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Book SynopsisAfter years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this volume examines not only the past and present position of the Philippines and its people, but also advances new frameworks for re-conceptualizing this growing field. Written by a prestigious lineup of international scholars grappling with the legacies of colonialism and imperial power, the essays examine both the genealogy of the Philippines' hyphenated identity as well as the future trajectory of the field. Hailing from multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, the contributors revisit and contest traditional renditions of PhilTrade ReviewThe book will primarily interest scholars and students but may also appeal to general readers with connections to the Philippines. * Choice Connect *Edited byMartin Manalansan IV and Augusto F. Espiritu, pioneers of FilipinoX studies, it is an unapologetic introduction to the interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational,palimpsestic nature of the work many FilipinoX scholars in the Diaspora have engaged over the last two decades. * Pacific Historical Review *This exciting and crucial anthology marks a major historiographical intervention into the fields of Asian American and Filipino/American studies. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars,Filipino Studiesrepresents not only a moment of stock-taking, but also a clarion call to future scholars to take up the fields politically committed aspirations. -- Theodore S. Gonzalves,author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of the foundational volume in Asian American studiesWho are Asian Americans? Moving beyond popular stereotypes of the model minority or forever foreigner, most Americans know surprisingly little of the nation's fastest growing minority population. Since the 1960s, when different Asian immigrant groups came together under the Asian American umbrella, they have tirelessly carved out their presence in the labor market, education, politics, and pop culture. Many times, they have done so in the face of racism, discrimination, sexism, homophobia, and socioeconomic disadvantage. Today, contemporary Asian America has emerged as an incredibly diverse population, with each segment of the community facing its unique challenges. When Contemporary Asian America was first published in 2000, it exposed its readers to the formation and development of Asian American studies as an academic field of study, from its inception as part of the ethnic consciousness movement of the 1960s to Trade ReviewBrings together some of the most important scholarship in Asian American Studies. Contemporary Asian America is a superbly organized anthology, presenting topics ranging from immigration, family, and community to activism, identity, sexuality, race relations and transnationalism. The new research and updated materials on previously understudied Asian ethnic groups are most valuable. Anyone interested in the experiences of Asians in the United States will find much here that is illuminating. The breadth and depth of this volume makes it an excellent reader for undergraduate and graduate level courses in Asian American Studies. -- Xiaojian Zhao,University of California, Santa BarbaraA thoughtfully assembled collection of readings that carefully brings together central themes in Asian American Studies. A great resource for those looking for a lively introduction to the field. -- Nazli Kibria,Boston University

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Book SynopsisIn the decades leading up to the end of U.S. slavery, many free Blacks sat for daguerreotypes decorated in fine garments to document their self-possession. People pictured in these early photographs used portraiture to seize control over representation of the free Black body and reimagine Black visuality divorced from the cultural logics of slavery. In Picture Freedom, Jasmine Nichole Cobb analyzes the ways in which the circulation of various images prepared free Blacks and free Whites for the emancipation of formerly unfree people of African descent. She traces the emergence of Black freedom as both an idea and as an image during the early nineteenth century. Through an analysis of popular culture of the periodincluding amateur portraiture, racial caricatures, joke books, antislavery newspapers, abolitionist materials, runaway advertisements, ladies' magazines, and scrapbooks, as well as scenic wallpaperCobb explores the earliest illustrations of free Blacks and rTrade ReviewPicture Freedom provides a unique and nuanced interpretation of nineteenth-century African American life and culture. Focusing on visuality, print culture, and an examination of the parlor, Cobb has fashioned a book like none other, convincingly demonstrating how whites and blacks reimagined racial identity and belonging in the early republic. -- Erica Armstrong Dunbar,author of A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum CityBeautifully written and theoretically sophisticated,Picture Freedomis an absolute gem in its engagement with nineteenth-century visual culture, black subjectivity, and representations of freedom. Through exciting archival work that brings to light a stunning photographic history, Cobb centers black women in the history of nineteenth-century visual culture as consumers and producers of ideas and images of emancipation. One of the books most significant contributions is its astute theorization of the relationship between photographic practices, black interiority, and public culture. I love this book! -- Nicole R. Fleetwood,author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and BlacknessThis notion of the domesticated in its most politicized registercitizenshipis at stakePicture Freedom: Cobb reminds us in ways both telling and unforgiving that & Black freedom is not Black citizenship. * Journal of American History *This is a book that will become one of the most influential sources for African American visual culture. * Winterthur Portfolio *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Parlor Fantasies, Parlor Nightmares 1 1 "A Peculiarly 'Ocular' Institution" 28 2 Optics of Respectability: Women, Vision, and the Black Private Sphere 66 3 "Look! A Negress": Public Women, Private Horrors, and the White Ontology of the Gaze 111 4 Racial Iconography: Freedom and Black Citizenship in the Antebellum North 148 5 Racing the Transatlantic Parlor: Blackness at Home and Abroad 193 Epilogue: The Specter of Black Freedom 221 Notes 225 Index 257 About the Author 265 Color images appear as an insert following page 110

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Book SynopsisNarratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law As the mixed-race population in the United States grows, public fascination with multiracial identity has promoted the belief that racial mixture will destroy racism. However, multiracial people still face discrimination. Many legal scholars hold that this is distinct from the discrimination faced by people of other races, and traditional civil rights laws built on a strict black/white binary need to be reformed to account for cases of discrimination against those identifying as mixed-race. In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Katerí Hernández debunks this idea, and draws on a plethora of court cases to demonstrate that multiracials face the same types of discrimination as other racial groups. Hernández argues that multiracial people are primarily targeted for discrimination due to their non-whiteness, and shows how the cases highlight the neTrade Review"[Hernandez’s] personal story as told in the preface helps enrich and inform this highly recommended work." -- CHOICE"In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Kateri Hernandez insightfully analyzes the claim that mixed race people will end racial discrimination as we know it and render inadequate the existing legal tools to address it. At the same time, Hernandez skillfully addresses the claims that the civil rights laws fail to address the discrimination against multiracial people in American social life. Unfortunately, racism and discrimination based on physical appearance -- even with the rise of multiracialism -- is alive and well in the modern United States and the traditional legal tools exist to support efforts to challenge discrimination against multiracial people. Multiracials and Civil Rights is a 'must read' for anyone interested in sophisticated analysis of the use of the civil rights laws to challenge discrimination in the United States." -- Kevin R. Johnson,Dean, UC Davis School of Law"The increase in interracial marriages following the Supreme Courts decision in Loving v. Virginia ushered in an era of racial self-identification as Lovings children struggle to define themselves in a world that views race as monolithic. Multiracials and Civil Rights is an important contribution to the emerging literature about the post-Loving multiracial generation. It explores claims that multiracials experience a unique form of race-based discrimination. This thoroughly researched book is a must read, the first legally-focused discussion of whether current anti-discrimination law adequately addresses discrimination claims by multiracials." -- Taunya Lovell Banks,Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence, University of Maryland Law School

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Book SynopsisThe history of Latina/o participation and representation in American televisionWhose stories are told on television? Who are the heroes and heroines, held up as intriguing, lovable, and compelling? Which characters are fully realized, rather than being cardboard villains and sidekicks? And who are our storytellers? The first-ever account of Latino/a participation and representation in US English-language television, Latino TV: A History offers a sweeping study of key moments of Chicano/a and Latino/a representation and authorship since the 1950s. Drawing on archival research, interviews with dozens of media professionals who worked on or performed in these series, textual analysis of episodes and promotional materials, and analysis of news media coverage, Mary Beltrán examines Latina/o representation in everything from children's television Westerns of the 1950s, Chicana/o and Puerto Rican activist-led public affairs series of the 1970s, and sitcoms that spTrade ReviewMary Beltrán weaves discussions of Mexican-American and Latina/o representation with those of authorship to produce a compelling and overdue account of how much we truly owe Latina/o creative professionals. Beautifully researched, this book is mandatory reading for scholars of race, media, and representation. * Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy *Mary Beltrán’s archival research recovers a history that is essential to understanding the ways in which television culture is always in conversation with the social, political, and economic context in which it is produced. Her insightful analysis shows us why storytelling is ultimately about access to power and the social status of politically marginalized communities in the United States. * Isabel Molina-Guzmán, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *Beltrán’s Latino TV is an essential contribution to the expanding scholarship on Latina/o/x media and is particularly important for the training of its future scholars. * Film Quarterly *[Beltrán] expertly unveils the ways in which the economic conditions, the stereotyped assumptions of the audience, and barriers to entry limit and contain Latina/o representation... The strength of Beltrán’s research is in the political and cultural contexts that frame how any individual program fits as part of a broader ideological project. * Journal of Arizona History *

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Book SynopsisReveals the dark underside of environmental privilegeTrade ReviewThe authors...make a convincing and highly disturbing case about how some of the nation's most prominent promoters of sustainability depend on the labor of immigrants to enjoy privileged lives amidst a lovely environment. * In These Times *Documents, observation, and interview material over a number of years combine to give a full picture of the situation...the book's rich background of Aspen and the whole state's history is nicely provided, and the interesting flow of history and people's everday lives make Slums of Aspen very accessible. * American Journal of Sociology *Two barrels of leftist buckshot, aimed at America's ruling class. -- Ted Conover,author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing and Whiteout: Lost in AspenAs Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow make clear, we cant tackle todays environmental problems without simultaneously solving social ones. The Slums of Aspen is a must read for all of us who want not just a green and healthy economy, but also a fair and just one. -- Annie Leonard,Author and Host, The Story of StuffAs the limits to growth discourse gains currency, Park and Pellows groundbreaking book is a must-read. Tracing the nativism that has bedeviled the environmental movement for decades, they tell the fascinating story of eco-conscious, upscale Aspen, which was gripped by anti-immigrant fervor in the name of 'saving the planet.' A great addition for courses on environment, race, class, social activism and contemporary problems. -- Juliet Schor,Boston College, and author of The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't NeedIts the perfect text to look at the intersection between social and environmental issues. -- Marci Krivonen * Aspen Public Radio *A pair of sociologists, in their new book, paint a damning picture of the stark inequalities between local immigrant laborers and Aspen vacationers and the wealthy homeowners they serve. -- Andrew Travers * Aspen Daily News *Park and Pellow offer a blistering critique of environmental privilege and immigrant discrimination within the Rocky Mountains' elite playground of Aspen, Colorado...their argument effectively extends well beyond Aspen's ski slopes and elite shopping streets. -- M.M. Gunter Jr. * Choice *The Slums of Aspentouches a wide variety of important topics both inside and outside the subdiscipline of environmental sociology. It takes long-lasting debates about population growth and examines them anew. It should be of interest to scholars in social movements, race, labor studies, political sociology, leisure studies, to name a few. Its main strength is that it engages so many different, and new areas, of environmental justice, and most importantly, provides a big step forward toward understanding the causes and consequences of environmental privilege, as well as the struggles by some to oppose its racially motivated 'green' politics. -- Justin Farrell * Mobilization *A brilliant, darkly funny expose of Aspen, the ruling classes' green utopia, and the invisible, scorned immigrant labor that makes it all possible. -- Mike Davis,author of Magical Urbanism and No One is Illegal[Park and Pellow] provide an impactful account of a wealthy Colorado community's attempt to limit the number of immigrants in their neighborhoods and their reasoning for doing so: environmental protection. * The National Memo *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Environmental Privilege in the Rocky Mountains 1 The Logic of Aspen 2 The Ultimate Elite Retreat 3 Living in Someone Else's Paradise 4 Nativism and the Environmental Movement 5 Advocacy and Social Justice Workers Conclusion: Dreams of Privilege/Visions of Justice Notes on Research Methods Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisProvides compelling and manageable solutions for how to reform the criminal justice system from the inside out A racial reckoning in the US criminal justice system was long overdue well before the highly publicized murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others in 2020. Progressive Prosecution argues that prosecutors, having helped build our failed system of mass incarceration, must now lead the charge to dismantle it.With contributions from practicing district attorneys as well as leading scholars in the fields of law and criminal justice, Taylor-Thompson and Thompson's volume offers an unapologetically ambitious vision for reform. The contributors draw from empirical evidence and years of combined research experience to argue that change must happen at the local level, with prosecutors choosing to adopt race-conscious approaches. These prosecutors must do the hard work themselves, actively focusing on the ways that race misshapes perceptions of

