Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Louisiana State University Press Two Charlestonians at War The Civil War Odysseys
Book SynopsisTracing the intersecting lives of a Confederate plantation owner and a free black Union soldier, Barbara Bellows' Two Charlestonians at War offers a poignant allegory of the fraught, interdependent relationship between wartime enemies in the Civil War South.
£31.30
Louisiana State University Press North Carolinas Free People of Color 17151885
Book SynopsisExamines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes”, “mulattoes,” “mustees”, “Indians”, “mixed-bloods”, or simply “free people of color”. From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents.
£45.95
Louisiana State University Press AfroRealisms and the Romances of Race
Book SynopsisFrom the 1880s to the early 1900s, a particularly turbulent period of US race relations, the African American novel provided a powerful counternarrative to dominant and pejorative ideas about blackness. This book explores how writers experimented with innovative narrative strategies to revise stereotypical views of black identity and experience.Trade ReviewGoing beyond an additive model of inserting a few black writers into discussions of American realism, Daniels-Rauterkus highlights how realism evolves as a benefit of black and white writers' reciprocal literary influences across the color line. Devising a style of realism tinged with a bit of romance, black and white writers drew on shared literary strategies to represent race, difference, and black social life. Provocative and richly engaging, this book will be a welcome addition to discussions of nineteenth-century U.S. literature and African American literature, traditions that the author rightly recognizes as inextricably connected. Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race breathes new life into ongoing debates on how central African American fiction is to the very definition of American realism. It is a bold book that will spark new conversations among scholars and readers.
£38.95
Louisiana State University Press Approximate Gestures
Book SynopsisArgues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categories, and embrace the potential of a larger, more uncertain world.
£42.50
Louisiana State University Press Intersectional Tech Black Users in Digital Gaming
Book SynopsisExamines blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of Gamergate and the Black Lives Matter movement, Kishonna Gray highlights the inescapable chains that bind marginalized populations to stereotypical frames and limited narratives in video games.Trade ReviewIntersectional Tech is a groundbreaking contribution to the growing body of work on race and technology. Gray weaves together incisive structural critique with a nuanced handling of the daily life and experiences of Black gamers. We see how oppressive systems are stood up and circulated in gaming, yet also never lose sight of the continued ways people push back, create sustainable communities for themselves, and seek to dismantle these systems. This is a must read book.
£23.36
LSU Press Blessed Are the Peacemakers Martin Luther King Jr
Book SynopsisMartin Luther King Jr's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. This volume offers a comprehensive history of King's “Letter” and examines its literary appeal.
£22.95
Louisiana State University Press Becoming American in Creole New Orleans 18961949
Book SynopsisMoves the history of New Orleans' Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles' encounters with Anglo-American modernism. The author tracks this ethnic transformation through an interrogation of New Orleans's voluntary associations and social sodalities, and its public and parochial schools.
£35.06
LSU Press Winthropos
Book SynopsisWhile the poems in Winthropos reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they often reside in the American present of their conception, forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.
£17.05
Louisiana State University Press Navigating Liberty
Book SynopsisIn an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between the formerly enslaved and northern reformers, John Cimprich shows how the unusual circumstances of emancipation in wartime presented new opportunities and spawned social movements for change yet produced intractable challenges and limited results.
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Mardi Gras Indians
Book SynopsisExplores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions celebrating African culture, Indigenous peoples, and Black Americans.
