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Johns Hopkins University Press The Unchosen Me Race Gender and Identity among
Book SynopsisThe Unchosen Me is a rich examination of the underrepresented student experience, offering a new approach to studying identity, race, and gender in higher education.Trade ReviewGroundbreaking research on a controversial topic and written by a courageous author... It's a unique addition to the existing literature on identity development. -- Sybil L. Holloway NACADA 2010 This book has a valuable, unique approach to understanding issues facing black women in university environments... Winkle-Wagner has brought sister circles out in the open in a way that could spur dialogue between black and white women that could lead to cross-racial sisterhood that has been lacking on college campuses. I hope to see black and white women walking around campus with copies of The Unchosen Me. -- Will Tyson American Journal of Sociology 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The "Problem" of Race and Gender2. The Unchosen Me: The Intersection of Opportunity, Privilege, and Choice3. Research across the Color Line: Empowerment, Mutual Learning, and Difficult Decisions4. Walking in Enemy Territory: Being Black on Campus5. Academic Performances: Between the Spotlight and Invisibility6. "Too White" or "Too Ghetto"? The Racial Tug-of-war for Black Women7. Learning to Be a "Good Woman": Interpreting Womanhood through Race8. The Unchosen Me and the Interactions That Create Race and GenderAppendixesA. Participants in the StudyB. Data Analysis and ValidationC. Examples of Data AnalysisD. Sister Circle ProtocolsNotesReferencesIndex
£46.35
Johns Hopkins University Press From Black Power to Black Studies
Book SynopsisShedding light on the black power movement, Black Studies programs, and American higher education, this historical analysis reveals how radical politics are assimilated into the university system.Trade ReviewRojas' book makes a significant contribution to the small but growing literature on social movements within organizations; those who study knowledge politics will also find it a useful read. -- Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur Mobilization From Black Power to Black Studies is a valuable sociological study of the way in which militant student protest led to the institutionalization of African American Studies in higher education. Moreover, it provides insightful analyses of the pitfalls, both institutionally and politically, that have conspired to hamper Black Studies' growth and legitimacy as an academic discipline... Rojas has provided a thoughtful and substantive contribution to the emerging new literature on the origins of Black Studies. -- Peniel E. Joseph Left History Rojas has made a qualified yet significant scholarly contribution relevant to multiple disciplines in myriad ways. -- Stephanie Y. Evans Higher Education Review A fascinating account of the development of black studies departments in American colleges and universities. -- Anna-Maria Marshall Administrative Science Quarterly There is more than one way to analyze historical phenomena, and the sociologist Fabio Rojas has chosen to approach the issue in sociological terms... historians of the civil rights movement and of American higher education will profit considerably from reading this work. -- Richard H. King Journal of American History Carefully conceived and designed, and contributory... adds to the social science literature on ways in which marginalized groups mobilise to alter established organizations and institutions. -- Thomas O'Brien History of Education Rojas's organizational perspective, informed by a strong foundation in sociological theory, provides valuable insights. As a study of the major issues surrounding the birth and development of Black studies, the book works very well, covering most of the important controversies, often in careful historical detail. -- Mario Luis Small Journal of Black Studies Roja's treatment of the subtleties and ambiguities of the coevolution process that black studies and American academia underwent together is well-balanced and complex. Kritikon LitterarumTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Terminology1. The Movement That Became an Institution2. The Road to Black Studies3. Revolution at San Francisco State College4. The Life and Death of Black Studies Programs5. The Ford Foundation's Mission in Black Studies6. Constructing the Discipline7. Black Studies as the Loyal OppositionAppendixesA. Note on Research MethodB. Archives ConsultedC. Newspapers ConsultedD. People Interviewed by the AuthorE. Sample Interview QuestionsF. Interviews Collected by OthersG. Quantitative Data UsedH. The Survey of Issues in Africana StudiesNotesIndex
£22.95
University of Toronto Press Queer Judgments
Book SynopsisMacDougall sifts through hundreds of reported and unreported cases of the past four decades in order to uncover the subjective assumptions and biases operating in Canadian courts.
£56.10
University of Toronto Press ColourCoded
Book SynopsisA richly textured narrative that seeks to capture the role played by the law in the definition of race and shoring up of racial repression in Canada.
£33.30
University of Toronto Press Equity Diversity Canadian Labour
Book SynopsisEquity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves.Table of ContentsPreface Union AbbreviationsIntroduction GERALD HUNTLooking Back: A Brief History of Everything JULIE WHITEBargaining against the Past: Fair Pay, Union Practice, and the Gender Pay Gap ANNE FORRESTUnion Response to Pay Equity: A Cautionary Tale JUDY HAIVENLabour's Collective Bargaining Record on Women's and Family Issues KAREN BENTHAMWe Are Family: Labour Responds to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Workers GERALD HUNT AND JONATHAN EATONBroadening the Labour Movement's Disability Agenda DAVID RAYSIDE AND FRASER VALENTINERacism and the Labour Movement TANIA DAS GUPTAEquity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour: A Comparative Perspective DAVID RAYSIDEAfterword LINDA BRISKINReferences Contributors
£63.00
University of Nebraska Press Street Shadows
Book SynopsisWalker's narrative dramatically captures his pursuit and embodiment of the American dream.Trade Review“[A] spectacular debut. . . . A funny, poignant, thoughtful and exceptionally well-written memoir. . . . While delivering a thorough, personal take on race relations, opportunity, and privilege, Walker hooks readers with his prose and honesty, without plying for sympathy or playing to readers’ preconceptions.”—Publishers Weekly"I am a racist, Walker declares halfway through this thoughtful memoir, and much of the book is spent building up to and unpacking that statement. Born poor on the South Side of Chicago, Walker became an honor student, which made him vulnerable; and in defense, he succumbed to the urban undertow. A violent opening puts it all into play: drugs, sex, guns, gangs, and chance. But this is a feint; Walker pulls back from the salacious parts of his past to focus on his university education in Iowa City, his growth as a writer, his beginnings as a teacher, and the fairly banal struggles of being the rare black English professor at an East Coast college. The chapters alternate between his crime-filled youth and his increasingly egalitarian life of sushi dinners and awkward Kwanzaa faculty events, with the latter taking prominence. This will frustrate those looking for a gritty urban drama, but that's the point as Walker realizes his tale of black teenage delinquency seemed too cliched. This unique literary biography, however, is nothing of the sort."--Booklist“[Walker] has written an inspiring book about willfully redirecting his life. But this is also a larger story about racial self-consciousness. . . . As his book makes clear, racism of a sort—latent, systemic or otherwise—is a simple fact of life in America. Destiny is another matter.”—Economist“Walker never fails to be honest where truth is needed and he never fails to be gracious where generosity is possible.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead and HomeTable of ContentsAuthor's NotePrologue: GodsA Place Like ThisSchooledSeducedThe Lake of FireStrange FruitDisobedienceOrientationRealChameleonsSissiesSacraments of ReconciliationBaddest Nigger in TownBobby JenkinsThe Souls of White FolkWorkshoppedBad OutcomesWe Are AmericansFloatedSimplicityThe Second ActScattered InconveniencesMy Sister's RoommateCommunionTrashTechnicalitiesBreak-InThe InterviewBreak-OutBaitGreat ExpectationsCaptain WalkerPoopA Place of RedemptionGang LifeVisible ManNakedGameThe ProfessorDragon SlayersBulletsThe Mechanics of BeingWhen Love SpeaksTwo BoysPrinciples of MathOutlawsEpilogue: ClownsAcknowledgments
£14.24
University of Nebraska Press From Jack Johnson to LeBron James
