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John Wiley & Sons Telling Stories in the Face of Danger Language Renewal in Native American Communities
Book SynopsisHighlighting language renewal programs, Telling Stories in the Face of Danger presents case studies from various North American communities that show tribal stories as vehicles of moral development, healing, and the construction of identity.
£21.95
John Wiley & Sons American Carnage Wounded Knee 1890
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account of Wounded Knee to appear in more than fifty years, this volume explores the complex events preceding the tragedy, the killings, and their troubled legacy. In this gripping tale, Jerome Greene explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates how it became a brutal massacre.Trade ReviewJerome Greene's retelling of Wounded Knee is simply kili (awesome). Please read and understand."" - Her Many Horses, Michael, Wounded Knee community member""The story of Wounded Knee has been told many times, yet never from the vantage of such a wealth of new sources. Jerome A. Greene provides the definitive last word in this masterfully told account."" - R. Eli Paul, author of Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854 - 1856""Wounded Knee is an inordinately complex story. Jerome A. Greene's thoughtful, artful, passionately written story is destined to become its new foundational history."" - Paul L. Hedren, author of After Custer: Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
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University of Oklahoma Press Indians and Emigrants Encounters on the Overland
Book SynopsisIn the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict.Trade ReviewA significant - and readable - book."" - Robert M. Utley, Western Historical Quarterly
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University of Oklahoma Press Native Performers in Wild West Shows From
Book SynopsisNow that the West is no longer so wild, it's easy to dismiss Buffalo Bill Cody's world-famous Wild West shows as promoters of stereotypes and clichés. But looking at this unique American genre from the Native American point of view provides thought-provoking new perspectives.Trade ReviewFew people might seem more prone to exploitation than Indians performing in Wild West shows. But by illuminating the continuing dance between objectification and agency, loss and resilience, cultural destruction and cultural rebirth, this carefully researched, eye-opening book explains the long history of these remarkable performers from the nineteenth century to the present."" - Louis S. Warren, author of Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show""A distinguished contribution to the literature about Wild West shows and the performative tradition in Native America. With imagination and skill, the author engages significant debates concerning representations of Native peoples and recurring questions about Native agency. The scholarship is not only sound; it is a model for ethnohistory."" - L. G. Moses, author of Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883 - 1933""The most complete and varied analysis of Native agency in Wild West shows to date. . . . McNenly's use of traditional archival sources, as well as oral histories, photographs, and material culture, and her effective synthesis of the pertinent scholarship in a range of connected fields make Native Performers in Wild West Shows a significant addition to the field."" - David M. Wrobel, in the American Historical Review""Adeptly introduces readers to the representational politics of Native performers in Wild West shows and to what lies at stake for those who have chosen to perform in them."" - Pacific Historical Review""McNenly maps Native agency transnationally and across time to reveal a legacy of North American Indian performance that broadens our understanding of how power and representation are negotiated in colonial encounters."" - Canadian Journal of History
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John Wiley & Sons Contesting the Borderlands
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John Wiley & Sons Arapaho Womens Quillwork
Book SynopsisMore than a hundred years ago, anthropologists and other researchers collected and studied hundreds of examples of quillwork once created by Arapaho women. Jeffrey Anderson brings this distinctly female art form out of the darkness and into its rightful spotlight within the realms of both art history and anthropology.
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John Wiley & Sons The Mound Builder Myth Fake History and the Hunt for a Lost White Race
Book SynopsisThe first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans. Jason Colavito traces this monumental deception from the farthest reaches of the frontier to the halls of Congress, mapping a century-long conspiracy to fabricate and promote a false ancient history.Trade ReviewJason Colavito explains how the myth of a 'lost white race' as the builders of North America's earthen mounds has survived for so long and still resonates with those Americans willing to believe in conspiracy theories or racial superiority. The Mound Builder Myth shows that the battle between science and superstition never ends."" - David La Vere, author of Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb
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John Wiley & Sons Rivers of Power
Book SynopsisAlthough the Creeks constitute a sovereign nation today, the concept of the nation meant little to their ancestors in the Native South. Rather, as Steven Peach contends in Rivers of Power, the Creeks of present-day Georgia and Alabama conceptualized rivers as the basis of power, leadership, and governance in early America.
