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Cambridge University Press Asian American Literature in Transition 19962020 Volume 4
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and visibility of Asian American literature. This volume is divided into four sections that plots the trajectories of, and tensions between, social challenges and literary advances. Part One tracks how Asian American literary productions of this period reckon with the effects of structures and networks of violence. Part Two tracks modes of intimacy desires, loves, close friendships, romances, sexual relations, erotic contacts that emerge in the face of neoimperialism, neoliberalism, and necropolitics. Part Three traces the proliferation of genres in Asian American writing of the past quarter century in new and in well-worn terrains. Part Four surveys literary projects that speculate on future states of Asian America in domestic and global contextsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Present Tensions, Future Flux Betsy Huang and Victor Román Mendoza; Part I. Neoimperialisms, Neoliberalisms, Necropolitics: 1. Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Envisioning the Anthropocene in Ecocritical Asian North American Literature Jeffrey Santa-Ana; 2. Garden in the Machine: Grace Lee Boggs's Living for Change: An Autobiography and Detroit's Urban-Agrarian Future Jina Kim; 3. Writing Asia-Latin America: Migrant Intersectionality and Differential Racialization in the Literature of Doris Moromisato and Siu Kam Wen Junyoung Verónica Kim; 4. States of Violence Rajini Srikanth; Part II. Intersections, Intimacies: 5. Between the Heteronormative Model Minority and the Homonormative LGBTQ Subject: Historicizing Contemporary Queer Asian American Literature Martin Joseph Ponce; 6. Intimacies and Animacies: Queer Ecologies in Asian American Literature Laura Anh Williams; 7. Trans Feminism, Asian America's Queer Exception? Stephanie Hsu; 8. No Home away from Home: Queer Asian North American Heritage Plots Stephen Hong Sohn; Part III. Genres, Modalities: 9. The Asiatic Model Imagination Mark Jerng; 10. Revisualizing Race: Graphic Narratives and Asian American Literature Stella Oh; 11. Contemporary Asian American Women's Popular Literature and Neoliberal Form Pamela Thoma; 12. This is Not a Page: The Changing Vehicles of Asian American Literature Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis; Part IV, Movements, Speculations: 13. Asian American Literary Studies and the Challenge of Utopia Pacharee Sudhinaraset; 14. What is Asian America to Asians?: Two Episodes of Transpacific Disturbance Christopher Patterson; 15. Mixed Race Asian American Literature at the Turn into the 21st Century Jennifer Ho; 16. Global Asias: On the Structural Incoherence of Imaginable Ageography Tina Chen; Finale, or, Alternative Originaries: Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin Seo-Young Chu.
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Cambridge University Press Asian American Literature in Transition 19651996 Volume 3
Book SynopsisAsian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 19651996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of what is now recognizable as an Asian American literary canon. It takes as its central focus the connections among literature, history, and migration, exploring how the formation of Asian American literary studies is necessarily inflected by demographic changes, student activism, the institutionalization of Asian American studies within the U.S. academy, U.S foreign policy (specifically the Cold War and conflicts in Southeast Asia), and the emergence of ''diaspora'' and ''transnationalism'' as important critical frames. Moving through sections that consider migration and identity, aesthetics and politics, canon formation, and transnationalism and diaspora, this volume tracks predominant themes within Asian American literature to interrogate an ever-evolving field. It features nineteen original essays by leading scholars, and is accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researchers alike.Table of ContentsPart I. Immigration, Migration and Movement: 1. Scrutinizing Impossible Subjects Monica Chiu; 2. The Model Minority and Debt Erin Khuê Ninh; 3. Displaced Subjects and Refugee Literature Timothy August; 4. 1.5 Generation Literature as Asian Americanist Critique Marguerite Nguyen; Part II. Politics, Art and Activism: 5. Furious Dialectics: Diasporic Anger in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee James Kim; 6. Asian American Literature and the Vietnam War Catherine Fung; 7. Cross-Racial Solidarities and Asian American Literature Jeehyun Lim; 8. Re/Collecting Asian American Performance Christine Mok; 9. Multiculturalism and its Discontents Lynn Itagaki; Part III. Institutionalization and Canon Formation: 10. On Recovering Early Asian American Literature Floyd Cheung; 11. Asian American Poetics Warren Liu; 12. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Milestone in Asian American Literature Lan Dong; 13. Making a Necessity of Extravagance: Work and Play in the Asian American (ist) Economy Chris A. Eng; 14. Marking the Difference made by 'Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity': Lisa Lowe's Impact on Asian American Studies Melissa Phruksachart; Part IV. Diaspora and the Transnational Turn: 15. Rethinking Nationalistic Attachments through Narratives of Return, 1965–1995 Patricia Chu; 16. Diasporic Longings Bakirathi Mani; 17. Transnational Sexualities Patrick S. Lawrence; 18. Intimacy, Imperialism and America: Revisiting Post-47 Postcolonial and Asian American Writing Kavita Daiya; 19. Hemispheric Imaginings and Global Transitions: The Geopolitics of Asian American Literature in the Americas Crystal Parikh.
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Cambridge University Press Negotiating Transitional Justice
Book SynopsisThe recent Colombian peace negotiations took the art and science of negotiating transitional justice to unprecedented levels of complexity. For decades, the Colombian government fought a bitter insurgency war against FARC guerrilla forces. After protracted negotiations, the two parties reached a peace deal that took account of the rights of victims. As first-hand participants in the talks, and principal advisers to the Colombia government, Mark Freeman and Iván Orozco offer a unique account of the mechanics through which accountability issues were addressed. Drawing from this case study and other global experiences, Freeman and Orozco offer a comprehensive theoretical and practical conception of what makes the ''devil''s dilemma'' of negotiating peace with justice implausible but feasible.Trade Review'This book is a rigorous, fascinating, and provocative analysis of the dramatic challenge faced when pursuing peace and, at the same time, accountability. The authors' robust, honest, and sometimes controversial reflections make this a must-read for those who want to understand the theory and practice of negotiating transitional justice and ending violent conflict. The lessons it offers can literally save lives.' Catalina Botero Marino, Dean of Law Faculty, Universidad de los Andes'Transitional justice is a central issue in many peace talks, yet there is remarkably little literature focusing on how demands of accountability can be harmonised with political pragmatism. This book makes an original and important contribution, both in general theoretical terms and through the authors' firsthand account of the complex negotiation between the Colombian government and the FARC. I strongly recommend the book not only to scholars, but also to practitioners from the fields of mediation and transitional justice.' Christine Bell, University of Edinburgh'What does it mean to negotiate justice and accountability issues inside a peace process? Drawing on their direct experience of the Colombian peace talks with the FARC, Freeman and Orozco have produced a book of exceptional intellectual honesty and mastery. Their ideas and insights could change the way diplomats, peacemakers, human rights activists, and warring factions of all sorts understand and deal with a key political dilemma of our time.' Thierry Cruvellier, Editor-in-Chief, JusticeInfo.net'In this timely and seminal book, Freeman and Orozco address an issue at the heart of the current discussion on transitional justice in Colombia and beyond: How much justice - and what form - is needed to build lasting peace? This book should be required reading for anyone interested in tracing the development of the Colombian transitional justice model as well as in understanding the tough political discussions that accompanied this process.' Angelika Rettberg, Universidad de los Andes'This book takes a unique approach in that it is divided into two distinct components, each written primarily by one of the two authors. The first part (by Freeman, Institute for Integrated Transitions, Spain) is a comprehensive overview of the issues surrounding negotiating justice in the context of a peace process. Freeman provides an excellent framework for understanding the topic, so this section will be particularly useful for undergraduates. The second part (by Orozco, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) includes essays on the recently concluded Colombian peace process, in which both authors were involved as independent advisors. The book focuses on issues of justice but offers much more than that … This accessible book will be a valuable addition to the literature on peace, conflict, human rights, international law, and Latin American politics.' A. G. Reiter, ChoiceTable of ContentsPart I. Negotiating Transitional Justice: A Conceptual Framework: 1. General considerations; 2. The role of international law; 3. Elements of practice; 4. Conclusions; Part II. Negotiating Transitional Justice: The Case of Colombia; 5. The context; 6. The experience; 7. Conclusions; Appendix 1: basic information about the Havana negotiation; Appendix 2: the legal framework for peace (2012); Index.
