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Book SynopsisWhen African American intellectuals announced the birth of the 'New Negro' around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. This book collects more than one hundred canonical and essays published between 1892 and 1938.Trade Review"Because 'New Negro' is really just a catchprase for the capacious topic of race in America, this is less an anthology than a mix of articles, criticism, essays, theories, calls to action and commentary by people both black and white, ranging from the famous (Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, H.L. Mencken) to those lesser known but prominent in their time (Alain Locke). The result is a spirited...dialectic tracing the most intense period of New Negro discussions, between 1892 and 1938."--Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Recent years have seen an explosion of writings on the so-called new Negro... Now Gates and Jarrett lend their considerable voices to the discussion. Including an excellent introduction that situates the debate, this anthology collects some 100 essays on the trope of the new Negro between 1892 and 1938, years that broadly encompass the period known as the Harlem Renaissance... The book covers not only literature but also music, theater, and the fine arts and convincingly links them with social and political happenings of the period... [O]verall this is a masterful piece of work."--L. J. Parascandola, Long Island University, for CHOICE "The New Negro is a valuable collection of essays that is accessible to scholars, teachers, and those generally interested in African-American history. When placed within the context of recent New Negro scholarship, the anthology reinforces the need to expand the depth and breadth of research into Post-Reconstruction representations of race in African-American culture."--Gabriel A. Briggs, CallalooTable of ContentsNOTE: For essays originally published without thematic titles, we have provided them in brackets. Acknowledgments xi Introduction by Gates and Jarrett 1 The Trope of a New Negro 2 New Negro Politics 6 New Negro Uplift 10 Race, Representation, and African American Culture 14 Notes 18 CHAPTER I: THE NEW NEGRO "The New Negro" by Rev. W.E.C. Wright 23 "An Appeal to the King" by J.W.E. Bowen 26 "Afro-American Education" by Booker T. Washington 33 "Heroes and Martyrs" by N.B. Wood 36 "The Club Movement among Colored Women of America" by Fannie Barrier Williams 54 "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" 59 "Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman" by by John Henry Adams, Jr. 66 "Rough Sketches: The New Negro Man" 67 "An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders Over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem" by Ray Stannard Baker 69 "The New Negro" by William Pickens 79 "Returning Soldiers" by W.E.B. Du Bois 85 "The New Negro and the U.N.I.A." by Marcus Garvey 92 As to "'The New Negro'" by Anonymous 96 "The New Negro" by Geroid Robinson 97 "The New Politics" by Hubert H. Harrison 101 "Education and the Race" 107 "The New Negro" by Alain Locke 112 "Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet" 119 "The New Negro Hokum" by Gustavus Adolphus Stewart 123 "Who Is the New Negro, and Why?" by J.A. Rogers 129 "The New Negro as Revealed in His Poetry" by Charlotte E. Taussig 131 "La Bourgeoisie Noire" E. Franklin Frazier 137 "The New Negro in Paris" by Claude McKay 141 "The Rise of the Black Internationale" by George S. Schuyler 149 CHAPTER II: HOW SHOULD ART PORTRAY THE NEGRO? "One Phase of American Literature" by Anna Julia Cooper 157 ["Negro in Literature"] by Paul Laurence Dunbar 172 "The Negro in Books" by Charles W. Chesnutt 173 "The Negro in Literature" by William Stanley Braithwaite 182 "The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed" The Crisis Symposium 190 "Some Aspects of the Negro Interpreted in Contemporary American and European Literature" by John Frederick Matheus 204 "The Negro in Recent American Literature" by Eugene Clay 211 CHAPTER III: THE RENAISSANCE "The Younger Literary Movement" by W.E.B. Du Bois 219 "Negro Youth Speaks" by Alain Locke 220 "Uncle Tom's Mansion" by Carl van Vechten 223 "The Aframerican: New Style" by H.L. Mencken 227 "The Negro Renaissance" by Carl van Doren 229 "The Negro Renaissance" by Walter White 231 "The Negro Literary Renaissance" by Benjamin Brawley 233 "The Negro'Renaissance'" by Lloyd Morris 237 "The Negro Renaissance" by Martha Gruening 240 "Our Negro'Intellectuals'" by Allison Davis 246 "For a Negro Magazine" by Claude McKay 251 CHAPTER IV: ART OR PROPAGANDA? "Art and Propaganda" by Eric Walrond 255 "Propaganda in the Theatre" by Willis Richardson 255 "Criteria of Negro Art" by W.E.B. du Bois 257 "Art or Propaganda?" by Alain Locke 260 "Propaganda--or Poetry?" 261 "Blueprint for Negro Writing" by Richard Wright 268 CHAPTER V: LITERATURE: HISTORY AND THEORY "Afro-American Women and Their Work" by Katherine Tillman 277 "The Value of Race Literature" by Victoria Earle Matthews 287 "The Writing of a Novel" by Charles W. Chesnutt 297 "The Negro in Literature and Art" by W.E.B. du Bois 299 "Negro Literature for Negro Pupils" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson 302 "Negro Race Consciousness as Reflected in Race Literature" by Robert E. Park 305 "Colored Authors and Their Contributions to the World's Literature" by Irene M. Gaines 315 "A Point of View (An Opportunity Dinner Reaction)" by Brenda Ray Moryck 321??? "The Negro Digs Up His Past" by Arthur A. Schomburg 326 "A Note on the Sociology of Negro Literature" by Fred Dearmond 330 "Negro Art, Past and Present" by Albert C. Barnes 333 "Survey of Negro Literature, 1760-1926" by Thomas L.G. Oxley 337 "Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist" by James Weldon Johnson 343 "Negro Literature" by Walter White 350 "Characteristics of Negro Expression" by Zora Neale Hurston 355 "The Negro Genius" by Benjamin Brawley 364 CHAPTER VI: LITERATURE:THE LITERARY PROFESSION AND THE MARKETPLACE "On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers" by Hubert H. Harrison 373 "The Negro Audience" by Willis Richardson 375 "Negro Authors Must Eat" by George W. Jacobs (George S. Schuyler) 376 "The Dilemma of the Negro Author" by James Weldon Johnson 378 "Negro Authors and White Publishers" 382 "Our Literary Audience" by Sterling A. Brown 384 "A Negro Writer to His Critics" by Claude McKay 390 "Problems Facing the Negro Writer Today" by Eugene C. Holmes 394 CHAPTER VII: LITERATURE: POETRY "Some Contemporary Poets of the Negro Race" by William Stanley Braithwaite 401 "Dunbar's Poetry in Literary English" by Charles Eaton Burch 407 "The Negro in Poetry" by John Edward Bruce 410 "Old School of Negro'Critics'Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar" by Thomas Millard Henry 413 "Negro Poets and Their Poetry" by Wallace Thurman 415 "The Negro Poets of the United States" by Alain Locke 422 "Mr. Garvey as a Poet" by T. Thomas Fortune 426 "Preface (from The Book of American Negro Poetry)" by James Weldon Johnson 426 CHAPTER VIII: MUSIC:SPIRITUALS "Negro Music" by Paul Laurence Dunbar 447 "The Sorrow Songs" by W.E.B. du Bois 448 "Negro Folk Song" by John W. Work 453 "The Negro Spirituals" by Alain Locke 457 "The Negro Spirituals and American Art" by Laurence Buermeyer 464 "Self-Portraiture and Social Criticism in Negro Folk-Song" by B.A. Botkin 467 "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals" by Zora Neale Hurston 473 CHAPTER IX: MUSIC: JAZZ "Whence Comes Jass?" by Walter Kingsley 479 "That Mysterious'Jazz'" by Grenville Vernon 480 "Jazzing Away Prejudice" by Anonymous 481 "Where The Etude Stands on Jazz" 482 "Jazz at Home" by J.A. Rogers 492 "From The Appeal of Jazz" by R.W.S. Mendl 496 "Hot Jazz" by Robert Goffin 499 "From Swing That Music" by Louis Armstrong 501 CHAPTER X: THEATER "The Negro in Drama" by Rollin Lynde Hartt 507 "Reflections on O'Neill's Plays" by Paul Robeson 510 "The Drama of Negro Life" by Montgomery Gregory 511 "The Gift of Laughter" by Jessie Fauset 515 "Same Old Blues" by Theophilus Lewis 518 "The Drama of Negro Life" by Alain Locke 521 "The Negro in the Field of Drama" by Rowena Woodham Jelliffe 524 "Has the Negro a Place in the Theatre?" by Jules Bledsoe 526 "A Criticism of the Negro Drama as It Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist" by Eulalie Spence 527 "From Black Manhattan" by James Weldon Johnson 528 "The Negro Theatre--A Dodo Bird" by Ralph Matthews 532 CHAPTER XI: THE FINE ARTS "A Note on African Art" by Alain Locke 537 "The American Negro as Artist" 541 "African Art: Classic Style" 546 jessie fauset "Henry Ossawa Tanner" 549 "African Plastic in Contemporary Art" by Harry Alan Potamkin 551 "The Negro Artist and Modern Art" by Romare Bearden 554 Bibliography of Primary Sources 559 Suggested Futher Reading 563 Index 567

