Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisVoices of Asian Americans in Higher Education: Unheard Voices is a unique and historical book. Asian Americans are often portrayed as “model minority”, yet their personal and educational experiences are often unheard. In this book, 10 Asian American educators and scholars present realistic pictures of America’s higher education using personal narratives. The contributors in this book come from different regions and teach in different colleges and universities; and coincidentally, they all endure the “outsider” category formerly as students and now as professors and leaders. This “outsider” status can be emotionally overwhelming and psychologically unnerving. This status hampers opportunities for Asian Americans to grow and maximize their fullest potential. Though they develop different strategies to address their “outsider” label, it does not make it comfortable. But, time and time again, they have proven that they can succeed! In this technological age, we must value unending truths as we educate ourselves and others. We hope that this book will be an educational and informational resource for students, administrators, and faculty in higher education and also educational policy makers and stakeholders.Table of Contents Preface. My Journal on Multicultural Special Education, Ying Hui-Michael. Maneuvering Through the Interdepartmental Politics of Graduate School: My Hmong Voice, Tong T. Xiong. Teaching Vulnerably: My Teaching Stories, Jung-ah Choi. My Journey of Transformation in Multicultural Special Education, Shernaz B. García. Struggling to be Heard: Continued Saga, Li-Rong Lilly Cheng. East to West, and Back Again: A Personal and Academic Journey, C. N. Le. Being a Multicultural and Special Education Professor: My Story, My Voice, Hsu-Min Chiang. Invocation of Forever Foreigner Identity in Critical Multicultural Teacher Education, Jenna Min Shim. Cultural Autobiography of a Christian Foreign Educator in the United States, Lucia Y. Lu. My Multicultural Journey in America’s Higher Education, Carol Huang. Afterword: Beyond Silence in Multicultural Education, Festus E. Obiakor. About the Authors.

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Book SynopsisSince the late 1990s, mass school closures have reshaped urban education across the United States. Popular media coverage and research reports link this resurgence of school closures in major cities like Chicago and Philadelphia to charter school expansion, municipal budget deficits, and racial segregation. However, this phenomenon is largely overlooked in contemporary education scholarship. Shuttered Schools: Race, Community, and School Closures in American Cities (Information Age Publishing) is an interdisciplinary volume that integrates multiple perspectives to study the complex practice of school closure—an issue that transcends education. Academics, practitioners, activists, and policymakers will recognize the far-reaching implications of these decisions for school communities.Shuttered Schools features rigorous new studies of school closures in cities across the United States. This research contextualizes contemporary school closures and accounts for their disproportionate impact on African American students. With topics ranging from gentrification and redevelopment to student experiences with school loss, research presented in this text incorporates various methods (e.g., case studies, interviews, regression techniques, and textual analysis) to evaluate the intended and unintended consequences of closure for students, families, and communities. This work demonstrates that shifts in the social, economic, and political contexts of education inform closure practice in meaningful ways. The impacts of shuttering schools are neither colorblind nor class-neutral, but indeed interact with social contexts in ways that reify existing social inequalities in education.

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Book SynopsisSince the late 1990s, mass school closures have reshaped urban education across the United States. Popular media coverage and research reports link this resurgence of school closures in major cities like Chicago and Philadelphia to charter school expansion, municipal budget deficits, and racial segregation. However, this phenomenon is largely overlooked in contemporary education scholarship. Shuttered Schools: Race, Community, and School Closures in American Cities (Information Age Publishing) is an interdisciplinary volume that integrates multiple perspectives to study the complex practice of school closure—an issue that transcends education. Academics, practitioners, activists, and policymakers will recognize the far-reaching implications of these decisions for school communities.Shuttered Schools features rigorous new studies of school closures in cities across the United States. This research contextualizes contemporary school closures and accounts for their disproportionate impact on African American students. With topics ranging from gentrification and redevelopment to student experiences with school loss, research presented in this text incorporates various methods (e.g., case studies, interviews, regression techniques, and textual analysis) to evaluate the intended and unintended consequences of closure for students, families, and communities. This work demonstrates that shifts in the social, economic, and political contexts of education inform closure practice in meaningful ways. The impacts of shuttering schools are neither colorblind nor class-neutral, but indeed interact with social contexts in ways that reify existing social inequalities in education.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume seeks to interrogate the structures that affect the perceptions, experiences, performance and practices of Black women administrators. The chapters examine the nature and dynamics of the conflict within that space and the ways in which they transcend or confront the intersecting structures of power in academe. A related expectation is for interrogations of the ways in which their institutional contexts and, marginalized status inform their navigational strategies and leadership practices. More specifically, this work explores mentorship as critical praxis; that being, the ways in which Black women’s thinking and practices around mentoring affect their institutional contexts or environment, and, that of other marginalized groups within academe. A discussion of Black women in higher education administration as critically engaged mentors will ultimately diversify thought, approaches, and solutions to larger social and structural challenges embedded within academic climates.

