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Columbia University Press From Head Shops to Whole Foods
Book SynopsisFrom Head Shops to Whole Foods writes a new history of social movements and capitalism by showing how activists embraced small businesses. Joshua Clark Davis uncovers the historical roots of contemporary interest in ethical consumption while exploring how today’s companies have adopted the language—but not the mission—of social change.Trade ReviewRigorously researched and carefully written, From Head Shops to Whole Foodsuncovers one of the most unrecognized groups of the American activists in the '60s and '70s-activist entrepreneurs. They were widely influential then and remain so today. This book is critical for understanding contemporary companies that celebrate ethical practices and social change. -- Ibram X. Kendi, American University, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, winner of the 2016 National Book Award, Nonfiction From Head Shops to Whole Foods offers an important look at the afterlife of the direct action campaigns of the 1960s, recasting the history of small business as a desegregated history of American politics. With a critical eye and swift prose, Davis's book recognizes the centrality of entrepreneurial politics as an expression of-and in the making of-American political culture, writ long and writ large. Truly exceptional. -- N. D. B. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University and cohost of the podcast BackStory Davis has rewritten the sixties. His compelling account reveals how sixties radicals and rebels fought to co-opt capitalism to create a more just, diverse, and free marketplace. They lost more battles than they won, but their victories continue to shape our world. -- David Farber, University of Kansas, author of The Age of Great Dreams Joshua Clark Davis's new book is a brilliant tour through a history yet untold, illuminating the fascinating past of a contemporary marketplace that eagerly brands itself as countercultural but which has largely abandoned-even as it has been irreversibly shaped by-the activist politics that inspired it. -- Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New School For Social Research In this beautifully written, elegantly conceived, and deeply researched book, Davis traces the histories of 1960s-era small enterprises aimed at alternative forms of capitalism. His clear prose and sharp analysis illuminates the U.S. economy's appetite for reform under capitalism. An essential work. -- Charles McGovern, William and Mary [From Head Shops to Whole Foods] avoids the stilted language of the academy to produce deft descriptions of African-American bookstores, the head shops of the drug counterculture, the businesses of second-wave feminism, and the arrival of health-food stores and their corporate apotheosis. Using solid, representative examples, Davis traces each vein of activist entrepreneurialism to show how activists' original intentions were frustrated, altered, or abandoned. Publishers Weekly Scholarly in tone and approach but accessible and of interest to students of business history as well as to budding entrepreneurs. Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: From Head Shops to Whole Foods 1. Activist Business: Origins and Ideologies 2. Liberation Through Literacy: African American Bookstores, Black Power, and the Mainstreaming of Black Books 3. The Business of Getting High: Head Shops, Countercultural Capitalism, and the Battle Over Marijuana 4. The "Feminist Economic Revolution": Businesses in the Women's Movement 5. Natural Foods Stores: Environmental Entrepreneurs and the Perils of Growth 6. Perseverance and Appropriation: Activist Business in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion Notes Index
£80.39
Columbia University Press From Head Shops to Whole Foods
Book SynopsisFrom Head Shops to Whole Foods writes a new history of social movements and capitalism by showing how activists embraced small businesses. Joshua Clark Davis uncovers the historical roots of contemporary interest in ethical consumption while exploring how today’s companies have adopted the language—but not the mission—of social change.Trade ReviewRigorously researched and carefully written, From Head Shops to Whole Foods uncovers one of the most unrecognized groups of the American activists in the ’60s and ’70s—activist entrepreneurs. They were widely influential then and remain so today. This book is critical for understanding contemporary companies that celebrate ethical practices and social change. -- Ibram X. Kendi, American University, author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, winner of the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionFrom Head Shops to Whole Foods offers an important look at the afterlife of the direct action campaigns of the 1960s, recasting the history of small business as a desegregated history of American politics. With a critical eye and swift prose, Davis’s book recognizes the centrality of entrepreneurial politics as an expression of—and in the making of—American political culture, writ long and writ large. Truly exceptional. -- N. D. B. Connolly, Johns Hopkins University and cohost of the podcast BackStoryDavis has rewritten the sixties. His compelling account reveals how sixties radicals and rebels fought to co-opt capitalism to create a more just, diverse, and free marketplace. They lost more battles than they won, but their victories continue to shape our world. -- David Farber, University of Kansas, author of The Age of Great DreamsJoshua Clark Davis’s new book is a brilliant tour through a history yet untold, illuminating the fascinating past of a contemporary marketplace that eagerly brands itself as countercultural but which has largely abandoned—even as it has been irreversibly shaped by—the activist politics that inspired it. -- Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, The New School For Social ResearchIn this beautifully written, elegantly conceived, and deeply researched book, Davis traces the histories of 1960s-era small enterprises aimed at alternative forms of capitalism. His clear prose and sharp analysis illuminates the U.S. economy’s appetite for reform under capitalism. An essential work. -- Charles McGovern, William and Mary[From Head Shops to Whole Foods] avoids the stilted language of the academy to produce deft descriptions of African-American bookstores, the head shops of the drug counterculture, the businesses of second-wave feminism, and the arrival of health-food stores and their corporate apotheosis. Using solid, representative examples, Davis traces each vein of activist entrepreneurialism to show how activists’ original intentions were frustrated, altered, or abandoned. * Publishers Weekly *Scholarly in tone and approach but accessible and of interest to students of business history as well as to budding entrepreneurs. * Kirkus Reviews *[From Head Shops to Whole Foods] makes a valuable contribution to the study of American capitalism and consumerism. It reveals some well-worn paths in American history but in new ways, while also establishing some of the ironic origins of today’s corporate citizens. * The Metropole: The Official Blog of the Urban History Association *[Joshua Clark Davis] has written about one of the most important legacies of activism in the 1960s: the combination of activist politics with the entrepreneurial spirit. . . . With accessible prose, considerable research in various archives, and an intriguing analysis of the combination of capitalism and radicalism, From Head Shops to Whole Foods is a must-read for many of our readers at S-USIH. -- Robert J. Greene II * Society for U.S. Intellectual History {S-USIH) *An extremely welcome and insightful addition to the deepening historiography of 1960s-era activism. . . . This history helps us imagine alternative business structures, economic goals, and definitions of success within the consumer capitalist model. As a new era of activist entrepreneurs swells in our own historical moment, From Head Shops to Whole Foods offers quite a bit of useful food for thought. -- Patrick Jones * H-1960s *Business is not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about the countercultural movements of the 1960s. But in From Head Shops to Whole Foods Joshua Clark Davis makes a compelling case that the businesses he examines provide a useful vantage point on the counterculture while also allowing a new perspective on today’s business. -- Ross Bassett * Journal of American History *Davis is an excellent storyteller, capturing both the romance of the various movements and their passionate activist founders. * Choice *With its admirable concision, convincing conclusions, and accessible writing, this book is essential reading for students of capitalism, social movements, and popular consumer culture in the late twentieth-century United States and today. -- Jennifer Le Zotte * Business History Review *[A] thoroughly researched and well-told book. -- Kyle Williams * The Hedgehog Review *From Head Shops to Whole Foods enriches the historiography of Sixties-era social movements by providing what should become the major narrative of activist business activities during the long Sixties. . . . The most important books on the American counterculture use the counterculture as evidence of broader structural changes, charting the intersection of countercultures with marketing, digital life, environmentalism, spirituality, gender, citizenship, or drugs. From Head Shops to Whole Foods follows in that tradition. By tracing how countercultural values shaped a humane business culture and by insisting on the seriousness of ventures that aimed at sustainable development, Davis has written the most important book on the counterculture to be published this decade. -- Blake Slonecker * The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture *A superb example of the new history of capitalism. . . . Davis masterfully blends business and social history. -- Jason L. Newton * Industrial & Labor Relations Review *An ambitious and widely researched text. . . . Davis’s research is deep and thorough. He brings together several movements that are often approached in isolation and provides the lens of business and entrepreneurship. This is no small contribution to several historiographies. There is much to learn from this text. -- Laura Warren Hill * Enterprise & Society *Davis’s crisp prose makes for an accessible read and his book makes a very good case for studying activist entrepreneurs as part of the trademark movements of the 1960s, instead of focusing solely on demonstrations and mass meetings, and for appreciating their legacies on the contemporary marketplace. . . . Davis must be congratulated for contributing to the history of postwar business and the history of the long 1960s in what is ultimately a fine piece of scholarship. * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Activist Business: Origins and Ideologies2. Liberation Through Literacy: African American Bookstores, Black Power, and the Mainstreaming of Black Books3. The Business of Getting High: Head Shops, Countercultural Capitalism, and the Battle Over Marijuana4. The "Feminist Economic Revolution": Businesses in the Women's Movement5. Natural Foods Stores: Environmental Entrepreneurs and the Perils of Growth6. Perseverance and Appropriation: Activist Business in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusionNotesIndex
£23.40
Columbia University Press Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families
