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University of California Press Stealing the Show African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood
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University of California Press Abrazando el Espiritu
Book SynopsisStructured to meet employers' needs for low-wage farm workers, the well-known Bracero Program recruited thousands of Mexicans to perform physical labor in the United States between 1942 and 1964 in exchange for remittances sent back to Mexico. This book uncovers a previously hidden history of transnational family life.Trade Review"This is not just another book on the bracero "guest worker" program ... Rosas fills a huge gap in the scholarship by focusing on the women and children of the families left behind ... [and] humanizes Mexican migrant male workers." -- E. Hu-DeHart CHOICE "In an age when political rhetoric regularly characterizes temporary migrant laborers as direly threatening to the American economy and way of life, Rosas's insistence upon their humanity provides a vital counterweight that is as well a salutary contribution to the fields of Mexican American, migration, gender and family, and social history studies." Canada and the United StatesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Emergencies 1. Bracero Recruitment in the Mexican Countryside, 1942--1947 2. The Bracero Program as a Permanent State of Emergency 3. Special Immigration and the Management of the Mexican Family, 1949--1959 Part Two: Love and Longing 4. Government Censorship of Family Communication, 1942--1964 5. In Painful Silence: The Untold Emotional Work of Long-Distance Romantic Relationships and Marriages, 1957--1964 6. Hidden from History: Photo Stories of Love Part Three: Decisive Measures 7. Awake Houses and Mujeres Intermediarias(Intermediary Women), 1958--1964 8. Ejemplar y sin Igual (Exemplary and without Equal): The Loss of Childhood, 1942--1964 9. Decididas y Atrevidas (Determined and Daring): In Search of Answers, 1947--1964 Epilogue: The Generative Potential of Thinking and Acting Historically Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press On the Line
Book SynopsisBringing to the fore the words, ideas, and struggles of the workers themselves, this book underlines how deep racial tensions permeate the factory, as an overwhelmingly minority workforce is subject to white dominance.Trade Review"A tremendously well-written book and model of rich and rigorous ethnographic scholarship that makes important contributions to the literatures on work and immi- grant incorporation in the contemporary US South." European Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction - Lives on the Line: Carving Out a New South 2. All Roads Lead From Olancho to Swine's: The Making of a Latino/A Working Class in the American South 3. The Meanings of Moyo: The Transnational Roots of Shop-Floor Racial Talk 4. "Painted Black": Oppressive Exploitation and Racialized Resentment 5. The Value of Being Negro, the Cost of Being Hispano: Disposability and the Challenges for Cross-Racial Solidarity in the Workplace 6. Black, White, and Latino/A Bosses: How theComposition of the Authority Structure Mediates Perceptions of Privilege and the Experience of Subordination 7. Exclusion or Ambivalence?: Explaining African Americans' Boundary-Work 8. Conclusion - Prismatic Engagement: Latino/a and African American Workers' Encounters in a Southern Meatpacking Plant Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Political Spirituality of Cesar Chavez
Book SynopsisMaps and challenges many of the mythologies that surround the late iconic labor leader. Focusing on Chavez's own writings, this book argues that La Causa can be fruitfully understood as a quasi-religious movement based on Chavez's charismatic leadership, which he modeled after Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface (Re)Introduction. Enfleshment: Cesar's Body 1. Mythology: Think Different 2. Prophecy: In the Path of Gandhi and Martin Luther King 3. Religion: A Revolutionary Spirit Conclusion. The Lost Gospel: "God Help Us to Be Men!" Notes Index
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University of California Press Living Color
Book SynopsisInvestigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible feature influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. This book explains why skin color has become a biological trait with great social meaning - a product of evolution perceived differently by different cultures.Trade Review"Accessible to general readers... The book fascinates! Highly recommended." -- D. C. Cook, Indiana University Choice "Clear [and] thorough, but not exhaustive or boring." American Journal of AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Biology 1. Skin's Natural Palette 2. Original Skin 3. Out of the Tropics 4. Skin Color in the Modern World 5. Shades of Sex 6. Skin Color and Health Part Two. Society 7. The Discriminating Primate 8. Encounters with Difference 9. Skin Color in the Age of Exploration 10. Skin Color and the Establishment of Races 11. Institutional Slavery and the Politics of Pigmentation 12. Skin Colors and Their Variable Meanings 13. Aspiring to Lightness 14. Desiring Darkness 15. Living in Color Notes References Index
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University of California Press Why Busing Failed
Book SynopsisIn the decades after the landmark Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision, busing to achieve school desegregation became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues. This book examines the pitched battles over busing on a national scale, focusing on cities such as Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, Michigan.Trade Review"By looking at the antibusing uprisings that were presented in mainstream media, this recommended narrative presents civil rights through the lens of media studies and offers an entirely new way of seeing how recent history was written." Library Journal "Meticulous and insightful... Delmont's critique is tough but fair." The Boston GlobeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 * The Origins of "Antibusing" Politics: From New York Protests to the Civil Rights Act 2 * Surrender in Chicago: Cities' Rights and the Limits of Federal Enforcement of School Desegregation 3 * Boston before the "Busing Crisis": Black Education Activism and Official Resistance in the Cradle of Liberty 4 * Standing against "Busing": Bipartisan and National Political Opposition to School Desegregation 5 * Richard Nixon's "Antibusing" Presidency 6 * "Miserable Women on Television": Irene McCabe, Television News, and Grassroots "Antibusing" Politics 7 * "It's Not the Bus, It's Us": The Complexity of Black Opinions on "Busing" 8 * Television News and the Making of the Boston "Busing Crisis" Conclusion Notes Index
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University of California Press Black London The Imperial Metropolis and
Book SynopsisShows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the stories of many famous historical figures and presenting their quests for personal, professional, and political recognition against the backdrop of a declining British Empire.Trade Review"An important book." -- Marika Sherwood JISCMail "A tremendous contribution and very much to be welcomed." Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal "[Matera] successfully argues that these clubs helped to foment in their patrons a transformation from a narrow black nationalism into an inherently more progressive black internationalism." The Times Literary Supplement "[A] towering achievement. Black London is gratifying both for its careful attention to detail and its nuanced analysis of the political and social lives of the black intellectuals who lived in this mid-twentieth-century world... the resulting portrait is glorious." H-NetTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Imperial and Atlantic Horizons of Black London 1. Afro-metropolis: Black Political and Cultural Associations in Interwar London 2. Black Internationalism and Empire in the 1930s 3. Black Feminist Internationalists 4. Sounds of Black London 5. Black Masculinity and Interracial Sex at the Heart of the Empire 6. Black Intellectuals and the Development of Colonial Studies in Britain 7. Pan-Africa in London, Empire Films, and the Imperial Imagination Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Grit and Hope A Year with Five Latino Students
Book SynopsisTells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college.Table of ContentsAuthor's Note Cast of Characters Introduction 1. Across the Water 2. Senior Academy 3. Looking for a Home 4. Inventing Reality Changers 5. Dangerous Enough 6. Uphill 7. Doing RC: How It Works 8. Breaking Faith, Breaking Free 9. A Great Small Organization 10. Undocumented 11. Three-Day 12. Essay Crunch 13. Santiago Milagro and the Four-Year Plan 14. Walking on Water 15. Reset 16. The Guy Inside 17. Rocks on Her Legs 18. Stars and Projects and Everyone Else 19. Going the Distance with Eduardo 20. The Guy Outside 21. Getting In 22. The Costs of Their Dreams 23. Reckonings 24. Scholarship Banquet 25. The Evolution of Reality Changers 26. Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Caught Up
