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New York University Press The Opportunity Trap
Book SynopsisWinner, 2024 Global Sociology Book Award, given by the Canadian Sociological Association Winner of the 2024 Silver Medal for the Canada West Non-Fiction category, given by The Independent Publisher Book AwardWinner of the ASA Section on Asia and Asian America's Book Award on Asian AmericaHonorable Mention, 2024 Social Science Category Book Awards, given by the Association for Asian American StudiesHonorable Mention, 2022 Betty and McClung Lee Book Award, given by the Association for Humanist SociologyUnravels how US visa laws fail Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses and familiesThe Opportunity Trap is the first book to look at the impact of the H-4 dependent visa programs on women and men visa holders in Indian families in America. Comparing two distinct groups of Indian immigrant families families of male high-tech workers and female nursesPallavi Banerjee reveals how visa policies that are legally gender and race neutral in fact have gendered and racializeTrade Review"Powerful and vivid, The Opportunity Trap tells us of the pains wrought by legal dependency on temporary visa workers and their spouses. Both are suspended and indentured by law. This gender comparative study of hi-tech workers and nurses is a must read as it advances our understanding of immigration, the family, and law in the United States. " -- Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States"Through her insightful analyses of how dependent visas reflect a gendered and racialized regime that controls immigrant families, Banerjee brilliantly identifies the many contradictions faced by Indian migrant workers and their families in the U.S. The Opportunity Trap beautifully captures how the visa regime devalues and makes invisible those on dependent visas, reworks gender relations and parenting within the household, while also making families excessively beholden to migrant workers' employers. This is an important book that should be widely read. " -- Joya Misra, co-author of Walking Mannequins: How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work"Pallavi Banerjee’s The Opportunity Trap offers a fascinating window into the intimate relationship between migration visas and the work/family lives of skilled migrants and their spousal dependents." * Social Forces *"The Opportunity Trap presents a meticulous sketch of the poignant and constrained lives of high-skilled Indian migrants and their families in the United States. Banerjee skillfully illustrates how forced dependency intersects with the social, cultural, and economic perceptions of masculinity. [The Opportunity Trap] opens several new directions for policymakers, scholars, and activists working on gender, labor, and migration." * Gender & Society *"Coherent and persuasive. The Opportunity Trap contributes heavily to the scholarship of intersectionality entailing gender, race, ethnicity, class, immigration, and work, as well as to the study of work and family issues. I highly recommend this book for any undergraduate or graduate course on gender or work, or anyone interested in teaching immigration and work from an intersectional perspective." * Work and Occupations *"A thoughtful, compassionate, and richly detailed study of the lived experiences of racialized, high-skilled migrant families in the United States. Banerjee vividly describes everyday people’s struggles and failures to affirm their personal dignity and build a good life under such conditions. Rigorous, heartfelt, and intersectional, The Opportunity Trap is an important contribution." -- Neda Maghbouleh * Labour / Le Travail *
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Hodder & Stoughton The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling out Racist
Book SynopsisClapback: [Noun / Verb] Responding to a (often ignorant) notion with a withering comeback; with the aim of shutting. it. down.___________In order to have an honest and open conversation about race, we need to identify areas where things are not right. The Clapback: Your Guide to Calling Out Racist Stereotypes examines the evolution of the negative stereotypes towards the black community and arms you with the tools to shut them down once and for all. Taking readers on a journey through history, and providing facts and detailed research, this is an eye-opening and refreshing look at race and language. With a light-hearted, razor sharp wit and a refreshing honesty, The Clapback is the handbook the world needs - dishing out the hard truths and providing a road map for bringing some 'act right' into our everyday lives.It's time to Clapback.
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PublicAffairs,U.S. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark
Book SynopsisFrom a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos -- and a call for a more just practice of science.In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter -- all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions.Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, sexism, and other dehumanizing systems. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society that begins with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. The Disordered Cosmos dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.
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Feminist Press at The City University of New York Wrong Is Not My Name
Book SynopsisA dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art. At the age of twenty-one, Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City, reeling from the loss of her mother and numb to the world around her. She turns inward instead, reading books and composing poetry, eventually falling into the work of artists such as Blondell Cummings, Lorna Simpson, Lorraine O’Grady, and Kara Walker. Through them, she communes with her mother’s spirit and legacy, and finds new ways to interrogate her writing and identity. Wrong Is Not My Name weaves together autobiography, criticism, and theory, and considers how Black women create alternative, queer, and “hysterical” lives through visual culture and performance. In poetic, interdisciplinary essays—combini
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Simon & Schuster Bold Words from Black Men
Book SynopsisThis companion to Bold Words from Black Women offers clear-eyed advice from inspirational Black men throughout history, paired with vibrant, museum-worthy art.Immerse yourself in words of affirmation, power, resilience, truth, beauty, love, whimsy, and wonder spoken by Black men whose leadership, thought, and perspectives have not only inspired nations, but helped to create the blueprint for Black manhood and humanity. Featuring men like actor Sidney Poitier, rapper Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, basketball player LeBron James, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and former president Barack Obama, this stunning book will have an immeasurable impact on any reader seeking faith, spirit, and purpose.
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Collective Ink Brutish Necessity: A Black Life Forgotten
Book SynopsisOswald Augustus Grey was a Jamaican immigrant. He was 20 years old when he was executed and 19 when the crime for which he was convicted took place. To talk to people who lived in the city at the time, or to scour the nostalgia forums that proliferate online, is to discover an episode that has almost entirely disappeared in terms of public remembrance. This book unearths something of a place and a society that allowed a young life to become expendable and forgotten. The Birmingham in which this happened is both alien yet familiar.
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Berghahn Books Integrating Strangers Sherbro Identity and the Politics of Reciprocity Along the Sierra Leonean Coast
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Verso Books We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration
Book SynopsisWhat are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. In a series of post-war immigration laws from 1948 to 1971, arrivals from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa to Britain went from being citizens to being renamed immigrants. In the late 1960s, British officials drew upon an imperial vision of the world to contain what it saw as a vast immigration 'crisis' involving British citizens, passing legislation to block their entry. As a result, British citizenship itself was redefined along racial lines, fatally compromising the Commonwealth and exposing the limits of Britain's influence in world politics. Combining voices of so-called immigrants trying to make a home in Britain and the politicians, diplomats and commentators who were rethinking the nation, Ian Sanjay Patel excavates the reasons why Britain failed to create a post-imperial national identity.Chosen as a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2021 and shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022Trade ReviewThe contemporary politics of belonging and immigration - Ian Sanjay Patel shows in this stunning history - make no sense except against the backdrop of centuries of empire, and the decades at its messy end when British identity was refashioned. We're Here Because You Were There expertly revisits how the claim and incentive to move beyond empire followed only upon the erection of colonial hierarchy and racialized exclusion, factors which were strengthened in forgotten eras of imperial citizenship and Commonwealth unity. This book boldly and convincingly lays down a new starting point for debate today. -- Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal WorldThis is an extraordinary and important book. It is powerful, principled and courageous, a necessary and vital disquisition on the continuing legacies of colonialism and the mindset of its making and perpetuation in the modern, brutish Britain we seem to inhabit. -- Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetCombining startling new research with a clear and convincing argument, this shows just how essential the history of migration and race is to understanding Britain today. -- Daniel Trilling, author of Lights in the DistanceMany studies of immigration suffer from two weaknesses. They discuss it in isolation from a discussion of national identity, and treat it as a domestic issue that can be analysed and explained in terms of domestic constraints and compulsions. Patel's new book is happily free from these, and offers a historically rich and conceptually rigorous study of post-1945 immigration to the U.K., especially that of East African Asians. He locates it in Britain's imperial context and traces with great skill the debate on Britain's self-understanding that it sprang from and influenced. This is a first-rate book and deserves to be widely read. -- Bhikhu Parekh, author of Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political TheoryPatel provides some much-needed context for one of the world's most contentious and vexed subjects of debate: immigration. From the legal architecture designed to make life impossible for foreigners both a century ago and today, to the hypocrisies of British officials bent on shutting out those forced from their homes, Patel succinctly and eloquently explains the long-lasting consequences of empire: how countless lives were irrevocably altered by mandarins in Whitehall offices, and the related suffering that continues into the present day. -- Dr Shashi Tharoor, author of Inglorious EmpirePatel provides an indispensable and urgently relevant account of immigration and the end of empire that reveals the mirage-like quality of the very concepts through which we typically understand postwar Britain. Situating the arrival of nonwhite people in Britain in an intra-imperial context, this bravely and innovatively wide-ranging account shows that neither were they immigrants, nor was Britain ending empire. Their arrival was a phenomenon of continuity rather than a dramatic break with the past. With a compassionate authorial voice, Patel captures the trauma of unbelonging and of racist gatekeeping of the planet against a backdrop of continuous, untrammeled British emigration. This carefully researched book is testimony to history's astonishing power to change how we understand the world we inhabit by dispelling the myths that obscure truth. -- Priya Satia, Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University and author of Time's MonsterDebates about immigration in the immediate post-war decades, argues Ian Sanjay Patel in his provocative and important new book, were really about Britain's relation to changes in the outside world and to itself. He tells a story rooted both in the experience of migrants and in the archives of officials and politicians, at home, in the UN, and in the new postcolonial states. An idea of empire rooted in white power and colonial subjection was rearticulated for global times. Both Conservative and Labour governments utilized the law to establish a race-based set of rights for contemporary Britain. -- Catherine Hall, author of Civilising SubjectsIan Sanjay Patel's meticulously researched book shows how vital it is to understand the effects of the legacies of empire on the history of migration, and our understanding of race and belonging in modern Britain. It is an essential book for our times. -- Kavita Puri, author of Partition VoicesA book of rare importance. Ian Sanjay Patel masterfully traces the long shadow cast by Empire over Britain's recent history, and its present. -- Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, OxfordGroundbreaking...undoubtedly a landmark contribution. -- David Wearing * Tribune *Deeply impressed by this book. Expands upon many of the observations I make about multiculturalism in Empireland with real authority. Wish I'd been given it at school -- Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland[Patel] reminds us that the British Empire and imperial thinking lasted much longer than is generally understood...insightful -- Rohan Venkataramakrishnan * Scroll *
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Blue Crow Media Black History London Map: Guide to Black
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Double 9 Books American Indian Stories
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Haymarket Books Negro Liberation
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Princeton University Press Modis India
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Modi’s India is a masterpiece of careful research."---James Crabtree, Financial Times"The most comprehensive study of Modi’s India to date offers a bleak and unsparing view of the direction of the country."---Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, Best Books of The Year 2021"Christophe Jaffrelot’s book is a work of outstanding scholarship, a formidable documentation and compelling commentary on how India has changed in the first seven years under the leadership of Narendra Modi. . . .it is only a scholar of exceptional assurance and erudition who would attempt such an audaciously comprehensive, contemporary history written in real-time rather than with hindsight, and succeed simultaneously to inform, stir and provoke his readers."---Harsh Mander, Telegraph of India"Modi’s India is an exhaustive account of contemporary Indian politics, which impressively draws on numerous sources and examines a range of issues . . . . this work emerges as an important contribution to the study of the future of democracy in India and beyond."---Pratim Ghosal, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics"The strengths of this book are many."---Stephanie Duclos-King, Religious Studies Review
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Tuttle Publishing Korean Mind
Book SynopsisUnderstanding a people and their culture through code words and language.
