Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisProvides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority.

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Book SynopsisThis collection is a major contribution to the reconstruction of gender balance in African-American history âManning Marable, Columbia UniversityTrade ReviewThanks to this much-awaited edition with its excellent introduction, Anna Julia Cooper will no longer be merely a citation in the indices of works on women and people of color. As their title aptly announces, Esme Bhan and Charles Lemert have retrieved for us The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper. -- David Levering Lewis, Rutgers University, historian and author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919, winner of the Pulitzer Prize fA much-needed addition to the dearth of primary sources which will illuminate one of history's most important feminist figures. -- Paula Giddings, author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in AmericaCooper may be the founding figure in contemporary writings bringing together race, class, and gender—the foremother of today's influential black feminist writers. This collection is a major contribution to the reconstruction of gender balance in African American history. -- Manning Marable, M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies, Columbia UniversityWriting over a fifty-year period, Cooper not only participated in the ongoing dialogue over race relations and racial uplift in the United States, but also turned a scholarly lens on the history of the slave trade and the development of the Black Atlantic. She belongs in the company of W.E.B. Du Bois. -- Carla L. Peterson, author of Doers of the Word: African American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880)Historians, literary critics, and general readers alike will appreciate having access to Cooper's viewpoints. -- Kathryn L. Seidel, University of Central Florida * Journal of Southern History *The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper is, quite simply, a fine collection. Carefully edited, it contributes greatly to the study of the history of this country. -- Cally L. Waite, Teachers College, Columbia University * History of Education Quarterly *This is an impressive, meticulously researched, and wonderfully written study. It does much to further our understanding of southern women—black and white, conservative and progressive—and their efforts to expand the public role of women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. -- Christina Greene, University of South Florida * National Women's Studies Association Journal *This is a good selection of 29 of [Cooper's] writings on varied subjects ranging from her A Voice from the South (1892) to her "Hitler and the Negro" (1942). . . . Theoretical scholars debate how to characterize her; the gracefully written introductions in this valuable volume deftly put the debates in perspective. . . . Highly recommended. -- J. H. Smith, Wake Forest University * CHOICE *Charles Lemert and Esme Bhan's collection serves a timely purpose. A number of Cooper's less familiar writtings, many previously unpublished or virtually inaccesssible, are also included in this compilation and demonstrate the range of her interests, from race politics to the role of humor in teaching. Lemert and Bhan's introduction provides a comprehensive overview of Cooper's life and interactions with other black intellectuals, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Charlotte Grimke, and Mary Church Terrell. The editors have chosen wisely from a lifetime of work. * Washington History *The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper will surely be an instructive and engaging read for those interested in African American educational history or feminist philosophy, as well as for those who enjoy reading astute observations on race, gender, and class in society. * Harvard Educational Review *The writings of this influential African American activist make for powerful reading. * Waterwheel *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Anna Julia Cooper: The Colored Woman's Office Part 2 I. The Colored Woman’s Office: A Voice from the South Chapter 3 Our Raison d'Etre (1892) Chapter 4 Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race (1886) Chapter 5 The Higher Education of Women (1890-1891) Chapter 6 "Woman versus the Indian" (1891-1892) Chapter 7 The Status of Woman in America (1892) Part 8 II. Race and Culture: A Voice from the South Chapter 9 Has America a Race Problem? If So, How Can It Best Be Solved? (1892) Chapter 10 The Negro As Presented in American Literature (1892) Chapter 11 What Are We Worth? (1892) Chapter 12 The Gain from a Belief (1892) Part 13 III. The Range of Cooper’s Voice: Feminism, Social Service, Education, and Race Politics Chapter 14 The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation: A Response to Fannie Barrier Williams (1893) Chapter 15 The Ethics of the Negro Question (1902) Chapter 16 The Social Settlement: What It Is, and What It Does (1913) Chapter 17 Sketches from a Teacher's Notebook: Loss of Speech through Isolation (1923?) Chapter 18 Foreword to Le Pelerinage de Charlemagne (1925) Chapter 19 The Humor of Teaching (1930) Chapter 20 My Racial Philosophy (1930) Chapter 21 The Negro's Dialect (1930s?) Chapter 22 On