Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
The University of Chicago Press The Mystic of Friendship
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The University of Chicago Press Tales of Ancient India
Book SynopsisThis admirably produced and well-translated volume of stories from the Sanskrit takes the Western reader into one of the Golden Ages of India. . . . The world in which the tales are set is one which placed a premium upon slickness and guile as aids to success. . . . Merchants, aristocrats, Brahmins, thieves and courtesans mingle with vampires, demi-gods and the hierarchy of heaven in a series of lively or passionate adventures. The sources of the individual stories are clearly indicated; the whole treatment is scholarly without being arid.The Times Literary Supplement Fourteen tales from India, newly translated with a terse and vibrant effectiveness. These tales will appeal to any reader who enjoys action, suspense, characterization, and suspension of disbelief in the supernatural.The Personalist
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Hoodlums
Book SynopsisMartin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroesindividuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black villains? Villains, just as much as heroes, have helped define the black experience. Ranging from black slaveholders and frontier outlaws to serial killers and gangsta rappers, Hoodlums examines the pivotal role of black villains in American society and popular culture. Here, William L. Van Deburg offers the most extensive treatment to date of the black badman and the challenges that this figure has posed for race relations in America. He first explores the evolution of this problematic racial stereotype in the literature of the early Republicdocuments in which the enslavement of African Americans was justified through exegetical claims. Van Deburg then probes antebellum slave laws, minstrel shows, and the works of proslavery polemicists to consider how whites conceptualized blacks as members of an inferior and dangerous race. Turning to key works by blacks themselves, from the writings of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois to classic blaxploitation films like Black Caesar and The Mack, Van Deburg demonstrates how African Americans have combated such negative stereotypes and reconceptualized the idea of the badman through stories of social banditscontroversial individuals vilified by whites for their proclivity toward evil, but revered in the black community as necessarily insurgent and revolutionary. Ultimately, Van Deburg brings his story up-to-date with discussions of prison and hip-hop culture, urban rioting, gang warfare, and black-on-black crime. What results is a work of remarkable virtuositya nuanced history that calls for both whites and blacks to rethink received wisdom on the nature and prevalence of black villainy.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press The Scene of Harlem Cabaret
Book SynopsisHarlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Scene of Harlem Cabaret Race Sexuality
Book SynopsisHarlem's nightclubs in the 1920s and '30s were a crucible for testing society's racial and sexual limits. Combining performance theory, historical research, and biographical study, this title explores the role of nightlife performance as a definitive touchstone for understanding the racial and sexual politics of the early 20th century.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Gods and Vampires Return to Chipaya
Book SynopsisOn his return to the village of Chipaya, the author learned that a group of Uru Indians, believed to be sorcerers and vampires, was being incarcerated and tortured. This study examines relations between the Urus and the region's dominant ethnic groups.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Talking about Race Community Dialogues and the
Book SynopsisHow should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? Communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. This work looks at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it.Trade Review"An important and original work, Talking about Race provides a unique and critical contribution to research on deliberation. It is a major empirical study of inter-personal communication and is of great importance not only to specialists in political deliberation but also to the wider community of scholars interested in political communication." - Diana Owen, Georgetown University"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Discourse and Destruction The City of
Book SynopsisThis text reconstructs the conflict between MOVE, a radical black separatist group, and the city of Philadelphia. Against this account, the author develops an analysis of the relation between definition and action, between language and violence.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Generous Betrayal Politics of Culture in the New
Book SynopsisMany immigrants in Europe find marginalization, discrimination, and increasing segregation. In this book, the author shows how an excessive respect for "their culture" has been part of the problem. Culture has become a concept of race, sustaining ethnic identity politics that subvert human rights.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Politics of Difference Ethnic Premises in a
Book SynopsisThis volume examines cases ranging from the well-publicized ethnonationalism of Bosnia and post-Apartheid South Africa to ethnic conflicts in Belgium and Sri Lanka. It explains the inadequacies of current approaches to power and ethnicity.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Declining Significance of Race Blacks and
Book SynopsisDeals with the contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class. This title presents a discussion of race, class, and social policy.Trade Review"William Julius Wilson has written a profound and provocative book that is destined to become a classic in the field. He has articulated the issues with which future researchers will have to deal. Truly, he has made a contribution to social science." (Wilson Record, American Journal of Sociology) "The intellectual strength of this book lies in his capacity to integrate disparate findings from historical studies, social theory, and research on contemporary trends into a complex and original synthesis that challenges wide-spread assumptions about the cause of black disadvantage and the way to remove it." (Paul Starr, New York Times Book Review) "This publication is easily one of the most erudite and sober diagnoses of the American black situation. Students of race relations and anybody in a policy-making position cannot afford to bypass this study." (Ernest Manheim, Sociology)"
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Dangerous Frames How Ideas about Race and Gender
Book SynopsisIn addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden ways to profoundly influence the way we think - and vote - about an array of issues that don't seem related to either category. This title illuminates the emotional underpinnings of American politics.Trade Review"This is a very exciting book, and one of the finest pieces of work in the area of politics, identity, and the mass media. It will have a broad impact on the fields of American political psychology, public opinion, political communication, and racial and gender attitudes." - Nicholas Valentino, University of Texas at Austin"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Stuck in Place
Book SynopsisIn the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. This book argues for urban policies that have the potential to create transformative and sustained changes in urban communities and the families that live within them, and also outlines a durable urban policy agenda.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Belonging in an Adopted World
Book SynopsisSince the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. This title explores the consequences and implications of this unprecedented movement of children, usually from poor nations to the affluent West.Trade Review"Brilliantly nuanced and beautifully written, Belonging in an Adopted World is ethnographically stunning. Barbara Yngvesson is an eloquent narrator, and her analysis will be clear and accessible to anyone ready to think afresh about citizenship and family life." - Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Dark Voices W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought