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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 Review"Conventional 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." -- Choice"In 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 SynopsisChoice Top Book of 2017 Confronting and combating Islamophobia in America.Islamophobia has long been a part of the problem of racism in the United States, and it has only gotten worse in the wake of shocking terror attacks, the ongoing refugee crisis, and calls from public figures like Donald Trump for drastic action. As a result, the number of hate crimes committed against Middle Eastern Americans of all origins and religions have increased, and civil rights advocates struggle to confront this striking reality. In Islamophobia and Racism in America, Erik Love draws on in-depth interviews with Middle Eastern American advocates. He shows that, rather than using a well-worn civil rights strategy to advance reforms to protect a community affected by racism, many advocates are choosing to bolster universal civil liberties in the United States more generally, believing that these universal protections are reliable and strong enough to deal with social prejudice. Trade Review"Islamophobia and Racism offers a necessarily startling and chilling view of the pervasiveness ofIslamophobia and the effectiveness of the state in co-opting and fettering the language of advocacy in the United States...Love's work is effective, insightful, and pulsing with urgency and compassion." * Mashriq Mahjar Journal *"Poses crucial questions about the future of race and activism in America . . . Through extensive historical and sociological research, Love sets out to map the ecosystem of organizations claiming to speak for Middle Eastern Americans, and interrogates their use (or lack thereof) of race based language, organizing, and advocacy strategies." * Muftah *"Islamophobia and Racism in America makes contributions to the sociology of race, immigration, and advocacy movements. It also provides a valuable perspective to an important and timely topic by viewing Middle Eastern American rights through the lens of racial struggles in American history. The in-depth interviews of civil rights advocates in the six major organizations offer valuable inside views of the lessons of the advocacy movement. It is an accessible book for graduate and undergraduate students, as the text is easy to follow." -- American Journal of Sociology"As scholars and students grapple with how to understand the role of race in the situation of Muslim Americans, the book provides a dynamic historical account and a forceful argument about race and advocacy that will nourish productive and thoughtful debate among scholars and in the classroom." * Mobilization *"Love's book successfully highlights the co-constitution of race and religion in relation to Islamophobia and the radicalization of Muslims ... both because its specificity to the phenomenon of Islamophobia and its generalizability to racism in America, Love's research is both timely and timeless, significant for sociologist and others alike." * Sociology of Religion *"Invaluable for its detailed chronicle of Muslim-American activism and its careful attention to the fascinating complexities, dilemmas, and paradoxes of racial identity." * Pacific Standard *"An important look at the rise of Islamophobia in the United States and the activists who work to fight it." -- Mehdi Bozorgmehr,author of Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond"In Islamophobia and Racism in America, Erik Love traces the roots and practices of discriminatory images and policies against South Asian, Muslim, Middle Eastern and Sikh communities. Especially in todays political climate, his book is a necessary reminder that Americans must understand the context in which Islamophobia developed and the role it plays today." -- Deepa Iyer,author of We Too Sing America"Wedding institutional analysis with rigorous empirical research, Love shows how Middle Eastern American political identity was born at the intersection of state policy and societal hostility. Original, timely, and chillingly lucid, this work falls within the best traditions of sociology, critical race theory, and institutional history." -- Hisham Aidi,author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture

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Book SynopsisExplores how humanitarian aid workers help and hinder the care of unaccompanied children as they arrive in the United StatesEvery year, tens of thousands of children cross into the United States without a legal guardian at their side, often fleeing violence and poverty in their countries of origin. In Unaccompanied, Emily Ruehs-Navarro shows us one aspect of their heartbreaking journeys, as seen through the eyes of the aid workers who trybut too often failto help them. Drawing on interviews with aid workers, migrant children, and others, Ruehs-Navarro follows unaccompanied youth as they seek help from a wide range of professionals. From legal relief organizations to family reunification specialists, she shows us how different aid workers may choose to work for, with, or against unaccompanied immigrant youth, deciding whether they should be treated as refugees, child dependents, or, in some cases, criminals. Ruehs-Navarro highlights how aid workers, anTrade Review"Emily Ruehs-Navarro takes us on a compelling sociological journey that maps out what drives youth to migrate by themselves and what they encounter when they arrive at the U.S border. Using multiple qualitative methods, she illuminates the ways in which border securitization, racialized child welfare, and humanitarianism intersect to shape how we think of and respond to unaccompanied migrant youth. Integrating the experiences and perspectives of both youth and the professionals who work with them, this valuable book brings into focus the complex landscape of aid they operate in and the contradictions and possibilities they navigate to access aid. " -- Lorena Garcia, author of Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity"This work is important because it demonstrates the conditional nature of humanitarian legal aid toward youth and highlights the continued traumatization of youth even after crossing the border." * Sociology of Race of Ethnicity *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association''s Section on Race, Class, and GenderHonorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association''s Latina/o Sociology SectionHow Latina teachers are making careers and helping students stay in touch with their roots.Latina women make up the fastest growing non-white group entering the teaching profession at a time when it is estimated that 20% of all students nationwide now identify as Latina/o. Through ethnographic and participant observation in two underperforming majority-minority schools in Los Angeles, as well as interviews with teachers, parents and staff, Latina Teachers examines the complexities stemming from a growing workforce of Latina teachers. The teachers profiled use Latino cultural resources and serve as agents of ethnic mobility. They activTrade ReviewGlenda Flores has crafted a milestone study on Latinas in the classroom. Interrogating familiar cultural practices as assets not deficits and Latino parents as allies not obstacles, Professor Flores brings out the 'difference' Latina teachers make in racially diverse schools. Moving well beyond a dialectic of European American teacher and Latino student, she deals with the everyday challenges of diversity with white, Latino, African American, and Asian students, parents, educators, and administrators and the types of coalitions and tensions that evolve along interracial lines. Timely, astute, and heartfelt, Latina Teachers is essential reading. -- Vicki L. Ruiz,author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century AmericaVividly detailed, offering stimulating ethnography and insightful analysis of the quiet but important transformations today underway in the classrooms of Latina teachers. Glenda Flores does not shy away from acknowledging the multiple challenges facing Latino children in U.S. schools, but her focus on Chicana/Latina teachers shines light on the unique contributions and doors that these teachers are opening for Latino children. This book makes significant contributions to the sociology of work, race/ethnicity and occupations, and it is a must read for anyone interested in understanding an asset perspective of Latino education. -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo,author of Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Studies!Explores Black representation in fantasy genres and comic booksCharacters like Black Panther, Storm, Luke Cage, Miles Morales, and Black Lightning are part of a growing cohort of black superheroes on TV and in film. Though comic books are often derided as naïve and childish, these larger-than-life superheroes demonstrate how this genre can serve as the catalyst for engaging the Black radical imagination.Keeping It Unreal: Comics and Black Queer Fantasy is an exploration of how fantasies of Black power and triumph fashion theoretical, political, and aesthetic challenges toand respite fromwhite supremacy and anti-Blackness. It examines representations of Blackness in fantasy-infused genres: superhero comic books, erotic comics, fantasy and science-fiction genre literature, as well as contemporary literary realist fiction centering fantastic conceits.Darieck Scott offers a rich meditTrade ReviewScott reflects on the importance of fantasy in comic books in this brisk and insightful meditation ... this analysis is rich and rewarding. * Publishers Weekly *This fabulously written reconsideration of fantasy goes beyond readings of Black queer comics to reveal the value of becoming fantastical—of living in a ‘habitable imaginary’ where dreams are substantiated. I came looking for insights about Luke Cage and Black Panther . . . only to find liberation and Black queer life. * Jennifer Brody, Stanford University *A primer in counter-intuition and bold imagination that dares to embrace the radical possibility of black happiness. Writing with razor-sharp wit and blistering erudition, Scott rewrites the meaning of fantasy to reveal its power as an intellectual and political tool for reimagining blackness beyond an antiblack world. His captivating excavations of black fantasy in the comic genre provide not only a space of pleasure and possibility, but a tool for living a different kind of black futurity. * Tina Campt, Brown University *Scott does an amazing job in the conclusion of providing some context as well as personal revelation, that allows the reader to feel like they too are part of this conversation and creation…Overall, Scott’s Keeping it Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics is a well-constructed engagement of various scholarly sources in the understanding and construction of ourselves, of others, and of life through the use of fantasy. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *In Keeping It Unreal, Scott doubles down on his belief that even in a whitewashed landscape, Black comic book heroes and their influence warp the foundation of how the industry operates, whether seen in superheroes or in porn. Ultimately, as a powerful reflection of the Black body’s identity, he argues that within these fantasy-acts lies a deep-rooted recognition of Black humanity that cannot be erased or denied. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *