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Book SynopsisAbriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding Work-Life Balance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy from Information Age Publishing. This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students, professors, and staff/administrators in higher education and documents their testimonios of achieving a sense of balance between their personal and professional lives. In the face of many challenges they are scattered across the country, are often working in isolation of each other and must find ways to develop their own networks, support structures, and spaces where they can share their wisdom, strategize, and forge alliances to ensure collective.The book focuses on Latinas/os in colleges of education, since many of them carry the important mission to prepare new teachers, and research new pedagogies that have the power of improving and transforming education. Following the format of the work-life balance book series, this volume contains autoethnographical testimonios in its methodological approach. This volume addresses three very important guiding questions (1) What are the existing structures that isolate/discriminate against Latinas/os in higher education? (2) How can Latinas/os disrupt these to achieve work-life balance? And, (3) Based on their experiences, what are the transformative ideologies regarding Latinas/os seeking work-life balance?

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Book SynopsisAbriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding Work-Life Balance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy from Information Age Publishing. This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students, professors, and staff/administrators in higher education and documents their testimonios of achieving a sense of balance between their personal and professional lives. In the face of many challenges they are scattered across the country, are often working in isolation of each other and must find ways to develop their own networks, support structures, and spaces where they can share their wisdom, strategize, and forge alliances to ensure collective.The book focuses on Latinas/os in colleges of education, since many of them carry the important mission to prepare new teachers, and research new pedagogies that have the power of improving and transforming education. Following the format of the work-life balance book series, this volume contains autoethnographical testimonios in its methodological approach. This volume addresses three very important guiding questions (1) What are the existing structures that isolate/discriminate against Latinas/os in higher education? (2) How can Latinas/os disrupt these to achieve work-life balance? And, (3) Based on their experiences, what are the transformative ideologies regarding Latinas/os seeking work-life balance?

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this edited volume is to examine the historical and contemporary dynamics of diversity as well as the realities, challenges, and opportunities associated with diversity work at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This proposed book will include four sections, focusing on the historical developments and socio-political factors impacting diversity work at HBCUs, organizational structure and philosophical approaches, challenges and opportunities facing particular populations, and analysis of best practices.This text is designed to provide an overview and better understanding of diversity and multiculturalism that exists in historically Black colleges and universities. The contents of the text will examine equity and inclusion efforts in these institutions, and will explore various theories and practices utilized within the academy. Also, the text will examine race, class, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, ability and sexuality. The goal of the book is to assist students, faculty, and staff in the higher educational landscape in developing their own understandings of historical and contemporary issues related to diversity at HBCUs. Critical analysis of the multiple worldviews will be discussed as we explore the origin, nature and scope of multiple ideologies within diversity, equity and inclusion at HBCUs. In addition, this book will be an invaluable teaching resource for faculty in Educational Leadership Programs, Student Affairs Programs, or Sociology Programs, and other fields interested in issues of retaining and supporting diverse college students.

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Book SynopsisThe purpose of this edited volume is to examine the historical and contemporary dynamics of diversity as well as the realities, challenges, and opportunities associated with diversity work at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). This proposed book will include four sections, focusing on the historical developments and socio-political factors impacting diversity work at HBCUs, organizational structure and philosophical approaches, challenges and opportunities facing particular populations, and analysis of best practices.This text is designed to provide an overview and better understanding of diversity and multiculturalism that exists in historically Black colleges and universities. The contents of the text will examine equity and inclusion efforts in these institutions, and will explore various theories and practices utilized within the academy. Also, the text will examine race, class, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, ability and sexuality. The goal of the book is to assist students, faculty, and staff in the higher educational landscape in developing their own understandings of historical and contemporary issues related to diversity at HBCUs. Critical analysis of the multiple worldviews will be discussed as we explore the origin, nature and scope of multiple ideologies within diversity, equity and inclusion at HBCUs. In addition, this book will be an invaluable teaching resource for faculty in Educational Leadership Programs, Student Affairs Programs, or Sociology Programs, and other fields interested in issues of retaining and supporting diverse college students.

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Book SynopsisProvides a textbook overview of the past, present, and future of African Americans in US media. Brings together work from a variety of disciplines to provide the fullest understanding of this complex relationship to date.Trade Review"Prof. Squires has accomplished something quite remarkable with African Americans and the Media. This is not simply a 'textbook'. Rather, it is one of the most comprehensive, engaged works of scholarship to chart the relationship African Americans have with media. This book not only covers every medium, from print to internet, but it also examines innovation, audience reception, and even industry responsibility. This is an absolutely essential resource for students and scholars at every level." Robin Coleman, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Chronology of Events Introduction - African Americans and the Mass Media Section One: The Black Press 1. The Black Press in the 19th Century: From Slavery to Reconstruction 2. The Great Black Migration and the Growth of the Urban Black Press, 1910-1945 3. The Black Press, the Civil Rights Movement, and Beyond 4. Black Magazines in the 20th Century Section Two: Film 5. Mainstream Cinema and African Americans, 1900-1940s 6. From Servile to "Upstanding": Message films, Sidney Poitier, and Hollywood after WWII 7. Approaching a New Century: From Spike Lee to Direct-to-DVD Section Three: Radio and Recorded Music 8. Records and Race in the Early Years of Radio 9. Radio and Race: From World War II to Rock ‘n' Roll 10. Integrating Entertainment and Ownership in Music & Radio Section Four: Television and New Media 11. Black Faces in Small Places: Early television and Black Americans 12. Enter Cosby: A New Era of Black Presence on Television, 1984-1992 13. Black Entertainment Television and the Promise of Cable Diversity 14. African Americans and the New Media Environment: From Mass to Niche Media Endnotes

