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WW Norton & Co Code of the Street
Book SynopsisUnsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)Trade Review"A brilliant diagnosis of the internal factors that hold blacks back." -- Wall Street Journal"One of the most interesting examinations of poverty, violence and sociology to emerge in recent years." -- Boston Herald"One of our best ethnographers.... Anderson is excellent in explaining how the criminal element, through a numerical minority, comes to dominate public space." -- New York Times Book Review"Important.... [Anderson] demonstrates, time and again, how optimism, ambition and decency can sprout in the most unlikely places, given even the slimmest chance." -- Newsweek"Eloquent and moving.... A strikingly powerful work that rings with urgency." -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here"This is the best treatment we have of the tormented inner life of young people wrestling with nihilism in a society indifferent to their plight and predicament." -- Cornel West
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Bilingual Counselors Guide to Spanish
Book SynopsisDesigned specifically with mental health professionals in mind, The Bilingual Counselor's Guide to Spanish is perfect for counselors interested in expanding their client base and language skill set. Featuring terminology and cultural phrases specific to the mental health profession, this text offers an easy introduction to both the Spanish language and interfacing with Spanish-speaking clients in a counseling setting. Sections of useful and practical vocabulary are followed by Practique! sections, which enable to reader to put his or her developing skills to use. These sections are augmented by case studies in English and Spanish, as well as brief overviews of Latino history, customs, and social manners that will greatly enhance any counselor's depth of interaction with Spanish-speaking clients. For counselors who want to communicate with the large and rapidly expanding population of Spanish speakers in the United States, or for those who are simply interested in devTrade Review"At last, a multicultural text that goes beyond awareness and knowledge to actual skills development in counseling with Spanish speaking clients! This book will help counselors both walk the walk and talk the talk."—Courtland C. Lee, PhD, department of counseling, higher education and special education, University of Maryland and past president of ACA "Dr. Swazo has written a superb guide to help bilingual counselors working in a range of settings to deliver better services in Spanish. From greetings, to intake interview and follow up, Dr. Swazo offers culturally relevant Spanish expressions, meaningful practice sessions, and illustrative case examples. This book is a must-read for practitioners at all levels of their cultural competency and cultural humility development who are interested in or currently serving the Latin population in the U.S."—Andrés J. Consoli, PhD, department of counseling, San Francisco State University and visiting professor, Universidad del Valle, Guatemala City, Guatemala"Learning the language and culture of today’s Latino/Hispanic clientele is essential for contemporary clinical practice. Dr. Swazo provides practical and common-sense strategies to understand and speak Spanish, augmented by specific examples of phrases frequently used in the clinical setting and a back story of Latino/Hispanic culture that contributes to multicultural competency. An essential book for clinicians wanting to develop culturally sensitive bilingual skills!"—Bruce Dykeman, PhD, associate professor of counseling, Roosevelt University"The Bilingual Counselor's Guide to Spanish is well written, readable, and insightful. It should be required reading for any professional in a counseling or health field who has contact with Spanish-speaking or Hispanic clients."– James P. Choca, PhD, professor and chair of psychology, Roosevelt University"Once again Dr. Roberto Swazo is leading the way to the enhancement of multicultural counseling. Through these pages he brilliantly intertwines theory, experience and practice, offering a gem that will contribute significantly to mental-health services that are culturally relevant and respectful to the Hispanic/Latino community—particularly those that have Spanish as their dominant language. This book is a masterful resource that should join the libraries and desks of those who are committed to the wellness of Latino/as."—Maria del Pilar Grazioso, PhD, director, masters program in counseling psychology and mental health, Universidad del Valle de GuatemalaTable of Contents1. Who are the Latinos-Hispanics? A Brief Historical Overview of Their Culture and People; 2. Cultural Norms and Family Systems: Considerations in the Hispanic/Latino Culture; 3. An Introduction and Review of the Spanish Language; 4. Counselors, Social Workers, and Psychologists; 5. Interventions for School Counselors and School Psychologists; 6. Substance Abuse Professionals; 7. Developing Spanish Bilingual Materials and Techniques on How to Work with an Interpreter. References
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Taylor & Francis Biographical Objects
Book SynopsisIn this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing. Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objects is an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the self but a pivot for reflexivity and introspection, a tool for autobiographic elaboration, a way of knowing oneself through things.Trade Review"[T]he book's heart really lies in the vicissitudes of personal experience, and the ethnographer's relationships with certain individuals. In this respect, the book properly takes its place among other recent works that center on the particularities of experience. Here the author's long fieldwork in Kodi serves her well." -- Indonesia"The stories are beautifully told, and Hoskins makes it easy to enjoy them. ...she is a very welcome guide, helping the reader follow the chains of metaphors that turn experience into poetry. Any student who has suffered through Saussure and Levi-Strauss deserves the pleasure of reading this book." -- The Journal of Asian StudiesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Betel Bag; Chapter 3 Domesticating Animals and Wives; Chapter 4 The Royal Snake Shroud; Chapter 5 Spindles and Spinsters; Chapter 6 The Drum and Masculinity; Chapter 7 Green Bottles and Green Death; Chapter 8 Conclusions;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Black Women Film and Video Artists AFI Film
Book SynopsisGathered here are noted scholars and critics, as well as the film/video makers themselves who offer insight into the work of underexplored artists.Trade Review"Black Women Film & Video Artists is a long-overdue anthology that documents the underacknowledged, yet significant, accomplishments of women filmmakers, scholars, and film technicians." -- CineasteTable of ContentsPart One Part One Critical Perspectives; Chapter one One Black Women's Films, Jacqueline Bobo; Chapter two Two Women Directors of the Los Angeles School, Ntongela Masilela; Chapter three Three The Ties That Bind, Gloria J. Gibson-Hudson; Chapter four Four The Functional Family of Camille Billops, Monique Guillory; Part two Part two Critical Practice; Chapter five Five Carol Munday Lawrence, Carol Munday Lawrence; Chapter six Six How Deep, How Wide?, Shearer Jacqueline; Chapter seven Seven Fired-Up!, O. Funmilayo Makarah; Chapter eight Eight Love on My Eight Mind, Carmen Coustaut; Chapter nine nine Below the Line, C. A. Griffith; Part three Part three In Their Own Words; Chapter ten Ten Michelle Parkerson, Gloria J. Gibson; Chapter eleven Eleven An Intimate Talk with Ntozake Shange, P. Jane Splawn;
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The University of Michigan Press Butch Queens Up in Pumps Gender Performance and
