Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
LUP - University of Michigan Press In Permanent Crisis
Book SynopsisRefugees, migrants, and minorities of migrant origin frequently appear in European mainstream news in emergency situations. Through analysis of work by filmmakers Michael Haneke, Fatih Akin, and Alfonso Cuarón, In Permanent Crisis contemplates the way mass media depictions become invoked by film to frame ethnic and racial Otherness in Europe as adornments of catastrophe.
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The University of Michigan Press Science Fiction in Argentina
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe analysis, presentation and interdisciplinary connections here are scintillating; the organization and writerly vision superb—as in all of Joanna Page’s work. This critically grounded walk through an eclectic range of cultural products is pursued with grit and panache in equal parts . . . a complex meditation on the many faces of Argentine science fiction.” —Benjamin Fraser, East Carolina University “Beyond its contribution to cultural theory, Science Fiction in Argentina has much to offer media-specific studies of the textuality of comics and cinema.”—Derek Johnson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Media Franchising
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The University of Michigan Press Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials
Book SynopsisIn 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on Bloody Sunday, troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and a triumphant address by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But within hours klan terror struck, claiming the life of one of the marchers, Viola Liuzzo, a Detroit mother of five. Turner offers an insider's view of the three trials that took place over the following nine monthswhich finally resulted in the conviction of the killers. Despite eyewitness testimony by an FBI informant who was riding in the car with the killers, two all-white state juries refused to convict. It took a team of Civil Rights Division lawyers, led by the legendary John Doar, to produce the landmark jury verdict that klansmen were no longer above the law. This is must reading today, as the voting rights won in Selma come under reneweTrade ReviewFifty years ago, American justice triumphed over the Alabama klan - thanks to the fearless work of the Civil Rights Division. Jim Turner's moving account reminds us that we can overcome the darkest attacks on human freedom, a lesson well worth remembering today as we confront new challenges to our basic civil rights."" - Deval Patrick, former Governor of Massachusetts and former Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights""Jim Turner recounts the true story of how a team of skilled federal lawyers accomplished the seemingly impossible - convicting the klansmen who murdered Viola Liuzzo in 1965 - a victory for honest, non-partisan civil rights enforcement that ended a hundred years of klan immunity to the sting of justice."" - Roy Reed, New York Times reporter who covered Selma and the Liuzzo trials""James P. Turner's compelling picture of state prosecutions marred by local prejudice and the successful federal prosecution in this landmark case is a timely reminder of why we need a strong Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice when state law enforcement fails to protect our rights."" - Brian K. Landsberg, McGeorge School of Law
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The University of Michigan Press Archiving Sovereignty
Book SynopsisShows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Sovereignty is often cast as a limit-concept, constituent force, determining the boundary of law. Archiving Sovereignty reverses this to explain how judicial pronouncements inscribe and sustain extravagant claims to exceptionality and sovereign solitude.Trade ReviewSet in and around the Indian Ocean, Archiving Sovereignty is a thoughtful meditation on how the law traffics in fictions—the ‘as if'—as it adjudicates state sovereignty in contexts of colonial and postcolonial violence. Elegantly written, it invites an important consideration of the law's complex work as historical archivist."" - Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara""Stewart Motha re-envisions the Indian Ocean as a material site of law, violence, and dispossession that he compellingly terms an ‘archive of the present.' Drawing comparatively from Australia, South Africa, and the Chagos Archipelago, Motha offers a beautifully crafted analysis of law and sovereignty, how they draw from and disavow their entangled colonial histories."" - Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia""Of the many interwoven themes in Archiving Sovereignty, the driving motif for me is Kant's ‘as if,' which responds to the disappearance of metaphysical objectivity. If objects are the only knowable facts, the unknowable is suspended in the ‘as if.' This is true for a lie (such as acting as if law were grounded in nature or acting as if sovereignty were a power in itself) as well as for a fertile fiction. We must then think of the ‘as if' in its relation to an absence of first law, and think of sovereignty as the ‘as if' of a postulation of ‘nothing' at the centre of existence. Stewart Motha explores this double dimension, its commingling and unravelling, its aporias and suggestions that are of course inexhaustible. This research is at the heart of the concerns and expectations of the present time."" - Jean-Luc Nancy, The European Graduate School""Through a series of brilliant readings of contemporary cases of exile and exclusion the source of legality, the archive, is exposed as an unstable archipelago and excoriated as the fictive mark of sovereign solitude."" - Peter Goodrich, Cardozo School of Law, New York
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Dialectical Imaginaries Materialist Approaches
