Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
The University of Chicago Press The Poliics of Difference Ethnic Premises in a
Book SynopsisThis volume examines cases ranging from the well-publicized ethnonationalism of Bosnia and post-Apartheid South Africa to ethnic conflicts in Belgium and Sri Lanka. It explains the inadequacies of current approaches to power and ethnicity.Table of ContentsPreface Edwin N. Wilmsen, Patrick McAllister. Introduction: Premises of Power in Ethnic Politics Edwin N. Wilmsen 1: Varieties of Ethnic Politics and Ethnicity Discourse Jan Nederveen Pieterse 2: Universalism, Particularism, and the Question of Identity Ernesto Laclau 3: Thinking Identities: Against a Theory of Ethnicity Aletta J. Norval 4: Hegemony, Power, and Languages of Contention William Roseberry 5: Ethnogenesis and Ethnic Mobilization: A Comparative Perspective on a South African Dilemma John Sharp 6: European Concepts of Nation-Building Jan Blommaert, Jef Verschueren. 7: The Nation-State in Crisis and the Rise of Ethnonationalism Stanley J. Tambiah 8: "The Voice of Sanity Getting Hoarse"? Destructive Processes in Violent Ethnic conflict Stephen Ryan 9: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Politics of Difference in an Age of Revolution John L. Comaroff List of Contributors References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Dangerous Frames How Ideas about Race and Gender
Book SynopsisIn addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think - and vote - about a vast array of issues that don't seem related to either category. This title illuminates the emotional underpinnings of American politics.Trade Review"This is a very exciting book, and one of the finest pieces of work in the area of politics, identity, and the mass media. It will have a broad impact on the fields of American political psychology, public opinion, political communication, and racial and gender attitudes." - Nicholas Valentino, University of Texas at Austin"
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The University of Chicago Press The Predicament of Blackness Postcolonial Ghana
Book SynopsisTackles the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space, the author envisions Africa, and in particular the nation of Ghana, as a place whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics.Trade Review"In The Predicament of Blackness, Jemima Pierre makes an important intervention in Africanist anthropology, which is in dire need of analyses, such as Pierre offers, that illuminate the workings of race. This book is in a class by itself. It is not only a welcome addition to the field, but will in fact inspire a new generation of African studies scholarship that is more attentive to the cultural practices of race." (Bayo Holsey, Duke University)"
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University of Illinois Press Crossing the Border A Free Black Community in
Book SynopsisA story of freedom and flourishing in a community of refugeesTrade ReviewAlbert B. Corey Prize, the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association, 2008. "The book is a treasure trove of information. . . . Crossing the Border is recommended for students at both the high school and college levels, and the general reading public."--Multicultural Review "Hepburn's book joins the ranks of the very best accounts of how thirty thousand runaway slaves fled Southern U.S. plantations in search of new lives in Canada, and once there, built viable settlements despite overwhelming odds against them. We are immensely grateful for this well-researched and well-written account."--H-Canada"Crossing the Border is essential reading for all serious students of African American history."--Journal of American History "Crossing the Border is a thorough study that features a highly readable narrative drawn from primary sources including Canadian census returns, Elgin Association records, church histories, family papers, newspaper articles, and personal correspondence."--Michigan Historical Review "Neither a fairy tale of living happily ever after nor a litany of disappointments, Crossing the Border tells of real people who changed their lives and made new ones under the North Star."--David I. Macleod, professor of history, Central Michigan University"Sharon Hepburn's community study of Buxton, Canada, significantly adds to our understanding of the diverse conditions confronting free blacks throughout the entire area north of Dixie. Crossing the Border shows that Canadian government policies were more accepting of blacks than those in the adjacent Old Northwest, and that Buxton afforded greater economic opportunities, more favorable race relations, and better educational access than in virtually all other areas. Hepburn's work will introduce scholars to the different character of opportunities afforded free blacks not just in Buxton and Canada West but throughout the entire trans-Appalachian West."--Stephen A. Vincent, author of Southern Seed, Northern Soil: African-American Farm Communities in the Midwest, 1765-1900
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MO - University of Illinois Press YugoslavAmericans and National Security during
Book SynopsisThe first intensive study of FDR's foreign nationalities policyTrade Review"A fine scholarly contribution to a little explored aspect of American national security policy and illustrates well the activities of those agencies involved during a critical period in this nation's history."--American Historical Review
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MO - University of Illinois Press Black Star African American Activism in the
Book SynopsisHow activists in the African diaspora formed a black merchant marine, building the foundation for a black nation-stateTrade Review"A fine addition to the field of diaspora studies and a necessary read for those interested in developing their knowledge of Garvey and the UNIA."--The Historian"An important contribution to our knowledge of diasporas, resistance, and the fascinating confluence of events that resulted in Marcus Garvey's appearance on the stage of history."--Journal of American Ethnic History"Bandele's work is a blast of fresh air, grounded in empirical evidence and clearly written. Black Star makes an original and important contribution to several areas of scholarship, including black studies and political science."--Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, author of America's First Black Town, Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915"A welcome addition to the growing field of African diaspora studies. Bandele's conclusions are multi-textured and well argued, and she breaks new ground by establishing a framework for analyzing, defining, and testing this often illusive concept."--Irma Watkins-Owens, author of Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930
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MO - University of Illinois Press Migration Class and Transnational Identities
