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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are no museums, plaques, or monuments that recognize this history of enslavement, but enslaved people and their descendants created the Gnawa identity that preserves this largely suppressed heritage. This pioneering book describes how Gnawa emerged as a practice associated with Blackness and enslavement by reviewing visual representation and musical traditions from the late nineteenth century to the present. Cynthia J. Becker addresses the historical consciousness of subaltern groups and how they give Blackness material form through modes of dress, visual art, religious ceremonies, and musical instruments in performance. She examines what it means to self-identify as Black in Morocco (a country typically associated with the Middle East and the Arab world), especially during this time of increased contemporary African migration, which has made Blackness even more visible. Her case studies draw on archival material and on her extended research in the city of Essaouira, site of the wildly popular Gnawa World Music Festival. Becker shows that Gnawa spirit possession ceremonies express the marginalization associated with enslavement and allow these unique communities to move toward healing, even as the mass-marketing of Gnawa music has resulted in some Gnawa practitioners engaging Blackness to claim legitimacy and spiritual power. This book challenges the framing of Africa’s cultural history into “sub-Saharan” versus “North African” or Islamic versus non-Islamic categories. Blackness in Morocco complicates how we think about the institution of slavery and its impact on North African religious and social institutions, and readers will better understand and appreciate the role of Africans in shaping global forces, including religious institutions such as Islam.Trade Review"Absolutely groundbreaking, Blackness in Morocco is the work of a trailblazing intellect. Showing that 'blackness' is constructed in Africa as elsewhere in the world, Cynthia J. Becker demonstrates a deep commitment to Gnawa lived experience, forever changing how we understand the religions and aesthetics of Africa."—Prita Meier, author of Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere"Cynthia Becker's anthropological and artistic approaches fill many gaps in the history of Gnawa music and culture in Moroccan society. She explains lucidly how Gnawa music has been appropriated by mainstream culture and how it fits the global logic of race-making and the historical anti-blackness ideology. The most important part of this book is the epistemic agency of the Gnawa people through the narrative of songs, dance, and trance. In this regard it contributes to the epistemology of resistance."—Chouki El Hamel, author of Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam"A critical reading."— Ethnic and Racial Studies Table of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Transcription and TransliterationIntroduction: Becoming Gnawa1. From Enslavement to Gnawa: Historical Postcards and the Construction of Gnawa Identity2. Black Women, Photographic Representation, and Female Agency3. Fraja Performances: Geo-Locating Gnawa Ceremonies in the Sudan4. Spirits in the Night: Blackness, Authenticity, and Potency in a Gnawa Lila5. Marketing Gnawa Authenticity: The Shrine of Bilal and Hats of the Bambara6. The Gnawa Guinbri: From Concealment to ExhibitionConclusion: Utopian Visions and Trans-Saharan RealitiesAppendix: Gnawa Spiritual RepertoireNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are no museums, plaques, or monuments that recognize this history of enslavement, but enslaved people and their descendants created the Gnawa identity that preserves this largely suppressed heritage. This pioneering book describes how Gnawa emerged as a practice associated with Blackness and enslavement by reviewing visual representation and musical traditions from the late nineteenth century to the present. Cynthia J. Becker addresses the historical consciousness of subaltern groups and how they give Blackness material form through modes of dress, visual art, religious ceremonies, and musical instruments in performance. She examines what it means to self-identify as Black in Morocco (a country typically associated with the Middle East and the Arab world), especially during this time of increased contemporary African migration, which has made Blackness even more visible. Her case studies draw on archival material and on her extended research in the city of Essaouira, site of the wildly popular Gnawa World Music Festival. Becker shows that Gnawa spirit possession ceremonies express the marginalization associated with enslavement and allow these unique communities to move toward healing, even as the mass-marketing of Gnawa music has resulted in some Gnawa practitioners engaging Blackness to claim legitimacy and spiritual power. This book challenges the framing of Africa’s cultural history into “sub-Saharan” versus “North African” or Islamic versus non-Islamic categories. Blackness in Morocco complicates how we think about the institution of slavery and its impact on North African religious and social institutions, and readers will better understand and appreciate the role of Africans in shaping global forces, including religious institutions such as Islam.Trade Review"Absolutely groundbreaking, Blackness in Morocco is the work of a trailblazing intellect. Showing that 'blackness' is constructed in Africa as elsewhere in the world, Cynthia J. Becker demonstrates a deep commitment to Gnawa lived experience, forever changing how we understand the religions and aesthetics of Africa."—Prita Meier, author of Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere"Cynthia Becker's anthropological and artistic approaches fill many gaps in the history of Gnawa music and culture in Moroccan society. She explains lucidly how Gnawa music has been appropriated by mainstream culture and how it fits the global logic of race-making and the historical anti-blackness ideology. The most important part of this book is the epistemic agency of the Gnawa people through the narrative of songs, dance, and trance. In this regard it contributes to the epistemology of resistance."—Chouki El Hamel, author of Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam"A critical reading."— Ethnic and Racial Studies Table of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote on Transcription and TransliterationIntroduction: Becoming Gnawa1. From Enslavement to Gnawa: Historical Postcards and the Construction of Gnawa Identity2. Black Women, Photographic Representation, and Female Agency3. Fraja Performances: Geo-Locating Gnawa Ceremonies in the Sudan4. Spirits in the Night: Blackness, Authenticity, and Potency in a Gnawa Lila5. Marketing Gnawa Authenticity: The Shrine of Bilal and Hats of the Bambara6. The Gnawa Guinbri: From Concealment to ExhibitionConclusion: Utopian Visions and Trans-Saharan RealitiesAppendix: Gnawa Spiritual RepertoireNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies, offering critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production.The Digital Black Atlantic spans the African diaspora’s range—from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbean—while its essayists span academic fields—from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies. This transnational and interdisciplinary breadth is complemented by essays that focus on specific sites and digital humanities projects throughout the Black Atlantic. Covering key debates, The Digital Black Atlantic asks theoretical and practical questions about the ways that researchers and teachers of the African diaspora negotiate digital methods to explore a broad range of cultural forms including social media, open access libraries, digital music production, and video games. The volume further highlights contributions of African diaspora studies to digital humanities, such as politics and representation, power and authorship, the ephemerality of memory, and the vestiges of colonialist ideologies. Grounded in contemporary theory and praxis, The Digital Black Atlantic puts the digital humanities into conversation with African diaspora studies in crucial ways that advance both. Contributors: Alexandrina Agloro, Arizona State U; Abdul Alkalimat; Suzan Alteri, U of Florida; Paul Barrett, U of Guelph; Sayan Bhattacharyya, Singapore U of Technology and Design; Agata Błoch, Institute of History of Polish Academy of Sciences; Michał Bojanowski, Kozminski U; Sonya Donaldson, New Jersey City U; Anne Donlon; Laurent Dubois, Duke U; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M U; Schuyler Esprit, U of the West Indies; Demival Vasques Filho, U of Auckland, New Zealand; David Kirkland Garner; Alex Gil, Columbia U; Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College, Columbia U; D. Fox Harrell, MIT; Hélène Huet, U of Florida; Mary Caton Lingold, Virginia Commonwealth U; Angel David Nieves, San Diego State U; Danielle Olson, MIT; Tunde Opeibi (Ope-Davies), U of Lagos, Nigeria; Jamila Moore Pewu, California State U, Fullerton; Anne Rice, Lehman College, CUNY; Sercan Şengün, Northeastern U; Janneken Smucker, West Chester U; Laurie N.Taylor, U of Florida; Toniesha L. Taylor, Texas Southern U.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Digital Black AtlanticKelly Baker Josephs and Roopika RisamPart I. Memory1. The Sankofa Principle: From the Drum to the Digital Abdul Alkalimat2. The Ephemeral Archive: Unstable Terrain in Times and Sites of DiscordSonya Donaldson3. An Editorial Turn: Reviving Print and Digital Editing of Black-Authored Literary TextsAmy E. Earhart4. Access and Empowerment: Rediscovering Moments in the Lives of African American Migrant WomenJanneken Smucker5. Digital Queer Witnessing: Testimony, Contested Virtual Heritage, and the Apartheid Archive in Soweto, JohannesburgAngel David NievesPart II. Crossings6. Digital Ubuntu: Sharing Township Music with the World Alexandrina Agloro7. Text Analysis for Thought in the Black Atlantic Sayan Bhattacharyya8. Austin Clarke’s Digital Crossings Paul Barrett9. Radical Collaboration to Improve Library CollectionsHélène Huet, Suzan Alteri, and Laurie N. Taylor10. Digital Reconnaissance: Re(Locating) Dark Spots on a MapJamila Moore PewuPart III. Relations11. Heterotopias of Resistance: Reframing Caribbean Narratives in Digital Spaces Schuyler Esprit12. Signifying Shade as We #RaceTogether Drinking Our #NewStarbucksDrink “White Privilege Americana Extra Whip”Toniesha L. Taylor13. Slaves, Freedmen, Mulattos, Pardos, and Indigenous Peoples: The Early Modern Social Networks of the Population of Color in the Atlantic Portuguese EmpireAgata Błoch, Demival Vasques Filho, and Michał Bojanowski 14. Digitizing the Humanities in an Emerging Space: An Exploratory Study of Digital Humanities Initiatives in NigeriaTunde Opeibi15. Black Atlantic Networks in the Archives and the Limits of Finding Aids as DataAnne DonlonPart IV. Becomings16. Africa and the Avatar Dream: Mapping the Impacts of Videogame Representations of AfricaD. Fox Harrell, Sercan Şengün, and Danielle Olson17. Musical Passage: Sound, Text, and the Promise of the Digital Black Atlantic Laurent Dubois, David Kirkland Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold18. What Price Freedom? The Implications and Challenges of OER for Africana Studies Anne Rice19. On the Interpretation of Digital Caribbean DreamsKaiama L. Glover and Alex GilAcknowledgmentsContributors