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Book SynopsisIn his day, Jack Johnson - born in Texas, the son of former slaves - was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavy weight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, and masculine bravado.Trade Review"This book is a must-have addition to any boxing fan's library." -- Glenn Wilson Boxing News "Runstedtler brings new perspectives to bear in Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner... it's well worth the read." -- Thomas Hauser The Ring "Runstedtler presents an unexpected yet wholly authentic take on the great African American boxer, Jack Johnson." -- Alan Moores Booklist "A fascinating must-read for students of African American or American studies covering the early 1900s." -- Jim Burns Library Journal "My nominee for book of the year by a rising young scholar... For anyone interested in colonialism, imperialism, race, and the global impact of sport, this book is a must read." -- Mark Naison With A Brooklyn Accent "A thoroughly researched, scholarly study, meant to be read slowly and considered deeply... Highly recommended for all readers." -- R. W. Roberts, Purdue University ChoiceTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Sparring Nations, Global Problem Introduction: Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner 1. Embodying Empire: Jack Johnson and the White Pacific 2. White Censors, Dark Screens: The Jeffries-Johnson Fight Film Controversy 3. Jack Johnson versus John Bull: The Rise of the British Boxing Colour Bar 4. The Black Atlantic from Below: African American Boxers and the Search for Exile 5. Trading Race: Black Bodies and French Regeneration 6. Viva Johnson! Fighting over Race in the Americas 7. The Empire Strikes Back: The "French Jack Johnson" and the Rising Tide of Color Epilogue: Visible Men, Harmless Icons Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisToward the end of his administration (2010-2015), then Uruguayan President Jose 'Pepe' Mujica made headlines across the world with a couple of unusual speeches at United Nations assemblies in Rio de Janeiro and New York that were heatedly anti-capitalist, anti-consumerist, anti-globalisation and anti-climate change all fuelled by a libertarian socialist concept of freedom. This Sancho Panza-like figure was not only one of the few presidents of developing countries not to have somehow got personally rich while in government, but was known to live modestly as a practicing farmer and gave away two-thirds of his salary to his left-wing political organisation and to social housing projects. Even more bizarre was the fact that he had become president of the country whose government he had tried to overthrow forty years earlier in a revolutionary guerrilla war, an exploit for which he spent over a decade in military jails after being shot, severely wounded and tortured. This book is an introduction to the politics and philosophy of an unrepentant permanent militant whose evolution took him from defeated guerrilla warrior to successful presidential candidate without inconsistencies or betrayals, whatever his adversaries from right and left may claim. The study sets Mujica not only in his Uruguayan and Latin American context but also within an International Left that is coming out of mourning for the loss of so-called existing socialism as they search for solutions to lessen the damage done by rampant neoliberal economics and to find creative alternatives. Stephen Gregory's polemic is essential reading for all those interested in discovering Uruguay's unique position in a Latin America where the political right is in decline and leftist governments are moving to the middle ground.

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Book SynopsisMore than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has long been unavailable—chronicles the making of a revolutionary. It is much more than a personal history, however; it is a call to arms, an urgent message to the black community to be the vanguard force in the struggle of oppressed people. Forthright, sardonic, and shocking, this book is not only illuminating and dynamic but also a vitally important document that is essential to understanding the upheavals of the late 1960s. University of Massachusetts professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell has updated this edition, covering Brown’s decades of harassment by law enforcement agencies, his extraordinary transformation into an important Muslim leader, and his sensational trial.

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Book SynopsisFunctioning successfully within different cultures can be a struggle for many professionals and, as the world changes, it's become clear that working within other cultures, both domestic and international, requires competence in both identifying and transcending cultural boundaries. In this highly approachable volume, the authors provide a robust framework for addressing cultural conflicts within organizations not just for practitioners in the field of consulting and organizational psychology, but for a broad spectrum of professionals, executives, and community leaders. Drawing on case studies that illustrate commonly encountered cultural dilemmas in a variety of practice areas, the authors present applications, assessments, and intervention approaches that are prerequisites for gaining transcultural competence, whether as a consultant, organizational leader, or professional in any number of fields dealing with diversity and globalization. Four steps for identifying and manaTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordRodney L. Lowman ForewordFons Trompenaars Preface The Need for Transcultural Competence An Approach to Understanding and Applying Culture Recognizing Cultural Differences Respecting Cultural Differences Reconciling Cultural Differences Realizing Cultural Differences The Cultures of Those Who Study Culture Applications of Transcultural Competence Avoiding Cultural Traps Catch the Pigeon but Look out for the Wave References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisIn 1908 Muriel Matters, known as 'that daring Australian girl', chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women, thus becoming the first woman to make a speech in the House. The following year she made headlines around the world when she took to the sky over the Houses of Parliament in an airship emblazoned with 'Votes for Women'.A trailblazer in the suffrage movement, Muriel toured England in a horse-drawn caravan to promote the cause. But feminism was just one of her passions: Muriel's zeal for social change also saw her run for Parliament, campaign for prison reform, promote Maria Montessori's teaching methods and defend the poor. In this inspiring and long-overdue biography, bestselling author Robert Wainwright introduces us to an intelligent, spirited and brave woman who fought tirelessly for others in a world far from equal.Trade Review[Wainwright] succeeds marvellously in bringing to life a woman who until recently was little more than a name in the history of the suffragette movement. * The Spectator *Muriel Matters's name is apt: she certainly does matter...[a] highly readable biography. * Daily Mail *A long-overdue biography of the most inspiring woman you've never heard of. * All About History *The charm of Wainwright's biography is that he makes us see what an engaging, admirable and sometimes heroic quality it is to be a life-enhancer like Sheila. * Daily Mail, on SHEILA *As social history Sheila Chisholm's life is fascinating... it's undeniably enjoyable to read of all that glitter and gold. -- Selina Hastings * The Spectator, on SHEILA *Nothing short of impressive... Wainwright has revived a legend. * The Lady, on SHEILA *A] compelling biography... As a study of a man whose greatness we would do well to remember and applaud, it sparkles. * The Independent, on THE MAVERICK MOUNTAINEER *Wainwright chronicles it all with aplomb... Wainwright has done a fine job of rescuing his protagonist from the footnotes of climbing history. * Daily Telegraph, on THE MAVERICK MOUNTAINEER *