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body,
Book SynopsisThe first book to define and explore the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the health of Black people?and how to combat its pernicious effects.Black people, young and old, are fatigued, says award-winning diversity and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters. It is physically, mentally, and emotionally draining to continue to experience inequities and even atrocities, day after day, when justice is a God-given and legislated right. And it is exhausting to have to constantly explain this to white people, even?and especially?well-meaning white people, who fall prey to white fragility and too often are unwittingly complicit in upholding the very systems they say they want dismantled.This book, designed to illuminate the myriad dire consequences of ?living while Black,? came at the urging of Winters?s Black friends and colleagues. Winters describes how in every aspect of life?from economics to education, work, criminal justice, and, very importantly, health outcomes?for the most part, the trajectory for Black people is not improving. It is paradoxical that, with all the attention focused over the last fifty years on social justice and diversity and inclusion, little progress has been made in actualizing the vision of an equitable society.Black people are quite literally sick and tired of being sick and tired.?Winters?s work as a diversity and inclusion leader informs this exploration of the toll that systemic racism takes on Black people every single day, and the need for activism that leads to meaningful, radical change.? ?Popsugar?Winters hopes to inspire aspiring allies with better insight into the Black experience.? ?Book Riot, ?12 Essential Books About Black History and Identity?
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Autonomedia All Incomplete
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Indiana University Press Straight Lick
Book SynopsisOne of the most original and successful filmmakers, Oscar Micheaux was born into a rural, working-class, African-American family in mid-America in 1884. Micheaux's work was founded upon the concern for class mobility, or uplift, for African Americans. This book is a critical assessment of Micheaux's accomplishment in the art of cinema.Trade ReviewUntil recently the name Oscar Micheaux might have provoked the question Oscar who? But scholars have now begun to look at this pioneering African American moviemaker. This volume joins Betti Carol VanEpps-Taylor's biography Oscar Micheaux: Dakota Homesteader, Author, Pioneer Filmmaker (1998) and Pearl Bowser and Louise Spence's Writing Himself into History: Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences (CH, Mar'01), attesting to the intellectual rigor of this trend. Though Green's study is most in the mold of a literary critique, the paucity of Micheaux sources obligates all three authors to write as historians, cultural critics, anthropologists, and decoders. In the absence of script drafts, interoffice memos, gossip columns, memoirs, reviews, and handy prints of films—the stuff of mainstream cinema history—Green (Ohio State Univ.) sets up a critical landscape that allows the reader to sense the density of the culture out of which Micheaux's work arose while also citing sources of his own theoretical modeling. That said, any Micheaux film demands a great deal of creative dissection, which Green provides. He makes uncommonly good use of frame enlargements and stills and provides a thoughtful index and a thorough bibliography. For serious undergraduate students and scholars. -- T. Cripps * formerly, Morgan State University , 2001mar CHOICE. *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Micheaux v. Griffith2. Micheaux's Class Position3. Twoness and Micheaux's Style4. Negative Images5. The Middle Path6. Middle?Class Cinema7. White Financing8. Stereotype and Caricature9. Revising Caricature10. Interrogating Caricature as Entertainment11. Interrogating False Uplift12. Passing and Film Style13. Racial Loyalty14. Micheaux and Cinema TodayAppendix One: On Class and the ClassicalAppendix Two: FilmographyAppendix Three: Selections from the Black PressAppendix Four: BibliographyNotesIndex
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Penguin Books Ltd Exodus
Book SynopsisExodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of The Bottom BillionMass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Yet our views - and those of our politicians - remain caught between two extremes: popular hostility to migrants, tinged by xenophobia and racism; and the view of business and liberal elites that ''open doors'' are both economically and ethically imperative. With migration set to accelerate, few issues are so urgently in need of dispassionate analysis - and few are more incendiary.Here, world-renowned economist Paul Collier seeks to defuse this explosive subject. Exodus looks at how people from the world''s poorest societies struggle to migrate to the rich West: the effects on those left behind and on the host societies, and explores the impulses and thinking that inTrade ReviewExodus is an important book and one I have been waiting to read for many years ... [it is] a work that is humane and hard-headed about one of the greatest issues of our times -- David Goodhart * Sunday Times *Paul Collier is one of the world's most thoughtful economists. His books consistently illuminate and provoke. Exodus is no exception * The Economist *Tinged with poignancy ... a humane and sensible voice in a highly toxic debate -- Colin Kidd * Guardian *Paul Collier's new book on international migration is magisterial. It offers a sophisticated, comprehensive, incisive, multidisciplinary, well-written balance sheet of the pros and cons of immigration for receiving societies, sending societies, and migrants themselves. For everyone on all sides of this contentious issue, Exodus is a "must-read" -- Robert D. Putnam, Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University[Praise for Paul Collier's The Plundered Planet]: A must-read * Sunday Times *A path-breaking book -- George Soros
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University of California Press Needle at the Bottom of the Sea
Book SynopsisBrave and vivid.New York Review of BooksThese enchanting stories from early modern Bengal reveal how Hindu and Muslim traditions converged on timeless themes of human morality, social culture, and survival. The Bengali stories in this collection are first and foremost tales of survival. Each story in Needle at the Bottom of the Sea underscores the need for people to work togethernot just to overcome the challenges of living in the Sundarban swamps of Bengal, but also to ease hostilities born of social differences in religion, caste, and economic class. Translated by award-winning scholar of early modern Bengali literature Tony K. Stewart, Needle at the Bottom of the Sea brims with fantasy and excitement. Sufi protagonists travel through a world of wonder where tigers talk and men magically grow into giants, a Hindu princess falls in love with a Muslim holy man, and goddesses rub shoulders with kings and merchants. Across religion, class, and gender, what binds these fabulous stories together is the characters' pursuit of living honorably and morally in a difficult, corrupt world.Trade Review"Brave and vivid . . . [Stewart's translation] helps the anglophone reader enter this world in which karma supplies the ultimate explanation of the often bizarre adventures of the human spirit so richly explored in these stories." -- Wendy Doniger * The New York Review of Books *“Needle at the Bottom of the Sea allows access to local stories of quotidian struggles of common people and their belief system. The kathas in this anthology are useful for locating the time and space in South Asian history that led to the incorporation of Islamic cultural strands into the socio-literary corpus of Bengali. The translation of these tales entailed meticulous research. . . . Overall, this is a work of great scholarship, which will interest literary historians as well as avid readers having interest in traditional South Asian romances.” * Asian Review of Books *Table of ContentsContents Introduction The Auspicious Tale of the Lord of the Southern Regions The Rāy mangal of Krsnarām Dās Scouring the World for Cāmpāvatī Gāji kālu o cāmpāvatī kanyār puthi of Ābdul Ohāb Glorifying the Protective Matron of the Jungle Bonbibī jahurā nāmā of Mohāmmad Khater Wayward Wives and Their Magical Flying Tree Satya nārāyaner puthi of Kavi Vallabh Curbing the Hubris of Moses Khoyāj Khijir’s Instruction to Musā in Nabīvamśa of Saiyad Sultān translated with Ayesha A. Irani Glossary Acknowledgments
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Canongate Books Black Ghosts
Book SynopsisEDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER 2025A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023: TRAVELChina today is a land of opportunity for African people blocked from commerce with most of Europe and Northern America. It is also an intersection of racism and prejudice.Noo Saro-Wiwa goes in search of China''s ''Black Ghosts'', African economic migrants in the People''s Republic. Living in clustered communities, they are key to the trade between the continents. Her fascinating encounters include a cardiac surgeon, a drug dealer, a visa overstayer and men married to Chinese women who speak English with Nigerian accents. This is a story of intersecting cultures told with candour and compassion, focusing on the shared humanity between the sojourner and their hosts.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sittin In
