Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisLooks at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas in the Americas. From the history of Japanese jazz composers to the popularity of black/Asian "buddy films" like "Rush Hour", this work talks about the shifting meaning of race in America in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"This collection is evidence of the important topics and perspectives generated by illuminating AfroAsian linkages." * The Journal of African American History *"Succeeds at placing blacks and Asians at the center of the Americas, inviting productive dialogue against the notion that interaction between these groups is out of the ordinary." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"What critical anthologies do best is to present. . . . And AfroAsian Encounters does that." * Journal of Asian American Studies *"As fresh and exciting as it is important. This crucial book changes the conversation around American Studies and Ethnic Studies in key ways, challenging scholars to light out for previously-uncharted places on our mental maps in which borders are interrogated and challenged, alliances forged through imagined communities, commerce, popular culture, or politics are investigated and probed, and questions that are simultaneously new, and half a century old, are revivified. This volume, the first interdisciplinary anthology dealing with AfroAsian encounters, stands to become a landmark work in the field." -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Stanford University"A ground-breaking interdisciplinary anthology entirely devoted to the studies of historical and contemporary African/Asian interactions." * African American Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword: "Bandung Is Done"Vijay PrashadIntroduction: AfroAsian EncountersHeike Raphael-Hernandez and Shannon SteenPart I Positioning AfroAsian Racial Identities1 "A Race So Different from Our Own"Sanda Mayzaw Lwin2 Crossings in Prose: Jade Snow Wong and the Demand for a New Kind of Expert Cynthia Tolentino3 Complicating Racial Binaries: Asian Canadians and African Canadians as Visible Minorities Eleanor Ty4 One People, One Nation? Creolization and Its Tensions in Trinidadian and Guyanese Fiction Lourdes Lopez Ropero5 Black-and-Tan Fantasies: Interracial Contact between Blacks and South Asians in Film Samir DayalPart II Confronting the Color Hierarchy6 "It Takes Some Time to Learn the Right Words"Heike Raphael-Hernandez7 Chutney, Metissage, and Other Mixed MetaphorsContexts Gita Rajan8 These Are the BreaksOliver WangPart III Performing AfroAsian Identities9 Racing American ModernityShannon Steen10 Black Bodies/Yellow MasksDeborah Elizabeth Whaley11 The Rush Hour of Black/Asian Coalitions?Mita Banerjee12 Performing Postmodernist PassingCathy Covell WaegnerPart IV Celebrating Unity13 Persisting SolidaritiesBill V. Mullen14 Internationalism and JusticeGreg Robinson15 "Jazz That Eats Rice"David W. Stowe16 Kickin' the White Man's AssFred HoAfterword: Toward a Black Paci?c Gary Y. OkihiroAbout the Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT StudiesRichard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II intellectuals announced the very themes of race, gender, and sexuality with which so many contemporary critics are now engaged. While at its most elemental Once You Go Black is an homage to these thinkers, it is at the same time a reconsideration of black Americans as agents, and not simply products, of history. Reid-Pharr contends that our current notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor have they simply been forced onto the black community. Instead, he argues, black American intellectuals have actively chosen the identity schemes that seem to us so natural today.Turning first to the late and relatively obscure novels of Wright, Ellison, and Baldwin, Reid-Pharr suggests that each of these authors rejects the idea of the black as innocent. Instead they iTrade ReviewIn bold and beautifully crafted close readings, Reid-Pharr challenges many of the structuring absences that have shaped the fields of African-American literary studies, queer studies, and American Studies. His provocative arguments about sexuality, race, and masculinity are unsettling, in the best sense of that word. -- Siobhan B. Somerville,University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignProvocatively and often brilliantly, this book disturbs some of our most fundamental thinking about the role of choice, literary influence, collective identity, and the racial erotic in African American letters. Reid-Pharr engages these questionssometimes with the subtler edge of his wit and other times with the sharpness of cutting-edge theorybut always with an eye to re-orienting us as readers toward what it means to inhabit, or refuse, the skin of identity. -- Marlon Ross,author of Manning the RaceA deeply local and deeply ethical book and Reid-Pharr is willing to risk the misunderstanding in order to insist on the importance of black political agency. There is a refreshing honesty in the way Reid-Pharr directs his comments toward readers. * GC Advocate *Once You Go Black sustains head-on, constant, and enormously crucial, intellectual challenges to readers. These challenges do not simply require us to rethink a wealth of commonly accepted assumptions but demand that we re-conceptualize how we think about some basic constructs of American intellectual history. * Lambda Book Report *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Existential Negro Going Black1 The Funny Father's Luck 2 Ralph Ellison's Blues 3 Alas Poor Jimmy Coming Back?4 Saint Huey 5 Queer Sweetback Conclusion: Deviant Desiring Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisChinese hand laundries have been a fixture of America's urban landscape for over one hundred years. This title presents a study of Chinese laundries and of those who worked in them in the United States. It looks at the life and work of Chinese hand laundry workers in Chicago.

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Book SynopsisHow has Judaism, a religion defined by its minority status, attained equal footing with Catholicism and Protestantism in dominating modern American religious life? This work, revealing the effects of this evolution on Jews in America and on America in general, encompasses politics and culture.

