Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisAndean Meltdown examines how climate change and its consequences for Peru's glaciers are affecting the country's water supply and impacting Andean society and culture in unprecedented ways. Drawing on forty years of extensive research, relationship building, and community engagement in Peru, Karsten Paerregaard provides an ethnographic exploration of Andean ritual practices and performances in the context of an altered climate. By documenting Andean peoples' responses to rapid glacier retreat and urgent water shortages, Paerregaard considers the myriad ways climate change intersects with environmental, social, and political change. Apathbreaking contribution to cultural anthropology and environmental humanities, Andean Meltdown challenges prevailing theoretical thinking about the culture-nature nexus and offers a new perspective on Andean peoples' understanding of their role as agents in the shifting relationship between humans and nonhumans. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Water, Power, and Offerings 2 • Tapay: The Offering Must Go On 3 • Cabanaconde: The Hole in the Channel 4 • Huaytapallana: The Apu That Is Dying 5 • Quyllurit’i: The Glacier That Shines Like a Star Conclusion Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisPressing Onwardcenters the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, engaging cognitive and social strategies to resist racial, economic, and gender-based oppression to seguir adelante, or press onward. Both a contemporary view of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racially minoritized populations and a timeless account of the ways immigration enforcement and healthcare inequality affect migrant mothers, PressingOnward uses ethnography to tell a greater story of persistence amid long-standing structural violence.Trade Review"[Cerdeña’s] own experiences as an activist and volunteer strengthen her commentary on the failures of health care services available to undocumented women, particularly in relation to prenatal and maternity needs. . . .. In the end, it is their words that give this work coherence and meaning. . . .Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: On Love Alone 1. Leaving 2. Moving 3. Arriving 4. Mothering 5. Surviving Conclusion: Onward Appendix A. Methods Appendix B. Ethnographic Tables Appendix C. Organizations for Immigration and Health Policy Reform and Activism References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Cerdeña’s] own experiences as an activist and volunteer strengthen her commentary on the failures of health care services available to undocumented women, particularly in relation to prenatal and maternity needs. . . .. In the end, it is their words that give this work coherence and meaning. . . .Recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction: On Love Alone 1. Leaving 2. Moving 3. Arriving 4. Mothering 5. Surviving Conclusion: Onward Appendix A. Methods Appendix B. Ethnographic Tables Appendix C. Organizations for Immigration and Health Policy Reform and Activism References Index

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Book SynopsisRacist Culture offers an anti-essentialist and non-reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity throughout modernity. He shows that rascisms are often not aberrant or irrational but consistent with prevailing social conceptions, particularly of the reasonable and the normal. He shows too how this process is being extended and renewed by categories dominant in present day social sciences: the West; the underclass; and the primitive. This normalization of racism reflected in the West mirrors South Africa an its use and conception of space. Goldberg concludes with an extended argument for a pragmatic, antiracist practice.Trade Review"It is a significant and much needed contribution to studies of racism. As an advance on the existing literature, it is unusually important. Its scholarship is impressive, it is highly readable and it will be of widespread interest among scholars and students.... should also be of interest to general readers." Peter Fitzpatrick, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of Kent at Canterbury Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction: Racial Subjects. 2. Modernity, Race and Morality. 3. Racialized Discourse. 4. The Masks of Race. 5. Racist Exclusions. 6. Racisms and Rationalities. 7. Racial Knowledge. 8. Polluting the Body Politic: Race and Urban Location. 9. Taking Race Pragmatically. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis history of the Afrikaner peoples begins with their arrival in Southern Africa in 1652 and leads up to the present day. The account covers the establishment of the Dutch East India trading post in the Cape, the Great Trek of the 1830s and the democratic elections of 1994.Trade Review"Godfrey Le May is a distinguished political scientist, expert in British constitutional documents, but also in South African politics. He was Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand for many years before moving to Worcester College, Oxford. Few people are better qualified to unpick the fibres of the Afrikaner's history, a history bundled up with the involvement of the British in South Africa. Le May describes the Afrikaner quest for independence and survival elegantly and straightforwardly. his comparison of the Afrikaner choice of survival at Vereeniging in 1902 with de Klerk's choice of survival in 1990 is telling. Afrikaners' history is one of having to yield to force majeure, and it is this sense of having been wronged which has often motivated them even while they were being reviled for the far greater wrongs they visited on the black majority. For at least 200 years, Afrikaners have been aware of their uniqueness, a European people cut off from their roots, living in a continent where they have felt themselves under threat from the indigenous people and from colonial interference. The Afrikaner dream of complete independence to live as they wished, to co-opt the natives, to farm broad acres, to enjoy their exclusivity, has been a powerful element in their folk memory. South Africa was their country: other claimants - the blacks, the British, the missionaries and the adventurer capitalists - were required to acknowledge this truth. The Afrikaner quest for independence from Britain was doomed and their dream of domination of the subcontinent was, from the start, unrealistic. Even dressed up as a science, as the grand apartheid of the Verwoerd years, it was rank nonsense. It could have worked only if it had been accompanied by genuine partition, so there is some irony in the Right's, admittedly faltering, demands for their own homeland now. But the Afrikaners, although they said they wanted to keep apart from the black person in South Africa, really wanted to maintain the old master-servant relationship, in which they took comfort in ways far too complex for the world to understand. So Afrikaners passed the years 1948 to 1990 in the expectation of something which could never be achieved. Yet there have always been two opposing strands in Afrikaner thought, as Le May details, which have competed for dominance. The one strang has been characterised as 'verlig' or enlightened and the other as 'verkramp' or cramped. Le May shows this at work in literature and the arts (Prime Minister Vorster's brother said of an early Andre Brink novel: 'If this is literature, Sunday school is a brothel'); and of course in politics many of the notable opposition leaders have been Afrikaners. It is Le May's thesis that de Klerk's success was the triumph of the enlightened, but none the less achieved in the interest of survival only. Afrikaner politics, hitherto, has never been too scrupulous about the rights or hopes of others. When, in 1994, the Afrikaners were, as Le May says, demoted to a permanent political minority, their great trek of the mind ended. It remains to be seen how they will come to terms with this enormous psychological change. I would guess that they will try to portray themselves as authentic Africans, which after all is what 'Afrikaner' means. To do this they will make common cause with the Coloured people of the Cape. I have only one complaint about Le May's excellent book: it is a little short on detail about how the Afrikaners managed to come round to accepting the changes in South Africa. For example, there is no single reference to Frederik Van Zyl Slabert, one of the architects of the transformation, nor to the now well-documented efforts of some National Party ministers before and during the Kempton Park negotiations. The third force - of the dissenters in the police and military establishment - and its work will undoubtedly colour any future evaluation of the final years of Afrikaner power, but again little information is offered. Nevertheless, if the last chapter is somewhat cursory, this is in every other respect a concise, elegant and perceptive study." Daily Telegraph Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Maps. A Note on Names. Introduction. 1. Arrivals. 2. Dispersal. 3. Boer Independence Gained and Lost. 4. The First 'Freedom War'. 5. The Second 'Freedom War'. 6. Humiliation and Revival. 7. The Rise of Hertzog. 8. Division and Reunion. 9. The Triumph of Republicanism. 10. Apartheid: Its Variations and its Collapse. Epilogue. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging volume integrates documentary sources and contemporary archaeological evidence to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Swahili history, anthropology, language and culture.Trade Review"[Horton and Middleton's] portrait of the Swahili is drawn from multiple sources of data, including archival records, ethnographic fieldwork, and recent archaeological finds expertly providing comprehensive, up-to-date accounts if African peoples that are both scholarly and accessible." CHOICE "Despite their high profile, the identity of the Swahili has been elusive to define. The sensible discussion of this issue by Horton & Middleton should finally put this question to rest ... The Swahili is a fine addition to the series on the peoples of Africa published by Blackwell. South African Archaeological Bulletin "Well supplied with maps and plates depicting locales, excavations, and architecture, the book will be useful to a general readership, as well as to younger scholars interested in the African littoral. The archeological chapters are very informative."Greg Cameron, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Swahili Coast. 2. Origins. 3. The Acceptance of Islam. 4. The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean World. 5. The Trading System of the Swahili Coast. 6. The Urban Landscape. 7. The Social Landscape. 8. Governance and Politics. 9. The Swahili in a Changing World. 10. Constructing the Mercantile Landscape. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisArgues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of the modern nation state, and to its ongoing management. This book shows that debates and struggles about race in a wide variety of societies are really about the nature of political constitution and community.Trade Review"Goldberg offers a compelling, historically grounded and powerful set of analytic tools to understand the pernicious synergy on which racisms and modern states have thrived. The Racial State offers that rare form of engaged scholarship speaks to the theoretical and the everyday, that joins analytic innovation and nuance, political commitment, and historical breadth." (Ann Laura Stoler, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) "The Racial State is a worthy contribution, following Omi and Winant's theory, to our understanding of modern racial formation. Commanding the canon of political philosophy and legal theory, Goldberg provides us with a thorough account of how racial distinction, exclusion, management and terror have been historically the reason and practice of the modern state." (Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The State of Race Theory. 1. States of Racial Distinction. 2. The Time of Racial States. 3. The State of Liberalism’s Limits. 4. Racial Rule. 5. Racial States. 6. Legislating Race. 7. States of Whiteness. 8. Raceless States. 9. Conclusion: Stating the Difference. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Offers a new conceptual apparatus for thinking about developments and transformations in the a racial statea . * Integrates racial theory with state theory, arguing that race is integral to the formation and management of states.Trade Review"Goldberg offers a compelling, historically grounded and powerful set of analytic tools to understand the pernicious synergy on which racisms and modern states have thrived. The Racial State offers that rare form of engaged scholarship speaks to the theoretical and the everyday, that joins analytic innovation and nuance, political commitment, and historical breadth." (Ann Laura Stoler, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) "The Racial State is a worthy contribution, following Omi and Winant's theory, to our understanding of modern racial formation. Commanding the canon of political philosophy and legal theory, Goldberg provides us with a thorough account of how racial distinction, exclusion, management and terror have been historically the reason and practice of the modern state." (Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The State of Race Theory. 1. States of Racial Distinction. 2. The Time of Racial States. 3. The State of Liberalism’s Limits. 4. Racial Rule. 5. Racial States. 6. Legislating Race. 7. States of Whiteness. 8. Raceless States. 9. Conclusion: Stating the Difference. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisBringing together canonical philosophical texts from African, African--American, Afro--Caribbean, and Black European thinkers, this major new anthology is designed to serve both as a textbook and as the authoritative reference volume in Africana philosophical and cultural studies.Trade Review"This powerful and wide ranging anthology is ideal for classroom use. The issues discussed are central: the selections are engaging; and the contributors are of the highest order. It will help bring about a long overdue change in the philosophical canon." Robert Bernasconi, University of Memphis "We are indeed blessed to have Eze's wide-ranging and magnificent anthology. It brings together some of the most stimulating texts of African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black European philosophy. Its ambitious effort will serve well all those interested in African studies and students and specialists of philosophy in general." V. Y. Mudimbe, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements.. Part I: What is African Philosophy?. 1. African Philosophy: Yesterday and Today (Joseph I. Omoregbe). 2. Philosophy and Post-Colonial Africa (Tsenay Serequeberhan). 3. African, African American, Africana Philosophy (Lucius Outlaw). 4. The African Foundations of Greek Philosophy (Henry Olela). 5. Contemporary Moslem Philosophies in North Africa (Mourad Wahba). Part II: Human Nature: Mind, Body, and Self-Identity. 6. The Relation of Okra (Soul) and Honam (Body): An Akan Conception (Kwame Gyekye). 7. "Chi" in Igbo Cosmology (Chinua Achebe). 8. The Sociality of Self (Okot p'Bitek). Part III: Philosophy, Politics, and Society. 9. Leaders must not be Masters (Julius Nyerere). 10. Consciencism (Kwame Nkrumah). 11. Two Traditions in African American Political Philosophy (Bernard Boxill). 12. Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle I: Black Revolution Universal Dimensions of Black Struggle II: Human Rights, Civil Rights (Malcom X). 13. Philosophy, Politics, and Power: An Afro-American Perspective (Cornel West). Part IV: Ethics. 14. "Mutumin Kirki": The Concept of the Good Man in Hausa (Anthony H.M. Kirk-Greene). 15. Yoruba Philosophy: Individuality, Community, and the Moral Order (Segun Gbadegesin). 16. Concerning Violence (Frantz Fanon). 17. Morals and the Value of Human Life (M.M. Agrawal). 18. Moral Reasoning versus Racial Reasoning (Cornel West). Part V: On Knowledge and Science. 19. Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culture I. Elements of Physics in Yoruba Culture II (Supo Ogunbunmi and Henry M. Olaitan). 20. "Divination": A Way of Knowing (Philip M. Peek). 21. The Problem of Knowledge in "Divination": The Example of Ifa (E. Chukwudi Eze). 22. The Concept of Truth in the Akan Language (Kwasi Wiredu). 23. African Traditional Thought and Western Science (Robin Horton). 24. How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought (Kwasi Wiredu). 25. Literacy, Criticism, and the Growth of Knowledge (Jack Goody). Part VI: Philosophy and Colonial Encounter. 26. Modern Western Philosophy and African Colonialism (E. Chukwudi Eze). 27. Discourse on Colonialism (Aime Cesaire). 28. The Wretched of the Earth (Frantz Ganon). 29. Colonialism and the Colonized: Violence and Coutner-Violence (Tsenay Serequeberhan). 30. Cultural Nationalism in the Colonial Period (R. L. Okonkwo). 31. National Liberation and Culture (Return to the Source) (Amilcar Cabral). Part VII: Philosophy and Race. 32. The Conservation of Races (W. E. B. Du Bois). 33. The Illusions of Race (Kwame Anthony Appiah). 34. Du Bois on the Invention of Race (Tommy L. Lott). 35. Racism and Culture (Frantz Fanon). 36. Racism and Feminism (Bell Hooks). Part VIII: Philosophy and Gender. 37. The Woman Question: African and Western Perspectives (Marie Pauline Eboh). 38. Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory (Bell Hooks). 39. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images 9Patricia Hill Collins). 40. The Erasure of Black Women (Elizabeth V. Spelman). 41. The Curious Coincidence of Feminine and African Moralities Sandra Harding). Part IX: Philosophy and Transatlantic African Slavery. 42. The Nature of Slavery (Fredrick Douglas). 43. The Concept of Slavery (Winthrop D. Jordan). 44. The Origin of Negro Slavery (Eric Williams). 45. The Interesting Narrative (Olaudah Equiano). 46. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (Ottobah Cugoano). 47. Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave (Houston A. Baker, Jr.). Part X: Ontology and the Nature of Art. 48. Breath (Birago Diop). 49. Bantu Ontology (Placide Tempels). 50. The Igbo World and Its Art (Chinua Achebe). 51. The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy (Wole Soyinka). 52. The Duke's Blues (Stanley Crouch). Part XI: Philosophy of Religion. 53. God, Faith, and the Nature of Knowledge (Zera Yacob). 54. Must God Remain Greek (Robert E. Hood). 55. The Problem of Evil: An Akan Perspective (Kwame Gyekye). 56. Black Women and Men: Partnership in the 1990s (Bell Hooks and Cornel West). Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this powerful volume, 15 leading American philosophers examine and critically reassess Douglass''s significance for contemporary social and political thought. Philosophically, Douglass''s work sought to establish better ways of thinking, especially in the light of his convictions about our humanity and democratic legitimacy - convictions that were culturally and historically shaped by his experience of, and struggle against, the institution of American slavery. Contributors include Bernard R. Boxill, Angela Y. Davis, Lewis R. Gordon, Leonard Harris, Tommy L. Lott, Howard McGary, and John P. Pittman.Trade Review"Frederick Douglass and his writings shine as beacons of freedom and hope. Bill Lawson and Frank Kirkland have put us in their debt for commissioning - from the best minds practicing philosophy in the African-American traditions - powerful essays on the philosophical significance of Douglass's work. The book will invigorate Douglass scholarship and philosophy, and fan the embers of our love of freedom and hope." Emmanuel Eze, Bucknell UniversityTable of ContentsList of Contributors ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I: Racial Assimilation And Emigration 19 Part II: Natural Law And American's Founding Documents 83 Part III: Enlightenment And Enslavement 143 Part IV: Moral Suasion And Rebellion 205 Part V: Incarcerating And Lynching Black Bodies 311 Part VI: Douglass (1818-95): One Hundred Years Later 363 Selected Bibliography 392 Index 395

