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Duke University Press Black Disability Politics
Book SynopsisDrawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women's Health Project, Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present.Trade Review"With Sami Schalk’s incredible book, Black Disability Politics, we begin to move into a different kind of book doing intrinsically connected work—a rigorously researched look at all the ways that disabled people’s concerns have been foundational to Black resistance organizing. . . . If knowing your history is a key ingredient to success, Black Disability Politics presents a deeply researched and still incredibly readable map of the past, with implications for the shimmering future. This, along with what I can only describe as a muscular clarity in her writing, was incredible as a beginner to the topic to feel my understanding grow as I read, and that is only possible in the capable hands of a great writer like Schalk." -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra! *"Sami Schalk explores the histories and essential lessons of Black disabled labor, politics and movements. This is a long-overdue and essential volume." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *"Black Disability Politics is a profound exploration and documentation of a cultural topic that has gone overlooked throughout the entire history of the Black American experience. . . . A deeply important view of the fight for the rights of disabled Black people in America since the 1970s." -- Jordannah Elizabeth * New York Amsterdam News *"This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students because it invites continued exploration of Black disability studies and politics. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty." -- S. Burch * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Black Health Matters 1 1. “We Have a Right to Rebel”: Black Disability Politics in the Black Panther Party 23 2. Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The BPP and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions 48 Praxis Interlude One. Anti-ableist Approaches to Fighting Disabling Violence 69 3. Empowerment through Wellness: Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project 81 4. More Than Just Prevention: The NBWHP and the Black Disability of HIV/AIDS 110 Praxis Interlude Two. Approaches to Disability Identity in Black Disability Politics 129 5. Black Disability Politics Now 140 (Not a) Conclusion. The Present and Futures of Black Disability Politics 154 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 199
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Duke University Press Mosaic
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Duke University Press A Nimble Arc
Book SynopsisWhile James Van Der Zee is widely known and praised for his studio portraits from the Harlem Renaissance era, much of the diversity and expansive reach of his work has been overlooked. From the major role his studio played for decades photographing ordinary people and events in the Harlem community to the inclusion of his photographs in the landmark Harlem on My Mind exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, Van Der Zee was a foundational Black photographer whose work illustrates the shifting ways photography serves as a constitutive force within Black life. In A Nimble Arc, Emilie Boone considers Van Der Zee’s photographic work over the course of the twentieth century, showing how it foregrounded aspects of Black daily life in the United States and in the larger African diaspora. Boone argues that Van Der Zee’s work exists at the crossroads of art and the vernacular, challenging the distinction between canonical art photographs and the kind of outTrade Review“In her innovative and timely revisiting of the work of America’s most iconic Black photographer, James Van Der Zee, Emilie Boone reinvigorates the practice of this singular artist through a careful and considered unpacking of the social function his images served as quotidian objects. A Nimble Arc takes readers on a captivating journey into the social life of Van Der Zee’s photographs in ways that allow us to see iconic images anew and recognize the enduring value of photography as a community-building project that exceeds the intentions and aspirations of any individual photographer.” -- Tina M. Campt, author of * A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See *“This is a truly exceptional work. Exquisitely written, researched, and argued, A Nimble Arc is the most comprehensive study of James Van Der Zee’s practice in almost thirty years. I predict a long and fruitful life for this book.” -- Kellie Jones, author of * South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s *"A Nimble Arc broadens James Van Der Zee’s legacy amid a savvied history of twentieth-century Harlem." -- Meg Nola * Foreword Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. To Pivot Lightly: Adding the Vernacular to Art History’s Sight Line 1 1. “More, Many More”: Van Der Zee’s World of Harlem Renaissance Studio Photographers 29 2. The Newspaper and Ubiquity: 1924 Photographs as Moving Objects of the African Diaspora 71 3. A Reframing of Value: Van Der Zee’s Restoration Work of the 1940s and Beyond 113 4. Black Quotidian Experiences: Revisiting the Met’s Harlem on My Mind Exhibition of 1969 153 Coda. To Nimbly Rewind: Fixing a New Constellation of Ideas circa 1994 199 Notes 213 Bibliography 241 Index 259
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Duke University Press Nimrods
Book SynopsisIn this edgy and unconventional memoir, Kawika Guillermo reflects on being a newly minted professor, fatherhood, alcoholism, and suicidal ideation as well as his many attempts to flee from American gender, racial, and religious norms.Trade Review“Punchy prose alternating with incantatory poems, and sometimes melding into a haibun, Kawika Guillermo’s Nimrods magnifies perspectives on the father-son relationship and mixed race and ups the bar for the memoir genre. Irreverent, edgy, and—the only kind worth reading—brutally honest.” -- R. Zamora Linmark, author of * The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart *“Lucid about the contradictions, Nimrods is incandescent in its rage, grief, and beauty. This is the poetry-story-theory we need to survive our battered and entangled inheritances and find our way into another time, unsettled but livable.” -- Larissa Lai, author of * Iron Goddess of Mercy *"In this raw mix of poetry and prose, Guillermo chronicles his early life and experiences in academia as a bisexual, mixed-race man. . . . An affecting, unmistakable narrative: one in which Guillermo catalogs his difficulties, considers their effects, . . . and learns to find hope anyway. Though not for the faint of heart, this chaotic, fascinating self-portrait lingers." * Publishers Weekly *"With stylistic techniques ranging from biblical verse to punk lyric, Guillermo paints an empathetic, yet resentful picture.” -- Julian Forst * The Ubyssey *"As the story of one man’s life, Nimrods is worthwhile due to its unconventional approach as well as Guillermo’s honesty, creativity, emotional maturity, and overall skill as a writer. As something even bigger, it is an effective meditation on the power of perseverance and the possibility of reconciliation between the people we once knew and the people that we are now." -- Logan Macnair * The British Columbia Review *"A dizzying blend of 'auto theory, queer punk poetry, musical ekphrasis, haibun,' and believe it or not, 'bad Dad jokes,' it is never boring" -- Gregg Shapiro * Out South Florida *Table of ContentsIn Vocation 1 Strophe: Ode to Patriarchy Nice Guys Read This Last 5 Get In the Car 15 OMG I'm Turning White Like My Dad 25 Repugnant 35 Scat 45 Doing Time 55 Dead Ends 65 I Hope You 85 Antistrophe: Holy Hai Bun Suicide's Last Call 89 The Last Ride 100 Binge 114 All Our Yellow Fevers 126 A Psalm of My Mother, Who, After Five Years Divorced, Returns to Portland 141 To Hell and Back to Hell Again 148 Long Gone Daddy 161 Epode: Three / Cord \ Digression Sissy / Sister \ Cis 181 Re / Con \ Sile 193 Me / More \ Ire 205 Envoi 219 Bibliography 225
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Duke University Press The Black Geographic
Book SynopsisThe contributors to The Black Geographic explore the theoretical innovations of Black Geographies scholarship and how it approaches Blackness as historically and spatially situated. In studies that span from Oakland to the Alabama Black Belt to Senegal to Brazil, the contributors draw on ethnography, archival records, digital humanities, literary criticism, and art to show how understanding the spatial dimensions of Black life contributes to a broader understanding of race and space. They examine key sites of inquiry: Black spatial imaginaries, resistance to racial violence, the geographies of racial capitalism, and struggles over urban space. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that Blackness is itself a situating and place-making force, even as it is shaped by spatial processes and diasporic routes. Whether discussing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionist print records or migration and surveillance in Niger, this volume demonstrates that Black Geographies is a mTrade Review“This volume takes on the monumental task of pulling together scholarship from different geographic areas, time periods, and disciplines to put forth a view on the current state of Black Geographies while gesturing toward new futures. Pushing the field, The Black Geographic is a defining text.” -- Ashanté M. Reese, author of * Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. *“The Black Geographic will continue to extend and push the tradition of Black Geographies in fresh, insightful, and important new ways through the insights of the newest generation of scholars who are defining and redefining the terrain of these discussions and debates. A superb collection.” -- Nik Heynen, Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction. Black Geographies: Material Praxis of Black Life and Study / Camilla Hawthorne and Jovan Scott Lewis 1 Part I. Praxis 1. Call Us Alive Someplace: Du Boisian Methods and Living Black Geographies / Danielle Purifoy 27 2. Shaking the Basemap / Judith Madera 50 3. “My Bad Attitude toward the Pastoral”: Race, Place, and Allusion in the Poetry of C. S. Giscombe / Chiyuma Elliott 72 Part II. Resistances 4. Blackness Out of Place and In Between in the Sahara / Ampson Hagan 97 5. Words Re(en)visioned: Black and Indigenous Languages for Autonomy / Diana Negrin 124 6. Blackness in the (Post)Colonial African City / Jordanna Matlon 145 7. Mariella Franco and Black Spatial Imaginaries / Solange Munoz 167 Part III. Futurity 8. Rendering Gentrification and Erasing Race: Sustainable Development and the (Re)visioning of Oakland, California, as a Green City / C. N. E. Corbin 189 9. “Need Black Joy?”: Mapping an Afrotechtonics of Gathering in Los Angeles / Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta 213 10. The San Francisco Blues / Lindsey Dillon 246 11. Today Like Yesterday, Tomorrow Like Today: Black Geographies in the Breaks of the Fourth Dimension / Anna Livia Brand 264 12. A Black Geographic Reverie & Reckoning in Ink and Form / Sharita Towne 287 Contributors 323 Index 327
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Duke University Press Black Quare and Then to Where
Book SynopsisIn Black, Quare, and Then to Where jennifer susanne leath explores the relationship between Afrodiasporic theories of justice and Black sexual ethics through a womanist engagement with Maât the ancient Egyptian deity of justice and truth. Maât took into account the historical and cultural context of each human’s life, thus encompassing nuances of politics, race, gender, and sexuality. Arguing that Maât should serve as a foundation for reconfiguring Black sexual ethics, leath applies ancient Egyptian moral codes to quare ethics of the erotic, expanding what relationships and democratic practices might look like from a contemporary Maâtian perspective. She also draws on Pan-Africanism and examines the work of Alice Walker, E. Patrick Johnson, Cheikh Anta Diop, Sylvia Wynter, Sun Ra, and others. She shows that together these thinkers and traditions inform and expand the possibilities of Maâtian justice with respect to Black sexual experiences. AsTrade Review“Shaped by a quare-womanist-vindicationist lens, jennifer susanne leath gives us a vision of justice—both old and new—centered in a deep, complex, and genre-shattering Black sexual ethics that is seething with justices that affirm our being and personhood. This exciting must-read offers us a new and more inclusive vision of a future for all.” -- Emilie M. Townes, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter University Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Vanderbilt University“Carving out a new pathway for grappling with the Du Boisian Negro problem and the perennial crisis of American democracy, Black, Quare, and Then to Where offers a creative, compelling, and stunning exploration into how Pan-Africanism and Black nationalism lay the epistemic groundwork for building a new Black sexual ethics. I don’t know of any other womanists, feminists, or ethicists since Black Power who frame justice as broadly as jennifer susanne leath does in this powerful book.” -- Terrence L. Johnson, author of * We Testify with Our Lives: How Religion Transformed Radical Thought from Black Power to Black Lives Matter *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. Introducing Maât 1 Part I. quare-womanist-vidicationist movement 1. A Prolegomenon to Justice Hermeneutics and Black Sexual Ethics 17 2. Naming (and Transforming) Justice: (Re)Imagining Black Sexual Ethics 35 Part II. justices 3. Flying Justice: Sun Ra’s Sexuality and Other Afrofutures 71 4. Heterexpectations: Jumping the Broom, Marriage, Democracy, and Entanglement Theory 101 5. Dancing Justice: Just Black HomoSexualities 137 6. Ancient Mixologies: Joel Augustus Rogers and Puzzling Interracial Intimacies 167 7. Black Web: Disrupting Transnational Pornographies for Post(trans)national Humanalities 205 Conclusion. Re-covering Maât 245 Notes 255 Bibliography 293 Index 313
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Duke University Press Black Enlightenment
Book SynopsisExamining the work of Black Enlightenment authors, Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject.Trade Review“Black Enlightenment does not excuse or accuse a monolithized ‘West,’ but rather shows how European theory could not acknowledge its transformation by Africa rising. Unusual and meticulous documentation, brilliant textual readings. Highly relevant to our annihilation of white supremacy.” -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of * A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present *“Offering careful and close readings of key texts written by eighteenth-century Black thinkers, Surya Parekh decenters Kant and Hume from the Enlightenment to emphasize questions around enslavement, freedom, and subjecthood. This strong and important book will touch and inform many fields in current scholarship around the Black Atlantic and the intellectual history of the Enlightenment and beyond.” -- Laurent Dubois, coauthor of * Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Black Enlightenment 23 2. (Dis)Figuring Kant 50 3. The Changing Rhetoric of Race 74 4. The Character of Ignatius Sancho 106 5. Phillis Wheatley’s Providence 131 Notes 153 Bibliography 177 Index 195
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Duke University Press FUTUREPRESENT
Book SynopsisBuilding on five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism in the art world, FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of poetry, essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, and reflections on community practice.Trade Review“FUTURE/PRESENT is an essential testament to the crucial work that artists, thinkers, and organizers are doing to work toward a more equitable future.” -- Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation“FUTURE/PRESENT so elegantly proposes a clear solution to a complex issue: to resist the monoculture we must work from many interconnected creative centers. The myriad voices in this book express exciting ripples of change in the arts and beautifully insist on culture’s vital role in progress. May we all take the call.” -- Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem“FUTURE/PRESENT maps and captures how art, dance, and creative practice exist in our daily lives and act as mechanisms for anticolonial and antiracist practice. By lifting up the voices of artists and outlining the methods that can produce more inclusive spaces in the art world, this important book demonstrates how art is a constant source of strength for communities.” -- Mishuana Goeman, author of * Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Roberta Uno 1 The Call / Jeff Chang 17 vestibular mantra (or radical virtuosities for a brave new dance) / taisha paggett 29 Part 1. Cultural Presence: Placekeeping and Belonging Introduction / Daniela Alvarez 35 Aqui Estoy / Jose Ramirez 40 Beauty, Justice, and the Ritual of Performance / Patricia Berne & Nomy Lamm 42 An Accumulation of Things That Refuse to Be Discarded / Kiyan Williams 52 Counting Coup on the Compartmentalization of Indigenous-Made Rap Music / Talon Bazille Ducheneaux 54 Cultural Resiliency in the Face of Crisis: Learning from New Orleans / Carol Bebelle and Carol Zou 63 Collectively Directing the Current / Halima Afi Cassells 68 The New Eagle Creek Saloon / Sadie Barnette 74 Notes from Technotopia 3.0: On the “Creative City” Gone Wrong—An Antigentrification Philosophical Tantrum, 2012–2016 / Guillermo Gómez-Peña 76 “Building Temples for Tomorrow”: Cultural Workers as Construction Crews / Alesia Montgomery 87 Invasive Species / Aaron McIntosh 94 Sunny and 150 Years of Placekeeping in Little Tokyo / Scott Oshima 96 Local Fruit Still Life / Daniel Andres Alcazar 102 Stage One: Establishing Community / Garrett McQueen 104 Red 40 / Jazmín Urrea 108 More Noes from the Performance Essay Los Giros De La Siguinte/the turns of the Next / Devin Kenny 110 Part 2. Dismantling Borders, Building Bridges: Migration and Diasporas Introduction / Sarah Sophia Yanni 123 Mano Poderosa / Rosalie López 128 A Cosmos of Dis/Joints / Vinhay Keo 130 