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Harvard University Press Race Horse Men
Book SynopsisKatherine C. Mooney recaptures the sights, sensations, and illusions of America’s first mass spectator sport. Her central characters are not the elite white owners of slaves and thoroughbreds but the black jockeys, grooms, and horse trainers who called themselves race horse men and made the racetrack run—until Jim Crow drove them from their jobs.Trade ReviewKatherine Mooney’s enthralling account of an all-but-forgotten population of elite slaves in the American South reads like a novel. Race Horse Men is both the story of 19th century thoroughbred racing—‘America’s first mass-audience sport’—and a detailed portrait of the expert equestrian slaves and free black horsemen upon whose competence in the stables wealthy white ‘turfmen’ depended… Mooney makes a strong case for why these forgotten histories continue to illuminate systems of inequality to this day. -- Thomas Chatterton Williams * San Francisco Chronicle *It is that history—of rich white men, enslaved black men, and the birth of American horse racing—that Katherine C. Mooney tells in Race Horse Men. Scholarly yet accessible, the book argues that far from subverting the racist notions of the slave-holding South, black horsemen were seen as ‘the perfect slaves, precisely calibrated extensions of a master’s will’ and ‘central figures in turfmen’s vision of the harmony of a slave society.’ -- Kate Tuttle * Boston Globe *Mooney’s book draws on the stories and memoirs of a range of figures across racing, as the sport became simultaneously a Southern specialty and an object of popular fascination. Race Horse Men is stitched out of these portraits, many of which are wonderfully effective in revealing just how ambiguous, for example, the situation of enslaved grooms, trainers, jockeys, and breeding-shed managers could be… Mooney’s book is at its strongest when it peers not into the clubhouse but out into the stables… She positions her history to thread together a large chunk of time, when racing carried the burden of chattel slavery and civil war. -- Eric Banks * Chronicle of Higher Education *Black men were active in 19th-century racing, most prominent in the South, as jockeys, grooms, and trainers for this first large spectator sport in the United States… But Mooney shows how white resentment of black presence and success at the race track increased. Whites feared that the example of success that these race-horse men set would incite other blacks to demand more rights and become violent. With the rise of Jim Crow in the South, blacks were driven out of the sport. -- Patsy Gray * Library Journal *Writing with exceptional polish and élan, Katherine Mooney succeeds brilliantly at restoring humanity to black jockeys and trainers. This superb book says as much about the cruelties and distortions wrought by racism in nineteenth-century America as any single book can. -- W. Fitzhugh Brundage, author of The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and MemoryKatherine Mooney leads us inside the paddock and beyond the finish line to reveal how horse racing shaped American society and molded race relations. In doing so, she brings to life the struggles of numerous individuals long lost to history. The result is an eye-opening and important book. -- Louis P. Masur, author of Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the UnionKatherine Mooney gives us a vivid, pioneering study of the horse-racing world, a mainstay of nineteenth-century American and Southern culture. Her portrayal of the lives of black jockeys is a revelation. She uses sporting drama to illuminate the interplay between callousness and selective personal affection that pervaded white attitudes toward blacks. -- Melvin Patrick Ely, author of Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
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Harvard University Press The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White
Book SynopsisBy restoring interracial dimensions left out of accounts of the Harlem Renaissanceor blamed for corrupting itGeorge Hutchinson transforms our understanding of black (and white) literary modernism, interracial literary relations, and twentieth-century cultural nationalism in the United States.Trade ReviewA groundbreaking book...Much of what happened in the black creative world dovetailed with what was happening in the white artistic world, and vice versa. It's difficult to separate the two, although it has been fashionable in recent years to single out artists in both camps and argue--unconvincingly...that certain black artists sold their souls to white hegemony...The brilliance of [this book] emerges from Hutchinson's reconstruction of an era, especially his painstaking examination of the early years of the movement. Hardly a scrap of information has been ignored, and the rewards are plentiful...One finishes reading The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White with a sense of invigoration and hope. -- Charles R. Larson * Chicago Tribune *George Hutchinson's The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White is one of those historical works that utterly and meticulously overturns most previous understanding of its subject matter. Hutchinson places the Harlem Renaissance in a wider context than previous commentators have done. He shows how the pluralist ideas of the Harlemites were part of much broader cultural and intellectual developments that took in pragmatism, the new relativistic anthropology of Franz Boas and a turn toward regionalism in fiction...Hutchinson's enthusiasm for the pragmatist outlook gives the book an energy and urgency that takes it far beyond the bounds of its historical subject matter. It deserves to be read by all those interested not just in a crucial episode of American cultural history, but in the ideal and reality of multiculturalism. -- Adam Lively * Times Literary Supplement *The great service of George Hutchinson's comprehensive study is its unabashed willingness to acknowledge the many inconsistent philosophical and institutional influences on those who brought the Renaissance to life: all the `pragmatist philosophers, Boasian anthropologists, socialist theorists, and new journalists' in the background...A landmark in the field. -- Carlin Romano * Philadelphia Inquirer *Hutchinson's study moves the Harlem Renaissance from the periphery of American life to the center. His courageous and sophisticated redefinition of 'Americanness' subverts the comfortable Jim Crowism of the contemporary academic discourse. His approach to American Studies calls for disciples, critical disciples anxious to move beyond their mentor. -- Maria Diedrich * American Studies *George Hutchinson presents to us in black and white the role of both black and white intellectuals in the shaping of the Harlem Renaissance...[A] well-researched and scholarly work. * Indian Journal of American Studies *The greatest strength of The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White lies in the author's portrayal of the discussions of concepts of nation and race that took place in the twenties in the United States. Hutchinson insightfully reminds us that contemporary controversies on multiculturalism, the canon and African American literature were initiated and anticipated by the Harlem Renaissance authors...The interdisciplinary qualities of this study make it highly recommendable to a wide academic readership, especially those engaged in cultural studies, American history and literature. -- Pilar Sánchez Calle * Borderlines [UK] *Authoritative and challenging, complex yet lucid, this volume is a welcome addition to recent studies of the Harlem Renaissance and of American cultural pluralism more generally. Hutchinson has produced an elaborate cultural history of the interactions between those writers, editors, and publishers who helped create and sustain the image of the New Negro during the 1920s. -- Martin Padget * American Studies *Hutchinson's study opens necessary and provocative new critical directions. -- S. Bryant * Choice *A refreshingly original analysis of a pivotal period in American cultural history. This book, in my opinion, is the most detailed and subtle study of the complex interplay between text and context, black and white, high modernism and the vernacular, in short, the hybridity that was the Renaissance. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPart 1 American modernism, race and national culture: pragmatism and Americanism; the Americanization of "race" and "culture"; cultural pluralism and national identity; cultural nationalism and the lyrical Left. Part 2 The transformation of literary institutions: "The Crisis" and the nation's conscience; toward a new negro aesthetic; reading these United States - "The Nation" and "The New Republic"; the native arts of radicalism and/or race; V.F. Calverton, "The Modern Quarterly" and an anthology; mediating race and nation - the cultural politics of "The Messenger"; "Superior Intellectual Vaudeville" - "American Mercury"; black writing and modernist American publishing. Part III Producing "The New Negro": staging a Renaissance; "The New Negro" - an interpretation.
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Harvard University Press Encyclopaedia of American Ethnic Groups
Book SynopsisThe Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups is a guide to the history, culture, and distinctive characteristics of the more than 100 ethnic groups who live in the United States. The origins, history and present situation of the familiar as well as the virtually unknown are presented succinctly and objectively.Trade ReviewCertain to be the standard reference work, to which scholars and lay people alike are certain to turn for many years to come. There is literally no other work which approaches it in comprehensiveness. Even more impressive, however, is the quality of the articles. The editors should be congratulated. -- Seymour Martin LipsetThis is a major work of scholarship, something that has never been attempted before. It will be an enduring monument to the foresight and large-mindedness of those responsible for its landmark publication. It will be something our grandchildren will thank us for. -- Daniel Patrick MoynihanTable of ContentsGroups and Definitions Acadians Marietta M. LeBreton Afghans David C. Champagne Africans Afro-Americans Thomas C. Holt Albanians Aleuts Dorothy M. Jones Alsatians Frederick C. Luebke American Indians Edward H. Spicer Amish John A. Hostetler Anglo-American Anglo-Saxon Appalachians Dwight Billings and David Walls Arabs Alixa Naff Armenians Robert Mirak Aryan Asian Assyrians Arian B. Ishaya and Eden Naby Australians and New Zealanders Andrew Parkin Austrians Frederick C. Luebke Azerbaijanis Alexandre Bennigsen Bangladeshi Enayetur Rahim Basques William A. Douglass Belgians Pierre-Henri Laurent Belorussians Paul Robert Magocsi Bosnian Muslims William G. Lockwood Bulgarians Nikolay G. Altankov Burmese Canadians, British Alan A. Brookes Cape Verdeans Francis M. Rogers Carpatho-Rusyns Paul Robert Magocsi Central and South Americans Ann Orlov and Reed Ueda Chinese H.M. Lai Copts Raef Marcus Cornish John Rowe Cossacks Paul Robert Magocsi Creole Richard A. Long Croats Cubans Lisandro Perez Czechs Karen Johnson Freeze Danes Dorothy Burton Skardal Dominicans Glenn L. Hendricks Dutch Robert P. Swierenga East Indians Joan M. Jensen Eastern Catholics Paul Robert Magocsi Eastern Orthodox Thomas E. Bird English Charlotte J. Erickson Eskimos Arthur E. Hippler Estonians Tonu Parming Ethnic Heritage Studies Program Filipinos H. Brett Melendy Finns A. William Hoglund Foreign Stock French Patrice Louis Rene Higonnet French Canadians Elliott Robert Barkan Frisians Gentile Georgians Nathela Chatara Germans Kathleen Neils Conzen Germans from Russia La Vern J. Rippley Greeks Theodore Saloutos Gypsies Ian F. Hancock Haitians Michel S. Laguerre Hawaiians Alan Howard Hispanic Hungarians Paula Benkart Hutterites John A. Hostetler Icelanders Valdimar Bjornson Indochinese Mary Bowen Wright Indonesians Iranians John H. Lorentz and John T. Wertime Irish Patrick J. Blessing Italians Humbert S. Nelli Japanese Harry H.L. Kitano Jews Arthur A. Goren Kalmyks Arash Bormanshinov Koreans Hyung-chan Kim Kurds Margaret Kahn Latvians Edgar Anderson Lithuanians Arunas Alisauskas (need accents) Luxembourgers Paul Robert Magocsi Macedonians Maltese Manx Ann Orlov Mexicans Carlos E. Cortes Mormons Dean L. May Mother Tongue Muslims Thomas Philipp Nordic North Caucasians Alexandre Bennigsen Norwegians Peter A. Munch Oriental Oriental Orthodox Thomas E. Bird Orthodox Thomas E. Bird Pacific Islanders Bradd Shore Pakistanis Arif Ghayur Pennsylvania Germans Poles Victor Greene Portuguese Francis M. Rogers Puerto Ricans Joseph P. Fitzpatrick Race Romanians Gerald J. Bobango Russians Paul Robert Magocsi Scotch-Irish Maldwyn A. Jones Scots Gordon Donaldson Serbs Michael B. Petrovich and Joel Halpern Slovaks M. Mark Stolarik Slovenes Rudolph M. Susel South Africans Stanley Moss Southerners John Shelton Reed Spaniards Spanish Frances Leon Quintana Spanish-Surname Swedes Ulf Beijbom Swiss Leo Schelbert Tatars Alexandre Bennigsen Teutonic Thai Tri-Racial Isolates Turkestanis Alexandre Bennigsen Turks Talat Sait Halman Ukrainians Paul Robert Magocsi Welsh Rowland Berthoff Wends George R. Nielsen West Indians Reed Ueda Yankees Oscar Handlin Zoroastrians Eden Naby Thematic Essays American Identity and Americanization Philip Gleason American Indiand, Federal Policy Toward Edward H. Spicer Assimilation and Pluralism Harold J. Abramson Concepts of Ethnicity William Peterson Education Michael Olneck and Marvin Lazerson Family Patterns Tamara K. Hareven and John Modell Folklore Roger D. Abrahams Health Beliefs and Practices Noel J. Chrisman and Arthur Kleinman Immigration: Economic and Social Characteristics Richard A. Easterlin Immigration: History of U.S. Policy William S. Bernard Immigration: Settlement Patterns and Spatial Distribution David Ward Intermarriage David M. Heer Labor David Brody Language: Issues and Legislation Abigail M. Thernstrom Language Maintenance Joshua A. Fishman Leadership John Higham Literature and Ethnicity Werner Sollors Loyalties: Dual and Divided Mona Harrington Methods of Estimating the Size of Groups Charles A. Price Naturalization and Citizenship Reed Ueda Pluralism: A Humanistic Perspective Michael Novak Pluralism: A Political Perspective Politics Edward R. Kantowicz Prejudice Thomas F. Pettigrew Prejudice and Discriminatino, History of George M. Fredrickson and Dale T. Knobel Prejudice and Discrimination, Policy Against Nathan Glazer and Reed Ueda Religion Harold J. Abramson Resources and Research Centers Edward Kasinec Survey Research James D. Wright, Peter H. Rossi, and Thomas F. Juravich Maps Tables Appendix I Appendix II
£154.36
Harvard University Press Judeophobia
Book SynopsisTaking a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about Jews and Judaism, Peter Schäfer locates the origin of anti-Semitism in the ancient world and firmly establishes Hellenistic Egypt as the generating source of anti-Semitism, with roots extending back into Egypt’s pre-Hellenistic history.Trade Review[Judeophobia] casts new light on, and suggests a new understanding of, an area that has been a controversial field ever since Theodor Mommsen, in…his Römische Geshichte in 1884, made the ‘rather casual statement’ that ‘hatred of the Jews and Jew-baiting are as old as the Diaspora itself’… [It is a] learned and absorbing book. -- Bernard Knox * New Republic *A well-informed and intelligently argued book. It is also admirably readable. -- Jasper Griffin * New York Review of Books *An elegant, persuasive, and comprehensive book… It is no exaggeration to say that Judeophobia changes the way we think about Judaism in the Greco-Roman world. -- Alan Mendelson * History [UK] *In Judeophobia Peter Schäfer makes a major contribution to the social history of Judaism in antiquity… The book is written in a clear style appropriate for non-specialists. Non-English language terms are transliterated and, in most cases, translated the first time they are used. Schäfer’s thesis is that the origins of anti-Semitism can be traced to three successive centers of conflict: Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Rome. Schäfer’s attempt to disentangle the unique aspects of the growth of anti-Semitism in each of these three centers is one of the most important contributions of the book… This book deserves to be read by anyone interested in the origins of anti-Semitism. Its main arguments will undoubtedly become a source for discussion and debate in future research. Schäfer deserves our thanks, both for his courage in pursuing a difficult topic with such frankness and for the numerous insights that he has contributed to research on this topic. -- Allen Kerkeslager * Journal for the Study of Judaism *Schäfer demonstrates his mastery of the sources…[and] isolate[s] with great clarity key elements in the history of antisemitism. -- Nicholas De Lange * Patterns of Prejudice *Schäfer has given us a masterly account of the early history of antisemitism. -- Robert Goldenberg * Shofar *Table of ContentsIntroduction Who Are the Jews? Expulsion from Egypt The Jewish God Abstinence from Pork Sabbath Circumcision Proselytism Two Key Historical Incidents Elephantine Alexandria Centers of Conflict Egypt Syria-Palestine Rome Anti-Semitism Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History
Book SynopsisFor 250 years the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr, who now call themselves Uyghurs, have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing's national narrative. The roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, Rian Thum says, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage along the Silk Road dominated understandings of the past.Trade ReviewIn The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History, [Thum] documents how the Muslims of the region now called Xinjiang understood their past in the three centuries before the Cultural Revolution. Then he explains how that historical identity was torn apart, by inside and outside forces, in the course of the 20th century… What makes Sacred Routes so valuable is its coverage of both the modern and pre-modern periods, taking us back before the Chinese conquest of Altishahr. This enables Thum to show what happened to the older cultural technologies of manuscript, shrine, and pilgrimage in the age of mass printing, competing nationalisms, and commercial tourism… Refusing to reduce his ‘biography of history’ in Altishahr to a simplistic binary of oppression and opposition, Thum instead leads readers beyond the familiar ideologies of modern times toward older ways of knowing and belonging. The empathy and magnitude of this humanist project show the experience of the past in a society few have tried to understand in its own terms… This is Uyghur history as everyman’s history. -- Nile Green * Los Angeles Review of Books *A pioneering work. The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History explores the complex relationship between history production, social practice, and space, and traces the transformation of specific historical genres in response to changing political contexts and the increasing role of the state. By examining the development of manuscript culture and technology, it provides a new perspective on the study of the history of the region. -- Ildikó Bellér-Hann, University of CopenhagenThum’s brilliant depiction of historical practice in Altishahr—Chinese Central Asia—is nothing less than a new understanding of what history is, how it is practiced, and how it works. The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History shows how the interplay of shrine pilgrimage, tazkirah recitation, tomb graffiti, recombinant manuscripts, and later, printed biographies, reflected and constituted a historical community in Xinjiang that was not dynastic, religious, or national but still comprised a powerful and pervasive identity. This book should be read not only by specialists on China, Central Asia, and the Islamic world, but by all historians, for its insights into alternative but vital modes of historiography on the limes of Eurasian empire and the cusp of colonial modernity. -- James A. Millward, Georgetown University
