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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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Book SynopsisTrade Review“There has been a need for a good biography of William Still. This sweeping book situates Still at the center of the workings of the Underground Railroad as well as other abolitionist-related activities of the period. William Still provides a sense of the world of which Still was a part and the many roles he played in this activist movement.” —Spencer R. Crew, author of Thurgood Marshall: A Life in American History"With this book, William C. Kashatus has delivered a valuable addition to the growing body of serious literature on the Underground Railroad. His attention to the details of Still's life both before and after his engagement in abolitionist work provides a new and rounded picture of a man who for too long remained a vague figure behind his well-known compendium of information on the fugitive slaves who passed through Philadelphia." —Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound for Canaan"William C. Kashatus's contribution expands the bandwidth of African American historiography on the Underground Railroad and William Still. For those who want a closer look at an extraordinary and multidimensional human being, William Still provides an expert and sophisticated view." —Kelisha B. Graves, editor of Nannie Helen Burroughs"William C. Kashatus has given us what will probably be the definitive biography of William Still. He has also deepened our understanding of the experiences of fugitive slaves and the people who aided them before the Civil War." —Thomas Hamm, editor of Quaker Writings"William C. Kashatus’s William Still, along with providing a rich account of the great abolitionist and archivist of the Underground Railroad, brilliantly conveys the courage, the resourcefulness, and the intelligence of the slaves escaping towards freedom. This is history as it should be written: poignant, passionate, and trenchant." —Kenneth A. McClane, author of Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History"William C. Kashatus’s William Still is a double tribute to the heroism of this fascinating man as well as to that of the many freedom-seekers who made the journey out of the house of bondage and of those who aided them." —Christopher A. McAuley, author of The Spirit vs. the Souls"Kashatus’s detailed biography of William Still, with its stories of courageous slaves plotting daring escapes, and moving accounts of free Black people who were kidnapped and taken into slavery, reveals the interracial cooperation involved in helping escaped slaves reach freedom, and honors the man who, at his death in 1902, was named 'Father of the Underground Railroad.'" —Foreword Reviews (Starred Review)"In the first scholarly biography of [William] Still, Kashatus highlights the critical roles Still and other Black Americans played along the entire Underground Railroad, and the risks they took to aid enslaved people. A penetrating analysis of Still’s interviews reveals new and important insights into the enslaved people who made the journey into freedom. . . . An essential work that is a must-read for those interested in the Underground Railroad and Black history in the U.S." —Library Journal (Starred Review)"Kashatus’s biggest contribution to the historiography of the Underground Railroad is the analysis he provides of the information collected by William Still. Using both Still’s Underground Railroad and his unpublished Journal C of Station No. 2 of the Underground Railroad, Kashatus has compiled significant trends that characterize the freedom seekers." —Hidden City"William C. Kashatus's new biography of abolitionist William Still is the first scholarly biography of the activist. It is also a very accessible text, suitable for a broad audience. . . . The biography accomplishes the important task of introducing Still and his significance to a wide readership." —Quaker History"William Still stands poised to be the authoritative biography of the ‘Angel at Philadelphia’ for a generation to come." —American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments About the Author List of Illustrations Introduction 1. The Price of Freedom 2. Quaker Philadelphia 3. Underground Railroad 4. Fugitive Slave Law 5. Vigilance 6. Bondswoman’s Escape 7. “Dear Friends” 8. Canada West 9. Kidnapped & Ransomed 10. Memorable 28 11. Fighting for Freedom 12. Street Car Protest 13. Politics of Reform 14. Legacy Endnotes Appendix: Index of Still’s Runaways Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described autobiographical sojourn with a second collection of interconnected essays. In McClane''s words, All concern race, although they, like the human spirit, wildly sweep and yaw. A timely installment in our national narrative, Color is a chronicle of the black middle class, a group rarely written about with sensitivity and charity. In evocative, trenchant, and poetic prose, McClane employs the art of the memoirist to explore the political and the personal. He details the poignant narrative of racial progress as witnessed by his family during the 1950s, ''60s, and ''70s. We learn of his parents'' difficult upbringing in Boston, where they confTrade Review“Kenneth McClane argues that the inclusion of a jazz phrase in the midst of another obviously discrete modality becomes an act of communion that 'honors the fragile possibility for mutuality.' He is right, for he does this skillfully in Color. An exciting find, the volume is a compendium of sophisticated essays rendered with deceptive simplicity. Color, always insightful, sometimes inexplicably tender, is that rare volume, seldom encountered, that moves us beyond measure.” —Mari Evans, author of Continuum: New and Selected Poems and Clarity as Concept: A Poet’s Perspective“Ken McClane's latest collection proves that he is one of the finest essayists currently plying the trade. Graceful, incisive, humane, Ken's writing is both beautifully wrought and deeply informative about how we live life. All of us practicing essayists can only marvel in delight at his skill and envy his accomplishment. I have known Ken since my days in graduate school over twenty-five years ago and I still feel now as I felt then: when I grow up I want to be half the writer Ken McClane is.” —Gerald L. Early, author of The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture and This is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s“In his finely crafted memoir, McClane weaves significant themes in twentieth-century race relations—the arbitrariness of racial designations, the impact of the Civil Rights movement, North and South, and rival versions of ‘Affirmative Action’—through the stories he tells about his parents’ lives. Sharply written, the essays highlight some of the sources of McClane’s anger as well as the breath and depth of his understanding of the American racial landscape.” —Patrick Miller, co-series editor, African American Intellectual Heritage“Kenneth McClane’s voice is unique in American letters: pragmatic; contemplative; intriguingly moody; at times unabashedly and movingly sentimental. He chronicles a world of black people that is little-known and even less-imagined. Color is a wonderful book of beautifully written, understated essays by an important writer who has steadily contributed to American letters.” —Elizabeth Alexander, Yale University“The essays that comprise Color are mighty in their directed honesty and uncompromising views of the lived racialized world observed with an intellectual curiosity and wise generosity that astonishes on every page. Through it all, the words hum with love, so that even the pained heart sings.” —Helena Maria Viramontes, author of Their Dogs Came With Them“. . . the honesty at the heart of Kenneth McClane’s essays is humble and fine, rich in insights. . . . McClane’s point is that the realities of race have not yet been fully confronted in America, and this phenomenon results in the festering of denial and pain.” —ForeWord"Acclaimed poet and literary scholar McClane follows Walls (1991), observations on life as an African American, with a new collection of interconnected essays covering disparate subjects with the locus on race. Exploring the importance of memory and identity with gentle recollections of stories told by his parents and earlier memories of racial discrimination and humiliation, McClane offers a vivid personal perspective on race.” —Booklist“ . . . McClane is neither an angry young man with a message nor someone with a one-sided political agenda. Instead, he comes across as what he is at Cornell, a teacher asking his readers to reflect on their own lives. This title is recommended for comprehensive Black studies collections, to complement the more extensive volumes of Michael Eric Dyson, Gerald Early, Bell Hooks, and other better-known African-American essayists.” —Multicultural Review". . . These eleven anecdotal essays provide glimpses into McClane's personal development through their poetic precision and their ability to speak to each other. While the topics that McClane addresses, including the challenges of caring for ailing parents, racial oppression that stymies educational and professional growth, colorism, and art's role in strengthening the human spirit, have been treated by many Black writers past and present, he provides a fresh lens through which we can view the continuing relevance of these issues. . . . [P]eople on both sides of the 'race question'—those who daily feel and see the effects of institutionalized racism and interpersonal prejudice as well as those who believe that we live in a post-racial America—will find ample food for thought in McClane's essays, which teach not through overt didacticism but through a carefully shaped and beautifully inflected meditation on self, other, and their intersection." —Callaloo

