Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisThe Allied Occupation of Japan brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black characters into postwar Japanese literature. This book considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature.

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Book SynopsisWhite kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay “The White Negro,” Everything but the Burden brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this collection, the essayists examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate’s mother used to tell him, “everything but the burden”-from fetishizing black athletes to spinning the ghetto lifestyle into a glamorous commodity. Is this a way of shaking off the fear of the unknown? A flattering indicator of appreciation? Or is i

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Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration commissioned an oral history of the remaining former slaves. Bullwhip Days is a remarkable compendium of selections from these extraordinary interviews, providing an unflinching portrait of the world of government-sanctioned slavery of Africans in America. Here are twenty-nine full narrations, as well as nine sections of excerpts related to particular aspects of slave life, from religion to plantation life to the Reconstruction era. Skillfully edited, these chronicles bear eloquent witness to the trials of slaves in America, reveal the wide range of conditions of human bondage, and provide sobering insight into the roots of racism in today''s society.Trade ReviewPraise for Bullwhip Days“A rich source of cultural information... Eloquent and important. It stands as a group portrait of people not long dead, all brutally deprived of their freedom, some insidiously deprived of the very idea that they should be free.” —The New York Times“Remarkably articulate... vivid, moving and often beautifully cadenced.” —The New Yorker“The slave narratives are jewels.” —The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)“The voice and people in Bullwhip Days are so real that the book becomes a visual narrative. This oral history tells us as much about our past as it does our present, and I suspect readers will continue to hear the voices from these pages long after they have put the book down.” —David Lamb, author of The Africans“The slave narratives contain the heart of Afro-American culture. Whereas only one hundred or so slaves published book-length testimonies, thousands were interviewed and left oral testimonies about the black slave experience. Bullwhip Days is the most accessible and usable edition of these colorful narratives. This well-edited text is indispensable to American and Afro-American history and literature classes at all levels.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary collection on the regional organization and varied expressions of the Scottish Heritage movement in the Canadian Maritimes, New England, and the American South. This work is a study of ethnicity and identity, the renegotiation of history and cultural memory into heritage, and the public performance and creation of tradition.Trade ReviewTransatlantic Scots is a sophisticated theoretical treatment written in a lively and readable style.... This is a terrific collection. - Sydel Silverman, City University of New York

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the Colombian Violencia, the undeclared civil war between the Liberal and Conservative parties that raged from the late 1940s to early 1960s. It presents the information as a narrative history. There is also an array of appendices, maps, and photographs.

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Book SynopsisTraces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.

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Book SynopsisCuban debates about freedom and selfhood were never the exclusive domain of the white Creole elite. Pettway argues black Latin American authors did not abandon their African religious heritage to assimilate wholesale to the Catholic Church. By recognising the wisdom of African ancestors, they procured power in the struggle for black liberation.

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Book SynopsisA sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amidst the fight for racial justice—from Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin SackFew people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—Mother Emanuel—before the night of June 17, 2015, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church’s charismatic pastor and eight other worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted the first A.M.E. church in the South in order to agitate racial strife, he did not anticipate the aftermath—an outpouring of forgiveness from the victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement.Mother Emanuel explores the fascinating history that brought the church to that moment, and the depth of the desecration committed in its fellowship hall. It reveals how African Methodism cultivated from the harshest American soil, and how Black suffering shaped forgiveness into both a religious practice and a survival tool. Kevin Sack, who has written about race in his native South for more than four decades, uses the church to trace the long arc of Black life in the city where nearly half of enslaved Africans disembarked in North America and where the Civil War began. Through the microcosm of one congregation, he explores the development of a unique practice of Christianity, from its daring breakaway from white churches in 1817, through the traumas of Civil War and Reconstruction, to its critical role in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. We’ll meet unsung heroes like Denmark Vesey, the former slave whose aborted rebellion plot led to his hanging and the destruction of the original church; Rev. Richard Harvey Cain, Emanuel’s first pastor after the Civil War, who also won election to Congress during Reconstruction; Rev. Benjamin J. Glover, who served simultaneously as pastor and a crusading NAACP leader during the 1960s; and Reverend Clementa Pinckney, a respected state legislator, whose murder in 2015 inspired President Barack Obama’s memorable “Amazing Grace” eulogy.At its core, Mother Emanuel is an epic tale of perseverance, not just of a congregation, but of a people who withstood enslavement and Jim Crow and all manner of violence with an unbending faith.

