Social discrimination and social justice Books
University of California Press Boyle Heights
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pathbreaking civic history. . . . A historical journey through the beginning, middle, and present of one of Los Angeles’s most prominent neighborhoods. Sánchez counters the fear that shrouds its image and allows us to understand why this neighborhood is the way it is — powerful and pure of heart." * Los Angeles Review of Books *“In the annals of Chicanx history, only a few historians stand heads and shoulders above the rest. One of those is George J. Sánchez whose recent publication . . . leaves off where his award-winning Becoming Mexican American made its mark roughly three decades ago.” * Latino Book Review *"A remarkable book." * Housing Studies *"The author has written this valuable history in clear and concise language. Scholars as well as civic activists and government officials concerned with social and racial justice and with urban planning will find the book useful and enlightening. It would also work well in graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses concerned with those areas. The interested layperson will find it straightforward and comprehensible." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Coherent, sweeping, dazzling." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Illustrations Preface Chapter One • Introduction: A Multiracial Map for America Chapter Two • Making Los Angeles Chapter Three • From Global Movements to Urban Apartheid Chapter Four • Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods Chapter Five • Witnesses to Internment Chapter Six • The Exodus from the Eastside Chapter Seven • Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism Chapter Eight • Black and Brown Power in the Barrio Chapter Nine • Creating Sanctuary Chapter Ten • Remembering Boyle Heights Time Line Mayor and City Council Lists Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Racial Formation in the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisBrings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. This book explores far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; and genetics and the body.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Daniel Martinez HoSang and Oneka LaBennett Part I. Racial Formation Theory Revisited 1. Gendering Racial Formation Priya Kandaswamy 2. On the Specificities of Racial Formation: Gender and Sexuality in the Historiographies of Race Roderick A. Ferguson 3. The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination James Kyung-Jin Lee 4. Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy Andrea Smith Part II. Racial Projects and Histories of Racialization 5. The Importance of Being Asian: Growers, the United Farm Workers, and the Rise of Colorblindness Matthew Garcia 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America Michelle A. McKinley 7. Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations in the United States Tomas Almaguer 8. Kill the Messengers: Can We Achieve Racial Justice without Mentioning Race? Gary Delgado 9. The New Racial Preferences: Rethinking Racial Projects Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris Part III. War and the Racial State 10. "We didn't kill 'em, we didn't cut their head off": Abu Ghraib Revisited Sherene H. Razack 11. The "War on Terror" as Racial Crisis: Homeland Security, Obama, and Racial (Trans)Formations Nicholas De Genova 12. Racial Formation in an Age of Permanent War Nikhil Singh Conclusion. Racial Formation Rules: Continuity, Instability, and Change Michael Omi and Howard Winant Bibliography List of Contributors Acknowledgements Index
£27.00
University of California Press Aint No Trust
Book SynopsisExplores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the US - at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers - and presents richly detailed evidence from interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help.Trade Review"Levine uses the concept of trust and the associated literature as her analytical tool." Social Service ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Welfare Reform and the Enduring Structural Roots of Distrust 2. "The Way They Treat You Is Inhumane": Caseworkers and the Welfare Office 3. "I Couldn't Put Up with It No More": Perceived Mistreatment and Distrust at Work 4. "I Don't Trust People to Watch My Kids": Mothers' Distrust in Child Care Providers 5. "You Can't Put Your Trust in Men": Gender Distrust and Marriage 6. "I Trust My Mother and No One Else": Trust and Distrust in Social Networks Conclusion Appendix: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Nice Is Not Enough
Book SynopsisThis provocative story of contemporary high school argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do more lasting harm than good. Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatches from one high school's regime of kindness to underline how the culture operates as a Band-Aid on persistent inequalities. Through incisive storytelling and thoughtful engagement with students, this brilliant study by C.J. Pascoe exposes uncomfortable truths about American politics and our reliance on individual solutions instead of profound systemic change. Nice Is Not Enough brings readers into American High, a middle- and working-class high school characterized by acceptance, connection, and kindnessa place where, a prominent sign states, there is no room for hate. Here, inequality is narrowly understood as a problem of individual merit, meanness, effort, or emotion rather than a structural issue requiring deeper intervention. Surface-level sensitivity allows American High Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface 1 No Room for Hate 2 The Politics of Protection 3 Love and Justice at American High 4 When Powder Puff Becomes Power Tough 5 The Philanthropic Class 6 The Politics of Care Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£20.70
University of California Press The Prison School
Book SynopsisPublic schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. This book shows how schools and prisons became so intertwined. It tells what this mean for students, communities, and a democratic society?Trade Review"The Prison School is a disturbing and important book." New York Journal of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Public Schools in a Punitive Era 2. The "At-Risk Youth Industry" 3. Undereducated and Overcriminalized in New Orleans 4. The Prison School Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Black Revolution on Campus
Book SynopsisThe Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed college life. At stake was the very mission of higher education. Black students demanded that public universities serve their communities; that private universities rethink the mission of elite education; and that black colleges embrace self-determination and resist the threat of integration. Most crucially, black students demanded a role in the definition of scholarly knowledge. Martha Biondi masterfully combines impressive research with a wealth of interviews from participants to tell the story of how students turned the slogan black power into a social movement. Vividly demonstrating the critical linkage between the student movement and changes in university culture, Biondi illustrates how victories in establishing Black Studies ultimately produced important intellectual innovations that have had a lasting impact on academic research and university curricula over the past 40 years. This book makes a major contribution to the current debate on Ethnic Studies, access to higher education, and opportunity for all.Trade Review“Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and a fascinating piece of history . . . an exceptional piece of scholarship, and a book greatly worth reading.” * Washington Spectator *“Biondi’s work offers a fresh perspective on the student protest era, acknowledging the major and overlooked contributions of Black students.” * Booklist *“Biondi’s book is a very powerful chronicle of the struggle and strategizing that moved seemingly immovable institutions toward change.” * Souls *"Enriches our understanding of the vital, if often undervalued and understudied, role of black students in linking campus radicalism to broader struggles for racial and economic justice and in calling public attention to issues of diversity in higher education. . . . The Black Revolution on Campus is a valuable addition to our understanding of the modern black freedom movement, student activism, and the institutionalization of black studies as an agent of change in higher education." * Academe *"The most comprehensive account of black studies founding generations. . . . [A] nuanced telling of the creation of black studies programs." * Journal of American History *"Deep and interesting. . . . Provides a sweeping view of the birth of Black studies. . . . Biondi succeeds in creating a first-rate book that should be considered necessary reading for those interested in student activism and in stiutional change, current debates on ethnic studies, and black intellectual history." * American Historical Review *"The Black Revolution on Campus does contribute to our understanding of 1960s black student activism and the rise of Black Studies, and deserves close examination." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Black Revolution on Campus 1. "Moving toward Blackness": The Rise of Black Power on Campus 2. "A Revolution Is Beginning": The Strike at San Francisco State 3. "A Turbulent Era of Transition": Black Students and a New Chicago 4. "Brooklyn College Belongs to Us": The Transformation of Higher Education in New York City 5. Toward a Black University: Radicalism, Repression, and Reform at Historically Black Colleges 6. The Counterrevolution on Campus: Why Was Black Studies So Controversial? 7. The Black Revolution Off-Campus 8. What Happened to Black Studies? Conclusion: Reflections on the Movement and Its Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Photo Credits Index
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University of California Press Living Color
Book SynopsisInvestigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible feature influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. This book explains why skin color has become a biological trait with great social meaning - a product of evolution perceived differently by different cultures.Trade Review"Accessible to general readers... The book fascinates! Highly recommended." -- D. C. Cook, Indiana University Choice "Clear [and] thorough, but not exhaustive or boring." American Journal of AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Biology 1. Skin's Natural Palette 2. Original Skin 3. Out of the Tropics 4. Skin Color in the Modern World 5. Shades of Sex 6. Skin Color and Health Part Two. Society 7. The Discriminating Primate 8. Encounters with Difference 9. Skin Color in the Age of Exploration 10. Skin Color and the Establishment of Races 11. Institutional Slavery and the Politics of Pigmentation 12. Skin Colors and Their Variable Meanings 13. Aspiring to Lightness 14. Desiring Darkness 15. Living in Color Notes References Index
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University of California Press Race and Ethnicity in America Sociology in the
Book SynopsisDo human capital differences explain black-white inequality, or are other factors more important? Are we seeing patterns consistent with assimilation among Hispanics and Asians? This book examines patterns and trends in inequality over the years for different racial groups, focusing on education, income, poverty, wealth, and health outcomes.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Conversations about Race 2. Race and Ethnicity and Causes of Inequality 3. Black-White Inequality 4. Hispanics and Asians 5. American Indians 6. The Multiracial Population 7. International Comparisons and Policy Debates 8. Conclusion: American Color Lines Notes References Index
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University of California Press Stick Together and Come Back Home Racial Sorting
Book SynopsisInStick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it. Following the experiences of seventy youth and adults as they navigate juvenile justice and penal facilities before finally going back home, he outlines how institutional authorities structure a carceral social order that racially and geographically divides criminalized populations into gang-associated affiliations.These affiliations come to shape one's exposure to both violence and criminal labeling, and as they spill over the institutional walls they establish how these unfold in high-incarceration neighborhoods as well, revealing the insidious set of consequences that mass incarceration holds for poor communities of color.Trade Review“An in-depth, detailed example of the ways in which the criminal justice system replicates the racist inclinations of the larger society.” * CHOICE *"Stick Together and Come Back Home is a compassionate look at criminalized youth and adults. . . . This book is likely to be of interest to students and scholars of juvenile justice, incarceration, race, and gangs. It should also be of interest to policymakers and practitioners . . . who may be individually well-intentioned but embedded in larger and destructive systems." * Social Forces *"Stick Together and Come Back Home is a valuable contribution to the field for its examination of the interplay between state and street violence on both cultural and structural levels. ... In shifting the focus from gang conflict itself to a deconstruction of how institutions systematically organize youth around gang conflict, Lopez-Aguado illuminates how law enforcement simultaneously structures and deploys intergroup violence as evidence of the need for criminal justice targeting." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Carceral Social Order PART I. INSIDE THE FACILITY 1. Constructing and Institutionalizing the Carceral Social Order 2. Carceral Affiliation and Identity Construction 3. Negotiating and Resisting the Carceral Social Order PART II. COMING BACK HOME 4. “The Home Team” at the Intersection of Prison and Neighborhood 5. Carceral Violence Inside and On the Outs 6. The Carceral Social Order and the Structuring of Neighborhood Criminalization Conclusion: “How You Just Gonna Make Up Your Mind About Where We’re Gonna Be, When Our Minds Should Be Going Higher?” Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press In Search of Safety
