Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
University Press of Florida The Essential Writings of Robert A. Hill
Book SynopsisCollected for the first time, the foundational contributions of a scholar and activist who shaped the study of Garveyism and pan-Africanism. This volume brings together Robert A. Hill’s most important writings for the first time, highlighting his intellectual contributions to the history of pan-Africanism.
£93.60
University Press of Florida New Directions in the Study of African American
Book SynopsisExamines the movement to resettle black Americans in Africa, an effort led by the American Colonization Society during the nineteenth century and a heavily debated part of American history. Some believe it was inspired by antislavery principles, but others think it was a proslavery reaction against the presence of free blacks in society.
£23.70
University Press of Florida Blackness in Mexico AfroMexican Recognition and
Book SynopsisThrough historical and ethnographic research, Blackness in Mexico delves into the ongoing movement toward recognising Black Mexicans as a cultural group within a nation that has long viewed the non-Black mestizo as the archetypal citizen.
£26.06
University Press of Florida Atlantic Passages Race Mobility and Liberian
Book SynopsisEstablished in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of colour, Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers in fact returned repeatedly to the US, and explores the ways this movement shaped the construction of race in the Atlantic world.Trade Review“An innovative addition to the growing body of scholarship on Liberian colonization. . . . Required reading for anyone interested in the colonization movement or identity formation in the nineteenth century Atlantic World.”—Journal of Social History“A compelling narrative of Atlantic and American racialization in West Africa. . . . People interested in the histories of West Africa, the United States, Black Atlantic, and slavery and race-making will find Atlantic Passages deeply insightful and refreshing.”—Journal of Early American History“Centers discussion of Black settlers’ experiences negotiating issues of race, colorism, class, and gender in Liberia. . . . Show[s] us how there is more that we can learn from and write about with respect to the histories of Liberian colonization.”—Early American Literature
£21.56
The University Press of Kentucky An Unseen Light
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary examination of Memphis's role in African American history during the 20th-century.Table of ContentsIntroduction 'In the Hands of the Lord' 'The Saving of Black America's Body and White America's Soul' Equal Power ''There Will Be No Discriminiation Taylor-Made ''We'll Have No Race Trouble Here Power and Protection Black Memphians and New Frontiers 'Since I Was a Citizen, I Had the Right to Attend the LIbrary' 'You Pay One Hell of a Price to Be Black If the March Cannot Be Here, Then Where? Nonviolence, Black Power, and the Surveillance State in Memphis's War on Poverty Beyond 1968 Beauty and the Black Student Revolt After Stax Black Workers Matter Coda
£27.00
The University Press of Kentucky Integrated
Book SynopsisTales of individual courage from men who defied comfort and custom.Table of ContentsNew Journey on an Old Road Prejudice versus Common Sense A Young Man of Substance Organizing Athletics The Faith Plan Janitorial Engineering Inherited Traditions Inherently Unequal With All Deliberate Speed At the Highest Level In Front of the Parade A World Uncertain An Accepted Way of Life A Progressive and Englightened State Homeless Tigers Out of the Ruins Secret Ballot A Whistle from Midcourt Epilogue
£16.00
The University Press of Kentucky Integrated The Lincoln Institute Basketball and a
Book SynopsisExplores an often ignored aspect of America's struggle for racial equality. James W. Miller relates the story of the Lincoln Institute - an all-black high school in Shelby County, Kentucky, where students prospered both in the classroom and on the basketball court. This evocative book is enriched by tales of individual courage from men who defied comfort and custom.Trade ReviewThis book successfully captures the spirit, resilience, and history of Lincoln Institute. Miller tells an important story using race and sports as a lens for understanding a forgotten piece of Kentucky history."" - Gerald L. Smith, Theodore A. Hallam Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and coauthor of The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia""The Lincoln Institute, to many Kentuckians and particularly to many African American Kentuckians, has extra special meaning because it was an extraordinary place for students. The Lincoln Institute not only provided opportunities for individuals to grow academically, mentally, and personally; it also offered opportunities for athletic achievements.""If you are looking for some exciting reading with a historical basis on a school that touched the lives of many Kentuckians, then Integrated is for you."" - Raymond M. Burse, former president of Kentucky State University
£32.50
The University Press of Kentucky An Unseen Light
Book SynopsisOffers a multidisciplinary examination of Memphis's role in African American history during the twentieth century. Contributors investigate episodes such as the 1940 “Reign of Terror”, the relationship between the labour and civil rights movements, the fight for economic advancement in black communities, and the impact of music on the city's culture.
£43.65
The University Press of Kentucky The Prince of Jockeys The Life of Isaac Burns
Book SynopsisIsaac Burns Murphy (1861--1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched. Despite his success, Murphy was pushed out of Thoroughbred racing when African American jockeys were forced off the track, and he died in obscurity. In The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy, author Pellom McDaniels III offers the first definitive biography of this celebrated athlete, whose life spanned the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the adoption of Jim Crow legislation. Despite the obstacles he faced, Murphy became an important figure -- not just in sports, but in the social, political, and cultural consciousness of African Americans. Drawing from legal documents, census data, and newspapers, this comprehensive profile explores how Murphy epitomized the rise of the black middle class and contributed to the constructi
£25.00
The University Press of Kentucky Slaves Slaveholders and a Kentucky Communitys
Book SynopsisDigging deep into Holt's past, Leonard explores the lives of Holt's extended family members and also traces the experiences and efforts of Sandy Holt and other slaves-turned-soldiers from Breckinridge County and its periphery.
£30.40
The University Press of Kentucky The Struggle Is Eternal Gloria Richardson and
Book SynopsisMany prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics beyond nonviolent demonstrations. Her philosophies and strategies -- including her belief that black people had a right to self--defense -- were adopted, often without credit, by a number of civil rights and black power leaders and activists. The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation explores the largely forgotten but deeply significant life of this central figure and her determination to improve the lives of black people. Using a wide range of source materials, including interviews with Richardson and her personal papers, as well as interviews with dozens of her frie
£25.65
The University Press of Kentucky An Introduction to Black Studies
Book SynopsisThis emerging field of study sought to address omissions from numerous disciplines and correct the myriad distortions, stereotypes, and myths about persons of African descent.In An Introduction to Black Studies, Eric R.Table of ContentsThe Nature, Scope, and Construction of Black Studies The Origin and Development of Black Studies as a Field of Analysis The History of African Americans in the United States African Americans in the United States from the Civil War to the Present African Americans and Education African Americans at Home and Abroad African American Religious Traditions African American Religious Traditions Black Feminism The African American Experience from a Sociological Perspective The African American Experience from a Sociological Perspective Black Psychology Black Psychology African Americans and Politics African Americans and Politics The Creative Expressions of African Americans The Creative Expressions of African Americans
£30.40
The Catholic University of America Press Black Catholic Studies Reader History and
Book SynopsisOffers an introduction to the theology and history of the Black Catholic experience from those who know it best: Black Catholic scholars, teachers, activists, and ministers. The reader offers a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary approach that illuminates what it means to be Black and Catholic in the United States.
£25.46
The Catholic University of America Press Preaching to Latinos Welcoming the Hispanic
Book SynopsisIn addition to knowing the scholarly literature on cross-cultural preaching and Hispanic culture, Father Michael Kueber has twenty years of experience serving Hispanic immigrants and their children. In Preaching to Latinos, Kueber provides the readers with best practices for preaching to and leading their churches.
