Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisThis book considers the ways in which Black directors, screenwriters, and showrunners contend with the figure of the would-be White ally in contemporary film and television.White Lies and Allies in Contemporary Black Media examines the ways in which prominent figures such as Issa Rae, Spike Lee, Justin Simien, Jordan Peele, and Donald Glover centralize complex Black protagonists in their work while also training a Black gaze on would-be White allies. Emily R. Rutter highlights how these Black creators represent both performative White allyship and the potential for true White antiracist allyship, while also examining the reasons why Black creators utilize the white ally trope in the wider context of the film and television industries. During an era in which concerns with White liberal complicity in anti-Black racism are of paramount importance, Rutter explores how these films and televisions shows, and their creators, contribute to the wider project of dismantling internal, i

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Book SynopsisThis book traces 500 years of European-American colonization and racialized dominance, expanding our common assumptions about the ways racialization was used to build capitalism and the modern world-system.Professor Fenelon draws on personal experience and the agency of understudied Native (and African) resistance leaders, to weave a story too often hidden or distorted in the annals of the academy, that remains invisible at many universities and historical societies. The book identifies three epochs of racial constructions, colonialism, and capitalism that created the USA. Indigenous nations, the first to be racialized on a global scale, African peoples, enslaved and brought to the Americas, and European immigrants. It offers a sweeping analysis of the forces driving the invasion, occupation, and exploitation of Native America and the significance of labor in American history provided by Indigenous people, Africans, and immigrants, specifically the Irish.Indian, BlaTrade Review"The prosperity of the West was built on the blood and land of Indigenous peoples and the sweat of other people of color. In this magisterial book, Professor Fenelon skillfully weaves the long and thick story of how all Europeans and a myriad of their institutions participated in this process and benefitted from it. After this book, no European or their descendants can claim racial innocence. Bravo Professor Fenelon for this major contribution."Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, author of Racism Without Racists"The history of capital, as Professor James Fenelon shows in this urgent and timely new study, is the history and racism and genocide. The story is told with great clarity, passion, and abundance of historical evidence. At a time when global capitalism is throwing communities around the world into desperate struggles for survival and threatening our very existence, this masterful study is as much a powerful indictment of the past and the present of this out of control system. as it is a dire warning of the future to come if we do not come to terms with the legacy of racism, colonialism, and genocide in the Americas and beyond."William I. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Author of The Global Police State"Once again, Dakota Professor James Fenelon offers a thoughtful, provocative, and engaging history examining race and racism globally. He focuses on Indigenous, Black, and Irish people, offering a global story of people and systems. The book analyzes the impact of colonialism, racism, and Native responses--past and present—of systems designed to denigrate, distort, and exploit. Fenelon focuses on agency and sovereign responses of people faced with rapid change and foreign disruptions. Superbly researched, elegantly written, and wonderfully argued, Fenelon draws on original sources, multiple illustrations, and his own experiences to offer this fascinating, groundbreaking study."Clifford E. Trafzer, Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs , Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Riverside Table of Contents1. Introduction: 1490 – 2020 Racial construction of Indians, Blacks, Whites 2. The Indian: 1492 –1620 Racial construction of Indians and Blacks 3. The Black: 1620 – 1790 Institutionalizing Racial Codification 4. Three Revolutions: 1776 – 1790 three Races in a New State Bibliography

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Book SynopsisPatrolling the Homeland explores the tension surrounding the militarization of national borders through the perspective of US militia volunteers. Amidst a humanitarian crisis in which more than 7,800 people have lost their lives attempting to cross the border, US militias patrol the deserts along the Mexican border in camouflage, armed with assault rifles and night-vision goggles to protect the US. How and why US border militias conduct their activities is paramount to understanding similar movements, ideologies, and rhetoric around the world that oppose the movement of refugees and support the closing or restriction of international and regional borders.Based on extensive and engaging ethnography, Patrolling the Homeland explores not how people strive to be moral but how they maintain their self-perception as already and always moral individuals in spite of evidence to the contrary. This book signifies a creative and unique addition to morality and ethics Trade Review"This book is a unique study based upon ethnography in a very difficult area to secure access. It would not only be of interest to sociology/social studies related to immigration and border related studies but also criminology courses looking at policing in the broadest way." – Mark Button, University of Portsmouth"If one wants to understand the complexity of living in our contemporary world, then look no further than this book. John Parsons study of border militias in the United States offers a unique entree into the larger issues we all confront today. This is one of the most ethnographically and theoretically significant works in the anthropology of ethics that I have read in a long time." – Jarrett Zigon, University of Virginia.Table of ContentsPatrolling the Homeland - Volunteer Border Militias and the Power of Moral Assemblages 1. Border Watch 2. Morality 3. Ethnicity at the Nation’s Frontier 4. Experience, Narrative, and the Moral Imperative to Act 5. Embodied Narrative on the Border 6. The Moral Citizen, Virtue Ethics, and the Internal Ought 7. The Comfort to Act A World Without Self-Reflection

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates how migration has been transformed into a security threat in Europe. It argues that this process has taken place through a self-fulfilling spiralling process, which involves different actors and their specific narratives, practices and policies. The book examines how situations stemming from the so-called migration crisis' in the European Union (EU) have been dealt with by governments and non-governmental organisations. It also considers how actors treating migration as an ordinary phenomenon rather than a threat and sharing inclusive narratives can create the conditions for decelerating and eventually stopping securitisation processes. Some chapters examine the spiralling of the securitisation of migration in depth, by analysing increases in securitisation, as well as cases characterised by resistance. Others focus on examining the consequences of socially constructing migration as a crisis for the EU's relations with third countries. In sum, this book shows Table of Contents1. Introduction— The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: from the management of a ‘crisis’ to a governance of human mobility? 2. From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: security implications of EU- Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance 3. The ‘refugee crisis’ and its transformative impact on EU- Western Balkans relations 4. People as security risks: the framing of migration in the UK security- development nexus 5. The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy 6. The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices 7. EU border technologies and the co- production of security ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’ 8. Overcoming borders: the Europeanization of civil society activism in the ‘refugee crisis’ 9. The role of non- state actors’ cognitions in the spiralling of the securitisation of migration: prejudice, narratives and Italian CAS reception centres

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1982, Community Work and Racism takes as its theme the fundamental need of the black community in Britain to be freed from the disabling effects of white racism both in the individual and institutional forms. Starting from the premise that racism is a âwhite problemâ in Britain, the book argues that community work must put white racism on everyoneâs local and national alliances in the fight against racism in British society. The contributors consider the response, or lack of it, there has so far been by âwhiteâ community work to racism, and look at the stateâs response to racism as it impinges on community work. They discuss black community action and initiatives on racism, explore alliances which have come into being in the fight against racism, and examine the conditions which make such alliances possible. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, public policy, race and ethnic studies.