Book SynopsisExamines the intersection of sports, race, and the media in the twentieth century and beyond. Considering how media coverage has evolved over the years, the essays begin with the racially charged reporting of Jack Johnson's reign as heavyweight champion and carry up to the present, covering the media's handling of LeBron James's announcement to leave Cleveland for Miami.Trade Review"Media coverage has expanded greatly since Jack Johnson put on boxing gloves to defend his heavyweight title, and a critical, sharp look at media coverage through the years is a necessary—and welcome—addition to sports literature."—Bob D’Angelo, Tampa Tribune“This is quality scholarship that will be of interest to specialists in history, American studies, African American studies, journalism, English, media studies, sociology, and sports studies, among others.”—Trey Strecker, editor of NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture and assistant professor in the Department of English at Ball State University Table of ContentsList of Tables IntroductionChris Lamb 1. Framing White Hopes: The Press, Social Drama, and the Era of Jack Johnson, 1908–1915Phillip J. Hutchison 2. Jesse Owens, a Black Pearl amidst an Ocean of Fury: A Case Study of Press Coverage of the 1936 Berlin Olympic GamesPamela C. Laucella 3. Multifarious Hero: Joe Louis, American Society, and Race Relations during World Crisis, 1935–1945Dominic J. Capeci Jr. and Martha Wilkerson 4. Outside the Pale: The Exclusion of Blacks from the National Football League, 1934–1946Thomas G. Smith 5. Democracy on the Field: The Black Press Takes On White BaseballChris Lamb and Glen L. Bleske 6. A Nod from Destiny: How Sportswriters for White and African American Newspapers Covered Kenny Washington’s Entry into the National Football LeagueRonald Bishop 7. Jackie Robinson and the American Mind: Journalistic Perceptions of the Reintegration of BaseballWilliam Simons 8. “This Is It!” The Public Relations Campaign Waged by Wendell Smith and Jackie Robinson to Cast Robinson’s First Season as an Unqualified SuccessBrian Carroll 9. Integrating New Year’s Day: The Racial Politics of College Bowl Games in the American SouthCharles H. Martin 10. Main Bout, Inc., Black Economic Power, and Professional Boxing: The Canceled Muhammad Ali–Ernie Terrell FightMichael Ezra 11. A “Race” for Equality: Print Media Coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest by Tommie Smith and John CarlosJason Peterson 12. Sports Illustrated’s African American Athlete Series as Socially Responsible JournalismReed Smith 13. Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat: Sportswriters, African American Athletes, and Coverage of Curt Flood’s Lawsuit against Major League BaseballWilliam Gillis 14. Chasing Babe Ruth: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Hank Aaron’s Pursuit of the Career Home Run RecordMaureen Smith 15. Arthur Ashe: An Analysis of Newspaper Journalists’ Coverage of USA Today’s OutingPamela C. Laucella 16. Michael Jordan’s Family Values: Marketing, Meaning, and Post-Reagan AmericaMary G. McDonald 17. Rush Limbaugh, Donovan McNabb, and “a Little Social Concern”: Reflections on the Problems of Whiteness in Contemporary American SportDouglas Hartmann 18. I’m the King of the World: Barry Bonds and the Race for the RecordLisa Doris Alexander 19. Redemption on the Field: Framing, Narrative, and Race in Media Coverage of Michael VickBryan Carr 20. Weighing In on the Coaching Decision: Discussing Sports and Race OnlineJimmy Sanderson 21. The LeBron James Decision in the Age of ObamaJamal L. Ratchford Source AcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
£25.19
University of Nebraska Press Redskins
Book SynopsisExamines how the ongoing struggle over the Washington Redskins team name raises important questions about how white Americans perceive American Indians, about the cultural power of consumer brands, and about continuing obstacles to inclusion and equality.Trade Review"[A] must-read book."—Chicago Tribune"Those seeking a deeper understanding of the anti-Skins crusade will find a vibrant apostle in C. Richard King. . . . Illuminating."—Dave Shiflett, Wall Street Journal"King shows why this controversy matters well beyond the football field."—Kirkus"An important and must-read book for understanding the Redskins controversy."—Andrew McGregor, Sport in American History"The absolute high-water mark study of the contours surrounding the logics of contemporary mascotting."—Jason Edward Black, American Indian Culture and Research Journal"A vital work that will make a significant impact on our grasp of and debate over this issue."—Kevin Bruyneel, Native American and Indigenous Studies"An insightful resource for sports fans, sociologists, and critical sport researchers."—Munira Abdulwasi, AlterNative"This study is vital not just for academics . . . , but also for the wider public, especially fans of American Football."—Ruth Flaherty, Cultural Sociology"King's study is powerful, well researched, compelling, and honest."—Daniel Casey, Misanthropester Blog"This book is one that should be read by anyone who cares about the use of this name by the team, no matter on what side of the issue the reader currently sits."—Lance Smith, The Guy Who Reviews Sports BooksTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Note on Language1. Introduction2. Origins3. Uses4. Erasure5. Sentiment6. Black/White7. Ownership8. Simulation9. Opinion10. Change11. EndsNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.99
University of Nebraska Press Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Book SynopsisCarlisle Indian Industrial Schooloffers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still affects the lives of many Native Americans.The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom.More than 8,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes andTrade Review“By bringing together such a diverse range of voices—academics and non-academics, Native and non-Natives—to speak about the history and legacy of what remains the most well-known Indian boarding school, this book does us all a great service. The contributors share their important stories with exceptional grace, insight, and power.”—Stephen Amerman, professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University and author of Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose Welcome, with Seneca Thanksgiving Prayer “We Are One” by Peter Jemison (Seneca) Part 1. A Sacred and Storied Place 1. The Stones at Carlisle N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) 2. Before Carlisle: The Lower Susquehanna Valley as Contested Native Space Christopher J. Bilodeau Part 2. Student Lives and Losses 3. Photograph: Carlisle Poem—Who Is This Boy? Maurice Kenny (Mohawk) 4. The Names Barbara Landis 5. White Power and the Performance of Assimilation: Lincoln Institute and Carlisle Indian School Louellyn White (Mohawk) 6. The Imperial Gridiron: Dealing with the Legacy of Carlisle Indian School Sports John Bloom 7. Waste Maurice Kenny (Mohawk) Part 3. Carlisle Indian School Cemetery 8. Cementerio indio Eduardo Jordá Translation by Mark C. Aldrich 9. The History and Reclamation of a Sacred Space: The Indian School Cemetery Jacqueline Fear-Segal 10. Death at Carlisle: Naming the Unknowns in the Cemetery Barbara Landis Part 4. Reclamations 11. The Lost Ones: Piecing Together the Story Jacqueline Fear-Segal 12. Necropolitics, Carlisle Indian School, and Ndé Memory Margo Tamez (Ndé/Lipan Apache) 13. Sacred Journey: Restoring My Plains Indian Tipi Carolyn Rittenhouse (Lakota) 14. Carlisle Farmhouse: A Major Site of Memory Carolyn Tolman Part 5. Revisioning the Past 15. Research Note on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Digital Humanities Project Malinda Triller Doran 16. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Projects for Teaching Paul Brawdy and Anne-Claire Fisher Part 6. Reflections and Responses 17. The Spirit Survives Dovie Thomason (Lakota and Kiowa Apache) 18. Response to Visiting Carlisle: Experiencing Intergenerational Trauma Warren Petoskey (Odawa and Lakota) 19. The Presence of Ghosts Maurice Kenny (Mohawk) 20. A Sacred Space Sharon O’Brien 21. Carlisle: My Hometown Charles Fox 22. The Ndé and Carlisle: Reflections on the Symposium Daniel Castro Romero Jr. (Ndé/Lipan Apache) Epilogue N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) Chronology Selected Bibliography Published Resources for Researching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Contributors Index
£49.30
Stanford University Press Prejudice Politics and the American Dream
