Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
St. Martin's Griffin In the Country We Love
Book SynopsisThe star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, without the support system of her family. In the Country We Love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman''s extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country. There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are just as precarious
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St. Martin's Griffin Carefree Black Girls
Book SynopsisOne of Kirkus Review''s Best Books About Being Black in AmericaPowerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empathy, Blay's pivotal work will engage all readers, especially fans of Mikki Kendall's Hood Feminism. Kirkus (Starred)An empowering and celebratory portrait of Black womenfrom Josephine Baker to Aunt Viv to Cardi B.In 2013, film and culture critic Zeba Blay was one of the first people to coin the viral term #carefreeblackgirls on Twitter. As she says, it was a way to carve out a space of celebration and freedom for Black women online. In this collection of essays, Carefree Black Girls, Blay expands on this initial idea by delving into the work and lasting achievements of influential Black women in American culture--writers, artists, actresses, dancers, hip-hop stars--whose contributions often come in the face of bigotry, misogyny, and stereotypes. Blay ce
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Picador USA Survival Is a Promise
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Picador USA Salvage
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St Martin's Press Africatown
Book SynopsisAn evocative and epic story, Nick Tabor''s Africatown charts the fraught history of America from those who were brought here as slaves but nevertheless established a home for themselves and their descendants, a community which often thrived despite persistent racism and environmental pollution.In 1860, a ship called the Clotilda was smuggled through the Alabama Gulf Coast, carrying the last group of enslaved people ever brought to the U.S. from West Africa. Five years later, the shipmates were emancipated, but they had no way of getting back home. Instead they created their own community outside the city of Mobile, where they spoke Yoruba and appointed their own leaders, a story chronicled in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon. That community, Africatown, has endured to the present day, and many of the community residents are the shipmates' direct descendants. After many decades of neglect and a Jim Crow legal system that targeted the area for
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St Martin's Press A Peculiar Indifference
Book SynopsisNamed a best book of 2020 by the New York Times and Kirkus ReviewsA smart, timely, deeply disturbing and essential book by a veteran scholar and leading expert on the criminal legal system. . . . This is not a Black crisis but a national emergency. The New York Times Book ReviewAbout 170,000 Black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from Black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young Black man in the United States has a fifteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Even Black women suffer violent death at a higher rate than white men, despite homicide's usual gender patterns. Yet while the country has been rightly outraged by the recent spate of police killings of Black Americans, the shocking amount of everyday violence that plagues African American communities receives far less attention, and has nearly disappeared as a target
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Picador USA The Book Collectors
Book SynopsisA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPRAn urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Susan OrleanAward-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a besieged Syrian town, and an underground library built from the rubble of warReading is an act of resistance.Daraya is a town outside Damascus, the very spot where the Syrian Civil War began. Long a site of peacefulresistance to the Assad regimes, Daraya fell under siege in 2012. For four years, no one entered or left, and aid was blocked. Every single day, bombs fell on this placea place of homes and families, schools and children, now emptied and broken into bits.And then a group searching for survivors stumbled upon a cache of books in the rubble. In a week, they had six thousand volumes; in a month, fifteen thousand. A sanctuary was born: a library where people could escape the blockade, a paper fortress to protect
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Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video seriesUncomfortable Conversations with a Black ManYou cannot fix a problem you do not know you have. So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. There is a fix, Acho says. But in order to access it, we're going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations.In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to askyet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and reverse racism. In his own
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Henry Holt & Company Biting the Hand
Book SynopsisJulia Lee is angry. And she has questions.What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it look like to be an ally or an accomplice? How can we shatter the structures of white supremacy that fuel racial stratification?When Julia was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. However, the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, following the murder of Latasha Harlins by a Korean shopkeeper, forced Julia to question her racial identity and complicity. She was neither Black nor white. So who was she?This question would follow Julia for years to come, resurfacing as she traded in her tumultuous childhood for the white upper echelon of elite academia. It was only when she began a PhD in English that she found answersnot through studying V
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Picador USA The Free World
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Holt McDougal How We Can Win
Book SynopsisA breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens, inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones's viral video How Can We WinSo if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win? When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones's damningand stunningly succinctanalysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face.In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and rev
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Henry Holt and Co. Biting the Hand
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Picador USA Fear of Black Consciousness
Book SynopsisLewis R. Gordon's Fear of Black Consciousness is a groundbreaking account of Black consciousness by a leading philosopher.Fear of Black Consciousness is an original and a bold intervention in the cultural and political conversation about systemic racism. Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and antiblackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized blackness, the problems racialization produces, and the many creative responses from black and nonblack communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom.As he skillfully navigates the difficult and traumatic terrain, Gordon cuts through the mist of white narcissism and the versions of consciousness it perpetuates. He illuminates the different forms of invisibility that define black life, and he exposes the bad faith at the heart of many discussions about race and racism, not only in North America but also across the glo
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WW Norton & Co By Hands Now Known Jim Crows Legal Executioners
