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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fenderson traces the rise and fall of Black Arts Movement through Fuller's professional and personal endeavors and elucidates the larger implications of the movement through the microcosm of Fuller and his environs. Fenderson convincingly contends that Fuller should take his rightful place in the scholarship as a pivotal intellectual architect who helped build the artistic component of the Black power movement." --Journal of American History"Building the Black Arts Movement is both thoroughly researched and beautifully written with a sharp class and gender analysis. As such, it will reshape how historians approach this movement and its historical actors." --Journal of African American History"Fenderson succeeds in challenging readers to rethink Fuller's times by presenting a counternarrative to the oftentimes overly harmonious representation of Black social movements in the United States." --Journal of Folklore Research"Jonathan Fenderson’s book is a masterwork of African American intellectual and cultural history, bringing to light a man whose name should be mentioned more often in the histories of contemporary America." --Society for U.S. Intellectual History"Very powerfully and marvelously written--a page turner. Fenderson's book is bound to reach a wide audience with this mastery of narrative and exposition. Indeed, I don't think that the story of the Black Arts Movement has been told in such a sweeping narrative of that era."--Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Black Power Politics​"Jonathan Fenderson's Building the Black Arts Movement is a brilliant study of one of the key figures of the Black Arts and Black Power movements. Fenderson's account of Fuller is also a history of Black Arts and Black Power in Chicago that in turn illuminates the ideological, aesthetic, and institutional development of black political and cultural radicalism in the 1960s and 1970s."--James Smethurst, author of The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJohn Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, American Association of Geographers, 2020 "A compelling examination . . . Lemon's work provides a much-needed scholarly overview of the proliferation of food trucks in the 21st century." --Great Plains Research"A fantastic book. I was repeatedly surprised by the numerous ways the author credibly links the act of mobile food vending to some of North America's most poignant contemporary issues of cultural identity. The mix of interviews, participant observation, and discourse analysis is a perfect fit for exploring the themes."--Joshua Long, author of Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas"Overall this was truly a fascinating book. . . .Very much recommended reading." --BookAnon.com: Confessions of a Bookaholic"Folklorists interested in culinary tourism will find aspects of this study good food for thought." --Journal of Folklore Research"The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food is Transforming the American City (2019) by Robert Lemon is sure to become a formative text in the expanding body of work on the relationship between culinary entrepreneurship and local city ordinances." --H-Environment"Overall this was truly a fascinating book. . . .Very much recommended reading." --BookAnon.com: Confessions of a Bookaholic

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Book SynopsisA massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational migration brought people from Asia, Europe, and Mexico. Together, these newcomers forged a multiethnic alliance of anarchists, labor unions, and leftists dedicated to challenging capitalism, racism, and often the state. David M. Struthers draws on the anarchist concept of affinity to explore the radicalism of Los Angeles''s interracial working class from 1900 to 1930. Uneven economic development created precarious employment and living conditions for laborers. The resulting worker mobility led to coalitions that, inevitably, remained short lived. As Struthers shows, affinity helps us understand how individual cooperative actions shaped and reshaped these alliances. It also reveals social practices of resistance that are often too unstructured or episodic for historians to capture. What emergesTrade ReviewShelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies, International Committee of the American Studies Association (ASA), 2019 "The World in a City is one of the first texts to fully examine the implications of pre-World War II Los Angeles as a hub for industrial and agricultural laborers." --Journal of Urban History"The World in a City is a wonderful resource for historians of California and the borderlands of the United States and Mexico, labor historians, and radical historians." --Western Historical Quarterly"David Struthers makes a fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship examining ethnic interaction among L.A.’s working-class communities." --Southern California Quarterly"David Struthers's fresh and fascinating look at Los Angeles radicalism shows us long-forgotten facets of city history. Dedicated anarchist activists, an alphabet soup of radical organizations, an interracial rank-and-file--all had a profound impact on Los Angeles's transformation into a modern city. Struthers's mix of research and fluid storytelling takes us back to an era of soaring hopes and racial togetherness that, for a time, sustained a grand vision of a Los Angeles that might have been.--Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles"This is an important book, and I hope that we soon see more similarly compelling work on this period that does not separate local interethnic campaigns from the context of global revolution that helped animate them." --Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisA daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about sexuality, the family, and the nation. The essays highlight alternative and deviant gender and sexual identities, performances, and communities, and spotlights the sexual labor, sexual economy, and sexual agency to black social life. Throughout, the writers reveal the lives, everyday negotiations, and cultural or aesthetic interventions of black gender and sexual minorities while analyzing the systems and beliefs that structure the possibilities that exist for all black sexualities. They also confront the mechanisms of domination and subordination attached to the political and socioeconomic forces, cultural productions, and academic work that interact with the energies at the nexus of sexuality and race. Contributors: Marlon M. Bailey, Lia T. Bascomb, Felice Blake, Darius Bost, Ariane Cruz, Adrienne D. Davis, Pierre Dominguez, David B. Trade Review"Black Sexual Economies provides a compelling collection of writing that analyzes the experiences of black gender and sexual minorities and investigates collaborations made by an interdisciplinary team of scholars examining black sexuality in a variety of historical, political, and social contexts." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Black Sexual Economies is the first anthology of its kind to mine the deeply rooted vestiges of late capitalism as they relate to black sexuality. Through analyses of slavery, pornography, popular culture, and music, among other topics, each essay in this carefully curated volume enlivens anew our attention to the stakes of theorizing black sexuality—the fact that we can never think about black sexuality without always thinking about the political economic conditions of its making. Indeed, Black Sexual Economies is a welcomed breath of fresh air to the now well-established field of black sexuality studies."--E. Patrick Johnson, editor of No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies"To represent, to affirm, to understand, and to live black sexualities can be immeasurably difficult. The very foundations of politics, social life—and, as this volume argues, capitalist economies—in the modern world often hinge on pathologizing black people’s sexuality in order to exploit and to destroy black bodies and black lives. Black feminist innovator Adrienne Davis curates here essays that batter down and deftly navigate the thicket of lies that try to render 'black sexuality' unspeakable and unknowable, and point the way forward."--Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination

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Book SynopsisMemoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldua work in places where personal history intertwines with communities, environments, animals, plants, and spirits. This dedication to interconnectedness resonates with ideas in posthumanist theory while calling on indigenous worldviews. As Bost argues, our view of life itself expands if we look at how such frameworks interact with queer theory, disability studies, ecological thinking, and other fields. These webs of relation in turn mediate experience, agency, and lift itself.A transformative application of posthumanist ideas to Latinx, feminist, and literary studies, Shared SelTrade Review"Shared Selves mines the Latinx archive by placing lesser-known texts into conversation with authors such as Ortiz Cofer and Rechy. A must-read for anyone interested in the variability of the life-writing form and its continuing relevance for Latinx literary criticism."--David J. Vázquez, author of Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Idenity"I really admire this book! Suzanne Bost offers a reading of Latinx life writing that moves us all toward an elsewhere that transcends the humanistic individual and toward a sense of being that emphasizes webs of relations. This is necessary work that positions us to better encounter today’s ethical and material challenges, including the inequities of climate crisis."--Priscilla Solis Ybarra, author of Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This excellent study of the first Japanese sojourners to America and Hawaii places them within the context of national developments on both sides of the Pacific. . . . Van Sant wonderfully narrates and analyzes their engaging stories, those of ship-wrecked sailors, college students, workers, and even some utopians."--Choice"Van Sant has the language skills to do archival work, coupled with a solid grasp of Japanese history. He has produced a small but important work."--Paul Spickard, American Historical Review"A solid, well-written study. Featuring splendid biographical profiles, it provides excellent insight into Japan's modernization and the origins of Japanese immigration to the United States."