Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
University of Illinois Press Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the
Book SynopsisShattering the myth of the color-blind society, the essays in Skin Deep examine skin tone stratification in America, which affects relations not only among different races and ethnic groups but also among members of individual ethnicities. Written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on race and colorism, these essays ask whether skin tone differentiation is imposed upon communities of color from the outside or is an internally-driven process aided and abetted by community members themselves. They also question whether the stratification process is the same for African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. Skin Deep addresses such issues as the relationship between skin tone and self esteem, marital patterns, interracial relationships, socioeconomic attainment, and family racial identity and composition. The essays also grapple with emerging issues such as biracialism, color-blind racism, and 21st century notions of race.
£20.89
The University of Michigan Press State of War: The Violent Order of
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City Lights Books Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series
Book SynopsisStray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía's inaugural address, where he provides a brilliant and impassioned poetic account of San Francisco's Native and Latino literary history. What follows is a selection of Murguía's most recent work, composed over the past twelve years. These are poems of the twenty-first century, written in a combination of English and Spanishthe patois of contemporary America. Angry, rebellious, subversive, sentimental, hip, urban, local, global.Alejandro Murguía is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love, both winners of the American Book Award. He is San Francisco's first Latino Poet Laureate.Praise for Alejandro Murguía & Stray Poems:"In the city of poets, Murguía has become the activist voice of refugees and exiles--as so many of us are, even as natives--at the center of the Americas. Disguised by its sensuous intimacy, soothing and ennobling, his is a poetry that arms the resistance."--Dagoberto Gilb, author of The Magic of Blood"Poet, teacher, publisher, lover, literary guerrilla--Alejandro Murguía is a San Francisco treasure. And I'm not saying this because he knows where to find the best pozole. Although he does."--Jack Boulware, Litquake co-founder"The powerful stream of rich, diverse Spanish spoken in the United States by millions of Latinos from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean, has rushed into the huge river of the English tongue in such a way that a language and a literature have been born from those troubled waters, exploring multiple alternatives and choosing many paths. These Stray Poems from Alejandro Murguía speak with all those voices, crossing linguistic borders and really going out of the way to deviate from the standard path and let the multiracial and multicultural, all-embracing Latino beat flow into the heart of English."--Daisy Zamora, The Violent Foam"Murguía with a tango unleashed, a city on fire, a rendezvous of homage, manifesto, revenge and transcendence--he is alone, without a face, yet recognizable in every body that swims through the under-streets of the City, of Paris, of Havana, of bombed-out-Here's-and-There’s and the stripped down body of all of us. No stones are left unturned; hypnotic, alarming, 'melodramático,' rough-lovin’, unkempt, 'dangerous,' and ready to battle at the center of the scorched core. 'I didn’t cheat,' one poem admits. He is on trialfire-spitter and disassembler of cultural falsifications, in 'strange' and romantic moods, the poems scatter truth and aim and blow and burn and rise unto the flagless sky--'. . . a country of oceans and mountains.' Murguía gets there. Alone, because few embark on that voyage. An astonishing, brutal nakedness. Love, that is. No book like it. An unimaginable heart of and for the peoplea ground--breaking prize."--Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of California
£10.19
African American Images Raising Black Boys
Book SynopsisGeared towards African American parents, this handbook offers more than 100 tips on successfully guiding boys into manhood and helping them avoid common pitfalls. By understanding the detrimental impact that peer pressure, rap music, and television have on today’s youth, especially males, parents can learn how to effectively support their children.
£17.95
Regnery Publishing Inc The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of
Book SynopsisOne of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half century before Robert Putnam documented the atomization of society in Bowling Alone, Nisbet argued that the rise of the powerful modern state had eroded the sources of community—the family, the neighborhood, the church, the guild. Alienation and loneliness inevitably resulted. But as the traditional ties that bind fell away, the human impulse toward community led people to turn even more to the government itself, allowing statism—even totalitarianism—to flourish. ISI Books is proud to present this new edition of Nisbet’s magnum opus, featuring a brilliant introduction by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and three critical essays. Published at a time when our communal life has only grown weaker and when many Americans display cultish enthusiasm for a charismatic president, this new edition of The Quest for Community shows that Nisbet’s insights are as relevant today as ever.
