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Book SynopsisReveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era. Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred. Drawing on records from New York's children's courts, Harlem's public schools, Columbia University, and the Department of Hospitals, Dennis Doyle tells here the story of the American psychiatrists and civil servants who helped codify in New York's mental health policies the view that blacks and whites are psychological equals. The book examines in particular the events through which these racial liberals working in Harlem gained a foothold within New York's public institutions, creating inclusive public policies and ostensibly race-neutral standards of care. Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968 not only contributes to the growing body of historiography on race and medical institutions in the civil rights era but, more importantly, shows how inveterate racial prejudices within public policy can be overcome. Dennis A. Doyle is assistant professor of history at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched. . . . Doyle's work is a historiography of midcentury psychiatry's struggles with race embedded in the history of the conservatism of the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights in New York City. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division medical humanities and graduate collections. * CHOICE *Fascinating . . . Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem is copiously researched, is nuanced in its historical analysis and offers a well-crafted narrative. . . . It is critical reading for anyone interested in the historic relationship between psychiatry, mental health disparities, mass incarceration and twentieth-century civil rights activism. * MEDICAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Before Racial Liberalism: Depression-Era Harlem and Psychiatry, 1936 Everyone's Children: Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Justine Wise Polier's Courtroom, 1936-41 Psychiatry Goes to School: Child Guidance and the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, 1940-42 Psychiatry for Harlem: Wartime Activism and the Black Community's Mental Health Needs, 1942-45 The Quiet One: Racial Representation in Popular Media and Psychiatric Literature, 1942-53 Psychiatry Comes to Harlem Hospital: Community Psychiatry ,Aftercare, and Columbia University, 1947-62 The Limits of Racial Liberalism: Harlem Hospital and the Black Community, 1963-68 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis final volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography records the remarkable achievements and experiences of Ira Aldridge in the last years of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, the fourth volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography, places on record Aldridge's remarkable achievements and experiences in the final phase of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. His first Continental tour in 1852-1855 had been a spectacular success, and though he returned to Britain periodically afterwards, he spent much of the remainder of his career entertaining audiences in central and eastern Europe, mainly in Ukraine and Russia. His Shakespearean performances in St. Petersburg in 1858 and Moscow in 1862 were among his greatest triumphs and led to numerous appearances elsewhere in provincial cities and towns. During his forty-three years on stage in Europe, Ira Aldridge traveled more widely and won more honors, decorations, and awards than any other actor of his day. He is remembered not only as a talented thespian but also as a very visible representative of his race, someone who changed European perceptions of black people through the sheer brilliance of his artistry on stage. And by doing so, he helped to humanize the image of Africans andtheir descendants in Europe at an important transitional moment in history, when the movement to abolish slavery was gathering force and winning international acceptance. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African literatures at the University of Texas at Austin.Trade ReviewThrough his thorough mining of a vast array of European archives, Lindfors surpasses all previous studies in recounting the actions of, and wildly contradictory viewpoints towards, this seminal figure ... his absolute mastery of the sources and deep understanding of Aldridge and the period lead to probing insights. * THEATRE JOURNAL *With Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, Berth Lindfors concludes what will surely remain the definitive biography of the great nineteenth-century African American actor, Ira Aldridge, for many a decade ... Through an exhaustive search of local reviews and commentary he is able not only to follow Aldridge on his travels, but also to provide a wide range of observations on the actor's technique and artistic success. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURE *Winner of the Theatre Library Association's 2015 George Freedley Award Special Jury Prize * . *Lindfors's four-volume biography is destined to become the standard life of Aldridge, without equal in the future. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Readjusting to Britain Crim. Con. On the Road Again Stockholm The Second Continental Tour Pest and Buda A Short Break The Third Continental Tour Home Again The Fourth Continental Tour The Fifth Continental Tour The Sixth Continental Tour Taking a Break The Seventh Continental Tour Another Break The Eighth Continental Tour The Ninth Continental Tour Final Acts Postmortem Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExamines material culture and the act of institution creation, especially through architecture and landscape, to recount a deeper history of the lives of African American women in the post-Civil War South. This volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded industrial and normal schools in the American South. Through their work in architecture and education, these women helped to memorialize the trauma and struggle of black Americans. Author Angel David Nieves tells the story of women such as Elizabeth Evelyn Wright (1872-1906), founder of the Voorhees Industrial School (now Voorhees College) in Denmark, South Carolina, in 1897, who not only promoted a program of race uplift through industrial education but also engaged with many of the pioneering African American architects of the period to design a school and surrounding community. Similarly, Jane (Jennie) Serepta Dean (1848-1913), a former slave, networked with elite Northern white designers to found the Manassas Industrial School in Manassas, Virginia, in 1892. An Architecture of Education examines the work of these women educators and reformers as a form of nascent nation building, noting the ways in which the social and political ideology of race uplift and gendered agency that they embodied was inscribed on the built environment through the design and construction of these model schools. In uncovering these women's role in the shaping of African American public spheres in the post-Reconstruction South, the book makes an important contribution to the history of African Americans' long struggle for equality and civil rights in the United States. Angel David Nieves is Professor of History and Digital Humanities at San Diego State University.Trade ReviewNieves reveals an understudied dimension of black women's important work within the industrial school movement. Moreover, he has contributed to a growing trend toward the recovery of black women's intellectual labor, especially that of poor and working-class black women. * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY *An illuminating read...It is valuable in helping the lay person understand better the context and challenges to education provision in America's deep south, including attitudes to the education of African Americans at the time, and the pervasive effect of Jim Crow laws and organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan. * WOMEN'S HISTORY REVIEW *An Architecture of Education opens doors to new actors, places, and topics in architectural history - ones that architectural historians should take note of, learn from, and pursue. * CAA REVIEWS *In this compelling history, Angel David Nieves provides a fresh new view of the establishment of African American educational institutions through a consideration of the critical spatial history of the late nineteenth century. A nuanced examination of the architectural and social history of this period, this volume also recounts the extraordinary achievements of two black women educators, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and Jennie Dean, who founded and built, respectively, Voorhees College and the Manassas Industrial School. Readers of all backgrounds will find this volume to be both absorbing and elucidating. -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard UniversityAngel Nieves's important study An Architecture of Education reframes our understanding of the racial and spatial politics of American life by focusing on the building of Black college campuses as critical to the shaping of the American education system. By inserting the contributions of Black women institution-builders Jennie Dean and Elizabeth Evelyn Wright into the dialogue on racial landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Nieves reminds us that the built environment is deeply implicated in the racial ordering of American life. -- Brittney Cooper, author of Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race WomenIn this innovative study, Angel David Nieves highlights the vital institutional and intellectual work of black women educators in the post-Civil War South. These women take center stage as savvy institution builders who devised various strategies to improve the social and economic conditions of people of African descent in the United States. Their unwavering commitment to nation building, political self-determination, and education laid the groundwork for a new generation of black women activists and intellectuals engaged in the struggle for civil rights in the decades to follow. -- Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for FreedomAn Architecture of Education showcases how interdisciplinary methodologies can help scholars overcome the silencing of African American women in traditional documentary archives. [...] Readers interested in African American intellectual history, educational history, and the history of architecture will welcome this concise analysis of the contest over racialized landscapes in the "New South." * H-SAWH *Table of ContentsIntroduction Contested Monument-Making and the Crisis of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 The Impact of Chicago's "White City" on African American Placemaking Tuskegee Utopianism: Where American Campus Planning Meets Black Nationalism The "Race Women" Establishment: Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, Jennie Dean, and Their All-Black Schools Manassas and Voorhees: Models of Race Uplift Historically Black Colleges and Universities: In Service to the Race Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US presidential election Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Trump harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great Again. This collection of essays looks at the often vitriolic rhetoric that characterized the election: "nasty women" vs. "deplorables"; "bad hombres" and "Crooked Hillary"; analyzing the struggle and its result through the lenses of gender, race, and their intersections, and with particular attention to the roles of memory, performance, narrative, and social media. Contributors examine the ways that gender and racial hierarchies intersected and reinforced one another throughout the campaign season. Trump's association of Mexican immigrants with crime, and specifically with rape, for example, drew upon a long history of fearmongering that stereotypes Mexican men--and men of other immigrant and minority groups--as sexual aggressors against white women. At the same time, in response to both Trump'smisogynistic rhetoric and the iconic power of Clinton's candidacy, feminist consciousness grew steadily across the nation. Analyzing these phenomena, the volume's authors--both journalists and academics--engage with prominent debates in their diverse fields, while an epilogue by the editors considers recent ongoing developments like the #metoo movement. CHRISTINE A. KRAY is Associate Professor of Anthropology, TAMAR W. CARROLL is Associate Professor of History, and HINDA MANDELL is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, all at Rochester Institute of Technology.Trade ReviewMight take on the mantle of opening salvo in what is likely to be a fruitful and troubling subfield of presidential history: Trump Studies. * HISTORY *Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell have assembled a superb interdisciplinary group of authors to analyze a recent political history in which the politics of identity played a large, as yet barely analyzed role. A must-read for organizers, scholars, politicians, and students of politics who are trying to reverse the effects of Trumpism on our national political culture. -- -- Claire Potter, The New SchoolNasty Women and Bad Hombres does it right. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and writers comes together to think through how Donald Trump, a reality-TV star with no political experience, could pull off an electoral upset against Hillary Clinton, an intelligent, highly qualified candidate with years of experience in public service. Among other things, contributors illuminate the functionings of widespread internalized antifeminism among women, hashtag feminism, and slut-shaming; recognize African American women as torchbearers; and consider the use of misogynist and feminist popular cultural artifacts then and now. Simultaneously broad-based and focused, Nasty Women and Bad Hombres does an excellent job of laying out how we got here and pondering what to do next. -- -- Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern UniversityAccessible and timely, this collection demonstrates the strength of interdisciplinary collaboration, with strong contributions from historians to political scientists, philosophers to communications scholars, with the added perspective of contemporary feminist activists. The focus on the gendered and racialized rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, and how it mobilized voters, both women and men, makes the collection a valuable contribution to intersectional scholarship of the American presidency. --Aidan Smith, Tulane University -- Aidan Smith, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Historical Imagination and Fault Lines of the Electorate - Christine A. Kray and Tamar W. Carroll and Hinda Mandell PART 1. AGGRESSIVE AND SUBORDINATE MASCULINITIES From (Castrating) Bitch to (Big) Nuts: Genital Politics in 2016 Election Campaign Paraphernalia - Jane Caputi Trump in the Land of Oz: Pathologizing Hillary Clinton and the Feminine Body - Roy Schwartzman and Jenni M. Simon The Border, Bad Hombres, and the Billionaire: Hyper-Masculinity and Anti-Mexican Stereotypes in Trump's 2016 Presidential Campaign - Joshua D. Martin The Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Early Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory and Trump's Campaign - O. Nicholas Robertson America, Meet Your New Dad: Tim Kaine and Subordinate Masculinity - Beth L. Boser and R. Brandon Anderson PART 2. FEMINIST PREDECESSORS Please Put Stickers on Shirley Chisholm's Grave: Assessing the Legacy of a Black Feminist Pioneer - Barbara Winslow Commemoration and Contestation: Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama - Michael J. Brown Dressing Up for a Campaign: Hillary Clinton, Suffragists, and the Politics of Fashion - Einav Rabinovitch-Fox 100 Years of Campaign Imagery: From Woman Suffrage Postcards to Hillary Clinton - Ana Stevenson The Impossibilities of Hillary Clinton as a Self-Made Woman - Joanna Weiss PART 3. BAKING COOKIES AND GRABBING PUSSIES: MISOGYNY AND SEXUAL POLITICS The Woman They Love to Hate: Hillary Clinton and the Evangelicals - Mark Ward Sr. "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Jiyoung Lee "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Carol M. Liebler "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Neal J. Powless "I'm Not Voting for Her": Internalized Misogyny, Feminism, and Gender Consciousness in the 2016 Election - Pamela Aronson Confronting "Bimbo Eruptions" and the Legacy of Bill Clinton's Scandal: Slut-Shaming and the 2016 Presidential Campaigns - Leora Tanenbaum How to Turn a Bernie Bro into a Russian Bot - Steve Almond PART 4. ELECTION DAY: REWRITING PAST AND FUTURE #WomenCanStopTrump: Intimate Publics in the Twitterverse - Gina Masullo Chen and Kelsey N. Whipple A Renaissance of Feminist Ritual: Susan B. Anthony's Gravesite on Election Day - Christine A. Kray Birthing Family Narrative and Baby on Election Day - Hinda Mandell Left Behind - Rachel Parsons This is Vienna: Parents of Transgender Children from Pride to Survival in the Aftermath of the 2016 Election - Sally Campbell Galman Triumph of the Constitution: American Muslims and Religious Liberty - Asma Uddin PART5. THE FUTURE IS FEMALE(?): CRITICAL REFLECTIONS AND FEMINIST FUTURES "When they go low, we go high": African American Women Torchbearers for Democracy and the 2016 Democratic National Convention - De Anna J. Reese "When they go low, we go high": African American Women Torchbearers for Democracy and the 2016 Democratic National Convention - Delia C. Gillis Amnesia and Politics in the Mount Hope Cemetery: Toward a Critical History of Race and Gender - Katie Terezakis Beware! Benevolent Patriarchy: Election 2016 and Why No One Can Save Us but Ourselves - Jamia Wilson Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Tamar W. Carroll Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Hinda Mandell Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Christine A. Kray Chronology

