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Book SynopsisSecond tier men like Jesse O. Thomas finalized the dreams of mega stars like Booker T. Washington, Mary Mcleod Bethune, and Eugene Kinkle Jones."My Story in Black and Whiteis an engrossing picture of Negro-white relationships as seen through the eyes of an active participant in the drama of race relations in America for more than half a century. The life story that Jesse O. Thomas recounts in simple and straightforward fashion is made vivid by well-chosen anecdotes skillfully told. Many of the important personalities that people these pages have gone from the scene; and the events involving them have been forgotten by many, or have never been known by some who will read this book."This is a personal history that will give its readers a kaleidoscopic view of the institutions and agencies, the patterns and attitudes, and the black and white people-to-people relationships that helped to shape the education and economic condition of the Negro in America during the decades when Jesse O. Thomas moved about on the national scene." ~ Whitney M. Young, Jr.

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Book SynopsisRace remains a potent and divisive force in our society. Whether it is the shooting of minority people by the police, the mass incarceration of people of color, or the recent KKK rallies that have been in the news, it is clear that the scars from the United States’ histories of slavery and racial discrimination run too deep to simply be ignored. But what are the most productive ways to deal with the toxic and torturous legacies of American racism?Slavery’s Descendants brings together contributors from a variety of racial backgrounds, all members or associates of a national racial reconciliation organization called Coming to the Table, to tell their stories of dealing with America’s racial past through their experiences and their family histories. Some are descendants of slaveholders, some are descendants of the enslaved, and many are descendants of both slaveholders and slaves. What they all have in common is a commitment toward collective introspection, and a willingness to think critically about how the nation’s histories of oppression continue to ripple into the present, affecting us all. The stories in Slavery’s Descendants deal with harrowing topics—rape, lynching, cruelty, shame—but they also describe acts of generosity, gratitude, and love. Together, they help us confront the legacy of slavery to reclaim a more complete picture of U.S. history, one cousin at a time. Funding for the production of this book was provided by Furthermore, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund (https://www.furthermore.org). Trade ReviewIn its first-hand chronicles of courage, rage, forgiveness, and the solace of an embrace, Slavery’s Descendants unleashes powerful emotions. Full of hard-won wisdom, this book also captures the painful ambiguities our past fastens on us. "I want revelation," one participant says, "and yet, I dread it, too." -- Henry Wiencek * author of The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White *“In these moving essays, we see the testaments of journeys made by both descendants of enslavers and descendants of the enslaved to reckon with pain of the past, and look beneath the skin of the present for healing. Using poetry, essay, oral history, genealogical shard, these writings bear witness to the search to find and give language to our tangled, fraught, but ultimately shared history. Puzzling through the intimate histories that link us as Americans to one another— though often violent or painful— each writer here finds a way of knowing the past that offers the present more freedom, more hope. Here are stories told at a human scale, full of longing, honesty, grief, and also hope. In a difficult time, these writers lay down these meditations in the hope of a better, freer future for all of us. Their efforts are paths we would do well to follow. They offer us a chance for greater wholeness, too.” -- Tess Taylor * author of The Forage House *Fordham Magazine mention of Slavery's Descendants edited by Jill Strauss and Dionne Ford * Fordham Magazine *'"They were once America’s cruelest, richest slave traders. Why does no one know their names?" by Hannah Natanson https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/09/14/they-were-once-americas-cruelest-richest-slave-traders-why-does-no-one-know-their-names/?wpisrc=nl_mostwpmm=1 * Washington Post *Interview with Jill Strauss and Dionne Ford, Slavery's Descendants and Coming to the Table https://networks.h-net.org/node/11465/pages/5424505/interview-jill-strauss-and-dionne-ford-slaverys-descendants-and-coming * H-Net *Table of ContentsContentsForeword: Coming to the Table - Lucian K. Truscott IVIntroduction - Dionne Ford and Jill StraussPart I Uncovering History1 President in the Family - Shannon Lanier2 So Many Names - A. B. Westrick3 The Will, the Woman, and the Archive - Catherine Sasanov4 Overcoming Amnesia: How I Learned the Forgotten History of Two Families Linked by Slavery - Bill Sizemore5 Oregon’s Slave History - R. Gregory Nokes 6 Seed of the Fancy Maid - Rodney WilliamsPart II Making Connections7 State Line - Antoinette Broussard8 The Plantation Cake - Leslie Stainton 9 Am I Black? - Eileen Jackson10 The Immeasurable Distance between Us - Thomas Norman DeWolf11 Making Connections - Karen Branan 12 A Millennial Facing the Legacies of Slavery - Fabrice GuerrierPart III Working toward Healing13 Standing on the Shoulders of My Ancestors - Tammarrah Lee14 So Close and So Far Away - Elisa D. Pearmain 15 Born Both Innocent and Accountable: A Moral Reckoning - Debian Marty16 The Terretts of Oakland Plantation: An Essay of Atonement - David Terrett Beumée17 Not a Wound Too Deep - Karen Stewart-Ross 18 To See/ The Blindness of Whiteness - Sara JenkinsPart IV Taking Action19 Digging Up the Woodpile - Sharon Leslie Morgan 20 On Being Involved- Stephanie Harp 21 Changing the Narrative- Joseph McGill 22 Tangled Vines: A Bloodline Shaped by Slavery - Grant Hayter-Menzies23 A Dream Deferred along Holman’s Creek- Sarah Kohrs24 The Tale of Two Sisters - Betty Kilby Baldwin and Phoebe Kilby Afterword: What a Legacy of Slavery and Racism Has to Do with Me - Jill StraussPostscript: From Branches to Roots - Dionne FordAcknowledgmentsBibliographyNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisSince the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields and within disciplines, including film and media studies, comparative literature, history, and education among others. For the contributors to this volume, translation is understood in its most expansive, transdisciplinary sense: translation as exchange, migration, and mobility, including cross-cultural communication and media circulation. Whether exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or silent film intertitles, this volume brings together the work of scholars aiming to address the edges of Translation Studies while engaging with major and minor languages, colonial and post-colonial studies, feminism and disability studies, and theories of globalization and empire.Trade Review"Readers tired of nervous calls for clear disciplinary borders around Translation Studies will rejoice at this book, written half by translation scholars living on various knife edges of the discipline, half by people the editors call 'disciplinary neighbors, commuters, for whom questions raised in and by translation serve to queer, as it were, their professional working terrain.' Call me fractious, or fractal, but it’s always seemed to me that we all live at the edge of translation, always, and shouldn’t pretend otherwise." -- Douglas Robinson * author of Critical Translation Studies *"At Translation’s Edge is an exciting, innovative and engaging volume which demonstrates the truly subversive potential of translation in the contemporary moment. Ranging across languages, historical periods and technologies, At Translation’s Edge shows how time and again translation disrupts normative thinking about language, writing and politics. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about the democratic future of our multilingual planet." -- Michael Cronin * author of Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: At Translation’s Edge - Nataša Ďurovičová and Patrice PetroPart I Translation’s Disciplines Chapter 1 The Eventfulness of Translation: Temporality, Difference, and Competing Universals - Lydia H. Liu Chapter 2 The Translation of Process - John Cayley Chapter 3 Who’s It For: Towards a Rhetoric of Translation - Russell Scott ValentinoPart II Translation at the Limits of Nation-State Chapter 4 Translation and Image: On the Schematism of Co-figuration - Naoki Sakai Chapter 5 Bute Droma-Many Roads: Romani Resilience and Translation in Contact with the World - Deborah Folaron Chapter 6 Ezhi-gikendamang Aanikanootamang Anishinaabemowin: Anishinaabe Translation Studies - Margaret A. Noodin Chapter 7 “If you Could Only Understand My Language”: Counterfeit Script, Make-believe Translation, and the Actor-Spectator Complicity in The Toll of the Sea (1922), Mr. Wu (1927) and Hollywood Party (1937) - Yiman WangPart III Translation’s Practices & Politics Chapter 8 Perspectives on the History of Translation in Latin America - Martha Pulido (Lorena Terando, Trans.) Chapter 9 From Interpreting to Colloquial Translations: Tools Indispensible to Literary Creation - Olga Behar (Lorena Terando, Trans.) Chapter 10 Language, Policy, and Dis/ability in Senegal, West Africa - Elizabeth R. Drame Chapter 11 The Translator in the Text - Suzanne Jill Levine Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDespite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture articulates competing and conflicting political, social, familial, and economic desires within and for African American communities. As an important form of black cultural production, rhythm and blues music helps us to understand black political and cultural desires and longings in light of neo-liberalism’s increased codification in America’s racial politics and policies since the 1970s. Robert J. Patterson provides a thorough analysis of four artists—Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton—to examine black cultural longings by demonstrating how our reading of specific moments in their lives, careers, and performances serve as metacommentaries for broader issues in black culture and politics.Trade Review"This incisive, engaging analysis of post-Civil Rights era rhythm and blues culture models the best kind of cultural studies scholarship: resisting the tendencies to view popular culture as a passive reflection of conservative ideologies or to inflate its oppositional effects, Patterson's both/and approach reveals the rich and often contradictory ways in which RB culture navigates the pressures of neoliberal gender and sexual politics." -- Madhu Dubey * author of Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism *"Contextualizing the music and careers of four seminal late twentieth-century RB artists, Babyface, Toni Braxton, Adina Howard, and Whitney Houston, Robert J. Patterson’s exhilarating book grapples with the 'destructive desires' that compelled these artists’ negotiations of restrictive norms of black American gendered, class, and sexual performance. A work of tremendous intellectual 'whip appeal,' a 'front and center,' 'special brew' of engaged and illuminating interdisciplinary scholarship, Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality arrives 'just in time,' and will doubtlessly be savored." -- Michael Awkward * Gayl Jones Professor of Afro-American Literature and Culture, University of Michigan *"New Book Examines Relationship Between RB Culture, Black Aspirations" https://www.georgetown.edu/news/robert-patterson-book-on-tie-between-randb-culture-and-black-aspirations * Georgetown.edu *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Patterson studies lyrics from various African American rhythm and blues musicians. Through the lyrics, the author examines the big picture behind the words, analyzing hidden meanings and possible political stances throughout the verses and rhythm. Patterson provides an in-depth analysis of four musicians—Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Adina Howard, Whitney Houston, and Toni Braxton—to analyze Black culture and the political climate through the lyrics and melodies of each of the songs discussed throughout the text." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Reading Race, Gender, and Sex: Black Intimate Relations, Black Inequality, and the Rhythm and the Blues Imagination 2. “Whip Appeal:” Reading Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds 3. “Freak Like Me:” Reading Adina Howard 4.“Didn’t We Almost Have It All:” Reading Whitney Houston Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Acknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book that examines how “ethnic spectacle” in the form of Asian and Latin American bodies played a significant role in the cultural Cold War at three historic junctures: the Korean War in 1950, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and the statehood of Hawaii in 1959. As a means to strengthen U.S. internationalism and in an effort to combat the growing influence of communism, television variety shows, such as The Xavier Cugat Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Chevy Show, were envisioned as early forms of global television. Beyond the Black and White TV examines the intimate moments of cultural interactions between the white hosts and the ethnic guests to illustrate U.S. aspirations for global power through the medium of television. These depictions of racial harmony aimed to shape a new perception of the United States as an exemplary nation of democracy, equality, and globalism.Trade Review"The Cold War has been studied by many, but this is the first book that does so by looking at how the “ethnic spectacle” helped the United States in winning the cultural Cold War."— Journal of Popular Culture "Fascinating, compelling, and important, Beyond the Black and White TV demonstrates how government objectives were married with the goals of television productions to display migration, integration, and global imagination in order to control discourses of race and nation.This work reframes television history through the lens of variety shows by engaging with race from an industry perspective, informing readers how race factored into the production of genre and national identity." — L.S. Kim, associate professor, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz "Benjamin M. Han illuminates the secret history of the American variety show, deftly revealing the cosmopolitan roots of a familiar TV format. A major contribution to the cultural history of the Cold War."— Christina Klein, author of Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema "Beyond the Black and White TV makes a convincing and timely argument that the history of Asian and Latin American media representation is the history of anticommunism [and] serves as a warning to critically examine such media representation as more than merely evidence of America’s racial liberalism but also as an instrument for its political interests."— Journal of Asian American Studies "This book illustrates the process by which various races coexist to construct a state and how television programs are used to form national identity… Readers tired of examining the Cold War only in the context of international politics will enjoy understanding the conflict through various experiences of racial diversity and ambiguity." — Wonjung Min, Asian Communication ResearchTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Narratives of Integration: Ethnic Spectacle and Las Vegas 2 Narratives of Exchange: Asian/ American Performers after the Korean War 3 Narratives of Partnership: Latin American Entertainers in the Post-Cuban Revolution 4 Narratives of Co-Existence: Pacific Islanders and the Statehood of Hawaii’i Epilogue Epilogue Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChinatown Film Culture provides the first comprehensive account of the emergence of film and moviegoing in the transpacific hub of San Francisco in the early twentieth century. Working with materials previously left in the margins of grand narratives of history, Kim K. Fahlstedt uncovers the complexity of a local entertainment culture that offered spaces where marginalized Chinese Americans experienced and participated in local iterations of modernity. At the same time, this space also fostered a powerful Orientalist aesthetic that would eventually be exported to Hollywood by San Francisco showmen such as Sid Grauman. Instead of primarily focusing on the screen-spectator relationship, Fahlstedt suggests that immigrant audiences' role in the proliferation of cinema as public entertainment in the United States saturated the whole moviegoing experience, from outside on the street to inside the movie theater. By highlighting San Francisco and Chinatown as featured participants rather than bit players, Chinatown Film Culture provides an historical account from the margins, alternative to the more dominant narratives of U.S. film history.Trade Review"Chinatown Film Culture is an impressive and exhaustively researched history of early film exhibition practices and filmgoing culture in San Francisco's Chinatown. It is a remarkable contribution to film history!" -- Philippa Gates * author of Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film *"Original and compelling, Chinatown Film Culture fills a significant gap in cinema history. Drawing on fascinating and highly illustrative primary sources, Kim K. Fahlstedt explores the place of Asian American communities in the emergence of cinematic modernity in the United States." -- Zhang Zhen * editor of The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction Part I: Early Film in San Francisco 1. Bold Visions and Frontier Conditions – The Emergence of Film in San Francisco 2. “If I Had the Power to Do So I Would Destroy Them with My Own Hands” – Film and Politics in Post-Quake San Francisco Part II: Chinatown Exhibition and Movie Theaters 3. “The Most Cosmopolitan City in the World” – Chinese San Francisco at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 4. “Eyes Darting Around, Spirit Dashing About” – Mapping Chinatown Film Culture, 1906 – 1915 5. The Chinesque Aesthetic -Orientalist Stereotypes in Post-Quake Film Culture Part III: Chinese American Audiences 6. “Where the People Aren’t All American” – Chinatown Audiences and Spectators 7. Chinatown Modernity – Revolutions and Movie Theaters 8. Trajectories and Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEast of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives—stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars. Trade Review"Richly layered and movingly felt, East of East is a collaborative history of a seemingly ordinary place revealed as a crossroads of the local and the global. A remarkable interleaving of scholarship and the intimacy of memory." -- D.J. Waldie * author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir *"East of East makes several important interventions. First, it is part of an exciting movement to reclaim the histories and geographies of cities from the bottom up. Second, it focuses on a vital but completely overlooked part of LA history - El Monte. Essential reading for all those interested in southern California." -- Laura Pulido * co-Author of, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles *"Welcoming Boom’s New Editorial Team" mention of East of East https://boomcalifornia.com/2019/08/07/welcoming-booms-new-editorial-team/ * Boom California *"Who owns history? New book reconsiders San Gabriel Valley’s pioneer past," Greater LA hosted by Steve Chiotakis https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/lausd-police-el-monte/sgv-el-monte-history-book * "Greater LA," KCRW *“East of East digs up the dirt of greater El Monte to find what is left of ‘us’ — for the authors and contributors born and raised there, and for the Indigenous, immigrant, multiracial, multicultural and transnational communities brought to vivid life in these pages. It writes ‘us’ back into the narratives that erased us and writes new ones to remind us that white pioneer settlers are just part of the story, not the center of it.” * KCET.org *"San Gabriel Mission fire provokes deep, conflicting reactions," by Gustavo Arellano https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-13/san-gabriel-mission-fire-morning-mass * Los Angeles Times *"For 100 Years, El Monte Has Celebrated a Blatant Historical Falsehood. Why? A Southern California City Has a Rich, Multi-Ethnic Past That Its Foundational Myth Erases," by Romeo Guzmán https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/08/19/el-monte-end-of-the-santa-fe-trail-true-history/ideas/essay/ * Zócalo Public Square *"The editors of East of East see deeper truths. Greater El Monte, it turns out, is the setting for a story as rich and tangled as the flora that still covers the Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, a patch of parkland that lies, relatively unspoiled, in the watershed the El Montes call home." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"How Authors Are Reaching Book Lovers in the Age of COVID-19," by Teena Apeles https://www.kcet.org/shows/southland-sessions/how-authors-are-reaching-book-lovers-in-the-age-of-covid-19 * KCET.org *"Your history-buff friends all want this magical book for Christmas." * The Press-Enterprise *"Best of all, East of East is both chronicle and challenge to all of us: Know your local history, document it and spread its gospel to the world, no matter how seemingly small." * Los Angeles Times *"Combining creative nonfiction, oral history, and traditional scholarship, the various writings here reclaim the histories and geographies of the urban fringe these writers call 'east of east.' What makes this area so significant is that it’s been a point of 'contact between farmworkers, punks, white supremacists, suburbanites, Zumba dancers, and civil rights activists.'” * L.A. Taco *"Scholars and regular people will find something to enjoy in East of East. Tourists and Locals alike will have a refreshingly informed understanding next time they go cruising through the streets of Aztlán and find themselves on Durfee in El Monte, remembering novelist Salvador Plascencia’s description of Durfee Avenue. What a great gift, or textbook. East of East is scholarship done right. Órale to the publishers and especially lead editors Romeo Guzmán and Carribean Fragoza." * La Bloga *"The 10 best California books of 2020: Featuring 32 essays by writers including Alex Espinoza, Salvador Plascencia and Fragoza, this anthology seeks to restore the 'silenced histories' of El Monte, the small working-class city in eastern Los Angeles County, while also re-imagining its future as a community in its own right. 