Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
The University of Chicago Press Building a New Educational State Foundations
Book SynopsisBuilding a New Educational State examines the dynamic process of black education reform during the Jim Crow era in North Carolina and Mississippi. Through extensive archival research, Joan Malczewski explores the initiatives of foundations and reformers at the top, the impact of their work at the state and local level, and the agency of southerners including those in rural black communities to demonstrate the importance of schooling to political development in the South. Along the way, Malczewski challenges us to reevaluate the relationships among political actors involved in education reform. Malczewski presents foundation leaders as self-conscious state builders and policy entrepreneurs who aimed to promote national ideals through a public system of education efforts they believed were especially critical in the South. Black education was an important component of this national agenda. Through extensive efforts to create a more centralized and standard system of public education aime
£45.60
The University of Chicago Press African Futures Essays on Crisis Emergence and
Book SynopsisCivil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in contemporary anthropology, as evidenced by the incredible wealth of ideas offered in this landmark volume. A consortium comprised of some of the most important scholars of Africa today, this book surveys an intellectual landscape of opposed perspectives in order to think within the contradictions that characterize this central question: Where is Africa headed? The experts in this book address Africa's future as it is embedded within various social and cultural forms emerging on the continent today: the reconfiguration of the urban, the efflorescence of signs and wonders and gospels of prosperity, the assorted techniques of legality and illegality, lotteries and Ponzi schemes, apocalyptic visions, a yearning for exile, and many other phenomena.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press American Warsaw The Rise Fall and Rebirth of
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£22.00
The University of Chicago Press Divided by Color Racial Politics and Democratic
Book SynopsisAn examination of American attitudes toward race and racial policies. This book shows that racial resentment powerfully affects white opinion on such issues as: welfare, affirmative action, school desegregation, and the plight of the inner city. The opinions of black Americans are also studied.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Unsteady March The Rise Decline of Racial
Book SynopsisThis work aims to disprove the idea that the United States has been on a "steady march" toward the end of racial discrimination. Rather, progress has been made only in brief periods, under special conditions, and it has always been followed by periods of stagnation and retrenchment.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Unsteady March One: "Bolted with the Lock of a Hundred Keys" The Era of Slavery, 1619-1860 Two: "Thenceforward, and Forever Free" The Civil War, 1860-1865 Three: "The Negro Has Got as Much as He Ought to Have" Reconstruction and the Second Retreat, 1865-1908 Four: "The Color Line" Jim Crow America, 1908-1938 Five: "Deutschland and Dixieland" Antifascism and the Emergence of Civil Rights, 1938-1941 Six: "Double V: Victory Abroad, Victory at Home" World War II Seven: "Hearts and Minds" The Cold War and Civil Rights, 1946-1954 Eight: "There Comes a Time" The Civil Rights Revolution, 1954-1968 Nine: "Benign Neglect?" Post-Civil Rights America, 1968-1998 Conclusion: Shall We Overcome? Notes Index
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Black and White Styles in Conflict
Book Synopsis"Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones."--Marjorie Harness Goodwin, "American Ethnologist"
£14.87
The University of Chicago Press Corporate Tribalism White MenWhite Women and
Book SynopsisEmphasizes the need for a multicultural - rather than homogenizing - approach and offers ideas for turning the workplace into a more interactive community for everyone who works there.Trade Review"Kochman and Mavrelis provide analyses, anecdotes, and examples from their research and training experiences that give richness and credibility to their reasoning. As a consequence, their discussions are vivid, insightful, and stimulating. Their arguments about the connections between the culture of racial, gender, and ethnic groups and the conflicts that can surface between and among members of these groups merit consideration. And their timely conclusions will be relevant in the workplace and to society at large." - R. Roosevelt Thomas, author of Building on the Promise of Diversity: How We Can Move to the Next Level in Our Workplaces, Our Communities, and Our Society"
£20.00
The University of Chicago Press African American Urban History since World War II
Book SynopsisFocuses on black migration and Latino immigration, examining tensions and alliances that emerged between African Americans and other groups. Exploring the challenges of residential segregation and deindustrialization, this book also tackles such topics as the real estate industry's discriminatory practices.Trade Review"Taken together, the essays in this volume are transformative - and excellent across the board. They collectively propel the historiography of the postwar era in profitable directions. They push against the most staid boundaries of urban history, they break out of the black-white binary that ensnares so much of African American history, and they juxtapose different objects of study in a way that establishes this book as a wonderfully realized interdisciplinary examination of the past." - Jonathan Holloway, Yale University"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Cultural Territories of Race Black and White
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s social scientists have been reluctant to discuss the cultural dimensions of racial inequality - not wanting to blame the victim for having wrong values. This text employs cultural analysis toward an understanding of how cultural structures articulate the black/white problem.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