Education (1930s?) Angry Saxons and Negro Education (1938) Chapter 23 Hitler and the Negro (1942?) Part 24 IV. World Politics, Race, and Slavery: The Historical Studies Chapter 25 The Social Conditions of the French-American Colonies: The Class Structure (1925) Chapter 26 Black Slavery and the French Nation (1925) Chapter 27 Equality of Races and the Democratic Movement (1925) Chapter 28 Legislative Measures Concerning Slavery in the United States: 1787-1850 (1925) Part 29 V. Reflections on Her Life: Memoirs, Occasional Writings, Letters: 1925-1958 Chapter 30 The Early Years in Washington: Reminiscences of Life with the Grimkes (1951) Chapter 31 The Third Step: Cooper's Memoir of the Sorbonne Doctorate (1945-1950?) Chapter 32 Selected Letters and Other Writings (1925-1958) Chapter 33 The Life of Anna Julia Cooper: A Chronology Chapter 34 Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative analysis of the Philippine historical crisis is accompanied by a critique of a U.S. racial formation in which Filipinos constitute the largest Asian group. Literary and artistic expressions by Filipinos manifest a new emerging identity defined by the multicultural debates crossing the Pacific, transforming the Philippines into a borderland of East and West. Caught betwixt the Asian continent and the hegemonic power of the United States, the Philippines occupies a contested space between past and present. Between the memory of colonial experience and an emergent nation-making dream, can a meaningful future be envisioned? This provocative book explores this problematic zone of difference through a critique of the Western production of knowledge in the context of local resistance. While Americanization of the Filipino continues, the encounter of globalizing and nationalizing forces has precipitated a profound political and social crisis whose outcome may be a paradigmaticTrade ReviewWith his usual hardhitting candor and penetrating insight, E. San Juan, Jr., invites readers to join him in a post-postcolonial interrogation of the Philippine 'problematique' within the context of both American imperialism studies and Asian American studies. To be sure, The Filipino in the United States is a concrete historical phenomenon, but becoming Filipino in the Diaspora continues to be a process of dialectical struggle. -- Evelyn Hu-DeHart, University of Colorado at BoulderThis is a great book, full of life and passion, conviction and commitment—all built upon a bedrock of solid literary, cultural, historical, and political analysis. This will be regarded, I believe, as possibly his very best work. -- Paul Wong, University of MichiganThis collection is an indispensable part of Philippine studies. * Multicultural Review *In one of the most thoroug, hard-hitting, perspicacious analyses on the subject, San Juan dismantels the myths surrounding US-Philippine relations and lays bare the harsh realities US imperialism has wrought on its former "showcase of democracy". * Against the Current *In this trenchant survey of both the historyand contemporary status of relations between the Philippines and the United States, E. San Juan…display[s] his talent for provocative analysis. * Pilipinas *It is critical to lay bare the reality of the Diaspora experience through the prism of those who have the skills to articulate it. San Juan gives this expression throughout with a powerful critique of Eurocentric universalism and the myths of multiculturalism. He has provided a provocative analysis of how the fashionable liberal vocabulary of transnationalism has obfuscated what in reality are modes of domination. San Juan's optic is unique, placing him alone at the cutting edge of a progressive counter attack against the orthodoxy of the academy. -- Sam Noumoff, McGill UniversityOne of the most thorough, hard-hitting, perspicaious analyses on the subject. * Journal of Contemporary Asia *This book is a must read for Philippine specialists as well as specialists of Asian-American affairs. * Journal of Asian and African Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Symbolic Trajectories of the Asian Diaspora Chapter 3 Historicizing the Space of Asian America Chapter 4 Specters of United States Imperialism Chapter 5 From Neocolonial Representations to National-Democratic Allegory Chapter 6 Displacing Borders of Misrecognition: On Jessica Hagedorn's Fictions Chapter 7 Kidlat Tahimik's Cinema of the Naïve Subaltern Chapter 8 Prospects and Problems of Revolutionary Transformation Chapter 9 Afterword Chapter 10 Appendix: Writing and the Asian Diaspora

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Book SynopsisScreen Saviors studies how the self of whites is imagined in Hollywood moviesby white directors featuring white protagonists interacting with people of another color. This collaboration by a sociologist and a film critic, using the new perspective of critical white studies, offers a bold and sweeping critique of almost a century''s worth of American film, from Birth of Nation (1915) through Black Hawk Down (2001). Screen Saviors studies the way in which the social relations that we call race are fictionalized and pictured in the movies. It argues that films are part of broader projects that lead us to ignore or deny the nature of the racial divide in which Americans live. Even as the images of racial and ethnic minorities change across the twentieth