Book SynopsisFrom home, to school, to juvenile detention center, and back again. This book follows the lives of fifty Latina girls living forty miles outside of Los Angeles, California, as they are inadvertently caught up in the school-to-prison pipeline.Trade Review"By centering the compelling testimonials of 30 young Latinas, Flores details the multiple impacts and varied forms of gendered, socioeconomic, and racialized violence the participants encounter at home, school, in intimate relationships, and while in detention. Especially significant are the tolls that trauma and inequality take and the ways the participants are caught up in the California juvenile justice system, despite its intended focus on rehabilitation. The book ends with concrete experiences from Latinas who have been able to leave the criminal justice system and those who have not—highlighting Flores's main finding that increased contact with criminal justice agencies reduces the possibilities of escaping from them." * CHOICE *"This worthy work deserves a caring examination as it helps us to understand the consequences of the frightening accelerated fusion between education and the criminal justice system for Latina girls. It was written with passion and academic accuracy." * Border Criminologies *"Caught Up offers an interesting and provocative discussion of primarily Latina youth who are justice involved and caught in the school-to-prison pipeline. ... extremely well researched, organized, and thorough." * International Criminal Justice Review *"Very informative and engaging... To the reader, Flores can seem as if he is closely tied to his participants, and as if he wants his readers to feel that same connection." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Trouble in the Home, and First Contact with the Criminal Justice System 2. Life behind Bars 3. Legacy Community School and the New Face of Alternative Education 4. School, Institutionalization, and Exclusionary Punishment 5. Hooks for Change and Snares for Confinement Conclusion Appendix A: "Who Is Th is Man in the Classroom?" Appendix B: Demographic Information Notes References Index
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University of California Press Color Line and the Assembly Line Managing Race in
Book SynopsisThe Color Line and the Assembly Line tells a new story of the impact of mass production on society. Global corporations, based originally in the United States, have played a part in making gender and race everywhere. Focusing on Ford Motor Company's rise to become the largest, richest, and most influential corporation in the world, The Color Line and the Assembly Line takes on the traditional story of Fordism. Contrary to popular thought the assembly line was perfectly compatible with all manner of racial practice in the United States, Brazil, and South Africa. Each country's distinct forms of racial hierarchies in the 1920s and 1930s informed Ford's often divisive labor processes. Confirming racism as an essential component in the creation of global capitalism, Elizabeth Esch also adds an important new lesson showing how local patterns gave capitalism its distinctive features.Trade Review"In this exciting contribution to the historiography of the Ford Motor Company, Elizabeth D. Esch reframes a familiar Michigan history topic within historians' rich conversations about race and empire." * Michigan Historical Review *"Provides a useful starting point for examining Ford’s adaptation of its labor practices to differing national contexts. Historians and historically minded social scientists will find this book to be an accessible, informative, and engaging contribution to the literature about Ford." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Esch provides a valuable study that shows how racism was an essential part of the creation of global capitalism." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction • The Color Line and the Assembly Line 1 • Ford Goes to the World; the World Comes to Ford 2 • From the Melting Pot to the Boiling Pot: Fascism and the Factory-State at the River Rouge Plant in the 1920s 3 • Out of the Melting Pot and into the Fire: African Americans and the Uneven Ford Empire at Home 4 • Breeding Rubber, Breeding Workers: From Fordlandia to Belterra 5 • “Work in the Factory Itself”: Fordism, South Africanism, and Poor White Reform Conclusion • From the One Best Way to The Way Forward to One Ford—Still Uneven, Still Unequal Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Living Faithfully in an Unjust World
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a compassionate, caring person in Russia? This book explores how, following the retreat of the Russian state from social welfare services, Russians' efforts to do the right thing for their communities have forged new modes of social justice and civic engagement.and secular.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Note on Transliteration 1. Compassion 2. Faith in a Secular Humanism 3. Practical Love 4. Developing Faith in a More Civil Society 5. Living a Life of Service 6. The Business of Being Kind 7. The Defi cits of Generosity 8. Conclusion: Precarious Faith Notes References Index
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University of California Press Spanish Legacies The Coming of Age of the Second
Book SynopsisMuch like the US, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration over the years. Spain, in particular, has been receiving thousands of new immigrants. This study is based on a sample of almost 7,000 second-generation students who were interviewed in Madrid and Barcelona in 2008 and then re-interviewed four years later.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables 1 Twelve Lives 2 Theories of Second-Generation Adaptation 3 The Recent History of Spain-Bound Immigration 4 The Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation 5 Immigrant Parents: Spain and the United States 6 The Psychosocial Adaptation of the Second Generation: Self-Identities, Self-Esteem, and Related Variables 7 The Educational Goals and Achievements of the Second Generation 8 The Entry into the Real World: Labor Market Participation and Downward Assimilation 9 Conclusion: Integration Policies and Their Results Notes References Index Plate gallery located between pages 84 and 85
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University of California Press Spanish Legacies
Book SynopsisMuch like the US, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration over the years. Spain, in particular, has been receiving thousands of new immigrants. This study is based on a sample of almost 7,000 second-generation students who were interviewed in Madrid and Barcelona in 2008 and then re-interviewed four years later.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables 1 Twelve Lives 2 Theories of Second-Generation Adaptation 3 The Recent History of Spain-Bound Immigration 4 The Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation 5 Immigrant Parents: Spain and the United States 6 The Psychosocial Adaptation of the Second Generation: Self-Identities, Self-Esteem, and Related Variables 7 The Educational Goals and Achievements of the Second Generation 8 The Entry into the Real World: Labor Market Participation and Downward Assimilation 9 Conclusion: Integration Policies and Their Results Notes References Index Plate gallery located between pages 84 and 85
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University of California Press Stick to the Skin
Book SynopsisThe first comparative history of African American and Black British artists, artworks, and art movements, Stick to the Skin traces the lives and works of over fifty painters, photographers, sculptors, and mixed-media, assemblage, installation, video, and performance artists working in the United States and Britain from 1965 to 2015. The artists featured in this book cut to the heart of hidden histories, untold narratives, and missing memories to tell stories that stick to the skin and arrive at a new Black lexicon of liberation. Informed by extensive research and invaluable oral testimonies, Celeste-Marie Bernier's remarkable text forcibly asserts the originality and importance of Black artists' work and emphasizes the need to understand Black art as a distinctive category of cultural production. She launches an important intervention into European histories of modern and contemporary art and visual culture as well as into debates within African American studies, African diasporic studies, and Black British studies. Artists featured: Larry Achiampong Hurvin Anderson Benny Andrews Rasheed Araeen Jean-Michel Basquiat Zarina Bhimji Sutapa Biswas Frank Bowling Sonia Boyce Vanley Burke Chila Kumari Burman Eddie Chambers Thornton Dial Godfried Donkor Kimathi Donkor Sokari Douglas Camp Melvin Edwards Mary Evans Nicola Frimpong Joy Gregory Bessiey Harvey Mona Hatoum Lubaina Himid Lonnie Holley Gavin Jantjes Claudette Johnson Tam Joseph Roshini Kempadoo Juginder Lamba Hew Locke Steve McQueen Chris Ofili Keith Piper Ingrid Pollard Thomas J. Price Noah Purifoy Faith Ringgold Donald Rodney Betye Saar Joyce J. Scott Yinka Shonibare Gurminder Sikand Marlene Smith Maud Sulter Barbara Walker Kara Walker Carrie Mae Weems Deborah Willis Hank Willis Thomas Lynette Yiadom-BoakyeTrade Review"...