Book SynopsisInterweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of the author's research on those tailors in the late 1970s. This title shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows.Trade Review"This is a fascinating and brilliant book that chronicles Lave's career-long effort to escape the dualistic logics that constrain social analysis and to come to terms with what it means to recognize that context is everything. As Lave compels and challenges us to rethink and redo pretty much everything we have been doing as social analysts so far, we find that we have to dispense with more than a few of our tried and true concepts." (Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race
Book SynopsisMcMahon demonstrates how FDR's goals of constructing a stronger presidency and undermining the power of conservative Southern Democrats dovetailed with his administration's efforts to seek racial equality through the federal courts.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Purity and Exile Violence Memory and National
Book SynopsisThis study of Hutu refugees from Burundi, driven into exile after their 1972 insurrection against the Tutsi was suppressed, shows how experiences of dispossession and violence are remembered and turned into narratives, and how this process helps to construct identities such as Hutu and Tutsi.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Black Women in America Social Science
Book SynopsisEmphasizing work that frees our imaginations and allows us to conceive new theories, new language, and new questions, the collection seeks to establish the nature of Afro-American women's experiences while providing a theoretical framework for Black feminist thought. In essays that explore the intersection of work and family, socio-historical literature and critiques, and the relation of Black women to community life, contributors to this volume document Afro-American social and personal struggles and strategies. Individual essays examine family roles, job satisfaction, economic status, and women's traditions in the church. An eloquent introduction to the development of Black feminist thought, Black Women in America encourages the discussion of broader issues, such as the treatment of cultural diversity in American higher education.
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press The Black Extended Family
Book SynopsisMisunderstood and stereotyped, the black family in America has been viewed by some as pathologically weak while others have acclaimed its resilience and strength. Those who have drawn these conflicting conclusions have gnerally focused on the nuclear familyhusband, wife, and dependent children. But as Elmer and Joanne Martin point out in this revealing book, a unit of this kind often is not the center of black family life. What appear to be fatherless, broken homes in our cities may really be vital parts of strong and flexible extended families based hundreds of miles awayusually in a rural area. Through their eight-year study of some thirty extended families, the Martins find that economic pressures, including federal tax and welfare laws, have begun to make the extended family's flexibility into a liability that threatens its future.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Making the Unequal Metropolis
Book SynopsisIn a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's Making the Unequal Metropolis presents a broad, detailed, and damning argument about the inextricable interrelatedness of school policies and the persistence of metropolitan-scale inequality. While many accounts of education in urban and metropolitan contexts describe schools as the victims of forces beyond their control, Erickson shows the many ways that schools have been intertwined with these forces and have in fact via land-use decisions, curricula, and other tools helped sustain inequality. Taking Nashville as her focus, Erickson uncovers the hidden policy choices that have until now been missing from popular and legal narratives of inequality. In her account, inequality emerges not only from individual racism and white communities' resistance to desegregation, but as the result of long-standing linkages between schooling, property markets, labor markets, and the pursui
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press La Chicana The MexicanAmerican Woman
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The University of Chicago Press West of Sex
Book SynopsisSex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. The author uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide a coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review"This is a fascinating book, with vivid examples and accessible writing. Pablo Mitchell reveals the shifting and contested ground of sex and romance on the US-Mexico border in a cutting-edge analysis that links nascent sexual identities with the political economy of gender, nation, and racial formations." (Sarah Deutsch, Duke University)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press West of Sex Making Mexican America 19001930
Book SynopsisSex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. The author uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide a coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review"This is a fascinating book, with vivid examples and accessible writing. Pablo Mitchell reveals the shifting and contested ground of sex and romance on the US-Mexico border in a cutting-edge analysis that links nascent sexual identities with the political economy of gender, nation, and racial formations." (Sarah Deutsch, Duke University)"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Saying Something Jazz Improvisation Interaction
Book SynopsisIn this work, Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Talking to Musicians 2: Grooving and Feeling 3: Music, Language, and Cultural Styles: Improvisation as Conversation 4: Intermusicality 5: Interaction, Feeling, and Musical Analysis 6: Ethnomusicology, Interaction, and Poststructuralism Coda Notes Interviews Recordings Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Saying Something
Book SynopsisIn this work, Ingrid Monson juxtaposes musicians' talk and musical examples to ask how musicians go about "saying something" through music in a way that articulates identity, politics, and race.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Lost Black Scholar
Book SynopsisThe story of Alison Davis, one of the first black anthropologists and the first black tenured professor, a pioneer whose work—in part because it was so multifarious—has been all but forgotten.
