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Book SynopsisIn Insignificant Things Matthew Francis Rarey traces the history of the African-associated amulets that enslaved and other marginalized people carried as tools of survival in the Black Atlantic world from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Often considered visually benign by white Europeans, these amulet pouches, commonly known as “mandingas,” were used across Africa, Brazil, and Portugal and contained myriad objects, from herbs and Islamic prayers to shells and coins. Drawing on Arabic-language narratives from the West African Sahel, the archives of the Portuguese Inquisition, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European travel and merchant accounts of the West African Coast, and early nineteenth-century Brazilian police records, Rarey shows how mandingas functioned as portable archives of their makers’ experiences of enslavement, displacement, and diaspora. He presents them as examples of the visual culture of enslavement and critical to conceptualizTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Significance, Survival, and Silence 1 1. Labels 31 2. Contents 72 3. Markings 124 4. Revolts 171 Epilogue 208 Notes 217 Works Cited 249 Index 275

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Book SynopsisJonathan Leal presents a new cultural history of jazz to show how the musical revolution of bebop proposed new futures for racialized and minoritized communities who grappled daily with state-sanctioned violence.Trade Review“With Dreams in Double Time, Jonathan Leal proves he has ‘something to say.’ I use this phrase in the prosaic sense that he contributes new understanding and opens fresh areas of inquiry, and in the sense associated with a jazz musician’s solo. Almost every page treats readers to surprising revelation and provocation, and the figures Leal focalizes his history through are compelling as subjects on their own. This book is a tremendous achievement, a gift to readers seeking cultural history and methodologically innovative work.” -- Anthony Reed, author of * Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production *“In this fascinating and compelling book, Jonathan Leal works against the grain of jazz criticism by focusing on three relatively unknown figures for whom bebop proposed new ways of being in the world. Leal’s ‘trio,’ as he calls them, offer readers a glimpse into a much larger population of marginalized, often poor people of color who heard bebop as a radical, creative challenge to the totalizing singularity of what ‘white’ stood for during the second half of the twentieth century.” -- Ronald Radano, coeditor of * Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique *"Deftly drawing together the major trends in recent jazz scholarship, Leal makes an important intervention. . . . By explicitly focusing on minor figures, putting them in relationship to one another, Leal draws attention to the other side of bebop musicking: its emphasis on collaboration and conversation. . . . In the words of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” a story to which Leal returns several times, Dreams in Double Time keeps both bebop and jazz writing 'new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness, and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen.'" -- Sam V. H. Reese * Los Angeles Review of Books *"If you’re interested in the relationship between jazz, sociology, racism and history, this book (a product of feeling as well as hard work) could prove highly rewarding." -- Graham Colombé * Jazz Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Dreaming Otherwise 1 1. After-Hours 25 2. Layered Time 46 3. Quartered Notes 74 4. Among Others 114 Epilogue. Affinities 152 Notes 161 Bibliography 207 Index 227

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Book SynopsisSara Safransky explores how Detroit's recent classification of over one-third of the city's land as vacant or abandoned represents conflicting and complex understandings of property, foregrounding how the making ofand challenges tomodern property regimes have shaped urban policy and politics.Trade Review“By asking ‘What comes after property?’ Sara Safransky opens up a captivating and incisive mix of political economy and urban geography to think with and against dominant discourses on Detroit’s decline. The result is a refreshing take on the entanglements of property, race, and urban politics that adeptly weaves ethnographic and archival research with political theory and global struggles for freedom into a rich analysis that makes The City after Property essential reading for scholars of racial capitalism and urban change.” -- Kate Derickson, Associate Professor of Geography, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue xv 1. Unbuilding a City 3 2. On Our Own Ground 23 3. Stealing Home 57 4. White Picket Fences 85 5. Accounting for Unpayable Debt 103 6. Conjuring Terra Nullius 123 7. Political Ecologies of Austerity 149 8. The Garden Is a Weapon in the War 169 Epilogue. Reconstructing the World 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 259 Index 291

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Book SynopsisIn Black, Quare, and Then to Where jennifer susanne leath explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with Maât the ancient Egyptian deity of justice and truth. Maât took into account the historical and cultural context of each human’s life, thus encompassing nuances of politics, race, gender, and sexuality. Arguing that Maât should serve as a foundation for reconfiguring Black sexual ethics, leath applies ancient Egyptian moral codes to quare ethics of the erotic, expanding what relationships and democratic practices might look like from a contemporary Maâtian perspective. She also draws on Pan-Africanism and examines the work of Alice Walker, E. Patrick Johnson, Cheikh Anta Diop, Sylvia Wynter, Sun Ra, and others. She shows that together these thinkers and traditions inform and expand the possibilities of Maâtian justice with respect to Black sexual experiences. AsTrade Review“Shaped by a quare-womanist-vindicationist lens, jennifer susanne leath gives us a vision of justice—both old and new—centered in a deep, complex, and genre-shattering Black sexual ethics that is seething with justices that affirm our being and personhood. This exciting must-read offers us a new and more inclusive vision of a future for all.” -- Emilie M. Townes, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University“Carving out a new pathway for grappling with the Du Boisian Negro problem and the perennial crisis of American democracy, Black, Quare, and Then to Where offers a creative, compelling, and stunning exploration into how Pan-Africanism and Black nationalism lay the epistemic groundwork for building a new Black sexual ethics. I don’t know of any other womanists, feminists, or ethicists since Black Power who frame justice as broadly as jennifer susanne leath does in this powerful book.” -- Terrence L. Johnson, author of * We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Introducing Maât 1 Part I. quare-womanist-vidicationist movement 1. A Prolegomenon to Justice Hermeneutics and Black Sexual Ethics 17 2. Naming (and Transforming) Justice: (Re)Imagining Black Sexual Ethics 35 Part II. justices 3. Flying Justice: Sun Ra’s Sexuality and Other Afrofutures 71 4. Heterexpectations: Jumping the Broom, Marriage, Democracy, and Entanglement Theory 101 5. Dancing Justice: Just Black HomoSexualities 137 6. Ancient Mixologies: Joel Augustus Rogers and Puzzling Interracial Intimacies 167 7. Black Web: Disrupting Transnational Pornographies for Post(trans)national Humanalities 205 Conclusion. Re-covering Maât 245 Notes 255 Bibliography 293 Index 313

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated.Trade Review“This volume takes on the monumental task of pulling together scholarship from different geographic areas, time periods, and disciplines to put forth a view on the current state of Black Geographies while gesturing toward new futures. Pushing the field, The Black Geographic is a defining text.” -- Ashanté M. Reese, author of * Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. *“The Black Geographic will continue to extend and push the tradition of Black Geographies in fresh, insightful, and important new ways through the insights of the newest generation of scholars who are defining and redefining the terrain of these discussions and debates. A superb collection.” -- Nik Heynen, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction. Black Geographies: Material Praxis of Black Life and Study / Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis 1 Part I. Praxis 1. Call Us Alive Someplace: Du Boisian Methods and Living Black Geographies / Danielle Purifoy 27 2. Shaking the Basemap / Judith Madera 50 3. “My Bad Attitude toward the Pastoral”: Race, Place, and Allusion in the Poetry of C. S. Giscombe / Chiyuma Elliott 72 Part II. Resistances 4. Blackness Out of Place and In Between in the Sahara / Ampson Hagan 97 5. Words Re(en)visioned: Black and Indigenous Languages for Autonomy / Diana Negrin 124 6. Blackness in the (Post)Colonial African City / Jordanna Matlon 145 7. Mariella Franco and Black Spatial Imaginaries / Solange Munoz 167 Part III. Futurity 8. Rendering Gentrification and Erasing Race: Sustainable Development and the (Re)visioning of Oakland, California, as a Green City / C. N. E. Corbin 189 9. “Need Black Joy?”: Mapping an Afrotechtonics of Gathering in Los Angeles / Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta 213 10. The San Francisco Blues / Lindsey Dillon 246 11. Today Like Yesterday, Tomorrow Like Today: Black Geographies in the Breaks of the Fourth Dimension / Anna Livia Brand 264 12. A Black Geographic Reverie & Reckoning in Ink and Form / Sharita Towne 287 Contributors 323 Index 327

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Book SynopsisWhile James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major role his studio played for decades photographing ordinary people and events in the Harlem community to the inclusion of his photographs in the landmark Harlem on My Mind exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, Van Der Zee was a foundational Black photographer whose work illustrates the shifting ways photography serves as a constitutive force within Black life. In A Nimble Arc, Emilie Boone considers Van Der Zee's photographic work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and in the larger African diaspora. Boone argues that Van Der Zee's work exists at the crossroads of art and the vernacular, challenging the distinction between canonical art photographs and the kind of output common to commercial photography studios. Boone's account recasts our understanding not only of this celebrated figure but of photography within the arc of quotidian Black life.Trade Review“In her innovative and timely revisiting of the work of America’s most iconic Black photographer, James Van Der Zee, Emilie Boone reinvigorates the practice of this singular artist through a careful and considered unpacking of the social function his images served as quotidian objects. A Nimble Arc takes readers on a captivating journey into the social life of Van Der Zee’s photographs in ways that allow us to see iconic images anew and recognize the enduring value of photography as a community-building project that exceeds the intentions and aspirations of any individual photographer.” -- Tina M. Campt, author of * A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See *“This is a truly exceptional work. Exquisitely written, researched, and argued, A Nimble Arc is the most comprehensive study of James Van Der Zee’s practice in almost thirty years. I predict a long and fruitful life for this book.” -- Kellie Jones, author of * South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s *"A Nimble Arc broadens James Van Der Zee’s legacy amid a savvied history of twentieth-century Harlem." -- Meg Nola * Foreword Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. To Pivot Lightly: Adding the Vernacular to Art History’s Sight Line 1 1. “More, Many More”: Van Der Zee’s World of Harlem Renaissance Studio Photographers 29 2. The Newspaper and Ubiquity: 1924 Photographs as Moving Objects of the African Diaspora 71 3. A Reframing of Value: Van Der Zee’s Restoration Work of the 1940s and Beyond 113 4. Black Quotidian Experiences: Revisiting the Met’s Harlem on My Mind Exhibition of 1969 153 Coda. To Nimbly Rewind: Fixing a New Constellation of Ideas circa 1994 199 Notes 213 Bibliography 241 Index 259