Book SynopsisThis is an examination of the intellectual formation of W.E.B. Du Bois, tracing the scholar and civil rights leader's thought from his undergraduate days in the 1880s to the 1903 publication of The Souls of Black Folk. It offers a reading of his work from this period.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1: Race and Multiplicity: An Introduction Pt. I: From the South to the Seventh Ward 2: "Great Men," "Great Laws," and the "Fourth Dimension": The Crisis of Hero, System, and Nation Bismarck in Tennessee: Traveling in Time Pluralism as Mind-Cure: The Accommodation of William James "Fourth Dimension" and "Great Laws": Satire and Historicism Jefferson Davis at Harvard: Representing Civilization 3: Local Knowledge in the Shadow of Liberty: Science, Society, and Legitimacy Toward Science: Will and Law Revisited The Riddle of the American Sphinx: History, Sociology, and Exceptionalism The Claims of "Thought and Feeling": Science, Literature, and Understanding Pt. II: The Souls of Black Folk 4: "Double-Consciousness": Locating the Self United Selves and United States: Hegel in America "The Contradiction of Double Aims" and "The Talented Tenth" The Unlocated Self: James, Santayana, Emerson 5: A "Prosody of Those Dark Voices": The Transformation of Consciousness The Sorrow Songs: Using an Unusable Past Voices from the Caverns and the Guardians of the Folk Thoughtful Deed: The Senses of Prophetic Imagination Missing the End: Toward Revolution 6: Conclusion Appendix: W. E. B. Du Bois's "A Vacation Unique" Notes Bibliography Index
£30.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Listening to the Fur Trade
Book SynopsisAs fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and very occasionally bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time.Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entaileTrade Review“There has been much literature devoted to fur-trade canoe routes and voyageur life, but analyzing them through their soundscapes is very original. Daniel Laxer advances the intriguing idea that music and performance can be assessed as another form of exchange and thereby paints a different and more comprehensive picture of fur-trade labour and social relations. Listening to the Fur Trade will really shake up what we know about the fur trade.” George Colpitts, University of Calgary and author of North America’s Indian Trade in European Commerce and Imagination, 1580–1850“Laxer's attention to the importance of music and sound as tools of diplomacy in relationship negotiations and as central to life in precolonial Canada is a rich and innovative settler approach to historical studies.” Pacific Northwest Quarterly
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Peronism as a Big Tent The Political Inclusion
Book SynopsisArgentina’s populist government, led by Juan Perón, challenged the traditional model of the melting pot and granted legitimacy to hybrid identities. Peronism as a Big Tent examines Peronism’s efforts to garner the support of Argentines of Middle Eastern origins, be they Jewish, Maronite, Orthodox Catholic, Druze, or Muslim.Trade Review“[Peronism as a Big Tent] reveals and contrasts many examples of political careers of Argentine-Arabs, describing their biographical complexities in ways that avoid the construction of stereotyped narratives … Rein and Noyjovich have provided a thoughtful history which is conscious of its constructive-interpretative character. The authors present multiple voices, not only from the period in question, but also traced further back in history.” Journal of Latin American Studies
£55.80
McGill-Queen's University Press The Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces
Book SynopsisThis collection investigates how different countries approach the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in their armed forces, and offers immigrant military participation as a way to provide a pathway to citizenship, foster greater societal integration, and achieve a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive military.Trade Review“The Power of Diversity in the Armed Forces opens up the conversation on a topic that currently has little literature available. This book is an excellent study on the issue of managing diversity in the armed forces around the world.” Isabelle Caron, Dalhousie University
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking The
Book SynopsisIntercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking offers an analysis of communal violence and armed conflict in urban Central Asia. Drawing from Joldon Kutmanaliev’s fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan, the book assesses local-level differences in communal violence across neighbourhoods and the role of local communities and urban landscapes in conflict prevention.Trade Review“This book is a major contribution to our knowledge of political violence. Combining rich data with an innovative methodological approach, grounded in rigorous theory, Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking is the first in-depth study of the 2010 violence in Kyrgyzstan to be published in English. Recognizing the limitations of his data, Kutmanaliev avoids making causal claims where the evidence is lacking, which allows him to come to a more convincing conclusion about the determinants of peace and violence.” Edward Lemon, Texas A&M University and editor of Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia“Joldon Kutmanaliev argues for an approach to urban violence that pays attention to microdynamics within cities. Highlighting two main mechanisms – intergroup non-aggression pacts and within-group policing – the book applies and develops existing theoretical arguments to a new unit of analysis, considers the role of spatial dynamics in shaping these theoretical mechanisms, and explores a largely understudied case.” Emma Elfversson, Uppsala University and co-editor of The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities
£84.15
Columbia University Press African American Power and Politics The Political
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the Reagan revolution on African-American political life. The book also critically assesses the Clinton administration's record on race and the Democratic party response to affirmative action, welfare, and other aspects of the African-American political agenda.Table of Contents1. Elections 1. Epistemology and the Native-Son Candidate 2. Theory 3. Methodology 2. The Political Context of a Native-Son Candidate 4. The Arkansas Electorate 5. The African American Electorate 3. The Making of a Native-Son Candidate 6. The Congressional Vote for Clinton 7. The Attorney General Vote for Clinton 8. The Gubernatorial Vote for Clinton 4. The Southern Native-Son Presidential Candidate 9. The Presidential Vote for Clinton 10. The Regional Vote: Clinton and Carter 5. The Native-Son Candidate and the Democratic Party 11. The Democratic Party in Presidential Elections: The Native-Son Theory Revisited 12. Epilogue: Scandal, Public Support, and the Native-Son Variable
£28.80
Columbia University Press Black Leadership
Book SynopsisThe history of the black struggle for civil rights and political and economic equality in America is tied to the strategies, agendas, and styles of black leaders. Marable examines different models of black leadership and the figures who embody them: integration (Booker T. Washington, Harold Washington), nationalist separatism (Louis Farrakhan), and democratic transformation (W.E.B. Du Bois).
£29.75
Columbia University Press The Psychoanalysis of Race
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays studies the seemingly permanent racial undercurrents of society, focusing on unconscious fantasies and identities. The essays engage with postcolonial, political and psychoanalytic theory, as well as a wide range of texts and theories.
£28.80
Columbia University Press The Columbia Grangers Index to AfricanAmerican
Book SynopsisAddresses questions such as: What are the best anthologies of African-American poetry? What have African-American poets written about such highly charged issues as religion? Politics? Patriotism? Slavery? Racism? Money? Sex? What have they written about Harlem? The civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King Jr?