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Philosophical Library A World Without Jews
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Penguin Random House LLC Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting AfroAsian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
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Louisiana State University Press The State of AfroAmerican History Past Present Future
Book SynopsisIn the fall of 1983 a group of scholars met at Purdue University for the American Historical Association Conference on the Study and Teaching of Afro-American history. This group included some of the most prominent historians and educators in their professions, and at this landmark meeting they assessed and evaluated the entire field of Afro-American history, its past, present, and future. The sponsorship of the American Historical Association officially acknowledged the coming of age of black history as a vital and respected part of American history. The contributions of many outstanding scholars and educators make The State of Afro-American History, the proceedings of that conference, an authoritative and provocative examination of the Afro-American experience during slavery and since emancipation. Individual essays cover the ways in which black slaves shaped their environment, the forces that influenced the black urban experience in the United States, the evolution of scholarship
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Shattered Nation The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy 18611868
Book SynopsisPresents an argument that white Southerners did not begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union. This book also demonstrates that an attachment to a symbolic or sentimental Confederacy existed independent of the political Confederacy.
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Hill & Wang Shades of Hiawatha Staging Indians Making Americans 18801930
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Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. The Incorporation of America Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
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Penguin Random House LLC My Bondage and My Freedom
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Random House USA Inc Fantasyland
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Random House USA Inc Mr. B
Book SynopsisPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • “A fascinating read about a true genius and his unrelenting thirst for beauty in art and in life.”—MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography and the Marfield Prize for Arts Writing • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Baillie Gifford PrizeBased on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing”—from the bestselling author of Apollo’s AngelsNew York Times Editors’ Choice • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Voices of the Apalachicola
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University Press of Florida Creating and Consuming the American South
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Before the Pioneers
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University Press of Florida Pauulus Diaspora
Book SynopsisTells a sweeping story of black internationalism across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Ocean worlds, told through the life and work of twentieth-century environmental activist Pauulu Kamarakafego. Challenging US-centered views of Black Power, Quito Swan offers a radically broader perspective.Trade ReviewA powerful, thoroughly researched, diasporic history of Black liberation politics during most of the 20th Century. . . . A remarkable study in political evolution and tenacity." - Choice"Makes crucial contributions to a set of inter-connecting literatures that probe the breadth and depth of black internationalism. . . . Leaves us pondering how deeply this material--and technical--history might shift our understandings of the routes of black internationalism and the registers of black power." - Journal of Social History
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Rutgers University Press Indians of New Jersey Dickon Among the Lenapes
Book SynopsisTells the story of the Lenape Indians who lived in what is now New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. The book describes their culture, crafts, and language as no other book has done. In presenting the lore and heritage of the Lenapes, Dr. M.R. Harrington does so through the eyes of a shipwrecked English boy who was eventually adopted into the tribe.
