Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Edinburgh University Press Liminal Whiteness in Early U.S. Fiction
Book SynopsisHannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Liminal Whiteness in Early Us Fiction
Book SynopsisHannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation.Trade Review"As scholars of American literature and history know, White dread has been a haunting presence for a long, long time. Anxious fantasies of replacement, subsumption, diminution: in Liminal Whiteness, Hannah Murray raises these spirits, and gets them to speak in new tongues. Across agile readings of figures from Brockden Brown, Poe and Melville to Robert Montgomery Bird and Frank Webb, Liminal Whiteness vivifies a rich literary counter-history and gives us new purchase on the shifting terrain of reactive White fantasy." -Peter Coviello, University of Illinois Chicago
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press African American Studies
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and practical text on teaching, understanding and practicing African American Studies.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Kinship State Formation and Governance in the
Book SynopsisBuilds a theoretical model of tribe-state relations through historical political analysis of tribal politics in Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Kinship State Formation and Governance in the
Book SynopsisBuilds a theoretical model of tribe-state relations through historical political analysis of tribal politics in Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman
£18.99
Rowman & Littlefield Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and
Book SynopsisRacism Without Racists examines in detail how Whites talk, think, and account for the existence of racial inequality. The main argument of the book is that color-blind racism, a new racial ideology that emerged in the post-Civil Rights era, has emerged as the fountain of frames, stylistic components, and racial stories Whites rely on to articulate their views on racial affairs. Relying on systematically-gathered interview data, Bonilla-Silva not only de constructs the main elements of this ideology, but also explains how the ways most Whites live their lives (the “white habitus”) is central to the reproduction of this ideology, why a specific segment of the White community is more racially progressive, and accounts for how Blacks are effected by the ideology. In this edition, the author has added a very didactic chapter discussing what makes “systemic racism” systemic and another examining how color-blind racism framed many issues during the pandemic. Table of Contents(Fifth Edition)1 The Strange Enigma of Race in Contemporary America2 The New Racism: The U.S. Racial Structure Since the 1960s3 The Central Frames of Color-Blind Racism4 The Style of Color Blindness: How to Talk Nasty about Minorities without Sounding Racist5 “I Didn’t Get That Job Because of a Black Man”: Color-Blind Racism’s Racial Stories6 Peeking Inside the (White) House of Color Blindness: The Significance of Whites’ Segregation7 Are All Whites Refined Archie Bunkers? An Examination of White Racial Progressives8 Are Blacks Color Blind, Too? 9 E Pluribus Unum, or the Same Old Perfume in a New Bottle? On the Future of Racial Stratification in the United States10 From Obamerica to Trumpamerica: The Continuing Significance of Color-Blind Racism11 Conclusion: What is to Be Done? Talking with YOU about How to Fight Color Blind Racism in America
£999.99
Bloomsbury Academic The Age of Change
£24.67
Little, Brown & Company Sink: A Memoir
Book Synopsis"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed on all sides. In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, he explores how lessons of toxic masculinity were drilled into his body and the way the cycle of violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Even in the depths of isolation, there were unexpected moments of joy carved out, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of kinship he caught on his journey to becoming a Pokémon master. SINK follows Thomas's coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in—with his immediate peers, turbulent family, or the world—and how good it feels to build community, love, and salvation on your own terms.
£20.90
Little, Brown & Company Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
Book Synopsis"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I've read."-New York TimesEarly on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made-to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America's inequitable system.In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture.With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness.
£22.50
Basic Books Tangled Fortunes
Book SynopsisA history of Southern segregationists' long war against interracial relationships, and the 150-year fight to restore the freedom to love, marry, and inherit
£25.20
Basic Books Working Toward Whiteness: How America's
Book SynopsisDavid R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-were once viewed as undesirables by the WASP establishment in the United States. They eventually became part of white America, through the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. Once assimilated as fully white, many of them adopted the racism of those whites who formerly looked down on them as inferior. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants-the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods-Roediger explores the mechanisms by which immigrants came to enjoy the privileges of being white in America. A disturbing, necessary, masterful history, Working Toward Whiteness uses the past to illuminate the present. In an Introduction to the 2018 edition, Roediger considers the resonance of the book in the age of Trump, showing how Working Toward Whiteness remains as relevant as ever even though most migrants today are not from Europe.
