Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
University of Minnesota Press Deathly Embrace Orientalism and Asian American
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University of Minnesota Press Modern Dance Negro Dance Race in Motion
Book SynopsisOffers an exploration of anime, manga, and Japanese popular culture.
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University of Minnesota Press Critical Latin American And Latino Studies
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University of Minnesota Press Crimes against the State Crimes against Persons
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University of Minnesota Press Mestizaje Critical Uses of Race in Chicano
Book SynopsisFocusing on the role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, this work is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial identities. Informed by theoretical investigation of identity politics and race and incorporating feminist and queer critiques, the author analyzes Chicano cultural production.
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University of Minnesota Press The Aesthetics of Equity Notes on Race Space
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University of Minnesota Press Posthegemony Political Theory and Latin America
Book SynopsisA challenging new work of cultural and political theory rethinks the concept of hegemony.Trade Review"In Posthegemony, Jon Beasley-Murray provides a superbly written and insightful theoretical evaluation of the shifting relation between culture and state in Latin America." —Gareth Williams, author of The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin AmericaTable of ContentsContents Prologue: October 10, 1492 Introduction: A User's Guide I. Critique 1. Argentina, 1972: Cultural Studies and Populism 2. Ayacucho, 1982: Civil Society Theory and Neoliberalism II. Constitution 3. Escalón, 1989: Deleuze and Affect 4. Chile, 1992: Bourdieu and Habit Conclusion: Negri and Multitude Epilogue: April 13, 2002 Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press The Impure Imagination
Book SynopsisOffers a critique of hybridity by reading theories of cultural mixing against their historical precursors. This book analyzes dominant theories in relation to earlier, narrative manifestations of hybridity in Latin American writing, with a focus on Mexico and Brazil. It challenges conventional thinking about the concept of cultural hybridity.
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University of Minnesota Press Suspended Apocalypse White Supremacy Genocide
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Filipino American Communion: Cultural Alienation and the Conditions of Community 2. Deformed Nationalism and Arrested Raciality: the Grammar and Problematic of a "Filipino American" Common Sense 3. "Its Very Familiarity Disguises Its Horror": White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Statecraft of Pacifica Americana 4. Suspended Apocalypse: Towards a Fanonian Analytic of the Filipino Condition 5. "Death Was Swiftly Running After Us": Disaster, Evil, and Radical Possibility Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Black and Indigenous Garifuna Activism and
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcronyms Introduction 1. Race, Modernity and Tradition in a Garifuna Community 2. From Moreno to Negro: Garifuna and the Honduran Nation, 1920s to 1960s 3. Black Indigenism: The Making of Ethnic Politics and State Multiculturalism 4. Paradoxes of Participation: Garifuna Activism in the Multicultural Era 5. This Is the Black Power We Wear: Black America and the Fashioning of Young Garifuna Men 6. Political Economies of Difference: Indigeneity, Land and Culture in Sambo Creek Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Glossary: Selected Ethnic-Racial Terms and Their Contemporary Uses Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Measuring Manhood
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Measuring Manhood is the book we’ve been hoping for. For two generations, historians have talked about the ways that race, class, and gender are interlocking and co-operational. Carefully and thoughtfully, Melissa N. Stein gathers these plots and lays out a story of intersecting interests and ideologies: a story of knowledge gone mad that is deeply resonant in our time."—Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University"Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written."—Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"Measuring Manhood is well-written and complexly argued. It will be a useful text for courses in the history of medicine, gender, and sexuality studies; American history and science and technology studies. It provides an example of how to do inter-sectional analysis."—Men & Masculinities"A masterful work on the way racial theory, gender and science came together in the long nineteenth century."—Social History of Medicine"A noble effort to reveal the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in the history of American science."—American Historical Review"Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written."—Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences"A well-written narrative, Measuring Manhood is a welcome contribution to the histories of science and medicine, race, and sex and sexuality as well to the interdisciplinary fields of American studies and gender studies."—Journal of American History"Anyone interested in how American science used studies of masculinity to aggravate social fears about race would do well to start with Measuring Manhood."—Journal of the History of Sexuality"Melissa Stein offers a meticulously researched history of biological essentialism. Her explicitly intersectional approach is a timely contribution to our understanding of how race and gender together informed the emerging sciences of ethnology, biology, and medicine from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century."—African American Review"Measuring Manhood is a sobering reflection on the fallacies of “objective” research and the role science has played in shaping social and political life. In this present era of advanced genetic research and considerable sociopolitical turmoil, this is a cautionary tale."—New Genetics and Society"Measuring Manhood is an excellent study of the development of the science of masculinity and its roots in race science in the United States during the long nineteenth century."—Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Making Race, Marking Difference1. "Races of Men”: Ethnology in Antebellum America2. An “Equal Beard” for “Equal Voting”: Gender and Citizenship in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Redemption3. Inverts, Perverts, and Primitives: Racial Thought and the American School of Sexology4. Unsexing the Race: Lynching, Castration, and Racial Science5. Walter White, Scientific Racism, and the NAACP Antilynching CampaignEpilogueAcknowledgmentsAppendix. Charting Racial Science: Data and MethodologyNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Driven from New Orleans How Nonprofits Betray
Book SynopsisTrade Review"John Arena has written an important book on an important topic. New Orleans stands out because of the travesty associated with Hurricane Katrina; however, Driven from New Orleans tells a much deeper and broader story that could be replicated in many cities. Arena provides a sorely needed account of neoliberal reorganization of American cities with the active support of nominal advocates and representatives of the impoverished populations who are displaced as part of that reorganization. It is a signal contribution to the study of black urban politics, the political economy of urban redevelopment, and the concrete dynamics of urban neoliberalism." —Adolph Reed, Jr., University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Nonprofits and the Revanchist Agenda1.Confronting the New Boss: Struggles for Home and Community in the Post-Segregation Era, 1965–19852.Undoing the Black Urban Regime: Resistance to Displacement and Elite Divisions, 1986–19883.Neoliberalism and Nonprofits: Selling Privatization at St. Thomas, 1989–19954.No Hope in HOPE VI: Dismantling Public Housing from the Nation to the Neighborhood5.When Things Fall Apart: From the Dreams of St. Thomas to the Nightmare of River Gardens, 1996–20026.Whose City Is It? Hurricane Katrina and the Struggle for New Orleans’ Public Housing, 2003–20087.Managing Contradictions: The Coalition to Stop the DemolitionsConclusion: Lessons from New OrleansNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Speculative Blackness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"André M. Carrington takes readers on a voyage that beautifully maps gendered and sexualized articulations of Blackness across different speculative genres and media... Speculative Blackness is a wonderful book that makes indispensable contributions to Black studies, literary studies, studies science fiction fan fiction and fandom, and Afrofuturism."—Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern University"An excellent exploration of blackness in sci-fi."—PopMatters"This is required reading for those interested in popular culture’s role in constructing social identity."—CHOICE"Speculative Blackness convincingly persuades that speculative fiction is an ideal space to explore the boundaries of blackness, and to consider new ways of thinking about the way blackness as a category is constructed and produced."—Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society"Speculative Blackness makes an important contribution to ongoing conversations (both in the academy and in fan culture) about race and science fiction."—African American Review"A telling and thoughtful contribution to discussions of blackness in science fiction, fantasy, utopia, and horror important to cultural production across a variety of media, including fandom, television, film, comics, and literature."—Science Fiction Studies"This book is an intriguing examination of and hopeful outlook on the history of blackness and science fiction and a highly recommended read for scholars in film and race relations."—Film MattersTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Whiteness of Science Fiction and the Speculative Fiction of Blackness1. Josh Brandon’s Blues: Inventing the Black Fan2. Space Race Woman: Lieutenant Uhura beyond the Bridge3. The Immortal Storm: Permutations of Race in Marvel Comics4. Controversy and Crossover in Milestone Media’s Icon5. The Golden Ghetto and the Glittering Parentheses: The Once and Future Benjamin Sisko6. Dreaming in Color: Racial Revisions in Fan FictionCodaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Abolitionist Geographies
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Abolitionist Geographies offers exciting new ways of thinking about place, time, politics, and form in the antislavery writings of such important antebellum writers as Emerson, William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, and Stowe. Drawing on recent work in diasporic and hemispheric studies, Schoolman shows how key writers of the time made use of spatial experimentation to conceive of the nation well beyond North and South sectionalism. Abolitionist Geographies poses a fresh challenge to scholars of the period to address matters of nation and geography more complexly." —Robert S. Levine, author of Dislocating Race and Nation"Whatever else it does in relation to the historiography of antebellum abolition - and indeed it does much - Schoolman’s book teaches us to see this reopening of abolitionist time as an opening of abolitionist space as well."—Antipode"Martha Schoolman's Abolitionist Geographies is a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship that explores connections between the literary and the geographic."—Journal of Historical Geography"In Schoolman’s skilled reading of its geographies, we now have a map to the abolitionist imagination."—Journal of American Studies"Schoolman offers a nuanced, historically and geographically informed understanding of abolitionist discourses, and foregrounds the fine details and rough edges that often compromise cursory readings of abolition. [Abolitionist Geographies] is without doubt an important contribution to the renewed scholarly interest in abolitionist literature."—African American Review"Martha Schoolman’s Abolitionist Geographies contributes significantly to the history of the antislavery movement between British emancipation in 1833 and John Brown’s 1859 Harpers Ferry raid."—Journal of American History"Sophisticated and meticulously researched."—American Literature"A nuanced topography that highlights the contradictory, the quotidian, and the contextual strategies ever present in nineteenth-century abolitionist geographies."—Common-Place"Abolitionist Geographies offers an exciting model of a micropolitical approach to American literatures, where hierarchies, solidarities, and fissures among racial-ethnic groups and what we think of as their literatures emerge in relation to and against regions’ multinational histories."—MELUS"A timely and engaging study of spatial imaginaries and geographical practices in U.S. antislavery literature. "—Emerson Society Papers"Schoolman’s ambitious chronology compellingly argues for the importance of space to abolitionist thought, and demonstrates that geography is a means to remap established genealogies of the abolition movement, and to rethink its canonical literature."—Year’s Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: What Is Abolitionist Geography?1. Emerson's Hemisphere2. August First and the Practice of Disunion3. William Wells Brown's Critical Cosmopolitanism4. Uncle Tom's Cabin's Anti-Expansionism5. The Maroon's Moment, 1856–1861AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Reinventing Citizenship
Book SynopsisTrade Review "This comparative study of community policies related to welfare and community participation is well organized, well writen, and well documented. The narrative moves along, not dwelling too long on one individual or organization, yet it also contains extremely apt quotations from policy makers and activists that vividly conveey their ideas. The attention to gender, female homemaker and male breadwinner, and contestations of that is equally efficient and well conceived, enriching the book. The influence of African Americans and their ideas on contestations over inclusion and welfare policies in Japan is equally compact and relevant." —Kathleen Uno, Temple University"A fascinating addition to the literature on the War on Poverty."—Journal of American History"Reinventing Citizenship leaves the reader with the opportunity to question how contemporary efforts to address poverty and economic inequality might resonate within a transnational context."—Law, Culture, and the Humanities Journal"Reinventing Citizenship is important for exploring the little-known differences and similarities between black welfare activists in Los Angeles and their Korean counterparts in Japan, and for its rare demonstration of the transnational ties that bound them."—American Historical Review"Reinventing Citizenship is a work of solid research, whose comparative approach compels readers to think about state welfare and social movements in the late 1900s globally and expansively, something Americanists should do more in general."—Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Los Angeles and Kawasaki as Arenas of Struggle over Citizenship1. Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The Origins of the U.S. Community Action Program2. Fostering Community and Nationhood: Japan's Model Community Program3. Struggling for Political Voice: Race and the Politics of Welfare in Los Angeles4. Recasting the Community Action Program: The Pursuit of Race, Class, and Gender Equality in Los Angeles5. Translating Black Theology into Korean Activism: The Hitachi Employment Discrimination Trial6. Voicing Alternative Visions of Citizenship: The "Kawasaki System" of WelfareConclusion: The Interconnectedness of Oppression and FreedomAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Care of the Species