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Book SynopsisExploring the intersections of digital humanities and African diaspora studies How can scholars use digital tools to better understand the African diaspora across time, space, and disciplines? And how can African diaspora studies inform the practices of digital humanities? These questions are at the heart of this timely collection of essays about the relationship between digital humanities and Black Atlantic studies, offering critical insights into race, migration, media, and scholarly knowledge production.The Digital Black Atlantic spans the African diaspora’s range—from Africa to North America, Europe, and the Caribbean—while its essayists span academic fields—from history and literary studies to musicology, game studies, and library and information studies. This transnational and interdisciplinary breadth is complemented by essays that focus on specific sites and digital humanities projects throughout the Black Atlantic. Covering key debates, The Digital Black Atlantic asks theoretical and practical questions about the ways that researchers and teachers of the African diaspora negotiate digital methods to explore a broad range of cultural forms including social media, open access libraries, digital music production, and video games. The volume further highlights contributions of African diaspora studies to digital humanities, such as politics and representation, power and authorship, the ephemerality of memory, and the vestiges of colonialist ideologies. Grounded in contemporary theory and praxis, The Digital Black Atlantic puts the digital humanities into conversation with African diaspora studies in crucial ways that advance both. Contributors: Alexandrina Agloro, Arizona State U; Abdul Alkalimat; Suzan Alteri, U of Florida; Paul Barrett, U of Guelph; Sayan Bhattacharyya, Singapore U of Technology and Design; Agata Błoch, Institute of History of Polish Academy of Sciences; Michał Bojanowski, Kozminski U; Sonya Donaldson, New Jersey City U; Anne Donlon; Laurent Dubois, Duke U; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M U; Schuyler Esprit, U of the West Indies; Demival Vasques Filho, U of Auckland, New Zealand; David Kirkland Garner; Alex Gil, Columbia U; Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard College, Columbia U; D. Fox Harrell, MIT; Hélène Huet, U of Florida; Mary Caton Lingold, Virginia Commonwealth U; Angel David Nieves, San Diego State U; Danielle Olson, MIT; Tunde Opeibi (Ope-Davies), U of Lagos, Nigeria; Jamila Moore Pewu, California State U, Fullerton; Anne Rice, Lehman College, CUNY; Sercan Şengün, Northeastern U; Janneken Smucker, West Chester U; Laurie N.Taylor, U of Florida; Toniesha L. Taylor, Texas Southern U.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Digital Black AtlanticKelly Baker Josephs and Roopika RisamPart I. Memory1. The Sankofa Principle: From the Drum to the Digital Abdul Alkalimat2. The Ephemeral Archive: Unstable Terrain in Times and Sites of DiscordSonya Donaldson3. An Editorial Turn: Reviving Print and Digital Editing of Black-Authored Literary TextsAmy E. Earhart4. Access and Empowerment: Rediscovering Moments in the Lives of African American Migrant WomenJanneken Smucker5. Digital Queer Witnessing: Testimony, Contested Virtual Heritage, and the Apartheid Archive in Soweto, JohannesburgAngel David NievesPart II. Crossings6. Digital Ubuntu: Sharing Township Music with the World Alexandrina Agloro7. Text Analysis for Thought in the Black Atlantic Sayan Bhattacharyya8. Austin Clarke’s Digital Crossings Paul Barrett9. Radical Collaboration to Improve Library CollectionsHélène Huet, Suzan Alteri, and Laurie N. Taylor10. Digital Reconnaissance: Re(Locating) Dark Spots on a MapJamila Moore PewuPart III. Relations11. Heterotopias of Resistance: Reframing Caribbean Narratives in Digital Spaces Schuyler Esprit12. Signifying Shade as We #RaceTogether Drinking Our #NewStarbucksDrink “White Privilege Americana Extra Whip”Toniesha L. Taylor13. Slaves, Freedmen, Mulattos, Pardos, and Indigenous Peoples: The Early Modern Social Networks of the Population of Color in the Atlantic Portuguese EmpireAgata Błoch, Demival Vasques Filho, and Michał Bojanowski 14. Digitizing the Humanities in an Emerging Space: An Exploratory Study of Digital Humanities Initiatives in NigeriaTunde Opeibi15. Black Atlantic Networks in the Archives and the Limits of Finding Aids as DataAnne DonlonPart IV. Becomings16. Africa and the Avatar Dream: Mapping the Impacts of Videogame Representations of AfricaD. Fox Harrell, Sercan Şengün, and Danielle Olson17. Musical Passage: Sound, Text, and the Promise of the Digital Black Atlantic Laurent Dubois, David Kirkland Garner, and Mary Caton Lingold18. What Price Freedom? The Implications and Challenges of OER for Africana Studies Anne Rice19. On the Interpretation of Digital Caribbean DreamsKaiama L. Glover and Alex GilAcknowledgmentsContributors

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Book SynopsisA deep dive into mid-century African American newspapers, exploring how Black pulp fiction reassembled genre formulas in the service of racial justice In recent years, Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Marvel’s Black Panther, and HBO’s Watchmen have been lauded for the innovative ways they repurpose genre conventions to criticize white supremacy, celebrate Black resistance, and imagine a more racially just world—important progressive messages widely spread precisely because they are packaged in popular genres. But it turns out, such generic retooling for antiracist purposes is nothing new. As Brooks E. Hefner’s Black Pulp shows, this tradition of antiracist genre revision begins even earlier than recent studies of Black superhero comics of the 1960s have revealed. Hefner traces it back to a phenomenon that began in the 1920s, to serialized (and sometimes syndicated) genre stories written by Black authors in Black newspapers with large circulations among middle- and working-class Black readers. From the pages of the Pittsburgh Courier and the Baltimore Afro-American, Hefner recovers a rich archive of African American genre fiction from the 1920s through the mid-1950s—spanning everything from romance, hero-adventure, and crime stories to westerns and science fiction. Reading these stories, Hefner explores how their authors deployed, critiqued, and reassembled genre formulas—and the pleasures they offer to readers—in the service of racial justice: to criticize Jim Crow segregation, racial capitalism, and the sexual exploitation of Black women; to imagine successful interracial romance and collective sociopolitical progress; and to cheer Black agency, even retributive violence in the face of white supremacy. These popular stories differ significantly from contemporaneous, now-canonized African American protest novels that tend to represent Jim Crow America as a deterministic machine and its Black inhabitants as doomed victims. Widely consumed but since forgotten, these genre stories—and Hefner’s incisive analysis of them—offer a more vibrant understanding of African American literary history. Trade Review "Brooks Hefner’s compelling and insightful book asks us to reconsider not only what counts as Black imaginative writing but what it means to read Black literature at all. Attending to a vast yet overlooked archive of serial genre fiction, Hefner highlights the pleasures afforded by African Americans’ engagement with popular formulas in the Black press. The result is an eye-opening account of modern literary production that centers the tastes and experiences of Black readers themselves. Beyond the predominance of the protest novel in the white imagination, Hefner reveals the narrative forms and medial formats out of which Black America’s imagined communities were built."—Kinohi Nishikawa, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground "Black Pulp tells a much needed and long overdue literary history of the short fiction and serial narratives featured in the African American periodical press of the mid-twentieth century. As Brooks E. Hefner’s deft and compelling close readings and contextual accounts of the pulp fiction industry’s developments demonstrate, Black popular fiction’s fresh formulas offered Black readers utopian (not nihilist) visions of the justice they deserved—but were denied—in Jim Crow America. Thoroughly researched, shrewdly argued, wonderfully illustrated, and bracingly written, Black Pulp is as thrilling to read as the literature it surveys. This is a work that anyone interested in mid-century African American and American popular literature, genre criticism, and US periodical history must read."—Jacqueline Goldsby, Yale University "Beyond the invaluable historical work it performs, Black Pulp offers numerous and exciting theoretical suggestions regarding the politics of reading, the innovations of popular fiction and the huge gulf between the historical experience of readers in a given period and the retrospective constructions of literary history. It constitutes essential reading for whoever is interested in Black studies, pulp fiction or the sociology of reading, probing the limits of these intersecting fields and helping to recover the forgotten hinterlands that lie beyond them."—Journal of Social History "Hefner stitches together the seams of genre and race... Black Pulp challenges us to reimagine and expand our conceptualization of African American literary culture by adopting Black bibliographic practice that simultaneously recovers relationships between lost texts and a larger network of literary practice, even as it might redefine what we mean as Black bibliography."—Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America "A fascinating glimpse into a part of Black history that isn’t well known."—Real Change News "Black Pulp is important and valuable because of the stories Hefner chronicles and the convincing argument he makes that they are worthy of careful investigation, and that in transforming white pulp to create new imaginative worlds, they fulfill an important role by offering new possibilities for readers who have often been deprived of them even in the realm of imagination."—Los Angeles Review of Books "Hefner’s study is—from beginning to end—an absolute pleasure to read, just as it is a convincing case for the political importance of Black pleasure in reading."—Modernism/modernity "Hefner reveals the dauntless envisioning of emancipatory futures by Black writers and illustrators. "—Colors of Influence "For Hefner, recovering African American newspaper fiction is significant because it provides archival evidence of fertile genre experimentation among Black writers in the pulp era... a major achievement. Black Pulp should make it impossible for scholars of popular genre fiction to suggest that Black creators entered the field late or that antiracist approaches to genre are a new development. "—American Periodicals "Breathtakingly researched and astutely argued, Hefner shines a light on a hidden corner of Black cultural production that has remained mostly out of sight." —Modern Fiction Studies Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Signifying Genre, Articulating Race1. Beneath the Harlem Renaissance: The Rise of Black Popular Fiction2. Romancing the Race: The Politics of Black Love Stories3. News from Elsewhere: Speculative Fiction in the Black Press4. Battling White Supremacy: A Prehistory of the Black SuperheroConclusion: Writing New HistoriesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota In this significant collection, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States. Essays and poems vividly reflect and comment on the traumas we endured in 2020, beginning with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of passionate, worldwide demands for justice. In inspired and incisive writing these contributors speak unvarnished truths not only to the original and pernicious racism threaded through the American experience but also to the deeply personal, in essays about family, loss, food culture, economic security, and mental health. Their call and response is united here to rise and be heard. We Are Meant to Rise lifts up the astonishing variety of BIPOC writers in Minnesota. From authors with international reputations to newly emerging voices, it features people from many cultures, including Indigenous Dakota and Anishinaabe, African American, Hmong, Somali, Afghani, Lebanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Japanese, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Mexican, transracial adoptees, mixed race, and LGBTQ+ perspectives. Most of the contributors have participated in More Than a Single Story, a popular and insightful conversation series in Minneapolis that features Indigenous and people of color speaking on what most concerns their communities. We Are Meant to Rise meets the events of the day, the year, the centuries before, again and again, with powerful testament to the intrinsic and unique value of the human voice.Contributors: Suleiman Adan, Mary Moore Easter, Louise Erdrich, Anika Fajardo, Safy-Hallan Farah, Said Farah, Sherrie Fernandez-Williams, Pamela R. Fletcher Bush, Shannon Gibney, Kathryn Haddad, Tish Jones, Ezekiel Joubert III, Douglas Kearney, Ed Bok Lee, Ricardo Levins Morales, Arleta Little, Resmaa Menakem, Tess Montgomery, Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Melissa Olson, Alexs Pate, Bao Phi, Mona Susan Power, Samantha Sencer-Mura, Said Shaiye, Erin Sharkey, Sun Yung Shin, Michael Torres, Diane Wilson, Kao Kalia Yang, and Kevin Yang.Trade Review"Diversity is our strength. Each new voice who becomes part of America is our strength. The writers in this anthology provide us with individualized portraits of who we are, and in doing so they can help us to know each other, our neighbors, our fellow citizens. These writers prove we are indeed more than a single story."—David Mura, from the Introduction "A powerful and passionate take on a fraught moment."—Publishers Weekly"This collection is diverse, enraging, heartbreaking, impassioned and this month’s #RequiredReading."—Ms. Magazine"The book acts as a time capsule of reflections of being Black, brown, indigenous & immigrant in a city that resembles much of American. There are poignant stories of immigration from the points of view of various communities, including Hmong, Somali, Korean, Lebanese, among others. Many stories share the narrative of survival, of healing from trauma, and emerging intact from the crushing weight of generational wounds. "—Colors of Influence"We Are Meant to Rise offers a different vision of past and present, unflinching in its gaze on our national and local sins but ultimately affirming hope and possibility."—Minnesota Spokesman Recorder Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Call and ResponseDavid MuraAbout More Than a Single StoryCarolyn HolbrookPandemic LoveEd Bok LeeJuiceAlexs PateGeorge Floyd Was Killed in My NeighborhoodSafy-Hallan Farahإِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ Queer Death in ExileAhmad Qais MunhazimWith Birthday Girl Blindfolded, Star Piñata Considers His Regrets and Offers a Last RequestMichael TorresBattlegrounds and Building GroundsKao Kalia YangSummer 1964Pamela R. Fletcher BushThe Courage to Hold Together, the Courage to Fall Apart Mona Susan PowerLong Live the Fatherless ChildrenAnika FajardoLand Acknowledgement Statement of a Native VirginianMary Moore EasterFinancial TraumaTess MontgomeryCross PollinationKathryn HaddadBreath: A Meditation in UprisingErin SharkeyDear EditorDouglas KearneyWhat Does it All MeanTish JonesThe Trauma VirusResmaa MenakemHow Will They Take Us Away/How Will We StandBao PhiHealers Are Protectors/Protectors Are HealersMarcie RendonThe Pachuco Himself Considers the Audacity of LanguageMichael TorresLittle Brown BriefcaseSuleiman AdanWe Are All SummonedDiane WilsonA Tangent to a Story about the Smith & Wesson .38, or, Attempts to Be Fully Assimilated into the White American Project Have Failed Miserably, in the Form of a Self-Questionnaire신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung ShinToday in MinneapolisSamantha Sencer-MuraLet Me Tell You a StoryMelissa OlsonHere BeforeSherrie Fernandez-WilliamsTruth, Reconciliation, and Four More Meditations on Human FreedomArleta LittleDidion DreamsSaid ShaiyeSpeaking Into ExistenceKevin YangThe WeightEzekiel JoubertFour GeniesRicardo Levins MoralesAll the Stars AflameShannon GibneyHumility, Sincerity, Banana OilLouise ErdrichAcknowledgmentsContributors