[A] welcome new volume . . . . [and] a Herculean effort of naming and contextualizing an array of vital and frequently overlooked practices and methods. Its power as an intellectual project and teaching resource is to work inductively, sidestepping theory and allowing artists’ words to elaborate the specificity of art making as a form of individual exploration and collective intervention." * caa.reviews - College Art Association *". . . a timely contribution to the field of Black diasporic art history. . . . Celeste-Marie Bernier offers respite from seemingly interminable institutional tendencies that continue to limit Black British and African American art to particular curatorial and art-historical jurisdictions. Whereas the former is often expediently defined within the historical parameters of the 1980s, the latter is rarely viewed in relation to other art histories, not least those of the United States. Stick to the Skin challenges these conventions and pathologies, bringing as it does a comparative study of the work of over fifty artists spanning half a century. . . . we can be grateful to Bernier who, as a UK-based academic, has taken it upon herself to produce a very tangible and substantial study on contemporary Black visual arts practice." * Burlington Magazine *"Throughout, Bernier examines how art can dismantle, disrupt and challenge the status quo. It can be a form of radical protest, used to confront racism and white privilege in a world that continues to be threatened by outsiders and “others”. This remarkable book makes very clear how and why this is important, more so today than ever." * Times Higher Ed *Table of ContentsFOREWORD Lubaina Himid PREFACE “WE WILL BE / WHO WE WANT / WHERE WE WANT / WITH WHOM WE WANT” ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION “Inside the Invisible” African American and Black British Artists and Art-Making Traditions 1 “Do Something with It” The Search for a New Critical Language in African American and Black British Art 2 “I’m Always Ready to Die” Memorializing Slavery and Narrativizing Freedom 3 “Lifting, Hanging, Burning” Defiance, Dissidence, and to Destroy Is to Create 4 “Branded, Raped, Beaten” Acts and Arts of Bearing Witness 5 “How to Paint Suffering” Anti-Portraiture, Anti-Product, and Anti-Painting 6 “Enter at Your Own Risk” Artist-as-Trickster-as-Prophet-as-Historianas- Witness-as-Freedom-Fighter-as-Artist 7 “BURIED, HIDDEN, AND DISGUISED” “Storying” in a State of Shock 8 “A FREAK IN THE BLIZZARD OF THE WHITE MAN’S GAZE” Black Absent Presences and Present Absences 9 An “Indelible Mark”? Autobiographies, Archives, and Amnesia 10 “I Was Branded” Spectacularized Histories, Serial Narratives, and Illicit Iconographies 11 “Power to the Powerless” Tracing Black Lives in Protest Portraits, History Paintings, and Radical Installations 12 “Hurting to Death” Struggle, Survival, and Storytelling in Salvaged Objects, Paint, Beads, and Steel CONCLUSION “Survivors of the Diasporic Journey” Past, Present, and Future Artists and Art-Making Traditions NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INDEX
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University of California Press Race and Ethnicity in America Sociology in the
Book SynopsisDo human capital differences explain black-white inequality, or are other factors more important? Are we seeing patterns consistent with assimilation among Hispanics and Asians? This book examines patterns and trends in inequality over the years for different racial groups, focusing on education, income, poverty, wealth, and health outcomes.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Conversations about Race 2. Race and Ethnicity and Causes of Inequality 3. Black-White Inequality 4. Hispanics and Asians 5. American Indians 6. The Multiracial Population 7. International Comparisons and Policy Debates 8. Conclusion: American Color Lines Notes References Index
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University of California Press Global Africa
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This book serves as an invaluable resource for geographers, historians, and all social scientists, as well as any members of the public interested in learning more about this complicated and fascinating continent.” * Polymath *"In the collection of essays Global Africa Into the Twenty-First Century, editors Dorothy Hodgson and Judith Byfield tackle the challenge V.Y. Mudimbe identified as 'the idea of Africa.' Their aim is to push readers to think deeply about and grapple with the dynamic nature of Africa as a geographic space, situating Africa at the center of global processes by demonstrating the pivotal roles Africans have played in producing and circulating ideas and initiating 'transformations throughout the world'." * African Studies Review *"Challenging popular perceptions of Africa as a place of despair and violence, this volume describes the contributions that African people, ideas and goods have made throughout the world – contributions which, according to the editors, demonstrate that Africa occupies a central position in global historical processes." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"A refreshingly edited collection that offers a number of unusual views on Africa’s global connectedness and entanglements." * New Global Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 0.1 • Why Global Africa? Dorothy L. Hodgson and Judith A. Byfield PART I. ENTANGLED HISTORIES 1.1 • PROFILE: Ibn Khaldun: The Father of the Social Sciences Oludamini Ogunnaike 1.2 • Trade and Travel in Africa’s Global Golden Age (AD 700–1500) François-Xavier Fauvelle 1.3 • Three Women of the Sahara: Fatma, Odette, and Sophie E. Ann McDougall 1.4 • Afro-Iberians in the Early Spanish Empire, ca. 1550–1600 Leo J. Garofalo 1.5 • “From the Land of Angola”: Slavery, Marriage, and African Diasporic Identities in Mexico City before 1650 Frank Trey Proctor III 1.6 • “Ethiopia Shall Stretch” from America to Africa: The Pan-African Crusade of Charles Morris Benedict Carton and Robert Trent Vinson 1.7 • Africans in India, Past and Present Renu Modi PART II. POWER AND ITS CHALLENGES 2.1 • PROFILE: Leymah Gbowee: Speaking Truth to Power Pamela Scully 2.2 • Pan-Africanism: An Ideology and a Movement Hakim Adi 2.3 • Mwalimu Nyerere as Global Conscience Chambi Chachage 2.4 • Power, Conflict, and Justice in Africa: An Uncertain March Stephen Mogaka and Stephen Ndegwa 2.5 • Where Truth, Lies, and Privilege Meet Poverty . . . What Is Hope? Reflecting on the Gains and Pains of South Africa’s TRC Sarah Malotane Henkeman and Undine Whande 2.6 • Commerce, Crime, and Corruption: Illicit Financial Flows from Africa Masimba Tafirenyika 2.7 • Working History: China, Africa, and Globalization Jamie Monson, Tang Xiaoyang, and Liu Shaonan 2.8 • The Radicalization of Environmental Justice in South Africa Jacklyn Cock PART III. CIRCULATIONS OF COMMUNITIES AND CULTURES 3.1 • PROFILE: A Taste of Africa in Harlem: Red Rooster Judith A. Byfield 3.2 • Networks of Threads: Africa, Textiles, and Routes of Exchange Victoria Rovine 3.3 • Sending Forth the Best: African Missions in China Heidi Østbø Haugen 3.4 • PHOTO ESSAY: Baohan Street: An African Community in Guangzhou, China Michaela Pelican and Li Dong 3.5 • The African Literary Tradition: Interview with Ngugi wa Thiong’o Mukoma Wa Ngugi 3.6 • African Soccer’s Global Story Peter Alegi 3.7 • Art, Identity, and Autobiography: Senzeni Marasela and Lalla Essaydi Christa Clarke 3.8 • Raï and Rap: Globalization and the Soundtrack of Youth Resistance in Northern Africa Zakia Salime PART IV. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND HEALTH 4.1 • PROFILE: A Conversation with Microbiologist Dr. Sara Eyangoh Tamara Giles-Vernick 4.2 • The Politics, Perils, and Possibilities of Epidemics in Africa Douglas Webb 4.3 • Generative Technologies from Africa Ron Eglash 4.4 • “Money in Your Hand”: M-PESA and Mobile Money in Kenya Dillon Mahoney 4.5 • What’s in Your Cell Phone? James H. Smith 4.6 • Bioprospecting: Moving beyond Benefit Sharing Rachel Wynberg 4.7 • Of Waste and Revolutions: Environmental Legacies of Authoritarianism in Tunisia Siad Darwish PART V. AFRICA IN THE WORLD TODAY 5.1 • PROFILE: Africa Calling: A Conversation with Mo Ibrahim Stuart Reid 5.2 • From Lesotho to the United Nations: The Journey of a Gender Justice Advocate Keiso Matashane-Marite 5.3 • Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art Kerryn Greenberg 5.4 • Africa in Nollywood, Nollywood in Africa Onookome Okome 5.5 • Globalizing African Islam from Below: West African Sufi Masters in the United States Cheikh Anta Babou 5.6 • Afropolitanism and Its Discontents Obadias Ndaba 5.7 • PHOTO ESSAY: Awra Amba: A Model “Utopian” Community in Ethiopia Salem Mekuria About the Editors Index
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University of California Press King and the Other America
Book SynopsisAn elegant and timely history of how black intellectuals have long made a case for the intersections between class and race.The Nation Ameticulously researched look into the development of King's thought. . . . Laurent's important new book highlights the depth of the wisdom and organizing skill he brought to the movement for economic justice.The Progressive Shortly before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. called for a radical redistribution of economic and political power to transform the whole of society. In 1967, he envisioned and designedthe Poor People's Campaign, an interracial effort that was carried out after his death.This campaign brought together impoverished Americans of all races to demand better wages, better jobs, better homes, and better education.King and the Other America explores this overlooked and obscured episode of the late civil rights movement,deepening our understanding of King's commitment to social justice and also of the long-term trajectory of theTrade Review“In her debut book, Laurent (American Studies/Paris Institute of Political Studies) draws on extensive research into Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings, speeches, and papers as well as archival and published sources to make a strong argument that his campaign for social justice went beyond race to encompass broad, transformative social and economic changes for all poor Americans. . . . King's analysis of social issues, as delineated in Laurent's useful reappraisal, seems as relevant today.” * Kirkus Reviews *"A meticulously researched look into the development of King’s thought. . . . As we commemorate King’s life and legacy, Laurent’s important new book highlights the depth of the wisdom and organizing skill he brought to the movement for economic justice." * The Progressive *“This powerful work invites a major reconsideration of American civil rights history, the significance of the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, and especially of King’s deeply egalitarian socialist vision of society. The book transcends and negates traditional notions that King was a civil rights leader committed exclusively to the liberation of his African-American people. Without ever abandoning that objective, he expanded his range of activism in pursuing a vision of a fair and just society for all oppressed people. Laurent’s book above all restores King to his rightful and still