEdward C. Chang and Christina A. DowneyPart I. Overview of Cultural Competence Chapter 1. The Need for Cultural Competence in Understanding and Intervening With Substance Use DisordersChristina A. DowneyPart II. Substance Use in Black/African American Communities Chapter 2. Scope and Historical Origins of Substance Use Disorders Among Black American CommunitiesTamika C. B. Zapolski, Alia Rowe, Rieanna S. McPhie, and Maney Darby Chapter 3. Culturally Competent Substance Abuse Treatment for Black American CommunitiesMichelle L. Redmond, Rhonda K. Lewis, Tasha Parker, Rosalind Canare, Dyan Dickens, and Stormy Malone Chapter 4. Preventing Substance Use in Black Youth: What Is Available and What Is Missing?A. Kathleen Burlew, Brittany D. Miller-Roenigk, Caravella McCuistian, Randi D. Burlew, and Bridgette J. PeteetPart III. Substance Use in Asian American/Pacific Islander Communities Chapter 5. Substance Use Trends and Patterns Among Asian American and Pacific Islander CommunitiesAthena Park, Aylin Kaya, Jennifer King, Lauren Pandes-Carter, and Derek Kenji Iwamoto Chapter 6. Culturally Competent Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders for Asian American CommunitiesGloria Wong-Padoongpatt, Anthony King, and Nolan Zane Chapter 7. Prevention of Substance Use Disorders in Asian American Adolescents: A Review of Family-Based InterventionsYoonsun Choi, Michael Park, Dina Drankus Pekelnicky, Mina Lee, and Tae Yeun KimPart IV. Substance Use in Latino/Latina/Latinx/Hispanic Communities Chapter 8. Culturally Competent Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Latino American CommunitiesLuz M. López and Jocelyn Melian Chapter 9. Prevention of Substance Use Disorders in Latino/Latina American CommunitiesAlyssa Lozano, Alejandra Fernandez, Yannine Estrada, and Guillermo PradoPart V. Substance Use in Native American/Alaska Native Communities Chapter 10. Scope and Historical Origins of Substance Use Disorders Among Native American CommunitiesTeresa (Tessa) Evans-Campbell and Karina Walters Chapter 11. Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities: A Cultural and Practice Review and Call for DevelopmentLaurence Armand French and Christina A. Downey Chapter 12. Interventions for Substance Use Disorders in American Indian/Alaska Native CommunitiesEric F. Wagner, John Lowe, and Julie Ann BaldwinPart VI. Our Multicultural, Multiethnic Future and Substance Use Disorder Chapter 13. Integrating a Multicultural, Multiethnic Perspective Into Substance Use Training: Preparing Clinicians for the FutureChristina A. Downey and Edward C. Chang Index About the Editors

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Book Synopsis While psychoanalytic scholars often address specific aspects of diversity such as gender, race, immigration, religion, sexual orientation, and social class, the literature lacks a set of core principles to inform and support culturally competent practice. This approachable volume, now available in paperback,responds to that pressing need. Drawing on the contributions of psychoanalytic scholars as well as multicultural and feminist psychologists, Pratyusha Tummala-Narra presents a theoretical framework that reflects the realities of clients’ lives and addresses the complex sociocultural issues that influence their psychological health. Psychoanalytic theory proves to be particularly valuable in exploring unconscious processes, recurrent themes, and transference and counter-transference. In examining these questions, the author provides engaging case illustrations from her own clinical practice, as well as findings from her research with youth ofTrade Review“Tummala-Narra has gathered our dispersed ideas in psychoanalytic thinking about difference and expertly fashioned an important and clinically astute framework. Her ideas are rich and generative. Reading her book was invigorating and challenging, like a consult with a wise and trusted colleague.” — PsycCRITIQUES®Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Historical Overview and Critique of the Psychoanalytic Approach to Culture and Context Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Understanding of Diversity Cultural Competence From a Psychoanalytic Perspective Attending to Indigenous Narrative Considering the Role of Language and Affect Addressing Social Oppression and Traumatic Stress Recognizing the Complexity of Cultural Identifications Expanding Self-Examination: Cultural Context in the Life and Work of the Therapist Implications of a Culturally Informed Psychoanalytic Perspective: Some Thoughts on Future Directions References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA provocative critique of transnational, transracial adoption from a critical race and feminist perspective and a vision for reformTrade Review"Kristi Brian bravely shines a spotlight on the racial inequities that undergird transnational adoptions but are typically whitewashed by assumptions of adoptive parents' benevolence and colorblindness. Reframing Transracial Adoption proposes a more culturally inclusive, child-centered paradigm focused on the voices of Korean adoptees rather than the personal preferences of white adopters, who sometimes select children on the basis of racialized criteria and then refuse to take their racial identities seriously. A critical contribution to an honest discussion of the role race plays in adoption and, indeed, in all family structures." - Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, and author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare "[C]ompelling... Brian effectively analyzes the inherently political act of family building... Brian's critical race feminist methodology, and her explanation of the matters of adoption and the ways in which adoption matters are useful and often insightful... There is much to be applauded in a political analysis of a phenomenon such as Korean-American adoption and Kristi Brian's Reframing Transracial Adoption succeeds admirably in this regard." Anthropological Quarterly, Fall 2012 "Brian demonstrates an exceptional understanding of the problems affecting Korean adoption...her work is noteworthy for its effort to document racism within adoptive families... Reframing Transracial Adoption is at once a scholarly study and a work of adoption reform activism. Brian highlights structural problems in the transnational adoption industry and shows how adult Korean adoptees are working to change it. In addition, she makes a strong argument against the commonly held idea that transracial adoption is a cure for racism because it creates multiracial families. She instead shows how the adoption industry depends on white privilege and the geopolitical dominance of the United States."