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Book SynopsisTrade Review”An important and very readable work on the comparative histories and visual cultural formations of race and mixed race in Brazil and the United States.”—Camilla Fojas, author of Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture”Jasmine Mitchell deftly illuminates how mixed-race performers, characters and television and film narratives in Brazil and the United States, presumably indicative of increasingly colorblind and multicultural nations, conversely play a dynamic role in the management of national identities and racial imaginaries.”—Mary Beltrán, author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA 2020 Seminary Co-op Notable Book "GerShun Avilez highlights the impact of injury's threat to Black queer life through the diaspora. . . . These writers negotiate risk in order to express desire, intimacy, and the potential for freedom. . . . A brilliantly researched and clearly written book. . . . A model of what scholarship should be in this contemporary moment." --GLQ"Black Queer Freedom is an outstanding work of literary and cultural criticism, and exemplary of the riches to be had in black queer studies. It illuminates how space—be it the street, the prison, the hospital, or the place of labor—mediates our injury and our desire. The black queer subject, what Avilez calls 'the injury-bound subject,' is shaped by spatial injury and vulnerability and also enlivened by desire. Avilez explores how black queer artists articulate the erotic imperative of spatial justice, offering artistic address that exceed legal redress available for black queer people. Considering a wide array of genres—poetry, fiction, memoir, ethnography, oral history, and portraiture—and traversing a wide terrain—Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States—Avilez shows the capaciousness of black queer life and art and indeed guides us to reach higher ground where freedom is possible."—Dagmawi Woubshet, author of The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS"With pristine writing and bold thinking about queer desire, gender, and spatial justice, Avilez's Black Queer Freedom is a timely addition to the growing body of scholarship on black vulnerability, trauma, and queerness. Avilez dynamically illustrates how gender non-conforming artists are important to challenging the boundaries of black freedom."—LaMonda Horton-Stallings, author of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual CulturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Freedom in Restriction Part One. Threatened Bodies in Motion Chapter 1. Movement in Black: Queer Bodies and the Desire for Spatial Justice Chapter 2. Geographies of Mobility: Migratory Subjects and the Uncertainty of Itineracy Part Two. Bodies in Spaces of Injury Chapter 3. Uneven Vulnerability: Queer Hypervisibility and Spaces of Imprisonment Chapter 4. The Shadow of Institutions: Medical Diagnosis and the Elusive Queer Body Conclusion: Lives of Constraint, Paths to Freedom Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Many comics hone their craft primarily to amuse, but with this thoughtful, academic work, Morgan explores the idea of Black satire with an added function: to more or less safely rock the boat, expressing ideas that might otherwise be tuned out or provoke uncomfortable or even dangerous backlash." --Library Journal"Morgan explores a radical impulse in recent Black comedy, arguing that performers like Dave Chappelle or films like 'Get Out' aim to highlight racial boundaries." --New York Times"In Laughing to Keep from Dying, Danielle Fuentes Morgan crafts an innovative and well-considered account of African-American satire. . . . Morgan's prose is clear and engaging, and her language accessible and compelling." --Journal of American Culture"Exceedingly well-written, well-researched . . . Recommended." --Choice "A satisfying read for anyone with an interest in how entertainment responds to a shifting social landscape." --Atlantic"Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century is a must-read for anyone (like us) who has needed reminding lately why the risks of irony are worth taking." --Humor"Danielle Fuentes Morgan's Laughing to Keep from Dying is a major contribution to African American literary and cultural studies and to the study of satire and other forms of humor in the United States. Taking as her focus satirical texts in the twenty-first century, Morgan argues that recent African American satirical works reassert an ethical position present in black cultural expressions since slavery, that literature and art instantiate a humanity that its authors perennially assume to be a matter of fact. But rather than positing respectability politics, contemporary African American satire advocates a 'kaleidoscopic blackness,' one that embraces the many subtle and subversive ways that black people make meaning. Contemporary African American satire, as the title indicates, is more than a salve for oppression; its purpose is to keep black people from dying. In this stunning debut, Morgan places herself in the company of Glenda Carpio, Terrence Tucker, and most recently Lisa Guerrero."--Darryl Dickson-Carr, author of Spoofing the Modern: Satire in the Harlem Renaissance"Danielle Fuentes Morgan attunes readers to the variable registers and resonances of Black laughter in the present moment. Examining a wide range of media, from novels and television series to standup comedy and performance art, Morgan shows how the satirical impulse in Black cultural production expresses not only collective histories of subversion but individual practices of survival. A bold account of humor’s capacity to traverse the realms of sociality and interiority, Laughing to Keep from Dying is a model of Black study for the twenty-first century." --Kinohi Nishikawa, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary UndergroundTable of ContentsAcknowledgments< br/>Introduction: The Satirical Mode and African American Identity< br/>1 "The Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake": Slavery and the Satiric Impulse< br/>2 "Race is Just a Made-Up Thing": Abject Blackness and Racial Anxiety< br/>3 "When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong": Vulnerability and Satiric Misfires< br/>4 "How Long Has This Been Goin’ On, This Thang?": Centering Race in the Twenty-First Century< br/>Conclusion: Black Futurity and the Future of African American Satire< br/>Notes< br/>Works Cited< br/>Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Queering the Global Filipina Body makes a significant contribution to Asian American Studies." --QED"An epistemological interruption of Filipinx and queer studies' approaches to nationalism and diasporic belonging, Queering the Global Filipina Body calls for new modes of political organizing for those indebted to migrant and queer of color life." --Feminist Formations"A rich analysis of the transnational circuits of culture, labor, goods, and ideology circulating around the material and symbolic body of the Filipina. With its uniquely nuanced documentation and theorization of multiple, competing nationalisms, this book clear-sightedly accounts, on the one hand, for heteropatriarchy within the Filipino diaspora and, on the other hand, the limits of queer white definitions of desire and liberation."--Sarita See, author of The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance"In this important book, Velasco critically assembles and analyzes an eclectic queer Filipinx American diasporic archive that includes films, video-art, performances, websites, and a heritage language program. She develops smart and well-written close readings of these materials, and in doing so, she reveals how Filipinx American cultural producers critique the heteropatriarchal nation in the Philippines and US. Velasco’s Queering the Global Filipina Body is a must read in Filipinx Studies, Asian American Studies, feminist studies, LGBTQ Studies and migration studies."--Kale Bantigue Fajardo, author of Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and GlobalizationTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Global Filipina BodyChapter 1. Mapping Diasporic Nationalisms: The Filipina/o American Balikbayan in the PhilippinesChapter 2. Imagining the Filipina Trafficked Woman/Sex Worker: The Politics of Filipina/o American SolidarityChapter 3. Performing the Filipina Mail Order Bride: Queer Neoliberalism, Affective Labor, and HomonationalismChapter 4. El Otro Encuentro: Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s “Neo-Queer Precolonial Imagining”Conclusion: Queer Necropolitics and the Afterlife of U.S. ImperialismNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What makes this book a priceless contribution to the field of sport history is Ariail's argument that the athletic victories of Black women in track and field surpassed the sports stage and directly impacted political relationships with the Unites States and forged America's image. . . . I highly recommend this book as it intermingles foreign politics, American values, and challenges experienced by Black women in track and field seeking to reach the epitome of athleticism." --Journal of Sport History"Ariail's intersectional analysis of race and gender is detailed in explication of white and Black press representations of--as well as coaches', track-and-field officials', and politicians' public statements about--Black women track and field athletes. . . . Passing the Baton is an important reconsideration of Black women athletes' physical and representational performances as ideological work equivalent to other cultural workers and civil rights leaders." --Journal of American History​"Passing the Baton is engaging, optimistic, and unsentimental--it elucidates a rarely discussed period of American athletic history and thus offers much value to any demographic." --Journal of African American Studies"Cat Ariail's Passing the Baton is a thoughtful and engaged study that brings a focus on the personal to the scholarship focused on the importance of track stars to the development of a Cold War sporting culture in the United States. . . . Ariail's attention to uncovering and illuminating the voices of these young track stars invigorates her study and provides a detailed understanding of how Black women moved in spaces that were defined by whiteness and masculinity." --Journal of African American History"A worthwhile addition to public-library collections on Black American sports, Olympic history, and gender studies." --Booklist"Ariail pinpoints how important the women of track and field were to changing opinions in both white and black communities about the accomplishments of women of color. But she also powerfully argues that this story does not end with victory. Rather, she reminds us how much work gender did (and does) to undergird racism."--Katherine C. Mooney, author of Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the RacetrackTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Raising the Bar: Alice Coachman and the Boundaries of Postwar American Identity, 1946-1948 Chapter 2. Sprints of Citizenship: Identity Politics and Black Women’s Athleticism, 1951-1952 Chapter 3. Passing the Baton Toward Belonging: Mae Faggs and the Making of the Americanness of Black American Track Women, 1954-1956 Chapter 4. Winning as American Women: The Heteronormativity of Black Women Athletic Heroines, 1958-1960 Chapter 5. “Olympian Quintessence”: Wilma Rudolph, Athletic Femininity, and American Iconicity, 1960-1962 Conclusion. The Precarity of the Baton Pass: Race, Gender, and the Enduring Barriers to American Belonging Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020 "This foundational book gestures toward the importance of avenues that German scholarship has yet to explore." --German Studies Review "Mobilizing Black Germany is a book not confined to any particular discipline, in terms of its relevance and usefulness. Scholars and educators in a variety of fields and at various levels of education will be glad to have Mobilizing Black Germany, as Florvil's research is highly interdisciplinary." --Middle Ground Journal ​"A thrilling work. . . .Mobilizing Black Germany shows us that the work of Black German activists and intellectuals created, nurtured, and sustained a movement in the 1980s that is still at the heart of Black activism in Germany today." --American Historical Review ​"Florvil's book is a model for an expansive history of feminism. . . . Mobilizing Black Germany shows that the work of Black German women cannot be ignored if historians want to trace changing understandings of gender and racial inequality in Germany and Europe." --GHIL Bulletin​"Florvil's book is a powerful statement on how marginalized communities overcome victimization, write themselves into the text of a nation and make themselves visible on an international stage. . . . The book also mobilizes hope that through solidarity, national historical narratives can be challenged, reshaped, and indeed redefined by minoritized and marginalized communities." --Monatshefte​"Indispensable." --German Quarterly"Tiffany N. Florvil's book Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement . . . is the first book to address the growth of the Initiative of Black Germans (Initiative Schwarze Deutsche, ISD) and Afro-German Women (Afrodeutsche Frauen, ADEFRA) founded in 1985 and 1986, respectively . . . groundbreaking." --H-Net Reviews"Offers tantalizing glimpses of what solidarities are possible today, what has caused them to break down, and how we can define freedom in a way that gives access to the most people." --Public Books "At long last, the book we have been waiting for--not just for scholars of Afrodeutsch/Black German Studies, or even Afropean and Black European Studies: Florvil's magisterial Mobilizing Black Germany is a must-read for all scholars of the Black and African diasporas who are interested in the history of Black activism. Mobilizing Black Germany takes you to the very beginning of the Afrodeutsch movement, some years before Audre Lorde's arrival, and puts you right inside. Florvil's deep research crafts an unforgettable history rich with famous figures who stride the global stage and local heroes whose sacrifices and achievements were no less monumental."--Michelle M. Wright, author of Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology "Tiffany N. Florvil does more than offer brilliant and original accounts of black feminist and queer activists and organizations in Germany from the 1980s through the 2000s. Her beautifully written and thoroughly engaging book provides a powerful and compelling analytical framework for expanding the geographic parameters of the African Diaspora and for centering gender, sexualities, and women to forging black internationalism."--Erik S. McDuffie, author of Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism "Mobilizing Black Germany is thus a powerful work not only because it exposes how German society is shot through with racism, but also because it recognizes German culture as a site of Black literary and artistic expression." --Los Angeles Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: A ‘Black Coming Out’ Chapter 1: Black German Women and Audre Lorde Chapter 2: The Making of a Modern Black German Movement Chapter 3: ADEFRA, Afrekete, and Black German Women’s Kinship Chapter 4: Black German Women’s Intellectual Activism and Transnational Crossings Chapter 5: Diasporic Spatial Politics with Black History Month in Berlin Chapter 6: Black German Feminist Solidarity and Black Internationalism Epilogue: Black Lives Matter in Germany Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A groundbreaking study." --Black Perspectives"The beauty of Claudrena N. Harold’s brilliant When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras is in how it illustrates the power of gospel music to maintain its character, grow from its roots, evolve to reach new listeners, and spiral steadily upward in its call-and-response to new audiences who acclaim the uplifting spiritual strength and enduring beauty of the music. " --No Depression"A multilensed view of a continually evolving and consistently vibrant art form. For gospel fans, music scholars, and scholars of African American history and culture generally." --Library Journal"An in-depth history of African American gospel music." --Booklist"When Sunday Comes is the book we’ve been waiting for--a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the impact contemporary singers, songwriters, and musicians have made, and continue to make, on gospel music. With this volume, Claudrena Harold makes a valid argument for scholars to look more closely at this important period in gospel music history."--Robert M. Marovich, author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music"A prodigious job of research. The author seems to have consulted all available print sources in addition to important manuscript collections and interviews. No book covers this terrain as thoroughly and with such a deep knowledge and appreciation for the music. I don’t think it would be out of line to describe When Sunday Comes as a labor of love." --David W. Stowe, author of No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American EvangelicalismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Lord, Let Me Be an Instrument: The Artistry and Cultural Politics of Reverend James Cleveland Chapter 2. A Special Kind of Witness: Andraé Crouch, the Growth of Contemporary Christian Music, and the Politics of Race Chapter 3. Hold My Mule: Shirley Caesar and the Gospel of the New South Chapter 4. A Wonderful Change: Walter Hawkins and the Love Alive Explosion Chapter 5. Higher Plane: The Gospel According to Al Green Chapter 6. The Only Thing Right Left in a Wrong World: The Clark Sisters, the Winans, Commissioned, and the Search for Cultural Authority in the 1980s Chapter 7. If I Be Lifted: Milton Brunson and the Thompson Community Singers Chapter 8. Through It All: Vanessa Bell Armstrong and the Perils of Crossover Chapter 9. Hold Up the Light: The Crossover Success of BeBe and CeCe Winans Chapter 10. Outside the County Line: The Southern Soul of John P. Kee Chapter 11. We Are the Drum: Take 6, the Sounds of Blackness, and the New Black Aesthetic Epilogue: Do You Want a Revolution? Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, and the Beginning of a New Era in Gospel Music Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories. Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, she reveals nostalgia’s capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments. Original and provocative, Afro-Nostalgia offers black historical pleasure as a remTrade Review"Part Afrofuturistic, part academic, this book will make you rethink how you understand Black history and storytelling." --BookRiot"Essential." --Ms. Magazine"Author Badia Ahad-Legardy finds unique ways to explore the beauty, positivity, and triumph of people descended from Africa, creating an archival collection of visual art and culture, literature and performance to demonstrate how the Black experience is not just a depressing string of incidents that drives us through our lives. " --New York Amsterdam News"If you’ve been waiting for a book that steps out of trauma-time and the perpetual present of slavery clear-eyed and with its critical faculties alight, you’ve found it. Badia Ahad-Legardy breathes gentle and sweet smelling fresh air into stale corners in her book on Afro-Nostalgia, which cogently analyzes and affectively affirms Black cultural producers and chefs who treat the past less as an ongoing traumatic wound and more as a surrealistic space of black historical regenerative possibility and happiness. A gem."--Avery Gordon, author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination"An important dissection of looking beyond the traumas of the past to find the happiness that existed (and exists) within the Black community. " --Library Journal"This thoroughly researched book seeks and sheds light on the spaces where Black joy can live and flourish. Though its tone is academic, its insights reach far beyond the classroom.... a worthy addition to any multicultural studies library and to readers interested in American culture." --Museum of Americana"Afro-Nostalgia does an excellent job of making visible the operation of Afro-nostalgia in contemporary Black culture as a counter to the negative affect produced by Black history as trauma." --American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. Ten Thousand Recollections: Afro-Nostalgia and Contemporary Black Aesthetics 1. (Nostalgic) RETRIBUTION: The Power of the Petty in Contemporary Narratives of Slavery 2. (Nostalgic) RESTORATION: Utopian Pasts and Political Futures in the Music of Black Lives Matter 3. (Nostalgic) REGENERATION: Absent Archives and Historical Pleasures in Contemporary Black Visual Culture 4. (Nostalgic) RECLAMATION: Recipes for Radicalism and the Politics of Soul (Food) Postscript: A Future of Black Nostalgia Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rachel Afi Quinn's first monograph is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of how Dominican women in Santo Domingo theorize mixed-raceness and fashion themselves in response to the transnational flow of images." --Transforming Anthropology"A unique and timely examination of the significance and cultural strategies of Dominican women in the contemporary era marked by neoliberal economic structures, (post) colonial geopolitical arrangements, heteropatriarchal beauty standards, and global anti-blackness. It is an important work of feminist ethnography."--Nicole Fleetwood, author of On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Dr. Sullivan provides expert analysis of the complex queer creativities of Black women and their (re)inventions and (re)imaginings of meaning-making in vast literary forms. " --Ms. Magazine "This book is a vital, gorgeous thing. Sullivan's thinking elegantly explores the ways black women writers use genre as a queer practice of difference. The argument here is stunning--transcendently so--and it is not an exaggeration to say that this book will become canonical."--Kevin Quashie, author of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being "This luminous book lovingly parses the poetics of difference that forms and informs the continued life of black queer feminist thought in many genres. The work is brilliant and bracing."--Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and PlayTable of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Black Queer Feminist Poetics: Rereading the IntersectionChapter One. Biomythic Times: Voice, Genre, and the Invention of Black/Queer HistoryChapter Two. “walkin on the edges of the galaxy”: Queer Choreopoetic Thought in the African DiasporaChapter Three. Feeling Colors and Seeing Speech: Body/Language and Black Women’s Diasporas ofChapter Four. “Languages of Love”: “TALK” of Sex: Interstitial Idioms of Body and DesireCoda. Speech between Silence: Distance, Difference, and the Queer Poetics of Blackwoman LivingNotesWorks CitedIndexBack cover