Book SynopsisA sophisticated study of transnational migration from the Balkans to Western AustraliaTrade Review“Recommended.”--Choice"Well informed about the current research agenda and theoretical debates of immigration studies ... engagingly written, and with proposed arguments supported by extensive citations from interviewees, the book is an evident accomplishment."--American Historical Review"An outstanding study. . . . Written with (com)passion and commitment, and profound understanding of many complex and interrelated migration processes and issues."--Labour/Le Travail"Val Colic-Peisker has done much to illuminate this important element in Australian society and to question some long-held beliefs about the maintenance of cultures in diasporic communities. Her comparisons with the Croatian elements in American society are of considerable interest. Those who seek to understand the human processes arising from global movement and resettlement should welcome this important study."--James Jupp, former Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Australian National University"A comprehensive and vibrant account of Croatian migration to Australia, which is as attendant to conceptual detail as it is heartfelt. Readers are treated to an erudite discussion of key concepts in migration studies that are embedded in rich ethnographic accounts of lived experience. The result is an important critique of ethnicity and a reevaluation of the place of class analysis in the migration process."--Loretta Baldassar, author of Visits Home: Migration Experiences Between Italy and Australia
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MO - University of Illinois Press Unbound Spirit
Book SynopsisThe inner life of a sensitive and ambitious woman--an exceptional Chinese American flapper, writer, and journalistTrade Review"This is a story of a woman living between the two cultures of China and the United States, told in a moving and often heartrending manner. Flora Belle Jan is an exceptional woman who portrays many of the problems of her generation."--Sue Fawn Chung, author of Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors
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MO - University of Illinois Press Open Wound
Book SynopsisA timely reframing of race in AmericaTrade Review"A penetrating look at the complicated history of race in America."--Booklist"Well-written, thoroughly researched, and well-documented work. . . . It is an excellent text for use in any history class covering the span of events in American history as well as in any African-American history course."--Multicultural Review"It is good to have a volume that grasps the big picture and connects the beginning with the end in a long chain of causation."--The Journal of American History"A broad and sweeping account of race in the United States."--North Carolina Historical Review"William McKee Evans is that rare scholar who writes clearly and well, displays an impressive grasp of the smaller facts of history, and yet can rise above the fray of footnotes to make sweeping and extraordinarily telling historical observations. This book represents the capstone of a remarkable career, and it is his most expansive and well considered work."--Timothy B. Tyson, author of Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story"In analyzing key developments and moments of crisis over nearly four hundred years, William McKee Evans brings to bear an extraordinary command not only of the established historical literature on North America, but an impressive grasp of historiography from the wider Atlantic world. The result is a surefooted, authoritative study that radically reframes an old story, drawing fresh and compelling insights from some of the most studied events in the American past."--Brian Kelly, author of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
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University of Illinois Press Black Europe and the African Diaspora
Book Synopsis The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of race, belonging, desire, and identities assumed and presumed in revealing portraits of Black experiences in a European context. In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the contributors theorize and re-imagine a range of historical and contemporary issues related to the broader questions of blackness, diaspora, hegemony, transnationalism, and 'Black Europe' itself as lived and perceived realities. Contributors are Allison Blakely, Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Tina Campt, Fred Constant, Alessandra Di Maio, Philomena Essed, Terri Francis, Barnor Hesse, Darlene Clark Hine, Dienke Hondius, Eileen Julien, Trica Danielle Keaton, Kwame Nimako, Tiffany Ruby Patterson, T. DTrade Review"Thought-providing. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice "An elegant, imaginative, and penetrating intervention in the ethnographies and theories of race and community in the African diaspora. A masterful contribution to the growing field of Black European studies and to diaspora studies."--Mamadou Diouf, coeditor of New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity"Enormously stimulating, this volume is essential reading for those interested in exploring the evolving story of the Black presence worldwide."--David Barry Gaspar, coeditor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the AmericasTable of ContentsForeword ixPhilomena Essed Preface xviiDarlene Clark Hine Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back xxiiiStephen SmallSection1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe 1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch 3Allison Blakely 2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands 29Dienke Hondius 3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930s and the Problem of Color 48Eileen Julien 4. Pictures of "US"? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German Subject 63Tina M. Campt 5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer, and Transcontinental Diasporic Identity 84T. Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby PattersonSection 2. Race and Blackness in Perspective: France, Germany, and Italy 6. "Black (American) Paris" and the French Outer-Cities: The Race Question and Questioning Solidarity 95Trica Danielle Keaton 7. Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa 119Alessandra Di Maio 8. Talking Race in Color-Blind France: Equality Denied, "Blackness" Reclaimed 145Fred Constant 9. My Volk to Come: Peoplehood in Recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music 161Alexander G. Weheliye 10. No Green Pastures: The African Americanization of France 180Tyler StovallSection 3. Theorizing, (Re)presenting, and (Re)imagining Blackness In Europe 11. Black Europe and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on Location 201Jacqueline Nassy Brown 12. Theorizing Black Europe and African Diaspora: Implications for Citizenship, Nativism, and Xenophobia 212Kwame Nimako and Stephen Small 13. The Audacious Josephine Baker: Stardom, Cinema, Paris 238Terri Francis 14. Pale by Comparison: Black Liberal Humanism and the Postwar Era in the African Diaspora 260Michelle M. Wright 15. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe... 277Gloria Wekker Afterword: Black Europe's Undecidability 291Barnor Hesse Notes on Contributors 305 Index 311
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MO - University of Illinois Press Give Em Soul Richard
Book SynopsisAs either observer or participant, radio deejay and political activist Richard E Stamz witnessed every significant period in the history of blues and jazz in the last century. This book presents the story of his life. It is also a window into milestones of African American history.Trade Review"In his own voice, Stamz describes the rough-and-tumble world of early soul radio, the payola system that supplied everything from drugs to food, and the relationships between disc jockeys and independent record companies."--Booklist"A fascinating narrative about an era that is still underresearched. . . . A welcome addition to what we know about the evolution of black radio."--Journal of Illinois History “This story makes an indelible contribution to the field of African American studies. Readers not only get a story that opens them to the world of Richard Stamz; it opens them to the world that African Americans had made for themselves in the last century.”--Robert Pruter, from the foreword of Give 'Em Soul, Richard!
