Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Ohio State University Press Listen to Me Good
£31.42
Ohio State University Press When the Devil Knocks The Congo Tradition and the
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£84.50
Ohio State University Press Reading in the Postgenomic Age
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£85.45
Ohio State University Press Replaying Marc Anthony
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£95.76
Ohio State University Press Tales from La Vida
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£16.96
Mad Creek Books Ripe
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£15.15
OHIO ST UNIV PR Mistaken for an Empire
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£17.81
Ohio State University Press Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging
Book SynopsisIn Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging, Vivian Nun Halloran analyzes memoirs, picture books, comic books, young adult novels, musicals, and television shows through which Caribbean Americans recount and celebrate their contributions to contemporary politics, culture, and activism in the United States. The writers, civil servants, illustrators, performers, and entertainers whose work is discussed here show what it is like to fit in and be included within the body politic. From civic memoirs by Sonia Sotomayor and others, to West Side Story, Hamilton, and Into the Spider-Verse, these texts share a forward-looking perspective, distinct from the more nostalgic rhetoric of traditional diasporic texts that privilege connections to the islands of origin. There is no one way of being Caribbean. Diasporic communities exhibit a broad spectrum of ethnic, racial, religious, linguistic, and political qualities. Claiming a Caribbean American identity
£26.55
Ohio State University Press Against
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£30.35
Wayne State University Press Untold Tales Unsung Heroes Oral History of
Book SynopsisThis is the history of Detroit's African American community told by the men and women who lived it.
£25.60
Wayne State University Press Winds Can Wake Up the Dead An Eric Walrond Reader African American Life Series
Book SynopsisEric Walrond (1898-1966) was a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement and a seminal writer of Black diasporic life. This anthology brings together a broad sampling of his writings.
£28.76
Wayne State University Press Negroes with Guns
Book SynopsisExamining events surrounding the test case of the right of Blacks to armed self-defense in the 1960s, this book tells the story of a Southern Black community's struggle to defend themselves against the Ku Klux Klan and other racists. This book heavily influenced the leader of the Black Panthers.
£19.96
Wayne State University Press Contact Zones
Book SynopsisCreated at the crossroads of slavery, migration, and exile, and comprising a global population, the black diaspora is a diverse space of varied histories, experiences, and goals. This title addresses a range of filmmakers, theorists, and issues in black diasporic cinema, highlighting their influences on artistic and theoretical discourses.Trade ReviewThis work stands as a witness to the power of black cinema to render complex, complicated, and cross-resonant expressions for renarrating and rethinking human life in a post-Columbus world. It is essential reading across the humanities and social sciences for anyone interested in how the modern world comes into being from a black diasporic cinematic perspective. - Rinaldo Walcott, associate professor of cultural studies at the University of Toronto and editor of New Dawn: The Journal of Black Canadian Studies
£29.71
Wayne State University Press Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough
Book SynopsisThis illuminating autobiography traces Scarborough''s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African Americans, Scarborough was an exemplary scholar, particularly in the field of classical studies. He was the first African American member of the Modern Language Association, a forty-four-year member of the American Philological Association, and a true champion of higher education. Scarborough advocated the reading, writing, and teaching of liberal arts at a time when illiteracy was rampant due to slavery''s legacy, white supremacists were dismissing the intellectual capability of blacks, and Booker T. Washington was urging African Americans to focus on industrial skills and training.The Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough is a valuable historical record of the life and work of a
£22.36
Wayne State University Press Keepin it hushed
Book SynopsisInvestigates the role of the hush harbour (a safe place for free expression among African American speakers) as a productive space of rhetorical tradition and knowledge generation. Nunley identifies the barbershop as an important hush harbour for black males in particular and traces the powerful cultural trope and its hidden tradition of African American knowledge through multiple texts.
£24.26
Wayne State University Press Black People Are My Business Toni Cade Bambaras
Book SynopsisStudies the works of Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995), an author, documentary filmmaker, social activist, and professor. Thabiti Lewis's analysis serves as a cultural biography, examining the liberation impulses in Bambara's writing.Trade ReviewLewis intervenes by re-establishing the boundaries and intergenerational building blocks of the Black Arts Movement by situating Bambara as a midwife for the creative legacy of the moment. He also reorients his readers to Bambara's role as foremother to some of the most acclaimed and well-read works by black women. This is essential for recognizing and placing Bambara within a more sustained discourse on the Black Arts Movement and Black women's evolution from that moment into their own creative renaissance. A necessary and overdue study. Lewis captures the significance of one of the most important figures in black and women's liberation struggles of the 60s and 70s in the U.S. Though Bambara has been undervalued as a revolutionary writer/activist/theorist of the Black Arts Movement, Lewis articulates in new ways, through an examination of her short stories and novels, the nature of her Black nationalist/feminist commitments and her 'spiritual wholeness aesthetic.' Lewis also underscores how Bambara practices 'nation building in her art' in unapologetic, creative, and brilliant ways. Lewis does a superb job of defending a unique and overdue analysis of Toni Cade Bambara's fiction. The technique of viewing Bambara's fiction through the lens of the spiritual wholeness aesthetic with its most frequent source in the Black Aesthetic Movement moves readers' attention from the dominant paradigm of viewing Bambara's fiction from a heavily womanist perspective to an interrogation of how Bambara's spiritual, political aesthetic reflects an interweaving of self and ethnic identity, community engagement and responsibility, a balancing of black male and black female identity and of how self-awareness or lack of it influences interactions within and outside the black community. 'Black People Are My Business' offers an insightful and empathetic analysis of Bambara's complete corpus-her popular short stories, her novels, and her nonfiction prose. Thabiti Lewis is an astute reader who illuminates the many ways in which Bambara was and is an indispensable writer. There can't be enough good books on Toni Cade Bambara, so Thabiti Lewis's 'Black People Are My Business' is a real gift. His close readings of Bambara's fiction adds an important layer to the conversation about Bambara and, as importantly, about reading/writing as a practice of liberation in African American literary studies.
£29.96
Wayne State University Press Israeli Salvage Poetics
Book SynopsisThrough thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the negation of the diaspora as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from the eve of the Holocaust to the present day. Author Sheila E. Jelen considers the way that Israeli writers from eastern Europe or of eastern European descent incorporate pre-Holocaust eastern European culture into their own sense of Israeliness or Jewishness. Many Israelis interested in their eastern European legacy live with an awareness of their own nation''s role in the repression of that legacy, from the elevation of Hebrew over Yiddish to the ridicule and resentment directed at culture, text, and folk traditions from eastern Europe. To right the wrongs of the past and reconcile this conflict of identity, the Israeli authors discussed in this book engage in what Jelen calls salvage poetics they read Yid
£33.20
Wayne State University Press Israeli Salvage Poetics
Book SynopsisThrough thoughtful analysis of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Israeli literature, Israeli Salvage Poetics interrogates the concept of the ‘negation of the diaspora’ as addressed in Hebrew-language literature authored by well-known and lesser-known Israeli authors from the eve of the Holocaust to the present day.
£70.50
Wayne State University Press The Spook Who Sat By The Door
Book SynopsisContinuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film and television adaptations. A classic in the Black literary tradition, the novel offers a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in the late 1960s.
