Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Columbia University Press Can the Subaltern Speak
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Rosalind C. Morris Part 1 Text "Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Subaltern Studies after Spivak, by Partha Chatterjee Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History, by Ritu Birla The Ethnical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention, by Drucilla Cornell Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing: Death and the Subaltern Death and the Subaltern, by Rajeswawri Sunder Rajan Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery, by Abdul JanMohamed Subalterns at War, by Michele Barrett Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor, by Pheng Cheah Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico, by Jean Franco Part 5 In Response In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Appendix Can the Subaltern Speak? Bibliography Contributors Index
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University of Illinois Press A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil
Book SynopsisChronicling the development of Randolph's political and racial ideologyTrade Review"Bynum focuses on Randolph’s career in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s, when he was formulating his ideas on social justice, race, and class. . . . The result is a deeper look at the ideals that drove Randolph."--Booklist"Bynum does an excellent job of discussing Randolph's attempts to secure bargaining for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. In doing so, he exposes the shameful behavior of the union movement in its unwillingness to accept blacks."--Labor Studies Journal"Bynum's well-researched monograph makes a useful contribution to the growing body of literature on the 'long' civil rights movement."--The Journal of American History"An intriguing intellectual history."--The Journal of Southern History"Bynum's book is lucid and an excellent work that can be used for both academic research and casual reading. . . . Bynum's research has opened a window to new scholarship on Randolph's thinking, his role in the civil rights movement, and his demands for accountability from the U.S. government."--H-1960s"Relating Randolph's racial, economic, and political thought to his efforts to address injustice, Bynum does an excellent job of positioning Randolph's ideology with that of his contemporaries on the political left. This study is ideal for students and scholars of twentieth-century African American history, labor history, and race relations."--Cary D. Wintz, editor of African American Political Thought, 1890–1930: Washington, Du Bois, Garvey, and RandolpTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ixPart 1. Building Black Identity at the Turn of the Century 1. A. Philip Randolph, Racial Identity, and Family Relations: Tracing the Development of a Racial Self-Concept 3 2. Religious Faith and Black Empowerment: The AME Church and Randolph's Racial Identity and View of Social Justice 24Part 2. Constructing Class Consciousness in the Jazz Age 3. Black Radicalism in Harlem: Randolph's Racial and Political Consciousness 47 4. Crossing the Color Line: Randolph's Transition from Race to Class Consciousness 63Part 3. The Rise of the New Crowd Negroes 5. A New Crowd, A New Negro: The Messenger and New Negro Ideology in the 1920s 85 6. Black and White Unite: Randolph and the Divide between Class Theory and the Race Problem 101Part 4. Blending Race and Class 7 Ridin' the Rails: Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters' Struggle for Union Recognition 119 8. Where Class Consciousness Falls Short: Randolph and the Brotherhood's Standing in the House of Labor 136 9. Marching Toward Fair Employment: Randolph, the Race/Class Connection, and the March on Washington Movement 157 Epilogue: A. Philip Randolph's Reconciliation of Race and Class in African American Protest Politics 185 Notes 201 Bibliography 227 Index 237Illustrations follow page 82
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University of Illinois Press Mojo Workin The Old African American Hoodoo
Book SynopsisA bold new reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practiceTrade Review"Mojo Workin' is a key contribution to the study of Hoodoo in America, with some energizing new ideas about its origins, early expression, and broader religious aspects."--Journal of American Folklore"Hazzard-Donald set out to demonstrate the need to include African American Hoodoo in the study of African American religion in the New World. The search she presents in her work clearly validates the belief that there is a strong connection between African American Hoodoo and African American religion. . . . The author provides a great deal of research and analysis that is sure to aid scholars, students, and enthusiasts."--Journal of Folklore Research "Hazzard-Donald's formulation of Hoodoo's evolution represents a new chronology for its study and transformation over time. It's a valuable contribution to the growing number of volumes concerned with African-based traditional spiritual beliefs in the New World."--American Studies"A powerful reinterpretation of African American Hoodoo. This comprehensive volume will be an important tool for anyone interested in African American folk belief and the supernatural."--Jerrilyn McGregory, author of Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country"This tradition has been little studied especially within the fields of religious studies. Instead it has been left to anthropologists, sociologists, and certain popular cultural reports to present what have been incomplete and often offensive materials. This work has done an exemplary job of correcting that lacuna… A significant contribution to the literature of African-based traditions in the United States." --Religious Studies Review"The book presents possibilities for reassessing some misunderstood aspects of the African American religious experience. It is with a profound respect for Hoodoo as a living practice that Hazzard-Donald brings a kind of moral authority to her scholarship. In so doing she also distills many of the polarizing dynamics present in Hoodoo-Conjure communities today."--Nova Religio
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Indiana University Press Hypersexuality and Headscarves
Book SynopsisDiscusses the politics of multiculturalism, citizenship and exclusionTrade Review[T]his book is an important addition to scholarship on citizenship and minority inclusion/exclusion in Europe, adding a much-needed perspective on Germany to a field dominated by work on Britain and France. It is highly readable: Partridge has an easy, engaging style that makes the book eminently suitable for undergraduates, in addition to graduate students and specialists. * German Studies Review *Hypersexuality and Headscarves is a critical analysis of the dynamics of race and citizenship in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With this highly original investigation, Partridge offers an important contribution to the study of race in Germany. * Reviews & Critical Commentary *[This] book's impressive ethnographic breadth thus serves to convey just how varied, pervasive, and entrenched the mechanisms of exclusion are in Germany. . . Taken as a whole, Partridge's portrait of exclusion in Germany is an illuminating and damning one. August 2013 * AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologueIntroduction: Becoming Noncitizens1. Ethno-patriarchal Returns: The Fall of the Wall, Closed Factories, and Leftover Bodies2. Travel as an Analytic of Exclusion: The Politics of Mobility after the Wall3. We Were Dancing in the Club, Not on the Berlin Wall: Black Bodies, Street Bureaucrats, and Hypersexual Returns4. The Progeny of Guest Workers as Leftover Bodies: Post-Wall West German Schools and the Administration of Failure5. Why Can't You Just Remove Your Headscarf So We Can See You? Reappropriating "Foreign" Bodies in the New GermanyConclusion: Intervening at the Sites of Exclusionary Production Epilogue: Triangulated (Non)Citizenship: Memories and Futures of Racialized ProductionNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Texas Press To Alcatraz Death Row and Back
Book SynopsisA graphic, insider’s account of doing time in Alcatraz and on death row in San Quentin.Trade Review"This is an absolutely riveting read... This book has the potential to become a classic." James T. Campbell, Associate Professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies, and History, Brown UniversityTable of Contents Introduction Part I: Education One. The Judgment against Me Two. My Formal Education Three. The Federal Case Four. Escape Five. Freeman's Revenge Six. Returned and Resentenced Part II: Training Seven. The Welcome Wagon Eight. Isolation Nine. Escape from Alcatraz Ten. The "Riot" of '46 Eleven. "What About the Plum Juice?" Twelve. My Life as a Free Man Part III: Survival Thirteen. Haunted by Alcatraz Fourteen. Judgment Once More Fifteen. Condemned Sixteen. My Fight for Life Epilogue Afterword Works Cited
£17.99
Yale University Press Gershom Scholem
Book SynopsisTrade Review“David Biale’s ability to capture and illuminate a 'life' in its full and manifold aspects for so complex and multi-faceted a man is a major achievement. A superb, much-awaited biography.”—Steven Aschheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Yale University Press Black Artists in America
Book SynopsisExploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White
£28.50
The University of Michigan Press John Coltrane His Life and Music
Book SynopsisJohn Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely emotional force. This biography presents interviews with Coltrane, photos, genealogical documents, and musical analysis that offers a fresh view of Coltrane's genius. It explores the events of Coltrane's life and offers an insightful look into his musical practices.
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University of California Press Toward a Definition of Antisemitism
Book SynopsisOffers contributions to the history of antisemitism. Of interest to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious studies, this work summarizes the historical developments, indicating when and where antisemitism emerged. It criticizes theories about prejudice and racism and develops theory about the nature and dynamics of antisemitism.Table of ContentsPart I. HISTORIOGRAPHY 1. Majority History and Post-Biblical Jews 2. Tradition, History, and Prejudice Part II. ANTI-JUDAISM 3. Anti-Judaism as the Necessary Preparation for Antisemitism 4. The Transformation of Anti-Judaism 5. Doubt in Christendom Part III. JEWISH LEGAL STATUS 6. "Judei nostri" and the Beginning of Capetian Legislation 7. "Tanquam servi": The Change in Jewish Legal Status in French Law about 1200 Part IV. IRRATIONAL FANTASIES 8. Peter the Venerable: Defense Against Doubts 9. Thomas of Monmouth: Detector of Ritual Murder 10. The Knight's Tale of Young Hugh Lincoln 11. Ritual Cannibalism 12. Historiographic Crucifixion Part V. ANTISEMITISM 13. Medieval Antisemitism 14. Toward a Definition of Antisemitism
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University of California Press Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons
Book SynopsisGathers Garvey's speeches and essays about Black pride.