£18.95
For Beginners Black Panthers for Beginners
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£12.34
For Beginners Chicano Movement for Beginners
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£11.99
For Beginners Toni Morrison for Beginners
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£11.39
Tin House Books The Coyote's Bicycle: The Untold Story of 7,000
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£15.26
Scribe US First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks
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£21.25
Delphinium Books Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman
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£12.99
Two Dollar Radio Crapalachia A Biography of a Place
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£12.71
John F Blair Publisher Carolina Clay
Book SynopsisThe compelling story of a talented potter, enslaved by the author''s ancestors, who became one of the singular artists of the nineteenth century.He signed many of his works simply as “Dave” and is known today as Potter David Drake. He made pots and storage jars—everyday items, but because of their beauty and massive size, and because Dave signed and inscribed many with poems, they are valuable works of art, now commanding six figures at auction. Many of Dave''s astounding jars are found now in America''s finest museums. There is no other enslaved artist on record who dared to put his name on his work, a dangerous advertisement of literacy. Fascinated by this man and by his own troubling family history, Leonard Todd moved from Manhattan to Edgefield, South Carolina, the place where his ancestors had established a thriving pottery industry in the early 1800s. Todd studied each of Dave''s poems for biographical clues, which he pieced together with local records and family letters to create this moving and dramatic chronicle of Dave''s life―a story of creative triumph in the midst of slavery.
£14.24
Atria Books Acts of Faith: 25th Anniversary Edition
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£17.09
Balboa Press Teaching in the Dark: A Memoir
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£16.10
HarperCollins I Am Nobodys Slave
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£23.19
Oxford University Press An Introduction to Global Health Delivery
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Global Health Delivery, Second Edition expands the scope of global health delivery to include Black Lives Matter, climate justice, and COVID-19 as part of its mission to address injustice, reduce global health disparities, and deliver health care as a human right.Trade ReviewThis book is excellent. It describes in a very clear, well-organized, and readable manner the causes of healthcare inequalities and what can be done to address them. Its message is equally applicable to underserved rural areas, reservations, and poor inner-city neighborhoods of the U.S. as it is to poor countries that bear the burden of colonialism. This edition's sections addressing the COVID-19 pandemic present a much-needed update. * Anna A Helm, BS, MPH, Multnomah County *An Introduction to Global Health Delivery [is] a highly readable, inspiring book that firmly places global health in the context of equity and human rights. * Madhukar Pai, Nature Microbiology *A must-read for both newcomers and established professionals in the field of global health. Mukherjee captures the essence of global health, presenting concrete examples of the stepping stones involved in transforming health in countries throughout the world. * Agnes Binagwaho, former Minister of Health, Rwanda *A comprehensive, essential resource linking theory, data, and implementation in ways that are novel and, most importantly, immediately useful for anyone working in global health. This book guides the reader through the evolution of the field, then into a much more pragmatic approach that holds at its center the moral conviction that all people in the world have a right to quality health care. * Jim Y. Kim, former President, World Bank Group *This book helps us understand why health systems in poor countries are weak and how to analyze health inequality from a social perspective integrated with biological concerns. The big challenge now is to improve the health of the world's poor based on what we know. Mukherjee radically recasts global health into a field centered on the systemic, long term, and high-quality public provision of care. Both the pursuit of sustainable development and the honoring of health as a human right will be greatly aided by her penetrating investigations and presentation. * Amartya Sen, Harvard University *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Immigrant Superpower
Book SynopsisAn insightful, persuasive, and honest defense of immigration as central to the United States'' economic power and national security.America was built by immigrants, yet there has long been strong political opposition to immigration. In recent years, the hostility toward immigration has reached a tipping point. While partisan fighting and confusion over basic policy dominate a broken conversation, we often overlook a fundamental American truth: immigration makes America great.In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has been a source of American strength and American exceptionalism since the nation''s founding. This book explores how immigration is essential to the military strength, economic power, and innovation of the United States. By combining stories of immigrants who have contributed to the American experience, including in the military and business, with analysis of immigration''s effects on wages and unemployment, Kane presents a clear defense of greater immigration as a matter of national security. The only way to win the great power competition of the twenty-first century is to embrace America''s identity as a nation of immigrants. As politicians in Washington continue to negotiate with no intention to reach an agreement, Kane exposes the immigration consensus hiding in plain sight. Using original, in-depth surveys of American attitudes toward immigration reform he maps out a step-by-step process to achieve reform. Straight-talking and full of common sense, The Immigrant Superpower stands in sharp contrast to the wholly dysfunctional debate about immigration in the United States.Trade ReviewA well-informed analysis of a perennial problem. * Kirkus *