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The University of Michigan Press The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society
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University of California Press The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making
Book SynopsisThe rise of the Auntie Sewing Squad, a massive mutual-aid network of volunteers who provided free masks in the wake of US government failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, when the US government failed to provide personal protective gear during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged. Founded by performance artist Kristina Wong, the mutual-aid group sewed face masks with a bold social justice mission: to protect the most vulnerable and most neglected. Written and edited by Aunties themselves, The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice tells a powerful story. As the pandemic unfolded, hate crimes against Asian Americans spiked. In this climate of fear and despair, a team of mostly Asian American women using the familial label Auntie formed online, gathered momentum, and sewed masks at home by the thousands. The Aunties nimbly made and funneled masks to asylum seekers, Indigenous communities, incarcerated people, farmworkers, and others disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. When anti-lockdown agitators descended on state capitalsand, eventually, the US Capitolthe Aunties dug in. And as the nation erupted in rebellion over police violence against Black people, the Aunties supported and supplied Black Lives Matter protesters and organizations serving Black communities. Providing hundreds of thousands of homemade masks met an urgent public health need and expressed solidarity, care, and political action in a moment of social upheaval. The Auntie Sewing Squad is a quirky, fast-moving, and adaptive mutual-aid group that showed up to meet a critical need. Led primarily by women of color, the group includes some who learned to sew from mothers and grandmothers working for sweatshops or as a survival skill passed down by refugee relatives. The Auntie Sewing Squad speaks back to the history of exploited immigrant labor as it enacts an intersectional commitment to public health for all. This collection of essays and ephemera is a community document of the labor and care of the Auntie Sewing Squad.Trade Review"Perfect for activists and those interested in crafting for a cause, this spirited collection inspires." * Publishers Weekly *"The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice provides an essential snapshot of how arts workers and culture-shapers can channel their creative drive into meaningful mutual aid." * KQED *"Here is a book about voluntary, radical collective carework emerging out of catastrophe. COVID-19’s crisis is turned, stitch by stitch, joke by joke, act by act, toward a true, progressive community of tomorrow." * Society for U.S. Intellectual History *"A how-to grassroots community organizing tool to revel in." * Nichi Bei *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord Taxonomy of Auntie Roles, Audrey Chan Introduction We Go Down Sewing, Mai-Linh K. Hong, Chrissy Yee Lau, Preeti Sharma, and Valerie Soe Auntie Sewing Squad Map, Audrey Chan Auntie Sewing Squad Core Values: Transparency + Passion + Humor + Kindness, Amy Tofte and Kristina Wong Auntie Sewing Squad Bingo, Alina Wong and Heather C. Lou Ode to the Spreadsheet of Glory, Laura Karlin A Mary Poppins Box of Supplies, Laurie Bernadel Finding Fabric, Candice Kim and Sharon McNary Recipe for Vegan Kimchee, Grace J. Yoo Moment of Joy, Chey Townsend and Beatrice Townsend Labor Sewing as Care Work, Preeti Sharma Taxonomy of Auntie Care, Audrey Chan The Evolution of Auntie Care, Gayle Isa Auntie Sewing Squad Care-Van, Duyen Tran How to Sew Masks for Fun and No Profit in the Apocalypse, Dana Leahy Mask Ties and Earloops and Nose Pieces, Belinda Vong Younis Bread, Roses, and Face Masks, Ellen Gavin Home Sweatshop, Laura McSharry Recipe for Ube Halaya, Irene Tayag Laut Solidarity Sewing with Intent, Chrissy Yee Lau Behind the Wheel of a Large Automobile Full of PPE, Badly Licked Bear Badly Licked Bear Relief Van, Badly Licked Bear and Katie Johnson Dreaming of My Ancestors: Sewing a Network of Protection across La Frontera, Jessica Arana Abuela's Facultad, Jessica Arana Solidarity Praxis, Lauretta Kanahoa Masters Monk Fabric, Melinda Creps It's in Your Blood: Warrior Alliances in the Time of Coronavirus, Constance Parng Three Generations, Joni Byun Recipe for Tsukemono Pasta Salad, Dave Vindiola A Day in OUR Virtual Life Survival Sewing as Refuge, Mai-Linh K. Hong Mending Time: A Movement Score, Rebecca Pappas Mask Butterfly and Stencil Rose, Jacqueline Bell Johnson Rebirth, Māhealani Flournoy Sewing through a Pan(dem)ic, Hel en Lee How to Measure, Selfie, Sanae Robinson Guerin Recipe for Nourishing Salve, Laura Karlin Mutual Aid Sewing the Pieces Back Together, Rebecca Solnit ASS Quilt, Melissa Quilter Science Is the Light on the Sewing Machine, Karl Haro von Mogel My Dad Sewing, Lisa Prosta Querida Abuelita Rafaelita, Lorena Madrigal Sewing Machine, Lorena Madrigal Treasuring Mom, Joy Park-Thomas Recipe for Earl's Girl Pound Cake, Diana Williams Posterity Teaching Sewing, Teaching Care, Grace J. Yoo The Auntie Sewing Squad Kids Sewing Camp, Gina Rivera To the Rescue, Dominie Apeles and Teena Apeles Technical Assistance Auntie, Vibrina Coronado Connecting My Family's One-Hundred-Year Herstory, Jenni "Emiko" Kuida Sewing with Mom, Winnie Fong Sewing for the Next Generation, Sylvia Kwon A Day in the Life of Westside Hub, drawn by Gwendolyn Kim , written by Leilani Chan, Ova Saopeng, and Nouthak Saopeng Recipe for Chocolate Shortbread Hearts, Melissa Quilter we (can) do it, Elena Dahl Coda, Mai-Linh K. Hong, Chrissy Yee Lau, and Preeti Sharma Timeline Auntie Sewing Squad Mask Sewing Patterns, Mai-Linh K. Hong and Chey Townsend Contoured Mask Pleated Mask Folding Mask Contributors Index
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis A
Book SynopsisAnti-black racism is a stark presence in Chicago, a fact illustrated by significant racial inequality in and around contemporary global city. Drawing his work as a civil rights advocate and investigator in Chicago, Street explains this neo-liberal apartheid and its resulting disparity in terms of persistently and deeply racist societal and institutional practices and policies. Racial Oppression in the Black Metropolis uses the highly relevant historical and sociological laboratory that is Chicago in order to explain the racist societal and institutional practices and policies which still typify the United States. Street challenges dominant neoconservative explanations of the black urban crisis that emphasize personal irresponsibility and cultural failure. Looking to the other side of the ideological isle, he criticizes liberal and social democratic approaches that elevate class over race and challenges many observers'' sharp distinction between present and so-called past racism. In questioning the supposedly inevitable reign of urban-neoliberaism, Street also investigates the real, racial politics of the United States and finds that parties and ideologies matter little on matters of race. This innovative work in urban history and cultural criticism will inform contemporary social science and policy debates for years to come.Trade ReviewRace and racism have a continuing and profound influence in shaping all aspects of American life. Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis not only captures the pernicious impact racism has as an ideological and structural force, but illuminates with clarity, power, and imagination the way in which it is lived and struggled over at the level of daily life. Street has produced what may be one of the most important accounts of both the causes and effects of racism amid vast material inequities in one of America's most important cities. Paul Street has become an essential figure as a critical commentator on race in the United States. This book should be read by everyone who believes in racial justice, democracy, and hope for the future. -- Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interesta bracing look at what has and has not changed in Chicago, Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis is worth the time. * Colorlines *Paul Street has long written some of the most compelling studies of race and class in Chicago history. At the same time he has produced critical material on how structural racism works today and on how public policies and social movements can produce hope and change. This marvelous book brings past and present together, showing just how the glitter of global Chicago rests on and reproduces injustice. -- David Roediger, Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois, and author of History Against MiseryTable of ContentsChapter 1 It'll Take More Than a Hurricane: Race, Place, Chicago and America's "Enduring Shame" Chapter 2 Whitewashing "Global Chicago": Racial Invisibility in the Neoliberal Era Chapter 3 The First and Only True Ghetto Chapter 4 The Second, "Golden Age" Ghetto Chapter 5 The Nadir: The Third and Apocalyptic Ghetto and the Retreat From Race Chapter 6 Metropolitan Apartheid Chapter 7 Savage Inequalities Chapter 8 What's "Racism" Got to Do With It? Chapter 9 Contesting Corporate Urban Neoliberal Racism
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The History Press Ltd Black Poppies
Book SynopsisA fully revised and updated edition of a vitally important piece of black British historyTrade ReviewA powerful, revelatory counterbalance to the whitewashing of British history -- Bernardine Evaristo
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Cornell University Press Balancing Two Worlds Asian American College
Book Synopsis"Those who find themselves living in the Americas, no matter what their ethnic, educational, or economic background, must ultimately 'become their own personalities,' melding their point of view with their points of origin and their places of...Trade Review"As wonderfully diverse and complex as life itself, these narratives crafted by Asian American college students and their guides unfold in the reading, and reveal identity and community, like memory and history, to be situated and fragmentary formations." -- Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University, author of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History
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Tuttle Publishing North Korea Confidential
Book SynopsisTrade Review"North Korea Confidential gives us a deeply informed close-up…" -- New York Times"…[North Korea Confidential] uses extensive interviews with recent defectors and people still in the country to build a rich picture of daily life there." -- Financial Times"…[Tudor and Pearson] make judicious use of parallels between the divided Koreas. The book endows North Koreans with individuality and complexity, without shying from the brutal or bizarre elements of North Korea." -- Global Asia
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New York University Press Slaverys Exiles The Story of the American
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSylviane 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 SlaveryDiouf 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 SocietiesIn 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 UniversityLike 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
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Syracuse University Press Latina Leadership Language and Literacy
Book SynopsisFocuses on the narratives, scholarly lives, pedagogies, and educational activism of established and emerging Latina leaders in K-16 educational environments. As the first edited collection foregrounding the voices of Latina educators, this volume highlights the ways in which these leaders shape educational practices.Trade ReviewThese authors have collectively responded to multiple, intersecting issues facing Latina educators, students, and activists with brilliance, nuance, care/love, and rigor. They have accomplished the task of highlighting the often unseen, overlooked, and undervalued labor and intellectual legacies of Latinas in education. Currently, there is not enough published in mainstream university presses and academic journals which engages these kinds of Latina perspectives, especially in their varied forms, something this volume accomplishes in no uncertain terms.
£29.66
Wesleyan University Press Baring Unbearable Sensualities
Book SynopsisTheorizing the experiences of black and brown bodies in hip hop dance.
£63.45
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Curse upon the Nation Race Freedom and
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University of Georgia Press Working for Equality The Narrative of Harry
Book Synopsis“When I went to work for Lockheed-Georgia Company in September of 1952 I had no idea that this would end up being my life's work."" With these words, Harry Hudson, the first African American supervisor at Lockheed's Georgia facility, begins his account of a thirty-six-year career that spanned the postwar civil rights movement and the Cold War.
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Duke University Press Phonographies Grooves in Sonic AfroModernity
Book SynopsisCultural study of the effects of sound technologies--from the phonograph to the Walkman--on African American literature, art, and music in the twentieth centuryTrade Review“Phonographies is extraordinary. Its acute, brilliant, and unprecedented attention to technology and its relation to music, literature, and Afro-diasporic subjectivity and citizenship make it one of the most important and significant contributions to black studies, cultural studies, and aesthetic theory in the last ten years. Phonographies demands, and will abundantly repay, the careful attention of its readers and listeners.”—Fred Moten, author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition“A glorious and important contribution to the literatures on music technologies, black music, black writing, and race studies, Phonographies is unique. For the first time, we have a theory that suggests how powerful black culture is in the course of modernity and that accounts for the almost global dominance of black modes of musicality in world cultures since the advent of recorded sound.”—John Corbett, author of Extended Play: Sounding Off from John Cage to Dr. Funkenstein“Exacting, incisive, and stylistically engaging from start to finish, Phonographies is the most far-reaching reconfiguration of the vexed relations between Afrodiasporic modernity, phonography, aurality, and subjectivity published to date. Alexander Weheliye stages a rich set of encounters between DuBois and Ellison, Tricky and Gilroy, Derrida and Armstrong, Glissant and The Fugees in order to open up the entangled topography he terms ‘sonic Afro-modernity.’ In so doing, Weheliye has produced a discursive intervention that is thrilling in its detail, rigorous in its arguments, and profound in its implications. A deeply considered, important volume.”—Kodwo Eshun, author of More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction“In this outstanding book, Alexander G. Weheliye combines sound ‘phono’ and writing ‘graph’ in the classic texts of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and W. E. B Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk to create Phonographies : Grooves in Sonic Afro-modernity. This book is an original examination of sound (often comparing it to visual representations), music, music technologies (from the phonograph to iPods) and disk jockeying. Phonographies includes a multitude of well-researched references to key writers in African American studies, music history, literary criticism and cultural studies, drawing upon the work of Althusser, Derrida, Deleuze, Freud, and Lacan, amongst others, to inform views. . . . [Phonographies is] definitely worth reading more than once; it is a highly significant text for the field of African American Studies.” -- Emma Louise Kilkelly * Journal of American Studies *"Phonographies is often original and challenging . . . strong interdisciplinary connections are made and new insights emerge, and the seamless manner in which he does it startles most of all." * The Wire *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Intro: It’s Beginning to Feel Like . . . 1 1. Hearing Sonic Afro-Modernity 19 2. “I Am I Be”: A Subject of Sonic Afro-Modernity 46 3. In the Mix 73 4. Consuming Sonic Technologies 106 5. Sounding Diasporic Citizenship 145 Outro: Thinking Sound/Sound Thinking (Slipping into the Breaks Remix) 199 Notes 211 Works Cited 257 Index 279