profoundly under-recognized place in the history of militant African-American liberation figures.” * Truthdig *“The story [Laurent] tells is one that evokes the passions of the period known as the Sixties while carefully explaining the personalities and politics of the movement for economic and social justice at the time. Given the centrality of King to the Poor People’s Campaign, it is only natural that Laurent’s text makes King the centerpiece of her narrative.” * CounterPunch *"In her new book King and the Other America, historian Sylvie Laurent helps rescue the Poor People’s Campaign from this unfair reputation and makes a compelling case that it deserves to be not only better remembered but also more closely studied and emulated by the left today. . . . King and the Other America helps make another important argument. Situating the economic egalitarianism of the Poor People’s Campaign and Martin Luther King Jr.’s later years in a far longer history of black activism and social-democratic thinking, she helps map out the deeper intellectual and political roots of an entwined racial and economic egalitarianism that has been at the center of much of African-American politics for nearly a century. By doing so, Laurent offers us an elegant and timely history of how black intellectuals have long made a case for the intersections between class and race." * The Nation *“Engaging . . . . Our political scene is never far removed from Laurent’s narrative. . . . A book for this moment, King and the Other America raises fresh questions about the validity of any historical sweep that fails to seriously consider the case of the Poor People’s Campaign and its legacy.” * Black Perspectives *Table of ContentsForeword by William Julius Wilson Introduction Part I. The Long March 1. The Patriarchs 2. The Prophets of Justice 3. The City and the Church 4. The Torchbearer Part II. The Campaign 5. The Pauper 6. An “American Commune” 7. A Counter-War on Poverty Part III. The Vision 8. Facing Structural Injustice 9. A “Right Not to Starve” Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press South Bronx Battles Stories of Resistance
Book SynopsisCommunity activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members. Facing burned-out neighborhoods of the 1970s, the community fought back. McLaughlin illustrates the spirit of the community in creating a vibrant, diverse culture and its decades-long commitment to develop nonprofit housing and social-services, and to advocate for better education, health care, and a healthier environment. For the South Bronx to remain a safe haven for poor families, maintaining affordable housing is the centralbut most challengingtask. South Bronx Battlesis the comeback story of a community that was once in crisis but now serves as a beacon for other cities to rebuild, while keeping their neighborhoods affordable.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword South Bronx Timeline Map of South Bronx 1. The South Bronx: An Introduction 2. How the South Bronx Became the Poorest Congressional District 3. Why the South Bronx Burned 4. People Fight Back: 1960s and 1970s 5. Progress, but Plagues Descend on the South Bronx: 1980s 6. Not Yet Paradise, but We’ve Come a Long Way: 1990s 7. Many Faces of Success: 2000–2018 8. “The Bronx Was the Last Place”: Reflections on Displacement and Gentrification 9. Lessons Learned EpilogueAcknowledgments Abbreviations Glossary Notes Interviews Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Charros How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This innovative book . . . presents a particularly insightful intervention into [the debate over American national identity]." * Journal of Historical Geography *"Barraclough has done a highly effective job in telling this story, as well as providing a template for other such research projects." * Journal of Arizona History *"A fresh perspective that steers away from traditional historiographic approaches and joins the nascent literature on Mexican American and southwestern history." * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"This book offers important contributions about identity and place that are apt to teach in courses ranging from an array of fields." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Claiming State Power in Mid-Twentieth-Century Los Angeles 2 • Building San Antonio’s Postwar Tourist Economy 3 • Creating Multicultural Public Institutions in Denver and Pueblo 4 • Claiming Suburban Public Space and Transforming L.A.’s Racial Geographies 5 • Shaping Animal Welfare Laws and Becoming Formal Political Subjects Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press A Dream Denied
Book SynopsisYoung minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. This book delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the American dream narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago.Trade Review"One of the most profound findings of Soyer’s book is how desperately these young people want to make a change in their lives... the connection of the American Dream mythology to institutions of change is a worthy contribution, and Soyer’s critical gaze as a result of having grown up in Germany is unique." * Theoretical Criminology *"Necessary reading." * Punishment and Society *"The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story. Soyer does an excellent job at showing why so many juveniles recidivate. In doing so, she contributes to a highly needed but surprisingly sparse area of developmental research that focuses on how systems influence juvenile reoffending and reentry." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Throughout her book, Michaela Soyer takes the reader into the communities and into the conversations with young men who were struggling so hard to cope with their incarceration and, even more so, their release. The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Michaela Soyer’s A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America provides an insightful reflection on the paradoxical roles of rehabilitation institutions and, through youths’ own narratives and stories, vividly portrays the challenges faced by young minority men when trying to avoid recidivism and reincarceration." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process 2. Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems: Juvenile Justice in Boston and Chicago 3. Too Little Too Late: Juvenile Justice as a Social Service Provider 4. Imagining Desistance 5. Weak Ties—Strong Emotions: Caring for Juvenile Off enders in Boston and Chicago 6. The Uncertainty of Freedom: Teenagers’ Desire for Confinement and Supervision 7. “I know how to control myself ”: Autonomy and Discipline in the Desistance Process
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University of California Press A Dream Denied Incarceration Recidivism and
Book SynopsisYoung minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. This book delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the American dream narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago.Trade Review"One of the most profound findings of Soyer’s book is how desperately these young people want to make a change in their lives... the connection of the American Dream mythology to institutions of change is a worthy contribution, and Soyer’s critical gaze as a result of having grown up in Germany is unique." * Theoretical Criminology *"Necessary reading." * Punishment and Society *"The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story. Soyer does an excellent job at showing why so many juveniles recidivate. In doing so, she contributes to a highly needed but surprisingly sparse area of developmental research that focuses on how systems influence juvenile reoffending and reentry." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Throughout her book, Michaela Soyer takes the reader into the communities and into the conversations with young men who were struggling so hard to cope with their incarceration and, even more so, their release. The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Michaela Soyer’s A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America provides an insightful reflection on the paradoxical roles of rehabilitation institutions and, through youths’ own narratives and stories, vividly portrays the challenges faced by young minority men when trying to avoid recidivism and reincarceration." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process 2. Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems: Juvenile Justice in Boston and Chicago 3. Too Little Too Late: Juvenile Justice as a Social Service Provider 4. Imagining Desistance 5. Weak Ties—Strong Emotions: Caring for Juvenile Off enders in Boston and Chicago 6. The Uncertainty of Freedom: Teenagers’ Desire for Confinement and Supervision 7. “I know how to control myself ”: Autonomy and Discipline in the Desistance Process
£27.00
University of California Press Making Roots
Book SynopsisWhen Alex Haley's book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976, it became an immediate bestseller. The television series, broadcast by ABC in 1977, became the most popular miniseries of all time. This book looks at the importance, contradictions, and limitations of mass culture and examines how Roots pushed the boundaries of history.Trade Review"Delmont builds his narrative from extensive archival research. His ability to describe these findings in an engaging style keeps the pages turning. Dramatic episodes come alive." Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Before This Anger 2. The Gambia 3. Speaking Roots 4. Writing Roots 5. Producing Roots 6. Reading Roots 7. Watching Roots 8. A Troublesome Property Conclusion Notes Bibliographic Essay Index
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University of California Press Beyond Expectations