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University of California Press Mi Raza Primero My People First Nationalism
Book SynopsisExamines the Chicano movement's development in Los Angeles, home of the largest population of people of Mexican descent outside of Mexico City. This book focuses on four organizations that constituted the heart of the movement: the Brown Berets, the Chicano Moratorium Committee, La Raza Unida Party, and the Centro de Accion Social Autonomo.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "Those Times of Revolution" 1. "A Movable Object Meeting an Irresistible Force": Los Angeles's Ethnic Mexican Community in the 1950s and Early 1960s 2. "Birth of A New Symbol": The Brown Berets 3. "Chale No, We Won't Go!": The Chicano Moratorium Committee 4. "The Voice of the Chicano People": La Raza Unida Party 5. "Un Pueblo Sin Fronteras": The Centro de Accion Social Autonomo (CASA) Afterword: "Why Are We Not Marching Like in the '70s?" Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press WorkingClass White The Making and Unmaking of
Book SynopsisProvides a view of the experience of race in urban America from the corner store. This study aims to illuminate the cues and misunderstandings that make up race relations in urban communities, explore how racial interactions and racial identity are influenced by local context, and provide evidence of anti-black prejudice among white Americans.Trade Review"Fresh and thought-provoking. McDermott contributes to the understanding of how even small daily encounters can be powerfully affected by racial stereotypes and preconceptions." - Julia Wrigley, author of Other People's Children"Table of ContentsList of Tables vii Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1. The Cities and the Sites: "The Crescent" in Atlanta and "Greenfield" in Boston 19 Chapter 2. Experiences of White Racial Identity 38 Chapter 3. Situational Contexts and Perceptions of Prejudice 59 Chapter 4. The Implications of Diversity among Blacks for White Attitudes 79 Chapter 5. Race, Crime, and Violence 104 Chapter 6. Race, Gender, and Sexuality 130 Conclusion 148 Appendix 1. Cashiers, Neighbors, and Regular Customers 157 Appendix 2. Notes on Methodology 159 Notes 163 References 167 Index 187
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University of California Press American History Unbound
Book SynopsisFocussing on a survey of US history from its beginnings, this book reveals our past through the lens of Asian American and Pacific Islander history.Trade Review"...American History Unbound offers extremely important approaches to rethinking the history of the United States, and takes its place in the recent trend of a globally aligned (US) historiography that questions the construct of, and attempts to break the concept of the 'American Nation.'" -- Robert Kramm-Masaoka H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. WORLD HISTORY 1. Ocean Worlds 2. The World-System 3. The United States 4. Imperial Republic PART 2. MIGRANT LABOR 5. Hawai'i 6. California 7. Northwest, Northeast, South, and North PART 3. DEPENDENCY 8. Dependent Hawai'i 9. San Francisco 10. Seattle, New York City, Chicago PART 4. WARS AND REALIGNMENTS 11. World War II 12. Militarized Zones 13. Global Transits 14. Regenerations Notes Index
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University of California Press Jack Johnson Rebel Sojourner
Book SynopsisIn his day, Jack Johnson - born in Texas, the son of former slaves - was the most famous black man on the planet. As the first African American World Heavy weight Champion (1908-1915), he publicly challenged white supremacy at home and abroad, enjoying the same audacious lifestyle of conspicuous consumption, and masculine bravado.Trade Review"This book is a must-have addition to any boxing fan's library." -- Glenn Wilson Boxing News "Runstedtler brings new perspectives to bear in Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner... it's well worth the read." -- Thomas Hauser The Ring "Runstedtler presents an unexpected yet wholly authentic take on the great African American boxer, Jack Johnson." -- Alan Moores Booklist "A fascinating must-read for students of African American or American studies covering the early 1900s." -- Jim Burns Library Journal "My nominee for book of the year by a rising young scholar... For anyone interested in colonialism, imperialism, race, and the global impact of sport, this book is a must read." -- Mark Naison With A Brooklyn Accent "A thoroughly researched, scholarly study, meant to be read slowly and considered deeply... Highly recommended for all readers." -- R. W. Roberts, Purdue University ChoiceTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Sparring Nations, Global Problem Introduction: Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner 1. Embodying Empire: Jack Johnson and the White Pacific 2. White Censors, Dark Screens: The Jeffries-Johnson Fight Film Controversy 3. Jack Johnson versus John Bull: The Rise of the British Boxing Colour Bar 4. The Black Atlantic from Below: African American Boxers and the Search for Exile 5. Trading Race: Black Bodies and French Regeneration 6. Viva Johnson! Fighting over Race in the Americas 7. The Empire Strikes Back: The "French Jack Johnson" and the Rising Tide of Color Epilogue: Visible Men, Harmless Icons Notes Bibliography Index
£21.25
University of California Press The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr. Volume VII
Book SynopsisProvides a glimpse into Martin Luther King's early relationship with President John F Kennedy and his efforts to remain relevant in a protest movement growing increasingly massive and militant.Trade Review"An essential read for students of King." -- Hope Wabuke The Root "A definitive collection of interviews, speeches, and correspondence." THE BEST BOOKS ABOUT THE VOLATILE '60S -- Scott Porch Daily Beast "Carson has dedicated his life's work to recovering the authentic voice of King, and in this latest volume, he and Armstrong capture King's life through a multifaceted approach, including a detailed chronology of King's life, a calendar of documents accompanied with select photographs, and documents resuscitating the dogged determination of the civil rights leader. This volume creates a word picture of the era in which King lived, and the reproductions of handwritten notes also give a textured feel to the intellectual evolution of King. The annotation of people, places, and events is exhaustive and good roughage for students, scholars, and interested laypersons... provide[s] an educational moment for all persons interested in truth, justice, history, and knowledge." -- Ida E. Jones Washington Independent Review of BooksTable of ContentsList of Papers List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology Editorial Principles and Practices List of Abbreviations Photographs The Papers Calendar of Documents Index
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University of California Press The JeanMichel Basquiat Reader Writings
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This comprehensive survey should be required reading for contemporary art and African American history connoisseurs alike." * Publishers Weekly *"If Basquiat’s ultimate fate in the annals of art history remains unknown, it is Saggese’s Reader to which the future will turn for guidance as she expertly maps out the historical territory." * Rain Taxi Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT IN HIS OWN WORDS Interview by Marc H. Miller, 1982 Interview by Henry Geldzahler, 1982 Interview by Lisa Licitra Ponti, 1983 Interview by Geoff Dunlop and Sandy Nairne, 1985 Interview by Becky Johnston and Tamra Davis, 1985 Interview by Démosthènes Davvetas, 1985–1988 Interview by Isabelle Graw, 1986 BASQUIAT'S LANGUAGE Texts by Jean-Michel Basquiat CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM AND COMMENTARY The Radiant Child Rene Ricard, 1981 Schnabel and Basquiat: Explosions and Chaos Hunter Drohojowska, 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeffrey Deitch, 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat at Annina Nosei Lisa Liebmann, 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat at Fun Gallery Susan Hapgood, 1983 Black Picasso and the Lie Detector Diego Cortez, 1983 New Kid on the (Auction) Block Ellen Lubell, 1984 Jean-Michel Basquiat Kate Linker, 1984 Jean-Michel Basquiat at Boone/Werner Nicolas A. Moufarrege, 1984 New Art, New Money: The Marketing of an American Artist Cathleen McGuigan, 1985 Activating Heaven: The Incantatory Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat Robert Farris Thompson, 1985 Art: Basquiat, Warhol Vivien Raynor, 1985 Andy Warhol/Jean-Michel Basquiat Robert Mahoney, 1985 Andy Warhol/Jean-Michel Basquiat Ronald Jones, 1986 Jean-Michel Basquiat Barry Schwabsky, 1986 KNOWING BASQUIAT Interviews by Jordana Moore Saggese Michael Holman, 2007 Suzanne Mallouk, 2008 Bruno Bischofberger, 2010 Robert Farris Thompson, 2011 Dieter Buchhart, 2019 Erika Belle, 2019 Diego Cortez, 2019 THE AFTERLIFE OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT Jean Basquiat, 27, an Artist of Words and Angular Images Constance L. Hays, 1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1960–1988 Hilton Als, 1988 Martyr without a Cause Peter Schjeldahl, 1988 Remembering Basquiat Keith Haring, 1988 Requiem for a Featherweight: The Sad Story of an Artist's Success Robert Hughes, 1988 New York: More Post-Modern Than Primitive Gregory Galligan, 1988 Saint Jean-Michel Frederick Ted Castle, 1989 Nobody Loves a Genius Child: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lonesome Flyboy in the '80s Art Boom Buttermilk Greg Tate, 1989 Welcome to the Terrordome: Jean-Michel Basquiat and the "Dark" Side of Hybridity Dick Hebdige, 1992 Royal Slumming: Jean-Michel Basquiat Here Below Thomas McEvilley, 1992 Altars of Sacrifice: Re-membering Basquiat bell hooks, 1993 A Day at the Races: Lorraine O’Grady on Basquiat and the Black Art World Lorraine O’Grady, 1993 Tip-Tapping on a Tightrope Franklin Sirmans, 1994 Famous and Dandy like B. 'n' Andy: Race, Pop, and Basquiat José Esteban Muñoz, 1996 Lost in Translation: Jean-Michel in the (Re)Mix Kellie Jones, 2005 Basquiat's Poetics Christopher Stackhouse, 2015 Chronology List of Illustration Credits Index
£64.00
University of California Press Transborder Los Angeles
Book SynopsisFocusing on Los Angeles farmland during the years between the Immigration Act of 1924 and the Japanese Internment in 1942, Transborder Los Angeles weaves together the narratives of Mexican and Japanese immigrants into a single transpacific history. In this book, Yu Tokunaga moves from international relations between Japan, Mexico, and the US to the Southern California farmland, where ethnic Japanese and Mexicans played a significant role in developing local agriculture, one of the major industries of LA County before World War II. Japanese, Mexicans, and white Americans developed a unique triracial hierarchy in farmland that generated both conflict and interethnic accommodation by bringing together local issues and international concerns beyond the Pacific Ocean and the US-Mexico border. Viewing these experiences in a single narrative form, Tokunaga breaks new ground, demonstrating the close relationships between the ban on Japanese immigration, Mexican farmworkers' strikes, wartime JaTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Exploring Japanese-Mexican Relations in Los Angeles and the US-Mexico Borderlands 1. The 1924 Immigration Act and Its Unintended Consequence in the US-Mexico Borderlands 2. The Deepening of Japanese-Mexican Relations in Triracial Los Angeles 3. Transpacific Borderlands: Japanese Farmers and Mexican Workers in the 1933 El Monte Berry Strike 4. Ethnic Solidarity or Interethnic Accommodation: The 1936 Venice Celery Strike 5. Japanese Internment as an Agricultural Labor Crisis: Wartime Debates over Food Security versus Military Necessity 6. Enduring Interethnic Trust in Rancho San Pedro Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£21.25
University of California Press Nakba and Survival
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine.Nakba and Survivaltells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galileeduring, and in the decade after, massdispossession.Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and memories to meticulously reconstruct the social history of the Palestinians who remained and returned to become Israeli citizens. This book focuses in particular on the Galilee, using the story of Manna's own family and their village Majd al-Krum after the establishment of Israel to shed light on the cruelties faced by survivors of the military regime. While scholars of the Palestinian national movement have often studied Palestinian resistance to Israel as related to the armed struggle and the cultural struggle against the Jewish state, Manna shows that remaining in Israel under the brutality of occupation and fighting to return to Palestinian communities after displacement are acts of heroism in their own right. The Institute for Palestine Studies extends our sincere appreciation to Samir Abdulhadi for his generous support of the translation and publication of this book. Translation byJenab Tutunji.