£18.00
LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered
Book SynopsisHistorians have long considered the diary of William Johnson to be among the most significant sources on free African Americans living in the antebellum South. Timothy Buckner reexamines Johnson’s life using recent scholarship on Black masculinity as an essential lens, demonstrating a complexity to Johnson previously overlooked in academic studies.Trade ReviewTimothy R. Buckner skillfully examines William Johnson's life and experiences with this rich case study, serving to illuminate vital issues surrounding race, politics, and power in Natchez, Mississippi, and the Lower South. Buckner's emphasis on the multifaceted nature of Black manhood in and out of slavery, and on the structural forces that shaped actions and identities in the antebellum South, makes this a critical addition to the field." - David Stefan Doddington, author of Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South"Buckner's close inspection of the diary of William Johnson provides a nuanced picture of its author and his story. The book corrects interpretative mistakes made by scholars and situates this important primary document within a much-changed and updated historiography on antebellum free Black life, free Black slaveholding, Black and southern masculinity, as well as the prewar frontier and urban South." - Libra R. Hilde, author of Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Race Crime and Policing in the Jim Crow South
Book SynopsisReveals previously unrecognized efforts by African Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process, Brandon Jett exposes a complex relationship, suggesting that while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority relations, it did not define all interactions.Trade ReviewBrandon Jett shatters some widely held axioms about policing in the American South, showing how police departments emerged in lockstep with urbanization – not slavery – and evolved in complex ways, from mechanisms of racial control to entities that relied on Black cooperation and consent. Jett's book should be required reading for anyone interested in the complex story of race and policing in the United States." - Anders Walker, author of The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America"Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South will have an immediate impact on the understanding of race and policing in America. Brandon Jett vividly illustrates the continuous maltreatment of blacks by the criminal justice system and how African Americans responded in myriad, and at times unexpected, ways to the expansion of that system. This is important work." - Dwight Watson, author of Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990: A Change Did Come"With depth and nuance, Brandon Jett examines the rise of professional police departments in three southern cities in the midst of the Jim Crow Era. He shows how law enforcement served to reinforce white supremacy, how African Americans responded to the often brutal over policing of their neighborhoods, and how they negotiated the policing system to ensure the safety of their communities. This is a remarkably intelligent and well-researched book that will contribute much to our understandings of the history of criminal justice in the South and urban life under Jim Crow." - Amy L. Wood, author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1880-1940"From the dustiest corners of law enforcement archives, Brandon Jett has unearthed the chilling history of southern white police departments that even in the middle of the 20th Century ruthlessly pursued the enforcement of degrading racial expectations, aiding the exploitation of African-American labor, and unjustly brutalizing and intimidating black citizens away from their civil, political and legal rights. This is the foundational story of why the Black Lives Matter movement is not just necessary but long overdue." - Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
£27.00
LSU Press Glance
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£17.95
John Wiley & Sons Learning in a Burning House Educational
Book SynopsisThe negative consequences of school desegregation on Black communities in the United States are now well documented in education research. Learning in a Burning House is the first book to offer a historical look at the desegregation dilemma with clear recommendations for what must be done to ensure Black student success in today's schools.Trade Review“I hope Dr. Horsford’s book will spur much discussion about the greatest national security threat faced by our nation: millions of illiterate and poorly prepared children.... Wake up, America!” ―From the Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children's Defense Fund"Learning in a Burning House tackles head on the complex issues of race, power, and politics in education and is a must-read for anyone troubled by the current state of urban education and committed to doing something about it." ―Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning & Leadership, Georgia State University
£29.95
Teachers' College Press We Dare Say Love Supporting Achievement in the
Book SynopsisChronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District that created an environment with high expectations for the engagement and achievement of Black boys. The text features reflection chapters by leading experts on Black male achievement.
