Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Rutgers University Press Imagining Asia in the Americas Asian American
Book SynopsisInvestigates the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. This volume provides an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures.Trade Review"Imagining Asia in the Americas brings fresh ideas and scholarship to the field. Using oral histories and personal experience, the essays in this volume convey a level of intimacy missing from other collections on the Asian diaspora." -- Jerry García * author of Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and U.S. Hegemony *"This excellent volume is a welcome addition to the research on Asians in the Americas. The essays break new ground in this scant area of research, building on the currently small number of voices of Asians coming out of these regions." -- Karen Kuo * author of East is West and West is East *"From Coolitude to Sinalidad, Imagining Asia in the Americas boldly charts intersecting diasporas, borders, languages and continents to remap the complex history of Asian descent peoples in the New World." -- Allan Punzalan Isaac * author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionDebbie Lee-DiStefano Part I: Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the AmericasKathleen López Chapter 1: Yellow Blindness in a Black-and-White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban ReligiosityMartin A. Tsang Chapter 2: Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National ImaginariesJunyoung Verónica Kim Chapter 3: Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and CubaAdrian H. Hearn Part II: Historicities: InterludeKathleen López Chapter 4: Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century CubaJosé Amador Chapter 5: The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’iJulia Katz Part III: Lives / Representations: InterludeKathleen López Chapter 6: Musings on Identity and Transgenerational ExperiencesAnn Kaneko Chapter 7: Intersecting Words: Haiku in GujaratiRoshni Rustomji-Kerns Chapter 8: Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para YumiIgnacio López-Calvo BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Imagining Asia in the Americas
Book Synopsis For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas imagine community and cultural identity? The essays in Imagining Asia in the Americas investigate the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. Focusing on a variety of locations across South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and the United States, the book’s contributors reveal the rich diversity of Asian AmeriTrade Review"Imagining Asia in the Americas brings fresh ideas and scholarship to the field. Using oral histories and personal experience, the essays in this volume convey a level of intimacy missing from other collections on the Asian diaspora." -- Jerry García * author of Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and U.S. Hegemony *"This excellent volume is a welcome addition to the research on Asians in the Americas. The essays break new ground in this scant area of research, building on the currently small number of voices of Asians coming out of these regions." -- Karen Kuo * author of East is West and West is East *"From Coolitude to Sinalidad, Imagining Asia in the Americas boldly charts intersecting diasporas, borders, languages and continents to remap the complex history of Asian descent peoples in the New World." -- Allan Punzalan Isaac * author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionDebbie Lee-DiStefano Part I: Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the AmericasKathleen López Chapter 1: Yellow Blindness in a Black-and-White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban ReligiosityMartin A. Tsang Chapter 2: Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National ImaginariesJunyoung Verónica Kim Chapter 3: Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and CubaAdrian H. Hearn Part II: Historicities: InterludeKathleen López Chapter 4: Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century CubaJosé Amador Chapter 5: The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’iJulia Katz Part III: Lives / Representations: InterludeKathleen López Chapter 6: Musings on Identity and Transgenerational ExperiencesAnn Kaneko Chapter 7: Intersecting Words: Haiku in GujaratiRoshni Rustomji-Kerns Chapter 8: Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para YumiIgnacio López-Calvo BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Rutgers University Press The Resilient Self Gender Immigration and
Book SynopsisThis book explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women who negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement. Trade Review"The Resilient Self examines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces." -- Eliza Noh * California State University, Fullerton *"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow * editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia *"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by The Resilient Self." * Journal of Asian Studies *“The Resilient Self contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” * Gender & Society *"The Resilient Self examines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces." -- Eliza Noh * California State University, Fullerton *"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow * editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia *"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by The Resilient Self." * Journal of Asian Studies *“The Resilient Self contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” * Gender & Society *Table of Contents1. Introduction 1 2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self 17 3. Searching for Self in the New Land 38 4. Negotiating Egalitarianism 69 5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy 95 6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect in Racialized America 127 7. Suffering and the Resilient Self 154 Acknowledgments 165 Appendix: Demographic Information of Subjects 167 Notes 171 References 181 Index 191
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Rutgers University Press The Resilient Self Gender Immigration and
Book SynopsisThis book explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women who negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement. Trade Review"The Resilient Self examines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces." -- Eliza Noh * California State University, Fullerton *"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow * editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia *"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by The Resilient Self." * Journal of Asian Studies *“The Resilient Self contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” * Gender & Society *"The Resilient Self examines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces." -- Eliza Noh * California State University, Fullerton *"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan." -- Esther Ngan-ling Chow * editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia *"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home." * Chronicle of Higher Education *"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by The Resilient Self." * Journal of Asian Studies *“The Resilient Self contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” * Gender & Society *Table of Contents1. Introduction 1 2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self 17 3. Searching for Self in the New Land 38 4. Negotiating Egalitarianism 69 5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy 95 6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect in Racialized America 127 7. Suffering and the Resilient Self 154 Acknowledgments 165 Appendix: Demographic Information of Subjects 167 Notes 171 References 181 Index 191
£111.60
Rutgers University Press Between Foreign and Family Return Migration and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. Lee highlights the “logics of transnationalism” that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state. Trade Review"In this distinct contribution to the field of transnational studies, Helene K. Lee shows how ethnic identity comes to take on a very different significance depending on one's nationality and class position." -- Joshua Roth * author of Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan *"Lee examines the expectations and experiences of two groups, whose members think of themselves as Korean." * Asian Affairs *"The book merits reading to encourage reflection on the current social situation and pondering of the possible transformation of Koreanness in the future." * The Review of Korean Studies *"Lee’s study is a crisply written and cogently argued analysis that makes an original contribution to a range of interrelated subjects that have preoccupied social scientists for decades, including diasporic nationalism, return migration, and (im)migrant incorporation." * China Review International *"Lee’s book aptly suggests that we should try to imagine the concept of homeland beyond the simple binary between family and foreign, us and them, and in and out." * The Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. The Premigration Condition 14 2. Return Migrants in the South Korean Immigration System and Labor Market 39 3. Of “Kings” and “Lepers”: The Gendered Logics of Koreanness in the Social Lives of Korean Americans 67 4. “Aren’t We All the People of Joseon?”: Claiming Ethnic Inclusion through History and Culture 97 5. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreanness and Global Citizenship 114 Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners 134 Acknowledgments 143 Appendix A: Research Methods 147 Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents 149 Notes 155 References 167 Index 175
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Rutgers University Press Between Foreign and Family Return Migration and