Cross-Border Citizens / Teddy Cruz and Fonna Foreman 136 Indian Alley, Where Art Is Healing / Pamela J. Peters 146 Vessels: A Conversation / Chanice Holmes, Mykia Jovan, Rebecca Mwase, and Mahalia Abéo Tibbs 151 Fence / Belise Nishimwe 158 A Touch of Otherness / Hayv Kahraman 160 Harmattan Haze / Njikeka Akunyili Crosby 166 Who Is the #EmergingUS? / Jose Antonio Vargas 168 Justice and Equity: We’re Coming for It All / Christine Her 171 building bricks for communal healing / Silvi Naçi 176 We Never Needed Documents to Thrive / Yosimar Reyes 178 prop•er / Kassandra L. Khalil 182 Alongside: On Chinese Students in the United States and the Fight for Black Lives / Evelyn Hang Yin 185 Love Spirals: Notes on Brown Feelings / J Molina-Garcia 191 Part 3. Creating a World without Prisons: Culture and the Carceral State Introduction / Kassandra L. Khalil 205 To Create in Prison / Spel 211 A Measure of Joy / Samara Gaev and Jarvis Jay Masters 214 There Is No Abolition or Liberation without Disability Justice / Lydia X. Z. Brown 224 HOGAR / Aydinaneth Ortiz 230 I Remember / Mark Menjívar 232 Coming Home / Dustina Gill 237 Singing Our Way to Abolition / Mary Hooks 241 Standing in the Gap: Music as First Responder / Duane Robert Garcia and Vijay Gupta 245 Locked in a Dark Calm / Tameca Cole 250 As Crazy as the World Is, I Do Believe / Kondani Fidel with images by Devin Allen 252 Jumpsuit Projects / Sherrill Roland 260 The Bonds of Aloha: Connecting to Culture Can Free Us / Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong-Kula 262 The Nail That Sticks Out / Tani Ikeda 268 Art Is a Trojan Horse: Reclaiming Our Narratives / Faith Bartley, Courtney Bowles, and Mark Strandquist 272 Try/Step/Trip (Excerpt) / Dahlak Brathwaite 281 The Evanesced Series (2016–) / Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle 290 Part 4. Embodied Cartographies: Renegotiating Relationships with Land Introduction / Elizabeth M. Webb 295 Kiksuya / Michael Two Bulls 300 American Doesn’t Exist / Lyla June 302 Between the Real and the Imagined: A Conversation with Lyla June and Tanaya Winder / Lyla June and Tanaya Winder 304 Sopa de Ostión / Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya 310 Island Earth: Water, Wayfinding, and the Currents That Connect Us / Nāʻāleu Anthony and Haunani Kane 312 ACCESS DENIED: Creating New Spatial Understandings / Jaklin Romine 321 Essential Economy / Jia Lok Pratt 326 Earth Mama II / Favianna Rodriguez 332 We Are Proud of This Land / Carlton Turner 334 Mauka House / Kapena Alapaʻi 340 Withholding an Image: Disciplinary Disobedience and Reciprocity in the Field / Ashley Hunt 343 Thinking through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum / Dareen Hussein 354 Secrets That the Wind Carries Away / Morel Doucet 359 Ohiŋniyaŋ ded wati kte: This Place Will Always Be Home / Angela Two Stars 364 Ballers / Mel D. Cole 368 Part 5. Living Our Legacy: Ancestral Knowledge as Radical Futurity Introduction / Kapena Alapaʻi 373 These Roots Run Deep / Dyani White Hawk 378 The Future Is Ancient / Allison Akootchook Warden 380 Being in Oneness: Conversations with Nobuko Miyamoto, Kamau Ayubbi, and Asiya Ayubbi / Nobuko Miyamoto, Asiya Amatullah Ayubbi, and Imam Kamau Ayubbi 384 1619 / Douglas Kearney 396 Encircling the Circle: Blood Memory and Making the Village—a Conversation between Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson / Cleo Parker Robinson and Malik Robinson 400 Culture and Tradition: A Monument to Our Resilience / Ofelia Esparza 408 Español / Yanina Chicas 410 Apsáalooke Feminist #4 / Wendy Red Star 412 Mother’s Words and Grandmother’s Thoughts: Living the Right Way (a Conversation) / Maribel Alvarez and Ofelia Zepeda 414 The AIM Song / Elisa Harkins 421 Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Reflections of Futurity / Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine 426 For Paradise / Elizabeth M. Webb 430 What Is the New Basket That We’re Going to Weave? / Lori Lea Pourier 436 I ka wā ma mua, i ka wā ma hope: Ōiwi Orientations toward a Radical Futurity / Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio 442 The Art of Peer Pressure: Black Fire UVA! / Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold 450 Part 6. Currents Beyond: Artists Shifting Paradigms of Inequity Introduction / Genevieve Fowler 461 Bang Bang / Natalie Ball 466 The Cultural New Deal for Cultural and Racial Justice / Michele Kumi Baer, Jeff Chang, María López De León, Tara Dorabji, Kassandra L. Khalil, Lori Pourier, Favianna Rodriguez, Nayantara Sen, Carlton Turner, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth M. Webb 468 We Begin by Listening / Jeanette Lee 475 EMERGENYC: An Artistic Home for Emerging Artists / Marlène Ramírez-Cancio 482 Listening through Dance / Antoine Hunter 491 Scenes and Takes / Carrie Mae Weems 495 Feminist Coalition and Queer Movements across Time: A Conversation between Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid / Alok Vaid-Menon and Urvashi Vaid 504 What Would Upski Think? / Devin Kenny 516 all organizing is science fiction / adrienne maree brown 519 Rebirth Garments / Sky Cubacub 522 A Call to Action / Eleanor Savage 524 SOVEREIGN / X 538 Flexing Hope Is a Practice / Ananya Chatterjea 540 Azadi / Arshia Fatima Haq 546 Afterword / Daniela Alvarez and Elizabeth M. Webb 549 emergence / Sarah Sophia Yanni 551 Acknowledgments 553
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Duke University Press Radical Health
Book SynopsisJulie Avril Minich examines Latinx artistic engagements with health politics to present alternate visions of health and wellbeing among the Latinx community.Trade Review“Radical Health is a necessary and timely intervention in the fields of critical race and disability studies. Julie Avril Minich challenges us to nuance our approaches to health as a structural and social issue. This book is immensely valuable to anyone studying health in the United States today, especially in the wake of the mass disablement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.” -- Sami Schalk, author of * Black Disability Politics *“By drawing attention to the racialized, economic, and gendered forms of violence imposed on Latinx communities by the US healthcare system, Radical Health will alter the way that both Latinx studies and disability studies are practiced. I cannot stress how important this book is. Its urgency and timeliness makes it essential reading for everyone committed to the struggle for health justice.” -- Richard T. Rodríguez, author of * A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Radical Health/Radical Unwellness 1 1. Unprotected Texts: Queer Latinx Expression in the Aftermath of AIDS 24 2. Sugar, Shame, Love: Diabetic Latinidades 52 3. Healing Without a Cure: Radical Health and Racialized Gender Violence 82 4. Mental Health and Migrant Justice: Family Separation and Reimagining Wellness 116 Remedio: The Navigator 150 Notes 167 References 187 Index 207
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Duke University Press Unseen Flesh
Book SynopsisNessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice within hostile gynecological spaces.Trade Review“An original and necessary work, Unseen Flesh opens an important critical window on well-being and gynecological health in Brazil, which are colored and conditioned by race/color, class, and sexual identity. Nessette Falu’s focus on Black Brazilian lesbians is historic and significant in itself—the result of her long-term, invested, and loving encounters with people who had been silenced.” -- Jafari S. Allen, author of * There’s a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Bearing Witness to Unseen Flesh 1 1. The Virgin Who Lives within Her Erotic Worth 21 2. Unseen Flesh: Gynecological Trauma, Emotional Power, and Intimate Sociomedical Violence 51 Interlude One: Angela 77 3. The Social Clinic: Mapping the Social and Colonial World of Gynecology 79 Interlude Two: It Doesn’t Matter 111 4. Are We Ethical Subjects? Seeing Ourselves in Shapeshifting Ethics 113 5. Bem-Estar Negra: Lésbicas Negras’ Beautiful Experiments of Worth 141 Notes 169 References 179 Index 195
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Duke University Press Stay Black and Die
Book SynopsisIn Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He analyzes the works of Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, Marvin Gaye, Octavia E. Butler, and Kendrick Lamar to show how black cultural practices and aesthetics abstract and reveal the lost mother through performance. Whether attributing Douglass’s intellect to his matrilineage, reading Gaye’s falsetto singing voice as a move to interpolate black female vocality, or examining the women in Ellison’s life who encouraged his aesthetic interests, Durham demonstrates that melancholy becomes the catalyst for genius and genius in turn is a signifier of the maternal. Using psychoanalysis to deveTrade Review“What haunts and inspires black creativity in an antiblack world? In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham offers a gendered vernacular psychoanalytic reading of this question, which is to say that he offers a lush blues of genius’s complicated sustenance and insistence. And right there in this blues is the centrality of black femaleness—the maternal—that dapples the engagement with the object that is and is not lost. This richly researched book showcases genius as a notion traced through its motherline and, as such, Durham’s brilliance is a stay in every sense of the word: a hold, a refusal, a plea, and an inhabitance, a longing in which one can linger.” -- Kevin Quashie, author of * Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being *“I. Augustus Durham adds a fundamentally new and truly insightful spin to studies in blackness and melancholy. Bringing melancholy into the realm of nonromanticized genius, he moves seamlessly between the study of literature and the study of music. His analysis of music videos also makes his approach to black melancholy and genius a deep study of affect that refuses any boundaries between the literary, the sonic, and the visual. I am certain that Durham’s theorization of melancholic genius will become a portable, widely cited idea.” -- Margo Natalie Crawford, author of * Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *Table of ContentsFigures viii Echo | I xi Thank | You; or, Acknowledgments xix Color | Blackness 1 Read | Frederick 39 Travel | Ralph 79 Man | Marvin 117 Woman | Gan 151 Love | Kendrick 179 Study | Us 213 Notes 225 Bibliography 273 Index 309
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Duke University Press The Movies of Racial Childhoods
Book SynopsisCeline Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty-first-century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children, showing how films allow viewers the opportunity to understand the demands and difficulties placed upon Asian American children.Trade Review“The relative absence of Asian Americans on the silver screen makes their representation something we cannot not want. In this profound and personal meditation, Celine Parreñas Shimizu cautions us not to assume that representation and belonging go hand in hand. Instead, she analyzes depictions of childhood in Asian American cinema as occasions for working through the psychic traumas that overdetermine our social attachments from the very moment we are born into a world of racial loss and grief.” -- David L. Eng, coauthor of * Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans *“The Movies of Racial Childhoods is like nothing I have ever read. It is a document of a mother grieving, a film scholar theorizing the healing work of narrative cinema, and a filmmaker who understands that ‘trauma demands representation so as to create new realities.’ Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s writing about the death of her child and her devotion to film is both tender and revelatory. Interweaving psychoanalysis, Asian American studies, trauma theory, cinema studies, and personal narrative, Shimizu cultivates space for us to collectively grieve and to reawaken the possibilities of childhood dreaming.” -- Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of * Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration *Table of ContentsPreface. Devastated Creator: Theorizing as Grieving Mother-Author-Spectator ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction: Agents of Our Own Lives, Centers of Our Own Stories 1 1. A Deluge of Delusions and Lies: Race, Sex, and Class in American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace 41 2. The Inner Life of Cinema and Selfobjects: Queer Asian American Youth in Spa Night and Driveways 81 3. Adolescent Curiosity and Mourning: The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros 117 4. The Courage to Compose Oneself: Healthy Narcissim and Self-Sovereignty in Yellow Rose 151 5. The Unexpected and the Unforeseen: Cultural Complexes in The Half of It 186 In Closing: The Power of Films about Racial Childhoods in the Time of Rampant Death 208 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 233
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Duke University Press An Archive of Possibilities
Book SynopsisIn An Archive of Possibilities, anthropologist and surgeon Rachel Marie Niehuus explores possibilities of healing and repair in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo against a backdrop of 250 years of Black displacement, enslavement, death, and chronic war. Niehuus argues that in a context in which violence characterizes everyday life, Congolese have developed innovative and imaginative ways to live amid and mend from repetitive harm. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and the Black critical theory of Achille Mbembe, Christina Sharpe, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and others, Niehuus explores the renegotiation of relationships with land as a form of public healing, the affective experience of living in insecurity, the hospital as a site for the socialization of pain, the possibility of necropolitical healing, and the uses of prophesy to create collective futures. By considering the radical nature of cohabitating with violence, Niehuus demonstrates that Congolese practices of healing imTrade Review“This ethnography of violence and repair, hospitals and therapeutics, is set in eastern Congo’s still warlike Kivu region. It is mediated by the astute eyes and sensibilities of the very talented American anthropologist and surgeon, Rachel Marie Niehuus. Her focus on the intimate, the clinical, and the traumatic, with her pressing arguments about repair, stands to transform how anthropologists and conflict studies scholars approach medical practice, violence, enmity, and injury in Congo and well beyond. Awash with original contributions to studies of violence, humanitarianism, and the affective, this moving book tells some crucial regional histories while it investigates lively strands about hope and possible futures.” -- Nancy Rose Hunt, author of * A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo *“In this outstanding work of storytelling and ethnography, Rachel Marie Niehuus delves deep into the harrowing realities of life in the war-torn landscape of eastern Congo. Beyond the hospital’s sterile walls, amid the constant specters of violence and death, Niehuus uncovers a resilient and profoundly human story of survival, repair, and healing. Vivid and eye-opening, An Archive of Possibilities is a poignant exploration of a people’s unwavering determination to create a future beyond the scars of their past. An immensely thought-provoking and illuminating book.” -- Laurence Ralph, author of * Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Where the Scars Are So Thick 1 1. Dirt Work 21 Interlude 1: A Timeline 45 2. A Sea of Insecurity 47 Interlude 2: Running 69 3. The Body, the Flesh, and the Hospital 73 Interlude 3: Where War Is (Always) Coming 95 4. When Life Demands Release 99 Interlude 4: Joy 121 5. “We Are Creating a World We Have Never Seen” 123 Interlude 5: Otherwise 143 Conclusion: Cohabitation 147 Notes 157 Bibliography 179 Index
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Duke University Press Millennial Style
Book SynopsisAliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman examines how contemporary avant-garde black art and writing by Wangechi Mutu, Marci Blackman, Alexandria Smith, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Harmony Holiday, and Essex Hemphill use experimental methods to represent and imaginatively remediate racial harm.Trade Review“In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman makes a forceful argument for specifying different modes of black experimentation and connecting them explicitly to modes not only of survival but of refusals of various forms of domination. Beautifully written and intellectually engaging, Millennial Style’s important sustained analyses of black experimental cultural production and vital insights make a major contribution.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser, author of * Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined *“Without a doubt Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is one of the most important scholars in black cultural theory, gender studies, and sexuality studies. With this new work, she focuses on the refusal of realism in contemporary black art practices to theorize blackness and being among disaster politics, environmental devastation, state killings of black people, perpetual poverty in the post-Civil Rights era. Millennial Style is a striking, beautifully written, and insistent text that needs to be read by the broadest audience possible.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward a Radical Theory of the Black Avant-Garde 1 1. Black Grotesquerie 25 2. Hollowed Blackness 49 3. Black Cacophony 77 4. The Black Ecstatic 105 Epilogue. On Sustenance and Suture 131 Acknowledgments 137 Notes 141 Bibliography 157 Index 165
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Duke University Press Geologic Life