Book SynopsisBrings together essays that analyse the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of US Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that centre on identity politics and an ethics of multiculturalism.Trade ReviewCompelling and provocative, this is an impressive and timely collection of essays. Although Marxist approaches have always had an important presence in Latino/a literary studies, this is the first collection that foregrounds such approaches to contemporary texts. The essays range over issues as diverse as mass incarceration, the privatization of public resources, residential segregation, waning state sovereignty, Chicana feminism, and new forms of class conflict. Dialectical Imaginaries will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the field, as well as scholars of other ethnic literatures and American literature more broadly."" - John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University""A sophisticated and stimulating book, one that is sure to have a significant impact on literary and cultural studies. . . . The essays dissolve stale debates about race/ethnicity versus class by demonstrating the intrinsic working-class-ness of much Latino/a writing, as well as the value of Marxist class analysis in relation to this body of texts."" - Barbara Foley, Rutgers University-Newark
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The University of Michigan Press Sites of Translation
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The University of Michigan Press The Color of Representation
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LUP - University of Michigan Press How the Dismal Science Got Its Name
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The University of Michigan Press Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Experience of Modernity
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsA new strategy for autobiographical narratives : Chen Hengzhe's writing of aurality -- Fragmented subjectivities : a reconsideration of women's literary mirrors -- Nationalism and the gestural system of self-expression -- Names and destiny : Hu Shi's andLu Xun's self-nomination through autobiography -- A moral landscape : reading Shen Congwen's autobiography and travelogues.
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The University of Michigan Press Black Cultural Traffic
Book SynopsisBlack Cultural Traffic traces how blackness travels globally in performance, engaging the work of an international and interdisciplinary mix of scholars, critics, and practicing artists.Trade ReviewThe explosion of interest in black popular culture studies in the past fifteen years has left a significant need for a reader that reflects this new scholarly energy. Black Cultural Traffic answers that need. - Mark Anthony Neal, author of Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation
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The University of Michigan Press Gathering Ground
Book SynopsisFounded by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996, Cave Canem has dedicated itself to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. This is a collection of more than one hundred poems by Cave Canem participants and faculty, including an eclectic gathering of forms, a bop, blues, sestinas, centos, and more.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press History and Legend
Book SynopsisCombining traditional historical research with new source material of the historical novels and with analytical strategies, Chang creates a three-dimensional picture of the ‘historical world’ of the Ming people.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Ambiguity of Taste
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The University of Michigan Press The Color of Representation
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The University of Michigan Press Finance Capitalism Unveiled
Book SynopsisExplores the influence of global integration on the structure of national banking and financial systems using Germany as a case study
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The University of Michigan Press Health Care Divided
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The University of Michigan Press Conjuring the Folk
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The University of Michigan Press Protest and the Politics of Blame
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction -- The crisis -- The reaction -- The puzzle -- The structure of this book -- Why blame attribution matters for protest -- Explanations for protest and passivity in Russia -- Issue difficulty and blame attribution -- Blame attribution and collective action theory -- The importance of blame attribution for human behavior -- What is a ""normal"" amount of protest? -- How much protest is there in Russia? -- What we can learn from individual-level data -- Conclusion -- Wage arrears in Russia: a difficult issue -- The role of the central authorities -- The role of regional and local authorities -- The role of enterprises and enterprise managers -- The role of the general economic situation and the transition period -- The role of international organizations and foreign governments -- The role of the Russian people -- Other sources of wage arrears -- Specifying blameworthy individuals and institutions -- Blame-avoiding strategies -- Blame-avoiding institutions and circumstances -- Conclusion -- Whom Russians blame for wage arrears -- Multicausality and information overload -- Measuring the attribution of blame -- Blame cast widely and inconsistently -- No clear saviors or solutions -- What explains the attribution of blame? -- Conclusion -- The politics of blame -- Protesting wage arrears -- Blame attribution and individual responses to wage arrears -- Blame attribution and group responses to wage arrears -- Feedback: protest's influence on blame attribution -- Conclusion -- Alternative explanations for the Russian response to wage arrears -- Economic arguments -- Psychological arguments -- Cultural arguments -- Organizational arguments -- Opportunities and constraints -- Other explanations for protest and passivity -- The robust relationship betweenblame and protest -- Conclusion -- Implications -- The study of blame attribution and collective action theory -- Blame and protest in comparative perspective -- The unlikeliness of social unrest in Russia -- Alcoholism, depression, and learned helplessness -- Scapegoating and demagoguery -- Appendix A. how the survey was conducted -- Appendix B. survey questions.