£36.08
John Wiley & Sons Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools
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
£24.69
John Wiley & Sons about Centering Possibility in Black Education
Book SynopsisInspired by the ‘freedom dreaming’ of activists in the Black radical tradition, this book is comprised of nine principles that clarify how centering possibility actively refuses limitations for what Black people can create, accomplish, and achieve. The volume also features over 30 original images, poems, and lyrics by Black artists.Table of Contents Contents (Tentative) 1. Introduction Freedom Dreaming . . . Key Concepts Reframing Blackness Away from Peril Towards Possibility Centering Possibility in Black Education Transformation "Melanin" by Mahogany Jones 2. Resistance Why Resistance? "Centering Possibility" Principle #1 "Black Constitution" by Angel Hart 3. Dreaming Why Dreaming? "Centering Possibility" Principle #2 "Black Girl Magic" by Mahogany Jones 4. Storytelling Why Storytelling? "Centering Possibility" Principle #3 What You Must Remember about Storytelling "My Name Is" by Jason "Squeeze" Ford 5. Creativity Why Creativity? "Centering Possibility" Principle #4 "Code Switched" by Tony Keith, Jr. 6. Thriving What is Thriving? "Centering Possibility" Principle #5 The Essentials of Thriving The Anatomy of Thriving: Strengthening the Tie that Binds "A Different World" by Angel Hart 7. Community What is Community? "Centering Possibility" Principle #6 Building & Sustaining Collective Wellbeing "May You Ever" by Timothy Welbeck 8. Reparations (coauthored with Terrence A. Pruitt) What are Reparations? "Centering Possibility" Principle #7 Healing & Reconciliation in School Discipline: The Case for Restorative Justice "Black Bodies" by Jason "Squeeze" Ford 9. Environment What is Environment? "Centering Possibility" Principle #8 Making Environments that Enable Black People's Breathing "We Are Your Voices" by Angel Hart 10. Teaching What is Teaching and Who Counts as Teachers? "Centering Possibility" Principle #9 Grassroots Organizing and Black (Education) Futures Epilogue Notes Index About the Author and the Artists
£28.60
Teachers' College Press Reckoning With Racism in FamilySchool Partnersh
Book SynopsisDrawing from the experiences of Black parents as they engaged with their children’s schools, this book brings a critical race theory analysis to family-school partnerships. It examines racism and white supremacy at school, Black parents’ resistance, and ways school communities can engage in more authentic partnerships with Black and Brown families.Table of Contents Contents Series Foreword James A. Banks ix Preface xv Acknowledgments xix 1. The Racial Reality of Schools for Black Families 1 "The Most Livable City" . . . For Whites Only 2 The Parent Participants 3 Black Lives Matter: The 2014–15 School Year Context 4 Critical Race Theory 7 A More Liberatory Future With CRT 12 2. Racial Realist Parent Engagement 13 "Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't, Apparently" 14 Parents' Approaches to Teaching Children About Anti-Black Racism 20 Racial Realist Parent Engagement as a Framework for School Partnerships With Black Families 26 3. Resisting Individualism and Engaging for the Collective 29 In Everyday School Involvement 30 When Choosing Schools and Extracurriculars 33 In the Community 35 In Parent Groups 37 Engaging for Collective Educational Justice 38 4. The Persistence of White Supremacy in Shared School Governance 40 Restrictive, Still-Restrictive, and Expansive Visions of Equality 42 Parent Teacher Organizations 44 African American Empowering Parent Groups 48 The African American Parent Council 52 BOSD's Still-Restrictive Visions of Equality 53 5. Five Years Later: The Ongoing Salience of Racial Realist Parent Engagement 55 The New Sociopolitical Context of 2019 56 Persistence of Racial Realist Parent Engagement Across Time and Space 57 Strategically Stepping Away From Shared School Governance 62 Calling on Educators to Join Black Families in Resisting 63 6. In Conclusion: Mapping More Liberatory Family–School Partnerships 64 Untethering Education Quality From Individual Parents' Engagement 65 Reorienting Toward Collective Educational Justice 67 Expansive Equality in Shared School Governance 69 Conclusion 72 Appendix: Study Methodology 73 Recruiting Participants 74 Participant Demographics 74 Data Collection 75 Data Analysis 77 Humanizing Research 77 Notes 79 References 81 Index 85 About the Author 89
£38.90
Teachers' College Press AntiBlackness at School Creating Affirming
Book SynopsisWritten for pre- and in-service teachers and others working with Black children and youth, Anti-Blackness at School explores both the scope of anti-Blackness and how teachers can reject racism.