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book.[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book. —New York TimesFrom the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations.It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as u

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Book SynopsisUses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present. This book also explores a significant yet neglected aspect of Walker's production: her commitment to examining narrative depictions of race, gender, power, and desire.Trade Review“Peabody asserts that narrative is a necessary interpretative scheme with which to approach Walker’s art, and the author gives deep histories to some of the most interesting moments in Walker’s narrative engagement. . . . [A] remarkable book which spans Walker’s nearly twenty-year long career to date…” * Oxford Art Journal *"This excellent book contributes greatly to the plethora of existing scholarship on Kara Walker." * Panorama *“Rebecca Peabody’s lyrically written, provocative, and smart new take on Kara Walker suggests that there is, in fact, much more to say about this artist. . . . Peabody has set the bar high. Not only does she rigorously review the copious literature on Walker, but she has taken considerable trouble to familiarize herself with Walker’s own words and ideas in order to present as thorough a critique of this enigmatic artist. Brava.” * Woman’s Art Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Kara Walker, Storyteller 1. The End of Uncle Tom 2. The Pop of Racial Violence 3. American Romance in Black and White 4. The International Appeal of Race 5. Storytelling in Film and Video Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Illustration Credits Index

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Book SynopsisOffers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the great European masters such as Bosch, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Hogarth to stunning creations by contemporary black artists.Trade ReviewA fascinating story of the changing image of Africa's people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. -- Kwame Anthony AppiahIn addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double ConsciousnessOne of the most thorough collections depicting the African-American in works of art...The books build on the research and photo project started by art patron Dominique de Menil in the 1960s, which grew out of a frustration with segregation. The collection was then transferred and continued to grow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. De Menil's original volumes have been updated by David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates Jr. and now include more detailed descriptions and provide a larger context of the artwork that spans more than 5,000 years, including the Roman Empire to present-day pieces, filling in tremendous gaps in de Menil's collection, according to some art historians. The images, printed in full-color on high-quality pages, are available for the masses to see and understand how African-Americans not only fit into the various societies of the Western world, but how those relationships evolved throughout the ages. * Kirkus Reviews *The volumes so far are a treasury of paintings and sculptures of people down the ages, taking in many strands of ritual, classicism, artlessness and humanity. -- William Feaver * Spectator *Harvard is known to be reluctant to publish art books but if this is anything to go by, it should do so more often. -- Jaynie Anderson * Australian Literary Review *This volume is breathtaking in its scope and scholarship. -- K. Mason * Choice *Monumental and groundbreaking volumes...[with] beautifully reproduced and thought-provoking images…A vast array of different "Images of the Black" appear in these volumes, from statues of black saints such as St. Maurice or St. Benedict the Moor, to portraits of notable African ambassadors and kings, poets and musicians, or drawings of literary characters such as Shakespeare's Othello, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, or Yarico from George Colman's Inkle and Yarico...Africans have been painted and sculpted by some of the most eminent artists in the Western tradition, including Titian, Tiepolo, Rubens, Rembrandt,Van Dyck, Reynolds, Hogarth, Watteau and Gainsborough. More importantly, they have not been caricatured, but sensitively portrayed by these masters, their humanity captured on canvas for all to see...In placing such a vast variety of different images together, both positive and negative, these volumes show that the "Image of the Black" was not at all homogenous but rather reflected the wide range of the Western response to the "other."...Seen through the prism of "Western Art," these "Images of the Black" often tell us more about the Europeans and their agendas than the Africans they portray. Nonetheless, the cumulative effect of the images is to demonstrate a continuous black presence in the Western imagination and experience…This series will pose new questions to scholars of art, history and literature and provoke us all to reconsider the role of "the Black" in Western civilization. -- Miranda Kaufmann * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisFrom colonial history to the present, Americans have passionately, even violently, debated the nature and the character of money. The author provides a deep history and a penetrating analysis of American thinking about money and the ways that this ambivalence unexpectedly intertwines with race.Trade Review"Michael O'Malley's new book is a magnificent piece of scholarship on a topic that is at once timely and surprising. He shows our twin national obsessions - money and race - dancing together across economic policy reports, the pages of literary fiction, the stage, the screen, and the airwaves. I recommend this book wholeheartedly." (Benjamin Reiss, Emory University)"

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Book SynopsisA cruise along the streets of Chennai - or Silicon Valley - filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In this book, the authors examine one particularly striking group who have taken part in this development.Trade Review"Tamil Brahmans is a solid, original work that makes a major contribution to our understanding of a vitally important part of the world and of a unique group of people whose numbers in the United States are growing year by year and who are becoming increasingly influential at the highest professional levels in medicine, law, academia, business, and government." (Sylvia J. Vatuk, University of Illinois at Chicago)"

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing many of the most popular and influential science fiction films of the past five decades, this book presents the most comprehensive work to date on how race and “blackness” are imagined in science fiction film.Trade Review"Black Space stands as fresh, insightful work that fills an obvious and significant gap in the critical and theoretical discussion of the African American absence/presence (along with the broader issues of race and difference) in science fiction cinema. Besides the occasional anthology essay or journal article, I can think of no work by a single author that presents such sustained, 'cover to cover' discussion of this vital and underexplored area in black representation." Ed Guerrero, New York University, author of Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film and Do the Right ThingTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Structured Absence and Token Presence Chapter 2. Bad Blood: Fear of Racial Contamination Chapter 3. The Black Body: Figures of Distortion Chapter 4. Humans Unite! Race, Class, and Postindustrial Aliens Chapter 5. White Narratives, Black Allegories Chapter 6. Subverting the Genre: The Mothership Connection Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisChronicling the development of Randolph's political and racial ideologyTrade Review"Bynum focuses on Randolph’s career in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, when he was formulating his ideas on social justice, race, and class. . . . The result is a deeper look at the ideals that drove Randolph."--Booklist"Bynum does an excellent job of discussing Randolph's attempts to secure bargaining for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In doing so, he exposes the shameful behavior of the union movement in its unwillingness to accept blacks."--Labor Studies Journal"Bynum's well-researched monograph makes a useful contribution to the growing body of literature on the 'long' civil rights movement."--The Journal of American History"An intriguing intellectual history."--The Journal of Southern History"Bynum's book is lucid and an excellent work that can be used for both academic research and casual reading. . . . Bynum's research has opened a window to new scholarship on Randolph's thinking, his role in the civil rights movement, and his demands for accountability from the U.S. government."--H-1960s"Relating Randolph's racial, economic, and political thought to his efforts to address injustice, Bynum does an excellent job of positioning Randolph's ideology with that of his contemporaries on the political left. This study is ideal for students and scholars of twentieth-century African American history, labor history, and race relations."--Cary D. Wintz, editor of African American Political Thought, 1890–1930: Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, and RandolpTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ixPart 1. Building Black Identity at the Turn of the Century 1. A. Philip Randolph, Racial Identity, and Family Relations: Tracing the Development of a Racial Self-Concept 3 2. Religious Faith and Black Empowerment: The AME Church and Randolph's Racial Identity and View of Social Justice 24Part 2. Constructing Class Consciousness in the Jazz Age 3. Black Radicalism in Harlem: Randolph's Racial and Political Consciousness 47 4. Crossing the Color Line: Randolph's Transition from Race to Class Consciousness 63Part 3. The Rise of the New Crowd Negroes 5. A New Crowd, A New Negro: The Messenger and New Negro Ideology in the 1920s 85 6. Black and White Unite: Randolph and the Divide between Class Theory and the Race Problem 101Part 4. Blending Race and Class 7 Ridin' the Rails: Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' Struggle for Union Recognition 119 8. Where Class Consciousness Falls Short: Randolph and the Brotherhood's Standing in the House of Labor 136 9. Marching Toward Fair Employment: Randolph, the Race/Class Connection, and the March on Washington Movement 157 Epilogue: A. Philip Randolph's Reconciliation of Race and Class in African American Protest Politics 185 Notes 201 Bibliography 227 Index 237Illustrations follow page 82

