Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
University of Texas Press meXicana Fashions
Book SynopsisFifteen scholars examine the social identities, class hierarchies, regionalisms, and other codes of communication that are exhibited or perceived in meXicana clothing styles.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest strengths of this work is its commitment to combatting a tendency toward essentialism in dress studies, particularly for what typically gets deemed 'ethnic,' 'minority,” or 'subcultural' dress, by underscoring the complex, inconsistent, and sometimes contradictory ways we may experience self and how we variously perform those intersectional identities...The chapters of meXicana Fashions demonstrate many thoughtful attempts to interrogate old and invent new terms, categories, and concepts for identification and analysis...For folklorists, dress scholars, and those interested in material culture, media, and gender studies, there is a lot to value here. * Journal of Folklore Research *[meXicana Fashions's] editors' intentions of initiating discussion, questioning, and exploration of the significance of fashion, self adornment, and the economics of self fashioning are well served by this diversity of current writings by meXicanas and women of Colour searching for social and self identity outside of the hegemonic fashion industry. This book would be an important point of reference within Mexican American studies and particularly in studies of dress and the creation of both personal and social identity. It is a useful source for complexities of dress, adornment, and the constructions and reconstructions of cultural identities. * Journal of Dress History *This book is a jewel of fashion knowledge and should be a part of every fashion library to learn how clothing can be used for personal identity and more so, a form of respect for society as a whole – a respect through ‘fashion for all’ and one always evolving within our likes and differences. Change is what makes up the ideal of fashion. * Fashion, Style & Popular Culture *[meXicana Fashions] presents the academy with an inspirational model for weaving authenticity and authority alongside the rigors of multimedium and multimethodological research. The result is an insightful and innovate book for those interested in fashion theory, cultural theory, identity politics, textile arts, Latinx/Xicana/Indigenous identity, history, art, and literature, as well as pedagogy. * New Mexico Historical Review *I have been waiting years for this book...The editors are courageous in their refusal of conformity, even at the level of citation styles, and they appear to model for us what academic diversity can look like in print…the book is a delightful and recommended read. * Chiricú Journal *Table of Contents Introduction (Aída Hurtado and Norma E. Cantú) Section I. Rendering of Self: Personal Narratives/Personal Adornment Chapter 1. Wearing Identity: Chicanas and Huipiles (Norma E. Cantú) Chapter 2. Con el huipil en la mente: The Metamorphosis of a Chicana (Josie Méndez-Negrete) Chapter 3. “Rebozos, huipiles, y ¿Qué?”: Chicana Self-Fashioning in the Academy (Micaela Díaz-Sánchez) Chapter 4. Por la facha y por el traje, se conoce al personaje: Tales about Attire as Resistance and Performativity in a Chicana’s Life Trajectory (Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs) Chapter 5. A Familial Legacy of meXicana Style (Domino Renee Perez) Section II. The Politics of Dress: Saying It Loud/Saying It Clear Chapter 6. Buying the Dream: Relating “Traditional” Dress to Consumer Practices within US Quinceañeras (Rachel Valentina González-Martin) Chapter 7. Visuality, Corporality, and Power (Aída Hurtado) Chapter 8. Black, Brown, and Fa(t)shionable: The Role of Fat Women of Color in the Rise of Body Positivity (Jade D. Petermon) Chapter 9. Fashioning Decolonial Optics: Days of the Dead Walking Altars and Calavera Fashion Shows in Latina/o Los Angeles (Laura Pérez) Chapter 10. “Fierce and Fearless”: Dress and Identity in Rigoberto González’s The Mariposa Club (Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez) Section III. The Politics of Entrepreneurship: Making (It)/Selling (It)) Chapter 11. Lydia Mendoza, “Reina de la Música Tejana”: Self-Stylizing Mexicanidad through China Poblana in the US-Mexico Borderlands (Marci R. McMahon) Chapter 12. (Ad)Dressing Chicana/Latina Femininities: Consumption, Labor, and the Cultural Politics of Style in Latina Fashion (Stacy I. Macías) Chapter 13. Urban Xican/x-Indigenous Fashion Show ARTivism: Experimental Ethnographies and Perform-Antics in Three Actos (Chela Sandoval, Amber Rose González, and Felicia Montes) Contributors Index
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University of Texas Press Quinceanera Style
Book SynopsisWinner of the Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women''s Studies, Popular Culture AssociationCo-winner of the Elli Kongas Maranda Prize, Women''s Section of the American Folklore Society (AFS) A dynamic study of social negotiation and consumerism in the coming-of-age quinceañera celebration and the impact of normalizing spectacles of luxury. Quinceañera celebrations, which recognize a girl’s transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceañera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwTrade ReviewNo prior scholarly approach to [the quinceañera] compares with Rachel Valentina González's brilliant analysis...Quinceañera Style delivers on its promise to bring out an analysis for the twenty-first century of an established yet ever-evolving tradition in the Americas...In more ways than one, Quinceañera Style articulates the underlying reasons why families would spend beyond their means to honor their daughter’s transition from childhood to adulthood. * Journal of Folklore Research *A richly nuanced study. * New Books in Folklore *Quinceañera Style provides a unique and thorough analysis of quinceañeras unlike any currently available…Based on extensive research and employing different methods, such as representational analysis and ethnography, this text has the potential for vast transnational and interdisciplinary reach...the book makes significant scholarly interventions and successfully offers girlhood, media, gender, folklore, and Latinx studies scholars means of expanding understandings of quinceañeras through an intersectional lens. * Women's Studies in Communication *Rachel Valentina González has written the anticipated twenty-first-century analysis of quinceañera practices...It is a long-overdue book and one for every scholar of folklore and Latinx cultural studies...Quinceañera Style is a powerful vehicle for understanding the hypervisibility and invisibility of Latinx residents in US public space and how class performance further initiates belonging and exclusion. It is recommended for graduate students and scholars interested in rethinking heritage studies, ethnic studies, American studies, and humanities analyses of consumption, digital realms, and marketing. * Journal of American Folklore *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction. Coming Out Latinx Chapter 1. Quinceañera Style and Class Performativity Chapter 2. Identity off the Rack: Selling Quinceañera Dresses and Manufacturing Identities in the Experience Economy Chapter 3. Coming of Age in the Digital Barrio: Quinceañera as a Product in Cultural Economies Online Chapter 4. Made in Mexico, USA: Beauty Professionals and the Manufacturing of Quinceañera Beauty Culture Chapter 5. Ambivalent Embodiment: Reconstituting Quinceañera Performance Space Conclusion. Rights/Rites and Representation: Reading Latinx Social Performance Notes Works Cited Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Collecting Black Studies
Book SynopsisToday Black Studies at the University of Texas boasts approximately 900 objects from sub-Saharan Africa, over 200 contemporary works from African American and Afro-Caribbean artists, and more than 100 pieces jointly held with other collecting entities. This book gathers and presents these holdings.
£35.10
University of Texas Press The Color Pynk Black Femme Art for Survival
Book SynopsisThe Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment, and ideas. In the first full-length study of Black queer, cis-, and trans-femininity, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley argues that this creative work offers a distinctive challenge to power structures that limit how we color, gender, and explore freedom. Tinsley engages 2017-2020 Black femme cultural production that colorfully and provocatively imagines freedom in the stark white face of its impossibility. Looking to the music of Janelle Monae and Kelsey Lu, Janet Mock's writing for the television show Pose, the fashion of Indya Moore and (F)empower, and the films of Tourmaline and Juliana Huxtable, as well as poetry and novels, The Color Pynk conceptualizes Black femme as a set of consciously, continually rescripteTrade ReviewThis is not just a book. This is a function. So the question is, what are you going to wear to this gathering? Omise'eke Tinsley gathers us once again, turning her brilliance to creative femmifestations of black femme fierceness in the so-called Trump Era. (Or what I prefer to think of as the Tourmaline Ascendency.) Theorists, fashionistas, sweethearts, and innovators: we are all here in loving revelation. I wear a quilted robe the color of a rose from my grandmother’s garden. I wear a hot-pynk, ribbed tank top screenprinted by a black lesbian yogi. I suggest you wear your curiousity, your vulnerability, and your desire to look like love. -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine MammalsIn The Color Pynk Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley pays homage to the foremothers of Black feminism by developing a Black femme reading practice. Tinsley’s analyses of Black femme cultural production are rendered poetically and with the deft critical eye we have come to expect of her. Indeed, Tinsley’s is one of the most important voices of her generation. -- E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern University, author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love WomenA beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming. Conjuring a Black femme future with each sentence, Tinsley writes in collaborative solidarity and with love for Black femmes of all shades and genders. With her lyrical prose — in her words a 'joy-tinted freedom song for the twenty-first century'—The Color Pynk manifests Black femme freedom, now and forever. * Autostraddle *Table of Contents Prologue: For Alice Walker Introduction: Femme-inist Is to Feminist as Pynk Is to Pink Part One: Pussy Power and Nonbinary Vaginas Janelle Monáe: Fem Futures, Pynk Pants, and Pussy Power Indya Moore: Nonbinary Wild Vagina Dresses and Biologically Femme Penises Part Two: Hymns for Crazy Black Femmes Kelsey Lu: Braids, Twists, and the Shapes of Black Femme Depression Tourmaline: Head Scarves and Freedom Dreams Part Three: Black Femme Environmentalism for the Futa (F)empower: Swimwear, Wade-Ins, and Trashy Ecofeminism Juliana Huxtable: Black Witch-Cunt Lipstick and Kinky Vegan Femme-inism Conclusion: Where Is the Black in Black Femme Freedom? Epilogue: For My Child Afterword by Candice Lyons: Pynk Parlance, a Glossary Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Texas Press Brown Trans Figurations
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for the National Women’s Studies Association''s 2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize2021 Finalist Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards2022 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQStudies, Popular Culture Association The Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize, GL/Q Caucus, Modern Language Association (MLA) 2022 AAHHE Book of the Year Award, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Within queer, transgender, and Latinx and Chicanx cultural politics, brown transgender narratives are frequently silenced and erased. Brown trans subjects are treated as deceptive, unnatural, nonexistent, or impossible, their bodies, lives, and material circumstances represented through tropes and used as metaphors. Restoring personhood and agency to these subjects, Francisco J. Galarte advances “brown trans figuration” as a theoreTrade Review[Brown Trans Figurations'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. * Publishers Weekly *A needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [Brown Trans Figurations] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brown Trans Figurations is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina/o/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...Brown Trans Figurations is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina/o studies in profound ways. * Latino Studies *Everyone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. * International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together Chapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive Chapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other Chapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands Chapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities Coda: Reading with the X Notes References Index
£78.30
University of Texas Press Brown Trans Figurations Rethinking Race Gender
Book SynopsisOne of the first books focused solely on the trans Latinx experience, Brown Trans Figurations describes how transness and brownness interact within queer, trans, and Latinx historical narratives and material contexts.Trade Review[Brown Trans Figurations'] most accessible sections provide thorough and rewarding analyses of popular culture...scholars in the fields of Latinx and gender studies will appreciate this detailed look at an underexplored subject. * Publishers Weekly *A needed contribution to trans Latinx studies. [Brown Trans Figurations] offers a series of compelling close readings of literature, photography, film, and other accounts of Chicanx trans people and representation in the United States. * Los Angeles Review of Books *Brown Trans Figurations is an extremely well-written and groundbreaking book, accessible yet simultaneously quite complex, in Latina/o/x studies. It will be required reading in queer, trans, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and in American studies and ethnic studies classrooms...Brown Trans Figurations is crucial reading for persons interested in the differences between queer and trans Latinx experience, the tensions between Chicana feminism and transgender and transsexual lives, and the racism that infects dominant representations of trans and queer Chicanxs and Latinxs...Galarte’s theorization of brown trans fgurations transforms Latina/o studies in profound ways. * Latino Studies *Everyone would benefit from reading this book, and learning about the brown trans community...The book is extremely relevant and important in this current political climate that has villainized both the trans and Latinx community for different reasons. Libraries that have LGBTQ and Latinx collections should consider purchasing this book. If Galarte has shown anything, it is that the issues within those communities intersect and must be addressed simultaneously. * International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Brown and Trans Together Chapter 1. Dolorous Proximities of Race and Transsexuality: Reading the Gwen Araujo Archive Chapter 2. Examining Transphobic Violence and the Politics of Valuation: The Death of Angie Zapata and the Incarceration of the Hateful Other Chapter 3. Fleshing Out the Chicana/x Butch and Chicano/x FTM Borderlands Chapter 4. The Wound Makes the Man: Trans Figuring Chicano Masculinities Coda: Reading with the X Notes References Index
£25.19
University of Texas Press Roots of Resistance A Story of Gender Race and
Book Synopsis
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University of Texas Press The Starting Line
Book SynopsisA deeply researched work that sheds light on growing income inequality in Texas and how early education programs, particularly among low-income Latina/o populations, result in varying degrees of success and failure.Trade Review[The Starting Line] offers bilingual educators and low-income Latina/o families a voice in the conversation regarding the educational needs of Latina/o children. Through the research presented here, practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and key community stakeholders may be able to identify specific levers for change to enhance family support and early childhood education programs for Latina/o children in Texas, as well as for the growing population of Latina/o children throughout the US. This reviewer highly recommends this book to a wide audience. * CHOICE *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: National Issues through a Local Lens Chapter 1. The Importance of Connections in Early Childhood Education Chapter 2. Connecting Classrooms to Classrooms Chapter 3. Connecting Families, Schools, and Communities Chapter 4. Connecting Academic and Socioemotional Goals Chapter 5. Connecting Needs and Challenges Conclusion: The Big Picture Notes Works Cited Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Reverberations of Racial Violence
Book SynopsisA trenchant collection of essays that details systematic, extralegal killings of Mexicans along the US southern border in the 1910s and explores the role of officially sanctioned violence in the history of US nation-building.
