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University of Washington Press Dancing Transnational Feminisms
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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University of Washington Press Awake in the River and Shedding Silence
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University of Washington Press Awake in the River and Shedding Silence
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University of Washington Press Feminista Frequencies
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University of Washington Press Feminista Frequencies
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University of Washington Press Signs of Home The Paintings and Wartime Diary of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The wartime diary of Tokita is . . . a fascinating primary document, filled with uncertainties and ambivalence that make some of the received wisdom about the internment camps feel a little too pat. Even though the reader knows, in general terms, how the story came out, the suspense in this eyewitness account is considerable." * Seattle Times *"Examines Tokita’s art in the context of his life and the historic events that he lived through, integrating it all into a deeply moving human story." * International Examiner *"Barbara Johns examines Tokita's art in the context of his life and the historic events that he lived through, integrating it all into a deeply moving human story." -- Susan Kunimatsu * International Examiner *"To see history unfold through Tokita's words and images is to gain a whole new perspective on that conflict [Japanese internment during World War II] and the nature of all immigrants to America who suddenly find themselves identified as the enemy." -- Bob Duggan * Bigthink.com *"A fascinating book that accomplishes more than one purpose. The first part is a biography of Tokita . . . the second is Tokita's diary from 1941-44. . . . Signs of Home includes plenty of examples that prove his status as an important regional artist." -- Jeff Baker * The Oregonian *". . . one of the more beautiful and soulful books you might lay your hands on . . ." -- Mike Dillon * City Living *"If 'painting Seattle' feels like the welcome restoration of a long-lost chapter in local art history, the wartime diary is a thornier business . . . filled with uncertainties and ambivalence that make some of the received wisdom about the internment camps feel a little too pat." -- Michael Upchurch * The Seattle Times *
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University of Washington Press Contemporary Asian American Activism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Building an Archive of Asian American Organizing Praxis Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Diane C. Fujino PART 1: INCARCERATIONS, DISPLACEMENTS, AND TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 1 Prison-to-Leadership Pipeline: Asian American Prisoner Activism Eddy Zheng Chapter 2 Ho'opono Mamo and Restorative Practices: Reflections on Scholar Activism in Juvenile Justice Systems Change Karen Umemoto Chapter 3 The Streets of SoMa: Building Community amid Displacement in San Francisco Angelica Cabande, with Katherine Nasol PART 2: INTERNATIONALISM AND LOCAL STRUGGLES Chapter 4 Dismantling the "Undocumented Korean Box": Race, Education, and Undocumented Korean Immigrant Activism for Liberation Ga Young Chung Chapter 5 Drivers on the Front Lines: The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Neoliberalism, and Global Pandemic—An Interview with Javaid Tariq Diane C. Fujino Chapter 6 BAYAN USA: Filipino Transnational Radical Activism in the United States in the Twenty-First Century Jessica Antonio PART 3: POLITICAL EDUCATION AND RADICAL PEDAGOGY Chapter 7 Political Education as Revolutionary Praxis May C. Fu Chapter 8 "Organizing Wherever Your Feet Land": Reconceptualizing Writing and Writing Instruction in the Legacy of Asian American Activism Katherine H. Lee Chapter 9 How Does It Feel to Be on the Precipice? ChangeLab, A Racial Justice Experiment Soya Jung PART 4: ON MOVEMENT BUILDING: SHAPED BY THE PAST, CREATING NEW FUTURES Chapter 10 On Movement Praxis in the Era of Trumpism Alex T. Tom Chapter 11 "Pete Wilson Trying to See Us All Broke": Asian American Cross-Racial Student Activism in 1990s California Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, with Wayne Jopanda Chapter 12 The Struggle to Abolish Environmental and Economic Racism: Asian Radical Imagining from the Homeland to the Front Line Pam Tau Lee Epilogue: Radical Love for a New Generation Robyn Magalit Rodriguez List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Contemporary Asian American Activism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Building an Archive of Asian American Organizing Praxis Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Diane C. Fujino PART 1: INCARCERATIONS, DISPLACEMENTS, AND TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter 1 Prison-to-Leadership Pipeline: Asian American Prisoner Activism Eddy Zheng Chapter 2 Ho'opono Mamo and Restorative Practices: Reflections on Scholar Activism in Juvenile Justice Systems Change Karen Umemoto Chapter 3 The Streets of SoMa: Building Community amid Displacement in San Francisco Angelica Cabande, with Katherine Nasol PART 2: INTERNATIONALISM AND LOCAL STRUGGLES Chapter 4 Dismantling the "Undocumented Korean Box": Race, Education, and Undocumented Korean Immigrant Activism for Liberation Ga Young Chung Chapter 5 Drivers on the Front Lines: The New York Taxi Workers Alliance, Neoliberalism, and Global Pandemic—An Interview with Javaid Tariq Diane C. Fujino Chapter 6 BAYAN USA: Filipino Transnational Radical Activism in the United States in the Twenty-First Century Jessica Antonio PART 3: POLITICAL EDUCATION AND RADICAL PEDAGOGY Chapter 7 Political Education as Revolutionary Praxis May C. Fu Chapter 8 "Organizing Wherever Your Feet Land": Reconceptualizing Writing and Writing Instruction in the Legacy of Asian American Activism Katherine H. Lee Chapter 9 How Does It Feel to Be on the Precipice? ChangeLab, A Racial Justice Experiment Soya Jung PART 4: ON MOVEMENT BUILDING: SHAPED BY THE PAST, CREATING NEW FUTURES Chapter 10 On Movement Praxis in the Era of Trumpism Alex T. Tom Chapter 11 "Pete Wilson Trying to See Us All Broke": Asian American Cross-Racial Student Activism in 1990s California Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, with Wayne Jopanda Chapter 12 The Struggle to Abolish Environmental and Economic Racism: Asian Radical Imagining from the Homeland to the Front Line Pam Tau Lee Epilogue: Radical Love for a New Generation Robyn Magalit Rodriguez List of Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press New Women of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An engaging and much-needed addition to Japanese American history." * Nichi Bei Weekly *