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Book SynopsisPresents an analysis of the enduring problems of race and social justice in American life. This book examines African American alienation and exploitations, black reparations, collective responsibility, affirmative action, race and IQ, police discretion, racial integration and racial separatism, and the underclass question.Trade Review"Calling the collection 'a model of informed and informing civil discourse at its best that invites us to join in like fashion,' noted philosopher Lucius Outlaw of Haverford College praises McGary as 'a journeyman scholar-teacher respected for (his) passionate engaging of some of the most challenging of the issues of contemporary social, political, and moral life.'" Lori Chambers, Rutgers Magazine "The care with which he [McGary] presents the issues and the relevant arguments makes this an inviting text for undergraduate as well as graduate courses." Ethics, vol. 3, July 2001. "Blackwell has done a service to social philosophy and African-American philosophy by bringing this collection of important essays to print. Addressing problems of racism and the search for social justice in liberal political thought, they provide crucial insights that will revive the often politically bankrupt discipline of political philosophy by highlighting dimensions of it that are most relevant to problems of our day." – Lewis Gordon, Brown University and the University of the West Indies, at Mona, Jamaica, Author of Her Majesty Other Children "Reed Howard McGary’s essays in this book and you will experience insightful discussion of issues of justice that will likely challenge you by their compelling importance as well as by the model of clarity, patience, thoughtfulness, and principled moderation of passion that he invests in his discussions. Here is a model of informed and informing civil discourse at its best invites us to join in like fashion." – Lucius Outlaw, Haverford College Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: The Problem of Racism:. 1. Alienation and the African-American Experience. 2. Race and Class Exploitation. 3. Racial Integration and Racial Separatism: Conceptual Clarifications. 4. The African-American Underclass and the Question of Values. Part II: The Response to Racism:. 5. Morality and Collective Liability. 6. Justice and Reparations. 7. Reparations, Self-Respect, and Public Policy. 8. Affirmative Action: A Review and Commentary. Part III: Racism and its Remedies:. 9. The Race and IQ Controversy. 10. Police Discretion and Discrimination. 11. DuBois, the new Conservatism, and the Critique of African-American Leadership. 12. Racism, Social Justice, and Interracial Coalitions. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisArgues that many forms of African-American cultural expression display resistance through appropriation, and reconstitution, of denigrating representations fostered by the dominant racist culture. The text includes chapters on DuBois, Alain Locke and Sargent Johnson.Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Racist Discourse and the Negro-Ape Metaphor. 2. Slavery, Modernity and the Reclamation of Anterior Cultures. 3. Frederick Douglass on the Myth of the Black Rapist. 4. Du Bois on the Invention of Race. 5. Black Consciousness in the Art of Sargent Johnson. 6. Black Vernacular Representation and Cultural Malpractice. 7. Marooned in America: Black Urban Youth Culture and Social Pathology. 8. Black Marxist in Babylon: Bayard Rustin and the 1968 UFT Strike. 9. A No-Theory Theory of Contemporary Black Cinema. 10. Prime Time Blackness. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, race and ethnicity have been the focus of theoretical, political, and policy debates. This comprehensive and timely reader covers the range of topics that have been at the center of these debates including critical race theory, multiracial feminism, mixed race, whiteness, citizenship and globalization. Contributors include Angela Davis, Stuart Hall, Richard Delgado, Robert Miles, Michael Eric Dyson, Saskia Sassen, Etienne Balibar, Patricia Hill Collins, Renato Rosaldo, Stanley Aronowitz, and Collette Guillaumin.Trade Review“Race, Identity, and Citizenship provide a much-needed critical perspective on race and radicalized inequalities in contemporary capitalist society. It is an outstanding collection which will prove enormously useful to both established scholars in the field and young students.” Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara "A thoughtful introduction to current intellectual discourse and decisive policy issues regarding race and ethnicity in a global context." Jose Hernandez, City University of New York Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. Table of Contents. Part I: Mapping The Languages of Racism:. 1. Does "Race" Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on "Race Relations": Robert Miles and Rodolfo D. Torres. 2. I know it's not nice, but..."The changing face of 'race'": Colette Guillaumin. 3. The contours of racialization: Private structures, representations and resistance in the United States: Stephen Small. 4. Marxism, racism, and ethnicity: John Solomos and Les Back. 5. Postmodernism and the politics of racialized identities: Louis F. Mir¢n. Part II: Critical Multiracial Feminism:. 6. Theorizing difference from multiracial feminism: Maxine Baca Zinn and Bonnie Thornton Dill. 7. Ethnicity, gender relations and multiculturalism: Nira Yuval-Davis. 8. What's in a name? Womanism, black feminism, and beyond: Patricia Hill Collins. Part III: Fashioning Mixed Race:. 9. The colorblind multiracial dilemma: Racial categories reconsidered: John A. Powell. 10. Multiracial Asians: Models of ethnic identity: Maria P. P. Root. 11. Cipherspace: Latino identity past and present: J. Jorge Klor de Alva. Part IV: The Color(s) of Whiteness:. 12. Establishing the fact of whiteness: John Hartigan, Jr. 13. Constructions of whiteness in European and American anti-racism: Alastair Bonnett. 14. The labor of whiteness, the whiteness of labor, and the perils of whitewashing: Michael Eric Dyson. 15. The trickster's play: Whiteness in the subordination and liberation process: A¡da Hurtado. Part V: Cultural Citizenship, Multiculturalism, And The State:. 16. Citizenship: Richard Delgado. 17. Cultural citizenship, inequality, and multiculturalism: Renato Rosaldo. 18. Cultural citizenship as subject making: Immigrants negotiate racial and cultural boundaries in the United States: Aihwa Ong. Part VI: Locating Class:. 19. The site of class: Edna Bonacich. 20. Between nationality and class: Stanley Aronowitz. 21. Class racism: Etienne Balibar. Part VII: Globalized Futures And Racialized Identities:. 22. Multiculturalism and flexibility: Some new directions in global capitalism: Richard P. Appelbaum. 23. Analytic Borderlands: Race, gender and representation in the new city: Saskia Sassen. 24. Globalization, the racial divide, and a new citizenship: Michael C. Dawson. Part VIII: Critical Engagements:. 25. Interview Stuart Hall: Cultural and power: Peter Osborne and Lynne Segal. 26. Angela Y. Davis: reflections on race, class, and gender in the USA: Lisa Lowe. Index.

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the origins of contemporary African American Vernacular English (AAVE), one of the oldest, yet unsolved, questions in sociolinguistics. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of tense and aspect as manifested in recorded conversations with 101 former slaves and their descendants.Trade Review"This exhaustive and compelling study includes numerous charts, tables, and figures that aid comprehension. Strongly recommended for advanced sociolinguists." Choice "[African American Eglish in the Diaspora] constitutes both a treasure of information and an indispensable tool for linguistic investigation." Canadian Journal of Linguistics "The present reviewer, accustomed to the scarcity of data presented by colleagues and scholars engaged in building hypotheses on the diachronic French connections in the Americas, popular, vernacular or creole, and to the paucity of the methodological apparatus exhibited, found this reading of Poplack and Tagliamonte's book a veritable delight; it is a welcome model in our field." The Carrier Pidgin "This book is a milestone in the development of the historical and evolutionary approach to linguistic analysis. I would like to think that this clear demonstration ...would close at least one chapter in the history of the creole controversies. . . Poplack and Tagliamonte have done a splendid job of bringing people back into the study of change and variation." William Labov, University of Pennsylvania. "From now on, no serious inquiry into the nature and history of African-American Vernacular English can afford not to use this book as a benchmark. At last, a thorough and closely reasoned case that despite this dialect's current status as a crucial marker of African-American identity, its main roots are in Great Britain." John McWhorter, University of California at Berkeley. "African American English in the Diaspora is well researched, easy to read, and a significant contribution to understanding the impact of social relations on the linguistic development of African American English in the Diaspora. The original research goes beyond a linguistic study, it is a treasure for historians as well." Patrick Kakembo, Director of African Canadian Services Division, Department of Education, Nova Scotia.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Series Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. African Americans in the Samaná Peninsula. 3. African Americans in Nova Scotia: Settlement and Data. 4. External Controls. 5. Method. 6. The Past Tense. 7. The Present Tense. 8. The Future Tense. 9. Conclusions: An Essay on the Origins and Development of African American English. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisRace Critical Theories brings together many of the key contributors to critical theorizing about race and racism over the past twenty years. Each previously published text is accompanied by a fresh statement - in most cases written by the authors themselves - regarding the political context, implications and effects of the original contribution.Trade Review"I applaud the editors for their state-of-the-art collection in race and racism studies.This volume will serve as a valuable teaching tool." Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University "This anthology provides a remarkable synthesis of race theorizing across the humanities and the social sciences – and yet also manages to be both historical and vitally contemporary. Indeed, by incorporating the self-conscious reflections of current thinkers, it often has the quality of a living and breathing text." Troy Duster, New York University "In the current publishers' rush for student driven grab-and-go Readers, Race Critical Theories represents something of an exception - a collection of seminal texts with a clear critical intellectual project driving its production and seeking to move research agendas forward." Ethnic and Racial Studies "[T]his is an excellent undergraduate text - bringing together sizeable portions of seminal contemporary discourse and feminist-centered writing on racism and the writng it has influenced - which is likely to prove of great value in teaching." Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: From Racial Demarcations to Multiple Identifications (David Theo Goldberg and Philomena Essed). Part I: Conceptual Mapping, in Chronological Order (c. 1980-2000). 1. Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental (Edward Said). 2. Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance (Stuart Hall). 3. Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspectives (Angela Y. Davis). 4. A New Approach to the Study of Racism (Martin Barker). 5. The Genealogy of Western Racism (Cornel West). 6. Of Mimicry and Man. The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse (Homi Bhabha). 7. Racial Formation (Michael Omi and Howard Winant). 8. Preface to Dominance Without Hegemony. History and Power in Colonial India (Ranajit Guha). 9. Defining Black Feminist Thought (Patricia Hill Collins). 10. Everyday Racism: A New Approach to the Study of Racism (Philomena Essed). 11. Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Chandra, T. Mohanty). 12. The Nation Form:History and Ideology (Etienne Balibar). 13. Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria (Ruth Wodak). 14. The end of Antiracism (Paul Gilroy). 15. Black Matters (Toni Morrison). 16. Modernity, Race and Morality (David Theo Goldberg). 17. Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism (Teun A. van Dijk). 18. Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States (David Roediger). 19. Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race (Manning Marable). 20. A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People (Maria Root). 21. Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth (Ann Stoler). 22. Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the 'Taken-for-Granted' World (Maria Markus). Part II: Reflections, in Thematic Order (1999-2000). Histories and Values. 23. Reflections on 'The Nation Form: History and Ideology' (Etienne Balibar). 24. Reflections on 'Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth' (Ann Stoler). 25. Reflections on 'Modernity, Race and Morality' (David Theo Goldberg). 26. Reflections 'Of Mimicry and Man. The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' (H. Bhabha and Kim Benita Furumoto). Knowledge and Representation. 27. Reflections on 'The Genealogy of Western Racism' (C. West and Howard McGary). 28. Reflections on 'Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental' (E. Said and Saree Makdisi). 29. Reflections on 'Black Matters' (T. Morisson and Suzette Spencer). 30. Reflections on 'Defining Black Feminist Thought' (Patricia Hill Collins). Systems and Experiences. 31. Reflections on 'Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance' (Stuart Hall). 32. Reflections on 'Racial Formation' (Michael Omi & Howard Winant). 33. Reflections on 'Everyday Racism' (Philomena Essed). 34. Reflections on 'Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the 'Taken-for-Granted' World' (Maria Markus). Elites and Politics. 35. Reflections on 'The New Racism' (Martin Barker). 36. Reflections on 'Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism' (Teun A. van Dijk). 37. Reflections on 'Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria' (Ruth Wodak). 38. Reflections on 'Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States' (David Roediger). 39. Reflections on 'Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race' (M. Marable and Johanna Fernandez). Dominance and Struggles. 40. Reflections on the 'Perface' to 'Dominance Without Hegemony' (R. Guha and Kelli Kobor). 41. Reflections on 'Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism' (C. T. Mohanty and Sue Kim). 42. Reflections on 'The End of Antiracism' (P. Gilroy and Vikki Bell). 43. Reflections on 'A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People' (Maria Root). 44. Reflections on 'Education and Liberation: Black women's Perspectives' (Angela Y. Davis). Index.

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Book SynopsisRace Critical Theories brings together many of the key contributors to critical theorizing about race and racism over the past twenty years. Each previously published text is accompanied by a fresh statement - in most cases written by the authors themselves - regarding the political context, implications and effects of the original contribution.Trade Review"I applaud the editors for their state-of-the-art collection in race and racism studies.This volume will serve as a valuable teaching tool." Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University "This anthology provides a remarkable synthesis of race theorizing across the humanities and the social sciences – and yet also manages to be both historical and vitally contemporary. Indeed, by incorporating the self-conscious reflections of current thinkers, it often has the quality of a living and breathing text." Troy Duster, New York University "In the current publishers' rush for student driven grab-and-go Readers, Race Critical Theories represents something of an exception - a collection of seminal texts with a clear critical intellectual project driving its production and seeking to move research agendas forward." Ethnic and Racial Studies "[T]his is an excellent undergraduate text - bringing together sizeable portions of seminal contemporary discourse and feminist-centered writing on racism and the writng it has influenced - which is likely to prove of great value in teaching." Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: From Racial Demarcations to Multiple Identifications (David Theo Goldberg and Philomena Essed). Part I: Conceptual Mapping, in Chronological Order (c. 1980-2000). 1. Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental (Edward Said). 2. Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance (Stuart Hall). 3. Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspectives (Angela Y. Davis). 4. A New Approach to the Study of Racism (Martin Barker). 5. The Genealogy of Western Racism (Cornel West). 6. Of Mimicry and Man. The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse (Homi Bhabha). 7. Racial Formation (Michael Omi and Howard Winant). 8. Preface to Dominance Without Hegemony. History and Power in Colonial India (Ranajit Guha). 9. Defining Black Feminist Thought (Patricia Hill Collins). 10. Everyday Racism: A New Approach to the Study of Racism (Philomena Essed). 11. Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Chandra, T. Mohanty). 12. The Nation Form:History and Ideology (Etienne Balibar). 13. Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria (Ruth Wodak). 14. The end of Antiracism (Paul Gilroy). 15. Black Matters (Toni Morrison). 16. Modernity, Race and Morality (David Theo Goldberg). 17. Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism (Teun A. van Dijk). 18. Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States (David Roediger). 19. Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race (Manning Marable). 20. A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People (Maria Root). 21. Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth (Ann Stoler). 22. Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the 'Taken-for-Granted' World (Maria Markus). Part II: Reflections, in Thematic Order (1999-2000). Histories and Values. 23. Reflections on 'The Nation Form: History and Ideology' (Etienne Balibar). 24. Reflections on 'Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth' (Ann Stoler). 25. Reflections on 'Modernity, Race and Morality' (David Theo Goldberg). 26. Reflections 'Of Mimicry and Man. The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' (H. Bhabha and Kim Benita Furumoto). Knowledge and Representation. 27. Reflections on 'The Genealogy of Western Racism' (C. West and Howard McGary). 28. Reflections on 'Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental' (E. Said and Saree Makdisi). 29. Reflections on 'Black Matters' (T. Morisson and Suzette Spencer). 30. Reflections on 'Defining Black Feminist Thought' (Patricia Hill Collins). Systems and Experiences. 31. Reflections on 'Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance' (Stuart Hall). 32. Reflections on 'Racial Formation' (Michael Omi & Howard Winant). 33. Reflections on 'Everyday Racism' (Philomena Essed). 34. Reflections on 'Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the 'Taken-for-Granted' World' (Maria Markus). Elites and Politics. 35. Reflections on 'The New Racism' (Martin Barker). 36. Reflections on 'Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism' (Teun A. van Dijk). 37. Reflections on 'Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria' (Ruth Wodak). 38. Reflections on 'Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States' (David Roediger). 39. Reflections on 'Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race' (M. Marable and Johanna Fernandez). Dominance and Struggles. 40. Reflections on the 'Perface' to 'Dominance Without Hegemony' (R. Guha and Kelli Kobor). 41. Reflections on 'Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism' (C. T. Mohanty and Sue Kim). 42. Reflections on 'The End of Antiracism' (P. Gilroy and Vikki Bell). 43. Reflections on 'A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People' (Maria Root). 44. Reflections on 'Education and Liberation: Black women's Perspectives' (Angela Y. Davis). Index.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophy is in its fourth millennium but this collection is the first of its kind. Twelve contemporary women of color who are American academic philosophers consider the methods and subjects of the discipline from perspectives partly informed by their experiences as African American, Asian American, Latina, Mixed Race and Native American.Trade Review"In this unique collection, Naomi Zack invites the twelve members of this select group of women of color to reflect on what they and their colleagues do, as philosophers. Their original and sometimes ground-breaking contributions critique traditional academic philosophy, apply traditional philosophical methods to topics of social relevance hitherto ignored by philosophers, and interpret traditional philosophy in ways that suggest new areas of study." Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado at Boulder "This is a splendid book. It will be important to research and teaching in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and other women's studies and race courses." Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles "The growing recognition of the important contributions of women philosophers of color, past and present, is a sign that there may still be hope for philosophers to transcend some of their prejudices. Blackwell has offered the profession a chance by publishing this pioneering volume that I am sure will stimulate research on the work of women philosophers included and those who I am sure will appear in subsequent volumes influenced by this important work. It will be a valuable addition to any library and certainly class discussions of contemporary engagements with ideas." Lewis R. Gordon, Brown University and the University of the West Indies at Mona, JamaicaTable of ContentsThe Contributors vii Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Part 1 Critique 23 1 “Discredited Knowledge” in the Nonfiction of Toni Morrison 25 Joy James 2 Cultural Alterity: Cross-cultural Communications and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts 44 Ofelia Schutte 3 Exploring the Sources of western Thought 69 V. F. Cordova 4 General Introduction to the Project: The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics 91 Adrian M. S. Piper Part 2 Activism and Application 133 5 Interview with Angela Y. Davis 135 George Yancy 6 That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory! Or Introducing America’s Indigenous Sovereign Nations Worldviews to Informal Logic Courses 152 Anne Schulherr Waters 7 The Libertarian Role Model and the Burden of Uplifting the Race 168 Barbara Hall 8 Interracial Marriage: Folk Ethics in Contemporary Philosophy 182 Anita L. Allen Part 3 New Directions 207 9 Asian Women: Invisibility, Locations, and Claims to Philosophy 209 Yoko Arisaka 10 On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant? 235 Linda Martin Alcoff 11 Cognitive Science and the Quest for a Theory of Properties 263 Dasiea Cavers-Huff 12 Descartes’ Realist Awake-Asleep Distinction and Naturalism 280 Naomi Zack Select Bibliography 303 Index 311