'The future will not happen in the cities or the suburbs,' the editors write, 'but in the middle, and El Monte and South El Monte have always been in the middle.'" * Los Angeles Times, The 10 best California books of 2020 *"It can and should be an inspiration for likeminded collaborative and multi-disciplinary projects seeking to redress the many wrongs of exclusive historical memory. As stated in the epilogue, localized areas like greater El Monte are often active in national and transnational operations of many kinds 'in broader networks of trade, work, kinship, culture and migration.' This book provides a solid grounding in better understanding these interrelationships, even as 'the rest of its stories have yet to be told.'" * The Public Historian *"A tale of two cities: El Monte’s battle to preserve its Latinx history," by Erik Adams * University Times *"Ethnic Studies Comes Into The Classroom And Onto The Streets," by Julia Barajas * LAist *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Burn the Wagon: Finding Silenced Histories, Lost Intersections, and Radical Possibilities in Greater El MonteRomeo Guzmán, Carribean Fragoza, Alex Sayf Cummings, and Ryan Reft Part I Origins and Departures1 The Tongva PeopleAurelie Roy2 Toypurina: A Legend Etched in the LandscapeMaria John3 From Alta California to American Statehood: Race, Change, and the Californio Pico FamilyRyan Reft4 Here Come the El Monte Boys: Vigilante Justice and Lynch Mobs in Nineteenth Century El MonteKaren Wilson and Dan Lynch Part II Social and Political Movements 5 Rise, Fall, Repeat: El Monte’s White Supremacy MovementsDaniel Cady6 Ricardo Flores Magón and Anarchist Movement in El MonteYesenia Barragan and Mark Bray7 Bitter Fruit: The El Monte Berry Strike of 1933Melquiades Fernandez8 Schools for All: The Desegregation Campaign in El MonteRachel Newman9 City of Achievement: The Making of the City of South El Monte, 1955-1976Nick Juravich10 La Lucha Continua! Gloria Arellanes and the Women of the Chicano MovementJuan Herrera11 Toward a Radical Arts Practice: Theater and Muralism during the Chicano MovementCarribean Fragoza12 American Dreams and Immigrant Realities in a South El Monte Shoe FactoryAdam Goodman13 Dreams of Escape and Belonging: The Making of Asian El MonteAlex Sayf Cummings Part IIINature and the Built Environment14 Hicks Camp: A Mexican BarrioDaniel Morales15 Life at Marrano Beach: The Lost Barrio Beach of Los AngelesDaniel Medina16 From Small Farming to Urban Agriculture: El Monte Subsistence HomesteadingRyan Reft17 A Community Erased: Japanese Americans in El Monte and the Greater SGVAndre Kobayashi Deckrow18 Whittier Narrows Park: A Story of Water, Power, and DisplacementDavid Reid19 Transportational El Monte, From the Red Car to the FreewayRyan Reft20 The Starlite Swap MeetJennifer Renteria Part IVPopular Culture21 El Monte’s Wild Past: A History of Gay’s Lion FarmMichael Weller22 Memories of El Monte: Art Laboe’s Charmed Life on the AirJude Webre23 El Monte’s Wildweed: Biraciality and the Punk Ethos of The Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee PierceTroy Andreas Araiza Kokinis24 The Punk and the SeamstressApolonio Morales25 A Gay Bar, Some Familia, and Latina Butch-Femme: Rounding out the Eastside Circle at El Monte’s Sugar ShackStacy I. Macías26 All the Zumba Ladies: Reclaiming Bodies and Space through Serious Booty-ShakingCarribean Fragoza Part V Literary Cartographies27 1181 Durfee Avenue: 1983 to 1986Michael Jaime-Becerra28 Train versus Pedestrian on Valley BoulevardAlex Espinoza29 Epiphany Catholic ChurchToni Margarita Plummer30 Rush StreetCarribean Fragoza31 Durfee AvenueSalvador PlascenciaEpilogue: East of East: Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel ValleyWendy Cheng AcknowledgmentsSelected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize​ This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel "different, mixed up, upside down." Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration details how Somali gendered identities are contested, negotiated, and (re)produced within a framework of religious and politico-national discourses, finding that the most significant catalysts for challenging and changing harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis. Described as “an important and urgent monograph," this book will be a key text relevant to scholars of migration, transnational families, personal life, and gender. Written in a beautiful and accessible style, the book voices the participants with respect and compassion, and is also recommended for scholars of qualitative social research methods. Trade Review"Attentively observed and provocatively argued, this book explores the dynamic inter-relationship between culture, religion, ethnicity, and gender, and how migration remakes people’s understandings of their relationships. It is not only brilliant but beautiful too, capturing the creativity in struggles to craft places in the world. Truly inspirational reading." -- Bridget Anderson * co-editor of Citizenship and Its Others *“In this sensitively-described and expertly analysed ethnography of marriage among Somalis in Bristol, Natasha Carver shows how migration has unsettled Somali cultural norms of womanhood and masculinity. Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration is an exemplary transnational sociology of how identities are constituted." -- Seán McLoughlin * co-editor of Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities *"An exciting insight into marriage, gender, and refugee migration." * Weekendavisen *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Transcription Symbols Series Foreword by Péter Berta 1: Introduction 2: Context and Narrative: Speaking With and Speaking About 3: Atrocity Stories about Divorce 4: Personal Accounts of Relationship Breakdown 5: Being Responsible: Providing for the Family 6: Doing Responsibility: Caring for the Family 7: Somalinimo: An Existential Crisis? 8: Regendering Somaliness in the British Context 9: Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAsian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that constructs Asian Americans as the ideal academic subject, university administrators still treat Asian American women in academia as though they will simply show up and shut up. Consequently, because silent complicity is expected, power holders will punish and oppress Asian American women severely when they question or critique the system. However, change is in the air. Fight the Tower is a continuation of the Fight the Tower movement, which supports women standing up for their rights to claim their earned place in academia and to work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies that sustain intersectional injustices in order to operate an oppressive system.Trade Review"Fight the Tower is engaging. Readers will immerse themselves in the lives of these authors, will readily find their own lives in these courageous narratives, and will find nurturing and applicable guidance." -- Yolanda Flores Niemann * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia *"A searing indictment of the oppressive working conditions encountered by Asian American women faculty and graduate students, and an inspiring chronicle of the struggles for liberation. This insightful volume should be read by everyone—including aspiring academics, junior and senior faculty, and university leaders." -- Carmen Gonzalez * co-editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247595 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Recommended." * Choice *"Fight the Tower explicitly challenges readers to action from the opening Women of Color in Academia Manifesto to the conclusion: turn research into action and join the movement to build a new academy of liberatory education that models and “fosters the kind of respect and empathy upon which social justice is built.” * International Examiner *Table of ContentsContents Prologue: Taking Action: Asian American Faculty Against Injustices in the Academy Shirley Hune Section I: “Fear is the Path to the Dark Side”: Introducing The Fight Waking WP Introduction: “The Time to Fight is Now”: Asian American Women, Academia’s Socially Engineered “Privileged Oppressed,” Go Rogue Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde and Wei Ming Dariotis Section 2: “That’s No Moon!”: Attack of the Institution Who Killed Soek-Fang Sim? WP Chapter 1: Unpacking the Master’s Plan: Asian American Women Resisting the Language of Academic Imperialism Eliza Noh Chapter 2: Investigating Discrimination: Injustice Against Women of Color in the Academy Jane Junn and Mai’a K. Davis Cross Chapter 3: Killing Machine: Exposing the Health Threats to Asian American Women Scholars in Academia Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, Cara Maffini Pham, Melody Yee, and Jing Mai Section 3: “You Are Unwise to Lower Your Defenses”: The Phantom Menace The Cost of Speaking WP Chapter 4: Precariously Positioned: Asian American Women Students Negotiating Power in Academia Shannon Deloso Chapter 5: Hmong Does Not Mean Free: The Miseducation Of and By Hmong Americans Kaozong N. Mouavangsou Chapter 6: An Offering: Healing the Wounds and Ruptures of Graduate School Cindy Nhi Huynh Chapter 7: Opening the Box: An International Asian Woman Scholar’s Fight Akiko Takeyama Chapter 8: How to Leave Academia Rani Neutill Section 4: “Do. Or Do Not. There is No Try”: Radical Love as Pedagogy and Practice She Shall Not Be Moved WP Chapter 9: Attack on the Spirit by the “Rational World” (and Spiritual Recovery from It) Brett J. Esaki Chapter 10: Care Work: The Invisible Labor of Asian American Women in Academia Wei Ming Dariotis and Grace J. Yoo Chapter 11: Pain + Love = Growth: The Labor of Pinayist Pedagogical Praxis Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano Chapter 12: Mothering is Liberation: Giving Birth to Alagaan Pedagogy (Pedagogy of Care) Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales Chapter 13: Resistance is Not Futile: From #adjuncthustle to Hell Yeah! Genevieve Erin O’Brien Chapter 14: Academic Symbiosis: A Manifesto on Tenure and Promotion in Asian American Studies Wei Ming Dariotis Section 5: The Academic Awakens: “We Are One with the Force and the Force is One with Us” Conclusion: Academics Awaken: Power, Resistance, and Being Woke Wei Ming Dariotis and Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde My Kintsuki WP