Book SynopsisThis book explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. Lee highlights the “logics of transnationalism” that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family, and the South Korean state. Trade Review"In this distinct contribution to the field of transnational studies, Helene K. Lee shows how ethnic identity comes to take on a very different significance depending on one's nationality and class position." -- Joshua Roth * author of Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan *"Lee examines the expectations and experiences of two groups, whose members think of themselves as Korean." * Asian Affairs *"The book merits reading to encourage reflection on the current social situation and pondering of the possible transformation of Koreanness in the future." * The Review of Korean Studies *"Lee’s study is a crisply written and cogently argued analysis that makes an original contribution to a range of interrelated subjects that have preoccupied social scientists for decades, including diasporic nationalism, return migration, and (im)migrant incorporation." * China Review International *"Lee’s book aptly suggests that we should try to imagine the concept of homeland beyond the simple binary between family and foreign, us and them, and in and out." * The Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. The Premigration Condition 14 2. Return Migrants in the South Korean Immigration System and Labor Market 39 3. Of “Kings” and “Lepers”: The Gendered Logics of Koreanness in the Social Lives of Korean Americans 67 4. “Aren’t We All the People of Joseon?”: Claiming Ethnic Inclusion through History and Culture 97 5. The Logics of Cosmopolitan Koreanness and Global Citizenship 114 Conclusion: Finding Family among Foreigners 134 Acknowledgments 143 Appendix A: Research Methods 147 Appendix B: Characteristics of Respondents 149 Notes 155 References 167 Index 175
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Thieving ThreeFingered Jack Transatlantic Tales
Book SynopsisBotkin has compiled and analyzed plays, novels, and folklore about Three-Fingered Jack in order to show how the story of this hero-villain has evolved as it traveled from the Caribbean to England and the United States, returning to Jamaica as a tale of heroic resistance.Trade Review"Finally, the study of Obi for which we’ve been waiting: one that moves across not just historical periods but also language, culture, and media. In Thieving Three-Fingered Jack, Frances Botkin gives us an extraordinary study for understanding transatlantic literary relations. Few figures possess the necessary power to illuminate a region or an era, but Jack Mansong — especially in Professor Botkin’s hands — proves such a vehicle." -- Michael Gamer * associate professor of English, University of Pennsylvania *"With its seamless blending of disciplinary methods, Thieving Three-Fingered Jack explains how a fugitive slave became a transatlantic legend. Botkin moves transhistorically and transnationally to describe how Jack became a fictional and theatrical icon. In the process, she highlights the many insights made possible when folklore and literary studies converge." -- Daphne Lamothe * author of Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography *"[Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw] discusses plays and songs written about Jack Mansong, an escaped slave turned bandit who came to be revered as a freedom fighter in Jamaica for his attacks on colonial planters." * Chronicle *Forthcoming African American Studies Titles, 2018: A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through October 2018. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons 2. "Jack Is a MAN" Prose Obis, 1800-1870 3. Staging Obi: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack 5. After Emancipatio: Masquerade and Miscegenation 6. Mansong: No Longer "Nearly Everybody Wite" Epilogue: "The Baddest Man Around" Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Thieving ThreeFingered Jack Transatlantic Tales
Book SynopsisBotkin has compiled and analyzed plays, novels, and folklore about Three-Fingered Jack in order to show how the story of this hero-villain has evolved as it traveled from the Caribbean to England and the United States, returning to Jamaica as a tale of heroic resistance.Trade Review"Finally, the study of Obi for which we’ve been waiting: one that moves across not just historical periods but also language, culture, and media. In Thieving Three-Fingered Jack, Frances Botkin gives us an extraordinary study for understanding transatlantic literary relations. Few figures possess the necessary power to illuminate a region or an era, but Jack Mansong — especially in Professor Botkin’s hands — proves such a vehicle." -- Michael Gamer * associate professor of English, University of Pennsylvania *"With its seamless blending of disciplinary methods, Thieving Three-Fingered Jack explains how a fugitive slave became a transatlantic legend. Botkin moves transhistorically and transnationally to describe how Jack became a fictional and theatrical icon. In the process, she highlights the many insights made possible when folklore and literary studies converge." -- Daphne Lamothe * author of Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography *"[Thieving Three-Fingered Jack: Transatlantic Tales of a Jamaican Outlaw] discusses plays and songs written about Jack Mansong, an escaped slave turned bandit who came to be revered as a freedom fighter in Jamaica for his attacks on colonial planters." * Chronicle *Forthcoming African American Studies Titles, 2018: A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through October 2018. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Representing Three-Fingered Jack 1. Divide and Conquer: Three-Fingered Jack and the Maroons 2. "Jack Is a MAN" Prose Obis, 1800-1870 3. Staging Obi: Three-Fingered Jack in London and New York 4. Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and Three-Fingered Jack 5. After Emancipatio: Masquerade and Miscegenation 6. Mansong: No Longer "Nearly Everybody Wite" Epilogue: "The Baddest Man Around" Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Teacher Education across MinorityServing
Book SynopsisTeacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions focuses on teacher education across a diverse array of institutions. It pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself, but is rather, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies. Trade Review"Petchauer and Mawhinney's Teacher Education across MSIs is the first book to include the voices of MSI scholars on the topic of teacher education at MSIs. These institutions are vital to ensuring a diverse teaching force in the U.S." -- Marybeth Gasman * Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Director, Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions *“With wide-ranging implications for higher education policy, Teacher Education across Minority Serving Institutions is honest and optimistic about transforming teaching practice through MSI teacher prep programs. Its grounded perspectives, intelligent analyses, and compelling narratives make this book an insightful read and a valuable contribution to higher education literature.” -- Ivory Toldson, Ph.D. * Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Negro Education and Former Director, White House Initiative on HBCUs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Teacher Education across Minority-Serving InstitutionsEmery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney Part I. Community Connections and Justice-Oriented Teacher EducationChapter 1. The Promise of Equity: Preparing Future Teachers to be Socially Just EducatorsMae S. Chaplin and Annette M. DaoudChapter 2. Learning from the Community: Innovative Partnerships That Inform Tribal College Teacher Education ProgrammingDanielle LansingChapter 3. Teacher Preparation for Our Communities: Building Co-teaching Collaborative Schools from the Ground UpCheryl A. Franklin Torrez, Jonathan Brinkerhoff, and Irene WelchChapter 4. From Our Own Gardens: Growing Our Own Bilingual Teachers in the SouthwestSandra Browning Part II. Program Responses to Contemporary DemandsChapter 5. Lifting Gates and Building Skills: Preparing Diverse Candidates to Pass New Certification ExamsJoni S. Kolman, Laura M. Gellert, and Denise L. McLurkinChapter 6. Special Education Teacher Preparation Reform in Context: Lessons from a Decade of Program SupportMary Bay, Norma A. Lopez-Reyna, and Rosanne WardChapter 7. Becoming a Black Institution: Challenges and Changes for Teacher Education Programs at Emerging Minority-Serving InstitutionsByung-In Seo, DeWitt Scott, and Emery PetchauerChapter 8. The Future of Teacher Education at Tribal Colleges and Universities: A Talking Circle of Education WarriorsCarmelita LambChapter 9. Teacher Preparation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Remaining Relevant in a Climate of AccountabilityBrian Harper and Lynnette Mawhinney Conclusion: Teacher Education beyond Minority-Serving InstitutionsEmery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney Notes on ContributorsIndex
£32.40
Rutgers University Press Teacher Education Across MinorityServing
Book SynopsisTeacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions focuses on teacher education across a diverse array of institutions. It pushes for scholars to consider that racial diversity in teacher education is not simply an end in itself, but is rather, a means to accomplish other goals, such as developing justice-oriented and asset-based pedagogies. Trade Review"Petchauer and Mawhinney's Teacher Education across MSIs is the first book to include the voices of MSI scholars on the topic of teacher education at MSIs. These institutions are vital to ensuring a diverse teaching force in the U.S." -- Marybeth Gasman * Professor, University of Pennsylvania and Director, Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions *“With wide-ranging implications for higher education policy, Teacher Education across Minority Serving Institutions is honest and optimistic about transforming teaching practice through MSI teacher prep programs. Its grounded perspectives, intelligent analyses, and compelling narratives make this book an insightful read and a valuable contribution to higher education literature.” -- Ivory Toldson, Ph.D. * Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Negro Education and Former Director, White House Initiative on HBCUs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Teacher Education across Minority-Serving InstitutionsEmery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney Part I. Community Connections and Justice-Oriented Teacher EducationChapter 1. The Promise of Equity: Preparing Future Teachers to be Socially Just EducatorsMae S. Chaplin and Annette M. DaoudChapter 2. Learning from the Community: Innovative Partnerships That Inform Tribal College Teacher Education ProgrammingDanielle LansingChapter 3. Teacher Preparation for Our Communities: Building Co-teaching Collaborative Schools from the Ground UpCheryl A. Franklin Torrez, Jonathan Brinkerhoff, and Irene WelchChapter 4. From Our Own Gardens: Growing Our Own Bilingual Teachers in the SouthwestSandra Browning Part II. Program Responses to Contemporary DemandsChapter 5. Lifting Gates and Building Skills: Preparing Diverse Candidates to Pass New Certification ExamsJoni S. Kolman, Laura M. Gellert, and Denise L. McLurkinChapter 6. Special Education Teacher Preparation Reform in Context: Lessons from a Decade of Program SupportMary Bay, Norma A. Lopez-Reyna, and Rosanne WardChapter 7. Becoming a Black Institution: Challenges and Changes for Teacher Education Programs at Emerging Minority-Serving InstitutionsByung-In Seo, DeWitt Scott, and Emery PetchauerChapter 8. The Future of Teacher Education at Tribal Colleges and Universities: A Talking Circle of Education WarriorsCarmelita LambChapter 9. Teacher Preparation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Remaining Relevant in a Climate of AccountabilityBrian Harper and Lynnette Mawhinney Conclusion: Teacher Education beyond Minority-Serving InstitutionsEmery Petchauer and Lynnette Mawhinney Notes on ContributorsIndex