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Book SynopsisIn Nimrods, Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professor (and overtired father) hired to teach in a Social Justice Institute while haunted by the inner ghosts of patriarchy, racial pessimism, and imperial arrogance. Charged with the “personal is political” mandate of feminist critique, Guillermo honestly and powerfully recounts his wayward path, from being raised by two preachers’ kids in a chaotic mixed-race family to his uncle’s death from HIV-related illness, which helped prompt his parents'' divorce and his mother’s move to Las Vegas, to his many attempts to flee from American gender, racial, and religious norms by immigrating to South Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Canada. Through an often crass, cringey, and raw hybrid prose-poetic style, Guillermo reflects on anger, alcoholism, and suicidal ideation—traits that do not simply vanish after one is cast into the treacherous role of fatherhood or the Trade Review“Punchy prose alternating with incantatory poems, and sometimes melding into a haibun, Kawika Guillermo’s Nimrods magnifies perspectives on the father-son relationship and mixed race and ups the bar for the memoir genre. Irreverent, edgy, and—the only kind worth reading—brutally honest.” -- R. Zamora Linmark, author of * The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart *“Lucid about the contradictions, Nimrods is incandescent in its rage, grief, and beauty. This is the poetry-story-theory we need to survive our battered and entangled inheritances and find our way into another time, unsettled but livable.” -- Larissa Lai, author of * Iron Goddess of Mercy *"In this raw mix of poetry and prose, Guillermo chronicles his early life and experiences in academia as a bisexual, mixed-race man. . . . An affecting, unmistakable narrative: one in which Guillermo catalogs his difficulties, considers their effects, . . . and learns to find hope anyway. Though not for the faint of heart, this chaotic, fascinating self-portrait lingers." * Publishers Weekly *"With stylistic techniques ranging from biblical verse to punk lyric, Guillermo paints an empathetic, yet resentful picture.” -- Julian Forst * The Ubyssey *"As the story of one man’s life, Nimrods is worthwhile due to its unconventional approach as well as Guillermo’s honesty, creativity, emotional maturity, and overall skill as a writer. As something even bigger, it is an effective meditation on the power of perseverance and the possibility of reconciliation between the people we once knew and the people that we are now." -- Logan Macnair * The British Columbia Review *"A dizzying blend of 'auto theory, queer punk poetry, musical ekphrasis, haibun,' and believe it or not, 'bad Dad jokes,' it is never boring" -- Gregg Shapiro * Out South Florida *Table of ContentsIn Vocation 1 Strophe: Ode to Patriarchy Nice Guys Read This Last 5 Get In the Car 15 OMG I'm Turning White Like My Dad 25 Repugnant 35 Scat 45 Doing Time 55 Dead Ends 65 I Hope You 85 Antistrophe: Holy Hai Bun Suicide's Last Call 89 The Last Ride 100 Binge 114 All Our Yellow Fevers 126 A Psalm of My Mother, Who, After Five Years Divorced, Returns to Portland 141 To Hell and Back to Hell Again 148 Long Gone Daddy 161 Epode: Three / Cord \ Digression Sissy / Sister \ Cis 181 Re / Con \ Sile 193 Me / More \ Ire 205 Envoi 219 Bibliography 225

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Book SynopsisNessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice within hostile gynecological spaces.Trade Review“An original and necessary work, Unseen Flesh opens an important critical window on well-being and gynecological health in Brazil, which are colored and conditioned by race/color, class, and sexual identity. Nessette Falu’s focus on Black Brazilian lesbians is historic and significant in itself—the result of her long-term, invested, and loving encounters with people who had been silenced.” -- Jafari S. Allen, author of * There’s a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bearing Witness to Unseen Flesh 1 1. The Virgin Who Lives within Her Erotic Worth 21 2. Unseen Flesh: Gynecological Trauma, Emotional Power, and Intimate Sociomedical Violence 51 Interlude One: Angela 77 3. The Social Clinic: Mapping the Social and Colonial World of Gynecology 79 Interlude Two: It Doesn’t Matter 111 4. Are We Ethical Subjects? Seeing Ourselves in Shapeshifting Ethics 113 5. Bem-Estar Negra: Lésbicas Negras’ Beautiful Experiments of Worth 141 Notes 169 References 179 Index 195

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Book SynopsisExamining the work of Black Enlightenment authors, Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject.Trade Review“Black Enlightenment does not excuse or accuse a monolithized ‘West,’ but rather shows how European theory could not acknowledge its transformation by Africa rising. Unusual and meticulous documentation, brilliant textual readings. Highly relevant to our annihilation of white supremacy.” -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of * A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present *“Offering careful and close readings of key texts written by eighteenth-century Black thinkers, Surya Parekh decenters Kant and Hume from the Enlightenment to emphasize questions around enslavement, freedom, and subjecthood. This strong and important book will touch and inform many fields in current scholarship around the Black Atlantic and the intellectual history of the Enlightenment and beyond.” -- Laurent Dubois, coauthor of * Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Black Enlightenment 23 2. (Dis)Figuring Kant 50 3. The Changing Rhetoric of Race 74 4. The Character of Ignatius Sancho 106 5. Phillis Wheatley’s Providence 131 Notes 153 Bibliography 177 Index 195