£28.45
Taylor & Francis Race in North America
Book SynopsisThis sweeping work traces the idea of race for more than three centuries to show that ''race'' is not a product of science but a cultural invention that has been used variously and opportunistically since the eighteenth century. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this renowned text includes a compelling new chapter on the health impacts of the racial worldview, as well as a thoroughly rewritten chapter that explores the election of Barack Obama and its implications for the meaning of race in America and the future of our racial ideology.Trade Review"In this fourth edition, Drs. Audrey Smedley and Brian Smedley describe, in a scholarly but widely accessible and engaging manner, the evolution of the concept of race and the way shifting views of the meaning of race have shaped North America. The book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of race and race relations in North America." -John F. Dovidio, Yale University "Race in North America is an essential text for anyone who engages 'race' from the early modern period to the present. ...Eminently suitable for a range of learners, from undergraduates to researchers, the book is critical to courses and writings on the ways in which race has been, and continues to be, socially constructed in the Anglo world." -Laura A. Lewis, James Madison University "This much anticipated new edition continues the global exploration of the roots of race and racism and reveals how structural racism maintains disparities in the modern age. Followers of the epistemology of race and racism will get a historically broader and detailed explanation of why we think about groups of people the way we do today." -Janis Hutchinson, University of HoustonTable of ContentsPREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION Introduction 1. Some Theoretical Considerations Race as a Modern Idea Ideas, Ideologies, and Worldviews The Social Reality of Race in America On the Relationship Between Biology and Race The Primordialists' Argument Race as a Worldview: A Theoretical Perspective Race and Ethnicity: Biology and Culture Notes 2. The Etymology of the Term Race in the English Language Notes 3. Antecedents of the Racial Worldview The Age of European Exploration The Rise of Capitalism and the Transformation of English Society Social Organization and Values of Early Capitalism English Ethnocentrism and the Idea of the Savage English Nationalism and Social Values in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Hereditary Social Identity: The Lesson of Catholic Spain Notes 4. The Growth of the English Ideology About Human Differences in America Earliest Contacts The Ensuing Conflicts The Backing of God and Other Justifications for Conquest The New Savages Notes 5. The Arrival of Africans and Descent into Slavery The First Africans The Descent into Permanent Slavery Was There Race Before Slavery? Why the Preference for Africans? The Problem of Labor A Focus on Physical Differences and the Invention of Social Meanings Notes 6. Comparing Slave Systems: The Significance of "Racial" Servitude The Background Literature and the Issues of Slavery The Nature of Slavery A Brief History of Old World Slavery Colonial Slavery Under the Spanish and Portuguese Uniqueness of the English Experience of Slavery The Significance of Slavery in the Creation of Race Ideology Notes 7. Eighteenth-Century Thought and the Crystallization of the Ideology of Race Social Values of the American Colonists Nature's Hierarchy Dominant Themes in North American Racial Beliefs Anglo-Saxonism: The Making of a Biological Myth Thomas Jefferson and the American Dilemma Notes 8. Antislavery and the Entrenchment of a Racial Worldview A Brief History of Antislavery Thought The Proslavery Response The Sociocultural Realities of Race and Slavery The Priority of Race over Class Notes 9. The Rise of Science and Scientific Racism Early Classifications of Humankind The Impact of Eighteenth-Century Classifications Notes 10. Growth of the Racial Worldview in Nineteenth-Century America Polygeny vs. Monogeny: The Debate over Race and Species The Unnatural Mixture Scientific Race Ideology in the Judicial System White Supremacy Immigrants and the Extension of the Race Hierarchy Notes 11. Science and the Expansion of Race Ideology Beyond the United States The Continuing Power of Polygenist Thinking European Contributions to the Ideology of Race Herbert Spencer and the Rise of Social Darwinism The Measurement of Human Differences: Anthropometry Typological Models of Races The Measurement of Human Differences: Psychometrics Extension of Race Ideology Overseas Notes 12. Twentieth-Century Developments in Race Ideology Social Realities of the Racial Worldview Psychometrics: The Measuring of Human Worth by IQ The Eugenics Movement The Racial World of the Nazis The Continuing Influence of Racial Ideology in Science Notes 13. Changing Perspectives on Human Variation in Science The Decline of the Idea of Race as Biology in Science Physical Anthropology and Attempts to Transform the Meaning of Race Population Genetics Is There a Genetic Basis for Race? The Ecological Perspective: Human Variations as Products of Adaptation The Genetic Conception of Human Variation Monogeny Reconsidered: The Nonproblem of Race Mixture Notes 14. Dismantling the Folk Idea of Race: Transformations of an Ideology The Meaning and Legacy of Race as Identity The Quest for a Mixed-Race Census Category Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race The Future of the Racial Worldview The Persistence of Racial Thinking Notes 15. The Health and Other Consequences of the Racial Worldview The Extent of Racial Health Disparities in the United States The Causes of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in the United States Conclusion Notes REFERENCES INDEX
£52.24
MW - Rutgers University Press The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria De Jesus
Book SynopsisA translation of the original and unedited diary entries of the black Brazilian slum dweller who became an international best-selling author. The entries span the years 1958 to 1966 and there is also an explanation of how the Brazilian elites tried to obscure her true personality.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1958 1961 1962 1963 1966 Afterword Notes Glossary Index
£27.90
Rutgers University Press What it Means to be a Man Reflections on Puerto
Book SynopsisAn insightful examination of Puerto Rican culture and the ways in which Puerto Rican masculinity is constructed. The author discusses the attributes and demands of masculinity, and points out the ways in which strength, competition, and sexuality are joined with power and pleasure.
£26.99
Rutgers University Press Recovering the Black Female Body
Book SynopsisRecovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.Trade ReviewAlthough feminists have studied the social construction of the female body for many decades, few have focused on black women. In Recovering the Black Female Body, the editors present a pioneering collection of original writings by academics and artists on æhow African-American women, from slavery to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of the dominant culture.Æ. * Publishers Weekly *A collection of essays that examine the complex workings of race, gender and the body. Editors Bennett and Dickerson explain that it seeks to æamplifyÆ African American women writersÆ attempts to ætake back their selves and reappropriate and reconstitute a body that has often been hyperoticized or exoticized and made a site of impropriety and crime.Æ. * WomenÆs Review of Books *By examining African American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book not only makes a significant contribution to a body of scholarly work but also attempts to ærecoverÆ a more accurate representation of the African American female body. * DePauw Magazine *A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity. -- Claudia Tate * Princeton University *Table of ContentsFrances Ellen Watkins sings the body electric / Michael Bennett "The deeds done in my body": black feminist theory, performance, and the truth about Adah Isaacs Menken / Daphne A. Brooks The flower of Black female sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona / Dorri Rabung Beam Shopping to pass, passing to shop: bodily self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith Re-locating the Black female subject: the landscape of the body in the poems of Lucille Clifton / Ajuan Maria Mance Body language: the Black female body and the word in Suzan-Lori Park's The death of the last Black man in the whole entire world / Yvette Louis Detecting bodies: Barbara Neely's domestic sleuth and the trope of the (in)visible woman / Doris Witt Summoning somebody: the flesh made word in Toni Morrison's fiction / Vanessa D. Dickerson On being a fat black girl in a fat-hating culture / Margaret K. Bass Body and soul: identifying (with) the Black lesbian body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon woman / Mark Winokur Pumping iron with resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious body / Jacqueline E. Brady Wearing your race wrong: hair, drama, and a politics of representation for African American women at play on a battlefield / Noliwe Rooks (photographs by Bill Gaskins) Afterword: recovery missions: imaging the body ideals / Deborah E. McDowell
