Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Little, Brown & Company Sink: A Memoir
Book Synopsis"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack addiction, and demeaned daily for his perceived weakness, Joseph Earl Thomas grew up feeling he was under constant threat. Roaches fell from the ceiling, colonizing bowls of noodles and cereal boxes. Fists and palms pounded down at school and at home, leaving welts that ached long after they disappeared. An inescapable hunger gnawed at his frequently empty stomach, and requests for food were often met with indifference if not open hostility. Deemed too unlike the other boys to ever gain the acceptance he so desperately desired, he began to escape into fantasy and virtual worlds, wells of happiness in a childhood assailed on all sides. In a series of exacting and fierce vignettes, Thomas guides readers through the unceasing cruelty that defined his circumstances, laying bare the depths of his loneliness and illuminating the vital reprieve geek culture offered him. With remarkable tenderness and devastating clarity, he explores how lessons of toxic masculinity were drilled into his body and the way the cycle of violence permeated the very fabric of his environment. Even in the depths of isolation, there were unexpected moments of joy carved out, from summers where he was freed from the injurious structures of his surroundings to the first glimpses of kinship he caught on his journey to becoming a Pokémon master. SINK follows Thomas's coming-of-age towards an understanding of what it means to lose the desire to fit in—with his immediate peers, turbulent family, or the world—and how good it feels to build community, love, and salvation on your own terms.
£20.90
Little, Brown & Company Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
Book Synopsis"[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I've read."-New York TimesEarly on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made-to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America's inequitable system.In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture.With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness.
£22.50
Basic Books Working Toward Whiteness: How America's
Book SynopsisDavid R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-were once viewed as undesirables by the WASP establishment in the United States. They eventually became part of white America, through the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. Once assimilated as fully white, many of them adopted the racism of those whites who formerly looked down on them as inferior. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants-the real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods-Roediger explores the mechanisms by which immigrants came to enjoy the privileges of being white in America. A disturbing, necessary, masterful history, Working Toward Whiteness uses the past to illuminate the present. In an Introduction to the 2018 edition, Roediger considers the resonance of the book in the age of Trump, showing how Working Toward Whiteness remains as relevant as ever even though most migrants today are not from Europe.
£14.24
Little, Brown & Company Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing
Book SynopsisNow a New York Times Bestseller!External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But rather than appreciating the gift of diversity, some have chosen to use it to drive wedges between groups of people. Some of these external characteristics are associated with the past moral failing of slavery. Though slavery in America formally ended in the 1860s, the vestiges of that evil institution are still with us today, and those vestiges often inflict guilt on some and facilitate feelings of victimhood in others. In Created Equal, Dr. Carson uses his own personal experiences as a member of a racial minority, along with the writings and experiences of others from multiple backgrounds and demographics, to analyze the current state of race relations in America. Instead of using race as an excuse to remake America into something completely antithetical to the Constitution, Dr. Carson suggests ways to enhance and bring great success to our nation and all multiethnic societies by magnifying America's incredible strengths instead of her historical weaknesses.
£22.50
Broadview Press Ltd Re-Situating Identities: The Politics of Race,
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£23.42
Arsenal Pulp Press After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
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£16.19
Chicago Review Press Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of
Book SynopsisMore than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has long been unavailable—chronicles the making of a revolutionary. It is much more than a personal history, however; it is a call to arms, an urgent message to the black community to be the vanguard force in the struggle of oppressed people. Forthright, sardonic, and shocking, this book is not only illuminating and dynamic but also a vitally important document that is essential to understanding the upheavals of the late 1960s. University of Massachusetts professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell has updated this edition, covering Brown’s decades of harassment by law enforcement agencies, his extraordinary transformation into an important Muslim leader, and his sensational trial.
£13.25
Temple University Press,U.S. Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America
Book SynopsisLatin America's growing evangelical movement sparks political and social changeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America -- David Stoll 1. Struggling Against the Devil: Pentecostalism and Social Movements in Urban Brazil -- John Burdick 2. The Crentes of Campo Alegre and the Religious Construction of Brazilian Politics -- Rowan Ireland 3. Brother Votes for Brother: The New Politics of Protestantism in Brazil -- Paul Freston 4. Protestantism in El Salvador: Conventional Wisdom versus the Survey Evidence -- Kenneth M. Coleman, Edwin Eloy Aguilar, Jose Miguel Sandoval, and Timothy J. Steigenga 5. The Reformation of Machismo: Asceticism and Masculinity among Colombian Evangelicals -- Elizabeth Brusco 6. Shifting Affiliations: Mayan Widows and Evangelicos in Guatemala -- Linda Green 7. Religious Mobility and the Many Words of God in La Paz, Bolivia -- Lesley Gill Conclusion: Is This Latin America's Reformation? -- Virginia Garrard-Burnett Bibliography About the Contributors Index
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America
Book SynopsisThis collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind, their narratives chronicle the difficulties of forging a new identity.From Jou Yee Xiong's Life Story: "I stopped teaching my sons many of the Hmong ways because I felt my ancestors and I had suffered enough already. I thought that teaching my children the old ways would only place a burden on them."From Ka Pao Xiong's (Jou Yee Xiong's son) Life Story: "It has been very difficult for us to adapt because we had no professions or trades and we suffered from culture shock. Here in America, both the husband and wife must work simultaneously to earn enough money to live on. Many of our children are ignorant of the Hmong way of life…. Even the old people are forgetting about their life in Laos, as they enjoy the prosperity and good life in America."From Xang Mao Xiong's Life Story: "When the Communists took over Laos and General Vang Pao fled with his family, we, too, decided to leave. Not only my family, but thousands of Hmong tried to flee. I rented a car for thirty thousand Laotian dollars, and it took us to Nasu…. We felt compelled to leave because many of us had been connected to the CIA…. Thousands of Hmong were traveling on foot. Along the way, many of them were shot and killed by Communist soldiers. We witnessed a bloody massacre of civilians."From Vue Vang's Life Story: "Life was so hard in the [Thai refugee] camp that when we found out we could go to the United States, we did not hesitate to grasp the chance. We knew that were we to remain in the camp, there would be no hope for a better future. We would not be able to offer our children anything better than a life of perpetual poverty and anguish."Table of ContentsContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgements Personal and Place Names Introduction: The Hmong Experience in Asia and the United States 1. The Xiong Family of Goleta 2. The Xiong Family of Lompoc 3. The Fang Family of San Diego 4. The Tcha Family of Fresno 5. The Maua Family of Sanger Notes to the Introduction Selected Bibliography Notes on the Editor and Transcribers/Translators
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Temple University Press,U.S. Cry And Dedication
Book SynopsisThe adventures of seven Filipino guerrillas rebelling against U.S. dominationTrade Review"[A] stunning tale of Filipino resistance fighters." --Asian Week "[T]he novel has a cumulative power. Editor San Juan...contributes a 36-page introduction that discusses Bulosan's life, writings, and philosophy as well as the historical background to the novel." --Library Journal "Written against the descending night of the McCarthyite witch-hunt, The Cry and the Dedication is a haunting allegory of search, struggle and redemption. It is high testimony to the power of the revolutionary imagination when empowered by the exile's dream of personal return and liberation of the homeland." --Alan Wald, University of MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction E. San Juan, Jr. The Cry and the Dedication
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Temple University Press,U.S. Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City
Book SynopsisIn September 19, 1985, a powerful earthquake hit Mexico City in the early morning hours. As the city collapses, the government fails to respond. Long a voice of social conscience, prominent Mexican journalist, Elena Poniatowska chronicles the disintegration of the city's physical and social structure, the widespread grassroots organizing against government corruption and incompetence, and the reliency of the human spirit. As a transformative moment in the life of Mexican society, the earthquake is as much a component of the country's current crisis as the 1982 debt crisis, the problematic economic of the last ten years, and the recent elections. In masterfully weaving together a multiplicity of voices, Poniatowska has reasserted the inherent value and latent power of people working together. Punctuated by Poniatowska's own experiences and observations, these post disaster testimonies speak of the disruption of families and neighborhoods, of the destruction of homes and hospitals, of mutilation and death the collective loss of a city. Drawing the reader dramatically into the scene of national horror through dozens of personal stories, Poniatowska demonstrates the importance of courage and self-reliance in redeeming life from chaos. Elena Poniatowska, a prominent and prolific Mexican journalist and novelist, has written twenty-five books. Several have been translated into English, including "Massacre in Mexico" about the 1968 student/worker uprising in Mexico City, and the forthcoming "Tinisima", which centers upon the life of Tina Modotti. Aurora Camacho de Schmidt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College. She has worked as a writer and as the National Representative for the Mexico-U.S. Border Program of the American Friends Service Committee. Arthur Schmidt is Associate Professor of History and former Director of the Latin American Studies Center at Temple University. He is the author of "The Social and Economic Effect of the Railroad in Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico, 1867-1911".Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Series, Voices of Latin American Life -- Arthur Schmidt Foreword: The Shaking of a Nation -- Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake Glossary Index
£27.20
Temple University Press,U.S. I Remember Julia: Voices of the Disappeared