£33.25
University of Texas Press Razabilly
Book SynopsisAn engrossing deep dive into the sights, sounds, and sensibilities of the Latina/o Rockabilly scene in Los Angeles, its ties to working-class communities, and its dissemination through the post-NAFTA global landscape.Trade ReviewRazabilly chronicles the rise of rockabilly among La Raza (a 20th century term for Spanish-speaking communities), offering a fascinating cultural history without reducing the story to any misleadingly simple arguments…[a] nuanced study. * The Current *Razabilly is a noteworthy study among newer interdisciplinary works on the making and remaking of Los Angeles. It dexterously examines how Chicanas/os and Latinas/os within this music scene experienced, survived, and even thrived during the convoluted 2000s...Most significantly, Centino shows how during a time when the threats to disempower and demonize them increased, Chicanas/os and Latinas/os drew from their collective cultural memories to assert their rights to space and place in Los Angeles—for their own leisure, for a good time, and to seek a better life. * California History *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Terminology Introduction Chapter 1. From London to East Los: A Cultural History of the International Rockabilly Scene Chapter 2. C’mon Baby, Let the Good Times Roll! Sites of Leisure and Memory in the Formation of the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles Chapter 3. Fashioning Razabilly Bodies: Embodied Style and Stance in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles Chapter 4: Your Roots Are Showing: Tracing Genealogies and Building Cultural Memory through the Malleable Canon of the Greater Los Angeles Rockabilly Scene Epilogue Appendix. Research Sites Notes Bibliography
£73.95
University of Texas Press Razabilly
Book SynopsisAn engrossing deep dive into the sights, sounds, and sensibilities of the Latina/o Rockabilly scene in Los Angeles, its ties to working-class communities, and its dissemination through the post-NAFTA global landscape.Trade ReviewRazabilly chronicles the rise of rockabilly among La Raza (a 20th century term for Spanish-speaking communities), offering a fascinating cultural history without reducing the story to any misleadingly simple arguments…[a] nuanced study. * The Current *Razabilly is a noteworthy study among newer interdisciplinary works on the making and remaking of Los Angeles. It dexterously examines how Chicanas/os and Latinas/os within this music scene experienced, survived, and even thrived during the convoluted 2000s...Most significantly, Centino shows how during a time when the threats to disempower and demonize them increased, Chicanas/os and Latinas/os drew from their collective cultural memories to assert their rights to space and place in Los Angeles—for their own leisure, for a good time, and to seek a better life. * California History *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Terminology Introduction Chapter 1. From London to East Los: A Cultural History of the International Rockabilly Scene Chapter 2. C’mon Baby, Let the Good Times Roll! Sites of Leisure and Memory in the Formation of the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles Chapter 3. Fashioning Razabilly Bodies: Embodied Style and Stance in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Rockabilly Scene of Greater Los Angeles Chapter 4: Your Roots Are Showing: Tracing Genealogies and Building Cultural Memory through the Malleable Canon of the Greater Los Angeles Rockabilly Scene Epilogue Appendix. Research Sites Notes Bibliography
£23.39
University of Texas Press No Color Is My Kind
Book SynopsisIn 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns's conscience and six months later he was leading the first sit-in west of the Mississippi River. No Color Is My Kind, first published in 1997, introduced readers to Stearns, including his work as a civil rights leader and lawyer in Houston's desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963. This remarkable and important history, however, was nearly lost to bipolar affective disorder. Stearns was a fifty-two-year-old patient in a Galveston psychiatric hospital when Thomas Cole first met him in 1984. Over the course of a decade, Cole and Stearns slowly recovered the details of Stearns's life before his slide into mental illness, writing a story that is more relevant today than ever. In this new edition, Cole fills in the gaps between the late 1990s and now, providing an update on the progress ofTable of Contents Preface to the New Edition Introduction Part One. Leader at Last 1. Launching a Movement 2. Blackout in Houston 3. Railroads, Baseball, and the Color Line 4. “I Was Going Places” Part Two. A Boy from Galveston and San Augustine 5. Uphome 6. Rabbit Returns 7. Driving Mr. Gus Part Three. Wandering and Return 8. “They Got Me, But They Can’t Forget Me”: A Mad Odyssey 9. Drew and Me: Recovering Separate Selves Appendix: Interview Sources Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£23.39
University of Texas Press Selling Black Brazil
Book SynopsisThis book explores visual portrayals of blackness in Brazil to reveal the integral role of visual culture in crafting race and nation across Latin America.Trade Review[Selling Black Brazil] is a fundamental critique of the utilization of Blackness in Bahia...The book exposes how tourism, the arts, and elite politicians think about Blackness, and by extension how limited this mode of thinking is. Romo shows how elites can move to capture cultural policies and instrumentalize them according to their interests. * NACLA *Elegantly written, lavishly illustrated, and cogently argued...Selling Black Brazil challenges historians of twentieth-century Salvador, Brazil’s 'Black Rome,' to think more carefully about how that construction of the city came into being in the 1940s and 1950s and about the limits and exclusions deeply embedded in this portrayal of Blackness as central to Salvador’s culture. * H-LatAm *With a compelling and clear prose, Romo’s study is a welcome addition to the literature about Afro-Brazilian art...Reevaluating the relationship of Black identity and Brazilian modernism, [Selling Black Brazil pushes] us to rethink how we teach and study nationalism, race, and art in Brazil. * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *[Romo] calls attention to the extent to which the story of tourism's visual culture is not only a Brazilian story but an American one, and she makes occasional and evocative references to similar stories elsewhere, such as Peru and Mexico, where tourism imagery helped conflate each nation with its 'native' elements. In Selling Black Brazil, Romo has provided important touchstones for such comparative work. More important, she has deepened our knowledge of both the emergence of Brazilian tourism, which is still, surprisingly, very little studied, and the process of invention that transformed Salvador into Black Rome. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Glossary Introduction: Race, Identity, and Visual Culture in the Americas Chapter 1. Precedents and Backdrops: Racial Types and Modern Ports Chapter 2. Colonial Churches and the Rise of the Quintessential Black City: Modernism, Travel, and the Pathbreaking Guide of Jorge Amado Chapter 3. Pierre Verger and the Construction of a Black Folk, 1946–1951 Chapter 4. Festive Streets: Carybé and Bahian Modernism Chapter 5. “Human and Picturesque”: Consolidation in the Bahian Tourist Guides of the 1950s Chapter 6. All Roads Lead to Black Rome: How the Religion of “Secrets” Became a Tourist Attraction Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press No Color Is My Kind
Book SynopsisIn 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns's conscience and six months later he was leading the first sit-in west of the Mississippi River. No Color Is My Kind, first published in 1997, introduced readers to Stearns, including his work as a civil rights leader and lawyer in Houston's desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963. This remarkable and important history, however, was nearly lost to bipolar affective disorder. Stearns was a fifty-two-year-old patient in a Galveston psychiatric hospital when Thomas Cole first met him in 1984. Over the course of a decade, Cole and Stearns slowly recovered the details of Stearns's life before his slide into mental illness, writing a story that is more relevant today than ever. In this new edition, Cole fills in the gaps between the late 1990s and now, providing an update on the progress ofTable of Contents Preface to the New Edition Introduction Part One. Leader at Last 1. Launching a Movement 2. Blackout in Houston 3. Railroads, Baseball, and the Color Line 4. “I Was Going Places” Part Two. A Boy from Galveston and San Augustine 5. Uphome 6. Rabbit Returns 7. Driving Mr. Gus Part Three. Wandering and Return 8. “They Got Me, But They Can’t Forget Me”: A Mad Odyssey 9. Drew and Me: Recovering Separate Selves Appendix: Interview Sources Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£78.30
University of Texas Press Barbara Jordan
Book SynopsisA collection of stirring speeches by former U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan that speaks to issues—ethics in government, civil liberties, and democratic values—still under intense debate in the twenty-first century.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Biography of Barbara Jordan, with Student Comments My Personal Introduction of Barbara Jordan Erosion of Civil Liberties: Commencement Speech, Howard University, May 11, 1974 The National Political Stage Rising to the Occasion: The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings, July 25, 1974 Center Stage: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, July 12, 1976 The Spotlight after Congress: Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, July 13, 1992 Barbara Jordan's Take on Three Twenty-First-Century Political Issues Confirmation of Supreme Court Justices: Testimony in Opposition to the Nomination of Robert Bork, September 17, 1987 Immigration Reform: Congressional Testimony as Chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, March 29, 1995 Religious Faith and Politics: Prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1978; Address at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1984 The Sylvanus Thayer Award Unswerving Dedication to Principle: 1995 Sylvanus Thayer Award Citation, West Point, October 5; Barbara Jordan's Thayer Award Acceptance Epilogue: Remarks of Bill Moyers at the Memorial Service for Barbara Jordan, University of Texas at Austin, January 28, 1996 Notes
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University of Texas Press Conjured Bodies
Book SynopsisThis study argues that powerful authorities and institutions exploit the ambiguity of Latinidad in ways that obscure inequalities in the United States.
