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John Wiley and Sons Ltd International Politics of Race
Book SynopsisIn this important and timely new book, Michael Banton examines the international politics of racial discrimination and racism. The book recounts key events in the international politics of race during the past few decades.Trade Review‘This is Michael Banton at his laser-like best, engaged in a piercing analysis of what would otherwise remain a thoroughly murky subject. No one has better credentials for this job. Banton's are grounded in a lifetime of theoretical work and decades of practical experience. The result is conceptual clarity more than sufficient to blaze a fascinating trail through masses of arcane but vital information.’ Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University "A significant addition to the literature on the ways in which our ideas about race and racism have evolved and changed over the past few decades. It thus deserves a wider readership ... this is an important book." American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1: Race as Species. A two-dimensional concept – Racial typology – Selectionism – Popular usage in English – The tangled web. Chapter 2. UNESCO. Scientific facts - Science and politics - Present problems. Chapter 3 The UN General Assembly. Treaties - The noble lie – The legal instrument: discrimination – The legal instrument: protected fields - Political action – The decades – Universality – Diplomacy - Two theses. Chapter 4. A Living Instrument. Ratification - Treaty monitoring – Annual reports – Communications – Prospects – Problems ahead. Chapter 5: Australia Arraigned. White Australia – Native title – Equal treatment – A multicultural society – Unfinished business. Chapter 6: The USA Enlists. Why ratify? – Ethnogenesis - The Initial/Third report –A language of diversity. Chapter 7: Britain in Europe. European institutions – Immigration - National variations – Ethnic monitoring – Reflections. Chapter 8 The Third World Conference. Alternatives - Drafting - Durban 2001 - The Declaration - The Programme of Action - Reservations - A calamity. Chapter 9: Public Policy and Human Rights. Human rights standards – Equality in civil and political rights – Equality in economic, social and cultural rights – Ethnic relations. Chapter 10: Better Explanations. Race as a social category – The racism problematic – After racism. Postface. Bibliography. Index
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Kensington Publishing I Choose To Stay
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Strange Light This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Long Way Home
Book SynopsisThe province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write.No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history. The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the story of what is, from the European view of things, the oldest part of Canada. Before Confederation it was also the richest, but now Nova Scotia is among the poorest. Its defining myths and stories are mostly about loss and sheer determination. Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way Home chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a mélange of pioneers who carved out pockets of the wilderness;
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McClelland & Stewart Inc. They Said This Would Be Fun
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for NonfictionNominated for the Evergreen AwardA powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus.A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her brought out in other people than she did about herself. She was confronted by white students in blackface at parties, dealt with being the only person of colour in class and was tokenized by her romantic partners. She heard racial slurs in bars, on the street, and during lectures. And she gathered labels she never asked for: Abuse survivor. Token. Bad feminist. But, by graduation, she found an unshakeable sense of self--and a support network of other women of colour.Using her award-winning reporting skills, Eternity connects her own experience to the systemic issues plaguing students today. It's a memoir of pain, but also resilience.
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Royal British Columbia Museum Plant Technology of the First Peoples of British
Book SynopsisBesides being sources of food, plants provided heat, shelter, transportation, clothing, implements, nets, ropes and containers - the necessities of life - for the First Peoples of British Columbia and adjacent territories. They also made good decorations and ornaments, scents, cleansing agents, insect repellents, and many other items.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in ethnographic, archeological, biogeographical, botanical, and economic aspects of people's relationship with the land, should read this book. Although technically a handbook providing clear and detailed botanical data, its incorporation of concepts involving people's use of plants make this volume more. It breaks new ground in that, unlike many ethnobiological studies that concentrate on food or medicine, this book addresses the understudied technological uses of plants, such as their use in the construction of houses, kitchen utensils, fishing gear, bedding and storage containers. Maria G. Fadiman, Southeastern Geographer Vol. 46
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Harlem Renaissance Revisited Politics Arts
Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking combination of social history and intellectual art criticism opens this powerful moment in history to renewed and dynamic interpretation and sharper discussion.Trade ReviewAn articulate, thoughtful, and far-reaching collection, The Harlem Renaissance Revisited is a superb addition to American History and African-American studies shelves, and deserves the highest recommendation especially for college library collections. Midwest Book Review The Harlem Renaissance Revisited offers a rich and various account of how we might go into the future from that partially but unavoidably reimagined past. -- John Pistelli Rain Taxi Review of Books 2011 Ogbar creates a rich forum that has the potential to inform the future of the field. -- Ira Dworkin Melus 2011Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Aesthetics and the New NegroChapter 1. African American Representations on the Stage: Minstrel Performances and Hurston's Dream of a "Real" Negro TheaterChapter 2. No Negro Renaissance: Hubert H. Harrison and the Role of the New Negro Literary CriticChapter 3. It's All Sacred Music: Duke Ellington, from the Cotton Club to the CathedralPart II: Class and Place in HarlemChapter 4. "So the Girl Marries": Class, the Black Press, and the Du Bois – Cullen Wedding of 1928Chapter 5. The Meaning and Significance of Southern Tradition in Rudolph Fisher's StoriesChapter 6. Back to Harlem: Abstract and Everyday Labor during the Harlem RenaissancePart III: Literary Icons Reconsidered Chapter 7. Jessie Redmon Fauset ReconsideredChapter 8. Speak It into Existence: James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones and the Power of Self- Definition in the New Negro Harlem RenaissanceChapter 9. Border Crossings: The Diasporic Travels of Claude McKay and Zora Neale HurstonChapter 10. The Search for Self in Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry: Color, Class, and CommunityPart IV: Gender ConstructionsChapter 11. Jack Johnson, Paul Robeson, and the Hypermasculine African American ÜbermenschChapter 12. Between Black Gay Men: Artistic Collaboration and the Harlem Renaissance in Brother to BrotherPart V: Politics and the New Negro Chapter 13. Perspectives on Interwar Culture: Remapping the New Negro EraChapter 14. "Harlem Globe- Trotters": Black Sojourners in Stalin's Soviet UnionAfterwordList of ContributorsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Mixing Races
Book SynopsisAs such, Mixing Races offers a unique perspective on how contentious debates taking place on college campuses reflected radical shifts in race relations in the larger society.Trade ReviewMixing Races is a fascinating look at how evolutionary science has changed alongside social beliefs. Midwest Book Review 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Mixed-Race Couple in the 1960s2. Scientific Ideas on Race Mixing3. Challenges to Opinions on Race Mixing4. The Modern Synthesis5. The Modern Synthesis Meets Physical Anthropology and Legal Opinion6. University Campuses in the 1960s7. Science, "Race," and "Race Mixing" TodayEpilogueSuggested Further ReadingIndex
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Walker & Co I Shall Not Hate
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University of Nebraska Press Little Britches
Book SynopsisA most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers.—San Francisco ChronicleRalph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color toLittle Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father''s place when it becomes necessary.Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.Trade Review"[Moody] has a splendid talent for bringing the ashes of the past into life."—Chicago Sunday Tribune"This is a gallant book—from the first sentence until the last. It is a true story, written in the first person, written without sentimentality but with extraordinary drama."—Christian Science Monitor"A most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers."—San Francisco Chronicle"You will search long . . . To find a more disarming and refreshing account of family life than Ralph Moody has set down in Little Britches."—Chicago Sunday Tribune"Enthusiastically recommended for young and old."—Library Journal"Ralph Moody’s books should be read aloud in every family circle in America"—Sterling North"The story of the Moody family is told without embellishment in a simple, straight-forward style. It is especially suited for reading aloud as a family. The difficulties Ralph faces, the mishaps and consequences, will provoke quality discussions with middle schoolers and older students, although children as young as third grade will enjoy and benefit from the story."—Homeschooling Today
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Random House USA Inc Democracy in Black How Race Still Enslaves the
Book SynopsisA powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society. America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency—at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we’ve solved America’s race problem. Democracy in Black is Eddie S. Glaude Jr.'s impassioned response. Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a “value gap”—with white lives valued more than others—that still distorts our politics today. Whether discussing why all Americans have racial habits that r
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St Martin's Press Killing Rage Ending Racism Owl Book
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Holt McDougal Rising from the Rails Pullman Porters and the
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Random House USA Inc AntiSemite and Jew An Exploration of the Etiology
Book SynopsisWith a new preface by Michael WalzerJean-Paul Sartre's book is a brilliant portrait of both anti-Semite and Jew, written by a non-Jew and from a non-Jewish point of view. Nothing of the anti-Semite either in his subtle form as a snob, or in his crude form as a gangster, escapes Sartre's sharp eye, and the whole problem of the Jew's relationship to the Gentile is examined in a concrete and living way, rather than in terms of sociological abstractions.