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of Black women's creative achievements. Writers and scholars in literature, film, television, theatre, music, spoken word, art, material culture, and other cultural forms explicate Black women's artistry within the context of an activist framework.Trade Review"Jacqueline Bobo helps us to see afresh the conscious creativity underlying Black women's cultural productions. What we have here is not so much 'criticism' as a reframed revelation." Akasha Gloria Hull, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Professor Bobo's text consist of seminal sources on Black women and Black feminist thought that will quicken and enliven contemporary discourse. It is an important work." Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.Table of ContentsPreface: Bearing Witness. Part I: Foundations. Overview. 1. Their Fiction Becomes Our Reality: Black Women Image Makers. (Mary Helen Washington). 2. Toward a Black Feminist Criticism. (Barbara Smith). 3. New Directions for Black Feminist Criticism. (Deborah E. McDowell). 4. But What Do We Think We Are Doing Anyway: The State of Black Feminist Criticism(s) or My Version of a Little Bit of History. (Barbara Christian). Supplementary Readings. Media Resources. Part II: The Moving Image. Overview. 5. Some Reflections on the Negro Actress: The Tattered Queens. (Ruby Dee). 6. Daughters of the Dust. (Jacqueline Bobo). 7. Below the Line: (Re)Calibrating the Filmic Gaze. (C. A. Griffith). 8. In My Mother's House: Black Feminist Aesthetics, Television, and A Raisin in the Sun. (Sheri Parks). Supplementary Readings. Media Resources. Part III: Art. Overview. 9. African-American Women Artists: An Historical Perspective. (Arna Alexander Bontemps and Jacqueline Fonvielle-Bontemps). 10. In Search of a Discourse and Critique/s That Center the Art of Black Women Artists. (Freida High W. Tesfagiorgis). 11. In Their Own Image. (Kellie Jones). 12. The Freedom to Say What She Pleases: A Coversation with Faith Ringgold. (Melody Graulich and Mara Witzling). Supplementary Readings. Media Resources. Part IV: Music and Spoken Word. Overview. 13. Black Women and Music: A Historical Legacy of Struggle. (Angela Y. Davis). 14. Never Trust a Big Butt and a Smile. (Tricia Rose). 15. Divas Declare a Spoken-Word Revolution. (Evelyn McDonnell). 16. 'A Laying on of Hands': Transcending the City in Ntozake Shange's for Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf. (Carolyn Mitchell). Supplementary Readings. Media Resources. Part V: Material Culture. Overview. 17. The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. (Audre Lorde). 18. African American Quilts: Paradigms of Black Diversity. (Cuesta Benberry). 19. Harriet Powers: Portrait of An African-American Quilter. (Gladys-Marie Fry). 20. Empathy, Energy, and Eating: Politics and Power in The Black Family Dinner Quilt Cookbook. (Sally Bishop Shigley). Supplementary Reading. Media Resources. Contributors. Media Resources Directory of Distributors. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn 1904, New York nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Mexican-Catholic families. The town's Anglo-Americans, furious at this transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children. The church sued but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the vigilantes. Gordon tells this gripping story.Trade ReviewIn her gripping book, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, Linda Gordon has written a model study of the creation and maintenance of race relations that manages to capture both the breathless sensationalism of the era's tabloids and the complexity of social status, shifting racial codes and the multiple uses of sex roles in social action...Gordon divides her story into six scenes, most of them devoted to some portion of the four days when the orphans' arrival engulfed Clifton-Morenci in a near riot followed by a mass kidnapping. Spliced between each scene is the history--long-term and proximate--of the towns' sociocultural landscape. It is an ingenious narrative device that enables her to reconstitute the distinct social structures of the area while rendering a taut journalistic account of the unfolding drama...The magnificence of her achievement [is] her masterly assembly of historical detail and acute sensitivity to the intricacies of human relations as mediated by power, prejudice and the passing of time. -- Stephen Lassonde * New York Times Book Review *If Gordon's book did nothing more than redeem from obscurity the story of the Arizona orphans, it would be an extraordinary contribution to social history. But Gordon has gone beyond that scanty written record, mainly from the court proceedings, to explore the motives of the Mexican and Anglo women...Gordon's achievement is that she so effectively and fair-mindedly delved into the site and unearthed this appalling and poignant story. -- Michael Kenney * Boston Globe *This is an unusual and interesting work of history, whose chief strength lies in the way it lovingly recreates the spirit of a particular Arizona community and, through its insistence on micro-historical detail, gives the reader a clear sense of how racial assumptions and antagonisms operated within everyday life. -- Paul Giles * Times Literary Supplement *A story of racism, vigilantism, and injustice that retains its grim fascination after nearly a century...The sordid but suspenseful story is told against a background that encompasses the mining industry, labor unions and even a waffling U.S. Supreme Court. * Parade Magazine *Gordon's extraordinary achievement in this book lies in her narrative strategy as much as in her insights as a social historian: she alternates dramatic short chapters detailing the events in the mining communities of Clifton-Morenci from the first to the fourth of October 1904 with longer, denser ones that reconstruct the conflation of class, gender, racial, religious, and economic interests that initiated the children's journey west from New York City and underlay their distribution by Father Mandin, the local priest. -- Gay Wachman * Women's Review of Books *Linda Gordon has used [the orphan abduction's] events to explore issues of race, gender, class, economics and theories of the family in a beautifully constructed narrative and analysis of a flashpoint in American domestic history...Gordon uses her multiplicity of sources with great skill, all the time reminding us that some participants in the story have left no record of their experiences, particularly the children's birth mothers, the children themselves, and the Mexican families with whom they were to be placed. She contextualises the event superbly, giving us a well-rounded portrait of Clifton-Morenci at the time, as well as taking us through the ideological and emotional processes which moved people to act as they did. -- Catriona Crowe * Irish Times *Historian Linda Gordon has unearthed a small, forgotten story, and told it exceptionally well...[The] astonishing story, less than a century old, contains much to ponder. Gordon does a masterful job probing class and race, gender and religion, family and border economics to shed light on conflicts unresolved to this day...She has crafted both an exhilarating yarn and a sober morality tale. -- Karen R. Long * Plain Dealer *[A] fascinating, almost cinematic book...Gordon has brilliantly retrieved history, in the process providing a vivid, complex addition to the growing scholarship on 'whiteness.' -- JoAnn Wypijewski * Lingua Franca Book Review *It is both fascinating and disturbing to delve into specific events of American history: Cultural biases explode, exploitation simmers, and religious identity is challenged. Linda Gordon's book confronts all these issues...Delving deeper and deeper into the American conscience, Gordon shatters layer upon layer of assumption. She has done her research, and the story she has written breathes life as a dragon breathes fire, burning sometimes accidentally, though oftentimes intentionally. As a challenge to preconceived notions of American history, as a reflection of cultural, religious and economic realities and as a how-to guide for retrieving important historical lessons, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction is fascinating, repelling and completely engrossing. -- Ian Graham * The Star-Ledger *In 1904, a group of New York nuns delivered 40 mostly Irish but entirely Catholic orphans to a remote Arizona mining town to be adopted by local Catholics. What happened next is the subject of historian Linda Gordon's compelling new book: For their act of Christian charity, the nuns were rewarded with near-lynching and public vilification of an intensity hard to fathom today. As Gordon makes clear in writing so alive it makes the reader smell sagebrush and white supremacy, the Eastern nuns didn't realize that, in turn-of-the-century Arizona, Catholic also meant Mexican, and Mexican meant inferior. -- Debra Dickerson * salon.com *In this remarkable history of an obscure event, Gordon skillfully casts light on myriad important subjects...[She] has done an extraordinary amount of research and has completely contextualized the orphan abduction. One finds learned chapters on the history of the Southwest, the copper mining industry, vigilantism, Mexican women, labor relations, and Catholicism. Especially informative are Gordon's lengthy discussions of historical definitions of whiteness and how the orphan abduction was instrumental in destroying the fluidity of race relations. -- E. W. Carp * Choice *Economics, religion, and racial and sexual politics intersect in this account of the social upheaval caused when Mexicans in a small Arizona mining town in 1904 adopted 40 abandoned Irish Catholic children from New York. Gordon's compelling account of the incident traces the legal challenges by a Catholic charity group that went all the way to the Supreme Court. * Booklist, an "Editor's Choice 1999" selection *Gordon, drawing on interviews, newspapers, and the court transcript, recreates the kidnapping and the ensuing courtroom drama in intoxicating detail. Along the way, Gordon cracks open a number of hot issues, from labor relations to women's roles. At the center is her examination of the social construction of race; you won't find a more illuminating or nuanced discussion of the invention of whiteness than Gordon's...Gordon has written the rare history book that readers won't be able to put down. * Kirkus Reviews *Economics, religion, and racial and sexual politics intersect in this fascinating account of the social upheaval caused when Mexicans in a small Arizona mining town in 1904 adopted 40 abandoned Irish-Catholic children from New York. The children were brought West by Catholic nuns on the little-known orphan trains that transported children of poor families across the country for adoption. Gordon has rendered a well-researched analysis of the social and racial factors that aroused passions enough to send posses to 'rescue' the children and that nearly lead to the lynching of a priest. Gordon puts the incident in the context of turn-of-the-century industrialization and changing racial definitions that reclassified ethnic groups, such as the Irish as whites. Gordon uses news accounts and court transcripts to render a compelling account of the incident and the legal challenges by the Catholic charity group that went all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court and ended in judgement in favor of the white vigilantes, reinforcing racial and religious attitudes of the time. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *These painstakingly researched chapters could well stand on their own as a powerful history of the miners' lives and a superior case study of emigrant labor at the turn of the century. -- Duncan Stewart * Library Journal *Written in the lush prose and plots of a Joseph Conrad novel, Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction is [an] extraordinary chronicle...More than an isolated case of frontier vigilantism, the affair swirled into the national headlines, fanning the flames of the caustic debate over religion and race...Peeling off the overlapping intrigues, issues, and players of the incident with the precision of a historical detective, Gordon, a leading social historian on issues of gender and family, goes far beyond the question of blatant racism in a racist epoch to examine the cultural and historical makeup that allowed the affair to happen in the first place...Her meticulously researched and reasoned chronicle is a masterwork of historical analysis that deserves to remain on bookshelves far into the future. -- Jeff Biggers * Bloomsbury Review *Gordon is genuinely curious and deeply thoughtful about the complex ways in which race, class and gender intersect to produce pivotal moments like this one. The book that she has written should be of interest not only to scholars of the American southwest, but to anyone curious about how ideologies make us what we are. -- Christina Thompson * Times Higher Education Supplement *[Gordon] uses the plight of the children...to introduce her readers to the racial, social and cultural situation in the Arizona minds and in the country in general. -- William R. Wineke * Wisconsin State Journal *Gordon's account takes place in six scenes, with historical interludes between them. Her narrative voice is enticing, and her descriptions vivid...This book provides a gripping piece of a puzzled history, not only of American racism, but of the Catholic experience of it. -- Peggy Ellsberg * Commonweal *Linda Gordon's The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction is a spellbinding narrative history--the kind of rigorous but engaging work that other academics dream of writing. Gordon here unearths a long forgotten story about abandoned Irish-Catholic children in turn-of-the-century New York who were sent out to Arizona to be adopted by good Catholic families. The hitch was that those families turned out to be dark-skinned Mexicans. What ensued was a custody battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The astonishing story Gordon has recovered considers vexed intellectual questions about race, class and gender in a dramatic, accessible fashion. -- Maureen Corrigan * Newsday *Linda Gordon has written an astonishing book...This is not just a story about orphan children: it is a story of America at a time of transition, when the railroads were opening up the land and men went west from the cities of the eastern seaboard to seek their fortune. It details religious prejudice, but also compassion. -- Christina White * Catholic Herald *Linda Gordon…has produced a brilliant foray into social history that explores issues of race, class, gender, law enforcement, and labor relations in the American Southwest at the dawn of the 20th century. -- Gregory J. W. Urwin * Journal of the West *Gordon demonstrates the continuing vitality of the issues social historians have brought to the table – class, race, gender, family – in the context of a new commitment to a synthesizing narrative…Gordon's invocations of the many issues that have concerned social historians deeply enhances her examination of a particular time and place in this richly re-imagined history…Gordon has gone to such pains to guard the integrity of her historical subjects and to invest then with genuine depth and individuality. -- Paula S. Fass * American Historical Review *Table of Contents* Preface * Cast of Principal Characters * October 2, 1904, Night, North Clifton, Arizona * September 25, 1904: Grand Central Station, New York City *1. King Copper October 1, 1904, 6:30 p.m.: Clifton Railroad Station *2. Mexicans Come to the Mines October 1, 1904, around 7:30 p.m.: Sacred Heart Church, Clifton *3. The Priest in the Mexican Camp October 2, 1904, Afternoon: Morenci Square and Clifton Library Hall *4. The Mexican Mothers and the Mexican Town October 2, 1904, Evening: The Hills of Clifton *5. The Anglo Mothers and the Company Town October 2, 1904, Night: Clifton Hotel *6. The Strike October 3--4, 1904: Clifton Drugstore and Library Hall, Morenci Hotel *7. Vigilantism January 1905: Courtroom of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court, Phoenix *8. Family and Race * Epilogue * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index * Maps * Sonoran Highlands Mining Region in 1903 * Old Clifton and Morenci