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University of Texas Press Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho
Book SynopsisThe regional and transnational impact of the Son Jarocho musical tradition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Mario Barradas’s Life in Music (Mario Barradas) Chapter 2. Musical Reflections on Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho (Francisco González) Chapter 3. Son Jarocho’s Indigenous Expressivity across Geographies (Yolanda Broyles-González) Chapter 4. Mario Barradas and Mexican Cinema (Rafael Figueroa Hernández) Mario Barradas Discography (Rafael Figueroa Hernández) About the Authors Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho
Book SynopsisThe regional and transnational impact of the Son Jarocho musical tradition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Mario Barradas’s Life in Music (Mario Barradas) Chapter 2. Musical Reflections on Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho (Francisco González) Chapter 3. Son Jarocho’s Indigenous Expressivity across Geographies (Yolanda Broyles-González) Chapter 4. Mario Barradas and Mexican Cinema (Rafael Figueroa Hernández) Mario Barradas Discography (Rafael Figueroa Hernández) About the Authors Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Visible Borders Invisible Economies
Book Synopsis2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film. Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here. Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the living, laboring dead. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli’Trade ReviewUlibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . . The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. * Latin@ Literatures *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization Part I. Documenting the Living Dead Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Chapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox Chapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera Part II. Imagining the Living Dead Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy Chapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons Coda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South” Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Siblings of Soil
Book SynopsisAfter revolutionary cooperation between Dominican and Haitian majorities produced independence across Hispaniola, Dominican elites crafted negative myths about this era that contributed to anti-Haitianism.Trade ReviewYingling’s Siblings of Soil is a history of the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath that focuses on the militaristic, religious, and kinship ties between Haitians and the Spanish side of the island. Grounded in astonishing archival research that spans Europe, the Caribbean, the United States, and Australia, Siblings of Soil demonstrates how African descendants across Hispaniola collaborated across time to ultimately unify the island under Haiti in 1822. This contribution centers the whole island in the broader historical literature on the Age of Revolutions. It moreover is a poignant reminder of a bygone era of cooperation in the forging of an independent, anti-slavery, and anti-colonial Black state. The Isis Duarte Book Prize committee commends Siblings of Soil for its extraordinary research and timely innovation. * Isis Duarte Prize Committee, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section of the Latin American Studies Association *Yingling . . . masterfully [argues] that the Dominican Republic did not gain independence from but rather separated itself from Haiti. He also provides pertinent examples of Dominican influence on Haiti in its early years and of collaborative efforts between the two 'siblings.' . . Importantly, Yingling locates Santo Domingo in the historiography of the Age of Revolutions. Haiti, at least, has received more recognition in this era given the significance of the Haitian Revolution. . . This well-researched book incorporates archival material from Haiti, the Dominican Republic, France, Spain, Cuba, and Vatican City. . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Siblings of Soil successfully delineates the importance of an archivally grounded understanding of the history of the island and is a notable contribution to the historiographical effort, expanding how we under‐stand the revolutionary age to have been lived. * H-Net Reviews (H-Caribbean) *[Siblings of Soil] is a welcome contribution to a range of historiographies, and it sheds light on a too-often overlooked part of the Age of Revolutions . . . Yingling has produced a significant work that belongs in the libraries of scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. * H-Net Reviews (H-Slavery) *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Entire Island Has One Family Chapter 1: Race and Place in Eighteenth-Century Hispaniola Chapter 2: Following a Revolutionary Fuse, 1789–1791 Chapter 3: Belief, Blasphemy, and the Black Auxiliaries, 1792–1794 Chapter 4: Many Enemies Within, 1795–1798 Chapter 5: French Failures, 1799–1807 Chapter 6: Cross-Island Collaboration and Conspiracies, 1808–1818 Chapter 7: The “Spanish Part of Haiti” and Unification, 1819–1822 Epilogue: Becoming Dominican in Haiti Archives Consulted Notes Index
£31.50
University of Texas Press Undocumented Motherhood Conversations on Love
Book SynopsisClaudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter's health in the United States. When she arrived in Texas, Claudia discovered that being undocumented would mean more than just an immigration status--it would be a way of living, of mothering, and of being discarded by even those institutions we count on to care. Elizabeth Farfan-Santos spent five years with Claudia. As she listened to Claudia's experiences, she recalled her own mother's story, another life molded by migration, the US-Mexico border, and the quest for a healthy future on either side. Witnessing Claudia's struggles with doctors and teachers, we see how the education and medical systems enforce undocumented status and perpetuate disability. At one point, in the midst of advocating for her daughter, Claudia suddenly f
£62.90
University of Texas Press Undocumented Motherhood
Book SynopsisAn intimate portrayal of the hardships faced by an undocumented family navigating the medical and educational systems in the United States.Trade ReviewA beautiful gift of intimate, vulnerable, and compassionate ethnography where women's voices leap from the page, speaking truth to power boldly and deeply. -- Ruth Behar, author of The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your HeartFarfan-Santos is a beautiful storyteller who weaves together two dynamic transborder migration stories to reveal how undocumented mothers navigate unjust state systems. Fear and sacrifice shape the maternal experience highlighted in this book but so do love, commitment, comadrazgo, and radical aguante. An important book for all readers to understand how immigration policy deeply impacts the everyday existence and mobility of families on either side of the US/Mexico border. -- Michelle Téllez, University of Arizona, author of Border Women and the Community of Maclovio RojasA compassionate study...Farfán-Santos movingly describes how the Latinx community comes together to help their own and makes a powerful case that the traumas of migration manifest themselves in the bodies of immigrants. This is a stirring portrait of pain and perseverance. * Publishers Weekly *Through a polyphonic chorus of testimonios, a fluid dance between Spanish and English, and an expressive collection of contour portraits, Farfán-Santos relays the story of Claudia Garcia, an undocumented mother from Mexico, who fights tooth and nail to advocate for her daughter...One of the defining features of Undocumented Motherhood is how lovingly it's assembled...the care and respect [Farfán-Santos] has for the women she interviews shines through like warm light from a busy kitchen. * Sightlines *Farfán-Santos gives readers an intimate view of life as an undocumented immigrant mother of young children in the US. At the same time, the book illuminates the often unseen breadth of maternal labor. The book celebrates maternal strength, focusing on one dauntless mother named Claudia, while also asking about the cost of that strength, the price mothers pay for their resilience. * Literary Mama *Undocumented Motherhood is a piercing ethnography about the struggles and strength of undocumented mothers from Mexico in the United States…Farfán-Santos’s unorthodox approach, vivid writing, and strong voice are what make this ethnography truly extraordinary, salient, and palpable. * American Ethnologist *Ultimately Farfán-Santos’s work serves as a challenge to the anthropological discipline as it is more methodologically whole than most human investigations. Her work aims to tackle the ways in which the geopolitical border between the US and Mexico hinders motherhood and children for generations. Her work demands a forceful reexamination of undocumented motherhood—an often overlooked, hyper-criticized and judged, and ultimately politicized experience that she states is the experience of millions of women in the US and is largely missing from the literature on parenting. * E3W *Table of Contents Author’s Notes Undocumented Moments 1. Becoming an Undocumented Mother 2. Falsas Esperanzas 3. What Sickness? 4. Comadres 5. Natalia Undocumented Stories Afterword: La Última Rifa Acknowledgments Notes Selected Sources
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University of Texas Press Migrant Feelings Migrant Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the world’s largest and most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300 community storytellers have created their own audiovisual testimonial narratives, sharing their personal experiences of migration and repatriation. With Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge, the project’s coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other team members introduce the project’s innovative participatory methodology, drawing out key issues regarding the human consequences of contemporary migration control regimes, as well as insights from migrants whose world-making endeavors may challenge what we think we know about migration.In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge outlines this recent history, revealing stories both of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacTable of Contents Acknowledgments Sometimes (Sonia Guiñansaca) Part I. Problems, Approaches, Methods Chapter 1. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Building a Community Archive of Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge (Robert McKee Irwin) Chapter 2. Approaches and Methods: Migrant Epistemologies through Digital Storytelling (Robert McKee Irwin, Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez, and Yairamaren Román Maldonado) Part II. Issues Chapter 3. Motherhood, Spaces, and Care in the Digital Narratives of Humanizing Deportation (Maricruz Castro Ricalde) Chapter 4. Deported Childhood Arrivals “from the Famous Estados Unidos” DREAMing in Tijuana (Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana) Chapter 5. Deportation and Military Discipline on the Last Battlefield of Tijuana (Kyle Proehl and Guillermo Alonso Meneses) Part III. Migrant Epistemologies Chapter 6. Family Unity and Practices of Care: Deportation’s Effects on the Soul (María José Gutiérrez) Chapter 7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital Storytelling (Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez) Chapter 8. Beyond Social Death: New Migrant Ontologies (Brooke Kipling) Chapter 9. The Migrant Knowledge of a Caravanero (Robert McKee Irwin) Epilogue: Reclaiming Our Voices, Stories, and Knowledge (Nancy Landa) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Migrant Feelings Migrant Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites migrants to present their own stories in the world’s largest and most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300 community storytellers have created their own audiovisual testimonial narratives, sharing their personal experiences of migration and repatriation. With Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge, the project’s coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other team members introduce the project’s innovative participatory methodology, drawing out key issues regarding the human consequences of contemporary migration control regimes, as well as insights from migrants whose world-making endeavors may challenge what we think we know about migration.In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge outlines this recent history, revealing stories both of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacTable of Contents Acknowledgments Sometimes (Sonia Guiñansaca) Part I. Problems, Approaches, Methods Chapter 1. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Building a Community Archive of Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge (Robert McKee Irwin) Chapter 2. Approaches and Methods: Migrant Epistemologies through Digital Storytelling (Robert McKee Irwin, Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez, and Yairamaren Román Maldonado) Part II. Issues Chapter 3. Motherhood, Spaces, and Care in the Digital Narratives of Humanizing Deportation (Maricruz Castro Ricalde) Chapter 4. Deported Childhood Arrivals “from the Famous Estados Unidos” DREAMing in Tijuana (Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana) Chapter 5. Deportation and Military Discipline on the Last Battlefield of Tijuana (Kyle Proehl and Guillermo Alonso Meneses) Part III. Migrant Epistemologies Chapter 6. Family Unity and Practices of Care: Deportation’s Effects on the Soul (María José Gutiérrez) Chapter 7. Infrapolitics and Deportation: Everyday Resistance from Digital Storytelling (Ana Luisa Calvillo Vázquez) Chapter 8. Beyond Social Death: New Migrant Ontologies (Brooke Kipling) Chapter 9. The Migrant Knowledge of a Caravanero (Robert McKee Irwin) Epilogue: Reclaiming Our Voices, Stories, and Knowledge (Nancy Landa) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press The Color Pynk
