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Book SynopsisIt's time we get back to common sense.It's time to cancel the cancel culture.It's time to Wake Up.If, like me, you're sick and tired of being told how to think, speak, eat and behave, then this book is for you.If, like me, you think the world's going absolutely nuts, then this book is for you.If, like me, you think NHS heroes and Captain Tom are the real stars of our society, not self-obsessed tone-deaf celebrities (and royal renegades!), then this book is for you. If, like me, you're sickened by the cancel culture bullies destroying people's careers and lives, then this book is for you. From feminism to masculinity, racism to gender, body image to veganism, mental health to competitiveness at school, the right to free speech and expressing an honestly held opinion is being crushed at the altar of woke' political correctness. In 2020, the world faced its biggest crisis in a generation: a global pandemic. In the UK, it exposed deep divisions within society and laid bare a toxic culture

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Book SynopsisA timely and defiant manifesto unpacking the past, present and future of women's sport, from the Olympic gold medal-winning founder of The [Female] Athlete Project.'A must-read'-Laura Henshaw'A brilliant argument in favour of the case for women's sport'-Liz EllisWhen Chloe Dalton was eight years old, she would practise her goal kicks in the half-time break of her brothers' rugby matches, all the while telling impressed onlookers: 'Girls don't play rugby.'Sixteen years later, Chloe Dalton won Olympic gold playing rugby sevens for Australia and is now a fixture in the AFLW. In 2020, she started her own news platform, The [Female] Athlete Project, because while she was surrounded by women achieving incredible things in sport, nobody was hearing about them.This book shines a light on the interlinked quagmires of respect, opportunity, representation and pay that continue to stall the progress of women's teams around the world. Girls Don't Play Sport is a fierce manifesto advocating for female athletes at all levels. It explores how we got to this point and asks where we need to go next to embrace the untapped potential of women's sport.'Captivating, empowering and relatable . . . a must-read.'-Ellie Cole'Chloe's tireless commitment to sharing female athletes' unique stories and struggles is inspiring.'-Tayla Harris'For too long, female sport has been undervalued and under-resourced. But the tide is turning, and the message this book presents is clear: ignore us at your own peril.'-Cate CampbellTrade Review'An enthralling read about the trajectory of women's sport in modern society. The story told by Chloe shows how she is as accomplished on the field(s) as she is passionate about the continuous push to progress female athletes in Australian sport.'Ellyse Perry'An incredibly important insight into the history and current reality for women playing sport-a must-read.'Laura Henshaw'Gripping, groundbreaking and essential reading. You'll want to read this with a highlighter handy, I had so many "a-ha" moments while reading this. For too long female sport has been undervalued and under-resourced. But the tide is turning, and the message this book presents is clear: ignore us at your own peril.'Cate Campbell'Girls Don't Play Sport is an achievement by Chloe Dalton that is incredibly captivating, empowering and relatable. Her passion and ability to bring the stories of female athletes to life make this book a must-read. It is a testament to the strength and determination of women who have defied societal expectations and left an indelible mark on the world of sports.'Ellie Cole'A brilliant argument in favour of the case for women's sport.'Liz Ellis'Chloe's tireless commitment to sharing female athletes' unique stories and struggles is inspiring.'Tayla Harris

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Book Synopsis Vertiginous Life provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of unforeseen social change, people experience confusion as to where and when they belong on timelines of previously unquestioned pasts and futures. Through individual stories from crisis Greece, this book explores the everyday affects of vertigo: nausea, dizziness, breathlessness, the sense of falling, and unknowingness of Self. Being lost in time, caught in the spin-cycle of crisis, people reflect on belonging to modern Europe, neoliberal promises of accumulation, defeated futures, and the existential dilemmas of life held captive in the uncanny elsewhen.Trade Review “This is groundbreaking work in all terms – ethnographically, conceptually, analytically. The kind of book that will become a classic in more than one field.” • Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Durham University “This is an insightful and gripping account of a troubling undercurrent in Greece as depicted in the personal narratives by men and women who still struggle to build lives and livelihoods in the aftermath of the 2009 crash of the country’s state economy.” • Kathryn A. Kozaitis, Georgia State UniversityTable of Contents Preface Introduction: Vertigo: Temporalities and Inconstancies Chapter 1. Mairi: The Nausea of Unknowingness Chapter 2. Dimitris: Rebuilding from Rubble Chapter 3. Antonis: Technology and the Elsewhen Chapter 4. Alexia: Life in Suspension Chapter 5. Aphrodite: Captivity of Chronic Crisis Conclusion: Parting Shots Epilogue: A Note on Crisis References Index

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Book SynopsisIt's the kind of book that makes you wonder, why wasn't this written before?' It could change lives' EVENING STANDARDTurns everything you've been taught about sex on its head' RUBY RAREAn urgent, myth-busting book that dismantles sex misinformation and reimagines sexual freedom for today.Clueless about everything from her own anatomy to relationships, Sophia Smith Galer's sex education classes left her with more questions than answers. But what she didn't know was that this lack of knowledge was about to turn her life upside down as it does to countless people in the UK every year.Thanks to inadequate sex education, many of us are finishing school knowing more about STDs and condoms than the bigger sexual picture our own physicality, pleasure and consent. And the effects can last a lifetime.In Losing It, Smith Galer shares the eye-opening stories of ordinary people affected by sex misinformation and finds that many of us are unable to access the world of sexual freedom that we've beeTrade Review‘I can’t tell you how much I needed a book like this growing up’KATE LISTER, TELEGRAPH, FOUR STARS ‘It’s the kind of book that makes you wonder, ‘why wasn’t this written before?’ It could change lives’EVENING STANDARD ‘More of us are having open conversations about consent and pleasure. Losing It is a valuable part of that conversation’THE TIMES ‘Urgent, myth-busting’REFINERY 29 ‘Optimistic … Smith Galer is at her best when writing about the global picture, and she includes some fascinating interviews with women from across the world’NEW STATESMAN ‘Many books claim to be myth-busting, but this terrific debut truly is … Essential reading for anyone whose sex education and formative sexual experiences were distinctly lacking. Most of us, in other words.’ THE BOOKSELLER ‘EDITOR’S CHOICE’ ‘A stunning debut … Not only a call to arms, but a forceful affirmation of what we owe to one another – good sex and healthy relationships’FERN RIDELL ‘Compassionate, vibrant, deftly argued … Smith Galer’s rigorously researched book is an urgently needed, unputdownable joy – and a triumph’ELINOR CLEGHORN ‘Turns everything you’ve been taught about sex on its head’RUBY RARE ‘Compelling, informative, compassionate: Sophia has done an incredible job tackling the myths and stories our society tell around sex – I wish I’d had this book to read a decade ago!’YASSMIN ABDEL-MAGIED ‘Sophia Smith Galer is one of the UK’s most impressive young journalists, and here’s further proof of her talents… A compelling book, full of persuasive, punchy prose’GREG JENNER ‘A daring and eloquently written book … With statistics to smash our warped view of topics such as virginity and consent, this is a must read’PATSY STEVENSON ‘With compassion, intelligence, and engrossing storytelling … It is essential and empowering reading’DAVID ROBSON

