Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Screen Saviors Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness
Book SynopsisScreen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood moviesby white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color. This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical white studies, offers a bold and sweeping critique of almost a century''s worth of American film, from Birth of Nation (1915) through Black Hawk Down (2001). Screen Saviors studies the way in which the social relations that we call race are fictionalized and pictured in the movies. It argues that films are part of broader projects that lead us to ignore or deny the nature of the racial divide in which Americans live. Even as the images of racial and ethnic minorities change across the twentieth century, Hollywood keeps portraying the ideal white American self as good-looking, powerful, brave, cordial, kind, firm, and generous: a natural-born leader worthy of the loyalty of those of another color. The book invites readers to conduct their own analyses of films by showing how this can be done in over 50 Hollywood movies. Among these are some films about the Civil WarBirth of a Nation , Gone with the Wind, and Glory; some about white messiahs who rescue people of another colorStargate, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mississippi Burning, Three Kings, and The Matrix; the three versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, 1962, and 1984) and interracial romanceGuess Who''s Coming to Dinner. Forty years of Hollywood fantasies of interracial harmony, from The Defiant Ones and In the Heat of the Night through the Lethal Weapon series and Men in Black are examined. This work in the sociology of knowledge and cultural studies relates the movies of Hollywood to the large political agendas on race relation in the United States. Screen Saviors appeals to the general reader interested in the movies or in race and ethnicity as well as to students of comTrade ReviewThe study cuts through 84 years of films with many specific and accurate analyses. It will give instructors a new perspective and students tough questions to ask in many classes. Recommended. * CHOICE *Through a careful, detailed examination of an impressive number of significant American films, the authors vividly demonstrate the extent to which notions of white supremacy assert themselves, often unconsciously, even in works in which a liberal, ostensibly anti-racist viewpoint dominates. Screen Saviors is an important contribution to cinema studies and to the growing body of scholarship devoted to the study of white identity. -- Robert Elliot Fox, Southern Illinois UniversityAnalyzes the images of white protagonists interacting with people of another race or ethnicity in American movies from 1915's 'Birth of a Nation' to 'Black Hawk Down' in 2001. This book reveals the diverse, often disturbing ways in which movies manufacture the 'white self,' the image and the story of whiteness articulated by white film makers. * Beaches Leader *This book reveals the diverse, often disturbing ways in which movies manufacture the 'white self'—the image and story of whiteness articulated by white filmmakers. Avoiding polemical posturing and relying upon historical analysis, the authors provide us with an insightful project that is written with clarity and care. -- Daniel Bernardi, University of ArizonaProvocative book. There's plenty to enjoy. * Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal *A pioneering and highly original book. From Birth of a Nation to the latest Hollywood films, Vera and Gordon describe and critically analyze Hollywood movies made by dozens of different white directors, producers, and writers, people with different imaginations and styles. Yet virtually all the movies they have made fit the same mold of not challenging white privilege. -- Joe R. Feagin, from the ForewordIf you want to explore a colorful, controversial side of film lore, check out Screen Saviors. At the very least, it'll make you think about what you are watching. * Rockford Register Star *A valuable addition to the growing scholarship of hegemonic whiteness in America. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword: A Nation of Sheep Chapter 2 Learning to Be White through the Movies Chapter 3 The Divided White Self Chapter 4 The Beautiful White American: Sincere Fictions of the Savior Chapter 5 Amistad: Civilization and Its Contentments Chapter 6 Mutiny on the Bounty: Civilization and Its Discontents Chapter 7 Racism as a Project:Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Chapter 8 Scarlett and Mammy Revisited: White Women and Black Women in Hollywood Films Chapter 9 White Out: Racial Masquerade by Whites in American Film I Chapter 10 White Out: Racial Masquerade by Whites in American Film II Chapter 11 Black and White Buddies I Chapter 12 Black and White Buddies II Chapter 13 Conclusion: The Crisis of Whiteness
£38.00
Liverpool University Press Tirso de Molina The Trickster of Seville and the
Book SynopsisTirso de Molina was, with Lope de Vega and Calderón, one of the great dramatists of 17th century Spain, which produced a theatre as vital rich and as varied as its Elizabethan counterpart.Table of Contents Introduction I. The Spanish Comedia II. The golden-age Corarl III. Tirso de Molina IV. The trickster of Serville V. Analysis of the play VI. The translation Notes to the introduction The play and commentary Act I Jornada primera Act II Jornada segunda Act III Jornada tercera
£32.29
Liverpool University Press Caesar of the East Selected Texts by Afonso De
Book SynopsisOf all the remarkable people who first opened up the rest of the world to the Europeans Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Pizarro and Cortes Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, was one of the most astonishing.Table of Contents Introduction: Faithful servant and ungrateful master History, rhetoric and intertextuality Chapter I: Ormuz Chapter II: Malacca Chapter III: The Return to India Chapter VI: Benasterim Chapter V: Aden and the Red Sea Chapter VI: The Last Days of Albuquerque Family Tree Notes Bibliography
£36.61
Liverpool University Press Lazarillo de Tormes La Vida De Lazarillo De
Book SynopsisLazarillo de Tormes (1554) is here offered facing the brilliant Tudor English translation of David Rowland of Anglesey (1586). Ostensibly a racy autobiography of a young rogue and his succession of masters, in reality it is a comical and caustic exposé of sixteenth century Spanish society, and especially the Church.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Bibliography; Text; Translation; Notes
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Berghahn Books Irishness Is All Around Us
Book SynopsisFocusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of ''Irish culture'' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author''s theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.Trade Review “While the structure of the book is sometimes heavy, it remains rich in insights and shows theoretical flair. It will be of interest to people who want to know how Irish revitalists navigate ethnicity in Northern Ireland. The methodology is thorough, placing the experiences of the participants in conversation with social structures. Certainly, the theoretical contributions will be of interest to scholars of nationalism and ethnicity.” · Canadian Journal of Irish Studies “This book will be of interest to linguistic anthropologists, cultural anthropologists, as well as sociologists, political scientists, and historians of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It will also be valuable to those interested in cultural identity formation within politically charged contexts, including postcolonial contexts. It complements and extends the existing research on political identities in Northern Ireland.” · American Ethnologist “This is a thoroughly well-written, thought-provoking, and fascinating work which should appeal to ethnographers and linguistic anthropologists as well as to scholars working on language revival movements, particularly those of marginalised, minority languages. Zenker does well to contribute to debates about the politics of language and identity and to notions of place, nationhood, personhood, and autochthony… He writes with zeal and passion about a topic he is not only interested in and obviously fascinated by, but has experienced himself: learning Irish culture through learning the language.” · Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology “Zenker’s prisme théorique allows him to present … individualized and collectivized autochthony as new framework for understanding Irish identity in Catholic West Belfast. In ‘making sense of it all’ in this way, and in his repudiation of ‘narrow constructivism’ …, Zenker effectively takes up the cudgels of [Richard] Jenkins … and [Thomas Hylland] Eriksen… in relocating the stuff of culture in the anthropology of ethnic identity. In short, this book is a valuable study of an important and highly politicized issue.” · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology “This is a beautifully nuanced, richly detailed ethnography of Irish-speaking, and Irish-speakers, in contemporary West Belfast. ... As an exploration of the ‘cultural stuff’, rather than group boundary maintenance, it makes an important contribution to post-Barthian ethnicity