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the politics of multiculturalism, citizenship and exclusionTrade Review[T]his book is an important addition to scholarship on citizenship and minority inclusion/exclusion in Europe, adding a much-needed perspective on Germany to a field dominated by work on Britain and France. It is highly readable: Partridge has an easy, engaging style that makes the book eminently suitable for undergraduates, in addition to graduate students and specialists. * German Studies Review *Hypersexuality and Headscarves is a critical analysis of the dynamics of race and citizenship in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With this highly original investigation, Partridge offers an important contribution to the study of race in Germany. * Reviews & Critical Commentary *[This] book's impressive ethnographic breadth thus serves to convey just how varied, pervasive, and entrenched the mechanisms of exclusion are in Germany. . . Taken as a whole, Partridge's portrait of exclusion in Germany is an illuminating and damning one. August 2013 * AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: Becoming Noncitizens1. Ethno-patriarchal Returns: The Fall of the Wall, Closed Factories, and Leftover Bodies2. Travel as an Analytic of Exclusion: The Politics of Mobility after the Wall3. We Were Dancing in the Club, Not on the Berlin Wall: Black Bodies, Street Bureaucrats, and Hypersexual Returns4. The Progeny of Guest Workers as Leftover Bodies: Post-Wall West German Schools and the Administration of Failure5. Why Can't You Just Remove Your Headscarf So We Can See You? Reappropriating "Foreign" Bodies in the New GermanyConclusion: Intervening at the Sites of Exclusionary Production Epilogue: Triangulated (Non)Citizenship: Memories and Futures of Racialized ProductionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisNew York Times bestselling author Paul Tough''s Whatever It Takes is one of the best books ever written about how poverty influences learning, and vice versa (The Washington Post).What would it take?That was the question that Geoffrey Canada found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children — not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children's Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.Whatever It Takes is a tour de forc

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Book SynopsisImmigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country and how national identity was formed as they became Brazilians.Trade Review'A crowning achievement by the premier historian of immigration to Brazil. In this highly readable book, Lesser shows how immigrants from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East helped create new ways of being white, of being nonwhite, and of being Brazilian, and in so doing, helped create modern Brazil.' George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh'Jeff Lesser is on intimate terms with Brazilian history and is an authoritative guide to this topic. His new overview of immigration to Brazil will richly reward its readership. [He] studies immigration as a process, not simply an event. [He] concentrates on the immigrants' interactions with the state and their participation in larger social and political currents. This is better than the older approach that tends to isolate immigrants (usually a single ethnic group) in the mind's eye, focusing on what they did not share with non-immigrants. In sum, Lesser shows us that to pull immigrants out of Brazil's living collage is to misunderstand them and their experience. Highly recommended!' John Charles Chasteen, University of North CarolinaThis fascinating and lively book teaches us that to understand ethnicity and immigration we must consider Brazil, and to understand Brazil we must consider immigration and ethnicity.' Jerry Dávila, University of Illinois'Jeffrey Lesser masterfully surveys the history of immigration to Brazil (and to some extent, from Brazil) through the lens of ethnicity. He has digested a vast literature in English and Portuguese to produce a concise and well-crafted volume that will become the standard survey of the subject.' Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University'In this engaging and provocative book, historian Jeffrey Lesser demonstrates how central immigration has been, and continues to be, in struggles over Brazilian national identity. Weaving together his prodigious knowledge of postcolonial Brazilian history and the diverse experiences of the many immigrant ethnic groups in Brazil, Lesser produces a portrait of Brazilian society since independence that challenges and revises both scholarly and popular notions of what it means to be Brazilian.' Barbara Weinstein, New York University'This book is accessible enough for the general reader, though the best use will be in an undergraduate course on Brazilian history or a course on race and ethnicity in Brazil or Latin America more broadly.' Colonial Latin American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Creating Brazilians; 2. From Central Europe and Asia: immigration schemes, 1822–70; 3. Mass migrations, 1880–1920; 4. The creation of Euro-Brazilian identities; 5. How Arabs became Jews, 1880–1940; 6. Asianizing Brazil: new immigrants and new identities, 1900–55; 7. Epilogue: the song remains the same.

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Book SynopsisOffers contributions to the history of antisemitism. Of interest to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious studies, this work summarizes the historical developments, indicating when and where antisemitism emerged. It criticizes theories about prejudice and racism and develops theory about the nature and dynamics of antisemitism.Table of ContentsPart I. HISTORIOGRAPHY 1. Majority History and Post-Biblical Jews 2. Tradition, History, and Prejudice Part II. ANTI-JUDAISM 3. Anti-Judaism as the Necessary Preparation for Antisemitism 4. The Transformation of Anti-Judaism 5. Doubt in Christendom Part III. JEWISH LEGAL STATUS 6. "Judei nostri" and the Beginning of Capetian Legislation 7. "Tanquam servi": The Change in Jewish Legal Status in French Law about 1200 Part IV. IRRATIONAL FANTASIES 8. Peter the Venerable: Defense Against Doubts 9. Thomas of Monmouth: Detector of Ritual Murder 10. The Knight's Tale of Young Hugh Lincoln 11. Ritual Cannibalism 12. Historiographic Crucifixion Part V. ANTISEMITISM 13. Medieval Antisemitism 14. Toward a Definition of Antisemitism

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Book SynopsisExamines the Chicano movement's development in Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. This book focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: the Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "Those Times of Revolution" 1. "A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force": Los Angeles's Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s 2. "Birth of A New Symbol": The Brown Berets 3. "Chale No, We Won't Go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee 4. "The Voice of the Chicano People": La Raza Unida Party 5. "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA) Afterword: "Why Are We Not Marching Like in the '70s?" Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSince the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. This title explores the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West.Trade Review"Brilliantly nuanced and beautifully written, Belonging in an Adopted World is ethnographically stunning. Barbara Yngvesson is an eloquent narrator, and her analysis will be clear and accessible to anyone ready to think afresh about citizenship and family life." - Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University"