--Robert D. Parmet, International Migration Review"This well-written and skillful blend of Japanese and Japanese American history fills a gap in our understanding of the formation of the Nikkei community in the United States. It provides us with a new appreciation of these early pioneers and their impact on both Japan and the United States."--Wayne Patterson, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Weems is an extremely diligent researcher and provides an excellent introduction to Overton. The book is as much a history of Black business in Chicago during Overton's life as a conventional biography and a picture of an era." --Journal of American History"In The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire, historian Robert E. Weems Jr. offers a comprehensive biography of an important Black businessman who has largely faded in public memory. . . . Weems is appropriately critical of Overton throughout. . . . An excellent book that is both rich in historical detail and eminently readable." --Journal of African American History"The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago clears the air around one of Black America's most successful businessmen and his time . . . a fascinating read." --Business History Review "An excellent business study of Anthony Overton . . . Weems skillfully evaluates Overton's neglected career, his diverse holdings, and the importance of his family in overseeing the corporate empire." --Choice"Robert E. Weems Jr. recalls the booms and busts of one of the leading African American entrepreneurs of the twentieth century and restores him to his rightful place in American business history." --Publishers Weekly"Mixes business history with a fascinating profile to tell the story of Anthony Overton." --Chicago Sun-Times​"Weems has produced a pioneering study of Chicago's preeminent financial titan of the Black Metropolis Era of the 1920s and beyond. This first full-length, thoroughly documented account of Anthony Overton meticulously details how he amassed a business fortune while building an empire that became a major source of empowerment for women ranging from executive and managerial appointments to essential clerical positions.”—Christopher R. Reed, The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920–1929

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Book SynopsisThis fresh and fascinating exploration of Ebony's political, social, and historical content illuminates the intellectual role of the iconic magazine and its contribution to African American scholarship. The magazine's status as a consumer publication helped to mediate its representation of African American identity in both past and present.Trade ReviewOne of the Chicago Sun-Time's Books Not to Miss A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020 Honorable Mention, Research Society for American Periodicals, 2021 "By emphasizing Bennett's role and placing the magazine within the context of each stage of the postwar Black Freedom Struggle, West thoughtfully connects Black Americans' historical perspectives with the social transformations occurring in postwar America." --Journal of African American History"West thoroughly dispels the critical tendency to dismiss or overlook a magazine like Ebony as too commercially oriented to be of cultural or historical significance." --American Literary History"West presents media scholars and educators with a new way of viewing Ebony and its founder, John Harold Johnson. Thanks to West, researchers are better able to visualize Ebony as more than 'a black counterpart to Life magazine' and Johnson as more than just an entrepreneur who targeted his magazine's content to the black bourgeois." --American Journalism”E. James West’s book is the first major examination of Ebony as a forum for black historical discourse and the magazine’s long-time executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr.’s multifaceted thought, work, and scholarship as a leading popular historian of the black past and vital contributor to the post-war black history movement. A well-researched and accessible study situated within the growing field of black intellectual history, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr. is a major contribution to our understanding of what West aptly calls 'popular black history.'”—Pero G. Dagbovie, author of Revisiting the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American history in the Twenty-First Century"West expertly chronicles how Ebony magazine and its executive editor Lerone Bennett Jr. shaped cultural perception of African-American history. . . . This astute history shines a welcome light on a pioneering journalist. " --Publishers Weekly"A fantastic, deeply-contextualized new book about Ebony and Bennett." --IMixWhatILike"This concise, illuminating book serves as a useful marker for a full-fledged (and long overdue) critical history of Ebony, a major American magazine, in all its glories and travails." --PopMatters"Recommended." --Choice

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Book SynopsisWomen of color from diverse backgrounds give frank, unapologetic accounts of their battles to navigate grad school and fulfill their ambitions. Their stories of hard-won successes are sprinkled with advice on self-care, building supportive communities, finding like-minded mentors, and resisting unsupportive faculty and colleagues.Trade ReviewChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020 "A valuable book. . . . Degrees of Difference provides administrators and others in academia an opportunity to consider ways that altering the campuses where they work can more authentically attempt to gain and retain women of color graduate students to change the meaning of diversity work from token gestures to real social justice activity." --Hypatia"These essays, rich in nuance, will raise the collective consciousness about experiences of disenfranchisement overcome through resiliency: stories so viable and vivid that reading them becomes a spiritual experience, not just an intellectual one. In fact, anyone who has experienced disenfranchisement, bias, discrimination, or downright open hostility while pursuing higher education will find personal validation here and will also be re-confronted by past challenges to their humanity." --Resources for Gender and Women's Studies"This important addition to the literature on the academic experience will appeal to graduate students, those considering grad school, and anyone looking to expand their understanding of academia." --Library Journal"Degrees of Difference contributes to larger conversations about the systemic violence and injustice women of color face in higher education and works towards creating strategies for transformative change within and beyond the Ivory Tower." --Women's Review of Books"The book incites the disruption needed to make change happen." --Science Magazine​”Read this book! Degrees of Difference is a compelling collection of testimonies accompanied with sharp analyses and just the right amount of real talk. It offers both vulnerable and empowered reflections on the experiences of women of color and indigenous women in graduate school.”—Nitasha Tamar Sharma, author of Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai`i”The informed editors of this collection, Degrees of Difference, utilize all their tools and the most renowned feminist theorists (Ahmed and Anzaldúa) to incorporate the book within a body of literature that has precedents, however precedents that have somewhat left out a group in academia: graduate students, which this collection remedies. Graduate students, ABD, professors to be, often work under the worst conditions, in structures of power that invisibilize them. In its invaluable introduction Degrees of Difference, the editors beautifully encapsulate the importance of a varied array of titles that set a precedent for this innovative feminist, diverse and inclusive manuscript. The personal and the political are addressed in this multifaceted collection, which is a blanket of resources for graduate students and tenure track academics, as well as for seasoned and tenured committee members, serving on university rank and tenure committees. Bravas! This is a great addition to a collection of groundbreaking literature in this area, I applaud the press. This collection honors all women academics, especially in times like these.”—Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, editor of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia"In a series of sharply realized, personal, lively essays, the authors work to expose “uncomfortable truths” about how indigenous women and women of color (IWWOC) academics traverse universities that are not designed to support them, nor to realize their success." --Public Books "An important addition to the body of work on underrepresented women in academia. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice "A carefully edited and expertly curated text, Degrees of Difference is a timely work that takes seriously and urgently the inequities that have become distressingly commonplace in the contemporary higher education landscape. What further contradistinguishes Degrees of Difference from other works is its keen attention to mentoring and mentorship. The essays and accounts which comprise this collection offer invaluable insights for those within the academia and those who are contemplating careers within it."--Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, author of Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing