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Book SynopsisThis book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia.In this volume, the authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes. The chapters track the contested histories of monuments, scrutinizing their narrative power and examining the violent events behind them. It is both about the history of monuments and the histories the monuments are meant to commemorate. It is interested in this nuanced relationship between violence, monuments, memory, and colonial legacies; the ways different facets of colonial violenceconquest, resistance, massacres, genocides, internments, and injusticeshave been commemorated (or haven't been), how they live in the present, and how pertinent they are in the present to different peoples. Legacies of colonial violence, and continued reiTrade Review"In recent years, debates over historical statues and monuments have been central to the struggle of former colonial powers, and former colonies, to come to term with their past – or to disavow it. With a genuinely global scope, this timely and exciting collection of case-studies examine how memorials both conceal and reveal contested histories of colonial violence, which refuse to be peacefully consigned to the past."Kim A. Wagner, University of London, UK"The global approach utilized by Cynthia Prescott and Janne Lahti reinforces the relationality of violence, monuments, memory, and legacy across time and place. This volume makes visible those histories and peoples erased by colonial violence and later settler colonial monuments. Prescott and Lahti’s volume provides necessary context for current contestations over public space and memory. Monuments matter. This volume is a must-read."Elise Boxer, University of South Dakota, USA"This compelling collection offers a truly global perspective on the relationship between colonial violence and monumentality. Contributions by scholars and community advocates map the ways colonial and postcolonial monuments have celebrated, concealed, and embodied the violence of empire in North America, Australia, Africa, and Asia over the last two centuries. Always insistent on the specific histories of both monuments and the acts they commemorate, these essays go beyond simple binaries to trace the multiple, shifting actions and experiences of colonizers, settlers, postcolonial states, and Indigenous peoples through time."Jennifer Sessions, University of Virginia, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Looking Globally at Monuments, Violence, and Colonial Legacies 1. Visualizing Juan de Oñate’s Colonial Legacies in New Mexico 2. De-Colonizing Australia’s Commemorative Landscape: “Truth-Telling,” Contestation and the Dialogical Turn 3. The Pinjarra Massacre in the Age of the Statue Wars 4. Südwester Reiter: Fear, Belonging, and Settler Colonial Violence in Namibia 5. South Africa’s Voortrekker Monument and 1820 Settlers National Monument: Monuments to Cultural Violence 6. The Ajnala Massacre of 1857 and the Politics of Colonial Violence and Commemoration in Contemporary India 7. Belgian Monuments of Colonial Violence: the Commemoration of Martyred Missionaries

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Book SynopsisIn this prescient and sensitive volume, Aida Alayarian looks at how psychoanalysis in group settings can benefit refugees who have experienced trauma, with an express focus on transference and countertransference. Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma offers a comprehensive overview of trauma from a psychoanalytic perspective, before delving into the nuance of trauma experienced by asylum seekers, refugees and those who have gone through forced migration. Through clinical vignettes, Alayarian highlights the importance of the resilience that can be brought about from group sessions and shared experience in helping to heal the wounds of trauma. She looks at the vital role of social injustice in this trauma and shows how this can be directly applied to work with other groups experiencing human rights violations, destitution, and loss. She shows how looking at relational patterns as a means of understanding conscious, unconscious, and subconscious thought processTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Refugee Therapy Centre 2. Assessments 3. Trauma 4. Repression and Dissociation 5. Principle of Psychoanalysis 6. Important Psychoanalytic Ideas 7. Intercultural Approach 8. What is Group? 9. Creating Groups 10. Transference and Countertransference

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Book SynopsisBlack Femalehood and the Principles of Existence in Practice conceptually frames the complex trajectory of Black femalehood, including contributions and triumphs, methods of resistance, and ways of coping, as well as the impacts of external forces on their physical and psychological wellness.The book scrutinizes the work of selected female figures and their modes of resistance, including the warriors of the Haitian Revolution, diasporic African descendant combatants for human rights, and academic female writers. From battlefield combats to daily struggles for survival, it illustrates how the battles in which Black females have been compelled to engage have caused centuries of physical, emotional, and psychological distress, well into contemporary times. This volume will be of use to upper-level undergraduate students as well as graduate students studying gender studies, sociology, Black studies, and politics.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on India's foreign policy towards Sri Lanka before the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (ISLA) in July 1987 and India's military intervention after the ISLA.

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Book SynopsisThe Psychosis of Race offers a unique and detailed account of the psychoanalytic significance of race, and the ongoing impact of racism in contemporary society.Moving beyond the well-trodden assertion that race is a social construction, and working against demands that simply call for more representational equality, The Psychosis of Race explores how the delusions, anxieties, and paranoia that frame our race relations can afford new insights into how we see, think, and understand race's pervasive appeal. With examples drawn from politics and popular culturesuch as Candyman, Get Out, and the music of Kendrick Lamarcritical attention is given to introducing, as well as explicating on, several key concepts from Lacanian psychoanalysis and the study of psychosis, including foreclosure, the phallus, Name-of-the-Father, sinthome, and the objet petit a. By elaborating a cultural mode to psychosis and its understanding, an original and critical exTrade Review'The Psychosis of Race usefully intervenes upon contemporary theories of race and racism. By drawing attention to a psychotic structure that underlies the anxieties, delusions, and fantasies that spur racial violence in our present historical moment, this study takes Lacanian psychoanalysis in directions it has not fully explored.'Sheldon George, author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of Race'In arguing that our relationship to race is organized by the psychic structure of psychosis, Jack Black both aptly diagnoses our contemporary moment and puts forward an “ethical sensibility” for overcoming race and racism’s psychic hold. Specifically, through an accessible exposition of key Lacanian concepts and original analyses of popular cultural artifacts, The Psychosis of Race sets us on the path to forging creative and agentic possibilities for overcoming our attachment to race as a futile attempt to secure our place within an unreliable socio-symbolic field.'Jennifer Friedlander, author of Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism 'In this truly invigorating and critical analysis, Jack Black utilizes the vocabulary of terms developed by Jacques Lacan for the treatment and conceptualization of psychosis and applies them, in a distinctive cultural mode, to the psychical life of racialization, racism, and racial identity. In so doing, he moves us beyond the “post race” consensus and the shortcomings of equal representation as adequate responses to racist social structure. He highlights the distinctive analytical potential of thinking our psychical entanglements with race in terms that are uniquely illuminating.'Derek Hook, author of Six Moments in Lacan and co-editor of Lacan on Depression and MelancholiaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Race is (not) a social construction 1. Interrogating the social construction of race 2. The non-sense of race 3. Racial extimacy Part II: Race and the structure of psychosis 4. Lacan and psychosis 5. The object a of race 6. Psychosis and lack: A nothing made something 7. Race and foreclosure 8. Psychosis and the Other 9. Paranoia and the racist fantasy Part III: Ethics, lack, and doubt 10. A space for politics 11. Beyond race? The radical temporality of creative doubt 12. Kendrick Lamar and the psychosis of race