Book SynopsisIt has been half a century since the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's seminal work on race in America. This book is an attempt to contribute to a fresh understanding of this dilemma by viewing the issues of race as they are now, not as they were a generation or so ago.Trade Review"This extremely important book has a number of strengths: most important, its interdisciplinary nature; its methodologically sophisticated and innovative research; and its raising of new perspectives on race, perspectives that should challenge stale truisms and clichés and stimulate new research. The papers are uniformly strong and provocative, and many should engender a healthy dose of controversy. The book represents an important shift in perspectives, both theoretical and methodological, in the study of race and American politics."—Kathleen McGraw, SUNY at Stony Brook"An eclectic group of contributors consisting of psychometricians, social and personality psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and political scientists have attempted 'to see anew the American dilemma.' Transcending the usual emotional polemics surrounding racial issues in America and viewing racism from the perspective of both blacks and whites, the authors succeed admirably in accomplishing their objectives. . . . An exceptionally fine collection."—Choice"Why is this a path-breaking book? Because it presents the first big new idea about political participation in a decade. It demonstrates how specific, vivid personal experiences can trigger political involvement. It shows how issue commitments can be the product of participation rather than its cause. And it asks why people continue to be involved in politics, not just why they became politically active." —Paul Sniderman, Stanford UniversityTable of Contents1. Prejudice and politics: an introduction Paul M. Sniderman, Philip E. Tetlock and Edward G. Carmines; 2. Intergroup relations and stereotype change: a social-cognitive analysis and some longitudinal findings Myron Rothbart and Oliver P. John; 3. Personal attributes of people described by others as intolerant Harrison G. Gough and Pamela Bradley; 4. Age and cohort differences in American racial attitudes: the generational replacement hypothesis revisited Sue Dowden and John P. Robinson; 5. Ethnic stereotyping: a black-white comparison Lee Sigelman, James W. Shockey and Carol K. Sigelman; 6. Dimension of whites' beliefs about the black-white socioeconomic gap James R. Kluegel and Lawrence Bobo; 7. Middle-class blacks and the ambiguities of success Jennifer L. Hochschild; 8. The inevitability of oppression and the dynamics of social dominance Jim Sidanius and Felicia Pratto; 9. The politics of the American dilemma: issue pluralism Paul M. Sniderman, Philip E. Tetlock, Edward G. Carmines and Randall S. Peterson; 10. The changing American dilemma: liberal values and racial policies Edward G. Carmines and W. Richard Merriman, Jr.; 11. Assessing the presidential candidacies of Jesse Jackson Harold W. Stanley; 12. The decline in college entry among African Americans: findings in search of explanations Robert M. Hauser.
£22.49
Stanford University Press Shades of Citizenship
Book SynopsisThis book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the 18th and 19th centuries up through the 2000 census.Trade Review"Censuses have been an underused resource in the study of Latin America. Melissa Nobles's fine monograph reminds us of what we have been missing." -- Journal of Latin American Studies"A fine book and a welcome contribution to the comparative study on racial politics." -- Canadian Journal of Political Science"Nobles has advanced the discussion of race Brazil and the US to higher levels of sophistication and maturity." -- Luso-Brazilian Review"Nobles does an outstanding job of tracing major debates that have influenced the ways in which the census in both Brazil and the United States reflect racial understandings in their respective societies and in specific time periods. . . . Because this book is well written and documented, it would be an ideal book for a graduate seminar in critical race theory and international understandings of race and people of mixed descent. . . . This book is, overall, a welcome addition to studies of racial formation." -- Journal of American Ethnic History"There is much to admire in this book. . . . It is an impressive piece of scholarship and brings a wealth of obscure historical sources to bear on the topic. The author boldly confronts some of the more sensitive issues surrounding race. . . . This is a solid contribution [to modern racial politics] and it will no doubt inspire further analysis of the subject." -- Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Appendix:
£18.99
Stanford University Press The Ethnic Project
Book SynopsisAmericans believe strongly in their ethnicity and use it in self-promoting ways. The Ethnic Project shows how destructive ethnic thinking can be in a society that has not let go of racism.Trade Review"I think that The Ethnic Project is an outstanding work that makes an important contribution to our understanding of the past and present racial history of the United States. The book is very well written (Bashi Treitler's prose is a delight to read) and meticulously researched . . . The Ethnic Project should definitely be part of the conversation as we press forward with the task of understanding race in the United States."—Ashley "Woody" Doane, American Journal of Sociology"Treitler offers a succinct history and diagnosis of racial grouping in the U.S., from the nation's origin to the contemporary moment . . . The text has solid promise as an introductory ethnic studies course reading . . . Highly recommended."—N. B. Barnd, CHOICE"With her ingenious concept of 'ethnic projects,' Vilna Bashi Treitler brings a new optic to the study of race. She shows that, despite their oppression—indeed, because of it—minorities develop collective agency. Not only do they mobilize to overcome barriers of discrimination and to remedy past wrongs, but through their activism and cultural production they also transform how they are perceived and treated by their oppressors. Treitler reveals why some ethnic projects are successful, others less so, and thus her book provides an authoritative answer to those who ask the tired question, 'We made it, why haven't they?'"—Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique"Vilna Bashi Treitler masterfully weaves race and ethnicity into a single historical narrative that reveals the ugly reality of exploitation and stratification that has always undergirded American society."—Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
£81.90
Stanford University Press The Ethnic Project
Book SynopsisAmericans believe strongly in their ethnicity and use it in self-promoting ways. The Ethnic Project shows how destructive ethnic thinking can be in a society that has not let go of racism.Trade Review"I think that The Ethnic Project is an outstanding work that makes an important contribution to our understanding of the past and present racial history of the United States. The book is very well written (Bashi Treitler's prose is a delight to read) and meticulously researched . . . The Ethnic Project should definitely be part of the conversation as we press forward with the task of understanding race in the United States."—Ashley "Woody" Doane, American Journal of Sociology"Treitler offers a succinct history and diagnosis of racial grouping in the U.S., from the nation's origin to the contemporary moment . . . The text has solid promise as an introductory ethnic studies course reading . . . Highly recommended."—N. B. Barnd, CHOICE"With her ingenious concept of 'ethnic projects,' Vilna Bashi Treitler brings a new optic to the study of race. She shows that, despite their oppression—indeed, because of it—minorities develop collective agency. Not only do they mobilize to overcome barriers of discrimination and to remedy past wrongs, but through their activism and cultural production they also transform how they are perceived and treated by their oppressors. Treitler reveals why some ethnic projects are successful, others less so, and thus her book provides an authoritative answer to those who ask the tired question, 'We made it, why haven't they?'"—Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique"Vilna Bashi Treitler masterfully weaves race and ethnicity into a single historical narrative that reveals the ugly reality of exploitation and stratification that has always undergirded American society."—Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
£19.79
Stanford University Press Race Defaced
Book SynopsisThis book compares different forms of racism and anti-racism in the United States and Britain from the 19th century to today, situating the development of various racial doctrines within the political movements of the modern capitalist world order.Trade Review"Race Defaced is a thoroughly engaging and stimulating attempt to rethink and resituate conservative and radical orthodoxies surrounding the history and development of racism and anti-racism. Using an effective comparative methodology encompassing the U.K. and the U.S. [...], this book highlights the commonalities shared by conservatives and radicals that constrain the potential for true equality being achieved . . . The authors' main contribution lies in providing a conceptual toolkit, framed within 'hope' and 'possibility,' with which to begin a movement toward an emancipatory politics."—Waqas Tufail, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Race Defaced is an exceptional contribution to the debate about race because it does so much more than most writing on the subject. In a field where moral stances usually get in the way of thinking things through more deeply, Kyriakides and Torres have pulled together a pointedly philosophical reflection on the meaning of race."—James Heartfield, Spiked"Race Defaced shakes up the status quo in the field of race—and social theory more broadly—delivering an exciting, forceful challenge to prominent thought. A major contribution."—Alana Lentin, University of Western Sydney"It's refreshing to see an ambitious work that steps back from the immediate cauldron of race and places it in a broader political, historical, and theoretical framework. Kyriakides and Torres offer a compelling challenge to the current orthodoxies in this bold, wide-ranging critical analysis."—Stephen Small, University of California, Berkeley