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Challenges of Diversity Essays on America
Book SynopsisWhat unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines the changing self-understanding of the United States from an Anglo-American to a multicultural country and the role writing has played in that process. Trade Review"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." -- Tom Socca * Boston Phoenix *"Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest." -- David Hollinger * coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook *“A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.” * Midwest Book Review *"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." -- Tom Socca * Boston Phoenix *"Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest." -- David Hollinger * coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook *“A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.” * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 3 1 Literature and Ethnicity 19 2 National Identity and Ethnic Diversity 67 3 Dedicated to a Proposition 95 4 A Critique of Pure Pluralism 121 5 The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text 145 Notes 177 Acknowledgments 205 Index 207
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Rutgers University Press CriminalizationAssimilation ChineseAmericans and
Book SynopsisCriminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America’s image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America’s yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns.Trade Review"Philippa Gates takes us on an engrossing journey through the Chinatown streets of Hollywood’s imagination in her comprehensive study of the ambivalent depiction of Chinese people and places on American screens. Her superlative book provides essential reading for scholars, students, and concerned readers who need to understand this history fully to critique the images and ideas that continue to shape today’s cultural landscape." -- Gina Marchetti * author of Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema *"Meticulously researched and laudably comprehensive, Criminalization/Assimilation explores Chinatown’s place in the lexicon of early Hollywood films. This is a unique and important contribution to film studies and Asian American studies—a highly satisfying read!" -- Karla Rae Fuller * author of Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film *“A most informative analysis…. The main strength of Criminalization/Assimilation may be its detailed outline of the various shifts in representations that occurred over a fifty-year period, that certainly complexifies a strictly axiological appreciation of Chinatown films as either racist or non-racist.” * Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television *Table of ContentsContents Part I: Hollywood’s Chinese America 1 Introduction 2 Yellow Peril, Protest, and an Orientalist Gaze: Hollywood’s Constructions of Chinese/Americans Part II: Chinatown Crime 3 Imperilled Imperialism: Tong Wars, Slave Girls, and Opium Dens 4 The Whitening of Chinatown: Action Cops and Upstanding Criminals Part III: Chinatown Melodrama 5 The Perils of Proximity: White Downfall in the Chinatown Melodrama 6 Tainted Blood: White Fears of Yellow Miscegenation Part IV: Chinese American Assimilation 7 Assimilation and Tourism: Chinese American Citizens and Chinatown Rebranded 8 Assimilating Heroism: The Chinese American as American Action Hero 9 Epilogue Filmography Acknowledgments Notes Index
£105.40
MW - Rutgers University Press Food Across Borders
Book SynopsisThe act of eating defines and redefines borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging. Trade Review"A 'Taco Truck on Every Corner'? Well organized and well written, Food Across Borders takes a broad inter-ethnic, transnational, and transhemispheric approach to its subject. The book is a welcome reminder and fresh interpretation of the central role that food plays in American politics and society at every level from production to consumption." -- José M. Alamillo * author of Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town *"This important volume reminds us that eating necessarily involves the movement of foodstuffs, meanings, and bodies across borders, both intimate and geopolitical, and that 'building a wall' is no solution." -- Julie Guthman * author of Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California *"Essays on such topics as negotiating nostalgia in family-owned and small-scale Mexican restaurants in the United States." * Chronicle *A Conversation with Food Across Borders editors Matt Garcia, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Don Mitchell * Meant to be Eaten *Table of ContentsContents List of Maps Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Food Across Borders: An Introduction E. Melanie Dupuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell Chapter 2: Afro-Latina/os’ Culinary Subjectivities: Rooting Ethnicities through Root Vegetables Meredith E. Abarca Chapter 3: “Mexican Cookery that belongs to the United States”: Evolving Boundaries of Whiteness in New Mexican Kitchens Katherine Massoth Chapter 4: “Cooking Mexican”: Negotiating Nostalgia in Family-Owned and Small-Scale Mexican Restaurants in the United States José Antonio Vázquez-Medina Chapter 5: “Chasing the Yum”: Food Procurement and Thai American Community Formation in an Era of Free Trade Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt Chapter 6: Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabian Garcia, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century US-Mexico Borderlands William Carleton Chapter 7: Constructing Borderless Foods: The Quartermaster Corps and World War II Army Subsistence Kellen Backer Chapter 8: Bittersweet: Food, Gender and the State in the US and Canadian Wests During World War I Mary Murphy Chapter 9: The Place that Feeds You: Allotment and the Struggle for Blackfeet Food Sovereignty Michael Wise Chapter 10: Eating Far from Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont Teresa M. Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar Chapter 11: Milking Networks for All They’re Worth: Precarious Migrant Life and the Process of Consent on New York Dairies Kathleen Sexsmith Chapter 12: Crossing Borders, Overcoming Boundaries: Latino Immigrant Farmers and a New Sense of Home in the United States Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Chapter 13: (Re)Producing Ethnic Difference: Solidarity Trade, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Global Quinoa Boom Marygold Walsh-Dilley Notes on Contributors Index Contents List of Maps Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Food Across Borders: An Introduction E. Melanie Dupuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell Chapter 2: Afro-Latina/os’ Culinary Subjectivities: Rooting Ethnicities through Root Vegetables Meredith E. Abarca Chapter 3: “Mexican Cookery that belongs to the United States”: Evolving Boundaries of Whiteness in New Mexican Kitchens Katherine Massoth Chapter 4: “Cooking Mexican”: Negotiating Nostalgia in Family-Owned and Small-Scale Mexican Restaurants in the United States José Antonio Vázquez-Medina Chapter 5: “Chasing the Yum”: Food Procurement and Thai American Community Formation in an Era of Free Trade Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt Chapter 6: Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabian Garcia, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century US-Mexico Borderlands William Carleton Chapter 7: Constructing Borderless Foods: The Quartermaster Corps and World War II Army Subsistence Kellen Backer Chapter 8: Bittersweet: Food, Gender and the State in the US and Canadian Wests During World War I Mary Murphy Chapter 9: The Place that Feeds You: Allotment and the Struggle for Blackfeet Food Sovereignty Michael Wise Chapter 10: Eating Far from Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont Teresa M. Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar Chapter 11: Milking Networks for All They’re Worth: Precarious Migrant Life and the Process of Consent on New York Dairies Kathleen Sexsmith Chapter 12: Crossing Borders, Overcoming Boundaries: Latino Immigrant Farmers and a New Sense of Home in the United States Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Chapter 13: (Re)Producing Ethnic Difference: Solidarity Trade, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Global Quinoa Boom Marygold Walsh-Dilley Notes on Contributors Index
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Food Across Borders