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Book SynopsisAspirations and Challenges for Undocumented Student Success offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain on undocumented student success. Compiling the most significant work in the field in terms of its contributions to research and professional practice, the volume opens with an exploration the aspirations of undocumented students and the fight for equity, followed by an examination of the impact and influence of parents and families on educational outcomes. Finally, it concludes with testimonios reflecting on the educational experiences of undocumented students in America. Each section presents readings in chronological order, demonstrating the progression around undocumented student success in the field over the past 20+ years, in respect to the intentionality about integrating undocumented student success throughout equity initiatives, breaking down institutional silos, fostering welcoming campus en

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Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of Racist America is thoroughly revised and updated, focusing on systemic racism and antiracism issues, especially those arising since the fourth edition (2018). Expanding the discussion on racialized intersectionality, as well as on the white racial frame, elite-white-male dominance system, and antiracist action, this book details how these racism realities continue to impact black, Latino, Asian, Indigenous, and white Americans. The book explains how and why Black Lives Matter movement and other antiracist protests have erupted; how and why Latino, Asian, and Indigenous Americans have responded to expanding racist discrimination; and how and why a diverse array of Americans has demanded major societal responses to dismantle entrenched white racism.

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Book SynopsisThis eminently timely volume explores successful practice and effective intervention strategies in schools to drive school improvement and close the achievement gap for black and minority ethnic students.Representing a seminal publication in the literature, this book collates twenty years of original research into race, achievement, and educational equality in schools in England to find out whatâs really working in education, and identify the key areas for improvement. Looking at leading issues such as the curriculum, school exclusions, and language barriers, chapters focus on the lived experiences of headteachers, teachers, parents, pupils, and other school staff obtained through focus groups and interviews. Presenting longitudinal evidence from school surveys and the National Pupil Database, the book considers:â The scale of the achievement gap and educational inequalityâ The barriers to learning for black and ethnic minoritiesâ The experience of raisin

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Book SynopsisThis important new book offers public administration scholars, practitioners, and students a comprehensive resource to make sense of identity and equity, two of the most crucial, yet complex, concepts for public decision-makers to address. The chapters in this volume present original research and explore timely and relevant theories and practices of identity and equity in public sector workplaces. To do this, authors present innovative theories and approaches to identity and equity, analyze practical pathways to identity and equity, and critique foundational policy and law addressing identity and equity. The utility of this volume lies in the timeliness and innovative approaches to evolving concepts of identity and equity in public sector workplaces. Applying a liberatory lens, the chapters reflect an expanded interpretation and understanding of identity, the challenges and opportunities for public sector organizations to more fully embrace and integrate diverse identities in the workplace, and paths for future research and application of practices that strive for more equitable and inclusive workplaces. Making Sense of Identity and Equity in Public Sector Workplaces is essential reading for all students and scholars of public administration as well as those working in public and nonprofit organizations.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction to Global Social Problems introduces undergraduate students to national and international social problems from a critical sociological perspective. Isaac Zvi Christiansen presents clear descriptions of each social problem, explains key concepts, and provides students with the relevant theoretical tools needed to grasp the interconnected nature of these phenomena.This volume covers significant and interconnected issues. The book begins with an explanation of how corporate interests distort the depiction of social problems. Chapters two and three provide empirical explorations of poverty and inequality on national and global scales, together with clear and accessible expositions of relevant sociological theories. Chapter four examines health and educational inequalities exacerbated by the economic inequalities discussed in chapters two and three. Chapter five introduces students to issues of racial inequalities in the United States and abroad, while chapter six takes a comparative approach to examining crime and criminal justice. Chapter seven examines modern day imperialism and war, with special attention given to the military industrial complex, and a brief review of U.S. interventions around the world in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Chapter eight examines politics and human rights, including a critical, historical and sociological analysis of Israeli settler-colonialism and successive US/Israeli assaults on Gaza. The book closes with an examination of population and the environment, with special attention given to climate change, and the pressing contradictions between capitalism and the environment.This textbook will be a vital resource for introductory students across the social sciences, especially in sociology, political science, and global studies. It provides critical wraparound coverage of the momentous, embedded social problems that interconnect across social, national, and regional boundaries.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a historical synthesis of colonial relations between Brazil and Portugal, illuminating the projects that the statesmen of the period formulated for the rich Portuguese territory in America, at first as a colonial domain, then as a potential independent country.Drawing on primary sources and historiographical dialogues with classic and current works, the book follows a chronological thread from Marquis of Pombalâs reforms to Brazilian independence. The work is framed by global geopolitics at the height of the liberal revolutions that led to the collapse of the Ancien RÃgime and the colonial system. Liberal revolutions, the Atlantic context, Napoleonic wars, and disputes for hegemony on the South American continent provide further background to the making of the PortugueseâAmerican slaveholding class, the guarantor of the independence process. While the volume focuses on a remote period of history, its analysis of agendas for the nation offers the opportunity for dialogue with current concerns in Brazil.Shaping Brazil is an effective resource for understanding a long and seminal period of Brazilâs history, which will be of value to scholars of Brazilian history and Latin American history and studies more widely.