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Book SynopsisA compelling examination of Sweden’s African and Black diasporaContemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and history, Afro-Swedes have emerged as a vibrant demographic presence, from generations of diasporic movement, migration, and homemaking. In Afro-Sweden, Ryan Thomas Skinner uses oral histories, archival research, ethnography, and textual analysis to explore the history and culture of this diverse and growing Afro-European community.Skinner employs the conceptual themes of “remembering” and “renaissance” to illuminate the history and culture of the Afro-Swedish community, drawing on the rich theoretical traditions of the African and Black diaspora. Remembering fosters a sustained meditation on Afro-Swedish social history, while Renaissance indexes a thriving Afro-Swedish public culture. Together, these concepts illuminate significant existential modes of Afro-Swedish being and becoming, invested in and contributing to the work of global Black studies.The first scholarly monograph in English to focus specifically on the African and Black diaspora in Sweden, Afro-Sweden emphasizes the voices, experiences, practices, knowledge, and ideas of these communities. Its rigorously interdisciplinary approach to understanding diasporic communities is essential to contemporary conversations around such issues as the status and identity of racialized populations in Europe and the international impact of Black Lives Matter.Trade Review "A remarkable work in both its content and style, Afro-Sweden compels us to reconsider our understandings of race, place, and identity, all while highlighting the presence of a population whose cultural vitality and roots are too often overlooked."—Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, author of War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right "Ryan Skinner’s research and writing are among those rare artifacts bringing the Afro-Swedish community to life, informing our own children, even ourselves, of that vital reminder, that we are here, that we have been here for quite some time, that we belong to the global African diaspora, that our lives matter."—Jason Timbuktu Diakité, from the Foreword "[Afro-Sweden] is such a truthful explanation of the dilemma African descendants have here in Sweden… It is such a valuable contribution to efforts to racial integration here in Sweden."—Madubuko Diakité, author of Not Even in Your Dreams: A Story about Children, Parents, and Dreams "In Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country, Ryan Skinner explores the diverse voices and experiences of the American and Black diaspora in Sweden. The book not only shows the pervasive nature of white supremacy in Swedish society but also pays testimony to the richness of Afro-Swedish life. "—LSE Review of Books "Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country is convincing in its presentation of how ‘Afro Swedes resist politics of erasure that normative color-blindness prescribes, by affirming a doubly conscious Afro-diasporic and Swedish being-in-the world’ (233). Therefore, the book is informative to those both familiar or not with the burgeoning field of racial studies in Sweden."—Ethnic and Racial Studies Table of ContentsForewordJason Timbuktu DiakitéA Note on OrthographyIntroduction: Race, Culture, and Diaspora in Afro-SwedenPart I. Remembering1. Invisible People2. A Colder Congo3. Walking While BlackPart II. Renaissance4. Articulating Afro-Sweden5. The Politics of Race and Diaspora6. The Art of RenaissanceEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA compelling examination of Sweden’s African and Black diasporaContemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and history, Afro-Swedes have emerged as a vibrant demographic presence, from generations of diasporic movement, migration, and homemaking. In Afro-Sweden, Ryan Thomas Skinner uses oral histories, archival research, ethnography, and textual analysis to explore the history and culture of this diverse and growing Afro-European community.Skinner employs the conceptual themes of “remembering” and “renaissance” to illuminate the history and culture of the Afro-Swedish community, drawing on the rich theoretical traditions of the African and Black diaspora. Remembering fosters a sustained meditation on Afro-Swedish social history, while Renaissance indexes a thriving Afro-Swedish public culture. Together, these concepts illuminate significant existential modes of Afro-Swedish being and becoming, invested in and contributing to the work of global Black studies.The first scholarly monograph in English to focus specifically on the African and Black diaspora in Sweden, Afro-Sweden emphasizes the voices, experiences, practices, knowledge, and ideas of these communities. Its rigorously interdisciplinary approach to understanding diasporic communities is essential to contemporary conversations around such issues as the status and identity of racialized populations in Europe and the international impact of Black Lives Matter.Trade Review "A remarkable work in both its content and style, Afro-Sweden compels us to reconsider our understandings of race, place, and identity, all while highlighting the presence of a population whose cultural vitality and roots are too often overlooked."—Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, author of War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right "Ryan Skinner’s research and writing are among those rare artifacts bringing the Afro-Swedish community to life, informing our own children, even ourselves, of that vital reminder, that we are here, that we have been here for quite some time, that we belong to the global African diaspora, that our lives matter."—Jason Timbuktu Diakité, from the Foreword "[Afro-Sweden] is such a truthful explanation of the dilemma African descendants have here in Sweden… It is such a valuable contribution to efforts to racial integration here in Sweden."—Madubuko Diakité, author of Not Even in Your Dreams: A Story about Children, Parents, and Dreams "In Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country, Ryan Skinner explores the diverse voices and experiences of the American and Black diaspora in Sweden. The book not only shows the pervasive nature of white supremacy in Swedish society but also pays testimony to the richness of Afro-Swedish life. "—LSE Review of Books "Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country is convincing in its presentation of how ‘Afro Swedes resist politics of erasure that normative color-blindness prescribes, by affirming a doubly conscious Afro-diasporic and Swedish being-in-the world’ (233). Therefore, the book is informative to those both familiar or not with the burgeoning field of racial studies in Sweden."—Ethnic and Racial Studies Table of ContentsForewordJason Timbuktu DiakitéA Note on OrthographyIntroduction: Race, Culture, and Diaspora in Afro-SwedenPart I. Remembering1. Invisible People2. A Colder Congo3. Walking While BlackPart II. Renaissance4. Articulating Afro-Sweden5. The Politics of Race and Diaspora6. The Art of RenaissanceEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe son of a Black mother and white father overcomes family trauma to find the courage of compassion in veterinary practice Rising to accept a prestigious award, Jody Lulich wondered what to say. Explain how he’d been attracted to veterinary medicine? Describe how caring for helpless, voiceless animals in his own shame and pain provided a lifeline, a chance to heal himself as well? Lulich tells his story in In the Company of Grace, a memoir about finding courage in compassion and strength in healing—and power in finally confronting the darkness of his youth.Lulich’s white father and Black mother met at a civil rights rally, but love was no defense against their personal demons. His mother’s suicide, in his presence when he was nine years old, and his sometimes brutal father’s subsequent withdrawal set Lulich on a course from the South Side of Chicago to the Tuskegee School of Veterinary Medicine in Alabama to an endowed chair at the University of Minnesota, forever searching for the approval and affection that success could not deliver. Though shadowed by troubling secrets, his memoir also features scenes of surprising light and promise—of the neighbors who take him in, a brother’s unlikely effort to save Christmas, his mother’s memories of the family’s charmed early days, bright moments (and many curious details) of veterinary practice. Most consequentially, at Tuskegee Lulich rents a room in the home of a seventy-five-year-old Black woman named Grace, whose wholehearted adoption of him—and her own stories of the Jim Crow era—finally gives him a sense of belonging and possibility.Completing his book amid the furor over George Floyd’s murder, Lulich reflects on all the ways that race has shaped his life. In the Company of Grace is a moving testament to the power of compassion in the face of seemingly overwhelming circumstances.Trade Review "In the Company of Grace is haunting and powerful. Jody Lulich has written an absorbing meditation on his lifelong journey from a helpless child who witnesses his beloved mother take her own life, to finding acceptance through the unconditional love of an elderly woman and redemption in caring for animals. An unforgettable and inspiring memoir."—Carolyn Holbrook, author of Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify "Despite suffering true tragedies as a child, Jody Lulich grew up to be a veterinarian who shows deep compassion to both people and animals. His devotion to his mentor and mother figure, Grace Hooks, inspires admiration and an understanding of a true loving relationship. Don't miss this remarkable book."—Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of Sleeping Arrangements "Lulich's memoir is raw, introspective, and honest."—Insight News

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Book SynopsisRethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of Bushihr, Kish, and Hurmuz, sailing and caravan networks supplied Iran and the surrounding regions with African slave labor from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery. How does a focus on blackness complicate traditional understandings of history and culture? Parisa Vaziri addresses this question by looking at residues of the Indian Ocean slave trade in Iranian films from the second half of the twentieth century. Revealing the politicized clash between commercial cinema (fīlmfārsī) and alternative filmmaking (the Iranian New Wave), she pays particular attention to the healing ritual zār, which is both an African slave descendent practice and a constitutive element of Iranian culture, as well as to cinematic sīyāh bāzī (Persian black play). Moving beyond other studies on Indian Ocean and trans-Saharan slavery, Vaziri highlights the crystallization of a singular mode of historicity within these cinematic examples—one of “absence” that reflects the relative dearth of archival information on the facts surrounding Indian Ocean slavery. Bringing together cinema studies, Middle East studies, Black studies, and postcolonial theory, Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery explores African enslavement in the Indian Ocean through the revelatory and little-known history of Iranian cinema. It shows that Iranian film reveals a resistance to facticity representative of the history of African enslavement in the Indian Ocean and preserves the legacy of African slavery’s longue durée in ways that resist its overpowering erasure in the popular and historical imagination. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "Parisa Vaziri’s care for Iranian cinema reveals a complex archive—a curriculum, a vigor—that exceeds local abstraction. Its new waves and new particularities are ‘symptoms of the global.’ Her deep analytic concern with racial blackness shows that the absence that makes possible the local and the global is also the presence that disrupts the givenness of self and world. Rigorously, beautifully, Vaziri transforms the history of the Indian Ocean and the history of cinema."—Fred Moten, New York University "Parisa Vaziri’s Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery is a truly groundbreaking work that asks us to seriously take up the question: What is blackness in Iranian culture? She critically interrogates the claim that Indian Ocean slavery has largely been forgotten in popular Iranian memory with her illuminating exposition and insightful analysis. Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery prompts us to do a far better job of exploring the lived experience of blackness in modernity beyond the structures of the Atlantic sphere and to reconsider our thinking about the relationship between slavery, Africa, blackness, and the globalization of the nation state."—R. A. Judy, author of Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black "Incisive, theoretically rich, and deeply researched, Parisa Vaziri’s Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery challenges us to see the cinematic material she analyzes in new and striking ways. Crossing conventional disciplinary and area-studies boundaries, Vaziri’s book demands that we rethink the premises of our assumptions about blackness and histories of enslavement in West Asia, especially in Iran."—Amy Motlagh, author of Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran