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Duke University Press My Life with Things
Book SynopsisMy Life with Things is Elizabeth Chin's meditation on her relationship with consumer goods and a critical statement on the politics and method of anthropology in which she uses everyday items to intimately examine the ways consumption resonates with personal and social meaning.Trade Review"Chin composes a sprawling paean to the joy of stuff and the impossibility of our ever eschewing it. In My Life With Things, she is winningly alert to the ambivalence around our acts of consumption, both the awful guilt and the immeasurable pleasure nonetheless." -- Shahidha Bari * Times Higher Education *"My Life with Things is a refreshing and honest book, which gives a rich insight into the experience of engaging with auto-ethnography. It should certainly appeal to the more adventurous, less conventional academic from across the social sciences and not just anthropology, the author’s home discipline.... At the end of the day, researchers interested in anthropology, auto-ethnography and/or consumption looking for an insider account complete with warts and all, should find this an invaluable companion." -- Christina Goulding * Consumption Markets & Culture *"With herself as both subject and object of study, Chin . . . weaves a highly personal, idiosyncratic, and explanatory narrative. Ever the provocateur, she brings her own consumer diaries over the span of several years into conversation with the likes of Karl Marx, not only at a theoretical level but also as biographical touchstones. The narratives, structured around the themes of inheritance, survival, and love, detail the author’s close relationship with the everyday items that surround her. The results can be exhilarating, giving readers self-reflexive pause on the consumptive world and how they got there." -- C. R. Yano * Choice *"My Life with Things is a strange yet fascinating look at our cultural preoccupation with owning and communing with physical objects. Chin uses her anthropological background to present an autoethnography, combining research, theory, and personal writing to criticize (and commiserate with) our love of objects." -- Jess Kibler * Bitch *"Elizabeth Chin’s My Life with Things: The Consumer Diaries, is a fantastic book. I can’t imagine anyone reading it and not wanting to become an anthropologist. It is also one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time, with actual laugh-out-loud moments." -- Ben Highmore * New Formations *"Part academic study and part personal essay, My Life with Things offers both casual and scholarly readers an entryway into conversation about the place of material possessions in our lives.... [A] nuanced reflection on both the fact that we are inescapably tied to our possessions and the ways they connect us to our loved ones and neighbors around the world." -- Lee Hull Moses * Christian Century *“My Life with Things is thought-provoking in the best sense of the term. It poses new questions, approaches old ones in fresh ways, and tugs at the complex heart of people’s relationship to the things they have and the things they want.” -- Carrie M. Lane * American Ethnologist *"In the end this book, as Chin tells us, is a focus on moments, rife with the complexities and contradictions of everyday life. Just as in other life moments and journeys, it is full of fodder for contemplation and discussion as well as catalysts for new perspectives. I can imagine it as a resource for teachers as well as students, and I envision many imaginative and lively discussions based on objects described in this book as well as the particular objects animating others’ lives and relationships." -- Patricia L. Sunderland * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Introduction 3 2. The Entries 37 My Life with Things 37 Learn to Love Stuff 38 Banky 40 A Digression on the Topic of the Transitional Object 42 Cebebrate! 56 My Purple Shoes 58 Newspapers 61 Rose Nails 63 The Window Shade 67 Napkins 69 My White Man's Tooth 72 Should I Be Straighter 76 Cyberfucked 79 Knobs 80 Glasses 82 Curing Rug Lust 85 Window Shopping Online 89 Catalogs 92 Other People's Labor 95 Making Roots/Making Routes 98 My Closet(s) 101 Joining the MRE 108 Fun Shopping 114 Preschool Birthday Parties 114 Xena Warrior Consumer Princess 118 I Love Your Nail Polish 120 Little Benches 123 The Kiss 126 Are There Malls in Haiti? 127 Baby Number Two Turned Me into Economic Man 129 Pictures of the Rice Grain 132 Panting in Ikea 136 Capitalism Makes Me Sick 139 My Grandmother's Rings 147 Anorectic Energy 157 Mi-Mi's Piano 162 Dream-Filled Prescriptions 169 The Turquoise Arrowhead 170 Turning The Tables 173 Minnie Mouse Earring Holder 176 Make Yourself a Beloved Person 181 3. Writing as Practice and Process 187 4. This Never Happened 203 Notes 221 Bibliography 227 Index 235
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Duke University Press The Race of Sound Listening Timbre and Vocality
Book SynopsisExamining singers Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, and Jimmy Scott as well as vocal synthesis technology, Nina Sun Eidsheim traces the ways in which the voice and its qualities are socially produced and how listeners assign a series of racialized and gendered set of assumptions to a singing voice.Trade Review"Should be required reading in music education—and no doubt it will become required reading in many academic disciplines that touch on voice studies." -- Marit MacArthur * Yale Review *"An important read within sound studies and race studies." -- Jeff Donison * Journal of Radio & Audio Media *"The Race of Sound is brimming with insight and originality. Not every chapter contributes new knowledge (e.g., Eidsheim is not the first to note that black classical singers were constrained by listener expectations), but in tandem they constitute a groundbreaking argument that should inform all listeners and be part of all music courses. If enough readers take Eidsheim’s work to heart, we can begin to counter the effect of institutions that create and perpetuate the racialized voice." -- Sandra Jean Graham * ARSC Journal *“Eidsheim demonstrates an impressive ability to weave together different critical modes and diverse topics without faltering in her project…. New and established scholars interested in the study of race, gender, voice, and/or African American musics will find much to engage with in Eidsheim’s push toward nonessentializing listening.” -- Alex C. Valin * Women and Music *"Like Eidsheim’s earlier work, The Race of Sound presents meticulously researched, compelling, and detailed accounts of reception, race, and voice throughout the careers of important historical figures. The author provides ample evidence to support her groundbreaking arguments that will give readers a new understanding of how we construct voice, race, and identity every time we engage in the act of listening." -- Victoria Malawey * MUSICultures *“The Race of Sound is ... an insightful addition to the growing body of work on the voice.... We continue to live in a time in which Black voices struggle to be heard. The Race of Sound contributes to this struggle in recognition