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Christianity Social Change and Globalization in
Book Synopsis Organized around three central themes-family, youth, and community; democratization, citizenship, and political participation; and immigration and transnationalism-this book argues that, at the local level, religion helps people, especially women and youths, solidify their identities and confront the challenges of the modern world. Trade Review"The book stands out for the sharpness and freshness of the presentation on transnational groups. Valuable."Table of Contents"The only way I can walk" / Anna Peterson Religion and family / Rosa Castro Aguilar Popular religion and the (Re)construction of community in Yungay / Philip Williams Believers and neighbors / Hortensia Munoz Faith and citizenship . Rosa Castro Aguilar Rebuilding community in the wake of war / Ileana Gomez Rethinking transnationalism / Larissa Ruiz Baia Youth gangs and religion among salvadorans in Washington and El Salvador Ileana Gomez and Manual Vasquez "Upwards, never down" / Anna Peterson and Manuel Vasquez The global and the local / Anna Peterson, Manuel Vasquez, and Philip Williams
£27.90
MW - Rutgers University Press Madame Butterfly and A Japanese Nightingale Two Orientalist Texts
Book SynopsisThese novellas appeared at the height of fin-de-siecle American fascination with Japanese culture. Usually dismissed by critics because of their stereotypical treatment of Asian women, they have been paired here to show how they defined and redefined contemporary misconceptions of the """"Orient"""".Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Note on the Texts Madame Butterfly by John Luther Long A Japanese Nightingale by Onoto Watanna Edited by Winnifred Eaton Appendix Glossary Bibliography
£26.59
MW - Rutgers University Press The Freedom to Remember Narrative Slavery and
Book SynopsisThe Freedom to Remember examines contemporary literary revisions of slavery in the United States by black women writers. The narratives at the center of this book include: Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred, Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, J. California Cooper’s Family, and Lorene Cary’s The Price of a Child.Trade Review"In this provocative, indeed indispensable, study, Mitchell uses Harriet Jacobs's emancipatory narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) as her urtext in examining five novels by women: Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), J. California Cooper's Family (1991), and Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child (1995). . . . All academic collections." * Choice *"Angelyn Mitchell's extraordinary study is rich in detail and analysis, confidently mediating our ways of remembering the narratives of slavery as well as the ways of women—as writer and as characterùbearing courageous witness. The Freedom to Remember is scholarship at its very best and will surely be one of the essential books in critical and cultural studies." -- Karla Holloway * William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Duke University *"A work of evocative interpretation and socially healing criticism, The Freedom to Remember reveals the liberating thematics of contemporary black women's contribution to the much-acclaimed neoslave narrative." -- William L. Andrews * author of To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography *"Building upon the work of Toni Cade Bambara, Eleanor Traylor, and Sherley Anne Williams, Angelyn Mitchell is the first to elaborate the need for a shift in terminology used to discuss slave narratives and contemporary novels of slavery. If the only contribution of The Freedom to Remember is to popularize a change from slave narrative to emancipatory narrative and from neo-slave narrative to liberatory narrative, Angelyn Mitchell will have accomplished a great deal." -- Farah Jasmine Griffin * author of If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday *"In this provocative, indeed indispensable, study, Mitchell uses Harriet Jacobs's emancipatory narrative Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) as her urtext in examining five novels by women: Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979), Sherley Ann Williams's Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987), J. California Cooper's Family (1991), and Lorene Cary's The Price of a Child (1995). . . . All academic collections." * Choice *"Angelyn Mitchell's extraordinary study is rich in detail and analysis, confidently mediating our ways of remembering the narratives of slavery as well as the ways of women—as writer and as characterùbearing courageous witness. The Freedom to Remember is scholarship at its very best and will surely be one of the essential books in critical and cultural studies." -- Karla Holloway * William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Duke University *"A work of evocative interpretation and socially healing criticism, The Freedom to Remember reveals the liberating thematics of contemporary black women's contribution to the much-acclaimed neoslave narrative." -- William L. Andrews * author of To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography *"Building upon the work of Toni Cade Bambara, Eleanor Traylor, and Sherley Anne Williams, Angelyn Mitchell is the first to elaborate the need for a shift in terminology used to discuss slave narratives and contemporary novels of slavery. If the only contribution of The Freedom to Remember is to popularize a change from slave narrative to emancipatory narrative and from neo-slave narrative to liberatory narrative, Angelyn Mitchell will have accomplished a great deal." -- Farah Jasmine Griffin * author of If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday *Table of ContentsHarriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by herself: the ur-narrative of black womanhood Not enough of the past: Octavia E. Butler's Kindred History, agency, and subjectivity in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose The metaphysics of black female identity in Toni Morrison's Beloved J. California Cooper's family: of (absent?) mothers, (motherless?) daughters, and (interracial?) relations The economies of bondage and freedom in Lorene Cary's The price of a child
£27.90
Rutgers University Press When I Look into the Mirror and See You Women
Book SynopsisIn the early 1980s, in the midst of Central America's decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Suarez Toro of Costa Rica were kidnapped and subjected to rape and other tortures. Here, Margaret Randall recounts the terror, resistance and remarkable survival of the two women.
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Black VictoriansBlack Victoriana
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the lives of black people in Victorian England. Contributors to the book look at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture of the time and also at their lives as they experienced them - as workers, travellers, lecturers, performers and professionals.Trade ReviewUsing a rich diversity of approaches, these essays give voice to hitherto unheard stories and provide historical and theoretical frameworks in which to understand them. Reading the volume creates an exciting feeling of discovery. -- Margaret Homans * Yale University *Using a rich diversity of approaches, these essays give voice to hitherto unheard stories and provide historical and theoretical frameworks in which to understand them. Reading the volume creates an exciting feeling of discovery. -- Margaret Homans * Yale University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viiIntroductionGRETCHEN HOLBROOK GERZINAPART I The Black Victorian Experience in BritainQueen Victoria s Black "Daughter " 11JOAN ANIM-ADDOPablo Fanque, Black Circus Proprietor 20JOHN M. TURNERReexamining the Early Years of SamuelColeridge-Taylor, Composer 39JEFFREY GREENTracing Peoples of African Origin and Descentin Victorian Kent 51DAVID KILLINGRAYPART II Transatlanticism and the Migration ofBlack VictoriansMrs. Seacole s Wonderful Adventures in Many Landsand the Consciousness of Transit 71LlZABETH PARAVISINI-GEBERT"A Colored Woman in Another Country Pleading forJustice in Her Own ": Ida B. Wells in Great Britain 88NICOLE KING"No Longer Rare Birds in London ": Zulu, Ndebele,Gaza, and Swazi Envoys to England, 1882-1894 110NEIL PARSONSPART III Representations, Conceptualizations, andDiscourses of Back VictoriansThe Representation of Africa in Mid-VictorianChildren s Magazines 145KATHRYN CASTLEThe Blackface Clown 159MICHAEL PICKERINGAnti-Imperial London: The Pan-AfricanConference of 1900 175JONATHAN SCHNEERReconstructing Victorian Racial Discourse: Imagesof Race, the Language of Race Relations, and theContext of Black Resistance 187DOUGLAS LORIMERNotes on the Contributors 209Index 211Illustrations appear between pages 118 and 119.