£18.95
Wayne State University Press Hidden Light
Book SynopsisExplores the Judaic turn in contemporary Israeli filmmaking for what it can tell us about Israel’s cultural landscape, as well as about the cinematic medium in general. Judaic-themed Israeli cinema emerges as a crucial example of how film’s particular form of ‘magic’ may be exploited for the purpose of affecting mystical states in the audience.Trade ReviewHidden Light analyzes the ‘Judaic turn’ in Israeli cinema during the 2000s in riveting and rigorous detail. But that is only one of this book’s many impressive achievements. Chyutin grapples with nothing less than film theory’s links to religious and mystical concepts, building new bridges between film studies, Jewish studies, and religious studies." - Adam Lowenstein, University of Pittsburgh, author of Horror Film and Otherness"Hidden Light is an act of reclamation. Moving beyond a seeming dichotomy between a text-driven legal tradition and the visual poetics of cinema, Chyutin brilliantly illustrates how the recent wave of religiously inflected Israeli cinema is deeply rooted in Jewish traditions of longing, prayer, and transcendence." - Shayna Weiss, associate director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University"Hidden Light is essential for anyone interested in contemporary Israeli cinema. Bringing deep theoretical and historical knowledge to bear on the ‘Judaic turn,’ Chyutin presents new ways of thinking about religion on-screen and ideas of spiritual transcendence endemic to the concept of ‘the cinematic’ since the art form’s birth." - Kyle Stevens, editor of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory"Dan Chyutin’s timely study brings the ‘Judaic turn’ to bear upon a rich and engaging analysis of Israeli cinema. It does so by paying attention to cinematic appeals to the Judaic New Age, or what some scholars have recently termed the ‘Jew Age.’ Hidden Light: Judaism and Mystical Experience in Israeli Cinema is an important contribution that, through its Jew Age analyses, brings into question simplistic binary thinking regarding the Israeli secular-religious divide in favor of a more complex reading of Judaism’s relationship to Israeli notions of identity." - Brian Ogren, Anna Smith Fine Professor of Judaic Studies and Religion Department Chair, Rice University"Hidden Light makes a singular contribution to the study of Israeli cinema, exploring and delineating one of the most important developments in Israeli cinema over the past three decades: the emergence of religious-themed Israeli films. Chyutin’s analysis of films is meticulous and enlightening, as he expands and challenges our perceptions of the Israeli cinematic canon." - Eran Kaplan, author of Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen"Film scholars will find merit." - Publisher's Weekly
£29.96
Wayne State University Press Dear Department Chair
Book SynopsisPractical and candid, this book offers actionable steps to help Black women leaders create meaningful success. The reflections and recommendations of the contributors forge a critical and transformative analysis of race, gender, and higher education leadership.Trade ReviewExemplifying a key maxim in Black women’s survival and achievement, ‘lifting as we climb,’ this collection demonstrates to sister-scholar administrators and their non-Black colleagues that collaboration, commiseration, and celebration are strategic tools, meaningful service, and sources of strength for Black women leaders in higher education today. These thought-provoking essays are essential reading for all who seek to create academic excellence that is both inclusive and humane." - Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland"While there are many books about academic administrators, this unique and inspirational volume is the very first to center the perspectives and experiences of Black women leaders in academia. Desperately needed and long overdue, it is full of sage advice and concrete strategies for success, encouraging self-reflection, wellness, and humility; and emphasizing sisterhood, peer mentorship, and collaboration. It should be required reading for all academic leaders!" - Yolanda Covington-Ward, professor and Chair, W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst"Indeed, this important collection gives voice to a truth known to some but ignored by too many: If you look closely, Black women leaders are either present or in the process of being made. A must read for upper administrators, mentors, allies, and leaders in the making." - Tara T. Green, PhD, Chair and CLASS Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, University of Houston"Dear Department Chair is a welcomed collection that builds on the tradition of ‘lifting as we climb.’ Kudos to the editors who took it upon themselves to offer a readable collection about leadership in the academy. Colleagues, both women and men, of all hues will learn something from this work. I wish that it had been available when I became chair!" - Joye Bowman, Senior Associate Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst
£21.24
Wayne State University Press The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust
Book SynopsisConsiders the uses and misuses of the memory of assistance given to Jews during the Holocaust, deliberated in local, national, and transnational contexts. Each of the ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection is dedicated to a different country. The case studies provide new insights into Holocaust memory and memory politics.
£27.71
New York University Press Freedoms Gardener
Book SynopsisUnearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journalTrade Review"With this meticulously sourced and carefully reasoned portrait, Armstead reclaims an outstanding American who helped freedom grow." * Booklist *"Armstead explores the meaning of northern African American identity through her deft decoding of a ten-volume diary left by James F. Brown...Recommended for historians of antebellum America or the social aspects of horticulture and for those interested in historical diaries. Incipient researchers will learn the differences among term, life, and wage slaves and much else" * Library Journal *"Overall, this is an informative study of antebellum New York State." -- R. Douglas Hurt * New York History *"An enlightening examination of a period of American history that seems to have slipped from public scrutiny...Armstead's review of the status of American horticulture during the first half of the nineteenth century makes this volume intriguing reading for gardeners." -- Marilyn K. Alaimo * Chicago Botanic Garden *"Myra Young Armstead brings to life James Brown, a self-possessed African American citizen of the pre-Civil War United States, and gives us anew understanding of the meaning of freedom in antebellum America. As a master gardener in rural upstate New York, James Brown charted a life of complex alliances across racial lines and advocacy on behalf of fellow African Americans. Armstead's wonderful work of recovery illuminates a path to freedom in the rural North that we have known little about." * Leslie M. Harris, Emory University *"This is far more than a book about a gardener though it is a fascinating story about nineteenth-century American horticulture. Freedom's Gardener tells us about the opportunities and limits that framed the lives of African Americans in places like New York's Hudson Valley. And a good read to boot." * James Grossman, University of Chicago *"Freedom's Gardener is an excellent example of how historians can transform one person's life into a story that illustrates the larger picture for both scholars and a broader audience." * Journal of American History *"Freedom's Gardener is beautifully researched, bursting with detail." * The New York Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. LIFE AS A SLAVE 1.What Can a Man Do? 2.Into the Promised Land Part II. FREE MAN AND FREE LABORER 3.A Horticultural Community 4. A Gardening Career 5. Cultural Meanings of Gardening 6. Escaping Wage Slavery Part III. FREE MAN AND CITIZEN 7. A Whiggish Sensibility 8. James F. Brown, Voting Rights Politics, and Antislavery Activism 9. The Informal Politics of Association Conclusion Notes About the Author
£55.80
New York University Press Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism The Hidden
Book SynopsisTackling the secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.Trade ReviewSkillfully drawing on a wide range of referents from Greek mythology to Thomas Byes, the father of statistics, Armour plumbs our racial psychology and in the process explores the racialized nature of our daily life and our legal system. * Norfolk Virginia Journal and Guide *A crucial book, at a critical time, just as white America is gradually coming to understand the hidden travails of African American life. * Bookwatch *[C]ommendable in important respects. [Armour] points out problems in the theory of rational racial discrimination that many of its proponents ignore or overlook. -- Randall Kennedy * Los Angeles Times Book Review *A patient meditation. * The Nation *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction"Rational" Discrimination and the Black Tax Chapter OneThe "Reasonable Racist": A Slippery Oxymoron How We Know What We Know: The Typical, the Reasonable, and the Accurate Why We Blame Whom We Blame: The Typical, the Reasonable, and the Damnable Chapter TwoThe "Intelligent Bayesian": Reckoning with Rational DiscriminationWhy Rational Discrimination Is Not Reasonable Race and the Subversion of Rationality Chapter ThreeThe "Involuntary Negrophobe" The Involuntary Negrophobe and Dueling Conceptions of Law Chapter FourOf Mice and Men: Equal Protection and Unconscious Bias Private Bias and Equal Protection Restructuring the Maze to Serve Justice Chapter FiveBlame and Punishment: Narrative, Perspective, Scapegoats,and Demons Framing the Narrative Broadly in Women's Self-Defense Work Narrative, Consent, and Blame The Fundamental Fault Line: Determinism versus Antideterminism "Disadvantaged Social Background" Opponents Grasp at StrawsIdeological Agendas Chapter SixRepealing the Black Tax: Breaking the Discrimination Habit Hypocritical Racists and Aversive Racists Proving Ubiquitous Unconscious Bias Combating Unconscious Discrimination in the Courtroom Conclusion Notes Index
