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Indiana University Press Reorienting the Middle East Film and Digital
Book SynopsisStories of desert landscapes, cutting-edge production facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is a more complicated history that reflects long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so too is the flow of film and digital media between cultures in East Africa, Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia. Reorienting the Middle East examines past and contemporary aspects of film and digital media in the Gulf that might not otherwise be apparent in dominant frameworks. Contributors consider oil companies that brought film exhibition to this area in the 1930s, the first Indian film produced on the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1970s, blackness in Iranian films, the role of Western funding in reshaping stories, Dubai's emergence in global film production, uses of online platforms for performanceTrade Review"I find this collection a much needed and timely post-colonial re-mapping of film histories and cinematic practices around the Persian Gulf, aptly shifting the focus from land to water, from national borders to arenas, contact zones, from hegemonic historiography to transcultural stories and identities."—Viola Shafik, author of Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity"In de-essentialising the Gulf and presenting it to us as a critical method, this collection achieves two key things: it contributes to the decolonisation of knowledge production about the Gulf, its peoples, cultures and societies and invites us, at the same time, to rethink the fields of Arab and Middle Eastern media and cultural studies beyond static, colonial configurations of geography. This wide-ranging collection recognizes the Gulf as a complex transcultural space; a conduit to relational histories and cultural encounters that transcend the limiting and teleological imaginations of nations and regions in film and area studies. This is a terrific and a much-needed book. I strongly recommend it to scholars of Middle Eastern media and cultural studies and also to those researching media practices and uses in the global South and beyond."—Tarik Sabry, author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media the Modern and the Everyday"A cornucopia of information and insight, Reorienting the Middle East manages to do what the title promises. It reorients discussion of Gulf Media by expanding the corpus and scope in multiple ways, first of all by counterpointing portrayals of the Gulf with portrayals from the Gulf. Rather than approach the region as a static place, it uses the Gulf as an epicentric prism to reveal the fluid movement of ideas, images and films across borders. The book treats transnationality not as a mere inventory of nation-states involvement but rather as an intricate cross-border process embedded in the transnational imaginary of and about the Gulf. Reorienting the Gul describes a constantly morphing transcultural arena of interconnected histories, migrating cultures, of uncanny resemblances, subterranean affinities. Rather than a simple binary of metropole and colony, we find palimpsestic formations where a nation can at once be indigenous, postcolonial, para-colonial and colonial in the sense of exploiting migrant labor from the Global South, in situations where multicultures intersect and interfecundate in hybrid formations. The book also addresses the various forms of transnational projections, as in the case of South-South stereotyping (Egyptian films mocking rich Gulf State Arabs, and Bollywood films portraying the Gulf as corrupting the innocent Indian nationals, Replete with intriguing surprises, the book engages such topics as entrepot film culture in Dubai, romanticized narratives about ruling families, American corporations extracting oil while injecting stereotypes and segregation into Saudi Arabia, the transoceanic aurality of love and yearning, blackness in Iran, and the filmic imagining of the lives of domestic workers. Admirably transmediatic, the book expands the corpus beyond fiction features to include documentaries, TV shows, tourism commercials, YouTube videos, and digital activist videos. It is hard to imagine the reader who would not learn from this book."—Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, authors of Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media
£62.90
Indiana University Press Composing Aid Music Refugees and Humanitarian
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Moving beyond applied ethnomusicology into what the author describes as 'critical activist ethnomusicology' the study describes and critiques the diverse ways that different players in the refugee camps engage music and related arts to display layers of power dynamics."—Jean Kidula, author of Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
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Indiana University Press Composing Aid Music Refugees and Humanitarian
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Moving beyond applied ethnomusicology into what the author describes as 'critical activist ethnomusicology' the study describes and critiques the diverse ways that different players in the refugee camps engage music and related arts to display layers of power dynamics."—Jean Kidula, author of Music in Kenyan Christianity: Logooli Religious Song
£21.59
Indiana University Press Mary Ann Shadd Cary The Black Press and Protest
Book SynopsisTrade Review". . . an extraordinary and richly contextualized biography that highlights the engagement and agency of a little-known African American activist who challenged the obstacles gender and race posed for her."—The Journal of American History, reviewing a previous edition or volume"Rhodes provides a well-researched, balanced, clearly written assessment of the extraordinary life of this trailblazing African American feminist and reformer."—Choice, reviewing a previous edition or volume"In this book we see how a courageous and pugnacious journalist-activist fought arduously to attain freedom from male dominance and establish a model for future feminists."—Quill & Scroll, reviewing a previous edition or volume
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Indiana University Press The Changing Same
Book SynopsisExamines defining moments in African American women's fiction and its reception: the "Women's Era" of the 1890s, the Harlem Renaissance, and the "New Black Renaissance" of the 1970s and 1980s.Table of ContentsPreface—Speaking To You about the "Changing the Same"Part I Thinking About MethodsChapter One — New Directions for Black Feminist CriticismPart II Ideas of TraditionChapter Two — Race of Saints: Four Girls at Cottage CityChapter Three — "The Changing Same": Generational Connections and Black Women Novelists—Iola Leroy and The Color PurplePart III Undercover: Passing and Other DisguisesChapter Four—On FAce: Textual Identities in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun or Marking and Marketing in the Harlem RenaissanceChapter Five: "The nameless . . . Shameful Impulse": Sexuality in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and PassingPart IV The Reader in the TextChapter Six—Boundaries: Or Distant Relations and Close Kine — SulaChapter Seven: Reading Family MattersPart V Hesitating Between Tenses or Allegories of HistoryChapter Eight—Witnessing Slavery AFter Freedom—Dessa RoseChapter Nine—Transferences: Black Feminist Discourse: The "Practice" of "Theory"
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Indiana University Press Historians and Race
Book SynopsisContains contributions on the state of race relations from several scholars who reflect upon their careers to show how personal experiences have influenced their scholarship.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionJumping Jim Crow, George B. TindallThe Making of an Historian, Leon F. LitwackReflections of a REconstructed White Southerner, dan T. CarterReflections on Race and Gender Systems, Darlene Clark HineFrom Eurocentrism to Polycentrism, David Levering LewisMy Life as a Historian, Eric FonerAutobiography and Scholarship, Jacqueline JonesConclusion: The Significance of the Personal for the Professional, Mark A. Naison
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Indiana University Press Am I Black Enough for You
Book SynopsisExplores race and class in mainstream representation of African American popular culture.Trade Review"With this book, Boyd has exponentially increased understanding of the cultural genesis and evolution of the "new" black aesthetics... The language has an "in-your-face" tone, yet it exemplifies the best in scholarly discourse. From start to finish readers will be mesmerized by the "new jack" style." - Choice "From how rap music relates to politics and black masculinity to differences between folk and popular culture in the black community, this provides much food for thought." - Midwest Book Review "Boyd ... fuses academic analysis with hipness in his compassionate and insightful dissection of how the media, especially Hollywood, define African American culture ... Boyd, compelling and thought-provoking, reveals how paradoxical life is for African Americans, even those at the top of their game." - BooklistTable of ContentsIntroduction: Representin' the Real Pg. 1Chapter 1: Real Niggaz Don't Die: Generational Shifts in Contemporary Popular Culture. Pg. 16Chapter 2: Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self: The Death of Politics in Rap Music and Popular Culture. Pg. 50Chapter 3: A Small Introduction to the 'G' Funk Era: Gangsta Rap and Black Masculinity in Contemporary Los Angeles. Pg. 80Chapter 4: Young, Black, and Don't Give a Fuck: Experiencing the Cinema of Nihilism. Pg. 109Chapter 5: True to the Game: Basketball as the Embodiment of Blackness in Contemporary Popular Culture. Pg. 141Epilogue: Some New Improved Shit. Pg. 173
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Indiana University Press African American Women in the Struggle for the
Book SynopsisAfrican American suffragists in the suffrage movement.Trade Review"Rarely has a short book accomplished so much as Terborg-Penn's seminal work. With the utmost attention to detail Terborg-Penn examines the contributions of black suffragist stalwarts ... It undoubtedly will become the definitive work on African American women's involvement in the mainstream woman suffrage movement and specifically on black women's struggle for the vote." --Choice "This groundbreaking volume provides a theoretical and practical framework for new paradigms in African American women's history... All Black politicians should read and discuss this unique and brilliant book. Many lessons can be learned." - Philadelphia New Observer
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Indiana University Press The Mask of Art Breaking the Aesthetic
Book SynopsisCritiques Eurocentrism in the prevailing art-culture system and reexamines the culture wars within the context of Hollywood, and the dominant U.S. cultural milieu.Trade Review"In this critique of aesthetics and the politics of representation, Taylor demonstrates astonishing breadth and depth in arguing for 'breaking the aesthetic contract' that excludes anything that does not conform to Eurocentric notions of beauty... it brings to black studies and cultural critique an internationalism that emphasizes the richness of forms of creative expression outside the norms set by European aesthetics. Highly recommended ..." --Choice
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MH - Indiana University Press A Question of Manhood Volume 1 A Reader in U.S. Black Mens History and Masculinity Manhood Rights The Construction of Black Male History an
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Indiana University Press Struggles for Representation
Book SynopsisExamines over 300 non-fiction films by more than 150 African American film/videomakers and includes an extensive filmography, bibliography, and excerpts from interviews with film/videomakers. In eleven original essays, contributors explore the extraordinary scope of these aesthetic and social documents.Table of ContentsI. Introduction (Janet K. Cutler and Phyllis R. Klotman)II. Pioneers of Black Documentary Film (Pearl Bowser)III. Military Rites and Wrongs: African Americans in the U.S. Armed Forces (Phyllis R. Klotman)IV. Documenting Social Issues: Black Journal, 1968-70 (Tommy Lee Lott)V. Eyes on the Prize: Reclaiming Black Images, Culture, and History (Elizabeth Amelia Hadley)VI. Paths of Enlightenment: Heroes, Rebels, and Thinkers (Clyde Taylor)VII. Rewritten on Film: Documenting the Artist (Janet K. Cutler)VIII. Uptown Where We Belong: Space, Captivity, and the Documentary of Black Community (Mark Frederick Baker and Houston A. Baker, Jr.)IX. Discourses of Family in Black Documentary on Film (Valerie Smith)X. Springing Tired Chains: Experimental Film and Video (Paul Arthur)XI. Black "High-Tech" Documents (Erika Muhammad)XII. The "I" Narrator in Black Diaspora Documentary (Manthia Diawara)Appendices:Interviews with FilmmakersFilmographyFilm/Videomaker IndexBibliography
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Indiana University Press Seeing Red Federal Campaigns against Black
Book SynopsisFrom 1918 into the early twenties, any African American who spoke out forcefully for their race-editors, union organizers, civil rights advocates, radical political activists, and Pan-Africanists - were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. This title presents an account of this story.Trade Review[Kornweibel] is the pre-eminent expert on the large-scale federal effort to monitor, control, and undermine black protest from the early post-war years to the mid-twenties. His book, tightly written, carefully documented, and at times passionately argued, bares the sordid story of government efforts to circumscribe and ultimately crush black dissent and protest." --Left History "Read Kornweibel's important book--and fret over the American Government's timeless compulsion to wield extralegal procedures against the unpopular and dispossessed." --The San Diego Union-Times "It should enlighten a broad audience on a period and a type of racial and political suppression less well known than those of later decades... Kornweibel's matter-of-fact treatment avoids rancour, allows the charged events to speak for themselves, showing how 'the political agenda of many white Americans--white supremacy--became the security agenda of powerful arms of the national government.'" --Kirkus Reviews For several years after World War I, any African Americans who spoke out forcefully for their race--editors, union organisers, civil rights advocates, political activists, and Pan-Africanists--were likely to be investigated by a network of federal intelligence agencies. A young J. Edgar Hoover of the Bureau of Investigation (later the FBI) spearheaded the effort to discredit black activists and their demands for civil rights as communist-inspired and a threat to national security, a real Red Scare. For this gripping account of a neglected, shameful chapter of American political intelligence, Theodore Kornweibel has uncovered much new material, including the identities of black informers and agent provocateurs. [Kornweibel's] book is based almost entirely on extensive primary research in numerous archives and in difficult-to-decipher microfilm. Others may build on his work in the future, but I am certain that no one will duplicate his research... ["Seeing Red" is] a significant contribution both to African American history and to the history of intelligence-[gathering]."--Susan Rosenfeld, former Chief Historian of the FBI "Kornweibel is an adept storyteller who admits he is drawn to the role of the historian-as-detective... What emerges is a fascinating tale of secret federal agents, many of them blacks, who were willing to take advantage of the colour of their skin to spy upon others of their race. And it is a tale of sometimes desperate and frequently angry government officials, including J. Edgar Hoover, who were willing to go to great lengths to try to stop what they perceived as threats to continued white supremacy."--Patrick S. Washburn, Journalism History"
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Indiana University Press A Question of Manhood Volume 2 A Reader in U.S.
