Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
LUP - University of Michigan Press Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in
Book SynopsisFeatures interdisciplinary research about aggregate wealth levels, portfolio compositions, and asset-ownership patterns. This collection discusses several conceptual issues, including gender and class; the political, historical, and socio-economic contexts and consequences of wealth inequalities; intra-group inequality; and more.Trade ReviewThis book does an outstanding job of introducing readers to a host of interesting questions related to racial and ethnic minority status and wealth composition and accumulation. The chapters on wealth accumulation among Native Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans offer one of the few places where this information is readily available. The recent disaster in New Orleans has shown the nation that there is a strong interaction between wealth, race, and social outcomes. This book fills a void in understanding not only the black-white wealth inequality that was apparent after Hurricane Katrina, but it also provides great insight into the wealth status of other racial and ethnic minorities. - Patrick L. Mason, Department of Economics, Florida State University
£40.59
The University of Michigan Press Race Republicans and the Return of the Party of
Book SynopsisPolitical parties have long sought to expand their electoral coalitions by making marginal changes to the way they project themselves to the public. This title offers an analysis of how political parties use racial images to make cosmetic changes to their parties' images, even when the parties do not alter their platforms.
£21.80
LUP - University of Michigan Press Commerce in Color
Book SynopsisExamines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events of the period. This book proves that - in America - advertising, publicity, and the development of the modern economy cannot be understood apart from the question of race.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to existing scholarship, Davis's study of the intersection of racial thinking and the emergence of consumer culture makes connections very few scholars have considered. - James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts
£23.70
LUP - University of Michigan Press Butch Queens Up in Pumps
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£65.50
The University of Michigan Press Living Ideology in Cuba
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£69.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Haunted City
Book SynopsisExplores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century to the present day. The book focuses on select historical moments, such as the advent of the minstrel show and the ban on blackface makeup in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, when local performances of racial impersonation inflected regional, national, transnational, and global formations of race.Trade ReviewA persuasive blend of theory and archival research, combined with the author’s own ethnographic investigations . . . Haunted City illuminates the history of the community's engagement with racial performance in a way that no other works have done on this same comprehensive scale."" - Heather Nathans, Tufts University""DuComb draws not only on scholarly and primary materials, but also on his own experiences as a member of a Mummers club . . . Haunted City is a fresh and well-executed look at the American tradition of racial impersonation, grounded in thorough, original discovery research."" - Susan G. Davis, University of Illinois
£64.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Playing in the Shadows
Book SynopsisThe Allied Occupation of Japan brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black characters into postwar Japanese literature. This book considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature.
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Democracy Moving
Book SynopsisAdvancing the theory of oscillation as Black aesthetic praxis, Ariel Nereson celebrates Bill T. Jones as a public intellectual whose practice has contributed to the project of understanding America’s relationship to its troubled past. The book features materials from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company’s archive, interviews with artists, and photos.Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: Commission Chapter Two: Text Chapter Three: Character Chapter Four: Place Chapter Five: Body Chapter Six: Circulation Coda Works Cited
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press MadeUp Asians Yellowface During the Exclusion
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£65.50
The University of Michigan Press Racing the Great White Way
Book SynopsisChallenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the white-hot creative engine of US theatre during the early 20th century, Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theatre scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of American and transnational theatre.Trade Review“Racing the Great White Way is a fascinating and much-needed reconsideration of Eugene O’Neill’s vexing racial politics, as they play out in several productions and adaptations of his plays. Johnson's research is diligent, and the resulting analysis provides new insight into several notable performances and adaptations of signature O’Neill dramas. This book offers a rich examination on O'Neill's complicated imprint on early 20th Century cultural history.” —Jonathan Shandell, Arcadia University“For O’Neill studies, this book could be a game-changer… important and pathbreaking in the historical discourse on racial representation beyond the theatrical. The study also opens the possibility of thinking through the agency of actors in other respects in O’Neill’s plays.” —William Davies King, University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Emperor’s Remains Chapter 2: An Algerian in Paris Chapter 3: Broadway’s First Interracial Kiss Chapter 4: Racing Operatic Emperors Chapter 5: Racing the Cut: Black to Ireland Conclusion: What Remains? Bibliography Index