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University of California Press A Landscape of War
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The staying power of this book is how it models a way to think outside accumulated disasters as discrete events, how to use ethnography to render life under a constant state of precarity and violence. Khayyat’s approach, ethnographic sensitivity, and relentless focus on “living with” rather than “living despite” scale up and apply broadly to accumulated crisis in both other locales and on a planetary scale." * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"A Landscape of War is a rich and daring ethnography. Ethically and politically committed to honoring the terms through which her interlocutors understand their vital and lethal environments, Khayyat conceptualizes war as a place of life and reclaims resistance as political action, highlighting its ordinary and relational nature. . . . a powerful and necessary meditation on the domesticity of war: war as something that is managed and that can be (to a certain extent) tamed, as well as a space that is inhabited, that bitterly becomes home." * Current Anthropology *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Prelude: Warlight Acknowledgments Note on Language and the Text Introduction: War, from the South 1. A Brief History of War in South Lebanon 2. Battle/field 3. The Bitter Crop 4. How to Live (and Die) in an Explosive Landscape 5. Maskun, or Nature’s Resistance 6. The Gray Zone Conclusion: Life as War Coda: A Marriage in Galilee Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Nuclear Ghost
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Introduction 1 • Naming the Nuclear Ghosts 2 • Spirited Away 3 • Kaleidoscopic Harm 4 • The Compensation Game 5 • Radioactive Mosquitos and the Science of Half-Lives 6 • Between Fūhyō and Fūka 7 • Frecon Baggu and the Archive of (Half-)Lives 8 • In Search of the Invisible 9 • A Wild Boar Chase Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Postcolonial African Philosophy
Book SynopsisPostcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader sets out a timely and powerful agenda for contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American philosophy.Trade Review"We are indeed blessed to have Eze's up-to-date and magnificent anthology. It brings together some of the most stimulating texts of African philosophy. Its ambitious effort will serve well all those interested in African Studies and students and professionals of philosophy in general." V. Y. Mudimbe, Stanford University " Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze has assembled a collection of essays that will be a most substantial contribution to making the case for African philosophy. Not just by the persuasiveness of each argument, but, as well, by virtue of each person who contributes to the effort. One important effect will be to further the development of African philosophy by moving the discussion well beyond the potential danger of confinement within improper conceptions of raciality not simply by attacking racialized thought, but via the constitutive activities of the contributors. This collection is, then, to be read and pondered in a number of respects in order to appreciate fully the very important contribution it is. " Professor Lucius Outlaw, Haverford CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Philosophy and the (post) Colonial: Emmanuel Chuckwudi Eze (Bucknell University). 1. Philosophy, Culture and Technology in the Postcolonial: Kwame Gyekye (University of Ghana). 2. Is Modern Science a European System of Knowledge?: Sandra Harding (University of Delaware). 3. African Philosophy and Modernity: Peter Amato (Fordham University). 4. The Color of Reason: The Idea of Race in Kant's Anthropology: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Bucknell University). 5. The Critique of Eurocentrism and the Practice of African Philosophy: Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College). 6. Critic of Boers or Africans? Arendt's Treatment of South Africa in Origins of Totalitarianism: Gail Presby (Marist College). 7. African Philosophy's Challenge to Continental Philosophy: Robert Bernasconi (Memphis University). 8. Understanding African Philosophy from a Non-African Point of View: An Exercise in Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Richard Bell (College of Wooster). 9. Alterity, Dialogue, and African Philosophy: Bruce Janz (Augustana University College). 10. Tragic Dimensions of our Neocolonial 'Postcolonial World': Lewis Gordon (Purdue University). 11. Honor, Eunuchs, and the Postcolonial Subject: Leonard Harris (Purdue University). 12. Post-Philosophy and the Post-Colonial: John Pittman (John Jay College of Criminal Justice). 13. African Philosophy and the Post-Colonial: Some Misleading Abstractions about 'Identity': D. A. Masolo (Antioch College). 14. Democracy and Consensus in African Traditional Politics: A Plea for Non-Party Polity: Kwasi Wiredu (University of South Florida). 15. Of the Good use of Tradition: Keeping the Critical Perspective in African Philosophy: Jean-Marie Makang (University of Maryland). 16. Toward a Critical Theory of African (Post) Colonial Identities: Emmanuel Chuckwudi Eze (Bucknell University). Bibliography.
£36.86
Harvard University Press The Palestinian People
Book SynopsisThe authors offer a balanced, authoritative account of the history of the Palestinian people from their modern origins to the Oslo peace process and beyond. They unravel what went right—and what went wrong—in the process, and what lessons we can draw about the forces that help to shape a people.Trade ReviewThis remarkable book recounts how the Palestinians came to be constituted as a people. The authors offer perceptive observations on the status of Palestinian citizens of Israel, the successes and failures of the Oslo process, and the prospects for both Palestinians and Israelis of achieving a peaceful future together. A dispassionate and balanced analysis that provides essential background for understanding the complexities of the Middle East. -- Rashid Khalidi, University of ChicagoA fine general history of the Palestinians now usefully updated with a history of the decade after Oslo. -- L. Carl Brown * Foreign Affairs *This new history updates [Baruch Kimmerling's and Joel S. Midgdal's] 1993 book, Palestinians: The Making of a People, with two new analyses, one judging the effect of the Oslo peace talks and another focusing on the difficult situation of the Palestinians in Israel In their preface, the authors immediate reject both the common claim by Palestinians that their history as a "singular people" reaches back to ancient times and the Israeli denial of any such entity before it was created by Zionist successes. Instead a "self-identified Palestinian people" evolved only in the last two centuries, as a result of European economic and political pressures and of Jewish settlement An excellent chronology and full notes enhance a book that deserves the widest possible readership. -- Frank Day * Magill's Literary Annual *Table of ContentsMaps Preface Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction PART ONE FROM REVOLT TO REVOLT:THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE EUROPEAN WORLD AND ZIONISM 1. The Revolt of 1834 and the Making of Modern Palestine 2. The City: Between Nablus and Jaffa 3. Jerusalem: Notables and Nationalism 4. The Arab Revolt, 1936-1939 PART TWO DISPERSAL 5. The Meaning of Disaster PART THREE RECONSTITUTING THE PALESTINIAN NATION 6. Odd Man Out: Arabs in Israel 7. Dispersal, 1948-1967 8. The Feday: Rebirth and Resistance 9. Steering a Path under Occupation PART FOUR ABORTIVE RECONCILIATION 10. The Oslo Process: What Went Right? 11. The Oslo Process: What Went Wrong? Conclusion Chronological List of Major Events Notes Index
£24.26
Harvard University, Asia Center Down a Narrow Road
Book SynopsisThe narrative is framed around the terms identity, community, and masculinity. As the author shows, the Uyghurs of Yining, a city in the Xinjiang region of China, express a set of individual and collective identities organized around place, gender, family relations, friendships, occupation, and religious practice.Trade ReviewThe book...refreshingly opts to describe more than it analyzes. While other excellent treatments of Uighur culture...have focused on history and ethnonationalism, Mr. Dautcher seeks to evoke Uighur culture as precisely as possible in the time and place he experienced it. A humanizing picture of the ethnic minority and the day-to-day conflicts between Uighurs and Han emerges as the reader is confronted with numerous first-hand sources and anecdotes...The value of Mr. Dautcher's ethnography extends beyond its illustrations of Han-Uighur tensions in the region...Down a Narrow Road helps to establish a foundation for understanding that might yet blossom into international awareness and activism similar to that enjoyed by the Tibetan movement in past years. -- Paul Mozur * Far Eastern Economic Times *
£28.86
Harvard University Press Transformation of the African American
Book SynopsisAfter Reconstruction, African Americans found themselves largely excluded from politics, higher education, and the professions. Martin Kilson explores how a modern African American intelligentsia developed amid institutionalized racism. He argues passionately for an ongoing commitment to communitarian leadership in the tradition of Du Bois.Trade ReviewA sweeping yet provocative account of the history of the African American intellectual elite. -- Touré F. Reed * Journal of American History *A passionate argument for the ongoing necessity of Black leaders in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois…Kilson also asserts that a revival of commitment to communitarian leadership is essential for the continued pursuit of justice at home and around the world. * Journal for Pan African Studies *Kilson issues a bracing call to arms in which African American scholars re-embrace a ‘Du Bosian moral leadership obligation’…His description of current conditions of our brick-and-mortar intellectual establishment—in which prisons have a greater custodial and educational function than schools—is detailed, damning, and up to date. -- Ben Keppel * Reviews in American History *
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Harvard University Press A Chosen Exile