Book SynopsisLooks at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantage are at the root of prison conflict and violence, reflecting the women's pathways to prison.Trade Review"Theoretically and conceptually sophisticated... the authors provide a sound rationale for their proposed solutions, and they are likely to be applauded by many critical criminologists exposed to them." * Critical Criminology *"A timely and sobering assessment of what mass imprisonment has meant for women behind bars in our country. One could hardly have asked for a better team to compile the assessment." * Theory in Action *"Owen, Wells and Pollock have produced a perceptive and thought-provoking study, an invitation to think creatively about the connections between gender, criminal justice and harm.... Overall, this is an extensive, thorough and important contribution to the field, one which will reverberate personally, politically and professionally." * British Journal of Criminology *"Conceptualizing the incarceration of women as a human rights issue is timely and important, and it is a powerful feminist stance for social justice for this gendered population that is in need of advocacy, treatment, care, and concern. We recommend In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment as a powerful tool for education and empowerment by those who would choose to step forward to offer care for these women behind bars." * Sex Roles *"In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment is an expertly written, and captivating book that examines imprisoned women’s experiences with violence and their ability to navigate prison conflict." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Intersectional Inequality and Women's Imprisonment 2. Pathways and Intersecting Inequality 3. Prison Community, Prison Conditions, and Gendered Harm 4. Searching for Safety through Prison Capital 5. Inequalities and Contextual Conflict 6. Intersections of Inequality with Correctional Staff 7. Gendered Human Rights and the Search for Safety Appendix 1: Methodology Appendix 2: Tables of Findings Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Separation Solution
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. This title provides an analysis of controversies sparked by efforts to separate boys and girls at school.Trade Review"This book greatly contributes to conversations about single-sex schooling by illuminating how racism and sexism have undergirded arguments for public single-sex schooling." * American Journal of Sociology *"In The Separation Solution, Juliet Williams revisits the issue of single-sex education with a well-written combination of personal experience and scholarly research . . . the author is deeply involved in her topic, which makes for very good reading." * Sex Roles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Rethinking Gender Equality 2. Single-Sex Education in Historical Perspective 3. “We’ve Got to Try Something”: The Male Academy Initiatives 4. What about the Girls? 5. Single-Sex Education and the Popular Neuroscience of Sex Difference 6. Different but Equal?: Reflections on the Future of Gender Discourse Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Separation Solution
Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. This title provides an analysis of controversies sparked by efforts to separate boys and girls at school.Trade Review"This book greatly contributes to conversations about single-sex schooling by illuminating how racism and sexism have undergirded arguments for public single-sex schooling." * American Journal of Sociology *"In The Separation Solution, Juliet Williams revisits the issue of single-sex education with a well-written combination of personal experience and scholarly research . . . the author is deeply involved in her topic, which makes for very good reading." * Sex Roles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Rethinking Gender Equality 2. Single-Sex Education in Historical Perspective 3. “We’ve Got to Try Something”: The Male Academy Initiatives 4. What about the Girls? 5. Single-Sex Education and the Popular Neuroscience of Sex Difference 6. Different but Equal?: Reflections on the Future of Gender Discourse Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press A Dream Denied
Book SynopsisYoung minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. This book delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the American dream narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago.Trade Review"One of the most profound findings of Soyer’s book is how desperately these young people want to make a change in their lives... the connection of the American Dream mythology to institutions of change is a worthy contribution, and Soyer’s critical gaze as a result of having grown up in Germany is unique." * Theoretical Criminology *"Necessary reading." * Punishment and Society *"The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story. Soyer does an excellent job at showing why so many juveniles recidivate. In doing so, she contributes to a highly needed but surprisingly sparse area of developmental research that focuses on how systems influence juvenile reoffending and reentry." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Throughout her book, Michaela Soyer takes the reader into the communities and into the conversations with young men who were struggling so hard to cope with their incarceration and, even more so, their release. The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Michaela Soyer’s A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America provides an insightful reflection on the paradoxical roles of rehabilitation institutions and, through youths’ own narratives and stories, vividly portrays the challenges faced by young minority men when trying to avoid recidivism and reincarceration." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process 2. Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems: Juvenile Justice in Boston and Chicago 3. Too Little Too Late: Juvenile Justice as a Social Service Provider 4. Imagining Desistance 5. Weak Ties—Strong Emotions: Caring for Juvenile Off enders in Boston and Chicago 6. The Uncertainty of Freedom: Teenagers’ Desire for Confinement and Supervision 7. “I know how to control myself ”: Autonomy and Discipline in the Desistance Process
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University of California Press A Dream Denied Incarceration Recidivism and
Book SynopsisYoung minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. This book delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the American dream narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago.Trade Review"One of the most profound findings of Soyer’s book is how desperately these young people want to make a change in their lives... the connection of the American Dream mythology to institutions of change is a worthy contribution, and Soyer’s critical gaze as a result of having grown up in Germany is unique." * Theoretical Criminology *"Necessary reading." * Punishment and Society *"The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story. Soyer does an excellent job at showing why so many juveniles recidivate. In doing so, she contributes to a highly needed but surprisingly sparse area of developmental research that focuses on how systems influence juvenile reoffending and reentry." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Throughout her book, Michaela Soyer takes the reader into the communities and into the conversations with young men who were struggling so hard to cope with their incarceration and, even more so, their release. The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Michaela Soyer’s A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America provides an insightful reflection on the paradoxical roles of rehabilitation institutions and, through youths’ own narratives and stories, vividly portrays the challenges faced by young minority men when trying to avoid recidivism and reincarceration." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process 2. Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems: Juvenile Justice in Boston and Chicago 3. Too Little Too Late: Juvenile Justice as a Social Service Provider 4. Imagining Desistance 5. Weak Ties—Strong Emotions: Caring for Juvenile Off enders in Boston and Chicago 6. The Uncertainty of Freedom: Teenagers’ Desire for Confinement and Supervision 7. “I know how to control myself ”: Autonomy and Discipline in the Desistance Process
£27.00
University of California Press Beyond Expectations
Book SynopsisDelves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. The author argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of 'black' identity that differs radically from African American and Black Carribean notions of 'black' in the United States and Britain.Trade Review"In this unparalleled global and comparative analysis of the racial and ethnic identities of Black African immigrants, Imoagene aptly demonstrates that second-generation Nigerians “choose ethnicity, while negotiating race”." * Canadian Journal of African Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 * Setting the Context: Immigration, Assimilation versus Racialization, and the African and Nigerian Diasporas in the United States and Britain 2 * "You Are Not Like Me!": The Impact of Intraracial Distinctions and Interethnic Relations on Identity Formation 3 * "It's Un-Nigerian Not to Go to College": Education as an Ethnic Boundary 4 * Forging a Diasporic Nigerian Ethnicity in the United States and Britain 5 * On the Horns of Racialization: Middle Class, Ethnic, and Black 6 * Feeling American in America, Not Feeling British in Britain Conclusion Appendix A: Notes on Method Appendix B: Ethnic Identification Information Notes References Index
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University of California Press Strategies of Segregation
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wherever this historiography [of education] moves next, scholars will do well to engage with the work of García." * History of Education *"Delves into political tensions within Oxnard, California, and illustrates the board of education’s decisions enacting segregation and thereby shaping the education of Mexicans and blacks . . . The work uncovers hidden histories of Mexican American and black struggles to end segregation, and it results in a very rich study." * American Historical Review *"Provides a meticulous, nuanced, and brilliant study of the complex layers behind the historical connections of educational and residential segregation." * Latino Studies *"Amid the racial reckoning and protests that have swept this country, Strategies of Segregation is a timely and invaluable contribution to California history, Chicano/a studies, and ethnic studies." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 • The White Architects of Mexican American Education 12 2 • Pernicious Deeds: Restrictive Covenants and Schools 39 3 • “Obsessed” with Segregating Mexican Students 55 4 • Ramona School and the Undereducation of Children in La Colonia 79 5 • A Common Cause Emerges for Mexican American and Black Organizers 100 6 • Challenging “a Systematic Scheme of Racial Segregation”: Soria v. Oxnard School Board of Trustees 129 Epilogue 162 Appendix: List of Interviews Conducted and Consulted 167 Notes 169 Bibliography 247
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University of California Press Fatal Denial
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University of California Press American Islamophobia
Book SynopsisOn Forbes list of 10 Books To Help You Foster A More Diverse And Inclusive WorkplaceHow law, policy, and official state rhetoric have fueled the resurgence of Islamophobiawith a call to action on how to combat it. I remember the four words that repeatedly scrolled across my mind after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City. Please don't be Muslims, please don't be Muslims.' The four words I whispered to myself on 9/11 reverberated through the mind of every Muslim American that day and every day after. Our fear, and the collective breath or brace for the hateful backlash that ensued, symbolize the existential tightrope that defines Muslim American identity today. The term Islamophobia may be fairly new, but irrational fear and hatred of Islam and Muslims is anything but. Though many speak of Islamophobia's roots in racism, have we considered how anti-Muslim rhetoric is rooted in our legal system? Using his unique lens as a critical race theorist and lawTrade Review“Much like other notable works on Islamophobia by scholars like Erik Love and Moustafa Bayoumi, Beydoun looks at the scope and impact of domestic “war on terror” legislation in how it racialized Muslims and transformed everyday life within Muslim communities. What he adds with ‘American Islamophobia’ is the terminology and language to describe the demonization of Muslims from the state — and the necessary legal and historical context to understand the depth of structural Islamophobia and the tools needed to dismantle it.” * The Intercept *“Beydoun’s book, American Islamophobia, provides urgent and compelling context to a global phenomena that has mushroomed on our shores.” * Scoop *"[Beydoun's] ability to intersperse complex academic argument with engaging stories and anecdotes ensures that not only does his writing draw you in, but also one never loses sight of the human stories of insecurity, suffering and loss that are at the book's heart." * Critical Studies on Terrorism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Crossroads and Intersections 1. What Is Islamophobia? 2. The Roots of Modern Islamophobia 3. A Reoriented “Clash of Civilizations” 4. War on Terror, War on Muslims 5. A “Radical” or Imagined Threat? 6. Between Anti-Black Racism and Islamophobia 7. The Fire Next Time Epilogue: Homecomings and Goings Notes Index About the Author
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University of California Press Bathroom Battlegrounds How Public Restrooms Shape