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University of Washington Press New Women of Empire Gendered Politics and Racial
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An engaging and much-needed addition to Japanese American history." * Nichi Bei Weekly *
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University of Washington Press Black Lives in Alaska
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Black Lives in Alaska provides a corrective to [the] flimsy narrative of the state's race relations." * Anchorage Daily News *"The book's scope, spanning from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century, is as ambitious as it is comprehensive. Such preference for width over depth ends there, however, as the authors seek to leave no relevant stone unturned in their diligent presentation of Alaska's Black histories." * H-Net Reviews *"Hartman and Reamer brilliantly play off one another's strengths in history and journalism to craft a critical examination of a population that grew between the 1880s and early 1960s due to military service relocation and opportunities connected to oil production and defense-industry buildup during the Cold War." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *
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University of Washington Press Black Lives in Alaska
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Black Lives in Alaska provides a corrective to [the] flimsy narrative of the state's race relations." * Anchorage Daily News *"The book's scope, spanning from the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century, is as ambitious as it is comprehensive. Such preference for width over depth ends there, however, as the authors seek to leave no relevant stone unturned in their diligent presentation of Alaska's Black histories." * H-Net Reviews *"Hartman and Reamer brilliantly play off one another's strengths in history and journalism to craft a critical examination of a population that grew between the 1880s and early 1960s due to military service relocation and opportunities connected to oil production and defense-industry buildup during the Cold War." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly (PNQ) *
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University of Washington Press Modified Bodies Material Selves
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University of Washington Press Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Kim's writing certainly made clear the difference between merely describing lesbian relationships and delighting in them." * Feminist Bookstore News *
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University of Washington Press Cops on Campus
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University of Washington Press Great River of the West
Book SynopsisIn the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and its history is the history of the region. In this book, historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, and the creation of an engineered river.Table of ContentsA Resurgent Columbia River: An Introduction What Ever Happened to the First Peoples of the Columbia? "Dr. McKay's Chinook Address May 11 1892": A Commemoration in Chinook Jargon of the First Columbia River Centennial Riverplaces as Sacred Geography: The Pictographs and Petroglyphs of the Mid-Columbia River On the Columbia: The Ruling Presence of This Place "This perilous situation betwee hope and dispair": Meetings along the Great River of the West "They have no father, and they will not mind me": Families and the River Changing Cultural Inventions of the Columbia What Has Happened to the Columbia? A Great River's Fate in the 20th Century Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Never Late for Heaven
Book SynopsisChronicles an odyssey in American art and social events beginning with the Harlem Renaissance and traveling through the Great Depression and beyond. This book reveals the life and the passion for painting of a young woman who was surrounded and supported by her community. It shows a painter whose life and fortune have delivered art work.Trade Review"As long as I have known Gwen, her art has been about making vivid 'observations'--portraits of people, depictions of objects and portrayals of feelings, movements, and memories. She is a keen observer, formally trained as a sculptor and painter to use volume and color as a way of expressing a likeness. Her work is sensitive to nuance but does not have a shred of sentimentality in it. She is tough and pragmatic and one of the most charismatic and generous persons you could ever hope to meet."--Michael SpaffordTable of ContentsForeword by Janeanne A. Upp Never Late for Heaven by Barbara Earl Thomas Gwendolyn Knight: A Life in Art by Sheryl Conkelton Plates Exhibition Checklist
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University of Washington Press Passing the Three Gates
Book SynopsisContains extracts from Johnson's several interviews, giving an account of Johnson's development from the late 1970s until the early years of the twenty-first century. This title brings up many elements of Johnson's life and work: his religious development from the AME Church to Buddhism and the importance of family to him.Trade Review"Essential material for the reader interested in Johnson's life and work, and also interested more broadly in contemporary American literature. Johnson's standing as public intellectual, and as a force to be reckoned with in all cultural debates in America, is well recognized; but this book expresses his thought with a coherence and complexity that heretofore has not been available." * African American Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Charles Johnson Preface / Jim McWilliams Acknowledgments Chronology of Charles Johnson's Life Reflections on Film, Philosophy, and Fiction: An Interview with Charles Johnson (1978) / Ken McCullough Charles Johnson (1987) / Nicholas O'Connell Being and Race: An Interview with Charles Johnson (1988) / George Myers, Jr. Author Navigates Uncharted Waters: Middle Passage Takes Readers on a Spirited Journey (1990) / M. L. Lyke Winner of National Book Award Won't Be a "Voice of Black America" (1991) / Peter Monaghan The Philosopher and the American Novel (1991) / Q & A at the California State Library The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1991) / Cyra McFadden An Interview with Charles Johnson (1992) / Phoebe Bosche A Life in Balance Through Martial Arts (1992) / Tim Allen An Interview with Charles Johnson (1993) / Jonathan Little An Interview with Charles Johnson (1993) / Marian Blue Charles Johnson: Interview (1993) / Linda Davies Interviews with Northwest Writers: Charles Johnson (1993) / Irene Wanner An Interview with Charles Johnson (1996) / Michael Boccia A Man of His Word (1998) / Beth Grubb A Conversation with Charles Johnson (1998) / William R. Nash The Human Dimension: An Interview with Writer-Philosopher Charles Johnson (1999) / Charles Mudede An Interview with Charles Johnson (2002) / Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais An Interview with Charles Johnson (2003) / Jim McWilliams Shoulder to the Wheel: An Interview with Charles Johnson (2003) / John Whalen-Bridge Works by Charles Johnson Works about Charles Johnson's Fiction Additional Interviews with Charles Johnson Index