Book SynopsisCountless African Americans have passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile. This history of passing explores the possibilities, challenges, and losses that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions.Trade Review[An] incisive cultural history… [Hobbs] takes nothing at face value—least of all the idea that the person who is passing is actually and truly of one race or the other… [A] critically vigilant work. -- Danzy Senna * New York Times Book Review *A book that is at once literary, cultural, archival and social, crossing the borders of various approaches to the study of history in order to create a collage of a fascinating yet elusive phenomenon. Intrigued by the story of a distant relative who crosses the color line, Hobbs has followed this interest to explore the practice of passing with detail and rigor. Her writing is elegant, bubbling with curiosity even as it is authoritative and revelatory. -- Imani Perry * San Francisco Chronicle *The book is an admirable effort to catalogue the myriad classifications of race in America, to develop a taxonomy of biases that endure even as the country’s complexion changes. -- Joshua Cohen * Harper’s *[An] excellent book… Hobbs populates her book with figures from the past who expose the motivations for ‘passing’ as white, and the costs. Necessarily, Hobbs writes, passing involves erasure: gradations gone, subtleties of color and culture reduced to black and white. What’s lost in the process: families and friends, a sense of belonging. A Chosen Exile illuminates those losses with acuity, rigor, and compassion. -- Julie Orringer * Paris Review *Hobbs provides fresh analysis of an oft-ignored phenomenon, and the result is as fascinating as it is innovative. She foregrounds the sense of loss that passing inflicted, and argues that many of those who were left behind were just as wounded and traumatized as those who departed. Those who passed may have had much to gain, but what were the hidden costs, the invisible scars of enforced patterns of subversion and suppression? She suggests that the core issue of passing is not what an individual becomes, but rather ‘losing what you pass away from.’ By turning safe assumptions inside out, Hobbs questions some of the longest-held ideas about racial identification within American society. -- Catherine Clinton * Times Higher Education *Passing, as Allyson Hobbs describes in this brilliant, fascinating new study, is itself as fluid, complex, and contradictory as our ideas of race. -- Kate Tuttle * Boston Globe *By investigating the binary lives of the so-called ghosts that exist in American history, Hobbs raises important questions and ideas about race relations and the ‘lost’ histories of African American communities. -- Cicely Douglas * Library Journal *In narrating the lives of Americans at the border of whiteness, Hobbs illuminates our understanding of our country’s tortured race history and of the injustices that drove people to make the ultimate migration—out of the tyranny of enslavement and the terrors of Jim Crow to the costly privilege of the larger white world. Their anguish, alienation, and constant fear of discovery are brilliantly and painfully rendered in this important book, and, through them, we see the arbitrariness of race and the origins of racial divisions that we live with to this day. -- Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great MigrationWith remarkable research and deep feeling for her subjects, Hobbs uncovers the stories of countless Americans of African descent who severed their family ties to pass into a world where they would be accorded the privileges of whites. At turns sad, inspiring, and provocative, the book raises important questions about the enduring power of race in American life. -- Martha A. Sandweiss, author of Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
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Harvard University Press A World Not to Come
Book SynopsisIn 1808 Napoleon invaded Spain and deposed the king. Overnight, Hispanics were forced to confront modernity and look beyond monarchy and religion for new sources of authority. Coronado focuses on how Texas Mexicans used writing to remake the social fabric in the midst of war and how a Latino literary and intellectual life was born in the New World.Trade ReviewReading British colonial writers as the sole founders of American culture lends our history a false sense of teleology, as though we were always going to end up here. One of the greatest strengths of Coronado’s book is its ability to remind us of other paths we might have taken; other worlds different ‘we’s’ might have made… A World Not to Come boldly challenges the dominance of the westward expansion narrative… At once a gripping history, a dizzying synthesis of Enlightenment philosophical currents, and a breathtaking feat of original archival research, his book merits reading by anyone interested in American literature, Latina/o studies, economic history, or Western philosophy. A World Not to Come demands that we recalibrate our sense of what ‘American’ literary history looks like. -- John Alba Cutler * Los Angeles Review of Books *A World Not to Come constitutes an extraordinary contribution to distinct and interconnected lines of scholarly debates engaged with Latin American and trans-hemispheric history. -- Beatriz González-Stephan * S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History *A World Not to Come is a magnificent first book. Raúl Coronado makes the case that the meeting of Anglos and Mexicans in the Southwest occasioned not only political and military conflict but also epistemological struggle between two different systems of thought. Latinos in the U.S. attempted forge what in hindsight can be seen as a modern social imaginary. The differences between these conflicting visions of an American imaginary are still very much with us and help define the nature of the present interactions between Anglos and Latinos within the boundaries of the U.S. and outside of them. This is a compelling thesis about the need for a ‘transnational’ view of the Americas and the recognition that an undifferentiated history of ‘Latino’ writings cannot easily be extracted from the historical record. Coronado’s argument on both counts should advance significantly our understanding of the relationship between the Anglo and Latin Americas in the nineteenth century. -- Ramón Saldívar, Stanford UniversityIn this brilliantly conceived book, Raúl Coronado turns over the forgotten record of a Texas rebellion, and from it spins an absorbing counter-history of a distinctively Latino tradition of political thought. A World Not to Come will stand as a major contribution to the emergent multilingual portrait of print culture in the U.S., and to the comparative intellectual and literary history of the Americas in general. -- Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa CruzCoronado’s A World Not to Come is already a standard, well on its way to becoming a classic. The comprehensiveness of the research is extraordinary: an extraordinary job, extraordinarily well done. -- Rolena Adorno, Yale UniversityCoronado’s book offers a fascinating alternative history of modernity, one rooted in the forgotten archives of Texas. Well-timed to intervene in contemporary debates on rights theory and sovereignty, Coronado tells the story of how Spanish-American intellectuals of the early nineteenth century took the work of now-forgotten Catholic Reformation thinkers to produce a model of rights based on collective well-being and ‘public happiness.’ The Anglo-American Protestant history of rights suppressed a rich and complex Spanish version, and Coronado finds in these conservative thinkers a revolutionary potential that I believe found fruition in liberation theology in the Americas. -- Carrie Tirado Bramen, University at Buffalo, State University of New YorkIn a work of great originality and breathtaking erudition, Raúl Coronado writes a compelling history of an alternative West, a history spanning continents, oceans, centuries, and genres. The story told in A World Not to Come is the story of modernity itself, inflected through an immense and virtually unstudied archive of Latino writing that the author reads as a fragmented narrative of becoming. This is cultural history of the highest order. -- Anna Brickhouse, University of VirginiaThis is a book about Tejanos and the printing press in the Age of Revolutions. Between 1810 and 1848, Tejanos witnessed momentous sociopolitical, cultural changes and responded by articulating their own peculiar narratives of modernity through the printing press—narratives that both Mexican and U.S. historiographies have erased. Coronado brings these forgotten narratives, poised between utopia and disillusionment, deftly back to life. This is a moving meditation on the making of the first ‘Latino’ public sphere. -- Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, The University of Texas at Austin
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Harvard University Press Waste of a Nation
Book SynopsisAssa Doron and Robin Jeffrey argue that in India the removal and reuse of waste lays waste to human lives. People at the bottom are injured and stigmatized as they work with sewage, toxic chemicals, and rotting garbage. If India is to emerge as a model for the world, its policies will have to reach beyond the environment, to encompass empathy.Trade ReviewAn in-depth investigation of India’s feeble fight against mountains of consumerist waste [with] robust statistics, compelling history, and telling case studies…The result is both beguiling and disturbing…The authors reveal the complex cultural, social, political and religious hurdles that hamper the country’s struggle with waste. -- Subhra Priyadarshini * Nature *Waste of a Nation is an elegant and forceful examination of this underside of Indian life, hiding in plain sight on every street. It mixes slices of city life with analysis of both the cultural background behind India's obsession with recycling and its potential role in greening a country that's urbanizing and industrializing probably faster than anywhere else on Earth. -- Fred Pearce * New Scientist *Doron and Jeffrey are admirably thorough…but also alive to a good story…The ordinary waste of residents of Indian metropolises has ballooned to levels that are essentially unmanageable, with the result that landfills are overflowing, sometimes even combusting, and liquid sewage is pumped into rivers and the sea. It is a horrifying situation. -- Anjali Joseph * Times Literary Supplement *A 360-degree look at waste, from production to disposal to reuse, and all the intervening steps during this journey that intersect with caste, class, and technology…Doron and Jeffrey present a riveting account of contemporary life in India. -- Somak Ghoshal * Mint *Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey seek to capture not India’s increasing wealth but its rapidly growing waste—a largely neglected subject. Their travels take them through rivers overflowing with human ashes and industrial waste, sewers swirling with noxious gases, toilets topped with excrement-filled cesspits and teetering garbage landfills…They return with a stunning—and alarming—picture of a nation choking on its own garbage…Their travels through India’s wastelands surprise, engage and inform readers. -- Saumya Roy * The Wire *[A] fine blending of hard realities with anecdotal, historical, social and economic details to keep the reader deeply engrossed. -- Banikinkar Pattanayak * Financial Express *It reads like a thinking person’s travelogue through urban India. This is also its strength…it takes the reader back to the reality of a complex, messy world of waste, an important armour against today’s silver-bullet projects. -- Bharati Chaturvedi * India Today *This comprehensive study of waste—wet and dry, human and nonhuman—posits caste in a central role but is equally interested in tracing the impact of the nation’s colonial past. -- Stacey Balkan * Public Books *[Doron and Jeffrey’s] comprehensive study analyses the history and evolution of India’s waste crisis and looks at the ways authorities have tried (and often failed) to address the issue, even as millions of poor, informal workers brave horrifying conditions to make a living within the waste economy. -- Maria Thomas * Quartz *As Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey argue in their timely and incisive book, Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India, tackling the country’s systemic sanitation and environmental problems will require much more than setting ambitious targets…They tackle their subject dispassionately and with the academic rigor necessary to untangle reams of statistics to get to the core of the challenges facing India’s 1.37 billion people.The book is also highly readable. The authors move seamlessly between the micro and macro levels, from following the lives of untouchable sewerage workers in Mumbai who daily risk their lives descending into manholes, to interviewing the Indian PM. -- John Zubrzycki * The Australian *A most engaging document that lays bare the waste of India…The outstanding merit of the book is that it constantly draws our attention, in a holistic way, to the wider overall dimension of Indian waste in a contemplative way that mixes anecdotes, facts, observations and humor. -- Romi Khosla * The Wire *Should be applauded for provoking a wider discussion of such issues that have so far been the domain of ‘subject experts.’ If it helps us unravel the tangled threads of webs of waste that we generate and yet hate, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey will have done us a valuable service. -- Amita Baviskar * Biblio *Doron and Jeffrey’s model study of India’s garbage problem impressively integrates geography, demography, religion, economics, politics, environmentalism, and the history of sanitation. -- M. G. Roskin * Choice *Waste of a Nation confronts simplifications and myths about India’s complex culture and its environmental challenges. Doron and Jeffrey have written an ambitious book that provides a very good guide to how one of the world’s most populous nations handles waste in its many manifestations, as well as the all-too-human consequences. -- Martin V. Melosi, author of Garbage in the Cities: Refuse, Reform, and the Environment and The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the PresentThis is a landmark publication providing a comprehensive look at various aspects of ‘waste’ in Indian society and history. I particularly admire the skill with which the authors combine historical, anecdotal, economic, ethnographic, and even technical details to provide an enjoyable read that is, at the same time, deeply instructive. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of ChicagoThrough rigorous empirical analysis and an erudite narrative, Doron and Jeffrey have crafted an engaging commentary on India’s struggles with waste management. The authors judiciously argue that if we are to realize Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a clean India, we need multifaceted reforms with an unwavering focus on people. -- Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament, India, and author of Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