£14.24
Little, Brown & Company Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing
Book SynopsisNow a New York Times Bestseller!External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But rather than appreciating the gift of diversity, some have chosen to use it to drive wedges between groups of people. Some of these external characteristics are associated with the past moral failing of slavery. Though slavery in America formally ended in the 1860s, the vestiges of that evil institution are still with us today, and those vestiges often inflict guilt on some and facilitate feelings of victimhood in others. In Created Equal, Dr. Carson uses his own personal experiences as a member of a racial minority, along with the writings and experiences of others from multiple backgrounds and demographics, to analyze the current state of race relations in America. Instead of using race as an excuse to remake America into something completely antithetical to the Constitution, Dr. Carson suggests ways to enhance and bring great success to our nation and all multiethnic societies by magnifying America's incredible strengths instead of her historical weaknesses.
£22.50
Arsenal Pulp Press After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
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£16.19
Black Rose Books The Challenge Of Diversity
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£17.99
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Black Canadians: History, Experience, Social
Book SynopsisFor researchers seeking detailed information about the black diaspora in North America, this authoritative reference provides more than 300 years of black Canadian history, from the first migration of slaves, black loyalists, and Civil War refugees to the expansive movement brought about by the establishment of the point system in 1967. Venturing beyond established orthodoxies and simplistic solutions to discuss contentious ethno-racial problems in Canada, this critique addresses housing, the labor market, sports management, and race and ethnic relations. This new edition expands the regional coverage of black history, updates all the statistics with the 2006 census data, and adds important new material on multiculturalism and employment equity.
£26.10
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Viola Desmond's Canada: A History of Blacks and
Book SynopsisIn 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon. Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in Alabama, but Viola Desmond s act of resistance occurred nine years earlier. However, many Canadians are still unaware of Desmond s story or that racial segregation existed throughout many parts of Canada during most of the twentieth century. On the subject of race, Canadians seem to exhibit a form of collective amnesia. Viola Desmond s Canada is a groundbreaking book that provides a concise overview of the narrative of the Black experience in Canada. Reynolds traces this narrative from slavery under French and British rule in the eighteenth century to the practice of racial segregation and the fight for racial equality in the twentieth century. Included are personal recollections by Wanda Robson, Viola Desmond s youngest sister, together with important but previously unpublished documents and other primary sources in the history of Blacks in Canada."Trade Review"An impressive book that tackles much more than the experience of Viola Desmond. Reynolds work is a wide-ranging discussion of the broad themes of slavery, race, segregation and historical memory." (Harvey Amani Whitfield, University of Vermont) "Reynolds' book is a significant and timely contribution to the burgeoning field of African Canadian history and social justice studies. I thank him for writing this book." (Afua Cooper, James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Dalhousie University)Table of ContentsContents: Introduction * Part I. A Narrative History * A Narrative of Race in Canadian History from Slavery to the Underground Railroad * The Many Faces of Jim Crow: Racial Segregation in Canada 1880-1960 * My Early Memories of Race, My Sister Viola and My Journey of Self-Discovery (Wanda Robson) * Part II. A Documentary History * Marie Marguerite Rose: What Her Inventory of Material Possessions Tells Us About Slavery and Freedom in Eighteenth-Century New France * West Indian Immigration to Canada 1900-1920: What the Census Figures Don't Tell Us * The Culture of Racism in Canada: Burning Crosses, Blackened-Faced Actors and Minstrel Shows * Pearleen Oliver: Pioneer in the Fight to End Racial Discrimination * Epilogue * Appendix: The Promised Land Project Symposium Round Table Discussion * References * Index
£999.99
University of Arkansas Press Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920
Book SynopsisEvery American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Rank within this black upper class rested on such issues as the status of one’s forebears as either house servants or field hands, the darkness of one’s skin, and the level of one’s manners and education.Professor Gatewood’s study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. The resulting narrative is a full and illuminating account of a most influential segment of the African-American population. It explores fully the distinctive background, prestige, attitudes, behavior, power, and culture of this class. The Black Community Studies series from the University of Arkansas Press, edited by Professor Gatewood, continues to examine many of the same themes first explored in this important study.Trade ReviewA compelling story of proud and talented people. Gatewood's narrative is sensitive and objective, and it is always good reading." —David Edwin Harrell, Jr., University of Alabama
£20.96
Human Rights Watch Racist Violence in the United Kingdom
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£999.99
Bold Type Books Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
Book Synopsis Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for NonfictionBrave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our path, the promise that hard work and determination will carry us to freedom. But in Stakes Is High, Mychal Denzel Smith confronts the shortcomings of these stories -- and with the American Dream itself -- and calls on us to live up to the principles we profess but fail to realize. In a series of incisive essays, Smith exposes the stark contradictions at the heart of American life, holding all of us, individually and as a nation, to account. We've gotten used to looking away, but the fissures and casual violence of institutional oppression are ever-present. There is a future that is not as grim as our past. In this profound work, Smith helps us envision it with care, honesty, and imagination.