Book SynopsisDesigned for students of social work, public policy, ethnic studies, community development, and migration studies, Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families provides the best knowledge for culturally responsive practice with immigrant children, adolescents, and families. This textbook summarizes the unique circumstances of Asian/Pacific Islander, Latino, South Asian, African, and Middle Eastern immigrant and refugee populations and the challenges faced by the social service systems, including child welfare, juvenile justice, education, health, and mental health care, that attempt to serve them. Each chapter features key terms, study questions, and resource lists, and the book meets many Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) competencies. The book addresses the policy landscape affecting immigrant and refugee children in the United States, and a final section examines current and future approaches to advocacy.Trade ReviewAn exceptional primer for the reader who is new to this topic, Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families also puts in one place a respectful and comprehensive compendium of critical issues that will push the thinking of advanced readers. -- Robert Ortega, University of Michigan School of Social Work Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families is an up-to-date overview of the law, key populations, and specific challenges facing immigrants and refugees. The book raises awareness of legal issues, key demographic groups in the United States, and challenges of life that refugees face, such as healthcare, mental health, and education. -- Fernando Chang-Muy, coeditor of Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees: Legal Issues, Clinical Skills, and Advocacy Timely and thorough. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword, by Luis H. Zayas Preface Part I. U.S. Immigration and Refugee Systems and the Federal Policy Landscape 1. Introduction, by Alan J. Dettlaff, Rowena Fong, and Caitlin O'Grady 2. Overview of the U.S. Immigration System, by Elizabeth Frankel 3. Federal Policy Implications for Immigrant Children and Families: Public Benefit Laws and Immigration Reform, by Wendy Cervantes 4. Immigration Enforcement and Its Impact on Children and Families, by David B. Thronson Part II. Major Immigrant and Refugee Populations in the United States 5. Latino Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families, by Alan J. Dettlaff, Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, and E. Susana Mariscal 6. Asian and Pacific Islander Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families, by Halaevalu Vakalahi, Ofa Ku'ulei Lanimekealoha Hafoka, and Rowena Fong 7. South Asian Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families, by Uma Segal 8. African Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families, by Margaret Lombe, Chiedza Mufunde, and Harriet Mabikke 9. Middle Eastern Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families, by Altaf Husain, Ayat Nashwan, and Stephanie Howard Part III. Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families Across Systems 10. Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families in the Child Welfare System, by Alan J. Dettlaff and Rowena Fong 11. Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families in the Juvenile Justice System, by Angie Junck and Rachel Prandini 12. Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families in the Education System, by Lyn Morland and Dina Birman 13. Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families in the Mental Health System, by Jodi Berger Cardoso and Liza Barros Lane 14. Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families in the Health Care System, by Krista Perreira and Leslie Cofie Part IV. Advocacy and Future Directions 15. Advocacy for Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families, by Yali Lincroft, Alexandra Salgado, and Rowena Fong 16. Future Directions, by Rowena Fong and Alan J. Dettlaff List of Contributors Index
£31.50
Columbia University Press The Freedom Schools
Book SynopsisJon N. Hale weaves a social history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools from the perspective of former students and teachers. Having turned their training into decades of activism, they speak on their locally organized, widely transmitted curriculum and offer key strategies for integrating the school system and politically engaging today’s youth.Trade ReviewJon N. Hale's work hits the mark! It is accurate and timely in refocusing our attention on the profound power of African American youth and education. The activists and young learners who made the Freedom Schools possible have greatly gone unsung. In the midst of imminent danger, they learned and experienced democracy while illustrating the efficacy of community participation in education. Hale rightly places them at the forefront of the struggle for freedom. His book reminds us of those who saved the nation's soul. -- Stefan M. Bradley, author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s Hale's groundbreaking examination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's tireless efforts to provide free educational opportunities for Mississippi's African American children is an often overlooked yet instrumental component of the Mississippi Freedom Summer. The Freedom Schools offers a greater understanding of the schools' lasting legacy and the profound impact of the Freedom Schools on Mississippi's black students as they later engaged in boycotts and school walkouts, influencing public school desegregation efforts and the civil rights movement. -- Sonya Ramsey, author of Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville Hale's impressive study will make a major contribution to civil rights historiography. It provides a very realistic view of Freedom Schools with great detail and precision and astutely illustrates the significant role of education in the civil rights movement. -- Derrick Alridge, University of Virginia The narrative reads smoothly and leaves the reader with a greater sense of the hopes, desires, and goals of the [Mississippi Civil Rights] movement. CounterPunch Hale's well-documented chronicle sharply reminds readers that there are still miles to go in obliterating racism, and that there are still stories to be told. Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Mississippi Freedom Schools 1. "The Pathway from Slavery to Freedom": The Origins of Education and the Ideology of Liberation in Mississippi 2. "There Was Something Happening": The Civil Rights Education and Politicization of the Freedom School Students 3. "The Student as a Force for Social Change": The Politics and Organization of the Mississippi Freedom Schools 4. "We Will Walk in the Light of Freedom": Attending and Teaching in the Freedom Schools 5. "We Do Hereby Declare Independence": Educational Activism and Reconceptualizing Freedom After the Summer Campaign 6. Carrying Forth the Struggle: Freedom Schools and Contemporary Educational Policy Epilogue: Remembering the Freedom Schools Fifty Years Later Notes Index
£80.39
Columbia University Press Black Gods of the Asphalt
Book SynopsisA former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, he composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes and the transcendent experience of the game.Trade ReviewThis timely and groundbreaking book is about basketball as lived religion in some of America's most dangerous neighborhoods. But more centrally it is about grief expressed and hope conjured as seen through the lens of a stellar young scholar who has been there and through the eyes of young black men who, though weighed down by the forces of death, somehow rise above the asphalt. -- Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)In this season where black male bodies are under attack, Black Gods of the Asphalt offers a profound narrative of survival, self-determination, and the urban swag of Boston's inner-city basketball courts as sites where religion is 'lived' and spiritual transformation occurs on a regular basis. Woodbine brilliantly posits that the 'ritual space of the asphalt' is where memory, hope, and healing converge to fight the systemic oppressive forces beyond the rim. This book is a slam dunk! -- Emmett G. Price III, editor of The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture: Toward Bridging the Generational DivideThe stories in Black Gods of the Asphalt are rich and powerful and are woven together skillfully and beautifully. Onaje X. 0. Woodbine switches between his roles as participant and observer, by turns narrating and analyzing with great dexterity. -- Rebecca Alpert, author of Religion and SportsThis narrative is more than academic prose; it is a deeply personal and poetic travel through the author's own story of racial struggle and the survival tactics of the players he befriends.... In this majestic study of basketball as ritual, religion, and culture, Woodbine plunges into the courts of Boston with an insider's savvy to catalogue the urban sport's pulsating (and potentially transcendent) dialogue. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Woodbine's got game, on the court and on the page, and here he dunks emphatically. From the time we meet Shorty, a street-basketball legend, through a brief history of the game and its link (religion playing a large role) to young African American culture, we learn of basketball, and the many lives it memorializes, as we have in few other books. * Booklist *In this painful, beautiful nonfiction debut, scholar Onaje X. O. Woodbine uses a seamless mix of memoir, ethnography, and poetry to chronicle Boston's street basketball players seeking physical and spiritual grace through hoops. * Boston Magazine *In Black Gods of the Asphalt, the worlds of religion and hoops come together.... Woodbine shares how the courts can be a place of healing, of ritual, of community, and even transcendence. -- Christie Storm * Arkansas Democrat Gazette *Black Gods of the Asphalt is likely to change your entire perspective of urban basketball. -- David Crumm * Read The Spirit *For the young men in Woodbine's book, street basketball disconnects players from daily life in a way that gives them joy.... But, at the same time, inner city life literally enshrouds their game, and this tragedy is what Black Gods brings to life in vividly realized accounts of young men and the street ball tournaments they play. -- David Lipset * Eephus *A powerful and deeply moving work, Black Gods of the Asphalt reveals a world of redemption and hope rarely glimpsed from the outside. -- Diana L. Hayes * National Catholic Reporter *A thoughtful, passionate, and personal exploration. * The Boston Globe (Best Books of 2016) *A uniquely engaging and rewarding read for sociologists. -- Douglas Hartmann * Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations"Enter the Chamber"AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Memory1. "Last Ones Left" in the Game: From Black Resistance to Urban Exile2. Boston's Memorial GamesPart II: Hope3. Jason, Hoops, and Grandma's Hands4. C.J., Hoops, and the Quest for a Second LifePart III: Healing5. Ancestor Work in Street Basketball6. The Dunk and the Signifying MonkeyEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Incomparable Empires
Book SynopsisRogers uncovers the arguments that forged the politics and aesthetics of modernism. He revisits the role of empire—from its institutions to its cognitive effects—in shaping a nation’s literature and culture.Trade ReviewGayle Rogers develops a complex and nuanced literary history of political, institutional, and aesthetic transformations through translation across two empires. Incomparable Empires is an immense achievement for global and comparative modernist studies. -- Joshua L. Miller, author of Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism By de-coupling their translational practices from the national literary traditions and imperial teleologies they were supposed to express and reflect, the writers analyzed in Incomparable Empires carved out creative spaces that radically reconfigured U.S. and Spanish literatures. Rogers's brilliantly contextualized recovery of their alternative stratagems of translation promises to foster a grand scale re-thinking of the formation, structure, and purposes of our extant comparative literary histories of the early twentieth century. -- Donald E. Pease, author of The New American Exceptionalism Taking the Jamesonian view of imperialism in unexpected and original directions, Rogers explores the rivalry of the Spanish and U.S. empires at the intersection of modernism and translation. This volume achieves what one would have thought possible only from several books, namely writing a new history of two fields traditionally considered to be unrelated: Hispanism and American studies. -- Cesar Dominguez, coauthor of Introducing Comparative Literature: New Trends and Applications A groundbreaking contribution to such transnational fields as global modernism and world literature studies. -- Alejandro Mejias-Lopez, author of The Inverted Conquest: The Myth of Modernity and the Transatlantic Onset of Modernism Rogers has written a superlative examination of modernismo's cultural and literary production... Essential. CHOICETable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Modernism, Translation, and the Fields of Literary History Part I. American Modernism's Hispanists 1. "Splintered Staves": Pound, Comparative Literature, and the Translation of Spanish Literary History 2. Restaging the Disaster: Dos Passos, Empire, and Literature After the Spanish-American War Part II. Spain's American Translations 3. Jimenez, Modernism/o, and the Languages of Comparative Modernist Studies 4. Unamuno, Nativism, and the Politics of the Vernacular; or, On the Authenticity of Translation Part III. New Genealogies 5. Negro and Negro: Translating American Blackness in the Shadows of the Spanish Empire 6. "Spanish Is a Language Tu": Hemingway's Cubist Spanglish and Its Legacies Conclusion: Worlds Between Languages-the Spanglish Quixote Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Fathering from the Margins