£32.30
The University of Chicago Press Reading Riting and Reconstruction The Education
Book SynopsisEmploying a wide range of sources, the author examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particular attention paid to the activities of the Freedman's Bureau. He looks as well at those who came to teach, a diverse group - white, black, Northern, Southern - and at the curricula and textbooks they used.Trade Review"Morris's ingenuity in ferreting out a wealth of biographical information... is particularly impressive.... An especially welcome addition to the literature." - American Journal of Education"
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Schooling Citizens
Book SynopsisWhile white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, the author argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion.Trade Review"I cannot think of any other book that is like Schooling Citizens, which makes an important contribution both to the historiography of African Americans and to the history of education in America. Well written and well argued, this book is an original contribution to scholarship." - Shane White, author of Stories of Freedom in Black New York"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Diasporic Condition Ethnographic Explorations
Book SynopsisBridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage engages with the diasporic Lebanese community as a shared lifeworld, defining a common cultural milieu that transcends spatial and temporal distancea collective mode of being here termed the diasporic condition. Encompassing a complicated transnational terrain, Hage's long-term ethnography takes us from Mehj and Jalleh in Lebanon to Europe, Australia, South America, and North America, analyzing how Lebanese migrants and their families have established themselves in their new homes while remaining socially, economically, and politically related to Lebanon and to each other. At the heart of The Diasporic Condition lies a critical anthropological question: How does the study of a particular sociocultural phenomenon expand our knowledge of modes of existing in the world? As Hage establishes what he terms the lenticular condition, he breaks down the boundaries between us and them, here and there, showing that this convergent mode of existence increasingly defines everyone's everyday life.Trade Review"This sophisticated, captivating ethnography demonstrates how anthropological understanding can be applied to a diasporic mode of living and how the mobile subject contributes to expanding analyses of culture, belonging, and place. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *“With his typical creative brilliance, Hage probes the diverse and divergent angles through which Lebanon appears in migratory memories and movement, and, in the process, upends our understanding of the politics of ancestry and inheritance in diasporic worlds.” * Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of The Inheritance *“With this book, Hage carefully journeys us through the complex experiences of the Lebanese diasporic condition. Living in an internationalized space of viability, the Lebanese are shown to occupy a multiplicity of entangled and flickering realities—always engaged and always aware that, in the end, they are stuck with each other. The journey is exquisite, painful, exhilarating, saddening, inspiring, and deeply human. The Diasporic Condition is a must-read for both the Lebanese and the non-Lebanese.” * Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis *"The Diasporic Condition is a beautifully crafted book. Thoroughly enjoyable and evocative—not to mention incredibly resonant for Lebanese diasporic subjects and students of Lebanon—this thought-provoking book is sure to whet the intellectual appetite of a wide readership." * Mashriq & Mahjar *
£78.85
The University of Chicago Press The Shadow and the Act
Book SynopsisThough thought of as rivals, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Baraka shared a range of interests. Jazz, in particular, was a decisive influence on their thinking. This title connects their writings on jazz to the philosophical tradition of pragmatism, particularly its support for more freedom for individuals and more democratic societies.Trade Review"This is an extraordinary book. Muyumba's pathbreaking account of Ellison, Baraka, and Baldwin's aesthetic theories and the connection between those theories and African American politics is creative and convincing." - Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Princeton University"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Living in the Stone Age Reflections on the
Book SynopsisRutherford explains how and why the idea of New Guinea as a stone age leftover came to be so common in discourse about the country, and why it has persisted even as other similarly racially imperialist language has fallen away.Trade Review"Living in the Stone Age is a deeply thoughtful and refreshingly programmatic book about the experience of empire and its fantasies and sympathies. Rutherford offers a subtle, close-up sense of the everyday experience, imperial fantasies, and agonistic assertions of sovereignty during the Dutch colony's closing decades. Extremely well crafted and written in an accessible, engaging style, this book makes for a fascinating and essential read for anyone interested in sovereignty, colonialism, anthropology, or Southeast Asian studies."--Patricia Spyer, The Graduate Institute, Geneva "In this eloquent book, Rutherford brings big questions and big historical contexts to a neglected archive of early interactions in western New Guinea at the end of the Dutch Empire. Living in the Stone Age conveys complex arguments through lively, conversational, and succinct writing. This book is a major contribution to West Papuan studies, and to understanding the enduring, pernicious historical constraints that the category 'Stone Age' imposes on any people associated with it."--Rupert Stasch, University of Cambridge