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Book SynopsisDelves into the long history of Asian American sporting cultures, considering how identities and communities are negotiated on sporting fieldsThrough a close examination of Asian American sporting cultures ranging from boxing and basketball to spelling bees and wrestling, the contributors reveal the intimate connection between sport and identity formation. Sport plays a special role in the processes of citizen-making and of the policing of national and diasporic bodies. It is thus one key area in which Asian American stereotypes may be challenged, negotiated, and destroyed as athletic performances create multiple opportunities for claiming American identities. This volume incorporates work on Pacific Islander, South Asian, and Southeast Asian Americans as well as East Asian Americans, and explores how sports are gendered, including examinations of Asian American men's attempts to claim masculinity through sporting cultures as well as the Orientalism evident in discussions of mixed maTrade ReviewA wonderful read for and about sportss observers, participants, scholars, and fans. With a wide variety of approaches ranging from media analysis to autoethnography, this collection of smart and accessible essays provides a great model for thinking about sportsand through sports about ethnicity, race, and gender in specific local, transnational, and historical contexts. -- Erica Rand,author of Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the IceSports is one of the most important arenas of socialization and popular culture, and Asian Americans have often been seen as having a disjunctive or non-existent relationship to it. This sui generis collection shows in unexpected and startling ways how a long but under-examined history of Asian American sporting culturefrom participation and competition to spectatorship and fandomfundamentally reshapes allegories of national belonging and race at the heart of athletics. -- David L. Eng,University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisAn exploration of how race shapes Latino millennials' notions of national belonging Latino millennials constitute the second largest segment of the millennial population. By sheer numbers they will inevitably have a significant social, economic, and political impact on U.S. society. Beyond basic demographics, however, not much is known about how they make sense of themselves as Americans.In Citizens but Not Americans,Nilda Flores-González examines how Latino millennials understand race, experience race, and develop notions of belonging. Based on nearly one hundred interviews, Flores-González argues that though these young Latina/os are U.S. citizens by birth, they do not feel they are part of the American project, and are forever at the margins looking in. The book provides an inside look at how characteristics such as ancestry, skin color, social class, gender, language and culture converge and shape these youths' feelings of belonging as they navigate everyday rTrade ReviewIn building her argument about how U.S.-born Latino millennials challenge the conventional black-white racial binary, Flores-González redefines the idea that Latinos constitute a racial middle … This study provides an excellent example of theory building embedded in qualitative research. The author incorporates scholarship from sociology and political science, as well as ethnic studies, to explain the broader theoretical context in a way that is accessible for advanced undergraduate students and beyond. For these reasons, Citizens but Not Americans makes a significant contribution to literature on race, Latinos, and citizenship. -- American Journal of SociologyA timely book that captures the racial world that Latino millennials experience in the United States. Required reading for people who want a glimpse of what the future is likely to hold for Latinos. -- Rogelio Sáenz, Co-author of Latinos in the United States: Diversity and ChangeNilda Flores-González challenges scholars to move beyond current conceptualizations of race, the racial order, and national inclusion that do not match Latinos self-understandings as racialized subjects. Her theorization of the & racial middle is the most comprehensive and nuanced analysis of this concept to date. A major contribution to the literature on race in general and on Latinos in particular. -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Author of Racism without RacistsProfessor Flores-González advances theoretical notions of race and belonging by proposing a hybrid framework of ethnoracial citizenship . . . contributes to our understanding of the millennial generationa group that is often talked about but of which we have little scholarly knowledge. -- Vilma Ortiz, Co-author of Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and RaceUses the poignant voices of Latino millennials to show how being born into the nation does not guarantee a sense of full social inclusion. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in why belonging, race, and citizenship matter for Latinos and the larger society. -- Leo Chavez, Author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the NationFlores-González's research is thorough...This text could become a valuable resourcefor non-Latinos to gain a better understanding of fellow American citizens of Latino heritage, many of whom have been here for generations. * Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA) *

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Book SynopsisExplores the contentious debates among Black Catholics about the proper relationship between religious practice and racial identity Chicago has been known as the Black Metropolis. But before the Great Migration, Chicago could have been called the Catholic Metropolis, with its skyline defined by parish spires as well as by industrial smoke stacks and skyscrapers. This book uncovers the intersection of the two. Authentically Black and Truly Catholic traces the developments within the church in Chicago to show how Black Catholic activists in the 1960s and 1970s made Black Catholicism as we know it today. The sweep of the Great Migration brought many Black migrants face-to-face with white missionaries for the first time and transformed the religious landscape of the urban North. The hopes migrants had for their new home met with the desires of missionaries to convert entire neighborhoods. Missionaries and migrants forged fraught relationships with one another and tens of thousands of BlackTrade Review"This book has the potential to promote important conversations about the historic relationships of black and white Catholics, about the status and experiences of black Catholics today, and about what is required to properly recover and interpret the deep and rich history of black Catholics in the United States." * U.S. Catholic Magazine *"Authentically Black and Truly Catholic makes crucial contributions to wider scholarly conversations about 'Black religion' and 'the Black church,' the relationship between race and religion, and the history of Catholicism in the United States, as well as to other historical topics such as the Great Migration, Black Power, the urban North, and twentieth-century US history more generally." * The Journal of Religion *"A fascinating, richly detailed social history of the black transformation of an American Catholicism that traditionally welcomed and nutured Catholic ethnic immigrants in America. In many ways the book is deceptively complex. It is at once a social history of black Catholics that vividly uses the words of those black migrants to describe their experiences in the church and their new surroundings. Yet the book is also an intellectual history of the role that American Catholicism played in the Great Migration, truly making readers rethink the major sociopolitical movements of the last century and the Catholic Church's role in shaping (and being shaped by) them. Cressler's work demonstrates that the presence of religion in African American and American history is crucial to our understanding of what America is." * Journal of American History *"A significant contribution to understanding the context of black Catholics gravitation to Catholicism. It is a must read for scholars interested in black religious identity." * Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion *"Matthew Cressler has penned a book that can be read by a wide audience. He provides integration and balance of both primary and secondary sources and provides an extensive bibliography for the reader. This study of black Catholics, an interdisciplinary endeavor, encompassed a variety of disciplinary fieds: religious studies, African American studies, Catholic studies, history, and postcolonial studies. This book has something to offer those interested in the emergence of black Catholicism and its legacy in the United States, particularly in Chicago; likewise, historians and researchers will value this books’ contributions to the growing body of scholarly research on black Catholics in the United States." -- American Catholic Studies"Usually treatments of Black Catholics in the twentieth century situate them in relation to white people and prioritize the history of interracial activists in the civil rights movements. Historian Matthew J. Cressler’s Authentically Black and Truly Catholic considers Black Catholics on their own terms to explain how Black Catholics, by the 1980s, could practice distinctively Black ways of being Catholic … Cressler’s book is a tour de force." -- Review of Religious Research"The author makes excellent arguments for black Catholic self-awareness, collected both through a canvas of the extant literature—much of which has lain fallow all these years—and in-person interviews … the nation’s three million black Catholics are a potent, if often neglected, source of strength for the Church, and Cressler’s volume does much to chronicle their struggle." -- Catholic Library World"Cressler’s work adds two new dimensions to histories of religion in the civil rights movement. He shows how ritual practice contributed to black migrants’ Catholic transformation and self-understanding, and then he demonstrates how that consciousness fused Black Power with black Catholicism in a rejection of liberal interracialist Catholicism." -- The Christian Century"Matthew J. Cressler’s groundbreaking Authentically Black and Truly Catholic sets out not only to explore the world of black Catholic Chicago, but also to participate in a larger efforts to rethink the stories we tell about American religion … If, for example, you did not already believe that Catholicism, “as with all things in America,” is “ineluctably entangled with race” (200), then you may finish this book mourning a little—but also closer to the truth than you were before." -- Study of American Catholicism at University of Notre Dame"It is Cressler’s attention to the intersection of the Great Migrations and religion that is perhaps one of the work’s biggest contributions to researchers and teachers of the sociology of religion because he aptly demonstrates what the migrations meant to Catholicism, and Catholicism’s impact on those who had migrated. He takes painstaking effort to document how those migrations “changed religious life and culture across the country as Black and southern ways of being Christian were remade amidst the ‘exigencies of the city’”… Cressler reveals that interplay which ultimately led to an expansion of Black Catholic existence and ways of being. In doing so, he also welcomes us to reconsider the Great Migrations and broader understanding of their impact on the social and spiritual aspects of Black life. This work is a significant contribution to the historiographies of U.S. Catholicism, African American life and history, Black Power, and the Great Migrations." -- Sociology Religion"Cressler’s book is an exciting read. Accessible to undergraduates, this book will prove a rewarding addition to a wide range of college courses, and its individual chapters could likewise stand alone for such purposes." -- Religion"What remains clear from his retracing of nearly a century of Black Catholic history through the lens of the Chicago experience is that contemporary concerns of Black Catholics for ecclesial and civil justice and self-determination are a continuation of their long experience within the Catholic Church." -- US Catholic Historian"In Authentically Black and Truly Catholic, Matthew Cressler offers an original and insightful portrait of Chicagos Black Catholics from the communitys early years through the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements and sheds new light on the dynamic relationship between race and religion in twentieth-century America. With Chicago at the center of the broader story of a 'revolution in Black Catholic identity,' this well-researched and engaging study reveals the complexity and texture of Black Catholics religious lives and negotiations of what it meant to be committed to both Black solidarity and community life and to the Roman Catholic Church. Cressler advances the study of Black Catholic history in exciting ways and makes an invaluable contribution." -- Judith Weisenfeld,author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration"In Authentically Black and Truly Catholic, Matthew Cressler turns a spotlight on the efforts of Black Catholics to articulate and dramatize their faith in an idiom reflective of the spirituality and aesthetics nourished by their culture and explores the understudied influence of the rhetoric and aesthetics of Black Power on the 20th century reemergence of an active Black Catholic Movement. This work makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of diversity in the Catholic Church in the United States!" -- M. Shawn Copeland,editor of Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience * Orbis Books *"Previous work has largely conflated racial justice and interracial liberalism and this book examines how this view largely obscures the important lived experience and political and religious preferences of Black Catholics in Chicago there is little to fault in the analysis itself and this remarkable first book will be of interest to historians and sociologists of race and religion for many years to come." * Catholic Books Review *"Cressler’s considerable achievement is to place African American Catholics at the center of the story, much more so than histories of race relations typically allow, and in this way he enriches standard accounts of both African American and Catholic history." -- American Historical Review"Well researched and chronicled, Matthew J. Cressler’s contribution is welcomed in the emerging lexicon on Black Catholicism." * Journal of African American History *

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Book SynopsisEnlists the principles of post-humanist critique in order to investigate decades of intimate dialogues between African American and Spanish intellectuals In Archives of Flesh, Robert Reid-Pharr reveals the deep history of intellectual engagement between African America and Spain. Opening a fascinating window onto black and anti-Fascist intellectual life from 1898 through the mid-1950s, Reid-Pharr argues that key institutions of Western Humanism, including American colleges and universities, developed in intimate relation to slavery, colonization, and white supremacy. This retreat to rigidly established philosophical and critical traditions can never fully addressor even fully recognizethe deep-seated hostility to black subjectivity underlying the humanist ideal of a transcendent Manhood. Calling for a specifically anti-white supremacist reexamination of the archives of black subjectivity and resistance, Reid-Pharr enlists the principles of post-humanist critiTrade ReviewArchives of Fleshis a daring and beautifully written book, offering reflections on the current state of Black studies and the sociopolitical and geographical locations of Blackness that inform our dominant discourses. With this volume, Reid-Pharr expands his reputation as a rigorous and iconoclastic scholar who pushes the field to examine its sacred cows and consider how their rigid mythologies cost us the development of more truthful, insightful, and liberating analytical practices. A bold indictment of the intellectual inflexibility that informs mainstream discourses on Blackness and the politics of difference,Archives of Fleshholds its own as a polemic by one of our most famous and respected contemporary scholars. -- Michelle Wright,author of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology

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Book SynopsisExplores the racialization of immigrants from post-Soviet states and the nuances of citizenship for this new diaspora. Mapping representations of post-1980s immigration from the former Soviet Union to the United States in interviews, reality TV shows, fiction, and memoirs, Claudia Sadowski-Smith shows how this nationally and ethnically diverse group is associated with idealized accounts of the assimilation and upward mobility of early twentieth-century arrivals from Europe. As it traces the contributions of historical Eastern European migration to the emergence of a white racial identity that continues to provide privileges to many post-Soviet migrants, the book places the post-USSR diaspora into larger discussions about the racialization of contemporary US immigrants under neoliberal conditions. The New Immigrant Whiteness argues that legal status on arrivalas participants in refugee, marriage, labor, and adoptive migration impacts post-Soviet immigrants' encounters with growing socioTrade ReviewSadowski-Smith excels in her comparative analysis of former Soviet immigrants—who are unquestionably white but have segmented access to citizenship based on their legal status—and other immigrant groups similarly associated with upward mobility. -- CHOICEThis multi-layered, cross-disciplinary book makes us aware of the shades of whiteness that tend to be systematically erased when subjected to the binary color line that historically defines racial difference in the US. Looking at areas of representation as diverse as reality TV, literature, and international adoption, Sadowski-Smith's study of immigration from the post-Soviet region makes a persuasive argument for a subtle, relational understanding of race and ethnicity as flexible, historically shifting categories. -- Anikó Imre,University of Southern CaliforniaThis amazingly rich book provides a much-needed window into the diverse Post-Soviet diaspora and offers a new understanding of how immigrant whiteness and race work today. Sadowski-Smith's original interdisciplinary approach and cross-ethnic comparative research make The New Immigrant Whiteness stand out in the field of migration studies. Scholars and students seeking to understand the transnational cultures, gender and family dynamics, and migration and adaptation strategies of contemporary European migrants need to start with this book. -- Erika Lee,University of Minnesota

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Book SynopsisHow black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate onlineThe Digital Edge examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. While notions of the digital divide between the technology rich and the technology poor have largely focused on access to new media technologies, the contours of the digital divide have grown increasingly complex. Analyzing data from a year-long ethnographic study at Freeway High School, the authors investigate how the digital media ecologies and practices of black and Latino youth have adapted as a result of the wider diffusion of the internet all around us--in homes, at school, and in the palm of our hands. Their eager adoption of different technologies forge new possibilities for learning and creating that recognize the collective power of youth: peer networks, inventive uses of technology, and impassioned interests that are remaking the digital worldTrade ReviewBased on an ethnographic study conducted in Austin, Texas, involving nearly 300 interviews, Watkins and his coauthors provide an overview of the digital divide that African Americans and Latino youth face and an exploration of the ways they use mobile technology and the internet.… The book’s strength lies in its asset-based framing of the potential and agency of adolescents who are eager to harness technology in their educations and careers. The book concludes by encouraging educators to ask if they are truly preparing youth for the future. -- CHOICEA powerful dispatch from the front lines of the battle to ensure that digital education closesrather than widensgaps between communities of color and the rest of the nation. Digital Edge wrestles with the complex questions of whether the excitement Black Latino youth have expressed in adopting digital technologies can turn into economic opportunity, and whether our education system is capable of channeling that passion into educational equity. -- Ethan Zuckerman,author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of ConnectionFor anyone interested in an up-close observation of how black, Latinx, immigrant, and low-income students are participating in a complex digital world, I highly recommendThe Digital Edgefor its critical analysis of the complexities and tensions involved with technology in education, equity, and what it means to prepare all youth to be 'future ready'. -- Jane Margolis,author of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, And ComputingA major contribution in understanding the impact of precarious access to digital technology at school and home as well as missed opportunities for STEM education resulting in further widening the education and income gap, reproducing inequality for low income Black and Latinx youth, and severely impacting communities. * Social Forces *The Digital Edge explains why what we believe about the digital divide is wrong, and in 2020, it could not be more relevant ... the authors presciently outline why it is time to rethink the old conception of the digital divide. This book is a must for educators, and an important read for anyone interested in the convoluted present and future of the digital divide in America. * International Journal of Communication *

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of the Mexican-American War, competing narratives of religious conquest and re-conquest were employed by Anglo-American and ethnic Mexican Californians to make sense of their place in North America. This book deals with this topic.Trade Review"In clear prose and supported by abundant evidence, it interrogates one of the most important concepts in Chicana/o historyAztlánfrom a fresh perspective. The book will be welcomed by anyone interested in southern California, its history, and its relationship to Aztlán." * The Journal of American History *"This book is U.S.-Mexico borderland scholarship at its best. [] While written for an academic audience, Lint Sagarena writes with poetic elegance that could dance with even the most casual reader. This book is a must-read for any regional studies onSouthern California." * Review of Religious Research *"A brilliant study. Read about how 'American hispanophilia' was imprinted in buildings even as hatred for Mexicans reigned in the streets. Discover how Protestant fantasies about Spanish culture helped Americanize Catholicism and make Mexico seem more foreign. Learn how Mexicans projected their own fantasies of an idealized indigenous past onto their northern territories. See how the mythical homeland of the Aztecs became the political hope of Chicanos, who helped make California the site of new portrayals of the Mexican Virgen de Guadalupe. . . . A timely book for our national discourse about Mexico, immigration, and future cultural identities in the U.S." -- David Carrasco,Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, Harvard Divinity School"A compelling study of an important and disturbing history with significant contemporary implications. Lint Sagarena demonstrates how various political, cultural, and commercial interests reimagined California's Spanish religious past in order to diminish its Mexican and indigenous present. Mining mission revival architecture, the mural movement, popular literatures, public festivals, and international expositions, this illuminating volume charts the invention, and reinvention, of an 'American' California." -- Sally M. Promey,Yale University"This book is for anyone who is fascinated by the layering of time, by the structuring of place, memory, and peoples in landscapes that are half fantasy in the storied terrain of Southern California. Lint Sagarena gives us a subtle investigation of how ethnicity and nationalism rely on material forms anchored in style and imagination. He shows how history is a tale of loss and imagined reconstitution. Myths are special kinds of stories, told and performed in ways that make their credibility visceral. Aztlán is one of these, a beguiling, wonderful, fantastic notion imbued in the architecture of homes and malls. This is a tale well told and a book that fills an enormous gap in the literature of religious life and imagination in America." -- David Morgan,Duke University"Lint Sagarena offers a multifaceted study of historical memory in California that examines how Euro-Americans and Chicanos created distinct and conflicting interpretations of the state's Spanish and Mexican heritage." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Conquest and Legacy 2. Building a Region3. The Spanish Heritage 4. Making Aztlan Conclusion

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE W.E.B. DUBOIS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTSA wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black womenFrom Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black women are uniquely scrutinized in the public eye. In Re-Imagining Black Women, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd explores how Black womenand Blackness more broadlyare understood in our political imagination and often become the subjects of public controversy. Drawing on politics, popular culture, psychoanalysis, and more, Alexander-Floyd examines our conflicting ideas, opinions, and narratives about Black women, showing how they are equally revered and reviled as an embodiment of good and evil, cast either as victims or villains, citizens or outsiders. Ultimately, Alexander-Floyd showcases the complex experiences of Black women as political subjects. At a time of extreme racial tension, Re-Imagining Trade Review"Alexander-Floyd has written a provocative, hard-hitting analysis of Black political matters, ranging from Condolezza Rice, to Barack Obama to Bill Cosby to R. Kelly. Bold and controversial, Re-Imagining Black Women is a must-read for scholars attempting to navigate the complex political and cultural terrain of U.S. history over the past two decades." -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities"An insightful and necessary intervention into post-politics: its origins, its intersections, and its fictive construction by the state and popular media." -- Paula J. Giddings, author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions"Drawing on political science, women and gender studies, media studies, and psychoanalysis, the author critiques an array of subjects, from Condoleezza Rice to Barack Obama, the fictional Madea, and #MeToo. This would be excellent for a senior seminar or even graduate courses." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisForegrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experienceHow does it feel to be a problem? asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the Negro problem was inextricably linked to the concurrent labor problem, occasioning debates regarding blacks' role in the nation's industrial past, present and future. With blacks freed from the seemingly protective embrace of slavery, many felt that the ostensibly primitive Negro was doomed to expire in the face of unbridled industrial progress. Yet efforts to address the so-called Negro problem invariably led to questions regarding the relationship between race, industry and labor writ large. In consequence, a collection of thinkers across the natural and social sciences developed a new culture of racial management, linking race and labor to color and the body. Evolutionary theory and industrial management combined to identify certain peoples with certain forms of work and reTrade ReviewForging A Laboring Race is an important and imaginative contribution to the history of race and labor in the Progressive Era. It is also a brisk, powerful, and re-orienting critique of the very notion of 'the black worker' as a discrete category of experience. This notion was produced by myriad think tanks, self-professed social scientists, and busy-bodied state agencies, and it had real consequences for the men and women who arrived in the urban North in the first Great Migration. It persists to this day. * Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University *A painstakingly thorough examination of the black worker as a commodity and a concept within the Progressive imagination. . . . Lawrie boldly demonstrates how a race-based form of industrial capitalism was central to the making of the modern U.S. state during the Progressive Era. * Davarian L. Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College *The book is a reminder of the need to examine the production, dissemination, and broad acceptance of scientific knowledge in historical context, and does so itself in a compact analysis that will interest scholars of race and ethnicity, progressivism, state formation, and the history of science. * Choice *A stimulating account of the uses of sciences and the state in defining blackness in the services of war and capitalism, and important reading for any scholar of race, the progressive era, or modernity. * Canadian Journal of History *Lawrie demonstrates that difference, and most specifically blackness, has been conceived as problematic by Americans. Unfortunately, Americans continue to struggle with the question of whether a diverse group of people can form and maintain a cohesive and strong nation. In our contemporary period, those who say it cannot be done continue to rely on false data; in this matter, Lawries work can help us greet the future as well as the past. * Canada and the United States *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2024 Global Sociology Book Award, given by the Canadian Sociological Association Winner of the 2024 Silver Medal for the Canada West Non-Fiction category, given by The Independent Publisher Book AwardWinner of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America's Book Award on Asian AmericaHonorable Mention, 2024 Social Science Category Book Awards, given by the Association for Asian American StudiesHonorable Mention, 2022 Betty and McClung Lee Book Award, given by the Association for Humanist SociologyUnravels how US visa laws fail Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses and familiesThe Opportunity Trap is the first book to look at the impact of the H-4 dependent visa programs on women and men visa holders in Indian families in America. Comparing two distinct groups of Indian immigrant families families of male high-tech workers and female nursesPallavi Banerjee reveals how visa policies that are legally gender and race neutral in fact have gendered and racializeTrade ReviewPowerful and vivid, The Opportunity Trap tells us of the pains wrought by legal dependency on temporary visa workers and their spouses. Both are suspended and indentured by law. This gender comparative study of hi-tech workers and nurses is a must read as it advances our understanding of immigration, the family, and law in the United States. -- Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab StatesThrough her insightful analyses of how dependent visas reflect a gendered and racialized regime that controls immigrant families, Banerjee brilliantly identifies the many contradictions faced by Indian migrant workers and their families in the U.S. The Opportunity Trap beautifully captures how the visa regime devalues and makes invisible those on dependent visas, reworks gender relations and parenting within the household, while also making families excessively beholden to migrant workers' employers. This is an important book that should be widely read. -- Joya Misra, co-author of Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing WorkPallavi Banerjee’s The Opportunity Trap offers a fascinating window into the intimate relationship between migration visas and the work/family lives of skilled migrants and their spousal dependents. * Social Forces *The Opportunity Trap presents a meticulous sketch of the poignant and constrained lives of high-skilled Indian migrants and their families in the United States. Banerjee skillfully illustrates how forced dependency intersects with the social, cultural, and economic perceptions of masculinity. [The Opportunity Trap] opens several new directions for policymakers, scholars, and activists working on gender, labor, and migration. * Gender & Society *Coherent and persuasive. The Opportunity Trap contributes heavily to the scholarship of intersectionality entailing gender, race, ethnicity, class, immigration, and work, as well as to the study of work and family issues. I highly recommend this book for any undergraduate or graduate course on gender or work, or anyone interested in teaching immigration and work from an intersectional perspective. * Work and Occupations *A thoughtful, compassionate, and richly detailed study of the lived experiences of racialized, high-skilled migrant families in the United States. Banerjee vividly describes everyday people’s struggles and failures to affirm their personal dignity and build a good life under such conditions. Rigorous, heartfelt, and intersectional, The Opportunity Trap is an important contribution. -- Neda Maghbouleh * Labour / Le Travail *Banerjee brings the reader into the private lives of these families as they negotiate belonging in a country that both constrains and enables their upward mobility and happiness... Employers, management, undergraduate students, or populations impacted by the visa regime would benefit from reading Banerjee’s book. This book would be a great addition to gender and migration studies courses. * Canadian Ethnic Studies *The Opportunity Trap delivers the kind of multi-scalar analysis that development scholars treasure. In the tradition of feminist global ethnography, Banerjee interrogates the making of the self, the worker, the nation and the institutions that knit them together... This book will be invaluable for undergraduate courses on globalization, gender, families, immigration and development in Asia. * The Journal of Development Studies *The Opportunity Trap offers a nuanced understanding of the outdated and unequal visa system in the US. Banerjee's research centers the people who struggle through the visa regime, making the majority of the book accessible to general audiences. The book’s rich theoretical contributions are ideal for immigration and gender studies courses, and Banerjee’s practical recommendations to reform visa laws makes The Opportunity Trap a digestible and crucial reading for visa policymakers, activists, and other political workers. * Journal of Asian American Studies *Taken together, the focus on gender and its interactions with other intersectional aspects of Indian migrant life in the United States—along with the emphasis on the experiences of dependent visa-holding spouses—makes The Opportunity Trap a valuable contribution to the field of migration studies…this is a book I strongly recommend to scholars working on migration, South Asian diasporas, and related fields. * Industrial and Labor Relations Review *In addition to introducing a new intersectional parenting approach, Banerjee invites family scholars to further investigate a powerful theme: unpacking the privileges that stem from pre-migration class location of families in the midst of oppressive conditions fueled by the U.S. visa regime. * Journal of Family Studies *