Book SynopsisIn Geologic Life, Kathryn Yusoff theorizes the processes by which race and racialization emerged geologically. Examining both the history of geology as a discipline and ongoing mineral and resource extraction, Yusoff locates forms of imperial geology embedded in Western and Enlightenment thought and highlights how it creates anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, and anti-Brown environmental and racial injustices. Throughout, she outlines how the disciplines of geology and geography—and their conventions: surveying, identifying, classifying, valuing, and extracting—established and perpetuated colonial practices that ordered the world and people along a racial axis. Examining the conceptualization of the inhuman as political, geophysical, and paleontological, Yusoff unearths an apartheid of materiality as distinct geospatial forms. This colonial practice of geology organized and underpinned racialized accounts of space and time in ways that materially made Anthropocene Earth. A
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Duke University Press Millennial Style
Book SynopsisIn Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman looks at recent experiments in black expressive culture that begin in the place of ruin. By ruin, Abdur-Rahman means the political terror and social abjection that constitute the ongoing peril of black lives. Whereas earlier black writers and artists have employed realist modes of expression to represent racial harm and to imaginatively remediate it, the black avant-garde of today displays more experimental methods. Abdur-Rahman outlines four widely employed modes in contemporary African diasporic cultural production: Black Grotesquerie, Hollowed Blackness, Black Cacophony, and the Black Ecstatic. Mobilizing black feminist and black radical thought, she considers work by such cultural practitioners as Wangechi Mutu, Marci Blackman, Alexandria Smith, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, Harmony Holiday, and Essex Hemphill. Writerly and experimental, Millennial Style theorizes contemporary black art as the holding (or hoarding) of blTrade Review“In Millennial Style, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman makes a forceful argument for specifying different modes of black experimentation and connecting them explicitly to modes not only of survival but of refusals of various forms of domination. Beautifully written and intellectually engaging, Millennial Style’s important sustained analyses of black experimental cultural production and vital insights make a major contribution.” -- Amber Jamilla Musser, author of * Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined *“Without a doubt Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is one of the most important scholars in black cultural theory, gender studies, and sexuality studies. With this new work, she focuses on the refusal of realism in contemporary black art practices to theorize blackness and being among disaster politics, environmental devastation, state killings of black people, perpetual poverty in the post-Civil Rights era. Millennial Style is a striking, beautifully written, and insistent text that needs to be read by the broadest audience possible.” -- Roderick A. Ferguson, author of * One-Dimensional Queer *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Toward a Radical Theory of the Black Avant-Garde 1 1. Black Grotesquerie 25 2. Hollowed Blackness 49 3. Black Cacophony 77 4. The Black Ecstatic 105 Epilogue. On Sustenance and Suture 131 Acknowledgments 137 Notes 141 Bibliography 157 Index 165
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New York University Press Black and Queer on Campus
Book SynopsisAn inside look at Black LGBTQ college students and their experiences Black and Queer on Campus offers an inside look at what life is like for LGBTQ college students on campuses across the United States. Michael P. Jeffries shows that Black and queer college students often struggle to find safe spaces and a sense of belonging when they arrive on campus at both predominantly white institutions and historically black colleges and universities. Many report that in predominantly white queer social spaces, they feel unwelcome and pressured to temper their criticisms of racism amongst their white peers. Conversely, in predominantly straight Black social spaces, they feel ignored or pressured to minimize their queer identity in order to be accepted. This fraught dynamic has an impact on Black LGBTQ students in higher education, as they experience different forms of marginalization at the intersection of their race, gender, and sexuality.Drawing on interviews with sTrade ReviewThe stories collected in Black and Queer on Campus challenge most preconceived notions about queer life at historically Black colleges and universities. Relying on interviews with college students themselves, Michael P. Jeffries provides a cogent, compelling, and much-needed corrective about the history of activism, social movements, and intellectual thought at HBCUs. This groundbreaking book is required reading. * E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History *Black and Queer on Campus is a deeply compelling examination of the daily experiences of Black queer college students. With his particular interest in Black queer life at HBCUs, Jeffries turns much-needed attention to the Black ordinary: how Black queer students spend time on campus, participate in campus organizations, and navigate everyday experiences of antiblackness and homophobia. Jeffries displays a deep respect for his interlocutors’ wisdom, and leaves readers with a sense that the future is being actively re-imagined by Black queer college students who work—individually and collectively, politically and personally—to dream another world. * Jennifer C. Nash, author of Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality *In this beautifully written book, Jeffries reminds us that centering Black queer students is the key to reimagining the possibilities of our colleges and communities. Black queer collegians are part of a long genealogy of resistance and revolution. Their stories show us, too, that there’s magnificence in the mundane. Black and Queer on Campus is a must-read for all college students and educators. * Anthony Christian Ocampo, Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons *Culling interviews with dozens of students from a wide range of colleges, [Jeffries] examines how Black queer students struggle for a sense of belonging, the inherent pressures when compared with white peers and predominantly white learning institutions, and solutions for coping with and finding pride within the college experience, despite these obstacles. These critical perspectives shed much-needed light on the learning institutions where being Black and queer pose everyday obstacles for young men and women eager to learn and contribute. -- Jim Piechota * The Bay Area Reporter *Jeffries interviews Black L.G.B.T.Q. college students at over a dozen colleges to illustrate the struggles they face in finding belonging at both predominantly white and historically Black institutions. * New York Times Book Review *Black and Queer on Campus is an overflowing archive of stories collected through interviews with black and/or queer students at different universities across the United States, without ever describing them in a homogeneous or uniform way, including their political views ... Their stories not only serve as a parameter for evaluating the university’s diversity affirmation policies and the construction of safe spaces by student organizations, but they are also an embodied window on difference that open up imaginative horizons otherwise oriented by black and queer lives. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
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New York University Press The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientistsThe Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pioneer of American scientific sociology and as someone who made foundational contributions to the sociology of race and to urban and community sociology. However, in this authoritative volume, noted scholars José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown provide a groundbreaking account of Du Bois's theoretical contribution to sociology, or what they call the analysis of racialized modernity. Further, they examine the implications of developing a Du Boisian sociology for the practice of the discipline today.The full canon of Du Bois's sociological works spans a lifetime of over ninety years in which his ideas evolved over much of the twentieth century. This broader and more systematic account of Du Bois's contribution to sociology explores hoTrade Review"José Itzigsohn and Karida L. Brown have written a book that will stand out for a long time and be debated for years. The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois is a guidepost that enables the reader to absorb penetrating analyses of this great scholar pertaining to racism and lessons to address it. Seldom do we find analyses of an extremely complex thinker made crystal clear. This is such a work for anyone interested in a pivotal issue of our time." -- Aldon Morris, author of The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology"This is a book for the times. The global protests in response to coronavirus disparities and anti-Black state violence have made it clear that the academy, too, must change. Sociology departments cannot continue to do business as usual. In The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois, José Itzigsohn and Karida L.Brown show that a Du Boisian sociology offers an analysis of our present moment where many other subfields of the discipline cannot […] The result of the authors’ comprehensive approach is an inspiring immersion into the mind of someone who theorized from the depths of his own internal pain to the breadth of world empires, sweeps of historical time, and complexity of economic arrangements." * American Journal of Sociology *"In this necessary, timely, and thorough-going book Itzigsohn and Brown powerfully and provocatively reclaim and present the near century of W. E. B. Du Bois’s sociological contributions with panache and undeniable rigor. Persuasive and well sourced, this book is sure to be a staple in homes and classrooms across the globe for years to come. A pathbreaking classic!" -- Marcus Anthony Hunter, author of Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America"Itzigsohn and Brown offer a bounty of new analysis and a needed synthesis, a holistic view of the sociological contributions of a career that spanned from the 1890s to the 1960s... [The] book’s greatest strength ... is in the excavation and synthesis of Du Bois’s broad body of scholarship. Though scholars have made similar efforts ... Itzigsohn and Brown gift sociologists with what is surely the most comprehensive and ambitious summation of Du Bois’s epistemology." * Social Forces *"Overall, this impressive monograph acknowledges and reclaims Du Bois’s contributions to sociology. It is part of a growing movement that addresses the discipline’s neglect of this scholar. I highly recommend this monograph for advanced undergraduate and graduate theory courses in sociology and the social sciences." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *"Itzigsohn and Brown’s The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois is evidence of Black sociology’s enduring promise. Their book is more than an exegesis of Du Bois’s sociological oeuvre." -- Matthew Clair, Stanford University * Du Bois Review *
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New York University Press Faith and Power
Book SynopsisIlluminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community buildingToo often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the postWorld War II era. It shows that the religious politics of this period were central to secular community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement, offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies, de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on religious movements and how the relTrade Review"Features an array of fascinating topics, with appropriate diversity of historical period, religious affiliation, region, and subject. The editors have gathered an impressive group of scholars whose contributions form a compelling analysis of political action among Latinx religious communities." -- Timothy Matovina, University of Notre Dame"Historians of Latinx politics have typically downplayed the importance of religion, and studies of Latinx religion have tended to focus on spirituality, belief, and cultural expression, while ignoring politics. Featuring an extraordinary lineup of scholars—including some of the top influential Latinx historians—Faith and Power is an impressive resource for understanding Latinx religious politics." -- Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump"One of the book’s most appealing aspects for me was its use of narratives throughout, which provide, in anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s term, a “thick description” of the role of agency among populations, especially those who have endured decades of prejudice or oppression within their faith communities or outside of them. While the book’s range of scholarship—as the footnotes and index reveal—is certainly commendable, overall it makes for an interesting, colorful read. " * The Journal of Arizona History *"The strength of this volume lies in the breadth and diversity of expressions of Latino religious politics covered, ranging from rural agricultural contexts to urban centres of power, including histories from within Roman Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and even Mormonism... This is an insightful volume for scholars and students wanting to know more about and further reflect on an oft forgotten history." * Mission Studies *"Faith and Power demonstrates that an adequate understanding of Latina/o history requires an accounting for the role of religion. Scholars of Latina/o history might read Faith and Power as a provocative revisionist history, as well-known topics in the field are newly explored from the vantage point of faith communities." * American Religion *
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New York University Press Faith and Power
Book SynopsisIlluminates how religion has shaped Latino politics and community buildingToo often religious politics are considered peripheral to social movements, not central to them. Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945 seeks to correct this misinterpretation, focusing on the postWorld War II era. It shows that the religious politics of this period were central to secular community-building and resistance efforts. The volume traces the interplay between Latino religions and a variety of pivotal movements, from the farm worker movement to the sanctuary movement, offering breadth and nuance to this history. This illuminates how broader currents involving immigration, refugee policies, de-industrialization, the rise of the religious left and right, and the Chicana/o, immigrant, and Puerto Rican civil rights movements helped to give rise to political engagement among Latino religious actors. By addressing both the influence of these larger trends on religious movements and how the relTrade ReviewFeatures an array of fascinating topics, with appropriate diversity of historical period, religious affiliation, region, and subject. The editors have gathered an impressive group of scholars whose contributions form a compelling analysis of political action among Latinx religious communities. -- Timothy Matovina, University of Notre DameHistorians of Latinx politics have typically downplayed the importance of religion, and studies of Latinx religion have tended to focus on spirituality, belief, and cultural expression, while ignoring politics. Featuring an extraordinary lineup of scholars—including some of the top influential Latinx historians—Faith and Power is an impressive resource for understanding Latinx religious politics. -- Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to TrumpOne of the book’s most appealing aspects for me was its use of narratives throughout, which provide, in anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s term, a “thick description” of the role of agency among populations, especially those who have endured decades of prejudice or oppression within their faith communities or outside of them. While the book’s range of scholarship—as the footnotes and index reveal—is certainly commendable, overall it makes for an interesting, colorful read. * The Journal of Arizona History *The strength of this volume lies in the breadth and diversity of expressions of Latino religious politics covered, ranging from rural agricultural contexts to urban centres of power, including histories from within Roman Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and even Mormonism... This is an insightful volume for scholars and students wanting to know more about and further reflect on an oft forgotten history. * Mission Studies *Faith and Power demonstrates that an adequate understanding of Latina/o history requires an accounting for the role of religion. Scholars of Latina/o history might read Faith and Power as a provocative revisionist history, as well-known topics in the field are newly explored from the vantage point of faith communities. * American Religion *
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New York University Press Latinas in the Criminal Justice System
Book SynopsisHow Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice systemDespite representing roughly 16 percent of incarcerated women, Latina women and girls are often rendered invisible in accounts of American crime and punishment. In Latinas in the Criminal Justice System, Vera Lopez and Lisa Pasko bring together a group of distinguished scholars to provide a more complete, nuanced picture of Latinas as victims, offenders, and targets of deportation. Featuring Cecilia Menjívar, Lisa M. Martinez, Alice Cepeda, and others, this volume examines the complex histories, backgrounds, and struggles of Latinas in the criminal justice system. Contributors show us how Latinas encounter a variety of justice systems, including juvenile detention, adult court and corrections, and immigration and customs enforcement. Topics include Latina victims of crime and their perceptions of police officers; the impact of the US crimmigration system on undocumented Latina women;Trade ReviewLatinas in the Criminal Justice System shines an important light on a topic long neglected by criminologists and criminology. Lopez and Pasko elevate the often ignored voices and situations of Latina girls and women, who are often invisible in the many debates about immigration. A must read. -- Meda Chesney-Lind, co-author of Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence and HypeContributing authors masterfully examine and vividly delineate the historical, social, legal, and ideological forces governing the Latina experience with the penal system and mainstream American society. In a highly charged political era, this book is a timely contribution to help educate readers about police, law and society, race/ethnic relations, and social and legal reform. -- M.G Urbina * Choice *