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Hanover Square Press Black on Black
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The University of North Carolina Press The Wilmington Ten Violence Injustice and the
Book SynopsisGrounded in extensive interviews, newly declassified government documents, and archival research, this book thoroughly examines the 1971 events in Wilmington, North Carolina, and the subsequent movement for justice that strongly influenced the wider African American freedom struggle.Trade ReviewA passionate, intensely engaging portrait of the group's initial mission, as well as the terrible personal lifelong toll the struggle took." - Kirkus Reviews"The subject matter is fascinating. . . [and] illustrative of how far Americans still have to go in bridging our society's divisions." - Publishers Weekly"Simultaneously thorough and concise, deeply researched, and insightful, The Wilmington Ten deserves a wide readership."" - Journal of Southern History"Provides fresh insight into hard truths about procedures used by the state to suppress and repress black challenges to the racial status quo. . . . A sincere exploration of black politics in the 1970s, one that takes seriously black power activists and ideologies." - American Historical Review"No one explains this complicated story better than Kenneth Robert Janken. . . . Shows the complicated ways the 1970s black revolt took up the unfinished civil rights agenda, especially its attempt to resist white terror." - Journal of American History"Explodes what little is left of [the] cut-and-paste version of the [civil rights] movement, reminding readers that many different movements were operating over a period of decades. . . . An important, approachable study." - North Carolina Historical Review"Janken's highly recommended history of student racial protest provides a historical perspective on the current struggle for diversity within academia and the black lives matter movement." - Library Journal"This first book-length scholarly treatment of the event is meticulously researched and compelling in its analysis. . . . Highly recommended." - Choice
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New York University Press Black Age
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This truly revelatory book uncovers the flesh of black age. Through a focus on black untimeliness, Habiba Ibrahim reveals a counter-history of modernity. Ibrahim adds vital new dimensions to the study of blackness as an alternative relation to time. This tremendous book reveals that black life is a state of being alienated from the time of one’s own body and a radical refusal of patriarchal adulthood." * Margo Natalie Crawford, author of Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *"Habiba Ibrahim’s Black Age opens up powerful new vocabularies and paradigms for thinking about Black cultural expression—and indeed Black life. Through beautifully argued analyses of literary texts, Ibrahim produces startling and profound insights into age, temporality, modernity, race, subjectivity, and the very category of the human." * Gayle Wald, author of It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television *"Ibrahim’s dialectic of exclusion and reclamation advances an alternative way to discern the relationship between the past and the present... Black Age points us to new ways of thinking and interpreting what time it is." -- ALH Online Review * American Literary History Online Review *
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Alfred A. Knopf The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes
Book SynopsisDrawing on 25 years of experience representing black youth in Washington, DC?s juvenile courts, the author, in this timely book, makes a powerfully compelling case that the crisis in racist American policing begins with its relationship to black children.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Racism: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe authors begin by discussing policies targeting irregular migration in Europe and showing that these policies were gradually broadened and intensified, excluding more people. A case study is presented exemplifying the way inclusive and exclusive cities can be distinguished, with their different approaches related to the absence of enforcement tools and the fact that many citizens are disinclined to exclude irregular migrants from society and services. This book also provides an examination of comments made on a public news source concerning Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the United States, denigrating her race and elevating whiteness. The authors also juxtapose the accomplishments of the former First Lady with those of the current First Lady. A study is presented on the racial issues in modern Brazilian soccer using the oral life stories of black and white people involved from the 1970s and 2010s, with the goal of establishing the importance of this discussion and demonstrating the way professional progress in soccer is affected by race. Also in this book, the legitimization of racial discrimination against ethnic minority youthprimarily menat the Danish labour market is examined. The social workers involved in the case study discuss how young ethnic minority men encounter racial discrimination in the workforce as well as describe how this affects their potential in the labour market. The final chapter sets out to emphasize the function of systemic racism and implicit biases in healthcare, describing the way racism impacts health in people of color as well as clinical decision-making.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Many Strides to Freedom: African American Womens
Book Synopsis"To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve."- Nannie Helen Burroughs. African American women have been integral to the various fights for equality throughout American history. Their importance to the movement occurred long before lifelong activist Rosa Parks became the catalyst in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. Who are the countless and often nameless black women who risked their lives and worked tirelessly to fight for the equality of black people in this country? From slavery to the modern day civil rights movement, the contributions of African American women are often overlooked in the retelling of history, but their contributions were critical in the battle for racial equality. They were grassroots organisers, strategists, and educators. Due to their selflessness and kindness, these black women became heroines of the movement. This book seeks to unearth the contributions of African American women throughout various periods of American history.Table of ContentsFor more information, please visit our website at:https://novapublishers.com/shop/many-strides-to-freedom-african-american-womens-unsung-contributions-and-legacies/
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Intersectionality: Concepts, Perspectives and
Book SynopsisIntersectionality: Concepts, Perspectives and Challenges first presents a study wherein two students, one male and one female, were interviewed about their transition from a historically black college and university undergraduate program to a predominantly white institution for their graduate studies in biochemistry. The students had similar undergraduate experiences and both shared feelings of isolation, the drawbacks of academic rigor in graduate STEM programs, and the need to represent both themselves and their race. Next, the authors explore narrative responses of bisexual Latinx women and, through an intersectionality lens, adapted the minority stress model to include their experiences. This study further supports the need for intersectional minority stress research and a necessary focus on sexually marginalized bisexual Latinx women. The closing chapter summarizes the way in which intersectionality has been at the center of both feminist debates and the theory of gender. In the United States, Canada and Europe, it has achieved a hegemonic status strengthened by its multiple possible applications.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Ethnic Differences: An Overview
Book SynopsisThis book opens with a study evaluating the extent to which ethnic/racial differences are present in the reading achievement of Texas grade four boys and girls in special education. In addition, the degree to which differences are present in the reading performance of grade four Texas students as a function of their ethnicity/race is examined. The degree to which differences are present in the assignment of Juvenile Justice Alternative Education Program placements as a function of the ethnicity/race in Texas grades six, seven, and eight boys for the 2012-2013 through the 2015-2016 school years is also addressed. Differences in second semester GPAs for students with dual credit enrolment status in Texas community colleges are analysed for the 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015 academic years. Continuing, a multiyear, state-wide investigation is used to assess the graduation rates of Hispanic and white students in Texas community colleges for the 2008-2009 through the 2014-2015 academic years. The concluding study reviews prevention and treatment techniques for Asian scars, including steroids, surgery, laser and fat grafting. The importance of preventing scarring and specific treatments for Asian populations are also discussed.