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Book SynopsisRethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of Bushihr, Kish, and Hurmuz, sailing and caravan networks supplied Iran and the surrounding regions with African slave labor from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery. How does a focus on blackness complicate traditional understandings of history and culture? Parisa Vaziri addresses this question by looking at residues of the Indian Ocean slave trade in Iranian films from the second half of the twentieth century. Revealing the politicized clash between commercial cinema (fīlmfārsī) and alternative filmmaking (the Iranian New Wave), she pays particular attention to the healing ritual zār, which is both an African slave descendent practice and a constitutive element of Iranian culture, as well as to cinematic sīyāh bāzī (Persian black play). Moving beyond other studies on Indian Ocean and trans-Saharan slavery, Vaziri highlights the crystallization of a singular mode of historicity within these cinematic examples—one of “absence” that reflects the relative dearth of archival information on the facts surrounding Indian Ocean slavery. Bringing together cinema studies, Middle East studies, Black studies, and postcolonial theory, Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery explores African enslavement in the Indian Ocean through the revelatory and little-known history of Iranian cinema. It shows that Iranian film reveals a resistance to facticity representative of the history of African enslavement in the Indian Ocean and preserves the legacy of African slavery’s longue durée in ways that resist its overpowering erasure in the popular and historical imagination. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.Trade Review "Parisa Vaziri’s care for Iranian cinema reveals a complex archive—a curriculum, a vigor—that exceeds local abstraction. Its new waves and new particularities are ‘symptoms of the global.’ Her deep analytic concern with racial blackness shows that the absence that makes possible the local and the global is also the presence that disrupts the givenness of self and world. Rigorously, beautifully, Vaziri transforms the history of the Indian Ocean and the history of cinema."—Fred Moten, New York University "Parisa Vaziri’s Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery is a truly groundbreaking work that asks us to seriously take up the question: What is blackness in Iranian culture? She critically interrogates the claim that Indian Ocean slavery has largely been forgotten in popular Iranian memory with her illuminating exposition and insightful analysis. Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery prompts us to do a far better job of exploring the lived experience of blackness in modernity beyond the structures of the Atlantic sphere and to reconsider our thinking about the relationship between slavery, Africa, blackness, and the globalization of the nation state."—R. A. Judy, author of Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black "Incisive, theoretically rich, and deeply researched, Parisa Vaziri’s Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery challenges us to see the cinematic material she analyzes in new and striking ways. Crossing conventional disciplinary and area-studies boundaries, Vaziri’s book demands that we rethink the premises of our assumptions about blackness and histories of enslavement in West Asia, especially in Iran."—Amy Motlagh, author of Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran

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Book SynopsisThere is an enduring belief amongst some that segregation is worsening and undermining social cohesion, and that this is especially visible in the growing divides between the schools in which our children are educated. This book uses up-to-date evidence to interrogate some of the controversial claims made by the 2016 Casey Review, providing an analysis of contemporary patterns of ethnic, residential and social segregation, and looking at the ways that these changing geographies interact with each other.Table of ContentsEthnic Segregation in England: Discourse and Debate The Changing Ethnic Composition of the School- Age Population Measures of Segregation and Diversity Across Local Authorities How Concentrated Are Ethnic Groups in Schools? Does School Choice Add to Residential Ethnic Segregation? Do Socio- Economic Separations Add to Ethnic Segregation? Conclusion: Ethnic Segregation Is Not Increasing

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Book Synopsis‘On-road’ is a complex term used by young people to describe street-based subculture and a general way of being. Featuring the voices of young people, this collection explores how race, class and gender dynamics shape this aspect of youth culture. With young people on-road often becoming criminalised due to interlocking structural inequalities, this book looks beyond concerns about gangs and presents empirical research from scholars and activists who work with and study the social lives of young people. It addresses the concerns of practitioners, policy makers and scholars by analysing aspects and misinterpretations of the shifting realities of young people’s urban life.Table of ContentsForeword by Claudia Bernard 1. Introduction: Youth and On-Road – Making Gender and Race Matter - Jade Levell, Tara Young and Rod Earle 2. Black, British Young Women On-Road: Intersections of Gender, Race and Youth in British Interwar Youth Penal Reform - Esmorie Miller 3. Tainted Love: Intimate Relationships and Gendered Violence On-Road - Yusef Bakkali and Ezimma Chigbo 4. (The) Trouble with Friends: Narrative Stories of Friendship and Violence On-Road - Tara Young 5. The Sexual Politics of Masculinity and Vulnerability On-Road: Gender, Race and Male Victimisation - Jade Levell 6. The Road, in Court: How UK Drill Music Became a Criminal Offence - Lambros Fatsis 7. On-Road Inside: Music as a Site of Carceral Convergence - Chris Waller 8. Jeta e Rrugës: Translocal On-Road Hustle, Within and from Albania - Jade Levell and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers 9. ‘He’s shown me the road’: Role Model and Roadman - Peter Harris 10. Diary of an On-Road Criminologist: An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection - Martin Glynn 11. Conclusions, Compromises and Continuing Conversations - Jade Levell, Tara Young and Rod Earle

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Book SynopsisWith humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese hand laundry. From behind the counter of his parents’ laundry and within the confines of a household that was rooted in a different century and culture, he sought to reconcile this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life that was all around them––from the faux martial arts of TV’s Kung Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene. In the 1970s, NYC, like most of the world, was in the throes of regenerating itself in the wake of major social and cultural changes resulting from the counterculture and civil rights movements. And by the 1980s, Flushing had become NYC’s second Chinatown. But Eng remained one of the neighborhood’s few Chinese citizens who did not speak fluent Chinese. Finding his way in the downtown theater and performance world of Manhattan, he discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s foundational Americana drama, Our Town. This discovery became the unlikely catalyst for a psyche-healing pilgrimage to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China—his ancestral home in southern China—that led to writing and performing his successful autobiographical monologue, The Last Emperor of Flushing. Learning to tell his own story on stages around the world was what proudly made him whole. As cities, classrooms, cultures, and communities the world over continue to re-examine the parameters of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Our Laundry, Our Town will reverberate with a broad readership.Table of Contents1 The Urban Oracle Bones of Our Laundry: Channeling China’s Last Emperor and Rock ’n’ Roll’s First Opera 2 Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting . . . or Faking It 3 Our Laundry’s Roots in Resistance: Family Reunification Along Flushing’s Fault Line 4 It’s Only a Paper Son: The Chinatown Bachelor Society 5 Addressees 6 Disappearing Acts: That Old-Time Religion 7 Chinese Rocks: Opium, the Chinese Diaspora and Soul . . . and Punk Rock 8 A Sort of Homecoming: But Where Are You Really From? 9 The Bigger Picture, On Screen and Off 10 Trip the Light, Gorgeous Mosaic: Double Happiness, Discovering Playwriting and Activism 11 Commencement Ceremonies: Leaving Flushing 12 Village Pilgrimage for a Marriage Blessing 13 Life Dances On: Our Town in China Epilogue Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisAgainst the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “carceral archival project,” offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from collections at the Southern California Library (Black Panthers, LA Chapter; the Coalition Against Police Abuse; Urban Policy Research Institute; Mothers Reclaiming Our Children; and the collection of geographer Clyde Woods), it builds upon theories of the archive to examine carcerality as the dominant mode of state governance over Black populations in the United States since the 1960s. Each chapter takes up an element of the carceral archive and its destabilization, destruction, and containment of Black life: its notion of the human and the production of “pejorative blackness,” the intimate connection between police and military in the protection of racial capitalism and its fossil fuel–based economy, the role of technology in counterintelligence, and counterinsurgency logics. Importantly, each chapter also emphasizes the carceral archive’s fundamental failure to destroy “Black communal logics” and radical Black forms of knowledge production, both of which contest the carceral archive and create other forms of life in its midst. Concluding with a statement on the reckoning with the radical traditions of thought and being which liberation requires, Sojoyner offers a compelling argument for how the centering of Blackness enables a structuring of the mind that refuses the violent exploitative tendencies of Western epistemological traditions as viable life-affirming practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 The Human and the Carceral Archival Project | 17 2 Police and the Carceral Archival Project | 32 3 Technology and the Social Sciences as Synergistic Violence | 42 4 Environmental Instability | 59 5 Policing Health and Safety | 72 6 Liberation | 81 Conclusion | 93 Acknowledgments | 103 References | 107

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Book SynopsisAgainst the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the “carceral archival project,” offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from collections at the Southern California Library (Black Panthers, LA Chapter; the Coalition Against Police Abuse; Urban Policy Research Institute; Mothers Reclaiming Our Children; and the collection of geographer Clyde Woods), it builds upon theories of the archive to examine carcerality as the dominant mode of state governance over Black populations in the United States since the 1960s. Each chapter takes up an element of the carceral archive and its destabilization, destruction, and containment of Black life: its notion of the human and the production of “pejorative blackness,” the intimate connection between police and military in the protection of racial capitalism and its fossil fuel–based economy, the role of technology in counterintelligence, and counterinsurgency logics. Importantly, each chapter also emphasizes the carceral archive’s fundamental failure to destroy “Black communal logics” and radical Black forms of knowledge production, both of which contest the carceral archive and create other forms of life in its midst. Concluding with a statement on the reckoning with the radical traditions of thought and being which liberation requires, Sojoyner offers a compelling argument for how the centering of Blackness enables a structuring of the mind that refuses the violent exploitative tendencies of Western epistemological traditions as viable life-affirming practices.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 1 The Human and the Carceral Archival Project | 17 2 Police and the Carceral Archival Project | 32 3 Technology and the Social Sciences as Synergistic Violence | 42 4 Environmental Instability | 59 5 Policing Health and Safety | 72 6 Liberation | 81 Conclusion | 93 Acknowledgments | 103 References | 107