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Book SynopsisNo international relationship of the United States is as encumbered by history, geography, culture, language, and economics as the one with Mexico. Given the scale and importance of the flow of commerce and culture across the border, however, surprisingly few studies have examined the micro-level impact of border immigration patterns, economic systems, and policies on families in the region. Recognizing this void, the women scholars represented hereall of whom have studied and lived near la fronteraexplore the complexity of border dynamics. They offer a well-rounded portrayal of Latino families and their response to changes at the border.The authors focus primarily on women and changes within families on the borderin response to women''s economic strategies, labor market participation, and interactions with relatives and others. Quantitative chapters provide demographic analyses of population changes in new immigrant areas, the conditions of children and families alongTrade Review“This timely volume provides a unique comprehensive presentation of cultural and socioeconomic issues tied to the border, particularly as it relates to the everyday lives of transnational families and their on-going negotiation of identities. As a result, the authors’ conclusions and recommendations are imbued with a power of analysis that is grounded in their complex engagement of the issues. This is an outstanding book of significance for scholars and students working on issues of transnationalism, the political economy of migration, immigration, and border culture.” —Antonia Darder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“[It] is an anthology of papers by expert scholars discussing how Mexican and Mexican-origin families living in the transnational space of the U.S.-Mexico border. Analyzing demographic, historic, economic, political and public policy factors, [it] is an astute and balanced close study that especially highlights the challenges faced by women, who increasingly work outside the home, whether married or not, and migrant children, who are at high risk for dropping out of school on either side of the border.” —Wisconsin Bookwatch“Scholars from Texas, California, and Arizona bring perspectives both of women and social sciences to bear on how conditions, opportunities, and constraints of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have changed families on both sides of the border.” —Book News“Eleven papers examine how families in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands negotiate identities while interacting within changing social, political, and economic dynamics.” —Journal of Economic Literature"Transformations of La Familia on the U.S.-Mexico Border illustrates how the border is a meaningful phenomenon in the changing structure and dynamics of fronteriza families, and in particular for women. Written by fronteriza researchers who both grew up along the border and now focus their work there, this multidisciplinary collection provides a unique and complex view of how the peculiar politics of the border affects families and individuals within families." —Latino Studies"In Transformations of La Familia on the U.S. Mexico Border, Raquel Marquez and Harriet Romo provide an excellent volume in which female scholars native to the border region are convened to restore attention to the social institution least discussed but most impacted by neoliberal economic and law enforcement policies: the family. By focusing on the family, the authors show how macro and the micro institutions and forces converging on the border interact with families and individuals." —Contemporary Sociology“This is an excellent and highly coherent collection of papers dealing with the impact on Mexican and Mexican origin families of living in the transnational space of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is particularly useful because of its exceptional range of perspectives, combining demography, history, ethnography and public policy analysis. Census and survey data from the U.S. and Mexico, life histories, cross-border social and economic relationships, and the perceptions of border residents bring out in rich detail the complex interdependence of both sides of the border. There are valuable accounts of the ways in which women and youth are socialized into transnational identities on both sides of the borders through family and community rituals and even through the teaching of English in Mexico. The focus on families brings out graphically the particular challenges of poverty and migration for women, who increasingly work outside the home even when married and for migrant children who are vulnerable to school drop-out on both sides of the border. “ —Bryan R. Roberts, C.B. Smith Sr. Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, University of Texas at Austin

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Book SynopsisA study of select nineteenth-century African American authors and reformers who mobilized the discourses of cosmopolitanism and restraint to expand the meaning of freedom. Trade Review“This book speaks softly and carries a big wallop. Through precise readings and meticulous historical research, Stewart demonstrates that there was a common transnational epistemology uniting black reformers. Highly recommended.”—Kathryn Lofton,author of Consuming Religion“Exploring a world torn by the foundational fractures forced by the system of slavery and racial control, Stewart uncovers a history of reform that challenges our understanding of place and mobility in African American history. She considers such writers as William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, George Moses Horton, Frances Harper, and Amanda Berry Smith, finding in their works a cosmopolitan determination to reorient American culture from the ground up. Anyone interested in African American literary and cultural history will want to read this important book.”—John Ernest,author of Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History“An original, nuanced, and theoretically robust work of scholarship that will quickly prove to be a tremendous addition to our understanding of race, religion, politics, and public life. Stewart critically reads the multiple languages and expressions of freedom as amalgams that form and inform the multiple meanings of the world and human experience. By deeply probing the complex contours of the temperance movement against the backdrop of the Atlantic world, Stewart adds rich texture and offers fresh perspectives on this protean international movement.”—Corey D. B. Walker,author of A Noble Fight: African American Freemasonry and the Struggle for Democracy in America“In this study Carole Lynn Stewart shows how a group of enslaved, ex-enslaved, or fugitive African American women and men, through international travel, imaginative vision, and intellectual insight, critically expanded the practice and ideal of temperance from an individualistic, inner purity blind to the corruption of a civic order that tolerated slavery and enabled temperance to a serve as the vital basis for both the inward and societal meanings of freedom.”—Charles H. Long,author of Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion“Stewart offers readers a theoretically rich, at times dizzying, account of the various ways Black creative writers, evangelists, and political activists connected cosmopolitanism to innovative practices of resistance and liberation.”—Stefan M. Wheelock American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Slave Travels and the Beginnings of a Temperate Cosmopolitanism 1. William Wells Brown and Martin Delany: Civil and Geographic Spaces of Temperate Cosmopolitanism 2. Brown’s Temperate Cosmopolitan “Home”: Creole Civilization and Temperate Manners 3. George Moses Horton’s Freedom: A Temperate Republicanism and a Critical Cosmopolitanism 4. Frances E. W. Harper’s Black Cosmopolitan Creoles: A Temperate Transnationalism 5. “The Quintessence of Sanctifying Grace”: Amanda Smith’s Religious Experience, Freedom, and a Temperate Cosmopolitanism Epilogue: Tempering and Conjuring the Roots of Cosmopolitan Recovery Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA first comprehensive look at the work of black Hollywood directors, from the pioneers to current talents.Trade Review"Donalson's pioneering text ... will become an indispensable resource for general students, undergraduate and graduate students, and the general reader. It will be a major contribution to American and African American film studies and popular culture." Wilfred D. Samuels, Associate Professor of English, University of UtahTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 The Pathmakers: Gordon Parks, Melvin Van Peebles Chapter 2 The Visionary Actors: Ossie Davis, Sidney Poitier Chapter 3 Black Urban Action Films and Mainstream Images: Gordon Parks Jr., Ivan Dixon, Fred Williamson, Hugh A. Robertson, Ron O'Neal, Gilbert Moses, Raymond St. Jacques Chapter 4 Black Sensibilities and Mainstream Images: Berry Gordy Jr., Stan Lathan, Jamaa Fanaka Chapter 5 Michael Schultz: The Crossover King Chapter 6 Spike Lee: The Independent Auteur Chapter 7 Keeping It Real (Reel): Black Dramatic Visions: Charles Burnett, John Singleton, Matty Rich, Mario Van Peebles, Ernest Dickerson, Albert and Allen Hughes, Doug McHenry, David Clark Johnson, Preston A. Whitmore II, Tim Reid, Robert Patton-Spruill, Darin Scott, Hype Williams Chapter 8 And Still They Rise: Black Women Directors: Euzhan Palcy, Julie Dash, Leslie Harris, Darnell Martin, Kasi Lemmons, Millicent Shelton, Troy Beyer, Cheryl Dunye, Maya Angelou Chapter 9 Not without Laughter: Directors of Comedy and Romance: Oz Scott, Topper Carew, Richard Pryor, Prince, Robert Townsend, Eddie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Wendell B. Harris Jr., Reginald Hudlin, Martin Lawrence, Theodore Witcher, George Tillman, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Christopher Scott Cherot Chapter 10 Off the Hook: Comedy and Romance with a Hip-Hop Flavor: Reginald Hudlin, James Bond III, George Jackson/Doug McHenry, Rusty Cundieff, F. Gary Gray, Paris Barclay, Lionel C. Martin, Ice Cube Chapter 11 Redefining Crossover Films: Kevin Hooks, Bill Duke, Carl Franklin, Thomas Carter, Forest Whitaker, F. Gary Gray, Antoine Fuqua Filmography Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis original ethnography records the experiences of Palestinians born in exile who have emigrated to the Palestinian homeland.Trade ReviewJuliane Hammer's book is a welcome addition to the relatively meager literature on Palestinians who were born in exile and "returned" to Palestine.... * Journal of Palestine Studies *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Palestinian Migration, Refugees, and Return 2. Palestinian National Identity, Memory, and History 3. The Country of My Dreams 4. Return to Palestine: Dreams and Realities 5. The Return Process in Comparison 6. Rewriting of Identities in the Context of Diaspora and Return 7. Home and the Future of Palestinian Identities Epilogue Appendix. List of Respondents Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.Trade ReviewThad Sitton and James H. Conrad have made an important contribution to African American and southern history with their study of communities fashioned by freedmen in the years after emancipation. * Journal of American History *Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. A Terrible Freedom 3. Making Do, Getting By 4. Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings 5. School Days 6. Working for the Man 7. Decline and Remembrance Appendix: Freedmen's Settlements and Other Rural African American Landowner Communities, by County Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection of stories by an award-winning historian that preserves fragments of memory-true or false, remembered or imagined-from three generations of a Jewish familyTrade Review"One of our most imaginative living historians takes us into the midst of his own past and makes us part of his family, even as he becomes part of our own. This book stands as a triumph of new scholarship and narrative." Alan Cheuse, writer and book commentator for National Public RadioTable of Contents Introduction Prologue: Romania, Rumania, Roumania One. The Man Who Swam Two. Far from Hasenpoth Three. Lazarus West Four. Wild Hannah Five. The Afterthought Six. Transylvania Sank Seven. Lower California, Here We Come Eight. Hannah's Lament Nine. Mixed-up Bobby Ten. Izzy the Red Eleven. Café Odessa Epilogue: Sunday in Montreal

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Book SynopsisThe harrowing story of a man's childhood as a virtual slave, and how he eventually built a successful life in the United States.Trade Review"This autobiography of a young man who escaped the most foreboding of circumstances and raised himself up by his own bootstraps will appeal to a wide range of readers... His courage in dealing with and overcoming a wretched existence in Haiti and the dehumanizing effects of racism in the United States will stimulate much reflection on the nature of these two societies." Alex Dupuy, author of Haiti in the World Economy and Haiti in the New World OrderTable of Contents Foreword Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Afterword

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Book SynopsisThe first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.Trade ReviewAn ambitious work, White Metropolis deserves attention from historians interested in the history of Texas, urban studies, and southern culture. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue: Through a Glass Darkly: Memory, Race, and Region in Dallas, Texas 1. The Music of Cracking Necks: Dallas Civilization and Its Discontents 2. True to Dixie and to Moses: Yankees, White Trash, Jews, and the Lost Cause 3. The Great White Plague: Whiteness, Culture, and the Unmaking of the Dallas Working Class 4. Consequences of Powerlessness: Whiteness as Class Politics 5. Water Force: Resisting White Supremacy under Jim Crow 6. White Like Me: Mexican Americans, Jews, and the Elusive Politics of Identity 7. A Blight and a Sin: Segregation, the Kennedy Assassination, and the Wreckage of Whiteness Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTwelve essays by noted Reconstruction-era historian Barry A. Crouch which explore the African American experience in Texas following emancipation.Trade Review"Barry Crouch was a pioneer revisionist whose work greatly influenced a new generation of Texas historians... This anthology will appeal to many audiences, both academic and general. It will be an ideal reader for courses on Southern history, Texas history, and the history of African Americans... This volume will also be controversial among laypeople and some scholars, especially among white Texans and other white Southerners. Many of them believe the Civil War is still raging and that old Dixie still has a chance to win. Their sacred cows, such as their view of 'scalawags' and 'carpetbaggers,' are confronted head on. Crouch might become the man they love to hate." James Smallwood, Oklahoma State University (emeritus), author of Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (coauthored with Barry Crouch and Larry Peacock), Time of Hope, Time of Despair: Black Texans during Reconstruction, and The Struggle Upward: Blacks in TexasTable of Contents Foreword by Arnoldo De León Acknowledgments by Larry Madaras Introduction by Larry Madaras Part I. Historiography 1. "Unmanacling" Texas Reconstruction: A Twenty-Year Perspective Postscript to Part I Part II. Freedom 2. Reconstructing Black Families: Perspectives from the Texas Freedmen's Bureau Records 3. Black Dreams and White Justice 4. Seeking Equality: Houston Black Women during Reconstruction Postscript to Part II Part III. Reaction 5. A Spirit of Lawlessness: White Violence, Texas Blacks, 1865-1868 6. Crisis in Color: Racial Separation in Texas during Reconstruction 7. "All the Vile Passions": The Texas Black Code of 1866 8. The Fetters of Justice: Black Texans and the Penitentiary during Reconstruction Postscript to Part III Part IV. Freedmen's Bureau Agents and African American Politicians 9. Guardian of the Freedpeople: Texas Freedmen's Bureau Agents and the Black Community 10. Hesitant Recognition: Texas Black Politicians, 1865-1900 11. Self-Determination and Local Black Leaders in Texas 12. A Political Education: George T. Ruby and the Texas Freedmen's Bureau Postscript to Part IV Bibliography of Works by Barry A. Crouch Index

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Book SynopsisThe first extensive study of the representation of the Latina body in U.S. popular culture, from “Latin bombshell” Carmen Miranda in the 1940s to Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek today.Table of Contents Introduction: Embodying "Latinidad": An Overview (Myra Mendible) Section One. Case Studies: Silent and Classic Film Era 1. Film Viewing in Latino Communities, 1896-1934: Puerto Rico as Microcosm (Clara E. Rodríguez) 2. Lupe Vélez: Queen of the B's (Rosa Linda Fregoso) 3. Lupe Vélez Regurgitated: Cautionary, Indigestion-Causing Ruminations on "Mexicans" in "American" Toilets Perpetrated While Covetously Screening "Veronica" (William A. Nericcio) Section Two. Performing Bodies: Contemporary Film and Music Media 4. Celia's Shoes (Frances Negrón-Muntaner) 5. Salma Hayek's Frida: Transnational Latina Bodies in Popular Culture (Isabel Molina Guzmán) 6. Is Penelope to J.Lo as Culture Is to Nature? Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties (Angharad Valdivia) 7. Jennifer Lopez: The New Wave of Border Crossing (Tara Lockhart) 8. "There's My Territory": Shakira Crossing Over (Cynthia Fuchs) 9. "Hey, Killer": The Construction of a Macho Latina, or the Perils and Enticements of Girlfight (Karen R. Tolchin) Section Three. Sensational Bodies: Discourses of Latina Femininity 10. On the Semiotics of Lorena Bobbitt (Charla Ogaz) 11. Disorderly Bodies and Discourses of Latinidad in the Elián González Story (Isabel Molina Guzmán) 12. The Body in Question: The Latina Detective in the Lupe Solano Mystery Series (Ana Patricia Rodríguez) 13. La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in Hispanic Barbie (Karen Goldman) 14. Chusmas, Chismes, y Escándalos: Latinas Talk Back to El Show de Cristina and Laura en América (Viviana Rojas) Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive look at the meanings and uses of rap music and hip hop culture among Chicano/a youth.Trade Review"This study of Chicano rap music is truly a first of its kind... a single-focus study on Chicano rap, its musicians and politics, and how rap and hip hop is a musical counter-narrative to the disenfranchisement of working class barrios." Arturo Aldama, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, University of Colorado, BoulderTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A Hip-Hop Project Chapter One. Reading Chicano Rap: The Patriarchal Dominance Paradigm in the Postindustrial Barrio Chapter Two. Chicano Rap Primer: A Guide to Artists and Genres Chapter Three. Machos y Malas Mujeres: The Gendered Image Chapter Four. Sexual Agency in Chicana Rap: JV Versus Ms. Sancha Chapter Five. Violence and Chicano Rap: Mirror of a Belligerent Society Chapter Six. The Chicano Rap on Globalization Chapter Seven. Confronting Dominance and Constructing Relationships with Young People Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA lifelong King Ranch employee recalls his and his father’s adventures in showing the ranch’s famed Santa Gertrudis cattle at venues around the world.Table of Contents Foreword by Stephen J. "Tio" Kleberg Preface Introduction Prologue: Beto's Tour 1. The Trip of a Lifetime 2. The Bull Whisperer 3. The Maldonados and King Ranch Horses 4. When Beto Wasn't Showing Cattle 5. Growing Up a Maldonado 6. Realizing a Dream 7. The Master Tour Guide Epilogue Appendix A: Individuals Interviewed Appendix B: Individuals Referenced Appendix C: Maldonado Family Tree Appendix D: Maldonado Family Recipes Appendix E: Family Album Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVividly illustrated and welcoming to the casual reader, as well as to art history scholars and students, this is a general guide to one of the most exciting and meaningful expressions in contemporary American art.Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1. Chicano Art as American Art Chapter 2. The Emergence of Chicano and Chicana Art Chapter 3. Resistance and Affirmation in the 1990s Chapter 4. Into the Twenty-First Century Chapter 5. Catalogue of Selected Chicana and Chicano Artists Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow the Alamo's transformation into an American cultural icon helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.Trade Review"Drawing on a broad range of theorists in various fields (geography, social history, semiotics, cultural studies, and anthropology), Flores provides a compelling and quite forceful analysis of various historically produced forms of documenting, recalling, and interpreting the Alamo." Olga Najera-Ramirez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa CruzTable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Texas Modern Part One. The Alamo as Place, 1836-1905 2. History, Memory-Place, and Silence: The Public Construction of the Past 3. From San Fernando de Béxar to the Alamo City: The Political Unconscious of Plaza Space 4. From Private Visions to Public Culture: The Making of the Alamo Part Two. The Alamo as Project, 1890-1960 5. Cinematic Images: Frontiers, Nationalism, and the Mexican Question 6. Why Does Davy Live? Modernity and Its Heroics Conclusion: The Alamo as Tex(Mex) Master Symbol of Modernity Notes References Index