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MW - Rutgers University Press Honor and the American Dream Culture and Identity in a Chicano Community
Book SynopsisThirty-second Street in Chicago. A Chicano community, peaceful on a warm summer night, residents socializing, children playing - and gang warfare ready to explode at any time. Ruth Horowitz takes us to the heart of this world.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Culture and Inner-City Neighborhoods 3. Marginality and the American Dream 4. The Expanded Family and Family Honor 5. Young Men in the Streets: Honor and Reputation 6. Femininity and Womanhood: Virginity, Unwed 7. Education and School Authority 8. Earning a Living 9. Adult Juvenile Gang Membership 10. The Consequences of Being Different 11. Community Culture and Locally Rooted Identities Notes Bibliography Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Mexican Workers and the American Dream Immigration Repatriation and California Farm Labor 19001939
Book SynopsisIn the first forty years of the twentieth century, over one million Mexican immigrants moved to the US, attracted by farm work in California. Camille Guerin-Gonzales tells the story of their migration, their years here, and of the 1930s repatriation program - one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the US government.Trade ReviewBased on exhaustive research in U.S. and Mexican archives, this study offers a richly textured history of Mexican immigrants in rural California. A work of exceptional breadth, especially with regard to repatriation, [it] is a pivotal contribution to Chicano historiography and immigration studies. -- Vicki L. Ruiz * Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor in the Humanities, The Claremont Gradua *Guerin-Gonzales's special contribution is the link she explores between immigrant experience and the American dream. The towering irony her fine book reveals is how an ideology of promise for others was for the Mexican migrants the justification for their exploitation and, when the Great Drepression struck, for expelling many of them from the country. -- David Brody * University of California, Davis *A valuable study of an essential part of American history . . . [and] a demonstration that commitment and compassion can coexist with solid scholarship. -- Patricia Nelson Limerick * University of Colorado, Boulder, and author of The Legacy of Conquest *Enriches our understanding of the first four decades of the twentieth century. -- David Montgomery * Yale University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: WHITE AMERICAN DREAMS 1 Pastoral Dreams in California 2 Mexican "Birds of Passage" PART TWO: RACIAL LIMITATIONS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM 3 Whiteness and Ethnic Identity 4 "Mexicans Go Home!" PART THREE: DREAMING AMERICA 5 Los
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MW - Rutgers University Press Women of Belize Gender and Change in Central America
Book SynopsisThree women living in Belize in Central America describe their experiences of motherhood, marriage, illness, emigration, separation, work or domestic violence, and how it led them to recognize gender inequality. The book shows how they challenged the culture of gender in their home and community.
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MW - Rutgers University Press Hair Raising Beauty Culture and African American Women
Book SynopsisWe all know there is a politics of skin color, but is there a politics of hair?In this book, Noliwe Rooks explores the history and politics of hair and beauty culture in African American communities from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. Trade ReviewRooks's excellent book is a welcome entry in the feminist debates about American 'beauty culture'... Readable, accessible, and helpfully illustrated. * Choice *Rooks dig deep to describe how beauty and culture have politicized African American women and demonstrates that Western definitions of beauty are often not endorsed by African American women. Compelling. * Booklist *Hair Rising is insightful, engaging, imaginative, and even musical. Rooks harmonizes her voice as a scholar analyzing hair with her voice as a black woman talking politics with other black women, in salons and parlors, to the rhythms of combing, brushing, braiding, and straightening... This a must-read! -- Gloria Wade-Gayles * Professor of English and Women's Studies, Spelman College, and author of Pushed Back to Strength: A *Rooks deconstructs dominant cultural notions of femininity and/or beauty with humor, dignity, and a defiant sassiness. Read this book! -- Joanne M. Braxton * Frances and Edwin L. Cummings Professor of America Studies and English, The College of William and M *Table of ContentsNappi by nature: afros, hot combs, and black pride Beauty, race, and black pride Advertising contradictions Broadening representational boundaries Gender, hair, and African American women's magazines In search of connections