Book SynopsisAn anthology of historical studies focusing on themes and issues central to the construction of Black masculinities and Black men's history. This book covers themes in the lives of black men that touch on leadership, work and the professions, family and community, sports and the military, and the image of black men in the larger society.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction / Earnestine Jenkins and Darlene Clark Hine Part One: Constructing Citizenship: The Evolution of Black Male Leadership 1. "Your Old Father Abe Lincoln is Dead and Damned": Black Soldiers and the Memphis Race Riot after 1866 / Kevin Hardwick 2. Black Politicians in Reconstruction Charleston, South Caroline: A Collective Study / William Hine 3. The Freedman's Bureau and Local Black Leadership / Richard Lowe 4. For Justice and a Fee: James Milton Turner and the Cherokee Freedmen / Gary Kremer Part Two: "To Own Our Own Labor": Black Men, Economic Self-Sufficiency, and Working Class Consciousness 5. Black Policemen in New Orleans during Reconstruction / Dennis Rousey 6. Negro Labor in the Western Cattle Industry, 1866-1900 / Kenneth W. Porter 7. The Politics of Black Land Tenure, 1877-1915 / Manning Marable 8. "Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down": The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920 / Eric Arnesen 9. A Constant Struggle between Interest and Humanity: Convict Labor in the Coal Mines of the Old South / Alex Lichtenstein Part Three: Black Men, the Professions, and Fraternal Organisations 10. A High and Honorable Calling: Black Lawyers in South Caroline, 1868-1915 / R. J. Oldfield 11. Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880-1920 / Todd Savitt 12. The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood / Vicki Howard 13. The African Derivation of Black Fraternal Orders in the United States / Betty Kuyk Part Four: Proving Black Manhood: The Allure of Sport and the Military in the Late 19th Century 14. "Peter Jackson and the Elusive Heavyweight Championship": A Black Athlete's Struggle against the Late Nineteenth Century Color Line / David K. Wiggins 15. The Black Bicycle Corps / Marvin Fletcher 16. African Americans and the War against Spain / Piero Gleijeses Part Five: End of the Century Archetypes: Symbolic Constructions in Black Manhood and Masculinity 17. The Anatomy of Lynching / Robyn Wiegman 18. The Heroic Appeal of John Henry / Brett Williams 19. Stack Lee: The Man, the Music, and the Myth / George Eberhart 20. Where Honor Is Due: Frederick Douglas as Representative / Wilson Moses Sources Selected Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press The African Diaspora African Origins and New
Book SynopsisHow black identities were forged in New World cultures.Trade ReviewThe editorial goal of this collection, gathered from papers of a 1996 conference, is to deepen understanding of how transplanted African populations (and their descendants) interacted with the physical, cultural, and intellectual environment of the New World. This goal mandates an assessment of the survival of African origins—an ongoing debate between the Essentialist school (a strong and continuous African presence) and those advocating a more syncretic viewpoint (an African presence more mutable and interactive with the new environment). The papers present both views and draw their evidence from a variety of disciplines: art, music, literature, linguistics, history, and sociology. The thematic grouping of the papers (e.g., Race, Gender, and Image), coupled with an introduction that succeeds in the difficult task of connecting most of the presentations, makes intelligible the variety of approaches and views. Undergraduate instructors in African American history and sociology can assign selected papers to illustrate methodology and stimulate discussion. History students, for example, will profit from Joseph E. Inikori's comments on the dangers inherent in applying the word slavery to the subject peoples of Africa. Upper-division undergraduates and above.February 2000 -- R. T. Ingoglia * Felician College *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Isidore OkpewhoPart 1. The Diaspora: Orientations and Determinations1. Michael J. C. Echeruo, An African Diaspora: The Ontological Project2. Maureen Warner-Lewis, Cultural Reconfigurations in the African Caribbean3. Elliott P. Skinner, The Restoration of African Identity for a New MilleniumPart 2. Addressing the Constraints4. Joseph E. Inikori, Slaves or Serfs?: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and Africa5. Richard Price, Modernity, Memory, Martinique6. Peter P. Ekeh, Kinship and State in African and African American Histories7. Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Wages of Migration: Jobs and Homeownership Among Black and White Workers in Muncie, Indiana, 19208. Ira Kincaid Blake, The Significance of Cognitive-Linguistic Orientation for Academic Well- Being in African American Children9. Sharon Aneta Bryant, The Relationship of Place of Birth and Health StatusPart 3. Race, Gender, and Image10. Celia M. Azevedo, Images of Africa and the Haiti Revolution in American and Brazilian Abolitionism11. Kimberly Welch, Our Hunger is Our Song: The Politics of Race in Cuba, 1900-192012. Antonio Benítez-Rojo, The Role of Music in the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Culture13. Sally Price, The Centrality of Margins: Art, Gender, and African American Creativity14. Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett, Gabriela Cravo e Canela: Jorge Amado and the Myth of the Sexual Mulatta in Brazilian Culture15. Patience Elabor-Idemudia, Gender and the New African Diaspora: African Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labor Force16. Sandra L. Richards, Horned Ancestral Masks, Shakespearean Actor Boys, and Scotch-Inspired Set Girls: Social Relations in Nineteenth-Century Jamaican JonkonnuPart 4. Creativity, Spirituality, and Identity17. Oyekan Owomoyela, From Folklore to Literature: The Route from Roots in the African World18. Jean Rahier, Blackness as a Process of Creolization: The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas (Ecuador)19. Niyi Afolabi, The (T)error of Invisibility: Ellison and Cruz e Souza20. Adetayo Alabi, Recover, Not Discover: Africa in Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain and Philip's Looking for Livingstone21. Ali A. Mazrui, Islam and the African Diaspora: The Impact of Islamigration22. Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, From Legba to Papa Labas: New World Metaphysical Self/Refashioning in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo23. Robert Elliott Fox, Diasporacentricism and Black Aural Texts24. David Evans, The Reinterpretation of African Musical Instruments in the United States25. Nkiru Nzegwu, The Concept of Modernity in Contemporary African Art26. LeGrace Benson, Habits of Attention: Persistence of Lan Ginée in Haiti27. Andrea Frohne, Representing Jean-Michel Basquiat28. Charles Martin, Optic Black: Implied Texts and the Colors of Photography29. Keith Q. Warner, Caribbean Cinema, or Cinema in the Caribbean?Part 5. Reconnecting with Africa30. Laura J. Pires-Hester, The Emergence of Bilateral Diaspora Ethnicity among Cape Verdean-Americans31. Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Black Americans and the Creation of America's Africa Policies: The De-Racialization of Pan-African Politics32. Joseph McLaren, Alice Walker and the Legacy of African American Discourse on Africa33. Joyce Ann Joyce, African-Centered Womanism: Connecting Africa to the DiasporaContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Islam in the AfricanAmerican Experience Second
Book SynopsisShows the involvement of black Americans with Islam reaches back to the earliest days of African presence in North America. This book explores these roots in the Middle East, West Africa, and antebellum America. It tells the story of the "Prophets of the City" - the leaders of the urban-based African-American Muslim movements in the 20th century.Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: Introduction to the Second EditionPart One: Root Sources1. Muslims in a Strange Land: African Muslim Slaves in America2. Pan-Africanism and the New-American Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden and Mohammed Alexander Russell WebbPart Two: Prophets of the City3. The Name Means Everything: Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America4. The Ahmadiyya Mission to America: A Multi-Racial Model for American Islam5. Missionizing and Signifying: W. D. Fard and the Early History of the Nation of Islam6. Malcolm X and His Successors: Contemporary Significations of African-American IslamEpilogue: Commodification of IdentityNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
£18.04
Indiana University Press Africanisms in American Culture Second Edition
Book SynopsisA revised and expanded edition of a groundbreaking textTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction Joseph E. Holloway1. The Origins of African American Culture Joseph E. Holloway2. "What Africa Has Given America": African Continuities in the North American Diaspora Joseph E. Holloway3. African Elements in African American Culture Molefi Kete Asante4. Africanisms in African American Names in the United States Joseph E. Holloway5. The Case of Voodoo in New Orleans Jessie Ruth Gaston6. Gullah Attitudes toward Life and Death Margaret Washington7. The Sacred World of the Gullahs Joseph E. Holloway8. African Religious Retentions in Florida Robert L. Hall9. Sacrificial Practices in Santeria, an African Cuban Religion in the United States George Brandon10. Kongo Influences on African American Artistic Culture Robert Farris Thompson11. Africanisms in African American Music, Portia K. Maultsby12. Africanisms and the Study of Folklore Beverly J. Robinson13. The African Heritage of White America John Edward Philips14. The African Character of African American Language: Insights from the Creole Connection Selase W. WilliamsContributorsIndex
£18.99
MH - Indiana University Press Artists Performers and Black Masculinity in the
Book SynopsisExamines how Haitian diaspora writers, artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo negs, or "big men". This work confronts the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, and gays.Trade Review"Energetic, well—argued, and persuasive." —Marjorie Salvodon, Suffolk UniversityTable of ContentsContents<\>Introduction: Haiti's Transnational Politics of "Big Man-ism"Part 1. Straight, Queer, and Street1. Trans-American Constructions of Black Heteromasculinity: Dany Laferrière, le Nègre, and the Late-Capitalist American Racial Machine-désirante2. From Fort Dimanche to Brooklyn: Transnational Regimes of Violence, Duvalierism, and Failed Heteromasculinity in Raoul Peck's Haitian CornerPart 2. Queer Fist3. "Honey, Honey, Miss Thing": Assotto Saint's Drag Queen Blues—Queening the Homeland, Queer-Fisting the Dyaspora4. Drag-Kinging the Dyaspora: Dréd Performing Black (Female) Masculinities in Haiti's Tenth DepartmentPart 3. Rapping B(l)ack5. (Rara) Rap Haiti! Wyclef Jean's Chante pwen, Embattled Black Masculinity, and Diasporic Remix as Political Protest6. Trans-American Art on the Streets: Jean-Michel Basquiat's Black Canvas Bodies and Urban Vodou-Art in ManhattanConclusion: Presidential Politics, Haiti's Gwo Nègs, and Diasporic Cultural Production as Transnational Political ProtestNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Richard Pryor
Book SynopsisAn anthology of essays that capture the spirit, zest, and cultural impact of Richard Pryor's complex artistry. It provides insight into his work to reveal how he simultaneously highlighted and embodied prominent narratives of race, gender, and social conditions in America in ways that enlighten and entertain.Trade ReviewMcClusky's contributions and other essays, specifically those by David Felton and Keith Harris, invite discussion on the ways Pryor transformed American comic style. . . . Recommended.March 2009 * Choice *McClusky's Life & Legacy Of . . . gathers together 20 essays and features on Pryor, ranging from retrospective cultural criticism, contemporary reviews and interviews and biographical features. Each tries to pinpoint exactly what made Pryor so important. . . March 2009 * Record Collector *. . . presents a variety of new and historical perspectives from scholars, filmmakers, and writers that yield insight into the comedian's origins, how he negotiated the difficult straits of the entertainment business, and what his work ultimately signified. . . . February/March 2009 * Bloom *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Richard Pryor: Comic Genius, Tortured Soul / Audrey Thomas McCluskeyPart 1. New Essays1. "That Nigger's Crazy": Richard Pryor, Racial Performativity, Cultural Critique / Keith M. Harris2. The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Jo Jo Dancer: Your Life Is Calling / Margo Natalie Crawford3. Was It Something He Said? Censorship and the Richard Pryor Television Show, 1977 / Audrey Thomas McCluskey4. Richard Pryor and the Poetics of Cursing / Kate E. Brown5. Br'er Richard: Fascinatin' Storyteller / Maxine A. LeGall6. ". . . And It's Deep Too": The Philosophical Comedy of Richard Pryor / Malik D. McCluskey7. When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Pryor, Chappelle, and the Comedic Politics of the Post-Soul / Tyrone R. SimpsonPart 2. Biography8. Jump Street! From Richard Pryor: The Man behind the Laughter (1981) / Joseph Nazel9. The Politics of Being Black From If I Stop I'll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor (1991) / John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams10. "He Wasn't Afraid to Get Naked in Front of People": Michael Schultz Remembers Richard Pryor / Audrey Thomas McCluskeyPart 3. Reviews11. Time Warp Movies: A Review of Superman III (1985) / Pauline Kael12. Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip (1994) / Pauline Kael13. Richard Pryor: The Real Slim Shady (2001) / Rob SheffieldPart 4. Social and Cultural Criticism14. The New Comic Style of Richard Pryor (1975) / James Alan McPherson15. Jive Times: Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, and the Theatre of the Routine (1974) / David Felton16. Richard and Me (1994) / Nelson George17. Hill Street Bullshit, Richard Pryor Routines, and the Real Deal (1997) / Bob Avakian18. Now's the Time: The Richard Pryor Phenomenon and the Triumph of Black Culture (1998) / Siva Vaidhyanathan19. A Pryor Love: The Life and Times of America's Comic Prophet of Race (1999) / Hilton Als20. Conclusion: We Owe a Debt to Richard Pryor / Audrey Thomas McCluskeySelected Chronology: The Life and Times of Richard PryorAdditional SourcesPermissions and CreditsList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press The New Black Gods