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University of Washington Press Black Womanhood
Book SynopsisExplorations of contemporary art have focused on issues of identity and race for some time. Few, however, have sought to investigate these themes by juxtaposing historical and contemporary frameworks. This book examines an especially charged icon - the black female body.Trade Review"Rather than recycling the colonial approach to power and subjectivity, which defines the self through the ridicule of the other, Black Womanhood provides various textual, visual, and personal tactics that can contribute to re-imagining a more humane way forward." * Woman's Art Journal *"Twenty years ago, Barbara Kruger coined her now-infamous slogan, 'your body is a battleground,' in a campaign to increase awareness of how women's bodies are marketed as commodities. Visually stunning and intellectually provocative, Black Womanhood resurrects that dialogue and complicates an embattled body in which blackness is a catalyst, surface, symbol, subject, and object that, while transformative on many levels, continues to appear alarmingly vulnerable to exploitation and stereotyping." * caa.reviews *"A serious academic endeavor, suitable for scholars and the general public alike." * Book News *"This collection of essays is as richly insightful as it is beautifully produced. . . . The originality of the images and interpretations make this catalogue essential to understanding how fully clothed the unclothed body truly is." * Publisher's Weekly *Table of ContentsLenders to the Exhibition Foreword / Brian P. Kennedy Acknowledgments / Barbara Thompson Introduction / Barbara Thompson Part One | Iconic Ideologies of Womanhood: African Cultural Perspectives 1. The African Female Body in the Cultural Imagination / Barbara Thompson 2. African Women's Body Images in Postcolonial Discourse and Resistance to Neo-Crusaders / Ifi Amadiume 3. Les Parisiens d'Afrique: Mangbetu Women as Works of Art / Enid Schildkrout Plates Part Two | Colonizing Black Women: The Western Imaginary 4. The Black Female Body, the Postcard, and the Archives / Christraud Geary 5. The Body of a Myth: Embodying the Black Mammy Figure in Visual Culture / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders Plates Part Three | Meaning and Identity: Personal Journeys into Black Womanhood 6. Picturing the New Negro Woman / Deborah Willis 7. The Women Who Posed: Maudelle Bass and Florence Allen / Carla Williams 8. Housing and Homing the Black Female Body in France: Clixthe Beyala and the Legacy of Sarah Baartman and Josephine Backer / Ayo Abiétou Coly 9. Decolonizing Black Bodies: Personal Journeys in the Contemporary Voice / Barbara Thompson Plates Artists Contributors Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Seeing Culture Everywhere
Book SynopsisOffers an alternative view of a world in which cultural mixing, not isolation, is the norm. This book contemplates how ethnic identity can be mobilized in the service of various kinds of goals - violent or nonviolent, laudable or despicable - and the unintended affects such mobilization invariably produces.Trade Review"An unqualified homerun . . . clear, comprehensive, convincing . . . Seeing Culture Everywhere makes their argument very well, and it should be on anyone's list of potential texts for use in class or cultural research." -- Michael A. Lange * Journal of Folklore Research *"The authors of this well-written book . . . for a general audience . . . succeeded without sacrificing analytical rigor. . . . The authors make many intelligent commentaries and their organization of the material is admirable." -- Keith Hart * Museum Anthropology Review *"The overview they offer of the difficulties that the postmodern 'cultural turn' triggers are particularly relevant. Equally convincing is their argument in favor of a context-sensitive approach . . . A precious handbook for all those who take an interest in cultural studies." * American Ethnologist *"Seeing Culture Everywhere is an important corrective to celebratory accounts of multiculturalism and to the anthropologically uninformed discussions so common in political philosophy and elsewhere. . . . We need real understanding and invoking culture as a black box, as a deterministic abstraction only undermines it. On this point, Breidenbach and Nyiri are convincing and helpful." * The Journal of the Review of Politics *"…independent anthropologist Breidenbach and historian Nyiri share a solid grounding in history and anthropology that clearly shows how mixing has long been more the norm than isolation, and that the values of diverse populations often have been and can be constructively reconciled in the interest of the broader well-being of humankind. Now that so many people (finally) agree that culture works, it is good to have a popularly written explication of how it works. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Clashing Civilizations 2. Culture: Victim of or Obstacle to Development? 3. Culturalizing Violence 4. The Challenge of Multiculturalism 5. Protecting "Indigenous Culture" 6. The Age of "Cultural Competence" Conclusion: The Ethnographic Approach Notes Bibliography
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University of Washington Press Making Race
Book SynopsisA history of a past phenomenon - racial art - which has ramifications for the presentTrade Review"Beautifully written, thoughtful, important . . . Francis's book illustrates the dangers of this scholarly approach [racial art] by highlighting that Johnson, Kuniyoshi, and Weber were not marginal artists in the formation of American modernism but significant figures in its definition and development. Highly recommended." * Choice *"A very interesting, academic book." -- Andrea Kirsh * The Art Blog *"There is a theoretical framework to this study, that grows out of the author’s interest in both multiculturalism and race theory, and she does a masterful job in exploring the work of the three artists through a variety of lenses." -- David M. Sokol * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. The Meaning of Modernism 3. Making Race in American Religious Painting 4. Type/Face/Mask: Racial Portraiture 5. The Race of Landscape 6. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press War Baby Love Child