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New York University Press Broken
Book SynopsisPROSE Award- Media and Cultural Studies FinalistHow diversity initiatives end up marginalizing Arab Americans and US Muslims One of Donald Trump's first actions as President was to sign an executive order to limit Muslim immigration to the United States, a step toward the complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States he had campaigned on. This extraordinary act of Islamophobia provoked unprecedented opposition: Hollywood movies and mainstream television shows began to feature more Muslim characters in contexts other than terrorism; universities and private businesses included Muslims in their diversity initiatives; and the criminal justice system took hate crimes against Muslims more seriously. Yet Broken argues that, even amid this challenge to institutionalized Islamophobia, diversity initiatives fail on their promise by only focusing on crisis moments.Evelyn Alsultany argues that Muslims get included through crisis diversity, whereTrade ReviewAlsultany carefully and brilliantly walks us through the minefield known as ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ to expose the hypocrisies embedded in American discourses of tolerance. Far from addressing the root problems of today’s inequities, Alsultany shows, contemporary tolerance talk often ends up reinscribing forms of intolerance while institutionalizing racism and Islamophobia. After you read this mind-bending book, not only will you understand the strange space in liberalism’s universe that Muslims occupy, where Muslims represent what must be tolerated and what must not be tolerated simultaneously, but you’ll also realize that the slogan ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ is missing the most significant term of all: justice. -- Moustafa Bayoumi * author of This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror *A fresh, passionate, and comprehensive exploration of where Muslims factor into American diversity initiatives. Employing a blend of scholarly research and personal experience, Alsultany deftly deconstructs the state of Muslim representation and inclusion in the media, universities and key US institutions. -- Lorraine Ali * LA Times *Alsultany details the limit of the liberal promise of inclusion in a brilliant and accessible way. Just when you think that Muslims have entered the doorway into humanity, you see that the inclusive move is itself how Muslim sub-personhood is secured. Broken is invaluable for anyone tempted to put their hopes in multicultural inclusion. Alsultany’s achievement is that we are now steps closer to imagining abolition, the end of systems that protect white property interests. -- Sherene H. Razack * author of Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism *With eloquent prose and a compelling voice, Broken fundamentally shifts contemporary frames for understanding Muslim representation in media, corporations, government, and universities from ‘Islamophobia’ to ‘Anti-Muslim Racism.’ In doing so, she provides a razor-sharp analysis of the truly systemic reality of anti-Muslim racism. -- Ralina Joseph * author of Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity *Alsultany traces how Muslims and Arabs have been incorporated into the United States, represented and racialized in its culture and politics. In some ways, these processes follow the patterns other groups experienced. But the context of terrorism and national security concerns charge the question of Arab and Muslim “otherness” in unique ways. Broken helps us articulate the racialization of 'otherness' and nonbelonging in new and important ways. -- Natalia Molina * The Chronicle of Higher Education, Best Scholarly Books of 2022 *In this eye-opening, provocative work, Alsultany clearly demonstrates that many diversity initiatives fail when they’re centered around moments of crisis instead of lasting change. This narrative will stay with readers long after the last page. To gain understanding and achieve true allyship, this is an essential title to read. * Library Journal (starred) *
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New York University Press Black Mosaic
Book SynopsisHistorically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States. This book tells their story.Trade Review"Black Mosaic addresses a significant, and often-neglected, subject in African American politics.The prose is engaging and accessible, the scholarship is first-rate, and the conclusions are illuminating.As our nation becomes increasingly diverse, this subject will only become more important over time." -- Vincent Hutchings,author of Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability"Smiths exceptional book provides a solid theoretical as well as an empirical road map for scholars wishing to increase their understanding of how Black Americans, Blacks from the Americas, as well as African immigrants conceptualize and think about the meaning of blackness. Black Mosaic surely will become required reading for students and scholars in the field." -- Ronald E. Brown,Associate Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University"This book is a welcome addition to scholarship on the politics of race and ethnicity in the United States. Candis Watts Smiths analysis reveals the complexity of Black racial identity within the context of greater ethnic diversity, and provides a robust and theoretically rich explanation for the boundaries of Black identity. Black Mosaic is a signal contribution and essential reading for scholars of American politics." -- Jane Junn,author of The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and ImmigrationTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Black on Black History 19 2 Diasporic Consciousness: Theorizing Black Pan-Ethnic Identity and Intraracial Politics 45 3 From Group Membership to Group Identification 69 4 Broadening Black Identity: Evidence in National Data 110 5 Politicizing Identities: Linking Identity to Politics 133 6 Perspectives on Intraracial Coalition and Conflict 175 Conclusion: My President Is Black? 197 Appendix A: Presentation of Survey Items and Variable Measures 206 Appendix B: Interview Respondent Characteristics 210 Appendix C: Semistructured Interview Guide 214 Notes 219 Bibliography 249 Index 267 About the Author 277
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New York University Press Presumed Criminal
Book SynopsisA startling examination of the deliberate criminalization of black youths from the 1930s to todayA stark disparity exists between black and white youth experiences in the justice system today. Black youths are perceived to be older and less innocent than their white peers. When it comes to incarceration, race trumps class, and even as black youths articulate their own experiences with carceral authorities, many Americans remain surprised by the inequalities they continue to endure. In this revealing book, Carl Suddler brings to light a much longer history of the policies and strategies that tethered the lives of black youths to the justice system indefinitely. The criminalization of black youth is inseparable from its racialized origins. In the mid-twentieth century, the United States justice system began to focus on punishment, rather than rehabilitation. By the time the federal government began to address the issue of juvenile delinquency, the juvenile justice system shifted its prTrade Review"Suddler avoids jargon, so the narrative is accessible; the details in the book will provide starting points for many research papers. This is a book for those interested in law enforcement, New York City, African American studies, masculinity studies, late 20th-century US history, and, sadly, current events." -- Choice"A convincing, impressive book. Suddler bobs and weaves from discussing police actions to talking about the political, social, and media narratives that helped shape police logics and behavior. Along the way, he also explores how juvenile courts, jails, and other parts of the New York criminal punishment system also shaped Black kids’ experiences and constructed and 'reinforced a good kid/bad kid binary' in which race was 'the focus of youth criminality' ... The history Suddler tells here speaks some urgent truths not just about the history of racialized punishment in America but also about the treatment of Black children and young adults by law enforcement officers and other unofficial but legally sanctioned agents of violence today" * The Journal of African American History *"For anyone looking to understand the historical roots of our contemporary regime of racialized youth criminalization, Carl Suddler’s Presumed Criminal will be essential reading ... his examination casts an important lens into the construction of an enduring racist juvenile justice system which persists today." * Gotham: A Blog for New York City History *"In this powerful, timely, and deeply unsettling recovery of America’s criminal justice past, Suddler shines vital new light on the present. By brilliantly revealing the nation’s postwar effort to deal with troubled young people more humanely, this book forces us to face the extent to which the presumption of black criminality utterly undermined that effort and thereafter ensured that black boys and girls would forever be ensnared in a fundamentally unjust juvenile justice system." -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Blood in the Water"The great value of this work is not only its rich historical analysis, but that this subject, this history, speaks so clearly and directly to the experiences of black youth today." -- Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes"A timely and critically important origins story of how black youth became over-policed and under-protected in one of the most liberal cities in America. They were victims of institutional racism and an increasingly hostile police force that refused to protect their right to protest and organize for racial justice. Young people’s bitter awakening to racial consciousness at the end of a police baton is, as Carl Suddler skillfully shows, the starting point for understanding why stop-and-frisk first made its debut in New York City over a half-century ago." -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness"Provides a direct historical context not only to understand mass incarceration but particularly the anti-black violence against black youth and the BlackLivesMatter movement." -- Shannon King, author of Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?"Suddler does an excellent job of illustrating the struggles black youth faced in New York City in the early to mid-20th century. His effective way of contextualizing the atmosphere of that time gives the reader a vivid look into everyday struggles that the black community faced." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *
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New York University Press Black Patience
Book Synopsis2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change)Honorable Mention, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2023 John W. Frick Book Award (American Theatre and Drama Society)Finalist, 2022 George Freedley Memorial Award of the Theatre Library Association.Finalist, Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History (ASTR)Finalist, ATHE Outstanding Book AwardA bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theaterFreedom, Now! This rallying cry became the most iconic phrase of the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the persistent command that Black people waitin the holds of slave ships and on auction blocks, in segregated bus stops and schoolyardsfor their long-deferred liberation. In Black Patience, Julius B. Fleming Jr.Trade ReviewDemonstrates how temporality as an analytic helps us understand the dynamics of antiblack racism within a political economy of black subjugation. By uncovering little-known plays or unexpected black spaces where plays were produced, Julius Fleming expands the Civil Rights Movement’s literary canon and indexes the multiple registers of ‘patience’ mobilized by blacks and whites within white supremacy and black resistance. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Black Patience is a tour de force. * E. Patrick Johnson, author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women *Offers crucial insight into debates about black political action by carefully and convincingly locating progress in the ephemerality of the now. Adding a distinctive and powerful addition to the history and critical understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, Julius Fleming details the impact of direct action in the present to establish the importance of black theatre to black freedom. * Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown University *Creating a new framework to understand the classical phase of the civil rights movement is no easy task given the number of published books on the topic. However, through his focus on temporality and the links between time and affect—patience is, definitionally, about time—Fleming has done just that. * Journal of Southern History *Fleming successfully accomplishes what he describes as a key purpose of the book: “to map a new cultural and political history of the Civil Rights Movement” (41). * American Literary History *
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New York University Press Black Patience
Book Synopsis2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change)Honorable Mention, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book PrizeHonorable Mention, 2023 John W. Frick Book Award (American Theatre and Drama Society)Finalist, 2022 George Freedley Memorial Award of the Theatre Library Association.Finalist, Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History (ASTR)Finalist, ATHE Outstanding Book AwardA bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theaterFreedom, Now! This rallying cry became the most iconic phrase of the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the persistent command that Black people waitin the holds of slave ships and on auction blocks, in segregated bus stops and schoolyardsfor their long-deferred liberation. In Black Patience, Julius B. Fleming Jr.Trade ReviewDemonstrates how temporality as an analytic helps us understand the dynamics of antiblack racism within a political economy of black subjugation. By uncovering little-known plays or unexpected black spaces where plays were produced, Julius Fleming expands the Civil Rights Movement’s literary canon and indexes the multiple registers of ‘patience’ mobilized by blacks and whites within white supremacy and black resistance. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, Black Patience is a tour de force. * E. Patrick Johnson, author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women *Offers crucial insight into debates about black political action by carefully and convincingly locating progress in the ephemerality of the now. Adding a distinctive and powerful addition to the history and critical understanding of the Civil Rights Movement, Julius Fleming details the impact of direct action in the present to establish the importance of black theatre to black freedom. * Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown University *Creating a new framework to understand the classical phase of the civil rights movement is no easy task given the number of published books on the topic. However, through his focus on temporality and the links between time and affect—patience is, definitionally, about time—Fleming has done just that. * Journal of Southern History *Fleming successfully accomplishes what he describes as a key purpose of the book: “to map a new cultural and political history of the Civil Rights Movement” (41). * American Literary History *
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New York University Press Black Ephemera
Book SynopsisPROSE Award- Music and Performing Arts Category WinnerA framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital eraIn an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness is unprecedented. That iterations of Black visual art, such as Bert Williams's 1916 silent film short A Natural Born Gambler or the performances of Josephine Baker from the 1920s, are merely a quick YouTube search away has transformed how scholars teach and research Black performance. While Black Ephemera celebrates this new access, it also questions the crisis and the challenge of the Black musical archive in a moment when Black American culture has become a global export. Using music and sound as its primary texts, Black Ephemera argues that the cultural DNA of Black America has become obscured in the transformation from analog to digital. Through a cross-reading of the relationship between the digital era and culture produced in the prTrade ReviewCovers, citations, and samples spill over the boundaries of form and technology in order to differently reveal the irrepressible, transformative Black archive. Neal displays his archeological talents in demonstration of Black music's ability to return, to sustain, and to answer. Vibrating with relation, Black Ephemera reveals the fact of Black genius and the dense possibility of Black forever through those wise and committed enough to listen * Shana L. Redmond, author of Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson *A majestic study of the idea and practice of Black archives. As Mark Anthony Neal analyzes the sonic, digital, literary, and visual, he unveils the power of Black maroon archives, which preserve the opacities, sonic disruptions, and glimpses of possibility that are not meant to be consumed. Black Studies needs this brilliant analysis of the uncontainable wind of Black culture, the wind that blows through open windows. * Margo Natalie Crawford, author of Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *In Black Ephemera, Neal conducts an impressive symphony of memory work. The digital frontier transformed what an archive looks like, how it functions, where it lives, and who gets access to it … As chapters diverge in theme and latitude, the book assumes the feel of a mixtape. There’s one on the pioneering Memphis record label Stax. There’s another chapter on the distillation of Black women’s trauma through pop culture, and one about how collective Black mourning is produced, shared, and preserved digitally. The whole is an impressive totem, and guide, to the importance of holding on to things forgotten in our haste to the future. * Wired *Black music is part of the cultural fabric of society, and Neal offers critical insights into how one can think and learn about it. Valuable for artists, archivists, and historians as well as music students and enthusiasts. -- J. T. Pekarek, Indiana University Northwest * CHOICE *
