Racism and racial discrimination Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Best Book Award, American Political Science Association""Undesirable Immigrants provides novel evidence of structural inequalities and racism in the international migration system, and engages in important discussions about its origins and transformations."---Jehonathan Ben, Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Book SynopsisAn intriguing analysis of the diverse problems facing Europe's gypsy populations, including the largely unacknowledged legacy of the Roma Holocaust.Trade Review'This book has appeal which can attract a wide span of readership from the academic to those simply motivated towards the Romani cause' -- Anthropology in Action'Pogany states that the aim of his book is to highlight the difficulties facing the Roma, and he has done so very well' -- The News LineTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Hairy Thing that Bites, or why Gypsies shun Gadje 2. The Devouring 3. Maybe Tomorrow there Won't even be Bread 4. The Czardas 5. Nomads 6. Aniko 7. The Lambada 8. The Roma Cafe Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the purpose of the West Bank Wall?Trade Review'Offers insightful analysis of the political genesis and significance of the route Israeli planners staked out, with a particular focus on Jerusalem' -- Journal of Palestine Studies'A top pick for any college-level Middle East collection' -- Internet Bookwatch'A great injustice is being perpetrated on the Palestinian people through the instrument of the Wall. Ray Dolphin's book is a timely account of this injustice' -- John Dugard, Professor of International Law, University of Leiden; Special Rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory'This valuable book gives a unique close-up on the deteriorating everyday life of Palestinians whose education, health, and livelihoods have been so dramatically affected by Israel's building of the illegal Wall' -- Victoria Brittain, journalist and former Associate Foreign Editor of the GuardianTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Wall and Route 2. ‘The Land Without the People’: The Impact of the Wall 3. Enveloping Jerusalem 4. The Wall and the International Community 5. Activism and Advocacy Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMoves beyond the limited framing of the 'War on Terror' which has dominated recent debates, offering a new perspective on the study of Islamophobia.Trade Review'A new framework of political and social theory which will facilitate the interrogation of Islamophobia, drawing on complex, multi-level analysis that makes a major contribution' -- Ian Law, Professor of Racism and Ethnicity Studies at the University of Leeds and author of Racism and Ethnicity: Global Debates, Dilemmas, Directions (2010).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Prologue 1. Framing Islamophobia 2. Now you see me: fantasy and misrecognition 3. Once more, with feeling: Islamophobia and racial politics 4. Post-politics and Islamophobia 5. Democrat, Moderate, Other 6. Islamophobia beyond the war on terror 7. Questions, questions, questions: reframing Islamophobia Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how 'Britishness' functions as a tool of violent racial borderingTrade Review'Nadya Ali’s book shows how the very idea of Britishness brings with it a racial hierarchy of belonging. Tracing the connections between various policy areas normally discussed in isolation – the hostile environment, Prevent, and citizenship deprivation – the book is a devastating account of how British life is shaped by colonialisms, old and new.' -- Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming!' (Verso Books, 2014)'A groundbreaking book detailing how counterterrorism and immigration policy intersect to pressure Muslims and communities of colour to change their behaviour or risk being labelled 'extremists’ and ‘terrorists’. The book not only contributes to awareness of the ideologies and mechanics of racialised state violence but will provide students, scholars, and communities with the tools to challenge and resist state violence in multiple ways. A must read.' -- Dr. Rizwaan Sabir, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University and author of 'The Suspect' (Pluto Press, 2022)'How is it that in a society that eschews racism as a toxic remnant of the past, and that adopts explicitly non-racial policies, people of colour and Muslims especially are repeatedly rejected as belonging to Britain? In this sharp analysis of the intersection between counter terrorism and immigration, Nadya Ali shows how any answer must incorporate the structuring role of our colonial past.' -- Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex'In a moment when Britain seems to be in self-inflicted freefall, this work reminds us of the violence and cruelty involved in the demarcation of Britishness. Ali helps us to trace the connections between strands of state violence in order to persuade us that our only hope is an anti-racism that pushes back against all of these interlinked dehumanisations.' -- Gargi Bhattacharyya, author of 'Dangerous Brown Men' and co-author of 'Empire's Endgame''An excellent contribution to our understanding of the politics around who counts as sufficiently 'British', revealing a sustained and steadily tightening constriction of Muslim communities.' -- 'Renewal'Table of ContentsIntroduction: Undeserving citizens 1. The invitation 2. Domesticating Muslims 3. Conditional citizenship 4. The hostile environment 5. Hierarchies of citizenship in white Britain Concluding thoughts: The diminishing wages of whiteness

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Book SynopsisAs racism persists across the world, we need to understand the role of education in sustaining white supremacyTrade Review'A defiant corrective to the attempts to deny the existence of systemic racism. Refusing the lure of easy 'solutions', this book argues that education has an ongoing responsibility to open up spaces for grappling with racial injustice and imagining futures freed from racial domination' -- Professor Paul Warmington, author of 'Black British Intellectuals and Education'‘A much-needed analysis of education for teachers, policy makers and activists interested in racial justice, serving as an important reminder that all schools within the colony operate on the sovereign land of Indigenous People. Readers are challenged to confront the colonial foundations of schooling’ -- Hayley McQuire, co-founder and CEO of National Indigenous Youth Education Coalition, Australia'Fresh and bold [...] Decisively structural in their analysis, resolutely critical in their orientation, and radical in their hopes, the authors stoke our anti-racist imagination about the possibilities of a world after whiteness' -- Zeus Leonardo, Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley and author of ‘Race, Whiteness and Education’'Theoretically astute, […] providing the reader with the coordinates to make sense of the ongoing creation of whiteness, its reactions to perceived threat, and how education is a crucial extension of the state in settler colonial structures. Through rich examples, we are offered both a comprehensive and accessible guide to confronting the desires of whiteness' -- Leigh Patel, Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of 'No Study Without Struggle''Highly impressive. The question of how racism associated with white privilege is learned is of vital importance. This book provides an insightful analysis of this difficult question in ways that are not only theoretically astute and accessible but also pedagogically helpful' -- Fazal Rizvi, Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of 'Globalization and Education''Opens important and troubling questions. Highlighting Indigenous scholarship, the authors trace how the education systems created in settler-colonial history have actually sustained white privilege. To change this is no small task; it requires a deep re-thinking of institutions, ideas and practices' -- Raewyn Connell, Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney and author of 'Southern Theory''Provides rich conceptual resources for critically comprehending how education is shaped by colonizing societies, imagining an education that enables reparative rather than racially dominant futures' -- David Theo Goldberg, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine and author of 'The Racial State''While many works argue that whiteness is constructed, very few go into the actual process of construction. This book does, taking us to the educational construction site where the white mind-body assemblage is fashioned' -- Ghassan Hage, Professor at the The University of Melbourne and author of 'White Nation''A compelling, incisive and authoritative analysis, exposing the oppressive contours of whiteness which is all the more essential in an era marked by the heightened surveillance and attempted eradication of racial justice pedagogies' -- Nicola Rollock, Professor of Social Policy & Race at King's College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements PART I WHITENESS: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURES 1. Educating the Settler Colony 2. Whiteness and the Pedagogies of the State PART II LEARNING WHITENESS 3. Materialities 4. Knowledges 5. Feelings PART III OPENINGS 6. Educational Reckonings Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe follow-up to Peter Fryer's modern classic, Staying PowerTrade Review'Fantastic … the most important book on Black British history’ -- Akala, author of 'Natives' (Two Reads, 2018)'As this sequel to Staying Power demonstrates so succinctly, there is no separate entity called 'black history’, just versions and perspectives that have been air-brushed out of the official narrative. Britain's history is littered with gaping holes - hidden histories and her-stories that have yet to be told or unearthed. In drawing our attention to the experience of countless subjugated people who were deemed part of its sprawling empire, Peter Fryer has shown, once again, that he has earned his credentials' -- Stella Dadzie, co-author of 'The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain' (Virago, 1985), and winner of the the Martin Luther King Award for Literature'An inspiring account of brutal repression and resistance ... Fryer throws the darker side of the empire into graphic relief' -- New Statesman'An important contribution to the struggle against racism' -- Race & Class'A stimulating book which raises important and often uncomfortable questions' -- International AffairsTable of ContentsForeword by Stella Dadzie Preface Introduction Part I: How Britain Became ‘Great Britain’ 1. Britain and its Empire 2. The Triangular Trade 3. India Plunder De-industrialization 4. The Caribbean from 1834 The Abolition of Slavery Indentured Labour Apprenticeship Britain’s ‘Tropical Farms’ 5. Africa (Other Than Southern Africa) 6. Territories of White Settlement Tasmania Australia New Zealand Southern Africa Indentured Labour 7. Profits of Empire 8. How Black People were Ruled 9. The Empire and the British Working Class Part II: Racism 10. The Concept of ‘Race’ 11. Racism and Slavery 12. Racism and Empire 13. The Reproduction of Racism Historiography Children’s Books Part III: Resistance 14. The Struggle against Slavery 15. The Caribbean after Emancipation 16. India Conclusion Notes and References Suggestions for Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThe State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safetyTrade Review'In this robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism, Francoise Vergès elucidates why a structural approach to violence is needed. If we wish to understand how racial capitalism is linked to the proliferation of intimate and state violence directed at women and gender-nonconforming people, we need to look no further than Vergès' timely analysis' -- Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz'A powerful and uncompromising text … A stunning reflection on the recurrence of assault – gender-based, sexual, racial violence' -- 'Terrafemina''An important and courageous book, which raises difficult questions and uncovers invisible structures of domination' -- 'Trou Noir''Vergès's incandescent writing casts a light on the global inequalities, brutal carceral systems, unfettered militarisation and punitive ideologies that shape violent intimacies' -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London'A call to join in the urgent decolonial feminist work of rethinking the practices of (so-called) protection outside of the logics of violence. We have the ability, Vergès insists, to enact a post violent society, to bring another world into being' -- Christina Sharpe, Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University, Toronto and author of 'In the Wake: On Blackness and Being''A road map of radical emancipatory imaginaries for shaping urgent social and political change. Vergès' arguments rise from the ground up, from the lived experience of grassroots dissent, action and mobilisation against the wounds and damages inflicted by extractive capitalism across the world' -- Rasha Salti, curator of art and film'Françoise Vergès asks a simple question: what actually is the politics of protection? What she reveals is a paradigm spinning analysis. Once she establishes the perspective of people without power, the 'protection' offered by the state and the meta-state of global capital, is exposed as a killing machine of enforcement and endless punishment. A door opening work' -- Sarah Schulman, author of 'The Gentrification of the Mind' and 'Let the Records Show: A Political History of ACT UP'‘Vergès’ book avoids both the trap of disavowing the feminist project entirely while refusing to ally herself with the destructive, ongoing elite capture of feminist politics ... the book performs a necessary cataloging function and offers an international perspective for English-language readers tempted toward American chauvinism in the fight against global racial capitalism’ -- ‘The New Inquiry’Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Neoliberal Violence 2. Race, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Women's Protection 3. Punitive Feminism, an Impasse Conclusion - For a Decolonial Feminist Politics Notes

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Book SynopsisA revolutionary classic written by a living legend of Black LiberationTrade Review'A powerful – even startling – monograph that challenges many of the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism, the received wisdom of Black Marxist thought, and the pieties of liberalism, white, Black or otherwise. It is also stunningly prescient. Its analysis and critiques of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so' -- Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda ReportTable of ContentsForeword by William C. Anderson Catalyst by Joy James Introduction 1. Anarchism Defined: A Tutorial on Anarchist Theory and Practice 2. Capitalism and Racism: An Analysis of White Supremacy and the Oppression of Peoples of Color 3. Anarchism and the Black Revolution 4. Pan-Africanism or Intercommunalism? Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin Index

