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Book SynopsisThis book investigates how migration has been transformed into a security threat in Europe. It argues that this process has taken place through a self-fulfilling spiralling process, which involves different actors and their specific narratives, practices and policies. The book examines how situations stemming from the so-called migration crisis' in the European Union (EU) have been dealt with by governments and non-governmental organisations. It also considers how actors treating migration as an ordinary phenomenon rather than a threat and sharing inclusive narratives can create the conditions for decelerating and eventually stopping securitisation processes. Some chapters examine the spiralling of the securitisation of migration in depth, by analysing increases in securitisation, as well as cases characterised by resistance. Others focus on examining the consequences of socially constructing migration as a crisis for the EU's relations with third countries. In sum, this book showsTable of Contents1. Introduction— The spiralling of the securitisation of migration in the EU: from the management of a ‘crisis’ to a governance of human mobility? 2. From Mobility Partnerships to Migration Compacts: security implications of EU- Jordan relations and the informalization of migration governance 3. The ‘refugee crisis’ and its transformative impact on EU- Western Balkans relations 4. People as security risks: the framing of migration in the UK security- development nexus 5. The EU and migration in the Mediterranean: EU borders’ control by proxy 6. The securitisation of migration in the European Union: Frontex and its evolving security practices 7. EU border technologies and the co- production of security ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’ 8. Overcoming borders: the Europeanization of civil society activism in the ‘refugee crisis’ 9. The role of non- state actors’ cognitions in the spiralling of the securitisation of migration: prejudice, narratives and Italian CAS reception centres

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Book SynopsisDecolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges conventional psychoanalytic assumptions by revisiting Lacanâs conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.Ahmad Fuad Rahmat explores how Lacanâs ideas about the symbolic order and its historical development are intertwined with decolonial assumptions, and proposes that critically considering these assumptions can pave the way for a decolonial psychoanalysis. The book begins with how Lacan uses Freudâs Jewishness as a marginalized perspective that reveals the excluded dimensions of signification within the symbolic order, and examines James Joyceâs anti-colonial politics and its significance for Lacanâs conception of the sinthome. The book includes a critique of Slavoj ÅiÅekâs Eurocentric reading of Malcolm X as a foil with which colonized speech could be conceived as âœsymbolic dispossessionâ. Finally, it reframes the notion of âœthe gapâ by understanding global capitalism as a mode of exchange to advocate for a decolonial psychoanalysis that focuses on the non-spaces of transmission as opposed to a like-for-like export of the clinic from the center to the periphery.Decolonization and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and to scholars of psychoanalytic studies, critical theory, and cultural studies.

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Book SynopsisIn this prescient and sensitive volume, Aida Alayarian looks at how psychoanalysis in group settings can benefit refugees who have experienced trauma, with an express focus on transference and countertransference. Group Analysis for Refugees Experiencing Trauma offers a comprehensive overview of trauma from a psychoanalytic perspective, before delving into the nuance of trauma experienced by asylum seekers, refugees and those who have gone through forced migration. Through clinical vignettes, Alayarian highlights the importance of the resilience that can be brought about from group sessions and shared experience in helping to heal the wounds of trauma. She looks at the vital role of social injustice in this trauma and shows how this can be directly applied to work with other groups experiencing human rights violations, destitution, and loss. She shows how looking at relational patterns as a means of understanding conscious, unconscious, and subconscious thought processTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Refugee Therapy Centre 2. Assessments 3. Trauma 4. Repression and Dissociation 5. Principle of Psychoanalysis 6. Important Psychoanalytic Ideas 7. Intercultural Approach 8. What is Group? 9. Creating Groups 10. Transference and Countertransference

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Book SynopsisBlack Femalehood and the Principles of Existence in Practice conceptually frames the complex trajectory of Black femalehood, including contributions and triumphs, methods of resistance, and ways of coping, as well as the impacts of external forces on their physical and psychological wellness.The book scrutinizes the work of selected female figures and their modes of resistance, including the warriors of the Haitian Revolution, diasporic African descendant combatants for human rights, and academic female writers. From battlefield combats to daily struggles for survival, it illustrates how the battles in which Black females have been compelled to engage have caused centuries of physical, emotional, and psychological distress, well into contemporary times. This volume will be of use to upper-level undergraduate students as well as graduate students studying gender studies, sociology, Black studies, and politics.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on India's foreign policy towards Sri Lanka before the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord (ISLA) in July 1987 and India's military intervention after the ISLA.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America respond to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping this global industry.With its historic roots in Southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation continues to expand beyond its historical centres. In Latin America, many countries are now developing their own policies to promote and govern oil palm cultivation. This book provides a unique examination of how different countries strive to strike a balance between developmental and environmental concerns, through case studies on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, and Mexico, and an outlook for the industry's prospects in Africa. This book applies an assemblage approach to draw out lessons on the global challenges posed by the industry and how differing national governance regimes and communiti

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Book SynopsisAspirations and Challenges for Undocumented Student Success offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain on undocumented student success. Compiling the most significant work in the field in terms of its contributions to research and professional practice, the volume opens with an exploration the aspirations of undocumented students and the fight for equity, followed by an examination of the impact and influence of parents and families on educational outcomes. Finally, it concludes with testimonios reflecting on the educational experiences of undocumented students in America. Each section presents readings in chronological order, demonstrating the progression around undocumented student success in the field over the past 20+ years, in respect to the intentionality about integrating undocumented student success throughout equity initiatives, breaking down institutional silos, fostering welcoming campus en

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Book SynopsisâœRegional cooperation exists, but looks different in the global South than in the European Union,â claim the contributors to South American Policy Regionalism, which offers novel theory, methods, and Latin American case studies of joint governance efforts in nine international policy arenas, ranging from illegal drugs to artificial intelligence.Contrasting three major schools of thought in international relations (highlighting power, institutions, and ideas), this book introduces the idea of international policy regionalism as a framework for informed debate about international policy-sector interactions in a regional space. Beginning with a conceptual approach applicable to any world region, it includes a brief history of Western Hemisphere regionalism to aid in future cross-regional comparisons. An international group of contributors constructs rich narratives of the politics of Latin American policy sector evolution since the Cold War. Besides the aforementioned, i

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Book SynopsisRabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and continues to influence contemporary Black popular music and Black popular culture, especially rap music and the Hip Hop Movement.The Funk Movement was a sub-movement within the larger Black Power Movement and its artistic arm, the Black Arts Movement. Moreover, the Funk Movement was also a sub-movement within the Black Womenâs Liberation Movement between the late 1960s and late 1970s, where womenâs funk, especially Chaka Khan and Betty Davisâs funk, was understood to be a form of âœBlack musical feminismâ that was as integral to the movement as the Black political feminism of Angela Davis or the Combahee River Collective and the Black literary feminism of Toni Morrison or Alice Walker. This book also demonstrates that more than any other post-war Black popular music genre, the funk music of the 1960s and 1970s laid the foundation for the mercurial rise of rap music and the Hip Hop Movement in the 1980s and 1990s.This book is primarily aimed at scholars and students working in popular music studies, popular culture studies, American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, critical race studies, womenâs studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies.

