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Book SynopsisA journalistic look at the terrifying growth of Islamophobia across the Western world todayTrade Review'This book performs a true service for the nation' -- Glenn Greenwald, lawyer, journalist and author of No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State'A brave and provocative book ... Highly recommended' -- CHOICE'This concise, accessible and illuminating book meets one of the most urgent needs of our time ... required reading' -- Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God, Islam: A Short History and Muhammad'This book exposes the dirty secrets of those who try to manipulate public opinion against Muslims. It should be read by everyone who values truth and intercultural understanding' -- Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence'A book of immense importance for our times' -- Reza Aslan, author of No God But God and Beyond Fundamentalism'In this provocative and engaging book, Nathan Lean meticulously untangles the dense web of fear merchants that have made Muslim bashing a cottage industry. Lean's is a battle against Islamophobia, one that he wages with a seamless and compelling narrative.' -- Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World'A lucid and detailed examination of the dark side of our politics. No one should take comfort from his conclusions about the outsized influence of extremists on our mainstream culture' -- Richard Wolffe, MSNBC political analyst and author of Renegade: The Making of a President'In a tightly-written, fast-paced narrative that feels like a thriller, Nathan Lean shows us just how deep the rabbit hole goes. Essential reading for anyone who wants a window into the origins of contemporary Islamophobia' -- Eboo Patel, author of Acts of Faith and Sacred Ground'A convincing demonstration of the threat Islamophobia poses to a pluralistic society and democratic values. An important resource for all who wish to understand the forces that manipulate our political process and discourse' -- Ingrid Mattson, Chair in Islamic Studies, Huron University College'An eye-opener — the most comprehensive book to date on a new and dangerous cycle of minority persecution in American society. Lean's book exposes the key players, funders and enablers of Islamophobia in America and the destructive effect of their politics on our national fabric. It is worth every minute of reading' -- Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God, Islam: A Short History and MuhammadTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Author's Note Foreword to the First Edition by John L. Esposito Foreword to the Second Edition by Jack G. Shaheen Introduction: Islamophobia from the War on Terror to the Age of Trump 1. A History of American Monster Making 2. Hate on the Internet 3. Inside the Mainstream Media Echo Chamber 4. The Christian Right’s Battle for Muslim Souls 5. The Influence of the Pro-Israel Right 6. The Rise of Liberal Islamophobia 7. Politicizing and Legislating Fear of Muslims 8. Islam as the Enemy of European Populism Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA cutting analysis of the racist structures of mainstream feminism.Trade Review'Valuable ... Shows how and why the erasure of race from key accounts of feminism presents a problem for forms of solidarity among women' -- Vron Ware, author of 'Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History' (Verso, 2015)'Courageously reveals the fault lines of the longstanding gulf between black and white feminism, exposing the power of white privilege in gender politics and how it undermines solidarity within the sisterhood. A must for a new generation of antiracist feminist scholars and activists who truly seek the holy grail of intersectional equality' -- Heidi Safia Mirza, editor of 'Black British Feminism' (Routledge, 1997)'A searing account of how white feminist innocence is maintained in order to legitimise white women's position at the centre of feminist politics. This book is a must read for anyone interested in questions of feminism and anti-racism' -- Nadine El-Enany, author of '(B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire' (Manchester University Press, 2020)'Building on the work of black feminists and women of colour, this is a profound mediation on white innocence and its deployment in the service of white feminism to deny racism. It offers a renewed possibility for racial justice and resistance to white patriarchal supremacy' -- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, RMIT, Melbourne‘A brave and coherent introduction to the relationship between white privilege and feminism’ -- LSE Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. ‘That Old Chestnut’: Feminism and Racism 2. British Feminisms in the Aftermath of Empire 3. Leaving Feminist Whiteness Behind: Narratives of Transcendence in the Era of Difference 4. Inevitable Whiteness? Absolving White Feminist Dominance 5. Liberal Whiteness and the ‘New’ Feminism 6. Feminist Complicities Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHow grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisisTrade Review'An extraordinary achievement. Kotouza's incisive contribution to critical social theory and to the analysis of the contemporary dynamics of capitalist social relations should be read by all' -- Werner Bonefeld, author of 'Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason''In this original study, Kotouza powerfully shows how national social struggles, like the ones we witnessed in Greece in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, are littered with contradictions and exclusions. Nevertheless by taking the politics of the excluded as its horizon, Surplus Citizens offers us the hope of a more inclusive, transnational politics' -- Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck University of London'An extraordinary guide to our present' -- Joshua Clover, author of 'Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings''Breaking the ethno-national and state-centred cage into which discussions of the Greek crisis have largely been confined, Kotouza's book puts questions of race, gender and migration at the core of its analysis and provides us with a powerful model for investigating the dynamics and limits of contemporary surplus rebellions' -- Alberto Toscano, author of 'Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Squares and Frontiers PART I - HISTORIES: UNDEAD AND INVISIBLE CONFLICTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CRISIS 1. The Making of Greek Capitalism through Race, Gender and Class 2. Victories, Defeats and Neoliberal Transformation, 1973–2008 3. Symptoms of Crisis PART II - BECOMING SURPLUS: STRUGGLE AND ITS LIMITS 4. Social Struggle, Non-Identity and Popular Democracy 5. Citizens from Democracy to Riot 6. Labour and Superfluity 7. Solidarity, Charity or Exchange? 8. The Forest Against Work, Workers Against the Forest 9. Care, Vulnerability and Gender Politics PART III - NATIONALISM, BIOPOLITICS AND STRUGGLE AT THE BORDERS 10. Everyday Racism, Crisis Nationalisms and Migrant ‘Autonomy’ 11. Surplus Population Management by a Nation-State in Crisis 12. Nationalism from Below 13. Migrant Struggle and Anti-Fascism Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisHow grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisisTrade Review'An extraordinary achievement. Kotouza's incisive contribution to critical social theory and to the analysis of the contemporary dynamics of capitalist social relations should be read by all' -- Werner Bonefeld, author of 'Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason''In this original study, Kotouza powerfully shows how national social struggles, like the ones we witnessed in Greece in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, are littered with contradictions and exclusions. Nevertheless by taking the politics of the excluded as its horizon, Surplus Citizens offers us the hope of a more inclusive, transnational politics' -- Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck University of London'An extraordinary guide to our present' -- Joshua Clover, author of 'Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings''Breaking the ethno-national and state-centred cage into which discussions of the Greek crisis have largely been confined, Kotouza's book puts questions of race, gender and migration at the core of its analysis and provides us with a powerful model for investigating the dynamics and limits of contemporary surplus rebellions' -- Alberto Toscano, author of 'Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Squares and Frontiers PART I - HISTORIES: UNDEAD AND INVISIBLE CONFLICTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CRISIS 1. The Making of Greek Capitalism through Race, Gender and Class 2. Victories, Defeats and Neoliberal Transformation, 1973–2008 3. Symptoms of Crisis PART II - BECOMING SURPLUS: STRUGGLE AND ITS LIMITS 4. Social Struggle, Non-Identity and Popular Democracy 5. Citizens from Democracy to Riot 6. Labour and Superfluity 7. Solidarity, Charity or Exchange? 8. The Forest Against Work, Workers Against the Forest 9. Care, Vulnerability and Gender Politics PART III - NATIONALISM, BIOPOLITICS AND STRUGGLE AT THE BORDERS 10. Everyday Racism, Crisis Nationalisms and Migrant ‘Autonomy’ 11. Surplus Population Management by a Nation-State in Crisis 12. Nationalism from Below 13. Migrant Struggle and Anti-Fascism Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisEchoes of Kandahar on the streets of Britain – how counterinsurgency in the Middle East is applied at homeTrade Review'In this compelling journey Sabir spells out the excruciating process of being made an extension of the 'war on terror'. Were he an employee of a pogrom pushing, state suckling think-tank, he may have a show on LBC, a column in The Times or even an OBE by now. Instead, he has complex trauma and the shadow of an invasive and voyeuristic state surveillance stalking him. Sabir's writing shows with such clarity and eloquence how communities of struggle can resist and fight back. Thank you for raising your voice and persevering in the face of state violence' -- Lowkey, poet and rapper'An instant classic. No other book portrays the traumatising effects of British state violence with more power or lucidity. Sabir's struggle to resist and overcome injustice is an inspiration' -- Arun Kundnani, author of 'The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror''Discussions of Islamophobia are greatly deficient when they fail to tackle the ways in which the Muslim community has been perpetually securitised in uniquely nefarious ways. Rizwaan offers a compelling breakdown of what that has looked like through his own tragic experience' -- Omar Suleiman, scholar, civil rights leader, writer and public speaker'Rizwaan Sabir's captivating recollection of his Kafkaesque experiences with the British counterterrorism apparatus illustrates with devastating clarity the long-term consequences of the Prevent program' -- Lisa Stampnitzky, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield and author of 'Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented Terrorism''A raw, compelling account of the profound trauma, social harms and human costs generated by counter-terrorism policy' -- Professor Joe Sim, Liverpool John Moores University'A story as gripping as a thriller, a powerful account of the mechanisms and dangers of our highly dysfunctional counter-terrorism regime' -- Professor Karma Nabulsi, University of Oxford'A tour de force, unique in its combination of rigorous scholarship and the knowledge that comes from personal experience' -- Deepa Kumar, Professor of Media Studies, Rutgers University'Sabir's forensic examination of counter-terrorism sheds light on a troubling set of laws and policies that should be challenged and resisted by those who value human rights' -- Imran Khan QC, Solicitor and Higher Rights Advocate'Among countless books about the harms and damage of the global war on terror, 'The Suspect' stands out for its searing honesty, its courage and its powerful insights into the inner workings of contemporary counterterrorism' -- Richard Jackson, University of Otago, New Zealand‘Brave ... through personal testimony, The Suspect reveals in gripping detail the destructive cost of the War on Terror for Muslims around the world’ -- ‘The New Arab’‘Fascinating … this is a frightening eyeopener of a book that reveals the systemic flaws and racism in the UK’s security services’ -- ‘Blogcritics Magazine’Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Hicham Yezza 1. Awakening 2. A Divine Signal 3. Suspected Terrorist 4. Detention 5. Suspicious Documents 6. Interrogation 7. Seven Interviews 8. A Convenient Witness 9. The Decision 10. Accountability 11. Subject of Interest 12. An Unlawful Stop 13. Flashing Screens 14. Travelling While Muslim 15. Spies in Our Midst 16. The Trace 17. Suspicious Scholarship 18. A Safe House 19. Sensing a Set Up 20. Seeing Spies 21. Coming to America 22. A Tap on the Shoulder 23. Counterinsurgency 24. A Different Way of War 25. Global Insurgency 26. Armed Propaganda 27. A Relapse 28. Dear GCHQ 29. Trauma Triggers 30. Withdrawing Consent 31. Sharing Our Stories 32. Global Resistance 33. Healing Trauma Afterword by Aamer Anwar Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWho shapes our digital landscapes, and why are so many people excluded from them?Trade Review'Conceptually rich and well-illustrated, this is a valuable analysis of data power at the global scale' -- Prof. Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University'An enlightening and accessible introduction to digital geographies and why they are important to our understanding of digital exclusion' -- Alex Singleton, Professor of Geographic Information Science, University of Liverpool'Demonstrates how so much digital data is sourced from a very limited range of geographical locations and laboured over in various ways, and what difference this makes to the information about places on platforms like OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and Wikipedia' -- Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford'Systematic, sobering, yet uplifting, this volume makes the convincing case that digital transformation is not the end of geography, nor is it an equaliser for the diverse cultures and peoples across the globe' -- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore'An important and insightful book. Graham and Dittus eloquently map, measure and critically interrogate digital geographies in a way that forces us to reckon with their power and politics, the injustices they incur, and how we might imagine alternatives.' -- Professor Lina Dencik, Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK'A must read for those deeply concerned about long hidden people and places who have been marginalised in the politics of place-making, including within digital worlds like Wikipedia and Google' -- Payal Arora, author of the 'Next Billion Users' and Co-Founder of FemLab.CoTable of ContentsList of Figures Series Preface Acknowledgements 1. We All Are Digital Geographers 2. When the Map Becomes the Territory 3. Making Digital Geographies 4. A Geography of Digital Geographies 5. Digital Augmentations of the City 6. Who are the Map-Makers? 7. Information Power and Inequality 8. Towards More Just Digital Geographies Epilogue Appendix Reference tables Data sources Methodology for Chapter 5 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow do childcare, healthcare, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality affect our lives under capitalism?Trade Review'Theoretically robust and empirically grounded chapters demonstrate the enduring value of a Marxist feminist approach. A welcome collection!' -- Rosemary Hennessy, L.H. Favrot Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, Rice University, and author of Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism'The varied and suggestive essays in this rich collection are of great value, not only to newcomers to the field, but also to those already grounded in this rich arena for inquiry and organising' -- Hester Eisenstein, author of Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labour and Ideas to Exploit the World (2009)'A must read for those who want to go beyond the binaries and the 'social' conceived as an aggregation of intersecting systems or overlapping spheres. It is an ambitious project aiming for epistemologies of resistance' -- Himani Bannerji, author of The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism, and Gender (2000)'A marvellous new collection' -- Jordy Rosenberg, Los Angeles Review of Books'Every socialist needs to read it now' -- Socialist Action'Feminist thinking about questions of social reproduction offers a much-needed break with the impasse that mainstream feminism finds itself in - and this collection provides a fantastic weapon for that task' -- Red PepperTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Lise Vogel 1. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory - Tithi Bhattacharya 2. Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism - Nancy Fraser 3. Without Reserves - Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman 4. How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class - Tithi Bhattacharya 5. Intersections and Dialectics: Critical Reconstructions in Social Reproduction Theory - David McNally 6. Children, Childhood and Capitalism: A Social Reproduction Perspective - Susan Ferguson 7. Mostly Work, Little Play: Social Reproduction, Migration and Paid Domestic Work in Montreal - Carmen Teeple Hopkins 8. Pensions and Social Reproduction - Serap Saritas Oran 9. Body Politics: The Social Reproduction of Sexualities - Alan Sears 10. From Social Reproduction Feminism to the Women's Strike - Cinzia Arruzza Notes Index