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Book SynopsisSubculture in the 21st Century is a key text for all students of sociology and cultural studies. Drawing on case studies and supported by a range of resources on its dedicated companion website, it is an introduction to the history, theory, tensions and contemporary process that have shaped subcultures and their study.Offering an accessible overview, it examines subcultures and subculture studies and how they have been formed and critiqued; it considers how subcultures are structured by contours of inequality through the continued relevance of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity and social class; and how contemporary processes, such as globalization, aging and digital technology have given us new ways of thinking about subcultures. Key topics covered include: Theoretical frameworks and concepts central to subcultural studies today, including social stratification, identity and authenticity, style and resistance; critical evaluation of lifestyle, scene and neo-tribe in post-subcultural studies; femininity and masculinity, power and identity; how sexualities have produced and impacted subcultures; what subcultural groups can offer racial minorities; class, structures of power and resistance; subcultures through the life course; the emotionality ad affects of contemporary subcultures; the relation between globalisation and subcultures; and digital media, participation and scalability of subculture. Three detailed case studies from international contributors examine diverse subcultures including Bronie subculture amongst adolescent and adult men, the range of masculinities within skateboarding, and the punk and electronic music scenes in Romania.Brought to life with extracts of interviews and real-world examples and vignettes, Subculture in the 21st Century is an essential textbook for students of sociology and cultural studies as well as those interested in the study of contemporary movements in youth and popular culture.

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Book SynopsisUsually, when we discuss racial injustice, we discuss racism in our public or political life. This means that we often focus on how the state discriminates on the basis of race in its application and enforcement of laws and policies. This book draws on the synergy of political theory and civil rights law to expand the boundary of racial justice and consider the way in which racial discrimination happens outside the governmental or public sphere. ''Private racism'' is about recognizing that racial injustice also occurs in our private lives, including the television and movie industry, cyberspace, our intimate and sexual lives, and the reproductive market. Professor Sonu Bedi argues that private racism is wrong, enlarging the boundary of justice in a way that is also consistent with our Constitution. A more just society is one that seeks to address rather than ignore this less visible form of racism.Trade Review'Anyone interested in racism and the role it has played and continues to play in the lives of people today would find this book fascinating.' Ana Marquez, Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Enlarging the boundary of racial justice; 2. Casting racism; 3. Digital racism; 4. Sexual racism; 5. Selling segregation; Conclusion: private injustice; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisBetween 1822 and 1857, eight Southern states barred the ingress of all free black maritime workers. According to lawmakers, they carried a ''moral contagion'' of abolitionism and black autonomy that could be transmitted to local slaves. Those seamen who arrived in Southern ports in violation of the laws faced incarceration, corporal punishment, an incipient form of convict leasing, and even punitive enslavement. The sailors, their captains, abolitionists, and British diplomatic agents protested this treatment. They wrote letters, published tracts, cajoled elected officials, pleaded with Southern officials, and litigated in state and federal courts. By deploying a progressive and sweeping notion of national citizenship - one that guaranteed a number of rights against state regulation - they exposed the ambiguity and potential power of national citizenship as a legal category. Ultimately, the Fourteenth Amendment recognized the robust understanding of citizenship championed by AntebellumTrade Review'Schoeppner's pathbreaking book reconceptualizes the national story of citizenship to include a broader cast of characters and an earlier timeline, demonstrating the significance of the Negro Seamen Acts to American legal history. This elegantly-written work reminds us of the centrality of movement for African Americans as they struggled over the meaning of citizenship rights.' Kelly Kennington, Auburn University and author of In the Shadow of Dred Scott: St. Louis Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Slavery in Antebellum America'Mariners stood at the forefront of struggles over US citizenship from the Revolution to the Civil War. In Moral Contagion … Schoeppner reveals how state laws regulating the mobility of black sailors became a focal point for debates in the antebellum period over the substantive rights conferred by national citizenship. Speaking to questions about federal power and racial equality in the Atlantic world, his book will become essential reading for students and scholars interested in the contested history of American citizenship.' Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California and author of Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution'… Schoeppner explores in vivid and fascinating detail the international and domestic controversies surrounding the Negro Seamen Acts. In so doing, he underscores the critical role played by African Americans in the antebellum era struggle for citizenship.' Kunal M. Parker, University of Miami and author of Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600–2000'Recommended.' E. R. Crowther, Choice'… the book is a rigorous study of law, citizenship, and diplomacy and makes a welcome addition to the literature of southern history, Atlantic history, and antebellum political and legal history.' Ikuko Asaka, Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Atlantic's dangerous undercurrents; 2. Containing a moral contagion, 1822–9; 3. The contagion spreads, 1829–33; 4. Confronting a pandemic, 1834–42; 5. 'Foreign' emissaries and rights discourse, 1842–7; 6. Sacrificing black citizenship, 1848–59; 7. From the decks to the jails to assembly halls: black sailors, their communities, and the fight for black citizenship; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisMajor land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world''s countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these programs granted beneficiaries complete property rights. Why is this the case, and what are the consequences? This book draws on wide-ranging original data and charts new conceptual terrain to reveal the political origins of the property rights gap. It shows that land reform programs are most often implemented by authoritarian governments who deliberately withhold property rights from beneficiaries. In so doing, governments generate coercive leverage over rural populations and exert social control. This is politically advantageous to ruling governments but it has negative development consequences: it slows economic growth, productivity, and urbanization and it exacerbates inequality. The book also examines the conditions under which subsequent governments close property rights gaps, usually as a result of democratization or foreign pressure.Trade Review'Low productivity in agriculture condemns many countries and regions to poverty. This erudite book combines history and detailed data analysis to show that low productivity is often caused by a property rights gap, created by regimes trying to cultivate large masses of peasants dependent on them. The book explains where these missing property rights in land emerge, what they imply for inequality and poverty, and how they can be overcome. This is first-rate social science that should inform modern debates on development and policy.' Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'In this landmark study, based on more than a decade of intrepid fieldwork and imaginative analysis of the most comprehensive dataset on rural property rights ever assembled, Michael Albertus systematically unravels the great puzzle of why so many states fail to provide secure property rights over land to their citizens. This pathbreaking book convincingly exposes the political motives that lead governments to open and maintain wide gaps in property rights, and that induce democracies to close them.' Larry Diamond, Stanford University'This outstanding book makes the case for understanding why governments distribute land but not secure property rights to rural dwellers. These property rights gaps are of great consequence throughout the developing world. Yet they are poorly understood. Whereas these gaps are often attributed to misguided policy or state weakness, Albertus makes a compelling case that they are rooted in political choices, often aimed at sustaining autocracy. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of rights and redistribution.' Steven Levitsky, Harvard University'Around the world millions of rural dwellers live in a state of limbo in which they receive property but few if any rights over that property. With a broad comparative perspective, this book offers a novel theory, in-depth case studies, and sophisticated empirical analyses about this important phenomenon. It is a must-read for those interested in development, political regimes, land reform and the politics of economic redistribution.' Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University'… book's overall quality will likely make it an influential contribution to the literature of rural politics for many years. Highly recommended.' D. Newcomer, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Conceptualizing and Measuring the Property Rights Gap; 3. The Political Origins of the Property Rights Gap; 4. Evidence on the Rise and Fall of Property Rights Gaps in Latin America; 5. Consequences of the Property Rights Gap; 6. Opening and Closing a Property Rights Gap in Peru; 7. The Long-Term Consequences of Peru's Property Rights Gap; 8. Property Rights Gaps Around the World; 9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe Picts offers a broad survey of the historical and cultural developments of the people of northern Britain between AD 300 and AD 900. Dispelling the notion of the Picts as savages, they are revealed to be both politically successful and one of the most artistically sophisticated peoples of Europe.Trade Review“This exercise completes a superb and comprehensive survey of what is currently known about the Picts. The book also contains a lucid summary, and will be useful for both scholars and the general public.” (Hereditasnexus, 6 October 2015)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables vi List of Lineages and Maps vii Preface and Acknowledgments viii Methodology x Abbreviations xii Introducing the Picts 1 1 Picts and Romans 15 2 Myth and Reality 40 3 The Early Middle Ages 57 4 People and Work 95 5 Spirituality 134 6 Art 162 7 Conquest and Obscurity 182 8 Literature and Remembrance 207 Conclusion 233 Select Bibliography 240 Index 255