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Book SynopsisNearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, President Obama walked into the press briefing room and shocked observers by saying that Trayvon could have been me. He talked personally and poignantly about his experiences and pointed to intra-racial violence as equally serious and precarious for black boys. He offered no sweeping policy changes or legislative agendas; he saw them as futile. Instead, he suggested that prejudice would be eliminated through collective efforts to help black males and for everyone to reflect on their own prejudices. Obama's presidency provides a unique opportunity to engage in a discussion about race and politics. In The Race Whisperer, Melanye Price analyzes the manner in which Barack Obama uses race strategically to engage with and win the loyalty of potential supporters. This book uses examples from Obama's campaigns and presidency to demonstrate his ability to authentically tap into notions of blackness and whiteneTrade ReviewIn this book, Melanye Price masterfully explores the many ways in which the first black president, Barack Obama, navigated the complexities of racenot only as a politician but also as a candidate. The books success lies in Prices ability to peel back the layers of racial significance within President Obamas rhetorical approaches[Prices] work is extremely impressive. * Critical Dialogues *Price has written a wonderfully rich treatment of President Barack Obamas rhetoric and his usages of race. It is a highly critical, yet restrained analysis of his presidency. This book invites readers to think closely about how politicians, especially African American politicians, use race in American national politics. More importantly, it serves as guidebook for African American voters and how they might assess the use of race in political rhetoric and discourse. -- Randal Maurice Jelks,author of Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of The Movement: A BiographyWith The Race Whisperer Melanye Price has helped decode one of the most enigmatic and complex dynamics of the Obama Presidency. -- W. Jelani Cobb,author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress[Price's] analysis shines new light on the price paid for black silence. If Obama is the model for black politicians going forward, how can they deliver more than symbolic benefit to black voters? * The Historian *

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Book SynopsisHow black and Latino youth learn, create, and collaborate onlineThe Digital Edge examines how the digital and social-media lives of low-income youth, especially youth of color, have evolved amidst rapid social and technological change. While notions of the digital divide between the technology rich and the technology poor have largely focused on access to new media technologies, the contours of the digital divide have grown increasingly complex. Analyzing data from a year-long ethnographic study at Freeway High School, the authors investigate how the digital media ecologies and practices of black and Latino youth have adapted as a result of the wider diffusion of the internet all around us--in homes, at school, and in the palm of our hands. Their eager adoption of different technologies forge new possibilities for learning and creating that recognize the collective power of youth: peer networks, inventive uses of technology, and impassioned interests that are remaking the digital worldTrade ReviewBased on an ethnographic study conducted in Austin, Texas, involving nearly 300 interviews, Watkins and his coauthors provide an overview of the digital divide that African Americans and Latino youth face and an exploration of the ways they use mobile technology and the internet.… The book’s strength lies in its asset-based framing of the potential and agency of adolescents who are eager to harness technology in their educations and careers. The book concludes by encouraging educators to ask if they are truly preparing youth for the future. -- CHOICEA powerful dispatch from the front lines of the battle to ensure that digital education closesrather than widensgaps between communities of color and the rest of the nation. Digital Edge wrestles with the complex questions of whether the excitement Black Latino youth have expressed in adopting digital technologies can turn into economic opportunity, and whether our education system is capable of channeling that passion into educational equity. -- Ethan Zuckerman,author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of ConnectionFor anyone interested in an up-close observation of how black, Latinx, immigrant, and low-income students are participating in a complex digital world, I highly recommendThe Digital Edgefor its critical analysis of the complexities and tensions involved with technology in education, equity, and what it means to prepare all youth to be 'future ready'. -- Jane Margolis,author of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, And ComputingA major contribution in understanding the impact of precarious access to digital technology at school and home as well as missed opportunities for STEM education resulting in further widening the education and income gap, reproducing inequality for low income Black and Latinx youth, and severely impacting communities. * Social Forces *The Digital Edge explains why what we believe about the digital divide is wrong, and in 2020, it could not be more relevant ... the authors presciently outline why it is time to rethink the old conception of the digital divide. This book is a must for educators, and an important read for anyone interested in the convoluted present and future of the digital divide in America. * International Journal of Communication *

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE W.E.B. DUBOIS DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK POLITICAL SCIENTISTSA wide-ranging Black feminist interrogation, reaching from the #MeToo movement to the legacy of gender-based violence against Black womenFrom Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black women are uniquely scrutinized in the public eye. In Re-Imagining Black Women, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd explores how Black womenand Blackness more broadlyare understood in our political imagination and often become the subjects of public controversy. Drawing on politics, popular culture, psychoanalysis, and more, Alexander-Floyd examines our conflicting ideas, opinions, and narratives about Black women, showing how they are equally revered and reviled as an embodiment of good and evil, cast either as victims or villains, citizens or outsiders. Ultimately, Alexander-Floyd showcases the complex experiences of Black women as political subjects. At a time of extreme racial tension, Re-Imagining Trade Review"Alexander-Floyd has written a provocative, hard-hitting analysis of Black political matters, ranging from Condolezza Rice, to Barack Obama to Bill Cosby to R. Kelly. Bold and controversial, Re-Imagining Black Women is a must-read for scholars attempting to navigate the complex political and cultural terrain of U.S. history over the past two decades." -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, co-author of Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities"An insightful and necessary intervention into post-politics: its origins, its intersections, and its fictive construction by the state and popular media." -- Paula J. Giddings, author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions"Drawing on political science, women and gender studies, media studies, and psychoanalysis, the author critiques an array of subjects, from Condoleezza Rice to Barack Obama, the fictional Madea, and #MeToo. This would be excellent for a senior seminar or even graduate courses." * Choice *

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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 how his theories changed, evTrade 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 SynopsisSet between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter's defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipinos across U.S. domains. Offering readings in literature, blues and jazz culture, film,theatre, journalism, and private correspondence, Vince Schleitwiler considers how the collective yearnings and speculative destinies of these groups were bound together along what W.E.B. Du Bois called the world-belting color line. The links were forged by the paradoxical practices of race-making in an aspiring empirebenevolent uplift through tutelage, alongside overwhelming sexualized violencewhich together comprise what Schleitwiler calls imperialism's racial justice. This process could only be sustained through an ongoing training of perception in an aesthetics of racial terror, through rituals of racial and colonial violence that also proTrade ReviewStrange Fruit of the Black Pacific, filled with provocative insights and startling revelations on the color line at the intersecting histories of US imperialism, African American transpacific travels, the colonization of the Philippines, the Great Migration, and the Japanese Internment, is a significant contribution to the study of race and empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Schleitwiler’s book should be a useful addition for students and researchers who seek a deeper understanding of the ramifications of US imperialism’s racialized justifications. -- Journal of African American HistoryItinerant, flowing, and even stylistically improvisational, the text is creatively orchestrated by the author into an array of primary objects…. With his unique mining of the cultural archive, Schleitwiler provides insightful tools for scholars in a variety of fields -- Critical Ethnic StudiesStrange Fruit of the Black Pacificis an inventive study of African American and Asian American literature as a point of entry into the ways in which empire and race have been intertwined and how race-based movements for liberation have often unwittingly embraced imperial logics. Unearthing critically forgotten fiction and non-fiction texts, Schleitwiler makes an outstanding contribution, with virtuosic interpretations not only of the literary texts themselves, but of the broader social texts in which they circulate. Intelligent, moving, and extraordinarily generative,Strange Fruit of the Black Pacificmakes use the messy contradictions of the past as a way of understanding the enormous tasks that face us in the present. -- George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes PlaceBrilliant in its dramatic sweep and analytic nuance, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific is a bold examination of the intersections between African American and Asian American cultural production as they emerge from competing imperialist discourses. Schleitwilers approach is groundbreaking, synthesizing a remarkable range of texts to provide unexpected and evocative conclusions. -- Helen Jun,author of Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoli