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Amazing; revelatory: at last, a book that guides scholars and students who have only known humans into care for other beings. Care of the Species walks readers through the steps that allowed John Hartigan Jr. to open his attention to plants. He starts with a meditation on race: what happens to this category when it refers to cultivated plants? Rather than assume readers who already care, Hartigan Jr. shows us how to care. Rather than stereotype science as a way of thought, Care of the Species shows how ethnographers might listen closely to botanists to appreciate what their caring might be about. Reading this book made me realize I had waited for it a long time; it shows humanists why the more-than-human matters. I can’t wait to teach it."—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coeditor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet "Care of the Species examines the infrastructures, labs, and gardens that contain the dynamism of botanical life forms. Corn plants—with unruly ‘jumping genes’ and racialized strains—are the stars of John Hartigan Jr.’s multispecies story. Making metaphoric leaps across divisions separating bodies and species, this book is an erudite engagement with model organisms, mutant forms, and molecular techniques. Revealing tips on ‘How to Interview a Plant’ will be useful to multispecies ethnographers who seek to reflexively localize, describe, theorize, and contextualize their subjects of study."—Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent EcologiesTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Species Interiors1. Follow the Species: In and Out of Labs2. Maize: An Ethnohistory3. Racial Thinking: Transgenics versus Razas4. Selfing: The Sexual History of a Species5. Species Thinking: Calibrating Knowledge of Life FormsInterlude: Figure and Ground Part II. Knowing Plants6. Living Ethnographies: Of Plants and Arguments7. Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms8. Care and Its Publics: Peopling Botanical Gardens9. How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life FormsEpilogue: An Elegant PlantAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Care of the Species Races of Corn and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Amazing; revelatory: at last, a book that guides scholars and students who have only known humans into care for other beings. Care of the Species walks readers through the steps that allowed John Hartigan Jr. to open his attention to plants. He starts with a meditation on race: what happens to this category when it refers to cultivated plants? Rather than assume readers who already care, Hartigan Jr. shows us how to care. Rather than stereotype science as a way of thought, Care of the Species shows how ethnographers might listen closely to botanists to appreciate what their caring might be about. Reading this book made me realize I had waited for it a long time; it shows humanists why the more-than-human matters. I can’t wait to teach it."—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, coeditor of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet "Care of the Species examines the infrastructures, labs, and gardens that contain the dynamism of botanical life forms. Corn plants—with unruly ‘jumping genes’ and racialized strains—are the stars of John Hartigan Jr.’s multispecies story. Making metaphoric leaps across divisions separating bodies and species, this book is an erudite engagement with model organisms, mutant forms, and molecular techniques. Revealing tips on ‘How to Interview a Plant’ will be useful to multispecies ethnographers who seek to reflexively localize, describe, theorize, and contextualize their subjects of study."—Eben Kirksey, author of Emergent EcologiesTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart I. Species Interiors1. Follow the Species: In and Out of Labs2. Maize: An Ethnohistory3. Racial Thinking: Transgenics versus Razas4. Selfing: The Sexual History of a Species5. Species Thinking: Calibrating Knowledge of Life FormsInterlude: Figure and Ground Part II. Knowing Plants6. Living Ethnographies: Of Plants and Arguments7. Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms8. Care and Its Publics: Peopling Botanical Gardens9. How to Interview a Plant: Ethnography of Life FormsEpilogue: An Elegant PlantAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Academic Profiling
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Remarkably provocative and perceptive, Academic Profiling is a meticulously researched and masterfully argued comparative study of how the system of schooling, contrary to the rhetoric of equal opportunities, re-enforces the achievement gap and reproduces disparities. With ethnographic insight and analytical precision, Gilda L. Ochoa details how immigration, racialization, class, and gender differentially impacts the educational trajectories for Asian and Latino students, and presents compelling lessons for transforming the context, culture, and process of learning." —Linda Vo, University of California, Irvine "In the absence of an all-encompassing social movement, Ochoa demonstrates how only a courageous, power-conscious, counter-hegemonic curriculum can act as a counterweight to divisive policies and practices like student tracking. Ochoa has done the important work of addressing the complexities of Latino/a and Asian American schooling in one community and given us a language, framework, and perspective with which to discuss and critique it." —Angela Valenzuela, University of Texas, Austin"By centering students’ experiences, in Academic Profiling Ochoa exposes the many faults in our educational system and the ways that students and our communities are hurt."—Pomona College News"A valuable and long overdue piece of research on the achievement gap."—Sociological Inquiry"An ambitious ethnographic study of a single racially diverse high school in southern California. This book stands out because it moves beyond the conventional black/white comparison and instead systematically compares Latino and Asian American students, an important contribution because of the increasingly diverse racial makeup of the United States."—American Journal of Sociology"Powerful and purposeful in both argument and research, Gilda L. Ochoa unapologetically calls attention to the ways in which lived disparities of Latinos and Asian Americans in school lead to more than just gaps in achievement."—Latino Studies"Some of the strengths of Academic Profiling lie in its rich data, its ability to turn the rhetoric of equal opportunity on its head, and Ochoa’s awareness of her influence as a Latina researcher. Her work clearly shows that while teachers emphasize freedom of choice, students are not all equally free."—Anthropology & Education QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Academic Profiling at a Southern California High SchoolPart I: Prevailing Ideologies and School Structures1. Framing the “Gap”: Dominant Discourses of Achievement2. Welcome to High School: Tracking from Middle School to International Baccalaureate ProgramsPart II: School Practices and Family Resources3. “I’m Watching Your Group”: Regulating Students Unequally4. “Parents Spend Half a Million on Tutoring”: Standardized Tests and Tutoring GapsPart III: Everyday Relationships and Forms of Resistance5. “They Just Judge Us by Our Cover”: Students’ Everyday Experiences with Race6. “Breaking the Mindset”: Forms of Resistance and Change7. Processes of Change: Cycles of Reflection, Dialogue, and ImplementationConclusion: Possibilities and Pitfalls in Any School U.S.A.Appendix: Student Participants, Staffulty, and ParentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Downed by Friendly Fire Black Girls White Girls
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Introducing a new interpretive framework with fresh and original analysis, Signithia Fordham is doing something really unique here. Her grounded, intersectional investigation of girls' peer-to-peer conflict is in constant interplay with an exploration of symbolic violence in girls' lives in different circumstances and on multiple levels, challenging our taken-for-granted notions not only about girls, but about the larger forces at play in our own lives."—Lyn Mikel Brown, author of Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls"In a no-holds-barred account, Signithia Fordham critically interrogates the enculturated forms of symbolic violence whose misrecognition sustains gendered, racialized, and classed inequalities in schools and, ultimately, in the wider U.S. society. She has produced a sophisticated intersectional study of the interplay between stigma, privilege, and power."—Faye V. Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign"Downed by Friendly Fire will become a text that demands reconceptualization of what we come to know as violence in schools. It requires a closer look at the intersections of race and gender violence while holding one accountable in the ways that privilege and power are enacted systematically. A book that I recommend to teachers, administrators, and researchers alike."—Education ReviewTable of ContentsContents Prelude: Who Has Seen the Headwinds? Introduction: Violence—By Another Name? 1. Frienemies and Friendly Fire at Underground Railroad High 2. Last Stop on the Underground Railroad, First Stop of Refried Segregation: Setting and Methodology 3. Nadine: Words as Violence and Misrecognition 4. Brittany: She Talks Like a Black Girl 5. Keyshia: The Black Girl’s Two-Step 6. Chloe: Goldilocks, and Girls Who Are Not 7. Ally: Size Matters Conclusion: Excavating, Resuscitating and Rehabilitating Violence—By Another Name Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press The Black Reproductive
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Black Reproductive is a stunning work of theory and criticism. Sara Clarke Kaplan skillfully shows us how the appropriation, management, and policing of Black procreative, domestic, and quotidian reproduction has been a key mode of anti-blackness and, at the same time, a site of possibility for the articulation and practice of Black freedom. With keen attention to a wide range of policies, practices, and Black feminist refusals of the Black reproductive, Kaplan unfolds a moving story of the Black woman’s body and its reproductive labor as the scene of death and theft but also defiance and fugitivity. This brilliant elaboration of the Black reproductive not only challenges our concepts for analyzing anti-black terror but also reveals how Black women writers and artists effect a glitch in the machine of the Black reproductive, the very machine of terror. This is deep, urgent, moving scholarship for our time."—Erica R. Edwards, Rutgers University"If the control of Black reproduction has been central to conditions of Black subjection, Sara Clarke Kaplan’s The Black Reproductive argues that a vision of Black freedom requires contending with the reproductive. She stages provocative readings of literary and cultural texts that emphasize the urgency of reading Black freedom through the lens of reproduction. Ultimately, Kaplan offers a vision of Black feminist theory that points us toward imagining collective freedom."—Jennifer C. Nash, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Toward a Black Feminist Politics of Freedom1. Ain’t Your Mama on the Pancake Box?: Aunt Jemima and the Reproduction of the Racial State2. Love and Violence/Maternity and Death: Enslaved Infanticide and Monstrous Motherhood in Toni Morrison’s Beloved3. Hysterical Bodies as Embodied History: Corregidora’s Genealogy of Resistance4. Our Founding (M)Other: Sally Hemings and the Problem of Miscegenation5. “A Picture of Me and my Mother”: Planned Parenthood, Precious, and the Rationalization of Black ReproductivityCoda: Lest We Forget: A Litany for SurvivalAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Black Boys Apart
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this sensitive, detailed ethnography, Freeden Blume Oeur takes readers into the world of all-male public schooling for African American boys. With clean, lucid prose and erudite analysis, Black Boys Apart challenges readers to rethink Black masculinity and education. Providing much-needed wisdom and humanity to the fractious school choice debate, this book is both timely and sure to make an enduring impact. An outstanding achievement."—Edward Morris, author of Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education"In Black Boys Apart, Freeden Blume Oeur demonstrates why he is one of the emerging go-to critical thinkers on the intersections of race and gender in schooling. In this descriptive and engaging book, we read of Blume Oeur’s bold multidisciplinary exploration and interrogation of the linkages among academic achievement, the politics of respectability, and the socialization of boys as men through dominant (and questionable) views of masculinity."—Prudence Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools"This book encourages the reader to think beyond traditional narratives, think more about the ‘hidden curriculum’ of schools, and understand the lived experiences of these young black men in his study."—New Books Network"The book brilliantly illustrates the surprising success of this holistic method of education, which mixes democratic empowerment, strict discipline — and intentional racial segregation and sex separation — with a warm, loving environment of Black brotherhood."—Chill Magazine"With the present-day emphasis on privatization, choice, and market-place solutions in the American school system, Freeden Blume Oeur’s work stands out as a timely and relevant piece of scholarship."—Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reform, Respectability, and the Crisis of Young Black Men1. A Tale of Two (Neoliberal) Schools: The Origins of Perry High and Northside Academy2. Contradictory Discourses: Separating Boys and Girls3. Teaching Black Boys: From Cultural Relevance to Culturally Irrelevant Latin4. Black Male Belonging: Race Leadership, Role Modeling, and Brotherhood5. Heroic Family Men and Ambitious Entrepreneurs: The Making of Black MenConclusion: Hoping and Hustling TogetherAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Interview and Student DataNotesBibliographyIndex
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Ohio University Press The Negro in the American Rebellion His Heroism
Book SynopsisIn 1863, as the Civil War raged, the escaped slave, abolitionist, and novelist William Wells Brown identified two groups most harmful to his race. “The first and most relentless,” he explained, “are those who have done them the greatest injury, by being instrumental in their enslavement and consequent degradation.