£70.30
New York University Press Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism The Hidden
Book SynopsisTackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.Trade ReviewSkillfully drawing on a wide range of referents from Greek mythology to Thomas Byes, the father of statistics, Armour plumbs our racial psychology and in the process explores the racialized nature of our daily life and our legal system. * Norfolk Virginia Journal and Guide *A crucial book, at a critical time, just as white America is gradually coming to understand the hidden travails of African American life. * Bookwatch *[C]ommendable in important respects. [Armour] points out problems in the theory of rational racial discrimination that many of its proponents ignore or overlook. -- Randall Kennedy * Los Angeles Times Book Review *A patient meditation. * The Nation *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction"Rational" Discrimination and the Black Tax Chapter OneThe "Reasonable Racist": A Slippery Oxymoron How We Know What We Know: The Typical, the Reasonable, and the Accurate Why We Blame Whom We Blame: The Typical, the Reasonable, and the Damnable Chapter TwoThe "Intelligent Bayesian": Reckoning with Rational DiscriminationWhy Rational Discrimination Is Not Reasonable Race and the Subversion of Rationality Chapter ThreeThe "Involuntary Negrophobe" The Involuntary Negrophobe and Dueling Conceptions of Law Chapter FourOf Mice and Men: Equal Protection and Unconscious Bias Private Bias and Equal Protection Restructuring the Maze to Serve Justice Chapter FiveBlame and Punishment: Narrative, Perspective, Scapegoats,and Demons Framing the Narrative Broadly in Women's Self-Defense Work Narrative, Consent, and Blame The Fundamental Fault Line: Determinism versus Antideterminism "Disadvantaged Social Background" Opponents Grasp at StrawsIdeological Agendas Chapter SixRepealing the Black Tax: Breaking the Discrimination Habit Hypocritical Racists and Aversive Racists Proving Ubiquitous Unconscious Bias Combating Unconscious Discrimination in the Courtroom Conclusion Notes Index
£20.89
New York University Press The Next Generation Immigrant Youth in a
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countriesTrade ReviewThe attention to immigrants' changing migration and naturalization statuses is laudable and should encourage scholars...to carefully consider the diverse legal statuses of immigrants both upon and after arrival to the United States. * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *The Next Generation...provide[s] key insights into the forces shaping outcomes for the future generations of native-born immigrants and the societies in which they live. -- Kristen Remington Lucken * Nordic Journal of Migration Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Dimensions of Second-Generation Incorporation 2 Legalization and Naturalization Trajectories among Mexican Immigrants and Their Implications for the Second Generation 3 Early Childhood Education Programs 4 The Mexican American Second Generation in Census 2000: Education and Earnings 5 Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment 6 School Qualifications of Children of Immigrant Descent in Switzerland 7 Ethnic Community, Urban Economy, and Second-Generation Attainment 8 The Second Generation in the German Labor Market 9 Capitals, Ethnic Identity, and Educational Qualifications 10 National and Urban Contexts for the Integration of the Second Generation in the United States and Canada 11 "I Will Never Deliver Chinese Food" 12 Black Identities and the Second Generation: Afro-Caribbeans in Britain and the United States 13 How Do Educational Systems Integrate? Integration of Second-Generation Turks in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Austria 14 The Employment of Second Generations in France References About the Contributors Index
£59.50
New York University Press The Next Generation Immigrant Youth in a
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how the integration of immigrants affects subsequent generations in developed countriesTrade Review"The attention to immigrants' changing migration and naturalization statuses is laudable and should encourage scholars...to carefully consider the diverse legal statuses of immigrants both upon and after arrival to the United States." * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *"The Next Generation...provide[s] key insights into the forces shaping outcomes for the future generations of native-born immigrants and the societies in which they live." -- Kristen Remington Lucken * Nordic Journal of Migration Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Dimensions of Second-Generation Incorporation 2 Legalization and Naturalization Trajectories among Mexican Immigrants and Their Implications for the Second Generation 3 Early Childhood Education Programs 4 The Mexican American Second Generation in Census 2000: Education and Earnings 5 Downward Assimilation and Mexican Americans: An Examination of Intergenerational Advance and Stagnation in Educational Attainment 6 School Qualifications of Children of Immigrant Descent in Switzerland 7 Ethnic Community, Urban Economy, and Second-Generation Attainment 8 The Second Generation in the German Labor Market 9 Capitals, Ethnic Identity, and Educational Qualifications 10 National and Urban Contexts for the Integration of the Second Generation in the United States and Canada 11 "I Will Never Deliver Chinese Food" 12 Black Identities and the Second Generation: Afro-Caribbeans in Britain and the United States 13 How Do Educational Systems Integrate? Integration of Second-Generation Turks in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Austria 14 The Employment of Second Generations in France References About the Contributors Index
£23.74
New York University Press Staging Faith
Book SynopsisIlluminates the creative strategies playwrights used to grapple with religion.Trade Review"Helps us see secularization in a new light." * American Quarterly *"Craig Prentisss compelling study, Staging Faith, illuminates the intersections of African American dramaturgy and theology. This original book methodically and brilliantly probes the nuances of Christian and Afro-centric religious influences. It is one of the most original and engaging studies on African American theater, enriching the field and advancing the subject in new and invigorating ways." -- David Krasner,author of A Beautiful Pageant"Establishes both the significance of theater to African American religion and the importance of religious themes to a range of early 20th century playwrights. Through lively descriptions of the plays themselves, compelling analysis of central themes, and careful attention to historical context, Prentiss provides an exciting new perspective on African Americans varied religious experiences and expressions as well as understandings of the place of religion in social and political life. This volume is a must read for anyone interested in understanding how African Americans worked through the arts to define, discuss, and debate the importance of religious ideas, institutions, and practices." -- Judith Weisenfeld,author of Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949"Prentiss contributes a vital work on a rich area of African American artistic culture . . . brings a careful eye and robust discussion to works that were not only labors of artistic love, but also platforms for social change. He sets groundwork for the continued investigation of African American theater as a vehicle through which possibilities for black spiritual, political, and social life expanded in great measure." -- Kyle Brooks * Practical Matters *"Craig Prentiss surveys a range of theatrical responses to organized religion and personal faith by African American playwrights in the first half of the twentieth century. As he notes, correctly, analysis of and theorizing about representations of religion, especially Christianity are underrepresented in studies of African-American drama.Staging Faithis an excellent pioneer in terms of addressing that lack." * Studies of Theatre and Performance *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Setting the Stage 2 New Territory 3 Lynching and the Faraway God 4 Caught within the Shadow 5 Blackness in the Image of God Conclusion List of Acronyms Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author
£59.50