£91.80
Stanford University Press Income Inequality
Book SynopsisThis volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries.Trade Review"This book is a valuable addition to the existing literature on economic inequality . . . This is an excellent book that is highly recommended to those with an interest in all aspects of income distribution in contemporary societies . . . [Gornick and Jäntti] need to be congratulated for broadening the focus beyond a purely economic perspective on the issues under examination."—Peter Saunders, Review of Income and Wealth"Janet C. Gornick and Markus Jäntti's Income Equality is one fruit of this massive research effort. The book consists of studies of contemporary inequality trends using the [Luxembourg Income Study] data woven into a rich tapestry of understanding of a complex historical episode. The contributors—economists, sociologists, political scientists—analyze the data using powerful methodologies capable of laying bare the underlying structure that human intuition cannot access . . . The combination of high-quality data comparable across countries, international coverage of a period of major change, and insightful analysis based on sophisticated methodologies makes this book a major contribution to our understanding of income. Income Inequality will influence research for years to come."—François Nielsen, American Journal of Sociology"A timely, informative volume for students and researchers concerned with income inequality . . . Recommended."—R. S. Rycroft, CHOICE"This is one of the most important books on inequality published in the past decade. Focusing on what has happened to the middle class since the 1980s, during a period of substantial economic and political restructuring, this volume's remarkable insights and influence will span disciplines."—Jason Beckfield, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. How Has Income Inequality Grown? The Reshaping of the Income Distribution in LIS Countries 2. On the Identification of the Middle Class 3. Has Rising Inequality Reduced Middle-Class Income Growth? 4. Welfare Regimes, Cohorts and the Middle Classes 5. Political Sources of Government Redistribution in High-Income Countries 6. Income Distribution, Inequality Perception and Redistributive Preferences in 7. Women's Work, Inequality, and the Economic Status of Families 8. Women's Employment, Unpaid Work, and Economic Inequality 9. Women's Work, Family Earnings, and Public Policy 10. Wealth: The Distribution of Assets and Debt 11. The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth 12. The Fourth Retirement Pillar in Rich Countries 13. Public Pension Entitlements and the Distribution of Wealth 14. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 15. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 16. Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities in India 17. Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality Conclusion
£84.15
Stanford University Press Racing for Innocence
Book SynopsisInvestigates the roles of popular culture and white professional elite men in constructing and facilitating the backlash against affirmative action policies.Trade Review"In sum, Racing for Innocence is an important addition to the literature on race, gender, and equal opportunity and expands our knowledge as we contemplate the roots of the backlash against affirmative action." -- David Hamilton Golland * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Interviewing the actual players—those who hire or fire employees—Jennifer Pierce takes a novel approach to understanding how the popular narrative of affirmative action became internalized. This thoughtful book demonstrates how a rather neoconservative template of opinions, metaphors, theories, and beliefs was disseminated into the main stream." -- Charles Gallagher * LaSalle University *"This compelling book brings affirmative action back into the spotlight. Pierce delivers insights into the thought processes of opponents of affirmative action—including white women and white men—and also offers insights into how African American attorneys, both women and men, experience white privilege and the stigma of affirmative action as expressed in the language and behavior of whites." -- Patricia Yancey Martin * Florida State University *"A major contribution to our sociological understanding of the backlash against affirmative action. I know of no other book that examines the issue from so many perspectives. Pierce provides a unique look at the cultural cues that led some white male lawyers to resist affirmative action in the workplace. She also shows how the media's exclusion of gender and white women from the discussion obscured the reality that white women were a major beneficiary of affirmative action even while they continued to experience workplace discrimination." -- Susan E. Chase * University of Tulsa *"A signal contribution to the sociological imagination and to critical whiteness studies at the levels of method, content, and even style. Pierce gives human faces and gendered bodies their places in the attack on affirmative action without losing sight of structural forces that have connected colorblindness and conservatism." -- David Roediger * University of Illinois, and author of How Race Survived U.S. History *"Pierce's book is a welcome look at how the concept of 'whiteness' operates among elites. . . Pierce makes a compelling case that the timing of these [1980s and 90s Hollywood] movies was not coincidental, as affirmative action policies were being attacked nationally and, at the same time, there were many stories circulating about white male innocence and injury. . . Recommended." -- J. M. Richards * CHOICE *"It is the continued controversy surrounding affirmative action that makes Jennifer Pierce's Racing for Innocence an important book for scholars in this field . . . The greatest strength of Pierce's work is its ability to elucidate the opinions and beliefs of an elite group in American society . . . Overall, this is a very good book that raises questions that are not going away no matter how much white America wants to believe that racism is dead." -- Margaret S. Hrezo * Law and Politics Book Review *"Jennifer L. Pierce uses a nuanced qualitative lens to offer valuable insights into the workings of whiteness . . . Pierce is a careful analyst who provides astute insights into the workings of whiteness in these elite spaces. These insights and Pierce's clear, lucid writing will be appreciated by both students and specialists alike." -- Amy C. Steinbugler"Considered together, the chapters in Racing for Innocence demonstrate how collective and personal narratives of white male supremacy have buttressed each other—remaking racism and sexism as interpersonal rather than collective and institutional problems (and, conveniently, always someone else's problem) . . . Pierce pulls back the curtain to reveal just how tightly, and in how many ways, elite white men have gripped and consolidated power when faced with pressures to make room for others—and the mental and rhetorical gymnastics they have undertaken to convince themselves and others that they came by their status fairly." -- Katherine Turk
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Stanford University Press Rhinestones Religion and the Republic Fashioning
