Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisThe classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrationsTrade Review"A merrier and more pungent celebration of the season for family reading aloud has not been written in our time." -- The Nation"Enchanting." -- Chicago Tribune"Surely this Christmas story ranks among the great experiences of the language." -- Harper’s Magazine"The language is enchanting and the poetry shines with an unearthly radiance." -- The New York Times

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Book SynopsisThroughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and poignant—and the recipes that helped to make them both indelible and irreplaceable. Angelou tells us about the time she was expelled from school for being afraid to speak—and her mother baked a delicious maple cake to brighten her spirits. She gives us her recipe for short ribs along with a story about a job she had as a cook at a Creole restaurant (never mind that she didn’t know how to cook and had no idea what Creole food might entail). There was the time in London when she attended a wretched dinner party full of wretched people; but all wasn’t lost—she did experience her initial taste o

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou shares her path to living well and with meaning in this absorbing book of personal essays.   Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a &ldquo

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Book SynopsisTells a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth-century environmental activist Pauulu Kamarakafego. Challenging US-centered views of Black Power, Quito Swan offers a radically broader perspective.Trade ReviewA powerful, thoroughly researched, diasporic history of Black liberation politics during most of the 20th Century. . . . A remarkable study in political evolution and tenacity." - Choice"Makes crucial contributions to a set of inter-connecting literatures that probe the breadth and depth of black internationalism. . . . Leaves us pondering how deeply this material--and technical--history might shift our understandings of the routes of black internationalism and the registers of black power." - Journal of Social History

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Book SynopsisCollected for the first time, the foundational contributions of a scholar and activist who shaped the study of Garveyism and pan-Africanism. This volume brings together Robert A. Hill’s most important writings for the first time, highlighting his intellectual contributions to the history of pan-Africanism.

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Book SynopsisA translation of the original and unedited diary entries of the black Brazilian slum dweller who became an international best-selling author. The entries span the years 1958 to 1966 and there is also an explanation of how the Brazilian elites tried to obscure her true personality.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1958 1961 1962 1963 1966 Afterword Notes Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThese novellas appeared at the height of fin-de-siecle American fascination with Japanese culture. Usually dismissed by critics because of their stereotypical treatment of Asian women, they have been paired here to show how they defined and redefined contemporary misconceptions of the """"Orient"""".Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Note on the Texts Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna Edited by Winnifred Eaton Appendix Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKrystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Trade Review"Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American studies and American cultural history, as well as theater and music history." -- Josephine Lee * author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage *"Krystyn Moon has produced a finely detailed and nuanced study of China and Chinese Americans on the nineteenth-century American musical stage. Yellowface is an important work for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture and race." -- Robert G. Lee * author of Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture *"Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American studies and American cultural history, as well as theater and music history." -- Josephine Lee * author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage *"Krystyn Moon has produced a finely detailed and nuanced study of China and Chinese Americans on the nineteenth-century American musical stage. Yellowface is an important work for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture and race." -- Robert G. Lee * author of Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture *

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Book SynopsisPresents the tragic tale of a family's destruction - the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.Table of ContentsChronology Introduction A Note on the Text Comedy: American Style Selected Essays Yarrow Revisited Nostalgia This Way to the Flea Market Selected Poems Oriflamme TouchT La Vie C'est la Vie Explanatory Notes

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Book SynopsisExamines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in Argentina during a period of profound social upheaval. Set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, this title illuminates how multiple forms of injustice converge in and are contested through women's bodies.Trade Review"Bodies in Crisis is one of the few books that deals with the bodily dimensions of exclusion and resistance in Latin America. Bravo to Sutton for this highly original work." -- Javier Auyero * author of Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown *"A masterful study on embodiment and modes of feminity in 21st century Argentina. It is accessible enough to be used with upper-level undergraduates even as it is detailed and complex enough to be essential for specialists in Argentina, a difficult balance which Sutton nonetheless achieves flawlessly." * Anthropological Quarterly *"Barbara Sutton provides a unique account of the social and political conjuncture in her country at the beginning of the twenty-first century that is both a brilliant attempt to theorize women's lives and struggles by bringing thhe body clearly 'back' into the picture, and a rendering of a concrete story of oppression and resistance in which women come to life as embodied subjects of history. Her well-written text brings her informants' stories richly to life." * Contemporary Sociology *"I rarely say this about academic books but I had a hard time putting this one down! Sutton has authored an exciting and engaging contribution to the literature on women and social movements." -- Michelle D. Bonner * University of Victoria *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Bodies in Crisis: An Introduction 2. Bodies Scars of Neoliberal Globalization 3. Beautiful Bodies: Femininity, Appearance, and Embodiment 4. More Than Reproductive Uteruses: Maternal Bodies and Abortion 5. Embattled Bodies: Violence against Women 6. Bodies in Protest: Poner el Cuerpo 7. Conclusion: Embodiment, Globcalities, and Resistance Notes References Index