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Beacon Press Stride Toward Freedom The Montgomery Story King
Book SynopsisMLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott.A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott. In his memoir about the event, he tells the stories that informed his radical political thinking before, during, and after the boycott—from first witnessing economic injustice as a teenager and watching his parents experience discrimination to his decision to begin working with the NAACP. Throughout, he demonstrates how activism and leadership can come from any experience at any age.Comprehensive and intimate, Stride Toward Freedom emphasizes the collective nature of the movement and includes King’s experiences learning from other activists working on the boycott, including Mrs. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin. It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with h
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Beacon Press Full Dissidence Notes from an Uneven Playing
Book SynopsisA bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is clear that professional sports are no longer simply fun and games. Rather, the industry is a hotbed of fractures and inequities that reflect and even drive some of the most divisive issues in our country. The nine provocative and deeply personal essays in Full Dissidence confront the dangerous narratives that are shaping the current dialogue in sports and mainstream culture. The book is a reflection on a culture where African Americans continue to navigate the sharp edges of whiteness—as citizens who are always at risk of being told, often directly from the White House, to go back to where they came from. The topics Howard Bryant takes on include the player-owner relationship, the militarization of sports, the m
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Beacon Press Notes of a Native Son
Book SynopsisIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatr
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Beacon Press Yo Mamas Disfunktional
Book SynopsisFrom the celebrated author of Freedom Dreams, a thought-provoking look at how the multicolored urban working class are the solution—not the problem—to the ills of American cities A limited Beacon Classics edition, with a gorgeous spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette In this classic work, acclaimed historian Robin D. G. Kelley undermines false perceptions of Black culture to highlight how grassroots movements hold the key to revolutionizing urban America.Starting with an insightful look at street culture—from the “dozens” to pick-up basketball—Kelley shows how these misunderstandings of Black culture are at the center of the failure of public policy, scholarship and social movements to save our cities. He critiques both conservatives and liberals for ignoring what these cultural forms mean for their practitioners. Blending wit, intellect, and historical detail, he offers groundbreaking analyses of the multi
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Beacon Press Full Dissidence Notes from an Uneven Playing
Book SynopsisA bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.Whether the issues are protest, labor, patriotism, or class division, it is clear that professional sports are no longer simply fun and games. Rather, the industry is a hotbed of fractures and inequities that reflect and even drive some of the most divisive issues in our country. The nine provocative and deeply personal essays in Full Dissidence confront the dangerous narratives that are shaping the current dialogue in sports and mainstream culture. The book is a reflection on a culture where African Americans continue to navigate the sharp edges of whiteness—as citizens who are always at risk of being told, often directly from the White House, to go back to where they came from. The topics Howard Bryant takes on include the player-owner relationship, the militarization of sports, the m
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Beacon Press The Social Life of DNA Race Reparations and
Book SynopsisThe unexpected story of how genetic testing is affecting race in AmericaWe know DNA is a master key that unlocks medical and forensic secrets, but its genealogical life is both revelatory and endlessly fascinating. Tracing genealogy is now the second-most popular hobby amongst Americans, as well as the second-most visited online category. This billion-dollar industry has spawned popular television shows, websites, and Internet communities, and a booming heritage tourism circuit.The tsunami of interest in genetic ancestry tracing from the African American community has been especially overwhelming. In The Social Life of DNA, Alondra Nelson takes us on an unprecedented journey into how the double helix has wound its way into the heart of the most urgent contemporary social issues around race.For over a decade, Nelson has deeply studied this phenomenon. Artfully weaving together keenly observed interactions with root-seekers alongside illuminating his
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Beacon Press Young Gifted and Black
Book Synopsis“An important and powerful book” that radically reframes the debates swirling around the academic achievement of African-American students (Boston Review)In three separate but allied essays, African-American scholars Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard examine the alleged ‘achievement gap’ between Black and white students. Each author addresses how the unique social and cultural position Black students occupy—in a society which often devalues and stereotypes African-American identity—fundamentally shapes students'' experience of school and sets up unique obstacles. Young, Gifted and Black provides an understanding of how these forces work, opening the door to practical, powerful methods for promoting high achievement at all levels.In the first piece, Theresa Perry argues that the dilemmas African-American students face are rooted in the experience of race and ethnicity in America, making the task of achievement distinctive and difficult. She uncovers a rich, powerful African-American philosophy of education by reading African-American narratives from Frederick Douglass to Maya Angelou and carefully critiques the most popular theoretical explanations for group differences in achievement. She goes on to lay out how today’s educators can draw from these sources to reorganize the school experience of African-American students.Claude Steele follows up with stunningly clear empirical psychological evidence that when Black students believe they are being judged as members of a stereotyped group—rather than as individuals—they do worse on tests. He analyzes the subtle psychology of this ‘stereotype threat’ and reflects on the broad implications of his research for education, suggesting scientifically proven techniques that teachers, mentors, and schools can use to counter the powerful effect of stereotype threat.Finally, Asa Hilliard''s essay argues against a variety of false theories and misguided views of African-American achievement. She also shares examples of real schools, programs, and teachers around the country that allow African-American students to achieve at high levels, describing what they are like and what makes them work.Now more than ever, Young, Gifted and Black is an eye-opening work that has the power to not only change how we talk and think about African-American student achievement but how we view the African-American experience as a whole.