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Book SynopsisAfrican American women are often defined by their presumed poverty or lack of education. This work examines the experiences of a group who, on the contrary, worked as white-collar professionals, retired in considerable comfort, and remain actively involved in their respective communities.Trade ReviewThis book will be informative and rewarding reading for students and professors alike. * Gender and Society *A book that speaks to all of us, across lines of race and gender. -- Melvin P. SikesPowerful and very important. -- John Sibley Butler,University of Texas, Austin

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking collection of essays on the civil rights movement focusing on smaller, regional civil organizations across the country - not just in the South.Trade Review"These essays enrich understanding of the valiant struggles to make real the promise of a more democratic US." * CHOICEHighly Recommended *"The thirteen essays in this important collection examine grass-roots struggles for racial justice throughout the United States from 1940-1980...Read together, these essays remind us that activism changes people as much as society." * Journal of American History *"A major contribution to the ever expanding historical literature of the modern African American freedom struggle. This book brings together outstanding examples of detailed and thoughtful studies of northern as well as southern local movements." -- Clayborne Carson,Professor of History and Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University"Brilliantly conveys the vibrancy and creativity of community-based movements that transformed America's racial and civic landscape in the decades following World War II." -- Patricia Sullivan,author of Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years"Required reading for anyone who wants to understand what the Civil Rights Movement actually was - a national movement conceived and executed by local people in cities and towns across this country. They are the people who made the movement that made Martin Luther King, Jr.not the other way around." -- Julian Bond,Professor of History, University of Virginia, American University, and Chairman of the NAACP"The essays in Groundwork assert individually and collectively that at the root of any national movement for change are local activists working from the bottom up to change their communities first, then the world. This excellent and invigorating collection is crucial reading in an election year." -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, and author of America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans"This work demonstrates again and again how local movements complicate the standard civil rights narrative of nonviolence, black power, busing, and the nature of leadership." -- Tracy E. KMeyer,Associate Professor US History, University of LouisvilleTable of ContentsForeword Introduction"They Told Us Our Kids Were Stupid": Ruth Batson & the Educational Movement in Boston "Drive Awhile for Freedom": Brooklyn CORE's Stall-In & Public Discourses on Protest Violence Message from the Grassroots: The Black Power Experiment in NewarkGloria Richardson & the Civil Rights Movement in CambridgeWe've Come a Long Way: Septima Clark, the Warings, & the Changing Civil Rights Movement Organizing for More Than the Vote: The Political Radicalization of Local People in Lowndes County "God's Appointed Savior": Charles Evers's Use of Local Movements for National Stature Local Women & the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi: Re-visioning Woman power Unlimited The Stirrings of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in Cincinnati"We Cannot Wait for Understanding to Come to Us": Community Activists Respond to Violence at Detroit's Northwestern High School"Not a Color, but an Attitude": Father James Groppi and Black Power Politics in Milwaukee Practical Internationalists: The Story of the Des Moines, Black Panther Party Inside the Panther Revolution: The Black Freedom Movement and the Black Panther Party in OaklandAbout the Contributors

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Book SynopsisExamines the surprising place and implications of the immigrant and of ethnic writing in American literatureTrade ReviewRough Writing is much more than a fascinating account of the little-known relationship between an American president and the immigrant authors whose work he promoted in the service of a new national narrative. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, Rough Writing enables us to see a vital period in American literature through new eyes. -- Laura Browder,author of Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American IdentitiesTaubenfeld[& s] literary-cultural studies add to the already compelling body of evidence that the development of literature, economics, and politics has been inextricably connected throughout U.S history. * American Literary History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Mendel's Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill and the Science of the Crucible 2. Two Flags to Love: Jacob Riis and the Transnational American at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3. Making American Homes and America Home: Theodore Roosevelt and Elizabeth Stern in the Pages of the Ladies' Home Journal 4. "Threatin' Him as a Akel": Finley Peter Dunne's Ethnic Critique of "True Americanism" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisFrom Rosa Parks and Esther Cooper Jackson, to Shirley Graham DuBois and Assata Shakur, a host of women demonstrated a lifelong commitment to radical change, embracing multiple roles to sustain the black freedom struggle in America, founding numerous groups and mentoring younger activists. This title profiles the stories of these women.Trade ReviewAs the editors and contributors of this volume convincingly insist, we must reconsider what we think we know of civil rights, black power activism, and post-World War II feminism . . . Expansive and inclusive are the terms that best describe this collection. -- Katherine Mellon Charron * Journal of American History *This book is an important intervention in the historiography of US Black movements, strongly asserting the centrality of women in a broad range of Black liberation struggles. -- Rachel Herzing * leftturn.org *By centering radical black women, Want to Start a Revolution? shatters the artificial boundaries separating civil rights, black power, and feminist ideologies and movements, generating an expanded history of black radicalism and conveying the centrality of African-American women to the black freedom struggle and social justice movements more broadly. This collection will undoubtedly inspire an outpouring of much-needed new scholarship, adding to our collective knowledge and offering new frameworks for grappling with this history. -- Emilye Crosby,author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, MississippiThis noteworthy collection returns women activists to their place at the center of American radicalism. In the spirit of the radical women it profiles, Want to Start a Revolution? promises to educate, invigorate, excite, and inspire. -- Anne M. Valk,author of Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.“Want to Start a Revolution? successfully meets its three goals of expanding the boundaries of black radicalism, shedding light on the labor women performed to sustain radical movements, and exploring the gender politics of black women activists (pp. 3-4). Collectively, the essays will provide activists, students, and academic specialists with powerful insights into post- World War II black feminist thought, and the lives of women who joined and guided movements to transform an oppressive society. This collection will also be useful to teachers aiming to introduce students to the politics of historical memory, and the recent distortions of civil rights discourse. We owe a debt of gratitude to the editors and contributors to this collection for reminding us that in the postwar struggle for revolutionary change, as now, women of color hold up more than half the sky. * H-Net Reviews *“A new work offers a lively picture of two dozen different women organizers and how their contributions define our present and, possibly, our future... is among one of the best and freshest writings on women and movement-building in some time. * Political Media Review *“In sum, this anthology will undoubtedly spark renewed interest in recovering the myriad of female activists whose stories have not yet been told... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard 1 "No Small Amount of Change Could Do" Erik S. McDuffie 2 What "the Cause" Needs Is a "Brainy and Energetic Woman" Prudence Cumberbatch 3 From Communist Politics to Black Power Dayo F. Gore 4 Shirley Graham Du Bois Gerald Horne and Margaret Stevens 5 "A Life History of Being Rebellious" Jeanne Theoharis 6 Framing the Panther Joy Jamesvi Contents 7 Revolutionary Women, Revolutionary Education Ericka Huggins and Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest 8 Must Revolution Be a Family Affair? Margo Natalie Crawford 9 Retraining the Heartworks James Smethurst 10 "Women's Liberation or ... Black Liberation, You're Fighting the Same Enemies" Sherie M. Randolph 11 To Make That Someday Come Joshua Guild 12 Denise Oliver and the Young Lords Party Johanna Fernandez 13 Grassroots Leadership and Afro-Asian Solidarities Diane C. Fujino 14 "We Do Whatever Becomes Necessary" Premilla Nadasen About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCollects the speeches, pamphlets, and articles that trace the development of black nationalism in the 20th century. This title provides a showcase of the work of more than fifty prominent thinkers including Louis Farrakhan, Elijah Muhammad, Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa, Amiri Baraka and Molefi Asante.