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Critics’ Choice Book awards of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA-CCBA) The postwar migration of Puerto Rican men and women to Chicago brought thousands of their children into city schools. These children''s classroom experience continued the colonial project begun in their homeland, where American ideologies had dominated Puerto Rican education since the island became a US territory. Mirelsie Velázquez tells how Chicago''s Puerto Ricans pursued their educational needs in a society that constantly reminded them of their status as second-class citizens. Communities organized a media culture that addressed their concerns while creating and affirming Puerto Rican identities. Education also offered women the only venue to exercise power, and they parlayed their positions to take lead roles in activist and political circles. In time, a politicized Puerto Rican community gave voice to a previously silenced group--and highlighted thaTrade Review"Puerto Rican Chicago provides an invaluable contribution to the history of education, urban history, and Latinx Studies. It reminds us that Latinx communities are richly diverse, not only located in the American West, and that their unique histories are crucial in narrating the development of twentieth-century American cities and schools." --History of Education Quarterly"Velázquez's book is needed now more than ever." --Historical Studies in Education"Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City, 1940-1977 is an essential contribution to the growing scholarship on Latinos in the Midwest. It powerfully chronicles the persistent efforts of the Puerto Rican community, especially women, to advocate for their children's right to a meaningful education and a more promising future. Meticulously researched and eloquently written, Mirelsie Velázquez' book is a must read for those interested in community-based activism, education, urban history, and Puerto Rican and Latino studies."--Lourdes Torres, author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of A New York Suburb"Puerto Rican Chicago innovates by taking up themes that other scholars have neglected. . . . This book shows how deeply students' encounters with schools' practices were affected by their histories." --Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Al Brincar el Charco: Urban Response to the Puerto Rican “Problem” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252. Community Visions of Puerto Rican Schooling, 1950–1966 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573. Taking It to the Streets: The Puerto Rican Movement for Education in 1970s Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . 874. Learning to Resist, Resisting to Learn: Puerto Ricans and Higher Education in 1970s Chicago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1055. Living and Writing in the Puerto Rican Diaspora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Conclusion: Winning Means Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The book's clear, accessible prose and pop culture subject matter will appeal to both lay readers and scholars who want to explore Black joy, creativity, and entrepreneurship in American culture. . . . Recommended." --Choice"A compelling analysis of the role American Black women have played in consumerism and popular culture, focusing on the 1960s to now. " --Business Insider "Important and accessible, Dr. Halliday’s latest book expertly examines Black women as cultural producers and consumers and their subsequent, undeniable influence on popular culture. " --Ms. Magazine“Buy Black offers an important and well-argued consideration of the Black women cultural producers who, in an effort to subvert a misogynoiristic system, sometimes traffic in the very stereotypical practices they wish to upend. Halliday’s concept of ‘embodied objectification’ helps to make clear our own investments in consumer capitalism and prompts us to be more circumspect about our participation as a means to some ultimately unsatisfying end.”--Moya Bailey, author of Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance ​"Halliday's courageous and informative concentrations will help shape a new understanding of underrepresented Black women and girls. She has much to offer as a powerful thinker and scholar." --New York Amsterdam News​"A brilliant and meticulously researched exploration of how ideas about representing blackness have been essential to the story of American consumerism and popular culture. In uncovering how Black women have transformed corporate discourses of multiculturalism and diversity by inserting their own imaginations, capabilities, and desires, Buy Black provides an extraordinary feminist reading of the role of race, gender, and class in the American consumer product industry. Aria Halliday’s book is essential reading."--Mireille Miller-Young, author of A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography ​"A compelling analysis of the role American Black women have played in consumerism and popular culture, focusing on the 1960s to now. " --Business Insider"Important and accessible, Dr. Halliday’s latest book expertly examines Black women as cultural producers and consumers and their subsequent, undeniable influence on popular culture. " --Ms. Magazine "In focusing on Black women as culture-makers, the book provides a uniquely important view as to the ways that Black women's ingenuity and entrepreneurship have been largely overlooked in understanding these questions. I was consistently impressed with the author's ability to cast a wide net that moves across many topics, while keeping it all held together so that the shape and fit seem right."--Elizabeth Chin, author of My Life with Things: The Consumer DiariesTable of ContentsList of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Making of Black Womanhood 1 1. Theorizing Black Women’s Cultural Influence through Consumption 17 2. From Riots to Style: The History of Black Barbie 47 3. From Bootstraps to Glass Slippers: Black Women’s Uplift in Disney’s Princess Canon 79 4. A Black Barbie’s Moment: Nicki Minaj and the Struggle for Cultural Dominance 111 Coda: The Stakes of Twenty-First-Century Black Creativity 143 Notes 153 Bibliography 165 Index 181