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Book SynopsisOne of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Law and Society begins with a legal and a genocide studies critique of the claim that Israel is genocidal; another reflects on the absence of an understanding of antisemitism in international legal discourse.There are reflections on experiences in the Palestine solidarity movement and on the twists that discourse there takes. Contributions draw on Judaism, feminism, and sociology to face what happened and to trace how Israelis were transported back to a quintessentially pre-Israel Jewish experience. Others survey reports of antisemitism around the globe in the wake of 7 October, including pieces about Britain and Germany.This work will appeal to scholars, students, and activists with an interest in antisemitism, Jewish studies, and the politics of Israel.

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Book SynopsisThis important new book offers public administration scholars, practitioners, and students a comprehensive resource to make sense of identity and equity, two of the most crucial, yet complex, concepts for public decision-makers to address. The chapters in this volume present original research and explore timely and relevant theories and practices of identity and equity in public sector workplaces. To do this, authors present innovative theories and approaches to identity and equity, analyze practical pathways to identity and equity, and critique foundational policy and law addressing identity and equity. The utility of this volume lies in the timeliness and innovative approaches to evolving concepts of identity and equity in public sector workplaces. Applying a liberatory lens, the chapters reflect an expanded interpretation and understanding of identity, the challenges and opportunities for public sector organizations to more fully embrace and integrate diverse identities in the workplace, and paths for future research and application of practices that strive for more equitable and inclusive workplaces. Making Sense of Identity and Equity in Public Sector Workplaces is essential reading for all students and scholars of public administration as well as those working in public and nonprofit organizations.

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Book SynopsisThis book is an essential toolkit for students and early researchers of population studies and demography, geography, economics, development studies political science, sociology, anthropology, and gender studies.The volume:- Presents in-depth coverage of basic concepts;- Includes empirical data, case studies, and references for further reading;- Covers critical aspects of migration studies ranging from the theoretical to contemporary issues and policies.The book will be of interest to scholars, students, researchers, or anyone interested in migration and diasporic studies, development studies, the politics of migration, immigration policy, social anthropology, economics, and sociology.

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Book SynopsisMajor land reform programs have reallocated property in more than one-third of the world''s countries in the last century and impacted over one billion people. But only rarely have these programs granted beneficiaries complete property rights. Why is this the case, and what are the consequences? This book draws on wide-ranging original data and charts new conceptual terrain to reveal the political origins of the property rights gap. It shows that land reform programs are most often implemented by authoritarian governments who deliberately withhold property rights from beneficiaries. In so doing, governments generate coercive leverage over rural populations and exert social control. This is politically advantageous to ruling governments but it has negative development consequences: it slows economic growth, productivity, and urbanization and it exacerbates inequality. The book also examines the conditions under which subsequent governments close property rights gaps, usually as a result of democratization or foreign pressure.Trade Review'Low productivity in agriculture condemns many countries and regions to poverty. This erudite book combines history and detailed data analysis to show that low productivity is often caused by a property rights gap, created by regimes trying to cultivate large masses of peasants dependent on them. The book explains where these missing property rights in land emerge, what they imply for inequality and poverty, and how they can be overcome. This is first-rate social science that should inform modern debates on development and policy.' Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'In this landmark study, based on more than a decade of intrepid fieldwork and imaginative analysis of the most comprehensive dataset on rural property rights ever assembled, Michael Albertus systematically unravels the great puzzle of why so many states fail to provide secure property rights over land to their citizens. This pathbreaking book convincingly exposes the political motives that lead governments to open and maintain wide gaps in property rights, and that induce democracies to close them.' Larry Diamond, Stanford University'This outstanding book makes the case for understanding why governments distribute land but not secure property rights to rural dwellers. These property rights gaps are of great consequence throughout the developing world. Yet they are poorly understood. Whereas these gaps are often attributed to misguided policy or state weakness, Albertus makes a compelling case that they are rooted in political choices, often aimed at sustaining autocracy. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of rights and redistribution.' Steven Levitsky, Harvard University'Around the world millions of rural dwellers live in a state of limbo in which they receive property but few if any rights over that property. With a broad comparative perspective, this book offers a novel theory, in-depth case studies, and sophisticated empirical analyses about this important phenomenon. It is a must-read for those interested in development, political regimes, land reform and the politics of economic redistribution.' Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University'… book's overall quality will likely make it an influential contribution to the literature of rural politics for many years. Highly recommended.' D. Newcomer, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Conceptualizing and Measuring the Property Rights Gap; 3. The Political Origins of the Property Rights Gap; 4. Evidence on the Rise and Fall of Property Rights Gaps in Latin America; 5. Consequences of the Property Rights Gap; 6. Opening and Closing a Property Rights Gap in Peru; 7. The Long-Term Consequences of Peru's Property Rights Gap; 8. Property Rights Gaps Around the World; 9. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study tells the story of the highly organised, international legal court case for the abolition of slavery spearheaded by Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the seventeenth century. The case, presented before the Vatican, called for the freedom of all enslaved people and other oppressed groups. This included New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity) and Indigenous Americans in the Atlantic World, and Black Christians from confraternities in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and Spain. Abolition debate is generally believed to have been dominated by white Europeans in the eighteenth century. By centring African agency, José Lingna Nafafé offers a new perspective on the abolition movement, showing, for the first time, how the legal debate was begun not by Europeans, but by Africans. In the first book of its kind, Lingna Nafafé underscores the exceptionally complex nature of the African liberation struggle, and demystifies the common knowledge and accepted wisdom surrouTrade Review'By following Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in Angola, Brazil, Portugal and Spain and unveiling the criminal court case he presented before the Pope in 1684, José Lingna Nafafé reveals a universal message of freedom that in the 17th century crossed the Atlantic and reached the Vatican, doing justice to the African contribution to the abolitionist movement.' Giorgio de Marchis, Roma Tre University'This is a groundbreaking study on the slave trade and its abolition. Nafafé privileges African perspectives on the debates regarding the legality of enslavement, combining a wide range of sources. The result is an engaging book, reconstructing the experiences of a 17th century Kongolese nobleman turned into an abolitionist. This is a crucial study problematizing the history of the slave trade and of the abolitionist movement, stressing the role of Africans as intellectuals debating rights in European courts. A must read.' Mariana P. Candido, Emory University'In his extraordinarily well researched and carefully argued book, José Lingna Nafafé reveals the important role of Lourenço da Silva Mendonça in the lead-up to the abolition of slavery. Spending years combing through archives, Nafafé not only uncovered that Africans did indeed support the abolition of the slave trade, but that some were remarkably well placed to make a case for it. This is a substantial contribution to our understanding of African intellectual life and moral reasoning.' John Thornton, Boston UniversityTable of ContentsList of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Municipal Council of Luanda and the Politics of the Portuguese Governors in Angola; 2. Ndongo's Political and Cultural Environment: Alliance, Internal Struggle, Puppeteering and Decline; 3. The Journey of Mendonça: Princes of Pungo Andongo in Brazil; 4. Mendonça's Journey to Portugal and Spain, and the Network of the Hebrew Nation and Native Americans; 5. Mendonça's Discourse in the Vatican: Liberation as a Wider Atlantic Question; 6. Mendonça's Quest for Abolition and the Tussle between Portuguese Overseas Council and the House of Ndongo; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisLena Dominelli is Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Programme Director of International Social Work and Community Development and Advisor, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience at Durham University, UK. She is also Academician in the Academy of the Learned Societies for Social Sciences in the UK. A highly experienced educator, practitioner and researcher, she has published extensively in the fields of sociology, social policy and social work.Table of ContentsDiagrams and Charts Introduction: Racism, An Issue of Continuing Concern Chapter One: ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la m?me chose’ Chapter Two: Racism as a Socially Constructed Phenomenon Chapter Three: Identity: A Personal Matter or a Political Issue? Chapter Four: Anti-Racist Social Work with Children and Families Chapter Five: Anti-Racist Social Work with Older People Chapter Six: Anti-Racist Social Work with Offenders Chapter Seven: Anti-Racist Social Work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees Chapter Eight: Anti-Racist Community Work Chapter Nine: Anti-Racist Social Work Across Borders Conclusions: Anti-racist Social Work Guidelines