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Trade Review"In an exemplary application of intersectional analysis to Black women’s labor history, Branch convincingly demonstrates that the 100- year legacy of racial and gender exclusion explains Black women’s poverty today." -- Bonnie Thornton Dill * author of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class and Gender in Theory Policy and Practice *“This is an important story to tell and Branch’s Opportunity Denied makes a significant contribution to the study of black women’s work.” -- Margaret L. Andersen * professor of sociology, University of Delaware *"This is a wonderful, well-written and carefully argued book. Branch does an excellent job of demonstrating how historical inequalities can take hundreds of years to remedy." * Labour/Le Travail *"Branch has done an excellent job analyzing a very complex and loaded topic. This book will surely required reading for scholars interestedin intersectionality and labor-market inequalities." * American Journal of Sociology *"Branch’s thesis is a powerful one. What does opportunity and economic progress really mean for black women as mothers, sisters, partners, and caretakers? For Branch, and the majority of black women, it indicates an occupational structure that maintains and protects the status quo and offers little promise of change." * American Studies Journal *"In an exemplary application of intersectional analysis to Black women’s labor history, Branch convincingly demonstrates that the 100- year legacy of racial and gender exclusion explains Black women’s poverty today." -- Bonnie Thornton Dill * author of Emerging Intersections: Race, Class and Gender in Theory Policy and Practice *“This is an important story to tell and Branch’s Opportunity Denied makes a significant contribution to the study of black women’s work.” -- Margaret L. Andersen * professor of sociology, University of Delaware *"This is a wonderful, well-written and carefully argued book. Branch does an excellent job of demonstrating how historical inequalities can take hundreds of years to remedy." * Labour/Le Travail *"Branch has done an excellent job analyzing a very complex and loaded topic. This book will surely required reading for scholars interestedin intersectionality and labor-market inequalities." * American Journal of Sociology *"Branch’s thesis is a powerful one. What does opportunity and economic progress really mean for black women as mothers, sisters, partners, and caretakers? For Branch, and the majority of black women, it indicates an occupational structure that maintains and protects the status quo and offers little promise of change." * American Studies Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Hierarchies of Preference at Work: The Need for an Intersectional Approach2. As Good as Any Man: Black Women in Farm Labor3. Excellent Servants: Domestic Service as Black Women's Work4. Existing on the Industrial Fringe: Black Women in the Factory5. Your Blues Ain't Nothing Like Mine: Race and Gender as Keys to Occupational Opportunity6. The Illusion of Progress: Black Women's Work in the Post-Civil Rights Era

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Book SynopsisAfrican American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. This explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts, as represented in the idea of quiet could change common conceptions and provide a more nuanced view of black culture.Trade Review"With fluid and beautiful prose, Quashie’s book not only offers readers another way to think about African American selfhood, but also other ways to approach the very act of reading itself."— Emily Bernard, author of Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance "Quashie challenges the general assumption that African American commentary is expressed in loud voices as he studies the often-overlooked internal conflicts of 'black culture'. His intertwining of both factual and fictional situations provides a brilliant and intriguiging insight that ultimately suggests an overwhelming gentle message about African American protest and resistance. Recommended." — Choice "The Sovereignty of Quiet is a profound and excellent look at quiet and its relationship with black identity, black culture, and existentialism. With impeccable scholarship, beautiful writing, and powerful arguments, Quashie makes a fabulous contribution to the field. A success!"— Debra Walker King, author of African Americans and the Culture of PainTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Publicness, Silence, and the Sovereignty of the Interior 2. Not Double Consciousness but the Consciousness of Surrender 3. Maud Martha and the Practice of Paying Attention 4. Quiet, Vulnerability, and Nationalism 5. The Capacities of Waiting, the Expressiveness of Prayer Conclusion Acknowledgments Permissions Notes Bibliography Index

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Trade Review"Borderland Saints offers compelling portraits of popular and secular saints who exist unapologetically outside the realm of official church teaching." * Latino Studies *"Addressing religion, spirituality and sanctity in Chicana/o culture, Borderlands Saints makesa significant contribution to a burgeoning area that demands critical attention." -- Carl Gutiérrez-Jones * University of California, Santa Barbara *"Through Martín’s incisive critical textual analysis we come to see the borderlands—and the exchange there between devotees and saints—as an important site for the performance of secular sanctity. Borderlands Saints is an invaluable contribution to border studies." -- Laura G. Gutiérrez * author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage *Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Secular Sanctity of Borderlands Saints1. Saint of Contradictions: Teresa Urrea, La Santa de Cabora2. The Remains of Pancho Villa3. Canonizing César Chávez4. "Todos Somos Santos": Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN5. Illegal Marginalizations: La Santísima MuerteConclusion: Narrative DevotionNotes Works CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisAddresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture.Trade ReviewBlack Fascisms bravely goes against the grain of much received opinion about the main currents in modern African American literature and intellectual history; it has a good story to tell, and it tells it well and convincingly. - Eric Sundquist, UCLA, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

