Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisWarring Genealogies examines the elaboration of kinships between Chicano/a and Asian American cultural production, such as the 1954 proxy adoption of a Korean boy by Leavenworth prisoners. Joo Ok Kim considers white supremacist expressions of kinship—in prison magazines, memorials, U.S. military songbooks—as well as critiques of such expressions in Chicana/o and Korean diasporic works to conceptualize racialized formations of kinship emerging from the Korean War.Warring Genealogies unpacks writings by Rolando Hinojosa (Korean Love Songs, The Useless Servants) and Luis Valdez (I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges, Zoot Suit) to show the counter-representations of the Korean War and the problematic depiction of the United States as a benevolent savior. Kim also analyzes Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student as a novel that proposes alternative temporalities to dominant Korean War narratives. In addition,Trade Review“Warring Genealogies offers a sophisticated analysis that compellingly demonstrates the broader significance of the Korean War as a crucible for a variety of U.S. Cold War concerns in the post–World War II era. Crucially, Kim’s juxtaposition and brilliant analysis of unlikely archival materials and cultural texts make an original and exceedingly important contribution to our understandings of the links between the Korean War and U.S. racial, carceral, and settler colonial formations. This is a rigorous and impressive interdisciplinary cultural study.”—Jodi Kim, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries“In recent years, we have seen the emergence of a vital nexus of works in Asian American and American Studies on the topic of the Korean War. Warring Genealogies makes a vital contribution to this field. Kim organizes her study around the problematic of kinship in illuminating and original ways, synthesizing and inventively finding points of connection among a number of significant approaches. What is most compelling is the archive Kim constructs: Not only are many of the objects she takes up themselves fascinating—the adoption of Bok Nam Om by white prisoners at Leavenworth, the Korean War historiography of the United Daughters of the Confederacy—but they are also placed in startling juxtaposition with more easily accessible cultural works like published histories and novels. The prolific scope of the theoretical and historiographical studies that Kim draws on here provides readers with a comprehensive awareness of the relevance of such fields and persuasively demonstrates how kinship functions as a conceptual through line among them as well.”—Daniel Y. Kim, Professor of English and American Studies at Brown University, and author of The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War"The Korean War should not be forgotten. Kim’s work proves that the study of it is relevant to anyone interested in understanding the complex histories and current dynamics of globalized white supremacy, even as it demonstrates just how foundational it is to interrogate, through the lens of US empire, what we think we know."—American Literary History

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Book SynopsisIn her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through—and travel across—the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. Ocean Passages considers how Indigenous Pacific scholars have emphasized the importance of the ocean to Indigenous activism, art, and theories of globalization and how Asian American studies might engage in a deconstructive interrogation of race in conversation with this Indigenous-centered transnationalism.The ocean passages that Suzuki addresses include the U.S. occupation and militarization of ocean space; refugee passage and the history and experiences of peoples displaced from the Pacific Islands; migratory circuits and the labors required to cross the sea; and the different ways that oceans inform postcolonial and settler colonial nationalisms. She juxtaposes work by Indigenous PaTrade Review"Each chapter offers thoughtful and thorough analyses of literary texts by writers or artists respectively from Asian/settler-colonial America and Indigenous Pacific Islands.... Suzuki’s challenging and insightful work deserves much praise and will undoubtedly benefit a large readership across many fields of study."—American Literary History"Ocean Passages is a timely book that will be of interest to scholars and students of Indigeneity, race, and diaspora across the fields of ethnic, Native, Asian American, and Pacific studies. It is, in particular, essential reading for Asian Americanists. In addition to Suzuki's superb literary analyses, her book asks pointed questions about a field's relationship—or perhaps its obligations—to Oceanic peoples and places. This reckoning has been a long time coming (calls for the disaggregation of the AAPI acronym are now decades old and still unresolved)." —Native American and Indigenous Studies“Ocean Passages examines how movement within, through, and across the Pacific Ocean mediates the subjectivities of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific communities in the wake of colonial conflicts that have shaped the region. Through a sustained analysis of how various narratives of ‘ocean passages’ disrupt and revise hegemonic constructions of the Pacific, Suzuki demonstrates what new orientations, concepts, and openings can emerge by bringing Asian and Pacific Islander passages across the same sea into a critical analytic of relation…. Ocean Passages demonstrates how transpacific studies can evolve and continue to be a generative framing for counterhegemonic, decolonial research across disciplines.” —Lateral"Through her skillful handling of these passages, Suzuki provides routes that gives due value to both Indigenous Pacific and Asian diasporic perspectives. She does not seek to resolve their disjuncture but to revitalize their engagement. Her rigorous and grounded navigation of these literatures is an important exercise in expanding the critical purchase of the field and 'transpacific,' ensuring its contemporary relevance.... Ocean Passages is an important offering at the intersection of Asian American, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, diasporic, and transpacific studies."—The Journal of Asian Studies"Suzuki underscores the importance of engaging Native studies and Indigenous peoples—not as neglected areas and objects of study but as subjects of knowledge and invaluable kin.... Each chapter likewise is a remarkable weave of information and interpretation.... Ocean Passages deftly engages a complex issue: how to treat the Pacific, and passage more generally, as a distinct phenomenon but not an empirical positivity.... Reading across Asian American and Pacific Islander literatures is vital for this project. Suzuki shows us how to distill sustenance from their richness, making Ocean Passages a necessary wayfinder to Pacific futures."—The Journal of American Folklore"Ocean Passages break[s] new ground in the fields of Indigenous and Asian American studies. Moreover, by highlighting ways in which these fields are fundamentally connected...Suzuki make[s] a compelling case for the intellectual and ethical necessity of a comparative approach that takes stock of the various forms of expression, resistance, and cross-racial solidarity born from shared experiences of physical and discursive violence.... Suzuki reframe[s] our analysis of these conjoined histories to yield generative models for how we might pursue a decolonial future."—MELUS