Book SynopsisA rare collection of more than 200 full-color and black-and-white souvenir photographs and memorabilia that bring to life the renowned jazz nightclubs of the 1940s and 1950s, compiled by Grammy Award-winning record executive and music historian Jeff Gold and featuring exclusive interviews with Quincy Jones, Sonny Rollins, Robin Givhan, Jason Moran, and Dan Morgenstern.In the two decades before the Civil Rights movement, jazz nightclubs were among the first places that opened their doors to both Black and white performers and club goers in Jim Crow America. In this extraordinary collection, Jeff Gold looks back at this explosive moment in the history of Jazz and American culture, and the spaces at the center of artistic and social change. Sittin’ In is a visual history of jazz clubs during these crucial decades when some of the greatest names in in the genre—Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, and many others—were headlining acts across the country. In many of the clubs, Black and white musicians played together and more significantly, people of all races gathered together to enjoy an evening’s entertainment. House photographers roamed the floor and for a dollar, took picture of patrons that were developed on site and could be taken home in a keepsake folder with the club’s name and logo.Sittin’ In tells the story of the most popular club in these cities through striking images, first-hand anecdotes, true tales about the musicians who performed their unforgettable shows, notes on important music recorded live there, and more. All of this is supplemented by colorful club memorabilia, including posters, handbills, menus, branded matchbooks, and more. Inside you’ll also find exclusive, in-depth interviews conducted specifically for this book with the legendary Quincy Jones; jazz great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins; Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan; jazz musician and creative director of the Kennedy Center, Jason Moran; and jazz critic Dan Morgenstern.Gold surveys America’s jazz scene and its intersection with racism during segregation, focusing on three crucial regions: the East Coast (New York, Atlantic City, Boston, Washington, D.C.); the Midwest (Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City); and the West Coast (Los Angeles, San Francisco). This collection of ephemeral snapshots tells the story of an era that helped transform American life, beginning the move from traditional Dixieland jazz to bebop, from conservatism to the push for personal freedom.Trade ReviewA great book…A story that needs to be told! — Sonny Rollins Vivid and beautiful... — Los Angeles Times Unprecedented...explores a seminal period in jazz culture, including how [jazz clubs] broke racial barriers...an incredible trove of unseen photos and memorabilia as well as exclusive interviews with Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones and Dan Morgenstern, among others. — JAZZIZ Magazine Sending big-time props to my brother, Jeff Gold, on the release of his new book, Sittin' In—the first book exclusively dedicated to the story of America’s jazz clubs...This book covers the incredibly important role jazz played in integration, as jazz clubs were among some of the first places that allowed integration during the Jim Crow era, on stages & in the audiences. It was never about the color of your skin...jazz was & is simply about, “Can you play, sucka!” & that’s exactly what this book is about! — Quincy Jones A vibrant history of jazz clubs...beautifully designed...meticulously laid out and researched. — AllMusic/The Year’s Best Music Books Sittin’ In is fabulous: well thought out, beautifully put together, and artfully done with superb taste. A treasure. — Herb Alpert A beautiful book...highly, highly recommended. — Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang/SiriusXM Absolutely fascinating...a thoroughly entertaining, coherent, visually enticing package. — Analog Planet Sittin’ In is in a word—exquisite. Meticulously laid out and extensively researched, it’s a deep dive into this amazing period of American cultural history. These venues and this amazing music were among the best vehicles for integration the country ever had. This was an America really making a go of bringing people together. It wasn’t legislation. It was Jazz. And it worked. We are incredibly lucky to have Sittin’ In. The musicians in these pages made some of the most sublime music you will ever hear. Seek it out if you have not already. — Henry Rollins Without a doubt a MAJOR contribution to jazz history in so many ways. An explosion of never-before-seen images, an expert history of the music it celebrates, and lengthy and superb interviews with a killer-row of musicians and scholars. Truly a must-have for anyone for whom swing is the thing. — Loren Schoenberg, Former Executive Director/Current Senior Scholar of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem Any research project of this depth and breadth deserves celebration, especially when it focuses on places and ideas that are usually dismissed in most jazz histories and studies. So valuable, and so browsable—to use a book industry term, one I have affection for, that basically says, "jump in anywhere and carry on from there..." That's this book. With inspired, insightful interviews with Quincy Jones, Sonny Rollins, Jason Moran, and others. — Ashley Kahn, author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, and The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records This book is a revelation. In these unique images of mid-century jazz clubs, the camera is turned on the audience—showing the hidden history of racial integration. — Jon Savage, author of England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock; The Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division, 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded; and Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture You definitely feel like you’re back in the era when looking at these photos...just fascinating. — Press Play with Madeline Brand/KCRW Los Angeles This marvelous book is a must tor anyone interested not only in the history of jazz and American city culture but also tor it's wondrous design...Take the trip! It just might blow your mind... — Nels Cline/Wilco and The Nels Cline Singers Book of the year! Easily! — Johan Kugelberg, author of The Velvet Underground: New York Art and Punk: An Aesthetic Sittin' In is a book that has a lot to say, with or without words…It champions and shines a long overdue light on a golden era of our society. Jazz is the backdrop and, as it still does today, feeds the very soul. But here we take a closer look and see that the jazz culture was, and is, a powerful spirit of our humanity. — All About Jazz This wondrous book is most appreciated...The real joy here is just looking at all of the photos of “regular” jazz fans sitting in booths, just hanging out and enjoying themselves in clubs. Souvenir photos of people gathering in booths, as well musicians on stage reveal a culture and worldview of life’s simpler pleasures. The writings, as well as the wonderful photos and illustrations all seem to shout out “this is what you are missing in life” and makes me pray for a return of people putting the real meaning into the term “jazz club”. — Jazz Weekly Serious jazz fans should have this book…A sharp, clear explanation of a long-gone era of musical and social exploration. — The Arts Fuse ...a swinging book, with amazing interviews and pictures about jazz clubs. You really might want to check it out. — Penn Jillette This handsome book looks back not only to the distant years of clubs long gone, but to a seemingly equally distant time...when we could gather freely with one another, relax, and enjoy the best live music in the land. — Wall Street Journal ...offers an unprecedented look inside the jazz clubs from this era across the United States. Drawing on an incredible trove of never-before-seen photos and memorabilia, [Gold] gives us a glimpse at a world that was rich in culture, music, dining, fashion, and more. — LA Weekly ...serves as a welcome escape for those yearning to see live music again. — Jewish Insider This is a terrific book about the history of jazz clubs and the great artists who played them. Highly recommend! — Billy Crystal Jeff Gold's Sittin' In is a terrific new book documenting the jazz clubs of the 1940s & 1950s...the photographs are a treasure, and the text is fascinating. Even if you aren't an aficionado of the jazz of this era, or of jazz in general, the stories of the time and of this culture (let alone the lasting impact on music) make this one well worth owning. — Benmont Tench What a great book—I’m staggered by the archival material that’s been researched. — Bill Wyman The images testify not just to jazz’s popular peak but to a now-distant optimistic moment of promise in American life...These images bequeath a rarely published view of Black American middle-class life at mid-century: relaxed, elegant, and urbane...You also come away struck by how singular this postwar moment was. Finally, though, you come away refreshed by the spirit of what once was, a spirit that rebukes and shames where we seem to be today. — The New York Review of Books Excellent. — The Daily Beast
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Duke University Press Whats the Use
Book SynopsisIn What’s the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word—in this case, use—and following it around. She shows how use became associated with life and strength in nineteenth-century biological and social thought and considers how utilitarianism offered a set of educational techniques for shaping individuals by directing them toward useful ends. Ahmed also explores how spaces become restricted to some uses and users, with specific reference to universities. She notes, however, the potential for queer use: how things can be used in ways that were not intended or by those for whom they were not intended. Ahmed posits queer use as a way of reanimating the project of diversity work as the ordinary and painstaking task of opening up institutions to those who have historically been excluded.Trade Review“In this close reading of use, Sara Ahmed leads the reader from object to object at a pace that moves with the deliberateness of a philosopher and the grace of a literary scholar. With this and other books, Ahmed has established herself as one of the most important feminist thinkers in the world.” -- Rosemarie Garland-Thomson“With characteristic verve and force, Sara Ahmed explores the uses of use. More than a history of an idea and much more than a philosophical investigation of use and value, Ahmed’s book teaches us how to locate use, usefulness, used-upness, used objects, and useful and useless knowledge in relation to time, space, queerness, and more. Read this book; you need it, and more importantly, you will use it. It is useful and useless in equal proportion and compelling precisely because of its mixed-use value. Before you know it, you will get used to use and you will carry it with you always.” -- Jack Halberstam“How lucky we are that feminist killjoy Sara Ahmed takes us on her learned, witty, and insightful journey. With her evocative exasperation at the state of affairs with regard to the (im)possibilities of diversity work and complaint, she dismantles the sexist and racist structures of the modern university. Now as a courageous, independent scholar, Ahmed continues to shine her characteristic phenomenological lights on walls and doors and more. She is still here; she refused to get used to it!” -- Gloria Wekker"By crafting different routes, travelling lesser-known paths, and finding alternate ways of telling stories about use, Ahmed invites her readers to see the world from these non-normative subject positions and to rethink and reshape their own worldviews in the process." -- Sohel Sarkar * AC Review of Books *"A well-written, engaging text. Highly recommended. All readership levels." -- C. R. McCall * Choice *"Ahmed sought to write a text that intervenes in the everyday, that elevates a threadbare backpack to a place of unbound theoretical play. And she has done so. Although some readers may find themselves frustrated by Ahmed’s deflections of tangible directive, that seems to be precisely the point. Accessible and innovative, What’s the Use? will