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience. The author argues, here, that the study of human beings within the emerging 18thâ and 19thâcentury institutions of Western science was corrupted by the limited social intuitions of its enslaving, colonizing, and elitist members. Western science and White societies plowed forward in continued ideological adherence to a biodeterministic imagination: to justify slavery, then Jim Crow racial segregation, immigration restriction, and other deadly and exploitative eugenical solutions of Social Darwinist thought. The story is further complexified by the countervailing theories and voices of Black and Jewish intellectuals in the social and biocultural sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Montague Cobb. These had profound consequences not only for the social sciences but also for the cultural life of Black Americans in the aftermath (and afterlife) of slavery. At the same time, even here, the author discloses that the racialized dimensions of social science could not be fully exorcised, as social science continued to construct softâline racism in that it selectively primitivized darker people and omitted White racism and colonialism from their human story. African American social scientists and historians brought White racism and Black modernity to the fore. Eugenics had begun to paint marginal White people (Jewish and Italian immigrants to the United States) as natural inferiors to Nordics or Aryans with devastating consequences in World War II Europe. As the War ended, the world community began its turn against racism in science and society. In constructing this historical and sociological counternarrative, the author provides a critical new social history that illuminates a tangled and turgid past for contemporary readers, students, and researchers with vital insights for anthropology, sociology, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and American studies.

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Book SynopsisThe Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This GhosTrade Review"Aquirre-Otezia theorizes about the Republicans who wrote about Spain (and themselves) from abroad, and he argues that a full comprehension of Spanish literature must decenter tradition to include and elevate dissident exile culture." -- S. Miller, Texas A&M University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: On Forewords and Historical Ghosts Part One: Exiles in Literary History 2. Re-Engaging with Ghosts in the Poetic Machine 3. Writing the War, Re-Writing the Nation, Embodying the Voice of the People Part Two: Exiles in Poetic Memory 4. Juan Ramón Jiménez: “Photography Is Death Itself” − Visionary Poetics, Ruins, and the Testimony of Antonio Machado 5. Luis Cernuda: “Remember Him and Remember Him to Others” – Historical Memory, Self-Elegy, and Mythopoetic Figuration 6 Max Aub I. “Enclosed into Myself, Purblind, Mute” – Margins of the Poetic “I” and Testimonial Memory II. Usurping the Apocryphal: Exilic Testimony, Cosmopolitan Memory, and National Culture (The Case of Antonio Muñoz Molina) 7. Tomás Segovia: “In Exile from Exile” − Nomadic Ethics and the Broken Language of Ghosts Coda: Antonio Machado’s Afterlives and Memories of Spanish Literary History Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisManal Hamzeh’s book, Pedagogies of deveiling: Muslim girls & the hijab discourse, presents an exploration of a gendering discourse, the hijab (veil) discourse, and how it was negotiated by four girls who self-identified as Muslims. Pedagogies of deveiling emerged over a period of three years writing up a 14 months long study in which Hamzeh collaborated with four Muslim girls in two US southwestern border towns between October 2005 and December 2006. This book stems from the stories of these four Muslim girls weaved with Hamzeh’s stories and perspectives as arabyyah-muslimah, the main researcher in the study—an “insider/in-betweener” educator/researcher who is literate in the cultural/linguistic/historical nuances critical in working with Muslim girls and their communities. Pedagogies of deveiling offers an alternative approach to research and pedagogy with Muslim girls in which the taken-for-granted hijabs in the sacred text and their inscriptions on the bodies of these girls are deveiled, or problematised, rethought, questioned, and countered. As such, what this book offers is first critical to Muslim girls themselves because it shatters the phobia and the impossibility of reinterpreting of some canonical Islamic sacred texts in relation to the hijabs and gender. Finally, in this book, Dr. Manal Hamzeh offers a vision for how the sacred text reinterpreted by critical feminist epistemologies may represent a curriculum that is open to critique and holds potential for change towards justice. With this, Dr. Hamzeh calls upon researchers and educators to open spaces for creativity and collaborate with Muslim girls in order to, 1) navigate the multiplicity and fluidity of their subjectivities implicated by intersecting discourses in their lives, and 2) honour their choices while supporting them to negotiate the thought-of as fixed Islamic values that may jeopardise their chances of any learning opportunity. This a call to work with Muslim girls as theorisers of possibilities and as the main agents of change in their own lives. This is a call to open with Muslim girls opportunities to practice their agency in unpacking and challenging normative discourses in their lives, not exclusive to the hijab discourse This is a call for opening spaces of struggle and uprising and cultivating moments of meaning and shifts of consciousness.

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Book SynopsisExamines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend. This study, based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years, focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The authors present a detailed ethnographic view of recent events of ethnic violence in Kenya and analyse how local patterns of conflict among pastoralists were influenced by both national and regional politics, which have encouraged an increased tendency of territorialized ethnicity. They propose ways of getting out of the ethnic trap and revitalizing a mobile livestock economy in a region where other forms of land use are impossible or much less effective. A companion volume to Islam andEthnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia, it will be of particular interest to political anthropologists, students of nomadism, pastoral economy ecology, and globalization. Günther Schlee is director of the Department of 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.Trade ReviewThe best reference book for political scientists, historians and administrators who seek to understand the critical issues driving conflict and impeding development in any interethnic pastoralist community in East Africa. * AETHIOPICA *Has profound implications for understanding 'tribalism' in Kenyan politics [and provides] invaluable insight into the regional context, as well as useful analyses for those researching ethnic conflict and policy implications in other parts of the world. * LUCAS BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Günther Schlee Moi Era Politics, Transnational Relations & the Territorialization of Ethnicity - Günther Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo The Post-Moi Period (2002-2007) - Günther Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo Feedbacks & Cross-fertilizations: the 'Declaration of Indigenous Communities of Mylae District' - Günther Schlee Some Comparative Perspectives, Conclusions & Recommendations - Günther Schlee