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Book Synopsis Months before Alma López''s digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats ensued, but the provocative image of la Virgen de Guadalupe (hands on hips, clad only in roses, and exalted by a bare-breasted butterfly angel) remained on exhibition. Highlighting many of the pivotal questions that have haunted the art world since the NEA debacle of 1988, the contributors to Our Lady of Controversy present diverse perspectives, ranging from definitions of art to the artist''s intention, feminism, queer theory, colonialism, and Chicano nationalism. Contributors include the exhibition curator, Tey Marianna Nunn; award-winning novelist and Chicana historian Emma Pérez; and Deena González (recognized as one of the fifty most importaTrade Review"An exceptionally important and powerful collection of essays, opening new interpretive paths and new tools for the activist-scholar-student. This is the most serious consideration of the oeuvre of Alma Lopez published to date." - --Charlene Villasenor Black, Associate Professor of Art History, UCLA "This book has many great and laudable qualities. First, it doesn't "wax poetic" or try to sound overly intellectual, just strict reporting of events. Secondly, the plain tone of the writing allows for balanced and unbiased reporting; it gives equal weight to both the artist and her critics, without passing judgment on either. The author respects the fact that the icons are important to some people, and Lopez' artwork isn't something they're accustomed to." - Olive Branch United blogTable of Contents Acknowledgments Our Lady of Controversy: A Subject That Needs No Introduction (Alicia Gaspar de Alba) 1. The Artist of Our Lady (April 2, 2001) (Alma López) 2. It's Not about the Art in the Folk, It's about the Folks in the Art: A Curator's Tale (Tey Marianna Nunn) 3. The War of the Roses: Guadalupe, Alma López, and Santa Fe (Kathleen FitzCallaghan Jones) 4. Making Privates Public: It's Not about La Virgen of the Conquest, but about the Conquest of La Virgen (Deena J. González) 5. Art Comes for the Archbishop: The Semiotics of Contemporary Chicana Feminism and the Work of Alma López (Luz Calvo) 6. Queering the Sacred: Love as Oppositional Consciousness in Alma López's Visual Art (Clara Román-Odio) 7. The Decolonial Virgin in a Colonial Site: It's Not about the Gender in My Nation, It's about the Nation in My Gender (Emma Pérez) 8. It's Not about the Virgins in My Life, It's about the Life in My Virgins (Cristina Serna) 9. Do U Think I'm a Nasty Girl? (Catrióna Rueda Esquibel) 10. Devil in a Rose Bikini: The Second Coming of Our Lady in Santa Fe (Alicia Gaspar de Alba) 11. It's Not about the Santa in My Fe, but about the Santa Fe in My Santa (Alma López) Appendix: Selected Viewer Comments About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe first study of this rich tradition, filled with details about plays, authors, artists, companies, houses, directors, and theatrical circuits.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Origins 2. Los Angeles 3. San Antonio 4. New York City 5. Tampa 6. On the Road: Hispanic Theatre outside Its Major Centers 7. Conclusion Notes Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first critical biography of Hanif Kureishi.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Liquid Windows: Kureishi as Storyteller 1. From Bromley to Baron's Court: Plays, Early Prose, and English Tradition 2. Films with Frears: My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid 3. Author: The Buddha of Suburbia 4. Auteur: London Kills Me 5. Adapter: The Buddha of Suburbia on Film 6. Author Again: The Black Album 7. Author in Process: Love in a Blue Time 8. We Are Family: Lovers and Love in Kureishi 9. Over the Rainbow: Immigrant Dreams 10. Postcolonial identities: Redefined Nationalism Afterword. Kureishi's Storytelling: Liquid Windows Notes Appendix Credits Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow this valorization of "proper" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women—the author's grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself.Trade Review"This book is a major achievement by one of the brightest young scholars in the field." Geneva Smitherman, author of Talkin That Talk: Language, Culture, and Education in African AmericaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. The Narratives: Peculiar to Your Mind Our Languages, Our Selves Maya: It Doesn't Bother Me Grace: I Always Wondered If My Life Would Have Been Different If Reia: Searching for My Place Deidra: A Mother's Love Is the Greatest Love of All Sonja: I Had to Do What I Wanted to Do Part Two. The Analyses: Surreality Maya: I'm Comfortable Like I Am: Grace: If I Could've Gotten into a Trade School Reia: I Am Proud of Myself Deidra: I Was Hiding. I Didn't Know. I Was Scared Sonja: I Had a Positive Experience The Rest of the Story Appendix 1. Participants' Possible Selves Data Appendix 2. Participants' Speech Samples Data Appendix 3. Participants' Language and Literacy Ideologies Data Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith insightful analysis of films ranging from El Mariachi to Spy Kids 4 and Machete Kills, as well as a lively interview in which the filmmaker discusses his career, here is the first scholarly overview of the work of Robert Rodriguez, the most successful U.S. Latino filmmaker today.Trade ReviewAldama does more than hit his marks: he has created an exhilarating, accessible and much-needed study of one of the most inventive and multifaceted directors to come along during the last thirty years. It is a ‘must read’ for anyone who wishes to become a filmmaker or who simply loves movies. * La Bloga *Table of Contents Foreword: A Teaser before the Show by Charles Ramírez Berg Acknowledgments Art and Industry: The Films of Robert Rodriguez Good, Bad, Ugly . . . and Beautiful El Mariachi (1992) Desperado (1995) Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) Regenerative Aesthetics of Degenerate Genres From Dusk till Dawn (1996) The Faculty (1998) Familia Redefined, Chocolate Rivers, Rainbow Rocks, Dreamscapes, and S'mores Spy Kids 1 (2001) Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (2011) The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005) Shorts (2009) Tour de Noir Comic-Book Film Sin City (2005) Otherworldly Mutants, Bandidas, Borderland Vigilantes . . . Fight Back Planet Terror (2007) Machete (2010) Machete Kills (2013) It's a Wrap Interview with Robert Rodriguez Filmography References Index

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Book SynopsisThe evolution of the orquesta in the Southwest from its beginnings in the nineteenth century through its pinnacle in the 1970s and its decline since the 1980s.Trade Review"There is no comparable study to this one. Pena is without question the outstanding student of Mexican-American music... He has written the definitive study of the orquesta." --Mario T. Garcia, Professor of History and Chicano Studies, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents Acknowledgments Prelude: Music, Culture, and Dialectical Interpretation Exposition: Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest: The Dialectic of Conflict Part One: Origins Chapter 1. Bailes and Fandangos: Music and Social Division in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. The Dawning of a New Age: Musical Developments, 1910 to 1940 Part Two: The Mexican American Era Chapter 3. Orquesta's Social Base: The Mexican American Generation Chapter 4. The Formative Years of Orquesta: The Texas-Mexican Connection Chapter 5. The Los Angeles Tradition: Triumph of the Anti-Ranchero Part Three: The Chicano Era Chapter 6. The Chicano Generation: Conflict, Contradiction, and Synthesis Chapter 7. La Onda Chicana Chapter 8. Ethnography: The Orquesta Tradition in Fresno Coda: Music in the Post-Chicano Era Notes Selected Discography References Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of black Texas women, a previously neglected group whose 150 years of continued struggle and some successes against the oppression of racism and sexism deserve to be better known and understood.Trade ReviewBlack Texas Women is an inspiring introduction to the struggles and accomplishments of black women in Texas since the days of the Republic.... It is through the work of Ruthe Winegarten and others like her that scarce and scattered records are being uncovered, preserved, and protected. * Texas Books in Review *Occasionally a book comes along that is monumental in scope, overwhelming in amount of research, and so powerful in its impact as to be categorized at once as a lasting contribution to our knowledge of humankind. Black Texas Women is one of those rare books.... Highly recommended. * Journal of American History *Occasionally a book comes along that is monumental in scope, overwhelming in amount of research, and so powerful in its impact as to be categorized at once as a lasting contribution to our knowledge of humankind. Black Texas Women is one of those rare books.... Highly recommended. * Review of Texas Books *Winegarten, a prolific and competent independent scholar of Texas history, enriches understanding of the Lone Star State with this long-needed and well-done study of the African American women of Texas, from the Spanish colonial era to the present. * Choice *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments "She Is My Sister" by Niobe Part I. The Antebellum Period 1. Free Women of Color. "An honest, sober and industrious woman. " 2. Slavery. "Our slaves are the happiest...human beings on whom the sun shines." Part II. Reconstruction and Redemption 3. First Freedom. "I belong to myself now." 4. Resistance. "Colored woman sues for damages." Part III. Education and Culture 5. Freedmen's Bureau Schools and Public Schools "Send us teachers. " 6. Higher Education. "Conduct becoming ladies is insisted upon." 7. Culture and Social Life. "If you can sing gospel, you can sing the blues." Part IV. The New Century 8. Work. "I would not take 'no' for an answer." 