Book SynopsisSheds light on changing Asian American culturesTrade Review"It is a very fine example of the Fine Art of Race Talk." -- Brett Russell Coleman * Magic Mulatto *"Kina and Dariotis’s volume offers an evolving and rich archive of marginalized but must-be-seen art production which scholars in Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Art History can synthesize in multiple exciting ways." -- Susette Min * Amerasia Journal *"The project makes visible underrepresented histories with Asian-American studies, mixed-race studies and contemporary art. The exhibition and accompanying book . . . map out and contextualize the lives and works of these artists." -- Jessica Davis * City Living Seattle *"A fascinating book on mixed-race identity and visual art." -- Shawn Wong * International Examiner *Table of ContentsForeword by Kent A. Ono Preface Acknowledgments Part One | Introduction 1. Miscegenating Discourses: Critical Contexts for Mixed Race Asian American Art and Identity / Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis Part Two | "War Babies": U.S. Wars in Asia and Mixed Asians Philippine-American War and World War II: Postcolonial and Mestizo Identity 2. Skin Stories, Wars, and Remembering: The Philippine-American War / Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. 3. Eating Your Heart Out: An Interview with Lori Kay 4. Somewhere Tropical: An Interview with Gina Osterloh 5. Wading to Shore: An Interview with Jenifer Wofford World War II | Mixed Race Japanese Americans 6. The Celtic Samurai: Storytelling a Transnational-Transracial Family Life / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 7. Yonsei Hapa Uchinanchu: An Interview with Laura Kina 8. 9/11 Manzanar Mashup: An Interview with Chris Naka 9. Gravity Always Wins: An Interview with Laurel Nakadate Korean War | Korean Transracial Adoptees 10. Producing Missing Persons: Korean Adoptee Artists Imagining (Im)Possible Lives / Eleana J. Kim 11. Crossfading the Gendered History of Militarism in Korea: An Interview with Jane Jin Kaisen Vietnam War | Vietnamese Amerasians 12. Lost in Their "Fathers' Land": War, Migration, and Vietnamese Amerasians / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 13. In Love in a Faraway Place: An Interview with Serene Ford Part Three | Hawai'i: Mixed Race and the "Discourse of Aloha" 14. Six Queens: Miss Ka Palapala and Interracial Beauty in Territorial Hawai'i / Lori Pierce 15. Remixing Metaphors: Negotiating Multiracial Positions in Contemporary Native Hawaiian Art / Margo Machida 16. Hawaiian Cover-ups: An Interview with Adrienne Pao 17. I've Always Wanted Your Nose, Dad: An Interview with Samia Mirza Part Four | "Love Children": Domestic Racial Hierarchies, Antimiscegenation Laws, and Revolutions Eurasians and "Hapas": Mixed White Asians 18. Both Buffer and Cosmopolitan: Eurasians, Colonialism, and the New "Benevolent" Globalization / Wei Ming Dariotis 19. Cosmopolitan Views: An Interview with Li-lan 20. 100% Hapa: An Interview with Kip Fulbeck 21. Archiving Ephemera: An Interview with Amanda Ross-Ho Mixed Bloods | Mixed Asian Native Americans 22. Reappearing Home: Mixed Asian Native North Americans / Wei Ming Dariotis 23. Walking in "Chindian" Shoes: An Interview with Louie Gong 24. Hello, Half-breed!: An Interview with Debra Yepa-Pappan Blasians | Mixed Black Asians 25. What Used to Be a Footnote: Claiming Black Roots in Asian American-Asian Caribbean Historical Memory / Wendy Thompson Taiwo 26. Jamaican Hybridity within the "Bowels of Babylon": An Interview with Albert Chong 27. Automythography: An Interview with Mequitta Ahuja Mestizaje | Mixed Latino Asians 28. Revisiting Border Door and UnEarthing Los Anthropolocos' White-Fying Project / Richard A. Lou 29. Journey of a "Chicanese": An Interview with Richard A. Lou 30. Artificial Gems: An Interview with Cristina Lei Rodriguez Part Five | Conclusion Revolutions: The Biracial Baby Boom and the Loving Day and Marriage Equality Movements 31. The Biracial Baby Boom and the Multiracial Millennium / Camilla Fojas 32. Loving Days: Images of Marriage Equality Then and Now / Stuart Gaffney and Ken Tanabe Notes About the Authors Bibliography Index
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MV - University of Washington Press Cities of Others
Book SynopsisAsian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. This book provides the comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers - both celebrated and overlooked - depict urban settings.Trade Review"Zhou expands the intellectual horizon by moving beyond the critique of ethnic enclave as simply space of marginalization and by arguing that Chinatown mutually constitutes and transforms the US city and provides an alternative space for Asian American everyday practice as well as reimagining of a national subject. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Zhou tracks how authors such as Sui Sin Far, Lin Yutang, Fae Myenne Ng, and Frank Chin render alienated Asian immigrant characters as immersed in a series of urban interactions that on one level resists social marginalization and isolation and on another level imagines a sense of belonging, enacting a spatial citizenship and transforming the contours of being American... Zhou’s more ambitious aim is to show how Asian American literature reimagines and re-represents the American city... The close readings of novels are comprehensive and insightful." * American Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | Contested Urban Space 1. “The Woman about Town”: Transgressing Raced and Gendered Boundaries in Sui Sin Far’s Writings 2. Claiming Right to the City: Lin Yutang’s Chinatown Family 3. “Our Inside Story” of Chinatown: Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone 4. Chinatown as an Embattled Pedagogical Space: Frank Chin’s Short Story Cycle and Donald Duk 5. Inhabiting the City as Exiles: Bienvenido N. Santos’s What the Hell for You Left Your Heart in San Francisco 6. The City as a “Contact Zone”: Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music 7. “The Living Voice of the City”: Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker 8. Mapping the Global City and “the Other Scene” of Globalization: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange Conclusion | The I-Hotel and Other Places Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press Yokohama California