Epilogue: Upward and Onward: Asian American Women’s Legal Resistance Robyn Rodriguez Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we forced to question the relationship and tensions between these two social constructs. This book examines the growing significance of hockey in Canada’s South Asian communities. The Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast serves as an entry point for a broader consideration of South Asian experiences in hockey culture based on field work and interviews conducted with hockey players, parents, and coaches in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. This book seeks to inject more “color” into hockey’s historically white dominated narratives and representations by returning hockey culture to its multicultural roots. It encourages alternative and multiple narratives about hockey and cultural citizenship by asking which citizens are able to contribute to the webs of meaning that form the nation’s cultural fabric.Trade Review"Changing on the Fly will force a rethinking of race, hockey, and the politics of citizenship in the social margins. In this pioneering text, Szto’s rich intertextuality highlights the competing and contradictory nature of race and representation in sport. There is nothing else like it." -- Stanley Thangaraj * author of Desi Hoop Dreams *"Changing on the Fly offers an original, powerful analysis of the hockey rink and the racial, national, gendered, and political landscape. Szto's ability to build on existing scholarship all while carving out new areas of analysis and her centering of South Asian Canadians' voices will change the ways we talk about sport, about hockey and about the (South) Asian Diaspora. Stzo is a force who will shape discussions in sports studies for decades to come. The future of sports studies is in good hands with Stzo leading the way." -- David Leonard * author of Playing While White: Privilege and Power on and off the Field *"A groundbreaking book. Courtney Szto’s insightful study of hockey’s growing significance in Canadian South Asian communities, as well as challenges faced by racialized Canadians when they play the game, makes an important contribution to the analysis of contemporary Canadian society." -- Richard Gruneau * Simon Fraser University *"This is a desperately-needed intervention from our most influential scholar of race and hockey through both a systematic and nuanced analysis of how multiculturalism and racism shape Canada and its beloved sport, and a powerful account of how those dynamics are experienced." -- Nathan Kalman-Lamb * author of Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport *"Interview: Dr. Courtney Szto, author of "Changing on the Fly: Hockey Through the Voices of South Asian Canadians" https://www.burnitalldownpod.com/episodes/interview-dr-courtney-szto-author-of-changing-on-the-fly-hockey-through-the-voices-of-south-asian-canadians * Burn It All Down podcast *"Changing on the Fly interrogates the culture of hockey honestly, and from a place of love, offering a critique that is meant to change the nature of the sport so that everyone — not just white, straight Canadian men and boys — can truly have a place in it." * The Tyee *"The groundbreaking work of Courtney Szto in Changing on the Fly captures the multiple ways that the Canadian national pastime of ice hockey constitutes an important site to examine the essential izing and shifting realms of race and belonging....[A] call to action and a demand to think about race critically in relation to sport and the nation. Changing on the Fly destabilizes the normative investments in sport and the nation while articulating forms of citizenship that can be liberating. With the increasing discussion and silence around race in professional sports, this book is vital to understanding the expansive infrastructure that secures whiteness and excludes communities of color." * Sociology of Sport Journal *Table of ContentsContents Dedication - iii List of Acronyms - vii Acknowledgements - 1 Introduction - 2 Complicating Canadian Culture - 7 Research Methods - 13 Overview of the Book - 17 Chapter 1 Myth Busting: Hockey, multiculturalism, and Canada - 21 Myth #1: Hockey is Canada - 21 Who or what are we integrating? - 26 Myth #2: Canada is a multicultural haven - 31 Whiteness in Canadian hockey - 38 Citizenship - 41 South Asians in Canada - 44 The Space of Surrey - 48 Chapter 2 Narratives from the Screen: Media and cultural citizenship - 53 Hockey Night in Punjabi - 55 Ethnic (Sports) Media - 59 Breaking Barriers - 62 Co-Authoring One’s Existence - 63 Limits of Ethnic Media - 71 Chapter 3 White Spaces, Different Faces: Policing membership at the rink and in the nation - 78 Who belongs in a space? Who is trespassing? - 79 Self-Identification - 88 Brown - 92 Being the Only One - 98 Chapter 4 Racist Taunts of Just Chirping? - 101 Just chirping? - 105 Was it really racist? - 111 An archive of evidence - 119 Chapter 5 South Asian Masculinities and Femininities - 124 The irony of hockey performativity - 124 South Asian masculinities - 132 Verbal trauma and the body - 138 South Asian femininities - 143 The noisiness of women’s hockey - 149 Chapter 6 Hockey Hurdles and Resilient Subjects: Unpacking forms of capital - 157 Navigating forms of capital - 166 Cost, time, and interconnections with other forms of capital - 166 Language and other aspects of cultural capital - 170 The gatekeepers - 175 Assumptions about diversity: Flaws in logic - 181 Meritocratic and resilient subjects - 185 Chapter 7 Racialized Money and White Fragility: Class and resentment in hockey - 192 Model minorities - 193 Throwing money at hockey - 199 White fragility - 204 Brown out hockey: Capitalism at its best - 209 Chapter 8 Taking Stock: Public memory and the re-telling of hockey in Canada - 217 Hockey Hall of Fame - 220 The role of media - 223 Writing in: DIY citizenship - 226 Conclusion: A commitment to the future - 232 Shifting labor - 235 Writing the wrong - 239 Appendix A: Qualitative methodology - 241 Appendix B: Participant information - 254 Appendix C: British Columbia competitive hockey structure - 256 References - 258 About the author - 296

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Book SynopsisNot Your Mother’s Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectivities of domestics in fiction, film, and visual and performance art. In doing so, they undermine one-dimensional images of black domestics as victims lacking voice and agency and prove domestic workers are more than the aprons they wear. An analysis of selected media by Alice Childress, Nandi Keyi, Victoria Brown, Kara Walker, Mikalene Thomas, Rene Cox, Lynn Nottage, and others provides examples of generations of domestics who challenged their performative roles of subservience by engaging in subversive actions contradicting the image of the deferential black maid. Through verbal confrontation, mobilization, passive resistance, and performance, black domestics find their voices, exercise their power, and maintain their dignity in the face of humiliation. Not Your Mother’s Mammy brings to life stories of domestics often neglected in academic studies, such as the complexity of interracial homoerotic relationships between workers and employers, or the mental health challenges of domestics that lead to depression and suicide. In line with international movements like #MeToo and #timesup, the women in these stories demand to be heard. Trade Review"Tracey Walters weaves together a fascinating story about power and representation of Black domestic workers across the globe. Her attention to Black women artists and writers offers a compelling and empowering portrait of workers who were anything but silent and deferential. These 'quiet radicals,' as Walters describes them, are inspirational models for our time. This is a book about claiming space, giving voice, and, fundamentally, about remaking Black womanhood." — Premilla Nadasen, author of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women who Built a Movement "What Walters achieves is an aesthetic of the black female domestic, a study of the representational dynamics of the figure in film, visual art, and literature. This book is a fascinating showcase of black women's nuanced reimaginings of servitude's long afterlife."— Kevin Quashie, author of The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture "Challenging mainstream media’s unidimensional portrayal and mis/representation of black female domestic workers as vulnerable and lacking agency, Not Your Mother’s Mammy identifies the myriad ways domestic workers, i.e. essential services workers, engender the politics of subversion and exercise their (labor) rights. This book will certainly influence future studies on labor rights of black female domestic workers." — Simone A. James Alexander, author of African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and CitizenshipTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Overview: The History of Black Women’s Domestic Labor from the Twentieth Century to the Present Part 1: Quiet Subversion: The Radical Acts of Working-Class Women in the Domestic Sphere 2. Let’s Hear It from the Maid: Alice Childress’s Like One of the Family 3. Dirty Work: The Representation of Undocumented Caribbean Domestic Laborers in Nandi Keyi’s The True Nanny Diaries and Victoria Brown’s Minding Ben 4. Forbidden Kinship: Homoerotic Desire between the Maid and Mistress in Zanele Muholi’s “Massa” and Mina(h) Part 2: We Wear the Mask: Servitude, an Art of Performance and Deception 5. A Sartorial Expression of Frenchness in Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl: A Francophone Revision of Jean Genet’s The Maids 6. Maid in Hollywood: The Art of Performance in Theresa Harris’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark 7. The Art of Dressing Up in Mary Sibande’s Long Live the Dead Queen Part 3: Representing for Laure: African American / Caribbean Women’s Reimaginings of Édouard Manet’s Olympia 8. From the Margin to the Center: The Maid in Édouard Manet’s Olympia and the Politics of Recognition in the Artwork of Mickalene Thomas and Renee Cox 9. Kara Walker’s “Marvelous Sugar Baby ‘Sphinx’”: A Satirical Rendition of the Mammy Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWhitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the concept of “whitewashing” in stories that privilege White identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters. To understand whitewashing across various contexts, the book analyzes films produced in Hollywood, Asian American independent production, and US-China co-productions. Through the analysis, the book examines the ways in which whitewashing matters in the project of Whiteness and White racial hegemony. The book contributes to contemporary understanding of mediated representations of race by theorizing whitewashing, contributing to studies of Whiteness in media studies, and producing a counter-imagination of Asian/American representation in Asian-centered stories.Trade Review"David C. Oh’s Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture makes a strong case that these are still relevant approaches for scholars and critics seeking to make sense of Hollywood’s continued displacement of Asian characters on-screen, even when box-office analysis confirms over and over that stories about nonwhite characters reap significant financial returns....