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Rutgers University Press Resistance of the Heart Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisWho were these intermarried Germans? Why did Hitler and Goebbels give in to the protesters and release two thousand Jews? Resistance of the Heart is a powerful response to these questions. Using interviews with survivors and thousands of Nazi records never before examined in detail, Nathan Stoltzfus has reconstructed an inspiring story...Trade Review"Stoltzfus has written a powerful, exhaustively researched report on that rare episode of open, successful resistance ... Interwoven here are the poignant, compelling histories of couples from mixed marriages who opposed the Nazis – and survived the regime." * Publishers Weekly *"Gripping. . . Stoltzfus persuasively argues that the Rosenstrasse protest contradicts the standard German claim that they could do nothing to stop their government, and indeed most of the German Jews who married non-Jewish Germans survived." * New York Times *"Here is human interest interwoven with scholarship." * New Statesman, book of the year 1997 *"Stoltzfus is a careful and subtle historian and the result of his labours is no less sensational and thoughtprovoking." * The Sunday Telegraph *"Stoltzfus has created a cogent account, made all the more compelling by the often gripping personal stories of the participants. He pays glowing tribute to their superhuman tenacity ... moreover, he builds a convincing argument." * Jerusalem Post *"An event buried in the past is resurrected here to shed light on the nature and character of the Nazi regime, the Holocaust, and the German people themselves ... An important work that refracts larger political issues and ethical questions through the prism of a unique event." * Kirkus Reviews *"Stoltzfus is the first to investigate the events leading to the protest systematically and in depth, not only on the basis of archival material but, more importantly perhaps, on the basis of interviews with surviving participants and eyewitnesses ... and it is to Dr. Stoltzfus's great credit that he has saved from oblivion some of these unsung heroes ... Their memory, not least owing to Dr. Stoltzfus's study, will live on ... Fascinating and moving." * Walter Laqueur, from the foreword *Table of ContentsI. Hitler's theory of power II. Stories of Jewish-German courtship III. The politics of race, sex, and marriage IV. Courage and intermarriage V. Mischlinge: "A particularly unpleasant occurrence" VI. Society versus law: German-Jewish families and social restraints on Hitler VII. Society and law: German-Jewish families and German collaboration with Hitler VIII. Kristallnacht: Intermarriages and the lessons of Pogrom IX. At war and at home: Mischlinge in Hitler's army X. Racial hygiene, Catholic protest, and noncompliance, 1939-41 XI. The Star of David decree: The official story and the intermarried experience XII. The price of compliance and the destruction of Jews XIII. Plans to clear the Reich of Jews, and the obstacles of women and "total war" XIV. Courageous women of Rosenstrasse XV. Protest, rescue, and resistance
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Black Press New Literary and Historical Essays
Book SynopsisThis study progresses chronologically from abolitionist newspapers to the impact and implications of the Internet, to reveal how the black press' content and its very form changed with evolving historical and cultural conditions in America.Trade Reviewàprovides substantive, multi-dimensioned interpretations of texts and images that gave voice and influence to people marginalized by mainstream society. àThis collection of essays is a welcome addition to the historiography of the black press. * Journalism History *From the antebellum years, when abolitionist Frederick Douglass gained prominence, through the Harlem Renaissance . . . black publications have always flourished. This scholarly collection tracks their history. * Library Journal *This volume is new evidence of the persistent vitality of the black press over more than 170 years. The thirteen essays cover a span from David WalkerÆs Appeal (1829), a pioneering antislavery tract, to Internet editions of black newspapers. * CJR *With the essays gathered here, Vogel eloquently demonstrates that the early black pressÆs contribution to African American life and culture and mainstream American culture extended beyond slavery and elite African American issues. . . . This volume will help the reader gain a fuller understanding of not just African American culture but also the varied cultural battles fought throughout the U.S.Æs history. The collection begins in the 1820s with the first print publication, and ends in the twenty-first century with online black presses. . . . The volume combines history, culture, and theory in assessing the value, responsibilities, and challenges of the black press and other ethnic publications, past, present, and future. * Choice *Ambitious and wide-ranging, a number of the essays in The Black Press reflect the best and most innovative interpretive strategies in African American and Black diaspora studies. -- Kevin Gaines * University of Michigan *The work of historical recuperation provided by The Black Press is especially valuable not only for what it tells us about the evolution of black culture in the United States, but also for what it reveals about the undercurrents of American culture at key moments in history. -- Eric J. Sundquist * Northwestern University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction / Todd Vogel Part I The Antebellum Years Circulating the Nation: David Walker, the Missouri Compromise, and the Rise of the Black Press / Robert S. Levine The New Face of Black Labor / Todd Vogel Frederick Douglass's ``Colored Newspaper'': Identity Politics in Black and White / Robert