Book SynopsisA powerful and moving remembrance of a young doctor who was disappeared during the Argentine "Dirty War"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Author's Introduction 1. The Cemetery: Voice 1, Emilio Fermin Mignone 2. Catalina: Voice 2, Father Luis Angel Farinello 3. Graciela: Voice 3, Dr. Ester Saavedra 4. Manuel: Voice 4, Uki Goni 5. The Clinic: Voice 5, Maria Adela Gard de Antokoletz 6. Laura: Voice 6, Adolfo Perez Esquivel 7. Luciano: Voice 7, Maria Isabel Chorobik de Miriani 8. Victoria: Voice 8, Dr. Jorge Reinaldo Vanossi 9. Francisco: Voice 9, Luis Brandoni 10. "El Angel": Voice 10, General Herberto Justo Auel 11. Ana Maria: Voice 11, Dr Luis Gabriel Moreno Ocampo 12. Silvina: Voice 12, Eduardo Rabossi Author's Epilogue Index
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Between the Lines: South Asians and
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking collection of new interviews, critical essays, and commentary explores South Asian identity and culture. Sensitive to the false homogeneity implied by "South Asian," "diaspora," "postcolonial," and "Asian American," the contributors attempt to unpack these terms. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live "between the lines"-on and between borders-they reinstate questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance. As South Asians living in the United States and Canada, each to some degree must reflect on the interaction of the personal "I," the collective "we," and the world beyond. The South Asian scholars gathered together in this volume speak from a variety of theoretical perspectives; in the essays and interviews that cross the boundaries of conventional academic disciplines, they engage in intense, sometimes contentious, debate. Contributors: Meena Alexander, Gauri Viswanathan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Amritjit Singh, M. G. Vassanji, Sohail Inayatullah, Ranita Chatterjee, Benita Mehta, Sanjoy Majumder, Mahasveta Barua, Sukeshi Kamra, Samir Dayal, Pushpa Naidu Parekh, Indrani Mitra, Huma Ibrahim, Amitava Kumar, Shantanu DuttaAhmed, Uma Parameswaran. In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Vo.Trade Review"an important and valuable study as it engages in a discourse which pushes beyond simplistic meanings and complacent acceptance of complex terms like 'postcolonial' and 'South Asian.'" -MELUSTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction - Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva Part I: Interviews 2. Observing Ourselves among Others, Interview with Meena Alexander - Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva 3. Pedagogical Alternatives: Issues in Postcolonial Studies, Interview with Gauri Viswanathan - Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva 4. Transnationality and Multiculturalist Ideology, Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - Deepika Bahri and Mary Vasudeva Part II: Commentaries 5. African-Americans and the New Immigrants - Amritjit Singh 6. Life at the Margins: In the Thick of Multiplicity - M.G. Vassanji 7. Mullahs, Sex, and Bureaucrats: Pakistan's Confrontations with the Modern World - Sohail Inayatullah 8. Coming to Terms with the "Postcolonial" - Deepika Bahri Part III: Studies in the Media and Popular Culture 9. An Explosion of Difference: The Margins of Perception in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid - Ranita Chatterjee 10. Emigrants Twice Displaced: Race, Color, and Identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala - Binita Mehta 11. From Ritual Drama to National Prime Time: Mahabharata, India's Televisual Obsession - Sanjoy Majumder 12. Television, Politics, and the Epic Heroine: Case Study, Sita - Mahasveta Barua Part IV: Literary Criticism 13. Replacing the Colonial Gaze: Gender as Strategy in Salman Rushdie's Fiction - Sukeshi Kamra 14. Style Is (Not) the Woman: Sara Suleri's Meatless Days - Samir Dayal 15. Redefining the Postcolonial Female Self: Women in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day - Pushpa Naidu Parekh 16. "Luminous Brahmin Children Must Be Saved": Imperialist Ideologies, "Postcolonial" Histories in Bharati Mukherjee's The Tiger's Daughter - Indrani Mitra 17. The Troubled Past: Literature of Severing the Viewer/Viewed Dialectic - Huma Ibrahim Part V: Experimental Critiques 18. Jane Austin in Meerut, India - Amitava Kumar 19. Border Crossings: Retrieval and Erasure of the Self as Other - Shantanu DuttaAhmed 20. I see the Glass as Half Full - Uma Parameswaran About the Contributors
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Temple University Press,U.S. Afrocentric Idea Revised
Book SynopsisThis new edition of The Afrocentric Idea boldly confronts the contemporary challenges that have been launched against Molefi Kete Asante's philosophical, social, and cultural theory. By rendering a critique of some post-modern positions as well as the old structured Eurocentric orientations discussed in the first edition, this new edition contains lively engagements with views expressed by Mary Lefkowitz, Paul Gilroy, and Cornel West. Expanding on his core ideas, Asante has cast The Afrocentric Idea in the tradition of provocative critiques of the established social order. This is a fresh and dynamic location of culture within the context of social change.Trade Review"Asante's wide range of references, his delightful examples taken from black traditions, and his sheer pleasure at discussing black culture, all combine to make his argument both cogent and important. This will be a major book." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chair, Afro-American Studies Department, Harvard University and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities. "Commencing with a spirited criticism of traditional Western academic discourse, Asante's drama concludes with a discussion of a transformative African and African-American discourse that puts its participants in possession of the dynamic spirits of a distinctive African cultural experience." --Chronicle of Higher Education "Mr. Asante is widely regarded as a major proponent of 'Afrocentricity,' or the understanding of the black experience as an extension of African history and culture. ... He is credited with doing as much as anyone to build a theoretical base for an idea that has been around for some time." --Quarterly Journal of Speech "Not the least purpose of The AFrocentric Idea is to show blacks they have an African Heritage and history that have persisted through, and helped blacks to survive, slavery and subsequent discrimination." --The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Dancing between Circles and Lines Part 1 The Situation Rhetorical Condition as a Conceptual Field The Idea of a Metatheory African Foundations of Nommo Part 2 The Resistance African American Orature and Context Mythoforms in African American Communication Rhetoric of Resistance Choosing a Freedom Africa as Concept Part 3 The Liberation The Search for an Afrocentric Method Transcendence: The Curved Line Notes Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Identity And Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the
Book SynopsisOn the surface, identity politics appears to promote polarization. To the contrary, political scientist Jose E. Cruz argues that, instead, fragmentation and instability are more likely to occur only when the differences are ignored and nonethnic strategies are employed. Cruz illustrates his claim by focusing on one group of Puerto Ricans and how they mobilized to demand accountability from political leaders in Hartford, Connecticut. The activities of the Puerto Rican Political Action Committee from 1983 to 1991 illustrate the power of ethnic mobilization and strategy in an urban setting. Cruz examines their insistence on their right to be included in the political process in the context of both a typical mid-sized American city and the unique attributes of Hartford's predominantly white-collar population. At the same time, this study acknowledges the limitations of the exercise of such power in the political process. Through extensive interviews Cruz brings to light the variety of ways in which politicians and political activists themselves view their own activities and achievements. This group of Puerto Rican activists attempted to penetrate the power structure of Hartford. Though their success was limited, their work constitutes a springboard for further change.Trade Review"This book's contribution lies in its analysis of the structural position of Puerto Ricans at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder and of the process of empowerment through political activism. It challenges popular notions of identity politics as divisive and instead demonstrates how such an identity can serve as a tool for mobilization. It highlights Hartford's uniqueness at the same time that it provides us with lessons for other Puerto Rican, Latino, and ethnic communities throughout the U.S. Cruz makes an important contribution to the field of ethnic politics and community studies." -Vilma Ortiz, Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles "In a provocative analysis of the Puerto Rican Political Action Committee of Connecticut, Jose Cruz has linked identity politics, political ambition, organizing, and intra-ethnic rivalry. This political intrigue takes place in Hartford, Connecticut, a city in demographic and economic transition that is trying to cope with its newest arrivals. A terrific book-thoughtful, informative and balanced. This case study should have a major impact on the study of Latino politics as well as the study of urban politics." -Wilbur C. Rich, Political Science, Wellesley College "This rigorous examination of the political history of migrant Puerto Ricans evidences the role of identity politics in their empowerment." -The Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsCONTENTS Maps, Tables, and Photos Preface 1 Introduction 2 Hartford: The City and Its Politics 3 Puerto Ricans in Hartford: From Settlement to Collective Behavior 4 From Collective Behavior to Brokered Representation 5 From Brokered Representation to Political Mobilization 6 Identity Politics: The Puerto Rican Political Action Committee of Connecticut 7 Identity and Power 8 Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Doing What Had To Be Done
Book SynopsisThe first biography of an American-born Korean woman, Doing What Had to Be Done is, on the surface, the life story of Dora Yum Kim. But telling more than one woman's story, author Soo-Young Chin offers more than an unusual glimpse at the shaping of a remarkable community activist. In addition -- as she questions her subject, introduces each chapter, and reflects on how Dora's story relates to her own experience as a Korean American who immigrate to this country as an adult -- she carves around Dora's compelling story and courageous life story a story of her own and one of all Korean Americans. Born in 1921, Dora, as she tells Chin her story, chronicles the shifting salience of gendered ethnic identity as she journeys through her life. Traveling through time and place, she moves from San Francisco's Chinatown -- where Koreans were a minority within a minority -- to suburban Dewey Boulevard where Dora and her family attempt to integrate into mainstream America, and where she becomes a social worker in the California State Department of Employment. As the Korean immigrant community grows in the late 1960s, Dora becomes deeply involved in community service. She remembers teaching English to senior citizens and preparing them for their naturalization exams, finding jobs for the younger Koreans, and founding a community center and meals program for seniors. A detailed and inspiring lens through which to view Korean American history, Dora's life journey echoes the changing spaces of the American social landscape. And the grace and ease with which Dora just \u0022does what has to be done\u0022 shows us the importance of everyday acts in making a difference.Trade Review"History comes to life in this compelling saga of a courageous and controversial Korean-American woman and her biographer. Dora Kim's story-frank, painful, but inspirational-is an enduring testimony to the power of the human spirit to rise to new challenges. Soo-Young Chin's monumental study is a major contribution..." -James M. Freeman, author of Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans 1975-1995 "...a wonderfully nuanced portrait of the lives of Koreans and Korean Americans in the US, as well as a powerful meditation on the meanings of "Americanness" in the late twentieth century. [Chin] also addresses theoretical issues relating to traditions of Western and Asian autobiography-and ethnography in terms a non-anthropologist can grasp, while the footnotes add another layer of analysis for the specialist." -The Women's Review of BooksTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Introduction Part One: Chinatown, San Francisco Descendants of Man Suk Yum and Hang Shin Kim: A Korean Family Tree 1 American Origins 2 Coming of Age 3 A Mother's Devotion Part Two: Dewey Boulevard 4 Leaving Chinatown 5 The Influx 6 Centering Service A Family Gallery Part Three: A Room of Her Own 7 Hidden Costs 8 On Her Own 9 Hwan'gap Conclusion: Doing What Had to Be Done Epilogue: Loose Ends Chronology Notes Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Drumming For The Gods