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Book SynopsisWe''re living in an age of division. From abortion rights to immigration, gun control to climate change, civil debate has gone out the window. Manners, order, and respect are being eroded. Why can''t we all be reasonable? The trouble is, what''s ''reasonable'' to one person is outrageous to another. Is it okay to let children play in the garden while others are working from home? To do your makeup on a train, or recline your seat on an aeroplane? What''s the right way to breastfeed? To protect your neighbourhood? To protest against injustice and oppression? In a world where we all think we''re being reasonable, how can we figure out what''s right? Looking back through history and around the world, Kirsty Sedgman set out to discover how unfairness and discrimination got baked into our social norms, dividing us along lines of gender, class, disability, sexuality, race... Instead of measuring human behaviour against outdated standards of rules and reason,

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Book SynopsisConceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor's space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of Afrocentricity, as the sheer mention of the word draws reaction and fear from either uniformed or conventional personnel. The book organizes Asante's writings into four categories: history, mythology, ethos, and motif. Arranged theoretically, these are the four concepts that describe and evaluate culture from an Afrocentric perspective. This study offers an assessment of Asante's body of literature that continues to position the philosophy and ideals of the Afrocentric movement internationally. In the context of being a public intellectual, the core of Asante's analysis draws inferences in locating Africana occurrences in place, space, and time. Advancing this idea further, the purpose of these presages is to motivate scholaTrade Review“This important collection has great potential for mitigating the widespread misunderstanding of the construct of ‘Afrocentricity,’ as advanced by Molefi Kete Asante. Much of the criticism leveled at Asante fails to understand, as he appropriately reminds readers, that Afrocentricity is articulated as ‘the ideological centerpiece of human regeneration, systematizing our history and experience with our own culture at the core of existence.’ Building on intellectual insights of Cheikh Anta Diop, Asante has not only weathered the heavy criticism, he has produced a remarkable volume of scholarship that explicates and extends his initial formulations. The selections in this volume provide readers, and especially serious students of Africana Studies, with a unique opportunity to follow the trajectory of Asante’s intellectual explorations, and also to better understand the ideology and values that catalyzed the formation of the discipline.” James B. Stewart, Professor Emeritus, Penn State University“Molefi Kete Asante, the founding theorist of Afrocentricity, is one of the pre-eminent, independent thinkers and theorists of our times. His wide body of work has influenced and helped shape dialog and discourse in the academy and society and affirms his vital and enduring place in the intellectual history of African people. This collection of Professor Asante’s essays with reflections by his former students is an added and important contribution to engaging and appreciating the scholar and his transformative intellectual initiative and achievement.” Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair, Department of Africana Studies, California State University, Long Beach“This is a significant volume focusing upon the work of a great intellectual who has contributed so much to scholarship in American higher education. It is a must-read for all who would seek to be enlightened by one of the major works in Africana studies.” Delores P. Aldridge, Grace Towns Hamilton Distinguished Professor Emerita of Sociology and African American Studies and Founding Director of African American and African Studies (1971–1990), Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements – Introduction – History – Mythology – Motif – Ethos – Reflection Essays – Conclusion – Index.

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Book SynopsisConceptually, Molefi Kete Asante: A Critical Afrocentric Reader is a reflexive analysis of the editor's space in higher education over the past three decades. As a historical assessment, this reader is a narrative that offers a constructive perspective of Afrocentricity, as the sheer mention of the word draws reaction and fear from either uniformed or conventional personnel. The book organizes Asante's writings into four categories: history, mythology, ethos, and motif. Arranged theoretically, these are the four concepts that describe and evaluate culture from an Afrocentric perspective. This study offers an assessment of Asante's body of literature that continues to position the philosophy and ideals of the Afrocentric movement internationally. In the context of being a public intellectual, the core of Asante's analysis draws inferences in locating Africana occurrences in place, space, and time. Advancing this idea further, the purpose of these presages is to motivate scholaTrade Review“Molefi Kete Asante, the founding theorist of Afrocentricity, is one of the pre-eminent, independent thinkers and theorists of our times. His wide body of work has influenced and helped shape dialog and discourse in the academy and society and affirms his vital and enduring place in the intellectual history of African people. This collection of Professor Asante’s essays with reflections by his former students is an added and important contribution to engaging and appreciating the scholar and his transformative intellectual initiative and achievement.” Maulana Karenga, Professor and Chair, Department of Africana Studies, California State University, Long Beach“This important collection has great potential for mitigating the widespread misunderstanding of the construct of ‘Afrocentricity,’ as advanced by Molefi Kete Asante. Much of the criticism leveled at Asante fails to understand, as he appropriately reminds readers, that Afrocentricity is articulated as ‘the ideological centerpiece of human regeneration, systematizing our history and experience with our own culture at the core of existence.’ Building on intellectual insights of Cheikh Anta Diop, Asante has not only weathered the heavy criticism, he has produced a remarkable volume of scholarship that explicates and extends his initial formulations. The selections in this volume provide readers, and especially serious students of Africana Studies, with a unique opportunity to follow the trajectory of Asante’s intellectual explorations, and also to better understand the ideology and values that catalyzed the formation of the discipline.” James B. Stewart, Professor Emeritus, Penn State University“This is a significant volume focusing upon the work of a great intellectual who has contributed so much to scholarship in American higher education. It is a must-read for all who would seek to be enlightened by one of the major works in Africana studies.” Delores P. Aldridge, Grace Towns Hamilton Distinguished Professor Emerita of Sociology and African American Studies and Founding Director of African American and African Studies (1971–1990), Emory UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements – Introduction – History – Mythology – Motif – Ethos – Reflection Essays – Conclusion – Index.

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Book SynopsisGirlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty explores the phenomenon of child beauty pageants in rural communities throughout the American South. In a bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnographies, critical hermeneutics, and cultural studies lenses, this book analyzes how the performance of participantsmost from a lower socio-economic bracketand the power exercised by beauty pageant culture work to formulate girls' identities. Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power also examines how depictions in popular culture through film, videos, documentaries, and television shows add to the dialogue. Author Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy suggests rural pageant culture works to create girlhood identity and shapes the way participants view the world and themselvesthrough intricate cultural work in terms of gender and class. This book is intended for students and teachers who are interested in dissecting rural girlhood and development, Southern American Trade Review“Occasionally a book like Girlhood, Beauty Pageants, and Power: Trailer Park Royalty appears and opens complicated conversations that are intriguing. Conceptualizations of female identity and beauty pageants dwell in this text within the context of Southern place. The analysis swirls with a bricolage of critical traditions. Elisabeth B. Thompson-Hardy deftly negotiates the relationships among language, social institutions, beauty pageants, subjectivity, class, power, and place. This book is a major contribution to fields as diverse as cultural studies, gender studies, and place studies. It is a first-rate scholarly contribution. Read it.” —William M. Reynolds, Associate Professor of Curriculum, Foundations, & Reading, Georgia Southern UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements – Introduction – Rural Beauty Pageant Culture, Girlhood, and Power – Situating the Bricolage: Research and the Critical Tradition – Bricolage: Cultural Studies, Poststructural Feminism, and Poststructuralist Ethnography – Pageant Culture, Media, Social Class, and Power – Conclusions and Directions for Future Study.