Fanuzzi ``We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident'': The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's Journalism / Shelley Fisher Fishkin / Carla L. Peterson Part II After the Civil War Black Separatism in the Periodical Writings of Mrs. A. E. (Amelia) Johnson / Wendy Wagner Poetics of Memory and Marginality: Images of the Native American in African-American Newspapers, 1870-1900 and 1970-1990 / Hannah Gourgey Part III The Harlem Renaissance and the 1930s Our(?) Country: Mapping ``These `Colored' United States'' in The Messenger / Adam Mckible ``Bombed in Spain'': Langston Hughes, the Black Press, and the Spanish Civil War / Michael Thurston Part IV World War II and Postwar America ``Kin in Some Way'': The Chicago Defender Reads the Japanese Internment, 1942-1945 / C. K. Doreski On Sale at Your Favorite Newsstand: Negro Digest /Black World and the 1960s / James C. Hall ``Photographs Taken in Everyday Life'': Ebony's Photojournalistic Discourse / Maren Stange Black Panther Newspaper: A Militant Voice, a Salient Vision / Rodger Streitmatter The Black Press in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Two Exemplars / Anna Everett Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Military Power and Popular Protest The USNavy in Vieques Puerto Rico
Book SynopsisA complete analysis of the troubled relationship between the US Navy and the residents of Vieques, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico. Since the 1940s when the navy expropriated over two-thirds of the island, residents have struggled to make a life amid the bombs and weaponry fire.Trade ReviewMcCaffrey's outstanding analysis movingly narrates this community's longstanding anguish and accurately situates the Vieques movement in the larger context of U.S. military policy in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico's unresolved status quandary. Those interested in understanding the Vieques crisis will find Military Power and Popular Protest an indispensable work. -- Amflcar Antonio Barreto * author of Vieques, the Navy, and Puerto Rican Politics *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Acronyms and Spanish Terms Introduction One. A Strategic Colony on the Margins of the Empire Two. Cultural Identity of Vieques Three. The Fishermen's War Four. We Are a Species in Danger of Extinction: The Aftermath of the Fishermen's Crusade Five. Organizing for Change Six. From Pescadores to Rescatores: The Resurgence and Transformation of Struggle Seven. The Battle of Vieques Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Chinatown Family Multiethnic Literatures of the Americas
Book SynopsisLin Yutang (1895–1976), author of more than thirty-five books, was arguably the most distinguished Chinese American writer of the twentieth century. In Chinatown Family, he brings humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion as he tells the engrossing and heart-warming story of an immigrant, working-class Chinese American family that settled in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. Tracing their sometimes troubled and sometimes rewarding journey, Lin paints a vivid portrait of the wonder and the woe of settling into a new land. In an era when interracial marriages were frowned upon and it was forbidden for working-class Chinese men to bring their families to America, this story shows how one family struggled to become new Americans by applying their Taoist philosophy to resist peacefully the discriminatory laws and racism they encountered.Beyond the quest for acceptance and economic success, Chinatown Family also probes deep intTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chronology Introduction Chinatown Family Explanatory notes
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John Wiley & Sons Laughing Mad The Black Comic Persona in Postsoul America
Book SynopsisFocuses on the ways in which the comic persona is constructed and changes across media, from stand-up, to the small screen, to film. This title examines the comic televisual and cinematic personae of Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, and Richard Pryor and considers how these figures set the stage for black comedy.Trade ReviewThis enormously valuable book will have a major impact on the ways in which scholars and general readers alike think about race, gender, and comic performance. -- Valerie Smith * Princeton University *In Laughing Mad, Bambi Haggins deftly uses comedy to complicate the construction, performance, and masquerade of blackness especially as it relates to racial politics, white supremacy, and black critique. -- Herman Gray * author of Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Enter laughing From Negro to Black: coming of comic age in the Civil Rights era Murphy and Rock: from the "Black guy" to the "Rock star" Post-soul comedy goes to the movies: cinematic adjustments and [pop] cultural currency Crossover diva: Whoopi Goldberg and persona politics Dave Chappelle: provocateur in the promised land Epilogue: Laughing sad, laughing mad
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John Wiley & Sons Comedy American Style Multiethnic Literatures of the Americas American Style Jessie Redmon Fauset MultiEthnic Literatures of the Americas Mela
Book SynopsisPresents the tragic tale of a family's destruction - the story of a mother who denies her clan its heritage.Table of ContentsChronology Introduction A Note on the Text Comedy: American Style Selected Essays Yarrow Revisited Nostalgia This Way to the Flea Market Selected Poems Oriflamme TouchT La Vie C'est la Vie Explanatory Notes