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Book SynopsisDetroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas; facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. Here is the story of Motownas musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenonand of its relationship to Motor Town, USA.Trade ReviewThe publication of Dancing in the Streets, is an interesting one for an academic press; there's no shortage of general-audience books on the famed soul label, and other books have plumbed the immediate political ramifications of Berry Gordy's family-loan-turned-empire. But Smith aims not to glorify Motown as a can-do parable of black business, but to define it wholly--as a flawed microcosm of Detroit as much as one of black America. At once symptom and synecdoche, Motown is in her eyes the inevitable sum of its influences that somehow reenacted Detroit's external struggles on its own Grand Street stage. -- Peter Rubin * Boston Book Review *In her scholarly, informative, Dancing in the Street, Suzanne E. Smith reconsiders Motown, not just as the background music of the city's struggles but as a component of black Detroit's march for civil rights and social justice. -- Renée Graham * Boston Globe *Dancing in the Street is a wonderful blend of thorough research, firsthand interviews and an impassioned discussion of the music which keeps the book far away from the suffocating reaches of the academy. Smith, a Detroit native, has found in Motown's apparent order (its arrangements, performers and beats) the perfect juxtaposition to Detroit's growing disorder (in the riots, police violence and cultural devastation of urban renewal). * Detroit Metro Times *Though we would all count Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas and Marvin Gaye among Motown's greatest recording artists, Suzanne E. Smith would add another: Martin Luther King Jr...[Smith] is correct when she says it has become all but impossible to separate what happened in Detroit in the 1960s from the music that was playing when it did: as Norman Whitfield, the producer who replaced Holland-Dozier-Holland as the label's primary hitmaker, put it in a song he wrote for the Temptations, it was a 'Ball of Confusion.' Thirty years later, we're still unraveling it, and Dancing in the Street affords valuable insights to those of us who were there and those of us who weren't...It is fascinating reading for anyone who believes the sound of young America was not incompatible with the sound of struggle. -- Terry Lawson * Detroit Free Press *[Dancing in the Street discovers] a new approach to what had seemed an exhausted subject. [Suzanne Smith's] self-imposed task is to draw back from the larger picture of Motown's conquest of the international market, setting the company in its immediate context in Detroit, the community from which it emerged and after which it was named, and examining its relationship with the civil-rights struggle...[This book] adds a new dimension to our understanding of the forces that created music which has already outlasted the long hot summers for which it was designed. -- Richard Williams * Times Literary Supplement *In telling the story of the [Motown] label in its habitat, and telling it as an everyday tale of race in America, Suzanne Smith performs an act of historical rescue. -- Andrew Blake * The Independent *Now, thanks to the publication of the fascinating Dancing in the Street music fans as well as lovers of social history can grasp for the first time the unique nature of Detroit's daily social scheme and its impact on the lives of those who embodied the Motown Sound during the parallel cresting of the civil rights movement...Smith takes readers into the heretofore unexamined sphere of Detroit's sidewalk-level social ferment from Motown's founding in 1958 on through the city's devastating riots in 1967 and the related early-'70s flight from its precincts of the two enterprises central to its modern identity...If you've never heard about the Concept East Theater; or of WCHB, the first radio station built, owned, and operated by African-Americans; or never knew about organizations like the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; or the Freedom Now Part (the first all-black political party in the nation), Smith's text will explain their rich legacies. -- Timothy White * Billboard *Smith performs a valuable service in showing that Gordy, rather than being the rugged individualist often depicted, was the product of a hard-working and supportive family, one that had displayed a relentless self-help ethic for generations...To be sure, Smith is mainly concerned with the larger issues, but she does a good job of giving behind-the-scenes glimpses of the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and other Motown myths. While capitalism worked very well for Motown and its principles, Smith concludes, it was a far less effective system in exposing and eradicating the roots of racism. -- Edward Morris * Foreword Magazine *Suzanne E. Smith investigates the connections between music and a positive force: civil rights. Smith's compelling work depicts the exponential growth of the Motown recording company and reveals its role in shaping the civil rights movement in the urban North. * Publisher's Weekly *A finely rendered history of the storybook success of the 'Motown Sound,' arguably the most resonant cultural development of its time, within the localized context of urban turmoil and the civil-rights struggle...Relying on primary sources and on the recollections of Motown's acts, employees, and session players, Smith touchingly captures the industrious determination of a cultural community whose ambitions were underwritten by social cohesion and a generations-strong work ethic...She captures the spirit of this exciting time by focusing on individuals (Nat King Cole, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Motown discoveries like the Supremes and Marvin Gaye) whose actions were central to their era's cultural and civil-rights triumphs. More sobering is her re-creation of events leading to Detroit's 1967 riots, when intransigents on both sides of the color line overrode more moderate, conciliatory factions, leading the city toward a conflagration that permanently sundered the region's black and white communities. This reconstruction of Motown's meteoric popular rise during an era of fractious social division is compelling and informative for both aficionados of the music and students of American urban history. * Kirkus Reviews *That Detroit birthed a black music style, Motown, that conquered the white market at a time of unprecedented racial and social upheaval has attracted much comment. Investigation, Smith observes, has concentrated on how a black company, Motown Records, succeeded with white audiences and on the civil rights movement's effect on that success by fostering 'broader cultural integration.' Smite probes deeper...Tough stuff for a pop music book, but Smith answers rationally and evocatively in a serious book about the music biz that is excellent for pop music collections and downright obligatory for serious pop culture collections. * Booklist *Smith argues that [Motown's] immensely successful black-owned, Detroit-based corporation had an ambivalent attitude towards the changes brought about by Civil Rights campaigners in the 1960s: its music was designed for a multiracial audience, yet engaged with African-American politics. * Financial Times *Smith places Motown in its immediate context in the Detroit black community from which it emerged. She presents a focussed account of the city in the grip of social and political change. It is the approach which will endear the book to readers of both music journalism and historical narrative...Smith has used the rich tapestry of the Motown sound to present a truly exceptional book. It is well-argued and thought-provoking. -- J. Ahmed * Awaaz *Dancing in the Street, by Suzanne E. Smith, explores 1960s Motown music and culture against the backdrop of Detroit itself. She contrasts the racism that greeted migrating black auto workers with the shrewd way Motown created upbeat music that seemed to erase color lines. As Smith sees it, music and culture had to meet. -- David Hinckley * New York Daily News *While music in white society was seen as a diversion from the real world, Smith argues that in the black community it constituted daily life. Weighty, thorough stuff. -- Lois Wilson * Q Magazine *By pulling back "the veil of nostalgia that enshrouds" the Motown sound, Professor Smith provides a clearer and more realistic view of the accomplishments and limitations of Motown, the sound and the company. The study concludes that Motown's historical legacy encompasses outstanding contributions to the history of popular music, to the history of Black capitalism and to the history of the civil rights movement and race relations...This thoughtful and well-documented study will help readers to understand how "cultural politics" operates at grass-roots level. It will also provide them with an informative account of the Motown sound of the 1960s. * Race Relations Archive *Smith details the connection between the rise and success of Motown Records and the more specific histories of Detroit's civil rights struggles…Dancing in the Street does and excellent job of detailing the fine line between the production of goods and the ideology behind that production. Suzanne Smith gives the reader an interesting history of Detroit in the1960s and of Motown and its cultural and musical impact, but she also provides a road map for other studies that seek to use culture as a means to understand larger historical situations. -- Kenneth J. Bindas * Historical Review *Suzanne Smith's wonderful new book, Dancing in the Streets: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, seeks to resituate the Motown sound within the history of the Motor City and, more broadly, to reconnect it to the larger historical moment of African American activism that was the 1960s. As Smith reminds us, a Motown hit like 'Dancing in the Street' was 'never just a party song'. From the outset Smith's engaging narrative immerses readers in the fascinating tale of how Motown rose from its humble beginnings in Detroit to become a corporate conglomerate far from its Motor City roots…she must be given tremendous credit for identifying just how powerful and malleable this record company was as a symbol of the tumultuous 1960s. -- Heather Ann Thompson * Labor History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Can't Forget the Motor City" "In Whose Heart There Is No Song, To Him the Miles Are Many and Long": Motown and Detroit's Great March to Freedom "Money (That's What I Want)": Black Capitalism and Black Freedom in Detroit "Come See About Me": Black Cultural Production in Detroit "Afro-American Music, without Apology": The Motown Sound and the Politics of Black Culture "The Happening": Detroit, 1967 "What's Going On?" Motown and New Detroit Conclusion: "Come Get These Memories" Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisLike the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewGuinier and Torres issue a clarion call for the progressive possibilities of racial politics in the twenty-first century. The Miner's Canary convincingly demonstrates the positive role that racial identification has played and can continue to play in expanding, deepening, and enriching American democracy. -- Melissa Nobles, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Miner's Canary is conceptually imaginative and politically inspiring. It is generously inclusive where other accounts of race and power are harshly exclusive. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres combine sober analysis and models of democratic activism. -- Nancy L. Rosenblum, author of Liberalism and the Moral LifeLani Guinier and Gerald Torres sing a powerful song in lyrical, accessible, sophisticated tones: Race exists, race positively shapes identity, and organizing around race can save our society. To those who want to join their voices to what must become a swelling harmony, here are the first stanzas. For those afraid of the future, here is a hymn of hope. -- Ian F. Haney López, author of White by Law: The Legal Construction of RaceRejecting the unacceptable choice between colorblindness and identity politics, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres show us how race consciousness can mobilize people across racial categories to confront structural injustice on issues ranging from education to union organizing, from voting rights to prisons. Inspiring, learned, and compellingly written. -- Gerald Frug, author of City Making: Building Communities Without Building WallsCompassion permeates this thoughtful analysis. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres show us how Americans of all races and ethnicities can draw upon African Americans' positive racial identity, which is rooted in solidarity and the ability to see problems that are systemic. Yes, we can advance democracy by all becoming "black," in the sense of building upon our culture's race consciousness. -- Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A SymbolAs the stunningly insightful stories in The Miner's Canary make clear, the primary racial challenge of the twenty-first century is to convince white people that social ills adversely affecting people of color disadvantage whites as well. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres argue persuasively that progress can come through cooperative efforts for reform rather than race-related resistance to it. -- Derrick A. Bell, author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of RacismIn this outstanding, trenchant, and ultimately uplifting book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres demonstrate how a racial order still profoundly structures the life chances of all Americans, and convincingly argue that racially based social movements have historically, and can again, promote a truly egalitarian society. The Miner's Canary is sure to become required reading for all those who seek to understand the racial divide as well as those who care about the future of the American polity. -- Michael C. Dawson, author of Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American PoliticsI recommend this book to every thoughtful U.S. citizen. We all need to get a better analytic grip on the phenomenon of "race." We all need to rethink outdated democratic systems. We all need help in organizing human action across lines of division. The Miner's Canary shows how the experiences of people of color are a key diagnostic tool, drawing attention to flaws in the existing system and galvanizing practical ways to change it for the better. Guinier and Torres have got it exactly right. -- Jane J. Mansbridge, author of Beyond Adversary DemocracyThe Miner's Canary is thoughtful, provocative, and timely. It persuasively develops the idea of "political race," a concept that identifies racial literacy as a new way to think about social change in American society. This book will challenge the very way we think about race, justice, and the political system in America. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Colored People: A MemoirLegal scholars Guinier and Torres invite the public to consider, among other indicators, the plight of young black men, long the primary targets of racial profiling on the part of law-enforcement agencies...Those who insist that American courts dispense justice equally get a stern lesson with statistics the authors cite to the contrary, while civil-rights activists will find much to motivate them in the authors' prescriptions, which include grassroots political organizing, consensus building, "enlisting race to resist hierarchy", and other measures. A useful, provocative, wounded critique of the status quo. * Kirkus Reviews *Mixing myriad personal examples with hard data and analysis of biased news reports, Guinier and Torres cogently and forcefully argue that "color-blinded" solutions are not "attaining racial justice and ensuring a healthy democratic process"...[The authors] grapple intelligently and with passionate wit with such explosive topics as racial profiling and the elusiveness of racial identification and identity...making this one of the most provocative and challenging books on race produced in years. * Publishers Weekly *Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres consider how blacks' own perceptions of their plight might lead to a new political movement. In The Miner's Canary, Guinier and Torres argue that rather than internalize their social dysfunction as being their "own fault," many blacks have developed a critical perspective on "the system." Refusing to accept the mythology of the American Dream--"that those who succeed or fail invariably do so according to their individual merit"--blacks "appreciate the necessity and efficacy of collective political struggle"...Guinier and Torres announce a bold agenda: "to use the experiences of people of color as the basis for fundamental social change that will benefit not only blacks and Hispanics but other disadvantaged social groups." -- James Forman Jr. * Washington Post *Deep in the mines, a distressed canary is a warning that there's poison in the air. Professor Lani Guinier...and Gerald Torres...contend that in America, race is like a miner's canary: Injustices experienced by people of color warn of systemic toxins that threaten everyone...In a passionate call for social change and progressive action, Guinier and Torres convincingly argue that a colorblind approach to deeply entrenched problems does not work; it only inhibits democratic engagement and reinforces existing power structures. Citing the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.'s message that freeing black people from injustice will free America itself, Torres and Guinier urge progressives to use racial awareness as an entryway to political activism. -- Rob Mitchell * Boston Herald *How can a book that advocates for something as ethereal-sounding as the "magical realism of political race" amount to a powerfully reasoned and concretely grounded call for the proliferation of multiracial coalitions in challenges to inequality and exclusion in American society? Law professors Guinier and Torres have managed to do so in their gracefully written book, which is both an analysis of the distinctive contours of the post-Civil Rights Era's racial fault lines and a manifesto for a politics that is decidedly color conscious. Indeed, the purpose of the book is to challenge not simply the calls for colorblindedness on the part of conservatives, but more significantly, similar calls on the part of political leftists. -- P. Kivisto * Choice *Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Political Race and Magical Realism 2. A Critique of Colorblindness 3. Race as a Political Space 4. Rethinking Conventions of Zero-Sum Power 5. Enlisting Race to Resist Hierarchy 6. The Problem Democracy Is Supposed to Solve 7. Whiteness of a Different Color? 8. Watching the Canary Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisThe inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II.Trade ReviewThis is an important and timely book. Evelyn Nakano Glenn has employed an innovative approach to the complex questions she raises by providing a historical overview of trends unfolding at the national level, and then exploring the operation of these trends at more local levels through case studies of the American South, the Southwest, and Hawaii. Unequal Freedom is a very smart and thoughtful synthetic analysis on the vexed questions of race, class, gender, citizenship, and labor in a critical period of U.S. history. -- David G. Gutiérrez, University of California, San DiegoGlenn has put her finger on the two key institutional sites that have been central to the structuring of both racial and gender inequalities. This makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the working of gender and race in American society. -- Sonya O. Rose, University of MichiganAlthough contemporary scholars often seek the integration of race, class and gender into a single coherent analysis of inequality, Glenn is rare indeed in offering just such a balanced, comprehensive and practical understanding of all three interlocking forms of oppression in American history and politics. Vivid with telling detail and yet sweeping in scope, Unequal Freedom shows how the interplay of gender, race and class shaped actual citizenship and labor markets in the United States, leaving a legacy of inequality that we are far from overcoming today. The similarities and differences among the South, Southwest and Hawaii provide a convincing picture of how local conditions produce specific forms of class, gender and race relations. The attention Glenn gives not only to such structures but to the varied patterns of resistance by different groups in particular settings also greatly enriches our historical understanding of what is now sometimes mistakenly seen as a new politics of identity. -- Myra Marx Ferree, University of WisconsinUnequal Freedom delivers the goods on scholars' longstanding promises to study race, class, and gender as they were actually experienced in the U.S. past, in all of their dynamic interplay and regional particularity. It is a work of breathtaking synthesis and deep originality. The emphasis on both labor markets and on substantive rights of citizenship allows Evelyn Nakano Glenn to set local stories in which quite different demographics of race are at play in national and global contexts. This book changes how we teach about the centrality and variety of inequality in U.S. history. Indeed, it changes how we think about those critical questions. -- David Roediger, University of IllinoisA hugely capacious and penetratingly insightful work, Unequal Freedom shows how race and gender are inseparable in the constitutions and consequences of citizenship and labor. And with equal attention to national and local spaces, historical and contemporary times, and repressive and resistant forces, this book exemplifies the kind of scholarship that can transform our thinking and our lives. -- Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia UniversityIn this astonishingly versatile work of synthesis and analysis, Evelyn Nakano Glenn situates local knowledges on a national stage to explain how citizenship was differently achieved for different Americans. Unequal Freedom uncovers complex intersecting patterns of racial and gender stratification and labor hierarchies and reveals how they are reinforced by the men and women who live them. This is a powerful and provocative book: a sparkling achievement. -- Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia UniversityAlthough the US has long professed its commitment to universal equality, it remains a society in which gender and race limit opportunities. By exploring the operation of citizenship and labor, Glenn...seeks to explain the persistence of inequality in US society. She provides a comparative analysis of the interaction of racial and gender relations in three settings: the South, the Southwest, and Hawaii. Each of these regions used race and gender hierarchies to structure labor markets and define citizenship to exclude segments of the labor force from the benefits of educational opportunities and political rights...This important, multifaceted analysis interweaves gender, race, and class in an innovative approach that is sensitive to various facets of citizenship as well as to formal and informal methods of exclusion. Glenn moves easily between national structures and local dynamics, drawing attention to the "multiple levels at which efforts for change are needed" if the US is to live up to its promise of universal equality. Highly recommended. -- K. Fones-Wolf * Choice *Pointing to the "worker citizen" as central to what it means to be "American", Glenn makes a major contribution to the study of racial and gender oppression by examining the linkages between labor and citizenship in American society…While this is a work of American history, the analysis has international appeal, as readers will want to consider the connections between labor and citizenship in their national contexts…Glenn challenges her audience to think about racism and sexism systematically, and not as individual beliefs and attitudes…With the rise of global labour markets, analyses of the connections between labor and citizenship commenced by this excellent work is likely to remain important task in public policy debates. -- Sandra Tam * Canadian Woman Studies *Although many scholars have called for stronger theoretical ties between race and gender, few have substantively engaged in an analysis that contributes to this task. Evelyn Nakano Glenn succeeds in doing this analysis...Glenn's work meets the difficult challenge of analyzing discourses that are often hidden from dominant modes of thinking and understanding. This contribution makes her work compelling and important to our discipline. -- Erin McNeal Reser * Rhetoric and Public Affairs *Table of Contents* Acknowledgments * Introduction *1. Integrating Race and Gender *2. Citizenship: Universalism and Exclusion *3. Labor: Freedom and Coercion *4. Blacks and Whites in the South *5. Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest *6. Japanese and Haoles in Hawaii *7. Understanding American Inequality * Notes * Index

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Book SynopsisCivil rights historian Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration 100 years later. This book is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.Trade ReviewAdam Fairclough has written a masterful book, full of insight, complexity and nuance. Always sensitive to the ambiguities black teachers faced, he nevertheless celebrates their strength and accomplishment in making possible the ongoing struggle of black Americans for racial and educational equality. -- William H. Chafe, author of Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern AmericaIn this hugely impressive study, Adam Fairclough shows how black teachers coped with the basic conundrum facing them in the segregated South: how to advance within a system designed by white people to stop them from advancing. Fairclough's clear-eyed account chronicles heroic achievements and countless small victories in the face of overwhelming odds. -- Tony Badger, Cambridge UniversityAdam Fairclough is in a class of his own when it comes to elucidating the history of the segregated South – this is a valuable addition to that historiography. -- Julian Bond, Chairman, NAACP Board of DirectorsFairclough chronicles the circumstances in which Southern black educators worked from emancipation to the 1970s. He devotes most of the book to the burdens of white patronage, the influence of religion and politics on acquiring teaching jobs, and the struggles for training and wages. The most compelling portions are the brief biographies of teachers about whom many readers have probably never heard, such as Robert Harris and Sarah Webb. The dilemmas facing teachers and students in African American communities when schools became integrated are addressed as well. Although Brown v. Board of Education raised educational standards for African Americans, it also resulted in the closing of schools in their communities and the loss of teaching jobs. Some of Fairclough's topics have been addressed in James D. Anderson's The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 and Heather Andrea Williams's Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, but his enlightening chapters on the training of black teachers and their struggles for equality endorse the purchase of this book for academic and public libraries with education collections. -- Tonya Briggs * Library Journal *You know those stories some of our folks like to tell about the days they had to walk for miles to school on dirt roads in scorching heat and biblical rain? They're true. Read A Class of Their Own, an inspiring account of Black teachers' relentless struggle to provide a quality education for our people. Civil rights historian Adam Fairclough charts the impressive strides teachers made in the segregated South during a 100-year period, beginning just after the end of the Civil War in 1865. In one-room schoolhouses, without running water or plumbing, and at red-brick all-Black land grant universities and other halls of higher learning, gifted Black teachers encouraged students to become achievers. Although these devoted educators seemed unflappable to their students, Fairclough reveals the enormous challenges they faced from White school boards, whose members often discouraged their involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. -- Patrick Henry Bass * Essence *Although few histories devote much attention to black teachers in the South between 1865 and 1965, these men and women were in many ways the backbone of the black middle class. The educational infrastructure that they painstakingly erected did a great deal to discredit Jim Crow, and the accomplishments of these unheralded educators were just as dramatic and important as those of better known heroes of the civil rights movement. Adam Fairclough, a British historian who has written widely about that movement, tells this story very well. A Class of Their Own is a judicious exploration of a largely unstudied subject; it belongs on any well-stocked shelf of scholarly works on the Jim Crow South...Fairclough makes clear that the nostalgia of many African Americans since the 1960s for the Good Old Days of all-black schools is rose-colored. Only through desegregation could black children hope to attend decently funded public schools in the South. And yet A Class of Their Own demonstrates that the arduous struggles of black teachers 'made it difficult, nay impossible, for whites to turn racial segregation into a full-fledged caste system.' -- James T. Patterson * Washington Post Book World *A Class of Their Own is scholarly history at its very best: A richly textured and nuanced book, it tells an important American story that should not be forgotten. -- David J. Garrow * Wilson Quarterly *In A Class of Their Own, Adam Fairclough--a professor at the University of Leiden and one of the most diligent and careful historians of civil rights--explores the often overlooked complexities of black Southerners, emphasizing teachers and education leaders. -- David L. Chappell * The Nation *[A] magisterial work of research. -- Dave Wood * River Falls Journal *Although standard accounts treat Brown as an unambiguous triumph for African American, many Southern blacks did not see it that way. "We felt betrayed," said the principal of a black high school in South Carolina. W. E. B. Du Bois, the major black figure among the founders of the NAACP, and the novelist Zora Neale Hurston denounced the decision. Hurston regarded the ruling as "insulting rather than honoring" her race, because it assumed that black children could not learn without the uplifting presence of white classmates...Adam Fairclough's book is a salutary reminder of what de jure segregation was really like, and a clear demonstration that the educational opportunities open to African American children have expanded dramatically since Brown. -- Stephan Thernstrom * Times Literary Supplement *Students and scholars who have an interest in southern history or African American history have much to learn from Fairclough’s study. Famous villains like James K. Vardaman and Ben Tillman appear on these pages along with the names of hardworking, dedicated teachers whose names are not well-known. Fairclough never sugarcoats black teachers. Some were snobs, and others spied on NAACP meetings for white superintendents in order to enhance their own salaries or to gain more secure positions. Fairclough also demonstrates the equality gap between black and white public schools and carefully explains the mean-spirited racial politics that characterized the South before the civil rights movement. This is one of the finest books this reviewer has read in many years. -- Theodore Carter DeLaney * Virginia Magazine of History and Biography *