Book Synopsis2023 John Leo & Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQStudies, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA)2023 Honorable Mention, HarryShaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA) A celebration of the distinctive and politically defiant art of Black queer, cis-, and transfemmes, from the work of Janelle Monáe and Janet Mock to that of Indya Moore and Kelsey Lu.The Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment, and ideas. In the first full-length study of Black queer, ci
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University of Texas Press Emergent Quilombos
Book SynopsisHow disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Racial Conditions Chapter 2. Hip-Hop Aquilombamento Chapter 3. Black Spaces of Culture Chapter 4. Intimacy Chapter 5. Artifice Chapter 6. Mediating Quilombo Politics Chapter 7. Real Women Coda: A Diasporic Love Letter Notes Reference List Index
£71.10
University of Texas Press Narcomedia
Book SynopsisExploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs. If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is people of color. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States. Popular culture, from Scarface and Miami Vice to Narcos and Better Call Saul, has continually positioned Latinos as an alien people who threaten the US body politic with drugs. Jason Ruiz explores the creation and endurance of this trope, its effects on Latin Americans and Latinx people, and its role in the cultural politics of the War on Drugs. Even as the focus of drug anxiety has shifted over the years from cocaine to crack and from methamphetamines to opioids, and even as significant strides have been made in representational politics in many areas of pop culture, Latinx people remain an unshakeTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1. “Say Goodnight to the Bad Guy”: South Florida, Cocaine, and the Many Faces of Scarface Chapter 2. Miami Vices: Whiteness and Otherness in Representing the Criminalized City Chapter 3. “The Most Alive Dead Man in the World”: Plotting the Death of Pablo Escobar Chapter 4. Dancing toward Revenge: Queer Representation and What It Means to Be Seen in Narcomedia Chapter 5. Dark Matters: Breaking Bad and the Suburban Crime Drama Chapter 6. Bad Hombres: Narcomedia at the US-Mexico Border Chapter 7. From Public Enemy to Global Media Commodity: Pablo Escobar Transformed Epilogue. “It’s Time for a White Man to Leave the Building”: Centering Latinidad in Narcomedia Acknowledgments Notes Selected Filmography Bibliography Index
£67.15
University of Texas Press Black Feminist Constellations
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women's experiences across the region.Table of Contents The Sacred Word of Women: A Performance (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith) Palavra Sagrada de Mulher: Uma Performance (Elizandra Souza) Toward a Dialogic Transnational Black Feminism: An Introduction (Christen Smith and Lorraine Leu) Part I. Radical Movements: Caring for Life Oriki to Sueli (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis) 1. A Feminism So Complex and So Radical (Sueli Carneiro; translation and introduction by Christen A. Smith) 2. Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South (Sueli Carneiro; translation and editing by Lorraine Leu) 3. Is It Time to Say Goodbye to “Feminism”? (Florencia Gomes; translation by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez) 4. Black Feminist(s) Work in Argentina (Florencia Gomes and Prisca Gayles; introduction, interview, and translation by Prisca Gayles) 5. Intimate Poetics: World-Making through Cuidado de la Vida (Care of Life) in and beyond the Borders of Colombia (Sofía Garzón and Yineth Balanta Mina; introduction by Alysia Mann Carey; translation by Keturah Nichols ) 6. Black Women’s Epistemological Contributions: Afro-Mexican Women in the Twenty-First Century (Itza Amanda Varela Huerta; translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez) 7. Black Women’s Struggle in Mexico: Anti-racism, Community Organization, and Reparation Politics (A conversation between Rosa María Castro Salinas, Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, and Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera; introduction by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera; translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez and Alida Perrine) 8. Beyond Words: Fugitive Embodiments, Creative Praxis, and Trans-Intellectual Genealogies for Black Life (A conversation between Dora Santana and Michaela Machicote; introduction by Michaela Machicote) Part II. Radical Roots: Genealogies of Thought 9. A Genealogy of Black Left Feminist Claims (Carole Boyce Davies) 10. How Will We Organize to Live? Andaiye’s Radical Praxis (D. Alissa Trotz) 11. From the Archives: CAFRA Conversations--Audre Lorde and Andaiye 12. A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter: Early Life and Work(s) (Bedour Alagraa) 13. The Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter in the Americas (A conversation between Carole Boyce Davies, Bedour Alagraa, and Yomaira Figueroa) 14. Visualizing Blackness in Brazil (Rosana Paulino with Lorraine Leu; translation by Lorraine Leu) 15. Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories (Lorraine Leu) 16. Diasporic Memories: Black Women Writers’ Lived Experiences and Ancestralities (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith) Coda. Whirlwind Women/Mulheres redemoinhos (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis) Acknowledgments Editors, Contributors, and Translators Index
£62.90
University of Texas Press Black Feminist Constellations
Book SynopsisA collection of essays, interviews, and conversations by and between scholars, activists, and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that paints a portrait of Black women''s experiences across the region. Black women in Latin America and the Caribbean suffer a triple erasure: as Black people, as women, and as non-English speakers in a global environment dominated by the Anglophone North. Black Feminist Constellations is a passionate and necessary corrective. Focused on and written by Black women of the southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art, and political organizing by Black women everywhere. In essays, poems, and dialogues, the writers in Black Feminist Constellations reimagine liberation from the perspectives of radical South American and Caribbean Black women thinkers. The volume’s methodologically innovative approach reflects how Black wTable of Contents The Sacred Word of Women: A Performance (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith) Palavra Sagrada de Mulher: Uma Performance (Elizandra Souza) Toward a Dialogic Transnational Black Feminism: An Introduction (Christen Smith and Lorraine Leu) Part I. Radical Movements: Caring for Life Oriki to Sueli (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis) 1. A Feminism So Complex and So Radical (Sueli Carneiro; translation and introduction by Christen A. Smith) 2. Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South (Sueli Carneiro; translation and editing by Lorraine Leu) 3. Is It Time to Say Goodbye to “Feminism”? (Florencia Gomes; translation by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez) 4. Black Feminist(s) Work in Argentina (Florencia Gomes and Prisca Gayles; introduction, interview, and translation by Prisca Gayles) 5. Intimate Poetics: World-Making through Cuidado de la Vida (Care of Life) in and beyond the Borders of Colombia (Sofía Garzón and Yineth Balanta Mina; introduction by Alysia Mann Carey; translation by Keturah Nichols ) 6. Black Women’s Epistemological Contributions: Afro-Mexican Women in the Twenty-First Century (Itza Amanda Varela Huerta; translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez) 7. Black Women’s Struggle in Mexico: Anti-racism, Community Organization, and Reparation Politics (A conversation between Rosa María Castro Salinas, Itza Amanda Varela Huerta, and Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera; introduction by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera; translation and editing by Daisy E. Guzman Nuñez and Alida Perrine) 8. Beyond Words: Fugitive Embodiments, Creative Praxis, and Trans-Intellectual Genealogies for Black Life (A conversation between Dora Santana and Michaela Machicote; introduction by Michaela Machicote) Part II. Radical Roots: Genealogies of Thought 9. A Genealogy of Black Left Feminist Claims (Carole Boyce Davies) 10. How Will We Organize to Live? Andaiye’s Radical Praxis (D. Alissa Trotz) 11. From the Archives: CAFRA Conversations--Audre Lorde and Andaiye 12. A Brief Introduction to the Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter: Early Life and Work(s) (Bedour Alagraa) 13. The Life and Work of Sylvia Wynter in the Americas (A conversation between Carole Boyce Davies, Bedour Alagraa, and Yomaira Figueroa) 14. Visualizing Blackness in Brazil (Rosana Paulino with Lorraine Leu; translation by Lorraine Leu) 15. Settlement: Rosana Paulino and Black Women’s Insubordinate Geohistories (Lorraine Leu) 16. Diasporic Memories: Black Women Writers’ Lived Experiences and Ancestralities (Elizandra Souza; translation by Christen A. Smith) Coda. Whirlwind Women/Mulheres redemoinhos (Elizandra Souza; translation by Luana Moreira Reis) Acknowledgments Editors, Contributors, and Translators Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press Building Antebellum New Orleans
Book Synopsis2024 Spiro Kostof Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians2022 PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning2022 Summerlee Book Prize in Nonfiction, Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast2022 Best Book Prize, Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians2022 On the Brinck Book Award, University of New Mexico School of Architecture + PlanningA significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.The Creole architecture of New Orleans is one of the city's most-recognized features, but studies of it largely have focused on architectural typology. In Building Antebellum New Orleans, Tara A. Dudley examines the architectural activities and influence of gens de couleur libresfree people of colorin a city where the mixed-race descendaTrade ReviewBuilding Antebellum New Orleans is a meticulous account of the architectural contributions of free people of color to the city, and of the cultural landscape they worked within and acted on. * ANTIGRAVITY Magazine *Rendering life in serene prose from an arrangement of discrete data points is part of Tara A. Dudley’s art in Building Antebellum New Orleans. It is a consummate work of social, genealogical, and architectural history...This is a book of impeccable calculation and comprehensive accounting...Dudley’s investment in the 'significance of African Americans’ place' in the American landscape documents the untold and telling efforts of both free and unfree people of African descent to bear the long-contested dispossession built into the fabric of the colonial American experiment. * ARRIS: The Journal of the Southeast Chapter of Architectural Historians *To refer to this book as an architectural history of New Orleans after statehood would describe only a fraction of its scholarly importance. Beyond the material culture that is manifest in the built environment and the building types that gens de couleur libres builders preferred, the reader gets many glimpses of the unique social and economic position of this mixed-race class and the racial politics they negotiated...Building Antebellum New Orleans reveals the rich and complicated social landscape created by free people of color in New Orleans and the privileges that came with belonging to old Francophone families. * Journal of Southern History *Dudley demonstrates the control gens de couleur libres (free people of color) exerted on the city's architecture and urban design, and she convincingly asserts the importance the built environment had for their families and community, thereby expanding our understanding of gens de couleur libres material strategies and New Orleans's built environment...Dudley recovers a sizeable group of builders obscured by scholars' focus on the city's European and Anglo-American professional architects, and she offers a nuanced analysis of her subjects' complex racial identities, acknowledging some family members' role as enslavers. Her study resonates with questions emerging across architectural history and material culture studies about the importance of enslaved and free Black craftspeople's expertise and labor in building trades across the South. * Journal of American History *For readers across disciplines, this book is a fascinating insight into the Creolization of New Orleans while looking at a tumultuous, contentious political era in Louisiana’s history. For emerging scholars in similar disciplines, it gives an apt roadmap to follow—to try and lend voice to people who are seldom written about, like the women of the families, and to connect the dots not just through a paper trail but also a trail of emotions. * E3W *Table of Contents List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Part I. Ownership: Possessing the Built Environment Chapter 1. The Gens de Couleur Libres’ Acquisition of Property Chapter 2. The Ramifications of Use and Location Part II. Engagement: Forming and Transforming the Built Environment Chapter 3. The Architecture of the Dolliole and Soulié Families Chapter 4. “Uncommon Industry”: Gens de Couleur Libres Builders in Antebellum New Orleans Chapter 5. “Raised to the Trade”: Building Practices of Gens de Couleur Libres Builders in Antebellum New Orleans Chapter 6. The Status Quo: French, Creole, and Anglo Builders and Architects in Antebellum New Orleans Part III. Entrepreneurship: Controlling the Built Environment Chapter 7. Money, Power, and Status in the Building Trades Conclusion. The Gens de Couleur Libres’ Development of Self and Group Identity through Ownership, Formation, Transformation, and Control of the Built Environment Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Duke University Press Technicolored