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mori’s superbly structured short stories are . . . tender, evocative episodes of growing up as a Japanese American prior to World War II." * San Francisco Chronicle *"Mori is unafraid to let the humanity of his characters and himself shine through bravely." * Oakland Tribune *"A unique record of Japanese American life in Northern California in the decades just before World War II." * Exploration in Sights and Sounds *"Originally published in 1949, these twenty-two stories present subtle glimpses into the lives of Japanese-Americans in their neighborhood in Oakland, California, aka 'Yokohama.' Mori has a delicate touch, and the stories have more than a passing resemblance to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919)." * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the 2015 Edition by Xiaojing Zhou Standing on Seventh Street: An Introduction to the 1985 Edition by Lawson Fusao Inada Introduction to the Original Edition by William Saroyan Tomorrow Is Coming, Children The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts The Seventh Street Philosopher My Mother Stands on Her Head Toshio Mori The End of the Line Say It with Flowers Akira Yano Lil’ Yokohama The Finance over at Doi’s Three Japanese Mothers The All-American Girl The Chessmen Nodas in America The Eggs of the World He Who Has the Laughing Face Slant-Eyed Americans The Trees The Six Rows of Pompons Business at Eleven The Brothers
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University of Washington Press Stars for Freedom
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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University of Washington Press South Koreas Education Exodus
Book SynopsisTrade Review"South Korea’s Education Exodus provides readers with rich narratives centering on Early Study Abroad (ESA) as a lens through which one can understand not only the inner workings of ESA but its intimate connections with broader structural factors. . . . [A] useful resource in undergraduate courses on modern and contemporary Korea, international education, inter-Asia cultural studies, multiculturalism, and globalization." -- Hyaeweol Choi * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: South Korea’s Education Exodus Part One | The Lay of the Land 1. Early Study Abroad 2. The Domestication of South Korean Early Study Abroad in the First Decade of the Millennium Part Two | Navigating Class and the Global 3. Going to School in New Zealand 4. School Choice in the Global Schoolhouse 5. The “Other Half” Goes Abroad: The Perils of Public Schooling in Singapore Part Three | The Dilemmas of Global Citizenship 6. Going Global in Comfort 7. From FOB to Cool 8. Early Wave Returnees in Seoul Part Four | Managing Early Study Abroad 9. The Legal and Religious Citizenship of Korean Transnational Mothers 10. “We Are More Racist”: Navigating Race and Racism in (Korean) America 11. Psychosocial Adjustments of South Korean Early Study Abroad Students Part Five | The Field Speaks 12. Coming to Terms with Our “Asian Invasion” 13. My Life in the States, Alone Bibliography Contributors Index
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University of Washington Press Living Together Living Apart
Book SynopsisImmigration reform remains one of the most contentious issues in the United States today. For mixed status familiesfamilies that include both citizens and noncitizensthis is more than a political issue: it's a deeply personal one. Undocumented family members and legal residents lack the rights and benefits of their family members who are US citizens, while family members and legal residents sometimes have their rights compromised by punitive immigration policies based on a strict citizen/noncitizen dichotomy. This collection of personal narratives and academic essays is the first to focus on the daily lives and experiences, as well as the broader social contexts, for mixed status families in the contemporary United States. Threats of raids, deportation, incarceration, and detention loom large over these families. At the same time, their lives are characterized by the resilience, perseverance, and resourcefulness necessary to maintain strong family bonds, both within the United States aTable of Contents Epigraph: The Freedom to Move / Lisa Speicher Muñoz Foreword / Mary Romero Introduction: Living Together, Living Apart: Mixed-Status Families and US Immigration Policy / April M. Schueths and Jodie M. Lawston Part One | Living Together, Living Apart: Stories of Separation 1. The Purpose of My Trip to Tijuana / Giselle Stern Hernández 2. Life and Love outside the Citizenship Binary: The Lived Experiences of Mixed-Status Couples in the United States / April M. Schueths 3. Transnational Mixed-Status Families: Critical Challenges in Cross-Border Relationships over Time / Rachel M. Hershberg and M. Brinton Lykes 4. Dependents of the State: Navigating the Immigration and Child Welfare Apparatus at the San Diego–Tijuana Border / Naomi Glenn-Levin Rodriguez 5. “We Thought We Had a Future”: Adversity and Resilience in Mixed-Status Families / Martha I. Zapata Roblyer and Joseph G. Grzywacz 6. Being Mixed-Status / Sheryl Tuliao Silva and Eric O. Silva Part Two | Experiences of Inequality: Legal Status and Family Well-Being 7. Voice of an American-Mexican / Neida Soto Arrington 8. Mixed-Status Families in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas: Health Disparities along the US-Mexico Border / Heide Castañeda 9. “Someday I’m Going to Have Papers!” (¡Algún Día Yo Voy a Tener Papeles!): Mixed-Status Families in the Rural South / Scott Beck and Alma Stevenson 10. The Green Card Waiting Game: U Visa Holders, Mixed-Status Famlies, and Marginal Membership / Sarah Morando Lakhani 11. “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) / Eva Betancourt Part III. The Public Face of Illegal: Confronting Legal Institutions and the Media 12. MIXED-UP / Carlos-Manuel 13. Constructing Mixed-Status Families in Public Discourse / Eric O. Silva 14. Qualifying Relatives: US Immigration Policies and Family Reunification or Deunification? / Connie Oxford 15. From Driving to Deportation: Experiences of Mixed-Status Immigrant Families under “Secure Communities” / Diana M. Guelespe 16 Dynamics and Ramifications of US Immigration and Visa Policies: Nepali Transnational Workers, Families, and Children in the United States / Shobha Hamal Gurung 17. Bringing Pedro Home / Emily Guzman 18. My Path to Happiness / Luis A. HernÁndez Contributors Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Scent of Apples