Book SynopsisTaking the influential work of Arthur Huff Fauset as a starting point to break down the false dichotomy that exists between mainstream and marginal, this title features a new generation of scholars who offer fresh ideas for understanding the religious expressions of African Americans in the United States.Trade ReviewMost authors dedicate their books to family members or inspirational figures. IUPUI professor Edward Curtis has dedicated his latest volume, The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions (IU Press, 2009) to the IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. 'I wanted to give credit where the credit was due,' said Curtis, faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies and the Millennium Scholar of the Liberal Arts. He noted the central role that the School played in hosting a national conference that brought together scholars from around the country with IUPUI students and Indianapolis community members to discuss religious diversity among African Americans. The book revolves around anthropologist Arthur Huff Fauset’s groundbreaking volume, Black Gods of the Metropolis, first published in 1944. A study of African American religions in Philadelphia, the book was the first to use ethnographic techniques in the study of African-American religions. Fauset spent time with diverse groups such as Pentecostals, Black Judaism, Black Islam, and Father Divine’s Peace Mission Movement. 'The New Black Gods' is a collection of scholarly essays on African American religions in the United States. In an effort to create an understanding of religious practices, scholars returned to the groups Fauset introduced in his work and built on his interpretations. 'This is a volume that is fresh and original, highly unified, important for American black religious studies scholarship, and important for the general insights it raises for the religious studies field as a whole,' write series editors Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein.Along with co-editing the collection, Curtis contributed an essay entitled, 'Debating the Origins of the Moorish Science Temple: Toward a New Cultural History.' The essay explores the Moorish Science Temple, which was founded in Chicago in 1925, updating Fauset’s initial 1944 ten page study. IUPUI Religious Studies professor Kelly Hayes also authored a volume chapter examining Brazil’s African religious heritage.In his acknowledgments, Curtis concludes that School of Liberal Arts 'administrators, faculty, and staff members have turned IUPUI into a spectacular place for research and teaching in African American studies.'IUPUI School of Liberal Arts, May 19, 2009The editors of this fine collection of essays have resurrected the influence and importance of Arthur Fauset's classic study Black Gods of the Metropolis (1944) for the field of African American religion. The essays in part 1 attempt to update the five new religious movements in urban areas that Fauset discovered in his ethnographic work for his doctoral dissertation. Each essay tries to add a new angle or new materials to the 'cults' that he studied. For example, Clarence Hardy points to the broader movement of church mothers in the spread of female-led Pentecostal churches in urban areas, of which Bishop Ida Robinson's Mount Sinai Holy Church of America was only one. In Part 2, the contributors attempt to resurrect Fauset's vision for African American religious studies. Of the essays in this section, Stephen Angell's reflections on how Fauset intersected with the Herskovits-Frazier debate on African cultural survivals are the most insightful. In his study, Fauset found a mediating position as a political activist and ethnographer to critique the work of both scholars. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the field. --ChoiceL. H. Mamiya, Vassar College, October 2009"This reappraisal of Fauset becomes a reappraisal of how to study African American religions, which makes this volume a must for anyone interested in this field." —Nova Religio"... a fantastic new collection of essays on Arthur Huff Fauset and African American religious traditions." —Phillip Luke Sinitiere, Religion in American History (blog), May 4, 2009"The editors of this fine collection of essays have resurrected the influence and importance of Arthur Fauset's classic study.... --Choice" —, October 2009"Overall, the essays in this collection offer a fresh, thoughtful look into African American religious communities outside of the Christian mainstream.... [T]his is a commendable collection that should encourage and inform subsequent study." —American Historical Review, 116.1 February 2011"This well-conceived book extends Fauset’s respect for religious differences and his laudable refusal to indulge in grand, but inaccurate generalities." —Keith D. Miller, Arizona State UniversityTempe, Arizona, JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, Vol. 97. 1 June 2010Table of ContentsContentsForeword by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. SteinAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune SiglerPart 1. New Religious Movement(s) of the Great Migration Era 1. Fauset's (Missing) Pentecostals: Church Mothers, Remaking Respectability, and Religious Modernism / Clarence Hardy 2. "Grace Has Given God a Vacation": The History and Development of the Theology of the United House of Prayer of All People / Danielle Brune Sigler 3. "Chased out of Palestine": Prophet Cherry's Church of God and Early Black Judaisms in the United States / Nora L. Rubel 4. Debating the Origins of the Moorish Science Temple: Toward a New Cultural History / Edward E. Curtis IV 5. "The Consciousness of God's Presence Will Keep You Well, Healthy, Happy, and Singing": The Tradition of Innovation in the Music of Father Divine's Peace Mission Movement / Leonard Norman Primiano 6. "A True Moslem Is a True Spiritualist": Black Orientalism and Black Gods of the Metropolis / Jacob S. DormanPart 2. Resurrecting Fauset's Vision for African American Religious Studies 7. Religion Proper and Proper Religion: Arthur Fauset and the Study of African American Religions / Sylvester A. Johnson 8. The Perpetual Primitive in African American Religious Historiography / Kathryn Lofton 9. Turning African Americans into Rational Actors: The Important Legacy of Fauset's Functionalism / Carolyn Rouse 10. Defining the "Negro Problem" in Brazil: The Shifting Significance of Brazil's African Heritage from the 1890s to the 1940s / Kelly E. Hayes 11. Fauset and His Black Gods: Intersections with the Herskovits-Frazier Debate / Stephen W. AngellList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press IslamophobiaIslamophilia
Book SynopsisCultural politics and the fear of IslamTrade Review"Overall, the volume is an impressive collection of serious discursive analyses that heighten our sensitivities to the forms arguments about Islam take; while always indexes of power, it is clear that the shared terms of global debates about Islamic reform do not always correspond to shared meanings." —American Ethnologist"Islamophobia/Islamophilia is a spirited volume that takes aim at the confining but dominant debate on Islam, 'for or against.' Its eye-opening cases demonstrate just how much opposed sides share, and reveal surprising alignments and crossovers that happen beyond the binary. Politically astute, analytically acute, and pervasively humanistic, this is a rare contribution that brings clarity to an ideologically charged and muddied field." —Engseng Ho, Duke University"In all, this work is a rich and varied fare. What is welcome is the book's developed insight that Islamophilia can also be an act of wishful thinking and fantasy as much as Islamophobia. Morever, the latter can be propagated by Muslims. In all, this is a plea for a grown up engagement with Muslims who are as diverse as Christians and Jews." —The Muslim World Book Review, 31:4, 2011"Very timely. An excellent contribution to humanistic scholarship by a number of leading scholars. The disciplinary range and nuance of the individual essays in this volume do a great job to illustrate and analyze how ahistorical, demeaning, or apologetic views of Muslims and Islam function and circulate." —Ussama Makdisi, Rice University"... a collection at once serious and sensible in its scope, ambitions and outcome." —Bruce B. Lawrence, Religion Dispatches"‘Islamophobia’ is an often used term in debates relating to Muslim minorities in Europe and the US post 9/11. The aim of this edited volume by Andrew Shryock is... to investigate the background of the term and reach a more thorough understanding of what it could entail and how it could be used and applied." —British Journal of Middle Eastern StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Islam as an Object of Fear and Affection: A Problem for Critical Analysis / Andrew ShryockPart 1. Continuities and Transformations 1. Western Hostility toward Muslims: A History of the Present / Toma Mastnak 2. The Khalil Gibran International Academy: Diasporic Confrontations with an Emerging Islamophobia / Naamah PaleyPart 2. Modern (Self) Criticism 3. The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators / Moustafa Bayoumi 4. Gendering Islamophobia and Islamophilia: The Case of Shii Muslim Women in Lebanon / Lara Deeb 5. Bridging Traditions: Madrasas and Their Internal Critics / Muhammad Qasim ZamanPart 3. Violence and Conversion in Europe 6. The Fantasy and Violence of Religious Imagination: Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism in France and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein 7. German Converts to Islam and Their Ambivalent Relations with Immigrant Muslims / Esra zyürekPart 4. Attraction and Repulsion in Shared Space 8. Muslim Ethnic Comedy: Inversions of Islamophobia / Mucahit Bilici 9. Competing for Muslims: New Strategies for Urban Renewal in Detroit / Sally HowellList of ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Berbers and Others
Book SynopsisOffers fresh perspectives on the various forms of social and political activism in Maghrib. This title presents some of the best thinking in the field of Berber studies, also offering insight into historical antecedents, language usage, land rights, household economies, artistic production, and human rights.Trade ReviewHoffman and Miller have done a real service to the anthropology of North Africa by bringing these articles together. Any work done on Berbers in the future will stand on the shoulders of this excellent collection. * Anthropos *Berbers and Others ... brings together some of the very best of the new generation of scholars working on Berber issues from a variety of perspectives ... both North Africanists and all those interested in the nexus between ethnicity, culture, politics, and history, will derive much benefit and pleasure from this elegant and informed volume.June 2011 * H-Africa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroduction / Katherine E. Hoffman and Susan Gilson MillerPart 1. Sources and Methods 1. Histories of Heresy and Salvation: Arabs, Berbers, Community, and the State / James McDougall 2. Internal Fractures in the Berber-Arab Distinction: From Colonial Practice to Post-national Preoccupations / Katherine E. Hoffman 3. The Makhzan's Berber: Paths to Integration in Pre-Colonial Morocco / Mohamed El MansourPart 2. Practices: Local, National, and International 4. The Local Dimensions of Transnational Berberism: Racial Politics, Land Rights, and Cultural Activism in Southeastern Morocco / Paul A. Silverstein 5. Imazighen on Trial: Human Rights and Berber Identity in Algeria, 1985 / Jane E. Goodman 6. Globalization Begins at Home: Children's Wage Labor and the High Atlas Household / David CrawfordPart 3. Varieties of Representation 7. The "Numidian" Origins of North Africa / Mokhtar Ghambou 8. "First Arts" of the Maghrib: Exhibiting Berber Culture at the Musée du quai Branly / Lisa Bernasek 9. Deconstructing the History of Berber Arts: Tribalism, Matriarchy, and a Primitive Neolithic Past / Cynthia BeckerList of ContributorsIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Stolen Childhood Second Edition