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Book SynopsisA sweeping, magisterial work of abolitionist feminist political theoryTrade Review'In Become Ungovernable, H.L.T. Quan offers us possibilities for rescuing the concept of democracy from its fatal entanglement with racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism. This phenomenal text urges us to seek radical democratic futures, not in more equitable modes of governance, but rather in revolutionary community-making practices - especially those emanating from anti-racist and abolition feminist traditions.' -- Angela Y. Davis'Quite simply a brilliant, original, and capacious work of political theory anchored in an erudite analysis of core concepts like representative democracy, democratic elitism, authoritarianism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, justice, and governance. A compelling and inspiring book that belongs in our movements and our classrooms.' -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of 'Feminism Without Borders, Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity''An elegantly written masterpiece that covers a breathtaking amount of intellectual, political, and geographic territory: from the pre-Civil War American South to rebellions in northern China to the Zapatista experiment in Chiapas, Mexico. Building on a vast body of feminist, Black radical, and abolitionist literature, H.L.T. Quan calls for a feminist ethic of care as a guiding principle for the future, rejecting state-centered solutions as non-solutions to our collective longing for freedom and free spaces.' -- Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, longtime activist, author of 'Making All Black Lives Matter''A masterpiece expression of H.L.T. Quan's lifework. Reflecting analytical, theoretical, and creative insights cultivated through 25+ years as a documentary filmmaker and several decades as one of the most careful, uncompromising, thoughtful critical caretakers of the living Black radical archive conceptualized by the late, great Cedric Robinson, this book is a gift to all who are serious about the conjoined tasks of abolition and liberation.' -- Dylan Rodrguez, University of California at Riverside, founding member of Critical Resistance and Cops Off Campus'An unruly book. Leaping across broad swaths of time and space, H.L.T. Quan exposes the prison house of liberal antidemocracy and the accumulation of rebellions inside in order to construct a theory of democracy as radical praxis. "Democratic living," as she calls it, refuses the tyranny of order, embraces the unruliness of collective struggle, and recognizes freedom not as a destination but practicean abolitionist, feminist, anticapitalist, antiracist, radically inclusive practice. In other words, to preserve life and break liberalism's hold, we have to make a living. Quan shows us a way.' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Antidemocracy in America 1. Against Tyranny: An Introduction 2. The Myth of White Autarky 3. Democratic Thought and the Unthinkable 4. Love of Freedom: Jeffersonian Antidemocracy and the Politics of Governing 5. The Empty Sounds of Liberty Part II: Life Beyond Governing 6. From Home Politicus to Robo Sapiens: An Interlude 7. iLife and Death: The New/Old Capitalist Algorithm 8. Governments Reform, People Revolt 9. Speculative Justice and the Politics of Mutuality 10. Toward a Democratic Ethic of Living

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Book SynopsisA GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD AND COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF THE YEAR''A jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book'' Sunday Times''A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family, secrets, lies and ultimately betrayal, by a very gifted storyteller'' GuardianGeorgina Lawton was born to two white parents. Despite her brown skin, her racial identity was never spoken of in her childhood home. The truth only began to emerge when her beloved father died. Fleeing the shattered pieces of her family life, Georgina went in search of answers - a search that took her around the world, to the DNA testing industry and to talk to others whose identities had been questioned or erased.How do you come to terms with a family history tangled in deceit? And how do you define yourself after a childhood that denied a crucial part of your identity?Trade ReviewA jaw-dropping story, told deftly . . . a gripping, thought-provoking book * The Times *A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family, secrets, lies and ultimately betrayal, by a very gifted storyteller -- Gary Younge * Guardian *An extraordinary debut * Daily Mirror *Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growing up mixed race . . . and she writes beautifully about questions of identity and belonging, so central to each of us in finding our particular place in the world * New York Times *Georgina Lawton's Raceless is an absolutely riveting read, not just as a poignant and eye opening memoir but as a nuanced and crucial dissection of race as a construct. She writes so movingly and powerfully about her experiences - I have no doubt this will be one of the books of this year -- Yomi Adegoke * co-author of Slay in Your Lane *A beautifully written account of an extraordinary story, Raceless is as eye-opening as it is profound -- Otegha Uwagba * author of Little Black Book *Lawton builds a strong story around her attainment of emotional balance and her quest for identity and belonging. At turns revelatory and profound, this memoir sings * Publishers Weekly *Compelling * Cosmopolitan *This is a compelling, incisive and important memoir; both intimate and political -- Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller *Fascinating * i *Heart-rending and poignant . . . Georgina's story is painfully illuminating but a triumphant journey of self-discovery -- Florence Olajide * author of Coconut *This book is a masterpiece; functioning both as a beautifully-written memoir and sensitive, highly-researched text unpacking the realities of race as a social construct and as a powerful influence on the lives of black people. It is an invaluable read for any person with an interest in race issues in the UK, but especially black and black mixed race people, who so often haven't been given the space to tell their stories. Georgina Lawton is a true talent and while some parts of her story are mired in pain, upon finishing Raceless you'll only be left with optimism for her future as a writer, thinker and commentator -- Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, Editor-in-Chief * gal-dem magazine *A beautiful heart-expanding memoir, a truly unforgettable reading experience that will stay with me for a long time -- Emma Gannon * author of Olive *An incredibly moving and honest account of self discovery. I found myself weeping at the ways Georgina described grieving for a parent on top of navigating the realisation that her origin story was vastly different from the story she had been told. It isn't often that you come across a story like hers and with every page it felt as though she was letting us in a little bit deeper. What a stunning debut! -- Liv Little * gal-dem founder *Georgina is such a passionate, engaging writer, and I think Raceless is going to be absolutely huge -- Jenny Colgan * author of Sunrise by the Sea *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for S O S: Poems 1961-2013 A New York Times Editors' Choice "The most complete representation of over a half-century of revolutionary and breathtaking work." --Claudia Rankine, New York Times Book Review "S O S provides readers with rich, vital views of the African American experience and of Baraka's own evolution as a poet-activist... Baraka is as adept with spare, imagistic lines as with lyrical realism. Racist, provincial ideas earn his angry unmasking as he sings, shouts and shakes a fist at corruption and ignorance." --Washington Post "A big handsome book of Amiri Baraka's poetry [that gives] us word magic, wit, wild thoughts, discomfort, and pleasure." --William J. Harris, Boston Review "Amiri Baraka's S O S sparks a living flame. Bodacious and tenacious, he remains a realist rooted sometimes in the political, sometimes in the avant-garde. His voice is made in America; his poetry is an action. Baraka's poems live on and off the page and demand that we feel language as music and meaning. This poet and his work are always slipping the yoke, determined to be free--yes, aesthetic freedom lives within S O S. The collection wails out from recent history through a masterful signifier whose fierce certainty holds grace notes with a backbeat." --Yusef Komunyakaa "[S O S is] a signal of blunt urgency ... this is undeniably the work of the kind of poet we will not see again; Amiri Baraka was one of the last of the 20th century's literary lions. This momentous collection exhibits his abiding resistance to almost everything, but subversiveness." --Terrance Hayes, Publishers Weekly (boxed review) "One of those rarest of things: poetry that combines a rigorous intellect, high-voltage aesthetics, and a revolutionary's need to confront his subject... Those who believe, as Baraka did, that art could surpass simple beauty and act as a force for social change will cherish this remarkable volume... Highly recommended." --Library Journal (starred review) "In a climate of renewed outrage over injustice, the voice of the recently departed Amiri Baraka is more relevant than ever, his volatile lyric poems ringing as true today as they did fifty years ago. A career retrospective that captures not just a man, but a movement." --Barnes & Noble Review "What's best about Baraka's verse is that his historical sensibility and sense of historical dread bump elbows with anarchic comedy... S O S is the best overall selection we have thus far of Baraka's work." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "These poems cover the ebbs and flows of the modern African-American struggle for freedom and identity ... There may be no better time than now to experience the lyrical, funny, dynamic, and provocative poetry of Amiri Baraka ... S O S is the perfect place to hear the voice that influenced, if not defined, decades of black political struggle when few were listening--and even fewer were doing anything. Baraka did something. Man, he did plenty." --Shelf Awareness "Throughout his writing life, [Baraka] crafted some of the most potent, thoughtful, and even sublime lines of any poet of his generation and beyond." --Gawker

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Book SynopsisFor scholarly and lay readers who are looking for a theoretically powerful, historically grounded, richly textured analysis of U.S. racial dynamics, with a special focus on how people of Asian descent have been positioned relative to whites and Black people for nearly two centuries.Trade Review'Claire Kim's Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World is yet another critically important work from a leading theoretician of racial politics within the U.S. An acute observer of the complicated racial dynamics of the twenty-first century U.S., Kim centers anti-blackness as critical for understanding the complex racial dynamics that continue be central to shaping U.S. society and politics.' Michael Dawson, The University of Chicago'Sure to elicit controversy and debate, Kim offers a stunning and provocative account of the racial positioning of Asian Americans in a pervasively anti-Black social order. In a work of enormous breadth, she challenges prevailing narratives and paradigms of Asian American history and politics by illustrating how Asian Americans have benefitted from anti-Blackness. Grasping the functionality of 'better than Black' for white supremacy becomes essential to imagining how anti-Asian racism might be framed and contested.' Michael Omi, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Better Asians Than Blacks; Part I. Exclusion/Belonging; Part II. Ostracism/Initiation; Part III. Solidarity/Disavowal; Coda: Asian Americans and Anti-Blackness.

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Book SynopsisExploring the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare illustrates in characters like Hamlet, Antony and the Macbeths figures who are never quite 'white enough' this urgent, compelling work shows how such racial categorisation begets anti-Blackness and sustains white supremacy. An essential contribution to Shakespeare and critical race studies.Trade Review'Brown's much needed study powerfully and persuasively demonstrates how the policing of whiteness within Shakespeare's plays recruits and reproduces antiblackness at the heart of early modern English culture.' Patricia Akhimie, Director, Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library'Premodern critical race studies is the most significant call to action for all Shakespeareans right now. David Sterling Brown's intervention is timely, unflinching, and provocative. It advances the field by bringing forward the figure of the white other, and draws together critical, personal and experiential modes of reading.' Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford'Shakespeare's White Others is stunning in its readings of plays from Macbeth to The Comedy of Errors with respect to the 'intraracial color line' and in the connections it makes to the deadly serious issue of racism. After Brown's book, no analysis of any of Shakespeare's plays will be able to efface race as a category of analysis.' Bernadette Andrea, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara and 2022-23 President of the Shakespeare Association of America'David Sterling Brown's precise scholarship is infused with unapologizing emotion - emotion, and scholarship, both rooted as they are in his Black humanity. Brown's articulate and adamant voice is the sound of indomitability shouting through the subterfuge.' Keith Hamilton Cobb, actor and playwright, American Moor'A remarkable work of scholarship by David Sterling Brown, Shakespeare's White Others is an in-depth examination of intraracial dynamics in Shakespeare's work that brilliantly articulates – and offers meaningful correctives – to historical practices. Dr. Brown audaciously illuminates the theatrical possibilities that emerge from a nuanced exploration of Shakespeare's infinite variety.' Simon Godwin, Artistic Director, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC'With Shakespeare's White Others, David Sterling Brown engages racial whiteness and provokes interdisciplinary dialogue through his rhetorically accessible 'critical-personal-experiential' style. The book's unexpected final words, documenting Brown's own racial profiling experience, anticipate the depths of this brilliantly bold Shakespearean discourse that seamlessly blends genres while reimagining the scholarly monograph mode.' Claudia Rankine'David Sterling Brown takes us into the racial impact of an individual regarded by many as the greatest writer in the English language. In part, this praise is a result of William Shakespeare's contribution to racial thought. In Shakespeare's White Others we are presented with an outstanding contribution to understanding the logic of whiteness. Shakespearean reference to 'white others' helped foster the racial reasoning used to promote enslavement and colonialism. This work is essential and insightful reading for those interested in the invention of racism in modern literature and more generally in modern society.' Tukufu Zuberi, Lasry Family Professor of Race Relations, University of Pennsylvania'Maintaining that tensions between white characters are themselves racial conflicts, this paradigm-changing book establishes that all of Shakespeare's plays are about race. Rather than understand early modern race in binary terms, Shakespeare's White Others attends to the intraracial color line to reveal that whiteness is not an inalienable property, but rather an unstable commodity that is policed and confiscated through the deployment of anti-Black racism and white supremacy.' Melissa E. Sanchez, Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Negotiating whiteness; 1. Somatic similarity; 2. Engendering the fall of white masculinity in Hamlet; 3. On the other hand; 4. 'Hear me, see me'; Conclusion: Artifactually.