Book SynopsisToday's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United Statesone that concerns more than mere potty politics. Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years' worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century comfort stations, twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men's and women's rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina's bathroom bill, Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they areand always have beenconsequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.Trade Review“Essential. All readership levels.” * CHOICE *"Davis finds that bathrooms have consistently been entangled with larger cultural matters such as the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status." * Law & Social Inquiry *"This work is an important contribution to scholarship on gender, boundary work, organizations, and citizenship. Davis’s work is simultaneously empirically and theoretically driven and easy to read." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Politicizing the Potty 2. Professionalizing Plumbing 3. Regulating Restrooms 4. Working against the Washroom 5. Leveraging the Loo 6. Transforming the Toilet Conclusion Appendix: Data and Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Upper Limit
Book SynopsisSince 1993, crime in the United States has fallen to historic lows, seeming to legitimize the countryâs mix of welfare reform and mass incarceration. The Upper Limit explains how this unusual mix came about, examining how, beginning in the 1970s, declining living standards for the poor have defined social and penal policy in the United States, making welfare more restrictive and punishment harsher. FranÃois Bonnet shows how low-wage work sets the upper limit of social and penal policy, where welfare must be less attractive than low-wage work and criminal life must be less attractive than welfare. In essence, the living standards of the lowest class of workers in a society determine the upper limit for the generosity of welfare and for the humanity of punishment in that society. The Upper Limit explores the local consequences of this punitive adjustment in East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood where crime fell in the 1990s. Bonnet argues that no meaningful penal reform can happen unlesTrade Review"The book’s analyses of punitive practices through multiple public and private organizations is worthy of the read in itself." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"The Upper Limit enriches a broad range of literatures, including poverty and inequality, social welfare, punishment studies, reentry, federal housing assistance, and political sociology. . . . Bonnet’s work illuminates the social stakes and imperatives of that fight—the chance to create a more generous and less punitive society." * Contemporary Sociology *"The Upper Limit will be of wide interest to sociologists and criminologists concerned with social order, inequality, and punishment. It makes important theoretical contributions to research on social policy and penal transformation. . . . In a contemporary moment defined by the human and economic devastation of the global covid-19 pandemic and ongoing violence, racism, and political turmoil in the US, this book lays out what it would take to move the American social order towards greater equality and humanity." * Labour/Le Travail *Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction 1 Upper Limit 2 Great Adjustment 3 Crime Drop and the East New York Renaissance 4 Necessity of Harsh Policing 5 Prisoner Reentry in Public Housing 6 Nonprofits: Welfare of the Cheap 7 Reengineering Less Eligibility: The New York Homeless Shelter Industry Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments References Index
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University of California Press Holding On Family and Fatherhood During
Book SynopsisHolding On reveals the results of an unprecedented ten-year study of justice-involved families, rendering visible the lives of a group of American families whose experiences are too often lost in large-scale demographic research. Using new data from the Multi-site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partneringa groundbreaking study of almost two thousand families, incorporating a series of couples-based surveys and qualitative interviews over the course of three yearsHolding On sheds rich new light on the parenting and intimate relationships of justice-involved men, challenging long-standing boundaries between research on incarceration and on the well-being of low-income families. Boldly proposing that the failure to recognize the centrality of incarcerated men's roles as fathers and partners has helped to justify a system that removes them from their families and hides that system's costs to parents, partners, and children, Holding On considers how research that breaks the false dichotomy between offender and parent, inmate and partner, and victim and perpetrator might help to inform a next generation of public policies that truly support vulnerable families.Trade Review"Holding On is a compelling read that will be useful particularly to policymakers and activists who need evidence toward prison reform and program funding allocations." * Gender & Society *"Holding On is a hopeful and empathic book that packs significant policy-relevant analysis into a slim volume." * Men and Masculinities *"Holding On is a must-read for policymakers and prison administrators. It is accessible enough for use in undergraduate and graduate sociology, policy, and psychology courses. It is also an invaluable resource for academics interested in the complex ways that incarceration and reentry impact our nation’s families." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Holding On: Family and Fatherhood During Incarceration and Reentry is a must-read for anyone interested in families, relationships, fatherhood, and the trying effects on each of incarceration. It is a seminal, deeply thoughtful, and methodical book that sets the stage for what is possible when the realms of criminological studies and family studies converge." * Punishment & Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Returning Incarcerated Fathers to the Family 2. “Always Having Hope”: What We (Didn’t) Know about Fatherhood and Incarceration 3. “I Do, but I Don’t, Know Where We Are”: Couple Relationships during Incarceration and Reentry 4. “None of the Above”: Partner Violence and the Limitations of Research 5. “Change Ain’t Going to Happen Overnight”: Operationalizing Reentry Success 6. “A Breakthrough Type of Thing”: Measuring the Impact of Family-Strengthening Programs during Incarceration and Reentry 7. On the Horizon: The Social Science of Incarceration and Family Life Appendix References Index
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University of California Press Coerced
Book SynopsisWhat do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of employment reigns supremeone where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that coercionas well as precarityis a defining feature of work in America today. Theoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work, pushing beyond concepts like career and gig work. Through this bold analysis, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within itand who are developing the tools needed to push back against it.Trade Review"This fascinating book examines workplace practices in a new light. By examining incarcerated workers, workfare recipients, graduate students, and college athletes, Hatton probes how these groups experience and conceptualize work. . . . Through a series of in-depth interviews, the author examines the contradictory ways in which workers understand their situations: some accept their status almost without question, while others who understand that they are being exploited rebel against it. Hatton's study excellently argues the importance of the concept of status coercion and its relevance to these workers, in turn expanding the understanding of the punitive aspects of work and the theoretical understanding of work to highlight its precarity. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *“Erin Hatton’s book Coerced: Work under Threat of Punishment shines a bright light on the labor of prisoners, welfare recipients, college athletes, and graduate students.” * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. “Wicked” and “Blessed”: Cultural Narratives of Coerced Labor 2. “Either You Do It or You’re Going to the Box”: Coercion and Compliance 3. “They Talk to You in Any Kind of Way”: Subjugation, Vulnerability, and the Body 4. “Stay Out They Way”: Agency and Resistance 5. “I’m Getting Ethiopia Pay for My Work”: Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony Conclusion Appendix A. The Story of This Book Appendix B. People qua Data Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Coerced
Book SynopsisWhat do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of employment reigns supremeone where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that coercionas well as precarityis a defining feature of work in America today. Theoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work, pushing beyond concepts like career and gig work. Through this bold analysis, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within itand who are devTrade Review"Through a series of in-depth interviews, Coerced examines the contradictory ways in which workers understand their situations: some accept their status almost without question, while others who understand that they are being exploited rebel against it. Hatton's study excellently argues the importance of the concept of status coercion and its relevance to these workers, in turn expanding the understanding of the punitive aspects of work and the theoretical understanding of work to highlight its precarity." * CHOICE *"This fascinating book examines workplace practices in a new light. By examining incarcerated workers, workfare recipients, graduate students, and college athletes, Hatton probes how these groups experience and conceptualize work. . . . Through a series of in-depth interviews, the author examines the contradictory ways in which workers understand their situations: some accept their status almost without question, while others who understand that they are being exploited rebel against it. Hatton's study excellently argues the importance of the concept of status coercion and its relevance to these workers, in turn expanding the understanding of the punitive aspects of work and the theoretical understanding of work to highlight its precarity. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *“Hatton’s findings indicate the potential for relationships at work and organizational practices to deconstruct hegemonic understandings of work. As such, Coerced offers some valuable insights on not only how status coercion is reproduced but also how it can be challenged.” * Accounts, American Sociological Association *“Erin Hatton’s book Coerced: Work under Threat of Punishment shines a bright light on the labor of prisoners, welfare recipients, college athletes, and graduate students.” * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction 1. “Wicked” and “Blessed”: Cultural Narratives of Coerced Labor 2. “Either You Do It or You’re Going to the Box”: Coercion and Compliance 3. “They Talk to You in Any Kind of Way”: Subjugation, Vulnerability, and the Body 4. “Stay Out They Way”: Agency and Resistance 5. “I’m Getting Ethiopia Pay for My Work”: Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony Conclusion Appendix A. The Story of This Book Appendix B. People qua Data Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Health Care Off the Books Poverty Illness and
Book SynopsisMillions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior scholarly work. Informed by three and a half years of fieldwork in a public housing development, Raudenbush shows how residents who face obstacles to health care gain access to pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment, physician reference manuals, and insurance cards by mobilizing social networks that include not only their neighbors but also local physicians. However, membership in these social networks is not universal, and some residents are forced to turn to a robust street market to obtain medicine. For others, health problems simply go untreated. Raudenbush reconceptualizes U.S. health care as a formal-informal hybrid system and explains why many residents who do have access to health services also turn to informal strategies to treat their health problems. While the practices described in the book may at times be beneficial to people's health, they also have the potential to do serious harm. By understanding this hybrid system, we can evaluate its effects and gain new insight into the sources of social and racial disparities in health outcomes. Trade Review"Raudenbush’s Health Care off the Books provides a compelling account and an indictment of the American health care system, one that simultaneously drives low-income residents to engage in risky behavior and physicians to skirt the edges of medical ethics. In a time of growing health care need amid a global pandemic coupled with economic strife, her book should be required reading for students of medical sociology and medicine alike." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction: Health Care Access in America and the Formal-Informal Hybrid Health Care System 2. Access to Care in Jackson Homes 3. Sick, Poor, and without Care: Individual Responses to Barriers and the Emergence of a Hybrid System 4. “On the Poor Side of Things”: The Role of the Local Community in the Hybrid System 5. The Doctor Is In: Physicians in the Hybrid System 6. After the Affordable Care Act 7. Conclusion Methodological Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Velvet Glove
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University of California Press Toxic Water Toxic System
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University of California Press A Field Guide to White Supremacy