Book SynopsisSlavery's impact on children and familiesTrade ReviewKing provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents. * Booklist *Stolen Childhood is a wonderful book with manifold strengths of research and analysis. -- Nell Irvin PainterKing's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience. * Choice *[King] takes an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery. * Washington Post Book World *Wilma King has done a service in correcting a major problem in slave history. Her writing style gracefully conveys both the joys and the terrors of youth under slavery. * Southern Historian *Stolen Childhood mines the major American archives in order to present the ways in which enslaved men and women created a semblance of family life and cultural heritage. * Christian Science Monitor *Stolen Childhood is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the slave experience in the United States. * History of Education Quarterly *King's work is fresh and accessible. It fills key gaps in scholarship on slavery and would make for a worthwhile read for anyone from the casual reader of history to the scholar. * Tennessee Libraries *Drawing on extensive new scholarship and sources, [King] adds significant new demographic information regarding slave children and broadens her scope to include slave children born in the North and in urban centers. . . . Essential. * Choice *King has performed a valuable service to the historiographies of slavery and of children. It is important to be reminded that slaves were children before they became the men and women who form our more familiar images of slavery.Summer 1996 * Register Kentucky Historical Society *Wilma King's book is a welcome addition to the literature. . . The author compares the hardships of slave childhood with those created by war or siege.Fall 1996 * GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY *[Until] the appearance of this book, no monograph had focused exclusively on the many topics relating to the enslaved young.April 1997 * American Historical Review *[King's] cogent general picture offeres a valuable entree into the topic, and provides a sound frame of reference for the temporally or spacially more specific research that her study should generate.39.3 Fall 1998 * American Studies *Stolen Childhood provides a broad overview of slave childhood throughout the nineteenth-century South and moves beyond the Civil War years to demonstrate that the brutality directed against enslaved children did not end with emancipation.May 2000 * Journal of Southern History *[T]his is an ambitious book that not only pioneered the history of African-American child slavery, but also made a significant impact on the discourse addressing slavery in the USA more generally. . . a masterful work. * Slavery and Abolition *Stolen Childhood mines the major American archives in order to present the ways in which enslaved men and women created a semblance of family life and cultural heritage. * Christian Science Monitor *Stolen Childhood is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the slave experience in the United States. * History of Education Quarterly *King's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience. * Choice *Wilma King has done a service in correcting a major problem in slave history. Her writing style gracefully conveys both the joys and the terrors of youth under slavery. * Southern Historian *[King] takes an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery. * Washington Post Book World *Stolen Childhood is a wonderful book with manifold strengths of research and analysis. -- Nell Irvin PainterKing provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents. * Booklist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction 1. In the Beginning: The Transatlantic Trade in Children of African Descent2. "You know that I am one man that do love his children": Slave Children and Youth in the Family and Community 3. "Us ain't never idle": Slave Children and Youth in the World of Work 4. "When day is done": Play and Leisure Activities of Slave Children and Youth 5. "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave": The Temporal and Spiritual Education of Slave Children and Youth 6. "What has Ever Become of My Presus Little Girl": The Traumas and Tragedies of Slave Children and Youth 7. "Free at last": The Quest for Freedom by Slave Children and Youth 8. "There's a better day a-coming": The Transition from Slavery to Freedom for Children and Youth Notes Appendixes Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press Anthropology and Egalitarianism
Book SynopsisA provocative introduction to fieldwork and the concept of cultureTrade ReviewOverall, this book is a success and a useful text for ethnographers of all types. Its self-reflective nature should make any researcher think deeply on her or his own process, and the accessibility of the writing makes it useful for classrooms of all levels. . . . Gable's writing is always pleasant and at times beautifully eloquent. * journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Culture by Contrast and Theory in Anthropology1. Supping with Savages 2. Standing in a Line3. Jefferson's Ardor4. The Colonialist's Dress Code5. Taking Pictures in the Field, or the Anthropologist's Dress Code6. Beyond Belief7. The Sex Life of SavagesConclusion: Tending to Nature, Tending to Culture, or Is Anthropology History?Notes on SourcesReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press Colonial Blackness
Book SynopsisThe impact of slavery and freedom on black identity and cultural formationTrade ReviewWhat light is shed upon old topics when new sources are examined! In this major work on Afro-Mexican and, really, general Spanish American history, Bennett prowls through the neglected Mexican archival records [and] uncovers a vibrant black community developing its own customs and practices. . . . In place of a weak, shattered individualistic society . . . Bennett's Afro-Mexicans were a community that soon counted a majority of freedman living in an urban setting. What a contract with the Afro-Cuban slave society evolving to the east. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[T]his text, compelling and persuasive both in theoretical argumentation and use of primary sources, is a major achievement in understanding and reframing Afro-Mexican history. It is highly recommended for the sophisticated specialist already familiar with more conventional studies of Afro-Latin American history, and one who is also necessarily conversant with the terminology of postmodern and postcolonial studies. Vol. 17.1, Winter 2008 * Colonial Latin American Historical Review *A fascinating study . . . Bennett . . . challenges mission historians to go beyond those generalizations that often marginalize people and to examine not only the written sources about such groups but also to examine their behavior, creatively using archival sources that are available. -- Larry Nemer * Missiology *Oct. 2013 * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Writing Afro-Mexican History1. Discipline and Culture2. Genealogies to a Past3. Creoles4. Provincial Black Life5. Local Blackness6. Narrating Freedom7. SinEpilogue: Colonial Blackness?BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Conjuring
Book SynopsisBlack women have been writing and publishing fiction for more than a century, yet little is known of their literary history, their influence on each other, or the significance of their work to the American literary tradition. This title addresses the question of how this recovered tradition reshapes our understanding of American literature.Trade Review"The most consistently rewarding of the recent anthologies focusing on Afro-American women's writing ... " Modern Fiction Studies " ... successfully [exposes] the core of Black women's writing and confidently [places] it within the American literary tradition." Belles LettresTable of ContentsIntroduction: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and the "Ancient Power" of Black WomenMarjorie Pryse1 Adding Color and Contour to Early American Self-Portraitures: Autobiographical Writings of Afro-American WomenFrances Smith Foster2 Green-eyed Monsters of the Slavocracy: Jealous Mistresses in Two Slave Narratives Minrose C. Gwin3 Pauline Hopkins: Our Literary ForemotherClaudia Tate4 Out of the Woods and into the World: A Study of Interracial Friendships between Women in the American NovelsElizabeth Schultz5 The Neglected Dimension of Jessie Redmon FausetDeborah E. McDowell6 Ann Petry's Demythologizing of American Culture and Afro-American CharacterBernard W. Bell7 "Pattern against the Sky": Deism and Motherhood in Ann Petry's The StreetMarjorie Pryse8 Jubilee: The Black Woman's Celebration of Human CommunityMinrose C. Gwin9 Chosen Place, Timeless People: Some Figurations on the New WorldHortense J. Spillers10 Lady No Longer Sings the Blues: Rape, Madness, and Silence in The Bluest EyeMadonne M. Miner11 Recitation to the Griot: Storytelling and Learning in Toni Marrison's Song of SolomonJoseph T. Skerrett, Jr.12 The Wise Witches: Black Women Mentors in the Fiction of Octavia E. ButlerThelma J. Shinn13 "What It Is I Think She's Doing Anyhow": A Reading of Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt EatersGloria T. Hull14 Trajectories of Self-Definition: Placing Contemporary Afro-American Women's FictionBarbara ChristianAfterword: Cross-Currents, Discontinuities: Black Women's FictionHortnese J. SpillersThe ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press A Turbulent Time
Book SynopsisExamines developments within several societies in the Greater Caribbean during the revolutionary period to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutions on the region.Trade Review"... excellent ... While some anthologies suffer from unevenness and lack a coherent center, A Turbulent Time is a series of nine well-written essays whose whole is the sum of its parts." The Journal of American History "Anyone who wants to thoroughly understand the period in question should own this book." Caribbean Historical & Genealogical Journal "Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, this volume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution." Choice "All of the essays are beautiflly crafted and researched and analytically rigorous. It is destined to become an instant classic, inspiring historians of slavery to even greater heights of research and analysis." H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Slavery, War, and Revolution in the Greater Caribbean 1789–1815, David P. Geggus2. The French revolution in Saint Dominique: Triumph or Failure?, Carolyn E. Fick3. The French Revolution and British Attitudes to the Caribbean Colonies, Michael Duffy4. La Guerre des Bois: Revolution, War and Slavery in Saint Lucia, 1793–1838, David Barry Gaspar5. Slave Resistance in the Spanish Caribbean in the Mid- 1790s, David P. Geggus6. Rebellion and Royalism in Spanish Florida: The French Revolution on Spain's Northern Colonial Frontier, Jane Landers7. Conflicting Loyalties: The French Revolution and Free People of Color in Spanish New Orleans, Kimberly S. Hanger8. Revolutionary St. Dominique in the Making of Territorial Louisiana, Robert L. Paquette9. The Admission of Slave Testimony at British Military Courts in the West Indies, 1800–1809, Roger N. BuckleyContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Black Women Scientists in the United States
Book SynopsisExamines the life and work of Black women scientists.Trade ReviewWarren (American studies, SUNY College, Old Westbury) has expanded her dissertation research, presenting biographical sketches, alphabetically arranged, of more than 100 black women scientists, living and deceased. Contributions by most of the women are substantiated by primary source material, but some (starred entries) are included with only minimal documentation because they either appeared to be pioneers or showed promise of continued contribution. Most of the subjects hold PhDs, but some are MDs. Disciplines covered are anatomy, anthropology, astronautics and space science, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, geology, marine biology, mathematics, medicine, nutrition, pharmacology, physics, psychology, and zoology. The volume has indexes of disciplines and personal names and includes an appendix listing selected publications by many of the subjects in chronological order. There is very little reference material on black scientists in the US and even less that includes black women scientists. This book fills a void in most reference collections and will, one hopes, lead to other works documenting the contributions minorities have made to the sciences. -- J. P. Miller * Texas A&M University , 2000sep CHOICE. *
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Indiana University Press Race for Sanctions African Americans against
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of the anti-apartheid movement from its origins in the 1940s through the civil rights and black power eras to its maturation in the 1980s as a force that transformed US foreign policy.Trade Review"An important contribution to the political history of this period [and] a must for those interested in the influence of the great pan-Africanists." Elliott P. SkinnerTable of ContentsTable of Contents: PrefaceList of Abbreviations1. Cold War and Apartheid2. The Movement against Apartheid3. "By Any Means Necessary": Black Power and Pan-Africanism4. "It's Nation Time": Pan-Africanism and African Liberation5. TransAfrica6. The Free South Africa Movement7. The Race for Sanctions8. Dismantling ApartheidNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press International Change and the Stability of
Book SynopsisDevelops a theory of governance for multiethnic states in crisis in the context of international change.Trade Review"[A]n important contribution to scholarship... rigorous and intelligible." Patrick James, University of MissouriTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart One. Theoretical Framework1. Introduction2. Debating State Governance3. A Theory of Debating State GovernancePart Two. Case Studies4. Yugoslavia and the Emerging Cold War, 1947-535. Yugoslavia and the Waning Cold War, 1987-916. Lebanon, the Cold War Penetration, and the Rise of Nasserism, 1957-587. Lebanon and the Metamorphosis of Arab-Israeli Relations, 1973-75Part Three. Conclusions8. Summary, Alternative Explanations, and ImplicationsNotesBibliographyIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Braided Relations Entwined Lives
Book SynopsisDiscussing the roles of women in an urban slave society, this book takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. It analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications determined personal destiny.Trade ReviewRejecting the clash between the categories of race, class, and gender for analytical supremacy, Kennedy (Clarion Univ.) has written a detailed, nuanced study of the lives of women—white and black, free and unfree—in Colonial and antebellum Charleston. As the title suggests, the women of Charleston, regardless of station, were bound together in a remarkably complex web of social relations, and how women experienced their lives was determined in large part by how they negotiated this intricate web. Embedded in this web was a ubiquitous notion of the ideal woman, which was defined by the prevailing patriarchy. While they sometimes chafed against this ideal, women also used it to their advantage, individually and collectively. Change also affected the lives of women in Charleston: the Revolution marked an expansion of what women believed they had a right to expect, legally and socially, and further complicated relationships between women by reinvigorating slavery. Kennedy draws upon the now expansive body of scholarship on Southern women's history and the history of slavery and concentrates on the unique urban setting of Charleston to illuminate new dimensions of women's history. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper—division undergraduates and abov -- J. J. Rogers * Choice *. . . Kennedy . . . has written a detailed, nuanced study of the lives of women—white and black, free and unfree—in Colonial and antebellum Charleston. . . . [She] draws upon the now expansive body of scholarship on Southern women's history and the history of slavery and concentrates on the unique urban setting of Charleston to illuminate new dimensions of women's history. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. The Place, the War, the First Reconstruction1. The Place and the People2. Disorder and Chaos of War3. Rebuilding and ResistingPart II. Defining Women, Defining Their Braided Relations4. Marriage and Cohabitation within the Aristocratic Paradigm: Wealthy White Women and the Free Brown Elite5. Marriage and Cohabitation outside the Aristocratic Paradigm: Slaves and Free Laboring Women6. Mixing and Admixtures7. Work and Workers8. Leisure and Recreation9. Women and the Law10. Illness and DeathConclusionAppendix 1. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant ApplicationsAppendix 2. South Carolina Court System and the Case UniverseAbbreviations NotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Other Black Bostonians