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Book SynopsisAnywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on the cross-cultural experiences of intellectuals of African descent since the eighteenth century. The book embraces historian Paul Gilroy's prominent thesis in The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness and posits arguments beyond The Black Atlantic's traditional organization and symbolism. Contributions are arranged into three sections that highlight the motivations and characteristics connecting a certain set of agents, thinkers, and intellectuals: the first, Re-ordering Worldviews: Rebellious Thinkers, Poets, Writers, and Political Architects; the second, Crafting Connections: Strategic and Ideological Alliances; and the third, Cultural Mastery in Foreign Spaces: Evolving Visions of Home and Identity.These essays expand categories and suggest patterns at play that have united individuals and communities across the African diaspora. They highlight the stories of people who, from their intercultural and often marginalized positions, challenged the status quo, created strategic (and at times, unexpected) international alliances, cultivated expertise and cultural fluency abroad, as well as crafted physical and intellectual spaces for their self-expression and dignity to thrive.What, for example, connects the eighteenth-century Igbo author Olaudah Equiano with 1940s literary figure Richard Wright; nineteenth-century expatriate anthropologist Antenor Fermin with 1960s Haitian émigrés to the Congo; Japanese Pan-Asianists and Southern Hemisphere Aboriginal activists with Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey; or Angela Davis with artists of the British Black Arts Movement, Ingrid Pollard and Zarina Bhimji? They are all part of a mapping that reaches across and beyond geographical, historical, and ideological boundaries typically associated with the ""Black Atlantic."" They reflect accounts of individuals and communities equally united in their will to seek out better lives, often, as the title suggests, ""anywhere but here.""

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Book SynopsisIn Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined and redefined. It also celebrates the phenomena of jazz performance and uncovers hidden gems of jazz history. The volume offers insights gathered during Kubik’s extensive field work and based on in-depth interviews with jazz musicians around the Atlantic world. Languages, world views, beliefs, experiences, attitudes, and commodities all play a role. Kubik reveals what is most important—the expertise of individual musical innovators on both sides of the Atlantic, and hidden relationships in their thoughts.Besides the common African origins of much vocabulary and structure, all the expressions of jazz in Africa share transatlantic family relationships. Within that framework, musicians are creating and re-creating jazz in never-ending contacts and exchanges. The first of two volumes, Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I examines this transatlantic history, sociolinguistics, musicology, and the biographical study of personalities in jazz during the twentieth century. This volume traces the African and African American influences on the creation of the jazz sound and traces specific African traditions as they transform into American jazz. Kubik seeks to describe the constant mixing of sources and traditions, so he includes influences of European music in both volumes. These works will become essential and indelible parts of jazz history.

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Book SynopsisAfter the 2008 election and 2012 reelection of Barack Obama as US president and the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela as the first of several blacks to serve as South Africa's president, many within the two countries have declared race to be irrelevant. For contributors to this volume, the presumed demise of race may be premature. Given continued racial disparities in income, education, and employment, as well as in perceptions of problems and promise within the two countries, much healing remains unfinished. Nevertheless, despite persistently pronounced disparities between black and white realities, it has become more difficult to articulate racial issues. Some deem ""race"" an increasingly unnecessary identity in these more self-consciously ""post-racial"" times.The volume engages post-racial ideas in both their limitations and promise. Contributors look specifically at the extent to which a church's contemporary response to race consciousness and post-racial consciousness enables it to give an accurate public account of race.