£65.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press The State You See
Book SynopsisUncovers a racial gap in the way the American government appears in people’s lives. The book makes it clear that public policy changes over the last fifty years have driven all Americans to distrust the government that they see in their lives, even though Americans of different races are not seeing the same kind of government.Trade Review“The State You See offers a welcome and timely addition to the growing literature on public policy and political inequality. Rosenthal’s consideration of the racialized feedback effects of multiple policy experiences fills a critical lacuna in our collective understanding of the politics of public policy.”—Mallory E. SoRelle, Duke University“In The State You See (TSYS) Rosenthal argues that policy in the post-civil rights era has developed such that it is unequally visible to White and Black Americans, and this inequality in turn leads to different responses to declining trust in public institutions. Rosenthal’s book takes up the important task of integrating well known but disparate findings around criminal justice system, public welfare provision, and racial and ethnic politics into a unified theory of racialized policy feedbacks. The State You See represents a major step forward in the study of political learning, and the capacity for the state to shape citizens’ attitudes and behaviors.”—Hannah Walker, University of Texas at AustinTable of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction: The Submerged State and the Carceral State Chapter 2. Taxes and Welfare: The Tip of the Iceberg in White America Chapter 3. Police as the Face of Government: State Visibility Among People of Color Chapter 4. Visible in All the Wrong Places: Dual Visibility and American Political Distrust Chapter 5. Invisibility and Membership: How Government Visibility Creates Racially Patterned Political Inequality Chapter 6. Black Lives Matter: Disrupting the Duality Chapter 7. The Politics of Visibility and Prospects for Change Appendix A: Interview Protocol and Post-Interview Survey Appendix B: Ethnographic Research Details Appendix C: Interview Information Appendix D: Dataset Information and Question Wording Notes References Index
£64.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press Coping With Poverty
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£35.10
The University of Michigan Press Our Sisters Promised Land
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£23.70
The University of Michigan Press The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of
Book SynopsisExamines the literary culture, including the small presses and literary anthologies, in which Black Arts Movement poets were first published. Focusing on the material production of Black Arts poetry, the book combines genetic criticism with cultural history to shed new light on the period, its publishing culture, and the collaborations of its participants.
£44.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press AntiHeimat Cinema The Jewish Invention of the
Book SynopsisStudies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers' contemplations of “Heimat” - a provincial German landscape associated with belonging and authenticity – this book analyses their distinctive contribution to the German identity discourse between 1918 and 1968.
£65.55
University of California Press Justice in South Africa
Book SynopsisAn informative account of what happens to a society when it officially insists on a legal order that systematically denies the overwhelming majority of its population the minimum requirements of justice.
£22.50
University of California Press Latin Journey
Book SynopsisDetails a study of Mexican and Cuban immigrants.
£27.00
University of California Press The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Book SynopsisReveals the history of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA: the aftermath of the tumultuous 1922 convention. This title demonstrates how important Marcus Garvey and the mass movement he controlled were to Afro-American history.
£67.20
University of California Press The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Book SynopsisSpans the great divide in the affairs of the American Garvey movement that resulted from the imprisonment of its leader - Marcus Garvey - in 1925. This work tells the story of Garvey's failed efforts to win the appeal against his conviction for mail fraud, his incarceration, and the massive grass-roots petition movement mobilized in his defense.
£67.20
University of California Press The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Book SynopsisCharts the magnetic, controversial Pan-African leader's career from his deportation from the United States in November 1927 to his death in England in 1940. The volume begins with Marcus Garvey's triumphant welcome in Jamaica, his tour abroad, and his entry into Jamaican party politics.
£67.20
University of California Press Romance and the Yellow Peril
Book SynopsisFocusing upon Hollywood's portrayal of Asian races, this study describes how social taboos concerning Orientals helped to perpetuate social and racial inequality in the USA. The author's discussion covers early silent films, later classics such as Shanghai Express and the recurring geisha movies.Table of Contents Illustrations Preface 1 Introduction 2 The Rape Fantasy: The Cheat and Broken Blossoms 3 The Threat of Captivity: The Bitter Tea of General Yen and Shanghai Express 4 Passport Seductions: Lady of the Tropics 5 The Scream of the Butterfly: Madame Butterfly, China Gate, and "The Lady from Yesterday" 6 White Knights in Hong Kong: Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and The World of Suzie Wong 7 Tragic and Transcendent Love: Sayonara and The Crimson Kimono 8 Japanese War Brides: Domesticity and Assimilation In Japanese War Bride and Bridge to the Sun 9 The Return of the Butterfly: The Geisha Masquerade In My Geisha and "An American Geisha" 10 Conclusion: The Postmodern Spectacle of Race and Romance In Year of the Dragon Notes Bibliography Index