Book SynopsisA study of Boston's West Indian immigrants, examining the identities, goals, and aspirations of two generations of black migrants from the British-held Caribbean who settled in Boston between 1900 and 1950. It explores the pre-migration background of the immigrants, work and housing, identity, culture and community, activism and social mobility.Trade Review. . . adds a new perspective to both the scholarly understanding of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in the United States and Boston's Black community. . . . enjoyable, Johnson's tidy little volume should be of intereat to many readers.Spring 2009 * Historical Journal of Massachusetts *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Origins of Migration: British West Indian Economy, Society, and the Lure of Emigration2. Work and Housing in "Freedom's Birthplace"3. Identity, Culture, and Community4. Militant Immigrants and Relentless Ex-colonials?5. "Making Good in America" and Living the West Indian DreamConclusion NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Immigration and the Border
Book SynopsisThe advent of the twenty-first century marks a significant moment in the history of Latinos in the United States. The fourth wave of immigration to America is primarily Latino, and the last decades of the twentieth century saw a significant increase in the number of Latino migrants, a diversification of the nations contributing to this migration, and an increase in the size of the native-born Latino population. A backlash against unauthorized immigration, which may indict all Latinos, is also underway. Understanding the growing Latino population, especially its immigrant dimensions, is therefore a key task for researchers in the social sciences and humanities. The contributors to Immigration and the Border address immigration and border politics and policies, focusing on the U.S. side of the border. The volume editors have arranged the essays into five sections. The two chapters in the first section set the stage and discuss the binational lives of Mexican migrants; chTrade Review“With Immigration and the Border: Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century, editors David L. Leal and José E. Limón have gathered an impressive group of contributors from diverse fields to provide an understanding of immigration dynamics in contemporary American political and civic life. Written in an accessible style, this fine volume delivers extensive coverage of political and border issues, making it valuable for students in many Latino studies courses.” —Jorge Chapa, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"This volume makes an original contribution by presenting new research in the field of Latino studies. The varied perspectives of the contributors make the book appealing to scholars and students in political science, sociology, anthropology, education, Latino studies, and border studies. Immigration and the Border: Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century will also appeal to Latino organizations and policy advocates." —Raquel Marquez, University of Texas at San Antonio“Immigration and the Border is an invaluable repository of information, and a welcome contribution to public and college library shelves.” —The Midwest Book Review"Other than its interdisciplinary approach, the collection's helpfulness results from its inclusion of youth (a sector of the Latino population that is exploding but often not understood or studied), the fact that in several essays the researchers point to policies that are more productive, and an approach that does not ignore those left behind in the sending countries." —Theological Studies
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University of Notre Dame Press What the Negro Wants
Book SynopsisPublished in 1944, What the Negro Wants was a direct and emphatic call for the end of segregation and racial discrimination that set the agenda for the civil rights movement to come.With essays by fourteen prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Roy Wilkins, What the Negro Wants explores the policies and practices that could be employed to achieve equal rights and opportunities for Black Americans, rejecting calls to reform the old system of segregation and instead arguing for the construction of a new system of equality. Stirring intense controversy at the time of publication, the book serves as a unique window into the history of the civil rights movement and offers startling comparisons to today's continuing fight against racism and inequality.Originally gathered together by distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. LoganTrade Review“This book provides a marvelous window into the contours of mid-twentieth century black political thought. . . . More than half a century after its publication, this book remains a valuable document for anyone interested in the origins of the modern civil rights movement. Its indictment of American racism remains powerful and relevant even today.” —Chicago Tribune“Rationalization and sublimation have been the means by which we have tried to solve the American race problem, and this ably written book is an outstanding example of the frontal approach.” —The New York Times Book Review (praise for a previous edition)
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University of Notre Dame Press Latinos in the United States
Book SynopsisWhen Latinos in the United States was first published in 1986, it was hailed as a triumph by the National Catholic Reporter, inspiring by the journal American Studies, and was named an Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by Choice. The book was widely adopted in Latino and ethnic studies classes at colleges and universities throughout the country. Now, in the second edition, David Abalos updates his pioneering application of the transformation theory to key aspects of Latino politics, history, and culture. He draws on examples from everyday human encounters to address specific concerns of both Latino individuals and groups. Among the issues addressed are: the need to maintain Latino family heritage while allowing each member to develop the autonomy necessary to interact both within the family and within American society; the importance of avoiding assimilation; the necessity for Latinos to develop the skills and competence that allow them to entTrade Review"Latinos in the United States has become a classic work that has shaped Latino Studies for over the past decade. In this revised and expanded edition, David T. Abalos remains our introspective and thoughtful teacher who guides us all toward the deepest source of our being in order for us to become whole people as we actively work to transform our nation into a loving and more compassionate multicultural America." —Alberto Lopez Pulido, University of San Diego“David T. Abalos' work is an extraordinarily rich meditation on the most pertinent aspects of the Latino reality today that goes beyond a merely competent social science analysis of America's largest minority. Abalos integrates solid sociology, politics, anthropology and psychology into an inspiring vision demonstrating where Latinos could be going if the right choices are made. He takes the profoundly spiritual/religious, even mystical dynamics of Latino culture seriously and shows how the Latino future has everything to do with the recognition and renewal of that innate spirituality. This drama will define not only tomorrow's Latinos but all Americans as well, as the latinoization of the U.S.A. advances. Here is a scholar who wisely goes beyond the Academy's crusty secularism to embrace the sacred.” —Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., Loyola Institute for Spirituality"Professor Abalos is able to bring his original analysis into contemporary issues with the same clarity and depth he offered in his first edition of this book. . . instead of providing us a sociological perspective or a political or theological perspective in the traditional compartmentalized model of academia he provides us with a textured holistic representation of this segment of humanity we call Latinos. . . . This is an important and original contribution to knowledge in the field of Latino Studies. It is based on an urgently needed synthesis of a growing body of work done on Latinos that needs to be re-framed and connected to other mainstream sources in sociology, psychology, theology, and political science." —Victor M. Rodriguez, California State University, Long Beach“I hope this revised version will find a ready audience so that Abalos’s theory of transformation can receive the thorough discussion it deserves in the circles of Hispanic theology and Hispanic theological education. . . . This work should be required reading in courses in Latino/a studies and ethnic studies. It also fits well in certain political science courses. Professors teaching religion and religious studies will use the work. The addition of the final chapter extends the readership of the book to include persons involved in the educational attainment of Latinos/as in the U.S. Beyond the traditional classroom, the work will find a ready audience among community organizers and persons involved in social transformation.” —Paul Barton, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest“Abalos examines contemporary issues faced by Latinos in the US-family, politics in the community, education, mafle-female relations, and racism-from the perspective of the theory of transformation. Through this exploration the author offers readers-Latinos in particular-ways to become more whole people actively working to transform the nation into a more compassionate multicultural America.” —Research Book News“Readers should see this historically situated text as personal ruminations and exhortations from an academic elder and mentor of East Coast Latino/a students—an impassioned plea to his young charges at that time not to forsake their unique identity, culture, religion, and spirituality for the seductive lure of capitalist materialism. Hopefully, today's young Latino/a college students will resonate with this still worthwhile message of self-empowerment and transformation.” —Choice
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University of Notre Dame Press Xaripu Community across Borders The
Book SynopsisDuring the past three decades there have been many studies of transnational migration. Most of the scholarship has focused on one side of the border, one area of labor incorporation, one generation of migrants, and one gender. In this path-breaking book, Manuel Barajas presents the first cross-national, comparative study to examine a Mexican-origin community's experience with international migration and transnationalism. He presents an extended case study of the Xaripu community, with home bases in both Xaripu, Michoacán, and Stockton, California, and elaborates how various forms of colonialism, institutional biases, and emergent forms of domination have shaped Xaripu labor migration, community formation, and family experiences across the Mexican/U.S. border for over a century.Of special interest are Barajas's formal and informal interviews within the community, his examination of oral histories, and his participant observation in several locations. Barajas asks, What historiTrade Review“The Xaripu Community is an exciting, refreshing, and critical ethnographic study that breaks new ground for theorizing transnational migration experiences and gender relationships across borders and challenges monolithic characterizations of Mexican migrants. Presenting a nuanced critique of previous frameworks, Barajas puts forward innovative assertions and arguments for an ‘interactive colonization’ framework that will have repercussions on debates about the Mexican migration experience in the United States.” —Mary Romero, Arizona State University“This interesting work aims to develop a framework for understanding how the intersection of racism, patriarchy, and economic oppression affects labor migration, community formation, and gender dynamics among the Xaripu across borders. It contributes to our understanding of another facet of the Mexican experience of migration.” —Cecilia Menjivar editor of Latinos/as in the United States: Changing the Face of América“Manuel Barajas does a masterful job of integrating various theoretical perspectives to provide us a more sophisticated understanding of one particular transnational community. His model of interactive colonialism draws from such diverse conceptual and methodological traditions as neocolonialism and internal colonialism, globalization theory, network theory, gender relations, and historical materialism. At the same time, his approach is firmly grounded in the specific experience of the transborder Xaripu community, based in both Mexico and California. The complexity of his framework is a necessary reflection of the multiple economic and social factors that are shaping this type of emergent globalized community.” —Mario Barrera, University of California, Berkeley“Barajas presents an extended case study of the migration experiences of the Xaripu community originating from Michoacan, Mexico. He examines how forms of colonialism, institutional biases, and emergent forms of domination have shaped the community’s labor migration, community formation, and family experiences across the Mexican/US border over the course of a century.” —Research Book News“This is a very good book that will appeal to Mexican American historians, sociologists, and those interested in the experiences of Mexican immigrants. What makes this study unique is the binational, cross-border comparative perspective. Barajas does what only a handful of Mexican/Mexican American scholars have done; he shows the ways in which the home country has continued to influence and reinforce the social and cultural identity of immigrants.” —Journal of American Ethnic History" . . . by using he case of Xaripus on both sides of the border and the different forms of subordination over time, this is a much-needed book that makes critical contributions to the study of migration, families, gender and Latinos in the United States." —Bulletin of Latin American Research". . . a major contribution of the book, besides the analysis of Xaripu migration to the United States, is that it offers ethnographic materials that help differentiate indigenous from mestizo migration. It is a useful book for advanced undergraduate and graduate studies in migration." —Social Forces