Book Synopsis\u0022I am Felipe Garcia Villamil\u0022 begins Drumming for the Gods, the life history of the Afro-Cuban artist whose music has survived both political and personal upheaval. \u0022Balogun for thirty years. Oluana, of Matanzas, Cuba, for about forty years. Omoana for almost forty-five years. OluIyesa [he knows the secrets of the Iyesa drums].\u0022 A practitioner of sacred drumming for almost his entire life, Felipe practiced his trade in Cuba both before and after the Revolution and brought it with him to New York, where he continues to play for the gods. This book focuses on three periods of Felipe's life, each marked by changes in his personal life and by important historical events. The first period covers his formative years during which he received his initial training. Through Felipe's story, we explore the legacy of slavery in Cuba, the nature of Afro-Cuban religions and their musical traditions, and the history of bata drums. The second period covers the critical years of the Cuban Revolution. Here we see the effect of social turmoil both n music and religious practice (santero, palero, and abakua). The third period covers Felipe's life in New York as a refugee/immigrant, and the role of music in rebuilding his identity. Felipe's story illuminates his cultural practices and beliefs as well as the ways in which an individual musician selects and modifies the elements of his cultural heritage to create a voice that is personal and unique. Felipe not only lives through history but also makes history, shaping an identity that cannot be described as \u0022Cuban immigrant,\u0022 \u0022Afro-Cuban,\u0022 \u0022religious drummer,\u0022 or \u0022santeria initiate,\u0022 but is composed of all of them. Through Felipe's experiences, Maria Teresa Velez reveals the interaction between social, political, economic, and cultural forces and an individual's own actions. The professionalization of musicians in Cuba following the Revolution and the plight of Afro-Cuban immigrants in New York are seen as large historical and social problems to which Felipe must personally respond. A noted ethnomusicologist, Velez provides the most insightful and comprehensive English-language study of an individual Cuban religious drummer available. Drumming for the Gods is a must-read for those interested in ethnomusicology, Caribbean studies, and Afro-Cuban religions and culture.Trade Review"This is without a doubt the most comprehensive English language study of an individual Cuban religious drummer." -Steve Cornelius "Drumming for the Gods constitutes an impressive accomplishment and includes a great deal of previously unavailable information. It represents a significant contribution to existing literature on Cuban music and cultural history." -Robin Moore, Temple University "[This book] documents the musical traditions of the Afro-Christian Santaria cults through the life history of one of Cuba's most esteemed practitioners of sacred drumming." -Institute for Studies in American Music NewsletterTable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments A Note on Spelling Prologue PART ONE: Learning the Trade Background Entrance into the Afro-Cuban Religious World Overview Entering Felipe's House Santeria: The Lucumi Door Palo Monte: The Congo Door The Abakua Society: A Secret Passage from Calabar Early Musical Experiences Learning to Play Bata History of the Drums Other Bata Lineages in Matanzas Other Drumming Traditions in Matanzas PART TWO: Life as a Musician During the Revolution Making Ends Meet Becoming a "Cultural Worker" Performing Afro-Cuban Religious Music in Secular Public Contexts Amateur Groups Organizing a Professional Folkloric Ensemble Negotiating the Limits of Secrecy Performing Other Afro-Cuban Secular and Sacred Drumming Styles Performing Afro-Cuban Religious Music in Private Ritual Contexts Searching for Alternatives: Becoming a Craftsman of Religious Objects Crafting a Bembe Drum: "Manufacturing" Material Culture to Obey the Orichas PART THREE: Life as a Diasporic Musician Leaving Cuba Building the Present: Exercising His Trade in His New Home The Tools of the Trade Instruments as Immigrants: Ana Grosses the Ocean Applying "Cultural Memory": Making Instruments Bata Drums Bembe Drums Iyesa Drums Drums as an Extension of the Self, as a Source of Living, as Life Itself The Artisan Transformed into an Artist Felipe's "There" Faces His "Here" Felipe's Concept of Tradition Syncretism The Marielitos "The Orichas Behave Different Here" Confronting the Written The Struggle of Memory over Forgetting Teaching as a Way of Remembering Teaching Women to Play Bata Singing as a Way of Remembering Epilogue Notes Bibliography Glossary Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Smuggled Chinese
Book SynopsisNo one knows how many Chinese are being smuggled into the United States, but credible estimates put the number at 50,000 arrivals each year. Astonishing as this figure is, it represents only a portion of the Chinese illegally residing in the United States. Smuggled Chinese presents a detailed account of how this traffic is conducted and what happens to the people who risk their lives to reach Gold Mountain. When the Golden Venture ran aground off New York's coast in 1993 and ten of the 260 Chinese on board drowned, the public outcry about human smuggling became front-page news. Probing into the causes and consequences of this clandestine traffic, Ko-lin Chin has interviewed more than 300 people -- smugglers, immigrants, government officials, and business owners -- in the United States, China, and Taiwan. Their poignant and chilling testimony describes a flourishing industry in which smugglers -- big and little snakeheads -- command fees as high as $30,000 to move desperate but hopeful men and women around the world. For many who survive the hunger, filthy and crowded conditions, physical and sexual abuse, and other perils of the arduous journey, life in the United States, specifically in New York's Chinatown, is a disappointment if not a curse. Few will return to China, though, because their families depend on the money and status gained by having a relative in the States. In Smuggled Chinese, Ko-lin Chin puts a human face on this intractable international problem, showing how flaws in national policies and lax law enforcement perpetuate the cycle of desperation and suffering. He strongly believes, however, that the problem of human smuggling will continue as long as China's citizens are deprived of fundamental human rights and economic security. Smuggled Chinese will engage readers interested in human rights, Asian and Asian American studies, urban studies, and sociology.Trade Review"Chin creates a poignant picture of the great hardships immigrants have endured in order to pay off debts and send money home to their families...Recommended for public and academic libraries." -Library Journal "Smuggled Chinese explores an important subject that until now has not been investigated fully by scholars. I am confident that it will emerge as a major contribution to the literature." -Michael Welch, Associate Professor, Rutgers University "...pathbreaking. Chin's analysis is grounded in interviews with 300 Chinese, most of whom had been smuggled into the United States between 1988 and 1993... [H]is multifaceted research strategy endows his analysis and conclusions with a high degree of credibility." -American Journal of Sociology "...highly recommend[ed] for anyone interested in the traffic of illegal immigrants." -Journal of American Ethnic History "Chin describes the international network of this flourishing business, lays bare its evil, and also puts a human face on this intractable international problem, showing how flaws in national policies and lax law enforcement perpetuate the cycle of desperation and suffering." -MultiCultural ReviewTable of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword Douglas S. Massey Preface Acknowledgments I. LEAVING FOR THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY 1 In Search of the American Dream 2 In Search of the Beautiful Country 3 The Social Organization of Human Smuggling II. FOLLOWING THE SNAKEHEADS 4 The Air Route 5 The Sea Route 6 The Land Route III. CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN OF GOLD 7 Safe Houses 8 Life in the Mountain of Gold 9 Stemming the Tide Glossary Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Tables Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Black Power White Blood
Book SynopsisOriginally published in hardcover to much acclaim, this vividly written biographical drama will now be available in a paperback edition and includes a new epilogue by the author. Conceived within a clandestine relationship between a black man and a married white woman, Johnny Spain was born (as Larry Michael Armstrong) in Mississippi during the mid-1950s. Spain's life story speaks to the destructive power of racial bias. Even if his mother's husband were willing to accept the boy -- which he was not -- a mixed-race child inevitably would come to harm in that place and time. At six years old, already the target of name-calling children and threatening adults, he could not attend school with his older brother. Only decades later would he be told why the Armstrongs sent him to live with a black family in Los Angeles. As Johnny came of age, he thought of himself as having been rejected by his white family as well as by his black peers. His erratic, destructive behavior put him on a collision course with the penal system; he was only seventeen when convicted of murder and sent to Soledad. Drawn into the black power movement and the Black Panther Party by fellow inmate, the charismatic George Jackson, Spain became a dynamic force for uniting prisoners once divided by racial hatred. He committed himself to the cause of prisoners' rights, impressing inmates, prison officials, and politicians with his intelligence and passion. Nevertheless, among the San Quentin Six, only he was convicted of conspiracy after Jackson's failed escape attempt. Lori Andrews, a professor of law, vividly portrays the dehumanizing conditions in the prisons, the pervasive abuses in the criminal justice system, and the case for overturning Spain's conspiracy conviction. Spain's personal transformation is the heart of the book, but Andrews frames it within an indictment of intolerance and injustice that gives this individual's story broad significance.Trade Review"Powerful [and] inspirational. A moving journey through a black activist's turbulent life." -Kirkus Reviews "In simple direct prose, Lori Andrews captures a life lived as the crossroads of this century's most volatile and vexing issues-race, violence, justice, and redemption." -David B. Wilkins, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School "A compelling story-a boy's perceived abandonment by his mother results in crimes motivated by anger. Remorse for murder results in increasing commitment to Black Panther ideology, and finally redemption through a recognition of his need and capacity to take responsibility for his own life. A parable for our time." -Wayne Kerstetter, Criminologist, University of Illinois at Chicago "There is no better book about the Black Panther Party than Lori Andrews' shocking, gripping, and moving account of the tumultous life of Johnny Spain. Black Power, White Blood never shies away from hard facts and harsh realities, offering an unparalleled view of the prison system, its impact on young Black men, and the politics it produces among those it incarcerates." -George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in WhitenessTable of ContentsCONTENTS Prologue Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Chapter Twenty-Five Chapter Twenty-Six Chapter Twenty-Seven Chapter Twenty-Eight Chapter Twenty-Nine Chapter Thirty Chapter Thirty-One Chapter Thirty-Two Chapter Thirty-Three Chapter Thirty-Four Chapter Thirty-Five Epilogue Epilogue to the New Edition: Understanding Johnny Acknowledgments Index About the Author