and joins the record of activist scholarship that centres and respects Black humanity.” -- Natalie Hyacinth * Feminist Review *“This book should be required reading for faculty members everywhere. . . . By asking listeners to reflect on their assumptions . . . The Race of Sound seeks greater freedom for Black musicians and people, opening the door to new possibilities for us all.” -- Loren Kajikawa * Journal of the American Musicology Society *“The Race of Sound allows us to rethink our understanding of identities through voice and thus better understand the social construction of race and gender. Brilliantly written, as approachable as it is accurate, The Race of Sound goes beyond the framework of musicology alone to embrace all cultural studies.” (Translated from French) -- Jean-René Larue * Volume *“Eidsheim provides an elaborate and powerful addition to music scholarship and sound studies as well as to humanities disciplines more broadly. . . . In exposing the plethora of mechanisms that build cultural lenses though which we hear voice, her work serves to puncture even the most trained musical ear or the deepest listener.” -- Kira Dralle * Notes *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. The Acousmatic Question: Who Is This? 1 1. Formal and Informal Pedagogies: Believing in Race, Teaching Race, Hearing Race 39 2. Phantom Genealogy: Sonic Blackness and the American Operatic Timbre 61 3. Familiarity as Strangeness: Jimmy Scott and the Question of Black Timbral Masculinity 91 4. Race as Zeros and Ones: Vocaloid Refused, Reimagined, and Repurposed 115 5. Bifurcated Listening: The Inimitable, Imitated Billie Holiday 151 6. Widening Rings of Being: The Singer as Stylist and Technician 177 Appendix 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 243 Index 259
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Duke University Press Black and Blur
Book SynopsisIn Black and Blur—the first volume in his consent not to be a single being trilogy—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life, exploring a wide range of thinkers, musicians, and artists.Trade Review"Simply put, Moten is offering up some of the most affecting, most useful, theoretical thinking that exists on the planet today.... Moten’s work makes the activities of reading and thinking feel palpably fresh, weird, and vital." -- Maggie Nelson * 4Columns *"Some readers will come here because of The Feel Trio, because of The Undercommons. Some because Moten is the activists’ theorist, the contemporary art institution’s darling, because of performance studies, jazz studies, literature. Some readers will come here to encounter a brain that is at once more erudite, generous, capacious, fierce, jokey and infuriating than most others on the planet right now. Everybody ought to arrive here to be schooled and troubled, elated and confused, invited and indicted by a sparklingly original vision for black study." -- Nabil Kashyap * Full Stop *"It's this spirit of the collective effort of study and exchange and resonance, the effort to keep the channels open and keep listening, that has made Moten (or, maybe, 'Moten/s') such a celebrated thinker. At the end of sentences like these, you want to say something like Amen." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"Be ready to be wowed; be ready to be challenged; most of all, be ready for the long haul. It is, apparently, the first in a planned trilogy. Moten is tracking his own course, and it’s fast-moving and spectacular." -- Patrick James Dunagan * Rain Taxi *"At a time when both theory and criticism are frequently and convincingly attacked as exhausted forms, Moten’s trilogy has reinvented both. . . . In its mixture of theoretical complexity and disarming directness, Moten’s beautifully written trilogy offers the sheer pleasure of art." -- Lidija Haas * Vulture *"2018 must go down for me as the year of Fred Moten’s trilogy: Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. You could say they’re essays about art, philosophy, blackness, and the refusal of social death, but I think of them more as a fractal universe forever inviting immersion and exploration, a living force now inhabiting my bookshelf." -- Maggie Nelson * Bookforum *"My favorite book(s) of 2018 are the three volumes of Fred Moten’s consent not to be a single being, individually titled Black and Blur, Stolen Life, and The Universal Machine. In this collection of essays stretching back fifteen years, Moten challenges the reader to imagine a radically interconnected aesthetic and political sphere that stretches from Glenn Gould to Fanon to Kant to Theaster Gates, sometimes in the space of a single sentence. This trilogy is one of the great intellectual adventures of our era." -- Jess Row * Bookforum *"A brilliant collection of essays, part of a series that investigates notions of Blackness and its representation. This is writing and practice that summons the irregular and the resistant.” -- Katrina Palmer * The Art Newspaper *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv 1. Not In Between 1 2. Interpolation and Interpellation 28 3. Magic of Objects 34 4. Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia 40 5. Taste Dissonance Flavor Escape (Preface to a Solo by Miles Davis) 66 6. The New International of Rhythmic Feel/ings 86 7. The Phonographic Mise-en Scène 118 8. Line Notes for Lick Piece 134 9. Rough Americana 147 10. Nothing, Everything 152 11. Nowhere, Everywhere 158 12. Nobody, Everybody 168 13. Remind 170 14. Amuse-Bouche 174 15. Collective Head 184 16. Cornered, Taken, Made to Leave 198 17. Enjoy All Monsters 206 18. Some Extrasubtitles for Wildness 212 19. To Feel, to Feel More, to Feel More Than 215 20. Irruptions and Incoherences for Jimmie Durham 219 21. Black and Blue on White. In and And Space 226 22. Blue Vespers 230 23. The Blur and Breathe Books 245 24. Entanglement and Virtuosity 270 25. Bobby Lee's Hands 280 Notes 285 Works Cited 317 Index 329
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Temple University Press,U.S. Jookin
Book SynopsisThe first analysis of the development of the jook and other dance arenas in African-American cultureTrade Review"We glean just how rich the black dance tradition is from this vibrant, engaging social history, which hops from the decks of slave ships to honky-tonks, membership clubs and cabarets.... [It] takes us inside Reconstruction-era jook houses where food, gambling, drink and fellowship were offered, and where dances...crystallized into cultural forms."—Publishers Weekly"An excellent study of black dance.... A well-done and readable account of how black Americans brought their dances with them from Africa, adapted them to the music of urban honky-tonks and jook joints, and created a unique art form."—Jazztimes"Here's a book I've longed for—historically rich, empirically inspired and, above all, reverent to the funk and drive and moral spirit of the Grand Atlantic Black Dance Tradition." —Robert Farris ThompsonTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Dancing Under the LashThe Middle Passage • The Plantation Environment • Bals du Cordon Bleu 2. Shoddy Confines: The Jook ContinuumThe Great Transition • Jook Houses, Honky-Tonks, After-Hours Joints • Rent Parties, Chittlin' Struts, Blue Monday Affairs 3. Upper Shadies and Urban PoliticsMonday Night at the Paradise Ballroom • Bells, Buzzers, and Air of Legitimacy • Night Clubs, Show Bars, Cabaret Parties • Dancin' in the Streets • Black Elite Affairs Postscript Notes Index
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Museum of New Mexico Press Cultural Convergence in New Mexico
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BOA Editions Quilting
Book SynopsisBrilliantly honed language, sharp rhythms and striking syntax empower Lucille Clifton''s personal and artistic odyssey. Hers is poetry of birth, death, children, community, history, sexuality and spirituality, and she addresses these themes with passion, humor, anger and spiritual awe.