£13.29
Avalon Publishing Group Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A
Book SynopsisHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean.In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren't considered taboo, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks in this book are urgent--for him, for the martyrs and the tokens, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.
£13.29
Red Sea Press,U.S. Life And Times Of Menelik Ii: Ethiopia 1844-1913
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£29.71
Red Sea Press,U.S. The Paradox Of Africa's Poverty: The Role of
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£19.76
Red Sea Press,U.S. Survival And Modernization: Ethiopia's Enigmatic
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£29.71
Red Sea Press,U.S. Jimma Abba Jifar: An Oromo Monarchy - Ethiopia
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£17.99
Red Sea Press,U.S. Outcast - The Plight Of Black African Refugees
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£999.99
Red Sea Press,U.S. The African Diaspora In The Educational Programs
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£19.76
Red Sea Press,U.S. Cosmic Whispers
Book SynopsisAn contemplative memoir of love and transcendence.
£21.21
Red Sea Press,U.S. I Am Not A White Man But The US Government Is
Book SynopsisWho gets a say in your racial identity in the United States of America?
£19.79
Red Sea Press,U.S. Sasinda Futhi Siselapha (still Here): Black
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£25.46
Red Sea Press,U.S. Dialectics Of Liberation: The African Liberation
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£21.21
Taylor & Francis Inc Retaining African Americans in Higher Education:
Book SynopsisRetention of African Americans on campus is a burning issue for the black community, and a moral and financial one for predominantly white institutions of higher education. This book offers fresh insights and new strategies developed by fifteen scholars concerned by the new climate in which affirmative action is being challenged and eliminated.This is the first book devoted specifically to retention of African Americans in higher education, and is unique in addressing the distinct but inter-related concerns of all three affected constituencies: students, faculty and administrators. Each is considered in a separate section.The student section shifts attention from, to paraphrase McNairy, "fixing the student" to focussing on higher education's need to examine and, where appropriate, revise policies, curriculum, support services and campus climate. Responding to the new agenda shaped by the opponents of affirmative action, but rejecting the defensive "x percent solutions" espoused by its proponents, this book puts forward new solutions that will provoke debate. Section II begins with a survey of the literature on African American administrators, and presents a Delphi study of twelve administrators to provide an understanding of pathways and barriers to success. The contributors then consider the importance of developing community support and creating alliances, the role of mentoring, and the setting of clear expectations between the individual and the institution.Starting with the recognition that African Americans represent less than five percent of full-time faculty, the chapters in the final section examine the effects of the dismantling of affirmative action, the consequences of faculty salaries trailing more lucrative non-academic employment, the declining enrollment of students of color, the politics of promotion and tenure, and issues of identity and culture. The book concludes by stressing the roles that parents, faculty and administrators must play to empower African American students to take responsibility for their own academic performance.This is a compelling, controversial and constructive contribution to an issue of national importance.Trade Review"White academics who seek social justice need to read this book and act on it. Its fourteen articles include statistics, political critique, personal agony, motivational reflection, and detailed proposals. This is not another detached study of someone else's 'problem.' In this book Black academics address directly the painful inequities which institutional and personal racism creates in higher education. The [author's] recommendations hold out the hope of developing the internal strength to withstand the social contradictions of the American economic and political system. If the book has a flaw, it's the title, which is far drier than the content of the book it names. The statistics and analyses are all here, but some selections such as Kipchoge Kirkland's 'Dual Consciousness: A Brother's Response to the Academy' could also be a hit on BET. The passion, the pain, and the hope make this book far more readable than many others produced for academic audiences. I already have plans for using it at my college. I hope others will do the same."Teachers College Record"[This is] a timely and novel approach to a critical topic. Original thinking is needed because, despite numerous suggestions for closing the gap, retention in higher education continues to be lower for African Americans than for whites. This book makes several important contributions to our understanding of the issues....Most of the authors appropriately recognize that retention is a process that involves transitions between different positions and statuses. (A) strength of this work is that, consistent with Jones' stated goals, most authors conclude their essays with practical recommendations. Taken together, these recommendation offer a comprehensive