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Beacon Press The Radical King
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Beacon Press The World in Flames A Black Boyhood in a White
Book SynopsisA lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird. It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions—including a prohibition against doctors and hospitals—the underpinning tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God was that its members were divinely chosen and all others would soon perish in rivers of flames. The substantial membership was ruled by fear, intimidation, and threats. Anyone who dared leave the church would endure hardship for the remainder of this life and eternal suffering in the next. The next life, according to Armstrong, would arrive in 1975, three years after the start of the Great Tribulation. Jer
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Not Stated In This Place Together
Book SynopsisA narrative meditation on joint nonviolence, opening a window to the questions of power, multiple narratives, and imagination that touch on struggles for justice everywhere.As a Palestinian youth, Sulaiman Khatib encountered the occupation in his village and attempted to fight back, stabbing an Israeli. Imprisoned at the age of 14, he began a process of political and spiritual transformation still unfolding today. In a book he asked Penina Eilberg-Schwartz, an American Jew, to write, and based on years of conversation between them, Khatib shares how his activism became deeply rooted in the belief that we must ground all work?from dialogue to direct action to healing?in recognition of the history and humanity of the other. He reveals how he became convinced that Palestinian freedom can flourish alongside Jewish connection to the land where he was born.In language that is poetic and unflinchingly honest, Eilberg-Schwartz and Khatib chronicle what led him to dedicate his life to joint nonviolence. In his journey, he encountered the deep injustice of torture, witnessed the power of hunger strikes, and studied Jewish history. Ultimately, he came to realize mutual recognition, alongside a transformation of the systems that governed their lives, was necessary for both Palestinians and Israelis to move forward. Still, as he built friendships with Israelis and resisted the occupation alongside them, he could not lose sight of the great power imbalance in the relationship, of all the violence and erasure still present as they dreamt forward together.Intimate and political, In This Place Together opens us up to the dangers and hopes of working with others across vast differences in power and experience. And it opens a new space, shapes a third narrative, and finds another world that can exist?though it?s often hard to see?inside this one.
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Beacon Press Inheriting the Trade A Northern Family Confronts
Book SynopsisA trailblazing memoir about one family’s quest to face its slave-trading past, and an urgent call for reconciliation In 2001, Thomas DeWolf discovered that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in U.S. history, responsible for transporting at least ten thousand Africans. This is his memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced their ancestors' steps through the notorious triangle trade route—from New England to West Africa to Cuba—and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states. A difficult but necessary examination of the slave trade, racism, and privilege in the United States, Inheriting the Trade is a powerful call for white America to reassess what they have been taught about their own ancestors, about slavery and wealth, and about America both past and present.
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Beacon Press All Labor Has Dignity King Legacy 5
Book SynopsisAn unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to most readers. The collection begins with King's lectures to unions in the 1960s and includes his addresses made during his Poor People's Campaign, culminating with his momentous Mountaintop speech, delivered in support of striking black sanitation workers in Memphis. Unprecedented and timely, All Labor Has Dignity will more fully restore our understanding of King's lasting vision of economic justice, bringing his demand for equality right into the present.
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John Wiley & Sons Black Male Success in Higher Education How the Mathematical Brotherhood Empowers a Collegiate Community to Thrive
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Northwestern University Press Seven Black Plays
Book SynopsisShowcases a selection of award-winning African American drama. The seven plays represent a wide range of talents, experience and perspectives brought to bear on diverse themes, from a unique moment in the history of baseball's Negro League to a working-class couple contending with a bully.
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Northwestern University Press The Goodman Theatres Festival Latino Six Plays
Book SynopsisDrawn from the first ten years of the Goodman Theatre's renowned biennial festival of Latino plays, the works in this collection expand the definition of Latino theatre, resisting the confines of a particular language, locale, or assumed audience. Instead of focusing on similarities that outline the boundaries of Latino identity, these plays look outward, representing the multiplicity of actual Latino experience. The plays were written and performed sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish; their stories are set in heterogeneous milieus; they're directed at both Latino and non-Latino audiences; and they incorporate cultural or theatrical elements from vastly different traditions. As a group, these plays indicate the extraordinary range of the festival's offerings and show how it has contributed to a more complex notion of what Latino theatre is and can be.