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Devastating.... [A] remarkable book." -- Dave Davies - Fresh Air, NPR"[Shows] the ‘chronic, unpredictable violence’ that shaped daily life in the South.... Recounting such stories is part of the important work that this book does.... But historical retrieval is only part of Burnham’s goal with this book, which also makes a case for reparations, to pick up ‘where law has failed.’... With justice so elusive, even a simple acknowledgment of the facts is a necessary step. As some of the survivors put it when they first heard from Burnham and her team: ‘I thought I’d never get this call.’" -- Jennifer Szalai - New York Times"The corrective we all need.... This book is a rich, evocative testament to [Burnham’s] life’s work, as she illuminates a series of harrowing, untold cases of racial violence from 1920 to 1960, tapping a database she built over the course of a decade. Her insights and interpretations bring a vital, necessary perspective to the segregationist era." -- Oprah Daily"The detailed accounts of racial terror in this book are hard to stomach, but necessary to understand the national legacy of slavery and the Jim Crow system that emerged after emancipation.... Margaret Burnham’s rich historical analysis documents the longstanding failure of federal laws and institutions to prevent racial violence and police brutality. The book also shines a light on the resourcefulness of African Americans who organized to help one another and fight for justice." -- Debbie Elliott - NPR"Burnham illuminates a continuum of white supremacy.... She also examines Black Americans’ long-standing ‘practices of dissent and resistance’ and describes reparations as an ethical imperative." -- The New Yorker"[A] searing indictment of the all-encompassing violence of Jim Crow and a persuasive case for long-overdue reparations.... An indispensable addition to the literature of social justice and civil rights." -- Kirkus, starred review"Meticulously researched and carefully documented.... The dozens of fully fleshed out stories in this book—which are examples, of course, of countless stories left untold—add a personal element to this achingly real history. By Hands Now Known is impossible to read without being overwhelmed by the magnitude of racial violence in the U.S. in the past and persisting into the present." -- Booklist, starred review"Uncovers the hidden and unknown victims of Jim Crow violence.... Readers interested in the long history of the civil rights struggle should definitely read this." -- Library Journal, starred review"Searing.... An essential reckoning with America’s history of racial violence." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review"Defying national suppression and indifference, By Hands Now Known vividly conveys the stories of those whose lives were destroyed by previously undocumented racial violence between 1920 and 1960.… Margaret A. Burnham, drawing on a painstakingly constructed database, launches a vital and restorative reckoning with the reprehensible devastation of lives, communities, justice, and memory." -- Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University, and author of When Should Law Forgive?"If you truly want to understand why police and vigilantes who kill Black people are rarely held to account, you must read this extraordinary book.… By far the most sobering and most illuminating work I have ever read on the long history of state-sanctioned racial violence in the US." -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels"In this necessary and important book, Margaret A. Burnham addresses the enormous violence necessary to sustain Jim Crow through a series of compelling case studies about the lives destroyed by the brutal regime of separate but equal.… In reckoning with the impact of this history on the present, Burnham asks how we might undo or redress this legacy of violence. It is timely and essential reading." -- Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments"Needs to be read by everyone who recognizes the historic mandate of our time: to interrupt cycles of racist violence.… Rigorously delineated, passionately argued, Margaret A. Burnham’s book offers us heart-wrenching cases.… But Burnham goes further, asking us to finally acknowledge the history of ever-present resistance, even under the most insurmountable conditions, and to consider what justice might mean today." -- Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz"A vitally important history.… Burnham’s meticulous unpacking—of newspaper accounts, coroners’ reports, and interviews with surviving witnesses, family members, and clergy—is searing, unforgettable, and profoundly moving." -- Patricia J. Williams, author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights and Giving a Damn"Masterfully explores how everyday acts of violence fundamentally shaped Jim Crow during the twentieth century. With meticulous and compelling new research, Margaret A. Burnham offers a powerful, moving, and groundbreaking account of the interconnections between race, law, and citizenship in US history." -- Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the number-one New York Times bestseller Four Hundred Souls and award-winning author of Until I Am Free"[This] narratively lively yet stunningly exhaustive interrogation of Jim Crow laws retained from slavery, misconstrued after Reconstruction, and nationalized during Plessy v. Ferguson, ought to become indispensable to all legal and civil rights considerations, and the cause célebre of our time—reparations." -- David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of W. E. B. Du Bois
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WW Norton & Co Skinfolk A Memoir
Book SynopsisA haunting, poignant story of growing up in a mixed-race family in 1970s New Jersey, in the tradition of The Color of Water. Race is made, not born. It can materialize with a thunderous suddenness. It can happen to you in moments that will be cauterized into memory as if into flesh.Trade Review"Transracial adoption will never empower adoptees of color or our white family members to sidestep the realities of privilege, bias, and racism; as Skinfolk shows, we will meet and experience these things in the most intimate of ways, within the microcosm of our own family. Reading Anna’s challenge to her brother, one that may have been decades in the making, I knew where all my natural sympathy as an adoptee lay. My response to Guterl’s description of his agonizing confusion and self-doubt, which kept him awake for hours that night, took me by surprise. It made me catch my breath and wish that I could see or speak to my adoptive parents, both of whom are now gone, and simply feel close to them again. I know what it is to confront a painful and unwanted distance between you and those you love; to want to believe, if only for a moment, that your will alone can bridge it." -- Nicole Chung - The Atlantic"Ambitious, intellectually searching... Guterl doesn’t spare himself when describing the inescapability of racial harm.... [His] strengths as a writer show in his unflinching analysis of this and other racially complicated scenes." -- Chloé Cooper Jones - New York Times Book Review"Quietly searing." -- Casey Schwartz - New York Times"[Guterl] writes poignantly about his upbringing, particularly as the family and his siblings battled xenophobia and racism." -- New York Times Book Review, “14 Books Coming in March”"Guterl, professor of Africana studies and American studies at Brown University and author of Seeing Race in America, fashions a moving, elegant memoir of his childhood within the 'idealized experiment' of multiracialism . . . An earnestly felt, beautifully wrought story of an American family in all its complexity." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"With precision and unwavering care, Guterl explores the ethics involved in his parents’ endeavor and confronts the consequences of even the best intentions. The result is an eye-opening, instructional, and necessary take on race in America." -- Publishers Weekly"Guterl focuses much of the story on himself and his closest siblings, Bear and Bug, and on the realities of growing up in a big family. But he is clear-eyed about his privilege, even within his family, and about his parents who, with the best of intentions, have the whiff of white saviors." -- Kathy Sexton - Booklist
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Houghton Mifflin Big Little Man
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Hanover Square Press African Samurai The True Story of Yasuke a
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Hanover Square Press The Love You Save
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Hanover Square Press Black on Black
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group New York Burning
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • ANISFIELD-WOLF AWARD WINNER • A revelatory study of the ways in which slavery both destabilized and created American politics.“Vivid and provocative; [Lepore] evokes eighteenth-century New York in all its moral and physical messiness.” —The New Yorker“A historical study that is both intellectually rigorous and broadly accessible. . . . The type of book that we need to read and historians need to write, more often.” —NewsdayIn New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic events of 1741, when ten fires blazed across Manhattan and panicked whites suspecting it to be the work a slave uprising went on a rampage. In the end, thirteen black men were burned at the stake, seventeen were hanged and more than one hundred black men and women were thrown into a dungeon beneath City Hall. Even back in the seventeenth century, the city was a rich mosaic of cultures, communities and colors, with slaves making up a full one-fifth of the population. Exploring the political and social climate of the times, Lepore dramatically shows how, in a city rife with state intrigue and terror, the threat of black rebellion united the white political pluralities in a frenzy of racial fear and violence.
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Random House USA Inc Mom Me Mom
