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Book SynopsisIn Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of creative worldmaking. Brown explores the lives and work of Black women mystics Sojourner Truth and Rebecca Cox Jackson, musicians Alice Coltrane and Sun Ra, and the work of speculative fiction writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler as they decenter and destabilize the human, radically refusing liberal humanist ideas of subjectivity and species. Brown demonstrates that engaging in utopian practices Black subjects imagine and manifest new genres of existence and forms of collectivity. For Brown, utopia consists of those moments in the here and now when those excluded from the category human jump into other onto-epistemological realms. Black people—untethered from the hope of rights, recognition, or redress—celebrate Trade Review“Black Utopias is replete with flashes of insight, important provocations, and an urgent ethical and political thrust. Jayna Brown models a patient search for intellectual kin adequate to the nightmare world of the present and its dead and deadening ideologies. She reminds us of the extent to which so much Black political thinking begins from a profound negation of the fundamental tenets of Western models of subjectivity. Ambitious, bold, and bracing, Black Utopias forcefully reorients conversations around utopia and Afrofuturism. A field-defining work.” -- Anthony Reed, author of * Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production *“What does Black speculative practice feel like under the skin? What does it sound like? Where does it take us? Jayna Brown studies centuries of strange Black diviners and offers a map over the universe that is not about the stars but about a Blackness that births and rebirths life in contradicting quantum multiplicity. Where does it get at you (under the skin)? How do you hear it calling you? Let's go.” -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of * Dub: Finding Ceremony *"As the book unfolds, the pleasure Brown finds in her archival encounters with Sojourner Truth and musicians Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane is as palpable as the book’s pressed pages." -- K. Avvirin Gray * Women's Review of Books *“Among texts that examine Black embodiment—that examine our existence beyond and transcendence from the horrific bounds of State-sanctioned supremacies—Black Utopias stands out.... Regardless of your field, this is a must-read about Black existence and alternate states of freedom.” -- Jennifer Brown * College & Research Libraries *“Jayna Brown’s Black Utopias is an innovative interdisciplinary text that brilliantly uncovers a rich current of radical otherworldly utopianism within Black life, thought, and expressive culture.... It is absolutely essential reading for students and scholars of sf, utopia, critical humanisms, and posthumanism.” -- Jalondra A. Davis * Science Fiction Studies *“There are books that captivate you fully, that illuminate you, challenge you, that pierce through you with such clarity and imaginative force, opening mind and soul beyond the definable, the settled.... Jayna Brown’s Black Utopias is such a book.” -- Kristina J. Kolbe * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Throughout Black Utopias, Brown commits to multiplicity and contradiction. We see this in her non-hagiographic approaches to preachers, musicians, writers, and literary figures. . . . It is in this politicization of the vibrational and sonic that we experience the depth of Blackness’s radical potential.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“Jayna Brown’s Black Utopias . . . is personal and universal, critical and charitable, and continuously creative. . . . Brown succeeds in inviting readers to an imaginal realm of a less constrained ‘reality’ than what many people—and especially academics—presuppose.” -- Daniel Boscaljon * Literature and Theology *"The project of Black Utopias 'is a way of residing in spaces of ambiguity' where the line between madness and prophetic vision cannot be confidently drawn. It is very worthwhile to follow her lead into exploring that uncanny space in this innovative, well-researched piece of scholarship." -- John Rieder * SFRA Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I: Ecstasy 1. Along the Psychic Highway: Black Women Mystics and Utopias of the Ecstatic 23 2. Lovely Sky Boat: Alice Coltrane and the Metaphysics of Sound 59 Part II: Evolution 3. Our Place is Among the Stars: Octavia E. Butler and the Preservation of Species 83 4. Speculative Life: Utopia Without the Human 111 Part III: Sense and Matter 5. In the Realm of the Senses: Heterotopias of Subjectivity, Desire, and Discourse 137 6. The Freedom Not to Be: Sun Ra's Alternative Ontology 155 Conclusion 177 Notes 179 Bibliography 195 Index 205

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Book SynopsisNahum Dimitri Chandler examines W. E. B. Du Bois's early thought and its continued relevance, demonstrating that Dub Bois must be re-read, appreciated, and studied anew as a philosophical writer and thinker contemporary to our time.Trade Review“Nahum Dimitri Chandler's "Beyond This Narrow Now" gives the reader the marvelous benefit of Chandler's exquisite knowledge of the DuBoisian oeuvre and his singular unrelenting commitment to tarrying with it. As one of our master teachers, Chandler is at his best here in leading us systematically, virtually line by line, through early Du Bois in his critical conceptual formation.” -- Hortense J. Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Vanderbilt University“‘Beyond This Narrow Now’ is a seminal contribution to foregrounding Du Bois’ epistemological roots and its implication for the future.” -- Mosa M. Phadi * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Chandler is a meticulous scholar and a brilliant thinker with much to say about Du Bois as an intellectual problem. Parts of the book will be accessible to many readers, and Chandler’s approach to analysis serves as a master class in close reading. However, because of the occasionally esoteric nature of Chandler's approach, readers with a background in critical theory or philosophy have the most to gain. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers/faculty, professionals/practitioners." -- J. W. Miller * Choice *“Chandler’s work is a definitive contribution towards a re-assessment of contemporary orientations of Du Boisian scholarship. His original thoughts and perspectives on Du Bois . . . provide new, innovative approaches to the work of such an iconic thinker and writer.” -- Lena Dallywater * Connections *"Insofar as he remains a critical resource in the present, perhaps one of the things that is most useful about Du Bois today is his ability to interpret historical possibility as the other side of historical limit, and to convince us that the future can still be altogether otherwise than the past that has been given to us, even now. There is no better guide to these aspects of Du Bois’s thought than Nahum Chandler’s 'Beyond This Narrow Now.'. . . Chandler is a poetic and evocative stylist, as well as a profound thinker, who offers the reader aesthetic and intellectual pleasures that help compensate for whatever syntactic or semantic hurdles pop up along the way." -- Ian Litwin * Georgia Review *"Chandler provides a patiently elaborated study of Du Bois’s early thought—a 'delimitation' of this thought that argues for the openness of its investigations and thus our perennial return to its hermeneutics." -- Rebecka Rutledge Fisher * American Literary History *"The merit of Chandler's work is that he stretches Du Bois's reflections along the arc drawn by contemporaneity and brings them into conversation with a constellation of critical theories from post-structuralism to post-colonialism, highlighting the specificity and contemporary importance of Du Bois's thought." -- Vincenzo Di Mino * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Note on Citations xiii An Opening—At the Limit of Thought, a Preface xvii A Notation: The Practice of W.E.B. Du Bois as a Problem for Thought—Amidst the Turn of the Centuries 1 Part I. "Beyond This Narrow Now": Elaborations of the Example in the Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois—At the Limit of the World 25 Part II. The Problem of the Centuries: A Contemporary Elaboration of "The Present Outlook for the Dark Races of Mankind," circa the 27th of December, 1899—Or, At the Turn of the Twentieth Century 145 Another Coda, the Explicit—Revisited 221 Notes 231 References 269 Index 291