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Santos writes simply and skillfully of his countrymen who leave home for America, of the pain of separation, loneliness, longing, yesterday’s hopes and tomorrow’s dreams. His portraits of these gentle, courageous exiles are moving as he shows how each one struggles to make his way in the new land, trying to find a life far from his roots while sustained by the dream of a return home. . . . Santos gets to the heart of what it is like to be uprooted, alone, alien." -- Publishers Weekly"Mr. Santos is a master at giving the reader a sense of people speaking in many languages and dialects." -- Maxine Hong Kingston, New York Times Book Review"Santos is a writer of deceptive simplicity, one whose graceful storytelling conceals considerable political commitment. . . . His stories capture with warmth and deep humanity the pain of exile and the cost of progress." -- Washington Post"The whole collection is affecting—a small, unexpected gift from a writer with a welcome new voice." -- Kirkus Reviews"Mr. Santos’s best pieces are exquisitely crafted works which examine with irony, humor, and humanity the plight of Filipinos in America." -- Studies in Short Fiction
£22.73
University of Washington Press The Nature of California
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | “To the Farmer in All of Us”: Agricultural Citizenship as Racial Gatekeeping 1. “Settlers Galore, but No Free Land”: White Citizenship and the Right to Land Ownership in “Factories in the Field” and “Of Human Kindness” 2. From Farmer to Farmworker: Representing the Dust Bowl Migration 3. The “Clouded Citizenship” of Rooted Families: Japanese American Agrarianism in “Rafu Shimpo”, “Kashu Mainichi”, and “Treadmill” 4. “The Earth Trembled for Days”: Denaturalizing Racial Citizenship in Hisaye Yamamoto’s Fiction 5. “The American Earth”: Reclaiming Land and Nation in “America Is in the Heart” and “Strangers in Our Fields” 6. “Elixirs of Death”: The United Farm Workers and the Modern Environmental Movement 7. Fit Citizens and Poisoned Farmworkers: Consumer Citizenship in the Alternative Food Movement Epilogue | “Tienes una Madre Aquí”: Environmentalism and Migration in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press The Nature of California
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | “To the Farmer in All of Us”: Agricultural Citizenship as Racial Gatekeeping 1. “Settlers Galore, but No Free Land”: White Citizenship and the Right to Land Ownership in “Factories in the Field” and “Of Human Kindness” 2. From Farmer to Farmworker: Representing the Dust Bowl Migration 3. The “Clouded Citizenship” of Rooted Families: Japanese American Agrarianism in “Rafu Shimpo”, “Kashu Mainichi”, and “Treadmill” 4. “The Earth Trembled for Days”: Denaturalizing Racial Citizenship in Hisaye Yamamoto’s Fiction 5. “The American Earth”: Reclaiming Land and Nation in “America Is in the Heart” and “Strangers in Our Fields” 6. “Elixirs of Death”: The United Farm Workers and the Modern Environmental Movement 7. Fit Citizens and Poisoned Farmworkers: Consumer Citizenship in the Alternative Food Movement Epilogue | “Tienes una Madre Aquí”: Environmentalism and Migration in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Index
£29.66
University of Washington Press Migrating the Black Body The African Diaspora
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez Part One | Making Blackness Serve 1. Containing Bodies—Enscandalizing Enslavement: Stasis and Movement at the Juncture of Slave-Ship Images and Texts /Carsten Junker 2. Russian Blackamoors: From Grand-Manner Portraiture to Alphabet in Pictures / Irina Novikova 3. Migrating Images of the Black Body Politic and the Sovereign State: Haiti in the 1850s / Karen N. Salt 4. Playing the White Knight: Badin, Chess, and Black Self-Fashioning in Eighteenth-Century Sweden / Joachim Östlund 5. Making Blackness Serve China: The Image of Afro-Asia in Chinese Political Posters / Robeson Taj Frazier Part Two | Dreaming Diasporas 6. The Glamorous One-Two Punch: Visualizing Celebrity, Masculinity, and Boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in Early Twentieth-Century Paris / Lyneise Williams 7. The Here and Now of Eslanda Robeson’s African Journey / Leigh Raiford 8. Black and Cuba: An Interview with Filmmaker Robin J. Hayes / Robin J. Hayes and Julia Roth 9. Return to Which Roots? Interracial Documemoirs by Macky Alston, Eliaichi Kimaro, and Mo Asumang / Cedric Essi 10. Dreaming Diasporas / Cheryl Finley Part Three | Differently Black 11. Differently Black: The Fourth Great Migration and Black Catholic Saints in Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo and Jim Sheridan’s In America / Charles I. Nero 12. Coloured in South Africa: An Interview with Filmmaker Kiersten Dunbar Chace and Photojournalist Rushay Booysen / Sonja Georgi and Pia Wiegmink 13. When Home Meets Diaspora at the Door of No Return: Cinematic Encounters in Sankofa and Little Senegal / Heike Raphael-Hernandez 14. Of Plastic Ducks and Cockle Pickers: African Atlantic Artists and Critiques of Bonded Labor across Chronologies / Alan Rice 15. At Home, Online: Affective Exchange and the Diasporic Body in Ghanaian Internet Video / Reginold A. Royston Part 4 | Afrofabulation 16. Habeas Ficta: Fictive Ethnicity, Affecting Representations, and Slaves on Screen / Tavia Nyong’o 17. The Black Body as Photographic Image: Video Light in Postcolonial Jamaica / Krista Thompson 18. The Not-Yet Justice League: Fantasy, Redress, and Transatlantic Black History on the Comic Book Page / Darieck Scott List of Contributors Index
£110.48
University of Washington Press Migrating the Black Body
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez Part One | Making Blackness Serve 1. Containing Bodies—Enscandalizing Enslavement: Stasis and Movement at the Juncture of Slave-Ship Images and Texts /Carsten Junker 2. Russian Blackamoors: From Grand-Manner Portraiture to Alphabet in Pictures / Irina Novikova 3. Migrating Images of the Black Body Politic and the Sovereign State: Haiti in the 1850s / Karen N. Salt 4. Playing the White Knight: Badin, Chess, and Black Self-Fashioning in Eighteenth-Century Sweden / Joachim Östlund 5. Making Blackness Serve China: The Image of Afro-Asia in Chinese Political Posters / Robeson Taj Frazier Part Two | Dreaming Diasporas 6. The Glamorous One-Two Punch: Visualizing Celebrity, Masculinity, and Boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in Early Twentieth-Century Paris / Lyneise Williams 7. The Here and Now of Eslanda Robeson’s African Journey / Leigh Raiford 8. Black and Cuba: An Interview with Filmmaker Robin J. Hayes / Robin J. Hayes and Julia Roth 9. Return to Which Roots? Interracial Documemoirs by Macky Alston, Eliaichi Kimaro, and Mo Asumang / Cedric Essi 10. Dreaming Diasporas / Cheryl Finley Part Three | Differently Black 11. Differently Black: The Fourth Great Migration