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Book SynopsisFUTURE/PRESENT brings together a vast collection of writers, artists, activists, and academics working at the forefront of today’s most pressing struggles for cultural equity and racial justice in a demographically changing America. The volume builds upon five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change. FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, poetry, and reflections on community practice. Throughout, contributors examine issues of placekeeping and belonging, migration and diasporas, the carceral state, renegotiating relationships with land, ancestral knowledge as radical futurity, and shifting paradigms of inequity. Foregrounding the powerful resilience of communities of color, FUTURE/PRESETrade Review“FUTURE/PRESENT is an essential testament to the crucial work that artists, thinkers, and organizers are doing to work toward a more equitable future.” -- Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation“FUTURE/PRESENT so elegantly proposes a clear solution to a complex issue: to resist the monoculture we must work from many interconnected creative centers. The myriad voices in this book express exciting ripples of change in the arts and beautifully insist on culture’s vital role in progress. May we all take the call.” -- Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem“FUTURE/PRESENT maps and captures how art, dance, and creative practice exist in our daily lives and act as mechanisms for anticolonial and antiracist practice. By lifting up the voices of artists and outlining the methods that can produce more inclusive spaces in the art world, this important book demonstrates how art is a constant source of strength for communities.” -- Mishuana Goeman, author of * Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Roberta Uno 1 The Call / Jeff Chang 17 vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) / taisha paggett 29 Part 1. Cultural Presence: Placekeeping and Belonging Introduction / Daniela Alvarez 35 Aqui Estoy / Jose Ramirez 40 Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance / Patricia Berne & Nomy Lamm 42 An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded / Kiyan Williams 52 Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music / Talon Bazille Ducheneaux 54 Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans / Carol Bebelle and Carol Zou 63 Collectively Directing the Current / Halima Afi Cassells 68 The New Eagle Creek Saloon / Sadie Barnette 74 Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the “Creative City” Gone Wrong—An Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012–2016 / Guillermo Gómez-Peña 76 “Building Temples for Tomorrow”: Cultural Workers as Construction Crews / Alesia Montgomery 87 Invasive Species / Aaron McIntosh 94 Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo / Scott Oshima 96 Local Fruit Still Life / Daniel Andres Alcazar 102 Stage One: Establishing Community / Garrett McQueen 104 Red 40 / Jazmín Urrea 108 More Noes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguinte/the turns of the Next / Devin Kenny 110 Part 2. Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and Diasporas Introduction / Sarah Sophia Yanni 123 Mano Poderosa / Rosalie López 128 A Cosmos of Dis/Joints / Vinhay Keo 130 Cross-Border Citizens / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman 136 Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing / Pamela J. Peters 146 Vessels: A Conversation / Chanice Holmes, Mykia Jovan, Rebecca Mwase, and Mahalia Abéo Tibbs 151 Fence / Belise Nishimwe 158 A Touch of Otherness / Hayv Kahraman 160 Harmattan Haze / Njikeka Akunyili Crosby 166 Who Is the #EmergingUS? / Jose Antonio Vargas 168 Justice and Equity: We’re Coming for It All / Christine Her 171 building bricks for communal healing / Silvi Naçi 176 We Never Needed Documents to Thrive / Yosimar Reyes 178 prop•er / Kassandra L. Khalil 182 Alongside: On Chinese Students in the United States and the Fight for Black Lives / Evelyn Hang Yin 185 Love Spirals: Notes on Brown Feelings / J Molina-Garcia 191 Part 3. Creating a World without Prisons: Culture and the Carceral State Introduction / Kassandra L. Khalil 205 To Create in Prison / Spel 211 A Measure of Joy / Samara Gaev and Jarvis Jay Masters 214 There Is No Abolition or Liberation without Disability Justice / Lydia X. Z. Brown 224 HOGAR / Aydinaneth Ortiz 230 I Remember / Mark Menjívar 232 Coming Home / Dustina Gill 237 Singing Our Way to Abolition / Mary Hooks 241 Standing in the Gap: Music as First Responder / Duane Robert Garcia and Vijay Gupta 245 Locked in a Dark Calm / Tameca Cole 250 As Crazy as the World Is, I Do Believe / Kondani Fidel with images by Devin Allen 252 Jumpsuit Projects / Sherrill Roland 260 The Bonds of Aloha: Connecting to Culture Can Free Us / Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kula 262 The Nail That Sticks Out / Tani Ikeda 268 Art Is a Trojan Horse: Reclaiming Our Narratives / Faith Bartley, Courtney Bowles, and Mark Strandquist 272 Try/Step/Trip (Excerpt) / Dahlak Brathwaite 281 The Evanesced Series (2016–) / Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle 290 Part 4. Embodied Cartographies: Renegotiating Relationships with Land Introduction / Elizabeth M. Webb 295 Kiksuya / Michael Two Bulls 300 American Doesn’t Exist / Lyla June 302 Between the Real and the Imagined: A Conversation with Lyla June and Tanaya Winder / Lyla June and Tanaya Winder 304 Sopa de Ostión / Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya 310 Island Earth: Water, Wayfinding, and the Currents That Connect Us / Nāʻāleu Anthony and Haunani Kane 312 ACCESS DENIED: Creating New Spatial Understandings / Jaklin Romine 321 Essential Economy / Jia Lok Pratt 326 Earth Mama II / Favianna Rodriguez 332 We Are Proud of This Land / Carlton Turner 334 Mauka House / Kapena Alapaʻi 340 Withholding an Image: Disciplinary Disobedience and Reciprocity in the Field / Ashley Hunt 343 Thinking through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum / Dareen Hussein 354 Secrets That the Wind Carries Away / Morel Doucet 359 Ohiŋniyaŋ ded wati kte: This Place Will Always Be Home / Angela Two Stars 364 Ballers / Mel D. Cole 368 Part 5. Living Our Legacy: Ancestral Knowledge as Radical Futurity Introduction / Kapena Alapaʻi 373 These Roots Run Deep / Dyani White Hawk 378 The Future Is Ancient / Allison Akootchook Warden 380 Being in Oneness: Conversations with Nobuko Miyamoto, Kamau Ayubbi, and Asiya Ayubbi / Nobuko Miyamoto, Asiya Amatullah Ayubbi, and Imam Kamau Ayubbi 384 1619 / Douglas Kearney 396 Encircling the Circle: Blood Memory and Making the Village—a Conversation between Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson / Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson 400 Culture and Tradition: A Monument to Our Resilience / Ofelia Esparza 408 Español / Yanina Chicas 410 Apsáalooke Feminist #4 / Wendy Red Star 412 Mother’s Words and Grandmother’s Thoughts: Living the Right Way (a Conversation) / Maribel Alvarez and Ofelia Zepeda 414 The AIM Song / Elisa Harkins 421 Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Reflections of Futurity / Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine 426 For Paradise / Elizabeth M. Webb 430 What Is the New Basket That We’re Going to Weave? / Lori Lea Pourier 436 I ka wā ma mua, i ka wā ma hope: Ōiwi Orientations toward a Radical Futurity / Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio 442 The Art of Peer Pressure: Black Fire UVA! / Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold 450 Part 6. Currents Beyond: Artists Shifting Paradigms of Inequity Introduction / Genevieve Fowler 461 Bang Bang / Natalie Ball 466 The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice / Michele Kumi Baer, Jeff Chang, María López De León, Tara Dorabji, Kassandra L. Khalil, Lori Pourier, Favianna Rodriguez, Nayantara Sen, Carlton Turner, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth M. Webb 468 We Begin by Listening / Jeanette Lee 475 EMERGENYC: An Artistic Home for Emerging Artists / Marlène Ramírez-Cancio 482 Listening through Dance / Antoine Hunter 491 Scenes and Takes / Carrie Mae Weems 495 Feminist Coalition and Queer Movements across Time: A Conversation between Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid / Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid 504 What Would Upski Think? / Devin Kenny 516 all organizing is science fiction / adrienne maree brown 519 Rebirth Garments / Sky Cubacub 522 A Call to Action / Eleanor Savage 524 SOVEREIGN / X 538 Flexing Hope Is a Practice / Ananya Chatterjea 540 Azadi / Arshia Fatima Haq 546 Afterword / Daniela Alvarez and Elizabeth M. Webb 549 emergence / Sarah Sophia Yanni 551 Acknowledgments 553

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Book SynopsisAlexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music’s continued relevance for Black life since the late 1970s, showing how it remains a thriving venue for the continued expression of Black thought and life and a primary archive of the contemporary moment.Trade Review“This cutting-edge book demonstrates the work of a thinker who has devoted a great deal of research and care to the study of the sonic, historiographic, and aesthetic consequences of Blackness. Alexander Ghedi Weheliye’s concentration on the rich concurrences of Blackness and R&B is a true blessing. Deftly mapping out new avenues of critical pursuit devoted to the art of Blackness, Feenin is a stunning work.” -- Michael Boyce Gillespie, author of * Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film *“Feenin is less a collection of essays and more a playlist of Alexander Ghedi Weheliye’s greatest hits. It assembles a series of captivating essays that register the complex sonic frequencies of Black life with resounding effect. The ‘tracks’ gathered here demonstrate the force of Weheliye’s incisive theorizing and its profound contribution to sounding the rhythm, vibes, and groove of Black studies in the ‘forceful fullness of the Now.’” -- Tina M. Campt, Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsTrack 0.0 Good Days: R&B Music and Critical Fabulation in the Frequencies of Now 1 Track 1.0 Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness / A Response to Tavia Nyong’o 23 Track 2.0 “Feenin": Posthuman Voices in R&B Music 37 Track 3.0 Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies 75 Interlude 1. Calling My Phone 98 Track 4.0 My Volk to Come: Specters of Peoplehood in Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music 100 Track 5.0 “White Brothers with No Soul": UnTuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno / Interview with Annie Goh 121 Interlude 2. Don't Take It Away 135 Track 6.0 New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s and David Bowie’s Transatlantic Crossovers 140 Interlude 3. #BeyondDeepBrandyAlbumCuts 153 Track 7.0 “Sounding That Precarious Existence": On R&B Music, Technology, and Blackness / An Interview with Nehal El-Hadi 158 Track 8.0 “Scream My Name Like a Protest": R&B Music as BlackFem Technology of Humanity in the Age of #Blacklivesmatter 178 Interlude 4. Songify Your Life 198 Track 9.0 808s and Heartbreak / Alexander Ghedi Weheliye and Katherine McKittrick 201 Track 10.0 Wayward Shuddering, Beautiful Tremors (AGW's Quiet Storm Remix) 237 Sources 245 Index 275

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Book SynopsisJulie Avril Minich examines Latinx artistic engagements with health politics to present alternate visions of health and wellbeing among the Latinx community.Trade Review“Radical Health is a necessary and timely intervention in the fields of critical race and disability studies. Julie Avril Minich challenges us to nuance our approaches to health as a structural and social issue. This book is immensely valuable to anyone studying health in the United States today, especially in the wake of the mass disablement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” -- Sami Schalk, author of * Black Disability Politics *“By drawing attention to the racialized, economic, and gendered forms of violence imposed on Latinx communities by the US healthcare system, Radical Health will alter the way that both Latinx studies and disability studies are practiced. I cannot stress how important this book is. Its urgency and timeliness makes it essential reading for everyone committed to the struggle for health justice.” -- Richard T. Rodríguez, author of * A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Radical Health/Radical Unwellness 1 1. Unprotected Texts: Queer Latinx Expression in the Aftermath of AIDS 24 2. Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetic Latinidades 52 3. Healing Without a Cure: Radical Health and Racialized Gender Violence 82 4. Mental Health and Migrant Justice: Family Separation and Reimagining Wellness 116 Remedio: The Navigator 150 Notes 167 References 187 Index 207

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Book SynopsisAnthony Pinn examines how hip hop artists challenge white supremacist definitions of Blackness by challenging white distinctions between life and death.Trade Review“Not since Orlando Patterson’s magisterial exploration of social death have we had as monumental an engagement with the ideas of life, death, and Blackness as Anthony Pinn delivers in his groundbreaking book Deathlife. Pinn uses hip hop’s struggles between life and death, and with life as death, to illumine both the white quest for immortality through slaying Blackness, and the Black hunger for meaning by staring nothingness in the eye. Deathlife captures the way that Blackness and being, and Blackness and nonbeing, have had no useful distinction in the lexicon of white supremacy, while brilliantly arguing for a rationale of Black existence that sees no value in separating life from death. A transcendent work of astonishing originality.” -- Michael Eric Dyson“Anthony B. Pinn shows how Black critical theory’s focus on the antagonism between the human and Blackness can be heard in hip hop and popular culture. His concept of deathlife—the merging together of death and life—underscores how the sphere of the (white) human relies on the fantasy of cordoning off life from death. Whiteness, Pinn argues, needs Black deathlife in order to understand life and death.” -- Joseph R. Winters, author of * Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Paradigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife 1 Part I. Signifying Deathlife 1. The Orphic Hustler 45 2. The Anithero 73 Part II. Consuming Deathlife 3. Bacchic Intent 97 4. Zombic Hunger 125 Epilogue. Two Types of Melancholia 149 Notes 165 Discography 201 Bibliography 207 Index 223