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Book SynopsisTranslation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice. This book explores the unbearable whiteness of translation in the West that excludes scholars and translators of color from the field and also upholds racial inequities more broadly.Outlining relevant concepts from critical race studies, Translation and Race demonstrates how norms of translation theory and practice in the West actually derive from ideas rooted in white supremacy and other forms of racism. Chapters explore translation's role in historical processes of racialization, racial capitalism and intellectual property, identity politics and Black translation praxis, the globalization of critical race studies, and ethical strategies for translating racist discourse. Beyond attempts to diversify the field of translation studies and the literary translation profession, this book ultimatelyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Unbearable Whiteness of Translation 1. From Slavish Translation to Bridge Translation: Translation and/as Racialization 2. Translation and Racial Capitalism 3. Beyond Racial "Diversity": Identity Politics in Translation 4. Translation in Critical Race Studies 5. Translating Racism

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Book SynopsisThis is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, the event that prompted the United Nations to declare apartheid a crime against humanity.Voices of Sharpeville brings to life the destruction of Sharpeville's predecessor, Top Location, and the careful planning of its isolated and carceral design by apartheid architects. A unique set of eyewitness testimonies from Sharpeville's inhabitants reveals how they coped with apartheid and why they rose up to protest this system, narrating this massacre for the first time in the words of the participants themselves. Previously understood only through the iconic photos of fleeing protestors and dead bodies, the timeline is reconstructed using an extensive archive of new documentary and oral sources including unused police records, personal interviews with survivors and their families, and maps and family photos. By identifying nearly alTrade Review"Based on thorough and discerning scholarship, the book provides new evidence on the ‘neglected’ and ‘hidden’ history of Sharpeville. The authors are commended for this insightful narrative to dispel the one-sided and widely disseminated account of the Sharpeville Massacre by those who supported apartheid."Chitja Twala, University of Limpopo, South Africa"This compelling and thought-provoking book promotes the idea that the ‘truth’ in History as a discipline is itself based on shifting sand. Nancy Clark and William Worger prove that, if proof is needed, the production of history is a process of constant negotiation between evidence and interpretation where many questions are capable of a wide variety of answers."Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu, The University of South Africa"Sixty-three years after the apartheid killings at Sharpeville, the voices of the victims are heard, thanks to imaginative and dogged research by Nancy Clark and William Worger. And, startlingly, they report that the police count of 69 dead and 186 wounded – which has been accepted and endlessly repeated over the years – has always been a lie. This is a revelatory book."Benjamin Pogrund, former deputy-editor of The Rand Daily Mail, South Africa"Working intensively with Sharpeville’s community, Clark and Worger aim here to right the wrongs of a past that has left many of the dead unrecognised and the injured disregarded. They reconstruct a history of Sharpeville as a place, as a community, and as a memory and an icon. After more than fifty years, Sharpeville remains the place where the anti-apartheid struggle went global: and with this lucid and compelling book, we at last know why."David M Anderson, University of Warwick, UKTable of Contents1. Contested Land: The Importance of Place 2. A Company Town 3. From Location to Township: Building Sharpeville 4. Life in Sharpeville 5. 21 March 1960 6. The Massacre 7. A Family Tragedy 8. Sharpeville and the World 9. Coda: The Role of Memory. Documents

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Book SynopsisThis new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings.Antiracism in Ballet Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and dismantling racialized biases in ballet teaching, as well as in approaches to leadership and choreography. Chapters are organized into three sections - Identities, Pedagogies, and Futurities - that illuminate evolving approaches to choreographing and teaching ballet, shine light on artists, teachers, and dancers who are lesser known/less visible in a racialized canon, and amplify the importance of holistic practices that integrate ballet history with technique and choreography. Chapter authors include award-winning studio owners, as well as acclaimed choreographers, educators, and sTable of ContentsPart 1: Identities1. Teaching for Tomorrow Gabrielle Salvatto 2. Perspective––Dionne Figgins3. Perspective–––––Lourdes Lopez 4. Native American dancers beyond settler colonial confines Kate Mattingly5. Reflections on Quare Dance Alyah Baker Part 2: Pedagogies 6. Classical Perspectives: Performance, Pedagogy, and (Changing) CulturesAnjali Austin7. Dear Ballet Teachers, Let’s Talk About Race Ilana Goldman and Paige Cunningham8. Making space – inclusive and equitable teaching practices for ballet in higher education Alana Isiguen9. Dismantling anti-Blackness Maurya Kerr 10. ReCentering the Studio: Ballet Leadership and Learning Through Intersectional and Antiracist Approaches Renée K. Nicholson and Lisa DeFrank-Cole 11. Credibility and Expertise: Black Women Teaching Classical Ballet Monica Stephenson12. Adjusting pedagogies for developing artists: age-appropriate classes for classical ballet Misa Oga13. Ballet as Artistic, Scientific, and Existential Inquiry: Incorporating Ballet’s Broader History in a Syllabus and in the Studio Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson14. Dive In Keesha Beckford) Part 3: Futurities15. A willingness to shed Sidra Bell 16. Honoring the Legacy of Antiracist Ballet Teaching & Leadership in Black and Brown Dance Organizations Iyun Ashani Harrison17. Ballet’s Ever-Present Presence Thomas F. DeFrantz 18. Twelve Steps to Ballet’s Cultural Recovery Theresa Ruth Howard 19. Creating New Spaces: Today’s Black Choreographers Brandye Lee 20. Ballet’s Futurities––Insights from Choreographers, Scholars, and Educators

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Book SynopsisThe Psychosis of Race offers a unique and detailed account of the psychoanalytic significance of race, and the ongoing impact of racism in contemporary society.Moving beyond the well-trodden assertion that race is a social construction, and working against demands that simply call for more representational equality, The Psychosis of Race explores how the delusions, anxieties, and paranoia that frame our race relations can afford new insights into how we see, think, and understand race's pervasive appeal. With examples drawn from politics and popular culturesuch as Candyman, Get Out, and the music of Kendrick Lamarcritical attention is given to introducing, as well as explicating on, several key concepts from Lacanian psychoanalysis and the study of psychosis, including foreclosure, the phallus, Name-of-the-Father, sinthome, and the objet petit a. By elaborating a cultural mode to psychosis and its understanding, an original and critical exTrade Review'The Psychosis of Race usefully intervenes upon contemporary theories of race and racism. By drawing attention to a psychotic structure that underlies the anxieties, delusions, and fantasies that spur racial violence in our present historical moment, this study takes Lacanian psychoanalysis in directions it has not fully explored.'Sheldon George, author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of Race'In arguing that our relationship to race is organized by the psychic structure of psychosis, Jack Black both aptly diagnoses our contemporary moment and puts forward an “ethical sensibility” for overcoming race and racism’s psychic hold. Specifically, through an accessible exposition of key Lacanian concepts and original analyses of popular cultural artifacts, The Psychosis of Race sets us on the path to forging creative and agentic possibilities for overcoming our attachment to race as a futile attempt to secure our place within an unreliable socio-symbolic field.'Jennifer Friedlander, author of Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism 'In this truly invigorating and critical analysis, Jack Black utilizes the vocabulary of terms developed by Jacques Lacan for the treatment and conceptualization of psychosis and applies them, in a distinctive cultural mode, to the psychical life of racialization, racism, and racial identity. In so doing, he moves us beyond the “post race” consensus and the shortcomings of equal representation as adequate responses to racist social structure. He highlights the distinctive analytical potential of thinking our psychical entanglements with race in terms that are uniquely illuminating.'Derek Hook, author of Six Moments in Lacan and co-editor of Lacan on Depression and MelancholiaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Race is (not) a social construction 1. Interrogating the social construction of race 2. The non-sense of race 3. Racial extimacy Part II: Race and the structure of psychosis 4. Lacan and psychosis 5. The object a of race 6. Psychosis and lack: A nothing made something 7. Race and foreclosure 8. Psychosis and the Other 9. Paranoia and the racist fantasy Part III: Ethics, lack, and doubt 10. A space for politics 11. Beyond race? The radical temporality of creative doubt 12. Kendrick Lamar and the psychosis of race

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Book SynopsisA bold and fresh perspective unravelling the economics of racial inequality In The Opportunity Index, BlackRock Managing Director and co-founder of the #Talkaboutblack movement, Gavin Lewis, skillfully plots the origins of the racial wealth gap and its impact on the inequalities faced by the Black community today. Weaving a personal and at times moving narrative through some of the most disruptive events of our time, he offers a blueprint for businesses and individuals to understand the risks and opportunities presented by inequality and issues an urgent call to action. The Opportunity Index also presents: A root cause-oriented and solutions-focused exploration of the racial wealth gap and its role in social, health, and opportunity inequality A perspective that moves beyond the typical workplace discussion to explore the deeper truths about society and the role of capitalism The lessons learned from the #BlackLivesMatter, #MeTooTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Prologue xxi Chapter 1 Onion 1 Chapter 2 Six Hours 19 Chapter 3 Equity 35 Chapter 4 Horses and Sparrows 53 Chapter 5 Zero-Sum Game 73 Chapter 6 Almonds 91 Chapter 7 Vacuum 107 Chapter 8 Ghosts 121 Chapter 9 Plastic Bag 143 Chapter 10 The Opportunity Index 163 Epilogue 189 Endnotes 193 References 209 About the Author 211 Index 213