Book SynopsisFrom early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In Technicolored black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher''s careful, personal, and timely anaTrade Review"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- K. Sorensen * Choice *"In her book Technicolored, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media." -- Jacqueline Johnson * Film Quarterly *"Technicolored is a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement." -- Michael Litwack * The Black Scholar *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life 1 1. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race" 22 2. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV 52 3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two 83 4. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s 112 5. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal 134 6. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities" 159 7. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime 183 8. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court 209 9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability 232 10. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters 261 Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food" 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 311 Index 325
£112.20
Duke University Press The Romare Bearden Reader
Book SynopsisThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of newly written essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights, as well as Bearden's most important writing, making it an indispensable volume on one of the giants of twentieth-century American art.Trade Review"Jazz music, politics, and black culture are the primary themes ofBearden's paintings and collages, while his writing-including the eight examples in this collection-lay bare his aesthetic values and practices. Essays by twenty contributors, from scholar Robert G. O'Meally to novelists Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison, contextualize Bearden's oeuvre and assess his impact on twentieth-century African American culture." * Art in America *"The varied voices here make this a go-to resource for constructing Bearden's enigmatic, seductively structured art. . . . This is the finest overall consideration of Bearden's ouevre yet, and a fulsome tribute to a justly revered artist." -- Douglas F. Smith * Library Journal *"Relatively few titles provide in-depth explorations of the intellectual lives of African American artists. This reader does so in a comprehensive–and compelling–manner, and should be considered an important addition to art and literary criticism collections, useful for artists, musicians, writers, and others." -- Lynora Williams * ARLIS/NA *"A valuable resource for scholars and anyone interested in Romare Bearden, art history, art techniques, the Harlem Renaissance (which Bearden calls the Black Renaissance because not all participants were in Harlem), and black US history.… O'Meally draws together the major themes of Bearden scholarship, providing a useful jumping-off point for insight into Bearden and his work." -- P.A. Mullins * African Arts *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix "Pressing on Life Until It Gave Back Something in Kinship": An Introductory Essay / Robert G. O'Meally 1 Part I. Life and Times Putting Something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins 31 Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent 54 Part II. Writings The Negro Artist and Modern Art / Romare Bearden 87 The Negro Artist's Dilemma / Romare Bearden 91 The Journal of Romare Bearden: 1947 to 1949 / Romare Bearden 99 Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings / Romare Bearden 121 The Twenties and the Black Renaissance / Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson 133 The 1930s: An Art Reminiscence / Romare Bearden 156 Humility / Romare Bearden 162 Encounters with African Art / Romare Bearden 164 Part III. Reflections on a Layered Legacy Bearden: Black Life on Its Own Terms / August Wilson 175 Abrupt Stops and an Unexpected Liquidity: The Aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison 178 The Genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander 185 The Art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison 196 Bearden / Ralph Ellison 204 Between the Shadow and the Act / John Edgar Wideman 209 Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century / Kobena Mercer 217 Bearden Plays Bearden / Albert Murray 236 The Political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards 256 Circe in Black: Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin 270 Conjure and Collapse in the Art of Romare Bearden / Rachael Delue 281 Changing, Conjuring Reality / Richard Powell 296 Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy: Coloring a Story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto 307 Impressions and Improvisations: A Look at the Prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett 315 Bearden's Caribbean Dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price 351 Sheer Mastery: Romare Bearden's Final Year / Myron Schwartzman 363 Romare Bearden, an Idelible Imprint / David C. Driskell 379 Selected References 389 Index 393
£84.15
Duke University Press Technicolored
Book SynopsisFrom early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities. In Technicolored black feminist critic Ann duCille combines cultural critique with personal reflections on growing up with the new medium of TV to examine how televisual representations of African Americans have changed over the last sixty years. Whether explaining how watching Shirley Temple led her to question her own self-worth or how televisual representation functions as a form of racial profiling, duCille traces the real-life social and political repercussions of the portrayal and presence of African Americans on television. Neither a conventional memoir nor a traditional media study, Technicolored offers one lifelong television watcher's careful, personal, and timely analysis of how television continues to shape notions of race in the American imagination.Trade Review"Ann duCille offers an eloquent analysis of the relationship between representations of people of color and their absence in television from the 1950s to the present. She skillfully blends her comprehensive, historically grounded research with personal memories and her present connection to television. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." -- K. Sorensen * Choice *"In her book Technicolored, Ann duCille deftly blends memoir and television criticism to create an important critical intervention into the study of race and media." -- Jacqueline Johnson * Film Quarterly *"Technicolored is a beautifully written and deeply engaging text that makes media criticism available in multiple registers. Media critics, Black Studies scholars, those interested in literary experiments that bridge memoir and theory, and all students of culture will learn considerably from duCille’s achievement." -- Michael Litwack * The Black Scholar *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Black and White and Technicolored: Channeling the TV Life 1 1. What's in a Game? Quiz Shows and the "Prism of Race" 22 2. "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear": Stigmatic Blackness and the Rise of Technicolored TV 52 3. The Shirley Temple of My Familiar: Take Two 83 4. Interracial Loving: Sexless in the Suburbs of the 1960s 112 5. "A Credit to My Race": Acting Black and Black Acting from Julia to Scandal 134 6. A Clear and Present Absence: Perry Mason and the Case of the Missing "Minorities" 159 7. "Soaploitation": Getting Away with Murder in Primetime 183 8. The Punch and Judge Judy Shows: Really Real TV and the Dangers of a Day in Court 209 9. The Autumn of His Discontent: Bill Cosby, Fatherhood, and the Politics of Palatability 232 10. The "Thug Default": Why Racial Representation Still Matters 261 Epilogue. Final Spin: "That's Not My Food" 285 Notes 289 Bibliography 311 Index 325
£27.90
Duke University Press AFRICOBRA
Book SynopsisPainter, photographer, and cofounder of AFRICOBRA Wadsworth A. Jarrell tells the definitive history of the group’s creation, history, and artistic and political principles and the ways it captured the rhythmic dynamism of black culture and social life to create uplifting art for all black people.Trade Review“What an amazing testimony from a founding member of one of the most important artists' collectives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries! Kudos to Wadsworth A. Jarrell for his thoroughly engaging and art historically significant memoir.” -- Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art & Art History, Duke University“The principles and philosophy of the collective AFRICOBRA in many ways defined the parameters of art making for politically conscious African American artists during the era of Black power. Who can forget their stunning manifesto that emphasized standards such as coolade color, shine, free symmetry, and mimesis at midpoint?! Now Wadsworth A. Jarrell‘s new book brings us a first-person account of this group and period from an artist who was there from the start. Beautifully illustrated, it offers a fresh perspective and significant references, and it serves as an important sourcebook for late twentieth-century practice. As the study of art moves beyond a New York--centric approach, histories coming out of major centers like Chicago are especially important. AFRICOBRA joins a growing body of literature on art making outside New York; it will allow a plethora of new chronicles to be written.” -- Kellie Jones, Columbia University"AFRICOBRA is a timely book as part of a movement that remains current as many art organizations are assessing their complicity in the suppression and appropriation of Black voices. This book will be of interest to scholars of African American art history and American art history in general." -- Laura Haynes * ARLIS/NA *"Lavishly illustrated with images of works by the Jarrells and AfriCOBRA colleagues including his wife, Donaldson, Jones-Hogu, and Nelson Stevens, the book describes the formation of the collective and its first three major exhibitions." -- Steven Litt * The Plain Dealer *“AFRICOBRA is a necessary source for the study of the Black Arts Movement.... Across poetics, analytical prose, art, and archive, Jarrell argues for revisionist readings that challenge standing interpretations of AFRICOBRA as well as the contemporary collective, AFRICOBRA Now.” -- Melanee C. Harvey * CAA Reviews *Table of ContentsIllustrations x Black Art and the Black Aesthetic xv AFRICOBRA: Principles and Philosophy xvii Foreword / Richard Allen May III xxi Acknowledgments xxv Introduction 1 Black in Chicago 19 Genesis 41 The Wall of Respect 49 The Inception 75 A Visual Art Proposal 91 First Cobra Exhibition 109 Recruitment 119 AFRICOBRA I 129 AFRICOBRA II 171 AFRICOBRA III 209 Postscript / Edmund Barry Gaither 241 Exhibitions 247 Reviews and Media Interviews 249 AFRICOBRA in Art Collections 251 AFRICOBRA in Books 253 Notes 255 Artist Biographies 263 Index 271
£22.79
Duke University Press The Romare Bearden Reader