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Book SynopsisForegrounds the working black body as both a category of analysis and lived experienceHow does it feel to be a problem? asked W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk. For many thinkers across the color line, the Negro problem was inextricably linked to the concurrent labor problem, occasioning debates regarding blacks' role in the nation's industrial past, present and future. With blacks freed from the seemingly protective embrace of slavery, many felt that the ostensibly primitive Negro was doomed to expire in the face of unbridled industrial progress. Yet efforts to address the so-called Negro problem invariably led to questions regarding the relationship between race, industry and labor writ large. In consequence, a collection of thinkers across the natural and social sciences developed a new culture of racial management, linking race and labor to color and the body. Evolutionary theory and industrial management combined to identify certain peoples with certain forms of work and reTrade ReviewForging A Laboring Race is an important and imaginative contribution to the history of race and labor in the Progressive Era. It is also a brisk, powerful, and re-orienting critique of the very notion of 'the black worker' as a discrete category of experience. This notion was produced by myriad think tanks, self-professed social scientists, and busy-bodied state agencies, and it had real consequences for the men and women who arrived in the urban North in the first Great Migration. It persists to this day. * Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University *A painstakingly thorough examination of the black worker as a commodity and a concept within the Progressive imagination. . . . Lawrie boldly demonstrates how a race-based form of industrial capitalism was central to the making of the modern U.S. state during the Progressive Era. * Davarian L. Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College *The book is a reminder of the need to examine the production, dissemination, and broad acceptance of scientific knowledge in historical context, and does so itself in a compact analysis that will interest scholars of race and ethnicity, progressivism, state formation, and the history of science. * Choice *A stimulating account of the uses of sciences and the state in defining blackness in the services of war and capitalism, and important reading for any scholar of race, the progressive era, or modernity. * Canadian Journal of History *Lawrie demonstrates that difference, and most specifically blackness, has been conceived as problematic by Americans. Unfortunately, Americans continue to struggle with the question of whether a diverse group of people can form and maintain a cohesive and strong nation. In our contemporary period, those who say it cannot be done continue to rely on false data; in this matter, Lawries work can help us greet the future as well as the past. * Canada and the United States *

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Book SynopsisUsing a transnational approach, this volume explores the ownership, importation, and circulation of talent and content from Latin America, placing the dynamics of the global political economy and cultural politics in the foreground of contemporary analysis of Latina/o media.Trade Review"Contemporary Latina/o Mediaprovides scholars with a much-needed resource for rethinking media studies and will undoubtedly emerge as a touchstone volume on its topic. Scholars of Latino/a media will seek it out for several of its groundbreaking essays, and students at all levels will find the writing accessible and sophisticated." * American Studies Journal *"With the changing demographics of the US, Latina/os are playing an important role in redefining Latina/o media. Davila and Rivero bring together media, cultural, and ethnic studies scholars to develop a contemporary analysis of Latina/o media through a transnational lens." * Choice *"With a finger on the pulse of critical issues in media studies writ large,Contemporary Latina/o Mediaprovides a serious study of Latina/o media as a constellation of transnational industries always in search of the Latina/o consumer. In an age in which Latin American economies may surpass the US in terms of growth, this collections focus on Latina/o media markets as a terrain of struggle is a timely and significant contribution to scholarship in the field." -- Vicki Mayer,author of Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and Mass MediaTable of ContentsPart I. Production 1. Corporate Transnationalism: The US Hispanic and 21 Latin American Television Industries Juan Pinon 2. Converging from the South: Mexican Television in the 44 United States Rodrigo Gomez, Toby Miller, and Andre Dorce 3. NuvoTV: Will It Withstand the Competition? 62 Henry Puente 4. One Language, One Nation, and One Vision: 82 NBC Latino, Fusion, and Fox News Latino Christopher Joseph Westgate 5. The Gang's Not All Here: The State of Latinos in 103 Contemporary US Media Frances Negron-Muntaner 6. Latinos at the Margins of Celebrity Culture: 125 Image Sales and the Politics of Paparazzi Vanessa Diaz Part II. Circulation, Distribution, Policy 7. Anatomy of a Protest: Grey's Anatomy, Colombia's 149 A corazon abierto, and the Politicization of a Format Yeidy M. Rivero 8. Colombianidades Export Market 169 Omar Rincon and Maria Paula Martinez 9. The Role of Media Policy in Shaping the US Latino 186 Radio Industry Mari Castaneda 10. Lost in Translation: The Politics of Race and Language 206 in Spanish-Language Radio Ratings Dolores Ines Casillas 11. The Dark Side of Transnational Latinidad: 223 Narcocorridos and the Branding of Authenticity Hector Amaya Part III. Cultural Politics 12. "No Papers, No Fear": DREAM Activism, New Social 245 Media, and the Queering of Immigrant Rights

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Book SynopsisA story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City's complex history of police brutalityThe 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri was the catalyst for a national conversation about race, policing, and injustice. The subsequent killings of other black (often unarmed) citizens led to a surge of media coverage which in turn led to protests and clashes between the police and local residents that were reminiscent of the unrest of the 1960s. Fight the Power examines the explosive history of police brutality in New York City and the black community's long struggle to resist it. Taylor brings this story to life by exploring the institutions and the people that waged campaigns to end the mistreatment of people of color at the hands of the police, including the black church, the black press, black communists and civil rights activists. Ranging from the 1940s to the mayoralty of Bill de Blasio, Taylor describes the significant strides made in curbing policTrade Review"Taylor provides an essential history of the now, showing how current struggles for racial justice have emerged out of a long history of police abuse, protest, and inadequate reforms." -- Alex Vitale,author of The End of Policing"The time is ripe for this kind of book; and this history delivers the most informed and reasonable voice to an unprecedented and eager public readership. I can hardly wait to teach this book in my lectures and seminars in African American, urban and ethnic history and public policy. The American reading public has been presented with a precious gift by Professor Clarence Taylor: Bravo!" -- Komozi Woodard,author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics"This timely and urgent account of the long reign of police terror inflicted on Black New Yorkers also tells a heroic and largely unheralded story of resistance. In fighting for justice, Black New Yorkers have sought a fundamental redefinition of policing. Clarence Taylor's book is needed now more than ever." -- Martha Biondi,author of To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City"This well-researched, well-told book provides thoughtful context for the current American reckoning with police brutality." * Publishers Weekly *"Clarence Taylor offers a judicious history of black New Yorkers’ efforts to confront police brutality since the 1940s." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Fight the Power offers a clear sense of the intractable nature of anti-Black police violence and harassment in New York over the span of generations and of some of the ways that Black folks pushed reform of that system." * The Journal of African American History *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication AssociationHow Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called racists? Or respond to racism in code only to face accusations of selling out? Postracial Resistance explores how African American women celebrities, cultural producers, and audiences employ postracial discoursethe notion that race and race-based discrimination are over and no longer affect people's everyday livesto refute postracialism itself. In a world where they're often written off as stereotypical Angry Black Women, Joseph offers that some Black women in media use strategic ambiguity, deploying the failures of post-raciaTrade ReviewThe book is significant in centering the voices and experiences of African American women in media studies and articulating their strategic resistance in mediated spaces where they are minoritized. -- ChoiceThe book is a much-needed contribution to sociological analysis of Black women’s talk, arguing Black women’s vocal performatives enact postracial political resistance... Postracial Resistance clarifies postracial logics—how they manifest ambivalence in public speaking events and even the most mundane speech acts of Black women in positions of institutional diversity and inclusion. Joseph adds Black women’s talk to the topic of postracial discourse emerging in critical communication, cultural studies, ethnic studies, and sociology. -- International Journal of CommunicationA fascinating study that boldly mines the complexities of racial and gender microaggressions in contemporary media, examining the many ways in which Black women culture workers and consumers have navigated said minefields. Through nuanced readings of our notoriously vexed postracial pop cultural landscape, and through rich explorations of Black women and their audiences, Ralina Joseph has written a necessary accompaniment to Claudia Rankines Citizen. -- Daphne Brooks,author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910With the spectacular visibility of Oprah, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé, such a book is needed now, perhaps, more than ever. To advance conversations about the intersections of race, class, gender, media, and accomplishment, Ralina Joseph introduces us to the concept of & strategic ambiguity, one that complicates the realities of celebrity life for women of color in the wake of the & postracial condition. -- Herman Gray,author of Cultural Moves, African Americans and the Politics of RepresentationJoseph’s insightful unpacking of Black women’s resistance is a critical, cultural communication studies book in both method and content ... The level of detailed analysis Joseph offers is impressive and her arguments insightful ... well-written, timely, and an important addition to the conversation about being Black in America. * QED *

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Book SynopsisSet between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter's defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipinos across U.S. domains. Offering readings in literature, blues and jazz culture, film,theatre, journalism, and private correspondence, Vince Schleitwiler considers how the collective yearnings and speculative destinies of these groups were bound together along what W.E.B. Du Bois called the world-belting color line. The links were forged by the paradoxical practices of race-making in an aspiring empirebenevolent uplift through tutelage, alongside overwhelming sexualized violencewhich together comprise what Schleitwiler calls imperialism's racial justice. This process could only be sustained through an ongoing training of perception in an aesthetics of racial terror, through rituals of racial and colonial violence that also proTrade ReviewStrange Fruit of the Black Pacific, filled with provocative insights and startling revelations on the color line at the intersecting histories of US imperialism, African American transpacific travels, the colonization of the Philippines, the Great Migration, and the Japanese Internment, is a significant contribution to the study of race and empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Schleitwiler’s book should be a useful addition for students and researchers who seek a deeper understanding of the ramifications of US imperialism’s racialized justifications. -- Journal of African American HistoryItinerant, flowing, and even stylistically improvisational, the text is creatively orchestrated by the author into an array of primary objects…. With his unique mining of the cultural archive, Schleitwiler provides insightful tools for scholars in a variety of fields -- Critical Ethnic StudiesStrange Fruit of the Black Pacificis an inventive study of African American and Asian American literature as a point of entry into the ways in which empire and race have been intertwined and how race-based movements for liberation have often unwittingly embraced imperial logics. Unearthing critically forgotten fiction and non-fiction texts, Schleitwiler makes an outstanding contribution, with virtuosic interpretations not only of the literary texts themselves, but of the broader social texts in which they circulate. Intelligent, moving, and extraordinarily generative,Strange Fruit of the Black Pacificmakes use the messy contradictions of the past as a way of understanding the enormous tasks that face us in the present. -- George Lipsitz,author of How Racism Takes PlaceBrilliant in its dramatic sweep and analytic nuance, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific is a bold examination of the intersections between African American and Asian American cultural production as they emerge from competing imperialist discourses. Schleitwilers approach is groundbreaking, synthesizing a remarkable range of texts to provide unexpected and evocative conclusions. -- Helen Jun,author of Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoli