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Book SynopsisImages of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the early twentieth century; interned Nisei women in World War II camps; and Japanese war brides who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. Creef illustrates how an against-the-grain viewing of these images and other archival materials offers textual traces that invite us to reconsider the visual history of these women and other distinct historical groups. As she shows, using an archival collection's range as a lens and frame helps us discover new intersections between race, class, gender, history, and photography. Innovative and engaging, Shadow Traces illuminates how photographs shape the history of marginalized people and outlines a method fTrade Review"A tour de force. Creef provides nothing less than a visual pedagogy for Asian American feminism. She mines the dark gaze of imperial power and blank spots of gender history as well as its secrets. When she engages the family album (and story of a hapless Japanese pet dog, Butch) as a site of memory and memorialization, you cannot put the book down."--Leslie Bow, author of “Partly Colored”: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South"In this carefully researched book, Elena Tajima Creef offers compelling feminist readings of archival photographs from the first half of the 20th century. . . . The important questions this book raises will no doubt stimulate further discussion and analysis of not only the historic representation of Japanese/American and Ainu women, but more broadly, some visual traces of power and resistance yet to be uncovered and witnessed." --Visual AnthropologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Those “Mysterious Little Japanese Primitives” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Looking at Japanese Picture Brides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Beauty behind Barbed Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694 Filling in the Blank Spot in an Incomplete War Bride Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative book. Through rich ethnographic interviews and analysis, Reighan Gillam queries the relationship between black representation in the media and black cultural formation in the contemporary moment. Gillam's engagement with everything from graffiti art to YouTube series gives us a glimpse into a new generation of black politics and social formation in Brazil."--Christen Smith, author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in BrazilTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 Mediating Resistance: Afro-Brazilian Media and Movements 172 TV da Gente and Controlling the Means of Media Production 313 Animating Racism: Irony and Images of Dissent 534 Independent Lenses: Learning to See in Afro-Brazilian Film 75Conclusion: Antiracist Visual Politics 103Notes 109Works Cited 117Index 133