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Harvard University Press The Long Emancipation
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIra Berlin ranks as one of the greatest living historians of slavery in the United States… The Long Emancipation offers a useful reminder that abolition was not the charitable work of respectable white people, or not mainly that. Instead, the demise of slavery was made possible by the constant discomfort inflicted on middle-class white society by black activists. And like the participants in today’s Black Lives Matter movement, Berlin has not forgotten that the history of slavery in the United States—especially the history of how slavery ended—is never far away when contemporary Americans debate whether their nation needs to change. -- Edward E. Baptist * New York Times Book Review *The cause of the end of slavery in the U.S. is a long, complex story that is usually, in the general reading public’s mind, simplified by ‘the Civil War ended it.’ In this remarkably cogent, impressively thought-out, and even beautifully styled account by a university historian, we are given emphatic witness to his long-held professional conviction that ‘freedom’s arrival,’ as he phrases it, was not due to a ‘moment or a man’ but because of a process that took a century to unfold. -- Brad Hooper * Booklist (starred review) *A short, fast-paced interpretive history of the transition of African Americans from chattels to free persons. [Berlin] challenges previous scholars who identify both a ‘moment’ and a human factor that sparked emancipation—generally either President Abraham Lincoln or the South’s slaves—for initiating slavery’s overthrow. Instead, Berlin takes the long view in charting emancipation’s circuitous metamorphosis, from the late 18th century until the 1860s… In the end, Berlin credits black persons, north and south, for gradually but forcefully removing slavery’s stain from the fabric of American life. -- J. D. Smith * Choice *Berlin lucidly illuminates the ‘near-century-long’ process of abolition and how, in many ways, the work of emancipation continues today. * Publishers Weekly *
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Princeton University Press The New Negro
Book SynopsisWhen African American intellectuals announced the birth of the 'New Negro' around the turn of the twentieth century, they were attempting through a bold act of renaming to change the way blacks were depicted and perceived in America. This book collects more than one hundred canonical and essays published between 1892 and 1938.Trade Review"Because 'New Negro' is really just a catchprase for the capacious topic of race in America, this is less an anthology than a mix of articles, criticism, essays, theories, calls to action and commentary by people both black and white, ranging from the famous (Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson, H.L. Mencken) to those lesser known but prominent in their time (Alain Locke). The result is a spirited...dialectic tracing the most intense period of New Negro discussions, between 1892 and 1938."--Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Recent years have seen an explosion of writings on the so-called new Negro... Now Gates and Jarrett lend their considerable voices to the discussion. Including an excellent introduction that situates the debate, this anthology collects some 100 essays on the trope of the new Negro between 1892 and 1938, years that broadly encompass the period known as the Harlem Renaissance... The book covers not only literature but also music, theater, and the fine arts and convincingly links them with social and political happenings of the period... [O]verall this is a masterful piece of work."--L. J. Parascandola, Long Island University, for CHOICE "The New Negro is a valuable collection of essays that is accessible to scholars, teachers, and those generally interested in African-American history. When placed within the context of recent New Negro scholarship, the anthology reinforces the need to expand the depth and breadth of research into Post-Reconstruction representations of race in African-American culture."--Gabriel A. Briggs, CallalooTable of ContentsNOTE: For essays originally published without thematic titles, we have provided them in brackets. Acknowledgments xi Introduction by Gates and Jarrett 1 The Trope of a New Negro 2 New Negro Politics 6 New Negro Uplift 10 Race, Representation, and African American Culture 14 Notes 18 CHAPTER I: THE NEW NEGRO "The New Negro" by Rev. W.E.C. Wright 23 "An Appeal to the King" by J.W.E. Bowen 26 "Afro-American Education" by Booker T. Washington 33 "Heroes and Martyrs" by N.B. Wood 36 "The Club Movement among Colored Women of America" by Fannie Barrier Williams 54 "The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation" 59 "Rough Sketches: A Study of the Features of the New Negro Woman" by by John Henry Adams, Jr. 66 "Rough Sketches: The New Negro Man" 67 "An Ostracised Race in Ferment: The Conflict of Negro Parties and Negro Leaders Over Methods of Dealing with Their Own Problem" by Ray Stannard Baker 69 "The New Negro" by William Pickens 79 "Returning Soldiers" by W.E.B. Du Bois 85 "The New Negro and the U.N.I.A." by Marcus Garvey 92 As to "'The New Negro'" by Anonymous 96 "The New Negro" by Geroid Robinson 97 "The New Politics" by Hubert H. Harrison 101 "Education and the Race" 107 "The New Negro" by Alain Locke 112 "Sterling Brown: The New Negro Folk-Poet" 119 "The New Negro Hokum" by Gustavus Adolphus Stewart 123 "Who Is the New Negro, and Why?" by J.A. Rogers 129 "The New Negro as Revealed in His Poetry" by Charlotte E. Taussig 131 "La Bourgeoisie Noire" E. Franklin Frazier 137 "The New Negro in Paris" by Claude McKay 141 "The Rise of the Black Internationale" by George S. Schuyler 149 CHAPTER II: HOW SHOULD ART PORTRAY THE NEGRO? "One Phase of American Literature" by Anna Julia Cooper 157 ["Negro in Literature"] by Paul Laurence Dunbar 172 "The Negro in Books" by Charles W. Chesnutt 173 "The Negro in Literature" by William Stanley Braithwaite 182 "The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed" The Crisis Symposium 190 "Some Aspects of the Negro Interpreted in Contemporary American and European Literature" by John Frederick Matheus 204 "The Negro in Recent American Literature" by Eugene Clay 211 CHAPTER III: THE RENAISSANCE "The Younger Literary Movement" by W.E.B. Du Bois 219 "Negro Youth Speaks" by Alain Locke 220 "Uncle Tom's Mansion" by Carl van Vechten 223 "The Aframerican: New Style" by H.L. Mencken 227 "The Negro Renaissance" by Carl van Doren 229 "The Negro Renaissance" by Walter White 231 "The Negro Literary Renaissance" by Benjamin Brawley 233 "The Negro'Renaissance'" by Lloyd Morris 237 "The Negro Renaissance" by Martha Gruening 240 "Our Negro'Intellectuals'" by Allison Davis 246 "For a Negro Magazine" by Claude McKay 251 CHAPTER IV: ART OR PROPAGANDA? "Art and Propaganda" by Eric Walrond 255 "Propaganda in the Theatre" by Willis Richardson 255 "Criteria of Negro Art" by W.E.B. du Bois 257 "Art or Propaganda?" by Alain Locke 260 "Propaganda--or Poetry?" 261 "Blueprint for Negro Writing" by Richard Wright 268 CHAPTER V: LITERATURE: HISTORY AND THEORY "Afro-American Women and Their Work" by Katherine Tillman 277 "The Value of Race Literature" by Victoria Earle Matthews 287 "The Writing of a Novel" by Charles W. Chesnutt 297 "The Negro in Literature and Art" by W.E.B. du Bois 299 "Negro Literature for Negro Pupils" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson 302 "Negro Race Consciousness as Reflected in Race Literature" by Robert E. Park 305 "Colored Authors and Their Contributions to the World's Literature" by Irene M. Gaines 315 "A Point of View (An Opportunity Dinner Reaction)" by Brenda Ray Moryck 321??? "The Negro Digs Up His Past" by Arthur A. Schomburg 326 "A Note on the Sociology of Negro Literature" by Fred Dearmond 330 "Negro Art, Past and Present" by Albert C. Barnes 333 "Survey of Negro Literature, 1760-1926" by Thomas L.G. Oxley 337 "Race Prejudice and the Negro Artist" by James Weldon Johnson 343 "Negro Literature" by Walter White 350 "Characteristics of Negro Expression" by Zora Neale Hurston 355 "The Negro Genius" by Benjamin Brawley 364 CHAPTER VI: LITERATURE:THE LITERARY PROFESSION AND THE MARKETPLACE "On a Certain Condescension in White Publishers" by Hubert H. Harrison 373 "The Negro Audience" by Willis Richardson 375 "Negro Authors Must Eat" by George W. Jacobs (George S. Schuyler) 376 "The Dilemma of the Negro Author" by James Weldon Johnson 378 "Negro Authors and White Publishers" 382 "Our Literary Audience" by Sterling A. Brown 384 "A Negro Writer to His Critics" by Claude McKay 390 "Problems Facing the Negro Writer Today" by Eugene C. Holmes 394 CHAPTER VII: LITERATURE: POETRY "Some Contemporary Poets of the Negro Race" by William Stanley Braithwaite 401 "Dunbar's Poetry in Literary English" by Charles Eaton Burch 407 "The Negro in Poetry" by John Edward Bruce 410 "Old School of Negro'Critics'Hard on Paul Laurence Dunbar" by Thomas Millard Henry 413 "Negro Poets and Their Poetry" by Wallace Thurman 415 "The Negro Poets of the United States" by Alain Locke 422 "Mr. Garvey as a Poet" by T. Thomas Fortune 426 "Preface (from The Book of American Negro Poetry)" by James Weldon Johnson 426 CHAPTER VIII: MUSIC:SPIRITUALS "Negro Music" by Paul Laurence Dunbar 447 "The Sorrow Songs" by W.E.B. du Bois 448 "Negro Folk Song" by John W. Work 453 "The Negro Spirituals" by Alain Locke 457 "The Negro Spirituals and American Art" by Laurence Buermeyer 464 "Self-Portraiture and Social Criticism in Negro Folk-Song" by B.A. Botkin 467 "Spirituals and Neo-Spirituals" by Zora Neale Hurston 473 CHAPTER IX: MUSIC: JAZZ "Whence Comes Jass?" by Walter Kingsley 479 "That Mysterious'Jazz'" by Grenville Vernon 480 "Jazzing Away Prejudice" by Anonymous 481 "Where The Etude Stands on Jazz" 482 "Jazz at Home" by J.A. Rogers 492 "From The Appeal of Jazz" by R.W.S. Mendl 496 "Hot Jazz" by Robert Goffin 499 "From Swing That Music" by Louis Armstrong 501 CHAPTER X: THEATER "The Negro in Drama" by Rollin Lynde Hartt 507 "Reflections on O'Neill's Plays" by Paul Robeson 510 "The Drama of Negro Life" by Montgomery Gregory 511 "The Gift of Laughter" by Jessie Fauset 515 "Same Old Blues" by Theophilus Lewis 518 "The Drama of Negro Life" by Alain Locke 521 "The Negro in the Field of Drama" by Rowena Woodham Jelliffe 524 "Has the Negro a Place in the Theatre?" by Jules Bledsoe 526 "A Criticism of the Negro Drama as It Relates to the Negro Dramatist and Artist" by Eulalie Spence 527 "From Black Manhattan" by James Weldon Johnson 528 "The Negro Theatre--A Dodo Bird" by Ralph Matthews 532 CHAPTER XI: THE FINE ARTS "A Note on African Art" by Alain Locke 537 "The American Negro as Artist" 541 "African Art: Classic Style" 546 jessie fauset "Henry Ossawa Tanner" 549 "African Plastic in Contemporary Art" by Harry Alan Potamkin 551 "The Negro Artist and Modern Art" by Romare Bearden 554 Bibliography of Primary Sources 559 Suggested Futher Reading 563 Index 567