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Book SynopsisWhere racism and sexism meetan understanding of anti-Black misogynyWhen Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touching a cultural nerve and quickly entering into the lexicon. Misogynoir now has its own Wikipedia page and hashtag, and has been featured on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and CNN's Cuomo Prime Time. In Misogynoir Transformed, Bailey delves into her groundbreaking concept, highlighting Black women's digital resistance to anti-Black misogyny on YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, and other platforms. At a time when Black women are depicted as more ugly, deficient, hypersexual, and unhealthy than their non-Black counterparts, Bailey explores how Black women have bravely used social-media platforms to confront misogynoir in a number of courageousand, most importantly, effectTrade ReviewBailey's aims are ambitious. She's not interested in just shining a light on misogynoir; she's interested in its destruction. In a voice that is scholarly yet accessible, she tackles media culture from television and film to Tumblr to YouTube web series, to hashtags, revealing how different media contribute to, transform and/or challenge the pervasive circulation of misogynoir and, importantly, how Black people deploy digital activism to resist. * NPR Books *In her new book, Misogynoir Transformed, Bailey takes an in-depth look at the histories and contemporary manifestations of racist misogyny toward Black women in media, analyzing everything from YouTube web series and Tumblr archives to Black women in Hollywood. Through a combination of thorough research and nuanced cultural criticism, Bailey analyzes how various forms of media have upheld, troubled, and transformed misogynoir. * Bitch.com *In this much-anticipated text, Moya Bailey examines misogynoir—a term she coined—and how Black women work to disrupt racist misogyny, to reclaim their autonomy and to tell their own stories, particularly in precarious digital spaces. * Ms.com *Misogynoir Transformed is a resounding, deftly reported manifesto centering the work of transformative Black women seeking one another in a culture that refuses to see us and center us. Moya Bailey reminds us that we are our liberators and have always had the tools to seek, see and celebrate ourselves. -- Janet Mock, New York Times bestselling author of Redefining Realness and Surpassing CertaintyMisogynoir Transformed is meticulously researched and an extraordinary example of Black feminist studies as an interdisciplinary project. It is brilliant in its exploration of the ways in which Black women, especially queer, nonbinary, agender, gender variant and trans women resist misogynoir in various media in their roles as 'digital alchemists.' The book underscores the urgency of reimagining how we define women's social movements given the use of social media platforms among Black women and girls in their mitigation of misogynoir. -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall, editor of Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist ThoughtMoya Bailey has written a powerful book that explores the reach and impact of her groundbreaking idea—misogynoir. Bailey centers her analysis on what she calls the margins of Black womanhood, illustrating both the many ways misogynoir has negatively shaped the life chances of Black women, and the many ways cis, queer and trans Black women and nonbinary, agender and gender variant Black folks are using digital tools to resist harm, define their complexity and create new narratives of Black women’s lives, health and futures. Using a series of case studies, Bailey details how Black women are using practices she labels digital alchemy to create new spaces, ideas and counter publics that empower Black women. Misogynoir Transformed is an important Black queer feminist text that implores us to think differently and expansively about Black women, resistance and power in the 21st century. -- Cathy J. Cohen, author of Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American PoliticsGroundbreaking scholar in LGBTQ+ studies, Dr. Moya Bailey...is the author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, [which] focuses on queer and trans Black women, examining their use of social media to combat anti-Black misogyny. * Diverse, Issues in Higher Education *In sum, Misogynoir Transformed is a timely, significant work that squarely advances Black feminist literature into the fields of 21st-century communication and social interaction studies. The author introduces several terms into the feminist lexicon—misogynoir, digital alchemy, worldbuilding—all of which create a strong foundation for more in-depth ethnographic inquiry that will be useful for researchers, practitioners, and activists examining racial and gender disparities to work toward a more equitable future. * Choice *Black feminist scholar Moya Bailey’s excellent collection of essays Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance provides important insight into how black women utilize digital media to amplify their voices amid vitriol from a white, cisgender, and heteronormative majority…Bailey successfully provides a captivating glance into Black women’s digital and offline resistance in the wake of an array of relevant social justice movements. * Synoptique *[Bailey's] book is a good example of how to build theory through defining terms and tracing their trajectory alongside currently accepted terminology and concepts. * Communication Research Trends *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate todayWhen Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute Ethiopian Hebrew. God did not make us Negroes, declared religious leaders in black communities of the early twentieth-century urban North. They insisted that so-called Negroes are, in reality, Ethiopian Hebrews, Asiatic Muslims, or raceless children of God. Rejecting conventional American racial classification, many black southern migrants and immigrants from the Caribbean embraced these alternative visions of black history, racial identity, and collective future, thereby reshaping the black religious and racial landscape. FocusinTrade Review"For too long Christianity has reigned over our histories of African America. This book definitively establishes the plurality of black religious experience and the definitive role religions had in the formation of twentieth-century racial identity. Reading unconventional sources and unearthing forgotten (but now unforgettable) figures, Weisenfeld offers an exemplary study of religion as a form of social and cultural criticism. There is no historian working with greater precision in the study of religion in America today." -- Kathryn Lofton,Yale University"Innovatively researched, elegantly written, and persuasively argued, Judith Weisenfelds new history of African American religious groups is a major contribution to the study of African American religions during the Great Migration. Weisenfeld deftly uses draft records, death certificates, immigration forms, and other bureaucratic documents to breathe life into the stories of Southern migrants, Northern residents, and Caribbean immigrants who joined Jewish, Muslim, and other prophetic religious movements. These new religious movements, Weisenfeld reveals, resisted racial identities imposed upon them by an increasingly powerful state and fellow American citizens alike. Their religious commitments, expressed not only in a rich theological imagination but also in material culture, ritual activity, and institution-building, created new collective racial identities invested in the redemption of Black peoplehood. Weisenfelds beautifully rendered story will engage both scholars and general readers interested in religion, U.S. history, and Africana studies." -- Edward E. Curtis IV,Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis"Weisenfeld's richly informative and analytically sharp social history resurrects worlds of black American new religious movements in the interwar years. With particularly adept use of bureaucratic records, she gives us a new picture of the lives of African Americans who rejected categories given to them and sought to redefine their own lives and reinvent their own identities. Meticulously researched, provocatively written, and beautifully detailed." -- Paul Harvey,University of Colorado Colorado Springs"A magnificent, thoughtfully researched work which breaks new theoretical ground on race, religion and the great migration. These compelling, exquisitely researched stories of the lives of devoted participants in the Moorish Science Temple, Ethiopian Hebrews, Father Divine and the NOI reconfigure the cult/ sect status that has historically labeled these groups. Weisenfeld's book redefines the contours of African American Religious history, American religion, and race in American history, and is a must read for the casual reader and established scholar alike." -- Anthea Butler,University of Pennsylvania"New World A-Coming is exquisite history and enfleshed theory. Even more, it is a philosophical manifestation of lifework that results from the seasoned rigor and intellectual deft that come only through the long-term of labor[The] book will certainly become a commanding guide for contemporary scholars and a classic source for future generations seeking to navigate the arduous craft of elucidating and interpreting the history of African American religions." * Church History *"A groundbreaking volume...This vivid, theoretically rich, and well-executed work has much to teach scholars of American history and the history of religion about the ways that black people in the twentieth century engaged in far-reaching reconstruction of their own racial, as well as religious, identities." * American Historical Review *"This book is the most thorough and sophisticated treatment of the emergence and early development of these religio-racial movements...Anyone seeking to understand the role of religion and race in American life, and in particular the religious imagination and religious practices of specific black religio-racial movements in the interwar period would do well to read carefully Weisenfelds exemplary monograph." * African American Review *"A comprehensive study of the formation of 20th-century black religious movements...Weisenfeld's wide-ranging study is eloquent yet succinct." * Publishers Weekly *"[This] monograph is impeccablyresearched and paints a colorful picture of religious diversity among Black people. In so doing, she further dismantles...the standard narrative of Black religion as the Black (Christian) church." * Journal of Africana Religions *"Weisenfelds new work is a breath of fresh air in studies of the Great Migration. She expands our knowledge of the religious landscape of African descended migrants and immigrants in new ways and demonstrates the ingenuity and intricacies of race negotiation by African peoples living during the interwar years in America." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *"Judith Weisenfelds thorough examination of the role of religion in shaping African American identity and community during the social and physical shifts of black migration to the urban North emphasizes the multifaceted nature of religion for black communities as a source of material and psychical sustenance." * Journal of Southern Religion *"New World A-Coming is a masterful work of religious history. Weisenfelds analysis pushes our understanding of the ways in which black religioracial movements of the early 20th century functioned as far more than mere urban cults, inviting us to reimagine their meanings. The book is a significant contribution to the study of religious narratives and their role in shaping African-American identity and community in the past and the present." * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *"Central to Weisenfelds study is her great, resolute fascination with the fact that these black people believed rather than being fixated on what they believed. New World A-Coming is a welcome addition to a burgeoning field of books seeking to expand and eventually redefine the parameters of African American religious history writ large." * Journal of American History *"Scholars are fortunate to have a book as rich, careful, and thoughtful asNew World A-Comingto help raise these questions and point them in new directions." * Reading Religion *

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Book SynopsisChoice Top 25 Academic TitleHow activists and minority communities use media to facilitate social change and achieve cultural citizenship. Among the most well-known YouTubers are a cadre of talented Asian American performers, including comedian Ryan Higa and makeup artist Michelle Phan. Yet beneath the sheen of these online success stories lies a problemAsian Americans remain sorely underrepresented in mainstream film and television. When they do appear on screen, they are often relegated to demeaning stereotypes such as the comical foreigner, the sexy girlfriend, or the martial arts villain. The story that remains untold is that as long as these inequities have existed, Asian Americans have been fighting backjoining together to protest offensive imagery, support Asian American actors and industry workers, and make their voices heard. Providing a cultural history and ethnography, Asian American Media Activism assesses everything from grassroots collectives iTrade ReviewThis is an absolutely remarkable book. It is meticulously researched and very carefully argued. * Choice Connect *It is easy to be excited by Asian American Media Activism. For junior scholars coming of age around social media and for established scholars who have witnessed the scope of this cultural shift, Lori Kido Lopez’s book delivers a refreshing, insightful, and necessary investigation into the evolving state of Asian American activism and cultural belonging in our contemporary media landscape. -- Journal of Asian American Studies