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Harvard University Press Other Peoples Words
Book SynopsisLiteracy researchers have rarely studied families of urban Appalachian background, yet, as Purcell-Gates demonstrates, their often severe literacy problems provide a unique perspective on literacy and the relationship between print and culture. A compelling case study details the author's work with one such family.Trade ReviewAn engaging book that makes a unique contribution to literacy research by offering answers to the ‘why’s’ of low literacy… [It] graphically portrays the ways in which the mainstream society and the educational system effectively exclude [the illiterate]… Other People’s Words is a highly readable and richly layered exploration of literacy learning. As qualitative research, it accomplishes what no empirical study can—it transcends the subjects of the study, making vast connections to the functions and effects of literacy practice in lives of adults, children, families, schools, and communities. -- Lynn Sampson * Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy *A powerful depiction of the literacy learning process. -- Doris Bergen * Readings *This two-year case study of the author’s work with one family is situated within a more general concern for families whom the educational system seems to be failing… Replacing a predominant deficit view of low socio-economic status minority populations, the author adopts a sociocultural view of learning and an emergent literacy perspective in this detailed account of the acquisition of literacy and the relationship between print and culture. Engagingly written and widely referenced, this is a useful book for anyone considering the nature of family literacy and the interface of literacy learning and cultural experiences, including teachers, students and parents. * National Literacy Trust’s 1997 Bibliography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Literacy, Schools, and Society 1. Nonliterate in an American City 2. Jenny and Donny's World 3. A World without Print 4. Becoming Literate: Donny 5. In Her Own Words: Jenny 6. Print Enters the World of Donny and Jenny 7. Who Reads and Writes in My World? 8. Exclusion and Access 9. The Complexities of Culture, Language, Literacy, and Cognition Appendix: Research Procedures and Stances Notes References Index
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Harvard University Press The Politics of Ethnicity Dimensions of Ethnicity Belknap Press
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Harvard University Press Lines of Descent
Book SynopsisW. E. B. Du Bois never felt so at home as when he was a student in Berlin. Germany was the first place white people had treated him as an equal. But anti-Semitism was prevalent, and Du Bois’ challenge, says Kwame Anthony Appiah, was to take the best of German intellectual life without its parochialism—to steal the fire without getting burned.Trade ReviewExamines Du Bois’s evolving thought and probes the contradictions at the heart of his conception of black identity…[Du Bois] emerges as difficult to pin down yet impossible not to admire. Appiah gracefully renders Du Bois’s intellectual formation in a study that is a pleasure to traverse for both the scholar and the casual reader. -- Lena Hill * Books & Culture *In this slim but splendid book, Appiah explores Du Bois’ works and the personal and philosophical struggle behind them as Du Bois used all the analytical tools of sociology yet lived the tortures of racism, even more so because his education and personal elegance did not exempt him from its indignities. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist (starred review) *In Lines of Descent, Appiah has penned one of the most exquisite accounts of W. E. B. Du Bois’s intellectual heritage. The most towering figure of modern black thought and protest literature is recast here as ‘a cosmopolitan through and through,’ drawing deeply from the wells of learning in the early twentieth century German academy. This is not just another book about the genius of Du Bois, his wide learning or global predilections. Lines of Descent reveals that some of America’s most enduring notions of race and racial identity—from the ‘problem of the color line’ to ‘two warring ideals in one dark body’—are based on Du Bois’s earliest synthesis of European romantic notions of race, culture, and nation. Appiah reminds us that over the course of his long life, Du Bois strove to reconcile blackness as one among many, a thread in a tapestry of global humanity. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban AmericaThat Kwame Anthony Appiah should turn his attention to W. E. B. Du Bois seems foreordained: the voyages of these two thinkers meet midstream, the one departing from Ghana and the other ending there. Beyond that neat symmetry, there is an uncanny feeling of major minds in mutually enriching conversation, as the intersection of Du Bois's visionary passion with Appiah's pragmatic intelligence yields page after page of insight. Lines of Descent is an experience of pure intellectual elevation. -- Alex Ross, author of The Rest Is Noise and Listen to This
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Harvard University Press What Is China
Book SynopsisGe Zhaoguang addresses sensitive questions of identity that shape the politics of the world’s most populous country. This insider’s account teases out nuances of China’s encounter with the contemporary world, using its past to explain its present and to provide insight into paths the nation might follow as the current century unfolds.Trade ReviewThis erudite polemic targets the aggressive nationalism that is widespread in China today. -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *This book is remarkable. It helps us see how the Chinese see themselves, addressing issues such as China’s borders, its relations with its neighbors, and the notion that China and the West are on a collision course. Ge is not defending or attacking anything, but wants to talk to us about where China is with respect to the world, by thinking historically, by relativizing where we all find ourselves now. Sabre-rattlers on all sides, beware. -- Timothy Brook, University of British ColumbiaNon-Chinese speakers have far too little access to the opinions of Chinese intellectuals today. This book gives an excellent overview of the main issues that lie behind the conundrum of a modern Chinese identity. Ge’s voice is one that most definitely needs to be heard by everyone in the West who ‘worries about China.’ -- Mark C. Elliott, Harvard UniversityThere is much to be learned from this critically engaged, liberal-minded, historically informed questioning from within China of Chinese national identity… Most importantly, What Is China? provides English-language readers with access to a thoughtful attempt to answer that question by a respected and influential Chinese scholar. -- Richard Belsky * Pacific Affairs *
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Harvard University Press AfroLatin America
Book SynopsisTwo-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.Trade ReviewBlack lives matter in Latin American history. Reid Andrews gives us the state of the art, and then probes beyond it. This is classic Andrews, hands on the evidence, head around the big picture, a lover of paradox. Both a masterful introduction for the newly curious and a master class for old hands like me. -- John Charles Chasteen, author of Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin AmericaBeautifully written by an eminent scholar, Afro-Latin America provides readers with new approaches to understanding the African diaspora in the Americas. George Reid Andrews masterfully shows that there is no area of the hemisphere that has not been touched by people of African descent. -- Jeffrey Lesser, author of Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil
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Harvard University Press Black Silent Majority
Book SynopsisAggressive policing and draconian sentencing have disproportionately imprisoned millions of African Americans for drug-related offenses. Michael Javen Fortner shows that in the 1970s these punitive policies toward addicts and pushers enjoyed the support of many working-class and middle-class blacks, angry about the chaos in their own neighborhoods.Trade ReviewProvocative… As Fortner’s book makes clear, no political movement can afford to ignore the kind of cruel disorder that we euphemistically call common crime. A police force that kills black citizens is adding to America’s history of racial violence; so is a police force that fails to keep them safe. -- Kelefa Sanneh * New Yorker *Seeks to reverse the conventional wisdom about not only the Rockefeller laws themselves, but also the broader history of the war on drugs… After Black Silent Majority, historians can no longer reduce the ’60s and ’70s politics of crime to the delusional fantasies of racists or to statistical artifacts of modern police record-keeping (although those factors surely played a role as well). Fortner marshals an array of poll data showing that black city dwellers were—and not without reason—far more fearful of violence in the late 1960s than white suburbanites were. -- Sara Mayeux * Reason *This provocative history alerts a rising generation of would-be reformers—the young masses that have recently filled the streets of New York and other cities to protest after each new tragedy—to how a well-intentioned proposal can lead to something unintended and disastrous, like mass incarceration. This lesson should resound, given the political clout the criminal-justice-reform movement continues to acquire. -- Jack Dickey * Time *A fresh, bold, powerful book that shakes up a pressing contemporary debate. Fortner insists on listening to the black voices that supported the rise of our terrible incarceration policies. Through careful research, he describes a deeply conflicted community—confronting crime, groping for respectability, challenging the white gaze, and reaching for social justice. Black Silent Majority is forcefully argued, beautifully written, and profoundly moving. -- James A. Morone, author of Hellfire Nation and The Devils We KnowMeticulously researched, engagingly written, and rigorously argued, this important and long-overdue work will be essential reading for anyone concerned with the hidden complexities of African American life. Fortner illuminates the problems that the majority of working- and middle-class blacks face from criminal elements within their communities; the sometimes patronizing indifference of white and black liberals toward them, compounded by the manipulation of their concerns by conservatives; and the tragic, unintended consequences of a flawed drug and penal policy they were driven, out of despair and fury, to support. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the interaction of class, race, and public policy in America. -- Orlando Patterson, Harvard University
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Harvard University Press The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in
Book SynopsisThough Massachusetts banned slavery in 1780, prior to the Civil War a law prohibiting marriage between whites and blacks reinforced the state’s racial caste system. Amber Moulton recreates an unlikely collaboration of reformers who sought to rectify what they saw as an indefensible injustice, leading to the legalization of interracial marriage.Trade ReviewAn outstanding piece of history. Moulton is the first to provide a thorough examination of the shifting arguments for and against the repeal of laws prohibiting interracial marriage. She offers a nuanced and convincing explanation for why the forces of repeal were able to overturn the ban without diminishing white resistance to marriage across the color line. Her book is an insightful exploration of the evolving political, social, and moral thinking of whites and blacks struggling to comprehend the complex meaning of black freedom in the North. -- Joanne Pope Melish, author of Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860Amber Moulton’s finely-grained history of the nation’s first sustained fight for marriage rights chronicles the petitioning campaign that culminated in the repeal of Massachusetts’ interracial marriage ban in 1843. As advocates for equality struggled to make the case that marriage is a civil right on which all other social and political rights are dependent, those invested in preserving the North’s racial caste system waged a pitched political battle in newspapers, political cartoons, and the streets, warning that ‘amalgamation’ would lead to licentiousness and the end of social stability. Both sides had a role in shaping the debate about marriage and civil rights that continues to this day, making The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts important reading for historians and activists alike. -- Elise Lemire, author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
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Harvard University Press Race and the Totalitarian Century
Book SynopsisVaughn Rasberry turns to black culture and politics for an alternative history of the totalitarian century. He shows how black writers reimagined the standard antifascist, anticommunist narrative through the lens of racial injustice, with the U.S. as a tyrannical force in the Third World but also an agent of Asian and African independence.Trade ReviewVaughn Rasberry’s Race and the Totalitarian Century is a powerful meditation that reveals the complexity and nuance of the African American diasporic literary imagination. This is no ordinary re-reading of classics, nor is it a slight gesture toward a transnational theory of race, writing, and politics. It is instead a close reading that manifests itself in a theoretically sophisticated analysis of race literature’s relationships to Cold War totalitarianism. With this book, Rasberry introduces himself as part of the new generation of critical theorists who are unapologetically broadening the scope, reach, and relevance of the African American literary canon. -- Jonathan Holloway, Yale UniversityVaughn Rasberry has written one of the most important books in diaspora studies in a generation. Race and the Totalitarian Century is a riveting and entirely new intellectual history of the Black twentieth century. This book matters at the most basic level—the lived experience of the struggle for freedom. -- Bill V. Mullen, American Studies, Purdue UniversityThis is a blazedly learned book with highly sophisticated thinking about ‘race,’ totalitarianism, colonialism, Communism, liberalism, and more, yet one devoid of preening and needless displays of erudition. Rasberry’s moral vigor and clarity, the subtle archeology of his research into well-kept secrets, his supreme command of the facts, and the profound relevance of this project to current trends in scholarship keep it intellectually riveting throughout. -- Alan Wald, University of MichiganVaughn Rasberry has captivatingly narrated twentieth-century Black letters through the lens of the Cold War, anticolonialism and Civil Rights. With an adept and detailed consideration of international political history ranging from the Suez Canal Crisis to West African independence struggles, Rasberry reads global Black literature at the crossroads of liberal democracy and communism, modernity and tradition. I highly recommend this brilliant and distinctive text for all students and scholars of Black diasporic history, politics, and literature. -- Imani Perry, Princeton UniversityMasterful…Race and the Totalitarian Century paints a nuanced, sympathetic, but not uncritical picture of this rich midcentury African-American and Third World literary tradition. Rasberry teases out writers’ complicated political views with clarity and verve, taking care to examine the contradictions and dangers of those views just as much as their promise. In doing so, he reconstructs a vital set of ideas and debates to fill in an important piece of the puzzle of 20th-century American thought. Above all, he offers a provocative account of the political and imaginative value of literature as a way to envision alternative futures in a nation both entangled in global conflict and roiled by domestic protests against racial violence…Race and the Totalitarian Century is such an important book because it adds crucial dimensions to our picture of that midcentury period that feels eerily relevant today. Throughout the presidential election and in its wake, critics and historians have felt increasingly moved to evaluate the totalitarian tenor of our times…What’s missing from this conversation, which draws heavily on the ideas of European émigrés like Hannah Arendt and Theodor Adorno, is the vibrant homegrown critique of totalitarianism that emerged in midcentury African-American literary and print culture, from Du Bois to Langston Hughes to Ann Petry to Gwendolyn Brooks. These writers’ unique perspectives on racial domination and totalitarian rule deserve to play a central role in our political thinking today, in both the academic and the public spheres. With Race and the Totalitarian Century, Rasberry brings their voices to the fore. We would do well to listen. -- Andrew Lanham * Los Angeles Review of Books *Capacious, ambitious, and meticulously researched…Rasberry expands the contours of the black geopolitical imagination to include not only Africa and its diaspora but Russia, the Middle East, and Asia as well. In this way, Race and the Totalitarian Century illuminates under-attended-to geographies of black internationalist thought at mid-century and—by foregrounding the life and work of Shirley Graham—makes a significant contribution to black women’s intellectual history as well…Race and the Totalitarian Century resonates with and provides important insights for our current geopolitical moment, particularly the rise of Islamophobia, white nationalism, and the ways in which the condition of blackness has always necessitated a moving within and against the nation-state to imagine alternative and more just futures. -- Jarvis C. McInnis * Public Books *
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Harvard University Press The Roots of Urban Renaissance Gentrification and