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Book Synopsis* A wide-ranging volume from one of the world s most influential and respected figures in gender studies. * Proposes a bold new agenda and manifesto for the social scientists as advocates of social justice.Trade Review"You may not agree with Connell's profound critique of neoliberalism, which according to her is responsible for the inequalities of our time, but this book will at the very least provoke you to rethink and reanalyze the current system. This volume is a valiant and much needed call for action."The Global Journal "This book is well worth reading by a wide range of sociologists who wish to connect up their technical work with wider currents of society and who might wish to see this approach to sociology as an explicitly justified model."International Sociology"Confronting Equality showcases sociology at work, making sense of complex and shifting global dynamics of class, gender, and intellectual labor. And since this is the work of Raewyn Connell, it is also social science at its best: characterized by richly theorized empirical research, and carving out a place for a radically generative and engaged world sociology."Michael A. Messner, University of Southern California "Confronting Equality illuminates the contemporary historical period with a blend of incisive theorizing and careful empirical work. Connell explores the shaping force of neoliberalism, the dynamics of global inequality, and processes of social change through a wide-range of topics: masculinities, struggles for gender equality, class inequality in schooling and in family life, intellectual work in the global metropole and periphery. A timely and thought-provoking book."Barrie Thorne, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction page 1 1 Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities and Gender Equality 7 2 Steering towards Equality? How Gender Regimes Change inside the State 25 3 The Neoliberal Parent: Mothers and Fathers in Market Society 41 4 Working-Class Families and the New Secondary Education 58 5 Good Teachers on Dangerous Ground 73 6 Not the Pyramids: Intellectual Workers Today 89 7 Sociology has a World History 103 8 Paulin Hountondji's Postcolonial Sociology of Knowledge 119 9 Antonio Negri's Theory of Empire 136 10 Bread and Waratahs: A Letter to the Next Left 154 Acknowledgements 167 References 170 Index 187