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Building Sustainable Worlds is a transdisciplinary tour de force of Latinx Studies scholarship that captures the vibrancy, resiliency, diversity, and idiosyncrasy of Latinx expressive culture in the Midwest! This wonderfully curated collection of essays serves as an outstanding contribution to the new scholarship on the Latinx Midwest."--Louis Mendoza, author of A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is the long-overdue biography of Madie Hall Xuma, who took her social justice work in the Jim Crow U.S. South to South Africa during the height of apartheid. " --Ms."An amazing narrative undergirded by unparalleled research on Hall Xuma and the locations in which it takes place. This book allows the reader to immerse themself in life as it was lived in Jim Crow and in apartheid. Despite the fact that it centers on one woman, the author has taken great care to create both of the worlds in which Hall Xuma lived, as well as a non-geographical world of Black women’s affiliations, social service activities, families, and friendships. Hendricks has been ambitious, and it has paid off."--Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, author of Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950"The Life of Madie Hall Xuma is the long-overdue first biography of a remarkable leader who fought across the global stage for racial justice, gender equity, and human rights in Jim Crow America and apartheid South Africa. Madie Hall Xuma has heretofore been ignored by scholars of American history and known primarily to South Africanists as the second wife of former African National Congress president Alfred B. Xuma, but Hendricks's intimate portrayal of Hall Xuma's compelling transnational political, civic, religious, and domestic life powerfully illustrates the intertwined histories of African and African American women’s political activism across the global color line."--Robert Trent Vinson, author of Albert Luthuli: Mandela before Mandela"The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid makes an invaluable contribution to the body of literature that explores the transnational nature of Black women's activism. . . . The breadth of archival material utilized by Hendricks is extensive, and the book is very well researched." --Journal of Southern History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Although the essays in this volume provide a selective history of early Black American music, they illustrate a desire to extend and enrich our understanding of Black musicking. As such, they have fulfilled the editorial goals of their original publications while contributing to new narrative strategies for American music history."--Sandra Jean Graham, from the Introduction

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Book SynopsisThis second volume of Music in Black American Life offers research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and Black Music Research Journal, and in two book series published by the University of Illinois Press: Music in American Life, and African American Music in Global Perspective. In this collection, a group of predominately Black scholars explores a variety of topics with works that pioneered new methodologies and modes of inquiry for hearing and studying Black music. These extracts and articles examine the World War II jazz scene; look at female artists like gospel star Shirley Caesar and jazz musician-arranger Melba Liston; illuminate the South Bronx milieu that folded many forms of black expressive culture into rap; and explain Hamilton''s massive success as part of the 'tanning' of American culture that began when Black music entered the mainstream. Part sourcebook and part survey of historic music scholarship, Music in BlTrade Review"Each of these chapters unearth, explore, and explain ideas, facts, events, phenomena, and records that have been neglected, forgotten, ignored, falsified or were unknown. They invoke musicological contexts that are grounded in archival and ethnographical research that illuminates the evolution of black music-making as it shifts from the insularity of communal spaces to the public medium of popular culture and precipitated the aberration of racial, social, and gender norms."--Tammy L. Kernodle, from the Introduction