£100.00
Columbia University Press The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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Columbia University Press Social Work Practice with Ethnically and Racially
Book SynopsisMany nursing home residents experience physical and/or cognitive debilitation and increased dependence as older adults, and cultural and situational differences create variations in how these changes are experienced and addressed. This volume touches upon these areas and provides a comprehensive examination of cultural and practice phenomena.Trade ReviewWorthy reading for all social nursing practitioners all over the world. -- L. Robert Gerontology A compelling book for anyone working in gerontology or working in long-term care facilities. -- Carol Dorr Families in Society an excellent overview of the cultural attributes that influence the life experiences of nursing home residents and their families. -- Jan M. Ivery Gerontologist Accessible, informative and contributes constructively to advancing culturally appropriate care. -- Jenny Mackenzie Ageing & SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors Introduction, by Patricia J. Kolb 1. African American Elders, by Molly Davis 2. American Indian Elders, by Priscilla A. Day 3. Chinese American Elders, by Rhoda Wong 4. Italian American Elders, by Patricia J. Kolb and Rosemarie Hofstein 5. Japanese American Elders, by Tazuko Shibusawa 6. Korean American Elders, by Su-Jeong Park and Suk-Young Kang 7. Mexican American Elders, by Yvette Solis-Longoria 8. Puerto Rican Elders, by Maria Cuadrado Conclusion: Toward Culturally Competent Social Work Practice, by Patricia J. Kolb Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Faith in Their Own Color
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Columbia University Press Faith in Their Own Color
Book SynopsisCraig D. Townsend tells the remarkable story of St. Philip’s, the first African American Episcopal church in New York City, and its struggle for autonomy and independence.Trade ReviewCraig Townsend's superb work, Faith in Their Own Color, has made a significant impact on readers through the years. The book's exploration of the interaction of race and religion is needed now more than ever, and I hope it will continue to reach as many people as possible. -- The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal ChurchThe story of St. Philip's church in New York is not the story of one congregation but of the intersection of key issues of religion and race in antebellum America. It is an intriguing and gripping story and Townsend has told it well. This is an illuminating book and fills an important gap in our understanding of the dynamics of African American participation in Euro-American churches. -- Robert Bruce Mullin, General Theological Seminary, author of The Puritan as Yankee: A Life of Horace BushnellThis study of the second-oldest black Episcopal congregation in the United States takes religious ideas no less seriously than the political and social realities of racism that permeated the Protestant Episcopal Church during the first half of the nineteenth century. Townsend deftly peels back the layers of obfuscation, divergent strategies, and political maneuverings that intersected with a passion for the unity of the denomination evidenced by virtually all parties in dispute over the admission of St. Philip's Church to the diocesan convention. Simultaneously, the author opens a window onto the life and inner workings of this prominent African American parish, providing a view that is as rare as it is fascinating. -- Randall K. Burkett, curator of African American Collections, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory UniversityA fascinating encounter with the dynamics of social and religious change impating African Americans in antebellum New York. -- A.J. Williams-Myers * Multicultural Review *Townsend's book is invaluable to any scholar... and has wide application for students of religion and race. -- Graham Russel Gao Hodges * The Journal of American History *I highly recommend this very useful text. -- Sandy Dwayne Martin * Church History *[An] important contribution to our understanding of a neglected chapter of New York City religious history. -- Kenneth A. Scherzer * H-Net Reviews *Faith in Their Own Color will be of interest to all historians of the antebellum North and deserves a wide readership. -- David Brown * Ecclesiastical History *Faith in Their Own Color represents an incredibly detailed story of the trials and tribulations of a single black parish in antebellum New York, one historians of race and religion will surely find useful. -- John Garrison Marks * New York History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Improper Associates2. Freedom's Defects3. Hobart and the High Church4. One of Their Own Colour5. An Orderly and Devout Congregation6. A Bitter Thralldom7. A Godly Admonition8. Peculiar Circumstances9. The Chains That Bind10. Promoting Improvement11. Partaking of the Heavenly Gift12. To Employ a Colored Clergyman13. A State of Schism14. A Bishop's Trials15. Exciting the Deepest Feelings16. Vouchsafed to All Men17. The Heart Must Be Changed18. The Beauties of Freedom19. Economic Opportunity and Religious Choice20. Attentive to Their Devotions21. The Express Wishes of Nearly All22. Injurious to the Cause of Religion23. A Fulness of Assent24. But One Fold and One Chief ShepherdAppendix. Parishioners of St. Philip's ChurchNotesIndex
£18.00
Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to African American History
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis new eclectic guide proves valuable as a one-stop work for quick reference as well as basic historical research. ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Historical Narrative, by Robert L. Harris Jr. and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Interpreting African American History Since 1939 Foundations of the Movement, 1939-57 The Civil Rights Movement, 1955-65 Black Power / Black Consciousness, 1965-75 A Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty Part II: Key Themes in African American History Since 1939 Naming Ourselves: The Politics and Meaning of Self-designation, by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Looking Backward: African Americans in the Postindustrial Era, by Robin D. G. Kelley African Americans in the Military, by Brenda L. Moore African Americans in Sports: The Other Champions, by Sundiata Djata African Americans in Literature and the Arts, by Kevin Gaines and Penny M. Von Eschen Black Music and Black Possibility: From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop, by Craig Werner Black Business Development, by Juliet Walker Part III: Chronology, 1939-2005, by Robert L. Harris Jr. Part IV: A-Z Entries, by Robert L. Harris Jr. with the assistance of Michelle R. Scott Part V: Resource Guide, by Debra Newman Ham
£32.30
Columbia University Press In Their Parents Voices
Book SynopsisCombining trenchant historical and political data with absorbing firsthand narratives, this title brings a human dimension to the literature on transracial adoption.Trade ReviewWorthwhile, but the book's true value lies in the chance to meet the parents of the remarkable young adults profiles in its predecessor. -- Judy Stigger Adoptive Families [In Their Parents' Voices] should be part of every placement agency's library and read by every adopting family. -- Linda Katz Families in SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: The Children from In Their Own Voices Author's Note Part 2: The Parents John and Marian Pelton James and Alice Bandstra Jim and Kathy Stapert Ron and Dorothy Paul Goff Barbara Tremitiere Nora Anker Marjorie Gray Edson and Judith Bigelow Aaldert and Elisabeth Mennega Rikk Larsen Charles and Pam Adams David and Lola Himrod Ken and Jean Winnie Rodney and Joyce Perry Part 3: Conclusion Afterword Postscript Acknowledgments