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Book SynopsisTackles the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a nonracialized space, the author envisions Africa, and in particular the nation of Ghana, as a place whose local relationships are deeply informed by global structures of race, economics, and politics.Trade Review"In The Predicament of Blackness, Jemima Pierre makes an important intervention in Africanist anthropology, which is in dire need of analyses, such as Pierre offers, that illuminate the workings of race. This book is in a class by itself. It is not only a welcome addition to the field, but will in fact inspire a new generation of African studies scholarship that is more attentive to the cultural practices of race." (Bayo Holsey, Duke University)"

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Book SynopsisExamines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses that challenge, reform, and even retrench neoliberalism's hegemony in Latin America.Trade Review"Neoliberalism Interrupted is a timely book on the winds of change sweeping through Latin America. Covering a wide range of countries it provides many important reference points against which the wider phenomenon of the so-called Pink Tide can be viewed an assessed. Usefully, it deals not only with those countries that are often paradigmatically associated with the leading edge of resistance to neoliberalism (Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador) but also those countries where neoliberal socio-economic and political practices have remained firmly entrenched (Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador) or where assessment has been more ambiguous (Argentina) . . . [This] is a highly readable and engaging book for both students and seasoned scholars of Latin America. It deserves to be read widely."—Chris Hesketh, Bulletin of Latin American Research"Neoliberalism, Interrupted is an aptly titled volume that examines the current status of neoliberal economic policy and governmentality in Latin America . . . Fine-grained political analysis and rich empirical detail reveal that while Washington Consensus policies are no longer hegemonic in Latin America, neoliberal governance is entrenched and evolving . . . Each of the eight country case studies offers rich historical and political analysis that is alive to contradiction and complexity . . . [T]he case studies are valuable and clearly grounded in deep engagements with research sites."—Jennifer Goett, Journal of Anthropological Research"Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero's collection offers us a vivid panorama of neoliberalism and its interruption, keeping in mind broader patterns of political economic transformation and civil society struggle. The chapters forcefully demonstrate neoliberalism's investment in violence and regulation, while opening our eyes to civil society's spaces to challenge them. From Buenos Aires to Venezuela, from race to gender, this collection represents an important theoretical and critical engagement with Latin America's current realities."—Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of Cambridge, author of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism"Neoliberalism, Interrupted makes an important contribution to studying Latin America's rapidly changing socio-political landscape. The volume's authors remind us that the region presents a rich laboratory for experiments that defy existing categories of social and political theory in contradictory, but potentially exciting new ways."—Philip Oxhorn, McGill University"This book will resonate with all those interested in one of the most important political questions for Latin America today. The authors resist the temptation to provide easy answers—the essays are subtle and effective, their sophistication buttressed by empirical and theoretical rigor."—Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge"This timely collection brings together diverse disciplinary perspectives to explore the limits of neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Latin America. The contributors provide fine-grained, ethnographic analysis of alternatives to the 'Washington consensus,' both grandiose and grassroots, revealing in the process the promises and contradictions of 'post-neoliberal' political programs and social projects."—Patrick C. Wilson, University of Lethbridge

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Book SynopsisTakes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.Trade ReviewWe have all read about the hunger of slaves whose masters sought to starve them into submission. ButThe Delectable Negroasks of these slaves: 'How does it feel to be an edible, consumed object?' Inverting the trope of slave hunger, VincentWoodardprovocatively suggests that the slaveholder is a parasite who feeds off the slaves body in acts that range from cannibalistic to sexual modes of consumption, especially the homoerotic. In an even greater provocation, however, Woodard argues that within the black community, hunger is transformed into a regenerative space from which the search for home and communal belonging may be initiated. A bold and brilliant book. -- Carla L. Peterson,author of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York CityThe Delectable Negrouncovers a compelling set of themes in the scholarship on U.S. slave culture: white cannibalism as a significant trope for white depletion of, and desire for, the laboring and eroticized black male body. In a stunning series of arguments, Woodard forces us to reconsider the historical out-of-hand rejection of black African fear (and, not rarely, claims) of white cannibalism, showing how remarkably wide-reaching was the sense that slavery satisfied some sadomasochistic instinct among the slave-owning class. -- Maurice O. Wallace,author of Constructing the Black MasculineThe Delectable Negro is a brilliant, fearless, and deeply political book. * Early American Literature *With unflinching clarity,The Delectable Negroexposes and examines the pervasive cultural fantasies that have rendered the enslaved black body into a consumable object from the eighteenth century to the present. [] [I]ts powerful insights will continue to generate new lines of important inquiry for years to come. * American Historical Review *It should be noted here that Woodard died before this book was published; it is a shame that he could not see his daring work enter debate. Praise must go to Joyce and McBride, moreover, for their careful and attentive editorial work that made this publication of this text possible. . . . Woodard's career would surely have been even bolder after this book, but this text's interruption into critical theory alone is itself worth celebrating. * American Studies *Table of ContentsEditor's Note Justin A. JoyceForewordE. Patrick Johnson Introduction: "Master ... eated me when I was meat" 1. Cannibalism in Transatlantic Context 2. Sex, Honor, and Human Consumption 3. A Tale of Hunger Retold: Ravishment and Hunger in F. Douglass's Life and Writing 4. Domestic Rituals of Consumption 5. Eating Nat Turner 6. The Hungry Nigger Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author About the Editors

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Book SynopsisAfter Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed amid institutionalized racism. He argues passionately for an ongoing commitment to communitarian leadership in the tradition of Du Bois.Trade ReviewA sweeping yet provocative account of the history of the African American intellectual elite. -- Touré F. Reed * Journal of American History *A passionate argument for the ongoing necessity of Black leaders in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois…Kilson also asserts that a revival of commitment to communitarian leadership is essential for the continued pursuit of justice at home and around the world. * Journal for Pan African Studies *Kilson issues a bracing call to arms in which African American scholars re-embrace a ‘Du Bosian moral leadership obligation’…His description of current conditions of our brick-and-mortar intellectual establishment—in which prisons have a greater custodial and educational function than schools—is detailed, damning, and up to date. -- Ben Keppel * Reviews in American History *

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Book SynopsisWith a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land.Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost.A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past.In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America.Every landscape is an accumulation, reads one epigraph. Life must be lived amidst that which was made before. Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.

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Book SynopsisPrinted in 1247, this is the oldest extant book on forensic medicine in the world. Written as a guide for magistrates in conducting inquests, the book is a major source on early Chinese knowledge of pathology and morbid anatomy. Includes a lengthy introductory essay by the translator.