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Book SynopsisBuild an anti-racist and culturally responsive school environment In Freedom Teaching, educator and distinguished anti-racism practitioner Matthew Kincaid delivers a one-stop resource for educators and educational leaders seeking to improve equity and increase the cultural responsiveness of their school. In this book, you'll discover the meaning and fundamentals of anti-racist education and find a roadmap to reducing the impact of systemic racism in your classroom. The author offers skills and tools he's developed over the course of his lengthy career teaching anti-racist ideas to educators, providing readers with strategies that are effective at both the individual teacher and collective school community level. Readers will also find: ? A thorough introduction to the idea of Freedom Teaching and creating an education system that works for all students ? Strategies for building and maintaining anti-racist schools and classrooms ? ImpoTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Journey xi Chapter 1: Setting Intention 1 Intention Matters 3 Agreement #1: Engage with Uncomfortable Truths 4 Agreement #2: Replace a Scarcity Mindset with a Possibility Mindset 6 Agreement #3: Embrace Your Radical Imagination 8 Agreement #4: Center Students 9 Notes 10 Chapter 2: Freedom Teaching’s Foundation 11 What Is Freedom Teaching? 13 Theory of Change 16 Change the Environment, Change the Outcomes 16 Adjust the Camera Angle 19 Use the Right Tools 21 Freedom Teaching’s Five Tenets and How to Use Them 24 Notes 25 Chapter 3: Hope That Is Radical 27 Rosa Parks and Radical Hope 28 Reclaiming Radical 31 Using Our Tools 34 Notes 37 Chapter 4: From Radical Hope to Practice 39 Sharing Power with Students 43 Strategies That Cede Power to Students 50 Notes 54 Chapter 5: Free Minds, Free Kids 55 The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste 56 Limiting Beliefs and the Cycle of Socialization 58 Aligning Our Attitudes and Our Behaviors 64 Note 65 Chapter 6: It Isn’t Rigorous, If It Isn’t Relevant 67 Embracing Our Power 67 The Freedom Teaching Model 73 Cognitive Empowerment 77 Academic Achievement 82 Academic Identity 83 Academic Proficiency 84 Critical Rigor 85 Social and Emotional Well-Being 89 Cultural Competence 90 Critical Consciousness 93 Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Environment 99 Notes 102 Chapter 7: Trouble Doesn’t Teach 103 Reinforcing the Behaviors We Want 106 Anecdote #1 111 Anecdote #2 113 Misbehaviors Are an Opportunity to Teach 115 Identify Traits and Skills of Empowered Students 118 Consider the Effect of Consequences 119 Align Consequences to Student Goals and Values 120 Aim for Consequences That Are Restorative, Student-Driven, and Community-Focused 121 Aim for Consequences That Are Consistent, Predictable, and Compassionate 123 Notes 125 Chapter 8: Cultivating a Classroom That Values Cultural Wealth 127 Culturally Affirming Education 129 What Is Cultural Wealth? 130 Aspirational Capital 131 Linguistic Capital 132 Familial Capital 134 Social Capital and Navigational Capital 136 Resistant Capital 139 Standpoint Theory and Cultural Wealth 141 Envisioning Equity 147 Notes 148 Chapter 9: Oh Freedom: Staying on the Battlefield 151 Freedom Song 154 On Hope 159 Notes 160 About the Author 161 Acknowledgments 163 Index 167

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Book SynopsisStandoff is award-winning journalist Jamie Thompson''s gripping account of a deadly night in Dallas, told through the eyes of those at the center of the events, who offer a nuanced look at race and policing in AmericaOn the evening of July 7, 2016, protesters gathered in cities across the nation after police shot two black men, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. As officers patrolled a march in Dallas, a young man stepped out of an SUV wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a high-powered rifle. He killed five officers and wounded eleven others. It fell to a small group of cops to corner the shooter inside a community college, where a fierce gun battle was followed by a stalemate. Crisis negotiator Larry Gordon, a 21-year department veteran, spent hours bonding with the gunmanover childhood ghosts and death and shared experiences of racial injustice in Americawhile his colleagues devised an unprecedented plan to bring the night to its dramatic end. <

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Book Synopsis2020 was a year in which global politics radically shifted, catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This book is a response to that year, asking: was it a moment or is it a movement, and what fundamental changes within the arts industry need to come out of this time? The book includes over 20 interviews with some of the most pioneering Black cultural leaders from a wide range of senior executive positions in the arts within the UK, Europe, US and Africa. It documents the sea of change in arts leadership at the height of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the pressure on organizations to confront and change their racial and ethnic make-up, and shines a light on the guiding ambitions, strategic plans and visions for the future to support the ongoing decolonization of arts organizations across the world. Learn from those who have walked the walk to support your vision for the future.Trade ReviewA resounding testimony of best practices for staying grounded in spaces that cross the color line. * Kamilah Forbes, Director and Executive Producer, Apollo Theater, USA *Table of ContentsThe Act of Decolonisation is this book, THIS Conversation Olivia Poglio-Nwabali interviews Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway and Kwame Kwei-Armah Chapter One: We’ve Been Leading! LEADERSHIP IN OUR DNA Quotes: Sade Lynthcott, Robert Barry Fleming -Always Willing to Leave - Timothy Bond -It’s the Board’s Responsibility to Find the Plenty of Overqualified Black Candidates - Patrick Bradford Chapter Two: Becoming the First Quotes: Timothy Bond, Lydia Idakula-Sobogun-Sobogun, Yvonne Hepburn-Foster, Julia Wissert, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Deborah Sawyerr, Samora Bergtop, James Ngcobo, Stella Kanu, Hana Sharif -If I Can’t Do The Job, I Don’t Want the Title - Hana Sharif -I Can’t Not Apply, I Can Do The Job! - Nataki Garrett -Are You Going To Be An Nostalgic Leader Or One That Challenges and Upgrades? - James Ngcobo -They Said, “WE DIDN’T HIRE YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE BLACK’ I was like, “That’s the BONUS. That’s the BONUS” - Marc Bamuthi Joseph -Leadership is Making Mistakes and Getting Back Up Again - Julia Wissert -A Lonely Road But A Position of Authority And Trust - Yvonne Hepburn-Foster Chapter Three: First 100 Days Quotes: Jonathan McCrory, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Robert Barry Fleming, Deborah Sawyerr, Nike Jonah, Roy Alexander Weise, Patrick Bradford, David Bryan, Stella Kanu Interviews -An Unapologetic Maverick in the Workplace - Nike Jonah -Every Board Needs New Energy And Voice To Shift The Focus And Direction Of The Organisation - David Bryan -I Bring My Own Structure for Safety and Survival - Stella Kanu -Asking the Hard Questions - Robert Barry Fleming Chapter Four: Inheriting a Challenging Staff and Board Quotes: Robert Barry Fleming, Stella Kanu, Hana Sharif, Suzann McLean -Leaning In When They Lean Out - Stella Kanu -Money Talks - Hana Sharif -Board Support Matters - Patrick Bradford Chapter Five: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Quotes: Maria Oshodi, Lydia Idakula-Sobogun, Deborah Sawyerr, Suzann McLean, Jonathan McCrory Interviews -Allies Are The Greatest Vaccination - David Bryan -I Doubt The Work Environment NOT My Abilities! - Stella Kanu -I Am A Warrior But I Am Human Too! - Hana Sharif -Be The Best Servant Leader For Nobody But Yourself - Robert Barry Fleming Chapter Six: Leading in a Pandemic at the Height of The Black Lives Matter Movement Quotes: Marc Joseph Bamuthi, Timothy Bond, Roy Alexander Weise -Artistic Director Role Turned Into A Crisis Manager Role Overnight - Julia Wissert -Whose Fight is Racism - Yvonne Hepburn-Foster -We Took Care Of Our People First - A Mass Redundancy Was Never An Option - Hana Sharif -STAND On A New Foundation - Gregory Maqoma -Letting Go, Making Cuts & Evolving Into a Transmedia Leader - Robert Barry Fleming -A Perspective On Tokenism - Taiwo Afolabi Chapter Seven: Leading From the Front and The Power of Intuition Quotes: Marc Bathumi Joseph, Gregory Maqoma, Timothy Bond, Asiimwe Deborah Kawe, James Ngcobo, Patrick Bradford, David Bryan -Our North Star is Black Liberation - Sade Lythcott -The Juggling Act: Leading From The Front AND The Back - David Bryan Chapter Eight: Transforming the Culture and The Art of Negotiation Quotes: Timothy Bond, Gregory Maqoma, Samora Bergtop, Taiwo Afolabi -Funders Cannot Dictate Our Artistic Programming - Asiimwe Deborah Kawe -To Make Art That Matters, You Must Be A Rebel - Lydia Idakula-Sobogun -We See You White America, In Action! - Timothy Bond -A world Stage in Africa: Centering Diverse Voices and Indigenous Languages - James Ngcobo Chapter Nine: Recovering from a Setback Quote: Robert Barry Fleming, Deborah Sawyerr -No More Appeasing The White Gaze - Samora Bergtop -Knowing When It’s Time to Let Go - David Bryan -The Impossible Rubik’s Cube - Hana Sharif Chapter Ten: The Importance of Wellbeing Quotes: Lydia Idakula-Sobogun, Natasha Bucknor, Robert Barry Fleming, Jonathan McCrory, Sade Lythcott -Learning To Speak To Myself With Kindness - Asiimwe Deborah Kawe -Leaders Are Readers - David Bryan -Setting Healthy Boundaries - Stella Kanu -Solo Vacations - Hana Sharif Chapter Eleven: Succession & Legacy Quotes: Nataki Garrett, James Ngcobo, Nike Jonah -Mentorship Is Legacy - Asiimwe Deborah Kawe -Building Something That Survives Long After You - Patrick Bradford -The Legacy Is The Village and Building Institutions For The Future - David Bryan -Succession of Skills - Stella Kanu -Opening Doors and Holding Space - Hana Sharif -A Model of Anti-Racist Multicultural Theatre - Timothy Bond

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Book SynopsisWhat part did Shakespeare play in the construction of a white people' and how has his work been enlisted to define and bolster a white cultural and racial identity?Since the court of Queen Elizabeth I, through the early modern English theatre to the storming of the United States Capitol on 6 January 2021, white people have used Shakespeare to define their cultural and racial identity and authority. White People in Shakespeare unravels this complex cultural history to examine just how crucial Shakespeare's work was to the early modern development of whiteness as an embodied identity, as well as the institutional dissemination of a white Shakespeare in contemporary theatres, politics, classrooms and other key sites of culture. Featuring contributors from a wide range of disciplines, the collection moves across Shakespeare's plays and poetry and between the early modern and our own time to interrogate these relationships. Split into two parts, Shakespeare's White People' and White Trade ReviewExpressing ideas that have developed over several decades of brave and tenacious scholarship, this collection opens a new chapter in the study of Shakespeare and the study of race. It sets out a clear demand for future scholarship, artistic practice, and activism: to produce a Shakespeare that is about “more than whiteness.” With searching intellectual power and heart, White People In Shakespeare demonstrates why the critique of "whiteness" is a precondition for understanding Shakespeare in the 21st Century. * Dr. Michael Witmore, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, USA *This big and provocative gathering of established and new voices gives us much of what Shakespeare had to say, in character and verse, about whiteness, as there were just beginning to be "white people." Its contributors likewise show the troubling reach of Shakespeare's genius in reproducing hegemonic whiteness across generations. * David Roediger, Foundation Professor of American Studies, University of Kansas, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: ‘Assembling an Aristocracy of Skin’ Arthur L. Little, Jr. (University of California, USA) Part I: Shakespeare’s White People Chapter 1 ‘Two loves I have of comfort and despair:’ The Circle of Whiteness in the Sonnets Imtiaz Habib (Old Dominion University, USA) Chapter 2 Staging the Blazon: Black and White and Red All Over Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, USA) Chapter 3 Red Blood on White Saints: Affective Piety, Racial Violence, and Measure for Measure Dennis Austin Britton (University of New Hampshire, USA) Chapter 4 Antonio’s White Penis: Category Trading in The Merchant of Venice Ian Smith (Lafayette College, USA) Chapter 5 ‘Envy Pale of Hew’: Whiteness and Division in ‘Fair Verona’ Kyle Grady (University of California, USA) Chapter 6 “Shake thou to look on’t”: Shakespearean White Hands David Sterling Brown (Binghamton University, SUNY, USA) Chapter 7 ‘Pales in the Flood’: Blood, Soil, and Whiteness in Shakespeare’s Henriad Andrew Clark Wagner (University of California, USA) Chapter 8 Disrupting White Genealogies in Cymbeline Joyce MacDonald (University of Kentucky, USA) Chapter 9 White Freedom, White Property, and White Tears: Classical Racial Paradigms and the Construction of Whiteness in Julius Caesar Katherine Gillen (Texas A&M University, USA) Chapter 10 Hamlet and the Education of the White Self Eric De Barros (American University of Sharjah, UAE) Chapter 11 ‘The Blank of What He Was’: Dryden, Newton, and the Discipline of Shakespeare’s White People Justin P. Shaw (Clark University, USA) Part II: White People’s Shakespeare Chapter 12 Can You Be White and Hear This?: The Racial Art of Listening in American Moor and Desdemona Kim Hall (Barnard College, USA) Chapter 13 White Lies: In Conversation Peter Sellars (UCLA, USA) and Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State University, USA) Chapter 14 A Theatre Practice against the Unbearable Whiteness of Shakespeare: In Conversation Keith Hamilton Cobb (actor, USA), Anchuli Felicia King (playwright and screenwriter, AUS), and Robin Alfriend Kello (University of California, USA) Chapter 15 ‘The soul of a great white poet’: Shakespearean Educations and the Civil Rights Era Jason M. Demeter (Norfolk State University, USA) Chapter 16 ‘White Anger: Shakespeare’s my Meat’ Ruben Espinosa (Arizona State University, USA) Chapter 17 ‘I saw them in my visage’: Whiteness, Race Studies, and Early Modern Culture Margo Hendricks (University of California, USA) Chapter 18 The White Shakespearean and Daily Practice Jean E. Howard (Columbia University, USA) Chapter 19 No Exeunt: The Urgent Work of Critical Whiteness Peter Erickson (Northwestern University, USA) Index