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Africa
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gypsies of Britain 738 Shire Library
Book SynopsisGypsies have been a part of the British and European social fabric for centuries and have faced prejudice and oppression for nearly as long, since at least the time of Henry VIII. Theirs is a peripatetic existence, dwelling in tents and in caravans and living often precariously at the edges of towns and villages, moving on in search of opportunities or as mainstream society drives them away. Gypsies of Britain explores the history of this unique lifestyle, looking at how Gypsies have maintained their distinctive culture and how they have adapted to the twenty-first century, and shedding light on a range of traditional Gypsy occupations including harvesting, horse-dealing, fortune-telling and rat-catching. Archive illustrations and modern photographs depict their lives, work and ornately carved and painted caravans.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Travelling Groups in Britain / Travelling Patterns and Abodes / Earning a Living / Evangelism and War Work / The Twenty-first Century / Further Information / Index
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Random House USA Inc Medical Apartheid
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. No one concerned with issues of public health and racial justice can afford not to read this masterful book.[Washington] has unearthed a shocking amount of information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book. —New York TimesFrom the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations.It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as u
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Stanford University Press Neoliberalism Interrupted
Book SynopsisExamines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses that challenge, reform, and even retrench neoliberalism's hegemony in Latin America.Trade Review"Neoliberalism Interrupted is a timely book on the winds of change sweeping through Latin America. Covering a wide range of countries it provides many important reference points against which the wider phenomenon of the so-called Pink Tide can be viewed an assessed. Usefully, it deals not only with those countries that are often paradigmatically associated with the leading edge of resistance to neoliberalism (Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador) but also those countries where neoliberal socio-economic and political practices have remained firmly entrenched (Colombia, Mexico, El Salvador) or where assessment has been more ambiguous (Argentina) . . . [This] is a highly readable and engaging book for both students and seasoned scholars of Latin America. It deserves to be read widely."—Chris Hesketh, Bulletin of Latin American Research"Neoliberalism, Interrupted is an aptly titled volume that examines the current status of neoliberal economic policy and governmentality in Latin America . . . Fine-grained political analysis and rich empirical detail reveal that while Washington Consensus policies are no longer hegemonic in Latin America, neoliberal governance is entrenched and evolving . . . Each of the eight country case studies offers rich historical and political analysis that is alive to contradiction and complexity . . . [T]he case studies are valuable and clearly grounded in deep engagements with research sites."—Jennifer Goett, Journal of Anthropological Research"Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero's collection offers us a vivid panorama of neoliberalism and its interruption, keeping in mind broader patterns of political economic transformation and civil society struggle. The chapters forcefully demonstrate neoliberalism's investment in violence and regulation, while opening our eyes to civil society's spaces to challenge them. From Buenos Aires to Venezuela, from race to gender, this collection represents an important theoretical and critical engagement with Latin America's current realities."—Sarah A. Radcliffe, University of Cambridge, author of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism"Neoliberalism, Interrupted makes an important contribution to studying Latin America's rapidly changing socio-political landscape. The volume's authors remind us that the region presents a rich laboratory for experiments that defy existing categories of social and political theory in contradictory, but potentially exciting new ways."—Philip Oxhorn, McGill University"This book will resonate with all those interested in one of the most important political questions for Latin America today. The authors resist the temptation to provide easy answers—the essays are subtle and effective, their sophistication buttressed by empirical and theoretical rigor."—Sian Lazar, University of Cambridge"This timely collection brings together diverse disciplinary perspectives to explore the limits of neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Latin America. The contributors provide fine-grained, ethnographic analysis of alternatives to the 'Washington consensus,' both grandiose and grassroots, revealing in the process the promises and contradictions of 'post-neoliberal' political programs and social projects."—Patrick C. Wilson, University of Lethbridge
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Beacon Press Where Do We Go from Here Chaos or Community King
Book SynopsisIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America's future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and quality education. With a universal message of hope that continues to resonate, King demanded an end to global suffering, asserting that humankind-for the first time-has the resources and technology to eradicate poverty.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Spaces in Translation
Book SynopsisIn Spaces in Translation, Christian Tagsold explores Japanese gardens in the West and ponders their history, the reasons for their popularity, and their connections to geopolitical events. He concludes that a process of cultural translation between Japanese and Western experts created an idea of the Orient and its distinction from the West.Trade Review"Christian Tagsold provides a detailed social and intellectual history and a phenomenological study all at once. There is nothing remotely like this book, and with it, Tagsold becomes a central figure in the study of Japanese gardens." * Kendall Brown, California State University, Long Beach *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. From China to Japan: The History of Asian Spaces Chapter 2. Discourses of Spaces Chapter 3. Spreading the Japanese Garden Worldwide Chapter 4. Between Essence and Invention Chapter 5. Zen and the Art of Gardens Chapter 6. Elements of the Japanese Garden Chapter 7. Authoritarian Gardens Chapter 8. Connecting Spaces, Disconnecting Spaces Chapter 9. Postmodernizing Japanese Gardens Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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Random House USA Inc Between the World and Me Notes on the First 150
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O:
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New York University Press African American Folk Healing
Book SynopsisPresenting a study of African American healing, this work sheds light on a variety of folk practices and traces their development from the time of slavery through the Great Migrations. Through conversations with black Americans, it demonstrates how herbs, charms, and rituals continue folk healing performances.Trade ReviewAn exploration of the history and practices of black healers and healing illuminating the vital cultural, intellectual, and spiritual expression of a people. This fine multidisciplinary work draws deeply and thoughtfully from the experiences and words of its subjects, offering alternative visions of human creativity, resistance, and community. -- Yvonne Chireau,author of Black Magic: Religion and the African-American Conjuring TraditionAfrican American Folk Healing is an insightful work that places folk healing within the context of larger spiritual, political, and intellectual movements. It illuminates the interconnectedness among activism, medicine, gender studies, folklore, and theology that influence the ways African American female healers work and live. * The Journal of African American History *Persuasively argued. . . . A fascinating study that makes a real contribution to discussions of health, wellness and faith in America. * Publishers Weekly *A readable book well suited for most academic libraries. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I Historical Paths to Healing1 Stories and Cures: De?ning African American Folk Healing 2 Healing, the Black Body, and Institutional Medicine: Contexts for Crafting Wellness3 Healing in Place: From Past to Present II Today's Healing Traditions4 Healing and Hybridity in the Twenty-First Century 5 Healing the Past in the Present 6 Religion, Spirituality, and African American Folk Healing 7 Hoodoo, Conjure, and Folk Healing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Racial Innocence Performing American Childhood
Book SynopsisShows how the concepts of childhood innocence fundamentally shaped the history of race in the USTrade ReviewBernstein's text unfolds with a readerly pleasure few scholarly books achieve, as she offers stunning close readings while steadily constructing a compelling narrative arc built upon each piece of evidence. * Legacy *Bernstein offers a new perspective by exploring not only what artifacts reveal but also what they demand. * Journal of American Culture *Racial Innocence is an invaluable contribution. . . it enlivens a diverse constellation of evidence, making it an exemplary model for any interdisciplinary project of similarly ambitious scope. -- Meredith A. Bak * Journal of Popular Culture *[T]antalizing [W]ith ethical finesse and theoretical dexterity, Bernsteins book explores. . . the extent to which our national reality has been a topsy-turvy one from the start. -- Leo Cabranes-Grant * Theatre Survey *A historiographic tour de force . . . Her rich archive and nuanced analysis will make this a classic book for theater historians and performance theorists. * The Outstanding Book Award prize committee, Association for Theatre in Higher Education *A paradigm-shifting study of major significance. -- Judie Newman * The Journal of American Studies *A powerhouse of a book. . . [an] intervention of the highest order. Racial Innocencewill quickly become a cornerstone text in many fields, ranging from critical race theory and performance studies to American cultural history and childhood studies. -- Douglas A. Jones * Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism *A provocative, insightful, and bold text that demonstrates how important the field of cultural studies is and can be. -- Jenny Wills * Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures *Arresting. . . shows how the hegemonic project of white supremacy takes constant reinforcement in popular forms to naturalize racist practices on the ground. -- Jayna Brown * Callaloo *Bernstein masterfully balances important theoretical and methodological interventions alongside insightful analysis of everyday material. -- Jasmine Nichole Cobb * Callaloo *Bernsteins powerful account of how the