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MO - University of Illinois Press Queer Pollen White Seduction Black Male
Book SynopsisA provocative triptych of black queer desire, articulated through aesthetic works and experiencesTrade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2012. "Gerstner is a master theorist who renders a compelling and cutting-edge narrative about the complexity of black homosexual desire. The first book of its kind to specifically address the formation of black queer subjectivity in relation to white seduction, Queer Pollen offers a major contribution to African American studies, gender studies, film studies, literary studies, and art history."--E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South"[Gerstner] is extremely well informed on the landmark work in critical theory...and continues to establish his reputation as an influential daredevil theorist who probes the complexity of identity. Highly recommended."--Choice "Queer Pollen examines the work of three queer black creators: Harlem Renaissance aesthete Richard Bruce Nugent, novelist James Baldwin and filmmaker Marlon Riggs. . . . Like all twentieth and even twenty-first century creators, all three have a relationship to film which emerges in their work in multimedia and in the written word. . . . Gerstner asks us to de-naturalise the cinematic frame of reference and understand how it can be used as a strategy to examine how power relations are manifested as looks and inscribed on the body through desire and shame. Instead of poisoned fruit, these three authors offer insight into the ways in which desire draws its own authenticity by consuming and re-appropriating a collage of different cultural forms."--Dr. Scott Beattie, Somatechnics"A true companion piece to Baldwin's [Go Tell It on the Mountain]. Provides good intellectual theory."--Film InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-87) 19 2. James Baldwin (1924-87) 73 3. Marlon Riggs (1957-94) 138 Notes 215 Bibliography 261 Index 277
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University of Illinois Press The Black Chicago Renaissance
Book Synopsis Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to this volume analyze this prolific period of African American creativity in music, performance art, social science scholarship, and visual and literary artistic expression. Unlike Harlem, Chicago was an urban industrial center that gave a unique working class and internationalist perspective to the cultural work being done in Chicago. This collection''s various essays discuss the forces that distinguished the Black Chicago Renaissance from the Harlem Renaissance and placed the development of black culture in a national and international context. Among the topics discussed in this volume are Chicago writers Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, The Chicago Defender and Tivoli Theater, African American music and visual arts, and the American Negro Exposition oTrade Review"This collection reveals that 1930s-50s Chicago had enough African American artists who were born, worked, or studied there—in the applied, performing, and recording arts, social sciences, and literature—to constitute a critical mass rivaling the earlier cultural exuberance of Harlem."--Choice"The book offers highly readable essays from scholars who tell stories about the artists -- including some Harlem Renaissance ex-parts who came to Chicago -- and the conditions that contributed to a major arts movement in the city that lasted for more than two decades."--Chicago Tribune"A lively, useful anthology of ten critical essays on Chicago's remarkable upturn in black cultural politics and political culture at midcentury."--Journal of Illinois History "A service to all readers interested in twentieth-century American cultural history."--Literature & History "The Black Chicago Renaissance offers an in-depth investigation of the Renaissance and. . . . Positions itself as one of the most successful works of scholarship on this movement. . . . A must-read for American culture, African-American culture, and African-American and American history studies."--Journal of American Culture "The Black Chicago Renaissance is an informative. . . anthology of ten essays that analyzes the city's African American cultural fluorescence from the early 1930s to the early 1950s. . . .Offers pioneering research on multiple understudied topics."--The Journal of American History"Hine and McCluskey fill the gap found in the scholarship regarding the rise of black artistic communities."--The Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsContributors are Hilary Mac Austin, David T. Bailey, Murry N. DePillars, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Erik S. Gellman, Jeffrey Helgeson, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey Jr., Christopher Robert Reed, Elizabeth Schlabach, and Clovis E. Semmes
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MO - University of Illinois Press Man of Fire Selected Writings
Book SynopsisGathers Ernesto Galarza's key writings, reflecting a constructive concern for the working class in the face of America's growing influence over Mexico's economic system.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013. "Ernesto Galarza was a prescient analyst and powerful writer, a scholar, poet, and social activist whose work has profoundly influenced and interested so many. This book will be of use to activists who interrogate political economy and develop strategies that address inequities in class and race."--Patricia Zavella, author of I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty"This outstanding compilation of the selected writings of Ernesto Galarza features an excellent introduction, despite the fact that relatively little is known about Galarza's private life other than what he reveals in his autobiography. Highly Recommended."--Choice "Ibarra and Torres are to be commended for their efforts to provide students and scholars new access to the writings of Ernesto Galarza. Man on Fire serves as both an effective summation of his work and a starting point for detailed investigation of a scholar-activist whose output and activities have sadly fallen into undeserved obscurity." --Labor
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MO - University of Illinois Press Along the Streets of Bronzeville
Book SynopsisInvestigates the institutions and streetscapes of Black Chicago that fueled an entire literary and artistic movement.Trade Review"Along the Streets of Bronzeville is a compelling and comprehensive history of Chicago's Black Renaissance. Along with her solid research and masterful prose, Schlabach shares may illustrations and archival documents to give life to this vibrant history of Bronzeville. All scholars interested in the history of black Chicago, African American cultural history, and literary history at large should read this book."--History: Reviews of New Books"Highly recommended."--Choice "Schlabach strikes a fine balance between acknowledging and illuminating the provocative artistic and political endeavors characteristic of the Chicago Black Renaissance. . . . A rich, artistically oriented micro-history."--Chicago Book Review"An insightful study of Chicago's streets, kitchenettes, numbers games, black counterpolitical culture, and artistic and literary figures of the mid-twentieth century. . . . Along the Streets of Bronzeville accomplishes its primary project of extending our understanding of the rich complexity made possible by racial segregation and black cultural ingenuity in the face of white supremacy. Schlabach convincingly encourages renewed attention to black materiality, and aesthetics."--Journal of American History"A thought-provoking, informative, and unique study. Schlabach offers her own fascinating take on the development of the Black Chicago Renaissance, its creative artists, and most impressively the geographies of the Black Belt as it evolved into Bronzeville and the new black public spaces created by successive waves of black migrants in the first half of the twentieth century."--Robert B. Stepto, author of From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative