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to examine "migrant-soldiers' in the British army and places the phenomenon of Britain's multicultural army in relation to British culture, history and nationalism. It also explores the impact of war on UK society during the 21st CenturyTrade Review"Riveting and nuanced.' - The Observer "Military Migrants is a 'must read' for people who care about the realities behind the rituals of our militaries. Vron Ware has done such innovative research. The men and women - from Fiji, Nepal, Jamaica, Belize, Ghana - whom the British military recruit to fight Britain's wars come alive on these pages. They have ideas and aspirations and savvy assessments of their own. This is a brilliant book." - Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, USA "This stunning and beautifully written book is essential reading for anyone interested in the multicultural question today." - Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK 'The UK Armed Forces reflect the history of the British Empire. This book shows how the British Army in particular has mobilized Foreign and Commonwealth migrant soldiers to serve, what happens to them when they do and after they leave. It is a timely, well written book as the UK and the British Army continue to grapple with what it means to be British in a globalised and multi-cultural world.' - Christopher Dandeker, Kings College London, UK 'So tight is the grip of nationalist mythologies that few realize just how ubiquitous foreign military service is in the modern world. Vron Ware has produced a rich and comprehensive portrait of the experiences of Britain's foreign soldiers and their families. Inequities in pay and conditions, murky immigration statuses, racism, and the quirks of British military culture are all part of the story Ware renders in vivid ethnographic and sociological registers.' Tarak Barkawi, London School of Economics, UK 'If we are what we defend, then Military Migrants takes us to the heart of how we are defended and what this means. It is both a careful, scrupulous book and a riveting journey through our own country as it literally brings home to the reader how the country is taking new shapes while resisting change.' - Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy "The treatment of Foreign and Commonwealth soldiers within the British Armed Forces is being hotly debated, so the publication of this important work will help generate vital debate!" Dr Hugh Milroy, Chief Executive, Veterans Aid, UK 'The ways in which state power attempts to use migration to reinforce its authority are brilliantly explored in Military Migrants. Teeming with unexpected human stories, and showing what we can learn about subjects that might seem closed to scholarly study, Ware's book is a vital meditation on the nation, race, and citizenship.' - David R. Roediger, Contexts, American Sociological Association 'Vron Ware presents a wealth of first hand experience and insights into the rhetoric and reality of army life. This is a book that explains how attempts to modernise the military intersect with hard-to-shift attitudes and more pragmatic needs for recruitment. It is essential reading for understanding the armed forces today and their promotion to the centre of British life over the last ten years.' - Emma Sangster, ForcesWatch, UK 'Military Migrants raises our awareness of and personal encounters with militarism ... The deft weaving of narrative and material culture, articulated through an incisive historical record of defence policy, interacting with civil movements, is expressed with an extraordinary attention to detail, without ever losing track of the broader argument or narrative.' - Ben Wadham, Flinders University, Australia 'An excellent introduction to the political manipulations around citizenship, nationhood, identity and racism in Britain today, and how these structure the working lives and experiences of Commonwealth citizens recruited to the contemporary British Army. This book provides the definitive assessment of what militarised multiculture means for those recruited internationally to fight Britain's war. Anyone wanting to understand how civil-military relations work in contemporary Britain needs to read this book.' - Rachel Woodward, Newcastle University, UK "The bittersweet readability of this book lies in the soldiers' stories. More enlightened military officers and ranks, as well as defence experts, will respect this book for its uncompromisingly rigorous research; this is the definitive work on its subject." - Ed Vulliamy, The ObserverTable of ContentsPreface Introduction For Queen and Commonwealth PART I The Race to Recruit The Promised Land PART II Culture Shock Keeping the Faith PART III Crossing the Line The Force of the Law PART IV Like Coming to Mars Caught in the Crossfire Conclusion Militarized Multiculture Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsDiagrams and Charts Introduction: Racism, An Issue of Continuing Concern Chapter One: ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la m?me chose’ Chapter Two: Racism as a Socially Constructed Phenomenon Chapter Three: Identity: A Personal Matter or a Political Issue? Chapter Four: Anti-Racist Social Work with Children and Families Chapter Five: Anti-Racist Social Work with Older People Chapter Six: Anti-Racist Social Work with Offenders Chapter Seven: Anti-Racist Social Work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees Chapter Eight: Anti-Racist Community Work Chapter Nine: Anti-Racist Social Work Across Borders Conclusions: Anti-racist Social Work Guidelines