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Book SynopsisThe Greek and Jewish diasporas are the most significant diasporas of Western civilisation. "Homelands and Diasporas" is the first book to explore the similarities and differences between these two experiences. In the process it sheds fascinating light on their fundamental importance for both Greek and Jewish societies. The authors examine Greek and Jewish diasporas throughout history, from classical and Biblical times to the present, and all over the world - in Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, Russia, the Near and Middle East, Spain and the US. They analyse the very nature of diaspora, examining both the Greek concept of noble expansion and the Jewish idea of enforced exile, and analyse community structures as well as social and religious networks, combining Scriptural analysis with cultural and political history. Diaspora is a difficult and emotive concept but "Homelands and Diasporas" offers a balanced and perceptive guide to the connected histories of these two peoples away from their homelands.Table of ContentsList of Contributors – 11-15 Remarks on the Method of Transliteration – 17-18 Acknowledgements – 19-20 Preface – 21-32 Introduction: People of the Book, People of the Sea: Mirror Images of the Soul (Minna Rozen) – 35-81 Part 1: The Genesis of Diasporas Chapter One: Exile – The Biblical Perspectives (Bustenay Oded) – 85-92 Chapter Two: Between Greek Colony and Mother-City: Some Reflections (Panagiotis N. Doukellis) – 93-106 Part II: Pre-Modern Diaspora: Patterns of Behavior Chapter One: The Jewish Politeuma in Alexandria: A Pattern of Jewish Communal Life in the Greco-Roman Diaspora (Aryeh Kasher) – 109-125 Chapter Two: Collective Expatriations of Greeks in the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries (Anastassia Papadia-Lala) – 127-133 Part III: The Diaspora In Its Various Guises A. The Greek Diaspora: Practical Solutions Chapter One: Reconstituting Community: Cultural Differentiation and Identity Politics in Christian Orthodox Communities during the Late Ottoman Era (Haris Exertzoglou) – 137-154 Chapter Two: The ‘Old’ Diaspora, the ‘New’ Diaspora, and the Greek Diaspora in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries Vienna (Vasiliki Seirinidou) – 155-159 Chapter Three: Greek Diaspora in Southern Russia in the Eighteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Vassilis Kardasis) – 161-167 Chapter Four: Central and Peripheral Communities in the Greek Diaspora: Interlocal and Local Economic, Political, and Cultural Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Olga Katsiardi-Hering) – 169-180 B. The Jewish Diaspora: Spiritual Solutions Chapter Five: A Land Adored Yet Feared: The Land of Israel in Jewish Tradition (Aviezer Ravitsky) – 183-210 Chapter Six: Spain, Greece or Jerusalem? The Yearning for the Motherland in the Poetry of Greek Jews (Shmuel Refael) – 211-223 Part IV: The Modern World and Its Demise Chapter One: Breaks ad Continuities in German-Jewish Identity (Yfaat Weiss) – 227-234 Chapter Two: The Metamorphosis of Pre-Dubnovian Autonomism into Diaspora Jewish Nationalism (Marcos Silber) – 235-255 Chapter Three: Does Money Talk? The Struggle between American Zionists and the Yishuv in the Early 1940s (Zohar Segev) – 257-278 Chapter Four: Greek Orthodox Church Networks in the Near East and the Emergence of Arab Nationalism (1899-1947) (Sotirios Roussos) – 279-292 Chapter Five: Center and Diaspora in the Struggle for Human Rights: The State of Israel and the Jewish ‘Desaparecidos’ in Argentina during the Military Regime (1976-1983) (Efraim Zadoff) – 293-303 Chapter Six: Jewish Diaspora and the Privatization of Israeli Society (Daniel Gutwein) – 305-322 Conclusion: Diaspora, Identity, and Nation-Building (Paschalis M. Kitromilides) – 323-331 Notes – 333-417 Index – 419-444

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Book SynopsisRace and racism remain an inescapable part of the lives of black people. Daily slights, often rooted in fears and misperceptions of the 'other', still damage lives. But does race matter as much as it used to? Many argue that the post-racial society is upon us and racism is no longer a block on opportunity - Kurt Barling doubts whether things are really that simple.Ever since, at the age of four, he wished for 'blue eyes and blond hair', skin colour has featured prominently as he, like so many others, navigated through a childhood and adolescence in which 'blackness' de-fined and dominated so much of social discourse. But despite the progress that has been made, he argues, the 'R' word is stubbornly resilient.In this powerful polemic, Barling tackles the paradoxes at the heart of anti-racism and asks whether, by adopting the language of the oppressor to liberate the oppressed, we are in fact paralysing ourselves within the false mythologies inherited from raciology, race and racism. Can society escape this socalled 'race-thinking' and re-imagine a Britain that is no longer 'Black' and 'White'? Is it yet possible to step out of our skins and leave the colour behind?Provocations is a groundbreaking new series of short polemics composed by some of the most intriguing voices in contemporary culture. Never less than sharp, intelligent and controversial Provocations is a major new contribution to some of the most vital discussions in society today.Trade Review"An ambitious new series that tackles the controversy of the topics explored with a mixture of intelligence and forthright argument from some excellent writers." - The Observer; "A lucid, accessible and effective engagement with issues surrounding racism, written with journalistic flair." - LSE Reviews