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Book SynopsisIn her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through—and travel across—the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. Ocean Passages considers how Indigenous Pacific scholars have emphasized the importance of the ocean to Indigenous activism, art, and theories of globalization and how Asian American studies might engage in a deconstructive interrogation of race in conversation with this Indigenous-centered transnationalism.The ocean passages that Suzuki addresses include the U.S. occupation and militarization of ocean space; refugee passage and the history and experiences of peoples displaced from the Pacific Islands; migratory circuits and the labors required to cross the sea; and the different ways that oceans inform postcolonial and settler colonial nationalisms. She juxtaposes work by Indigenous PaTrade Review"Each chapter offers thoughtful and thorough analyses of literary texts by writers or artists respectively from Asian/settler-colonial America and Indigenous Pacific Islands.... Suzuki’s challenging and insightful work deserves much praise and will undoubtedly benefit a large readership across many fields of study."—American Literary History"Ocean Passages is a timely book that will be of interest to scholars and students of Indigeneity, race, and diaspora across the fields of ethnic, Native, Asian American, and Pacific studies. It is, in particular, essential reading for Asian Americanists. In addition to Suzuki's superb literary analyses, her book asks pointed questions about a field's relationship—or perhaps its obligations—to Oceanic peoples and places. This reckoning has been a long time coming (calls for the disaggregation of the AAPI acronym are now decades old and still unresolved)." —Native American and Indigenous Studies“Ocean Passages examines how movement within, through, and across the Pacific Ocean mediates the subjectivities of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific communities in the wake of colonial conflicts that have shaped the region. Through a sustained analysis of how various narratives of ‘ocean passages’ disrupt and revise hegemonic constructions of the Pacific, Suzuki demonstrates what new orientations, concepts, and openings can emerge by bringing Asian and Pacific Islander passages across the same sea into a critical analytic of relation…. Ocean Passages demonstrates how transpacific studies can evolve and continue to be a generative framing for counterhegemonic, decolonial research across disciplines.” —Lateral"Through her skillful handling of these passages, Suzuki provides routes that gives due value to both Indigenous Pacific and Asian diasporic perspectives. She does not seek to resolve their disjuncture but to revitalize their engagement. Her rigorous and grounded navigation of these literatures is an important exercise in expanding the critical purchase of the field and 'transpacific,' ensuring its contemporary relevance.... Ocean Passages is an important offering at the intersection of Asian American, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, diasporic, and transpacific studies."—The Journal of Asian Studies"Suzuki underscores the importance of engaging Native studies and Indigenous peoples—not as neglected areas and objects of study but as subjects of knowledge and invaluable kin.... Each chapter likewise is a remarkable weave of information and interpretation.... Ocean Passages deftly engages a complex issue: how to treat the Pacific, and passage more generally, as a distinct phenomenon but not an empirical positivity.... Reading across Asian American and Pacific Islander literatures is vital for this project. Suzuki shows us how to distill sustenance from their richness, making Ocean Passages a necessary wayfinder to Pacific futures."—The Journal of American Folklore"Ocean Passages break[s] new ground in the fields of Indigenous and Asian American studies. Moreover, by highlighting ways in which these fields are fundamentally connected...Suzuki make[s] a compelling case for the intellectual and ethical necessity of a comparative approach that takes stock of the various forms of expression, resistance, and cross-racial solidarity born from shared experiences of physical and discursive violence.... Suzuki reframe[s] our analysis of these conjoined histories to yield generative models for how we might pursue a decolonial future."—MELUS

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Book SynopsisThroughout his esteemed career, William Cross has tried to reconcile how Black men he met in the barber shop seemed so normal, but the portrayal in college textbooks of Black people in generaland the Black working class in particularis self-hating and pathological. In Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair, Cross revisits his ground-breaking model on Black identity awakening known as Nigrescence, connects W. E. B. DuBois's concept of double consciousness to an analysis of how Black identity is performed in everyday life, and traces the origins of the deficit perspective on Black culture to scholarship dating back to the 1930s. He follows with a critique showing such deficit and Black self-hatred tropes were always based on extremely weak evidence.Black Identity Viewed from a Barber's Chair ends with a new understanding of the psychology of slavery that helps explain why and how, during the first twelve years of emancipation, countless former slaves exhibited amazing psychological,Trade Review“Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is classic Bill Cross, a brilliant jazz ensemble—part intellectual history, part memoir, part social and political history, and part critical science. Elegant and original, this book is both groundbreaking and backward-looking in ways that carve new and innovative intellectual paths. Cross re-views Frazier, Clark, Du Bois, and the works on Black racial identities. And he reflects thoughtfully on his own work, the relentless persistence of the deficit perspective, and where the field needs to go. This book is just stunning; Cross moves in and out of political and intellectual history with brilliance.”—Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York“An impressive synthesis of psychology and Black studies, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is an intellectually interesting journey through Black history by one of the most significant Black theorists of our time. Cross is an erudite and insightful thinker of the highest order, and this book provides context for the creation of Black psychology as a discipline. It is a fitting conclusion to his life’s work.”—Kevin Cokley, Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and author of The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students"This is a first-rate overview of Black identity by Cross, a leading psychologist and major developer of Nigrescence theory and the Cross Racial Identity Scale measuring Black self-identity. Here, he thoroughly analyzes his and other leading Black psychologists’ lifespan models of Black consciousness.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"[This book] is part professional memoir, part introduction to Black Studies; part intellectual history, part introduction to psychology; part declaration of support for humanist psychology; and altogether insistent on the manifest diversity of Black ontology.... All in all, with its conservational tone, accessible writing, and didactic quality, Cross very much delivers on the 'educational narrative' he sets out to offer. I recommend this book highly."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"[T]his pointed book, which can be used as a casual read or as required academic reading, provides the sort of interrogation that we need to reengage, reimagine, and retell the stories of our Blackness in ways that uplift, empower, and advance us."—Teachers College Record"The strengths of this text are many.... [T]he major themes and concepts are illustrated for the reader through application to historical events and prominent figures in ways that will resonate with many audiences…. In all, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is a worthwhile and engaging read for anyone interested in Black humanity and experiences."—Contemporary Sociology

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is classic Bill Cross, a brilliant jazz ensemble—part intellectual history, part memoir, part social and political history, and part critical science. Elegant and original, this book is both groundbreaking and backward-looking in ways that carve new and innovative intellectual paths. Cross re-views Frazier, Clark, Du Bois, and the works on Black racial identities. And he reflects thoughtfully on his own work, the relentless persistence of the deficit perspective, and where the field needs to go. This book is just stunning; Cross moves in and out of political and intellectual history with brilliance.”—Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York“An impressive synthesis of psychology and Black studies, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is an intellectually interesting journey through Black history by one of the most significant Black theorists of our time. Cross is an erudite and insightful thinker of the highest order, and this book provides context for the creation of Black psychology as a discipline. It is a fitting conclusion to his life’s work.”—Kevin Cokley, Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, and author of The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students"This is a first-rate overview of Black identity by Cross, a leading psychologist and major developer of Nigrescence theory and the Cross Racial Identity Scale measuring Black self-identity. Here, he thoroughly analyzes his and other leading Black psychologists’ lifespan models of Black consciousness.... Summing Up: Highly recommended."—Choice"[This book] is part professional memoir, part introduction to Black Studies; part intellectual history, part introduction to psychology; part declaration of support for humanist psychology; and altogether insistent on the manifest diversity of Black ontology.... All in all, with its conservational tone, accessible writing, and didactic quality, Cross very much delivers on the 'educational narrative' he sets out to offer. I recommend this book highly."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"[T]his pointed book, which can be used as a casual read or as required academic reading, provides the sort of interrogation that we need to reengage, reimagine, and retell the stories of our Blackness in ways that uplift, empower, and advance us."—Teachers College Record"The strengths of this text are many.... [T]he major themes and concepts are illustrated for the reader through application to historical events and prominent figures in ways that will resonate with many audiences…. In all, Black Identity Viewed from a Barber’s Chair is a worthwhile and engaging read for anyone interested in Black humanity and experiences."—Contemporary Sociology

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1998,Q & A: Queer in Asian America,edited by David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, became a canonical work in Asian American studies and queer studies. This new edition ofQ & Ais neither a sequel nor an update, but an entirely new work borne out of the progressive political and cultural advances of the queer experiences of Asian North American communities.The artists, activists, community organizers, creative writers, poets, scholars, and visual artists that contribute to this exciting new volume make visible the complicated intertwining of sexuality with race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Sections address activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism anddiaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilien