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Northwestern University Press Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination
Book SynopsisOffers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and non-literary texts.
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Northwestern University Press Reclaiming Time
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Tyler Perrys America Inside His Films
Book SynopsisTyler Perry is the most successful African-American filmmaker of his generation, garnering both accolades and controversies. In Tyler Perryâs America, Shayne Lee examines eleven of Perryâs highest-grossing films to explore key themes of race, gender, class, and religion, and what Perryâs films reveal about contemporary African-American life.Trade ReviewLee is a sociologist, and his approach to the sociology—or is it economics?—in Tyler Perry's films is 100 percent admirable: he writes that he 'watched each movie no less than ten times, carefully coding and cataloguing themes, plots, and character development regarding their relation to pertinent socio-cultural themes.' This is the first book-length study of Perry, and Lee is brilliant at perceiving clearly, not sentimentally, the role of religion. . . .The author never perceives movies as movies; he could be talking about novels. He deals with the meaning of ten films, looking at 'the dream and the nightmare' of blacks. Dreams are strength, education, devotion, love, freedom, blessings. Nightmares are poverty, hunger, drugs, white domination, suffering, inequality, prison, hatred, injustice, rape, and best of all, madness (especially in the Madea films). The book is lovingly informative, and Lee knows the context of the films (be it reality, novels, or other films). Written in clear prose, this is a surprisingly important book, especially for those interested in the sociology of film. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers. * CHOICE *Lee's book clearly demonstrates the necessity of scholarly treatments of Perry's oeuvre. Quite simply, to ignore Perry is to ignore a central figure not just in Black film but American independent film. There is still much work to be done on Perry and his media empire, including his use of genre and seriality, but Lee's book is a welcome contribution to the evolving Tyler Perry discourse. * Journal of Popular Film and Television *Shayne Lee’s Tyler Perry’s America, the first book-length study of Perry’s movies, sheds the most positive light on the artist and his work.... Lee’s study systematically covers all of Perry’s work—from his debut film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005), up to and including Good Deeds (2012)—a total of eleven productions.... The author craftily links a large number of classic and contemporary filmmakers and films, some focused on African American culture and some not, to Perry and his collection. So while Humphrey Bogart’s character in the film Key Largo (1948) appears at the beginning of chapter 2, the book’s appendix and chapter 5 are more general and thus noteworthy. The former is about the social import of black film and new promising directions it should take; sociologists will be especially attracted to it. The latter, treating five functions of art that are implicit in Perry’s work, will appeal to readers interested in a larger American pragmatist tradition of artistic production. * American Quarterly *It is impossible to understand modern America without understanding the phenomenon that is Tyler Perry. In this book, Shayne Lee does a masterful job bringing us into the world of Tyler Perry films and helping us understand what they tell us about ourselves. A riveting read; be prepared to be surprised. -- Michael Emerson, Rice University; author of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in AmericaIn Tyler Perry's America: Inside His Films, sociologist Shayne Lee offers an unmatched and unrivaled scholarly consideration of the sociocultural relevance of Perry's oeuvre for a post–civil rights, post-soul era. With a keen eye towards class, religion, and race, among a host of other domains, and with a new approach to evaluation at hand, Lee ups the analytical ante by transgressing the all-too-easy conflict management and moral maintenance analyses that have shaped previous treatments of this and other subjects. Lee offers here a compelling, rigorous sociological approach to his data that sets a new standard of engagement that future treatments will have to, no doubt, consider. -- Monica R. Miller, Lehigh University; author of Religion and Hip HopTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Dream and the Nightmare: Perry’s Socioeconomic Crossroads 2. Wanting More: Perry’s Populist Critique 3. Redemptive Madness: Perry’s Existential Superwomen 4. Relational Religion: Perry’s Folk-Modern Spirituality 5. Pragmatist Cinema: Perry’s Five Functions of Art Appendix Filmography References Acknowledgments About the Author
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Random House USA Inc Death of Innocence
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Random House USA Inc La Travesia de Enrique
Book SynopsisEn esta asombrosa historia real, la galardonada periodista Sonia Nazario relata la inolvidable odisea de un niño hondureño que enfrenta penurias y peligros para reunirse con su madre en los Estados Unidos.Cuando Enrique tiene cinco años, su madre, Lourdes, se marcha de Honduras para trabajar en los Estados Unidos. Esto le permite enviarle dinero a Enrique para que pueda comer mejor y asistir a la escuela más allá del tercer grado. Lourdes le promete a su hijo que regresará pronto, pero en los Estados Unidos las cosas no son fáciles. Transcurren once años. A Enrique lo desespera pensar que no volverá a ver a su madre, y se lanza solo en su busca desde Tegucigalpa con poco más que un pedazo de papel donde ha escrito el número telefónico de su madre en Carolina del Norte. Sin dinero, hará una travesía peligrosa e ilegal a lo largo de México de la única forma que puede: encaramado en los costados y en los techos de los trenes de carga. Con recia determinación y profundo anhelo, Enrique atraviesa mundos hostiles y desconocidos eludiendo pandilleros que controlan los techos de los trenes, bandidos despiadados y policías corruptos que sólo quieren robarle lo que tiene y deportarlo. Enrique avanza a fuerza de ingenio, coraje, y esperanza?y también gracias a la bondad de los desconocidos. Es una travesía épica que hacen miles de niños inmigrantes todos los años para encontrarse con sus madres en los Estados Unidos. Basado en la serie publicada por el periódico Los Angeles Times que ganó dos premios Pulitzer?uno por el reportaje, el otro por la fotografía?La Travesia de Enrique es una historia para todos los tiempos sobre familias desgarradas por la separación, sobre el anhelo de volver a estar juntos y sobre un niño que arriesgará su vida para reencontrarse con la madre que ama.