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Book SynopsisCritics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance—arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity. Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Sensational coverage also expanded African American women's sexual consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth African American urban communities. Informative and empowering, Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press in ATrade Review"Gallon succeeds in outlining the mutual liberalization of the Black press and Black urban communities in the interwar period. She conveys the dynamism of an era when newspapers thrust race leaders and new migrants into public reconsideration of how Blackness could be embodied in the twentieth century." --Journal of American History"The institution of Black Press, as Pleasure in the News outlines, contained a diversity of approaches to sexuality, in such papers as the Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, New York Amsterdam News, and Philadelphia Tribune. It is remarkable that Gallon is able to weave these newspapers together so skillfully and the archival research involved in this study is impressive. . . . In centering sexuality and pleasure, Gallon thoughtfully highlights ambivalences that the Black Press and its readership grappled with and the always important question of how much a newspaper's content is shaped by its reader' perceived desires." --American Periodical”Blending unprecedented research into the African American press, and the journalists and editors who put the papers out, with a careful synthesis of the existing scholarship, Pleasure in the News shows how opinions about sex behavior impacted reading publics over several decades of profound change in the black experience. Kim Gallon's systematic analysis of an almost endless news cycle of marital infidelities, scandalous divorces, celebrity drag queens, and low-down queers of all kinds, provides a fresh angle on what are now classic questions in the field. How did respectability impact performativity, how did opinion makers command and defer to sexual consumers, and what did all of this mean for the experience of black desire within the marginal spaces of the modern metropolis?”—Kevin Mumford, author of Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

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Book SynopsisBrazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representationall the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and white supremacy that the mulatta narrative creates. Jasmine Mitchell investigates the development and exploitation of the mulatta figure in Brazilian and U.S. popular culture. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, she analyzes policy debates and reveals the use of mixed-Black female celebrities as subjects of racial and gendered discussions. Mitchell also unveils the ways the media moralizes about the mulatta figure and uses her as an example of an acceptable version of blackness that at once dreams of erasing undesirable blackness while maintaining the qualities that serve as outlets for inteTrade 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 SynopsisBy subverting comedy''s rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle to Get Out and Atlanta to examine the satirical treatment of race and racialization across today''s African American culture. Morgan analyzes how African American artists highlight the ways that society racializes people and bolsters the powerful myth that we live in a post-racial nation. The latter in particular inspires artists to take aim at the idea racism no longer exists or the laughable notion of Americans not seeing racism or race. Their critique changes our understanding of the boundaries between staged performance and lived experience and create ways to better articulate Black selfhood. Adventurous and perceptive, Laughing to Keep from Dying reveals how African American satirists unmask the illusioTrade 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 SynopsisContemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization. Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital insTrade 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— A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2020Table 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 SynopsisGospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post-Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold's in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel's incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers. Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music's essential place as an outlet for AfTrade 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 SynopsisRachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of women in Santo Domingo, Quinn reveals the way racial ambiguity and color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of context and interviews with young Dominican women to offer rare insights into a Caribbean society in which the tourist industry and popular media reward, and rely upon, the ability of Dominican women to transform themselves to perform gender, race, and class. Engaging and astute, Being La Dominicana reveals the little-studied world of today's young Dominican women and what their personal stories and transnational experiences can tell us about the larger neoliberal world.Trade 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"Advantaged by the journalistic backgrounds of its writers, the book horrifies as it explains the role of southern white newspapermen in ending Reconstruction, ushering in Jim Crow, and disguising it all in a narrative of 'The New South' . . . . The book dramatically shows the blood on the hands of the white southern press in lynching and then looks closely at the role of newspapers in spreading and resisting white supremacy in case studies of most southern states." --Black Perspectives"A powerful collection of essays exploring how white journalists helped created Jim Crow and how Black journalists fought for something better. . . . All parts of the book are grounded in relevant scholarship and polished for clarity." --Journal of Southern History"Journalism and Jim Crow is well-researched and, for an edited volume, remarkably consistent in quality. . . . The book convincingly supports its argument. Each chapter is filled with facts and insights that every journalist and student of journalism should know." --H-Net Reviews"The research and sourcing are rich, with sixty to one hundred citations per chapter. Historical events are placed in a 2020s context. Journalism and Jim Crow is a relevant read." --American Journalism"Assembling penetrating scholarship on the complex roles that newspapers and their personnel (editors, publishers, reporters) played in both establishing white supremacy in the postbellum South and in resisting its imposition, Journalism and Jim Crow offers much fresh insight based on original research. Together, the collected essays highlight the pivotal role of a set of actors (some of them prominent, many previously neglected) and institutions, making substantial contributions to scholarship on the origins of Jim Crow as well filling a major gap in journalism history and media studies."--Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics

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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 SynopsisA new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in the twenty-first century. With works that confront racism and focus on Black characters, these artists and the visual media they create identify, challenge, or break with entrenched racist practices, ideologies, and structures. Gillam looks at a cross-section of media to show the ways Afro-Brazilians assert control over various means of representation in order to present a complex Black humanity. These images--so at odds with the mainstream--contribute to an anti-racist visual politics fighting to change how Brazilian media depicts Black people while highlighting the importance of media in the movement for Black inclusion. An eye-opening union of analysis and fieldwork, Visualizing Black Lives examines the alternative and activist Black media and the people creating it Trade 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 SynopsisThis first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press''s acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically complex Black music-making of colonial America; string bands and other lesser-known genres practiced by Black artists; the jubilee industry and its audiences; and innovators in jazz, blues, and Black gospel. Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life, 1600–1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to the history and impact of Black music in the United States.Contributors: R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M.Trade 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 SynopsisAChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 Large numbers of Latino migrants began to arrive in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the 1950s. They joined a small but established Spanish-speaking community of people from Texas, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Delia Fernández-Jones merges storytelling with historical analysis to recapture the placemaking practices that these Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans used to create a new home for themselves. Faced with entrenched white racism and hostility, Latinos of different backgrounds formed powerful relationships to better secure material needs like houses and jobs and to recreate community cultural practices. Their pan-Latino solidarity crossed ethnic and racial boundaries and shaped activist efforts that emphasized working within the system to advocate for social change. In time, this interethnic Latino alliance exploited cracks in both overt and structural racism and attracted white and Black partners to fight for equaTrade Review“This is an original, indispensable, and beautifully poetic book that weaves together stories of migration, placemaking, and activism to show how Mexicans and Puerto Ricans made a home in Grand Rapids. With rich oral histories and archival research in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the U.S., Delia Fernández-Jones has written an insightful and inspiring book that makes a vital contribution to fields of Latino and Midwestern history.”--Felipe Hinojosa, author of Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio"Fernández-Jones draws upon both classic texts of Latina/o history and primary sources to develop this passionate, in-depth historical analysis, which contributes significantly to the scholarly literature on Latino communities in the Midwest and is sure to inspire future research in this area. Anyone interested in Chicana/o or ethnic histories of the US will enjoy this book, which should also become a staple in library collections on Chicana/o studies and ethnic studies. Highly recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: “TRAINED AND TRACTABLE LABOR” CHAPTER 2: “FAMILIES HELPED EACH OTHER” CHAPTER 3: “A GATHERING PLACE” CHAPTER 4: “LATINS WANT PARITY” CHAPTER 5: “NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY” CHAPTER 6: “TANGLED WITH THE POLICE” CHAPTER 7: "JUSTICE FOR OUR KIDS” EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY