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University of Notre Dame Press Beyond the Barrio
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University of Notre Dame Press Barrio Boy
Book SynopsisJourney with Ernesto Galarza through time, place, and culture in this stunning memoir of Mexican American identity and acculturation.Barrio Boy is the remarkable story of one boy''s journey from a Mexican village so small its main street didn''t have a name, to the barrio of Sacramento, California, bustling and thriving in the early decades of the twentieth century. With vivid imagery and a rare gift for re-creating a child''s sense of time and place, Ernesto Galarza gives an account of the early experiences of his extraordinary lifefrom revolution in Mexico to segregation in the United Statesthat will continue to engage readers for generations to come.Since it was first published in 1971, Galarza's classic work has been assigned in high school and undergraduate classrooms across the country, profoundly affecting thousands of students who read this true story of acculturation into American life.The 40th anniversary edition of this best-selling book includTrade Review“In 1971, at the age of sixty-six, the labour activist, educator and scholar Ernesto Galarza (1905-1984) published Barrio Boy, a memoir of the long migration of his family from a small village in the Sierra Madre to California. Barrio Boy immediately became a classic of Chicano literature, and on its fortieth anniversary has now been published in a new edition with an introduction by the critic, biographer and short-story writer Ilan Stavans.”—TLS“Galarza’s book is about growing up—first in Mexico, then in America. To this reader, it is on the same artistic level as Black Boy or Call It Sleep or even Huckleberry Finn. . . . As with Wright and Roth and Twain, we are given a near-perfect tale of rising from absolute poverty to middle-class security, but instead of a woeful recounting, it is filled with the joy of discovery: from living in the lively muddy streets of a small village in Nayarit to surviving, wide-eyed, in the lively and noisy barrios of Sacramento.” —RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities“The 40th anniversary edition of Galarza’s book, now a standard text in high school and college classrooms, has become so popular that it has . . . achieved the dubious honor of being the subject of study guides and essays available for purchase online.” —Occidental College“A useful introduction by Ilan Stavans and Galarza’s original preface accompanies this fortieth-anniversary edition of Barrio Boy. The book is well known within Chicano literary scholarship. It belongs to the genre of autobiography, certainly an empirical genre, a form of personal history, but also a self-portrait, a story that may serve as an example for readers.” —Journal of American Ethnic History"Galarza’s classic speaks louder now than when I read it as an undergrad in 1970 during the early formation of Chicano Studies at UCLA. The novel’s triple metaphors of the rooster versus the vulture, the boy versus the bull and the village versus the city braid into a whip of power in bold relief—colonization, displacement and exploitation. The painful transitions from the familiar to the strange and from the harmonies of the village to the existential vacuums of the metropolis are given to us to re-consider and behold—brutal forces that may have gained momentum in our millennium. Yet, there is fragile beauty, inescapable synthesis, and leadership burning out of a new voice shifting between home and homeland. You must take this book and treasure it, walk with it, converse with it and carry its most human story in your heart—so you will live and act fully. A cultural classic yesterday, a riveting, fiery illumination today." —Juan Felipe Herrera, University of California, Riverside"To re-encounter Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza is to indulge in deja vu from the early Chicano Movement concerns about acculturation and identity construction. The genuine story about a boy's journey reminds many of us of our own trajectory and how we had to negotiate a new ethnic self. The lessons are moving and heart-warming as markers of a collective perseverance and survival. The story embodies a key phase of immigration when the barrio becomes our first community to embrace or overcome. After all is said and done, the 'barrio boy' stays true to himself as an apprentice to Americanism without sacrificing his origins. He proves that being bicultural and bilingual are positive qualities worthy of upholding." —Francisco A. Lomeli, University of California, Santa Barbara
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University of Notre Dame Press Black Scholars on the Line
Book SynopsisBlack Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society. The book asks how segregation has influenced, and continues to influence, the development of American social thought and social science scholarship.Jonathan Scott Holloway and Ben Keppel present the work of thirty-one black social scientists whose work was published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power Era. Even though they had to fashion their careers outside of their respective fields'' mainstream, the intellectuals featured here produced scholarship that helped define the contours of the social sciences as they evolved over the course of the twentieth century. Theirs was the work of pioneers, now for the first time gathered in one anthology.AfteTrade Review“Thirty-one papers explore the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society.” —Journal of Economic Literature“The editors' excellent introductory essay focuses on social science as an expression of society, not simply as a detached commentary on it. In the US, institutionalized racism has been central to American society, and black scholars have always had to work both within and against its constraints. This is as true, the editors argue, of contemporary academics in Black Studies programs as it was for W.E.B. Du Bois at the beginning of the last century. . . . This volume will be particularly useful in courses on the history of American social science.” —Virginia Quarterly Review"Logically organized, well contextualized, and insightfully theorized, Holloway and Keppel's anthology enriches our knowledge of African American social scientists who operated during the era of segregation. In providing important primary documents that complement the numerous available biographies and studies of black scholars, this collection should be useful to any student of twentieth-century African American intellectual history." —The Journal of Southern History“The 31 well-selected essays, ranging from 1898 to 1973, are an excellent introduction and guide to the world of the African American scholars who established their place in US academic and intellectual culture. The introductions provide contexts and bibliographies. This strong, valuable collection documents the issues and barriers met by the 'Talented Tenth,' who often lived behind the 'Veil,' and who used their minds to explain how 'the color line continues to be drawn in the lives of millions of Americans.' Highly recommended.” —Choice“It has a noble history of scholarship, justice and positive action, and in the twentieth century it was mainly practiced in an unenlightened, unjust and negative society. The 28 contributors here published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power movement, a time when African American practitioners of social science were both students and objects of a segregated society.” —Research Book News“We have in hand a remarkable contribution to the historiography of race relations in the U.S. or what some colleagues in a kindred field would designate as the sociology of knowledge. The documents have been expertly assembled and engage important themes such as the legacies of racism in the urban north as well as the rural south; the significance of family and kin as well as the role of institutions such as the church in community formation. What is just as impressive is the way that Holloway and Keppel have organized the material and introduced it.” —Patrick Miller, editor of The African American Intellectual Heritage series“Black Scholars on the Line is an intellectual feast, one that brings back many voices that I love to hear, and that I want my upper-division undergraduates and graduate students to hear. I would expect that this book would have quite a wide readership.” —Paul Spickard, editor of The African American Intellectual Heritage series“Jonathan Holloway and Ben Keppel have rendered a great service in bringing together the radiant social science scholarship of 20th-century African Americans. The 31 essays, deftly introduced, show the brilliance of under-appreciated black scholars who struggled to be heard across the color line.” —Gary B. Nash, professor emeritus, UCLA"Black Scholars on the Line is a wonderful contribution. As one who teaches black American intellectual history, I can attest to how useful it is to have these articles collected in one volume. Professors Holloway and Keppel are to be commended. They have chosen with intelligence and care, and their introductory essay situates their selections very helpfully. This book should do much to help recover for a new generation of scholars and students what was indeed the main trunk of black American intellectual discourse—and a primary domain of black Americans' civic debate—through the segregation era.” —Adolph Reed Jr, University of Pennsylvania
£105.40
University of Notre Dame Press Black Scholars on the Line
Book SynopsisBlack Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century explores the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society. The book asks how segregation has influenced, and continues to influence, the development of American social thought and social science scholarship.Jonathan Scott Holloway and Ben Keppel present the work of thirty-one black social scientists whose work was published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power Era. Even though they had to fashion their careers outside of their respective fields'' mainstream, the intellectuals featured here produced scholarship that helped define the contours of the social sciences as they evolved over the course of the twentieth century. Theirs was the work of pioneers, now for the first time gathered in one anthology.AfteTrade Review“Thirty-one papers explore the development of American social science by highlighting the contributions of those scholars who were both students and objects of a segregated society.” —Journal of Economic Literature“The editors' excellent introductory essay focuses on social science as an expression of society, not simply as a detached commentary on it. In the US, institutionalized racism has been central to American society, and black scholars have always had to work both within and against its constraints. This is as true, the editors argue, of contemporary academics in Black Studies programs as it was for W.E.B. Du Bois at the beginning of the last century. . . . This volume will be particularly useful in courses on the history of American social science.” —Virginia Quarterly Review"Logically organized, well contextualized, and insightfully theorized, Holloway and Keppel's anthology enriches our knowledge of African American social scientists who operated during the era of segregation. In providing important primary documents that complement the numerous available biographies and studies of black scholars, this collection should be useful to any student of twentieth-century African American intellectual history." —The Journal of Southern History“The 31 well-selected essays, ranging from 1898 to 1973, are an excellent introduction and guide to the world of the African American scholars who established their place in US academic and intellectual culture. The introductions provide contexts and bibliographies. This strong, valuable collection documents the issues and barriers met by the 'Talented Tenth,' who often lived behind the 'Veil,' and who used their minds to explain how 'the color line continues to be drawn in the lives of millions of Americans.' Highly recommended.” —Choice“It has a noble history of scholarship, justice and positive action, and in the twentieth century it was mainly practiced in an unenlightened, unjust and negative society. The 28 contributors here published between the rise of the Tuskegee model of higher education and the end of the Black Power movement, a time when African American practitioners of social science were both students and objects of a segregated society.” —Research Book News“We have in hand a remarkable contribution to the historiography of race relations in the U.S. or what some colleagues in a kindred field would designate as the sociology of knowledge. The documents have been expertly assembled and engage important themes such as the legacies of racism in the urban north as well as the rural south; the significance of family and kin as well as the role of institutions such as the church in community formation. What is just as impressive is the way that Holloway and Keppel have organized the material and introduced it.” —Patrick Miller, editor of The African American Intellectual Heritage series“Black Scholars on the Line is an intellectual feast, one that brings back many voices that I love to hear, and that I want my upper-division undergraduates and graduate students to hear. I would expect that this book would have quite a wide readership.” —Paul Spickard, editor of The African American Intellectual Heritage series“Jonathan Holloway and Ben Keppel have rendered a great service in bringing together the radiant social science scholarship of 20th-century African Americans. The 31 essays, deftly introduced, show the brilliance of under-appreciated black scholars who struggled to be heard across the color line.” —Gary B. Nash, professor emeritus, UCLA"Black Scholars on the Line is a wonderful contribution. As one who teaches black American intellectual history, I can attest to how useful it is to have these articles collected in one volume. Professors Holloway and Keppel are to be commended. They have chosen with intelligence and care, and their introductory essay situates their selections very helpfully. This book should do much to help recover for a new generation of scholars and students what was indeed the main trunk of black American intellectual discourse—and a primary domain of black Americans' civic debate—through the segregation era.” —Adolph Reed Jr, University of Pennsylvania