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Random House USA Inc Gather Together in My Name
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Random House USA Inc Double Cup Love On the Trail of Family Food and
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places around the globe. His New York City restaurant was humming, his OKCupid hand was strong, and he’d even hung fresh Ralph Lauren curtains to create the illusion of a bedroom in the tiny apartment he shared with his younger brother Evan, who ran their restaurant business. Then he fell in love—and everything fell apart. The business was creating tension within the family; his life as a media star took him away from his first passion—food; and the woman he loved—an All-American white girl—made him wonder: How Chinese am I? The only way to find out, he decided, was to reverse his parents’ migration and head back to the mot
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Random House USA Inc Reading with Patrick
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Random House USA Inc Young Radicals In the War for American Ideals
Book SynopsisFrom the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hamilton: The Revolution, the stunning story of five American radicals fighting for their ideals as the country goes mad around them “Inspiring and entertaining.”—David Brooks, The New York Times “It’s not difficult to see why [Lin-Manuel] Miranda would have been attracted to [Jeremy] McCarter as a writing partner.”—The Wall Street Journal “One of the exciting new nonfiction books this summer.”—Time Where do we find our ideals? What does it mean to live for them—and to risk dying for them? For Americans during World War I, these weren’t abstract questions. Young Radicals tells the story of five activists, intellectuals and troublemakers who agitated for freedom and equality in the hopeful years before the war, then fought to de
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Random House USA Inc Rainbow in the Cloud
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The University Press of Kentucky Integrated The Lincoln Institute Basketball and a
Book SynopsisExplores an often ignored aspect of America's struggle for racial equality. James W. Miller relates the story of the Lincoln Institute - an all-black high school in Shelby County, Kentucky, where students prospered both in the classroom and on the basketball court. This evocative book is enriched by tales of individual courage from men who defied comfort and custom.Trade ReviewThis book successfully captures the spirit, resilience, and history of Lincoln Institute. Miller tells an important story using race and sports as a lens for understanding a forgotten piece of Kentucky history."" - Gerald L. Smith, Theodore A. Hallam Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and coauthor of The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia""The Lincoln Institute, to many Kentuckians and particularly to many African American Kentuckians, has extra special meaning because it was an extraordinary place for students. The Lincoln Institute not only provided opportunities for individuals to grow academically, mentally, and personally; it also offered opportunities for athletic achievements.""If you are looking for some exciting reading with a historical basis on a school that touched the lives of many Kentuckians, then Integrated is for you."" - Raymond M. Burse, former president of Kentucky State University
£32.50
The University Press of Kentucky An Unseen Light
Book SynopsisOffers a multidisciplinary examination of Memphis's role in African American history during the twentieth century. Contributors investigate episodes such as the 1940 “Reign of Terror”, the relationship between the labour and civil rights movements, the fight for economic advancement in black communities, and the impact of music on the city's culture.
£43.65
The University Press of Kentucky Slaves Slaveholders and a Kentucky Communitys
Book SynopsisDigging deep into Holt's past, Leonard explores the lives of Holt's extended family members and also traces the experiences and efforts of Sandy Holt and other slaves-turned-soldiers from Breckinridge County and its periphery.