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Steele, a sports journalist, connects recent efforts by Black athletes to effect social change, initiated by Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem, to the history of Black athletes using their platform to draw attention to racial injustice.... In particular, Steele draws a direct line from the famous protest by John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. He contrasts this with the period from the 1980s to the early 2000s, when Black athletes mostly tried to stay out of larger social justice debates.... [A]s Steele demonstrates, given recent high-profile incidents of police violence against Black people and the demagoguery of now former President Donald Trump and his supporters, the need for protest and social justice campaigns remains as great as ever.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Steele takes on the task of positioning recent sports activism in the United States within the longer history of athletes in that country taking a stand against racial injustice.... Steele writes in an engaging and impassioned style that will certainly attract a broad readership.... It Was Always a Choice is a book with a clear argument – that athletes cannot and should not stand above the fray when it comes to civil rights activism – and anyone who is looking to understand recent events in US sporting history would benefit from reading it."—Sport in History"David Steele’s authoritative and engaging account uses historical reflection and up-to-date analysis to locate the key issues firmly in the present; but also, encouragingly, it turns its gaze to the future, and considers what, and who, might come next. Within the broader realm of sporting activism, Steele’s book focuses specifically on race and racism, and explores the actions undertaken largely but not exclusively by African American athletes in the United States. Through a comprehensive and thoughtful delineation of their actions, bodily gestures and spoken words, Steele outlines how Black sportspeople are inseparable from the communities which they emerge from and represent.... It Was Always a Choice is an important and insightful text."—Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when illness betrays Asian Americanfantasies of indefinite progressTrade Review"Lee’s book makes important contributions to ongoing and much needed conversations about illness, disability, racism, ableism, and the importance of storytelling and memoir."—Wordgathering“Lee provides an engaging bridge between Asian American and disability studies, draws skillfully from both fields, and demonstrates the compelling significance of Asian American medical and illness memoirs for the general public.”—American Literary History

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when illness betrays Asian Americanfantasies of indefinite progressTrade Review"Lee’s book makes important contributions to ongoing and much needed conversations about illness, disability, racism, ableism, and the importance of storytelling and memoir."—Wordgathering“Lee provides an engaging bridge between Asian American and disability studies, draws skillfully from both fields, and demonstrates the compelling significance of Asian American medical and illness memoirs for the general public.”—American Literary History

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Book SynopsisAt the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overall lack of human capital. These women, members of the shin Issei community, sought economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. In Intimate Strangers, shin Issei women tell stories of precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality, first in Japan, where they were restricted by gendered social structures, and later in the United States, where their experiences were compounded by issues such as citizenship.Intimate Strangers charts the experiences of shin Issei lives: their existence in Japan prior to migration, their motivations for moving to the United States, their settlement, and their growing awareness of their place in American society. Toyota chronicles how these resilient young women became active agents in circumventing social restrictions to fashion new lives of meaning. The Nikkei

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Book SynopsisAt the end of the twentieth century, many twenty-something Japanese women migrated to places like Southern California with few skills and an overall lack of human capital. These women, members of the shin Issei community, sought economic opportunities unavailable to them in their homeland. In Intimate Strangers, shin Issei women tell stories of precarity, inequality, and continuing marginality, first in Japan, where they were restricted by gendered social structures, and later in the United States, where their experiences were compounded by issues such as citizenship.Intimate Strangers charts the experiences of shin Issei lives: their existence in Japan prior to migration, their motivations for moving to the United States, their settlement, and their growing awareness of their place in American society. Toyota chronicles how these resilient young women became active agents in circumventing social restrictions to fashion new lives of meaning. The Nikkei

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Book SynopsisBrothersis Nico Slate's poignant memoir about Peter Slate, akaXL, aBlack rapper and screenwriter whose life was tragically cut short. Nico and Peter shared the same White American mother but had different fathers. Nico's was White; Peter's was Black. Growing up in California in the 1980s and 1990s, Nico often forgot about their racial differences until one night in March 1994 when Peter was attacked by a White man in a nightclub in Los Angeles. Nico began writingBrotherswith the hope that investigating the attack would bring him closer to Peter. He could not understand that night, however, without grappling with the many ways race had long separated him from his brother. This is a memoir of lossthe loss of a life and the loss at the heart of our racial dividebut it is also a memoir of love.The love between Nico and Peter permeates every page ofBrothers.This achingly beautiful memoir presents one family's resilience on the fault lines of race in contemporary America.Trade Review"A searing, hauntingly poignant memoir."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)“Let’s be clear. Brothers is a love story. A tragic, beautiful, riveting, soulshaking love story. It is a love story between boys, men, mothers and sons, fathers and sons, and brothers. It is a love story that doesn’t so much cross the color line as study it and reveal its elusive nature, its shape-shifting form as border, wall, bludgeon, rope, threshold, even a lifeline. Nico Slate writes with clarity, disarming honesty, rawness, and beauty matched only by his brother’s extraordinary life and character. Brothers is a journey of discovery and recovery, an unfinished struggle to piece together the fragments of a man who, in the midst of wrestling with his own demons and disappointments, managed to make those he loved whole. Concealed in the many lives of Peter Slate, there is more here than meets the eye.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original“A gripping and pertinent account, Brothers explores the bonds of race, family, and love with disarming honesty and probing insight.”—Jasmin Darznik, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir The Good Daughter“This captivating memoir, written by acclaimed historian Nico Slate, recounts the remarkable, yet tragically short, life of Slate’s older brother as he navigated the complex terrain of race in the United States. In lively and compelling prose, Slate offers an honest and moving story that illuminates the power of family and the true meaning of brotherhood. This memoir challenges and inspires, leaving readers with a treasure trove of rich insights on race, history, and family.”—Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom“Slate’s memoir Brothers circles the question of race’s meaningingfulness [sic] and meaninglessness as a social construct as seen through the relationship of two siblings: one Black and one white. Brothers is a memento mori for Slate’s older brother Peter, a prolific scriptwriter and DJ also known as XL the 1I…. A gentle elegy, Brothers also goes beyond grief and childhood memories to comment on culture’s intimate ramifications while resurrecting the complexity of Peter as a person: creative, dreamer, brother, father figure, and Black man.”—Foreword