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Book SynopsisTheorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientationswhich over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistance. This is examined through the prism of life in the Protected Villages in Chiweshe experienced in everyday social relations, revolutionary roles, and food security. It traces how women forged strategies of survival and resistance in the middle of guerrilla warfare pitted between the forces of the state and the revolutionary resistance movements. The book can be read as a unique and richly detailed account of the lives of women during the Zimbabwe civil war and liberation struggle; as a wider argument about how researchers can approach and incorporate lived experience into accounts of larger dynamics (war/revolution); and as a substantial and important contribution to feminist historiography and writings on women and war. Eleanor O' Gorman is Senior Associate at the Gender Studies Centre and a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge; an independent consultant who has advised the UN, the UK Government (DFID and FCO), the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Zimbabwe: Weaver PressTrade ReviewWell researched and carefully argued, [it is] a well written, well-researched, theoretically sophisticated contribution to the history of the war. * ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE *[This] richly detailed study helps to refocus how we understand the role of women in war; liberating our understanding from a binary model or victim/agent that has dominated the literature for far too long. * LUCAS BULLETIN *This book offers unique insights. [The author's] analysis of women's survival and resistance strategies in a bygone war helps readers to better understand the struggles African women face in contemporary wars and the methods they use to cope and resist. * CHOICE *A grimly realistic book. If you have time to read only one book on women in the Zimbabwean war then this should be it. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Women, War, Voice & Agency Situating Women in Revolution: Battlefront Myths & Homefront Lives Re-Framing Women's Revolutionary Lives: Women, Gender & Local Resistance Setting the Fieldwork Context: Zimbabwe as Arena, Chiweshe as Locale Women's Perceptions of Revolutionary Participation: Understandings of Agency & Consciousness Living with & within Revolution: Challenges to Unity & Community The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman: Resistance & Survival by Women in Revolutionary War Conclusion: Women's Agency & Voice in War Reconsidered

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development. This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing.From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politicsat the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC PressTrade ReviewThere is enough quality in this volume to recommend this book to scholars and students interested in development theory and colonization and how both processes might be theorized as mutually constitutive. I have little doubt that the editors and contributors have set down a compelling research agenda that will be carried forward in future publications. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *A thought-provoking collection. [...] This is a valuable set of essays addressing contemporary issues with an eye on the past and revealing some insights into the antecedents of contemporary development rhetoric and techniques. * POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW *This volume adds to a recent debate that revisits the concepts and notions of development rooted in the 'civilising mission' during the colonial era. Hence it explores a hitherto largely ignored, or at least neglected link concerning the continuity of the 'colonial mind' in international relations of today. * NEW ROUTES *Table of ContentsMARK DUFFIELD & VERNON HEWITT Introduction MATT MEREFIELD The Exceptional Inclusion of 'Savages' & 'Barbarians': The Colonial Liberal Bio-politics of Mobility & Development VERNON HEWITT Empire, International Development & the Concept of Good Government HENRIK ASPENGREN Empire: A Question of Hearts? The Social Turn in Colonial Government. Bombay c.1905-25 SUTHAHARAN NADARAJAH 'Conflict Sensitive' Aid & Making Liberal Peace RICHARD SHELDON Development, Poverty & Famines: The Case of the British Empire LISA SMIRL Plain Tales from the Reconstruction Site: Spatial Continuities in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice TOM YOUNG & DAVID WILLIAMS The International Politics of Social Transformation: Trusteeship & Intervention in Historical Perspective MARK DUFFIELD Liberal Interventionism & the Fragile State: Linked by Design? PATRICIA NOXOLO Freedom, Fear & NGOs: Balancing Discourses of Violence & Humanity in Securitising Times APRIL R. BICCUM Theorising Continuities between Empire & Development: Toward a New Theory of History UMA KOTHARI Spatial Practices & Imaginaries: Experiences of Colonial Officers & Development Professionals DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON Decolonising the Borders in Sudan: Ethnic Territories & National Development PAUL KELEMEN 'Individualism is, Indeed, Running Riot': Components of the Social Democratic Model of Development