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Temple University Press,U.S. Paper Son: One Man's Story
Book SynopsisIn this remarkable memoir, Tung Pok Chin casts light on the largely hidden experience of those Chinese who immigrated to this country with false documents during the exclusion era. Although scholars have pieced together their history, first-person accounts are rare and fragmented; many of the so-called \u0022Paper Sons\u0022 lived out their lives in silent fear of discovery. Chin's story speaks for the many Chinese who worked in urban laundries and restaurants, but it also introduces an unusually articulate man's perspective on becoming Chinese American. Chin's story begins in the early 1930s, when he followed the example of his father and countless other Chinese who bought documents that falsely identified them as children of Chinese Americans. Arriving in Boston and later moving to New York City, he worked and lived in laundries. Chin was determined to fit into American life and dedicated himself to learning English. But he also became an active member of key organizations -- a church, the Chinese Hand Laundrymen's Alliance, and the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association -- that anchored him in the community. A self-reflective and expressive man, Chin wrote poetry commenting on life in China and the hardships of being an immigrant in the United States. His work was regularly published in the China Daily News and brought him to the attention of the FBI, then intent on ferreting out communists and illegal immigrants. His vigorous narrative speaks to the day-to-day anxieties of living as a Paper Son as well as the more universal immigrant experiences of raising a family in modest circumstances and bridging cultures. Historian K. Scott Wong introduces Chin's memoir, discussing the limitations on immigration from China and what is known about Exclusion-era Chinese American communities. Set in historical context, Tung Pok Chin's unique story offers and engaging account of a twentieth-century Paper Son.Trade Review"This rare, engaging, and often poignant firsthand chronicle of Chin's efforts to create a life for himself in the US while supporting his family in China effectively demonstrates how the continual fear of being exposed as a "paper son" and the changing social, international, and political developments from the 1930s through the 1950s fundamentally shaped Chin's opportunities and experiences. ...this clearly written and accessible autobiography constitutes a rich resource for faculty and students interested in US social history and immigration as well as Asian American studies, and is highly recommended for libraries developing comprehensive Asian American studies collection, or diversifying their collections in US social history, immigration, and labor." -Choice "What a stunning book! Mr. Tung Pok Chin was a self-taught poet philosopher steeped in the Laundries and restaurants of Boston and New York City during the nightmarish years of the Chinese exclusion and McCarthy red-baiting. He writes with a penetrating insight that transports the reader into the working lives of isolated men trying their best to survive a hostile racist world while somehow saving pennies to support their loved ones still in Guangdong. This is far more than the story of one man: he is writing the truth of generations of paper sons and paper daughters." -Professor John Kuo Wei Tchen, New York University, and co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas "For scholars and students, Paper Son is valuable because it documents a life during an era that is perhaps the least studies in Chinese American History, the 1930s through the mid-1970s...Chin's account not only reveals the details and strategy of how he conducted his 'paper life'; it also puts human flesh to our skeletal knowledge of how papers sons lived their day-to-day lives during the Great Depression, World War II, and the McCarthy Era... Chin's memoir relates this information in a manner that is immediately accessible, warm, reflective, human, and insightful. No doubt his writing style reveals a great deal about his personality, but it also reminds us that much of our history of the exclusion era is faceless." -K. Scott Wong, from the Introduction "Having read a number of autobiographies and biographies of Asian American that came before me, Paper Son reaffirms the notion that we are lucky to have not gone through what they had experienced... At this time when [the Asian American Curriculum Project] is trying to promote new Asian Pacific American poets and their writings, it's good to be featuring a book on one of our community's pioneering poets." -Asian American Books newsletterTable of ContentsContents Preface Winifred C. Chin Introduction: Paper Lives K. Scott Wong Prologue The Early Years Gold Mountain My Village A Gold Mountain Man Between Father and Son Everybody for Himself Fighting Chinese City Hall The Cheating Game Turning to Wisdom Gold Mountain Dreams A Navy Man A New Outlook The "Confession Period" A Bitter End, a Bright Start A Paper Son's Duty Under Suspicion A Dream in Flames Chinese Communism Becoming American Paranoia Assimilation The Homecoming The Problem with Confessing The Final Visit Writing Again The Lunar New Year Living in the Present Postscript Winifred C. Chin
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Locating Filipino Americans
Book SynopsisThe Filipino American population in the U.S. is expected to reach more than two million by the next century. Yet many Filipino Americans contend that years of formal and covert exclusion from mainstream political, social, and economic institutions on the basis of their race have perpetuated racist stereotypes about them, ignored their colonial and immigration history, and prevented them from becoming fully recognized citizens of the nation. Locating Filipino Americans shows how Filipino Americans counter exclusion by actively engaging in alternative practices of community building. Locating Filipino Americans, an ethnographic study of Filipino American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego, present a multi-disciplinary cultural analysis of the relationship between ethnic identity and social space. Author Rick Bonus argues that alternative community spaces enable Filipino Americans to respond to and resist the ways in which the larger society has historically and institutionally rendered them invisible, silenced, and racialized. Bonus focuses on the \u0022Oriental\u0022 stores, the social halls and community centers, and the community newspapers to demonstrate how ethnic identities are publicly constituted and communities are transformed. Delineating the spaces formed by diasporic consciousness, Bonus shows how community members appropriate elements from their former homeland and from their new settlements in ways defined by their critical stances against racism, homogenization, complete assimilation, and exclusionary citizenship. Locating Filipino Americans is one of the few books that offers a grounded approach to theoretical analyses of ethnicity and contemporary culture in the U.S.Trade Review"Bonus draws on contemporary insights of cultural studies while grounding its tendency toward idealism in a very material sense of power. His subjects are actors, not victims of narratives. He does an effective and sometimes elegant job of capturing their adjustment and resistance to being neither and both Filipino and American." -John Horton, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, UCLA "Filipino Americans rank as the second largest Asian-American population in the USA, following Chinese Americans. This book draws from the author's ethnographic studies of Filipino-American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego,California, in the early 1990s. Bonus focuses on commercial establishments such as markets, community centers, and ethnic newspapers as sites where Filipino Americans publicly construct their ethnic identities in relation to the historical and contemporary conditions they face as members of US society. He contends that Filipino-American identity formation reflects two forces: a need to respond to and resist historical and institutional rendering of invisibility, exploitation, silencing and racial constructing, and a desire to claim 'space' within the category 'American' on their own terms." -SAGE Race Relations Abastracts "Bonus combines oral interviews, multi-disciplinary theories, history and ethnographic fieldwork and provides sophisticated and through analyses of his findings. What is refreshing is not only the telling Taglish (i.e., a combination of Tagalog and English) responses by interviewees to his questions, but his scholarly commitment to the interviewees of the study." -Pacific ReaderTable of ContentsCONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Marking Locations 1. Cartographies of Ethnicity 2. Filipinos and Filipinas in America 3. Marking and Marketing Identities in Filipino "Oriental" Stores 4. Palengke Politics and Beauty Pageants in Filipino Community Centers 5. Homeland Memories and Media: Filipino Images and Imaginations in America Conclusion: Re-marking Locations Notes Index
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Across The Pacific: Asian Americans and
Book SynopsisIf Asian Americans are to assume the role of bridge builders across the Pacific, what are the opportunities, the risks, the promises, and the perils? The answer to this question comes in eight groundbreaking essays in which contributors to Across the Pacific address issues of contemporary growth and diversification of Asian America in relation to the increasingly globalized economy. New meanings and practices of Asian Americans are considered in the atmosphere of global transformation that is present in the post-Civil Rights, post-Cold War, postmodern, and postcolonial era. This book explores, in descriptive and critical ways, how transnational relationships and interactions in Asian American communities are manifested, exemplified, and articulated within the international context of the Pacific Rim. Members of the Asian American community have always been trans-Pacific, but are now more than ever, since the 1965 change in U.S. immigration law. Entering the U.S. at the culmination of the Civil Rights movement, Asians becoming Asian Americans have joined a self-consciously multicultural society. Asian economies roared onto the world stage, creating new markets while circulating capital and labor at an unprecedented scale and intensity, thereby helping drive the forces of modern globalization. These essays by well-known scholars in the field of Asian American studies consider such topics as the impact of new migrations on Asian American subjectivity and politics, Asian American activism and U.S. foreign policy, and the role of Asian Americans in Pacific Rim economies. Considering issues of diaspora, transmigrancy, assimilation, institutionalized racism, and community, Across the Pacific covers such cutting-edge subjects as the cultural expressions of dislocation among contemporary Asian American writers, as well as the impact of the new migrations on Asian American subjectivity and politics.Trade Review"[These essays] should provide some answers to the field of Asian American studies, which has been both energized and troubled by recent trends toward transnationalism and diasporic studies, and which in other ways has been internationalizing its focus. They should also address some questions for the field of Asian studies, whose practitioners are now wondering out loud how, precisely by internationalizing themselves, Asian Americans, given their biculturalism and transnationality, might help frame new approaches to the study of Asia and its subjects." --Evelyn Hu-DeHart, from the IntroductionTable of ContentsContents Foreword: Vishakha N. Desai Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction: Asian American Formations in the Age of Globalization Evelyn Hu-DeHart Chapter 2 Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America Arif Dirlik Chapter 3 Chinese Americans in the Formation of the Pacific Regional Economy Lucie Cheng Chapter 4 Asian American Economic Engagement: Vietnam Case Study Le Anh Tu Packard Chapter 5 Asian American Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy Paul Y. Watanabe Chapter 6 Exclusion and Inclusion: Immigration and American Orientalism Neil Gotanda Chapter 7 Asian Americans at the Intersection of International and Domestic Tensions: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi Chapter 8 Inventing the Earth: The Notion of "Home" in Asian American Literature Luis H. Francia About the Contributors