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother.Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick!The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence—a presence absent during much of Angelou’s early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. The subsequent feelings of abandonment stayed with Angelou for years, but their r
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Random House USA Inc Made in Detroit A Memoir
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Hay House Inc Brainwashed
Book Synopsis“Black people are not dark-skinned white people,” says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are a lot more.They are survivors of the Middle Passage and centuries of humiliation and deprivation, who have excelled against the odds, constantly making a way out of “no way!” At this point in history, the idea of black inferiority should have had a “Going-Out-of-Business Sale.” After all, Barack Obama has reached the Promised Land.Yet, as Brainwashed: Erasing the Myth of Black Inferiority testifies, too much of black America is still wandering in the wilderness. In this powerful examination of “the greatest propaganda campaign of all time”—the masterful marketing of black inferiority Burrell poses 10 provocative questions that will make black people look in the mirror and ask why, nearly 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, so many blacks still think like slaves.Brainwashed is not a reprimand; it is a call to deprogram ourselves of self-defeating attitudes and actions. Racism is not the issue; how we respond to racism is the issue. We must undo negative brainwashing and claim a new state of race-based self-esteem and self-actualization. Provocative and powerful, Brainwashed dares to expose the wounds so that we, at last, can heal.Trade Review"With uncompromising courage, Burrell has created an indispensable book for our time."—Susan L. Taylor
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Sourcebooks, Inc In the Land of Invisible Women
Book SynopsisA strikingly honest look into Islamic culture?in particular women and Islam?and what it takes for one woman to recreate herself in the land of invisible women.Unexpectedly denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, becomes an outcast in motion. On a whim, she accepts an exciting position in Saudi Arabia. This is not just a new job; this is a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong.What she discovers is vastly different. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a world apart, a land of unparalleled contrast. She finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her, but also humor, honesty, loyalty and love.And for Qanta, more than anything, it is a land of opportunity.Very few Islamic books for women give a firsthand account of what it''s like to live in a place where Muslim women continue to be oppressed and treated as inferior to men. But if you waTrade Review"Ahmed was saddened, distressed, and taken aback by her colleagues' excitement in reaction to the 9/11 attacks. Her friends talked about how America "deserved" this tragedy because of its support of Israel." - ForeWord"Denied visa renewal in America, British-born Pakistani physician Ahmed, 31, leaves New York for a jobin Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she celebrates her Muslim faith on an exciting Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca...After 9/11, she is shocked at the widespread anti-Americanism. The details of consumerism, complete with Western brand names .... are central to this honest memoir about connections and conflicts, andespecially the clamorous clash of "modern and medieval, . . . Cadillac and camel."" - Booklist"A female doctor provides a uniquely revealing look at the hidden world of Saudi Arabian women.Denied a renewal of her visa in the United States, British-born, American-educated pulmonologist Ahmed accepted a position at a hospital in Riyadh. On rounds, the male residents she supervised would interrupt her, and female residents (what few there were) would cluster silently at the back of the group. All female doctors were required to be completely veiled. In surgeries, sons would supervise unconscious mothers, not to ensure the quality of their medical care, but to ensure that no parts of their faces were revealed by slipping veils. With such evidence around her, Ahmed began to think of these women as the wretched of the Earth. "I wouldn't be corrected in my simplistic views," she writes, "until much later, when I had befriended more Saudi women." When she did, she learned that the lives of these women under veils were no less complex and rich for being largely unseen. At her first party, she was astounded by the elegance and confidence exuded by professional women who had struggled immensely to achieve their positions. She began to understand how respect and love for women were expressed in her adopted society. Despite the strict monitoring of their clothing and behavior and the edicts against showing even the smallest scrap of skin in public, the Saudi women she met were neither so silent nor so helpless as their formless presence suggested. However, her friends were wealthy and educated; the vast impoverished majority could not even afford to visit doctors, let alone become one. Though never ceasing to be dismayed by the uglier aspects of regressive Saudi orthodoxy, Ahmed also found her own Muslim faith deepened and her conception of Islam broadened by her sojourn there. If she never learned to love the veil, she at least learned to understand it.A big-hearted examination of the extreme contradictions in a society very different-yet not so different-from our own." - Kirkus Reviews""Despite the restrictive customs of Saudi's religious rule, Ahmed found a vibrancy that left her hopeful. 'Saudi is much more heterogeneous than one would expect,' she says. 'Muslims themselves feel fairly lost in a country so caricatured and vilified for its severe austerity and Wahhabi theocracy, but it's also the cradle of Islam and the site of the Hajj-a symbol of what Islam could be.'"" - Kirkus Reviews"Ahmed still beautifully asserts her arguments and confronts the anti-Semitism, the sexism, and the anti-western attitudes she experienced... In the Land of Invisible Women gave me a lot to think about, and just not about the complexities of Saudi Arabia but also my country's, the U.S.A., interactions within the Middle East. " - Adventures in Reading"This book is a well -written and fascinating insider's look into life in Saudi Arabia and the challenges that women and sometimes even men must face in their daily lives." - Bookopolis"In the Land of Invisible Women is a must read for everyone. Why? People must find out how Dr. Ahmed dared to cope with radical Islamic fundamentalism. Rather than misery and despair, her story is one of brightness and optimism for Saudi women. But equally vital, it is a tale of expectation, a hope that brave Saudi men, who dare read her story, might have a jolt of conscience over unjustified cowardly feelings they hold toward women." - Blog CriticsTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Bedouin BedsideChapter 2: A Time to Leave AmericaChapter 3: My New Home, a Military CompoundChapter 4: Abbayah Shopping Chapter 5: Invisible and SafeChapter 6: Saudi Women Who Dance AloneChapter 7: Veiled DoctorsChapter 8: The Lost Boys of the KingdomChapter 9: A Father's Grieving Chapter 10: An Invitation to God Chapter 11: The Epicenter of Islam Chapter 12: Into the Light Chapter 13: The Child of God Chapter 14: The Million-Man Wheel Chapter 15: Committing Haram Chapter 16: Calling Doctora Chapter 17: Daughters of the DesertChapter 18: Next Stop: Absolution Chapter 19: Prayer under the Stars Chapter 20: Between the Devil and the Red Sea Chapter 21: Mutawaeen: The Men in Brown Chapter 22: Single Saudi MaleChapter 23: The Calm before the Storm Chapter 24: Wahabi Wrath Chapter 25: Doctor Zhivago of Arabia Chapter 26: Love in the Kingdom Chapter 27: Show Me Your Marriage License! Chapter 28: An Eye for an EyeChapter 29: Princes, Polygamists, and PaupersChapter 30: Divorce, Saudi-StyleChapter 31: The Saudi DivorcéeChapter 32: Desperate HousewivesChapter 33: The Making of a Female Saudi SurgeonChapter 34: The Hot Mamma Chapter 35: The Gloria Steinem of ArabiaChapter 36: Champion of ChildrenChapter 37: 9/11 in Saudi ArabiaChapter 38: Final Moments, Final Days Afterword: Rugged GloryEndnotesBibliographyReading Group Guide Acknowledgments
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Companion to African American History