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Book SynopsisIn Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for freedom as they appear in the work of artists as varied as Toni Morrison, Yvonne Vera, Aimé Césaire, and Issa Samb. “Fugitive time” names a distinct utopian desire directed at the anticipated moment when the body and mind have been unburdened of the violence that has consumed black life globally for centuries, bringing with it a new form of being. Omelsky shows how fugitive time is not about attaining this transcendent release but is instead about sustaining the idea of it as an ecstatic social gathering. From the desire for ethereal queer worlds in the Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City to Sun Ra’s transformation of nineteenth-century scientific racism into an insurgent fugitiTrade Review“Fugitive Time represents the strength of diasporic thinking around a range of black aesthetic production that disrupts the Afro-pessimist/Afro-optimist binary through visions and understanding of time beyond the historical. By positing black aesthetics as the site of black theory and political thought, Matthew Omelsky demonstrates that alternate temporalities are the key to understanding blackness, embodied experience, aesthetics, and history.” -- Samantha Pinto, author of * Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights *“Bold and nimble, Fugitive Time follows the fugitive dreams and utopian urges that animate our black radical tradition. This pursuit brings Matthew Omelsky across a sprawling archive of fiction, photography, painting, poetry, plastic arts, music, cinema, and the quotidian—spanning the United States, Martinique, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Britain, Saturn, and uncharted worlds to come. In the process, this book builds its own mighty momentum that will move readers to vivid revelations about the space-times of black life. Full of beauty and urgency, Fugitive Time is a remarkable contribution to the study and cultivation of black radical imagination.” -- La Marr Jurelle Bruce, author of * How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Black Beyondness 1 1. Toni Morrison’s Anachronic Ease 33 2. Aimé Césaire, Wifredo Lam, and the Aesthetics of Surging Life 62 3. Black Audio’s Archival Flight 99 4. Sun Ra, Issa Samb, and the Drapetomaniacal Avant-Garde 132 5. Yvonne Vera, NoViolet Bulawayo, and the Imminence of Dreaming Air 172 Coda. Fugitive Ether 205 Notes 209 Bibliography 239 Index 259

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Book SynopsisI. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, popular music, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment.Trade Review“What haunts and inspires black creativity in an antiblack world? In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham offers a gendered vernacular psychoanalytic reading of this question, which is to say that he offers a lush blues of genius’s complicated sustenance and insistence. And right there in this blues is the centrality of black femaleness—the maternal—that dapples the engagement with the object that is and is not lost. This richly researched book showcases genius as a notion traced through its motherline and, as such, Durham’s brilliance is a stay in every sense of the word: a hold, a refusal, a plea, and an inhabitance, a longing in which one can linger.” -- Kevin Quashie, author of * Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being *“I. Augustus Durham adds a fundamentally new and truly insightful spin to studies in blackness and melancholy. Bringing melancholy into the realm of nonromanticized genius, he moves seamlessly between the study of literature and the study of music. His analysis of music videos also makes his approach to black melancholy and genius a deep study of affect that refuses any boundaries between the literary, the sonic, and the visual. I am certain that Durham’s theorization of melancholic genius will become a portable, widely cited idea.” -- Margo Natalie Crawford, author of * Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *Table of ContentsFigures viii Echo | I xi Thank | You; or, Acknowledgments xix Color | Blackness 1 Read | Frederick 39 Travel | Ralph 79 Man | Marvin 117 Woman | Gan 151 Love | Kendrick 179 Study | Us 213 Notes 225 Bibliography 273 Index 309

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Book SynopsisCeline Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.Trade Review“The relative absence of Asian Americans on the silver screen makes their representation something we cannot not want. In this profound and personal meditation, Celine Parreñas Shimizu cautions us not to assume that representation and belonging go hand in hand. Instead, she analyzes depictions of childhood in Asian American cinema as occasions for working through the psychic traumas that overdetermine our social attachments from the very moment we are born into a world of racial loss and grief.” -- David L. Eng, coauthor of * Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans *“The Movies of Racial Childhoods is like nothing I have ever read. It is a document of a mother grieving, a film scholar theorizing the healing work of narrative cinema, and a filmmaker who understands that ‘trauma demands representation so as to create new realities.’ Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s writing about the death of her child and her devotion to film is both tender and revelatory. Interweaving psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, trauma theory, cinema studies, and personal narrative, Shimizu cultivates space for us to collectively grieve and to reawaken the possibilities of childhood dreaming.” -- Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of * Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration *Table of ContentsPreface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories 1 1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace 41 2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways 81 3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 117 4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose 151 5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It 186 In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death 208 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 233

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Book SynopsisIn An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250 years of Black displacement, enslavement, death, and chronic war. Niehuus argues that in a context in which violence characterizes everyday life, Congolese have developed innovative and imaginative ways to live amid and mend from repetitive harm. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and the Black critical theory of Achille Mbembe, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and others, Niehuus explores the renegotiation of relationships with land as a form of public healing, the affective experience of living in insecurity, the hospital as a site for the socialization of pain, the possibility of necropolitical healing, and the uses of prophesy to create collective futures. By considering the radical nature of cohabitating with violence, Niehuus demonstrates that Congolese practices of healing imTrade Review“This ethnography of violence and repair, hospitals and therapeutics, is set in eastern Congo’s still warlike Kivu region. It is mediated by the astute eyes and sensibilities of the very talented American anthropologist and surgeon, Rachel Marie Niehuus. Her focus on the intimate, the clinical, and the traumatic, with her pressing arguments about repair, stands to transform how anthropologists and conflict studies scholars approach medical practice, violence, enmity, and injury in Congo and well beyond. Awash with original contributions to studies of violence, humanitarianism, and the affective, this moving book tells some crucial regional histories while it investigates lively strands about hope and possible futures.” -- Nancy Rose Hunt, author of * A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo *“In this outstanding work of storytelling and ethnography, Rachel Marie Niehuus delves deep into the harrowing realities of life in the war-torn landscape of eastern Congo. Beyond the hospital’s sterile walls, amid the constant specters of violence and death, Niehuus uncovers a resilient and profoundly human story of survival, repair, and healing. Vivid and eye-opening, An Archive of Possibilities is a poignant exploration of a people’s unwavering determination to create a future beyond the scars of their past. An immensely thought-provoking and illuminating book.” -- Laurence Ralph, author of * Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Where the Scars Are So Thick 1 1. Dirt Work 21 Interlude 1: A Timeline 45 2. A Sea of Insecurity 47 Interlude 2: Running 69 3. The Body, the Flesh, and the Hospital 73 Interlude 3: Where War Is (Always) Coming 95 4. When Life Demands Release 99 Interlude 4: Joy 121 5. “We Are Creating a World We Have Never Seen” 123 Interlude 5: Otherwise 143 Conclusion: Cohabitation 147 Notes 157 Bibliography 179 Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women's Health Project, Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present.Trade Review"With Sami Schalk’s incredible book, Black Disability Politics, we begin to move into a different kind of book doing intrinsically connected work—a rigorously researched look at all the ways that disabled people’s concerns have been foundational to Black resistance organizing. . . . If knowing your history is a key ingredient to success, Black Disability Politics presents a deeply researched and still incredibly readable map of the past, with implications for the shimmering future. This, along with what I can only describe as a muscular clarity in her writing, was incredible as a beginner to the topic to feel my understanding grow as I read, and that is only possible in the capable hands of a great writer like Schalk." -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra! *"Sami Schalk explores the histories and essential lessons of Black disabled labor, politics and movements. This is a long-overdue and essential volume." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *"Black Disability Politics is a profound exploration and documentation of a cultural topic that has gone overlooked throughout the entire history of the Black American experience. . . . A deeply important view of the fight for the rights of disabled Black people in America since the 1970s." -- Jordannah Elizabeth * New York Amsterdam News *"This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students because it invites continued exploration of Black disability studies and politics. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty." -- S. Burch * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Black Health Matters 1 1. “We Have a Right to Rebel”: Black Disability Politics in the Black Panther Party 23 2. Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The BPP and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions 48 Praxis Interlude One. Anti-ableist Approaches to Fighting Disabling Violence 69 3. Empowerment through Wellness: Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project 81 4. More Than Just Prevention: The NBWHP and the Black Disability of HIV/AIDS 110 Praxis Interlude Two. Approaches to Disability Identity in Black Disability Politics 129 5. Black Disability Politics Now 140 (Not a) Conclusion. The Present and Futures of Black Disability Politics 154 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 199