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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 SynopsisA combination of button accordion and bajo sexto, conjunto originated in the Texas-Mexico borderlands as a popular dance music and became a powerful form of regional identity. Today, listeners and musicians around the world have embraced the genre and the work of conjunto masters like Flaco Jiménez and Mingo Saldívar. Erin E. Bauer follows conjunto from its local origins through three processes of globalization--migration via media, hybridization, and appropriation--that boosted the music’s reach. As Bauer shows, conjunto’s encounter with globalizing forces raises fundamental questions. What is conjunto stylistically and socioculturally? Does context change how we categorize it? Do we consider the music to be conjunto based on its musical characteristics or due to its performance by Jiménez and other regional players? How do similar local genres like Tejano and norteño relate to ideas of categorization? A rare look at a fascinatTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Globalization of Conjunto Part I: The Migration of Conjunto 1. “We love you, Flaco!”: Chicken Skin Music, “Mingomania,” and the Inter/national Presentation of Conjunto 2. “Ladies and gentlemen, Dodge presents Flaco Jiménez!”: Arhoolie Records, KEDA Radio Jalapeño, and the Mediated Dispersal of Conjunto 3. “From Texas to Washington and across to Michigan and Illinois…”: Los Cuatro Vientos, Los Texmaniacs, Los Lobos, and the U.S American Spread of Conjunto Part II: The Hybridization of Conjunto 4. “You have to mix it up!”: “Seguro Que Hell Yes,” the Texas Tornados, Los Super Seven, and the Cultural Hybridity of Flaco Jiménez 5. “I play the jazz accordion!”: “Rueda de Fuego (Ring of Fire),” “My Toot Toot,” and the Country/Zydeco Influences of Mingo Saldívar and Steve Jordan 6. “It’s jealousy…”: Eva Ybarra and the Hybrid Offerings of Women in Conjunto Part III: The Appropriation of Conjunto 7. “That’s my music!”: Kenji Katsube, Dwayne Verheyden, and the Worldwide Participation in Conjunto 8. “¡Esto es globalización!”: Rowwen Hèze, the Rolling Stones, and the Commercialized Appropriation of Conjunto Conclusion Notes Discography Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisTrade 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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Book SynopsisTrade 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 SynopsisTrade Review"Brief yet weighty, ripening the often-told story of the Great Migration by venturing away from Chicago and big northern cities for the small Indiana villages where many Black Americans attempted to settle in." --Chicago TribuneTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: How White Desires Determine the Fate of the Great Migration in America’s Heartland Manifesting White Indiana Crossroads of Desires Erasing Histories: A Black Church and a White Pool Silencing Memories: White Desires and Black Terror When Black Folk Make the Record Conclusion: The Geography of Hate—Mapping Whiteness Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores racial barriers in modern globalized societiesTrade ReviewModernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora . . . is a fascinating look at the way racism and social exclusion are still at work in our modern societiesStudents and lecturers/professors will certainly find this book useful as a marker of social attitudes in developed western cities, that presents a desperate contradiction of official Government policy and public proclamation. * readthinkwriteteach.com *Highly recommended. * Choice *White should be applauded for her extensive fieldwork in Europe and North America, where she interviewed hundreds of individuals, mostly new immigrants and asylum seekers, whose accounts made up most of the book's primary research. . . . Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora continues an important conversation on the importance of race and its intersection with modernity in the modern world. * International Social Science Review *What this study accomplishes, and quite successfully, is constructing an important expansion of modernity to make room for the complications of white racism impacting African diasporic communities. * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. The African Diaspora in Dublin 1. Decolonization, Racism, and the Retro-Global Society 2. Status, Numbers, and the "Retro" Revealed 3. Media Representation and Black Presence 4. Racism, Immigrant Status, and Black Life 5. A Community in the MakingPart 2. The Glitches of Modernity 6. Dublin: The Olukunle Elukanlo Case 7. New Orleans: Race Meets Antediluvian Modernity 8. Paris: The Liberating Quality of Race 9. Conclusion: Toward a Modern FutureNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOffers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global FrenchnessTrade ReviewOverall, this is an excellent book. . . . One might regret that not much attention is paid to the African side of the postcolonial Franco-African world. But if the aim of the book was to "complicate French and European debates on identity and singularity", there is no doubt that this incisive study has brilliantly succeeded. * Journal of West African History *Africa and France constitutes essential reading for anyone investigating the debates surrounding contemporary French identity and the ever-changing relationship between France and her former colonial possessions. * African Studies Bulletin *[A]n impressive piece of scholarship . . . well written. Therefore, I strongly recommend it to university libraries, academic departments in the field of French studies, and scholars and students of African studies.Winter 2015 * Africa Today *[This book's] astonishing breadth and documentation make it a worthwhile read for anyone interested in France's colonial legacy today. * Intl Journal of African Historical Studies *Africa and France . . . is a tour de force, a thorough analysis in which Thomas examines the French empire, culture, and society as a single unit of analysis. . . . This book is a tremendous contribution and must-read for students of francophone studies, diaspora studies, and postcolonial studies. * Journal of African History *Africa and France is a noteworthy contribution to our current understanding of the impact of globalization on discussions of national identity and the construction of frameworks of social belonging.46.1 Spring 2015 * Research in African Literatures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: France and the New World Order1. Museology and Globalization: The Quai Branly Museum2. Object/Subject Migration: The National Centre for the History of Immigration 3. Sarkozy's Law: National Identity and the Institutionalization of Xenophobia4. Africa, France, and Eurafrica in the Twenty-First Century5. From mirage to image: Contest(ed)ing Space in Diasporic Films (1955–2011)6. The "Marie NDiaye Affair," or the Coming of a Postcolonial évoluée7. The Euro-Mediterranean: Literature and Migration8. Into the European "Jungle": Migration and Grammar in the New Europe9. Documenting the Periphery: The French banlieues in Words and Film10. Decolonizing France: National Literatures, World Literature, and World IdentitiesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBlends history, poetry, rescued memory, and family storiesTrade ReviewThis remarkable book is highly recommended reading for (younger) Sansei, Yonsei, Gosei and members of the burgeoning hapa population, as well of those of whatever background, in and out of educational institutions, who seek enrichment as individuals and communal beings within a multicultural nation via greater awareness of the Nikkei experience in the United States. * Nichi Bei *Poetic yet sharply honest, the family story unfolds within the larger context of the national saga. You'll wince but read it anyway. Your soul will be better for it. * Nuvo *This book is highly readable and contains fascinating details not usually covered in other books on Japanese American history. * Oregon Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface: My NickelAcknowledgements Note on Terminology and PronunciationIntroduction: Looking After Minidoka I. IsseiII. NiseiIII. Minidoka, 1942-1945IV. SanseiV. UnfinishedBibliographyCredits

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Book SynopsisFor postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. This book includes 15 essays that address governance, production, and social life; and the role of media.Trade ReviewThis is a varied collection of fifteen sole-authored chapters on modernization as spectacle, an area that has attracted little research to date . . . [A] good read.Feb. 2016 * Africa *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Modernization as Spectacle in AfricaStephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa ManuhPart I. Modernization and the Origins of the Package1. After Modernization: Globalization and the African DilemmaPercy C. Hintzen2. Modernization Theory and the Figure of Blindness: Filial Reflections Andrew ApterPart II. Media, Modernity, and Modernization3. Film as Instrument of Modernization and Social Change in Africa: The Long ViewRosaleen Smyth4. Mass Education, Cooperation, and the "African Mind"Aaron Windel5. Is Propaganda Modernity? Press and Radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its AftermathMhoze Chikowero6. Elocution, Englishness, and Empire: Film and Radio in Late Colonial GhanaPeter J. BloomPart III. Infrastructure and Effects7. Negotiating Modernization: The Kariba Dam Project in the Central African Federation, c. 1954-1960Julia Tischler8. "No One Should Be Worse Off": The Akosombo Dam, Modernization, and the Experience of Resettlement in GhanaStephan F. Miescher9. Radioactive Excess: Modernization as Spectacle and Betrayal in Postcolonial GabonGabrielle HechtPart IV. Institutional Training in Nkrumah's Ghana10. Modeling Modernity: The Brief Story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi Pilot Named Hanna, and the Wonders of Motorless FlightJean Allman11. The African Personality Dances Highlife: Popular Music, Urban Youth, and Cultural Modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965Nate Plageman12. Building Institutions for the New Africa: The Institute of African Studies at the University of GhanaTakyiwaa ManuhPart V. Modernization and the Literary Imagination13. Theatre and the Politics of Display: The Tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's First World Festival of Negro ArtsChristina S. McMahon14. Re-Engaging Narratives of Modernization in Contemporary African LiteratureNana Wilson-Tagoe15. Between Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Theater and the Art and Politics of Modernizing African