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Serving Our Country Japanese American Women in
Book SynopsisThrough in-depth interviews with surviving Nisei (Japanese American) women who served in the military during World War II, the author provides firsthand accounts of their experiences and, with extensive archival research, sheds light on their reasoning at that time.Trade ReviewBrenda Moore has given us such an eye-opening look at the racialized genderings of World War II - the war we think we know so much about and yet in fact are just beginning to really grasp in all its complexity. Furthermore, using in-depth narratives and exploring Japanese American women's pre-war, wartime and post-war experiences, Moore has reminded us that any war is a heady mix of state manipulation, popular anxieties and individual women's own subtle forms of agency. This is a book for right now. -- Cynthia Enloe * author of Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives *Serving Our Country is a fascinating account of an important story virtually unknown until now. We are indebted to Brenda Moore for adding a new and significant chapter to our nation's history. -- Charles Moskos * Northwestern University *Table of ContentsBefore the warContradictions and paradoxesWomen's army corps recruitment of nisei womenService in the women's army corpsCommissions in the Army medical corpsThe postwar yearsWacs who entered the Army from Hawaii, December 1944
£27.90
Rutgers University Press The Emperors New Clothes Biological Theories of
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking book, Joseph Graves traces the development of biological thought about human genetic diversity. Greek philosophy, social Darwinism, New World colonialism, the eugenics movement, intelligence testing biases, and racial health fallacies are just a few of the topics he addresses. Graves argues that racism has persisted in our society because adequate scientific reasoning has not entered into the equation. He champions the scientific method and explains how we may properly ask scientific questions about the nature of population differentiation and how (if at all) we may correlate that diversity to observed human behavior. He also cautions us to think critically about scientific findings that have historically been misused in controversies over racial differences in intelligence heritability, criminal behavior, disease predisposition, and other traits. According to Graves, this country cannot truly address its racial problems untilTrade ReviewThe author's main purpose is to show that the concept of race is a social construct that has no scientific basis. This is apparently now generally understood by the scientific community, but has not yet properly penetrated the understanding of the general public. This is the fundamental moral challenge that Graves put to the U.S. as its prime task in the millennium. His book is clear, readable, and ideal for first-year students. * Quarterly Review of Biology *Intellectually delightful, and at times deeply moving, this book's fundamental thesis is of outstanding importance. The biological non-existence of race is one of the most liberating messages that the American public will hear in a long time. It should be read by anybody who is a registered voter in the United States. -- Michael R. Rose * author of Darwin's Spectre: Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World *Evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves Jr. sets out to show that scientific, not political, correctness underlies the critique of the race concept, and argues that æthere is no biological basis for separation of human beings into race.' . . . The Emperor's New Clothes is a valuable study, and critique, of the concept of race. It is a pity that such books remain necessary. * Times Literary Supplement *What is the basis for separation of humans into races? Is it biological (i.e., genetic), or is it physical (i.e., phenotypic) and sociological? Depending on the answers, can racism be supported biologically? Graves has posed answers to these questions that could revise the ways in which humans interact with one another. With scientific training in genetics and the molecular biology of evolution, Graves has the background to speak meaningfuly to these questions. . . . For anyone interested in human interaction. All levels. * Choice *A concise history of the origin and evolution of the idea of race, the development of the science of classification and ranking of human types/races, and the persistence of racial ideology and science. Graves concludes that race is a social construct that was given power by science. When the myth of biological races is smashed, biological differences cease to be an excuse for inequality, and racism is exposed. * Journal of the American Medical Association *A book declaring that biological races do not exist and that the concept of race æwas socially constructed, arising from the colonization of the New World and the importation of slaves, mainly from western Africa' merits a salute right off the bat. . . . Joseph L. Graves Jr., is a laboratory geneticist, and he has made his case based on solid science, not on feel-good social motivations. . . . Graves is a laboratory scientist. His grasp of science and use of up-to-date sources put his presentation on a rock-solid basis. . . . The Emperor's New Clothes is a fine start for thinking about race at the dawn of the new millennium. * American Scientist *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 The Origin of the Race Concept Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part 2 Darwin and the Survival of Scientific Racism Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Part 3 Applications and Misapplications of Darwinism Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Part 4 Biological Theories of Race at Millennium Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Black Women Identity and Cultural Theory
Book SynopsisKevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the 'girlfriend' as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory and language. He considers how the works of writers such as Toni Morrison and Ama Ata Aidoo inform the debates over the concept of identity.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: What Becomes... Chapter 1 - The Other Dancer as Self: Notes on Girlfriend Selfhood Chapter 2 - Self(full)ness and the Politics of Community Chapter 3 - Liminality and Selfhood: Toward Being Enough Chapter 4 - An Indisputable Memory of Blackness Chapter 5 - The Practice of a Memory Body Chapter 6 - Toward a Language Aesthetic Chapter 7 - My Own, Language Conclusion... What is Undone Notes Works Cited Index
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Rewriting White Race Class and Cultural Capital
Book Synopsis What did it mean for people of color in nineteenth-century America to speak or write "white"? More specifically, how many and what kinds of meaning could such "white" writing carry? In ReWriting White, Todd Vogel looks at how America has racialized language and aesthetic achievement. Trade ReviewI came across Rewriting White: Race, Class and Cultural Capital in 19th Century America by Todd Vogel, a cultural historian. There, I found Mr. Fowler’s beliefs about black people’s language skills and allegedly inborn talents for working as waiters and nurses. That wasn’t all — Mr. Fowler also correlated coarse hair with “coarseness in the fibers of the brain, together with coarse, harsh feelings” — but it was enough to disabuse me of any notion that phrenology was going to add some amusing historical tidbits to my review. -- Pete Wells * New York Times - Times Insider *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Recasting the PlotPart I - Antebellum Revisions - Public Virtue 1. Speaking to the Whiteness of the Brain 2. William Apess's Theater and a "Native" American HistoryPart II - Postbellum Revisions - The Virtue Within 3. Sharpening the Pen: Racial and Aesthetic Transformation 4. Anna Julia Cooper and the Black Orator 5. Edith Eaton Plays the Chinese Water Lily Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£31.00
Rutgers University Press Imagery of Lynching Black Men White Women and the
Book SynopsisOutside of the classroom and scholarly publications, lynching has long been a taboo subject. Nice people, it is felt, do not talk about it, and they certainly do not look at images representing the atrocity. InImagery of Lynching, Dora Apel contests this adopted stance of ignorance.Trade Review"In concise and compelling language, Dora Apel traces the origins and histories of images of lynching in order to foreground their role in both normalizing and challenging particular concepts o racial and national identity. She forces us to look at scenes most would prefer to ignore, and exposes the horror and logic of torture. At a time when grotesque deaths are increasingly framed as 'entertainment' by today's news media, Apel's book is a sober reminder of the political expediency and personal pain behind such graphic displays.” -- Frances K. Pohl * author of Framing America: A Social History of American Art *"Apel has written an important book. It synthesizes the history of spectacle lynching and dissects the photographs and artworks used to sustain and challenge racial violence. It contributes to understanding the symbolic and ideological power of these images for past--and present. Imagery of Lynching is a must read for anyone interested in racial violence in the United States." * The Journal of American History *"Apel has written a very engaging study on a difficult part of American visual history. She has succeeded in using a case study format to thoroughly address the breadth of social, political, and economic issues that have affected lynching and its representation in the last century....Apel offers astute analyses of an array of documentary and fine art images, revealing how they have reflected and influenced American attitudes about race, racism, sexuality, mob violence, and their pathology....Highly recommended." * Choice *"The visuals in Imagery of Lynching are disturbing and graphic, but deserve the reader's attention. Apel painstakingly and effectively discusses the strength of these images and details the controversies that often followed their public displays." * The Historian *"This book makes a major contribution to the scholarship on both lynching and the artistic representation of racism in the United States. It will undoubtedly be a foundational work for subsequent research by historians and art historians alike.” -- Fitz Brundage * author of Under Sentence of Death and Lynching in the New South *"[Apel's] book provides an important complement to social and political studies of lynching that generally ignore the role of the artist in attempting--however futilely--to awaken the public conscience." * Southern Historical Association *"Dora Apel mounts a careful and convincing analysis of a set of extremely difficult, often literally terrifying, images and provides the necessary contexts for readers to understand the practice of lynching and the terms of its representation by photographers and artists.” -- Richard Meyer * author of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art *Table of ContentsOn looking Scottsboro, the Communist party, and the NAACP: conflicts and desires The antilynching exhibitions of 1935: strategies and constraints Race, sex, and politics in prewar America: picturing Black oppression Mass media, World War II, and the Cold War: the lynching of George Dorsey and Emmitt Till The evolution of lynching narratives in contemporary art