New York University Press Staging Faith Religion and African American
Book SynopsisIlluminates the creative strategies playwrights used to grapple with religion.Trade Review"Helps us see secularization in a new light." * American Quarterly *"Craig Prentisss compelling study, Staging Faith, illuminates the intersections of African American dramaturgy and theology. This original book methodically and brilliantly probes the nuances of Christian and Afro-centric religious influences. It is one of the most original and engaging studies on African American theater, enriching the field and advancing the subject in new and invigorating ways." -- David Krasner,author of A Beautiful Pageant"Establishes both the significance of theater to African American religion and the importance of religious themes to a range of early 20th century playwrights. Through lively descriptions of the plays themselves, compelling analysis of central themes, and careful attention to historical context, Prentiss provides an exciting new perspective on African Americans varied religious experiences and expressions as well as understandings of the place of religion in social and political life. This volume is a must read for anyone interested in understanding how African Americans worked through the arts to define, discuss, and debate the importance of religious ideas, institutions, and practices." -- Judith Weisenfeld,author of Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949"Prentiss contributes a vital work on a rich area of African American artistic culture . . . brings a careful eye and robust discussion to works that were not only labors of artistic love, but also platforms for social change. He sets groundwork for the continued investigation of African American theater as a vehicle through which possibilities for black spiritual, political, and social life expanded in great measure." -- Kyle Brooks * Practical Matters *"Craig Prentiss surveys a range of theatrical responses to organized religion and personal faith by African American playwrights in the first half of the twentieth century. As he notes, correctly, analysis of and theorizing about representations of religion, especially Christianity are underrepresented in studies of African-American drama.Staging Faithis an excellent pioneer in terms of addressing that lack." * Studies of Theatre and Performance *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Setting the Stage 2 New Territory 3 Lynching and the Faraway God 4 Caught within the Shadow 5 Blackness in the Image of God Conclusion List of Acronyms Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author
£22.79
New York University Press Hair Matters Beauty Power and Black Womens
Book SynopsisA book on the politics of black hair to be based on substantive, ethnographically informed research. Focusing on the everyday discussions that black women have among themselves and about themselves, it analyzes how talking about hair reveals black women's ideas about race, gender, sexuality, beauty, and power.Trade Review"Long hair in the 60s, Afros in the early 70s, bobs in the 80s, fuschia in the 90s. Hair is one of the first attributes to catch our eye, not only because it reflects perceptions of attractivenes or unattractiveness, but also because it conveys important political, cultural, and social meanings, particularly in relation to group identity. Given that mainstream images of beauty do not privilege dark skin and tightly coiled hair, African American women's experience provides a starkly different perspective on the meaning of hair in social identity." * National Women's Studies Association Journal *"Grab your copy at your local bookseller and get hip to what your hair is saying to others with regards to beauty, culture and politics. Learn about how culture has a love for coifs, because after all, so do you!" * Sophisticate's Black Hair Styles Guide *
£20.89
New York University Press The Conflict and Culture Reader
Book SynopsisHow are some processes cultured, gendered, or racialized? In what ways do certain groups and cultures define such concepts as "justice" and "fairness" differently? Do women and men perceive events in similar fashion, use different reasoning, or emphasize disparate values and goals? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"At a time when ethnic conflicts seem unending and the rule of law is increasingly threatened, it is the responsibility of every thinking person to learn as much as possible about the ways in which law, conflict and culture affect one another and, in turn, the ways in which they affect us all. This new book offers a thought-provokingand sometimes disturbingmedium for exploring the host of issues raised by the interrelationships between these concepts." -- John M. Burkoff,Associate Dean and Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh"Covering groups as diverse as Finnish gypsies, Chicago Polish, Native Hawaiians, Israeli Druze, and African Americans, Pat Chew presents us with a global feast on conflict and culture. This multidisciplinary collection enables us to appreciate the complex interplay when race, ethnicity, gender, and culture confront both unwritten customs and formal legal systems." -- Adrien Katherine Wing,author of Global Critical Race Feminism"Pat Chew makes an important contribution by bringing together voices that speak to this complex topic that is at the heart of the rapidly shrinking world we all are beginning to share and navigate together." -- Syed Shariq,RGK Foundation Scholar, Stanford University"This not only a wonderful book to read but one that will assist all of us as we travel across borders to work, explore and enjoy the wonders of other places." -- John P. Tymitz,Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Shipboard Education"This single volume covers the universe of cultural issues and ethnic conflict. Professor Pat Chew has revealed she has the secret heart of an anthropologist. This collection of materials from far-flung places is fascinating, made more so by the helpful notes and materials she employs to stitch them together." -- Michael A. Olivas,Director of the Institute for Higher Education Law and Governance, University of Houston
£27.54
New York University Press Sisters in the Struggle
Book SynopsisWomen were at the forefront of the civil rights struggle, but their individual stories were rarely heard. Only recently have historians begun to recognize the central role women played in the battle for racial equality. This book represents the coming age of African-American women's history and presents stories that point the way to future study.Trade Review"Sisters in the Struggle is a powerful, inspirational and insightful book that takes the reader on a journey into the lives of some of the nation's most gifted and courageous African American women leaders, feminist organizers, and Black Power advocates. It was through the dint of their efforts that they helped shape and define what American society should become. These "sheroes" remind us that the prices they paid for freedom bequeathed a legacy of human dignity and opportunity that must be sustained by generations to follow." -- Joyce A. Ladner,author of Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman"If Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin had only gathered together a distinguished group of scholars to document the role woman played in the black freedom movement, their contribution would be immense. But Sisters in the Struggle is more than an acknowledgement and celebration of black woman's activism. It is a major revision of history, revealing that black women were the critical thinkers, strategists, fighters, and dreamers of the movement. Black feminists developed a social vision expansive enough to emancipate us all." -- Robin D.G. Kelley,author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class"The quality of each individual essay makes Sisters in the Struggle stand out as an unusual anthology, one whose total sum is actually more than its parts." * Journal of American History *
£23.74
New York University Press Disoriented Asian Americans Law and the
Book SynopsisDoes "Asian American" denote an ethnic or racial identification? Is a person of mixed ancestry, the child of Euro- and Asian American parents, Asian American? What does it mean to refer to first generation Hmong refugees and fifth generation Chinese Americans both as Asian American? This book examines the discourse on race and law.Trade ReviewHas profound political implications for race relations in the new century. * Michigan Law Review *Sophisticated and passionate . . . As [Robert Chang] says, our world is now ‘bursting with color' and it is his accomplishment in this book to re-theorize the vocabulary within which questions of race are debated in this society. -- Stanley Fish,University of Illinois, Chicago
£23.74
New York University Press Imaging Japanese America The Visual Construction