and Black Catholic Saints in Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo and Jim Sheridan’s In America / Charles I. Nero 12. Coloured in South Africa: An Interview with Filmmaker Kiersten Dunbar Chace and Photojournalist Rushay Booysen / Sonja Georgi and Pia Wiegmink 13. When Home Meets Diaspora at the Door of No Return: Cinematic Encounters in Sankofa and Little Senegal / Heike Raphael-Hernandez 14. Of Plastic Ducks and Cockle Pickers: African Atlantic Artists and Critiques of Bonded Labor across Chronologies / Alan Rice 15. At Home, Online: Affective Exchange and the Diasporic Body in Ghanaian Internet Video / Reginold A. Royston Part 4 | Afrofabulation 16. Habeas Ficta: Fictive Ethnicity, Affecting Representations, and Slaves on Screen / Tavia Nyong’o 17. The Black Body as Photographic Image: Video Light in Postcolonial Jamaica / Krista Thompson 18. The Not-Yet Justice League: Fantasy, Redress, and Transatlantic Black History on the Comic Book Page / Darieck Scott List of Contributors Index
£29.68
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Mixed Blood Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in
Book SynopsisDraws together a far-ranging set of experiences, all of which bear on the phenomenon of intermarriage. Through his introduction of cultural themes of acceptance, the author broadens the reader's scope of reference in comprehending the forces driving intermarriage.
£999.99
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Caste and Class in a Southern Town
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What is a classic for but to be reread and more fully understood?" —from the foreword to the Wisconsin edition by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
£999.99
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Race in America The Struggle for Equality
Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary analysis of race and justice. The major controversial issues in race relations, from past and present, such as affirmative action, educational segregation, labour union racial practices, the persistence of racism in American institutions are discussed.
£17.06
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Studying Native America Problems and Prospects
Book SynopsisScholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.
£21.56
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Chiaroscuro
Book SynopsisSpanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini's Chiaroscuro explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political.
£18.86
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin From Rebellion to Riots Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia's most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. This book reveals the links between ethnic violence and subnational politics. It also demonstrates that the endemic violence in this vast region is not the inevitable outcome of its ethnic diversity.Trade ReviewFascinating. Davidson's careful historical examination of this decades-long sequence of riots deserves to be read by anyone interested in ethnic conflict and violence. I learned a great deal. - Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University ""Thoroughly grounded in both the burgeoning theoretical literature on ethnic violence and the turbulent history of western Borneo, this nuanced study shows the need to disaggregate such vast entities as Indonesia to understand the 'tipping points' towards violence."" - Anthony Reid, National University of Singapore
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University of Wisconsin Press Hungarian Religion Romanian Blood A Minoritys
Book SynopsisAmid the rising nationalism and racial politics that culminated in World War II, European countries wishing to ‘purify’ their nations often forced unwanted populations to migrate. The targeted minorities had few options, but as R. Chris Davis shows, they sometimes used creative tactics to fight back.Trade ReviewAn authoritative examination of nation building and minority politics during some of Europe's most difficult years. Davis brings together so many significant historical themes that the story of these few villages makes us rethink modern European history." - Roland Clark, author of Holy Legionary Youth: Fascist Activism in Interwar Romania"This transnational case study makes larger, comprehensive arguments about Central and Eastern European nation building. It powerfully employs theory from history, anthropology, political science, and sociology to disentangle the conundrum of identity." - Calin Catoi, University of Bucharest"A remarkable combination of microhistorical richness and interpretive acumen, this is a beautifully written study of one of the 'little peoples lost to history,' caught between more powerful states' self-interested attempts to dictate their identity. It prises open the deceptively simple question 'who do you think you are?' to reveal startling contests over the meaning of identity in politics, language, and lived reality." - Jane Caplan, University of Oxford"Introduces fundamental questions of identity and belonging, asking us to consider the importance of language, religion, territory-and, no less, tradition and bias-as both building blocks and obstacles to ethnic community. A major contribution to debate on the meaning of collective identity and its deployment for political ends. Eloquent, original, sophisticated, and persuasive." - Dennis Deletant, Georgetown University
£18.80
University of Wisconsin Press The Toni Morrison Book Club
Book SynopsisIn this startling group memoir, four friends - black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born - use Toni Morrison's novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty.Trade ReviewWhat can the work of Toni Morrison teach us about the world we live in? Morrison's work provides a scaffolding here; the narrative frame of the distinct voices is unique and makes for an intriguing multivocal experience." - Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine"Poignant. Fear and dread run through this book in a really impactful way, and every revelation felt substantive and singular. Reading Morrison becomes vital to the group’s efforts to mourn and to march forward in their own lives." - Michelle S. Hite, Spelman College
£16.16
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Rise of the Brao Ethnic Minorities in
Book SynopsisIn the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge became suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic groups who had ties to the country, including the Brao Amba. Many fled north as political refugees, and some joined the Vietnamese effort to depose the Khmer Rouge. This book ecxplores this troubled period.