Book SynopsisThrough an examination of North African Jewish youth practices in Paris, Rhinestones explains the production of race, alienation, and intolerance within an understudied European minority population.Trade Review"This study of North African Jewish (Sephardi) adolescents enrolled in Jewish day schools in Paris brings a relatively understudied population to the burgeoning literature on the problem of multiculturalism in postcolonial France . . . [T]here is fascinating material here worthy of further unpacking." -- Andrea L. Smith * American Ethnologist *"[L]ittle attention has been paid to Jewish perceptions of the Muslim Arabs [in France]. In her provocative new book, [...], Kimberly Arkin takes on this topic, and in doing so, provides a brilliant analysis of the complicated legacies of colonialism, antisemitism, and nationalism in contemporary France . . . [Her] book masterfully uses a wide variety of theoretical frameworks to make sense of French day school identity politics, and she artfully fleshes out her anthropological study with extensive use of primary source material." -- Nadia Malinovich * Association for Jewish Studies *"Anyone still concerned that the ethnography of Jewish communities remains wedded to nostalgia, provincialism, or salvage should consult Kimberly Arkin's bracing ethnography of the schooling of young people of 'Sephardi' . . . Arkin shows us that [French Jews], and especially their young people, can provide an unexpected and revealing window on the troubled processes of integration and democracy in Europe today." -- Jonathan Aaron Boyarin * American Anthropologist *"Anthropologist Arkin tackles a sensitive subject: racial views among Sephardic Jewish adolescents in Paris . . . Arkin builds upon existing historiographical themes by exploring the formation and cultivation of French Jewish identity, while adding a useful anthropological perspective on the manifestation of these identity choices . . . [T]he book is well written and engaging, and should be accessible to advanced undergraduates. Summing up: Recommended." -- J. Haus * CHOICE *"This bold book takes on the subject of French Jewish adolescent racism—a topic so 'untouchable' that Arkin was expelled from the school in which she was doing fieldwork after having publicly acknowledged the phenomenon. Through this carefully researched and notably historic ethnographic explanation of a complex subject, Arkin uncovers the way racial understandings and categories were constructed, often unwittingly, by state educational policies, school administrators, and parents, most of whom held quite different and even diametrically opposed views on the nature of French Jewish identity." -- Maud Mandel * Brown University *
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Stanford University Press Citizen Strangers
Book SynopsisSet during the first two decades of Israeli statehood when Palestinians who managed to remain after 1948 lived under a repressive military regime, Citizen Strangers examines how Arabs and Jews navigated the opposing impulses of exclusion and inclusion in a new state forced by new international norms to grant citizenship and suffrage rights to its unwanted native minority.Trade Review"Citizen Strangers is an extremely important, highly scholarly work on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians . . . The book is based on exemplary original research involving extensive use of both Hebrew and Arabic archives and newspapers, as well as interviews . . . This is an essential work for scholars (including serious nonspecialists) and policy-makers concerned with Israel/Palestine or broadly with ethnic conflict and colonialism. Summing Up: Essential." -- G. E. Perry * CHOICE *"This well-researched book thus provides essential context for current events in the occupied Palestinian Territories and is required reading for anyone interested in exploring the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." -- Kabir Altaf * Dawn *"Robinson's well-researched and detailed account of Israel's dramatic formation period and the creation of what she calls 'a liberal settler state' is a welcome academic addition to Israeli and Palestinian historiography." -- Joseph Dana * The National *"Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates that the treatment of Palestinian citizens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself. Carefully tracing the historical dynamics of the institutions that constructed Palestinian residents as both liberal citizens and colonial subjects, Robinson shows how these institutions also shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order, and society." -- Gershon Shafir, University of California * San Diego *"The paradox that cleaves the title of this exceptional book into two goes to the heart of its revelatory findings: a state that is both liberal and settler-colonial is an oxymoron. Robinson's absorbing, meticulously researched account decisively historicizes Israel's contradictory combination of colonial subordination at home with pretensions to democracy abroad." -- Patrick Wolfe * La Trobe University *"Shira Robinson offers a rich analysis of the politics and laws that shaped Palestinian citizenship in Israel, the complexities of liberalism, and issues of control and domination in settler colonial states to illuminate the historical roots of Israeli politics toward Palestinians today." -- Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah * The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel *"In recent years the concept of settler colonialism has become a fashionable if controversial way of understanding the Palestine-Israel conflict. It draws parallels between the Zionist movement and European settlers in North America, Australia and elsewhere who built their own societies and economies while excluding, dispossessing or eliminating the natives. There are some obvious differences. But Jewish immigrants who were fleeing anti-Semitism were also settlers. Robinson uses that framework to study the Palestinian minority left in Israel after 1948 and the paradox of their being second-class citizens living under a military government, but with democratic rights, and in a Jewish state surrounded by Arab enemies. Superbly researched using archival and a wealth of other sources in Arabic and Hebrew." -- 10 Must-Read Histories Of The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Ian Black, Literary Hub"Shira Robinson has authored a remarkable book. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler Stateprovides a detailed panorama of the many ways in which the Israeli state limited the rights of its Palestinian subjects; it reveals the latter's acts of refusal and resistance; and it provides incredible insights on Israeli perceptions of citizenship and sovereignty.[T]he conceptual and temporal paradigm suggested in this book will inspire many scholars working in the field. Indeed, Citizen Strangers is a great academic achievement that reveals much about the past and helps us understand, with tragic clarity, the realities of the present." -- Orit Bashkin * H-Net Reviews *"Robinson describes techniques of exclusion with a concreteness and detail that is useful and compelling. The book is therefore an important addition to the empirical literature on Israeli treatment of Palestinians, and the theoretical frame leads to further debate about how this treatment is best conceptualized." -- Aziza Khazzoom * American Historical Review *"Robinson's framework succeeds in moving 'beyond the conceptual straitjacket' that tends to trap other studies that examine Zionism purely as a purely settler-colonial movement, precluding any attempts to examine Israel as part of the global history of liberalism. We are encouraged not to view these currents as mutually exclusive; Israeli policies of early statehood encompassed elements of both settler colonialism and liberal democracy." -- Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *
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Stanford University Press Citizen Strangers
Book SynopsisSet during the first two decades of Israeli statehood when Palestinians who managed to remain after 1948 lived under a repressive military regime, Citizen Strangers examines how Arabs and Jews navigated the opposing impulses of exclusion and inclusion in a new state forced by new international norms to grant citizenship and suffrage rights to its unwanted native minority.Trade Review"Citizen Strangers is an extremely important, highly scholarly work on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians . . . The book is based on exemplary original research involving extensive use of both Hebrew and Arabic archives and newspapers, as well as interviews . . . This is an essential work for scholars (including serious nonspecialists) and policy-makers concerned with Israel/Palestine or broadly with ethnic conflict and colonialism. Summing Up: Essential." -- G. E. Perry * CHOICE *"This well-researched book thus provides essential context for current events in the occupied Palestinian Territories and is required reading for anyone interested in exploring the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." -- Kabir Altaf * Dawn *"Robinson's well-researched and detailed account of Israel's dramatic formation period and the creation of what she calls 'a liberal settler state' is a welcome academic addition to Israeli and Palestinian historiography." -- Joseph Dana * The National *"Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates that the treatment of Palestinian citizens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself. Carefully tracing the historical dynamics of the institutions that constructed Palestinian residents as both liberal citizens and colonial subjects, Robinson shows how these institutions also shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order, and society." -- Gershon Shafir, University of California * San Diego *"The paradox that cleaves the title of this exceptional book into two goes to the heart of its revelatory findings: a state that is both liberal and settler-colonial is an oxymoron. Robinson's absorbing, meticulously researched account decisively historicizes Israel's contradictory