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Book SynopsisThis book explicitly addresses racism in the paid workplace, showing how racism, and by corollary sexism, are systemic to society.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Theoretical Framework: Class, Racism and Gender * Introducing this Book * Marxist Approaches to the Labour Process * Anti-Racist, Feminist Critiques * Labour Market Segmentation Theories * Critiques to Segmentation Theories * Race and Gender Relations and Managerial Approaches * Racism and Sexism as Ideologies and Economic Relations * Attitudinal, Behavioural and Everyday Forms of Racism * Racism Preserves Cheap Labour and Powerlessness * Anti-Black Racism * Anti-Chinese Racism Chapter 2: Manifestations of Racism from Management * Targeting * Scapegoating * Excessive Monitoring * Marginalization * Seeing Solidarity As A Threat * Infantilization * Blaming the Victim * Bias in Work Allocation * Underemployment and the Denial of Promotions * Lack of Accommodation * Segregation of Workers * Co-optation and Selective Alliances * Tokenism Chapter 3: Racism in the Garment Industry * Introduction and Research Methods * The Big Picture: Political Economy of the Industry * Role of the Canadian State * Racialized and Gendered Working Class * Racism and Sexism on the Shopfloor Chapter 4: Racism in Nursing * Introduction and Research Methods * The Big Picture: Political Economy of Healthcare * Racism in the Wards * Contextualizing Everyday Racism in Hospitals Chapter 5: Resisting Racism in the Workplace * Unions * Human Rights Commissions * Community Actions * Community Organizations * Employment Equity * Community Unionism * Anti-Racism Education Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Southern Mercy, Annette Bickford examines the limits of emancipation, and the exclusions inherent in liberal humanism that distinguish racism in the contemporary post-race era.Trade Review"Annette Louise Bickford inquires as to the degree of mercy that operated in early-twentieth century juvenile reform in the U.S. South … The book offers excellent archival research about the realities of life in mid-century juvenile reformatories… Her theoretical framework grounded in a critique of liberal humanism is intriguing and should raise interest especially among graduate students. " -- Karin L. Zipf * The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 3, 1 June 2018 *"Southern Mercy is a fascinating study of North Carolina’s juvenile reform institutions from their founding to the World War II era…Bickford joins a broader conversation about Enlightenment-based liberal humanism as fundamentally underwritten by systemic racism and sexism." -- Susan K. Cahn, SUNY Buffalo * The Journal of American History, Sept. 2018 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Swamp Island Chapter 2: The Samarcand Arson Case Chapter 3: The Energy of Despair Chapter 4: The Merciful Executioner Chapter 5: The Prodigal Son Epilogue Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWithin nineteenth-century Ojibwe/Chippewa medicine societies, and in communities at large, animals are realities and symbols that demonstrate cultural principles of North American Ojibwe nations. Living with Animals presents over 100 images from oral and written sources – including birch bark scrolls, rock art, stories, games, and dreams – in which animals appear as kindred beings, spirit powers, healers, and protectors.Michael Pomedli shows that the principles at play in these sources are not merely evidence of cultural values, but also unique standards brought to treaty signings by Ojibwe leaders. In addition, these principles are norms against which North American treaty interpretations should be reframed. The author provides an important foundation for ongoing treaty negotiations, and for what contemporary Ojibwe cultural figures corroborate as ways of leading a good, integrated life.Trade Review'This engaging and engrossing study focuses on the cultural forms of Native expression in 19th-century Ojibwe medicine societies and communities... Living with Animals offers an impressive amount of meticulous data-including traditional narratives, scrolls, textiles, and petroglyphs.' -- A.R. McKee Choice vol 52:02:2014 'An impressive piece of scholarship and it breaks new ground regarding the Midewiwin or Grand Medicine Society... Living with Animals is a welcome resource for students and scholars and I also highly recommend to general readers who have an interest in native spirituality.' -- Lawrence T. Martin Prairie Messenger July 2, 2014 'This book makes a unique contribution to the literature on Ojibwe culture by emphasizing the place of animal and spiritual beings in nineteenth-century Ojibwe ontology, behavior and world view.' -- Darrel Manitowabi The Canadian Journal of Native Studies vol 34:02:2014Table of ContentsPreface * Challenging Western thought * The power of bear grease * Bears as persons * Transformative possibilities make definitive judgments difficult Introduction * Scope of this book * Geography of the Ojibwe * Goals and methodology * Use of terms; spellings, illustrations * Acknowledgements * Genesis of this book * Permissions Chapter One: The Grand Medicine Society, the Midewiwin * Membership * Wabeno, Jessakkid, and Midewiwin * Origins of the Midewiwin * Cosmic ordering * Nanabush * Health and the Midewiwin * Functions of the Midewiwin * Sound of the drum * Medicine bags * Birch bark scrolls, the lodge, teachings, ceremonies * Midewiwin and rock art * Bear, the "guiding spirit of the Midewiwin" * Megis/shell * Midewiwin and leadership Chapter Two: "Paths of the Spirit": Moral Values in the Writings of Four 19th-Century Ojibwe in the Spirit of the Midewiwin * Peter Jones: Like the "red squirrel" who stores nuts, store works of the Great Spirit * Andrew J. Blackbird: "The Great Spirit is looking upon thee continually" * George Copway: "I am one of Nature's children." * William Whipple Warren: "There is much yet to be learned from the wild and apparently simple son of the forest" Chapter Three: Otter: the Playful Slider * Physical otter * Otter as representational * Otter as patterned * Otter and Ojibwe standards of life Chapter Four: Owls: Images and Voices in the Ojibwe and Midewiwin World * Classification and characteristics of owls * Owl as bad luck, bad medicine * Owl as protector and healer * Owl as a teacher of altruism * Owl and directions, winds and seasons * Owl and the dead * Owl and conservation * Owl and origin of day and night * Representations of owl Chapter Five: Omnipresent and Ambivalent Bears * Bears' anatomy, physiology, and behavior * Ojibwe relationships with bears * Representations of bear in ceremonial performances * Near identity of bears and Ojibwe * Bear in the Midewiwin ceremonies * Totems/dodems, clans * Evil bears * Bear as archshadow * Bear as celestial * Bears and visions of sound * Bear as medicine and healer: following the bear path * Bear as patterned * Bear as child abductor * Bear as environmental guardian, mother * Games * Bear and greed Chapter Six: Water Creatures * Harmful creatures * Snakes and the afterlife * Helpful creatures * Women, water and snakes * Sea creatures and copper * Sea creatures and silver * The Little People Chapter Seven: Thunderbirds * Thunderbirds as givers * Interrelationships among humans, sky and water creatures * Birds and play * Thunderbirds and Ojibwe life * Thunderers as communicators and protectors * Thunderbird symbolism Conclusion Appendix A Leadership among Ojibwe Appendix B The sweat lodge Appendix C Bear as celestial Appendix D Ojibwe historical relationship with copper Appendix E Lacrosse and war Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a symbol and a geographical and historical place, is vital to understanding the wide range of identities and ideas about racial consciousness that exist in Bahia’s Afro-Brazilian communities.In his ethnographic research Dawson follows the idea of “Africa” from the city of Salvador to the West African coast and back to the hinterlands of the Bahian interior. Along the way, he encounters West African entrepreneurs, Afrobeat musicians, devotees of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, professors of the Yoruba language, and hardscrabble farmers and ranchers, each of whom engages with the “idea of Africa” in their own personal way.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Blackness and Africanity in Brazil and Elsewhere Chapter 2: West African Cultural Brokers in Northeast Brazil Chapter 3: Manifestations of Afro-Brazilian Blackness Chapter 4: Blackness in the Bahian Sertao Chapter 5: Conclusions Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisSpanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada.Trade Review"The volume is appropriate for a core text in seminars in Canadian or comparative immigrant women's history; for women's or immigration history courses; as a supplementary source of readings for courses in Canadian survey, women's, social, and gender history courses, or for multidisciplinary courses in women's and gender studies. The editors express their hope to inspire another generation of historians keen to explore and analyze the histories of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada and beyond. Indeed." -- Anne Burke * The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction MARLENE EPP AND FRANCA IACOVETTA PART ONE: Race, Crime, and Justice A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Odyssey of Marie-Joseph Angelique, Black Portuguese Slave Woman in New France, 1725-1734 AFUA COOPER Unpacking the Discursive Irish Women Immigrant in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Newfoundland WILLEEN KEOUGH The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay's Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919 LISA R. MAR PART TWO: The Making of White Settler Societies Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada CECILIA MORGAN Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849-1871 ADELE PERRY Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation ENAKSHI DUA PART THREE: Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing Letters 'home' from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women LISA CHILTON The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan LESLEY ERICKSON From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada SONIA CANCIAN PART FOUR: Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario LORNA R. MCLEAN AND MARILYN BARBER Taming and Training Greek "Peasant Girls" and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s -1960s NOULA MINA I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services for Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Canada GLENDA TIBE BONIFACIO PART FIVE : Constructing Symbols and Bodies Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874-1933 LAURIE K. BERTRAM A Larger Frame: 'Redressing' the Image of Doukhobor-Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century ASHLEIGH ANDROSOFF Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939-1940 VARPU LINDSTROM PART SIX: Activists and Political Subjects Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada's Radical Consumer Movement, 1947-1950 JULIE GUARD Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women's Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960-1980 GRACE L. SANDERS JOHNSON An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants? Portuguese Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto SUSANA MIRANDA PART SEVEN: Food, Family, and Culture The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women MARLENE EPP Jello-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of Food FRANCA IACOVETTA AND VALERIE J. KORINEK Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women HELEN VALLIANATOS AND KIM RAINE PART EIGHT: History, Identity, and Belonging 'Slotting' Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947-1967 LAURA MADOKORO Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950-1980 KAREN FLYNN The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space FRANCES SWYRIPA PART NINE: Trauma, Violence, and Memory Survival Their Survival: Women, Memory and the Holocaust PAULA J. DRAPER Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of Internment PAMELA SUGIMAN Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Dueling Narratives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora NADIA JONES-GAILANI