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Book SynopsisOf all the remarkable people who first opened up the rest of the world to the Europeans Columbus, Magellan, Vasco da Gama, Pizarro and Cortes Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India from 1509 to 1515, was one of the most astonishing.Table of Contents Introduction: Faithful servant and ungrateful master History, rhetoric and intertextuality Chapter I: Ormuz Chapter II: Malacca Chapter III: The Return to India Chapter VI: Benasterim Chapter V: Aden and the Red Sea Chapter VI: The Last Days of Albuquerque Family Tree Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisChristina Sharpe interprets Black Atlantic visual and literary texts that grapple with the sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation, and their present-day legacies.Trade Review“Through compelling and intricate readings of visual and written texts, Sharpe is concerned with unpacking the intersection between violence, sex, and subjectivity in post-slavery subjects. Sharpe’s work is a poignant reflection on historical time and convincingly deals with the ways that the horrors of the past continue to structure the present. . . . Sharpe’s book is an eloquent and at times challenging analysis of the construction of post-slavery subjects as subjects who are by no means ‘post’ but continue to be structured by the past that is not quite past.” - Sam McBean, Elevate Difference“This is a bold, challenging book which is unrelenting in its interpretation of slavery and the effects it has had on subsequent generations, black and white. In effect, the monstrous intimacies continue.” - Danielle Mulholland, M/C Reviews“Sharpe’s Monstrous Intimacies succeeds in illuminating the complex entanglements of desire and horror at the heart of Black and White subjectification ‘after’ slavery. More profoundly, this text powerfully balances the fact of history’s monstrous persistence and the desire for what she identifies, after Dionne Brand, as a modality of Black life unhinged to historical narrative (129).” - Sarah Cervenak, Women’s Studies“The materials in Monstrous Intimacies register as being profoundly relevant not only for African American literature, but also for studies of the history of slavery in relation to the U.S. South. Moreover, her second chapter, focusing on the literature and culture of South Africa, addresses histories of racism, colonialism, and imperialism and speaks to discourses on the global South.” - Riché Richardson, Southern Literary Journal"Overall…Sharpe successfully demonstrates the presence of "monstrous intimacies" in each chapter. Most importantly, she creates a methodology for understanding the psychological development of post-slavery subjects and the seductive story-telling that represents his or her experience." - Denia Fraser, Kritikon Litterarum“Monstrous Intimacies is a remarkable study, lucid, engaging, and thoroughly engrossing.”—Sharon Patricia Holland, author of Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity“Monstrous Intimacies is an original, enriching look at the variety of artistic forms and practices that interrogate the illness of the post-slavery subject. It is international in its scope, interdisciplinary in its approach, and consistently intelligent in its execution.”—Ashraf Rushdy, author of Remembering Generations: Race and Family in Contemporary African American Fiction“Sharpe’s Monstrous Intimacies succeeds in illuminating the complex entanglements of desire and horror at the heart of Black and White subjectification ‘after’ slavery. More profoundly, this text powerfully balances the fact of history’s monstrous persistence and the desire for what she identifies, after Dionne Brand, as a modality of Black life unhinged to historical narrative (129).” -- Sarah Cervenak * Women's Studies *“This is a bold, challenging book which is unrelenting in its interpretation of slavery and the effects it has had on subsequent generations, black and white. In effect, the monstrous intimacies continue.” -- Danielle Mulholland * M/C Reviews *“Through compelling and intricate readings of visual and written texts, Sharpe is concerned with unpacking the intersection between violence, sex, and subjectivity in post-slavery subjects. Sharpe’s work is a poignant reflection on historical time and convincingly deals with the ways that the horrors of the past continue to structure the present. . . . Sharpe’s book is an eloquent and at times challenging analysis of the construction of post-slavery subjects as subjects who are by no means ‘post’ but continue to be structured by the past that is not quite past.” -- Sam McBean * Elevate Difference *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Making Monstrous Intimacies: Surviving Slavery, Bearing Freedom 1 1. Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Reading the "Days That Were Pages of Hysteria" 27 2. Bessie Head, Saartje Baartman, and Maru Redemption, Subjectification, and the Problem of Liberation 67 3. Isaac Julien's The Attendant and the Sadomasochism of Everyday Black Life 111 4. Kara Walker's Monstrous Intimacies 153 Notes 189 Bibliography 223 Index 243

