Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
John Wiley & Sons Indianizing Film Decolonization the Andes and the
Book SynopsisLatin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. This title encourages readers to consider how indigenous media contributes to a wider understanding of decolonization and anticolonial study against the universal backdrop of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewSchiwy's analysis of indigenous media contributes provocative, rich, close readings of several key concepts from Latin American literary and cultural studies, including: transculturation, literacy, testimonio, the lettered city, and global multiculturalism. . . . Her compelling analysis of the thematic, discursive, and structural components of individual videos is nuanced and smart. -- Marcia Stephenson * Purdue University *"Schiwy's analyses of how indigenous populations in Latin America have met the challenge of decolonizing knowledge will set the stage for any future work on the 'indianizing' of audiovisual technology. Given its comparative scope, intellectual breadth and theoretical acuity, I predict the concepts in Indianizing Film will become as influential for twenty-first century discussions of post-colonialism as Edward SaidÆs ôOrientalismö was for the twentieth." -- Ana Lopez * Tulane University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments — vii Introduction — The Question of Technology — 1 1 Indigenous Media and the Politics of Knowledge — 33 2 Casting New Protagonists — 63 3 Cinematic Time and Visual Economy — 85 4 Gender, Complementarity, and the Anticolonial Gaze — 109 5 Nature, Indians, and Epistemic Privilege — 139 6 Specters and Braided Stories — 163 7 Indigenous Media and the Market — 185 Afterword — 212 Notes — 223 Bibliography — 249 Filmography — 267 Index — 273
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Rutgers University Press Revolutionizing Romance Interracial Couples in
Book SynopsisRevolutionizing Romance is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships.Trade Review"This excellent work breaks new ground in our understanding of Cuban society by focusing on interracial relationships, the sites where mestizaje is produced. Fernandez analyzes these interactions and exchanges with all their contradictions and complexities, making for a compelling read." -- Alejandro de la Fuente * author of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century *"This extremely insightful book addresses a major paradox in Cuban society. Fernandez's ethnography and sophisticated analysis dives deep into the contradictory meanings of interracial romance, providing much-needed sociocultural analysis." -- Faye Harrison * author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age *"Because of its accessible style and the succinct background chapters on Cuban racial history and the topic of romantic love, the book is a fine resource for introductory courses on race in Latin America and the Caribbean." * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsInterracial couples from colony to revolution Socialist equality and the color-blind revolution Mapping interracial couples: race and space in Havana The everyday presence of race Blackness, Whiteness, class, and the emergent economy Interracial couples and racism at home
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MW - Rutgers University Press Transatlantic Spectacles of Race The Tragic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An engaging, rich, and provocative work that re-directs 'mixed-race' studies back to its complex archival and historical roots, Manganelli’s book challenges readers to consider the deeply imbricated, transnational production of 19th century racial and gender mythologies." -- Daphne Brooks * Princeton University *"Manganelli's clear, engaging writing will captivate readers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century British and American literature. This book provides a powerful and lucid model for scholars and students interested in transatlantic work." -- Cherene Sherrard-Johnson * author of Portraits of the New Negro Woman *"Transatlantic Spectacles of Race is a valuable contribution to race and gender studies. It narrates the spectacular dynamics of power at intersections of race and gender, and illuminates the 'racial taxonomies attempting to controll uncontrollable shades of color.'" * American Studies *"An admirable example of the ways in which American theories of race have recently enriched what had previously been a somwehat circumscribed academic field." * Victorian Studies *"An engaging, rich, and provocative work that re-directs 'mixed-race' studies back to its complex archival and historical roots, Manganelli’s book challenges readers to consider the deeply imbricated, transnational production of 19th century racial and gender mythologies." -- Daphne Brooks * Princeton University *"Manganelli's clear, engaging writing will captivate readers of nineteenth and early twentieth-century British and American literature. This book provides a powerful and lucid model for scholars and students interested in transatlantic work." -- Cherene Sherrard-Johnson * author of Portraits of the New Negro Woman *"Transatlantic Spectacles of Race is a valuable contribution to race and gender studies. It narrates the spectacular dynamics of power at intersections of race and gender, and illuminates the 'racial taxonomies attempting to controll uncontrollable shades of color.'" * American Studies *"An admirable example of the ways in which American theories of race have recently enriched what had previously been a somwehat circumscribed academic field." * Victorian Studies *Table of ContentsPart I: Gender Boundaries Within Educational Spaces Creating a Gender-Inclusive Campus / Genny Beemyn and Susan R. Rankin Transgendering the Academy: Ensuring Transgender Inclusion in Higher Education / Pauline Park Part II: Trans Imaginaries "I'll call him Mahood instead, I prefer that, I'm queer": Samuel Beckett's Spatial Aesthetic of Name Change / Lucas Crawford Excruciating Improbability and the Transgender Jamaican / Keja Valens TRANScoding the Transnational Digital Economy / Jian Chen Part III: Crossing Borders/Crossing Gender When Things Don't Add Up: Transgender Bodies and the Mobile Borders of Biometrics / Toby Beauchamp Connecting the Dots: National Security the Crime-Migration Nexus, and Trans Women's Survival / Nora Butler Burke Affective Vulnerability and Transgender Exceptionalism: Norma Ureiro in Transgression / Aren Z. Aizura Part IV: Trans Activism and Policy The T in LGBTQ: How Do Trans Activists Perceive Alliances within LGBT and Queer Movements in Quebec (Canada)? / Mickael Chacha Enriquez Translatina Is about the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco / Alexandra Rodriguez de Ruiz and Marcia Ochoa LGB within the T: Sexual Orientation in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey and Implications for Public Policy / Jody L. Herman Part V: Transforming Disciplines and Pedagogy Adventures in Trans Biopolitics: A Comparison between Public Health and Critical Academic Research Praxes / Sel J. Hwahng Stick Figures and Little Bits: Toward a Nonbinary Pedagogy / A. Finn Enke Conclusion: Trans Fantasizing: From Social Media to Collective Imagination / Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel and Sarah Tobias
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MW - Rutgers University Press The End of American Lynching
Book SynopsisThis questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defined, and the circumstances that lead to lynching. Ashraf H. A. Rushday looks at three lynchings over the course of the twentieth century to see how Americans developed two distinct ways of thinking and talking about this act before and after the 1930s.Trade Review"Both excellent and unique, The End of American Lynching offers a sophisticated yet clear and methodical approach to the study of lynching...fresh, distinct, and eminently readable." -- Leigh Raiford * author of Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare *"Written with vigor and in sprightly prose, in this provocative book Rushdy adds much-needed subtlety to the contemporary ‘end of racism’ debate while clarifying why so many Americans misunderstood or denied the reality of lynching for so long." -- W. Fitzhugh Brundage * author of Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930 *"The End of American Lynching, Ashraf H. A. Rushdy’s important examination of lynching discourse, asks scholars to reconsider how theyremember and talk about racial violence." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: When Is an American Lynching?1 The Accountant and the Opera House2 Date Night in the Courthouse Square3 The End of American Lynching4 The Last American LynchingConclusion: The Subject of LynchingNotesIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press Saving Face The Emotional Costs of the Asian
Book SynopsisOffers a nuanced portrait of Asian immigrant families in a changing world as recalled by the people who lived them first-hand: the grown children of Chinese and Korean immigrants. Drawing on extensive interviews, sociologist Angie Y. Chung examines how these second-generation children negotiate the complex and conflicted feelings they have toward their family responsibilities and upbringing.Trade Review"Well-written and engaging, Saving Face takes a novel approach of exploring the emotional life of Chinese and Korean immigrant families." -- Nazli Kibria * Boston University *"Full of rich and absorbing interview material, Saving Face explores the emotional dynamics of family experiences, responsibilities, and commitments among the children of Chinese and Korean immigrants. Covering a range of themes, from parent-child relations to gender roles and expectations, the book offers fresh insights into Asian immigrant family life." -- Nancy Foner * coauthor of Strangers No More *"Angie Chung’s Saving Face has made an invaluable contribution by zeroing in on how second-generation Asian American children navigate intricate emotional dynamics with their parents, siblings, and extended family." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements 1The Asian Immigrant Family Myth 2Education, Sacrifice, and the American Dream 3Love and Communication across the Generation Gap 4Children as Family Caregivers 5Daughters and Sons Carrying Culture 6The Racial Contradictions of Being American 7Behind the Family Portrait Appendix AAppendix BNotesIndex
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Rutgers University Press Searching for Sycorax Black Womens Hauntings of
Book SynopsisSearching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory.Trade Review"Searching for Sycorax is unlike anything I have ever read. Brooks’ excavation of Black women’s presence in horror is a ground-breaking, game changing must read for scholars and aficionados alike." -- Susana M. Morris * author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature *"As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found Searching for Sycorax's interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant." -- LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant * coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions *Author Kinitra D. Brooks was featured in an article in The Cut on a similar issue of black women in popular culture, entitled "Beyoncé Is the Leonardo da Vinci of Instagram." -- Emilia Petrarca * TheCut.com *"A deep exploration how Black women create horror that spawns a new knowledge of the genre that worries the intersections of race and gender to gain a better understanding, and continue the ongoing conversation as well as activity in the Black Women's Horror Renaissance." * Graveyard Shift Sisters *"BOOK CORNER: Author highlights influence of black women in horror" by Marissa Wells * LA Wave *"Discusses black women of the Americas and Britain as creators and characters in the horror genre." * Chronicle *"Students tap into popular culture to explore theories of race and gender" Searching for Sycorax mention * UTSA Today *"Why Are There So Many Bunnies in Scary Movies?" by Cady Lang - interview with Dr. Kinitra D. Brooks * Time *"Us Makes Us Look in the Mirror—What If We Don't Like What We See?," by Kinitra D. Brooks * Elle *Mention in "#StokersSoWhite: 2016-2018, the fall of tokenism at the HWA" https://sfbayview.com/2019/10/stokerssowhite-2016-2018-the-fall-of-tokenism-at-the-hwa/ * San Francisco Bay View *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Searching for Sycorax: Black Women and Horror 1 1. The Importance of Neglected Intersections: Characterizations of Black Women in Mainstream Horror Texts 16 2. Black Feminism and the Struggle for Literary Respectability 41 3. Black Women Writing Fluid Fiction: An Open Challenge to Genre Normativity 56 4. Folkloric Horror: A New Way of Reading Black Women’s Creative Horror 95 Conclusion. Sycorax’s Power of Revision: Reconstructing Black Women’s Counternarratives 127 Appendix: Creative Work Summary 133 Notes 167 Index 195
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MW - Rutgers University Press Food Across Borders
Book SynopsisThe act of eating defines and redefines borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging. Trade Review"A 'Taco Truck on Every Corner'? Well organized and well written, Food Across Borders takes a broad inter-ethnic, transnational, and transhemispheric approach to its subject. The book is a welcome reminder and fresh interpretation of the central role that food plays in American politics and society at every level from production to consumption." -- José M. Alamillo * author of Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town *"This important volume reminds us that eating necessarily involves the movement of foodstuffs, meanings, and bodies across borders, both intimate and geopolitical, and that 'building a wall' is no solution." -- Julie Guthman * author of Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California *"Essays on such topics as negotiating nostalgia in family-owned and small-scale Mexican restaurants in the United States." * Chronicle *A Conversation with Food Across Borders editors Matt Garcia, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Don Mitchell * Meant to be Eaten *Table of ContentsContents List of Maps Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Food Across Borders: An Introduction E. Melanie Dupuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell Chapter 2: Afro-Latina/os’ Culinary Subjectivities: Rooting Ethnicities through Root Vegetables Meredith E. Abarca Chapter 3: “Mexican Cookery