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Book Synopsis* Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of out time. * Renowned sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, reflects upon the startling and worrying facts of social inequality of which we have become so conscious in the last decade.Trade Review' Bauman lists and scrutinizes the tacit assumptions and unreflected-upon convictions upon which such opinions are grounded, finding them one by one to be false, deceitful and misleading.' ExpofairsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Just how unequal are we today? 6 2 Why do we put up with inequality? 20 3 Some big lies on which a bigger one floats 27 4 Words against deeds: an afterthought . . . 90 Notes 97

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Book Synopsis* Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most original and influential social thinkers of out time. * Renowned sociologist, Zygmunt Bauman, reflects upon the startling and worrying facts of social inequality of which we have become so conscious in the last decade.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 Just how unequal are we today? 6 2 Why do we put up with inequality? 20 3 Some big lies on which a bigger one floats 27 4 Words against deeds: an afterthought . . . 90 Notes 97

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Book SynopsisDespite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached.Trade Review"A perceptive, focused essay...Highly recommended."Times Higher Education "In this wide-ranging and elegantly written book, Mary Evans deftly unravels existing mystifications about gender equality as an inevitable achievement of feminism in late modernity. If we don’t tackle the reality of still-existing global social inequalities, the feminist project will remain unfinished."Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam"In this wide-ranging, highly readable text, Mary Evans argues that the persistence of gender inequalities demands that we recognize those inequalities as structural rather than individual, that we refuse the ‘exceptionalism, individualism and deep hunger for the extraordinary’ which contemporary politics and culture encourage, in favour of a greater, more systematic integration of care work into political agendas, a more clearly defined feminism, and a recognition of the need for change beyond the integration of women into education. A useful volume, giving pause for thought, in a hectic age."Gabriele Griffin, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Preface viii 1 What is Gender Inequality? 1 Making Inequality 5 What Has Changed? 10 Changing Conditions 12 2 Worlds of Inequality 23 Exploiting the Feminine 25 Problems at Work 30 Problems of Agency 35 Locations of Inequality 38 3 Problems of Subjectivity 47 Imagining the Female Body 48 Other Bodies 53 How the Body Matters 58 Questions of Order 61 4 Enter Feminism 76 Conditions for Feminism 76 A Secondary Sex 82 Changing Times 87 Unchanging Times 97 5 Making Gender Equality 120 The Rights of Women 122 The Limits of Liberalism 130 Notes 140 Bibliography 152 Index 166

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Book SynopsisDespite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached.Trade Review"A perceptive, focused essay... Highly recommended."Times Higher Education "In this wide-ranging and elegantly written book, Mary Evans deftly unravels existing mystifications about gender equality as an inevitable achievement of feminism in late modernity. If we don’t tackle the reality of still-existing global social inequalities, the feminist project will remain unfinished."Kathy Davis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam"In this wide-ranging, highly readable text, Mary Evans argues that the persistence of gender inequalities demands that we recognize those inequalities as structural rather than individual, that we refuse the ‘exceptionalism, individualism and deep hunger for the extraordinary’ which contemporary politics and culture encourage, in favour of a greater, more systematic integration of care work into political agendas, a more clearly defined feminism, and a recognition of the need for change beyond the integration of women into education. A useful volume, giving pause for thought, in a hectic age."Gabriele Griffin, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University

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Book SynopsisThe ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the dominant form of racism today, showing how both share roots in domination, colonialism, and the logics of capitalism.Trade Review"In his usual grippingly lucid prose, Ghassan Hage gives us here an insightful critique of the intrinsic connection between racism and speciesism in their most 'ungovernable' contemporary expressions, namely, Islamophobia and the planetary ecological catastrophe. He thereby exposes the politico–metaphysical foundations of Western colonialism alongside with the colonialist – in the broadest and deepest sense – foundations of Western metaphysics, particularly in its capitalist expression with its relentless need of so-called primitive accumulation. By showing, with the help of anthropological classics such as Mauss and Lévy-Bruhl, that our own anthropotechnics of 'generalized domestication' (one of the most innovative concepts of this book) is by no means the only human way of ecologizing – of making ourselves at home in the world – Hage offers us a nuanced, subtle analysis of the metonymic and metaphorical wolves that haunt the obsessive 'mono-realist' project of capitalism, whose glaring failure is now forcing us to pay increased attention to the counter-hegemonic modes of existence (re)emerging through the widening cracks in the ecocidal and racist–colonial nomos of Modernity." —Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The National Museum of Brazil"[This fine book speaks] to the deep healing in people's relations with each other and with the earth that's needed if we are to meaningfully address the damage being done to both our social and natural environments. [Hage] sheds persuasive light on why action on climate change is stalled at the level of talk, by linking it to racism. To him this signals the (largely white male) elites projecting their fear of loss of power onto the racialized 'other' to avoid coming to terms with their need for power through domination, which underlies the environmental crisis in the first place. […] Anyone interested in helping to break this impasse by better understanding it will find this book invaluable."—Watershed Sentinel"Hage has written a rich and profoundly thought-provoking and original monograph on the intertwining of anti-racism and environmentalism."Politics, Religion & IdeologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Islamophobia and the becoming-wolf of the Muslim other 2. Islamophobia and the dynamics of ecological and colonial over-exploitaion 3. The elementary structures of generalized domestication Conclusion: Negotiating the wolf