studies. ... It is one of the very best ethnographies of Belfast that I have read. Superb.” · Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield “This is a well-researched and engaging text which sheds new light on the issues attending language revivalism in Ireland and its intersection with historic conflict in N. Ireland. The author explains his methodology clearly throughout in a way that allows theoretical issues to be integrated comfortably within the central narrative.” · Fionntán de Brún, University of UlsterTable of Contents Dedication Epigraph List of Tables, Figures, Maps Acknowledgements Glossary PROLOGUE Chapter 1. A Walk of Life: Entering Catholic West Belfast Chapter 2. Framing the Research: Analytical Approach and Methodology The Analytical Framework for the Study of Ethnic Identity (and the Irish Language) On Methodology PART I: THE IRISH LANGUAGE IN CATHOLIC WEST BELFAST Chapter 3. Fáilte isteach – Welcome In Chapter 4. Becoming a Gaeilgeoir Roibeárd, age 63 Rónán, age 61 Mairéad, age 58 Micheál, age 55 Dónal, age 49 Fíona, age 47 Pól, age 47 Pádraigín, age 40 Sinéad, age 33 Caoimhín, age 17 Preliminary observations Chapter 5. On Prophets, Godfathers, Rebels and Prostitutes:a Contemporary History of the Irish language in Catholic West Belfast Emerging structural contexts for the Irish language in the 1950s: a prehistory Prophets on the moral ‘High Meadow’: the Cumann Ċluain Árd From a hedge(d) school to Irish language industries: godfathers of the Irish language Rebels with/out a political cause: the Jailtacht and beyond Prostitutes of the Irish language? Conclusions Chapter 6. ‘Our own native language’: Local Representations and Practices of the Irish language Between purism and pragmatism: the micro-dynamics of Irish language usage The political hijacking of the Irish language revival: the meso-dynamics of supply and demand ‘Our own native language?’ The macro-dynamics of rights activism, ethnicism and nationalism Conclusions PART II: IRISH IDENTITY IN CATHOLIC WEST BELFAST Chapter 7. ‘It’s part of what we are’ – Identifying Identity Chapter 8. Becoming (Aware of) Who You Are: Irish Roibeárd, age 63 Rónán, age 61 Mairéad, age 58 Micheál, age 55 Dónal, age 49 Fíona, age 47 Pól, age 47 Pádraigín, age 40 Sinéad, age 33 Caoimhín, age 17 Preliminary observations Chapter 9. Casting Nets of Identity: a Contemporary History of Irishness in Catholic West Belfast ‘A constant counter-narrative to the dominant narrative of the society’: emerging structural contexts for/eclosing Irishness in Northern Ireland No games, just sports? Gaelic games and the playground of Catholic West Belfast ‘If you feel like singing, do sing an Irish song’: Irish music in Catholic West Belfast Knowing how to do your sevens: dancing to the tune of Irishness in Catholic West Belfast Conclusions Chapter 10. ‘Something inside so strong’: Local Representations and Practices of Irishness What it takes to be Irish The Irishness of Protestants and the politics of a classificatory anomaly Autochthony as the causal logic behind ethnicity Conclusions EPILOGUE Chapter 11. ‘Trying to make sense of it all’: Identity Matters in Catholic West Belfast POST SCRIPTUM Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Black Founders The Unknown History of Australias
Book SynopsisReveals that black convicts were among our first fleet settlers - a fact which complicates our understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia. This work includes the runaway ""Black Caesar"", who became our first bushranger, and the subversive Billie Blue, who was the first ferryman on Sydney Harbour, after whom Blues Point is named.
£19.90
MP-NEV University of Nevada Reclaiming Basque Language Nation and Cultural
Book SynopsisThe Basque language, Euskara, is one of Europe’s most ancient tongues and a vital part of today’s lively Basque culture. Reclaiming Basque examines the ideology, methods, and discourse of the Basque-language revitalization movement over the course of the past century and the way this effort has unfolded alongside the simultaneous Basque nationalist struggle for autonomy.
£28.46
Museum of New Mexico Press Cultural Convergence in New Mexico
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Transport in Transition
Book SynopsisCollects and translates notable Japanese articles to throw some light on the evolution of traditional junk shipping during a key transitional phase, 1900–1940, when it was absorbing the influences of various forms of modernization and on the eve of its major organisational transformation under the direction of the Communisty Party.
£12.95
Blurb, Inc. Preme Magazine
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Taylor & Francis MoreThanHuman Design in Practice
Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and methods to the forefront.There is an urgent need to radically re-imagine design, as its current processes are contributing to global warming, pollution, deforestation, ocean acidification, ozone layer depletion, loss of biodiversity and species extinction. Given this need, âmore-than-human designâ has emerged as a perspective that widens our thinking beyond solely human-oriented considerations and needs, such as animals, plants and microbes. The book explores the relationship between sustainability and design, touching on topics such as AI, systems thinking, futures studies and pedagogy, and discusses a range of case study projects that are grounded in more-than-human thinking, demonstrating how this can be incorporated into practice.This easily accessibl
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Latinasos on the East Coast
Book SynopsisLatinas/os on the East Coast: A Critical Reader provides a comprehensive overview of established and contemporary research and essays written about communities that represent the Latina/o diaspora on the East Coast of the United States. Collectively, it contributes to the historical, cultural, political, and economic dynamics that affect the Latinas/os' lived experience of the country. Analyzed through an interdisciplinary lens, this reader offers a critical examination of the policies and the practices that affect the following current and emerging themes and topics: History; Ethnicity and culture; Immigration, transnationalism, and civil rights; Education; Health; Women's studies; Film and media studies; Queer studies; Literature; Visual and performing arts. This book is an indispensable resource for scholars, researchers, educators, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as any individual, group, or organization interested in issues that affect Latinas/os inTable of ContentsContents: Ángeles Donoso Macaya: Latina/o Studies: The Emergence and Transformation of a Field – Siro del Castillo: A Plea to Destigmatize Mariel – Gabriel Haslip-Viera: The Evolution of the Latino Community in New York City – Ramona Hernández: The Great Exodus: Its Roots – Kaity Modesto: Our Heights’ Story: Exploring the Dominican Community in Washington Heights from 1992 to 2013 – Ana Cristina Braga Martes (translated by Allan Vidigal): «Neither Hispanic, nor Black: We’re Brazilian» – David Carey, Jr.: Situating Latino Voices in a New England Community – Katherine M. Conway/Alyse C. Hachey/Claire Wladis: A New Diaspora: Latina/os in the Online Environment – Rebecca Garte: The Family in the Classroom: How a Culturally Valid Learning Community Transforms the Identity of Latina/o College Students – Donna M. Harris/Judy Marquez Kiyama: Making Visible the Invisible: Latina/o Students’ Insights about the Resources for and Barriers to High School Persistence – Dina Lopez: Immigrant Identities in Transnational Contexts: The Figured World of a New York City English Literacy and Civics Education Classroom – Stanton Wortham/Katherine Clonan-Roy/Holly Link/Carlos Martínez: The New Latino Diaspora – Luisa N. Borrell/Clara Rodríguez: The Implications and Impact of Race on the Health of Hispanic/Latino Males – Anahí Viladrich: Botánicas in America’s Backyard: Uncovering the World of Latino Healers’ Herb-healing Practices in New York City – Yolanda Prieto: Women Leave Home for the Factory: Gender, Work, and Family – Rosie M. Soy/Stefan Bosworth: Dominican Women Across Three Generations: Educational Dreams, Goals and Hopes – Ginetta E.B. Candelario: «They Are Taken into Account for Their Opinions»: Making Community and Displaying Identity at a Dominican Beauty Shop in New York City – Luis Aponte-Parés: Outside/In: Crossing Queer and Latino Boundaries – Carlos Ulises Decena: Tacit Subjects – Ramón H. Rivera-Servera: Building Home: Arthur Aviles’s Choreography of the Public Sphere – Lillian Jiménez: From the Margin to the Center: Puerto Rican Cinema in New York – Isabel Molina Guzmán: Policing the Latina/o Other: Latinidad in Prime-Time News Coverage of the Elián González Story – Frank M. Figueroa: New York’s Latin Music Landmarks – Sydney Hutchinson: Merengue Típico in New York City: A History – Frances Negrón-Mutaner: The Writing on the Wall: The Life and Passion of Jean-Michel Basquiat – Miriam DeCosta-Willis: Sandra María Esteves’s Nuyorican Poetics: The Signifying Difference – Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz: Dominican-American Auto-Ethnographies: Considering the Boundaries of Self-Representation in Julia Álvarez and Junot Díaz – Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes: Women’s Bodies, Lesbian Passions.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power