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New York University Press The Queer Nuyorican
Book SynopsisFinalist for The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research.Silver Medal Winner of The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Non-Fiction Book Award, given by the International Latino Book Awards.Honorable Mention for the Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, given by the International Latino Book Awards.A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic One could easily overlook the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a small, unassuming performance venue on New York City's Lower East Side. Yet the space once hosted the likes of Victor Hernández Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka and is widely credited as the homespace for the emergent nuyorican literary and aesthetic movement of the 1990s. Founded by a group of counterculturalist Puerto Rican immigrants and artists in the 1970s, the space slowly transformed the Puerto RicTrade ReviewA thrilling meditation on the seldom-acknowledged wild and wily ways artists of color in the 1990s and 2000s queered Nuyorican poetic performance by astutely reconnecting with its corporeally fluid founding aesthetics. Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican is a timely and seductive invitation to explore nuyorican aesthetics as an inclusive, mobile, inspiringly contentious Open Room. * Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails *Karen Jaime’s assessment of the aesthetics cultivated and mobilized at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe takes a groundbreaking turn to render queer contributions as central to the artistic, cultural, and political legacy and future of this beloved institution. Bringing to light previously unexamined archival materials and offering a proximity of analysis only possible from the vantage point of a creative participant in the scene, Karen Jaime allows us to discover the Nuyorican anew. This intimate and rigorous volume will shape all future scholarship on the Cafe and the nuyorican aesthetic. * Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin *The Queer Nuyorican has the potential to make readers hopeful for a queer future through its particular connection to the queer past. The book’s chapters, organized by artistic subjects, make for a gratifying read for specialists, as well as more general audiences, allowing for a more queer, and racially diverse, view of the field. * The Journal of American Drama and Theatre *"The Queer Nuyorican is an extremely compelling book. By positioning herself so centrally and working with such a rich and heretofore underutilized archive, Karen Jaime transforms our perception of this leading Puerto Rican, Latinx, African American, and queer of color institution in New York City." * Latino Studies Journal *
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New York University Press The Queer Nuyorican
Book SynopsisFinalist for The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research.Silver Medal Winner of The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Non-Fiction Book Award, given by the International Latino Book Awards.Honorable Mention for the Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, given by the International Latino Book Awards.A queer genealogy of the famous performance space and the nuyorican aesthetic One could easily overlook the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a small, unassuming performance venue on New York City's Lower East Side. Yet the space once hosted the likes of Victor Hernández Cruz, Allen Ginsberg, and Amiri Baraka and is widely credited as the homespace for the emergent nuyorican literary and aesthetic movement of the 1990s. Founded by a group of counterculturalist Puerto Rican immigrants and artists in the 1970s, the space slowly transformed the Puerto RicTrade ReviewA thrilling meditation on the seldom-acknowledged wild and wily ways artists of color in the 1990s and 2000s queered Nuyorican poetic performance by astutely reconnecting with its corporeally fluid founding aesthetics. Karen Jaime’s The Queer Nuyorican is a timely and seductive invitation to explore nuyorican aesthetics as an inclusive, mobile, inspiringly contentious Open Room. * Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails *Karen Jaime’s assessment of the aesthetics cultivated and mobilized at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe takes a groundbreaking turn to render queer contributions as central to the artistic, cultural, and political legacy and future of this beloved institution. Bringing to light previously unexamined archival materials and offering a proximity of analysis only possible from the vantage point of a creative participant in the scene, Karen Jaime allows us to discover the Nuyorican anew. This intimate and rigorous volume will shape all future scholarship on the Cafe and the nuyorican aesthetic. * Ramón H. Rivera-Servera, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin *The Queer Nuyorican has the potential to make readers hopeful for a queer future through its particular connection to the queer past. The book’s chapters, organized by artistic subjects, make for a gratifying read for specialists, as well as more general audiences, allowing for a more queer, and racially diverse, view of the field. * The Journal of American Drama and Theatre *"The Queer Nuyorican is an extremely compelling book. By positioning herself so centrally and working with such a rich and heretofore underutilized archive, Karen Jaime transforms our perception of this leading Puerto Rican, Latinx, African American, and queer of color institution in New York City." * Latino Studies Journal *
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New York University Press Digital Black Feminism
Book SynopsisWinner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication AssociationWinner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersTraces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thoughtBlack women are at the forefront of some of this century's most important discussions about technology: trolling, online harassment, algorithmic bias, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Black women's relationship to technology began long before the advent of Twitter or Instagram. To truly listen to Black women, Steele points to the history of Black feminist technoculture in the United States and its ability to decenter white supremacy and patriarchy in a conversation about the future of technology. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial acumen of Black women's laborborn of survival strategies and economic necessityboth on and offline.Positioning Black women at the center of our discourse about the past, present, and future of technology, Steele offers a through-line from the writing of early twentieth-century Black women to the bloggers and social media mavens of the twenty-first century. She makes connections among the letters, news articles, and essays of Black feminist writers of the past and a digital archive of blog posts, tweets, and Instagram stories of some of the most well-known Black feminist writers of our time. Linking narratives and existing literature about Black women's technology use in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, Digital Black Feminism traverses the bounds between historical and archival analysis and empirical internet studies, forcing a reconciliation between fields and methods that are not always in conversation. As the work of Black feminist writers now reaches its widest audience online, Steele offers both hopefulness and caution on the implications of Black feminism becoming a digital product.Trade ReviewWith this accessible volume, Catherine Knight Steele has offered readers a compelling explanation of Black feminist technoculture. Black women have long been at the forefront of technological advances, creation and dialogue; Steele skillfully traces their influence into the present and future. * Ms. Magazine *First, Steele positions Black women online as central to the future of communication technology just as they've been central to its past. Second, per its title, Digital Black Feminism traces and critically examines a evolutionary shift in Black feminism thought, one driven and enabled by new technology … For a book with heft, it strikes an impressive balance of accessibility and intellectual innovation. * NPR Books *This book is a must-read in a time when we need to redouble our commitments to social justice. Catherine Knight Steele helps us understand and celebrate the powerful work that Black feminists do to make the world a better place. * Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism *Critically engages the digital possibilities of contemporary Black feminist thought and, in doing so, charts important new directions for Black feminism and technoculture. Steele argues that Black women’s creation of Digital Black Feminism reflects a sophisticated digital praxis that builds upon yet stands apart from historical traditions of Black feminist thought and hip hop feminism. A must-read book for understanding the possibilities and limitations of digital spaces for social justice projects. * Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment *Steele’s careful consideration of what and whom to research, particularly with regard to Black women and other marginalized groups, is an ethical model that other social media researchers should take seriously as well. Digital Black Feminism moves the work of digital black feminism from the margins to the center, where the personal is not only political but digital. * Film Quarterly *Steele emphasizes how digital Black feminists specifically broaden traditional conceptualizations of activism, complicate ideas of appropriate allegiances, and actively engage with contradictions in Black communities…The author’s analysis of contemporary Black feminist digital enclaves and counter publics and her engagement with current practices and vernacular within Black communities make the text topical and compelling. -- K. Gentles-Peart, Roger Williams University * Choice *Digital Black Feminism provides a framework for Black women to rightfully occupy a space in our society that acknowledges and values their existence, positioning Black feminists at the center of digital studies from the standpoint of Black women. * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Digital Black Feminism reemphasizes the history of marginalization of Black women in the field of technology that acts as tools for social justice by and for Black women, including physical and virtual beauty shops, digital platforms for storytelling, and creative works. Steele’s examination and definitive conversations regarding digital Black feminism are intuitive, inspiring, and engaging. * Journal of Popular Culture *
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New York University Press Digital Black Feminism
Book SynopsisWinner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication AssociationWinner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersTraces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thoughtBlack women are at the forefront of some of this century's most important discussions about technology: trolling, online harassment, algorithmic bias, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Black women's relationship to technology began long before the advent of Twitter or Instagram. To truly listen to Black women, Steele points to the history of Black feminist technoculture in the United States and its ability to decenter white supremacy and patriarchy in a conversation about the future of technology. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreTrade ReviewWith this accessible volume, Catherine Knight Steele has offered readers a compelling explanation of Black feminist technoculture. Black women have long been at the forefront of technological advances, creation and dialogue; Steele skillfully traces their influence into the present and future. * Ms. Magazine *First, Steele positions Black women online as central to the future of communication technology just as they've been central to its past. Second, per its title, Digital Black Feminism traces and critically examines a evolutionary shift in Black feminism thought, one driven and enabled by new technology … For a book with heft, it strikes an impressive balance of accessibility and intellectual innovation. * NPR Books *This book is a must-read in a time when we need to redouble our commitments to social justice. Catherine Knight Steele helps us understand and celebrate the powerful work that Black feminists do to make the world a better place. * Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism *Critically engages the digital possibilities of contemporary Black feminist thought and, in doing so, charts important new directions for Black feminism and technoculture. Steele argues that Black women’s creation of Digital Black Feminism reflects a sophisticated digital praxis that builds upon yet stands apart from historical traditions of Black feminist thought and hip hop feminism. A must-read book for understanding the possibilities and limitations of digital spaces for social justice projects. * Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment *Steele’s careful consideration of what and whom to research, particularly with regard to Black women and other marginalized groups, is an ethical model that other social media researchers should take seriously as well. Digital Black Feminism moves the work of digital black feminism from the margins to the center, where the personal is not only political but digital. * Film Quarterly *Steele emphasizes how digital Black feminists specifically broaden traditional conceptualizations of activism, complicate ideas of appropriate allegiances, and actively engage with contradictions in Black communities…The author’s analysis of contemporary Black feminist digital enclaves and counter publics and her engagement with current practices and vernacular within Black communities make the text topical and compelling. -- K. Gentles-Peart, Roger Williams University * Choice *Digital Black Feminism provides a framework for Black women to rightfully occupy a space in our society that acknowledges and values their existence, positioning Black feminists at the center of digital studies from the standpoint of Black women. * Resources for Gender and Women's Studies *Digital Black Feminism reemphasizes the history of marginalization of Black women in the field of technology that acts as tools for social justice by and for Black women, including physical and virtual beauty shops, digital platforms for storytelling, and creative works. Steele’s examination and definitive conversations regarding digital Black feminism are intuitive, inspiring, and engaging. * Journal of Popular Culture *
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New York University Press The Other Side of Terror
Book SynopsisWINNER, 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association HONORABLE MENTION, 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women''s Studies AssociationReveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global powerThe year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the consolidation of the culture of the American empire through what Erica R. Edwards calls the imperial grammars of blackness.This is a story of state power at its most devious and most absurd, and, at the same time, a literary history of Black feminist radicalism at its most trenchant. Edwards reveals how the long war on terror, beginning with the lateCold War campaign against organizations like theTrade ReviewBrilliantly maps the transformations in black women’s expressive culture in response to COINTELPRO, the war on drugs, and the long war on terror. A necessary, timely history of state power and black feminist radicalism, The Other Side of Terror is, at once, a critique of empire and its myriad violence, a refusal of servitude, and a poetics of dissent. As Edwards demonstrates persuasively and eloquently: radical black feminist thought is indispensable to our collective effort to survive. * Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals *In this highly informed and deeply researched interrogation of the global security state after 9/11, Erica Edwards asks us to read black women and black women’s expressive culture as both resistant to and complicit in American global power. To expose and critique the American security regime and the cultures of imperialism, Edwards turns to a tradition of black feminist radicalism and the insurgent texts of black feminists such as Alice Randall, June Jordan, Toni Cade Bambara, Gloria Naylor, and Nikki Finney. This is a brave and unsettling book, one that makes us think about black women not as fringe actors or minority figures, but as major players in the global arena. * Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s *Erica R. Edwards presents a powerful analysis connecting politics and literature…This is a brilliant book that is likely to produce endless new insights. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
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New York University Press The Other Side of Terror