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Broadview Press Ltd Black Slavery in the Maritimes: A History in
Book SynopsisMany thousands of black people were enslaved in the Maritimes, Quebec, and Upper Canada between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is not surprising that slavery played a part in Canadian history, but it is startling that it has not received widespread attention from the general Canadian public or from historians. This sourcebook collects a variety of documents, including runaway-slave advertisements, letters, court cases, and official government documents, offering readers an opportunity to explore black slavery in the Maritimes and revise their understanding of Canadian history.Trade Review“Harvey Amani Whitfield, the leading authority on slavery in the Maritime provinces, here provides an extraordinary collection of documents on the subject. The cruelty of slavery, the harms that it did to enslaved and free Black people, and the myriad forms of slave resistance are fully on display, as much in banal deeds of sale as in powerful first-person accounts by slaves and former slaves.” — Elsbeth Heaman, Department of History, McGill University“Black Slavery in the Maritimes is a welcome and impressive addition to the historiography of slavery in Canada, and vitally necessary for school curricula. Teachers will find this sourcebook useful, as it is a ‘hands on’ tour of slavery in Canada. Additionally, scholars of Black Canadian history, both inside and outside the academy, will be delighted to have this sourcebook in hand.” — Afua Cooper, James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University“Not only does Black Slavery in the Maritimes provide a sourcebook that will be of enormous educational value, but it is also an exceptional work of scholarship. Whitfield combines clear-sighted historical expertise with deeply humane insights, notably in the general and sectional introductions and in the poignant commentaries on each document. This is a documentary history of rare quality.” — John G. Reid, Department of History, Saint Mary’s University“This remarkable collection of documents makes undeniable the everyday reality of Black slavery in the early Maritimes. Whitfield’s introduction and document glosses provide critical historical background while still reserving to the reader a sense of discovery about slavery and its penetration into diverse social, economic, legal, and political aspects of Maritime culture.” — Elizabeth Mancke, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies, University of New BrunswickTable of Contents Introduction Chronology Questions to Consider Part I: Runaway Slave Advertisements and Slave for Sale Notices Document 1: Halifax Slaves for Sale in Boston, 1751 Document 2: Slaves for Sale, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1752 Document 3: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Female Slave Named Thursday, Nova Scotia, 1772 Document 4: Slave Wanted Advertisement, Nova Scotia, 1776 Document 5: Runaway Advertisement, James, Nova Scotia, 1781 and 1786 Document 6: Female Slave to be Sold at Public Auction, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 7: Runaway Slave Advertisement, An African Slave, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 8: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dick, Nova Scotia, 1783 Document 9: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, Nova Scotia 1783 Document 10: Slave for Sale, “Negro Boy,” New Brunswick, 1784 Document 11: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Hector, New Brunswick, 1784 Document 12: Runaway Advertisement, Unfree Black Laborers, 1784, New Brunswick Document 13: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Jupiter and Clarinda, Nova Scotia, 1784 Document 14: A Family Escapes, Nova Scotia, 1785 Document 15: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year old, Nova Scotia, 1786 Document 16: Slave for Sale Advertisement, 14 Year Old boy, New Brunswick, 1786 Document 17: Slaves for Sale Advertisement, A Man and boy, New Brunswick, 1786 Document 18: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Ben, 1786, New Brunswick Document 19: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Five Slaves Escape Caleb Jones, New Brunswick 1786 Document 20: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, Nova Scotia 1786 Document 21: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Teenage Girl, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 22: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Woman, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 23: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Sam and Beller, (siblings) escape, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 24: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Abraham teenager, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 25: Runaway Slave Advertisement, London, Age 18, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 26: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Keziah, New Brunswick, 1787 Document 27: Slave for Sale Advertisement, Young Black Woman, New Brunswick, 1788 Document 28: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, 1788 Document 29: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Poll, 1791, New Brunswick Document 30: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Statia and Her Family, New Brunswick, 1792 Document 31: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Prince, New Brunswick, 1792 Document 32: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Joseph Odel and Peter Lawrence, Nova Scotia, 1792 Document 33: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Bill/Belfast, Nova Scotia, 1794 Document 34: Slave for Sale, Young Man, New Brunswick, 1799 Document 35: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Gill and Dick, New Brunswick, 1799 Document 36: Female Sold for a Term of Years, Nova Scotia, 1800 Document 37: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Two Slaves, 1802, New Brunswick Document 38: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Dinah, New Brunswick, 1806 Document 39: Slave for Sale, Nancy, New Brunswick, 1809 Document 40: Runaway Slave Advertisement, Lidge Escapes Again, New Brunswick 1816 Document 41: Runaway Advertisement, Samuel Hutchings, New Brunswick, 1818 Part II: Letters, Narratives, Newspapers, Petitions Document 42: John Wentworth Letter about his 19 Slaves, Nova Scotia, 1784 Document 43: Petition of Zimri Armstrong about Re-enslavement, New Brunswick, 1785 Document 44: James MacGregor, A Letter to a Clergyman Urging him to set free a Black Girl he held in SLAVERY, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 45: Petition of Thomas Peters to the British Government, 1790 Document 46: John Clarkson’s Diary, Lydia Jackson’s Re-enslavement and Other Observations, 1791 Document 47: Thomas Clarkson, “Some Account of the New Colony at Sierra Leone,” Re-enslavement, 1792 Document 48: David George’s Narrative 1793 Document 49: Boston King’s Narrative, 1798 Document 50: Gradual Emancipation of Jack and Amelia in Prince Edward Island, 1800 Document 51: Joseph Aplin’s Racial Justification for Slavery, 1801 Document 52: Excerpts from OPINIONS OF SEVERAL GENTLEMEN OF THE LAW, ON THE SUBJECT OF NEGRO SERVITUDE IN THE PROVINCE OF NOVA-SCOTIA, 1802 Document 53: Digby Slave-owners’ Petition, Nova Scotia, 1807 Document 54: Petition of Isaac Willoughby, Former Slave, 1834, Nova Scotia Document 55: Article Supporting Slavery and Decrying Free Blacks, 1842, Nova Scotia Part III: Court Cases and Bills of Sale Document 56: Bill of Sale, Young boy from Maryland, 1779, Nova Scotia Document 57: Bill of Sale, Mintur, 1779 Document 58: King v. Jesse Gray, for whipping Pero 100 times, Nova Scotia, 1786 Document 59: Mary Postell Affidavit, Nova Scotia 1791 Document 60: Grand Jury Complaint, Re-enslavement of black boy sent to the West Indies Illegally, Nova Scotia, 1794 Document 61: James DeLancey Complaint Against William Woodin, 1803 Document 62: Supreme Court “Nancy” Case, New Brunswick, 1800 Document 63: Ward Chipman’s Slavery Brief, New Brunswick Supreme Court, 1800 Document 64: R v. Andrews (Indictment of Samuel Andrews Jr.), Slave-owners murder a female slave, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1801 Document 65: Slave Returned to Owner, Supreme Court, Prince Edward Island, 1802 Document 66: Bill of Sale for Percilla, 8 Year Old Girl, 1804, Nova Scotia Document 67: Supreme Court Case, Newspaper Account, New Brunswick, 1806 Part IV: Government Documents Document 68: Governor Cornwallis discusses Captain Bloss and His slaves, 1750 Document 69: An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE, 1781, Prince Edward Island Document 70: Book of Negroes Document 71: Dick Hill, Re-Enslaved, Shelburne, 1787, Nova Scotia (will have to change number because of date) Document 72: An Act for the Regulation & Relief of the free Negroes within the Province of Nova Scotia, (Un-passed), 1789 Document 73: A Bill Relating to Negroes, 6 February 1801, (Un-passed), Legislative Assembly Records, New Brunswick Document 74: AN ACT to repeal an Act made and passed in the twenty-first year of his late Majesty’s reign intituled “An Act, declaring that Baptism of SLAVES shall not exempt them from BONDAGE,” Statutes of Prince Edward Island, 1825 Document 75: Prince Edward Island and Montserrat Connection, 1828 Part V: Wills and Church Records Document 76: Probate Record of Joseph Totten, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 77: Probate Record of Thomas Leonard, Nova Scotia, 1788 Document 78: Probate Record of Anna Lillie (or Ann Lilie), Nova Scotia, 1789 Document 79: Teenage Slave Diana Bastian Burial Note-Her Rape and Pregnancy by George More, Member of Council, Cape Breton, 1792 Document 80: Probate Record of Caleb Fowler, Nova Scotia, 1793 Document 81: Probate Record of George Cornwall, Nova Scotia, 1799 Document 82: Probate Record of Jacob Ellegood Document 83: Probate Record of Benjamin Belcher, Nova Scotia, 1801 Document 84: Probate Record of Jacob Troop, Nova Scotia, 1805 Document 85: Probate Record of Isaac Bonnell, Nova Scotia, 1806 Document 86: Probate Record of William Wanton, New Brunswick, 1812 Document 87: Probate Record of William Schurman (or Schurmann), Prince Edward Island, 1819 Additional Suggested Readings