Book SynopsisInterrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power: White Faculty's Commitment to Racial Consciousness in STEM Classrooms is a collection of narratives that will transform the teaching of any faculty member who teaches in the STEM system. The book links issues of inclusion to teacher excellence at all grade levels by illuminating the critical influence that racial consciousness has on the behaviors of White faculty in the classroom. It functions as an analytical tool, scaffolding exemplary examples to inspire readers to engage in the complex and difficult work of assessing their own racial consciousness and teacher effectiveness. White pre-service teachers in STEM education rarely see the importance of the link between race and the teaching and learning of mathematics, in part because the White faculty who are teaching these subjects rarely engage in the study of racial projects in STEM. From this perspective, the authors of this book contend that the classroom is a racialized enviTrade Review«Research reveals that people – White or Black – who embrace colorblind attitudes about race tend not to have the skills or the language to discuss race and ethnicity, when encountered, during everyday classroom exchanges. This book presents a methodology for White STEM professors to engage race in a very frontal fashion. Instead of the indirect consequences of an unseen elephant in the room, the book helps demystify privilege, humanize otherwise marginalized students, and promote agency within the instructional team that is best positioned to help minority students achieve and be successful in STEM-related fields of study.» (William Cross, Clinical Professor, Higher Education and Counseling Psychology, University of Denver) «As a White instructor, I struggle in my own journey of racial consciousness and crave resources that will help me feel better prepared and equipped to address issues of social justice in education. What a great contribution! When I first read through the personal stories assembled in this book I was intrigued, challenged, inspired, and I felt an immediate need to discuss these ideas with others. Through a unique arrangement of personal narratives and counterarguments from teachers at all stages of the racial consciousness journey, this book provides valuable insights into how, whether consciously or not, our classroom behaviors often replicate and reproduce inequities in the classroom. Although targeted towards those teaching in STEM disciplines, instructors from all academic fields would benefit from reading and reflecting upon these personal stories. This book would make an excellent choice for a faculty book club or learning community!» ( Bridget Arend, Director of University Teaching, University of Denver)«Research reveals that people – White or Black – who embrace colorblind attitudes about race tend not to have the skills or the language to discuss race and ethnicity, when encountered, during everyday classroom exchanges. This book presents a methodology for White STEM professors to engage race in a very frontal fashion. Instead of the indirect consequences of an unseen elephant in the room, the book helps demystify privilege, humanize otherwise marginalized students, and promote agency within the instructional team that is best positioned to help minority students achieve and be successful in STEM-related fields of study.» (William Cross, Clinical Professor, Higher Education and Counseling Psychology, University of Denver) «As a White instructor, I struggle in my own journey of racial consciousness and crave resources that will help me feel better prepared and equipped to address issues of social justice in education. What a great contribution! When I first read through the personal stories assembled in this book I was intrigued, challenged, inspired, and I felt an immediate need to discuss these ideas with others. Through a unique arrangement of personal narratives and counterarguments from teachers at all stages of the racial consciousness journey, this book provides valuable insights into how, whether consciously or not, our classroom behaviors often replicate and reproduce inequities in the classroom. Although targeted towards those teaching in STEM disciplines, instructors from all academic fields would benefit from reading and reflecting upon these personal stories. This book would make an excellent choice for a faculty book club or learning community!» ( Bridget Arend, Director of University Teaching, University of Denver)Table of ContentsContents: Chayla Haynes/Nicole M. Joseph Transforming the STEM System: Teaching that Disrupts White Institutional Space – Christine E. Sleeter: Learning to Work While White to Challenge Racism in Higher Education – Robin DiAngelo: When Nothing’s Lost: The Impact of Racial Segregation on White Teachers and Students – Kristina A. Hesbol: Getting Real: Surfacing and Challenging Persistent Oppressive - Behaviors of School and District Leaders – Richard Kitchen: Privilege in Mathematics Education: Some Reflections on Whiteness – Frederick Erickson: Learning and Teaching About Race, Privilege, and Disprivilege – Crystal A. Kalinec-Craig/Emily Bonner: Seeing the World With a New Set of Eyes: (Re)Examining Our Identities as White Mathematics Education Researchers of Equity and Social Justice – Lisa Martin-Hansen: Interrogating Whiteness: The Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Science Education – Craig Willey/Paula Magee: Teacher Educators and Pre-Service Teachers Working Through the Complexities of Whiteness and Race in Mathematics and Science – Frances K. Harper: Challenging Patterns to Change My World: Using My Personal Evolution of Critical Race Consciousness in Mathematics Teacher Education – Kate R. Johnson: Reconceptualizing «Activism»: Developing a Socially Conscious Practice With Prospective White Mathematics Teachers – Richard Charles: Response to «Teacher Educators and Pre-Service Teachers Working Through the Complexities of Whiteness and Race in Mathematics and Science» – Roni Ellington: Mathematics Teacher Education as a Racialized Experience: One Black Scholar’s Response to a White Teacher Educator’s Critical Consciousness Evolution and Social Justice Practice – Joi Spencer: Moving From the Outside In, or What White Colleagues Need to Do to Get It Right With Their White Students Alberto J. Rodriguez: For Whom Do We Do Equity and Social Justice Work? Recasting the Discourse About the Other to Effect Transformative Change – Rochelle Gutiérrez: Nesting in Nepantla: The Importance of Maintaining Tensions in Our Work.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Africa Asia and the History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisA historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy. Winner of the 2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a penetrating account of a crucial period in the development of philosophy as an academic discipline. During these decades, a number of European philosophers influenced by Immanuel Kant began to formulate the history of philosophy as a march of progress from the Greeks to Kant-a genealogy that supplanted existing accounts beginning in Egypt or Western Asia and at a time when European interest in Sanskrit and Persian literature was flourishing. Not without debate, these traditions were ultimately deemed outside the scope of philosophy and relegated to the study of religion. Park uncovers this debate and recounts the development of an exclusionary canon of philosophy in the decades of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. To what extent was this exclusion of Africa and Asia a result of the scientization of philosophy? To what extent was it a result of racism?This book includes the most extensive description available anywhere of Joseph-Marie de Gérando's Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie, Friedrich Schlegel's lectures on the history of philosophy, Friedrich Ast's and Thaddä Anselm Rixner's systematic integration of Africa and Asia into the history of philosophy, and the controversy between G. W. F. Hegel and the theologian August Tholuck over "pantheism."
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State University of New York Press Autobiography of a Language The Emanuel
Book SynopsisExplores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition. The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length work on Emanuel Carnevali (18971942), the first Italian American to attain literary recognition. It is a study on how an Italian immigrant to New York became an author and a key figure in transnational modernism. Most importantly, though, it's a study of contacts between American and Italian literatures in the modernist era, and an exploration of the challenges of writing in a second language. Carnevali's works are almost exclusively in English, even though he spent only eight years in the United States before returning to Italy. Combining literary analysis with some of the latest findings in applied linguistics and the study of bilingualism, this book contributes to a very active debate in the fields of comparative literature and translation studies: the implications of translingual writing. Andrea Ciribuco considers both the linguistic and cultural aspects of writing in a second language, examining its potential and pitfalls, and bringing Carnevali's works in touch with the sociocultural context of the great wave of Italian emigration.