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Book SynopsisMapping the boundaries between ancient societies through studies of "ethnicity," migration, or economic systems is of perennial interest to archaeologists, who typically have taken two divergent approaches. North American archaeologists have studies formal variation in the style of finished products, while the French tradition, exploring links between cognition and technical choice, has focused on how variation occurs during the manufacturing process.Fourteen contributors examine an array of media -- from ceramics and personal ornaments to architecture and site structure -- in small-scale societies and apply methods from both sides of the Atlantic to explore how technical choices made in the creation of everyday objects can both reflect and define social boundaries. In chapters on pre-historic and historic societies that range from North America to Africa to Oceania, the authors suggest that variation in technical systems corresponds more closely than stylistic variation does to the boundaries between groups. They also address the question of whether modern concepts of ethnicity can be translated into archaeological terms.The Archaeology of Social Boundaries demonstrates that the search for social boundaries in material culture patterning can benefit from the study of both technological and stylistic qualities. By uniting two disparate intellectual traditions, this book contributes to a growing archaeological theory of material culture.

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Table of ContentsHistory -- Race and the limits of solidarity : American welfare state development in comparative perspective / Robert C. Lieberman -- Ghettos, fiscal federalism, and welfare reform / Michael K. Brown -- ""Laboratories of democracy"" or symbolic politics? :the racial origins of welfare reform / Richard C. Fording -- Mass media and mass attitudes -- How the poor became black : the racialization of American poverty in the mass media / Martin Gilens -- Race matters : the impact of news coverage of welfare reform on public opinion / James M. Avery and Mark Peffley -- Racial context, public attitudes, and welfare effort in the American states / Martin Johnson -- Discourse -- Queens, teens, and model mothers : race, gender, and the discourse of welfare reform / Holloway Sparks -- Putting a black face on welfare : the good and the bad / Sanford F. Schram -- Policy choice and implementation -- The hard line and the color line : race, welfare, and the roots of get-tough reform / Joe Soss ... [et al.] -- Contemporary approaches to enduring challenges : using performance measures to promote racial equality under TANF / Susan Tinsley Gooden -- Beyond welfare reform : race and social policy in the states -- Race/ethnicity and referenda on redistributive health care policy / Caroline J. Tolbert and Gertrude A. Steuernagel -- Racial/ethnic diversity and states' public policies : social policies as context for welfare policies / Rodney E. Hero -- Commentary -- Why welfare is racist / Frances Fox Piven.

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Book SynopsisTracing Tangueros offers an inside view of Argentine tango music in the context of the growth and development of the art form's instrumental and stylistic innovations. It first establishes parameters for tango scholarship and then offers ten in-depth profiles of representative tangueros within the genre's historical and stylistic trajectory.Trade ReviewThis book will perhaps be of most value and interest to practitioners seeking to understand better how to perform, arrange, or create tango music. * Music and Letters *Taken in conjunction with material on its website, Tracing Tangueros enriches understanding of a uniquely Argentine cultural phenomenon. * Dance Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Companion Website Introduction. Argentine Tango: A Multidimensional Art Form Part One: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music I. What Makes It an Argentine Tango? II. Trajectory of Argentine Tango Instrumental Music III. Arranging and Performance Techniques Part Two: Representative Argentine Tangueros and Their Orchestras from the Guardia Nueva to Today IV. The Guardia Nueva and the Golden Age (1925-55) Julio De Caro Aníbal Troilo Osvaldo Pugliese Cafecito Interlude: Juan D'Arienzo and Carlos Di Sarli V. Post-Golden Age (1955-1990) Horacio Salgán Astor Piazzolla Julián Plaza Leopoldo Federico Cafecito Interlude: Rodolfo Mederos and Néstor Marconi VI. The "Music of Buenos Aires" (1990-present) Damián Bolotin Sonia Possetti Juan Pablo Navarro Postre: Part Two Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index of Titles and Translations General Index