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Book SynopsisDedicated to the late Gerard BÃhague (1937-2005), whose pioneering work in Latin American music, popular culture, and performance studies contributed extensively to ethnomusicological discourse in the 1970s-1990s, this anthology offers comparative perspectives on the evolving legacy of performance ethnography in socio-musical analysis. President of the Society for Ethnomusicology from 1979-81, editor of its journal, Ethnomusicology, from 1974-78, and founder and editor of the trilingual Latin American Music Review from 1980 until his death, BÃhague also established the ethnomusicology graduate program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1974, thereby influencing the training and thinking of dozens of the fieldâs practitioners. Among these are the volumeâs eight authors, whose contributions reflect the heritage but also contemporary trajectories of BÃhagueâs scholarly concerns. Prefaced by an essay outlining key developments in the ethnography of performance paradigm, the volumeâs seven case studies portray snapshots of musical life in representative communities of the Americas, including the southwestern and Pacific United States, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, and Ecuador. Situated in milieus ranging from the indigenous festivals of the Andean highlands, to the competitive public gatherings of poet-singers in post-Pinochet Chile, to the Puerto Rican dance halls of the Hawaiian islands, these studies pose anthropological inquiries into the ontology of performance practice, the social power of poetic performativity, and the experience and embodiment of sound in place.Trade Review’The ethnography of musical performance is so fundamental to contemporary ethnomusicology that it is like the air we breathe. Buchanan’s introduction offers a new window to the genesis of this approach and its broad reach, and then points us to the next steps forward. The articles that follow explore the politics of performance and the power of performativity in relation to history, subjectivity, and specific events through a series of vibrant case studies from across the Americas. Of special interest to Latin Americanists, Americanists, and ethnomusicologists in general, this book both explains and exemplifies why the ethnography of performance has become foundational to the ethnomusicological project.’ Thomas Turino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USATable of ContentsIntroduction, Donna A. Buchanan; Part I Genres, Histories, and Discourses of Power Performed; Chapter 1 The Teatro Bufo: Cuban Blackface Theater of the Nineteenth Century, Robin Moore; Chapter 2 La Música Nacional: A Metaphor for Contrasting Views of Ecuadorian National Identity, Ketty Wong; Chapter 3 Conserve, Adapt, and Reconverge: Rationalizing a Template in Hawai’i Puerto Rican Musical Performance, Ted Solís; Part II Performing Practice: Style and the Politics of Subjectivity; Chapter 4 Transformation in Communion: Toward an Aesthetic of Improvisation, Tim Brace; Chapter 5 Feminine Flowers among the Thistles: Gendered Boundaries of Performance in Chilean Canto a lo poeta, Emily Pinkerton; Part III Situated Events and Performance Politics: Fiesta, Festival, Stage, and Street; Chapter 6, Michelle Wibbelsman; Chapter 7 Performing Indigeneity: Poetics and Politics of Music Festivals in Highland Bolivia, Thomas Solomon;