9. Clubs and Community Building. "Lifting as we climb." 10. The Fight for Suffrage and against Lynching. "Are you saying that we can't vote because we're Negroes?" Part V. The Modern Period 11. World War II. "A splendid opportunity for colored women. " 12. The Civil Rights Movement. "The fight is on!" 13. Breaking the Glass Ceiling. "This is our time." "Prelude to Ashe" by Hermine Pinson Appendix 1. Educators Appendix 2. Officeholders Notes Selected Bibliography Photo Credits Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Incisive and troubling." -- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness for Readers *"Playing While White is a critical text for anyone interested in sports and whiteness studies and definitively puts to rest the claim that race is irrelevant in the commentaries surrounding athletes and their participation in sports." * Black Perspectives (AAIHS) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scrappy White Leader 2. He Got Brains: Whiteness and Intelligence on and off the Court 3. Talking Trash (While White): A Betrayal of Tradition or a Sign of Competitive Leadership? 4. White Thugs?: Crime and the Culture of Innocence 5. Getting High: The New Jim Crow and White Athletes 6. Redemption and Character Building: Making Mistakes While White 133 7. (White) Women and Sports: Selling White Femininity 8. Driving While White: NASCAR and the Politics of Race 9. Playing the White Way: From the Cardinals to the Badgers 10. Sporting Cultures and White Victims

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Incisive and troubling." -- Marilyn Dahl * Shelf Awareness for Readers *"Playing While White is a critical text for anyone interested in sports and whiteness studies and definitively puts to rest the claim that race is irrelevant in the commentaries surrounding athletes and their participation in sports." * Black Perspectives (AAIHS) *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scrappy White Leader 2. He Got Brains: Whiteness and Intelligence on and off the Court 3. Talking Trash (While White): A Betrayal of Tradition or a Sign of Competitive Leadership? 4. White Thugs?: Crime and the Culture of Innocence 5. Getting High: The New Jim Crow and White Athletes 6. Redemption and Character Building: Making Mistakes While White 133 7. (White) Women and Sports: Selling White Femininity 8. Driving While White: NASCAR and the Politics of Race 9. Playing the White Way: From the Cardinals to the Badgers 10. Sporting Cultures and White Victims

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A welcome addition to growing literature that stresses the heterogeneity of civil rights protest in the postwar era. . . . Raymond’s study provides both insight and avenues for further scholarly discussion and exploration. . . Highly entertaining and readable." -- Mark Walmsley * H-1960s *"Emilie Raymond approaches this subject through a comprehensive survey of six black activist Hollywood celebrities and their contributions to racial equality. Tracing the often uneasy relationship of Hollywood with black identity and culture from the 1940s to the present, Stars for Freedom also lays a thorough foundation between film and American racial politics today." -- Sarah Jilani * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Cleaning up Catfish Row: Black Celebrity and the Making of Porgy and Bess 2. Sammy Davis, Jr.: Daring, Deferential, and “Money” 3. Harry Belafonte and the Northern Liberal Network 4. The Arts Group and the March on Washington 5. Dick Gregory and Celebrity Grassroots Activism 6. Stars for Selma 7. Celebrities and Black Power Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Excellent. . . . In Enduring Conviction, [Lorraine Bannai] skillfully weaves the story of the landmark court case with Fred’s personal journey. . . . Her elegant telling of the story of the incarceration and Fred Korematsu’s fight against it could not be more timely. . . . Hopefully, the inspiration provided by Fred Korematsu may be an even more enduring response to injustice." -- Elaine Elinson * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Enduring Conviction shows how politics and racial prejudice can conspire to trample the civil rights of an entire racial group during a time of war, based on fabricated claims of military necessity. . . . Bannai’s volume is a worthwhile read for those interested in learning about some of the worst events and court rulings in American history, and serves as a reminder that the constitutional rights of American citizens should also be safeguarded during times of war, and in the darkest times of American history." -- Harvey Gee * Asian American Policy Review *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue | A San Francisco Courtroom 1. The Son of Immigrants, but All-American 2. The Call to Get Rid of the “Japs” 3. Fred’s Decision to Live Free 4. Jail Was Better than Camp 5. The Rocky, Winding Road to the Supreme Court 6. The Ugly Abyss of Racism 7. Rebuilding a Life 8. “Intentional Falsehoods” 9. “A Legal Longshot”? 10. Correcting the Record 11. A Symbol in the Continuing Search for Justice Epilogue Notes Glossary A Note on Terminology Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A]n important contribution to an EJ literature...it should be widely used there in courses on US environmental history, the history of race and environment, and even on social movements in the twentieth century." * Environmental History *"[A] powerful tool for introducing students to the US environmental justice movement and the sometimes tense relationship between environmentalism and social justice." * New Books Network *Table of ContentsForeword: The Age of Environmental Inequality / Paul S. Sutter Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 THE NATURE OF SEGREGATION “WHERE WE LIVE” Russell Lee, Shack of Negro Family Farmers Living near Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938 John Vachon, Backed Up Sewer in Negro Slum District, Norfolk, Virginia, 1941 Carl Mydans, Kitchen of Negro Dwelling in Slum Area near House Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1935 Dorothea Lange, Migratory Mexican Field Worker’s Home on the Edge of a Frozen Pea Field, Imperial Valley, California, 1937 Home Owners Loan Corporation, Los Angeles Data Sheet D52, 1939 John Vachon, Negro Children Standing in Front of Half Mile Concrete Wall, Detroit, Michigan, 1941 Examples of Racially Restrictive Real Estate Covenants Arthur S. Siegel, Detroit, Michigan. Riot at the Sojourner Truth Homes, a New U.S. Federal Housing Project, Caused by White Neighbors’ Attempt to Prevent Negro Tenants from Moving In, 1942 Craig Thompson, “Growing Pains of a Brand-New City,” 1954 Norris Vitchek, “Confessions of a Block-Buster,” 1962 Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., 1963 Fair Housing Protest, Seattle, Washington, 1964 Fair Housing Act of 1968 U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Understanding Fair Housing,” 1973 “WHERE WE WORK” Ruby T. Lomax, [Cotton Picking Scenes on Roger Williams Plantation in the Delta, New Drew, Mississippi], 1940 John Vachon, Steel Mill Workers, Bethlehem Company, Sparrows Point, Maryland, 1940 Help Wanted White Only Lloyd H. Bailer, “The Negro Automobile Worker,” 1943 Navajo Miners Work at the Kerr-McGee Uranium Mine at Cove, Ariz., 1953 Mildred Pitts Walter, “Biographical Sketch,” September 28, 2017 Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII: Equal Employment Opportunity Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University: “To Fulfill These Rights,” 1965“ Exhibit 1 in City of Memphis vs. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” 1968 “WHERE WE PLAY” Victor H. Green, ed., Introduction, The Negro Motorist Green Book: 1950 Lewis Mountain Entrance Sign, Shenandoah National Park Colored Only Sign Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 1955 Civil Rights Demonstration at Fort Lauderdale’s Segregated Public Beach, 1961 Jackson NAACP Branches to City and State Officials, May 12, 1963 PART 2 A MORE INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM? FROM EARTH DAY TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS CRITIQUE Indians of All Tribes, “The Alcatraz Proclamation,” 1969 Timothy Benally, “‘So a Lot of the Navajo Ladies Became Widows’” El Malcriado, “Growers Spurn Negotiations on Poisons,” 1969 Wilbur L. Thomas Jr., “Black Survival in Our Polluted Cities,” 1970 RACE, ENVIRONMENTALISM, AND ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE Edmund S. Muskie, Speech at the Philadelphia Earth Week Rally, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, April 22, 1970 EPA Task Force on the Environmental Problems of the Inner City, Our Urban Environment and Our Most Endangered People, 1971 John H. White, Chicago Ghetto on the South Side, 1974 Don Coombs, “The [Sierra] Club Looks at Itself,” 1972 TOXICS, WARREN COUNTY, AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISPARITIES Penelope Ploughman, Protest Signs in Front Yard Love Canal 99th Street Home, 1978 Protest Sign: Danger, Dioxin Kills, 1980 Robert T. Stafford, “Why Superfund Was Needed,” 1981 Jenny Labalme, Anti-PCB Protests in Warren County, North Carolina, 1982 “A Warren County PCB Protest Song,” 1982 General Accounting Office, “Siting of Hazardous Waste Landfills and Their Correlation with Racial and Economic Status of Surrounding Communities,” 1983 Cerrell