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Well researched and engaging . . . Valuable background reading for anyone interested in sports activism." --Kirkus Reviews“In his insightful book, Gregory Kaliss traces the revolutionary undercurrents that charged American sports during the Sixties. His collection of essays reveals how the era’s political and cultural forces transformed the sporting arena into a stage for political activism among athletes of nearly every background. Kaliss deftly investigates how The Athletic Revolution, as it was known, redefined American sports and produced a backlash in its wake.”--Johnny Smith, J.C. “Bud” Shaw Professor of Sports History, Georgia TechTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Timeline of Key Events Prologue: Cassius Clay Declares Independence Introduction: The Fire This Time 1. Playing for “Green Power”: Sports and Economic Uplift 2. Getting into the Race: Women Runners / Women’s Rights 3. College Athletes Flex Their Muscles 4. Black Men / Black Gladiators: Redefining Black Manliness through Sports 5. The ABA and the Origins of Hip-Hop America Conclusion: Activism Unfinished Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAs the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points of view. On one side, white supremacists believed labor should accept and apply the ascendant tenets of scientific theories of race. But others stood with International Workingmen’s Association leaders J. P. McDonnell and F. A. Sorge in rejecting the idea that racial and ethnic division influenced worker-employer relations, arguing instead that class played the preeminent role. Costaguta charts the socialist movement’s journey through the conflict and down a path that ultimately abandoned scientific racism in favor of an internationalist class-focused and racial-conscious American socialism. As he shows, the shift relied on a strong immigrant influence personified by the cosmopolitan Marxist thinker and future IWW cofounder Trade Review"Costaguta’s findings torpedo the familiar notion that nineteenth-century socialists were indifferent toward race, and the interracial internationalism he recovers should be recognized as part of early socialism’s enduring legacy." --Jacobin“Lorenzo Costaguta has produced an important book that reimagines the history of labor, racism and antiracism, socialism, and the post-Civil War United States. An extraordinary work.” --Angela Zimmerman, author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. A Racialized History of the Origins of American Socialism Chapter One. “Freedom for All”: German American Socialism and Race before 1876 Chapter Two. “Geographies of Peoples”: Ethnicity and Racial Thinking in the Early SLP Chapter Three. Must They Go? American Socialism and the Racialization of Chinese Immigrants, 1876-1890 Chapter Four. “Regardless of Color”: The SLP and African Americans, 1876-1890 Chapter Five. Savage Capitalists, Civilized Indians: The SLP and Native Americans, 1876-1890 Chapter Six. The SLP in the 1890s: Americanization and Socialist Evolutionism Conclusion. The Past and the Future of Racial Socialism Notes Index

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Book SynopsisLangston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston’s hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways. Street-based musicians, avant-garde underground rappers, and Christian artists offer candid views of the scene while Wilkins delves into related aspects like slab, the area’s hip hop-related car culture. What emerges is a portrait of a dynamic reciprocal process where an artist, having identified with and embodied a social space, reproduces that space in a performance even as the performance reconstructs the social space. A vivid journey through a southern hip hop bastion, Welcome 2 Houston offers readers an inside look at a unique musical culture. Trade Review"A culturally rich topography of Black Houston and its heritage. . . . Wilkins' work stands out for its closeness to the ground, its rootedness in the city's people and places. Welcome 2 Houston goes well beyond the beats and rhymes, and even the cars. It's a lived-in academic portrait of a part of the city often overlooked, a community that, through trials and triumphs, is still tippin'." --Houston Chronicle“In Welcome 2 Houston, Langston Collin Wilkins examines hip hop’s deep connections to space, place, and heritage by weaving interviews, observations, and his own Houston upbringing into a richly informative and emotionally resonant work about an essential part of Black Americana.”--Eric Harvey, author of Who Got the Camera? A History of Rap and RealityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. If You Go Down to Houston Chapter 2. Everybody Inherits the Hood Chapter 3. Still Tippin Chapter 4. Gotta Come Down, Gotta Rep the Hood Chapter 5. TURNIN HEADZ Chapter 6. One City Under God Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa is a provocative ethnographic look at some of the most influential Black women’s theatre collectives in the world. Focusing on Jamaica and South Africa, Nicosia M. Shakes takes us on a journey into the world of theater for social change, emphasizing the ways that Black women have chosen use performance and embodiment to agitate for rights and speak out against multiple forms of violence. Engaging with performance as a public practice, Shakes demonstrates how the theater has been and continues to be a valuable political zone for Black women. Women's Activist Theatre in Jamaica and South Africa makes critical contributions to Black performance studies, Black Studies, theater studies and anthropology, and is a must read for anyone interested in the transnational politics of race, gender, and the political stage.”--Christen A. Smith, author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in BrazilTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Terms and Concepts Introduction: Race, Gender, Space “Mek Wi Choose fi Wiself”: Performing a Discourse of Justice in A Slice of Reality “The Wound is Still There”: Walk: South Africa and the Ontological Violence of Rape “Mi a go try release yu”: Mourning, Memory, and Violence in A Vigil for Roxie. “Alternative Spaces”: Black Self-Making, Space-Making, and the Work of Olive Tree Theatre Coda: Performing Activism across Space and Time Notes Bibliography Index

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Trade Review“This book is a breath of fresh air. Kristie Soares recuperates joy and its multiple Latinx variants, such as gozando, choteo, and silliness, as radical empowering practices. It is a brilliant challenge to critical approaches that only focus on Latinx negative affect.”--Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans PerformanceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Dancing in My Parents’ Living Room and Other Stories About Joy Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.? Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz’s Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull’s Miami Coda Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRemarkable for its relentless truth-telling, and the depth and thoroughness of its investigation, for the freshness of its sources, and for the shock power of its findings. Even a reader who is not unfamiliar with the sources and literature of the subject can be jolted by its impact.--C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books Dark Journey is a superb piece of scholarship, a book that all students of southern and African-American history will find valuable and informative.--David J. Garrow, Georgia Historical Quarterly Trade ReviewWinner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and the McLemore Prize of the Mississippi Historical Society. Also named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fresh scholarly portraits of some of the most influential black figures of the 19th century... An excellent reader for all interested in American History." -- Virginia Quarterly Review. "A remarkable volume that captures that diversity of individual experience, while also stimulating theoretical discussion of black leadership in the nineteenth century." -- David W. Blight, Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisIn this bestselling companion to her pioneering study, Invisible Poets, Joan Sherman continues to make new generations aware of the invisible legacy of nineteenth-century black American poetry. The 171 poems here, by thirty-five men and women, have been transcribed from first editions and are annotated in detail. Trade Review"Ever since Invisible Poets we have needed an informed and comprehensive anthology of African-American poetry in the nineteenth century. Now we have it. No one but Sherman could have done the job so well."--William L. Andrews, author of To Tell a Free StoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 A Note to the Reader 15 George Moses Horton 17 Noah Calwell Cannon 38 Charles Lewis Reason 41 Ann Plato 50 Joshua McCarter Simpson 54 James Monroe Whitfield 71 Daniel Alexander Payne 94 Alfred Gibbs Campbell 102 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 112 Joseph Cephas Holly 146 George Boyer Vashon 153 Elymas Payson Rogers 166 Adah Isaacs Menken 182 James Madison Bell 192 Charlotte L. Forten Grimke 211 Alfred Islay Walden 221 Albery Allson Whitman 236 Henrietta Cordelia Ray 265 John Willis Menard 282 Robert Charles O'Hara Benjamin 288 Timothy Thomas Fortune 293 James Edwin Campbell 306 Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. 325 George Clinton Rowe 342 Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard 360 Daniel Webster Davis 365 Edward W. Williams 382 Paul Laurence Dunbar 386 George Marion McClellan 416 Eloise Alberta Veronica Bibb 434 Mary Weston Fordham 441 Frank Barbour Coffin 447 James Ephriam McGirt 456 Samuel Alfred Beadle 464 Priscilla Jane Thompson 472 Bibliography 484 Subject Index 500 Title and Poet Index 504