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Book SynopsisCommunities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills and characteristics that can help to promote equality by challenging injustice. Working with people in different types of community can bring the kind of social change that makes a real and lasting difference. Although justice is a contested notion, Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally assert that it is closely interlinked with human rights and equality. A critical examination of contemporary literature draws on educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives, to set community practices within a context for learning that is conversational, critical and informal. Social justice is about identifying and seeking to address structural disadvantage, discrimination, Trade Review“Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally have produced a closely argued and well-illustrated text that shows a sound understanding of relevant theory and a sensitive appreciation of the situations of young people, communities and those who work with them. I recommend <> as a key text for policy makers, practitioners and those who research community and youth development.” Ian Finlay, University of OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction – Striving for Unifying Principles and Values – Social Justice and Equality – Community – Understanding Power and Empowerment – Critical Reflexivity – An Alternative Social Vision – Positive Psychology and Resilience in Communities – A Critical Border Pedagogy for Praxis – Index.

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Book SynopsisCommunities for Social Change: Practicing Equality and Social Justice in Youth and Community Work examines core ideas of social justice and equality that underpin community and youth work. It informs understanding of a range of community concepts and practices that are used to identify practical skills and characteristics that can help to promote equality by challenging injustice. Working with people in different types of community can bring the kind of social change that makes a real and lasting difference. Although justice is a contested notion, Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally assert that it is closely interlinked with human rights and equality. A critical examination of contemporary literature draws on educational, sociological, and psychological perspectives, to set community practices within a context for learning that is conversational, critical and informal. Social justice is about identifying and seeking to address structural disadvantage, discrimination, Trade Review“Annette Coburn and Sinéad Gormally have produced a closely argued and well-illustrated text that shows a sound understanding of relevant theory and a sensitive appreciation of the situations of young people, communities and those who work with them. I recommend <> as a key text for policy makers, practitioners and those who research community and youth development.” Ian Finlay, University of OxfordTable of ContentsAcknowledgments – Introduction – Striving for Unifying Principles and Values – Social Justice and Equality – Community – Understanding Power and Empowerment – Critical Reflexivity – An Alternative Social Vision – Positive Psychology and Resilience in Communities – A Critical Border Pedagogy for Praxis – Index.

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Book SynopsisOut of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self): Black Masculinity, Psychopathology, and Treatment provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of racialized masculinity in Black males. This text explores the current theories related to gender development and racial identity development and their impact on the formation and expression of Black masculinity. Specifically, this text investigates the intersection between Black masculinity development, racial identity, and race-related traumas/stressors. Out of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self): Black Masculinity, Psychopathology, and Treatment highlights the dual experience of social oppression and cultural identity suppression as the catalyst for the formation of unintegrated Black masculinity, and its subsequent influence on Black male mental health. Lastly, this book provides a comprehensive discussion concerning therapist variables and clinical interventions that can be helpful when working with Black males in a clinical settinTable of ContentsIntroduction – Gender Development and Black Masculinity – Racial Identity Development and Black Masculinity – Black Male Psychopathology – Creating Clinical Interventions for Black Males – Clinical Interventions.

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Book SynopsisOut of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self): Black Masculinity, Psychopathology, and Treatment provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of racialized masculinity in Black males. This text explores the current theories related to gender development and racial identity development and their impact on the formation and expression of Black masculinity. Specifically, this text investigates the intersection between Black masculinity development, racial identity, and race-related traumas/stressors. Out of K.O.S. (Knowledge of Self): Black Masculinity, Psychopathology, and Treatment highlights the dual experience of social oppression and cultural identity suppression as the catalyst for the formation of unintegrated Black masculinity, and its subsequent influence on Black male mental health. Lastly, this book provides a comprehensive discussion concerning therapist variables and clinical interventions that can be helpful when working with Black males in a clinical settinTable of ContentsIntroduction – Gender Development and Black Masculinity – Racial Identity Development and Black Masculinity – Black Male Psychopathology – Creating Clinical Interventions for Black Males – Clinical Interventions.