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MO - University of Illinois Press Chinese in the Woods Logging and Lumbering in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Chinese in the Woods, historian Sue Fawn Chung fills a notable gap in western history… This book is meticulously researched and combines an impressive array of both secondary and primary sources, including an innovative incorporation of archeological data… Chinese in the Woods could well prove a gold mine of statistical and historical data."--H-Net Reviews"Chinese in the Woods is an informative piece of work, exploring a new area in the study of Chinese immigrants in the West."--Western Historical Quarterly"This is an extremely important study about an important and understudied topic."--Reviews in American History"A significant contribution to the study of the American West. It also tells us a lot about the lumber industry in California and Nevada--the business, labor, production, and technical aspects--which make for a fascinating subject."--Evelyn Hu-DeHart, editor of Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization"Chinese in the Woods is a meticulously researched and important contribution to the history of labor in the American West and the critical Chinese played in the lumber trade."--Pacific Historical Review"This research challenges some of the stereotypes of Chinese loggers as "cheap" and docile in the period of merging unionism, anti-Chinese movements, and immigration restrictions. Recommended."--Choice"An impressive testimonial to Chung's meticulous research and fine scholarship… A very worthwhile addition to your library."--Asian American Comparative Collection Newsletter"Chinese in the Woods is a compelling treatment of the little-known Chinese labor experiences in the logging and lumbering industry and how these workers engaged with the wider community."--American Historical Review "Men and timber but much more! Chung's original work opens new vistas on the experience of Chinese and the building of the West. It is a story of labor but also of ethnic experience, trans-Pacific relations, business, and 19th century technologies. A great read!"--Gordon H. Chang, co-editor of Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present "A richly contextualized and meticulously researched account of a little known yet important group of Chinese immigrant workers, illuminating not only their fascinating experiences but also their role in developing the U.S. economy."--Yong Chen, author of Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943: A Transpacific Community
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University of Illinois Press Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention The
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this engaging and well-researched book, Phoebe Wolfskill enlists the career of early twentieth-century Chicago painter Archibald Motley as a paradigm for considering the difficulties facing African American artists who have lived with cultural stereotypes their whole lives. Through a judicious balancing of insights derived from the careful analysis of individual paintings with a wide range of cultural, artistic, social, and theoretical references, Wolfskill honors the complex underpinnings of Motley’s works and explains the contradictions within them. As a whole, the book both provides an internal coherence to Motley’s career and successfully demonstrates his relation to other American artists of the period who similarly concerned themselves with questions of identity and representation during the interwar decades."--Mary Ann Calo, author of Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-1940"A satisfyingly inquisitive foray into the complications of an African American artist grappling with his own uneasy relationship to matters of race, gender, class, culture, and modernism. Wolfskill provides a welcomed critical probing and less romanticized account of the Harlem Renaissance."--James Smalls, author of Homosexuality in Art"In Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art, Wolfskill has composed a well-researched, insightful, and nuanced account that forces a reconceptualization of an artist and an era." --CAA.Reviews
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MO - University of Illinois Press Chinese FaceOff The Transnational Popular
Book SynopsisAnalyzing pop culture as a reflection of complex identities forged against a global backdrop
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MO - University of Illinois Press In Defense of Asian American Studies
Book SynopsisDiscusses the author's experiences on three campuses within the University of California system where Asian American studies was first developed - in response to vehement student demand - under the rubric of ethnic studies. This title documents a field of endeavour in which scholarship and identity define and strengthen each other.Trade Review"Newcomers to the field will gain a rich understanding of the origins and mission of AAS and the challenges it faced and continues to face as it becomes institutionalized in higher education."--Journal of Higher Education
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MO - University of Illinois Press Holding Up More Than Half the Sky
Book SynopsisIn 1982, 20,000 Chinese American garment workers - mostly women - went on strike in New York's Chinatown and forced Chinese garment industry employers in the city to sign a union contract. This study explains how this militancy and organized protest, seemingly so at odds with traditional Chinese female behavior, came about.Trade Review"Bao does an excellent job in not only portraying Chinese women workers' work and lives, but also revealing that the Chinese women's labor history in New York's garment industry is also part of American labor history, and they can only fully be understood through the complex interactions of race/ethnicity, class, and gender."--Wei Li, Journal of Asian Studies"A significant reference for scholars of women's studies, Chinese American history, immigration history, and labor history."--Huping Ling, American Historical Review"Offers a nuanced picture of transformations in personal and family life. Particularly successful are the portrayals of women's growing financial and emotional centrality in the family and of relations among Chinese women born in different parts of the world."--Adam McKeown, Journal of American History"Xiaolan Bao's book makes a significant contribution to the literature on Chinese American historical experiences. This excellent case study is a fine example of serious empirical investigation."--Renqiu Yu, Journal of American Ethnic History"Bao's research offers valuable insights into the intersection of race and class, one of the central questions in her book. . . . Bao's work reminds us that to fully appreciate how the two dimensions of race and class intersected, we also need to take a gendered perspective."--Left History"Theoretically informed and thoroughly researched, this multilayered study demonstrates the author's grasp of the complex experiences of the Chinese garment workers and their place within the larger historical context."--Business History Review"Xiaolan Bao has written a moving and important book about Chinese women in New York City's garment industry. Because of her reliance on more than a hundred oral histories, she makes the women speak for themselves as well as inform the reader. Historians of immigration and women will find this a gem."--David M. Reimers, author of Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America"This monumental study thoroughly examines the peculiar nature and situation of the Chinese female garment workers and their relations within their community and family, with their employers, and with the American unions. Xiaolan Bao's use of interviews, newspapers, and other sources in both Chinese and English makes this work particularly valuable."--Sue Fawn Chung, author of Power and Influence: The Hongmen Zhigongtang, a Chinese Secret Society in the American West
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Man Who Adores the Negro Race and American
Book SynopsisThe challenges of interracial fieldworkTrade Review"Mullen's book will stimulate plenty of discussion... Highly recommended."--Choice "In The Man Who Adores the Negro, Mullen has written, essentially, two books. The first is a critical history of folklorists' work with African American informants-an account of the success, and failure, of well-intentioned scholars operating in a charged racial environment. And the second is a manual on ethnographic practice-a reflection on the politics of representation and on the potential value and limitations of contemporary fieldwork methodology. Neither book can be separated from the other; they work collaboratively, in tandem. And both, in the end, are well worth the read."--Journal of Folklore Research "Marks an important contribution to the study of folklore scholarship on African Americans and the role this scholarship has played in the national discourse on constructions of race."--The Journal of Southern History
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University of Illinois Press AsiaPacifiQueer
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary, multicultural reassessment of gender and sexuality in the Asian PacificTrade Review"Opens up new paradigms in understanding LGBTQ cultures in Asia and beyond."--Intersections"Needs to be read by everyone interested in sex and gender."--Pacific Affairs
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University of Illinois Press Chinese American Transnational Politics
Book SynopsisTraces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. This title penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era.Trade ReviewReceived an honorable mention for the Book Award in History from the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2012. "A remarkable collection that shows the dedication, diligence, and accomplishments of Him Mark Lai, an amateur historian who devoted himself to researching and writing the history of Chinese American communities. Lai's command of the sources and his commitment to a faithful recording of Chinese American history are extraordinary."--Renqiu Yu, author of To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York"A remarkable account of the history of Chinese American communities."--The Journal of Asian Studies