Book SynopsisIn charting the growth of gleaming shopping centers and refurbished brownstones in Harlem, Brian Goldstein shows that gentrification was not imposed on an unwitting community by opportunistic developers or outsiders. It grew from the neighborhood’s grassroots, producing a legacy that benefited some longtime residents and threatened others.Trade Review[A] meticulously researched account of Harlemites’ efforts to exercise control over their area since the urban crisis of the 1960s… Full of telling details. [This] is not a popular history but a work of rigorous scholarship. -- Benjamin George Friedman * Times Literary Supplement *Intensely detailed, this important historical analysis reads not like a play-by-play account but rather like a drama, due to the author’s strong sense of narrative. The story is deeply relevant today as the processes of gentrification and the resistance to those processes continue to produce and reproduce urban spaces across the U.S. and throughout New York City, including Harlem. Goldstein investigates how structures of racism, paternalism, and the creative destruction wrought by capitalism intersect in this iconic ‘underserved’ neighborhood, and how residents fought—and fight—to retain a degree of autonomy. The author skillfully links events in Harlem to the broader black power and civil rights movements, and to shifting political regimes. This volume covers a considerable span, from the early 1960s during the heyday of blanket ‘urban revitalization,’ which threatened to clear swaths of ‘urban blight,’ to the late 1990s. -- A. B. Audant * Choice *The Roots of Urban Renaissance is a social and political history of the built environment. In it, Goldstein tells the story of Harlem’s gentrification from the inside out: rather than chronicle the experiences of migrants to the neighborhood, he recovers the points of view of the people who were already there…[It] is a pleasure to read and a major contribution to urban studies, to the history of the black freedom struggle, and to twentieth-century American social and political history writ large. -- Tracy Neumann * American Historical Review *The most fascinating question posed again and again by Harlem residents, and echoed throughout Goldstein’s book, is what the streets of Harlem should look like, who should design them, and who gets to inhabit them…His point, essentially, is to debunk the idea that the gentrification of Harlem was solely imposed by outside developers and investors…Goldstein illustrates well how Harlemites not only asked, but thoroughly engaged. Although the results were mixed, it’s impossible to deny how the neighborhood was radically shaped by the opinions, persistence, and ingenuity of the people who actually lived there. -- Emily Nonko * Architects Newspaper *The metamorphosis of Harlem since the mid-twentieth century has been remarkable. A symbol of urban crisis and a black power utopia, it was reshaped both by advocates of community participation and by the forces of global capitalism. With attention to the ironies of urban renewal, community control, black power, and privatization, Goldstein takes us on a surprising, unpredictable, and revelatory tour of one of America’s most famous neighborhoods. -- Thomas J. Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban CrisisA fascinating book that will make a major impact on our understanding of Harlem and the life of the American city. The Roots of Urban Renaissance is a must-read for those interested in urban design and politics, the civil rights movement, and African American history. -- Suleiman Osman, author of The Invention of Brownstone BrooklynWe’ve waited far too long for a book like Goldstein’s. We see, through his efforts, how debates over community control, modernist and insurgent architecture, and public/private partnerships owe much of their ongoing salience to the experience of redevelopment in Harlem. Indeed, if the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s captures a distinctive cultural flowering, the Harlem of the 1960s and 1970s, in Goldstein’s able hands, similarly stands in for America. -- N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More ConcreteGoldstein shows us how the neighborhood that nurtured Malcolm X also gave birth to one of the first community development corporations in the United States, helping readers to understand the multifarious and shifting forces—from self-determination and radical democratization, to privatization and gentrification—that ultimately created the Harlem we know today. By knowing Harlem, Goldstein demonstrates, we can better understand the complex histories of the inner city in the last decades of the twentieth century. -- Dianne Harris, author of Little White Houses
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Harvard University Press Students of the Dream Resegregation in a Southern
Book SynopsisMarietta High, once a flagship public school northwest of Atlanta, has become a symbol of the resegregation that is sweeping across the American South. Ruth Carbonette Yow argues for a revitalized commitment to integration, but one that challenges many orthodoxies of the civil rights struggle, including colorblindness.Trade ReviewYow’s evocative and enlightening work convincingly argues that there is vast potential to reimagine integration for contemporary times. Students of the Dream is a major contribution to our understanding of school integration’s impact upon society. -- Susan Eaton, author of Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its BestYow has done something very brave in our data-driven era; she has moved in close and watched and listened to students describe their experiences with desegregation, integration, and resegregation. Even more astonishing, she has dared to follow the students in offering an answer: a new era of integration they are working so hard, with so few resources, to build. Beautifully written, emotionally rich, and compelling, Students of the Dream is a must-read for today’s teachers and students as well as everyone who believes integrated public education is essential to the future of our democracy. -- Grace Elizabeth Hale, author of A Nation of OutsidersYow examines the desegregation and resegregation of Marietta’s schools through the lived experience of young people in classrooms, extracurricular activities, and sports. Her account takes the story into the present day in order to include the introduction of large numbers of Latino, immigrant, and even undocumented students into the district. This engagingly written work points us forward to strategies for accomplishing a more equitable future in American education. -- Tracy E. K’Meyer, author of From Brown to Meredith
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Harvard University Press The Revolution That Wasnt
Book SynopsisIn this counterintuitive study of digital democracy, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful, and a potent weapon for conservative activists. Rather than leveling the playing field, the internet has tilted it in favor of the Right, where only the most sophisticated and well-funded players can compete.Trade ReviewSchradie demonstrates in great detail [how] Facebook and Google work better for top-down, well-funded, disciplined, directed movements. Those adjectives tend to describe conservative groups more than liberal or leftist groups in the United States. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan * The Atlantic *Schradie explains that, while Black Lives Matter and #MeToo capture headlines, it’s traditionally powerful conservative groups who have used digital tools to create tangible change. Hers may not be the internet culture take you want…but it’s likely the one you need. * Wired *The Revolution That Wasn’t reveals the textured reality of contemporary activism, challenging widespread assumptions about technology’s role in social movements. Beautiful storytelling and grounded insights make this book a delightful and important read for anyone who is concerned about politics today. -- danah boyd, author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked TeensTrump has no overt presence in The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives. But the compulsive tweeter comes constantly to mind as French sociologist Jen Schradie persuasively argues her counterintuitive case: digital organizing—once complacently thought by progressives to advantage their grassroots uprisings—has turned out to be another ‘weapon in the arsenal of the powerful.’ -- Brian Bethune * Maclean’s *Schradie shifts the political conversation away from moral questions and toward questions of power, asking…how the tools of the web work in the very ordinary and unexceptional realm of electoral politics. Social media becomes a lens through which we can understand power, not an instance of power itself…We wish it was bots, that we could locate the problem inside nefarious digital practices emerging from Russia and other phantasms. Instead, as Schradie makes clear, the problem is within our borders, produced by legacies of racial and class-based terror that are as virulent—or more—in the digital age. -- Emily Drabinski * Los Angeles Review of Books *This well-researched and provocative text is likely to make uncomfortable reading for anyone who believes that the internet has gifted us a political ‘digital utopia.’ -- John Gilbey * Times Higher Education *The powers of persuasion, unregulated, have changed our political landscape profoundly…The right is simply better at this than the left, and Schradie’s study explores why that is…A fascinating book that adds new insights to our understanding of the information landscape we live in today. -- Barbara Fister * Inside Higher Ed *Offers detailed analyses of the ways in which digital inequality manifests…Schradie's superb study—easily one of the most important yet on social media's impact on democracy—makes for grim but insightful reading. -- Hans Rollmann * PopMatters *Articulates society’s creeping apprehensions about the digital world. It is not only in surveillance and fake news that digital platforms marketed for our pleasure are harming us. Even in digital activism—the use of digital technology for social change—those who support the status quo have the upper hand…Schradie…quashes the idea that digital tools aid the powerless more than the powerful. -- Mary Joyce * Stanford Social Innovation Review *[An] excellent and important book…Schradie has written an essential contribution to current conversations around not only the use of technology for political purposes, but also about the politics of technology…This book puts forth a nuanced argument about the need for activists to really think critically about whether they’re using digital tools, or whether the digital tools are using them. -- Zachary Loeb * b2o *Shows that it was conservatives who most effectively seized the digital tools at their fingertips. Like a peat fire burning undetected for a long time, right-wing individuals and groups were able to develop and formulate a clear ideology surrounding such concepts as Freedom and Truth while honing their digital media skills. This happened outside the gaze of popular pundits and academics alike…[This] also partly explains the largely unforeseen (by the same pundits) results of the 2016 U.S. elections. -- Rik Smit * American Journal of Sociology *Schradie suggests [that] the image the words ‘digital activist’ should conjure is not of a left-wing student or labor activist but instead a well-heeled think-tank denizen or technologically adept Tea Party member. * Kirkus Reviews *An extraordinary read bringing together knowledge about social activism and the digital divide…A full portrait of digital activism and its variable impact on emboldening grassroots organizing and maintaining the interests of the powerful. * Choice *Don’t believe the mythology of what works in digital activism, or the hyped advice that all voices can simply count. This book lays out the real deal. Perfect for change agents aiming to turn their wild ideas into new realities. -- Nilofer Merchant, author of The Power of OnlynessThe Revolution That Wasn’t synthesizes a wealth of accumulated knowledge to launch a new phase of scholarly endeavor. Blending ethnographic methods with quantitative assessments, Jen Schradie’s work shows that the claims of both digital optimists and pessimists miss the mark. She reveals that successful digital activism is linked to more traditional resources that give well-endowed groups a natural advantage, but one that can be acquired by their progressive opponents. A pleasure to read, and packed with vibrant interactions with activists of both types, Schradie’s book will take the study of digital activism to a new level. -- Sidney Tarrow, author of Power in MovementSimply put, The Revolution That Wasn’t overturns our reigning assumptions about digital activism. Schradie demonstrates how resources, organizations, and ideology shape the potentials for and outcomes of digital activism, and reveals the dynamics behind the conservative digital organizing resurgence in the U.S. since 2010. This highly readable and richly detailed book will become the first stop for those seeking to understand why the internet failed to live up to the ideals of democratic dreamers. -- Daniel Kreiss, University of North CarolinaSchradie carefully outlines how a confluence of factors help conservatives—not liberals—use digital technologies to seize state government and effect political change…Clearly illustrates that the use of technology is stratified along class lines, and finds that working-class, predominately liberal groups are at a disadvantage in the digital activism game…Timely, important, and challenges how we think about movements on the left and right. -- Deana Rohlinger * Mobilization *
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Harvard University Press Moving Toward Integration
Book SynopsisReducing residential segregation has proven to be the best way to reduce racial inequality in employment, earnings, test scores, and longevity. Moving toward Integration explains why racial segregation has been resilient, and how public policy, aligned with demographic trends, can achieve housing integration within a generation.Trade ReviewBy identifying segregation in housing as the central problem holding back the progress of African Americans, the authors diverge from liberal and conservative orthodoxy. This landmark model of scholarship provides powerful lessons for politicians and policy makers who want to create an America that works for everyone. -- Fareed ZakariaIn Moving toward Integration, the Sander team has produced precisely what America desperately needs: a hard-headed analysis, deeply informed by new empirical data and methodologies, that shows how many metro areas and neighborhoods have been reducing racial segregation and lays out a multi-pronged strategy to finish the job. This highly readable book should become the leading account of how to strengthen the fight against housing segregation, perhaps the largest remaining barrier to racial equality. -- Peter H. Schuck, author of One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide UsHousing segregation of low-income African Americans is the great unfinished business of the civil rights movement, depriving too many of our fellow citizens access to good schools and jobs. Richard Sander, Yana Kucheva, and Jonathan Zasloff provide a brilliant mix of sweeping history, insightful social science, and compelling policy proposals. On a topic that can be deeply discouraging, this splendid book left me genuinely optimistic about a path forward. -- Richard D. Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century FoundationProfessors Sander, Kucheva, and Zasloff skillfully analyze the historic data from 1865 to the present day, proving that racial integration has an enormously powerful effect on lifting people out of poverty. They show that today, with very moderate and non-coercive governmental guidance, pockets of high segregation could be broken up, with potentially huge gains in increasing equality of opportunity and poverty reduction. Their analysis provides the foundation for a bipartisan anti-poverty, pro-opportunity agenda that every American, Democrat and Republican, can champion. -- Carla Hills, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban DevelopmentMoving toward Integration forcefully argues that unraveling residential segregation is the key to reducing racial inequality—and that, contrary to the prevailing pessimism, integration can be achieved. Pairing their deep knowledge of legal history with a new analysis of household-level mobility and residential locations, the authors document the striking achievements of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, countering the narrative that policy support for integration has been toothless or a failure. Going forward, the combination of changing demographics and targeted policy can move us incrementally—but meaningfully—toward integration. -- Leah Boustan, Professor of Economics, Princeton University
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Harvard University Press How Girls Achieve
Book SynopsisThis bold and necessary book points out a simple and overlooked truth: most schools never had girls in mind to begin with. That is why the world needs what Sally Nuamah calls feminist schools, deliberately designed to provide girls with achievement-oriented identities. And she shows why doing so would help all students, regardless of their gender.Trade ReviewNuamah presents extensive research on the educational challenges that still exist forgirls…Her solution is ‘feminist schools,’ designed to foster ‘achievement-oriented identities’ in all students and teach skills like self-confidence, moral fortitude and bravery. Nuamah’s earnest writing style and persuasive research will leave you wondering not why, but when we should start constructing such schools. * Ms. *Deeply inspiring. Nuamah introduces us to exceptional schools in the United States, Ghana, and South Africa, takes us into the lives of determined Black girls, and shows us how to produce hope through teaching the key skills of confidence, strategy, and transgression. This book holds profound lessons for students, parents, and educators. -- Jane J. Mansbridge, author of Why We Lost the ERAThis book provides a timely and much-needed discussion on the status of girls’ education. The recommendations and strategies that Nuamah provides throughout are concrete actions that scholars, practitioners, and policymakers can take up to support girls’ learning and positive life trajectories. -- Charlotte E. Jacobs, coauthor of Teaching GirlsHow Girls Achieve makes an urgent case for feminist schools: anti-sexist and anti-racist schools in which the most marginalized are encouraged not only to do well academically, but also to transgress social norms and to disrupt the status quo. Drawing on ten years of research across three countries, Nuamah demonstrates the limitations of educational solutions that emphasize individual resilience and provides compelling examples of institutional changes that can dismantle systemic racial and gender barriers and make schools safe and empowering places at which girls can become agents of social change. -- Dara Z. Strolovitch, Princeton UniversitySally Nuamah’s How Girls Achieve blazes new trails in the study of the lives of girls, challenging all of us who care about justice and gender equity not only to create just and inclusive educational institutions but to be unapologetically feminist in doing so. Seamlessly merging research with the stories and voices of girls and those who educate them, this book reminds us that we should do better and inspires the belief that we can. It is the blueprint we’ve been waiting for. -- Brittney C. Cooper, author of Eloquent RageIf you’re not already conscious about how gender shapes life outcomes and access to opportunity, then this book will help you. Sally Nuamah is a fierce advocate for girls’ educational rights and access to quality schooling without the reproduction of narrow gender constructions that marginalize them and impede their chances to step into their full realization as beings. How Girls Achieve is on a dynamic mission that reveals and compels. -- Prudence L. Carter, author of Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and WhiteNuamah makes a compelling and convincing case for the development of the type of school that can not only teach girls but also transform them. In so doing, she offers not only a chronicling of problems but also a vision forward. An essential read for all educators, policymakers, and parents invested in a better future. -- Joyce Banda, former President of the Republic of MalawiResearch shows that schools are the most important institutions for improving life trajectories of the disadvantaged. How then,…Nuamah asks, can we transform schools to more equitably serve girls?...Her clear prose and approachable style make this a book for a broad audience. * Booklist (starred review) *When girls achieve, economies, global systems, and institutions achieve, making winners of us all. This is the crux of this carefully analyzed, inspirational book informed by Nuamah’s passion to tell girls’ stories. This book will impact education, equality, and the exigencies of life for girls worldwide. -- Beatrix Allah-Mensah, Senior Country Operations Officer, The World Bank–Ghana[An] incisive work that examines how schools could become safer and more equitable places for black female and nonbinary students. * Library Journal *This book is a must read for every woman. -- Bruna Morais * Girly Book Club *Makes a compelling case that, to achieve the prosperity that comes with effective school environments, girls deserve feminist schools that aim to diminish the unequal experiences girls endure while endeavoring to simultaneously construct and achieve a solution to gender inequality. -- Megan Sullivan * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *
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Harvard University Press A Comparative Dictionary of Raute and Rawat
Book SynopsisThe Raute and Rawat people of the central Himalayan region live by hunting, gathering, and trading wooden carvings. A Comparative Dictionary of Raute and Rawat provides a useful reference work with new information about the speakers' ethnic identities and culturally significant plants, animals, deities, and material culture.Trade ReviewThis is a welcome addition to the lexicography of Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal. Anyone interested in the languages of the region, of the family, or of minority languages more broadly will find valuable information in this lexicon. -- Gregory D. S. Anderson * Journal of the American Oriental Society *
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Harvard University Press An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad Scandal in
Book SynopsisBenjamin Cohen tells the dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals. In the struggle of one couple, he exposes the fault lines that would soon tear a world apart.Trade ReviewA deftly told tale of colonial prejudices, legal skullduggery and dubious justice. -- Sumit Ganguly * India Today *Makes for absorbing reading that is also immediately recognizable in the modern day. In the 21st-century world of ‘cancel culture,’ when rumors and innuendo can spread rapidly from smartphones to laptops and careers can be damaged at the whim of social-media mobs, the fate of Hasan and Donnelly has an appalling relevance. -- Steve Donoghue * The National *The value of the book lies in its angles of vision, its understanding of the social complexity of India under the Raj, and its revelations of unexpected links between people of all races, usually on the fringes of society…[A] fascinating work. -- David Gilmour * The Oldie *Cohen’s meticulous reconstruction of the accusations and counteraccusations at the trial offers a compelling glimpse into the entanglements of race, class, gender, and sexuality during this period…A story that is both thought provoking and well told, and one that will draw in specialist and nonspecialist readers alike. -- Mytheli Sreenivas * American Historical Review *Cohen gives us a detailed description of the trial from both sides, and the story is both riveting and sad…[He] brings the people to life as they lie, connive, exaggerate and, occasionally, try to tell the truth…This isn’t just a salacious sex story, but a revelation of a society plagued by moral ambiguity and political chicanery. -- John Butler * Asian Review of Books *A charming, captivating book. Cohen has a marvelous feel for the doomed couple at the heart of a now-forgotten scandal. The princely state of Hyderabad comes vividly to life within the world of British India. -- Prince Azmet Jah of HyderabadIn this elegantly written book, Cohen shows how a sexual scandal of a relationship between an English woman and a Muslim man in colonial India reveals a surprising story, of many twists and turns, about social mobility, racial uncertainty, and gendered respectability. -- Durba Ghosh, author of Sex and the Family in Colonial IndiaThe time has truly arrived for the Hyderabad pamphlet scandal to be told, not only for readers interested in South Asian history, but also for those interested in the history of race, gender, and colonialism more broadly. Cohen has a gift for cultivating a strong sense of place, often with evocative and perceptive descriptions of a room, a photograph, or a cluster of political actors. -- Chandra Mallampalli, author of Race, Religion, and Law in Colonial IndiaAn engaging narrative of the infamous pamphlet scandal and its revelations about social, cultural, sexual, and political life in the British Raj and princely India. Cohen offers a thoughtful and persuasive analysis on key issues of race, religion, gender, and colonialism. -- Michael Fisher, author of An Environmental History of India
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Princeton University Press Behind the Mule
Book SynopsisPolitical scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and behaviors. This title demonstrates, however, that the growth of a black middle class has left race as the dominant influence on African- American politics.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1995 Outstanding Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists "[Dawson's] insights are useful for opening discussions of the ideological underpinnings of African American political beliefs and behavior. Highly recommended."--Choice "Dawson's original analytics and wide-reaching empirical tests mark Behind the Mule as a new standard in the field of African-American politics."--American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsPt. 1Behind the Mule: The Historical Roots of African-American Group Interests11The Changing Class Structure of Black America and the Political Behavior of African Americans32Race, Class, and African-American Economic Polarization153The Politicization of African-American Racial Group Interests45Pt. 2African-American Political Behavior and Public Opinion694Models of African-American Racial and Economic Group Interests715African-American Partisanship and the American Party System966African-American Political Choice1307Racial Group Interests, African-American Presidential Approval, and Macroeconomic Policy1618Group Interests, Class Divisions, and African-American Policy Preferences1819Epilogue: Racial Group Interests, Class, and the Future of African-American Politics204Bibliography213Index227
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Princeton University Press Racial Situations Class Predicaments Of Whiness
Book SynopsisChallenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting. This book argues that we need to explain how race is experienced by people as a daily reality.Trade Review"Hartigan is a good storyteller ... and a clear analyst of how local residents, black and white, make sense of race as it affects their lives and their sometimes desperate attempts to make do in this impoverished bit of the city... By asking us to see race and class in different ways, this book helps us to imagine a world where such categories might be meaningless or superseded, even as it immerses us in the intractable, dangerous and hurtful relationships these fields of inequality perpetuate around us."--Marc Christensen, Metro Times Detroit "A sobering examination of the tangled web of race, class, and struggles over space."--Choice "This inventive, impressive [book] ... contributes to the reorientation of studies of white identity ... [It will] reward historians who venture into this ambitious anthropological account."--David Roediger, Journal of American Ethnic History "This is an excellent book that ought to be widely read ... Substantively important, theoretically sophisticated, and full of unforgettable characters."--Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Names and Transcriptions xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction 3 Detroit 9 Three Neighborhoods 11 The Localness of Race 13 White People or Whiteness? 16 Structure of the Book 19 1. History of the 'Hood 24 "Disgrace to the Race" 26 The Color Line 37 Riots and Race 50 Franklin School 69 2. "A Hundred Shades of White" 83 "Hillbillies" 88 "That White and Black Shit" 107 The Wicker Chair and the Baseball Game 128 3. Eluding the R-Word 145 The "Fact" of Whiteness 151 Encounters 158 "Gentrifier" 168 "History" 191 4. Between "All Black" and "All White" 209 Statements 214 "White Enclave" 224 "Racist" 245 Curriculum 263 Conclusion 278 Notes 28S Index 347
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Princeton University Press Ambassadors of Culture The Transamerican Origins
Book SynopsisArgues that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a network of Spanish-language cultural activity in the nineteenth century. Juxtaposing poems and essays by both powerful and peripheral writers, this title proposes a major revision of the 19th-century US canon and its historical contexts.Trade ReviewHonorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize "Gruesz's [provides] lucid justification for directing students of nineteenth-century U.S. literature to ponder the efforts that certain North American writers made, in the 1820s and 30s, to foster a hemispheric consciousness and then, in the face of expansionist militarism during and after the 1840s, to mark out oppositional stances based on claims of distinctiveness concerning such things as religion, trade practices and philosophies of life... [A] rich and suggestive undertaking."--Barbara Ryan, H-Amstdy "Gruesz's interesting study of 19th century Spanish language print culture in the US recognizes the contributions made by Latino poets and journalists to both US literary history and the construction of a Latino identity."--Choice "Ambassadors had me revising my American Literature syllabus before I had finished reading the Introduction."--Barbara Ryan, H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsPREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix Chapter 1 "Alone with the Terrible Hurricane": The Occluded History of Transamerican Literature 1 Geografa Nueva: An Alternate History of the American World System 7 Citizen, Ambassador: Stations of Literary Representation 13 The Transamerican Archive: Poetry as Daily Practice 20 Vernacular Authorship, or the Imitator's Agency 25 Chapter 2 The Chain of American Circumstance: From Niagara to Cuba to Panama 30 Meditations on Niagara: Transnational Pilgrims and the American Sublime 30 The Cuban Star over New York: Heredia's Translated Nationhood 39 Republics in Chains: From Bryant's Prairies to the Mexican Meseta 48 Vistas del Infierno: The Racial Dilemma of Maria del Occidente 61 Chapter 3 Tasks of the Translator: Imitative Literature, the Catholic South, and the Invasion of Mexico 71 "A Mist of Lurid Light": Translation Practice in the Americas 71 Ecos de Mexico: Whittier, Longfellow, and the Case against Expansion 87 Converting Evangeline to Evangelina 94 In the Vernacular: Translation on the Border 100 Chapter 4 The Mouth of a New Empire: New Orleans in the Transamerican Print Trade 108 New Orleans, Capital of the (Other) Nineteenth Century 108 The Fertile Crescent: Whitman's Immersion in the "Spanish Element" 121 Reading La Patria: Hispanophone Print Culture and the Annexation Question 136 Songs of the Exile: The Laud Poets and Quintero's Pearls 145 Chapter 5 The Deep Roots of Our America: Two New Worlds, and Their Resistors 161 Diplomatic License: Pombo in New York 163 Staging Gender on the California Borderlands 176 Brave Mundo Nuevo: The Marketing of Transnational Spanish Culture 186 Most Faithful Fidel: Guillermo Prieto's Reconstruction Travelogue 196 CODA The Future's Past: Latino Ghosts in the U.S. Canon 205 NOTES 213 WORKS CITED 255 INDEX 279
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Princeton University Press Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation Spectacular
Book SynopsisAnalyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. With readings of films like D W Griffith's 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" and of key forgotten films and censorship documents, this book argues that dominant fantasies of miscegenation have had a profound impact on the form and content of American cinema.Trade Review"With Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race, 1903-1967, Susan Courtney offers an important work that should serve as the starting point for any analysis of the depiction of race and gender in film... Simply put, Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation belongs on the bookshelf of every serious scholar and student of film."--Richard John Ascarate, MEDIEN
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Princeton University Press The Devil in Silicon Valley Northern California
Book SynopsisExplores the Latino presence in the United States. This book also debunks common myths about Silicon Valley. Based on oral histories as well as archival research, it shows how San Jose, Santa Clara, and other northern California locales played a critical role in the ongoing development of Latino politics.Trade Review"Pitti is a scholar with an eye for the telling detail and a passion for social justice that turns his monograph into both a saga and a manifesto."--Jonathan Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Pitti's book ... serves to correct a Mexican American historiography that has focused almost exclusively on southern California. Pitti argues that northern California has been too dynamic economically to be ignored by historians of ethnic minorities. His analysis focuses on the entwining of economic development, racism, and the formation of racialized Mexican communities over two centuries."--Donna R. Gabaccia, American Historical Review
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Princeton University Press Notes from the Balkans
Book SynopsisMaps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps" - places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2006 William A. Douglass Award, American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2007 Honor Book Award, New Jersey Council for the Humanities "Notes from the Balkans is a penetrating and richly textured account of marginality in the Epirus area of north-western Greece... Sarah Green's text... provides a subtle and persuasive tool for thinking about the contextual specificity of social identities ... that will be pertinent far beyond the Balkans."--Madeleine Reeves, Cambridge Anthropology "Sarah Green's wide-ranging discussion of 'Balkan' history, emphasizing circuits of movement, is engaging and enlightening. The book's theoretical discussions are dense ... but not turgid; Green has a light, direct, and unpretentious style of writing. Notes from the Balkans gives readers a visceral sense of the 'ordinary' and, I think, a better idea about marginality. It is a delightful book to read."--Laurie Kain Hart, American Ethnologist "The book's principal contributions are twofold: First, it adds magnificent new ethnographic information about an area that has not been systematically studied by a foreign anthropologist since the pioneering work of John Campbell. Second, it applies a brilliant theoretical discussion of marginality, identity, and ambiguity to a setting in which concepts and categories, or affiliations and labels, have been under constant change. This is a well-researched, masterfully written, and theoretically sophisticated study that is unique in both conception and analysis... This is a quality study that should reach out to a wider audience of area specialists, not only to anthropologists."--Anastasia Karakasidou, American AnthropologistTable of ContentsList of Maps and Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Pseudonyms xvii CHAPTER 1: Marginal Margins 1 CHAPTER 2: Travels 40 CHAPTER 3: Moving Mountains 89 CHAPTER 4: The Balkan Fractal 128 CHAPTER 5: Counting 159 CHAPTER 6: Embodied Recounting 176 CHAPTER 7: Developments 218 APPENDIX: Tables 249 Notes 261 Bibliography 279 Index 297
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Princeton University Press Utopian Generations The Political Horizon of
Book SynopsisAfrican literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues the author, is their disposition toward Utopia or the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.Trade Review"Masterfully shuttling back and forth between Europe and Africa, Nicholas Brown gives us an exciting new perspective on modernism that is as philosophically astute as it is politically engaged."—Michael Hardt, Duke University, coauthor of Empire and Multitude"An enormously significant contribution to the fields of modernist and postcolonial literary and cultural studies. Nicholas Brown aims to 're-constellate' modernism and African literature within a single framework, and he does so with great success. Along the way, however, the book accomplishes a great deal more than this. For example, it provides a new, critical-theoretical account of modernism itself. Superbly well-organized and wonderfully well-written, the book is replete with sentences that resonate with the reader long after closing its pages."—Neil Larsen, University of California, Davis, author of Modernism and Hegemony"A complex, sensitive, and sophisticated investigation of the utopian aspects of both Western modernist literature and postcolonial African literature. Because modernist literature has become the standard of aesthetic achievement in Western literature, this is an audacious project. Brown not only gives equal weight to the two sets of works he is reading, but he reads each set on its own terms. As a result, he has produced an extremely useful and thought-provoking work of criticism that provides important new insights into both modernism and African literature."—M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas, author of "Ulysses," Capitalism, and Colonialism"In Utopian Generations, Nicholas Brown's grasp of marxian analysis is subtle and his general argument about the literary configurations of the idea of Utopia and the sublime on the works of the modernist and African writers he examines is both riveting and insightful. However, the book's greatest strength lies in its detailed and multilayered analyses of the authors and the texts themselves. Every chapter contains moments of real brilliance, which derive directly from the analyses. In fact, the writing inadvertently illustrates a species of immanent criticism in the best Adornian sense, and in a way that proves really illuminating as a method of comparative scholarship."—Ato Quayson, University of Cambridge, author of Calibrations: Reading for the SocialTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION 1 PART ONE: SUBJECTIVITY 35 CHAPTER TWO: Ulysses: The Modernist Sublime 37 CHAPTER THREE: Ambiguous Adventure: Authenticity's Aftermath 59 PART TWO: HISTORY 81 CHAPTER FOUR: The Good Soldier and Parade's End: Absolute Nostalgia 83 CHAPTER FIVE: Arrow of God: The Totalizing Gaze 104 PART THREE: POLITICS 125 CHAPTER SIX: The Childermass: Revolution and Reaction 127 CHAPTER SEVEN: Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Pepetela:Revolution and Retrenchment 150 CHAPTER EIGHT: Conclusion:Postmodernism as Semiperipheral Symptom 173 NOTES 201 INDEX 231