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Book SynopsisNEW IN PAPERBACK! BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage and ran a Chinese hand laundry. From behind the counter of his parents’ laundry and within the confines of a household that was rooted in a different century and culture, he sought to reconcile this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life that was all around them––from the faux martial arts of TV’s Kung Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene. In the 1970s, NYC, like most of the world, was in the throes of regenerating itself in the wake of major social and cultural changes resulting from the counterculture and civil rights movements. And by the 1980s, Flushing had become NYC’s second Chinatown. But Eng remained one of the neighborhood’s few Chinese citizens who did not speak fluent Chinese. Finding his way in the downtown theater and performance world of Manhattan, he discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s foundational Americana drama, Our Town. This discovery became the unlikely catalyst for a psyche-healing pilgrimage to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China—his ancestral home in southern China—that led to writing and performing his successful autobiographical monologue, The Last Emperor of Flushing. Learning to tell his own story on stages around the world was what proudly made him whole. As cities, classrooms, cultures, and communities the world over continue to re-examine the parameters of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Our Laundry, Our Town will reverberate with a broad readership.Table of Contents1 The Urban Oracle Bones of Our Laundry: Channeling China’s Last Emperor and Rock ’n’ Roll’s First Opera 2 Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting . . . or Faking It 3 Our Laundry’s Roots in Resistance: Family Reunification Along Flushing’s Fault Line 4 It’s Only a Paper Son: The Chinatown Bachelor Society 5 Addressees 6 Disappearing Acts: That Old-Time Religion 7 Chinese Rocks: Opium, the Chinese Diaspora and Soul . . . and Punk Rock 8 A Sort of Homecoming: But Where Are You Really From? 9 The Bigger Picture, On Screen and Off 10 Trip the Light, Gorgeous Mosaic: Double Happiness, Discovering Playwriting and Activism 11 Commencement Ceremonies: Leaving Flushing 12 Village Pilgrimage for a Marriage Blessing 13 Life Dances On: Our Town in China Epilogue Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA Kindly Scrutiny of Human Nature is a collection of essays honouring Richard (Dick) Slobodin, one of the great anthropologists of the Canadian North. A short biography is followed by essays describing his formative thinking about human nature and human identities, his humanizing force in his example of living a moral, intellectual life, his discernment of people's ability to make informed choices and actions, his freedom from ideological fashions, his writings about the Mackenzie District Métis, his determination to take peoples experience seriously, not metaphorically, and his thinking about social organization and kinship. An unpublished paper about a 1930s caribou hunt in which he participated finishes the collection, giving Dick the last word.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first effort to provide a broad assessment of how well the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared an end to segregated schools in the United States was implemented. Written by a distinguished group of historians, the twelve essays in this collection examine how African Americans and their supporters in twelve states - Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Delaware, Missouri, Indiana, Nevada, and Wisconsin - dealt with the Court's mandate to desegregate "with all deliberate speed". The process followed many diverse paths.Some of the common themes in these efforts were the importance of black activism, especially the crucial role played by the NAACP; entrenched white opposition to school integration, which wasn't just a southern state issue, as is shown in Delaware, Wisconsin, and Indiana; and the role of the federal government, a sometimes inconstant and sometimes reluctant source of support for implementing Brown.Trade Review"An important and ambitious volume. . . . It contributes to a fuller understanding of the history and legacy of Brown and raises important questions about the broader thrust of the Civil Rights Movement and the nature of its achievements." —Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina, author of Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era"This book addresses a crucial question about twentieth century race relations and law. . . . An interesting collection of essays from an unexpected variety of places." —Robert J. Norrell, University of Tennessee, author of The House I Live In: Race in the American Century

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Book SynopsisThis volume chronicles the media's role in reshaping American life during the tumultuous nineteenth century by focusing specifically on the presentation of race and gender in the newspapers and magazines of the time. The work is divided into four parts: Part I, 'Race Reporting', details the various ways in which America's racial minorities were portrayed; Part II, 'Fires of Discontent', looks at the moral and religious opposition to slavery by the abolitionist movement and demonstrates how that opposition was echoed by African Americans themselves; Part III, 'The Cult of True Womanhood', examines the often disparate ways in which American women were portrayed in the national media as they assumed a greater role in public and private life; and Part IV, 'Transcending the Boundaries', traces the lives of pioneering women journalists who sought to alter and expand their gender's participation in American life, showing how the changing role of women led to various journalistic attempts to depict and define women through sensationalistic news coverage of female crime stories.

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection of newly commissioned articles brings together distinguished voices in the field of Africana philosophy and African-American social and political thought. Provides a comprehensive critical survey of African-American philosophical thought. Collects wide-ranging, multidisciplinary, newly commissioned articles in one authoritative volume. Serves as a benchmark work of reference for courses in philosophy, social and political thought, cultural studies, and African-American studies. Trade Review"A Companion to African-American Philosophy is an indispensable and elegant guide to a constellation of inquiries into and about African-American thought and the production of that thought." Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University "Authoritative, compendious, and detailed, this landmark publication sets a standard against which every other reference work in the field must be judged." Wilson J. Moses, The Pennsylvania State University "A new convergence of reflections on the African-American experience by some of the most active philosophers in the United States. An important reference work for scholars and a useful tool in the classroom." Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, DePaul University "This is the most thorough compilation of contemporary African-American philosophy I have yet seen. The inclusion of a selection of essays on cultural issues is a great addition. From racism to reparations to rap, these essays show how philosophers can illuminate current debates and eliminate persistent confusions in the mainstream discussions of these topics." Linda Martín Alcoff, Syracuse University "A Companion to African-American Philosophy is a valuable reference source. The editors have done an excellent job of representing the essential themes of African-American philosophical thought as well as notable individuals from the field. Libraries that support black history/studies, philosophy, American studies, and contemporary American thought should definitely purchase the Companion: it is well worth the cost. The novice will especially gain a wealth of information." Reference ReviewsTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Part I Philosophic Traditions Introduction to Part I 3 1 Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience 7 CORNEL WEST 2 African-American Existential Philosophy 33 LEWIS R. GORDON 3 African-American Philosophy: A Caribbean Perspective 48 PAGET HENRY 4 Modernisms in Black 67 FRANK M. KIRKLAND 5 The Crisis of the Black Intellectual 87 HORTENSE J. SPILLERS Part II The Moral and Political Legacy of Slavery Introduction to Part II 107 6 Kant and Knowledge of Disappearing Expression 110 RONALD A. T. JUDY 7 Social Contract Theory, Slavery, and the Antebellum Courts 125 ANITA L. ALLEN AND THADDEUS POPE 8 The Morality of Reparations II 134 BERNARD R. BOXILL Part III Africa and Diaspora Thought Introduction to Part III 151 9 “Afrocentricity”: Critical Considerations 155 LUCIUS T. OUTLAW, JR. 10 African Retentions 168 TOMMY L. LOTT 11 African Philosophy at the Turn of the Century 190 ALBERT G. MOSLEY Part IV Gender, Race, and Racism Introduction to Part IV 199 12 Some Group Matters: Intersectionality, Situated Standpoints, and Black Feminist Thought 205 PATRICIA HILL COLLINS 13 Radicalizing Feminisms from “The Movement Era” 230 JOY A. JAMES 14 Philosophy and Racial Paradigms 239 NAOMI ZACK 15 Racial Classification and Public Policy 255 DAVID THEO GOLDBERG 16 White Supremacy 269 CHARLES W. MILLS Part V Legal and Social Philosophy Introduction to Part V 285 17 Self-Respect, Fairness, and Living Morally 293 LAURENCE M. THOMAS 18 The Legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson 306 MICHELE MOODY-ADAMS 19 Some Reflections on the Brown Decision and Its Aftermath 313 HOWARD McGARY 20 Contesting the Ambivalence and Hostility to Affirmative Action within the Black Community 324 LUKE C. HARRIS 21 Subsistence Welfare Benefits as Property Interests: Legal Theories and Moral Considerations 333 RUDOLPH V. VANTERPOOL 22 Racism and Health Care: A Medical Ethics Issue 349 ANNETTE DULA 23 Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition 360 ANGELA Y. DAVIS Part VI Aesthetic and Cultural Values Introduction to Part VI 373 24 The Harlem Renaissance and Philosophy 381 LEONARD HARRIS 25 Critical Theory, Aesthetics, and Black Modernity 386 LORENZO C. SIMPSON 26 Black Cinema and Aesthetics 399 CLYDE R. TAYLOR 27 Thanatic Pornography, Interracial Rape, and the Ku Klux Klan 407 T. DENEAN SHARPLEY-WHITING 28 Lynching and Burning Rituals in African-American Literature 413 TRUDIER HARRIS-LOPEZ 29 Rap as Art and Philosophy 419 RICHARD SHUSTERMAN 30 Microphone Commandos: Rap Music and Political Ideology 429 BILL E. LAWSON 31 Sports, Political Philosophy, and the African American 436 GERALD EARLY Index 450

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines problems of race, gender and cultural identity, from a European perspective. Looking at government policies and schemes designed to ensure diversity, from multiculturalism to ""positive action"", it encourages a rethink on issues of gender, colour and culture.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first full-scale analysis of the Pequot War (1636-37), a pivotal event in New England colonial history. Through an innovative rereading of the Puritan sources, Alfred A. Cave refutes claims that settlers acted defensively to counter a Pequot conspiracy to exterminate Europeans. Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, and anthropological evidences to trace the evolution of the conflict, he sheds new light on the motivations of the Pequots and their Indian allies. He also provides a reappraisal of the interaction of ideology and self- interest as motivating factors in the Puritan attack on the Pequots.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, 11 scholars explore the role of ethnic food in American culture, with a particular focus on women. They argue that ethnic cooking represents both a source of sustenance and a complex form of communication.

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Book SynopsisThe story of a mixed-race family, Michael Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia; his African American slave and wife Eliza, and their nine children, negotiating the terrain of race and ethnicity in 19th century America. Legally slaves these brothers and sisters were smuggled north prior to the Civil War to be educated. Working at the intersection of church history and racial and ethnic, James O'Toole demonstrates that racial categories have been more fluid than law and custom admit. The Healys found freedom and extraordinary achievement by embracing their Irish heritage and the Catholic faith, while distancing themselves from their African roots and slave status.

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Book SynopsisThroughout his life, Clarence Adams exhibited self-reliance, ambition, ingenuity, courage, and a commitment to learning - character traits often equated with the successful pursuit of the American Dream. Unfortunately, for an African American coming of age in the 1930s and 1940s, such attributes counted for little, especially in the South. Adams was a seventeen-year-old high school dropout in 1947 when he fled Memphis and the local police to join the U.S. Army. Three years later, after fighting in the Korean War in an all-black artillery unit that he believed to have been sacrificed to save white troops, he was captured by the Chinese. After spending almost three years as a POW, during which he continued to suffer racism at the hands of his fellow Americans, he refused repatriation in 1953, choosing instead the People's Republic of China, where he hoped to find educational and career opportunities not readily available in his own country. While living in China, Adams earned a university degree, married a Chinese professor of Russian, and worked in Beijing as a translator for the Foreign Languages Press. During the Vietnam War, he made a controversial anti-war broadcast over Radio Hanoi, urging black troops not to fight for someone else's political and economic freedoms until they enjoyed these same rights at home. In 1966, having come under suspicion during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, he returned with his wife and two children to the United States, where he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities to face charges of ""disrupting the morale of American fighting forces in Vietnam and inciting revolution in the United States."" After these charges were dropped, he and his family struggled to survive economically. Eventually, through sheer perseverance, they were able to fulfill at least part of the American Dream. By the time he died, the family owned and operated eight successful Chinese restaurants in his native Memphis.Trade ReviewAn important addition to the remarkably scant canon of African American memoirs about war, as well as a meaningful American memoir. - Jeff Loeb, editor of Memphis-Nam-Sweden: The Autobiography of a Black American Exile by Terry Whitmore ""Black participation in the Korean War is an extremely important, yet understudied topic. I expect that future scholars will make use of this narrative both as a source and even as a starting point for further historical inquiry."" - Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black Is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

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Book SynopsisDeaf Children in China provides a striking profile of the views and attitudes of well-educated Chinese parents with preschool-age deaf children. Author Alison Callaway's inclusion of a survey of 122 English mothers of deaf children reveals the differences between Western and Chinese parents. Yet, she also discovered that many issues cross cultures and contexts. Callaway's pioneering work will fascinate and enlighten readers invested in the development of deaf children for years to come.