£24.30
University of California Press Hiroshima Traces
Book SynopsisExplores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memories - including history textbook controversies, discourses on the city's tourism and urban renewal projects, campaigns to preserve atomic ruins, survivors' testimonial practices, ethnic Koreans' narratives on Japanese colonialism.Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction Phantasmatic Innocence Tropes of the Nation, Peace, and Humanity On the Politics of Historical Memory PART ONE: CARTOGRAPHIES OF MEMORY I. Taming the Memoryscape Remapping History Festivity 2. Memories in Ruins Postnuclear Hyperreal Contemplative Time PART TWO: STORYTELLERS 3· On Testimonial Practices Speaking the Unspeakable Naming the Testimonial Subjects Survivors, Hibakusha, Shogensha: Multiple Subjectivities 4· Mnemonic Detours Narrative Margins and Critical Knowledge Fabulous Memories: The Temporality of the "Never Again" Narratives of and for the Dead PART THREE: MEMORY AND POSITIONALITY 5· Ethnic and Colonial Memories: The Korean Atom Bomb Memorial Contentious Memorial Monument to Homeland Excess of Memory The Absent Majority Memory Matters: "Minzoku" 6. Postwar Peace and the Feminization of Memory Peace, Nation, and the Maternal Feminine Dissidents On Rewriting "Women's" Histories Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£26.10
University of California Press Female Subjects in Black and White
Book SynopsisA collaboration between African American and white feminists that deals with the problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. It questions such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the universal nature of psychoanalytic categories, and the role of race in the formation of identity.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Elizabeth Abel Katherine Clay Bassard Judith Butler Barbara Christian Ann duCille Mae G. Henderson Margaret Homans Akasha (Gloria) Hull Barbara Johnson Tania Modleski Helene Moglen Cynthia D. Schrager Carolyn Martin Shaw Hortense J. Spillers Jean Walton Laura Wexler
£27.90
University of California Press Feminism on the Border
Book SynopsisFeaturing contemporary feminist theory, this book argues for a feminism that transcends national borders and ethnic identities. It analysis the novels and short stories of three Chicana writers - Gloria Anzaldua, Sandra Cisneros, and Helena Maria Viramontes and a range of Chicana feminist writing from several disciplines.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS I Reading Tejana, Reading Chicana 2 Chicana Feminisms: From Ethnic Identity to Global Solidarity 3 Mestiza Consciousness and Politics: Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands I La Frontera 4 Mujeres en Lucha I Mujeres de Fuerza: Women in Struggle I Women of Strength in Sandra Cisneros's Border Narratives 5 "I Hear the Women's Wails and I Know Them to Be My Own": From Mujer to Collective Identities in Helena Maria Viramontes's U.S. Third World Epilogue: "Refugees of a World on Fire": Geopolitical Feminisms NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
£24.30
University of California Press Violence and Subjectivity
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. It ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themselves and others when perpetrators, victims, and witnesses all come from the same social space.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman Violence-Prone Area or International Transition? Adding the Role of Outsiders in Balkan Violence Susan L. Woodward Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror Allen Feldman Circumcision, Body, Masculinity: The Ritual Wound and Collective Violence Deepak Mehta Teach Me How to Be a Man: An Exploration of the Definition of Masculinity Mamphela Ramphele On Not Becoming a "Terrorist": Problems of Memory, Agency, and Community in the Sri Lankan Conflict Jonathan Spencer The Ground of All Making: State Violence, the Family, and Political Activists Pamela Reynolds Violence, Suffering, Amman: The Work of Oracles in Sri Lanka's Eastern War Zone Patricia Lawrence The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity Veena Das The Violences of Everyday Life: The Multiple Forms and Dynamics of Social Violence Arthur Kleinman Body and Space in a Time of Crisis: Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in Delhi Emma Tarlo The Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of Zeal Margaret Lock Mayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of Memories Kay B. Warren Reconciliation and Memory in Postwar Nigeria Murray Last Mood, Moment, and Mind E. Valentine Daniel LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
£26.10
University of California Press Kosovo
Book SynopsisLooks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. This title demonstrates how myths and truths can start a war. It also shows how our identity as individuals and as members of groups is defined through the telling and remembering of stories.Table of ContentsPreface: Understanding Kosovo Through "Truths" 1. The 1981 Student Demonstrations 2. "Impaled with a Bottle": The Martinovic Case, 1985 3. "A Shot Against Yugoslavia: The "Paracin Massacre," 1987 4. The Poisoning of Albanian School Children, 1990 5. Step One for NGOs: The Root Cause of Conflict Postscript, 1997: A Wall of Silence Postscript, 1998: Kosovo in Conflict
£24.30
University of California Press Contagious Divides