--Signs: Journal of Women and Culture in Society, Winter 2014 "Brian exhibits a strong conversant history and literature on race and adoption... She is particularly good at critiquing transracial adoption by celebrity... she raises the intriguing issue of how adoptees themselves are now changing the processes of adoption... Brian's book provides an excellent critique of the hidden racism in American adoptions." - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Personal / Political Preface; (1) Adoption Matters: Beyond Catastrophe and Spectacle; (A)The Birth of "Sentimental" International Adoption; (B) Institutionalizing Harry Holt's Mission in Korea; (C)Research Questions & Methodology; (D) Towards a Critical Race Feminist Approach to Transnational Adoption; (E) Overview of chapters; (F) Names, Labels and Terms; (2) Adoption Facilitators and the Marketing of Family-Building:; "Expert" Systems meet Spurious Culture; Customized Family-Building and the Trouble with Culture; (B) Promoting Transnational Adoption; (B:1) Meeting the Consumer Needs of the Target Market; (B:2)Depicting Korea as a Nonpolitical, Cultural "Other"; (B:3)Assuming Race Consciousness in "Culture" - Consuming Parents; (C)A Confusion of Experts; (D)The Fault line between Domestic and Transnational Transracial Adoption; (E) Conclusion: Towards a Paradigm of Consciousness; (3) Navigating Racism: Avoiding and Confronting "Difference" in Families; (A) Phase 1: Choosing the "Acceptable" Model Minority in pre-adoption decision-making; (B) Phase 2: Family Lessons on Racism; (B:1) Assumptions of easy assimilation; (B:2) Failures of the "Ad Hoc," Colorblind Approach; (B:3)"The Fly on the Wall": Adoptees Witness and Confront Racism; (C)Phase 3: Adoption as Point of Departure; (C:1) Adoptees' Departures from Whiteness; (C:2)"This Is How I Taught Her To Be": Parents Observe Departures from Whiteness; (D) Conclusion; (4 ) Navigating Kinship: Searching for Family Beyond and Within "The Doctrine of Genealogical Unity"; Confronting the "Loss" of Birth and "Risk" of Adoption; Choosing "Closed" Adoptions and the "Familyless" Orphan; (C)Reconstructing Memories of Korea as Routes to the Meaning of Family; (D)Searching for Family Origins and Identities in the Shadow of Gratitude; (5) Strategic Interruptions versus Possessive Investment: Transnational Adoption in the Era of New Racism; (A) Towards a Shared Race-Conscious Discourse and Framework; (B) Abduction Language; (C)Race-blind U.S. Adoption Policy as Possessive Investment; (D) The Hague: Race-sensitive Understanding or Multicultural Fantasy?; (E) New Versions of Family to Resist the New Racism; (F) Disquieting Adoption; References.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus"; reflections on the representation of a black female iconTrade Review"Willis (Posing Beauty) offers a comprehensive, inclusive, and coherently organized anthology that embraces 'scholarly and lyrical, historical and reflexive' responses to Baartman, as a woman, as a black woman, as an object, as an icon, as an inspiration to creative artists, and as a catalyst to scholars. The book moves from Baartman's life and times to an assessment of the figure of the "Hottentot Venus" in contemporary art and a broader consideration of the historic public display of black women. Appended is a photo gallery that is as essential and diverse as the texts. This remarkable volume satisfies the academic reader with scholarly essays and moves the general reader with its creative expression, making it fascinating and accessible to any one." -Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: The Venus Hottentot (1825) Elizabeth Alexander Introduction: The Notion of Venus Deborah WillisPART I: Sarah Baartman in Context 1. The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality Sander Gilman 2. Another Means of Understanding the Gaze: Sarah Bartmann in the Development of Nineteenth-Century French National Identity Robin Mitchell 3. Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Post-Structuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the “Hottentot Venus” Zine Magubane 4. Exhibit A: Private Life without a Narrative J. Yolande Daniels 5. crucifix Holly BassPART II: Sarah Baartman’s Legacy in Art and Art History 6. Historic Retrievals: Confronting Visual Evidence and the Imaging of Truth Lisa Gail Collins 7. Reclaiming Venus: The Presence of Sarah Bartmann in Contemporary Art Debra S. Singer 8. Playing with Venus: Black Women Artists and the Venus Trope in Contemporary Visual Art Kianga K. Ford 9. Talk of the Town Manthia Diawara 10. The “Hottentot Venus” in Canada: Modernism, Censorship, and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality Charmaine Nelson 11. A.K.A. Saartjie: The “Hottentot Venus” in Context (Some Recollections and a Dialogue), 1998/2004 Kellie Jones 12. little sarah Linda Susan JacksonPART III: Sarah Baartman and Black Women as Public Spectacle 13. The Greatest Show on Earth: For Saartjie Baartman, Joice Heth, Anarcha of Alabama, Truuginini, and Us All Nikky Finney 14. The Imperial Gaze: Venus Hottentot, Human Display, and World’s Fairs Michele Wallace 15. Cinderella Tours Europe Cheryl Finley 16. Mirror Sisters: Aunt Jemima as the Antonym/Extension of Saartjie Bartmann Michael D. Harris 17. My Wife as Venus E. Ethelbert MillerPART IV: Iconic Women in the Twentieth Century/b> 18. agape Holly Bass 19. Black/Female/Bodies Carnivalized in Spectacle and Space Carole Boyce Davies 20. Sighting the “Real” Josephine Baker: Methods and Issues of Black Star Studies Terri Francis 21. The Hoodrat