Book SynopsisCreef looks at racial profiling Asian Americans over the past 100 years by examining images by well known photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams.Trade Review"An astute and lucid study of visual representations of Japanese Americans and an important original work for understanding American history in the second half of the twentieth century. Creef elegantly reads the myriad interdisciplinary contexts in which dynamics of race, gender, class, and nation frame Japanese Americans as foreign or the same, alien or national, while revealing the hidden costs such representations extract from individuals and communities." -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim,University of California, Santa Barbara"Imaging Japanese America examines myriad genres of visual and linguistic representation in order to understand the historical and contemporary 'imaging' of Japanese Americans. It is both an artful writing project and an exemplary scholarly work within the field of visual culture studies. Readers will appreciate the interdisciplinary methodology, the rich detailed analysis, and Creef's powerful voice. A joy to readone learns something new at every turn." -- Kent A. Ono,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"[Creef] examines myriad genres of visual and linguistic representation in order to understand the historical and contemporary 'imaging' of Japanese Americans." -- Kent A. Ono,University of Illinois"In engaging and lucid prose, each chapter moves through sensitive and nuanced analyses of a carefully chosen juxtaposition of biographies of individual artists and writers, cultural productions, academic texts, institutional practices and discourses, and material artifacts." * Feminist Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionCarving Japanese American Memory into Place1 The Representation of the Japanese American Body in the Documentary Photography of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Toyo Miyatake2 Beyond the Camera and between the Words Inserting Oneself into the Picture and into Japanese American(Art) History-Mine Okubo's Citizen and the Power of Visual Autobiography 3 The Gendering of Historical Trauma in Wartime Films and the Disciplining of the Japanese American Body 4 Museums, Memory, and ManzanarContesting Our National Japanese American Past through a Politics of Visibility5 Another Lesson in "How to Tell Your Friends Apart from the Japs"The Winter Olympics Showdown between Kristi Yamaguchi of the United States and Midori Ito of Japan EpilogueImag(in)ing the Multiracial Japanese American Body at the Turn of the Millennium Notes Bibliography Index About the author
£22.79
New York University Press Migrant Imaginaries Latino Cultural Politics in
Book SynopsisPlaces migrants at the centre of pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social changeTrade ReviewA landmark book. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Notably, Schmidt Camachos comprehensive interdisciplinary work lends insight into the current immigration crisis, one wrought from more than a century of failed national policiesCamacho offer[s] complementary strategies for rethinking the relationship between history (broadly defined) and cultural production. * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Language Introduction Part I: Border Crossers in Mexican American Cultural Politics 1. These People Are Not Aliens: Transborder Solidarity in the Shadow of Deportation 2. Migrant Modernisms: Racialized Development under the Bracero Program 3. No Constitution for Us: Class Racism and Cold War Unionism 4. Bordered Civil Rights: Migrants, Feminism, and the Radical Imagination in El Movimiento Chicano 5, Tracking the New Migrants: Richard Rodriguez and Liberal Retrenchment Part II: Border Crossings: Frontiers of New Social Conflict 6. Narrative Acts: Fronteriza Stories of Labor and Subjectivity 7. Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Narratives of the Border Crossing Afterword: A trave's de la linea/Across the Line Notes Index About the Author
£59.50
New York University Press Migrant Imaginaries Latino Cultural Politics in
Book SynopsisPlaces migrants at the centre of pressing concerns, contending that border crossers have long been vital to social changeTrade ReviewA landmark book. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Notably, Schmidt Camachos comprehensive interdisciplinary work lends insight into the current immigration crisis, one wrought from more than a century of failed national policiesCamacho offer[s] complementary strategies for rethinking the relationship between history (broadly defined) and cultural production. * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Language Introduction Part I: Border Crossers in Mexican American Cultural Politics 1. These People Are Not Aliens: Transborder Solidarity in the Shadow of Deportation 2. Migrant Modernisms: Racialized Development under the Bracero Program 3. No Constitution for Us: Class Racism and Cold War Unionism 4. Bordered Civil Rights: Migrants, Feminism, and the Radical Imagination in El Movimiento Chicano 5, Tracking the New Migrants: Richard Rodriguez and Liberal Retrenchment Part II: Border Crossings: Frontiers of New Social Conflict 6. Narrative Acts: Fronteriza Stories of Labor and Subjectivity 7. Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Narratives of the Border Crossing Afterword: A trave's de la linea/Across the Line Notes Index About the Author
£23.74
New York University Press The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies
Book SynopsisDrawing on archival material and contemporary analysis, this title provides an account of the prehistory of cultural studies in Britain. It offers a genealogy of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies which has its roots in adult education as well as in the work of Raymond Williams, E P Thompson, and Richard Hoggart.Trade ReviewThe five chapters of the book engage in a systematic analysis of key moments and texts that have shaped the field in its current form...represents a fine work of scholarship and a significant contribution ot the field of Asian American studies -- John Su * Journal of Asian Studies *Chiang directly challenges many shibboleths of Asian American Studies. For just this reason, The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies is certain to be a watershed work in the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies. -- James Kyung-Jin Lee,University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Institutionalization and the Crisis of Representation 1 From Cultural Politics to Cultural Capital 2 Contradictions in the emergence of ethnic Studies 3 Disciplinarity and the Political Identity of Asian American Studies 4 The Political economy of Minority Literature 5 Asian American Cultural Capital and the Crisis of Legitimation Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£23.74
New York University Press East Main Street Asian American Popular Culture
Book SynopsisBy tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, this title includes essays that bring Asian American studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. It is suitable for understanding Asian American popular culture and also contemporary US culture writ large.Trade ReviewA veritable feast of the field's most scrumptious offerings, East Main Street satisfies with some of the best minds in Asian American studies at this table. -- Gary Y. Okihiro,author of Common Ground: Reimagining American HistorySure to spark the imagination of both seasoned fans of Asian American popular culture and the as yet uninitiated. From cyberspace and animé to The Simpsons and Secret Asian Man, this book intrigues and provokes with every chapter. The sheer number of savvy cultural critics assembled ensures that readers will find something of interest, no matter where one begins exploring the popular culture of Asian America. -- Kent Ono,University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignThis volume explores historical and contemporary Asian American popular culture in the context of three broad themes: globalization and local identities, cultural legacy and memories, and ethnicity and identification. Among topics covered are transnational Vietnamese music, Asian fusion cuisine, race on the Internet, kung fu movies, hip hop, and the & iconography of Tiger Woods. * Sage Race Relations Abstracts *East Main Street creates its own relevance by touching on an abundance of cultural mediums and themes. Scholars of film, literature, the Internet, music, and history can all find essays in which to sink their teeth. * Western American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Robert G. LeeIntroduction Shilpa Dave, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha G. OrenPart I: Globalization and Local IdentitiesTrance-FormationsSunaina MairaMaking Transnational Vietnamese MusicKieu Linh Caroline ValverdePlanet BollywoodJigna DesaiModel Minorities Can CookAnita Mannur"pappy's house"Vicente M. DiazPart II: Cultural Legacy and Memories"Within Each Crack/A Story"Victor Bascara"A Woman Is Nothing"Christine SoBetween Yellowphilia and YellowphobiaHye Seung ChungWhose Paradise? Morris YoungMiss Cherry Blossom Meets Mainstream America Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'RiainHow to Rehabilitate a MulattoHiram PerezPart III: Ethnicity and Identi?cationBruce Lee in the Ghetto ConnectionAmy Abugo Ongiri"Alllooksame"? Lisa NakamuraGuilty PleasuresLeiLani NishimeCibo Matto's Stereotype AJane C. H. ParkApu's Brown VoiceShilpa DaveSecret Asian ManTasha G. OrenAbout the Contributors Index
£23.74
New York University Press A Respectable Woman The Public Roles of African