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Book SynopsisExplores the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Lynn Rainville’s research are not statesmen or plantation elites; they are hidden residents, people whose stories are essential for a complete understanding of our past.Trade ReviewRainville’s Hidden History presents a well-written, engaging, and at times truly revelatory study. Her careful research was conducted over a span of several years, which allows her observations to go beyond the superficial and the obvious. With a focus on local contexts, but deriving universal insights into history, heritage, memory, and preservation, Rainville’s work is an exemplar of the best sort of research."" — James Davidson, University of Florida""Lynn Rainville takes us on a walking tour of African American cemeteries in central Virginia. She tells us about individual lives marked by headstones, fieldstones, and depressions in the sacred spaces where they continue to be part of a living community. She tells their stories, in slavery and freedom, while walking through their cemeteries, each of which connects individuals to families, locality, and region. Even the cemetery itself has a life defended against waves of migration and development. All of these stories are richly textured with detailed information about these sites and their communities, chosen with the eye of an academic authority who writes beautifully for everyone. Traversing these juxtapositions is Rainville’s personal twenty-year journey of encounters with these enduring yet vulnerable features on the intimate historic landscape of African America in Central Virginia."" — Michael Blakey, College of William and Mary

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Book SynopsisEric Walrond (1898-1966) was a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement and a seminal writer of Black diasporic life. This anthology brings together a broad sampling of his writings.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the role of the hush harbour (a safe place for free expression among African American speakers) as a productive space of rhetorical tradition and knowledge generation. Nunley identifies the barbershop as an important hush harbour for black males in particular and traces the powerful cultural trope and its hidden tradition of African American knowledge through multiple texts.

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Book SynopsisUses critical race theory to discuss American films that embrace contemporary issues of race, sexuality, class, and gender. Its linear history chronicles black-oriented narrative film from post-World War II through the presidential administration of Barack Obama.

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Book SynopsisContinuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film and television adaptations. A classic in the Black literary tradition, the novel offers a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in the late 1960s.

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Book SynopsisOffers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"The authors of these essays explore the theme of Latino/a identity by presenting popular media images of Latino/as and by examining the issues of representation that these images raise...instructive and useful." * Choice *"A valuable and highly informative discussion of the theoretical questions that underlie the production of popular culture in the twenty-first century." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Shape of the Latino Group: Who Are We and What Are We Talking about Anyway? Part II Conquest and Immigration: How We Got (Get) Here Part III Nativism, Racism, and Our Social Construction as a "Problem" Group: How Once We Were Here, We Were Racialized by the Dominant Culture Part IV Racial Construction and Demonization in Mass Culture: Media Treatment and StereotypesPart V Counterstories: We Begin to Talk Back and "Name Our Own Reality" Part VI Rebellious Lawyering and Resistance Strategies: We Fight Back Part VII Revisionist Law: Does the Legal System Work for Us? Part VIII Assimilation: Maybe Our Best Strategy Is Just to Duck? Part IX Splits and Tensions within the Civil Rights Community Part X Sex, Gender, and Class: Sure I'm a Latino, but I'm Still Different from You - How about It? Part XI English-Only, Bilingualism, Interpreters: You Mean I Can't Speak Spanish? Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisToday, race seems to be both everywhere and nowhere. There still exists a general abhorrence about discriminating between people according to their race. And yet, people are continually categorized according to their race--Afro- Caribbean, white, Jewish--though we often have difficulty in defining just what race is. Everything from criminality to the entrepreneurial spirit is given a racial connotation--witness stereotypes of black muggers or Asian shopkeepers. The Meaning of Race argues that the social meaning of race in modern society emerges from the contradiction between an ideological commitment to equality and the persistence of inequality as a practical reality. Kenan Malik here follows the development of racial ideology over the past two hundred years, tracing the different forms it has taken, from biological theories of race to the relationship between race and culture. Specific attention is focused on the impact of the break up of the postwar order and the end of the Cold War

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Book SynopsisThe autobiography of the Civil Rights activist, Walter White, during his 30 years of service to the National Association of Service for the Advancement of Colored People. Although African American, White's blue eyes and fair skin enabled him to cross the colour line and gather vital information.

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Book SynopsisThis work looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr, to disclose the workings of the organization that supported him. It shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, and others played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago.Trade ReviewSplendidly researched, cogently articulated...May well represent the finest single piece of published scholarship on the American Civil Rights Movement. - Choice

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Book SynopsisThe never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s by Horace Bond, author of Forty Acres and a Mule, a history of a black farming family, after Jerome Wilson was lynched in 1935. These important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough.Trade ReviewAn accessible and poignant work which will attract interest of anyone interested in the evolution of the black family and rural race relations.

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