Book SynopsisWINNER, 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association HONORABLE MENTION, 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationReveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global powerThe year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American power, which was built on the counterinsurgency honed on Black and other oppressed populations at home. The next five decades saw the consolidation of the culture of the American empire through what Erica R. Edwards calls the imperial grammars of blackness.This is a story of state power at its most devious and most absurd, and, at the same time, a literary history of Black feminist radicalism at its most trenchant. Edwards reveals how the long war on terror, beginning with the lateCold War campaign against organizations like the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Black Liberation ATrade Review"Brilliantly maps the transformations in black women’s expressive culture in response to COINTELPRO, the war on drugs, and the long war on terror. A necessary, timely history of state power and black feminist radicalism, The Other Side of Terror is, at once, a critique of empire and its myriad violence, a refusal of servitude, and a poetics of dissent. As Edwards demonstrates persuasively and eloquently: radical black feminist thought is indispensable to our collective effort to survive." * Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals *"In this highly informed and deeply researched interrogation of the global security state after 9/11, Erica Edwards asks us to read black women and black women’s expressive culture as both resistant to and complicit in American global power. To expose and critique the American security regime and the cultures of imperialism, Edwards turns to a tradition of black feminist radicalism and the insurgent texts of black feminists such as Alice Randall, June Jordan, Toni Cade Bambara, Gloria Naylor, and Nikki Finney. This is a brave and unsettling book, one that makes us think about black women not as fringe actors or minority figures, but as major players in the global arena." * Mary Helen Washington, author of The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s *"Erica R. Edwards presents a powerful analysis connecting politics and literature…This is a brilliant book that is likely to produce endless new insights." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
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New York University Press The Black Civil War Soldier
Book SynopsisA stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiersThough both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomedmarking the Civil War as the first conflict to be extensively documented through photographs. In The Black Civil War Soldier, Deb Willis explores the crucial role of photography in (re)telling and shaping African American narratives of the Civil War, pulling from a dynamic visual archive that has largely gone unacknowledged.With over seventy images, The Black Civil War Soldier contains a huge breadth of primary and archival materials, many of which are rarely reproduced. The photographs are supplemented with handwritten captions, letters, and other personal materials; Willis not only dives into the lives of black Union soldiers, but also includesTrade ReviewIn a troubled age, when the past is increasingly called into question, we are all history buffs now. To that end, this remarkable book fills an enormous gap in our collective understanding of the past, a page-turner that will break your heart. Willis, professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts, centers extraordinary and largely unknown images of Black Civil War soldiers within a reported narrative that highlights the enormous hardships they faced and the contributions they made. She makes history feel like a family album. * Fortune Magazine, named one of the "Best Books of 2021, so far" *The book aims to bring these stoic portraits of black soldiers to life – with personal stories, to family members back home, and interviews with historians and personal observations from a skilled photography expert. It’s what Willis calls the African American experience, as well as resilience. * The Guardian *The scholar, author, curator, and photographer Deborah Willis makes a fascinating contribution to that conversation with The Black Civil War Soldier, her new book from NYU Press. In it, Willis gives a face and a story to some of the war’s most overlooked figures, from the Black men fighting for their freedom from slavery to the women who educated and tended to those men on the battlefield. * Vogue.com *Memorable images abound in [this] historical catalog of American photography. Essential...a book that invites rereading. * STARRED Kirkus Review *[S]heds light on the experience of black Civil War soldier through never-seen-before photographs from the 19th century. * Daily Mail *The book reminds us that even the ultimate fight for freedom — when Blacks and some whites were on the same side — equality even then was barely a notion. * New York Daily News *Willis, department chair for photography and imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, had noticed a dearth of images of Black servicemen from the era. For The Black Civil War Soldier, she pulled together photographs, letters, and diary entries to shed light on not only what Black servicemen were experiencing, but also what Black teachers, Black doctors, Black children, and other members of the community were. * Philadelphia Inquirer *Together, this narrative and the photographs make an astounding book that show an often-little-told human side of the War Between the States. * Goshen News *At a time when victory in the Civil War was anything but assured, the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass urged the North to arm African American soldiers to fight against the forces that had enslaved them in the Confederate South. In doing so, he recognized the vital visual argument for citizenship that a uniformed Black man would make with ‘the brass letter, US’ on his belt and an ‘eagle on his button.’ Now, in this breathtaking volume, the scholar Deborah Willis reveals to us the fullness of their humanity through a photographic record she interprets through the paper trail they left behind. At once intimate and panoramic, The Black Civil War Soldier is both a major contribution to Civil War studies and an album of our ancestors’ journey at the critical hour of American history that belongs to all of us as the descendants of their sacrifice. * Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University *In the unmatched research presented in The Black Civil War Soldier, a wealth of lush images, majestic fashion, narrative elements, and crucial pictorial details—books, uniforms, guns among them—perform for the camera a telling contradiction to the underlying horror embedded in the text, and points to the formidable role of photography that Dr. Deborah Willis has long championed. Through the lives of these soldiers, sailors, doctors, and nurses as well as the stories of cooks, teachers, wives, and lovers, Dr. Willis weaves a compelling narrative through the photographic record where courage and activism, or what she has called ‘difficulty and desire,’ shines through * Kellie Jones, author of South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. *Deborah Willis’s vivid accounts of Black soldiers’ sacrifices on the battlefield and their compassion for those on the home front make this book a must read for all Americans. Skillfully employing photographs and other printed materials as equal sources of history, Willis’s nuanced depictions capture the urgent desire for freedom and full citizenship of more than 190,000 Black soldiers and sailors who volunteered for the Union. In The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship, Deborah Willis once again gives us a deeply researched, visually arresting, and textured chronicle of Black people at a crucial turning point in US history. * Francille Rusan Wilson, author of The Segregated Scholars: Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890–1950 *The legendary photographer, curator, and historian Deb Willis has been shifting the way I see and think of images and historical representation for decades. The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict, her gorgeous and meticulously researched photobook, is expansive, yet it also manages to convey the intimacy of a beloved family heirloom. It is an impassioned tribute to America’s Black soldiers and their families during the Civil War. It is also an insistence that we consider the many ramifications of conflict and racism. This is a monumental work, as well as a monument to the undying quest for freedom. * Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, shortlisted for the Booker Prize *Enacts a visual curation of black Civil War history as few besides Willis are so expertly capable of. As deeply reflective about the telling of African American history using images, and given to a conception of African American men and women as “soldiers” within a strenuous physical and moral campaign against slavery, The Black Civil War Soldier is the handsomest picture book and more. * Civil War Book Review *The Black Civil War Soldier’s rich assemblage of tangible evidence and memory provides both material culture readers and general audiences an expanded resource for absorbing and reflecting upon this history. * Winterthur Portfolio *Combining period images, selections from the letters, diaries, memoirs, and other writings of men and women from the period, and a well-written narrative text, Prof. Willis has produced an excellent look at the Civil War and its aftermath, concentrating on the role of African Americans in military and naval service. * The NYMAS Review *
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New York University Press Washington State Rising
Book SynopsisDocuments the origins, actions, and impacts of the Black Student Union in the state of Washington during the tumultuous late 1960s.Washington State Rising documents the origins, actions, and impact of the Black Student Union (BSU) in Washington from 1967 to 1970. The BSU was a politicized student organization that had chapters across the West Coast and played a prominent role in the student wing of the Black Power Movement. Through accounts of Black student struggles at two different college campuses in Washington, one urban and one rural, Marc Arsell Robinson details how the BSU led highly consequential protest campaigns at both institutions and beyond, which led to reforms such as the establishment of Black Studies programs, increased hiring of Black faculty and staff, and new initiatives to recruit and retain students of color.Washington State Rising is the first book to document 1960s Black student activism in the Pacific Northwest and includes eTrade ReviewIlluminates and broadens our understanding of the important role that Black students played in the Black Power Movement in the racially homogeneous regions of the Pacific Northwest. The book’s expertly curated sources document the experiences of black students at the University of Washington and Washington State University, and it illustrates the ways in which they organized through the Black Student Union and Black Studies Movement to agitate for progressive curricular and social change. -- Dwayne Mack, author of Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland NorthwestContributes new dimensions to the history of African Americans in the Pacific Northwest while broadening understanding of how the Black Power movement unfolded across the nation. Showing the innovative tactics and pivotal accomplishments of the BSU on Seattle’s University of Washington campus, the book also explores the struggles of Black students at Washington State University, a nearly all-White campus located far from any Black community. Both case studies enrich the literature on Black student activism. -- James Gregory, University of WashingtonRich, interesting, and original. Makes a strong contribution to the broad history of the Black Power and the Black Student Movements. -- Brian Purnell, Bowdoin CollegeFeatures fascinating oral histories with former BSU members to illuminate the understudied experiences of the Black Power movement on campuses in the Pacific Northwest. Robinson is an impressive writer and storyteller. -- Matthew Delmont, author of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and AbroadUncovers new facets of the Black Power movement and its local manifestation in Washington state in an accessible and engaging way. -- Akinyele Omowale Umoja, author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom MovementSet within the context of the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement, and the women’s movement, Washington State Rising reiterates an important historical phenomenon. Local activism has ramifications well beyond local borders. On this point, Robinson brings his story full circle to Black Lives Matter. * BookTrib *Robinson explores late 1960s Black student activism in his urban hometown of Seattle and rural college town of Pullman in this well-researched look at the origins and influence of the Black Student Union in Washington state. His scholarly monograph broadens understanding of Jim Crow North... [and] engaging interviews with former BSU members enhance the narrative. * Washington State Magazine *
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New York University Press Black Age
Book SynopsisHONORABLE MENTION, HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES, GIVEN BY THE POP CULTURE ASSOCIATIONA view of transatlantic slavery's afterlife and modern Blackness through the lens of ageAlthough more than fifty years apart, the murders of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin share a commonality: Black children are not seen as children. Time and time again, excuses for police brutality and aggressionparticularly against Black children concern the victim appearing as a threat. But why and how is the perceived appearance of Black persons so completely separated from common perceptions of age and time? Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life posits age, life stages, and lifespans as a central lens through which to view Blackness, particularly with regard to the history of transatlantic slavery. Focusing on Black literary culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Habiba Ibrahim examines how thTrade Review"This truly revelatory book uncovers the flesh of black age. Through a focus on black untimeliness, Habiba Ibrahim reveals a counter-history of modernity. Ibrahim adds vital new dimensions to the study of blackness as an alternative relation to time. This tremendous book reveals that black life is a state of being alienated from the time of one’s own body and a radical refusal of patriarchal adulthood." * Margo Natalie Crawford, author of Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics *"Habiba Ibrahim’s Black Age opens up powerful new vocabularies and paradigms for thinking about Black cultural expression—and indeed Black life. Through beautifully argued analyses of literary texts, Ibrahim produces startling and profound insights into age, temporality, modernity, race, subjectivity, and the very category of the human." * Gayle Wald, author of It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television *"Ibrahim’s dialectic of exclusion and reclamation advances an alternative way to discern the relationship between the past and the present... Black Age points us to new ways of thinking and interpreting what time it is." -- ALH Online Review * American Literary History Online Review *
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New York University Press Japanese American Ethnicity
Book SynopsisTraces the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese AmericansAs one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally Japanese foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct. Different generations of Japanese Americans have responded to such pressures in ways that range from demands that their racial citizenship as bona fide Americans be recognized to a desire to maintain or recover their ethnic heritage and reconnect with their ancestral homeland. In Japanese American Ethnicity, Takeyuki Tsuda explores the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans from the second to the fourth generations and the extent to which they remain connected to their ancestral cultural heritage. He also places Japanese Americans inTrade Review"In drawing and reflecting upon the voices and experiences of different generational cohorts, Tsuda not only fills a void in Japanese American studies but expands our very understanding of the concept of 'ethnic heritage.' Adeptly parsing processes of assimilation, transnationalism, racialization, and multicultural discourse, Tsuda engages the factors that shape the retention and refashioning of ancestral culture." -- Michael Omi,University of California, Berkeley"Using the keyword `generation, Tsuda deftly explores notions of transnational ethnicity among contemporary Japanese Americans, moving beyond internment to provide an insightful analysis of how modern Japanese Americans have created new identities and communities in the American cultural landscape." -- K. Scott Wong,author of Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War"[The books] main strength is its comparison in ethnic heritage of four different generations of Japanese Americans. None of the previous books on this subject has compared three or more generations in the formation of ethnicity among members of one or more ethnic groups." * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press Fight the Power