Book SynopsisReveals the varied and powerful lives led by black women in nineteenth century New YorkTrade Review"A valuable, insightful study that will change minds about how black women are viewed in nineteenth-century urban society. [Dabel] is the first to analyze fully the neglected fact that New York City's black population was predominately female for much of its history." -- Graham Russell Gao Hodges,Colgate University"What is new is that Dabel ascribes to a body of unnamed black women in New York City the role of creating a public face through public actionsthe role of & reforming women" * The Journal of American History *"Dabel offers tantalizing glimpses into the often-hidden world created by women on their own behalf as they confronted the myriad challenges facing them." * Canada and the United States *"Not only filled with interesting stories of how African American women kept their community strong, but also stories about the strength of the bonds they formed with each other." * Feminist Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 "I Resided in Said City Ever Since" Women and the Neighborhoods 2 "We Were Not as Particular in the Old Days about Getting Married as They Are Now" Women, the Family, and Household Composition 3 "I Washed for My Living" Black Women's Occupations4 "Idle Pleasures and Frivolous Amusements" African American Women and Leisure Time 5 "They Turned Me Out of My House" African American Women and Racialized Violence 6 "We Should Cultivate Those Powers" Activism of African American Women Conclusion NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author
£33.25
MI - New York University The Latinoa Condition A Critical Reader Second Edition
Book SynopsisOffers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"The authors of these essays explore the theme of Latino/a identity by presenting popular media images of Latino/as and by examining the issues of representation that these images raise...instructive and useful." * Choice *"A valuable and highly informative discussion of the theoretical questions that underlie the production of popular culture in the twenty-first century." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Shape of the Latino Group: Who Are We and What Are We Talking about Anyway? Part II Conquest and Immigration: How We Got (Get) Here Part III Nativism, Racism, and Our Social Construction as a "Problem" Group: How Once We Were Here, We Were Racialized by the Dominant Culture Part IV Racial Construction and Demonization in Mass Culture: Media Treatment and StereotypesPart V Counterstories: We Begin to Talk Back and "Name Our Own Reality" Part VI Rebellious Lawyering and Resistance Strategies: We Fight Back Part VII Revisionist Law: Does the Legal System Work for Us? Part VIII Assimilation: Maybe Our Best Strategy Is Just to Duck? Part IX Splits and Tensions within the Civil Rights Community Part X Sex, Gender, and Class: Sure I'm a Latino, but I'm Still Different from You - How about It? Part XI English-Only, Bilingualism, Interpreters: You Mean I Can't Speak Spanish? Contributors Index
£90.21
New York University Press The Latinoa Condition A Critical Reader Second
Book SynopsisOffers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"The authors of these essays explore the theme of Latino/a identity by presenting popular media images of Latino/as and by examining the issues of representation that these images raise...instructive and useful." * Choice *"A valuable and highly informative discussion of the theoretical questions that underlie the production of popular culture in the twenty-first century." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Shape of the Latino Group: Who Are We and What Are We Talking about Anyway? Part II Conquest and Immigration: How We Got (Get) Here Part III Nativism, Racism, and Our Social Construction as a "Problem" Group: How Once We Were Here, We Were Racialized by the Dominant Culture Part IV Racial Construction and Demonization in Mass Culture: Media Treatment and StereotypesPart V Counterstories: We Begin to Talk Back and "Name Our Own Reality" Part VI Rebellious Lawyering and Resistance Strategies: We Fight Back Part VII Revisionist Law: Does the Legal System Work for Us? Part VIII Assimilation: Maybe Our Best Strategy Is Just to Duck? Part IX Splits and Tensions within the Civil Rights Community Part X Sex, Gender, and Class: Sure I'm a Latino, but I'm Still Different from You - How about It? Part XI English-Only, Bilingualism, Interpreters: You Mean I Can't Speak Spanish? Contributors Index
£27.54
New York University Press Slaverys Exiles The Story of the American
Book SynopsisTheir very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.Trade Review"Sylviane A. Diouf has made an enormous contribution to our understanding of enslaved people's lives with her study of the maroons in the American South. Slavery's Exilesdispels the myth that maroon communities only existed in places such as the Caribbean and Brazil, firmly placing the maroons of mainland North America within larger discussions of slave resistance." * The North Carolina Historical Review *"In a book that is easily accessible yet rigorously researched, analyzed, and argued, Diouf has made a compelling case that scholars of slavery and of early American history must consider the presence of maroons in the U.S. with a sense of renewed urgency. As she so eloquently and brilliantly shows, maroons exhibited a form of self-determined, autonomy-seeking resistance to slavery that complicates our understanding of fugitivity and freedom as they are generally bound up in a North/South, free/unfree binaristic imaginary." * Journal of the Early Republic *"Diouf has scoured archives across the United States, examining accounts of fugitives throughout the Slave South to uncover the hidden history of American maroons, and produced a highly readable, original study that deserves a broad scholarly and popular audience." * Journal of the Civil War Era *"The book is clear and easy to read . . . Diouf's book is important because for the first time it really foregrounds marronage in North America . . . Diouf extends the range by demonstrating the ubiquity of marronage in virtually every southern state. It should be required reading for any scholar of North American slavery." * Journal of American Studies *"In writing that is deeply informative, with vivid anecdotes when available, including horrors of punishment enacted when maroons were captured, this book is recommended to those wishing to pursue the study of American slavery beyond more general texts." * Library Journal *"She tells the story of a few large communities, most notably that of the Great Dismal Swamp, and briefly examines the marronage subgroups of bandits and insurrectionists, but the triumph here is the author's portrait of the day-to-day precariousness of maroon lives, the courage and resourcefulness required for survival, and the terrible price they paid for trying to recover their freedom. A neglected chapter of the American slave experience brought sensitively and vividly to life." * Kirkus *"[T]he stories are riveting. Readers will become familiar with colorful characters like Captain Cudjoe of Jamaica or the man nicknamed 'Forest' for his skill at hiding, and they will learn surprising facts about maroons participation in trade and defense, along with horrific details of punishments . . . . [I]ts a notable document for its treatment of the subject." * Publishers Weekly *"This extensively and thoroughly researched study brings to light a little-known aspect of slavery in the United States . . . a fascinating read. Diouf has done a brilliant job of illuminating a complicated, multifaceted, important, yet little-known piece of black American history." -- Annette Madden * The Baobab Tree *"With impressive research and vivid prose, Diouf directs our attention to maroons within the United States. From the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia to the frontier regions of Louisiana, she shows, fugitive slaves managed to survive without fleeing to the North. An important addition to our understanding of slave society and black resistance." -- Eric Foner,author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"Diouf persuasively captures the quiet heroism of North American maroons. Less dramatic and long-lived than many of the maroon communities in Suriname, Jamaica, or Brazil, those in the southern United States were nonetheless ever present. Diouf demonstrates how much freedom mattered to the enslaved and how, within the limited possibilities open to them, those that set off into the inhospitable swamps and forests managed to forge a new life beyond the authority of whitefolks." -- Richard Price,author of Maroon Societies"In contrast to the study of slavery elsewhere, six decades of research in the United States has systematically bypassed the issue of marronage. Sylviane Dioufs exhaustive research has not only brought the subject to center stage, it offers a framework for recasting the study of runaway slaves throughout the Americas. This is one of those rare books that is at once of scholarly significance and will engage a wide readership." -- David Eltis,Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History, Emory University"Like other books that Sylviane A. Diouf has written, this one examines a fascinating, though neglected topic in African Diaspora history . . . Diouf advances the discourse by using a landscape perspective to offer an alternative to the grand/petit marronage dichotomy . . . Her attention to borderland (adjacent to plantations) and hinterland (remote from plantations or cities) conditions and logistics reflects an appreciation of the wider context framing relations between enslaved and free people, which stands in contrast to the dated view of plantations as islands with impermeable boundaries . . . Diouf has produces a well-written and balanced account... She backs her arguments with evidence, illuminates trends, and accounts for contradictions." * American Historical Review *"This is a very important book that opens a window into an understudied aspect of American slavery. It deserves a wide readership." * American Nineteenth Century History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Development of Marronage in the South 2 African Maroons 3 Borderland Maroons 4 Daily Life at the Borderlands 5 Hinterland Maroons 6 The Maroons of Bas du Fleuve, Louisiana: From the Borderlands to the Hinterland 7 The Maroons of Belleisle and Bear Creek 8 The Great Dismal Swamp 9 The Maroon Bandits 10 Maroons, Conspiracies, and Uprisings 11 Out of the Wilds Conclusion Notes Select BibliographyIndex About the Author