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MO - University of Illinois Press Herbert Aptheker on Race and Democracy A Reader
Book SynopsisCollects fourteen influential essays by Herbert Aptheker (1915-2003) on the African American experience.Trade Review"Whether you realize it or not, your thinking has been significantly influenced by Herbert Aptheker. More than anyone, Aptheker smashed the early twentieth-century image of slaves as 'docile, passive, parasitic, imitative.'"--Black Issues Book Review"Historian Herbert Aptheker helped define African American history and redefine American history during his sixty-year career. . . . He truly deserves the outstanding reader that Foner and Marable have put together."--North Carolina Historical Review"This volume eloquently attests to Herbert Aptheker's pioneering role in African American history. For many years, McCarthyism deprived students of learning directly from this gifted professor, but his scholarship would later prove indispensable to early Black studies departments."--Martha Biondi, author of To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City"These hard-to-find essays cohere well, capturing the realm in which a major and underappreciated U.S. historian made his most germinal contributions."--David R. Roediger, author of History Against Misery
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MO - University of Illinois Press Companeros
Book Synopsis Telling the affecting stories of eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino activists and volunteers living in Chicago and San Francisco, Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS closely details how these individuals have been touched or transformed by the AIDS epidemic. Weaving together activists'' responses to oppression and stigma, their encounters with AIDS, and their experiences as GBTs and Latinos in North America and Latin America, Jesus Ramirez-Valles explores the intersection of civic involvement with ethnic and sexual identity. Even as activists battle multiple sources of oppression, they are able to restore their sense of family connection and self-esteem through the creation of an alternative space in which community members find value in their relationships with one another. In demonstrating the transformative effects of a nurturing community environment for GBT Latinos affected by the AIDS epidemic, Ramirez-Valles illustrTrade ReviewReceived first place in the Best Health Book - English category in the Latino Literacy Now's International Latino Book Awards. “In this lucid and compelling book, Ramirez-Valles argues that community involvement, in this case related to the HIV epidemic, creates social change while simultaneously nourishing the self of those involved. The argument is sustained through the voices of eight Latino gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals who engaged in community activism to combat the HIV epidemic. Their experiences are masterfully presented in order to foster the overall aim of the book.”—Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgement Introduction; 1: Social Class Origins and Trajectories; 2: Gender Deviants; 3: The Meanings of Latino; 4: The Formation of Gay and Trans Identities; 5: Life with HIV and AIDS; 6: Getting Involved; 7: Finding Companeros; Conclusion: The Road of Companeros Appendix; References
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MO - University of Illinois Press Undercover Asian
Book SynopsisOffers nuanced interpretations that open the door to a new and productive understanding of race in America.Trade Review"In the case of Undercover Asian, Nishime's critical intervention cannot be overstated. Her book compels readers to see multiracial Asian Americans, to understand their function in discourses of popular culture, to contextualize the place of multiracial Asian Americans in contemporary society, and to challenge our ideas of race and racialization."--Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas "Nishime makes a compelling argument for productive possibilities in the way that we understand multiracial bodies and narratives. This fascinating, elegant book provides a model for doing this kind of analysis and creating new narratives so that these possibilities may one day be realized."--Feminist Media Studies "Nishime's persuasive, well-grounded analysis yields genuinely brilliant insights regarding the pitfalls and possibilities of multiracial visibility in contemporary media culture. Lucidly written with appealing attention to popular texts, this is the sort of book that moves multiracial and Asian American studies in interesting and engaging new directions."--Glen Mimura, author of Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video
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MO - University of Illinois Press Building Filipino Hawaii
Book SynopsisDrawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic and archival research, the author delves into the ways Filipinos in Hawai'i have balanced their pursuit of upward mobility and mainstream acceptance with a desire to keep their Filipino identity.Trade Review"Building Filipino Hawai'i is a much-needed work on contemporary Filipino lives in the islands, in the fifty years since the resumption of significant emigration from the Philippines. Consistently argued and astutely theoretically framed. . . . Building Filipino Hawai'i promises to be the principal text on not only Filipinos, but also the contemporary experiences of ethnic and immigrant minorities in Hawai'i in the political context of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement."--Pacific Historical Review"An outstanding addition to a growing field of studies focused on Filipina/o American community building and identity formation."--Western Historical Quarterly "Labrador provides many necessary interventions to studies of Filipinos in the United States and helps further the reconceptualization of what it means to be Filipino throughout the Philippine diaspora and the ongoing production of global transnationalism."--The Journal of American History "Labrador provides an engaging and thoughtful study of Filipinos in Hawai'i, demonstrating how they have struggled to define and/or redefine their identity in the diaspora, by moving from the margins of Hawaii's society to becoming an integral part of it, while also maintaining their sense of Filipinoness."--Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego"Hawai'i is often held up as a model of liberal multiculturalism, a site in which a truly postracial order has been achieved. Labrador, however, demonstrates how the racial order in Hawai'i continues to be hierarchized, is premised on settler colonialism, and rests on a classed anti-immigrant sensibility. Building Filipino Hawai'i is an important read."--Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, author of Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World
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MO - University of Illinois Press Black Women and Politics in New York City
Book SynopsisDocuments six decades of politically active black women in New York City who waged struggles for justice, rights, and equality not through grassroots activism but through formal politics.Trade Review"Through a strong narrative of African American women's political activism in New York City, Julie A. Gallagher fills a major gap in the historical literature. In particular, Gallagher's focus on party politics gives us a fresh perspective. A major contribution in the fields of African American, women's, and political history."--Victoria W. Wolcott, author of Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit"Gallagher has written an insightful, in-depth narrative and analysis of the interconnectedness of race and gender discrimination in US society. . . . an important contribution to both black women's history and New York State's political history. Highly recommended."--Choice"An important contribution to the scholarship by illuminating the powerful ways African American women challenged the racialized and gender-based discrimination that characterized New York City politics throughout the 20th century and beyond."--The Journal of African American History"A valuable reference work for scholars and general readers interested in the lives and careers of twentieth-century black female social and political activists, most of whom are largely unknown today."--American Historical Review"With its chronological range and compelling cast of characters Gallagher's book makes a significant contribution. It is a story of halting, incremental change--but of real change all the same. Party politics, American liberalism, and the women's movement all look different when considered from the perspective of these activists."--Journal of American History"An important addition to the literature on the American women's movement, the northern civil rights movement, and the political history of New York and the nation." --New York History"A tour de force that tells a fascinating story of the struggles and the accomplishments of the black women who pushed their way into politics from before suffrage through election to Congress."--Jo Freeman, author of We Will Be Heard: Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States