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State University of New York Press Culture and Tactics Gramsci Race and the Politics
Book SynopsisJuxtaposes Antonio Gramsci''s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.While scholars of social and political movements tend to analyze tactics in terms of their effectiveness in achieving specific outcomes, Robert F. Carley argues by contrast that tactics are, above all, what social movements do. They are not mere means to an end so much as they are a public form of expression pointing out injustices and making just demands. Rooted in a highly original analysis of the tactically mediated relationship between race and mobilization in the work of Italian philosopher and revolutionary Antonio Gramsci, Culture and Tactics demonstrates how tactics impact the organizational structures of social movements and expand the affinities of political communities. Carley looks at how Gramsci used innovative tactics to bridge perceptions of racial differences between factory workers and subaltern groups, the latter having been denigrated to the point of subhumanity by a complex Italian national racial economy. Newly envisioning Gramsci as a theorist of race within a broader context of social struggle, Carley connects Gramsci''s insights into the political mobilizations of racialized subaltern groups to contemporary critical race theory and cultural studies of racialization and racism. Speaking across disciplines and drawing on a number of empirical examples, Carley offers a battery of original concepts to assist scholars and activists in analyzing the tactical practices of protests in which race is a central factor.
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State University of New York Press José María Heredia in New York 18231825
Book SynopsisAn English translation, with introduction and annotations, of a selection of the letters and verse that José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), wrote during his months of political exile in New York from November 1823 to August 1825.This volume offers the most complete English translation to date of the prose and poetry of José María Heredia (b. Cuba, 1803; d. Mexico, 1839), focusing on Heredia''s political exile in the United States from November 1823 to August 1825. Frederick Luciani''s introduction offers a complete biographical sketch that discusses the complications of Heredia''s life in exile, his conflicted political views, his significance as a travel writer and observer of life in the United States, and his reception by nineteenth-century North American writers and critics. The volume includes thoroughly annotated letters that Heredia wrote to family and friends in Cuba, describing his struggles and adventures living among other young expatriates in New York City-fellow conspirators in a failed plot to overthrow Spanish rule on the island. His travel letters, especially those that describe his trip to the Niagara frontier in 1824 along the Hudson River and the Erie Canal, offer discerning reflections on American landscapes, technological advances, political culture, and social customs. The volume also offers translations of the verse that Heredia composed during his New York exile, in which he gave impassioned voice to Cuba''s struggle for independence from Spain, and which reflected the emerging Romantic sensibilities in Spanish-language poetry. With accurate, clear translations, this volume serves as an introduction to a figure who is enshrined in the canon of Latin American literature, but scarcely known to Anglophone readers.
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State University of New York Press Amnesia
Book SynopsisThailand''s monarchy and military have dominated the narrative of the country''s modern history, and their leadership is often accepted as evidence of a cultural preference for authoritarianism. Despite a long history of military coups that have upended the course of the country''s democracy, however, Thailand''s democratic history is a vital though largely ignored aspect of modern Thai society. Based on extensive archival research, Amnesia delves into the social and political beginnings of Thai democracy and explains how a bloodless revolution against the monarchy in 1932 introduced a constitutional democracy and ignited enduring hopes for a fairer society and a more representative government. The "People''s Party," a small group of commoners who staged the revolution in the name of democracy, found an enthusiastic audience for their bold populist rhetoric among wide swathes of society. In Amnesia, Arjun Subrahmanyan illustrates how the idealism of the first decade of Thai democracy, now largely forgotten, still shapes Thai society.
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State University of New York Press Free Jazz
Book SynopsisA new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author''s experience as a performer.In the late 1950s, free jazz broke all the rules, liberating musicians both to create completely spontaneous and unplanned performances and to develop unique personal musical systems. This genre emerged alongside the radical changes of the 1960s, particularly the Civil Rights, Black Arts, and Black Power movements. Free Jazz is a new and accessible introduction to this exciting, controversial, and often misunderstood music, drawing on extensive research, close listening, and the author''s experience as a performer. More than a catalog of artists and albums, the book explores the conceptual areas they opened: freedom, spirituality, energy, experimentalism, and self-determination. These are discussed in relation to both the political and artistic currents of the times and to specific musical techniques, explained in language clear to ordinary readers but also useful for musicians.
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State University of New York Press Cinema of Discontent
Book SynopsisUses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan''s postwar "economic miracle," challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.From the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, Japan experienced an unprecedented level of economic growth, transforming itself from a war-devastated country to a global economic power. Our image of postwar Japan has been shaped by this event, and we tend to see its history as a story of great national success. Cinema of Discontent challenges this view and details the tensions generated by massive and intense capitalist development through analyses of popular cinema produced during the era of high-speed growth. The films discussed in this book, directed by Kawashima Yuzo, Masumura Yasuzo, Inoue Akira, Ezaki Mio, and Kumashiro Tatsumi, attracted broad audiences yet remain understudied. Cinema of Discontent contextualizes these films in relation to the politics, economy, intellectual discourse, and cultural texts of the time. By doing so, it demonstrates how these films address problems immanent to Japan''s postwar capitalism, including uneven development, increasing corporate control over individuals, precarious and contingent work, and militarized peace and prosperity.
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State University of New York Press Erotic Testimonies
Book SynopsisAsks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.Erotic Testimonies draws inspiration from Audre Lorde''s "Uses of the Erotic" to explore how Black women access their interiority and use their feelings to engage in processes of self-actualization and make themselves free. Blending genres and resisting the confines of conventional scholarly analysis, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery undertakes what she characterizes as a performative embodied reading of testimonies by four "wild" women from her own life. Jordan-Zachery takes care not to define what constitutes a wild woman-that''s been done enough to oppressive ends-but rather tends to these women''s forms and means of self-articulation. Complex accounts of wildness, freedom, femininity, the erotic, and the divine emerge from her field notes. Erotic Testimonies attests to the experience of the individual as well as, and even more importantly, how the individual speaks to a broader collective that here includes Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Janet Jackson, the author, her grandmother, and many more.
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State University of New York Press Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity
Book SynopsisExamines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.Crossing Borders and Confounding Identity advances our understanding of the diversity of Chinese women''s experiences and achievements, from the Han Dynasty to the present. With a particular emphasis on literature and the arts, the chapters offer insights into the work of current Chinese women artists as well as literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of women and women''s issues. Taken together, they provide new perspectives on Chinese women, their lived experiences and fictional representations, across a broad spectrum of literature, theater, film, and the visual arts. Accessible to nonspecialists and general readers, this book will also be a valuable resource for faculty who teach Asian studies courses in history and in the humanities, as well as for students in interdisciplinary Asian studies courses.
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State University of New York Press Feminist Spiritualities
Book SynopsisExplores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.Feminist Spiritualities aims to complicate contemporary debates surrounding Black/Latinx experiences within a critical framework of decolonial thought, women of color feminisms, politicized emotional structures, and anti-imperial politics. Joshua R. Deckman considers literary and cultural productions from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, and their diasporas in the United States, exploring epistemic spaces that have historically been marked as irrational and inconsequential for the production of knowledge-including social media posts, song lyrics, public writings, speeches, and personal interviews. Analyzing works by Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Mayra Santos-Febres, Rita Indiana Hernández, Ana-Maurine Lara, Elizabeth Acevedo, María Teresa Fernández, Nitty Scott, Lxs Krudxs Cubensi, and Ibeyi, Deckman shows how these authors develop afro-epistemologies grounded in Caribbean feminist spiritualities and manifest a commitment to finding joy and love in difference. Literary, anthropological, and more, Feminist Spiritualities weaves through a series of fields and methodologies in an undisciplined way to contribute new close readings of recent works and fresh assessments of well-known ones.