Book SynopsisA Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day.Trade Review"This recent addition to the Blackwell Companions to American History series attests to the maturity of African American history as a discipline and its movement from the margins of academia to its role as a central component of the historical profession ... [It] stands as a useful introduction to the study of African American history and its development. No doubt, students will benefit from this exposure to the breadth of African American historiography." Journal of Southern History "Provide[s] good introductions to the writing on the subject ... just the right balance between historiography and a survey incorporating quotations and illustrations." History “A Companion to African American History is a valuable contribution of original essays. Its comprehensive coverage of themes and topics make this an important volume and essential reading for scholars, students, and general interest readers.” Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University “Professor Hornsby has assembled a remarkable array of scholars whose essays tell the story of African Americans from African roots to present day struggles for identity and a place in American society. These exceptional essays illustrating the critical role that race and African American culture played in forming American culture are essential reading for anyone seeking to understand America.” James Oliver Horton, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsNotes on the Contributors x Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Alton Hornsby, Jr Part I Africa and Other Roots 3 1 Life and Work in West Africa 5 Augustine Konneh 2 Africans in Europe prior to the Atlantic Slave Trade 23 Maghan Keita 3 The African and European Slave Trades 48 Walter C. Rucker 4 Africans in the Caribbean and Latin America: The Post-Emancipation Diaspora 67 Frederick D. Opie Part II Africans in Early North America 87 5 Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race in Colonial America 89 Jeffrey Elton Anderson 6 Not Chattel, Not Free: Quasi-Free Blacks in the Colonial Era 105 Antonio F. Holland and Debra Foster Greene 7 Africans and Native Americans 121 Tiya Miles and Barbara Krauthamer Part III In the House of Bondage 141 8 Origins and Institutionalization of American Slavery 143 Jason R. Young 9 Labor in the Slave Community, 1700–1860 159 Frederick C. Knight 10 Spirituality and Socialization in the Slave Community 176 Jason R. Young 11 Slave Rebels and Black Abolitionists 199 Stanley Harrold Part IV: Transculturation 217 12 The Americanization of Africans and the Africanization of America 219 Samuel T. Livingston 13 African Americans and an Atlantic World Culture 235 Walter C. Rucker Part V: The Civil War, Emancipation, and the Quest for Freedom 255 14 African Americans and the American Civil War 257 Oscar R. Williams III and Hayward “Woody” Farrar 15 Jim Crowed – Emancipation Betrayed: African Americans Confront the Veil 271 Charles W. McKinney, Jr and Rhonda Jones Part VI: The Maturation of African American Communities and the Emergence of Independent Institutions 283 16 African American Religious and Fraternal Organizations 285 David H. Jackson, Jr 17 The Quest for “Book Learning”: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom 295 Christopher M. Span and James D. Anderson 18 The Growth of African American Cultural and Social Institutions 312 David H. Jackson, Jr 19 African American Entrepreneurship in Slavery and Freedom 325 Anne R. Hornsby 20 The Black Press 332 Shirley E. Thompson Part VII: African Americans and Wars “For Democracy” 347 21 The Black Soldier in Two World Wars 349 Hayward “Woody” Farrar 22 Identity, Patriotism, and Protest on the Wartime Home Front, 1917–19, 1941–5 364 Hayward “Woody” Farrar Part VIII: Gender and Class 379 23 Gender and Class in Post-Emancipation Black Communities 381 Angela M. Hornsby 24 African American Women since the Second World War: Perspectives on Gender and Race 395 Delores P. Aldridge 25 Striving for Place: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People 412 Juan J. Battle and Natalie D. A. Bennett Part IX: Migration, Renaissance, and New Beginnings 447 26 Exodus from the South 449 Mark Andrew Huddle 27 Development, Growth, and Transformation in Higher Education 463 Abel A. Bartley 28 Identity, Protest, and Outreach in the Arts 476 Julius E. Thompson Part X: Searching for Place 497 29 Searching for a New Freedom 499 Hasan Kwame Jeffries 30 “Race Rebels”: From Indigenous Insurgency to Hip-Hop Mania 512 Marcellus C. Barksdale and Samuel T. Livingston 31 Searching for Place: Nationalism, Separatism, and Pan-Africanism 529 Akinyele Umoja Index 545
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd African American Voices
Book SynopsisA succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective. Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay Table of ContentsList of Figures x Series Editors’ Preface xi Preface to the New Edition xiii Preface xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1 ‘‘Death’s Gwineter Lay His Cold Icy Hands on Me’’: Enslavement 40 1 A European Slave Trader, John Barbot, Describes the African Slave Trade (1682) 42 2 A Muslim Merchant, Ayubah Suleiman Diallo, Recalls His Capture and Enslavement (1733) 45 3 An Employee of Britain’s Royal African Company Describes the Workings of the Slave Trade (1738) 48 4 Olaudah Equiano, an 11-Year-Old Ibo from Nigeria, Remembers His Kidnapping into Slavery (1789) 49 5 A Scottish Explorer, Mungo Park, Offers a Graphic Account of the African Slave Trade (1797) 51 6 Venture Smith Relates the Story of His Kidnapping at the Age of Six (1798) 52 Chapter 2 ‘‘God’s A-Gwineter Trouble de Water’’: The Middle Passage and Arrival 57 1 A European Slave Trader, James Barbot, Jr., Describes a Shipboard Revolt by Enslaved Africans (1700) 59 2 Olaudah Equiano, Who Was Born in Eastern Nigeria, Describes the Horrors of the Middle Passage (1789) 62 3 A Doctor, Alexander Falconbridge, Describes Conditions on an English Slaver (1788) 65 4 Olaudah Equiano Describes His Arrival in the New World (1789) 70 5 An English Physician, Alexander Falconbridge, Describes the Treatment of Newly Arrived Slaves in the West Indies (1788) 71 Chapter 3 ‘‘A Change is Gonna Come’’: Slavery in the Era of the American Revolution 74 1 The Poet Phillis Wheatley Writes about Freedom and Equal Rights (1774) 75 2 Massachusetts Slaves Petition for Freedom (1774) 76 3 Virginia’s Royal Governor Promises Freedom to Slaves Who Join the British Army (1775) 78 4 Virginia’s Assembly Denounces Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation (1775) 79 5 Connecticut Slaves Petition for Freedom (1779) 80 6 Boston King, a Black Loyalist, Seeks Freedom Behind British Lines (1798) 82 7 A Participant in Gabriel’s Rebellion Explains Why He Took Part in the Attempted Insurrection (1812) 84 8 Gabriel’s Brother Explains the Rebellion’s Objectives (1800) 84 9 President Thomas Jefferson Tries to Arrange for the Deportation of Men Involved in Gabriel’s Rebellion (1802) 85 Chapter 4 ‘‘We Raise de Wheat, Dey Gib Us de Corn’’: Conditions of Life 87 1 A Free Black Kidnapped from New York, Solomon Northrup, Describes the Working Conditions of Slaves on a Louisiana Cotton Plantation (1853) 88 2 Charles Ball, a Slave in Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia, Compares Working Conditions on Tobaccoand Cotton Plantations (1858) 89 3 Josiah Henson, a Maryland Slave, Describes Slave Housing, Diet, and Clothing (1877) 91 4 Francis Henderson, Who Was a Slave near Washington, D.C., Describes Living Conditions Under Slavery (1856) 93 5 A South Carolina Slave, Jacob Stroyer, Recalls the Material Conditions of Slave Life (1898) 94 6 A Former Virginia Slave, James Martin, Remembers a Slave Auction (1937) 95 7 Elizabeth Keckley, Born into Slavery in Virginia, Describes a Slave Sale (1868) 96 Chapter 5 ‘‘Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen’’: Visual History of Slavery 98 1 The Inspection and Sale of an African Captive Along the West African Coast (1854) 99 2 An Illustration of the Layout of a Slave Ship (1807) 100 3 Enslaved Africans on the Deck of a Slave Ship (1860) 102 4 Two Slave Sale Advertisements (1859, c.1780s) 103 5 A Fugitive Slave Advertisement (1774) 105 6 An Illustration of a Slave Auction at Richmond, Virginia (1856) 107 7 Five Generations of a Slave Family (c.1850s) 108 8 An Engraving Illustrating Nat Turner’s Insurrection (c.1831) 109 9 A Plantation Manual Offers Detailed Instructions to Overseers about How They Are to Treat Nursing Mothers (1857–1858) 110 10 African Americans in Baltimore Celebrate the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, Extending the Vote to Black Men (1870) 111 Chapter 6 ‘‘O Mother Don’t You Weep’’: Women, Children, and Families 114 1 Harriet Jacobs Describes Her Efforts to Escape Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Abuse (1861) 115 2 Bethany Veney Describes How She Aborted a Slave Sale (1889) 119 3 Susie King Taylor Escapes to Freedom During the Civil War (1902) 121 4 Jacob Stroyer Recalls the Formative Experiences of His Childhood (1898) 123 5 James W. C. Pennington Analyzes the Impact of Slavery upon Childhood (1849) 126 6 Lunsford Lane Describes the Moment When He First Recognized the Meaning of Slavery (1842) 128 7 Laura Spicer Learns that Her Husband, Who Had Been Sold Away, Has Taken Another Wife (1869) 130 8 An Overseer Attempts to Rape Josiah Henson’s Mother (1877) 132 9 Lewis Clarke Discusses the Impact of Slavery on Family Life (1846) 135 Chapter 7 ‘‘Go Home to My Lord and Be Free’’: Religion 138 1 Olaudah Equiano, from Eastern Nigeria, Describes West African Religious Beliefs and Practices (1789) 139 2 Charles Ball, a Slave in Maryland, Remembers