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Filipino American Communion: Cultural Alienation and the Conditions of Community 2. Deformed Nationalism and Arrested Raciality: the Grammar and Problematic of a "Filipino American" Common Sense 3. "Its Very Familiarity Disguises Its Horror": White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Statecraft of Pacifica Americana 4. Suspended Apocalypse: Towards a Fanonian Analytic of the Filipino Condition 5. "Death Was Swiftly Running After Us": Disaster, Evil, and Radical Possibility Notes Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting a study of African American healing, this work sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. Through conversations with black Americans, it demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances.Trade ReviewAn exploration of the history and practices of black healers and healing illuminating the vital cultural, intellectual, and spiritual expression of a people. This fine multidisciplinary work draws deeply and thoughtfully from the experiences and words of its subjects, offering alternative visions of human creativity, resistance, and community. -- Yvonne Chireau,author of Black Magic: Religion and the African-American Conjuring TraditionAfrican American Folk Healing is an insightful work that places folk healing within the context of larger spiritual, political, and intellectual movements. It illuminates the interconnectedness among activism, medicine, gender studies, folklore, and theology that influence the ways African American female healers work and live. * The Journal of African American History *Persuasively argued. . . . A fascinating study that makes a real contribution to discussions of health, wellness and faith in America. * Publishers Weekly *A readable book well suited for most academic libraries. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I Historical Paths to Healing1 Stories and Cures: De?ning African American Folk Healing 2 Healing, the Black Body, and Institutional Medicine: Contexts for Crafting Wellness3 Healing in Place: From Past to Present II Today's Healing Traditions4 Healing and Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century 5 Healing the Past in the Present 6 Religion, Spirituality, and African American Folk Healing 7 Hoodoo, Conjure, and Folk Healing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisShows how the concepts of childhood innocence fundamentally shaped the history of race in the USTrade ReviewBernstein's text unfolds with a readerly pleasure few scholarly books achieve, as she offers stunning close readings while steadily constructing a compelling narrative arc built upon each piece of evidence. * Legacy *Bernstein offers a new perspective by exploring not only what artifacts reveal but also what they demand. * Journal of American Culture *Racial Innocence is an invaluable contribution. . . it enlivens a diverse constellation of evidence, making it an exemplary model for any interdisciplinary project of similarly ambitious scope. -- Meredith A. Bak * Journal of Popular Culture *[T]antalizing [W]ith ethical finesse and theoretical dexterity, Bernsteins book explores. . . the extent to which our national reality has been a topsy-turvy one from the start. -- Leo Cabranes-Grant * Theatre Survey *A historiographic tour de force . . . Her rich archive and nuanced analysis will make this a classic book for theater historians and performance theorists. * The Outstanding Book Award prize committee, Association for Theatre in Higher Education *A paradigm-shifting study of major significance. -- Judie Newman * The Journal of American Studies *A powerhouse of a book. . . [an] intervention of the highest order. Racial Innocencewill quickly become a cornerstone text in many fields, ranging from critical race theory and performance studies to American cultural history and childhood studies. -- Douglas A. Jones * Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism *A provocative, insightful, and bold text that demonstrates how important the field of cultural studies is and can be. -- Jenny Wills * Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures *Arresting. . . shows how the hegemonic project of white supremacy takes constant reinforcement in popular forms to naturalize racist practices on the ground. -- Jayna Brown * Callaloo *Bernstein masterfully balances important theoretical and methodological interventions alongside insightful analysis of everyday material. -- Jasmine Nichole Cobb * Callaloo *Bernsteins powerful account of how the sentimental ideology of childhood innocence, and particularly its highly gendered manifestations, function to articulate racial hierarchies gives strong and detailed evidence for how paying attention to childhood serves to refocus many all too familiar, and troublesome, facets of American culture. I know of virtually no one of her generation who writes with this kind of verve, authority and pleasure. Racial Innocence will prove an important and widely read bookin part simply because it will be so much fun to read. -- Karen Sanchez-Eppler,Amherst CollegeBernstein's book will be of keen interest to those working to study either childhood or toy culture in the United States, as well as to scholars of critical race theory or postcolonial studies. -- Aaron C. Thomas * Cultural Studies *Chilling proof that the post-racial utopia is yet to be realized in American society. -- Kam Williams,syndicated columnistDaringly imaginative. -- Perry Nodelman * International Research for Children’s Literature *Dazzling incredibly moving. -- Sarah E. Chinn * American Quarterly *Far-reaching... important. -- Matthew Davis * Genre *Fresh and astonishing. -- Christian DuComb * Theatre Journal *Groundbreaking . . . radical. -- Lisa Merrill * Theatre Annual *Impressively researched, cogently written, and deeply theorized. . . . [Bernstein shows how] harmless, innocent fun (as evidenced in an astonishing chapter on the minstrel roots of Raggedy Ann and Andy) became a disavowed site for the reproduction of white supremacy. . . . [M]akes an understated but highly persuasive case for the contribution of a historically-oriented performance studies to the interdisciplinary conversations surrounding the politics of the everyday. -- Tavia Nyong'o * Theatre History Studies *Intellectual espresso. -- Michelle McCrary * Is That Your Child? *Intellectually exhilarating. -- Martha Saxton * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *It is original, theoretically challenging, and adds fundamentally new insights to the history of childhood. * Prize Committee, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childhood and Youth *Magnificent and stylish truly groundbreaking. -- Richard Flynn * The Lion and the Unicorn *Nineteenth and early twentieth-century material culture comes alive in Robin Bernsteins brilliant study of the racialized and gendered ideologies that shape, inform and continue to haunt notions of American childhood into the present day. Through imaginative and masterfully innovative archival research, Bernstein shows how representations of childhood and childs play are integral to the making of whiteness and blackness and citizenship in this country. Racial Innocence is a groundbreaking book that for the first time illuminates the powerful and critical connections between constructions of girlhood, racial formations and American popular culture. -- Daphne Brooks,Princeton UniversityOne of those rare books that shifts the paradigm--a book that, in years to come, will be recognized as a landmark in children's literature and childhood studies . . . This is not one of those scholarly books that offer a thesis and then proceed to pummel the reader into submission by piling example on top of example. Instead, it develops a certain line of argument, and then turns, moving in a different direction, developing this new direction fully before changing tack once more. Structuring the argument this way makes for a much more interesting reading experience . . . [F]ew scholars can write a sentence like Bernstein can: packed with insight, theoretically sophisticated, and yet lucid--even, at times, lyrical... -- Philip Nel * Children's Literature *Remarkably impressive. . . . Bernstein surprises us with the fractures we know. -- Kathryn Bond Stockton * Modern Drama *Revelatory. -- Anna Mae Duane * MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US *Richly researched, inspiring in its analysis of archival material, and impressive in its deft ability to traverse disciplinary borders, including childhood studies, performance studies, literary studies, and American history. . . . Poignant. . . Bernsteins superb text hauntingly prompts the reader to consider where invocations of childhood are being used in contemporary US racial formation. At a time when black childhood performances have been front and center in American media discoursefor example, the circulating images of Trayvon Martin that were used to simultaneously evidence both the teenage innocent and the future-adult-thugRacial Innocencerequires the contemporary reader to resist feigning holy obliviousness" to the ways in which racial arguments can be cloaked in children and their toys. -- Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin * TDR: The Drama Review *Riveting. -- Michelle H. Martin * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *Vibrant. . . [An] exemplary model of interdisciplinary scholarship. -- Kristen B. Proehl * African American Review *You will never look at a Raggedy Ann doll the same way again. -- Rebecca Onion * Backlist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Playing Innocent: Childhood, Race, Performance 1 Tender Angels, Insensate Pickaninnies: The Divergent Paths of Racial Innocence 2 Scriptive Things 3 Everyone Is Impressed: Slavery as a Tender Embrace from Uncle Tom's to Uncle Remus's Cabin 4 The Black-and-Whiteness of Raggedy Ann 5 The Scripts of Black Dolls Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisVictims of Progress, now in its sixth edition, offers a compelling account of how technology and development affect indigenous peoples throughout the world. Bodley's expansive look at the struggle between small-scale indigenous societies, and the colonists and corporate developers who have infringed their territories reaches from 1800 into today. He examines major issues of intervention such as social engineering, economic development, self-determination, health and disease, global warming, and ecocide. Small-scale societies, Bodley convincingly demonstrates, have survived by organizing politically to defend their basic human rights.Providing a provocative context in which to think about civilization and its costsshedding light on how we are all victims of progressthe sixth edition features expanded discussion of uprising politics, Tebtebba (a particularly active indigenous organization), and voluntary isolation. A wholly new chapter devotes full coverage to the costs of global warmingTrade ReviewIn this latest edition Bodley surveys the conditions of indigenous peoples in a wide range of places and times. As in earlier editions, in the first two-thirds of the book, the author reviews the conflicts at contact between Native peoples and colonizing Europeans and Americans. The theme is twofold: constantly changing boundaries were unable to keep the two peoples apart and at peace, but the resilience of indigenous societies in the face of decimating disease, land loss, and deforestation saw them through to a time when their rights and interests could garner somewhat greater international concern. Thus, the most recent chapters follow the course of UN and International Labour Organization conventions, national treaties, and the effects of global climate change and commercial contact