sentimental ideology of childhood innocence, and particularly its highly gendered manifestations, function to articulate racial hierarchies gives strong and detailed evidence for how paying attention to childhood serves to refocus many all too familiar, and troublesome, facets of American culture. I know of virtually no one of her generation who writes with this kind of verve, authority and pleasure. Racial Innocence will prove an important and widely read bookin part simply because it will be so much fun to read. -- Karen Sanchez-Eppler,Amherst CollegeBernstein's book will be of keen interest to those working to study either childhood or toy culture in the United States, as well as to scholars of critical race theory or postcolonial studies. -- Aaron C. Thomas * Cultural Studies *Chilling proof that the post-racial utopia is yet to be realized in American society. -- Kam Williams,syndicated columnistDaringly imaginative. -- Perry Nodelman * International Research for Children’s Literature *Dazzling incredibly moving. -- Sarah E. Chinn * American Quarterly *Far-reaching... important. -- Matthew Davis * Genre *Fresh and astonishing. -- Christian DuComb * Theatre Journal *Groundbreaking . . . radical. -- Lisa Merrill * Theatre Annual *Impressively researched, cogently written, and deeply theorized. . . . [Bernstein shows how] harmless, innocent fun (as evidenced in an astonishing chapter on the minstrel roots of Raggedy Ann and Andy) became a disavowed site for the reproduction of white supremacy. . . . [M]akes an understated but highly persuasive case for the contribution of a historically-oriented performance studies to the interdisciplinary conversations surrounding the politics of the everyday. -- Tavia Nyong'o * Theatre History Studies *Intellectual espresso. -- Michelle McCrary * Is That Your Child? *Intellectually exhilarating. -- Martha Saxton * The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *It is original, theoretically challenging, and adds fundamentally new insights to the history of childhood. * Prize Committee, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childhood and Youth *Magnificent and stylish truly groundbreaking. -- Richard Flynn * The Lion and the Unicorn *Nineteenth and early twentieth-century material culture comes alive in Robin Bernsteins brilliant study of the racialized and gendered ideologies that shape, inform and continue to haunt notions of American childhood into the present day. Through imaginative and masterfully innovative archival research, Bernstein shows how representations of childhood and childs play are integral to the making of whiteness and blackness and citizenship in this country. Racial Innocence is a groundbreaking book that for the first time illuminates the powerful and critical connections between constructions of girlhood, racial formations and American popular culture. -- Daphne Brooks,Princeton UniversityOne of those rare books that shifts the paradigm--a book that, in years to come, will be recognized as a landmark in children's literature and childhood studies . . . This is not one of those scholarly books that offer a thesis and then proceed to pummel the reader into submission by piling example on top of example. Instead, it develops a certain line of argument, and then turns, moving in a different direction, developing this new direction fully before changing tack once more. Structuring the argument this way makes for a much more interesting reading experience . . . [F]ew scholars can write a sentence like Bernstein can: packed with insight, theoretically sophisticated, and yet lucid--even, at times, lyrical... -- Philip Nel * Children's Literature *Remarkably impressive. . . . Bernstein surprises us with the fractures we know. -- Kathryn Bond Stockton * Modern Drama *Revelatory. -- Anna Mae Duane * MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US *Richly researched, inspiring in its analysis of archival material, and impressive in its deft ability to traverse disciplinary borders, including childhood studies, performance studies, literary studies, and American history. . . . Poignant. . . Bernsteins superb text hauntingly prompts the reader to consider where invocations of childhood are being used in contemporary US racial formation. At a time when black childhood performances have been front and center in American media discoursefor example, the circulating images of Trayvon Martin that were used to simultaneously evidence both the teenage innocent and the future-adult-thugRacial Innocencerequires the contemporary reader to resist feigning holy obliviousness" to the ways in which racial arguments can be cloaked in children and their toys. -- Amma Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin * TDR: The Drama Review *Riveting. -- Michelle H. Martin * Children's Literature Association Quarterly *Vibrant. . . [An] exemplary model of interdisciplinary scholarship. -- Kristen B. Proehl * African American Review *You will never look at a Raggedy Ann doll the same way again. -- Rebecca Onion * Backlist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Playing Innocent: Childhood, Race, Performance 1 Tender Angels, Insensate Pickaninnies: The Divergent Paths of Racial Innocence 2 Scriptive Things 3 Everyone Is Impressed: Slavery as a Tender Embrace from Uncle Tom's to Uncle Remus's Cabin 4 The Black-and-Whiteness of Raggedy Ann 5 The Scripts of Black Dolls Notes Index About the Author
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New York University Press The Delectable Negro Human Consumption and
Book SynopsisTakes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.Trade ReviewWe have all read about the hunger of slaves whose masters sought to starve them into submission. ButThe Delectable Negroasks of these slaves: 'How does it feel to be an edible, consumed object?' Inverting the trope of slave hunger, VincentWoodardprovocatively suggests that the slaveholder is a parasite who feeds off the slaves body in acts that range from cannibalistic to sexual modes of consumption, especially the homoerotic. In an even greater provocation, however, Woodard argues that within the black community, hunger is transformed into a regenerative space from which the search for home and communal belonging may be initiated. A bold and brilliant book. -- Carla L. Peterson,author of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York CityThe Delectable Negrouncovers a compelling set of themes in the scholarship on U.S. slave culture: white cannibalism as a significant trope for white depletion of, and desire for, the laboring and eroticized black male body. In a stunning series of arguments, Woodard forces us to reconsider the historical out-of-hand rejection of black African fear (and, not rarely, claims) of white cannibalism, showing how remarkably wide-reaching was the sense that slavery satisfied some sadomasochistic instinct among the slave-owning class. -- Maurice O. Wallace,author of Constructing the Black MasculineThe Delectable Negro is a brilliant, fearless, and deeply political book. * Early American Literature *With unflinching clarity,The Delectable Negroexposes and examines the pervasive cultural fantasies that have rendered the enslaved black body into a consumable object from the eighteenth century to the present. [] [I]ts powerful insights will continue to generate new lines of important inquiry for years to come. * American Historical Review *It should be noted here that Woodard died before this book was published; it is a shame that he could not see his daring work enter debate. Praise must go to Joyce and McBride, moreover, for their careful and attentive editorial work that made this publication of this text possible. . . . Woodard's career would surely have been even bolder after this book, but this text's interruption into critical theory alone is itself worth celebrating. * American Studies *Table of ContentsEditor's Note Justin A. JoyceForewordE. Patrick Johnson Introduction: "Master ... eated me when I was meat" 1. Cannibalism in Transatlantic Context 2. Sex, Honor, and Human Consumption 3. A Tale of Hunger Retold: Ravishment and Hunger in F. Douglass's Life and Writing 4. Domestic Rituals of Consumption 5. Eating Nat Turner 6. The Hungry Nigger Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author About the Editors
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New York University Press The Delectable Negro
Book SynopsisTakes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence.Trade ReviewWe have all read about the hunger of slaves whose masters sought to starve them into submission. ButThe Delectable Negroasks of these slaves: 'How does it feel to be an edible, consumed object?' Inverting the trope of slave hunger, VincentWoodardprovocatively suggests that the slaveholder is a parasite who feeds off the slaves body in acts that range from cannibalistic to sexual modes of consumption, especially the homoerotic. In an even greater provocation, however, Woodard argues that within the black community, hunger is transformed into a regenerative space from which the search for home and communal belonging may be initiated. A bold and brilliant book. -- Carla L. Peterson,author of Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York CityThe Delectable Negrouncovers a compelling set of themes in the scholarship on U.S. slave culture: white cannibalism as a significant trope for white depletion of, and desire for, the laboring and eroticized black male body. In a stunning series of arguments, Woodard forces us to reconsider the historical out-of-hand rejection of black African fear (and, not rarely, claims) of white cannibalism, showing how remarkably wide-reaching was the sense that slavery satisfied some sadomasochistic instinct among the slave-owning class. -- Maurice O. Wallace,author of Constructing the Black MasculineThe Delectable Negro is a brilliant, fearless, and deeply political book. * Early American Literature *With unflinching clarity,The Delectable Negroexposes and examines the pervasive cultural fantasies that have rendered the enslaved black body into a consumable object from the eighteenth century to the present. [] [I]ts powerful insights will continue to generate new lines of important inquiry for years to come. * American Historical Review *It should be noted here that Woodard died before this book was published; it is a shame that he could not see his daring work enter debate. Praise must go to Joyce and McBride, moreover, for their careful and attentive editorial work that made this publication of this text possible. . . . Woodard's career would surely have been even bolder after this book, but this text's interruption into critical theory alone is itself worth celebrating. * American Studies *Table of ContentsEditor's Note Justin A. JoyceForewordE. Patrick Johnson Introduction: "Master ... eated me when I was meat" 1. Cannibalism in Transatlantic Context 2. Sex, Honor, and Human Consumption 3. A Tale of Hunger Retold: Ravishment and Hunger in F. Douglass's Life and Writing 4. Domestic Rituals of Consumption 5. Eating Nat Turner 6. The Hungry Nigger Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author About the Editors
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University of Minnesota Press Testimonio
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University of Minnesota Press Karma Of Brown Folk
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University of Minnesota Press Negritude Women
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction : Caliban's women -- Race signs of the interwar times : Pan-Noirisme and La D epaeche Africaine -- Jane Nardal : a new race spirit and the new francophone negro -- Les soeurs Nardal and the Clamart salon : content and context of La Revue du Monde Noir, 1931-32 -- Paulette Nardal : antillean literature and race consciousness -- Suzanne C esaire : tropiques, negritude, surrealism, 1941-45 -- Appendix : edited and annotated translations / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and Georges Van Den Abbeele.