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University of Chicago Press Blowin Up Rap Dreams in South Central
Book SynopsisDr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today there is a new generation of young, mostly black, men busting out rhymes and hoping to one day find themselves blowin' upgetting signed to a record label and becoming famous. Many of these aspiring rappers get their start in Leimart Park, home to the legendary hip hop open-mic workshop Project Blowed. In Blowin' Up, Jooyoung Lee takes us deep inside Project Blowed and the surrounding music industry, offering an unparalleled look at hip hop in the making. While most books on rap are written from the perspective of listeners and the market, Blowin' Up looks specifically at the creative side of rappers. As Lee shows, learning how to rap involves a great deal of discipline, and it takes practice to acquire the necessary skills to put on a good show. Along with Leewho is himself a pop-lockerwe watch as the rappers at Project Blowed learn the basics, from how to hold a microphone to how to control their breath amid all those words. And we meet rappers like E. Crimsin, Nocando, VerBS, and Flawliss as they freestyle and battle with each other. For the men at Project Blowed, hip hop offers a creative alternative to the gang lifestyle, substituting verbal competition for physical violence, and provides an outlet for setting goals and working toward them. Engagingly descriptive and chock-full of entertaining personalities and real-life vignettes, Blowin' Up not only delivers a behind-the-scenes view of the underground world of hip hop, but also makes a strong case for supporting the creative aspirations of young, urban, black men, who are often growing up in the shadow of gang violence and dead-end jobs.
£76.00
MH - Indiana University Press Stolen Childhood Second Edition
Book SynopsisSlavery's impact on children and familiesTrade ReviewKing provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents. * Booklist *Stolen Childhood is a wonderful book with manifold strengths of research and analysis. -- Nell Irvin PainterKing's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience. * Choice *[King] takes an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery. * Washington Post Book World *Wilma King has done a service in correcting a major problem in slave history. Her writing style gracefully conveys both the joys and the terrors of youth under slavery. * Southern Historian *Stolen Childhood mines the major American archives in order to present the ways in which enslaved men and women created a semblance of family life and cultural heritage. * Christian Science Monitor *Stolen Childhood is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the slave experience in the United States. * History of Education Quarterly *King's work is fresh and accessible. It fills key gaps in scholarship on slavery and would make for a worthwhile read for anyone from the casual reader of history to the scholar. * Tennessee Libraries *Drawing on extensive new scholarship and sources, [King] adds significant new demographic information regarding slave children and broadens her scope to include slave children born in the North and in urban centers. . . . Essential. * Choice *King has performed a valuable service to the historiographies of slavery and of children. It is important to be reminded that slaves were children before they became the men and women who form our more familiar images of slavery.Summer 1996 * Register Kentucky Historical Society *Wilma King's book is a welcome addition to the literature. . . The author compares the hardships of slave childhood with those created by war or siege.Fall 1996 * GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY *[Until] the appearance of this book, no monograph had focused exclusively on the many topics relating to the enslaved young.April 1997 * American Historical Review *[King's] cogent general picture offeres a valuable entree into the topic, and provides a sound frame of reference for the temporally or spacially more specific research that her study should generate.39.3 Fall 1998 * American Studies *Stolen Childhood provides a broad overview of slave childhood throughout the nineteenth-century South and moves beyond the Civil War years to demonstrate that the brutality directed against enslaved children did not end with emancipation.May 2000 * Journal of Southern History *[T]his is an ambitious book that not only pioneered the history of African-American child slavery, but also made a significant impact on the discourse addressing slavery in the USA more generally. . . a masterful work. * Slavery and Abolition *Stolen Childhood mines the major American archives in order to present the ways in which enslaved men and women created a semblance of family life and cultural heritage. * Christian Science Monitor *Stolen Childhood is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the slave experience in the United States. * History of Education Quarterly *King's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience. * Choice *Wilma King has done a service in correcting a major problem in slave history. Her writing style gracefully conveys both the joys and the terrors of youth under slavery. * Southern Historian *[King] takes an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery. * Washington Post Book World *Stolen Childhood is a wonderful book with manifold strengths of research and analysis. -- Nell Irvin PainterKing provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents. * Booklist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction 1. In the Beginning: The Transatlantic Trade in Children of African Descent2. "You know that I am one man that do love his children": Slave Children and Youth in the Family and Community 3. "Us ain't never idle": Slave Children and Youth in the World of Work 4. "When day is done": Play and Leisure Activities of Slave Children and Youth 5. "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave": The Temporal and Spiritual Education of Slave Children and Youth 6. "What has Ever Become of My Presus Little Girl": The Traumas and Tragedies of Slave Children and Youth 7. "Free at last": The Quest for Freedom by Slave Children and Youth 8. "There's a better day a-coming": The Transition from Slavery to Freedom for Children and Youth Notes Appendixes Bibliography Index
£21.59
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Studying Native America Problems and Prospects
Book SynopsisScholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.
£21.56
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Price of Racial Reconciliation
Book SynopsisPresents the conceptual difficulties involved in the project of racial reconciliation by a comparative analysis of South African Truth and Reconciliation and the demand for reparations in the United States.
£22.75
LUP - University of Michigan Press Collateral Damage
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation.Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. A Theory of Collateral Damage in Political Communication 3. Conditions Necessary for Collateral Damage 4. Trump Rhetorical Analysis 5. Rhetoric and Attitudes towards America 6. Rhetoric and Attitudes towards the Republican Party and Donald Trump 7. Disaggregating the Attitudes of Second-Generation Americans 8. Conclusion 9. Appendix 10. Index
£28.45
LUP - University of Michigan Press Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age A
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£16.95
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Congressional Black Caucus Minority Voting
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£24.65
The University of Michigan Press Marginal People in Deviant Places
Book SynopsisRevisits twentieth-century ethnographic studies of deviance, arguing that ethnographies that focus on marginal subcultures - ranging from Los Angeles hoboes to men who have sex with other men in St Louis bathrooms, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California - produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly.Trade Review“The book makes a compelling argument, tells a fascinating and multilayered story, and is beautifully written. The diverse subjects of the ethnographies will be of interest to specialists in a wide range of fields, including urban studies, the history and sociology of medicine, queer studies, sexuality studies, youth studies, and African American studies.” —Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. LouisTable of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Making Up Hobos: Nels Anderson and Other Tramp Tales Chapter 3: The Taxi-Dance Hall: Paul Cressey’s Ambivalence Chapter 4: Zora’s Florida: Ethnographic Explorations of Zora Neale Hurston Chapter 5: Asylum Stories Chapter 6: Tearoom Trade: Tales of Public Sex Chapter 7: District for Deviants: Sherri Cavan’s Hippies of the Haight Chapter 8: Conclusion Index
£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press Uncle Toms Cabins
Book SynopsisAs Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin travelled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey.Trade ReviewSweeping in its scope and imaginative in its approach, this collection challenges contemporary scholars to revisit one of the most influential works in the American canon and to recognize that mere national borders never have and never can curtail the flow of ideas and culture. The essays illuminate the ways that even seemingly innocuous adaptations or translations shaped the resonance of Uncle Tom's Cabin for audiences around the world. The study should be a model for how to approach the impact of translation and adaptation across time and in different cultural contexts." - Heather S. Nathans, Tufts University
£27.50
The University of Michigan Press Black Cultural Traffic
Book SynopsisBlack Cultural Traffic traces how blackness travels globally in performance, engaging the work of an international and interdisciplinary mix of scholars, critics, and practicing artists.Trade ReviewThe explosion of interest in black popular culture studies in the past fifteen years has left a significant need for a reader that reflects this new scholarly energy. Black Cultural Traffic answers that need. - Mark Anthony Neal, author of Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation
£31.30
LUP - University of Michigan Press AntiHeimat Cinema The Jewish Invention of the
Book SynopsisStudies an overlooked yet fundamental element of German popular culture in the twentieth century. In tracing Jewish filmmakers' contemplations of “Heimat” - a provincial German landscape associated with belonging and authenticity – this book analyses their distinctive contribution to the German identity discourse between 1918 and 1968.