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Book SynopsisMarilyn Dell Brady introduces readers to the lives, languages, religions, and cultures of Chinese, Japanese, East Indian, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Laotian, and Cambodian Texans.

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Book SynopsisThe European Texans highlights the contributions of those who immigrated to Texas from Europe. Allan O. Kownslar introduces readers to the life and culture of French, English, Scottish, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, Swiss, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Wend, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Greek and Slavic Texans.

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Book SynopsisLong before Texas became the Lone Star State, or even a Spanish territory, Indian Texans called it home. From prehistory, through European and American invasions, to the beginning of the 21st century, author James M. Smallwood traces the survival and revival of Native Americans in Texas.

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Book SynopsisIn the previous century, a large portion of the smallest of the Slavonic nations left their German homeland and migrated to three distant continents. George R. Nielsen, in this revised edition of his classic study of Wendish migration, carefully describes the details of immigration and weighs the possible explanations for the exodus, the settlement, and acculturation patterns that resulted. The earliest emigrants traveled to Australia, but despite efforts to encourage unity, they were unsuccessful, and no single, large Wendish settlement was formed. The largest number migrated to Texas, where at Serbin, under the leadership of pastor Jan Kilian, they formed a Wendish community, retaining their own language in church, school, and home. Local agricultural conditions, however, proved too poor to sustain many people, so the Wends of Texas also scattered and eventually lost most of their ethnic distinctiveness. Smaller numbers of Wends migrated to Canada, Nebraska, and South Africa. These Wends generally settled among Germans and were absorbed by the local German communities. This work promises to continue as the standard reference on the overseas resettlement of these distinctive people.Trade Review"One of the many contributions that Nielsen makes in the book is to demonstrate the complexity of the motives impelling a group of people to immigrate to another land.... Nielsen has carefully researched a complex topic, and his book will aid in filling in the mosaic of American and Australian immigration." - Southwestern Historical Quarterly "... perhaps the best [book] that has been published on this tiny, little-known group." - Western Historical Quarterly"

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Book SynopsisAfrican American political scientists speak out about their discipline, academic issues and racism in the professionTrade Review"Professor Rich has brought together a group of talented scholars to address a critical issue in the world of American scholarship. This volume moves in the direction of Hanes Walton's Invisible Politics, exposing the hidden racial dimensions of politics in the United States. As Rich points out, American political scientists have systematically and almost universally refused to incorporate issues of race into their studies of political phenomena. This volume will have a critical impact on the rolling back of obstacles to the penetrating analysis of race as a factor in American political mobilization and public policy- making." William Nelson, Ohio State University "Individual essays...offer incisive critiques on the limits of the dominant methodologies and available data in answering questions regarding race and American politics. The sections of the book exploring the impact of race on research in international relations and globalization are very strong and provide much needed nuance to the broad policy debates in these areas. Editor Rich contributes an illuminating essay on the problems facing African Americans within the discipline. This is a worthy contribution to the literature on the study of African American politics, the discipline of political science and more broadly the study of politics in America. CHOICE August 2007 "The authors here offer reliable arguments." The American Review of PoliticsTable of ContentsSection 1: Race and Political ScientistsErnest J. Wilson and Lorrie Frasure "Still at the Margins: The Persistence of Neglect of African American Issues in Political Science, 1985-2003"; Hanes Walton and Robert Smith, "The Race Variable and the American Political Science Association's State of Discipline" Reports and Books 1907-2002; Wilbur Rich, "Black Political Scientist in Academic Wonderland"Section 2: Globalization and the Study of Development"Ollie Johnson, "Black Politics in Latin America"; Vernon Johnson ,"Globalization and the Study of Development"Section 3: Civic Engagement and VotingAndrea Simpson, "Going It Alone: Black Women Activists and Black Organizational Quiescence"; Martin Kilson, "Political Scientists and the Study of African American Public Opinion"; Melissa Harris-Lacewell, "Political Science and the Study of African American Public Opinion"Section 4: InstitutionsKenny Whitby, "Racial Representation in Congress"; Barbara Luck Graham, "Challenging the Dominant Civil Rights Paradigm: The Curious Absence of Critical Race Theory in Political Science Scholarship"; Wilbur Rich, "Presidential Leadership and the Politics of Race: Stereotypes, Symbols and Scholarship"Section 5: The Sub FieldsComparative Politics- Germaine Hoston, "Comparative Politics and Asia: Contesting Hegemonic Inter- and Intra-Disciplinary Boundaries"; Public Administration- Lenneal Henderson "Race and the Problem of Equity in the Administrative State"; Marion Orr and Valerie Johnson "Race and the City: The View from Two Political Science Journals"; International Relations- Errol A. Henderson, "Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism in World Politics"; American Government- Katherine Tate, Kevin Lyles and Lucius Barker "A Critical Review of American Political Institutions"; Political Theory- Jerry Watts, "Political Science Confronts Afro-America: A Reconsideration"

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Book SynopsisRecovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature employs contemporary and traditional readings of representative works in prose, poetry, and drama to suggest new ways of understanding and appreciating the critically fertile but underexamined body of Asian American writing from the late 1800s to the early 1960s. The essays in this volume engage this corpus-composed of multiple genres from different periods and by authors of different ethnicities-with a strong awareness of historical context and a keen sensitivity to literary form. As a collection, Recovered Legacies re-establishes the rich and diverse literary heritage of Asian America and argues persuasively for the significance of these works to the American literary canon.Trade Review"The editors have cagily combined groundbreaking scholarship on literary texts that no one knows about, with useful, historically grounded criticism of literary texts that established scholars and those interested in learning about Asian American literature are likely to study. The prose is lucid and accessible, the readings are conversant both with Asian American and American cultural history and with relevant Asian American literary scholarship, and therefore the book should be useful not only to scholars but to teachers and students, as the editors indicate was their goal."-Patricia P. Chu, Associate Professor of English, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceChronology of Works DiscussedIntroduction - Keith Lawrence and Floyd Cheung1. Early Chinese American Autobiography: Reconsidering the Works of Yan Phou Lee and Yung Wing - Floyd Cheung2. The Self and Generic Convention: Winnifred Eaton's Me, A Book of Remembrance - David Shih3. Diasporic Literature and Identity: Autobiography and the I-Novel in Estu Sugimoto's Daughter of the Samurai - Georgina Dodge4. The Capitalist and Imperialist Critique in H. T. Tsiang's And China Has Hands - Julia H. Lee5. Unacquiring Negrophobia: Younghill Kang and Cosmopolitan Resistance to the Black and White Logic of Naturalization - Stephen Knadler6. Asian American (Im)mobility: Perspectives on the College Plays 1937-1955 - Josephine Lee7. Toyo Suyemoto, Ansel Adams, and the Landscape of Justice - John Streamas8. Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957 - Viet Thanh Nguyen9. Suffering Male Bodies: Representations of Dissent and Displacement in the Internment-Themed Narratives of John Okada and Toshio Mori - Suzanne Arakawa10. Toshio Mori, Richard Kim, and the Masculine Ideal - Keith Lawrence11. Home, Memory, and Narrative in Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter - Warren D. Hoffman12. The "Pre-History" of an "Asian American" Writer: N.V.M. Gonzalez' Allegory of Decolonization - Augusto Espiritu13. Representing Korean American Female Subjects, Negotiating Multiple Americas, and Reading Beyond the Ending in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls - Pamela ThomaContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the colonial history of the Philippines has shaped Filipino American identity, culture, and community formationTrade Review"The primary strength of Positively No Filipinos Allowed is its overall theoretical and critical approach to analysis of the historical and contemporary Filipino experience in the United States. This is the ground-breaking anthology for which many scholars and students have been waiting decades. It will be viewed as the major edited work on Filipino Americans for years to come." -Jonathan Y. Okamura, University of Hawai'i