Book SynopsisDrawing explicit lines, across time and a broad spectrum of violent acts, to provide the definitive field guide for understanding and opposing white supremacy in America Hate, racial violence, exclusion, and racist laws receive breathless media coverage, but such attention focuses on distinct events that gain our attention for twenty-four hours. The events are presented as episodic one-offs, unfortunate but uncanny exceptions perpetrated by lone wolves, extremists, or individuals suffering from mental illnessand then the news cycle moves on. If we turn to scholars and historians for background and answers, we often find their knowledge siloed in distinct academic subfields, rarely connecting current events with legal histories, nativist insurgencies, or centuries of misogynist, anti-Black, anti-Latino, anti-Asian, and xenophobic violence. But recent hateful actions are deeply connected to the pastjoined not only by common perpetrators, but bythe vast complex of systems, histories, ideologies, and personal beliefs that comprise white supremacy in the United States. Gathering together a cohort of researchers and writers, A Field Guide to White Supremacy provides much-needed connections between violence present and past. This book illuminates the career of white supremacist and patriarchal violence in the United States, ranging across time and impacted groups in order to provide a working volume for those who wish to recognize, understand, name, and oppose that violence. The Field Guide is meant as an urgent resource for journalists, activists, policymakers, and citizens, illuminating common threads in white supremacist actions at every scale, from hate crimes and mass attacks to policy and law. Covering immigration, antisemitism, gendered violence, lynching, and organized domestic terrorism, the authors reveal white supremacy as a motivating force in manifold parts of American life. The book also offers a sampling of some of the most recent scholarship in this area in order to spark broader conversations between journalists and their readers, teachers and their students, and activists and their communities.A Field Guide to White Supremacy will be an indispensable resource in paving the way for politics of alliance in resistance and renewal. Trade Review"Belew and Gutiérrez have compiled a superstar group of writers, commentators, and scholars who make sense of these vicious times of sophisticated hate. Collectively, they make the case that white supremacy—not ‘democracy’ or ‘freedom,’ as some like to think—is the most dominant idea (or ideology) in the history of the United States." * The Progressive *"An important and timely collection in a moment of political and social polarization." * California Review of Books *"This edited volume gives a clear and nuanced view of the different manifestations of white supremacy in the US. While modestly referred to as a manual by the editors, the volume shows the endurance of white supremacy in the past and the present, its embedment in its democratic institutions in the US, and ongoing manifestations." * Ethnic & Racial Studies *"A Field Guide to White Supremacy tracks the complex career of white supremacy, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, anti-Semitism, and nativism in the United States. . . . This is an indispensable volume for historians of race, racism, gender and sexuality, and immigration who are interested in the myriad ways that white supremacy has been produced and reproduced in the United States since its founding." * California History *"Lucid, written for a broad audience. . . . a lightning strike against any complacency within or without the academy that racism is merely Trumpism, or that both are somehow ‘over’." * Against the Current *Table of ContentsThoughts on the Associated Press Stylebook, by Kathleen Belew et al. Introduction, by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez Section I Building, Protecting, and Profiting from Whiteness 1. Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation Doug Kiel 2. A Culture of Racism Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 3. Policing the Boundaries of the White Republic: From Slave Codes to Mass Deportations Juan F. Perea 4. The Arc of American Islamophobia: From Early History through the Present Khaled A. Beydoun Section II Iterations of White Supremacy 5. The Longest War: Rape Culture and Domestic Violence Rebecca Solnit 6. The Pain We Still Need to Feel: The New Lynching Memorial Confronts the Racial Terrorism That Corrupted America—and Still Does Jamelle Bouie 7. Anti-Asian Violence and U.S. Imperialism Simeon Man 8. Homophobia and American Nationalism: Mass Murder at the Pulse Nightclub Roderick Ferguson 9. Wounds of White Supremacy: Understanding the Epidemic of Violence against Black and Brown Trans Women/Femmes Croix Saffin 10. On Antisemitism Judith Butler Section III Anti-Immigrant Nation 11. Fear of White Replacement: Latina Fertility, White Demographic Decline, and Immigration Reform Leo R. Chavez 12. Unmaking the Nation of Immigrants: How John Tanton’s Network of Organizations Transformed Policy and Politics Carly Goodman 13. The Expulsion of Immigrants: America’s Deportation Machine Adam Goodman 14. The Detention and Deportation Regime as a Conduit of Death: Memorializing and Mourning Migrant Loss Jessica Ordaz Section IV White Supremacy from Fringe to Mainstream 15. A Recent History of White Supremacy Ramón A. Gutiérrez 16. From Pat Buchanan to Donald Trump: The Nativist Turn in Right-Wing Populism Joseph E. Lowndes 17. The Alt-Right in Charlottesville: How an Online Movement Became a Real-World Presence Nicole Hemmer 18. The Whiteness of Blue Lives: Race in American Policing Joseph Darda 19. There Are No Lone Wolves: The White Power Movement at War Kathleen Belew Conclusion, by Kathleen Belew and Ramón A. Gutiérrez Notes Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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University of California Press Beyond Suspicion
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University of California Press Ground Truths
Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This is the first book devoted entirely to summarizing the body of community-engaged research on environmental justice, how we can conduct more of it, and how we can do it better. It shows how community-engaged research makes unique contributions to environmental justice for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing actionable data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers' relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit. The book offers a critical synthesis of relevant research in many fields, outlines the main steps in conducting community-engaged research, evaluates the major research methods used, suggests new directions, and addresses overcoming institutional barriers to scholarship in academTable of ContentsTable of Contents IntroductionPart 1: Foundations 1. Environmental Justice Martha Matsuoka and Chad Raphael 2. Community-Engaged Research Chad Raphael and Martha MatsuokaPart 2: Collaborations 3. Preparation for Community-Engaged Research Floridalma Boj Lopez, Chad Raphael, and Martha Matsuoka 4. The Community-Engaged Research Process Julie E. Lucero, Erika Marquez, Martha Matsuoka, and Chad Raphael 5. Transforming Academia for Community-Engaged Research Felicia M. Mitchell, Celestina Castillo, Chad Raphael, and Martha MatsuokaPart 3:Applications 6. Research Methods and Methodologies Ryan Petteway, Sarah Commodore, Chad Raphael, and Martha Matsuoka 7. Law, Policy, Regulation, and Public Participation Carolina Prado, Zsea Bowmani, Chad Raphael, and Martha Matsuoka 8. Community Economic Development Miriam Solis, Martha Matsuoka, and Chad Raphael 9. Public Health Ryan Petteway, R. David Rebanal, Chad Raphael, and Martha Matsuoka 10. Food Justice and Food Sovereignty Vera L. Chang, Teresa Mares, Chad Raphael, and Martha Matsuoka 11. Urban and Regional Planning Ana Isabel Baptista, Martha Matsuoka, and Chad Raphael 12. Conservation Ashwin J. Ravikumar, Deniss Martinez, Jeanyna Garcia, Malaya Jules, Chad Raphael, and Martha MatsuokaReferences List of Contributors
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University of California Press Purgatory Citizenship Reentry Race and Abolition
Book SynopsisReentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas, in a journey that is often confusing, complex, and precarious. Making use oflife-history interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color, primarily Black men, Calvin John Smiley finds that reentry requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serveas an extension of the carceral system. No longer behind bars but not fully free, the recently released navigate a state of limbo that deprives them of opportunity and support while leaving them locked in a cycle of perpetual punishment. Warning of the dangers of reformist efforts that only serve to further entrench carceral systems,Purgatory Citizenshipadvocates for abolitionist solutions rooted in the visions of the people most affected.Trade Review"A vivid, microcosmic snapshot… It should be of great interest to scholars and students in sociology, criminology, legal and justice studies, those who work within the nonprofit and government sector, and the justice impacted." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Underdevelopment 2. Purgatory 3. Halfway 4. Body 5. Space 1 6. Abolition Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Purgatory Citizenship
Book SynopsisReentry after release from incarceration is often presented as a story of redemption. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Those being released must navigate the reentry process with diminished legal rights and amplified social stigmas, in a journey that is often confusing, complex, and precarious. Making use oflife-history interviews, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork with low-income urban residents of color, primarily Black men, Calvin John Smiley finds that reentry requires the recently released to negotiate a web of disjointed and often contradictory systems that serveas an extension of the carceral system. No longer behind bars but not fully free, the recently released navigate a state of limbo that deprives them of opportunity and support while leaving them locked in a cycle of perpetual punishment. Warning of the dangers of reformist efforts that only serve to further entrench carceral systems,Purgatory Citizenshipadvocates for abolitionist solutions rooted in the visions of the people most affected.Trade Review"A vivid, microcosmic snapshot… It should be of great interest to scholars and students in sociology, criminology, legal and justice studies, those who work within the nonprofit and government sector, and the justice impacted." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Underdevelopment 2. Purgatory 3. Halfway 4. Body 5. Space 1 6. Abolition Notes Bibliography Index
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MP-MEL Melbourne University Who Cares Life on Welfare in Australia
Book SynopsisThe twentieth-century Australian welfare state made the bold promise to care for its citizens. But since the 1990s, social security has become increasingly conditional and punitive. Who Cares? outlines the perspectives of people affected by welfare measures, offering an urgent account of the implications of reforms.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race and the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisEmmanuel Eze collects into one convenient and controversial volume the most important and influential writings on race that the European Enlightenment produced.Trade Review"By unveiling these voices and creating a greater depth of historical context for academic audiences they could expand and complicate modern discussions of racism and its origins. And indeed, these multilingual (yet translated) sources bring a fuller perspective to the dialogue." (H-Net, September 2010) "This Reader reframes and expands the discussion of race from an emotional and ideological context to an intellectual and historical one. Moreover, it introduces students to some of the most influential and eloquent philosophers of the period. I think it would be essential to any course on race and useful in any course on the Enlightenment. It is certainly a welcome addition to the available texts." Marilyn Gaull, Temple University/New York University "It brings together many passages from books only available in research libraries. It will therefore prove to be a useful anthology for teachers and students, providing an excellent starting point for much-needed historical and critical study."Peter Hulme, Research in African Literatures "In compiling this useful anthology, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze's starting point was the realization that writing about race formed an important but neglected aspect of Enlightenment thought." "Eze modestly concludes by saying that the collection will succeed if it provokes teachers, researchers, and students into further investigation of the place of race in Enlightenment thought. On that basis, it should be judged a likely success. It brings together many passages from books only available in research libraries. It will therefore prove to be a useful anthology for teachers and students, providing an excellent starting point for much-needed historical and critical study." Research in African LiteraturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Carl von Linne: "Hommo" in the System of Nature. 2. Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon: Biological and Geographical Distribution of Mankind. 3. David Hume: Negroes... naturally inferior to the whites. James Beattie: Response to David Hume. 4. Immanuel Kant: On the Different Races of Man. Immanuel Kant: Of National Characteristics. Immanuel Kant: Physical Geography. 5. The Kant-Herder Controversy. Kant: Review of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind. Johann Gottfried Herder: Organization of the People of Africa. 6. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: The Degeneration of Races. 7. Entries on: 'Negre' in the Encyclopedia, and 'Negro' in the Encyclopedia Britannica. 8. Thomas Jefferson: The difference is fixed in nature. 9. Georges Leopold Cuvier, Varieties of the Human Species. 10. Georg Wilhelm Hegel, Africa is enveloped in the Dark Mantle of Night. Georg Wilhelm Hegel, On Colonialism. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race and the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisGathers the philosophical writing on race produced by the luminaries of the European Enlightenment. This book explores through the primary texts the alliance between philosophy, anthropology and race. It attempts to show, through primary texts on matters of race, the 'dark' sides of the Enlightenment philosophy.Trade Review"By unveiling these voices and creating a greater depth of historical context for academic audiences they could expand and complicate modern discussions of racism and its origins. And indeed, these multilingual (yet translated) sources bring a fuller perspective to the dialogue." (H-Net, September 2010) "This Reader reframes and expands the discussion of race from an emotional and ideological context to an intellectual and historical one. Moreover, it introduces students to some of the most influential and eloquent philosophers of the period. I think it would be essential to any course on race and useful in any course on the Enlightenment. It is certainly a welcome addition to the available texts." Marilyn Gaull, Temple University/New York University "It brings together many passages from books only available in research libraries. It will therefore prove to be a useful anthology for teachers and students, providing an excellent starting point for much-needed historical and critical study."Peter Hulme, Research in African Literatures "In compiling this useful anthology, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze's starting point was the realization that writing about race formed an important but neglected aspect of Enlightenment thought." "Eze modestly concludes by saying that the collection will succeed if it provokes teachers, researchers, and students into further investigation of the place of race in Enlightenment thought. On that basis, it should be judged a likely success. It brings together many passages from books only available in research libraries. It will therefore prove to be a useful anthology for teachers and students, providing an excellent starting point for much-needed historical and critical study." Research in African LiteraturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Carl von Linne: "Hommo" in the System of Nature. 2. Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon: Biological and Geographical Distribution of Mankind. 3. David Hume: Negroes... naturally inferior to the whites. James Beattie: Response to David Hume. 4. Immanuel Kant: On the Different Races of Man. Immanuel Kant: Of National Characteristics. Immanuel Kant: Physical Geography. 5. The Kant-Herder Controversy. Kant: Review of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind. Johann Gottfried Herder: Organization of the People of Africa. 6. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: The Degeneration of Races. 7. Entries on: 'Negre' in the Encyclopedia, and 'Negro' in the Encyclopedia Britannica. 8. Thomas Jefferson: The difference is fixed in nature. 9. Georges Leopold Cuvier, Varieties of the Human Species. 10. Georg Wilhelm Hegel, Africa is enveloped in the Dark Mantle of Night. Georg Wilhelm Hegel, On Colonialism. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Race Critical Theories