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Book SynopsisDrawing on interviews and analysis of primary documents, including two Royal Commissions, this work demonstrates how Canadian women's calls for family-friendly employment policies have translated into inaction or inappropriate action on the part of successive federal governments.Trade Review[A] meticulously researched and engagingly written book ... Those interested in Canadian politics and administration should find this book as illuminating as those interested in employment policy and in policy issues differentially affecting women. -- C. Shrewsbury * Choice *Table of ContentsTablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. The Double-Edged Nature of Women's Employment Inequality2. Citizenship, Motherhood, and Employment in the Wartime and Welfare States3. The Royal Commission on the Status of Women4. A Just Society? The Trudeau Government’s Response to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women5. Redefining the Issues: Systemic Discrimination and National Child Care Policies in Trudeau’s Final Term6. The Royal Commission on Equality in Employment7. Breaking the Links: The Mulroney Government’s Response to the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment8. Tiny Timid Steps: Employment Equity and Child Care in Mulroney’s Second Term9. Creating Opportunity? The Chrétien Government’s Approach to Employment Equity and Child Care10. Linked Together, Yet Driven ApartAppendicesA. Research InterviewsB. Turning Points in Canadian Policy Development on Women's Employment Equality and Child CareNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe author demonstrates how calls for family-friendly employment policies have met with inappropriate action on the part of successive governments. The text explains why federal governments have been able to implement employment equity policies, but failed to develop a national child care system.Trade Review[A] meticulously researched and engagingly written book ... Those interested in Canadian politics and administration should find this book as illuminating as those interested in employment policy and in policy issues differentially affecting women. -- C. Shrewsbury * Choice *Table of ContentsTablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. The Double-Edged Nature of Women's Employment Inequality2. Citizenship, Motherhood, and Employment in the Wartime and Welfare States3. The Royal Commission on the Status of Women4. A Just Society? The Trudeau Government’s Response to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women5. Redefining the Issues: Systemic Discrimination and National Child Care Policies in Trudeau’s Final Term6. The Royal Commission on Equality in Employment7. Breaking the Links: The Mulroney Government’s Response to the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment8. Tiny Timid Steps: Employment Equity and Child Care in Mulroney’s Second Term9. Creating Opportunity? The Chrétien Government’s Approach to Employment Equity and Child Care10. Linked Together, Yet Driven ApartAppendicesA. Research InterviewsB. Turning Points in Canadian Policy Development on Women's Employment Equality and Child CareNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPatricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.Trade ReviewThis complex and meticulous study will reward an attentive reader. It is an admirable contribution to the historiography of British Columbia and Canada. -- Hilary K. Blair * The International History Review *A finely textured account that convincingly show that while anti-Asian racism was never a monolith, it became consolidated in the image of British Columbia as a “White Man’s province” during this era ... the significance of this work is that, like the earlier volume, it catalogues English-language anti-Asian discourse in British Columbia. As such it is an invaluable reference for students of racism and of British Columbia’s history. -- Timothy J. Stanley, University of Ottawa * Labour/Le Travail, Issue 58, Fall 2005 *The Oriental Question is a solid empirical work, using government records, contemporary newspapers, memoirs, and secondary literature. It would be a highly usefu monograph for an undergraduate audience, since it brings together a broad range of information in a readable and congently argued style. -- Bonnie Huskins and Michael Boudreau * Canadian Literature, Issue 186, Autumn 2005 *Roy's careful attention to political contest and compromise gives us a rich portrait of how British Columbia consolidated around white supremacy ... These books are important empirical studies that will ultimately allow us to understand how migration and regional identities are framed in local and global terms. -- Henry Yu, University of British Columbia * Pacific Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 2, 2006 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “The least said, the better”: The War Years, 1914-182 “We Could Never Be Welded Together”: The Inassimilability Question, 1914-303 “Putting the Pacific Ocean Between Them”: Halting Immigration, 1919-294 “Shoving the Oriental Around”: Checking Economic Competition, 1919-305 “A Problem of Our Own Peoples”: An Interlude of Apparent Toleration, 1930-386. Inflaming the Coast: The “Menace” from Japan, 1919-417 “Poisoned by Politics”: The Danger Within, 1935-41ConclusionNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Racing against Time and Place2 Systemic Racism in Canada3 Toronto: Political Participation and Chinese Canadian Community Groups in the Multicultural City4 Systemic Racism in the United States5 Los Angeles: Political Mobilization and the Place of Chinese/Asian American Community Groups in the Multicultural City6 Conclusion: Racing into the Future Appendix: InterviewQuestionnaireNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.Trade Review"A fascinating contribution to a dialogue on alternative forms of political participation by Chinese community groups in two multicultural North American cities. Race and the City should be read by students and scholars of urban politics, race relations, political science, and ethnic studies, as well as by those community leaders mobilizing for political change. - Kim Geron, author of Latino Political Power In her exploration of the processes of marginalization and mobilization of the Chinese communities in two multiracial cities, Shanti Fernando charts new ground, critically challenging the way we think about political inclusion. - Myer Siemiatycki, Director, Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Ryerson University"Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Racing against Time and Place2 Systemic Racism in Canada3 Toronto: Political Participation and Chinese Canadian Community Groups in the Multicultural City4 Systemic Racism in the United States5 Los Angeles: Political Mobilization and the Place of Chinese/Asian American Community Groups in the Multicultural City6 Conclusion: Racing into the Future Appendix: InterviewQuestionnaireNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisProvides a comparative indigenous and postcolonial critique of the modern university. This work argues that the future of the university depends on its openness to indigenous epistemes, which have thus far been excluded by various mechanisms of epistemic ignorance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1 The Gift2 From Cultural Conflicts to Epistemic Ignorance3 The Question of Speaking and the Impossibility of the Gift4 Knowing the “Other” and “Learning to Learn”5 Hospitality and the Logic of the Gift in the AcademyConclusionAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.Trade ReviewPatricia E. Roy’s two previous books on Anglo-Canadian treatment of the Japanese and Chinese in British Columbia, […] have established her reputation as a leading authority on the subject. The present study extends her inquiry into the tumultuous years of the Pacific War and up to 1967. […] no one has marshalled as much evidence from the political arena and the media to capture the cacophony of the expressed views and to discern the evolving direction as Roy has in this book. Her research in public archives and newspaper collections yields a most comprehensive assemblage of the voices of government leaders and politicians, and also of local reactions not only across the country but also community by community across British Columbia. -- Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio * International History Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 A Civil Necessity: The Decision to Evacuate2 Adverse Sentiments beyond the Coast3 “Repatriation” to Japan and “Non-Repatriation” to British Columbia4 The Effects of the War on the Chinese5 Toward First-Class Citizenship for Japanese Canadians, 1945-46 Beyond Enfranchisement: Seeking Full Justice for Japanese Canadians7 Ending Chinese Exclusion: Immigration Policy, 1950-67ConclusionEpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Barry AdamPrefaceIntroduction1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City HallConclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Barry AdamPrefaceIntroduction1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City HallConclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisBy drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students’ strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Questioning the Existence of the World1 The 1922-23 Students’ StrikePart 1: Racism2 Anti-Chinese Racism and the Colonial Project of British Columbia3 Racializing ‘the Chinese,’ Racializing ‘the Canadian’4 Schooling and the Organization of Racist State Formation5 The Chinese Archipelago in Canada and the Consequences of Racialized ExclusionPart 2: Anti-Racism6 Resisting Racialization and the Invention of Chinese Canadians7 Making Inclusions and Chinese Nationalist State Formation in Canada8 Mitigating Racism through Chinese Nationalist Schooling9 Anti-Essentialist Anti-Racisms and the Resistances of Odd PlacesConclusion: Anti-Racism, History, and the Significance of Chinese CanadiansAppendixNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBy unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the 9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslim communities but also reveals the discursive processes that rendered this racism invisible.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Mission Visible?RationaleWhy 9/11 and Canada?Why Racism?Why Muslims?Why The Gazette?Overview1 Mission RecognitionThe EventThe MediumThe MomentThe MessageThe MethodThe Procedure2 Mission AmbitionImpact of the MediaJournalists’ Agendas3 Mission DecisionThe Rhetoric of RacismThe Discourse of RacismThe Discourse of Anti-Racism4 Mission OppressionThe Discourses of GriefThe Discourses of Justification for WarThe Discourses of Readying for WarThe Discourses of Orientalism5 Mission PerceptionShock and DisbeliefDenialBlamelessnessAngerPersonal SafetyRevengeRacial ProfilingFear and Moral PanicAcceptanceImpact on Quebecers6 Mission OppositionDescriptive Analysis of Muslims’ VoicesDiscursive Themes of Muslims’ VoicesThe Discourse of the “Good” Muslim7 Mission PositionWritings on Leaders’ VoicesWritings on White Victims’ VoicesWritings on Muslims’ Voices8 Mission EnvisionRepresentations of Leaders’ VoicesRepresentations of White Victims’ VoicesRepresentations of Muslims’ Voices9 Mission CompletionThe Journalistic Process in ContextNewsgathering PracticesThe Effects of the MessagesThe Anti-Terrorism ActRacial Profiling10 Mission ConditionThe Gazette: Success or Failure?White ReadershipMuslim ReadershipJournalistic LeadershipConclusion: Mission Invisible!Why Invisible?Correcting VisionHindsight 20/20Notes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisIn the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of labour competition were at the heart of this furor, public leaders including physicians, union leaders, civil servants, journalists, and politicians latched on to unsubstantiated public health concerns to justify the exclusion of South Asians from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. Not Fit to Stay examines how and why South Asians were excluded from immigration through legislation that took effect in Canada and the United States in the early twentieth century. This book is an important study of how white North Americans saw first-wave South Asian immigrants as separate from, and inferior to, other groups in the evolving racial hierarchy on the west coast of North America.Trade ReviewNot Fit to Stay acquaints modern readers with the “hookworm strategy” of immigration law. The facts are raw. Historian Dr. Isabel Wallace is a skillful writer. The effect is startling. If bigotry is rooted in fear and economic despair, Wallace’s research proves even the mildest society is capable of devising something akin to the Nuremberg Laws … Not Fit To Stay is an extraordinary story, meticulously documented. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “Leprosy and Plague Riot in Their Blood”: The Germination of a Thesis, 19062 Riots, Plague, and the Advent of Executive Exclusion3 “The Public Health Must Prevail”: Enforcing Exclusion4 Amoebic and Social Parasites, 1910–135 South Asians, Public Health, and Eugenic Theory6 Franchise DeniedConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisNot Fit to Stay reveals how officials used panic about public health concerns as a basis for excluding early twentieth-century South Asian immigrants from entering Canada and the United States.Trade ReviewNot Fit to Stay acquaints modern readers with the “hookworm strategy” of immigration law. The facts are raw. Historian Dr. Isabel Wallace is a skillful writer. The effect is startling. If bigotry is rooted in fear and economic despair, Wallace’s research proves even the mildest society is capable of devising something akin to the Nuremberg Laws … Not Fit To Stay is an extraordinary story, meticulously documented. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “Leprosy and Plague Riot in Their Blood”: The Germination of a Thesis, 19062 Riots, Plague, and the Advent of Executive Exclusion3 “The Public Health Must Prevail”: Enforcing Exclusion4 Amoebic and Social Parasites, 1910–135 South Asians, Public Health, and Eugenic Theory6 Franchise DeniedConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography

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Book SynopsisA unique contribution to the literature on minority rights, Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights examines the role of cultural difference in minority rights claims, building a case for inclusive political deliberation in liberal democracies.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: The Politics of Paradox: A Perennial Problem1 Cultural Difference and the Minority Rights Paradox2 Liberal and Non-Liberal WorldviewsPart 2: Intercultural Deliberation: An Innovative Approach3 Deliberating Difference4 Public Reason5 Political Identity6 Intercultural Deliberation and the Minority Rights ParadoxConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisInvested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter or not depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.Trade ReviewGranzow has produced a must-read book on Canada’s murdered and disappeared indigenous women… This book is highly recommended, as it will surely lead to excellent discussions and insights into issues of continued colonization. -- L.L. Lovern, Valdosta State University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 A History of the Present: Methodology2 “It in no way makes you safer”: Contemporary Policing and Remaking the City 3 “All they could do to help”: Imaging, Diagnosing, and Transforming Indian Tuberculosis and the City4 “All traces of his footsteps are fast being obliterated”: Fictioning and Controlling Land and Life5 “Just bury them and be done with it”: Managing Affect and Producing the PastConclusionNotes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisWhite Space offers a compelling analysis of how whiteness sustains settler privilege and maintains social inequity in the BC interior.Trade Review“With its focus on regional specificity, White Space makes a distinctive contribution to the critical literature on white privilege and spatial imaginaries of race in Canada.” -- Jennifer Henderson, Carleton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Historical Erasures and Re-inscriptions of White Fantasies1 Emerging from the Whiteout: Colonization, Assimilation, Historical Erasure, and Okanagan-Syilx Resistance and Transforming Praxis in the Okanagan Valley / Bill Cohen and Natalie A. Chambers2 Niggertoe Mountain: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies / Daniel Keyes3 Nkwala: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies with the Indigenous / Daniel Keyes4 The Rhetoric of Absence: Susan Allison’s Racial Melancholia / Janet MacArthur5 Camp Road / Audrey KobayashiPart 2: Revealing and Challenging Contemporary White Fantasies6 Mapping White Consumer Culture: Kelowna’s Tourist Maps 1983–1999 / Jon Corbett and Donna M. Senese7 Fantasies of Encore Whiteness in the Central Okanagan Valley / Luis L.M. Aguiar8 White Supremacy, Surveillance, and Urban Aboriginal Women in the Kelowna, BC, Housing Market / Sheila Lewis and Lawrence D. Berg9 "The Jamaicans are here and working": Race and Community Responses / Carl E. James10 Okanagan in Print: Exalting Typographical Heimlich Fantasies of Entrepreneurial Whiteness / Daniel Keyes11 Emplacing and Displacing Whiteness in Kelowna: Aporetic Urbanization and the Limits of Modern Politics / Delacey Tedesco12 The Imaginary of Redneck Okanagan Whiteness: A Sketch / Stephen SvensonContributors; Index