Book SynopsisThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of newly written essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights, as well as Bearden's most important writing, making it an indispensable volume on one of the giants of twentieth-century American art.Trade Review"Jazz music, politics, and black culture are the primary themes ofBearden's paintings and collages, while his writing-including the eight examples in this collection-lay bare his aesthetic values and practices. Essays by twenty contributors, from scholar Robert G. O'Meally to novelists Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison, contextualize Bearden's oeuvre and assess his impact on twentieth-century African American culture." * Art in America *"The varied voices here make this a go-to resource for constructing Bearden's enigmatic, seductively structured art. . . . This is the finest overall consideration of Bearden's ouevre yet, and a fulsome tribute to a justly revered artist." -- Douglas F. Smith * Library Journal *"Relatively few titles provide in-depth explorations of the intellectual lives of African American artists. This reader does so in a comprehensive–and compelling–manner, and should be considered an important addition to art and literary criticism collections, useful for artists, musicians, writers, and others." -- Lynora Williams * ARLIS/NA *"A valuable resource for scholars and anyone interested in Romare Bearden, art history, art techniques, the Harlem Renaissance (which Bearden calls the Black Renaissance because not all participants were in Harlem), and black US history.… O'Meally draws together the major themes of Bearden scholarship, providing a useful jumping-off point for insight into Bearden and his work." -- P.A. Mullins * African Arts *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix "Pressing on Life Until It Gave Back Something in Kinship": An Introductory Essay / Robert G. O'Meally 1 Part I. Life and Times Putting Something over Something Else / Calvin Tomkins 31 Interview with Romare Bearden / Henri Ghent 54 Part II. Writings The Negro Artist and Modern Art / Romare Bearden 87 The Negro Artist's Dilemma / Romare Bearden 91 The Journal of Romare Bearden: 1947 to 1949 / Romare Bearden 99 Rectangular Structure in My Montage Paintings / Romare Bearden 121 The Twenties and the Black Renaissance / Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson 133 The 1930s: An Art Reminiscence / Romare Bearden 156 Humility / Romare Bearden 162 Encounters with African Art / Romare Bearden 164 Part III. Reflections on a Layered Legacy Bearden: Black Life on Its Own Terms / August Wilson 175 Abrupt Stops and an Unexpected Liquidity: The Aesthetics of Romare Bearden / Toni Morrison 178 The Genius of Romare Bearden / Elizabeth Alexander 185 The Art of Romare Bearden / Ralph Ellison 196 Bearden / Ralph Ellison 204 Between the Shadow and the Act / John Edgar Wideman 209 Romare Bearden: African American Modernism at Mid-Century / Kobena Mercer 217 Bearden Plays Bearden / Albert Murray 236 The Political Bearden / Brent Hayes Edwards 256 Circe in Black: Homer, Toni Morrison, Romare Bearden / Farah Jasmine Griffin 270 Conjure and Collapse in the Art of Romare Bearden / Rachael Delue 281 Changing, Conjuring Reality / Richard Powell 296 Romare Bearden's Li'l Dan the Drummer Boy: Coloring a Story of the Civil War / Robert Burns Stepto 307 Impressions and Improvisations: A Look at the Prints of Romare Bearden / Mary Lee Corlett 315 Bearden's Caribbean Dimension / Sally Price and Richard Price 351 Sheer Mastery: Romare Bearden's Final Year / Myron Schwartzman 363 Romare Bearden, an Idelible Imprint / David C. Driskell 379 Selected References 389 Index 393
£22.49
Duke University Press Vexy Thing
Book SynopsisImani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifactsranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary artfrom the Enlightenment to the present.Trade Review"Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation." -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel *"Using historical examples, narrative vignettes, and meditative interludes, Perry pushes the conventions of academic writing in part to advocate for feminism as critical reading practice rather than doctrine. . . . [She] invite[s] the reader to consider patriarchy not as a parallel structure repeating itself across cultures but rather an iterative and changeable force constituted through its interactions with race, empire, geographic location, and other intersections. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- S. L. Vandermeade * Choice *"Perry presents a feminist reading praxis that examines history, theory and academic scholarship to provide the basis for understanding how patriarchy informs our individual and collective selves. This book should be on the shelf of any graduate student working in the fields of feminist scholarship and critical race theory." -- Katelan Dunn * LSE Review of Books *"What is patriarchy? This question is at the heart of Vexy Thing, but Perry does more than define patriarchy. She names it, identifies it, locates its global reach, examines its historical construction, and explores its present-day impact. Vexy Thing does a lot and in a good way. It is a capacious work of black feminist theory that works through patriarchy’s violence to imagine personhood, livability, and a more just world." -- Annette Joseph-Gabriel * Public Books *"Vexy Thing is a sophisticated mapping of patriarchy from the Enlightenment to the present." -- Natasha Behl * Politics & Gender *"Vexy Thing is an immense scholarly undertaking, reviewing theory and research spanning multiple disciplines. It is also a call for the reader—students, scholars, theorists, activists—to challenge the patriarchal doctrines built into our own lives and to bring the voices of those on the margins to the center." -- Wendy M. Christensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“This is the sort of book that initially draws you in with its witty title and beautiful cover (despite attempts not to judge a book…). I soon found myself recommending it to everyone I met even before I had even reached the end. Its breadth and scope [are] breathtaking. It spirals out in all directions and the content encompasses film, literature, historical documents, philosophy and policy…. I would argue that reading this book is as good a start as any for developing a new feminist praxis.” -- Rosie Buckland * Women's Studies International Forum *"Vexy Thing is not just a timely history lesson. In this text we are shown how to read as liberation feminists who take seriously the task of tracing patriarchy as a foundational architecture of gender domination, while imagining and enacting the possibilities of engendered freedom. Through the stylistic strategies of vignette, story, description, theorization, and analysis, Perry forces us to shift our praxis and to ‘read through the layers of gender forms of domination’…. [W]hen reading Vexy Thing, one would do well to give herself ample time and room to delight in the experience." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant * Journal of American History *"Vexy Thing is a groundbreaking work of Black feminist scholarship. Both generously worldbuilding and rigorously deconstructive, it offers a challenging vision of liberation that will be of value to scholars, students, and activists alike, a vital text for anyone seeking creative, critical, and always personal tools for getting out from under the hold of patriarchy's racial logics." -- Matty Hemming * Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity 14 2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject 42 Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here 86 3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman 98 4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject 129 5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood 151 Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches 171 6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape 177 7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire 199 8. The Vicar of Liberation 226 Notes 255 Bibliography 273 Index 283
£75.65
Duke University Press Unsustainable Empire
Book SynopsisIn a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Dean Saranillio tracks the disparate stories different groups tell about Hawaiian statehood by returning to historical flashpoints ranging from the turn of the century until shortly after 1959.Trade Review"[Unsustainable Empire is] a very powerful book with which to teach about what it means to work across social movements." -- Jaskiran Dhillon * Edge Effects *"Unsustainable Empire adds to scholarship on American nation-building, settler colonialism, statehood histories, and public relations politics and propaganda. The book should be a welcome addition to introductory-level history courses that deal with American empire or history and memory." -- Julie Hawks * Journal of American Culture *"[Unsustainable Empire] is instructive for its truly intersectional analysis of white and Asian settler colonialisms, U.S. imperialism, and heteropatriarchy, as well as many exciting passages on Hawai‘i's militant labor movement.… The book is an urgent call to expose the web of lies that empire is built on so we can build truly sustainable futures that respect Indigenous values, land, and leadership." -- Kim Compoc * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Perhaps Saranillio’s most significant contribution is his rigorous theoretical analysis of settler colonialism and capitalism. . . . The most hopeful aspects of Saranillio’s work are the alternative futures made possible by a fuller understanding of Hawai‘i’s complex history. Such messaging is both necessarily encouraging and eminently useful for intellectuals employing decolonial methodologies—particularly those in settler-colonial contexts—and all those who seek a decolonized Hawai‘i." -- Shannon Pomaika‘i Hennessey * The Contemporary Pacific *Table of ContentsPreface. "Statehood Sucks" ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood 1 1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 31 2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings 67 3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke! 99 4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War 131 5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State 171 Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance 197 Notes 211 Bibliography 245 Index 267
£75.65
Duke University Press The Difference Aesthetics Makes On the
Book SynopsisExamining the work of writers and artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Allan deSouza, Kandice Chuh advocates for what she calls “illiberal humanism” as a way to counter the Eurocentric liberal humanism that perpetuates structures of social inequality.Trade Review“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” -- Kiron Ward * Journal of American Studies *“In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” -- Michele Speitz * Journal Of British Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes 1 1. Knowledge under Cover 26 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism 51 3. Making Sense Otherwise 74 4. Mis/Taken Universals 89 Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man" 122 Postscript 126 Notes 131 Bibliography 159 Index 175
£70.55
Duke University Press Worldmaking
Book SynopsisDorinne Kondo draws on critical ethnographic work and over twenty years of experience as a dramaturge and playwright to theorize how racialized labor, aesthetics, affect, genre, and social inequity operate in contemporary theater.Trade Review"A timely publication. . . [that] keenly reflects the complexity and entanglements of race, history, politics, representation and contemporary identities in North America." -- David J. Scott * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"Working across disciplines, Kondo reverses the imperative of many scholars to read theory onto performance by instead focusing on the emergence of theory in theater, how it is deployed by theater artists and comes into contact with audiences. . . . For theater makers, Worldmaking serves as another kind of reparative, as it de-centers Eurocentric theatrical models in exchange for processes that enact the minoritarian, the non-hegemonic, the reparative." -- Kristen Holfeuer * Women & Performance *“This book … suits courses on theatre, race, and performance, and on ethnographic methods. Crucially, this book expands necessary conversations on race and dramaturgy, and ways in which ‘dramaturgical critique’—conscious of racial logics and embodied meanings—might make and repair theatrical and racial worlds.” -- Jasmine Mahmoud * TDR: The Drama Review *“Worldmaking is a stunning contribution to discussions of racial representation, affect, ethnography, and practice-led research in our post-racial world. Working to ‘defamiliarize’ American theatre for artists and scholars, the book re-evaluates the dichotomies of theory/practice, artistic passion/compensation, and resistance/complicity that are firmly ingrained in our thinking about the arts. The rigour with which Kondo encourages us to reassess artistic practices and scholarly enquiry, however, never verges on harsh criticism. Instead, it is with stirring generosity that she opens up avenues for further enquiry and redress.” -- Jessica Nakamura * Modern Drama *“Kondo demonstrates the power of theatre to address the complexities of race in contemporary America not only through what is seen onstage but also in the processes of rehearsal, revision, and reception, as artists question representational authority and negotiate collaboration.” -- Josephine Lee * Theatre Journal *"Kondo’s Worldmaking explores how artistic approaches might add to anthropological research and offers a multi-layered ethnography of US theatre. This book is also insightful for theatre practitioners and could be used for teaching undergraduates." -- Cassis Kilian * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Overture 1 Entr'acte 1. Racial Affect and Affective Violence 17 Act I. Mise-en-Scène 1. Theoretical Scaffolding, Formal Architecture 25 2. Racialized Economies 56 Entr'acte 2. Acting and Embodiment 93 Act II. Creative Labor 3. (En)Acting Theory 97 4. The Drama behind the Drama 130 5. Revising Race 167 Entre'acte 3. The Structure of the Theater Company 205 Act III. Reparative Creativity 6. Playwriting as Reparative Creativity 209 7. Seamless, A Full-Length Play 237 Notes 311 Works Cited 325 Index 349