Book SynopsisRace Critical Theories brings together many of the key contributors to critical theorizing about race and racism over the past twenty years. Each previously published text is accompanied by a fresh statement - in most cases written by the authors themselves - regarding the political context, implications and effects of the original contribution.Trade Review"I applaud the editors for their state-of-the-art collection in race and racism studies.This volume will serve as a valuable teaching tool." Gloria Wekker, Utrecht University "This anthology provides a remarkable synthesis of race theorizing across the humanities and the social sciences – and yet also manages to be both historical and vitally contemporary. Indeed, by incorporating the self-conscious reflections of current thinkers, it often has the quality of a living and breathing text." Troy Duster, New York University "In the current publishers' rush for student driven grab-and-go Readers, Race Critical Theories represents something of an exception - a collection of seminal texts with a clear critical intellectual project driving its production and seeking to move research agendas forward." Ethnic and Racial Studies "[T]his is an excellent undergraduate text - bringing together sizeable portions of seminal contemporary discourse and feminist-centered writing on racism and the writng it has influenced - which is likely to prove of great value in teaching." Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Introduction: From Racial Demarcations to Multiple Identifications (David Theo Goldberg and Philomena Essed). Part I: Conceptual Mapping, in Chronological Order (c. 1980-2000). 1. Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental (Edward Said). 2. Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance (Stuart Hall). 3. Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspectives (Angela Y. Davis). 4. A New Approach to the Study of Racism (Martin Barker). 5. The Genealogy of Western Racism (Cornel West). 6. Of Mimicry and Man. The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse (Homi Bhabha). 7. Racial Formation (Michael Omi and Howard Winant). 8. Preface to Dominance Without Hegemony. History and Power in Colonial India (Ranajit Guha). 9. Defining Black Feminist Thought (Patricia Hill Collins). 10. Everyday Racism: A New Approach to the Study of Racism (Philomena Essed). 11. Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Chandra, T. Mohanty). 12. The Nation Form:History and Ideology (Etienne Balibar). 13. Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria (Ruth Wodak). 14. The end of Antiracism (Paul Gilroy). 15. Black Matters (Toni Morrison). 16. Modernity, Race and Morality (David Theo Goldberg). 17. Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism (Teun A. van Dijk). 18. Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States (David Roediger). 19. Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race (Manning Marable). 20. A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People (Maria Root). 21. Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth (Ann Stoler). 22. Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the 'Taken-for-Granted' World (Maria Markus). Part II: Reflections, in Thematic Order (1999-2000). Histories and Values. 23. Reflections on 'The Nation Form: History and Ideology' (Etienne Balibar). 24. Reflections on 'Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth' (Ann Stoler). 25. Reflections on 'Modernity, Race and Morality' (David Theo Goldberg). 26. Reflections 'Of Mimicry and Man. The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse' (H. Bhabha and Kim Benita Furumoto). Knowledge and Representation. 27. Reflections on 'The Genealogy of Western Racism' (C. West and Howard McGary). 28. Reflections on 'Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental' (E. Said and Saree Makdisi). 29. Reflections on 'Black Matters' (T. Morisson and Suzette Spencer). 30. Reflections on 'Defining Black Feminist Thought' (Patricia Hill Collins). Systems and Experiences. 31. Reflections on 'Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance' (Stuart Hall). 32. Reflections on 'Racial Formation' (Michael Omi & Howard Winant). 33. Reflections on 'Everyday Racism' (Philomena Essed). 34. Reflections on 'Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the 'Taken-for-Granted' World' (Maria Markus). Elites and Politics. 35. Reflections on 'The New Racism' (Martin Barker). 36. Reflections on 'Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism' (Teun A. van Dijk). 37. Reflections on 'Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria' (Ruth Wodak). 38. Reflections on 'Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States' (David Roediger). 39. Reflections on 'Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race' (M. Marable and Johanna Fernandez). Dominance and Struggles. 40. Reflections on the 'Perface' to 'Dominance Without Hegemony' (R. Guha and Kelli Kobor). 41. Reflections on 'Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism' (C. T. Mohanty and Sue Kim). 42. Reflections on 'The End of Antiracism' (P. Gilroy and Vikki Bell). 43. Reflections on 'A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People' (Maria Root). 44. Reflections on 'Education and Liberation: Black women's Perspectives' (Angela Y. Davis). Index.
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Harvard University Press The Miners Canary
Book SynopsisLike the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewGuinier and Torres issue a clarion call for the progressive possibilities of racial politics in the twenty-first century. The Miner's Canary convincingly demonstrates the positive role that racial identification has played and can continue to play in expanding, deepening, and enriching American democracy. -- Melissa Nobles, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Miner's Canary is conceptually imaginative and politically inspiring. It is generously inclusive where other accounts of race and power are harshly exclusive. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres combine sober analysis and models of democratic activism. -- Nancy L. Rosenblum, author of Liberalism and the Moral LifeLani Guinier and Gerald Torres sing a powerful song in lyrical, accessible, sophisticated tones: Race exists, race positively shapes identity, and organizing around race can save our society. To those who want to join their voices to what must become a swelling harmony, here are the first stanzas. For those afraid of the future, here is a hymn of hope. -- Ian F. Haney López, author of White by Law: The Legal Construction of RaceRejecting the unacceptable choice between colorblindness and identity politics, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres show us how race consciousness can mobilize people across racial categories to confront structural injustice on issues ranging from education to union organizing, from voting rights to prisons. Inspiring, learned, and compellingly written. -- Gerald Frug, author of City Making: Building Communities Without Building WallsCompassion permeates this thoughtful analysis. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres show us how Americans of all races and ethnicities can draw upon African Americans' positive racial identity, which is rooted in solidarity and the ability to see problems that are systemic. Yes, we can advance democracy by all becoming "black," in the sense of building upon our culture's race consciousness. -- Nell Irvin Painter, author of Sojourner Truth: A Life, A SymbolAs the stunningly insightful stories in The Miner's Canary make clear, the primary racial challenge of the twenty-first century is to convince white people that social ills adversely affecting people of color disadvantage whites as well. Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres argue persuasively that progress can come through cooperative efforts for reform rather than race-related resistance to it. -- Derrick A. Bell, author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of RacismIn this outstanding, trenchant, and ultimately uplifting book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres demonstrate how a racial order still profoundly structures the life chances of all Americans, and convincingly argue that racially based social movements have historically, and can again, promote a truly egalitarian society. The Miner's Canary is sure to become required reading for all those who seek to understand the racial divide as well as those who care about the future of the American polity. -- Michael C. Dawson, author of Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American PoliticsI recommend this book to every thoughtful U.S. citizen. We all need to get a better analytic grip on the phenomenon of "race." We all need to rethink outdated democratic systems. We all need help in organizing human action across lines of division. The Miner's Canary shows how the experiences of people of color are a key diagnostic tool, drawing attention to flaws in the existing system and galvanizing practical ways to change it for the better. Guinier and Torres have got it exactly right. -- Jane J. Mansbridge, author of Beyond Adversary DemocracyThe Miner's Canary is thoughtful, provocative, and timely. It persuasively develops the idea of "political race," a concept that identifies racial literacy as a new way to think about social change in American society. This book will challenge the very way we think about race, justice, and the political system in America. -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Colored People: A MemoirLegal scholars Guinier and Torres invite the public to consider, among other indicators, the plight of young black men, long the primary targets of racial profiling on the part of law-enforcement agencies...Those who insist that American courts dispense justice equally get a stern lesson with statistics the authors cite to the contrary, while civil-rights activists will find much to motivate them in the authors' prescriptions, which include grassroots political organizing, consensus building, "enlisting race to resist hierarchy", and other measures. A useful, provocative, wounded critique of the status quo. * Kirkus Reviews *Mixing myriad personal examples with hard data and analysis of biased news reports, Guinier and Torres cogently and forcefully argue that "color-blinded" solutions are not "attaining racial justice and ensuring a healthy democratic process"...[The authors] grapple intelligently and with passionate wit with such explosive topics as racial profiling and the elusiveness of racial identification and identity...making this one of the most provocative and challenging books on race produced in years. * Publishers Weekly *Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres consider how blacks' own perceptions of their plight might lead to a new political movement. In The Miner's Canary, Guinier and Torres argue that rather than internalize their social dysfunction as being their "own fault," many blacks have developed a critical perspective on "the system." Refusing to accept the mythology of the American Dream--"that those who succeed or fail invariably do so according to their individual merit"--blacks "appreciate the necessity and efficacy of collective political struggle"...Guinier and Torres announce a bold agenda: "to use the experiences of people of color as the basis for fundamental social change that will benefit not only blacks and Hispanics but other disadvantaged social groups." -- James Forman Jr. * Washington Post *Deep in the mines, a distressed canary is a warning that there's poison in the air. Professor Lani Guinier...and Gerald Torres...contend that in America, race is like a miner's canary: Injustices experienced by people of color warn of systemic toxins that threaten everyone...In a passionate call for social change and progressive action, Guinier and Torres convincingly argue that a colorblind approach to deeply entrenched problems does not work; it only inhibits democratic engagement and reinforces existing power structures. Citing the Rev Martin Luther King Jr.'s message that freeing black people from injustice will free America itself, Torres and Guinier urge progressives to use racial awareness as an entryway to political activism. -- Rob Mitchell * Boston Herald *How can a book that advocates for something as ethereal-sounding as the "magical realism of political race" amount to a powerfully reasoned and concretely grounded call for the proliferation of multiracial coalitions in challenges to inequality and exclusion in American society? Law professors Guinier and Torres have managed to do so in their gracefully written book, which is both an analysis of the distinctive contours of the post-Civil Rights Era's racial fault lines and a manifesto for a politics that is decidedly color conscious. Indeed, the purpose of the book is to challenge not simply the calls for colorblindedness on the part of conservatives, but more significantly, similar calls on the part of political leftists. -- P. Kivisto * Choice *Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Political Race and Magical Realism 2. A Critique of Colorblindness 3. Race as a Political Space 4. Rethinking Conventions of Zero-Sum Power 5. Enlisting Race to Resist Hierarchy 6. The Problem Democracy Is Supposed to Solve 7. Whiteness of a Different Color? 8. Watching the Canary Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Racism Xenophobia and Distribution