to give a fuller picture of the current state of indigenous interests and situations. Brief yet striking examples from a wide variety of groups result in a very useful overview with enough specifics to keep the analysis from becoming too generalized. Useful for anthropology and public policy collections and courses, particularly when supplemented with more-detailed accounts and visual aids. Summing Up: Recommended. General university and high school libraries. * CHOICE *Victims of Progress appears in its sixth updated edition to consider, as an ongoing project, how technology is affecting indigenous peoples around the world, and is recommended for college-level collections strong in anthropology as well as global social issues and cultural studies. It considers the histories of struggles between small-scale indigenous communities and colonists and developers, examines intervention techniques, and posits the theory that these small-scale communities have done a good job in contemporary times of organizing as a political force to defend their territories, lifestyles, and interests. This sixth edition holds expanded discussions of both rebellions and deliberate isolationist tactics, and adds further details on the costs and threats posed to such communities by global warming. No global issues collection should be without this solid reference. * Midwest Book Review *Essential for its scope, detailed analysis, and documentary rigor, the sixth edition of Victims of Progress is an exceptionally learned and uncompromising critique of the neocolonial expansion of capitalist market economy into indigenous peoples’ homelands. Bodley’s updated classic is both an indictment of Euro-American aggressive world expansion and a eulogy of Native civilizations and their wisdom. -- Stefano Varese, professor emeritus, University of California, DavisA must-read… Through its clear arguments and abundant case materials, the sixth edition of Victims of Progress shows how far humans have come in mitigating the damage of an expanding commercial world—where tribal peoples were merely the first to suffer—and in defending our rights to exist as ourselves. It is a book not only of human tragedies, but also of human strengths. Useful in courses on culture change, modernization, and economic development. -- Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Penn State UniversityVictims of Progress reveals the political and ethnocentric nature of development in the name of 'progress' and contradicts the justification of 'inevitable' ethnocide, genocide, and ecocide found around the world and throughout time. A must-read for anyone interested in models of success based on demonstrated resiliency and dedication of small-scale peoples fighting for autonomy and sovereignty. -- Kerensa Allison, Lewis-Clark State CollegeThis unparalleled survey is an in depth analysis of the problems of survival, adaptation, and human rights faced by indigenous peoples the world over. From the imposition of external economic and political forces to colonialism to globalization, the sixth edition of Bodley’s Victims of Progress covers a wide range of topics. This should be required reading for every student and professional in anthropology. -- Leslie Sponsel, University of Hawai`i, author of Spiritual Ecology: A Quiet RevolutionA beautifully written account of the tragic plight of indigenous peoples under the impact of technological and economic ‘progress’ of industrial nation-states over many centuries. Bodley’s analysis skillfully combines quantitative data with qualitative assessments to illuminate global issues affecting us all. The book is a must for anyone concerned with issues of genocide, environmental destruction, and human rights. Thoroughly updated, this sixth edition will be a valuable asset in undergraduate and graduate courses alike. -- Linda Stone, professor emeritus, Washington State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Culture Scale Culture Scale, Culture Process, and Indigenous Peoples Large-Scale versus Small-Scale Society and Culture The Problem of Global-Scale Society and Culture Social Scale and Social Power Negative Development: The Global Pattern Policy Implications 2: Progress and Indigenous Peoples Progress: The Commercial Explosion The Culture of Consumption Resource Appropriation and Acculturation The Role of Ethnocentrism Civilization’s Unwilling Conscripts Cultural Pride versus Progress The Principle of Stabilization 3: The Uncontrolled Frontier The Frontier Process Demographic Impact of the Frontier 4: We Fought with Spears The Punitive Raid Wars of Extermination 5: The Extension of Government Control Aims and Philosophy of Administration Tribal Peoples and National Unity The Transfer of Sovereignty Treaty Making Bringing Government to the Tribes The Political Integration Process Anthropology and Native Administration 6: Land Policies The People–Land Relationship Land Policy Variables 7: Cultural Modification Policies These Are the Things That Obstruct Progress Social Engineering: How to Do It 8: Economic Globalization Forced Labor: Harnessing the Heathens Learning the Dignity of Labor: Taxes and Discipline Creating Progressive Consumers Promoting Technological Change Tourism and Indigenous Peoples 9: The Price of Progress Progress and the Quality of Life Diseases of Development Ecocide Deprivation and Discrimination 10: The Political Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination Who Are Indigenous Peoples? The Initial Political Movements Creating Nunavut Guna Self-Determination: The Comarca Gunayala The Political Struggle The Shuar Solution CONAIE: Uprising Politics Reshaping Ecuador’s Political Landscape The Dene Nation: Land, Not Money Land Rights and the Outstation Movement in Australia Philippine Tribals: No More Retreat Indigenous Peoples and the Arctic Council The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Tebtebba: An Indigenous Partnership on Climate Change and Forests 11: Petroleum, the Commercial World, and Indigenous Peoples Petroleum: The Unsustainable Foundation of the Commercial World The Gwich’in and Oil Development in the Sacred Place Where Life Begins Petroleum Development and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador First Nations Opposition to Canadian Tar Sand Development Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) vs. Shell Oil Assigning Responsibility for Tar Sand Development 12: Global Warming and Indigenous Peoples The Indigenous Response to Global Warming Indigenous Peoples as Climate Change Refugees Arctic Warming and Alaska Natives Global Warming Perpetuators and Beneficiaries Assessing the Global Costs of Climate Change & the Carbon Economy 13: Human Rights and the Politics of Ethnocide The Realists: Humanitarian Imperialists and Scientists The World Bank: Operational Manual 2005 and False Assurances The Idealist Preservationists You Can’t Leave Them Alone: The Realists Prevail Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Advocates Voluntary Isolation in the Twenty-First Century Indigenous Peoples as Small Nations Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisUnjustly overlooked in its own time, Frank J. Webb’s novel of pre-Civil War Philadelphia weaves together action, humor, and social commentary. The Garies and Their Friends tells the story of two families struggling for di¦ erent sorts of respectability: the Garies, a well-to-do interracial couple who relocate to Philadelphia from the plantation South in order to legalize their marriage, and their friends the Ellises, free black Philadelphians hoping to make the move from the working class into the bourgeoisie. Along the way the families confront racialized violence, melodramatic villainy, and sentimental reversals. Entertaining and fastmoving, the novel has a Dickensian mix of uncanny coincidence and interwoven personal experiences.The historical documents accompanying this Broadview Edition provide reviews of the novel along with extensive materials on slavery, the color line, and contemporary Philadelphia.Trade Review“This is an outstanding edition of Webb’s powerful (and still relatively neglected) novel about the struggles of the free black community in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. The editors make the bold decision to use as their source text the ‘Cheap Series’ paperback edition widely circulating in London, where The Garies and Their Friends was published in 1857. They provide reviews, new information about Webb, and compelling contextual materials that help us to better understand the novel in relation to key legal and social contexts. Webb has been wonderfully served by Howell and Walsh. I couldn’t imagine teaching any other edition, and the excellence of this edition should help to bring new readers to Garies.” — Robert S. Levine, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, and author of The Lives of Frederick Douglass“The Garies and Their Friends is one of the most interesting American novels of the mid-nineteenth century; the new Broadview edition finally gives it the editorial treatment it deserves. William Huntting Howell and Megan Walsh share supplemental documents essential to reading or teaching the novel, and they frame this work in a rich set of transatlantic contexts.” — Eric Gardner, author of Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture“Frank Webb’s stunning novel comes alive in this accessible and informative edition edited by Howell and Walsh. The annotations are well crafted and will introduce readers to the broad racial, social, and literary contexts of Garies. The appendices are likewise well formulated to illuminate both the novel’s reception and its key geographic and legal coordinates. This wonderful edition is a boon for new readers and also for those who are already familiar with Webb’s novel.” — Jeffory Clymer, University of Kentucky, author of Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth CenturyTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionFrank J. Webb: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Garies and Their FriendsAppendix A: Contemporary Responses From The Observer (London) (20 September 1857) From the Literary Gazette (London) (26 September 1857) From The Morning Post (London) (6 October 1857) The Standard (London) (7 October 1857) From The Daily News (London) (9 October 1857) From the Athenaeum (London) (24 October 1857) Appendix B: Law, Culture, and the Color Line From William Goodell, The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice (1853) From George M. Stroud, A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery (1827) From John F. Denny, An Enquiry into the Political Grade of the Free Colored Population (1834) From Benjamin C. Howard, Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford (1857) From Frederick Douglass, “The Dred Scott Decision,” delivered before the American Anti-Slavery Society, NY (14 May 1857) Edward Williams Clay, Life in Philadelphia, Plate IV (1829) Appendix C: Black Philadelphia in the Antebellum Era Map of Philadelphia (1848) From A Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Colour, of the City and Districts of Philadelphia (1842) From Robert Purvis, Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disenfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania (1838) From Joseph Willson, Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia (1841) Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Lady Hatherton (24 May 1856) Appendix D: Racism in Philadelphia From “The Philadelphia Riots,” the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette (2 August 1842) From History of Pennsylvania Hall (1838) John Sartain, The Burning of Pennsylvania Hall (1838) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O:

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