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Ohio University Press The Black Laws Race and the Legal Process in
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1803, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. These laws instituted barriers against blacks entering the state and placed limits on black testimony against whites.Trade Review“The book is a welcome addition to the literature in the field, not just of studies of slavery and fugitive slavery, but also of constitutional and political history. It tells an important part of a complex story, and its availability to scholars will help to shape our understanding of the history of race and slavery in not only Ohio but the Midwest for generations to come.”“As Middleton makes clear, opposition to slavery was not the same thing as support for African American civil rights, and the Ohio constitution, while prohibiting slavery, placed several restrictions upon African American residents, including denial of the right to vote.”“It is sprinkled with sparking insights and should be of interest to scholars unconcerned with Ohio, the black laws, or this era.”“Stephen Middleton’s scholarship is superb: he mines nearly seventy manuscript collections in seventeen depositories in ten states as well as about fifty major legal cases and sixty newspapers. He weaves together legal and social history in a seamless narrative fabric in nice chronological order from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to the abolition of Ohio’s Black Laws in 1887.”“Black Laws, Middleton persuasively argues, mirrored Southern slave codes.”“Middleton provides a new story of African-American survival and resistance amid systematic, institutionalized racism. Indeed, historians writ large will marvel at Middleton’s ability to weave together, rather seamlessly, local, state, and national law and politics.”
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Ohio University Press The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. Volume VI
Book SynopsisThe Civil Rights Act of 1960 attempted to rectify loopholes in the 1957 Civil Rights Act that had enabled southern states to continue disenfranchising Black voters and, in Texas, Mexican Americans. The legislation called for federal inspection of voter registration polls and introduced penalties for obstructing a person from registering to vote.Trade Review“Clarence Mitchell, Jr., for decades waged in the halls of Congress a stubborn, resourceful and historic campaign for social justice. The integrity of this ‘101st senator’ earned him the respect of friends and adversaries alike. His brilliant advocacy helped translate into law the protests and aspirations of millions consigned for too long to second-class citizenship. The hard-won fruits of his labors have made America a better and stronger nation.”“The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr. is a primary source and analytical goldmine for scholars of civil rights and labor struggles in the twentieth-century United States…. Well organized, engagingly written, and edited with cogent commentary, these two volumes (III & IV) take us inside Mitchell’s activist office and let us hear his own words.” * Journal of Southern History *
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Ohio University Press Ethnicity Identity and Conceptualizing Community
Book SynopsisDrawing on archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, and documentary evidence, this book uses a cis-oceanic framework to focus on littoral communities. It clarifies the relationship between ethnicity and other kinds of identities by framing research questions around a language family instead of an ethnic, religious, or diasporic group.
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Duke University Press Hooded Americanism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chalmers has steeped himself in the details of the KKK organization, personalities, and intrigue, and particularly their relation to the entire nation. . . . Chalmers has not only read widely; he has pondered the meaning and destiny of the Klan." * American Historical Review *"Significant scholarship; a crucial work." -- William E. Leuchtenberg * New York Times *
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Duke University Press The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales
Book SynopsisReassembles the Charles W Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre. This work allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated with the tastes of the dominant literary culture of the late nineteenth century, and how that culture both promoted and delimited his work.Trade Review"Finally, we have Charles W. Chesnutt's conjure woman stories as he wrote them, not as Houghton Mifflin edited them. This collection is a landmark in American literary publishing for it helps us to understand the pressures exerted upon all authors and especially on African American writers. More important, these wonderful stories are now available to a new generation of readers."—Cathy N. Davidson"The publication of the conjure tales of Chesnutt constituted a crucial development in the history of African American [literature]. Yet up to now no one has attempted to do what Brodhead has done--namely, collect all the stories in this vein and publish them with an introduction that explains their import individually, serially, and as a collection. . . . His introduction augments the best scholarship that's been done on Chesnutt with his own broad expertise in the history of American fiction and his acute readings of individual Chesnutt tales."—William L. Andrews, University of KansasTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chronology of Composition 23 A Note on the Text 25 Selected Bibliography 27 The Conjure Woman The Goophered Grapevine 31 Po' Sandy 44 Mars Jeems's Nightmare 55 The Conjurer's Revenge 70 Sis' Becky's Pickaninny 82 The Gray Wolf's Ha'nt 94 Hot-Foot Hannibal 107 Related Tales Dave's Neckliss 123 A Deep Sleeper 136 Lonesome Ben 146 The Dumb Witness 158 A Victim of Heredity; or, Why the Darkey Loves Chicken 172 Tobe's Tribulations 183 The Marked Tree 194
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Duke University Press Not of Pure Blood
Book SynopsisCountering the popular misconception that racial discrimination has largely not existed in Puerto Rico, this book shows that racial prejudice has long had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. It is of interest to specialists in Caribbean studies, Puerto Rican history, and Latin America studies, and also to scholars in a variety of fields.Trade Review“Not of Pure Blood is an ambitiously extended study of the free people of color in the slave society of Puerto Rico. Adding much to the emerging body of illuminating literature about life and culture both during the slave period and after, it makes possible many useful comparisons between the free people of color on that island and their counterparts in other corners of the Caribbean.”—David Barry Gaspar, Duke University“Kinsbruner’s work is important on two counts. First, it takes up the challenge of defining racial prejudice in a Spanish Caribbean context—a daunting exercise. Second, it applies sophisticated statistical instruments to measure the extent of that prejudice.”—Teresita Martínez Vergne, Macalester College
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Duke University Press Crossing the Line
Book SynopsisExamines constructions of racial identity through the exploration of passing narratives including forties jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow's memoir Really the BluesTrade Review“Crossing the Line offers a superbly well-developed analysis of narratives of racial passing and a strategy for engaging such narratives. It will set the standard for subsequent treatments of racial passing.”—Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men“Deeply engaging, well-researched, and effective, Crossing the Line is a fine multidisciplinary study not only of passing narratives but of the social, political, and economic struggles that they negotiate in racial terms.”— Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative FormTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Race, Passing, and Cultural Representation 1. Home Again: Racial Negotiations in Modernist African American Passing Narratives 2. Mezz Mezzrow and the Voluntary Negro Blues 3. Boundaries Lost and Found: Racial Passing and Cinematic Representation, circa 1949 4. “I’m Through with Passing”: Postpassing Narratives in Black Popular Literary Culture 5. “A Most Disagreeable Mirror”: Reflections on White Identity in Black Like Me Epilogue: Passing, “Color Blindness,” and Contemporary Discourses of Race and Identity Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Duke University Press The Last Darky
Book SynopsisExamines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernismTrade Review“Louis Chude-Sokei’s innovative study not only brings overdue attention to Bert Williams. It deepens our understanding of black modernity and redirects the study of minstrelsy as well. A rich, wide-ranging book, it is filled with resonant insights and brilliant collocations.”—Nathaniel Mackey, author of Paracritical Hinge“With theoretical verve and archival aplomb, Louis Chude-Sokei explores an open secret that we too often have preferred to ignore: the central role of black minstrelsy in the origins of the Harlem Renaissance. Starting with the simple fact of Bert Williams’s Caribbean origins, he finds the multiple layers of masquerade in any performance of ‘race.’ A timely, often profound portrait of the dynamics of intraracial difference in diaspora.”—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. Black Minstrel, Black Modernism 17 2. Migrations of a Mask 46 3. Theorizing Black-on-Black Cross-Culturality 82 4. The Global Economy of Minstrelsy 114 5. In Dahomy 161 6. Claude McKay’s Calypso 207 Notes 249 Bibliography 263 Index 272
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Duke University Press Black behind the Ears
Book SynopsisAn innovative historical and ethnographic examination of Dominican identity formation in the Dominican Republic and the United States.Trade Review“Black behind the Ears makes important contributions to our understanding of the Dominican experience. In this book, Ginetta E. B. Candelario shows processes of identity formation among Dominicans in different historical and geographical contexts, and she looks at the nuanced relationship between ethnic and racial identities. In my opinion, this is one of the best books written on the subject of racial, ethnic, and national identity formation in general.”—José Itzigsohn, author of Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Regulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic“Based on first-rate ethnographic and historical research, Black behind the Ears provides fresh and original insights into the construction and representation of racial identities in the Dominican Republic and the United States. It is the most comprehensive, focused, and balanced treatment to date of Dominican racial and gender ideologies in the United States.”—Jorge Duany, author of The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move: Identities on the Island and in the United States“Ginetta E. B. Candelario’s Black behind the Ears argues compellingly that any serious effort to understand Dominican ideas and practices of race in the ancestral homeland as well as in the diaspora requires a large conceptual framework, a triangular geography of knowledge, and a cultural history formed by Dominican nation-building projects, the difficult plight of the Haitian Republic in the midst of a negrophobic world, the impact of U.S. racial thought, and the Latin American glorification of the Hispanic heritage. Candelario’s book remarkably dares to bring apparently disparate discursive sites to interact convincingly and engagingly in her analysis. The author renders facile readings of the Dominican chapter of the black experience in the Americas as exceptional or pathological simply unsustainable. She shows instead that it invites White Americans, African Americans, and other Latinos to revisit long-held assumptions about racial categories, ethnic identity, nationality, and the ideologies behind taking the ‘visible’ for ‘real’ in matters of race.”—Silvio Torres-Saillant, coauthor of The Dominican Americans“Black behind the Ears is a fascinating, richly documented, and innovative exploration of racial, ethnic and national identity formation in the Dominican Republic and among the Dominican diaspora in the United States. . . . In exploring the paradoxes of Dominican ethno-racial identity so creatively, Candelario has produced a fascinating template for scholars and students of race, ethnicity and national identity in general.” -- Sherri Grasmuck * Contemporary Sociology *“[A] stimulating book. . . . Candelario breaks new ground with her analysis of racial formation in Dominican communities in the United States . . . . [Black Behind the Ears] should be widely read by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists in the fields of Latin American and Latina/o studies.” -- Frank Andre Guridy * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[G]roundbreaking. . . . Black Behind the Ears is a well-researched analysis of the cultural sites through which various actors produce racial understandings in relation to national discourses. It is an important contribution to the study of race, gender and national identity within the Dominican Republic and its US-based migrant communities.” -- Takkara Brunson * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“With this book we are taken deeper into the complicated world of Latinidad--both in its abstract cogitations and its grounded, experienced reality. . . . Candelario’s book is an important contribution to the field of Latino studies.” -- Anani Dzidzienyo * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsFigures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. "We Declare That We Are Indians": Dominican Identity Displays and Discourses in Travel Writing, Museums, Beauty Shops, and Bodies 1 1. "It Is Said That Haiti Is Getting Blacker and Blacker": Traveling Narratives of Dominican Identity 35 2. "The Africans have No [Public] History": The Museo del Hombre Dominicano and Indigenous Displays of Dominican Identity 83 3. "I Could Go the African American Route": Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. 129 4. "They Are Taken into Account for Their Opinions": Making Community and Displaying Identity at a Dominican Beauty Shop in New York City 177 5. "Black Women are Confusing, but the Hair Lets You Know": Perceiving the Boundaries of Dominicanidad 223 Conclusion: "Black Behind the Ears, and Up Front, Too": Ideological Code Switching and Ambiguity in Dominican Identities 256 Notes 265 References 297 Index 323