Book SynopsisConservative politicians in the last thirty years have capitalized on voters' resentment of ethnic minorities to win votes and undermine government aid to the poor. Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution offers a theoretical model to calculate the effect of voters' attitudes about race and immigration on political parties' stances.Trade ReviewThis book presents an enormously original and important line of thought, partly for its topical importance, but as much for its development and exposition of important new theoretical tools that have a very wide range of application to problems not yet imagined. The extended consideration of the impact of the ‘ethnic dimension’ will permit readers to assess the new methods in a concrete context. -- John Ferejohn, Stanford UniversityIn Racism, Xenophobia, and Distribution, the authors demonstrate how attitudes toward racial and ethnic minorities in modern democracies can have a measurable and significant impact on the nature of competition between Left and Right, on equilibrium political coalitions, and redistributive policies. This is an important contribution to the field of political economy, both methodologically and substantively. There exist few econometric studies in political economy that are based on equilibrium models of the type used by the authors. Even fewer exist with the sophistication and depth of analysis found in this book. -- Tasos Kalandrakis, University of RochesterTable of Contents* Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Political Equilibrium: Theory and Application * The Data * Characterization of PUNE as a System of Equations * The Probability-of-Victory Function * Factional Bargaining Powers * The Three-Party Model * First Application: The Logarithmic Utility Function * Second Application: The Euclidean Utility Function * Conclusion 3. History of Racial Politics in the United States * Introduction * Race and American Exceptionalism * Issue Evolution * The Dixiecrats * The Presidential Election of 1964 and Its Aftermath * The Reagan Democrats * Race, Class, andWelfare Reform in the 1990s * Conclusion 4. United States: Quantitative Analysis * Introduction * Recovering Voter Racism from Survey Data * Estimation of the Model's Parameters * Numerical Solution of the Log Utility Model * The Euclidean Function Approach * Conclusion 5. History of Racism and Xenophobia in the United Kingdom * Introduction * Immigration in Britain * An Issue of "High Potential" * From Powell to Thatcher: Challenging the Consensus * The Rise of Thatcher and the Breakdown of the Consensus of Silence * Immigration in the 1990s and Beyond * Conclusion 6. United Kingdom: Quantitative Analysis * Introduction * Minorities, Race, and Class Politics in the UK * Estimation of Parameters * The PBE and ASE: Computation * Conclusion 7. Immigration: A Challenge to Tolerant Denmark * Introduction * The Early Years: GuestWorkers and Their Families * The Eighties: The Emergence of Refugees * The Nineties: Xenophobia Emerges, Front and Center * No Longer Marginal: The Far Right and the Election of 2001 8. Denmark: Quantitative Analysis * Parties and Issues * Estimation of the Model's Parameters * Political Equilibrium: Observation and Prediction * The Policy-Bundle and Antisolidarity Effects: Computation * Conclusion 9. Immigration and the Political Institutionalization of Xenophobia in France * Introduction * Immigration in France: A Brief Sketch * The Politicization of Immigration * The Rise of Le Pen * The Mainstreaming of Xenophobia * The 1988 Presidential Election * Xenophobia Remains in the Headlines * Conventional Politics Return as a New Cleavage Is Born * Conclusion 10. France: Quantitative Analysis * Parties and Voter Opinion * Political Equilibrium with Three Parties * Estimation of Model Parameters * Political Equilibrium: Observation and Prediction * The Policy-Bundle and Antisolidarity Effects: Computation 11. Conclusion * The Rise of the New Right Movement * Recapitulation * The Log Utility Function Approach * The Euclidean Utility Function Approach * Limitations * Final Remark * Appendix A: Statistical Methods * Appendix B: Additional Tables * Notes * References * Index
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Harvard University Press Framing Muslims Stereotyping and Representation
Book SynopsisIn Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin dissect how stereotypes that depict Muslims as an inherently problematic presence in the West are constructed, deployed, and circulated in the public imagination, producing an immense gulf between representation and a considerably more complex reality.Trade ReviewIn this rich and methodical deconstruction of the thick frame that surrounds nearly all discussions about Muslim minorities in British and American culture today, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin have exposed the dark power of stereotyping Muslims to the light by scrutinizing everything from "terror" television shows to Muslim leaders' own stereotypes. As an example of cultural studies, the book is exemplary. As an intervention into some of the most urgent political debates of our day, it is both compelling and necessary. -- Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in AmericaAbsorbing, disquieting, and compelling, Framing Muslims alerts us to the new and alarming ways that, in the aftermath of 9/11, 'Muslims' have come to represent a political problem waiting to be solved. With clarity, urgency and forensic skill, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin explore and celebrate ways out of 'the frame' while unravelling the regulatory agendas of fanatics and liberal reformers alike that are currently breathing new life into discredited stereotypes. Essential wisdom for all who care and are daring to write about Islam, racism, and the politics of commodified multiculturalism today. -- Gerald MacLean, co-author of Britain and the Islamic WorldFraming Muslims is an enlightening book. It is sure to make us more critical of the power and influence of media in shaping our views on Muslims and Islam. Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin deserve applause for their worthy effort. -- Joseph Richard Preville * Saudi Gazette *Groundbreaking...Drawing on their diverse backgrounds in English and Urdu literary and cultural studies, Morey and Yaqin examine...[how] veils, beards, men at prayer, and minarets stand in for Muslims in all their heterogeneity and complexity...[An] illuminating work. -- Claire Chambers * Times Higher Education *The book makes a notable contribution by going beyond events in the U.S. to examine reactions in Great Britain to the 2005 bombings of the London public transportation system. The authors take a psychoanalytic approach to their examination of the sources of stereotype and negative depiction, thus offering an interesting perspective that had not previously been fully explored. Furthermore, they consider the impact of positive stereotyping. They conclude that both positive and negative depictions of Muslims have revolved around religion, tradition, modernity, and 'clash of civilizations.' -- G. C. David * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Kids Dont Want to Fail
Book SynopsisKids Don't Want to Fail uses empirical evidence to refute the widely accepted hypothesis that the black-white achievement gap in secondary schools is due to a cultural resistance to schooling in the black community. The author finds that inadequate elementary school preparationnot negative attitudeaccounts for black students' underperformance.Trade ReviewKids Don't Want to Fail is quite remarkable in its detail, care, and depth as a critical empirical examination of the oppositionality hypothesis: the widely held belief that black student underachievement is attributable to a cultural resistance to schooling. Harris writes so clearly and in a style free of jargon that the quantitative emphasis of his study should not prove a barrier to non-specialist readers. -- William Darity, Jr., Duke UniversityKids Don't Want to Fail powerfully critiques a position held by many social scientists and teachers that African American students take an oppositional approach to education. This book offers an important—indeed, an indispensable—corrective by systematically decomposing the key assumptions of this position and then masterfully showing that these assumptions cannot be substantiated with empirical evidence. -- Brian Powell, Indiana UniversitySociologist Harris provides an important corrective to academic theories and popular thought that attribute racial differences in educational achievement to students' attitudes toward schooling. -- G. L. Ochoa * Choice *
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Harvard University Press Forced to Care Coercion and Caregiving in
Book SynopsisOffers an interpretation of care labor in the United States by tracing the roots of inequity along two interconnected strands: unpaid caring within the family; and slavery, indenture, and other forms of coerced labor.Trade ReviewA powerful and persuasive critique, Forced to Care weaves together an insightful historical narrative about caregiving. Why is care of the ill and infirm a private, family responsibility and not a public entitlement? This important and timely book should be part of the national discussion about America's health care system. -- Karen Brodkin, University of California, Los AngelesIn a strikingly original book, Glenn provides the kind of full view that will be foundational to a major advance in our thinking about caring labor. She offers an impressive account of how gender and race have intertwined in caring labor and how coercion in care work has endured despite considerable change over time. Creative, astute, and compelling, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers in health care, labor relations, and law and social welfare policy. -- Marjorie DeVault, Syracuse UniversityA tour de force! Glenn presents a powerful interpretation of the social construction of care work, moving beyond the standard focus on individuals to pinpoint the ideological and material underpinnings of the care system. She reveals an evolving system that remains rooted in the coercion of women, especially immigrant women and women of color, and she offers thoughtful recommendations for a profound reorganization of care work that truly meets the needs of both those who give and those who receive care. -- Mimi Abramovitz, author of Regulating the Lives of WomenIn this incisive analysis, Glenn turns a brilliantly critical eye on the institutions that pit money against love. Taking the long historical view on the relationship between freedom and labor that made her prize-winning book Unequal Freedom so eye-opening, she reveals how the supposedly 'free' market still rests on a basis of coercive social demand rather than choice. -- Myra Marx Ferree, University of WisconsinScouring the history of Native American boarding schools, nineteenth-century reformatories, and programs to Americanize immigrants, Glenn brilliantly reveals the role of coercion in caregiving. An important read for us all. -- Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time BindGlenn advocates for both care providers and those receiving care and uses her vast knowledge of the history and foundation of the problems to offer concrete solutions to the difficulties both face as our aging society pushes us closer to a crisis in the fastest growing segment of healthcare in America -- Kari O'Driscoll * Feminist Review *[Glenn's] evidence is compelling and deals with a wide variety of examples that proves how coercion and caregiving have gone hand in hand. She uses evidence from the coercion of African-American women in general, slavery, Native-American women, as well as White women. She provides the reader with information on how class, race, and gender have formed the caregiving policies of twenty-first century America and how policies and laws have favored women as carers. -- Elin Weiss * Metapsychology *
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Harvard University Press Beyond Suffrage Women in the New Deal Paper
Book SynopsisBeyond Suffrage is a study of women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s. Susan Ware discusses the network they established, their attitudes toward feminism and social reform, and the impact they had upon the New Deal's social welfare policies and on Democratic party politics.Trade ReviewA sensitive collective biography of twenty-eight women New Dealers and…a description of their tactical means of operation… All can unite in thanking Ware for opening a uniquely political chapter in women’s history and for revitalizing the historiography of the New Deal. * Journal of American History *Beyond Suffrage is a welcome addition to the literature of the New Deal. Until now, there has been no adequate treatment of the role of women during this important period. Susan Ware…has based her book on an extensive and careful use of original sources. It is clearly written and analyzed with skill. * History *This is an excellent book. The story it has to tell is a new and compelling one. -- Kathryn Kish Sklar, University of California, Los AngelesA fascinating and important study. * Labour/Le Travailleur *