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Temple University Press,U.S. Crossroads, Directions and A New Critical Race
Book SynopsisIts opponents call it part of \u0022the lunatic fringe,\u0022 a justification for \u0022black separateness,\u0022 \u0022the most embarrassing trend in American publishing.\u0022 \u0022It\u0022 is Critical Race Theory. But what is Critical Race Theory? How did it develop? Where does it stand now? Where should it go in the future? In this volume, thirty-one CRT scholars present their views on the ideas and methods of CRT, its role in academia and in the culture at large, and its past, present, and future. Critical race theorists assert that both the procedures and the substance of American law are structured to maintain white privilege. The neutrality and objectivity of the law are not just unattainable ideals; they are harmful actions that obscure the law's role in protecting white supremacy. This notion-so obvious to some, so unthinkable to others-has stimulated and divided legal thinking in this country and, increasingly, abroad. The essays in Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory-all original-address this notion in a variety of helpful and exciting ways. They use analysis, personal experience, historical narrative, and many other techniques to explain the importance of looking critically at how race permeates our national consciousness.Trade Review"The book will appeal to race and legal scholars in the US as well as in the UK. The breadth of topics and methodologies covered within the volume is certainly impressive and the teaming of chapters from established academics with younger scholars give the book a fresh approach to the study of critical race theory." -The Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies "The book is a must-read for those who are interested in the genesis of CRT [Critical Race Theory], in how CRT positions itself against other legal discourses, and in the current debates within the CRT literature." -Yale Law Journal "The essays are a snapshot of a sprawling, unruly, and sometimes fractious field. Meant to evaluate the first ten years of critical race theory's development, the book truly captures a discipline at the crossroads, struggling with how to define its substantive mission, methodological commitments, and connection to a world outside the academy." -Stanford Law ReviewTable of ContentsForeword: Who Are We? And Why Are We Here? Doing Critical Race Theory in Hard Times - Charles R. Lawrence III Introduction: Battles Waged, Won, and Lost: Critical Race Theory at the Turn of the Millennium - Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal Culp, and Angela P. Harris Part I: Histories 1. The First Decade: Critical Reflections, or "A Foot In the Closing Door" - Kimberle Williams Crenshaw 2. Historicizing Critical Race Theory's Cutting Edge: Key Movements that Performed the Theory - Sumi Cho and Robert Westley 3. Keeping It Real: On Anti-"Essentialism" - Catharine A. MacKinnon Part II: Crossroads Section A: Race Critiquing "Race' and Its Uses: Critical Race Theory's Uncompleted Argument - Robert S. Chang 4. The Poetics of Colorlined Space - Anthony Paul Farley 5. Un-Natural Things: Constructions of Race, Gender, and Disability - Robert L. Hayman, Jr., and Nancy Levit 6. Race and the Immigration Laws: The Need for Critical Inquiry - Kevin R. Johnson 7. "Simple Logic": Race, the Identity Documents Rule, and the Story of a Nation Besieged and Betrayed - Sherene H. Razack 8. Straight Out of the Closet: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation - Devon W. Carbado Section B: Narrativity Celebrating Racialized Legal Narratives - Margaret E. Montoya 9. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being - Thomas Ross 10. Construction Project: Color Me Queer + Color Me Family = Camilo's Story - Victoria Ortiz and Jennifer Elrod 11. On Being Homeless: One Aboriginal Woman's "Conquest" of Canadian Universities - 1989-98 - Patricia Monture-Angus 12. Dinner and Self-Determination - Henry J. Richardson III Section C: Globalization Critical Race Theory in Global Context - Celina Romany 13. Global Markets, Racial Spaces, and the Role of Critical Race Theory in the Struggle for Community Control of Investments: An Institutional Class Analysis - Elizabeth M. Iglesias 14. Global Feminism at the Local Level: The Criminalization of Female Genital Surgeries - Isabelle R. Gunning 15. Breaking Cycles of Inequality: Critical Theory, Human Rights, and Family In/Justice - Berta Esperanza Hermandez-Truyol 16. Critical Race Theory and Post-Colonial Development - Enrique R. Carrasco Part III: Directions 17. Critical Coalitions: Theory and Praxis - Julie A. Su and Eric Y. Yamamoto 18. Beyond, and Not Beyond, Black and White: Deconstruction has a Politics - Mari Matsuda 19. Outsider Scholars, Critical Race Theory, and "Outcrit" Perspectivity: Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method - Francisco Valdes Afterword: The Handmaid's Truth - Derrick A. Bell About the Contributors
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Bold Type Books Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
Book Synopsis Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for NonfictionBrave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future.The events of the past decade have forced us to reckon with who we are and who we want to be. We have been invested in a set of beliefs about our American identity: our exceptionalism, the inevitable rightness of our path, the promise that hard work and determination will carry us to freedom. But in Stakes Is High, Mychal Denzel Smith confronts the shortcomings of these stories -- and with the American Dream itself -- and calls on us to live up to the principles we profess but fail to realize. In a series of incisive essays, Smith exposes the stark contradictions at the heart of American life, holding all of us, individually and as a nation, to account. We've gotten used to looking away, but the fissures and casual violence of institutional oppression are ever-present. There is a future that is not as grim as our past. In this profound work, Smith helps us envision it with care, honesty, and imagination.
£13.29
Avalon Publishing Group Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A
Book SynopsisHow do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean.In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren't considered taboo, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks in this book are urgent--for him, for the martyrs and the tokens, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.
£13.29
Red Sea Press,U.S. The African Diaspora In The Educational Programs
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£19.76
Red Sea Press,U.S. Cosmic Whispers
Book SynopsisAn contemplative memoir of love and transcendence.
£21.21
Red Sea Press,U.S. Dialectics Of Liberation: The African Liberation
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£21.21
Autonomedia All Incomplete
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£19.55
Milkweed Editions Moving the Bones
Book SynopsisA vulnerable and honest collection of poems exploring lineage, love, and the pandemic, from one of the most acclaimed poets of his generation.“You are told to believe in one paradise / and then there is the paradise you come to know,” begins Rick Barot. What follows is an account of the rich and thorny valley between those poles. Moving the Bones dwells in liminal spaces—of love and memory, the pandemic’s singular domesticity, a serene cemetery of ancestral plots, dawn. In precise and tender verse, Barot captures the particularities of being in the middle of one’s life, reflecting on the joys and sorrows of the past and confronting the inevitabilities that lie ahead.For Barot, this presence of mind is an art of being lost in thought. “My mind has a slow metabolism, it is slow / to understand what anything means,” he confides, “but understands that if you look a
£11.39
Potomac Books Inc Surviving Twice
Book SynopsisSurviving Twice is the story of five Vietnamese Amerasians born during the Vietnam War to American soldiers and Vietnamese mothers. Unfortunately, they were not among the few thousand Amerasian children who came to the United States before the war's end and grew up as Americans, speaking English and attending American schools.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries
Book SynopsisThirteen newly published articles on case studies performed by sociologists demonstrating the everyday interactions that reinforce dominance and resistance in modern society.Trade Review"O'Brien and Howard have brought together an engaging and lively collection of articles that demonstrate the various ways that people create, re-create, and sometimes challenge social inequalities in our everyday interactions. This collection challenges the current simplistic tendency to see the 'doing of difference' as mere racial, gender, social class, or sexual 'performance'; Instead, the authors in Everyday Inequalities creatively illuminate various situations - in media, workplaces, the arts, or the street-in which people are actively negotiating their identities and their positions within socially-structured contexts of inequality." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Foreword (Mary Romero). Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Differences and Inequalities (Jodi O’Brien). PART I. EVERYDAY INTERACTION. Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television (Jocelyn A. Hollander). "I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement (Linda Van Leuven). Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers (Carl Edward Pate). "Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds (Lori Kendall). PART II. MANAGING SELF/SOCIETY CONFLICTS. Frederick the Great or Frederick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military (Melissa S. Herbert). Sisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination (Thomas J. Gerschick). Class Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life (Martha L. Shockey). Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain (France Winddance Twine). Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women (Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso). PART III. INSTITUTIONAL DYNAMICS. The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography (Shelley Kowalski). Reproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts (Jennifer L. Eichstedt). The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement (Douglas Hartmann). Belongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market (Anthony J. Freitas). Afterthoughts (Judith A. Howard). Index.