Book SynopsisDelves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. The author argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of 'black' identity that differs radically from African American and Black Carribean notions of 'black' in the United States and Britain.Trade Review"In this unparalleled global and comparative analysis of the racial and ethnic identities of Black African immigrants, Imoagene aptly demonstrates that second-generation Nigerians “choose ethnicity, while negotiating race”." * Canadian Journal of African Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 * Setting the Context: Immigration, Assimilation versus Racialization, and the African and Nigerian Diasporas in the United States and Britain 2 * "You Are Not Like Me!": The Impact of Intraracial Distinctions and Interethnic Relations on Identity Formation 3 * "It's Un-Nigerian Not to Go to College": Education as an Ethnic Boundary 4 * Forging a Diasporic Nigerian Ethnicity in the United States and Britain 5 * On the Horns of Racialization: Middle Class, Ethnic, and Black 6 * Feeling American in America, Not Feeling British in Britain Conclusion Appendix A: Notes on Method Appendix B: Ethnic Identification Information Notes References Index
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University of California Press Making All Black Lives Matter
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women activists launched a hashtag and social media platform, Black Lives Matter, which would become the rubric for a larger movement. This book offers an overview of Black Lives Matter and explores the possible future of the movement.Trade Review“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.” * Publishers Weekly *"In a political moment where Black liberatory work rarely includes time for archiving, reflection, and record-keeping, Making All Black Lives Matter is a critical contribution. . . . Essentially, where mainstream narratives proclaim that movements and protests simply erupt erratically from anger, pure emotion, and vengeance, Ransby is a balm. She shows how every mass-led struggle sits atop the labor, sacrifices, and investments of many organizers who will never be seen, named, or rewarded for their contributions." * Black Perspectives *“An accessible analysis of contemporary American racial-justice organizing...This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand why these movements sprang up or how to make social change.” * Publishers Weekly *“As accessible as it is urgent and necessary. Ransby’s eyewitness account of the players and the events that built the Black Lives Matter movement spring to life with an immediacy and familiarity that provides rich color and feeling to what might have been, in other hands, a bloodless march through recent history.” * The Washington Post *“As much a movement biography (or autobiography) as a history. Ransby was there, in the ranks of the leadership, and tells the story with the urgency and passion we might expect from a participant.” * In These Times *“When Ransby writes, ‘We look to the new generation of organizers, dreamers, visionaries, and freedom fighters to forge out of this current state of emergency, this current bleak moment, a new path, for Black people, for all people, and for the planet,’ one feels that she is speaking not just to the amazing constellation of individuals profiled in her book, but to her readers, too.” * Rethinking Schools *"Deserves a place in the personal libraries of all those interested in learning more about U.S. history and liberation movements as well as in every public library." * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement 2. Justice for Trayvon: The Spark 3. The Ferguson Uprising and Its Reverberations 4. Black Rage and Blacks in Power: Baltimore and Electoral Politics 5. Themes, Dilemmas, and Challenges 6. Backlash and a Price 7. A View from the Local: Chicago’s Fighting Spirit 8. Political Quilters and Maroon Spaces Conclusion Epilogue: A Personal Reflection Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Making All Black Lives Matter Reimagining Freedom
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the exoneration of his killer, three black women activists launched a hashtag and social media platform, Black Lives Matter, which would become the rubric for a larger movement. This book offers an overview of Black Lives Matter and explores the possible future of the movement.Trade Review“This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.” * Publishers Weekly *"In a political moment where Black liberatory work rarely includes time for archiving, reflection, and record-keeping, Making All Black Lives Matter is a critical contribution. . . . Essentially, where mainstream narratives proclaim that movements and protests simply erupt erratically from anger, pure emotion, and vengeance, Ransby is a balm. She shows how every mass-led struggle sits atop the labor, sacrifices, and investments of many organizers who will never be seen, named, or rewarded for their contributions." * Black Perspectives *“An accessible analysis of contemporary American racial-justice organizing...This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand why these movements sprang up or how to make social change.” * Publishers Weekly *“As accessible as it is urgent and necessary. Ransby’s eyewitness account of the players and the events that built the Black Lives Matter movement spring to life with an immediacy and familiarity that provides rich color and feeling to what might have been, in other hands, a bloodless march through recent history.” * The Washington Post *“As much a movement biography (or autobiography) as a history. Ransby was there, in the ranks of the leadership, and tells the story with the urgency and passion we might expect from a participant.” * In These Times *“When Ransby writes, ‘We look to the new generation of organizers, dreamers, visionaries, and freedom fighters to forge out of this current state of emergency, this current bleak moment, a new path, for Black people, for all people, and for the planet,’ one feels that she is speaking not just to the amazing constellation of individuals profiled in her book, but to her readers, too.” * Rethinking Schools *"Deserves a place in the personal libraries of all those interested in learning more about U.S. history and liberation movements as well as in every public library." * RGWS: A Feminist Review *“Award-winning historian and longtime activist Barbara Ransby outlines the scope and genealogy of this movement, documenting its roots in Black feminist politics and situating it squarely in a Black radical tradition.” * EcoWatch *"Barbara Ransby's book, Making All Black Lives Matter, is the perfect companion. The book maps the movement, profiles many of its lesser-known leaders, measures its impact, outlines its challenges and looks toward its future. It's a crucial guide for anyone who wants to better understand the origins of the movement and the moment we're living in." * In These Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Roots and Recalibrated Expectations: Prologue to a Movement 2. Justice for Trayvon: The Spark 3. The Ferguson Uprising and Its Reverberations 4. Black Rage and Blacks in Power: Baltimore and Electoral Politics 5. Themes, Dilemmas, and Challenges 6. Backlash and a Price 7. A View from the Local: Chicago’s Fighting Spirit 8. Political Quilters and Maroon Spaces Conclusion Epilogue: A Personal Reflection Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Key Figures Selected Bibliography
£15.19
University of California Press Dating Divide Race and Desire in the Era of
Book SynopsisThe data behind a distinct form of racism in online dating. The Dating Divide is the first comprehensive look at digital-sexual racism,a distinct form of racism that is mediated and amplified through the impersonal and anonymous context of online dating. Drawing on large-scalebehavioral data from a mainstream dating website, extensive archival research, and more than seventy-fivein-depth interviews with daters of diverse racial backgrounds and sexual identities, Curington, Lundquist, and Lin illustrate how the seemingly open space of the internet interacts with theloss of social inhibition in cyberspace contexts, fostering openly expressed forms of sexual racism that arerarely exposed in face-to-face encounters.The Dating Divide is a fascinating look at how a contemporary conflux of individualization, consumerism, and the proliferation of digital technologies hasgiven rise to a unique form of gendered racism in the era of swiping rightor left. The internet is often heralded as an equalizer, a seemingly level playing field,but the digital world also acts as an extension ofand platform forthe insidious prejudices and divisive impulses that affect social politics in the realworld. Shedding light on how every click, swipe, or message can be linked to the history of racism and courtship in the United States, thiscompelling study uses datato showthe racial biases at play in digital dating spaces.Trade Review"The Dating Divide claims that online dating creates a sort of apartheid, where individuals can filter, reject or simply ignore certain groups. . . . This original, thought-provoking, engaging book is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring how racism seeps into every area of our lives." * Times Higher Education *"The Dating Divide adds historical background and in-depth interviews to explain where our dating biases come from. . . . A useful and thoughtful contribution to the literature, and well worth reading." * Social Forces *“The Dating Divide is a unique study of online dating, an area not readily studied but significant to modern society. . . . The role of race in these interactions is an important area of examination and will no doubt be increasingly important. . . . Highly recommended.” * CHOICE *"The Dating Divide makes strong empirical interventions…[that] make this text quite useful for teaching about structural racism and its embeddedness in our personal lives in an accessible way." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Introduction: Dear Tinder, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1. Where Hate Trumps Love: The Birth and Legacy of Antimiscegenation in the United States 2. From the Back Porch to the Computer Screen: The Rise of Choice in Courtship 3. New Rules? Gendered Online Engagement 4. A Privilege Endures: Dating While White in the Era of Online Dating 5. The Unique Disadvantage: Dating While Black 6. The Asian Experience: Resistance and Complicity 7. "Hey, You’re Latin. Do You Like to Dance?": The Privilege and Disadvantage of Latino/a Daters 8. Postracial Multiracialism: A Challenge to the White Racial Frame? Conclusion: Abolishing the Dating Divide Acknowledgments Appendix: Data and Methods Interviews Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Shifting the Meaning of Democracy Race Politics