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Book SynopsisFrom the earliest days of nationhood, the United States has determined who might enter the country and who might be naturalized. In this sweeping review of US immigration policies, Bill Ong Hing points to the racial, ethnic, and social struggles over who should be welcomed into the community of citizens. He shows how shifting visions of America have shaped policies governing asylum, exclusion, amnesty, and border policing. Written for a broad audience, Defining America Through Immigration Policy sets the continuing debates about immigration in the context of what value we as a people have assigned to cultural pluralism in various eras. Hing examines the competing visions of America reflected in immigration debates over the last 225 years. For instance, he compares the rationales and regulations that limited immigration of southern and eastern Europeans to those that excluded Asians in the nineteenth century. He offers a detailed history of the policies and enforcement procedures put in place to limit migration from Mexico, and indicts current border control measures as immoral. He probes into little discussed issues such as the exclusion of gays and lesbians and the impact of political considerations on the availability of amnesty and asylum to various groups of migrants. Hing's spirited discussion and sophisticated analysis will appeal to readers in a wide spectrum of academic disciplines as well as those general readers interested in America's on-going attempts to make one of many.Trade Review"[Hing's] understanding of history, drawn from personal experience andparticipation, is piercing and helps to put the recent hysteria inperspective. In his book, he applies the lessons of his decades-longresearch and experience to fundamental issues at a critical time in ournation's history."-from the Foreword by Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union "Defining America through Immigration Policy is an excellent book that can be recommended enthusiastically. Bill Ong Hing is a leading scholar of immigration. This book is a landmark work. Hing is thorough, and covers everything from Benjamin Franklin's attacks on German immigrants to the nativism of the turn-of-the-century directed towards Asians, Southern and Eastern Europeans, Catholics and Jews to contemporary border enforcement, undocumented migration, deportation procedures, and internal migration. He conveys the breadth and depth of his research with ample documentation and presents progressive arguments that should influence policy-makers."-Frank H. Wu, Professor of Law, Howard University, and author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White "Engagingly contemporary (with historical roots) and at the same time carefully detailed in its coverage, Defining America through Immigration Policy is on the forefront of immigration law and policy theorizing. Hing's structure is straightforward, and his framework for organizing the wide range of immigration law issues is effective. He tells a compelling and disturbing social/legal story that gives human faces to congressional acts, executive policies, and frontline enforcement. Hing's blended approach-chronological, contextual, and specific-provides a readily accessible way into what could otherwise be an information morass. This significant strength distinguishes Defining America through Political Participation."-Eric K. Yamamoto, Professor of Law, University of Hawaii School of Law "[An] insightful, entertaining book [is] a must read for anyone interested in the field of US immigration and the defining of the American character."-Choice "Professor Hing is the rare policy scholar who can provide extensive historical information while making it accessible, interesting and enjoyable for the reader. His new book provides the same type of thoughtful analyses... Overall the book makes an important contribution to immigration history, ethnic studies and public policy. It provides one of the first comprehensive reviews of the tensions between wanted and unwanted immigrants from a policy perspective. It also provides insights into why we hold certain beliefs about immigrants and immigration policy."-Journal of Ethnic History "This is a welcome, hard-headed palliative to certain narratives about US immigration history... the value of this book lies more in the scope of erudition about US immigration history and his mastery of many facets of that vast, complex, and controversial history that has indeed defined America as claimed."-Ethnic and Racial Studies "Read this book. It is the best survey of the history of U.S. immigration policy to be published in at least a half-century and perhaps ever... Defining America through Immigration Policy is a dazzling book with a moral core. In the end it is a hopeful book as well."-Pacific Historical Review "In a tour de force of detailed facts and legal citations, [Hing] wades through the complex legal measures that have guided immigration law and policy over more than two centuries, at each stage linking specific legal actions with dominant views of the 'ordinary American.'"-Law & Politics Book ReviewTable of ContentsForewordIntroductionPart I. Defining America1. The Western European New World and The New Americans2. The Undesirable Asian3. "Translate This": The 1917 Literacy Law4. The Xenophobic 1920sPart II. Redefining America5. The 1952 Act: Excluding Communists, Homosexuals, and Other Undesirables6. 1965 to 1990: From Discriminatory Quotas to Discriminatory Diversity VisasPart III. Defining Mexicans As Non-Americans7. Politicizing the Southwest Border8. Patrolling the Border and Sweeping for Mexicans9. Irca: Penalizing Employers, as Amnesty Barely Survives10. The Dark Side of Modern-Day Enforcement: Operation GatekeeperPart IV. Deporting and Barring Non-Americans11. Removal12. The Politics of AsylumEpilogue: Two AmericasAppendixNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow Chinese cinema and global Chinese culture intersect over questions of identityTrade Review"According to its editors...Chinese Connections blazes a new trail, and it is easy to agree with them... At times, the eclecticism of the contributions threatens to thwart the attempts of the book's editors to impose order; but in a sense, it is the sheer scope and number of its essays which furnish this volume with its core strength. Chinese Connections contains 19 chapters in a volume just shy of 300 pages; and these pieces manage to cover essential films and essential filmmakers at the same time as straying into less tried terrain in stimulating ways. The result is a volume that has something to say to everyone from undergraduates to film specialists. Indeed, although the last few years have seen the publication of several high-quality, broad-sweep volumes on Chinese film - both nationally and transnationally - few have quite the reach and range of this one." - The China QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: Global Connections 1. False Consciousness and Double Consciousness: Race, Virtual Reality, and the Assimilation of Hong Kong 2. The Par-asian Cinematic Imaginary in Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep 3. The HK Venture: The Francophone Cine-logocentric Nexus 4. Wong Fei-Hung in Da House: Hong Kong Martial-Arts Films and Hip-Hop Culture 5. Same Difference: Racial Masculinity in Hong Kong and Cop-Buddy "Hybrids" 6. American Popular Music and Neocolonialism in the Films of Edward Yang 7. Hollywood and Taiwan: Connections, Countercurrents, and Ang Lee's Hulk 8. Becoming Hollywood? Hong Kong Cinema in the New Century Part II: Questions of Gender 9. "From Behind the Wall": The Representation of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese Film 10. Beyond the Western Gaze: Orientalism, Feminism, and the Suffering Woman in Nontransnational Chinese Cinema 11. Disappearing Faces: Bisexuality and Transvestism in Two Hong Kong Comedies 12. Staging Gay Life in China: Zhang Yuan and East Palace, West Palace 13. Whose Fatal Ways: Mapping the Boundary and Consuming the Other in Border Crossing Films 14. Asian Martial-Arts Cinema, Dance, and the Cultural Languages of Gender Part III: At the Millennium and Beyond 15. Singapore as a Society of Strangers: Eric Khoo's Mee Pok Man 16. Chinese Cinema Revisits the City: Beijng Trilogy and Global Urbanism of the 1990s 17. Taiwan Fever? Tsai Ming-Liang and the Everyday Postnation 18. The Spirits of Capital and Haunting Sounds: Translocal Historicism in Victim (1999) 19. Zhang Yimou's Hero: The Temptations of Fascism Appendix A: On Chinese Names Appendix B: Chinese Names, Words, and Phrases Appendix C: Chinese-Language Filmography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWhen bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In No Sword to Bury, Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral histories that recall their service on the home front in the Varsity Victory Volunteers, a non-military group dedicated to public works, as well as in the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Illuminating a critical moment in ethnic identity formation among this first generation of Americans of Japanese descent (the nisei), Odo shows how the war-time service and the post-war success of these men contributed to the simplistic view of Japanese Americans as a model minority in Hawai'i.Trade Review"Franklin Odo has captured with much warmth and poignancy, the emotions of men who, though abandoned by their country, loved this country and proved it by repeatedly standing in harm's way to defend it."-Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D, HI) "No Sword to Bury is a fascinating study of an often overlooked part of the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry in the World War II era. The Japanese American population of Hawai'i navigated its way through one of the most dangerous and transformational periods in U.S. history. Franklin Odo's use of personal stories of the men and women who made that journey reveals the choices that were made, the strategies that were used, and the lessons we all can draw from them."-The Hon. Norman Y. Mineta "One of the strengths of No Sword to Bury is Odo's care in presenting a more layered, nuanced study of Japanese Americans and their role in Hawaiian history. What emerges is a portrait of a lively, diverse group of men who had mixed motives and feelings of what they did during the course of their lives."-International Examiner "No Sword to Bury is a masterful contribution based on years of painstaking research. In fact, there is nothing quite like it written about the Japanese American experience. Franklin Odo presents a detailed history of the Varsity Victory Volunteers in the larger context of Hawai'i before and during World War II. He does an excellent job of marshalling data from the extant literature, rare archival sources, and most importantly, a plethora of original oral history interviews. The voices and biographies of key VVV members and the public figures in Hawai'i who supported their endeavors lie at the core of Odo's work. Captivating and informative, No Sword to Bury demonstrates the multicultural dynamics that have been so central in the formation of our 50th state."-Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside "[A] significant addition ot the literature in western U.S. history...a fine book, [it] promises to be an important work for years to come."-History: Reviews of New Books "By drawing on oral records and archival materials, Odo provides a rich and detailed social history of the VVV members. He not only situates them in the racial dynamics of prewar and wartime Hawai'i, but also successfully allows them to tell their individual stories."-Choice "The story is well told and carefully documented."-SAGE Race Relations Abstract "...a deep and detailed look at an articulate and important group." The book was described as being "a good addition to the literature on Asian America, on WW II's transformation of American life, and on Hawai'I..."-Biography: An Interdisciplinary JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Making of a Model Minority1. Immigrant Parents2. Generation on Trial: The 1920s3. Before the Fire: The 1930s4. Pearl Harbor5. Hawai'i Territorial Guard6. The Varsity Victory VolunteersPhoto Gallery7. Schofield Barracks8. The Front Lines: Battlefront and Home Front9. After the WarConclusionAppendix: Roster of Varsity Victory VolunteersNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisUses the ethnographic and literary work of Hurston to augment the few official documents and family records to reconstruct the social world of all-black townsTrade Review"In this smart, well-written study of the brilliant, free-spirited writer of Harlem Renaissance renown, Zora Neale Huston, historian Tiffany Patterson deepens our understanding of the, often unexplored, interior lives and culture of residents of early 20th century southern black communities. This is a gem of a book! Tiffany Patterson adroitly captures and illuminates the fascinating complexity of Hurston and the places she represented, inhabited, and imagined."-Darlene Clark Hine, editor, Black Women in America 3 Volumes, Revised and Expanded Edition "Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life is a blockbuster book which gracefully and convincingly challenges established views of Hurston and her region. Especially impressive is the placing of Hurston's life, fiction, and folklore within the history of all-black towns, maroon societies, and nationalist traditions. Patterson portrays a cultural naturalism not obsessed with whites at every turn, and expressive of both love and gender conflict, unity and class/color tension. This book's achievement far transcends the recovery of new sources and hinges on an ability to deploy those sources in a way that makes new our understanding of Hurston, and of the early twentieth century rural south."-David Roediger, University of Illinois, and author of Working Toward Whiteness "Enthusiasts for the work of Zora Neale Hurston will not be disappointed in Tiffany Ruby Patterson's excellent study of Hurston's work... her precise recasting of history through the eyes of one of our most careful observers is a book that never fails to inform or delight... This is a valuable and long-overdue addition to scholarship on Hurston and black life in the South."-Black Issues Book ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: Rootedness-The History of Private Life1. Reconstructing Past Presents2. Portraits of the South: Zora Neale Hurston's Politics of Place3. A Place between Home and Horror4. Sex and Color in Eatonville, Florida5. A Transient World of Labor6. Patronage: Anatomy of a PredicamentEpilogueNotesIndexPhoto gallery follows page 112