Theory William Jelani CobbEpilogue: I’ve Come to Take You Home (Tribute to Sarah Bartmann Written in Holland, June 1998) Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing contemporaneous and contemporary works that re-imagine the "Hottentot Venus"; reflections on the representation of a black female iconTrade Review"Willis (Posing Beauty) offers a comprehensive, inclusive, and coherently organized anthology that embraces 'scholarly and lyrical, historical and reflexive' responses to Baartman, as a woman, as a black woman, as an object, as an icon, as an inspiration to creative artists, and as a catalyst to scholars. The book moves from Baartman's life and times to an assessment of the figure of the "Hottentot Venus" in contemporary art and a broader consideration of the historic public display of black women. Appended is a photo gallery that is as essential and diverse as the texts. This remarkable volume satisfies the academic reader with scholarly essays and moves the general reader with its creative expression, making it fascinating and accessible to any one." -Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: The Venus Hottentot (1825) Elizabeth Alexander Introduction: The Notion of Venus Deborah WillisPART I: Sarah Baartman in Context 1. The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality Sander Gilman 2. Another Means of Understanding the Gaze: Sarah Bartmann in the Development of Nineteenth-Century French National Identity Robin Mitchell 3. Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Post-Structuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the “Hottentot Venus” Zine Magubane 4. Exhibit A: Private Life without a Narrative J. Yolande Daniels 5. crucifix Holly BassPART II: Sarah Baartman’s Legacy in Art and Art History 6. Historic Retrievals: Confronting Visual Evidence and the Imaging of Truth Lisa Gail Collins 7. Reclaiming Venus: The Presence of Sarah Bartmann in Contemporary Art Debra S. Singer 8. Playing with Venus: Black Women Artists and the Venus Trope in Contemporary Visual Art Kianga K. Ford 9. Talk of the Town Manthia Diawara 10. The “Hottentot Venus” in Canada: Modernism, Censorship, and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality Charmaine Nelson 11. A.K.A. Saartjie: The “Hottentot Venus” in Context (Some Recollections and a Dialogue), 1998/2004 Kellie Jones 12. little sarah Linda Susan JacksonPART III: Sarah Baartman and Black Women as Public Spectacle 13. The Greatest Show on Earth: For Saartjie Baartman, Joice Heth, Anarcha of Alabama, Truuginini, and Us All Nikky Finney 14. The Imperial Gaze: Venus Hottentot, Human Display, and World’s Fairs Michele Wallace 15. Cinderella Tours Europe Cheryl Finley 16. Mirror Sisters: Aunt Jemima as the Antonym/Extension of Saartjie Bartmann Michael D. Harris 17. My Wife as Venus E. Ethelbert MillerPART IV: Iconic Women in the Twentieth Century/b> 18. agape Holly Bass 19. Black/Female/Bodies Carnivalized in Spectacle and Space Carole Boyce Davies 20. Sighting the “Real” Josephine Baker: Methods and Issues of Black Star Studies Terri Francis 21. The Hoodrat Theory William Jelani CobbEpilogue: I’ve Come to Take You Home (Tribute to Sarah Bartmann Written in Holland, June 1998) Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents’ ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions she had are shared in Asian American literature that depicts migration-related melancholia, contests official histories, and portrays Asian American families as flexible and transpacific. Where I Have Never Been explores the tropes of return, tracing both literal return visits by Asian emigrants and symbolic “returns”: first visits by diasporic offspring. Chu argues that these Asian American narratives seek to remedy widely held anxieties about cultural loss and the erasure of personal and family histories from public memory. In fiction, memoirs, and personal essays, the writers of return narratives—including novelists Lisa See, May-lee Chai, Lydia M

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Book Synopsis In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents’ ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions she had are shared in Asian American literature that depicts migration-related melancholia, contests official histories, and portrays Asian American families as flexible and transpacific. Where I Have Never Been explores the tropes of return, tracing both literal return visits by Asian emigrants and symbolic “returns”: first visits by diasporic offspring. Chu argues that these Asian American narratives seek to remedy widely held anxieties about cultural loss and the erasure of personal and family histories from public memory. In fiction, memoirs, and personal essays, the writers of return narratives—including novelists Lisa See, May-lee Chai, Lydia M

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Book SynopsisHow racism shapes urban spaces and how African Americans create vibrant communities that offer models for more equitable social arrangementsTrade Review"George Lipsitz's new book, How Racism Takes Place, has a great deal to teach Americans-especially white Americans-about the devastating effects of contemporary racism. Lipsitz utilizes the best research and brilliant arguments to demonstrate how racism continues to fester in racially segregated neighborhoods, workforces, suburbs, schools and country clubs. He demonstrates convincingly that contemporary racism did not emerge accidently but by historical and contemporary designs of white Americans whether they know it or not. How Racism Takes Place is a must read, for it challenges us to grapple with our racial demons and, in the process, become a people truly representing the democratic claims we broadcast throughout the globe." -Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University "How Racism Takes Place is a brilliant, timely, and much needed book about racial segregation-how it is produced and reproduced, how white privilege and the subjugation of people of color have a clear spatial dimension, and how the racialization of space and the spatialization of race shape, and are