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Book SynopsisWhite Space offers a compelling analysis of how whiteness sustains settler privilege and maintains social inequity in the BC interior.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Historical Erasures and Re-inscriptions of White Fantasies1 Emerging from the Whiteout: Colonization, Assimilation, Historical Erasure, and Okanagan-Syilx Resistance and Transforming Praxis in the Okanagan Valley / Bill Cohen and Natalie A. Chambers2 Niggertoe Mountain: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies / Daniel Keyes3 Nkwala: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies with the Indigenous / Daniel Keyes4 The Rhetoric of Absence: Susan Allison’s Racial Melancholia / Janet MacArthur5 Camp Road / Audrey KobayashiPart 2: Revealing and Challenging Contemporary White Fantasies6 Mapping White Consumer Culture: Kelowna’s Tourist Maps 1983–1999 / Jon Corbett and Donna M. Senese7 Fantasies of Encore Whiteness in the Central Okanagan Valley / Luis L.M. Aguiar8 White Supremacy, Surveillance, and Urban Aboriginal Women in the Kelowna, BC, Housing Market / Sheila Lewis and Lawrence D. Berg9 "The Jamaicans are here and working": Race and Community Responses / Carl E. James10 Okanagan in Print: Exalting Typographical Heimlich Fantasies of Entrepreneurial Whiteness / Daniel Keyes11 Emplacing and Displacing Whiteness in Kelowna: Aporetic Urbanization and the Limits of Modern Politics / Delacey Tedesco12 The Imaginary of Redneck Okanagan Whiteness: A Sketch / Stephen SvensonContributors; Index

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Book SynopsisThis insider look at the forces that came together to make Canada’s reggae scene reaffirms the power of music to combat racism and build bridges between communities and cultures.Trade Review...maybe the most comprehensive focus on reggae and Jamaican culture in Canada's most populous city. -- Howard Campbell * Jamaica Observer *King Alpha's Song in a Strange Land is a vital contribution to scholarship on reggae and Canadian music and culture... Wilson disrupts many notions asasociated with reggae, leaving readers with a deeper appreciation for the music in Canada and all over the world. -- Ty Hall, Carleton University * CAML Review *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: King Alpha’s Song1 Hybridity and Jamaican Music2 Music of the Black Atlantic3 Jamaica to Toronto 4 Place and Meaning in Toronto’s Reggae Text5 The Bridge Builders6 Blackness and Whiteness7 In Search of the Canadian Sound8 A Strange LandNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis insider look at the forces that came together to make Canada’s reggae scene reaffirms the power of music to combat racism and build bridges between communities and cultures.Trade Review...maybe the most comprehensive focus on reggae and Jamaican culture in Canada's most populous city. -- Howard Campbell * Jamaica Observer *King Alpha's Song in a Strange Land is a vital contribution to scholarship on reggae and Canadian music and culture... Wilson disrupts many notions asasociated with reggae, leaving readers with a deeper appreciation for the music in Canada and all over the world. -- Ty Hall, Carleton University * CAML Review *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: King Alpha’s Song1 Hybridity and Jamaican Music2 Music of the Black Atlantic3 Jamaica to Toronto 4 Place and Meaning in Toronto’s Reggae Text5 The Bridge Builders6 Blackness and Whiteness7 In Search of the Canadian Sound8 A Strange LandNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisQueen of the Maple Leaf reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentieth-century Canada.Trade Review[Queen of the Maple Leaf] is a seminal contribution to better understanding how histories of women’s bodies make for legitimate historiography of settler colonialism, truth regimes and power dynamics within Canada. -- Isabelle Leblanc * Canadian Journal of History *[Queen of the Maple Leaf ] will be of interest to all who study nation making in Canada as a process involving intersecting categories of subject positions. -- Kate Korycki, Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies, Western Univerity * University of Toronto Quarterly *Gentile’s compelling argument and sharp analysis of a diverse set of sources provide a rich examination of oft-trivialized beauty pageants. While Gentile hardly celebrates these events, she does allow room to consider women’s (uneven) agency. -- Laila Haidarali * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness3 Labour of Beauty4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler AnxietyConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisReckoning with Racism is a riveting account of Canada's most momentous race case, which drew in the country's first Black female judge and spotlighted racist police practices.Trade ReviewThis is a landmark book about a landmark case in Canadian history. -- B. F. R. Edwards, Queen's University * CHOICE Connect *"As Backhouse notes in the introduction, decades before George Floyd, this case brought the discussion of race in our legal system into focus, challenging the white privileged and racial silence that generally characterize Western justice." -- Shauna Wilton * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Trial2 The People3 A Black History of Nova Scotia4 Race and Policing in Nova Scotia5 The Initial Fallout6 The Appeals Begin in Nova Scotia’s Supreme Court7 Nova Scotia Court of Appeal8 Gender Matters9 Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada10 The Supreme Court of Canada’s “Gang of Five”11 The Concurring Opinion in Defence of Judge Sparks12 EpilogueConclusionChronologyNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisReckoning with Racism is a riveting account of Canada's most momentous race case, which drew in the country's first Black female judge and spotlighted racist police practices.Trade ReviewThis is a landmark book about a landmark case in Canadian history. -- B. F. R. Edwards, Queen's University * CHOICE Connect *"As Backhouse notes in the introduction, decades before George Floyd, this case brought the discussion of race in our legal system into focus, challenging the white privileged and racial silence that generally characterize Western justice." -- Shauna Wilton * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Trial2 The People3 A Black History of Nova Scotia4 Race and Policing in Nova Scotia5 The Initial Fallout6 The Appeals Begin in Nova Scotia’s Supreme Court7 Nova Scotia Court of Appeal8 Gender Matters9 Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada10 The Supreme Court of Canada’s “Gang of Five”11 The Concurring Opinion in Defence of Judge Sparks12 EpilogueConclusionChronologyNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisFighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.Trade Review"This enlightening and affirming text investigates the memories women of color have of racialized violence and how differing narratives and emotions about white supremacy should be seen and encouraged instead of dismissed. On page 6, Charania literally says it’s ‘a book about race for the rest of us.’ It will provide deep relief and brilliant insights for many." -- Ms. Magazine

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Book SynopsisFighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.