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Book SynopsisFor the Achi, one of the several Mayan ethnic groups indigenous to Guatemala, the music of the marimba serves not only as a form of entertainment but also as a form of communication, a vehicle for memory, and an articulation of cultural identity. Sergio Navarrete Pellicer examines the marimba tradition -- the historical confluence of African musical influences, Spanish colonial power, and Indian ethnic assimilation -- as a driving force in the dynamics of cultural continuity and change in Rabinal, the heart of Achi culture and society. By examining the performance and consumption of marimba music as complementary parts of a system of social interaction, religious belief, and ethnic identification, Navarrete Pellicer reveals how the strains of the marimba resonate with the spiritual yearnings and cultural negotiations of the Achi as they try to come to terms with the political violence and economic hardship wrought by their colonial past.Trade Review"As new material garnered from original field research, Maya Achi Marimba Music in Guatemala is a significant contribution to studies of folk music in any language, especially in English, on neglected Central America. The marimba is officially declared-and in fact is-the closest thing to a national instrument in Guatemala. This in-depth study on one of that nation's marimba musical cultures combines historical background with intelligent analysis and perceptive interpretation of contemporary practice to advance our understanding of a major musical tradition in Latin America. Navarrete Pellicer brings out the voices of the members of the community in this book rich in detail and sensitive in its description of personalities and human relations."-T. M. Scruggs, University of IowaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A History of the Achi People of Rabinal2. The Belief in the Dead3. Concepts and Classifications of Music4. The Marimba and the Son5. Good and Evil: Music, Alcohol, and Women6. Musical Occasions7. Cognition, Values, and the Aesthetics of Music8. The Economy of the Son and the Pieza9. Music within Social Interaction10. Conclusion: "Who Am I to Know Better Than the Ancestors?"Contents of Compact DiscAppendix 1: OrthographyAppendix 2: CofradiasAppendix 3: Musical Ensembles, Repertoires, and OccasionsAppendix 4: Synopses of Dance-DramasNotesGlossaryDiscographyReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines how musicians navigated their everyday lives, grappling with the intercultural tensions and commercial pressures that were so pronounced on the salsa sceneTrade Review"[Washburne] offers a no-holds-barred, insider glimpse at 'how salsa was made' in New York City in the 1990s. By challenging conventional narratives about salsa's development and taking on contentious issues in its history, including drugs, violence and illegitimate business practices, Sounding Salsa should make a lot of folks look twice at a critical yet neglected moment in the industry's development. Washburne's ethnography of behind-the-scenes backstories, documented from his own vantage point on the bandstand, is the best quick read I've found on the industry's history and inner workings, supplemented by deep industry knowledge that fills in many ellipses in histories written mainly from the point of view of the consumer/ critic. While it offers musicological explanations on salsa's nuts and bolts technical aspects, such as clave, it's also an accessible guide to newcomers who may have wondered: What are those instruments? And why are all those guys wearing the same suits?" - IndyWeeks, 31st December 2008 "Washburne does a good job of chronicling the second-generation surge of the popular Latin dance music salsa in the US, which occurred in New York City in the 1990s. The author bases his discussion on an impressive ethnographic methodology and on his own involvement with salsa as a performer. He introduces the reader to the major figures in the movement, provides glimpses of the music itself, and describes the broader cultural and sociological issues that affected the art form and its practitioners. The introduction provides a good overview of the historical development of salsa in the 1960s-70s and establishes a context for the discussion that follows." Choice "[Washburne] offers a no-holds-barred, insider glimpse at 'how salsa was made' in New York City in the 1990s. By challenging conventional narratives about salsa's development and taking on contentious issues in its history, including drugs, violence and illegitimate business practices, Sounding Salsa should make a lot of folks look twice at a critical yet neglected moment in the industry's development. Washburne's ethnography of behind-the-scenes backstories, documented from his own vantage point on the bandstand, is the best quick read I've found on the industry's history and inner workings, supplemented by deep industry knowledge that fills in many ellipses in histories written mainly from the point of view of the consumer/ critic. While it offers musicological explanations on salsa's nuts and bolts technical aspects, such as clave, it's also an accessible guide to newcomers who may have wondered: What are those instruments? And why are all those guys wearing the same suits?" IndyWeek "Washburne is a very fine and respected jazz trombonist... [Sounding Salsa] is a well-researched and assiduously documented work of history, written by an ethnomusicologist with impeccable academic credentials... It would be hard to imagine a person better qualified on the subject... His standing as a professional salsero gives him access to information denied other researchers. And he takes advantage, gleaning enough material to tell a fascinating tale... The book's most illuminating passages center on the musicians' own observations and comments, made directly to Washburne and salted liberally throughout the text. Such intimate reflections would only have been revealed to someone who'd earned their deepest trust and respect--another musician, for instance."-Jazz Notes, Spring 2009 "A professional trombonist, Washburne writes from the vantage point of a practising musician as well as a scholar, offering a dynamic view of salsa as seen from the bandstand over an eighteen-year period during which he played with key orchestras of Tito Puento, Ray Barreto, Celia Cruz, Pete 'El Conde' Rodriguez and Hector Lavoe, among many others... Apart from its undoubted academic merits, the book convinces through its insider-out perspective, incisive and evocative scenarios, and the way analysis and theory are embedded within its ethnography. In six highly readable chapters, the salsa scene in all its richnesss is described, unpicked, critiqued and celebrated...Washburne has written a book that is as entertaining, informative, and provocative as it is ground-breaking." Popular Music, May 2009 "Washburne provides a micro-level, ethnographic view...[that] will be of direct interest to folklorists... The book gives a nuts-and-bolts description of what it means to record and perform in a salsa band, and it also relates some inside stories that have become legend to those in the scene... The book really breaks new ground...when Washburne discusses violence, drugs, and gender within the salsa scene... While a range of approaches to salsa can be found in the many works on the subject, very few have offered such a rich insider's perspective. Washburne's book is a welcome addition to the conversation." The Journal of American Folklore, Fall 2009Table of ContentsTable of Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Salsa in New York; 1: Salsa Bands and the performance of Pueble; 2: "The music is so good but the scene is pure dues!": Salsa Musicians; 3: "Play like there's a gun to your head!": The Aesthetics and Performance Practice of Sounding Violence in Salsa; 4: New York Salsa and Drugs: Aesthetics, Performance Practice, Governmental Policy, and the Illicit Drug Trade; 5: La India and the Masquerading of Gender on the Salsa Scene; 6: "They are going to hear this in Puerto Rico. It has got to be good!": The Sound and Style of Salsa

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Book SynopsisFavelas, or shantytowns, are where cocaine is mainly sold in Rio de Janeiro. There are some six hundred favelas in the city, and most of them are controlled by well-organized and heavily armed drug gangs. The struggle for the massive profits from this drug trade has resulted in what are increasingly violent and deadly confrontations between rival drug gangs and a corrupt and brutal police force, that have transformed parts of the city into a war-zone. Lucia tells the story of one woman who was once intimately involved with drug gang life in Rio throughout the 1990s. Through a series of conversations with the author, Lucia describes conditions of poverty, violence, and injustice that are simply unimaginable to outsiders. In doing so, she explains why women like her become involved with drugs and gangs, and why this situation is unlikely to change.Trade Review"Rio de Janeiro is under siege. The poor communities and the favelas on the hills are submitted to a mix of terror and populism by the drug traffickers. The affluent classes live under fear of organized crime. Most of the police are involved in corruption and lethal violence. Despite this overwhelming presence, life in the favelas is not well known. Robert Gay has written a rigorous, but at the same time compassionate, study of the complex strategies for survival in those surroundings. In this outstanding book we are able to hear, through Lucia, the voice of those brave (and neglected) survivors."-Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, and former Secretary of State for Human Rights, Brazil "Lucia is an outstanding book. Robert Gay does a splendid job of laying out and expanding the lives of Lucia and of those who intersect with her. He makes them live by explaining social organizations and institutions-gangs, prison, school, work, economy and religion-within the context of people's lives. Gay offers a rich, superbly readable narrative that develops these important themes. Lucia provides depth and breadth to a subject about which there is little empirical research; it teaches sociology in an interesting and informed way."-Martha Huggins, Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations, Tulane University "If you can no longer recall the stomach-churning depictions of Rio de Janeiro favelas from the 2002 film City of God, this true account of one mujer's life in the Brazilian underworld-trying to survive local gangs and merciless rule of her drug-lord boyfriend-will bring it all back."-LatinaTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Getting In Lucia's House2. Rogerio Drug Gangs3. Marcos Police4. Bruno Prison5. School Education6. Work Economy7. Born Again Religion8. Getting Out Last CallEpilogueNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisContests the dominance of materialist and cultural critiques in Asian American literary discourse by re-centering critical attention around issues of aesthetics and literary formTrade Review"A brilliant introduction frames the essays. This groundbreaking book of essays is a must for any scholar of Asian American literary studies, or indeed, ethnic literature in general. Essential." Choice "These scholars effectively critique contemporary multicultural criticism's inability or unwillingness to encompass the aesthetic." MELUS Spring 2007