Book SynopsisThe act of eating defines and redefines borders. The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging. Trade Review"A 'Taco Truck on Every Corner'? Well organized and well written, Food Across Borders takes a broad inter-ethnic, transnational, and transhemispheric approach to its subject. The book is a welcome reminder and fresh interpretation of the central role that food plays in American politics and society at every level from production to consumption." -- José M. Alamillo * author of Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town *"This important volume reminds us that eating necessarily involves the movement of foodstuffs, meanings, and bodies across borders, both intimate and geopolitical, and that 'building a wall' is no solution." -- Julie Guthman * author of Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California *"Essays on such topics as negotiating nostalgia in family-owned and small-scale Mexican restaurants in the United States." * Chronicle *A Conversation with Food Across Borders editors Matt Garcia, E. Melanie DuPuis, and Don Mitchell * Meant to be Eaten *Table of ContentsContents List of Maps Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Food Across Borders: An Introduction E. Melanie Dupuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell Chapter 2: Afro-Latina/os’ Culinary Subjectivities: Rooting Ethnicities through Root Vegetables Meredith E. Abarca Chapter 3: “Mexican Cookery that belongs to the United States”: Evolving Boundaries of Whiteness in New Mexican Kitchens Katherine Massoth Chapter 4: “Cooking Mexican”: Negotiating Nostalgia in Family-Owned and Small-Scale Mexican Restaurants in the United States José Antonio Vázquez-Medina Chapter 5: “Chasing the Yum”: Food Procurement and Thai American Community Formation in an Era of Free Trade Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt Chapter 6: Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabian Garcia, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century US-Mexico Borderlands William Carleton Chapter 7: Constructing Borderless Foods: The Quartermaster Corps and World War II Army Subsistence Kellen Backer Chapter 8: Bittersweet: Food, Gender and the State in the US and Canadian Wests During World War I Mary Murphy Chapter 9: The Place that Feeds You: Allotment and the Struggle for Blackfeet Food Sovereignty Michael Wise Chapter 10: Eating Far from Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont Teresa M. Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar Chapter 11: Milking Networks for All They’re Worth: Precarious Migrant Life and the Process of Consent on New York Dairies Kathleen Sexsmith Chapter 12: Crossing Borders, Overcoming Boundaries: Latino Immigrant Farmers and a New Sense of Home in the United States Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Chapter 13: (Re)Producing Ethnic Difference: Solidarity Trade, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Global Quinoa Boom Marygold Walsh-Dilley Notes on Contributors Index Contents List of Maps Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Food Across Borders: An Introduction E. Melanie Dupuis, Matt Garcia, and Don Mitchell Chapter 2: Afro-Latina/os’ Culinary Subjectivities: Rooting Ethnicities through Root Vegetables Meredith E. Abarca Chapter 3: “Mexican Cookery that belongs to the United States”: Evolving Boundaries of Whiteness in New Mexican Kitchens Katherine Massoth Chapter 4: “Cooking Mexican”: Negotiating Nostalgia in Family-Owned and Small-Scale Mexican Restaurants in the United States José Antonio Vázquez-Medina Chapter 5: “Chasing the Yum”: Food Procurement and Thai American Community Formation in an Era of Free Trade Tanachai Mark Padoongpatt Chapter 6: Crossing Chiles, Crossing Borders: Dr. Fabian Garcia, the New Mexican Chile Pepper, and Modernity in the Early Twentieth-Century US-Mexico Borderlands William Carleton Chapter 7: Constructing Borderless Foods: The Quartermaster Corps and World War II Army Subsistence Kellen Backer Chapter 8: Bittersweet: Food, Gender and the State in the US and Canadian Wests During World War I Mary Murphy Chapter 9: The Place that Feeds You: Allotment and the Struggle for Blackfeet Food Sovereignty Michael Wise Chapter 10: Eating Far from Home: Latino/a Workers and Food Sovereignty in Rural Vermont Teresa M. Mares, Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, and Jessie Mazar Chapter 11: Milking Networks for All They’re Worth: Precarious Migrant Life and the Process of Consent on New York Dairies Kathleen Sexsmith Chapter 12: Crossing Borders, Overcoming Boundaries: Latino Immigrant Farmers and a New Sense of Home in the United States Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern Chapter 13: (Re)Producing Ethnic Difference: Solidarity Trade, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Global Quinoa Boom Marygold Walsh-Dilley Notes on Contributors Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press PanAfrican American Literature Signifying
Book SynopsisPan-African American Literature charts the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Trade Review"Timely and promising, Pan-African American Literature will make a major and distinctive contribution to African American studies, cultural studies, and American literary studies." -- Michele Elam * author of The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium *"Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars" roundup * Journal of Blacks in Higher Education *"Essential." * Choice *"[An] important book." * American Studies in Scandinavia *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement 2 Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole’s Open City 3 The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu 4 Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5 Becoming his own Father: Obama’s Dreams from My Father Conclusion: Blackness Now Works Cited Index
£28.80
Rutgers University Press PanAfrican American Literature Signifying
Book SynopsisPan-African American Literature charts the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Trade Review"Timely and promising, Pan-African American Literature will make a major and distinctive contribution to African American studies, cultural studies, and American literary studies." -- Michele Elam * author of The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium *"Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars" roundup * Journal of Blacks in Higher Education *"Essential." * Choice *"[An] important book." * American Studies in Scandinavia *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement 2 Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole’s Open City 3 The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu 4 Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5 Becoming his own Father: Obama’s Dreams from My Father Conclusion: Blackness Now Works Cited Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Black New Jersey 1664 to the Present Day
Book SynopsisBlack New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimination. Extensively researched, it shines a light on New Jersey’s unique African American history and reveals how the state’s black citizens helped to shape the nation. Trade Review"The leading historian of the Mid-Atlantic has written a sweeping, bold, and insightful history of Black New Jersey. It is a singular accomplishment." -- Craig Steven Wilder * author of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities *"The history of black-white race relations in New Jersey is one of the best windows into the strange career of the Jim Crow North. Few historians are qualified to write that epic tale, punctuated by not only tragedy but also triumph and irony. But, Graham Hodges has mastered that awesome intellectual responsibility and scholarly challenge with both force and clarity. Indeed, Professor Hodges sets the gold standard in this historical narrative of the long struggle for racial equality in New Jersey. Bravo!" -- Komozi Woodard * author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics *"Black New Jersey is most interesting and full of important information long buried in primary sources. Graham Hodges brings New Jersey and its people to the fore as people in particular places and times yet within a national context. I appreciate the comprehensiveness of a book very well done." -- Nell Irvin Painter * Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University *"Summer Reading 2018: Understanding Black Life in NJ, from 1664 to Today" * NJ Spotlight *"Flawlessly researched." * Newark Star-Ledger *"The breadth of topic and detail in this work are impressive. Recommended." * Choice *"The Academic Minute" interview with Graham Hodges and feature by David Hopper * The Academic Minute *"The Black Ssholar who Gave Up Her Family to Earn Her Ph.D.," by Graham Russell Gao Hodges * Zócalo Public Square *"A highly nuanced and sophisticated history of the black population in the state....This study is a tale of progress and accomplishments of New Jersey African Americans, but also of racial disparities which negatively affect the quality of life in New Jersey." * New Jersey Studies *"An engaging read, especially for persons with interest in the history of the Garden State, and it is a fine exemplar of the state historical genre." * Journal of American History *Interview with Graham Russell Gao Hodges on "New Books in Intellectual History" https://newbooksnetwork.com/graham-r-g-hodges-black-new-jersey-1664-to-the-present-day-rutgers-up-2018/ * New Books Network: New Books in Intellectual History *"Hodges seamlessly transitions between events transpiring in communities across the state and how those events affected the lives of the Black residents locally. Moreover, the book strikes a balance between the strife and destitute conditions of many and the achievements of various prominent members of the community and the emergence of the Black middle class." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsC O N T E N T S List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 From Initial Euro-African Settlement to the Pre-Revolution, 1625–1763 12 2 From Revolution to Gradual Emancipation, 1764–1804 34 3 Slavery, Freedom, and Struggle, 1804–1860 59 4 The Civil War and Reconstruction to World War I 98 5 Black New Jersey Battles Jim Crow, 1918–1940 159 6 World War II and Its Aftermath, 1940–1960 211 7 The 1960s–2014 249 8 Present and Future 291 Acknowledgments 301 Notes 303 Index
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Adventures in Shondaland Identity Politics and