Book SynopsisThis book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth centurythe redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of racial democracy as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality. Trade Review"This study’s presentation of the issues of race and democracy in the United States and Brazil carefully places the issues, and how they were viewed in each country, in dramatic historical perspective." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"In this comparative historical analysis of Brazil and the US, Graham provides an intriguing look at how debates on the meaning of democracy have intersected with fights for racial equality. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *"In a field as densely populated as comparative US-Brazilian racial formations, it is hard to say something new. Jessica Lynn Graham has done so in scintillating detail, with an admirable balance of subtlety and clarity that will serve as a model for future work." * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. Communist Racial Democracy in the 1930s 2. Embattled Images of Racial Democracy: State Anticommunism in the 1930s 3. Presaging the War: Racial Democracy and Fascism in the 1930s 4. State Cultural Production, Black Cultural Demarginalization, and Racial Democracy in the 1930s 5. The Centrality of Race and Democracy in the US-Brazil Wartime Alliance 6. A Partnership in Cultural Production: The Brazil-US Racial Democracy Exchange 7. Wartime Racial Democracy at Home: Domestic Pressures and In-House Propaganda Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Shifting the Meaning of Democracy Race Politics
Book SynopsisThis book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth centurythe redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of racial democracy as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality. Trade Review"This study’s presentation of the issues of race and democracy in the United States and Brazil carefully places the issues, and how they were viewed in each country, in dramatic historical perspective." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"In this comparative historical analysis of Brazil and the US, Graham provides an intriguing look at how debates on the meaning of democracy have intersected with fights for racial equality. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *"In a field as densely populated as comparative US-Brazilian racial formations, it is hard to say something new. Jessica Lynn Graham has done so in scintillating detail, with an admirable balance of subtlety and clarity that will serve as a model for future work." * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. Communist Racial Democracy in the 1930s 2. Embattled Images of Racial Democracy: State Anticommunism in the 1930s 3. Presaging the War: Racial Democracy and Fascism in the 1930s 4. State Cultural Production, Black Cultural Demarginalization, and Racial Democracy in the 1930s 5. The Centrality of Race and Democracy in the US-Brazil Wartime Alliance 6. A Partnership in Cultural Production: The Brazil-US Racial Democracy Exchange 7. Wartime Racial Democracy at Home: Domestic Pressures and In-House Propaganda Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Thinking Black
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Will become a foundational text." * Journal of Contemporary History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Acronyms and Initialisms of Black Britain Introduction: History Moving Fast 1 • Becoming Black in the Era of Civil Rights and Black Power 2 • Political Blackness: Brothers and Sisters 3 • Radical Blackness and the Post-imperial State: Th e Mangrove Nine Trial 4 • Black Studies 5 • Thinking about Race in a Time of Rebellion Epilogue: Black Futures Past Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Trespassers Asian Americans and the Battle for
Book SynopsisBeyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. This book looks at the everyday life and politics inside Silicon Valley against a backdrop of various dramatic demographic shifts. It follows one community over several decades as it transforms from a sleepy rural town to a global gateway.Trade Review"A timely primer for scholars and students as well as practitioners concerned with race and metropolitan development. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * CHOICE *“Well-researched and well-written.” * Journal of Urban Affairs *“Lung-Amam’s ethnographic methods and urban planning lens offer a unique perspective on racialization and change.” * American Journal of Sociology *"Trespassers is an important contribution to scholars interested in how histories of suburban spatial distinction and social hierarchies operate into the present, as well as new forms of political and civic engagement by minority communities. Refreshingly, non-specialists, community activists, and policy makers also will find Lung-Amam’s prose accessible and informative." * City & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Landscapes of Difference 1 • The New Gold Mountain 2 • A Quality Education for Whom? 3 • Mainstreaming the Asian Mall 4 • That “Monster House” Is My Home 5 • Charting New Suburban Storylines Afterword: Keeping the Dream Alive in Troubled Times Appendix: Methods for Revealing Hidden Suburban Narratives Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Other Side of Assimilation
Book SynopsisThe immigration patterns of the last three decades have profoundly changed nearly every aspect of life in the United States. What do those changes mean for the most established Americans-those whose families have been in the country for multiple generations? The Other Side of Assimilation shows that assimilation is not a one-way street. Jimenez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation in response to profound immigration-driven ethnic, racial, political, economic, and cultural shifts. Drawing on interviews with a race and class spectrum of established Americans in three different Silicon Valley cities, The Other Side of Assimilation illuminates how established Americans make sense of their experiences in immigrant-rich environments, in work, school, public interactions, romantic life, and leisure activities. With lucid prose, Jimenez reveals how immigration not only changes the American cityscape but also reshapes the United States by altering the outlooks and identities of its most established citizens.Trade Review"Tomás Jiménez is one of the most nuanced, thoughtful scholars of immigration-driven diversity and cultural change I’ve come across." * National Review *"Jimenez’s book is an example of practical politics . . . [and] is accessible to a diverse set of students, including undergraduates and graduate students. Social scientists, (im)migration, and race and ethnicity scholars will find it useful, given immigration’s prominence in our current political system." * IMR: International Migration Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Table Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The (Not-So-Strange) Strangers in Their Midst 2. Salsa and Ketchup—Cultural Exposure and Adoption 3. Spotlight on White, Fade to Black 4. Living with Difference and Similarity 5. Living Locally, Thinking Nationally Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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University of California Press Remaking a Life How Women Living with HIVAIDS
Book SynopsisIn the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life changeand what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago-based women living with HIV/AIDS, Celeste Watkins-Hayes takes readers on an uplifting journey through women's transformative projects, a multidimensional process in which women shift their approach to their physical, social, economic, and political survival, thereby changing their viewpoint of dying from AIDS to living with it. With an eye towards improving the lives of women, Remaking a Life provides techniques to encourage private, nonprofit, and government agencies to successfully collaborate, and shares policy ideas with the hope of alleviating the injuries of inequality faced by those living with HIV/AIDS everyday.Trade Review“This book about women living with HIV/AIDS is remarkably uplifting and encouraging. In her latest work, Professor Celeste Watkins-Hayes shares how these women are using their diagnoses to create radical, positive changes in their lives and communities. There are valuable lessons throughout that will help those living with HIV/AIDS, those loving them and those fighting for them.” * Ms. Magazine *"Watkins-Hayes provides a nuanced analysis of the opportunities that the safety net offers these women whilst simultaneously highlighting the impact of systemic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal racism on their ability to accept and thrive using these resources." * U.S. Studies Online *"Watkins-Hayes’ thoughtful book offers fresh insights into our current context. . . . reminds social workers that the most meaningful social science research is slow, intentional, and community-engaged." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"It is an exemplar of qualitative research and multimethod design. No exaggeration: Remaking a Life represents the very best sociology has to offer." * American Journal of Sociology *