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Book SynopsisHow did racism creep into the algorithms that govern our daily lives, from banking and shopping, to job applications? Connecting the legacy of enlightenment racism to forms of discrimination in modern day algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, this volume examines what data feeds into AI technology - and how this data will shape the future of humanity. Delving into the narratives enveloping the development of AI systems, with a particular emphasis on tech-giants and the ideas of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam explains how and why technology aids and abets various forms of extremism, entrenches social hierarchies and discriminatory boundaries and how this will impact international security and human rights in the future.Trade ReviewWritten with intellectual flair, this is a stimulating if sobering assessment of what we can expect in a world increasingly dominated by biased AI. A must-read to understand the paradigm shift we are already experiencing, and better anticipate the all too human flaws in the embedded tech so rapidly accumulating in our techno-societies. * Roxane Farmanfarmaian, University of Cambridge, UK *A fascinating work on the age of artificial intelligence, surveillance, and algorithmic regimes. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam asks compelling questions regarding our dice-throw with the virtual, the digital, and the simulated, taking us into those timescapes of the near-beyond where we will have to confront dire questions of our own post-humanism. This work unveils with exceptional precision both the potentiality for catastrophic violence beneath the surface of such epochal technologies yet also an escape-route into its more boundless figurations. * Jason Mohaghegh, Babson College, USA *A cutting-edge piece of work illustrating how we can transform our psychology and change values within an AI-controlled system in the age of post-human society. * Hisae Nakanishi, Doshisha University, Japan *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Beyond Human Robots Chapter 2: The Matrix Decoded Chapter 3: Capital Punishment Chapter 4: Techno-Imperialism Chapter 5: Death-Techniques Conclusion: Decolonial AI - A Manifesto

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Book SynopsisWinner of Best New Play at the Olivier Awards 2024 It's time to change the game.The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can't England's men win at their own game?The team has the worst track record for penalties in the world and manager Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take team and country back to the promised land.James Graham's rousing new play' (Tatler) is a fast-moving portrayal of Gareth Southgate's reign as England football manager that presents a gripping examination of both nation and game. Uplifting, funny and more entertaining than a World Cup final.This edition was published to coincide with the West End transfer of Dear England in October 2023, following its world premiere at the National Theatre in June 2023.

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Book Synopsis''Powerful'' New Statesman ''Enchanting'' Sunday Times ''Haunting'' Mail on Sunday''A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew'' Marlon JamesThe people of Salt Point are afraid of the world beyond their rural town. Most of them are born, live and die never having gone more than twenty or thirty miles from houses that are crammed with generations of their families. But something shifts at the end of summer 1957. Change makes its way to Salt Point. The Kindred sisters - Ezra and Cinthy - grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbours, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful NewTrade ReviewPromise is forged in a crucible of irrational violence and darkness that paradoxically gives birth to luminous, resilient love. This is a novel so potent, written in such transcendent prose, one wonders if it's secretly a magic spell. It's a stunning achievement -- Kiran Desai, author of THE INHERITANCE OF LOSSThis is a magical, magnificent novel that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know but never really knew, where girls reckon with the beauty and terror of girlhood, mortal black bodies reckon with immortal black souls, while America reckons with the terror of its beastly, bloody self. The trajectories collide - how could they not - and the result bowls us over with shock and grief, but eventually fills our hearts with awe and wonder -- Marlon James, author of * Moon Witch, Spider King *A beautifully rendered narrative and a startlingly fresh voice. I fell in love with the people between these pages. This is truly the first book in a long time where I had to force myself to stop reading -- Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of RED AT THE BONEAt its core, Promise concerns the illusion of security that we, Black Americans, harbor in our souls; that generational ache to believe that we can finally lay down the fear of what potential tragedy awaits us around the next corner, and the one after that. Poetic and powerful, this book slices through self-delusion with its many faces of heroism, loss, and the grace it takes to find a sense of equality in our hearts -- Walter Mosley, New York Times-bestselling author of EVERY MAN A KINGPromise is a stunning exploration of the weight and triumph of legacy, of what it has cost Black Americans to make homes in a country where violence and terror pursue them, and of all of the things it can mean to be called home. A graceful and urgent novel. -- Danielle Evans, author of THE HOUSE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS

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Book SynopsisInvestigative reporter Chris Joyner reveals the true story of Clarence Henderson, a Black sharecropper convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn’t commit.Named a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR . . . SO FAR by The New YorkerThe Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson is the true story of the wrongfully accused Black sharecropper and the Georgia prosecution desperate to pin the crime on him despite scant evidence. His first trial lasted only a day and featured a lackluster public defense. The book also tells the story of Homer Chase, a former World War II paratrooper and New England radical who was sent to the South by the Communist Party to recruit African Americans to the cause while offering them a chance at increased freedom. And it’s the story of Thurgood Marshall’s NAACP and their battle against not only entrenched racism but a Communist Party—despite facing nearly as much prejudice as thTrade ReviewAtlanta Journal-Constitution investigative reporter Joyner debuts with a searing look at an unsolved murder case . . . Joyner provides just the right level of detail in this stranger-than-fiction narrative, in which endemic racism almost resulted in the execution of an innocent man. * Publishers Weekly, *starred* review *Using a range of archival sources, Joyner illustrates Henderson’s vulnerable position as a Black defendant, and shows how external factors—such as the introduction of lie-detection and ballistics analysis and the rivalry between the N.A.A.C.P. and the Communist Party, which were both determined to come to his defense—shaped the legal proceedings in unexpected ways. * The New Yorker *“A compelling account of ‘justice’ in the Jim Crow South. Recommended for readers interested in true crime and race.” * Library Journal *“Three times Henderson went to trial for Stevens’ murder, three times he was convicted, and sentenced to die in the electric chair, and three times his convictions were overturned. Meanwhile, many believe that Buddy Stevens’ real murderer remained free. It’s an intriguing cold case story that might have remained under the radar if not for Joyner’s deeply researched book.” * Atlanta Journal Constitution *“Drawing on his two-plus decades of experience in journalism, Joyner plumbs newspaper archives, court records and personal interviews to tell the story not just of Henderson—a Black sharecropper in rural Georgia who in the late 1940s and early '50s was convicted and sentenced to death three times for a murder he didn't commit—but of race in the US after World War II.” * CNN *

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Book SynopsisSocial work education and interventions with Black African families are frequently impaired because of structural discrimination and racism. Rooted in rich empirical work with practitioners and educators, this urgent, scholarly and accessible book emphasises that Black Lives Matter'.Trade Review"This book invites an honest, respectful, and critical rumination on social work theory and practice with Black Africans in western countries…It seeks to fuse multiple perspectives and philosophies on the disempowerment of the Black African diaspora because of universalised European hierarchies of power within and beyond the social work profession. In short, it is a very important intellectual work. Indeed, it is…probably the only book of this kind currently available." Critical Social Policy ‘It is energising to see writers articulate how their positionality and political commitment influence their academic interests and writings…I am a Black American trained social worker who grew up in the state’s care with more than half a dozen social workers assigned to my case throughout my childhood. This book affected me and gave me hope because it provides theoretical tools for progressive educators and practitioners to promote a greater awareness of ‘social change’ within social work education and training’. Antoine Rogers, Ethics and Social Welfare, 2023 ‘This book, Social Work with the Black African Diaspora, is a welcome addition to the library of emerging African social work scholars in western societies. It is a well-overdue contribution to combatting age-long racial and political knowledge in social work. Although the book is focused on Ireland, its theoretical terrain has significant resonance for the profession, society and, most importantly, policymakers worldwide’. Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola, Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2023"This work expands social work education and explicitly centres diverse, global multicultural theoretical voices, including those platforming economic liberation-orientated concepts and paradigms. As a former service user and a practitioner, I believe this knowledge makes for better social workers." Ethics and Social WelfareTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Keywords, concepts and terminology 3. Decolonising theory 4. Afrocentricity and its critics 5. Social Work in neoliberal, ‘multicultural’ Ireland 6. ‘When in Rome, you do as the Romans do’? Social work with the Black African diaspora 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSocial work education and interventions with Black African families are frequently impaired because of structural discrimination and racism. Rooted in rich empirical work with practitioners and educators, this urgent, scholarly and accessible book emphasises that Black Lives Matter'.Trade Review"This book invites an honest, respectful, and critical rumination on social work theory and practice with Black Africans in western countries…It seeks to fuse multiple perspectives and philosophies on the disempowerment of the Black African diaspora because of universalised European hierarchies of power within and beyond the social work profession. In short, it is a very important intellectual work. Indeed, it is…probably the only book of this kind currently available." Critical Social Policy ‘It is energising to see writers articulate how their positionality and political commitment influence their academic interests and writings…I am a Black American trained social worker who grew up in the state’s care with more than half a dozen social workers assigned to my case throughout my childhood. This book affected me and gave me hope because it provides theoretical tools for progressive educators and practitioners to promote a greater awareness of ‘social change’ within social work education and training’. Antoine Rogers, Ethics and Social Welfare, 2023 ‘This book, Social Work with the Black African Diaspora, is a welcome addition to the library of emerging African social work scholars in western societies. It is a well-overdue contribution to combatting age-long racial and political knowledge in social work. Although the book is focused on Ireland, its theoretical terrain has significant resonance for the profession, society and, most importantly, policymakers worldwide’. Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola, Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2023"This work expands social work education and explicitly centres diverse, global multicultural theoretical voices, including those platforming economic liberation-orientated concepts and paradigms. As a former service user and a practitioner, I believe this knowledge makes for better social workers." Ethics and Social WelfareTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Keywords, concepts and terminology 3. Decolonising theory 4. Afrocentricity and its critics 5. Social Work in neoliberal, ‘multicultural’ Ireland 6. ‘When in Rome, you do as the Romans do’? Social work with the Black African diaspora 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisArising from staff and student experiences, this book offers a roadmap for senior leaders, academic and professional staff and students to build strategies, programmes and interventions that effectively dismantle racism.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction 1. Positioning anti-racism in higher education - Arun Verma Part 2: Staff experiences of racism 2. Academic staff experiences - Min Duchenski, Tamjid Mujtaba and Jalpa Ruparelia 3. Professional and support services staff - Claire Lee Part 3: Student experiences of racism 4. Undergraduate student experiences - Josephine Gabi and Sonia Gomes 5. Postgraduate student experiences - Arun Verma 6. Student social experiences - Zoe Nutakor Part 4: Research systems enabling racism 7. Research funding and contracts - Arun Verma 8. Research excellence assessments - Arun Verma 9. Research collaborations and publishing - Arun Verma Part 5: Teaching systems enabling racism 10. Teaching and scholarship funding, contracts and collaboration - Arun Verma 11. Teaching excellence assessments - Arun Verma Part 6: Pedagogies that enable racism 12. Pedagogies, professionalism and curricula enabling racism - Musharrat J. Ahmed-Landeryou 13. Curriculum design - Parise Carmichael-Murphy and Eileen Ggbagbo 14. University identity - Briana Coles and Arun Verma 15. Educational professionalism - Deya Mukherjee Part 7: Governance, strategy and operational systems 16. Governance and leadership - Jitesh S. B. Gajjar, Manish Maisuria and Anonymous 17. Operations and processes - Manvir Kaur Grewal 18. Strategy, planning and accountability - Shaminder Takhar, Rashid Aziz, Musharrat J. Ahmed-Landeryou and Pamela Thomas Part 8: Conclusion 19. In solidarity - Arun Verma 20. Reflections on anti-racism in higher education - Arun Verma