Book SynopsisShonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Adventures in Shondaland critically explores Shonda Rhimes’s meteoric rise to stardom, her reign (or cultural appointment) as television’s diversity queen, and Shondaland’s almost-universally lauded melodramatic narratives. Trade Review"Full of sophisticated analysis, this comprehensive and robust edited collection explores a diverse range of topics, including identity, representation, fandom, the media industry, and reception/meaning-making. Adventures in Shondaland is an impressive, necessary contribution to scholarship." -- Robin R. Means Coleman * coeditor of Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader *"This is a must-read collection of research and essays on the showrunner whose shows have transformed must-see TV in the age of social media. Insightful, critical—and fun." -- Catherine R. Squires * author of The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century *"Chronicle of Higher Education new scholarly books weekly book list, by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *" Recommended." * Choice *With Good Reason Radio "The Shondaland Revolution" interview with Michaela D. E. Meyer * With Good Reason Radio *"Offers a thorough account of the complex politics of representation in Shondaland and offers important insights for readers in television studies, feminist media studies and critical race studies." * Critical Studies in Television *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Riding Shondaland’s Rollercoasters: Critical Cultural Television Studies in the 21st Century Michaela D. E. Meyer and Rachel Alicia Griffin Part I: Quality Television’s Cultural Dominance: The Auteur Comes to Television Studies Chapter 1: Trauma, Spin, and Murder: The Carnival Spectacle in Shondaland Richard G. Jones, Jr. and Emily Vajjala Chapter 2: Wounded Detachments, Differential Alliances: Beyond Identity & Telos in Shondaland’s Heterotopia Joan Faber McAlister Chapter 3: Abortion in Shondaland: Daring Departures from Oppressive Industry Conventions Jessica L. Furgerson Chapter 4: Soundtracking Shondaland: Televisual Identity Mapped Through Music Jennifer Billinson and Michaela D.E. Meyer Part II: Shondaland’s Paradoxical Identity Politics and the Fantastical “Post-” Chapter 5: Race (Lost and Found) in Shondaland: The Rise of Multiculuralism in Primetime Network Television Jade Petermon Chapter 6: Emb(Race)ing Visibility: Callie Torres’s (Im)Perfect Operation of Bisexuality on Grey’s Anatomy Shadee Abdi and Bernadette Marie Calafell Chapter 7: The Problematics of Postracial Colorblindness: Exploring Cristina Yang’s Asianness in Grey’s Anatomy Stephanie L. Young and Vincent Pham Chapter 8: Interracial Intimacies: From Shondaland to the Post-racial Promised Land Myra Washington and Tina M. Harris Part III: Consumption, Ethics, and Morality: Shondaland Fandom as Cultural Meaning Making Chapter 9: #BlackLivesMatter on Scandal: Analyzing Divergent Fan Reactions to ‘The Lawn Chair’ Episode Mark P. Orbe Chapter 10: Blurring Production Boundaries with Fan Empowerment: Scandal as Social Television Mary Ingram-Waters and Leslie Balderas Chapter 11: Media Criticism & Morality Policing on Twitter: Fan Responses to How to Get Away with Murder Melissa Ames Chapter 12: Dying for the Next Episode: Living and Working Within Shondaland’s Medical Universe Sean Swenson Notes on Contributors Index
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Adventures in Shondaland Identity Politics and
Book SynopsisShonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary American network television. Adventures in Shondaland critically explores Shonda Rhimes’s meteoric rise to stardom, her reign (or cultural appointment) as television’s diversity queen, and Shondaland’s almost-universally lauded melodramatic narratives. Trade Review"Full of sophisticated analysis, this comprehensive and robust edited collection explores a diverse range of topics, including identity, representation, fandom, the media industry, and reception/meaning-making. Adventures in Shondaland is an impressive, necessary contribution to scholarship." -- Robin R. Means Coleman * coeditor of Fight the Power! The Spike Lee Reader *"This is a must-read collection of research and essays on the showrunner whose shows have transformed must-see TV in the age of social media. Insightful, critical—and fun." -- Catherine R. Squires * author of The Post-Racial Mystique: Media and Race in the Twenty-First Century *"Chronicle of Higher Education new scholarly books weekly book list, by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *" Recommended." * Choice *With Good Reason Radio "The Shondaland Revolution" interview with Michaela D. E. Meyer * With Good Reason Radio *"Offers a thorough account of the complex politics of representation in Shondaland and offers important insights for readers in television studies, feminist media studies and critical race studies." * Critical Studies in Television *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Riding Shondaland’s Rollercoasters: Critical Cultural Television Studies in the 21st Century Michaela D. E. Meyer and Rachel Alicia Griffin Part I: Quality Television’s Cultural Dominance: The Auteur Comes to Television Studies Chapter 1: Trauma, Spin, and Murder: The Carnival Spectacle in Shondaland Richard G. Jones, Jr. and Emily Vajjala Chapter 2: Wounded Detachments, Differential Alliances: Beyond Identity & Telos in Shondaland’s Heterotopia Joan Faber McAlister Chapter 3: Abortion in Shondaland: Daring Departures from Oppressive Industry Conventions Jessica L. Furgerson Chapter 4: Soundtracking Shondaland: Televisual Identity Mapped Through Music Jennifer Billinson and Michaela D.E. Meyer Part II: Shondaland’s Paradoxical Identity Politics and the Fantastical “Post-” Chapter 5: Race (Lost and Found) in Shondaland: The Rise of Multiculuralism in Primetime Network Television Jade Petermon Chapter 6: Emb(Race)ing Visibility: Callie Torres’s (Im)Perfect Operation of Bisexuality on Grey’s Anatomy Shadee Abdi and Bernadette Marie Calafell Chapter 7: The Problematics of Postracial Colorblindness: Exploring Cristina Yang’s Asianness in Grey’s Anatomy Stephanie L. Young and Vincent Pham Chapter 8: Interracial Intimacies: From Shondaland to the Post-racial Promised Land Myra Washington and Tina M. Harris Part III: Consumption, Ethics, and Morality: Shondaland Fandom as Cultural Meaning Making Chapter 9: #BlackLivesMatter on Scandal: Analyzing Divergent Fan Reactions to ‘The Lawn Chair’ Episode Mark P. Orbe Chapter 10: Blurring Production Boundaries with Fan Empowerment: Scandal as Social Television Mary Ingram-Waters and Leslie Balderas Chapter 11: Media Criticism & Morality Policing on Twitter: Fan Responses to How to Get Away with Murder Melissa Ames Chapter 12: Dying for the Next Episode: Living and Working Within Shondaland’s Medical Universe Sean Swenson Notes on Contributors Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Learning to Be Latino
Book SynopsisIn Learning to be Latino, Reyes paints a vivid picture of Latino student life, outlining students' interactions with one another, with non-Latino peers, and with faculty, administrators, and the outside community. Reyes identifies the normative institutional arrangements that shape the social relationships relevant to Latino students' lives on these campuses.Trade Review“Reyes artfully weaves the personal narratives of her subjects into an engaging and clear argument about the role of institutional contexts and organizations for shaping student perspectives and actions.” -- Irenee Beattie * University of California at Merced *"In Learning to be Latino, Daisy Reyes contributes to the exciting 'campus turn' in higher education research. Going deep into the texture of three universities, Reyes shows how institutional context influences Latino students’ understandings of their lives and politics, and their broader interpretations of the world." -- Amy Binder * University of California San Diego *"‘Learning to Be Latino’ QA with Daisy Verduzco Reyes," by Emma Whitford * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Selected New Books in Higher Education" * Chronicle of Higher Education *"A ‘Hidden Curriculum’ for Latino Students," feature by Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"With an engaging writing style, this well-researched book has a lot to offer a general audience and is a great addition to courses on the Latino experience, race and higher education, and political socialization." * AAUP.org *"Learning to Be Latino serves as an example of how we can learn about institutions of higher education and a sociology of higher education in general by way of Latino students, although, to be sure, many findings are distinct to Latino students. Through Learning to Be Latino, Reyes questions taken-for-granted ideas and concepts in the sociology of race and higher education such as student groups, the critical consciousness of racially marginalized groups, and even college itself." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface ix1 Higher Education and Latino Students 1PART ONEUniversity Institutional Contexts2 The Communal Bubble at Liberal Arts College 153 Conflict at Research University 354 Coexisting at Regional Public University 61PART TWOStudent Interactions and Meaning-Making5 Who We Are: (Pan)ethnic Identity and Boundary Formation 816 What We Do: Defining and Performing Latino Politics 1137 Where We Are Going: Ideas about Racial Inequality and Mobility 1378 How Higher Education Teaches Disparate Lessons to Latinos 157Methodological Appendix: Studying Student Organizations in Multiple Institutions 169 Acknowledgments 177Notes 181References 185About the Author 189Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Forging Arizona A History of the Peralta Land