£33.20
John Wiley & Sons Black Immigrant Literacies
Book SynopsisLearn how to centre, affirm, and develop Black immigrant literacies in ways that allow all youth to engage with and honor their literacies. This book presents a framework to revolutionize teaching in ways that draw on students’ assets for redesigning, rethinking, and reimagining literacy and the English Language Arts curriculum.Table of ContentsContents (Tentative)Foreword Dr. Shondel NeroAcknowledgments and Dedication1. INTRODUCTION The Framework for Black Immigrant LiteraciesAuthentic NarrativesA Call to Teachers, Educators, Schools, and PolicymakersEnvisioning Imaginary Futures with Black Immigrant LiteraciesOverview of the Chapters2. RE-ENVISIONING THE LITERACIES OF BLACK IMMIGRANT YOUTH A Brief History and Demographics of Black Immigrants in the United StatesIntersections Surrounding Black Immigrant Youth as a "New Model Minority"Languaging and Englishes of Black Immigrants: A Selective ReviewPeer interactions in the Black Immigrant Experience(Re)envisioning the Literacies of Black Immigrant YouthSummaryQuestions to Consider3. THE FRAMEWORK FOR BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES Elements of the Black Immigrant Literacies FrameworkIntersectional Lenses Undergirding "Black Immigrant Literacies"Applying the "Black Immigrant Literacies" FrameworkQuestions to Consider4. TEACHING CHLOE, A BLACK JAMAICAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: ENTANGLEMENTS OF ENGLISHES, RACE, AND MIGRATION Chloe's Authentic Narrative: Entanglements of Englishes, Race, and Migration: 'You'll Never Hear Her Speak, Like Broken'Questions to Consider5. TEACHING ERVIN, A BLACK BAHAMIAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: FOSTERING PEER INTERACTIONS Ervin's Authentic Narrative: Rac(e)ing Englishes as a Multilingual Migrant: "Talking Like I'm Ghetto"Insights From Ervin's Authentic Narrative"Black Enough" as a Way to BelongQuestions to Consider6. BRIDGING INVISIBLE BARRIERS WITH BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES: BUILDING SOLIDARITY AMONG SCHOOLS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITIES ParentsSchools and TeachersCommunitySummaryAPPENDIXREFERENCESAbout the Author
£31.35
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Within the Plantation Household Black and White
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£29.56
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Beyond Slavery Explorations of Race Labor and
Book SynopsisThis study explores the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. It covers areas such as Jamaica, Louisiana, Cuba, and French West Africa.
£28.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Writing Indian Nations Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography 18271863
Book SynopsisIn the early years of the republic, the US government negotiated with Indian nations. This work demonstrates that by depending on treaties, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents by which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy.
£43.31
The University of North Carolina Press Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement A
Book SynopsisBarbara Ransby chronicles Ella Baker's long political career as an organizer, intellectual and teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s. She paints a picture of the African American fight for justice and its intersections with progressive struggles worldwide in the 20th century.
£40.80
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Women in the Church of God in Christ Making a
Book SynopsisThe Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. This book examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s.
£24.26
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Freedoms Coming Religious Culture and the
Book SynopsisOffering an analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, this title puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them.Trade Review"A wonderful book, useful for classes, well written and thoroughly researched. In properly bringing many unstudied and poorly studied characters to the forefront of southern history, it thinks wisely and widely about the places of religion in southern life." - Church History"
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Origins of Proslavery Christianity White and
Book SynopsisArgues that white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. This book draws from church records and slave narratives to illuminate the relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. It argues that black evangelicals inadvertently shaped the proslavery argument.
£30.56
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Slavery and Public History The Tough Stuff of American Memory
Book SynopsisHow do Americans reckon with slavery? This book offers an analysis of how people remember their past and how the lessons they draw influence American politics and culture.
£26.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Many Minds One Heart SNCCs Dream for a New
Book SynopsisBetween 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time.Trade Review"Does a fine job of analyzing how SNCC combated racism in some of the worst parts of the nation and, for a brief moment at least, allowed sharecroppers, students, and other ordinary folk - both black and white - to believe that a deeper, richer, more democratic culture was possible in America." - Washington Post"
£32.26
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina White Over Black American Attitudes toward the
Book SynopsisThe author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."" New York Times Book Review
£35.21
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Lynching and Spectacle Witnessing Racial
Book SynopsisLynch mobs in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. Here, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy.