£70.30
New York University Press Jim Crow New York A Documentary History of Race
Book SynopsisIn 1821, New York's political leaders met for over two months to rewrite the state's constitution. The fresh document secured the right to vote for the mass of white men while denying all but the wealthiest African-American men access to the polls. This title introduces students and scholars to this watershed event in American political life.Trade Review"Gellman and Quigley provide a unique perspective. While invaluable for scholars of slavery and NYC, most importantly, students will find an invaluable window onto democracy's history in the US." * Choice *"With so many document collections aimed at teaching scholars and students about slavery and race relations in the nineteenth-century South, it is refreshing and enlightening to read a collection that reminds us of the northern side of the story." -- Michael Vorenberg,author of Final Freedom"A superb combination of documents, commentary, and narrative history. Gellman and Quigley explore the complex world of race and citizenship in New York State where the long history of conflict, accommodation, reversal, and progress foreshadowed the national debate on racial equality. Jim Crow New York is equally valuable for a scholar's reference and for the classroom." -- Lois E. Horton,coauthor of In Hope of Liberty and Hard Road to Freedom"It would require a tremendous amount of time and expense to collect all the primary source material the authors have assembled and reprinted in this book. This in and of itself makes it a valuable resource for researchers." * New York History *"The documents (the editors) have assembled give us many voices, both white and black. Among whites there are pioneers, men of very good will and demagogues worthy of Jim Crow Mississippi. The black voices they present are not the predictable Frederick Douglass and, perhaps, Henry Highland Garnet. Without asserting the point, they demonstrate that many black people were trying to speak for themselves." * Slavery and Abolition *
£59.50
New York University Press Jim Crow New York A Documentary History of Race
Book Synopsis"Jim Crow New York" provides readers with both scholarly analysis and access to a series of extraordinary documents, including extensive excerpts from the resonant speeches made at New York's 1821 constitutional convention and additional documents which recover a diversity of voices.Trade Review"Gellman and Quigley provide a unique perspective. While invaluable for scholars of slavery and NYC, most importantly, students will find an invaluable window onto democracy's history in the US." * Choice *"With so many document collections aimed at teaching scholars and students about slavery and race relations in the nineteenth-century South, it is refreshing and enlightening to read a collection that reminds us of the northern side of the story." -- Michael Vorenberg,author of Final Freedom"A superb combination of documents, commentary, and narrative history. Gellman and Quigley explore the complex world of race and citizenship in New York State where the long history of conflict, accommodation, reversal, and progress foreshadowed the national debate on racial equality. Jim Crow New York is equally valuable for a scholar's reference and for the classroom." -- Lois E. Horton,coauthor of In Hope of Liberty and Hard Road to Freedom"It would require a tremendous amount of time and expense to collect all the primary source material the authors have assembled and reprinted in this book. This in and of itself makes it a valuable resource for researchers." * New York History *"The documents (the editors) have assembled give us many voices, both white and black. Among whites there are pioneers, men of very good will and demagogues worthy of Jim Crow Mississippi. The black voices they present are not the predictable Frederick Douglass and, perhaps, Henry Highland Garnet. Without asserting the point, they demonstrate that many black people were trying to speak for themselves." * Slavery and Abolition *
£23.74
New York University Press Diasporic Africa A Reader
Book SynopsisPresents a research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora away from its focus solely on the Americas.Trade Review"This sparkling mosaic of thought from the African Diaspora redraws the boundaries of relevant scholarship to the benefit of a wide array of students and scholars. A greatly needed volume." -- Sterling Stuckey,Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, University of California at Riverside"Makes a fine introduction to recent scholarship on the African Diaspora, from the slave trade and the geographic dispersal of African people, to the modern conceptualization of the Diaspora as an imagined homeland." * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"Thus this book will be fruitful for ongoing debates on Diaspora and transnationalism and is indispensable for anyone interested in African Diaspora studies." * Journal of African History *"These 13 well-written scholarly essays are an eclectic compilation covering disparate topics, places, and time periods relating to the African Diaspora. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Many of the essays included in this volume are excellent, and all of them raise issues of interest." * African Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction Diasporic AfricaMichael A. GomezPart I Transformations of the Cultural and Technological during Slavery1 In an Ocean of BlueFrederick Knight2 BatuqueJoao Jose Reis3 The Evolution of Ritual in the African DiasporaJames H. SweetPart II Memory and Instantiations of the Divine 4 Bitter Herbs and a Lock of HairJermaine O. Archer5 Embracing the Religious ProfessionDiane Batts Morrow6 Finding the Past, Making the FutureFran Markowitz7 Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in JamaicaElizabeth Pigou-DennisPart III Recon?guring the Political/Contesting the Conceptual 8 Blacks and Slavery in MoroccoChouki El Hamel9 Race and the Making of the NationTyler Stovall10 "[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all other forms ofgovernment but the Soviet"Erik S. McDu?e11 "Boundaries of Law and Disorder"Rose C. Thevenin12 Writing the Diaspora in Black International Literature "With Wider Hope in Some More Benign Fluid ..."Wendy W.Walters13 Displacing DiasporaAsale Angel-AjaniAbout the Contributors Index
£23.74
New York University Press Authentic New Orleans
Book SynopsisMardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter - all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. This work explains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a spectacular locale known as much for its excesses as for its quirky Southern charm.Trade Review"In this remarkable book, Kevin Fox Gotham combines careful historical research, vivid ethnographic observation and sophisticated theoretical insight to produce an indispensable account of New Orleans tourist economy, from its earliest origins to the eve of Hurricane Katrina. A major achievement." -- Richard Douglas Lloyd,author of Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City"“Gotham succeeds most clearly in offering a fresh interpretation of the 1884 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition and in capturing the complexity of New Orleanians’ attitudes about “authenticity” at different moments in the city’s history. He also offers a compelling analysis enlivened with colorful details, especially for the mid- to late nineteenth century and the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His work deserves historians’ attention for emphatically rejecting one-dimensional, theory-driven analyses that fail to capture the diversity of human agency." * The Journal of Southern History *"A testament to the ways our social and legal system failed these women beginning in their childhoods and ended up causing them to fail their own children by being responsible for their deaths." * PsycCRITIQUES *"Gotham traces a fascinating yet critical history of racial exclusion, corporate tourism, and urban branding that students of all cities should read." -- Sharon Zukin,author of The Cultures of Cities"Gotham shows how over time power relations, conflict, and 'tourism