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Book SynopsisIn Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North America's premier multicultural metropolises - Toronto, New York, and Los AngelesTrade Review'Qadeer brings to bear an in-depth knowledge about multicultural cities, their urban institutions and structures and insights into ways these institutions and structures are evolving and cultural differences negotiated.' -- Carlos Teixeira Journal of Urban Affairs January 2017Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Cultures and the City Chapter 2: Multiculturalism: Diversity Rights and Common Ground Chapter 3: Making Multicultural Cities Chapter 4: Social Geography of Multicultural Cities Chapter 5: Ethnicity and Urban Economy Chapter 6: Patterns of Community Life Chapter 7: Experiences of Living in Multicultural Cities Chapter 8: Political Incorporation and Diversity Chapter 9: Pluralism of Urban Services Chapter 10: Urban Planning for Cultural Diversity Chapter 11: Imagining Multicultural Cities Appendix 1. Theoretical Discourse on Multiculturalism

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Book SynopsisSpanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada.Trade Review"The volume is appropriate for a core text in seminars in Canadian or comparative immigrant women's history; for women's or immigration history courses; as a supplementary source of readings for courses in Canadian survey, women's, social, and gender history courses, or for multidisciplinary courses in women's and gender studies. The editors express their hope to inspire another generation of historians keen to explore and analyze the histories of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada and beyond. Indeed." -- Anne Burke * The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction MARLENE EPP AND FRANCA IACOVETTA PART ONE: Race, Crime, and Justice A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Odyssey of Marie-Joseph Angelique, Black Portuguese Slave Woman in New France, 1725-1734 AFUA COOPER Unpacking the Discursive Irish Women Immigrant in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Newfoundland WILLEEN KEOUGH The Tale of Lin Tee: Madness, Family Violence, and Lindsay's Anti-Chinese Riot of 1919 LISA R. MAR PART TWO: The Making of White Settler Societies Turning Strangers into Sisters? Missionaries and Colonization in Upper Canada CECILIA MORGAN Whose Sisters and What Eyes? White Women, Race, and Immigration to British Columbia, 1849-1871 ADELE PERRY Exclusion through Inclusion: Female Asian Migration in the Making of Canada as a White Settler Nation ENAKSHI DUA PART THREE: Letters and Tales of Settlement and Longing Letters 'home' from Canada: British Female Emigrants and the Imperial Family of Women LISA CHILTON The Interplay of Ethnicity and Gender: Swedish Women in Southeastern Saskatchewan LESLEY ERICKSON From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada SONIA CANCIAN PART FOUR: Labouring Domestics and Canadian Constraints In Search of Comfort and Independence: Irish Immigrant Domestic Servants Encounter the Courts, Jails, and Asylums in Nineteenth-Century Ontario LORNA R. MCLEAN AND MARILYN BARBER Taming and Training Greek "Peasant Girls" and the Gendered Politics of Whiteness in Postwar Canada: Canadian Bureaucrats and Immigrant Domestics, 1950s -1960s NOULA MINA I Care for You, Who Cares for Me? Transitional Services for Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Canada GLENDA TIBE BONIFACIO PART FIVE : Constructing Symbols and Bodies Fashioning Conflicts: Gender, Power, and Icelandic Immigrant Hair and Clothing in North America, 1874-1933 LAURIE K. BERTRAM A Larger Frame: 'Redressing' the Image of Doukhobor-Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century ASHLEIGH ANDROSOFF Propaganda and Identity Construction: Media Representation in Canada of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian Women during the Winter War of 1939-1940 VARPU LINDSTROM PART SIX: Activists and Political Subjects Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada's Radical Consumer Movement, 1947-1950 JULIE GUARD Haitian Feminist Diasporic Lakou: Haitian Women's Community Organizing in Montreal, 1960-1980 GRACE L. SANDERS JOHNSON An Unlikely Collection of Union Militants? Portuguese Cleaning Women Become Political Subjects in Postwar Toronto SUSANA MIRANDA PART SEVEN: Food, Family, and Culture The Semiotics of Zwieback: Feast and Famine in the Narratives of Mennonite Refugee Women MARLENE EPP Jello-O Salads, One-Stop Shopping, and Maria the Homemaker: The Gender Politics of Food FRANCA IACOVETTA AND VALERIE J. KORINEK Consuming Food and Constructing Identities among Arabic and South Asian Immigrant Women HELEN VALLIANATOS AND KIM RAINE PART EIGHT: History, Identity, and Belonging 'Slotting' Chinese Families and Refugees, 1947-1967 LAURA MADOKORO Experience and Identity: Black Immigrant Nurses to Canada, 1950-1980 KAREN FLYNN The Mother of God Wears a Maple Leaf: History, Gender, and Ethnic Identity in Sacred Space FRANCES SWYRIPA PART NINE: Trauma, Violence, and Memory Survival Their Survival: Women, Memory and the Holocaust PAULA J. DRAPER Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of Internment PAMELA SUGIMAN Feminist Oral History and Assessing the Dueling Narratives of Iraqi Women in Diaspora NADIA JONES-GAILANI

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Book SynopsisAsking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century, Kenny illustrates how heritage and identity do not simply exist, but are continually being constructed to reflect particular historical circumstances. The book includes supplementary exercises that encourage readers to make connections between the case study at hand, their own heritage, and heritage-making efforts in other parts of the world.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Slavery, Quilombos, and Land 2. From Enslavement to Quilombolas 3. Quilombola Identity Conclusion Further Reading Supplementary Exercises References Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing bleak economic prospects and potential ecological disaster.Trade Review"The Myth of the Age of Entitlement helps to puncture the invented entitled status that has been foisted onto millennials and provides an array of examples where millennials are bucking this myth, demanding their democratic entitlements, and telling the Margaret Wentes of the world to STFU (an acronym that Cairns also helpfully spells out on page 133)." -- Nora Loreto, Briarpatch MagazineTable of Contents1. The Age of Entitlement? 2. Democratic and Oppressive Entitlements 3. Zeroed Down: The Flexible Millennial Worker 4. Austerity U: Teaching and Resisting Disentitlement on Campus 5. Millennial Blowout: Eco-disentitlement vs. Ecological Justice 6. Everything for Everybody Appendix: A Note on Methodology Glossary Reference List