£999.99
University of Illinois Press Victims and Warriors
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Casey High weaves together memories, facts and fantasies as these occur in contemporary Ecuadorian Amazonia, offering us a fascinating picture of Waorani life today. This highly original book takes us a step further in the understanding of current sociocultural transformations among Amazonian indigenous peoples." --Carlos Fausto, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro "An exciting analysis of the most intimate aspects of memory and experience in a contemporary Amazonian indigenous group in dialogue with its own stereotypes. . . . A compelling book not only for anthropologists but for anyone interested in contemporary Amerindian groups."--European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"What do Bruce Lee, American missionaries being speared to death, Amerindians dancing in a national pride day, urban warrior performances, and a deeply felt sense of victimhood possibly have in common? In a refined narrative, Casey High weaves together memories, facts and fantasies as these occur in contemporary Ecuadorian Amazonia, offering us a fascinating picture of Waorani life today. This highly original book takes us a step further in the understanding of current sociocultural transformations among Amazonian indigenous peoples."--Carlos Fausto, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro"Insightful and terrifically readable. Victims and Warriors is a timely, innovative look at how Waorani use images of their violent past to craft new forms of masculinity and identity that remain remarkably resistant to gender hierarchy and sexual antagonism."--Beth Conklin, author of Consuming Grief: Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society"Usually Waorani voices are distorted due to some other outside agenda, but here we have a nuanced account that communicates their experiences, remembrances, and perspective. Being able to hear what Waorani people think and say about violent encounters and violence in general, as well as Christianity, development, and other topics related to Waorani life and history, makes for a compelling read."--Michael A. Uzendoski, author of The Ecology of the Spoken Word: Amazonian Storytelling and Shamanism among the Napo Runa
£999.99
MO - University of Illinois Press Latina Lives in Milwaukee
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Not only excellent but timely as well. The book will undoubtedly prove to be a valuable resource guide that will not only introduce the literature but also provide an impressive study for experts in Latina cultural studies."--Alvina E. Quintana, author of Home Girls: Chicana Literary Voices"Teresa Delgadillo and her collaborators create a living archive that highlights the rich and varied experiences, histories, and cultures of a Midwestern Latino community. This book provides the personal stories often absent from required course reading lists, while at the same time demonstrating the importance of region in shaping identity and the immigrant experience." --Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial Scripts"Delgadillo's Latinas in Milwaukee. . . is a text that provokes many important questions that must be considered in the advancement of Latino studies."--Latino Studies"This book is, indeed, an important contribution to the study of Latinas in the Midwest."--H-LatAm"Delgadillo effectively illustrates both how women's roles were actually far from what many believed them to be and the importance of the Midwest in the production of a (pan)-Latinx identity."--American Quarterly"Latina Lives in Milwaukee can serve as a model for scholars interested in Latinas and education, inspiring them to enhance their research with oral history interviews. . . . Delgadillo has provided future scholars an invaluable resource to expand their own projects." --Oral History Review
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MIT Press Radical Virtuosity Ana Mendieta and the Black
Book SynopsisReclaiming the artist Ana Mendieta as a formally innovative maker of performative art who forged connections to the marginalized around the world.The artist Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) is remembered as the creator of powerful works expressing a vibrant and unflinching second-wave feminist sensibility. In Radical Virtuosity, art historian Genevieve Hyacinthe offers a new view of Mendieta, connecting her innovative artwork to the art, cultural aesthetics and concerns, feminisms, and sociopolitical messages of the black Atlantic. Mendieta left Cuba as a preteen, fleeing the Castro regime, and spent years in U.S. foster care. Her sense of exile, Hyacinthe argues, colors her work. Hyacinthe examines the development of Mendieta's performative artworks—particularly the Silueta series (1973-1985), which documented the silhouette of her body in the earth over time (a series “without end,” Mendieta said)—and argues that these works were shaped
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MIT Press Ltd The Barbarian Invasions
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£27.20
University of Washington Press Environmental Justice in Postwar America
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n important contribution to an EJ literature...it should be widely used there in courses on US environmental history, the history of race and environment, and even on social movements in the twentieth century." * Environmental History *"[A] powerful tool for introducing students to the US environmental justice movement and the sometimes tense relationship between environmentalism and social justice." * New Books Network *Table of ContentsForeword: The Age of Environmental Inequality / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 THE NATURE OF SEGREGATION “WHERE WE LIVE” Russell Lee, Shack of Negro Family Farmers Living near Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938 John Vachon, Backed Up Sewer in Negro Slum District, Norfolk, Virginia, 1941 Carl Mydans, Kitchen of Negro Dwelling in Slum Area near House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1935 Dorothea Lange, Migratory Mexican Field Worker’s Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 Home Owners Loan Corporation, Los Angeles Data Sheet D52, 1939 John Vachon, Negro Children Standing in Front of Half Mile Concrete Wall, Detroit, Michigan, 1941 Examples of Racially Restrictive Real Estate Covenants Arthur S. Siegel, Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth Homes, a New U.S. Federal Housing Project, Caused by White Neighbors’ Attempt to Prevent Negro Tenants from Moving In, 1942 Craig Thompson, “Growing Pains of a Brand-New City,” 1954 Norris Vitchek, “Confessions of a Block-Buster,” 1962 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 1963 Fair Housing Protest, Seattle, Washington, 1964 Fair Housing Act of 1968 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Understanding Fair Housing,” 1973 “WHERE WE WORK” Ruby T. Lomax, [Cotton Picking Scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, New Drew, Mississippi], 1940 John Vachon, Steel Mill Workers, Bethlehem Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland, 1940 Help Wanted White Only Lloyd H. Bailer, “The Negro Automobile Worker,” 1943 Navajo Miners Work at the Kerr-McGee Uranium Mine at Cove, Ariz., 1953 Mildred Pitts Walter, “Biographical Sketch,” September 28, 2017 Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII: Equal Employment Opportunity Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University: “To Fulfill These Rights,” 1965“ Exhibit 1 in City of Memphis vs. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” 1968 “WHERE WE PLAY” Victor H. Green, ed., Introduction, The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1950 Lewis Mountain Entrance Sign, Shenandoah National Park Colored Only Sign Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 1955 Civil Rights Demonstration at Fort Lauderdale’s Segregated Public Beach, 1961 Jackson NAACP Branches to City and State Officials, May 12, 1963 PART 2 A MORE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM? FROM EARTH DAY TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS CRITIQUE Indians of All Tribes, “The Alcatraz Proclamation,” 1969 Timothy Benally, “‘So a Lot of the Navajo Ladies Became Widows’” El Malcriado, “Growers Spurn Negotiations on Poisons,” 1969 Wilbur L. Thomas Jr., “Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities,” 1970 RACE, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE Edmund S. Muskie, Speech at the Philadelphia Earth Week Rally, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, April 22, 1970 EPA Task Force on the Environmental Problems of the Inner City, Our Urban Environment and Our Most Endangered People, 1971 John H. White, Chicago Ghetto on the South Side, 1974 Don Coombs, “The [Sierra] Club Looks at Itself,” 1972 TOXICS, WARREN COUNTY, AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISPARITIES Penelope Ploughman, Protest Signs in Front Yard Love Canal 99th Street Home, 1978 Protest Sign: Danger, Dioxin Kills, 1980 Robert T. Stafford, “Why Superfund Was Needed,” 1981 Jenny Labalme, Anti-PCB Protests in Warren County, North Carolina, 1982 “A Warren County PCB Protest Song,” 1982 General Accounting Office, “Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation with Racial and Economic Status of Surrounding Communities,” 1983 Cerrell Associates, Political Difficulties Facing Waste-to-Energy Conversion Plant Siting, 1984 United Church of Christ, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States,” 1987 United Church of Christ, “Fifty Metropolitan Areas with Greatest Number of Blacks Living in Communities with Uncontrolled Waste Sites,” 1987 Marianne Lavelle and Marcia Coyle, “Unequal Protection,” 1992 BUILDING THE MOVEMENT Sam Kittner, The Great Louisiana Toxics March, 1988 Peggy Shepard and Chuck Sutton Protest New York City’s North River Sewage Treatment Plant, 1988 SouthWest Organizing Project, “Letter to Big Ten Environmental Groups,” March 16, 1990 Mark Gutierrez, From One Earth Day to the Next, 1990 Indigenous Environmental Network, “Unifying Principles,” 1991 First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit Press Conference, October 24, 1991 Dana Alston, “Moving beyond the Barriers,” 1991 “The Principles of Environmental Justice,” 1991 William K. Reilly, “Environmental Equity,” 1992 Melissa Healy, “Administration Joins Fight for ‘Environmental Justice’ Pollution,” 1993 William J. Clinton, Executive Order 12898, February 16, 1994 Dorceta E. Taylor, “Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism,” 1997 Luz Claudio, “Standing on Principle” “Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing,” 1996 Public Citizen, “NAFTA’s Broken Promises,” 1997 PART 3 THE ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE IN THE SUSTAINABILITY ERA INSTITUTIONAL LEGACIES Richard Moore, “Government by the People” Christine Todd Whitman, “Memorandum,” August 9, 2001 Second People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, “Principles of Working Together,” 2002 Robert D. Bullard et al., “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty,” 2007 Marty Durlin, “The Shot Heard Round the West,” 2010 Environmental Protection Agency, “Plan EJ 2014,” 2011 Kristen Lombardi, Talia Buford, and Ronnie Greene, “Environmental Justice, Denied,” 2015 CONTINUING EJ ACTIVISM Tracy Perkins, Buttonwillow Park, CA, January 30, 2009 Tracy Perkins, Wasco, CA, January 30, 2009 Online Meme on #NoDAPL Amy Goodman, “Unlicensed #DAPL Guards Attacked Water Protectors with Dogs & Pepper Spray,” 2016 Brian Bienkowski, “2017 and Beyond: Justice Jumping Genres,” Environmental Health News FROM ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TO JUSTICE AND THE ENVIRONMENT “Bali Principles of Climate Justice,” August 29, 2002 Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, “Rising Sea Levels,” 2016 Brentin Mock, “For African Americans, Park Access Is about More Than Just Proximity,” 2016 Norma Smith Olson, “Food Justice,” 2013 Van Jones, “Power Shift Keynote,” 2009 World Rainforest Movement, “‘For a Change of Paradigm’: Interview with Tom Goldtooth from the Indigenous Environmental Network,” 2016 Index
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University of Washington Press Outriders
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n engaging, insightful, wonderfully researched social and cultural study of forgotten or ignored participants in United States rodeo." * Great Plains Quarterly *"This is an ambitious book in which Scofield deftly tackles multiple historical contexts, secondary literatures, and political sensitivities...a foundational monograph that will no doubt inspire further research into the diversity of communities and traditions in rodeo and the North American West." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Controversial and dutifully written, Outriders...will be of interest to scholars while causing rodeo fans to think deeply about the conflicts within the myth of the sport." * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"Outriders offers an alternative perspective about what inspires people to enter rodeo, arguing that many do so as a way to claim a presence in the history of the West, and explores how rodeo gave agency to groups previously omitted from the history of cowboy lifestyle...provocative and contributes a framework for revisiting fringe groups." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Outriders function as a compendium of current cowboy and rodeo research. Scofield takes this research, and—with engaging style—demonstrates how women, Blacks, Gay men, and incarcerated men have chosen the cowboy as a symbol of what it means to be authentically American." * Journal of Popular Culture *"This well-researched book is a good introduction to rodeo beyond the mainstream and will be of interest to rodeo and western scholars, along with a more popular audience unfamiliar with rodeo’s more varied history." * Pacific Historical Review *
£91.00
University of Washington Press William H. Johnson
Book SynopsisMy aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and tradition, and which is now concentrated in me.--William H. Johnson An essential figure in modern American art, William H. Johnson (1901-1970) was a virtuoso skilled in various media and techniques, who produced thousands of works over a career that spanned decades, continents, and genres. This volume considers paintings from the collection of Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, that show the pivotal stages in Johnson''s career as a modernist painter of post-impressionist and expressionist works reminiscent of Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Soutine, and the vernacular paintings in which he articulates his specific, unforgettable voice as an artist.In this lavishly illustrated book, some of the world''s premier scholars of William H. Johnson and African American art historyTrade Review"This new book brings to life Johnson's conscious combination of formal training, international influences, and personal experiences to pare his style down to the very simplest, starkest terms . . . forever marking him as a truly American modern." -- Robin Meyer * Artes Magazine *"Through his art, Johnson's life is triumphant. It celebrates the richness of human creativity, the beauty of the land, and the worth and dignity of people." -- Clint Schemmer * Fredericksburg.com *Table of ContentsForeword, Anna R. Cohn Introduction, Gabriel Tenabe 1. Preserving a Legacy, David C. Driskell 2. Trembling Vistas, Primal Youth, Richard J. Powell 3. Johnson and the Semiotics of Landscape and Still Life, Lowery Stokes Sims 4. Rural Rituals and Urban Realities, Leslie King-Hammond 5. Creating Church, Leslie King-Hammond 6. Devotion and Disrepute, Richard J. Powell 7. BLACK thou ART . . . BLACK thou AIN'T, Aaron Bryant Notes Selected Bibliography Image Credits
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University of Washington Press Seeking Salaam
Book SynopsisCaptures the immigrants' struggle for identity in the face of competing stories and documentsTrade Review"An important book for a nation seeking peace with itself as well as with its new immigrant arrivals who are redefining equality, citizenship, and democracy." -- Robert D. Thompson * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"Sandra M. Chait is to be commended for capturing the complex interrelationship of 20th and 21st century immigrant communities from the Horn of Africa as they engage in healing the wounds of wars and finding salaam — peace — in their adopted country." -- Ruth Iyob * Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies *"Chait wove their stories into a book, Seeking Salaam, that captures the complexity of identity and the horror and hopefulness of life for her subjects." -- Jerry Large * The Seattle Times *"[Seeking Salaam] grants the reader valuable insight into the immigrant experience of Horn Africans in the Pacific Northwest.”—" -- Robin Hardy * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *Table of ContentsMap of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia Acronyms Preface Acknowledgements 1. At "Home" in the Pacific Northwest 2. Within the American Gaze 3. With Eyes Open 4. Having the Last Word 5. Cultural and Economic Rivals 6. The Challenges Within 7. Women Speak Out Conclusion Appendix 1. Time Line (1890-2010) Appendix 2. Participants Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Enduring Conviction