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the multiform and shifting location of borders and boundaries in social life, related to difference and belonging. It contributes to understanding categories of difference as a building block for forms of belonging and inequality in the world today and as underpinning modern capitalist societies and their forms of governance. Reflecting on the ways in which we might theorise the connections between different social divisions and identities, a translocational lens for addressing modalities of power is developed, stressing relationality, the spatio-temporal and the processual in social relations. The book is organised around contemporary dilemmas of difference and inequality, relating to fixities and fluidities in social life and to current developments in the areas of racialisation, migration, gender, sexuality and class relations, and in theorising the articulations of gender, class and ethnic hierarchies. Rejecting the view that gender, ethnicity, race, class orTrade Review'With a focus on processes of power underpinning ‘difference’ across such axes as class, race and gender, this text provides a sustained critique of essentialist thinking. Its innovative reworking of the concepts of intersectionality, stratification, and political economy is likely to set new agendas on addressing questions of inequality. Incisive theoretical and political analysis at its best.' - Avtar Brah, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London'Floya Anthias offers a nuanced and astute account of the changing forms of social inequality in the contemporary global environment. She challenges simplistic accounts of belonging and identity and seeks to show that we need to move beyond dominant paradigms and perspectives.' - John Solomos, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK 'This book is a masterpiece: with a translocational lens, Anthias focuses on insights from studies on intersectionality, bordering and belonging, migration, nationalism, racism, violence, intimacy and social class and demonstrates how they are entangled in complicated ways. Yet, she is not satisfied with depicting dilemmas but instead provides heuristic tools and theoretical frames for their adequate analysis.' - Helma Lutz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, co-author of Gender and Migration: Transnational and Intersectional Prospects "Translocational Belongings, introduced by incisive personal memories of growing up in an activist migrant family, captures the human condition of the migrant, offering a distinctive account of border crossings, in the real world and in sociological theory. Scrutinising intersecting hierarchies of race, gender, class, ascribed cultural differences and social inequalities, the author grounds new horizons for solidarity politics beyond fixed belonging." - Aleksandra Ålund, Professor Emerita, Linköping University, Sweden'This tour de force considers key debates in sociological and social theory engaging with gender, ethnicity, racialization, and class locations, borders and boundaries, difference and belongings. It transcends disciplinary boundaries speaking also to philosophy and political theory [...]. A fascinating theoretical re-reading, extending and rethinking of feminism, race/ethnicity and class theory. It provides fresh and insightful contributions on the potential and shortcomings of class and stratification theorisations since Marx’s Capital and the revived interest in class via the works of Bourdieu, Foucault, Tilly, Agamben.' - Nicos Trimikliniotis, Ethnic and Racial Studies'The power of Anthias’ argument is threefold. Not only does she go beyond the limits of methodological nationalism and synthesise the transnational scale into her theory, making visible how scale is an important aspect of the contradictory nature of translocal belonging and difference. Her analysis and political perspective also highlight the notion of agency that is possible in relation to actors’ contradictory belonging. Contrary to Patricia Hill Collins or Nira Yuval-Davis, Anthias argues that identity and deconstructive solidarity politics will possibly both play a role in political activism because they are produced by intersections of categories of difference. In addition, she combines economic and cultural dimensions in her analysis in order to address a major lacuna in current sociological attempts to investigate how power works within the state of the neoliberal world.' - Jana Schäfer and Anna Amelina, European Journal of Women's Studies'Anthias points to the limitations of dialogical politics, favouring instead the importance of ‘asserting the right to have rights…. that is, claiming the rights to difference and the right to be equal, despite difference’ (p. 182). This is a text brimming with incisive theoretical and political analysis at its best.' - Avtar Brah, European Journal of Women's Studies‘In her much-praised and discussed book, Floya Anthias summarizes her decades-long work on translocational positionality, refining and operationalizing the traveling concept of intersectionality by weaving together a coherent theoretical framework of "translocation belongings." Her book is an essential contribution to intersectionality, identity, difference, bordering, and belonging studies. …Combined with the goals of resource allocation and ensuing struggles and also agency and positionalities of social actors, the framework of translocational belongings provides a rich theoretical tool for understanding inequality.’ - Tanzilya Oren, Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work‘The book represents an outstanding contribution in addressing issues around gender, place and culture based on the re-examination of long-standing debates in social theory around concepts of equality/difference, racialization processes, feminism and social justice. It does not only provide for an acute theoretical analysis of those themes beyond simplistic and essentialist arguments, but it also provides heuristic tools for investigation including at policy level. It also presents a much needed analysis on how scholarship on intersectionality has developed in recent years and on the risks that it may be disjoined from the struggle for social justice while providing for sophisticated conceptual tools in this direction.’ – Erika Bernacchi, Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography‘This book takes us on a complex journey of understanding of social boundaries, differences, and hierarchies that manifest through different forms of inequality and oppression in society. It provides us with deep insights into migrants'/migrant-citizens’ multi-level dilemmas around identity and belonging as well as shows us how by adopting a translocational intersectional framework, we can, to some extent, overcome the analytical impasse of intersectionality.’ - Sajia Ferdous, Gender, Work & OrganizationTable of ContentsProlegomena: a personal borderscape 1. Introduction. Marking places: dilemmas of difference and inequality 2. Branding places: dilemmas of ordering 3. Assembling places: dilemmas of articulation 4. Hierarchising places: dilemmas of class and stratification 5. Transgressing places: dilemmas of gender, intimacy and violence 6. Territorialising places: dilemmas of b/ordering the nation 7. Epilogos. Transforming places: towards a politics of translocation

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1974, this book gives a detailed and thoughtful examination on immigration in Britain, specifying the experiences of non-white intellectuals. In the first section Viewpoint each contributor, who was born and raised outside Britain, articulates and analyses the tensions generated by the conflict between his own native culture and that dominant in Britain, and the way in which, and the degree to which, he has coped with them. Each contributor observes English culture, elucidating its distinctive characteristics, and analysing the extent to which he feels sympathetic to them. In the second section Response distinguished philosophers, sociologists, and students of English character respond to the problems raised by immigrant intellectuals in their essays. This book is indispensable to everyone interested in creating a peaceful and culturally rich society in Britain.  Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction by Bhikhu Parekh; Part One: Viewpoint 1. Another Kind of Minority – Dilip Hiro 2. Through a Glass Darkly – J. Ayodele Langley 3. The Spectre of Self-Consciousness – Bhikhu Parekh 4. A Child and A Stranger: On Growing Out of English Culture – Krishan Kumar 5. Alien Gods – A. Sivanandan 6. All Are Consumed – John La Rose 7. And One Khaki – P. Cachia 8. The Metaphysics of Anglicism – Arun Sahay 9. Black Intellectuals in Britain – C.L.R James Part Two: Response 10. Stranger Upon Earth – Philip Mason 11. Black Intellectuals, Black Bourgeoisie, and Black Workers – John Rex 12. Guests and Visitors – Geoffrey Gorer 13. On Preserving the British Way of Life – John Plamenatz 14. The Immigrant Intellectual – Edward Shils 15. Postscript - Bhikhu Parekh; Index

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Book SynopsisTodayâs convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially illegal content which are serious problems for those teaching and researching about Japan. Despite young peopleâs enthusiasm for Japanese popular culture, these concerns spark debate about whether it can be judged harmful for youth audiences and could therefore herald the end of âcool Japanâ. This collection brings together Japan specialists in order to identify key challenges in using Japanese popular culture materials in research and teaching. It addresses issues such as the availability of unofficially translated and distributed Japanese material; the emphasis on adult-themes, violence, sexual scenes and under-age characters; and the discrepancies in legislation and ratings systems across the world. Considering how these issues aTrade Review"The End of Cool Japan is a forceful intervention into the study and flow of Japanese pop culture around the world. Taking the arousals of fandom seriously, the essays also consider the ways J-pop culture gets both manipulated and constrained (by politics, legal constricts, religion, nationalism) to make it decidedly "uncool" at various hands. Advocating for a critical pedagogy that scrutinizes Japanese pop culture in all its complexities and iterations, the volume is sharp-edged and smartly conceived throughout. This is an invaluable contribution to the field—that of Japanese studies and also beyond."Anne Allison, Duke University, USA. "From its cheeky, quirky cover, to the selection of its contributors, to its unifying tone, Mark McLelland’s new anthology deserves to shoot right to the top of Japanese Studies reading lists. The End of Cool Japan: Ethical, Legal and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture offers a vital and timely warning for all those students who think that scholarship amounts to a diary of what they did at the weekend...I cannot recommend this book highly enough, to libraries, lecturers and students."Jonathan Clements, All The Anime, August 2016Table of Contents Introduction: Negotiating "Cool Japan" in Research and Teaching Death Note, Student Crimes, and the Power of Universities in the Global Spread of Manga Scholar Girl Meets Manga Maniac, Media Specialist, and Cultural Gatekeeper Must We Burn Eromanga? On Trying Obscenity in the Courtroom and the Classroom Manga, Anime and Child Pornography Law in Canada The "Lolicon Guy:" Some Observations on Researching Unpopular Topics in Japan All Seizures Great and Small: Reading Contentious Images of Minors in Japan and Australia "The Love that Dare Not Speak its Name": Chinese Danmei Communities in the 2014 Anti-Porn Campaign Negotiating Religious and Fan Identities: "Boys Love" and Fujoshi Guilt Is there a Space for Cool Manga in Indonesia and the Philippines? Postcolonial Discourses on Transcultural Manga Appendix: The Rise and Fall of the King of Lolicon: An Interview with Uchiyama Aki