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Book SynopsisIn Southern Mercy, Annette Bickford examines the limits of emancipation, and the exclusions inherent in liberal humanism that distinguish racism in the contemporary post-race era.Trade Review"Annette Louise Bickford inquires as to the degree of mercy that operated in early-twentieth century juvenile reform in the U.S. South … The book offers excellent archival research about the realities of life in mid-century juvenile reformatories… Her theoretical framework grounded in a critique of liberal humanism is intriguing and should raise interest especially among graduate students. " -- Karin L. Zipf * The American Historical Review, Volume 123, Issue 3, 1 June 2018 *"Southern Mercy is a fascinating study of North Carolina’s juvenile reform institutions from their founding to the World War II era…Bickford joins a broader conversation about Enlightenment-based liberal humanism as fundamentally underwritten by systemic racism and sexism." -- Susan K. Cahn, SUNY Buffalo * The Journal of American History, Sept. 2018 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Swamp Island Chapter 2: The Samarcand Arson Case Chapter 3: The Energy of Despair Chapter 4: The Merciful Executioner Chapter 5: The Prodigal Son Epilogue Bibliography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary analysis of a subject that has intrigued scholars for generations, Into the Ocean will challenge the assumptions of anyone interested in the Atlantic branch of the Celtic world.Trade Review'This groundbreaking monograph brings detail and great clarity to a topic whose treatment has frequently been piecemeal and even romantic. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the early medieval settlement of the North Atlantic.' -- Jonathan Wooding Parergon vol 32:02:2015Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements List of Illustrations, Tables and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Nineteenth-Century Legacies: Literature, Language and the Imagining of the St. Lawrence Irish Chapter Two: A Fruitful Conversation Between Disciplines Chapter Three: Pabbays and Paibles: Pap-Names and Gaelic and Old Norse Speakers in Scotland's Hebridean Islands Chapter Four: Seljaland, Vestur-Eyjafjallahreppur, Iceland Chapter Five: Dating the Cave Chapter Six: Three Dimensions of Environmental Change Chapter Seven: The Crosses of a Desert Place? To Conclude References

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Book SynopsisThough neither king nor priest, Spanish dictator Francisco Franco nevertheless conceptualized his right to sovereignty around a political theology in which national identity resembled a sacred cult. Using Franco’s Spain and la España sagrada as a counterpoint to European secularity’s own development, By the Grace of God is the first sustained analysis within Spanish cultural studies of the sacred as a political category and a tool for political organization.William Viestenz shows how imagining national identity as a sacred absolute within a pluralistic, multicultural state leads to dictatorship, scapegoating, and exceptional violence. Using novels and poetry from the Catalan literary tradition and stalwarts of the Castilian canon, his analysis demonstrates that the sacred is a concept that spills over into key areas of secular political imagination.By the Grace of God offers an original theory of the sacred that challenges Table of ContentsAcknowledegments 1. Introduction: La Espana Sagrada as a Political Category Francoist Spain, Post-Secularism, and a Sacred Politics The Sacred's Slippage into the Profane The Sacred and Metaphysics Spain's 'Time of the Sacred': Literature as a Political Matter Iberian Studies: A Parallax View 2. 'He aqui una plenitud espanola': Catholicism, Cultural Regeneration, and Spanish Essentialism Por Dios hacia el imperio: Spanish First Causes Nineteenth-Century Spain: Cuando la legalidad no basta Spanish Regenerationism: Displacing the Sacred onto the Secular Catholicism as a Social Force: 1936 3. Politics by Other Means: The Sacred Core of Collective Imagining Post-War Stimmung The Scapegoat Mechanism and the Mimetic Reduction of Difference Beyond the Victimary Principle 4. Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo's Sovereign Exception Against Sacred Forms Conde Julian's Inclusive Exclusion Human, All Too Human A New Nomos of the Earth? 5. The Eternal Present of Sacred Time 'In illo tempore' Numa's Sacred Wood Killing Time: Ritual Death and the Origins of the Sacred 6. 'Desacralization' and 'Sacrogenesis', or How to Step Outside of Sacred Time Sacred Dialectics Le regard d'autrui: The State's Loving Embrace Rerouting Sacred Time: Tiempo de destruccion 7. Espriu's Sepharad and the Equitable Restoration of Sacred Sovereignty Sacrifice and the Poetic Expulsion of Self The Sacred Bonds of Kinship Death by Way of the Pen: Les hores Espriu's kehre: El caminant i el mur& Final del laberint: Redeeming a Lost Religiousness Rethinking Iberia: A New Temple of Sacred Communion 8. Conclusion: The Aesthetic Disruption of Political Truth Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora.Trade Review'Blackening Canada is an insightful addition to the discourse on critical multiculturalism. Barrett's argument is interdisciplinary, critical, compelling and wide-ranging.' -- Sharon Morgan Beckford Topia Number 36: Fall 2016 'In this brilliant book, Barrett manages to confront important issues of race in Canada... This is a volume for those interested in race and multiculturalism anywhere, not Just in Canada. Highly recommended.' -- B Almon Choice Magazine vol 53:04:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Texts and Contexts of Blackening 1. Temporalities of Becoming in Dionne Brand's thirsty 2. "I'm Running For My Life": Mobility in Austin Clarke's Recent Fiction 3. Writing Life-Worlds: Canadian History and the Representation of Albert Johnson 4. Race, Heritage, and Recognition in Tessa McWatt's Out of My Skin 5. Concluding 6. Re-Beginning: "Blah, Blah, Blah." Emergent Critical Multiculturalism in Brampton, Ontario

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Book SynopsisIn Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a symbol and a geographical and historical place, is vital to understanding the wide range of identities and ideas about racial consciousness that exist in Bahia’s Afro-Brazilian communities.In his ethnographic research Dawson follows the idea of “Africa” from the city of Salvador to the West African coast and back to the hinterlands of the Bahian interior. Along the way, he encounters West African entrepreneurs, Afrobeat musicians, devotees of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, professors of the Yoruba language, and hardscrabble farmers and ranchers, each of whom engages with the “idea of Africa” in their own personal way.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Blackness and Africanity in Brazil and Elsewhere Chapter 2: West African Cultural Brokers in Northeast Brazil Chapter 3: Manifestations of Afro-Brazilian Blackness Chapter 4: Blackness in the Bahian Sertao Chapter 5: Conclusions Notes Bibliography

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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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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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Book SynopsisThis edited volume, bringing together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe, offers a new approach to conceptualising segregation.Trade Review"This outstanding collection on segregation deserves to be the “go to text” in the field. I will consult it again and again for both instruction and research. Kudos to the editors." Dr Stephen A. Matthews, Penn State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong; Section 1: Concepts & Methods; Segregation matters; measurement matters ~ Ron Johnston, Mike Poulsen and Jim Forrest; Using a general spatial pattern index to evaluate spatial segregation ~ David Wong; Measuring ‘neighbourhood’ segregation using spatial interaction data~ Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and Gemma Catney; The Micro-Geography of Segregation: Evidence from Historical US Census Data~ Antonio Páez, Manuel Ruiz, Fernando López and John Logan; Neighbourhood racial diversity and white residential segregation in the United States ~ Richard Wright, Mark Ellis and Steven Holloway; Analysing segregation using individualized neighbourhoods ~ John Östh, Bo Malmberg, and Eva Andersson; The international comparability of ethnicity and collective identity; implications for segregation studies ~ Pablo Mateos; Section 2: Processes; Perspectives on social segregation and migration: spatial scale, mixing and places ~ Ian Shuttleworth, Myles Gould and Paul Barr; “Sleepwalking towards Johannesburg”? Local measures of ethnic segregation between London’s secondary schools, 2003 – 2008/9 ~ Rich Harris; Segregation, choice based letting and social housing: How housing policy can affect the segregation process ~ Maarten van Ham and David Manley; Demographic understandings of changes in ethnic residential segregation across the life course ~ Albert Sabater and Nissa Finney; A Tale of Two Cities: Residential Segregation in St. Louis and Cincinnati ~ Sungsoon Hwang; Section 3: Outcomes & Implications; ‘Religious’ concentration and health outcomes in Northern Ireland ~ Gemma Catney; Class Segregation ~ Danny Dorling; Exploring socioeconomic characteristics of ethnically-divided neighbourhoods ~ Kenneth French; Section 4: Conclusions and outcomes; 17. Conclusion: Possible future agendas and summary thoughts ~Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong.