Book SynopsisExamining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, this text looks at the history of racial formation in the US by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies.Trade Review"This striking book asks provocative questions and seamlessly weaves together narratives central to the history of race, Asian Americans, urban politics, public health, and citizenship. . . . Using an array of sources and theoretical frameworks, Contagious Divides is an extremely important, original, and engaging book. It offers us a striking new vantage point from which to view racial formation, the role of the state, and public health in marking exclusion and inclusion in the United States." * Journal of American History *"Deftly threading several potent concepts pertaining to modernity, liberal democracy, and citizenship, Shah's monograph stakes out an original, highly imaginative, and rewarding approach to apprehending both the microcosm of San Francisco's Chinatown and the history of Chinese and Chinese Americans in the United States." * H-Net *"Through his study of the interconnections between epidemics, public health, and the Chinese community, Nayan Shah provides new insights into the reasons for both this repulsion and fascination. Contagious Divides, which covers nearly a century in the history of the city’s Chinese community, allows the reader to assess the emergence of the Chinese as a medical threat as well as their gradual transformation into model citizens. . . . This informative book illuminates an important chapter in the history of American culture. . . . Shah's work reflects meticulous scholarship." * Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences *"The author draws on an impressive variety of sources, including English-language newspapers, published rumors, pictures, letters, poems, oral histories, and public health reports. Moreover, Shah adroitly engages with queer and postcolonial theories and with histories of public health in Africa and Asia." * Isis *"Contagious Divides is an important and interesting book, and (beyond the obvious audiences) will be useful to readers interested in discourses of science and public policy, and to those interested in racialized constructions of the body, the family, or the home." * Journal of American Culture *"An interesting development in writing the history of modern public health has recently emerged: it is being linked closely to the history of racial thought and administration. . . . Nayan Shah’s Contagious Divides is the first book-length study of the idea, and a fine study it is. . . . One can expect Contagious Divides to be noticed within American historiography. Within the history of public health it will be a fine example of the dovetailing of several previously disparate literatures" * Metascience *"Shah's history of race and epidemics in San Francisco offers us constructive criticism for present and future wars on disease and a cautionary tale of hope for tolerance." * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Public Health, Race, and Citizenship 1. Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown 2. Regulating Bodies and Space 3. Perversity, Contamination, and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity 4. White Women, Hygiene and the Struggle for Respectable Domesticity 5. Plague and Managing the Commercial City 6. White Labor and the American Standard of Living 7. Making Medical Borders at Angel Island 8. Healthy Spaces, Healthy Conduct 9. Reforming Chinatown Conclusion: Norms as a Way of Life Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
University of California Press Ethnic Groups in Conflict Updated Edition With a
Book SynopsisDrawing material from dozens of divided societies, this title constructs a theory of ethnic conflict, relating ethnic affiliations to kinship and intergroup relations to the fear of domination.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition PART ONE: ETHNIC RELATIONS AND ETHNIC AFFILIATIONS 1. The Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict 2. A Family Resemblance PART TWO: THE THEORY OF ETHNIC CONFLICT 3. Conflict Theory and Conflict Motives 4. Group Comparison and the Sources of Conflict 5. Group Entitlement and the Sources of Conflict 6. The Logic of Secessions and Irredentas PART THREE: PARTY POLITICS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT 7. Ethnic Parties and Party Systems 8. Competition and Change in Ethnic Party Systems 9. Multiethnic Coalition~ 10. Multiethnic Alliances and Parties PART FOUR: MILITARY POLITICS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT 11. The Militarization of Ethnic Conflict 12. Paradigms of Military Ethnicity 13. The Effects of Intervention and the Art of Prevention PART FIVE: STRATEGIES OF CONFLICT REDUCTION 14. Ethnic Policy: The Constraints and the Opportunities 15. Structural Techniques to Reduce Ethnic Conflict 16. Preferential Policies to Reduce Ethnic Conflict Afterword: Ethnic Conflict and Democracy Index Contents
£28.80
University of California Press Pearls Secret
Book SynopsisAn autobiography and family story of Neil Henry, a black professor of journalism and former award-winning correspondent for the Washington Post. It sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's past. It gives an account of his black family's rise to success over the twentieth century.Trade Review"As a former Washington Post journalist, Neil Henry knows how to grip the attention of his readers. The framework of this moving book is his quest as a black intellectual to find the descendants of his great-great-grandfather, an English immigrant to Louisiana who, like many of his time, had a relationship with a freed slave. The book hits hard as a scorching account of prejudice, endeavour and the continuing emotional cost of striving for success. The racial history may be peculiar to America but this compelling personal odyssey, with its sensitive author by turns chippy and generous, has universal lessons."-Sunday Times of London "A genealogical detective story wrapped in a complex memoir about race."-USA Today "Not since Roots has an African-American traveled as deeply into foreign territory in search of his family history as Neil Henry does in Pearl's Secret, in which Henry recounts his journey to the doorstep of his white cousins. Blending genres-history, memoir, investigation-Henry peppers his genealogical quest with detail only a veteran journalist could provide Yet he is at his best when he abandons objectivity and reveals the emotional toll of finding his white relatives."-Brill's ContentTable of ContentsCONTENTS Prelude PART ONE: Search 1. Clues in Microfilm 2. Road Maps 3. Natchez 4. Jim Crow's Shadow PART TWO: Discovery 5. The Chase 6. 'Welcome to the Family' 7. Tenth Man Classic Acknowledgments