£71.40
Columbia University Press Ethnic Americans
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction 1. The Beginnings: Immigration to America, by 1492 to the 1820s 2. An Expanding Population: Immigration from 1830 to the 1890s 3. A New Wave of Immigrants, by 1890s-1920s 4. Ethnic Conflict and Immigration Restriction 5. The Door Opens Again: Immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere, by World II to 2008 6. Close Neighbors: Immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, by World War II to 2008 7. Confronting Immigration Bibliographic Essay Appendix 1 Immigration By Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, by 1820 to 2006 Appendix 2 Provisions of the Major United States Immigration Laws and Programs Index
£87.40
Columbia University Press Ethnic Americans
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface Introduction 1. The Beginnings: Immigration to America, by 1492 to the 1820s 2. An Expanding Population: Immigration from 1830 to the 1890s 3. A New Wave of Immigrants, by 1890s-1920s 4. Ethnic Conflict and Immigration Restriction 5. The Door Opens Again: Immigration from the Eastern Hemisphere, by World II to 2008 6. Close Neighbors: Immigrants from the Western Hemisphere, by World War II to 2008 7. Confronting Immigration Bibliographic Essay Appendix 1 Immigration By Region and Selected Country of Last Residence, by 1820 to 2006 Appendix 2 Provisions of the Major United States Immigration Laws and Programs Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Can the Subaltern Speak
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Rosalind C. Morris Part 1 Text "Can the Subaltern Speak?" revised edition, from the "History" chapter of Critique of Postcolonial Reason, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Part 2 Contexts and Trajectories Reflections on "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Subaltern Studies after Spivak, by Partha Chatterjee Postcolonial Studies: Now That's History, by Ritu Birla The Ethnical Affirmation of Human Rights: Gayatri Spivak's Intervention, by Drucilla Cornell Part 3 Speaking of (Not) Hearing: Death and the Subaltern Death and the Subaltern, by Rajeswawri Sunder Rajan Between Speaking and Dying: Some Imperatives in the Emergence of the Subaltern in the Context of U.S. Slavery, by Abdul JanMohamed Subalterns at War, by Michele Barrett Part 4 Contemporaneities and Possible Futures: (Not) Speaking and Hearing Biopower and the New International Division of Reproductive Labor, by Pheng Cheah Moving from Subalternity: Indigenous Women in Guatemala and Mexico, by Jean Franco Part 5 In Response In Response: Looking Back, Looking Forward, by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Appendix Can the Subaltern Speak? Bibliography Contributors Index
£72.00
Columbia University Press Hog and Hominy
Book SynopsisTrade Review[An] elegant, detailed history... Highly recommended. Choice Hog and Hominy provides a definitive history of the grand social forces and unforgettable personalities that have revolutionized Africa American cooking since the twilight of the Jim Crow system. -- Andrew Warnes Gastronomica Hog and Hominy contributes to understanding the important place of soul food in African American culture and of African American cuisine in the American melting pot. -- Carole Counihan Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Columbian Exchange 2. Adding to my Bread and Greens 3. Hog and Hominy 4. The Great Migration 5. The Beans and Greens of Necessity 6. Eating Jim Crow 7. The Chitlin Circuit 8. The Declining Influence of Soul Food 9. Food Rebels Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£58.77
Columbia University Press Hog and Hominy
Trade Review[An] elegant, detailed history... Highly recommended. Choice Hog and Hominy provides a definitive history of the grand social forces and unforgettable personalities that have revolutionized Africa American cooking since the twilight of the Jim Crow system. -- Andrew Warnes Gastronomica Hog and Hominy contributes to understanding the important place of soul food in African American culture and of African American cuisine in the American melting pot. -- Carole Counihan Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Columbian Exchange 2. Adding to my Bread and Greens 3. Hog and Hominy 4. The Great Migration 5. The Beans and Greens of Necessity 6. Eating Jim Crow 7. The Chitlin Circuit 8. The Declining Influence of Soul Food 9. Food Rebels Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£16.14
Columbia University Press Upsetting the Apple Cart
Book SynopsisAn exciting new history of the activists, protestors, politicians, and even recipes that changed New York City.Trade ReviewFrederick Douglass Opie makes a valuable contribution to the study of the mid- to late-twentieth-century history of New York City. His book provides the reader with a detailed, almost blow-by-blow account of the various attempts by African Americans and Latinos to find a common political cause and build lasting coalitions. -- Xavier F. Totti, Lehman College, editor of CENTRO Journal Upsetting the Apple Cart outlines for the first time an important part of American working-class history and race relations. Frederick Douglass Opie's narrative delineates how black and Latino coalitions supported by organized labor can become a formula to attain power. He focuses on how these coalitions work and how they become contentious based on mutual suspicions. Provocative and engaging. -- Miguel "Mickey" Melendez, author of We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young LordsTable of ContentsA Note on Sources Abbreviations Introduction 1. Journeys: Black and Latino Relations, 1930-1970 2. Upsetting the Apple Cart: Black and Puerto Rican Hospital Workers, 1959-1962 3. Developing Their Minds Without Losing Their Souls: Black and Latino Student Coalition Building, 1965-1969 4. Young Turks: Progressive Activists and Organizations, 1970-1985 5. Coalition Politics, 1982-1984: The Chicago Plan 6. Where the Street Goes, the Suits Follow: Coalition Politics, 1985-1988 7. Latinos for Dinkins in 1989: The Coalition's Complicated Victory Conclusion Notes Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press The Rey Chow Reader
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction Acknowledgments Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation 5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, by Miscegenation 6. When Whiteness Feminizes ... : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics 7. Film and Cultural Identity 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship 9. The Dream of a Butterfly 10. Film as Ethnography; or, by Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, by Sixty 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, by Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, by a Different Type of Migration Notes Index
£83.60
Columbia University Press The Rey Chow Reader