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Princeton University Press Ethnic Politics in Europe The Power of Norms and
Book SynopsisAn account of ethnic minority politics, this work explains when and how European institutions successfully used norms and incentives to shape domestic policy toward ethnic minorities and why those measures sometimes failed. It also provides keen policy insights for the strategic choices made by actors in international institutions.Trade Review"There is no doubt that [this book] is a significant contribution to the literature on the management of ethnic conflict."--William Safran, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 Part I. Theory and Data CHAPTER 2 Theoretical Framework 31 CHAPTER 3 Quantifying and Exploring the Data 54 Part II.Case Studies CHAPTER 4 Latvia: Overcoming Opposition 73 CHAPTER 5 Estonia: Reluctant Cooperation 94 CHAPTER 6 Slovakia: The Meciar Hurdle and Beyond 116 CHAPTER 7 Romania: The Long Road 140 Part III. Evaluation CHAPTER 8 Alternative Explanations: Russia, Hungary, and Democratic Development 163 CHAPTER 9 Conclusion 174 APPENDIX I Methods 197 APPENDIX II Outcome Classification Scheme 198 APPENDIX III Predicated Probabilities 199 APPENDIX IV Interviews 200 Notes 203 References 243 Index 259
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Princeton University Press In Spite of Partition Jews Arabs and the Limits
Book SynopsisChallenging the widespread 'separatist imagination' behind partition, this book demonstrates the ways in which works of Jewish and Arab literature reject simple notions of separatism and instead display configurations of identity that emphasize the presence of alterity within the self - the Jew within the Arab, and the Arab within the Jew.Trade Review"This is a necessary and timely book written in luminous prose... In Spite of Partition offers readers contagiously exciting and productive readings that will surely stimulate future discussions, not only of the literary works themselves, but for thinking more creatively about ethnicity, identity, and shared histories and forms of belonging in this woefully unpromising first decade of the twenty-first century."--Ranen Omer-Sherman, Shofar "This new addition is a thoughtful, well-researched, and carefully constructed argument about the nature of the relationship between Arab and Jew, in its many apparitions and configurations. As such, it is an important addition to the progressive discourse around the future, as well as the past, of Palestine."--Gil Anidjar, Journal of Palestine StudiesTable of ContentsPREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION: Between "Jew" and "Arab": Probing the Borders of the Orient 1 CHAPTER ONE: History, Memory, Identity: From the Arab Jew "We Were" to the Arab Jew "We May Become" 20 CHAPTER TWO: The Legacy of Levantinism: Against National Normality 44 CHAPTER THREE: Bringing Hebrew Back to Its (Semitic) Place: On the Deterritorialization of Language 73 CHAPTER FOUR: Too Jewish and Too Arab or Who Is the (Israeli) Subject? 94 CHAPTER FIVE: Memory, Forgetting, Love: The Limits of National Memory 116 AFTERWORD: Going Beyond the Borders of Our Times 139 NOTES 143 BIBLIOGRAPHY 167 INDEX 185
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Princeton University Press The Ethics of Identity
Book SynopsisTakes both the claims of individuality - the task of making a life - and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves. Adopting a interdisciplinary perspective, this book aims at the cliches and received ideas amid which talk of identity so often founders.Trade ReviewA New York Times Editors' Choice One of Amazon.com's Best Nonfiction Books for 2005 Winner of the 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing in Philosophy, Association of American Publishers Honorable Mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights "The Ethics of Identity is wonderfully straightforward. It does just what it proposes to do. It explores the demands of 'individuality,' and rejects extreme understandings of what autonomy requires. It considers the relation of personal and group identity to morals and ethics... It moves on to the links between identity and culture... Appiah has some very wise and original things to say about the inevitability of a liberal state affecting the inner life of its citizens. He ends with a defense of rooted cosmopolitanism. Not only is the argument direct; it is untechnical, transparent, and unaggressive... Appiah concentrates on a double question: how we acquire an individual identity by acquiring a social identity, and how we find--and make--an identity that is not a straitjacket. In pursuing this question, Appiah begins to explore one of the most fascinating and difficult questions in moral philosophy, the relationship between general principles and particular attachments... [He] shows just how to write about the intimate, formative relations that are central to a life, most strikingly in his epilogue, but as you realize when you reach that ending, he has been doing it, as well as a great deal else, throughout The Ethics of Identity."--Alan Ryan, The New York Review of Books "Suave and discerning... Appiah seeks to reorient political philosophy by returning to the example set by John Stuart Mill... For all of Appiah's philosophic precision, his writing often resembles not Mill's but that of Oscar Wilde--to my mind, the finest prose stylist of the 19th century... [T]he superb rhetorical performance of this book offers the most persuasive evidence for his case... To read The Ethics of Identity is to enter into the world it describes; it is also to imagine what it might be like to live in so urbane and expansive a place."--Jonathan Freedman, New York Times Book Review "Kwame Anthony Appiah undertakes to combine a form of liberalism that aspires to universal validity with a full recognition and substantial acceptance of the important cultural and ethical diversity that characterizes our world."--Thomas Nagel, New Republic "[An] impressive book... [A] thorough exploration of moral concepts such as authenticity, tolerance, individuality, and dignity, and how they are all connected to the task of making a life... It is hard to know what to admire most about this book: the urbane elegance of Appiah's prose, the reach of his knowledge, or the sheer philosophical sharpness of his analysis."--Carl Elliott, The American Prospect "This book, with its fluid, inviting phrasing, is exceptionally well written... It is effective, insightful, and thought-provoking... Appiah clears the way for a justification of a narrative, pragmatic, particular relations-based cosmopolitanism, which is universal without the necessity of theoretical agreement."--Choice "This new book aims to lay the groundwork for a new version of liberal theory adequate to the challenges of our time... I find Appiah's overall conception of liberalism very congenial... If Appiah succeeds in attenuating the force of such claims by undermining the theoretical conceptualizations and arguments supporting them, and integrating the valid claims of identity into liberal theory, he will have contributed very significantly to the reconstruction of liberalism."--Leonard J. Waks, Education and Culture "The conclusion Appiah eloquently affirms is spot on: the key to living a moral life is clearly not to seek to forego identity. On the contrary, it is to put identity in the service of becoming ethical human beings."--Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Tikkun "Kwame Anthony Appiah, a man of multiple cultures and languages who is able to question culture itself, leaves us better able to contemplate how to lead life well and to relate ethically to others in the process."--E. James Lieberman, PsycCritiques "Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Ethics of Identity is a wonderful book. It is as rigorous as one expects the best philosophy to be, yet it is whitty, humane, and engaging in ways that academic philosophy is only rarely. It is the best account of the ethics of liberal society that we possess."--Daniel Weinstock, Ethics "Appiah, ... an elegant writer, observes that we are not simply members of groups or products of culture. Individuality and autonomy, he argues, are fundamental to personhood in all social and cultural contexts."--David Moshman, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology "[This is] a book that does [a] thorough and original a job of exposing the deep paradoxes within identity and confronting the serious ethical dilemmas to which they give rise."--John E. Joseph, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural DevelopmentTable of ContentsPREFACE ix Chapter One: The Ethics of Individuality 1 THE GREAT EXPERIMENT--LIBERTY AND INDIVIDUALITY--PLANS OF LIFE--THE SOUL OF THE SERVITOR-- SOCIAL CHOICES--INVENTION AND AUTHENTICITY--THE SOCIAL SCRIPTORIUM-- ETHICS IN IDENTITY--INDIVIDUALITY AND THE STATE--THE COMMON PURSUIT Chapter Two: Autonomy and Its Critics 36 WHAT AUTONOMY DEMANDS--AUTONOMY AS INTOLERANCE--AUTONOMY AGONISTES--THE TWO STANDPOINTS-- AGENCY AND THE INTERESTS OF THEORY Chapter Three: The Demands of Identity 62 LEARNING HOW TO CURSE--THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL IDENTITIES--MILLET MULTICULTURALISM--AUTONOMISM, PLURALISM, NEUTRALISM-- A FIRST AMENDMENT EXAMPLE: THE ACCOMMODATIONIST PROGRAM--NEUTRALITY RECONSIDERED--THE LANGUAGE OF RECOGNITION--THE MEDUSA SYNDROME--LIMITS AND PARAMETERS Chapter Four: The Trouble with Culture 114 MAKING UP THE DIFFERENCE--IS CULTURE A GOOD?--THE PRESERVATIONIST ETHIC--NEGATION AS AFFIRMATION-- THE DIVERSITY PRINCIPLE Chapter Five: Soul Making 155 SOULS AND THE STATE--THE SELF-MANAGEMENT CARD--RATIONAL WELL-BEING--IRRATIONAL IDENTITIES-- SOUL MAKING AND STEREOTYPES--EDUCATED SOULS--CONFLICTS OVER IDENTITY CLAIMS Chapter Six: Rooted Cosmopolitanism 213 A WORLDWIDE WEB--RUTHLESS COSMOPOLITANS--ETHICAL PARTIALITY--TWO CONCEPTS OF OBLIGATION--COSMOPOLITAN PATRIOTISM-- CONFRONTATION AND CONVERSATION--RIVALROUS GOODS, RIVALROUS GODS--TRAVELING TALES--GLOBALIZING HUMAN RIGHTS--COSMOPOLITAN CONVERSATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 273 NOTES 277 INDEX 341
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Princeton University Press Not Even Past Barack Obama and the Burden of
Book SynopsisDoes Obama's presidency signal the end of race in American life? This title examines the paradox of race in Barack Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. It assesses the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial America.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2010 National Book Award, The University of Memphis, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change "Distinguished civil rights historian and sociologist Sugrue (Sweet Land of Liberty) follows Barack Obama's intellectual journey and political education from his student years in the late 1970s through his first years as president, offering an insightful and fresh glimpse of Obama through three lenses--as intellectual, politician, and policy maker--and with three essays. While David Remnick's comprehensive The Bridge bears thematic similarities, Sugrue offers a pithy and readable survey of some of the same terrain--the path that 'rooted the rootless Hawaiian in the history of the Southern freedom struggle' and the formation of his politics that favored 'reconciliation over confrontation.' Sugrue addresses Obama's Chicago years and the evolution of his thinking on class. And the final essay assesses Obama as candidate and president. Particularly noteworthy is Sugrue's attention to Obama's post-Jeremiah Wright controversy speech in 2008 ('the most learned disquisition on race from a major political figure ever') and a splendid illumination of the roles played by books (particularly the work of William Julius Wilson), by mentors (political and clerical), and by family (especially Michelle Obama's) in Obama's ascent."--Publishers Weekly "His work adds missing nuance and complexity to the discussion of the history of race and its present societal scars. Readers looking for simple answers or reasons to believe we are in a postracial America will be severely disappointed, as they should be. Readers willing to engage the complexity of race in contemporary American life and politics will find Sugrue's observations insightful and, at times, appropriately depressing."--Amy Black, Books & Culture "Sugrue examines Obama's race speech during the presidential campaign that reflected the impulses of 'a more perfect union' and explores major themes of racial divisions, including the moral equivalence of black anger and white backlash."--Vernon Ford, Booklist "Thomas Sugrue's fine book offers a cogent and powerful explanation for [the] mismatch between expectations and reality. He situates Barack Obama's personal racial and political odyssey in a richly textured history of race, class, and politics in the late twentieth century, and in Sugrue's deft and elegant prose, Obama's political biography becomes a lens through which American politics and race relations come into clearer view... [T]he persistence of racial inequality in an apparently "post-racial" world--that is perhaps the most profound challenge facing American politics and society, and Sugrue's book is an essential guide to those who seek to answer that challenge."--Robert C. Lieberman, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 CHAPTER I: "This Is My Story": Obama, Civil Rights, and Memory 11 CHAPTER II: Obama and the Truly Disadvantaged: The Politics of Race and Class 56 CHAPTER III: "A More Perfect Union"? The Burden of Race in Obama's America 92 Acknowledgments 139 Notes 141
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Princeton University Press Latino Catholicism Transformation in Americas
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of the Latino Catholic experience in America from the sixteenth century to today, and offers the most in-depth examination to date of the important ways the US Catholic Church, its evolving Latino majority, and American culture are mutually transforming one another.Trade ReviewFirst Place for the Book Award in History, 2013 Catholic Press Association Timothy Matovina, Winner of the 2013 Paul J. Foik, C.S.C. Award, Texas Catholic Historical Society Winner of the 2012 Best Book Award, College Theology Society One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Matovina gives a detailed examination of the different pastoral approaches that have been adopted to deal with the influx of Latino immigrants, with some advocating the need to assimilate quickly to American ways and others preferring to focus on preserving the religious and cultural heritage that the immigrants have brought with them... Matovina's book should be mandatory reading for all bishops, clergy, and lay leaders, and for anyone else who wants to understand the future of American Catholicism."--Michael Sean Winters, New Republic "Timothy Matovina, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, offers a crash course on Hispanic Catholics and their impact. The book's chapter on the importance of popular religiosity in Hispanic worship and devotion--and the controversies it causes in multiethnic parishes--is especially good."--Catholic Sentinel "Timothy Matovina, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, discusses the serious cultural, political, and class divisions in US Catholicism, and how the face of the US Catholic Church, and that of American society, is being changed by a growing Latino majority. His book ... suggests that, while trying to understand this transformation by grouping all Latinos into one bloc may be convenient, the picture it gives of this demographic is unrealistic, since Spanish is a primary language in twenty-two different countries. But no matter their country of origin, Latinos bring a new and refreshing vitality to American culture and religion, including a devotional life that striving to find faith-filled expression deep and substantial enough for the demands of our time."--ForeWord "University of Notre Dame theologian Timothy Matovina's study Latino Catholicism provides a fascinating and comprehensive update of that ongoing revolution--or 'transformation,' as he prefers to call it. And in spite of what the earlier book title might suggest, Matovina sees this transformation going more than one way as he shows 'how the U.S. context, the U.S. Catholic Church, and Latinos mutually transform one another.'... He joins a wealth of academic research with the insights and stories of ordinary Latino Catholics while providing his own solid analysis. In bringing all this together in this highly readable book, Matovina has done an invaluable service for today's U.S. Catholic Church, whose future depends on responding better to the many challenges and promises its growing Latino population present. Throughout, Matovina resists facile, one-size-fits-all answers and instead mines the considerable demographic, sociological, and theological research to differentiate, clarify, and pinpoint the most important challenges the church needs to address. This is a must-read for all who have leadership roles in today's Catholic Church and who need to come together, employ greater creativity, and work harder to find the resources to serve the diverse needs of the different generations and subgroups of Hispanic Catholics. Such work will undoubtedly bear much fruit."--U.S. Catholic "Matovina offers a masterful description of the roughly 40 percent of the American Catholic Church that is now Latino/a. While comprehensive and consistently fair with regard to all the topics discussed, this work also conveys a passion for the flourishing of Latino Catholicism and indeed all of Catholicism in America."--Choice "Timothy Matovina has produced a sweeping and comprehensive history of United States Latino Catholicism... Latino Catholicism is a must read for scholars in United States religious history, United States Catholicism, and Latino Studies... What Matovina asks us to do in this beautifully written and crafted book ... is to think about Latino Catholic histories in a new way... I plan to assign Latino Catholicism in the first graduate course on United States Catholicism that I teach at the University of Iowa in the fall, and encourage colleagues in United States Catholic Studies to assign this book and to discuss the important ramifications of integration with their students."--Kristy Nabhan-Warren, American Catholic Studies "Latino Catholicism is a must for working one's way into an understanding of the faith expression of more than 50 million Hispanic neighbors, as well as a useful tool of evaluating and bettering our own mission dreams."--Douglas R. Groll, Concordia Journal "Consider Latino Catholicism essential reading on the topic. Matovina weaves the particulars of the Latino Catholic story into the history of Catholicism in North America in entirely new ways--not to mention the relevance of his study to broader discussions of cultural diversity, the 'new immigrant' sociological literature, assimilation dynamics, and theories of secularisation. This is a truly remarkable book."--William D. Dinges, Journal of Contemporary Religion "In this fine work, M. has succeeded in mapping out a radically new understanding of Latino Catholicism. For those concerned with pastoral work among Latino Catholics, this thoughtful, comprehensive study will serve as a point of reference for a long time to come."--Ana Maria Pineda, Theological Studies "Latino Catholicism is then an accessible entre into our contemporary circumstance and a graceful challenge for the discernment that ultimately will allow the faith, not simply particular cultures to engage American society."--Thomas W. Jodziewicz, Catholic Southwest "[T]his volume advances the field of Catholic studies, undermining the notion that Hispanics are appendages to the Catholic faith in this country or simply clients to be served. A reader cannot help but conclude with the author that Latinos are active participants within U.S. Catholicism, bringing new vigor and a vision for the future."--Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens, Catholic Historical Review "Matovina has created a significant resource on the Hispanic Catholic presence in the U.S. that will be useful to scholars from every discipline. As a sociologist, I especially appreciate the historical spadework. Throughout, Matovino balances divergent views and experiences from the various Latino and non-Latino perspectives for each of the issues he discusses."--Elfriede Wedam, Catholic Books Review "Matovina has written an ambitious book that covers conquest to the present."--Valerie M. Mendoza, American StudiesTable of ContentsPreface vii Abbreviations xiii Chapter 1: Remapping American Catholicism 1 Chapter 2: Integration 42 Chapter 3: Hispanic Ministry 67 Chapter 4: Parishes and Apostolic Movements 98 Chapter 5: Leadership 132 Chapter 6: Worship and Devotion 162 Chapter 7: Public Catholicism 190 Chapter 8: Passing on the Faith 219 Epilogue: Transformation in America's Largest Church 245 Notes 251 Bibliography 273 Index 303