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Ron Papandrea Spinning Spider Haiku of Ron Papandrea
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Cambridge University Press We the King
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Cambridge University Press Funding White Supremacy
Book SynopsisThe racial wealth gap in America, even in recent decades, is expanding and perpetuating the system of white supremacy. This book details a largely unacknowledged cause: how current federal policies continue this legacy. Through the lens of stratification economics, it explains the origins, evolution, and impact of these politics.
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Cambridge University Press Historical Trauma
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Taylor & Francis Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right
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Taylor & Francis Hispanic Marketing
Book SynopsisHispanic Marketing: The Evolution of the Latino Consumer focuses on using cultural insights to connect with Hispanic consumers. This fourth edition brings up to date the theories, concepts, and practices that help readers understand Hispanic consumers and marketing communication campaigns across Hispanic segments.Written by leaders in the field of Hispanic marketing, this book uses theories of culture, acculturation, and social identification, among others, to explain Hispanic consumer reactions to products and advertising. It explores cross-cultural values and issues associated with branding, language, and acculturation, and provides the consumer insights required to understand, plan for, and respond to differences between Hispanic and non-Hispanic markets and across segmentation. Each chapter includes real-life case studies and distills the key implications for marketers, to ensure students grasp the essential concepts. This fourth edition includes: the i
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Taylor & Francis Older African American Women
Book SynopsisAfrican American women have disproportionally high prevalence, incidence, and mortality rates for most health conditions in comparison to white women. This book will explore some of the reasons for these disparities including problems within the health care system and societal institutions.The disproportionally high number of COVID-19 deaths in the African American population, especially among African American women, have brought renewed attention to historical racial inequality and the role it plays in the daily lives of American women and black families in general. Recommendations include practical implications of this research include identifying social and financial supports unique to older African American women and determining strategies to strengthen the health needs of African American families, which is also paramount to addressing economic, social and racial disparities of this population. Drawing on data from a variety of sources, this book applies a systema
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Taylor & Francis Fanon Psychoanalysis and Critical Decolonial
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book examines the psychological dimension of decolonial thought in reference to foundational texts. Previously published as A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial, this new edition foregrounds the central role of Fanonâs psychology.Highlighting the contributions of anti-colonial authors to the theorization of racism and oppression, the book demonstrates the pertinence of postcolonial and decolonial thought for critical social psychology and psychoanalysis via an investigation of a series of key topics. It explores the psychology of embodiment and racialization, resistance strategies to oppression, extra-discursive facets of racism, the phobogenic and sexual dimensions of anti-Blackness, and the roles of desire, fantasy, and unconscious in ideologies of racism. The book makes a distinctive contribution through discussing the work of authors drawn from anti-apartheid, psychoanalytic, and critical social theory traditions, including Steve Biko, J.M. Coetzee, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, Chabani Manganyi, and Slavoj ÅiÅek. This second edition continues to showcase a crucial set of critical resources for an anti-racist (decolonial) agenda, and is fully updated with new discussion, references, and images, with a new chapter on desire, fantasy, and apartheid ideology to strengthen the bookâs engagement with apartheid racism.This is an invaluable text not only for students of critical social psychology, psychoanalysis, and sociology, but for students enrolled in courses on race, racism, or decolonial studies. It will also appeal to postgraduates, academics, and anyone interested in psychoanalysis in relation to societal and political issues.
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Routledge Routledge Handbook of African Social Work Education
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Taylor & Francis Mapping Inequality in an Era of Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisOffering a unique, comprehensive, and critical introduction to increasingly visible social inequalities, this textbook examines the political and economic causes and cultural consequences of a stratifying system that allocates material resources and human dignity on the basis of private profit and labor exploitation.Mapping Inequality in an Era of Neoliberalism foregrounds capitalism as the major source of the power relations in the United States, as a class system that serves the dominant vector of inequality and sets the parameters of social mobility. The book starts with racialized capitalist power and shows how this power is constituted in structures of opportunity and constraint. It also uses ethnographic accounts to âœflip the scriptâ to show how individuals in the class structure construct identities.Providing students with tools for understanding, Valocchi engagingly introduces many of the crucial concepts in this area of sociology â power, opportunity s
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hidden in White Sight
Book SynopsisArtificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is this true? Given that the policing and judicial systems can display human bias, this book explores how the technology they use can also reflect these prejudices.From healthcare services to social scoring in exams, to applying for and getting loans, AI outcomes often restrict those most in need of these services. Through personal stories from an esteemed Black Data Scientist and AI expert, this book attempts to demystify the algorithmic black box.AI pervades all aspects of modern society and affects everyone within it, yet its internal biases are rarely confronted. This book advises readers on what they can do to fight against it, including the introduction of a proposed AI Bill of Rights, whilst also providing specific recommendations for AI developers and technologists. https://hiddeninwhitesight.com/ Trade Review"An excellent book…is every day life, practical, visionary, and opens unique thoughts and ways to solving pervasive daily problems."