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Harvard University Press The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Book SynopsisLoury describes a cycle of tainted social information that has resulted in a self-replicating pattern of racial stereotypes that rationalize and sustain discrimination. His analysis shows how restrictions placed on Black development by stereotypical and stigmatizing thinking deny a segment of the population the possibility of self-actualization.Trade ReviewIntellectually rigorous and deeply thoughtful… The Anatomy of Racial Inequality as much as anything, might be considered Loury’s declaration of independence, his fully articulated position as a neoliberal… Loury’s book deals with racial stigma quite directly, but in its political and philosophical aspects as a cause of black disadvantage… The Anatomy of Racial Inequality is an incisive, erudite book by a major thinker. -- Gerald Early * New York Times Book Review *Glenn Loury’s new book, The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, paints in chilling detail the distance between Martin Luther King’s dream and the reality of present-day America… In page after page of statistics gathered over a period of decades, Loury reveals the true nature of subjugation by race in the United States… [A] scrupulous account. -- Anthony Walton * Harper’s *In [The Anatomy of Racial Inequality] Loury makes a striking departure from the self-help themes of his earlier work, defending affirmative action and denouncing ‘colorblindedness’ as a euphemism for indifference to the fate of black Americans. [The book] offers a bracing philosophical defense of his new views. Returning to an argument he first presented in his dissertation, Loury argues that blacks are no longer held back by ‘discrimination in contract’—discrimination in the job market—but rather by ‘discrimination in contact,’ informal and entirely legal patterns of socializing and networking that tend to exclude blacks and thereby perpetuate racial inequality. At the root of this unofficial discrimination, he says is ‘stigma,’ a subtle yet pervasive form of antiblack bias. -- Adam Shatz * New York Times Magazine *Coolly, clearly, and relentlessly, Glenn Loury traces the devastating effects of racial stigmatization on relations between blacks and whites in America. He uses the analytic tools of economics deftly without for a moment falling into pomp or mystification. No one has better stated the case against presuming that liberal states and free markets will of themselves dissolve unjust inequalities. -- Charles Tilly, Professor of Sociology and Political Science, Columbia UniversityAccording to Glenn Loury, the problem of racial inequality should no longer be seen as one of racial discrimination. The fundamental problem is one of racial stigma, which contributes to the second-class citizenship of African-Americans. This fact-filled, impossible-to-pigeonhole, impressively interdisciplinary book should inaugurate a new and better discussion of racial equality in America—and with any luck, new and better policies as well. -- Cass Sunstein, Professor of Law, University of ChicagoIn these lectures, the distinguished economist Glenn Loury has reoriented the public discussion on black–white inequality. He has drawn on economic and sociological analyses to emphasize the historical roots essential to understanding the social stigma which underlies the more overt forms of discrimination and inhibits the development of black capabilities. His analysis implies a critique of liberal individually-based political philosophy, while at the same time recognizing its virtues. -- Kenneth J. Arrow, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Stanford UniversityThis is social criticism at its best. Glenn Loury provides an original and highly persuasive account of how the American racial hierarchy is sustained and reproduced over time. And he then demands that we begin the deep structural reforms that will be necessary to stop its continued reproduction. -- Michael Walzer, Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonThis strikingly original book will likely emerge as one of the most important analyses in recent times of America’s unyielding problem of ‘race.’ In four tight, intensely argued chapters, Loury compellingly elucidates the often tragic ‘rationality’ of discriminatory behavior that results, less from raw racist antipathy than from the logic of self-confirming stereotypes, as well as the role of social stigma, collective dishonor and exclusion, in explaining persisting racial inequalities. In a clear, crisp style, he dissects the simplicities of conservative cultural determinism, the moral and logical limitations of ‘color-blind’ liberal individualism, and the intellectual complacency of the conventional left who would explain all with the dated cry of attitudinal racism. Loury demonstrates once again how the best insights of economics can be integrated with those of sociology and policy studies to untangle the tortuous ‘cycles of cumulative causation’ beneath the nation’s most vexing social problem. Powerfully argued, relentlessly honest, and morally engaged, it lifts and transforms the discourse on ‘race’ and racial justice to an entirely new level and may just be the breakthrough text we have long been waiting for. -- Orlando PattersonThis is a brilliant book. With an original conceptual framework, Glenn Loury breaks new ground in the study of racial inequality in the United States. His insightful analysis of why ‘racial stigma’ is a more important concept than ‘racial discrimination’ in explaining African American disadvantages and in determining the kinds of reforms needed to address them is bound to generate an important debate among scholars in the field. -- William Julius WilsonIn The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, Loury assails ‘race-blindedness’ as often (if inadvertently) indifferent to the cause of racial justice. In his view, the degradation of slavery in America translated into an enduring ‘stigma’ that has marginalized the majority of Blacks and negatively affects their life chances. Evidence of this phenomena is to be seen in the vast numbers of African Americans languishing in the nation’s prisons… Loury has written a concise and, at times, provocative analysis of the American racial conundrum—one in which he exercises that most central of intellectual virtues: the capacity to change one’s mind. -- William Jelani Cobb * The Crisis *Loury is both a renowned economist and the director of the Institute on Race and Social Division at Boston University. In this fascinating and original book, he combines those two qualifications to examine why, a century and a half after the abolition of slavery and 50 years past the beginning of the U.S. civil rights movement, there are still such inequalities between whites and African Americans. The result is a thoughtful, interdisciplinary book that argues that it isn’t racial discrimination but racial stigma (‘which is about who, at the deepest level, they are understood to be’) that sustains the inequality. * Globe and Mail *Books that make readers truly uncomfortable, that hold up a mirror to our hearts and minds and reflect something horrible and true, are rare. The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn C. Loury is such a work. A provocative dissection of contemporary white/black relations, it belies the notion that mainstream Americans no longer harbor ugly racial beliefs… His book is a wake-up call for everyone who frames the modern history of race as a happy tale of progress. -- J. Peder Zane * News & Observer *[Glenn Loury] explores and explains the continuing struggle to achieve racial parity and social progress. His examination of racial stereotypes are particularly arresting, especially when one considers how many blacks—much to their detriment—not only accept negative images of themselves but seem to be living out and rationalizing them as well… Mr. Loury is a balanced interpreter of American society, so he predictably criticizes both liberals and conservatives for their ‘simplistic’ approaches to resolving racial misunderstandings that all too often contribute to the creation of unnecessary conflicts between the races… [This book is] thought-provoking and insightful and the author’s musings on a variety of sensitive subjects certainly merits our attention. -- Edward C. Smith * Washington Times *The Anatomy of Racial Inequality by Glenn C. Loury is a theoretical treatise that attempts to reconfigure and refocus the conceptual perspective from which social scientists construct frameworks for studying and explaining African-American social and economic disadvantage… He presents a compelling look at issues of racial inequality, which ostensibly deals with economic issues by drawing upon other social science fields such as sociology and social psychology. His approach is well conceived and ‘novel’ in that it makes use of the insights of these other fields by applying them to broader aspects of the American social matrix than is traditionally allowed in analyzing economic inequality. He succeeds primarily because he does not restrict his analysis of economic inequality to those constricts and variables that can only be explained by quantitative analysis of economic data, phenomena, and trends… [W]hat is new in Loury’s treatise is his contention that their racial stigma should clearly displace racial discrimination as the key conceptual approach to studying and understanding racial inequality… [The Anatomy of Racial Inequality] provide[s] important contributions to our understanding of the challenges that continue to confront African-Americans socially, educationally, and economically… Loury’s work provides ample theoretical fodder and a sound rationale for empirically testing and assessing the structural aspects of these same constructs. -- Larry L. Rowley * Educational Researcher *A fresh, challenging analysis of the racial inequality endured by African-Americans. Loury first presented these arguments as the W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard in April 2000. One of his principal observations is that those who consider racial issues should replace the concept of racial discrimination with that of ‘racial stigma.’ People are stigmatized, he says, when they are viewed by others not as individuals but as members of a race. He believes that American blacks have patently suffered the most from stigmatization and identifies slavery as the chief cause… There’s no question that this is a significant, even crucial text gravid with vital ideas. * Kirkus Reviews *In this highly persuasive analysis of race stigma in U.S. society, Loury…argues that it is not simply racial discrimination (which is ‘about how people are treated’) that keeps African-Americans from achieving their goals, but rather the more complex reality of ‘racial stigma’—‘which is about who, at the deepest cognitive level, they are understood to be’… [Loury] grapples eloquently and vigorously with such concrete examples as affirmative action, arguments about racial IQ differences and racial profiling… Loury’s arguments are provocative and productive. * Publishers Weekly *
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Harvard University Press The Economics of Race in the United States
Book SynopsisBrendan OâFlaherty brings the tools of economic analysisâincentives, equilibrium, optimizationâto bear on racial issues. From health care, housing, and education, to employment, wealth, and crime, he shows how racial differences powerfully determine American lives, and how progress in one area is often constrained by diminishing returns in another.Trade ReviewO’Flaherty brings us a wealth of data-driven facts on how race still matters in America. -- Paul Flahive * Texas Public Radio *A harsh, undeniable fact about U.S. society is that socioeconomic status is stratified by race and ethnicity. The contribution of economists to the study of the contentious issues of race and ethnicity has been minimal--that is, until O’Flaherty crafted this pathbreaking study that shows how racial differences among blacks, whites, Hispanics, and Asian Americans remain a powerful determinant in the lives of 21st-century Americans. The author should be praised for striking a fine balance of applied economic theory and empirical analysis of the U.S. Census to explore and analyze socioeconomic status by intersections of race, ethnicity, and gender. All relevant topics are covered in the book, including gaps in education, income, employment, health, and levels of incarceration. Because racial inequality continues in the 21st century, and renewed racial tensions are actually simmering, this book is undoubtedly timely and the must-read text for anyone in the social sciences interested in surveying the economics of race and racism in the U.S. -- S. Chaudhuri * Choice *A terrific contribution to the literature on race and economics. -- Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York UniversityAn amazing book that should become a standard reference and must-read text for economists and other social scientists who study race and racial inequality. It is both deep and comprehensive, and has several blinding insights relating racial inequality to the fundamental workings of society. -- Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley
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Harvard University Press Just around Midnight Rock and Roll and the