£28.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina If We Could Change the World Young People and
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£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Radical Moves Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age
£43.31
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Mexican Americans American Mexicans
£15.20
Hill & Wang Malcolm X
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£15.26
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Knock at the Door of Opportunity Black Migration
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£23.21
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Fashioning Lives
Book SynopsisExamines the literacy practices of Black LGBTQ people, developing - from sixty in-depth interviews conducted with individuals of various ages living across the United States - an analytical theory of “black queer literacies”.
£35.66
Southern Illinois University Press Organizing Freedom Black Emancipation Activism
Book SynopsisOffers a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the definition of emancipation to include black activism, Jennifer Harbour details the aggressive, tenacious defiance through which Midwestern African Americans made freedom tangible for themselves.Trade Review“Jennifer R. Harbour deftly teases out everyday acts of bravery in the black communities of Illinois and Indiana in their pursuit of emancipation as a conscious, concerted, collective, and ongoing action. With vivid examples she reveals men, women, and children not only surviving in a threatening environment but also defining the terms of freedom as something greater than the absence of slavery. This is an important contribution to Underground Railroad, abolitionist, and Civil War studies.”—Leigh Fought, author of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass “Harbour skillfully presents the struggle for emancipation in a new light, one that illuminates the activism of black men and women and their extraordinary effort to carve out communities and civic organizations in the midst of white supremacy.”—Stephen I. Rockenbach, author of War upon Our Border: Two Ohio Valley Communities Navigate the Civil War “This pathbreaking study achieves several important goals by broadening our definition of ‘emancipation,’ redirecting our gaze westward, forcing us to consider the important role of women, and describing in detail the crucial role of black organizational activity in the antebellum Midwest.”—Beverly C. Tomek, author of Pennsylvania Hall: A “Legal Lynching” in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell
£20.66
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni The Irish in Illinois
Book SynopsisToday over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. This concise narrative history brings together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State.Trade ReviewA concise and comprehensive history of the Irish in a state where they have had an enormous impact. The richly illustrated engaging narrative is accompanied by a range of vignettes that help the story come alive. This is an absorbing book for the lay reader, as well as a useful text for students of Illinois history." —James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City"Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell have done a magnificent job of combining primary research with a wealth of secondary material to produce an erudite and absorbing portrait of the Irish in Illinois from the mid-eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. The Irish in Illinois is a comprehensive and engaging book that should be read by everyone with an interest in Irish America, Illinois, or Chicago." —Gillian O'Brien, author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago"This is an engaging account of the Irish and Illinois history. While Chicago predominates, Billings and Farrell have crafted a compelling story of the Irish role in shaping the region since European exploration and settlement of the state." —Eileen M. McMahon, author of What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Parish Community and Race Relations, 1916–1970"This is a concise but very smart and rich history of the Irish in Illinois. It is particularly insightful in its treatment of the Illinois Irish in the early nineteenth century as well as their experiences downstate throughout the two or more centuries of their settlement in the state. It makes a fresh and critically important contribution not just to the history of Illinois or to the story of the Irish there but to our understanding of the broader history of the Irish in America." —Timothy Meagher, author of Inventing Irish America"This well-researched and well-written book highlights the richness and the diversity of Irish immigrants and Irish American life in Illinois from the colonial era to the present. Billings and Farrell have provided a comprehensive analysis of the large Irish American community in Chicago but also have shown us the significance of the Irish outside the Windy City. It will be a role model for other state studies of the Irish in America." —David T. Gleeson, author of The Irish in the South, 1815–1877Table of Contents List Of Maps And Illustrations List Of Biographical And Issue Entries Introduction 1. From Imperial Soldiers To Prairie Patriots: The Irish In The Illinois Country, 1750-1818 2. From Irish Exiles To Paddy Politicians, 1818-1865 3. At The Forefront Of The Multi-Ethnic City: The Irish In Chicago, 1865-1933 4. Beyond The South Side: The Irish Of Downstate Illinois, 1865-1960 5. A South Side Empire? Irish Chicago, 1933-1983 Conclusion: Irish Identities In Contemporary Illinois For Further Reading Bibliography