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John Wiley & Sons Jose Vasconcelos The Prophet of Race
Table of ContentsPreface Ilan StavansThe Prophet of Race Jose VasconcelosMestizaje The Race Problem in Latin America Chronology Acknowledgments
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MW - Rutgers University Press The Sovereignty of Quiet Beyond Resistance in
Book SynopsisAfrican American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. This explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts, as represented in the idea of quiet could change common conceptions and provide a more nuanced view of black culture.Trade Review"With fluid and beautiful prose, Quashie’s book not only offers readers another way to think about African American selfhood, but also other ways to approach the very act of reading itself."— Emily Bernard, author of Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance "Quashie challenges the general assumption that African American commentary is expressed in loud voices as he studies the often-overlooked internal conflicts of 'black culture'. His intertwining of both factual and fictional situations provides a brilliant and intriguiging insight that ultimately suggests an overwhelming gentle message about African American protest and resistance. Recommended." — Choice "The Sovereignty of Quiet is a profound and excellent look at quiet and its relationship with black identity, black culture, and existentialism. With impeccable scholarship, beautiful writing, and powerful arguments, Quashie makes a fabulous contribution to the field. A success!"— Debra Walker King, author of African Americans and the Culture of PainTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Publicness, Silence, and the Sovereignty of the Interior 2. Not Double Consciousness but the Consciousness of Surrender 3. Maud Martha and the Practice of Paying Attention 4. Quiet, Vulnerability, and Nationalism 5. The Capacities of Waiting, the Expressiveness of Prayer Conclusion Acknowledgments Permissions Notes Bibliography Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacan From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement Latinidad Transnational Cultures in the United States
Trade Review"This is an engaging, well researched, and thoughtfully organized book on an important topic—the transnational civic engagement of Mexican migrants and their organizations on both sides of the US-Mexico border." -- Michael Peter Smith * co-author of Citizenship Across Borders *"Xóchitl Bada’s richly nuanced study provides compelling evidence that migrant hometown associations have become an integral part of Chicago’s civic landscape, while simultaneously gaining standing as path-breaking advocates for accountable governance at local, state and national levels in Mexico." -- Jonathan Fox * author of Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico *Table of ContentsSeries Page Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Migrant Generosity and Transnational Civic Engagement 2. The Transformation of Mexican Migrant Organizations 3. Genealogies of Hometown Associations 4. Migrant Clubs to the Rescue 5. Participatory Planning across Borders 6. Expanding Agendas and Building Transnational Coalitions Notes References Index
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Child the State and the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisTraces the the story of victimized childhood to its origins in nineteenth-century Britain. Almost as soon as “childhood” became a distinct category, Laura C. Berry contends, stories of children in danger were circulated as part of larger debates about child welfare and the role of the family in society.
£38.30
Ohio State University Press Listen to Me Good
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Ohio State University Press Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing
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Wayne State University Press The Jews of Kurdistan Jewish Folklore Anthropology
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Wayne State University Press Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance
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Wayne State University Press History of the Finns in Michigan
Book SynopsisOriginally published in Finnish in 1967, this text brings the story of the contribution of Finnish immigrants into the mainstream of Michigan history. Firsthand experiences are combined with research in Finnish language sources to create the story of an immigrant group in Michigan's development.Table of ContentsForeword by A. William Hoglund 1. The Origin of the Einns; 2. Early Enigration from Finland; 3. More Recent Emigration from Finland; 4. The First Finn in Michigan; 5. The Copper Country; 6. Gogebic County; 7. Marquette, Dickinson, and Iron Counties; 8. The Eastern Counties of the Upper Peninsula; 9. Lower Michigan; 10. Churches; 11. The Rise and Decline of the Temperance Movement; 12. The Rise and Decline of the Labor Movement; 13. The Knights and Ladies of Kaleva; 14. The Cooperative Movement; 15. Cultural and Educational Achievements; 16. The Swedish Finns in Michigan; 17. Finland and the Finns of Michigan; 18. From What Parishes Did They Come?