CultureAida MbowaContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisFor postcolonial Africa, modernization was seen as a necessary outcome of the struggle for independence and as crucial to the success of its newly established states. This book includes 15 essays that address governance, production, and social life; and the role of media.Trade ReviewThis is a varied collection of fifteen sole-authored chapters on modernization as spectacle, an area that has attracted little research to date . . . [A] good read.Feb. 2016 * Africa *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Modernization as Spectacle in AfricaStephan F. Miescher, Peter J. Bloom, and Takyiwaa ManuhPart I. Modernization and the Origins of the Package1. After Modernization: Globalization and the African DilemmaPercy C. Hintzen2. Modernization Theory and the Figure of Blindness: Filial Reflections Andrew ApterPart II. Media, Modernity, and Modernization3. Film as Instrument of Modernization and Social Change in Africa: The Long ViewRosaleen Smyth4. Mass Education, Cooperation, and the "African Mind"Aaron Windel5. Is Propaganda Modernity? Press and Radio for "Africans" in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi during World War II and its AftermathMhoze Chikowero6. Elocution, Englishness, and Empire: Film and Radio in Late Colonial GhanaPeter J. BloomPart III. Infrastructure and Effects7. Negotiating Modernization: The Kariba Dam Project in the Central African Federation, c. 1954-1960Julia Tischler8. "No One Should Be Worse Off": The Akosombo Dam, Modernization, and the Experience of Resettlement in GhanaStephan F. Miescher9. Radioactive Excess: Modernization as Spectacle and Betrayal in Postcolonial GabonGabrielle HechtPart IV. Institutional Training in Nkrumah's Ghana10. Modeling Modernity: The Brief Story of Kwame Nkrumah, a Nazi Pilot Named Hanna, and the Wonders of Motorless FlightJean Allman11. The African Personality Dances Highlife: Popular Music, Urban Youth, and Cultural Modernization in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1965Nate Plageman12. Building Institutions for the New Africa: The Institute of African Studies at the University of GhanaTakyiwaa ManuhPart V. Modernization and the Literary Imagination13. Theatre and the Politics of Display: The Tragedy of King Christophe at Senegal's First World Festival of Negro ArtsChristina S. McMahon14. Re-Engaging Narratives of Modernization in Contemporary African LiteratureNana Wilson-Tagoe15. Between Nationalism and Pan-Africanism: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Theater and the Art and Politics of Modernizing African CultureAida MbowaContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. This book offers an insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.Trade ReviewTeaiwa deals with the great sense of betrayal, loss, and displacement indigenous Banabans suffered through as well as the harsh physical toll decades of excessive mining has taken on the land. With a justified sense of outrage, Teaiwa educates her audience without alienating it, laying bare the consequences of reaping such a natural bounty at the expense of others. * Publishers Weekly *Recommended. * Choice *A detailed ethnography of Banaba undertaken by a researcher who hails from this 'very, very small island' . . . is an example of reflectivity and insightful scholarship. This is not a book to be taken lightly, but rather should be suggested to anyone with an interest in material culture, globalization, and post-colonial and ecological studies. * Antipode *Teaiwa displays artfully the powerful potential of interdisciplinarity as an approach toward gaining a richer and deeper understanding of Pacific pasts and peoples. * The Contemporary Pacific *By bringing gritty ethnographic detail, an omnivorous approach to sources, and surprising narrative innovations to bear on such topics, Teaiwa's book moves the social history of Earth's biogeochemical cycles into fertile new terrain. * The Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsPrelude: Three Global StoriesAcknowledgmentsNotes on Orthography and GeographyPart I. Phosphate Pasts1. The Little Rock That Feeds2. Stories of P 3. Land from the Sea Part II. Mine/lands4. Remembering Ocean Island5. Land from the Sky6. Interlude: Another Visit to Ocean Island7. E Kawa te aba: The Trials of the Ocean Islanders8. Remix: Our Sea of Phosphate (photo essay)Part III. Between Our Islands9. Interlude: Coming Home to Fiji10. Between Rabi and Banaba Coda Ocean Island/Banaba TimelineNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. This book offers an insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.Trade ReviewTeaiwa deals with the great sense of betrayal, loss, and displacement indigenous Banabans suffered through as well as the harsh physical toll decades of excessive mining has taken on the land. With a justified sense of outrage, Teaiwa educates her audience without alienating it, laying bare the consequences of reaping such a natural bounty at the expense of others. * Publishers Weekly *Recommended. * Choice *A detailed ethnography of Banaba undertaken by a researcher who hails from this 'very, very small island' . . . is an example of reflectivity and insightful scholarship. This is not a book to be taken lightly, but rather should be suggested to anyone with an interest in material culture, globalization, and post-colonial and ecological studies. * Antipode *Teaiwa displays artfully the powerful potential of interdisciplinarity as an approach toward gaining a richer and deeper understanding of Pacific pasts and peoples. * The Contemporary Pacific *By bringing gritty ethnographic detail, an omnivorous approach to sources, and surprising narrative innovations to bear on such topics, Teaiwa's book moves the social history of Earth's biogeochemical cycles into fertile new terrain. * The Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsPrelude: Three Global StoriesAcknowledgmentsNotes on Orthography and GeographyPart I. Phosphate Pasts1. The Little Rock That Feeds2. Stories of P 3. Land from the Sea Part II. Mine/lands4. Remembering Ocean Island5. Land from the Sky6. Interlude: Another Visit to Ocean Island7. E Kawa te aba: The Trials of the Ocean Islanders8. Remix: Our Sea of Phosphate (photo essay)Part III. Between Our Islands9. Interlude: Coming Home to Fiji10. Between Rabi and Banaba Coda Ocean Island/Banaba TimelineNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis study is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on food in precolonial Africa. . . . [I]t is a trailblazing work in its innovative amalgamation of archaeological, linguistic, and written source materials. -- Jeremy Rich * International Journal of African Historical Studies *This study is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on food in precolonial Africa. . . . [I]t is a trailblazing work in its innovative amalgamation of archaeological, linguistic, and written source materials. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *Deep Roots, an important and innovative book, pioneers a multidisciplinary methodology, which substantially compensates for the lack of written documentation . . . and archeology data during the formative period of the transatlantic slave trade in Africa. * American Historical Review *Fields-Black has written an important book, thoroughly researched, persuasively argued, and engagingly written. It adds a major new chapter to our understanding of the African diaspora. Vol. 76, No. 3, August 2010 * The Journal of Southern History *Fields-Black has written an important groundbreaking agricultural and Diasporic cultural history. * Georgia Historical Quarterly *A stimulating study that deserves attention in graduate seminars . . . in African history . . . and in African diaspora studies. December, 2010 * HISTORIAN *While Deep Roots is a scholarly endeavor anyone interested in South Carolina's rice history or African history would find it both fascinating and full of interesting facts, stories, illustrations and graphs that bring the story to life.February 18, 2009 * Walterboro, SC *Fields-Black manages to make her research and its implications accessible to a wider audience. . . . Readers will appreciate the book's clarity of expression and revealing discussions of historical analysis and argumentation. . . . Recommended.December 2009 * Choice *[This] book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of rice cultivation in West Africa . . . .Vol. 50 2009 -- Erik Gilbert * Arkansas State University *In fine, Deep Roots represents an important contribution to the literature on risiculture in West Africa.XL.4 Spring 2010 -- Peter A. Coclanis * University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *Deep Roots is a valuable addition to research on African rice systems and their origins. ...it contributes to the understanding of the rich cultural diversity of the coastal region extending from Gambia south and east to Liberia. Vol. 53.1 April 2010 -- Laurence C. Becker * Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon *The scope of the work makes it an important addition for African and Diaspora studies, as well as those more generally interested in the transference of ideas and ecology. * Journal of West African History *Table of ContentsList of TablesOrthographyIntroduction1. The Rio Nunez Region: A Small Corner of West Africa's Rice Coast Region2. The First-Comers and the Roots of Coastal Rice-growing Technology3. The Newcomers and the Seeds of Tidal Rice-Growing Technology4. Coastal Collaboration and Specialization: Flowering of Tidal Rice-Growing Technologies5. The Strangers and the Branches of Coastal Rice-growing Technology, c.1500 to 18006. Feeding the Slave Trade: The Trade in Rice and Captives from West Africa's Rice CoastConclusionAppendix I.1 Fieldwork InterviewsAppendix I.2 Rice Terminology in Atlantic Languages Spoken in the Coastal Rio Nunez RegionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProvocative and well written, Gold Coast Diasporas is a must-read for any scholar interested in African identity, the transatlantic slave trade, and resistance. Africanists and African diaspora specialists need to engage with this book and with the methodological contributions that Rucker presents. His comprehensive approach to African identity and his rigorous analysis have produced a highly recommended study. * American Historical Review *[O]ne of the book's greatest strengths is the ways in which Rucker painstakingly traces how ethnic labels were appropriated, recast, and ultimately employed as a means to establish community bonds and resist oppression. . . . Chapters that focus on the creation of the Gold Coast diaspora, religion, and women make for a captivating text that will be of interest to graduate students and specialist readers. Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Social Life and Death 1. Gold Coast Backgrounds 2. Making the Gold Coast Diaspora 3. Slavery, Ethnogenesis, and Social ResurrectionPart Two: Social Resurrection and Empowerment 4. State, Governance, and War 5. Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestral Spirits6. Women, Regeneration, and PowerPostscript NotesBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Few scholars today explore racial (in)justice with as much depth and clarity, and with such fresh insight, as john powell. In these enlightening essays, powell challenges those of us who consider ourselves relatively evolved on issues of race and social justice to think far more critically about the basic assumptions and paradigms that frame our perspectives, animate our scholarship, and drive our advocacy. The central question he poses--"Can we stop focusing simply on transactional moves that we see as winnable and start working for the transformation of institutions that perpetuate suffering?"--is, perhaps, the most important and pressing question for racial justice advocates today." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"A book that will provoke readers to rethink prevailing notions of race, racial identity, and racism... [and] what prevailing law does and does not consider in tackling persistent forms of racial inequality." —Rachel D. Godsil, Seton Hall University School of Law"Juxtaposing race, spirituality, self, and social justice, john powell reveals the poverty in contemporary policy debates and crafts a road map for building true democratic community. Read this book and tell a friend." —Stephanie M. Wildman, Center for Social Justice and Public Service, Santa Clara University School of Law"Infused by moral urgency, intellectual precision, sweeping command of history and of critical race theory, and an unequalled ability to situate race in concrete places, these linked essays take us into the mind of one of our greatest legal and social thinkers. They navigate tensions between law and justice with consummate skill and great passion." —David Roediger, coauthor of The Production of Difference"john a. powell is among the most original and important thinkers writing about politics, race and social change in America. He is a genuine genius whose work has been indispensable to thousands of activists and scholars. Finally, his critical work is gathered together in one place. If we succeed in changing in America--and we must do so--it will be in no small part because we have engaged deeply with the ideas, analysis and heart in this book. Racing to Justice is essential reading for everyone implicated by race in America--and that means everyone." —Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change"powell sets forth a powerful argument that... until we expand our sense of self, we will be unable to create the racially egalitarian and democratic society to which many progressives aspire.... A brilliantly original and provocative challenge to the current social order." —Michael Omi, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990sTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Moving Beyond the Isolated SelfI. Race and Racialization1. Post-Racialism or Targeted Universalism?2. The Colorblind Multiracial Dilemma: Racial Categories Reconsidered3. The Racing of American Society: Race Functioning as a Verb Before Signifying as a NounII. White Privilege4. Whites Will Be Whites: The Failure to Interrogate Racial Privilege5. White Innocence and the Courts: Jurisprudential Devices that Obscure PrivilegeIII. The Racialized Self 6. Dreaming of a Self Beyond Whiteness and Isolation7. The Multiple Self: Implications for Law and Social JusticeIV. Engagement 8. Lessons from Suffering: How Social Justice Informs SpiritualityAfterwordReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis unique volume . . . stands out from the many other assembled volumes on the Ottoman Empire due to the focused and coherent picture of the empire it presents. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dealing with Identity in the Ottoman Empire / Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. SchullPart I. 13th-15th Centuries. Emergence and Expansion: From Frontier Beylik to Cosmopolitan Empire1. The Giving Divide: Food Gifts and Social Identity in Late Medieval Anatolia /Nicolas Trépanier2. Changing Perceptions along the Frontiers: The Moving Frontier with Rum in the Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives / Zeynep Aydoğan3. The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Draperio and Spinola Families / F. Ozden Mercan4. From Byzantine Aristocracy to Ottoman Ruling Elite: Mahmud Pasha Angelović and his Christian Circle, 1458-1474 / Theoharis Stavrides5. Neşri's Cihannüma, an Early Ottoman History Book and the Politics of Ottoman Identity / Murat Cem Mengüç6. A Shaykh, a Prince and a Sack of Corn: An Anatolian Sufi Becomes Ottoman / Hasan KaratasPart II. 15-17th Centuries. Expansion and Cultural Splendor: The Creation of a Sunni Islamic Empire7. Ibn-i Kemal's Confessionalism and the Construction of an "Ottoman" Islam / Nabil al-Tikriti8. Becoming Ottoman in Sixteenth-century Aintab / Leslie Peirce9. Making Jerusalem Ottoman / Amy Singer10. Ibrahim b. Khidr al-Qaramani: A Merchant and Urban Notable of Early Ottoman Aleppo / Charles Wilkins11. Mihrimah Sultan: A Princess Constructs Ottoman Dynastic Identity / Christine Isom-VerhaarenPart III. 17th-18th Centuries. Upheaval and Transformation: From Conquest to Administrative State12. The Sultan's Advisors and their Opinions on the Identity of the Real Ottoman Elite, 1580-1653 / Linda T. Darling13. Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion, and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteller14. Policing Morality: Crossing Gender Communal Boundaries in an Age of Political Crisis and Religious Controversy in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf15. Leaving France, "Turning Turk," Becoming Ottoman: The Transformation of Comte Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval into Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha / Julia Landweber16. Out of Africa, into the Palace: The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch / Jane Hathaway17. The Province Goes to the Center: The Case of Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus / Antonis HadjikyriacouPart IV. 19th-20th Centuries. Modernity, Mass Politics, and Nationalism: From Empire to Nation-state18. Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethno-nationalism in the Late Ottoman Empire / Darin Stephanov19. Muslims' Contribution to Science and Ottoman Identity / M. Alper Yalçinkaya20. Migrants, Revolutionaries, and Spies: Surveillance, Politics, and Ottoman Identity in the United States / David Gutman21. Ottomanism among the Greek Orthodox at the End of Empire: The Multiple Loyalties of Pavlos Carolidis / Vangelis Kechriotis22. Zionism in the Era of Ottoman Brotherhood / Michelle U. CamposConnections and Questions to Consider

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Book SynopsisLiving in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English translation for the first time. These materials are examined with new methodological approaches to gain a deeper understanding of what it meant to be Ottoman. Designed for use as a course text, each chapter includes study questions and suggestions for further reading.Trade ReviewThis unique volume . . . stands out from the many other assembled volumes on the Ottoman Empire due to the focused and coherent picture of the empire it presents. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dealing with Identity in the Ottoman Empire / Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. SchullPart I. 13th-15th Centuries. Emergence and Expansion: From Frontier Beylik to Cosmopolitan Empire1. The Giving Divide: Food Gifts and Social Identity in Late Medieval Anatolia /Nicolas Trépanier2. Changing Perceptions along the Frontiers: The Moving Frontier with Rum in the Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives / Zeynep Aydoğan3. The Genoese of Pera in the Fifteenth Century: The Case of the Draperio and Spinola Families / F. Ozden Mercan4. From Byzantine Aristocracy to Ottoman Ruling Elite: Mahmud Pasha Angelović and his Christian Circle, 1458-1474 / Theoharis Stavrides5. Neşri's Cihannüma, an Early Ottoman History Book and the Politics of Ottoman Identity / Murat Cem Mengüç6. A Shaykh, a Prince and a Sack of Corn: An Anatolian Sufi Becomes Ottoman / Hasan KaratasPart II. 15-17th Centuries. Expansion and Cultural Splendor: The Creation of a Sunni Islamic Empire7. Ibn-i Kemal's Confessionalism and the Construction of an "Ottoman" Islam / Nabil al-Tikriti8. Becoming Ottoman in Sixteenth-century Aintab / Leslie Peirce9. Making Jerusalem Ottoman / Amy Singer10. Ibrahim b. Khidr al-Qaramani: A Merchant and Urban Notable of Early Ottoman Aleppo / Charles Wilkins11. Mihrimah Sultan: A Princess Constructs Ottoman Dynastic Identity / Christine Isom-VerhaarenPart III. 17th-18th Centuries. Upheaval and Transformation: From Conquest to Administrative State12. The Sultan's Advisors and their Opinions on the Identity of the Real Ottoman Elite, 1580-1653 / Linda T. Darling13. Fleeing "The Vomit of Infidelity": Borders, Conversion, and Muslim Women's Agency in the Early Modern Mediterranean / Eric Dursteller14. Policing Morality: Crossing Gender Communal Boundaries in an Age of Political Crisis and Religious Controversy in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf15. Leaving France, "Turning Turk," Becoming Ottoman: The Transformation of Comte Claude-Alexandre de Bonneval into Humbaraci Ahmed Pasha / Julia Landweber16. Out of Africa, into the Palace: The Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch / Jane Hathaway17. The Province Goes to the Center: The Case of Hadjiyorgakis Kornesios, Dragoman of Cyprus / Antonis HadjikyriacouPart IV. 19th-20th Centuries. Modernity, Mass Politics, and Nationalism: From Empire to Nation-state18. Ruler Visibility, Modernity, and Ethno-nationalism in the Late Ottoman Empire / Darin Stephanov19. Muslims' Contribution to Science and Ottoman Identity / M. Alper Yalçinkaya20. Migrants, Revolutionaries, and Spies: Surveillance, Politics, and Ottoman Identity in the United States / David Gutman21. Ottomanism among the Greek Orthodox at the End of Empire: The Multiple Loyalties of Pavlos Carolidis / Vangelis Kechriotis22. Zionism in the Era of Ottoman Brotherhood / Michelle U. CamposConnections and Questions to Consider