practices' have constructed and reshaped the authentic and explains the ways that reisdents through the years have defined authenticity. In doing so, he succeeds in demonstrating that racial inequalities, up which the Katrina disaster focused the nation's attention, helped toshape the images of New Orleans that promoters of the city projected to the rest of the nation and the world." -- John Gruesser,African American Review"Authentic New Orleans is a convincing and productive work, which will be fruitful for further research on gentrification within urban studies." -- Thomas Doerfler,University of Bayreuth"Authentic New Orleans provides a unique interpretation of the city, one that goes beyond its material elements (and devastation) and moves into the rich cultural roots of this special American landmark. I recommend it not only to students of cities, but to all those with a passion for and interest in American culture." -- Anthony Orum,author of City-Building in America"A seminal social and economic history of tourism and travel promotion in New Orleans, covering nearly two centuries from the early 1800s to the present. Authentic New Orleans should instantly become a standard case history in the sociology of tourism." -- John Hannigan,author of Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis"Gothams bold critique of the heritage industry in New Orleans as exemplified by its famous French Quarter, Mardi Gras parades, and Creole cuisine exposes a city steeped in the ugly legacy of racial segregation and class exclusion. In rich narrative prose Gotham persuasively explains how commercial development and tourism's overarching footprint may have devastated the heart of the city even before Katrina washed it all away. This is an important book." -- David Grazian,author of Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs"Most of us probably do not think of sociologists as historians, but Kevin Fox Gotham, associate professor of sociology at Tulane University, shows us what is to be gained by bringing those two disciplines and their diverse methods of analyses together in productive counterpoint. Gotham’s use of a post-hurricane Katrina frame for considering tourism and New Orleans provides an accessible lead-in for most readers, but the historical depth of his study enables him to offer significant theoretical contributions to our ways of thinking about the relationships among “race,” tourism, and place, over time" * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Tracking the Tear 1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours: Grief and the Textures of Time 2 Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament 3 Securing Time: Maternal Melancholia and Sentimental Domesticity 4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse 5 Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln Coda: Everyday Grief Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author
£59.50
New York University Press Authentic New Orleans Tourism Culture and Race
Book SynopsisExplains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a locale known as much for its excesses as for its quirky Southern charm. This title examines various image-building campaigns and promotional strategies to disseminate a palatable image of New Orleans on a national scale.Trade Review"In this remarkable book, Kevin Fox Gotham combines careful historical research, vivid ethnographic observation and sophisticated theoretical insight to produce an indispensable account of New Orleans tourist economy, from its earliest origins to the eve of Hurricane Katrina. A major achievement." -- Richard Douglas Lloyd,author of Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City"“Gotham succeeds most clearly in offering a fresh interpretation of the 1884 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition and in capturing the complexity of New Orleanians’ attitudes about “authenticity” at different moments in the city’s history. He also offers a compelling analysis enlivened with colorful details, especially for the mid- to late nineteenth century and the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His work deserves historians’ attention for emphatically rejecting one-dimensional, theory-driven analyses that fail to capture the diversity of human agency." * The Journal of Southern History *"A testament to the ways our social and legal system failed these women beginning in their childhoods and ended up causing them to fail their own children by being responsible for their deaths." * PsycCRITIQUES *"Gotham traces a fascinating yet critical history of racial exclusion, corporate tourism, and urban branding that students of all cities should read." -- Sharon Zukin,author of The Cultures of Cities"Gotham shows how over time power relations, conflict, and 'tourism practices' have constructed and reshaped the authentic and explains the ways that reisdents through the years have defined authenticity. In doing so, he succeeds in demonstrating that racial inequalities, up which the Katrina disaster focused the nation's attention, helped toshape the images of New Orleans that promoters of the city projected to the rest of the nation and the world." -- John Gruesser,African American Review"Authentic New Orleans is a convincing and productive work, which will be fruitful for further research on gentrification within urban studies." -- Thomas Doerfler,University of Bayreuth"Authentic New Orleans provides a unique interpretation of the city, one that goes beyond its material elements (and devastation) and moves into the rich cultural roots of this special American landmark. I recommend it not only to students of cities, but to all those with a passion for and interest in American culture." -- Anthony Orum,author of City-Building in America"A seminal social and economic history of tourism and travel promotion in New Orleans, covering nearly two centuries from the early 1800s to the present. Authentic New Orleans should instantly become a standard case history in the sociology of tourism." -- John Hannigan,author of Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis"Gothams bold critique of the heritage industry in New Orleans as exemplified by its famous French Quarter, Mardi Gras parades, and Creole cuisine exposes a city steeped in the ugly legacy of racial segregation and class exclusion. In rich narrative prose Gotham persuasively explains how commercial development and tourism's overarching footprint may have devastated the heart of the city even before Katrina washed it all away. This is an important book." -- David Grazian,author of Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs"Most of us probably do not think of sociologists as historians, but Kevin Fox Gotham, associate professor of sociology at Tulane University, shows us what is to be gained by bringing those two disciplines and their diverse methods of analyses together in productive counterpoint. Gotham’s use of a post-hurricane Katrina frame for considering tourism and New Orleans provides an accessible lead-in for most readers, but the historical depth of his study enables him to offer significant theoretical contributions to our ways of thinking about the relationships among “race,” tourism, and place, over time" * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Tracking the Tear 1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours: Grief and the Textures of Time 2 Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament 3 Securing Time: Maternal Melancholia and Sentimental Domesticity 4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse 5 Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln Coda: Everyday Grief Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author
£22.79
New York University Press Filipino American Faith in Action
Book SynopsisExplores Filipino American religious institutions as essential locations for empowermentTrade Review;In this academic page turner Gonzalez blends rich ethnographic descriptions with theoretical sophistication. Filipino American Faith in Action is THE book on the importance of religion for the Filipino migrant community. Gonzalez breaks new ground in the emerging field of religion and immigration with his use of diverse theoretical tools and compelling narratives. A must read. -- Lois Ann Lorentzen,author of The Gendered New World Order: Militarism, the Environment and DevelopmentBreaks new ground in Asian American Studies and more broadly in migration studies by illustrating the transnational and intergenerational civic engagement of migrants through religion. . . . An eminently important study that expands our knowledge of Filipino migrant settlement in the United States. -- Rhacel Salazar Parrenas,author of The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and GlobalizationThe & missionized and & diasporized Christians of the global South are here in our midst . . . transforming the social, religious, and political landscape in places they are finding receptive soils, and . . . challenging us to think and act in new ways. Gonzalezs work speaks of this reality not in abstraction, but through the breathing stories of Filipino diaspora Christian communities in San Francisco, California. Finally, a book that I have been waiting for has arrived. -- Eleazar S. Fernandez,Professor of Constructive Theology, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Minnesota
£66.50