a Slave Funeral, which Incorporated Traditional African Customs (1837) 142 3 Peter Randolph, a Former Virginia Slave, Describes the Religious Gatherings Slaves Held Outside of Their Masters’ Supervision (1893) 142 4 Henry Bibb, Who Toiled in Slavery in Kentucky, Louisiana, and Arkansas, Discusses ‘‘Conjuration’’ (1849) 145 Chapter 8 ‘‘Oppressed So Hard They Could Not Stand’’: Punishment 148 1 Frederick Douglass, a Fugitive Slave from Maryland, Describes the Circumstances that Prompted Masters to Whip Slaves (1845) 149 2 Elizabeth Keckley of Virginia Describes a Lashing She Received (1868) 150 3 John Brown, Born into Slavery in Virginia, Has Bells and Horns Fastened on His Head (1855) 152 4 William Wells Brown, a Missouri Slave Driver, Is Tied Up in a Smokehouse (1847) 153 5 Moses Roper, a Slave in Georgia and the Carolinas, Is Punished for Attempting to Run Away (1837) 154 6 A Kentucky Slave, Lewis Clarke, Describes the Implements His Mistress Used to Beat Him (1846) 155 Chapter 9 ‘‘Let My People Go’’: Resistance and Flight 157 1 Frederick Douglass Resists a Slave Breaker (1845) 158 2 Nat Turner, a Baptist Preacher in Virginia, Describes His Revolt Against Slavery (1831) 163 3 Harriet Tubman, a Former Maryland Slave, Sneaks into the South to Free Slaves (1872) 167 4 Harriet Tubman’s Life and Methods for Liberating Slaves (1863, 1865) 169 5 Levi Coffin, the ‘‘President’’ of the Underground Railroad, Assists Fugitives to Escape Slavery (1876) 172 6 A Maryland Slave, Margaret Ward, Follows the North Star to Freedom (1879) 174 7 Frederick Douglass Borrows a Sailor’s Papers to Escape Slavery (1855, 1895) 177 8 Henry ‘‘Box’’ Brown of Virginia Escapes Slavery in a Sealed Box (1872) 179 9 Margaret Garner, a Fugitive Slave from Kentucky, Kills Her Daughter Rather Than See Her Returned to Slavery (1876) 181 Chapter 10 ‘‘The Walls Came Tumblin’ Down’’: Emancipation 184 1 Hannah Johnson, the Mother of a Black Soldier, Pleads with President Abraham Lincoln Not to Rescind the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 185 2 Private Thomas Long Assesses the Meaning of Black Military Service During the Civil War (1870) 186 3 Corporal Jackson Cherry Appeals for Equal Opportunity for Former Slaves (1865) 187 4 Jourdon Anderson, a former Tennessee Slave, Declines His Former Master’s Invitation to Return to His Plantation (1865) 188 5 Major General Rufus Saxon Assesses the Freedmen’s Aspirations (1866) 190 6 Colonel Samuel Thomas Describes the Attitudes of Ex-Confederates Toward the Freedmen (1865) 191 7 Francis L. Cardozo of South Carolina Asks for Land for the Freedmen (1868) 192 8 The Rev. Elias Hill Is Attacked by the Ku Klux Klan (1872) 193 9 Henry Blake, a Former Arkansas Slave, Describes Sharecropping (1937) 194 10 Frederick Douglass Assesses the Condition of the Freedmen (1880) 195 Bibliographical Essay 198 Bibliography 204 Index 236
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Spaniards in the Colonial Empire
Book SynopsisSpaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Covers three centuries of Spanish colonial power, beginning in the sixteenth century Explores social tension between creole and peninsular factions, connecting this friction with later colonial bids for independence Draws on recent research by Spanish and Spanish-American historians as well as Anglophone scholars Includes some coverage of Brazil and British colonies Trade Review“This process, too, is explained with admirable clarity in this authoritative, sophisticated overview of a key issue in Latin American history.” (Journal of Latin American Studies, 1 October 2013) “Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (Choice, 1 September 2013)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Series Editor’s Preface ix Preface xi Maps xvi 1 Spain and Its Early Empire in America 1 2 Native Sons and Daughters in the Church 28 3 Native Sons in Office 59 4 The Heyday of Native Sons and Daughters, circa 1630–1750 84 5 Reforms, Commentaries, and Officials, 1750–1808 110 6 The Church, Complaints, and Social Change, 1750–1808 129 7 From Abdications to Independence 149 Glossary 172 Notes 178 Suggestions for Further Reading 184 Index 193
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Tyndale House Publishers QUIET STRENGTH PB The Principles Practices
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Tyndale House Publishers While the World Watched
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Scribner Book Company Power Concedes Nothing
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HarperCollins Espanol La Caza del Zorro
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Johns Hopkins University Press Soldiering for Freedom
Book SynopsisColored Troops, Union military strategy, and race relations during and after the tumultuous Civil War.Trade ReviewThis book is a perfect introduction to its subject for undergraduate students. Interwoven as it is with larger questions of race and masculinity, military organization and professionalism, and nationalism and citizenship students will be introduced to the complexities that surrounded emancipation and the meanings of freedom and the war. -- David Carlson Civil War Book Review This brief and useful study synthesizes a welter of important scholarship on race, soldiering, emancipation, and the quest for citizenship by African Americans... Besides analyzing experiences of African American, Luke and Smith expertly explain civil war Army life and the soldier's craft. Choice In Soldiering for Freedom... independent scholar Bob Luke and historian John D. Smith attempt not to break new ground, but to familiarize a wide readership with the findings of current scholarship on black soldiers in the Union Army. For the most part, their succinct book admirably achieves this aim. -- Donald R. Shaffer Michigan War Studies Review Detailed introduction to this important topic. -- Kathryn Shively Meier North Carolina Historical Review ... There is much to admire in Soldiering for Freedom. Luke and Smith have produced an account of wide potential interest for a diverse readership. They combine sound research with a lucid writing style, free of jargon, and uncluttered by digressions into the debates and trends in Civil War literature. The Journal of African American HistoryTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. How Racism Impeded the Recruitment of Black Soldiers2. How Slaves and Freedmen Earned Their Brass Buttons3. How White Officers Learned to Command Black Troops4. How Blacks Became Soldiers5. How Black Troops Gained the Glory and Paid the PriceEpilogueNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Soldiering for Freedom
Book SynopsisColored Troops, Union military strategy, and race relations during and after the tumultuous Civil War.Trade ReviewThis book is a perfect introduction to its subject for undergraduate students. Interwoven as it is with larger questions of race and masculinity, military organization and professionalism, and nationalism and citizenship students will be introduced to the complexities that surrounded emancipation and the meanings of freedom and the war. -- David Carlson Civil War Book Review This brief and useful study synthesizes a welter of important scholarship on race, soldiering, emancipation, and the quest for citizenship by African Americans... Besides analyzing experiences of African American, Luke and Smith expertly explain civil war Army life and the soldier's craft. Choice In Soldiering for Freedom... independent scholar Bob Luke and historian John D. Smith attempt not to break new ground, but to familiarize a wide readership with the findings of current scholarship on black soldiers in the Union Army. For the most part, their succinct book admirably achieves this aim. -- Donald R. Shaffer Michigan War Studies Review Detailed introduction to this important topic. -- Kathryn Shively Meier North Carolina Historical Review ... There is much to admire in Soldiering for Freedom. Luke and Smith have produced an account of wide potential interest for a diverse readership. They combine sound research with a lucid writing style, free of jargon, and uncluttered by digressions into the debates and trends in Civil War literature. The Journal of African American HistoryTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue1. How Racism Impeded the Recruitment of Black Soldiers2. How Slaves and Freedmen Earned Their Brass Buttons3. How White Officers Learned to Command Black Troops4. How Blacks Became Soldiers5. How Black Troops Gained the Glory and Paid the PriceEpilogueNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Calendar of Loss