Associates, Political Difficulties Facing Waste-to-Energy Conversion Plant Siting, 1984 United Church of Christ, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States,” 1987 United Church of Christ, “Fifty Metropolitan Areas with Greatest Number of Blacks Living in Communities with Uncontrolled Waste Sites,” 1987 Marianne Lavelle and Marcia Coyle, “Unequal Protection,” 1992 BUILDING THE MOVEMENT Sam Kittner, The Great Louisiana Toxics March, 1988 Peggy Shepard and Chuck Sutton Protest New York City’s North River Sewage Treatment Plant, 1988 SouthWest Organizing Project, “Letter to Big Ten Environmental Groups,” March 16, 1990 Mark Gutierrez, From One Earth Day to the Next, 1990 Indigenous Environmental Network, “Unifying Principles,” 1991 First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit Press Conference, October 24, 1991 Dana Alston, “Moving beyond the Barriers,” 1991 “The Principles of Environmental Justice,” 1991 William K. Reilly, “Environmental Equity,” 1992 Melissa Healy, “Administration Joins Fight for ‘Environmental Justice’ Pollution,” 1993 William J. Clinton, Executive Order 12898, February 16, 1994 Dorceta E. Taylor, “Women of Color, Environmental Justice, and Ecofeminism,” 1997 Luz Claudio, “Standing on Principle” “Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing,” 1996 Public Citizen, “NAFTA’s Broken Promises,” 1997 PART 3 THE ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE IN THE SUSTAINABILITY ERA INSTITUTIONAL LEGACIES Richard Moore, “Government by the People” Christine Todd Whitman, “Memorandum,” August 9, 2001 Second People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, “Principles of Working Together,” 2002 Robert D. Bullard et al., “Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty,” 2007 Marty Durlin, “The Shot Heard Round the West,” 2010 Environmental Protection Agency, “Plan EJ 2014,” 2011 Kristen Lombardi, Talia Buford, and Ronnie Greene, “Environmental Justice, Denied,” 2015 CONTINUING EJ ACTIVISM Tracy Perkins, Buttonwillow Park, CA, January 30, 2009 Tracy Perkins, Wasco, CA, January 30, 2009 Online Meme on #NoDAPL Amy Goodman, “Unlicensed #DAPL Guards Attacked Water Protectors with Dogs & Pepper Spray,” 2016 Brian Bienkowski, “2017 and Beyond: Justice Jumping Genres,” Environmental Health News FROM ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TO JUSTICE AND THE ENVIRONMENT “Bali Principles of Climate Justice,” August 29, 2002 Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, “Rising Sea Levels,” 2016 Brentin Mock, “For African Americans, Park Access Is about More Than Just Proximity,” 2016 Norma Smith Olson, “Food Justice,” 2013 Van Jones, “Power Shift Keynote,” 2009 World Rainforest Movement, “‘For a Change of Paradigm’: Interview with Tom Goldtooth from the Indigenous Environmental Network,” 2016 Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Flint water crisis to the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, environmental threats and degradation disproportionately affect communities of color, with often dire consequences for people's lives and health. Racial Ecologies explores activist strategies and creative responses, such as those of Mexican migrant women, New Zealand Maori, and African American farmers in urban Detroit, demonstrating that people of color have always been and continue to be leaders in the fight for a more equitable and ecologically just world.Grounded in an ethnic-studies perspective, this interdisciplinary collection illustrates how race intersects with Indigeneity, colonialism, gender, nationality, and class to shape our understanding of both nature and environmental harm, showing how and why environmental issues are also racial issues. Indeed, Indigenous, critical race, and postcolonial frameworks are crucial for comprehending and addressing accelerating anthropogenic change, from theTrade Review"This text provides an invaluable contribution to scholarship on race and the environment, featuring a wide-ranging set of essays which variously deal with both the symbolic and material means through which race intersects with the politics of the more-than-human world. . . . this volume is an indispensable contribution to environmental history and allied disciplines, and is positioned to stimulate work which can better understand the roots and effects of contemporary ecological crises, and envision more just futures." * Environment and History *"Racial Ecologies is a needed intervention into environmental studies. . . . Essays in this volume highlight the legacies of colonialism and everyday consequences of capitalism on racialized bodies. . . . This collection is not just about framings and ontologies; it is also about politics and collective action. Social change comes from critical understandings. Essays incorporate environmental studies, environmental justice scholarship, and ethnic and Indigenous studies to understand the important problems facing us in our multiple experiences with the environment." * Environmental History *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This text provides an invaluable contribution to scholarship on race and the environment, featuring a wide-ranging set of essays which variously deal with both the symbolic and material means through which race intersects with the politics of the more-than-human world. . . . this volume is an indispensable contribution to environmental history and allied disciplines, and is positioned to stimulate work which can better understand the roots and effects of contemporary ecological crises, and envision more just futures." * Environment and History *"Racial Ecologies is a needed intervention into environmental studies. . . . Essays in this volume highlight the legacies of colonialism and everyday consequences of capitalism on racialized bodies. . . . This collection is not just about framings and ontologies; it is also about politics and collective action. Social change comes from critical understandings. Essays incorporate environmental studies, environmental justice scholarship, and ethnic and Indigenous studies to understand the important problems facing us in our multiple experiences with the environment." * Environmental History *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Labor and the Railroad Industry before World War II 2. The Great Depression, Deportations, and Recovery 3. We Will Need the Mexicans Back 4. Railroad Track Workers Needed; Where Are the Domestic Laborers? 5. Bracero Railroaders, “Soldiers of Democracy” 6. Contractual Promises to Keep 7. The Perils of Being a Bracero 8. The Deception Further Exposed 9. Split Families: Repercussions at Home and Away 10. Victory and Going Home 11. Forgotten Railroad Soldiers Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page

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Book SynopsisRodeo is a dangerous and painful performance in which only the strongest and most skilled riders succeed. In the popular imagination, the western rodeo hero is often a stoic white man who embodies the toughness and independence of America's frontier past. However, marginalized people have starred in rodeos since the very beginning. Cast out of popular western mythology and pushed to the fringes in everyday life, these cowboys and cowgirls found belonging and meaning at the rodeo, staking a claim to national inclusion. Outriders explores the histories of rodeoers at the margins of society, from female bronc-riders in the 1910s and 1920s and convict cowboys in Texas in the mid-twentieth century to all-black rodeos in the 1960s and 1970s and gay rodeoers in the late twentieth century. These rodeo riders not only widened the definition of the real American cowboy but also, at times, reinforced the persistent and exclusionary myth of an idealized western identity. In this nuanced study, RTrade Review"[A]n engaging, insightful, wonderfully researched social and cultural study of forgotten or ignored participants in United States rodeo." * Great Plains Quarterly *"This is an ambitious book in which Scofield deftly tackles multiple historical contexts, secondary literatures, and political sensitivities...a foundational monograph that will no doubt inspire further research into the diversity of communities and traditions in rodeo and the North American West." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Controversial and dutifully written, Outriders...will be of interest to scholars while causing rodeo fans to think deeply about the conflicts within the myth of the sport." * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"Outriders offers an alternative perspective about what inspires people to enter rodeo, arguing that many do so as a way to claim a presence in the history of the West, and explores how rodeo gave agency to groups previously omitted from the history of cowboy lifestyle...provocative and contributes a framework for revisiting fringe groups." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Outriders function as a compendium of current cowboy and rodeo research. Scofield takes this research, and—with engaging style—demonstrates how women, Blacks, Gay men, and incarcerated men have chosen the cowboy as a symbol of what it means to be authentically American." * Journal of Popular Culture *"This well-researched book is a good introduction to rodeo beyond the mainstream and will be of interest to rodeo and western scholars, along with a more popular audience unfamiliar with rodeo’s more varied history." * Pacific Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[W]hat Abe is up to here is well worth a read if you’re interested in Seattle music and history. As he dips into various facets of the scene through the decades, Seattle hip-hop’s identity emerges—intelligent, idiosyncratic, progressive, diverse in population and sound, often needlessly self-effacing." * Seattle Metropolitan Magazine *"Abe is the real deal. The scholarship in this book is of enormous value to our city." * The Stranger *"A considerable strength of the book is how it consistently grounds hip-hop in Seattle’s racial politics. As a result, hip-hop becomes a critical lens to approach and even contest Seattle’s reputation as a progressive city... Emerald Street makes an invaluable contribution to hip-hop studies, urban studies, and Seattle racial politics." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Daudi Abe literally wrote the book on Seattle hip-hop... an essential document spanning 40 years of Seattle history." * Seattle Times *"Daudi is able to capture the diverse, uncategorizable Seattle milieu and its strong sense of community and longevity." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[W]hat Abe is up to here is well worth a read if you’re interested in Seattle music and history. As he dips into various facets of the scene through the decades, Seattle hip-hop’s identity emerges—intelligent, idiosyncratic, progressive, diverse in population and sound, often needlessly self-effacing." * Seattle Metropolitan Magazine *"Abe is the real deal. The scholarship in this book is of enormous value to our city." * The Stranger *"A considerable strength of the book is how it consistently grounds hip-hop in Seattle’s racial politics. As a result, hip-hop becomes a critical lens to approach and even contest Seattle’s reputation as a progressive city... Emerald Street makes an invaluable contribution to hip-hop studies, urban studies, and Seattle racial politics." * Western Historical Quarterly *"Daudi Abe literally wrote the book on Seattle hip-hop... an essential document spanning 40 years of Seattle history." * Seattle Times *"Daudi is able to capture the diverse, uncategorizable Seattle milieu and its strong sense of community and longevity." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2022 ASAP Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Arts of the PresentShowcases the exceptionally diverse photographic work of Latinx artistsWhether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented fights for dignity and justice as well as the daily lives of ordinary people. Their powerful, innovative photographic art touches on family, identity, protest, borders, and other themes, including the experiences of immigration and marginalization common to many of their communities. Yet the work of these artists has largely been excluded from the documented history of photography in the United States. Through individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present, Elizabeth Ferrer introduces readers to Latinx portraitists, photojournalists, and documentarians and their legacies. She traces the rise ofTrade Review"[A] discerning and timely illustrated history...this revealing volume will appeal to scholars and anyone with an interest in Latinx art.”" * Publishers Weekly *"Ferrer's thoroughly researched text situates Latinx photographers as prominent practitioners in the medium's history and as key to its development, and every single image sings." * Booklist *"[A]n impressive and urgenty needed survey to launch a conversation about Latinx people's role in visually chronicling the United States." * PopMatters *"Ferrer presents a concise history of the ways in which Latinx artists have been quintessential to the development of the medium." * ARTnews, Best Art Book of 2021 *"A groundbreaking survey of Latinx photography." * Choice *"[A] first of its kind encyclopaedic survey." * History of Photography *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] beautifully rendered account of a community in flux, caught in the interstices between the remote, high-altitude landscapes of windswept Mustang and the bustling, multi-cultural cityscapes of New York City." * New Books Network (NBN) *"The humanity underpinning The Ends of Kinship and the beauty of its writing are bound to inspire new scholars whose motivations for entering the discipline are not strictly intellectual; those looking for an ‘anthropology of care’ need look no further." * Social Anthropology *"This book will hold the attention of anyone interested in Nepal, migration, or diasporic experiences. It is complex yet accessible." * IIAS Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies) *"[A] refreshing mixed-genre narrative about mobility and migration. Craig not only mixes and merges the two writing styles offiction and ethnography, she also makes the subjects of her ethnographic research come alive, just like the characters in herfictional stories." * Journal of Asian Studies *"[A] remarkable ethnography of connection across geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, political, and economic borders." * HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies *"[T]he chapters rebound off each other, and together provide striking image of kinship in migration and change. The effect is impressive. The fiction is as ethnographically real as the ethnography is literarily true. This is a gorgeous book, one that is hard to put down, one that I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone at all, and a book which I think conveys the power of kinship in a manner that anyone will be able to tap into, that anyone can relate to." * Kinship *"Very accessible for undergraduates in anthropology, Asian studies, or Asian American studies, this book also presents an important model for how we might engage in ethical and practical ethnography in the twenty-first century." * Journal of Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] beautifully rendered account of a community in flux, caught in the interstices between the remote, high-altitude landscapes of windswept Mustang and the bustling, multi-cultural cityscapes of New York City." * New Books Network (NBN) *"The humanity underpinning The Ends of Kinship and the beauty of its writing are bound to inspire new scholars whose motivations for entering the discipline are not strictly intellectual; those looking for an ‘anthropology of care’ need look no further." * Social Anthropology *"This book will hold the attention of anyone interested in Nepal, migration, or diasporic experiences. It is complex yet accessible." * IIAS Newsletter (International Institute for Asian Studies) *"[A] refreshing mixed-genre narrative about mobility and migration. Craig not only mixes and merges the two writing styles offiction and ethnography, she also makes the subjects of her ethnographic research come alive, just like the characters in herfictional stories." * Journal of Asian Studies *"[A] remarkable ethnography of connection across geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, political, and economic borders." * HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies *"[T]he chapters rebound off each other, and together provide striking image of kinship in migration and change. The effect is impressive. The fiction is as ethnographically real as the ethnography is literarily true. This is a gorgeous book, one that is hard to put down, one that I would unhesitatingly recommend to anyone at all, and a book which I think conveys the power of kinship in a manner that anyone will be able to tap into, that anyone can relate to." * Kinship *"Very accessible for undergraduates in anthropology, Asian studies, or Asian American studies, this book also presents an important model for how we might engage in ethical and practical ethnography in the twenty-first century." * Journal of Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisInsights into the racialized fear of change in US societyThe standoff at Cliven Bundy's ranch, the rise of white identity activists on college campuses, and the viral growth of white nationalist videos on YouTube vividly illustrate the resurgence of white supremacy and overt racism in the United States. White resistance to racial equality can be subtle as welllike art museums that enforce their boundaries as elite white spaces, right on crime policies that impose new modes of surveillance and punishment for people of color, and environmental groups whose work reinforces settler colonial norms. In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the US. Using case studies, they investigate the entrenchment of white privilege in institutions, new twists in anti-equality ideologies, and whitelash in the actions of social movements. Their examinations of new manifestations of racist aggression help make sense of thTrade Review"The interwoven nature of the numerous writers’ work will add nuances and complexity to any conversation associated with this work. Therefore, this thought-provoking book searches for avenues to wake-up some; spark true reality to others; and lastly unravel complicity expressed by lack of non-movement in others. The book is a breeding ground for several heated debates." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This timely collection offers an array of essays from talented critical sociologists probing aspects of the continuation and resurgence of 21st-century white supremacist and nationalist thought and action, supported by much social science data." * Choice *"In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the U.S, using case studies and investigations of entrenched white privilege in institutions, new twists in anti-equality ideologies, and “whitelash” in the actions of social movements." * The Washington Informer *Table of ContentsForeword by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Introduction. The Resurgence of Whitelash: White Supremacy, Resistance, and the Racialized Social System in Trumptopia David G. Embrick, J. Scott Carter, and Cameron D. Lippard Part I. The Ideological Reinforcement of White Supremacy 1. Post-Color Blindness? Trump and the Rise of the New White Nationalism Ashley "Woody" Doane 2. The Unblackening: "White" License and the "Nice Racism" Trope Johnny E. Williams 3. Polical Correctness: A Genuine Concern for Discussion or Slippery Language Rooted in Racial Animosity J. Scott Carter and J. Micah Roos 4. Diversity Regimes: How University Diversity Initiatives Shape White Race Consciousness James M. Thomas Part II. The Reentrenchment of White Superiority in American Institutions 5. Institutional Racism Revisted: How Institutions Perpetuate and Promote Racism through Color Blindness Charles A. Gallagher 6. Prison in the Street: What Market-Based Bipartisan Reform Means for Racial Stratification Kasey Henricks and Bethany Nelson 7. Settler Culture and White Property: From the Bundy Ranch Standoff to the West Virginia Coalfields Rebecca R. Scott 8. Local Immigration Enforcement: Shaping and Maintaining Policies through White Saviors and Economic Motivations Felicia Arriaga 9. Recruiting White "Victims": White Supremacist Flyers on College Campuses David Dietrich 10. The Whitening of South Asian Women Bhoomi K. Thakore 11. Colorful Art, White Spaces: How an Art Museum Maintains White Spaces Simon E. Weffer, David G. Embrick, and Silvia Dominguez Part III. White Emotions, Expressions, and Movements 12. White Noise: How White Nationalist Content Creators Reproduce Narratives of White Power and Victimhood on YouTube C. Doug Charles 13. Blue Lives Matter: Police Protection or Countermovement Marette McDonald 14. Echoing Derrick A. Bell: Black Women's Resistance to White Supremacy in the Age of Trump Marlese Durr 15. Solidarity and Struggle: White Antiracist Activism in the Time of Trump Mary K. Ryan and David L. Brunsma Conclusions. Where Do We Go from Here? Structural and Social Implications of Whitelash J. Scott Carter, David G. Embrick, and Cameron D. Lippard List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The interwoven nature of the numerous writers’ work will add nuances and complexity to any conversation associated with this work. Therefore, this thought-provoking book searches for avenues to wake-up some; spark true reality to others; and lastly unravel complicity expressed by lack of non-movement in others. The book is a breeding ground for several heated debates." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This timely collection offers an array of essays from talented critical sociologists probing aspects of the continuation and resurgence of 21st-century white supremacist and nationalist thought and action, supported by much social science data." * Choice *"In this incisive volume, twenty-four leading sociologists assess contemporary shifts in white attitudes about racial justice in the U.S, using case studies and investigations of entrenched white privilege in institutions, new twists in anti-equality ideologies, and “whitelash” in the actions of social movements." * The Washington Informer *Table of ContentsForeword by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Introduction. The Resurgence of Whitelash: White Supremacy, Resistance, and the Racialized Social System in Trumptopia David G. Embrick, J. Scott Carter, and Cameron D. Lippard Part I. The Ideological Reinforcement of White Supremacy 1. Post-Color Blindness? Trump and the Rise of the New White Nationalism Ashley "Woody" Doane 2. The Unblackening: "White" License and the "Nice Racism" Trope Johnny E. Williams 3. Polical Correctness: A Genuine Concern for Discussion or Slippery Language Rooted in Racial Animosity J. Scott Carter and J. Micah Roos 4. Diversity Regimes: How University Diversity Initiatives Shape White Race Consciousness James M. Thomas Part II. The Reentrenchment of White Superiority in American Institutions 5. Institutional Racism Revisted: How Institutions Perpetuate and Promote Racism through Color Blindness Charles A. Gallagher 6. Prison in the Street: What Market-Based Bipartisan Reform Means for Racial Stratification Kasey Henricks and Bethany Nelson 7. Settler Culture and White Property: From the Bundy Ranch Standoff to the West Virginia Coalfields Rebecca R. Scott 8. Local Immigration Enforcement: Shaping and Maintaining Policies through White Saviors and Economic Motivations Felicia Arriaga 9. Recruiting White "Victims": White Supremacist Flyers on College Campuses David Dietrich 10. The Whitening of South Asian Women Bhoomi K. Thakore 11. Colorful Art, White Spaces: How an Art Museum Maintains White Spaces Simon E. Weffer, David G. Embrick, and Silvia Dominguez Part III. White Emotions, Expressions, and Movements 12. White Noise: How White Nationalist Content Creators Reproduce Narratives of White Power and Victimhood on YouTube C. Doug Charles 13. Blue Lives Matter: Police Protection or Countermovement Marette McDonald 14. Echoing Derrick A. Bell: Black Women's Resistance to White Supremacy in the Age of Trump Marlese Durr 15. Solidarity and Struggle: White Antiracist Activism in the Time of Trump Mary K. Ryan and David L. Brunsma Conclusions. Where Do We Go from Here? Structural and Social Implications of Whitelash J. Scott Carter, David G. Embrick, and Cameron D. Lippard List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Nisei Radicals is an important addition to Asian American history texts and creates likable heroes out of Yasutake and Yamada." * International Examiner *"All in all, Nisei Radicals is not only a book well worth reading as a joint biography of two remarkable Nikkei, but I hope will act as a springboard for larger discussions of social justice." * Nichi Bei Weekly *"Nisei Radicals offers a model for historical biography…The lives [Fujino] portrays offer a model of how to make activism sustainable, most notably, by staying in community and partnering with like-minded others to fight for justice." * Pacific Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With memories and stories at the forefront, the book is a magisterial contribution to the discipline of anthropology." * North American Congress on Latin America *"For those designing undergraduate and graduate courses in Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies and seeking readings that present innovative methodological and epistemological contributions, Hilda Lloréns’ Making Livable Worlds is highly recommended. The work invites spirited and engaging classroom discussions that promote expanded thinking in written work. Beyond the classroom, Lloréns’s methodology and nuanced treatment of too often simplified contested concepts make all-important contributions to these fields of study. Her serious attention to the daily work and interventions of Black and Afro-Puerto Rican women to make livable worlds in the here and now and for coming generations addresses gaping holes in environmental justice-minded Puerto Rican Studies, Latinx Studies, and Ethnic Studies" * Latinx Project, New York University *"The primary strength of Lloréns’s book rests in the intimacy that she brings to excavating the troubling environmental injustices Black Puerto Rican women have to live under even as they struggle against marginalization...Making Livable Worlds is a timely and necessary examination of the growing crisis in environmental justice and other cultural issues such as gender, race, and the effects of colonialism." * Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association *"Powerful and beautifully written, Making Livable Worlds opens an ecofeminist archive that invites researchers to extend this kind of study to other islands. It also provides inspiration on how to undertake this task with such methods as autoethnography, which will hopefully become more ingrained in the toolbox of young Caribbeanist scholars. One of the most important attributes of this work is that we hear through Lloréns myriad voices presented not as heroines or victims but as women making the best out of their imposed dispossession." * H-Environment *"Lloréns’ ambitious book skillfully weaves her personal and her family history with the histories of other Black Puerto Rican women in the coastal southeast part of Puerto Rico." * Latino Studies *"Scholars of social reproduction and the solidarity economy will find Lloréns’s case study useful for understanding how alternative economic logics develop and flourish under adversity." * H-Caribbean *"[P]rovides valuable insight on how capitalism, slavery, matriarchal dispossession, ecological crises, and colonization relate to Afro-Puerto Rican women’s lives, and models liberatory responses to these oppressive circumstances, empowering the reader to engage in further action toward similar goals of collective liberation." * Feminist Pedagogy *

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by D. Soyini Madison Acknowledgments Dancing and Writing Together Feminist Embodiments, Transnational Solidarities Ananya Chatterjea, Hui Niu Wilcox, and Alessandra Lebea Williams PART I. MULTIPLE IDENTITIES: SHARED DREAMS OF COLLECTIVE DANCING 1. Historical Ruminations: Breath, Heat, and Movement-Building Ananya Chatterjea 2. "It's Been My Community": Interview with Gina Lynn Kaur Kundan Alessandra Lebea Williams 3. Ananya Dance Theatre as Social Justice Experiment: Where We Were in 2005, Where We Are Now Shannon Gibney 4. The Gone Bird Song Chitra Vairavan 5. Dance of the Spiraling Generations: On Love and Healing with Ananya Dance Theatre Hui Niu Wilcox PART II. EMBODYING SOLIDARITIES AND INTERSECTIONS: BLACK AND BROWN DANCING 6. Femininity, Breaking That Boundary: Interview with Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. Alessandra Lebea Williams 7. Loving Deeply: Black and Brown Women and Femmes in the Theatrical Jazz Aesthetic of Laurie Carlos and the Yorchhā Practice of Ananya Dance Theatre Alessandra Lebea Williams 8. Emerald City Renée Copeland 9. Dancing Black Militancies: Written Meditation on Performance, Black(female)ness, and Dance as Ecological Resistance in Ananya Dance Theatre Zenzele Isoke, with Naimah Petigny PART III. TRANSGRESSING SPACE AND BORDERS: LOCAL POLITICS, TRANSNATIONAL EPISTEMES 10. Mindful Space-Making: Crossing Boundaries with Ananya Dance Theatre Surafel Wondimu Abebe 11. Speculative Choreography: Futures of Feminist Food Justice and Sovereignty Jigna Desai 12. Musings on Crossing: Ananya Dance Theatre in Addis Ababa Hui Niu Wilcox 13. Ananya Dance Theatre and the Twin Cities: Community and Dance David Mura 14. Forecast Mankwe Ndosi PART IV. AGAINST CATEGORIES OF TIME: HISTORY, TRADITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE 15. This Stage Is Not a Safe Space Thomas F. DeFrantz 16. My Work Is Worth the Struggle Sherie C. M. Apungu 17. Ananya Dance Theatre in the Genealogy of Women of Color Feminism Roderick A. Ferguson 18. Absence/Presence/Silence/Noise Toni Shapiro-Phim PART V. IMAGINING RESISTANCE AND HOPE 19. A Politics of Hope: Letters, Dance, and Dreams Patricia DeRocher, Simi Kang, and Richa Nagar 20. A Personal Reckoning: Reflections from Duurbaar to Mohona Brenda Dixon-Gottschild 21. Fire from Dry Grass Nimo Hussein Farah 22. Affirmation Ananya Chatterjea List of Contributors Index

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