£102.55
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries
Book SynopsisThirteen newly published articles on case studies performed by sociologists demonstrating the everyday interactions that reinforce dominance and resistance in modern society.Trade Review"O'Brien and Howard have brought together an engaging and lively collection of articles that demonstrate the various ways that people create, re-create, and sometimes challenge social inequalities in our everyday interactions. This collection challenges the current simplistic tendency to see the 'doing of difference' as mere racial, gender, social class, or sexual 'performance'; Instead, the authors in Everyday Inequalities creatively illuminate various situations - in media, workplaces, the arts, or the street-in which people are actively negotiating their identities and their positions within socially-structured contexts of inequality." Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Foreword xiMary Romero Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: Differences and Inequalities 1Jodi O’Brien Part I. Everyday Interaction 41 Doing Studs: The Performance of Gender and Sexuality on Late-Night Television 43Jocelyn A. Hollander "I Need a Screw": Workplace Sexualization as an Interactional Achievement 73Linda Van Leuven Acknowledgment Rituals: The Greeting Phenomenon Between Strangers 97Carl Edward Pate "Are You Male or Female?" Gender Performances on Muds 131Lori Kendall Part II. Managing Self/Society Conflicts 155 Frederick the Great or Frederick’s of Hollywood? The Accomplishment of Gender Among Women In the Military 157Melissa S. Herbert Sisyphus In a Wheelchair: Men with Physical Disabilities Confront Gender Domination 189Thomas J. Gerschick Class Dismissed? Quad City Women Doing The Life 213Martha L. Shockey Managing Everyday Racisms: The Anti-Racist Practices of White Mothers of African-Descent Children in Britain 237France Winddance Twine Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women 253Laura M. Lopez and Frances S. Hasso Part III. Institutional Dynamics 281 The Image That Dane Not Speak Its Name: Homoerotics in New Deal Photography 283Shelley Kowalski Reproducing Racial and Class Inequality: Multiculturalism in the Arts 309Jennifer L. Eichstedt The Politics of Race and Sport: Resistance and Domination in the 1968 African American Olympic Protest Movement 337Douglas Hartmann Belongings: Citizenship, Sexuality, and the Market 361Anthony J. Freitas Afterthoughts 385Judith A. Howard Index 397
£37.95
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Colonial Rule and Crisis in Equatorial Africa:
Book SynopsisA look at the encounter between the French and the peoples of Southern Gabon in terms of their differing conceptions of boundaries. In the second half of the nineteenth century, two very different practices of territoriality confronted each other in Southern Gabon. Clan and lineage relationships were most important in the local practice, while the French practice was informed by a territorial definition of society that had emerged with the rise of the modern nation-state and industrial capitalism. This modern territoriality used an array of bureaucratic instruments -- such as maps andcensuses -- previously unknown in equatorial Africa. Such instruments denied the existence of locally created territories and were fundamental to the exercise of colonial power. Thus modern territoriality imposed categories and institutions foreign to the peoples to whom they were applied. As colonial power became more effective from the 1920s on, those institutions started to be appropriated by Gabonese cultural elites who negotiated their meanings in reference to their own traditions. The result was a strongly ambiguous condition that left its imprint on the new colonial territories and subsequently the postcolonial Gabonese state. Christopher Gray was Assistant Professor of History, Florida International University.Trade ReviewFascinating study. . . suitable for upper division undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, and faculty. * CHOICE *Besides offering a solid overview of the political and cultural history of southern Gabon, an area almost entirely ignored by academic scholars, Gray's study offers rich insights for historians and researchers examining the impact of early colonial rule and the formation of ethnic categories in Africa in the last two centuries. . . . A compelling study. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES No. 2-3, 2002 *Gray's book is an important intervention in the growing scholarly literature on colonialism. Its lasting contribution is to invite scholars to think more carefully about space as a key terrain on which the colonial power worked. * JOURNAL OF COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsDeveloping a Spatial Approach to Historical Change in Equitorial Africa Territoriality in the Functional Regions, Districts, and Villages of Southern Gabon to the 1880s "The Clan Has No Boundary": Cognitive Kinships, Maps, and Territoriality The Instruments of Colonial Territoriality Colonial Territoriality's Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940 The Impositin of an Ambiguous Territoriality: Roads and Okoume, ca. 1920-1940 Death of the Equatorial Tradition? Of Leopard Men, Canton Chiefs, and Women Healers
£89.10
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Business of Black Power: Community
Book SynopsisExplores business development in the Black power era and the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement. The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad forms of business development in the Black power era. This volume charts a new course forBlack power studies and business history, exploring both the business ventures that Black power fostered and the impact of Black power on the nation's business world. Black activists pressed business leaders, corporations, and various levels of government into supporting a range of economic development ventures, from Black entrepreneurship, to grassroots experiments in economic self-determination, to indigenous attempts to rebuild inner-city markets in thewake of disinvestment. They pioneered new economic and development strategies, often in concert with corporate executives and public officials. Yet these same actors also engaged in fierce debates over the role of business in strengthening the movement, and some African Americans outright rejected capitalism or collaboration with business. The ten scholars in this collection bring fresh analysis to this complex intersection of African American and business history to reveal how Black power advocates, or those purporting a Black power agenda, engaged business to advance their economic, political, and social goals. They show the business of Black power taking place in thestreets, boardrooms, journals and periodicals, corporations, courts, and housing projects of America. In short, few were left untouched by the influence of this movement. Laura Warren Hill is assistant professor of history at Bloomfield College. Julia Rabig is a lecturer at Dartmouth College.Trade ReviewThe essays make significant contributions to the historiographies of business history and Black Power history...highly recommended reading. * H-BUSINESS *Valuable and interesting...this collection of essays serves an important purpose and will do much to advance the studies of black power. * JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY *A seminal work that is an especially recommended contribution to academic library Black Studies and Economic Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists. MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW The Black Power Movement of the late 1960s may seem like a faint memory to many African Americans, but for the millions still trapped in poverty, the need for black economic power to uplift their lives is greater than ever. This is what makes The Business of Black Power so powerful and compelling. The essays by an array of esteemed thinkers and planners detail the history, problems, and prospects of black economic development, providing readers with a timely roadmap on how to empower African-American communities. --Earl Ofari Hutchinson, MSNBC Political Analyst, and author of How Obama Governed: The Year of Crisis and Challenge * . *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial
Book SynopsisInvestigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves Scholars have long recognized the importance of gender and hierarchy in the slave societies of the New World, yet gendered analysis of Cuba has lagged behind study of other regions. Cuban elites recognized that creating and maintaining the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population,the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. Based on a variety of archival and printed primary sources, this book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenth-century Cuban patriarchy rested. This book investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters on motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight is gained into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean's longest lasting slave society. Sarah L. Franklin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Patriarchy, Paternalism, and theDevelopment of the Slave Society Virgins and Mothers Wives Pupils The Needy Wet Nurses Conclusion: Shifting Landscape Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Manhood Enslaved: Bondmen in Eighteenth- and
Book SynopsisManhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring intellectual and historical clarity to our understanding of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey. Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes to an evolving body of historical scholarship arguing that the lives of bondpeople in America were shaped not only by the powerful forces of racial oppression, but also by their own notions of gender. The volume uses previously understudied, white-authored, nineteenth-century literature about central New Jersey slaves as a point of departure. Reading beyond the racist assumptionsof the authors, it contends that the precarious day-to-day existence of the three protagonists -- Yombo Melick, Dick Melick, and Quamino Buccau (Smock) -- provides revealing evidence about the various elements of "slave manhood" that gave real meaning to their oppressed lives. Kenneth E. Marshall is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oswego.Trade ReviewMr. Marshall's book ranges beyond these three men and their lives to look at general aspects of American slavery and its legacy for African-Americans in America today. * BLACK & ASIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER *Compelling. . . Marshall successfully reads against the grain of long-ignored published historical sources, makes a strong case for the consideration of slavery in the rural North, and smartly balances analytic precision with interpretive framework. * PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY: A JOURNAL OF MID-ATLANTIC STUDIES *Manhood Enslaved is most successful in its richly detailed portrayal of the many-faceted daily lives of enslaved people in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century New Jersey. * JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Ain't No Account" Black Images in White Minds Powerful and Righteous "His Disposition Was Not in Any Sense Agreeable" Threat of a (Christian) Bondman Work, Family, and Day-to-Day Survival on an Old Farm Epilogue: "Losing It" Notes Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem,
Book SynopsisReveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era. Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred. Drawing on records from New York's children's courts, Harlem's public schools, Columbia University, and the Department of Hospitals, Dennis Doyle tells here the story of the American psychiatrists and civil servants who helped codify in New York's mental health policies the view that blacks and whites are psychological equals. The book examines in particular the events through which these racial liberals working in Harlem gained a foothold within New York's public institutions, creating inclusive public policies and ostensibly race-neutral standards of care. Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968 not only contributes to the growing body of historiography on race and medical institutions in the civil rights era but, more importantly, shows how inveterate racial prejudices within public policy can be overcome. Dennis A. Doyle is assistant professor of history at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy.Trade ReviewMeticulously researched. . . . Doyle's work is a historiography of midcentury psychiatry's struggles with race embedded in the history of the conservatism of the Cold War and the struggle for civil rights in New York City. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division medical humanities and graduate collections. * CHOICE *Fascinating . . . Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem is copiously researched, is nuanced in its historical analysis and offers a well-crafted narrative. . . . It is critical reading for anyone interested in the historic relationship between psychiatry, mental health disparities, mass incarceration and twentieth-century civil rights activism. * MEDICAL HISTORY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Before Racial Liberalism: Depression-Era Harlem and Psychiatry, 1936 Everyone's Children: Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Justine Wise Polier's Courtroom, 1936-41 Psychiatry Goes to School: Child Guidance and the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, 1940-42 Psychiatry for Harlem: Wartime Activism and the Black Community's Mental Health Needs, 1942-45 The Quiet One: Racial Representation in Popular Media and Psychiatric Literature, 1942-53 Psychiatry Comes to Harlem Hospital: Community Psychiatry ,Aftercare, and Columbia University, 1947-62 The Limits of Racial Liberalism: Harlem Hospital and the Black Community, 1963-68 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Ira Aldridge: The Last Years, 1855-1867