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Princeton University Press Fighting for Democracy
Book SynopsisShows how the experiences of African American soldiers during World War II and the Korean War influenced many of them to challenge white supremacy in the South when they returned home. Focusing on the motivations of individual black veterans, this book explores the relationship between military service and political activism.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association "[T]his is a beautifully crafted piece of scholarship... The analysis is lucid, speaks to multiple theoretical domains, and smartly combines textured qualitative research with rigorous quantitative data... [T]he principal findings of the research are well substantiated and provocative. Fighting for Democracy deserves to be avidly read by all those interested in the nexus of military socialization, political participation, and the struggle for racial equality."--Joseph E. Luders, Perspectives on Politics "Parker convincingly demonstrates that veterans played an essential role in the civil rights movement, challenging a narrative that has focused primarily on the agency of the black church, university students, and traditional civil rights organizations... [H]is conclusions offer powerful insights that historians of the civil rights movement need seriously to consider."--Jennifer D. Keene, Journal of American History "Like most good books, Christopher S. Parker's Fighting for Democracy provides a new perspective on a heavily trafficked field of history."--Anders Walker, Louisiana HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Ac knowledgments xi INTRODUCTION 1 Military Ser vice and Insurgency 5 Recasting Military Service and Resistance 9 Theory and Method 12 Broader Contributions 13 Plan of the Book 15 CHAPTER 1. War, Military Ser vice, and the Prospect for Change: A Glance at History 18 The Promise of Military Service in the Early American Republic 20 Diminishing Returns and Increasing Militancy, 1876- 1918 29 Fighting on Two Fronts Twice: World War II and the Korean War 40 CHAPTER 2: Military Service and Resistance: Toward a Theory of Black Republicanism 60 The Citizen- Soldier Ideal 62 The Symbolism of Military Ser vice 67 Military Ser vice as a Symbolic Experience 69 Sketching a Belief System for Black Veterans 73 Black Republicanism Defined 79 CHAPTER 3: Taking the Crooked with the Straight: The Pros and Cons of African American Military Experience during the 1940s and'50s 88 A Description of the Data 90 The Crooked: Negative Aspects of Black Veterans' Military Experiences 92 The Straight: Positive Aspects of Black Veterans' Military Experiences 99 Donning the Uniform 107 CHAPTER 4: When Jim Crow Meets Uncle Sam: The Veteran Returns to Dixie 112 White Domination in the 1950s 114 Framing the Meaning of Military Ser vice and Black Republicanism 116 Black Republicanism and National Identification 118 Black Republicanism and Citizenship 122 Expectations of Racial Progress: Service and Sacrifice 127 A Source of Republican Criticism: Military Ser vice and Entitlement 132 From Criticism to Activism 137 CHAPTER 5: Exploring the Attitudinal Consequences of African American Military Experience 145 Black Veterans' Attitudes toward Southern Traditionalism: Resisting the Status Quo 148 Black Veterans and the Role of the State 157 A Hard Case: Black Veterans' Attitudes toward Segregation 162 CHAPTER 6: Dying to Participate: Political Participation as a Form of Protest 174 Impediments to Black Political Participation in the South 177 Explaining Black Political Participation in the South 179 Political Participation and Risk: Voting versus Political Activism 181 Modeling Voting and Nonvoting Activism 187 Conclusion: Taps for Jim Crow in the Postwar South 196 Principal Findings 198 The Implications of Fighting for Democracy 203 Future Directions 209 APPENDIX A: Study Description, Coding, Question Wording, and Other Estimates from Chapters 5 and 6 210 Appendix B: Content Analysis of the Chicago Defender 217 Appendix C: Interview Methodology and Material 226 Appendix D: Profi les of Selected Black Veteran Activists 231 References 235 Index 255
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Princeton University Press The Indignant Generation
Book SynopsisOffers a narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. This title reveals how artistic collectives in New York, Chicago, and Washington fostered a sense of destiny and belonging among diverse and disenchanted peoples.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Book Award, College Language Association Winner of the 2012 Literary Award for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers Finalist for the 2011 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction, The Hurston/Wright Foundation Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis Winner of the 2010 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association "[Jackson's] encyclopedic book offers a chronological, old-fashioned history of literature, covering a period desperately in need of thorough-going research and detail, and presents a deeply documented, dense but thoroughly readable account... Jackson's detail may offer more than the casual sightseer seeks, but scholars will rely upon and mine his monumental work and the prodigious research upon which it is based. It should guide the way African-American and American literature is studied."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A meticulously researched, detailed account of African American literature and its critics from the end of the Harlem Renaissance to the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement... A valuable resource for scholars and graduate students in African American studies."--William Gargan, Library Journal "[This] exhaustive compilation--covering from the well-known writers to the little recognized--traverses the journeys of the artists and their links in the hubs of Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C."--Maudlyne Ihejirika, Chicago Sun-Times "Ambitious... Rich with photos and well written, the book merits praise for the deserved attention it brings to the rise of African American criticism and intellectualism and to the many important people who figured in the rise of better-known novelists."--Choice "Jackson's formulation of the indignant generation is a prodigious contribution to African American literary history."--Andrew M. Fearnley, Journal of American Studies "The Indignant Generation is a must-read for scholars of American culture on both sides of the Atlantic... Jackson's book is invaluable for its historiographic, hermeneutic, and literary merits."--Sieglinde Lemke, American Studies "African-American writers had plenty to be indignant about during the middle decades of the 20th century... Lawrence P. Jackson surveys the era with clarity and perception. Focusing on the literary hubs of Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., the book captures the complexities of the period, the great hope and skepticism its black writers engendered."--Steve Bogira, Chicago Reader "Lawrence Jackson's monumental and epic study, The Indignant Generation, provides a masterful overview of yet another key period in African American literary history... At every level, this book of encyclopedic proportions ... is well researched and well written in an elegant and superb style."--Riche Richardson, Southern Literary JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Irredeemable Promise: The Bittersweet Career of J. Saunders Redding 1 Chapter One: Three Swinging Sisters: Harlem, Howard, and the South Side (1934-1936) 15 Chapter Two: The Black Avant-Garde between Left and Right (1935-1939) 42 Chapter Three: A New Kind of Challenge (1936-1939) 68 Chapter Four: The Triumph of Chicago Realism (1938-1940) 93 Chapter Five: Bigger Thomas among the Liberals (1940-1943) 123 Chapter Six: Friends in Need of Negroes: Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton (1942-1945) 149 Chapter Seven: "Beating That Boy": White Writers, Critics, Editors, and the Liberal Arts Coalition (1944-1949) 178 Chapter Eight: Afroliberals and the End of World War II (1945-1946) 196 Chapter Nine: Black Futilitarianists and the Welcome Table (1945-1947) 219 Chapter Ten: The Peril of Something New, or, the Decline of Social Realism (1947-1948) 258 Chapter Eleven: The Negro New Liberal Critic and the Big Little Magazine (1948-1949) 275 Chapter Twelve: The Communist Dream of African American Modernism (1947-1950) 297 Chapter Thirteen: The Insinuating Poetics of the Mainstream (1949-1950) 323 Chapter Fourteen: Still Looking for Freedom (1949-1954) 342 Chapter Fifteen: The Expatriation: The Price of Brown and the New Bohemians (1952-1955) 379 Chapter Sixteen: Liberal Friends No More: The Rubble of White Patronage (1956-1958) 411 Chapter Seventeen: The End of the Negro Writer (1955-1960) 444 Chapter Eighteen: The Reformation of Black New Liberals (1958-1960) 470 Chapter Nineteen: Prometheus Unbound (1958-1960) 485 Notes 511 Index 559
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Princeton University Press No Longer Separate Not Yet Equal Race and Class
Book SynopsisArguing that elite higher education contributes to both social mobility and inequality, the authors investigate such areas as admission advantages for minorities, academic achievement gaps tied to race and class, unequal burdens in paying for tuition, and satisfaction with college experiences.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association "Both supporters and opponents of affirmative action are likely to find ammunition in Thomas J. Espenshade's and Alexandria Walton Radford's book... The authors provide a fascinating peek inside the admissions process at several unnamed universities."--Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Book, the online review at New Republic "This is a big book, exhaustively researched and packed full of facts, numbers, and prose... No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal is a must-have reference for everyone who pays attention to race and class controversies in higher education."--Robert VerBruggen, National Review "Ultimately, [the authors] argue that the most important step toward eliminating inequity in higher education and society is to close the achievement gap, and they call for the creation of an effort on the scale of the Manhattan Project to do it."--Angela P. Dodson, Diverse Education "With this incisive new book, Espenshade and Walton Radford explore the dynamics of differential college access and success in extraordinary detail... The book's most significant contribution may be its persuasive, data-based analysis of affirmative action. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in higher education's role in creating a more equitable society."--Diversity & Democracy "The authors cover a broad range of elite college admission issues that go beyond race and class, offering detailed perspectives on affirmative action. Researchers of equity issues in higher education, particularly in the selective college admission process as well as college counseling professionals will find, in this thorough and extensive work of research, tools to help clear up what may seem 'mysterious or secret' in the selective college admission process."--Joe Adegboyega-Edun, NACACNet "Espenshade and Radford have produced a highly valuable book packed with useful race-based information relating to admission, academic performance, and ethnic group interaction on elite college campuses... The data offers sound arguments for the need to not only continue race-sensitive affirmative action both in college and graduate school admissions but also in the workplace."--Journal of Blacks in Higher Education "The thoughtful work of Espenshade and Radford represented in this significant volume should be just the beginning of the next phase of the ongoing national conversation about he role of higher education in providing equality of opportunity and social mobility. This book provides a useful framework for additional research and policy development."--Jonathan Alger, Journal of College and University Law "Espenshade and Radford have produced the most comprehensive and best study yet of admissions and race relations in America's leading colleges and universities."--Steven Brint, American Journal of EducationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xvii Chapter One: Overview 1 Chapter Two: Preparing for College 14 Chapter Three: What Counts in Being Admitted? 62 Chapter Four: The Entering Freshman Class 130 Chapter Five: Mixing and Mingling on Campus 176 Chapter Six: Academic Performance 226 Chapter Seven: Shouldering the Financial Burden 263 Chapter Eight: Broader Perspectives on the Selective College Experience 298 Chapter Nine: Do We Still Need Affirmative Action? 339 Chapter Ten: Where Do We Go from Here? 378 Appendix A: The NSCE Database 411 Appendix B: Notes on Methodology 431 Appendix C: Additional Tables 462 References 483 Index 523
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Princeton University Press From Scottsboro to Munich Race and Political
Book SynopsisPresenting a portrait of engaged, activist lives in the 1930s, this book features a global network of individuals and organizations that posed challenges to the racism and colonialism of the era. It positions race at the center of the British, imperial, and transatlantic political culture of the 1930s.Trade Review"Pennybacker's meticulous work examines the confluence of antislavery, anticolonial, and antifascist activities in 1930s Britain. The British, appalled by the oppression of African Americans in the Jim Crow South, identified brutality against nonwhites as a peculiarly American sort of repression."--Choice "[T]his is an indispensable book for anybody seeking a deeper understanding of the racial politics of 1930s Britain, and their place within broader global historical and geographical networks of advocacy and engagement."--Daniel Wittall, Basa "From Scottsboro to Munich is strongly recommended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in 20th-century history and politics."--Charles H. Ford, Journal of African American History "This is an intricate and important history that no review can recount in all its complexity. It suggests not only the value of taking historical writing beyond the confines of the nation but also some of the narrative trials that await both writers and readers of this new transnational history."--Andrew Zimmerman, Journal of Southern History "The book adds much detail and nuance to the already well-known tragedy of the divided European left in the interwar years... The reader finishes this complex and depressing tale persuaded that, as the author argues, racial and imperial politics prove essential in understanding the 1930s."--Laura Tabili, Journal of Modern History "From Scottsboro to Munich draws on a wide range of archival sources, including much Comintern and Profintern material that has recently become available from Moscow. It also shows a particular and welcome sensitivity to mixed media of expressive culture. The framing of its disparate and, again, contradictory subject is generally very sharp."-- James Smethurst, African American ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures vii Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Ada Wright and Scottsboro 16 Chapter 2: George Padmore and London 66 Chapter 3: Lady Kathleen Simon and Antislavery 103 Chapter 4: Saklatvala and the Meerut Trial 146 Chapter 5: Diasporas: Refugees and Exiles 200 Chapter 6: A Thieves' Kitchen, 1938-39 240 Conclusion 265 Chronology 275 Notes on Sources 279 Notes 283 Glossary 341 Bibliography 353 Index 371
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Princeton University Press Troubling the Waters