£140.25
Duke University Press Jezebel Unhinged
Book SynopsisIn Jezebel Unhinged Tamura Lomax traces the historical and contemporary use of the jezebel trope in the black church and in black popular culture, showing how it disciplines black women and girls and preserves gender hierarchy, black patriarchy, and heteronormativity in black families, communities, cultures, and institutions.Trade Review"An amazing pick for book clubs, reading discussion groups, or faith study groups, Jezebel Unhinged offers a fresh, exciting perspective on blackness, black female bodies, African American culture, and contemporary Christian teachings." -- Claire Foster * Foreword Reviews *"A book for black women who want freedom." -- Mariam Williams * Women's Review of Books *"Jezebel Unhinged is an insightful text that not only bridges the gap between Black feminist studies, Black pop culture studies, and womanist thought in religion, but also brings fresh and innovative analyses to longstanding discourses about black womanhood." -- Ahmad Greene-Hayes * Reading Religion *"Lomax has written a thoughtful, passionate piece, one deeply concerned about the well-being of black women and girls and, by extension, the well-being of a larger social fabric." -- Nan Kathy Lin * Studies in Religion *“Jezebel Unhinged is an exciting and provocative scholarly work. … For those interested in a thorough and systematic study of black women and girls and their relationship with the Black Church and black popular culture, this book is one that must be read.” -- Angela M. Nelson * Asian Journal of Social Science *“A passionate, closely argued, energetically written and illuminating text….” -- John Clammer * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“The arrow of Dr. Lomax’s words bullseyed into my soul…. Lomax brilliantly argues for critical black feminist religious engagement with how Black womanhood and girlhood are constructed and disseminated in connection with Black religion and Black popular culture. She focuses on the Black Church as a physical and psychic site of particular interest because it holds messy grey spaces outside of the social binaries we’ve been conditioned to accept.” -- B. J. McDaniel * The Lion and the Unicorn *Table of ContentsProlegomenon. "Hoeism or Whatever": Black Girls and the Sable Letter "B" vii Acknowledgments xix Introduction. "A Thousand Details, Anecdotes, Stories": Mining the Discourse on Black Womanhood 1 1. Black Venus and Jezebel Sluts: Writing Race, Sex, and Gender in Religion and Culture 13 2. "These Hos Ain't Loyal": White Perversions, Black Possessions 34 3. Theologizing Jezebel: Womanist Central Criticism, a Divine Intervention 59 4. "Changing the Letter": Toward a Black Feminist Study of Religion 82 5. The Black Church, the Black Lady, and Jezebel: The Cultural Production of Feminine-ism 108 6. Whose "Woman" Is This?: Reading Bishop T. D. Jakes's Woman, Thou Art Loosed! 130 7. Tyler Perry's New Revival: Black Sexual Politics, Black Popular Religion, and an American Icon 169 Epilogue. Dangerous Machinations: Black Feminists Taught Us 201 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index 251
£76.50
Duke University Press Vexy Thing
Book SynopsisImani Perry recenters patriarchy to contemporary discussions of feminism through a social and literary analysis of cultural artifactsranging from nineteenth-century slavery court cases and historical vignettes to literature and contemporary artfrom the Enlightenment to the present.Trade Review"Vexy Thing recontextualizes feminism and patriarchy in an era when both terms have been systemically emptied by market forces; she reminds us that the patriarch is an institutional concept and reminds us of its insidiousness in our everyday life through a devastatingly sharp historical critique, necessarily centering black women as the locus of her conversation." -- Julianne Escobedo Shepherd * Jezebel *"Using historical examples, narrative vignettes, and meditative interludes, Perry pushes the conventions of academic writing in part to advocate for feminism as critical reading practice rather than doctrine. . . . [She] invite[s] the reader to consider patriarchy not as a parallel structure repeating itself across cultures but rather an iterative and changeable force constituted through its interactions with race, empire, geographic location, and other intersections. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates and above." -- S. L. Vandermeade * Choice *"Perry presents a feminist reading praxis that examines history, theory and academic scholarship to provide the basis for understanding how patriarchy informs our individual and collective selves. This book should be on the shelf of any graduate student working in the fields of feminist scholarship and critical race theory." -- Katelan Dunn * LSE Review of Books *"What is patriarchy? This question is at the heart of Vexy Thing, but Perry does more than define patriarchy. She names it, identifies it, locates its global reach, examines its historical construction, and explores its present-day impact. Vexy Thing does a lot and in a good way. It is a capacious work of black feminist theory that works through patriarchy’s violence to imagine personhood, livability, and a more just world." -- Annette Joseph-Gabriel * Public Books *"Vexy Thing is a sophisticated mapping of patriarchy from the Enlightenment to the present." -- Natasha Behl * Politics & Gender *"Vexy Thing is an immense scholarly undertaking, reviewing theory and research spanning multiple disciplines. It is also a call for the reader—students, scholars, theorists, activists—to challenge the patriarchal doctrines built into our own lives and to bring the voices of those on the margins to the center." -- Wendy M. Christensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“This is the sort of book that initially draws you in with its witty title and beautiful cover (despite attempts not to judge a book…). I soon found myself recommending it to everyone I met even before I had even reached the end. Its breadth and scope [are] breathtaking. It spirals out in all directions and the content encompasses film, literature, historical documents, philosophy and policy…. I would argue that reading this book is as good a start as any for developing a new feminist praxis.” -- Rosie Buckland * Women's Studies International Forum *"Vexy Thing is not just a timely history lesson. In this text we are shown how to read as liberation feminists who take seriously the task of tracing patriarchy as a foundational architecture of gender domination, while imagining and enacting the possibilities of engendered freedom. Through the stylistic strategies of vignette, story, description, theorization, and analysis, Perry forces us to shift our praxis and to ‘read through the layers of gender forms of domination’…. [W]hen reading Vexy Thing, one would do well to give herself ample time and room to delight in the experience." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant * Journal of American History *"Vexy Thing is a groundbreaking work of Black feminist scholarship. Both generously worldbuilding and rigorously deconstructive, it offers a challenging vision of liberation that will be of value to scholars, students, and activists alike, a vital text for anyone seeking creative, critical, and always personal tools for getting out from under the hold of patriarchy's racial logics." -- Matty Hemming * Criticism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Seafaring, Sovereignty, and the Self: Of Patriarchy and the Conditions of Modernity 14 2. Producing Personhood: The Rise of Capitalism and the Western Subject 42 Interlude 1. How Did We Get Here? Nobody's Supposed to Be Here 86 3. In the Ether: Neoliberalism and Entrepreneurial Woman 98 4. Simulacra Child: Hypermedia and the Mediated Subject 129 5. Sticks Broken at the River: The Security State and the Violence of Manhood 151 Interlude 2. Returning to the Witches 171 6. Unmaking the Territory and Remapping the Landscape 177 7. The Utterance of My Name: Invitation and the Disorder of Desire 199 8. The Vicar of Liberation 226 Notes 255 Bibliography 273 Index 283
£20.69
Duke University Press Unsustainable Empire
Book SynopsisIn a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S. state. Dean Saranillio tracks the disparate stories different groups tell about Hawaiian statehood by returning to historical flashpoints ranging from the turn of the century until shortly after 1959.Trade Review"[Unsustainable Empire is] a very powerful book with which to teach about what it means to work across social movements." -- Jaskiran Dhillon * Edge Effects *"Unsustainable Empire adds to scholarship on American nation-building, settler colonialism, statehood histories, and public relations politics and propaganda. The book should be a welcome addition to introductory-level history courses that deal with American empire or history and memory." -- Julie Hawks * Journal of American Culture *"[Unsustainable Empire] is instructive for its truly intersectional analysis of white and Asian settler colonialisms, U.S. imperialism, and heteropatriarchy, as well as many exciting passages on Hawai‘i's militant labor movement.… The book is an urgent call to expose the web of lies that empire is built on so we can build truly sustainable futures that respect Indigenous values, land, and leadership." -- Kim Compoc * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Perhaps Saranillio’s most significant contribution is his rigorous theoretical analysis of settler colonialism and capitalism. . . . The most hopeful aspects of Saranillio’s work are the alternative futures made possible by a fuller understanding of Hawai‘i’s complex history. Such messaging is both necessarily encouraging and eminently useful for intellectuals employing decolonial methodologies—particularly those in settler-colonial contexts—and all those who seek a decolonized Hawai‘i." -- Shannon Pomaika‘i Hennessey * The Contemporary Pacific *Table of ContentsPreface. "Statehood Sucks" ix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction. Colliding Futures of Hawai‘i Statehood 1 1. A Future Wish: Hawai‘i at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition 31 2. The Courage to Speak: Disrupting Haole Hegemony at the 1937 Congressional Statehood Hearings 67 3. "Something Indefinable Would Be Lost": The Unruly Kamokila and Go for Broke! 99 4. The Propaganda of Occupation: Statehood and the Cold War 131 5. Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State 171 Conclusion. Scenes of Resurgence: Slow Violence and Slow Resistance 197 Notes 211 Bibliography 245 Index 267
£20.69
Duke University Press Trans Exploits
Book SynopsisIn Trans Exploits Jian Neo Chen explores the cultural practices created by trans and gender-nonconforming artists and activists of color. They argue for a radical rethinking of the policies and technologies of racial gendering and assimilative social programming that have divided LGBT communities and communities of color along the lines of gender, sexuality, class, immigration status, and ability. Focusing on performance, film/video, literature, digital media, and other forms of cultural expression and activism that track the displaced emergences of trans people of color, Chen highlights the complex and varied responses by trans communities to their social dispossession. Through these responses, trans of color cultural workers such as performance artist Yozmit, writer Janet Mock, and organizer Jennicet Gutierrez challenge dominating perceptions and institutions that kill, confine, police, and discipline trans people.Trade Review“Trans Exploits is a valuable meditation on unsettling and redefining the relationship between trans of color culture and technologies of representation. . . . This text charts numerous points of entry for any reader interested in the converging histories of US expansion, dispossession, and detention.” -- Christopher Joseph Lee * TSQ *“The biggest strength of Trans Exploits lies in Chen’s deft ability to unite such a range of examples. It is testament to the book’s methodological intervention: trans exploits might thus be seen as a term to capture the different creative and strategic responses to racialized and gendered forms of power, surveillance, and regulation.” -- V Varun Chaudhry * GLQ *“Chen deploys trans of color as always in flux, as in relation with others, as a praxis of solidarity, and as refusal of all colonial and capitalist logics. . . . Remarkably, as Chen navigates the vast temporal and spatial frames, without conflating one context/community into another, they carefully historicize and contextualize each contemporary artist and their trans embodiments.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Racial Trans Technologies 1 1. Cultures: Performing Racial Trans Senses 30 2. Networks: TRANScoding Biogenetics and Orgasm in the Transnational Digital Economy 59 3. Memory: The Times and Territories of Trans Women of Color Becoming 75 4. Movement: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Digital Activisms and U.S. Transnational Empire 101 Conclusion. Trans Voice in the House 135 Notes 149 References 157 Index 173