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Book SynopsisCaught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. This title provides insight into the many obstacles faced by battered immigrant women of colour, bringing their stories and voices to the fore.Trade Review"This book is a great resource for those interested in Women's and Gender Studies, Immigration Studies, Cultural Studies, Legal Studies, and Human Rights." -- Jenell Navarro * Women's Studies *"Villalón is able to provide a nuanced analysis of immigration law in such a manner that ordinary individuals...can easily understand the contradictions that are codified in the laws...it is the preseverance of the women chornicled in the book...that remains with the reader long after finishing the last page." -- Kristin Carbone-Lopez * Race and Justice *"[Villalón]'s book engages the reader with personal stories...[she] gives a well-written, detailed and sensitive account of how intersections of race, class, nationality and the bureaucratic complexities of the U.S. legal system affect the path to citizenship..." -- Laurie Paul * Feminism & Psychology *"By going beyond 'abstract notions of agency' and giving concrete examples that are placed within a historical and social context, the authors uncover the multidimensionality of women's agency and the role that the multiple patterns of oppression have in restraining it." -- Maria Isabel Ayala * Gender & Society *"Roberta Villalon's Violence Against Latina Immigrants tells a timely and compelling story illustrated by a refreshingly thorough application of ethnographic methods." -- Karen James Williams * Journal of Immigrant Minority Health *"A stunning documentation of the ways in which structural and cultural conditions in current immigration and Violence Against Women laws in the United States reinforce the hierarchies and intersections of race, class, and heterosexuality that impact on the lives of battered Latina immigrants." -- Natalie J. Sokoloff,author of Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender, and Culture"By locating the experiences of immigrant women and their advocates within a rich ethnographic study of state policies and organizational practices, Villalón paints a complex picture of the contradictions that contribute to the reproduction of inequality. This is activist scholarship at its best." -- Nancy A. Naples,author of Grassroots Warriors: Activist Mothering, Community Work and the War Against Poverty"This book has a lot to offer and can be read as an analysis of an organization, how its vision changed from the pursuit for social justice when they were a grass roots group to providing a social service as the organization became formalized and professionalized and in the process more cautious about social change.The book is also an important contribution to other fields, notably women and immigration and violence against women as well as sociological and citizenship studies." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Theoretical and Methodological Approach 2 Violence against Latina Immigrants and Immigration Law 3 Formal Barriers to Citizenship 4 Informal Barriers to Citizenship 5 Resisting Inequality 6 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThrough interviews with three generations of middle class Mexican American families, the author focuses on the family as a key site for racial and gender identity formation, knowledge transmission, and incorporation processes, exploring how the racial identities of Mexican Americans both change and persist generationally in families.Trade Review"Jessica M. Vasquez's Mexican Americans across Generations: Immigrant Families, Racial Realitiesis a thoroughly engaging consideration of the family histories of middle-class Mexican Americas in the United States." -- Ana Elizabeth Rosas * American Anthropologist *"This meticulously researched, well-written book, rich in ethnographic analysis, makes a significant contribution to immigration, race/ethnicity, and policy studie" -- D. A. Chekki * Choice *"This is a very important contribution to the burgeoning issue of how Mexicans will and have integrated into American society. The material is very rich and shows many complexities and barriers that stand in the way of assimilation." -- Edward Telles,co-author of Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race"Greatly advances our understanding of the integration process of the Mexican-origin group in the United States" * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I 2 Thinned Attachment: Heritage Is Slipping through our Fingers 3 Cultural Maintenance: A Pot of Beans on the Stove 4 Tortillas in the Shape of the United States: Marriage and the Families We ChoosePart II 5 Whiter Is Better: Discrimination in Everyday Life 6 Fit to Be Good Cooks and Good Mechanics: Racialization in Schools 7 As Much Hamburger as Taco: Third-Generation Mexican Americans 8 Conclusion: Racialization despite Assimilation Methodological Appendix: A Note on Sociological Reflexivity and "Situated Interviews" Appendix A: Respondent Demographic Information (Pseudonyms) Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisPatterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Okinawa, Australia, and New Zealand. In particular, the volume's editors ask: how have new global flows of ideas, goods, and people affected the lives and social placements of people of mixed descent? Thirteen original chapters address the ways mixed-race individuals defy, bolster, speak, and live racial categorization, paying attention to the ways that these experiences help us think through how we see and engage with social differences. The contributors also highlight how mixed-race people can sometimes be used as emblems of mulTrade ReviewGlobal Mixed Race is a comprehensive compilation of world mixed-race identities, histories, and issues. The editors have expertly prepared for comparison and intrinsic interest contemporary and timely discussions of mixed race as an increasingly recognized dimension of racial and ethnic diversity in the 21st century. From post-modern popular culture to academic race theory, this exciting, ground-breaking collection will be a standard resource and reference for general readers, multidisciplinary scholars, and specialists of race, ethnicity, culture, and mixed race. -- Naomi Zack,author of Race and Mixed RaceGlobal Mixed Race is a very welcome addition to the literature on race and mixedness. Its vibrant case studies, comparative frame and historical grounding offer a useful guide for understanding what contemporary concepts and experiences of 'mixed race' owe to global trends and local specificities. A must-read for anyone interested in racialization in its many forms. -- Kimberly Dacosta,author of Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color LineThis superb volume lays the groundwork for an emergent and exciting global comparative framework for understanding mixed race categories and identities. By decentering U.S. mixed race histories and experiences, these essays make us attentive to how notions such as nation and class, and processes such as colonization and migration, are fundamentally complicit in shaping the very definition and meaning of 'mixed race.' -- Michael Omi,co-author of Racial Formation in the United StatesMixtureracial, national, ethnicwhile not a new phenomenon is increasingly evident in todays globalized world. The authors of these 12 absorbing essays examine and discuss the status, identity, and life experiences of mixed-decent individuals and communities in different cultural and political environment. . . . This fine book makes valuable contributions to the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in a period of unprecedented global change.Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAn IntroductionPart I: Societies with Established Populations of Mixed Descent 1. Multiraciality and Census Classification in Global Perspective 2. "Rider of Two Horses": Eurafricans in Zambia Juliette Bridgette 3. "Split Me in Two": Gender, Identity, and "Race Mixing" in the Trinidad and Tobago Nation 4. In the Laboratory of Peoples' Friendship: Mixed People in Kazakhstan from the Soviet Era to the Present 5. Competing Narratives: Race and Multiraciality in the Brazilian Racial Order 6. Antipodean Mixed Race: Australia and New Zealand 7. Negotiating Identity Narratives among Mexico's Cosmic RacePart II: Places with Newer Populations of Mixed Descent 8. Multiraciality and Migration: Mixed-Race American Okinawans, 1945-1972 9. The Curious Career of the One-Drop Rule: Multiraciality and Membership in Germany Today 10. Capturing "Mixed Race" in the Decennial UK Censuses: Are Current Approaches Sustainable in the Age of Globalization and Superdiversity? 11. Exporting the Mixed-Race Nation: Mixed-Race Identities in the Canadian ContextA ConclusionBibliography About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the complex relationship between Filipinos and the US by looking at the politics of immigration, race, and citizenship on both sides of the Philippine-American. This book reveals how American practices of racial exclusion repeatedly collided with the imperatives of US overseas expansion.Trade ReviewThe Third Asiatic Invasion is a majorcontribution toward understanding the unstable status of Filipinos inAmerica during this period, and it sheds light on the similarities anddifferences between the earlier period of American empire and todaysglobalization. * Journal of World History *Across the diverse range of events and source materials of Rick Baldozs insightful, well-researched, and richly detailed sociological history of Filipino America that spans the formal colonial era between the United States and the Philippines, a telling motif emerges: test cases in anti-miscegenation law. * International Migration Review *This book on the political economy and politics of Filipino immigration to the United States is an excellent study of the paradoxes and contradictions of racialized citizenship. * American Sociological Association *The Third Asiatic Invasion is a major contribution toward understanding the unstable status of Filipinos in America during this period, and it sheds light on the similarities and differences between the earlier period of American empire and today's globalization. * Journal of World History *Baldoz has made a difficult period in the Filipino American saga understandable. -- M.P. Onorato * Choice *A scrupulously researched and compellingly argued work of historical sociology. Baldoz has an eye for the telling details that help to illuminate larger patterns of American empire, racial formation, and the politics of immigration. This elegant book makes a quantum leap by integrating Filipino and Filipino American scholarship and will surely become a classic in racial and ethnic studies. -- Evelyn Nakano Glenn,author of Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in AmericaRigorously argued and deeply documented, The Third Asiatic Invasion is an urgent and necessary book on how race and empire played out in the Filipino experience in America. Baldoz redefines how we should study race, moving beyond the banal assertion of race as a social construction to explain the continuous process of race and boundary making and remaking. Bravo! -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva,author of Racism Without RacistsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Racial Vectors of Empire: Classification and Competing Master Narratives in the Colonial Philippines Transpacific Traffic: Migration, Labor, and Settlement "It Is the Fight of This Nation against the Filipinos": Redrawing Boundaries of Race and Nation "Get Rid of All Filipinos or We'll Burn This Town Down": Racial Revanchism and the Contested Color Line in the Interwar West "To Guard the Doors of My People": Exclusion, Independence, and Repatriation "Another Mirage of Democracy": War, Nationality, and Asymmetrical Allegiance Epilogue Notes BibliographyIndex About the Author