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Packs the emotive power of a zillion 'race' memoirs precisely because it is the story of what happened when black and white workers collectively challenged the powers-that-be in the meanest city in the South."--Robin D. G. Kelley, The Nation"A vitally important contribution to the scholarly debate about the relationship between class and race in American history."--Bruce Nelson, Journal of American History"Among the best and most ambitious recent works on labor in the South. . . . Few readers of this book are likely to remain unmoved by Honey's account of the exceptional sacrifice, courage, and vision displayed by labor activists in Memphis."--Georgia Historical Quarterly"Sheds considerable light on numerous themes of importance to historians of a multiplicity of specialties, from labor and African American history, to historians of the South and twentieth-century America."--Labor History"A well-researched and carefully written book. . . . Anyone interested in the Southern labor movement must consult this work."--Mississippi Quarterly"A major contribution to the history of labor, race relations, and the twentieth-century South. . . . Honey vividly brings the labor movement to life and places Memphis in the wider context of southern and national history."--Pete Daniel, author of The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969"A major new study of how the Solid South restrained social reform and labor's strength in New Deal America."--David Montgomery, author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xi INTRODUCTION: Labor and Civil Rights 1 I: Southern Apartheid and the Labor Movement ONE: Segregation and Southern Labor 13 TWO: No Bill of Rights in Memphis 44 II: Labor's Struggle for the Right to Organize THREE: The Rise and Repression of Industrial Unionism 67 FOUR: Black and White Unite 93 FIVE: Race, Radicalism, and the CIO 117 SIX: Black Scares and Red Scares 145 III: Industrial Unionism and the Black Freedom Movement SEVEN: War in the Factories 177 EIGHT: The CIO at the Crossroads 214 NINE: The Cold War against Labor and Civil Rights 245 CONCLUSION: Legacies 279 Abbreviations 293 Notes 295 Primary Sources Consulted 349 Index 353

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An engaging study of a particularly intriguing and little-studied group with much to tell us about the construction of race and ethnicity and the dynamics of migration and community."--Sarah Deutsch, Clark UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Of Marginal Natives and Multiple Identities xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Cape Verdeans -- All Shades, All Hues 1 1 Becoming Visible: A Demographic Profile 35 2 From Archipelago to America: A Sentimental Geography 67 3 Working the Bogs 99 4 Living -- Just Enough for the City 131 5 Identity Matters: The Immigrant Children 163 Appendix 179 Bibliography 187 Index 209 Illustrations follow page 98

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Book SynopsisOnce preoccupied with Brazilian slavery as an economic system, historians shifted their attention to examine the nature of life and community among enslaved people. Stuart B. Schwartz looks at this change while explaining why historians must continue to place their ethnographic approach in the context of enslavement as an oppressive social and economic system. Schwartz demonstrates the complexity of the system by reconsidering work, resistance, kinship, and relations between enslaved persons and peasants. As he shows, enslaved people played a role in shaping not only their lives but Brazil’s institutionalized system of slavery by using their own actions and attitudes to place limits on slaveholders.A bold analysis of changing ideas in the field,Slaves, Peasants, and Rebelsprovides insights on how the shifting power relationship between enslaved people and slaveholders reshaped the contours of Brazilian society.Trade Review"Reconsiders the critical issues of how the Brazilian slave system operated, how it coexisted with a parallel system of agriculture based on free labor, and by what means African and Afro-Brazilian slaves acted to shape their own lives. . . . A coherent and highly challenging overview of one of the most important questions about Brazil's past. Handsomely printed and thoroughly documented."--Choice"Of interest to all concerned with the human interactions under nonfree--as well as free--labor systems and those involved with the historical study of slavery and slave societies."--Stanley L. Engerman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science"A powerful volume."--Roy Arthur Glasgow, International Journal of African Historical Studies"Graduate students will find it indispensable."--George Reid Andrews, American Historical Review"A welcome addition to the debates on slavery. . . . Will be of interest to specialists, students, and interested laypeople."--Murici Nazzari, Slavery and Abolition

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award,1995. Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association,1995. Outstanding Book from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America.

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Book Synopsis'The origins of the Chicago race riot of 1919 are to be found, not in high-level policy, but in gut-level animosities between black and white people who were generally inarticulate and presentist-oriented, and who did not record their motivations or feelings for posterity. . . To explain the Chicago riot, this evidence has to be found; and though such evidence is not abundant by any means, it does exist.'--From the preface Trade Review"Tuttle's catalogue of the causes of racial conflict in Chicago sounds depressingly up-to-date."-- Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review"Vividly written. A fine study with surprising appeal for the lay reader."--Publishers Weekly"A fascinating and important study, as well researched and written and thought out as any this reviewer has seen in recent years."--Gilbert Osofsky, Journal of American History"One cannot fully understand the Chicago riot of 1919 or, indeed, the post-World War I racial strife without reading this important work."--John Hope Franklin"This book has more lives than a cat because its feet are firmly planted on the bedrock issues of race and class, its analysis goes to the quick of urban-industrial life in the early twentieth century, and its vivid narrative captures the tumultuous riot without ever losing scholarly balance. A quarter century after it was first published, it has still not been excelled."--Alan Dawley, author of Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State

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Book Synopsis A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable books on that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. Peter Gottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered, premodern folk, ''utterly unprepared'' for the complexities of urban life. African Americans in his account emerge as complex, creative agents, exploiting old solidarities and building new ones, transforming the urban landscape even as it transformed them. -- James Campbell, Northwestern University Engagingly written and well organized. . . . A major addition to the fields of Afro-American, urban, and working-class history. -- Howard N. Rabinowitz, Georgia Historical Quarterly Gottlieb uses oral histories, corporate records, and primary and secondary scholarship to present a useful picture of an important part of the Great Migration that followed World War I. -- George Lipsitz,

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Book SynopsisProperty ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark study documents this significant, but often overlooked, aspect of the black experience from the late eighteenth century to World War I.Trade ReviewWinner of the Elliott Rudwick Award, 1990.

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Book SynopsisBlacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe with a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Jane Landers’s pioneering study of people of the African diaspora under Spain’s colonial rule rewrites Florida history and enriches our understanding of the powerful links between race relations and cultural custom.As Landers shows, Spanish Florida was a sanctuary to Blacks fleeing enslavement on plantations. Castilian law, meanwhile, offered many avenues out of slavery. In St. Augustine and elsewhere, society accepted European-African unions, with families developing community connections through marriage, concubinage, and godparents. Assisted by Spanish traditions and ever-present geopolitical threats, people of African descent leveraged linguistic, military, diplomatic, and artisanal skills into citizenship and property rights. Landers details how Blacks became homesteaders, property owTrade ReviewCo-winner of the Francis B. Simkins Award, Southern Historical Association, 2001. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2000. "A fully realized book, clearly written, deeply researched in archival sources, and engaged with relevant historiography. Spanish Florida will never be the same."--David J. Weber, American Historical Review"Sophisticated, meticulously researched, and highly informative monograph. . . . The factual information recovered by this study is of inordinate importance to the history of both the United States and the Caribbean."--Franklin W. Knight, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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Book SynopsisExpressly intended to demonstrate America's national progress toward utopia, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago pointedly excluded the contributions of African Americans. An eloquent statement of protest and pride, this title reminds us that struggles over cultural representation are nothing new in American life.