£22.79
Duke University Press The Difference Aesthetics Makes
Book SynopsisIn The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls “illiberal humanism” instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing that the liberal humanities contribute to the reproduction of the subjugation that accompanies liberalism''s definition of the human, Chuh argues that instead of defending the humanities, as has been widely called for in recent years, we should radically remake them. Chuh proposes that the work of artists and writers like Lan Samantha Chang, Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan deSouza, Monique Truong, and othersbringsto bear ways of being and knowing that delegitimize liberal humanism in favor of more robust, capacious, and worldly senses of the human and the humanities. Chuh presents the aesthetics of illiberal humanism as vital to the creationTrade Review“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” -- Kiron Ward * Journal of American Studies *“In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” -- Michele Speitz * Journal Of British Studies *Table of ContentsPreface xi Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes 1 1. Knowledge under Cover 26 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism 51 3. Making Sense Otherwise 74 4. Mis/Taken Universals 89 Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man" 122 Postscript 126 Notes 131 Bibliography 159 Index 175
£18.99
Duke University Press Worldmaking
Book SynopsisIn this bold, innovative work, Dorinne Kondo theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts. Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright, Kondo mobilizes critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and dramatic writing to trenchantly analyze theater''s work of creativity as theory: acting, writing, dramaturgy. Race-making occurs backstage in the creative process and through economic forces, institutional hierarchies, hiring practices, ideologies of artistic transcendence, and aesthetic form. For audiences, the arts produce racial affect--structurally over-determined ways affect can enhance or diminish life. Upending genre through scholarly interpretation, vivid vignettes, and Kondo''s original play, Worldmaking journeys from an initial romance with theater that is shattered by encounters with racism, toward what Kondo calls reparative creativity in the work of minoritarian artists Anna Deavere Smith, DavidTrade Review"A timely publication. . . [that] keenly reflects the complexity and entanglements of race, history, politics, representation and contemporary identities in North America." -- David J. Scott * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"Working across disciplines, Kondo reverses the imperative of many scholars to read theory onto performance by instead focusing on the emergence of theory in theater, how it is deployed by theater artists and comes into contact with audiences. . . . For theater makers, Worldmaking serves as another kind of reparative, as it de-centers Eurocentric theatrical models in exchange for processes that enact the minoritarian, the non-hegemonic, the reparative." -- Kristen Holfeuer * Women & Performance *“This book … suits courses on theatre, race, and performance, and on ethnographic methods. Crucially, this book expands necessary conversations on race and dramaturgy, and ways in which ‘dramaturgical critique’—conscious of racial logics and embodied meanings—might make and repair theatrical and racial worlds.” -- Jasmine Mahmoud * TDR: The Drama Review *“Worldmaking is a stunning contribution to discussions of racial representation, affect, ethnography, and practice-led research in our post-racial world. Working to ‘defamiliarize’ American theatre for artists and scholars, the book re-evaluates the dichotomies of theory/practice, artistic passion/compensation, and resistance/complicity that are firmly ingrained in our thinking about the arts. The rigour with which Kondo encourages us to reassess artistic practices and scholarly enquiry, however, never verges on harsh criticism. Instead, it is with stirring generosity that she opens up avenues for further enquiry and redress.” -- Jessica Nakamura * Modern Drama *“Kondo demonstrates the power of theatre to address the complexities of race in contemporary America not only through what is seen onstage but also in the processes of rehearsal, revision, and reception, as artists question representational authority and negotiate collaboration.” -- Josephine Lee * Theatre Journal *"Kondo’s Worldmaking explores how artistic approaches might add to anthropological research and offers a multi-layered ethnography of US theatre. This book is also insightful for theatre practitioners and could be used for teaching undergraduates." -- Cassis Kilian * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Overture 1 Entr'acte 1. Racial Affect and Affective Violence 17 Act I. Mise-en-Scène 1. Theoretical Scaffolding, Formal Architecture 25 2. Racialized Economies 56 Entr'acte 2. Acting and Embodiment 93 Act II. Creative Labor 3. (En)Acting Theory 97 4. The Drama behind the Drama 130 5. Revising Race 167 Entre'acte 3. The Structure of the Theater Company 205 Act III. Reparative Creativity 6. Playwriting as Reparative Creativity 209 7. Seamless, A Full-Length Play 237 Notes 311 Works Cited 325 Index 349
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Duke University Press The Global South
Book SynopsisThis special issue of Radical History Review offers a range of perspectives on the intellectual formation of the global South. Spanning time periods and objects of study across the global South, the essays develop new theoretical frameworks for thinking about geography, inequality, and subjectivity. Contributors investigate the construction of gender and racial formation in the global South and also explore what is politically and theoretically at stake in considering under-studied places like Guyana, or peripheries like Melanesia. One essay considers how encounters between spaces in the global South, specifically between Lebanon and West Africa, help to refocus attention from the preoccupations of northern nations with their former colonies to the frictions of decolonization. Several articles focus on the role of popular culture in regard to the geopolitical formation of the global South, with topics ranging from film to music to the career of Muhammad Ali. Contributors: Afro-Asian
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Duke University Press Art for Peoples Sake
Book SynopsisRebecca Zorach traces the little-told story of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, showing how its artistic innovations, institution building, and community engagement helped the residents of Chicago's South and West Sides respond to social, political, and economic marginalization.Trade Review"Both fresh and refreshing, Zorach's book on the Black Arts Movement (BAM) in Chicago engages from the very first paragraph and fires on all cylinders—looking at the subject not only from inside the BAM but also in terms of how it challenged traditional art history. . . . Highly recommended. All readers." -- K. P. Buick * Choice *"Using interviews, archival collections, poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks, historic census data, and other documentation, Zorach provides a detailed story of the artists, residents, and educators who worked together to transform Chicago communities struggling with the spatial constraints of systematic racism. . . . This would serve well as a resource on the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, community mural history, and African American art history. It is highly recommended for all libraries." -- Stacy R. Williams * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"Zorach makes a rich contribution to the field of art history that has largely ignored the Black Arts Movement. . . . rt for People’s Sake should be required reading for artists, non-profit organizations, community organizers, and scholars interested in social movements, education, and art history." -- Tracey Johnson * Black Perspectives *"[A] clearly written, engaging study." -- Miguel de Baca * Art History *"With Art for People’s Sake, Rebecca Zorach makes a valuable intervention in art historical discourse. Zorach emphasizes the importance of the Black Arts Movement for better understanding artistic engagement with site-specificity, social practice, and performance art." -- Benjamin Jones * CAA Reviews *"Thoughtfully argued and beautifully written and illustrated, this book will be a vital resource for scholars and students of visual culture, art history, urban history, and communication studies interested in the dynamics of race, collaboration, imagination, and politics. Many of its images (of which there are an astonishing number) are vital to understanding Chicago, the Black Arts Movement, and their dynamic relationship to place, politics, and culture." -- Caitlin Frances Bruce * Winterthur Portfolio *“In this superb addition to scholarship on the Black Arts Movement, Rebecca Zorach captures luminously how black visual artists of the late 1960s and early 1970s strove to situate themselves and their artworks.” -- Daniel Matlin * Journal of American Studies *"Art for People's Sake is an important addition to the new scholarship on radical Black Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . One gets a vital portrait of Black Arts in arguably the most enduring and influential center of the movement." -- James Smethurst * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Black Arts Movement in Chicago 1 1. Claiming Space, Being in Public 30 2. Cultural Nationalism and Community Culture 85 3. An Experimental Friendship 124 4. The Black Family 179 5. Until the Walls Come Down 215 6. Starring the Black Community 257 Notes 299 Bibliography 349 Index 375
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Duke University Press Mobile Subjects
Book SynopsisThe first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren Z. Aizura examines transgender narratives within global health and tourism economies from 1952 to the present. Drawing on an archive of trans memoirs and documentaries as well as ethnographic fieldwork with trans people obtaining gender reassignment surgery in Thailand, Aizura maps the uneven use of medical protocols to show how national and regional health care systems and labor economies contribute to and limit transnational mobility. Aizura positions transgender travel as a form of biomedical tourism, examining how understandings of race, gender, and aesthetics shape global cosmetic surgery cultures and how economic and racially stratified marketing and care work create the idTrade Review"Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- N. B. Rosenthal * Choice *"Destabilizing formulaic transnational mobility stories that rely on an epic departure-and-return script, Aizura offers a powerful challenge to consider the wild movements of minor mobilities and the potentiality of staying in place." -- Emmanuel David * TSQ *"[This] book evokes a pondering of how Transgender Studies as a field will move itself forward. Aizura’s own urging to give a voice to transgender people who straddle the margins of privileged trans-normativity reiterates the field’s mission of breaking new paths for inclusivity, intersectionality, and independence from myopic visions of what being transgender means today." -- Muriel Vernon * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Mobile Subjects is intentional and thoughtful in its application of interdisciplinary research. . . . Through his multi-method and intersectional approach, Aizura brings forth a conversation that simultaneously accounts for the impact of gender, race, and class on seeking out and obtaining gender reassignment technologies, as well as the varying policies, practices, and vernacular inherent to transnational study." -- Jacob Barry * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *“Mobile Subjects provides new insights relevant and challenging for those interested in a range of topics and methodologies. This is a required read for our times...." -- Lars Olav Aaberg * newbooks.asia *“... [S]cholars in a wide range of fields will find this book useful.... Mobile Subjects exemplifies what can be done when trans studies is integrated with science, technology, and society studies, and more ‘traditional’ gender studies theories, such as queer theory, transnational feminisms, and Marxist theory.” -- K.S. Shindle * Catalyst *“Mobile Subjects is a complex, wide-ranging, and powerfully provocative exploration of how gender reassignment has been and continues to be shaped by physical and metaphorical tropes of movement....” -- Isaac Gagné * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Provincializing Trans 1 Part I 1. The Persistence of Trans Travel Narratives 29 2. On Location: Transsexual Autobiographies, Whiteness, and Travel 59 3. Documentary and the Metronormative Trans Migration Plot 03 Part II Interlude 135 4. Gender Reassignment and Transnational Entrepreneurialisms of the Self 137 5. The Romance of the Amazing Scalpel: Race, Labor, and Affect in Thai Gender Reassignment Clinics 174 Epilogue: Visions of Trans Worlding 207 Notes 221 Bibliography 245 Index 269
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