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Makes a significant contribution to the sociology and historiography of the Igbo society, by documenting not only the cultural genealology, heterogeneity and dialects of this society but also their contributions to diasporic cultural formation, identity, and transmutation. This is probably the most comprehensive collection of scholarship on diverse aspects of Igbo society and culture." -Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Brock UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments1. Introduction Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Toyin Falola SECTION I: IGBO INSTITUTIONS AND CUSTOMS AS BASELINE2. The Kingless People: The Speech Act as Shield and Sword Hannah Chukwu3. Igbo Goddesses and the Priests and Male Priestesses Who Serve ThemNwando Achebe 4. Gender Relations in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Igbo Society Gloria ChukuSECTION II: THE IGBO IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: THE MECHANICS AND PATTERNS OF MIGRATIONS, SETTLEMENTS AND DEMOGRAPHICS5. The Aro and the Trade of the Bight A. E. Afigbo 6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade from the Bight of Biafra: An Overview Kenneth Morgan7. The Igbo and African Backgrounds of the Slave Cargo of the Henrietta Maria John Thornton8. 'A Great Many Boys and Girls': Igbo Children in the British Slave Trade, 1700-1808Audra A. Diptee9. Becoming African: Igbo Slaves and Social Reordering in Nineteenth Century Niger Delta Raphael Chijioke Njoku10. The Clustering of Igbo in the Americas: Where, When, How, and Why?Gwendolyn Mildo Hall 11. The Demography of the Bight of Biafra Slave Trade, c. 1650-1850 Paul E. Lovejoy12. The Igbo Diaspora in the Era of the Slave Trade Douglas B. ChambersSECTION III: CULTURAL CROSSCURRENTS: DIMENSIONS OF THE IGBO EXPERIENCE IN THE ATHLANTIC WORLD13. The Igbo Diaspora in the Atlantic World: African Origins and New World Chima J. Korieh 14. Olaudah Equiano and the Forging of an Igbo Identity Vincent Carretta 15. Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa – What's in a Name? Paul E. Lovejoy16. Archibald Monteath: Imperial Pawn and Individual Agent Maureen Warner-Lewis17. Igbo Influences on Masquerading and Drum-Dances in the Caribbean Robert W. Nicholls18. The Afro-Caribbean Diaspora in Reverse and its Implications for the Development of Christianity and Education in Igboland, Southeastern Nigeria: 1895-1925 Waibinte E. Wariboko19. The Making of Igbo Ethnicity in the Nigerian Setting: Colonialism, Identity, and the Politics of Difference Raphael Chijioke Njoku20. Ethnicity and the Contemporary Igbo Artist: Shifting Igbo Identities in the Post-Civil War Nigerian Art World Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie21. SNDU: Patterns of the Igbo Quest for Jesus Power Ogbu U. KaluSelected Bibliography Notes on AuthorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alejandro Paz demonstrates the processes by which margins of identity are constructed or challenged. Israeli identity is routinely imagined in relation to Arab, particularly Palestinian, identity. The fact that the space occupied by undocumented Latino youths in Israel is negotiable shows the complexity and contingency of national identity, raising interesting points about how it actually works."—Bonnie Urciuoli, author of Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class"Latinos quest for recognition as citizens is publicly grounded in their ability to convey their similarity to Israelis and their difference from Palestinians. Thus, speaking like a citizen is much more than a surface performance, as Alejandro Paz convincingly shows, and Latinos themselves are transformed in the process."—Dafna Hirsch, author of 'We Are Here to Bring the West': Hygiene Education and Culture Building in the Jewish Society of Palestine during the British Mandate Period"This fine-grained ethnography of the Latino migrant community in Israel illustrates the ways in which every day linguistic practices—such as 'speaking like a citizen'—can become cunning political tools in the hands of undocumented populations. Moving boldly beyond regionally-bound ethnographic approaches, Alejandro Paz's study demonstrates how the precarious lives of Latino communities in Israel are implicated in larger global histories of displacement and colonialism, even as it reminds us that the fate of the non-citizen Palestinian and the non-citizen labor migrant are intimately intertwined."—Rebecca L. Stein, author (with Adi Kuntsman) of Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media AgeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TranscriptionIntroduction: Language and the Unexpected CitizenChapter 1: Becoming Non-Citizens: Modernizing Agency in Latino Arrivals to IsraelChapter 2: Strangers in their own Home: Educación, Domesticity and (Trans-)National IntimacyChapter 3: Inculcating Citizenship: Language, Performance and Commensurating Cultural Difference Chapter 4: Chisme as Latino Public Life: La Alcachofa and Marginal Public VoicesChapter 5: El Sapo Speaks: Police Informers and the Voice of the StateChapter 6: Becoming Israeli Citizens: Latino Youth, Uncanny Similarity and the Message of Citizenship Epilogue: The Unexpected Citizen as Voice of ResponseReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alejandro Paz demonstrates the processes by which margins of identity are constructed or challenged. Israeli identity is routinely imagined in relation to Arab, particularly Palestinian, identity. The fact that the space occupied by undocumented Latino youths in Israel is negotiable shows the complexity and contingency of national identity, raising interesting points about how it actually works."—Bonnie Urciuoli, author of Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class"Latinos quest for recognition as citizens is publicly grounded in their ability to convey their similarity to Israelis and their difference from Palestinians. Thus, speaking like a citizen is much more than a surface performance, as Alejandro Paz convincingly shows, and Latinos themselves are transformed in the process."—Dafna Hirsch, author of 'We Are Here to Bring the West': Hygiene Education and Culture Building in the Jewish Society of Palestine during the British Mandate Period"This fine-grained ethnography of the Latino migrant community in Israel illustrates the ways in which every day linguistic practices—such as 'speaking like a citizen'—can become cunning political tools in the hands of undocumented populations. Moving boldly beyond regionally-bound ethnographic approaches, Alejandro Paz's study demonstrates how the precarious lives of Latino communities in Israel are implicated in larger global histories of displacement and colonialism, even as it reminds us that the fate of the non-citizen Palestinian and the non-citizen labor migrant are intimately intertwined."—Rebecca L. Stein, author (with Adi Kuntsman) of Digital Militarism: Israel's Occupation in the Social Media AgeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on TranscriptionIntroduction: Language and the Unexpected CitizenChapter 1: Becoming Non-Citizens: Modernizing Agency in Latino Arrivals to IsraelChapter 2: Strangers in their own Home: Educación, Domesticity and (Trans-)National IntimacyChapter 3: Inculcating Citizenship: Language, Performance and Commensurating Cultural Difference Chapter 4: Chisme as Latino Public Life: La Alcachofa and Marginal Public VoicesChapter 5: El Sapo Speaks: Police Informers and the Voice of the StateChapter 6: Becoming Israeli Citizens: Latino Youth, Uncanny Similarity and the Message of Citizenship Epilogue: The Unexpected Citizen as Voice of ResponseReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisMusic in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins.Trade Review"Inna Naroditskaya's new collection, Music in the American Diasporic Wedding, focuses on the role of music in the often-delicate negotiations surrounding weddings in immigrant communities. Each article beautifully unpacks the ins and outs of the often-contradictory hopes, dreams, and multiple identities of various couples as they work towards this hallmark of American romantic love. Filled with sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes hilarious portraits of well-made plans, often gone awry, this collection places music at the heart of these ceremonies, ultimately seeing it as a sounded source of reconciliation."—Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and GenderTable of ContentsPart I.1. Kay Shelemay, "From Generation to Generation: Musical Traditions and Political Negotiations in Weddings of the African Horn and Its Diaspora"2. Kaley Mason, "Music Specialists, Wedding work, and the Politics of Intimate Recognition in Chicago's South Asian Communities"3. Carol Silverman, "Negotiating Gender, Community, and Ethnicity: Balkan Romani Transnational Weddings"Part II.4. Meredith Schweig, "Sounding the Harmonious Union: Musical Notes on a Taiwanese and Jewish American Wedding"5. Natalie Zelensky, "Of Brides and Balalaikas: Playing 'Diaspora' in the Russian-American Wedding"6. Adriana Helbig, "Singing Out: Gay Weddings in Diaspora"Part III.7. Shayna Silverstein, "(Re)Mixed Bridal Beats: Arab Dabke, Islamic Hiphop and the Politics of Difference in Arab-American Chicago"8. Andrew Eisenberg, "Wedding Soundtracks and Diasporic Consciousness among Kenyans in the U.S."9. Inna Naroditskaya, "Big Fat Diasporic Weddings: Music, Cinema, TV"

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Book SynopsisMusic in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins.Trade Review"Inna Naroditskaya's new collection, Music in the American Diasporic Wedding, focuses on the role of music in the often-delicate negotiations surrounding weddings in immigrant communities. Each article beautifully unpacks the ins and outs of the often-contradictory hopes, dreams, and multiple identities of various couples as they work towards this hallmark of American romantic love. Filled with sometimes heart-breaking, sometimes hilarious portraits of well-made plans, often gone awry, this collection places music at the heart of these ceremonies, ultimately seeing it as a sounded source of reconciliation."—Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and GenderTable of ContentsPart I.1. Kay Shelemay, "From Generation to Generation: Musical Traditions and Political Negotiations in Weddings of the African Horn and Its Diaspora"2. Kaley Mason, "Music Specialists, Wedding work, and the Politics of Intimate Recognition in Chicago's South Asian Communities"3. Carol Silverman, "Negotiating Gender, Community, and Ethnicity: Balkan Romani Transnational Weddings"Part II.4. Meredith Schweig, "Sounding the Harmonious Union: Musical Notes on a Taiwanese and Jewish American Wedding"5. Natalie Zelensky, "Of Brides and Balalaikas: Playing 'Diaspora' in the Russian-American Wedding"6. Adriana Helbig, "Singing Out: Gay Weddings in Diaspora"Part III.7. Shayna Silverstein, "(Re)Mixed Bridal Beats: Arab Dabke, Islamic Hiphop and the Politics of Difference in Arab-American Chicago"8. Andrew Eisenberg, "Wedding Soundtracks and Diasporic Consciousness among Kenyans in the U.S."9. Inna Naroditskaya, "Big Fat Diasporic Weddings: Music, Cinema, TV"