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Book SynopsisDedicated to the late Gerard BÃhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis. President of the Society for Ethnomusicology from 1979-81, editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology, from 1974-78, and founder and editor of the trilingual Latin American Music Review from 1980 until his death, BÃhague also established the ethnomusicology graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1974, thereby influencing the training and thinking of dozens of the fieldâs practitioners. Among these are the volumeâs eight authors, whose contributions reflect the heritage but also contemporary trajectories of BÃhagueâs scholarly concerns. Prefaced by an essay outlining key developments in the ethnography of performance paradigm, the volumeâs seven case studies portray snapshots of musical life in representative communities of the Americas, including the southwestern and Pacific United States, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Ecuador. Situated in milieus ranging from the indigenous festivals of the Andean highlands, to the competitive public gatherings of poet-singers in post-Pinochet Chile, to the Puerto Rican dance halls of the Hawaiian islands, these studies pose anthropological inquiries into the ontology of performance practice, the social power of poetic performativity, and the experience and embodiment of sound in place.Trade Review’The ethnography of musical performance is so fundamental to contemporary ethnomusicology that it is like the air we breathe. Buchanan’s introduction offers a new window to the genesis of this approach and its broad reach, and then points us to the next steps forward. The articles that follow explore the politics of performance and the power of performativity in relation to history, subjectivity, and specific events through a series of vibrant case studies from across the Americas. Of special interest to Latin Americanists, Americanists, and ethnomusicologists in general, this book both explains and exemplifies why the ethnography of performance has become foundational to the ethnomusicological project.’ Thomas Turino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of ContentsIntroduction, Donna A. Buchanan; Part I Genres, Histories, and Discourses of Power Performed; Chapter 1 The Teatro Bufo: Cuban Blackface Theater of the Nineteenth Century, Robin Moore; Chapter 2 La Música Nacional: A Metaphor for Contrasting Views of Ecuadorian National Identity, Ketty Wong; Chapter 3 Conserve, Adapt, and Reconverge: Rationalizing a Template in Hawai’i Puerto Rican Musical Performance, Ted Solís; Part II Performing Practice: Style and the Politics of Subjectivity; Chapter 4 Transformation in Communion: Toward an Aesthetic of Improvisation, Tim Brace; Chapter 5 Feminine Flowers among the Thistles: Gendered Boundaries of Performance in Chilean Canto a lo poeta, Emily Pinkerton; Part III Situated Events and Performance Politics: Fiesta, Festival, Stage, and Street; Chapter 6, Michelle Wibbelsman; Chapter 7 Performing Indigeneity: Poetics and Politics of Music Festivals in Highland Bolivia, Thomas Solomon;

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Book SynopsisThis book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of Science Fiction have explored the genreâs racialized constructs of possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to take up the topic of race in depth. The bookâs interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself post-race. The beginnings of the Table of ContentsIntroduction: Re-thinking Genre, Thinking About Race 1. Founding Fantasy: J. R. R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard 2. Forming Habits: Derivation, Imitation, and Adaptation 3. The Real Middle Ages: Gritty Fantasy 4. Orcs and Otherness: Monsters on Page and Screen 5. Popular Culture Postcolonialism 6. Relocating Roots: Urban Fantasy 7. Breaking Habits and Digital Communication Afterword

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1974, this book gives a detailed and thoughtful examination on immigration in Britain, specifying the experiences of non-white intellectuals. In the first section Viewpoint each contributor, who was born and raised outside Britain, articulates and analyses the tensions generated by the conflict between his own native culture and that dominant in Britain, and the way in which, and the degree to which, he has coped with them. Each contributor observes English culture, elucidating its distinctive characteristics, and analysing the extent to which he feels sympathetic to them. In the second section Response distinguished philosophers, sociologists, and students of English character respond to the problems raised by immigrant intellectuals in their essays. This book is indispensable to everyone interested in creating a peaceful and culturally rich society in Britain.  Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh; Part One: Viewpoint 1. Another Kind of Minority – Dilip Hiro 2. Through a Glass Darkly – J. Ayodele Langley 3. The Spectre of Self-Consciousness – Bhikhu Parekh 4. A Child and A Stranger: On Growing Out of English Culture – Krishan Kumar 5. Alien Gods – A. Sivanandan 6. All Are Consumed – John La Rose 7. And One Khaki – P. Cachia 8. The Metaphysics of Anglicism – Arun Sahay 9. Black Intellectuals in Britain – C.L.R James Part Two: Response 10. Stranger Upon Earth – Philip Mason 11. Black Intellectuals, Black Bourgeoisie, and Black Workers – John Rex 12. Guests and Visitors – Geoffrey Gorer 13. On Preserving the British Way of Life – John Plamenatz 14. The Immigrant Intellectual – Edward Shils 15. Postscript - Bhikhu Parekh; Index

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Book SynopsisThe Course of Mexican Music provides students with a cohesive introductory understanding of the scope and influence of Mexican music. The textbook highlights individual musical examples as a means of exploring the processes of selection that led to specific musical styles in different times and places, with a supporting companion website with audio and video tracks helping to reinforce readers'' understanding of key concepts. The aim is for students to learn an exemplary body of music as a window for understanding Mexican music, history and culture in a manner that reveals its importance well beyond the borders of that nation. Table of Contents1. Why Study Mexican Music? 2. Defining and Listening to Mexican Music 3. Pre-Cortesian and Indigenous Music, Past and Present 4. Majesty, Machismo, Mestizaje and Other Legacies of the Vice Kingdom of New Spain 5. Colonial Legacies and Regional Responses: Sones Regionales 6. Sound Foundations for Independence 7. Immigration and Cosmopolitan Identity During the Porfiriato 8. Gifts of the Revolution 9. Cinema, Radio and the Celebrity Cantante 10. New Song and Rock Mexicano 11. Competing Popular Styles 12. Classical Contemporary Music: New Frames for New Audiences 13. A Despedida and Closing Reflections