Book SynopsisAasha M. Abdill draws on fieldwork in Bedford-Stuyvesant to dispel stereotypes of black men as deadbeat dads. She presents qualitative and quantitative evidence of black fathers' presence and shows how supporting black men in their quest to be—and be seen as—family men is key to securing not only their children's well-being but also their own.Trade ReviewHas involved fatherhood among low-income men existed all along with no public recognition, or is such parenting increasing through changing social norms and cultural forms? The answer is not exclusively one or the other. In exploring this question, Aasha M. Abdill has written a beautiful and honest ethnography of low-income black fathers in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant community that neither romanticizes nor pathologizes them. She traces the strategies fathers use to fulfill societal expectations of provision and caretaking and to reconcile the 'cool pose' with warm parent-child interactions. Through her keen observations and interviews with fathers, teachers, mothers, and grandmothers, Abdill handily illustrates how fatherhood is a collective enterprise that by its public practice generates more of the same. -- Roberta Coles, author of The Myth of the Missing Black FatherTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Misunderstood: The Significance of Race and Place in Understanding Black Fatherhood2. Men with Children: The Changing Landscape of Urban Fatherhood3. In and Out: The Poses and Performances of Black Fathers4. Something Between All and Nothing: Strategies for Keeping Hold of Family5. The Black Maternal Garden: Maternal Gatekeeping in the Context of Grandmothers and Community Mothers6. A Woman’s World: Finding a Place in the Matriarchal Urban Village7. Conclusion: Black Men as Family MenAppendix: A Reflection on MethodsNotesReferencesIndex
£999.99
Columbia University Press Heideggers Black Notebooks
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Columbia University Press Heideggers Black Notebooks
Book SynopsisThis book brings together an international group of scholars to discuss the ramifications of Heidegger's Black Notebooks for philosophy and the humanities. In contrast to both those who seek to exonerate Heidegger and those who simply condemn him, they urge careful reading and rereading of his work to turn Heideggerian thought against itself.Trade ReviewAn impressive collection that genuinely enriches the conversation on Heidegger's politics and philosophy. -- Gil Anidjar, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsEditors’ Introduction1. The Universal and Annihilation: Heidegger’s Being-Historical Anti-Semitism, by Peter Trawny2. Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish Nomads: Sources of a Trope in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, by Sander L. Gilman3. Metaphysical Anti-Semitism and Worldlessness: On World Poorness, World Forming, and World Destroying, by Eduardo Mendieta4. “Sterben sie?”: The Problem of Dasein and “Animals” . . . of Various Kinds, by Bettina Bergo5. Inception, Downfall, and the Broken World: Heidegger Above the Sea of Fog, by Richard Polt6. The Other “Jewish Question”, by Michael Marder7. Heidegger and National Socialism: He Meant What He Said, by Martin Gessmann8. “The Supreme Will of the People”: What Do Heidegger’s Black Notebooks Reveal?, by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht9. Prolegomena to Any Future Destruction of Metaphysics: Heidegger and the Schwarze Hefte, by Peter E. Gordon10. Heidegger After Trawny: Philosophy or Worldview?, by Tom Rockmore11. Another Eisenmenger? On the Alleged Originality of Heidegger’s Antisemitism, by Robert Bernasconi12. The Persistence of Ontological Difference, by Slavoj ŽižekNotesContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Down the Up Staircase
Book SynopsisIn Down the Up Staircase, Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill.Trade ReviewBruce D. Haynes's story is a classic American tale-which combines the big themes of history with the gritty reality of a single family's extraordinary story. -- Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNN Haynes channels W. E. B. Du Bois to provide a rich sociological portrait of his "talented tenth" family. The lively writing conveys both universal family dramas of social mobility (up and down) as well as the particular context of Harlem across the twentieth century. A great read! -- Dalton Conley, author of Honky, Princeton University An utterly captivating work that shows off Haynes's brilliant sociological imagination on every page. He and Solovitch are masterful at linking the small personal details of everyday family and community life to social structure and history. Like Dalton Conley's Honky, this book will be seen as a significant contribution to the emerging literary form of sociological memoir. -- Mitchell Duneier, author of Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, Princeton University Down the Up Staircase is a beautifully written, captivating, and absorbing book that connects seemingly private concerns with public policies and structures in clear and convincing fashion. It delineates vividly how poverty and downward mobility do not make people noble, resilient, and resourceful, but instead shatter social ties and self-esteem. This fast-paced book will likely be consumed by readers in one sitting, but its powerful and poignant stories will linger in the mind long afterwards. -- George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place Down the Up Staircase is a riveting narrative about three generations of a black family and their struggle to maintain inherited privilege. Written with elegance and penetrating insight, the book shines light on the precarity that all blacks confront, regardless of their social class and personal ambitions. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique, professor of urban sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York A candid and profoundly personal contribution to America's racial history. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) This masterful account begins as a portrait of a house that was a living, breathing extension of the family that lived in it both in hopeful times and in darker ones. But it soon reaches out into the larger social landscape of Harlem and then into the changing history and culture of an entire land. In doing so, it shifts seamlessly from a sensitive biography to a thoughtful ethnographic sketch of an important place in an important time, and then into a wise and compelling essay on the social history of our time. What we encounter on the printed page, of course, is written narrative, but it is conveyed to us in what might best be described as a rich and perceptive voice. In every way, a remarkable work. -- Kai Erikson, Yale University This thoughtful and sobering memoir weaves the beauty and tragedy of Haynes's family story into the complex history of Harlem... Like Harlem's story, the memoir is bittersweet, painting a full and complicated picture of black upper-class life over generations. Publishers Weekly Down the Up Staircase combines elements of memoir and sociology, culminating in an incredibly rich story. Bookish In this thoughtfully conceived and crafted memoir, the authors offer evocative, relentlessly honest portrayals without judgement. In doing so, they encourage the reader to ponder the variables in her own life, the tides and forces that help or hinder her pursuit of the sweet life. -- Elizabeth Dowling Taylor The New York Times Book Review [A] moving memoir. -- Georgia Rowe East Bay Times As Isabel Wilkerson did expertly in 'The Warmth of Other Suns' - the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic tale of the Great Migration - Haynes and Solovitch follow their relatives through decades, revealing the impact of public policy and social change on the family from generation to generation. -- Krissah Thompson Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface 1. Mad Money 2. Not Alms but Opportunity 3. New Negroes 4. Soul Dollars 5. Stepping Out 6. Do for Yourself 7. Free Fall 8. Moving on Down 9. Keep on Keepin' on Notes
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Columbia University Press Down the Up Staircase Three Generations of a
Book SynopsisIn Down the Up Staircase, Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch trace the social history of Harlem through the lens of one family across three generations, connecting their journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem. This story is told against the backdrop of a crumbling three-story brownstone in Sugar Hill.Trade ReviewBruce D. Haynes's story is a classic American tale—which combines the big themes of history with the gritty reality of a single family's extraordinary story. -- Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNNHaynes channels W. E. B. Du Bois to provide a rich sociological portrait of his "talented tenth" family. The lively writing conveys both universal family dramas of social mobility (up and down) as well as the particular context of Harlem across the twentieth century. A great read! -- Dalton Conley, author of Honky, Princeton UniversityAn utterly captivating work that shows off Haynes's brilliant sociological imagination on every page. He and Solovitch are masterful at linking the small personal details of everyday family and community life to social structure and history. Like Dalton Conley's Honky, this book will be seen as a significant contribution to the emerging literary form of sociological memoir. -- Mitchell Duneier, author of Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea, Princeton UniversityDown the Up Staircase is a beautifully written, captivating, and absorbing book that connects seemingly private concerns with public policies and structures in clear and convincing fashion. It delineates vividly how poverty and downward mobility do not make people noble, resilient, and resourceful, but instead shatter social ties and self-esteem. This fast-paced book will likely be consumed by readers in one sitting, but its powerful and poignant stories will linger in the mind long afterwards. -- George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes PlaceDown the Up Staircase is a riveting narrative about three generations of a black family and their struggle to maintain inherited privilege. Written with elegance and penetrating insight, the book shines light on the precarity that all blacks confront, regardless of their social class and personal ambitions. -- Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique, professor of urban sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New YorkA candid and profoundly personal contribution to America's racial history. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *This masterful account begins as a portrait of a house that was a living, breathing extension of the family that lived in it both in hopeful times and in darker ones. But it soon reaches out into the larger social landscape of Harlem and then into the changing history and culture of an entire land. In doing so, it shifts seamlessly from a sensitive biography to a thoughtful ethnographic sketch of an important place in an important time, and then into a wise and compelling essay on the social history of our time. What we encounter on the printed page, of course, is written narrative, but it is conveyed to us in what might best be described as a rich and perceptive voice. In every way, a remarkable work. -- Kai Erikson, Yale UniversityThis thoughtful and sobering memoir weaves the beauty and tragedy of Haynes's family story into the complex history of Harlem.... Like Harlem's story, the memoir is bittersweet, painting a full and complicated picture of black upper-class life over generations. * Publishers Weekly *Down the Up Staircase combines elements of memoir and sociology, culminating in an incredibly rich story. * Bookish *In this thoughtfully conceived and crafted memoir, the authors offer evocative, relentlessly honest portrayals without judgment. In doing so, they encourage the reader to ponder the variables in her own life, the tides and forces that help or hinder her pursuit of the sweet life. -- Elizabeth Dowling Taylor * The New York Times Book Review *[A] moving memoir. -- Georgia Rowe * East Bay Times *As Isabel Wilkerson did expertly in 'The Warmth of Other Suns' — the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic tale of the Great Migration — Haynes and Solovitch follow their relatives through decades, revealing the impact of public policy and social change on the family from generation to generation. -- Krissah Thompson * Washington Post *Haynes and Solovitch weave memoir and sociology to document the shifting fortunes of the black middle-class family, and of Harlem itself, and illuminate the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class. * The Davis Enterprise *Interweaving a variety of sociological concepts and historical examinations with intimate portraits of this singular family, Down the Up Staircase takes readers on an entertaining and provocative tour of twentieth-century urban America. -- Richard E. Ocejo * New Books in Sociology *Down The Up Staircase is more than a story of a family, far more than the chronology of a home. And yet the entire tale — the story of the black experience in the 20th century—feels like it’s being very intimately told to you from the parlor. * The Bowery Boys *Like Harlem’s story, the memoir is bittersweet, painting a full and complicated picture of black upper-class life over generations. * Harlem World Magazine *In Down the Up Staircase: Three generations of a Harlem Family, Bruce D. Haynes (with his co-author, Syma Solovitch) gives us a poignant memoir of his own Uptown youth in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and also reaches further back to when his grandparents bought a townhouse in the Sugar Hill district in 1931. -- Benjamin George Friedman * Times Literary Supplement *Every sociologist—indeed everyone—interested in race, mobility, and the African American experience should read this book. It will motivate rethinking of the stakes and consequences for African Americans striving to get or stay ahead. For sociologists and other scholars of race and the urban experience, as well as lay readers who desire to understand more fully much of what black family life in urban America was all about during the past 100 years, it should be a required text. -- Alford A. Young, Jr. * Sociological Forum *Haynes and Syma Solovitch show a surprisingly complex account of black middle class life in a biographically and analytically novel way. . . . Down the Up Staircase adds an important lens to the numerous complexities of generational social mobility for African Americans in the United States. -- Edwin Grimsley * City & Community *Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family is at once a history of Black Harlem, Black social science in and beyond the academy, and the Black elite class. . . . In Haynes and Solovitch’s narrative hands, the book’s key characters – the three generations of the Haynes family, the Convent Avenue brownstone, and Harlem – do sweeping and personal historical work about race, class, and cities in twentieth century America. -- Zandria F. Robinson * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family, guides readers through the double glass doors of the Haynes family home as the tell the tale of Harlem's historical and social transformation using the family's crumbling three-story brownstone as the backdrop. Haynes and Solovitch pull back the proverbial curtains to document the tenuous nature of achievement, success, and status among the black middle class. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface1. Mad Money2. Not Alms but Opportunity3. New Negroes4. Soul Dollars5. Stepping Out6. Do for Yourself7. Free Fall8. Moving on Down9. Keep on Keepin' onNotes
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Columbia University Press Struggle on Their Minds The Political Thought of
Book SynopsisStruggle on Their Minds shows how the American political tradition have been continually challenged—and strengthened—by antiracist resistance, creating a rich legacy of African American thought. Alex Zamalin focuses on five activists across two centuries who fought to foreground slavery and racial injustice in American political discourse.Trade ReviewFred Moten memorably wrote that the "history of blackness is testament to the fact that objects can and do resist." Alex Zamalin reaffirms this assertion through exquisite examination of narratives of resistance—not merely protest—by David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Huey Newton, and Angela Davis. Zamalin's deft treatise demonstrates how Afro-modern political thought refashions our fundamental understandings of resistance and the attendant ideals of democracy and freedom. -- Neil Roberts, author of Freedom as Marronage, Williams CollegeStruggle on Their Minds places Alex Zamalin at the forefront of scholars concerned with the political thought of African American activists. I can think of no reading more timely than this rich account of the centrality of black resistance to U.S. democracy and democratic citizenship. -- Nick Bromell, University of Massachusetts, AmherstIn intellectually compelling and valuable ways, this book presents significant (but relatively neglected) figures in the canon of African American political theorizing and relates them both to broad idioms of American political thought and to our contemporary political conjuncture. -- George Shulman, Professor of Political Science at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York UniversityOverall, the book offers an alternative view to American consensus theories on history, politics, and race. Excellent for American history, race, and political thought collections. * Choice *Zamalin thoughtfully and concisely illustrates how his chosen writers reveal not only the paradoxes of resistance but also the inherent tensions within American democracy. Struggle on Their Minds will work well in undergraduate classrooms as a systematic deconstruction of the idea that America has arrived at a 'so-called postracial moment.' . . . He shows how Walker, Douglass, Wells, Newton, and Davis have radically explicated the inherent, continual, pervasive and pernicious commitment to white supremacy that runs throughout U.S. history. -- Chernoh M. Sesay Jr. * Journal of American History *Zamalin...make[s] a significant contribution to contemporary political theory by demonstrating the importance of taking black thinkers seriously. -- Justin Rose * Contemporary Political Theory *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Political Thought of African American Resistance1. David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and the Abolitionist Democratic Vision2. Ida B. Wells, the Antilynching Movement, and the Politics of Seeing3. Huey Newton, the Black Panthers, and the Decolonization of America4. Angela Davis, Prison Abolition, and the End of the American Carceral StateConclusion: The Future of ResistanceNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Banking on Freedom
Book SynopsisShennette Garrett-Scott explores black financial innovation and its transformative impact on U.S. capitalism through the story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Banking on Freedom offers an unparalleled account of how black women carved out economic, social, and political power.Trade ReviewGarrett-Scott’s extensively researched and documented study is the first history of U.S. finance that puts African American women at the center. Banking on Freedom makes a tremendously monumental contribution to African American banking history, and it substantially enriches our understanding of U.S. finance and capitalism. -- Juliet E. K. Walker, author of The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, EntrepreneurshipShennette Garrett-Scott’s compelling and highly original account demonstrates that, for black people, banks were more than financial institutions. In the hands of black women, capital accumulation, credit, and insurance became community building practices, mutual aid, strategies for collective survival, and sources of contestation. Banking on Freedom offers a new perspective on the entire community and the nation. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalMoving fluidly from the change purse to the bank vault, Banking on Freedom offers the first full accounting of the financial sector, womanhood, and Afro-America simultaneously transformed. Rich and brilliant. -- N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South FloridaRecovering the important and active role black women have played in the development of modern American capitalism, Shennette Garrett-Scott’s Banking on Freedom is a paradigm-shifting work that stands to make a monumental contribution to the field and is certain to inspire future generations of scholars. -- Tiffany Gill, author of Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty IndustryGarrett-Scott reclaims the stories of black women who—as bank founders and clerks, investors, aspiring home owners, loan seekers, and, yes, as those denied loans—asserted their own economic ethos. A compelling account of black women’s ideas about money, savings, lending, obligation, and economic well-being. -- Elsa Barkley Brown, University of MarylandA beautifully written, comprehensive, and highly original study of black women’s savvy business acumen in the aftermath of slavery through the early twentieth century. Garrett-Scott should be commended for boldly modeling just how gender and race shape capitalism and finance in ways few scholars have addressed. -- Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to the Grave, in the Building of a NationThis recovery of one aspect of black women’s history will appeal to scholars as well as those with a serious interest in the history of finance and women’s history. * Publishers Weekly *Garrett-Scott’s accounting is a work of economic history, but it reads less as a description of 20th century Black capitalism, and more as a rendering of what is possible when women and people of color can effectively channel their own money for personal and collective economic development. * Scalawag Magazine *Banking on Freedom is a major contribution to the history of US capitalism. It will undoubtedly inspire new scholarship. It pushes readers to reframe black women’s fight for economic justice in the most expansive ways. -- Keona K. Ervin * Journal of African American History *Garrett-Scott strikes a careful balance with a narrative that brings together a cross-section of fields, including social, economic, political, labor, and business history with significant depth for a fresh perspective. Banking on Freedom will stand as a groundbreaking piece of scholarship that offers a useable framework — a model —for historians interested in Black banking history. * Black Perspectives *This exploration of gender and race in the making of modern US finance represents an important historiographical intervention. Banking on Freedom is also an engaging and accessible read that is ripe for the current political and economic moment. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “I Am Yet Waitin”: African American Women and Free Labor Banking Experiments in the Emancipation-Era South, 1860s–19002. “Who Is So Helpless as the Negro Woman?”: The Independent Order of St. Luke and the Quest for Economic Security, 1856–19023. “Let Us Have a Bank”: St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, Economic Activism, and State Regulation, 1903 to World War I4. Rituals of Risk and Respectability: Gendered Economic Practices, Credit, and Debt to World War I5. “A Good, Strong, Hustling Woman”: Financing the New Negro in the New Era, 1920–1929EpilogueAppendixNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press A Haven and a Hell