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University of Wisconsin Press Rise of the Brao Ethnic Minorities in
Book SynopsisBased on detailed research and interviews, Ian G. Baird documents the golden age of the Brao, including the voices of those who are too frequently omitted from official records. Rise of the Brao challenges scholars to look beyond the prevailing historical narratives to consider the nuanced perspectives of peripheral or marginal regions.Table of Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii Glossary xv Introduction: The Golden Age of the Brao of Northeastern Cambodia 3 PART 1 1 The Brao and Their Early Involvement in the Khmer Rouge 25 2 Brao Discontent with the Khmer Rouge and Their Exodus from Cambodia to Vietnam and Laos 63 3 The Deterioration of Vietnam-Cambodia Relations, Preparations in Vietnam, and the Attack on the Khmer Rouge 94 PART 2 4 Organizing Post–Khmer Rouge Northeastern Cambodia and the Rise of the Brao 145 5 The Development of Northeastern Cambodia, 1979 to 1989 171 6 The Security and Military Circumstances in Northeastern Cambodia, 1979 to 1989 202 7 Experiences with People from Vietnam, Laos, and Eastern Europe, 1979 to 1989 233 PART 3 8 Transitions in Northeastern Cambodia in the Late 1980s and Early 1990s 265 Conclusion: Lessons from the 1980s 281 Appendix: Prominent People 291 Notes 305 References 333 Index 351
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Setsukos Secret Heart Mountain and the Legacy of
Book SynopsisMoving seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret offers a clear window into a ""camp life"" that was rarely revealed to the children of the incarcerated. This volume powerfully insists that we reckon with the pain in our collective American past.Trade ReviewA rich and original story. Shirley Higuchi captures the sweeping narrative of incarceration through the lens of a single camp and ties it to our present reality. Her resolve as a daughter of the camps is Setsuko's real legacy." - Frank Abe, director of Conscience and the Constitution"Shirley Higuchi takes us on a journey, the more she searches for pieces of the puzzle, the deeper readers will be drawn in and search with her." - Noriko Sanefuji, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
£23.96
University of Wisconsin Press Repossessing Shanland Myanmar Thailand and a
Book SynopsisBased on close readings of Shan-language media and years of ethnographic research in a community of soldiers and their families, Jane Ferguson tells the story of the Shan in their own voices, showing how the Shan have forged a homeland and identity during great upheaval.
£23.16
University of Wisconsin Press Practical Audacity Black Women and International
Book SynopsisGoler Teal Butcher (1925-93), a towering figure in international human rights law, was a scholar and advocate who advanced an intersectional approach to human empowerment influenced by Black women’s intellectual traditions. Practical Audacity follows the stories of fourteen women whose work honours and furthers Butcher’s legacy.Trade Review“An important, landmark work. James brings Black women’s international engagement, scholarship, and activism to the center from the margins to shine a bright light on their impact. She inspires and empowers each of us to take up the mantle and continue their legacy to create a more equitable and just global society.”—Menah Pratt-Clarke, Virginia Tech University
£21.56
University of Wisconsin Press Exodus and Its Aftermath Jewish Refugees in the
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, some two million Jewish refugees relocated from the western regions of the USSR to the Soviet interior. This book’s insights into the regional distribution and concentration of these emigres offer a behind-the-scenes look at the largest and most intensive Jewish migration in history.Trade Review“Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Kaganovitch shows that Soviet wartime and postwar propaganda about the warm embrace of evacuees by their fellow citizens masks a far more complex reality of hunger, disease, and discrimination.”—Eliyana R. Adler, Penn State University “Plumbs Soviet archives and published materials to provide considerable statistical data and compelling individual narratives of the plight of Jewish refugees in the Soviet interior. . . . Although the events of the Shoah overshadowed the predicament of these Eastern European Jews, Kaganovitch’s informed narrative reclaims their stories.”—CHOICE Reviews “A welcome contribution to the relatively limited field of wartime displacement in the USSR. Additionally, the book provides a fresh look at the history of Jewish people in the Soviet Union during World War II by examining the war’s impact on Jewish refugees from the USSR’s western regions to its east.”—H-Russia “Rich with examples from memoirs and a multitude of archival materials, which are accompanied by much statistical data, based on large-scale quantitative studies. All of these sources give a detailed picture of the situation regarding the places where Jewish refugees arrived.”—AJS ReviewTable of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Transliteration Notes, Names, and Places Introduction 1 Wartime Migration to the Eastern Regions of the USSR 2 The Local Authorities Facing Refugees 3 “He who does not work, does not eat” 4 Famine, Mortality, and Some Help 5 Orphanages, Adoption, and Jewish Children 6 Culture Clashes 7 Statistics on Refugees and Their Migration 8 The Difficult Road Back Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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