£65.55
University of California Press Great Kingdoms of Africa
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£27.96
MP-MEL Melbourne University Seeking Justice in Cambodia Human Rights
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£29.96
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group American Oasis
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£19.65
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Conquest of Mexico 500 Years of Reinventions
Book SynopsisThe Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed.Trade Review“There is no doubt that this collection deserves attention from scholars across disciplines, geographies, and period specializations. On its own, or as a companion to Restall’s When Montezuma Met CortÉs, the work adds to numerous conversations. It seems like we are at a new historiographical turn, and, in many ways, The Conquest of Mexico embodies the excitement of what comes next.”—
£22.46
John Wiley & Sons Black Immigrant Literacies
Book SynopsisLearn how to centre, affirm, and develop Black immigrant literacies in ways that allow all youth to engage with and honor their literacies. This book presents a framework to revolutionize teaching in ways that draw on students’ assets for redesigning, rethinking, and reimagining literacy and the English Language Arts curriculum.Table of ContentsContents (Tentative)Foreword Dr. Shondel NeroAcknowledgments and Dedication1. INTRODUCTION The Framework for Black Immigrant LiteraciesAuthentic NarrativesA Call to Teachers, Educators, Schools, and PolicymakersEnvisioning Imaginary Futures with Black Immigrant LiteraciesOverview of the Chapters2. RE-ENVISIONING THE LITERACIES OF BLACK IMMIGRANT YOUTH A Brief History and Demographics of Black Immigrants in the United StatesIntersections Surrounding Black Immigrant Youth as a "New Model Minority"Languaging and Englishes of Black Immigrants: A Selective ReviewPeer interactions in the Black Immigrant Experience(Re)envisioning the Literacies of Black Immigrant YouthSummaryQuestions to Consider3. THE FRAMEWORK FOR BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES Elements of the Black Immigrant Literacies FrameworkIntersectional Lenses Undergirding "Black Immigrant Literacies"Applying the "Black Immigrant Literacies" FrameworkQuestions to Consider4. TEACHING CHLOE, A BLACK JAMAICAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: ENTANGLEMENTS OF ENGLISHES, RACE, AND MIGRATION Chloe's Authentic Narrative: Entanglements of Englishes, Race, and Migration: 'You'll Never Hear Her Speak, Like Broken'Questions to Consider5. TEACHING ERVIN, A BLACK BAHAMIAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: FOSTERING PEER INTERACTIONS Ervin's Authentic Narrative: Rac(e)ing Englishes as a Multilingual Migrant: "Talking Like I'm Ghetto"Insights From Ervin's Authentic Narrative"Black Enough" as a Way to BelongQuestions to Consider6. BRIDGING INVISIBLE BARRIERS WITH BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES: BUILDING SOLIDARITY AMONG SCHOOLS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITIES ParentsSchools and TeachersCommunitySummaryAPPENDIXREFERENCESAbout the Author
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Fashioning Lives
Book SynopsisExamines the literacy practices of Black LGBTQ people, developing - from sixty in-depth interviews conducted with individuals of various ages living across the United States - an analytical theory of “black queer literacies”.
£35.66
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Women in the Church of God in Christ Making a
Book SynopsisThe Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. This book examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's Department from its founding in 1911 through the mid-1960s.