combination of colonial subordination at home with pretensions to democracy abroad." -- Patrick Wolfe * La Trobe University *"Shira Robinson offers a rich analysis of the politics and laws that shaped Palestinian citizenship in Israel, the complexities of liberalism, and issues of control and domination in settler colonial states to illuminate the historical roots of Israeli politics toward Palestinians today." -- Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah * The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel *"In recent years the concept of settler colonialism has become a fashionable if controversial way of understanding the Palestine-Israel conflict. It draws parallels between the Zionist movement and European settlers in North America, Australia and elsewhere who built their own societies and economies while excluding, dispossessing or eliminating the natives. There are some obvious differences. But Jewish immigrants who were fleeing anti-Semitism were also settlers. Robinson uses that framework to study the Palestinian minority left in Israel after 1948 and the paradox of their being second-class citizens living under a military government, but with democratic rights, and in a Jewish state surrounded by Arab enemies. Superbly researched using archival and a wealth of other sources in Arabic and Hebrew." -- 10 Must-Read Histories Of The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Ian Black, Literary Hub"Shira Robinson has authored a remarkable book. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler Stateprovides a detailed panorama of the many ways in which the Israeli state limited the rights of its Palestinian subjects; it reveals the latter's acts of refusal and resistance; and it provides incredible insights on Israeli perceptions of citizenship and sovereignty.[T]he conceptual and temporal paradigm suggested in this book will inspire many scholars working in the field. Indeed, Citizen Strangers is a great academic achievement that reveals much about the past and helps us understand, with tragic clarity, the realities of the present." -- Orit Bashkin * H-Net Reviews *"Robinson describes techniques of exclusion with a concreteness and detail that is useful and compelling. The book is therefore an important addition to the empirical literature on Israeli treatment of Palestinians, and the theoretical frame leads to further debate about how this treatment is best conceptualized." -- Aziza Khazzoom * American Historical Review *"Robinson's framework succeeds in moving 'beyond the conceptual straitjacket' that tends to trap other studies that examine Zionism purely as a purely settler-colonial movement, precluding any attempts to examine Israel as part of the global history of liberalism. We are encouraged not to view these currents as mutually exclusive; Israeli policies of early statehood encompassed elements of both settler colonialism and liberal democracy." -- Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *
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Stanford University Press Income Inequality
Book SynopsisThis volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries.Trade Review"This book is a valuable addition to the existing literature on economic inequality . . . This is an excellent book that is highly recommended to those with an interest in all aspects of income distribution in contemporary societies . . . [Gornick and Jäntti] need to be congratulated for broadening the focus beyond a purely economic perspective on the issues under examination."—Peter Saunders, Review of Income and Wealth"Janet C. Gornick and Markus Jäntti's Income Equality is one fruit of this massive research effort. The book consists of studies of contemporary inequality trends using the [Luxembourg Income Study] data woven into a rich tapestry of understanding of a complex historical episode. The contributors—economists, sociologists, political scientists—analyze the data using powerful methodologies capable of laying bare the underlying structure that human intuition cannot access . . . The combination of high-quality data comparable across countries, international coverage of a period of major change, and insightful analysis based on sophisticated methodologies makes this book a major contribution to our understanding of income. Income Inequality will influence research for years to come."—François Nielsen, American Journal of Sociology"A timely, informative volume for students and researchers concerned with income inequality . . . Recommended."—R. S. Rycroft, CHOICE"This is one of the most important books on inequality published in the past decade. Focusing on what has happened to the middle class since the 1980s, during a period of substantial economic and political restructuring, this volume's remarkable insights and influence will span disciplines."—Jason Beckfield, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. How Has Income Inequality Grown? The Reshaping of the Income Distribution in LIS Countries 2. On the Identification of the Middle Class 3. Has Rising Inequality Reduced Middle-Class Income Growth? 4. Welfare Regimes, Cohorts and the Middle Classes 5. Political Sources of Government Redistribution in High-Income Countries 6. Income Distribution, Inequality Perception and Redistributive Preferences in 7. Women's Work, Inequality, and the Economic Status of Families 8. Women's Employment, Unpaid Work, and Economic Inequality 9. Women's Work, Family Earnings, and Public Policy 10. Wealth: The Distribution of Assets and Debt 11. The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth 12. The Fourth Retirement Pillar in Rich Countries 13. Public Pension Entitlements and the Distribution of Wealth 14. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 15. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 16. Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities in India 17. Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality Conclusion
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Stanford University Press South Central Is Home Race and the Power of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"South Central Is Home offers an illuminating history of one of America's most iconic communities in transition—from the War on Poverty to the War on Drugs. In prose as vivid as her subjects, Abigail Rosas beautifully captures the struggles, tensions, and aspirations of people typically portrayed as perpetrators or victims of unremitting violence—reminding readers that South Central Los Angeles is, indeed, home." -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original *"Finding seeds of hope for a better racial future in the stories she uncovers, Abigail Rosas offers profound insights into how ordinary folks did extraordinary things, the remarkable possibilities and limits of multi-racialism, and sweeping transformations in urban life since World War II. South Central Is Home is a compelling, timely, and imaginative book." -- Luis Alvarez * University of California, San Diego *"Interdisciplinary in scope and accessible to scholars of race, power, and urbanization, as well as practitioners working with communities at the intersection of these processes, this volume probes how distinct black and brown communities emerged, grew, and shaped each other in LA since the 1960s. Rosas...effectively engages with archival material and several detailed oral histories....Highly recommended." -- J. deGuzman * CHOICE *"Books like Rosas's help to fill an enormous void in both the urban and historical literatures where historical communities of color are often described too simplistically....South Central Is Home is a very well written urban history that should be a starting point and guide for all future work on the history of South Central and should be mandatory reading for undergraduate and graduate students in both introductory and higher-level social science courses." -- Robert Vargas * American Journal of Sociology *"For young scholars, [South Central Is Home] provides a model for writing about communities that formed us, communities that we unapologetically love. ....[By] disentangling the rich history of South Central, Rosas shows us the future of cities across the United States." -- Claudia Sandoval * Boom California *"South Central Is Home covers many of the issues found in interracial urban communities across America, and offers us a better understanding of the notions of race, community and place." -- Juan Manuel Niño * Journal of Urban Affairs *"This is a thoughtful, insightful, and at times, personal history of South Central as a particular space and place. South Central is Home provides important contributions to our understanding of the City of Los Angeles, the community of South Central, and the often complicated and complex relationships between Latino/as and African Americans in that community." -- Robert Bauman * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Uncovering Black and Latina/o Relations chapter abstractThe Introduction explains the historical configuration of South Central Los Angeles's demographic change from a predominantly African American community to a multiracial African American and Latina/o immigrant community. It posits that daily acts of community racialization and activism defined resident belonging and investment in this racially diverse community. The chapter examines how it is important to enrich existing scholarship by reconceptualizing South Central as a racialized space and community forged and sustained by African Americans and Latina/os' sharing South Central as their home. As neighbors, entrepreneurs, homeowners, political advocates and representatives, teachers, parents, and students, South Central residents refused to be overwhelmed by U.S. national discourses and policies on crime, poverty, education, immigration, and public health and to live isolated from each other or to abandon or forfeit thriving together and as members of this community. 