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an original perspective on the emergence of early modern Spain from multi-faith Iberia. It uses the eventful career of Hernando de Baeza an interpreter, intermediary, and author positioned at the intersection of the so-called three cultures' of medieval Iberia (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) as a thread to connect the conflicts, controversies and preoccupations of an age in which Christianising the whole world seemed an attainable dream. Teresa Tinsley draws on a wealth of extensive archival evidence, together with Baeza's own memoir on the downfall of Muslim Granada (translated here for the first time), to demonstrate the widespread resistance to the authoritarian and exclusionary Christianity which would come to be associated with Spain, the Inquisition, and the Catholic Monarchs of the period. In the process, Tinsley provides a nuanced alternative account of the tensions, compromises and competing interests which underlay Spain's emergence as a world power.Trade ReviewThis volume is a sensitive and well-researched study of a foundational period in the history of early modern Spain. Through an analysis of the career and writings of Hernando de Baeza, it offers a fresh and nuanced perspective that brings to the fore questions of religious difference, inter-cultural contact, and good government. * Rosa Vidal Doval, Queen Mary, University of London, UK *A sensitive and revealing portrait of a deliberately elusive figure, who delicately negotiated a path through the thicket of religious antagonism and intolerance that marked the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs. Tinsley uncovers a cultured, well-connected, and cross-cultural character with converso origins who, while trusted by 'both sides'--Christian and Muslim--and personally known to Ferdinand and Isabella, subtly rejected ethnic binaries and the forced erasure of cultural identities, thus de-Othering both Muslims and Jews. * Simon R. Doubleday, Professor of History, Hofstra University, USA *Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Alternative Eye on the Reign of the Catholic Monarchs 2. Cordoba, the Frontier, and the Inquisition, 1450-1487 3. Granada, 1488-1492 4. Learning and Culture among the Andalusian Élite - 1492-1510 5. The Spanish in Italy 6. Reconciliation and Resistance: A Society in Transition 7. A Dissident Representation of the Conquest of Granada Conclusion Appendix: Hernando de Baeza’s Memoir Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn essential resource for transracially adoptive parents and the professionals who serve them, this book offers practical strategies for helping a transracially adopted child through the challenges he or she may face.Anchored in a qualitative study of parents who have adopted children identified as being of a different race, this book draws from real-life experiences to raise and respond to questions that arise before, during, and after transracial adoption. Its goal: to help adoptive parents (and child welfare professionals) understand the underlying racial challenges in a transracial adoption so they can help their children cope.The book addresses questions from the obviousfor example, how to respond to comments from family and community membersto the practicalhow a Caucasian mother can learn to help her African American daughter groom her hair. Topics include parental understanding of race while growing up, parental understanding of the challenges within the community, and communicaTrade ReviewThis book offers insight and strategies for parents to help them prepare their children and their family for the world as it exists. Beyond parents, this book is an indispensable resource for professionals working with TRA families. This book will help clinicians working with TRA children or parents continue this important dialogue. * PsycCRITIQUES *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: In Her Voice: Michelle Chapter 2: I Never Thought about Race Growing Up Chapter 3: Dealing with Race in the Extended Family and Community Chapter 4: Hair as a Metaphor: Entering into the Culture of Your Child Chapter 5: In His Voice: Kevin Chapter 6: Parenting between Cultures: Important Considerations for Parents Chapter 7: Parenting a Transracially Adopted Child with a History of Trauma Chapter 8: Adoption Communication within the Transracial Adoptive Family Chapter 9: In Her Voice: Angela Chapter 10: Conversations with Practitioners: What Adoption Professionals Want Parents to Consider Appendix: Resources for Further Information About the Authors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides detailed and engaging narratives about 25 pivotal events in Asian American history, celebrates Asian Americans'' contributions to U.S. history, and examines the ways their experiences have shaped American culture.Asian Americans have made significant contributions to American history, society, and culture. This book presents key events in the Asian American experience through 25 well-developed, accessible essays; detailed timelines; biographies of notable figures; excerpts of primary source documents; and sidebars and images that provide narrative and visual information on high-interest topics. Arranged chronologically, the 25 essays showcase the ways in which Asian Americans have contributed to U.S. history and culture and bear witness to their struggles, activism, and accomplishments.The book offers a unique look at the Asian American experience, from the California Gold Rush in the mid-nineteenth century to the 2017 travel ban. Highlighting events with national anTrade ReviewCollege and advanced high school students, as well as general readers interested in Asian American history, will find these thorough writings a rich source of research ideas. * Library Journal *Recommended for larger community-college and university collections. * Booklist Online *This volume provides an excellent picture of important moments, movements, and individuals in Asian American history. Libraries with holdings in American history or multiculturalism should consider adding this useful book to their collections. * ARBA *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Early Immigration and Development California Gold Rush, 1848–1855 Ying Ma People v. Hall, 1854 Andrea Kwon Central Pacific Railroad Recruits Chinese Workers, 1865 Tena L. Helton The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882 Nathan Jung Hawaii Becomes a U.S. Territory, 1898 Laura Stanfield Prichard 2 Citizenship and Community Building United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898 William B. Noseworthy Gentlemen's Agreement between the United States and Japan, 1907 Yuki Obayashi Angel Island Opens in San Francisco Bay, 1910 Hayley Johnson and Sarah Simms The First Sikh Gurdwara in the United States Established in Stockton, California, 1912 Harveen Sachdeva Mann The Webb-Haney Act Passed by California State Legislature, 1913 Kaori Mori Want 3 Conflicts and Politics United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 1923 Philip Deslippe Gong Lum v. Rice, 1927 Michael S. Rodriguez Japanese American Internment, 1942–1946 Ann Matsuuchi The Luce-Celler Act, 1946 Lan Dong Korean War, 1950–1953 Kimberly McKee 4 Activism and the Post-1965 Era Daniel K. Inouye, First Asian American U.S. Senator, 1962 Katelind Ikuma The Delano Grape Strike and Boycott, 1965–1970 Maharaj Desai, Karen Buenavista Hanna, and Teresa Hodges Vietnam War and Refugee Migration from Southeast Asia, 1965–1975 Khoi Nguyen The Immigration and Nationality Act, 1965 Philip Q. Yang The First Asian American Studies Program Established at San Francisco State College, 1969 Rosie Kar 5 Heritage and Legacy Lau v. Nichols, 1974 Rachel Endo and Verna Wong Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week Established, 1978 William B. Noseworthy The Murder of Vincent Chin, 1982 Martin Kich The Los Angeles Riots, 1992 Nancy Kang 9/11 and Islamophobia, 2001–2018 Marie-Therese C. Sulit Bibliography of Recommended Resources About the Editor and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCuba's grassroots revolution prevailed on America's doorstep in 1959, fueling intense interest within the multiracial American Left. Teishan Latner contends that in the era of decolonization, the Vietnam War, and Black Power, Cuba claimed centre stage for a generation of Americans who looked to the insurgent Third World for inspiration.Trade ReviewAn outstanding piece of scholarship that merits a book prize." - Journal of American History"Teishan Latner's fascinating Cuban Revolution in America, with its focus on histories of travel, hijacking, and exile across Cold War barriers, is an important intellectual weapon against both the [travel] ban and the blockade." - Labour/Le Travail"An impressive, compelling work of research and analysis . . . an unusually deep and nuanced study." - H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the construction and performance of racial identity in works by writers from the antebellum period through Reconstruction, Julia Charles creates a new discourse around racial passing to analyse mixed-race characters' social objectives when crossing into other racialized spaces.