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Book SynopsisIn the first systematic account of judicial rulings striking down cyberbullying laws in the United States and Canada, Sympathy for the Cyberbully offers an unapologetic defense of online acid-tongued disparagers and youthful and adult sexters. In the first decade of the 21st century, legitimate concerns about the harmful effects of cyberbullying degenerated into a moral panic. The most troubling aspect of the panic has been a spate of censorshipthe enactment of laws which breach long-standing constitutional principles, by authorizing police to arrest and juries to convict, and schools to suspend, individuals for engaging in online expression that would be constitutionally protected had it been communicated offline. These hastily drawn statutes victimize harsh critics of elected officials, scholars, school officials and faculty, distributors of constitutionally protected pornography, adolescents talking smack, and teens who engage in the consensual exchange of nude images, eveTrade Review“Cyberbullying, sexting, and revenge pornography have strained robust free speech principles in the United States and elsewhere. Arthur S. Hayes provides an important resource for understanding the challenges the dark underbelly of Internet communications have presented to courts and legislators, detailing how well-intentioned policymakers may have overreached in their efforts to protect victims in ways that threaten speech that is legitimate, and in some cases, valuable. Rich details of cases and controversies arising in the past decade illustrate the difficult tradeoffs in emergent online speech jurisprudence.” Daxton Stewart, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Texas Christian University; Editor of <> (2013)Table of ContentsPreface – Acknowledgment – Anti-Cyberbullying Laws: A Sober Analysis through the Moral Panic Theory Lens – Cyberbullying and Free Speech – The Unnecessary and Unjust Creation of Virtual Juvenile Delinquents – “Enclaves of Totalitarianism” – Censorship Redux: The 21st Century Attack on the First Amendment Right of Public Criticism by the Use of Cyberharassment, Cyberstalking and Online Impersonation Laws – Image Control: Who Loses When Teen Sexting and Revenge Porn Are Criminalized? – The Short Life and Quick Death of the First Cyberbullying Law in Canada (August 6, 2013–December 10, 2015) – Cases Index – Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the first systematic account of judicial rulings striking down cyberbullying laws in the United States and Canada, Sympathy for the Cyberbully offers an unapologetic defense of online acid-tongued disparagers and youthful and adult sexters. In the first decade of the 21st century, legitimate concerns about the harmful effects of cyberbullying degenerated into a moral panic. The most troubling aspect of the panic has been a spate of censorshipthe enactment of laws which breach long-standing constitutional principles, by authorizing police to arrest and juries to convict, and schools to suspend, individuals for engaging in online expression that would be constitutionally protected had it been communicated offline. These hastily drawn statutes victimize harsh critics of elected officials, scholars, school officials and faculty, distributors of constitutionally protected pornography, adolescents talking smack, and teens who engage in the consensual exchange of nude images, eveTrade Review“Cyberbullying, sexting, and revenge pornography have strained robust free speech principles in the United States and elsewhere. Arthur S. Hayes provides an important resource for understanding the challenges the dark underbelly of Internet communications have presented to courts and legislators, detailing how well-intentioned policymakers may have overreached in their efforts to protect victims in ways that threaten speech that is legitimate, and in some cases, valuable. Rich details of cases and controversies arising in the past decade illustrate the difficult tradeoffs in emergent online speech jurisprudence.” Daxton Stewart, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Texas Christian University; Editor of <> (2013)Table of ContentsPreface – Acknowledgment – Anti-Cyberbullying Laws: A Sober Analysis through the Moral Panic Theory Lens – Cyberbullying and Free Speech – The Unnecessary and Unjust Creation of Virtual Juvenile Delinquents – “Enclaves of Totalitarianism” – Censorship Redux: The 21st Century Attack on the First Amendment Right of Public Criticism by the Use of Cyberharassment, Cyberstalking and Online Impersonation Laws – Image Control: Who Loses When Teen Sexting and Revenge Porn Are Criminalized? – The Short Life and Quick Death of the First Cyberbullying Law in Canada (August 6, 2013–December 10, 2015) – Cases Index – Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisBoondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South is a collection of twelve short stories that addresses issues of race, place, and identity in the postCivil Rights American South. Using historical, spectral, and hip hop infused fiction, Boondock Kollage critically engages readers to question the intersections of regionalism and black culture in current American society.Trade Review"Boondock Kollage is an intricate collection of stories that will be new yet deeply familiar to any reader. These tales are new because they take place in rural Georgia, in a specific tree and lake studded landscape peopled with small, particular communities; they are familiar because the characters that people this place, with their wide, sloped shoulders, their intricate wigs, the way they shuffle and joke and comfort and misunderstand and shore each other up, are achingly human. In Bradley's hands, these varied pieces cohere into a deeply compelling, moving work of art. This collection will be deeply satisfying for the reader who wants to experience the full range of human emotion, who wants to feel fear, triumph, bone-deep sadness, and bright joy, because this author does it all." Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English, Tulane University; author of Men We Reaped and Salvage the Bones"Regina Bradley is a gifted writer who makes contemporary southern black life visible and viable. She writes us as our beautiful, black, redeemable selves. Boondock Kollage is a masterful collection of twelve short stories that introduces Bradley as an up-and-coming storyteller who's been hearing and telling stories all of her life. This is her heart project, and she gives us her heart. The intimacy and familiarity from which she writes southern black life not only humanizes us, it loves (on) us. Her carefully crafted prose gives a glimpse of black folk and black life in the post–Civil Rights black South, offering a mirror so we can see ourselves and our memories in line after line, page after page, story after story. You will carry her stories, her characters, and her characterizations with you. They feel like home. They feel like us. They feel like ours." Robin M. Boylorn, Associate Professor of Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication, The University of Alabama; author of Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of ResilienceTable of ContentsKiese Laymon: Foreword – Prologue: Reckoning – Acknowledgments – Part One: Reaching Back Around – A Visitation from Grace – Intentions – Between the Hedges – Good Bleach – Part Two: Long Division – Beautiful Ones – Happy Feelins – Splish-Splash – Skin Carnival – As Above So Below – Part Three: Stitches in Time – The Apothecary – Moving Furniture – Some Kind of Wonderful (Illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson) – Discussion Question Bank.