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Book SynopsisConservative politicians in the last thirty years have capitalized on voters' resentment of ethnic minorities to win votes and undermine government aid to the poor. Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution offers a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances.Trade ReviewThis book presents an enormously original and important line of thought, partly for its topical importance, but as much for its development and exposition of important new theoretical tools that have a very wide range of application to problems not yet imagined. The extended consideration of the impact of the ‘ethnic dimension’ will permit readers to assess the new methods in a concrete context. -- John Ferejohn, Stanford UniversityIn Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution, the authors demonstrate how attitudes toward racial and ethnic minorities in modern democracies can have a measurable and significant impact on the nature of competition between Left and Right, on equilibrium political coalitions, and redistributive policies. This is an important contribution to the field of political economy, both methodologically and substantively. There exist few econometric studies in political economy that are based on equilibrium models of the type used by the authors. Even fewer exist with the sophistication and depth of analysis found in this book. -- Tasos Kalandrakis, University of RochesterTable of Contents* Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Political Equilibrium: Theory and Application * The Data * Characterization of PUNE as a System of Equations * The Probability-of-Victory Function * Factional Bargaining Powers * The Three-Party Model * First Application: The Logarithmic Utility Function * Second Application: The Euclidean Utility Function * Conclusion 3. History of Racial Politics in the United States * Introduction * Race and American Exceptionalism * Issue Evolution * The Dixiecrats * The Presidential Election of 1964 and Its Aftermath * The Reagan Democrats * Race, Class, andWelfare Reform in the 1990s * Conclusion 4. United States: Quantitative Analysis * Introduction * Recovering Voter Racism from Survey Data * Estimation of the Model's Parameters * Numerical Solution of the Log Utility Model * The Euclidean Function Approach * Conclusion 5. History of Racism and Xenophobia in the United Kingdom * Introduction * Immigration in Britain * An Issue of "High Potential" * From Powell to Thatcher: Challenging the Consensus * The Rise of Thatcher and the Breakdown of the Consensus of Silence * Immigration in the 1990s and Beyond * Conclusion 6. United Kingdom: Quantitative Analysis * Introduction * Minorities, Race, and Class Politics in the UK * Estimation of Parameters * The PBE and ASE: Computation * Conclusion 7. Immigration: A Challenge to Tolerant Denmark * Introduction * The Early Years: GuestWorkers and Their Families * The Eighties: The Emergence of Refugees * The Nineties: Xenophobia Emerges, Front and Center * No Longer Marginal: The Far Right and the Election of 2001 8. Denmark: Quantitative Analysis * Parties and Issues * Estimation of the Model's Parameters * Political Equilibrium: Observation and Prediction * The Policy-Bundle and Antisolidarity Effects: Computation * Conclusion 9. Immigration and the Political Institutionalization of Xenophobia in France * Introduction * Immigration in France: A Brief Sketch * The Politicization of Immigration * The Rise of Le Pen * The Mainstreaming of Xenophobia * The 1988 Presidential Election * Xenophobia Remains in the Headlines * Conventional Politics Return as a New Cleavage Is Born * Conclusion 10. France: Quantitative Analysis * Parties and Voter Opinion * Political Equilibrium with Three Parties * Estimation of Model Parameters * Political Equilibrium: Observation and Prediction * The Policy-Bundle and Antisolidarity Effects: Computation 11. Conclusion * The Rise of the New Right Movement * Recapitulation * The Log Utility Function Approach * The Euclidean Utility Function Approach * Limitations * Final Remark * Appendix A: Statistical Methods * Appendix B: Additional Tables * Notes * References * Index

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Book SynopsisIn the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. Here is their story.Trade Review[Smith] has done a masterful job in her skillful and compelling narrative detailing the critical intersection of the histories of the African American funeral industry and the modern civil rights movement in the United States. Her attention to the contributions of a number of important figures and personalities (e.g., funeral-home owners, funeral directors and embalmers, civil rights leaders, and other historical figures) is unprecedented in its careful and accurate detail. The book documents many of the unsung heroes who were not only caretakers of the dead, but who also made important contributions to civil rights in ways that have never before been so well integrated into a compelling, readable narrative. She is a gifted storyteller and scholar whose mastery of the history’s nuances is praiseworthy. The book is a scholarly and well-researched account of an important slice of the American experience—and our story. -- Ronald K. Barrett * African American Review *A revelation… Only the most imaginative scholar could use the history of African-American funeral directors to uncover a pivotal part of the struggle for civil rights. That’s precisely what Suzanne Smith has done in this wonderfully original, engaging, and illuminating book. -- Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz AgeBy getting the dead where they need to go, the living get where they need to be. This deeply human pilgrimage is at the center of Smith’s book on African American funeral directors and their frontline service to the nation’s journeys from slavery and civil war, through Jim Crow and ‘separate but equal’ marketplaces—the sad and violent, heroic and hopeful history of race relations and civil rights. -- Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal TradeA lyrical portrait of the African American funeral profession tells us how, for over a century, burying the dead uplifted a people and a profession together amid deep American prejudice that demeaned both. Exploring practices utterly central to African Americans’ living cultural and religious history, Smith has created a history readers will remember long after the book has left their hands. -- Jon Butler, Yale UniversitySmith’s richly detailed history of black funerals illuminates the living world of African American experience. An incredibly important book. -- Gary Laderman, author of Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century AmericaA terrific book. Elegantly written and replete with fascinating details of the African American way of death, To Serve the Living lays bare the role played by black funeral directors in the long struggle for freedom.. -- Shane White, coauthor of Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars

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Book SynopsisDrawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation’s largest and most rapidly growing minority group.Trade ReviewAmerican schools are sleepwalking into a perfect storm—rapid demographic changes, an unforgiving global economy, and continually dysfunctional schools. Gándara and Contreras delineate the…challenges of the 'Latino education crisis' with empirical rigor, conceptual clarity, and humane concern. This is the book that everyone who cares about the American future should read and pass on to a friend. -- Carola and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, authors of Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American SocietyWhether or not one takes issue with the grade-point averages and college admissions scores that are the conventional measures of student achievement, everyone has a compelling interest in better education for those who constitute a growing proportion of both the student and national populations. The discussion is worth review for anyone concerned about the progress of education in the U.S. -- D. E. Tanner * Choice *Table of Contents* Introduction: A Call to Action * The Crisis and the Context * On Being Latino or Latina in America * American Schools and the Latino Student Experience * Is Language the Problem? * Inside the Lives of Puente Students * Beating the Odds and Going to College * The Costs and Effectiveness of Intervention *Rescatando Suenos--Rescuing Dreams * Acknowledgments * Appendix * Notes * References * Index

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Book SynopsisAmerican slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out gourds covered with animal skin. Providing a sense of rootedness, solidarity, and consolation, banjo picking became an essential part of black plantation life, and its unmistakable sound remains versatile and enduring today, Laurent Dubois shows.Trade ReviewDubois illuminates the banjo’s complicated cultural history…This lively account is not without surprises. * New Yorker *Dubois attempts to trace the evolution of the modern instrument from its African antecedents to the present day, prudently noting that a linear account is likely to be misleading…There is enough anecdote and lore to satisfy both the casual and the specialist reader. -- Lou Glandfield * Times Literary Supplement *Dubois relates here a history of the instrument that is both learned and entertaining. His enthusiasm shines through every page. -- John Check * Weekly Standard *[A] riveting history of the banjo…While the story Dubois tells is primarily historical and sociological, it is also musical, and he never lets us forget the magical hum that distinguishes the banjo from the guitar and other stringed instruments…Dubois combines erudition with obvious enjoyment. His limpid prose easily bears the weight of his impressive research. -- Tom Gilling * The Australian *In his astonishing work The Banjo: America’s African Instrument, DuBois convincingly and compellingly demonstrates the instrument’s historical role as both symbol and product of diaspora and dislocation…The Banjo is a masterful accomplishment that reframes the broader cultural history of the world. By following the instrument from precontact to postmillennium, this celebrated historian has created a powerful tribute to the music, its performers, and its listeners…With its depth and power, The Banjo achieves an impact commensurate with its namesake. -- Charles Hughes * American Historical Review *This is one of the very best books on the banjo published to date…It is also one with a grand scope of the life of the banjo. If you are interested enough in the banjo to understand the instrument and its uses more fully, you cannot do better than to read this lively, superb account. -- Wayne Shrubsall * Banjo Newsletter *If you own a banjo you should probably own this book. But fair warning, it will probably lead you to buy more banjos, maybe even one made from a gourd. If you enjoy history on a grand but approachable scale…you will also find the book fascinating. * Syncopated Times *A wonderful offering, and a fascinating and illuminating read. This is the most comprehensive book yet about the history of the banjo. The instrument’s story is told here with such depth and detail that it comes alive. I loved reading this. -- Béla Fleck, banjoistFollowing the strings of the banjo from Africa across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and then to the United States, Laurent Dubois provides a new perspective on the African diaspora. The Banjo: America’s African Instrument is a rich, original view of our sonic landscape. It is impossible to follow Dubois’s trail without a smile and the satisfaction of hearing the world anew. -- Ira Berlin, author of Generations of Captivity: A History of African American SlavesDubois reveals the banjo as a vital medium for the ideas and struggles of the people who make it, play it, and hear it. Combining storytelling and scholarship as seamlessly as the banjo condenses rhythm and melody, this special book is a melodious read by an extraordinary writer of Atlantic history. -- Vincent Brown, author of The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

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Book SynopsisUnearthing the legal history of racial identity, Gross’s book examines the paradoxical and often circular relationship of race and the perceived capacity for citizenship in American society.Trade ReviewWhat Blood Won't Tell brings us at long last a brilliant analysis of the changing meanings of race in American law from the colonial era to the present. It will be indispensable for any informed discussions of a subject that lies at the very core of both American history and identity. -- David Brion Davis * author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World *This exquisite inquiry into the complex and shifting ways in which the 'black-white' divide has been marked over the last three centuries excavates the deep roots of racial identification. -- Patricia J. Williams, author of The Alchemy of Race and RightsThrough a close reading of racial identity trials in America, this book offers an eloquent contribution to ongoing debates over affirmative action, identity politics and the construction of a "colorblind" society. Historian Gross argues that racial identity trials--court cases in which outcomes turned on determining a person's "race" and their concomitant rights and privileges--provides an excellent basis for viewing the construction of "whiteness" and assessing the volatile category of race in American society. The author rigorously examines select cases including the outcomes of suits for freedom by onetime slaves like Abby Guy, who in 1857 convinced an all-white male jury that she was white and thus deserving of freedom. Upsetting the familiar notion of the "one-drop rule" in determining racial identity, Gross shows that in such cases the notion of what constituted race was itself as much in play as whether a particular individual could be identified (through some unstable combination of expert and "common sense" opinion) as one race or another. The social "performance" of identity is key, and enduringly so, as Gross periodically underscores by reference to various modern debates and trends. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Gross' book, a history of cases in which people have challenged their official racial designation, eloquently demonstrates just how difficult it can be to say what race--mine, yours, anybody's--actually consists of...What Blood Won't Tell is largely a catalog of delusions and the strategies by which Americans tried to prop up those delusions in courts of law...The very fact that some people with African "blood" (not a biologically valid concept, but a common term, then and now) could pass themselves off as white betrayed the reality; blacks, whites and Indians had been marrying, having sex and producing mixed-race children from the very beginning...A book like What Blood Won't Tell--which is, after all, a history, not a prescription--may not offer much that's usable as a guide to the future. But it does provide us with plenty of evidence of how badly we can and have screwed up, and how much imagination and determination it will take to do it better. -- Laura Miller * Salon.com *Argues forcefully that, for all the progress our public life has made toward the formal semblance of racial equality, the history and legal armature of white racism are much more stubborn, institutionalized features of our common life than a single presidential election, no matter how groundbreaking, can wipe away...Gross maps, through countless twists and turns, the extraordinary legal fictions enlisted to keep the formal workings of racial privilege on track. [The book] serves as a bracing reminder that "postracial politics," however captivating it may be as a catchphrase, is very nearly an oxymoron in American life. -- Brian Gilmore * Bookforum *Challenging the presumption of many scholars of the dominance of the "one-drop" rule in conferring black status, Gross argues that despite the rule, in court and by custom, racial boundaries were much more fluid and flexible--yet, primarily in the service of white supremacy...Gross also reflects on how this history of race determination fits into current efforts at a "color-blind" approach that ignores the significance of race in American culture. -- Vernon Ford * Booklist *What Blood Won't Tell chronicles the history of efforts to determine racial identity in the courts. Seldom, if ever, does science enter into the effort; rather, attorneys and others turn their attention to the evidence of skin color, social behavior, cultural customs, and other subjective and changeable evidence. The only thing that remains constant is the underlying assumption that white equals "full social and political citizenship" while anything else is inferior, less-than, and undeserving of Constitutional protection...The overriding opinion was that it's best to be white, but if you can't manage that, just don't be black. This shameful and ignorant American caste system is still as deeply entrenched in the nation's consciousness as ever, it seems...What Blood Won't Tell turns out to be a riveting overview of legal decisions regarding race and freedoms and a dizzying look at the insanity of social hierarchy and its ongoing impact on social development. -- Deborah Adams * Curled Up with a Good Book *Gross [has written] an amazing book that addresses the relationship between race and citizenship in the U.S. Gross's presentation is both detailed and complex. The first half is devoted to establishing the role race and racism have played within the history and law of the U.S., as well as further developing the rich literature within whiteness scholarship. The strength of her argument lies in her ability to inject specific examples, oftentimes cases from the 19th century, into her whiteness discussions. The second half is equally impressive. Here Gross utilizes critical race theory to discuss black Indian identity, race in Hawaii, and other contemporary issues. This book is innovative, accessible, and valuable for undergraduates, graduates, and laypeople interested in a deep conversation on race and history. -- A. R. S. Lorenz * Choice *Table of Contents* A Note on Terminology * Introduction *1. The Common Sense of Race *2. Performing Whiteness *3. Race as Association *4. Citizenship of the "Little Races" *5. Black Indian Identity in the Allotment Era *6. From Nation to Race in Hawai'i *7. Racial Science, Immigration, and the "White Races" *8. Mexican Americans and the "Caucasian Cloak" * Conclusion: The Common Sense of Race Today * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisThe most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of “numbers.” Thousands of wagers were placed daily. Playing the Numbers tells the story of this illegal form of gambling and the central role it played in the lives of African Americans who flooded into Harlem in the wake of World War I.Trade ReviewLong before the arrival of glossy state-run lotteries in the 1960s and ’70s, smaller lotteries—illegal, but almost as well-organized as a Powerball drawing—thrived in poor neighborhoods. In Chicago, the lotteries were known as the policy racket. In New York, they were called the numbers game. The history of these illicit enterprises is a picaresque mélange of race and class, business acumen and organized crime. A significant part of the story—Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s—receives a thorough and insightful treatment in Playing the Numbers, which recounts a flowering of black entrepreneurship in addition to capturing how integral the numbers game was to the lives of average Harlemites… Playing the Numbers brims with fascinating, colorful stories about a little-known facet of New York life. -- Michael J. Agovino * Wall Street Journal *[Playing the Numbers] draws on an array of sources—from the back issues of Harlem’s newspapers, to probation reports and the case files of the New York City district attorney, to the literature and memoirs of the Harlem Renaissance—to illuminate the scope of the numbers game and the sometimes harmless, sometimes farcical, often sociable, but ultimately insidious ways it permeated nearly every aspect of Harlemites’ daily lives and even their dream lives. The result: an intricate sociology of organized crime. -- Benjamin Schwarz * The Atlantic *Brilliantly reconstructs the world of the numbers trade, showing how it provided, for at least a decade and a half, a space for an African American entrepreneurship that mirrored, in a gaudy and distorting way, the mainstream financial institutions and activities of the city. There is astute attention throughout this book to this shadow relationship to mainstream commerce… The research underlying this short and elegantly written book is extraordinary. Years of detailed work in New York judicial and legal records, as well as in newspapers and literary sources, makes this an almost uncannily well-informed book… This is history as work of art, a dazzling demonstration of what can be done with sources—such as lower court prosecutor records—so voluminous and so miscellaneous that they have never been mined in this way before. -- David Goodman * Australian Book Review *Playing the Numbers is a gripping, sometimes violent, often humorous tale of politics, commerce, community and culture, a must-read for anyone remotely interested in the history of Harlem or the mechanics of the most elaborate informal economy in the nation. -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalA brilliant reconstruction of a critical African American—and American—institution. Essential reading for those who play and those who don’t. -- Ira Berlin, author of Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaDeeply and imaginatively researched, Playing the Numbers reveals how a simple game of chance evolved for thousands of Harlemites in the 1920s into a central part of their everyday life. A fascinating study of the interior of black society, the sights, styles, and sounds of the black metropolis. -- Leon F. Litwack, author of Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim CrowMost folks living in Harlem in the 1920s ‘hadn’t heard of the Negro Renaissance,’ Langston Hughes once observed. ‘And if they had, it hadn’t raised their wages any.’ But everyone in Harlem knew about the numbers, and those who hit the daily ‘gig’ earned plenty… This is a wonderful, unconventional, utterly original book. -- James T. Campbell, author of Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787–2005Table of Contents* Prologue * Introduction * History * Beginnings * Dreams * Turf Wars * Numbers' Lore * Of Kings and Queens * The Dutchman Cometh * Of Banks and Bankers * All Over Town * Epilogue * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisOffers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs created by unknown hands to the works of the great European masters such as Bosch, Rembrandt, Rubens, and Hogarth to stunning creations by contemporary black artists.Trade ReviewA fascinating story of the changing image of Africa's people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. -- Kwame Anthony AppiahReview of the previous editions: One concludes from these pioneering volumes that artistic representations were historical "events" that eventually helped to shape a mentality that justified the enslavement of millions of Africans as well as later attempts to Christianize and liberate their descendants. -- David Brion Davis * New York Review of Books *In addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double ConsciousnessOne of the most thorough collections depicting the African-American in works of art...The books build on the research and photo project started by art patron Dominique de Menil in the 1960s, which grew out of a frustration with segregation. The collection was then transferred and continued to grow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. De Menil's original volumes have been updated by David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates Jr. and now include more detailed descriptions and provide a larger context of the artwork that spans more than 5,000 years, including the Roman Empire to present-day pieces, filling in tremendous gaps in de Menil's collection, according to some art historians. The images, printed in full-color on high-quality pages, are available for the masses to see and understand how African-Americans not only fit into the various societies of the Western world, but how those relationships evolved throughout the ages. * Kirkus Reviews *The volumes so far are a treasury of paintings and sculptures of people down the ages, taking in many strands of ritual, classicism, artlessness and humanity. -- William Feaver * Spectator *A sumptuous new edition with much additional material and copious color pictures....The books are a wonderful resource: a glitteringly decorated window into the Du Bois Institute's unrivalled archive of relevant images. The accompanying essays, which are models of erudition, are inescapable reading for anyone interested in the subject. -- Felipe Fernández-Armesto * The Art Newspaper *The joy of this series lies in the illustration and discussion of imagery found not only in paintings and woodcuts, but also in mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, and murals. -- K. Mason * Choice *Monumental and groundbreaking volumes...[with] beautifully reproduced and thought-provoking images…A vast array of different "Images of the Black" appear in these volumes, from statues of black saints such as St. Maurice or St. Benedict the Moor, to portraits of notable African ambassadors and kings, poets and musicians, or drawings of literary characters such as Shakespeare's Othello, Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, or Yarico from George Colman's Inkle and Yarico...Africans have been painted and sculpted by some of the most eminent artists in the Western tradition, including Titian, Tiepolo, Rubens, Rembrandt,Van Dyck, Reynolds, Hogarth, Watteau and Gainsborough. More importantly, they have not been caricatured, but sensitively portrayed by these masters, their humanity captured on canvas for all to see...In placing such a vast variety of different images together, both positive and negative, these volumes show that the "Image of the Black" was not at all homogenous but rather reflected the wide range of the Western response to the "other."...Seen through the prism of "Western Art," these "Images of the Black" often tell us more about the Europeans and their agendas than the Africans they portray. Nonetheless, the cumulative effect of the images is to demonstrate a continuous black presence in the Western imagination and experience…This series will pose new questions to scholars of art, history and literature and provoke us all to reconsider the role of "the Black" in Western civilization. -- Miranda Kaufmann * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisEurope and the World Beyond focuses geographically on peoples of South America and the Mediterranean as well as Africa, but conceptually it emphasizes the ways that visual constructions of blacks mediated between Europe and a faraway African continent that was impinging ever more closely on daily life in cities and ports engaged in the slave trade.Trade ReviewThis volume, part of a monumental series about the depiction of black peoples in Western art history, covers the period from the Renaissance and Baroque eras into the imperialism and colonialism of the 18th century… The volume is richly illustrated with artworks from many sources in a wide variety of media… This volume and the rest of the series has inestimable value in furthering understanding of how attitudes toward issues of race have evolved. -- Eugene C. Burt * Library Journal (starred review) *Inspired to collect images of Africans and the diaspora during the height of the Civil Rights movement, Dominique Schlumberger de Menil and her husband John amassed over 30,000 images as an artistic and academic counter against racism. These images were sorted, studied, and grouped into a series of volumes originally published in the late 1970s and early 1980s; long out of print, they are now beautifully reproduced along with additional color plates and scholarly commentary. This edition focuses on the depictions of blacks during the 16th–18th centuries. Due to Eurocentric attitudes of the time, few works depict black individuals; rather, people of African descent were often studied at an anthropological level and commonly depicted as pages, slaves, or servants. Though the series has rightfully become embraced by academia, even armchair historians will find the book to be a feast of information and commentary. Digressions on the black Magus and the debate about the race of Madonna and Jesus are fascinating, but it is the breathtaking collection of artwork that makes the greatest impact. The rich and varied array, printed on high-quality paper, must be seen to be fully appreciated. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Monumental and groundbreaking volumes…[with] beautifully reproduced and thought-provoking images… A vast array of different ‘Images of the Black’ appear in these volumes, from statues of black saints such as St. Maurice or St. Benedict the Moor, to portraits of notable African ambassadors and kings, poets and musicians, or drawings of literary characters such as Shakespeare’s Othello, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, or Yarico from George Colman’s Inkle and Yarico… Africans have been painted and sculpted by some of the most eminent artists in the Western tradition, including Titian, Tiepolo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Hogarth, Watteau and Gainsborough. More importantly, they have not been caricatured, but sensitively portrayed by these masters, their humanity captured on canvas for all to see… In placing such a vast variety of different images together, both positive and negative, these volumes show that the ‘Image of the Black’ was not at all homogenous but rather reflected the wide range of the Western response to the ‘other.’ …Seen through the prism of ‘Western Art,’ these ‘Images of the Black’ often tell us more about the Europeans and their agendas than the Africans they portray. Nonetheless, the cumulative effect of the images is to demonstrate a continuous black presence in the Western imagination and experience… This series will pose new questions to scholars of art, history and literature and provoke us all to reconsider the role of ‘the Black’ in Western civilization. -- Miranda Kaufmann * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating story of the changing image of Africa’s people in Western art. The images are simply extraordinary and the scholarship inspiring. Anyone who cares about Western art or about Africa and her diaspora ought to know these magnificent volumes. -- Kwame Anthony AppiahIn addition to being an indispensable guide to the evolving meanings of racial difference, these dazzling volumes filled with extraordinary images and rich arguments contribute to an alternative history of the Western world. An invaluable gift for both specialists and general readers. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