£22.50
University of California Press The Transnational Villagers
Book SynopsisIncreasing numbers of migrants continue to participate in the political, social, and economic lives of their countries of origin even as they put down roots in the USA. This work offers an account of how ordinary people keep their feet in two worlds and create communities that span borders.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART ONE 1. The Historical Context 2. Social Remittances PART TWO 3. Reshaping the Stages of the Life Cycle 4. Making Values from Two Worlds Fit PART THREE 5. When Domestic Politics Becomes Transnational 6. "God Is Everywhere": Religious Life Across Borders 7. Transnationalizing Community Development Conclusion Appendix: Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
£24.30
University of California Press Legacies
Book SynopsisOne out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This study provides a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, family and school life, language, identity, experiences of discrimination, self-esteem, ambition, and achievement.Trade Review"If Marx, Weber, and Durkheim were alive at the dawn of the 21st century, Legacies is the first book they would have to read to understand just what is at stake in the new immigration. This elegant book - theoretically precise, empirically robust, and analytically savvy - will become the standard by which all subsequent scholarship on the sociology of immigration will be measured. I am buying an extra copy today to send to the new president of the United States." -Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Professor and Codirector, The Harvard Immigration Projects, Harvard University"Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. Twelve Stories Miami Stories MarIa de los Angeles and Yvette Santana: August 1993 Melanie Fernandez-Rey: September 1993 Aristide Maillol: August 1993 Armando and Luis Hern*ndez: July 1995 Mary Patterson: February 1995 EfrEn Montejo: May 1994 San Diego Stories Jorge, Olga, Miguel Angel, and Estela Cardozo: January 1994 Quy Nguyen: December 1987 Bennie and Jennifer Montoya: October 1995 Sophy Keng: November 1987 - June 1988 Yolanda and Carlos Munoz: March 1994 Boua Cha: 1988 - 1990 2. The New Americans: An Overview Immigration Yesterday and Today The Size and Concentration of the Second Generation Studying the New Second Generation: The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study The New Second Generation at a Glance Census Results CILS Results 3. Not Everyone Is Chosen: Segmented Assimilation and Its Determinants How Immigrants Are Received: Modes of Incorporation and Their Consequences Acculturation and Role Reversal Where They Grow Up: Challenges to Second-Generation Adaptation Race Labor Markets Countercultures Confronting the Challenge: Immigrant Social Capital Parental Status, Family Structure, and Gender The Immigrant Community Conclusion 4. Making It in America Early Adaptation and Achievement General Trends Nationality and Achievement Determinants of Parental Economic Achievement Interaction Effects Nationality and Family Composition Conclusion 5. In Their Own Eyes: Immigrant Outlooks on America Aura Lila MarIn, Cuban, 53, Single Mother (1994) Pao Yang, Laotian Hmong, 57, Father (1995) Optimism Permissiveness Ambition Community and Pride Conclusion 6. Lost in Translation: Language and the New Second Generation Bilingualism: Yesterday and Today Shadow Boxing: Myth and Reality of Language Acculturation General Trends National Differences Forced-March Acculturation What Makes a Bilingual? A Game of Mirrors: Language Instruction and Types of Acculturation 7. Defining the Situation: The Ethnic Identities of Children of Immigrants Sites of Belonging: The Complex Allegiances of Children of Immigrants Developing a Self Past Research Who Am I? Patterns of Ethnic Self-Identification Ethnic Identity Shifts Stability and Salience Ethnic Self-Identities by National Origin Where Do I Come From? Nation, Family, and Identity Correlates of Self-Identities Family Status, Composition, and Language The Influence of Parental Self-Identities Region, Schools, and Discrimination The Race Question Determinants of Ethnic and Racial Identities Conclusion: From Translation Artists to Living Paradoxes 8. The Crucible Within: Family, Schools, and the Psychology of the Second Generation San Diego Families Family Cohesion, Conflict, and Change School Environments and Peer Groups Psychological Well-Being: Self-Esteem and Depressive Affect School Engagement and Effort Educational Expectations Determinants of Psychosocial Outcomes Self-Esteem and Depression Ambition Conclusion 9. School Achievement and Failure Early Educational Achievement Preliminary Results Determinants of Early Achievement Educational Achievement in Late Adolescence Grades in Senior High School Change over Time Dropping Out of School Two Achievement Paradoxes Southeast Asians Cuban Americans Conclusion 10. Conclusion: Mainstream Ideologies and the Long-Term Prospects of Immigrant Communities Two Mainstream Ideologies A Third Way: Selective Acculturation and Bilingualism The Mexican Case Theoretical Reprise Time and Acculturation Reactive Ethnicity and Its Aftermath Appendix A. Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study: Follow-up Questionnaire Appendix B. Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study: Parental Questionnaire Appendix C. Variables Used in Multivariate Analyses: Chapters 6 to 9 Notes References Index