Book SynopsisAn important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them.Trade Review“Forging Arizona tells a gripping story about inheriting and inventing, about fictionalizing and forgetting. Huizar-Hernández deftly mines the unsettling history of the Peralta Land Grant to make an important contribution to our understanding of the Latinx Southwest and its place in US national narratives." -- Kirsten Silva Gruesz * author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing *"In this highly original study, Anita Huizar-Hernández combines the history of western expansion with the concerns of Latino/a/x studies to show how ideologies that forged the US border in the nineteenth century were intertwined with facile notions of ethnic identity. With insightful analysis of fabricated historical documents, Huizar-Hernández questions the uses of archival authority to support logics of inclusion and exclusion." -- Rodrigo Lazo * coeditor of The Latino Nineteenth Century *"Recommended." * Choice *"Arguably one of the most important books on Arizona history written in the last decade." * Tombstone Epitaph *"Borderlands Professor Brings Fresh Light to an Arizona Land Fraud," interview with Anita Huizar-Hernandez * Tombstone Epitaph *"Forging Arizona is a highly effective piece of scholarship due in large part to the moral significance of Huizar-Hernández’s work....Dissecting such narratives undoubtedly serves an important role in making larger contemporary political points. Forging Arizona is thus a timely and highly welcome addition to that conversation." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Forging Arizona is a significant contribution to archival studies, Arizona, and borderlands history." * Journal of Arizona History *"Huizar-Hernández succeeds in her stated intention to explain the relationship between narratives and borders. Borders work well as a thematic hook, as Peralta-Reavis’s racialized and gendered body symbolized the sort of categorical ambiguity that rendered nineteenth-century conquest of the US West incomplete. Huizar-Hernández’s framework of “unsettlement” entails a disruption of the version of US history that naturalizes the Anglo-American dominance over the US West and erases the historical participation and continued presence of peoples of color in the Arizona territory." * H-Net *"By the monograph’s end, readers are left making enthralling comparisons between Reavis’s ability to create a false archive in the nineteenth century and concerns of 'fake news' in the twenty-first century....Huizar-Hernandez expertly utilizes the case of Reavis to underline not only 'a historical land fraud but also the fault lines of the late nineteenth-century U.S. racial imaginary.'" * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Inventing the Peralta Land Grant 1 Counterfeit Narratives: The Peralta Land Grant Archives and the Forging of the West 2 Searching for Sofia: Race, Gender, and Authenticity at the 1895 Court of Private Land Claims 3 Southwest Speculation: Newspaper Coverage of the Peralta Land Grant Part II (Re)membering the Peralta Land Grant 4 Counterfeit Nostalgia: William Atherton DuPuy’s The Baron of the Colorados (1940) 5 The Baron is Like a Battleground: Samuel Fuller’s The Baron of Arizona (1950) Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta Land Grant Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Forging Arizona A History of the Peralta Land
Book SynopsisAn important addition to extant scholarship on the border U.S Southwest, Forging Arizona recovers a forgotten case that reminds readers that the borders that divide nations, identities, and even true from false are only as stable as the narratives that define them.Trade Review“Forging Arizona tells a gripping story about inheriting and inventing, about fictionalizing and forgetting. Huizar-Hernández deftly mines the unsettling history of the Peralta Land Grant to make an important contribution to our understanding of the Latinx Southwest and its place in US national narratives." -- Kirsten Silva Gruesz * author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing *"In this highly original study, Anita Huizar-Hernández combines the history of western expansion with the concerns of Latino/a/x studies to show how ideologies that forged the US border in the nineteenth century were intertwined with facile notions of ethnic identity. With insightful analysis of fabricated historical documents, Huizar-Hernández questions the uses of archival authority to support logics of inclusion and exclusion." -- Rodrigo Lazo * coeditor of The Latino Nineteenth Century *"Recommended." * Choice *"Arguably one of the most important books on Arizona history written in the last decade." * Tombstone Epitaph *"Borderlands Professor Brings Fresh Light to an Arizona Land Fraud," interview with Anita Huizar-Hernandez * Tombstone Epitaph *"Forging Arizona is a highly effective piece of scholarship due in large part to the moral significance of Huizar-Hernández’s work....Dissecting such narratives undoubtedly serves an important role in making larger contemporary political points. Forging Arizona is thus a timely and highly welcome addition to that conversation." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"Forging Arizona is a significant contribution to archival studies, Arizona, and borderlands history." * Journal of Arizona History *"Huizar-Hernández succeeds in her stated intention to explain the relationship between narratives and borders. Borders work well as a thematic hook, as Peralta-Reavis’s racialized and gendered body symbolized the sort of categorical ambiguity that rendered nineteenth-century conquest of the US West incomplete. Huizar-Hernández’s framework of “unsettlement” entails a disruption of the version of US history that naturalizes the Anglo-American dominance over the US West and erases the historical participation and continued presence of peoples of color in the Arizona territory." * H-Net *"By the monograph’s end, readers are left making enthralling comparisons between Reavis’s ability to create a false archive in the nineteenth century and concerns of 'fake news' in the twenty-first century....Huizar-Hernandez expertly utilizes the case of Reavis to underline not only 'a historical land fraud but also the fault lines of the late nineteenth-century U.S. racial imaginary.'" * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Inventing the Peralta Land Grant 1 Counterfeit Narratives: The Peralta Land Grant Archives and the Forging of the West 2 Searching for Sofia: Race, Gender, and Authenticity at the 1895 Court of Private Land Claims 3 Southwest Speculation: Newspaper Coverage of the Peralta Land Grant Part II (Re)membering the Peralta Land Grant 4 Counterfeit Nostalgia: William Atherton DuPuy’s The Baron of the Colorados (1940) 5 The Baron is Like a Battleground: Samuel Fuller’s The Baron of Arizona (1950) Epilogue: Forgetting the Peralta Land Grant Notes Bibliography Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press White Guys on Campus Racism White Immunity and
Book SynopsisWhite Guys on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among white male students. It details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while continually engaging the possibility of White students to engage in anti-racism.Trade Review"White Guys on Campus examines narratives of White males in order to reveal 'ecologies of Whiteness' that permit (and even empower) racism to persist. With sound scholarship and well-supported claims, this book is a unique and important contribution to the field." -- Susan Iverson * coeditor of Reconstructing Policy Analysis in Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives *"There are and always have been lots of white guys on college campuses. This timely, important book helps us more deeply understand their racial identities, socialization, and attitudes. Cabrera masterfully complicates whiteness, illuminates white supremacy, and proposes ways to help white college men become less racist." -- Shaun R. Harper * Clifford and Betty Allen Professor, University of Southern California Rossier School of Education *"What Do ‘White Guys’ Think About Race? This Professor Is Trying to Find Out" by Chris Quintana interview with Nolan C. Cabrera * Chronicle of Higher Education *"From racial jokes to affirmative action, Nolan L. Cabrera analyzes the persistent white mindset that obscures systemic racism on our college campuses. Read this book if you want a truthful and evidence-based explanation about the effects of racist discourse." -- Zeus Leonardo * author of Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education *“Cultivating Public Scholarship and a Radical Ethic of Love as Faculty of Color" interview with Nolan L. Cabrera * Resilient Campus *"In this era of educational resegregation, Nolan Cabrera’s White Guys on Campus examines how whiteness blocks paths toward truth, justice, and reconciliation. A timely, provocative, even hopeful book.” -- Jeff Chang * author of We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation *"An Asian American woman’s tweets ignite a debate: Is it okay to make fun of white people online?" by Eli Rosenberg and Erin B. Logan * Washington Post *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ruth Hammond * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Nolan Cabrera: HEOC Alumnus Studies Race on College Campuses," by Mackie Lorkis * Ampersand *"Reinforcing Racism: Color-Blind Curricula in Higher Education by Dr. Nolan Cabrera" * Equity Alliance Blog *"Emerging Scholars 2019: An Interdisciplinary Scholar" * Diverse Issues in Higher Education *"Arizona Faculty Members Want Charges Against Border-Patrol Protesters Dropped," by Katherine Mangan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"A Life-Changing Course" podcast interview with Nolan L. Cabrera on Scholars Strategy Network * A Life-Changing Course podcast *Mention of White Guys on Campus in"Steller column: At UA forum, panelists feel campus activists' pain," by Tim Steller * Tucson.com *"It’s all Part of the Plan," by Nolan L. Cabrera * Contexts *"Debating Free Speech - The Buzz" interview with Nolan C. Cabrera * Arizona Public Media "The Buzz" *Latinx Intelligentsia podcast interview with Nolan L. Cabrera https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpswwwstichercompodcastlatinxintelligentsia/latinx-intelligentsia * Latinx Intelligentsia *"Episode 57 - Affirmative Action, the Model Minority Myth Right-Wing Divide-and-Conquer" interview with Nolan L. Cabrera https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/speakoutwithtimwise/episodes/2019-10-14T09_33_59-07_00 * Speak Out with Tim Wise *BAR Book Forum: Interview with Nolan Cabrera https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-nolan-cabreras-white-guys-campus * Black Agenda Report *"Overall, Cabrera’s book offers an important contribution to the literature. He blends existing terminology and scholarship...and masterfully weaves the why of racial attitudes of White men on campus; as the what—many of the narratives, ideals, and beliefs shared by participants—may be familiar to individuals who are seasoned in racial justice work or research in higher education or student affairs. Through concise and accessible writing with quotations from and references to Frederick Douglass, Hari Kondabolu, W. E. B. Du Bois, Geto Boys, and James Baldwin interspersed throughout, Cabrera is successful in his attempt to render the racial justice discourse more complete." * Journal of College Student Development *"Cabrera unpacks decades of critical whiteness studies and provides encyclopedic coverage of how white supremacy has mutated and morphed." * Education Review *"One of the main takeaways of White Guys on Campus is that white people need to be facilitating their own racial development and pushing their friends, families, and peers to do the same." * Education Review *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 The unbearable Whiteness of being: White male racial immunity in higher education 2 “Race just doesn’t matter that much”: White insulation, Occam’s Racial Razor, and willful racial ignorance 3 “The only discrimination left is that against White men”: The campus racial politics of “reverse racism” 4 “Why can’t Stevie Wonder read? Because he’s Black”: Whiteness and the social performance of racist joking 5 “I almost lost my spot to a less qualified minority”: Imagined v. Real affirmative action 6 “They’d never allow a White Student Union”: The Racial Politics of Campus Space and Racial Arrested Development 7 “Because it’s the right thing to do”: Racial awakening and (some) allyship development 8 Conclusion: White guys on campus, What is to be done? Appendix A Appendix B Acknowledgments References Index