Book SynopsisFred Korematsu's decision to resist F.D.R.'s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man following his heart: he wanted to remain in California with his white fiancée. However, he quickly came to realize that it was more than just a personal choice; it was a matter of basic human rights. After refusing to leave for incarceration when ordered, Korematsu was eventually arrested and convicted of a federal crime before being sent to the internment camp at Topaz, Utah. He appealed his conviction to the Supreme Court, which, in one of the most infamous cases in American legal history, upheld the wartime orders. Forty years later, in the early 1980s, a team of young attorneys resurrected Korematsu's case. This time, Korematsu was victorious, and his conviction was overturned, helping to pave the way for Japanese American redress. Lorraine Bannai, who was a young attorney on that legal teamTrade Review"Excellent. . . . In Enduring Conviction, [Lorraine Bannai] skillfully weaves the story of the landmark court case with Fred’s personal journey. . . . Her elegant telling of the story of the incarceration and Fred Korematsu’s fight against it could not be more timely. . . . Hopefully, the inspiration provided by Fred Korematsu may be an even more enduring response to injustice." -- Elaine Elinson * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Enduring Conviction shows how politics and racial prejudice can conspire to trample the civil rights of an entire racial group during a time of war, based on fabricated claims of military necessity. . . . Bannai’s volume is a worthwhile read for those interested in learning about some of the worst events and court rulings in American history, and serves as a reminder that the constitutional rights of American citizens should also be safeguarded during times of war, and in the darkest times of American history." -- Harvey Gee * Asian American Policy Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue | A San Francisco Courtroom 1. The Son of Immigrants, but All-American 2. The Call to Get Rid of the “Japs” 3. Fred’s Decision to Live Free 4. Jail Was Better than Camp 5. The Rocky, Winding Road to the Supreme Court 6. The Ugly Abyss of Racism 7. Rebuilding a Life 8. “Intentional Falsehoods” 9. “A Legal Longshot”? 10. Correcting the Record 11. A Symbol in the Continuing Search for Justice Epilogue Notes Glossary A Note on Terminology Selected Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Living Together Living Apart Mixed Status
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Epigraph: The Freedom to Move / Lisa Speicher Muñoz Foreword / Mary Romero Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy / April M. Schueths and Jodie M. Lawston Part One | Living Together, Living Apart: Stories of Separation 1. The Purpose of My Trip to Tijuana / Giselle Stern Hernández 2. Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: The Lived Experiences of Mixed-Status Couples in the United States / April M. Schueths 3. Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time / Rachel M. Hershberg and M. Brinton Lykes 4. Dependents of the State: Navigating the Immigration and Child Welfare Apparatus at the San Diego–Tijuana Border / Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez 5. “We Thought We Had a Future”: Adversity and Resilience in Mixed-Status Families / Martha I. Zapata Roblyer and Joseph G. Grzywacz 6. Being Mixed-Status / Sheryl Tuliao Silva and Eric O. Silva Part Two | Experiences of Inequality: Legal Status and Family Well-Being 7. Voice of an American-Mexican / Neida Soto Arrington 8. Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities along the US-Mexico Border / Heide Castañeda 9. “Someday I’m Going to Have Papers!” (¡Algún Día Yo Voy a Tener Papeles!): Mixed-Status Families in the Rural South / Scott Beck and Alma Stevenson 10. The Green Card Waiting Game: U Visa Holders, Mixed-Status Famlies, and Marginal Membership / Sarah Morando Lakhani 11. “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) / Eva Betancourt Part III. The Public Face of Illegal: Confronting Legal Institutions and the Media 12. MIXED-UP / Carlos-Manuel 13. Constructing Mixed-Status Families in Public Discourse / Eric O. Silva 14. Qualifying Relatives: US Immigration Policies and Family Reunification or Deunification? / Connie Oxford 15. From Driving to Deportation: Experiences of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families under “Secure Communities” / Diana M. Guelespe 16 Dynamics and Ramifications of US Immigration and Visa Policies: Nepali Transnational Workers, Families, and Children in the United States / Shobha Hamal Gurung 17. Bringing Pedro Home / Emily Guzman 18. My Path to Happiness / Luis A. HernÁndez Contributors Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dancing Many Drums Excavations in African
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the influence of African American music on world culture. It brings together issues of race, gender, politics, history and dance, includes discussions of dance instruction songs, the blues aesthetic, and Katherine Dunham's controversial ballet about lynching, ""Southland"".
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Contemporary Directions in Asian American Dance
Book SynopsisThe definition of Asian American dance is as contested as the definition of “Asian American”. Artists and scholars who are making, defining, questioning, and theorizing Asian American dance show in these original essays that the term encompasses not only a range of national origins but also a dazzling variety of theoretical frameworks, disciplinary methods, and genres.Trade Review“[This] much anticipated publication . . . marks the beginning of a new era in critical dance/performance studies scholarship. . . . I recommend the book as a course companion for instructors engaged in Asian diaspora studies, themes of global citizenship, Asian labour, cultural production and consumption, or the performance of identity, race, power, sexuality, and gender.”—Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas
£999.99
Yale University Press United States and Africa Relations 1400s to the
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Hachette Go Its Always Been Ours
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group My Face Is Black Is True
Book SynopsisAcclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, demanded reparations for ex-slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861-1928) went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton and demanding it as repayment for centuries of unpaid labor. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who emerges as a courageous pioneering activist, a forerunner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Random House USA Inc Hellhound On His Trail
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Random House USA Inc Coming Apart
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A fascinating explanation for why white America has become fractured and divided in education and class, from the acclaimed author of Human Diversity.“I’ll be shocked if there’s another book that so compellingly describes the most important trends in American society.”—David Brooks, New York TimesIn Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship—divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has
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Random House USA Inc Negroland
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Random House USA Inc 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro
Book SynopsisThe first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers’s now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1934, was billed as “A Negro ‘Believe It or Not.’” Rogers’s little book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing. For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogers’s was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the “facts” and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then. With élan and erudition—and with winning enthusiasm—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives us a corrective yet loving homage to Roger’s work. Relying on the latest scholarship, Gates leads us on a romp through African, diasporic, and African-American history in question-and-answer format. Among the one hundred ques
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Random House USA Inc Showdown Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court
Book SynopsisOver the course of his forty-year career, Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this galvanizing biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood uses the framework of the dramatic, contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, to weave a provocative and moving look at Marshall’s life as well as at the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped—or desperately tried to stop—the civil rights movement. An authoritative account of one of the most transformative justices of the twentieth century, Showdown makes clear that it is impossible to overestimate Thurgood Marshall’s lasting influence on the racial politics of our nation.
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