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Book SynopsisTopics covered include Chinese/Sinophone identity in the digital age; the challenges and opportunities of digital media, including the impact of censorship; decentralization versus the hegemonic exercise of cultural memory in China and beyond; cultural memory as imagined nostalgia in consumer culture; and the power of social media and popular culture in identity formation. Contributors Fangdai Chen, Yedong Chen, Tarryn Li-Min Chun, Rossella Ferrari, Chieh-ting Hsieh, Liang Luo, Michael O'Krent, Xiaofei Tian, Laura Vermeeren, David Der-wei Wang, Zhiyi Yang, Michelle Ye

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Book SynopsisIn this edgy and unconventional memoir, Kawika Guillermo reflects on being a newly minted professor, fatherhood, alcoholism, and suicidal ideation as well as his many attempts to flee from American gender, racial, and religious norms.Trade Review“Punchy prose alternating with incantatory poems, and sometimes melding into a haibun, Kawika Guillermo’s Nimrods magnifies perspectives on the father-son relationship and mixed race and ups the bar for the memoir genre. Irreverent, edgy, and—the only kind worth reading—brutally honest.” -- R. Zamora Linmark, author of * The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart *“Lucid about the contradictions, Nimrods is incandescent in its rage, grief, and beauty. This is the poetry-story-theory we need to survive our battered and entangled inheritances and find our way into another time, unsettled but livable.” -- Larissa Lai, author of * Iron Goddess of Mercy *"In this raw mix of poetry and prose, Guillermo chronicles his early life and experiences in academia as a bisexual, mixed-race man. . . . An affecting, unmistakable narrative: one in which Guillermo catalogs his difficulties, considers their effects, . . . and learns to find hope anyway. Though not for the faint of heart, this chaotic, fascinating self-portrait lingers." * Publishers Weekly *"With stylistic techniques ranging from biblical verse to punk lyric, Guillermo paints an empathetic, yet resentful picture.” -- Julian Forst * The Ubyssey *"As the story of one man’s life, Nimrods is worthwhile due to its unconventional approach as well as Guillermo’s honesty, creativity, emotional maturity, and overall skill as a writer. As something even bigger, it is an effective meditation on the power of perseverance and the possibility of reconciliation between the people we once knew and the people that we are now." -- Logan Macnair * The British Columbia Review *"A dizzying blend of 'auto theory, queer punk poetry, musical ekphrasis, haibun,' and believe it or not, 'bad Dad jokes,' it is never boring" -- Gregg Shapiro * Out South Florida *Table of ContentsIn Vocation 1 Strophe: Ode to Patriarchy Nice Guys Read This Last 5 Get In the Car 15 OMG I'm Turning White Like My Dad 25 Repugnant 35 Scat 45 Doing Time 55 Dead Ends 65 I Hope You 85 Antistrophe: Holy Hai Bun Suicide's Last Call 89 The Last Ride 100 Binge 114 All Our Yellow Fevers 126 A Psalm of My Mother, Who, After Five Years Divorced, Returns to Portland 141 To Hell and Back to Hell Again 148 Long Gone Daddy 161 Epode: Three / Cord \ Digression Sissy / Sister \ Cis 181 Re / Con \ Sile 193 Me / More \ Ire 205 Envoi 219 Bibliography 225

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Book SynopsisNessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice within hostile gynecological spaces.Trade Review“An original and necessary work, Unseen Flesh opens an important critical window on well-being and gynecological health in Brazil, which are colored and conditioned by race/color, class, and sexual identity. Nessette Falu’s focus on Black Brazilian lesbians is historic and significant in itself—the result of her long-term, invested, and loving encounters with people who had been silenced.” -- Jafari S. Allen, author of * There’s a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bearing Witness to Unseen Flesh 1 1. The Virgin Who Lives within Her Erotic Worth 21 2. Unseen Flesh: Gynecological Trauma, Emotional Power, and Intimate Sociomedical Violence 51 Interlude One: Angela 77 3. The Social Clinic: Mapping the Social and Colonial World of Gynecology 79 Interlude Two: It Doesn’t Matter 111 4. Are We Ethical Subjects? Seeing Ourselves in Shapeshifting Ethics 113 5. Bem-Estar Negra: Lésbicas Negras’ Beautiful Experiments of Worth 141 Notes 169 References 179 Index 195

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Book SynopsisAlexander Ghedi Weheliye traces R&B music's continued relevance for Black life since the late 1970s, showing how it remains a thriving venue for the continued expression of Black thought and life and a primary archive of the contemporary moment.Trade Review“This cutting-edge book demonstrates the work of a thinker who has devoted a great deal of research and care to the study of the sonic, historiographic, and aesthetic consequences of Blackness. Alexander Ghedi Weheliye’s concentration on the rich concurrences of Blackness and R&B is a true blessing. Deftly mapping out new avenues of critical pursuit devoted to the art of Blackness, Feenin is a stunning work.” -- Michael Boyce Gillespie, author of * Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film *“Feenin is less a collection of essays and more a playlist of Alexander Ghedi Weheliye’s greatest hits. It assembles a series of captivating essays that register the complex sonic frequencies of Black life with resounding effect. The ‘tracks’ gathered here demonstrate the force of Weheliye’s incisive theorizing and its profound contribution to sounding the rhythm, vibes, and groove of Black studies in the ‘forceful fullness of the Now.’” -- Tina M. Campt, Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsTrack 0.0 Good Days: R&B Music and Critical Fabulation in the Frequencies of Now 1 Track 1.0 Engendering Phonographies: Sonic Technologies of Blackness / A Response to Tavia Nyong’o 23 Track 2.0 “Feenin": Posthuman Voices in R&B Music 37 Track 3.0 Rhythms of Relation: Black Popular Music and Mobile Technologies 75 Interlude 1. Calling My Phone 98 Track 4.0 My Volk to Come: Specters of Peoplehood in Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music 100 Track 5.0 “White Brothers with No Soul": UnTuning the Historiography of Berlin Techno / Interview with Annie Goh 121 Interlude 2. Don't Take It Away 135 Track 6.0 New Waves, Shifting Terrains: Prince’s and David Bowie’s Transatlantic Crossovers 140 Interlude 3. #BeyondDeepBrandyAlbumCuts 153 Track 7.0 “Sounding That Precarious Existence": On R&B Music, Technology, and Blackness / An Interview with Nehal El-Hadi 158 Track 8.0 “Scream My Name Like a Protest": R&B Music as BlackFem Technology of Humanity in the Age of #Blacklivesmatter 178 Interlude 4. Songify Your Life 198 Track 9.0 808s and Heartbreak / Alexander Ghedi Weheliye and Katherine McKittrick 201 Track 10.0 Wayward Shuddering, Beautiful Tremors (AGW's Quiet Storm Remix) 237 Sources 245 Index 275

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Book SynopsisJulie Avril Minich examines Latinx artistic engagements with health politics to present alternate visions of health and wellbeing among the Latinx community.Trade Review“Radical Health is a necessary and timely intervention in the fields of critical race and disability studies. Julie Avril Minich challenges us to nuance our approaches to health as a structural and social issue. This book is immensely valuable to anyone studying health in the United States today, especially in the wake of the mass disablement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” -- Sami Schalk, author of * Black Disability Politics *“By drawing attention to the racialized, economic, and gendered forms of violence imposed on Latinx communities by the US healthcare system, Radical Health will alter the way that both Latinx studies and disability studies are practiced. I cannot stress how important this book is. Its urgency and timeliness makes it essential reading for everyone committed to the struggle for health justice.” -- Richard T. Rodríguez, author of * A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Radical Health/Radical Unwellness 1 1. Unprotected Texts: Queer Latinx Expression in the Aftermath of AIDS 24 2. Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetic Latinidades 52 3. Healing Without a Cure: Radical Health and Racialized Gender Violence 82 4. Mental Health and Migrant Justice: Family Separation and Reimagining Wellness 116 Remedio: The Navigator 150 Notes 167 References 187 Index 207

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Book SynopsisIn Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for freedom as they appear in the work of artists as varied as Toni Morrison, Yvonne Vera, Aimé Césaire, and Issa Samb. “Fugitive time” names a distinct utopian desire directed at the anticipated moment when the body and mind have been unburdened of the violence that has consumed black life globally for centuries, bringing with it a new form of being. Omelsky shows how fugitive time is not about attaining this transcendent release but is instead about sustaining the idea of it as an ecstatic social gathering. From the desire for ethereal queer worlds in the Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City to Sun Ra’s transformation of nineteenth-century scientific racism into an insurgent fugitiTrade Review“Fugitive Time represents the strength of diasporic thinking around a range of black aesthetic production that disrupts the Afro-pessimist/Afro-optimist binary through visions and understanding of time beyond the historical. By positing black aesthetics as the site of black theory and political thought, Matthew Omelsky demonstrates that alternate temporalities are the key to understanding blackness, embodied experience, aesthetics, and history.” -- Samantha Pinto, author of * Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights *“Bold and nimble, Fugitive Time follows the fugitive dreams and utopian urges that animate our black radical tradition. This pursuit brings Matthew Omelsky across a sprawling archive of fiction, photography, painting, poetry, plastic arts, music, cinema, and the quotidian—spanning the United States, Martinique, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Britain, Saturn, and uncharted worlds to come. In the process, this book builds its own mighty momentum that will move readers to vivid revelations about the space-times of black life. Full of beauty and urgency, Fugitive Time is a remarkable contribution to the study and cultivation of black radical imagination.” -- La Marr Jurelle Bruce, author of * How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Black Beyondness 1 1. Toni Morrison’s Anachronic Ease 33 2. Aimé Césaire, Wifredo Lam, and the Aesthetics of Surging Life 62 3. Black Audio’s Archival Flight 99 4. Sun Ra, Issa Samb, and the Drapetomaniacal Avant-Garde 132 5. Yvonne Vera, NoViolet Bulawayo, and the Imminence of Dreaming Air 172 Coda. Fugitive Ether 205 Notes 209 Bibliography 239 Index 259