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Book SynopsisDrawing from 20 interviews with credited episode writers, key show-runners, and Black gay men, The Generic Closet situates Black-cast sitcoms as a unique genre that uses Black gay characters in service of the series' heterosexual main cast and deconstructs the concept of a monolithic Black audience.Trade ReviewIn The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin Jr. embarks on a detailed case study of five U.S. shows that aired between 1996 and 2014 and outlines the circumscribed roles available to Black gay characters. Martin unpacks the television industry's imagination of Black audiences as monolithically intolerant of homosexuality, traces the implications of these industrial assumptions from the writers' room to the screen, and concludes with the voices of Black gay viewers themselves. . . . Martin's work is timely given the present climate of growing awareness of structural racism, especially in the United States. This book also underscores the need for intersectional analysis, highlighting the disparate conditions of representation for White gay characters and Black gay characters during the so-called Gay '90s and the problematic depiction of the "coming out" narrative as universal to the LGBTQ+ experience, despite studies showing that it is less salient to the Black LGBTQ+ experience. -- Aiden James Kosciesza * International Journal of Communication *The Generic Closet gives readers a language to describe the pernicious industrial strategy as a structure for containing Black gayness–something that the television industry and audiences wtill cannout seem to escape. -- Brandy Monk-Payton - Fordham University * Film Quarterly *With The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Martin illustrates not only how Black gayness has been mediated on the Black-cast sitcom but also why it has been mediated in the ways it has. The use of his various research methods helps to make clear how systems of power produce and recycle ideologies that satisfy racial hegemony and heteronormativity. Deviation from these industrial modes is deemed risky in terms of capital gain and losing an established audience. The possible "good intentions" in producing and sustaining narratively important Black gay characters while diversifying televisual identity is unfortunately tertiary to network fears and the heterosexist American norm. To move forward from this banishment of Black gay men to the generic closet, the assumed monolithic Black audience must first be deconstructed to make way for new representational possibilities. -- Adrien Sebro * The Communication Review *In The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin Jr. constructs a rigorous, persuasive account of the historical inclusion of Black gay characters in Black-led sitcoms. Zeroing in on the period in the 1990s and 2000s when, in US television, a significant increase in on-screen Black and gay representation occurred, Martin uses interviews with audiences and industry professionals to produce nuanced understandings of the industrial moment itself, the programs created during it, and, most centrally to the monograph's arc, Black gayness as it appeared in Black-cast sitcoms. . . . Notably, throughout The Generic Closet, Martin holds space for the positive and productive aspects of representations of Black gay characters, even while highlighting areas worthy of critique. This tension is something many scholars studying media industries (while also attending to implications of race, sexual identity, and other minoritized identity categories within those industries) are required to balance: while there is willingness, and even desire, to acknowledge advancements around diversity, engaging with the potential of what could be can make it difficult to maintain a critical lens toward understanding which elements have limited or continue to limit possibilities around more authentic, dynamic representations of minoritized groups. Martin successfully strikes this balance through careful deployment of his multifaceted analytical approach, the facets of which are ultimately unified by his illumination of the previously obfuscated generic closet and the revelation of how it functions to uphold boundaries around Black gay inclusion in US television. -- Lauren E. Wilks * Media Industries Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Television in Black and Gay1. Building and Rebuilding Generic Closets within the Black-Cast Sitcom Industry2. Scripting the Generic Closet in the Writers' Room3. Comedy, Laughter and the Generic Closet4. Black Queens Speak: The Generic Closet, Black-Cast Sitcoms and Reception PracticesConclusion: Trapped in the Black-Cast Sitcoms' Generic ClosetAppendix A: List of Black-Cast Sitcoms with Black Gay CharactersAppendix B: Interview Script for Black-Cast Sitcom ViewersAppendix C: Interview Script for Industry ProfessionalsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing from 20 interviews with credited episode writers, key show-runners, and Black gay men, The Generic Closet situates Black-cast sitcoms as a unique genre that uses Black gay characters in service of the series' heterosexual main cast and deconstructs the concept of a monolithic Black audience.Trade ReviewIn The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin Jr. embarks on a detailed case study of five U.S. shows that aired between 1996 and 2014 and outlines the circumscribed roles available to Black gay characters. Martin unpacks the television industry's imagination of Black audiences as monolithically intolerant of homosexuality, traces the implications of these industrial assumptions from the writers' room to the screen, and concludes with the voices of Black gay viewers themselves. . . . Martin's work is timely given the present climate of growing awareness of structural racism, especially in the United States. This book also underscores the need for intersectional analysis, highlighting the disparate conditions of representation for White gay characters and Black gay characters during the so-called Gay '90s and the problematic depiction of the "coming out" narrative as universal to the LGBTQ+ experience, despite studies showing that it is less salient to the Black LGBTQ+ experience. -- Aiden James Kosciesza * International Journal of Communication *The Generic Closet gives readers a language to describe the pernicious industrial strategy as a structure for containing Black gayness–something that the television industry and audiences wtill cannout seem to escape. -- Brandy Monk-Payton - Fordham University * Film Quarterly *With The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Martin illustrates not only how Black gayness has been mediated on the Black-cast sitcom but also why it has been mediated in the ways it has. The use of his various research methods helps to make clear how systems of power produce and recycle ideologies that satisfy racial hegemony and heteronormativity. Deviation from these industrial modes is deemed risky in terms of capital gain and losing an established audience. The possible "good intentions" in producing and sustaining narratively important Black gay characters while diversifying televisual identity is unfortunately tertiary to network fears and the heterosexist American norm. To move forward from this banishment of Black gay men to the generic closet, the assumed monolithic Black audience must first be deconstructed to make way for new representational possibilities. -- Adrien Sebro * The Communication Review *In The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin Jr. constructs a rigorous, persuasive account of the historical inclusion of Black gay characters in Black-led sitcoms. Zeroing in on the period in the 1990s and 2000s when, in US television, a significant increase in on-screen Black and gay representation occurred, Martin uses interviews with audiences and industry professionals to produce nuanced understandings of the industrial moment itself, the programs created during it, and, most centrally to the monograph's arc, Black gayness as it appeared in Black-cast sitcoms. . . . Notably, throughout The Generic Closet, Martin holds space for the positive and productive aspects of representations of Black gay characters, even while highlighting areas worthy of critique. This tension is something many scholars studying media industries (while also attending to implications of race, sexual identity, and other minoritized identity categories within those industries) are required to balance: while there is willingness, and even desire, to acknowledge advancements around diversity, engaging with the potential of what could be can make it difficult to maintain a critical lens toward understanding which elements have limited or continue to limit possibilities around more authentic, dynamic representations of minoritized groups. Martin successfully strikes this balance through careful deployment of his multifaceted analytical approach, the facets of which are ultimately unified by his illumination of the previously obfuscated generic closet and the revelation of how it functions to uphold boundaries around Black gay inclusion in US television. -- Lauren E. Wilks * Media Industries Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Television in Black and Gay1. Building and Rebuilding Generic Closets within the Black-Cast Sitcom Industry2. Scripting the Generic Closet in the Writers' Room3. Comedy, Laughter and the Generic Closet4. Black Queens Speak: The Generic Closet, Black-Cast Sitcoms and Reception PracticesConclusion: Trapped in the Black-Cast Sitcoms' Generic ClosetAppendix A: List of Black-Cast Sitcoms with Black Gay CharactersAppendix B: Interview Script for Black-Cast Sitcom ViewersAppendix C: Interview Script for Industry ProfessionalsBibliographyIndex

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