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Book SynopsisFrederick Douglass, one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history, was born a slave, but escaped to the North and became a well-known anti-slavery activist, orator, and author. This book provides an important and original argument about the ideas that animated this reformer-statesman.Trade Review"Buccola offers a nuanced portrait that illuminates both Douglass and his place in American intellectual history." -- Damon W. Root,Reason Magazine"Looking broadly and deeply into Douglass's reflections on the requisites and moral purposes of liberal democracy, Buccola amplifies our understanding of Douglass's normative political imagination and skillfully demonstrates that Douglass also appreciated how a free society is nurtured and sustained by a moral ecology of personal courage, moral responsibility, and civic virtue." -- Thomas A. Spragens, Jr.,author of Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Ideals"Nicholas Buccola's rich study of Frederick Douglass recognizes that the natural law teachings of the Declaration provided one of several foundations for Douglass' political thought." -- Mark A. Graber,Tulsa Law Review"Frederick Douglass was a slave, abolitionist, and activist whose most enduring contribution to American history may have been his liberal political theory. Douglass drew on his experiences as a slave to articulate a version of liberalism that contained the basic Lockean, liberal elements but also promoted an ethic of mutual responsibility. That ethic was the basis for Douglasss devotion to community, democracy, and state intervention to create a suitable moral ecology for liberal citizens. It was also a platform for expressing his distrust for gross inequalities issuing from the marketplace. The Political Thought of Frederick Douglassprovides insights not only into Douglasss nineteenth-century theory; it serves as a roadmap for navigating ongoing tensions that persist in twenty-first-century liberalism." -- Mark E. Kann,author of Punishment, Prisons, and Patriarchy"Nicholas Buccola's well-conceived, well-researched, and well-argued new study stands out in an increasingly crowded field of work on Frederick Douglass. Displaying a thorough familiarity with Douglass's published and unpublished works and an impressive erudition in his command of pertinent scholarship, Buccola makes a balanced, judicious, innovative case for Douglass's enduring vitality, in particular as a guide for both liberals and communitarians in their ongoing debates about individual rights and civic obligations." -- Peter C. Myers,author of Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism"Douglass seems to have been a much more thoughtful, nuanced political thinker and agitator," as he sometimes called himself, than we are used to today. He offered vibrant political and moral arguments, not sound bites. Buccola helps us understand how and why those arguments proved to be so powerful." * Santa Clara Magazine *"This is a well-written, incisive work that illuminates Frederick Douglass as an activist and political philosopher." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 The Facts and the Philosophy Frederick Douglass as Political Thinker 2 "Every Man Is Himself and Belongs to Himself " Slavery and Self-Ownership as the Foundations of Douglass's Liberalism 3 From Slavery to Liberty and Equality Douglass's Liberal Democratic Politics 4 "Each for All and All for Each" Douglass's Case for Mutual Responsibility 5 "Friends of Freedom" Reformers, Self-Made Men, and the Moral Ecology of Freedom 6 "Man Is Neither Wood Nor Stone" Top-Down Moral Education in Douglass's Liberalism 7 Conclusion: Frederick Douglass in the American Mind Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe history of Latina/o participation and representation in American televisionWhose stories are told on television? Who are the heroes and heroines, held up as intriguing, lovable, and compelling? Which characters are fully realized, rather than being cardboard villains and sidekicks? And who are our storytellers? The first-ever account of Latino/a participation and representation in US English-language television, Latino TV: A History offers a sweeping study of key moments of Chicano/a and Latino/a representation and authorship since the 1950s. Drawing on archival research, interviews with dozens of media professionals who worked on or performed in these series, textual analysis of episodes and promotional materials, and analysis of news media coverage, Mary Beltrán examines Latina/o representation in everything from children's television Westerns of the 1950s, Chicana/o and Puerto Rican activist-led public affairs series of the 1970s, and sitcoms that spTrade ReviewMary Beltrán weaves discussions of Mexican-American and Latina/o representation with those of authorship to produce a compelling and overdue account of how much we truly owe Latina/o creative professionals. Beautifully researched, this book is mandatory reading for scholars of race, media, and representation. * Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy *Mary Beltrán’s archival research recovers a history that is essential to understanding the ways in which television culture is always in conversation with the social, political, and economic context in which it is produced. Her insightful analysis shows us why storytelling is ultimately about access to power and the social status of politically marginalized communities in the United States. * Isabel Molina-Guzmán, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign *Beltrán’s Latino TV is an essential contribution to the expanding scholarship on Latina/o/x media and is particularly important for the training of its future scholars. * Film Quarterly *[Beltrán] expertly unveils the ways in which the economic conditions, the stereotyped assumptions of the audience, and barriers to entry limit and contain Latina/o representation... The strength of Beltrán’s research is in the political and cultural contexts that frame how any individual program fits as part of a broader ideological project. * Journal of Arizona History *

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Book SynopsisThe legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this former ally of the United States has vanished from the world map, Long T. Bui maintains that its memory endures for refugees with a strong attachment to this ghost country. Blending ethnography with oral history, archival research, and cultural analysis, Returns of War considersReturns of War argues that Vietnamization--as Richard Nixon termed it in 1969--and the end of South Vietnam signals more than an example of flawed American military strategy, but a larger allegory of power, providing cover for U.S. imperial losses while denoting the inability of the (South) Vietnamese and other colonized nations to become independent, modern liberal subjects. Bui argues that the collapse of South Vietnam under Vietnamization complicates the already difficult memory of the Vietnam War, pushing for a criticaTrade ReviewErudite and edgy, it is just as certain to animate academic seminars on the legacy of wars, won or lost, for the kinds of nation-building ventures that the United States continues to pursue -- The Journal of American HistoryIn an original and important interdisciplinary feat, Long T. Bui reads the & returns of warhistories of violence that do not stand still, but instead impose debt into the present and futureof the U.S. wars in Southeast Asia through the figure of the South Vietnamese refugee. Tracing the impact of Nixons & Vietnamization throughout the period, and its resonance in the histories that follow, Bui re-centers the war away from American foreign policies and onto the refugees who carry war with them, across oceans and generations. In doing so, Bui considers the absent presence of & South Vietnam as a lost country, a failed state, a haunted archive, and an enduring object of intense attachment, with which both the United States and this refugee have yet to reckon. -- Mimi Thi Nguyen,author of The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt and Other Refugee PassagesProvocative and ambitious, this book examines the multifaceted and complex ways in which the former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) is remembered (and ‘disremembered’) in the United States. * Journal of American Ethnic History *

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Book SynopsisThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black childrenThe Korean War left hundreds of thousands of children in dire circumstances, but the first large-scale transnational adoption efforts involved the children of American soldiers and Korean women. Korean laws and traditions stipulated that citizenship and status passed from father to child, which made the children of US soldiers legally stateless. Korean-black children faced additional hardships because of Korean beliefs about racial purity, and the segregation that structured African American soldiers' lives in the military and throughout US society. The African American families who tried to adopt Korean-black children also faced and challenged discrimination in the child welfare agencies that arranged adoptions. Drawing on extensive research in black newspapers and magazines, interviews with African American soldiers, and case notes about African American adoptive families, A War Born FTrade Review"This is an important book [...] As Graves skillfully and convincingly shows in her book, the experiences and actions of African American couples who adopted Black Korean children form a significant part of the early phase of transnational and transracial adoption from Korea. A War Born Family is thus a rich contribution to the fields of Adoption and Family Studies but ought also to be included in the history of the transnational Civil Rights Movement and Cold War Cultures as well as in discussions on (Black) motherhood and family formations in the 1950s." * Adoption & Culture *

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Book SynopsisRewrites the history of slave resistance by placing it for the first time in the context of military and diplomatic wrangling between Britain and the United States.Trade Review"Highly recommended." -- J.R. Wendland * CHOICE *""Now that the old feudal order is experiencing a resurgence with the assistance of wealth, a corporate media and official historians, Gerald Horne, one of our most original historians, reminds us of the alliance of Africans, Europeans and Native Americans that fought against its antecedent anachronism. In this brilliant, stunning book, Horne shows us how the issue of slavery still intrudes upon our national discussions." -- Ishmael Reed,John D. MacArthur Fellow"Gerald Horne's book is a tribute to the international struggle of Africans for human dignity. It also reveals the unstated fears and unearths the historical justification in the souls of white folksrecognizing the institutional silence that this book aims to pierce." * Black Agenda Report *"Gerald Hornes Negro Comrades of the Crown is a major addition to this scholarship, principally because of its authors vast erudition. Horne is a remarkable researcher and goes deeper than anyone before into the minutiae of AngloAmerican diplomatic relations on this vexed topic." * Journal of the Early Republic *"Although not the easiest read, Horne's book is a valuable contribution on a subject of profound interest and significance." * Journal of American History *"Hornes work provides readers with a new framework to imagine diplomatic relationships between world powers in the nineteenth century, something especially important as historians begin to blend racial, cultural, and social history with diplomatic history in an effort to globalize American history... Hornes meticulously researched monograph will provoke thought and discussion on the relationship between the peculiar institution and diplomacy in this important and growing field of study." * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean Slavery Came to the Mainland 2 Free Trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution Unleash the Slave Trade? 3 Revolt! Africans Conspire with the French and Spanish 4 Building a "White" Pro-Slavery Wall: The Construction of Georgia 5 The Stono Uprising: Will the Africans Become Masters and the Europeans Slaves? 6 Arson, Murders, Poisonings, Shipboard Insurrections: The Fruits of the Accelerating Slave Trade 7 The Biggest Losers: Africans and the Seven Years' War 8 From Havana to Newport, Slavery Transformed: Settlers Rebel against London 9 Abolition in London: Somerset's Case and the North American Aftermath 10 The Counter-Revolution of 1776 Notes IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisAn innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women's histories Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond. This volume is unique in exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander women's lives along local, transnational, and global dimensions. The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women's history, from the politics of language, to the role of food, to experiences as adoptees, mixed race, and second generation, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States. Our Voices, Our Histories showcases how new approaches in US history, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and Women's and Gender studies inform research on Asian American and Pacific Islander women.Trade Review"Carrying the thread of women’s agency throughout, this anthology encompasses struggles and triumphs around social, cultural, and civic citizenship, expanding outward from the US context to incorporate analyses of how gender is always already intersectional and intertwined with globalization, transnationalism, and empire-building in the Asian American and Pacific Islander context. . . . A welcome addition." -- Charlene Tung, Sonoma State University"A field-defining work, charting the past, present, and future of Asian American women’s history." -- Miliann Kang, author of The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work"This immersive anthology begins to address gaps and transform understanding in history and literature by, for and about Asian American and Pacific Islander women." * Ms. Magazine *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2022 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, given by the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationWinner, 2021 Robert K. Merton Book Award, given by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineExplores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific resultsImagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must spend twenty nights literally locked in a research facility. You will be told what to eat, when to eat, and when to sleep. You will share a bedroom with several strangers. Who are you, and why would you choose to take part in this kind of study? This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Trade ReviewJill Fisher has provided the most thorough examination [of Phase I trials] yet … the world that Fisher reveals in Adverse Events is unsettling. * New York Review of Books *Adverse Events damns the industry with simple description, but Fisher’s analysis has a bigger concern. The industry is a symptom of the American problem of racist capitalism, and in the book, Fisher documents how a racist, wildly unequal economy leads people who are already in precarious positions to take part in first-in-human trials. Ten years ago, when she started her research, she could hardly have predicted its immediacy. * The New Republic *This book presents weighty implications relative to current US economic and employment arrangements ... a helpful reference in courses on bioethics, biomedical research methods, social justice, gender and race/ethnicity, intersectionality studies, and the sociology of science. * CHOICE *Adverse Events reveals the many and varied ways in which social inequalities—particularly class and race—compel individuals to become healthy volunteers for Phase I trials, despite the risks involved ... This is a text that can—and should—reach audiences beyond academia. * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *May become a scholarly classic, change how the drugs we take are tested, and save billions in misleading trials that are not necessary. -- Donald W. Light, Rowan University School of Osteopathic MedicineOne of the best books of medical sociology I have ever read. Fisher describes the world of paid research subjects with remarkable insight and compassion. . . . Nothing short of brilliant. -- Carl Elliott, author of White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side of MedicineA mesmerizing ethnographic study that shows the safety of the pharmaceuticals we swallow depends on an invisible army of volunteers putting their bodies at risk for a quick dollar. -- Stefan Timmermans, University of California, Los AngelesOffers an unflinching view of the inequities built in to the twenty-first-century clinical-trials industry. . . . Has as much to say about the micropolitics of stigma and adversity as it does about the macrostructures of health and capitalism today. -- Jeremy Greene, author of Generic: The Unbranding of Modern MedicineEspecially during the COVID-19 pandemic, its message is very important. * For Better Science *Jill Fisher invites the reader into a sustained and systematic analysis of how pharmaceutical companies operate their Phase I drug trials and the symbiotic relationship between drug development and what she calls a “profound economic insecurity” on the part of the participants ... It is an important book for understanding broader sociological concepts of inequality, stigma, and pharmaceutical development. * Social Forces *Leaves a striking impression on the reader ... Likely to be of interest to a broad audience. It is suitable for lay people who have an interest in exploring a largely unseen side of the pharmaceutical industry, people working in pharmaceuticals who wish to scrutinize the ins-and-outs of their industry, as well as students and academics such as bioethicists, sociologists, and those studying race and ethnicity * New Genetics and Society *

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