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Book SynopsisWith the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants rushed to the US-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands.Trade ReviewLim's history of multiracial migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands isn't just a well-executed piece of academic scholarship. In addition, it is also a clear warning regarding the dangers of naively embracing multiracialism as a panacea for America's contemporary racial woes." - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books"This book's deft intersection of multiple ethnic and national histories makes Lim's work indispensable to scholars in many fields, particularly borderlands and Asian American history, US-Mexico relations, and migration studies." - Choice"A significant contribution to the historiography of comparative immigration and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It is well grounded in existing scholarship, interprets primary material adeptly, and, along with other recent works published in English, cites Mexican scholarship and sources to comprehend better the transnational subject and region."- Journal of Southern History"Provides an eminently readable analysis of mixing, passing, and crossing of all kinds. . . . Should inspire students and emerging scholars to future research on the multiracial nation as they see the complexities of their own lives, families, and communities in the porous boundaries of today's borderlands." - Hispanic American Historical Review"Julian Lim's book offers a timely look at contemporary issues and helps readers understand the racial origins of border policing, immigration laws, and refugee policy. By incorporating copious documentation from Mexican archives, she offers a much more nuanced look at how border crossers contributed to the transformation of the US-Mexico border. Lim's rich narrative and arguments make this book an important read for any historian of immigration or the US-Mexico border, as well as an excellent choice for undergraduate and graduate seminars." - Journal of American Ethnic History"Explores how diversity at the U.S.-Mexico border in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries complicated notions of community and belonging . . . Makes an important contribution to borderlands studies." - Journal of American History"Julian Lim's Porous Borders is a delight to read. It is a model of superlative historical writing to which all ought to aspire. With enviable ease, it converses with the literature in several fields, including immigration, borderlands, legal, and urban history." - Journal of Social History"An important contribution to borderlands history . . . . Sophisticated and fresh." - Journal of Arizona History"Lim's ability to weave an analytical narrative from an array of disparate sources in local, state, and national archives in Mexico as well as the United States makes Porous Borders a model for transnational history and the historian's craft." - H-Net

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Book SynopsisRepeatedly and powerfully throughout Cuban history, the mulata, a woman of mixed racial identity, features prominently in Cuban visual and performative culture. Tracing the figure, Alison Fraunhar looks at the representation and performance in both elite and popular culture. She also tracks how characteristics associated with these women have accrued across the Atlantic world.Widely understood to embody the bridge between European subject and African other, the mulata contains the sensuality attributed to Africans in a body more closely resembling the European ideal of beauty. This symbol bears far-reaching implications, with shifting, contradictory cultural meanings in Cuba. Fraunhar explores these complex paradigms, how, why, and for whom the image was useful, and how it was both subverted and asserted from the colonial period to the present. From the early seventeenth century through Cuban independence in 1899 up to the late revolutionary era, Fraunhar illustrat

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Book SynopsisContributions by Cécile Accilien, Maria Rice Bellamy, Gwen Bergner, Olga Blomgren, Maia L. Butler, Isabel Caldeira, Nadège T. Clitandre, Thadious M. Davis, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Laura Dawkins, Megan Feifer, Delphine Gras, Akia Jackson, Tammie Jenkins, Shewonda Leger, Jennifer M. Lozano, Marion Christina Rohrleitner, Thomás Rothe, Erika V. Serrato, Lucía Stecher, and Joyce White Narrating History, Home, and Dyaspora: Critical Essays on Edwidge Danticat contains fifteen essays addressing how Edwidge Danticat''s writing, anthologizing, and storytelling trace, (re)construct, and develop alternate histories, narratives of nation building, and conceptions of home and belonging. The prolific Danticat is renowned for novels, collections of short fiction, nonfiction, and editorial writing. As her experimentation in form expands, so does her force as a public intellectual. Danticat''s literary representations, political commentary, and personal activism have proven vital to classr

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Book SynopsisIn the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States—a greater number than in any comparable period, before or since. They were often greeted in hostile fashion, a reflection of American nativism that by the 1890s was already well developed. In this analytical narrative, Roger Daniels examines the condition of immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans during a period of supposed progress for American minorities. He shows that they experienced as much repression as advance. Not Like Us opens by considering the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the hinge on which U.S. immigration policy turned and a symbol of the unfriendly climate toward minorities that would prevail for decades. Mr. Daniels continues the story through the 1890s, the so-called Progressive Era, the opportunities and conflicts arising out of World War I, and the “tribal twenties,” when nativism and xenophobia dominated American society. An epilogue points out gains and losses since the 1924 National Origins Act. Throughout Mr. Daniels’s focus is on legislation, judicial decisions, mob violence, and the responses of minority groups. The record is scarcely one of unalloyed progress.Trade ReviewA readable history of ethnic minorities and immigrants . . . powerful. -- Maxine D. Jones * Journal of Southern History *Lucid and effective . . . Daniels maps out the contradictions and inequities which characterize legislation enacted against the socially defined 'other.' * Immigrants and Minorities *Table of ContentsPrologue: Chinese Exclusion, 1882 Chapter 1: The United States in the Grey Nineties Chapter 2: The Limits of Progressivism Chapter 3: World War I and the Ambiguities of Nationalism Chapter 4: Postwar Passions Chapter 5: The Triumph of Nativism Epilogue: Toward Equality