Book SynopsisA story of resistance, power and politics as revealed through New York City's complex history of police brutalityThe 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri was the catalyst for a national conversation about race, policing, and injustice. The subsequent killings of other black (often unarmed) citizens led to a surge of media coverage which in turn led to protests and clashes between the police and local residents that were reminiscent of the unrest of the 1960s. Fight the Power examines the explosive history of police brutality in New York City and the black community's long struggle to resist it. Taylor brings this story to life by exploring the institutions and the people that waged campaigns to end the mistreatment of people of color at the hands of the police, including the black church, the black press, black communists and civil rights activists. Ranging from the 1940s to the mayoralty of Bill de Blasio, Taylor describes the significant strides made in curbing policTrade Review"Taylor provides an essential history of the now, showing how current struggles for racial justice have emerged out of a long history of police abuse, protest, and inadequate reforms." -- Alex Vitale,author of The End of Policing"The time is ripe for this kind of book; and this history delivers the most informed and reasonable voice to an unprecedented and eager public readership. I can hardly wait to teach this book in my lectures and seminars in African American, urban and ethnic history and public policy. The American reading public has been presented with a precious gift by Professor Clarence Taylor: Bravo!" -- Komozi Woodard,author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics"This timely and urgent account of the long reign of police terror inflicted on Black New Yorkers also tells a heroic and largely unheralded story of resistance. In fighting for justice, Black New Yorkers have sought a fundamental redefinition of policing. Clarence Taylor's book is needed now more than ever." -- Martha Biondi,author of To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City"This well-researched, well-told book provides thoughtful context for the current American reckoning with police brutality." * Publishers Weekly *"Clarence Taylor offers a judicious history of black New Yorkers’ efforts to confront police brutality since the 1940s." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Fight the Power offers a clear sense of the intractable nature of anti-Black police violence and harassment in New York over the span of generations and of some of the ways that Black folks pushed reform of that system." * The Journal of African American History *
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New York University Press The Soul of Judaism
Book SynopsisA glimpse into the diverse stories of Black Jews in the United States What makes a Jew? This book traces the history of Jews of African descent in America and the counter-narratives they have put forward as they stake their claims to Jewishness. The Soul of Judaism offers the first exploration of the full diversity of Black Jews, including bi-racial Jews of both matrilineal and patrilineal descent; adoptees; black converts to Judaism; and Black Hebrews and Israelites, who trace their Jewish roots to Africa and challenge the dominant western paradigm of Jews as white and of European descent. Blending historical analysis and oral history, Haynes showcases the lives of Black Jews within the Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstruction and Reform movements, as well as the religious approaches that push the boundaries of the common forms of Judaism we know today. He illuminates how in the quest to claim whiteness, American Jews of European descent gained the freedom to express their identity flTrade ReviewHaynes...surveys an underreported aspect of contemporary American Judaism in an accessible book. [The author] provides detailed information about the origins, history, culture, and differences of discrete categories of black Jews. [A]good introduction to the subject. * Publishers Weekly *In his new beautiful book,The Soul of Judaism,Bruce Haynes brings together his expertise in sociology, Jewish studies, and African-American studies to explore the history and situation of Jews of African descent in the United States. In doing so, he also adds to the large literature on the racialization of European-heritage Jews in the West. * Reading Religion *Haynes presents a balanced, nonjudgmental synopsis of diverse blocs of Jews of African descent whose self-imposed nomenclature reveals whether traditional Halakah affects what is and what is not permissive religious behavior in the everyday practice of traditional Judaism … cholarly but reader friendly, the book confronts the dynamics of separation, integration, and acculturation of Jews of African and Caribbean heritage into the political, religious, and social history of American Jewry, primarily Ashkenazi and Sephardi. In sum, the author adroitly portrays the present and future colorization of American Jews. -- CHOICEThis eye-opening look at the different ways Jews of African descent view themselves not only challenges readers’ thoughts about how Jews identify as white in the New World, it also offers the intriguing perspective of Black Jews who feel they are the true descendants of the biblical chosen people… “The Soul of Judaism” is highly recommended for anyone who thinks seriously about Judaism and Jewish identity in the contemporary world. -- The ReporterThe caliber of thought and conceptualization that has gone into this book is staggering. Haynes hasnt just located a color line thats segregated Jewish communities from one another and limited Jewish Studies scholarship, hes crashed clear through it. His careful language regarding the trickiest matters of race, ethnicity, and religious identity will be tools we all utilize in the next several waves of scholarship as Jewish Studies grapples with its color issue, as it now must. After hearing the voices represented in this book there is no going back. Welcome to 21st century Judaism. -- Michael Alexander,Maimonides Chair in Jewish Studies, University of California, RiversideThis book is a revelation. By exploring blackness in Judaism, Bruce Haynes opens up important questions about racism, antisemitism, and the immense variety of Jewish experience, both religious and racial. Jews in the US and in the diaspora have to recognize that Judaism is not white. We have to embrace the African (and Asian, and Latin@) dimensions of Jewish identity and history. Jews who see themselves as black will find The Soul of Judaism both enlightening and welcoming. Jews who consider themselves white will find their souls are more black than they realized. As rising antisemitism and negrophobia join forces once again around the world, it is immensely valuable to learn how deeply blackness and Judaism are conjoined, as they have been for millennia. -- Howard Winant,Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa BarbaraIn a highly readable and intellectually engaging book, Haynes examines, among other contentions, how the ‘whitening’ of Jewish identity continues to limit the claims of black Jews and black Hebrews, the formalized and strengthened factors that influence black Americans who convert to Judaism, and the approaches blacks and Jews use to navigate diverging interests of two stigmatized group identities. * Journal of American History *The Soul of Judaism tells us as much about the ‘soul of America’ as it does about the interesting investments made over time by those seeking to deconstruct and bypass the hard-and-fast borders that often make it impossible for many of us to think of black identity and Jewish identity at one and the same time. * American Journal of Sociology *The Soul of Judaism is the most comprehensive study of its kind to date… [it] should stand on the shelves of everyone who is interested in the shifting dynamics of religion, ethnicity and race in America. * Nova Religio *
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New York University Press Whose Harlem Is This Anyway
Book Synopsis2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner of the Anna Julia Cooper/CLR James Award for Outstanding Book in Africana Studies presented by the National Council for Black Studies Demonstrates how Harlemite's dynamic fight for their rights and neighborhood raised the black community's racial consciousness and established Harlem's legendary political culture In Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?, Shannon King vividly uncovers early twentieth century Harlem as an intersection between the black intellectuals and artists who created the New Negro Renaissance and the working class who found fought daily to combat institutionalized racism and gender discrimination in both Harlem and across the city. New Negro activists, such as Hubert Harrison and Frank Crosswaith, challenged local forms of economic and racial inequality in attempts to breakdown the structural manifestations that upheld them. Insurgent stay-at-home black mothers took negligent landlords to court, complaining to magistrates aboutTrade ReviewMoving past grim depictions of Harlem as a ghetto or romantic views of Harlem as the Black Mecca, Shannon King captures the neighborhood's history from below. Harlem, he shows us, was a community born from struggles for justice. King has written a rich and telling account of how Harlem's activists fought for good jobs, challenged exploitative landlords, and resisted police and reformers who targeted 'vice.' Attentive to institutions and politics, to movement building and structural racism, to interracial conflict and intraracial divisions, this is a dynamic history of a community in formation. -- Thomas J. Sugrue,author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the NorthThis is a fabulous study of Harlem, peeling back the layers of a place we thought we knew so well; no longer assuming but demonstrating precisely how the 'Negro Mecca' took shape within the crucible of angst and ambition. . . . A wonderful piece of urban and political history. -- Davarian L. Baldwin,Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity CollegeWhose Harlem is this, Anyway? Community and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Erais a synthetic masterpiece, drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary literature to produce a grassroots picture of black Harlems genesis from 1900 to 1930. * American Historical Review *Historians will find it a perspective orchestration of individuals and movements, and students will find inspiration to grapple with the persistence of structural racism and to assert and expand individual and community rights. * Journal of American History *Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era is a synthetic masterpiece, drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary literature to produce a grassroots picture of black Harlems genesis from 1900 to 1930. -- David Huyssen * American Historical Review *A fine-grained account of community politics, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? is a welcome alternative to accounts of the New Negro era that focus only on the arts and prominent leaders. . . . Through meticulous research and vivid storytelling, King argues that the activism associated with later eras had roots in battles for Harlem tenants rights, workers rights, and consumers rights, and for freedom from overzealous reformers and policing based on white stereotypes rather than concern for the communitys safety. -- James Davis * The Journal of American History *Highly attuned to the intraracial politics of class and gender that contested the meanings of community rights, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? . . . This excellent, highly original work adds a new dimension to the study of black neighbourhood politics in the early decades of the twentieth century through its exploration of community rights thought and activism. -- Daniel Matlin * Journal of American Studies *Through this book, labor educators can explore the historical roots of present-day issues such as the racial wealth gap and the Black Lives Matter movement, and can examine how grassroots activism around community issues confronted racism. -- Will Cooley * Labor Studies Journal *Historian King demonstrates in his excellent study that during the New Negro era, especially between WWI and the beginning of the Great Depression, blacks in Harlem vigorously fought for their community rights against tremendous odds of white discrimination.A must read for those interested in urban civil rights and race in the 20th-century US. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era is a synthetic masterpiece, drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary literature to produce a grassroots picture of black Harlems genesis from 1900 to 1930. * American Historical Review *This book deserves much praise for these scholarly contributions, as well as the questions it raises regarding Harlems positionality to other urban black communities. * H-Net *Historians will find it a perceptive orchestration of individuals and movements, and students will find inspiration to grapple with the persistence of structural racism and to assert and expand individual and community rights. * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 The Making of the Negro Mecca: Harlem and the Struggle for Community Rights 13 2 "Not to Save the Union but to 'Free the Slaves'": Black Labor Activism and Community Politics during the New Negro Era 53 3 "Colored People Have Few Places to Which They Can Move": Tenants, Landlords, and Community Mobilization 93 4 "Maintaining 'a High Class of Respectability' in Negro Neighborhoods": Contestation and Congregation in Harlem's Geography of Vice and Leisure during the Prohibition Era 121 5 "Demand the Dismissal of Policemen Who Abuse the Privileges of Their Uniform": Racial Violence, Police Brutality, and Self-Protection 153 Conclusion 187 Notes 191 Select Bibliography 231 Index 247 About the Author 255
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New York University Press The Racial Railroad
Book SynopsisReveals the legacy of the train as a critical site of race in the United StatesDespite the seeming supremacy of car culture in the United States, the train has long been and continues to be a potent symbol of American exceptionalism, ingenuity, and vastness. For almost two centuries, the train has served as the literal and symbolic vehicle for American national identity, manifest destiny, and imperial ambitions. It's no surprise, then, that the train continues to endure in depictions across literature, film, ad music. The Racial Railroad highlights the surprisingly central role that the railroad has playedand continues to playin the formation and perception of racial identity and difference in the United States. Julia H. Lee argues that the train is frequently used as the setting for stories of race because it operates across multiple registers and scales of experience and meaning, both as an invocation of and a depository for all manner of social, historicTrade Review"Julia Lee’s brilliant scholarly intervention is in rendering the railroad as THE technology for understanding American exceptionalism, racial exclusion, and racist state harm, as well as, contradictorily, the symbol of liberation and legitimation for so many non-white Americans who have struggled to lay claim to the U.S. The depth and breadth of Lee’s archive, from canonical American novels to contemporary films and music videos further reinforces the ubiquity of trains and the railroad in the racial hierarchies of the last two centuries and is a testament to Lee’s capacious intellect and scholarly rigor." * Jennifer Ho, author of Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture *"A fascinating interdisciplinary book offering a sustained consideration of the railroad’s cultural iconicity from the suppressed perspective of racialized authors. Lee’s distinctive expertise in literary analysis and comparative race studies covers a broad and diverse archive that conveys the railroad’s racial implications and contestations across visual, acoustic, and literary forms." * Hsuan Hsu, author of The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics *"Lee examines affinities between narratives and images of American exceptionalism and railroads, both of which narrowly orient perspective through the perception of movement. … Lee examines visual narratives of trains in railroad advertisements, in film history, and in reenactments. She examines narratives of Chinese degeneracy and Chinese American memory, of the survival and critique of Jim Crow, and of border crossings and the exploitation of migrant labor, all taking place on trains … offers valuable insights on how racism and exclusionary borders take shape through physical infrastructure." -- Manu Karuka * Public Books *
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New York University Press Beyond Hashtags
Book SynopsisHow black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarityUnrest gripped Ferguson, Missouri, after Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. Many black Americans turned to their digital and social media networks to circulate information, cultivate solidarity, and organize during that tumultuous moment. While Ferguson and the subsequent protests made black digital networks visible to mainstream media, these networks did not coalesce overnight. They were built and maintained over years through common, everyday use.Beyond Hashtags explores these everyday practices and their relationship to larger social issues through an in-depth analysis of a trans-platform network of black American digital and social media users and content creators. In the crucial years leading up to the emergence of the Movement for Black Lives, black Americans used digital networks not only to cope with day-to-daTrade ReviewA masterwork of ethical, nuanced research on race and new media. Skillfully assembling analyses of multiple online media platforms, users, and practices, Florini examines how the 'interstitial hustle' of Black podcasters engaging audience across Facebook, Twitter, Patreon, and merchandising sites enables safety, political activism, and innovative content. -- André Brock, Jr., Georgia TechRanging across a host of new media, Beyond Hashtags places blackness at center of our understanding of digital distribution. In expanding what we think about politics, journalism, and society, Florini honors the expansive network of people working across media platforms to produce discourses around black identity and culture. -- Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern UniversityWell suited for myriad human communication contexts… This is an engaging and accessible look into an often ignored yet painfully important element of the networked century. * Choice *