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State University of New York Press From Blues to Beyoncé
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Temple University Press,U.S. Transnationalizing Viet Nam
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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Rowman & Littlefield Victims of Progress
Book SynopsisVictims of Progress, now in its sixth edition, offers a compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world. Bodley's expansive look at the struggle between small-scale indigenous societies, and the colonists and corporate developers who have infringed their territories reaches from 1800 into today. He examines major issues of intervention such as social engineering, economic development, self-determination, health and disease, global warming, and ecocide. Small-scale societies, Bodley convincingly demonstrates, have survived by organizing politically to defend their basic human rights.Providing a provocative context in which to think about civilization and its costsshedding light on how we are all victims of progressthe sixth edition features expanded discussion of uprising politics, Tebtebba (a particularly active indigenous organization), and voluntary isolation. A wholly new chapter devotes full coverage to the costs of global warmingTrade ReviewIn this latest edition Bodley surveys the conditions of indigenous peoples in a wide range of places and times. As in earlier editions, in the first two-thirds of the book, the author reviews the conflicts at contact between Native peoples and colonizing Europeans and Americans. The theme is twofold: constantly changing boundaries were unable to keep the two peoples apart and at peace, but the resilience of indigenous societies in the face of decimating disease, land loss, and deforestation saw them through to a time when their rights and interests could garner somewhat greater international concern. Thus, the most recent chapters follow the course of UN and International Labour Organization conventions, national treaties, and the effects of global climate change and commercial contact to give a fuller picture of the current state of indigenous interests and situations. Brief yet striking examples from a wide variety of groups result in a very useful overview with enough specifics to keep the analysis from becoming too generalized. Useful for anthropology and public policy collections and courses, particularly when supplemented with more-detailed accounts and visual aids. Summing Up: Recommended. General university and high school libraries. * CHOICE *Victims of Progress appears in its sixth updated edition to consider, as an ongoing project, how technology is affecting indigenous peoples around the world, and is recommended for college-level collections strong in anthropology as well as global social issues and cultural studies. It considers the histories of struggles between small-scale indigenous communities and colonists and developers, examines intervention techniques, and posits the theory that these small-scale communities have done a good job in contemporary times of organizing as a political force to defend their territories, lifestyles, and interests. This sixth edition holds expanded discussions of both rebellions and deliberate isolationist tactics, and adds further details on the costs and threats posed to such communities by global warming. No global issues collection should be without this solid reference. * Midwest Book Review *Essential for its scope, detailed analysis, and documentary rigor, the sixth edition of Victims of Progress is an exceptionally learned and uncompromising critique of the neocolonial expansion of capitalist market economy into indigenous peoples’ homelands. Bodley’s updated classic is both an indictment of Euro-American aggressive world expansion and a eulogy of Native civilizations and their wisdom. -- Stefano Varese, professor emeritus, University of California, DavisA must-read… Through its clear arguments and abundant case materials, the sixth edition of Victims of Progress shows how far humans have come in mitigating the damage of an expanding commercial world—where tribal peoples were merely the first to suffer—and in defending our rights to exist as ourselves. It is a book not only of human tragedies, but also of human strengths. Useful in courses on culture change, modernization, and economic development. -- Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Penn State UniversityVictims of Progress reveals the political and ethnocentric nature of development in the name of 'progress' and contradicts the justification of 'inevitable' ethnocide, genocide, and ecocide found around the world and throughout time. A must-read for anyone interested in models of success based on demonstrated resiliency and dedication of small-scale peoples fighting for autonomy and sovereignty. -- Kerensa Allison, Lewis-Clark State CollegeThis unparalleled survey is an in depth analysis of the problems of survival, adaptation, and human rights faced by indigenous peoples the world over. From the imposition of external economic and political forces to colonialism to globalization, the sixth edition of Bodley’s Victims of Progress covers a wide range of topics. This should be required reading for every student and professional in anthropology. -- Leslie Sponsel, University of Hawai`i, author of Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet RevolutionA beautifully written account of the tragic plight of indigenous peoples under the impact of technological and economic ‘progress’ of industrial nation-states over many centuries. Bodley’s analysis skillfully combines quantitative data with qualitative assessments to illuminate global issues affecting us all. The book is a must for anyone concerned with issues of genocide, environmental destruction, and human rights. Thoroughly updated, this sixth edition will be a valuable asset in undergraduate and graduate courses alike. -- Linda Stone, professor emeritus, Washington State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Culture Scale Culture Scale, Culture Process, and Indigenous Peoples Large-Scale versus Small-Scale Society and Culture The Problem of Global-Scale Society and Culture Social Scale and Social Power Negative Development: The Global Pattern Policy Implications 2: Progress and Indigenous Peoples Progress: The Commercial Explosion The Culture of Consumption Resource Appropriation and Acculturation The Role of Ethnocentrism Civilization’s Unwilling Conscripts Cultural Pride versus Progress The Principle of Stabilization 3: The Uncontrolled Frontier The Frontier Process Demographic Impact of the Frontier 4: We Fought with Spears The Punitive Raid Wars of Extermination 5: The Extension of Government Control Aims and Philosophy of Administration Tribal Peoples and National Unity The Transfer of Sovereignty Treaty Making Bringing Government to the Tribes The Political Integration Process Anthropology and Native Administration 6: Land Policies The People–Land Relationship Land Policy Variables 7: Cultural Modification Policies These Are the Things That Obstruct Progress Social Engineering: How to Do It 8: Economic Globalization Forced Labor: Harnessing the Heathens Learning the Dignity of Labor: Taxes and Discipline Creating Progressive Consumers Promoting Technological Change Tourism and Indigenous Peoples 9: The Price of Progress Progress and the Quality of Life Diseases of Development Ecocide Deprivation and Discrimination 10: The Political Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination Who Are Indigenous Peoples? The Initial Political Movements Creating Nunavut Guna Self-Determination: The Comarca Gunayala The Political Struggle The Shuar Solution CONAIE: Uprising Politics Reshaping Ecuador’s Political Landscape The Dene Nation: Land, Not Money Land Rights and the Outstation Movement in Australia Philippine Tribals: No More Retreat Indigenous Peoples and the Arctic Council The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Tebtebba: An Indigenous Partnership on Climate Change and Forests 11: Petroleum, the Commercial World, and Indigenous Peoples Petroleum: The Unsustainable Foundation of the Commercial World The Gwich’in and Oil Development in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins Petroleum Development and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador First Nations Opposition to Canadian Tar Sand Development Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) vs. Shell Oil Assigning Responsibility for Tar Sand Development 12: Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples The Indigenous Response to Global Warming Indigenous Peoples as Climate Change Refugees Arctic Warming and Alaska Natives Global Warming Perpetuators and Beneficiaries Assessing the Global Costs of Climate Change & the Carbon Economy 13: Human Rights and the Politics of Ethnocide The Realists: Humanitarian Imperialists and Scientists The World Bank: Operational Manual 2005 and False Assurances The Idealist Preservationists You Can’t Leave Them Alone: The Realists Prevail Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Advocates Voluntary Isolation in the Twenty-First Century Indigenous Peoples as Small Nations Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Index About the Author
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Bristol University Press Obama and the Biracial Factor
Book SynopsisObama and the Biracial Factor is the first book to explore the significance of mixed-race identity as a key factor in the election of President Obama and examines the sociological and political relationship between race, power, and public policy in the United States.Trade Review"Obama and the biracial factor is a crucial addition to the growing work in critical mixed-race studies. This book goes beyond simplistic analyses to demonstrate how mixed-race identity is used to reinforce rather than challenge white supremacy within popular discourse. With the growing debates between scholars who focus on anti-Blackness versus critical race mixed-studies, one may not agree with all the analyses proferred in the text. Nevertheless, this book is an essential addition to this debate." Andrea Smith, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California Riverside"Andrew Jolivette presents incisive essays by social scientists and cultural critics about Obama's racial justice successes and stagnations. An historically-informed theme of "post-racism" instead of "post-race" emerges - sober, inspiring, realistic." Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon“Offers a broad and penetrating view of the importance of race in the ongoing development of American politics.” Politic365.com"Obama and the biracial factor offers deep insights into the emergence and early years of the administration of the first biracial President in US history, as well as what it might mean for the future of American politics." Kevin R. Johnson, Dean, UC Davis School of Law"Andrew Jolivette has assembled some of the brightest thinkers at the intersections of race, politics, and social issues. This provocative volume asks and answers critical questions of the early 21st century." Kristen A. Renn, PhD, Associate Professor, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsObama and the biracial factor: An introduction ~ Andrew Jolivette; Race, multiraciality, and the election of Barack Obama: Toward a more perfect union? ~ G. Reginald Daniel; "A Patchwork Heritage" Multiracial citation in Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father ~ Justin Ponder; Racial revisionism, caste revisited: Whiteness, blackness and Barack Obama ~ Darryl G. Barthe, Jr.; Part II: Beyond black and white identity politics; Obama mamas and mixed race: Hoping for "A More Perfect Union" ~ Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace Yoo; Is 'no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama'? ~ Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain; Mixed race kin-aesthetics in the Age of Obama ~ Wei Ming Dariotis; Mutt like me: Barak Obama and the mixed race experience in historical perspective ~ Zebulon Miletsky; Part III: The battle for a new American majority; A different kind of blackness: The question of Obama's blackness and intraracial variation among African Americans ~ Robert Keith Collins; Avoiding Race or Following the Racial Scripts? Obama and race in the recessionary period of the colorblind era ~ Kathleen Odel Korgen and David L. Brunsma; Barack Obama and the rise to power: Emmett Till revisited ~ Andrew Jolivette
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McFarland & Co Inc The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media
Book Synopsis? The minstrel show occupies a complex and controversial space in the history of American popular culture. Today considered a shameful relic of America''s racist past, it nonetheless offered many black performers of the 19th and early 20th centuries their only opportunity to succeed in a white-dominated entertainment world, where white performers in blackface had by the 1830s established minstrelsy as an enduringly popular national art form. This book traces the often overlooked history of the modern minstrel show through the advent of 20th century mass media--when stars like Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Mickey Rooney continued a long tradition of affecting black music, dance and theatrical styles for mainly white audiences--to its abrupt end in the 1950s. A companion two-CD reissue of recordings discussed in the book is available from Archeophone Records at www.archeophone.com.