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The University of Michigan Press Ethnic Cues
Book SynopsisDoes placing a Latino candidate on the ticket mobilize Latino voters? This book assays the influence of ethnic identification on Latinos' voting behavior. It asks whether the presence of co-ethnic candidates actually does mobilize Latino voters in support of these candidates.Trade Review"Matt Barreto investigates some of the ramifications of two new related developments in American political life: the stunning growth of the Latino immigrant population in recent decades and the accompanying exponential explosion in the number of Latino candidates running for political office at the local, state, and national levels." - Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University"
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The University of Michigan Press Researching Black Communities
Book SynopsisPractical advice for conducting social science research in racial and ethnic minority populations
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The University of Michigan Press The Congressional Black Caucus Minority Voting
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewChristina R. Rivers’ timely account of the influence of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) on minority voting rights in the U.S. contains valuable insight into the historical and political role of race in the Supreme Court’s voting rights decisions." — APSA Legislative Studies Section"Rivers explores the clash between the Congressional Black Caucus's race-conscious approach and the Supreme Court's color blind perspective on the role of race in redistricting, representation, and the law. ... Graduate seminars on racial politics, election law, or African American political thought would benefit from this book. Scholars who study these topics, in addition to voting rights, redistricting, and the Congressional Black Caucus, should also read this compelling and well-written book." — American Review of Politics
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The University of Michigan Press Muy Pop
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The University of Michigan Press The Black Musician and the White City
Book SynopsisTells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century. While depicting the segregated city before World War II, Amy Absher traces the migration of black musicians, both men and women and both classical and vernacular performers, from the American South to Chicago during the 1930s–50s.
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The University of Michigan Press Counting the Tigers Teeth
Book SynopsisExamines a crucial turning point in Nigerian history, the Agbekoya rebellion (“Peasants Reject Poverty”) of 1968-70, as chronicled by Toyin Falola, reflecting on his firsthand experiences as a teenage witness to history. Falola, the foremost scholar of Africa of this generation, illuminates the complex factors that led to this armed conflict and details the unfolding of major events.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Detroit Is No Dry Bones The Eternal City of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Vergara is especially alert to changes in the urban landscape . . .perhaps more people will take a second, closer look at the wealth ofnative folk art we have all over town. And Vergara deserves thanks forrecording them and offering a serious critical appraisal.” — Detroit Metro Times
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Ugly Cry
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Vintage Espanol Stranger Spanish Edition Stranger The Challenge
Book Synopsis“Hay veces en que me siento como un extraño en el país donde he pasado más de la mitad de mi vida. No es por falta de oportunidades, ni una queja. Es, más bien, una especie de desilusión. Jamás me imaginé que después de 35 años en Estados Unidos iba a seguir siendo un stranger para muchos. Pero eso soy.” Jorge Ramos, periodista galardonado con premios Emmy, reconocido presentador del Noticiero Univisión y considerado “la voz de los sin voz” de la comunidad latina, fue expulsado de una rueda de prensa del candidato presidencial Donald Trump en Iowa en el año 2015 tras cuestionar sus planes sobre inmigración. En este manifiesto personal, Ramos explora qué significa ser un inmigrante latino, o simplemente un inmigrante, en los Estados Unidos de nuestros días. Mediante datos y estadísticas, su olfato para encontrar historias y su pro
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Random House USA Inc Stranger
Book Synopsis“There are times when I feel like a stranger in this country. I am not complaining and it’s not for lack of opportunity. But it is something of a disappointment. I never would have imagined that after having spent thirty five years in the United States I would still be a stranger to so many. But that’s how it is”. Jorge Ramos, an Emmy award-winning journalist, Univision’s longtime anchorman and widely considered the “voice of the voiceless” within the Latino community, was forcefully removed from an Iowa press conference in 2015 by then-candidate Donald Trump after trying to ask about his plans on immigration. In this personal manifesto, Ramos sets out to examine what it means to be a Latino immigrant, or just an immigrant, in present-day America. Using current research and statistics, with a journalist’s nose for a story, and interweaving his own personal experience, Ramos shows us the changing face of America
£12.34
Random House USA Inc Great Wave
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£24.00
Random House USA Inc WellRead Black Girl
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£18.00
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Book Synopsis“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings to mind other great works: The Odyssey, for the way his heroine’s travels manage to summarize the American history of her race, and Huckleberry Finn, for the clarity of [Pittman’s] voice, for her rare capacity to sort through the mess of years and things to find the one true story of it all.”—Newsweek Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss Jane’s remarkable life, from her childhood as a slave on a Louisiana plantation to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. It is a story of courage and survival, history, bigotry, and hope—as seen through the eyes of a woman who lived through it all. A historical tour de force, a triumph of fiction, Miss Jane’s eloquent narrative brings to life an important story of race in America—and stands as a landmark work for our time.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Hunger of Memory The Education of Richard
Book SynopsisHunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum. Here is the poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with a painful alienation — from his past, his parents, his culture — and so describes the high price of “making it” in middle-class America. Provocative in its positions on affirmative action and bilingual education, Hunger of Memory is a powerful political statement, a profound study of the importance of language ... and the moving, intimate portrait of a boy struggling to become a man.