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New York University Press Latina Teachers
Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 Outstanding Contribution to Scholarship Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association''s Section on Race, Class, and GenderHonorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association''s Latina/o Sociology SectionHow Latina teachers are making careers and helping students stay in touch with their roots.Latina women make up the fastest growing non-white group entering the teaching profession at a time when it is estimated that 20% of all students nationwide now identify as Latina/o. Through ethnographic and participant observation in two underperforming majority-minority schools in Los Angeles, as well as interviews with teachers, parents and staff, Latina Teachers examines the complexities stemming from a growing workforce of Latina teachers. The teachers profiled use Latino cultural resources and serve as agents of ethnic mobility. They activTrade ReviewGlenda Flores has crafted a milestone study on Latinas in the classroom. Interrogating familiar cultural practices as assets not deficits and Latino parents as allies not obstacles, Professor Flores brings out the 'difference' Latina teachers make in racially diverse schools. Moving well beyond a dialectic of European American teacher and Latino student, she deals with the everyday challenges of diversity with white, Latino, African American, and Asian students, parents, educators, and administrators and the types of coalitions and tensions that evolve along interracial lines. Timely, astute, and heartfelt, Latina Teachers is essential reading. -- Vicki L. Ruiz,author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century AmericaVividly detailed, offering stimulating ethnography and insightful analysis of the quiet but important transformations today underway in the classrooms of Latina teachers. Glenda Flores does not shy away from acknowledging the multiple challenges facing Latino children in U.S. schools, but her focus on Chicana/Latina teachers shines light on the unique contributions and doors that these teachers are opening for Latino children. This book makes significant contributions to the sociology of work, race/ethnicity and occupations, and it is a must read for anyone interested in understanding an asset perspective of Latino education. -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo,author of Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens
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New York University Press Building a Better Chicago
Book SynopsisHow local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interestsDespite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago's most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools, and gang activity. In Building a Better Chicago, Teresa Irene Gonzales shows us how, and why, these promises have gone unfulfilled, revealing tensions between neighborhood residents and the institutions that claim to represent them. Focusing on Little Village, the largest Mexican immigrant community in the Midwest, and Greater Englewood, a predominantly Black neighborhood, Gonzales gives us an on-the-ground look at Chicago's inner city. She shows us how philanthropists, nonprofits, and government agencies struggle for power and controloften against the interests of residents themselveswith the result of further marginalizing the communities of color they seek to help. But Gonzales also shows how these communitTrade ReviewBuilding a Better Chicago is not just about Chicago. Teresa Irene Gonzales speaks to urban community development writ large, uncovering how a core foundational piece of these conversations—trust—marginalizes dissent, invalidates local sentiment, and devalues reasonable concerns over process. Grounded in contemporary policy debates, Building a Better Chicago shows that mistrust is a powerful tool. It might be hard for urban elites to read, but through careful examples and analysis Gonzales shows us how collective skepticism holds value for community organizers—from vouchsafing planning processes to bridging social capital across other neighborhood communities. As a result, this book is a must-read for growth-minded policymakers, scholars of cities, and grassroots urban activists. -- Jonathan Wynn, author of Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and NewportTeresa Gonzales animates a powerful account of how state-actors direct the benefits of urban redevelopment towards White, urban elites and away from communities of color. In that respect, Chicago is like many cities across the United States. However, she shows how 'collective skepticism' allows for productive resistance as Black and Mexican-American residents from low-income communities stake claim to their neighborhoods and their city—forcing their voices and interests to be heard. * Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, author of Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court *...this case study allows readers to clearly envision the complexity and discord that occur when economically impoverished neighborhoods seek empowerment. * Choice *This book is a prime example of a brilliantly written ethnography that allows the reader to become immersed in the microcosm of urban redevelopment politics in Chicago while raising critical questions about how existing power inequalities can be challenged. * Mobilization *Building a Better Chicago represents a valuable addition to the literatures on neighborhood development, community organizations, and urban activism…The book represents an important source for anyone who wishes to better understand urban politics and neighborhood change in low-income and racialized communities today. * American Sociological Association *This excellent addition to the literature on urban development challenges existing assumptions and invites us all to take Gonzales’s lead and imagine what a better world might look like. * Social Forces Levine Review BaBC *Gonzales makes an important contribution to the literature on the role of institutional stakeholders in the urban redevelopment process. She offers a critique of dominant approaches to neighborhood revitalization that rely on planning strategies that are perceived as top-down by residents and grassroots groups. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Gonzales provides unique insight into how communities can advocate for themselves and demand accountability from politicians and agencies in their midst. The result is an important contribution to our understanding of redevelopment and the tensions that exist between institutional and grassroots organizations within urban revitalization. * American Journal of Sociology *
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New York University Press Global Asian American Popular Cultures
Book SynopsisA toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpointssuch as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot saucehave opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of Asian and Asian American are counterbalanced within global popular culture. Located at the crossroads of these global and national expressions, Global Asian American Popular Cultures highlights new approaches to modern culture, with essays that explore everything from music, film, and television to comics, fashion, food, and sports. As new digital technologies and cross-media convergence have expanded exchanges of transnational culture, Asian American popular culture emerges as a crucial site for understanding how communities share information and how the meanings of mainstTrade ReviewIn a world of increased transnational flows of media, information, and bodies,Global Asian American Popular Culturesis a highly welcome addition to scholarship that is increasingly considering the ways in which Asian America participates in a globalized perspective of identity and culture....With the repeated erasure of Asian American experiences both domestically and globally, the essays in this collection do crucial work in teasing out the ways in which Asian Americans negotiate their position within racialized power structures through their own creative works, mainstream media representation, engagement with their communities, their own familial experiences, and the relatively new digital landscape....This volume opens up conversations about the ways in which Asian American identities cross national borders through transnational flows of culture, thereby infusing the field of Asian American studies with a breath of fresh air. -- Cynthia Wang, California State University, Los Angeles * International Journal of Communication *A welcome and necessary book, Global Asian American Popular Cultures is nothing short of impressive. Working at the very cutting edge of contemporary Asian American cultural studies, the essays collected here are thoughtful and innovative and represent some of the most incisive voices in Asian American studies. An invaluable toolkit for a new generation of thinkers interested in how to do Asian American cultural critique. -- Anita Mannur,co-editor of Eating Asian AmericaThe delightfully diverse depictions of Asians, with pieces that coverEast Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian experiences, contain rich research that elegantly weaves descriptive narratives of subjects lived experiences. * International Journal of Communication *
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New York University Press The Immigration Law Death Penalty
Book SynopsisTraces the role of the aggravated felony in today's deportation regimeIn immigration courts across America, a non-citizen convicted of an aggravated felony will almost certainly face deportation with no access to asylum. However, despite the ominous-sounding name, aggravated felonies need not be either aggravated or felonies. The term encompasses more than thirty offenses, ranging from check fraud and shoplifting to filing a false tax return. The recent expansion in the list of such offenses has resulted in astronomical rates of deportation. This book chronicles the rise of the use of the aggravated felony, known by lawyers as the immigration law death penalty, to criminalize and then deport immigrants. Immigrants convicted of aggravated felonies are subject to mandatory detention and almost certain deportationand are ineligible for almost all forms of legal relief from removal. Furthermore, immigrants convicted of aggravated felonies can be detained for months or even years withoutTrade Review"Due to the aggravated felony provisions of US immigration law, a legal permanent resident of the United States convicted of a crime—that is neither severe nor even a felony—can be deported with no due process. Despite the severity of these provisions and the fact that tens of thousands of legal permanent residents have been deported under these provisions, few people have heard of aggravated felonies. This theoretically rich and deeply researched book brings aggravated felony provisions from the shadows to the spotlight. Sarah Tosh makes a cogent case that we need to abolish these racially biased and harmful provisions. This book is indispensable for any student or scholar of immigration or critical race theory. " * Tanya Golash-Boza, author of Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism *"In immigration law today, there is nothing more harmful to migrants than having ICE throw two words in their direction: aggravated felony. Looking well past the legal arguments, Tosh turns the aggravated felony from a technical legal concept to real-life anxiety. Through immigration court observations and interviews, Tosh shows the damning impact of adding immigration consequences to criminal legal processes, revealing the modern immigration law system’s reliance on criminal history to be rife with bias and short on justice. But through it all, Tosh also finds passionate advocates whose strategic thinking slows ICE’s efforts—and sometimes even carries the day for migrants. " * César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, author of Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants *"Through extensive interviews and direct observations, Tosh exposes the injustices at the heart of the American deportation regime and the strategies of legal resistance mobilized to resist it. " * Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing *"A powerful and illuminating in-depth examination of the history, politics, and social factors behind the ‘aggravated felony’ legal category. Tosh’s rich analysis deconstructs this invented category, laying bare how it operates as a mechanism to funnel racialized immigrants to deportation. Tosh’s original charting of lawyers’ and advocates’ creative strategies to get around the most detrimental effects of the aggravated felony also seeds hope for pushing back against inherently discriminatory and unjust criminal and immigration laws. Invaluable. " * Nancy Hiemstra, author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime *
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New York University Press The Immigration Law Death Penalty
Book SynopsisTraces the role of the aggravated felony in today's deportation regimeIn immigration courts across America, a non-citizen convicted of an aggravated felony will almost certainly face deportation with no access to asylum. However, despite the ominous-sounding name, aggravated felonies need not be either aggravated or felonies. The term encompasses more than thirty offenses, ranging from check fraud and shoplifting to filing a false tax return. The recent expansion in the list of such offenses has resulted in astronomical rates of deportation. This book chronicles the rise of the use of the aggravated felony, known by lawyers as the immigration law death penalty, to criminalize and then deport immigrants. Immigrants convicted of aggravated felonies are subject to mandatory detention and almost certain deportationand are ineligible for almost all forms of legal relief from removal. Furthermore, immigrants convicted of aggravated felonies can be detained for months or even years withoutTrade Review"Due to the aggravated felony provisions of US immigration law, a legal permanent resident of the United States convicted of a crime—that is neither severe nor even a felony—can be deported with no due process. Despite the severity of these provisions and the fact that tens of thousands of legal permanent residents have been deported under these provisions, few people have heard of aggravated felonies. This theoretically rich and deeply researched book brings aggravated felony provisions from the shadows to the spotlight. Sarah Tosh makes a cogent case that we need to abolish these racially biased and harmful provisions. This book is indispensable for any student or scholar of immigration or critical race theory. " * Tanya Golash-Boza, author of Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor, and Global Capitalism *"In immigration law today, there is nothing more harmful to migrants than having ICE throw two words in their direction: aggravated felony. Looking well past the legal arguments, Tosh turns the aggravated felony from a technical legal concept to real-life anxiety. Through immigration court observations and interviews, Tosh shows the damning impact of adding immigration consequences to criminal legal processes, revealing the modern immigration law system’s reliance on criminal history to be rife with bias and short on justice. But through it all, Tosh also finds passionate advocates whose strategic thinking slows ICE’s efforts—and sometimes even carries the day for migrants. " * César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, author of Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants *"Through extensive interviews and direct observations, Tosh exposes the injustices at the heart of the American deportation regime and the strategies of legal resistance mobilized to resist it. " * Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing *"A powerful and illuminating in-depth examination of the history, politics, and social factors behind the ‘aggravated felony’ legal category. Tosh’s rich analysis deconstructs this invented category, laying bare how it operates as a mechanism to funnel racialized immigrants to deportation. Tosh’s original charting of lawyers’ and advocates’ creative strategies to get around the most detrimental effects of the aggravated felony also seeds hope for pushing back against inherently discriminatory and unjust criminal and immigration laws. Invaluable. " * Nancy Hiemstra, author of Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime *
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New York University Press In the Shadow of Ebenezer
Book SynopsisUncovers how the Civil Rights Movement and Vatican II affected African American Catholics in Atlanta The history and practices of African American Catholics has been vastly understudied, and Black Catholics are often written off as a fringe sector of the religious population. Yet, Catholics of African descent have been a part of Catholicism since the early days of European exploration into the New World. In the Shadow of Ebenezer examines how the Civil Rights Movement and the Second Vatican Council affected African American Catholics in Atlanta, Georgia, focusing on the historic Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in the Old Fourth Ward. Our Lady of Lourdes is a neighbor of major historic Black Protestant churches in the city, including Ebenezer Baptist Church, a block away, which during the Civil Rights era was the pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. Featuring archival and oral history sources, the book examines the religious and cultural life of the parishioners of Our Lady of LourdesTrade ReviewWell-crafted studies of Black Catholic institutions are rare enough. To have such a study of a Black Catholic parish in Atlanta during the civil rights movement is an occasion for celebration. -- John McGreevy, Charles and Jill Fischer Provost and Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, Notre Dame UniversityUrgent and exciting. Mickens beautifully fills a huge gap in our knowledge of Black Catholicism. -- Diana Hayes, Professor Emerita, Georgetown University
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