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor's Introduction Acknowledgments Part 1. Modernity and Postcolonial Ethnicity 1. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 2. The Postcolonial Difference: Lessons in Cultural Legitimation 3. From Writing Diaspora: Introduction: Leading Questions 4. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation 5. The Politics of Admittance: Female Sexual Agency, by Miscegenation 6. When Whiteness Feminizes ... : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic Part 2. Filmic Visuality and Transcultural Politics 7. Film and Cultural Identity 8. Seeing Modern China: Toward a Theory of Ethnic Spectatorship 9. The Dream of a Butterfly 10. Film as Ethnography; or, by Translation Between Cultures in the Postcolonial World 11. A Filmic Staging of Postwar Geotemporal Politics: On Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth, by Sixty 12. From Sentimental Fabulations, by Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility 13. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, by a Different Type of Migration Notes Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA unique and remarkable piece of work that integrates knowledge from both the economy and social work fields. This book educates readers in the contributions of Latino enterprises towards building capital, strengthening our economy, and protecting the Latino culture. Melvin Delgado proposes a framework for assessment and intervention and highlights what community practice can achieve. -- Lirio K. Negroni, University of Connecticut Delgado presents a comprehensive and thoughtful perspective while also giving readers a clear and masterfully articulated text. A significant contribution to professionals working with Latino communities. -- Betty Garcia, California State University, Fresno Melvin Delgado provides a datadriven, theoretically-grounded foundation for the mobilization of Latino small businesses in social and economic development initiatives by social workers. -- Julie Birkenmaier Journal of Community PracticeTable of ContentsPart 1. Setting the Context for Small Businesses in the United States 1. Introduction 2. Latino Demographics and Geographic Dispersal 3. Racial and Ethnic Small Businesses in the United States 4. Latino Small Businesses and Community Economic Development Part 2. Community Social Work Values and Analytical Framework 5. Values, Principles, and Analytical Framework 6. Indicators of Success for Latino Small Businesses 7. Implications for the Social Work Profession Epilogue References Index
£90.00
Columbia University Press Race and the Genetic Revolution
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThere is perhaps no issue that is of more interest and relevance to the social study of science and public health than race and genetics, and Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan are leaders in the field. Novel and forward thinking, this book will be a valuable addition to a literature that needs to be brought up to speed. -- David Rosner, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University A signal contribution. This volume wonderfully reflects the mission and track record of the Council for Responsible Genetics in clarifying the content and social significance of complex scientific issues and demystifying the ideological penumbras that surround them. I can hardly wait for this book to begin circulation. It should be read and taught as widely as possible. -- Adolph Reed Jr., University of Pennsylvania Essential reading for researchers, students, and policymakers seeking to challenge the new racial genetics. -- Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century Health and science collections alike will find this college-level discussion offers important connections between science and cultural awareness of race, and makes for key reading for students and researchers alike. Midwest Book Review An important strength of this timely,engaging, and readable book-and what distinguishes it from some others-is the claritywith which it demonstrates how genomics findings in one discipline... are applied to others... PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: How Science Embraced the Racialization of Human Populations Sheldon Krimsky Part I. Science and Race: Historical and Evolutionary Perspectives 1. A Short History of the Race Concept, by Michael Yudell 2. Natural Selection, the Human Genome, and the Idea of Race, by Robert Pollack Part II. Forensic DNA Databases, Race, and the Criminal Justice System 3. Racial Disparities in Databanking of DNA Profiles, by Michael T. Risher 4. Prejudice, Stigma, and DNA Databases, by Helen Wallace Part III. Ancestry Testing 5. Ancestry Testing and DNA: Uses, Limits, and Caveat Emptor, by Troy Duster 6. Can DNA "Witness" Race? Forensic Uses of an Imperfect Ancestry Testing Technology, by Duana Fullwiley Part IV. Racialized Medicine 7. BiDil and Racialized Medicine, by Jonathan Kahn 8. Evolutionary Versus Racial Medicine: Why it Matters?, by Joseph L. Graves, Jr. Part V. Intelligence and Race 9. Myth and Mystification: The Science of Race and IQ, by Pilar N. Ossorio 10. Intelligence, Race, and Genetics, by Robert J. Sternberg, Elena L. Grigorenko, Kenneth K. Kidd, and Steven E. Stemler Part VI. Contemporary Culture, Race, and Genetics 11. The Elusive Variability of Race, by Patricia J. Williams 12. Race, Genetics, and the Regulatory Need for Race Impact Assessments, by Osagie K. Obasogie Conclusion: Toward a Remedy for the Social Consequences of Racial Myths, by Kathleen Sloan List of Contributors Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press Eric Walrond
Book SynopsisThe first biography of a fascinating Caribbean-born writer, unraveling the mystery behind his disappearance from New York at the end of the Harlem Renaissance and recognizing his contribution to the New Negro movement beyond Harlem.Trade ReviewA great read, even for readers who do not know about the Harlem Renaissance and Eric Walrond. The book tells a fascinating and moving story of a literary talent's demise, or what it takes to nurture and support the literary talents of minority and impoverished writers struggling with their issues of self-esteem and self-confidence while living in straitened circumstances. -- Michelle Ann Stephens, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance. His collection, Tropic Death, was an astonishing succes d'estime. A Guggenheim Fellowship certified the promise of The Big Ditch, Walrond's bildungsroman of capitalism, underdevelopment, and race. In one of the more mysterious losses in American letters, the book never appeared and its author disappeared. James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure, a triumph of archival sleuthing that reintroduces readers to almost everybody known to his peripatetic protagonist. -- David Levering Lewis, New York University Davis has given us a rich portrait of the writer who may be the greatest conundrum of the Harlem Renaissance: Eric Walrond. He not only situates the 'sepulchral' brilliance of Walrond's best-known book, Tropic Death, but also recovers a much larger corpus of fugitive articles and stories. As peripatetic (with stops in Barbados, Panama, the United States, Haiti, France, and England) as it was ultimately tragic, Walrond's life may be the single most resonant record of the transnational contours of black culture in the period. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of Diaspora An eloquent biography... Davis's careful and meticulous research re-establishes Walrond as one of the first black writers to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction, putting him alongside his peers in the Harlem Renaissance. Publishers Weekly [Davis's] biography provides deft readings of the Harlem Renaissance and the transatlantic Caribbean, while bringing Walrond out of the shadows. -- Douglas Field Times Literary Supplement Well-researched and highly readable. Caribbean Quarterly Skillfully researched and engagingly composed, the books stands as a discerning recuperation of a paradigmatic but neglected figure. Small Axe Salon [An] excellent new biography of Walrond. -- James Smethurst Journal of American History A wonderfully readable book in eleven chapters -- Carole Boyce Davies Carribbean Studies Association Newsletter [A] highly readable narrative... excellent, painstakingly researched. New West Indian Guide This wonderfully readable book in 11 chapters, and a postscript covers the length and breadth of Walrond's biography and literary career... Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean repositions this writer among his peers in an admirable way. We can clearly reconfigure him as belonging to few literary homes-as a Barbadian writer, as a Caribbean writer, as a Caribbean-American personality, as a black British writer, as an African diasporic thinker, and definitely as a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. -- Carole Boyce Davies The ALH Online ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Chronology Introduction: A Harlem Story, a Diaspora Story 1. Guyana and Barbados (1898-1911) 2. Panama (1911-1918) 3. New York (1918-1923) 4. The New Negro (1923-1926) 5. Tropic Death 6. A Person of Distinction (1926-1929) 7. The Caribbean and France (1928-1931) 8. London I (1931-1939) 9. Bradford-on-Avon (1939-1952) 10. Roundway Hospital and The Second Battle (1952-1957) 11. London II (1957-1966) Postscript Notes Bibliography Index
£80.39
Columbia University Press Eric Walrond
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA great read, even for readers who do not know about the Harlem Renaissance and Eric Walrond. The book tells a fascinating and moving story of a literary talent's demise, or what it takes to nurture and support the literary talents of minority and impoverished writers struggling with their issues of self-esteem and self-confidence while living in straitened circumstances. -- Michelle Ann Stephens, Rutgers University–New BrunswickEric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance. His collection, Tropic Death, was an astonishing succes d'estime. A Guggenheim Fellowship certified the promise of The Big Ditch, Walrond's bildungsroman of capitalism, underdevelopment, and race. In one of the more mysterious losses in American letters, the book never appeared and its author disappeared. James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure, a triumph of archival sleuthing that reintroduces readers to almost everybody known to his peripatetic protagonist. -- David Levering Lewis, New York UniversityDavis has given us a rich portrait of the writer who may be the greatest conundrum of the Harlem Renaissance: Eric Walrond. He not only situates the 'sepulchral' brilliance of Walrond's best-known book, Tropic Death, but also recovers a much larger corpus of fugitive articles and stories. As peripatetic (with stops in Barbados, Panama, the United States, Haiti, France, and England) as it was ultimately tragic, Walrond's life may be the single most resonant record of the transnational contours of black culture in the period. -- Brent Hayes Edwards, author of The Practice of DiasporaAn eloquent biography. . . . Davis's careful and meticulous research re-establishes Walrond as one of the first black writers to depict Caribbean lives and voices in American fiction, putting him alongside his peers in the Harlem Renaissance. * Publishers Weekly *[A] wonderful biography. -- Darryl Pinckney * New York Review of Books *[Davis's] biography provides deft readings of the Harlem Renaissance and the transatlantic Caribbean, while bringing Walrond out of the shadows. -- Douglas Field * Times Literary Supplement *Well-researched and highly readable. * Caribbean Quarterly *Skillfully researched and engagingly composed, the books stands as a discerning recuperation of a paradigmatic but neglected figure. * Small Axe Salon *[An] excellent new biography of Walrond. -- James Smethurst * Journal of American History *A wonderfully readable book in eleven chapters -- Carole Boyce Davies * Carribbean Studies Association Newsletter *[A] highly readable narrative... excellent, painstakingly researched. * New West Indian Guide *James Davis’s reconstruction of the life of Eric Walrond, and Christian Høgsbjerg’s measured account of the first phase of C L R James’s life in England, are both magnificent contributions to our understanding of the twentieth-century Caribbean. -- Bill Schwartz * Wasafiri *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsChronologyIntroduction: A Harlem Story, a Diaspora Story1. Guyana and Barbados (1898–1911)2. Panama (1911–1918)3. New York (1918–1923)4. The New Negro (1923–1926)5. Tropic Death6. A Person of Distinction (1926–1929)7. The Caribbean and France (1928–1931)8. London I (1931–1939)9. Bradford-on-Avon (1939–1952)10. Roundway Hospital and The Second Battle (1952–1957)11. London II (1957–1966)PostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press A Piece of the Action Race and Labor in PostCivil
Book SynopsisEithne Quinn reveals how Hollywood catalyzed racial politics in the decade after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, through representation on screen as well as in battles over jobs and resources behind the scenes. Based on extensive archival research and detailed discussions of films, this book examines the limits of Hollywood liberalism.Trade ReviewQuinn’s conclusion provides the reader with two prescient, convincing, and well-earned macroscopic takeaways. -- AMIR KHAN, Dalian Maritime University, PRC * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *Well-written, meticulously researched, critical, and smart, A Piece of the Action may be the most important book on black American cinema in the last quarter century. Enjoyable and highly informative, this book will quickly emerge as a classic and must-read among those interested in film history, black cinema, race and popular culture, and the sociology of culture. -- S. Craig Watkins, author of Don't Knock the Hustle: Young Creatives, Tech Ingenuity, and the Making of a New Innovation EconomyA Piece of the Action is a story about the interconnections between white privilege, “colorblind” ideology, and Hollywood business-as-usual practices. With a historian’s nose for detail, Quinn reveals in sharp relief how an industry filled with self-proclaimed white progressives manages to reproduce—to this very day—its infamous legacy of racial exclusion and marginalization. This book is a must-read for anyone hoping to make sense of Hollywood’s integral role in the shaping of American racial politics. -- Darnell M. Hunt, author of Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in AmericaQuinn offers a revelatory account of resistance and reaction unfolding in Hollywood between In the Heat of the Night (1967) and Blue Collar (1978). She chronicles black creatives struggling to get black experiences on screen and black labor on the set. Powerful and richly insightful, A Piece of the Action details black filmmakers’ and their white allies’ attempts to counter liberal tokenism and colorblindness only to come up against the industry’s neoconservative retreat from racial and economic justice. -- Judith E. Smith, author of Becoming Belafonte: Black Artist, Public RadicalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “The Screen Speaks for Itself”: Institutional Discrimination and the Dawning of Hollywood Postracialism2. Racializing the Hollywood Renaissance: Black and White Symbol Creators in a Time of Crisis3. Challenging Jim Crow Crews: Federal Activism and Industry Reaction4. “Getting the Man’s Foot out of Our Collective Asses”: Black Left Film Producers and the Rise of the Hustler Creative5. Color-Blind Corporatism: The Black Film Wave and White RevivalConclusion: Race, Creative Labor, and Reflexivity in Post–Civil Rights HollywoodNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Continental Strangers