assessment of the issues influencing the retention of African American students, faculty and administrators."The Journal of Higher Education"This book represents diverse and proactive discussion of one of the most important issues in higher education."Alexander W. Astin, Allan M. Carter Professor & Director, Higher Education Research InstituteUCLA"This book is one of the few current resources available that engages issues for students, faculty and administrators in one volume. The chapters address a variety of important perspectives and approaches to continuing challenges facing African Americans in the higher education of the 21st century."Darryl G. Smith, ProfessorClaremont Graduate University, School of Educational Studies"This refreshingly clear and focussed book presents a diverse and comprehensive Afro centric discussion of issues related to the access and retention of African-American faculty, administrators, and students in higher education. This invaluable resource should be required reading for educators and others who are interested in better understanding the many challenges that African-Americans face in higher education."M. Rick Turner, Dean, Office of African-American AffairsUniversity of Virginia"This book provides a strong but balanced accounting of the who, why, and what of the academy. It lays out unrefutable evidence showing that African Americans are missing from the academy's faculty, student and administrative ranks. It demonstrates a keen understanding of what colleges and universities must do to remedy this situation."Mimi Wolverton, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology, College of EducationWashington State University"This is an important contribution, in large part because the authors use a balanced, reasoned, well-documented approach to illuminate the key issues that must be addressed to promote the success of African Americans in higher education."George D. Kuh, Professor and Director, National Survey of Student Engagement, Center for Post secondary Research and PlanningIndiana University"This book makes valuable additions to the sparse literature on the status of the African American faculty administrators and students in higher education. The practical suggestions for retention can be implemented by any institution to promote success."Barbara Mann, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Higher Education and Director of Mel Hardee CenterFlorida State UniversityTable of ContentsPART ONE: RETAINING AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS I. CREATING AN AFFIRMING CULTURE TO RETAIN AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS DURING THE POSTAFFIRMATIVE ACTION ERA IN HIGHER EDUCATION 2. REEXAMINING THE EDUCATIONAL PIPELINE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS 3. THE POLICIES AND POLITICS OF RETENTION AND ACCESS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN PUBLIC WHITE INSTITUTIONS 4. ALTERNATIVES TO RACE-BASED ADMISSIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: EXAMINING X-PERCENT PLANS IN CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, AND FLORIDA 5. DEVELOPING ACADEMIC WARRIORS: THINGS THAT PARENTS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND FACULTY SHOULD KNOW PART TWO: RETAINING AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADMINISTRATORS 6.A NEW TEST FOR DIVERSITY: RETAINING AFRICANAMERICAN ADMINISTATORS AT PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS 7.STRATEGIES FOR OVERCOMING THE BARRIERS OF BEING AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADMINISTRATOR ON A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 8.RETAINING AFRICAN-AMERICAN ADMINISTRATORS: A SUBCONSCIOUS DELUGE OF NEGLECT OR A CONSCIOUS SUBTERFUGE TO REJECT? REFLECTIONS: DEVELOPING AN AFRICAN CENTER IN THE ACADEMY; WHEN SERVICES ARE NEEDED BUT NOT RESPECTED; PART THREE: RETAINING AFRICAN-AMERICAN FACULTY 9. HOW TO RETAIN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FACULTY DURING TIMES OF CHALLENGE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION 10. REDEFINING AND REFINING SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE ACADEMY: STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF OUR ELDERS AND GIVING CREDENCE TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOICE AND AGENCY 11. IDENTITY, PURPOSE, AND IMPACT: BEBOP INNOVATORS AS INTELLECTUALS AND MODELS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACADEMIC SUCCESS 12. RETHINKING W.E.B. DUBOIS' "DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS":IMPLICATIONS FOR RETENTION AND SELF-PRESERVATION IN THE ACADEMY 13. THE POLITICS OF TENURE AND PROMOTION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN FACULTY 14. ORGANIZING THE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN RECRUITING AND RETAINING AFRICAN AMERICANS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
£24.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music in New