Book SynopsisWhen Jimi Hendrix died, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier, Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution.Trade ReviewFrom Little Richard and Chuck Berry to the Dominoes, Ike Turner, and Howlin’ Wolf, rock and roll’s founding figures were African American, yet ‘rock’ as we know and hear it now is coded white…In some of his sharpest passages, Hamilton shows how much rockism’s whiteness depended on [the] confining ideas of blackness…He contributes a new and valuable piece to a larger and still contentious project: the struggle against the essentialization of racial and ethnic identity. -- Colin Vanderburg * Los Angeles Review of Books *Ambitious and rewarding… Just around Midnight seeks to tell the story of [black] erasure [from rock ‘n’ roll], and it does so quite compellingly by bringing together artists and songs that our implicitly segregationist narratives have encouraged us to keep apart. -- Kevin J. H. Dettmar * Chronicle of Higher Education *Extraordinary…Hamilton doesn’t pretend to have all the answers in Just around Midnight but he asks all the right questions. It challenges so much of what we’ve taken for granted about rock and roll history that one reading won’t do…Any future book that deals with the social and racial aspects of popular music in the 20th century will have to contend with Just around Midnight. The bar has been raised. -- Adam Ellsworth * Arts Fuse *Brilliant…[A] valuable engagement with the unheard narrative of race in rock and roll. -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education *To the age-old cries that ‘rock is dead,’ Jack Hamilton’s book says, ‘Think again!’ Just around Midnight considers the often-elided racial mythologies, cross-cultural intimacies, and racially-charged aesthetic obfuscations that haunt the foundations of American popular music culture. For anyone who remains easily seduced by the romance of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame canon-building, this book is a necessary read. -- Daphne Brooks, Yale UniversityThis new listening to the black-and-white racial politics of rock in the 1960s is full of rich insights, provocative thinking, and persuasive writing. As the revolutions of critical race and ethnic studies continue to reveal new generations of critics born in their wake, revisitations of rock history like this one will be crucial to rethinking the musical past. -- Josh Kun, University of Southern CaliforniaAs musically detailed as it is theoretically expansive, Just around Midnight reveals that popular music of the 1960s was defined by more vibrant interracial collaborations and more violent anti-black erasures than we could have imagined. This is a beautifully written and provocatively argued work of intellect, heart, and soul. -- Emily Lordi, University of Massachusetts AmherstAs Jack Hamilton makes clear in this exceptionally perceptive work, the most common way to talk about race in rock music is to not talk about it at all…Hamilton’s text is bold, sophisticated, and brilliant. For anyone looking for a book challenging conventional narratives of music history, this is a fantastic candidate. -- Joshua Friedberg * PopMatters *
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Harvard University Press Judeophobia
Book SynopsisTaking a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about Jews and Judaism, Peter Schäfer locates the origin of anti-Semitism in the ancient world and firmly establishes Hellenistic Egypt as the generating source of anti-Semitism, with roots extending back into Egypt’s pre-Hellenistic history.Trade Review[Judeophobia] casts new light on, and suggests a new understanding of, an area that has been a controversial field ever since Theodor Mommsen, in…his Römische Geshichte in 1884, made the ‘rather casual statement’ that ‘hatred of the Jews and Jew-baiting are as old as the Diaspora itself’… [It is a] learned and absorbing book. -- Bernard Knox * New Republic *A well-informed and intelligently argued book. It is also admirably readable. -- Jasper Griffin * New York Review of Books *An elegant, persuasive, and comprehensive book… It is no exaggeration to say that Judeophobia changes the way we think about Judaism in the Greco-Roman world. -- Alan Mendelson * History [UK] *In Judeophobia Peter Schäfer makes a major contribution to the social history of Judaism in antiquity… The book is written in a clear style appropriate for non-specialists. Non-English language terms are transliterated and, in most cases, translated the first time they are used. Schäfer’s thesis is that the origins of anti-Semitism can be traced to three successive centers of conflict: Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Rome. Schäfer’s attempt to disentangle the unique aspects of the growth of anti-Semitism in each of these three centers is one of the most important contributions of the book… This book deserves to be read by anyone interested in the origins of anti-Semitism. Its main arguments will undoubtedly become a source for discussion and debate in future research. Schäfer deserves our thanks, both for his courage in pursuing a difficult topic with such frankness and for the numerous insights that he has contributed to research on this topic. -- Allen Kerkeslager * Journal for the Study of Judaism *Schäfer demonstrates his mastery of the sources…[and] isolate[s] with great clarity key elements in the history of antisemitism. -- Nicholas De Lange * Patterns of Prejudice *Schäfer has given us a masterly account of the early history of antisemitism. -- Robert Goldenberg * Shofar *Table of ContentsIntroduction Who Are the Jews? Expulsion from Egypt The Jewish God Abstinence from Pork Sabbath Circumcision Proselytism Two Key Historical Incidents Elephantine Alexandria Centers of Conflict Egypt Syria-Palestine Rome Anti-Semitism Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press The End Game
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAbramson takes readers on a journey through geriatric inequality to show how on the west coast of the U.S. the supposed golden years of post-employment for many individuals is an illusion, and in reality retirement is a corrosive quotidian struggle on body and soul. However, the saddening tone of this ethnographic work serves many purposes by shedding light on: the effects of social networks; rationalizations behind decision-making; greater understanding of general social stratification; and the symbolic as well as practical challenges of growing old in the U.S.… Avoiding reductionist frameworks and showing the hugely varying lifestyles of Californian seniors, The End Game poses a profound question: how can provision of services for the elderly cater for individual circumstances and not merely treat the aged as one grey block? Abramson eloquently and comprehensively expounds this complex question. -- Michael Warren * LSE Review of Books *Abramson provides a remarkable ethnographic look at four urban neighborhoods inhabited by older Americans. He uses in-depth interviews to explore inequality and how it shapes end-of-life issues in ways never seen before. The author’s approach situates inequality experienced by older Americans in a real world context and links culture, social life, biological life, and structural disparities in ways that allow readers to understand the intersectionality of diversity imbued in the lives of older Americans… Abramson opens a window into the reality of old age, the importance of culture and the impact it has on shared/prior experiences, and the inequalities that structure them. -- A. L. Lewis * Choice *American seniors face starkly different challenges depending on economic circumstances. The End Game provides a deeper understanding of how inequalities affect the entire passage of our lives. -- Robert Reich, University of California, Berkeley, and former U.S. Secretary of LaborHow inequality plays out in our aging population could not be a more important question. The aged are supposedly a group that we have done a good job at protecting with Medicare and Social Security, yet we still see sharp social gradients. This book, the first on the topic, helps to answer that question. -- Dalton Conley, New York UniversityAbramson brings a qualitative eye to a topic we have mainly known through statistics—mortality rates, actuarial estimates, and life expectancies. With a refreshing perspective, The End Game brings us close to what people experience as they age, making clear not only that 'aches and pains' are shared across the board but also that access to resources matters enormously for how people manage those difficulties. The book dispels stereotypes over and over; his elderly respondents work to maintain their image, laugh at their failing memories, and smoke marijuana. The book is a terrific contribution to our knowledge of how people actually experience inequality in their later years. -- Mario Luis Small, Harvard University
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Harvard University Press The World Inequality Report
Book SynopsisThe World Inequality Report: 2018 is the most authoritative and up-to-date account of global trends in inequality. Researched, compiled, and written by a team of the world's leading economists, it presents with unrivaled clarity and depth information and analysis that will be vital to policy makers and scholars everywhere.Trade ReviewExamining the World Inequality Report—…by the creators of the World Wealth and Income Database, who include the economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez—it is tempting to see the rising concentration of incomes as some sort of unstoppable force of nature, an economic inevitability driven by globalization and technology… And yet, a careful examination of the data suggests there is nothing inevitable about untrammeled inequality. -- Eduardo Porter and Karl Russell * New York Times *Back in 1980, the bottom 50 percent of wage-earners in the United States earned about 21 percent of all income in the country—nearly twice as much as the share of income (11 percent) earned by the top 1 percent of Americans. But today, according to [World Inequality Report 2018], those numbers have nearly reversed: the bottom 50 percent only take in 13 percent of the income pie, while the top 1 percent grab over 20 percent of the country’s income. -- Christopher Ingraham * Chicago Tribune *The 2018 World Inequality Report shows the share of wealth held by the top 1% of earners in the U.S. doubled from 10% to 20% between 1980 and 2016, while the bottom 50% fell from 20% to 13% in the same period. -- Kofi Annan * Quartz *Sure to become a standard source for data on income and wealth inequality. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *Three and a half years ago, the English publication of Thomas Piketty’s surprise bestseller, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, sparked an international debate about the roots of rising inequality. Today, [World Inequality Report 2018] makes for equally sobering reading: The gap between rich and poor has increased in nearly every region in the world over the past few decades. -- Eshe Nelson * Quartz *Sure to spark discussion on national policy and its effects on wealth and inequality, making it a much-needed resource. -- Muhammed Hassanali * Booklist *
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Princeton University Press The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity
Book SynopsisThere was racism in the ancient world, after all. This book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It considers themes in the history of discrimination. It provides analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in Greco-Roman world.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004 "This is a big book on an important subject."--Choice "The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity pores over substantial textual evidence to confirm that both the ancient Greeks and Romans possessed nationalistic tendencies... Isaac's book is seriously academic and will long remain an essential standard tool for debate."--Sean Kingsley, Times Higher Education Supplement "[An] important book... [A]nyone concerned with racism, and more generally with the moral complexity of our civilization, will be profoundly educated by Isaac's magisterial and ethically lucid study."--Paula Fredriksen, The New Republic "The author's magisterial and comprehensive command of the sources and the modern academic literature lends his thesis authority. He thoughtfully summarizes his arguments and conclusions from time to time. His line of thought is clear and his language is straightforward."--Ralph Amelan, The Jerusalem Post "The principal aim of this massive, heavily documented study ... is to establish that racism, like so many other articles of European mental furniture, was first given shape and substance by the fifth-century Greeks... [Benjamin] Isaac's accessible, ground-breaking study is a timely and important work."--Margaret H. Williams, Journal of Jewish Studies "This is a hugely learned and provocative book... Benjamin Isaac is a classical scholar, and his experience of twentieth-century anti-Semitism has both made him uniquely alive to his topic, and led him to look for the 'roots' of one particular type of racism in classical antiquity."--Christopher Jones, Scripta Classica Israelica "This is the first serious scholarly work to confront the problem of race and racism in Greco-Roman antiquity... [Benjamin] Issac has deflated once and for all any easy suppositions about the modern origins of one of humankind's bitterest legacies."--Brent D. Shaw, Journal of World History "The 563 pages of this book represent an academic tour-de-force, showing vast knowledge of ancient sources from Herodotus to late antiquity, and an equally impressive mastery of early modern scholarship from the sixteenth century onwards, drawing out many links between ancient and modern thinking."--David Noy, Journal of the Classical Association of Canada "The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity is a compelling work that has been written with so much clarity, precision and erudition that it is almost impossible not to accept the author's views. It is also one of those books that will definitely change the way we look at the ancient world, a world that invented not only 'logos', democracy and philosophy, but also the art of using pseudo-scientific arguments in order to justify the worst ways of dealing with other men. Last but not least, Isaac establishes that considering racial discrimination in its earliest forms is a good way of gaining 'a better understanding of their contemporary forms,' since such prejudices continue to be at the root of most hatreds (and most wars) that are devastating today's world. For these reasons, this book is essential for anyone interested in the topic of racism."--Christian Delacampagne, Patterns of PrejudiceTable of ContentsILLUSTRATIONS ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xii INTRODUCTION 1 PART 1: STEREOTYPES AND PROTO-RACISM: CRITERIA FOR DIFFERENTIATION 53 CHAPTER 1 Superior and Inferior Peoples 55 CHAPTER 2 Conquest and Imperialism 169 CHAPTER 3 Fears and Suppression 225 Conclusions to Part 1, Chapters 2 and 3 248 PART 2: GREEK AND ROMAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPECIFIC GROUPS-GREEK AND ROMAN IMPERIALISM 253 INTRODUCTION TO PART 2 255 CHAPTER 4 Greeks and the East 257 CHAPTER 5 Roman Imperialism and the Conquest of the East 304 CHAPTER 6 Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Syrians 324 CHAPTER 7 Egyptians 352 CHAPTER 8 Parthia/Persia 371 CHAPTER 9 Roman Views of Greeks 381 CHAPTER 10 Mountaineers and Plainsmen 406 CHAPTER 11 Gauls 411 CHAPTER 12 Germans 427 CHAPTER 13 Jews 440 Conclusions to Part 2 492 END CONCLUSIONS 501 Ethnic Prejudice, Proto-Racism and Imperialism in Antiquity 503 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 517 INDEX OF SOURCES 541 GENERAL INDEX 553
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