that belongs to the United States”: Evolving Boundaries of Whiteness in New Mexican Kitchens Katherine Massoth Chapter 4: “Cooking Mexican”: Negotiating Nostalgia in Family-Owned and Small-Scale Mexican Restaurants in the United States José Antonio Vázquez-Medina Chapter 5: “Chasing the Yum”: Food Procurement and Thai American Community Formation in an Era of Free Trade Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt Chapter 6: Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabian Garcia, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century US-Mexico Borderlands William Carleton Chapter 7: Constructing Borderless Foods: The Quartermaster Corps and World War II Army Subsistence Kellen Backer Chapter 8: Bittersweet: Food, Gender and the State in the US and Canadian Wests During World War I Mary Murphy Chapter 9: The Place that Feeds You: Allotment and the Struggle for Blackfeet Food Sovereignty Michael Wise Chapter 10: Eating Far from Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont Teresa M. Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar Chapter 11: Milking Networks for All They’re Worth: Precarious Migrant Life and the Process of Consent on New York Dairies Kathleen Sexsmith Chapter 12: Crossing Borders, Overcoming Boundaries: Latino Immigrant Farmers and a New Sense of Home in the United States Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Chapter 13: (Re)Producing Ethnic Difference: Solidarity Trade, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Global Quinoa Boom Marygold Walsh-Dilley Notes on Contributors Index Contents List of Maps Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Food Across Borders: An Introduction E. Melanie Dupuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell Chapter 2: Afro-Latina/os’ Culinary Subjectivities: Rooting Ethnicities through Root Vegetables Meredith E. Abarca Chapter 3: “Mexican Cookery that belongs to the United States”: Evolving Boundaries of Whiteness in New Mexican Kitchens Katherine Massoth Chapter 4: “Cooking Mexican”: Negotiating Nostalgia in Family-Owned and Small-Scale Mexican Restaurants in the United States José Antonio Vázquez-Medina Chapter 5: “Chasing the Yum”: Food Procurement and Thai American Community Formation in an Era of Free Trade Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt Chapter 6: Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabian Garcia, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century US-Mexico Borderlands William Carleton Chapter 7: Constructing Borderless Foods: The Quartermaster Corps and World War II Army Subsistence Kellen Backer Chapter 8: Bittersweet: Food, Gender and the State in the US and Canadian Wests During World War I Mary Murphy Chapter 9: The Place that Feeds You: Allotment and the Struggle for Blackfeet Food Sovereignty Michael Wise Chapter 10: Eating Far from Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont Teresa M. Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar Chapter 11: Milking Networks for All They’re Worth: Precarious Migrant Life and the Process of Consent on New York Dairies Kathleen Sexsmith Chapter 12: Crossing Borders, Overcoming Boundaries: Latino Immigrant Farmers and a New Sense of Home in the United States Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Chapter 13: (Re)Producing Ethnic Difference: Solidarity Trade, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Global Quinoa Boom Marygold Walsh-Dilley Notes on Contributors Index
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University of Virginia Press Looking for Other Worlds Black Feminism and
Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? This volume engages with this question from a feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.
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Ohio State University Press When the Devil Knocks The Congo Tradition and the
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Ohio State University Press Tales from La Vida
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University of Arizona Press MOVING FROM THE MARGINS
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University of Arizona Press Aztlán Arizona
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University of Arizona Press Creating Aztlán
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University of Arizona Press Broken Souths
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University of Arizona Press With the River on Our Face
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University of Arizona Press La Gente Struggles for Empowerment and Community
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University of Minnesota Press Ethnic Labels Latino Lives
Book SynopsisExploring the history and current use of the label hispanic, this book illustrates the complex meanings that ethnicity has acquired in shaping our lives and identities.