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeftly, Gerd Gemunden combines perceptive close readings of select films with sharp archival investigation to show how some key movies of classical Hollywood came-in often fraught manner-to engage with the evils of fascism. By understanding cinema as a complex negotiation over political meanings, from production to final results onscreen, this volume represents a major contribution to the literature on the Hollywood emigres and their cultural work. -- Dana Polan, New York University Continental Strangers is a necessary and most compelling pendant to Thomas Doherty's Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. Indeed, these two recent releases provide an impressive ensemble. Doherty depicts how American film studios reacted to Nazi terror in both direct and less overt ways. Gemunden fills out the picture in a series of intriguing case studies devoted to filmmakers who fled Hitler and settled in Southern California. Sensitive to the variety of ways in which German film artists experienced emigration and exile, Gemunden's book remains admirably attentive to the historical determinations and textual shapes of Hollywood's anti-Nazi features. -- Eric Rentschler, Harvard University A lucid and comprehensive account of German filmmakers in American exile, this book also offers a poetics of displacement and alienation. It adds another chapter to the story about Hitler and Hollywood and contributes to a deeper historical understanding of political cinema at a moment of crisis. -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley A welcome and well-researched survey. Cineaste Gemunden's work... makes a valuable contribution to film history... Journal of American History ...a richly contextualized and nuanced reading of exile cinema... American Historcial Review A most important book. -- Clayton Dillard Slant MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Parallel Modernities 1. A History of Horror 2. Tales of Urgency and Authenticity Part II: Hitler in Hollywood 3. Performing Resistance, Resisting Performance 4. History as Propaganda and Parable Part III: You Can't Go Home Again 5. Out of the Past 6. The Failure of Atonement Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Continental Strangers
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeftly, Gerd Gemunden combines perceptive close readings of select films with sharp archival investigation to show how some key movies of classical Hollywood came-in often fraught manner-to engage with the evils of fascism. By understanding cinema as a complex negotiation over political meanings, from production to final results onscreen, this volume represents a major contribution to the literature on the Hollywood emigres and their cultural work. -- Dana Polan, New York University Continental Strangers is a necessary and most compelling pendant to Thomas Doherty's Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. Indeed, these two recent releases provide an impressive ensemble. Doherty depicts how American film studios reacted to Nazi terror in both direct and less overt ways. Gemunden fills out the picture in a series of intriguing case studies devoted to filmmakers who fled Hitler and settled in Southern California. Sensitive to the variety of ways in which German film artists experienced emigration and exile, Gemunden's book remains admirably attentive to the historical determinations and textual shapes of Hollywood's anti-Nazi features. -- Eric Rentschler, Harvard University A lucid and comprehensive account of German filmmakers in American exile, this book also offers a poetics of displacement and alienation. It adds another chapter to the story about Hitler and Hollywood and contributes to a deeper historical understanding of political cinema at a moment of crisis. -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley A welcome and well-researched survey. Cineaste Gemunden's work... makes a valuable contribution to film history... Journal of American History ...a richly contextualized and nuanced reading of exile cinema... American Historcial Review A most important book. -- Clayton Dillard Slant MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Parallel Modernities 1. A History of Horror 2. Tales of Urgency and Authenticity Part II: Hitler in Hollywood 3. Performing Resistance, Resisting Performance 4. History as Propaganda and Parable Part III: You Can't Go Home Again 5. Out of the Past 6. The Failure of Atonement Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Voices of Negritude in Modernist Print
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Columbia University Press Beyond Bolaño
Book SynopsisThrough a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other contemporaries, Héctor Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era.Trade ReviewAn outstanding example of scholarly writing and critical thinking. Beyond Bolano challenges conventional ways of talking about and teaching Latin American literature, while at the same time resisting a facile globalization whereby Latin American literature becomes a companion to the presumed centers of world literature. -- David William Foster, Arizona State University A must-read for anyone interested in the ongoing discussion on world literature, this book uses the work of Roberto Bolano to explore what contemporary Latin American literature can tell us about ideologies of the global. -- Theo D'haen, author of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature Hector Hoyos makes a strong argument for reading the novels of the Chilean author as an epochal shift from the national narrative to novels whose characters and events are situated within a global scenario. He argues convincingly that in contemporary fiction, settings such as the supermarket, the art world, and the narco territories constitute such alephs. Focusing on the novels of Cesar Aira, Chico Buarque, Diamela Eltit, Fernando Vallejo, and Mario Bellatin, Beyond Bolano offers a stimulating discussion of this contemporary turn. -- Jean Franco, professor emerita, Columbia University Hector Hoyos offers a fascinating analysis of what "the globe" looks like from Latin America. An ambitious and necessary reframing of the world literature debates, Beyond Bolano is also an exemplary illustration of what textured literary analysis can tell us about the the geopolitics of cultural prestige. -- David Kurnick, Rutgers University Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Choice Hoyos provides fresh insights into the relationship between contemporary Latin American literature and globalization. His study should be of interest to specialists in Latin American fiction, but it also has a broader appeal which is relevant to the disciplines of world literature and American studies. -- Helen Oakley Journal of American Studies [A]n impressive book. The claim that there cannot be a true consideration of the global novel without including authors of a Latin America that goes beyond Bolano is most convincing. -- Randolph D. Pope Recherche Litteraire / Literary Research Hoyos' book is an excellent guide for casual readers of Latin American literature wondering what lies beyond the traditional canon of Borges, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa and even of the more recent Bolano. By tying the narrative of the continent to its history, it will also interest readers curious about trends in contemporary Latin American culture. Finally, to specialists it will be of special interest as it develops new angles from which to think of the local and the global as it pertains to Latin American literature. -- Manuel Azuaje-Alamo ReVista An important contribution to both studies of the contemporary (post 1989) Latin American novel and studies of World Literature. A Contra CorrienteTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Globalization as Form 1. Nazi Tales from the Americas at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century 2. The Cosmopolitics of South-South Escapism 3. All the World's a Supermarket (and All the Men and Women Merely Shoppers) 4. Iconocracy and Political Theology of Narconovelas 5. On Duchamp and Beuys as Latin American Writers Conclusion: The Promise of Multipolarism Notes Bibliography Index