Book SynopsisLance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth century through the present day. He reveals the forces that caused the ghetto’s role as haven or hell to wax and wane.Trade Review[An] informative sociohistorical analysis . . . For readers of urban history and black history, this is an excellent look at the ghetto’s multifaceted place in American history. * Publishers Weekly *Immensely valuable. -- Prentiss A. Dantzler, Georgia State University * Journal of Urban Affairs *A critical read at a time when gentrification is viewed as threatening the black identity of many urban neighborhoods, this book offers a rich and nuanced history of the ghetto’s role in black American life from the late nineteenth century to the present. Resisting a simple characterization, Freeman shows that while the ghetto has sometimes served as an instrument of subjugation and institutional neglect, it has also offered a refuge that has helped to nurture black culture, institutions, and ideas. -- Ingrid Gould Ellen, coeditor of The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and OpportunityThrough rigorous sociohistorical analysis, Lance Freeman provides insight into how black ghettos developed and then changed over time, giving readers a good sense of the complicated trajectory of 'the ghetto' in America. A Haven and a Hell is a highly accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban black America. -- Marcus Anthony Hunter, coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American LifeWith diligent care, Lance Freeman weighs the hurts and capacities of ghetto life in the United States. In a field grown thick with pronouncement, his steadfast empirical commitment and reasoned analyses correct past misperceptions and open new vistas. -- Harvey Molotch, coauthor of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of PlaceIn A Haven and a Hell, Lance Freeman seeks to amplify the relationship between 'the ghetto' as a place, policy, and idea and as a black experience, source of resistance, and community. Using multiple places and narratives, this book renders 'the ghetto' as not only multifaceted but also critical to understanding the contemporary conditions of urban black America. -- John Hipp, University of California, IrvineFreeman’s rich historical account illustrates how pernicious processes of racial domination and exclusion created predominantly Black neighborhoods in Northern U.S. cities. Yet he also shows how these same processes created the conditions of possibility for autonomous Black social institutions and collective identities. Freeman seamlessly combines statistical and archival data with the voices of Black artists, activists, intellectuals, and business and political leaders across nearly 150 of U.S. history for an account that is at once soaring and surprisingly intimate. -- Adam Reich, co-author of Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at WalmartFor those wholly unfamiliar with the history of the formation of the African-American ghetto, this book is an essential read. Its prosaic style makes it very reader friendly. As such, its biggest draw may be for undergraduate students and others who have little understanding of the historical and social conditions that gave rise to what appear today as blighted urban spaces. * American Journal of Sociology *Freeman adds necessary perspective to our understanding of the role of the ghetto in American life. * Contemporary Sociology *An eloquently written and captivating book. * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Embryonic Ghetto2. The Age of the Black Enclave3. The Federally Sanctioned Ghetto4. World War II and the Aftermath: The Ghetto Diverges5. The Ghetto Erupts: The 1960s6. The Last Decades of the Twentieth Century7. The Ghetto in the Twenty-First CenturyConclusion: How to Have a Haven but No Hell in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Making Sense of the AltRight
Book SynopsisDuring the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: “alt-right.” George Hawley provides an accessible introduction to this troubling racist movement, detailing its origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white nationalism through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right’s influential texts.Trade ReviewMaking Sense of the Alt-Right understands alt-right thinking from the inside. George Hawley's erudition on the subject is evident. The work is supple in tracing out the lineage and development of the movement against the conservative establishment, and in explaining its present incarnation in the form of the alt-right. -- Lawrence Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley Making Sense of the Alt-Right is clearly written, insightful, and impressively documented, getting the reader genuinely close to the essence of this amorphous movement. I know of no other work that does nearly as good a job of dealing with the alt-right, and I suspect that this will become the "go-to" work on the movement for students, politicians, and serious readers alike. -- Michael Barkun, Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Alt-Right’s Goals and Predecessors2. The First Wave of the Alt-Right3. The Alt-Right Returns4. The Alt-Right Attack on the Conservative Movement5. The Alt-Right and the 2016 Election6. The “Alt-Lite”ConclusionNotesIndex
£58.77
Columbia University Press Making Sense of the AltRight
Book SynopsisDuring the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: “alt-right.” George Hawley provides an accessible introduction to this troubling racist movement, detailing its origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white nationalism through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right’s influential texts.Trade ReviewMaking Sense of the Alt-Right understands alt-right thinking from the inside. George Hawley's erudition on the subject is evident. The work is supple in tracing out the lineage and development of the movement against the conservative establishment and in explaining its present incarnation in the form of the alt-right. -- Lawrence Rosenthal, University of California, BerkeleyMaking Sense of the Alt-Right is clearly written, insightful, and impressively documented, getting the reader genuinely close to the essence of this amorphous movement. I know of no other work that does nearly as good a job of dealing with the alt-right, and I suspect that this will become the "go-to" work on the movement for students, politicians, and serious readers alike. -- Michael Barkun, Syracuse UniversityI am no fan of the term “alt-right,” but an academic study of this much-hyped movement was well overdue, and George Hawley was the only one who could make at least some sense of them. Recommended reading! -- Cas Mudde, University of GeorgiaGeorge Hawley’s fine new book is one of the first accounts of the rise of a new radical political ideology. It’s an important contribution to scholarship about extremism, digital communication, and contemporary American political culture. It’s also a good read, packed with interesting anecdotes about right-wing intellectual infighting and the online community of the alt-right. All serious followers of American politics today will want to read it. -- Thomas J. Main, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, CUNYHawley's survey represents a good early effort at understanding a strange time in American politics. * Publishers Weekly *Suddenly, everyone claims to be an expert on the white-nationalist reboot, but Hawley actually is. His deep knowledge makes this the most thorough guide to the movement yet. * New York Magazine *WHY READ IT? A good, short (222 pages) primer to help understand the political forces responsible for Charlottesville (and the election of Donald Trump as president). * Hollywood Reporter *An important contribution to contemporary political discourse that sheds light on a disturbingly influential group in American politics. * Library Journal *For anyone trying to figure out how to appeal to the exasperated while maintaining hard boundaries against white supremacists, an important book... -- Joan C. Williams * Times Literary Supplement *Valuable accounts of a movement that [the author] has studied in depth. * Inside Higher Ed *Vital for understanding our times. * Urban Daddy *A slim, neatly focused work that attempts to define the radical new movement. * New Statesman *In Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Hawley does what he set out to do: exploring deep into the heart of the alt-right and its origins, ideology, and political influence. * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Alt-Right’s Goals and Predecessors2. The First Wave of the Alt-Right3. The Alt-Right Returns4. The Alt-Right Attack on the Conservative Movement5. The Alt-Right and the 2016 Election6. The “Alt-Lite”ConclusionNotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Death Without End
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Columbia University Press Take Back What the Devil Stole An African
Book SynopsisMs. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed.Trade ReviewA stirring ethnography of a Boston woman who claims to have spiritual gifts. * Publishers Weekly *Layered, powerful, personal, nuanced, and deeply researched, the book tracks Haskins's violent childhood, her encounter with the Holy Spirit, and her experiences as a traveler in the spirit realms, warring against "the ghosts of American power." -- Nina MacLaughlin * Boston Globe *Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject. . . It’s a compelling story because it is simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary. -- Elizabeth Palmer * The Christian Century *A distinctive blend of reportage, personal memoir, and ethnographic scholarship rendered in elegant prose, the book is not only a fascinating portrait of a resilient person, but an examination of what American society has inflicted on Black women for generations and how they have used religion to get through it. * Boston Magazine *[An] inspiring story. -- Jon M. Sweeney * Spirituality & Practice *An inherently fascinating, exceptionally well written, thoughtful and thought-provoking read. * Midwest Book Review *Along with its moving prose, the greatest strength of Take Back What the Devil Stole is how successful it is at achieving the author’s goal of telling a story from its subject’s perspective. -- Jeffrey E. Anderson, University of Louisiana Monroe * Nova Religio *[This] book is a powerful argument for the importance of the lived religion of “everyday” people. -- Alexandria Griffin * Reading Religion *Take Back What the Devil Stole is a well-told and painfully honest story of Black womanhood in the United States. Although not representative of the totality of the Black experience, Woodbine’s presentation of Donna Haskins’s account of the complexities of gender, race, and class paints a vivid portrait of the challenges facing urban communities in this country. An unquestionable strength of this project is Woodbine’s ability to envelop the reader in Donna’s journey from powerlessness to fully empowered. In addition, the author’s careful but intentional use of thick description provides a rather intimate read, making the text uniquely captivating. -- Dara Coleby Delgdao * Religion *Having met Ms. Donna in person, I can attest to the incredible power of her gift. The temperature in the room changes when she enters, and here Onaje X. O. Woodbine skillfully captures her essence while treating the reader to a thrilling, heartbreaking story of a Black woman’s hard-earned survival. Many of us have had a Ms. Donna in our lives; this book serves as a fitting tribute to the Black women who have crafted a beautiful existence out of rejected stone. Woodbine’s masterpiece reminds us that, even in the face of the most extreme trauma, transformation is possible. This book is required reading for a broken world, and Ms. Donna is one of the most compelling characters I’ve ever encountered. -- André Holland, acclaimed Broadway and film actor and producerOnaje Woodbine has crafted a compelling—gripping—story exploring the everyday spiritual world of a remarkable woman. As he takes us with him into this spiritual world, we see the big structural issues that shape urban poverty and racism through her life, and we also see the interweaving of religious traditions that constitute the lived religious power of this woman. This is urban ethnography, religious biography, and masterful storytelling at its