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Book SynopsisNew Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It has also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity from the city's founding in the early eighteenth century through three centuries to the present.

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Book SynopsisNew Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history. It has also long been a site of some of the most intense racially based medical inequities in the United States. Kevin McQueeney traces that inequity from the city's founding in the early eighteenth century through three centuries to the present.

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Book SynopsisAn eloquent and thought-provoking book on racism and prejudice by the Liverpool and England football legend John Barnes.John Barnes spent the first dozen years of his life in Jamaica before moving to the UK with his family in 1975. Six years later he was a professional footballer, distinguishing himself for Watford, Liverpool and England, and in the process becoming this country''s most prominent black player.Barnes is now an articulate and captivating social commentator on a broad range of issues, and in The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism he tackles head-on the issues surrounding prejudice with his trademark intelligence and authority.By vividly evoking his personal experiences, and holding a mirror to this country''s past, present and future, Barnes provides a powerful and moving testimony. The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism will help to inform and advance the global conversation around society''s ongoing battle with the awful stainTrade ReviewBarnes has written a book which reiterates that racism is embedded in society rather than just football. -- Donald McRae * The Guardian *this book certainly feels uncomfortable, but important, too... Passionate, confrontational stuff. -- Ben East * The Guardian *brilliantly written... a genuinely important book -- Jonathan Ross * The Jonathan Ross Show *something we all need to be reading... an absolutely brilliant book... a great read for all of us -- Zoe Ball * BBC Radio 2 *an absolutely terrific book -- Susanna Reid * Good Morning Britain *[John Barnes is] such a clear thinker... well worth reading -- Richard Madeley * Good Morning Britain *

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Book SynopsisThe remarkable story of seven African-American soldiers denied the Medal of Honor for more than 50 years due to their race, and their extraordinary acts of bravery. In 1945, when Congress began reviewing the record of the most conspicuous acts of courage by American soldiers during World War II, they recommended awarding the Medal of Honor to 432 recipients. Despite the fact that more than one million African-Americans served, not a single black soldier received the Medal of Honor. The omission remained on the record for over four decades.But recent historical investigations have brought to light some of the extraordinary acts of valor performed by black soldiers during the war. Men like Vernon Baker, who single-handedly eliminated three enemy machine guns, an observation post, and a German dugout. Or Sergeant Reuben Rivers, who spearheaded his tank unit''s advance against fierce German resistance for three days despite being grievously wounded. Trade ReviewImmortal Valor tells the story of America’s unsung heroes in a moving and insightful narrative. The research is meticulous and detailed, making each character rise up off the page. * Martin J. Dugard, New York Times bestselling co-author of 'Killing Patton' *The contributions and sacrifices made by African-Americans during World War II were endless, and many times unheralded unless you served alongside and depended on these courageous men in battle. War does not discriminate, but people do. These seven Medal of Honor recipients rose above that prejudice, and this well-written book shares their incredible stories that the public needs to hear. * Tim Gray, Founder and President, The World War II Foundation *This is the only comprehensive narrative written about the African American Medal of Honor recipients of WWII to date. Extremely well written, with very little personal background on some of these men to work with, Child manages to bring each of these heroes’ stories to life on a personal level. Child carefully reconstructs each recipient’s life prior to his act of valor, demonstrating the character traits that made each an example of integrity, sacrifice and courage. This is a must-read book about seven black soldiers and their bravery at the highest level and the racial injustice that took over four decades to acknowledge. Well done! * Arthur Collins, President, 5th Platoon, the black World War II education and reenactment group *In Immortal Valor, Robert Child celebrates the lives of seven men whose valor, personal character, and love of country took them above and beyond the call of duty. We learn not just what they did to earn the Medal of Honor--an honor they were denied for far too long--but who they were as human beings, so that their examples can continue to touch us today. * Edward G. Lengel, Ph.D., Chief Historian, National Medal of Honor Museum *Immortal Valor tells the story of seven courageous Americans who deeply loved their country at a time when America did not love them back. When it counted most, these men risked their lives in a manner above and beyond the call of duty, proving that patriotism is not defined by skin color, but by a person’s willingness to put cause and comrades first. Robert Child’s inspiring book conveys a valuable lesson to anyone wishing to understand the full extent of the American character. * Gregory J.W. Urwin Professor of History Temple University *Child is able to mould the emotional and military experiences of each soldier in this novel, allowing the prose to flow easily as we are enraptured in tumultuous and heroic battle scenes. * Aspects of History *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note List of Illustrations Introduction PART ONE – CHARLES L. THOMAS Chapter 1: Graduation Day Chapter 2: Last Stop USA Chapter 3: A Hell of Fire PART TWO – VERNON J. BAKER Chapter 4: The Boy from Cheyenne Chapter 5: The Italian Front Chapter 6: Storming the Castle PART THREE – WILLY JAMES JR. Chapter 7: A Fifth Platoon Chapter 8: Crossing the Rhine Chapter 9: Into the Lion’s Mouth PART FOUR – EDWARD ALLEN CARTER JR. Chapter 10: Baptism by Fire Chapter 11: A Mercenary Man Chapter 12: March to the Rhine PART FIVE – GEORGE WATSON Chapter 13: Picnic at a Hanging Chapter 14: Off to War Chapter 15: Operation Lilliput PART SIX – RUBEN RIVERS Chapter 16: Black Gold Chapter 17: A New Esprit de Corps Chapter 18: Patton’s Panthers PART SEVEN – JOHN FOX Chapter 19: Transfer Student Chapter 20: Shipping Out Chapter 21: Give ’em Hell Epilogue: The Rest of the Story Afterword: The Long Road to Recognition Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewImmortal Valor tells the story of America’s unsung heroes in a moving and insightful narrative. The research is meticulous and detailed, making each character rise up off the page. * Martin J. Dugard, New York Times bestselling co-author of 'Killing Patton' *The contributions and sacrifices made by African-Americans during World War II were endless, and many times unheralded unless you served alongside and depended on these courageous men in battle. War does not discriminate, but people do. These seven Medal of Honor recipients rose above that prejudice, and this well-written book shares their incredible stories that the public needs to hear. * Tim Gray, Founder and President, The World War II Foundation *This is the only comprehensive narrative written about the African American Medal of Honor recipients of WWII to date. Extremely well written, with very little personal background on some of these men to work with, Child manages to bring each of these heroes’ stories to life on a personal level. Child carefully reconstructs each recipient’s life prior to his act of valor, demonstrating the character traits that made each an example of integrity, sacrifice and courage. This is a must-read book about seven black soldiers and their bravery at the highest level and the racial injustice that took over four decades to acknowledge. Well done! * Arthur Collins, President, 5th Platoon, the black World War II education and reenactment group *In Immortal Valor, Robert Child celebrates the lives of seven men whose valor, personal character, and love of country took them above and beyond the call of duty. We learn not just what they did to earn the Medal of Honor--an honor they were denied for far too long--but who they were as human beings, so that their examples can continue to touch us today. * Edward G. Lengel, Ph.D., Chief Historian, National Medal of Honor Museum *Immortal Valor tells the story of seven courageous Americans who deeply loved their country at a time when America did not love them back. When it counted most, these men risked their lives in a manner above and beyond the call of duty, proving that patriotism is not defined by skin color, but by a person’s willingness to put cause and comrades first. Robert Child’s inspiring book conveys a valuable lesson to anyone wishing to understand the full extent of the American character. * Gregory J.W. Urwin Professor of History Temple University *Child is able to mould the emotional and military experiences of each soldier in this novel, allowing the prose to flow easily as we are enraptured in tumultuous and heroic battle scenes. * Aspects of History *Table of ContentsAuthor’s Note List of Illustrations Introduction PART ONE – CHARLES L. THOMAS Chapter 1: Graduation Day Chapter 2: Last Stop USA Chapter 3: A Hell of Fire PART TWO – VERNON J. BAKER Chapter 4: The Boy from Cheyenne Chapter 5: The Italian Front Chapter 6: Storming the Castle PART THREE – WILLY JAMES JR. Chapter 7: A Fifth Platoon Chapter 8: Crossing the Rhine Chapter 9: Into the Lion’s Mouth PART FOUR – EDWARD ALLEN CARTER JR. Chapter 10: Baptism by Fire Chapter 11: A Mercenary Man Chapter 12: March to the Rhine PART FIVE – GEORGE WATSON Chapter 13: Picnic at a Hanging Chapter 14: Off to War Chapter 15: Operation Lilliput PART SIX – RUBEN RIVERS Chapter 16: Black Gold Chapter 17: A New Esprit de Corps Chapter 18: Patton’s Panthers PART SEVEN – JOHN FOX Chapter 19: Transfer Student Chapter 20: Shipping Out Chapter 21: Give ’em Hell Epilogue: The Rest of the Story Afterword: The Long Road to Recognition Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSettlers is a testament to Jimi Famurewa''s love not just for his lineage, but for the culture. An incisive, intimate and profound work.- Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie and People PersonAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today.- Ben Judah, Journalist and author of This is London: Life and Death in the World CityJimi brings modern black London alive like no other author. This feels like an important book that is also a total pleasure to read. - Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial PastThe past, present and future of being Black, African and British in the capital.This is a story that begins with post-1960s arrivals from Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Somalia. Today their descendants have unleashed a tidal wave of British creativity from Lambeth to Lagos, IslingtTrade ReviewAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today. * Ben Judah, Journalist and author of This is London: Life and Death in the World City *Illuminating and fascinating, with humour and some surprises, Jimi Famurewa examines Britain's African communities, past and present. * Stephen Bourne, author of Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War *Jimi brings modern black London alive like no other author. This feels like an important book that is also a total pleasure to read. * Sathnam Sanghera, author of EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past *Settlers is the book I didn’t know I was waiting for. Jimi Famurewa approaches an incredibly complicated topic with a steady hand and fine precision that results in a book that is well researched, rich in nuance and handled with care. It was as enjoyable to read as it was enlightening. * Jendella Benson, author of Hope & Glory *This is an extraordinary and beautifully written piece of work that deals with a deeply complex and rich history with a remarkable lightness of touch, sensitivity, warmth and insight. It is depressing to reflect on the reality that all too many people continue to question the benefits of immigration. This fine book shows beyond any doubt that London, and this country, is all the better for its Black African population. * James Ramsden *A spellbinding portrait of culture, talent, food and activism. * Stylist Magazine *Settlers is replete with revealing anecdotes… Famurewa’s writing is thoughtful, cogent and admirably even-handed. * theguardian.com *Dazzling. * Waitrose Food Magazine *[Jimi's] voice and the way he writes I just love. * Jamie Oliver *Settlers is a pleasure to read, by turns lyrical, approachable, funny, sensitive and always well-researched… [Famurewa] sweeps you along so thoroughly that you don’t realise until you close the book quite how much you have enjoyed it, how much you have learnt and how much it will stay with you. * The Spectator *Combined with [Jimi's] own family history, this is a sometimes painful but always postivie story of defiance and reclamation. * theguardian.com *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Second Great Wave 1 Farm 2 Market 3 Boat 4 Cell 5 Worship House 6 Restaurant 7 Classroom 8 Suburb Conclusion: The Next Great Wave Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisA journey into the extraordinary, vibrant world of Black African London which is shaping modern Britain. What makes a Londoner? What is it to be Black, African and British? And how can we understand the many tangled roots of our modern nation without knowing the story of how it came to be?This is a story that begins not with the Windrush Generation' of Caribbean immigrants to Britain, but with post-1960s arrivals from African countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Somalia. Some came from former British colonies in the wake of newfound independence; others arrived seeking prosperity and an English education for their children. Now, in the 2020s, their descendants have unleashed a tidal wave of creativity and cultural production stretching from Lambeth to Lagos, Islington to the Ivory Coast. Daniel Kaluuya and Skepta; John Boyega and Little Simz; Edward Enninful and Bukayo Saka everywhere you look, across the fields of sport, business, fashion, the arts and beyTrade ReviewAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today. -- Ben Judah * Journalist and author of This is London: Life and Death in the World City *Illuminating and fascinating, with humour and some surprises, Jimi Famurewa examines Britain's African communities, past and present. -- Stephen Bourne * author of Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War *Jimi brings modern black London alive like no other author. This feels like an important book that is also a total pleasure to read. -- Sathnam Sanghera * author of EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past *Settlers is the book I didn’t know I was waiting for. Jimi Famurewa approaches an incredibly complicated topic with a steady hand and fine precision that results in a book that is well researched, rich in nuance and handled with care. It was as enjoyable to read as it was enlightening. -- Jendella Benson * author of Hope & Glory *This is an extraordinary and beautifully written piece of work that deals with a deeply complex and rich history with a remarkable lightness of touch, sensitivity, warmth and insight. It is depressing to reflect on the reality that all too many people continue to question the benefits of immigration. This fine book shows beyond any doubt that London, and this country, is all the better for its Black African population. -- James RamsdenA spellbinding portrait of culture, talent, food and activism. * Stylist Magazine *Settlers is replete with revealing anecdotes… Famurewa’s writing is thoughtful, cogent and admirably even-handed. * theguardian.com *Dazzling. * Waitrose Food Magazine *[Jimi's] voice and the way he writes I just love. * Jamie Oliver *Settlers is a pleasure to read, by turns lyrical, approachable, funny, sensitive and always well-researched… [Famurewa] sweeps you along so thoroughly that you don’t realise until you close the book quite how much you have enjoyed it, how much you have learnt and how much it will stay with you. * The Spectator *Settlers is a testament to Jimi Famurewa's love not just for his lineage, but for the culture. An incisive, intimate and profound work. -- Candice Carty-Williams * author of Queenie and People Person *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Second Great Wave 1 Farm 2 Market 3 Boat 4 Cell 5 Worship House 6 Restaurant 7 Classroom 8 Suburb Conclusion: The Next Great Wave Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisWriting Black Scotland examines race and racism in devolutionary Scottish literature, with a focus on the critical significance of blackness.