1Placemaking in Our Community: Race Enterprise and the War on Poverty chapter abstractThis chapter introduces African American migration from the U.S. South to Los Angeles as foundational to South Central being understood nationally as an overwhelmingly African American community in the post–World War II period. An in-depth consideration of the emergence and influence of African American entrepreneurship in South Central's business sector reveals the power behind African American migrants spearheading the establishment of Broadway Federal Bank, a minority-owned bank in South Central. By the 1960s, however, the economic realities of South Central and Watts were increasingly defined as working class, working poor, and poor. The introduction of War on Poverty funding and programs would play a role in the relationships fostered between African American and Mexican American activists and advocates. 2"Let's Get Them Off to a Headstart!" Community Investment in Head Start chapter abstractThis chapter centers on African American and Latina/o South Central residents' struggles to establish, lead, teach, and benefit from Head Start programs throughout South Central. This consideration of the War on Poverty pre-school education program's vision, design, and implementation elucidates how this program brought African American and Latina/o South Central residents together to forge an approach to "school readiness" that lived up to their expectations for the future of their children, families, and community. 3"The Wave of the Future": The Emergence of Community Health Clinics chapter abstractThis chapter historicizes late mid-twentieth-century South Central African American and Latina/o residents' community investment in the building of a hospital and community and health centers "where the poorest and most humble can be treated with respect and feel they belong." It argues that in the wake of the 1965 uprisings, South Central residents, U.S. political officials, and physicians waged an interracial campaign for this community to have access to a hospital and community health clinics that would meet the diversity of South Central residents' health care needs. The chapter showcases African American and Latina/o residents' unwavering resolve to act together and in support of community wellness as a formative step to asserting their community's humanity, investment, and power. 4Becoming "Bonafide" Residents: Developing Relational Community Formation chapter abstractThis chapter advances our understanding of the impact of U.S. immigration policy on the resolve of Latina/o immigrant South Central residents to invest themselves in forging a sense of community and home alongside and with their African American neighbors. The chapter elucidates the shared racialization of Latina/o immigrant and African American South Central residents' experience. The emotive range of feelings framing this demographic change speaks to this community's relational interracial formation, humanity, and livelihood. 5Teaching Together: Interracial Community Organizing chapter abstractThis chapter considers the enduring reach of Head Start centers in South Central throughout the 1980s. In the midst of neighborhood demographic change, Head Start classrooms implemented a multiracial and multicultural approach to early childhood education and community activism that resonated with South Central African American and Latina residents. By focusing on the goals of the educational curriculum framing Head Start, as well as this program's teachers' receptiveness to training African American and Latina immigrant parents and residents to participate in the teaching of the program's curriculum, the chapter provides an analysis of the lasting legacies of Head Start's benefits. The collaborative efforts of these women points to the importance of locating and learning from the power of investing in the educational attainment of South Central as a community of dedicated and promising children and women. 6Celebrating Diversity: Selective Inclusion in a Multiracial City chapter abstractThis chapter reveals narratives of selectively acknowledging the ways demographic change and immigrant diversity influence community relations, opportunities, and life in South Central Los Angeles. The interracial tension between African American, Korean immigrant, and Latina/o immigrant South Central entrepreneurs and residents was the result of heavy policing and profiling in the community, escalation of the drug epidemic, anxiety over immigrant enforcement, and the national and local government economic disinvestment. The chapter examines these lived 1980s realities to argue that the indignities of underemployment, police brutality, immigrant enforcement, a drug epidemic, diminished educational opportunities, and poverty culminated in the 1992 uprising. It concludes with the community's commitment to not becoming undone by such instability, to magnify their resilience. 7Banking in South Central: The Limitations of Race Enterprises chapter abstractThis chapter returns to Broadway Federal Bank in the wake of the 1992 uprisings to investigate this race enterprise's longevity and commitment to the community. The race-based politics that framed this establishment's management had to embrace the realization that to thrive and genuinely serve the South Central community it had to cater to an African American and increasingly Latina/o immigrant clientele. The economic and social realities framing South Central's community life leading up to and after the 1992 Los Angeles Uprisings has compelled some of South Central's most invested community entrepreneurs and residents to face demographic and social change with an outlook that cannot underestimate the multiracial configuration and needs of this community. Epilogue chapter abstractThis final chapter alerts readers to the urgency of learning from South Central's history of relational community formation and solidarity. By identifying and discussing contemporary local South Central branding efforts, informal economies, and electoral campaigns shaping this community's current neighborhood interactions and investments, the chapter elaborates on the importance of building on the investments, relationships, and ties that have sustained community building, placemaking, and friendships in South Central. The onset of gentrification and the rise in underemployment, homelessness, border enforcement, white supremacy movements, and police brutality are highlighted as realities that render an inclusive approach toward race and community as important to maintaining a sense of home.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Spain in the Southwest A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico Arizona Texas and California
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Tulsa 1921 Reporting a Massacre
Book SynopsisIn 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's “Black Wall Street”, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the US. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob invaded Greenwood. Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence.Trade ReviewJournalist Randy Krehbiel has written the best book on the Tulsa tragedy of 1921 to come out in the past twenty years, or possibly ever."" - Alfred L. Brophy, author of Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 - Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
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John Wiley & Sons Tulsa 1921 Reporting a Massacre
Book SynopsisIn 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's “Black Wall Street”, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the US. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob invaded Greenwood. Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence.Trade ReviewJournalist Randy Krehbiel has written the best book on the Tulsa tragedy of 1921 to come out in the past twenty years, or possibly ever."" - Alfred L. Brophy, author of Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921-Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons Race and the War on Poverty
Book SynopsisPresident Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to implement War on Poverty programs.