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Book SynopsisIn Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations; transness as a nonpredetermined, wayward, and deregulated movement that works toward gender’s destruction; and black feminism as an epistemological method to fracture hegemonic modes of racialized gender. In readings of the essays, interviews, and poems of Alexis Pauline Gumbs, jayy dodd, and Venus Di’Khadijah Selenite, Bey turns black trans feminism away from a politics of gendered embodiment and toward a conception of it as a politics grounded in fugitivity and the subversion of power. Together, blackness and transness actualize themselves as on the run from gender. In this way, Bey presents black trans feminism as a mode of enacting the wholesale dismanTrade Review“In Marquis Bey's deeply creative and fiercely imaginative book, Black trans feminism describes a kind of worldly inhabitation and a radical form of theorizing power and refusal in ways that are not contingent on identity. In Bey's hands, Black trans feminism becomes a powerful call for vulnerability, fugitive hope, abolition, and freedom. Black Trans Feminism allows us to gesture to all that we want from this world but do not yet know how to name.” -- Jennifer C. Nash, author of * Birthing Black Mothers *“In its deep engagements with the three movements of its title, Black Trans Feminism is a very exciting book to read, digest, and think through. Marquis Bey’s focus on fugitivity and the elastic category of the fugitive stealing themself back is a highly salient and timely conceptual offering, and I’m astonished by the clarity, precision, and deep-digging that Bey brings to the material. Those working at the interstices of Black trans feminism need this gift of manifest lucidity to reference, teach, and expound on.” -- Eliza Steinbock, author of * Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change *“Black Trans Feminism constitutes an incisive critique and interrogation of the very grammars of gender normativity. . . . With this project, he attempts to reconfigure how we understand kinship, blackness, transness and Black feminism in order to establish a coalition that can be understood as a broadening of kinship network relationalities, affinities and affiliations.” -- Marietta Kosma * European Journal of American Culture *"Bey’s work is an important contribution to the conversations surrounding race, transgender identity, and feminist praxis, providing a hopeful mode for reimagining our world and ourselves. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“Black Trans Feminism is a deep philosophical and literary exploration of Black trans feminism. . . . The book offers critical and imaginative visions of gender radical and abolitionist futures. Bey tell us how we can possibly get there with a sense of hope that is so rare in academic writing.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Abolition, Gender Radicality 1 Part 1 1. Black, Trans, Feminism 37 2. Fugitivity, Un/gendered 66 3. Trans/figurative, Blackness 88 Part 2 4. Feminist, Fugitivity 115 5. Questioned, Gendered 145 6. Trigger, Rebel 175 Conclusion: Hope, Fugitive 199 Notes 229 Bibliography 263 Index 283

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Pandemic Divide analyze and explain the myriad racial disparities that came to the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic while highlighting what steps could have been taken to mitigate its impact.Trade Review"Required, essential reading for Americans trying to reconcile their pandemic experiences." (starred review) -- Tina Panik * Library Journal *"The Pandemic Divide should appeal to anyone with an interest in social and cultural politics, and moreover policy. In a world that is continually racialised and then derided for being so, this book is an urgent reminder of how deep rooted systems operate in sinister ways to continually exploit, undermine, and undervalue whole swathes of the population." -- Georgia Bisbas * Lancet Infections Diseases *"Disturbing but proactive...." -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *"Wright, Hubbard, and Darity offer compelling sociological, economic, and epidemiological data to show that that structural racism has undeniable consequences on the health and mortality of racial and ethnic minorities. The Pandemic Divide is a useful text for students, educators, and researchers to understand why the COVID-19 pandemic impacted certain populations more than others." -- Gwenetta Curry * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsA Note on Terminology ix Foreword / Mary T. Bassett xi Introduction. Six Feet and Miles Apart: Structural Racism in the United States and Racially Disparate Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Lucas Hubbard, Gwendolyn L. Wright, and William A. Darity Jr. 1 Section I: COVID-19 in Context 1. How Systemic Racism and Preexisting Conditions Contributed to COVID-19 Disparities for Black Americans / Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Melissa J. Scott, and Paul A. Robbins 29 2. Labor History and Pandemic Response: The Overlapping Experiences of Work, Housing, and Neighborhood Conditions / Joe William Trotter Jr. 46 Section II: COVID-19 and Institutions 3. “God Is in Control”: Race, Religion, Family, and Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Sandra L. Barnes 69 4. COVID-19, Race, and Mass Incarceration / Arvind Krishnamurthy 87 Section III: COVID-19 and Financial Disparities 5. Housing, Student Debt, and Labor Market Inequality: COVID-19, Black Families/Households, and Financial Insecurity / Fenaba R. Addo and Adam Hollowell 111 6. Race, Entrepreneurship, and COVID-19: Black Small-Business Survival in Prepandemic and Postpandemic America / Henry Clay McKoy Jr. 129 7. COVID-19 Effects on Black Business-Owner Households / Chris Wheat, Fiona Greig,and Damon Jones 186 8. Closing Racial Economic Gaps during and after COVID-19 / Jane Dokko and Jung Sakong 210 Section IV: COVID-19 and Educational Disparities 9. Latinx Immigrant Parents and Their Children in Times of COVID-19: Facing Inequities Together in the “Mexican Room” of the New Latino South / Marta Sánchez, Melania DiPietro, Leslie Babinski, Steve Amendum, and Steven Knotek 231 10. COVID-19, Higher Education, and Social Inequality / Adam Hollowell and N. Joyce Payne 256 11. The Rebirth of K-12 Public Education: Postpandemic Opportunities / Kristen R. Stephens, Kisha N. Daniels, and Erica R. Phillips 276 Postscript: COVID-19 and the Path Forward / Eugene T. Richardson 295 Contributors 301 Index 307

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based genealogy of disability studies, showing how a single coherent narrative of the field is a mode of exclusion that relies on logics of whiteness and imperialism. The contributors examine how disability justice activists work in concert with other social justice projects, explore crip environments, create alternate disciplinary genealogies, and reject notions of the model minority. Throughout, they demonstrate how the mandate for a single genealogy of the discipline whitewashes disability and continues forms of violence. By cripping disability studies, the contributors allow for divergent histories, the coexistence of anti-ableist and antiracist theorizing, and a radically just and capacious understanding of disability. ContTrade Review"This is an essential anthology that challenges the existing (white, Western/Northern, imperialist) frameworks of disability studies in favor of lenses focused on transnational feminism and queer/trans of color critique and activism." -- Karla J. Strand * Ms. *

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Book SynopsisIn Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and approach from the mainstream white-dominant disability rights movement. Drawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women’s Health Project alongside interviews with contemporary Black disabled cultural workers, Schalk identifies common qualities of Black disability politics, including the need to ground public health initiatives in the experience and expertise of marginalized disabled people so that they can work in antiracist, feminist, and anti-ableist ways. Prioritizing an understanding of disability Trade Review"With Sami Schalk’s incredible book, Black Disability Politics, we begin to move into a different kind of book doing intrinsically connected work—a rigorously researched look at all the ways that disabled people’s concerns have been foundational to Black resistance organizing. . . . If knowing your history is a key ingredient to success, Black Disability Politics presents a deeply researched and still incredibly readable map of the past, with implications for the shimmering future. This, along with what I can only describe as a muscular clarity in her writing, was incredible as a beginner to the topic to feel my understanding grow as I read, and that is only possible in the capable hands of a great writer like Schalk." -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra! *"Sami Schalk explores the histories and essential lessons of Black disabled labor, politics and movements. This is a long-overdue and essential volume." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *"Black Disability Politics is a profound exploration and documentation of a cultural topic that has gone overlooked throughout the entire history of the Black American experience. . . . A deeply important view of the fight for the rights of disabled Black people in America since the 1970s." -- Jordannah Elizabeth * New York Amsterdam News *"This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students because it invites continued exploration of Black disability studies and politics. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty." -- S. Burch * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Black Health Matters 1 1. “We Have a Right to Rebel”: Black Disability Politics in the Black Panther Party 23 2. Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The BPP and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions 48 Praxis Interlude One. Anti-ableist Approaches to Fighting Disabling Violence 69 3. Empowerment through Wellness: Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project 81 4. More Than Just Prevention: The NBWHP and the Black Disability of HIV/AIDS 110 Praxis Interlude Two. Approaches to Disability Identity in Black Disability Politics 129 5. Black Disability Politics Now 140 (Not a) Conclusion. The Present and Futures of Black Disability Politics 154 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 199