Book SynopsisExamines how musicians navigated their everyday lives, grappling with the intercultural tensions and commercial pressures that were so pronounced on the salsa sceneTrade Review"[Washburne] offers a no-holds-barred, insider glimpse at 'how salsa was made' in New York City in the 1990s. By challenging conventional narratives about salsa's development and taking on contentious issues in its history, including drugs, violence and illegitimate business practices, Sounding Salsa should make a lot of folks look twice at a critical yet neglected moment in the industry's development. Washburne's ethnography of behind-the-scenes backstories, documented from his own vantage point on the bandstand, is the best quick read I've found on the industry's history and inner workings, supplemented by deep industry knowledge that fills in many ellipses in histories written mainly from the point of view of the consumer/ critic. While it offers musicological explanations on salsa's nuts and bolts technical aspects, such as clave, it's also an accessible guide to newcomers who may have wondered: What are those instruments? And why are all those guys wearing the same suits?" - IndyWeeks, 31st December 2008 "Washburne does a good job of chronicling the second-generation surge of the popular Latin dance music salsa in the US, which occurred in New York City in the 1990s. The author bases his discussion on an impressive ethnographic methodology and on his own involvement with salsa as a performer. He introduces the reader to the major figures in the movement, provides glimpses of the music itself, and describes the broader cultural and sociological issues that affected the art form and its practitioners. The introduction provides a good overview of the historical development of salsa in the 1960s-70s and establishes a context for the discussion that follows." Choice "[Washburne] offers a no-holds-barred, insider glimpse at 'how salsa was made' in New York City in the 1990s. By challenging conventional narratives about salsa's development and taking on contentious issues in its history, including drugs, violence and illegitimate business practices, Sounding Salsa should make a lot of folks look twice at a critical yet neglected moment in the industry's development. Washburne's ethnography of behind-the-scenes backstories, documented from his own vantage point on the bandstand, is the best quick read I've found on the industry's history and inner workings, supplemented by deep industry knowledge that fills in many ellipses in histories written mainly from the point of view of the consumer/ critic. While it offers musicological explanations on salsa's nuts and bolts technical aspects, such as clave, it's also an accessible guide to newcomers who may have wondered: What are those instruments? And why are all those guys wearing the same suits?" IndyWeek "Washburne is a very fine and respected jazz trombonist... [Sounding Salsa] is a well-researched and assiduously documented work of history, written by an ethnomusicologist with impeccable academic credentials... It would be hard to imagine a person better qualified on the subject... His standing as a professional salsero gives him access to information denied other researchers. And he takes advantage, gleaning enough material to tell a fascinating tale... The book's most illuminating passages center on the musicians' own observations and comments, made directly to Washburne and salted liberally throughout the text. Such intimate reflections would only have been revealed to someone who'd earned their deepest trust and respect--another musician, for instance."-Jazz Notes, Spring 2009 "A professional trombonist, Washburne writes from the vantage point of a practising musician as well as a scholar, offering a dynamic view of salsa as seen from the bandstand over an eighteen-year period during which he played with key orchestras of Tito Puento, Ray Barreto, Celia Cruz, Pete 'El Conde' Rodriguez and Hector Lavoe, among many others... Apart from its undoubted academic merits, the book convinces through its insider-out perspective, incisive and evocative scenarios, and the way analysis and theory are embedded within its ethnography. In six highly readable chapters, the salsa scene in all its richnesss is described, unpicked, critiqued and celebrated...Washburne has written a book that is as entertaining, informative, and provocative as it is ground-breaking." Popular Music, May 2009 "Washburne provides a micro-level, ethnographic view...[that] will be of direct interest to folklorists... The book gives a nuts-and-bolts description of what it means to record and perform in a salsa band, and it also relates some inside stories that have become legend to those in the scene... The book really breaks new ground...when Washburne discusses violence, drugs, and gender within the salsa scene... While a range of approaches to salsa can be found in the many works on the subject, very few have offered such a rich insider's perspective. Washburne's book is a welcome addition to the conversation." The Journal of American Folklore, Fall 2009Table of ContentsTable of Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Salsa in New York; 1: Salsa Bands and the performance of Pueble; 2: "The music is so good but the scene is pure dues!": Salsa Musicians; 3: "Play like there's a gun to your head!": The Aesthetics and Performance Practice of Sounding Violence in Salsa; 4: New York Salsa and Drugs: Aesthetics, Performance Practice, Governmental Policy, and the Illicit Drug Trade; 5: La India and the Masquerading of Gender on the Salsa Scene; 6: "They are going to hear this in Puerto Rico. It has got to be good!": The Sound and Style of Salsa
£23.79
Africa World Press The African Presence In Black America
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£25.46
Africa World Press The Provocations Of Amnesty: Memory, Justice and
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£25.46
Africa World Press Origins Of Modern African Political Thought
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£29.71
Africa World Press White Racism On The Western Urban Frontier:
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£21.21
Africa World Press Loss Of Empire: Legal Lynching, Vigilantism and
Book SynopsisFour essays exploring the theme of contemporary antiblack violence and whiteness from a race and class perspective.