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Book SynopsisBy the year 2000, white males will represent less than one third of the American workforce. In this universally praised work, Ann Morrison, co-author of Breaking The Glass Ceiling, becomes the first to offer companies practical strategies for moving tomorrow''s new leaders -- white women and people of color -- into the executive ranks. Using personal interviews with nearly 200 managers in organizations noted for their model diversity programs, Morrison presents a very definite, step-by-step action plan that will prove invaluable to leaders looking to guide their businesses into the next century.Trade Review?Morrison's insights into pinpointing barriers to diversity anddeveloping solutions are invaluable for entrepreneurs with enoughvision to see their businesses in?and guide them into?the nextcentury.? "Picks up where her first book, Breaking the Glass Ceiling, leftoff." "A practical guide to creating more powerful institutions byincorporating the talents and abilities of all sectors of ourdiverse culture." (Ann W. Richards, governor of Texas) "If you have just been charged by your institution withresponsibility for designing a program to increasediversity--ethnic and gender--at all levels of management, this isa how-to book for you."Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diversity: The Turbulent Evolution of a SensitiveIssue. Part One: Leadership Diversity as Strategy. 1. Achieving Benefits from Leadership Diversity. 2. Challenging the Barriers to Opportunity. 3. Setting Goals for Sustained Leadership Development. Part Two: Leadership Diversity as Procedure. 4. Establishing Accountability for Diversity. 5. Creating Meaningful Development Opportunities. 6. Using Recruitment to Build Diversity. Part Three: Leadership Diversity as Action. 7. Step One: Discover (and Rediscover) Diversity Problems in YourOrganization. 8. Step Two: Strengthen Top-Management Commitment. 9. Step Three: Choose Solutions That Fit a Balanced Strategy. 10. Step Four: Demand Results and Revisit the Goals. 11. Step Five: Use Building Blocks to Maintain Momentum. Conclusion: Meeting the Challenges of Leadership Diversity.

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Book SynopsisKathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned...Trade ReviewA well-researched study. * Foreign Affairs *This is not just a well-documented study of an underdeveloped area of research. Sensitive to the complexities of how terms such as citizen and nationality are constructed, it brings to light not only much new information on this important issue, but new ways of looking at the creation of British identity in this late-imperial context.... A most thoroughly researched and convincingly argued book, which should be widely read by all those who seek to understand postwar Britain in all its dimensions. * Labor History *Paul uses parliamentary debates, official documents, speeches, and memoirs to demonstrate successfully how British emigration and immigration were controlled and manipulated by the post-WW II governments to preserve the 'Britishness' of the dominions and the 'whiteness' of Britain.... This cogently argued, well-researched book provides valuable insights into British politics of race. It ranks with other pathbreaking works.... Highly recommended. * Choice *This work offers an exhaustively researched account of the development of British immigration policy in the post-war period. In a break with the conventional assessment of British policy, Paul... finds that government ministers and civil servants were the driving force behind opposition to immigrants from Commonwealth nations in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean, rather than 'racist' popular opinion.... This robust work of scholarship should find readers in British and Commonwealth studies as well as migration and citizenship studies. * Library Journal *Paul's book contributes to the debate about what constitutes membership in society and identifies key differences in the British immigration policy. * International Migration Review *This book casts an interesting new light on British citizenship and immigration policy in the postwar era. Based on substantial archival research (that is presented in a very readable fashion), this is an often compelling historical account of the maneuverings of the British political elite in defining nationality policy, particularly in the early years of immigration.... A well-researched, well-written, and interesting new approach to the history of British immigration and citizenship policy-making since 1945. * British Politics Group Newsletter *

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Book SynopsisIn White World Order, Black Power Politics, Robert Vitalis recovers the arguments, texts, and institution building of an extraordinary group of professors at Howard University, including Alain Locke, Ralph Bunche, Rayford Logan, Eric Williams, and Merze Tate, who was the first black female professor of political science in the country.Trade ReviewDefying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice. -- Carol Polsgrove * American Historical Review *The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline.... Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. * National Polticial Science Review *Robert Vitalis wants his discipline to understand not only how central the category of race and the structures of racism were to its founding institutions and paradigms but also to see the erasure of that history not as progress but as repression, a willful forgetting that has if anything made it less equipped to comprehend (much less to address) the shocking racial inequities that still mark both the American and the global order. If international relations scholars want to understand the racial politics that made their field what it is today, there is no better place to begin than with this righteously angry book. -- Susan Pederson * London Review of Books *There is much to commend in Vitalis' book which is filled with fascinating vignettes and unexpected connections. He writes with clarity and passion, especially in the book's opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander. -- Jake Hodder * Journal of Historical Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Mongrel American Social SciencePart I. The Noble Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development1. Empire by Association2. Race ChildrenPart II. Worlds of Color3. Storm Centers of Political Theory and Practice4. Imperialism and Internationalism in the 1920sPart III. The North versus the Black Atlantic5. Making the World Safe for "Minorities"6. The Philanthropy of MastersPart IV. "The Dark World Goes Free"7. The First but Not Last Crisis of a Cold War Profession8. Hands of Ethiopia9. The Fate of the Howard SchoolConclusion: The High Plane of Dignity and DisciplineNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPublic housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, aimed to improve the social and economic conditions of urban residents, the results have been quite different. As Edward G. Goetz shows, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and there has been a loss of more than 250,000 permanently affordable residential units. Goetz offers a critical analysis of the nationwide effort to dismantle public housing by focusing on the impaTrade Review"New Deal Ruinsprovides an extensivley researched accounting of how the public housing program has arrived at this point, and a necessary primer for understanding the program's current circumstances and rather dim prospects... And as with his previous books, Goetz's latest work belongs on the bookshelves of any scholar of U.S. low-income housing policy." — James Hanlon, J Hous and the Built EnvironTable of ContentsIntroduction: Public Housing and Urban Planning Orthodoxy 1. The Quiet Successes and Loud Failures of Public Housing 2. Dismantling Public Housing 3. Demolition in Chicago, New Orleans, and Atlanta 4. "Negro Removal" Revisited 5. The Fate of Displaced Persons and Families 6. Effects and Prospects in Revitalized Communities Conclusion: The Future of Public Housing Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFollowing the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope...Trade ReviewDisowning Slavery brims with ideas: it is an exciting and argumentative book. * Journal of American History *Fifteen years in the making, this is an unusually mature and finished first book. It is also a major contribution to the study of the construction of American national identity. * Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science *In this ambitious and often compelling study, Joanne Pope Melish seeks to explore in detail, and then to reconfigure, our sense of the meaning of 'gradual' emancipation in New England.... Her relentless vision of New England Americans 'disowning' the enslaved history, and displacing it on the South, illuminates in a new and important way the history of race and regionalism that we must rethink again. * Journal of Southern History *Joanne Pope Melish argues that the need to portray a virtuous North battling the slave-holding South during the Civil War resulted in the creation of a 'mythology of a free New England' in the antebellum period and that the notion persists to this day.... She makes the case that slavery was far more important to New England's economy than is commonly recognized by historians. * New York Times *Melish's book makes an important contribution to the literature on slavery and abolition and fills a significant gap in our understanding of how slavery in New England affected both that region and the nation.... This is a terrific book, one that all scholars of slavery, abolition, and the early republic absolutely must read. * H-Net Reviews *Melish's determination to put the history of local slavery at the core of New England racial attitudes has produced a highly nuanced picture of the gradual emancipation process that goes well beyond anything of its kind.... A tremendous achievement that will have an impact across a wide historiographical spectrum. * Connecticut History *Melish's searching analysis compels a reconsideration of many aspects of the conventional narrative of antislavery within both white and African-American communities.... This is an important book, one that commands a reconsideration of many of our assumptions about the meaning of emancipation, the development of racial ideologies, and also about antislavery itself. * Reviews in American History *Melish's work is original, important... a fascinating work that opens new interpretations of emancipation and race in New England. * William and Mary Quarterly *Painstakingly researched, filled with new information and astute analysis, this book is a major contribution to our knowledge of New England slavery and a valuable addition to the understanding of race relations in the United States. * American Historical Review *The work is an invaluable contribution to the emerging picture of slavery and emancipation in the American North. Pope Melish has made it difficult for New Englanders ever to see their history quite the same way again. * Law and History Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. New England Slavery"Short of the Truth": Slavery in the Lives of WhitesAnother Truth: Enslavement in the Lives of People of Color2. The Antislavery ImpulseTo "Clear Our Spirits": Whites' Expectations of Freedom from SlaveryThe "Privilage of Freemen": Blacks' Expectations of Freedom from Slavery3. "Slaves of the Community": Gradual Emancipation in Practice4. A "Negro Spirit": Em-bodying Difference5. "To Abolish the Black Man": Enacting the Antislavery Promise6 "A Thing Unknown": The Free White Republic as New England Writ Large7. "We Are the Alphabet": Free People of Color and the Discourse of "Race"Index