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University of California Press Beyond the Pink Tide Art and Political
Book SynopsisHow can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? InBeyond the Pink Tide,Macarena Gómez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production. By focusing on radical spaces of potential, including queer, youth, trans-feminist, Indigenous, and anticapitalist movements and artistic praxis, Gómez-Barris offers a timely call for a decolonial, transnational American Studies. She reveals the broad possibilities that emerge by refusing national borders in the Americas and by seeing and thinking beyond the frame of state-centered politics. Concrete social justice and transformation begin at the level of artistic, affective, and submerged political imaginariesin Latin America and the United States, across South-South solidarities, and beyond.Table of ContentsOverview ix Preface xi Introduction 1 Beyond the Pink Tide 1. Sounds Radical 22 Ana Tijoux, Student Protests, and Palestinian Solidarity 2. How Cuir Is Queer Recognition? 46 A Manifesto from the Sexual Underground 3. Art in the Shadow of Border Capitalism 68 Migration, Militarism, and Trans-Feminist Critique 4. An Archive of Starlight 88 Remapping Patagonia through Indigenous Memories Conclusion 107 Rogue Waves
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University of California Press Beyond the Pink Tide
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsOverview ix Preface xi Introduction 1 Beyond the Pink Tide 1. Sounds Radical 22 Ana Tijoux, Student Protests, and Palestinian Solidarity 2. How Cuir Is Queer Recognition? 46 A Manifesto from the Sexual Underground 3. Art in the Shadow of Border Capitalism 68 Migration, Militarism, and Trans-Feminist Critique 4. An Archive of Starlight 88 Remapping Patagonia through Indigenous Memories Conclusion 107 Rogue Waves
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University of California Press Deported to Death How Drug Violence Is Changing
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For those seeking a better understanding of the more searing aspects of US border and immigration policies, Deported to Death is essential reading." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"Deported to Death provides an important look at what happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *"A striking exploration of the intense marginalisation and vulnerability faced by deportees. . . . Slack is unwavering in his pursuit of the cross-border nature of the forces at work in shaping this environment." * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Violence of Mobility 2. I Want to Cross with a Backpack 3. Te Van a Levantar—They Will Kidnap You: Deportation and Mobility on the Border 4. They Torture You to Make You Lose Feeling 5. Guarding the River: Migrant Recruitment into Organized Crime 6. The Disappeared, the Dead, and the Forgotten 7. Resistance, Resilience, and Love: The Limits of Violence and Fear 8. “Who Can I Deport?”: Asylum and the Limits of Protection against Persecution Conclusions: Requiem for the Removed Appendix: A Note on Researching in Violent Environments Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Myth of International Protection
Book SynopsisIn this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congoyoung people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution. Seymour, a former child protection adviser and human rights investigator for the United Nations, chronicles her personal journey, which begins with the will to do good yet ends with the realization of how international aid can contribute to greater harm than good. The idea of protection and universalized human rights is turned on its head as Seymour uncovers the complicities and hypocrisies of the aid world. In the promotion of inalienable human rights, aid organizations ignore the complex historical and socioeconomic dynamics that lead to the violations of such rights. Offering a new perspective, The Myth of International Protection reframes how the world sees the DRC and urges global audiences to consider their own roles in fueling the DRC's seemingly endless violence.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Map 1. A Beginning 2. Outrages in Congo 3. Surviving Violence 4. Embodying Violence 5. Navigating Violence 6. Meanings of Violence 7. The Myth of International Protection Notes References Index
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University of California Press Undocumented Politics Place Gender and the
Book SynopsisIn 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to belong. Others turned to their homelands for hope. What explains their clashing strategies of inclusion? And how does gender play into these fights? Undocumented Politicsoffers a gripping inquiry into migrant communities' struggles for rights and resources across the U.S.-Mexico divide. For twenty-one months,AbigailAndrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals how local laws and power dynamics shape migrants' agency. Andrews also exposes how arbitrary policing abetsgendered violence.Yet she insists that the process does not begin or end in the United States. Rather, migrants interpret their destinations in light of the hometowns they leave behind. Their counterparts in Mexico must also come to grips with migrant globalization. And on both sides of the border, men and women transform patriarchy through their battles to belong. Ambitious and intimate,Undocumented Politicsreveals how the excluded find space for political voice.Trade Review"Undocumented Politics provides rich theoretical advances to literature on transnational political strategies, the role of local-level contexts, and immigrant 'illegality.' . . . a powerful read that contributes to the literature on international migration, undocumented immigrants, and gender." * ILR Review *"I highly recommend this engaging and elegant monograph, suitable for students and researchers of migration and borders." * American Journal of Sociology *"Andrews has delivered an insightful, well-researched exposition on Mexican migration in the United States. . . . Undocumented Politics successfully showcases the ways that undocumented migrant women have self-advocated, despite their lack of access to legal and electoral outlets of political activism." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Legacies of (In)Equity 2. “Illegality” under Two Local Modes of Control 3. Stoicism and Striving in the Face of Exclusion 4. Cross-Border Fights, Rifts, and Ties 5. Pathways to Hometown Change Conclusion Methodological Appendix: Listening to Difference Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Mothering While Black
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University of California Press Flatlining Race Work and Health Care in the New
Book SynopsisWhat happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in racial outsourcing, relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do equity workextra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support. Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today's workplaces and communities.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Health Care, Work, and Racial Outsourcing 2. “There Was That One Time . . .” 3. When “That One Time” Is All the Time 4. Sticky Floors and Social Tensions 5. It’s Not Grey’s Anatomy Conclusion Appendix References Index
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University of California Press Flatlining Race Work and Health Care in the New
Book SynopsisWhat happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In Flatlining, Adia Harvey Wingfield exposes how hospitals, clinics, and other institutions participate in racial outsourcing, relying heavily on black doctors, nurses, technicians, and physician assistants to do equity workextra labor that makes organizations and their services more accessible to communities of color. Wingfield argues that as these organizations become more profit driven, they come to depend on black health care professionals to perform equity work to serve increasingly diverse constituencies. Yet black workers often do this labor without recognition, compensation, or support. Operating at the intersection of work, race, gender, and class, Wingfield makes plain the challenges that black employees must overcome and reveals the complicated issues of inequality in today's workplaces and communities.Trade Review"Wingfield offers an engaging, insightful, and compelling portrait of the healthcare industry as a racialized (and gendered) organization that institutionalizes racial inequality through racial outsourcing and racial equity work." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Health Care, Work, and Racial Outsourcing 2. “There Was That One Time . . .” 3. When “That One Time” Is All the Time 4. Sticky Floors and Social Tensions 5. It’s Not Grey’s Anatomy Conclusion Appendix References Index
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University of California Press Made In Baja The Lives of Farmworkers and Growers