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Book SynopsisIllustrates how despite the hyper-visibility of Latinos in recent political debates, the daily lives of America's new "majority minority" remain largely invisible and mischaracterizedTrade Review"The book would be awelcome addition to undergraduate social science class that aims to engage seriously with ethnicity, difference and cultural expression in contemporary America." -- Nina Martin * Urban Studies Journal Limited *"By complicating current representations of Latino/a lives and communities, this groundbreaking work provides a more global, transnational and fluid understanding of barrios both as physical spaces and as metaphors. A smart and engaging intervention on some of the most critical questions surrounding Latinos' citizenship, sexuality, activism and cultural politics." -- Arlene Davila,author of Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race"This interdisciplinary collection contests Latinos’ problematic hypervisibility by exploring their expressions of agency related to citizenship and nationalism, gender and sexuality, and community activism in multiple sites. The fascinating case studies illuminate how Latinas and Latinos of diverse origins negotiate complex local and transnational power relations." -- Patricia Zavella,University of California, Santa Cruz"An important set of academic articles by skillful scholars." * Centro Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Gina M. Perez, Frank A. Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, Jr.Part I Citizenship, Belonging, and (the Limits of) Latina/o Inclusion 1 Singing the "Star-Spanglish Banner" Maria Elena Cepeda 2 "!Puuurrrooo MEXICO!" Dolores Ines Casillas 3 Hayandose Lourdes Gutierrez Najera 4 Becoming Suspect in Usual Places Adrian Burgos, Jr., and Frank A. GuridyPart II Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Memory and Representation 5 Gay Latino Histories/Dying to Be Remembered Horacio N. Roque Ramirezviii | Contents 6 All About My (Absent) Mother Deborah Paredez 7 Making "The International City" Home Pablo Mitchell and Haley Pollack 8 Hispanic Values, Military Values Gina M. PerezPart III Latina/o Activisms and Histories 9 Going Public? Tampa Youth, Racial Schooling, and Public History in the Cuentos de mi Familia Project John McKiernan-Gonzalez 10 The Mission in Nicaragua: San Francisco Poets Go to War Cary Cordova 11 From the Near West Side to 18th Street: Un/Making Latino/a Barrios in Postwar Chicago Lilia Fernandez 12 Transglocal Barrio Politics Ana Aparicio About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisUsing first-person accounts, this book describes a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. The author places spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault.Trade ReviewWounds of the Spirit is a complex book about a complex and difficult topic. * Hypatia *