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Book SynopsisHow century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.Trade ReviewCinema’s Original Sin is a fascinating, authoritative, and essential text for anyone interested in film history, the history of racism and its on-going echoes, or examining the history of ongoing social conversations from the public, press, and academia...The Birth of a Nation is not a masterpiece. It’s well-executed propaganda. It’s time to call that out and acknowledge it, which Professor McEwan definitively does with flawless scholarship and inarguable logic. It’s an essential read and an essential contribution to numerous on-going cultural conversations. * Mastering Modernity *Few films in the history of the medium have been as widely discussed as D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation...Yet it is this very excess of existing commentary that makes Paul McEwan’s contribution in the form of Cinema’s Original Sin so worthwhile and, ultimately, compelling...Tracing a long and contentious reception history that begins before cinema’s widespread acceptance as an art in its own right, McEwan delineates with rare authority how changing ideas about racism, artistic expression and film culture have been intertwined since the very earliest years of feature filmmaking in the United States. * Early Popular Visual Culture *Alongside the history McEwan keeps track of how film criticism might contribute to and ameliorate the contours of white supremacy—film criticism that includes his book and now this little review. * CHOICE *McEwan presents an enchanting and well-researched historical past . . . and argues that this controversy inside movie historical past has formed understandings of movie, race, and artwork. * Hetflix *Cinema’s Original Sin is expansive, particularly for students who think of racism and the cinema solely in terms of representational strategies. Once it becomes clear that the issue is structural, adjusting representational strategies appears an insufficient solution to the issues that led—and in some instances continue to lead—to Griffith’s defense. * Film Quarterly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A New Art, 1895–1915 2. Film Art, Intolerance, and Oscar Micheaux, 1915–1925 3. Little Theatres, MOMA, and the Birth of Art Cinema, 1925–1945 4. From American History to Film History, 1945–1960 5. In Search of Legitimacy and Masterpieces: Film Studies in the Academy, 1960–2000 6. Race, Reception, and Remix in the New Millennium Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the influence of the Federal Council of Churches' Department of Race RelationsA Theology of Brotherhood explores how the national umbrella Christian organization, the Federal Council of Churches, acted as a crucial conduit and organizational force for the dissemination of progressive views on race in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on years of archival research, Curtis J. Evans shows that the Council's theological approach to race, and in particular its anti-lynching campaign, were responsible for meaningful progress in some white Protestant churches on racial issues. The book highlights the contributions that their religious vision made in expanding and propagating a civic nationalist tradition that was grounded in a universal brotherhood and belief in the equality of all human beings, over against a racial nationalist ideology that conceived of America in ethno-racial terms. Evans makes the case that this predominantly white religious organization contriTrade ReviewAn important addition to the field, both for its scholarly significance and its contemporary relevance. This history has never been laid out in such a manner. . . . It’s a book the field has been waiting for, and that it needs. -- Matthew S. Hedstrom, University of VirginiaA unique examination of mainline Protestantism as a significant force in twentieth-century American history, one that should be examined not merely for its decline into irrelevancy but instead for its fundamental contribution to American ideas of diversity, equity, and justice. -- Paul Harvey, author of? Martin Luther King: A Religious Life

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Book SynopsisA fascinating biography of a fascinating woman. - Booklist, starred reviewThis definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods. - Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA brilliant analysis. - Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize winnerFeatured in Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Reads for the Rest of Us 2022 (books by or about historically excluded groups)Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until now, Dunbar-Nelson has largely been viewed only in relation to her abusive ex-husband, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This is the first book-length look at this major figure in Black women's history, covering her life from the post-reconstruction era through the Harlem Renaissance.Tara T. Green builds on Black feminist, sexuality, historical and cultural studies to create Trade ReviewAnalysis of Dunbar-Nelson’s stories and poems are woven into the main episodes of her life, which helps shape Green’s exquisite examination of Dunbar-Nelson’s public persona. This definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *‘Respectability politics’ has always been a flashpoint for marginalized groups … Few historical figures understood this better than Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the bisexual, feminist, and Black activist most famous for her marriage to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar but deserving of recognition for her poetry and essays. Green makes it clear that as a Black woman, Dunbar-Nelson struggled with conflicting codes of respectability … [and] chronicles how, throughout her life as clubwoman, teacher, journalist, activist, and wife to the temperamental and abusive Dunbar, Dunbar-Nelson navigated the contradictions of intersectional Black feminism, carefully guarding her image as a ‘respectable’ woman while advocating for radical causes, writing openly about colorism and same-sex relationships, and serving as her husband’s sexual scapegoat and (literal) punching bag. A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman. * Booklist (starred review) *This is the first book-length biography of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the trailblazing activist, writer, suffragist and educator, remarkably researched and written by University of North Carolina Professor Tara T. Green. * Ms. Magazine *Tara Green proves herself the scholar born to make the sojourn through archives of every kind to bring us Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. This book is superb in its ability to show through the example of a secretly queer and always revolutionary Dunbar-Nelson how Black people continue to subvert the very systems in which we participate for the sake of or survival. Thanks to Professor Green, we can finally see full-fledged that Harlem Renaissance figure whose name too many of us know better than we know her work. This is a brilliant analysis. * Jericho Brown, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emory University, USA, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Tradition *In this meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted study, Tara T. Green commences to construct a portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson that lifts her from the shadows and resituates her in a space where her talents as a writer, organizer, editor, and activist are consistently foregrounded. Green’s investigation of Dunbar-Nelson’s vast archive demonstrates with tremendous persuasiveness that far from being a minor figure in African American literary history and cultural production, Dunbar-Nelson’s work across creative, political, and activist registers anticipates the kind of work that will be taken up by Zora Neale Hurston, Pauli Murray, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker later in the 20th Century to further the cause of Black feminist organization and to challenge the intersectional barriers to an authentic and fully-realized selfhood. Producing a work that puts Green’s talents as literary detective, feminist theorist, and critical interlocutor in bold relief, what ultimately makes this study so valuable is its insistence that Dunbar-Nelson had an unflinching commitment to a life lived on its own terms, emphasizes how one Black woman’s political agency was contingent on her ability to define whom she could love and how. * Herman Beavers, Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA *The archival work Tara T. Green has done here is remarkable. We know more about Alice Dunbar-Nelson that we imagined we could know. But there's more. This book teaches us about the layers of Black women's lives that go unremarked upon even when they are remarkable. This book about Alice Dunbar-Nelson's life of activism is itself an act of liberation. * Dana A. Williams, Professor of African American Literature, Howard University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroducing a Respectable Activist 1. A Respectable Activist Is Born 2. The New Negro Woman in Alice’s Literature 3. Activism, Love, and Pain 4. Love and Writing 5. Finding Alice After Paul 6. Love and Education 7. Ms. Dunbar and Politics 8. New Negro Woman’s Activism 9. Family, Film, and the Paper 10. The Respectable Activist’s Harlem Renaissance 11. Love, Desire, and Writing 12. ’til Death Does the Activist Part Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Trade Review"A riveting guide to why the grand movement demand for 'Freedom now!' was so often eclipsed by what Dr. King called the 'tranquilizing drug of gradualism.' As acute in its meditations on the nature of time as it is in its dissection of racial liberalism."—David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History"Darda's powerful and elegant book places racial liberalism at the center of a national story about the endurance of racial subordination within a political system predicated on formal rights and equality. Provides essential bearings for our current moment of racial rebellion and reaction."—Daniel Martinez HoSang, Author of A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone