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Broadview Press Ltd Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral
Book SynopsisThe election of President Trump, through his campaign of race-baiting, sexual harassment, and blatant disregard for human decency, lowered the moral bar of American public discourse. Julius Bailey's latest book discusses the current state of hypocrisy and mistrust in the American political system, especially as these affect ethnic minorities and low-income groups. In powerful and inspiring prose, Bailey writes with a voice well-informed by current events, empirical data, and philosophical observation. Bailey looks at the causes and consequences of this new era, and applies his passionate yet astute analysis to issues such as hate speech, gerrymandering, the use of the Confederate flag, and America's relationship with the gun.Trade Review“Julius Bailey is one of the most original and courageous philosophers of his generation. In this powerful text, we once again see his unique ability to wed his sharp analysis and philosophical acumen to our American contemporary crises!” — Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University, author of Race Matters “Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love is the prophetic thunder that is needed in such a time as this. The book is meant to convict and convert us to a higher moral standard grounded in truth and justice, instead of hypocrisy and bad faith.” — Andre E. Johnson, The University of Memphis “Dr. Bailey offers a sophisticated understanding of our current sociopolitical climate and the structural realities that inhibit efforts to advance equity and inclusion. He eloquently reminds us of our moral responsibility to align values and actions, resist racist policies that perpetuate inequality, and demand that leaders be held accountable for their actions. His aspirational vision for a civil, multiracial democracy is built on a commitment to search for truth as well as authentic engagement with others recognizing the promise of intersectionality in building powerful communities of hope. This vision is heartening for those of good will who value the powerful ties that bind us together in the common endeavor of finally delivering on America’s promise of freedom, opportunity, equality, and justice for all.” — Laurie M. Joyner, President, Saint Xavier University“Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith is passionate and well written. It is a timely and well-researched scholarly evaluation of current events. The book asks readers to question how we as a nation are living up to the promises that are vital to the American experiment, including the promise to continually improve.” — Bishop Suzanne Darcy Dillahunt, Southern Ohio Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America“Julius Bailey has written a timely book. With philosophical nuance and a clear focus on the practical challenges we face in the Age of Trump, Bailey demonstrates how bad faith corrodes democratic life in this country. He writes with passion and insight. He looks the darkness of the hour squarely in the face and still holds a hope that we can ‘tear down the edifices of hypocrisy and bad faith and replace them with edifices of truth … and good faith.’ I needed to read this book!” — Eddie S. Glaude, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Princeton University“In Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith, Professor Julius Bailey presents an extremely timely discussion of the temperament of today’s politics during the post-Obama years—effectively known as ‘the Trump era.’ Through accounts of various examples of ‘bad faith,’ Bailey establishes the existence of a corrupt form of politics that veers away from principles of integrity and earnestness toward the public good. In bad faith, the singular interests of politicians take center stage under the guise of gas-lighted information that hides the course of political actions that are actually hypocritical and ill-formed. Through examination of several race-related political issues, Bailey provides examples of bad-faith politics that disingenuously promote one face of a political issue while providing voice and support for another. As Bailey suggests, ‘dog whistles’ unite the ears of those supporting bad-faith actions. Sincerity and genuineness go unnoticed, until transparency introduces truth in the face of majority rule and popular sovereignty, bringing an interest in good-faith politics to the fore. By deconstructing examples from different contexts and times, Bailey shows how bad faith is an undue (and, hopefully, mutable) disruption of democracy.” — Shayla C. Nunnally, University of ConnecticutTable of Contents Foreword Introduction - Indefensible Morality: American Conservative Duplicity in the Era of Trump Chapter 1 ' Trump: The Inheritor of the GOP's Southern Strategy Chapter 2 ' Shifting the Goalpost: Poli-Tricks and the Art of Political Gerrymandering Chapter 3 ' Environmental (Un)Protection Chapter 4 ' The Great American Tear: America and the Gun Chapter 5 ' A War of Words: The Politicization of Hate Speech Chapter 6 ' Origins, Intentions and Meanings: The Rebel Battle Flag and Its Role in Creating a Bad Faith White Identity Chapter 7 ' The Flag Today: Fighting Pride, Heritage, Terror, Freedom Chapter 8 ' The Rationale for Colin Kaepernick's Moral Stance Afterword
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Broadview Press Ltd Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self
Book SynopsisThe Afrofuturist plot of Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood (1902-03) weaves together a lost African city, bigamy, incest, murder, ancient prophecies, a thwarted leopard attack, racial passing, baby switching, mesmerism, and hauntings—both literal ghost hauntings and metaphoric hauntings from the sins of slavery. The Broadview Edition offers for the first time annotations and appendices that contextualize the novel in relation to magazines, Black feminism, travels to Africa, racial discourses, scientific and medical debates, and musical culture. The edition's introduction surveys current debates about Hopkins's textual borrowings of from other contemporary writings, and the appendices provide extensive materials on the novel's cultural, musical, and political contexts.Trade Review“Broadview’s edition of Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood identifies and contextualizes Hopkins’s wide-ranging and varied inspirations, sources, and allusions in a manner that helps readers trace and understand how she employed her craft to perform ‘historical recovery in the service of racial justice.’ Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney’s brilliant introduction and meticulously researched notes bring Hopkins’s voice to life and illuminate her position as one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. The breadth and depth of primary contemporaneous sources that Dahn and Sweeney have assembled raise the bar for scholarly editions.” — Alisha Knight, Washington College“Dahn and Sweeney’s edition of Hopkins’s Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self strongly grounds the novel in the context of its publication in the Colored American Magazine and of relevant contemporaneous texts and ideas. Its wealth of background and archival material and meticulous elucidation of many of Hopkins’s textual ‘borrowings’ provide multiple inroads for the study of the novel and a tremendous resource for students, instructors, and scholars.” — Julie Fiorelli, Loyola University ChicagoTable of ContentsAppendix A: Pauline Hopkins and the Colored American Magazine 1. From “Rise of the Black Republic: Miss Pauline E. Hopkins Lectures at Tremont Temple,” Boston Post (18 Oct 1889) 2. “Pauline E. Hopkins,” Colored American Magazine (January 1901) 3. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Dedication and Preface to Contending Forces (1900) 4. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (May 1900) 5. From R. S. Elliott, “The Story of Our Magazine,” Colored American Magazine (May 1901) 6. “Powerful Serial Stories,” from “Announcement for 1902,” Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 7. Cover, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 8. “An Interesting Publication,” Colored American newspaper (4 April 1903) 9. Synopsis of Chapters I to XXIII of Of One Blood, Colored American Magazine (November 1903) 10. Crane and Co. Cosmetics Advertisement, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 11. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (October 1903) 12. From “Editorial and Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 13. “Editorial and Publisher’s Announcements,” Colored American Magazine, (May-June 1903) 14. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “How a New York Newspaper Man Entertained a Number of Colored Ladies and Gentlemen at Dinner in the Revere House, Boston, and How the Colored American League was Started,” Colored American Magazine (March 1904) 15. From Pauline E. Hopkins, Letter to William Monroe Trotter (16 April 1905) 16. From “Publishers’ Announcements,” Colored American Magazine (November 1904) 17. From “The Colored Magazine in America,” Crisis (November 1912) Appendix B: Black Feminist Activism 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race: IV. Some Literary Workers,” Colored American Magazine (March 1902) 2. From Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, “Address of Josephine St. P. Ruffin, President of Conference” (1902) 3. From Victoria Earle Matthews, “The Value of Race Literature” (1895) 4. From Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892) 5. From Anna Julia Cooper, “The Status of Woman in America” (1892) Appendix C: “Of One Blood” 1. From Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 2. Acts of the Apostles 17.16-33 (King James Bible) 3. From Frederick Douglass, “The Claims of the Negro, Ethnologically Considered” (1854) 4. From Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861) 5. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 6. From Francis Marion Crawford, Casa Braccio (1894) 7. From Pauline E. Hopkins (as J. Shirley Shadrach), “Furnace Blasts: II. Black or White?—Which Should Be the Young Afro-American’s Choice in Marriage?” Colored American Magazine (March 1903) Appendix D: Hopkins’s Africa 1. From John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book Four (1667, 1674) 2. From John Hartley Coombs, editor, Dr. Livingstone’s 17 Years’ Explorations and Adventures in the Wilds of Africa (1857) 3. From A.F. Jacassy, “African Studies: I. Tripoli of Barbary,” Scribner’s Magazine (January 1890) 4. From Noel Ruthven, “In the Claws,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (January 1884) 5. From N. Robinson, “The Colossal Statues of Egypt and Asia,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (January 1884) 6. From G.A. Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia, Above the Second Cataract of the Nile(1835) 7. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race. VII. Educators (Continued),” Colored American Magazine (June 1902) 8. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Ethiopia” (1854) 9. From H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (1886-87) 10. Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, “The Black Princess” (1872) 11. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “To the Nations of the World” (25 July 1900) 12. From Pauline E. Hopkins, A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Early Greatness of the African Race and the Possibility of Restoration by its Descendants—with Epilogue (1905) Appendix E: Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Professional Medicine 1. From William James, “The Hidden Self,” Scribner’s Magazine (March 1890) 2. Pauline E. Hopkins, “The Mystery Within Us,” Colored American Magazine (May 1900) 3. From Emma Hardinge Britten, “The Improvvisatore, or Torn Leaves from Life History” (1861) 4. From “The Haunted Voice,” Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly (December 1884) 5. From J.P.F. Deleuze, Practical Instruction in Animal Magnetism (1837) 6. From The History and Philosophy of Animal Magnetism, with Practical Instructions for the Exercise of This Power, by a Practical Magnetizer (1843) 7. “Discovers the Secret of Life: Indiana Physician Asserts It Is Volatile Magnetism, Which Exists in the Air,” Boston Daily Globe (29 September 1902) 8. From W. E. B. Du Bois, editor, The College-Bred Negro: Report of a Social Study Made Under the Direction of Atlanta University (1900) 9. Abraham Flexner, “The Medical Education of the Negro” (1910) Appendix F: Musical Culture 1. From Pauline E. Hopkins, “Famous Women of the Negro Race: I. Phenomenal Vocalists,” Colored American Magazine (November 1901) 2. From Theodore Drury, “The Negro in Classic Music; or, Leading Opera, Oratorio and Concert Singers,” Colored American Magazine (September 1902) 3. Advertisement for Theodore Drury Opera Company’s Aida, Colored American Magazine (March 1903) 4. Poster for Fisk University Jubilee Singers Concert (c. 1885) 5. “Go Down, Moses,” from The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with Their Songs, 5th edition (1876) 6. From Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) 7. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of the Sorrow Songs,” The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 8. From James Weldon Johnson, “Preface,” The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Black Americans: Issues & Concerns
Book SynopsisThis volume gathers articles of crucial concern to Black Americans. These issues include education, research funding at historically black colleges and universities, voting rights, unemployment, income support policies, health care reform and racism. These contributions, taken together, form a crucible for thought.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Guide to Books on Black Americans
Book SynopsisThis book presents 2322 full citations of books from 1990-1993 including subject headings of books dealing with Black Americans. Full author and subject indexes are provided for easy access to this compilation. Entries cover topics as diverse as: civil war history, sports figures, literature, civil rights, movies and television, religion, culture, politics and government, social life and customs, arts and artists, philosophy.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Think African: The Changing African Mind &
Book SynopsisThis collection of short essays attempts to depict life, thought and actions indigenous to Black Africa and what has been happening there especially as a result of the White Man''s penetration into the Black Man''s life and institutions. This penetration was gradual at first, as in colonial times, but since the end of the Second World War it has become massive. Each essay looks at an African concept, attitude or person, or a combination of these, and hopes to stimulate further reading and reflection on the reader''s part. The author believes that lack of real knowledge about Africans, their beliefs, values, traditions as well as their general outlook on life, is a constant source of unnecessary mistrust, friction and recurrently enervating misunderstandings. These essays make an attempt to look into the minds and attitudes of Africans contending with difficulties not of African origin in our contemporary world.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Afro-American Biographies: A Bibliography
Book SynopsisThis Bibliography presents citations of hundreds of biographies of Afro-Americans under the categories of General, Science, Engineering and Invention, Entertainment, Sports, Civil Rights, Women and the Arts. Access is provided via Title, Author and Subject Indexes.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Racism: A Bibliography with Indexes
Book SynopsisOf all mankinds'' vices, racism is one of the most pervasive and stubborn. Success in overcoming racism has been achieved from time to time, but victories have been limited thus far because mankind has focused on personal economic gain or power grabs ignoring generosity of the soul. This bibliography brings together the literature providing access by subject groupings as well as author and subject indexes.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Race, Racism, Knowledge Production & Psychology
Book SynopsisRace, Racism, Knowledge Production & Psychology in South Africa
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Christian Publishers LLC Multicultural Theatre: Scenes & Monologs from New
Book SynopsisIn our media-saturated society, multicultural writers have discovered the stage as their medium of choice. These scenes and monologues by new writers of the multicultural experience are certain to inspire actors and directors.
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Christian Publishers LLC Multicultural Theatre 2: Contemporary Hispanic,
Book SynopsisTeachers nationwide have a great need for good, up-to-date writing on themes related to cultural diversity for literature classes, oral interpretation and forensics. A valuable text for literary, forensics or theatrical applications.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Black Male in White America
Book SynopsisThis book explores twelve related research topics, each constituting a chapter. These chapters reflect the magnitude of the problems facing the African-American male. The book also documents the success stories of African American men and how they have lived beyond stereotypes and other odds. These problems are not likely to go away in the 21st century. They require government action and individual initiative toward a civil society in which America''s promise can be a reality for all Americans, thus making sure that no single American will be left behind.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Affirmative Action Revisited
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Nova Science Publishers Inc African-American Literature: Overview &
Book SynopsisHaving its origins in the slave narratives and the folktales transmitted orally during that period, the literature of the African American has been rich and varied. Beginning with the first published work of fiction (Clotel; Or, the President''s Daughter) in 1853, continuing under the influence of W E B Du Bois during the first part of this century, and reaching a flowering during the Harlem Renaissance, major contributions have been made to American literature. Today African American writers , such as Toni Morrison, Alex Haley, and Maya Angelou are recognised as among the most significant and popular authors in this country. This new book presents an important overview of African-American literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography with easy access provided by title, subject, and author indexes.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc End of Desegregation?