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Book SynopsisVoluntary associations have been a fixture of African-American communities. This book examines New York City over three centuries to show that enslaved Africans provided the institutional foundation upon which African-American religious, political, and social culture could flourish.Trade ReviewA beautifully researched, subtly argued exploration of the moral and intellectual life of New Yorks African American community in its first two hundred years. As Wilder shows how African societies provided a foundation for black religion, politics, and cultural institutions, he opens a new window on New York history. We hear the voice and aspirations of black New Yorkers as we have never heard them before. Written with verve, In the Company of Black Men repeatedly rewards its readers with fresh insights and provocative arguments that leaves one thinking long after it has been set aside. -- Elizabeth Blackmar,Columbia UniversityIn this groundbreaking and superbly written work Craig Wilder provides a gendered and richly textured discussion of the African origins of black political consciousness and moral traditions in the United States. Through a skillful comparative discussion of African associations in North America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Africa he demonstrates the connections between African systems of values and beliefs, masculinity and the black public sphere. This book is essential reading in African American history, Diaspora studies and American studies. -- Irma Watkins-Owens,author of Blood Relations: Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community 1900-1930Though stony the road they trod, a small band of men developed and passed on an ethos of mutuality and collectivism brought from Africa. America owes a great debt to those men, and scholars owe a great debt to Craig Wilder, who has combined vast research and keen intelligence to tell their story. Wilders work will force a new look at a familiar landscape. Imaginean African city at the base of the Hudson! -- Noel Ignatiev,author of How the Irish Became WhiteIn the historiography on blacks in the colonial and antebellum periods, Craig Steven Wilders In the Company of Black Men stands out as one of the finest works of scholarship in the last decade. * Journal of American Ethnic History *Wilder explores cultural expression with and through African societies in New York City. . . . He follows them from their origin, through their heyday, to their decline as capitalist culture overwhelmed the voluntary tradition * Book News *

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Book SynopsisA collection of the writings by one of the most influential African American theologians.Trade ReviewContains valuable information not easily available elsewhere. * Multicultural Review *The author illuminates our deep racism in very clear ways, including personal experiences. * Missiology Book Review *Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionPart 1 Teaching African American Religious Studies1. What Is African American Religious Studies? 2. Reinterpretation in Black Church History3. Black Religion: Strategies of Survival, Elevation, and Liberation 4. Womanist Thought as a Recovery of Liberation Theology 5. "Doing the Truth": Some Criteria for Researching African American Religious History Part 2 The Quest for an Africentric Cultural Identity6. What Is African American Christianity? 7. African Beginnings 8. The Black Messiah: Revising the Color Symbolism of Western Christology 9. Black Consciousness: Stumbling Block or Battering Ram? Part 3 Black Theology: History and Major Motifs10. What Is Black Theology? 11. Eschatology in Black 12. Black Power, Black People, and Theological Renewal 13. The Role of African America in the Rise of Third-World Theology: A Historical Reappraisal Part 4 Africentric Pastoral Ministry14. What Is the Relevance of Black Theology for Pastoral Ministry? 15. Black Christians, Church Unity, and One Common Expression of Apostolic Faith 16. Lessons from My Father's World: A Sermon 17. Struggling against Racism with Realism and Hope