£36.00
Rutgers University Press Yellowface Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance1850s1920s
Book SynopsisKrystyn R. Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Trade Review"Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American studies and American cultural history, as well as theater and music history." -- Josephine Lee * author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage *"Krystyn Moon has produced a finely detailed and nuanced study of China and Chinese Americans on the nineteenth-century American musical stage. Yellowface is an important work for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture and race." -- Robert G. Lee * author of Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture *"Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American studies and American cultural history, as well as theater and music history." -- Josephine Lee * author of Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage *"Krystyn Moon has produced a finely detailed and nuanced study of China and Chinese Americans on the nineteenth-century American musical stage. Yellowface is an important work for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture and race." -- Robert G. Lee * author of Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture *
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Fulgencio Batista v 1 The Making of a Dictator
Book SynopsisProvides a full and balanced portrait of Fulgencio Batista. The author describes Batista's rise to power as part of a revolutionary movement and the intrigues and dangers that surrounded him. This volume focuses on Batista's role as a revolutionary leader from 1933 to 1934 and his image as a strongman in the years between 1934 and 1939.Trade Review"Balanced, judicious and fluently written, Argote-Freyre's biography offers an important and long overdue scholarly reassessment of a crucial figure in Cuban history." * Publishers Weekly *"Written in an engaging style and based on solid scholarship, this work by Argote-Freyre should make us wonder how we have gone this long without an authoritative treatment of the life and times of the man second only to Fidel Castro in his importance to twentieth-century Cuba. A sorely needed contribution." -- Lisandro PTrez * Florida International University *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. End and Beginning 2. Restless Adolescence 3. Sergeant Stenographer 4. Machadato 5. Sergeant's Revolt 6. Revolution of 1933 7. An End to Revolution 8. The Mendieta Years 9. Labor Unrest 10. The Elections of 1936 11. In the Shadow of Batista 12. Cuban Strongman 13. Road to Democracy Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
Rutgers University Press African American Women Writers in New Jersey
Book SynopsisIdentifies and documents the lives and publications of over one hundred African American women writers in the Garden State from 1836 through 2000. This volume contains biographical and bibliographical information for each author, including the photographs of the authors and citations for the published pamphlets, books, reports, and articles.Trade Review"An original and laudatory example of scholarship....A valuable tool...for the cultural history of New Jersey and U.S. women's history." * The Year's Work in English Studies (2005) *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Ni'mat Mujahid Abdus-Samad Ameerah Hasin Ahmad Islah Samirah Beyah Ali, see Islah Beyah Glora Lucille Amos Amina Baraka Carole Bartel, see Oona'o Haynes Daphne Haygood Benyard Islah Beyah Undra Elissa Clay Biggs Louis Scott Thompson Blanks Sue Booker, see Thandeka Dnie Michele Brown, see Islah Beyah Margery Wheeler Brown Martha Hursey Brown Vashti Proctor Brown Irene Martin Bryant Gracie Diane Burnett Anna Land Butler Rebecca Batts Butler Sally Central Butler Bertha Georgetta Merritt Campbell Georgetta Campbell, see Bertha Georgetta Merritt Campbell Mary Elizabeth Cornish Carmichael Cheryl Lynn Clarke Evelyn Clyburn Chrisena Anne Coleman Elsie McIntosh Collins Carole Darden, see Carole Darden Lloyd Norma Jean Darden Esther Louise Davis-Thompson Lenora Allen Dorin Theresa Bowman Downing Cecelia Hodges Drewry Frankie W. Dudley Sylvia Clarke Edge Jessie Redmon Fauset E. Alma Williams Flagg Valerie Rose Flournoy Vanessa Flournoy Annabelle Robinson Freeland Mindy Thompson Fullilove Kathryn Elizabeth Gaines Monique Gilmore-Scott Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant Carolyn Jetter Greene Diana Brenda Guyton, see Jaleelah Karriem Shirley T. Hailstock Valerie Hall, see Ameerah Ahmad Leola Grant Hayes Oona'o Haynes Essie Lee Kirkland Hendley Maurita Miles Hinton Mary Rose Holley Linda Janet Holmes Helen Shaw Hooks, see Helen Shaw Christine Moore Howell Cheryl AuVal Willis Hudson Sally Page Hughes Kristin Elaine Eggleston Hunter-Lattany Mary Jane Ray Jackson Norma Jean Jarrett Catherine Juanita Fortune Johnson, see Ni'Mat Mujahid Abdus-Samad Birdie (Byerte) Wilson Johnson Sylvia Robinson Jones, see Amina Baraka Jaleelah Karriem Amalya Lyle Kearse Janice Green Kenyatta Lurey Khan Nancy Kofie, see Nancy Elizabeth Travis Patricia Layne Kristin Lattany, see Kristin Hunter-Lattany Doris Mae Laws, see Ummil-Khair Zakiyyah Sharif Helen Corrine Jackson Lee Jarena Lee Helen Marie Tudos Lee Lindsey Benilde Elease Little Eddiemae Livingston Carole Darden Lloyd Pauline Mason Lowery Sharon Yvonne Bell Mathis Carrie Allen McCray Hope Taylor McGriff, see Hope Rosemary Taylor Lenora Sylvia Walker McKay Sharon L. Mitchell Betty Jean Green Moore Margaret Lee Hicks Morris Evelyn Stalling Murray Betty Elizabeth Harris Neals Gladys Cannon Nunery J. Joyce Coleman Payne Vanessa Payton, see Vanessa Flournoy Gertrude Williams Pitts Dorothy Burnett Porter, see Dorothy Louise Burnett Porter Wesley Mattie Hunter Pouncy Maurice Lee Ficklin Riley Irose Fernella Adams Roberts La Francis Audrey Rodgers-rose Grace Ariadne Trott Roper Phontella Cloteal Butcher Ruff Kate Rushin Nefeterri Salaam Viola Harris Sanders Esther "Hetty" Saunders Qadriyyah Buteen Shakir Ntozake Shange Ummil-Khair Zakiyyah Sharif Helen Shaw Ruby Williams Shivers Patricia Nicely Simon, see Nefeterri Salaam Bettye Delores Tyson Spinner Elberta Wilhelmina Hayes Stone Dorothy Mae Salley Strickland Jere Elaine Talley Claudia C. Tate Hope Rosemary Taylor Thandeka Naturi Songhai Thomas Veona Young Thomas Mary Louise Thompson Mindy Thompson, see Mindy Thompson Fullilove Jeanette Frances Thornton Rita Louise Thornton Yvonne Shirley Thornton Nancy Elizabeth Travis Emma Marie H. Cooper Trusty Michele Lois Tuck-Ponder Wanda Regina Buggs Tucker Sheila Suzanne Walker Cheryl Ann Wall Dorothy Louise Burnett Porter Wesley Valerie Deane Wilson Wesley Cheryl Anne Fisher White Lola Buteen Wiggins, see Qadriyyah Buteen Shakir Ruby Ora Williams Deborah Cannon Partridge Wolfe Marion Manola Thompson Wright Appendix A: Distribution of African American Women Writers in New Jersey, by Geographical Affiliation (Town) Appendix B: Distribution of African American Women Writers in New Jersey, by Genre
£32.00
Rutgers University Press Haunted Life Visual Culture and Black Modernity
Book SynopsisDrawing on a range of comparative readings by writers, theorists, and filmmakers, including John Edgar Wideman, Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, Issac Julien, Alain Locke, and Sidney Poitier, Haunted Life is a bold and original exploration of the legacies of black visual culture and the political, deeply sexualized violence that lies buried beneath it.Trade ReviewThis volume is an elegantly written, ethically grounded, and intelligently observed series of meditations of relations that have been produced by the traumatic legacies of slavery around the Black Atlantic world. -- Jacqueline Goldsby * Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago *Table of ContentsSpooks : Wideman's catastrophe That within "The derived life of fiction" : race, childhood, and culture Black narcissus : Isaac Julien Letters to Langston The love of neither-either : racial integration in Pressure point Bonding over phobia Afterword: ice cold
£27.90
Rutgers University Press I Call to Remembrance Toyo Suyemotos Years of