£26.99
MW - Rutgers University Press White Guys on Campus Racism White Immunity and
Book SynopsisWhite Guys on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among white male students. It details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while continually engaging the possibility of White students to engage in anti-racism.Trade Review"White Guys on Campus examines narratives of White males in order to reveal 'ecologies of Whiteness' that permit (and even empower) racism to persist. With sound scholarship and well-supported claims, this book is a unique and important contribution to the field." -- Susan Iverson * coeditor of Reconstructing Policy Analysis in Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives *"There are and always have been lots of white guys on college campuses. This timely, important book helps us more deeply understand their racial identities, socialization, and attitudes. Cabrera masterfully complicates whiteness, illuminates white supremacy, and proposes ways to help white college men become less racist." -- Shaun R. Harper * Clifford and Betty Allen Professor, University of Southern California Rossier School of Education *"What Do ‘White Guys’ Think About Race? This Professor Is Trying to Find Out" by Chris Quintana interview with Nolan C. Cabrera * Chronicle of Higher Education *"From racial jokes to affirmative action, Nolan L. Cabrera analyzes the persistent white mindset that obscures systemic racism on our college campuses. Read this book if you want a truthful and evidence-based explanation about the effects of racist discourse." -- Zeus Leonardo * author of Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education *“Cultivating Public Scholarship and a Radical Ethic of Love as Faculty of Color" interview with Nolan L. Cabrera * Resilient Campus *"In this era of educational resegregation, Nolan Cabrera’s White Guys on Campus examines how whiteness blocks paths toward truth, justice, and reconciliation. A timely, provocative, even hopeful book.” -- Jeff Chang * author of We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation *"An Asian American woman’s tweets ignite a debate: Is it okay to make fun of white people online?" by Eli Rosenberg and Erin B. Logan * Washington Post *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ruth Hammond * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Nolan Cabrera: HEOC Alumnus Studies Race on College Campuses," by Mackie Lorkis * Ampersand *"Reinforcing Racism: Color-Blind Curricula in Higher Education by Dr. Nolan Cabrera" * Equity Alliance Blog *"Emerging Scholars 2019: An Interdisciplinary Scholar" * Diverse Issues in Higher Education *"Arizona Faculty Members Want Charges Against Border-Patrol Protesters Dropped," by Katherine Mangan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"A Life-Changing Course" podcast interview with Nolan L. Cabrera on Scholars Strategy Network * A Life-Changing Course podcast *Mention of White Guys on Campus in"Steller column: At UA forum, panelists feel campus activists' pain," by Tim Steller * Tucson.com *"It’s all Part of the Plan," by Nolan L. Cabrera * Contexts *"Debating Free Speech - The Buzz" interview with Nolan C. Cabrera * Arizona Public Media "The Buzz" *Latinx Intelligentsia podcast interview with Nolan L. Cabrera https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpswwwstichercompodcastlatinxintelligentsia/latinx-intelligentsia * Latinx Intelligentsia *"Episode 57 - Affirmative Action, the Model Minority Myth Right-Wing Divide-and-Conquer" interview with Nolan L. Cabrera https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/speakoutwithtimwise/episodes/2019-10-14T09_33_59-07_00 * Speak Out with Tim Wise *BAR Book Forum: Interview with Nolan Cabrera https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-nolan-cabreras-white-guys-campus * Black Agenda Report *"Overall, Cabrera’s book offers an important contribution to the literature. He blends existing terminology and scholarship...and masterfully weaves the why of racial attitudes of White men on campus; as the what—many of the narratives, ideals, and beliefs shared by participants—may be familiar to individuals who are seasoned in racial justice work or research in higher education or student affairs. Through concise and accessible writing with quotations from and references to Frederick Douglass, Hari Kondabolu, W. E. B. Du Bois, Geto Boys, and James Baldwin interspersed throughout, Cabrera is successful in his attempt to render the racial justice discourse more complete." * Journal of College Student Development *"Cabrera unpacks decades of critical whiteness studies and provides encyclopedic coverage of how white supremacy has mutated and morphed." * Education Review *"One of the main takeaways of White Guys on Campus is that white people need to be facilitating their own racial development and pushing their friends, families, and peers to do the same." * Education Review *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 The unbearable Whiteness of being: White male racial immunity in higher education 2 “Race just doesn’t matter that much”: White insulation, Occam’s Racial Razor, and willful racial ignorance 3 “The only discrimination left is that against White men”: The campus racial politics of “reverse racism” 4 “Why can’t Stevie Wonder read? Because he’s Black”: Whiteness and the social performance of racist joking 5 “I almost lost my spot to a less qualified minority”: Imagined v. Real affirmative action 6 “They’d never allow a White Student Union”: The Racial Politics of Campus Space and Racial Arrested Development 7 “Because it’s the right thing to do”: Racial awakening and (some) allyship development 8 Conclusion: White guys on campus, What is to be done? Appendix A Appendix B Acknowledgments References Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Village of Immigrants Latinos in an Emerging
Book SynopsisGreenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend - immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town America has been revitalized by the arrival of these immigrants in Greenport, where she lives.Trade Review"In taking on one town's immigration success story, Gordon has created a compelling framework for exploring a complex topic." * Publishers Weekly *"Following an in-depth examination of immigration history in Greenport, from early whaling communities to the impact of Italian immigrant brick workers and beyond, Gordon investigates large-concept issues such as challenges facing immigrant children in the educational system, restrictions and inequalities in immigrant housing, labor rights for immigrant workers, and more ... Concise and accessible, this work is recommended for readers interested in immigrant concerns and their impact on American history, economy, and culture." * Library Journal *"[A] lively and valuable contribution … thorough but not pedantic, granual at times, sweeping at others, and, at its core, a personal story." * The East Hampton Star *"A worthwhile addition to any East End bookshelf." * East End Beacon *"Diana Gordon does a good job bringing these immigrants to life, giving them a voice. By showing that they struggle to learn the language, get by in school, and find meaningful employment; they are trying to make the American dream happen. But as with all stories of immigrants there are those that do not want them around, and Mrs. Gordon does a good job showing that they exist as well." 5 star review * San Diego Book Review *"Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America documents a U.S. trend of immigrants spreading beyond coastal cities into the rest of the country, and narrows the example to Greenport, New York, a village on Long Island which has seen many changes from an influx of Latinos. The author lives in this small town and so is in the perfect position to observe its evolution: chapters discuss taxes, schools, jobs, and local business evolution, showing how the influx has revitalized the town's entire structure and led to growth and positive results. Highly recommended." * California Bookwatch, Midwest Book Review *"This beautifully written book tells what happens when small town America meets contemporary Latino immigration, an inspiring, yet also heartbreaking encounter between the American dream and the American dilemma. A compelling account and a deeply satisfying read." -- Roger Waldinger * author of The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and their Homelands *Table of ContentsPreface Part I A Village Transformed 1 Hola, Greenport Profile Lost and Found Part II Absorbing Immigrants since 1840 2 The European Legacy 3 Boom, Bust, and Back Again 4 Migration from Within 5 Is Demographics Destiny? Part III Classroom Challenges 6 Schooling New Citizens Profile Edgar and the Blue Mosque Part IV Settling In 7 Housing or Houses? Profile Sofia’s Quest Part V Toward Community Health 8 Cobbled Care Profile An Accidental Nurse Part VI Dilemmas of Control 9 Legal Limbo Profile Deferred and Delivered Part VII Working Lives 10 Where There’s a Will There’s a Job (or Two) Profile Sacrifice and Success Part VIII. Now What? Profile The New American 11 A Small-Town Model? Notes Index
£17.99
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Enterprising Southerners Black Economic Success
Book SynopsisUsing primary documents, this work examines the characteristics of North Carolina's African-American population in order to explain the social and political factors that shaped economic opportunity for this group from the Civil War until 1915.