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the successful outcomes of a five-year initiative undertaken in New York City, Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, and Mary Pender Greene bring together a national roster of leading practitioners, scholars, and advocates who draw upon extensive practice experiences and original research. Together, they offer a range of strategies with a high potential for creating the critical mass for change that is essential to transforming the nation''s health and human services systems. Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services closes the gap in the literature examining the role of interpersonal bias, structural racism, and institutional racism that diminish service access and serve as the root cause for the persistence of disparate racial and ethnic outcomes observed in the nation''s health and human services systems. The one-of-a-kind text is especially relevant today as population trends are dramatically changing the nation''s demographic and cultural landscape, whTable of ContentsForward (Joyce M. James) Preface Acknowledgments Contributing Authors Introduction (Alma J. Carten) PART ONE: Building the Infrastructure: Supporting Sustainable Change and Renewal 1. Promoting Organizational and Systemic Change Mary Pender Greene and Paul Levine 2. Incorporating Antiracist Work at Staff and Board Levels Alan Siskind and Todd Schenk 3. Education and Training of a Race-Conscious Workforce Willie Tolliver and Steve Burghardt 4. Creating a Culturally Competent Research Agenda Mo Yee Lee, Xiafei Wang, Yiwen Cao, Chang Liu, and Amy Zaharlick 5. When Does Race Matter? Examining Antiracist Organizational Change Lisa V. Blitz and Mimi Abramovitz PART TWO: Reshaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms 6. Deconstructing White Supremacy Rev. David Billings 7. Theoretical Perspectives for Transformation Jeanne Bertrand Finch 8. Antiracist Approaches for Shaping Theoretical and Practice Paradigms Kenneth V. Hardy PART THREE: Systemic Impacts and Special Populations 9. Children, Youth, and Family Serving Systems Gerald P. Mallon and Ruth G. McRoy 10. Systems Serving Ethnically Diverse Older Adults Camille Huggins 11. Barriers to Mental Health and Treatment Among Urban Adolescents and Emerging Adult Males of Color Michael A. Lindsey and Amaris Watson PART FOUR: The Helping Relationship 12. The Influence of Race and Ethnicity on Consumer Behaviors Manny J. González 13. Establishing Effective Cross- Cultural Alliances with Diverse Consumer Populations Eileen Klein 14. Unpacking Racism, Poverty, and Trauma's Impact on the School- to- Prison Pipeline Robert Abramovitz and Jessica Mingus PART FIVE: Replicating Best Practices 15. Giving Equal Access to the American Dream to All Kids: The Harlem Children's Zone Anne Williams- Isom 16. A Racial Equity Staff Development Strategy for Public Human Service Organizations Christiana Best- Giacomini, Alexis Howard, and Henry Ilian Closing Thoughts from the Editors Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (19832009) overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948. While colonial divide-and-rule policies, the rise of ethnonationalist lobbies, structural discrimination and majoritarian democracy have been established as grounds for inter-ethnic hostility, there are other significant transformative forces that remain largely unacknowledged in postcolonial analyses.This ambitious multiscalar spatial study of civil war in Sri Lanka offers an intersectional, de-ethnicised analysis of political sovereignty drawn out by the struggle for territory. Based on vital retrospective findings from the five-year postwar period, when wartime hostilities were still festering, it convincingly links ethnonationalism to postnational border politics, marketisation, militarised securitisation and illiberal democracy. ThisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Border Part 1: Normative Spaces 1. Nation 2. Home 3. City Part 2: Human Mobilities 4. Route 5. Camp 6. Site Part 3: Exilic States 7. Ruin 8. Exile 9. Settlement

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Book SynopsisIn the days of the British Raj Calcutta was a great port city. Thousands of men, women, and children worked there, loading and unloading valuable cargoes that sustained the regional economy, and contributed significantly to world trade. In the second half of the nineteenth century, in response to a shift from sailing ships to steamers, port authorities in Calcutta began work on a massive modernization project. This book is the first study of port labor in colonial Calcutta and British India. Drawing on primary source material, including government documents and newspaper records, the author demonstrates how the modernization process worsened class conflict and highlights the important part played by labor in the shaping of the portâs modernization. Class Conflict and Modernization in India places this history in a comparative context, highlighting the interconnected nature of port and port labor histories. It examines how the portâs modernization affectedTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Last Days of Sail2. The Beginnings of a Modernization Project3. A Dangerous and Difficult Workplace4. The Culmination of a Crisis5. The Limits of ResistanceConclusion

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