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Book SynopsisUnderscores the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed during the exclusion eraTrade Review"Taken together, these essays offer a concise and worthwhile introduction to the state of the field in Chinese American social history."- Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsThe collection's topics (and contributors) include: changing patterns of Chinese immigration and strategies for circumventing exclusion laws (Erika Lee); Chinese trade networks that facilitated Chinese migration (Madeline Hsu); female migration, marriage, and family formation (Sucheng Chan); Chinese herbalists in America (Haiming Liu); the significance of Chinese Americans' economic ties with China (Yong Chen); Chinese American debates about ideological currents in China (Shehong Chen); the role of Chinese-language schools in the United States in promoting ethnic "authenticity" (Him Mark Lai); and two classic autobiographies that reflect an emerging Chinese American consciousness (Xiao-huang Yin).

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Book SynopsisLooking at the films of the prolific, often controversial, and always provocative directorTrade Review"The Spike Lee Reader includes new and several well-known pieces previously published about Lee's work. The previously published pieces work seamlessly with the newer additions. These pieces provide a foundation to remind readers of the discourse established in response to the first decade of his career concerning representations of gender, sexuality, and class... The Spike Lee Reader is a necessary addition to the library of researchers and scholars in film and cultural studies. It is also a theoretically rich, interdisciplinary text that will be of use for upper division undergraduate and graduate courses on film, popular culture, and Ethnic Studies." -American StudiesTable of ContentsThe Spike Lee Reader Table of Contents Acknowledgements We've Gotta Have It: Spike Lee, African American Film, and Cinema Studies Paula J. Massood Chapter 1'Whose Pussy is This': A Feminist Comment bell hooks Chapter 2 Programming with School Daze Toni Cade Bambara Chapter 3 Spike Lee and Black Women Michele Wallace Chapter 4 But Compared to What?: Reading Realism, Representation, and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse Wahneema Lubiano Chapter 5 The Double Truth, Ruth: Do the Right Thing and the Culture of Ambiguity James C. McKelly Chapter 6 Spike Lee and the Fever in the Racial Jungle Ed Guerrero Chapter 7'Spike, Don't Mess Malcolm Up': Courting Controversy and Control in Malcolm X-The Movie Anna Everett Chapter 8 Through the Looking Glass and Over the Rainbow: Exploring the Fairy Tale in Spike Lee's Crooklyn Mark D. Cunningham Chapter 9 Clockers (Spike Lee 1995): Adaptation in Black Keith M. Harris Chapter 10 Reel Men: Get on the Bus and the Shifting Terrain of Black Masculinities S. Craig Watkins Chapter 11 We Shall Overcome: Preserving History and Memory in 4 Little Girls Christine Acham Chapter 12 Spike Lee Meets Aaron Copeland Krin Gabbard Chapter 13 Race and Black American Film Noir: Summer of Sam as Lynching Parable Dan Flory Chapter 14 Racial Kitsch and Black Performance Tavia Nyong'o Chapter 15 I Be Smackin' My Hoes': Paradox and Authenticity in Bamboozled Beretta Smith-Shomade Chapter 16 De Profundis: A Love letter from the Inside Man David Gerstner Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Filmography (including exec. prod. credits and television segments) Index

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Book SynopsisAn unflinching look at white supremacy revealing the many ways that white people profit from identity politics and group privilegesTrade Review"If we could only take one book with us into the 21st century, this is the one I would choose. With lucidity and passion, George Lipsitz reveals that so-called 'color-blind' public policy actually contributes to the maintenance of racism; that white privilege and the demonizing of colored people are two sides of the same coin; and that whiteness is both a huge subsidy as well as a noose around the necks of working-class white folk. His insights into how the color line works in the realm of public policy, politics, and culture, and what we must do to destroy it, can save our lives." -Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bill Moore's Body 1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness 2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege 3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics 4. Whiteness and War 5. How Whiteness Works: Inheritance, Wealth, and Health 6. White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson 7. Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics 8. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac": Antiblack Racism and White Identity 9. "Frantic to Join...the Japanese Army": Beyond the Black-White Binary 10. California: The Mississippi of the 1990s Notes Acknowledgments [to come] Index

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Book SynopsisFifteen gripping and inspiring stories told by young Vietnamese who came to the US after the fall of Saigon and during the "boat people" exodus are contextualized within a succinct history of Vietnam and the international politics of refugee resettlementTrade Review"[T]he autobiographical accounts reveal key themes in the Vietnamese American experience and address important historiographical topics...this book contributes to refugee history, an important if understudied aspect of the immigrant experience. Includes a useful bibliography and videography. Highly recommended." —ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Vietnamese Names Part I: Historical Overview Chapter 1. Vietnam before the Mid-nineteenth Century Chapter 2. French Colonial Rule and Vietnamese Resistance Chapter 3. Communism and Nationalism Chapter 4. The 1945 August Revolution Chapter 5. The First Indochina War Chapter 6. The American Involvement in Vietnam Chapter 7. The Fall of Saigon and Its Aftermath Chapter 8. The Plight of the Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam Chapter 9. An International Refugee Crisis Chapter 10. Ending the Indochinese Refugee Exodus Part II: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings Chapter 11. A Tragedy: From Vietnam to America Chapter 12. A Journey Called Freedom Chapter 13. My Autobiography Chapter 14. How It Feels to be an Asian American Chapter 15. Integrity Through Change Chapter 16. A Place to Call Home Chapter 17. The Coming of Age of a Chinese-Vietnamese American Chapter 18. My Father and I Chapter 19. The Pain in My Heart Chapter 20. The Never Ending Struggle Chapter 21. An Unfinished Journey Chapter 22. From Vietnam to Germany to the United States Chapter 23. Vietnam Memories in America Chapter 24. My Transition to Being an Asian American Chapter 25. At That Time in My Life Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Selected Videography Index

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Book SynopsisA look at Chinese filmmaking in the post-1989 American diasporaTrade Review"In her new book, Gina Marchetti expands the boundaries of Asian and Asian American media scholarship by shifting the focus from that of fixed identities to that of the concept of diaspora... Marchetti's project [is] an intriguing and important one... An added bonus to the analyses are interviews with filmmakers and authors that give another perspective to the films. This book makes an excellent addition to the slowly growing body of important scholarship on Asian and Asian American media studies in that it exemplifies, in its own methods and assumptions, the open boundaries inherent to this field."--Journal of Asian Studies, August 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgements;; 1. Introduction: Race, Sex, and the Chinese Diaspora in American Film;; Part I In the Black Pacific; 2. Jackie Chan's Black Connections; Interview: Jeff Yang; 3. Interracial Romance in Action: Romeo Must Die; 4. Black in the Chinese Diaspora: Double-Consciousness in Yvonne Welbon's Remembering Wei Yi-fang, Remembering Myself; Interview: Yvonne Welbon;; Part II Sexuality, Gender and Generation in Diaspora; 5. Queering the Patriarchy: The Wedding Banquet, Toc Storee, and Dirty Laundry; Interview: Richard Fung; 6. Guests at the Wedding Banquet: The Joy Luck Club, Double Happiness, Siao Yu and Shopping for Fangs; Interview: Wayne Wang; 7. In Pursuit of Video Hapa-ness: Banana Split and Kip Fulbeck's Boyhood among Ghosts; Interview: Kip Fulbeck; Conclusion; 8. Screening the Chinese Diaspora in the New Millennium;; Endnotes; Bibliography; Filmography.

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Book SynopsisA revealing investigation of changing identity in a globalizing worldTrade Review"Another Arabesque is excellent and exciting. It is full of valuable and new materials on Arabs and Arabs in Brazil. It is well documented in the area of theory and innovative in its approach. Karam brings to the study an exciting approach, well-written and full of ethnographic insight." Barbara Aswad, Wayne State University "Both theoretically sophisticated and firmly grounded in meticulous ethnographic research, it will be of interest to Brazilianists and those interested in cultural manifestations of neo-liberal economic policy and doctrine." Joshua Roth, Mount Holyoke College "Another Arabesque is a valuable and interesting exploration of the evolution of Brazil's successful Middle Eastern community in a variety of contexts...The book provides an intriguing insight into the formerly concealed extent to which Arab culture has influenced this Latin American powerhouse." The Latin Review of Books "Karam describes in detail how Arab identity has intensified under liberalization...This exhaustive ethnography approaches Arab Brazilian lives as an interconnected whole, examining not only business but also politics, marriage and interpersonal relationships, leisure and tourism." NACLA "Karam's concise, well-wrought account of the intensification of Syrian-Lebanese (i.e., Arab) identity is a significant contribution to a burgeoning literature on ethnicity in Brazil...Drawing on an impressive range of materials, including historical documents, newspaper reports, ethnographic vignettes, interviews, and soap operas, he provides a rich account of the trajectory of a Brazilian ethnic category. While the book offers intriguing sketches rather than in-depth explorations of individuals, it compensates by thinking big, historically, and geographically." The Luso-Brazilian Review "By approaching his investigation from an anthropological perspective, Karam contributes to understanding the Syrian-Lebanese phenomenon through time in Brazil...The book contributes to the study of the relationship between ethnic identity and nation construction by asking questions that go beyond the explanations derived from colonial logic...the book provides an ethnographic perspective that proposes new forms of observation and data collection that are very relevant to social studies. As such, it will stand as one of the most useful in the field." Latin American Politics and Society "This is an engaging and theoretically provocative ethnography that focuses on an ethnic community that has not received much attention from anthropologists studying Brazil... Another Arabesque [makes] an important contribution to understanding ethnicity, nationalism, and globalization in Brazil and elsewhere." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean AnthropologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Privilege Part I: Imagining Political-Economy 1: Pariahs to Partners in the Export Nation; 2: Eth(n)ics and Transparent State Reform Part II: Remodeling the Nationalist Order 3: Turcos in the Market Model of Racial Democracy; 4: Mixing Christians, Cloning Muslims Part III: Marketing Ethnic Culture 5: Ethnic Re-Appropriation in the Country Club Circuit; 6: Air Turbulence in Homeland Tourism Conclusion: In Secure Futures: Arabness, Neoliberalism, and Brazil