Book SynopsisThis final volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography records the remarkable achievements and experiences of Ira Aldridge in the last years of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, the fourth volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography, places on record Aldridge's remarkable achievements and experiences in the final phase of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. His first Continental tour in 1852-1855 had been a spectacular success, and though he returned to Britain periodically afterwards, he spent much of the remainder of his career entertaining audiences in central and eastern Europe, mainly in Ukraine and Russia. His Shakespearean performances in St. Petersburg in 1858 and Moscow in 1862 were among his greatest triumphs and led to numerous appearances elsewhere in provincial cities and towns. During his forty-three years on stage in Europe, Ira Aldridge traveled more widely and won more honors, decorations, and awards than any other actor of his day. He is remembered not only as a talented thespian but also as a very visible representative of his race, someone who changed European perceptions of black people through the sheer brilliance of his artistry on stage. And by doing so, he helped to humanize the image of Africans andtheir descendants in Europe at an important transitional moment in history, when the movement to abolish slavery was gathering force and winning international acceptance. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African literatures at the University of Texas at Austin.Trade ReviewThrough his thorough mining of a vast array of European archives, Lindfors surpasses all previous studies in recounting the actions of, and wildly contradictory viewpoints towards, this seminal figure ... his absolute mastery of the sources and deep understanding of Aldridge and the period lead to probing insights. * THEATRE JOURNAL *With Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, Berth Lindfors concludes what will surely remain the definitive biography of the great nineteenth-century African American actor, Ira Aldridge, for many a decade ... Through an exhaustive search of local reviews and commentary he is able not only to follow Aldridge on his travels, but also to provide a wide range of observations on the actor's technique and artistic success. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURE *Winner of the Theatre Library Association's 2015 George Freedley Award Special Jury Prize * . *Lindfors's four-volume biography is destined to become the standard life of Aldridge, without equal in the future. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Readjusting to Britain Crim. Con. On the Road Again Stockholm The Second Continental Tour Pest and Buda A Short Break The Third Continental Tour Home Again The Fourth Continental Tour The Fifth Continental Tour The Sixth Continental Tour Taking a Break The Seventh Continental Tour Another Break The Eighth Continental Tour The Ninth Continental Tour Final Acts Postmortem Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in
Book SynopsisA look at how Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and American voters invoked ideas of gender and race in the fiercely contested 2016 US presidential election Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Trump harnessed nostalgia through his promise to Make America Great Again. This collection of essays looks at the often vitriolic rhetoric that characterized the election: "nasty women" vs. "deplorables"; "bad hombres" and "Crooked Hillary"; analyzing the struggle and its result through the lenses of gender, race, and their intersections, and with particular attention to the roles of memory, performance, narrative, and social media. Contributors examine the ways that gender and racial hierarchies intersected and reinforced one another throughout the campaign season. Trump's association of Mexican immigrants with crime, and specifically with rape, for example, drew upon a long history of fearmongering that stereotypes Mexican men--and men of other immigrant and minority groups--as sexual aggressors against white women. At the same time, in response to both Trump'smisogynistic rhetoric and the iconic power of Clinton's candidacy, feminist consciousness grew steadily across the nation. Analyzing these phenomena, the volume's authors--both journalists and academics--engage with prominent debates in their diverse fields, while an epilogue by the editors considers recent ongoing developments like the #metoo movement. CHRISTINE A. KRAY is Associate Professor of Anthropology, TAMAR W. CARROLL is Associate Professor of History, and HINDA MANDELL is Associate Professor in the School of Communication, all at Rochester Institute of Technology.Trade ReviewMight take on the mantle of opening salvo in what is likely to be a fruitful and troubling subfield of presidential history: Trump Studies. * HISTORY *Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell have assembled a superb interdisciplinary group of authors to analyze a recent political history in which the politics of identity played a large, as yet barely analyzed role. A must-read for organizers, scholars, politicians, and students of politics who are trying to reverse the effects of Trumpism on our national political culture. -- -- Claire Potter, The New SchoolNasty Women and Bad Hombres does it right. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and writers comes together to think through how Donald Trump, a reality-TV star with no political experience, could pull off an electoral upset against Hillary Clinton, an intelligent, highly qualified candidate with years of experience in public service. Among other things, contributors illuminate the functionings of widespread internalized antifeminism among women, hashtag feminism, and slut-shaming; recognize African American women as torchbearers; and consider the use of misogynist and feminist popular cultural artifacts then and now. Simultaneously broad-based and focused, Nasty Women and Bad Hombres does an excellent job of laying out how we got here and pondering what to do next. -- -- Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern UniversityAccessible and timely, this collection demonstrates the strength of interdisciplinary collaboration, with strong contributions from historians to political scientists, philosophers to communications scholars, with the added perspective of contemporary feminist activists. The focus on the gendered and racialized rhetoric of the 2016 campaign, and how it mobilized voters, both women and men, makes the collection a valuable contribution to intersectional scholarship of the American presidency. --Aidan Smith, Tulane University -- Aidan Smith, Tulane UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Historical Imagination and Fault Lines of the Electorate - Christine A. Kray and Tamar W. Carroll and Hinda Mandell PART 1. AGGRESSIVE AND SUBORDINATE MASCULINITIES From (Castrating) Bitch to (Big) Nuts: Genital Politics in 2016 Election Campaign Paraphernalia - Jane Caputi Trump in the Land of Oz: Pathologizing Hillary Clinton and the Feminine Body - Roy Schwartzman and Jenni M. Simon The Border, Bad Hombres, and the Billionaire: Hyper-Masculinity and Anti-Mexican Stereotypes in Trump's 2016 Presidential Campaign - Joshua D. Martin The Myth of Immigrant Criminality: Early Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory and Trump's Campaign - O. Nicholas Robertson America, Meet Your New Dad: Tim Kaine and Subordinate Masculinity - Beth L. Boser and R. Brandon Anderson PART 2. FEMINIST PREDECESSORS Please Put Stickers on Shirley Chisholm's Grave: Assessing the Legacy of a Black Feminist Pioneer - Barbara Winslow Commemoration and Contestation: Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama - Michael J. Brown Dressing Up for a Campaign: Hillary Clinton, Suffragists, and the Politics of Fashion - Einav Rabinovitch-Fox 100 Years of Campaign Imagery: From Woman Suffrage Postcards to Hillary Clinton - Ana Stevenson The Impossibilities of Hillary Clinton as a Self-Made Woman - Joanna Weiss PART 3. BAKING COOKIES AND GRABBING PUSSIES: MISOGYNY AND SEXUAL POLITICS The Woman They Love to Hate: Hillary Clinton and the Evangelicals - Mark Ward Sr. "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Jiyoung Lee "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Carol M. Liebler "Locker Room Talk" as "Small Potatoes": Media, Women of the GOP, and the 2016 Presidential Election - Neal J. Powless "I'm Not Voting for Her": Internalized Misogyny, Feminism, and Gender Consciousness in the 2016 Election - Pamela Aronson Confronting "Bimbo Eruptions" and the Legacy of Bill Clinton's Scandal: Slut-Shaming and the 2016 Presidential Campaigns - Leora Tanenbaum How to Turn a Bernie Bro into a Russian Bot - Steve Almond PART 4. ELECTION DAY: REWRITING PAST AND FUTURE #WomenCanStopTrump: Intimate Publics in the Twitterverse - Gina Masullo Chen and Kelsey N. Whipple A Renaissance of Feminist Ritual: Susan B. Anthony's Gravesite on Election Day - Christine A. Kray Birthing Family Narrative and Baby on Election Day - Hinda Mandell Left Behind - Rachel Parsons This is Vienna: Parents of Transgender Children from Pride to Survival in the Aftermath of the 2016 Election - Sally Campbell Galman Triumph of the Constitution: American Muslims and Religious Liberty - Asma Uddin PART5. THE FUTURE IS FEMALE(?): CRITICAL REFLECTIONS AND FEMINIST FUTURES "When they go low, we go high": African American Women Torchbearers for Democracy and the 2016 Democratic National Convention - De Anna J. Reese "When they go low, we go high": African American Women Torchbearers for Democracy and the 2016 Democratic National Convention - Delia C. Gillis Amnesia and Politics in the Mount Hope Cemetery: Toward a Critical History of Race and Gender - Katie Terezakis Beware! Benevolent Patriarchy: Election 2016 and Why No One Can Save Us but Ourselves - Jamia Wilson Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Tamar W. Carroll Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Hinda Mandell Epilogue: Public Memory, White Supremacy, and Reproductive Justice in the Trump Era - Christine A. Kray Chronology
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Temple University Press,U.S. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism,
Book SynopsisExamines the new forms of racism in American life and the political responses to themTrade Review"Her book offers a refreshing view of the politics on the ground, where people matter more than identities and the ideologies embedded within them." Ms. Magazine "Collins' lucid observations form the backdrop of her sustained engagement with nationalism, feminism, and racism in a collection that includes signature essays on topics as diverse as American national identity, the contemporary relevance of Afro centrism, and women's agency in black community politics." - Signs "Collins's work is always a pleasure to read. She deftly weaves historical analyses, popular culture, literature, and theory to produce a complex portrait of ongoing and systematic racism, relentlessly highlighting the interconnected dynamics of gender inequality as well as other systems of oppression. Each of these essays makes clear that any political response to racism must incorporate an intersectional approach." Gender and Society "The book can serve as good primer...Hill Collins' writing is always composed with a synthesis of historical analyses, popular culture, literature and theory that is often lacking in other academics' social scientific treatises. Any of the six essays within the text makes a clear case that either an organized-collective or individual response to racism, sexism, or capitalism must incorporate an intersectional approach." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society "The six essays in this volume explore the political realities of the period from the end of Black Power to the ascendancy of hip hop. They focus on the relationship between new racial formations and on political responses to them...A theme of the volume is Hill's endeavour to theorise intersectionality, and she focuses on the intersections between race, nation, and gender, to a lesser extent, social class. The aim of this book is to make a case for anti racist group based political struggles that respect individual and human rights which embrace a global analysis of how our lives are interconnected, and are informed by feminism and nationalism." Sage Race Relations Abstracts "In her new book Patricia Hill Collins reminds us why she is one of the most prolific and insightful sociologists to diagnose contemporary racial and sexual politics."-The African American Review, Spring 2008
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Temple University Press,U.S. Lucia: Testimonies Of A Brazilian
Book SynopsisFavelas, or shantytowns, are where cocaine is mainly sold in Rio de Janeiro. There are some six hundred favelas in the city, and most of them are controlled by well-organized and heavily armed drug gangs. The struggle for the massive profits from this drug trade has resulted in what are increasingly violent and deadly confrontations between rival drug gangs and a corrupt and brutal police force, that have transformed parts of the city into a war-zone. Lucia tells the story of one woman who was once intimately involved with drug gang life in Rio throughout the 1990s. Through a series of conversations with the author, Lucia describes conditions of poverty, violence, and injustice that are simply unimaginable to outsiders. In doing so, she explains why women like her become involved with drugs and gangs, and why this situation is unlikely to change.Trade Review"Rio de Janeiro is under siege. The poor communities and the favelas on the hills are submitted to a mix of terror and populism by the drug traffickers. The affluent classes live under fear of organized crime. Most of the police are involved in corruption and lethal violence. Despite this overwhelming presence, life in the favelas is not well known. Robert Gay has written a rigorous, but at the same time compassionate, study of the complex strategies for survival in those surroundings. In this outstanding book we are able to hear, through Lucia, the voice of those brave (and neglected) survivors."-Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Violence, University of Sao Paulo, and former Secretary of State for Human Rights, Brazil "Lucia is an outstanding book. Robert Gay does a splendid job of laying out and expanding the lives of Lucia and of those who intersect with her. He makes them live by explaining social organizations and institutions-gangs, prison, school, work, economy and religion-within the context of people's lives. Gay offers a rich, superbly readable narrative that develops these important themes. Lucia provides depth and breadth to a subject about which there is little empirical research; it teaches sociology in an interesting and informed way."-Martha Huggins, Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations, Tulane University "If you can no longer recall the stomach-churning depictions of Rio de Janeiro favelas from the 2002 film City of God, this true account of one mujer's life in the Brazilian underworld-trying to survive local gangs and merciless rule of her drug-lord boyfriend-will bring it all back."-LatinaTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Getting In Lucia's House2. Rogerio Drug Gangs3. Marcos Police4. Bruno Prison5. School Education6. Work Economy7. Born Again Religion8. Getting Out Last CallEpilogueNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of
Book SynopsisUnderscores the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed during the exclusion eraTrade Review"Taken together, these essays offer a concise and worthwhile introduction to the state of the field in Chinese American social history."- Western Historical QuarterlyTable of ContentsThe collection's topics (and contributors) include: changing patterns of Chinese immigration and strategies for circumventing exclusion laws (Erika Lee); Chinese trade networks that facilitated Chinese migration (Madeline Hsu); female migration, marriage, and family formation (Sucheng Chan); Chinese herbalists in America (Haiming Liu); the significance of Chinese Americans' economic ties with China (Yong Chen); Chinese American debates about ideological currents in China (Shehong Chen); the role of Chinese-language schools in the United States in promoting ethnic "authenticity" (Him Mark Lai); and two classic autobiographies that reflect an emerging Chinese American consciousness (Xiao-huang Yin).