best. -- Nancy T. Ammerman, author of Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday LifeA searing story of the darkness that haunts so many in America’s cities and a needed reminder that Black souls as well as Black bodies are under assault there. But out of the smoke and fire emerges a magical character who just so happens to be real—a victim of all the evils America has to offer who shape-shifts before our eyes into a mystic and prophetess who somehow manages to steal back her own life. Like Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, this study of an impossibly ordinary life grabs you and refuses to let go, even as it offers new insights into a hidden spiritual world. -- Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win (Even When They Lose Elections): How America's Raucous, Nasty, and Mean "Culture Wars" Make for a More Inclusive NationWoodbine’s work is beautiful and compelling. The strengths of the book are its ethnographic intelligence, its attention to an unexamined area of Black religious experience and social location. Take Back What the Devil Stole is an exceptional contribution to the scholarship on lived religion as well as Black women’s multireligious belonging. A notable contribution is Woodbine’s adeptness at maintaining Donna Haskins’s control of her narrative and her multidimensional religious worldview. Drawing on womanist thought, Woodbine privileges Haskins’s voice throughout, and, as such, his engagement with lived religion maintains its focus on the practitioner and practice. -- Phillis Isabella Sheppard, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Daughter of Darkness1. “The Devil Had His Way with Me”2. “I Really Didn’t Want to Give Up My Kid”3. “Am I Ever Going to Be Normal?”4. “Every Time You Leave, You Take a Piece of Me with You”Part II: Metamorphosis5. Incubus6. Seeds of Evil7. ChrysalisPart III: Child of Light8. Between Worlds9. Treasures from Heaven10. The Devil Is a LiarWhat If You Read Your Book to Your Subject(s)? or, On MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Take Back What the Devil Stole An African
Book SynopsisMs. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the spirit realm. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the lived religion of the dispossessed.Trade ReviewA stirring ethnography of a Boston woman who claims to have spiritual gifts. * Publishers Weekly *Layered, powerful, personal, nuanced, and deeply researched, the book tracks Haskins's violent childhood, her encounter with the Holy Spirit, and her experiences as a traveler in the spirit realms, warring against "the ghosts of American power." -- Nina MacLaughlin * Boston Globe *Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject. . . It’s a compelling story because it is simultaneously ordinary and extraordinary. -- Elizabeth Palmer * The Christian Century *A distinctive blend of reportage, personal memoir, and ethnographic scholarship rendered in elegant prose, the book is not only a fascinating portrait of a resilient person, but an examination of what American society has inflicted on Black women for generations and how they have used religion to get through it. * Boston Magazine *[An] inspiring story. -- Jon M. Sweeney * Spirituality & Practice *An inherently fascinating, exceptionally well written, thoughtful and thought-provoking read. * Midwest Book Review *Along with its moving prose, the greatest strength of Take Back What the Devil Stole is how successful it is at achieving the author’s goal of telling a story from its subject’s perspective. -- Jeffrey E. Anderson, University of Louisiana Monroe * Nova Religio *[This] book is a powerful argument for the importance of the lived religion of “everyday” people. -- Alexandria Griffin * Reading Religion *Take Back What the Devil Stole is a well-told and painfully honest story of Black womanhood in the United States. Although not representative of the totality of the Black experience, Woodbine’s presentation of Donna Haskins’s account of the complexities of gender, race, and class paints a vivid portrait of the challenges facing urban communities in this country. An unquestionable strength of this project is Woodbine’s ability to envelop the reader in Donna’s journey from powerlessness to fully empowered. In addition, the author’s careful but intentional use of thick description provides a rather intimate read, making the text uniquely captivating. -- Dara Coleby Delgdao * Religion *Having met Ms. Donna in person, I can attest to the incredible power of her gift. The temperature in the room changes when she enters, and here Onaje X. O. Woodbine skillfully captures her essence while treating the reader to a thrilling, heartbreaking story of a Black woman’s hard-earned survival. Many of us have had a Ms. Donna in our lives; this book serves as a fitting tribute to the Black women who have crafted a beautiful existence out of rejected stone. Woodbine’s masterpiece reminds us that, even in the face of the most extreme trauma, transformation is possible. This book is required reading for a broken world, and Ms. Donna is one of the most compelling characters I’ve ever encountered. -- André Holland, acclaimed Broadway and film actor and producerOnaje Woodbine has crafted a compelling—gripping—story exploring the everyday spiritual world of a remarkable woman. As he takes us with him into this spiritual world, we see the big structural issues that shape urban poverty and racism through her life, and we also see the interweaving of religious traditions that constitute the lived religious power of this woman. This is urban ethnography, religious biography, and masterful storytelling at its best. -- Nancy T. Ammerman, author of Sacred Stories, Spiritual Tribes: Finding Religion in Everyday LifeA searing story of the darkness that haunts so many in America’s cities and a needed reminder that Black souls as well as Black bodies are under assault there. But out of the smoke and fire emerges a magical character who just so happens to be real—a victim of all the evils America has to offer who shape-shifts before our eyes into a mystic and prophetess who somehow manages to steal back her own life. Like Karen McCarthy Brown’s Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, this study of an impossibly ordinary life grabs you and refuses to let go, even as it offers new insights into a hidden spiritual world. -- Stephen Prothero, author of Why Liberals Win (Even When They Lose Elections): How America's Raucous, Nasty, and Mean "Culture Wars" Make for a More Inclusive NationWoodbine’s work is beautiful and compelling. The strengths of the book are its ethnographic intelligence, its attention to an unexamined area of Black religious experience and social location. Take Back What the Devil Stole is an exceptional contribution to the scholarship on lived religion as well as Black women’s multireligious belonging. A notable contribution is Woodbine’s adeptness at maintaining Donna Haskins’s control of her narrative and her multidimensional religious worldview. Drawing on womanist thought, Woodbine privileges Haskins’s voice throughout, and, as such, his engagement with lived religion maintains its focus on the practitioner and practice. -- Phillis Isabella Sheppard, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture, Vanderbilt UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Daughter of Darkness1. “The Devil Had His Way with Me”2. “I Really Didn’t Want to Give Up My Kid”3. “Am I Ever Going to Be Normal?”4. “Every Time You Leave, You Take a Piece of Me with You”Part II: Metamorphosis5. Incubus6. Seeds of Evil7. ChrysalisPart III: Child of Light8. Between Worlds9. Treasures from Heaven10. The Devil Is a LiarWhat If You Read Your Book to Your Subject(s)? or, On MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press Black Visions of the Holy Land
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 2
Table of ContentsIntroduction xxv Chronology xxxvii Symbols and Abbreviations xxxix Documents, 1860-89 1860 An Item from the Census: The James Burroughs Family 3 1860 An Item from the Census: The Slaves of James Burroughs 5 1860 An Item from the Census: The James Burroughs Farm 7 2 Dec. 1861 An Inventory of the Estate of James Burroughs 9 20 Sept. 1867 Charles Wheeler Sharp to John Kimball 14 20 Nov. 1868 William Davis to John Kimball 17 1870 An Item from the Census: The Washington Ferguson Family 19 13 July 1872 The Minutes of a Republican Rally at Tinkersville 21 Oct. 1872-- June 1875 Items from the Hampton Institute Student Account Book facing 22 1874-75 The Catalog of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute 23 1874-75 A Student Petition to Samuel Chapman Armstrong 46 10 June 1875 Three News Items on the 1875 Graduation Exercises at Hampton Institute 48 10 June 1875 A Certificate of Achievement from Hampton Institute 67 12 Feb. 1877 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 67 27 June--26 July 1877 Six News Items on the West Virginia Capital Campaign 69 Aug. 1877 To the Editor of the Charleston West Virginia Journal 73 26 Mar. 1878 To a Hampton Teacher 74 10 Feb. 1879 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 75 1 July 2879 From Samuel Chapman Armstrong 76 1 Aug. 1880 A Paper Read at a Memorial Service at Hampton Institute 77 Sept. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 78 Oct. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 85 Nov. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 92 Dec. 1880 An Article in the Southern Workman 94 12 Jan. 1881 Edward Sugg to George Henry Corliss, with BTW's Endorsement 101 Jan. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 103 10 Feb. 1881 The Alabama Statute Establishing Tuskegee Normal School 107 Feb. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 110 Mar. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 111 Apr. 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 120 31 May 1881 Samuel Chapman Armstrong to George Washington Campbell and Other Trustees of Tuskegee Normal School 127 May 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 128 May 1881 An Article in the Southern Workman 132 25 June 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 132 28 June 1881 To Francis Chickering Briggs 133 29 June 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 134 5 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 135 7 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 137 7 July 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 138 9 July 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 139 14 July 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 140 16 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 142 16 July 1881 To Francis Chickering Briggs 143 18 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 144 23 July 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 145 10 Sept. 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 146 12 Sept. 1881 Olivia A. Davidson to Mary Berry 147 28 Sept. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 149 7 Oct. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 149 3 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 150 12 Nov. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 153 18 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 154 23 Nov. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 156 27 Nov. 1881 To Samuel Chapman Armstrong 156 28 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 157 29 Nov. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 157 3 Dec. 1881 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 158 4 Dec. 1881 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 158 4 Dec. 1881 To Hampton Institute 159 18 Dec. 1881 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 159 10 Jan. 1882 To Oliver Otis Howard 161 Jan. 1882 From [Moses Pierce] 162 Jan. 1882 The Catalog of Tuskegee Normal School 165 13 Feb. 1882 A Circular Appealinrg for Donations 178 21 Feb. 1882 From Oliver Otis Howard 179 24 Mar. 1882 A News Item from the Philadelphia Inquirer 179 ca. 30 Mar. 1882 BTW and Olivia A. Davidson to the Editor of the Southern Workman 185 7 Apr. 1882 A Speech before the Alabama State Teachers' Association 191 11 Apr. 1882 A Recommendation from Henry Clay Armstrong, with the Endorsement of Rufus Willis Cobb 195 15 Apr.--14 July 1882 Three Items from a Notebook 197 22 Apr. 1882 A Recommendation from George Washington Campbell and Waddy Thompson 201 2 May 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 202 8-9 May 1882 Two News Items from the Springfield Daily Republican 203 9 May 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 205 22 June 1882 To [James Fowle Baldwin Marshall] 206 19 July 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 207 2 Aug. 1882 The Register of Marriage of BTW and Fanny Norton Smith 207 2 Aug. 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 208 18 Oct. 1882 To James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 209 23 Oct. 1882 From James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 209 8 Nov. 1882 The Annual Report of Tuskegee Normal School 210 8 Dec. 1882 Olivia A. Davidson to James Fowle Baldwin Marshall 213 16 Feb. 1883 An Amendment to the Act Establishing Tuskegee Normal School 215 19 Feb. 1883 To the Editor of the Southern Workman 216