century, Hollywood keeps portraying the ideal white American self as good-looking, powerful, brave, cordial, kind, firm, and generous: a natural-born leader worthy of the loyalty of those of another color. The book invites readers to conduct their own analyses of films by showing how this can be done in over 50 Hollywood movies. Among these are some films about the Civil WarBirth of a Nation , Gone with the Wind, and Glory; some about white messiahs who rescue people of another colorStargate, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mississippi Burning, Three Kings, and The Matrix; the three versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, 1962, and 1984) and interracial romanceGuess Who''s Coming to Dinner. Forty years of Hollywood fantasies of interracial harmony, from The Defiant Ones and In the Heat of the Night through the Lethal Weapon series and Men in Black are examined. This work in the sociology of knowledge and cultural studies relates the movies of Hollywood to the large political agendas on race relation in the United States. Screen Saviors appeals to the general reader interested in the movies or in race and ethnicity as well as to students of comTrade ReviewThe study cuts through 84 years of films with many specific and accurate analyses. It will give instructors a new perspective and students tough questions to ask in many classes. Recommended. * CHOICE *Through a careful, detailed examination of an impressive number of significant American films, the authors vividly demonstrate the extent to which notions of white supremacy assert themselves, often unconsciously, even in works in which a liberal, ostensibly anti-racist viewpoint dominates. Screen Saviors is an important contribution to cinema studies and to the growing body of scholarship devoted to the study of white identity. -- Robert Elliot Fox, Southern Illinois UniversityAnalyzes the images of white protagonists interacting with people of another race or ethnicity in American movies from 1915's 'Birth of a Nation' to 'Black Hawk Down' in 2001. This book reveals the diverse, often disturbing ways in which movies manufacture the 'white self,' the image and the story of whiteness articulated by white film makers. * Beaches Leader *This book reveals the diverse, often disturbing ways in which movies manufacture the 'white self'—the image and story of whiteness articulated by white filmmakers. Avoiding polemical posturing and relying upon historical analysis, the authors provide us with an insightful project that is written with clarity and care. -- Daniel Bernardi, University of ArizonaProvocative book. There's plenty to enjoy. * Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal *A pioneering and highly original book. From Birth of a Nation to the latest Hollywood films, Vera and Gordon describe and critically analyze Hollywood movies made by dozens of different white directors, producers, and writers, people with different imaginations and styles. Yet virtually all the movies they have made fit the same mold of not challenging white privilege. -- Joe R. Feagin, from the ForewordIf you want to explore a colorful, controversial side of film lore, check out Screen Saviors. At the very least, it'll make you think about what you are watching. * Rockford Register Star *A valuable addition to the growing scholarship of hegemonic whiteness in America. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword: A Nation of Sheep Chapter 2 Learning to Be White through the Movies Chapter 3 The Divided White Self Chapter 4 The Beautiful White American: Sincere Fictions of the Savior Chapter 5 Amistad: Civilization and Its Contentments Chapter 6 Mutiny on the Bounty: Civilization and Its Discontents Chapter 7 Racism as a Project:Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Chapter 8 Scarlett and Mammy Revisited: White Women and Black Women in Hollywood Films Chapter 9 White Out: Racial Masquerade by Whites in American Film I Chapter 10 White Out: Racial Masquerade by Whites in American Film II Chapter 11 Black and White Buddies I Chapter 12 Black and White Buddies II Chapter 13 Conclusion: The Crisis of Whiteness

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Book SynopsisThis work captures the dynamism of the West-African student movement in Britain, and the struggle to articulate a coherent, anti-colonial politics. It documents the achievements of the student movement in overcoming racism and the "colour bar".Table of ContentsPioneers of student politics and the struggle for self-reliance; West-African student organizations in Britain 1923-1930; search for a black united front 1930-1939; the war years 1939-1945; Africanization and radicalization - Cold-War responses 1945-1949; the 1950s - communism and nationalism.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Griots of piedmont North Carolina and portrait of songster Will Baldwin -- Signifying at the crossroads : African-American traditions of the folk banjo -- The ritual of minstrelsy : some were buffoons, but others were apprentices -- Mountain echoes of the African banjo -- The banjo : its chang form, construction, and use -- The transmission of playing methods and tunin -- The banjo song genre : Dink Roberts' man-against-the-law songs -- Garfiel man against the law, but a man with a community -- Conclusion.

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