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Book SynopsisBoondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South is a collection of twelve short stories that addresses issues of race, place, and identity in the postCivil Rights American South. Using historical, spectral, and hip hop infused fiction, Boondock Kollage critically engages readers to question the intersections of regionalism and black culture in current American society.Trade Review"Boondock Kollage is an intricate collection of stories that will be new yet deeply familiar to any reader. These tales are new because they take place in rural Georgia, in a specific tree and lake studded landscape peopled with small, particular communities; they are familiar because the characters that people this place, with their wide, sloped shoulders, their intricate wigs, the way they shuffle and joke and comfort and misunderstand and shore each other up, are achingly human. In Bradley's hands, these varied pieces cohere into a deeply compelling, moving work of art. This collection will be deeply satisfying for the reader who wants to experience the full range of human emotion, who wants to feel fear, triumph, bone-deep sadness, and bright joy, because this author does it all." Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English, Tulane University; author of Men We Reaped and Salvage the Bones"Regina Bradley is a gifted writer who makes contemporary southern black life visible and viable. She writes us as our beautiful, black, redeemable selves. Boondock Kollage is a masterful collection of twelve short stories that introduces Bradley as an up-and-coming storyteller who's been hearing and telling stories all of her life. This is her heart project, and she gives us her heart. The intimacy and familiarity from which she writes southern black life not only humanizes us, it loves (on) us. Her carefully crafted prose gives a glimpse of black folk and black life in the post–Civil Rights black South, offering a mirror so we can see ourselves and our memories in line after line, page after page, story after story. You will carry her stories, her characters, and her characterizations with you. They feel like home. They feel like us. They feel like ours." Robin M. Boylorn, Associate Professor of Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication, The University of Alabama; author of Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of ResilienceTable of ContentsKiese Laymon: Foreword – Prologue: Reckoning – Acknowledgments – Part One: Reaching Back Around – A Visitation from Grace – Intentions – Between the Hedges – Good Bleach – Part Two: Long Division – Beautiful Ones – Happy Feelins – Splish-Splash – Skin Carnival – As Above So Below – Part Three: Stitches in Time – The Apothecary – Moving Furniture – Some Kind of Wonderful (Illustrated by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson) – Discussion Question Bank.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays presents a theoretically grounded and research-based process in which the multiple facets of self are explored. While these facets have been studied in the literature using universal theories, Despertando el Ser posits that it is important to generate our own epistemological understandings grounded in the lived experience of Latina/o educators. Moving away from majoritarian perspectives of teacher personal development, using a sociocultural and critical theory kaleidoscopic lens, this book critically examines the notion of Latino teacher identities and other facets of self. Despertando el Ser theorizes that a Latino teacher's identity is an intersection between the personal and professional selves consisting of ethnic/cultural identities, consciousness, beliefs, and motives for teaching. Presented in Despertando el Ser is an awakening of self as an ethnic/cultural being, exploring positionality and consciousness, and unearthing our beliTrade Review“Belinda Bustos Flores and Ellen Riojas Clark have written a gem for all pre-service (aspiring teachers), in-service teachers, or teacher educators. From the opening pages of Despertando el Ser, the authors deftly weave stories of Latina/o teachers valuing their cultural and linguistic heritage and struggling towards change in their self-perceptions as well as notions about others. Seasoned teacher educators, the authors and their contributors tell rich and complex stories of how transformation occurs within persons who have experienced oppression and are developing critical consciousness.”—Mary Louise Gomez, Professor, Literacy Studies and Teacher Education, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Antonia Darder: Foreword: Awaken my people!— ¡Coño despierta boricua! – Belinda Bustos Flores/Ellen Riojas Clark: Preface: Illuminating the Despertando el Ser Transformational Process – Acknowledgments – Belinda Bustos Flores/Ellen Riojas Clark: Despertando el Ser: Awakening the Ethnic Identity and Consciousness of Latino Teachers – Daniel Alejandro González/Ellen Riojas Clark: Porque soy lo que soy: Weaving a Theoretical Perspective to Understand Latino Teachers’ Identities and Positionalities – Lilliana Patricia Saldaña: Mexican American Teachers: Transforming Educational Injustice Through Pedagogies of Lived Experience – Belinda Bustos Flores/Amalia Guirao: Cultivating Aspirantes’ Spanish Proficiency, Ethnolinguistic Identity, and Ideology – Belinda Bustos Flores/Lisa Santillán: Mí Concientización: Unraveling Aspirantes’ Ideological Beliefs – Claudia Verdín/Lorena Claeys: Latina and Mexicana STEM Educators’ Concientización: Desenterrando los Motivos para Enseñar – Ellen Riojas Clark/Belinda Bustos Flores – Descubriendo el Ser: Metamorphic Journey for Becoming Culturally Efficacious – Lisa Santillán: Keepin’ It Real: Latino Teachers Enacting Cultural Transformation – Claudia Treviño García: El Renacer De Maestras Bilingües: Exploring Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Culturally Efficacious Dispositions – Ellen Riojas Clark/Belinda Bustos Flores: Así Seremos: Our Sabiduría as Actualization – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays presents a theoretically grounded and research-based process in which the multiple facets of self are explored. While these facets have been studied in the literature using universal theories, Despertando el Ser posits that it is important to generate our own epistemological understandings grounded in the lived experience of Latina/o educators. Moving away from majoritarian perspectives of teacher personal development, using a sociocultural and critical theory kaleidoscopic lens, this book critically examines the notion of Latino teacher identities and other facets of self. Despertando el Ser theorizes that a Latino teacher's identity is an intersection between the personal and professional selves consisting of ethnic/cultural identities, consciousness, beliefs, and motives for teaching. Presented in Despertando el Ser is an awakening of self as an ethnic/cultural being, exploring positionality and consciousness, and unearthing our beliTrade Review“Belinda Bustos Flores and Ellen Riojas Clark have written a gem for all pre-service (aspiring teachers), in-service teachers, or teacher educators. From the opening pages of Despertando el Ser, the authors deftly weave stories of Latina/o teachers valuing their cultural and linguistic heritage and struggling towards change in their self-perceptions as well as notions about others. Seasoned teacher educators, the authors and their contributors tell rich and complex stories of how transformation occurs within persons who have experienced oppression and are developing critical consciousness.”—Mary Louise Gomez, Professor, Literacy Studies and Teacher Education, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Antonia Darder: Foreword: Awaken my people!— ¡Coño despierta boricua! – Belinda Bustos Flores/Ellen Riojas Clark: Preface: Illuminating the Despertando el Ser Transformational Process – Acknowledgments – Belinda Bustos Flores/Ellen Riojas Clark: Despertando el Ser: Awakening the Ethnic Identity and Consciousness of Latino Teachers – Daniel Alejandro González/Ellen Riojas Clark: Porque soy lo que soy: Weaving a Theoretical Perspective to Understand Latino Teachers’ Identities and Positionalities – Lilliana Patricia Saldaña: Mexican American Teachers: Transforming Educational Injustice Through Pedagogies of Lived Experience – Belinda Bustos Flores/Amalia Guirao: Cultivating Aspirantes’ Spanish Proficiency, Ethnolinguistic Identity, and Ideology – Belinda Bustos Flores/Lisa Santillán: Mí Concientización: Unraveling Aspirantes’ Ideological Beliefs – Claudia Verdín/Lorena Claeys: Latina and Mexicana STEM Educators’ Concientización: Desenterrando los Motivos para Enseñar – Ellen Riojas Clark/Belinda Bustos Flores – Descubriendo el Ser: Metamorphic Journey for Becoming Culturally Efficacious – Lisa Santillán: Keepin’ It Real: Latino Teachers Enacting Cultural Transformation – Claudia Treviño García: El Renacer De Maestras Bilingües: Exploring Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Culturally Efficacious Dispositions – Ellen Riojas Clark/Belinda Bustos Flores: Así Seremos: Our Sabiduría as Actualization – Contributors – Index.