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Book SynopsisThis much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips and Alison Donnell discuss the textual, political and cultural history of black British and the term 'black British' itself.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: G.Low & M.Wynne-Davies Foreword: Migration, Modernity and English Writing: Reflections on Migrant Identity and Canon Formation; M.Phillips PART I: INTERROGATING THE CANON 'The Ghost of Other Stories': Salman Rushdie and a Black British Canon?; J.Procter Not Good Enough or Not Man Enough?: Beryl Gilroy as the Anomaly in the Evolving 'Black British Canon'; S.Courtman In the Eyes of the Beholder: Diversity and the Cultural Politics of Canon Re-Formation in Britain; F.Folorunso in conversation with G.Low & M.Wynne-Davies PART II: NEW LANGUAGES OF CRITICISM Fantasy Relationships: Black British Canons in a Transnational World; J.McLeod 'New Forms': Towards a Critical Dialogue with Black British 'Popular' Fictions; A.Wood PART III: GENEALOGIES AND INTERVENTIONS Texts of Cultural Practice: Black Theatre and Performance in the UK; M.McMillan Canon Questions: Art in 'Black Britain'; L.R.Wainwright 'Sharing Connections': From West Indian to Black British; G.Low Afterword: In Praise of a Black British Canon and the Possibilities of Representing the Nation 'Otherwise'; A.Donnell Index

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Book SynopsisConsiders: Did race really matter? Racial ideology and political pragmatism in U.S.-Japan relationsTrade Review"Tarik Merida brilliantly illustrates how modern Japan encountered the world of White supremacy and negotiated within it to create a racial middle ground." With a sophisticated theoretical framework and detailed historical research, this provocative study overturns our common understanding of racial dichotomy to provide a new interpretation of how exceptionally complex Japanese racial identity was constructed."" -Kotaro Nakano, University of Tokyo

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Book SynopsisA study of the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Black Thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis, which explodes the western canon of philosophy.Trade Review"Thinking about Blackness historically as a manifestation of the deliberate self-conscious efforts of Black people is not only a worthwhile project but a necessary philosophical and conceptual grounding of Black theory and thought. Phenomenology of the Black Spirit is a commendable effort towards establishing a groundwork for the study of Black Spirit as a revelation of time and civilization. ?" -Tommy J. Curry, University of Edinburgh

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Book Synopsis'Remi Adekoya is a welcome blast of unsentimental rigour into a race debate clogged up with emotion and moralism. His dissection of the economic underpinnings of the world's racial and national hierarchies will make uncomfortable reading for both liberals and conservatives' David Goodhart'This terrifically illuminating book . . . offers a new way of understanding modern racial structures'  Newspaper'This is a courageous and urgent intervention into one of the most important debates of our time - one in which we often seem curiously incurious about what would lead to genuine equality among groups. In clear and elegant prose Dr. Adekoya will shift the way you think about hierarchies of race' Thomas Chatterton Williams'Remi brings a unique international perspective to the race debate, allowing the reader to understand complexities in the discussion that they won't have consider

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Book SynopsisUses popular films to reveal the tensions generated during Japan's postwar economic miracle, challenging the prevailing view that it was a story of great national success.

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Book SynopsisGold Winner of the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the History categoryThe Eight tells the story of Lemmon v. New York?or, as it''s more popularly known, the Lemmon Slave Case. All but forgotten today, it was one of the most momentous civil rights cases in American history. There had been cases in which the enslaved had won their freedom after having resided in free states, but the Lemmon case was unique, posing the question of whether an enslaved person can win freedom by merely setting foot on New York soil?when brought there in the keep of an "owner." The case concerned the fates of eight enslaved people from Virginia, brought through New York in 1852 by their owners, Juliet and Jonathan Lemmon. The Eight were in court seeking, legally, to become people?to change their status under law from objects into human beings. The Eight encountered Louis Napoleon, the son of a slave, an abolitionist activist, and a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad, who took enormous risks to help others. He was part of an anti-slavery movement in which African-Americans played an integral role in the fight for freedom. The case was part of the broader judicial landscape at the time: If a law was morally repugnant but enshrined in the Constitution, what was the duty of the judge? Should there be, as some people advocated, a "higher law" that transcends the written law? These questions were at the heart of the Lemmon case. They were difficult and important ones in the 1850s?and, more than a century and a half later, we must still grapple with them today.

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Book SynopsisMigration to new destinations in Europe and the United States has expanded dramatically over the past few decades. Within these destinations, there is a corresponding greater variety of ethnic, cultural, and/or religious diversity. This timely volume, The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations, considers the challenges posed by this proliferation of diversity for governments, majority populations, and immigrants.The contributors assess the effectiveness of the policy and political responses that have been spawned by increasing diversity in four types of new immigrant destinations: intermediate destination countriesIreland and Italy; culturally distinct regions experiencing new migration such as Catalonia in Spain or the American South; new destinations within traditional destination countries like the state of Utah and rural towns in England; and early migration cycle countries including Latvia and Poland. The Politics of New Immigrant Destinations examines how these new destinations f