Book SynopsisWas there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? This book answers these questions, drawing a portrait of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement - but one that energized the civil rights revolution, and affected the course of American politics as a whole.Trade ReviewCo-Winner of the 2006 Saul Viener Book Prize, American Jewish Historical Society One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006 "[Greenberg's] smart and comprehensive analysis ... is one of the best of a spate of new books on this topic, with her fine research and careful delineation of the facts."--Publishers Weekly "The vexed topic of black-Jewish relations in 20th-century America requires a brave writer, and Greenberg confronts the issue with honesty and dedication. While she provides ample evidence that the golden age of cooperation between the two groups wasn't as harmonious as generally believed, she also provides numerous examples of cohesion during the more fraught times. Greenberg is not only adept at uncovering little-known controversies and victories; her brief exposition of the famous New York City teachers' strike in the late 1960s, an incident widely credited with bringing to a boil simmering black-Jewish tensions, is a masterpiece of compression and insight."--Atlantic Monthly "Greenberg's most impressive achievement is the way she weaves the story of black-Jewish relations into the larger history of American liberalism in the twentieth century...While the likelihood of another 'golden age' of black-Jewish relations seems remote, what is certain is that Greenberg's book will be essential reading for anyone interested in this complex relationship and in the history of American liberalism more broadly."--Eric L. Goldstein, American Historical Review "Troubling the Waters gives textured life to more than 100 years of civil rights efforts and offers a window into the complex, political decision-making of courageous and often admirable individuals."--Jane Gordon, Diverse "[Cheryl Greenberg] provides extremely detailed histories of Jewish and African American civil rights efforts, together and as separate communities... [F]or the scholar and political tactician, the volume is a goldmine of information... [T]his book is likely to become one of the classic histories of black-Jewish relations in the United States."--Jewish Book World "Greenberg's is one of the best of a spate of new books on this topic, with her fine research and careful delineation of the facts."--Press-Enterprise "Essential reading for understanding ethnic/race relations and Jewish identity... Greenberg offers the best study on black-Jewish relations and one that will stand as a classic in the field."--Ronald H. Bayor, Southern Jewish History "Cheryl Greenberg's view is that Black and Jewish interests and priorities have been fundamentally different all along but did, during a particular period, overlap sufficiently... Cheryl Greenberg has certainly helped to provide ... a clearer understanding [of the Black-Jewish relationship] with this well-written, well-researched book, which is chock full of information and sensible analysis by a thoughtful, sensitive, and sympathetic writer."--Yankl Stillman, Jewish Currents "Greenberg's history is both synthetic and original, especially in its coverage of the last thirty-five years... Troubling the Waters is a painstakingly researched, impressively documented, well-written, and important contribution to the field."--Dominic J. Capeci Jr., Journal of American History "[Greenberg's] book is lucid in its exposition, balanced in its tone, and generous in its sympathies. Writing from a resolutely liberal perspective, she has built upon and outclasses all previous scholarship on the history of the black-Jewish encounter in twentieth-century America."--Stephen J. Whitfield, Jewish History "Cheryl Greenberg's book stands as an exemplar of scholarship not just in American Jewish history and in African American history, but also in the history of American liberalism which in many ways is the key force which dominates the narrative here."--Hasia R. Diner, Modernism/Modernity "In Troubling the Waters: Black Jewish Relations in the American Century, Greenberg has done more than write a book that will be of interest to students of Jewish-American history or the African American experience. She has instead produced a work--ambitious in scope and thoughtful in tone--that will be of enormous value to those interested in the broader history of postwar America and the rise of modern liberalism."--Alan Petigny, Reviews in American History "[A]n admirably balanced, fairly unsentimental account of a former entente. Greenberg ... approaches the topic with eyes wide open in an attempt to plumb its complexities."--Sheldon Kirschner, Canadian Jewish News "Troubling the Waters is the most complete attempt to unravel the complicated history of black-Jewish relations during the 20th century."--Edward S. Shapiro, Congress MonthlyTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: Settling In 15 CHAPTER TWO: Of Our Economic Strivings 48 CHAPTER THREE: Wars and Rumors of Wars 74 CHAPTER FOUR: And Why Not Every Man? 114 CHAPTER FIVE: Red Menace 169 CHAPTER SIX: Things Fall Apart 205 ABBREVIATIONS 257 NOTES 261 INDEX 339
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Princeton University Press Uneasy Alliances Race and Party Competition in
Book SynopsisChallenges how we think about the relationship between race, political parties, and American democracy. This book shows that not all groups are treated equally, and that politicians spend most of their time and resources on white swing voters - to the detriment of the African American community.Trade Review"The vast literature on American political parties has been immensely enriched and enhanced by this pioneering work on race and parties...This is a highly recommended work."--Hanes Walton, Jr., Political Science Quarterly "In a work that effectively challenges cherished notions of how the political system functions, Paul Frymer ... shows the centrality of race in the American political process. In addition, he makes a strong theoretical contribution to our analysis of the functioning of political parties in democratic regimes. Uneasy Alliances will be a valuable resource for scholars and students alike, for both its substantive arguments and its theoretical achievements."--Howard L. Reiter, American Political Science Review "Frymer makes a strong case that Democratic presidential candidates have distanced themselves from black voters and issues... The villain in the tale is the United States electoral structure, the two-party, winner-take-all system."--Sandra Featherman, Journal of Politics "Frymer argues that the failure to seriously address white racism's impact on the party system causes us to misunderstand how and why African Americans are and remain at the margins for reasons not related to their abilities and potential impact on the American political system."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1. Introduction 3 Chapter 2. Competitive Parties and the "Invisibility" of Captured Groups 27 Chapter 3. National Party Competition and the Disenfranchisement of Black Voters in the South, 1866-1932 49 Chapter 4. Capture Inside the Democratic Party, 1965-1996 87 Chapter 5. Party Education and Mobilization and the Captured Group 120 Chapter 6. Black Representation in Congress 140 Chapter 7. Is the Concept of Electoral Capture Applicable to Other Groups? The Case of Gay and Lesbian Voters in the Democratic Party and the Christian Right in the Republican Party 179 Index 207 Afterword to the 2010 Edition. Obama and the Representation of Captured Groups 207 Index 237
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Princeton University Press A Tale of Two Cities
Book SynopsisIn the second half of the twentieth century Dominicans became New York City's largest, and poorest, new immigrant group. By 1990, one of every ten Dominicans lived in New York. This book tells the fascinating story of this emblematic migration from Latin America to the United States.Trade Review"This detailed, compelling study shows how Dominicans have recreated the modern city in both their national capital of Santo Domingo and Washington Heights in New York through their aspirations, responses to government policy (in both states), and generational change. Hoffnung-Garskoff grounds his study in Dominican national debates over progress and culture before tackling the symbiosis of cities and nations that has intensified since the 1960s."--G.W. McDonogh, Choice "Rather than an overly optimistic assessment of the transnational condition, A Tale of Two Cities is a balanced, sophisticated look into the national and community-level challenges for transnational nations and peoples that, though rooted in historical scholarship, also crosses disciplinary lines."--Marc Simon Rodriguez, Journal of American History "[T]he questions Hoffnung-Garskof raises ... will be of concern a broad array of scholars. The clarity of the writing, together with the wealth of apposite photographs and other illustrations, will make this text an excellent choice for the classroom as well. This capacious and well-told tale of two cities will reward any scholar with an interest in the history of transnationalism, international migration and the Dominican Republic."--Katja Naumann, H-Soz-u-Kult "Hoffnung-Garskof's narrative is, quite simply, one of the best academic texts I have read in years. It is meticulous but not overwrought, briskly written but not simplistic, and contemporary but not dependent on trendy jargon. I will certainly use it in undergraduate classes on immigration. I would also recommend it to anyone who remains unconvinced about the value of transnational scholarship as a tool to help make sense of the contemporary world and its transformations."--Daniel Reichman, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology "[F]rom an American Studies and U.S. history perspective, this book is invaluable. It shows the extent to which students of the United States need to become experts on other nations and regions if they are to explain transnational and global processes."--Themis Chronopoulos, AmericasTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword xi Maps xxiii Chapter One: From the Burro to the Subway 1 Chapter Two: Progreso Cannot Be Stopped 15 Chapter Three: Beautiful Barrios for the Humble Folk 44 Chapter Four: Yankee, Go Home ... and Take Me with You! 68 Chapter Five: Hispanic, Whatever That's Supposed to Mean 97 Chapter Six: To Have an Identity Here 132 Chapter Seven: Not How They Paint It 163 Chapter Eight: Strange Costumbres 200 Conclusion 243 Appendix: Population Change in the Dominican Republic 249 Notes 251 Selected Bibliography 297 Index 307
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Princeton University Press Ten Hills Farm The Forgotten History of Slavery
Book SynopsisTells the saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. This title follows the tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean.Trade Review"Manegold's research is wide-ranging and meticulous, and with her vivid storytelling and persistent ethical sense, she does much-needed justice to this obscure chapter in American history."--New York Times Book Review "The story of five generations of slave owners in Colonial New England. John Winthrop, Puritan governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled in 1630, famously spoke of 'the shining city upon a hill,' yet he was a slave owner, as were other powerful Massachusetts families on land, part of which today is Cambridge, Mass."--Billy Heller, New York Post "Ten Hills Farm dispels the myth of slavery as a solely Southern phenomenon. It recounts the establishment of slavery in the northern colonies and traces its path to the sugar cane fields of the island of Antigua. Manegold, an award-winning journalist and the author of In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America, unravels the intricate family lineages and the brokered deals of America's elite and the institutions they founded upon slavery, including Harvard Law School. With a wealth of primary source research, Manegold, a former fellow at the American Antiquarian Society and Harvard University, reveals the names and faces of masters and slaves alike, while providing the reader with an invaluable lesson on the history of slavery."--ForeWord "Exposing the Puritans as not so pure, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Manegold lays bare the deep slavery connections that enriched early New England. Her conversational narrative interweaves past and present in a personalized story of the whites who owned, and blacks who slaved at, Ten Hills Farm."--Thomas J. Davis, Library Journal "This is a book that draws one into the world of pre-Revolutionary New England and beyond with a storyteller's intensity and a historian's integrity. Ten Hills Farm will win awards--and deserves them."--George H. Wittman, American Spectator "Here, Manegold looks back to reveal the truth about the Puritans' 'bold experiment,' refuting conventional wisdom that too often dismissed references to slavery in the North... This is a story that needed to be told."--Kirkus "[An] intimate and sobering account of slavery's hold on New England... [Manegold] makes vivid what has not so much been forgotten as suppressed."--Stephan Salisbury, Philadelphia Inquirer "Manegold's graceful, small-scale treatment of the large, often murky issue of Northern slavery puts a human face on a shameful practice too often ascribed solely to the South."--Robert Knight, Post and Courier "As an award-winning journalist, Manegold crafts a narrative not stuffed with jargon but filled with lively prose that not only links the reader to past events but illustrates their connection to modern-day issues... Manegold produces a vivid and compelling case which highlights the need for both academics and the general public to understand not only the role slavery played in the North but its relationship to other American colonies as well as the larger Atlantic world."--James J. Gigantino II, Common-place "Manegold's flair for the dramatic will be sure to please history buffs everywhere... Manegold's style breathes life into potentially arid names and dates of history, and it gives white characters at least ambition, intent, and motive. Famous personages of history leap from the page in a riot of human complexity, longing, and imperfection that is eminently readable."--Alexandra Chan, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "Eloquent and plain-spoken meditations on America's past, such as those found in Ten Hills Farm, will help readers to hear and to seek out the ancient stories that resound still in our twenty-first-century worlds."--Lois Brown, New England Quarterly "Written in a style that makes it accessible to a wide audience, Ten Hills Farm is an important addition to the growing literature on race and slavery in the American North. Adding the account of this property and the people who owned it, as well as lived and labored on it, moves us ever closer to regaining the complex history so casually erased over the last few hundred years."--Richard A. Bailey, The HistorianTable of ContentsLetter from Antigua xi PART I: The Puritan Chapter 1: The Land 3 Chapter 2: Ten Hills Farm 21 Chapter 3: Possession 36 PART II: The Immigrant Chapter 4: The King's Forester 53 Chapter 5: Favors to the Few 62 Chapter 6: Happy Instruments to Enlarge Our Dominions 80 Chapter 7: Slavers of the North 97 Chapter 8: Come Up in the Night with Them 102 Chapter 9: You May Own Negroes and Negresses 116 PART III: The Master Chapter 10: Antigua 125 Chapter 11: Crime, Punishment, and Compensation 145 Chapter 12: Homecoming 156 Chapter 13: The Benefactor 167 Chapter 14: Luxury on the Grandest Scale 183 PART IV: The Petitioner Chapter 15: We Shall Not Be Slaves 197 Chapter 16: Within the Bowels of a Free Country 206 Chapter 17: Death Is Not the Worst of Evils 215 Chapter 18: Reparations 228 PART V: The Legacy Chapter 19: City upon a Hill 239 Afterword Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008 257 Note to Readers 267 Notes on Sources 271 Acknowledgments 305 List of Illustrations 309 Index 311
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Princeton University Press The Lucky Ones
Book SynopsisUncovers the story of the Tape family in post-gold rush, racially explosive San Francisco. The author paints a picture of how the role of immigration broker allowed patriarch Jeu Dip (Joseph Tape) to both protest and profit from discrimination, and of the Tapes as the first of a new social type - middle-class Chinese Americans.Trade Review"[A] fresh portrait of Chinese immigrants, America and the past century ... deceptively novelistic and evocative... [A]n absorbing story."--Anderson Tepper, New York Times Book Review "Ngai fashions a terrifically readable, compelling work about the little-known middle-class in the Chinese immigrant experience."--Publishers Weekly "[F]ascinating... With meticulous research into the Tapes' daily lives, [Ngai] sheds light on the choices certain family members made to secure a future for themselves and their children."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "Ngai paints a vivid picture of an exceptional Chinese American family making its own history while ably weaving the Tape family saga into the history of Chinese exclusion... [This] is an important contribution to the history of Chinese America."--Robert G. Lee, Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPreface to the Paperback Edition viii Author's Note x Tape Family Tree xiv Maps xv Part I : Strivings (1864-1883) 1. The Lucky One 3 2. The First Rescue 14 3. Joseph and Mary 24 Part II : School Days (1884-1894) 4. "That Chinese Girl" 43 5. Chinatown's Frontier 58 Part III: Native Sons and Daughters (1895-1904) 6. Suburban Squire 71 7. Two Marriages 83 8. The Chinese Village 95 Part IV: The Interpreter Class (1905-1917) 9. Blood and Fire 119 10. In Pursuit of Smugglers 135 11. Modern Life 150 12. The Trial 161 13. "Sailors Should Go Ashore" 173 Part V : Reinventions (1917-1950) 14. The New Daughter-in-Law 189 15. Loss 201 16. Service 207 Epilogue 223 Glossary of Chinese Names 231 Acknowledgments 233 Notes 235 Appendix: Documents from the Chinese Exclusion Era 277 Index 315
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Princeton University Press Confucianism as a World Religion
Book SynopsisFrom ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism as a world religion.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Best Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013 "[T]his admirable book presents a fascinating, well-researched, historical account of the establishment of Confucianism as a world religion in tandem with the emergence of comparative religion as a discipline. Sun's keen sense of history serves her equally well as she turns to contemporary issues... This well written book is strongly recommended not only for China specialists, but also for anyone seeking to understand the world's creeds and rituals... An outstanding book."--Choice "Confucianism as a World Religion is destined to become a classic, especially in Confucian studies and comparative religion... [T]his text is likely to be very popular in graduate seminars on comparative religion, Confucianism, and the sociology of religion. More of an introduction to Confucianism may be necessary for a full understanding of what Sun is up to, but this book is certainly one of the most important English-language texts on Confucianism."--Andrew Stuart Abel, American Journal of Sociology "Anna Sun's book makes an important contribution to the analysis of the contested claims about the meaning of Confucianism by boldly moving the site of this debate to actual conditions on the ground in contemporary China. Written in accessible, elegant prose, this book is well suited for courses on Chinese religion, Confucianism, or the emergence of World Religions as a discourse."--Thomas Wilson, Journal of Chinese Religions "The religiosity of Confucianism poses a challenge to all people who study Chinese religion and culture. Anna Sun takes on this challenge admirably and clears up certain hurdles and barriers that prevent us from finding an adequate answer... Sun's scholarly effort is a most welcome contribution to our understanding of historical and contemporary construction and reconstruction of Confucianism in China and beyond."--Xinzhong Yao, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies "Confucianism as a World Religion adds important new dimensions to our knowledge of Confucianism, and Anna Sun effectively places her book at the intersection of historical and sociological research, an approach that will surely inspire future studies."--Hang Lin, Journal of Chinese Political ScienceTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Confusions over Confucianism 1 Part I: The Puzzle of Classification: How Did Confucianism Become a World Religion? Chapter 1: Four Controversies over the Religious Nature of Confucianism: A Brief History of Confucianism 17 Chapter 2: The Making of a World Religion: Confucianism and the Emergence of Comparative Religion as a Discipline in the Nineteenth Century 45 Chapter 3: The Confucianism as a Religion Controversy in Contemporary China 77 Part II: The Problem of Methodology: Who Are the Confucians in China? Chapter 4: Confucianism as a World Religion: The Legitimation of a New Paradigm 97 Chapter 5: Counting Confucians through Social Scientific Research 110 Chapter 6: To Become a Confucian: A New Conceptual Framework 120 Part III: The Reality of Practices: Is Confucianism a Religion in China Today? Chapter 7: The Emerging Voices of Women in the Revival of Confucianism 137 Chapter 8: The Contemporary Revival and Reinvention of Confucian Ritual Practices 153 Chapter 9: The Politics of the Future of Confucianism 173 Notes 185 Bibliography 215 Index 233