be of serious interest to activists, artists, and academics working at the intersections of queer and critical race studies." -- Caitlin Mackenzie * QED *“Ahmed follows an unexpected and fascinating pathway through the history of use, one that brings together scientific theories, institutional histories, and everyday life.... Ahmed’s explorations are animated by a spirit of reinvention that challenges both the conventions of philosophical practice and the taken-for-granted boundaries of feminist thought.” -- Eden Kinkaid * Feminist Formations *"What’s the Use? combines an intellectual history and a philosophical exploration of the concept of use with ethnographies and personal reflections on institutional diversity work. . . . Ahmed’s paradoxical undertaking reveals one must first subvert institutional diversity practices, in order to truly diversify an institution." -- Velina Manolova * Public Books *“What’s the Use? is a rigorous book with power.... Ahmed’s book wields theory in the right way.... I came away from What’s the Use? feeling equipped with new knowledge and ready to use it.” -- Minhae Shim Roth * Continuum *"Ahmed’s book is an interdisciplinary treasure for scholars that contributes to diverse strands of thought including women’s studies, decolonial studies, disability studies, and queer studies. Furthermore, the 'queer and idiosyncratic' method of the book (19) offers rich resources for 'troublemakers,' student organizers, feminist collectives, and human rights advocates." -- Pallavi Gupta * International Feminist Journal of Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction. A Useful Archive 1 1. Using Things 21 2. The Biology of Use and Disuse 68 3. Use as Technique 103 4. Use and the University 141 Conclusion. Queer Use 197 Notes 231 References 257 Index 271
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HarperCollins Publishers If I Were Invisible
Book SynopsisCollins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.Aaron thinks he wants to be invisible and is down all the time. Will Dad's wellness adventure help him to open up about his feelings?Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books.Pages 78 and 79 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.Kimberly Redway is an author based in Birmingham who currently works for West Midlands P
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The University of Chicago Press Broke
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In a crowded field of studies on higher education, Broke distinguishes itself by presenting a truly unique, multifaceted, and critical portrait of the 'new university' as a racial project. Hamilton and Nielsen convincingly demonstrate how processes of 'postsecondary racial neoliberalism' concentrate underrepresented students of color in the least resourced public universities. In these institutional settings, diversity policies and practices are shaped not by only colorblind ideology, but austerity as well."--Michael Omi and Howard Winant, coauthors of Racial Formation in the United States "Broke has the makings of a classic for the sociology of higher education, race, and class stratification. Hamilton and Nielsen document the evolution of the 'new university' in race- and class-stratified society during what they coin as the 'postsecondary racial neoliberal' era. Bolstered by strong empirical analyses and captivating, incisive writing, this book draws the reader in and beckons us to shatter both the realities and ironies of segregated university education as conduits of economic mobility in a wealthy society." --Prudence L. Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African SchoolsTable of ContentsIntroductionThe Changing Face of the UC 1. Battle with the Rankings 2. P3 Paradise 3. Running Political CoverResponses to Underfunding 4. Austerity Administration 5. Tolerable SuboptimizationDealing in Diversity 6. Student Labor and Centers of Support with Veronica Lerma 7. Marketing DiversityBreaking the Cycle Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: On Being White and Studying Race Notes References Index
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University of Illinois Press Steppin on the Blues
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSpecial Citation from the de la Torre Bueno Prize of the Dance Perspectives Foundation, 1997. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 1998.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Anthropology and Modern Life Routledge Classics
Book SynopsisFranz Boas (1858â1942) is widely regarded as the founder of American anthropology. He influenced an astonishing variety of scholars and researchers, from the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, to the philosopher W. E. B. DuBois, and novelist Zora Neale Hurston. Towards the end of his life he also lectured widely in an attempt to educate the public on the dangers of Nazi ideology.Anthropology and Modern Life demonstrates the incredibly rich and fertile range of Boasâs thought, engaging with controversies that resonate loudly today: the problem of race and racial types; heredity versus environment; the significance of intelligence tests; open versus closed societies; the ânature versus nurture debateâ; and nationality and nationalism. Believing passionately that science should be used to break down racial and cultural barriers, from the book's very opening Boas shatters the myth that anthropology is simply a collection of âcurious facts about exotic peoplesâ. Thanks to Boas's influence, anthropologists and other social scientists began to see that differences among the races resulted not from physiological factors, but from historical events and circumstances, and that race itself was a cultural construct.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Regna Darnell and an Introduction and Afterword by Herbert S. Lewis, who details Franz Boas's life, influence, and ideals.In writing the present book I desired to show that some of the most firmly rooted opinions of our times appear from a wider point of view as prejudices, and that a knowledge of anthropology enables us to look with greater freedom at the problems confronting our civilization. - Franz Boas, Anthropology and Modern LifeTrade Review"…for a college student to read the Bhagavad Gita in a Great Books class, for racism to be rejected as both morally bankrupt and self-evidently stupid, and for anyone, regardless of their gender expression, to claim workplaces and boardrooms as fully theirs—if all of these things are not innovations or aspirations but the regular, taken-for-granted way of organizing society, then we have the ideas championed by the Boas circle to thank for it." - Charles King, author of Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century"…the father of American cultural anthropology and the scholar who taught generations how to think about human diversity without hierarchy." - Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition Regna Darnell Introduction Herbert S. Lewis 1. What Is Anthropology? 2. The Problem of Race 3. The Interrelation of Races 4. Nationalism 5. Eugenics 6. Criminology 7. Stability of Culture 8. Education 9. Modern Civilisation and Primitive Culture Afterword Herbert S Lewis References Index
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Taylor & Francis Race and Ethnicity
Book SynopsisSituating the study of race and ethnicity within its historical and intellectual context, this much needed guide exposes students to the broad diversity of scholarship within the field. It provides a clear and succinct explanation of more than 70 key terms, their conceptual evolution over time, and the differing ways in which the concepts are deployed or remain pertinent in current debates. Concepts covered include: apartheid colonialism constructivism critical race theory eugenics hybridity Islamophobia new/modern racism reparations transnationalism. Fully cross-referenced and with suggestions for further reading, Race and Ethnicity: The Key Concepts is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of race, ethnicity, and nationalism. It will also be of great interest for those studying sociology, anthropology, politics, and cultural studies.Table of ContentsList of Key Concepts. Introduction. Key Concepts. Bibliography. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How the Irish Became White
Book Synopsis'âfrom time to time a study comes along that truly can be called âpath breaking,â âseminal,â âessential,â a âmust read.â How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, AmherstThe Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country â a land of opportunity â they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a personâs skin. Noel Ignatievâs 1995 book â the first published work of one of Americaâs leading and most controversial historians â tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how the new Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists. This is the story of How the Irish Became White.Trade Review'…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' - John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst'…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, AmherstTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Routledge Classics Edition. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction Part 1: Something in the Air Part 2: White Negroes and Smoked Irish Part 3: The Transubstantiation of an Irish Revolutionary Part 4: They Swung their Picks Part 5: The Tumultuous Republic Part 6: From Protestant Ascendancy to White Republic
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Harvard University Press We Aint What We Ought To Be