£25.99
The University of Chicago Press In the Course of Performance Studies in the
Book SynopsisIllustrating the practices and processes of musical improvisation, this text includes contributions by 17 scholars and improvisers. It offers a history of research and an overview of the different approaches to the topic that can be used, ranging from cognitive study to detailed musical analysis.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Street Players
Book SynopsisThe uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was the Los Angeles publisher Holloway House. From the late 1960s until it closed in 2008, Holloway House specialized in cheap paperbacks with page-turning narratives featuring black protagonists in crime stories, conspiracy thrillers, prison novels, and Westerns. From Iceberg Slim's Pimp to Donald Goines's Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books togetherand made them distinct from the majority of American pulpwas an unfailing veneration of black masculinity. Zeroing in on Holloway House, Street Players explores how this world of black pulp fiction was produced, received, and recreated over time and across different communities of readers. Kinohi Nishikawa contends that black pulp fiction was built on white readers' fears of the feminization of societyand the appeal of black masculinity as a way to counter it. In essence, it was the original form of blaxploitation: a strategy of mass
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Evidence of Being
Book SynopsisAn history of the mostly ignored African American gay community in DC in the 1980s and its art and activism.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Impostors Literary Hoaxes and Cultural
Book SynopsisWriting a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers were, in other words, literary usurpers and appropriators who trafficked in what Christopher L. Miller terms the intercultural hoax. In the United States, such hoaxes are familiar. Forrest Carter's The Education of Little Tree and JT LeRoy's Sarah are two infamous examples. Miller's contribution is to study hoaxes beyond our borders, employing a comparative framework and bringing French and African identity hoaxes into dialogue with some of their better-known American counterparts. In France, multiculturalism is generally eschewed in favor of universalism, and there should thus be no identities (in the American sense) to steal. However, as Miller demonstrates, this
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Broke
Book SynopsisPublic research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gained greater access, and now less prestigious public universities face major economic challenges. In Broke, Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen examine virtually all aspects of campus life to show how the new economic order in public universities, particularly at two campuses in the renowned University of California system, affects students. For most of the twentieth century, they show, less affluent families of color paid with their taxes for wealthy white students to attend universities where their own offspring were not welcome. That changed as a subset of public research universities, some quite old, opted for a new approach, making racially and economically marginalized youth the lifeblood of the university. These new universities, howevTrade Review"In a crowded field of studies on higher education, Broke distinguishes itself by presenting a truly unique, multifaceted, and critical portrait of the 'new university' as a racial project. Hamilton and Nielsen convincingly demonstrate how processes of 'postsecondary racial neoliberalism' concentrate underrepresented students of color in the least resourced public universities. In these institutional settings, diversity policies and practices are shaped not by only colorblind ideology, but austerity as well."--Michael Omi and Howard Winant, coauthors of Racial Formation in the United States "Broke has the makings of a classic for the sociology of higher education, race, and class stratification. Hamilton and Nielsen document the evolution of the 'new university' in race- and class-stratified society during what they coin as the 'postsecondary racial neoliberal' era. Bolstered by strong empirical analyses and captivating, incisive writing, this book draws the reader in and beckons us to shatter both the realities and ironies of segregated university education as conduits of economic mobility in a wealthy society." --Prudence L. Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African SchoolsTable of ContentsIntroductionThe Changing Face of the UC 1. Battle with the Rankings 2. P3 Paradise 3. Running Political CoverResponses to Underfunding 4. Austerity Administration 5. Tolerable SuboptimizationDealing in Diversity 6. Student Labor and Centers of Support with Veronica Lerma 7. Marketing DiversityBreaking the Cycle Acknowledgments Methodological Appendix: On Being White and Studying Race Notes References Index
£89.02
The University of Chicago Press The Work of Culture
Book SynopsisThe Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster.Arjun Appadurai, Journal of Asian Studies