[I]f Oh’s target is Hollywood, he strikes it with example after example, a repetitive bull’s-eye that shows no mercy for the liberal hypocrisy and creative stagnation of Hollywood’s 'colorblind' racism." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Whitewashing Romance in Hawai’i: Aloha 2 White China Experts, Asian American Twinkies: Shanghai Calling and Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong 3 White Grievance, Heroism, and Postracist, Mixed-Race Inclusion in 47 Ronin 4 Satire and the Villainy of Kim Jong-un: The Interview 5 White Survival in Southeast Asia: No Escape and The Impossible 6 Whitewashing Anime Remakes: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution 7 Transnational Coproduction and the Ambivalence of White Masculine Heroism: The Great Wall, Outcast, and Enter the Warriors Gate Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMarvel is one of the hottest media companies in the world right now, and its beloved superheroes are all over film, television and comic books. Yet rather than simply cashing in on the popularity of iconic white male characters like Peter Parker, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, Marvel has consciously diversified its lineup of superheroes, courting controversy in the process. Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel’s recasting of certain “legacy heroes,” including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen. If the superhero comic is a quintessentially American creation, then how might the increasing diversification of Marvel’s superhero lineup reveal a fundamental shift in our understanding of American identity? This timely study answers those questions and considers what Marvel’s comics, TV series, and films might teach us about stereotyping, Orientalism, repatriation, whitewashing, and identification. Trade Review"Jeffrey Brown does it again! With his usual compelling style of writing, this time we are treated to a very timely analysis of Marvel’s contemporary multicultural superheroes and their complex entanglements. The significance of this text is its sophisticated way of unpacking the pop cultural panoply of ideology, history, and identity in which the superhero aesthetic is inextricably confined."— Ronald L. Jackson II, co-author of the Comic-Con award winning book, Black Comics "Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel’s recasting of certain 'legacy heroes,' including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen."— Forces of Geek "[Brown] has written a wonderfully readable book whose academic posture does not make it any less appealing to the layperson or the aficionado."— South China Morning Post "Smash Pages QA: Jeffrey A. Brown: The pop culture scholar discusses his latest books on superheroes, diversity and gender"— SmashPagesTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Marvel and Modern America Spider-Analogues: Unmarking and Unmasking White Male Superheroism The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics Superdad: Luke Cage and Heroic Fatherhood in the Civil War Comics Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification and Appropriation Iron Fist: Ethnicity, Appropriation and Repatriation Totally Awesome Asian Heroes vs. Stereotypes A New America: Marvelous Latinx Superheroes Ms. Marvel: A Thoroughly Relatable Muslim Superheroine Afterword: “Because the World Still Needs Heroes” Works Cited

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Book SynopsisLatinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina information workers in the Bell System from their entrance in 1973 to their retirements by 2015. Author Melissa Villa-Nicholas demonstrates the importance of Latinas of the field of telecommunications through their own words and uses supporting archival research to provide an overview of how Latinas engage and remember a critical analysis of their work place, information technologies, and the larger globalized economy and shifting borderlands through their intersectional identities as information workers. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications, from their manual to automated to digitized labor. Trade Review“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at AT&T.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing *“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at ATT.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Comp *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories 2 The Invisible Information Worker 3 Latinas on the Line 4 We Were Family 5 The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine 6 Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLatinas on the Line provides a compelling analysis and historical and theoretical grounding of the oral histories, never before seen, of Latina information workers in the Bell System from their entrance in 1973 to their retirements by 2015. Author Melissa Villa-Nicholas demonstrates the importance of Latinas of the field of telecommunications through their own words and uses supporting archival research to provide an overview of how Latinas engage and remember a critical analysis of their work place, information technologies, and the larger globalized economy and shifting borderlands through their intersectional identities as information workers. The book offers a rich and engaging portrait of the critical history of Latinas in telecommunications, from their manual to automated to digitized labor. Trade Review“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at AT&T.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing *“Villa-Nicholas weaves together oral histories and social politics to deliver an encompassing history about Latina information laborers and how they were embedded into telecommunications. It is a deeply compassionate book about community and resilience amidst discrimination and corporate uncertainties at ATT.” -- Sharra Vostral * author of Toxic Shock: A Social History *“Melissa Villa-Nicholas deftly shows how our telecommunications infrastructure, and the labor that undergirds it, have been central to struggles for civil rights. Latinas On The Line is a beautifully written, deeply personal history of a tech labor force that has been simultaneously ubiquitous and hidden—it is a history that holds important lessons about modernization, marginalization, and the exclusion still built in to STEM workforces.” -- Mar Hicks * author of Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Comp *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Why Latinas? Overlapping Technology Histories 2 The Invisible Information Worker 3 Latinas on the Line 4 We Were Family 5 The Telecommunications Life Cycle: Lorraine 6 Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the Wasp’s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic “half-breed.” The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature. They explore how superhero media positions mixed-race characters within a genre that has historically privileged racial purity and propagated images of white supremacy. The book considers such iconic heroes as Superman, Spider-Man, and The Hulk, alongside such lesser-studied characters as Valkyrie, Dr. Fate, and Steven Universe. Examining both literal and symbolic representations of racial mixing, this study interrogates how we might challenge and rewrite stereotypical narratives about mixed-race identity, both in superhero media and beyond.Trade Review"How often do you read a book that you simultaneously think, I want to assign this to my graduate seminar, cite it in the piece I’m working on, and slip a copy to my teenage kid? Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky’s Mixed-Race Superheroes shatters conventional notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the superhero genre while providing a deeply satisfying, critically engaging and eminently enjoyable read." -- Ralina Joseph * author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media Culture, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity *"While it has long been known that white supremacy was baked into the superhero at its origin some eighty years ago, this important collection of essays examines vibrant new works that reimagine and reinvent that troubled legacy. Through discussions of such figures as Miles Morales, the cinematic Valkyrie and Barack Obama, it advances the growing centrality of mixedness, mestiza consciousness and intersectionality in the transmedial twenty-first-century superhero genre. Given the realities of living in the post-2016 USA, this book couldn’t come at a better time." -- José Alaniz * author of Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond *"Dagbovie-Mullins and Berlatsky’s book is a unique and timely collection discussing superhero comics and films at the intersection of comics studies and critical mixed-race studies. The chapters provide valuable resources for scholars as well as students in multiple disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, and make a significant contribution to existing scholarship on racial mixedness in cultural productions." -- Lan Dong * Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor, University of Illinois Springfield *"An insightful and transformative work. Mixed-Race Superheroes reveals the hidden possibilities of the superhero genre. Profoundly thoughtful and carefully researched, this volume uses the ubiquitous cultural language of the superhero genre and the complexity inherent to racial hybridity to illustrate crucial points about identity, community, and power in the United States. This volume uses a transmedia framework to bring characters, settings, and themes linked to superheroes into a dynamic and revealing conversation. This collection will be useful for researchers steeped in these issues while highlighting innovative points of inquiry for scholars new to the superhero genre." -- Julian C. Chambliss * co-editor of Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitic *"This scholarly, lucidly written, and timely book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and a wider readership, the essays being accompanied by detailed end-notes, comprehensive lists of works cited, and an excellent index. The book will be essential reading for those in a wide variety of fields and disciplines, including critical mixed-race studies, social/cultural representations, comics studies, popular culture, and sociology, and also interdisciplinary studies." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Well-argued and presents a fascinating angle for approaching the issue of mixed-race superheroes." * International Journal of Comic Art *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky Part I Superheroes in Black and White 1. Guess Who’s Coming Home? Mixed Metaphors of Home in Spider-Man’s Comic and Cinematic Homecomings by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins 2. The Ride of the Valkyrie Against White Supremacy: Tessa Thompson’s Casting in Thor:Ragnarok by Jasmine Mitchell 3. “Which World Would You Rather Live In?” The Anti-utopian Superheroes of Gary Jackson’s Poetry by Chris Gavaler 4. Flash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation, and the Mixed-Race Superhero in TheFlash Comics and Television Show by Eric L. Berlatsky Part II Metaphors of/and Mixedness 5. “Let Yourself Just Be Whoever You Are!” Decolonial Hybridity and the Queer Cosmic Future in Steven Universe by Corrine E. Collins 6. The Hulk and Venom: Warring Blood Superheroes by Gregory T. Carter 7. Monsters, Mutants, and Mongrels: The Mixed-Race Hero in Monstress by Chris Koenig-Woodyard 8. Examining Otherness and the Marginal Man in DC’s Superman through Mixed-Race Studies by Kwasu David Tembo Part III Multiethnic Mixedness (or Mixed-Race Intersections) 9. Talented Tensions and Revisions: The Narrative Double Consciousness of Miles Morales by Jorge J. Santos Jr. 10. “They’re Two People in One Body”: Nested Sovereignties and Mixed-Race Mutations in FX’s Legion by Nicholas E. Miller 11. Into to the Spider-Verse and the Commodified (Re)imagining of Afro-Rican Visibility by Isabel Molina-Guzmán 12. Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC’s Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring by Adrienne Resha Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the Wasp’s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic “half-breed.” The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature. They explore how superhero media positions mixed-race characters within a genre that has historically privileged racial purity and propagated images of white supremacy. The book considers such iconic heroes as Superman, Spider-Man, and The Hulk, alongside such lesser-studied characters as Valkyrie, Dr. Fate, and Steven Universe. Examining both literal and symbolic representations of racial mixing, this study interrogates how we might challenge and rewrite stereotypical narratives about mixed-race identity, both in superhero media and beyond.Trade Review"How often do you read a book that you simultaneously think, I want to assign this to my graduate seminar, cite it in the piece I’m working on, and slip a copy to my teenage kid? Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky’s Mixed-Race Superheroes shatters conventional notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the superhero genre while providing a deeply satisfying, critically engaging and eminently enjoyable read." -- Ralina Joseph * author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media Culture, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity *"While it has long been known that white supremacy was baked into the superhero at its origin some eighty years ago, this important collection of essays examines vibrant new works that reimagine and reinvent that troubled legacy. Through discussions of such figures as Miles Morales, the cinematic Valkyrie and Barack Obama, it advances the growing centrality of mixedness, mestiza consciousness and intersectionality in the transmedial twenty-first-century superhero genre. Given the realities of living in the post-2016 USA, this book couldn’t come at a better time." -- José Alaniz * author of Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond *"Dagbovie-Mullins and Berlatsky’s book is a unique and timely collection discussing superhero comics and films at the intersection of comics studies and critical mixed-race studies. The chapters provide valuable resources for scholars as well as students in multiple disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, and make a significant contribution to existing scholarship on racial mixedness in cultural productions." -- Lan Dong * Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor, University of Illinois Springfield *"An insightful and transformative work. Mixed-Race Superheroes reveals the hidden possibilities of the superhero genre. Profoundly thoughtful and carefully researched, this volume uses the ubiquitous cultural language of the superhero genre and the complexity inherent to racial hybridity to illustrate crucial points about identity, community, and power in the United States. This volume uses a transmedia framework to bring characters, settings, and themes linked to superheroes into a dynamic and revealing conversation. This collection will be useful for researchers steeped in these issues while highlighting innovative points of inquiry for scholars new to the superhero genre." -- Julian C. Chambliss * co-editor of Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domain *"This scholarly, lucidly written, and timely book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and a wider readership, the essays being accompanied by detailed end-notes, comprehensive lists of works cited, and an excellent index. The book will be essential reading for those in a wide variety of fields and disciplines, including critical mixed-race studies, social/cultural representations, comics studies, popular culture, and sociology, and also interdisciplinary studies." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Well-argued and presents a fascinating angle for approaching the issue of mixed-race superheroes." * International Journal of Comic Art *"How often do you read a book that you simultaneously think, I want to assign this to my graduate seminar, cite it in the piece I’m working on, and slip a copy to my teenage kid? Sika Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric Berlatsky’s Mixed-Race Superheroes shatters conventional notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the superhero genre while providing a deeply satisfying, critically engaging and eminently enjoyable read." -- Ralina Joseph * author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media Culture, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity *"While it has long been known that white supremacy was baked into the superhero at its origin some eighty years ago, this important collection of essays examines vibrant new works that reimagine and reinvent that troubled legacy. Through discussions of such figures as Miles Morales, the cinematic Valkyrie and Barack Obama, it advances the growing centrality of mixedness, mestiza consciousness and intersectionality in the transmedial twenty-first-century superhero genre. Given the realities of living in the post-2016 USA, this book couldn’t come at a better time." -- José Alaniz * author of Death, Disability and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond *"Dagbovie-Mullins and Berlatsky’s book is a unique and timely collection discussing superhero comics and films at the intersection of comics studies and critical mixed-race studies. The chapters provide valuable resources for scholars as well as students in multiple disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, and make a significant contribution to existing scholarship on racial mixedness in cultural productions." -- Lan Dong * Louise Hartman Schewe and Karl Schewe Professor, University of Illinois Springfield *"An insightful and transformative work. Mixed-Race Superheroes reveals the hidden possibilities of the superhero genre. Profoundly thoughtful and carefully researched, this volume uses the ubiquitous cultural language of the superhero genre and the complexity inherent to racial hybridity to illustrate crucial points about identity, community, and power in the United States. This volume uses a transmedia framework to bring characters, settings, and themes linked to superheroes into a dynamic and revealing conversation. This collection will be useful for researchers steeped in these issues while highlighting innovative points of inquiry for scholars new to the superhero genre." -- Julian C. Chambliss * co-editor of Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitic *"This scholarly, lucidly written, and timely book will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and a wider readership, the essays being accompanied by detailed end-notes, comprehensive lists of works cited, and an excellent index. The book will be essential reading for those in a wide variety of fields and disciplines, including critical mixed-race studies, social/cultural representations, comics studies, popular culture, and sociology, and also interdisciplinary studies." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Well-argued and presents a fascinating angle for approaching the issue of mixed-race superheroes." * International Journal of Comic Art *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins and Eric L. Berlatsky Part I Superheroes in Black and White 1. Guess Who’s Coming Home? Mixed Metaphors of Home in Spider-Man’s Comic and Cinematic Homecomings by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins 2. The Ride of the Valkyrie Against White Supremacy: Tessa Thompson’s Casting in Thor:Ragnarok by Jasmine Mitchell 3. “Which World Would You Rather Live In?” The Anti-utopian Superheroes of Gary Jackson’s Poetry by Chris Gavaler 4. Flash of Two Races: Incest, Miscegenation, and the Mixed-Race Superhero in TheFlash Comics and Television Show by Eric L. Berlatsky Part II Metaphors of/and Mixedness 5. “Let Yourself Just Be Whoever You Are!” Decolonial Hybridity and the Queer Cosmic Future in Steven Universe by Corrine E. Collins 6. The Hulk and Venom: Warring Blood Superheroes by Gregory T. Carter 7. Monsters, Mutants, and Mongrels: The Mixed-Race Hero in Monstress by Chris Koenig-Woodyard 8. Examining Otherness and the Marginal Man in DC’s Superman through Mixed-Race Studies by Kwasu David Tembo Part III Multiethnic Mixedness (or Mixed-Race Intersections) 9. Talented Tensions and Revisions: The Narrative Double Consciousness of Miles Morales by Jorge J. Santos Jr. 10. “They’re Two People in One Body”: Nested Sovereignties and Mixed-Race Mutations in FX’s Legion by Nicholas E. Miller 11. Into to the Spider-Verse and the Commodified (Re)imagining of Afro-Rican Visibility by Isabel Molina-Guzmán 12. Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC’s Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring by Adrienne Resha Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFar too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black families and the inter-generational perpetuation of social chaos and untimely death. Young people are repeatedly ripped away from life by violence, while many men are locked away in prisons. In neighborhoods like those of Wilmington, Delaware, residents routinely face the pressures of violence, death, and incarceration. Murder Town, USA is thus a timely ethnography with an innovative structure: the authors helped organize fifteen residents formerly involved with the streets and/or the criminal justice system to document the relationship between structural opportunity and experiences with violence in Wilmington's Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods. Earlier scholars offered rich cultural analysis of violence in low-income Black communities, and yet this literature has mostly conceptualized violence through frameworks of personal responsibility or individual accountability. And even if acknowledging the pressure of structural inequality, most earlier researchers describe violence as the ultimate result of some moral failing, a propensity for crime, and the notion of helplessness. Instead, in Murder Town USA, Payne, Hitchens, and Chamber, along with their collaborative team of street ethnographers, instead offer a radical re-conceptualization of violence in low-income Black communities by describing the penchant for violence and involvement in crime overall to be a logical, "resilient" response to the perverse context of structural inequality.Trade Review“Murder Town, USA covers essential terrain for sociologists and other social scientists to more aggressively venture into such that the complexities of contemporary African-American life can be more fully unpacked. The scholarship is sound and the writing is clear.” -- Alford A. Young Jr. * author of From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work *“Most debates about the urban gun violence epidemic exclude the voices of those who are most grievously impacted. By centering the experiences of street-identified residents of Wilmington, Delaware and situating them within their structural context, Murder Town, USA is required reading for anyone in search of solutions.” -- Jamie J. Fader * author of On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Street Identity, Structural Violence, and Street PAR 1 Part I: Context of Opportunity and Violence 1 A City of Banks: A Long Legacy of Economic Violence and Crime 27 2 “Welcome to Wilmington—A Place to Be Somebody”: Negotiating City Culture and Building Rapport 41 3 “Murder Town, USA”: Reframing Gun Violence and Resilience in a Small City 57 Part II: Management, Containment, and the Social Control of Black Wilmington 4 "I'm Still Waiting Man . . . on That Golden Ticket!" Education and Economic Justice, a Dream Deferred––in Perpetuity 87 5 “F-ck the Police!” Standing Up to the Policing Machine 113 6 “I Don’t Let These Felonies Hold Me Back!” HowThe Streets Radically Reframed Re-entry 135 Part III: Street Agency: Coping with and Ending the Structural Violence Complex 7 “Brenda’s Got a Baby”: Competing Roles of Black Women as Matriarchs and Hustlers 157 8 “Street Love”: How Psychological and Social Well-Being Interrupts Gun Violence 181 9 “Winter is Coming!” White Walkers, Revolutionary Change, and the Streets Call for Structural Transformation 196 Conclusion: Calling for a Radical Street Ethnography: Street PAR, SOR Theory, and the Bottom Caste 217 Notes 233 Bibliography 263 Index 000

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Book SynopsisThe Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include €the groups it had once excluded.Trade Review"In the era of Black Lives Matter and the mobilization of Black and Brown people to affirm their identity and belonging in America, Robert Fatton has successfully combined a transnational approach to offer the reader a new perspective on race relations, class and power in America in the twenty-first century."— François Pierre-Louis Jr., co-editor of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York "In this extraordinary book,Robert Fatton offers a trenchant comparative analysis of the ideology of exceptionalism as it was deployed in the United States and Haiti to extol the world-shaking revolutions that led to the first two independent nation-states in the New World, in 1776 and 1804, respectively."— New West Indian Guide "The Guise of Exceptionalism offers tremendous resources for thinking in complex terms about a world in which nationalism persistently takes on more dangerous and destructive expressions."— Perspectives on Politics “In this engaging and lucid work, Fatton brilliantly analyzes and critiques ideologies of national exceptionalism. In the process, he demonstrates the interpretive power of comparison, urging us to re-think the intertwined futures of Haiti and the U.S. by refusing myths and narratives that distort their national histories.”— Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of HistoryTable of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 American Exceptionalism Chapter 3 Exceptionalism and “Unthinkability” Chapter 4 Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti Chapter 5 The American Occupation and Haiti’s Exceptionalism Chapter 6 Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 7 Dictatorship, Democratization, And Exceptionalism Chapter 8 The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism Chapter 9 Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism Chapter 10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Guise of Exceptionalism compares the historical origins of Haitian and American exceptionalisms. It also traces how exceptionalism as a narrative of uniqueness has shaped relations between the two countries from their early days of independence through the contemporary period. Exceptionalism is at the core of every national founding narrative. It allows countries to purge history of injurious stains, and embellish it with mythical innocence and claims of distinction. Exceptionalism also builds the bonds of solidarity that forge an imagined national fellowship of the chosen, but it excludes those deemed unfit for membership because of their race, ethnicity, gender, or class. Exceptionalism, however, is not frozen. As a social invention, it changes over time, but always within the parameters of its original principles. Our capacity to reinvent it is dependent on the degree of hegemony achieved by the ruling class, and if this class has the infrastructural power to gradually co-opt and include €the groups it had once excluded.Trade Review"In the era of Black Lives Matter and the mobilization of Black and Brown people to affirm their identity and belonging in America, Robert Fatton has successfully combined a transnational approach to offer the reader a new perspective on race relations, class and power in America in the twenty-first century."— François Pierre-Louis Jr., co-editor of Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York "In this extraordinary book,Robert Fatton offers a trenchant comparative analysis of the ideology of exceptionalism as it was deployed in the United States and Haiti to extol the world-shaking revolutions that led to the first two independent nation-states in the New World, in 1776 and 1804, respectively."— New West Indian Guide "The Guise of Exceptionalism offers tremendous resources for thinking in complex terms about a world in which nationalism persistently takes on more dangerous and destructive expressions."— Perspectives on Politics “In this engaging and lucid work, Fatton brilliantly analyzes and critiques ideologies of national exceptionalism. In the process, he demonstrates the interpretive power of comparison, urging us to re-think the intertwined futures of Haiti and the U.S. by refusing myths and narratives that distort their national histories.”— Laurent Dubois, author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of HistoryTable of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 American Exceptionalism Chapter 3 Exceptionalism and “Unthinkability” Chapter 4 Manifest Destiny and the American Occupation of Haiti Chapter 5 The American Occupation and Haiti’s Exceptionalism Chapter 6 Imperial Exceptionalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Chapter 7 Dictatorship, Democratization, And Exceptionalism Chapter 8 The Diaspora and the Transmogrification of Exceptionalism Chapter 9 Identity Politics and Modern Exceptionalism Chapter 10 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith the rise of digital tools used for media entrepreneurship, media outlets staffed by only one or two individuals and targeted to niche and super-niche audiences are developing across a wide range of platforms. Minority communities such as immigrants and refugees have long been pioneers in this space, operating ethnic media outlets with limited staff and funding to produce content that is relevant and accessible to their specific community. Micro Media Industries explores the specific case of Hmong American media, showing how an extremely small population can maintain a robust and thriving media ecology in spite of resource limitations and an inability to scale up. Based on six years of fieldwork in Hmong American communities in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California, it analyzes the unique opportunities and challenges facing Hmong newspapers, radio, television, podcasts, YouTube, social media, and other emerging platforms. It argues that micro media industries, rather than being dismissed or trivialized, ought to be held up as models of media innovation that can counter the increasing power of mainstream media. Trade Review“Micro Media Industries accomplishes the difficult task of describing the media worlds of Hmong Americans with depth and complexity while also analyzing the broader phenomenon of micro media production to give us a new way of understanding the importance of self-representation and the structuring role of media in creating social ties.” -- LeiLani Nishime * author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture *"A brilliant and moving account of what the vibrant Hmong American mediascape tells us about promises and perils of minority media production and circulation in an era of platform capitalism." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *“Micro Media Industries accomplishes the difficult task of describing the media worlds of Hmong Americans with depth and complexity while also analyzing the broader phenomenon of micro media production to give us a new way of understanding the importance of self-representation and the structuring role of media in creating social ties.” -- LeiLani Nishime * author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture *"A brilliant and moving account of what the vibrant Hmong American mediascape tells us about promises and perils of minority media production and circulation in an era of platform capitalism." -- Aswin Punathambekar * University of Virginia *Table of Contents1 Introduction: The Significance of Micro Media Industries 2 Without a Newsroom: Journalism and the Micro Media Empire 3 TV without Television: YouTube and Digital Video 4 Global Participatory Networks: Teleconference Radio Programs 5 Queer Sounds: Podcasting and Audio Archives 6 Alternative Aspirational Labor: Influencers and Social Media Producers 7 Conclusion: Beyond Hmong American Media Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFirst-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service is the first book to examine the experiences of racially minoritized faculty who were also the first in their families to graduate college in the United States. From contingent to tenured faculty who teach at community colleges, comprehensive, and research institutions, the book is a collection of critical narratives that collectively show the diversity of faculty of color, attentive to and beyond race. The book is organized into three major parts comprised of chapters