£41.94
University Press of Mississippi The Yoruba God of Drumming
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University Press of Mississippi Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
Book SynopsisEssays that explore how patronage and sexism marginalised women artists
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Improvising Sabor Cuban Dance Music in New York
Book SynopsisExamines in rich detail the playing styles and international influence of important figures in US Latin music. Sue Miller focuses on the Cuban flute style in light of its transformations in the US after the 1959 revolution and within the vibrant context of 1960s New York
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Black Panther Interrogating a Cultural
Book SynopsisBlack Panther is one of the most successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. Terence McSweeney explores the film from a range of perspectives, seeing it not only as a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to African and African American studies.
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University Press of Mississippi Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction
Book SynopsisContributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Kathryn Strong Hansen, Elizabeth Ho, Esther L. Jones, Sarah Olutola, Alex Polish, Zara Rix, Susan Tan, and Roberta Seelinger Trites Race in Young Adult Speculative Fiction offers a sustained analysis of race and representation in young adult speculative fiction (YASF). The collection considers how characters of color are represented in YASF, how they contribute to and participate in speculative worlds, how race affects or influences the structures of speculative worlds, and how race and racial ideologies are implicated in YASF. This collection also examines how race and racism are discussed in YASF or if, indeed, race and racism are discussed at all. Essays explore such notable and popular works as the Divergent series, The Red Queen, The Lunar Chronicles, and the Infernal Devices trilogy. They consider the effects of colorblind ideolo
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Black Panther Interrogating a Cultural
Book SynopsisBlack Panther is one of the most successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. Terence McSweeney explores the film from a range of perspectives, seeing it not only as a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to African and African American studies.
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Manchester University Press Leaving the Field: Methodological Insights from
Book SynopsisLeaving the field gathers various accounts of ethnographers leaving their field sites. In doing so, the book offers original insights into an often-overlooked aspect of the research process; the ethnographic exit. The chapters variously consider situations in which the researcher must extricate themselves from field relations, deal with unexpected or imperfect ends to projects, or manage situations in which ‘the field’ becomes hard to leave. Whilst the chapters are firmly focussed on ethnographic exits, they also provide more general methodological insights into the conduct of fieldwork and the writing of ethnography, as well as questioning established notions of ‘the field’ as a bounded setting the researcher straightforwardly visits and then leaves. The book highlights the importance of recognising ethnographic exits as an essential part of the research process.Table of ContentsLeaving the field: an editors’ introductionSara Delamont and Robin James SmithPart I Entanglements and im/perfect exits1 Finishing fieldwork in less than perfect circumstances: lessons learned in ‘labyrinth’ exitingAlexandra Allan and Sarah Cole2 Exeunt omnes!! The case for bad exits in ethnographySally Campbell Galman3 Reflections on care and attachment in the ‘departure lounge’ of ethnographyAlex McInch and Harry C.R. Bowles4 Unfinished business: a reflection on leaving the fieldGareth M. Thomas5 Materia erotica: making love among glass-blowersErin O’ConnorPart II Troubling the field6 Those who never leave usJessica Nina Lester and Allison Daniel Anders7 Déjà vu et jamais vu: what happens when the field expands in ways that mean there is no exit?Dawn Mannay8 Student voices ‘echo’ from the ethnographic fieldJanean Robinson, Barry Down and John Smyth9 Public space and visible poverty: research fields without exitAndrew P. Carlin10 ‘The martial will never leave your bones’: embodying the field of the Kung Fu familyGeorge JenningsPart III Intermissions and returns11 Between open and closed: recursive exits and returns to the fuzzy field of a community library across a decade of austerityAlice Corble12 On the importance of intermissions in ethnographic fieldwork: lessons from leaving New YorkJoe Williams13 Can you remember? Leaving and returning to the field in longitudinal research with people living with dementiaAndrew Clark and Sarah Campbell14 A constant apprenticeship in martial arts: the messy longitudinal dynamics of never leaving the fieldDavid CalveyPart IV Returns, responsibilities and representations after ‘leaving’15 A cautionary tale about ‘respondent validation’: the dissonant meeting of ‘field self’ and ‘author self’Daniel Burrows16 Commenting on legal practice: research relationships and the impact of criticismDaniel Newman17 Emotional honesty and reflections on problematic positionalities when conducting research in another countryAshley Rogers
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Manchester University Press Policing Race, Ethnicity and Culture:
Book SynopsisHow to deal with differences based on culture, ethnicity and race, has become a key issue of policing. This edited collected explores everyday, often mundane interactions between police officers and migrantised actors in European countries and asks how both sides deal with perceived differences. The contributions reflect that such differences are not just ‘out there’ but are being situationally (re-)produced in police-citizen encounters. By taking a comparative approach, the book develops a distinctly European perspective on these questions. The book contains 12 ethnographies from ten European countries, based on new and often innovative empirical research, two theoretical contributions, an introduction and a postface.Trade Review'This book is a recommended study that nicely incorporates anthropology, criminology, history, linguistics, and sociology.'Ryan Shaffer, Ethnic and Racial Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction Policing differences: perspectives from Europe – Jan Beek, Thomas Bierschenk and Annalena Kolloch Part I: Categorizations of difference in police work 1 Police racism in France and Germany: occupational socialisation and institutional guidelines – Jérémie Gauthier and Jacques de Maillard2 Policing order: ethnicity in statistics and the functions of nationalism – Rebecca Pates3 Predictively policed: the Dutch CAS case and its forerunners – Paul Mutsaers and Tom van Nuenen 4 The social construction of parallel society in Swedish police documents – Ida NafstadPart II: Doing differences in everyday policing5 Dirty Harry gone global? On globalising policing and punitive impotence – David Sausdal 6 Instrumentalising racism in Russian policing: everyday interactions between police officers and migrants – Ekaterina Khodzhaeva 7 Negotiating with ethnic diversity: perceptions and patterns in everyday police work in Germany – Nina Müller 8 ‘Do you understand? Yes, you understand.’: bureaucratic translations of difference during deportation talks in Switzerland – Lisa Marie BorrelliPart III: Policing as translation 9 Inclusive and non-inclusive modes of communication in multilingual operational police training – Annalena Kolloch and Bernd Meyer 10 Talking with hands and feet: language differences and translation in German policing – Jan Beek and Marcel Müller 11 The Portuguese police and colonial legacies: when language divides – Susana DurãoPart IV: Police officers and ethnographers 12 Albanian culture and major crime: challenging culturalist assumptions among investigating UK police – Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers13 Approaching foreign milieus: experiences from a joint seminar with police trainees and anthropology students – Gisela Pauli Caldas and Thomas Widlok PostfaceAuthorizing race: on police reproduction of difference – Ian Loader
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University of Arkansas Press The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir
Book SynopsisAt an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990's Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her ""the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time."" Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, ""The Long Shadow of Little Rock"", couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower - the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates' own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.Trade ReviewThis is a book which I hope will be read by every American. It is simply told and easy to read, but not pleasant. - Eleanor Roosevelt, from the foreword to the first edition (1962) ""Daisy Bates' vivid memoir illuminates one of the key events of an historic freedom struggle.... Her story will serve as a source of inspiration for future participants in the long struggle for human freedom."" - From the afterword
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University of Massachusetts Press An American Dream: The Life of an African