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Culture Concept Writing and Difference in the
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Ethnography At The Border
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University of Minnesota Press Care of the Species
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Amazing; revelatory: at last, a book that guides scholars and students who have only known humans into care for other beings. Care of the Species walks readers through the steps that allowed John Hartigan Jr. to open his attention to plants. He starts with a meditation on race: what happens to this category when it refers to cultivated plants? Rather than assume readers who already care, Hartigan Jr. shows us how to care. Rather than stereotype science as a way of thought, Care of the Species shows how ethnographers might listen closely to botanists to appreciate what their caring might be about. Reading this book made me realize I had waited for it a long time; it shows humanists why the more-than-human matters. I can’t wait to teach it."—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coeditor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet "Care of the Species examines the infrastructures, labs, and gardens that contain the dynamism of botanical life forms. Corn plants—with unruly ‘jumping genes’ and racialized strains—are the stars of John Hartigan Jr.’s multispecies story. Making metaphoric leaps across divisions separating bodies and species, this book is an erudite engagement with model organisms, mutant forms, and molecular techniques. Revealing tips on ‘How to Interview a Plant’ will be useful to multispecies ethnographers who seek to reflexively localize, describe, theorize, and contextualize their subjects of study."—Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent EcologiesTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Species Interiors1. Follow the Species: In and Out of Labs2. Maize: An Ethnohistory3. Racial Thinking: Transgenics versus Razas4. Selfing: The Sexual History of a Species5. Species Thinking: Calibrating Knowledge of Life FormsInterlude: Figure and Ground Part II. Knowing Plants6. Living Ethnographies: Of Plants and Arguments7. Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms8. Care and Its Publics: Peopling Botanical Gardens9. How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life FormsEpilogue: An Elegant PlantAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Civil Rights Childhood
Book SynopsisTrade Review "Katharine Capshaw’s new study—intersecting photography, children’s literature, and the civil rights movement—is a rich and strikingly original addition to the growing scholarship on African American childhood. Many scholars will appreciate and be indebted to this important work." —Gerald Early, Washington University in St. Louis "Capshaw’s analysis and contextualization of the works in question break entirely new ground, offering original ways of thinking about how the photographic book operated as a medium particularly suited to African-American authors, child readers, and messages about civil rights." —Julia Mickenberg, University of Texas at Austin"This is an important and engaging book that offers one of the few extended discussions of depictions of black childhood. "—International Review of Children’s Literature"Civil Rights Childhood will no doubt be an influential text in our understanding of the visual representations of black childhood now and in our future."—MELUS"A fascinating, well-conceived and empirically rich study."—Visual Studies"To read Capshaw is. . . to receive a lesson on the cultural importance and responsibility of literary scholarship. Civil Rights Childhood not only advances our scholarly understanding of the politics of childhood, but also enables readers to better contextualize so many of the images and injustices we continue to encounter."—International Research Society for Children’s Literature"Deeply researched and engagingly written."—Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth"Civil Rights Childhood is notable for its steadfast and vocal commitment to its political project. Capshaw’s continual engagement with the real implications of the work she analyzes and also of her own would make this book a useful one to use in the classroom."—CAA Reviews"Impeccably researched. Capshaw does some incredibly impressive literary recovery work, shedding light on texts completely unfamiliar to many contemporary scholars of either children’s literature or African American studies."—Children’s Literature Association QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Friendship, Sympathy, Social Change2. Pictures and Nonfiction: Conduct and Coffee Tables3. Today: Framing Freedom in Mississippi4. The Black Arts Movement: Childhood as Liberatory Process5. Blurring the Childhood Image: Representations of the Civil Rights NarrativeConclusion: A Text for TrayvonAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Farm Worker Futurism