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Table of ContentsIntroduction xxv Chronology xxxvii Symbols and Abbreviations xxxix Documents, 1860-89 1860 An Item from the Census: The James Burroughs Family 3 1860 An Item from the Census: The Slaves of James Burroughs 5 1860 An Item from the Census: The James Burroughs Farm 7 2 Dec. 1861 An Inventory of the Estate of James Burroughs 9 20 Sept. 1867 Charles Wheeler Sharp to John Kimball 14 20 Nov. 1868 William Davis to John Kimball 17 1870 An Item from the Census: The Washington Ferguson Family 19 13 July 1872 The Minutes of a Republican Rally at Tinkersville 21 Oct. 1872-- June 1875 Items from the Hampton Institute Student Account Book facing 22 1874-75 The Catalog of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute 23 1874-75 A Student Petition to Samuel Chapman Armstrong 46 10 June 1875 Three News Items on the 1875 Graduation Exercises at Hampton Institute 48 10 June 1875 A Certificate of Achievement from Hampton Institute 67 12 Feb. 1877 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 67 27 June--26 July 1877 Six News Items on the West Virginia Capital Campaign 69 Aug. 1877 To the Editor of the Charleston West Virginia Journal 73 26 Mar. 1878 To a Hampton Teacher 74 10 Feb. 1879 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 75 1 July 2879 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 76 1 Aug. 1880 A Paper Read at a Memorial Service at Hampton Institute 77 Sept. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 78 Oct. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 85 Nov. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 92 Dec. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 94 12 Jan. 1881 Edward Sugg to George Henry Corliss, with BTW's Endorsement 101 Jan. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 103 10 Feb. 1881 The Alabama Statute Establishing Tuskegee Normal School 107 Feb. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 110 Mar. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 111 Apr. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 120 31 May 1881 Samuel Chapman Armstrong to George Washington Campbell and Other Trustees of Tuskegee Normal School 127 May 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 128 May 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 132 25 June 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 132 28 June 1881 To Francis Chickering Briggs 133 29 June 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 134 5 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 135 7 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 137 7 July 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 138 9 July 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 139 14 July 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 140 16 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 142 16 July 1881 To Francis Chickering Briggs 143 18 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 144 23 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 145 10 Sept. 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 146 12 Sept. 1881 Olivia A. Davidson to Mary Berry 147 28 Sept. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 149 7 Oct. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 149 3 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 150 12 Nov. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 153 18 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 154 23 Nov. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 156 27 Nov. 1881 To Samuel Chapman Armstrong 156 28 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 157 29 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 157 3 Dec. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 158 4 Dec. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 158 4 Dec. 1881 To Hampton Institute 159 18 Dec. 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 159 10 Jan. 1882 To Oliver Otis Howard 161 Jan. 1882 From [Moses Pierce] 162 Jan. 1882 The Catalog of Tuskegee Normal School 165 13 Feb. 1882 A Circular Appealinrg for Donations 178 21 Feb. 1882 From Oliver Otis Howard 179 24 Mar. 1882 A News Item from the Philadelphia Inquirer 179 ca. 30 Mar. 1882 BTW and Olivia A. Davidson to the Editor of the Southern Workman 185 7 Apr. 1882 A Speech before the Alabama State Teachers' Association 191 11 Apr. 1882 A Recommendation from Henry Clay Armstrong, with the Endorsement of Rufus Willis Cobb 195 15 Apr.--14 July 1882 Three Items from a Notebook 197 22 Apr. 1882 A Recommendation from George Washington Campbell and Waddy Thompson 201 2 May 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 202 8-9 May 1882 Two News Items from the Springfield Daily Republican 203 9 May 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 205 22 June 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 206 19 July 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 207 2 Aug. 1882 The Register of Marriage of BTW and Fanny Norton Smith 207 2 Aug. 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 208 18 Oct. 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 209 23 Oct. 1882 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 209 8 Nov. 1882 The Annual Report of Tuskegee Normal School 210 8 Dec. 1882 Olivia A. Davidson to James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 213 16 Feb. 1883 An Amendment to the Act Establishing Tuskegee Normal School 215 19 Feb. 1883 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 216