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Book SynopsisFrederick Douglass’s changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in his many conflicting accounts of events during his journey from slavery to freedom. Robert S. Levine creates a fascinating collage of this elusive subject—revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer.Trade Review[A] thoughtful, ground-setting book… Levine scrutinizes not merely the times and the life-circumstances surrounding the generation of [the] three very different accounts Douglass wrote of himself but also the texts themselves, the tectonic changes running underneath them. It’s a sustained performance of first-rate literary analysis on Levine’s part. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *Over the course of his life (1818–1895), Douglass published three autobiographies, continually revising and restructuring his life story as an ex-slave. Yet he is read and celebrated mostly for his first, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, published in 1845 under the aegis of William Lloyd Garrison’s Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In this finely delineated look at Douglass’ writing, Levine urges new readings of his subject’s other autobiographical works, as well as his 1853 novella, The Heroic Slave, in order to grasp a fuller understanding of how Douglass came into his own and began to move away from Garrison’s ‘moral suasion’ to an advocacy of black militancy and beyond… Levine’s exploration of the character of Madison Washington in The Heroic Slave as Douglass’ alter ego and his views of John Brown and President Abraham Lincoln are especially elucidating. An astute, thorough literary study that will invite fresh readings of Douglass’ writing. * Kirkus Reviews *Levine offers a fascinating study of the most famous African American of the mid-19th century. -- Patricia Ann Owens * Library Journal *A groundbreaking work of revisionary biography that reveals Douglass as a canny writer far ahead of his time. -- John Stauffer, Harvard UniversityThis is a richly detailed and nuanced portrait of the artist and social reformer as a ‘compulsive revisionist.’ Impressive in its reach and scope. -- Robert Stepto, Yale UniversityLevine is very good at showing how Douglass modulated the stories he told about his life and times in order to serve his political and personal purpose of the moment. -- Andrew Delbanco * New York Review of Books *Show[s] how Douglass’ attention to his self-representation predates our modern malleability, and was part and parcel to his becoming one of the most famous and influential Americans of the 19th Century…Levine clearly shows how Douglass amplified some parts of his life and de-emphasized others in his writings and speeches as his views and purposes evolved over time. -- Mark Reynolds * PopMatters *Levine successfully avoids the trap of reading Douglass’s three autobiographies as discrete texts; instead, he considers them ‘as part of a larger autobiographical project that encompasses a wide range of Douglass’s writings.’ Levine’s briskly written book also considers Douglass’s relationships with figures such as John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison and Gerrit Smith. By focusing on his subject’s ‘evolving and sometimes contradictory positions on race, violence, nation, and black diasporic community,’ Levine portrays Douglass as an ambitious and fallible character. -- Douglas Field * Times Literary Supplement *The Lives of Frederick Douglass offers us welcome insights into Douglass’s powers of combination and a compelling reason to refocus some of our attention from the first Narrative to the rest of his remarkable and remarkably embattled career. -- John Michael * American Literary History *Pay[s] tribute to Douglass’s immense literary talents…His was one of the most remarkable and revolutionary lives of the 19th century, and he did not shy from writing about it…Levine’s book, which takes [his] autobiographies as its primary subject, retraces Douglass’s lifelong effort to tell and retell his own astonishing story…As Levine shows, even his autobiographies were chiefly political documents. They were less concerned with exploring his private identity in formation than with exposing public crimes and inspiring a mass movement against them. -- Matt Karp * The Nation *A nuanced and careful analysis of Frederick Douglass’s iconic autobiographies…A book that explodes conventional wisdom on not just Douglass but also his fraught relationships with [William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and his erstwhile master, Thomas Auld.] -- Manisha Sinha * Civil War History *Levine has been a major scholar of nineteenth century American literature and African American literature for over thirty years…The Lives of Fredrick Douglass benefits from his wide ranging knowledge of American literature and history…Levine balances his analysis of Douglass as a skilled practitioner of the art of autobiography with analysis of Douglass as a canny social reformer who sought to advance causes and his own career…His analysis of Douglass’s depictions of his relationships to Brown, Lincoln, Thomas Auld, Douglass’s wives, associates, and others are revelatory, bold, and illuminating. -- Ernest Suarez * Literary Matters *[An] inspirational study…Levine’s approach is groundbreaking…Breaking new and difficult ground, he examines the ‘productive role’ played by William Lloyd Garrison ‘and his antislavery society’ in the construction of Douglass’s Narrative. Adopting a scholarly decision that is not without risk, Levine succeeds in extrapolating the tangled skeins of black–white influence and exchange that were in evidence during the abolitionist era. He meticulously navigates this complex and unequal terrain with the result that he does a powerful job not of detracting from but of reinforcing Douglass’s agency and artistry. More particularly, Levine’s exemplary close readings trace Douglass’s ‘skill in negotiating his situation’ and ‘new ways of telling his life story’ in invaluable ways. He provides an indispensable blueprint for scholars by newly mapping the indivisible yet under-researched power dynamics at work within antislavery networks as characterized by competing forms of oratorical performance, epistolary prowess, political proselytizing, and authorial self-construction. Levine’s indefatigable examination of Douglass’s syntax and spelling in his private writings adds grist to his mill that figures such as Garrison had an important, if repeatedly misconstrued, role to play in Douglass’s formative stages as a writer. As he is careful to argue, this was a role that in no way minimizes Douglass’s own virtuosity as an orator, performer, and author…[A] pioneering volume. -- Celeste-Marie Bernier * Slavery & Abolition *Through his critical analysis of what Levine describes as Douglass’s autobiographical project, Levine looks to Douglass’s evolving ideas of race, violence, and abolitionism and advances insights into Douglass as a writer and as a social reformer…Levine’s The Lives of Frederick Douglass provides a detailed look at the choices Douglass made when he sat down to write, yielding a clearer picture of the man as a writer and reformer while also evoking questions that invite further scholarship on Douglass. Levine’s book will interest those seeking to understand the intellectual life of Douglass and more fully appreciate Douglass’s political acumen. -- Jonathan Lande * Civil War Book Review *

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Book SynopsisKids Don't Want to Fail uses empirical evidence to refute the widely accepted hypothesis that the black-white achievement gap in secondary schools is due to a cultural resistance to schooling in the black community. The author finds that inadequate elementary school preparationnot negative attitudeaccounts for black students' underperformance.Trade ReviewKids Don't Want to Fail is quite remarkable in its detail, care, and depth as a critical empirical examination of the oppositionality hypothesis: the widely held belief that black student underachievement is attributable to a cultural resistance to schooling. Harris writes so clearly and in a style free of jargon that the quantitative emphasis of his study should not prove a barrier to non-specialist readers. -- William Darity, Jr., Duke UniversityKids Don't Want to Fail powerfully critiques a position held by many social scientists and teachers that African American students take an oppositional approach to education. This book offers an important—indeed, an indispensable—corrective by systematically decomposing the key assumptions of this position and then masterfully showing that these assumptions cannot be substantiated with empirical evidence. -- Brian Powell, Indiana UniversitySociologist Harris provides an important corrective to academic theories and popular thought that attribute racial differences in educational achievement to students' attitudes toward schooling. -- G. L. Ochoa * Choice *

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Book SynopsisAre you an American, or are you not? This is the question at the heart of Katherine Benton-Cohen's provocative history, which ties a seemingly remote corner of the country to one of America's central concerns: the historical creation of racial boundaries.Trade ReviewBrilliant. -- Jeff Biggers * Huffington Post *A splendid study of the contested meaning of "American" from the 1880s through the New Deal, this is an episodic case study of Cochise County, Arizona, best known as the locus for the gunfight at the OK Corral. -- E. R. Crowther * Choice *Benton-Cohen uses the backdrop of the Wild West, with its bustling commerce and growing population, to wage a discussion on racial division and the power of "white privilege"--even where the black-white dichotomy didn't necessarily exist--in this richly detailed anthropological look into the creation of racial boundaries and their application in present-day immigration reform debates. * Publishers Weekly *Combining the remarkable investigative talents of an ace sleuth with the lucid prose of an accomplished storyteller, Katherine Benton-Cohen shows how a deceptively simple question--who is an American?--shaped everyday life for the polyglot peoples of Arizona's Cochise County. Especially insightful, and particularly troubling, is her account of the hardening of racial categories along the U.S.-Mexican border. Anyone who cares about the historical origins of contemporary debates about race, immigration, and power will need to reckon with the stories of the "borderline Americans" whose lives Benton-Cohen reconstructs with such grace and compassion. -- Thomas G. Andrews, author of Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor WarThis book not only offers drama, but it will change the way that historians think about race, labor and gender in the southwestern US. In fact, it points to rethinking what Americanism was and is. -- Linda Gordon, author of The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionBenton-Cohen has crafted a jewel of social history, the most insightful local study I have read in years. Her absorbing narrative will turn Cochise County, 'a place in the middle of nowhere,' into a memorable location for anyone who cares about the tortured, fascinating history of race in modern America. -- Michael Kazin, author of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings BryanIn a beautifully written book, Benton-Cohen provides a compelling exploration of race in the Arizona borderlands. She has a talent for grabbing readers' attention, for assembling a fascinating cast of characters--ranging from Geronimo to Felix Frankfurter--and for heightening the anticipation of her audience. Her descriptions of small towns are as lively as her accounts of nasty labor conflicts, and I was so eager to find out what she had to say about the Bisbee Deportation that I found the book hard to put down. -- Peggy Pascoe, author of What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in AmericaThe Arizona–Sonora borderland is a messy, volatile place where American authorities have worked hard to draw neat, static lines. In this lively and revealing book, we see that the boundaries that have divided space and inscribed race are products of history, not nature or fate. When you visit this country, it’s good to have a guide, and you’ll find none better than Benton-Cohen. -- Virginia Scharff, author of Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the American WestTable of Contents* Introduction * A Shared World in Tres Alamos * Race and Conflict in Tombstone * The White Man's Camp in Bisbee *"A Better Man for Us" in Warren * Mormons and Mexicans in the San Pedro River Valley * Women and Men in the Sulphur Springs and San Simon Valleys * The Bisbee Deportation * One County, Two Races * Conclusion * Abbreviations * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisFor many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. Lentz-Smith narrates the efforts of these African American soldiers to gain full citizenship rights as recompense for military service.Trade ReviewBrimming with energy and insight, this rich and powerful book opens new vistas on the early civil rights movement, and adds knowledge and texture to the history of World War I and the African American experience. -- Jane Dailey, author of Before Jim CrowAn important book about the impact of World War I on black Americans. A host of historical figures, many of whom will be new to readers, took the path to activism rather than submit passively to the realities of Jim Crow America. Their stories are inspiring, and this book will establish Lentz-Smith in the front rank of young scholars of the African American experience. -- John Dittmer, author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiDuring World War I, the United States was governed by a president who believed white men were the 'real citizens' of the nation. In this powerful, elegant book Lentz-Smith shows how African American thinkers, activists, teachers, and soldiers seized that war, at home and abroad, as an opportunity to prove otherwise. Freedom Struggles brings this pivotal moment in U.S. history to life, and announces the arrival of an important new historian. -- Stephen Kantrowitz, author of Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White SupremacyLentz-Smith has crafted a superlative internationalized local history that transcends borders yet is complicated by definitions of national and parochial identities. In her skillful hands, the freedom struggle comes alive as a range of African American men and women fight for full rights even while the forces of Jim Crow and colonialism appear to become more entrenched. This book adds a significant chapter in our understanding of the long struggle for freedom both in the United States and globally. -- Carol Anderson, author of Eyes Off the PrizeWith acute analysis, Duke historian Adriane Lentz-Smith's Freedom Struggles traces the experiences of the 200,000 African-American soldiers who shipped out to France in 1917 and 1918 with the American Expeditionary Forces. She argues that the Great War "supplied a new theater for Americans to wage old battles over nation and state, color and access, power and rights." -- John David Smith * News & Observer *In offering a unique vision of African American aspirations, frustrations, and political sensibilities, Lentz-Smith convincingly contends that the Great War era represented a "transformative moment" in the black freedom struggle...[Freedom Struggles] provides a thoughtful, accessible portrayal of a civil rights struggle we believe we might already understand but one that we should come to know much, much better. -- Lauren Sklaroff * Journal of American History *Lentz-Smith's terrific new book is a balanced and beautifully written account of the black soldier's experience in World War I. It raises important questions about the ways that law and status in the United States is shaped by developments abroad. -- Joel E. Black * Law and History Review *Table of Contents* Illustrations * Introduction: Studying War * World on Fire * Fighting the Southern Huns * Men in the Making * At War in the Terrestrial Heaven * The World's Experience * Saving Sergeant Caldwell * Forewarned is Forearmed * Epilogue: The Fruit of Conquest * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisAs a young anthropologist, the author undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. This title presents a summation of his work in the region and is a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined.Trade ReviewIn this engaging, delightfully readable and provocative work, Sidney Mintz distills a lifetime of pioneering research to illuminate the making of three Caribbean plantation societies and of the creolized cultures that challenged the slave system from within. The work seamlessly brings together history and anthropology, showcasing Mintz's impassioned and encyclopedic knowledge of the Caribbean. A must-read for all those interested in the history of slavery and the Atlantic world. -- Laurent Dubois, Duke UniversityDrawing upon a lifetime of ethnographic fieldwork in the Caribbean region, Mintz arrives at bold conclusions about the societies and realities of our provocative, complex, and generally undervalued region. -- Nicolette Bethel * Caribbean Review of Books *An engaging, accessible, and masterly work. -- R. Berleant-Schiller * Choice *