£25.60
Rutgers University Press Recovering the Black Female Body
Book SynopsisRecovering the Black Female Body recognizes the pressing need to highlight through scholarship the vibrant energy of African American women's attempts to wrest control of the physical and symbolic construction of their bodies away from the distortions of others.Trade ReviewAlthough feminists have studied the social construction of the female body for many decades, few have focused on black women. In Recovering the Black Female Body, the editors present a pioneering collection of original writings by academics and artists on æhow African-American women, from slavery to the present, have represented their physical selves in opposition to the distorted vision of the dominant culture.Æ. * Publishers Weekly *A collection of essays that examine the complex workings of race, gender and the body. Editors Bennett and Dickerson explain that it seeks to æamplifyÆ African American women writersÆ attempts to ætake back their selves and reappropriate and reconstitute a body that has often been hyperoticized or exoticized and made a site of impropriety and crime.Æ. * WomenÆs Review of Books *By examining African American women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book not only makes a significant contribution to a body of scholarly work but also attempts to ærecoverÆ a more accurate representation of the African American female body. * DePauw Magazine *A highly original and very informative collection of essays that theorizes the complicated intersection of the black female body and its Western symbolic meanings. The collection is essential for anyone interested in the tensions between post-structuralist and humanist understandings of subject formation, social agency, and performative identity. -- Claudia Tate * Princeton University *Table of ContentsFrances Ellen Watkins sings the body electric / Michael Bennett "The deeds done in my body": black feminist theory, performance, and the truth about Adah Isaacs Menken / Daphne A. Brooks The flower of Black female sexuality in Pauline Hopkins's Winona / Dorri Rabung Beam Shopping to pass, passing to shop: bodily self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith Re-locating the Black female subject: the landscape of the body in the poems of Lucille Clifton / Ajuan Maria Mance Body language: the Black female body and the word in Suzan-Lori Park's The death of the last Black man in the whole entire world / Yvette Louis Detecting bodies: Barbara Neely's domestic sleuth and the trope of the (in)visible woman / Doris Witt Summoning somebody: the flesh made word in Toni Morrison's fiction / Vanessa D. Dickerson On being a fat black girl in a fat-hating culture / Margaret K. Bass Body and soul: identifying (with) the Black lesbian body in Cheryl Dunye's Watermelon woman / Mark Winokur Pumping iron with resistance: Carla Dunlap's Victorious body / Jacqueline E. Brady Wearing your race wrong: hair, drama, and a politics of representation for African American women at play on a battlefield / Noliwe Rooks (photographs by Bill Gaskins) Afterword: recovery missions: imaging the body ideals / Deborah E. McDowell
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida From SitIns to SNCC The Student Civil Rights
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the fiftieth anniversary of the historic sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter by four North Carolina A&T college students, From Sit-Ins to SNCC brings together the work of leading civil rights scholars to offer a new and groundbreaking perspective on student-oriented activism in the 1960s.Trade Review“Central to the collection’s theme is the idea that [SNCC] was diffuse with different visions, and not a hierarchy. The approach was local, and the results hinged on the locality. . . . Adds much to the discussion of the nonviolent resistance movement.” —Choice“Provides fresh and original insights into the student protest movement of the 1960s. A must for anyone interested in the history of the SNCC or the civil rights struggle.” —Kevern Verney, Edge Hill University
£16.96
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida To Render Invisible
Book SynopsisWhat defines a city’s public space? Who designates such areas, who determines their uses, and who gets to use them? Robert Cassanello uses nineteenth-century Jacksonville as both backdrop and springboard to explore social transformation in Florida and the South. This is the first book to focus on the emergence of African American public life in Jacksonville between Reconstruction and the 1920s.