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Book SynopsisWe began the call for this book by asking authors to ideate on activism -to take up and seek to extend- the interbraided values from the Curriculum and Pedagogy group’s espoused mission and vision, collocating activist ideologies, theoretical traditions, and practical orientations as a means of creatively, reflectively, and productively responding to the increasingly dire social moment. This moment is framed by a landscape denigrated beyond even Pinar’s (2004) original declaration of the present-as-nightmare. The current, catastrophic political climate provides challenges and (albeit scant) opportunities for curriculum scholars and workers as we reflect on past and future directions of our field, and grapple with our locations and roles as educators, researchers, practitioners, and beings in the world. These troubled times force us to think critically about our scholarship and pedagogy, our influence on educational practices in multiple registers, and the surrounding communities we claim to serve. This is where the call began: from a desire to think through modern conceptions regarding what counts as activism in the fields of education, curriculum, and pedagogy, and to consider how activist voices and enactments might emerge differently through curriculum and pedagogy writ large.A guiding source of inspiration for this book, weaving among the emerging themes between the collected manuscripts, reflections, and poems, was a passage in Sara Ahmed’s (2013) book, The Cultural Politics of Emotion. In this passage, Ahmed works through the complicated relationship between the testimonies of pain that injustice causes, the recognition of this pain, and the potential of these wounds to move us into a different relationship with healing (p. 200). The chapters, reflections, and poems within this volume, thus, effect a collective ideation on how specific cultural politics and deleterious ideological formations – racism, colonialism, homophobia, ableism, to name only a few – persist and mobilize. The authors seek to expose and name some of these injustices, asking readers not only see and hear these experiences, but to inhabit our complicities in their promulgation.It is important to acknowledge that these named social troubles do not exist in isolation, and will enmesh, weave, wind, and entangle with one another. The section headings parallel Ahmed’s (2013) own ideations: testimony, recognition, and wounds, not as a formula to follow as an activist call, or as a model for a means to a more just end, but as a way to engage in these issues as a trope of activist confrontation of readers who are, as many of our authors suggest, complicit in maintaining many of these social troubles. The chapters do not need to be read in any particular order, though the ordering of the chapters moves from the naming of social troubles, to showing how teaching, research, and theory ask us to take a more active role in recognizing and acknowledging the prevalence of these issues, and then theorizing ways to engage the wounds.

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Book SynopsisA Second Helping of Gumbo for the Soul is a collection of essays, stories, and narratives designed to inspire and empower women of color through the use of storytelling and narratives. This second edition is a sequel to the first Gumbo for the Soul and includes more...

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Book SynopsisA Second Helping of Gumbo for the Soul is a collection of essays, stories, and narratives designed to inspire and empower women of color through the use of storytelling and narratives. This second edition is a sequel to the first Gumbo for the Soul and includes more...

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Book SynopsisDopplegangbanger, rendered as the A- and B-sides of an album of poems, re-imagines and remixes American politics of the 90s, the Obama era, and today via a hip-hop blerd's investigation of a hi/lo culture of American crime.Trade ReviewPraise for Telepathologies: “Cortney Lamar Charleston's poems testify in the eternal court of history; he speaks, as Aime Cesaire once did, "for miseries that have no mouth" and to liberate "those who languish in the dungeon of despair." Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner and nine slain members of Mother Emanuel AME Church—voices silenced through institutionalized racism and the unchecked power of hate—form the nucleus of this powerful indictment of an America still suffering the legacy of its slave-trading past. Timely, immediate, imperative; this is poetry from inside the center of the storm; an urgent and articulate call for change.” —D.A. Powell, author of Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys “Cortney Lamar Charleston fills Telepathologies with his big-hearted, yet biting and clear-eyed analysis. These powerfully worded poems do not let us look away, neither from the ills and woes infecting contemporary black life nor from the role of media (news, social) in circulating them among us. We move from concrete poems to ghazals to familiar and unfamiliar forms of free verse. Charleston keeps us on our toes as we follow him into spaces of blackness—those that he inhabits and those that inhabit him. In these poems, even in the face of fatal violence, the black body lives and breathes, mourns and survives. I welcome this poet’s debut.” —Evie Shockley, author of the new black

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Book SynopsisAs a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott against Nike, and spoke out forcefully against police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating. But his outspokenness cost him dearly. In the prime of his career, after ten NBA seasons, Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as a professional athlete to stand up for justice. In this powerful, passionate, and captivating memoir, Hodges shares the stories—including encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R. Kelly, Michael Jordan, and others—from his lifelong fight for equality for African Americans.Trade Review“Long Shot tracks Hodges’s political awakening, from black-studies courses in college to his early run-ins with Donald Sterling, the notoriously racist owner of the San Diego (and later Los Angeles) Clippers. The trajectory is clear, and, despite the occasionally engrossing glimpse into the typical N.B.A. player’s home life—Hodges’s tumult involved R. Kelly—almost every detail is shared as context for his more radical turn in the late eighties and nineties.”—New Yorker "Hodges has told his compelling life story with fiery passion, looping around a cast of characters stretching from Jordan, Magic Johnson and Phil Jackson back to Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, before returning to the present." —Guardian “In the book, Hodges talks about conversations he had with teammates Jordan and Pippen about their lack of knowledge regarding Black history. ‘I don't bring this up to shame Scottie, Michael, and the other players who aren't educated in our history,’ Hodges writes. ‘I bring it up because we can't solve a problem if we don't recognize the sickness.’” —Rolling Stone “Craig has written a very in depth portrait of his struggles and triumphs in the NBA and beyond.” —Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "The people's champion." —Chuck D "A skillfully told, affecting memoir of sports and social activism." —Kirkus "With its sharp observations about Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, and the state of race relations in the NBA, Long Shot is likely to cause a stir." —Chicago Reader “Craig Hodges is someone I looked up to as a child & now as an adult…I read Long Shot in like two hours, I couldn’t stop turning pages. There are so many hooks in it." —Jesse Williams "Long Shot is a beautifully written, brutally honest book. If you loved the Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls, if you love black history, or if you are fascinated by the politics of sports, I highly recommend this book. Simply put: Craig Hodges’ life is incredible and Long Shot is invaluable." —AETHLON: The Journal of Sport Literature "It is time to remove Craig Hodges from exile status and place him where he has always belonged: on the short-list of the activist athletes who stood tall, paid the price and now live their life perhaps scarred, but without regrets. Read this book so a new generation of NBA players and fans will know his true story. Read this book so to say not in a whisper but with a confident shout, 'You DO want to be like Craig Hodges.' —Dave Zirin, from the Introduction “This riveting and affirmative read offers a revealing and pertinent insight into the odious nature of corporate-driven politics in the US and the consequences of racism, poverty, homelessness and despair it engenders. And, as a candid glimpse behind the scenes of the US basketball industry, it’s an eye-opener and many a nugget make it a diverting read. A singular lesson of history in the making.’Michal Boncza, Morning Star