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Book SynopsisLangston Hughes called it 'a great dark tide from the South': the unprecedented influx of blacks into Cleveland that gave the city the nickname 'Alabama North.' Kimberley L. Phillips reveals the breadth of working class black experiences and activities in Cleveland and the extent to which these were shaped by traditions and values brought from the South.Migrants'' moves north established complex networks of kin and friends and infused Cleveland with a highly visible southern African American culture. Phillips examines the variety of black fraternal, benevolent, social, and church-based organizations that working class migrants created and demonstrates how these groups prepared the way for new forms of individual and collective activism in workplaces and the city. Giving special consideration to the experiences of working class black women,AlabamaNorthreveals how migrants'' expressions of tradition and community gave them a new consciousness of themselves as organized wTrade ReviewWinner of the Richard L. Wentworth Prize in American History, 1999. "Kimberley Phillips's fine study . . . will be of real value to scholars of African American, labor, women's, and working class history."--Joe William Trotter, author of Black Milwaukee: The Making of and Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45"Phillips weaves the multiple voices of her subjects into the broader tapestry of the African American experience, vividly conveying the textures of working-class life and applying considerable attention to black agency and resistance. Her incorporation of black women's experiences in the labor market, church, and community makes this a model study of black urban and working class history."--Eric Arnesen, author of Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics

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Book SynopsisDocuments the experiences of African Americans in Saratoga Springs, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island - towns that provided a recurring season of expanded employment opportunities, enhanced social life, cosmopolitan experience, and, in a good year, enough money to last through the winter.Trade Review"A well-written evocation of 'the common hopes and loves and labors' of African-American men and women in [Newport and Saratoga Springs], and it is a solid social history that makes a firm case for both similarity and local distinctiveness among urban black communities before the Great Depression." -- Andrew Wiese, Journal of American History "Armstead has written a compelling urban history in which she places the experiences of blacks in the resort towns of Saratoga and Newport within the context of the larger African-American community... Well written and researched... Illustrated with breathtaking photographs." -- Lillian Serece Williams, American Historical Review "This book is a genuinely interesting read. Any Saratoga history buff would enjoy it." - Judy Meagher, The Saratogian

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Book SynopsisA biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the most important civil rights activists of the 20th century. It documents Hamer's lifelong crusade to empower the poor through collective action and the personal costs of her struggle to win a political voice and economic self-sufficiency for blacks in the segregated South.Trade ReviewWinner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians, 1998. Winner of the Letitia Woods Brown Prize. "Emerging from the lowliest rungs of Mississippi's segregated world, Fannie Lou Hamer became an icon of black protest during the 1960s. . . . This book will win recognition for ably showing Hamer as a warrior at once valiant and vulnerable."--Robert Weisbrot, American Historical Review"Far more prominent in the historical record than in the history books, black women in the post-World War II freedom movements are the subject of exciting recent scholarship. Lee's portrait of Fanny Lou Hamer stands among the best of those works. . . . This is the best book on a crucially important subject."--Timothy B. Tyson, Journal of American History"Lee's biography is less committed to exploring Hamer's personal life than to charting her growth as an activist and examining the profound impact of gender, sexuality, violence and poverty on the early civil rights movement. . . . Vividly brings to light a crucial aspect of the civil rights movement that until now has not been given its due."--Publishers Weekly"Chana Kai Lee's accessible, elegant, and comprehensively researched biography of Fannie Lou Hamer reminds us that even cataclysmic changes in social relations start with the experiences, aspirations, and imagination of ordinary people. An unknown plantation field hand and timekeeper until her forties, Mrs. Hamer emerged as the quintessential rank and file activist and grassroots leader of the Mississippi Freedom Movement. Lee shows how the civil rights movement was not just a battle to end segregation, but rather functioned as a broad based battle against poverty, illiteracy, economic exploitation, and all forms of dehumanization and oppression. More than any other individual, Fannie Lou Hamer embodied the extraordinary changes provoked in U.S. society by the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In Chana Kai Lee, she has found a biographer worthy of her story."--George Lipsitz, author of A Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s"Chana Kai Lee has written a remarkable biography of a remarkable woman. Of all the local people who guided and sustained the civil rights movement in reshaping the South and America during the second half of the twentieth century, Fannie Lou Hamer stands at the top. . . . Lee has given us a brilliantly textured portrait of the public and private life of a wife, mother, civil rights organizer, and mentor to young people struggling for freedom. For Freedom's Sake provides a truthful and sensitive portrait of a poor, southern black woman who transformed herself and countless others, while at the same time experiencing intense personal disappointment and pain. Not merely a story of one woman's triumph and tragedy, Lee's revealing book presents a moving and perceptive study of the human condition."--Steven F. Lawson, author of Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941"An extremely valuable addition to the historiography of the civil rights movement."—John Dittmer, author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi"Enlightening, moving, and inspirational."--Beverly Guy-Sheftall, author of Daughters of Sorrow: Attitudes toward Black Women, 1880-1920

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Book Synopsis Along the Color Line is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black nationalism, nonviolent action, the changing patterns of interracial violence in the twentieth century, and the ways African American leaders have functioned and coped with racism in their quest to ensure the rights of full citizenship for African Americans. David Levering Lewis’s foreword to this first paperback edition attests to the book’s lasting relevance and importance. “Meier and Rudwick’s intellectual passion, professional integrity, and almost manic involvement in virtually every aspect of their academic specialty were of inestimable value to the coming of age of African American history.” -- from the foreword Trade Review"Meier and Rudwick's intellectual passion, professional integrity, and almost manic involvement in virtually every aspect of their academic specialty were of inestimable value to the coming of age of African American history." -- from the foreword

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Book SynopsisFrom Frederick Douglass onwards, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. This title explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison.Trade Review"A significant study for helping us hear more clearly the 'voices of countless native and invisible sons'."--American LiteratureTable of ContentsCoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgments1. Countering the Counterdiscourse: Subject Formation and the Aesthetics of Black Masculinist Protest Discourse since 19402. The Perilous Journey to a Brother’s Country: James Baldwin and the Rigors of Community3. Reimagining Richard: Ernest J. Gaines and the Neo-Masculinist Literary Imagination4. Race, Ritual, Reconnection, Reclamation: August Wilson and the Refiguration of the Male Dramatic SubjectConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndexBack cover

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Book SynopsisOffering a portrait of leadership, conflict, and obstacles, this volume assesses the political alliances that brought black mayors to office as well as the accomplishments and challenges that marked their careers. It includes the profiles of Carl B Stokes (Cleveland), Richard G Hatcher (Gary), and 'Dutch' Morial (New Orleans).Trade Review"This excellent new collection of original essays on black big-city mayors provides essential historical perspective on racial change in late twentieth-century urban politics. Deeply researched and well written, this volume represents a major step forward in recent urban political history."--Raymond A. Mohl, editor of The Making of Urban America"Going beyond a discussion of the election of black officeholders to survey their experiences in governing, these clear, concise essays examine the factors that shaped the fortunes of black mayors trying to run their communities."--Steven F. Lawson, author of Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America since 1941Table of ContentsIntroduction JEFFREY S. ADLER 1 1. Running for Office: African-American Mayors from 1967 to 1996 DAVID R. COLBURN 23 2. Black Political Power and Its Limits: Gary Mayor Richard G. Hatcher's Administration, 1968-87 JAMES B. LANE 57 3. Carl Stokes: Mayor of Cleveland LEONARD N. MOORE 80 4. Harold and Dutch Revisited: A Comparative Look at the First Black Mayors of Chicago and New Orleans ARNOLD R. HIRSCH 107 5. Mayor David Dinkins and the Politics of Race in New York City ROGER BILES 130 6. Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race HEATHER R. PARKER 153 7. African-American Mayors and Governance in Atlanta RONALD H. BAYOR 178 8. Protest and Power in Washington, D.C.: The Troubled Legacy of Marion Barry HOWARD GILLETTE JR. 200 9. Rethinking the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism: The Rise of Mayor Coleman Young and the Politics of Race in Detroit HEATHER ANN THOMPSON 227 Contributors 249 Index 253