Book SynopsisAn innovative and moving study, The Calendar of Loss illuminates how AIDS mourning confounds and traverses how we have come to think about loss and grief, insisting that the bereaved can confront death in the face of shame and stigma in eloquent ways that imply a fierce political sensibility and a longing for justice.Trade ReviewEarly AIDS mourning, especially by gay men of color, is more than worthy of study. However, with the recent rise of Black Lives Matter, Woubshet's larger questions about the ways in which mourning structures Black subjectivity and the political value of sorrow in the midst of unspeakable loss make this work especially timely. In The Calendar of Loss, Woubshet brings together queer studies and African-Americans' studies to examine a rich and varied "archive of mourning" . . . Herein lies Woubshet's chief contribution to AIDS scholarship, as he reads the mourning of both Black and White gay men through an analytical lens that is explicitly both Black and queer. Whereas much of the critical AIDS scholarship has marginalized people of color, and particularly queer people of color, here they take center stage.—Dan Royles, Florida International University, Modesto Maidique Campus, National Political Science ReviewWoubshet's text demonstrates the indispensability of the arts to more democratic imaginings of the history, aesthetics, and politics of AIDS. A model of interdisciplinary scholarship, the book develops a new theory of mourning that will be of interest to scholars in African diaspora studies, queer studies, literary studies, gender and sexuality studies, and American studies. Woubshet's engagement with critical theory makes the text appealing to specialists and graduate students, but the author's careful distillation of these theories through lucid prose makes the book accessible to multiple readers, including undergraduates and community activists.—Darius Bost, CallalooTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking for the Dead1. Lyric Mourning2. Archiving the Dead3. Visions of Loss4. Epistles to the DeadConclusionTallying LossNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Changing the Face of Engineering
Book SynopsisThis volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction Part I: Historical BackgroundChapter 1. A Brief History of the Collaborative Minority Engineering Effort: A Personal AccountPart II: Educational SystemsChapter 2. African American Engineering Deans of Majority- Serving Institutions in the United StatesChapter 3. Engineering the Future: African Americans in Doctoral Engineering ProgramsChapter 4. African American Women and Men into Engineering: Are Some Pathways Smoother Than Others?Chapter 5. Clarifying the Contributions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Engineering EducationChapter 6. Beyond the Black- White Minority Experience: Undergraduate Engineering Trends among African AmericansPart III: Workforce ParticipationChapter 7. Profiles of Distinguished African American Engineers at NASAChapter 8. African American Engineers in Business and IndustryChapter 9. Socializing African American Female Engineers into Academic Careers: The Case of the Cross- Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women FacultyChapter 10. Race for the Gold: African Americans— Honorific Awards and RecognitionPart IV: Policies and Programs to Broaden ParticipationChapter 11. College Me, Career Me: Building K–12 Student Identities for Success in EngineeringChapter 12. Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers for African American Students: A Critical Review of Promising and Best PracticesChapter 13. Spelman's Dual- Degree Engineering Program: A Path for Engineering DiversificationChapter 14. Enhancing the Number of African Americans Pursuing the PhD in Engineering: Outcomes and Processes in the Meyerhoff Scholarship ProgramPart V: Future Directions Chapter 15. Challenges and Opportunities for the Next GenerationContributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press In the Looking Glass
Book SynopsisFocusing on how mirrors were acquired in America and by whom, as well as the profound influence mirrors had, both individually and collectively, on the groups that embraced them, In the Looking Glass is a piece of innovative textual and visual scholarship.Trade ReviewThis brief volume, meticulously footnoted, generously illustrated, and beautifully produced by the Johns Hopkins University Press, could certainly be adopted in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It might well teach history majors and graduate students the value of daring to ask questions for which there are no easy or complete answers, and of painstakingly piecing together fragmentary evidence from a wide range of archival, archaeological, and material collections. Shrum’s intelligent use of cultural theory and interdisciplinary perspectives might also serve as a model for advanced history students.—The History TeacherA superb reflection of the many meanings held by an object usually taken for granted. Highly recommended.—ChoiceShrum's work is required reading for upcoming scholars who are attempting to trace the social life of things in the formation of American identities.—Christopher Allison, University of Chicago, Journal of Southern HistoryIn the Looking Glass: Mirrors and Identity in Early America is an important contribution to the fields of early American history, material culture studies, and cultural and American studies. Shrum's study will help scholars recognize how the study of records and other historical evidence, in highlighting the silence of certain groups of people, also enables us to see what forces determined those silences.—Chiara Cillerai, St. John's University, Early American LiteratureShrum's accomplishment is to tease out the many meanings that made looking glasses among the most widely owned and used consumer good in early America.—Paul G. E. Clemens, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Reviews in American HistoryRebecca Shrum's [In the Looking Glass] packs a powerful punch. Moving deftly over the course of three centuries, she presents an original, interdisciplinary and utterly fascinating reading of the multiple uses and meanings of mirrors among European Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans . . . an important and thoughtprovoking study of a widely used object, which we all too often take for granted, and its very exceptional history.—Sharon Halevi, University of Haifa, Journal of Social HistoryShrum's thesis builds as a crescendo from detailed, meticulous attention in the initial chapters to the production technologies and marketing of various kinds of mirrors to whites, Africans, and Native Americans to develop her powerful arguments and her claims in the concluding chapters concerning race, racialization, and racism . . . [Shrum] mobilizes a rich body of materials concisely to illustrate and support her thesis.—Lester C. Olson, University of Pittsburgh, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Evolving Technology of the Looking Glass2. First Glimpses3. Looking-Glass Ownership in Early America4. Reliable Mirrors and Troubling Visions5. Fashioning Whiteness6. Mirrors in Black and RedEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Uncompromising Activist
Book SynopsisUncompromising Activist is a lively tale that will interest anyone curious about the human elements of the equal rights struggle.Trade ReviewThe greatest strength in Chaddock's account is that it is driven by context. Although Uncompromising Activist focuses on the life of one man, it is a case study in how an individual’s life is defined as much by temporal circumstance as by individual choice.—History: Reviews of New BooksMrs. Chaddock does a fine job in the short space she has to examine Mr. Greener’s life, accomplishments, and disappointments, something that he had to always struggle with. For bringing back to life a voice that has been lost and forgotten, this book does a good job.—San Francisco Book ReviewUncompromising Activist is a lively tale that will interest anyone curious about the human elements of the equal rights struggle.—Mixed Race StudiesHistorians of education and of postbellum Black history will, of course, want to read this book. But so will many others. Chaddock deftly uses Greener's life as a window into each of the times and places in which he lived and into each of the debates in which he engaged. Uncompromising Activist thus would fit nicely into an undergraduate course on either African American or nineteenth-century U.S. history. Readers outside academia would find it a coherent and ample introduction to Black history after the Civil War—a surprising and rare accomplishment for a scholarly book, let alone a scholarly biography . . . Chaddock has written a fascinating account of a man and a world that helped shape our own and that deserve rediscovery.—Michael David Cohen, University of Tennessee, Black PerspectivesAn important addition to the growing corpus of African American biography, this slender volume resurrects to historical memory Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922), a semi-obscure figure best known for being the first black graduate of Harvard College. Katherine Reynolds Chaddock, a distinguished professor emerita of education at the University of South Carolina, shows in this clear and straightforward narrative that Greener actually deserves recognition for several other important contributions to civil rights in the early Jim Crow era as well. Readers may even come away wondering why Greener is not placed alongside his more famous contemporaries Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and W. E. B. Du Bois in the pantheon of great black leaders of his generation.—T. Adams Upchurch, East Georgia State College, Journal of Southern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Boyhood Interrupted2. Being Prepared3. Experiment at Harvard4. An Accidental Academic5. Professing in a Small and Angry Place6. The Brutal Retreat7. Unsettled Advocate8. A Violent Attack and Hopeless Case9. Monumental Plans10. Off White11. Our Man in Vladivostok12. Closure in Black and WhiteEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Black Power Radical Politics and African