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Book SynopsisThis unique book explores the interaction between the academic research community and those who use its research to inform their social policy interventions, thus raising awareness of the linkages between research and social policy in particular in the area of ethnic relations.Trade Review“This engrossing and timely collection of critical perspectives explores the impact of the commodification of knowledge on contemporary ethnic relations, suggesting an urgent need for establishing a more effective dialogue between policymakers and social scientists.” Professor Michael Meadows, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Brisbane, Australia“A lucid collection at the cutting edge of critical engagement with how academic research may be used or ignored, this book stands out as a novel and distinct contribution to our understanding and will be of vital use to researchers and practitioners alike." Dr Nasar Meer, Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship, Strathclyde University“A richly rewarding collection that challenges both academics and policymakers to think differently about how we can develop better policy agendas in this complex field” Professor John Solomos, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick“Combining reflective and detailed case studies and thoughtful theoretical accounts, this collection provides a well-judged and challenging intervention in how academic research and policymaking in the field of 'ethnic relations' intersect.” Dr Gavan Titley, National University of Ireland MaynoothTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Charles Husband; Constraint and compromise: university researchers, their relation to funders and to policymaking for a multiethnic Britain ~ Charles Husband; ‘Hating to know’: government and social policy research in multicultural Australia ~ Andrew Jakubowicz; In-group identity and the challenges of ethnographic research ~ Yunis Alam; Anthros and pimps doing the God trick: researching Muslim young people ~ M.G. Khan; Reflections of a research funder ~ Emma Stone; The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: linking research, policy and practice ~ Ioannis N. Dimitrakopoulos; The value of research for local authorities: a practitioner perspective ~ Stan Kidd and Tony Reeves

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Book SynopsisThis unique book explores the interaction between the academic research community and those who use its research to inform their social policy interventions, thus raising awareness of the linkages between research and social policy in particular in the area of ethnic relations.Trade Review“This engrossing and timely collection of critical perspectives explores the impact of the commodification of knowledge on contemporary ethnic relations, suggesting an urgent need for establishing a more effective dialogue between policymakers and social scientists.” Professor Michael Meadows, Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Brisbane, Australia“A lucid collection at the cutting edge of critical engagement with how academic research may be used or ignored, this book stands out as a novel and distinct contribution to our understanding and will be of vital use to researchers and practitioners alike." Dr Nasar Meer, Reader in Comparative Social Policy and Citizenship, Strathclyde University“A richly rewarding collection that challenges both academics and policymakers to think differently about how we can develop better policy agendas in this complex field” Professor John Solomos, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick“Combining reflective and detailed case studies and thoughtful theoretical accounts, this collection provides a well-judged and challenging intervention in how academic research and policymaking in the field of 'ethnic relations' intersect.” Dr Gavan Titley, National University of Ireland MaynoothTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Charles Husband; Constraint and compromise: university researchers, their relation to funders and to policymaking for a multiethnic Britain ~ Charles Husband; ‘Hating to know’: government and social policy research in multicultural Australia ~ Andrew Jakubowicz; In-group identity and the challenges of ethnographic research ~ Yunis Alam; Anthros and pimps doing the God trick: researching Muslim young people ~ M.G. Khan; Reflections of a research funder ~ Emma Stone; The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: linking research, policy and practice ~ Ioannis N. Dimitrakopoulos; The value of research for local authorities: a practitioner perspective ~ Stan Kidd and Tony Reeves

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Book SynopsisRace Policy and Multiracial Americans looks at the impact of multiracial people on race policies—where they lag behind the growing numbers of multiracial people in the USA and how they can be used to promote racial justice. This much-needed book is essential reading for anyone interested in race relations and social justice.Trade Review"Unique in addressing race policy in the US from the perspective of multiracials and it can be used in a variety of courses including social work, psychology, sociology and history. Informative and descriptive in its nature, the book provides a springboard for discussion... the book is a wonderful addition to the current discussion of racial issues and policies in the US." Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 42, 2019"A timely and masterful addition to the literature on multiraciality. It counters any argument that growing numbers of multiracials in the United States are a sign that we are in a post-racial society. The authors argue persuasively that multiracials indicate, rather, the need to adjust current race policies." G. Reginald Daniel, University of California, USA"Brings together the finest scholars to explore how our racial policy impacts the growing population of multiracial Americns. A must read for those who are concerned with the challenges they face." George Yancey, University of North Texas, USATable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Kathleen Odell Korgen; Multiracial Americans throughout the History of the U.S. ~ Tyrone Nagai; National and Local Structures of Inequality: Multiracial Groups’ Profiles Across the United States ~ Mary E. Campbell, Jessica M. Barron; Latinos and Multiracial America ~ Raúl Quiñones Rosado; The Connections among Racial Identity, Social Class, and Public Policy? ~ Nikki Khanna; Multiracial Americans and Racial Discrimination ~ Tina Fernandes Botts; “Should All (or Some) Multiracial Americans Benefit from Affirmative Action Programs?” ~ Daniel N. Lipson; Multiracial Students and Educational Policy ~ Rhina Fernandes Williams & E. Namisi Chilungu; Multiracial Americans in College ~ Marc P. Johnston and Kristen A. Renn; Multiracial Americans, Health Patterns, and Health Policy: Assessment and Recommendations for Ways Forward ~ Jenifer L. Bratter and Chirsta Mason; Racial Identity Among Multiracial Prisoners in the Color-Blind Era ~ Gennifer Furst and Kathleen Odell Korgen; “Multiraciality and the Racial Order: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” ~ Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl, David L. Brunsma; Multiracial Identity and Monoracial Conflict: Toward a New Social Justice framework ~ Andrew Jolivette; Conclusion: Policies for a Racially Just Society ~ Kathleen Odell Korgen.

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Book SynopsisGulson and Webb show how school choice can represent and manifest the hopes and fears, contestations and settlements of contemporary racial biopolitics and ethnic politics of education in multicultural cities.Trade Review"In this highly original book, Gulson and Webb make an informed and exciting contribution to post-structural approaches to policy analysis." Patrick Bailey, Senior Teaching Fellow, University College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: education policy and multicultural cities; Policy events; Policy and biopolitics: the event of race-based statistics in Toronto; The (micro)politics of racial neoliberalism; 'Up in the northwest corner of the city': the city, race and locating the school; Difference and recognition; Policy events, race and the future of the city.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.Trade Review"The book's comprehensive coverage of racial disparities provides abundant information to help readers grasp an overall view of this issue, as well as premises for future research. A sufficiently broad, specific, timely, and balanced book on African American health issues for anyone." - CHOICE"An interesting and timely book which expands our understanding of how systemic oppressions (racism, gender, and class) intersect with oppressed individuals healthcare attitudes, decisions, and behaviors." Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA"An insightful historical investigation of the structural determinants of African American health inequities. Crucial reading for health scholars across all disciplines." Dawne Marie Mouzon, Assistant Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Theorizing Social Inequalities in Health Race, Racism, and Sickness Slavery and Freedom Part Two: Health and Medicine Health Behaviors in Social Context Medical Care and Health Policy Part Three: Health and Families Economic Decline and Incarceration Love, Sexuality and (Non)Marriage Children’s Health