manifestations of, the political and cultural economy of the United States. Beyond unveiling the mechanics of structural racism, Lipsitz also draws out what he calls a 'Black spatial imaginary,' the site of expressive culture where aggrieved and displaced peoples have waged a struggle to resist and survive policies of racial segregation and conceived a different future." -Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction. "Race, Place, and Power" 1. The White Spatial Imaginary 36-76 2. The Black Spatial Imaginary 77-107 3. Space, Sports, and Spectatorship in St. Louis 108-144 4. The Crime The Wire Couldn't Name. Social Decay and Cynical Detachment in Baltimore 145-175 5. Horace Tapscott and the World Stage in Los Angeles 195- 225 6. John Biggers and Project Row Houses in Houston" 226-255 7. "Betye Saar's Los Angeles and Paule Marshall's Brooklyn" 256-293 8. "Something Left to Love. Lorraine Hansberry's Chicago" 294-324 9. New Orleans Today. We Know This Place 325-370 10. A Place Where Everybody Is Somebody 371-399 Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisHow Black women's engagement in improving health and fitness raises questions about feminism and the construction of black female identityTrade Review"In Body Language, Kimberly Lau adeptly draws the reader into the Sisters in Shape culture, whose central players emerge as multidimensional beings. The author's personal and extended connection with the group provides rich detail as to its origins, day-to-day activities, and impact on Black women looking not to embody familiar health statistics. The 'discursive' focus of the text is novel, and explores the reworkings of identity and body that Sisters in Shape enable through talk and action." -Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Associate Professor of Sociology and Education Studies at DePauw University, and author of Behind the Mask of the Strong Black Woman (Temple)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. The Anatomy of a Movement 2. Experience: Spirituality, Sisterhood, and the Unspeakable 3. Performance: Negotiating Multiple Black Womanhoods 4. New Bodies of Knowledge 5. Rearticulating Feminist Identity Politics Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSeeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenshipTrade Review"Sweating Saris takes us through the fascinating interconnections of labor, dance, and immigration. Beautifully researched and written, this book makes us think deeply about what dancing bodies mean and how they achieve their seeming perfection. Srinivasan's blending of archival research, ethnography, and first-person narration is a tour de force." -Josephine Lee, author of Performing Asian America and The Japan of Pure InventionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Performing Ethnographic Failure 2. Transnational Hauntings of the Oriental Dancing Girl 3. St. Denis and the Nachwalis 4. Entering the Archive 5. Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts 6. Negotiating Cultural Nationalism and Minority Citizenship 7. Manufacturing of the Indian Dancer through Off-Shore Labor Epilogue Glossary Works Cited Endnotes

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Book SynopsisHow race, gender, and sexuality were re-imagined in the interwar encounters of Asians and AmericansTrade Review"Kuo's book is a distinctive and important contribution to Asian diaspora and Asian American cultural studies focusing on the first half of the twentieth century. Her analysis of historical figures and filmic and literary texts deepens the increasing transnational focus in Asian American studies and also overcomes some of the limitations of US-centered scholarship. At the same time, Kuo embeds her interpretations of iconic Japanese feminists and classic Asian American texts within American cultural, historical, and political contexts, illustrating the complex inter- and intranational discursive hegemony of that period." - MELUS, September 2nd 2013 "East Is West and West Is East is ostensibly about gender and race issues in the interwar period, but the intrigue of the book is Karen Kuo's insights into the development of American modernity. She argues persuasively that the United States used Asia as a 'proxy' for American crises of modernity by limiting Asians' ability to integrate into American society... [I]t provides enough to allow scholars to uncover new ways of thinking about American modernity. She takes a sophisticated approach by studying females and males and by looking at the views and interactions of Asians and Americans... Innovative." - Journal of American History "Within American studies and its various branches, much of the scholarship about sexual and other kinds of interracial encounters focuses on white American anxiety. Karen Kuo broadens our purview considerably. Her wonderfully astute study finds that even during the period when the United States prohibited Asian immigration, there were literary and filmic texts by and in which white and Asian Americans anticipated greater freedoms through intimate relationships across historical racial boundaries... With scholarship like Kuo's, Asian American studies continues to broaden the field of Americanist inquiry. Kuo's focus on the ways in which the United States and Asia used each other as mirrors takes an important step." - Journal of Asian American Studies "[Kuo] provides an analysis of the complex transnational dynamics of gender, race, class, and sexuality in literature and film... [I]t is her illumination of these unresolved tensions and their importance that make this book a compelling piece of scholarship." - Pacific Historical Review, Feburary 2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 How Yellow and White Women Are Sold: Controlling Chinese and White Female Sexuality and the Making of US Domesticity in East Is West 2 Masculine Racial Formations in Younghill Kang's East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee 3 Utopias Lost and Found: Lost Horizon and the Revitalization of American Masculinity 4 Envisioning Feminism across the Pacific: Japanese and American Feminism and the