--Antonio Smith Sr., Technologist, Serial Entrepreneur, Leader, Author, Inventor, Mentor, Activist"This book a must read. It can be used to educate those in the impacted communities, the developers and companies on the issues, and any interested party. It emphasizes the urgent need to address them now. If not, this country – and our global society – may sustain some of our systemic racial structures. It is a call to action to address the issues and enable AI/ML to fulfill its true promise; becoming a major impetus to improving our global quality of life."—Sandra K. Johnson, Ph.D., CEO, SKJ Visioneering; Former CEO IBM Central, East and West Africa"As technology becomes a driver in delivering government services, it is essential that the technologists, policy makers and leaders understand the value and risks of this evolving world. Government technology leaders must be at the forefront of establishing the guideposts for the fair and equitable use of technology that impacts the citizens and businesses that they support. Hidden in White Sight provides valuable insights on the impact of technology decisions that are being made today but more importantly, what technology leaders must do in the future."--Teri Takai, Senior Vice President, Center for Digital Government; Former State and Federal CIO."As a white, middle-aged senior executive who has mentored Calvin on how to navigate the corporate world and was mentored by Calvin on how to better engage with the Black community, when Calvin first told me he wanted to write a book about AI from his perspective, that of a black man who grew up in urban America and Urban Atlanta, I thought it was a fabulous idea for so many reasons. We discussed making the book approachable even to people without a technical degree. Possibly even to uneducated populations. It is important that the less educated and non-technical population, especially from the black and brown community, understand how AI impacts their lives every day - in some ways innocuous, and in others that impact their health, their wealth, and their livelihood….After reading the book, I was pleasantly stunned by how he was able to convey highly technical challenges and opportunities of AI from real-world examples from his friends and community members. This is a must-read for any person of color, but perhaps more important for the white community to read to begin to empathize with the challenges of the black community…Remember AI is just math and math is not intrinsically biased or hurtful, the math learns from the data that enshrines all the bad, hateful, and harmful decisions of the white community in the past. This is a must-read for all."—Seth Dobrin, Ph.D., President, Responsible AI Institute, CEO, Trustwise AI"An excellent book…is every day life, practical, visionary, and opens unique thoughts and ways to solving pervasive daily problems."--Antonio Smith Sr., Technologist, Serial Entrepreneur, Leader, Author, Inventor, Mentor, Activist"An excellent book…is every day life, practical, visionary, and opens unique thoughts and ways to solving pervasive daily problems."--Antonio Smith Sr., Technologist, Serial Entrepreneur, Leader, Author, Inventor, Mentor, Activist"As a white, middle-aged senior executive who has mentored Calvin on how to navigate the corporate world and was mentored by Calvin on how to better engage with the Black community, when Calvin first told me he wanted to write a book about AI from his perspective, that of a black man who grew up in urban America and Urban Atlanta, I thought it was a fabulous idea for so many reasons. We discussed making the book approachable even to people without a technical degree. Possibly even to uneducated populations. It is important that the less educated and non-technical population, especially from the black and brown community, understand how AI impacts their lives every day - in some ways innocuous, and in others that impact their health, their wealth, and their livelihood. I was hopeful that he would be able to achieve these goals, but skeptical even Calvin could achieve this. After reading the book, I was pleasantly stunned by how he was able to convey highly technical challenges and opportunities of AI from real-world examples from his friends and community members. This is a must-read for any person of color, but perhaps more important for the white community to read to begin to empathize with the challenges of the black community, especially those that have risen from being very economically challenged to those who have spent their life better off, but are still impacted by the systemic and structural racism that is embedded in the data used to train past and the current version of AI. Remember AI is just math and math is not intrinsically biased or hurtful, the math learns from the data that enshrines all the bad, hateful, and harmful decisions of the white community in the past. This is a must-read for all."-- Dr Seth Dobrin, PhD, President, Responsible AI Institute, CEO, Trustwise AI"As technology becomes a driver in delivering government services, it is essential that the technologists, policy makers and leaders understand the value and risks of this evolving world. Government technology leaders must be at the forefront of establishing the guideposts for the fair and equitable use of technology that impacts the citizens and businesses that they support. Hidden in White Sight provides valuable insights on the impact of technology decisions that are being made today but more importantly, what technology leaders must do in the future."--Teri Takai, Senior Vice President, Center for Digital Government; Former State and Federal CIO.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Listening Ears, Chapter 2: The Racist Algorithm, Chapter 3: The American Dream, Chapter 4: AI Gone Wild, Chapter 5: An Enduring Legacy, Chapter 6: Our Authentic Selves, Chapter 7: Mass Unemployment, Chapter 8: Medically Induced Trauma, Chapter 9: Colored Ads, Chapter 10: Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chapter 11: Designers’ Dilemma, Chapter 12: Corporate Choice, Chapter 13: Algorithmic Justice
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Taylor & Francis Decolonization and Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisDecolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges conventional psychoanalytic assumptions by revisiting Lacanâs conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.Ahmad Fuad Rahmat explores how Lacanâs ideas about the symbolic order and its historical development are intertwined with decolonial assumptions, and proposes that critically considering these assumptions can pave the way for a decolonial psychoanalysis. The book begins with how Lacan uses Freudâs Jewishness as a marginalized perspective that reveals the excluded dimensions of signification within the symbolic order, and examines James Joyceâs anti-colonial politics and its significance for Lacanâs conception of the sinthome. The book includes a critique of Slavoj ÅiÅekâs Eurocentric reading of Malcolm X as a foil with which colonized speech could be conceived as âœsymbolic dispossessionâ. Finally, it reframes the notion of âœthe gapâ by understanding global capitalism as a mode of exchange to advocate for a decolonial psychoanalysis that focuses on the non-spaces of transmission as opposed to a like-for-like export of the clinic from the center to the periphery.Decolonization and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to scholars of psychoanalytic studies, critical theory, and cultural studies.