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MW - Rutgers University Press White Guys on Campus Racism White Immunity and
Book SynopsisWhite Guys on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among white male students. It details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while continually engaging the possibility of White students to engage in anti-racism.Trade Review"White Guys on Campus examines narratives of White males in order to reveal 'ecologies of Whiteness' that permit (and even empower) racism to persist. With sound scholarship and well-supported claims, this book is a unique and important contribution to the field." -- Susan Iverson * coeditor of Reconstructing Policy Analysis in Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives *"There are and always have been lots of white guys on college campuses. This timely, important book helps us more deeply understand their racial identities, socialization, and attitudes. Cabrera masterfully complicates whiteness, illuminates white supremacy, and proposes ways to help white college men become less racist." -- Shaun R. Harper * Clifford and Betty Allen Professor, University of Southern California Rossier School of Education *"What Do ‘White Guys’ Think About Race? This Professor Is Trying to Find Out" by Chris Quintana interview with Nolan C. Cabrera * Chronicle of Higher Education *"From racial jokes to affirmative action, Nolan L. Cabrera analyzes the persistent white mindset that obscures systemic racism on our college campuses. Read this book if you want a truthful and evidence-based explanation about the effects of racist discourse." -- Zeus Leonardo * author of Race Frameworks: A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education *“Cultivating Public Scholarship and a Radical Ethic of Love as Faculty of Color" interview with Nolan L. Cabrera * Resilient Campus *"In this era of educational resegregation, Nolan Cabrera’s White Guys on Campus examines how whiteness blocks paths toward truth, justice, and reconciliation. A timely, provocative, even hopeful book.” -- Jeff Chang * author of We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race & Resegregation *"An Asian American woman’s tweets ignite a debate: Is it okay to make fun of white people online?" by Eli Rosenberg and Erin B. Logan * Washington Post *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," compiled by Ruth Hammond * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Nolan Cabrera: HEOC Alumnus Studies Race on College Campuses," by Mackie Lorkis * Ampersand *"Reinforcing Racism: Color-Blind Curricula in Higher Education by Dr. Nolan Cabrera" * Equity Alliance Blog *"Emerging Scholars 2019: An Interdisciplinary Scholar" * Diverse Issues in Higher Education *"Arizona Faculty Members Want Charges Against Border-Patrol Protesters Dropped," by Katherine Mangan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"A Life-Changing Course" podcast interview with Nolan L. Cabrera on Scholars Strategy Network * A Life-Changing Course podcast *Mention of White Guys on Campus in"Steller column: At UA forum, panelists feel campus activists' pain," by Tim Steller * Tucson.com *"It’s all Part of the Plan," by Nolan L. Cabrera * Contexts *"Debating Free Speech - The Buzz" interview with Nolan C. Cabrera * Arizona Public Media "The Buzz" *Latinx Intelligentsia podcast interview with Nolan L. Cabrera https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpswwwstichercompodcastlatinxintelligentsia/latinx-intelligentsia * Latinx Intelligentsia *"Episode 57 - Affirmative Action, the Model Minority Myth Right-Wing Divide-and-Conquer" interview with Nolan L. Cabrera https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/speakoutwithtimwise/episodes/2019-10-14T09_33_59-07_00 * Speak Out with Tim Wise *BAR Book Forum: Interview with Nolan Cabrera https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-nolan-cabreras-white-guys-campus * Black Agenda Report *"Overall, Cabrera’s book offers an important contribution to the literature. He blends existing terminology and scholarship...and masterfully weaves the why of racial attitudes of White men on campus; as the what—many of the narratives, ideals, and beliefs shared by participants—may be familiar to individuals who are seasoned in racial justice work or research in higher education or student affairs. Through concise and accessible writing with quotations from and references to Frederick Douglass, Hari Kondabolu, W. E. B. Du Bois, Geto Boys, and James Baldwin interspersed throughout, Cabrera is successful in his attempt to render the racial justice discourse more complete." * Journal of College Student Development *"Cabrera unpacks decades of critical whiteness studies and provides encyclopedic coverage of how white supremacy has mutated and morphed." * Education Review *"One of the main takeaways of White Guys on Campus is that white people need to be facilitating their own racial development and pushing their friends, families, and peers to do the same." * Education Review *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 The unbearable Whiteness of being: White male racial immunity in higher education 2 “Race just doesn’t matter that much”: White insulation, Occam’s Racial Razor, and willful racial ignorance 3 “The only discrimination left is that against White men”: The campus racial politics of “reverse racism” 4 “Why can’t Stevie Wonder read? Because he’s Black”: Whiteness and the social performance of racist joking 5 “I almost lost my spot to a less qualified minority”: Imagined v. Real affirmative action 6 “They’d never allow a White Student Union”: The Racial Politics of Campus Space and Racial Arrested Development 7 “Because it’s the right thing to do”: Racial awakening and (some) allyship development 8 Conclusion: White guys on campus, What is to be done? Appendix A Appendix B Acknowledgments References Index
£105.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Educated in Tyranny Slavery at Thomas Jeffersons
Book SynopsisMaurie McInnis, Louis Nelson, and a group of contributing authors tell the largely unknown story of slavery at the University of Virginia.