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Duke University Press Afro Asia
Book SynopsisA collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans.Trade Review“Afro-Asia is a long overdue tribute to the long history of cross-ethnic intellectual connections, as well as a celebration of artistic collaborations, between African Americans and Asian Americans. . . . Fred Ho and Bill Mullen have produced a book that is groundbreaking in its intellectual rigor, as well as aesthetically pleasing. . . . Afro-Asia is highly recommended to anyone interested in how radical ideas and concepts travel through and across cultural boundaries and eventually bloom with new brilliance.” - Carol Huang, Journal of African American History“At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of ‘creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.’” - Manan Desai, Against the Current“Afro Asia preserves and promotes critical thinking and activism in a global culture. Here, with incisive writings from diverse intellectuals, artists, and activists, Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen make a vital contribution towards liberation praxis that challenges the perceived permanence of manufactured distrust and division.”—Joy James, author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics“Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen have assembled a first-rate dossier of Afro-Asian work. It is equal parts lyrical and analytical. Flies like a butterfly; stings like a bee.”—Vijay Prashad, author of Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity“Afro-Asia is a long overdue tribute to the long history of cross-ethnic intellectual connections, as well as a celebration of artistic collaborations, between African Americans and Asian Americans. . . . Fred Ho and Bill Mullen have produced a book that is groundbreaking in its intellectual rigor, as well as aesthetically pleasing. . . . Afro-Asia is highly recommended to anyone interested in how radical ideas and concepts travel through and across cultural boundaries and eventually bloom with new brilliance.” -- Carol Huang * Journal of African American History *“At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of ‘creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.’” -- Manan Desai * Against the Current *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction / Fred Ho and Bill Mullen 1 Part I. The African and Asian Diasporas in the West: 1800–1950 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Roots to the Black-Asian Conflict / Fred Ho 20 Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847–1898 / Lisa Yun 30 Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War / Daniel Widener 55 Part II. From Bandung to the Black Panthers: National Liberation, the Third World, Mao, and Malcolm Statement Supporting the Afro-American in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism, August 8, 1963 / Mao Zedong 91 Statement by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression, April 16, 1968 / Mao Zedong 94 Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution / Robin D. G. Kelley and Betsy Esch 97 The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast / Fred Ho 155 The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama / Diane C. Fujino 165 Why Do We Lie About Telling the Truth? / Kalamu ya Salaam 198 Part III. Afro/Asian Arts: Catalysts, Collaborations, and the Coltrane Aesthetic The Yellow and the Black / Ishmael Reed 217 Not Just a "Special Issue": Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called by Back / Cheryl Higashida 220 Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds / Fred Ho 256 Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture / Kim Hewitt 265 The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River / royal hartigan with Fred Ho 285 Is Kung Fu Racist? / Ron Wheeler with David Kaufman 291 Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop / Thien-bao Thuc Phi 295 Part IV. Afro/Asia Expressive Writing Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American-Asian American Collaboration / David Mura and Alexs Pate 321 We Don't Stand a Chinaman's Chance Unless We Create a Revolution / Kalamu ya Salaam 354 El Chino / Lisa Yun 359 Samchun in the Grocery Store / Ishle Park 363 Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998 / Maya Almachar Santos 365 Chyna and Me / JoYin C Shih 369 All That / Everett Hoagland 376 Contributors 379 Index 383
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Duke University Press Desi Land
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic account of South Asian American teen culture during the Silicon Valley dot-com boom. It focuses on how South Asian Americans, or "Desis," define and manage what it means to be successful in a place brimming with the promise of technology.Trade Review“An excellent, ethnographically rich study of the lives and practices of young South Asian Americans living in Silicon Valley, Desi Land lends itself to use in courses in fields including anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, and Asian American studies. What I like best of all is that Shalini Shankar trains her lens on a particular generation’s experience while providing us with a rich cultural history of life in Silicon Valley at the turn of the twenty-first century.”—Purnima Mankekar, author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India“In this exciting book, Shalini Shankar writes about Desi teens in Silicon Valley with deep sympathy, humor, and genuine insight. The high-school students come alive through ethnographic detail, and yet Shankar’s analysis is sharp and thought provoking. Her theoretically sophisticated approach to diversity makes an important contribution to urban anthropology. I will recommend this book to everyone I know—scholars, educators, and advocates—who works with twenty-first-century youth.”—Jan English-Lueck, author of Cultures@SiliconValley“Shalini Shankar’s Desi Land is a loving portrait of young people trying their best to fashion culture and life in jobless America. Thick description and rich analysis of young Desis is an eye-opener, whether you’re wearing your mad tight color contacts or not.”—Vijay Prashad, author of The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third WorldTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Welcome to Desi Land 1 1. California, Here We Come, Right Back Where We Started From 25 2. Defining Desi Teen Culture 53 3. Living and Desiring Desi Bling Life 80 4. Desi Fashions of Speaking 100 5. Being FOBulous on Multicultural Day 119 6. Remodeling the Model Minority Stereotype 142 7. Dating on the DL and Arranged Marriages 167 8. In the New Millennium 193 Postscript 211 Appendix 1: Student Interview 213 Appendix 2: Faculty Interview 218 Appendix 3: Parent and Relative Interview 220 Appendix 4: Student Survey 223 Notes 225 Glossary of Hindi and Punjabi Terms 237 Bibliography 239 Index 263
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Duke University Press The Real Hiphop
Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of the language and culture of Project Blowed, a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles.Trade Review“Executive director of The HipHop Archive and one of the leading scholars of hip-hop culture, Morgan has written a thorough, inspiring ethnographic study that looks at West Coast hip-hop culture through the lens of the underground venue known as Project Blowed. . . . The book’s strengths are the numerous fascinating primary sources, especially the excerpts of rhymes recited during battles at Project Blowed and its introductory chapter, in which Morgan offers the best concise scholarly history to date of hip-hop. Essential.” - A.-P. Durand, Choice“Youth across the globe have been marginalized, abused, neglected, and incarcerated, but Marcyliena Morgan gives hope to current and future generations by providing background on the start of hip-hop and revealing its multifaceted layers. . . . The Real Hiphop is a testament to the versatile creativity of underground artists who use words to make change.” - Nicolette Westfall, Feminist Review blog“The Real Hiphop is a book written with the eyes of an ethnographer, the ears of a true hip hop head, and the love of a scholar whose commitment to her subject runs broad and deep. By chronicling the history of an unfairly neglected underground music scene and by championing the potentially transformative influence of a popular music genre more broadly upon the academy, it offers a significant contribution to popular music studies.” - Adam Bradley, Journal of Popular Music Studies“Given the book’s layered treatment of underground hiphop and its practitioners, The Real Hiphop is a strong ethnographic and analytical treatment that is well positioned to be of use to students and scholars acrossa number of disciplines.” - Raymond Codrington, American Ethnologist“Morgan’s musings on power, language, and mistrust feel no less pertinent now than they must have a dozen years ago in Leimart Park.” - Nate Chinen, Pennsylvania Gazette“Marcyliena Morgan’s high-level analysis and incisive explication of how underground hiphop works centers on two brilliant, ethnographic chapters on Project Blowed, one focusing on a Thursday-night MC battle (chapter three) and one on young women’s negotioations of race and feminism in the social world of underground hiphop and in relation to the sexualization of women in commercial hiphop (chapter four).” - Michael Nevin Willard, Southern California Quarterly“The Real Hiphop is a powerful argument for hiphop’s continuing salience and centrality to any serious discussion about the state of contemporary Black life. Marcyliena Morgan unearths the socio-cultural particularities of hiphop as a dynamic musical genre and a complex way of life, and she links her analysis to the ethnographic particulars of Los Angeles, which crackles to life from the opening vignette.”—John L. Jackson Jr., author of Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America“In The Real Hiphop, Marcyliena Morgan has written a brilliant account of the origins of hiphop and the process through which it is created and evolves, from its most elemental and raw forms into the highly processed and polished versions that have become the lingua franca of popular American culture over the past few decades. Using her considerable skills as an linguistic anthropologist, Morgan—the founder of the world’s only hiphop archive—raises the analysis of hiphop to an entirely new level of scholarship, explicating it as a linguistic, sociological, and political phenomenon. This book is full of astonishing insights and subtle analysis. It is a must read for any student or scholar seeking to understand what is arguably the most important popular cultural phenomenon in the past thirty years.”—Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University“The Real Hiphop is a book written with the eyes of an ethnographer, the ears of a true hip hop head, and the love of a scholar whose commitment to her subject runs broad and deep. By chronicling the history of an unfairly neglected underground music scene and by championing the potentially transformative influence of a popular music genre more broadly upon the academy, it offers a significant contribution to popular music studies.” -- Adam Bradley * Journal of Popular Music Studies *“Executive director of The HipHop Archive and one of the leading scholars of hip-hop culture, Morgan has written a thorough, inspiring ethnographic study that looks at West Coast hip-hop culture through the lens of the underground venue known as Project Blowed. . . . The book’s strengths are the numerous fascinating primary sources, especially the excerpts of rhymes recited during battles at Project Blowed and its introductory chapter, in which Morgan offers the best concise scholarly history to date of hip-hop. Essential.” -- A.-P. Durand * Choice *“Given the book’s layered treatment of underground hiphop and its practitioners, The Real Hiphop is a strong ethnographic and analytical treatment that is well positioned to be of use to students and scholars across a number of disciplines.” -- Raymond Codrington * American Ethnologist *“Marcyliena Morgan’s high-level analysis and incisive explication of how underground hiphop works centers on two brilliant, ethnographic chapters on Project Blowed, one focusing on a Thursday-night MC battle (chapter three) and one on young women’s negotioations of race and feminism in the social world of underground hiphop and in relation to the sexualization of women in commercial hiphop (chapter four).” -- Michael Nevin Willard * Southern California Quarterly *“Morgan’s musings on power, language, and mistrust feel no less pertinent now than they must have a dozen years ago in Leimart Park.” -- Nate Chinen * Pennsylvania Gazette *“Youth across the globe have been marginalized, abused, neglected, and incarcerated, but Marcyliena Morgan gives hope to current and future generations by providing background on the start of hip-hop and revealing its multifaceted layers. . . . The Real Hiphop is a testament to the versatile creativity of underground artists who use words to make change.” -- Nicolette Westfall * Feminist Review blog *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: I Am Hiphop 1 1. The Hippest Corner in LA 21 2. Welcome to the Underground: Building Hiphop Culture and Language 47 3. Thursday Night at Project Blowed 85 4. (Ph)eminists of the New School: Real Women, Tough Politics, and Female Science 131 5. Politics, Discourse, and Drama: "Respect Due" 161 6. It's Hiphop Nation Time: Enter the KAOS 185 Appendix: Transcription Conventions 195 Notes 197 Glossary 207 References 211 Index 223
£18.89
Duke University Press The AfroLatin Reader