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Book SynopsisA powerful statement about the repercussions of discrimination and the benefits of diversity in architectureTrade Review"Ground-breaking. . . . Deserves a place on the bookshelves, bedsides and desks of all educators, managers, [and] design principals. . . . Anthony is an unrepentant idealist, calling for nothing short of a 'transformation' of the culture of architecture; what she offers her readers are the tools by which . . . to begin the process."--Alice T. Friedman, Women's Review of Books "Anthony offers a comprehensive, hard-hitting study of problems that women and minorities face as architects in the US. She surveyed and interviewed some 400 architects and outlines various problems and discrimination against women and minorities, including lower salaries and more responsibility without a rise in position; being kept from contact with clients, field experiences, or construction supervision; and being confined to certain aspects of architecture."--Choice "This book is more than a . . . wake-up call. In a mundane, nuts-and-bolts sense, it provides a solid bibliography for further research on the contributions made by women and people of color to twentieth-century architecture. . . . The author's work articulates the human cost of professional discrimination."--Ludmilla Pavlova, Multicultural Review

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Book SynopsisAn updated version of a fiery classicTrade Review"Trotter blazed new ground, courageously argued his thesis despite the skeptical eyes of non-Marxists, seamlessly connected local, urban, black, and labor history, and skillfully recounted the ways that black Milwaukeeans forged their own lives. . . . The second edition is well worth reading."--H-Urban"Thanks to its original methodology, outstanding research and meticulous attention to detail Black Milwaukee has become a seminal work in labour history."--Left History“This highly readable book is a classic, and rightly so, in the interconnected areas of labor, black, and urban history.”--Labor Studies Journal

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Book SynopsisAn amazingly rich window onto a lost world of African American historyTrade Review"A fascinating chronicle. . . . It warms the heart and soothes the soul of people thirsting for a broader sense of identity."--Philadelphia Inquirer

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Book SynopsisAn introductory analysis of Korean American religious practices and community Trade Review"Of considerable interest and utlity to students and scholars of the important, multifaceted role of religion in the lives of contemporary immigrants in the US. Recommended."--Choice“This book offers a probing and refreshingly critical lens into [Korean Americans’] religious world . . . . An excellent contribution to the growing literature on religion, race, and ethnicity among new Americans.”--Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion“Readily accessible to the general reader, this book provides an excellent study of post-1965 Korean American religions.”--Religious Studies Review"A treat for those exploring the landscape of Korean American spiritual experience. The book offers religious angles on such social issues as gender and patriarchy, marriage and singlehood, family practices, and generational change, as well as such more usual concerns as theology, worship, and church practice. Yoo and Chung also highlight dialogue between Protestant, Buddhist, and Catholic religious perspectives. I particularly like the fact that they include a reflection by a Korean American transnational adoptee, a segment of the Korean American community scholars too frequently overlook. There is much here that will provide food for thought and that will stimulate both scholars and students of Asian American religion."--Paul Spickard, author of Is Lighter Better?: Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian AmericansTable of ContentsForeword ix Roger Daniels Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung Section 1. Traditions 1 Korean American Catholic Communities: A Pastoral Reflection 21 Anselm Kyongsuk Min 2. Asserting Buddhist Selves in a Christian Land: The Maintenance of Religious Identity among Korean Buddhists in America 40 Okyun Kwon 3. The Religiosity and Socioeconomic Adjustment of Buddhist and Protestant Korean Americans 60 Okyun Kwon Section II. Passages 4. Waiting for God: Religion and Korean American Adoption 83 Jae Ran Kim 5. Liminality and Worship in the Korean American Context 100 Sang Hyun Lee 6. The Restoried Lives: The Everyday Theology of Korean American Never-Married Women 116 Jung Ha Kim 7. Korean American Religiosity As a Predictor of Marital Commitment and Satisfaction 137 Ruth H. Chung and Sung Hyun Um Section III. From Generation to Generation 8. Replanting Sacred Spaces: The Emergence of Second-Generation Korean American Churches 151 Sharon Kim 9. Second-Generation Korean American Evangelicals on the College Campus: Constricting Ethnic Boundaries 172 Rebecca Kim 10. A Usable Past? Reflections on Generational Change in Korean American Protestantism 193 David K. Yoo Selected Bibliography 217 Contributors 233 Index 235

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cookingTrade Review“A quick and enjoyable read that is informative about the relationships between food, culture, and defining moments in world, southern, and African American history.”--The Journal of Southern History"This fascinating book reveals a little-known history and ties it to present-day values. It is well written and accessible to a general audience, for whom it is highly recommended."--Multicultural Review "Anne L. Bower has compiled a very tasty collection of essays into which the historian or food lover can really sink his teeth. . . . The essays provide an expansive and interdisciplinary view of African American culinary history as well as insight into the current trends in what is more generally known as 'soul food.' "--Southern Historian"African American Foodways: Exploration of History & Culture is a must read for anyone interested in the influence of history and culture on how foods are produced, collected, stored, prepared, and consumed. It is an excellent resource for those interested in food and its connection to identity and will be an absolute delight for anyone who may have thought the tern 'soul food' was inclusive of the many meanings attached to food by African Americans and others."--Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences"An exquisite mélange of American and black history; famous black Americans and people they served; allusions to jazz, poetry, rap, stories, and literature; and food traditions make up this credible, readable book. . . . Recommended."--Choice"Bower's reputation in the study of African American foodways is already very significant, and this achievement will only add to it. With subjects ranging from soul food to cookbooks, the writers in this volume will change our thinking about African American food and culture."--Sherrie A. Inness, author of Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner TableTable of ContentsAcknowledgments / ix Introduction: Watching Soul Food Anne L. Bower / 1 PART ONE: THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOD 1. Food Crops, Medicinal Plants, and the Atlantic Slave Trade Robert L. Hall / 17 2. Soul Food as Cultural Creation William C. Whit / 45 3. Excavating the South's African American Food History Anne Yentsch / 59 PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOD 4. From Fiction to Foodways: Working at the Intersections of African American Literary and Culinary Studies Doris Witt / 101 5. Chickens and Chains: Using African American Foodways to Understand Black Identities Psyche Williams-Forson / 126 6. Recipes for Respect: Black Hospitality Entrepreneurs before World War 1 Rafia Zafar / 139 7. Recipes for History: The National Council of Negro Women's Five Historical Cookbooks Anne L. Bower / 153 Contributors / 175 Index / 177

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