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Book SynopsisWhy the two-party political system works against Asian AmericansTrade Review"This is a very important, smart, and well-written book that will have a significant impact on Asian American politics and, more broadly, racial politics in America. In my mind, it is simply the best book on Asian American electoral and legislative politics, and it is a significant addition to the broader race literature. It will make Thomas Kim a leading figure in both Asian American and race politics." Paul Frymer, University of California, Santa Cruz, author of Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America "This is a worthy effort to apply the new institutionalism to cultural studies...Kim's analysis of the interaction of institutional dynamics and racial formation is a significant contribution which deserves attention from anyone interested in the intersection of race and politics." Choice "[A] well-written and highly entertaining analysis of how the cultural construction of race mediates the political fortunes of Asian Americans." The Journal of American Ethnic History "This is a welcome effort to extend the study of race to American political institutions. A major contribution is the exploration of the way that Asian American political prospects vary across institutions...The Racial Logic of Politics deserves attention." Perspectives on PoliticsTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Ideological Consensus and the American Two-Party System 3: The National Parties, Asian Americans and the Campaign Finance Controversy 4: Asian American Congressional Representation 5: Silence, Mobilization, and the Future of Asian American Politics

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Book SynopsisA vivid depiction of the racism suffered by a mixed-race family in rural South DakotaTrade Review"A tour-de-force sojourn into a never-before-told zone of small town American bigotry. Hapa Girl is consistently stylish, permanently courageous, bitingly tragic, but always rationally detached with a Marx Brothers' wit. This is May-lee Chai's best comment yet about America."—Anthony B. Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May WongTable of ContentsPrologueChapter 1: The Wearing of the GreenChapter 2: The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York CityChapter 3: How to Charm a Mother-in-LawChapter 4: California Dreamin'Chapter 5: The BananaChapter 6: The Banana's RevengeChapter 7: Autumn in the CountryChapter 8: Hunting SeasonChapter 9: The Little ThingsChapter 10: The ClosetChapter 11: My Last ConfessionChapter 12: BugsChapter 13: The Fall of the PrinceChapter 14: The Jade TreeChapter 15: The Nights of Many PrayersChapter 16: What You Don't Know Can Hurt YouChapter 17: Stephen King HighChapter 18: BarbariansChapter 19: Glamour PussChapter 20: The CannibalsChapter 21: The Fine Art of Denial

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Book SynopsisThe story of the most famous protest in sports history, written by one of the men who staged itTrade Review"An important entry in the history of track and field and African American studies." Library Journal "The book offers insights into Smith's athletic prowess...When he describes the physical sensations of running -- the paradoxical relaxation of muscles required to explode out of the blocks, the adrenaline that floods the body as a sprinter takes the get-set position and the stride-by-stride account of the 1968 gold medal race -- Smith's narrative surges to life. A major aim of the book is to explain the motivation behind the silent gesture, but Smith isn't interested in trenchant political analysis...Readers of Silent Gesture will be left with a stark impression of the toll Smith paid for speaking out against racism. He views his autobiography as his last, desperate chance to pull himself out of the 'muck and mire he's been stuck in since the Mexico City Olympics.' Smith never expresses regret for having taken his controversial stand." The Washington Post "Smith's account is told in simple but eloquent fashion, tempered by a healthy dose of irony and humor. He never romanticizes his actions, but rightfully acknowledges their powerful social impact." Smooth "Read Silent Gesture for the story of an athlete who grabbed a chance to make a difference." The Seattle Medium "The reader is given a good sense of his family's small-town home in Texas...Smith's book doesn't lack for honesty." Bookforum "Smith's candid reflections on life after Mexico City is compelling...Most striking, though, are revelations about the stresses he endured before the 1968 race...For Smith, at 24, to have not only won the gold, but to have issued his anything-but-silent gesture from the world's biggest stage, makes his story all the more extraordinary." Black Issues Book Review "With the help of Steele, Smith offers a well-documented and clearly written story behind the memorable 1968 Olympic moment...Extensive background information about Smith's life before, during and after the 'silent gesture' provides understanding and insight about an Olympic image that will endure forever. Clearly presenting the fears, the disappointments, the triumphs, and the hopes, then and now, that the raised black fists represented in 1968, this book offers a wealth of information that will help the reader understand the deep-rooted meaning of the gesture and the impact it continues to have almost 40 years later. CHOICE August 2007 "What is the worth of this book? I believe it to be one that accurately portrays Tommie Smith's life and Olympic ordeal...We have waited a long time for this book. The result is worth the delay...Silent Gesture provides, by far, the most powerful punctuation mark in explaining one of the most historic of all Olympic moments." Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies "Smith's stories of his ostracized life post-1968 Olympics offer historians another opportunity to consider the multiple ways memory shapes the popular narrative... Smith uses his book as an opportunity to tell his truth...[which is] engaging." The Journal of Sport HistoryTable of ContentsForeword1: Welcome Home - 1 2: October 16, 1968 - 26 3: Out of the Fields - 55 4: The Biggest City I've Ever Seen - 95 5: Run Before You Walk - 123 6: The Coach and the Professor - 147 7: Linked Forever - 147 8: No Gold, No Glove - 190 9: Paying the Price - 220 10: Going Underground - 247 11: Families Lost, and Found - 268 12: It Will Outlive Me - 296 Epilogue: Silent and Eternal - 324 Acknowledgements About the Authors

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Book SynopsisCould the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The authors consider the origins and development of the U.S. nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism; and their lived reality. Tensions in the American Dream also addresses the relevancy of nation to empire in the context of the historical world capitalist system. The authors ask, is the American Dream a reality only questioned by those unwilling or unable to achieve it? What is the "good life" and how is it particularly "American"?Table of ContentsList of TablesPrefacePART I. INTRODUCTION1. Key Questions and Concepts2. Citizenship and Nation3. The Shifting Terrain Makes Clear the Tensions in the American DreamPART II. STORIES OF MY AMERICA4. Reflections on the Structural Logic of the System5. Thoughts on the Current Juncture6. Perspectives on the American Dream7. Expressions of Revolt against the SystemsPART III. TENSIONS IN THE AMERICAN DREAM: RHETORIC, REVERIE, OR REALITY?8. Nation: Empire or Liberation9. Racial Nationalism and the Multiple Crises of the U.S. Nation10. Going Forward, with Reflections on the Revolts of the Past Decade Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCould the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The authors consider the origins and development of the U.S. nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism; and their lived reality. Tensions in the American Dream also addresses the relevancy of nation to empire in the context of the historical world capitalist system. The authors ask, is the American Dream a reality only questioned by those unwilling or unable to achieve it? What is the "good life" and how is it particularly "American"?Table of ContentsList of TablesPrefacePART I. INTRODUCTION1. Key Questions and Concepts2. Citizenship and Nation3. The Shifting Terrain Makes Clear the Tensions in the American DreamPART II. STORIES OF MY AMERICA4. Reflections on the Structural Logic of the System5. Thoughts on the Current Juncture6. Perspectives on the American Dream7. Expressions of Revolt against the SystemsPART III. TENSIONS IN THE AMERICAN DREAM: RHETORIC, REVERIE, OR REALITY?8. Nation: Empire or Liberation9. Racial Nationalism and the Multiple Crises of the U.S. Nation10. Going Forward, with Reflections on the Revolts of the Past Decade Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how Chinese Americans ventured beyond the confines of Chinatown by joining the military and working in defense industriesTrade Review"Wong's book on the experiences of Chinese Americans during World War II will not only go a long way to fill in the gaps but also challenge students to think critically about social change for Asian Americans during Word War II. He skillfully employs numerous quotes from newspaper sources and interviews to tell this complicated history of ethnic tensions and racial formation. Americans First is a terrific book for course use. By illuminating a little known area of Asian American history, the book provokes much discussion and debate." —Mary Ting Yi Lui, Yale University"Americans First is insightful, beautifully written and highly readable from beginning to end.... an excellent reference for anyone interested in Asian American history, US-China relations, identity politics and migration studies." —The Journal of Chinese OverseasTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Chinese America before the War; 2. Chinatown Goes to War; 3. The "Good Asian" in the "Good War"; 4. Hawai'i's Local Warriors; 5. The Fourteenth Air Service Group; 6.Into the Mainstream; Appendix: Employment Tables; Notes; Acknowlegments; Index