Book SynopsisFarm Worker Futurism reveals that the historical role of technology has had much to do with depicting the lives of farm laborers—Mexican migrants in particular—in the United States. This book explores the friction between agribusiness and farm workers through the lens of visual culture.Trade Review"In Farm Worker Futurism, one comes face-to-face with the techno-fascism that was routed around daily by the collective actions of laborers who hacked the future with anticipatory illuminations and critical disturbances. This not science-fiction, but it is futurity-as-history that drives science-fiction into the present for activist, artists, and critics. Curtis Marez has written a unique and highly accessible book that calls on us to perform the speculative seeding of the future as farm workers to make new worlds grow now."—Ricardo Dominguez, University of California, San Diego"Perhaps the greatest contribution of Farm Worker Futurism lies in its bold, creative, and apt attention to the intersections of labor and art as an inextricable dyad. Indeed, Marez’s attention to art associated with farmworker labor invites similar attention to art and discourse about a fuller range of labor-based cultural production."—American Literary History"Farm Worker Futurism provides additional, much-needed fodder for what critical food scholars claim as the agrarian imaginary and its capacity to thwart policy aimed at increasing social and ecological justice."—H-NetTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Farm Workers in the Machine1. “To the Disinherited Belongs the Future”: Farm Worker Futurism in the 1940s2. From Third Cinema to National Video: Visual Technologies and UFW World Building3. Farm Worker Futurisms in Speculative Culture: George Lucas and Ester HernandezAfterword: Farm Worker Futurism NowAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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The University of Alabama Press The Ballad of Little River A Tale of Race and Unrest in the Rural South
Book SynopsisThis work is a biography of one of the poorest areas in the USA - where deer outnumber people. Little River gained notoriety in 1997as the site of the US government's first conviction under a new hate-crimes law intended to stop a rash of fires set at black churches around the country.
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The University of Alabama Press The New Electoral Politics of Race
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study examines the disappearance of extreme prejudice and racial rhetoric in modern political campaigns in the southern states of the USA and the alternative ways that race continues to be an abiding issue in the electoral process.
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The University of Alabama Press Its a New Day Race and Gender in the Modern
Book SynopsisExamines how popular American religious leaders navigate problems of race and gender in society. This title chronicles the rise of women and African American evangelists in the independent charismatic movement in post-World War II America.Trade ReviewScott Billingsley does a good job of explaining who people are and how they relate in the modern charismatic movement. The world he describes is richly textured and enormously influential, and the biographical sketches point readers toward an understanding of the origins and development of the movement. - Edith L. Blumhofer, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College, Illinois ""It's A New Day not only fills a gap in the historical literature of postwar American religion, it also ably tracks the growth, success, and surprising social outlook of one of the most significant mass-religious movements to emerge in the late 20th century."" - Randall S. Stephens, History Department, Eastern Nazarene College, Quinoy, Massachusetts
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The University of Alabama Press Theres Hope for the World The Memoir of
Book SynopsisUnder Richard Arrington's leadership, Birmingham rebuilt itself from a foundering, steel-driven industrial center to one of the most diversified metropolitan areas in the Southeast, with an economy fueled by health care, biomedical research, engineering, telecommunications, and banking.
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The University of Alabama Press The Border Crossed Us Rhetorics of Borders
Book SynopsisThe Border Crossed Us explores efforts to restrict and expand notions of US citizenship as they relate specifically to the US-Mexico border and Latina/o identity. Borders and citizenship go hand in hand. Borders define a nation as a territorial entity and create the parameters for national belonging. But the relationship between borders and citizenship breeds perpetual anxiety over the purported sanctity of the border, the security of a nation, and the integrity of civic identity. In The Border Crossed Us, Josue David Cisneros addresses these themes as they relate to the US-Mexico border, arguing that issues ranging from the Mexican-American War of 18461848 to contemporary debates about Latina/o immigration and border security are negotiated rhetorically through public discourse. He explores these rhetorical battles through case studies of specific Latina/o struggles for civil rights and citizenship, including debates about Mexican American citizenship in the 1849 California Constituti
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The University of Alabama Press Bound to Respect Antebellum Narratives of Black
Book SynopsisExamines key texts that illuminate forms of black bondage and captivity that existed within and alongside slavery. In doing so, Michael Green restores to antebellum African American autobiographical writing the fascinating heterogeneity lost if the historical experiences of African Americans are attributed to slavery alone.