£17.95
Africa World Press Resistance, Insurgence And Identity: The Art of
Book SynopsisAn inquiry into how art was used to express the discontent and aspirations of Black America during the turbulent 60s and 70s.
£999.99
Africa World Press Afro-mexicans: Discourse of Race and Identity in
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico of Afro-Mexicans, and the socioracial terms that form a ubiquitous part of Mexican racial identity.
£25.46
Africa World Press On The Margins: Race, Gender and Empire
Book SynopsisFocuses on the role played by minority writers working in English.
£21.21
Africa World Press Shades Of Belonging: African Pentecostals in
Book SynopsisThe first study of the religious life of African immigrants in Ireland.
£25.46
Africa World Press Weighing The Cost Of Pin Making: Ulli Beier in
Book SynopsisA fascinating series of conversations between Ulli Beier and major African thinkers.
£29.71
PM Press Maria's Story: A Documentary Portrait of Love and
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£21.33
Chicago Review Press Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom
Book SynopsisEye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a twentieth-century icon and controversial victim of the U.S. justice system turned spokesperson for the wrongfully convicted. In this moving narrative Dr. Carter tells of all the "prisons" he has survived--from his childhood through his wrongful incarceration and after. A spiritual as well as a factual autobiography, Eye of the Hurricane explores Carter's personal philosophy, born of the unimaginable duress of wrongful imprisonment and conceived through his defiance of the brutal institution of prison and ten years of solitary confinement. His is not a comfortable story or a comfortable philosophy, but it offers hope for those who have none and serves as a call to action for those who abhor injustice. Eye of the Hurricane may well change the way we view crime and punishment in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"Rubin Carter describes his truly inspiring journey through his early life of brutality and suffering into his current life of hard-won spiritual affirmation and worldwide advocacy for the wrongly convicted. His views on the American justice system and the death penalty are outspoken, uncompromising, and ultimately accurate. Dr. Carter's autobiography presents the unique and passionate vision of a unique and passionate man." -- Sister Helen Prejean, author, "Dead Man Walking"When a judge is responsible for freeing a person whom he believes has been wrongly convicted of murder, he worries whether he will live to regret or be proud of that decision. When it comes to Rubin Carter, I have no regrets. He has justified my faith in him, and I am proud of the person he has become. He is a testament to the human spirit." -- Judge H Lee Sarokin, retired, U.S. Appeals Court"A wonderful and inspiring book. I expected gritty -- it's based on the life of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, after all. What I didn't expect was to be so moved by his extraordinary insight, his disarming honesty and his grace. I loved the book." -- Professor Cookie Ridolfi, director, Northern California Innocence Project"An uplifting tale of how a man can transcend shackles of all sorts." -- Globe & Mail"Long story short, if Eye of the Hurricane doesn't inspire you, nothing will." -- Smooth Magazine"Essential for the socially conscious." -- Library Journal
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
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Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Egyptian-american Journeys: An Anthology
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Museum of Modern Art Grandpa and the Library: How Charles White
Book SynopsisEvery day, young Charles White’s mother takes him the Chicago Public Library, where the librarians look after him until she picks him up again after work, at six o’clock. At the library Charles looks carefully at the picture books the librarians give him and also at the people around him, later drawing what he sees on scraps of paper at home. He learns to be patient and observant—and, by watching art students painting in the park, how to mix and use oil paints. As he grows into an artist, he paints the people he sees and admires. Ultimately, Charles becomes a great artist whose works now hang in museums throughout the United States. Written and illustrated by White’s son, C. Ian White, and featuring full-color reproductions of Charles White’s artworks, this deeply personal story traces the childhood influences that inspired young Charles to become an artist and a teacher.
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Bold Type Books Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race,
Book SynopsisAn unexpected family photograph leads Dionne Ford to uncover the stories of her enslaved female ancestors, reclaim their power, and begin to heal Countless Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the enslavers who bought and sold their ancestors. Among them is Dionne Ford, whose great grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift. What shapes does this kind of intergenerational trauma take? In these pages, which move between her inner life and deep research, Ford tells us. It manifests as alcoholism and post-traumatic stress; it finds echoes in her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of a relative, and in the ways in which she builds her own interracial family. To heal, Ford tries a wide range of therapies, lifestyle changes, and recovery meetings. ?Anything,? she writes, ?to keep from going back there.? But what she learns is that she needs to go back there, to return to her female ancestors, and unearth what she can about them to start to feel whole.
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