£26.10
University of California Press Whispers on the Color Line Rumor and Race in
Book SynopsisGiven that matters relevant to race remain confused and divisive in many corridors of American society, it is not surprising that rumors and legends that reflect racial misunderstanding and mistrust frequently circulate. This work focuses on a wide array of tales told in black and white communities across America.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Rumor in the Life of America: Riots and Race 2. How Rumor Works 3. Mercantile Rumor in Black and White 4. The Enemy in Washington 5. The Wages of Sin: Stories of Sex and Immorality 6. On the Road Again: Rumors of Crime and Confrontation 7. Cries and Whispers: Race and False Accusations 8. Coming Clean Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Birthing the Nation
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University of California Press Gender and U.S. Immigration
Book SynopsisResurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories shaping immigration patterns. This collection of essays brings together work on this subject.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. Gender and Immigration: A Retrospective and Introduction Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 2. Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States Patricia R. Pessar 3. Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy Saskia Sassen PART TWO: GENDER AND EMPLOYMENT 4. The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration From the Philippines to the United States James A. Tyner 5. Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families Yen Le Espiritu 6. The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California Cecilia Menjivar 7. Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration Steven J. Gold PART THREE: ENGENDERING RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES 8. Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States Prema Kurien 9. Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: Second-Generation Caribbean Young Adults in New York City Nancy Lopez 10. Gendered Geographies of Home: Mapping Second- and Third-Generation Puerto Ricans' Sense of Home Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea PART FOUR: GENDER, GENERATION, AND IMMIGRATION 11. De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity Across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez 12. Raising Children, and Growing Up, Across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration Barrie Thorne, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Wan Shun Eva Lam, and Anna Chee 13. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives. Yen Le Espiritu PART FIVE: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL 14. Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans Sarah J. Mahler 15. "I'm Here, but I'm There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila 16. Gender Status and the State in Transnational Spaces: The Gendering of Political Participation and Mexican Hometown Associations Luin Goldring 17. "The Blue Passport": Gender and the Social Process of Naturalization Among Dominican Immigrants in New York City Audrey Singer and Greta Gilbertson Contributors Index
£27.00
University of California Press Colored White
Book SynopsisArgues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a 'still white' nation. This book presents an account of race-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as WEB Du Bois and John Brown.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments One: Still White 1. All about Eve, Critical White Studies, and Getting Over Whiteness 2. Smear Campaign: Giuliani, the Holy Virgin Mary, and the Critical Study of Whiteness 3. White Looks and Limbaugh's Laugh 4. White Workers, New Democrats, and Affirmative Action 5. "Hertz, Don't It?" White "Colorblindness" and the Mark(et)ings of O.J. Simpson (with Leola Johnson) Two: Toward Nonwhite Histories 6. Nonwhite Radicalism: Du Bois, John Brown, and Black Resistance 7. White Slavery, Abolition, and Coalition: Languages of Race, Class, and Gender 8. The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror, and Expansion, 1790--1860 9. Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the "New-Immigrant" Working Class (with James Barrett) 10. Plotting against Eurocentrism: The 1929 Surrealist Map of the World Three: The Past/Presence of Nonwhiteness 11. What If Labor Were Not White and Male? 12. Mumia Time or Sweeney Time? 13. In Conclusion: Elvis, Wiggers, and Crossing Over to Nonwhiteness Notes Credits Index
£24.30
University of California Press The China Mystique Pearl S Buck Anna May Wong
Book SynopsisThroughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China--Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong--Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Gendering American Orientalism 2. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck 3. Anna May Wong 4. Mayling Soong 5. Transforming American National Identity--The China Mystique Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
£27.00
University of California Press The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement
Book Synopsis'Africa for the Africans' was the name given to the extraordinary movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). This title demonstrates the central role Africans played in the development of the Garvey phenomenon. It provides an account of how Africans transformed Garveyism into an African social movement.