£28.80
University of Notre Dame Press Bursting Bonds
Book SynopsisIn 1911, William Pickens published the first edition of his autobiography, The Heir of Slaves, in which he writes about the importance of his education and recounts the experiences that led him into public life. The narrative discusses his family, the various teachers and mentors who helped guide him, and the incidents and methods by which he accomplished so much. Pickens''s later works increasingly demanded the rights of full citizenship for African Americans. Bursting Bonds (1923), the second edition of his autobiography, clearly demonstrates this development by the inclusion of five new chapters on racial tensions. This important work, now back in print, marks a turning point in the evolution of African American autobiography from defence to confrontation.Trade Review“This is a reprint of the second, extended edition from 1923 of the autobiography of Professor William Pickens, a leading member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Pickens, whose parents were liberated slaves, studied classics at Yale, became a professor at Talladega College in Alabama, and was involved in the NAACP from its inception in 1910.” —International Review of Social History
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University of Notre Dame Press Football Weekends at Notre Dame
Book SynopsisWhen people ask the question, What makes a football weekend at Notre Dame so special?members of the Notre Dame family know that it could take an entire book to give the whole answer. This is that book. It tells the gameday story with over one hundred color photographs that bring the experience alive from the perspectives of many different groups, and its words add a context that is rich in the traditions, community connections, values, and spirit that make Notre Dame unique. Writer Bill Schmitt and photographer Lou Sabo approached the question with the kind of wide-ranging curiosity that goes beyond sports books, guidebooks, and history books. Their work reveals that the answer comes from many sources and primarily from the people who share the experience. The book focuses on students, many of whom have no involvement on the field; Catholics and believers of all faiths; alumni; visitors from around the country and the world; South Bend neighbors and business owners; athletes;Trade Review“This book demonstrates what makes Notre Dame football so special—the unique community of friends, families, students, and the football team that takes place on Saturdays in the fall at this great university.” —Charlie Weis, Head Football Coach, University of Notre Dame, 2005-present“This book should stand for decades as the authoritative account of a Notre Dame football weekend in all its aspects, from behind the scenes preparations to the hallowed traditions loved by millions. What a great keepsake for anyone who experiences this important piece of Americana.” —Matthew V. Storin, editor of The Boston Globe (1993-2001)“As head football coach at Notre Dame for 11 seasons, I was fortunate to witness firsthand the spectacle of young athletes achieving greatness on the field. But football weekends at Notre Dame are about so much more than the game. William Schmitt’s book perfectly captures all the traditions that reflect the unique spirit that is the University of Notre Dame.” —Ara Parseghian, Head Football Coach, University of Notre Dame, 1964–74“Whether you’re visiting campus from a few miles away or from around the globe, you have to agree that football weekends at Notre Dame are unlike anything else in the world. With all the reunions and traditions and excitement, these weekends are really about the wonderful people and places of Notre Dame; Bill Schmitt captures that in this book.” —Charles F. Lennon, Jr., Executive Director, Notre Dame Alumni Association, and Associate Vice President, University Relations“Multiple views, including more than 100 photographs, help bring the experience of football on campus alive with perspectives from students, athletes, business owners, and alumni.” —Notre Dame Magazine"The author gives insight into the powerful combinations of education and faith, responsibility and generosity, team and family. Not your average college football narrative, he implores us to look beneath and beyond the institution to one person, one team, one college, one community, one country, one world." —In Michiana“Accordingly, transcending the conventions of sports programs and guidebooks, “Football Weekends at Notre Dame” does not restrict its focus to the athletic drama, the traditional pageantry, the singing of the fight song, and the marching of the band. It also invites the reader to consider the rich historical, cultural, and religious environment which is the gameday’s context and cause alike.” —University of Notre Dame: News & Information
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University of Notre Dame Press Race in Mind
Book SynopsisRace in Mind presents fourteen critical essays on race and mixed race by one of America's most prolific and influential ethnic studies scholars.Trade Review"This is a collection of masterful writings by one of the nation’s most cogent and sensitive race scholars. National and global as well as comparative historical in scope, these essays display Spickard’s signature sharp wit combined with an incisive intellect in deliberations on wide-ranging topics in history and ethnic studies, particularly in terms of race and multiplicity. It is wonderful that we now have an opportunity to experience the full import of some of Spickard’s most representative analyses compiled into one volume." —G. Reginald Daniel, author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?"Paul Spickard is one of the most innovative, controversial, and powerful voices in the scholarship on race and racial multiplicity, both in the United States and on a global scale. This volume traces his unique scholarly contributions to the field from the 1980s to the present. Like no other scholar in American history, he writes American history as world history: the essays in this volume negotiate transnational perspectives, on the one hand, and, on the other, they combine the world history paradigm with thorough investigations into the specificity of time, particular people, locales, cultures, and social systems." —Maria I. Diedrich, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster"A pioneer in mixed race studies, Paul Spickard is one of the most innovative historians to study race and ethnicity in the past generation. Race in Mind captures the essence of his originality and its relevance for understanding today’s increasingly multiracial America. This book is essential reading for the twenty-first century." —Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California"Challenging what [Spickard] sees as the simple white/black binary of many ethnic and racial studies, the 14 essays here examine multiraciality. . . . Spickard reaches beyond African-Americans to consider the Asian and Latino/a communities in the United States and explore[s] how race is 'constructed in different ways in different times and places,' among them England, Japan, Central America, South Africa, China, Pacific Islands, and Hawaii. . . . In his assessments of scholarship in the field of race and ethnic studies, Spickard writes with directness and verve, engaging and instructing the lay reader while flinging a gauntlet—'Race in America is not, and has never been, just about White and Black'—toward conventional academic theorists." —Publishers Weekly“Over the years, Spickard found the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois to be hugely influential including the conclusion that ‘racialized relationships exist in every part of the globe.’ Many of the later essays in this collection deal with multiplicity—‘people who are manifestly multiple in their racial ancestry’—and delve into the racial history, affiliations, and loyalties of Asian Americans, Hawaiians, and Pacific-Islander Americans.” —Foreword Reviews“Erudite, insightful, challenging, informed and informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking, Race in Mind: Critical Essays is an impressive body of impressively presented and reasoned scholarship on the subject of race that is very highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic library collections.” —Midwest Book Review
£27.90
University of Notre Dame Press Latinos in New York
Book SynopsisSignificant changes in New York City''s Latino community have occurred since the first edition of Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition was published in 1996. The Latino population in metropolitan New York has increased from 1.7 million in the 1990s to over 2.4 million, constituting a third of the population spread over five boroughs. Puerto Ricans remain the largest subgroup, followed by Dominicans and Mexicans; however, Puerto Ricans are no longer the majority of New York''s Latinos as they were throughout most of the twentieth century.Latinos in New York: Communities in Transition, second edition, is the most comprehensive reader available on the experience of New York City''s diverse Latino population. The essays in Part I examine the historical and sociocultural context of Latinos in New York. Part II looks at the diversity comprising Latino New York. Contributors focus on specific national origin groups, including Ecuadorians, Colombians, and CentTrade Review"Latinos in New York was the first volume to provide a comprehensive view of the wide range of histories, experiences, and conditions of the changing mix of nationalities of the city's Latino/a population. This new edition captures the most significant continuities, discontinuities, and changes of the last two decades in the city's Latino/a population as a whole and among the various national groups, and is as timely and relevant as was the first edition. The essays in this volume offer a plethora of old and recent demographic data and a broad assortment of information to attain a comprehensive and nuanced portrait of New York Latinos/as, the evolving nature of their communities, and the socioeconomic, educational, and political inequalities, discrimination, and segregation that impact their lives in the city." —Edna Acosta-Belén, distinguished professor emerita, University at Albany, SUNY"The editors, all keen observers of the Latino communities of New York, have assembled highly knowledgeable and thoughtful analysts to provide thorough and compelling assessments of these increasingly important but still under-studied groups. A must read not only for those interested in the city’s diverse communities, but for understanding the dynamics of differentiation within the nation’s largest minority population." —John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY"Twenty years since the publication of the first pathbreaking edition of Latinos in New York, its editors give us the definitive new resource on the contemporary Latinization of New York. Site of the most diverse Latino/a communities, New York City has been at the forefront of processes of Latinization. Thanks to Baver, Falcón, and Haslip-Viera, we now have a collection of essays by some of the most knowledgeable and experienced scholars, journalists, activists, and educators, who bring us up to speed on the political and cultural issues involved in a changing Latino/a landscape in NYC and beyond." —Arlene Davila, New York University"The essays succeed in conveying the diversity of Latino/a communities and experiences through the lenses of settlement patterns, institution building, and policy impact. The collection is a good entry point to the convergence of scholarly literatures on migration, pan-ethnic identities, and local-level studies." —Choice
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University of Notre Dame Press Black Domers