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press Creolized Aurality Guadeloupean Gwoka and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Merging political, musical, and social analysis Camal offers a thick sonic description of the lived experience of colonialism in the French Caribbean. Creolized Aurality moves beyond a simple study of the political and musical forms of the French Caribbean and towards a true theorization of not just Antillean sound, but the sound of a postcolonial predicament. Camal asks: what does postcolonialism sound like? How is creole nationalism sonically enacted? And how can an analysis of soundscapes reveal a social and political world? The result is a powerful contribution to both Caribbean Studies and the Anthropology of sound more broadly."--Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University "Partly a rethinking of creolization, partly an exploration of sound studies and aurality, and partly a careful excavation of anti- and postcolonial politics, this book weaves its narrative through a sustained engagement with the sounds, discourses, and meanings of gwoka in Guadeloupe. Creolized Aurality is an innovative, timely, and intellectually substantive contribution to Caribbean studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology."--Timothy Rommen, University of Pennsylvania
£74.10
The University of Chicago Press Creolized Aurality Guadeloupean Gwoka and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Merging political, musical, and social analysis Camal offers a thick sonic description of the lived experience of colonialism in the French Caribbean. Creolized Aurality moves beyond a simple study of the political and musical forms of the French Caribbean and towards a true theorization of not just Antillean sound, but the sound of a postcolonial predicament. Camal asks: what does postcolonialism sound like? How is creole nationalism sonically enacted? And how can an analysis of soundscapes reveal a social and political world? The result is a powerful contribution to both Caribbean Studies and the Anthropology of sound more broadly."--Yarimar Bonilla, Rutgers University "Partly a rethinking of creolization, partly an exploration of sound studies and aurality, and partly a careful excavation of anti- and postcolonial politics, this book weaves its narrative through a sustained engagement with the sounds, discourses, and meanings of gwoka in Guadeloupe. Creolized Aurality is an innovative, timely, and intellectually substantive contribution to Caribbean studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology."--Timothy Rommen, University of Pennsylvania
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Empire of Defense Race and the Cultural Politics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Empire of Defense, Darda shows how the idea of 'defense' became a logic for ongoing American war. This idea also fueled a racial ordering by defining who was, and who was not, worthy of defense. A fascinating account of the culture of war without end."--Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences "Empire of Defense is an important and original contribution to studies of US warfare, empire-building, and racial modes of governance. This well-researched and meticulously written book suggests that permanent war is not antithetical to liberal governance--it is, in fact, part and parcel of it. As Darda powerfully reveals, the empire of defense hides its own violence in plain sight. His book is a cogent and much-needed critique of the machinations of US empire and how it justifies and authorizes its violence in racial and ethical terms."--Neda Atanasoski, author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Prayers for the People Homicide and Humanity in
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£61.75
The University of Chicago Press Prayers for the People Homicide and Humanity in
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£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Patchwork City
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£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Murder in New Orleans
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£29.45
The University of Chicago Press Racial Stasis
Book SynopsisRacial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nationalism is but one manifestation of this. Most Americans continue to hope that the younger generation, which many believe manifests less racism and more acceptance of a multiracial society, will lead to more moderate racial politicsbut this may not be happening. Overtly racist attitudes have declined, but anti-black stereotypes and racial resentment remain prevalent among white Americans. To add, the shape of racial attitudes has continued to evolve, but our existing measures have not evolved in step and cannot fully illuminate the challenge at hand. With Racial Stasis, Christopher D. DeSante and Candis Watts Smith argue persuasively that this is because millennials, a generational cohort far removed from Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era, lack sufficient understanding of the structural nature of racial inequalities in the United States and therefore also the contextual and historical knowledge to be actively anti-racist. While these younger whites may be open to the idea of interracial marriage or living next to a family of a different race, they often do not understand why policies like affirmative action still need to exist and are weary about supporting these kinds of policies. In short, although millennials' language and rationale around race, racism, and racial inequalities are different from previous generations', the end result is the same.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Marked
Book SynopsisNearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work. This book offers a glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market.Trade Review"Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job.... Both informative and convincing." - Library Journal "Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose - and one of the most useful sociological studies in years." - Michael Eric Dyson "How do you tell when a democracy is dead? When concentration camps spring up and everyone shivers in fear? Or is it when concentration camps spring up and no one shivers in fear because everyone knows they're not for 'people like us.'... Devah Pager uses a simple technique to show how mass incarceration has undone the small amount of racial progress achieved in the 1960s and '70s." - Nation"