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Book SynopsisA sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experienceTrade Review"[S]cholars of contemporary Asian American life will find much of value in Zhou's study. Overall, it offers a fascinating portrait not only of a specific ethnic group but also of the changing meanings of immigration, integration, and acculturation in modern America." The Journal of American Ethnic History, Winter 2012Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Foreword, by Alejandro Portes AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Personal Reflection on the Study of Chinatown and BeyondPART I Historical and Global Contexts 1. The Chinese Diaspora and International MigrationPART II Immigration, Demographic Trends, and Community Dynamics 2. Demographic Trends and Characteristics of Contemporary Chinese America 3. In and Out of Chinatown: Residential Segregation and Mobility among Chinese Immigrants in New York City 4. Suburbanization and New Trends in Community Development: The Case of Chinese Ethnoburbs in the San Gabriel Valley, California, with Yen-Fen Tseng and Rebecca Y. KimPART III The Organizational Structure of the Ethnic Enclave 5. Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Enclave Economy: The Case of New York City’s Chinatown 6. Chinese-Language Media in the United States 7. Chinese Schools and the Ethnic System of Supplementary EducationPART IV The Family and the New Second Generation 8. The Other Half of the Sky: Immigrant Women in Chinatown’s Enclave Economy 9. Negotiating Culture and Ethnicity: Intergenerational Relations in Chinese Immigrant Families 10. “Parachute Kids” in Southern California: The Educational Experience of Chinese Children in Transnational FamiliesPART V The Future of Chinese America 11. Rethinking Assimilation: The Paradox of “Model Minority” and “Perpetual Foreigner”Appendix: Recommended Films on the Chinese American Experience Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDiscusses Asian Americans as a force for political change on both sides of the PacificTrade Review“The book conveys the sense that there is something dynamic, complex and compelling at work here when considering the transnational dimension of Asian American political lives. The reader is left with a sense as well that in looking at these questions for Asian Americans one is getting at least a glimpse at issues that will apply to a growing number of immigrant Americans from reaches other than Asia.”—Paul Watanabe, Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts, BostonTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Foreword Acknowledgments 1. The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans: Controversies, Questions, ConvergencePART I: Asian States and Nationalisms in Asian American Politics: Then and Now 2. Dancing with the Rising Sun: Strategic Alliances between Japanese Immigrants and Their “Home” Government 3. Journeys of Discovery and Difference: Transnational Politics and the Union of Democratic Filipinos 4. Contested Nation: Vietnam and the Emergence of Saigon Nationalism in the United StatesPART II: The Practices and Sites of Asian American Transnational Politics 5. Transnational Dimensions of Community Empowerment: The Victories of Chanrithy Uong and Sam Yoon 6. Working Democracy: Transnational Repertoires of Citizenship among New Chinese Americans 7. The Limits of Transnational Mobilization: Indian American Lobby Groups and the India–U.S. Civil Nuclear Deal 8. Network Governance of Asian American Diasporic PoliticsPART III: Transnational Political Behavior and Asian American Identities 9. Like Latinos? Explaining the Transnational Political Behavior of Asian Americans 10. The Intersection of “Americanization” and “Racial Expansion”: Nisei Identity Politics in Prewar Hawai‘i 11. Does Transnational Living Preclude Pan-Ethnic Thinking? An Exploration of Asian American Identities Notes References About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive examination of Black AmericansTrade Review"[T]his book should be of interest to scholars and students of the Court, public opinion, and American politics more broadly. Clawson and Waltenburg present a well researched book for scholars and students who wish to know about interactions between the Court and African Americans, the effect of decisions on public opinion, and understand the dynamics of diffuse support for the Court."—The Journal of Politics"One of the book's many strengths is its multidimensional approach to answering this core question: Why do African-Americans view the Court, and thus the U.S. regime, as legitimate? The authors provide a cogent, compact summary of Civil Rights history and how blacks' innovative public-interest-law strategy brought litigation to the federal courts.... [The] book's experimental, archival and survey data provides a more nuanced portrait of black attitudes toward the Supreme Court." —Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface 1. Legitimacy and American Democracy 2. Blacks, Civil Rights, and the Supreme Court 3. Establishing the Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity 4. Different Presses, Different Frames: Black and Mainstream Press Coverage of a Supreme Court Decision 5. Media Framing and the Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity 6. The Supreme Court's Legitimizing Capacity among African Americans: Support for Capital Punsihment and Affirmative Action 7. The Casual Relationship between Public Opinion toward the Court and Its Policies: The University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases 8. Conclusion Appendix A: Stimulus for Legitimacy Experiment Appendix B: List of Black Newspapers Appendix C: Stimulus for Media Framing Experiment Appendix D: Question Wording for Media Framing Experiment Appendix E: Blacks and the U.S. Supreme Court Survey Notes Reference Index

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Book SynopsisHow the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each sideTrade Review"Mexican Voices of the Border Region is a novel addition to the growing literature on borders, transborder communities, and using borders for understanding United States–Mexico relations. The moving stories—of those who cross the border for their work and do not experience that crossing as particularly liberating—are very compelling and have broad appeal."—Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, and author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon Table of ContentsContentsForeword, by Arthur Schmidt Acknowledgments Introduction: Lived Borders 1. Living on the Agricultural Frontier 2. Home, Sweet Industrial Home 3. Sex without Kisses, Love with Abuse 4. A Straight-Dealing Drug Trafficker 5. An Indigenous Woman Street Vendor 6. A Caregiver Commuter 7. A Border Acrobat 8. The Mexicali Panther 9. A Young Mexican American 10. Guarding the American Dream Conclusion: Opportunity and Uncertainty Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisHow the border shapes the experiences and opportunities of Mexicans on each sideTrade Review"Mexican Voices of the Border Region is a novel addition to the growing literature on borders, transborder communities, and using borders for understanding United States-Mexico relations. The moving stories-of those who cross the border for their work and do not experience that crossing as particularly liberating-are very compelling and have broad appeal." -Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, and author of Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and OregonTable of ContentsContents Foreword, by Arthur Schmidt Acknowledgments Introduction: Lived Borders 1. Living on the Agricultural Frontier 2. Home, Sweet Industrial Home 3. Sex without Kisses, Love with Abuse 4. A Straight-Dealing Drug Trafficker 5. An Indigenous Woman Street Vendor 6. A Caregiver Commuter 7. A Border Acrobat 8. The Mexicali Panther 9. A Young Mexican American 10. Guarding the American Dream Conclusion: Opportunity and Uncertainty Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBreaking out of Chinatown by shooting and dribblingTrade Review"This book accomplishes much more than simply documenting the explosion of basketball’s popularity in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Yep explores several sociological themes throughout the book’s chapters, such as how sports help marginalized segments of society develop a sense of belonging, and how sports gain political importance among segregated groups….For this reason, Outside the Paint is not simply a book about basketball, but a vivid description of how sports affect the identity of groups and their interactions with larger society."—Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Chinese Playground 2. The Hong Wah Kues Discover America 3. The Mei Wahs Knew How to Use Their Elbows and Push 4. “Mr. Chinese Cager” Plays Madison Square Garden 5. Helen Wong and the “Muscle Molls” Conclusion: The Chinese Playground and Yao Ming in the Era of Globalized Sports Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDale Andrews and Robert Smith combine the voices of constructive theologians, practical theologians, and those ministering in black churches to craft a rich and expansive black practical theology. Black Practical Theology brings together the hermeneutical conversation between scholars working within the traditional disciplines of theological education (systematic theology, ethics, biblical studies, history) and those scholars working within practical theology (homiletics, pastoral care and counseling, Christian education, spirituality). To this ongoing conversation, Andrews and Smith add the voices of pastors of black congregations and para-church leaders who serve the communities of faith who daily confront the challenges this work addressesâyouth and intergenerational divides, education and poverty, gender and sexuality, globalism, health care, and incarceration and the justice system. Black Practical Theology sets the standard for practical theology. Embodying its own methodological callâto begin with the issues of the black church, as well as its resources and practicesâit does not rest content but returns immediately to the communities from which it emerged. Black Practical Theology is a gift to both teacher and student.Trade ReviewBlack Practical Theology comprehensively graphs the contours of black practical theology, offering readers eighteen essays that explore an exhaustive range of generative topics involving the most pressing exigencies within what Smith conceptually labels the 'black thematic universe,' which shapes the religious life world of contemporary African Americans and Pan-Africans (8-9). -- Kenyatta R. Gilbert -- HomileticA wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach to issues that concern all Christian communities, including education, poverty, gender, race, immigration, HIV/AIDS, and the justice system. -- The Christian CenturyA must read for those interested in practical theology. -- ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments I. Introduction 1 Prophetic Praxis for Black Practical Theology, Dale P. Andrews and Robert London Smith Jr. II. Black Youth, Intergenerational Relations, and Ageism 2. Bridging Civil Rights and Hip Hop Generations, Evelyn L. Parker 3. Rejoining Black Youth, Families, and Our Elders, James H. Evans Jr. 4. Rituals of Resistance to Strengthen Intergenerational Relations, Donna E. Allen III. Education, Class, and Poverty 5. Participative Black Theology as a Pedagogy of Praxis, Anthony G. Reddie 6. Listening to the Poor and Nonliterate, Madipoane Masenya (ngwanâa Mphahlele) 7. Doing Theology for Ordinary Folk, Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. IV. Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Race 8. Building Communities of Embodied Beauty, Phillis Isabella Sheppard 9. Encircling in Our Womanist Strength, Diana L. Hayes 10. A Radically Inclusive Vision for the Fellowship of the Black Church, Dennis W. Wiley and Christine Y. Wiley V. Globalism, Immigration, and Diasporan Communities 11. African Diasporan Communities and the Black Church, Esther E. Acolatse 12. The Aesthetic Struggle and Ecclesial Vision, Willie James Jennings 13. Embodied Black Practical Theology for the Caribbean Diasporan Church, Delroy A. Reid-Salmon VI. Health Care, HIV/AIDS, and Poverty 14. Liberating Black-Church Practical Theology from Poverty and Pandemic Marginalization, Emmanuel Y. Amugi Lartey 15. Black Practical Theology of Health and HIV/AIDS Health Care, Edward P. Antonio 16. Rethinking Theology for Impoverished Care, Gina M. Stewart VII. Mass Incarceration, Capital Punishment, and the Justice System 17. The Incarceration of Black Spirituality and the Disenfranchised, Michael Battle 18. Lifting Our Voices and Liberating Our Bodies in the Era of Massive Racialized Incarceration, Raphael Warnock 19. Jesus on Death Row: The Case for Abolishing Prisons, Madeline McClenney VIII. Conclusion 20. Graphing the Contours of Black Practical Theology, Dale P. Andrews and Robert London Smith Jr. Notes List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1910 Francisco Madero, in exile in San Antonio, Texas, launched a revolution that changed the face of Mexico. The conflict also unleashed violence and instigated political actions that kept that nation unsettled for more than a decade. As in other major uprisings around the world, the revolution's effects were not contained within the borders of the embattled country. Indeed, the Mexican Revolution touched communities on the Texas side of the Rio Grande from Brownsville to El Paso. Fleeing refugees swelled the populations of South Texas towns and villages and introduced nationalist activity as exiles and refugees sought to extend moral, financial, and even military aid to those they supported in Mexico. Raiders from Mexico clashed with Texas ranchers over livestock and property, and bystanders as well as partisans died in the conflict. One hundred years later, Mexico celebrated the memory of the revolution, and scholars in Mexico and the United States sought to understand the effects of the violence on their own communities. War along the Border, edited by noted Tejano scholar Arnoldo De León, is the result of an important conference hosted by the University of Houston's Center for Mexican American Studies. Scholars contributing to this volume consider topics ranging from the effects of the Mexican Revolution on Tejano and African American communities to its impact on Texas' economy and agriculture. Other essays consider the ways that Mexican Americans north of the border affected the course of the revolution itself. The work collected in this important book not only recaps the scholarship done to date but also suggests fruitful lines for future inquiry. War along the Border suggests new ways of looking at a watershed moment in Mexican American history and reaffirms the trans-national scope of Texas history.