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The University of Alabama Press Faces of Resistance
Book SynopsisFosters a holistic understanding of the roles of Maya heroic figures as cornerstones of cultural identity and political resistance and power. Faces of Resistance explores the importance of heroes through the analyses of heroic figures, some controversial and alternative, from the Maya area.Trade ReviewFaces of Resistance adopts an original approach to explore the politics and history of indigenous activism and identity in the Maya area. It offers a significant contribution to the field, in particular the impact of little known or under-represented people from a range of historical and contemporary settings."" - Arturo Arias, author of Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America
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University Alabama Press AfroPeruvian Mestizos
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University of Alabama Press The Schoolhouse Door Segregations Last Stand at
Book SynopsisDivided into two parts, this title presents a story that covers the period 1943-57, which centers on the admission to and expulsion from the University of Alabama of Autherine Lucy in 1956. It also looks at the events culminating in Wallace's spectacular stand at Foster Auditorium in June 1963.Trade ReviewThis is an important and moving story. Clark tells its well, respecting his historical actors by treating them critically but fairly, and respecting his readers by allowing them to draw their own conclusions. - American Historical Review ""E. Culpepper Clark tells a powerful story, balancing the need for continuity of theme with dozens of anecdotal illustrations of the main points, which are always blended gracefully and strategically into the narrative. The writing is accessible, engaging, and more than occasionally eloquent."" - History of Education Quarterly ""Culpepper's account of how Alabama came to occupy a special place in the demise of both segregation and states' rights deserves a close reading."" - Library Journal
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University of Alabama Press Chains and Freedom Or the Life and Adventures of
Book SynopsisWheeler was northern-born - in New Jersey - and illegally sold and taken into New York State, then grew to adulthood held in slavery in the newly settled region of western New York. This book sows how dissension among abolitionists led to suspicion of Wheeler's editor/amanuensis, the white Presbyterian minister Charles Edwards Lester.Trade ReviewA unique book, a combination of an overlooked but important antebellum autobiography with a lengthy and insightful introduction.... Every college library should have it. - Douglas R. Egerton, author of He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Up from the Projects An Autobiography
Book SynopsisProlific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an ‘only in America’ story of a life of achievement.Trade ReviewWhen I finished reading Up from the Projects, I wished it had been a longer book. But it got the job done—and its insights are much needed today." — Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover InstitutionTable of Contents Preface ONE Starting Out TWO Rudderless and Drifting THREE In the Army Now FOUR Heading West for Opportunity FIVE Heading East for Opportunity SIX Teaching and Preaching SEVEN Afterthoughts Index
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Up from the Projects An Autobiography
Book SynopsisProlific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an ‘only in America’ story of a life of achievement.Trade ReviewWhen I finished reading Up from the Projects, I wished it had been a longer book. But it got the job done—and its insights are much needed today." — Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover InstitutionTable of Contents Preface ONE Starting Out TWO Rudderless and Drifting THREE In the Army Now FOUR Heading West for Opportunity FIVE Heading East for Opportunity SIX Teaching and Preaching SEVEN Afterthoughts Index
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Wesleyan University Press Africas Gift to America The AfroAmerican in the
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University of Georgia Press The Quiet Trailblazer My Journey as the First
Book SynopsisRecounts Mary Frances Early’s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South.