£30.40
The University Press of Kentucky The Struggle Is Eternal Gloria Richardson and
Book SynopsisMany prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics beyond nonviolent demonstrations. Her philosophies and strategies -- including her belief that black people had a right to self--defense -- were adopted, often without credit, by a number of civil rights and black power leaders and activists. The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation explores the largely forgotten but deeply significant life of this central figure and her determination to improve the lives of black people. Using a wide range of source materials, including interviews with Richardson and her personal papers, as well as interviews with dozens of her frie
£25.65
The University Press of Kentucky An Introduction to Black Studies
Book SynopsisThis emerging field of study sought to address omissions from numerous disciplines and correct the myriad distortions, stereotypes, and myths about persons of African descent.In An Introduction to Black Studies, Eric R.Table of ContentsThe Nature, Scope, and Construction of Black Studies The Origin and Development of Black Studies as a Field of Analysis The History of African Americans in the United States African Americans in the United States from the Civil War to the Present African Americans and Education African Americans at Home and Abroad African American Religious Traditions African American Religious Traditions Black Feminism The African American Experience from a Sociological Perspective The African American Experience from a Sociological Perspective Black Psychology Black Psychology African Americans and Politics African Americans and Politics The Creative Expressions of African Americans The Creative Expressions of African Americans
£30.40
The Catholic University of America Press Preaching to Latinos Welcoming the Hispanic
Book SynopsisIn addition to knowing the scholarly literature on cross-cultural preaching and Hispanic culture, Father Michael Kueber has twenty years of experience serving Hispanic immigrants and their children. In Preaching to Latinos, Kueber provides the readers with best practices for preaching to and leading their churches.
£28.45
Rutgers University Press African American Women Writers in New Jersey
Book SynopsisIdentifies and documents the lives and publications of over one hundred African American women writers in the Garden State from 1836 through 2000. This volume contains biographical and bibliographical information for each author, including the photographs of the authors and citations for the published pamphlets, books, reports, and articles.Trade Review"An original and laudatory example of scholarship....A valuable tool...for the cultural history of New Jersey and U.S. women's history." * The Year's Work in English Studies (2005) *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Ni'mat Mujahid Abdus-Samad Ameerah Hasin Ahmad Islah Samirah Beyah Ali, see Islah Beyah Glora Lucille Amos Amina Baraka Carole Bartel, see Oona'o Haynes Daphne Haygood Benyard Islah Beyah Undra Elissa Clay Biggs Louis Scott Thompson Blanks Sue Booker, see Thandeka Dnie Michele Brown, see Islah Beyah Margery Wheeler Brown Martha Hursey Brown Vashti Proctor Brown Irene Martin Bryant Gracie Diane Burnett Anna Land Butler Rebecca Batts Butler Sally Central Butler Bertha Georgetta Merritt Campbell Georgetta Campbell, see Bertha Georgetta Merritt Campbell Mary Elizabeth Cornish Carmichael Cheryl Lynn Clarke Evelyn Clyburn Chrisena Anne Coleman Elsie McIntosh Collins Carole Darden, see Carole Darden Lloyd Norma Jean Darden Esther Louise Davis-Thompson Lenora Allen Dorin Theresa Bowman Downing Cecelia Hodges Drewry Frankie W. Dudley Sylvia Clarke Edge Jessie Redmon Fauset E. Alma Williams Flagg Valerie Rose Flournoy Vanessa Flournoy Annabelle Robinson Freeland Mindy Thompson Fullilove Kathryn Elizabeth Gaines Monique Gilmore-Scott Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant Carolyn Jetter Greene Diana Brenda Guyton, see Jaleelah Karriem Shirley T. Hailstock Valerie Hall, see Ameerah Ahmad Leola Grant Hayes Oona'o Haynes Essie Lee Kirkland Hendley Maurita Miles Hinton Mary Rose Holley Linda Janet Holmes Helen Shaw Hooks, see Helen Shaw Christine Moore Howell Cheryl AuVal Willis Hudson Sally Page Hughes Kristin Elaine Eggleston Hunter-Lattany Mary Jane Ray Jackson Norma Jean Jarrett Catherine Juanita Fortune Johnson, see Ni'Mat Mujahid Abdus-Samad Birdie (Byerte) Wilson Johnson Sylvia Robinson Jones, see Amina Baraka Jaleelah Karriem Amalya Lyle Kearse Janice Green Kenyatta Lurey Khan Nancy Kofie, see Nancy Elizabeth Travis Patricia Layne Kristin Lattany, see Kristin Hunter-Lattany Doris Mae Laws, see Ummil-Khair Zakiyyah Sharif Helen Corrine Jackson Lee Jarena Lee Helen Marie Tudos Lee Lindsey Benilde Elease