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Book SynopsisIn Fugitive Time, Matthew Omelsky theorizes the embodied experience of time in twentieth- and twenty-first-century black artforms from across the world. Through the lens of time, he charts the sensations and coursing thoughts that accompany desires for freedom as they appear in the work of artists as varied as Toni Morrison, Yvonne Vera, Aimé Césaire, and Issa Samb. “Fugitive time” names a distinct utopian desire directed at the anticipated moment when the body and mind have been unburdened of the violence that has consumed black life globally for centuries, bringing with it a new form of being. Omelsky shows how fugitive time is not about attaining this transcendent release but is instead about sustaining the idea of it as an ecstatic social gathering. From the desire for ethereal queer worlds in the Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City to Sun Ra’s transformation of nineteenth-century scientific racism into an insurgent fugitiTrade Review“Fugitive Time represents the strength of diasporic thinking around a range of black aesthetic production that disrupts the Afro-pessimist/Afro-optimist binary through visions and understanding of time beyond the historical. By positing black aesthetics as the site of black theory and political thought, Matthew Omelsky demonstrates that alternate temporalities are the key to understanding blackness, embodied experience, aesthetics, and history.” -- Samantha Pinto, author of * Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights *“Bold and nimble, Fugitive Time follows the fugitive dreams and utopian urges that animate our black radical tradition. This pursuit brings Matthew Omelsky across a sprawling archive of fiction, photography, painting, poetry, plastic arts, music, cinema, and the quotidian—spanning the United States, Martinique, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Britain, Saturn, and uncharted worlds to come. In the process, this book builds its own mighty momentum that will move readers to vivid revelations about the space-times of black life. Full of beauty and urgency, Fugitive Time is a remarkable contribution to the study and cultivation of black radical imagination.” -- La Marr Jurelle Bruce, author of * How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Black Beyondness 1 1. Toni Morrison’s Anachronic Ease 33 2. Aimé Césaire, Wifredo Lam, and the Aesthetics of Surging Life 62 3. Black Audio’s Archival Flight 99 4. Sun Ra, Issa Samb, and the Drapetomaniacal Avant-Garde 132 5. Yvonne Vera, NoViolet Bulawayo, and the Imminence of Dreaming Air 172 Coda. Fugitive Ether 205 Notes 209 Bibliography 239 Index 259

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Book SynopsisIn Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to distinguish death from life. This distinction is produced and maintained through the construction of Blackness as deathlife. Drawing on Afropessimism and Black moralism, Pinn theorizes deathlife as a technology of whiteness that projects whites’ anxieties about the end of their lives onto the Black other. Examining the music of Jay-Z; Kendrick Lamar; Tyler, the Creator; and others, Pinn shows how hip hop configures the interconnection and dependence between death and life in such a way that death and life become indistinguishable. In so doing, Pinn demonstrates that hip hop presents an alternative to deathlife that challenges the white supremacist definitions of Blackness and anti-Blackness moTrade Review“Not since Orlando Patterson’s magisterial exploration of social death have we had as monumental an engagement with the ideas of life, death, and Blackness as Anthony Pinn delivers in his groundbreaking book Deathlife. Pinn uses hip hop’s struggles between life and death, and with life as death, to illumine both the white quest for immortality through slaying Blackness, and the Black hunger for meaning by staring nothingness in the eye. Deathlife captures the way that Blackness and being, and Blackness and nonbeing, have had no useful distinction in the lexicon of white supremacy, while brilliantly arguing for a rationale of Black existence that sees no value in separating life from death. A transcendent work of astonishing originality.” -- Michael Eric Dyson“Anthony B. Pinn shows how Black critical theory’s focus on the antagonism between the human and Blackness can be heard in hip hop and popular culture. His concept of deathlife—the merging together of death and life—underscores how the sphere of the (white) human relies on the fantasy of cordoning off life from death. Whiteness, Pinn argues, needs Black deathlife in order to understand life and death.” -- Joseph R. Winters, author of * Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Paradigms of Death (or Life) and Deathlife 1 Part I. Signifying Deathlife 1. The Orphic Hustler 45 2. The Anithero 73 Part II. Consuming Deathlife 3. Bacchic Intent 97 4. Zombic Hunger 125 Epilogue. Two Types of Melancholia 149 Notes 165 Discography 201 Bibliography 207 Index 223