Book SynopsisA kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United States, addressing history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including essays, memoirs, journalism, poetry, and interviews.Trade Review“[R]equired reading for all Latinos. . . . This important reader provides critical information from a wide variety of approaches on the evolution and current realities of Black Latinos and Latinas. From poetic to musical to social scientific sources, this is a powerful 360-degree treatment of the subject.” - Angelo Falcón, National Institute for Latino Policy Book Notes“This exciting collection is a great resource for anyone interested in Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, or American Studies.” - Jenell Navarro, Women’s Studies“As a collection of pieces, many of which have been published previously, The Afro-Latin@ Reader ultimately serves as a compact archive of materials from various academic disciplines and creative genres that details the Afro-Latina/o experience in the United States. . . . The Afro-Latin@ Reader makes accessible to students, scholars, and the general public a virtually ignored set of important contributions, not only to the study of Afro-Latina/os, but to the discourse about race in the United States more generally.” - Petra R. Rivera, Transition“The collected works in The Afro-Latin@ Reader broaden definitions of blackness and latinidad and reveal the multiple ways in which Afro-Latino/as navigate national and cultural histories that have consistently denigrated or dismissed their African heritage and challenge US racial classifications that dismiss their cultural background and linguistic difference. The Afro-Latin@ Reader invites us to move beyond a binary understanding of racial identity and to embrace the allegiances that may be forged and, in many instances, have been forged among Afro-Latino/as, Latinos/as, African Americans, and other underrepresented groups in the US.” - Sobeira Latorre, Anthurium: A Caribbean StudiesJournal“The Afro-Latin@ Reader assembles in one place an extraordinary range of articles, chapters, and first-person accounts of Afro-Latin@ identity. These pieces show that explorations of Afro-Latin@ identities quickly reveal significant hidden histories of racialization, colonization, exploitation, and social mobilization. They complicate our understanding of the U.S. racial order and its complex systems of inclusion and exclusion. This collection is a much-needed addition to scholarship in ethnic studies.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger“The Afro-Latin@ Reader is a superb collection, one that I cannot wait to use in my own courses. For some time now, scholars have engaged the history and anthropology of Black populations in Latin America, but the scholarship on the Afro-Latin@ presence (as configured on this side of the Rio Grande) has been more episodic and, to some extent, under-theorized. The breadth of The Afro-Latin@ Reader, as well as its effort to actually define the entire field, makes it a unique scholarly contribution.”—Ben Vinson III, co-author of African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean“[R]equired reading for all Latinos. . . . This important reader provides critical information from a wide variety of approaches on the evolution and current realities of Black Latinos and Latinas. From poetic to musical to social scientific sources, this is a powerful 360-degree treatment of the subject.” -- Angelo Falcón * National Institute for Latino Policy Book Notes *“As a collection of pieces, many of which have been published previously, The Afro-Latin@ Reader ultimately serves as a compact archive of materials from various academic disciplines and creative genres that details the Afro-Latina/o experience in the United States. . . . The Afro-Latin@ Reader makes accessible to students, scholars, and the general public a virtually ignored set of important contributions, not only to the study of Afro-Latina/os, but to the discourse about race in the United States more generally.” -- Petra R. Rivera * Transition *“The collected works in The Afro-Latin@ Reader broaden definitions of blackness and latinidad and reveal the multiple ways in which Afro-Latino/as navigate national and cultural histories that have consistently denigrated or dismissed their African heritage and challenge US racial classifications that dismiss their cultural background and linguistic difference. The Afro-Latin@ Reader invites us to move beyond a binary understanding of racial identity and to embrace the allegiances that may be forged and, in many instances, have been forged among Afro-Latino/as, Latinos/as, African Americans, and other underrepresented groups in the US.” -- Sobeira Latorre * Anthurium *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Editorial Note xv Introduction 1 I. Historical Background before 1900 The Earliest Africans in North America / Peter H. Wood 19 Black Pioneers: The Spanish-Speaking Afroamericans of the Southwest / Jack D. Forbes 27 Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould 38 Afro-Cubans in Tampa / Susan D. Greenbaum 51 Excerpt from Pulling the Muse from the Drum / Adrian Castro 62 II. Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Excerpt from Racial Integrity: A Plea for the Establishment of a Chair of Negro History in Our Schools and Colleges / Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 67 The World of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg / Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof 70 Invoking Arturo Schomburg's Legacy in Philadelphia / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault 92 III. Afro-Latin@s on the Color Line Black Cuban, Black American / Evelio Grillo 99 A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches / Jesus Colon 113 Melba Alvarado, El Club Cubano Inter-Americano, and the Creation of Afro-Cubanidades in New York City / Nancy Raquel Mirabel 120 An Uneven Playing Field: Afro-Latinos in Major League Baseball / Adrian Burgos Jr. 127 Changing Identities: An Afro-Latino Family Portrait / Gabriel Haslip-Viera 142 Eso era tremendo!: An Afro-Cuban Musician Remembers / Graciela Perez Gutierrez 150 IV. Roots of Salsa: Afro-Latin@ Popular Music From "Indianola" to "No Colá": The Strange Career of the Afro-Puerto Rican Musician / Ruth Glasser 157 Excerpt from cu/bop / Louis Reyes Rivera 176 Bauzá–Gillespie–Latin/JAzz: Difference, Modernity, and the Black Caribbean / Jairo Moreno 177 Contesting that Damned Mambo: Arsenio Rodriguez and the People of El Barrio and the Bronx in the 1950s / David F. Garcia 187 Boogaloo and Latin Soul / Juan Flores 199 Excerpt from the salsa of bethesda fountain / Tato Laviera 207 V. Black Latin@ Sixties Hair Conking: Buy Black / Carlos Cooks 211 Carlos A. Cooks: Dominican Garveyite in Harlem / Pedro R. Rivera 215 Down These Mean Streets / Piri Thomas 219 African Things / Victor Hernandez Cruz 232 Black Notes and "You Do Something to Me" / Sandra Maria Esteves 233 Before People Called Me a Spic, They Called Me a Nigger / Pablo "Yoruba" Guzman 235 Excerpt from Jíbaro, My Pretty Nigger / Felipe Luciano 244 The Yoruba Orisha Tradition Comes to New York City / Marta Moreno Vega 245 Reflections and Lived Experiences of Afro-Latin@ Religiosity / Luis Barrios 252 Discovering Myself / Un Testimonio / Josefina Baez 266 VI. Afro-Latinas The Black Puerto Rican Woman in Contemporary American Society / Angela Jorge 269 Something Latino Was Up with Us / Spring Redd 276 Excerpt from Poem for My Grifa-Rican Sistah, or Broken Ends Broken Promises / Mariposa (María Teresa Fernandez) 280 Latinegras: Desired Women—Undesirable Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives / Marta I. Cruz-Janzen 282 Letter to a Friend / Nilaja Sun 296 Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects / Ana M. Lara 298 The Black Bellybutton of a Bongo / Marianela Medrano 314 VII. Public Images and (Mis)Representations Notes on Eusebia Cosme and Juano Hernandez / Miriam Jimenez Roman 319 Desde el Mero Medio: Race Discrimination within the Latino Community / Carlos Flores 323 Displaying Identity: Dominicans in the Black Mosaic of Washington, D.C. / Ginetta E. B. Candelario 326 Bringing the Soul: Afros, Black Empowerment, and Lucecita Benítez / Yeidy M. Rivero 343 Can BET Make You Black? Remixing and Reshaping Latin@s on Black Entertainment Television / Ejima Baker 358 The Afro-Latino Connection: Can this group be the bridge to a broadbased Black-Hispanic alliance? / Alan Hughes and Milca Esdaille 364 VIII. Afro-Latin@s in the Hip Hop Zone Ghettocentricity, Blackness, and Pan-Latinidad / Raquel Z. Rivera 373 Chicano Rap Roots: Afro-Mexico and Black-Brown Cultural Exchange / Pancho McFarland 387 The Rise and Fall of Reggaeton: From Daddy Yankee to Tego Calderon and Beyond / Wayne Marshall 396 Do Platanos Go wit' Collard Greens? / David Lamb 404 Divas Don't Yield / Sofia Quintero 411 IX. Living Afro-Latinidads An Afro-Latina's Quest for Inclusion / Yvette Modestin 417 Retracing Migration: From Samana to New York and Back Again / Ryan Mann-Hamilton 422 Negotiating among Invisibilities: Tales of Afro-Latinidades in the United States / Vielka Cecilia Hoy 426 We Are Black Too: Experiences of a Honduran Garifuna / Aida Lambert 431 Profile of an Afro-Latina: Black, Mexican, Both / Maria Rosario Jackson 434 Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami / Antonio Lopez 439 Reflections about Race by a Negrito Acomplejao / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 445 Divisible Blackness: Reflections on Heterogeneity and Racial Identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant 453 Nigger-Reecan Blues / Willie Perdomo 467 X. Afro-Latin@s: Present and Future Tenses How Race Counts for Hispanic Americans / John R. Logan 471 Bleach in the Rainbow: Latino Ethnicity and Preferences for Whiteness / William A. Darity Jr., Jason Dietrich, and Darrick Hamilton 485 Brown Like Me? / Ed Morales 499 Against the Myth of Racial Harmony in Puerto Rico / Afro-Puerto Rican Testimonies Project 508 Mexican Ways, African Roots / Lisa Hoppenjans and Ted Richardson 512 Afro-Latin@s and the Latino Workplace / Tanya Kateri Hernandez 520 Racial Politics in Multiethnic America: Black and Latina/o Identities and Coalitions 527 Afro-Latinism in United States Society: A Commentary / James Jennings 540 Sources and Permissions 547 Contributors 551 Index 559
£25.19
Duke University Press The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvemen
Book SynopsisVolume XI of the Marcus Garvey papersTrade Review“The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920 is a valuable resource for scholars and students of the man and the movement. Though not an exhaustive compilation of documents from the period, the historical commentaries, chronologies, and primary documents in this volume serve as a thorough introduction to this important period in history and successfully integrates the history of Garvey and his impact on the global African diaspora into world history.” -- Glenn A. Chambers * Journal of World History *"By making such archival material widely available, the much-anticipated 'Caribbean Series' . . . is sure to expand the study of what Emory Tolbert has called 'outpost Garveyism' in the Caribbean' . . . Researches interested in a variety of questions about the daily experiences of West Indians at home and abroad will benefit from The UNIA Papers' latest edition." -- Frances Peace Sullivan * Caribbean Studies *“With more than four hundred documents to support Hill’s insights, The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910–1920 is a treasure trove for scholars. . . . This volume is a superb addition to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. The documents and the generalintroduction continue to shed new light upon the complex leader and the activities of the organization. The scholarly community will be intriguedby this new installment and will eagerly await the publication of the other volumes in the Caribbean series and the completion of the collection.” -- Shawn Leigh Alexander * Journal of American History *"The wealth of primary sources is extraordinary and the information presented is annotated extremely thoroughly. A reader of this volume, as well as Volumes XII and XIII, could not ask for more careful and detailed notes,which add context and deeper meaning to the included sources." -- Catherine B. Abbott * Nova Religio *
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Duke University Press Lost in Translation
Book SynopsisAn argument that the fantasy of an inscrutable East has functioned as a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core.Trade Review“[T]he book is an interesting read. Moreover, it makes a vibrant contribution to the important area of film studies that attends to ways of reading the other within diverse cultural and cinematic frameworks and this is to be welcomed.” - Belinda Smaill, Screening the Past“King's own arcade of analysis remains a formidable structure. With critical equanimity, she interweaves a variety of discourses—between psychoanalysis and phenomenology; film theory and cultural history; even classical Hollywood and experimental works—to undo the notion of their opposition and instead reveal their mutual investment. This book is a foundational work for future studies of not only the West's cultural interplay with East Asia, but broader concerns of alterity and the enigmatic in Hollywood itself.” - Ana Salzberg, Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature“The Orient is not just a cast of stereotypes but a visual world as well. With brilliance and gorgeous prose, Homay King uncovers the mise-en-scène of Orientalism and the cinema. She examines what is at stake when ‘Asia’ comes to stand in for an unintelligible alterity—an enigmatic signifier—that animates our psychic lives. Elegant and sophisticated, this tour de force sets a new standard for film theory, visual culture, psychoanalysis, and studies of race.”—David L. Eng, author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy“With Lost in Translation, her powerful analysis of Asia as an ‘enigmatic signifier’ for those who inhabit ‘the West,’ Homay King stages a compelling encounter between psychoanalytic theory, especially as reformulated in the texts of Jean Laplanche, and the politics of racial, national, and ethnic representation. Identifying East and West alike as sites of internal alterity, this smart, provocative, and persuasive book resists the familiar reductiveness of multiculturalist piety in order to insist on the ongoing work of finding ourselves, no less than our others, as always already in translation.”—Lee Edelman, author of No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive“[T]he book is an interesting read. Moreover, it makes a vibrant contribution to the important area of film studies that attends to ways of reading the other within diverse cultural and cinematic frameworks and this is to be welcomed.” -- Belinda Smaill * Screening the Past *“King's own arcade of analysis remains a formidable structure. With critical equanimity, she interweaves a variety of discourses—between psychoanalysis and phenomenology; film theory and cultural history; even classical Hollywood and experimental works—to undo the notion of their opposition and instead reveal their mutual investment. This book is a foundational work for future studies of not only the West's cultural interplay with East Asia, but broader concerns of alterity and the enigmatic in Hollywood itself.” -- Ana Salzberg * Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature *“In Lost in Translation by Homay King, we can review notions of image, signification, message, and translation, primarily in American films, where mise-en-scène depicts East Asian Orientalist tropes. . . . What I especially appreciate in this undertaking is King’s elegant prose style, as well as aesthetic distance resulting from the close readings of individual film texts.” -- Diane Borden * fort da *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Enigmatic Signifier 2. The Shanghai Gesture 3. The Chinatown Syndrome 4. The Great Wall 5. The Lost Girls Notes Bibliography Index