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Book SynopsisUnCommon Bonds is a collection of essays written by women representing multiple identities; all uniquely addressing the impactful experiences of race, ethnicity, and friendship in the context of the United States. The essays unapologetically explore the challenges of developing and maintaining cross-racial friendships between women. A primary goal of this book is to resist simplifying cross-racial friendships. Instinctively, the editors believe that there is a unique joy and pain in these relationships that is rarely easy to summarize. The essays reflect narratives that challenge assumptions, disclose deep interpersonal struggles, and celebrate the complex sisterhood between women across racial lines.For more information, please visit: www.uncommonbondsbook.comTrade Review“Women telling our own stories is an important pathway to liberation. Healing from the trauma of racism, particularly in the context of intimate relationships, is a challenging but often necessary part of peace building efforts. «UnCommon Bonds» has opened the door and invited us to the table for a long overdue conversation.” Leymah Gbowee, peace activist and winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize“Female friendship has long lived in the shadows. This book shines a light on the joy and challenge of the intimate risk of cross-racial friendship. Its powerful, passionate stories share hard-won wisdom, mak-ing this book a gift to students and friends alike.” Rachel Simmons, author of «Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls»“When we are willing to speak our truth, listen with an open heart, and accept that race cannot be a hands off subject in a cross-racial friendship, a deeper bond can be allowed to grow. The brutally honest essays of «UnCommon Bonds» offer us the courage to ask more of ourselves and our relationships.” Karyn Parsons, actress/producer and founder of Sweet Blackberry“Kersha Smith and Marcella Runell Hall have curated a touching set of essays that invite us to think with nuance about the challenges and rewards of interracial and cross-cultural friendships. The works bristle with honesty, dig-ging deep into the challenges of forming rare ‘uncommon bonds’ of sisterhood across differences that are not merely descriptive, but imbricated in the asymmetrical power relations that shape the world we share. If you are looking for a rousing chorus of Kumbaya, look elsewhere—this book reveals the complicated, difficult, self-reflective, and transformative work that makes it possible for adult women to call some few true loves, sista-friends.” Deva Woodly-Davis, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School, and author of «The Politics of Common Sense»“At a time in history where hate, violence, and division have returned us, full speed, to pre–Civil Rights America, along comes this remarkable and bridge-building anthology, «UnCommon Bonds». From the Women’s March to the #MeToo movement, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, from Black Lives Matter to intersectionality, this is a collection of unapologetically free writings from some of the most visionary leaders and thinkers in the world today. Read them, hear them, feel them, and be prepared to follow them, too, because their hope and challenges are the path to our wokeness, and our salvation.” Kevin Powell, author of «The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey to Manhood»“Into a cultural landscape sorely lacking in representations of cross-racial friendships between women, «UnCom-mon Bonds» arrives as both revelation and gift—an uncommonly candid, nuanced guide to nurturing those bonds in the name of personal growth and social justice.” Emily Lordi, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of «Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature» and «Donny Hathaway Live»“«UnCommon Bonds is a brave, thoughtful, complicated and honest examination of the challenges and rewards of building and sustaining authentic cross-race friendships. The book examines the issue in a range of creative and engaging ways—through autobiographical narratives, essays, dialogues, letters and critical social analysis linked to personal experience. The result is a provocative and urgent exploration of why this effort can be so hard, as well as a testament to how life affirming and essential cross-race relationships can be. Unlike other books that focus only on cross-race alliances between women of color and white women, this book also looks at the challenges and opportunities in the bonds created among women of color from diverse racial groups. Further, it attends to the in-tersections of class, gender, generation, transnational location and other aspects of identity that impact such rela-tionships—all the while keeping race central to the dialogue. The book offers breathtaking honesty and coura-geous truth telling from women of color about the damage white ignorance and cowardice can do to relation-ships—even within multiracial families. It also offers a wake-up call and some excellent modeling for white women about the commitment, humility, self-reflection and vulnerability necessary for being trustworthy partners/allies to women of color. The writing is vivid, strong and deeply moving with many powerful lessons to offer readers who struggle to create meaningful relationships across race. The hard-won knowledge reflected in this book is a gift to us all.” Lee Anne Bell, Professor Emerita, Barnard College, and author of «Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching»“What does it take to forge and maintain a truly authentic, mutual, life-giving and soul-satisfying friend-ship across lines of race and ethnicity? «UnCommon Bonds» speaks to this question through a diverse collection of women’s narratives, powerful in both their honesty and critical analysis. The transformational possibility they offer is a gift—I recommend you open it!” Beverly Tatum, President Emerita, Spelman College, and author of «Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations on Race»“«UnCommon Bonds» is just the book we need to read right now. The 2016 Presi-dential campaign revealed deep fissures across and between women along racial lines that captured news headlines. This collection of essays, however, gets to the heart of uncommon bonds—those bonds of deep friendship between women across race. Race matters. It bonds, and it breaks. In essays that shift seamlessly from the personal and the systemic, «UnCommon Bonds» shows how central love, trust, and commitment are to navigating broader systems informing sisterhood and race. These beautiful and brave accounts move beyond simplistic assumptions to uncover the messy and meaningful dynamics of interracial friendships between women.” Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Associate Professor, African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University, and author of «Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Racial Consciousness»Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Sonia Nieto: Foreword – Kersha Smith / Marcella Runell Hall: Introduction – Joicelyn Dingle: Of My Purple Life – Stacey Gibson-Jessica Havens: It’s All About the Rhythm: Birthing Sisterhood – Robin DiAngelo: "When You Do It to Me, It’s Racism" – Nelle Mills: Filiation – Liza A. Talusan: The Support I Need – Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson-Christina Marín: Marginal Friendship: An Exploration of Culture, Privilege, and Sisterhood – Thembisa S. Mshaka: Friends in Real Life – Amber Buggs: Race Is a Factor, Not a Foundation – Millicent R. Jackson: Across the Abyss – Felice Belle-Anne Murphy: Dear Sis/Love, Sis – Jennifer M. D. Matos-Gail E. Norskey: Choosing Each Other: Love, Friendship, and Racism – S. Lenise Wallace-Eman Mosharafa-Joni Schwartz: Black, White, and Brown: A Collaborative Autoethnography Analyzing the Race and Friendship of Three Women in Academia – Mira Sengupta-Samantha González-Block: A Joyful Dance Between Friends: The Story of Our Hindu–Muslim, Jewish–Christian Friendship – Paulette Dalpes-Berenecea Johnson Eanes: Sliding Doors, Intentional Choices – JLove Calderón: Ride or Die: Relationships Beyond Constructs – Roberta Samet-Imani Romney-Rosa: Letters – Rani Varghese-Allia Abdullah-Matta-Hye-Kyung Kang: "The Ladies Salon": Building Intellectual and Personal Collective(s) – Deinya Phenix: The "Crazy White Lady" and Other Archetypes in Workplace Friendships, Boundaries, and Power – Keisha L. Green: Trust – Jamila Lyiscott: Afterword: Crossing – Contributors.