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationHonorable Mention for the Robert E. Park Award, given by the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationFinalist for the 2021 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsRace, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its transformation from a historically Black neighborhood into a predominantly Latino one, providing a fresh, inside look at the fascinatingand constantly changingrelationships between these two racial and ethnic groups in California. Drawing on almost two hundred interviews and statistical data, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor explTrade ReviewSouth Central’s evolution from almost entirely African American to mostly Latino is a bellwether for an important part of a changing America. Through statistical and ethnographic analysis, Hondagneu-Sotelo and Pastor describe that change at several levels, showing how Black-Latino relations challenge traditional notions of ethnic succession and assimilation. Rather, they reveal how residents have formed an identity based on their shared home and a minority linked fate, to organize and empower their communities. -- Edward Telles, co-author of Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic CoreSouth Central LA looms large in the American imagination. Media reports of racial violence, drug trafficking and Gangster Rap music, dominate portrayals of this iconic Black and Latinx community. But as is so often the case with media depictions of marginalized urban communities, such images are largely distortions of the reality experienced by those who called South Central home. Drawing on interviews with residents, stories from those who have witnessed this community transform from predominantly Black to predominantly Latinx, and demographic and economic data that offer quantitative measures of a community in transition, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor provide texture, nuance and flavor so that outsiders can appreciate that South Central is so much more than has been depicted in films and news reports. This book captures the vibrancy, dynamism and complexity that makes South Central unique, and it reminds us that beyond the challenges and hardships facing its residents, there is also a heart and a spirit that makes this much maligned space special and unique. -- Pedro A. Noguera, author of The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public EducationSouth Los Angeles is a dynamic urban space shaped by decades of demographic change, cultural sedimentation, and multi-ethnic home-making. In South Central Dreams, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor beautifully capture the soul of the area through a mixed-method study that places quantitative data in dialogue with informant voices. The result is a must-read volume that complicates popular notions about Black-Brown relations and provides important lessons for sociological theory. -- Darnell M. Hunt, co-editor of Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial RealitiesSouth Central Dreams offers a penetrating look at immigration, adaptation, and social change in a poor urban community shifting from black to brown. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor masterfully document how the specifics of place and time shape the actions of ordinary people as they transcend social difference to construct a common identity and transform a stigmatized urban quarter into a cherished place called 'home.' This book moves well beyond the usual cliches of a fraught relationship between Blacks and Latinos and offers a model for how community studies should be done, hopefully one that will be emulated in other cities throughout the nation. -- Douglas Massey, author of American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the UnderclassBravo! In this book, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor document a powerful new age of Latino politics. In South Central Los Angeles, Latino youth have blended the immigrant insights of their elders with the experiences of their African American classmates, neighbors, and friends, expanding the possibilities of Brown/Black solidarity by forging a brand-new political identity. 'We are South Central!,' they exclaim, embracing as their own every struggle that has determined the conditions of life in their community. -- Kelly Lytle Hernandez, author of City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor breathe life into the understudied and underappreciated complexities of South Los Angeles. Through the historical analysis of the friends, families, organizers and activists of our neighborhoods, we are shown not just our past, but our future as well. Especially in a time of racial reckoning in this country, and after an administration that spent its entire four years picking at the fabric of a delicate bond of solidarity across communities of color, South Central Dreams stands out as an important commentary on identity and civic engagement with implications for not only Los Angeles, but the rest of the country. -- Congresswoman Karen Bass, former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (2019-2020)Two of our most esteemed scholars of immigration have given us a new paradigm for how to think about race, place, and identity. This book takes a deep dive into the lives of first- and second-generation Latinx immigrants as they shape home and identity alongside their Black neighbors in South LA. Rather than retelling the classic narrative of immigrant assimilation, this book shows the tensions and negotiations that go into making home in a multi-racial community and the power of shared struggle. The authors’ relational perspective allows them to explore the ways Latinx identity is shaped by Blackness and gives us new insights into how people set roots, find friends, and forge identities around urban anchors like community gardens, parks and neighborhood markets. -- Natalia Molina, author of How Race Is Made in America: Immigration, Citizenship, and the Historical Power of Racial ScriptsSouth Central Dreams is a major contribution to both Latinx and Los Angeles Studies. By revisiting community residents in South Central Los Angeles a full generation after Latinos began moving into the area, the authors provide a nuanced and careful portrait of neighborhood life with important implications for Brown/Black spaces across the U.S. -- Laura Pulido, co-author of A People's Guide to Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisArgues that a commitment to diversity is frequently substituted for a commitment to actual change. This title traces the work that diversity does, examining how the term is used and the way it serves to make questions about racism seem impertinent.Trade Review“Ahmed’s book is not a how-to guide to ‘what works.’ But On Being Included would be an excellent choice for a faculty-staff reading group about social justice in the academy, because Ahmed provides a rich resource for serious rethinking: ‘My aim is not to suggest that we should stop doing diversity, but that we need to keep asking what we are doing.’” - Meryl Altman, Academe“For those of us interested in diversity work, Ahmed’s On Being Included provides a novel way of thinking about diversity. In her readings of institutional documents interwoven with the voices of diversity workers, Ahmed cautions us to think about diversity as a tool deployed to further crystallize institutionally sanctioned racist practices that recede to the background of everyday life.” - Andres Castro Samayoa, Somatechnics“[A] unique account of diversity as an institutional practice and also of what people do and feel when they do not quite fit the norms of an institution orare ‘out of place’. Ahmed captures the experience of diversity in liberal institutions through the image of a coming up against a brick wall and an important part of this book is the ‘physical and emotional’ labour of confronting that wall.” - Karim Murji, Ethnic and Racial Studies“Regardless of positionality and lived experiences, this text is engaging both intellectually and emotionally. Ahmed’s unflinching candor compels reflection and tough (hopefully productive) conversations far more effectively than a conventional ‘diversity document’. This is a text that moves to confront and change the status quo.” - Corin de Freitas and Alex Pysklywec, Society and Space, Environment and Planning D“Despite having read widely within the field of diversity and higher education, it is rare for a book to so powerfully call to mind my own identities as did this one. . . . This work is most appropriate for an educational anthropology course or unit focused on applied work within higher education. . . . It would also be useful for researchers looking for a new theoretical approach to how discourse and documents perform within institutions or, more provocatively, how they fail to do so.” - Lauren Miller Griffith, Anthropology and Education Quarterly"Just when you think everything that could possibly be said about diversity in higher education has been said, Sara Ahmed comes along with this startlingly original, deeply engaging ethnography of diversity work. On Being Included is an insightful, smart reflection on the embodied, profoundly political phenomenology of doing and performing diversity in predominantly white institutions. As Ahmed queers even the most mundane formulations of diversity, she creates one eureka moment after another. I could not put this book down. It is a must-read for everyone committed to antiracist, feminist work as key to institutional transformation in higher education."—Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity"Sara Ahmed's sensitive and respectful analysis of the complexities faced by diversity workers in higher education institutions arrives at a moment when we urgently need ways to rethink institutional dynamics and the animating effects of policy regimes and processes. This is a vital book: vital as a compass guiding the eye, heart, and mind to the knowledge that can emerge from the labor of institutional transformation, and vital in the sense of being life-giving to those involved in the process."—Gail Lewis, coauthor of Citizenship: Personal Lives and Social Policy"There are no other books of this caliber examining the institutional culture of diversity in higher education. Sara Ahmed not only offers a rigorous empirical study of how diversity operates in the real world; she also develops a brilliant theoretical framework exploring the affective reproduction of inequality. At the same time, as a black feminist, she draws on her own embodiment of difference and experience as a diversity practitioner."—Heidi Safia Mirza, author of Race, Gender and Educational Desire: Why Black Women Succeed and Fail“Ahmed’s book is not a how-to guide to ‘what works.’ But On Being Included would be an excellent choice for a faculty-staff reading group about social justice in the academy, because Ahmed provides a rich resource for serious rethinking: ‘My aim is not to suggest that we should stop doing diversity, but that we need to keep asking what we are doing.’” -- Meryl Altman * Academe *“Regardless of positionality and lived experiences, this text is engaging both intellectually and emotionally. Ahmed’s unflinching candor compels reflection and tough (hopefully productive) conversations far more effectively than a conventional ‘diversity document’. This is a text that moves to confront and change the status quo.” -- Corin de Freitas and Alex Pysklywec * Environment and Planning D *“[T]he book links deeply theoretical questioning to personal experience, empirical findings in interviews, informal discussions and engaged participant observation. It provides the reader with many insights, some created within different varieties of collective intellectual labor that are referred to as discussions in a seminar, meeting or informal talk, that nourish the quest for reading that is simultaneously compelling and delightful. In its combination of theory and practice, the book offers food for thought to theorists and practitioners alike.” -- Anitta Kynsilehto * International Feminist Journal of Politics *“On Being Included is one of those books that took over my life. It seemed like, for a while, I inserted this text into just about every conversation I had. ‘Oh, that’s similar to what Sara Ahmed talks about when she says … ‘ Maybe it’s because I want people to associate me with this brilliant author! It’s also partially because this book is really smart about dealing with the ways that terms–specifically, diversity–are taken up within the institution (and she does a neat job of thinking through what institution means) and used to obscure particular kinds of work.” -- Erin Frost * Theorizing Feminist Apparency blog *“On Being Included does an excellent job of bringing to life, in highly perceptive ways, the experience of doing diversity work. As ethnography, its strength indeed may lie in bracketing other times and places. However, the resonance with other documented experiences in Britain and Australia contributes to the book’s value in offering not just a picture of diversity politics but a vivid account of the persistent features of contemporary organisational life when faced with projects seeking change.” -- Davina Cooper * British Journal of Educational Studies *“Drawing from interviews and informal conversations with higher education diversity practitioners across the United Kingdom and Australia, scholar Sara Ahmed has crafted a keen meditation on the meaning of diversity in higher education and its implications for inclusion.... Focusing on what practitioners can learn about institutions as they work to transform them, her book will be of interest to anyone seeking to promote greater inclusion at their institution.” * On Campus with Women *“This book offers a grounded and open exploration of what it means to ‘do’ diversity, to ‘be’ diverse. It challenges the reader, both in style and in content, to reconsider relations of power that stick to the multiple practices, meanings, and understandings of diversity, and to reconsider how we engage, reproduce, and disrupt these relations.” -- Juliane Collard and Carolyn Prouse * Gender, Place & Culture *“A key finding in Ahmed’s rich analysis of race relations is how diversity policies can become a mechanism for preserving whiteness. . . . Above all, Ahmed’s corpus of work on race and cultural studies continues to remind us that race is a ‘sticky sign’. . . . The wonder of Ahmed’s book is that it allows us insight into some of the more ephemeral ways whiteness, privilege and institutional discrimination come to operate as normative.” -- Anoop Nayak * British Journal of Sociology of Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. On Arrival 1 1. Institutional Life 19 2. The Language of Diversity 51 3. Equality and Performance Culture 83 4. Commitment as a Non-performative 113 5. Speaking about Racism 141 Conclusion. A Phenomenological Practice 173 Notes 191 References 221 Index 235