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University of Illinois Press Black Poets of the United States
Book SynopsisAcclaimed upon its initial American release,Black Poets of the United Statescontinued to spark comment and analysis for years afterward. Jean Wagner's masterpiece delves into the vital union of racial and religious feeling in the Black poets who emerged from 1890 to 1940.Beginning with an analysis of slavery's impact on the Black psyche and religious feeling, Wagner examines the evolution of Black lyrical expression to the end of the nineteenth century. He then moves into a focused study of Paul Laurence Dunbar and his contemporaries, emphasizing their struggle against prevalent stereotypes that stemmed from minstrelsy, popular song, and southern white writing. His look at the twentieth-century Black Renaissance explores the works, themes, concerns, and experiences of poets Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes.Deeply sensitive and remarkably comprehensiveBlack Poets of the United Statescombines encyclopedic knowledge with Trade Review"A monumental work."--Langston Hughes"A matchless study. . . . the best full length study of Black American poetry that has seen print. Wagner has evaluated the major poets from 1890 to 1940 (Dunbar to Hughes) with a superior critical discernment that is wedded to a sociological and psychological approach. . . . The distinguishing factors in Wagner's study are his aggressive grappling with two-sided issues; his lucid, metaphorical prose style; his thorough research; and judicious, carefully reasoned conclusions."--New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsFOREWORD xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix PREFACE xxi Chapter One: INTRODUCTION 3 1. The Negro in the United States 4 Slaves and Free Men 5 The Negro “Inferior and Subservient” 9 The Mark of Oppression 14 2. The Origins of Black Poetry 16 Written Poetry in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 16 Folk Poetry 26 PART ONE: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR AND HIS TIME 37 Chapter Two: THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION IN DUNBAR’S TIME 39 1. The Minstrels 40 2. The Plantation Tradition in Poetry 48 Irwin Russell 51 Joel Chandler Harris 59 Thomas Nelson Page and Armistead C. Gordon 62 3. The South’s Revenge 66 Chapter Three: PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR 73 1. Biography 73 Childhood Years 73 Early Successes 75 Fame and Its Drawbacks 77 The End 79 2. Dunbar and the Plantation Tradition 80 Dunbar and the Plantation 81 Dunbar and the South 88 The Poet and His Theme 92 3. Race Consciousness and History 95 Past and Present 96 The Search for Heroes 98 Dunbar and Racial Injustice 101 4. The Poet of the People 104 The Problem of Dialect 105 Dunbar and the Negro Popular Temperament 111 The Themes of Dunbar’s Popular Poetry 115 5. The Lyricism of HEARTBREAK 118 Pessimism and Religious Doubts 121 Chapter Four: DUNBAR’S CONTEMPORARIES 127 1. James Edwin Campbell 129 The Theme of Interracial Love 130 The People in Campbell’s Poetry 133 2. Daniel Webster Davis 138 3. J. Mord Allen 141 PART TWO: THE NEGRO RENAISSANCE 147 Chapter Five: THE NEGRO RENAISSANCE 149 1. New Forces 151 The Role of W. E. B. Du Bois 151 Black Migrations 153 Radicalism and the New Spirit 155 The Rehabilitation of the Negro Past 157 2. The Problem of Self-Definition 160 The Discovery of the Negro and of Negro Art 162 Cultural Dualism and Its Problems 165 Art or Propaganda? 170 3. The Poetry of the Renaissance 172 The Poets and Their Public 173 The Poets and Their Themes 177 Poets in Conflict 190 Section A: IN SEARCH OF THE SPIRITUAL 195 Chapter Six: CLAUDE McKay 197 1. Biography 198 The Jamaican Years 198 The Years in the United States 201 Years of Vagabondage 201 Home to Harlem 203 2. The Jamaican Sources 204 Authenticity of Form 204 Realism of the Peasant Portraits 206 Primacy of the Earth 211 Rejection of the City 215 3. The Lyricism of Militancy 222 Racial Pride 223 Hatred 225 Target of Hatred: Evil 230 The Limits of Hatred 235 4. Exoticism and the Theme of Africa 236 5. Harlem and Negro Art 243 6. The Spiritual Journey 247 Chapter Seven: JEAN TOOMER 259 1. The Destiny of Jean Toomer 260 2. The Poetry of CANE, or, the Pilgrimage to the Origins 264 3. Beyond Race: “Blue Meridian” 272 Chapter Eight: COUNTEE CULLEN 283 1. Cullen’s Life 284 A Mysterious Childhood 284 The Productive Years 287 The Last Years 291 2. The Dictates of the Psyche 291 The Burden of Inferiority 293 Death the Liberator 297 Pride as Solace 299 3. Race and the African Homeland 301 Race in Cullen’s Poetic Universe 302 A Black among Whites 308 Garvey and the African Heritage 315 Africa as a Pagan Symbol 320 4. Christ as Symbol and Reality 329 Christ as a Sign of Self-Contradiction 330 Mysticism and Spiritual Experience 339 “The Black Christ”: A Spiritual Testament 341 Section B: IN SEARCH OF THE PEOPLE 349 Chapter Nine: JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 351 1. Biography 352 From Florida to Broadway 352 In the Service of Country and Race 354 2. Dunbar’s Disciple 356 Poetry in Dialect 356 Religious and Patriotic Conformism 358 3. Johnson and the New Spirit 365 4. Folklore and Race: Their Rehabilitation 372 The Condemnation of Dialect 375 The Experiment of God’s Trombones 377 Chapter Ten: LANGSTON HUGHES 385 1. Biography 386 The Restless Years 386 Early Successes 389 A Literature of Commitment 391 2. From Racial Romanticism to Jazz 393 Racial Romanticism 394 Rebellion: Through a Glass Jazzily 400 3. The Poetry of the Masses 416 The Social Setting of the Blues 417 Class Consciousness 426 Religion and the Masses 437 4. American Democracy: Promises and Reality 444 The American Dream 446 The Poet and Reality 454 5. Toward a Synthesis 461 Conclusion: Langston Hughes and Harlem 473 Chapter Eleven: STERLING BROWN 475 1. Folk Strength and Folk Frailties 476 2. The Tragic Universe of Sterling Brown 481 The Whites’ Conspiracy 482 The Black Man and His Fate 483 The Inanity of Faith 490 3. Means for Survival 496 Chapter Twelve: CONCLUSION 505 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX 513 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT 537 INDEX 547
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 5
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 6
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 7
Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.
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University of Illinois Press A Ghetto Takes Shape
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 8
Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 9
Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.
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University of Illinois Press Black Over White
Book SynopsisIn this prize-winning book Thomas Holt is concerned not only with the identities of the black politicians who gained power in South Carolina during Reconstruction, but also with the question of how they functioned within the political system. Thus, as one reviewer has commented, 'he penetrates the superficial preoccupations over whether black politicians were venal or gullible to see whether they wielded power and influence and, if they did, how and to what ends and against what obstacles.' 'Well crafted and well written, it not only broadens our knowledge of the period, but also deepens it, something that recent books on Reconstruction have too often failed to do.' -- Michael Perman, American Historical Review. ' . . . a valuable study of post-Civil War black leaders in a state where Negro control came closest to realization during Reconstruction. . . . Effectively merging the techniques of quantitative analysis with those of narrative history, Holt shatters a nTrade ReviewWinner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association, 1978.Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association, 1978. * Southern Historical Association *
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 10
Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Black Georgia in the Progressive Era 19001920
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 11
Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.
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University of Illinois Press Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 12
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University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13
Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageContentsIntroductionErratumSymbols and AbbreviationsDocumentsBibliographyIndex
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University of Illinois Press My Bondage and My Freedom
Book SynopsisThis is the first annotated edition of a work Eric J. Sundquist has called 'a classic text of the American Renaissance.' As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has pointed out, My Bondage and My Freedom has been largely ignored by critics, in part because it is longer and less accessible than Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass but also because it has not up to now been 'read' by a sensitive critic. 'The latter reason is paramount and urgently needed to be addressed, and William Andrews is just the person to introduce Douglass''s second autobiography to our generation of readers. He has few peers in nineteenth-century black criticism.' Trade Review"A classic text of the American Renaissance." -- Eric J. Sundquist. "Andrews's splendid introduction is the best essay on My Bondage and My Freedom and, indeed, on Douglass that I have read." -- William S. McFeely, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Douglass.
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University of Illinois Press The Booker T. Washington Papers Vol. 14
Table of Contentsv. 1. The autobiographical writings.--v. 2. 1860-89.--v. 3. 1889-95.--v. 4. 1895-98.--v. 5. 1899-1900.--v. 6. 1901-2.--v. 7. 1903-4.--v. 8. 1904-6.--v. 1906-8.--v. 10. 1909-12.--v. 11. 1911-12.--v. 12. 1912-14.--v. 13. 1914-15.- 14. Cumulative index.
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University of Illinois Press DoubleConsciousnessDouble Bind Theoretical
Book SynopsisTrade Review"'It is a peculiar sensation, this double consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others.' For Adell, W. E. B. Du Bois's famous articulation of the 'twoness' of black Americans is the key to understanding the 'double bind' which afflicts contemporary African-American literary theory. . . . [The book] demands and deserves recognition as a cogent intervention." --Yearbook of English Studies
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MO - University of Illinois Press Imagining Grace
Book SynopsisSurveys examples of contemporary literature, drama, art, and music that extend the literary tradition of African-American slave narratives. Revealing the powerful creative links between this tradition and liberation theology's search for grace, this title shows how these artworks profess a liberating theology of racial empathy and reconciliation.Trade ReviewA CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2001.
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University of Illinois Press Chains of Love
Book SynopsisInvestigates the social and cultural history of slave relationships in the very heart of the South. Focusing on South Carolina, this book deals with the most intimate areas of the slave experience including courtship, love and affection between spouses, the abuse of slave women by white men, and the devastating consequences of forced separations.