Book SynopsisToyo Suyemoto is known informally by literary scholars and the media as ""Japanese America's poet laureate."" This work presents an account of Suyemoto, which includes information about policies and wartime decisions, and recounts the way in which internees adjusted their notions of selfhood and citizenship.Trade ReviewThis illuminating and moving memoir adds to the literature of internment by providing invaluable insight into how the raw facts of governmental decisions are perceived and experienced by the subjects of those decisions. Most importantly, Toyo Suyemoto shows us how it is possible, under conditions of duress and degradation, to retain one's dignity, compassion, and imagination. -- Traise Yamamoto * associate professor of English, University of California, Riverside *Table of ContentsBerkeley April 1942 Morning of departure Growing up in Nihonmachi Intake at Tanforan Tanforan days Tanforan High School Kay's illness Another move Entry into Topaz Settling in As 1942 Ended Block 4-8-E Schooling in Topaz Topaz Public Library Sensei Into another year Registration for loyalty Weighed in the balance We be brethren In the length of days The dust before the wind The Dispersal Tree of the People (Topaz community)
£29.70
Rutgers University Press 500 Years of Chicana Womens History
Book SynopsisOffers a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The bilingual text, along with hundreds of photos and other images, ranges from female-centred stories of pre-Columbian Mexico to profiles of contemporary social justice activists, labour leaders, youth organisers, artists, and environmentalists.Trade Review"A much-needed work: this bilingual history describing feminism's role in Chicana women's lives, from pre-columbian Mexico to now." * Ms. Magazine *"This history passionately shows that through unity and perseverance womencan make the world a better place for Chicanas/os and, indeed, for peoplefrom a diversity of backgrounds." -- Professor Alma M. Garcia * author of Narratives of Mexican American Women *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Story of La Chicana Begins A New Invader Comes Chicanas at Work Under U.S. Rule La Revolución Mexicana Let's Go To the U.S. The Great Depression, Repatriation, Strike! World War II The Movement is Born Life of a Farmworker Woman Our Own Party No a la Guerra en Vietnam Work = Struggle VIVA LA MUJER! Mujeres who love women Walking the Red Road Culture contains the seed... Today's Writers Música, Teatro, Film, The Counter-Insurgency The Land That Came Back to Life The Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice New Worker Struggles Immigrant Rights Alliance Building Across Color Lines Chicanas in Public Office Youth Are Rising Not to Be Forgotten Further Reading Photo & Illustration Credits About the Author
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Backstory in Blue Ellington at Newport 56
Book SynopsisBackstory in Blue is a behind-the-scenes look at this epic moment in American cultural history. It is the story of who and what made Ellington’s composition so compelling and how one piece of music reflected the feelings and shaped the sensibilities of the postwar generation. Trade ReviewIf you want to understand why Backstory in Blue was written in the first place, listen to George Avakian's original mono LP for the torrent and spectacle. The go to Schaap's CD for the musical detail. The read the book. . . . Morton ultimately delivers a gripping account of the riotous and dramatic night. * Downbeat *Morton provides a detailed exploration of the remarkable July night in a not-very-jazzy community then known primarily for its upper-class society lifestyle. . . . his research and writing are outstanding. Jumping back and forth in time, Morton draws the reader into both factual content and the emotion of the performance. Recommended. * Choice *What makes John Fass Morton's Backstory in Blue so impressive is the way he handles the tensions and releases of that blue containment tale while bringing human complexity to the fore. We feel the flesh-and-blood qualities of the characters who made the story intimate, secret, public, intricate, casual, and even slightly mysterious. Morton reveals many things that others have missed, and his book could inspire those in our firmly segregated literary world where almost all of our fiction fails to bring artistry and the sort of sweep expected in the best...novels. Page by page this book makes its way to great importance. -- Stanley Crouch * Harper's Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword by Jonathan Yardley Acknowledgments How We Got There Newport '56 Where It All Went Notes Bibliography Index
£32.40
John Wiley & Sons Holy Prayers in a Horses Ear A Japanese American
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa's pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. This edition also includes Tamagawa's short story, ""A Fit in Japan"" and a critical introduction.Table of ContentsHoly prayers in a horse's ear A fit in Japan
£31.00
Rutgers University Press Bookmarks Reading in Black and White a Memoir
Book SynopsisKarla FC Holloway examines booklists, along with the trends of selection in Oprah Winfrey's popular book club, raising the questions: What does it mean for prominent African Americans to associate themselves with European learning and culture? How do books by black authors fare in the inevitable hierarchy of a booklist?Trade ReviewErudite and emotional in turns, it is full of truths that appeal to the head and the heart. Its primary strength is its poignancy. There is a kind of mystery that holds the book together, one that commands our interest from start to finish. Little by little we learn that Holloway has suffered a terrible loss -- the death of her young son. She reveals the details slowly, impressionistically, working through her grief by turning again and again to the subject she knows best: books. * American Academy of Religion Program *Part memoir, part historical research on the reading habit of writers, Karla Holloway provides the reader with a rare opportunity to reflect upon his/her own reading experience: What have you read? How did you learn to read? Where were your 'protected and isolated spaces' for reading? How has that early experience shaped your current reading? A unique contribution to our understanding of the importance of reading in shaping our culture. -- David S. Ferriero * Andrew W. Mellon Director and Chief Executive of the Research Libraries, New Yor *BookMarks is a moving and revelatory memoir, as Holloway contemplates her own reading history as well as that of her family...this is a work of fiercely intelligent scholarship. -- Susan Larson * New Orleans Times-Picayune *Table of ContentsReading and desire in a room of their own / The booklists of Jessie Fauset and Marita Golden A negro library / The booklists of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright On censorship and Tarzan / The booklists of John Hope Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Audre Lorde A prison library / The booklists of Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and Eldridge Cleaver The anchor bar / The booklists of Maya Angelou and James Baldwin A proud chestnut / The booklists of James Weldon Johnson and Nikki Giovanni The children's room / The booklists of Langston Hughes and Pauli Murray My mother's singing / The booklists of C. Eric Lincoln and Leon Forrest Reading race / The booklists of Henry Louis Gates and Michael Eric Dyson The card catalog / The booklists of Zora Neale Hurston, J. Saunders Redding, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delaney, and Oprah Winfrey
£21.59
Rutgers University Press Matters of Choice
Book SynopsisPresents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating, fertility control by individual women.Trade ReviewIn this unique and compelling book, Iris Lopez not only encourages a rethinking of reproductive models but features women's own voices and life experiences. I recommend Matters of Choice to anyone interested in learning more about how the national, class and racist legacies of reproductive policies influence the lives of women today. -- Dr. Alice Col=n Warren * Researcher, Social Science Research Center, University of Puerto Rico *"In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a nuanced analysis of themultiple forces that lead to high sterilization rates of Puerto Ricanwomen. Using their voices, Lopez illuminates women's reproductive agency, pushing us to think more deeply about the meaning of laoperación. -- Patricia Zavella * professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa *"A heart-wrenching look at US domination over working-class Puerto Rican women that has been largely unexplored until now." -- Juan Flores * author of The Diaspora Strikes Back *"Matters of Choice is that rare work of scholarship whose ideas and rich findings are central to the literatures on social movements and gender studies. Lopez explodes the usual binary of victim vs. free agent and helps us to imagine what real reproductive justice might look like" -- Rosalind Petchesky * Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Hunter College *"Lopez presents an integrated model that moves beyond the binary of choice and constraint to locate the experiences of Puerto Rican women in a continuum....The integrated model provides an opportunity to better understand how personal, cultural, social, and historical factors operate and inform reproductive decisions. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Unlike previous work on women's reproductive control, Lopez offers a more nuanced and complex understanding as to why [sterilization] has been so popular among Puetro Riquenas. It is written in an engaging, clear, and accessible manner...essential reading for those interested in the social construction of the body, reproduction, and Latina women's experiences." * Feminist Formations (Formerly NWSA Journal) *"Lopez's work fills a tremendous void in the social science literature about Puerto Rican women's lives and fertility. One of the more impressive aspects of this work is the depth of the ethnographic interviews: each woman's voice rings loud and clear. Matters of Choice should be standard reading for students of the Puerto Rican and Latina condition, and not just female students but all students." * Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies *In this unique and compelling book, Iris Lopez not only encourages a rethinking of reproductive models but features women's own voices and life experiences. I recommend Matters of Choice to anyone interested in learning more about how the national, class and racist legacies of reproductive policies influence the lives of women today. -- Dr. Alice Col=n Warren * Researcher, Social Science Research Center, University of Puerto Rico *"In Matters of Choice, Iris Lopez presents a nuanced analysis of themultiple forces that lead to high sterilization rates of Puerto Ricanwomen. Using their voices, Lopez illuminates women's reproductive agency, pushing us to think more deeply about the meaning of laoperación. -- Patricia Zavella * professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California, Santa *"A heart-wrenching look at US domination over working-class Puerto Rican women that has been largely unexplored until now." -- Juan Flores * author of The Diaspora Strikes Back *"Matters of Choice is that rare work of scholarship whose ideas and rich findings are central to the literatures on social movements and gender studies. Lopez explodes the usual binary of victim vs. free agent and helps us to imagine what real reproductive justice might look like" -- Rosalind Petchesky * Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Hunter College *"Lopez presents an integrated model that moves beyond the binary of choice and constraint to locate the experiences of Puerto Rican women in a continuum....The integrated model provides an opportunity to better understand how personal, cultural, social, and historical factors operate and inform reproductive decisions. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Unlike previous work on women's reproductive control, Lopez offers a more nuanced and complex understanding as to why [sterilization] has been so popular among Puetro Riquenas. It is written in an engaging, clear, and accessible manner...essential reading for those interested in the social construction of the body, reproduction, and Latina women's experiences." * Feminist Formations (Formerly NWSA Journal) *"Lopez's work fills a tremendous void in the social science literature about Puerto Rican women's lives and fertility. One of the more impressive aspects of this work is the depth of the ethnographic interviews: each woman's voice rings loud and clear. Matters of Choice should be standard reading for students of the Puerto Rican and Latina condition, and not just female students but all students." * Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies *Table of ContentsThe globalization of sterilization The birth control movement in Puerto Rico Gender awareness across generations Cultural continuities and urban change The Velez family: poverty, the cancer scare, and hysterectomies The Robles family: social change and gender struggle The Gomez family: under the knife again-reversing la operación The Morales and Rivera families: tough love and sterile choices Reproductive rights and an integral model of reproductive freedom Ideologies and inequities in the health care system Toward an integral model of reproductive freedom
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Racing Romance Love Power and Desire Among Asian AmericanWhite Couples
Book SynopsisDespite being far from the norm, interracial relationships are more popular than ever. Racing Romance sheds special light on the bonds between whites and Asian Americans, an important topic that has not garnered well-deserved attention until now.Trade ReviewA provocative, insightful, and richly-detailed study. This book should be required reading for anyone studying race and romance in contemporary society. -- Erica Chito Childs * author of Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Socia *A provocative, insightful, and richly-detailed study. This book should be required reading for anyone studying race and romance in contemporary society. -- Erica Chito Childs * author of Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Socia *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Interracial RelationshipsPart I Asian American Women with White Men The Good Wife A Woman AscendingPart II Asian American Men with White Women A Man's Place Playing the Man Men Alone Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Indianizing Film Decolonization the Andes and the
Book SynopsisLatin American indigenous media production has recently experienced a noticeable boom, specifically in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia. This title encourages readers to consider how indigenous media contributes to a wider understanding of decolonization and anticolonial study against the universal backdrop of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewSchiwy's analysis of indigenous media contributes provocative, rich, close readings of several key concepts from Latin American literary and cultural studies, including: transculturation, literacy, testimonio, the lettered city, and global multiculturalism. . . . Her compelling analysis of the thematic, discursive, and structural components of individual videos is nuanced and smart. -- Marcia Stephenson * Purdue University *"Schiwy's analyses of how indigenous populations in Latin America have met the challenge of decolonizing knowledge will set the stage for any future work on the 'indianizing' of audiovisual technology. Given its comparative scope, intellectual breadth and theoretical acuity, I predict the concepts in Indianizing Film will become as influential for twenty-first century discussions of post-colonialism as Edward SaidÆs ôOrientalismö was for the twentieth." -- Ana Lopez * Tulane University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments — vii Introduction — The Question of Technology — 1 1 Indigenous Media and the Politics of Knowledge — 33 2 Casting New Protagonists — 63 3 Cinematic Time and Visual Economy — 85 4 Gender, Complementarity, and the Anticolonial Gaze — 109 5 Nature, Indians, and Epistemic Privilege — 139 6 Specters and Braided Stories — 163 7 Indigenous Media and the Market — 185 Afterword — 212 Notes — 223 Bibliography — 249 Filmography — 267 Index — 273
£31.00
John Wiley & Sons Power Politics Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles
Book SynopsisA study of a grassroots campaign where longtime labor and environmental allies found themselves on opposite sides of a conflict that pitted good jobs against good air. It analyzes how those issues came to be opposed and in doing so unpacks the racial and class dynamics that shape Americans' grasp of labor and environmental issues.Trade ReviewHighly original in conception and scopeàBrodkin demonstrates her consummate skills as a researcher in excavating the cityàand does so with verve. -- Rodolfo D. Torres * Professor of urban planning and Chicano studies, University of California, Irvin *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. South Gate Transitions 2. Environmental Justice 3. Creating an Environmental Justice Campaign 4. Sunlaw's New Pollution Control Technology 5. The Perfect Storm 6. Finding Traction at South Gate High School 7. Going Public 8. Sudden Death
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Comedy American Style Multiethnic Literatures of the Americas American Style Jessie Redmon Fauset MultiEthnic Literatures of the Americas Mela
Book SynopsisPresents the tragic tale of a family's destruction - the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.Table of ContentsChronology Introduction A Note on the Text Comedy: American Style Selected Essays Yarrow Revisited Nostalgia This Way to the Flea Market Selected Poems Oriflamme TouchT La Vie C'est la Vie Explanatory Notes
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Digital Dilemmas The State the Individual and
Book SynopsisThe contentious debate in Cuba over Internet use and digital media primarily focuses on three issuesùmaximizing the potential for economic and cultural development, establishing stronger ties to the outside world, and changing the hierarchy of control. A growing number of users decry censorship and insist on personal freedom in accessing the web, while the centrally managed system benefits the government in circumventing U.S. sanctions against the country and in controlling what limited capacity exists.Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union''s demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country''s governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as Trade Review"Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic." -- Yiedy Rivero * author of Tuning Out Blackness *"This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies." -- Marvin D'Lugo * Clark University *"A nuanced analysis based on careful research and firsthand experience. This work will benefit readers interested in Cuba's recent transformation and also those seeking to understand the emergence of new media in Latin America and the challenges digital culture poses. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic." -- Yiedy Rivero * author of Tuning Out Blackness *"This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies." -- Marvin D'Lugo * Clark University *"A nuanced analysis based on careful research and firsthand experience. This work will benefit readers interested in Cuba's recent transformation and also those seeking to understand the emergence of new media in Latin America and the challenges digital culture poses. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Inventing, Recycling, and Deploying Technologies 2 Media Technologies and "Cuban Democracy" 3 Tourism and the Social Ramifications of 3 Media Technologies 4 Film Culture in the Digital Millennium 5 Digital Communities and the Pleasures of Technology Conclusion
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Revolutionizing Romance Interracial Couples in