£22.79
Duke University Press Inequalities of Love
Book SynopsisThe difficulties college-educated black women face when trying to date, marry, and have childrenTrade Review“Inequalities of Love is an important and innovative book. It combines rigorous qualitative and quantitative methods in order to give both a macro-demographic portrait and an intimate individual-level account of family-formation decisions, choices, contexts, and constraints. It moves away from the simplistic causal arguments about the relationship between childbearing and socioeconomic outcomes by refocusing our attention on systems of meaning and evaluation, and by expanding the conversation beyond pure economic attainment to include status attainment. Inequalities of Love is an imminently smart book that will appeal to sociologists, demographers, human development scholars, and policy researchers.”—Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City“I found Inequalities of Love fascinating and innovative. Many authors throw around rhetoric about the ‘intersections’ of gender, race, and class, but Averil Y. Clarke has really given us an intersectional analysis. Her unique combination of qualitative interviews and skilled analysis of demographic data produces a new understanding of how race and class create unequal access to ‘love,’ serious relationships, and marriage.”—Paula England, co-editor of Unmarried Couples with Children“Clarke gives a nuanced insight into the perils of success and how it can actually endanger black professional women’s future prospects of finding a ‘Mr. Right’ in the 21st century. The book will clearly add variety and debate to the role for women in society from a womanist and feminist perspective, and will be very useful to black women embarking on professional careers. Recommended. All levels/libraries.” -- M. Christian * Choice *“Inequalities of Love is a necessary study on the dating practices, challenges, and outcomes for college-educated black women.... Overall, Clarke’s work is well written, adequately organized, and is both theoretical engaged and grounded.” -- Kris Marsh * International Journal of Sociology *“It is theoretically rich and compelling. Detailed statistical analyses of national data are combined with fascinating narratives from interviewees in ways that reveal processes that underlie class formation and maintenance. Moreover, the author aims to move inequality scholarship in a new direction—the consideration of inequalities in love and reproduction. The book is an excellent choice for scholars and teachers in the fields of gender, family studies, and social inequality.” -- Shirley A. Hill * Contemporary Sociology *“Inequalities of Love… is a testament to the notion that sometimes the simplest explanation does not provide the most accurate understanding…. I recommend this book to anyone who seeks literature on the female (and human) experience, which moves away from a singular construction of behavior toward a more holistic stance in assessing human action.” -- Megan Douglass * Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy *Table of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Inequality: What's Love Got to Do with It? 1 1. School: Makin' It 41 2. Family: Unequal Roads to It 89 3. Marriage: "I Do" It When and If I Can 115 4. Sex: Is Everybody Doing It? 159 5. Contraception: To Plan It or Not to Plan It 193 6. Abortion: The Usefulness of It 231 Conclusion. Love Notes 271 Appendix 287 Notes 317 References 371 Index 403
£27.90
Duke University Press Somebodys Children
Book SynopsisA feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.Trade Review“Heroic rescue narratives of 'orphaned’ brown babies—from the adoption of Native children to the fairytale story of Zahara Jolie-Pitt—often crumble under scrutiny. Briggs, who adopted a Mexican-American daughter, looks unflinchingly at the disturbing history of U.S. adoption across race and borders.” - Ms. Magazine“Briggs shines a bright light on the ‘politics of transracial and transnational adoption.’ . . . Her provocative retelling of recent adoption history emphasizes that conservative economic forces have steadily eroded state support of children in institutions or through foster care, promoting adoption as the better alternative.” - Martha Nichols, Women’s Review of Books“[I]n juxtaposing histories and current realities of domestic interracial adoption with those of transnational adoption from Latin America, Briggs’s work contributes to the ongoing scholarly conversation about motherhood as a key battleground in global struggles over power, rights, and wellbeing.” - Clare Daniel, H-Net Reviews“In Somebody’s Children, Laura Briggs reminds us that [transnational] adoptions are not only about how children and parents are joined across borders. They are also just as significantly about how so many children came to be defined as adoptable in the first place.” - Jessaca B. Leinaweaver, HAHR“[Briggs] provides a refreshing and long-overdue feminist/womanist perspective on transracial and transnational adoption practices…. This book presents a powerful argument for a reexamination and reshaping of transracial and transnational adoption policy and practices.” - Robin Spath, Affilia“Her work shines a light on the difficult path to creating and maintaining a stance of solidarity with the poor and disenfranchised… Scholars of race, kinship, human rights, cultural politics, and U.S. and Latin American history will find the book valuable and engrossing, and might even be tempted to do more reading or research on adoption.” - Sara Dorow, Reviews in American History"For decades, a child-saving ideology that devalues the bonds of children of color with their families and communities has served to mask social, economic, and political inequities in the United States and abroad. Laura Briggs's astute analysis exposes the historical struggles underlying this devaluation in domestic and foreign policies. Somebody's Children is essential reading for everyone concerned about the politics of adoption and the equal dignity of families worldwide."—Dorothy Roberts, author of the books Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Fatal Invention"I have been longing for someone to write this book for a number of years—and how fortunate we are that Laura Briggs has made this her project; she is an outstanding scholar and thinker. A brilliant and wide-ranging book, Somebody's Children makes a powerful contribution to the study of adoption. The public policy implications of Briggs's work are stunning, and I hope this book will contribute to reshaping adoption practice in the United States."—Rickie Solinger, author of Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America“Briggs shines a bright light on the ‘politics of transracial and transnational adoption.’ . . . Her provocative retelling of recent adoption history emphasizes that conservative economic forces have steadily eroded state support of children in institutions or through foster care, promoting adoption as the better alternative.” -- Martha Nichols * Women's Review of Books *“Heroic rescue narratives of 'orphaned’ brown babies—from the adoption of Native children to the fairytale story of Zahara Jolie-Pitt—often crumble under scrutiny. Briggs, who adopted a Mexican-American daughter, looks unflinchingly at the disturbing history of U.S. adoption across race and borders.” * Ms. *"In Somebody’s Children, Laura Briggs reminds us that [transnational] adoptions are not only about how children and parents are joined across borders. They are also just as significantly about how so many children came to be defined as adoptable in the first place." -- Jessaca B. Leinaweaver * Hispanic American Historical Review *“[Briggs] provides a refreshing and long-overdue feminist/womanist perspective on transracial and transnational adoption practices…. This book presents a powerful argument for a reexamination and reshaping of transracial and transnational adoption policy and practices.” -- Robin Spath * Affilia *“Somebody’s Children offers a critically engaged history of the state politics of transnational and transracial adoption.” -- Kim Park Nelson * Signs *“As the book’s title suggests, adopted children were ‘somebody’s children,; a fact disturbingly absent from most adoption narratives. Briggs does history and family law a great service by bringing that truth to light.” -- Joanna L. Grossman * Journal of American History *“Briggs provides us with a powerful and penetrating account of the politics of transracial and transnational adoption in the USA. Through a painstaking and thorough historical analysis, Briggs articulates a nuanced account of politics, policy and practice in relation to the most vulnerable children and families – in both domestic and international adoptions. . . . The book will be of interest to scholars of child welfare and adoption, race and ethnicity, human rights, and cultural history. It should be essential reading for practitioners and policymakers in the field of adoption.” -- Ravinder Barn * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Transracial Adoption in the United States 1. African American Children and Adoption, 1950–1975 27 2. The Making of the Indian Child Welfare Act, 1922–1978 59 3. "Crack Babies," Race, and Adoption Reform, 1975–2000 94 Part II. Transnational Adoption and Latin America 4. From Refugees to Madonnas of the Cold War 129 5. Uncivil Wars 160 6. Latin American Family Values 197 Part III. Emerging Fights Over the Politics of Adoption 7. Gay and Lesbian Adoption in the United States 241 Epilogue. U.S. Immigrants: The Next Fight over Race, Adoption, and Foster Care? 269 Notes 285 Bibliography 319 Index 353
£27.90
Duke University Press Uncivil Youth
Book SynopsisSoo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism, focusing on the political conditions that enable—and limit—youth of color from achieving meaningful change given the entrenchment of nonprofits within the logic of the neoliberal state.Trade Review"Providing a model of activist ethnographic research, Soo Ah Kwon constructively engages with the activism of the youth of color whom she studies without oversimplifying the contradictory circumstances within which they work. Kwon respects their intellectual analyses and political contributions. At the same time, she demonstrates that youth organizing is often shaped by the very discourses that it seeks to resist. Uncivil Youth is a compelling examination of the intersections of youth organizing, governmentality, and the 'nonprofit industrial complex.'"—Andrea Smith, author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances"This is a wonderful ethnographic study of Asian and Pacific Islander youth activism in Oakland and the youth organizing movement that has been likened to a 'new civil rights movement.' Soo Ah Kwon astutely uncovers what makes possible the 'power of the youth' at a moment when grassroots organizing has been reshaped by nonprofit organizations and neoliberal governance. The book interrogates how the category of 'youth of color' has been absorbed into depoliticized programs for self-help, as well as how young activists challenge the state's discourse of democratic citizenship and the criminalization of immigrant and refugee youth. This is a must-read for scholars, students, youth workers, activists, and general audiences alike."—Sunaina Marr Maira, author of Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11“In this definitive text examining youth engagement among Asian American youth, Kwon (Univ. of Illinois) takes readers on an ethnographic journey to explore afterschool initiatives and other community-based projects, and shows how these initiatives serve as protective factors against juvenile delinquency. . . . Highly recommended.” -- D. E. Kelly * Choice *“This book would be very well placed on advanced undergraduate or Masters’ programmes’ reading lists—as much for the substantive content as for Kwon’s approach, style and appreciative analysis. The latter will doubtless generate excellent student discussions. For the rest of us, and particularly those interested in subjectification processes, the concept of citizenship or youth justice, this is definitely one to read.” -- Jo Phoenix * British Journal of Criminology *“Kwon’s investigation is an elegantly reasoned, well supported, and exceedingly timely intervention into contemporary scholarship on activism and youth. Her smart historicization of the state’s interest in youth and her interdisciplinary exploration of systems of power and youth organizing make this book an important critique of and addition to bodies of scholarship invested in examining activism, neoliberalism, citizenship, race, and social justice.” -- Anne Mai Yee Jansen * Journal of Asian American Studies *“As an academic, theoretical work, Kwon’s book is excellent. It is extremely well-grounded in literature from a variety of social sciences and raises provocative questions that we, as a society, should be asking ourselves. How do we view youth of color? How do we define at-risk youth, and why? What are the ethics around current immigration law, and how does this impact the next generation? And, ultimately, are we truly preparing all youth to become good citizens in a democracy or are we leading them into activities that will leave them prematurely jaded about the process?” -- Edward Janak * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Civilizing Youth against Delinquency 27 2. Youth Organizing and the Nonprofitization of Activism 45 3. Organizing against Youth Criminalization 73 4. Confronting the State 95 Conclusion 121 Notes 131 References 149 Index 165
£22.79
Duke University Press Legal Fictions