Little Eddiemae Livingston Carole Darden Lloyd Pauline Mason Lowery Sharon Yvonne Bell Mathis Carrie Allen McCray Hope Taylor McGriff, see Hope Rosemary Taylor Lenora Sylvia Walker McKay Sharon L. Mitchell Betty Jean Green Moore Margaret Lee Hicks Morris Evelyn Stalling Murray Betty Elizabeth Harris Neals Gladys Cannon Nunery J. Joyce Coleman Payne Vanessa Payton, see Vanessa Flournoy Gertrude Williams Pitts Dorothy Burnett Porter, see Dorothy Louise Burnett Porter Wesley Mattie Hunter Pouncy Maurice Lee Ficklin Riley Irose Fernella Adams Roberts La Francis Audrey Rodgers-rose Grace Ariadne Trott Roper Phontella Cloteal Butcher Ruff Kate Rushin Nefeterri Salaam Viola Harris Sanders Esther "Hetty" Saunders Qadriyyah Buteen Shakir Ntozake Shange Ummil-Khair Zakiyyah Sharif Helen Shaw Ruby Williams Shivers Patricia Nicely Simon, see Nefeterri Salaam Bettye Delores Tyson Spinner Elberta Wilhelmina Hayes Stone Dorothy Mae Salley Strickland Jere Elaine Talley Claudia C. Tate Hope Rosemary Taylor Thandeka Naturi Songhai Thomas Veona Young Thomas Mary Louise Thompson Mindy Thompson, see Mindy Thompson Fullilove Jeanette Frances Thornton Rita Louise Thornton Yvonne Shirley Thornton Nancy Elizabeth Travis Emma Marie H. Cooper Trusty Michele Lois Tuck-Ponder Wanda Regina Buggs Tucker Sheila Suzanne Walker Cheryl Ann Wall Dorothy Louise Burnett Porter Wesley Valerie Deane Wilson Wesley Cheryl Anne Fisher White Lola Buteen Wiggins, see Qadriyyah Buteen Shakir Ruby Ora Williams Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe Marion Manola Thompson Wright Appendix A: Distribution of African American Women Writers in New Jersey, by Geographical Affiliation (Town) Appendix B: Distribution of African American Women Writers in New Jersey, by Genre
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John Wiley & Sons Holy Prayers in a Horses Ear A Japanese American
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa's pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. This edition also includes Tamagawa's short story, ""A Fit in Japan"" and a critical introduction.Table of ContentsHoly prayers in a horse's ear A fit in Japan
£999.99
Rutgers University Press Bookmarks Reading in Black and White a Memoir
Book SynopsisKarla FC Holloway examines booklists, along with the trends of selection in Oprah Winfrey's popular book club, raising the questions: What does it mean for prominent African Americans to associate themselves with European learning and culture? How do books by black authors fare in the inevitable hierarchy of a booklist?Trade ReviewErudite and emotional in turns, it is full of truths that appeal to the head and the heart. Its primary strength is its poignancy. There is a kind of mystery that holds the book together, one that commands our interest from start to finish. Little by little we learn that Holloway has suffered a terrible loss -- the death of her young son. She reveals the details slowly, impressionistically, working through her grief by turning again and again to the subject she knows best: books. * American Academy of Religion Program *Part memoir, part historical research on the reading habit of writers, Karla Holloway provides the reader with a rare opportunity to reflect upon his/her own reading experience: What have you read? How did you learn to read? Where were your 'protected and isolated spaces' for reading? How has that early experience shaped your current reading? A unique contribution to our understanding of the importance of reading in shaping our culture. -- David S. Ferriero * Andrew W. Mellon Director and Chief Executive of the Research Libraries, New Yor *BookMarks is a moving and revelatory memoir, as Holloway contemplates her own reading history as well as that of her family...this is a work of fiercely intelligent scholarship. -- Susan Larson * New Orleans Times-Picayune *Table of ContentsReading and desire in a room of their own / The booklists of Jessie Fauset and Marita Golden A negro library / The booklists of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright On censorship and Tarzan / The booklists of John Hope Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde A prison library / The booklists of Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver The anchor bar / The booklists of Maya Angelou and James Baldwin A proud chestnut / The booklists of James Weldon Johnson and Nikki Giovanni The children's room / The booklists of Langston Hughes and Pauli Murray My mother's singing / The booklists of C. Eric Lincoln and Leon Forrest Reading race / The booklists of Henry Louis Gates and Michael Eric Dyson The card catalog / The booklists of Zora Neale Hurston, J. Saunders Redding, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delaney, and Oprah Winfrey
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