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Rosalind C. Morris Part 1 Text "Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Subaltern Studies after Spivak, by Partha Chatterjee Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History, by Ritu Birla The Ethnical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention, by Drucilla Cornell Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing: Death and the Subaltern Death and the Subaltern, by Rajeswawri Sunder Rajan Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery, by Abdul JanMohamed Subalterns at War, by Michele Barrett Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor, by Pheng Cheah Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico, by Jean Franco Part 5 In Response In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Appendix Can the Subaltern Speak? Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisBridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability, showing how the genre's exploration of bodyminds that exist outside of the present open up new social and ethical possibilities.Trade Review"It is now time to bring focus and attention to the works of Black women speculative writers and their subjects. Bodyminds Reimagined becomes the discovery that celebrates these writers and subjects, while challenging the status quo within speculative fiction and (dis)ability studies, and moves them from marginalized objects to realist representations." -- Grace Gipson * Black Perspectives *“Sami Schalk’s highly anticipated Bodyminds Reimagined is the most significant contribution to literary and cultural disability studies in years. Appeals to scholars in critical race studies, queer studies, and social justice activism.” -- Anna L. Hinton * ASAP/Journal *"Sami Schalk’s book is an important bridge between Black women’s science fiction and disability theorizing. Her work requires a reconceptualization of the boundaries of disability studies and African American literature as well." -- Moya Bailey * Feminist Formations *"Bodyminds Reimagined boldly demonstrates the capacity of black speculation and experimentation to generate world-building visions that are inclusive and sustainable for multiply marginalized black subjects." -- Petal Samuel * Public Books *"Bodyminds Reimagined is a compelling critical study . . . simultaneously accessible and complex, exhaustively sourced and fresh in its analysis. . . . Students, scholars, and fans of speculative fiction will be well served to familiarize themselves with this book." -- Angela Rovak * Women's Studies *"Sami Schalk, through Bodyminds Reimagined, takes a revolutionary step in defining the black disabled person’s experience in literature and media by promoting examples of black disabled people in speculative fiction created by women of color; and by re-defining manifestations of intersectionality among disabled people of color." -- Timotheus "T.J." Gordon, Jr. * Ethnic Studies Review *"Bodyminds Reimagined is an important work on theorizing speculative fiction and the ways in which it can change perceptions, actions, and minds. A model for future intersectional scholarship, this book is well written and accessible." -- Joshua Earle * Catalyst *"Wide-reaching. . . . Sami Schalk’s version of intersectionality emphasizes multidimensional entanglements that resist visual charting and static notions of identity. This version of intersectionality serves as a launchpad for new social formations." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *"Bodyminds Reimagined encouraged me to check my own privilege, to think differently about identity, and to reimagine my small niche in the world. The book is that good in its confrontation of the status quo, in its analysis of marginalized peoples in estranged worlds. . . . When I refer to Schalk’s Bodyminds Reimagined as groundbreaking, I do not mean this lightly. . . . All libraries should stock this book on their shelves." -- Isiah Lavender III * Science Fiction Studies *"Bodyminds Reimagined will appeal both to scholars and general readers. Schalk’s framework is simplified in a way that makes it digestible for those who may be unfamiliar with crip theory or intersectionality. With a slim frame, and at only four chapters, the book is inviting rather than intimidating. Schalk’s ability to sound both personable and professional is particularly enjoyable." -- Anelise Farris * Extrapolation *Table of ContentsPrologue and Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Metaphor and Materiality: Disability and Neo-Slave Narratives 33 2. Whose Reality Is It Anyway? Deconstructing Able-Mindedness 59 3. The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future 85 4. Defamiliarizing (Dis)ability, Race, Gender, and Sexuality 113 Conclusion 137 Notes 147 Bibliography 159 Index 175

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Book SynopsisCritics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, proved to be steeped in environmental concerns that address elements of the natural world and relate nature to the transatlantic slave trade, plantation labor, and nationhood. Toni Morrison''s work is no exception. Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color is the first full-length ecocritical investigation of the Nobel Laureate''s novels and brings to the fore an unequaled engagement between race and nature. Morrison''s ecological consciousness holds that human geographies are enmeshed with nonhuman nature. It follows, then, that ecology, the branch of biology that studies how people relate to each other and their environment, is an apt framework for this book. The interrelationships and interactions between individuals and community, and between organisms and the biosphere, are central to this analysis. They highl

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Book SynopsisDraws together essays that examine evolving attitudes about race, sports, and athletic activism in the US. This anthology links post-World War II African American protest movements to a range of contemporary social justice interventions.Trade ReviewSports and the Racial Divide provides a rich sociohistorical account of the role sports and athletes play in contemporary political activism." - John N. Singer, associate professor of sport management in the School of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University

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Book SynopsisUpon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black liberation struggles. Tangier and Algiers attracted Black American and Caribbean artists eager to escape American white supremacy; Tunis hosted African filmmakers for the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage; and young freedom fighters from across the African continent established military training camps in Morocco. North Africa became a haven for militant-artists, and the region reshaped postcolonial cultural discourse through the 1960s and 1970s. Maghreb Noir dives into the personal and political lives of these militant-artists, who collectively challenged the neo-colonialist structures and the authoritarianism of African states. Drawing on Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English sources, as well as interviews with the artists themselves, Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik expands our understanding of Pan-Africanism geographically, linguistically, and temporally. This network of militant-artists departed from the racial solidarity extolled by many of their nationalist forefathers, instead following in the footsteps of their intellectual mentor, Frantz Fanon. They argued for the creation of a new ideology of continued revolution—one that was transnational, trans-racial, and in defiance of the emerging nation-states. Maghreb Noir establishes the importance of North Africa in nurturing these global connections—and uncovers a lost history of grassroots collaboration among militant-artists from across the globe.Trade Review"Maghreb Noir takes us from Rabat to Algiers to Tunis to demonstrate how 1960s North Africa was an epicenter of pan-African thought and Black radicalism. Showcasing a region too long left out of histories of pan-Africanism and Black internationalism, Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik has written a meticulously researched, effortlessly transnational work."—Hisham Aidi, Columbia University, author of Rebel Music"Maghreb Noir is a much-needed addition to North African studies. Rich, archivally informed and subtly argued, it captures the voices and footsteps of a generation of Pan-African militants and artists who chose the Maghreb as their stage of contestation. An essential read for anyone interested in Pan-African revolutionary politics."—Aomar Boum, UCLA, author of Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa"Stimulating and convincing, Maghreb Noir renews our perspectives on both the Africanity of the Maghreb and its wider history."—Jocelyne Dakhlia, École des hautes études en sciences sociales"Tolan-Szkilnik's command of her sources and analytical approach has provided readers with aninsightful work that allows them to better understand the Maghreb and the nature of its cultural production between the 1950s and the 1970s."—Tugrul Mende, The Markaz Review"Drawing on interviews, personal papers, and the archives of many of the surviving protagonists, this lively book revisits the heady age of anticolonial revolution and political ferment in North Africa in the middle decades of the twentieth century, when liberation was in the air and solidarity was glamorous."—Lisa Anderson, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction Chapter 1: Revolt Respects No Borders: Luso-African Revolutionaries in Rabat Chapter 2: A Continent in Its Totality: Moroccan Literary Journal Souffles Turns to Angola Chapter 3: Poetry on All Fronts: Jean Sénac's Fight for Algeria's Airwaves Chapter 4: Nothing to Fear from the Poet: Hooking up at the Pan-African Festival of Algiers Chapter 5: The Red in Red-Carpet: The Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage Conclusion: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new day finally seems to be shining on the African continent. Africa has once again become a site of creative potential and a vibrant center of economic growth and production. No longer stigmatized by stereotypes or encumbered by the traumas of the past—yet unsure of the future—Africa has other options than simply to follow paths already carved out by the global economy. Instead, the philosopher Felwine Sarr urges the continent to set out on its own renewal and self-discovery—an active utopia that requires a deep historical reflection on the continent’s vast mythological universe and ancient traditions, nourishes a cultural reinvention, and embraces green technologies for tackling climate change and demographic challenges.Through a reflection on contemporary African writers, artists, intellectuals, and musicians, Sarr elaborates Africa’s unique philosophies and notions of communal value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient traditions and landscape—concepts such as ubuntu, the life force in Dogon culture; the Rwandan imihigo; and the Senegalese teranga. Sarr takes the reader on a philosophical journey that is as much inward as outward, demanding an elevation of the collective consciousness.Along the way, one sees the contours of an africanity, a contemporary Africa united as a continent through the creolization of its cultural traditions. This is Felwine Sarr’s Afrotopia.