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Book SynopsisKathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned...Trade ReviewA well-researched study. * Foreign Affairs *This is not just a well-documented study of an underdeveloped area of research. Sensitive to the complexities of how terms such as citizen and nationality are constructed, it brings to light not only much new information on this important issue, but new ways of looking at the creation of British identity in this late-imperial context.... A most thoroughly researched and convincingly argued book, which should be widely read by all those who seek to understand postwar Britain in all its dimensions. * Labor History *Paul uses parliamentary debates, official documents, speeches, and memoirs to demonstrate successfully how British emigration and immigration were controlled and manipulated by the post-WW II governments to preserve the 'Britishness' of the dominions and the 'whiteness' of Britain.... This cogently argued, well-researched book provides valuable insights into British politics of race. It ranks with other pathbreaking works.... Highly recommended. * Choice *This work offers an exhaustively researched account of the development of British immigration policy in the post-war period. In a break with the conventional assessment of British policy, Paul... finds that government ministers and civil servants were the driving force behind opposition to immigrants from Commonwealth nations in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean, rather than 'racist' popular opinion.... This robust work of scholarship should find readers in British and Commonwealth studies as well as migration and citizenship studies. * Library Journal *Paul's book contributes to the debate about what constitutes membership in society and identifies key differences in the British immigration policy. * International Migration Review *This book casts an interesting new light on British citizenship and immigration policy in the postwar era. Based on substantial archival research (that is presented in a very readable fashion), this is an often compelling historical account of the maneuverings of the British political elite in defining nationality policy, particularly in the early years of immigration.... A well-researched, well-written, and interesting new approach to the history of British immigration and citizenship policy-making since 1945. * British Politics Group Newsletter *

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Book SynopsisApplying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns. Norms can play a crucial role in the formation of global policy.After forty years of protest against apartheid, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela''s inauguration as South Africa''s first democratically elected president. Klotz considers why racial discrimination in South Africa became a global concern and whyin a remarkable change of practicenations and international organizations adopted sanctions against the Pretoria regime. By explaining how the world community actively came to condemn apartheid, Norms in International Relations contributes to broader debates on the role of norms in global politics.Klotz rehearses a fascinating history, combining the power politics of economic sanctions and the normative politics of racial equaTrade ReviewKlotz offers a persuasive argument that in the South African case the moral principle of racial equality influenced policy on a different, often conflicting, level from economic and strategic factors. * Foreign Affairs *The puzzle Audie Klotz seeks to explain is why a large number of international organizations and states adopted sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa despite strategic and economic interests that had fostered strong ties with it in the past. Klotz argues that the emergence of a global norm of racial equality is at the heart of the explanation.... The book fills in important gaps in both regime theory and constructivism.... Klotz demonstrates in a nicely argued section that neoliberal regime analysis shortchanges the role norms play in international politics.... She elaborates three transmission mechanisms that link norms and policy choice: community and identity; reputation and communication; and discourse and institutions.... This is... a foundation upon which other scholars should build. * World Politics *

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Book SynopsisOver the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from colonial North Carolina to reveal how early notions of racial difference were shaped by...Trade ReviewBeginning with a sketch of Anglican (English) ideas of race and sex in the seventeenth century and the ways that North Carolina women were perceived as disrupting society, Fischer subsequently discusses cross-cultural sex, regulation of sexuality (especially of servants), defamation suits, and violence (including rape). -- Joan R. Gundersen * Journal of Southern History *With this book, Kirsten Fischer joins scholars who have demonstrated the interconnection of race and gender in the evolving social hierarchy of the early South.... Because she skillfully weaves together questions of class, race, gender, sexuality, and the social order, her book should be read by scholars of all related fields. -- C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Changing Conceptions of Race1. Disorderly Women and the Struggle for Authority2. Cross-Cultural Sex in Native North Carolina3. The Sexual Regulation of Servant Women and Subcultures of Resistance4. White Reputations "Blacken'd & Made Loose"5. Sexualized Violence and the Embodiment of RaceEpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn ten chapters filled with literary examples and historical evidence of astonishing diversity, a major historian of psychoanalysis develops enough theses for several books. Acknowledging stereotypes as necessary and ubiquitous, Gilman traces some important destructive ones from Aristotle to the present: women, Jews, and blacks seen as repositories of sex, disease, and madness. Embracing history, philosophy, psychology, public health, and the arts, this landmark work clears a path through terrain strewn with false historical pointers, and puts Freud's influence in a welcome new light. * Library Journal *

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