Book SynopsisTells the compelling story of racial integration at the University of Notre Dame in the post-World War II era. In seventy-five essays, beginning with the first African-American tograduate from Notre Dame in 1947 to a member of the class of 2017, this book traces the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of the African-American experience at Notre Dame through seven decades.Trade Review“Black Domers is a remarkable read. Through the editors’ masterful balance of narrative depth and historical breadth, readers witness the trials, tribulations, brilliance, and resilience of black students at Notre Dame over the past seven decades. Reading this book left me emotional at times. Still, I remained inspired, with a resolute sense of pride in walking the campus where these trailblazers broke down barriers. Black Domers serves not only as a testament of how far we have come, but as a charge to continue the important work of ensuring that the experiences of every member of the Notre Dame family are consistent and reflect well on Our Lady.” —Eric Love, director of staff diversity and inclusion, University of Notre Dame“Some stories need to be lived in order to be told truthfully, truly and fully. But even an African-American student would be unable to tell the story of being black at Notre Dame because there is no single story, no singular experience, no one person who can speak for all who have come here from so many places, families, and personal histories. It would take a book to explain. And one with many voices. Now we have that book.” —Kerry McPhee Temple, editor, Notre Dame Magazine"Black Domers provides evidence that determined, hardworking, intellectually gifted, and average African-American students can succeed in academically demanding, predominantly white academic institutions committed to their success. The testimonies of these African-American graduates, 'the Black Domers' of Notre Dame, give witness to how they grew 'in wisdom, age, and grace' as they formed community, embraced redemptive suffering, and worked with other members of the Notre Dame community to create a diverse and inclusive community of activists whose scholarship and skills could contribute to the transformation of the world using the transformation of the university as a prototype." —Jamie T. Phelps, OP, instructor at St. Ambrose and St. Thomas the Apostle parishes, Chicago“In a series of 75 essays, beginning with the first African-American to graduate from Notre Dame in 1947 to a member of the class of 2017 who also served as student body president, the book traces the trials, tribulations and triumphs of the African-American experience at Notre Dame through seven decades.” —South Bend Tribune“I believe that there is tremendous value in capturing these narratives, not only in terms of the individual stories but also in terms of what they reflect when taken as a whole. This book makes an invaluable contribution to the history of Notre Dame as well as affirmative action, Catholic history, black Catholic history, and ethnic history in the age of civil rights.” —Ann Firth, chief of staff to the president, University of Notre Dame
£55.80
University of Notre Dame Press The Spirit of Hispanism
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, Spanish intellectuals and entrepreneurs became captivated with Hispanism, a movement of transatlantic rapprochement between Spain and Latin America. Not only was this movement envisioned as a form of cultural empire to symbolically compensate for Spain's colonial decline but it was also imagined as an opportunity to materially regain the Latin American markets. Paradoxically, a central trope of Hispanist discourse was the antimaterialistic character of Hispanic culture, allegedly the legacy of the moral superiority of Spanish colonialism in comparison with the commercial drive of modern colonial projects. This study examines how Spanish authors, economists, and entrepreneurs of various ideological backgrounds strove to reconcile the construction of Hispanic cultural identity with discourses of political economy and commercial interests surrounding the movement. Drawing from an interdisciplinary archive of literary essays, economic treatises, and politTrade Review“This book brings together a wealth of sources that until now have not been analyzed as a coherent narrative. Unlike previous authors on this subject, Diana Arbaiza convincingly links the discourse of Hispanism to the economic structures upon which it was based.” —Alda Blanco, author of Cultura y conciencia imperial en la España del siglo XIX“Diana Arbaiza sheds light on the economic narratives of Hispanism from the 1870s onwards, unveiling the kaleidoscopic nature of this antimaterialistic worldview that paradoxically promoted commerce between Spain and the Americas. By fleshing out the entanglements of the cultural and economic trends of Hispanic thought, The Spirit of Hispanism redefines the work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit of capitalism.” —Elvira L. Vilches, author of New World Gold"This study draws on a range of interdisciplinary essays to critique the ideology of Hispanism as it was deployed to further Spain’s cultural and economic interests in Latin America . . . . This work is a critical revision of traditional Eurocentric scholarship, and the Spanish nationalist ethos." —Choice"The Spirit of Hispanism deserves a place at the forefront of Anglophone-dominated debates in the field of economics and literature. It is perhaps the finest work of scholarship on economics and literature in the modern Hispanophone world in nearly a decade." —Revista Hispánica Moderna"[The Spirit of Hispanism's] valuable novelty resides in the visibility and analysis of the role played by economic-commercial discourses in the construction of Hispanicism and in the national and European perception of a Spain outside of budding capitalism. The Spirit of Hispanism thus shows the multivocal character that responded to the new economic system in a postcolonial context marked by neocolonial tendencies.... Despite the fact that Hispanicism did not really achieve material achievements, this study shows the dialectical interconnection between the neocolonial, capitalism and Hispanicism." —Hispania
£40.50
University of Notre Dame Press Priest Parish and People Saving the Faith in
Book SynopsisFrom the perspective of historical sociology, this book traces the role of religion in the lives and communities of Italian immigrants in Philadelphia from the 1850s to the early 1930s.Trade Review"While Priest, Parish, and People is in itself a rich ethnographic story about a most unusual priest, a particular Philadelphia parish, and the growth of parishes to meet the needs of a rapidly growing immigrant population, it is also an important story of the struggle between Irish and Italian cultures in the assimilation process, and an interesting insight into church politics and the workings of the Roman Catholic Church." —William V. D'Antonio, Catholic University of America"Rich in detail and culled from an array of primary sources, including the extensive writings of the second pastor of St. Mary Magdalen dePazzi, Richard Juliani weaves a masterful story. By tracing the nuanced interconnections between this first Italian national parish in the United States, its formidable pastor, and the growing immigrant community in South Philadelphia, this book provides new insights about Americanization and the formation of ethnic identity. Priest, Parish, and People is essential reading for scholars of American religion, immigration and urban history, and for anyone wanting to understand the Italian American experience." —Joan Saverino, Ph.D., The Historical Society of Pennsylvania“Italians began arriving in the US in the 19th century, eventually becoming one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. Juliani . . . offers a detailed portrait of the history of St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi, the first church created to serve the particular needs of the residents of Philadelphia’s Little Italy . . . the book offers a rich descriptive account.” —Choice“Richard Juliani has written a history of Saint Mary Magdalen de Pazzi parish . . . a reference work for students of American Catholicism, Italian Americans, the Order of Saint Augustine, or Philadelphia, a thought-provoking read for scholars of biography and urban community, and a model for graduate students.” —American Catholic Studies“As Richard N. Juliani discovered, it was impossible to separate Isoleri's personal history from that of the institution to which he devoted his life. The expanded focus also permitted Juliani to examine the social and religious experience of Isoleri's Italian parishioners. What was the nature of their encounter with Catholicism in the American context? What role did religion play in the creation of the ethnic community? Questions like these are hardly new, but since the literature on Italian American religion is still relatively thin, they are well worth asking in this context.” —American Historical Review“Written by a professor of sociology, Priest, Parish, and People studies the historical development and complex communal relationships that marked parish life in Philadelphia's 'Little Italy' from incipient Italian immigration through the early 1930s . . . the author provides a significant micro-study not only of the cultural transformation of an important urban Italian community but also of its interaction with the political and religious fortunes of Catholicism in Italy and the United States.” —Church History“Richard N. Juliani made an inspired choice in placing Father Antonio Isoleri-who served as pastor from 1870 to 1926 of the nation's first dedicated Italian parish-at the center of an historical monograph. . . . Scholars of immigration and ethnicity will find that the book touches on many significant topics.” —Journal of American Ethnic HistoryThe story of this priest, his parish, and his people provides an intimate window into the development of one city's Italian-American community and holds broader implications for the study of immigration and Catholicism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . this richly detailed study will be of great interest to scholars of Catholic and immigration history.” —The Journal of American History“Juliani tells us convincingly that, to fully understand the phenomenon, on which is, above all else, the central experience of America—immigration/assimilation—we cannot, and should not, separate biographical, institutional, and sociocultural realities. These realities he illustrates for us in the Little Italy section of Philadelphia by interweaving the histories of a priest, a parish, and a people.” —The Catholic Historical Review"This is a well-written, in-depth study of Philadelphia's Italian Catholic community. Focusing on a parish and its remarkable pastor, it chronicles the progress of an Italian immigrant parish from its earliest days in the mid-nineteenth century to its emergence as the social and religious center for the Italian community in the early twentieth century. For the author, writing this history was clearly a labor of love. He has provided all of us with a chapter in the history of Philadelphia Catholicism that was long overdue." —Jay P. Dolan, author of In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension
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University of Notre Dame Press Stories from Palestine Narratives of Resilience
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Marda Dunsky is not only courageous in confronting Palestinian reality but also provides essential context and necessary access to Palestinian voices, which are generally unheard or ignored by Western academic and nonacademic audiences. Overall, she succeeds in amplifying Palestinian voices in their own words, highlighting their humanity and creative agency outside of narrow stereotypes. The voices she brings forth in Stories from Palestine need to be heard and contextualized, and time is of the essence." —Deema K. Shehabi, author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon"Marda Dunsky brings a unique combination of a journalist’s storytelling ability, a scholar’s discipline and depth of knowledge, and long first-hand experience in the Middle East to her stories about Palestinian life in the West Bank, east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Besides providing us with a compelling narrative, Dunsky provides the reader context for understanding a conflict most Americans know only in caricatured terms." —Craig LaMay, author of Exporting Press Freedom"Palestinians rarely feature as ordinary people in most portrayals of them, which are marred by sensationalism and superficiality. In a welcome departure, Stories from Palestine illustrates the reality of Palestinian lives by showing their human potential, their strivings, and their successes. Meticulously reported, this uplifting but gritty book illuminates human aspects of their existence that must be understood if there is to be any hope of justice, equality, and reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis." —Rashid Khalidi, author of Brokers of Deceit"Palestinians are geniuses at making a way out of no way, of defying a 50-year occupation with courage and creativity. . . . Dunsky is unsparing in describing the human rights violations Palestinians endure, but her interview subjects want to be seen not as victims but as vibrant people with much to contribute." —Booklist"The main thread running through all the narratives in Stories from Palestine is resilience under occupation and authoritarian self-rule: Resistance to archaic social traditions, family despotism, male domination, and most significantly, Israeli occupation. . . . The narratives . . . do not yield a quaint painting of a distant landscape. Instead, as the author explains, they are a mirror reflecting not only what can be empirically experienced but also what can be critically known." —Fathom“Stories from Palestine foregoes the usual framing of Palestinians as either victims or perpetrators of violence. Instead Marda Dunsky profiles a number of quite remarkable people who have resisted the pull of despair, said no to the appeal of hatred and violence, and summoned the will and perseverance to act as creative agents of change.” —The Friend: The Quaker Magazine"Marda Dunsky has written a compelling book about Palestinians that intertwines narratives of ordinary people, Israeli-Palestinian history, and her own scholarly artistry as a writer. Through the eyes of women and men she charts a complete landscape that will be the future State of Palestine." —H-Nationalism, H-Net Reviews"A reporter and journalist, Dunsky portrays what life and work is like for several of the 5 million Palestinians living under occupation in Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank. . . . [T]he author’s ethnographic account offers narratives of the everyday struggles, accomplishments, hopes, and strengths of her subjects as an alternative to the characterization of Palestinians as violent resisters or brutalized victims." —ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Story Behind Five Stories 1. Made in Palestine 2. Lessons in Liberation 3. Beautiful Resistance 4. Day by Day in Jerusalem 5. In Gaza, They Are Not Numbers 6. Imperatives of Narrative
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