Book SynopsisTuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President Obama's inauguration. We Ain't What We Ought explores the dynamic relationships between those seeking new freedoms and those looking to preserve racial hierarchies, and between grassroots activists and national leaders.Trade ReviewTuck is one of the very best historians of the civil rights movement. His remarkable account of the long civil rights movement across the nation is brilliantly written and impeccably researched. No other account brings to light grass-roots struggles in so many parts of the country. -- Tony Badger, Professor of American History, Cambridge UniversityRichly detailed, brimming with insight, and marvelously accessible, Stephen Tuck's fast-paced account of African Americans' obdurate fight for equality and justice is the most exciting account of the modern black freedom struggle I have ever read. Consistently attentive to the experiences of ordinary colored folk as well as the actions of race leaders like Marcus Garvey and Martin Luther King and rightly insistent on the need to connect the northern and southern struggles, it sets new standards for scholars of the civil rights movement and the wider—much wider—history of black protest in the United States. -- Robert Cook, author of Sweet Land of Liberty?: African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the 20th CenturyFrom Frederick Douglass and Henry M. Turner to Barack Obama and Chuck D, from Redemption to Katrina, it's all here—the incredible resiliency and resourcefulness of women and men determined to endure and to overcome. An extraordinary odyssey, captured vividly and imaginatively by Tuck, in which the black voice is heard loudly and clearly. -- Leon F. Litwack, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Trouble in Mind: Black ,Southerners in the Age of Jim CrowTuck delivers a riveting, challenging, and beautifully rendered interpretation of the black freedom movement that tells a powerful and compelling story—one that refuses to reduce black folk to mythic heroes or tragic victims. An essential introduction for anyone who wants to understand the last century and a half, the era of America's greatest revolutions. -- Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalFresh in conception and assured in execution, this wonderfully rich history of the African American experience weaves graphic human stories of ordinary black people into the larger sweep of political and social change. Written with flair, colour, and sensitivity, it confirms Tuck as a leading historian of American race. -- Richard Carwardine, Lincoln Prize–winning author of Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and PowerWe Ain't What We Ought To Be is a provocative and important book that deftly probes both the certainties and the ambiguities of the unending struggles of everyday people for social justice and an end to racism. -- Darlene Clark Hine, Former President, the Organization of American Historians, and the Southern Historical AssociationTuck's is the best single volume history of the long civil rights movement—at once remarkably thorough and admirably concise, richly detailed and strongly argued. Drawing on a rich vein of scholarship in numerous fields, he has produced a new synthesis for a new generation. -- Bruce J. Schulman, author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and PoliticsIn this sweeping and absorbing history of black activism, Tuck highlights the achievements of community organizing from the mid-19th century to Barack Obama's dexterous grassroots campaign for the presidency. Tuck argues that there is no one black protest movement or agenda and casts his net over 150 years of black political engagement to reel in untold stories and unsung heroes. He is particularly attentive to the first 20 years of the 20th century, which saw protest, empowerment, and the rise of galvanizing figures from Marcus Garvey to boxer Jack Johnson. While the civil rights movement of the 1960s has become emblematic in the chronology of black history, according to Tuck, it does not define the ongoing fight for social justice and freedom among blacks in America. With rich detail and a strong narrative, Tuck fills in gaps in the story, from the lesser known backroom dealings of Booker T. Washington to the noble efforts on behalf of black women by Anna Julia Cooper. * Publishers Weekly *A multitude of black experiences have contributed to the complexity and diversity of the civil rights struggle beyond the iconic portrayals of the movement. Historian Tuck juxtaposes local versus national, southern versus northern, violent versus nonviolent, wartime versus peacetime, secular versus religious, separatist versus integrationist, and other polarities. Tuck profiles famous and obscure African Americans who have struggled for human and civil rights since slavery. Along with Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, and others, he profiles Robert Smalls, an enslaved assistant to a captain in the Confederate navy, who sailed the ship to freedom while the white crew and captain slept, and Fanny Peck, a black Detroit housewife who launched a boycott in 1930 of businesses that didn't hire blacks. He chronicles struggles of black feminists, gays and lesbians, environmentalists, and others who don't often make the pages of the history books. In this well-researched volume, Tuck details protests large and small, individual and organized, from Emancipation to the election of Barack Obama. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *Oxford University lecturer Stephen Tuck's We Ain't What We Ought To Be is a collection of voices that document our struggle for equality in America from the Reconstruction era until now. It's all here--the great speeches and moments--but it's the nod to the common woman and man that lifts this narrative a notch above similar titles. -- Patrik Henry Bass * Essence *We Ain't What We Ought To Be is an astounding exercise in synthesis, bringing together the past decade of research on the African-American experience. To scholars of southern and black history, what Tuck calls "revelations" will be anything but. However, most Americans are still under the spell of the genre's first generation, with its neat divisions between North and South, violent and nonviolent, and civil rights and Black Power. Tuck's book could change that. -- Clay Risen * Bookforum *Besides its success a riveting piece of narrative writing, Stephen Tuck's account of "the long civil rights movement" is an excellent reminder about the complexities of history...Tuck, a British scholar who lectures on American history at Oxford, has carried out wide-ranging research and written with a fresh approach that enlivens the many sub-themes woven into the whole. From his angle across the waters, his story is as sobering as it is captivating. -- Mark Knoll * Books & Culture *Stephen Tuck has written what must be the most comprehensive history of the civil rights movement that you'll find in a single volume...Stephen Tuck has successfully tackled and tamed a beast of a topic. The writing is crisp and clear yet poetic in its way. There is so much documented information that filler is unnecessary, which makes this history of a complex, multi-century process as readable as any page-turner. We Ain't What We Ought To Be belongs in the classroom and on students' reading lists, but it also fits into the personal library as a reference and a reminder of how the conviction and determination of individuals can lead to world-changing unity. -- Deborah Adams * Curled Up with a Good Book *Masterly...From Reconstruction through the election of President Barack Obama, from the blues through hip-hop, from strikes by black longshoremen in New Orleans in 1867 to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Tuck recounts the efforts of blacks to obtain full American citizenship without discarding their cultural heritage. Pluralism, more than integration, characterizes this monumental and tragic history...This book is comprehensive, balanced, and readable. It stands as the best interpretive volume of the black freedom struggle since 1865. -- Steven F. Lawson * Journal of American History *
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Beacon Press Race Matters 25th Anniversary With a New
Book SynopsisThe twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introductionFirst published in 1993, on the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters became a national best seller that has gone on to sell more than half a million copies. This classic treatise on race contains Dr. West’s most incisive essays on the issues relevant to black Americans, including the crisis in leadership in the Black community, Black conservatism, Black-Jewish relations, myths about Black sexuality, and the legacy of Malcolm X. The insights Dr. West brings to these complex problems remain relevant, provocative, creative, and compassionate.In a new introduction for the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Dr. West argues that we are in the midst of a spiritual blackout characterized by imperial decline, racial animosity, and unchecked brutality and terror as seen in Baltimore, Ferguson, and Charlottesville. Calling for a moral and spiritual a
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Duke University Press This Nonviolent Stuffll Get You Killed
Book SynopsisIn This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, Charles E. Cobb Jr. describes the vital role that armed self-defense played in the survival and liberation of black communities in America during the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s.Trade Review "Students at a high school or college level would find the book both a fascinating read and a useful tool for learning about civil rights activism. For students in a survey course on United States history, or undergraduates in a U.S. history course for up and coming history majors, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed would be a valuable resource in both how to write compelling history and how to explore themes, such as civil rights history, that have been well traveled before." -- Robert Greene II * History Teacher *"This book will have readers who might have nothing else in common politically reaching for a copy." * PJ Media *"In this challenging book, Charles Cobb, a former organizer, examines the role of guns in the civil rights movement." * Mother Jones *"[A] brilliant book. . . . A serious analytical work of the African-American southern Freedom Struggle, Cobb’s book…deserves a prominent place on everyone’s reading list." * Against the Current *"[A] richly detailed memoir." * New York Times Book Review *"A frank look at the complexities and contradictions of the civil rights movement, particularly with regard to the intertwined issues of nonviolence and self-defense. . . . Thought-provoking and studded with piercing ironies." * Kirkus Reviews *"Cobb's long-essay format brings the Freedom Movement to life in an unexpected way, shaking up conventional historical views and changing the conversation about individual freedom and personal protection that continues today. . . . A nuanced exploration of the complex relationship between nonviolent civil disobedience and the threat of armed retaliation." * Shelf Awareness for Readers *"Cobb brilliantly situates the civil rights movement in the context of Southern life and gun culture, with a thesis that is unpacked by way of firsthand and personal accounts." * Library Journal *"[A] bracing and engrossing celebration of black armed resistance." * Publishers Weekly *"Cobb’s book extends beyond the subject of self-defense and violence to provide an enhanced understanding of community organizing yesterday and today in the freedom struggle for a more inclusive and progressive society." -- Ron Briley * Journal of American Culture *"[A] revelatory new history of armed self-defense and the civil rights movement." * Reason *"Cobb . . . reviews the long tradition of self-protection among African Americans, who knew they could not rely on local law enforcement for protection. . . . Understanding how the use of guns makes this history of the civil rights movement more compelling to readers, Cobb is nonetheless focused on the determination of ordinary citizens, women included, to win their rights, even if that meant packing a pistol in a pocket or purse." * Booklist *Table of ContentsAuthor's Note xi Preface to the Paperback Edition: More Than a Gun Story xv Introduction 1 Prologue: I Come to Get My Gun 19 1. "Over My Head I See Freedom in the Air" 27 2. "The Day of Camouflage Is Past" 55 3. "Fighting for What We Didn't Have" 83 4. "I Wasn't Being Non-Nonviolent" 114 5. Which Cheek you Gonna Turn? 149 6. Standing Our Ground 187 Epilogue: "The King of Love Is Dead" 227 Afterword: Understanding History 239 Acknowledgments 251 Notes 253 Index 283