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Book SynopsisCeline Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.Trade Review“The relative absence of Asian Americans on the silver screen makes their representation something we cannot not want. In this profound and personal meditation, Celine Parreñas Shimizu cautions us not to assume that representation and belonging go hand in hand. Instead, she analyzes depictions of childhood in Asian American cinema as occasions for working through the psychic traumas that overdetermine our social attachments from the very moment we are born into a world of racial loss and grief.” -- David L. Eng, coauthor of * Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans *“The Movies of Racial Childhoods is like nothing I have ever read. It is a document of a mother grieving, a film scholar theorizing the healing work of narrative cinema, and a filmmaker who understands that ‘trauma demands representation so as to create new realities.’ Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s writing about the death of her child and her devotion to film is both tender and revelatory. Interweaving psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, trauma theory, cinema studies, and personal narrative, Shimizu cultivates space for us to collectively grieve and to reawaken the possibilities of childhood dreaming.” -- Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of * Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration *Table of ContentsPreface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories 1 1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace 41 2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways 81 3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 117 4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose 151 5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It 186 In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death 208 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 233

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Book SynopsisAliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman examines how contemporary avant-garde black art and writing by Wangechi Mutu, Marci Blackman, Alexandria Smith, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Harmony Holiday, and Essex Hemphill use experimental methods to represent and imaginatively remediate racial harm.Trade Review“In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman makes a forceful argument for specifying different modes of black experimentation and connecting them explicitly to modes not only of survival but of refusals of various forms of domination. Beautifully written and intellectually engaging, Millennial Style’s important sustained analyses of black experimental cultural production and vital insights make a major contribution.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser, author of * Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined *“Without a doubt Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is one of the most important scholars in black cultural theory, gender studies, and sexuality studies. With this new work, she focuses on the refusal of realism in contemporary black art practices to theorize blackness and being among disaster politics, environmental devastation, state killings of black people, perpetual poverty in the post-Civil Rights era. Millennial Style is a striking, beautifully written, and insistent text that needs to be read by the broadest audience possible.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward a Radical Theory of the Black Avant-Garde 1 1. Black Grotesquerie 25 2. Hollowed Blackness 49 3. Black Cacophony 77 4. The Black Ecstatic 105 Epilogue. On Sustenance and Suture 131 Acknowledgments 137 Notes 141 Bibliography 157 Index 165

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Book SynopsisIn Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices. Throughout, she outlines how the disciplines of geology and geography—and their conventions: surveying, identifying, classifying, valuing, and extracting—established and perpetuated colonial practices that ordered the world and people along a racial axis. Examining the conceptualization of the inhuman as political, geophysical, and paleontological, Yusoff unearths an apartheid of materiality as distinct geospatial forms. This colonial practice of geology organized and underpinned racialized accounts of space and time in ways that materially made Anthropocene Earth. A

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Book SynopsisHeartfelt personal accounts from Asian American women on their experiences with skin color bias, from being labeled too dark to becoming empowered to challenge beauty standards I have a vivid memory of standing in my grandmother's kitchen, where, by the table, she closely watched me as I played. When I finally looked up to ask why she was staring, her expression changed from that of intent observer to one of guilt and shame. . . . My anak (dear child),' she began, you are so beautiful. It is a shame that you are so dark. No Filipino man will ever want to marry you.'Shade of Brown, Noelle Marie Falcis How does skin color impact the lives of Asian American women? In Whiter, thirty Asian American women provide first-hand accounts of their experiences with colorism in this collection of powerful, accessible, and brutally honest essays, edited by Nikki Khanna. Featuring contributors of many ages, nationalities, and professions, this compelling collection covers a wide range of topics, incluTrade Review"Whiter captures the many dimensions of colorism that shape Asian women's lives. Messages from mothers, others, and the surrounding cultures all coincide to constrain women's sense of beauty, family, identity, and worth. But Nikki Khanna and the distinguished contributors to this volume capture the many ways, both subtle and overt, that women negotiate, succumb to, and defy the dominant messages around skin color. This volume is a wonderful combination of sociology, cultural studies, memoir, history, media studies, and poetics bringing a diversity of voices and perspectives to this conversation." -- Margaret Hunter, author of Race, Gender, and the Politics of Skin Tone"Colorism affects Asian American women of every background, whether it's due to Asian beauty standards, colonialism, or racism. Khanna taps into the cultural pressures to possess lighter skin color. By curating relatable and thought-provoking stories from a diverse group of Asian American women in their own voices, Whiter will appeal to a wide breadth of readers—from gender and race scholars to anyone interested in deconstructing beauty standards." -- Nancy Wang Yuen, author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism"Whiter is an eye-opening book that aims to help us better understand the role of skin color in social mobility." * Bitch Magazine *"This insightful, thought-provoking volume gives voice to the wide range of Asian American women's experiences of colorism." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisAn inside look at Black LGBTQ college students and their experiences Black and Queer on Campus offers an inside look at what life is like for LGBTQ college students on campuses across the United States. Michael P. Jeffries shows that Black and queer college students often struggle to find safe spaces and a sense of belonging when they arrive on campus at both predominantly white institutions and historically black colleges and universities. Many report that in predominantly white queer social spaces, they feel unwelcome and pressured to temper their criticisms of racism amongst their white peers. Conversely, in predominantly straight Black social spaces, they feel ignored or pressured to minimize their queer identity in order to be accepted. This fraught dynamic has an impact on Black LGBTQ students in higher education, as they experience different forms of marginalization at the intersection of their race, gender, and sexuality.Drawing on interviews with sTrade ReviewThe stories collected in Black and Queer on Campus challenge most preconceived notions about queer life at historically Black colleges and universities. Relying on interviews with college students themselves, Michael P. Jeffries provides a cogent, compelling, and much-needed corrective about the history of activism, social movements, and intellectual thought at HBCUs. This groundbreaking book is required reading. * E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History *Black and Queer on Campus is a deeply compelling examination of the daily experiences of Black queer college students. With his particular interest in Black queer life at HBCUs, Jeffries turns much-needed attention to the Black ordinary: how Black queer students spend time on campus, participate in campus organizations, and navigate everyday experiences of antiblackness and homophobia. Jeffries displays a deep respect for his interlocutors’ wisdom, and leaves readers with a sense that the future is being actively re-imagined by Black queer college students who work—individually and collectively, politically and personally—to dream another world. * Jennifer C. Nash, author of Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality *In this beautifully written book, Jeffries reminds us that centering Black queer students is the key to reimagining the possibilities of our colleges and communities. Black queer collegians are part of a long genealogy of resistance and revolution. Their stories show us, too, that there’s magnificence in the mundane. Black and Queer on Campus is a must-read for all college students and educators. * Anthony Christian Ocampo, Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons *Culling interviews with dozens of students from a wide range of colleges, [Jeffries] examines how Black queer students struggle for a sense of belonging, the inherent pressures when compared with white peers and predominantly white learning institutions, and solutions for coping with and finding pride within the college experience, despite these obstacles. These critical perspectives shed much-needed light on the learning institutions where being Black and queer pose everyday obstacles for young men and women eager to learn and contribute. -- Jim Piechota * The Bay Area Reporter *Jeffries interviews Black L.G.B.T.Q. college students at over a dozen colleges to illustrate the struggles they face in finding belonging at both predominantly white and historically Black institutions. * New York Times Book Review *Black and Queer on Campus is an overflowing archive of stories collected through interviews with black and/or queer students at different universities across the United States, without ever describing them in a homogeneous or uniform way, including their political views ... Their stories not only serve as a parameter for evaluating the university’s diversity affirmation policies and the construction of safe spaces by student organizations, but they are also an embodied window on difference that open up imaginative horizons otherwise oriented by black and queer lives. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award, given by the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRace, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black neighborhood into a predominantly Latino one, providing a fresh, inside look at the fascinatingand constantly changingrelationships between these two racial and ethnic groups in California. Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor explTrade ReviewSouth Central’s evolution from almost entirely African American to mostly Latino is a bellwether for an important part of a changing America. Through statistical and ethnographic analysis, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor describe that change at several levels, showing how Black-Latino relations challenge traditional notions of ethnic succession and assimilation. Rather, they reveal how residents have formed an identity based on their shared home and a minority linked fate, to organize and empower their communities. -- Edward Telles, co-author of Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic CoreSouth Central LA looms large in the American imagination. Media reports of racial violence, drug trafficking and Gangster Rap music, dominate portrayals of this iconic Black and Latinx community. But as is so often the case with media depictions of marginalized urban communities, such images are largely distortions of the reality experienced by those who called South Central home. Drawing on interviews with residents, stories from those who have witnessed this community transform from predominantly Black to predominantly Latinx, and demographic and economic data that offer quantitative measures of a community in transition, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor provide texture, nuance and flavor so that outsiders can appreciate that South Central is so much more than has been depicted in films and news reports. This book captures the vibrancy, dynamism and complexity that makes South Central unique, and it reminds us that beyond the challenges and hardships facing its residents, there is also a heart and a spirit that makes this much maligned space special and unique. -- Pedro A. Noguera, author of The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public EducationSouth Los Angeles is a dynamic urban space shaped by decades of demographic change, cultural sedimentation, and multi-ethnic home-making. In South Central Dreams, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor beautifully capture the soul of the area through a mixed-method study that places quantitative data in dialogue with informant voices. The result is a must-read volume that complicates popular notions about Black-Brown relations and provides important lessons for sociological theory. -- Darnell M. Hunt, co-editor of Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial RealitiesSouth Central Dreams offers a penetrating look at immigration, adaptation, and social change in a poor urban community shifting from black to brown. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor masterfully document how the specifics of place and time shape the actions of ordinary people as they transcend social difference to construct a common identity and transform a stigmatized urban quarter into a cherished place called 'home.' This book moves well beyond the usual cliches of a fraught relationship between Blacks and Latinos and offers a model for how community studies should be done, hopefully one that will be emulated in other cities throughout the nation. -- Douglas Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the UnderclassBravo! In this book, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor document a powerful new age of Latino politics. In South Central Los Angeles, Latino youth have blended the immigrant insights of their elders with the experiences of their African American classmates, neighbors, and friends, expanding the possibilities of Brown/Black solidarity by forging a brand-new political identity. 'We are South Central!,' they exclaim, embracing as their own every struggle that has determined the conditions of life in their community. -- Kelly Lytle Hernandez, author of City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor breathe life into the understudied and underappreciated complexities of South Los Angeles. Through the historical analysis of the friends, families, organizers and activists of our neighborhoods, we are shown not just our past, but our future as well. Especially in a time of racial reckoning in this country, and after an administration that spent its entire four years picking at the fabric of a delicate bond of solidarity across communities of color, South Central Dreams stands out as an important commentary on identity and civic engagement with implications for not only Los Angeles, but the rest of the country. -- Congresswoman Karen Bass, former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (2019-2020)Two of our most esteemed scholars of immigration have given us a new paradigm for how to think about race, place, and identity. This book takes a deep dive into the lives of first- and second-generation Latinx immigrants as they shape home and identity alongside their Black neighbors in South LA. Rather than retelling the classic narrative of immigrant assimilation, this book shows the tensions and negotiations that go into making home in a multi-racial community and the power of shared struggle. The authors’ relational perspective allows them to explore the ways Latinx identity is shaped by Blackness and gives us new insights into how people set roots, find friends, and forge identities around urban anchors like community gardens, parks and neighborhood markets. -- Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial ScriptsSouth Central Dreams is a major contribution to both Latinx and Los Angeles Studies. By revisiting community residents in South Central Los Angeles a full generation after Latinos began moving into the area, the authors provide a nuanced and careful portrait of neighborhood life with important implications for Brown/Black spaces across the U.S. -- Laura Pulido, co-author of A People's Guide to Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientistsThe Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pioneer of American scientific sociology and as someone who made foundational contributions to the sociology of race and to urban and community sociology. However, in this authoritative volume, noted scholars José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown provide a groundbreaking account of Du Bois's theoretical contribution to sociology, or what they call the analysis of racialized modernity. Further, they examine the implications of developing a Du Boisian sociology for the practice of the discipline today.The full canon of Du Bois's sociological works spans a lifetime of over ninety years in which his ideas evolved over much of the twentieth century. This broader and more systematic account of Du Bois's contribution to sociology explores hoTrade Review"José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown have written a book that will stand out for a long time and be debated for years. The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois is a guidepost that enables the reader to absorb penetrating analyses of this great scholar pertaining to racism and lessons to address it. Seldom do we find analyses of an extremely complex thinker made crystal clear. This is such a work for anyone interested in a pivotal issue of our time." -- Aldon Morris, author of The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology"This is a book for the times. The global protests in response to coronavirus disparities and anti-Black state violence have made it clear that the academy, too, must change. Sociology departments cannot continue to do business as usual. In The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois, José Itzigsohn and Karida L.Brown show that a Du Boisian sociology offers an analysis of our present moment where many other subfields of the discipline cannot […] The result of the authors’ comprehensive approach is an inspiring immersion into the mind of someone who theorized from the depths of his own internal pain to the breadth of world empires, sweeps of historical time, and complexity of economic arrangements." * American Journal of Sociology *"In this necessary, timely, and thorough-going book Itzigsohn and Brown powerfully and provocatively reclaim and present the near century of W. E. B. Du Bois’s sociological contributions with panache and undeniable rigor. Persuasive and well sourced, this book is sure to be a staple in homes and classrooms across the globe for years to come. A pathbreaking classic!" -- Marcus Anthony Hunter, author of Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America"Itzigsohn and Brown offer a bounty of new analysis and a needed synthesis, a holistic view of the sociological contributions of a career that spanned from the 1890s to the 1960s... [The] book’s greatest strength ... is in the excavation and synthesis of Du Bois’s broad body of scholarship. Though scholars have made similar efforts ... Itzigsohn and Brown gift sociologists with what is surely the most comprehensive and ambitious summation of Du Bois’s epistemology." * Social Forces *"Overall, this impressive monograph acknowledges and reclaims Du Bois’s contributions to sociology. It is part of a growing movement that addresses the discipline’s neglect of this scholar. I highly recommend this monograph for advanced undergraduate and graduate theory courses in sociology and the social sciences." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Itzigsohn and Brown’s The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois is evidence of Black sociology’s enduring promise. Their book is more than an exegesis of Du Bois’s sociological oeuvre." -- Matthew Clair, Stanford University * Du Bois Review *