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Book SynopsisFreedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. This book draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism.Trade ReviewExpands the contours of African American writing and identity through meticulous reconstruction of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century freedom suits. * American Quarterly *In addition to providing a strong sense of the focal cases, Wong evinces a rare willingness to consider the ways these cases were reappropriated in larger antebellum legal processes and print culture. Wongs wonderfully relentless interdisciplinarity pushes her repeatedly to analyze not simply events, but the language and rhetoric surrounding them. Her command of published sources is impressive: she deftly weaves together scholarship on law, legal history, literary criticism, political history, social history, gender theory, and ethnic studies, and she rightly insists that her subjects cannot be fully understood without recovering a richer range of voices and texts. Perhaps most importantly, Wongs book joins calls to reconsider generic definitions of slave narratives and race literature and so begins to embody the potential for broader senses of black texts and black history. * Journal of American History *A hidden face of abolitionism is revealed in Edlie L. Wong's, Fugitive nor Free, which examines freedom suits brought by black people or for them, mostly as a result of avisit to a free zone in which law was silent on slavery or in which law barred slavery. * Early American Literature *Neither Fugitive nor Free's interdiciplinary and transatlantic approach usefully draws from literary criticism, critical race theory, legal history, and gender studies to provide sophisticated and revealing insights into Anglo-American understandings of and narratives about freedom and slavery. -- Brian Schoen * Common-Place *An original, powerful interdisciplinary approach to the political and legal struggles against slavery in the antebellum period. Wong’s transatlantic focus on the travel of enslaved persons, as fugitives or nominally free, goes far beyond well known slave narratives and gets to the heart of the contradictions of slavery in a liberal republic. -- Amy Kaplan,author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. CultureTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Traveling Slaves and the Geopolitics of Freedom 1 1 Emancipation after "the Laws of Englishmen" 19 2 Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law 77 3 The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott 127 4 The Crime of Color in the Negro Seamen Acts 183 Conclusion: Fictions of Free Travel 240

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Book SynopsisExamines African Americans' testimonies about racial violenceTrade Review"In They Left Great Marks on Me, Kidada Williams gives us a breakthrough in the reading of sources that reframe African American accounts of violence between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the First World War. ... Kidada E. Williams has given us an insightful look into the everyday terror black southerners faced between emancipation and the First World War and how their retelling of that violence shaped movements to combat lynching, disfranchisement and extralegal & justice. Her study is important and suggests there is much more work to be done in recovering African American responses to post-emancipation white violence." * Journal of Social History *"Her work succeeds admirably, particularly in its demonstration that the best sources for historians to study racial violence come directly from the mouths of the African Americans who survived it." * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Williams has offered a fascinating new approach to the study of mob violence and provided a richer understanding of African American experiences under white supremacy." * Journal of American History *"In her important, beautifully written book, Kidada E. Williams powerfully intervenes in the academic narrative of lynching, recovering African American testimonies of white terror and what she calls the 'vernacular history' that blacks constructed with regard to white efforts tore-subjugate African Americans after Reconstruction...Williams's superlative interpretation of African American responses to racial violence should be read by all interested in the histories of American lynching and the African American experience." -- Michael J. Pfeifer * American Historical Review *"The author of this study brilliantly telegraphs the significance of her work in the title of the book and examines how the savage violence inflicted upon African American men, women, and children from the close of the Civil War to Woodrow Wilson's war to 'make the world a safe democracy' wounded their bodies, psyches, and communities...Williams lifts the curtain on this sinister and brutal stage of American history to reveal pain and loss and African Americans' steely determination to resist subjugation by whites and to demand full citizenship from the federal government." -- Allison Gloria Dorsey * Historian *"Williams analyzes one means by which African Americans resisted the brutalities of white violence from 1865 through the 1920s and the impact of this activity to support the subsequent successes of the post-WWII civil rights movements. Highly recommended." -- E.R. Crowther * CHOICE *"Kidada Williams's They Left Great Marks on Me is an impressive and important contribution to our understanding of African American life after the Civil War. Whereas most previous scholars utilized the records of the Freedmen's Bureau and other agencies to document the causes, characteristics, and extent of anti-black violence during the postebellum period, Williams focuses on the importance of the testimony itself, especially to the African Americans who were brave enough to provide such testimony in the hostile environment of the era. She convincingly argues that this act of testifying itself was one of the galvanizing forces for the movement that eventually produced a host of civil rights activists at the turn of the twentieth century. While lifting up the transformative power of public testimony, Ms. Williams also helps re-center the discussion of white-on-black violence in the late nineteenth century, which all too often focuses on the most spectacular form of violence during that period, lynching, to the detriment of the more common and arguably more important day-to-day violence suffered by African Americans. This is an important work that should be widely read by all those interested in late nineteenth century America and the origins of the civil rights movement of the 20th century." * William D. Carrigan, Rowan University, and author of The Making of a Lynching Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 "The Special Object of Hatred and Persecution": The Terror of Emancipation 2 "A Long Series of Oppression, Injustice, and Violence": The Purgatory of Sectional Reconciliation 3 "Lynched, Burned Alive, Jim-Crowed ... in My Country": Shaping Responses to the Descent to Hell 4 "If You Can, the Colored Needs Help": Reaching Out from Local Communities 5 "It Is Not for Us to Run Away from Violence": Fueling the NAACP's Antilynching Crusade Epilogue: Closer to the Promised Land Notes Works Cited Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politicsTrade ReviewYoung encourages readers to use her work to further develop the idea of the Frankenstein metaphor. She has given scholars of literature and metaphorical studies an excellent place to begin. -- Edward Dauterich * African American Review *A subtle, complex, and deeply read romp through the last two centuries of transatlantic literary and cultural history. Truly eye-opening and provocative. -- Eric Lott,University of VirginiaIn Black Frankenstein, Young tears apart and rearranges the monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized by design, as well as unconsciously, into a racial paradigm. -- Eric J. Sundquist,author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust AmericaYoungs & black Frankenstein monster becomes a powerful metaphor for negotiating the racial anxieties of modern America. As the author recounts, the figure appears in both racist and antiracist discourses, exhibiting the powerful mobility of the monster metaphor as well as its popular appeal. Young combines sharp analysis with her amazing research, noteworthy for its breadth and scope, to demonstrate the depths to which this image has penetrated American racial cultures. Whether she is examining novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar, filmmaker Mel Brooks, or comedian Dick Gregory, Young offers astute readings of the cultural text and its racial underpinnings. Building on recent work by Paul Gilroy, Teresa Goddu, Toni Morrison, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri, this book provides a compelling new vision of the monster we thought we knew so well. Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 United States of Frankenstein 2 Black Monsters, Dead Metaphors 3 The Signifying Monster 4 Souls on Ice Afterword Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisScot Brown presents a history of the US organization, a Black nationalist group that played a leading role in Black Power politics and culture during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Founded in 1965 by Maulana Karenga, US established alliances with activists, artists, and organizations to establish an African American cultural revolution.Trade Review"A detailed and sober account . . . Fighting for US is of enormous and permanent value." * Publishers Weekly *"Readers will find Brown's study a well-researched document on the key era of the 1960s and 1970s, and it will serve as a guide to other scholars as more students of the freedom era take up the challenge to study and explore this rich period in our nation's history." * American Studies *"Scot Browns Fighting for Us reveals a dimension of black cultural nationalism that, perhaps more than any other of recent decades, has been in need of sustained scholarly attention. A valuable study." -- Sterling Stuckey,author of Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America"The Us Organization practically defined black cultural nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, yet we know so little of its history and ideology. Thanks to Scot Brown's subtle and penetrating portrait of the movement and the man behind it, Maulana Karenga, we now have a more complete picture of the period. Fighting for Us will force us all to rethink our assumptions about black cultural nationalism and the Black Power era." -- Robin D. G. Kelley,author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination"What a fascinating tour through the theory and praxis of Black Power! I'm immensely grateful to Scot Brown for his fine analysis of the intellectual basis of the Us Organization as well as its actions in the 1960s and 1970s. Fighting for Us does more than situate Maulana Karenga in his various contexts. The book also explains the shifting collaborations and conflicts of the era's Black Power groups with remarkable clarity." -- Nell Irvin Painter,author of Sojourner Truth, A Life, A Symbol and Southern History Across the Color LineTable of ContentsForeword by Clayborne Carson Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 From Ron Everett to Maulana Karenga: The Intellectual and Political Bases for the US Organization 3 Memory and Internal Organizational Life 4 The Politics of Culture: The US Organization and the Quest for Black Unity 5 Sectarian Discourses and the Decline of US in the Era of Black Power 6 In the Face of Funk: US and the Arts of War 7 Kwanzaa and Afrocentricity Glossary of Kiswahili and Zulu Terms Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn this provocative book, Boyd suggests that hip hop culture has emerged as a social movement in its own right, replacing the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in influencing and defining today's generation.Trade Review"The New H.N.I.C. brilliantly observes pivotal moments in hip hop and black culture as a whole . . . and [provocatively] raises the level of the hip hop discussion." * Black Issues Book Review *"A convincing and entertaining case that hip-hop matters, Boyd's reading [of hip hop] is nothing less than inspired." -- Mother Jones"If you want to understand the direction of music today, read this book. Boyd expertly chronicles the birth of Hip Hop, its impact on all music and how the language and music defines a generation." -- Tom Freston,CEO, MTV Networks"Stand back! Todd Boyd brings the ruckus in this provocative look at how hip hop changed everything from the jailhouse to the White House;and why it truly became the voice of a new generation." -- Alan Light,Editor-in-Chief, Spin Magazine"Those who are hip have always known that Black music is about more than simply nodding your head, snapping your fingers, and patting your feet. Like the proverbial Dude, back on the block, Dr. Todd Boyd, in his groundbreaking book The New H.N.I.C., tells us that like the best of this oral tradition, hip hop is a philosophy and worldview rooted in history and at the same time firmly of the moment. Dr. Boyd's improvisational flow is on point like be bop Stacy Adams and The New H.N.I.C.,in both style and substance, breaks down how this monumental cultural shift has come to redefine the globe. With mad props and much love, Dr. Boyds The New H.N.I.C. is the voice of a generation and stands poised at the vanguard of our future." -- Quincy JonesTable of Contents1 No Time for Fake Niggas: Hip Hop, from Private to Public2 Brothas Gonna Work It Out: Hip Hop's Ongoing Search for the Real3 Can't Knock the Hustle: Hip Hop and the Cult of Playa Hatin'4 Head Nigga in Charge: Slick Willie, Slim Shady, and the Return of the "White Negro"