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Book SynopsisA case study of how cultural diversity among Asian Americans is subsumed for social and political advantageTrade Review"Original and stimulating.... [Espiritu's] study raises compelling questions about the existing literature on ethnicity and her findings open up new avenues for research and analysis."—Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley, co-author of Racial Formation in the U.S. from the 1960s to the 1980sTable of ContentsTables and Figures Preface 1. Ethnicity and Panethnicity 2. Coming Together: The Asian American Movement 3. Electoral Politics 4. The Politics of Social Service Funding 5. Census Classification: The Politics of Ethnic Enumeration 6. Reactive Solidarity: Anti-Asian Violence 7. Pan-Asian American Ethnicity: Retrospect and Prospect Notes References Interviews Index

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Book SynopsisLatin America's growing evangelical movement sparks political and social changeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America -- David Stoll 1. Struggling Against the Devil: Pentecostalism and Social Movements in Urban Brazil -- John Burdick 2. The Crentes of Campo Alegre and the Religious Construction of Brazilian Politics -- Rowan Ireland 3. Brother Votes for Brother: The New Politics of Protestantism in Brazil -- Paul Freston 4. Protestantism in El Salvador: Conventional Wisdom versus the Survey Evidence -- Kenneth M. Coleman, Edwin Eloy Aguilar, Jose Miguel Sandoval, and Timothy J. Steigenga 5. The Reformation of Machismo: Asceticism and Masculinity among Colombian Evangelicals -- Elizabeth Brusco 6. Shifting Affiliations: Mayan Widows and Evangelicos in Guatemala -- Linda Green 7. Religious Mobility and the Many Words of God in La Paz, Bolivia -- Lesley Gill Conclusion: Is This Latin America's Reformation? -- Virginia Garrard-Burnett Bibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis In a systematic survey of the manifestations and meaning of Black Power in America, John McCartney analyzes the ideology of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s and places it in the context of both African-American and Western political thought. He demonstrates, though an exploration of historic antecedents, how the Black Power versus black mainstream competition of the sixties was not unique in American history. Tracing the evolution of black social and political movements from the 18th century to the present, the author focuses on the ideas and actions of the leaders of each major approach. Starting with the colonization efforts of the Pan-Negro Nationalist movement in the 18th century, McCartney contrasts the work of Bishop Turner with the opposing integrationist views of Frederick Douglass and his followers. McCartney examines the politics of accommodation espoused by Booker T. Washington; W.E.B. Du Bois's opposition to this apolitical stance; the formation of the NAACP, the Urban League, and other integrationist organizations; and Marcus Garvey's reawakening of the separatist ideal in the early 20th century. Focusing on the intense legal activity of the NAACP from the 1930s to the 1960s, McCartney gives extensive treatment to the moral and political leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his challenge from the Black Power Movement in 1966.Trade Review"An important study of the history of Black Power ideologies.... This thoughtful, provocative, and well-argued work is clearly written and will make a contribution to Black and American intellectual history."—Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University"...deeply enrich[es] American historiography and take[s it]s place as part of what can be called a renaissance of interest in the study of African-American history."—In These Times"Black Power Ideologies is a significant contribution to scholarship, for while there are hundreds of books on Black Power, this work takes the concept from the colonial era to the 1960s, and provides an accompanying political analysis to its historical development. McCartney's treatment of Black Power thought in the 18th Century is at once illuminating and path-breaking; no author has as yet extended the concept of Black Power beyond the 19th Century. This is must reading for those who wish to observe Black abolitionists and colonizers in a new and fascinating perspective."—John C. Walter, Director, Afro-American Studies, University of Washington, SeattleTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Background to Black PowerImbalances and Injustices Against African-Americans • Theories About Why Inequality Persists • The Context of Black Protest 2. Black Nationalist Thought in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesThe Colonization Movement: A Profile • Reactions to and Criticisms of Colonization • The Ideology of the Colonization Movement • The Tactics of the Pan-Negro Nationalists • Pan-Negro Nationalism and Beyond 3. The Abolitionist MovementEarly Abolitionism, 1645 to 1807 • Abolitionism from 1807 to 1870 • The Ideology of the Abolitionist Movement • Frederick Douglass: A Profile • The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass • The Tactics of the Abolitionists • Abolitionism and Beyond 4. The Politics of AccommodationBooker T. Washington: A Profile • Booker T. Washington’s Philosophy of Education • The Social and Political Thought of Booker T. Washington • The Tactics of Booker T. Washington • Opposition to Booker T. Washington 5. Marcus Garvey and the Resurgence of Black NationalismRacial Equality by Integration: A Survey • Garvey’s Early Career • Garvey’s Later Career and the Garvey Movement • The Political Thought of Garvey • Garvey’s Organization and Tactics • Minor Expressions of Black Nationalism 6. Martin Luther King and MoralismThe Moralist Approach: A Profile • King’s Background and Intellectual Influences • King’s Philosophy of Nonviolence • The Political Thought of King • King’s Tactics • King and the Black Power Challenge 7. What Is Black Power?The Range of Usages of the Term Black Power • Reshaping the Categories of Black Power • Commonalities in the Usage of Black Power • Martin Luther King, Jr., and Black Power 8. The Counter-Communalists: A Comparison and AnalysisHuey Newton’s Background and Intellectual Influences • The Political Thought of Huey Newton • Huey Newton and the Tactics of Counter-Communalism • Other Counter-Communalists on Tactics 9. The Black Power Pluralists: A Comparison and AnalysisShirley Chisholm’s Background and Intellectual Influences • The Political Thought of Shirley Chisholm • Other Pluralists on the American System • Shirley Chisholm on the Obstacles to True Pluralism in the United States • Other Pluralists on the Obstacles to Democracy • Shirley Chisholm and the Case for Black Power Pluralism • Other Pluralist Visions of the Good Society • The Tactics of Pluralism 10. The Black Power Separatists: A Comparison and AnalysisElijah Muhammad’s Background and Career • The Political Theology of Elijah Muhammad • Elements of Elijah Muhammad’s Political Theory • The Tactics of Separatism: The Black Muslims • Other Separatists on Tactics: Imamu Baraka and Imari Obadele I 11. A Critical Assessment of the Black Power IdeologiesThe Paradoxes in the Goals of the Black Power Ideologies • Malcolm X and the Dilemmas of Black Power • The Life of Malcolm X and Its Meaning for the Black Power Movement • Black Power and Individualism • Black Power and the Intellectual • Permanent Contributions of the Black Power Ideologies Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind, their narratives chronicle the difficulties of forging a new identity.From Jou Yee Xiong's Life Story: "I stopped teaching my sons many of the Hmong ways because I felt my ancestors and I had suffered enough already. I thought that teaching my children the old ways would only place a burden on them."From Ka Pao Xiong's (Jou Yee Xiong's son) Life Story: "It has been very difficult for us to adapt because we had no professions or trades and we suffered from culture shock. Here in America, both the husband and wife must work simultaneously to earn enough money to live on. Many of our children are ignorant of the Hmong way of life…. Even the old people are forgetting about their life in Laos, as they enjoy the prosperity and good life in America."From Xang Mao Xiong's Life Story: "When the Communists took over Laos and General Vang Pao fled with his family, we, too, decided to leave. Not only my family, but thousands of Hmong tried to flee. I rented a car for thirty thousand Laotian dollars, and it took us to Nasu…. We felt compelled to leave because many of us had been connected to the CIA…. Thousands of Hmong were traveling on foot. Along the way, many of them were shot and killed by Communist soldiers. We witnessed a bloody massacre of civilians."From Vue Vang's Life Story: "Life was so hard in the [Thai refugee] camp that when we found out we could go to the United States, we did not hesitate to grasp the chance. We knew that were we to remain in the camp, there would be no hope for a better future. We would not be able to offer our children anything better than a life of perpetual poverty and anguish."Table of ContentsContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgements Personal and Place Names Introduction: The Hmong Experience in Asia and the United States 1. The Xiong Family of Goleta 2. The Xiong Family of Lompoc 3. The Fang Family of San Diego 4. The Tcha Family of Fresno 5. The Maua Family of Sanger Notes to the Introduction Selected Bibliography Notes on the Editor and Transcribers/Translators