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David Zwirner The Sweet Flypaper of Life
Book Synopsis“The people in these photographs had no walls up. They just accepted me and permitted me to take their photographs without any self-consciousness.” —Roy DeCaravaThe Sweet Flypaper of Life is a “poem” about ordinary people, about teenagers around a jukebox, about children at an open fire hydrant, about riding the subway alone at night, about picket lines and artist work spaces. This renowned, life-affirming collaboration between artist Roy DeCarava and writer Langston Hughes honors in words and pictures what the authors saw, knew, and felt deeply about life in their city. Hughes’s heart-warming description of Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s is seen through the eyes of one grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. As she guides the reader through the lives of those around her, we imagine the babies born, families in struggle, children yet flourishing. We experience the sights and sounds of Harlem as seen through her
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Cambridge University Press Critical Race Theory
Book SynopsisThis Element explores Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its potential application to the field of public administration. It proposes specific areas within the field where a CRT framework would help to uncover and rectify structural and institutional racism. This is paramount given the high priority that the field places on social equity, the third pillar of public administration. If there is a desire to achieve social equity and justice, systematic, structural racism needs to be addressed and confronted directly. The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is one example of the urgency and significance of applying theories from a variety of disciplines to the study of racism in public administration.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Critical Race Theory; Critical Race Methodology; Application of CRT to Public Administrative Studies; CRT and Public Administration: Bridging Theory with Practice; Conclusion; Appendix: Evaluating Quantitative Public Health Studies from a CRT Perspective
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Taylor & Francis Racial Segregation and Eugenical Science Between
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Taylor & Francis The Permanence of AntiRoma Racism
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£34.19
Simon & Schuster Ltd Not Quite White
Book SynopsisThis is a story of belonging and not belonging, of not knowing if you exist and making sure that you do. This story is for ancestors and descendants, for the people without roles or representation who find themselves placed in a random mixed-up race. This is a story about time travel and tigers, of mountains and moons, and what happens when you sew a thread that was split in two. Reliving defining memories from early childhood in the 1990s to the present day, Laila Woozeer engages with the divisive patterns of racism and prejudice and their cumulative effect on a single life. Using the healing stream of connection – with personal and family history, friends, nature and imagination – and the act of creation, Laila illustrates the way a self was forged. Between past lives and personhood, and from colonialism to creativity, this is a vivid, lyrical account of identity, endurance, courage, growth and artistry. In Not Quite White you are invited to follTrade Review'A pulsing exploration of the self, this book hands you the privilege to observe Laila find meaning, and it oozes with vulnerability, hope, beauty and story. When I’m older I want to write like Laila' -- Gina Martin'Charts the pain and confusion of growing up while grappling with a complicated, mixed ethnic identity.. a memoir that many mixed-race people will easily relate to' * Dazed *'A lyrical odyssey of self-discovery, told with folkloric flair. In charting her journey across Welsh mountains and Mauritian seas, Laila Woozeer offers a map that can guide us all, regardless of our origins, to unearth the treasure that lies within. A must-read for anyone in search of themselves' -- Jassa Ahluwalia, author and creator of #BothNotHalf'Anyone who wants to learn how our racial identity impacts not only our experience of the world but also how we understand ourselves should pick up this book. Gorgeously written, too' -- Natasha Devon'A moving piece of literature.. an eloquent portrayal of self-discovery and building your identity in a society that is eager to dismantle your existence at every turn' * Wales Art Review *An insight into what it's like growing up mixed race' * My London *'One of the most relatable books I’ve read on the mixed experience' * Mixed Messages *'This book is a gem. I genuinely couldn’t stop turning the pages. Laila is an essential voice in todays important issues of race, identity and belonging' -- Kai Samra'Heartbreaking, vivid, lyrical, and very smart… I was so grateful to Laila giving us the understanding of this quite complex topic' * Book Reccos *'This book is a treat, asking timely questions about race, who we are and how we define ourselves, but through such exquisite prose you get utterly pulled in' -- Rosie Holt'Delves into what it’s like growing up mixed race in the UK' * Mashable *'Woozeer creates an environment in the reader’s mind that allows us to learn more about ourselves… the is the real gift to readers' * Brown Girl Bookshelf *'The most nuanced and moving account of mixed race identity I’ve read' * htmljones *
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McFarland & Co Inc American Businesses in China
Book Synopsis Since the publication of earlier editions of this book, China''s political and economic landscapes have changed dramatically, with the rise of new leadership, evolving alliances, tariff wars, educational policies and technological advancements. Focusing on Chinese-American ventures, this expanded and revised edition chronicles the investments that have marked China''s astonishing growth in the 21st century. Adding another dimension to the exploration of Chinese-American commerce, this edition discusses China''s roots in Confucian identity and its effect on modern business culture. Case studies of American businesses that have been successful in China are included. Reflecting upon the changing nature of Chinese consumerism and international corporate behavior, the authors close with specific suggestions for those interested in doing business in China.Trade ReviewReviews of previous editions: ""recommended"" - Choice""an excellent introduction to current Chinese culture"" - Catholic Library World.
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Duke University Press Racial Melancholia Racial Dissociation
Book SynopsisIn Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora.Trade Review"Intentionally answering the call for interdisciplinary scholarship, this innovative work will be valuable for clinicians as well as scholars of race. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." -- J. deGuzman * Choice *"One of the most striking aspects of Eng and Han’s book is the relative ease with which it toggles back and forth between psychoanalytic case studies of people in various stages of suffering and characters in novels who were created to embody themes of beauty and triumph, suffering and fracture. . . . There’s a power in being able to recognize our struggles as the result of paradoxes we live within rather than seeing them as purely private failings. It’s a step toward imagining lives that we might be the authors of, with endings that we write ourselves." -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *"Accessibly written and powerfully argued, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation is an excellent resource for any scholar thinking about race and psychoanalysis and, specifically, who are thinking critically about the use of psychoanalytic paradigms like mourning, loss, melancholia, infantile development, reparation, or transitional objects in relation to questions of the lived experiences of racial oppression." -- Christopher Bennett * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *"Eng and Han—a literature professor and a psychotherapist, respectively—demonstrate how to understand the entanglements of history, culture, and psychoanalysis for Asian Americans. . . . This is an unusual social justice project, for it imagines a collective politics that is grounded in the intimate—and highly individualized—work of therapeutic repair." -- Amy R. Wong * Public Books *“Eng and Han’s work provides a critical vocabulary for articulating the slippery and insidious ways multicultural violence operates in the contemporary era.... Eng and Han contribute an invaluable perspective on Asian Americans’ racial and psychic processes that will be of interest to scholars across disciplines....” -- Corinne Mitsuye Sugino * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: The History of the (Racial) Subject and the Subject of (Racial) History 1 Part I: Racial Melancholia 1. Racial Melancholia: Model Minorities, Depression, and Suicide 33 2. Desegregating Love: Transnational Adoption, Racial Reparation, and Racial Transnational Objects 66 Part II. Racial Dissociation 3. Racial Dissociation: Parachute Children and Psychic Nowhere 101 4. (Gay) Panic Attack: Coming Out in a Colorblind Age 141 Epilogue 174 Notes 181 Bibliography 203 Index 213
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Duke University Press Medicines That Feed Us
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£22.79
Copper Canyon Press,U.S. The Stuff of Hollywood
Book SynopsisIn The Stuff of Hollywood, the camera is both a witness of truths and an instrument capturing the line between real and engineered violence.The Stuff of Hollywood is a meditation on the pervasiveness of violence in America. In this book-length poem, Niki Herd relies on various modes—images, prose, lyric and documentary poems—to reflect upon the quotidian nature of gun culture, police killings, and political unrest. A busy Waffle House, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, inside an Uber on a Chicago street, readers are placed in various “film” locations and watch as America becomes a character in its own absurd movie. In one section, excerpted language from the continuity script of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 The Birth of a Nation is juxtaposed with text from the January 6 congressional hearings, suggesting a frag