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Book SynopsisOffers multiethnic and multidisciplinary perspectives on the challenges confronting immigrants adapting to a new society. This work also includes essays that analyze contemporary issues facing Muslim newcomers in the wake of September 11, 2001.Trade Review"The complex, ambiguous connections among the immigration past and present are given masterful treatment in From Arrival to Incorporation, which presents a series of case studies that are essential reading for anyone who seeks guidance in the interpretation of present-day immigration and its consequences for American society. This volume gives multidimensional depth to the contemporary landscape of diversity." -- Richard Alba,co-author of Remaking the American Mainstream"Given recent anti-immigrant sentiments and evolving policies regarding todays immigrants, From Arrival to Incorporation is timely in its emphasis on the need to move beyond a binary vision of immigrant experiences." * PsycCRITIQUES *"It offers a mixture of theory, historical methods, quantitative approaches, ethnographies, and commentaries that allow readers to compare articles in useful ways and suggests their utility in multiple settings." * Journal of World History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Elliott R. Barkan, Hasia Diner, and Alan M. KrautPart I Thematic Approaches to Immigration and Incorporation1 America and RefugeesDavid W. Haines2 Migration, Immigration, and Naturalization in America Karen A. Woodrow-La?eld3 Immigrant Enclaves, Ethnic Goods, and the Adjustment Process Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller4 Asian Americans, Religion, and Race Paul SpickardPart II Case Studies5 "Meet Me at the Chat/Chaat Corner"Caroline B. Brettell6 Filipino Families in the Land of LincolnBarbara M. Posadas and Roland L. Guyotte7 Ethnic-Language Maintenance and Social Mobility Min Zhou and Xiyuan Li8 The Importance of Being ItalianTimothy J. MeagherPart III Contemporary Immigration and Incorporation9 The Immigrant as Threat to American SecurityGary Gerstle10 Post-9/11 Government Initiatives in Comparative and Historical Perspectives Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Anny Bakalian11 Immigrant "Transnationalism" and the Presence of the Past Roger WaldingerAbout the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA fine overview for those interested in the subject matter. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *The Wrong Complexion for Protectionis an intellectual version of a 'greatest hits' album, combining autobiography and research findings to give a picture of the authors' important contributions to the field of environmental justice, and a picture of what environmental justice has contributed to political science and other fields. -- Patrick S. Roberts * Political Science Quarterly *A fascinating insiders account from the frontlines of the struggle to get the government to act fairly in the face of environmental injustice, with vast implications for future disasters. -- Timmons Roberts,co-author of A Climate of InjusticeThe brutal realities of institutional racism in disaster readiness, response, and recovery are unveiled here in black and white, through compelling case studies, jaw-dropping statistics, and thoroughly documented sociological and historical data. -- David Naguib Pellow,co-author of The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America’s Eden