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Book SynopsisAn engaging ethnography of Korean American immigrant families navigating the United States Both scholarship and popular culture on Asian American immigrant families have long focused on intergenerational cultural conflict and stereotypes about tiger mothers and model minority students. This book turns the tables on the conventional imagination of the Asian American immigrant family, arguing that, in fact, families are often on the same page about the challenges and difficulties navigating the U.S.'s racialized landscape. The book draws on a survey with over 200 Korean American teens and over one hundred parents to provide context, then focusing on the stories of five families with young adults in order to go in-depth, and shed light on today's dynamics in these families. The book argues that Korean American immigrant parents and their children today are thinking in shifting ways about how each member of the family can best succeed in the U.S. Rather than being marked by a generational Trade ReviewConventional or stereotypical discourse surrounding Asian American families, Korean Americans in particular, in both popular and scholarly literature indicates that immigrant parents, even at the sacrifice of their own future, pressure their children to be successful academically or professionally while ignoring other aspects of their children’s growth … Okazaki and Abelmann's research reveals a very different picture from that simplified portrait of Korean Americans. -- ChoiceIn this must-read book, Okazaki and Abelman rigorously capture portraits of how Korean American immigrant parents and their childrenmake family work. These vivid portraits provide stereotype-breaking depictions based on lived reality riddled with nativism and racism andnotsimplistic accounts of 'Tiger Moms,' high expectations, and Asian immigrant success. This riveting book powerfully turns the Model Minority Stereotype on its head! -- Gilberto Q. Conchas,UC Irvine

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community buildingToo often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the postWorld War II era. It shows that the religious politics of this period were central to secular community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement, offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies, de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on religious movements and how the relTrade ReviewFeatures an array of fascinating topics, with appropriate diversity of historical period, religious affiliation, region, and subject. The editors have gathered an impressive group of scholars whose contributions form a compelling analysis of political action among Latinx religious communities. -- Timothy Matovina, University of Notre DameHistorians of Latinx politics have typically downplayed the importance of religion, and studies of Latinx religion have tended to focus on spirituality, belief, and cultural expression, while ignoring politics. Featuring an extraordinary lineup of scholars—including some of the top influential Latinx historians—Faith and Power is an impressive resource for understanding Latinx religious politics. -- Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to TrumpOne of the book’s most appealing aspects for me was its use of narratives throughout, which provide, in anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s term, a “thick description” of the role of agency among populations, especially those who have endured decades of prejudice or oppression within their faith communities or outside of them. While the book’s range of scholarship—as the footnotes and index reveal—is certainly commendable, overall it makes for an interesting, colorful read. * The Journal of Arizona History *The strength of this volume lies in the breadth and diversity of expressions of Latino religious politics covered, ranging from rural agricultural contexts to urban centres of power, including histories from within Roman Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and even Mormonism... This is an insightful volume for scholars and students wanting to know more about and further reflect on an oft forgotten history. * Mission Studies *Faith and Power demonstrates that an adequate understanding of Latina/o history requires an accounting for the role of religion. Scholars of Latina/o history might read Faith and Power as a provocative revisionist history, as well-known topics in the field are newly explored from the vantage point of faith communities. * American Religion *