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Book SynopsisEven before the emergence of the civil rights movement, African American religion and progressive politics were assumed to be inextricably intertwined. Savage counters this assumption with the story of a highly diversified religious community whose debates over engagement in the struggle for racial equality were as vigorous as they were persistent.Trade ReviewToday when black religious leadership and ideas have been thrust into the race for the American presidency, Barbara Savage helps to sift through the myriad and longstanding debates over black religion and politics. In this powerfully written and compelling book, Savage brings profound clarity to the institution that remains at the center of black spiritual and community life. -- Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, author of Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist ChurchWith the recent controversy over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, much attention has been recently paid to the topic of the black church in America. Yet historian Savage shows in her book that "there is no such thing as the black church." Countering the image of a monolithic institution, Savage instead portrays the theological, economic and social diversity within black churches. Through biographical vignettes, Savage spans the 20th-century black religious experience, focusing on the ever-present question African-Americans asked about the role their churches should play in the politics for racial justice. Savage's greatest contribution is her restoration of black women to a central place in black religious experience. Though women formed the vast majority of those in the pews, most historians have focused on the male ministers who led the congregations. Savage argues for the importance of Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Fannie Lou Hamer, among others. A concluding chapter on Barack Obama and Wright smartly observes how Wright himself downplayed black religious diversity to make his defense of the black church. * Publishers Weekly *Savage recounts the circuitous journey along which black religious sentiment and political ideology have conflicted, converged, and sometimes melded throughout the 20th century. She presents this sociohistorical study chiefly through an engaging series of portraits of individuals who combined African American religious and political sensibilities in innovative ways, including W.E.B. DuBois, Carter Woodson, Benjamin Mays, E. Franklin Frazier, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Nannie Helen Burroughs. -- Dann Wigner * Library Journal *Your Spirits Walk Beside Us marks the beginning of a new history of African American religion, not as a sacred narrative, but as the exciting story of a powerful but ambivalent Christian legacy in African American life. Savage has brilliantly rethought a matter of broad and urgent contemporary significance -- the enduring dilemmas and ambiguities of the African American religious experience amid the demands of modern American political life. -- Robert A. Orsi, author of Thank You, Saint Jude: Women's Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless CausesSavage challenges our thinking about a monolithic 'black church' and encourages us to engage with the full diversity and complexity of black religious institutions. A beautifully written, brilliant, and important book, it is both a profound work of history as well as a timely intervention into contemporary politics. -- Farah Jasmine Griffin, author of Who Set You Flowin'? The African-American Migration NarrativeWith this brilliant explication of the relationship between African American religious and political life, Barbara Savage dramatically deepens our understanding of the twentieth-century freedom struggle. Hers is a moving and provocative exploration of faith, doubt, and profound commitment. -- Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz AgeThis passionate and incisive analysis of the relationship between twentieth-century black religion and politics reveals the paradoxes as well as the dynamism intrinsic to black church culture. It is a major accomplishment. -- Wallace Best, author of Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black ChicagoHere is a book that couldn't be more topical...[Savage] examines in detail the history and implications of black church development as a political force in America. Her work is readable and thought-provoking, bringing us up to the minute with its brief but telling examination of the relationship between Barack Obama and his own church, and its by-now famous pastor Jeremiah Wright. -- Barbara Bamberger Scott * Curled Up with a Good Book *The debate about the role and relevance of religion in the social and political lives of African Americans has raged since the days of slavery. Historian Savage focuses on the period from the turn of the twentieth century, a time of tension between science and faith as more and more black Americans sought education and as racial inequalities and exploitation left black Americans as much in need of spiritual succor as ever. As black Americans adjusted to life in urban areas, and to the attendant racial discrimination and segregation, the black church became the only indigenous institution with the stability and influence to effect change within and outside the community, giving rise to the notion of "the black church" despite what was actually a great diversity of religious institutions. Savage focuses on diverse figures from the early 1900s through the current day, including Marcus Garvey, sociologist W. E. B. DuBois, and activist Marian Wright Edelman. She explores changes in how religion has been viewed and how it has been used as a political and social engine as much as for spiritual uplift. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *Table of Contents* Contents * Introduction * The Reformation of the "Negro Church" * Illusions of Black Religion * In Pursuit of Pentecost * The Advent to Civil Rights * Southern Black Liberal Protestantism * A Religious Rebellion * Reconcilable Differences * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisKoreans and Burakumin, two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan, share a history of discrimination that spans the decades of Japan’s modernization and imperial expansion. Bayliss explores the historical processes that cast them as “others” on the margins of the Japanese empire and that also influenced their views of themselves.

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Book SynopsisThis is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, and free-spirited provocateur, Anita Reynolds was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an American cocktail.Trade Review[This] memoir breezily recount[s] the Zelig-like adventures of a woman who had starred in some of the first black films made in Hollywood, mingled with the Harlem Renaissance elite, been drawn by Man Ray and Matisse in Paris and touched down in Spain during its Civil War, before packing up her Chanel dresses and heading home to a more conventional life as a psychologist… It’s a striking addition, scholars say, to the still-small shelf of published memoirs by African-American women of the early 20th century. -- Jennifer Schuessler * New York Times *Contemporary It girls have nothing on the free spirits of the 1920s, who danced the Charleston, turned cartwheels on the sidewalk, and drank gin blossoms till dawn. (Just imagine if they’d had Instagram.) But few crashed the party with the verve, elegance, and wit of Anita Reynolds, whose impossibly seductive memoir, American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World, recently uncovered by a Cornell professor, captures the Jazz Age from her sexually candid, devil-may-care perspective. Reynolds was born into a politically engaged, mixed race family in Los Angeles—Langston Hughes was a cousin; Booker T. Washington was a friend; W. E .B. du Bois a likely first lover—and starred in some of the first films produced by blacks in Hollywood before moving on to New York, where she hobnobbed with Harlem Renaissance elite, and then, absconding with her college tuition, sailed to Paris in 1928. Coining the term ‘American cocktail’ to describe her ‘red, white, and black’ ancestry, Reynolds made a splash amid the Left Bank art scene, attracting the likes of Matisse, who sketched her, and Man Ray, who became a friend and mentor. With a mordant lightness of touch, Reynolds retells her Zelig-like escapades, from modeling for Chanel to a breakfast with Madame Petain—just before a mad dash to the last boat from Lisbon, panicked refugees and couture dresses in tow, as Nazi panzers closed in on Paris. -- Megan O’Grady * Vogue *Reynolds’s story gives us, first, an unvarnished look into the lives of politically active, upper-middle-class African-Americans at the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance. Replete with rich interior portraits and abundant material details, it illuminates the inner life of a young woman who was, in different settings, brown, black, and colored. As an arc, it covers her coming of age in the United States, her clever escape to Paris, her life as a fixture of the Left Bank, and, finally, her forced departure from Europe as the Nazis advanced… Judged merely as a piece of history, American Cocktail is a critical missing piece. There is more, though. Describing a life not defined by the color line, it is also written against dominant social conventions, legal categories, and popular formulations. Its emphasis on ‘fun’ sets it apart—in tone and spirit—from more dystopian, ‘tragic’ accounts of mixture. American Cocktail reminds us, too, of the lure of the larger world as an escape from the brutal demands of American racism… In this moment of racial complexity, we have a new history of racial mixture and a renewed appreciation for the lives of those who (like Reynolds) recognized that resistance to racism didn’t just mean organized revolution along the color line. It could also mean an individual rejection of the very terms of the struggle. -- Matthew Pratt Guterl * Chronicle of Higher Education *American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World is the recently discovered memoir of Anita Reynolds, an irrepressible chameleon who rubbed shoulders with Harlem Renaissance literati, modeled for Coco Chanel and so much more. * Essence *Anita Reynolds was African American but could ‘pass’ for a variety of backgrounds, and the French called her an ‘American cocktail.’ This biography highlights her forgotten, extraordinary life, from life as a silent film star with Rudolph Valentino to falling in with the Left Bank intellectuals and artists like Pablo Picasso. Fascinating. -- Elisabeth Donnelly * Flavorwire *[This is] the Zelig-like memoirs of Anita Reynolds, an African-American actress, model and dancer who crossed paths with many writers and cultural figures of the time, such as Booker T. Washington, James Joyce and Larsen herself… American Cocktail is a welcome addition to the sparse collection of twentieth-century memoirs written by African American women. -- Douglas Field * Times Literary Supplement *[Reynolds’s] exuberant and inclusive cosmopolitanism is one of the great strengths of this singular memoir… If there has long been a scarcity of insight and gossip about friends, acquaintances, and colleagues in most early black life-stories, if one looks in vain for details and private opinions about encounters with the famous and infamous, with household names in politics, the arts, commercial enterprise, and sports, Reynolds all but single handedly makes up for it. Famous names are not simply dropped here and there, they are scattered about like handfuls of confetti, from the first chapter to the last. Reynolds readily shares brusque evaluations and anecdotes about Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings, Paul Robeson, Salvador Dali, Constantin Brancusi, Tristan Tzara, Jean Patou, and dozens more. She tells about modeling for Coco Chanel and wearing the designer’s castoffs; about writing for spicy French journals; and as the war escalated, about being a Red Cross nurse securing safe passage for refugees… Reynolds carries the reader along with a lively tale brimming with places, eras, family history, political movements, art, music, literature, and the people who created them, while throughout, Hutchinson provides discreet endnotes with his wonderfully researched and beautifully wrought amplification. Some of the notes are brief nuggets of clarification, while others are elegant miniature essays. All answer questions and expand upon things that Reynolds, in sketching her vivid self-portrait, does not stop to explain. More than endnotes, Hutchinson has crafted a running commentary, available to consult as one wishes, often pulling the reader into a bit of collusion with the editor. -- Marilyn Richardson * Women’s Review of Books *Beautiful, vivacious, stylish, and free-spirited, Reynolds (1901–80) was asked about her ‘racially ambiguous appearance’ so often that she came up with ‘American cocktail’ to describe her ‘red, white, and black’ legacy. A dancer, actor, psychologist, and teacher, Reynolds recorded this archly witty, sexually frank, nonchalantly confident, yet curiously humble memoir in the mid-1970s, and it is published now for the first time, thanks to its discovery by Cornell professor George Hutchinson. Reynolds jauntily describes her lively, privileged childhood in Chicago and Los Angeles among her extended multiracial family, which included her cousin, Langston Hughes… Dizzying tales of famous artists and writers, escapades and affairs, sojourns in Tangiers and London, and harrowing moments as WWII begins are punctuated by confrontations with prejudice and hate. Kudos to Hutchinson for bringing this independent and intrepid citizen of the world back to shimmer and shine among us, carrying forward her ‘guiding passion to try to improve racial relationships, to get people of different nationalities, colors and religions to understand and appreciate each other.’ -- Donna Seaman * Booklist (starred review) *Reynolds’s memoir of her adventures in 1930s Paris and Europe, before World War II drove her back to the United States, was written in the 1970s but was never published. After a brief silent movie career and an ‘uptown/downtown’ period hobnobbing with Harlem’s intelligentsia as well as Greenwich Village’s bohemians, the racially mixed author decamped to Europe at just the right time to meet such luminaries as Man Ray, Antonin Artaud, Louise Bryant, and many others. She lived the Left Bank life, with many forays into respectability (or something like it), traveling between the two worlds effortlessly… Her lavish descriptions of the clothes she wore, the men she loved, and the places where she dined and danced enchant, and her frank discussion of sex is refreshing. Hutchinson’s detailed chapter notes provide invaluable biographical and cultural info… This title is essential for those who enjoy reading about the African American expat experience, as well as fans of Paris memoirs. -- Liz French * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisTarun Chhabra offers detailed ethnographic descriptions of multiple aspects of the culture of the Todas, the oldest inhabitants of the Nilgiri Hills of South India. Chhabra’s prologue details his journey to becoming a Toda “insider.” The text and appendices include significant new data, and the book represents a major breakthrough in Toda studies.

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Book SynopsisGus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surgeon at Harvard. Throughout his career he has witnessed unconscious bias against nonwhite patients. Seeing Patients shares these sobering stories and outlines concrete solutions to medical inequity.Trade ReviewWhite, noted professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard University, addresses the pervasive but hidden problem of prejudice in medicine in this revealing book. He uses extensive research to show how subconscious stereotyping of Blacks, women, and other minorities influences the doctor–patient relationship and how many people, therefore, receive substandard treatment. -- Clarence Waldron * Jet *As vital to medicine as mapping the rhythm of the heart and the firing of the nerves is an understanding of the diversity of the human family. Gus White takes us on a marvelous personal journey that illuminates what it means to care for people of all races, religions, and cultures. The story of this man becomes the aspiration of all those who seek to minister not only to the body but also to the soul. -- Jerome Groopman, MD, author of How Doctors ThinkSeeing Patients is a powerful and extraordinarily important book. Dr. White uses his own experience to enable us to take a close look at the sensitive issue of bias in health care, and the damage it does. He knows from the inside how good people can be negatively affected by historical and cultural forces they are not even aware of. He acknowledges the magnitude and complexity of the problem, and encourages medical schools and physicians to work together to solve it. -- James P. Comer, MD, author of Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s WorldGus White has written a tour de force—a compelling story about race, health and conquering inequality in medical care. Growing up in the segregated South, receiving medical training at all-white Stanford, caring for Americans and Vietnamese in Vietnam, Dr. White has a uniquely perceptive lens with which to see and understand unconscious bias in health care. He offers astute analysis and prescriptions for eliminating inequalities, and his journey is so absorbing that you will not be able to put this book down. -- Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., author of All Deliberate SpeedThis is first and foremost the immensely enjoyable story of Gus White’s astonishing life’s journey. With all his achievements, he has not lost sight of his roots. Recruiting minorities into medicine has been one of his life’s priorities, and he has been a leader in promoting cultural literacy in all physicians. Seeing Patients is both exciting and insightful. -- Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical SchoolThe intertwining journeys of both orthopaedics and civil and human rights are chronicled in Dr. White’s life and career. Despite the progress made in these areas, unequal medical treatment in this country still exists due to biases, stereotypes, generalizations, language differences, and cultural barriers. -- Steven L. Frick, MD * AAOS Now *White’s story—part autobiography, part call to action—is a compelling and often uncomfortable read about a hidden world where even the most compassionate and egalitarian caregivers often fail a basic command of the Hippocratic oath: to do no harm. -- Sean Silverthorne * Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin *Armed by the unique perspective afforded by being both within the American medical establishment and an African American whose grit and talent put him there, highly respected Harvard Medical School professor White is a crystal-clear visionary. The best means to improve health care for all, he says, is for medical schools to produce physicians who are not only scientifically competent but also equally culturally competent… Part stirring autobiography, part reasoned apology for egalitarian health care, White’s book makes a powerful case. -- Donna Chavez * Booklist *White uses his unique insights to discuss health care disparities, making it timeless and a must-read book that has the power to change the way we see the world…As the coronavirus pandemic brings racial, economic, and health care disparities into stark focus, Seeing Patients impresses upon us the need to see each other as fellow humans. -- Mary E. Arthur * Anesthesia & Analgesia *In this autobiography, White, Harvard’s first African American department chief, writing with Chanoff, chronicles his experiences growing up in Tennessee and his professional journey through medical school. Along the way, readers are shown how racism has impacted and still affects African Americans and others in the medical profession and in the medical system in general. -- A. W. Klink * Library Journal *White grew up in Memphis during the Jim Crow era. Affected deeply by the blatant racial prejudice he encountered in the South, as a student in Ivy League universities, as a physician during the Vietnam War, and as an orthopedic surgeon, White offers a deeply personal account. Part autobiography, and part sociological treatise on issues including race, the book chronicles how White’s epiphany in Vietnam (‘When I came out of that carnage in Vietnam, I came out with an even stronger sense that in the final analysis we are all so much more similar than different’) led to his realization that ‘the persistent derogation of out-groups’ results in unequal treatment of many categories of people. This understanding inspired him to become an activist dedicated to increasing knowledge and awareness of diversity issues. A fascinating account of how White became a professor of medical education/orthopedic surgery and the first African American department chief at Harvard’s teaching hospital, this book explains such sociological principles as race, class, and in-group/out-group processes in clear, uncomplicated prose. His a very enjoyable account of the remarkable life of an individual who did what a lot of people say they want to do: make a difference. -- C. Apt * Choice *When White attended Stanford in the late ’50s he was one of four students of color. A recommendation letter written by a mentor then included ‘this is a pale, colored boy’ to avoid misunderstanding. Now White recounts his ground-breaking life in an engaging, matter-of-fact manner… A chance encounter with a woman who felt doctors judged her by her full-body tattoo led White to consider disparities in health care. Challenges exist on both sides of the stethoscope, White argues, noting that the uncertainty felt by many African-American patients over how they will be perceived also impacts the medical encounter; the burden for alleviating racial and other disparities (such as those based in age, gender, and sexual orientation) falls on the medical and educational communities. Accessible, thought-provoking, and valuable. * Publishers Weekly *Gus White is many things—trailblazing physician, gifted surgeon, and freedom fighter. Seeing Patients demonstrates to the world what his colleagues and friends already knew—that he is also a compelling storyteller. This powerful memoir weaves personal experience, scientific research, and even political theory to reveal how the enduring legacy of social inequality shapes America’s medical field. Perfect for medical practitioners and patients alike, Dr. White offers both diagnosis and prescription. -- Jonathan L. Walton, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewServes as a reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new. In fact, it was the heart of the Texas Rangers’ mission a century ago. -- Lily Meyer * Los Angeles Review of Books *The Injustice Never Leaves You serves as a long-overdue reality check on the Texas Rangers’ legacy. Martinez traces the group’s history from its relatively humble beginnings in the 1830s—as a small band of armed men organized by Stephen F. Austin to protect settlers—to what it had become by the late 19th century: a state-sponsored terror squad directed to secure white racial hegemony along the Texas-Mexico border…As a renewed militarization of the border takes place, along with new state-sponsored crimes against migrants—see the Trump administration’s cruel family separation policies, for one—it’s an apt moment for this book’s hard lessons of non-textbook Texas history to go mainstream. -- Michael Sandlin * Texas Observer *A page-turner…Haunting…Martinez has written a book that bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas’s past. But she has also written a book that tells us something about the future we are creating right now. * Texas Monthly *One of Martinez’s most important contributions is to remind us that violence against nonwhites was not simply a matter of private citizens going out of control for private reasons…She links the experiences of Mexican-Americans to those of African-Americans, understanding that enforcing white racial supremacy, through violence and other means—disfranchisement and Jim Crow—goes to the very heart of the story of Texas. -- Annette Gordon-Reed * New York Review of Books *This is the book every Texan should read before casting their votes on border issues. It’s a sad, deeply disturbing account of the terrible atrocities and violence committed by Texas Rangers, law enforcement, and vigilantes against Tejanos and Mexicans in parts of rural Texas a little more than 100 years ago. This book should be standard curriculum in public schools and is a testament to the untold stories of so many who died and endured hardships and anti-Mexican violence at the hands of the government. * Dallas Observer *Absolutely amazing…A groundbreaking book that sheds light on the anti-Mexican violence along the Texas-Mexico border in the early part of the 20th century…No longer can the history of murder at the hands of the Texas Rangers and other law enforcement agencies be hidden. This book will prove to be the preeminent book that all others will consult when researching this period of history. Martinez’s scholarship is truly unparalleled. This one is an absolute must-read. -- Romeo Rosales * Book Riot *In 1915 and 1916, a time of revolutionary upheaval in Mexico, when refugees were streaming across the border, Texas Rangers and American soldiers declared open season on ethnic Mexicans in a time known as the ‘bandit wars.’ …Martinez explores a terrible history that reverberates today not only because of family memory and local curation…but also because so many of its particulars seem taken from current headlines as refugees continue to die in the desert… Timely and of considerable interest to students of borderlands history as well as of sociology. * Kirkus Reviews *A groundbreaking work that lays bare the horrific reign of terror inflicted on innocent Tejanos, mostly in the Valley, by the Texas Rangers and affiliated mobs during the 1910s. * Texas Observer *With eloquence and corazón, Monica Muñoz Martinez has crafted a magisterial study of state-sanctioned vigilante violence in rural Texas. Drawing on institutional archives, oral histories, and family records, she has uncovered horrific events whose deep trauma has carried across generations. She is the first historian to document the anti-lynching campaigns mobilized by Mexican Americans, especially widows seeking justice for their murdered husbands. The Injustice Never Leaves You is a rare, field-defining book that reminds us of the power of historical memory. -- Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century AmericaIn this important and haunting book, Martinez not only documents the painful reality of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, she reveals how, despite the best efforts of the perpetrators, this violence was prevented from fading into oblivion because of the grassroots historical traditions of Tejano communities. The Injustice Never Leaves You opens up significant new insights on everything from state-building along the U.S.–Mexico border to questions of collective memory and historical trauma. -- Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of HistoryThe border has always been a place upon which the United States has projected its fears, often at great cost to the people who live here. Much like the time recounted by Martinez, we are in a period of change in every area of life. Politicians have seized upon fears of change to lie about the border, demonize immigrants, and win elections. The history recovered in this book, which sheds light on the consequences of such rhetoric, is an important contribution to the truth. -- José Rodríguez, Texas State SenatorA masterful and sensitive work that reveals the ways in which ethnic Mexicans in Texas have dealt with the trauma of state-sanctioned police violence, mourned the loss of loved ones in their communities, and memorialized the victims by creating multigenerational records that counter state narratives. -- Neil Foley, author of Mexicans in the Making of AmericaThis compelling book about survival and reckoning examines the efforts of communities in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands to wrestle with the meaning of painful episodes of violence. A graceful writer and talented storyteller, Martinez shows the families’ determination to recover these histories and heal wounds that have lasted for generations. -- Geraldo Cadava, author of Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt BorderlandThrough impeccable archival work and a rich trove of oral history and other testimony, Martinez excavates the record of anti-Mexican violence along the U.S.–Mexico border in Texas. The Injustice Never Leaves You is also an indispensable study of the subtler violence along the border of memory and forgetting. A brilliant, important book on the specificities of border history but also on the very nature of ‘history’ itself. -- Matthew Frye Jacobson, author of The Historian’s Eye: Meditations on Photography, History, and the American PresentAn immensely powerful, haunting, and heartfelt book. It is a genuine page-turner that unflinchingly documents the history of violence and terror on the Texas-Mexico border…State racial terror and vigilantism worked hand in hand to establish a blueprint for sanctioned abuse and impunity. -- Ulices Piña * Latin American Research Review *