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ML - Temple University Press 200 Years of Latino History in Philadelphia
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Penguin Young Readers Shine Bright
Book SynopsisAmerican pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country’s founding. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story—from “one of the generation’s greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture” (Shea Serrano)“Sparkling . . . the overdue singing of a Black girl’s song, with perfect pitch . . . delicious to read.”—Oprah DailyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, Esquire, The Guardian, Newsweek, Pitchfork, She Reads, Publishers WeeklySHORTLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARDA weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foun
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Random House USA Inc Beautiful Country A Read with Jenna Pick
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world—an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent • A TODAY SHOW #READWITHJENNA PICK In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive.In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days,” when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center—confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all.But then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you’ve always lived here.Inhabiting her childhood perspective with exquisite lyric clarity and unforgettable charm and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.
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Penguin Young Readers El vértigo horizontal Horizontal Vertigo
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Penguin Young Readers Llorando en el baÃo Memorias Crying in the
Book SynopsisDe la autora de Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana, bestseller del New York Times, nos llegan estos originalísimos ensayos autobiográficos, profundamente conmovedores y de una comicidad que desarma. Hija de inmigrantes mexicanos y criada en Chicago en la década de los noventa, Erika L. Sánchez se ha descrito a sí misma como paria, inadaptada y un chasco: agitadora melancólica y malhablada que se pintaba las uñas de negro, pero también disfrutaba la comedia y tenía el sueño improbable de ser poeta. Veinticinco años más tarde se ha convertido en una galardonada novelista, poeta y ensayista, pero no ha perdido la risa incontrolable, su áspero ingenio y sus singulares poderes para percibir el mundo a su alrededor. En estos ensayos, que tratan de todo —desde la sexualidad hasta el feminismo blanco, pasando por la depresión debilitante
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Penguin Putnam Inc Dear Senthuran
Book SynopsisFEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER“A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture“One of our greatest living writers.” – ShondalandA full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self” (Esquire)In their critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life. Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal. Electrifying and inspiring, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes Emezi's fiction, Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling, self, and survival.
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Penguin Publishing Group This Thread of Gold
Book Synopsis“Beautiful… A gift to ourselves and to the world.”— Mikki Kendall, New York Times bestselling author of Hood FeminismFrom gender adviser to the UN Catherine Joy White comes This Thread of Gold, a lyrical celebration of the history of Black women who challenged stereotypes through film, politics, activism, and beyond. This immersive and empowering read blends history, reporting, and personal stories to weave a gorgeous tapestry from the resilience of Black women. As White writes, “Black women are not victims. Black women are alchemists, spinning gold from a life of hardship. . . . This book is dedicated solely to Black women surviving, thriving, and glowing.” White’s book features revolutionary women from across time and space, liberating them from reductive stereotypes like “the strong Black woman,” and allowing space for emotional nuance, individual motivation, and richness of expression. White offers fresh insights into the work of Beyoncé and Nina Simone, Shirley Chisholm and Meghan Markle, as well as the work of those who resisted in secret—in kitchens, in churches, and through trusted networks. By weaving these women together, White reveals new ways to understand Black womanhood and she is sure to inspire new generations of readers.
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Random House Publishing Group The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison
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LSU Museum of Art The Visual Blues
Book SynopsisExplores the enormous impact that blues and jazz music emanating from the Deep South and moving north had on artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Through a synthesis of interdisciplinary studies, this book fills a major gap in the historiography of the intersection between African-American art and music.
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Random House USA Inc The Souls of Black Folk Everymans Library
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Random House USA Inc The Revolt of the Cockroach People
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
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Random House USA Inc China Men
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Random House USA Inc All Gods Children Need Traveling Shoes
Book SynopsisIn 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of Revolutionist Returnees inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Walking Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive exploration of what it means to be an African American on the mother continent, where color no longer matters but where American-ness keeps asserting itself in ways both puzzling and heartbreaking. As it builds on the personal narrative of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in My Name, this book confirms Maya Angelou’s stature as one of the most gifted autobiographers of our time.
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Random House USA Inc A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney
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