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Book SynopsisAcclaimed upon its initial American release,Black Poets of the United Statescontinued to spark comment and analysis for years afterward. Jean Wagner's masterpiece delves into the vital union of racial and religious feeling in the Black poets who emerged from 1890 to 1940.Beginning with an analysis of slavery's impact on the Black psyche and religious feeling, Wagner examines the evolution of Black lyrical expression to the end of the nineteenth century. He then moves into a focused study of Paul Laurence Dunbar and his contemporaries, emphasizing their struggle against prevalent stereotypes that stemmed from minstrelsy, popular song, and southern white writing. His look at the twentieth-century Black Renaissance explores the works, themes, concerns, and experiences of poets Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes.Deeply sensitive and remarkably comprehensiveBlack Poets of the United Statescombines encyclopedic knowledge withTrade Review"A monumental work."--Langston Hughes"A matchless study. . . . the best full length study of Black American poetry that has seen print. Wagner has evaluated the major poets from 1890 to 1940 (Dunbar to Hughes) with a superior critical discernment that is wedded to a sociological and psychological approach. . . . The distinguishing factors in Wagner's study are his aggressive grappling with two-sided issues; his lucid, metaphorical prose style; his thorough research; and judicious, carefully reasoned conclusions."--New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsFOREWORD xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix PREFACE xxi Chapter One: INTRODUCTION 3 1. The Negro in the United States 4 Slaves and Free Men 5 The Negro “Inferior and Subservient” 9 The Mark of Oppression 14 2. The Origins of Black Poetry 16 Written Poetry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 16 Folk Poetry 26 PART ONE: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR AND HIS TIME 37 Chapter Two: THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN DUNBAR’S TIME 39 1. The Minstrels 40 2. The Plantation Tradition in Poetry 48 Irwin Russell 51 Joel Chandler Harris 59 Thomas Nelson Page and Armistead C. Gordon 62 3. The South’s Revenge 66 Chapter Three: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR 73 1. Biography 73 Childhood Years 73 Early Successes 75 Fame and Its Drawbacks 77 The End 79 2. Dunbar and the Plantation Tradition 80 Dunbar and the Plantation 81 Dunbar and the South 88 The Poet and His Theme 92 3. Race Consciousness and History 95 Past and Present 96 The Search for Heroes 98 Dunbar and Racial Injustice 101 4. The Poet of the People 104 The Problem of Dialect 105 Dunbar and the Negro Popular Temperament 111 The Themes of Dunbar’s Popular Poetry 115 5. The Lyricism of HEARTBREAK 118 Pessimism and Religious Doubts 121 Chapter Four: DUNBAR’S CONTEMPORARIES 127 1. James Edwin Campbell 129 The Theme of Interracial Love 130 The People in Campbell’s Poetry 133 2. Daniel Webster Davis 138 3. J. Mord Allen 141 PART TWO: THE NEGRO RENAISSANCE 147 Chapter Five: THE NEGRO RENAISSANCE 149 1. New Forces 151 The Role of W. E. B. Du Bois 151 Black Migrations 153 Radicalism and the New Spirit 155 The Rehabilitation of the Negro Past 157 2. The Problem of Self-Definition 160 The Discovery of the Negro and of Negro Art 162 Cultural Dualism and Its Problems 165 Art or Propaganda? 170 3. The Poetry of the Renaissance 172 The Poets and Their Public 173 The Poets and Their Themes 177 Poets in Conflict 190 Section A: IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRITUAL 195 Chapter Six: CLAUDE McKay 197 1. Biography 198 The Jamaican Years 198 The Years in the United States 201 Years of Vagabondage 201 Home to Harlem 203 2. The Jamaican Sources 204 Authenticity of Form 204 Realism of the Peasant Portraits 206 Primacy of the Earth 211 Rejection of the City 215 3. The Lyricism of Militancy 222 Racial Pride 223 Hatred 225 Target of Hatred: Evil 230 The Limits of Hatred 235 4. Exoticism and the Theme of Africa 236 5. Harlem and Negro Art 243 6. The Spiritual Journey 247 Chapter Seven: JEAN TOOMER 259 1. The Destiny of Jean Toomer 260 2. The Poetry of CANE, or, the Pilgrimage to the Origins 264 3. Beyond Race: “Blue Meridian” 272 Chapter Eight: COUNTEE CULLEN 283 1. Cullen’s Life 284 A Mysterious Childhood 284 The Productive Years 287 The Last Years 291 2. The Dictates of the Psyche 291 The Burden of Inferiority 293 Death the Liberator 297 Pride as Solace 299 3. Race and the African Homeland 301 Race in Cullen’s Poetic Universe 302 A Black among Whites 308 Garvey and the African Heritage 315 Africa as a Pagan Symbol 320 4. Christ as Symbol and Reality 329 Christ as a Sign of Self-Contradiction 330 Mysticism and Spiritual Experience 339 “The Black Christ”: A Spiritual Testament 341 Section B: IN SEARCH OF THE PEOPLE 349 Chapter Nine: JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 351 1. Biography 352 From Florida to Broadway 352 In the Service of Country and Race 354 2. Dunbar’s Disciple 356 Poetry in Dialect 356 Religious and Patriotic Conformism 358 3. Johnson and the New Spirit 365 4. Folklore and Race: Their Rehabilitation 372 The Condemnation of Dialect 375 The Experiment of God’s Trombones 377 Chapter Ten: LANGSTON HUGHES 385 1. Biography 386 The Restless Years 386 Early Successes 389 A Literature of Commitment 391 2. From Racial Romanticism to Jazz 393 Racial Romanticism 394 Rebellion: Through a Glass Jazzily 400 3. The Poetry of the Masses 416 The Social Setting of the Blues 417 Class Consciousness 426 Religion and the Masses 437 4. American Democracy: Promises and Reality 444 The American Dream 446 The Poet and Reality 454 5. Toward a Synthesis 461 Conclusion: Langston Hughes and Harlem 473 Chapter Eleven: STERLING BROWN 475 1. Folk Strength and Folk Frailties 476 2. The Tragic Universe of Sterling Brown 481 The Whites’ Conspiracy 482 The Black Man and His Fate 483 The Inanity of Faith 490 3. Means for Survival 496 Chapter Twelve: CONCLUSION 505 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX 513 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT 537 INDEX 547

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageContentsIntroductionErratumSymbols and AbbreviationsDocumentsBibliographyIndex

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Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.

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Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War IITrade Review"Alinder's fifty-year perspective yields one of the most balanced and informative books on documentary photographs in general and the internment of Japanese Americans in particular. This is a gem of a book. Essential."--Choice"Alinder handles her material skillfully, and in concise and readable style. Her judgments show an incisive mind, and one that resists oversimplification."--American Journalism"An excellent history of the incarceration . . . this is valuable for anyone interested in Japanese-American history."--Multicultural Review"A beautiful and worthwhile read." -- The Journal of American History"A smart and highly interpretive study."--Nichi Bei Weekly"A powerful, incisive monograph on the varied strategies of photographers and subjects at a time of great upheaval and its aftermath."--American Historical Review"Contributes significantly to making the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans a part of public memory. . . . A book that gracefully navigates the space between academic and public discourse."--American Studies"A sophisticated and deeply historical book that illustrates the multiple roles photographs played in the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. In addition to detailing how U.S. authorities turned photography against Japanese Americans, the book wisely attends to how the internees and their descendants used the medium to tell competing stories of their incarceration, allegiances, and identities. It is a book sure to appeal to photohistorians, art historians, and scholars of Asian American history."--Martin A. Berger, author of Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture "A dark stain on our country's history, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II brought about a wide range of responses, from quiet grief to angry protest. In Moving Images Jasmine Alinder shows how photography was a key participant in this history and how pictures represented, managed, and confronted such a brutal and dehumanizing set of experiences. This is a very fine and timely book."--Anthony Lee, author of A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory TownTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword Roger Daniels xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. When the Innocents Suffer: Dorothea Lange and the War Relocation Authority 23 2. The Landscape of Loyalty: Ansel Adams's Born Free and Equal 44 3. The Right to Represent: Toyo Miyatake's Photographs of Manzanar 75 4. Art/History: Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in the Museum 103 5. Virtual Pilgrimage: The Contemporary Incarceration Photography of Patrick Nagatani and Masumi Hayashi 126 Epilogue 155 Notes 163 Bibliography 189 Index 201