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Absent Man
Book SynopsisAs the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932) in many ways established the terms of the black literary tradition now exemplified by such writers as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Charles Johnson.FollowingTrade Review“Charles Duncan’s compelling and perceptive analysis of Chesnutt’s narrative genius will go a long way in resurrecting the reputation of a pioneering African-American writer whose work deserves more attention appreciate than it has received over the years.” * Literary Realism *“In this detailed and intelligent book, Charles Duncan maps out the ways in which Chesnutt expertly narrates his works to embrace a form of multiculturalism that explores the formation of identity and the preservation of genealogy and family structure…Duncan demonstrates impressive detail in his research.” * Modern Fiction Studies *
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Ohio University Press The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. Volume IV
Book SynopsisVolume IV of The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. covers 1951, the year America entered the Korean War, through 1954, when the NAACP won its Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court declared that segregation was discrimination and thus unconstitutional.Trade Review“The Papers of Clarence Mitchell, Jr. is a primary source and analytical goldmine for scholars of civil rights and labor struggles in the twentieth-century United States… . Well organized, engagingly written, and edited with cogent commentary, these two volumes (III & IV) take us inside Mitchell’s activist office and let us hear his own words.” * The Journal of Southern History *
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University of Missouri Press Missouris Black Heritage
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University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 3 Poems
Book SynopsisThis volume collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Hughes seeked to fuse the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of Harlem life as both a triumph of hope and a potential crisis. These poems demonstrate his alertness to the significance of black music.Trade Review[Hughes] is one of the essential figures in American literature.... By his work and his example, he has enriched our lives. - New York Times Book Review
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University of Missouri Press History of the Chicago Urban League
Book SynopsisThis title seeks to provide a detailed history of the Chicago Urban League from its founding in 1916 through the early years of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and relates the work of this agency to broader developments in Chicago and America as a whole.Trade ReviewThis well-documented book is a good example of what can be done with a topic in local history. It traces the history of the Chicago branch of the Urban League from its creation in 1916-17 until 1965.... All who seek to understand why we have had racial demonstrations and riots in our cities will find enlightenment here. - The Historian ""The author utilizes his sources effectively, especially the files of the local office and personal interviews, in piecing together a fascinating story of the trials and tribulations of the Chicago League.... This book makes worthwhile reading."" - Journal of Negro History ""[History of the Chicago Urban League] gives evidence of careful research and balanced judgment. The author presents a detailed picture of the working of the League - its programs, finances, and internal feuds - against the larger background of the social and economic conditions of Chicago's Negro population."" - Journal of American History
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University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 5 Plays
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the plays written by Langston Hughes between 1930 and 1942, alone and in collaboration. Almost all the plays were performed during the same period; a few have never seen the stage, but are included because they indicate the range of Hughes's artistic and political concerns.
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University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 10
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Langston Hughes's history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It also features a selection of Hughes's popular columns and other essays for influential African American publications such as the ""Chicago Defender"" and ""Crisis"".
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University of Missouri Press The Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 12
Book SynopsisThis volume contains Langston Hughes's collections of biographies for children and young adults - ""Famous American Negroes"", ""Famous Negro Music Makers"" and ""Famous Negro Heroes of America"". These works tell of African Americans who contributed to the construction of the American identity.
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University of Missouri Press Collected Works of Langston Hughes v. 13 Big Sea
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of the autobiography of Langston Hughes, covering the years up to 1931. Hughes offers recollections of his childhood in Kansas, his high school years in Cleveland, his sojourn with his father in Mexico, and his initial reactions to New York City and Harlem.
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University of Missouri Press A Fatherless Child
Book SynopsisThe impact of absent fathers on sons in the black community has been a subject for cultural critics and sociologists who often deal in anonymous data. This book examines the impact of fatherlessness on racial and gender identity formation as seen in black men's autobiographies and in other constructions of black fatherhood in fiction.
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University of Missouri Press Take Up the Black Mans Burden
Book SynopsisUnlike many cities farther north, Kansas City, Missouri had a significant African American population by the midnineteenth century and also served as a way station for those migrating north or west. Take Up the Black Man’s Burden focuses on the people and institutions that shaped the city’s black communities from the end of the Civil War until the outbreak of World War II.
£999.99
University of Missouri Press George Washington Carver
Book SynopsisGeorge Washington Carver (1864-1943) is best known for developing new uses for agricultural crops and teaching methods of soil improvement to southern farmers. This annotated selection of his letters and other writings from the collections at the Tuskegee Institute and the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri, reveals the forces that shaped his creative genius.Trade ReviewKremer’s background and transitional comments, along with Carver’s writings, succeed in bringing Carver to life; helping readers to encounter, empathize with, and appreciate this complex, often contradictory man."" - The Journal of Southern History, for the first edition
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