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Book SynopsisThe eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists. In this stirring and insightful analysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.Trade Review"This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation." Dr. Cornel West "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's searching examination of the social, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for black liberation." Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is an essential read for anyone following the movement for Black Lives. The text chronicles a portion of history we rarely ever see, while also bringing together data and deep primary source research in a way that lucidly explains the origins of the current moment." Los Angeles Review of Books "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 's has not written the average rushed first-wave book on a social movement. Taylor, a professor of African American studies- at Princeton, is the rare academic writer whose sense of humor is as sharp as her scholarship. She 's written a sweeping yet concise history not just of the Black Lives Matter movement, but of the past seven years under the first black president and of how the 20th century led to our current state of woke uprising. It 's full of gems of historical insight and it fearlessly tackles what black liberation looks like when it happens in a black-governed city 40 miles from a black-occupied White House." Steven Thrasher, The Guardian "Class Matters! In this clear-eyed, historically informed account of the latest wave of resistance to state violence, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor not only exposes the canard of color-blindness but reveals how structural racism and class oppression are joined at the hip. If today 's rebels ever expect to end inequality and racialized state violence, she warns, then capitalism must also end. And that requires forging new solidarities, envisioning a new social and economic order, and pushing a struggle to protect Black Lives to its logical conclusion: a revolution capable of transforming the entire nation." Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination "With political eloquence, intellectual rigor, and an unapologetically left analysis,the brilliant scholar-activist Keeanga Taylor has provided a powerful contribution to our collective understanding of the current stage of the Black freedom struggle in the United States, how we arrived at this point, and what battles we need to fight in order to truly achieve liberation. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is a must read for everyone who is serious about the ongoing praxis of freedom." Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has a strong voice, a sharp mind and a clear, readable style that all come together in this penetrating, vital analysis of race and class at this critical moment in America's racial history." Gary Younge, editor-at-large for the Guardian "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor brings the long history of Black radical theorizing and scholarship into the neoliberal 21st century with From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Her strong voice is deeply needed at a time when young activists are once again reforging a Black liberation movement that is under constant attack. Deeply rooted in Black radical, feminist and socialist traditions, Taylor 's book is an outstanding example of the type of analysis that is needed to build movements for freedom and self-determination in a far more complicated terrain than that confronted by the activists of the 20th century. Her book is required reading for anyone interested in justice, equality and freedom." Michael C. Dawson, author of Blacks In and Out of the Left

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Book SynopsisDiamond Sharp’s Super Sad Black Girl is a love letter to her hometown of Chicago, where her speaker finds solace and community with her literary idols in the hopes of answering the question: What does it look like when Black women are free? Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks appear throughout, counseling the speaker as she navigates her own depression and exploratory questions about the “Other Side,” as do Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and other Black women who have been murdered by police violence. Sharp’s poetry is self-assured, playful, and imaginative, reminiscent of Langston Hughes with its precision and brevity. The book explores purgatorial, in-between spaces that the speaker occupies, as she struggles to find a place, a time, where she can live safely and freely. With her skillful use of repetition, particularly with her series of concrete poems, lines and voices echo across the book so the reader, too, feels suspended within Sharp’s lyric moments. Super Sad Black Girl is a compassionate and ethereal depiction of mental illness from a promising and powerful poet.

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Book SynopsisA collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker’s experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and women.In this beautiful debut from an exciting new poet, Alexa Patrick’s Remedies for Disappearing memorializes Blackness in its quiet and unexpected forms, bringing the peripheral into focus. These poems muddy Black life and death, observe lineage and love stories, and question what “disappearing” teaches about Blackness and bodies. Remedies for Disappearing is gritty, sharp, and formally inventive, demonstrating Patrick’s imaginative curiosity, lyrical restraint, and confidence in her handling of language. Moments of aphoristic confession are balanced with imagistic precision as the speaker recounts the ways her aunties, sisters, and even herself have disappeared in order to survive. Patrick’s poetry is haunting and hopeful, striving to provide readers with the tools and context to acknowledge, define, and honor the complexity of Black girl/womanhood. Remedies for Disappearing connects Black girls and women to each other and to their own histories, and insists that they be fully and wholly seen.Trade Review“In Alexa Patrick’s stunning Remedies for Disappearing, coming of age, Black girlhood, and family history are rendered with crackling electricity and specificity. These poems sister me fiercely, will sister me forever.”—Safia Elhillo, author of Girls That Never Die“These poems—intimate portraits of desire, of passion, of longing—stir the spirit with their vulnerability, and invigorate the senses with their language. This debut shines. Alexa Patrick is a force.”—Clint Smith, author of Above Ground“Women and men are stars in this book. The corner is a cosmos, and Patrick’s eye is quick enough to capture the constellary shifts, their drama and folly. Just as the stars come and go with the change in daily light, so do these poems, with the turn of each page, give us a fresh and sobering look at where loving is and is not found.”—Kyle G. Dargan, author of PANZER HERZ“In an indelible collection that celebrates the mundane, the marvelous, and the harrowing reality of Blackness, of Black girlhood, Patrick wields the lyric form to create new doorways into houses we thought we knew well. She offers heartbreaking insights to the reader, but requires a great deal too; you can’t engage with these poems without facing the aches you bring with you.”—Elizabeth Acevedo, author of The Poet X

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Book SynopsisAt the onset of the American Revolution, Britain’s North American colonies sought political independence but remained culturally dependent upon Europe. Among the many vast contributions of Thomas Jefferson, one of the most celebrated Founding Fathers, was a continuing admiration and lifelong affinity for all things Italian. Jefferson believed that the genesis of liberty followed a path from Ancient Rome, through the Italian Renaissance and Enlightenment, and toward a progressive future for the new American nation.While Jefferson’s affinity for Italy is well known, studying his role in assimilating Italian culture into the American project is a new venture. Surveying Jefferson as an Italophile reveals a wide spectrum of cultural appreciation. Ralph Giordano’s innovative new book will certainly appeal to those interested in American History and America’s emergence as a developing nation.

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Book SynopsisThe story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through the lives of its great trailblazers

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Book SynopsisReligion, Race, Multiculturalism, and Everyday Life takes a spirited conceptualist look back into the history of our development. The book sets out to explore the ways in which a punditry of human equality continues to lock in unassailably assured logical postures, enabled by the historically intertwined roles played by power and the passage of time, towards the invention and sustenance of social truth. Religion, race, and multiculturalism have been written about many times, and from a variety of academic, discipline-specific perspectives. Nonetheless, these social issues remain ever relevant to any sincere bid to understand the inegalitarian aspects of modern society. Religion, Race, Multiculturalism, and Everyday Life was primarily written with serious students of philosophy, sociology, the humanities, and history in mind. The author contends that we should never be too afraid to explore contentious or difficult philosophical and social questions.

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