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOgbar does an exemplary job of providing a comprehensive overview of organizations and leaders involved in the Black Power movement.—Journal of Negro EducationTable of ContentsPreface to the Updated EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroduction. For the People and of the People: Black Nationalism,Identity, and Popular CultureChapter 1. An Organization of the Living: The Nation of Islam andBlack Popular CultureChapter 2. "There Go My People": The Civil Rights Movement,Black Nationalism, and Black PowerChapter 3. A Party for the People: The Black Freedom Movementand the Rise of the Black Panther PartyChapter 4. Swimming with the Masses: The Black Panthers,Lumpenism, and Revolutionary CultureChapter 5. "Move Over or We'll Move Over on You": Black Powerand the Decline of the Civil Rights MovementChapter 6. Rainbow Radicalism: The Rise of Radical EthnicNationalismConclusion. Power and the PeopleEpilogue. Black Nationalism after Jim CrowNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Automatic
Book SynopsisA fascinating study of how behavioral science shaped twentieth-century politics and the modernist literary period. The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expressions of gender and sexuality. Yet writers and cultural critics shared a sense that modern life reduced citizens to automatons capable of interacting with the world in only the most reflexive ways. In Automatic, Timothy Wientzen asks why modernists were deeply anxious about the role of reflexive behaviorsand the susceptibility of bodies to physical stimuliin the new political structures of the twentieth century. Engaging with historical thinking about human behaviors that fundamentally changed the nature of political and literary practice, Wientzen demonstrates the ways in which a politics of reflex came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era. Documenting some of the ways that modernist writers and Table of ContentsIntroduction: Prescribed Tracks1. Prescribed Tracks: Modernism, Modernity, and the Human Automaton2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D. H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late ModernismAfterword: Choice Architects, Where Is Your Vortex? The Politics of Reflex in the Twenty-First CenturyWorks CitedNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Comics and Conquest
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Beginning: Interdependence and Independence in the Four Corners Region, 1540-18682. Divide and Conquer: Misinformation and Manipulation across Dinétah and Hopituskwa3. Fourth World Activism: Editorial Cartoons in the Navajo Times and Qua'Töqti, 1964-19734. Discourse and Discord: The Conversation between the Navajo Times and Qua'Töqti, 19745. Activism in the Aftermath: Protest and Politics, 1974-1998ConclusionAppendix. Drawing Humor: A Conversation with Jack AhasteenNotesBibliographyIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Latino Lives in America
Book SynopsisA nuanced and insightful assessment of Latino life in AmericaTrade Review"This book is well written and provides a complementary analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data. Regarding the focus group data, the diversity of the participants is impressive... Overall, this book would be a great read for anyone concerned with the state of Latino lives in the U.S. today. The voices of the participants express key concerns regarding the future of Latinos in America that need to be addressed not only for the well-being of Latinos, but for the well-being of the country as a whole." -NexoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Time to Think Broadly 1. The Growing Presence of Latinos in the United States 2. Trying for the Americano Dream: Barriers to Making the United States "Home" 3. Education: Latinos' Great Hope, America's Harsh Reality 4. Exploring Discrimination, Intergroup Relations, and Intragroup Relations among Latinos 5. New Homes in New Communities: Living in Rural America 6. Transnationalism and the Language of Belonging 7. The Evolving Latino Community and Pan-ethnicity: Explorations into the Confluence of Interactions, Networks, and Identity 8. Conclusions: Paradoxes along the Way to Making America Home Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Sweating Saris
Book SynopsisSeeing Indian dancers as gendered labour highlights the politics of Asian American racialization, migration, and citizenshipTrade Review"Sweating Saris takes us through the fascinating interconnections of labor, dance, and immigration. Beautifully researched and written, this book makes us think deeply about what dancing bodies mean and how they achieve their seeming perfection. Srinivasan's blending of archival research, ethnography, and first-person narration is a tour de force." -Josephine Lee, author of Performing Asian America and The Japan of Pure InventionTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Performing Ethnographic Failure 2. Transnational Hauntings of the Oriental Dancing Girl 3. St. Denis and the Nachwalis 4. Entering the Archive 5. Between 1924 and 1965 Immigration Acts 6. Negotiating Cultural Nationalism and Minority Citizenship 7. Manufacturing of the Indian Dancer through Off-Shore Labor Epilogue Glossary Works Cited Endnotes
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Temple University Press,U.S. Fire on the Prairie
Book SynopsisA revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayorTrade ReviewPraise for the First Edition: "Colorfully, intimately, Fire on the Prairie shames and instructs as it entertains ...a civic conversation about race and power." The Washington Post Book WorldTable of ContentsForeword to the Revised Edition by Clarence Page Introduction to the Revised Edition by Larry Bennett - Forging Barack Obama: Harold Washington, Chicago, and the Politics of Race Acknowledgments Prologue BOOK I A Racial Thing, 1983 1 A Cry in the Wind 2 The Conspirators 3 The Chosen 4 The Catalyst 5 The Jesse Jackson Factor 6 The Family Business 7 The Liberal Apology 8 A Tower of Babble 9 A Racial Thing 10 Positively Antebellum 11 A City Divided BOOK II Council Wars, 1983-1986 12 The Biggest Bully in the Bar 13 Balancing Acts 14 Beirut on the Lake 15 Black Reform, White Reform 16 The Chicago Experiment 17 A Midterm Blunder 18 The Continuing Saga of Clarence McClain BOOK III Something Less Than Hate, 1986-1987 19 The Reckoning 20 Any White Will Do 21 Thy Kingdom at Hand 22 The Empire Strikes Back Note on Sources Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Baltimore 68
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities.Trade Review"These essays and primary accounts examine the roots of the broad spectrum of events that led to rioting in Baltimore following Martin Luther King's assassination and how these events shaped the social and economic fabric of today's Baltimore. I know it will be taken from library shelves for many years to come as a primary resource for historical study." -Carla D. Hayden, CEO, Enoch Pratt Free Library, BaltimoreTable of Contents1. Acknowledgments 2. Editors' Introduction - Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak, Elizabeth M. Nix 3. Foreword, Howard F. Gillette 4. Peter Levy, The Dream Deferred: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Holy Week Uprising of 1968 5. Jewell Chambers : Edited Oral History 6. John Breihan, Why Was There No Rioting in Cherry Hill? 7. Emily Lieb, "White Man's Lane": Hollowing Out the Highway Ghetto in Baltimore 8. Alex Csicsek, Spiro T. Agnew and the Burning of Baltimore 9. Tom Carney: Edited Oral History 10. Jessica I. Elfenbein, University of Baltimore, 'Church People Work on the Integration Problem': The Brethren's Interracial Work in Baltimore, 1949-1972 11. W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor, Convergences and Divergences: The Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements, Baltimore 1968 12. The Pats Family: Edited Oral History 13. Howell Baum, How the 1968 Riots Stopped School Desegregation in Baltimore 14. Elizabeth M. Nix and Deborah R. Weiner, Pivot in Perception: The Impact of the 1968 Uprising on Three Baltimore Business Districts 15. Frankie Gamber, "Where We Live": Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976" 16. Mary Potorti, Planning for the People: The Early Years of Baltimore's Neighborhood Design Center 17. Robert Birt : Edited Oral History 18. Epilogue, Clement A. Price, History and Memory: Why it Matters that We Remember