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Nightboat Books CRUEL/CRUEL
Book SynopsisA response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity. These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions, shaped by art and a soundtrack of Black musical traditions of resistance: from jazz to soul to experimental to hip hop. A hybrid visual and literary object, CRUEL/CRUEL feels relentlessly present, and yet emphasizes the archival and documentary as intrinsic to our personal and collective survivals.Trade Review"Stephens’s beguiling book puzzles out the interconnections of seemingly opposing forces as it wrestles with issues of race, language, and legibility in the wake of 2020’s twin cataclysms of police violence and COVID-19.”—Harriet Books"Dior Stephens’ CRUEL/CRUEL is a meticulously arranged series of poems that contrasts playful lightness with the heavy weight of racial conflict and tension in a form that is both startling and familiar in its restrained mix of anger and hope. Each poem’s eye is turned inward with an intensity that burns through the self, revealing a brilliant mirror reflecting the world through the Black body."—Stephen Patrick Bell, Lamda Literary Review“I can honestly say he might be one of my favorite poets I’ve read. With all the brutal honesty of Claudia Rankine and the playfulness of Ross Gay, Stephens’s declaration that 'a poet is a poem is a keeper' is my new motto. This one’s definitely a keeper.”—D.D. Deischer-Eddy, Green Blotter"Dior J. Stephens’ CRUEL/CRUEL is a testament to queer interiority, an ode to the Saturn return, and a celebration of language itself. If you delight in 'FEMBOY NAILS CLAWING UP RAFTERS OF HYPERCRITICALITY,' or if you’ve ever wanted to ride in a 'salted/shroom submarine' then this book is your book. Do as the speaker advises in one of these fantastic poems and 'open your windows'—let this book in."—Cyrée Jarelle Johnson"With glorious music, Dior J. Stephens’ CRUEL/CRUEL explores how societal expectations obstruct true connection and intimacy. Stephens, an expert in energetic wordplay, writes so that each poem is also a performance—something to be experienced within the body, a secret to be shared between friends. And I felt myself leaning in, feeling this speaker’s plight for love and acceptance, found myself also asking, 'and / don’t i croon for you, like / so?'"—Taylor Byas"CRUEL/CRUEL peels the plastic cover off the good couch and relishes in the lush sonic textures and linguistic dexterity of the lyric. Dior J. Stephens exudes a finesse to language and experimentalism as a site for re-imagination, for 'STILL, there’s a hope in the wind that slants pessimism.' Stephens is the 'dolphin in a mask in a mask in plain view,' inventive, playful, and spiritually cognizant to manifest for Black, queer voices toward radiant futures."—Anthony Cody"Dior J. Stephens knows the body is a reluctant archive. Stephens tends to traces of the everyday, knotting them into memory to patch a self frayed and fuming under the gaze of white heteropatriarchy. Yet, Stephens tracks how we buckle with pleasure. To read this book is to slink into a plum-black night where we hear 'the ghost rivers of Harlem play / light patches / in your good ear.' Listen."—Divya Victor
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Nightboat Books Permanent Record
Book SynopsisA visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Brown, and many new and emerging voices.Inspired by Naima Yael Tokunow’s research into the Black American record (and its purposeful scarceness), Permanent Record asks, what do we gain when we engage with our flawed cultural systems of remembrance? How does questioning and creating a deep relationship to the archive, and in some cases, spinning thread from air where there is none, allow us to prefigure the world that we want? Including reflections on identity and language, diasporic and first generation lived experiences, and responses to the ways the record upholds harm and provides incomplete understandings, Permanent Record hopes to reframe what gets to be a part of collective remembrance, exploring “possibilities for speculating beyond recorded multiplicity.”
£15.29
Workman Publishing Slow Noodles
Book SynopsisA haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.
£15.29
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Promoting Inclusion and Diversity in Early Years
Book SynopsisThis guide provides insights, case studies and resources to enable anyone working in early years settings to identify and understand the individual needs of children from diverse backgrounds and the steps that can be taken to support and extend their learning. Examining the impact of unconscious bias, blind spots and institutionalised discrimination that set some children at a disadvantage, this book raises awareness and provides strategies for professionals to proactively support those affected. It covers race and ethnicity, religion, culture, EAL and intersectionality and enables professionals to help children from diverse backgrounds to develop to the best of their potential.Trade ReviewThe aim of the book is to help children understand and celebrate differences of every kind and to help all children to feel valued and respected, fulfilling a goal of the DfE's EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) that children 'know about the similarities and differences between themselves and others and among families, communities and traditions.' Chandrika's in-depth knowledge and passion for this subject is compelling and has proved to be invaluable.Dr Devarakonda's books: 'Promoting Inclusion and Diversity in Early Years Settings' and 'Diversity and Inclusion in Early Childhood' are exceptionally well-researched, clearly structured and written and, in my view, exemplary academic texts on the subject. They have both extended my knowledge and challenged my thinking and assumptions, especially in the key areas of institutionalised discrimination and unconscious bias and their potential impact on children from a very young age. -- Felicity Brooks * Editorial Director, Usborne Publishing Ltd. *
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Verso Books Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American
Book SynopsisPraised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American life." Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise: the practice of racism produces the illusion of race, through what they call "racecraft." And this phenomenon is intimately entwined with other forms of inequality in American life. So pervasive are the devices of racecraft in American history, economic doctrine, politics, and everyday thinking that the presence of racecraft itself goes unnoticed. That the promised post-racial age has not dawned, the authors argue, reflects the failure of Americans to develop a legitimate language for thinking about and discussing inequality. That failure should worry everyone who cares about democratic institutions.Trade Review“It’s not just a challenge to racists, it’s a challenge to people like me, it’s a challenge to African-Americans who have accepted the fact of race and define themselves by the concept of race.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates “Fundamentally challenged some of my oldest and laziest ideas about race.” —Zadie Smith“These essays are extraordinary. I love the forceful elegance with which they hammer home that race is a monstrous fiction, racism is a monstrous crime.”—Junot Díaz “Demanding and intelligent.” —Jennifer Vega, PopMatters “Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields have undertaken a great untangling of how the chimerical concepts of race are pervasively and continuously reinvented and reemployed in this country.”—Maria Bustillos, Los Angeles Review of Books“The neologism ‘racecraft’ is modelled on ‘witchcraft’ … It isn’t that the Fieldses regard the commitment to race as a category as an irrational superstition. On the contrary, they are interested precisely in exploring its rationality—the role that beliefs about race play in structuring American society—while at the same time reminding us that those beliefs may be rational but they’re not true.”—Walter Benn Michaels, London Review of Books“A most impressive work, tackling a demanding and important topic—the myth that we now live in a postracial society—in a novel, urgent, and compelling way. The authors dispel this myth by squarely addressing the paradox that racism is scientifically discredited but, like witchcraft before it, retains a social rationale in societies that remain highly unequal and averse to sufficiently critical engagement with their own history and traditions.”—Robin Blackburn “[Racecraft] should be more widely read than it is—no matter its current reach. In it, the authors achieve an intelligence and agility that is rare in discussions of identity, racism, and inequality.” —Matthew McKnight, Nation “Liberal mores against overt racism are crumbling in the face of Trump. We must build them better … The Fields sisters dive through sociology, history, and science to reach the material truth: races is a product of racism, not the other way around.”—Charlie Heller, Paste“With examples ranging from the profound to the absurd—including, for instance, an imaginary interview with W.E.B. Dubois and Emile Durkheim, as well as personal porch chats with the authors’ grandmother—the Fields delve into ‘racecraft’s’ profound effect on American political, social and economic life.”—Global Journal“This is a very thoughtful book, a very urgent book.”—The Academic & The Artist Cloudcast“Ostensibly ‘antiracist’ politics that treat racial categories as if they were real … perpetuate what they purport to resist. As this form of counterproductive antiracism becomes hegemonic in our culture, the Fieldses’ insights are increasingly salient.”—Blake Smith, Washington Examiner
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Latin American Cultural and Musical Contexts in Music Therapy
Book SynopsisCulturally-conscious music therapy has the power to create meaningful therapeutic connections between practitioners and clients from different backgrounds, and to support healing by honoring clients'' heritages and experiences.This essential handbook dives into the wide range of linguistic, historical, and cultural influences that shape different Latin American clients, and suggests ways to apply these contexts in music therapy settings. Stories, case studies, and research provide a comprehensive overview of both theory and its practical applications, allowing better client-centred practice. Examples shown through the perspective of therapists and clients demonstrate ways to develop culturally-competent practice, as well as highlighting its importance in supporting clients from different backgrounds and helping Latine therapists to weave their own heritage into their work. A key resource for therapists and care professionals working with Latine and Hispanic clients, this guide broadens the horizons of music therapy and reinforces the diversity at its heart.