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Wayne State University Press Disciplining Germany Youth Reeducation and Reconstruction After the Second World War Kritik German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Series
Book SynopsisDuring Hitler's reign, Nazis deliberately developed and exploited a youthful image and used youth to define their political and social hierarchies. This title analyzes a variety of media, including literature, news media, and films, in order to argue that youth and education played a central role in Germany's coming to terms with the Nazi past.
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New York University Press Morocco since 1830 A History
Book SynopsisThis text explores the profound changes that have affected social relations in Morocco over the last 150 years, particularly those between the sexes and between linguistic identities and cultures. It provides a portrait of Morocco under colonial and post-colonial leadership.
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Taylor & Francis Inc The New Labor Radicalism and New York Citys
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2000. This study examines how Progressive Labor, an antirevisionist offshoot of the Communist Party USA, attempted to revolutionize the labor front in New York City's garment industry during the 1960s. An ideologically driven group, whose founders were loyal to Stalinism and attracted by Maoism, Progressive Labor set out in 1962 to become the vanguard of the American working class.Table of ContentsPart I Reinventing American Communism: An Overview of Progressive Labor in the 1960s and 1970s, Chapter 1. Antirevisionism in Action: The Origin of the Progressive Labor Party, 1956-1965, Chapter 2. Purifying the Communist Movement and Searching for Utopia: Progressive Labor in Theory, 1965-1982, Chapter 3. Reform, Revolution, and the Search for the Working Class: Progressive Labor in Practice, 1962-1982, P art II New Communists in an Old Anticommunist Union: Progressive Labor and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union in the 1960s 69 Chapter 4. New Communists Challenge Old Socialists: Trespassing on “Dubinsky’s Plantation,” 1962-1966, Chapter 5. The Making of a Communist Trucker: The Political Apprenticeship of a Progressive Labor Colonizer in Garment Trucking, 1940-1966, Place: Progressive Labor, Garment Trucking and Local 32 , ILGWU, 1967-1970, Chapter 7. Anatomy of a Communist-Led Wildcat Strike: Progressive Labor, Figure Flattery and Local 32 , ILGWU, 1968, Chapter 8. Anatomy of an Anticommunist Purge: Progressive Labor, Figure Flattery, and Local 32, ILGWU, 1968-1969
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The American College and University A History
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Baptized in Blood The Religion of the Lost Cause 18651920
Book SynopsisSoutherners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity. Out of defeat emerged a civil religion that embodied the Lost Cause. This book states that the Lost Cause version of the regional civil religion was a powerful expression.
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University of Hawai'i Press Selling Songs and Smiles The Sex Trade in Heian
Book SynopsisExplores female sexual entertainment (songs and smiles) during Japan's Heian and Kamakura periods, examining the gradual construction of a transgressive identity (prostitute) for women engaged in the sex trade. This study unravels social attitudes toward female sexual entertainers.Trade Review"[This] is a work of weight; it is concise, focused, meticulously researched, and written with nuance and aplomb." - Monumenta Nipponica "Goodwin offers an erudite account that acknowledges all prior scholarly work on the subject.... The book is packed with juicy details, historically necessary and judiciously picked from sources not usually encountered. Of major interest, however, is Goodwin's ability to see behind the self-serving screens of political history, to divine the true intentions of this demonization of one of the few professions then open to women, and to present her facts in the fairest possible manner." - Japan Times"
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