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The University of Chicago Press Marked
Book SynopsisNearly every job application asks it: have you ever been convicted of a crime? For the hundreds of thousands of young men leaving American prisons each year, their answer to that question may determine whether they can find work. This book offers a glimpse into the tremendous difficulties facing ex-offenders in the job market.Trade Review"Using scholarly research, field research in Milwaukee, and graphics, [Pager] shows that ex-offenders, white or black, stand a very poor chance of getting a legitimate job.... Both informative and convincing." - Library Journal "Marked is that rare book: a penetrating text that rings with moral concern couched in vivid prose - and one of the most useful sociological studies in years." - Michael Eric Dyson "How do you tell when a democracy is dead? When concentration camps spring up and everyone shivers in fear? Or is it when concentration camps spring up and no one shivers in fear because everyone knows they're not for 'people like us.'... Devah Pager uses a simple technique to show how mass incarceration has undone the small amount of racial progress achieved in the 1960s and '70s." - Nation"
£18.58
The University of Chicago Press Citizen Brown
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£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Move on Up
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The University of Chicago Press American Value
Book SynopsisEl Salvador emerged from a brutal civil war in 1992 to find much of its national income coming from a massive emigrant workforce that earns money in the US. This book examines this new way of life as it extends across two places: Intipuca, a Salvadoran town, and the Washington, DC, home to the second largest population Salvadorans in the US.Trade Review"American Value is an original and ambitious book. Apart from his transnational subject - relations between El Salvador and the United States - David Pedersen seeks to throw light on how dominant interpretations of that history are generated and then overturned by the kind of in-depth analysis his research makes possible. If this were not enough, he aspires to throw light on the coevolution of the United States and Central America, including wars linking the two; and he has some theoretical axes to grind, as well." (Keith Hart, University of Pretoria)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Suddenly Diverse
Book SynopsisFor the past five years, American public schools have enrolled more students identified as Black, Latinx, American Indian, and Asian than white. At the same time, more than half of US school children now qualify for federally subsidized meals, a marker of poverty. The makeup of schools is rapidly changing, and many districts and school boards are at a loss as to how they can effectively and equitably handle these shifts. Suddenly Diverse is an ethnographic account of two school districts in the Midwest responding to rapidly changing demographics at their schools. It is based on observations and in-depth interviews with school board members and superintendents, as well as staff, community members, and other stakeholders in each district: one serving Lakeside, a predominately working class, conservative community and the other serving Fairview, a more affluent, liberal community. Erica O. Turner looks at district leaders' adoption of business-inspired policy tools and the ultimate successes and failures of such responses. Turner's findings demonstrate that, despite their intentions to promote diversity or eliminate achievement gaps, district leaders adopted policies and practices that ultimately perpetuated existing inequalities and advanced new forms of racism. While suggesting some ways forward, Suddenly Diverse shows that, without changes to these managerial policies and practices and larger transformations to the whole system, even district leaders' best efforts will continue to undermine the promise of educational equity and the realization of more robust public schools.
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The University of Chicago Press Suddenly Diverse How School Districts Manage Race
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The University of Chicago Press Oglala Women Myth Ritual and Reality Women in
Book SynopsisBased on interviews and life histories collected over more than twenty-five years of study on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, Marla N. Powers conveys what it means to be an Oglala woman. Despite the myth of the Euramerican that sees Oglala women as inferior to men, and the Lakota myth that seems them as superior, in reality, Powers argues, the roles of male and female emerge as complementary. In fact, she claims, Oglala women have been better able to adapt to the dominant white culture and provide much of the stability and continuity of modern tribal life. This rich ethnographic portrait considers the complete context of Oglala lifereligion, economics, medicine, politics, old ageand is enhanced by numerous modern and historical photographs. It is a happy event when a fine scholarly work is rendered accessible to the general reader, especially so when none of the complexity of the subject matter is sacrificed. Oglala Women is a long overdue revisionary ethnography of Nativ
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