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Grawemeyer Award in ReligionA Los Angeles Times BestsellerRaises timely and important questions about what religious freedom in America truly means.Ruth OzekiA must-read for anyone interested in the implacable quest for civil liberties, social and racial justice, religious freedom, and American belonging.George TakeiOn December 7, 1941, as the bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, the first person detained was the leader of the Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist sect in Hawaii. Nearly all Japanese Americans were subject to accusations of disloyalty, but Buddhists aroused particular suspicion. From the White House to the local town council, many believed that Buddhism was incompatible with American values. Intelligence agencies targeted the Buddhist community, and Buddhist priests were deemed a threat to national security. In this pathbreaking account, based on personal accounts and extensive research in untapped archives, Duncan Ryuken Williams reveals how, even as they were stripped of thTrade ReviewAmerican Sutra tells the story of how Japanese American Buddhist families like mine survived the wartime incarceration. Their loyalty was questioned, their freedom taken away, but their spirit could never be broken. A must-read for anyone interested in the implacable quest for civil liberties, social and racial justice, religious freedom, and American belonging. -- George Takei, actor, director, and activistIn his revealing new history of Japanese American internment, Williams foregrounds the Buddhist dimension of the Japanese American experience. His moving account shows how Japanese Americans transformed Buddhism into an American religion, and, through that struggle, changed the United States for the better. -- Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The SympathizerExplores for the first time the significance of religion, particularly Buddhism, among Japanese-Americans incarcerated at Heart Mountain and the nine other camps overseen by the War Relocation Authority…A searingly instructive story about America from which all Americans might learn. -- Peter Manseau * Smithsonian *Williams’ account of Japanese American Buddhists in internment—tales of suffering borne with dignity, and thereby transformed into great compassion—is the fruit of painstaking labor to unearth the buried stories and lives upon which American Sutra has been inscribed. -- Mark Unno * Buddhadharma *Williams delivers a pioneering reinterpretation and retelling of the internment through the lens of religion… A pleasure to read. * Choice *Magisterial and engaging…Provid[es] a comprehensive overview of the wartime experience of Japanese American Buddhists—a majority in the camps, U.S. military service, and the community as a whole. He shows how racism and religious intolerance fed on and intensified each other, long before the war. -- Vince Schleitwiler * International Examiner *American Sutra is a critically important, carefully researched, and deeply moving work of scholarship and storytelling that brings to light—from a dark and shameful period in our nation’s past—a forgotten part of our religious and cultural history. This book raises timely and important questions about what religious freedom in America truly means. -- Ruth Ozeki, author of A Tale for the Time BeingA pioneering work on the history of Japanese Americans during WWII—an instant classic. -- Tetsuden Kashima, author of Judgment without TrialDuncan Williams’s book is deep, detailed, and timely, especially at a time when the meaning of ‘citizenship’ in America is still unsettled. -- Gary Snyder, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Turtle IslandAmerican Sutra movingly and insightfully tells the long-buried true history of the ordeals suffered and triumphs achieved by Japanese American Buddhist individuals unjustly dispossessed and interned during WWII who drew on their Buddhist faith to remain loyal to the nation. I cannot recommend this compelling work highly enough for anyone who faces clearly the present-day conflicts of identities and yet aspires to a twenty-first-century vision of America’s still-possible promise for the world. -- Robert A. F. Thurman, Columbia UniversityBy recounting the struggle of those interned to maintain their faith and traditions in the face of an unforgivable assault on both, American Sutra tells a larger tale of how America’s storied commitment to religious freedom so often clashes with its history of white, Christian exceptionalism. Reading this book, one cannot help but think of the current racial and religious tensions that have gripped this nation—and shudder. -- Reza Aslan, author of Zealot and God: A Human HistoryThere’s much to praise about this book, but one thing that I find especially powerful is Williams’ impressive archival work—in particular, the research that indicates how much the U.S. government saw Buddhism as a national security threat, even in the years leading up to Pearl Harbor, and how differently Japanese American Buddhists were treated compared to their Christian counterparts. * Anxious Bench *Detailed and thoughtful narratives that weave together federal policy and its real-world impact on Japanese American Buddhists and Christians, illuminating the intricate threads that tie Whiteness, Christianity, and American national identity together…Any discussion of race and White supremacy in the United States that does not address religion and Christian supremacy is inherently incomplete, and Williams’ American Sutra does a beautiful job of presenting the two together in ways that both resonate and inform. -- Khyati Joshi * Anxious Bench *Sheds light on an under-researched and under-publicized portion of the story of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II…Highly recommended reading for all people, especially people interested in interfaith experiences, United States history, specifically the World War II internment, or learning more about Buddhism. -- Kathryn Nishibaya * Anglican and Episcopal History *A compelling and compassionate inclusion of Japanese American Buddhists in the ‘story of America.’…A rich collection of personal trials and triumphs and a model of compassion for its subject. -- Robert G. Kane * H-Net Reviews *Williams’s granular story of Japanese American Buddhists decenters the discourses of American Buddhism that have been historically erased, or that have denigrated the experiences of Asian Americans in favor of valorizing white converts. Furthermore, the book effectively expands the contours of religious diversity in the West—demonstrating the unique ways that war shaped religious practice—and adds a fascinating layer to the entangled histories of race and incarceration in the region. -- Jean-Paul R. Contreras deGuzman * New Mexico Historical Review *A carefully researched and artfully told account of the importance of Buddhism to the Japanese American wartime experience…Williams’ book is a landmark and essential reading. -- Justin B. Stein * Journal of Religion in Japan *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA beautifully written, smart, painstakingly researched account that adds nuance to the growing field of African American environmental history. -- Colin Fisher * American Historical Review *A major work of history that brings together African-American history and environmental studies in exciting ways. -- Davarian L. Baldwin * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *A fascinating narrative of Black life in Chicago. -- Robert Greene II * S-USIH: Society for U.S. Intellectual History *McCammack uncovers the untold history of African Americans’ migration to Chicago as they constructed both material and immaterial connections to nature… His attention to the complex landscapes that African Americans navigated is compelling. -- Teona Williams * Black Perspectives *The way nature helped African-Americans endure the segregated spaces they inhabited in and around Chicago forms the subject of Landscapes of Hope…If in the South nature was associated with labor, for the inhabitants of the crowded tenements in Chicago, nature increasingly became a source of leisure. -- Reinier de Graaf * New York Review of Books *Anyone interested in the history of Black Chicago as well as the history of Chicago and the natural space in which the city was built and has existed for nearly two centuries will find the book filled with important information and telling insights. -- Patrick Reardon * Third Coast *Deeply researched and beautifully written, Landscapes of Hope shows how African American migrants to Chicago experienced, adapted to, and reshaped their new world. Through a close examination of African American life in the northern metropolis, Brian McCammack reveals an urban environment that was far more rich, varied, and dynamic than we had imagined, and one that was more than a mere stage for contests over jobs, housing, and political power. Rather, he demonstrates that African Americans’ efforts to claim urban space and enjoy the city’s outdoor parks, beaches, playgrounds, and nature preserves formed a vital element of their larger struggle for freedom. -- Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Land Was OursMcCammack’s book provides a literal landscaping of black modernity. In doing so, it shines new light on Black Chicago, forcing us to look again at things we thought we knew so well. Landscapes of Hope brings together environmental justice and African American history in new ways, reminding us that race must be central both to our debates about environmental injustice and to our general understanding of the environment itself. -- Davarian L. Baldwin, author of Chicago’s New Negroes

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Book SynopsisWhat was it like to travel while Black under Jim Crow? Mia Bay brings this dramatic history to life. With gripping stories and a close eye on the rail, bus, and airline operators who implemented segregation, she shows why access to unrestricted mobility has been central to the Black freedom struggle since Reconstruction and remains so today.Trade ReviewIn Traveling Black, Mia Bay’s superb history of mobility and resistance, the question of literal movement becomes a way to understand the civil rights movement writ large…Bay…is an elegant storyteller, laying out the stark stakes at every turn while also showing how discrimination wasn’t just a matter of crushing predictability but often, and more insidiously, a haphazard jumble of risks…Her excellent book deepens our understanding of not just where we are but how we got here. -- Jennifer Szalai * New York Times *American identity is inextricably linked to freedom of movement. But for much of the nation’s history, black Americans have been barred from fully enjoying this freedom…Based on firsthand accounts and comprehensive archival research, Traveling Black details the manifest ways in which black Americans responded to limitations on their mobility. * Smithsonian *Meticulously examines how, with the arrival of each successive form of transportation technology—from those stagecoaches and trains to cars to buses to planes—there was hope on the part of African Americans (and their allies) that the invention would result in a fairer and more equitable system. But each time, white supremacy found its way into the new sphere. * Car and Driver *Takes readers on a journey through the history of segregated travel to travel issues faced by contemporary African Americans…Bay provides a detailed historical account of the experiences of African American travelers…A [deep] examination of the history of legal changes pertaining to segregation in transportation. -- Maggie E. C. Jones * Technology and Culture *A deep dive into the history of Black resistance to travel segregation…Bay offers a wealth of detail, reminding readers that for every Rosa Parks there are thousands of less famous people engaged in the same struggle, all worthy of having their stories told. * Christian Century *Fantastic…both a richly detailed history of travel and transportation from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s that centers the experiences of Black travelers, and a deeply researched history of resistance to discrimination that brings to light those travelers’ active and ongoing efforts to demand equal treatment…Bay urges us to rethink our histories of this era in order to acknowledge a much longer and more extensive pattern of resistance than previously known. -- Joanna Grisinger * Jotwell *Important and disturbing…Filled with vivid first-person accounts, Traveling Black is a superb history that captures a shameful aspect of the American story. -- Joseph Barbato * New York Journal of Books *A well-guided scholarly journey through Black travel experiences from the antebellum period to the present…Effectively organized, carefully argued, and meticulously researched, Traveling Black makes a significant contribution to the literature by tracing how the struggle over segregated travel ultimately led to the desegregation of all public spaces—one of the most important achievements of the civil rights movement. -- Karen Kossie-Chernyshev * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Bay gives us an insightful history of travel segregation for Black people from the late 19th century to the 1960s…You’ll come away from Bay’s book with the realization that for every Rosa Parks…there were countless and unknown Black men and women in segregated America who lived and traveled with determination, resistance, and dignity. * Fodor’s Travel *Disturbing and absorbing…From stagecoaches to iron horses to Cadillacs to the unfriendly skies, Black people in the U.S. have never been truly free to traverse the open road…Bay elevates the importance of the Black right to mobility in the struggle for civil rights. Not simply a record of oppression, the book also illuminates the determined spirit that underpins the fight for Black equality across the country, exploring the methods that Black people have used to subvert a racist system that persists today…A book that shocks, shames, and enlightens. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Mia Bay is one of America’s foremost intellectual and social historians, and her deft treatment of the personal indignities and structural inequities that beset African American travelers rearranges our understanding of the racial dimensions of one of our country’s most sacred rights—the right of free movement. In Bay’s telling, Black travelers emerge as innovators and early adopters of new transportation technologies, out of both social necessity and a dogged commitment to resisting every limit placed on their right to self-determination. She reminds us, as the best historians always do, that for African Americans you cannot understand the destination without sustained attention to the journey. -- Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent RageThis extraordinary book is a powerful addition to the history of travel segregation. Traveling Black reveals how travel discrimination transformed over time from segregated trains to buses and Uber rides. Mia Bay shows that Black mobility has always been a struggle. -- Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistOne of the supposed hallmarks of a free democratic society is the ability to travel without restriction. That has not been the case for Black Americans. From slavery through Jim Crow and beyond they faced a plethora of rules, formal and informal, that made travel a daunting enterprise. Mia Bay is one of the outstanding historians of her generation, and she asks crucial questions: Why were so many of the early challenges to segregated travel brought by women? Why was travel by train and bus such a problem for the racial hierarchy, particularly in the South, and why did it become such a focal point of resistance? Timely and well written, Traveling Black offers a powerful new vision of the long arc of protest against racial segregation in America. -- Annette Gordon-Reed, author of The Hemingses of MonticelloIn America, freedom so often is ‘just another word for’ the right to go where we want to go. Yet as Mia Bay reveals in her dynamic history, African Americans have rarely enjoyed this right without the strings—or stings—of discrimination, whether by law or custom, intimidation, or outright violence. At the core of her story is the struggle over human dignity itself. Bay takes us on a journey from the caprices of the early color line in the antebellum North to the harrowing experiences of ‘driving while Black’ today. Bay shows that the civil rights movement has much deeper roots than many imagine and its movements have long tracked the battle for safe and equal access to the rights of passage. Traveling Black is well worth the fare. Indeed, it is certain to become the new standard on this important, and too often forgotten, history. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the RoadTraveling Black is a stunning achievement that promises to transform our understanding of the character and importance of segregated travel. Based on prodigious research, its richly textured and insightful narrative takes us on a fascinating and eye-opening journey of discovery along the roads and rails of Jim Crow America. -- Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom RidersA comprehensive survey of the relationship between travel restrictions, racial segregation, and civil rights in America. * Publishers Weekly *

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