Book SynopsisAfter over half a century of court-directed efforts to redress the historical educational chasm between blacks and whites in the United States, both the past achievements and the future direction of school desegregation are uncertain. Too often, the early gains made in racially desegregating America''s schools seem to have been halted, and in many cases reversed. Urban school decay is once again on the rise, with predictable consequences. For the very poorest minority students, who have limited educational options apart from dangerous, deteriorating neighbourhood schools, drop-out rates are high, standardised test scores are abysmally low, and violence is an everyday fact of life. The gulf between the unskilled, marginalised students being warehoused in these predominantly poor, minority schools on the one hand, and the increasingly high tech society they cannot compete in on the other, is growing. This ground-breaking book presents the viewpoints and research of some of the most prominent scholars in the field of school desegregation. It covers virtually the entire spectrum of thinking and scholarship on school desegregation and its promise, success, necessity, pitfalls and failures.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Racial Profiling: Issues, Data & Analyses
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Tughra Books A Life in Tears: Understanding Fethullah Gulen's
Book SynopsisFethullah Gülen is a leading figure in the current Turkish socio-political context. Regardless of the impression different circles have about him, he is universally acknowledged as an accomplished scholar and independent thinker who has had a life in tears dreaming of a “golden generation,” but also a life spent in persecution and ongoing trials. This book goes beyond the current controversy around his name, and tries to explore Gülen as a scholar around his certain personal traits and some of the key concepts he has been emphasizing over the years to mobilize his audience. Based on a research that covers over seventy books, 564 sermons, over 500 talks by Gülen, more than fifty interviews of his close associates and friends aired on TV networks, and the author''s personal observations, this book is a useful reference for those who study scholarly traditions of Islam in general and Fethullah Gülen in particular.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Race & Ethnicity: Cultural Roles, Spiritual
Book SynopsisThe term race or racial group usually refers to the categorisation of humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics. The physical features commonly seen as indicating race are salient visual traits such as skin colour, cranial or facial features and hair texture. Consequently, an ethnic group is a group of humans whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage that is real or assumed. Ethnic identity is further marked in the recognition from others of a group''s distinctiveness and the recognition of common cultural, linguistic, religious, behavioural traits as indicators of contrast to other groups. Ethnicity is an important means through which people can identify themselves. This book presents and reviews important data on race and ethnicity.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Performances of Asia-Pacific Countries: A New
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Nova Science Publishers Inc USA: United States of Asia -- An Asian Union
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Criminal Justice Support for American Indians:
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Understanding Ethnic Segregation in Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe population of ethnic minorities in Britain has rapidly increased over the last 60 years. The census count indicates that the ethnic population has grown from 3 million in 1991 to 4.6 million in 2001. Issues surrounding ethnic minorities have duly been concerned with education, employment and housing. In 2001, civil unrest erupted in England''s northern mill towns. The inquiries concluded that white and British Asian communities were living parallel lives. This was seen to be a failure within the communities and of social policy. Segregation was cited as a contributory factor. Moreover, in 2005, Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, warned that Britain was sleepwalking into racial segregation, with white, black and British Asian ghettos dividing cities. To tackle the segregation problem, central government introduced the community cohesion policy with the aim of developing a better understanding of shared values between all origins of race, thereby celebrating ethnic diversity in Britain. The aims of this research were to consider whether British Asian communities are segregated and to examine the viability of current central government policy in promoting and securing greater community cohesion. Oldham in Greater Manchester was selected as the focus of the investigation. This research shows that the causes of segregation, in the case study of Oldham, are clearly identified in four key areas. Firstly, historical events over the last 60 years have influenced and shaped the development of segregation between different groups, namely British Asian. Secondly, the economic and social transitions brought about by central government have been instrumental in bringing about segregation. Thirdly, local political control has further contributed to Oldham''s segregation. Finally, participants involved in this research were highly sceptical towards the community cohesion policy introduced in Oldham.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Recent Hispanic Psychological Research on Feeding
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Nova Science Publishers Inc My Brothers Keeper: Improving Outcomes for Boys &
Book SynopsisPresident Obama is taking action to launch My Brother''s Keeper a new initiative to help every boy and young man of color who is willing to do the hard work to get ahead. For decades, opportunity has lagged behind for boys and young men of color. But across the country, communities are adopting approaches to help put these boys and young men on the path to success. As part of the initiative''s launch, the President also established the My Brother''s Keeper Task Force to review public and private sector programs, policies, and strategies and determine ways the Federal Government can better support these efforts, and how to better involve State and local officials, the private sector, and the philanthropic community. This book includes key indicators that will provide a comprehensive view of the environments and outcomes for boys and young men of color and their peers.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc International Perspectives on Race (and Racism):
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together cutting edge research, critical commentary and candid, personal accounts in a rich array of fresh perspectives on the dimensions of race and racism that have been prevalent in many societies (for instance, in education, other sectors of human resource development and mainstream versus minority life experiences). Contributions from countries and settings worldwide illustrate the diversity of experiences and situations regarding race that have existed in a given time period, and the complexity of injustice issues wherein race is one of many interrelated and entwined factors contributing to a situation in a given society. Sub-themes emerge in aspects such as language, religion, gender, age, culture, national origin and immigrant status, migration history, workforce demands and literature. Accounts of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial historical contexts and the accompanying shifts in attitudes and policies toward racial groups, ethnic minority groups, indigenous peoples and other subaltern groups offer readers a view on significant changes in the world regarding diversity and identity issues. These matters are rooted in policy and practices of daily life in the context of globalisation and in comparative perspective across countries. Insider perspectives, personal accounts and author testimonies from inside countries add a valuable personal dimension. Furthermore, this collection brings together cases in a wide range of settings, both in developed countries of the north and in developing countries and post-colonial states of the south, and a spread of perspectives from established scholars as well as new emerging scholars. Collectively, the contributions also focus on efforts to transcend the legacies of racism and injustice, exploitation and exclusion. The different cases reveal universal issues and common threads, and also contextually shaped distinctive features within different countries. The result is a panorama of insights on race and related issues as well as prospects for building post-racial societies, ranging from the global level and the local level within countries to personal dimensions. This collection is distinctive in that all regions of the world are represented, and it includes stories from the corners of the world that are seldom highlighted. This volume is a valuable resource illustrating historical and contemporary research along with thoughts on race and racism issues. While the interdisciplinary fields of Comparative and International Education and Post-Colonial Studies are the primary scholarly areas of focus, because of the interdisciplinary nature of the content, it will interest scholars and readers in a wide spectrum of fields including education, history, political science and policy studies, comparative literature, sociology, culture studies, literature, art, social work, development studies, global studies, third world studies and diversity and multiculturalism studies.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Higher Education of People of Color: Views on
Book SynopsisThe Black College and University Act defined a historically black college and university (HBCU) as one that existed before 1964 with a historic and contemporary mission of educating blacks while being open to all. An HBCU must either have earned accreditation from a nationally recognised accrediting agency or association or be making reasonable progress toward accreditation. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights conducted a briefing on May 5, 2006, to assess the educational effectiveness of HBCUs. This book discusses HBCUs and examines why minority college students who begin their college studies intending to major in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) leave these disciplines in disproportionate numbers before graduation.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Ethnic & Cultural Identity: Perceptions,