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Temple University Press,U.S. UnAmerican
Book SynopsisUn-American is Bill Mullen's revisionist account of renowned author and activist W.E.B. Du Bois's political thought toward the end of his life, a period largely dismissed and neglected by scholars. He describes Du Bois's support for what the Communist International called world revolution as the primary objective of this aged radical's activism. Du Bois was a champion of the world's laboring millions and critic of the Cold War, a man dedicated to animating global political revolution. Mullen argues that Du Bois believed that the Cold War stalemate could create the conditions in which the world powers could achieve not only peace but workers' democracy. Un-American shows Du Bois to be deeply engaged in international networks and personal relationships with revolutionaries in India, China, and Africa. Mullen explores how thinkers like Karl Marx, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Gandhi, and C.L.R. James helped him develop a theory of world revolution at a stage in his life when most commentatTrade Review“Bill Mullen’s Un-American is a fascinating account of Du Bois’s revolutionary thinking and a remarkable contribution to Du Bois studies. Mullen explores in impressive detail the long developing influence of Marx, Marxist theoreticians, and a broader spectrum of radical thinkers and activists from across the globe on Du Bois’s political thought and vision for human liberation. In doing so Mullen illuminates seldom-explored writings and activities from the final decades of Du Bois’s career while successfully reinterpreting familiar texts and events from earlier periods. Mullen also develops his own keen theoretical observations from both the insights and contradictions of Du Bois’s thought and that of those with whom he was in dialogue.”—Eric Porter, Professor of History and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz“Un-American is a bold and long overdue inquiry into ‘the late Du Bois,’ full of keen originality and brilliantly associative thinking. With his signature level of professional competence, Mullen defies easy categorizations to track the black radical scholar’s diasporic identity through the optic of ‘world revolution.’ This investigation, vexed by the political horrors of imperialism, fascism, and Stalinism, yields unexpected and revealing parallels with the ideas of revolutionary thinkers such as Leon Trotsky and C.L.R. James. The result is a landmark study in the contours of affiliation, expanding the archive and breaking down polarized thought. This is a book to engage, chew over, and debate.”—Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of American Culture, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgments The Forethought 1. From Comintern to the "Colonial International": Making the Diasporic International, Making World Revolution 2. "Experiments of Marxism": W.E.B. Du Bois and the Specter of 1917 3. India, the "Indian Ideology," and the World Revolution 4. World Revolution at the Crossroads: Japan, China, and the Long Shadow of Stalinism 5. Making Peace: Gendering the World Revolution/Reckoning the Third World The Afterthought Notes Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for
Book SynopsisThe Young Lords was a multi-ethnic, though primarily Nuyorican, liberation organization that formed in El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) in July of 1969. Responding to oppressive approaches to the health, educational, and political needs of the Puerto Rican community, the movement's revolutionary activism included organized protests and sit-ins targeting such concerns as trash pickups and lead paint hazards. The Young Lords advanced a thirteen-point political program that demanded community control of their institutions and land and challenged the exercise of power by the state and outsider-run institutions. In The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation, Darrel Wanzer-Serrano details the numerous community initiatives that advanced decolonial sensibilities in El Barrio and beyond. Using archival research and interviews, he crafts an engaging account of the Young Lords' discourse and activism. He rescues the organization from historical obscurity and makes an argument for its
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Rowman & Littlefield Policing Black Bodies
Book SynopsisFrom Trayvon Martin to Freddie Gray, the stories of police violence against Black people are too often in the news. In Policing Black Bodies Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith make a compelling case that the policing of Black bodies goes far beyond these individual stories of brutality. They connect the regulation of African American people in many settings, including the public education system and the criminal justice system, into a powerful narrative about the myriad ways Black bodies are policed.Policing Black Bodies goes beyond chronicling isolated incidents of injustice to look at the broader systems of inequality in our societyhow they're structured, how they harm Black people, and how we can work for positive change. The book discusses the school-to-prison pipeline, mass incarceration and the prison boom, the unique ways Black women and trans people are treated, wrongful convictions and the challenges of exoneration, and more. Each chapter of the book opens with a true story, expTrade ReviewIntended to provoke controversial and uncomfortable discussion, Hattery and Smith's book focuses on what they expose as America's deeply rooted culture, history and ideology of deliberately violating black bodies in the name of policing. In ten chapters, they concentrate not simply on exonerated police killings of unarmed black men but also on mass incarceration in what they report as a new plantation economy with a pipeline running from schoolrooms to prison cells in a prison-industrial complex. Their concerns reach the indignities and insults blacks suffer daily not only at the hands of law enforcement and the criminal justice system but in every aspect of life amid the fiction of colorblind racism. Well documented, passionately argued, and engagingly written, this powerful analysis of systematic racism describes how society supports white, male, patriarchal, heterosexual privilege while oppressing marginalized peoples. Verdict: An essential work that advances an acute awareness of our responsibility to make society equitable for all. * Library Journal, Starred Review *Finally we have a theoretically sophisticated, comprehensive book that examines the myriad ways in which Black bodies are surveilled in America. Policing Black Bodies considers mass incarceration, prison industries, the school to prison pipeline, the policing of both women’s and trans bodies, and the police killings of Blacks as part of continuum structured by systemic racism. Hattery and Smith cap this marvelous book with a provocative chapter discussing policy options. This is a book I will definitely assign to my students. -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University; author of Racism Without RacistsPolicing Black Bodies presents a critical, deep dive into one of the most salient issues of our times. Hattery and Smith tie together theory, practice, and outcomes to both humanize the problems and inspire all readers to face these issues head on while finding ways to work to improve—and hopefully one day rectify—the web of consequences tied to social control, race/ethnicity, and public policy within the criminal justice system. It is a must read for every citizen, scholar, and student in the United States. -- Danielle S. Rudes, Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence, George Mason UniversityA provocative explication of an outrageous situation. Hattery and Smith dissect the system of racism that runs like a red thread through centuries of harsh US punishment practices. In tough, engaging prose, they guide readers through the hidden histories and contemporary impact of urban riots, school inequality, private prisons, police killings, and exoneration procedures, with each link in the chain building a stronger case for their contention that these institutions largely serve and function to police Black bodies. -- Chris Uggen, Regents Professor and Martindale Chair in Sociology and Law, University of MinnesotaTable of Contents1 Setting the Stage 2 Urban Riots and Protest, or a Logical Response to Policing Black Bodies 3 Mass Incarceration 4 School-to-Prison Pipeline 5 The Prison-Industrial Complex: The New Plantation Economy 6 Policing Black Women’s Bodies 7 Policing Trans Bodies 8 Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men 9 The Ultimate Failure: Exoneration 10 Intersectionality, Color-Blind Racism, and a Call to Action Appendix A: High-Profile Police Shootings of Black Men and the Outcomes Appendix B: Resources
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Simon & Schuster Hello Goodbye Hello
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