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Trade Review"Griffith adds more white voices of opposition to the racism and nativism of the 1920s, gives more evidence of the global reach of Christian non-governmental organizations, and extends the work of David Hollinger and William Hutchison on the public presence of Protestant liberalism in the twentieth century. " --Journal of American History"The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights expands our understanding of civil rights by illuminating the contribution of liberal white leadership to Asian American equality."--Jon Thares Davidann, author of Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919–1941"This illuminating study documents how liberal Protestant activists mobilized against racial discrimination and engaged in interracial coalition-building. Recommended." --Choice"YMCA officials with experience as Protestant missionaries in Japan led the defense of Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Griffith illuminates several decades of anti-racist organizing and writing by a dynamic group of Y leaders, culminating in the group's climactic and courageous defense of Japanese Americans during World War II. This is a substantial research achievement that broadens our understanding of ecumenical Protestantism and of the history of civil rights."--David A. Hollinger, author of After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History"Scholars of religion and Asian American history should have Griffith's book on their shelves, as it provides a necessary intervention into the fields of Christian interethnic and interracial activism." --American Historical Review "Griffith does an excellent job of synthesizing the massive amounts of publications produced by these activists and shows how their approach shifted as they attempted to combat nativists and anti-immigration legislation. . . . Her deep analysis of liberal Protestant rhetoric is the book's greatest strength." --Pacific Historical Review"This is a fascinating book that will challenge everything we think we know about race, empire, missionaries, and race politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Go get this book." --Western Historical Quarterly

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Book SynopsisIn this bestselling companion to her pioneering study, Invisible Poets, Joan Sherman continues to make new generations aware of the invisible legacy of nineteenth-century black American poetry. The 171 poems here, by thirty-five men and women, have been transcribed from first editions and are annotated in detail.Trade Review"Ever since Invisible Poets we have needed an informed and comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry in the nineteenth century. Now we have it. No one but Sherman could have done the job so well."--William L. Andrews, author of To Tell a Free StoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 A Note to the Reader 15 George Moses Horton 17 Noah Calwell Cannon 38 Charles Lewis Reason 41 Ann Plato 50 Joshua McCarter Simpson 54 James Monroe Whitfield 71 Daniel Alexander Payne 94 Alfred Gibbs Campbell 102 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 112 Joseph Cephas Holly 146 George Boyer Vashon 153 Elymas Payson Rogers 166 Adah Isaacs Menken 182 James Madison Bell 192 Charlotte L. Forten Grimke 211 Alfred Islay Walden 221 Albery Allson Whitman 236 Henrietta Cordelia Ray 265 John Willis Menard 282 Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin 288 Timothy Thomas Fortune 293 James Edwin Campbell 306 Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. 325 George Clinton Rowe 342 Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard 360 Daniel Webster Davis 365 Edward W. Williams 382 Paul Laurence Dunbar 386 George Marion McClellan 416 Eloise Alberta Veronica Bibb 434 Mary Weston Fordham 441 Frank Barbour Coffin 447 James Ephriam McGirt 456 Samuel Alfred Beadle 464 Priscilla Jane Thompson 472 Bibliography 484 Subject Index 500 Title and Poet Index 504

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Book SynopsisIn Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Ho argues that seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.Trade Review"With nuanced, original readings and fluid prose, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture exceeds other studies of multiracialism by presenting a lucid, yet complex meditation on category confusion and epistemological uncertainty and their political stakes for Asian Americans." -- Leslie Bow * author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South *"With a nuanced approach and original analysis, Racial Ambiguity brings comparative ethnic studies and critical race studies into necessary dialogue. Ho skillfully maps the contours of U.S. racial formation by investigating mixed subjectivity and its particular resonances to Asian America." -- Cathy J. Schlund-Vials * author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing *"Looking through the dual lenses of critical and comparative race studies, Ho offers an engaging and provocative reflection on racial categorization, epistemological indeterminacy, and identity complexity in Asian American literature and culture … Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"[Ho's] engagement with the phenomenon of visuality is explicit and interesting." * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Ambiguous Americans: Race and the State of Asian America1 From Enemy Alien to Assimilating American: Yoshiko deLeon and the Mixed-Marriage Policy of the Japanese American Incarceration2 Anti-Sentimental Loss: Stories of Transracial/Transnational Asian American Adult Adoptees in the Blogosphere3 Cablinasian Dreams, Amerasian Realities: Transcending Race in the Twenty-first Century and Other Myths Broken by Tiger Woods4 Ambiguous Movements and Mobile Subjectivity: Passing in between Autobiography and Fiction with Paisley Rekdal and Ruth Ozeki5 Transgressive Texts and Ambiguous Authors: Racial Ambiguity in Asian American LiteratureCoda Ending with Origins: My Own Racial AmbiguityNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. It envisions Southern Anthropocenes as an opening towards forms and ends of life that exceedsâwhile remaining in partial relation withâmodern socio-economic horizons and the determinations of the geo-, eco-, and climate sciences.What happens if Southern Anthroposcenes are allowed to multiply, and room is made for practices of worlding and life that are impossible from within the singular Anthropocene?Key issues include emergent interfaces between beings, ways of living, and worlds; problems of co-existence in and across pluriversal contact zones; explorations of livability under rapidly changing circumstances; speculations about other futures and how to invent them; investigations of more-than human itineraries and entangled territories; and explorations how to collectively invent the portals between ways of thinking and acting on a planet in a critical state. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Sociology, Anthropology, Critical Education, Environmental Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, Geography and Urban Studies.