Book SynopsisThis book provides the latest research in ethnic and cultural identity. The first chapter examines the relationship between ethnic identity, culture, body dissatisfaction and related disorder eating behaviors among diverse ethnic groups of adolescent and young female adults. The second chapter discusses migrants'' perceptions of intergroup relations and ethnic group statue in the host society. The third chapter provides an overview of research on perceived discrimination, which is considered the most severe stressor for minority individuals given its persuasive impact on health and well-being. The fourth and fifth chapters include discussions on the relationship between openness to experience, ethnocentrism, and ethnic prejudice, and the effects of language policy on ethnic minority language maintenance among a relatively newer community in Manchester. The sixth chapter examines how social, gendered, and economic forces have changed the ways in which family systems create and sustain a familial identity. The second half of the book includes a narrative analysis to explore how a sample of Muslim-identified women attributed meaning to the practice of veiling and the contexts by which women decided to - or not to -wear the hijab; a summary of the results of a qualitative study exploring the influence of discrimination on identity negotiation in transracial international adoptees; provides a review of established health risks to Latino-identifying persons in the United States and successful interventions with various samples; deconstructs the Latin lover stereotype; and finally, maps racial neoliberalism in U.S. popular culture.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Ethnic Minorities: Perceptions, Cultural Barriers
Book SynopsisIntergroup relations are, by definition, a two-way process, yet the perspectives of minority group members have been given considerably less attention than the perspectives of dominant group members in social psychology. For decades, researchers have explored the nature of white Americans'' attitudes, opinions, stereotypes, and behaviors toward African Americans; however, ethnic minorities'' perceptions of white Americans have been grossly understudied. Chapter one of this book on ethnic minorities aims to diversify the perspectives and approaches that psychologists pursue to understand intergroup dynamics by investigating ethnic minorities'' attitudes toward white Americans. The following chapter examines the effects of neighborhood level and individual level characteristics on the attendance of religious services among first-generation Muslim immigrants and native Christians in the Netherlands. Chapter three examines the political representation of minorities on the example of the ethnic Turkish minority in Bulgaria, an unconventional case of minority participation in politics under the liberal democratic model. Chapter four attempts to illustrate how the notion of Hong Kong Chinese Orientalism emerged from the racial hierarchy of white-yellow-black by reviewing the racial and ethnic discourses in China and Hong Kong. Chapter five attempts to construct an analytical survey of the political participation of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong after the region was handed over to China in 1997. The last chapter''s objective is to critically consider the challenge of incorporating discussions of social determinants of health into human subjects research study design; and developing strategies to help racial and ethnic minorities overcome these barriers, in order to increase their enrollment in research studies.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Conflict & Communication: A Changing Asia in a
Book SynopsisFocusing on the themes of conflict, communication, and globalisation, this book provides interdisciplinary studies of modern and contemporary Asia and highlights the latest developments in Asian Studies. Beginning with a discussion on the role of communications, the book offers theoretical and methodological considerations on dealing with conflict and communication. It then explores selfother relationships through an investigation of the ethical structure of responsibility in the context of globalisation. In the following chapters, contributors from China, Germany, Ireland, Japan and South Korea provide a clear grasp of conflicts and communications within and beyond Asia from political, economic and cultural perspectives. They offer insight on a wide range of topics including the Sino-Japanese conflict, the political and ideological struggles between the two Koreas, Asian countries responses to the economic crisis, the World Fair and globalisation, the development of NBA culture in China, and Sino-Western comparison on mother-in-lawdaughter-in-law dynamic. The book concludes that Asias rise should present more opportunities than conflicts and threats, and that it will eventually lead to the emergence of a multipolar world.
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Chicago Review Press We Are the Culture
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Bold Type Books Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood,
Book SynopsisA vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Against a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league then, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public were quick to blame this cohort for the supposed decline of pro basketball, citing drugs, violence, and greed. Basketball became a symbol for post-civil rights America: the rules had changed, allowing more Black people onto the playing field, and now they were ruining everything. Enter Black Ball, a gripping history and corrective in which scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball’s “Dark Ages.” Weaving together a deep knowledge of the game with incisive social analysis, Dr. Runstedtler argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the modern-day NBA. Black players introduced an improvisational style derived from the playground courts of their neighborhoods. They also challenged the team owners’ autocratic power, garnering higher salaries and increased agency. Their skills, style, and savvy laid the foundation for the global popularity and profitability of the league we know today.
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Fulcrum Inc.,US The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial
Book SynopsisThis entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America's early frontiers. This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the western frontier. Among its fascinating accounts are those explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas successfully escaped into the neighboring Indian Territory in Oklahoma. These runaways inspired the idea eventually adopted as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within the states that were in rebellion. Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick; Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary; Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill—and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo. Trade Review"Katz's pioneering volume covers every phase of African-American life out West, from fur trading and homesteading to serving as scouts, guides and explorers to the military campaigns of the Buffalo Soldiers. First published in 1971 and now in its fifth edition, The Black West has an improved photo archive, offering more rare shots of black riders, ropers, cavalry members and ranchers, and includes a fresh section on black women on the last frontierThe Black West provides new information for those fooled by John Wayne films and TV shows like "Gunsmoke" into thinking only whites wielded six-guns and broke broncos." America's Book Review"Bill Katz is one of the few members outside of our community who has made a significant, lasting contribution to it." John Henrik Clarke"'No phase of our national heritage has been portrayed . . . as more typically American than the old West,' Katz writes, 'yet this particular slice of Americana has consistently been pictured as lily-white.' The indefatigable author of more than three-score books about American history, more than a dozen of which treat African American history, Katz sets the record straight in this revised and expanded version of his 1971 edition. The book opens with a brief treatment of the early African presence in the New World and closes with equal brevity in the 1890s as the frontier closes. The substantial middle is peopled by African American pioneers-trappers, mountain men, cowhands, settlers, soldiers, miners, mail-order brides, con men, entrepreneurs and politicians moving west to Colorado, California and all points between. Vignettes about individuals enliven the easy-reading narrative, among them the well-known Dred Scott; Mifflin Gibbs, the nation's first African American judge; the adventurous Cathay Williams, who, masquerading as a man, served in the infantry; and the notorious Rufus Buck Gang that 'took more lives than the infamous Dalton and Starr gangs combined.' Katz's ample inclusion of women is particularly noteworthy, as are the illustrations (on nearly every page) that add to the comprehensiveness of the text." Publishers Weekly"Bill and I have enjoyed a friendship for many years, but we have been so consumed by the volume and uniqueness of our work, that for a while it seemed as though we had met in an earlier life. And maybe we did, for we have been brothers, in the true sense of the word, during most of my important years here in the United States. We, as scholars, have shared visuals, documents, stimulating discussions, and a complex, misunderstood and colorful sense of history, unparalleled by most historians. "Our missions were the same to break the barriers of miseducation and isolation that has characterized the African American's experience on this soil, before and after the arrival of Christopher Columbus." Dr. Ivan Van Sertima"Attractive in appearance, Katz's fluid and reflectively-toned prose is illuminating and consistently engrossing." Dr. Benjamin Quarles". . . an excellent reference for anyone interested in learning about the lives of African Americans & the role they played in the western expansion." Buffalo Soldiers Research Museum"Seeks to break the shackles of conventional American historical categories" Howard Dodson , former director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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Huia Publishers A Hidden Economy: Maori in the Privatised
Book SynopsisThe Maori economy is often defined simply by the contributions of Maori in New Zealand in the areas of farming, fisheries and forestry. This book explores the ways that Maori in the privatised military industry contribute in monetary and non-monetary ways to the Maori economy. Workers in the privatised military industry very rarely, if ever, give interviews about their work or details about their pay. However, this book includes five interviews with Maori who have worked or are still working in the privatised military industry and explores how they articulate themselves as Maori in the industry, giving a glimpse at this secret world and how Maori operate in it.