£48.02
University of Virginia Press Hot Potato
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£13.46
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Black Fascisms African American Literature and
Book SynopsisAddresses the startling fact that many African American intellectuals in the 1930s sympathized with fascism, seeing in its ideology a means of envisioning new modes of African American political resistance. This book surveys the work and thought of several authors to have an understanding of Depression-era African American literary culture.Trade ReviewBlack Fascisms bravely goes against the grain of much received opinion about the main currents in modern African American literature and intellectual history; it has a good story to tell, and it tells it well and convincingly. - Eric Sundquist, UCLA, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
£25.16
University of Virginia Press African Americans and the Culture of Pain
Book SynopsisConsiders fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a rhetorical device and as political strategy. This book investigates America's love-hate relationship with black bodies in pain.Trade ReviewThis book examines pain as one of the lasting legacies of our racialized society. This is an important topic, and Deborah Walker King, a respected scholar of African American literary and cultural studies, adds immensely to our understanding of pain in the African American experience. The book, elegantly written and critically sound, is a substantial contribution to African American literary and cultural studies. - Angelyn Mitchell, Georgetown University, author of The Freedom to Remember: Narrative, Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women's Fiction
£18.95
University of Virginia Press The Preacher and the Politician Jeremiah Wright
Book SynopsisBarack Obama's inauguration as the first African American president of the US has caused many commentators to conclude that America has entered a postracial age. This title argues otherwise, reminding us that, far from inevitable, Obama's nomination was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright.Trade ReviewThe Preacher and the Politician is a timely and provocative book. Clearly written in accessible language, it offers general readers and specialists alike a means to understand the context of the 2008 election and the pervasive complexities of America's legacy of race and racism. - Wallace Best, Princeton University, author of Passionately Human, No Less Divine
£17.95
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Being Apart Theoretical and Existential
Book SynopsisIn Being Apart, LaRose Parris draws on traditional and radical Western theory to emphasize how nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africana thinkers explored the two principal existential themes of being and freedom prior to existentialism's rise to prominence in postwar European thought.Trade Review“This is an extraordinary work. Parris offers a de facto radical reading and metacritique of dialectical thought in an age of revolution, which leads to some spectacularly rich analyses throughout the volume. It is first-rate research, true erudition."" —Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut
£48.45
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Margaret Garner The Premiere Performances of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis study’s scope is impressive and engaging and opens a window not only on the genesis and development of the opera from a variety of standpoints but also on the politics of producing such a potentially ‘controversial’ piece on black history and black life in the United States. It is at once eclectic and single-minded, and offers insight not only into the underpinnings of Margaret Garner but also into the sociocultural impact of high art.–Justine Tally, Universidad de La Laguna (Spain), author of Toni Morrison's ""Beloved"": Origins
£38.90
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Specter of Races Latin American Anthropology
Book SynopsisArguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier describes Latin American anthropology as a field of knowledge that evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.Trade ReviewThe Specter of Races is a bold, broad-reaching, and exciting exploration of cultural and literary history. Birkenmaier’s study synthesizes a large amount of primary scholarship and secondary criticism—in four languages—to produce a narrative that is clear, engaging, and compelling."" — Emily A. Maguire, Northwestern University, author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography
£60.80
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Specter of Races
Book SynopsisArguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier describes Latin American anthropology as a field of knowledge that evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.Trade ReviewThe Specter of Races is a bold, broad-reaching, and exciting exploration of cultural and literary history. Birkenmaier’s study synthesizes a large amount of primary scholarship and secondary criticism—in four languages—to produce a narrative that is clear, engaging, and compelling."" — Emily A. Maguire, Northwestern University, author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography
£23.70
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Hidden History African American Cemeteries in
Book SynopsisExplores the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Lynn Rainville’s research are not statesmen or plantation elites; they are hidden residents, people whose stories are essential for a complete understanding of our past.Trade ReviewRainville’s Hidden History presents a well-written, engaging, and at times truly revelatory study. Her careful research was conducted over a span of several years, which allows her observations to go beyond the superficial and the obvious. With a focus on local contexts, but deriving universal insights into history, heritage, memory, and preservation, Rainville’s work is an exemplar of the best sort of research."" — James Davidson, University of Florida""Lynn Rainville takes us on a walking tour of African American cemeteries in central Virginia. She tells us about individual lives marked by headstones, fieldstones, and depressions in the sacred spaces where they continue to be part of a living community. She tells their stories, in slavery and freedom, while walking through their cemeteries, each of which connects individuals to families, locality, and region. Even the cemetery itself has a life defended against waves of migration and development. All of these stories are richly textured with detailed information about these sites and their communities, chosen with the eye of an academic authority who writes beautifully for everyone. Traversing these juxtapositions is Rainville’s personal twenty-year journey of encounters with these enduring yet vulnerable features on the intimate historic landscape of African America in Central Virginia."" — Michael Blakey, College of William and Mary
£16.10
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Giants Causeway Frederick Douglasss Irish
Book SynopsisIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. In the first major narrative account of a transformational episode in the life of this extraordinary American, Tom Chaffin chronicles Douglass's 1845-47 lecture tour of Ireland, Scotland, and England.Trade Review“For those familiar with Douglass, this book will add to their knowledge and admiration. For others, it will provide a great introduction to this marvelous man.” —Julian Bond“A delightful transatlantic study of Frederick Douglass’s travels to Ireland and the British Isles.” —Choice“A richly informative biographical account of Frederick Douglass’s life and times from an unusual and thoughtprovoking angle.” —Journal of Southern History
£15.26
University of Virginia Press A Little Child Shall Lead Them A Documentary
Book SynopsisThis historical anthology brings together court cases, government documents, personal and scholarly writings, speeches, and journalism to represent the diverse voices and viewpoints of the battle in Prince Edward County for - and against - educational equality.
£42.00
University of Virginia Press A Little Child Shall Lead Them
Book SynopsisThis historical anthology brings together court cases, government documents, personal and scholarly writings, speeches, and journalism to represent the diverse voices and viewpoints of the battle in Prince Edward County for - and against - educational equality.
£21.21
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Educated in Tyranny Slavery at Thomas Jeffersons
Book SynopsisMaurie McInnis, Louis Nelson, and a group of contributing authors tell the largely unknown story of slavery at the University of Virginia.
£23.36
University of Virginia Press Goodness and the Literary Imagination Harvards
Book SynopsisWhat exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters' greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time.Trade Review"The publication of this extraordinary book could not have arrived at a more propitious moment. At a time when the country as a whole seems tormented by the corrosive presence of a new kind of evil that is trying to banish any memory, much less evidence, of its opposite, Goodness and the Literary Imagination reminds readers of evil’s opposite, but in forms that Morrison’s fiction renders again strange. Its publication should be treated as a major event; its contribution to American literary and religious studies is absolutely assured."
£21.56
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Bad Men Creative Touchstones of Black Writers
Book SynopsisHow have African American writers drawn on bad men and black boys as creative touchstones for their evocative and vibrant art? This is the question posed by Howard Rambsy's new book, which explores bad men as a central, recurring, and understudied figure in African American literature, and music.Trade ReviewIn this highly original study, Howard Rambsy offers cogent and thoughtful analyses of black writing and puts a wide variety of contemporary African American literary and cultural works in conversation with creative theory.
£26.55
University of Virginia Press Black Landscapes Matter
Book SynopsisThe question “Do black landscapes matter?” cuts deep to the core of American history. In this vital collection, acclaimed landscape designer and public artist Walter Hood assembles a group of notable landscape architecture and planning professionals and scholars to probe how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape.
£30.35
University of Virginia Press Racism in American Public Life A Call to Action
Book SynopsisFor some in our society, diversity is a threat. Others feel society should be more inclusive, if only out of fairness. But as Johnnetta Cole argues in her new book, embracing diversity and inclusiveness is more than a virtuous ideal; it is essential to a healthy, productive society.Trade ReviewIn Racism in Public Life, Johnnetta Betsch Cole gracefully interweaves her experiences as a child in the segregated South, a professor of anthropology, and a life-long educator to reflect insightfully upon the broad sweep of racism in America. In this era marked by the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial turmoil, Cole stresses the opportunities for honest, interracial, "courageous conversations" to confront the systemic inequality "that continues to afflict our nation." This beautifully written volume is an essential guide for these critically important discussions within the academy and our communities. Riveting. Johnnetta Cole challenges all to engage in brave discussions about how race and racism influence education while offering historical context for how we got to where we are. A very timely contribution to our understanding of race, racism, and the ways in which people, particularly college students, and higher education as a societal institution, should be engaged in addressing systemic issues. The book begins some of the difficult conversations the author implores us all to have. Drawing on a lifetime of personal experiences with racism and the transformative power of courageous conversations about race, Dr. Cole issues a compelling call to action. This book is, at once, a deeply personal story, an engaging history lesson, and a hopeful guide, offering practical advice for anyone who believes in the power of education to build a better future." —Laura L. Lott, President & CEO, American Alliance of Museums
£16.10
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Lifting Every Voice My Journey from Segregated
Book SynopsisBill Robertson was one of the US’s greatest pioneers and a tireless advocate for racial justice. One of his final acts was the completion of his memoirs. Lifting Every Voice reveals how the advances made during his lifetime were no foregone conclusion; without the passionate efforts of real people, our present could have been very different.
£23.36
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Black Suffrage
Book SynopsisIn April 1865 Abraham Lincoln announced his support for voting rights for at least some of the newly freed enslaved people. Paul Escott takes this milestone as an opportunity to explore popular sentiment in the North on this issue and to examine the vigorous efforts of Black leaders to organise, demand, and work for their equal rights as citizens.
£31.30
University of Virginia Press Looking for Other Worlds Black Feminism and
Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? This volume engages with this question from a feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.
£98.00
University of Virginia Press Looking for Other Worlds Black Feminism and
Book SynopsisWhat would it mean to reorient the study of Haitian literature toward ethics rather than the themes of politics, engagement, disaster, or catastrophe? This volume engages with this question from a feminist perspective and, in the process, discovers a revelatory lens through which we can productively read the work of contemporary Haitian writers.
£29.66
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Spirit Deep Recovering the Sacred in Black
Book SynopsisWhat would it mean for American and African American literary studies if readers took the spirituality and travel of Black women seriously? Tisha Brooks addresses this question by focusing on three nineteenth-century Black women writers who merged the spiritual and travel narrative genres: Zilpha Elaw, Amanda Smith and Nancy Prince.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Unlikely Crossings 1: "Where have you come from, and where are you going?": Spirituality and Mobility in Hagar's Narrative 2: Visionary Movement in Zilpha Elaw's Memoirs 3: Colonial and Missionary Crossings in Amanda Smith's An Autobiography 4: Searching for Home in A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince 5: Mapping Sacred Movement in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust 6: Secular Journeys, Sacred Recovery: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother Coda Bibliography
£71.10