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Book SynopsisDefining and changing perceptions of ethnic identityTrade Review"[A] thoroughly original study that greatly expands our knowledge of how ethnic identities are formed. Leonard writes clearly and her inclusion of the voices of the Punjabi-Mexicans lends humor and depth to the history. This insightful study will be of interest to all scholars concerned with immigration and ethnicity and the history of California."—The Journal of Asian Studies"This is an extraordinary work. It is simultaneously an ethnography of early South Asian immigrant life in California, a model of fine-grained historical research using all manner of documents to reconstruct and interpret the migration flows, social structure, and family cycles of Punjabi men and their Mexican spouses, and a sophisticated examination of the complex role of 'identity' in their perceptions of themselves and their descendants.... In the midst of contemporary discussions about multi-culturalism, politically correctly positions, and valuing diversity, this book would be a fine place to begin a thoughtful consideration of the potential multiplicity of meanings ethnicity may have for human begins."—Journal of American Ethnic History"No other book has the scope or the vision of Karen Leonard's work. I expect this book to be consulted as a model of historical research for many years to come."—James Freeman, San Jose State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Part I: Introduction 1. Exploring Ethnicity Part II: The World of the Pioneers 2. Contexts: California and the Punjab 3. Early Days in the Imperial Valley 4. Marriages and Children 5. Male and Female Networks 6. Conflict and Love in the Marriages Part III: The Construction of Ethnic Identity 7. Childhood in Rural California 8. The Second Generation Comes of Age 9. Political Change and Ethnic Identity 10. Encounters with the Other 11. Contending Voices Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOn November 16, 1989, on the campus of El Salvador's University of Central America, six Jesuits and two women were murdered by members of the Salvadoran army, an army funded and trained by the United States. One of the murdered Jesuits was Ignacio Ellacuria, the university's Rector and a key, although controversial, figure in Salvadoran public life. From an opening account of this terrible crime, Paying the Price asks, Why were they killed and what have their deaths meant? Answers come through Teresa Whitfield's detailed examination of Ellacuria's life and work. His story is told in juxtaposition with the crucial role played by the unraveling investigation of the Jesuits' murders within El Salvador's peace process. A complex and nuanced book, Paying the Price offers a history of the Church in El Salvador in recent decades, an analysis of Ellacuria's philosophy and theology, an introduction to liberation theology, and an account of the critical importance of the University of Central America. In the end, Whitfield's comprehensive picture of conditions in El Salvador suggest that the Jesuits' murders were almost inevitable. A crime that proved a turning point in El Salvador's civil war, the murders expressed the deep tragedy of the Salvadoran people beyond suffering the heartless cruelty, violence, and deceitfulness of a corrupt military and their patrons in the U.S. government. Whitfield draws on her extensive research of Jesuit archives and private papers, Ellacuria's diaries, documents declassified by the U.S. government, and 200 interviews conducted with sources ranging from Jesuits to Salvadoran military officers, U.S. officials and congressmen to human rights campaigners.Trade Review"This is a brilliant and authoritative telling of one of our time's compelling dramas, the interplay of religion and politics in El Salvador over the last decades-sophisticated, complex and an absolute page-turner."—Tom Quigley, United Stated Catholic Conference"More than an account of the most horrifying events in the litany of human rights violations in the history of El Salvador, this book is an acute analysis of the political and military context in which it happened. Few books about El Salvador have dug as deep into the entrails of the Salvadoran reality, nor reflected as much access to major actors on all sides. Whitfield does not accept facile explanations, nor present the Jesuits as unidimensional. What she does do is demonstrate the impact of a few individuals who spoke out for justice in the face of massive inequalities and repeated threats. Ultimately their deaths contributed to an end to war in El Salvador and reinvigorated the struggle for basic human rights they held so dear."—Margaret E. Crahan, Henry R. Luce Professor of Religion, Power and the Political Process, Occidental College"This eloquent, masterful book evokes the causes and consequences of the heartless murders of six Jesuit priests and two women in El Salvador. I know of no other work which so richly or perceptively combines recent political history, theology, and biography to explain who the Jesuits were and why the armed forces set out coolly to eliminate them. The portrait of U.S. policy as it sought to protect the military is as riveting as it is disturbing."—Cynthia J. Arnson, Associate Director, Human Rights Watch/AmericasTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Foreword - Alvaro de Soto Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: One Night in November 1. Early Days in a New World 2. Choosing for the Poor 3. How Much More Does It Take? 4. With an Exemplary Archbishop in the Nation's Crisis 5. In the Kingdom of Terror and Lies 6. Congress Comes to Town 7. A Utopian Rector 8. The UCA in a Time of War 9. What's Done Here...Stays Here 10. Dialogue Was a Crime 11. Never So Close, Never So Far 12. Dead with Spirit Afterword: April 1994 Chronology Acronyms Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe role of gender and politics in the ever-changing goals and effects of developmentTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen Part I: From Colonization to Development and Industrialization: Gender and the Economy 1. Colonialism, Structural Subordination, and Empowerment: Women in the Development Process in Latin America and the Caribbean Edna Acosta-Belen and Christine E. Bose 2. Gender, Industrialization, Transnational Corporations, and Development: An Overview of Trends and Patterns Kathryn B. Ward and Jean Larson Pyle 3. Feminist Inroads in the Study of Women's Work and Development Luz del Alba Acevedo 4. Recasting Women in the Global Economy: Internationalization and Changing Definitions of Gender M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Saskia Sassen 5. Gender, Industrialization, and Development in Puerto Rico Palmira N. Rios Part II: Empowering Women: Individual, Household, and Collective Strategies 6. Latin American Women in the World Capitalist Crisis June Nash 7. Gender and Multiple Income Strategies in Rural Mexico: A Twenty-Year Perspective Frances Abrahamer Rothstein 8. Gender, Microenterprise, Performance, and Power: Case Studies from the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Swaziland Rae Lesser Blumberg 9. Women's Social Movements in Latin America Helen Icken Safa 10. Revolutionary Popular Feminism in Nicaragua: Ideologies, Political Transactions, and the Struggle for Autonomy Norma Stoltz Chinchilla About the Editors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe adventures of seven Filipino guerrillas rebelling against U.S. dominationTrade Review"[A] stunning tale of Filipino resistance fighters." --Asian Week "[T]he novel has a cumulative power. Editor San Juan...contributes a 36-page introduction that discusses Bulosan's life, writings, and philosophy as well as the historical background to the novel." --Library Journal "Written against the descending night of the McCarthyite witch-hunt, The Cry and the Dedication is a haunting allegory of search, struggle and redemption. It is high testimony to the power of the revolutionary imagination when empowered by the exile's dream of personal return and liberation of the homeland." --Alan Wald, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction E. San Juan, Jr. The Cry and the Dedication

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Book SynopsisFilipino Americans are now the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. As reflected in this collection, their lives represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history. Men and women, old and young, middle and working class, first and second generation, all openly discuss their changing sense of identity, the effects of generational and cultural differences on their families, and the role of community involvement in their lives. Pre- and post-1965 immigrants share their experiences, from the working students who came before WWII, to the manongs in the field, to the stewards and officers in the U.S. Navy, to the "brain drain" professionals, to the Filipinos born and raised in the United States. As Yen Le Espiritu writes in the Introduction, "each of the narratives reveals ways in which Filipino American identity has been and continues to be shaped by a colonial history and a white-dominated culture. It is through recognizing how profoundly race has affected their lives that Filipino Americans forge their ethnic identities-identities that challenge stereotypes and undermine practices of cultural domination." In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Vo.Trade Review"...a useful means of understanding ethnic identity and Filipino American history." -The Diversity Factor "Filipino American Lives offers a collection of 13 life stories as told by the people who lived them... [F]rom these disparate backgrounds, a Filipino American identity emerges and Espiritu does an excellent job of letting the reader see its complexity." -Pacific ReaderTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Filipino Settlements in the United States 1. "We Have to Show the Americans that We Can Be as Good as Anybody" - A. B. Santos and Juanita Santos 2. "I Was Used to the American Way of Life" - Ruth Abad 3. "Sometimes, I Am Not Sure What It Means to Be an American" - Connie Tirona 4. "My Dream Is to Be Able to Give Something Back to My Country and My People" - Luz Latus 5. "My Experience Is Atypical" - Paz Jensen 6. "I Sacrificed My Five-Year College Education to Become a Steward" - Leo Sicat 7. "I Only Finished First Grade" - Nemesia Cortez 8. "International Medical Graduates Are Tested Every Step of the Way" - Edgar Gamboa 9. "PASACAT Became My Whole Life" - Anamaria Labao Cabato 10. "I Knew that I Wanted to Be a Naval Officer" - Daniel Gruta 11. "I Offended Many Filipinos Because I Was an FOB" - Dario Villa 12. "I Could Not Cope with Life" - Joey Laguda 13. "Everybody Seemed to Be Either White or Black, a Full Race" - Lisa Graham Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of Ivory Perry, a black worker and community activist who, for more than thirty years, has distributed the leaflets, carried the picket signs, and planned and participated in the confrontations that were essential to the success of protest movements. Using oral histories and extensive archival research, George Lipsitz examines the culture of opposition through the events of Perry’s life of commitment and illumines the social and political changes and conflicts that have convulsed the United States during the past fifty years.Trade Review"This powerful book tells of Ivory Perry’s choice of a life of protest not in splendid isolation, but in intimate conversation with our world Perry knows and can tell us what it is to be poor and black in America. His story assigns our task." —William S. McFeely, University of Georgia"Those who would understand the changed realities of racial politics in St. Louis and ponder what might lie ahead should not ignore this thoroughly researched, well-written, persuasive book." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch"A very rich history of a rank and file leader of the black movement.... Hopefully it will be a prototype for books that emphasize the fact that social movements put up their own leaders whose qualities of leadership are precisely the same as the values and aspirations of the members of the movement." —George Rawick, University of Missouri at St. Louis Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Peace in the Struggle 1. Pine Bluff: The Moral Resources of a Southern Black Community 2. Korea: The Lessons of War 3. St. Louis: Civil Rights and the Industrial City 4. Bogalusa: Civil Rights in a Southern City 5. The War on Poverty: The Emergence of an Organic Intellectual 6. The Rent Strike: Housing Issues and Social Protest 7. Lead Poisoning: Peace and Pain in the Struggle 8. Politics in the Postindustrial City 9. Collective Memory and Social Learning: Deep Like the Rivers Epilogue Notes Interviews and Archives Index

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Book SynopsisIn September 19, 1985, a powerful earthquake hit Mexico City in the early morning hours. As the city collapses, the government fails to respond. Long a voice of social conscience, prominent Mexican journalist, Elena Poniatowska chronicles the disintegration of the city's physical and social structure, the widespread grassroots organizing against government corruption and incompetence, and the reliency of the human spirit. As a transformative moment in the life of Mexican society, the earthquake is as much a component of the country's current crisis as the 1982 debt crisis, the problematic economic of the last ten years, and the recent elections. In masterfully weaving together a multiplicity of voices, Poniatowska has reasserted the inherent value and latent power of people working together. Punctuated by Poniatowska's own experiences and observations, these post disaster testimonies speak of the disruption of families and neighborhoods, of the destruction of homes and hospitals, of mutilation and death the collective loss of a city. Drawing the reader dramatically into the scene of national horror through dozens of personal stories, Poniatowska demonstrates the importance of courage and self-reliance in redeeming life from chaos. Elena Poniatowska, a prominent and prolific Mexican journalist and novelist, has written twenty-five books. Several have been translated into English, including "Massacre in Mexico" about the 1968 student/worker uprising in Mexico City, and the forthcoming "Tinisima", which centers upon the life of Tina Modotti. Aurora Camacho de Schmidt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College. She has worked as a writer and as the National Representative for the Mexico-U.S. Border Program of the American Friends Service Committee. Arthur Schmidt is Associate Professor of History and former Director of the Latin American Studies Center at Temple University. He is the author of "The Social and Economic Effect of the Railroad in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico, 1867-1911".Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Series, Voices of Latin American Life -- Arthur Schmidt Foreword: The Shaking of a Nation -- Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisLeading authorities write on the complex--and sometimes controversial--history, politics, and culture of rap and hip hopTrade Review"It is the undisputed word, the perfect blend of truth with reality, the flyest and realest reading about the flyest and realest art. These essays are informational, readable, and necessary to correct the misunderstanding that sweeps the news." --Ishmael Butler (aka Butterfly), Grammy Award-winning artist, Digable PlanetsTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Rap Attack: An Introduction - William Eric Perkins Part I: Roots 2. Women Writin' Rappin' Breakin' - Nancy Guevara 3. Rap's Latino Sabor - Mandalit del Barco 4. Puerto Rico Rocks: New York Ricans Stake Their Claim - Juan Flores Part II: Genres 5. Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: Gangsta Rap and Postindustrial Los Angeles - Robin D. G. Kelley 6. Making the Strong Survive: The Contours and Contradictions of Message Rap - Ernest Allen, Jr. 7. Who Wants to See Ten Niggers Play Basketball? - Armond White Part III: Flavas 8. Hip Hop 101 - Robert Farris Thompson 9. Dance in Hip Hop Culture - Katrina Hazzard-Donald 10. Hidden Politics: Discursive and Institutional Policing in Rap Music - Tricia Rose 11. Global Village: An Epilogue - William Eric Perkins About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth examination of contemporary Chicana writersTrade Review"Home Girls makes an original, bold, and significant contribution to feminist studies, Chicana/o studies, and literature. Quintana accomplishes what few critics in Chicana/o studies have done: she applies different interpretive paradigms to her reading of Chicana texts, blending ethnography with literary criticism, ideological analysis with semiotics. Her reading of literary texts is rich in texture and detail." --Rosa Linda Fregoso, author of Bronze Screen: Chicana and Chicano Film CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Testimonio as Biotheory 1. Politics, Representation, and Emergence of Chicana Aesthetics 2. Classical Rifts: The Fugue and Chicana Poetics 3. The House on Mango Street: An Appropriation of Word, Space, and Sign 4. Shades of the Indigenous Ethnographer: Ana Castillo's Mixquiahuala Letters 5. Orality, Tradition, and Culture: Denise Chavez's Novena Narrativas and The Last of the Menu Girls 6. New Visions: Culture, Sexuality, and Autobiography Notes Index