in which faculty of color depict how first-generation college student identities continue to inform how minoritized people navigate academe well into their professional careers, and encourage them to reconceptualize research, teaching, and service responsibilities to better consider the families and communities that shaped their lives well before college.Trade Review"Stories of love, affirmation, and resistance can find themselves in many places—real and imagined. We search for those stories, or they find us. Those powerful stories of First-Gen Scholars are here in the pages of this book. These are the chronicles previous generations of First-Gen Scholars would have benefited from reading. I know I would have. First-Gen Scholars of Color today and future generations will see themselves and be served by this gift." -- Daniel Solorzano * author of Racial Microaggressions: Using Critical Race Theory to Respond to Everyday Racism *"This book stands alone in elevating voices of first-generation faculty of color who nuance what it means to gain access to academia while not always thriving in it. This volume unapologetically demands for us to honor the full humanity of first-generation faculty of color as they embark on breaking down traditional notions of research, humanizing teaching, and challenging the overburden of service in inhospitable campus climates. If universities, particularly those seeking designation as minority serving, seek to create an environment where first-generation students of color will feel as though they belong, they need to learn from the varied experiences of first-generation faculty of color who have been doing this work, uncompensated and unacknowledged." -- Elizabeth Montaño * Associate Professor of Teaching at UC Davis and Chair of the Capital Area North Doctorate in Educati *Table of Contents Foreword CAROLINE SOTELLO VIERNES TURNER Preface TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA, DIMPAL JAIN, AND MARÍA C. LEDESMA Introduction: Toward a First-Generation Faculty Epistemology MARÍA C. LEDESMA PART ONE Research Illustration: Research with Community, Not on Community 1 Food on the Table: The Hidden Curriculum of the Academic Job Market DIMPAL JAIN 2 Neoliberal Racism and the Experiences of First-Generation Asian American Scholars VARAXY YI AND SAMUEL D. MUSEUS 3 A Nanny’s Daughter in the Academy MARIA ESTELA ZARATE 4 On Navigating with Flavor: A Reluctant Professor on the Pathway Here DARRICK SMITH 5 What Are We Willing to Sacrifice? Mental Health among First-Generation Faculty of Color OMAR RUVALCABA PART TWO Teaching Illustration: “Échale Ganas” 6 The Classroom as Negotiated Space: A Chinese-Vietnamese American Community College Faculty Experience CINDY N. PHU 7 Taking Up Space: Reflections from a Latina and a Filipino American Faculty Teaching for Racial Justice NORMA A. MARRUN AND CONSTANCIO R. ARNALDO JR. 8 Ambitions as a Ridah: Using Lived Experience as a Professional Asset Instead of a Liability PATRICK ROZ CAMANGIAN 9 Sage and Tissue Boxes: Critical Race Feminista Perspectives on Office Hours JOSÉ M. AGUILAR-HERNÁNDEZ AND ALMA ITZÉ FLORES PART THREE Service Illustration: Service Perception versus Service Reality 10 Financial Redistribution as Faculty Service: “The Hustle” and Challenging Racist Classism in the Neoliberal University TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA 11 Mexicana and Boricua First-Generation Scholars: Serving Our Communities with Alma, Mente y Corazón JUDITH FLORES CARMONA, IVELISSE TORRES FERNANDEZ, AND EDIL TORRES RIVERA 12 Continuing Cultural Mismatches: Reflections from a First-Generation Latina Faculty Navigating the Academy REBECCA COVARRUBIAS 13 Fugitivity within the University as First-Generation Black-Pinay, Indigenous, and Chicanx Faculty: Cultivating an Undercommons NINI HAYES, DOLORES CALDERÓN, AND VERÓNICA NELLY VÉLEZ Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFirst-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service is the first book to examine the experiences of racially minoritized faculty who were also the first in their families to graduate college in the United States. From contingent to tenured faculty who teach at community colleges, comprehensive, and research institutions, the book is a collection of critical narratives that collectively show the diversity of faculty of color, attentive to and beyond race. The book is organized into three major parts comprised of chapters in which faculty of color depict how first-generation college student identities continue to inform how minoritized people navigate academe well into their professional careers, and encourage them to reconceptualize research, teaching, and service responsibilities to better consider the families and communities that shaped their lives well before college.Trade Review"Stories of love, affirmation, and resistance can find themselves in many places—real and imagined. We search for those stories, or they find us. Those powerful stories of First-Gen Scholars are here in the pages of this book. These are the chronicles previous generations of First-Gen Scholars would have benefited from reading. I know I would have. First-Gen Scholars of Color today and future generations will see themselves and be served by this gift." -- Daniel Solorzano * author of Racial Microaggressions: Using Critical Race Theory to Respond to Everyday Racism *"This book stands alone in elevating voices of first-generation faculty of color who nuance what it means to gain access to academia while not always thriving in it. This volume unapologetically demands for us to honor the full humanity of first-generation faculty of color as they embark on breaking down traditional notions of research, humanizing teaching, and challenging the overburden of service in inhospitable campus climates. If universities, particularly those seeking designation as minority serving, seek to create an environment where first-generation students of color will feel as though they belong, they need to learn from the varied experiences of first-generation faculty of color who have been doing this work, uncompensated and unacknowledged." -- Elizabeth Montaño * Associate Professor of Teaching at UC Davis and Chair of the Capital Area North Doctorate in Educati *Table of Contents Foreword CAROLINE SOTELLO VIERNES TURNER Preface TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA, DIMPAL JAIN, AND MARÍA C. LEDESMA Introduction: Toward a First-Generation Faculty Epistemology MARÍA C. LEDESMA PART ONE Research Illustration: Research with Community, Not on Community 1 Food on the Table: The Hidden Curriculum of the Academic Job Market DIMPAL JAIN 2 Neoliberal Racism and the Experiences of First-Generation Asian American Scholars VARAXY YI AND SAMUEL D. MUSEUS 3 A Nanny’s Daughter in the Academy MARIA ESTELA ZARATE 4 On Navigating with Flavor: A Reluctant Professor on the Pathway Here DARRICK SMITH 5 What Are We Willing to Sacrifice? Mental Health among First-Generation Faculty of Color OMAR RUVALCABA PART TWO Teaching Illustration: “Échale Ganas” 6 The Classroom as Negotiated Space: A Chinese-Vietnamese American Community College Faculty Experience CINDY N. PHU 7 Taking Up Space: Reflections from a Latina and a Filipino American Faculty Teaching for Racial Justice NORMA A. MARRUN AND CONSTANCIO R. ARNALDO JR. 8 Ambitions as a Ridah: Using Lived Experience as a Professional Asset Instead of a Liability PATRICK ROZ CAMANGIAN 9 Sage and Tissue Boxes: Critical Race Feminista Perspectives on Office Hours JOSÉ M. AGUILAR-HERNÁNDEZ AND ALMA ITZÉ FLORES PART THREE Service Illustration: Service Perception versus Service Reality 10 Financial Redistribution as Faculty Service: “The Hustle” and Challenging Racist Classism in the Neoliberal University TRACY LACHICA BUENAVISTA 11 Mexicana and Boricua First-Generation Scholars: Serving Our Communities with Alma, Mente y Corazón JUDITH FLORES CARMONA, IVELISSE TORRES FERNANDEZ, AND EDIL TORRES RIVERA 12 Continuing Cultural Mismatches: Reflections from a First-Generation Latina Faculty Navigating the Academy REBECCA COVARRUBIAS 13 Fugitivity within the University as First-Generation Black-Pinay, Indigenous, and Chicanx Faculty: Cultivating an Undercommons NINI HAYES, DOLORES CALDERÓN, AND VERÓNICA NELLY VÉLEZ Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThrough a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency shows how Hmong, despite being one of America’s most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to make sustained claims on and have their interests represented in public policies. The author, Yang Sao Xiong argues that the key to understanding how immigrants incorporate themselves politically is to understand how they mobilize collective action and make choices in circumstances far from racially neutral. Immigrant groups, in response to political threats or opportunities or both, mobilize collective action and make strategic choices about how to position themselves vis-à-vis other minority groups, how to construct group identities, and how to deploy various tactics in order to engage with the U.S. political system and influence policy. In response to immigrants’ collective claims, the racial state engages in racialization which undermines immigrants’ political standing and perpetuates their marginalization.Trade Review"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *Table of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresList of MapsList of Abbreviations1 Immigrant Agency2 History and Contexts of Exit3 Campaign for Justice4 Battle for Naturalization5 Movement for Inclusion6 Racialized Political Incorporation and Immigrant RightsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.Trade Review“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbsence Abuse Angel Babies AwarenessBabyland Black Infant Mortality Blame BreastfeedingChildren’s Rights CIA World Factbook Congressional Black Caucus CubaDads Deprivation Disability DoulasEmptiness Envy EpigeneticsFolic acid Fracking FrankensteinGrief GuiltHopeInfant Mortality Rate InfanticideJapanKangaroo CareLifeMaternal Mortality Medicaid Memphis Mother’s DayNeonatology NursesObstetric Violence OhioPlacenta Prematurity Prenatal CareQuietRacism Rainbow Baby Reproductive JusticeStillbirth SurvivalTahlequah TraumaUrgency VulnerabilityWashington, D.C. Weathering Women’s HealthXenophobia Y earning ZIP Code

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.Trade Review“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbsence Abuse Angel Babies AwarenessBabyland Black Infant Mortality Blame BreastfeedingChildren’s Rights CIA World Factbook Congressional Black Caucus CubaDads Deprivation Disability DoulasEmptiness Envy EpigeneticsFolic acid Fracking FrankensteinGrief GuiltHopeInfant Mortality Rate InfanticideJapanKangaroo CareLifeMaternal Mortality Medicaid Memphis Mother’s DayNeonatology NursesObstetric Violence OhioPlacenta Prematurity Prenatal CareQuietRacism Rainbow Baby Reproductive JusticeStillbirth SurvivalTahlequah TraumaUrgency VulnerabilityWashington, D.C. Weathering Women’s HealthXenophobia Y earning ZIP Code

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