Book SynopsisRevolutionizing Romance is an account of the continuing significance of race in Cuba as it is experienced in interracial relationships.Trade Review"This excellent work breaks new ground in our understanding of Cuban society by focusing on interracial relationships, the sites where mestizaje is produced. Fernandez analyzes these interactions and exchanges with all their contradictions and complexities, making for a compelling read." -- Alejandro de la Fuente * author of A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century *"This extremely insightful book addresses a major paradox in Cuban society. Fernandez's ethnography and sophisticated analysis dives deep into the contradictory meanings of interracial romance, providing much-needed sociocultural analysis." -- Faye Harrison * author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age *"Because of its accessible style and the succinct background chapters on Cuban racial history and the topic of romantic love, the book is a fine resource for introductory courses on race in Latin America and the Caribbean." * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsInterracial couples from colony to revolution Socialist equality and the color-blind revolution Mapping interracial couples: race and space in Havana The everyday presence of race Blackness, Whiteness, class, and the emergent economy Interracial couples and racism at home
£32.00
Rutgers University Press Womens Activism in Latin America and the
Book SynopsisWomen's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars who analyze and document the diversity, vibrancy, and effectiveness of women's experiences and organizing in Latin America and the Caribbean during the past four decades. Most of the expressions of collective agency are analyzed in this book within the context of the neoliberal model of globalization that has seriously affected most Latin American and Caribbean women's lives in multiple ways. Contributors explore the emergence of the area's feminist movement, dictatorships of the 1970s, the Central American uprisings, the urban, grassroots organizing for better living conditions, and finally, the turn toward public policy and formal political involvement and the alternative globalization movement. Geared toward bridging cultural realities, this volume represents women's transformations, challenges, and hopes, while considering the analytical tools needed to dissect the realities, uTrade Review"Maier and Lebon have assembled an outstanding collection of essays on women's activism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The result is a refreshing work that will become a landmark study and a comprehensive resource that researchers and students will consult for years to come. Essential." * Choice *"The book offers rich empirical detail and sharp insight into the ways in which gender and sexuality are profoundly implicated in the political and economic trends of a region permeated by global forces." * Signs *"Although the editors, feminist studies professor Elizabeth Maier and anthropologist Nathalie Lebon, celebrate the achievements of feminist struggles, they also examine the challenges ahead. Several chapters analyze the consolidation of anti-choice movements in some countries, including Nicaragua under the left-wing pro-life president Daniel Ortega.The book offers insight into feminist movements in the region, threats to weaken their radical politics, and the backlash from conservative groups." * NACLA Report on the Americas *"This is a very exciting collection that will fill an important gap in what has emerged in comparative studies of women and Latin American democracies. Maier and Lebon provide provocative overview essays, and the chapters trace a range of cases from Argentina and Brazil to Nicaragua and Venezuela, showing how institutions, leaders, and culture all shape the opportunities and challenges women face." -- Jane Jaquette * editor of Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America *
£31.50
MW - Rutgers University Press Bodies in Crisis Culture Violence and Womens Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina
Book SynopsisExamines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in Argentina during a period of profound social upheaval. Set against the backdrop of a severe economic crisis and intensified social movement activism post-2001, this title illuminates how multiple forms of injustice converge in and are contested through women's bodies.Trade Review"Bodies in Crisis is one of the few books that deals with the bodily dimensions of exclusion and resistance in Latin America. Bravo to Sutton for this highly original work." -- Javier Auyero * author of Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown *"A masterful study on embodiment and modes of feminity in 21st century Argentina. It is accessible enough to be used with upper-level undergraduates even as it is detailed and complex enough to be essential for specialists in Argentina, a difficult balance which Sutton nonetheless achieves flawlessly." * Anthropological Quarterly *"Barbara Sutton provides a unique account of the social and political conjuncture in her country at the beginning of the twenty-first century that is both a brilliant attempt to theorize women's lives and struggles by bringing thhe body clearly 'back' into the picture, and a rendering of a concrete story of oppression and resistance in which women come to life as embodied subjects of history. Her well-written text brings her informants' stories richly to life." * Contemporary Sociology *"I rarely say this about academic books but I had a hard time putting this one down! Sutton has authored an exciting and engaging contribution to the literature on women and social movements." -- Michelle D. Bonner * University of Victoria *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Bodies in Crisis: An Introduction 2. Bodies Scars of Neoliberal Globalization 3. Beautiful Bodies: Femininity, Appearance, and Embodiment 4. More Than Reproductive Uteruses: Maternal Bodies and Abortion 5. Embattled Bodies: Violence against Women 6. Bodies in Protest: Poner el Cuerpo 7. Conclusion: Embodiment, Globcalities, and Resistance Notes References Index
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Dance and the Hollywood Latina Race Sex and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!" -- Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez * Mount Holyoke College *"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the Hollywood Latina, and of Latinas in the national imaginary, through analysis of dance and embodiment in these dynamics." -- Mary Beltrán * author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV St *"In this fresh examination, Priscilla Peña Ovalle convincingly probes the racial dynamics and sexual politics that shape the paradoxical figure of the dancing Hollywood Latina." -- Rosa-Linda Fregoso * author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderland *"A good resource for those interested in dance, film, and media studies and in gender, race and sexualities studies. Recommended." * Choice *"What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!" -- Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez * Mount Holyoke College *"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the Hollywood Latina, and of Latinas in the national imaginary, through analysis of dance and embodiment in these dynamics." -- Mary Beltrán * author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV St *"In this fresh examination, Priscilla Peña Ovalle convincingly probes the racial dynamics and sexual politics that shape the paradoxical figure of the dancing Hollywood Latina." -- Rosa-Linda Fregoso * author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderland *"A good resource for those interested in dance, film, and media studies and in gender, race and sexualities studies. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1 Mobilizing the Latina myth 2 Dolores Del Rio dances across the imperial color line 3 Carmen Miranda shakes it for the nation 4 Rita Hayworth and the cosmetic borders of race 5 Rita Moreno, the critically acclaimed "all-round ethnic" 6 Jennifer Lopez, racial mobility, and the new urban/Latina commodity Notes Works Cited Index
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Everyday Revolutionaries
Book Synopsis Everyday Revolutionaries provides a longitudinal and rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. By exploring political processes in one of El Salvador''s former war zones-a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation-Irina Carlota Silber offers a searing portrait of the entangled aftermaths of confrontation and displacement, aftermaths that have produced continued deception and marginalization.Silber provides one of the first rubrics for understanding and contextualizing postwar disillusionment, drawing on her ethnographic fieldwork and research on immigration to the United States by former insurgents. With an eye for gendered experiences, she unmasks how community members are asked, contradictorily and in different contexts, to relinquish their identities as 'revolutionaries' and to develop a new sense of themselves as productive yet marginal postwar citizens via the same 'participation' that fueled theirTrade Review"This is a stunning book. Silber is brilliantly able to ground her scholarly arguments in extensive ethnography, based on long-term research in a community with which she has deep ties." -- Ethel Brooks * author of Unraveling the Garment Industry *"In this deeply insightful ethnography of post-war El Salvador, Silber successfully captures the hopes of Salvadorans for change and revolutionary times. She unmasks how these hopes are often challenged by the reality of poverty and continued social, economic, and gendered inequalities." -- Lynn Stephen * University of Oregon *"This preceptive ethnography not only captures memories, sentiments and hopes, but also examines strategies of managing the present, including the paradox of mass migration to the US. Silber has made a major contribution to the study of postconflict societies, as well as to the centrality of gendered experience. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Silber provides great detail on the postwar lives of a few handfuls of people in this inquiry into everyday life, historical memory, NGOs, and gender relations. Everyday Revolutionaries is notable for its honesty and openness." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *Table of ContentsEntangled aftermaths Histories of violence/histories of organizing Rank and file history NGOs in the postwar period Not revolutionary enough? Cardboard democracy Conning revolutionaries The postwar highway Epilogue: amor lejos, amor de pendejos
£29.70