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Book SynopsisA survey and interpretive study of one of the defining issues in America's past Americans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people and their descendants have lived in North America. Contemporaries and later writers and scholars up to the present day have explored the meaning of slavery as a system of labor, an ideological paradox in a "free" political and social order, a violent mode of racial exploitation, and a global system of human commodification and trafficking.To fully understand the various ways in which slavery has been depicted and described is a difficult task. Like any other important historical issue, this requires a thorough grasp of the underlying history, methodological developments over time, and the contemporary politics and culture of historians' own times. And the case of slavery is further complicated, of course, by changes in the legal and political status of African Americans in the 20th and 21st centuries.Slavery: Interpreting American History, like other volumes in the Interpreting American History series, surveys interpretations of important historical eras and events, examining both the intellectual shifts that have taken place and various catalysts that drove those shifts. While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising given the turbulent history of race in America, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject, spanning more than two centuries, can be overwhelming. Editors Aaron Astor and Thomas Buchanan, together with a team of expert contributors, highlight here the key debates and conceptual shifts that have defined the field. The volume will be an especially helpful guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, professional historians new to the field, and other readers interested in the study of American slavery.Trade Review"Writing interesting and engaging historiographical surveys of a topic such as slavery is difficult. Yet, this volume succeeds. In its prose and content, Slavery: Interpreting American History will appeal to both specialists and nonspecialists alike."—Hilary Green, author of Educational Reconstruction: African American Schools in the Urban South, 1865–1890"Slavery: Interpreting American History is more than a collection of exceptional essays on the historiography of American slavery. The essays connect to and enhance major interpretations in the field. Both seasoned scholars and those new to the topic will find great value in this book."—Justin Behrend, author of Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South after the Civil War

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Book SynopsisSpike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989) is one of the most popular and celebrated examples of the African-American new black film wave. Set during the hottest day of a hot summer in New York City, the film's ensemble cast, including Lee himself, brilliantly play out the edgy negotiations and dramas of a racially and culturally diverse working-class Brooklyn neighborhood. Contrary to Hollywood's markedly cautious treatment of 'race' and its confinement to the South and the past, Do The Right Thing offers a nuanced portrayal of black urban life.From hip-hop fashions, Afrocentric colors and rap music, to police brutality, gentrification, non-white immigration, de-industrialization and joblessness, Do The Right Thing depicts it all, from a contemporary, African-American point of view. In his insightful study of the film, Ed Guerrero discusses how it epitomizes Spike Lee's powerful impact on the representation of race and difference in America, the progress of black film-making and the rise of multicultural voices in the media. This new edition includes a foreword by the author reflecting on Lee's subsequent film-making career and on an America in which African-Americans still contend with racial discrimination and police brutality. Guerrero emphasizes Lee's especially timely understanding of black film-making as a complex act, mixing the skills of art, politics, and business in order to fashion a creative practice that confronts institutional discrimination and power relations head on.Trade ReviewThis timely and concise exploration of Do the Right Thing is essential for any study of American cinema and its discontents. -- Isaac JulienThis is a rich and energetic exploration of a a Spike Lee ‘Classic’. Guerrero is to be congratulated on a triumphant tour of the inner world of Spike Lee’s film-making. -- Houston A. Baker, Jr., Distinguished University Professor (English and African American Diaspora Studies), Vanderbilt University, USA

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Book SynopsisSouth Asians have lived in Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual exchange of cultures continues to flourish today. Asian Britain vividly charts Britain's process of coming to terms with the historic realities of its culturally diverse past and present. This extraordinary photographic history draws upon culture, film, music, the military, business, the suffragist movement and the different phases of historic settlement of Asian migrants from the subcontinent, the Caribbean and East Africa. Personalities from the arts, business, politics and sport appear alongside the pioneers - the first female law student at Oxford, the first Indian RAF pilots, the first Asian MP - and of equal significance are the experiences and history of the ordinary immigrants.Trade Review'Fascinating - [This] breathtaking book - sets out to chart a fascinating and important untold social history.' Daily Mail 'Celebrates the long, and sometimes surprising, history of Asian people in the UK - Susheila Nasta's Asian Britain records an untold social history - Poignant' Guardian

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Book SynopsisBraiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Joan Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia.Trade ReviewThis intimate, brave memoir is also one that many women will recognize as their own: a lifetime spent trying to heal others and the world, only to discover one must start with oneself."" - Robin Morgan, editor of Sisterhood Is Powerful ""This book is the real deal, the way it was. A good book for folks to grow on. I love it! Bravo!"" - Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple ""Exceptional. It is a real challenge to write a memoir that is intellectually deep, psychologically sophisticated, and politically principled that is also engaging, accessible, funny, and tender. Loving before Loving certainly is all that. What a remarkable ride."" - Becky Thompson, author of A Promise and a Way of Life ""Vividly written and profoundly moving, Joan Lester's journey-as wife, mother, activist-is politically insightful and prescient. Since her vigorous and heartfelt observations and analyses are generative and healing, this memoir is needed now when our racial conflicts, always profound, continue to intensify."" - Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of Eleanor Roosevelt

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Book SynopsisBringing together classic and writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, this title addresses some of the pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. It offers a sustained critique of globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist practice toward anti-capitalist struggles.Trade Review“Chandra Talpade Mohanty's illuminating analyses take up some of the most urgent questions facing a transnational feminist practice today. She provides resources for feminist engagements with difference, identity politics, the commodification of knowledge, and globalization and its effects. Shifts in the global political and economic landscape as well as Mohanty's own shifting location enable her to identify exhilarating new directions for feminist theory and practice.”—Sandra Harding, coeditor of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society“Over the last two decades, Chandra Talpade Mohanty has produced an extraordinary body of writings on transnational feminism, radically changing the way we think about such categories as ‘third world women,’ ‘women of color’ and ‘globalization.’ This volume combines her now classic essays with new writings that accentuate the centrality of anticapitalist feminist theories and practices to the most expansive and forward-looking version of women's studies today.”—Angela Y. Davis"Chandra Talpade Mohanty is unequivocally one of the most important feminist theorists and scholars writing and publishing today. In this collection, her essays take on new meaning to play important parts in what is both a dynamic full-scale analysis of the complex histories of the exploitation of women within neocolonial capitalism and an elaboration of antiracist pedagogies and anticapitalist solidarity practices."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics”The juxtaposition of these essays brings into sharp focus the theoretical framework Chandra Talpade Mohanty has developed and makes visible the enormity, the force, and the uniqueness of her contribution.”—Ruth Frankenberg, editor of Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural CriticismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Decolonization, Anticapitalist Critique, and Feminist Commitments 1 Part One. Decolonizing Feminism 1. Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses 17 2. Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism 43 3. What's Home Got to Do with It? (with Biddy Martin) 85 4. Sisterhood, Coalition, and the Politics of Experience 106 5. Genealogies of Community, Home, and Nation 124 Part Two. Demystifying Capitalism 6. Women Workers and the Politics of Solidarity 139 7. Privatized Citizenship, Corporate Academies, and Feminist Projects 169 8. Race, Multiculturalism, and Pedagogies of DissentPart Three. Reorienting Feminism 190 9. “Under Western Eyes" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles 221 Notes 253 Bibliography 275 Index 295

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Book SynopsisNew, updated edition of an important and timely critique of Anti-Jewish sentiment on the left. A great deal has happened since the first edition of The Left's Jewish Problem came out in 2016. The Shami Chakrabarti Inquiry into anti-Semitism and other forms of racism in the Labour Party has been published; the grip of Labour's hard left has strengthened; has failed to deal with Ken Livingstone and other offenders and attitudes to Jews and anti-Semitism have become a marker of political difference across national politics. However, while Jeremy Corbyn may have thrown a harsher spotlight on the crisis, it is by no means a recent phenomenon. The widening gulf between British Jews and the anti-Israel left - born out of anti-apartheid campaigns and now allying itself with Islamist extremists who demand Israel's destruction - did not happen overnight or by chance: political activists made it happen. This book reveals who they were, why they chose Palestine and how they sold their cause to the left. Based on new academic research into the origins of this phenomenon, combined with the author's daily work observing political extremism, contemporary hostility to Israel, and anti-Semitism, this book brings new insight to the left's increasingly controversial `Jewish problem'.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWright's research is breathtaking. Her subject matter is of the utmost importance. This book lays the foundation for all future scholarship on African American girls in representation and in life.--Robin Bernstein, author of Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil RightsAn important gift from an emerging scholar with a keen critical eye and impressive sleuthing skills. With depth and insight, Wright explores African American women's most exigent issues from the cusp and vantage of girlhood: marriage, motherhood, widowhood, and employment, each state intensified by the myriad oppressions black women uniquely face. In addition, Wright's book enriches nascent black print culture studies through its compelling engagement with archival documents and its valuable illumination of previously neglected newspapers, magazines, conduct books, sentimental discourses of all types. Drawing on a striking variety of print media, Wright revels in today's incalculable possibilities for research into African American women's history, literature and culture, and illustrates significant ways understudied black literary gems--from nineteenth century newspapers and scrapbooks--can deepen readers' insights into the supremacy of education to black people across US history and African American women's fierce pursuits of justice and self-determination.--Joycelyn Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio

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Book SynopsisThe Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World''s Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of Trade ReviewCertificate of Excellence, Illinois State Historical Society, 2021 "Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance invites a new generation of scholars to keep digging into the scarcely tapped and rich history of Black Chicago and its influence on US history." --Society for US Intellectual History"Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance makes a compelling case for starting any history of Black culture and arts in Chicago well before the traditional start date of the Chicago Renaissance in the 1930s." --Society for US Intellectual History”An important work of intellectual and cultural recovery. It brings to the surface corners of Chicago's vibrant intellectual and cultural life that we have never considered or simply heard about in passing. The archival depth and artistic breadth will powerfully add to a much broader understanding of black cultural renaissance both geographically and conceptually.”—Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life"Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance has many pleasures for readers interested in African-American history, art history, Chicago history and, indeed, US history, and one is the opportunity to learn about important but little-known figures from a century and more ago." --Third Coast Review"Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance ultimately presents a rich, varied tapestry for understanding some of the foundational moments of Black Chicago's cultural and literary history. No doubt future studies will continue to build on some of the insights presented by this volume." --Journal of American Ethnic History "Highly recommended." --Choice "The Black Chicago Renaissance (BCR) remains a relatively understudies moment in 20th-century African American cultural history. . . . An engrossing account of the formative period that led to the BCR of the 1930s and 1940s. . . . A highly informative, albeit imperfect, step toward a fuller reconstruction of the pre-BCR years." --Science and Society"This is the book we’ve been waiting for--revelatory at every turn--attesting to the creative ferment of black Chicago in the early years of the twentieth century. Courage, Reed, and an impressive range of contributors give us the vital 'prequel' to the Black Chicago Renaissance, through new stories of writers, artists, dancers, tastemakers, and cultural entrepreneurs who made Chicago a center of the New Negro movement."--Liesl Olson, author of Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis

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Book SynopsisPublished annually, this 28th edition brings together a unique combination of the latest data on, and detailed analysis of, a vast region. Scrupulously updated by Europa's experienced editors, the volume also includes contributions from regional specialists.General SurveyEssays written by acknowledged experts on the area provide an impartial overview of the region.Country surveysIndividual chapters on each country, comprising:- essays on the geography, recent history and economy of each country - a statistical survey- a full directory section - a select bibliography.Regional InformationA directory of research institutes and bibliographies of books and journals covering Latin America and the Caribbean.Table of ContentsPart 1: General SurveyPart 2: Country Surveys Sections on geography, history and economy, as well as statistical surveys, directories and bibliographies for each country. Part 3: Regional Information Regional Organizations. Major Commodities of Latin America. Research Institutes. Select Bibliography (Books). Select Bibliography (Periodicals). Index of Regional Organizations.

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Book SynopsisThis compelling book conceptualizes Ethnic Studies not only as a vehicle to transform and revitalize the school curriculum but also as a way to reinvent teaching. Drawing on Sleeter's research review on the impact of Ethnic Studies, the authors show how the traditional curriculum's Eurocentric view of the world affects diverse student populations.Table of Contents Contents Series Foreword James A. Banks vii Acknowledgments xiii 1. What Is All This Fuss About Ethnic Studies? 1 A Story of Schooling and the Legacies of Colonialism 1 Ethnic Studies as a Decolonizing, Unfinished Project 4 Epistemic Privilege: Propelling the Movement Forward 5 Ethnic Studies in Our Schools 6 Hallmarks of Ethnic Studies 7 Overview of This Book 17 Joining the Struggle for Ethnic Studies 17 2. Mainstream Curriculum as (Multicultural) White Studies 23 Whose Viewpoint Structures Curriculum? A Contested Domain 24 What Do Current Curriculum Analyses Find? 27 Assumptions Embedded Within (Multicultural) White Studies 36 Students’ Perspectives 38 Conclusion 43 3. What the Research Says About Ethnic Studies 44 Academic and Personal Impact on Students of Color 45 Ethnic Studies for Diverse Groups That Include White Students 62 Conclusion 67 4. Ethnic Studies Curriculum as Counter-Narrative 69 Ethnic Studies as a Conceptual Approach 69 Ethnic Studies in Early Childhood 72 Black Studies in High School 76 Native American Studies 79 Ethnic Studies with Diverse Students 84 Youth Participatory Action Research and Ethnic Studies 90 Conclusion 93 5. Ethnic Studies Teachers’ Reflections on Their Praxis 95 Ethnic Studies Teachers 96 Identity as Central to Teaching 97 Foundational Values 99 Key Challenges 107 Conclusion 112 6. Research and the Movement for Ethnic Studies 113 Uses of Research in the Growing Movement for Ethnic Studies 114 Ethnic Studies Advocates 115 The Role of Research in Ethnic Studies Advocacy 116 Challenges 123 Sustainable Research and Advocacy 128 Looking Toward the Future 130 References 134 Index 149 About the Authors 162

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Book SynopsisThe role of slaves and free blacks in the politics of secession.

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Book SynopsisPresents a collection of essays that explore black theorists and their contributions to diverse strains of political, social, and cultural thought. The book examines four central themes within the black intellectual tradition: black internationalism, religion and spirituality, racial politics and struggles for social justice, and black radicalism.

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Book SynopsisThis illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough''s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African Americans, Scarborough was an exemplary scholar, particularly in the field of classical studies. He was the first African American member of the Modern Language Association, a forty-four-year member of the American Philological Association, and a true champion of higher education. Scarborough advocated the reading, writing, and teaching of liberal arts at a time when illiteracy was rampant due to slavery''s legacy, white supremacists were dismissing the intellectual capability of blacks, and Booker T. Washington was urging African Americans to focus on industrial skills and training.The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough is a valuable historical record of the life and work of a

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Book SynopsisExplores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel’s cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic medium in general. Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film’s particular form of ‘magic’ may be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.Trade ReviewHidden Light analyzes the ‘Judaic turn’ in Israeli cinema during the 2000s in riveting and rigorous detail. But that is only one of this book’s many impressive achievements. Chyutin grapples with nothing less than film theory’s links to religious and mystical concepts, building new bridges between film studies, Jewish studies, and religious studies." - Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Horror Film and Otherness"Hidden Light is an act of reclamation. Moving beyond a seeming dichotomy between a text-driven legal tradition and the visual poetics of cinema, Chyutin brilliantly illustrates how the recent wave of religiously inflected Israeli cinema is deeply rooted in Jewish traditions of longing, prayer, and transcendence." - Shayna Weiss, associate director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University"Hidden Light is essential for anyone interested in contemporary Israeli cinema. Bringing deep theoretical and historical knowledge to bear on the ‘Judaic turn,’ Chyutin presents new ways of thinking about religion on-screen and ideas of spiritual transcendence endemic to the concept of ‘the cinematic’ since the art form’s birth." - Kyle Stevens, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory"Dan Chyutin’s timely study brings the ‘Judaic turn’ to bear upon a rich and engaging analysis of Israeli cinema. It does so by paying attention to cinematic appeals to the Judaic New Age, or what some scholars have recently termed the ‘Jew Age.’ Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema is an important contribution that, through its Jew Age analyses, brings into question simplistic binary thinking regarding the Israeli secular-religious divide in favor of a more complex reading of Judaism’s relationship to Israeli notions of identity." - Brian Ogren, Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies and Religion Department Chair, Rice University"Hidden Light makes a singular contribution to the study of Israeli cinema, exploring and delineating one of the most important developments in Israeli cinema over the past three decades: the emergence of religious-themed Israeli films. Chyutin’s analysis of films is meticulous and enlightening, as he expands and challenges our perceptions of the Israeli cinematic canon." - Eran Kaplan, author of Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen"Film scholars will find merit." - Publisher's Weekly

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Book SynopsisThe civil war in Colombia has waxed and waned for sixty years, with shifting goals, programs, and tactics among the contending parties. The author argues that the first administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez marks a decisive break in this seemingly endless cycle.