£18.86
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Latinos in Chicago Quest for a Political Voice
Book SynopsisBeginning with the Latino community’s first attempt to acquire a political voice in Chicago politics in 1911 and continuing through Latino officeholders of the early twenty-first century, Cruz surveys not only the struggles of this community but also the ways in which Chicago’s Latinos overcame those challenges to gain their political voice.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Boss Richard J. Daley and Machine Politics 2. Michael A. Bilandic and Jane M. Byrne—Same Old Thing? 3. Harold Washington and Reform 4. Eugene Sawyer and Richard M. Daley—A New Day? 5. Fall From Grace 6. Progressives, Socialists, and Machine Politicians Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£18.86
Northwestern University Press The Diary and Letter of Kaethe Kollwitz
Book SynopsisOne of the great German Expressionist artists, Kaethe Kollwitz wrote little of herself. But her diary, kept from 1900 to her death in 1945, and her brief essays and letters express, as well as explain, much of the spirit, wisdom, and internal struggle which was eventually transmuted into her art.Trade ReviewAn unforgettable experience." —New York Times Book Review"A valuable and readable work." —Los Angeles Times Book Review"[Kollwitz's] diary and letters . . . provide a dramatic record of German history during the turbulent time that encompassed World War I, the November Revolution, the Weimar Republic and the appearance of Nazism. To these, Kollwitz grants a compassionate, critical, and insightful vision, recording her own witnessing of historical events, her own experience of the everyday in a testimony which is generally recognized as one of the greatest autobiographical German texts of the century. . . . As human documents they have few equals; as historical documents, they are fundamental." —Reinhold Heller
£23.96
Northwestern University Press Seven Black Plays
Book SynopsisShowcases a selection of award-winning African American drama. The seven plays represent a wide range of talents, experience and perspectives brought to bear on diverse themes, from a unique moment in the history of baseball's Negro League to a working-class couple contending with a bully.
£25.46
Northwestern University Press Bridges of Memory Chicagos First Wave of Black
Book Synopsis'Bridges of Memory' tells of those in Chicago who left social, political, and economic oppression for political freedom and opportunity as had never been known - and of forms of prejudice and segregation. These recollections comprise a record of a neighbourhood, a city, a society, and a people undergoing unprecedented changes.
£29.71
Northwestern University Press Resonant Dissonance The Russian Joke in Cultural
Book SynopsisThe late Soviet period (1961-1986) hardly seems fertile ground for humor, but Russian jokes (anekdoty) about life in the Soviet Union were ubiquitous. This work analyzes a rich and forgotten vein of humor in an otherwise bleak environment.
£42.70
Northwestern University Press Black Theater is Black Life An Oral History of
Book SynopsisThrough interviews with prominent producers, directors, choreographers, designers, dancers, and actors, Young and Zabriskie create a portrait of a diverse, dynamic artistic community between 1970 and 2010. They frame this history with helpful guides, including a chronology of key events, a glossary of names, and an appendix of leading performing arts institutions in Chicago.
£29.71
Northwestern University Press The Goodman Theatres Festival Latino Six Plays
Book SynopsisDrawn from the first ten years of the Goodman Theatre's renowned biennial festival of Latino plays, the works in this collection expand the definition of Latino theatre, resisting the confines of a particular language, locale, or assumed audience. Instead of focusing on similarities that outline the boundaries of Latino identity, these plays look outward, representing the multiplicity of actual Latino experience. The plays were written and performed sometimes in English and sometimes in Spanish; their stories are set in heterogeneous milieus; they're directed at both Latino and non-Latino audiences; and they incorporate cultural or theatrical elements from vastly different traditions. As a group, these plays indicate the extraordinary range of the festival's offerings and show how it has contributed to a more complex notion of what Latino theatre is and can be.
£31.46
Northwestern University Press Harlems Theaters A Staging Ground for Community
Book SynopsisBased on a vast amount of archival research, Adrienne Macki Braconi's illuminating study of three important community-based theaters in Harlem shows how their work was essential to the formation of a public identity for African Americans and the articulation of their goals, laying the groundwork for the emergence of the Civil Rights movement.
£29.71
Northwestern University Press Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination
Book SynopsisOffers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and non-literary texts.
£37.95