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University of Cincinnati Press Race, Ethnicity, and the COVID–19 Pandemic
Book SynopsisThe first authoritative source on the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for racial and ethnic minorities. To understand racial disparities in COVID-19 infections and deaths, we must first understand how they are linked to racial inequality. In the United States, the material advantages afforded by whiteness lead to lower rates of infections and deaths from COVID-19 when compared to the rates among Black, Latino, and Native American populations. Most experts point to differences in population density, underlying health conditions, and proportions of essential workers as the primary determinants in the levels of COVID-19 deaths. The national response to the pandemic has laid bare the fundamentals of a racialized social structure. Assembled by a prestigious group of sociologists, this volume examines how particularly during the first year of COVID-19, the socioeconomic impact of the pandemic led to different and poorer outcomes for Black, Latino, and Native American populations. While color-blindness shaped national discussions on essential workers, charity, and differential mortality, minorities were overwhelmingly affected. The essays in this collection provide a mix of critical examination of the progress and direction of our COVID-19 response, personal accounts of the stark difference in care and outcomes for minorities throughout the United States, and offer recommendations to create a foundation for future response and research during the critical early days.Table of Contents Preface: Preface: Systemic Racism: The Common Thread Part I: COVID-19, Racism, and the Legacy of Colonialism Chapter 1: Racial Inequality and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic Melvin E. Thomas Chapter 2: COVID-19 as White Space: The Collective Perils of Whiteness During the Pandemic David L. Brunsma, Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, Inaash Islam, Joong Won Kim, and Steve McGlamery Chapter 3: Color-Blind Racial Discourse in Pandemic Times Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Chapter 4: Actual Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality for the Non-Hispanic Black Population Compared to Non-Hispanic White Population in 35 US States and Their Association with Structural Racism Michael Siegel, Isabella Critchfield-Jain, Matthew Boykin, and Alicia Owens Chapter 5: COVID-19 Exposes Deep Racial Inequities and Vulnerability in the United States Alana Dass Chapter 6: The COVID-19 Crisis Among Native Americans in the United States Loren Henderson Chapter 7: Global Racial Capitalism and COVID-19 Johnny Eric Williams and David G. Embrick Part II: COVID-19 and Selected U.S. Institutions Chapter 8: Essential Yet Expendable: The Paradoxical Racialization of COVID-19 Jan-Martijn Meij and Diane L. Odeh Chapter 9: Introducing the Strategic Health and Economic Emergency Management Plan for Vulnerable Populations: How to Protect Black Health and Black Wealth in the U.S. Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond Lori Latrice Martin Chapter 10: The Value of Incarcerated Black Lives during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Exploration of Healthcare Disparities of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Populations Britany J. Gatewood, Ebony Russ, Yanesia Norris, and A. Cayce Chapter 11: The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Americans Employed in the Service Sector Anita Fernander and Lovoria Williams Part III: Personal Experiences With COVID-19 Chapter 12: Risks, Relationships, and ‘Rona: How Five Black Mothers Navigate the COVID-19 Pandemic Sandra Barnes Chapter 13: “Sister Space”: Clinical Insights From a Black Women’s Support Group During COVID-19 Haley Sparks Chapter 14: “Black Lives Matter #saytheirnames” Tiffany J. Grant Chapter 15: “Conclusion: The Path Forward” Loren Henderson, Melvin Thomas, and Hayward Derrick Horton Epilogue: “The Pandemic Continues”
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Rowman & Littlefield Bitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Biblical
Book SynopsisBitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved. They present pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible translation that center Black Lives Matter and black culture. Biblical narratives, news media, and personal stories intertwine in critical discussions of black rage, protest, anti-blackness, and mothering in the context of black precarity.Trade ReviewSince African American biblical interpretation is unapologetically contextual, the contributors of Bitter the Chastening Rod engage the cultural history of Black peoples in the U.S. and diaspora, raising new questions about humanity, discipline, and culture amidst social movements such as #BLM, #SayHerName, and #MeToo. Consequently, this collective work of Africana biblical critics emerges as an assemblage of culturally informed knowledge of the text and history, innovative deployments of theories and hermeneutics, and emancipatory pedagogy grounded in praxis. It demonstrates the perseverance, resilience, and brilliance of generations of Black biblical scholarship. As Stony the Road We Trod opened the path not only for Black scholarship but also for other minoritized scholars, this volume is a must-read for all biblical scholars and an invaluable source for faith communities to join the struggle for justice in our time. -- Jin Young Choi, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity SchoolBitter the Chastening Rod provides creative paths to the hackneyed roads that whitestream scholarship has built for Biblical Studies. We are in dire need of imaginative interpretive exercises that challenge how whiteness has pervaded historiography, linguistics, and literary analysis. We also need visionary models to build graduate programs, curriculums, and educational practices attentive to a world facing unprecedented global crises. Bitter the Chastening Rod suggests new paths for such enterprise. -- Luis Menéndez-Antuña, Boston University School of TheologyThis compelling sequel of the seminal Stony the Road we Trod proves the pressing relevance of Africana hermeneutics at this historical moment. These diverse readings offer a review of the work of pioneers; bold, historically grounded, and tragically relevant interpretations of individual texts about incarceration and violence; and important challenges to comfortable readers. No New Testament scholar, seminarian, or Christian should look away from the opportunities to enact justice that this volume presents. -- Candida Moss, University of BirminghamBitter the Chastening Rod: Africana Interpretation After Stony the Road we Trod in the Age of #BLM, #SayHerName, and #MeToo is a greatly anticipated volume that, in the spirit of Sankofa, builds upon, expands, and futures Black post-colonial biblical studies. The aggregation of renown scholars that pen this work offers brilliant insights on the biblical text and prophetic movements against subjugation. This important text engages the longstanding and ongoing work of confronting interlocking forms of oppression in the US and globally, centering the continuing need to illuminate connections between Africana biblical studies and the hermeneutical lenses of current revolutionary struggles. It is a must-read that informs any serious engagement of the theological disciplines and meaningful social action. -- Maisha I. K. Handy, executive director of the Jacquelyn Grant Center for Black Women’s Justice and associate professor of Religion and Education, Interdenominational Theological CenterThe pioneers of Black biblical scholarship have proudly passed the torch to an equally agile cohort of “troublers” who ably take up the call to challenge the still prevailing hermeneutic of whiteness. For me, a white scholar, BCR is the companion piece I’ve been waiting for. I owe these contributors not only a great debt of gratitude for such an essential resource but also my undivided attention and resolve as I trod my own hermeneutical trek. -- William P. Brown, Columbia Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsPart I. Remembering the Past, Laboring in the Present, and Shaping a Hopeful Future1.“The Hill We Climb”: Introduction ‒‒ Mitzi J. Smith, Angela N. Parker and Ericka Dunbar Hill2.A Eulogy for Cain Hope Felder ‒‒ Brian K. Blount3.Zoom-ing in on a Watershed Moment in Biblical Interpretation ‒‒ William H. MyersPart II. God’s Black(ened) People in the World—Thugs, Slaves and Criminals4.God’s Only Begotten Thug ‒‒ Allen Dwight Callahan5.Abolitionist Messiah: A Man Named Jesus Born of a Doulē ‒‒ Mitzi J. Smith6.Reading with the Enslaved: Placing Human Bondage at the Center of the Early Christian Story ‒‒ Emerson B. Powery7.“I am a Human”: Racializing Assemblages and Criminalized Egyptianness in Acts 21:31–39 ‒‒ Jeremy L. Williams8.The Terror of White Hermeneutics: Black and Enslaved Bodies Interpreted in the Context of Whiteness ‒‒ Marcus W. ShieldsPart III. Africana Hermeneutical Strategies, Pedagogy, Translation, and #BLM9.Hoodoo Blues and the Formulation of Hermeneutical Strategies for Contemporary Africana Biblical Engagement ‒‒ Hugh R. Page, Jr.10.Reflections on Teaching Biblical Interpretation through a Black Lives Matter Hermeneutic ‒‒ Wil Gafney11.Revisiting the Caananites and Contemporary Ites: Pedagogical Insights into Cheering for the Wrong Team ‒‒ Theodore W. Burgh12.Reading Romans in Greek: Translating and Commenting on it in Haitian Creole ‒‒ Ronald CharlesPart IV. Black Rage and Protest in Times of #Black Lives Matter and #MeToo13.Rage, Riots, and Rhetoric: Psalm 137 and African American Responses to Violence ‒‒ Stacy Davis14.Rethinking “God-breathed” in the Age of #Black Lives Matter: A Womanist Reading of 2 Tim 3:10–17 ‒‒ Angela N. Parker15.Leah and Dinah in the Face of Abuse: What Do I Tell My Daughter? ‒‒ Kamilah Hall Sharp16.Antichrist and Anti-Black: 1 John and “Black Lives Matter” ‒‒ Dennis R. EdwardsPart V. Responses17.John’s Apocalypse and African American Interpretation ‒‒ Thomas B. Slater18.Race Still Matters: Mapping the Afterlives of Stony the Road We Trod ‒‒ Clarice J. Martin19.“To Think Better Than We Have Been Trained”: Thirty Years Later ‒‒ Renita J. Weems
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Simon & Schuster Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American
Book SynopsisA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book A Best Book of 2021 by BuzzFeed and Real Simple An “unmissable” (Vogue), “exceptional” (The Washington Post), and “evocative” (Chicago Tribune) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerful forces at work that allow some to flourish…and others to falter.They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded—fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls—as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. It has offered them a promise, albeit nascent and fragile, that they will have more opportunities, rights, and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history. Their working-class, striving parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks’ business; collecting secret treasures; and daydreaming about their futures—Dawn and Debra, doctors, Kim a teacher. For a brief, wondrous moment the girls are all giggles and dreams and promises of “friends forever.” And then fate intervenes, first slowly and then dramatically, sending them careening in wildly different directions. There’s heartbreak, loss, displacement, and even murder. Dawn struggles to make sense of the shocking turns that consume her sister and her best friend, all the while asking herself a simple but profound question: Why? In the vein of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Three Girls from Bronzeville is a “deeply personal” (Real Simple) memoir that chronicles Dawn’s attempt to find answers. It’s at once a celebration of sisterhood and friendship, a testimony to the unique struggles of Black women, and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race, class, and opportunity, and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption.
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