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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 SynopsisAn astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Ada Limón.“I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers,” writes Limón. “I am the hurting kind.” What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings—and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they “do not / care to be seen as symbols”?With Limón’s remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions—incorporating others’ stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honor parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families.Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. “Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning’s shade,” writes Limón of a groundhog in her garden, “she is doing what she can to survive.”

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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 SynopsisThe first edition of this work was published in 1997 and reprinted several times in response to popular demand. It focuses on the multiple hazards of discrimination due to race, gender and class - faced by black women in contact with the criminal justice process of England and Wales. This extensively updated and revised second edition includes substantial information about developments since that time. The text which includes accounts of black women prisoners and other black people concerning their treatment by and impressions of 'the system' - has become key reading for practitioners and students alike.Trade Review'This book was core text when a student some 20 years ago. As a new lecturer I wanted to see if it was as relevant now as then. Although dated it is a book that should be on the reading lists of all criminology and sociology courses': Kate Bramford, University of Worcester.Table of ContentsContents of this NEW 2003 SECOND EDITION include:Extract from the Foreword to the First Edition by Sylvia Denman CBE and a New Introduction by the author, together with extensively revised and extended chapters from the original work: A Combination of Forces; Voices Unheard; Police and Black Women; Probation and Black Women; Experience of the Courts; Beatrice's Case (an account of one black woman's perceptions of her arrest, trial and imprisonment); Black Women and Imprisonment; Hopes and Ambitions, Appendices, Bibliography and Index.

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Book SynopsisFrom the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of today – this book tells the story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th-century until today.Trade Review‘A spectacular, stimulating work, full of intriguing information.’ Sunday Times ‘This cocktail of literary archaeology, social critique and storytelling reopens a window on a marginalised world.’ Observer ‘A fine, unusually insightful and stylishly written piece of work, a valuable, zesty contribution to the growing body of literature on black writers by black writers.’ Daily Telegraph

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Book SynopsisShow Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers -- among them Paul Robeson -- made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.Trade ReviewA fascinating look at how Show Boat helped shape the American musical form and the significant role it continues to play in our conversation about race. Todd Decker has compiled an exhaustive, engaging, and immensely readable cultural history that resonates with the same vibrant emotional impact of the musical itself. * Susan Stroman, Director & Choreographer *Traveling through seemingly familiar territory, one makes startling new discoveries on every page about American music, theater, identity, and racial history. Decker demonstrates forcefully and conclusively why Show Boat was and remains the 'most important [American] musical ever made.' * Thomas L. Riis, Director, American Music Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder *Todd Decker opens a wide window on the extraordinary cultural reach of Show Boat, with special focus on its racial complexities. For Decker, Show Boat is not a fixed text but rather a fascinating and fluid performance object that shifts with the social codes and commercial demands of its many eras. * Carol J. Oja, Professor, Harvard University, and author of Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s *A well written, thoroughly researched and cogently presented new study on one of the most studied and, for that matter, most deserving of study musicals of the twentieth century. * Brad Hathaway - Theater Shelf *An excellent overview of all aspects of the show...Decker demonstrates a fine command of sources, furnishes good documentation, and includes some photos, illustrations, and musical examples...Recommended. * Choice *Decker offers a persuasive argument for the continued relevance of this classic musical, [demonstrating] the productive potential for historiographies of American musical theatre written across rather than 'along divided racial lines.' * Theatre Journal *[A] fascinating read about one of the true classics of the American stage. * Studies in Musical Theatre *...There is a great deal to ponder in it. * JAMS *Table of ContentsForeword by Geoffrey Block ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Magnolia's Black Voice ; Part One: Making ; 1. A Ferber Plot ; 2. The Robeson Plan ; 3. The Morgan Plan ; 4. A Ziegfeld Soprano and a Shubert Tenor ; 5. Colored Chorus Curtains ; Part Two: Remaking ; 6. Featuring Robeson: 1928-1940 ; 7. Broadway Black, Hollywood White: 1943-1957 ; 8. Landmark Status: 1954-1989 ; 9. Queenie's Laugh: 1966-1998 ; Epilogue ; Appendix 1 Cast of Characters ; Appendix 2 Archival Sources for the 1927 Broadway Production ; Appendix 3 Select Stage and Screen Versions (1928-1998) ; References ; Notes ; Index

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