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University of Minnesota Press Suspended Apocalypse White Supremacy Genocide
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Filipino American Communion: Cultural Alienation and the Conditions of Community 2. Deformed Nationalism and Arrested Raciality: the Grammar and Problematic of a "Filipino American" Common Sense 3. "Its Very Familiarity Disguises Its Horror": White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Statecraft of Pacifica Americana 4. Suspended Apocalypse: Towards a Fanonian Analytic of the Filipino Condition 5. "Death Was Swiftly Running After Us": Disaster, Evil, and Radical Possibility Notes Index
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Duke University Press Hooded Americanism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chalmers has steeped himself in the details of the KKK organization, personalities, and intrigue, and particularly their relation to the entire nation. . . . Chalmers has not only read widely; he has pondered the meaning and destiny of the Klan." * American Historical Review *"Significant scholarship; a crucial work." -- William E. Leuchtenberg * New York Times *
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Duke University Press Incognegro
Book SynopsisIn this mesmerizing political memoir, Frank Wilderson recollects his turbulent life as an expatriate in South Africa during the furious last gasps of apartheid, where he taught at universities by day, and helped the ANC coordinate clandestine propaganda and launch psychological warfare by night.Trade Review"[F]requently beautiful. . . . Angry and paranoid." * Kirkus Reviews *"Wilderson has offered an important and groundbreaking story of the last days of apartheid. . . . More than anything Incognegro teaches us that the fall of apartheid was not bloodless or peaceful, that the corruption of neo-colonialism inhabits South Africa still, and it invites us, wherever we are, inside or outside South Africa, to tear down ourselves to the very foundations." -- Meta L. Schettler * Callaloo *"Wilderson's epic . . . offers thoughtful and provocative detail and nuance on each [read]. The book makes you rethink the idea of what a hero is and why and who crowned Nelson Mandela as such. It reveals the soul wrenching challenge of what it means to be an activist. It prompts a redefinition of success. And Wilderson takes on what he describes as some left-wingers' deep need to cling to the notion that South Africa's apartheid was different than racism on U.S. soil." -- Esther Armah * New York Amsterdam News *"Radical, defiant, and searingly honest, this memoir about being active in the freedom struggle in the U.S. and in post-apartheid South Africa is bound to spark passionate argument as Wilderson weaves together his personal story with his politics, always critical of those in power." -- Hazel Rochman * Booklist *"Wilderson's stinging portrait of Nelson Mandela as a petulant elder eager to accommodate his white countrymen will jolt readers who've accepted the reverential treatment usually accorded him. . . . Wilderson has a distinct, powerful voice and a strong story that shuffles between the indignities of Johannesburg life and his early years in Minneapolis . . . a riveting memoir of apartheid's last days." * Publishers Weekly *
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Duke University Press Light in the DarkLuz en lo Oscuro
Book SynopsisLight in the Dark is the culmination of Gloria E. Anzaldua's mature thought and the most comprehensive presentation of her philosophy. Focusing on aesthetics, ontology, epistemology, and ethics, it contains several developments in her many important theoretical contributions.Trade Review"Published more than a decade after Anzaldúa’s death, the collection of essays is a welcomed resource for scholars and students of Anzaldúa, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, and American studies. Overall, Anzaldúa’s chapters and Keating’s editorial work are of the highest caliber and great additions to the body of Anzaldúa’s work." -- Monica Montelongo Flores * Southwestern American Literature *"[T]he publication of a new book of [Anzaldua's] writing provides a glorious new opportunity to revel in her brilliant mind.... In our contemporary world of intense binary thinking and wall building, Gloria Anzaldúa’s insights provide an inspiring way forward." -- Susan Noyes Platt * Raven Chronicles *"The publication of Gloría Anzaldúa's Light in the Dark/ Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality eleven years after her death in 2004 is a highly anticipated—and enormously important—event in feminist scholarship, one that takes both philosophy and activism in new directions. The manuscript ... makes significant philosophical contributions to feminism, epistemology, aesthetics, ontology, critical philosophy of race, and social and political thought at the same time that it calls into question how we conceive of and organize these areas of study to begin with." -- Natalie Cisneros * Hypatia Reviews online *"Moving from the intricate Tex-Mex-rootedness of Borderlands to the more spiritual, historical-mythical, liminal negotiation zone of Light in the Darkness, Anzaldúa continues her examination of in-between spaces. Her concept of nepantla enables multiple thematic and stylistic lines to intersect, defining possible spaces of cultural transformation." -- Romana Radlwimmer * Women's Review of Books *"Throughout Light, Anzaldúa courageously offers up her lived experiences to argue for the importance of spirituality, theories in the flesh, and the female body.... Scholars invested in intellectual praxis will find a powerful guide to social justice inquiry within this publication." -- Robert Gutierrez-Perez * Women's Studies in Communication *"Perhaps the book’s greatest strength is Keating’s vast editorial knowledge.... Under Keating’s care, Light in the Dark continues Anzaldúa’s metaphysical philosophies, reiterating, expanding, and inspiring consciousness building and setting innovative directions for future Chicana/o studies.... The text offers a new way of decolonizing the mind, transforming the world, and reaching out into the universe." -- Iracema M. Quintero * Aztlán *"Light in the Dark is not only a previously missing piece of Anzaldúa’s oeuvre, important to the growing field of scholarship on Anzaldúa, but also a text that speaks broadly across disciplines and will surely influence scholarship in women’s studies, philosophy, politics, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, border studies, native studies, sexuality studies and beyond." -- Michelle R. Martin-Baron * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"This text would serve as an excellent book in a literature course, and could be used as the capstone of Anzaldúa’s other writings. Keating has done an excellent job of editing this piece—she has made it easy to forget that the work was published after Anzaldúa’s death." -- Fawn-Amber Montoya * The Americas *Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction. Re-envisioning Coyolxauhqui, Decolonizing Reality: Anzaldúa's Twenty-First-Century Imperative ix Preface. Gestures of the Body—Escribiendo para idear 1 1. Let us be the healing of the wound: The Coyolxauhqui imperative—la sombra y el sueño 9 2. Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities 23 3. Border Arte: Nepantla, el lugar de la frontera 47 4. Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism 65 5. Putting Coyolxauhqui Together: A Creative Process 95 6. now let us shift . . . conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts 117 Agradecimientos | Acknowledgements 161 Appendix 1. Lloronas Dissertation Material (Proposal, Table of Contents, and Chapter Outline) 165 Appendix 2. Anzaldúa's Health 171 Appendix 3. Unfinished Sections and Additional Notes from Chapter 2 176 Appendix 4. Alternative Opening, Chapter 4 180 Appendix 5. Historical Notes on the Chapters' Development 190 Appendix 6. Invitation and Call for Papers, Testimonios Volume 200 Notes 205 Glossary 241 References 247 Index 257
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Duke University Press The Universal Machine
Book SynopsisIn the concluding volume to his landmark trilogy consent not to be a single being Fred Moten uses the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Franz Fanon to explore the relationship between blackness and phenomenology, theorizing blackness as a way of being in the world that evades regulation.Trade Review"It's this spirit of the collective effort of study and exchange and resonance, the effort to keep the channels open and keep listening, that has made Moten (or, maybe, 'Moten/s') such a celebrated thinker. At the end of sentences like these, you want to say something like Amen." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Moten’s beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art." -- Lidija Haas * Vulture *"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Moten’s trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say they’re essays about art, philosophy, blackness, and the refusal of social death, but I think of them more as a fractal universe forever inviting immersion and exploration, a living force now inhabiting my bookshelf." -- Maggie Nelson * Bookforum *"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Moten’s consent not to be a single being, individually titled Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. In this collection of essays stretching back fifteen years, Moten challenges the reader to imagine a radically interconnected aesthetic and political sphere that stretches from Glenn Gould to Fanon to Kant to Theaster Gates, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. This trilogy is one of the great intellectual adventures of our era." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"consent not to be a single being, titled after a phrase of Édouard Glissant’s, ranges across an impressive number of disciplines: black studies, performance studies, aesthetics, phenomenology, ontology, ethnomusicology, jazz history, comparative literature, critical theory, etc. Without announcing its intervention as interdisciplinary–Moten deftly renders discipline beside the point. . . . Taken together, the series amounts to a powerful argument for black study—as an analytic, an impetus, a mode, the collective shout from a radical vista, whose bellow requires nothing less than 'passionate response' (Moten 2003)." -- Mimi Howard * boundary 2 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface ix 1. There Is No Racism Intended 1 2. Refuge, Refuse, Refrain 65 3. Chromatic Saturation 140 Notes 247 Works Cited 271 Index 281
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