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Princeton University Press Mountain of Fame
Book SynopsisThrough biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, this book displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. It is written for the general public curious about China and for the student beginning to study its rich cultural heritage.Trade Review"[A] spirited and highly intelligent book... A splendid reflection on the nature of the Chinese relationship to history, culture, and morality... What gives Wills's [book] its originality and its effectiveness is the artful span of examples he has chosen, examples that not only range across time ... but are also chosen to illuminate major themes and continuities within the Chinese universe... There is high drama, cruelty, and excess in many of these stories... And there is also wit and charm mixed with the telling of great events."--Jonathan Spence, The New York Times Book Review "[T]his remarkable book ... spans the 3,000 recorded years of Chinese history... We experience the wrenching difficulties faced by ... each emperor, philosopher, poet, historian, monk, military general, and revolutionary whose life story is told here with such skill and compassion... students of history will find themselves clinging to the edge of their seats, as if the outcome were still to be determined."--Wilson Library Bulletin "A tapestry displaying a vast array of noble dreams and failures, of initial utterances and long-distance echoes, of recurrent patterns and abrupt innovations intended to intrigue and inform educated readers looking for a way into three thousand years of Chinese history."--Jerry Dennerline, The Journal of Asian Studies "This book ... chronicles 5,000 years of Chinese history in short biographies of its most important figures... Time and again these vignettes of history reflect the moral earnestness of the Chinese and individual struggles between villainy and idealism."--Asia Week "Although intended for the inspired tourist or casual reader who wants a quick introduction to Chinese history, this collection of biographies is in no way superficial. Each of the 20 chapters offers a figure typical of his/her times and an elaboration of the contexts and backgrounds that shaped these individuals."--Library Journal "Tremendous."--Aaron Pickering, Education About AsiaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations IX Preface XI Acknowledgments XV Note on Romanization XVll A Summary Time Line xix 1. Yu 3 2. Confucius (Kongzt) II 3* The First Emperor of Qin (Qin Shihuang) 33 4* Sima Qian 51 5* WangMang 72 6. Ban Zhao 90 7. Zhuge Liang 100 8. Hui Neng, the Sixth Patriarch 114 9* Empress Wu 127 10. Su Dongpo 149 11. Yue Fei 168 12. Qiu Chuji, the Daoist 181 13. Wang Yangming 201 14. Zheng Chenggong (Coxinga) 216 15. The Qianlong Emperor 231 16. Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King 259 17. Liang Qichao 274 18. The Kuomintang Legacy 301 19. Mao Zedong 335 20. Names in the News 360 Afterword to the 2012 Edition 381 Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading 387 Index 397
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Princeton University Press The Age of Garvey
Book SynopsisJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to bTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations "This remarkable book has moved completely away from the stereotyping of Garvey's Africa program as an escapist 'back to Africa' movement. Ewing has enhanced the study of the Garvey movement conceptually and empirically by tracing the networks and pathways of African Garveyism."--Rupert Lewis, New West Indian Guide "The Age of Garvey is ambitious in its scope and argument, both of which are made clear by the book's title. Ewing succeeds in making the case for the worldwide nature and significance of Garveyism, bringing to bear his own meticulous original research in Africa, all of the relevant scholarship that is available, and his learned understanding of diversity within the global diaspora. It is hard to imagine a more coherent and informed presentation of this extremely complex and elusive subject."--Mary G. Rolinson, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey 13 Chapter One The Education of Marcus Mosiah Garvey 15 Chapter Two The Center Cannot Hold 45 Chapter Three Africa for the Africans! 76 Chapter Four "The Silent Work That Must Be Done" 107 Part Two: The Age of Garvey 127 Chapter Five The Tide of Preparation 129 Chapter Six Broadcast on the Winds 160 Chapter Seven The Visible Horizon 186 Chapter Eight Muigwithania (The Reconciler) 212 Afterword 238 Abbreviations 243 Notes 245 Index 299
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Princeton University Press The Indignant Generation
Book SynopsisThe first narrative history of the neglected but essential period of African American literature between the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Book Award, College Language Association Winner of the 2012 Literary Award for Nonfiction, Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. Winner of the 2011 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers Finalist for the 2011 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction, The Hurston/Wright Foundation Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award, Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of Memphis Winner of the 2010 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Modern Language Association "[Jackson's] encyclopedic book offers a chronological, old-fashioned history of literature, covering a period desperately in need of thorough-going research and detail, and presents a deeply documented, dense but thoroughly readable account... Jackson's detail may offer more than the casual sightseer seeks, but scholars will rely upon and mine his monumental work and the prodigious research upon which it is based. It should guide the way African-American and American literature is studied."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A meticulously researched, detailed account of African American literature and its critics from the end of the Harlem Renaissance to the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement... A valuable resource for scholars and graduate students in African American studies."--William Gargan, Library Journal "[This] exhaustive compilation--covering from the well-known writers to the little recognized--traverses the journeys of the artists and their links in the hubs of Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C."--Maudlyne Ihejirika, Chicago Sun-Times "Ambitious... Rich with photos and well written, the book merits praise for the deserved attention it brings to the rise of African American criticism and intellectualism and to the many important people who figured in the rise of better-known novelists."--Choice "Jackson's formulation of the indignant generation is a prodigious contribution to African American literary history."--Andrew M. Fearnley, Journal of American Studies "The Indignant Generation is a must-read for scholars of American culture on both sides of the Atlantic... Jackson's book is invaluable for its historiographic, hermeneutic, and literary merits."--Sieglinde Lemke, American Studies "African-American writers had plenty to be indignant about during the middle decades of the 20th century... Lawrence P. Jackson surveys the era with clarity and perception. Focusing on the literary hubs of Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C., the book captures the complexities of the period, the great hope and skepticism its black writers engendered."--Steve Bogira, Chicago Reader "Lawrence Jackson's monumental and epic study, The Indignant Generation, provides a masterful overview of yet another key period in African American literary history... At every level, this book of encyclopedic proportions ... is well researched and well written in an elegant and superb style."--Riche Richardson, Southern Literary JournalTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Irredeemable Promise: The Bittersweet Career of J. Saunders Redding 1 Chapter One: Three Swinging Sisters: Harlem, Howard, and the South Side (1934-1936) 15 Chapter Two: The Black Avant-Garde between Left and Right (1935-1939) 42 Chapter Three: A New Kind of Challenge (1936-1939) 68 Chapter Four: The Triumph of Chicago Realism (1938-1940) 93 Chapter Five: Bigger Thomas among the Liberals (1940-1943) 123 Chapter Six: Friends in Need of Negroes: Bucklin Moon and Thomas Sancton (1942-1945) 149 Chapter Seven: "Beating That Boy": White Writers, Critics, Editors, and the Liberal Arts Coalition (1944-1949) 178 Chapter Eight: Afroliberals and the End of World War II (1945-1946) 196 Chapter Nine: Black Futilitarianists and the Welcome Table (1945-1947) 219 Chapter Ten: The Peril of Something New, or, the Decline of Social Realism (1947-1948) 258 Chapter Eleven: The Negro New Liberal Critic and the Big Little Magazine (1948-1949) 275 Chapter Twelve: The Communist Dream of African American Modernism (1947-1950) 297 Chapter Thirteen: The Insinuating Poetics of the Mainstream (1949-1950) 323 Chapter Fourteen: Still Looking for Freedom (1949-1954) 342 Chapter Fifteen: The Expatriation: The Price of Brown and the New Bohemians (1952-1955) 379 Chapter Sixteen: Liberal Friends No More: The Rubble of White Patronage (1956-1958) 411 Chapter Seventeen: The End of the Negro Writer (1955-1960) 444 Chapter Eighteen: The Reformation of Black New Liberals (1958-1960) 470 Chapter Nineteen: Prometheus Unbound (1958-1960) 485 Notes 511 Index 559
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Princeton University Press Impossible Subjects
Book SynopsisTraces the origins of the "illegal alien" in American law and society, explaining why and how illegal migration became the central problem in US immigration policy - a process that profoundly shaped ideas and practices about citizenship, race, and state authority in the twentieth century.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2005 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize, American Studies Association Winner of the 2005 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, Organization of American Historians Honorable Mention for the 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Co-Winner of the 2004 History Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies Co-Winner of the 2004 First Book Prize, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Winner of the 2004 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004 Winner of the 2004 Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society "[A] deeply stimulating work... Ngai's undeniable premise--as pertinent today as ever--is that the lawfully regulated part of our immigration system is only the tip of the iceberg. Even as we have allowed legal immigrants, mostly from Europe, through the front door, we have always permitted others, generally people of color, to slip in the back gate to do essential jobs."--Tamar Jacoby, Los Angeles Times Book Review "'Legal' and 'illegal,' as Ngai's book illustrates, are administrative constructions, always subject to change; they do not tell us anything about the desirability of the persons so constructed."--Louis Menand, New Yorker "Ngai pulls no punches, arguing that in most cases ... illegal [immigrants] were stigmatized by negative racial stereotypes and branded as dangerous... [I]t belongs in every library and should be referenced in every ethnic studies course."--Choice "May Impossible Subjects indeed lead to bold changes? Ngai creates that possibility, through altering our vision of immigration history, in showing us the constructed and contingent nature of its legal regulation. Impossible Subjects is essential reading."--Leti Volpp, Michigan Law Review "Ngai's book is a stunning piece of scholarship... [F]or background reading of 'illegal immigration' that takes a broader view, this is an outstanding book."--David M. Reimers, International History Review "Ngai has produced a valuable reinterpretation of twentieth-century American immigration history, one that will push other scholars of race, immigration, and policy in new directions as well."--Charlotte Brooks, Journal of American History "Impossible Subjects offers an important contribution to U.S. histories of race, citizenship, and immigration. This stunning history of U.S. immigration policy dispels the liberal rhetoric that underlies popular notions of immigrant America, as it establishes the designation of Asians and Mexicans as perpetual racial others. Everyone in the field of race and immigration should read this thought provoking book."--Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, American Journal of Sociology "This superb book by historian Mae Ngai addresses the emergence of the legal and social category of 'illegal immigrant' in the United States... Ngai addresses the subject ... in a variety of historical contexts and each casts a different light on their deeply ambiguous condition."--Linda Bosniak, Journal of International Migration and Integration "Moving beyond the telos of immigrant settlement, assimilation, and citizenship and the myth of 'immigrant America,' Mae Ngai's Impossible Subjects conceptualizes immigration not as a site for assessing the acceptability of the immigrants, but as a site for understanding the racialized economic, cultural, and political foundations of the United States."--Yen Le Espiritu, Western Historical Quarterly "Mae Ngai's book ... offers a fascinating reinterpretation and critique of the United States as a mythicized 'nation of immigrants.' Ngai demonstrates the critical role that colonialism, foreign policy considerations and racial politics played in shaping U.S. immigration and national identity... Ngai's book is an extraordinary contribution to U.S. immigration history and a stimulating read."--Dr. Alison Pennington, Planck Yearbook of United Nations LawTable of ContentsList of Figures and Illustrations xi List of Tables xiii Acknowledgments xv Note on Language and Terminology xix Foreword to the New Paperback Edition xxi Introduction: Illegal Aliens: A Problem of Law and History 1 PART I: THE REGIME OF QUOTAS AND PAPERS 15 1The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law 21 2Deportation Policy and the Making and Unmaking of Illegal Aliens 56 PART II: MIGRANTS AT THE MARGINS OF LAW AND NATION 91 3From Colonial Subject to Undesirable Alien: Filipino Migration in the Invisible Empire 96 4Braceros, "Wetbacks," and the National Boundaries of Class 127 PART III: WAR, NATIONALISM, AND ALIEN CITIZENSHIP 167 5The World War II Internment of Japanese Americans and the Citizenship Renunciation Cases 175 6The Cold War Chinese Immigration Crisis and the Confession Cases 202 PART IV: PLURALISM AND NATIONALISM IN POST-WORLD WAR II IMMIGRATION REFORM 225 7The Liberal Critique and Reform of Immigration Policy 227 Epilogue 265 Appendix 271 Notes 275 Archival and Other Primary Sources 357 Index 369
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Princeton University Press Strangers No More
Book SynopsisStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries--France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands--and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This syTrade ReviewHonorable Mention for the 2017 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section the International Studies Association "A welcome stocktaking of how 'low-status' immigrants have fared in North America and several Western European countries. The value added by this volume is the compact compilation of comparative data on key domains of integration, from the labor market to intermarriage."--Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Richard Alba and Nancy Foner have written what will undoubtedly become the "go-to' book for comparisons of immigration on both sides of the Atlantic. Clearly written, meticulously researched, and insightfully analyzed, Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe helps readers easily capture the broad mechanisms driving migration and integration today."--Peggy Levitt, Contemporary Sociology "Richard Alba and Nancy Foner took on an impossible task: to write a comprehensive, but also empirically grounded, account of the integration of people they call 'low-status' migrants, across the main distinct fields of integration, covering the experiences of the four main Western European immigration countries and the US and Canada, all within a country comparative framework. Given this high ambition with regard to substance and scope, this book stands unrivalled and unmatched as an achievement. Few scholars possess the depth of knowledge or mastery of the arts to take on such a challenge. Remarkably, the book delivers such a high degree of informed understanding across the boards that it will stand as a benchmark and reference point for leading and junior scholars, as well as advanced students and informed publics."--Paul Statham, Ethnic and Racial Studies Review "[An] extraordinary and interesting book... [This] book, a rich and nuanced view of immigration in these six countries, should be required reading for understanding how these six nations deal with immigrants and their integration into the larger society."--David M. Reimers, Journal of American Studies "This study really is comparative immigration scholarship at its very best. It exposes best practices and successes, encourages countries to learn from each other, and contends that existing problems can be solved and integration achieved. At a time when both North America and Western Europe's diversity is too often portrayed as an insurmountable challenge, this book gives us hope."--Sarah Hackett, Patterns of PrejudiceTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Strangers No More: The Challenges of Integration 1 2 Who Are the Immigrants? The Genesis of the New Diversity 19 3 Economic Well-being 47 4 Living Situations: How Segregated? How Unequal? 68 5 The Problems and Paradoxes of Race 98 6 Immigrant Religion 118 7 Entering the Precincts of Power 143 8 Educating the Second Generation 169 9 Who Are the "We"? Identity and Mixed Unions 197 10 Conclusion: The Changing Face of the West 221 Notes 247 References 267 Index 315
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Princeton University Press Writing on the Wall
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual, of the Association for Jewish Studies""Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion""This thought-provoking book takes a new approach to the graffiti found in holy sites, tombs and sometimes civic structures."---Juan P. Lewis, Journal of Religion & Society"This thought-provoking book takes a new approach to the graffiti found in holy sites, tombs and sometimes civic structures, regarding them as words that do things rather than simply record a visit."---David Frankfurter, Journal of Roman Studies
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