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Spike Lee Reader
Book SynopsisLooking at the films of the prolific, often controversial, and always provocative directorTrade Review"The Spike Lee Reader includes new and several well-known pieces previously published about Lee's work. The previously published pieces work seamlessly with the newer additions. These pieces provide a foundation to remind readers of the discourse established in response to the first decade of his career concerning representations of gender, sexuality, and class... The Spike Lee Reader is a necessary addition to the library of researchers and scholars in film and cultural studies. It is also a theoretically rich, interdisciplinary text that will be of use for upper division undergraduate and graduate courses on film, popular culture, and Ethnic Studies." -American StudiesTable of ContentsThe Spike Lee Reader Table of Contents Acknowledgements We've Gotta Have It: Spike Lee, African American Film, and Cinema Studies Paula J. Massood Chapter 1'Whose Pussy is This': A Feminist Comment bell hooks Chapter 2 Programming with School Daze Toni Cade Bambara Chapter 3 Spike Lee and Black Women Michele Wallace Chapter 4 But Compared to What?: Reading Realism, Representation, and Essentialism in School Daze, Do the Right Thing, and the Spike Lee Discourse Wahneema Lubiano Chapter 5 The Double Truth, Ruth: Do the Right Thing and the Culture of Ambiguity James C. McKelly Chapter 6 Spike Lee and the Fever in the Racial Jungle Ed Guerrero Chapter 7'Spike, Don't Mess Malcolm Up': Courting Controversy and Control in Malcolm X-The Movie Anna Everett Chapter 8 Through the Looking Glass and Over the Rainbow: Exploring the Fairy Tale in Spike Lee's Crooklyn Mark D. Cunningham Chapter 9 Clockers (Spike Lee 1995): Adaptation in Black Keith M. Harris Chapter 10 Reel Men: Get on the Bus and the Shifting Terrain of Black Masculinities S. Craig Watkins Chapter 11 We Shall Overcome: Preserving History and Memory in 4 Little Girls Christine Acham Chapter 12 Spike Lee Meets Aaron Copeland Krin Gabbard Chapter 13 Race and Black American Film Noir: Summer of Sam as Lynching Parable Dan Flory Chapter 14 Racial Kitsch and Black Performance Tavia Nyong'o Chapter 15 I Be Smackin' My Hoes': Paradox and Authenticity in Bamboozled Beretta Smith-Shomade Chapter 16 De Profundis: A Love letter from the Inside Man David Gerstner Notes on Contributors Select Bibliography Filmography (including exec. prod. credits and television segments) Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White
Book SynopsisAn unflinching look at white supremacy revealing the many ways that white people profit from identity politics and group privilegesTrade Review"If we could only take one book with us into the 21st century, this is the one I would choose. With lucidity and passion, George Lipsitz reveals that so-called 'color-blind' public policy actually contributes to the maintenance of racism; that white privilege and the demonizing of colored people are two sides of the same coin; and that whiteness is both a huge subsidy as well as a noose around the necks of working-class white folk. His insights into how the color line works in the realm of public policy, politics, and culture, and what we must do to destroy it, can save our lives." -Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban AmericaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bill Moore's Body 1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness 2. Law and Order: Civil Rights Laws and White Privilege 3. Immigrant Labor and Identity Politics 4. Whiteness and War 5. How Whiteness Works: Inheritance, Wealth, and Health 6. White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson 7. Lean on Me: Beyond Identity Politics 8. "Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac": Antiblack Racism and White Identity 9. "Frantic to Join...the Japanese Army": Beyond the Black-White Binary 10. California: The Mississippi of the 1990s Notes Acknowledgments [to come] Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories
Book SynopsisFifteen gripping and inspiring stories told by young Vietnamese who came to the US after the fall of Saigon and during the "boat people" exodus are contextualized within a succinct history of Vietnam and the international politics of refugee resettlementTrade Review"[T]he autobiographical accounts reveal key themes in the Vietnamese American experience and address important historiographical topics...this book contributes to refugee history, an important if understudied aspect of the immigrant experience. Includes a useful bibliography and videography. Highly recommended." —ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Vietnamese Names Part I: Historical Overview Chapter 1. Vietnam before the Mid-nineteenth Century Chapter 2. French Colonial Rule and Vietnamese Resistance Chapter 3. Communism and Nationalism Chapter 4. The 1945 August Revolution Chapter 5. The First Indochina War Chapter 6. The American Involvement in Vietnam Chapter 7. The Fall of Saigon and Its Aftermath Chapter 8. The Plight of the Ethnic Chinese in Vietnam Chapter 9. An International Refugee Crisis Chapter 10. Ending the Indochinese Refugee Exodus Part II: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight, and New Beginnings Chapter 11. A Tragedy: From Vietnam to America Chapter 12. A Journey Called Freedom Chapter 13. My Autobiography Chapter 14. How It Feels to be an Asian American Chapter 15. Integrity Through Change Chapter 16. A Place to Call Home Chapter 17. The Coming of Age of a Chinese-Vietnamese American Chapter 18. My Father and I Chapter 19. The Pain in My Heart Chapter 20. The Never Ending Struggle Chapter 21. An Unfinished Journey Chapter 22. From Vietnam to Germany to the United States Chapter 23. Vietnam Memories in America Chapter 24. My Transition to Being an Asian American Chapter 25. At That Time in My Life Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Selected Videography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric,
Book SynopsisCould the promise of upward mobility have a dark side? In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask, how does a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender? The authors consider the origins and development of the U.S. nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism; and their lived reality. Tensions in the American Dream also addresses the relevancy of nation to empire in the context of the historical world capitalist system. The authors ask, is the American Dream a reality only questioned by those unwilling or unable to achieve it? What is the "good life" and how is it particularly "American"?Table of ContentsList of TablesPrefacePART I. INTRODUCTION1. Key Questions and Concepts2. Citizenship and Nation3. The Shifting Terrain Makes Clear the Tensions in the American DreamPART II. STORIES OF MY AMERICA4. Reflections on the Structural Logic of the System5. Thoughts on the Current Juncture6. Perspectives on the American Dream7. Expressions of Revolt against the SystemsPART III. TENSIONS IN THE AMERICAN DREAM: RHETORIC, REVERIE, OR REALITY?8. Nation: Empire or Liberation9. Racial Nationalism and the Multiple Crises of the U.S. Nation10. Going Forward, with Reflections on the Revolts of the Past Decade Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second
Book SynopsisAnalyses how Chinese Americans ventured beyond the confines of Chinatown by joining the military and working in defense industriesTrade Review"Wong's book on the experiences of Chinese Americans during World War II will not only go a long way to fill in the gaps but also challenge students to think critically about social change for Asian Americans during Word War II. He skillfully employs numerous quotes from newspaper sources and interviews to tell this complicated history of ethnic tensions and racial formation. Americans First is a terrific book for course use. By illuminating a little known area of Asian American history, the book provokes much discussion and debate." —Mary Ting Yi Lui, Yale University"Americans First is insightful, beautifully written and highly readable from beginning to end.... an excellent reference for anyone interested in Asian American history, US-China relations, identity politics and migration studies." —The Journal of Chinese OverseasTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Chinese America before the War; 2. Chinatown Goes to War; 3. The "Good Asian" in the "Good War"; 4. Hawai'i's Local Warriors; 5. The Fourteenth Air Service Group; 6.Into the Mainstream; Appendix: Employment Tables; Notes; Acknowlegments; Index
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