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University of Illinois Press Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama
Book SynopsisAn enlightening study of feminism in the work of seven black playwrightsTrade Review"The present volume probes a large sample of the dramatic literature and therefore achieves a deeper inquiry. . . . Recommended."--Choice “Enormously valuable for its range of playwrights. . . . With its focus on texts and intertextuality, the contributors maintain a blend of criticism, cultural history, and theatre history.”--Theatre Survey"A stimulating reading that weaves together black feminist theater and black women's histories."--SIGNS"The riveting selections in Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama cover what is going on in African American women's drama today. The volume pays close attention to topics of race, class, gender, and sexuality, while raising issues that are critical to many contemporary debates: black women's health, representation, and gender objectification. An accessible and informative read that is a welcome addition to drama studies, American literature, and African American literature."--Valerie Lee, editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature"Black Feminism in Contemporary Drama lays out carefully and clearly the elements needed for a black feminist aesthetic and begins the journey toward conjoining black women's plays and performance pieces with black feminist cultural scholarship in multiple disciplines. Expanding the canon of black feminist cultural analysis in valuable ways, Anderson selects truly worthwhile and timely plays that will find resonance with feminist, literature, and drama students and scholars."--Jacqueline Bobo, author of Black Women as Cultural ReadersTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. A Black Feminist Theatre Emerges 1 2. Pearl Cleage's Black Feminism 17 3. We Are the Daughters of Aunt Jemima: Remembering Black Women's History 35 4. Battling Images: Suzan-Lori Parks and Black Iconicity 55 5. Kia Corthron's Everyday Black Women 76 6. Signifying Black Lesbians: Dramatic Speculations 95 7. A Black Feminist Aesthetic 115 Notes 127 Bibliography 133 Index 141
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MO - University of Illinois Press A Noble Fight
Book SynopsisA critical investigation into the associational culture of African American freemasonryTrade Review“Recommended.”--Choice"An astounding reinterpretation of the roots of the black Masonic movement."--The Journal of American History"A valuable contribution to our understanding of the relationship between Masonic cultural and institutional forms and the struggle for democracy among African Americans."--Journal of African American Studies"This very important work is extraordinarily well researched, theoretically sophisticated, and well written. A major intervention and valuable contribution to the fields of Africana and American studies, cultural studies, and political theory."--Anthony Bogues, author of Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals"Walker's attention to freemasonry expands the terrain of analysis of black civil society. His retelling of the story of the beginning of the association--foregrounding the black Atlantic context--recasts how scholars in the field think of the Masons and their place in African American history. Superb scholarship."--Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black AmericaTable of ContentsPreface: A Note on Freemasonry vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Secret Rites, Public Power 1 1. The Specter of Democracy 23 2. A Cartography of Democracy 45 3. Ritual and Revolution 86 4. A New Political Ideology 128 5. The Democratic Uses of Ritual and Secrecy 175 Epilogue: Race, Ritual, and the Struggle for Democracy in America 219 Notes 227 Index 281
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MO - University of Illinois Press Moving Images Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration
Book SynopsisAn in-depth analysis of photography during the Japanese American incarceration during World War IITrade Review"Alinder's fifty-year perspective yields one of the most balanced and informative books on documentary photographs in general and the internment of Japanese Americans in particular. This is a gem of a book. Essential."--Choice"Alinder handles her material skillfully, and in concise and readable style. Her judgments show an incisive mind, and one that resists oversimplification."--American Journalism"An excellent history of the incarceration . . . this is valuable for anyone interested in Japanese-American history."--Multicultural Review"A beautiful and worthwhile read." -- The Journal of American History"A smart and highly interpretive study."--Nichi Bei Weekly"A powerful, incisive monograph on the varied strategies of photographers and subjects at a time of great upheaval and its aftermath."--American Historical Review"Contributes significantly to making the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans a part of public memory. . . . A book that gracefully navigates the space between academic and public discourse."--American Studies"A sophisticated and deeply historical book that illustrates the multiple roles photographs played in the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. In addition to detailing how U.S. authorities turned photography against Japanese Americans, the book wisely attends to how the internees and their descendants used the medium to tell competing stories of their incarceration, allegiances, and identities. It is a book sure to appeal to photohistorians, art historians, and scholars of Asian American history."--Martin A. Berger, author of Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture "A dark stain on our country's history, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II brought about a wide range of responses, from quiet grief to angry protest. In Moving Images Jasmine Alinder shows how photography was a key participant in this history and how pictures represented, managed, and confronted such a brutal and dehumanizing set of experiences. This is a very fine and timely book."--Anthony Lee, author of A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory TownTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword Roger Daniels xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. When the Innocents Suffer: Dorothea Lange and the War Relocation Authority 23 2. The Landscape of Loyalty: Ansel Adams's Born Free and Equal 44 3. The Right to Represent: Toyo Miyatake's Photographs of Manzanar 75 4. Art/History: Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in the Museum 103 5. Virtual Pilgrimage: The Contemporary Incarceration Photography of Patrick Nagatani and Masumi Hayashi 126 Epilogue 155 Notes 163 Bibliography 189 Index 201
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University of Illinois Press Chinese American Transnational Politics
Book SynopsisTraces the shadowy history of Chinese leftism and the role of the Kuomintang of China in influencing affairs in America. This book penetrates the overly politicized portrayals of a history shaped by global alliances and enmities and the hard intolerance of the Cold War era.Trade ReviewReceived an honorable mention for the Book Award in History from the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), 2012. "A remarkable collection that shows the dedication, diligence, and accomplishments of Him Mark Lai, an amateur historian who devoted himself to researching and writing the history of Chinese American communities. Lai's command of the sources and his commitment to a faithful recording of Chinese American history are extraordinary."--Renqiu Yu, author of To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of New York"A remarkable account of the history of Chinese American communities."--The Journal of Asian Studies
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MO - University of Illinois Press Freud Upside Down African American Literature
Book SynopsisA salient take on psychoanalysis as a cultural phenomenon, intersecting with African American literatureTrade Review"An innovative and meaningful addition to recent scholarship on race and psychoanalysis. Badia Sahar Ahad's work makes a significant historical and theoretical contribution to the study of race, psychoanalysis, African American literature, and American culture.”--Gwen S. Bergner, author of Taboo Subjects: Sex and Psychoanalysis"Freud Upside Down showcases a theoretical sophistication that opens up exciting archives to a new take on literary and intellectual history." --Michael L. Cobb, author of God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Violence
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University of Illinois Press Defending Their Own in the Cold
Book SynopsisA visual and textual journey through the cultural contributions of Puerto Rican artists in the United StatesTrade ReviewReceived an Honorable Mention in the Frank Bonilla Book Award Competition from the Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA), 2012. "A book that will undoubtedly have an impact on US Puerto Rican Studies by expanding the repertoire of authors, works, and approaches that have traditionally defined the field."--Moreno: New Perspectives in U.S. Puerto Rican Cultural and Literary Studies"Defending Their Own in the Cold brings to the fore a vibrant intellectual and artistic tradition. . . . Zimmerman, in beautifully rendered prose, captures the largesse of this tradition with the empathy of an insider and the expertise of an accomplished theoretician. His text is more than a defense, as the title may imply, but literary, artistic, and social analysis at its very best."--Centro Journal"A healthy addition to any Latino Studies course focusing on art or literary movements. Defending Their Own in the Cold provides an introduction to contemporary cultural representation of Latinos and Puerto Ricans in the Midwest. Reflexive collections such as his offer both scholars and students a glimpse into the ways Puerto Ricans in the United States defend their own despite dominant misrepresentations of Latino's integration and self-empowerment."--Latino Studies"The author introduces insightful and provocative arguments about U.S. Puerto Rican cultural experiences and provides compelling illustrations. This is an important reference text that will undoubtedly stimulate further research."--Edna Acosta-Belen, coauthor of Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Contemporary PortraitTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction xiii 1. Puerto Rican and Chicano Crossovers in Latino Film and Music Culture 1 2. The Flag and Three Rican Artists 21 3. U.S. Puerto Rican Literature 50 4. Puerto Rican Poets in Chicago 80 5. Carmen Pursifull: Dancing from New York to Anglo Illinois 112 6. Cuban–Puerto Rican Relations and Final Projections 130 Notes 145 Bibliography 157 Index 181
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University of Illinois Press Black Internationalist Feminism
Book SynopsisRadicalism and Black feminism in postwar women's writingTrade Review"Indispensable reading for the project of intellectual decolonization of the Cold War era."--Against the Current"A powerful revisioning of the relationship between black feminism and nationalism."--The Journal of American History "This unique study opens up fascinating new areas of discussion in feminism, literary studies, and political history. Highly recommended."--Choice"This wonderful book makes a major contribution in rethinking the vitality and importance of the African American Left in the Cold War era. It combines insightful readings, careful research, and a grasp of the historical context that I have rarely seen."--James Smethurst, author of The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance"Higashida's book, which has rescued Black feminist internationalism, will continue to be an inspiration to everyone who takes up this challenge." --National Political Science Review"Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995 advances our knowledge of radical Black internationalism as it accounts for the contributions of women writers who were also activists and major contributors to that formulation."--Labour/La Travail"Higashida provides a very strong and indisputable corrective to contemporary scholarly trends and a profound rethinking of established narratives of both radicalism and Black feminism. An accomplished blend of radical social history and literary analysis, this book promises to revolutionize the field."--Michelle Ann Stephens, author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962Table of ContentsIntroduction / Black Internationalist Feminism: a definition 1: The Negro Question, the Woman Question, and the "Vital Link": Histories and Institutions; 2: Lorraine Hansberry's Existentialist Routes to Black Internationalist Feminism; 3: Rosalind on the Black Star Line: Alice Childress, Black Minstrelsy, and Garveyite Drag; 4: Rosa Guy, Haiti, and the Hemispheric Woman; 5: Audre Lorde Revisited: Nationalism and Second-Wave Black Feminism Coda: Reading Maya Angelou, Reading Black Internationalist Feminism Today Bibliography
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University of Illinois Press From Jim Crow to JayZ
Book SynopsisNegotiating identity in hip-hop cultureTrade Review "Miles White's From Jim Crow to Jay-Z drops squarely into the Bermuda Triangle of critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, and performance studies with useful new approaches to studying rappers as ambivalent cultural exemplars of black masculine performance."--H-Net Review "Invaluable. . . . Provides a clear example of how interdisciplinary approaches to African American music and culture can provide future scholars with the tools to examine the ever changing and diverse identities within the community."--Black Grooves"White's generative approach and application are ground-breaking, innovative, and ultimately laudable."--Popular Music and Society"Unique in both approach and scope, this work adds a scholarly perspective to the popular literature that examines issues of black masculinity and hardcore hip-hop as performed by black and white rappers. An example of excellent scholarship that sets new standards for writing on this topic."--Portia K. Maultsby, coeditor of African American Music: An Introduction"A thought-provoking work offering a hard look at hardcore hip-hop's masculinities."--Notes"A captivating study of hardcore styles of hip-hop, masculinity and the performance of the body."--Ethnic and Radical Studies"By interrogating the cultural logic through which blackness and masculinity are constructed in our society, [White] opens up possibilities for more empowering forms of representation and identification both within popular culture and in the lived experiences of race, class and gender."--PopMatters.com"White offers a vivid view of contemporary black male hip-hop culture. . . . A courageous work."--ForeWord "[From Jim Crow to Jay-Z] takes a critical look at the portrayal of racialized machismo in modern America, and how hip-hop helps perpetuate stereotypical tropes about the African-American male. . . . Perfect for anyone who enjoys an intellectually stimulating and provocative read."--The RootTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction ONE: Shadow and Act: Minstrelsy and the Absent Black Presence; TWO: The Fire This Time: Black Masculinity in Contemporary Performance; THREE: Affective Gestures: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and the Body in Performance; FOUR: Real Niggas: Black Men, Hard Men and the Rise of Gangsta Culture; FIVE: Race Rebels: Whiteness and the New Masculine Desire Epilogue; References; Notes; Appendix
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