£75.15
Columbia University Press Beyond Bolaño
Book SynopsisThrough a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other contemporaries, Héctor Hoyos defines new trends in how we read and write in a globalized era.Trade ReviewAn outstanding example of scholarly writing and critical thinking. Beyond Bolano challenges conventional ways of talking about and teaching Latin American literature, while at the same time resisting a facile globalization whereby Latin American literature becomes a companion to the presumed centers of world literature. -- David William Foster, Arizona State University A must-read for anyone interested in the ongoing discussion on world literature, this book uses the work of Roberto Bolano to explore what contemporary Latin American literature can tell us about ideologies of the global. -- Theo D'haen, author of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature Hector Hoyos makes a strong argument for reading the novels of the Chilean author as an epochal shift from the national narrative to novels whose characters and events are situated within a global scenario. He argues convincingly that in contemporary fiction, settings such as the supermarket, the art world, and the narco territories constitute such alephs. Focusing on the novels of Cesar Aira, Chico Buarque, Diamela Eltit, Fernando Vallejo, and Mario Bellatin, Beyond Bolano offers a stimulating discussion of this contemporary turn. -- Jean Franco, professor emerita, Columbia University Hector Hoyos offers a fascinating analysis of what "the globe" looks like from Latin America. An ambitious and necessary reframing of the world literature debates, Beyond Bolano is also an exemplary illustration of what textured literary analysis can tell us about the the geopolitics of cultural prestige. -- David Kurnick, Rutgers University Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Choice Hoyos provides fresh insights into the relationship between contemporary Latin American literature and globalization. His study should be of interest to specialists in Latin American fiction, but it also has a broader appeal which is relevant to the disciplines of world literature and American studies. -- Helen Oakley Journal of American Studies [A]n impressive book. The claim that there cannot be a true consideration of the global novel without including authors of a Latin America that goes beyond Bolano is most convincing. -- Randolph D. Pope Recherche Litteraire / Literary Research Hoyos' book is an excellent guide for casual readers of Latin American literature wondering what lies beyond the traditional canon of Borges, Garcia Marquez, Vargas Llosa and even of the more recent Bolano. By tying the narrative of the continent to its history, it will also interest readers curious about trends in contemporary Latin American culture. Finally, to specialists it will be of special interest as it develops new angles from which to think of the local and the global as it pertains to Latin American literature. -- Manuel Azuaje-Alamo ReVista An important contribution to both studies of the contemporary (post 1989) Latin American novel and studies of World Literature. A Contra CorrienteTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Globalization as Form 1. Nazi Tales from the Americas at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century 2. The Cosmopolitics of South-South Escapism 3. All the World's a Supermarket (and All the Men and Women Merely Shoppers) 4. Iconocracy and Political Theology of Narconovelas 5. On Duchamp and Beuys as Latin American Writers Conclusion: The Promise of Multipolarism Notes Bibliography Index
£23.75
Columbia University Press The Trouble with PostBlackness
Book SynopsisScholars, novelists, poets, and journalists revisit the idea of “blackness” and whether it is a concept we can--or should--move beyond.Trade ReviewAn excellent collection and a timely intervention in a conversation with important ramifications for scholarship and civic life. There is both breadth and depth in these pieces, and a pleasing and engaging diversity of concerns and writing styles. -- George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness The Trouble with Post-Blackness courageously puts to rest the dangerous, delusory, and fabulous (as in 'fable') claim that we inhabit a post-racial America. Through these critically engaging essays, the concept of 'post-blackness' is indeed troubled, rendered turbid and untenable in an America in which black people continue to face ontological occlusion and existential foreclosure. This text refuses mythopoetic slogans and faddish signifiers, instead ethically grounding us in the temporal now and refusing to mock those black bodies that face an anti-black America that continues to mark them as dangerous, criminal, and existentially nugatory. -- George Yancy, Duquesne University, author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race A thoughtful, if not gentle, scholarly refutation of a controversial claim of a post-racial society. Kirkus Reviews This thoughtful, provocative, and only occasionally heavy-going collection of essays... persuasively argues that what Toure calls 'being like Barack' really just maintains normative whiteness as an untroubled, unanalyzed construct. Publishers Weekly An excellent collection of essays from impressive minds responding openly to what black identity was, is, and perhaps will be... Anyone with an expressed interest in racial history and identity will enjoy this read. Library JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Dubious Stage of Post-Blackness-Performing Otherness, Conserving Dominance, by K. Merinda Simmons 1. What Was Is: The Time and Space of Entanglement Erased by Post-Blackness, by Margo Natalie Crawford 2. Black Literary Writers and Post-Blackness, by Stephanie Li 3. African Diasporic Blackness Out of Line: Trouble for "Post-Black" African Americanism, by Greg Thomas 4. Fear of a Performative Planet: Troubling the Concept of "Post-Blackness", by Rone Shavers 5. E-Raced: #Toure, Twitter, and Trayvon, by Riche Richardson 6. Post-Blackness and All of the Black Americas, by Heather D. Russell 7. Embodying Africa: Roots-Seekers and the Politics of Blackness, by Bayo Holsey 8. "The world is a ghetto": Post-Racial America(s) and the Apocalypse, by Patrice Rankine 9. The Long Road Home, by Erin Aubry Kaplan 10. Half as Good, by John L. Jackson Jr. 11. "Whither Now and Why": Content Mastery and Pedagogy-a Critique and a Challenge, by Dana A. Williams 12. Fallacies of the Post-Race Presidency, by Ishmael Reed 13. Thirteen Ways of Looking at Post-Blackness (after Wallace Stevens), by Emily Raboteau Conclusion: Why the Lega Mask Has Many Mouths and Multiple Eyes, by Houston A. Baker Jr. List of Contributors Index
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