Book SynopsisMuch of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multibillion-dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the United States. But how has this growth affected those living in Baja? Based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Made in Baja examines the unforeseen consequences for residents in the region of San Quintín. The ramifications include the tripling of the region's population, mushrooming precarious colonia communities lacking basic infrastructure and services, and turbulent struggles for labor, civic, and political rights. Anthropologist Christian Zlolniski reveals the outcomes of growers structuring the industry around an insatiable demand for fresh fruits and vegetables. He also investigates the ecological damagewatercideand the social side effects of exploiting natural resources for agricultural production. Weaving together stories from both farmworkers and growers, Made in Baja provides an eye-opening look at the dynamic economy developing south of the border.Trade Review"Zlolniski’s book is a detailed account that demonstrates very effectively how ethnography can be marshaled to rehumanize the global processes of production, consumption, and exchange that often seem to leave little room for any form of humanity, community, or social solidarity." * American Anthropologist *"This is an important and recommended book for anthropologists with a political economy orientation and interested in agriculture and capitalism beyond the topic of peasant studies." * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Birth and Development of Export Agriculture in the San Quintín Valley 2. Transnational Agribusiness, Local Growers, and Discontents 3. Labor Recruitment: From Local to Transnational Labor Contractors 4. “They Want First-Class Workers with Third World Wages”: The Workplace Regime of Transnational Agriculture 5. Resisting the Carrilla in the Workplace: Forms of Labor Protests 6. Colonizing and Establishing Roots in Arid Lands 7. Watercide: Export Agriculture, Water Insecurity, and Social Unrest Conclusion Appendix: Policy Recommendations Notes References Index
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University of California Press Being Brown Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino
Book SynopsisBeing Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Questiontells the story ofthe country's first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice'srise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. While Sotomayor's confirmation appeared to signal the greater acceptance and inclusion of Latinosthe nation's largest minority majoritythe uncritical embrace of her status as a possibility model and icon paradoxically erased the fact that her success was due to civil rights policies and safeguards that no longer existed. Being Brownanalyzes Sotomayor's story of success and accomplishment, despite seemingly insurmountable odds, in order to ask:What do we lose in democratic practice when we allow symbolic inclusion to supplant the work of meaningful political enfranchisement? In a historical moment of resurgent racism, unrelenting Latino bashing, and previously unimaginable blood and soil Nazism,Being Brownexplains what we stand to lose when we allow democratic values to be trampled for the sake of political expediency, and demonstrates how understanding the Latino question can fortify democratic practice. Being Brownprovides the historical vocabulary for understanding why the Latino body politic is central to the country's future and why Sonia Sotomayor's biography provides an important window into understanding America, and the country's largest minority majority, at this historical juncture. In the process,Being Browncounters alternative facts with historical precision and ethical clarity to invigorate the best of democratic practice at ahistorical moment when we need it most. Trade Review"Being Brown reads, and feels, like the right book at the right time. The dream of the ‘Brown Democratic Commons’ that drives so much of Lázaro Lima’s thought, and his hope, in this transformative study has never felt so possible, and so impossible, at the same time." * Latino Studies *Table of ContentsOverview Introduction. On Being Brown in the Democratic Commons Part I. A latina for the nation 1. Sonia Sotomayor and “the Latino Question” 2. Sonia Sotomayor’s Elusive Embrace Part II. Losing Sonia Sotomayor 3. Sonia Sotomayor, the Mediapheme 4. Sonia Sotomayor and Other States of Debt Coda. Thinking Otherwise: Sonia Sotomayor and the Emergence of Latino Legal Thought Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography
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University of California Press Louder and Faster
Book Synopsis2020Alan Merriam Prize for Best Book Published in Ethnomusicology,Society for Ethnomusicology A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. LouderandFaster is a cultural study of the phenomenon of Asian American taiko, the thundering, athletic drumming tradition that originated in Japan. Immersed in the taiko scene for twenty years, Deborah Wong has witnessed cultural and demographic changes and the exponential growth and expansion of taiko particularly in Southern California. Through her participatory ethnographic work, she reveals a complicated story embedded in memories of Japanese American internment and legacies of imperialism, Asian American identity and politics, a desire to be seen and heard, and the intersection of culture and global capitalism. Exploring the materialities of the drums, costumes, and bodies that make sound, analyzing the relationship of these to capitalist multiculturalism, and investigating the gender politics of tTrade Review"Wong’s thick analysis of her sources has resulted in a book that effectively addresses all aspects of taiko. . . .Her exceptional skill at descriptive language and weaving together word, picture, and sound results in an engaging, entertaining, and relatable account." * California History *
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University of California Press University Babylon
Book SynopsisFrom the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life. Collaborations between universities and Hollywood entities have disseminated influential ideas of race, gender, class, and sexual difference. Even more directly, Hollywood has drawn writers, actors, and other talent from ranks of professors and students while also promoting the industry in classrooms, curricula, and film studies programs. In addition to founding film schools, university administrators have offered campuses as filming locations. In UniversityBabylon, CurtisMarez argues that cinema has been central to the uneven incorporation and exclusion of different kinds of students, professors, and knowledge. Working together, Marez argues, film and educational institutions have produced a powerful ideology that links respectability to academic merit in order to marginalize and manage people of color. Combining concepts and methods from critical university studies, ethnic studiTrade Review"Marez convincingly delineates how a particular idea of the university has served—and continues to serve—to define belonging and merit on college campuses in terms of white supremacy and patriarchal heteronormativity." * American Literary History *
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University of California Press The Boundless Sea
Book SynopsisThe last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro's most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro's previous books, Island World and Pineapple Culture, sought to deconstruct islands and continents, tropical and temperate zones, this book interrogates the assumed divides between space and time, memoir and history, and the historian and the writing of history. Okihiro uses himselffrom Okinawan roots, growing up on a sugar plantation in Hawai'i, researching in Botswana, and teaching in Californiato reveal the historian's craft involving diverse methodologies and subject matters. Okihiro's imaginative narrative weaves back and forth through decades and across vast spatial and societal differences, theorized as historical formations, to critique history's conventions. Taking its title from a translation of the author's surname, The Boundless Sea is a deeply personal and reflective volume that challenges how we think about timTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Remembrance Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. Subject-Self 1. Black Stream (Obāban) 2. Self (Okāsan) 3. Naturalizations (Otōsan) PART 2. Subjects 4. Extinctions 5. Third World 6. Antipodes 7. History Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Boundless Sea Self and History
Book SynopsisThe last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro's most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro's previous books, Island World and Pineapple Culture, sought to deconstruct islands and continents, tropical and temperate zones, this book interrogates the assumed divides between space and time, memoir and history, and the historian and the writing of history. Okihiro uses himselffrom Okinawan roots, growing up on a sugar plantation in Hawai'i, researching in Botswana, and teaching in Californiato reveal the historian's craft involving diverse methodologies and subject matters. Okihiro's imaginative narrative weaves back and forth through decades and across vast spatial and societal differences, theorized as historical formations, to critique history's conventions. Taking its title from a translation of the author's surname, The Boundless Sea is a deeply personal and reflective volume that challenges how we think about time and space, notions of history. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Remembrance Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. Subject-Self 1. Black Stream (Obāban) 2. Self (Okāsan) 3. Naturalizations (Otōsan) PART 2. Subjects 4. Extinctions 5. Third World 6. Antipodes 7. History Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Fruteros Street Vending Illegality and Ethnic
Book SynopsisThis book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the ethnic cage to explain both the promise and pain of community.Trade Review"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References Index
£64.00
University of California Press Fruteros Street Vending Illegality and Ethnic
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References Index
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