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Book SynopsisExamines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century. By presenting African American Protestantism in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism, this study demonstrates that African American Protestants were acutely aware of the manner in which white Christianity operated and how they could use that knowledge to justify social change.Trade ReviewMathews deals with the connection between African American religion and the quest for racial equality. Her focus is unique: she looks at the subject from the perspective fundamentalism, as practiced by conservative Protestants, both black and white, in the years from 1915 to 1941. Recommended."" - Choice""Doctrine and Race—which considers the evolution of black evangelicals during the interwar period through their struggle with the modernist controversies and white fundamentalism’s rise—is an extremely welcome contribution to the study of black religious history."" - Clarence E. Hardy III, author of James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture

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Book SynopsisIdentifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Patricia Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory has begun to create a more fluid sense of southernness that welcomes contributions by all of the region's peoples.Trade ReviewDavis demonstrates how dominant historical narratives, performances, and institutions can privilege certain interests and interpretations, obscure invisible ideologies and hidden agendas, and promote negligent narratives about the past. Davis uses interviews, participant observation, textual analysis, and archival research to discern white norms of southern identity; identify erroneous accounts of the Civil War; illustrate the importance of African American southern heritage-a heritage that has often been intentionally ignored, denied, and 'symbolically annihilated'; show how African Americans have actively reclaimed forgotten experiences; and demonstrate how Civil War reenactments by organizations such as United States Colored Troops, museums such as the African American Civil War Museum, and digital repositories such as the Memory Book project contest inaccurate, careless, and white legacies of the south. Although the presence of particular stories can cultivate group pride and solidarity, Davis cautions against cultural syncretism and triumphant narratives, both of which can obscure the tragic lived realities of the past. With such impressive breadth and depth, this book is essential for anyone interested in rhetoric, race, activism, and cultural heritage. Highly recommended." - CHOICE"To say that Laying Claim is a timely work of rhetorical theory and criticism and leave it at that runs the risk of downplaying the value of Davis' exigent intervention in multiple scholarly fields. Laying Claim is a rigorous exploration of the historic, cultural, and rhetorical forces that facilitate the emergence of black southern identities in the twenty-first century." - Quarterly Journal of Speech "Laying Claim is Davis's first book, and it is a welcome addition to critical studies of memory, southern identity, and race and representation. Readers familiar with Blight s Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (2001) or Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished War (1999) will no doubt be interested in Davis's account of a region still trying to come to terms with its tragic past." - North Carolina Historical Review"A provocative and timely work that contributes something new to our understanding of both Civil War memory and the evolution of African American identity." - Craig A. Warren, author of The Rebel Yell: A Cultural History"Laying Claim makes several important contributions to the study of African American history and rhetoric, most notably its exploration of the ways in which African Americans in the south are reclaiming and redefining their role in southern history. This is an important work that offers a unique and compelling argument for the rethinking of southern identity." - Mark Lawrence McPhail, author of The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited: Reparations or Separation?Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Cultural Memory and African American Southern Identity: An Introduction Chapter 1. Ghosts of Nat Turner: African American Civil War Reenactment and the Performance of Historical Agency, Citizenship, and Masculinity Chapter 2. So That the Dead May Finally Speak: Space, Place, and the Transformational Rhetoric of Black History Museums Chapter 3. From Old South to New Media: Museum Informatics, Narrative, and the Production of Critical History Conclusion: Southern Identities in the Twenty-First Century Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of how Dreamers in the Obama era creatively confronted a complex sociopolitical landscape to advocate for immigrant rights and empower undocumented youth to proudly represent their lives and identities, all while under the ever-present threat of detention and deportation.Trade Review“Dreamer Nation is an elegantly written and thoroughly researched rhetorical history of undocumented youth activism during the Obama years. Ribero’s book will be beneficial to readers interested in social movements, queer of color critique, decolonial feminism, and anyone interested in immigration politics.”- J. David Cisneros, author of The Border Crossed Us: Rhetorics of Borders, Citizenship, and Latina/o Identity

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Book SynopsisProvides the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. The Garifuna are descendants of the ‘Black Carib’, whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua.

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Book SynopsisExplores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. Justin Nystrom's culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s. Each chapter touches on events that involved Sicilian immigrants and the relevancy of their lives and impact on New Orleans.

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Book SynopsisExamines what the black performance community - a broad network of actors, dramatists, audiences, critics, and community activists - who made and remade black theatre manuscripts for theatre companies from New York to Seattle.

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Book SynopsisIn 1971, French jazz critics Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli co-wrote Free Jazz/Black Power, a treatise on the racial and political implications of jazz and jazz criticism. Here, for the first time in English is the classic volume that developed a radical new understanding of free jazz and African American culture.

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Book SynopsisDespite the growing volume of literature about the orishas, surprisingly little has been published about the ubiquitous Yorùbá music spirit. This groundbreaking collection addresses the gap in the research with contributions from a cross-section of prestigious musicians, scholars, and priests from Nigeria, the Americas, and Europe who have dedicated themselves to studying Yorùbá sacred drums.Trade ReviewRecipient of the Commendation Book Prize 2016: ""The Yorùbá God of Drumming is a multifaceted book with an emphasis on collaboration, deeply immersed in Yorùbá studies. It shows meticulous attention to detail and is densely referenced, with a strong sense of passion for the subject. It supports writing from practitioners whose voices might otherwise not be heard, including them as the authors rather than informants, showing impressive editorial skill in making this a coherent book while retaining a diversity of experience and communication styles."" - British Forum for Ethnomusicology""This volume is a remarkable collection of essays, in which scholars of diverse disciplines, nationalities, and regional specializations study transatlantic Yorùbá music and religion through the lens of the spiritual power invested in its drums. The result is a uniquely broad and nuanced portrait of a powerful expressive tradition that has thrived vigorously in the New World, even as it struggles to survive in its ancestral homeland."" - Peter Manuel, professor of ethnomusicology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York""Far more than providing yet another addition to the genre of 'single orisha volumes,' Villepastour's collection raises the bar for such enterprises. In focusing on perhaps the most mysterious and ill-understood entity in the circum-Atlantic congeries of ritual practices that hark back to what, by the late nineteenth century, gradually became known as Yorùbá religion, The Yorùbá God of Drumming presents both a major empirical contribution and a model for integrating the voices and perspectives of scholars and practitioners/musicians alike."" - Stephan Palmié, professor of anthropology and social sciences, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisChronicles the origins and evolution of a folk tune beloved by millions worldwide. Dan Gutstein delves into the trajectory of the Liza Jane' family of songs, including the most popular variant Li'l Liza Jane'. Likely originating among enslaved people on southern plantations, the songs are still performed and recorded centuries later.Trade ReviewAn insightful and informative study that traces the cultural history of the ‘Liza Jane’ family of songs." - Lauren Eldridge Stewart, assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Washington University in St. Louis

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Book SynopsisGermans and African Americans, unlike other works on African Americans in Europe, examines the relationship between African Americans and one country, Germany, in great depth.Germans and African Americans encountered one another within the context of their national identities and group experiences. In the nineteenth century, German immigrants to America and to such communities as Charleston and Cincinnati interacted within the boundaries of their old-world experiences and ideas and within surrounding regional notions of a nation fracturing over slavery. In the post-Civil War era in America through the Weimar era, Germany became a place to which African American entertainers, travelers, and intellectuals such as W. E. B. Du Bois could go to escape American racism and find new opportunities. With the rise of the Third Reich, Germany became the personification of racism, and African Americans in the 1930s and 1940s could use Hitler's evil example to goad America about its own racist practices. Postwar West Germany regained the image as a land more tolerant to African American soldiers than America. African Americans were important to Cold War discourse, especially in the internal ideological struggle between Communist East Germany and democratic West Germany.Unlike many other countries in Europe, Germany has played a variety of different and conflicting roles in the African American narrative and relationship with Europe. It is this diversity of roles that adds to the complexity of African American and German interactions and mutual perceptions over time.

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