Limits of Race in Facing Two Ways Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow race, gender, and sexuality were re-imagined in the interwar encounters of Asians and AmericansTrade Review"Kuo's book is a distinctive and important contribution to Asian diaspora and Asian American cultural studies focusing on the first half of the twentieth century. Her analysis of historical figures and filmic and literary texts deepens the increasing transnational focus in Asian American studies and also overcomes some of the limitations of US-centered scholarship. At the same time, Kuo embeds her interpretations of iconic Japanese feminists and classic Asian American texts within American cultural, historical, and political contexts, illustrating the complex inter- and intranational discursive hegemony of that period." - MELUS, September 2nd 2013 "East Is West and West Is East is ostensibly about gender and race issues in the interwar period, but the intrigue of the book is Karen Kuo's insights into the development of American modernity. She argues persuasively that the United States used Asia as a 'proxy' for American crises of modernity by limiting Asians' ability to integrate into American society... [I]t provides enough to allow scholars to uncover new ways of thinking about American modernity. She takes a sophisticated approach by studying females and males and by looking at the views and interactions of Asians and Americans... innovative." - Journal of American History "Within American studies and its various branches, much of the scholarship about sexual and other kinds of interracial encounters focuses on white American anxiety. Karen Kuo broadens our purview considerably. Her wonderfully astute study finds that even during the period when the United States prohibited Asian immigration, there were literary and filmic texts by and in which white and Asian Americans anticipated greater freedoms through intimate relationships across historical racial boundaries... With scholarship like Kuo's, Asian American studies continues to broaden the field of Americanist inquiry. Kuo's focus on the ways in which the United States and Asia used each other as mirrors takes an important step." - Journal of Asian American Studies "[Kuo] provides an analysis of the complex transnational dynamics of gender, race, class, and sexuality in literature and film... [I]t is her illumination of these unresolved tensions and their importance that make this book a compelling piece of scholarship." - Pacific Historical Review, Feburary 2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 How Yellow and White Women Are Sold: Controlling Chinese and White Female Sexuality and the Making of US Domesticity in East Is West 2 Masculine Racial Formations in Younghill Kang's East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee 3 Utopias Lost and Found: Lost Horizon and the Revitalization of American Masculinity 4 Envisioning Feminism across the Pacific: Japanese and American Feminism and the Limits of Race in Facing Two Ways Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities.Trade Review"These essays and primary accounts examine the roots of the broad spectrum of events that led to rioting in Baltimore following Martin Luther King's assassination and how these events shaped the social and economic fabric of today's Baltimore. I know it will be taken from library shelves for many years to come as a primary resource for historical study." -Carla D. Hayden, CEO, Enoch Pratt Free Library, BaltimoreTable of Contents1. Acknowledgments 2. Editors' Introduction - Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak, Elizabeth M. Nix 3. Foreword, Howard F. Gillette 4. Peter Levy, The Dream Deferred: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Holy Week Uprising of 1968 5. Jewell Chambers : Edited Oral History 6. John Breihan, Why Was There No Rioting in Cherry Hill? 7. Emily Lieb, "White Man's Lane": Hollowing Out the Highway Ghetto in Baltimore 8. Alex Csicsek, Spiro T. Agnew and the Burning of Baltimore 9. Tom Carney: Edited Oral History 10. Jessica I. Elfenbein, University of Baltimore, 'Church People Work on the Integration Problem': The Brethren's Interracial Work in Baltimore, 1949-1972 11. W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor, Convergences and Divergences: The Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements, Baltimore 1968 12. The Pats Family: Edited Oral History 13. Howell Baum, How the 1968 Riots Stopped School Desegregation in Baltimore 14. Elizabeth M. Nix and Deborah R. Weiner, Pivot in Perception: The Impact of the 1968 Uprising on Three Baltimore Business Districts 15. Frankie Gamber, "Where We Live": Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976" 16. Mary Potorti, Planning for the People: The Early Years of Baltimore's Neighborhood Design Center 17. Robert Birt : Edited Oral History 18. Epilogue, Clement A. Price, History and Memory: Why it Matters that We Remember

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Book SynopsisVietnamese diasporic relations affect—and are directly affected by—events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws on 250 interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland.In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh VõTrade Review“It serves as an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in understanding the Vietnamese American community.... [A]n important foundation for the study of Vietnamese diaspora.”—AmerasiaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Transnationalizing Viet Nam 2 Popular Music: Sounds of Home Resistance and Change 3 Social Transformations from Virtual Communities 4 Defying and Redefining Vietnamese Diasporic Art and Media as Seen through Chau Huynh's Creations 5 Whose Community Is It Anyway? Overseas Vietnamese Negotiating Their Cultural and Political Identity: The Case of Vice-Mayor Madison Nguyen 6 Vietnamese Diaspora Revisited Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisVietnamese diasporic relations affect—and are directly affected by—events in Viet Nam. In Transnationalizing Viet Nam, Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde explores these connections, providing a nuanced understanding of this globalized community. Valverde draws on 250 interviews and almost two decades of research to show the complex relationship between Vietnamese in the diaspora and those back at the homeland.In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh VõTrade Review“It serves as an invaluable resource for students and researchers interested in understanding the Vietnamese American community.... [A]n important foundation for the study of Vietnamese diaspora.”—AmerasiaTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Transnationalizing Viet Nam 2 Popular Music: Sounds of Home Resistance and Change 3 Social Transformations from Virtual Communities 4 Defying and Redefining Vietnamese Diasporic Art and Media as Seen through Chau Huynh's Creations 5 Whose Community Is It Anyway? Overseas Vietnamese Negotiating Their Cultural and Political Identity: The Case of Vice-Mayor Madison Nguyen 6 Vietnamese Diaspora Revisited Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe inner-city world of at-risk teens through their powerful photos and storiesTrade Review"Kaplan gives a group of preteens from South Central L.A. the chance to document their lives in this moving work. After telling them to 'take pictures of anything you want to show me about your experiences,' Kaplan uses the results to assemble a well-researched narrative examining how the subjects 'experience and react to the social problems associated with South Central,' their reflections on living there, and how they deal with daily challenges, including gang violence and drug warfare... [Kaplan] interweaves her subjects' stories and pieces from their photo essays with her research, reflections, and observations, confronting issues of class, race, and identity. Even casual anecdotes point to larger problems - teachers who don't care and schools that don't work."--Publishers Weekly , April 2013 "Sociologist Kaplan uses a photovoice methodology to tell the experiences of at-risk youth in South Central Los Angeles in this thought-provoking narrative of youth voices combined with research. The black-and-white photos tell the story of courage, resilience, and hope amid poverty, crime, community violence, and social disorganization. The author incorporates her research about South Central into the narrative and offers readers an understanding of South Central's history and its impact on the lives of its youth. The photos and writings of the youth and Kaplan confront race, class, and identity. This visionary photovoice approach is a must-read for youth counselors and other professionals looking to engage youth in society and decrease the likelihood of delinquent behaviors. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice "Adopting a photovoice methodology, Elaine Bell Kaplan provides an engaging account documenting why a group of disadvantaged Latino and Black kids want to succeed academically, and transcend their 'ghetto' backgrounds...The main strength of the book is that it offers many insights into how socially excluded youth are keenly aware of the structures that govern their lives... [A] rich and insightful piece of work." - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I Kids with Cameras1. “What Do You Want to Tell Me about This Picture?”2. The Photovoice MethodologyPart II History and Transformation of South Central 3. “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central while Drinking Your Juice in the Hood”4. “Send Them All to Iraq”Part III Kids’ School Stories5. Teachers and Dirty Bathrooms6. “She’s Gettin’ Her Learn On”Part IV Kids’ Neighborhood Stories7. “I Was Just Scared”8. Garbage, Alleyways, and Painted DoorsPart V Kids’ Family Stories9. Strain of a Heart10. To Hope for SomethingAppendix A: Participants by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and AgeAppendix B: University of Southern California Neighborhood Academic Initiative Program Graduate Survey, 1997–2011Appendix C: Assignments and QuestionnaireNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisProfiles of college athletes and teams that challenged the color line in AmericaTrade Review"Kaliss examines five stories of pioneering African American athletes... Explaining how the athletes sought to achieve full citizenship through their athletic achievements... He argues that their responses reveal much more than just what occurred on the playing field... Summing Up: Recommended." Choice, December 2012 "[A] careful study of five significant episodes in the racial integration of college football and basketball... The five episodes selected by the author fit together nicely in chronological, geographical, and thematic progression... Kaliss deserves praise for attempting to do more than merely chronicle the triumphs and travails of racial pioneers...[T]he book is a timely reminder that racial barriers in athletics were not exclusive to the South, and it makes a useful contribution to the study of college sports integration."--American History Review, December 2013Table of ContentsIntroduction - College Sports, Fair Play, and Black Masculinity; 1 - "Our Own 'Roby'" and "The Dark Cloud": Paul Robeson at Rutgers, 1915-1919; 2 - "Harbingers of Progress" and "The Gold Dust Trio": Washington, Strode, Robinson and the 1939 UCLA Football Team; 3 - "A First-Class Gentleman" and "That Big N----r": Wilt Chamberlain at the University of Kansas, 1955-1958; 4 - "Our Colored Boy" and "Fine Black Athletes": Charlie Scott at the University of North Carolina, 1965-1970; 5 - "Those Nigras" and "Men Again": Bear Bryant, John Mitchell, and Wilbur Jackson at the University of Alabama, 1969-1973; Conclusion - What We Talk About When We Talk About Sports; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe Wat Thai Buddhist Temple in Silicon Valley was founded in 1983 by a group of predominantly middle-class men and women with different ethnic and racial identities. The temple, which functions as a religious, social, economic, educational, and cultural hub, has become a place for the community members to engage in spiritual and cultural practices. In