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Book SynopsisUnCommon Bonds is a collection of essays written by women representing multiple identities; all uniquely addressing the impactful experiences of race, ethnicity, and friendship in the context of the United States. The essays unapologetically explore the challenges of developing and maintaining cross-racial friendships between women. A primary goal of this book is to resist simplifying cross-racial friendships. Instinctively, the editors believe that there is a unique joy and pain in these relationships that is rarely easy to summarize. The essays reflect narratives that challenge assumptions, disclose deep interpersonal struggles, and celebrate the complex sisterhood between women across racial lines.For more information, please visit: www.uncommonbondsbook.comTrade Review“Into a cultural landscape sorely lacking in representations of cross-racial friendships between women, «UnCom-mon Bonds» arrives as both revelation and gift—an uncommonly candid, nuanced guide to nurturing those bonds in the name of personal growth and social justice.” Emily Lordi, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of «Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature» and «Donny Hathaway Live»“Women telling our own stories is an important pathway to liberation. Healing from the trauma of racism, particularly in the context of intimate relationships, is a challenging but often necessary part of peace building efforts. «UnCommon Bonds» has opened the door and invited us to the table for a long overdue conversation.” Leymah Gbowee, peace activist and winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize“When we are willing to speak our truth, listen with an open heart, and accept that race cannot be a hands off subject in a cross-racial friendship, a deeper bond can be allowed to grow. The brutally honest essays of «UnCommon Bonds» offer us the courage to ask more of ourselves and our relationships.” Karyn Parsons, actress/producer and founder of Sweet Blackberry“At a time in history where hate, violence, and division have returned us, full speed, to pre–Civil Rights America, along comes this remarkable and bridge-building anthology, «UnCommon Bonds». From the Women’s March to the #MeToo movement, from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, from Black Lives Matter to intersectionality, this is a collection of unapologetically free writings from some of the most visionary leaders and thinkers in the world today. Read them, hear them, feel them, and be prepared to follow them, too, because their hope and challenges are the path to our wokeness, and our salvation.” Kevin Powell, author of «The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey to Manhood»“What does it take to forge and maintain a truly authentic, mutual, life-giving and soul-satisfying friend-ship across lines of race and ethnicity? «UnCommon Bonds» speaks to this question through a diverse collection of women’s narratives, powerful in both their honesty and critical analysis. The transformational possibility they offer is a gift—I recommend you open it!” Beverly Tatum, President Emerita, Spelman College, and author of «Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations on Race»“Kersha Smith and Marcella Runell Hall have curated a touching set of essays that invite us to think with nuance about the challenges and rewards of interracial and cross-cultural friendships. The works bristle with honesty, dig-ging deep into the challenges of forming rare ‘uncommon bonds’ of sisterhood across differences that are not merely descriptive, but imbricated in the asymmetrical power relations that shape the world we share. If you are looking for a rousing chorus of Kumbaya, look elsewhere—this book reveals the complicated, difficult, self-reflective, and transformative work that makes it possible for adult women to call some few true loves, sista-friends.” Deva Woodly-Davis, Associate Professor of Politics, The New School, and author of «The Politics of Common Sense»“«UnCommon Bonds» is just the book we need to read right now. The 2016 Presi-dential campaign revealed deep fissures across and between women along racial lines that captured news headlines. This collection of essays, however, gets to the heart of uncommon bonds—those bonds of deep friendship between women across race. Race matters. It bonds, and it breaks. In essays that shift seamlessly from the personal and the systemic, «UnCommon Bonds» shows how central love, trust, and commitment are to navigating broader systems informing sisterhood and race. These beautiful and brave accounts move beyond simplistic assumptions to uncover the messy and meaningful dynamics of interracial friendships between women.” Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Associate Professor, African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University, and author of «Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Racial Consciousness»“Female friendship has long lived in the shadows. This book shines a light on the joy and challenge of the intimate risk of cross-racial friendship. Its powerful, passionate stories share hard-won wisdom, mak-ing this book a gift to students and friends alike.” Rachel Simmons, author of «Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls»“«UnCommon Bonds is a brave, thoughtful, complicated and honest examination of the challenges and rewards of building and sustaining authentic cross-race friendships. The book examines the issue in a range of creative and engaging ways—through autobiographical narratives, essays, dialogues, letters and critical social analysis linked to personal experience. The result is a provocative and urgent exploration of why this effort can be so hard, as well as a testament to how life affirming and essential cross-race relationships can be. Unlike other books that focus only on cross-race alliances between women of color and white women, this book also looks at the challenges and opportunities in the bonds created among women of color from diverse racial groups. Further, it attends to the in-tersections of class, gender, generation, transnational location and other aspects of identity that impact such rela-tionships—all the while keeping race central to the dialogue. The book offers breathtaking honesty and coura-geous truth telling from women of color about the damage white ignorance and cowardice can do to relation-ships—even within multiracial families. It also offers a wake-up call and some excellent modeling for white women about the commitment, humility, self-reflection and vulnerability necessary for being trustworthy partners/allies to women of color. The writing is vivid, strong and deeply moving with many powerful lessons to offer readers who struggle to create meaningful relationships across race. The hard-won knowledge reflected in this book is a gift to us all.” Lee Anne Bell, Professor Emerita, Barnard College, and author of «Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching»Table of ContentsAcknowledgments – Sonia Nieto: Foreword – Kersha Smith / Marcella Runell Hall: Introduction – Joicelyn Dingle: Of My Purple Life – Stacey Gibson-Jessica Havens: It’s All About the Rhythm: Birthing Sisterhood – Robin DiAngelo: "When You Do It to Me, It’s Racism" – Nelle Mills: Filiation – Liza A. Talusan: The Support I Need – Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson-Christina Marín: Marginal Friendship: An Exploration of Culture, Privilege, and Sisterhood – Thembisa S. Mshaka: Friends in Real Life – Amber Buggs: Race Is a Factor, Not a Foundation – Millicent R. Jackson: Across the Abyss – Felice Belle-Anne Murphy: Dear Sis/Love, Sis – Jennifer M. D. Matos-Gail E. Norskey: Choosing Each Other: Love, Friendship, and Racism – S. Lenise Wallace-Eman Mosharafa-Joni Schwartz: Black, White, and Brown: A Collaborative Autoethnography Analyzing the Race and Friendship of Three Women in Academia – Mira Sengupta-Samantha González-Block: A Joyful Dance Between Friends: The Story of Our Hindu–Muslim, Jewish–Christian Friendship – Paulette Dalpes-Berenecea Johnson Eanes: Sliding Doors, Intentional Choices – JLove Calderón: Ride or Die: Relationships Beyond Constructs – Roberta Samet-Imani Romney-Rosa: Letters – Rani Varghese-Allia Abdullah-Matta-Hye-Kyung Kang: "The Ladies Salon": Building Intellectual and Personal Collective(s) – Deinya Phenix: The "Crazy White Lady" and Other Archetypes in Workplace Friendships, Boundaries, and Power – Keisha L. Green: Trust – Jamila Lyiscott: Afterword: Crossing – Contributors.