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Book SynopsisJohn Singleton (b. 1968) rocketed from obscurity to the top ranks of Hollywood directors in 1991, when he released his debut film Boyz N the Hood. The poignant coming-of-age story, set in the streets of south central Los Angeles, where Singleton grew up amid gang violence and hip-hop music, earned him Oscar nominations for best original screenplay and best directing. Only twenty-three at the time, he was hailed as a wunderkind and compared to the young Orson Welles. Some have credited him with the mainstreaming of hip-hop music and style in cinema. John Singleton: Interviews spans his transformation from USC film school sensation to seasoned director and producer. The collection includes lengthy interviews, in-depth profiles, and up-close glimpses of Singleton filming on location. Since his auspicious debut, Singleton has continued to make gritty, character-driven ""hood movies"" that still speak to a mainstream audience. He has made films in a variety of genres, including romance (Poetic Justice), satire (Baby Boy), action (Shaft, 2 Fast 2 Furious), revenge drama (Four Brothers), and historical drama (Rosewood). Craigh Barboza of Washington, D.C., is a senior editor at USA Weekend Magazine. He attended film school at New York University, and his work has been published in Vibe, Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, The Source, and the New York Times.

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Book SynopsisFor over forty years, professor and culinary historian Jessica B. Harris has collected postcards depicting Africans and their descendants in the American diaspora. They are presented for the first time in this exquisite volume. Vintage Postcards from the African World: In the Dignity of Their Work and the Joy of Their Play brings together more than 150 images, providing a visual document of more than a century of work in agricultural and culinary pursuits and joy in entertainments, parades, and celebrations.Organized by geography - Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States - as well as by the types of scenes depicted - the farm, the garden, and the sea; the marketplace; the vendors and the cooks; leisure, entertainments, and festivities - the images capture the dignity of the labors of everyday life and the pride of festive occasions. Superb and rare images demonstrate everything from how Africans and their descendants dressed to what tools they used to how their entertainments provided relief from toil. Three essays accompany the postcards, one of which details Harris's collection and the collecting process. A second presents suggestions on how to interpret the cards. A final essay gives brief information on the history of postcards and postcard dating and its increasing use and value to scholars.Trade ReviewEach of these images has a story behind it that calls for analysis by food studies scholars. Harris’s Vintage Postcards should inspire all of us to become avid deltiologists.

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Book SynopsisJerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary programs fortify spiritual as well as social needs. In this region African Americans maintain a social world of their own creation. Their cultural performances embrace some of the most pervasive forms of African American sacred music--spirituals, common meter, Sacred Harp, shape-note, traditional, and contemporary gospel. Moreover, the contexts in which they sing include present-day observations such as the Twentieth of May (Emancipation Day), Burial League Turnouts, and Fifth Sunday.Rather than tracing the evolution of African American sacred music, this ethnographic study focuses on contemporary cultural performances, almost all by women, which embrace all forms. These women promote a female-centered theology to ensure the survival of their communities and personal networks. They function in leadership roles that withstand the test of time. Their spiritual activism presents itself as a way of life.In Wiregrass Country, ""You don't have to sing like an angel"" is a frequently expressed sentiment. To these women, ""good"" music is God's music regardless of the manner delivered. Therefore, Downhome Gospel presents gospel music as being more than a transcendent sound. It is local spiritual activism that is writ large. Gospel means joy, hope, expectation, and the good news that makes the soul glad.

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Book SynopsisGermans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil War era in America through the Weimar era, Germany became a place to which African American entertainers, travelers, and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois could go to escape American racism and find new opportunities. With the rise of the Third Reich, Germany became the personification of racism, and African Americans in the 1930s and 1940s could use Hitler's evil example to goad America about its own racist practices. Postwar West Germany regained the image as a land more tolerant to African American soldiers than America. African Americans were important to Cold War discourse, especially in the internal ideological struggle between Communist East Germany and democratic West Germany.Unlike many other countries in Europe, Germany has played a variety of different and conflicting roles in the African American narrative and relationship with Europe. It is this diversity of roles that adds to the complexity of African American and German interactions and mutual perceptions over time.

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Book SynopsisThe history of the civil rights movement is commonly illustrated with well-known photographs from Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma-leaving the visual story of the movement outside the South remaining to be told. In North of Dixie, historian Mark Speltz shines a light past the most iconic photographs of the era to focus on images of everyday activists who fought campaigns against segregation, police brutality, and job discrimination from Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles to Seattle, Des Moines, Wichita, and Spokane. With images by photojournalists, artists, and activists including Bob Adelman, Charles Brittin, Leonard Freed, Diana Davies, Matt Herron, Gordon Parks, and many others, North of Dixie offers a broader and more complex view of the American civil rights movement than is usually presented in books, television, and film. North of Dixie also considers the camera as a tool that served both those in support of the movement and against it. Photographs inspired activists, galvanized public support, and implored local and national politicians to act, but they also provided means of surveillance and repression that were used against movement participants. North of Dixie brings to light numerous long-forgotten or previously unknown images and illuminates the multifaceted story of the civil rights movement in the American North and West.Trade Review"With over one hundred images, many never before published, North of Dixie offers a complex and inclusive view of the civil rights era in America."--African American Intellectual History Society "A hard-hitting photographic look at the fight for civil rights."--On Milwaukee "This compendium demonstrates how many mid-century civil rights struggles were waged far above the Mason-Dixon line. With requisite coverage of famed leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, the survey also reveals hundreds of unknown activists and unsung heroes from myriad walks of life, united in a courageous struggle for social change, dignity, and survival."--American Photo, The Best Photography Books of the Year: 2016 "North of Dixie is a stunning compilation of photos, combining images of strength and reserve evident in activists in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and Los Angeles with images of the backlash they faced."--Huffington Post "As the overwhelming negative issues of race persist in tearing away at the soul of our nation, America needs to be more enlightened on the history of this subject and how it continues to demand resolve morally and politically. As Dr. King often said, 'If the issue of race is not squarely debated and favorably brought to closure this nation will not survive.' North of Dixie makes this tragic story of our nation worthy of our attention. It helps us understand the ways in which this tragedy can be addressed. This opportunity should not be missed." --Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, and social activist "Powerful and compelling."--Yahoo "The imagery in [Speltz's] book, North of Dixie: Civil Rights beyond the South (available in November), captures the essence of the violent climate toward grassroots activists and civilians alike who participated in peaceful protests."--Daily Beast "A much-welcome corrective to standard histories, as well as journalistic coverage at the time, which focused on Jim Crow segregation in the South, especially as captured in some historic, disturbing and indelible images of the day."-New York Times

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Book SynopsisAn extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century BaltimoreIn 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour of the attack. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiries into the underlying facts. But in this case, Baltimore's white community chose a different path. A coroner's jury declined to attribute the killing to accident or self-defense; the state's attorney indicted McDonald and brought him to trial; and a criminal court jury convicted McDonald of manslaughter.What makes this work so powerful is that many of the issues that the antipolice brutality movement faces today were the very issues faced by black people in nineteenth-century Baltimore.Both Brown and McDonald represented factions in conflict during a period of social upheaval, and both men left home to escape dire conditions. Yet trouble followed both to Baltimore. While the conviction of McDonald was unique, it was not a racially enlightened moment in policing. The killing of Brown was viewed not as racial injustice, but police violence spreading to their neighborhood. White elites saw the police as an uncontrolled force threatening their well-being. The clubbing and shooting of an unarmed black man only a block away from the wealthy residences of Park Avenue represented a breakdown in the social order-but Jim Crow in Baltimore was not in danger.Prior to 1867 a Maryland statute barred African Americans from testifying against whites in proceedings before police magistrates or in any of the state's courts. During the trial of McDonald, the press described the Baltimore police as "blue coated ruffians," and there was a general distrust of the police force by both blacks and whites. Brown's wife, Keziah, gave damning testimony of Officer McDonald's actions. The jury could not agree on verdicts of first- or second-degree murder, and after an attempt to reach a compromise verdict of second-degree murder failed, the majority acquiesced to the manslaughter verdict.The Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown adds to the historiography of policing and criminal justice by demonstrating the pivotal role of the coroner's inquest in such cases and by illustrating the importance of social ties and political divisions when a community addresses an episode of police violence.Trade Review"Historian Gordon H. Shufelt's true crime book recounts the 1875 murder of a Black man by a white policeman. While racial police brutality is still not uncommon, the grim distinction surrounding Daniel Brown's death is that, in late nineteenth-century Baltimore, this particular officer was convicted. With factual suspense, the book reconstructs the fateful meeting between Brown and McDonald. A noise complaint regarding a small, non-alcoholic party somehow escalated into Brown being clubbed and shot in his own home. Witnesses recalled McDonald being angry and antagonistic. McDonald, however, insisted that he acted in self-defense. McDonald was found guilty by a white jury—a verdict, Shufelt says, that was intended to quell police overreach, rather than support racial equality. Engrossing."- Foreword; "A close and engrossing look at an obscure 19th-century homicide through a granular and judicious review of archival records. One summer night in 1875, white policeman Patrick McDonald confronted African American Daniel Brown in Brown's Baltimore home after receiving a noise complaint. The encounter ended with McDonald fatally shooting Brown. Surprisingly, given the city's endemic racism at the time, an all-white jury convicted McDonald of manslaughter after hearing testimony that Brown had done nothing violent to provoke the shooting. Shufelt puts that outcome in context, which included distrust of the police force following misconduct during elections that year, and the status of the Black witnesses to the killing; their employment as servants in affluent white homes made them viewed as trustworthy, which Shufelt considers 'the persistence of some elements of a slavery-era culture.' The verdict was not a breakthrough, however, or evidence that white Baltimoreans "objected to the oppression of African Americans" . . . Illuminat[es] race relations and the criminal justice system in post–Civil War Baltimore."- Publishers Weekly

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