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Book SynopsisThis memoir celebrates the Sicilian life in America, while providing a sociological portrait of the immigrant experience in the US. The author reminisces about his experience as a fledgeling writer trying to escape from the restrictive Italian American culture in which he grew up.

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the African American members of the 1969-70 Syracuse University football team who petitioned for racial equality on their team. The book chronicles this contentious moment in Syracuse University’s history and tells the story through the eyes of the players who demanded change for themselves and for those who would follow them.Trade ReviewIn 1969 eight talented African American athletes risked their athletic scholarships and likely their NFL careers by demanding an end to institutional racism at Syracuse University. Dubbed the Syracuse Eight, they boycotted and petitioned for equal treatment as white players at the school and on the field. Their actions proved to be the game changer in the insular world of college football, and their stories are finally fully told in David Marc’s penetrating bio-history Leveling the Playing Field." - New York Journal of Books"Interviews with the Syracuse Eight about how this episode changed their lives is central to the retelling of this long-ago tumultuous period in Syracuse football history." - The Christian Science Monitor"In this engaging book, David Marc focuses new attention on an important but sometimes overlooked, episode in the history of college football and race relations." - Journal of Sport History"David Marc provides an account of individuals who did not accept the status quo and made personal sacrifices in support of social change" - AETHLON: The Journal of Sport Literature"Leveling the Playing Field is a lesson in the costs and rewards when individuals and small groups of people stand for dignity in the face of intransigent institutions and sometimes mean-spirited authority. The story of the Syracuse Eight would not have been complete without this book." - Douglas P. Biklen Dean Emeritus, School of Education, Syracuse University"In Leveling the Playing Field, David Marc takes us beyond the often cliche-filled lore of sports history as he artfully reconstructs a little-known but fascinating episode in the continuing struggle against racial discrimination in collegiate sports. Using a deft combination of investigative journalism and oral history, Marc tells the inspiring story of the "Syracuse Eight," a band of courageous young African Americans who in 1970 successfully challenged the longstanding racial inequities of a major college football program." - Raymond Arsenault, author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"This book is a must read. If there is only one book to read this year, this is it. It will enlighten the reader about the historical, unfolding saga essentially of the appalling experiences endured and the sacrifices made to create a better future on and off the field for African American athletes and others." - Joseph Cangemi, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Western Kentucky University

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Book SynopsisExamining Kurdish nationalism as a function of diverse political spaces, this book analyzes the formation of Kurdish national identity. In tracing the evolution of Kurdish nationalism, the author shows that, contrary to popular theories, there is nothing natural or fixed about Kurdish identity or the configuration that Kurdish nationalism assumes.Trade ReviewThis is the first comprehensive analysis of the development of Kurdayeti, or Kurdish identity and nationalism, across the 20th century, with some prognostications of further development during the first decades of the 21st century. . . . Essential. An important, sophisticated work that goes far beyond many lesser studies and will be read with benefit by all scholars and others interested in the Kurdish problem. The author is to be congratulated for her major contribution.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. It provides a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration driven by income differentials, social networks, and various state policies that recruit skilled and unskilled laborers.Trade ReviewThis book has great value, both for its scholarly contributions to research on the migratory dimensions of globalization and for its utility as a teaching tool. The essays of this book paint a picture of a shifting global landscape shaped by global capital, by ever growing social networks, the reaffirmation of the nation-state, and through contestation. In every essay, migrants have in some way transformed the host society, regardless of whether they settled long-term or moved on. This book’s scope is global, underscoring the interconnections among global cities and the flows among them as perhaps more primarily definitive of contemporary human mobilities than the jigsaw model of juxtaposed nation-states.

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Book SynopsisPresents a call to rethink binary categories of “religion” and “secularism” in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. This book juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir.

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Book SynopsisIn this book Dr Anis Obeid, a Druze layman, provides a penetrating analysis of Druze scriptures and beliefs (Tawhid). Presenting a chronological narrative of the foundation and development of the faith, he explains the historical conditions and religious rationale behind this closed religion.Trade ReviewObeid’s work will receive deep appreciation and high readership by the majority of Druze in the West and other immigrants of Middle Eastern origins." - Intisar Azzam, author of Change for Continuity"This book is above all a plea directed to all Druze, East and West, to take up the task of fundamental reform....The work’s eight chapters are accompanied by an excellent bibliography." - Choice

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