Book SynopsisLegal Fictions is a bold declaration that, in the U.S., the black body is thoroughly bound by law. It is an unflinchingly look at the implications of that claim and a virtuoso survey of the ways that black authors of literary fiction have engaged with the law's constructions of race since the era of slavery.Trade Review"Holloway has written a sterling account of the convergence of literary and legal narratives in constructing American racial identities . . . This book will engage scholars in African American studies and American studies in the coming years." -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“Holloway's writing is elegantly structured and multifaceted; the analytical language she uses is bright with imagery.” -- Jo Manby * Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World *“Karla FC Holloway’s most recent book is a remarkable creative and critical work that pushes the boundaries of interdisciplinarity in law, literature, history, and critical race theory. … Holloway uses the marginality of black literature as an argument for its central role in the legal and literary construction of nation and nationality. Finding the margins at the center and the center in the margins is precisely the kind of appealing paradox that makes this book so powerful.” -- Dan Farbman * Law, Culture, and the Humanities *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Bound by Law 1 Intimate Intersectionalities—Scalar Reflections 5 Public Fictions, Private Facts 9 Simile as Precedent 13 Property, Contract, and Evidentiary Values 17 1. The Claims of Property: On Being and Belonging 23 The Capital in Question 27 Imagined Liberalism 35 Mapping Racial Reason 41 Being in Place: Landscape, Never Inscape 49 2. Bodies as Evidence (of Things Not Seen) 55 Secondhand Tales and Hearsay 59 Black Legibility—Can I Get a Witness? 72 Trying to Read Me 77 3. Composing Contract 89 "A novel-like tenor" 93 Passing and Protection 96 A Secluded Colored Neighborhood 102 Epilogue. When and Where "All the Dark-Glass Boys" Enter 111 A Contagion of Madness 113 Notes 127 References 139 Acknowledgments 145 Index 147
£84.15
Duke University Press C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain
Book SynopsisChronicles the life and work of the Trinidadian intellectual and writer C L R James during his first extended stay in Britain, from 1932 to 1938. This book reveals the radicalizing effect of this critical period on James' intellectual and political trajectory.Trade Review"Høgsbjerg has produced an invaluable addition to both British and Caribbean labour scholarship and has written it in such an accessible way that its stirring and provocative narrative ought to inspire thought and action." -- Chris Searle * Morning Star *"This impressively researched, well-written and accessible book demonstrates that James's time in Britain was a period of fertile intellectual growth for this inspirational writer and activist." -- Brian Richardson * Socialist Review *"Christian Høgsbjerg’s C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain sets a new standard in James Studies for he has combed key archival sources bringing increased insight and factual detail to considerations of his life and work. . . . We find Christian Høgsbjerg’s C.L.R. James in his study literally on fire, not merely researching revolutionary history and writing cricket columns. With his sweater accidentally aflame from the heater in his small room, smoke fills the home where he is a guest but he doesn’t notice. Someone has to tell him: 'Nello you are on fire.' James doesn’t understand at first, and then anxiously replies: 'Oh my goodness, oh my goodness!' This is an apt tale to advertise the vibrant quality of C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain." -- Matthew Quest * Insurgent Notes *"More than any other contemporary writer on James, Christian Høgsbjerg appreciates how provisional and incomplete our understanding of this intellectual agenda has actually been. . . . Anyone with an interest in black protest, literary London, and/or left politics in the 1930s will enjoy this smart, factually grounded yet thematically rich biographical study." -- Kent Worcester * New Politics *"Høgsbjerg does a masterful job of recounting this history in tremendous detail. James himself is now an increasingly well-known figure, particularly in the fields of literary and postcolonial studies. Yet, as Høgsbjerg argues, the details of his life, particularly his political transformations and commitments, have preoccupied recent scholars rather less, and often to the detriment of their scholarship. It seems remarkable, indeed, that Høgsbjerg’s is the first detailed study of James’s years in Britain. . . ." -- Daniel Whittall * Antipode *“Høgsbjerg’s biography is an essential piece of the history of C.L.R. James. It is first and foremost an intellectual history which demonstrates how both theory and politics form and are formulated over years. And it provides proof that the revolution will not come without sustained intellectual engagement.” -- Yasmin Nair * Monthly Review *“This is an exceptional study and a necessary book for anyone concerned with understanding James’ life and work, or interested in the wider history of black radical and socialist politics in the twentieth century. As Høgsbjerg rightly concludes, James’ life and work remains, in many respects, an important resource of hope and inspiration for contemporary readers.” -- Andrew Smith * Race & Class *“There is a great deal to commend in this book — to both the expert and those newly introduced to James and his work. Thankfully, Høgsbjerg takes us from James’s classrooms in Trinidad to pub-crawls in London, and ultimately, to a world of exceedingly rich political activism and thought that often defies easy categorization. … For those looking to grasp today’s interconnected travails of racial, class, and cultural alienation brought about by the shortcomings of global capitalism and hyper-nationalism, they would do well to add Høgsbjerg’s delightful and poignant history to their shelves.” -- Saladin Ambar * Canadian Journal of History *"When James left Britain for the United States in 1938 he had moved from Victorian elitism to revolutionary socialism. This book expertly charts his development. It will not only be of value to C L R James scholars but to anyone who has an interest in British history." -- Rhys Williams * International Socialism *"Drawing upon under-utilized and newly-released sources, C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain interweaves the diverse strands of James’s thought and activism in a lucid account of this important moment in the life of one of the twentieth century’s most creative and original thinkers.... C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain offers further confirmation of the centrality of James’s writings to the archives of decolonization in the twentieth century." -- Marc Matera * Anthurium *“A magnificent contribution to our understanding of the twentieth-century Caribbean.” -- Bill Schwarz * Wasafiri *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction. Revolutionaries, Artists, and Wicket-Keepers: C. L. R. James's Place in History 1 1. We Lived According to the Tenets of Matthew Arnold: Colonial Victorianism and the Creative Realism of the Young C. L. R. James 17 2. Red Nelson: The English Working Class and the Making of C. L. R. James 38 3. Imperialism Must Be Destroyed: C. L. R. James, Race, and Revolutionary Politics 65 4. The Humbler Type of Cricket Scribe: C. L. R. James on Sport, Culture, and Society 125 5. There Is No Drama Like the Drama of History: The Black Jacobins, Toussaint Louverture, and the Haitian Revolution 158 Conclusion. To Exploit a Larger World to Conquer: C. L. R. James's Intellectual Conquest of Imperial Britain 199 Notes 217 Bibliography 259 Index 283
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Duke University Press Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art
Book SynopsisShares interests in the intersection of art and ideas. This book takes thirteen pieces of Latino art, each reproduced in color, as occasions for thematic discussions.Trade Review"While there are moments at which the writers arrive at a fresh viewing, they more often use the art as a platform to speak broadly of human life, preferring the wide aperture of much philosophic writing that can lend itself to generalizations. Usefully, the sweeping nature of many statements is offset by the dialogic mode, with both writers as comfortable disagreeing as they are bolstering each other’s insights. While there are moments that lag, there are also moments that shine, especially when Stavans and Gracia draw on their own lived experiences, twining narrative with philosophy." * Publishers Weekly *“These multidisciplinary musings aimed at scholars of art, language, and identity will be enjoyed by those who are content to ponder, wander, and disagree alongside the authors.” -- Lindsay King * Library Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Thirteen 1 1. The Labyrinth of History: Einar and Jamex de la Torre, La reconquista 17 2. The Impostor's Mask: María Brito, Conversation 35 3. On Desecration: Andres Serrano, Piss Christ 49 4. The Death Game: Francisco Oller, El velorio 61 5. A Girl's Innocence: Marian Yampolsky, Elva 75 6. The Thereafter: Carmen Lomas Garza, Heaven and Hell 93 7. The Street as Art: BEAR_TCK, Chicano Graffiti 107 8. Desperate Escape: José Bedia, Siguiendo su instinto 123 9. The Horrors of War: Luis Cruz Azaceta, Slaughter 139 10. The Ambiguity of Madness: Martín Ramírez, No. 111, Untitled (Train and Tunnel) 153 11. I Laugh in Your Race! Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Skull) 167 12. American America: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Above All Things 181 13. Twisted Tongue: Adál, La Spanglish Sandwich Bodega Bag 195 Thirteen Plus One 209 The Artists219 Index 227
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Duke University Press Talking to the Dead
Book SynopsisPresents an ethnography of seven Gullah/Geechee women from the South Carolina lowcountry. This book emphasizes that this communication affirms the women's spiritual faith - which seamlessly integrates Christian and folk traditions - and reinforces their position as powerful culture keepers within Gullah/Geechee society.Trade Review"Talking to the Dead is an incredibly rich study, which will reward both a general readership and readers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds." -- Teresa Zackodnik * Feminist Review *"LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant’s Talking to the Dead is well suited for the novice who is unaware of any of the traditions and religious practices of the Gullah/Geechee.... Because of its emphasis on black women, the ethnography also has much to offer to the black feminist or black womanist scholar, especially one with an interest in African Diasporic culture or African derivative belief systems." -- Constance Bailey * Western Folklore *"While talking to the dead, as well as other less ‘flashy’ Gullah/Geechee practices risk being lost in application, Manigault-Bryant and other third generation scholars have ensured they will not be completely erased through an increasingly sophisticated historiography accounting for the diverse perspectives of African American women in the South Carolina lowcountry." -- Douglas R. Valentine * Religion *"This masterful interweaving of these personal narratives of Gullah/Geechee women with the spiritual practice of talking to the dead, particularly in light of the present-day commodification of Gullah/Geechee culture (offered in the terminating chapter) in South Carolina, is the overall strength of this work.... This book, then, is a must read for advanced students and scholars in these areas of study." -- Margarita Simon Guillory * Religious Studies Review *"...Talking to the Dead is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Gullah/Geechee culture and African American religious practices in general....Most importantly, Talking to the Dead not only lays the groundwork for further investigation into the gender dymanics of longstanding Gullah-Geechee religiosity, but also underscores the fact that no study of African American religion can be complete without a thorough investigation of women as believers, practitioners, and cultural leaders." -- Shannen Dee Williams * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Prologue. Talking to the Dead xiii Introduction. Gullah/Geechee Women 1 1. Culture Keepers 24 2. Folk Religion 66 3. "Ah Tulk to de Dead All de Time" 104 4. "Sendin' Up My Timbah" 136 5. Lived Memory 172 Epilogue. Between the Living and the Dead 205 Appendix A. Companion Audio Materials 211 Appendix B. Interview Format and Demographics 213 Notes 217 Select Bibliography 251 Index 267
£80.10
Duke University Press The East Is Black