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community buildingToo often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the postWorld War II era. It shows that the religious politics of this period were central to secular community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement, offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies, de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on religious movements and how the relTrade Review"Features an array of fascinating topics, with appropriate diversity of historical period, religious affiliation, region, and subject. The editors have gathered an impressive group of scholars whose contributions form a compelling analysis of political action among Latinx religious communities." -- Timothy Matovina, University of Notre Dame"Historians of Latinx politics have typically downplayed the importance of religion, and studies of Latinx religion have tended to focus on spirituality, belief, and cultural expression, while ignoring politics. Featuring an extraordinary lineup of scholars—including some of the top influential Latinx historians—Faith and Power is an impressive resource for understanding Latinx religious politics." -- Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump"One of the book’s most appealing aspects for me was its use of narratives throughout, which provide, in anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s term, a “thick description” of the role of agency among populations, especially those who have endured decades of prejudice or oppression within their faith communities or outside of them. While the book’s range of scholarship—as the footnotes and index reveal—is certainly commendable, overall it makes for an interesting, colorful read. " * The Journal of Arizona History *"The strength of this volume lies in the breadth and diversity of expressions of Latino religious politics covered, ranging from rural agricultural contexts to urban centres of power, including histories from within Roman Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and even Mormonism... This is an insightful volume for scholars and students wanting to know more about and further reflect on an oft forgotten history." * Mission Studies *"Faith and Power demonstrates that an adequate understanding of Latina/o history requires an accounting for the role of religion. Scholars of Latina/o history might read Faith and Power as a provocative revisionist history, as well-known topics in the field are newly explored from the vantage point of faith communities." * American Religion *

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Book SynopsisHow Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice systemDespite representing roughly 16 percent of incarcerated women, Latina women and girls are often rendered invisible in accounts of American crime and punishment. In Latinas in the Criminal Justice System, Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko bring together a group of distinguished scholars to provide a more complete, nuanced picture of Latinas as victims, offenders, and targets of deportation. Featuring Cecilia Menjívar, Lisa M. Martinez, Alice Cepeda, and others, this volume examines the complex histories, backgrounds, and struggles of Latinas in the criminal justice system. Contributors show us how Latinas encounter a variety of justice systems, including juvenile detention, adult court and corrections, and immigration and customs enforcement. Topics include Latina victims of crime and their perceptions of police officers; the impact of the US crimmigration system on undocumented Latina women; Trade ReviewLatinas in the Criminal Justice System shines an important light on a topic long neglected by criminologists and criminology. Lopez and Pasko elevate the often ignored voices and situations of Latina girls and women, who are often invisible in the many debates about immigration. A must read. -- Meda Chesney-Lind, co-author of Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and HypeContributing authors masterfully examine and vividly delineate the historical, social, legal, and ideological forces governing the Latina experience with the penal system and mainstream American society. In a highly charged political era, this book is a timely contribution to help educate readers about police, law and society, race/ethnic relations, and social and legal reform. -- M.G Urbina * Choice *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 Section on Asia and Asian America Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association Traces the religious adaptation of members of an important Indian Christian church the Mar Thoma denomination as they make their way in the United States. This book exposes how a new paradigm of ethnicity and religion, and the megachurch phenomenon, is shaping contemporary immigrant religious institutions, specifically Indian American Christianity. Kurien draws on multi-site research in the US and India to provide a global perspective on religion by demonstrating the variety of ways that transnational processes affect religious organizations and the lives of members, both in the place of destination and of origin. The widespread prevalence of megachurches and the dominance of American evangelicalism created an environment in which the traditional practices of the ancient South Indian Mar Thoma denomination seemed alien to its American-born generation. Many of the young adults lTrade ReviewLike Prema Kuriens previous books, this one is thoroughly researched, tackling a huge topic with impressive scholarship. And it poses an unsettling question: Is a one-size-fits-all, take-it-or-leave-it version of Christianity the wave of the future? Or is America big enough to embrace a growing multiplicity of ethno-religious traditions? -- Robert Wuthnow,Princeton UniversityThough rooted in analysis of Mar Thoma, Kuriens work provides a useful theoretical language for thinking about big-picture immigration trends. As such, this book is a must read for those interested in immigration, migration, and transnationalism broadly as well as religion. * Choice *It is continually amazing that immigrants’ religious lives have not received more attention within the sociology of immigration. Prema Kurien’s latest book, Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch, takes on a key topic within the sociology of immigration and of religion — namely, how immigrants across generations form religious belonging both with and separate from the mainstream… Overall, Kurien’s book furthers the case that religion serves as an agent, not merely a context or setting, and can be a central vehicle through which to study immigration. -- International Migration ReviewKurien’s Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch supplies the field with an important sociological account of the transnational religious and ethnic contestations within the Mar Thoma church, a Syrian Christian church based in Kerala. Her extensive ethnographic research, dating back to 1999, is a refreshingly data-rich study that is longitudinally oriented in its inclusion of the extensive history of the Mar Thoma church since its inception in the early decades of the Christian era. It is also a geographically cross-sectional study in its attention to the transnational intersections between the Mar Thoma church in India and in the United States. Kurien’s data reveals that research on religion and ethnicity in the United States must account for generational differences and specific nuances of a particular ethnic denomination’s negotiations in multicultural America. -- Journal of Hindu-Christian StudiesThe book illustrates the immense payoff of a transnational, global approach for understanding the movements of religion and people. Many works focus on transnationalism to be sure, but this book convincingly shows why it is an absolute necessity. Such an approach over many years of study provides us a rich tale of change and causality. * American Journal of Sociology *Kurien has produced a readable, fascinating book about ethnicity, gender, and religion ‘in motion.’ She draws on a rich body of interview data to explore the contentious relationships that shape and re-shape the global, diasporic faith-based communities… As always, Kurien adopts a sophisticated approach to transnationalism that highlights the back and forth direction of change and that recognizes the longue duree of globalization. Most importantly, she shows social changes wrought by immigration are always, if only partly, a matter of immigrant agency. -- Sociology of ReligionMany Americans miss the significant presence of Indian Christians who worship in immigrant ethnic faith communities or in predominantly white evangelical ones that often rely on their presence to promote their racially-inclusive vision. Kurien provides a fascinating look into this overlooked community, insightfully revealing the challenges of recreating a religious culture thousands of miles from its origin, adapting to an increasingly global and diasporic community, and retaining among the second-generation an identity with a religious culture that appears backward and insular compared to its bigger, flashier, and more racially integrated counterpart. An absolute must-read. -- Jerry Z. Park,Associate Professor of Sociology, Baylor UniversityWith careful fieldwork done over decades in two countries, Prema Kuriens work will serve as a model for how to do sociological and ethnographic work within immigrant communities that remain in robust connection to their countries of origin, even as they try to find their footing in their new home. A must read for all who seek to understand the transformation of American religious life under the pressures of migration and globalization! -- John J. Thatamanil,Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions, Union Theological Seminary

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Book SynopsisPROSE Award- Media and Cultural Studies FinalistHow diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims One of Donald Trump's first actions as President was to sign an executive order to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, a step toward the complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States he had campaigned on. This extraordinary act of Islamophobia provoked unprecedented opposition: Hollywood movies and mainstream television shows began to feature more Muslim characters in contexts other than terrorism; universities and private businesses included Muslims in their diversity initiatives; and the criminal justice system took hate crimes against Muslims more seriously. Yet Broken argues that, even amid this challenge to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives fail on their promise by only focusing on crisis moments.Evelyn Alsultany argues that Muslims get included through crisis diversity, whereTrade ReviewAlsultany carefully and brilliantly walks us through the minefield known as ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ to expose the hypocrisies embedded in American discourses of tolerance. Far from addressing the root problems of today’s inequities, Alsultany shows, contemporary tolerance talk often ends up reinscribing forms of intolerance while institutionalizing racism and Islamophobia. After you read this mind-bending book, not only will you understand the strange space in liberalism’s universe that Muslims occupy, where Muslims represent what must be tolerated and what must not be tolerated simultaneously, but you’ll also realize that the slogan ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ is missing the most significant term of all: justice. -- Moustafa Bayoumi * author of This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror *A fresh, passionate, and comprehensive exploration of where Muslims factor into American diversity initiatives. Employing a blend of scholarly research and personal experience, Alsultany deftly deconstructs the state of Muslim representation and inclusion in the media, universities and key US institutions. -- Lorraine Ali * LA Times *Alsultany details the limit of the liberal promise of inclusion in a brilliant and accessible way. Just when you think that Muslims have entered the doorway into humanity, you see that the inclusive move is itself how Muslim sub-personhood is secured. Broken is invaluable for anyone tempted to put their hopes in multicultural inclusion. Alsultany’s achievement is that we are now steps closer to imagining abolition, the end of systems that protect white property interests. -- Sherene H. Razack * author of Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism *With eloquent prose and a compelling voice, Broken fundamentally shifts contemporary frames for understanding Muslim representation in media, corporations, government, and universities from ‘Islamophobia’ to ‘Anti-Muslim Racism.’ In doing so, she provides a razor-sharp analysis of the truly systemic reality of anti-Muslim racism. -- Ralina Joseph * author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity *Alsultany traces how Muslims and Arabs have been incorporated into the United States, represented and racialized in its culture and politics. In some ways, these processes follow the patterns other groups experienced. But the context of terrorism and national security concerns charge the question of Arab and Muslim “otherness” in unique ways. Broken helps us articulate the racialization of 'otherness' and nonbelonging in new and important ways. -- Natalia Molina * The Chronicle of Higher Education, Best Scholarly Books of 2022 *In this eye-opening, provocative work, Alsultany clearly demonstrates that many diversity initiatives fail when they’re centered around moments of crisis instead of lasting change. This narrative will stay with readers long after the last page. To gain understanding and achieve true allyship, this is an essential title to read. * Library Journal (starred) *

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