Book SynopsisThroughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning - character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes counted for little, especially in the South. Adams was a seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1947 when he fled Memphis and the local police to join the U.S. Army. Three years later, after fighting in the Korean War in an all-black artillery unit that he believed to have been sacrificed to save white troops, he was captured by the Chinese. After spending almost three years as a POW, during which he continued to suffer racism at the hands of his fellow Americans, he refused repatriation in 1953, choosing instead the People's Republic of China, where he hoped to find educational and career opportunities not readily available in his own country. While living in China, Adams earned a university degree, married a Chinese professor of Russian, and worked in Beijing as a translator for the Foreign Languages Press. During the Vietnam War, he made a controversial anti-war broadcast over Radio Hanoi, urging black troops not to fight for someone else's political and economic freedoms until they enjoyed these same rights at home. In 1966, having come under suspicion during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, he returned with his wife and two children to the United States, where he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to face charges of ""disrupting the morale of American fighting forces in Vietnam and inciting revolution in the United States."" After these charges were dropped, he and his family struggled to survive economically. Eventually, through sheer perseverance, they were able to fulfill at least part of the American Dream. By the time he died, the family owned and operated eight successful Chinese restaurants in his native Memphis.Trade ReviewAn important addition to the remarkably scant canon of African American memoirs about war, as well as a meaningful American memoir. - Jeff Loeb, editor of Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Autobiography of a Black American Exile by Terry Whitmore ""Black participation in the Korean War is an extremely important, yet understudied topic. I expect that future scholars will make use of this narrative both as a source and even as a starting point for further historical inquiry."" - Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
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University Press of Mississippi Autobiography as Activism: Three Black Women of
Book SynopsisAngela Davis, Assata Shakur (a.k.a. JoAnne Chesimard), and Elaine Brown are the only women activists of the Black Power movement who have published book-length autobiographies. In bearing witness to that era, these militant newsmakers wrote in part to educate and to mobilize their anticipated readers. In this way, Davis's Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), Shakur's Assata (1987), and Brown's A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (1992) can all be read as extensions of the writers' political activism during the 1960s.Margo V. Perkins's critical analysis of their books is less a history of the movement (or of women's involvement in it) than an exploration of the politics of storytelling for activists who choose to write their lives. Perkins examines how activists use autobiography to connect their lives to those of other activists across historical periods, to emphasize the link between the personal and the political, and to construct an alternative history that challenges dominant or conventional ways of knowing.The histories constructed by these three women call attention to the experiences of women in revolutionary struggle, particularly to the ways their experiences have differed from men's. The women's stories are told from different perspectives and provide different insights into a movement that has been much studied from the masculine perspective. At times they fill in, complement, challenge, or converse with the stories told by their male counterparts, and in doing so, hint at how the present and future can be made less catastrophic because of women's involvement.The multiple complexities of the Black Power movement become evident in reading these women's narratives against each other as well as against the sometimes strikingly different accounts of their male counterparts.As Davis, Shakur, and Brown recount events in their lives, they dispute mainstream assumptions about race, class, and gender and reveal how the Black Power struggle profoundly shaped their respective identities.
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University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Audre Lorde
Book SynopsisAudre Lorde (1934-1992), the author of eleven books of poetry, described herself as a ""Black feminist lesbian poet warrior mother,"" but she added that this phrase was inadequate in capturing her full identity. The interviews in this collection portray the many additional sides of the Harlem-born author and activist. She was also a rebellious child of Caribbean parents, a mastectomy patient, a blue-collar worker, a college professor, a student of African mythology, an experimental autobiographer in her book titled Zami, a critic of imperialism, and a charismatic orator.Despite her intense engagement with the major social movements of her time, Lorde told interviewers that she was always an outsider, a position of weakness and of strength.Most of her schoolmates were white. She married a white legal-aid attorney, and after their divorce she was the partner of a white psychologist for many years. These intimate alliances with whites caused some African Americans of both genders to question the depth of her solidarity. Lorde expressed distrust of some white feminists and charged that they lacked real understanding of African American struggles.Writing proved to be her powerful weapon against injustice. Painfully aware that differences could provoke prejudice and violence, she promoted the bridging of barriers. These interviews reveal the sense of displacement that made Lorde a champion of the outcast and the forgotten--whether in New York, Mississippi, Berlin, or Soweto.
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Prometheus Books The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny
Book SynopsisIntroduction by Toyin Falola A preeminent African American abolitionist, author, public intellectual, physician, the highest ranking black officer during the Civil War, and a notable activist for the emigration of blacks to Africa, Martin Robison Delany has left an enduring legacy in his writings, the power of his ideas, and his political activism. So influential was he during the nineteenth century that a number of people now refer to him as the "Father of Black Nationalism." He spent most of his career working toward the goal of seeking black emancipation through practical projects aimed toward returning African Americans to Africa, where he hoped his people would make a new beginning within the context of political freedom and a society devoid of racism. Two of his most influential works on black nationalism are presented in this volume. The Condition, Elevation, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852) presents Delany's separatist views. To many scholars of African American political thought, this book marks the origin of black nationalism in print. However, its scope is much broader than this single focus might suggest. It is the first book-length study to present an account of the economic and political status of blacks in the United States. Because of the intractable nature of U.S. racism and the deplorable living conditions of most African Americans, Delany concluded by recommending emigration of African Americans to Central America. Some years later Delany turned to Africa as the better choice for relocation of black Americans. Based on an exploratory journey he took to West Africa in 1859, he wrote Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party. The report provides clear information on the conditions in West Africa of that time to give immigrants an idea of what they would encounter. He also provides an impressive amount of data on how to improve agriculture, land, ventilation, and housing to promote better living standards. With an introduction by Toyin Falola, the Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin, this new edition of these two provocative and intriguing nineteenth-century documents sheds much light on the black nationalism movement in the context of African American history.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Mobilizing An Asian American Community
Book SynopsisFocusing on San Diego in the post-Civil Rights era, Linda Trinh Vo examines the ways Asian Americans drew together despite many differences within the group to construct a community that supports a variety of social, economic, political, and cultural organizations. Using historical materials, ethnographic fieldwork, and interviews, Linda Trinh Vo traces the political strategies that enable Asian Americans to bridge ethnicity, generation, gender, language, and class differences, among others. She demonstrates that mobilization is not a smooth, linear process and shows how the struggle over ideologies, political strategies, and resources affects the development of community organizations. Vo also analyzes how Asian Americans construct their relationship with Asia and how they forge relationships with other racialized communities of color. Vo argues that the situation in San Diego illuminates other localities across the country where Asians face challenges trying to organize, find sufficient resources, create leaders, and define strategies. Linda Trinh Vo is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine; she is the co-editor with Rick Bonus of "Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences" (Temple). She also co-edited with Marian Sciachitano "Asian American Women: The 'Frontiers' Reader" and co-edited with Gilbert Gonzalez, Raul Fernandez, Vivian Price, and David Smith "Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration".Trade Review"Linda Vo makes a timely and original contribution to the literature on Asian American activism and also to the sociology of social movements and mobilization. She provides a nuanced and fine-grained analysis of the mobilization of Asian Americans in San Diego during a crucial period of demographic change in the Asian American population."-Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor "Linda Trinh Vo's study offers a powerful critique of simplistic notions of assimilation by demonstrating how race is understood and used as a basis for political mobilization among both immigrants and native-born Asian Americans. Rather than simply disappearing as economic and social status increase, Vo demonstrates how and why racial identities continue to have significance in their everyday lives."-Leland T. Saito, Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California "Innovative, well written, and accessible...Vo meet[s] the challenges of Asian America in the twenty-first century, incorporating both the new theories and methodologies coming out of ethnic studies as well as the dynamic new characteristics of this now largely immigrant community, with its rapid growth in size and complex internal diversity."-Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University "Remarkable as research and explanation, Mobilizing an Asian American Community demystifies the exhilarating processes of intellectual labors and identity formations as they engage interactively shifting demographies, racializations, political economies, and representations. A singular achievement."-Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History "[The book] provides a fresh perspective of the Asian-American issues to the reader... Vo re-enforces the need of continuing changes in a community with new or different demands."-Korean Quarterly "[T]he book is positive, coherent, and strives mightily to be non-judgmental. Vo's book would prove especially valuable to the API community's younger members..."-Asia "If you are interested in non-fiction and the process of mobilization, whether you are Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hispanic, African American, Caucasian, all or none of the above, Mobilizing An Asian American Community will shed some light on this continual process of community kinship, and perhaps inspire the activist in you."-ChopBlock.com "[Vo] has written an important book that explores the complicated processes of community organization and identity formation. Written in an accessible style, Vo's book makes important contributions to understanding the Asian American movement outside larger cities and to countering misconceptions of Asian Americans as apathetic and apolitical. Summing Up: Highly recommended."-ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Paths of Resistance and Accommodation for Asian Americans2. Asian Immigration and Settlement in San Diego3. The Politics of Social Services for a "Model Minority": The Union of Pan Asian Communities4. Cultural Images and the Media: Racialization and Oppositional Practices5. Economic Positioning: Resources, Opportunities, and Mobilization6. "Where Do We Stand?" Politics, Representation, and Leadership7. Mapping Asian America: In Search of "Our" History and "Our" Community8. Ambiguities and Contradictions: Narratives of Identity and Community9. Conclusion: Milestones and Crossroads for Asian AmericansList of IntervieweesNotesReferencesIndex
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. Maya Achi Marimba Music In Guatemala
Book SynopsisFor the Achi, one of the several Mayan ethnic groups indigenous to Guatemala, the music of the marimba serves not only as a form of entertainment but also as a form of communication, a vehicle for memory, and an articulation of cultural identity. Sergio Navarrete Pellicer examines the marimba tradition -- the historical confluence of African musical influences, Spanish colonial power, and Indian ethnic assimilation -- as a driving force in the dynamics of cultural continuity and change in Rabinal, the heart of Achi culture and society. By examining the performance and consumption of marimba music as complementary parts of a system of social interaction, religious belief, and ethnic identification, Navarrete Pellicer reveals how the strains of the marimba resonate with the spiritual yearnings and cultural negotiations of the Achi as they try to come to terms with the political violence and economic hardship wrought by their colonial past.Trade Review"As new material garnered from original field research, Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala is a significant contribution to studies of folk music in any language, especially in English, on neglected Central America. The marimba is officially declared-and in fact is-the closest thing to a national instrument in Guatemala. This in-depth study on one of that nation's marimba musical cultures combines historical background with intelligent analysis and perceptive interpretation of contemporary practice to advance our understanding of a major musical tradition in Latin America. Navarrete Pellicer brings out the voices of the members of the community in this book rich in detail and sensitive in its description of personalities and human relations."-T. M. Scruggs, University of IowaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A History of the Achi People of Rabinal2. The Belief in the Dead3. Concepts and Classifications of Music4. The Marimba and the Son5. Good and Evil: Music, Alcohol, and Women6. Musical Occasions7. Cognition, Values, and the Aesthetics of Music8. The Economy of the Son and the Pieza9. Music within Social Interaction10. Conclusion: "Who Am I to Know Better Than the Ancestors?"Contents of Compact DiscAppendix 1: OrthographyAppendix 2: CofradiasAppendix 3: Musical Ensembles, Repertoires, and OccasionsAppendix 4: Synopses of Dance-DramasNotesGlossaryDiscographyReferencesIndex
£61.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Literary Gestures: The Aesthetic in Asian
Book SynopsisContests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary formTrade Review"A brilliant introduction frames the essays. This groundbreaking book of essays is a must for any scholar of Asian American literary studies, or indeed, ethnic literature in general. Essential." Choice "These scholars effectively critique contemporary multicultural criticism's inability or unwillingness to encompass the aesthetic." MELUS Spring 2007
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. Mexican Voices of the Border Region
Book SynopsisHow the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each sideTrade Review"Mexican Voices of the Border Region is a novel addition to the growing literature on borders, transborder communities, and using borders for understanding United States–Mexico relations. The moving stories—of those who cross the border for their work and do not experience that crossing as particularly liberating—are very compelling and have broad appeal."—Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, and author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon Table of ContentsContentsForeword, by Arthur Schmidt Acknowledgments Introduction: Lived Borders 1. Living on the Agricultural Frontier 2. Home, Sweet Industrial Home 3. Sex without Kisses, Love with Abuse 4. A Straight-Dealing Drug Trafficker 5. An Indigenous Woman Street Vendor 6. A Caregiver Commuter 7. A Border Acrobat 8. The Mexicali Panther 9. A Young Mexican American 10. Guarding the American Dream Conclusion: Opportunity and Uncertainty Notes References Index
£61.60
Westholme Publishing Patriots from the Barrio: The Story of Company E,
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£21.20
University Press of Mississippi Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro
Book SynopsisThe first Latin American actor to become a superstar, Ramon Novarro was for years one of Hollywood's top actors. Born Ramon Samaniego to a prominent Mexican family, he arrived in America in 1916, a refugee from civil wars. By the mid-1920s, he had become one of MGM's biggest box office attractions, starring in now-classic films, including The Student Prince, Mata Hari, and the original version of Ben-Hur. He shared the screen with the era's top leading ladies, such as Greta Garbo, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, and Norma Shearer, and he became Rudolph Valentino's main rival in the ""Latin Lover"" category. Yet, despite his considerable professional accomplishments, Novarro's enduring hold on fame stems from his tragic death--his bloodied corpse was found in his house on Halloween 1968 in what has become one of Hollywood's most infamous scandals.A lifelong bachelor, Novarro carefully cultivated his image as a man deeply devoted to his family and to Catholicism. His murder shattered that persona. News reports revealed that the dashing screen hero had not only been gay, but he was dead at the hands of two young, male hustlers. Since then, details of his murder have achieved near mythic proportions, obscuring Novarro's professional legacy. Beyond Paradise presents a full picture of the man who made motion picture history. Including original interviews with Novarro's surviving friends, family, co-workers, and the two men convicted of his murder, this biography provides unique insights into an early Hollywood star--a man whose heart was forever in conflict with his image and whose myth continues to fascinate today.
£23.96
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Black Greek 101: The Culture, Customs, and
Book SynopsisBlack Greek 101 analyzes the customs, culture, and challenges facing historically Black fraternal organizations. The text provides a history of Black Greek organizations beyond the nine major organizations, examining the pledging practice, the growth of fraternalism outside of the mainstream organizations, the vivid culture and practices of the groups, and challenges for the future.
£42.00