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Taylor & Francis Governing the Palm Oil Industry
Book SynopsisThis book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America respond to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping this global industry.With its historic roots in Southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation continues to expand beyond its historical centres. In Latin America, many countries are now developing their own policies to promote and govern oil palm cultivation. This book provides a unique examination of how different countries strive to strike a balance between developmental and environmental concerns, through case studies on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, and Mexico, and an outlook for the industry's prospects in Africa. This book applies an assemblage approach to draw out lessons on the global challenges posed by the industry and how differing national governance regimes and communiti
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Taylor & Francis MoreThanHuman Design in Practice
Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of the diverse multidisciplinary field of more-than-human design, offering a philosophical grounding of more-than-human design in posthumanism while putting practical design examples and methods to the forefront.There is an urgent need to radically re-imagine design, as its current processes are contributing to global warming, pollution, deforestation, ocean acidification, ozone layer depletion, loss of biodiversity and species extinction. Given this need, âmore-than-human designâ has emerged as a perspective that widens our thinking beyond solely human-oriented considerations and needs, such as animals, plants and microbes. The book explores the relationship between sustainability and design, touching on topics such as AI, systems thinking, futures studies and pedagogy, and discusses a range of case study projects that are grounded in more-than-human thinking, demonstrating how this can be incorporated into practice.This easily accessibl
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Taylor & Francis South American Policy Regionalism
Book SynopsisâœRegional cooperation exists, but looks different in the global South than in the European Union,â claim the contributors to South American Policy Regionalism, which offers novel theory, methods, and Latin American case studies of joint governance efforts in nine international policy arenas, ranging from illegal drugs to artificial intelligence.Contrasting three major schools of thought in international relations (highlighting power, institutions, and ideas), this book introduces the idea of international policy regionalism as a framework for informed debate about international policy-sector interactions in a regional space. Beginning with a conceptual approach applicable to any world region, it includes a brief history of Western Hemisphere regionalism to aid in future cross-regional comparisons. An international group of contributors constructs rich narratives of the politics of Latin American policy sector evolution since the Cold War. Besides the aforementioned, i
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Taylor & Francis The Blinding Light of Race Race and Racism in Western Society Volume 1
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Taylor & Francis Black Veteranality
Book SynopsisHow does military service collide with Black identity in a racially stratified America? Black Veteranality is an examination of the intersection of race, patriotism, and military service from the perspective of Black veterans, offering a robust framework for reimagining American patriotism and reframing veteran identity. Black veteranality emerges through an interdisciplinary synthesis of W.E.B. DuBoisâ foundational concept of âœdouble-consciousnessââthe psychological duality Black Americans experience when negotiating racialized identity formationsâand Veteran Critical Theoryâs structural analysis of institutional power dynamics shaping military service members. Through critical ethnography and narrative interviews, this conceptual framework interrogates monolithic veteran narratives by documenting how Black servicemembers simultaneously embody patriotic ideals through military service while confronting systemic racismâs psychological toll and navigate what critical race scholars term the White gazeâa hegemonic social mechanism that perpetuates exclusion through perpetual scrutiny of Black veteransâ cultural authenticity and national belonging. Essential reading for scholars of African American studies, American Studies, Veteran Studies, and military professions, this work bridges academia and activism, proving true loyalty lies in confronting systemic inequities.
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Taylor & Francis The Funk Movement
Book SynopsisRabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.The Funk Movement was a sub-movement within the larger Black Power Movement and its artistic arm, the Black Arts Movement. Moreover, the Funk Movement was also a sub-movement within the Black Womenâs Liberation Movement between the late 1960s and late 1970s, where womenâs funk, especially Chaka Khan and Betty Davisâs funk, was understood to be a form of âœBlack musical feminismâ that was as integral to the movement as the Black political feminism of Angela Davis or the Combahee River Collective and the Black literary feminism of Toni Morrison or Alice Walker. This book also demonstrates that more than any other post-war Black popular music genre, the funk music of the 1960s and 1970s laid the foundation for the mercurial rise of rap music and the Hip Hop Movement in the 1980s and 1990s.This book is primarily aimed at scholars and students working in popular music studies, popular culture studies, American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, critical race studies, womenâs studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies.
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Taylor & Francis Responses to 7 October Law and Society
Book SynopsisOne of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Law and Society begins with a legal and a genocide studies critique of the claim that Israel is genocidal; another reflects on the absence of an understanding of antisemitism in international legal discourse.There are reflections on experiences in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the twists that discourse there takes. Contributions draw on Judaism, feminism, and sociology to face what happened and to trace how Israelis were transported back to a quintessentially pre-Israel Jewish experience. Others survey reports of antisemitism around the globe in the wake of 7 October, including pieces about Britain and Germany.This work will appeal to scholars, students, and activists with an interest in antisemitism, Jewish studies, and the politics of Israel.
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Taylor & Francis Asian Pacific American Politics
Book SynopsisAsian Pacific American Politics presents some of the most recent research on Asian American politics, including both quantitative and qualitative examinations of the role of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in some of todayâs major political controversies.In the highly polarized politics of the United States in the early 21st century, non-Black racial minorities such as Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans will increasingly find themselves swept into the epicenter of many of the divisive controversies. This timely volume presents the latest scholarly research on some of these issues, examining questions such as Asian American support for #Black Lives Matter, responses to racially-charged attacks, and the differences in the political socialization, politicization, and community-based activism within and across sectors of the Asian American population. In addition to examining political identity, voting participation, political mobilization, transn
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Taylor & Francis Inside Brazilian Bureaucracy
Book SynopsisAlthough the everyday actions of civil servants and the overall performance of government agencies have huge impacts on the lives of Latin America's citizens, scholars have only recently begun to analyze the region's bureaucrats and bureaucracies. This book focuses on bureaucratic attitudes and agency behavior in a diverse group of Brazilian states.The book begins with a survey of state-level bureaucrats, a survey that centers on perceptions of political bias and on the networks bureaucrats construct to perform their jobs and advance their careers. In collaboration with Brazilian scholars, the book then analyzes the implementation of nine policies in a diverse set of states. These policies include the construction of a light rail system and a peripheral highway, management of a children's hospital and a river basin, establishment of a framework for cooperative economic programs, the rolling back of a decentralization program, a reform of secondary education, cleaning a major
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Taylor & Francis Migration Studies
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Taylor & Francis Ethnic Interest Groups and US Foreign Policy
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Taylor & Francis The Psychology of Skin Bleaching
Book SynopsisThis book examines the controversial global phenomenon of skin bleaching. It uses a social psychological approach to explain the motivations, behaviour and medical consequences of the practice, considering why some people use products to lighten their complexion. Written by a world leading expert in skin bleaching, the book takes a nuanced approach to understanding skin bleaching that looks further than the standard claims of low self-esteem, a form of self-hatred. It goes beyond looking at individual personality traits to consider the cultural norms, values, shared social meanings and practices about race and skin color, showing how shared meanings from social representation guide peopleâs behaviour in their culture. The book draws predominantly on research from Jamaica, but considers how skin bleaching is practised in different cultural contexts across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Chapters consider the history of race and skin color, how skin color and race are portrayed
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Taylor & Francis Southern Anthropocenes
Book SynopsisThis wide ranging volume addresses the changing landscape of problems, challenges, and possibilities that emerge once the macroscopic notion of the Anthropocene is replaced with Southern Anthropocenes. It envisions Southern Anthropocenes as an opening towards forms and ends of life that exceedsâwhile remaining in partial relation withâmodern socio-economic horizons and the determinations of the geo-, eco-, and climate sciences.What happens if Southern Anthroposcenes are allowed to multiply, and room is made for practices of worlding and life that are impossible from within the singular Anthropocene?Key issues include emergent interfaces between beings, ways of living, and worlds; problems of co-existence in and across pluriversal contact zones; explorations of livability under rapidly changing circumstances; speculations about other futures and how to invent them; investigations of more-than human itineraries and entangled territories; and explorations how to collectively invent the portals between ways of thinking and acting on a planet in a critical state. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in Sociology, Anthropology, Critical Education, Environmental Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, Geography and Urban Studies.
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