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Book SynopsisHow Americans learned to wait on time for racial change What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism—with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness—has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism, he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Trade Review"A riveting guide to why the grand movement demand for 'Freedom now!' was so often eclipsed by what Dr. King called the 'tranquilizing drug of gradualism.' As acute in its meditations on the nature of time as it is in its dissection of racial liberalism."—David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History"Darda's powerful and elegant book places racial liberalism at the center of a national story about the endurance of racial subordination within a political system predicated on formal rights and equality. Provides essential bearings for our current moment of racial rebellion and reaction."—Daniel Martinez HoSang, Author of A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone

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Book SynopsisAt a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.S. national politics, this book provides essential new understanding to the study of race, its influence on people's lives, and what we can do to address the persistent and foundational American problem of systemic racism. Knowledge about race and racism changes as social and historical conditions evolve, as different generations of scholars experience unique societal conditions, and as new voices from those who have previously been kept at the margins have challenged us to reconceive our thinking about race and ethnicity. In this collection of essays by prominent sociologists whose work has transformed the understanding of race and ethnicity, each reflects on their career and how their personal experiences have shaped their contribution to understanding racism, both in scholarly and public debate. Merging biography, memoir, and sociohistorical analysis, these essays provide vital insight into the influence of race on people's perspectives and opportunities both inside and outside of academia, and how racial inequality is felt, experienced, and confronted. Trade Review"In this must-read volume,distinguished and trailblazing sociologists reflect on their encounters with sociology and academic institutions. Pushing the boundaries of our understanding of interlocking systems of oppression, these essays reveal the often unspoken and unwritten winding career paths of marginalized faculty and the critical moments in their lives that shaped the contours of their research and their commitments for the future of the discipline. This volume is a necessary intervention, balm and reminder that those of us on the margins are not alone and that our work matters."—Victoria Reyes, Author of Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope"Prepare to be captivated by the gripping and courageous life stories woven within these pages! This groundbreaking anthology brings together a distinguished group of senior sociologists, predominantly scholars of color, who have drawn on their lifetime experiences to redefine and expand the study of racism and sexism in the United States. Engaging, thought-provoking, and richly informative, Moving from the Margins is a must-read for anyone seeking a fresh and dynamic exploration of persisting social justice issues in America and beyond."—Joe Feagin, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, and Past-President of the American Sociological Association"This insightful, deeply personal book gives a unique window into how some of the leading sociologists of race draw from their own experiences and backgrounds to develop exceptional, ground breaking scholarship. It's a must-read with a fresh take on how the personal informs the political—and the sociological!"—Adia Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, President-elect of the American Sociological Association"It is difficult to overstate the structural and systemic forces of inequality that persist in the United States, let alone the current rise in regressive laws and policies rooted in interlocking systems of white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy. And yet, reading this powerful collection of essays penned by eminent, pathbreaking scholars of race and racism, helps to make sense of it all—where we came from, where we are now, and crucially, where we might go. The generosity of these activist-scholars whose shoulders we stand on, and the vulnerability revealed in their personal and intellectual meditations, is a gift to early career scholars who will see themselves reflected in these narratives."—Zulema Valdez, University of California, MercedTable of ContentsLife Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism: An Introduction 1. Doing Sociology While Black 2. The Praxis of Being Black in America: Grounding the Intellectual Project 3. From Clueless to Critical: My Journey to Understanding the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender 4. Thinking through Race 5. Killing Me Softly: Race, Racism, and Sociology in My Life 6. "I Change Myself; I Change the World": The Testimonio of a First-Generation Chicana Scholar-Activist 7. A Critical Race Feminist at the Crossroads of Biography and History 8. An Affirmative Action Confession 9. The Sandbox, Sisterhood, and a Sociological Journey 10. From El Valle to Public Sociology: My Personal Intellectual Journey 11. Shifting Boundaries 12. Disrupting Silences: Affect and Embodied Experiences of Systemic Oppression 13. Redefining and Reclaiming Race as a Latina Sociologist 14. Always Observant: The Academic Journey of an Urban Ethnographer 15. An Outsider Within: Reflections on the Intersections of My Life and Work

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Book SynopsisAt a time when movements for racial justice are front and center in U.S. national politics, this book provides essential new understanding to the study of race, its influence on people's lives, and what we can do to address the persistent and foundational American problem of systemic racism. Knowledge about race and racism changes as social and historical conditions evolve, as different generations of scholars experience unique societal conditions, and as new voices from those who have previously been kept at the margins have challenged us to reconceive our thinking about race and ethnicity. In this collection of essays by prominent sociologists whose work has transformed the understanding of race and ethnicity, each reflects on their career and how their personal experiences have shaped their contribution to understanding racism, both in scholarly and public debate. Merging biography, memoir, and sociohistorical analysis, these essays provide vital insight into the influence of race on people's perspectives and opportunities both inside and outside of academia, and how racial inequality is felt, experienced, and confronted. Trade Review"In this must-read volume,distinguished and trailblazing sociologists reflect on their encounters with sociology and academic institutions. Pushing the boundaries of our understanding of interlocking systems of oppression, these essays reveal the often unspoken and unwritten winding career paths of marginalized faculty and the critical moments in their lives that shaped the contours of their research and their commitments for the future of the discipline. This volume is a necessary intervention, balm and reminder that those of us on the margins are not alone and that our work matters."—Victoria Reyes, Author of Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope"Prepare to be captivated by the gripping and courageous life stories woven within these pages! This groundbreaking anthology brings together a distinguished group of senior sociologists, predominantly scholars of color, who have drawn on their lifetime experiences to redefine and expand the study of racism and sexism in the United States. Engaging, thought-provoking, and richly informative, Moving from the Margins is a must-read for anyone seeking a fresh and dynamic exploration of persisting social justice issues in America and beyond."—Joe Feagin, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, and Past-President of the American Sociological Association"This insightful, deeply personal book gives a unique window into how some of the leading sociologists of race draw from their own experiences and backgrounds to develop exceptional, ground breaking scholarship. It's a must-read with a fresh take on how the personal informs the political—and the sociological!"—Adia Wingfield, Washington University in St. Louis, President-elect of the American Sociological Association"It is difficult to overstate the structural and systemic forces of inequality that persist in the United States, let alone the current rise in regressive laws and policies rooted in interlocking systems of white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy. And yet, reading this powerful collection of essays penned by eminent, pathbreaking scholars of race and racism, helps to make sense of it all—where we came from, where we are now, and crucially, where we might go. The generosity of these activist-scholars whose shoulders we stand on, and the vulnerability revealed in their personal and intellectual meditations, is a gift to early career scholars who will see themselves reflected in these narratives."—Zulema Valdez, University of California, MercedTable of ContentsLife Histories on Transforming the Study of Racism: An Introduction 1. Doing Sociology While Black 2. The Praxis of Being Black in America: Grounding the Intellectual Project 3. From Clueless to Critical: My Journey to Understanding the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender 4. Thinking through Race 5. Killing Me Softly: Race, Racism, and Sociology in My Life 6. "I Change Myself; I Change the World": The Testimonio of a First-Generation Chicana Scholar-Activist 7. A Critical Race Feminist at the Crossroads of Biography and History 8. An Affirmative Action Confession 9. The Sandbox, Sisterhood, and a Sociological Journey 10. From El Valle to Public Sociology: My Personal Intellectual Journey 11. Shifting Boundaries 12. Disrupting Silences: Affect and Embodied Experiences of Systemic Oppression 13. Redefining and Reclaiming Race as a Latina Sociologist 14. Always Observant: The Academic Journey of an Urban Ethnographer 15. An Outsider Within: Reflections on the Intersections of My Life and Work

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Book SynopsisDiscover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans. In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside explanatory text to help you visualize and truly understand societal, economic, and structural racism—along with what we can do to change it. Starting from the discovery of America in 1492, through the Civil Rights movement, all the way to the criminal justice reform today, this book has everything you need to know about the continued fight for equality.

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Book SynopsisThe concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the new and shiny face of racism? In the time of Black Lives Matter, the unswerving dehumanization and killing of Black people form the bedrock of our civilization. But a vast anti-Black collective feeling also manifests itself as a more insidious shared unconscious, hidden from view by the doctrines we deem as emancipatory. This book challenges the simplistic and pacifying aspects of current African American thought. It puts forward alternatives to intersectionality, poststructuralism, and radical democracy, which are often prioritized in the Black analysis of race, gender, and class. Accessible, historically informed, and politically alert, this book offers a critical analysis of the groundbreaking theories and strategies that radically reimagine the future of Black lives throughout the world.Trade Review“Norman Ajari’s Darkening Blackness is a masterful defense of Afro-American pessimism and Black Male Studies against the misguided view that ‘pessimism’ means hopelessness and eternal defeat. Instead, pessimism is treated as meaning the rejection of fantasies, especially the fantasy that says one more revision will alter insidious white racialized civil society and intrinsically unjust Euro/American institutions. Step into Ajari’s theoretical world and step out unburdened by fantasy.”Leonard Harris, Purdue University“For those who still do not understand that the pessimism in Afropessimism is not an emotional dispensation but a meta-critique of the first principles of Western thought, Norman Ajari’s Darkening Blackness is required reading. His analysis of Black Male Studies will have as many people nodding their heads as shaking their heads, which is the first step toward rigorous and honest debate.”Frank B. Wilderson III, Chancellor’s Professor of African American Studies, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1 The Sources of the Afropessimist ParadigmChapter 2 Theoretical Origins of AfropessimismChapter 3 From the Black Man as Problem to the Study of Black MenChapter 4 A Politics of AntagonismsPostface By Tommy CurryNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the new and shiny face of racism? In the time of Black Lives Matter, the unswerving dehumanization and killing of Black people form the bedrock of our civilization. But a vast anti-Black collective feeling also manifests itself as a more insidious shared unconscious, hidden from view by the doctrines we deem as emancipatory. This book challenges the simplistic and pacifying aspects of current African American thought. It puts forward alternatives to intersectionality, poststructuralism, and radical democracy, which are often prioritized in the Black analysis of race, gender, and class. Accessible, historically informed, and politically alert, this book offers a critical analysis of the groundbreaking theories and strategies that radically reimagine the future of Black lives throughout the world.Trade Review“Norman Ajari’s Darkening Blackness is a masterful defense of Afro-American pessimism and Black Male Studies against the misguided view that ‘pessimism’ means hopelessness and eternal defeat. Instead, pessimism is treated as meaning the rejection of fantasies, especially the fantasy that says one more revision will alter insidious white racialized civil society and intrinsically unjust Euro/American institutions. Step into Ajari’s theoretical world and step out unburdened by fantasy.”Leonard Harris, Purdue University“For those who still do not understand that the pessimism in Afropessimism is not an emotional dispensation but a meta-critique of the first principles of Western thought, Norman Ajari’s Darkening Blackness is required reading. His analysis of Black Male Studies will have as many people nodding their heads as shaking their heads, which is the first step toward rigorous and honest debate.”Frank B. Wilderson III, Chancellor’s Professor of African American Studies, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 The Sources of the Afropessimist Paradigm Chapter 2 Theoretical Origins of Afropessimism Chapter 3 From the Black Man as Problem to the Study of Black Men Chapter 4 A Politics of Antagonisms Postface By Tommy Curry Notes Index

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