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Book SynopsisCombining archival research in Chinese language sources with oral history interviews, Renqiu Yu examines the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA), an organization that originated in 1933 to help Chinese laundry workers break their isolation in American society. Yu brings to life the men who labored in New York laundries, depicting their meager existence, their struggles against discrimination and exploitation, and their dreams of returning to China. The persistent efforts of the CHLA succeeded in changing the workers' status in American society and improving the image of the Chinese among the American public.Yu is especially concerned with the political activities of the CHLA, which was founded in reaction to proposed New York City legislation that would have put the Chinese laundries out of business. When the conservative Chinese social organization could not help the launderers, they broke with tradition and created their own organization. Not only did the CHLA defeat the legislative requirements that would have closed them down, but their "people's diplomacy" won American support for China during its war with Japan. The CHLA staged a campaign in the 1930s and 40s which took as its slogan, "To Save China, To Save Ourselves." Focusing on this campaign, Yu also examines the complex relationship between the democratically oriented CHLA and the Chinese American left in the 1930s.Trade Review"Through extensive research of Chinese newspapers, such as China Daily News, and internal organizational documents, leavened with interviews of two dozen elderly Chinese laundrymen, Yu has reconstructed the political history o the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance (CHLA).... Aside from documenting the history of an important labor organization and giving voice to the oppressed Chinese laundrymen, Yu has written one of the few works that focus on the Chinese on the East Coast during the Twentieth century."—The Journal of Asian Studies"Yu's work, well-written and thoroughly researched, chronicles the CHLA's diverse successes and failures. To Save China is a good addition to the literature on Asian immigrants...."—Choice"Drawing upon Chinese-language sources, oral interviews, and FBI files, Yu has produced a rich and complex history of the CHLA."—The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chinese Names and Transliteration Introduction 1. Chinese Laundrymen in New York City 2. The Emergence of the CHLA 3. The Alliance Is for the Laundrymen 4. "To Save China, To Save Ourselves" 5. "The People's Diplomacy" 6. The Struggle Over a Penny 7. Where Is the Gold Mountains? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive volume brings together documents from the richly textured intellectual history of Africa and the diasporaTrade Review"This marvelous volume, African Intellectual Heritage, is indispensable for anyone interested in the life of the mind. Molefi Asante and Abu Abarry are to be congratulated for this fine gift." - Cornel West, Harvard University "This impressive work shows a profound appreciation for African intellectual ideas." - H. Patrick Swygert, President, Howard University "Remarkable for its extensive coverage of the African world, African Intellectual Heritage brings together the information for which scholars, students, and the general public have been waiting. Mary McLeod Bethune, Julius Nyerere, Marcus Garvey, and Ptahhotep in the same book! This is a bold and positive enterprise." - Rebecca Hankins, Senior Curator, Amistad Research Center, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsPreface An African Chronology 1. African Sources: An Introduction Part I: The Creation of the Universe 2. The Heliopolis Creation Narrative 3. The Memphite Declaration of the Deities 4. Vision of the Universe Pharaoh Unas 5. Vision of the Universe Pharaoh Teti 6. Vision of the Universe Pharaoh Pepi 7. Tomb Inscription Princess Ni-sedjer-kai 8. Tomb Inscription Hotep-her-akhet 9. Tomb Inscription Nefer-seshem-ra 10. Memorial Stone Ni-hebsed-pepi 11. The San Creation Narrative 12. The Khoi Creation Narrative 13. The BarozviCreation Narrative 14. The Dogon Creation Narrative 15. The Yoruba Creation Narrative 16. The Asante Tower to Heaven 17. The Asante Concept of the Creation of the Lesser Gods 18. The Creation James Weldon Johnson Part II: Religious Ideas 19. The Prophecy Nefer-rohu 20. Tomb Prayers Paheri 21. Selections from the Papyrus of Ani 22. Hymns to Aten Akhenaten 23. Prayer and Hymn Haremhab 24. Penitential Hymns 25. Selections from the Book of Henok (Enoch) 26. Religion and Ancestor Veneration Jomo Kenyatta 27. Asante Praise Poems to Tano River and the Earth 28. A Lodagaa Libation to the Ancestors 29. Recurrent Themes in Ga Libation (Mpai) Oratory Abu Shardow Abarry 30. Igbo Invocations 31. Wapele: The Concept of Good Character in Ifa Literary Corpus Wande Abimbola 32. Akan Religion Mensah Sarbah Part III: Culture and Identity 33. Her Assertion of Her Power Queen Hatshepsut 34. Yoruba Praises to Ogun 35. The Resources of the Oral Epic Isidore Okpewho 36. Kouroukan Fougan, or the Division of the World by Sundiata 37. The Ozidi Saga J.P. Clark-Bekederemo 38. The Rise of Shaka Mazisi Kunene 39. A Myth of Origins: Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 40. Identity, Culture, and Kidnapping Olaudah Equiano 41. Indigenous Institutions of Ghana '85 J. Caseley Hayford 42. The Condition and Destiny of Africans in the United States Martin Delany 43. W.E.B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk Houston A. Baker, Jr. 44. Notes on a Return to the Native Land Aime Cesaire 45. The Origin and History of the Black World Cheikh Anta Diop 46. Africa's Tripartite Heritage: Towards Cultural Synthesis Ali A. Mazrui 47. The Origin and Growth of Afro-American Literature John Henrik Clarke 48. First Congress of Negro Writers and Artists (1956) 49. Second Congress of Negro Writers and Artists (1959) 50. On National Culture Frantz Fanon 51. Identity and Dignity in the Context of Struggle Amilcar Cabral 52. African Classical Concepts of Tragedy Wole Soyinka 53. The Akan Blackened Stool and the Odwira Festival Peter Sarpong 54. The Ga Homowo (Hunger-Hooting) Cultural Festival Abu Shardow Abarry 55. Africa as the Nursery of Science and Literature J. Africanus B. Horton 56. The Principal Issues in Afrocentric Inquiry Molefi Kete Asante 57. Genetic Linguistic Connections of Ancient Egypt and the Rest of Africa Theophile Obenca Part IV: Philosophy and Morality 58. The Study of African Religions and Philosophy John Mbiti 59. The Idea of African Philosophy Kwame Gyekye 60. Moral Teachings Ptah-hotep 61. My Victory over Circumstances Sinuhe 62. Instructions for Well-Being Amenemope 63. The Pharaoh's Speech at the Installation of Rekhmire as Prime Minister 64. The Doomed Prince 65. The Story of the Two Brothers 66. My Journey to Asia Wen-Amon 67. The Lion in Search of Man 68. African Socialism Leopold Sedar Senghor 69. Consciencism Kwame Nkrumah 70. The Zulu Personal Declaration 71. The African Writer and the English Language Chinua Achebe 72. Igbo Proverbs 73. Luyia Proverbs 74. African American Spirituals 75. On African Rights and Liberty Maria W. Stewart 76. Philosophy and Opinions Marcus Garvey 77. The Concept of Race W.E.B. DuBois 78. The Ethics of Culture Alain Locke 79. The Life and Times of Anton Wilhelm Amo, the First African (Black) Philosopher in Europe William E. Abraham Part V: Society and Politics 80. Autobiography Weni 81. Autobiography Harkhuf 82. Theory of Human Society William E. Abraham 83. On the Fante National Constitution Mensah Sarbah 84. Mohammedanism and the Negro Race Edward Wilmot Blyden 85. Christianity and the Negro Race Edward Wilmot Blyden 86. Racial Accommodation Booker T. Washington 87. The Atlanta Exposition Address Booker T. Washington 88. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others W.E.B. DuBois 89. A Critique of Booker T. Washington's Plan Monroe Trotter 90. Women as Leaders Amy Jacques Garvey 91. Brazilian Quilombismo Abdias Do Nascimento 92. Pan-African Congress Resolution (1919) 93. Pan-African Congress Resolution (1945) 94. The Power of Negro Action Paul Robeson 95. Declaration and Resolutions of the First Conference of Independent African States (1958) 96. The Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles): Their Meaning and Message Maulana Karenga 97. One-Party Government Julius K. Nyerere 98. The Need for a Union Government for Africa Kwame Nkrumah 99. The Rise and Fall of Nkrumah C.L.R. James 100. My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation James Baldwin 101. W.E.B. DuBois: The Jamesian Organic Intellectual Cornel West Part VI: Resistance and Renewal 102. The Expulsion of the Hyksos Ah-mose 103. The Commemorative Stone of Thutmose III 104. Annals Thutmose III 105. Pharaoh Piye and the Victory over North 106. The Portuguese Fortress at El Mina King Kwame Ansa 107. A Shona Song 108. Narrative Nat Turner 109. Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery David Walker 110. Fourth of July Oration Frederick Douglass 111. We Are All Bound Up Together Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 112. Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race Anna Julia Cooper 113. Lynch Law in All Its Phases Ida B. Wells-Barnett 114. The Mis-Education of the Negro Carter G. Woodson 115. Address to the League of Nations Emperor Haile Selassie 116. My Last Will and Testament Mary McLeod Bethune 117. I Have a Dream Martin Luther King, Jr. 118. Colonial War and Mental Disorders Frantz Fanon 119. Revolutionary Culture and the Future of Pan African Culture Amiri Baraka 120. Charter of the Organization of African Unity 121. How Africa Developed before the Coming of the Europeans - up to the Fifteenth Century Walter Rodney 122. Message to the Grassroots Malcolm X 123. Towards the Sixth Pan African Congress: Aspects of the International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean, and America Walter Rodney 124. Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King, Jr. 125. Negroes Are Not Moving Too Fast Martin Luther King, Jr. 126. Cultural Revolution and the Future of the Pan African Culture Abdias do Nascimento 127. Black Women and Music: A Historical Legacy of Struggle Angela Y. Davis 128. Black Sisters, Speak Out Awa Thiam 129. The Million Man March/Day of Absence Mission Statement Maulana Karenga Glossary of Names and Terms Suggestions for Further Reading Sources and Credits Index

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