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. It shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system.Trade Review"The book's comprehensive coverage of racial disparities provides abundant information to help readers grasp an overall view of this issue, as well as premises for future research. A sufficiently broad, specific, timely, and balanced book on African American health issues for anyone." - CHOICE"An interesting and timely book which expands our understanding of how systemic oppressions (racism, gender, and class) intersect with oppressed individuals healthcare attitudes, decisions, and behaviors." Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA"An insightful historical investigation of the structural determinants of African American health inequities. Crucial reading for health scholars across all disciplines." Dawne Marie Mouzon, Assistant Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Theorizing Social Inequalities in Health Race, Racism, and Sickness Slavery and Freedom Part Two: Health and Medicine Health Behaviors in Social Context Medical Care and Health Policy Part Three: Health and Families Economic Decline and Incarceration Love, Sexuality and (Non)Marriage Children’s Health

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Book SynopsisBy bringing attention to the way that ethnicity and race have been addressed in research on ageing and old age, with a focus on health inequalities, health and social care, intergenerational relationships and caregiving, this book proposes how research can be developed in an ethnicity astute and diversity informed manner.Table of ContentsPart 1: Setting the stage for theorising; Introduction; Population aging and international migration; Ethnicity and race: from essentialism to constructionism; Part II: Theorising via a scoping review: what we know and need to find out; Literature on Health Inequalities; Literature on Health and Social Care ; Literature on Social Relations and Caregiving; A new agenda: where we are at and need to head; Appendix: how the scoping review was conducted.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism, alongside institutional racism and community cohesion within a broad policy framework.Trade Review"A timely resource packed with theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding and framing of debates of race and ethnicity in contemporary society. Essential reading for students and practitioners alike." Nilufar Ahmed, Swansea University"This is a welcome update, giving a readable, critical and grounded guide to a core field of social policy, which too often slips off the political and social science agendas." Norman Ginsburg, London Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsPART 1: Theoretical, historical and policy contexts; Introduction ~ Gary Craig, Sangeeta Chattoo, Karl Atkin and Ronny Flynn; ‘Race’, ethnicity and social policy: concepts and limitations of current approaches to welfare ~ Sangeeta Chattoo and Karl Atkin; Migration(s): the history and pattern of settlement of the UK’s Black and minority ethnic population ~ Gary Craig; Policy, politics and practice: an historical review and its relevance to current debates ~ Ronny Flynn and Gary Craig; PART 2: ‘Race’, ethnicity and welfare contexts; Poverty and income maintenance ~ Ian Law and Katy Wright; Minority ethnic groups in the labour market ~ Baljinder Virk; Minority ethnic communities and housing ~ Gina Netto and Harris Beider; Understanding the Influence of Ethnicity on Health ~ Saffron Karlsen, Marilyn Roth, Laia Bécares; Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness ~ Simon Dyson and Maria Berghs; Understanding ‘race’, ethnicity and mental health ~ Frank Keating; UK education policy and the place of ‘race’ ~ Uvanney Maylor; Young people, ‘race’ and criminal justice ~ Bankole Cole; Endnote ~ Karl Atkin, Sangeeta Chattoo, Gary Craig and Ronny Flynn; Post-script ~ Samara Linton.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of a widely-respected textbook examines welfare policy and racism, alongside institutional racism and community cohesion within a broad policy framework.Trade Review"A timely resource packed with theoretical and empirical advances in the understanding and framing of debates of race and ethnicity in contemporary society. Essential reading for students and practitioners alike." Nilufar Ahmed, Swansea University"This is a welcome update, giving a readable, critical and grounded guide to a core field of social policy, which too often slips off the political and social science agendas." Norman Ginsburg, London Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsPART 1: Theoretical, historical and policy contexts; Introduction ~ Gary Craig, Sangeeta Chattoo, Karl Atkin and Ronny Flynn; ‘Race’, ethnicity and social policy: concepts and limitations of current approaches to welfare ~ Sangeeta Chattoo and Karl Atkin; Migration(s): the history and pattern of settlement of the UK’s Black and minority ethnic population ~ Gary Craig; Policy, politics and practice: an historical review and its relevance to current debates ~ Ronny Flynn and Gary Craig; PART 2: ‘Race’, ethnicity and welfare contexts; Poverty and income maintenance ~ Ian Law and Katy Wright; Minority ethnic groups in the labour market ~ Baljinder Virk; Minority ethnic communities and housing ~ Gina Netto and Harris Beider; Understanding the Influence of Ethnicity on Health ~ Saffron Karlsen, Marilyn Roth, Laia Bécares; Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness ~ Simon Dyson and Maria Berghs; Understanding ‘race’, ethnicity and mental health ~ Frank Keating; UK education policy and the place of ‘race’ ~ Uvanney Maylor; Young people, ‘race’ and criminal justice ~ Bankole Cole; Endnote ~ Karl Atkin, Sangeeta Chattoo, Gary Craig and Ronny Flynn; Post-script ~ Samara Linton.

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Book SynopsisePUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing from the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS), this book presents new evidence of ethnic inequalities and sheds new light on underlying racisms, opening them up to debate as crucial social concerns.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Need for Evidence for Equality - Nissa Finney, James Nazroo, Laia Bécares, Dharmi Kapadia and Natalie Shlomo 2. The Making of the EVENS Survey - Natalie Shlomo, James Nazroo, Nissa Finney, Laia Bécares, Dharmi Kapadia, Andrea Aparicio-Castro, Daniel Ellingworth, Angelo Moretti and Harry Taylor 3. Ethnic Identities - Magda Borkowska, James Nazroo, Nissa Finney and Joseph Harrison 4. Racism and Racial Discrimination - Dan Ellingworth, Laia Bécares, Michaela Kyclova and James Nazroo 5. Health and Wellbeing - Harry Taylor, Dharmi Kapadia, Laia Bécares, Michaela Kyclova and James Nazroo 6. Housing, Place and Community - Joseph Harrison, Nissa Finney, Hannah Haycox and Emma Hill 7. Work and Employment - Nico Ochmann, Ken Clark, Michaela Kyclova and James Nazroo 8. Socioeconomic Circumstances - Michaela Kyclova, Dharmi Kapadia , Ken Clark, , James Nazroo and Nico Ochmann 9. Political Participation and Black Lives Matter - Magda Borkowska, Neema Begum, Nissa Finney and Joseph Harrison 10. Conclusion - James Nazroo, Nissa Finney, Laia Bécares, Dharmi Kapadia and Natalie Shlomo

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Book SynopsisThe South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as Stephen A. Berrey shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes.

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyses how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies. Davis reveals how these writers reconstitute racial exclusion as creative black space, rather than a site of trauma and resistance.

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Book SynopsisExploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of these civic rituals demonstrates that the politics of commemoration remained far more contentious than has been previously acknowledged. Commemorations by ex-Confederates were intended at first to maintain a separate identity from the U.S. government, Blair argues, not as a vehicle for promoting sectional healing. The burial grounds of fallen heroes, known as Cities of the Dead, often became contested ground, especially for Confederate women who were opposed to Reconstruction. And until the turn of the century, African Americans used freedom celebrations to lobby for greater political power and tried to create a national holiday to recognize emancipation. Blair's analysis shows that somTrade ReviewA book worth reading, especially for those interested in questions of memory and commemoration."" --American Historical Review|Provocative. . . . A sophisticated and nuanced analysis.--Arkansas Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisThis five-volume documentary collection reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada, the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War

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Book SynopsisThis five-volume documentary collection reveals how black abolitionists represented the core of the antislavery movement. While the first two volumes consider black abolitionists in the British Isles and Canada, the remaining volumes examine the activities and opinions of black abolitionists in the United States from 1830 until the end of the Civil War

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