£67.20
University of California Press Playing Americas Game Baseball Latinos and the
Book SynopsisLatinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. This study on Latinos and professional baseball since the 1880s tells a story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn - passing as 'Spanish' in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues.Trade Review"Fascinating" New York Times "If you want to understand the Latino experience in baseball, read this book." Slate Magazine "The best book yet on the history of Latinos in American baseball." Beyondchron "Burgos does a thorough job of describing this system of skirting the color line, as well as its effects." -- Stephen Ellsesser Mlb.com "Superb and, in many ways, path breaking ... A must-read for any serious fan of baseball." San Francisco Chronicle "Excellent book." -- Dan Brown San Jose Mercury News "Burgos has written a well-conceptualized, prodigiously researched, and cogently argued book." Journal Of American History "An enlightened look at Latino players in baseball and their underappreciated efforts in defeating the sport's 'color line.'" Seattle Post-Intelligencer "Well organized and expertly referenced, this is a book for anyone interested in the history of race in the US, ethnic relations, and, of course, baseball." Choice "Burgos [uses] baseball to provide a more sophisticated and subtle account of the intersections between race and culture in America." -- Braham Dabscheck Labour History "A groundbreaking work." Centro: Journal Of Ctr For Puerto Rican StdTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introductions: Latinos Play America's Game PART ONE: THE RISE OF AMERICA'S GAME AND THE COLOR LINE 1. A National Game Emerges 2. Early Maneuvers 3. Holding the Line PART TWO: LATINOS AND THE RACIAL DIVIDE 4. Baseball Should Follow the Flag 5. "Purest Bars of Castilian Soap" 6. Making Cuban Stars 7. Becoming Cuban Senators 8. Playing the World Jim Crow Made PART THREE: BEYOND INTEGRATION 9. Latinos and Baseball's Integration 10. Troubling the Waters 11. Latinos and Baseball's Global Turn 12. Saying It Is So-sa! Conclusion: Still Playing America's Game Appendix: Pioneering Latinos Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Driven Out The Forgotten War Against Chinese
Book SynopsisFeatures a story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians.
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University of California Press Women of the Klan
Book SynopsisIgnorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offers a misleading picture. This work dismantles the popular notion that politically involved women are always inspired by pacifism, equality, and justice.Table of ContentsPreface to the 2009 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. THE KLAN AND WOMANHOOD 1. Organizing 100% American Women 2. Womanhood and the Klan Fraternity 3. Battling the Seductive Allurements PART II. WOMEN IN THE KLAN 4. Joining the Ladies' Organization 5. A Poison Squad of Whispering Women 6. 100% Cooperation: Political Culture in the Klan Epilogue Notes A Postscript on Sources Index
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University of California Press Island World
Book SynopsisDepicts Hawai'i's press against the continent, endowing America's story with fresh meaning. This book reveals Hawaiians fighting in the Civil War, sailing on nineteenth-century New England ships, and living in pre-gold rush California. It revises the way we think about islands, oceans, and continents.Trade Review"All will come away intrigued and enlightened." Publishers Weekly "A startling perspective and a compelling one." -- John Whitehead Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Regions of Fire 2. Oceania's Expanse 3. Pagan Priest 4. Schooling for Subservience 5. Hawaiian Diaspora 6. Poetry in Motion 7. Islands and Continents Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Different Drummers
Book SynopsisFocusing on rhythm, this book offers examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. It traces the central - and contested - role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression.Trade Review"A compelling interdisciplinary exploration of rhythm and sound in the circum-Caribbean." -- Kaima L. Glover Oxford Journal 20120703 "Examining Black music in the western hemisphere since slavery, this book makes clear the essential role it has played in culture, politics and social change." B.l.a.c. 20100801Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Slaves to the Rhythm 1. Beating Back Darkness: Rhythm and Revolution in Haiti 2. Rhythm, Creolization, and Conflict in Trinidad 3. Rhythm, Music, and Literature in the French Caribbean 4. James Brown, Rhythm, and Black Power Conclusion: Listening to New World History Notes References Index
£24.30
University of California Press The Paradox of Hope
Book SynopsisFocuses on a group of African American families in a multicultural urban environment, many of them poor and all of them with children who have been diagnosed with serious chronic medical conditions.Trade Review"This work of outstanding scholarship should be a great addition to collections of medical anthropology and health studies." ChoiceTable of ContentsPrologue Acknowledgments 1. The Lobby 2. Narrative Matters 3. Border Trouble 4. Widening the Gap: The Creation of a Conflict Drama 5. Plotting Hope 6. Daydreaming: Captain Hook Gets Speech Therapy 7. Fleeting Hope 8. Narrative Phenomenology and the Practice of Hope Notes References Index
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University of California Press Reproducing Race