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Book SynopsisMedia Representations of African American Athletes in Cold War Japan addresses the cross-cultural dialogue between Black America and Japan that was enabled through sports during the Cold War era. This topic has hitherto received little scholarly attention in both American studies and sports studies. After World War II, Cold War tensions pulled African American athletes to the center stage and initiated their international mobility. They served as both athletic Cold Warriors and embodiments of a colorblind American democracy. This book focuses on sports in the Cold War era as a significant battlefield that operated as an ideologically and racially contested terrain. Yu Sasaki argues that one of the most crucial Cold War racial contacts occurred through sports in Asia, and particularly, in Japan. The mobility of African American athletes captured the attention of the Japanese media, which created unique narratives of sports and race in US-occupied Japan after World War II. AdopTable of ContentsList of Figures – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Basketball in Black and White: The Harlem Globetrotters, Japan, and Cold War Politics – The Tigerbelles of Tennessee State University: Race, Gender, and the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games – The African American Race: Japan and the Black Power Salute – Cold War Icons of Black America from a Japanese Lens: Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, and Muhammad Ali – Epilogue– Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe book Chinese Women Striving for Status: Sport as Empowerment is original in focus and in evidence. It analyses for the first time, in informed and substantial detail, the extraordinary, successful and impressive efforts of Chinese sportswomen in their collective striving for, and achieving of, national and international recognition, status and supremacy. The performances and achievements of these women have thrust them to the very center of the global spotlight. Among the most dramatic, recent developments in Chinese society has been the international ascendancy of these Chinese sportswomen: an intentional and impressive demonstration of soft power politics.In the late twentieth century, Deng Xiaoping urged the Chinese policymakers to construct a model of comprehensive national power Chinese sportswomen are in the vanguard of this construction! More than this, in the process, they have achieved elevated social status, and in some cases considerable wealth! This boTrade ReviewStriving for Status traces the trajectory of Chinese women's struggles for status in the "Age of Empowerment" in the specific context of sport, gender and society. It is an in-depth discussion. The monograph includes excellent, original research. It constitutes a successfully ambitious academic study. I strongly recommend the publication to scholars, researchers, graduate students, and those more widely involved in historical studies and sports sciences both in China and other countries of Northeast Asia – and indeed, in the wider international academic community. – Hiroaki Sakakibara Secretary-General, The Northeastern Asian Society of the History of Physical Education & Sport (NEASHPES)I marvel at the complexities of the summaries.The book is certain to be important. – Sheldon Rothblatt Formerly of the Department of History and Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California (Berkeley)With a cross-disciplinary perspective, a variety of illustrative cases, and a detailed account of modern sportswomen in China, Dong and Mangan provide a comprehensive overview of the context, dynamics, achievements, and implications of Chinese sportswomen’s contribution to China's advance in global status. It is a valuable text for those with general interest in China and students and academics concerned with women in sport, sports diplomacy, and international politics. – Zhang Qingmin Professor and Chair, Department of Diplomacy, Peking UniversityChina’s rise as a sporting superpower clearly owes much to the contributions of Chinese sportswomen. Drawing on a wide range of Chinese sources, little used in previous English-language literature, Professors Dong and Mangan have produced a powerful and cogent analysis that both enlightens and provokes. They forthrightly set the recent development of women’s sport in China against the complex interplay of dramatic socio-economic transformation domestically and rising geopolitical soft power internationally. – Brian Bridges Former Professor and Head, Department of Political Science, Lingnan University, Hong KongIn an era of aggressively masculinist “wolf warrior diplomacy” emanating from China, this book addresses the contrasting role of Chinese sportswomen in the exercise of soft power via sports diplomacy. Dong Jinxia and J.A. Mangan take the reader on an absorbing tour of the confounding complexities of contemporary China, sweeping through the Beijing 2008 and 2022 Olympics; association football; gendered lives, bodies and prospects; celebrity culture and social media; sexuality and fame, and much more. – David Rowe Emeritus Professor, Western Sydney University, Author of Sport, Culture and the Media and Global Media SportAmidst the increasingly antagonistic attitude of the West toward China, Dong Jinxia, the premier expert on sport and gender in contemporary China, and J.A. Mangan, the leading editor of scholarship on Asian sports, counter simplistic stereotypes with meticulously-researched information. They pull together a huge range of Chinese sources, many of them not publicly available, including interviews with key figures, government statistics and policies, and conventional and social media. It is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book available about Chinese sportswomen in the 21st century. – Susan Brownell Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri-St. LouisIn Europe with its rising interest in women's sport, this publication could not be more timely. It also captures the growing interest in the great power China and its cultural strategies. Authored by two eminent academics with a detailed knowledge of East Asia, Sport and Society, it stresses the intention of China to dominate world sport as a manifestation of geopolitical soft power. Chinese women lead the charge. Striving for Status: Sport as Empowerment is a significant publication – geopolitically! It contains invaluable information on China, its women and their determined striving for status and its global implications. – Hans Bonde Professor, Københavns Universitet, DenmarkChinese Women: Striving for Status: Sport as Empowerment is a substantial and magisterial contribution to global Chinese studies and most particularly, to the exploration of the role that modern Chinese women have played in the international rise of China by way of their performances in world sport. Their success in international sport testifies to, and has contributed to, concrete emancipatory progress. Striving, written by two eminent authorities on modern China, analyses the close interelationship between political, cultural, social and educational national progress and modern women in China! The volume offers both a deep and broad insight into the both the national and international aspirations of the women of modern China. Not least of its research virtues is the bibliography which is comprised of publications both in Chinese and English. – Gigliola Gori Professor, University Carlo Bo of Urbino, ItalyStriving for Status: Sport as Empowerment is an important addition to the literature on sport in China – and a compelling demonstration of how sport throws light on Chinese studies. The gendered dimension has not often been considered despite the stellar achievements of many Chinese women athletes across many sports! Striving shows what a serious omission this is, setting out an impeccably researched account of women's changing body imaging, the evolution of women's sport and the relation of gender to the design and implementation of China's state driven sports-development – throwing a revealing light on Chinese politics, business and media, and the administration of state sport. This analytically and empirically rich study is a fascinating “must-read” for anyone interested in modern sport in China or women’s sport in a non-western context. – Jonathan Sullivan, Director of China Program, University of Nottingham, Asian Research InstitutePerhaps the most underappreciated accomplishment of the modern Olympic Movement has been its foundational role in promoting and showcasing women’s advancement in a wide range of elite sports and the ripple effects this has had on women’s sports participation more broadly. The remarkable success of Chinese women athletes in recent Olympic Games is one of the most significant instances of this development, and this new volume, by distinguished and experienced scholars, is a deeply informed exploration of the matrix of personal determination, state support, educational and training structures, and media and corporate interests that has brought Chinese elite female athletes to the fore. – William Kelly Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Emeritus, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale UniversityThis monograph presents an authoritative insight into the contemporary engagement and success of Chinese women in modern international sport and the significance for both China and Chinese women. It analyzes, in the context of globalization, the political, economic, and cultural forces that are facilitating change in gender relationships in modern China. With a sharply focused vision, it views, using appropriate conceptual analytical instruments, nation branding, soft power, cultural capital, and feminist theory – all current ongoing debates concerning the dynamics between gender, sport and modern society, in China. With the rise of China to superpower status, the monograph is both timely and important internationally. – Xiufang (Leah) Li Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University The new study of the global challenges of Chinese women's sport culture by Dong Jinxia and J.A. Mangan is an important contribution to the scientific understanding of modern China and its global outreach. Despite China’s obvious difficulties to adjust to the western dominated global culture, Chinese development will dictate the future of human mankind. – Henrik Meinander Professor of History, Helsinki University, FinlandTable of ContentsList of Figures – List of Tables – Acknowledgements – List of Abbreviations – Prologue: Realizing “The Chinese Dream”—Chinese Women in the Vanguard – The Chinese Geopolitical Challenge—the Beijing Olympic Games: Medium for Chinese Women’s Assertion and Ascendancy – Chinese Soft Power and Chinese Women: Furthering the Ambitions of Xi Jinping: Campus Football to World Football – Changing Priorities, Policies, Practices: Sport for All – Chinese Aspirations: “New Female Bodies,” Major Campus Reform, Renowned Educational System; Onwards to 2049 – Setting for the Sustained Preeminence of Chinese Sportswomen: The 2022 Olympic Games – A Contemporary Chinese “Revolution”: Commercialism, Capitalism, Celebrities – China: New Media, New Sport, “New” Gender Projection: Imagery, Idolatry and Sexualization – Chinese Sportswomen; Ultimate Self-Chosen Goals: Continued Olympic Glory and Attained Gender Recognition; The Chinese Dream – Chinese Sportswomen: Fame, Wealth, Empowerment; Revelatory Case-Studies – Epilogue: China, Women, Modernity, Sport: The Vanguard Advances – Appendices – Index.

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Book SynopsisAthlete activism by female Olympians and Paralympians is wide-ranging, with a colorful, sometimes contentious history blending sport and society. Emphasizing the rhetoric of women from around the world in multiple disciplines, Female Olympian and Paralympian Athlete Activists highlights 800+ women from 90 countries (including the Refugee Olympic Team). The book is underscored by author Linda K. Fuller's developing theory of Gendered Critical Discourse Analysis (GCDA).Table of ContentsIntroducing Female Olympian and Paralympian Athlete Activists – Female Olympian and Paralympian Athletes’ Sports and Activism — References – Name Index – Subject Index – About the Author.

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