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Book Synopsis The Emergency Detention Act, Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, is the only law in American history to legalize preventive detention. It restricted the freedom of a certain individual or a group of individuals based on actions that may be taken that would threaten the security of a nation or of a particular area. Yet the Act was never enforced before it was repealed in 1971. Masumi Izumi links the Emergency Detention Act with Japanese American wartime incarceration in her cogent study, The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law. She dissects the entangled discourses of race, national security, and civil liberties between 1941 and 1971 by examining how this historical precedent generated “the concentration camp law” and expanded a ubiquitous regime of surveillance in McCarthyist America. Izumi also shows how political radicalism grew as a result of these laws. Japanese Americas were instrumental in forming grassrTrade Review"Izumi presents a compelling argument, claiming that US lawmakers, gripped by the fear of a communist (rather than Japanese) incursion, relied on the legal precedents created by the internment to institute America’s only preventive detention law—one aimed at potentially subversive individuals or groups.... The frequent inclusion of excerpts and illustrations from contemporary sources will help make the text more accessible for some readers.... [T]his is a welcome addition to both American and legal history. Summing Up: Highly recommended."— Choice"This is policy history at its best, showing the complex interactions between policy makers and their larger society. It is built on a sturdy foundation of an explanation of why and how the United States interned hundreds of thousands of people during World War II but is also informed by the cultural turn in historical analysis.... What Izumi reveals about those times speaks to our current time, as racialized imagery and hysterical fears about national security have moved the nation to create concentration camps for a different racial group of aliens."—Pacific Historical Review"For a detailed analysis of the genesis of the Emergency Detention Act, its impact on ideas of citizenship, rights, the interpretation of the US constitution and the role of race in the legal culture of the country, this represents an informative and readable account. Stronger on narrative than it is on analysis in some cases, the book reveals a little-discussed episode in US legal history, one thankfully never invoked in practice, that sheds light on a period of contested civil liberties....The dangers and prejudices so well documented here have not gone away, and certainly in that sense there is a great deal to learn from history." —Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Book SynopsisDiverse perspectives on Manila that suggest the city's exhilarating sights and sounds broaden how Philippine histories are defined and understoodTrade Review“Beauty and Brutality is a carefully curated, original, and sophisticated collection of essays that explores Manila in all of its complexity, possibility, and potential. Readers will engage with Manila through multiple senses—from the snarl of traffic and the density of the city’s air to its stunning display of cultural forms of resistance and persistence amid national and transnational violence. Beauty and Brutality provides key historical and contextual information, serving as an invaluable orientation to the city, what it represents, and its significance both within the Philippines and abroad.”—Denise Cruz, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and author of Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina“Metro Manila has long served as one of the world’s poster cities for uneven and unequal development. These exhaustive studies in Beauty and Brutality explore the vast complexity and manifold contradictions of Manila as a space of dense inhabitation and a place of conflicting affections. The editors and contributors attend, with criticality and care, to the irrepressible desires and hopes of its citizens, inveterate survivors of Manila’s long history of beautification and brutalization by capitalists and colonizers. To such ‘beauty’ and ‘brutality,’ contributor Ferdinand Lopez adds ‘blood,’ with its paradoxical connotations of vitality, vigor, and violence. Bloody, not just beautiful and brutal, this incomparable city is, indeed!”—Oscar V. Campomanes, Professor of English at Ateneo de Manila University"An essential anthology of 15 essays curated by Manalansan, Diaz, and Tolentino, the book takes beauty as a point of departure to explore diverse spatio-temporal practices of city-making through Manila.... [A] unique contribution to both urban studies and Manila studies.... Beauty and Brutality presents an indispensable addition to the growing body of contemporary and historical works that seek to creatively document the fascinating shifts and spaces in a rapidly changing Manila."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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Book SynopsisAn essential resource for transracially adoptive parents and the professionals who serve them, this book offers practical strategies for helping a transracially adopted child through the challenges he or she may face.Anchored in a qualitative study of parents who have adopted children identified as being of a different race, this book draws from real-life experiences to raise and respond to questions that arise before, during, and after transracial adoption. Its goal: to help adoptive parents (and child welfare professionals) understand the underlying racial challenges in a transracial adoption so they can help their children cope.The book addresses questions from the obviousfor example, how to respond to comments from family and community membersto the practicalhow a Caucasian mother can learn to help her African American daughter groom her hair. Topics include parental understanding of race while growing up, parental understanding of the challenges within the community, and communicaTrade ReviewThis book offers insight and strategies for parents to help them prepare their children and their family for the world as it exists. Beyond parents, this book is an indispensable resource for professionals working with TRA families. This book will help clinicians working with TRA children or parents continue this important dialogue. * PsycCRITIQUES *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: In Her Voice: Michelle Chapter 2: I Never Thought about Race Growing Up Chapter 3: Dealing with Race in the Extended Family and Community Chapter 4: Hair as a Metaphor: Entering into the Culture of Your Child Chapter 5: In His Voice: Kevin Chapter 6: Parenting between Cultures: Important Considerations for Parents Chapter 7: Parenting a Transracially Adopted Child with a History of Trauma Chapter 8: Adoption Communication within the Transracial Adoptive Family Chapter 9: In Her Voice: Angela Chapter 10: Conversations with Practitioners: What Adoption Professionals Want Parents to Consider Appendix: Resources for Further Information About the Authors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides detailed and engaging narratives about 25 pivotal events in Asian American history, celebrates Asian Americans'' contributions to U.S. history, and examines the ways their experiences have shaped American culture.Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American history, society, and culture. This book presents key events in the Asian American experience through 25 well-developed, accessible essays; detailed timelines; biographies of notable figures; excerpts of primary source documents; and sidebars and images that provide narrative and visual information on high-interest topics. Arranged chronologically, the 25 essays showcase the ways in which Asian Americans have contributed to U.S. history and culture and bear witness to their struggles, activism, and accomplishments.The book offers a unique look at the Asian American experience, from the California Gold Rush in the mid-nineteenth century to the 2017 travel ban. Highlighting events with national anTrade ReviewCollege and advanced high school students, as well as general readers interested in Asian American history, will find these thorough writings a rich source of research ideas. * Library Journal *Recommended for larger community-college and university collections. * Booklist Online *This volume provides an excellent picture of important moments, movements, and individuals in Asian American history. Libraries with holdings in American history or multiculturalism should consider adding this useful book to their collections. * ARBA *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Early Immigration and Development California Gold Rush, 1848–1855 Ying Ma People v. Hall, 1854 Andrea Kwon Central Pacific Railroad Recruits Chinese Workers, 1865 Tena L. Helton The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 Nathan Jung Hawaii Becomes a U.S. Territory, 1898 Laura Stanfield Prichard 2 Citizenship and Community Building United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898 William B. Noseworthy Gentlemen's Agreement between the United States and Japan, 1907 Yuki Obayashi Angel Island Opens in San Francisco Bay, 1910 Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms The First Sikh Gurdwara in the United States Established in Stockton, California, 1912 Harveen Sachdeva Mann The Webb-Haney Act Passed by California State Legislature, 1913 Kaori Mori Want 3 Conflicts and Politics United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 1923 Philip Deslippe Gong Lum v. Rice, 1927 Michael S. Rodriguez Japanese American Internment, 1942–1946 Ann Matsuuchi The Luce-Celler Act, 1946 Lan Dong Korean War, 1950–1953 Kimberly McKee 4 Activism and the Post-1965 Era Daniel K. Inouye, First Asian American U.S. Senator, 1962 Katelind Ikuma The Delano Grape Strike and Boycott, 1965–1970 Maharaj Desai, Karen Buenavista Hanna, and Teresa Hodges Vietnam War and Refugee Migration from Southeast Asia, 1965–1975 Khoi Nguyen The Immigration and Nationality Act, 1965 Philip Q. Yang The First Asian American Studies Program Established at San Francisco State College, 1969 Rosie Kar 5 Heritage and Legacy Lau v. Nichols, 1974 Rachel Endo and Verna Wong Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week Established, 1978 William B. Noseworthy The Murder of Vincent Chin, 1982 Martin Kich The Los Angeles Riots, 1992 Nancy Kang 9/11 and Islamophobia, 2001–2018 Marie-Therese C. Sulit Bibliography of Recommended Resources About the Editor and Contributors Index

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