Book SynopsisAn ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, that explores the role of race in the medical setting. It investigates how race - commonly seen as biological in the medical world - is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth.Trade Review"Powerful... Bridges builds a thoughtful and important argument... An enormously challenging and valuable book." -- Rayna Rapp Anthropological Quarterly "The richness of this book's ethnographic accounts is truly extraordinary, as is a detailed discussion of federal and state programs... Highly recommended." Choice "Her work should be read by everyone involved in delivering healthcare to those without class privilege." -- Rayna Rapp Anthropological Quarterly "A beautifully written and well researched ethnographic study of the delivery of prenatal and birth health care at one of our nation's most preeminent public hospitals." -- Laura Mamo American Journal Of SociologyTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE CLASS 1 / Alpha Hospital: Unique, But Not Singular 2 / Pregnancy, Medicaid, State Regulation, and Legal Subjection 3 / Th e Production of Unruly Bodies APRT TWO RACE 4 / Th e “Primitive Pelvis,” Racial Folklore, and Atavism in Contemporary Forms of Medical Disenfranchisement 5 / The Curious Case of the “Alpha Patient Population” 6 / Wily Patients, Welfare Queens, and the Reiteration of Race EPILOGUE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of California Press Stranger Intimacy
Book SynopsisExploring an array of intimacies between global migrants, this title illuminates a transient world of heterogeneous social relations - dignified, collaborative, and illicit. It reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Brilliant... [Shah's] lucid prose, vivid stories, and gripping analysis make it a great read for both academic and general audiences." -- Julia Camacho (University of Texas, El Paso) H-Net Reviews "Show how the history of even a small (in numerical terms) minority has important implications for the ways in which all Americans understand the parameters of citizenship." Southern California Quarterly "An important contribution to the forging of a more complete and inclusive history of the North American West." -- Andrea Geiger, Simon Fraser University Jrnl Of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. Migration, Capitalism, and Stranger Intimacy 1. Passion, Violence, and Asserting Honor 2. Policing Strangers and Borderlands 3. Rural Dependency and Intimate Tensions PART II. Intimacy, Law, and Legitimacy 4. Legal Borderlands of Age and Gender 5. Intimate Ties and State Legitimacy PART III. Membership and Nation-States 6. Regulating Intimacy and Immigration 7. Strangers to Citizenship Conclusion: Estrangement and Belonging Notes Select Bibliography Index
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University of California Press New Orleans Suite
Book SynopsisFocusing on the New Orleans African American community, this title pays homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seeking to counter inadequate and often pejorative accounts of the people and place that give New Orleans its soul.Trade Review"[Provides] stunning insight into the day-to-day lives of the citizens of New Orleans, both before and after the storm." Critical Studies in ImprovisationTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Foundations: Plates 1--16 Section 1. New Orleans, America, Music Section 2. Reflections on Jazz Fest 2006 Hurricane Katrina: Plates 17--43 Funerals and Second Lines: Plates 44--62 Mardi Gras: Plates 63--80 Section 3. Parading against Violence Section 4. Reconstruction's Soundtrack Section 5. To Reinvent Life Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Aint No Trust
Book SynopsisExplores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the US - at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers - and presents richly detailed evidence from interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help.Trade Review"Levine uses the concept of trust and the associated literature as her analytical tool." Social Service ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Welfare Reform and the Enduring Structural Roots of Distrust 2. "The Way They Treat You Is Inhumane": Caseworkers and the Welfare Office 3. "I Couldn't Put Up with It No More": Perceived Mistreatment and Distrust at Work 4. "I Don't Trust People to Watch My Kids": Mothers' Distrust in Child Care Providers 5. "You Can't Put Your Trust in Men": Gender Distrust and Marriage 6. "I Trust My Mother and No One Else": Trust and Distrust in Social Networks Conclusion Appendix: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Go Nation
Book SynopsisGo (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. This title deals with this game.Trade Review"Moskowitz advances our understanding of the key roles that sports play in gendering societies in Asia ... this book is Invaluable." -- Yunxiang Gao SignsTable of ContentsPreface Fieldwork Notes on Terminology Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction The Game of Weiqi New Technologies The Ranking System Gender Coding and the Naturalization of Difference Weiqi Women Ambiguous Identities and Taiwan's Women's Team Constructing Masculinities and the Weiqi Sphere Chapter 2. Multiple Metaphors and Mystical Imaginaries: A Cultural History of Weiqi The Rules Weiqi in Comparison with Chess Religious Mysticism and Historical Teleologies From Stigma to Status Weiqi's War Imagery Chapter 3. Nation, Race, and Man The Scholar and the Warrior Chinese Masculinities: Individual Formation and Nationalist Discourses Anti-Japanese Sentiments as Nation Building Japan's Weiqi Legacy Mastering East Asia: National Rivalries and International Competitions Conceptualizing Nations, Rethinking Play An Unexpected Nostalgia for the Japanese Era Chapter 4. Becoming Men: Children's Training in Contemporary China Weiqi Teachers and the Confucian Ideal Modernizing Influences--Weiqi Schools as Corporate Structures The Students Weiqi as a Disciplinary Mechanism Weiqi as Sport--Beyond the Cartesian Divide Disciplining Parents Chapter 5. A Certain Man: University Students, Amateurs, and Professionals Class Consciousness and Relentless Competition Suzhi Weiqi's Suzhi Discourse The Peking University Weiqi Team, Ranks, and the Amateur/Professional Divide Professional Training Facing the Future Chapter 6. Retirement and Constructions of Masculinity Among Working Class Weiqi Players First Contact Retirement Park Culture Kibitzing as a Social Ideal Lived Histories Masculinity Among the Working Class at the Park Chapter 7. Conclusion: Looking Forward to a Bygone Age Glossary of Terms Citations Index
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