Creating a Buddhist Community, Jiemin Bao shows how the Wat Thai participants practice Buddhism and rework gender relationships in the course of organizing temple space, teaching meditation, schooling children in Thai language and culture, merit making, fundraising, and celebrating festivals. Bao's detailed account of the process of creating an inclusive temple community with Thai immigrants as the majority helps to deconstruct the exoticized view of Buddhism in American culture. Creating a Buddhist Community also explores Wat Thai's identification with both the United States and Thailand and how thisTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: A Community in the Making 2 Creating a Temple Community 3 Erecting a Chapel: Carving Out Cultural Space 4 Monks in the Making 5 Merit Making: Transnational Circuits 6 Shaping and Performing Thai American Identities7 Conclusion: Interaction, Interdependence, and Transformations Notes GlossaryReferences Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of the classic Black Feminist Thought, a book on the nature and value of the public intellectualTrade Review"On Intellectual Activism is Collins' attempt to frame her more-than-20-year intervention in the critical issues of gender, race and sexuality for an audience not likely to sit in on her--or anyone else's--introduction to gender studies class... Her book is a cogent reminder of the stakes of engagement." Ms. Magazine , Fall 2012 "On Intellectual Activism...presents readers with an opportunity to marvel at the incredible internal coherence of [Collins's] life's work. The sociology of Collins's imagining is quite appealing. Despite the sorrow reflected and generated by many of the topics under consideration, her analyses are enormously enjoyable to read because she is so cogent and she notices so much. Like a present-day sage, she seems able to interpret any situation - from the family rhetoric that supported Barack Obama's presidential election to the selection of housewares available at T. J. Maxx - with acuity... Her longstanding and gorgeously articulated contempt for the problematic standards that govern success in academia is on proud display in these writings that span decades."--Gender and SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Note on Usage I BLACK FEMINISM 1 Why Black Feminist Thought? 2 Fighting Words ... Or Yet Another Version of "The Emperor's New Clothes" 3 Black Sexual Politics 101 4 Resisting Racism, Writing Black Sexual Politics 5 Still Brave? Black Feminism as a Social Justice Project II SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 6 Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited 7 Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name 8 Changing Times: Sociological Complexities 9 The Racial Threat 10 Rethinking Knowledge, Community, and Empowerment: An Interview III CRITICAL EDUCATION 11 Critical Pedagogy and Engaged Scholarship: Lessons from Africana Studies 12 Teaching for a Change: Critical Pedagogy and Classroom Communities 13 Another Kind of Public Education 14 Making Space for Public Conversations: An Interview IV RACIAL POLITICS 15 Coloring Outside the Color Line 16 Are We Living in a Post-Racial World? 17 The Ethos of Violence 18 Who's Right? What's Left? Family Values and U.S. Politics V INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM REVISITED 19 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection 20 Where Do We Go from Here? Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of the classic Black Feminist Thought, a book on the nature and value of the public intellectualTrade Review"On Intellectual Activism is Collins' attempt to frame her more-than-20-year intervention in the critical issues of gender, race and sexuality for an audience not likely to sit in on her--or anyone else's--introduction to gender studies class... Her book is a cogent reminder of the stakes of engagement." Ms. Magazine, Fall 2012Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Note on Usage I BLACK FEMINISM 1 Why Black Feminist Thought? 2 Fighting Words ... Or Yet Another Version of "The Emperor's New Clothes" 3 Black Sexual Politics 101 4 Resisting Racism, Writing Black Sexual Politics 5 Still Brave? Black Feminism as a Social Justice Project II SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE 6 Learning from the Outsider Within Revisited 7 Going Public: Doing the Sociology That Had No Name 8 Changing Times: Sociological Complexities 9 The Racial Threat 10 Rethinking Knowledge, Community, and Empowerment: An Interview III CRITICAL EDUCATION 11 Critical Pedagogy and Engaged Scholarship: Lessons from Africana Studies 12 Teaching for a Change: Critical Pedagogy and Classroom Communities 13 Another Kind of Public Education 14 Making Space for Public Conversations: An Interview IV RACIAL POLITICS 15 Coloring Outside the Color Line 16 Are We Living in a Post-Racial World? 17 The Ethos of Violence 18 Who's Right? What's Left? Family Values and U.S. Politics V INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM REVISITED 19 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection 20 Where Do We Go from Here? Index

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Book SynopsisMaking visible the experiences of black professional men in white male-dominated occupationsTrade Review"Conducting in-depth interviews with black lawyers, engineers, doctors, and bankers, she studies their challenges, obstacles, opportunities, and interactions with colleagues. As expected, the subjects experienced racism, discrimination, and stereotyping at work...Though their upward mobility gave them solidarity with men in their social group, they no longer had an affinity with working-class blacks. This solid academic study enhances our understanding of the difficulties professional black men face in the work place." - Publishers Weekly "For those who delve into Wingfield's book, the one thing they are guaranteed to come away with is a greater appreciation for the fact that for Black men who work professional jobs, the work involves so much more than just the work itself... [No More Invisible Man] shows how entrenched and lingering racial stereotypes about the intelligence and aims of Black men often make the professional jobs they work much more complicated than they would otherwise be." - Diverse "What is unique about this book is the fact that very few studies focus on the issue of the black professional male across varied white-dominated professional spaces. Wingfield offers insight into the nuances involved in black male experiences at the professional level. Briefly, this study encapsulates how tricky it is to navigate the corridors of professional settings when confronted with age-old stereotypes. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice, July 2013 "Wingfield's adeptness at relating each aspect of her findings to the wider scholarship on tokenism is one of this book's main strengths... [T]his is a revealing and thought-provoking study... [that] provides some new insights into this somewhat neglected topic." - Ethnic and Racial Studies "No More Invisible Man is an engaging and compelling book. Through interviews with forty-two doctors, lawyers, engineers, and bankers, Adia Harvey Wingfield illuminates the experiences of black male professionals and makes critical contributions to our understandings of inequalities in the workplace... One of Harvey Wingfield's strongest theoretical contributions is her documentation of the significance of black professional men's relationships with colleagues and potential mentors... Another significant theoretical contribution is Harvey Wingfield's description of the diversity of black professional men's responses to women in their male-dominated workplaces... [T]he book is superb. Harvey Wingfield's writing is fantastic and a pleasure to read... She walks the reader clearly and explicitly through the questions she brings to current theories, her comparisons between what theories predict and what her data reveal, and the theoretical and practical conclusions she draws... No More Invisible Man is a successful addition to Harvey Wingfield's legacy - and to intersectionality scholarship." - Gender & Society "Harvey makes an important contribution to the workplace literature, offering her concept of partial tokenization to a paradigm that fails to fully account for the experiences of professional black men... Harvey advance[s] current scholarship by focusing on groups that have until now only received scant attention and make clear the ways race and racism act as an impediment in the twenty-first-century workplace." - Sociological ForumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Tokenism Reassessed 2 The General Experience of Partial Tokenization 3 Interacting with Women in the Workplace 4 Other Men in the Workplace 5 Black Men and Masculinity 6 Emotional Performance Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMaking visible the experiences of black professional men in white male-dominated occupationsTrade Review"Conducting in-depth interviews with black lawyers, engineers, doctors, and bankers, she studies their challenges, obstacles, opportunities, and interactions with colleagues. As expected, the subjects experienced racism, discrimination, and stereotyping at work...Though their upward mobility gave them solidarity with men in their social group, they no longer had an affinity with working-class blacks. This solid academic study enhances our understanding of the difficulties professional black men face in the work place." - Publishers Weekly "For those who delve into Wingfield's book, the one thing they are guaranteed to come away with is a greater appreciation for the fact that for Black men who work professional jobs, the work involves so much more than just the work itself... [No More Invisible Man] shows how entrenched and lingering racial stereotypes about the intelligence and aims of Black men often make the professional jobs they work much more complicated than they would otherwise be." - Diverse "What is unique about this book is the fact that very few studies focus on the issue of the black professional male across varied white-dominated professional spaces. Wingfield offers insight into the nuances involved in black male experiences at the professional level. Briefly, this study encapsulates how tricky it is to navigate the corridors of professional settings when confronted with age-old stereotypes. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice, July 2013 "Wingfield's adeptness at relating each aspect of her findings to the wider scholarship on tokenism is one of this book's main strengths... [T]his is a revealing and thought-provoking study... [that] provides some new insights into this somewhat neglected topic." - Ethnic and Racial Studies "No More Invisible Man is an engaging and compelling book. Through interviews with forty-two doctors, lawyers, engineers, and bankers, Adia Harvey Wingfield illuminates the experiences of black male professionals and makes critical contributions to our understandings of inequalities in the workplace... One of Harvey Wingfield's strongest theoretical contributions is her documentation of the significance of black professional men's relationships with colleagues and potential mentors... Another significant theoretical contribution is Harvey Wingfield's description of the diversity of black professional men's responses to women in their male-dominated workplaces... [T]he book is superb. Harvey Wingfield's writing is fantastic and a pleasure to read... She walks the reader clearly and explicitly through the questions she brings to current theories, her comparisons between what theories predict and what her data reveal, and the theoretical and practical conclusions she draws... No More Invisible Man is a successful addition to Harvey Wingfield's legacy - and to intersectionality scholarship." - Gender & SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Tokenism Reassessed 2 The General Experience of Partial Tokenization 3 Interacting with Women in the Workplace 4 Other Men in the Workplace 5 Black Men and Masculinity 6 Emotional Performance Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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