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The East Is Black deepens studies on transnational political activism and knowledge travels. Well organized and accessible, this book will work well in upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on African American studies, media studies, and U.S. Cold War history." -- Cindy I-Fen Cheng * Journal of American History *"As it stands, Robeson Taj Frazier has written a monumentally successful monograph that is close to flawless in assessing other horizons and limits of Cold War China for Black radicals. Frazier has helped to raise the bar for future scholars assessing what C. L.R. James once called the "rise and fall" of world revolution." -- Bill V. Mullen * Black Scholar *"The East is Black is a brilliant work that explores how the People’s Republic of China (prc) inspired the political imaginations of African American radicals during the Cold War.... Overall, The East is Black is a delight to read. Frazier writes in a fluid and compelling manner... [the book] should attract a broad readership among academics and students who are interested in race and radicalism in the United States and Asia." -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Frazier’s The East is Black is a deeply nuanced and well-researched book that enriches the literature on twentieth century black internationalism.... Through careful and in-depth analysis, Frazier has written an important study, which will enhance undergraduate and graduate course syllabi on a range of topics including Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and the modern African Diaspora." -- Keisha N. Blain * American Studies *"The East is Black is a compelling account of transnational interaction between American black political radicals and China from the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the 1970s. Robeson Taj Frazier’s book is a valuable addition to an exploding historiography on transnational contacts between individuals and groups separated by territorial borders but united by commonalities beyond the nation-state." -- Pete Millwood * History *"It is abundantly clear that Frazier’s impressive, granular attention to detail is, in part, what opens up the admirably novel analytical spaces—and affective registers—his study occupies. The East Is Black calmly forgoes the nostalgia for the romance of anti-colonial struggle that pervades much scholarship on Afro-Asian solidarity from the last fifteen years. Instead, Frazier supplements this worthwhile tendency with a commitment to lingering with the fragments, the frustrations, of a struggle that wasn’t to be—a project he enacts expertly, in a manner that bears repeating." -- Ajay Kumar Batra * Amerasia Journal *"The East is Black helps expand the geographic and cultural boundaries of scholarly understandings of the black radical imagination. Frazier’s detailed analysis of the dynamic terrain of Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, and black radicalism insightfully illustrates how African Americans engaged with a fluid global color line in pursuit of a transnational solidarity against white racial capitalism. The study is well worth reading for scholars of African American politics and intellectual thought, but should be equally rewarding for students of modern global history and the Cold War." -- Joseph Parrott * H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: March of the Volunteers 1 Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China 22 1. Ruminations on Eastern Passage 37 2. A Passport Ain't Worth a Cent 72 Part II. The 1960s: The East Is Red and Black 108 3. Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters of the East 117 4. Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle 159 Coda. The 1970s: Rapprochement and the Decline of China's World Revolution 193 Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu 213 Glossary 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 277 Index 303
£75.65
Duke University Press The East Is Black
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The East Is Black deepens studies on transnational political activism and knowledge travels. Well organized and accessible, this book will work well in upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on African American studies, media studies, and U.S. Cold War history." -- Cindy I-Fen Cheng * Journal of American History *"As it stands, Robeson Taj Frazier has written a monumentally successful monograph that is close to flawless in assessing other horizons and limits of Cold War China for Black radicals. Frazier has helped to raise the bar for future scholars assessing what C. L.R. James once called the "rise and fall" of world revolution." -- Bill V. Mullen * Black Scholar *"The East is Black is a brilliant work that explores how the People’s Republic of China (prc) inspired the political imaginations of African American radicals during the Cold War.... Overall, The East is Black is a delight to read. Frazier writes in a fluid and compelling manner... [the book] should attract a broad readership among academics and students who are interested in race and radicalism in the United States and Asia." -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Frazier’s The East is Black is a deeply nuanced and well-researched book that enriches the literature on twentieth century black internationalism.... Through careful and in-depth analysis, Frazier has written an important study, which will enhance undergraduate and graduate course syllabi on a range of topics including Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and the modern African Diaspora." -- Keisha N. Blain * American Studies *"The East is Black is a compelling account of transnational interaction between American black political radicals and China from the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the 1970s. Robeson Taj Frazier’s book is a valuable addition to an exploding historiography on transnational contacts between individuals and groups separated by territorial borders but united by commonalities beyond the nation-state." -- Pete Millwood * History *"It is abundantly clear that Frazier’s impressive, granular attention to detail is, in part, what opens up the admirably novel analytical spaces—and affective registers—his study occupies. The East Is Black calmly forgoes the nostalgia for the romance of anti-colonial struggle that pervades much scholarship on Afro-Asian solidarity from the last fifteen years. Instead, Frazier supplements this worthwhile tendency with a commitment to lingering with the fragments, the frustrations, of a struggle that wasn’t to be—a project he enacts expertly, in a manner that bears repeating." -- Ajay Kumar Batra * Amerasia Journal *"The East is Black helps expand the geographic and cultural boundaries of scholarly understandings of the black radical imagination. Frazier’s detailed analysis of the dynamic terrain of Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, and black radicalism insightfully illustrates how African Americans engaged with a fluid global color line in pursuit of a transnational solidarity against white racial capitalism. The study is well worth reading for scholars of African American politics and intellectual thought, but should be equally rewarding for students of modern global history and the Cold War." -- Joseph Parrott * H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: March of the Volunteers 1 Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China 22 1. Ruminations on Eastern Passage 37 2. A Passport Ain't Worth a Cent 72 Part II. The 1960s: The East Is Red and Black 108 3. Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters of the East 117 4. Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle 159 Coda. The 1970s: Rapprochement and the Decline of China's World Revolution 193 Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu 213 Glossary 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 277 Index 303
£20.69
Duke University Press Shine
Book SynopsisArt historian Krista Thompson analyzes photographic practices in the Caribbean and the United States to show how African diasporic youth use the process of creating images to represent themselves in the public sphere and to communicate with other Afro-diasporic communities. Trade Review"Thompson’s study of light is nuanced and generative. . . . the structure of each section encourages the reader to embrace a protean reading practice, one that resists firmly embracing a single understanding of light, and of its affects and effects. The result is a powerful project that stands to impact multiple fields, while at the same time challenging how we see and understand black visual practices. In the end, Shine succeeds in reconstituting the very terms of photography and visual technology and their role in the diaspora." -- Autumn Marie Womack * SX Salon *"Shine provides important illumination; it shows that nonelite culture holds up to serious academic scrutiny. Particularly given their reach and popularity, the practices Thompson brings to light cannot go overlooked and unanalyzed." -- John A. Tyson * CAA Reviews *"Ultimately, Shine is a useful application of tools from the field of art history to popular culture and presentation of self in the technological age.... Cultural anthropologists, sociologists specializing in cultural aspects of race and ethnicity, and scholars of media would find this text a valuable read." -- Deinya Phenix * Visual Studies *"Shine, by Krista Thompson, presents a compelling investigation into the transnational aesthetics of hip-hop, bridging distinct visual practices, artistic forms, and modes of visibility in the African diaspora. Situating her work within art history, Thompson provides rich, multisited ethnographic research that spans the United States, Jamaica, and the Bahamas, allowing her to interrogate the intersecting cultures, histories, and media flows of the geopolitical region known as the circum-Caribbean. From street photography in New York to Jamaican dancehall videos, Thompson brings into dialogue disparate visual and embodied practices to provide a thought-provoking study on the mediation of the African diaspora in the circum-Caribbean." -- Eryn Snyder Berger * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction. Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels 11. "Keep It Real": Street Photography, Public Visibility, and Afro-Modernity 472. Video Light: Dancehall and the Aesthetics of Spectacular Un-visibility in Jamaica 1123. Shine, Shimmer, and Splendor: African Diasporic Aesthetics and the Art of Being Seen in the Bahamas 1694. The Sound of Light: Reflections on Art History in the Visual Culture of Hip-Hop 215Notes 271Bibliography 317Index 335
£999.99
Duke University Press Formations of United States Colonialism
Book SynopsisThe contributors to this groundbreaking collection of essays explore U.S. overseas empire and settler colonialism within the same analytic framework, revealing the mutually constitutive histories of U.S. colonialism abroad and at home.Trade Review "[T]he strength of Formations of United States Colonialism is in the scope it offers for the reader to make their own connections. As such, the ideas it presents should prove fertile ground for further study." -- Nick Cleaver * Journal of American Studies *"However you read this book, by dipping in to chapters or by reading the whole thing, you will emerge with a deeper understanding of the different facets of the United States’ interactions with indigenous peoples within the United States and outside its national borders. ... This book allows readers to take a step towards acknowledging the intricacies of America’s colonial past, and towards understanding the wider implications of U.S. colonialism, both historically and now." -- Sophie Cooper * U.S. Studies Online *"The volume is a significant resource for U.S. historians and other scholars of American studies who seek to grapple with the place of indigenous people in the development of the United States." -- Malinda Maynor Lowery * Journal of American History *"The volume features an impressive set of rigorous essays on the coloniality of the United States, itself a 'volatile assemblage' of discourses, practices, events, actors and institutions.... I highly recommend the book for both the insightful depth with which it explores the practices of settler colonialism and the range of topics, cases and time periods the contributors examine so well." -- Kevin Bruyneel * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"This volume makes several key contributions to the study of empire and colonialism, especially in regard to Indigeneity and U.S. exceptionalism.... This important collection is recommended for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in Native American and Indigenous studies, American studies, critical ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies. It is required reading for scholars studying and/or teaching U.S. empire. Overall, this book should be widely read and discussed." -- Juliana Hu Pegues * Native American and Indigenous Studies *"Formations of United States Colonialism is an ambitious, theoretically innovative collection that builds from and poses generative interventions across fields that include indigenous studies, history, postcolonial theory, critical geography, anthropology, and political science.... In this collection, the themes of storied land, mapping, and cartography, the politics of recognition, and conflicting regimes of racialization, among many others, emerge as signposts for vital and necessary work that connects various formations of United States colonialism and imperialism. While many scholars and activists have understood the continental conquest of North America and United States’ empire-building as discrete projects, this anthology makes a significant intervention in multiple fields and inspires new coalitional possibilities." -- Savannah J. Kilner * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Formations of United States Colonialism is an excellent collection of state-of-the-art essays that critically examine US colonial discourse and grapple with the complexities of cultural decolonization.... Formations of United States Colonialism deserves attention for its historically grounded insights into the complex and dynamics relationship among power, identity, and knowledge. Within its pages, one cannot yet see the outlines of a decolonized world, but one can sense which direction to take to reach it." -- Christopher Powell * Canadian Journal of Native Studies *"This book allows readers to take a step towards acknowledging the intricacies of America’s colonial past, and towards understanding the wider implications of U.S. colonialism, both historically and now." -- Sophie Cooper * U.S. Studies Online *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward a Genealogy of the U.S. Colonial Present / Alyosha Goldstein 1 Part I. Histories in Contention 1. The Specters of Recognition / Joanne Barker 33 2. Colonizing Chaco Canyon: Mapping Antiquity in the Territorial Southwest / Berenika Byszewski 57 3. The Prose of Counter-Sovereignty / Manu Vimalassery 87 4. A Sorry State: Apology Politics and Legal Fictions in the Court of the Conqueror / J. Kehaulani Kauanui 110 Part II. Colonial Entanglements 5. Missionaries, Slaves, and Indians: Fragmented Colonial Exchanges in the Early American South / Barbara Krauthamer 137 6. American Empire, Hispanism, and the Nationalist Visions of Albizu, Recto, and Grau / Augusto Espiritu 157 7. Becoming Indo-Hispano: Reies Lopez Tijerina and the New Mexican Land Grant Movement / Lorena Oropeza 180 8. Seeking New Fields of Labor: Football and Colonial Political Economies in American Samoa / Fa'anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 207 9. The Kepaniwai (Damming of the Water) Heritage Gardens: Alternative Futures beyond the Settler State / Dean Itsuji Saranillio 233 Part III. Politics of Transposition 10. Our Stories Are Maps Larger Than Can Be Held: Self-Determination and the Normative Force of Law at the Periphery of American Expansionism / Julian Aguon 265 11. Governmentality and Cartographies of Colonial Spaces: The "Progressive Military Map of Porto Rico," 1908-1914 / Lanny Thompson 289 12. "I'm Not Running on My Gender": The 2010 Navajo Nation Presidential Race, Gender, and the Politics of Tradition / Jennifer Nez Denetdale 316 13. Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire / Vicente L. Rafael 335 Bibliography 361 Contributors 399 Index
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