£24.65
University of Pennsylvania Press The Strangers Book
Book SynopsisThe Strangers Book explores how a constellation of nineteenth-century African American writers radically reframed the terms of humanism by redefining what it meant to be a stranger.Trade Review"[An] important and fresh contribution to the study of African American literature, rereading the works of the canonical Douglass and turning our attention to lesser-known African American francophone poetry . . . Pratt offers [a] compelling and forceful theory and method that no doubt will shape the work of literary scholars and have the power to influence theorizations of African American history." * American Literature *"Pratt's scholarship is timely. As #BlackLivesMatter informs us, the struggle for racial justice in America continues . . . The Strangers Book is about African Americans writing about their experiences of an America that does not permit them to be seen as human. Revealing a complex network of relationships and texts, it offers an innovative framework to understand and read early African American literature. That these writers are communicating through varied kinds of storytelling points to one similarity across difference and time; that the figure of the 'strange negro' persists in the stories of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, or Freddie Gray, points to another." * MELUS *"A lot of academic monographs are credited with offering a critique, but The Strangers Book is the rare book that really and profoundly assesses the limits of what is thinkable. Like black lives, black texts matter. But it rings hollow to claim that both things matters without also disaffirming the existing structures of power-and the categories of person and text that power has established-that create the need to say such things in the first place. Like the Black Lives Matter movement, The Strangers Book offers a utopian affirmation of difference couched in a language of refusal, where the particular matters more than the universal toward which it supposedly should add." * Public Books *"The alternative humanism claimed by former slaves yields many corrective lessons for the present. Lloyd Pratt transforms our understanding of that archive by inserting the figure of the stranger into the interpretative frame. Energized by a host of newly unearthed discoveries, his innovative, absorbing book initiates a novel and urgent enquiry: the entanglement of race with various kinds of xenology. Ambitious and learned, this book will reshape the field of U.S. literary history." * Paul Gilroy, King's College London *"Lloyd Pratt's work addresses and rearticulates, in an exquisite way, current discussions of the status of the human in antebellum African American literature." * Branka Arsić, Columbia University *"The Strangers Book provides a bracing and unexpected perspective on literary history. As Pratt's chapters unfold, the reader begins to see how early African American letters can be read as offering new critical possibilities for Western literature as a whole." * Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Print and the Human Chapter 1. The Making of Self-Evidence Chapter 2. Frederick Douglass's Stranger-With-Thee Chapter 3. Les Apôtres de la Littérature and Les Cenelles Chapter 4. The Abundant Black Past Chapter 5. How to Read a Strangers Book Epilogue. Stranger Literature Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£70.55
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Lifting Every Voice My Journey from Segregated
Book SynopsisBill Robertson was one of the US’s greatest pioneers and a tireless advocate for racial justice. One of his final acts was the completion of his memoirs. Lifting Every Voice reveals how the advances made during his lifetime were no foregone conclusion; without the passionate efforts of real people, our present could have been very different.
£23.36
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Kurds and the State Evolving National
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.
£23.36
University of Arizona Press Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother
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£28.46
LUP - University of Georgia Press Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration
Book SynopsisTraces the development and trajectory of the individual newspapers of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate, evaluating those with surviving issues, and presenting them as they existed in proximity to their Atlanta hub. In so doing, he emphasizes the thread of practical radicalism that ran through Syndicate editorial policy.
£46.10
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Druze and their Faith in Tawhid
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
£22.46
LUP - University of Georgia Press A Man Called White The Autobiography of Walter
Book SynopsisThe autobiography of the Civil Rights activist, Walter White, during his 30 years of service to the National Association of Service for the Advancement of Colored People. Although African American, White's blue eyes and fair skin enabled him to cross the colour line and gather vital information.
£28.95