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Verso Books We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration
Book SynopsisWhat are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain? Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ian Sanjay Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. In a series of post-war immigration laws, Britain's colonial and Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa were renamed immigrants. In the late 1960s, British officials drew upon an imperial vision of the world to contain what it saw as a vast immigration 'crisis' involving British citizens, passing legislation to block their entry. As a result, British citizenship itself was redefined along racial lines, fatally compromising the Commonwealth and exposing the limits of Britain's influence in world politics. Combining voices of so-called immigrants trying to make a home in Britain and the politicians, diplomats and commentators who were rethinking the nation, Ian Sanjay Patel excavates the reasons why Britain failed to create a post-imperial national identity. The reactions of the British state to post-war immigration reflected the shift in world politics from empires to decolonization. Despite a new international recognition of racial equality, Britain's colonial and Commonwealth citizens were subject to a new regime of immigration control based on race. From the Windrush generation who came to Britain from the Caribbean to the South Asians who were forced to migrate from East Africa, Britain was caught between attempting both to restrict the rights of its non-white colonial and Commonwealth citizens and redefine its imperial role in the world. Despite Britain's desire to join Europe, which eventually occurred in 1973, its post-imperial moment never arrived, subject to endless deferral and reinvention.Trade ReviewThe contemporary politics of belonging and immigration - Ian Sanjay Patel shows in this stunning history - make no sense except against the backdrop of centuries of empire, and the decades at its messy end when British identity was refashioned. We're Here Because You Were There expertly revisits how the claim and incentive to move beyond empire followed only upon the erection of colonial hierarchy and racialized exclusion, factors which were strengthened in forgotten eras of imperial citizenship and Commonwealth unity. This book boldly and convincingly lays down a new starting point for debate today. -- Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal WorldThis is an extraordinary and important book. It is powerful, principled and courageous, a necessary and vital disquisition on the continuing legacies of colonialism and the mindset of its making and perpetuation in the modern, brutish Britain we seem to inhabit. -- Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetCombining startling new research with a clear and convincing argument, this shows just how essential the history of migration and race is to understanding Britain today. -- Daniel Trilling, author of Lights in the DistanceMany studies of immigration suffer from two weaknesses. They discuss it in isolation from a discussion of national identity, and treat it as a domestic issue that can be analysed and explained in terms of domestic constraints and compulsions. Patel's new book is happily free from these, and offers a historically rich and conceptually rigorous study of post-1945 immigration to the U.K., especially that of East African Asians. He locates it in Britain's imperial context and traces with great skill the debate on Britain's self-understanding that it sprang from and influenced. This is a first-rate book and deserves to be widely read. -- Bhikhu Parekh, author of Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political TheoryPatel provides some much-needed context for one of the world's most contentious and vexed subjects of debate: immigration. From the legal architecture designed to make life impossible for foreigners both a century ago and today, to the hypocrisies of British officials bent on shutting out those forced from their homes, Patel succinctly and eloquently explains the long-lasting consequences of empire: how countless lives were irrevocably altered by mandarins in Whitehall offices, and the related suffering that continues into the present day. -- Dr Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious EmpirePatel provides an indispensable and urgently relevant account of immigration and the end of empire that reveals the mirage-like quality of the very concepts through which we typically understand postwar Britain. Situating the arrival of nonwhite people in Britain in an intra-imperial context, this bravely and innovatively wide-ranging account shows that neither were they immigrants, nor was Britain ending empire. Their arrival was a phenomenon of continuity rather than a dramatic break with the past. With a compassionate authorial voice, Patel captures the trauma of unbelonging and of racist gatekeeping of the planet against a backdrop of continuous, untrammeled British emigration. This carefully researched book is testimony to history's astonishing power to change how we understand the world we inhabit by dispelling the myths that obscure truth. -- Priya Satia, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University and author of Time's MonsterDebates about immigration in the immediate post-war decades, argues Ian Sanjay Patel in his provocative and important new book, were really about Britain's relation to changes in the outside world and to itself. He tells a story rooted both in the experience of migrants and in the archives of officials and politicians, at home, in the UN, and in the new postcolonial states. An idea of empire rooted in white power and colonial subjection was rearticulated for global times. Both Conservative and Labour governments utilized the law to establish a race-based set of rights for contemporary Britain. -- Catherine Hall, author of Civilising SubjectsIan Sanjay Patel's meticulously researched book shows how vital it is to understand the effects of the legacies of empire on the history of migration, and our understanding of race and belonging in modern Britain. It is an essential book for our times. -- Kavita Puri, author of Partition VoicesA book of rare importance. Ian Sanjay Patel masterfully traces the long shadow cast by Empire over Britain's recent history, and its present. -- Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, OxfordGroundbreaking . undoubtedly a landmark contribution. -- David Wearing * Tribune *Deeply impressed by this book. Expands upon many of the observations I make about multiculturalism in Empireland with real authority. Wish I'd been given it at school -- Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland[Patel] reminds us that the British Empire and imperial thinking lasted much longer than is generally understood ... insightful -- Rohan Venkataramakrishnan * Scroll *A book that leaves you with much food for thought, and confirms your darkest imaginings about the days of empire and the present world order it has evolved into. -- Peggy Mohan * The Wire *This [book's] broad but telling analytical framework, combined with impressive archival research, enables [Ian Sanjay Patel] to deliver what I take to be the most compelling account of the long history of Britain's immigration laws, from 1905 to the present. It's a book that leaves me full of wonder and admiration. -- Bill Schwarz * New West Indian Guide *Patel's book - with its wonderful title - has opened a new perspective on Britain's imperial past ... nobody has produced a more astute obituary of a progressive British idealism that believed itself uniquely gifted in world governance -- Neal Ascherson * London Review of Books *The best possible guide to an essential history. -- Sathnam Sanghera * BBC History Magazine *It is the signal achievement of We're Here Because You Were There to bring fresh and clear eyes to a subject many may think they know already ... scholarly, insightful and fluent -- David Feldman * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
£19.00
Biteback Publishing The 'R' Word
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
£9.50
Spinifex Press Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Persective
Book SynopsisA moving and often amusing collection of fiction, poetry and autobiography by top-selling and award-winning authors. Tales of blood and bloodlines – Irish grandmothers, ma’s and da’s, the Famine and the Troubles. Whatever the form, these are the stories, the music, the whispering dreams and the voices that ache to be heard. There is wildness and daring in these voices. They call up legions out of the sea and set fires alight. They hang out over garden fences, move restlessly, are dotey, beaming, weeping, powerful.Trade Review"A nice big fat value-for-money anthology with an extremely broad range." --Margie Cronin, "Refractory Girl
£13.46
Spinifex Press Goja
Book SynopsisI had thought once that I felt most at home in a plane in mid-air, but that isn’t true. I belong to India and to the West. Both belong to me and both reject me. I have to make sense of what has been and what there is.Suniti Namjoshi traverses the cultures of the East and of the West. She muses on the patterns of her life, and of the impact of colonisation, both the resistances and the acceptances of it. Growing up a princess in the ruling house of Maharashtra, the two most important relationships in her life were with her grandmother, the Ranisaheb, and with Goja, the servant woman who slept beside her bed.When she was ten her test pilot father was killed in an air accident and Suniti was sent away to boarding school. After working in the Indian Civil Service for some years, she decided that she wanted to be a poet and she moved to the West. In the US and Canada she became just another brown-skinned immigrant without the privileges of her childhood.Trade Review"Suniti Namjoshi is an inspired fabulist." --Marina Warner
£13.46