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John Wiley & Sons Racial Microaggressions Using Critical Race
Book SynopsisDrawing from over two decades of research, this book offers an in-depth analysis of a systemic form of everyday racism commonly experienced by People of Color. The authors make a unique contribution to the study of racial microaggressions by using Critical Race Theory to develop the concepts, frameworks, and models provided in this book.Table of Contents Contents Series Foreword vii James A. Banks Acknowledgments xv Artist’s Statement xix Luis-Genaro Garcia Introduction: Origin Stories: How We Came to Study Racial Microaggressions 1 Danny’s Story 1 Lindsay’s Story 8 Our Stories Coming Together to Further Theorize Racial Microaggressions 14 Overview of the Book 17 1. Laying the Conceptual Groundwork for Understanding Racial Microaggressions 19 Counterstories of Everyday Racism 19 Majoritarian Stories of Everyday Racism 22 Recognizing History to Name Everyday Racism 25 Chester Pierce and the Conceptual Development of Racial Microaggressions 30 Defining Race and Racism 32 Using Critical Race Theory to Theorize Racial Microaggressions 33 2. Understanding the Types, Contexts, Effects, and Responses to Racial Microaggressions Using Critical Race Hypos 37 A Critical Race Hypo 37 Types of Microaggressions 39 Contexts of Microaggressions 41 Effects of Microaggressions 42 Responses to Microaggressions 45 3. Examining the “Micro” Versus the “Macro” in Researching Racial Microaggressions 51 Theorizing the Macroaggression: A Tree Metaphor 52 Macroaggression: The Roots of Racism 52 Institutional Racism: The Trunk and Branches 53 Racial Microaggression: The Leaves 54 Applying the Framework 56 4. Racism Within and Between Communities of Color: Internalized Racism 66 Internalized Racism: The Clark Doll Experiment 69 Internalized Racist Nativism: El Teatro Campesino’s “El Corrido” 71 Intergroup Conflict: The “Blexit” Movement 77 5. Responding to Racial Microaggressions: Theorizing Racial Microaffirmations 84 Theorizing Racial Microaffirmations 85 Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Existing Literature 88 Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Our Personal Stories 92 Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Empirical Evidence 94 6. Conclusion 98 Future Research on Racial Microaggressions: Promising Areas 99 Praxis: Disrupting Racial Microaggressions 106 Notes 111 References 125 Index 144 About the Authors 155
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Teachers' College Press Critical Race Theory in Education A Scholars
Book SynopsisBrings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars of our time. In this collection of her seminal essays on critical race theory, Gloria Ladson-Billings seeks to clear up some of the confusion and misconceptions that education researchers have around race and inequality.
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Teachers' College Press A Brighter Choice Building a Just School in an
Book SynopsisDiscover how a group of mostly Black parents, working with an energetic principal and dedicated staff, helped build a sought-after, multiracial school in Brooklyn's rapidly gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant - a neighbourhood where parents have long been dissatisfied with most of their local public schools.Trade Review“A Brighter Choice masterfully chronicles one woman’s struggle to maintain a school’s mission as a bastion of hope for Black families in the face of gentrification. The story shines new light on the process of neighborhood change and provides hope that we can manage gentrification in a way that benefits us all.” —Lance Freeman, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania “For many years, Clara Hemphill has been one of the most astute observers of New York City’s public school system. A Brighter Choice, which is incisively reported and beautifully written, explores the efforts of a Black-majority school in Brooklyn to provide a first-rate education for all its students amid the changes of gentrification and the crisis of COVID. With an emphasis on the crucial role played by parents, Hemphill reverses the usual top-down focus on New York City’s schools, dispels much conventional wisdom, and sympathetically shows that it is possible to reconcile Black empowerment with racial and economic integration in public education. A Brighter Choice provides a new way to think about the promise and challenges of public schools today.” —Peter Eisenstadt, author, Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing and editor, The Encyclopedia of New York State “’Clara Hemphill’s fascinating, stirring book, A Brighter Choice, suggests skilled and empathetic parents can help to create truly integrated schools that provide our best hope for restoring social cohesion and social mobility in America.” —Richard D. Kahlenberg, New York City School Diversity Advisory Group executive committee member, former senior fellow, The Century FoundationTable of Contents Contents Introduction 1 1. A Proudly Black School in a Gentrifying Neighborhood 5 2. The Roots of Inequality and the Struggle for Just Schools 13 3. The Deep Decline and Uneven Revival of the City's Schools 26 4. The Promise and Pitfalls of School Choice 42 5. How Gentrification Brought Conflict 59 6. Bringing the Community Together 75 7. Problems Outside the School's Control 86 8. COVID-19 Tests the Community 101 9. ÒTrust Is the GlueÓ 115 10. The Work Still to Be Done 129 Conclusion 139 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 147 Data Sources 157 A Word About Names 159 Index 161 About the Author 168
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John Wiley & Sons Civic Engagement in Communities of Color
Book SynopsisSituated at the intersection of race and civics, this volume discusses how communities of color interpret and enact civics both within and beyond the classroom. Chapters focus on historical and contemporary topics ranging from issues facing Asian immigrant communities to the Black Lives Matter at School curriculum.Table of ContentsContents (Tentative)ForewordIntroductionPart I: Current Realities of Civic Education: Perspectives from the Margins1. Emancipatory Civic Education for Black Students: An Action-Oriented Literature Review Erica Kelley2. "Have We Been Civically Educated to Seize the Present Moment?": Two Black Social Educators' Sense-Making of Civic Education Carla-Ann Brown, Rasheeda West, and Elizabeth Yeager Washington3. Civics and Latinidad: Letters to the Past With Hopes for the Future Jesús Tirado, Gabriel Rodriguez, Tim Monreal, and Tommy Ender4. "I Understand Both of Them. But Nobody Understands Me!": Civic Dissonances Among Arab-Palestinian Students in Israel Aline Muff and Aviv CohenPart II: Civics Embodied in Communities of Color5. It's Been Here All Along: Integrating Local Stories of Struggle into Civics Discourses Asif Wilson, ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, and Sabryna Groves6. #FreeThemAll: Civic Action through Southeast Asian Community Defense Digital Toolkits Van Anh Tran7. More Than Talk: Youth Poets' Civic Action and How Youth Spoken Word Prepares Minoritized Youths as Civic Actors Camea DavisPart III: Possibilities for Civic Education8. Black Feminist Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Civics Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Natasha C. Murray-Everett, and Crystal Simmons9. "Responsible, Capable, and Whole Human Beings": The Value and Necessity of Indigenous Civics Leilani Sabzalian and Michelle M. Jacob10. "It Didn't Mean 'Me' When It Said 'We'": Counterstories as Pedagogy When Citizenship is Not Guaranteed Brittany Jones11. The Black Lives Matter at School Guiding Principles: Fostering Black Cultural Citizenship Through Critical Civic Empathy Denisha Jones and Sarah A. MathewsAfterwordEndnotesIndexAbout the Editor
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Teachers College Press Is Everyone Really Equal
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina White Over Black American Attitudes toward the
Book SynopsisThe author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."" New York Times Book Review
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina If We Could Change the World Young People and
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement
Book SynopsisThe civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, theatre, and literature as political weapons to broaden the struggle and legitimize its appeal. Joe Street places these cultural forms at the centre of the civil rights struggle, arguing that the time has come to recognise the extent to which African American history and culture were vital elements of the movement.
£15.26
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Daughters of the American Revolution and
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women's organisations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR's efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation's past were entangled with and strengthened the nation's racial and gender boundaries.
£63.75
University Press of Florida Southern History Remixed On Rock n Roll and the
Book SynopsisHIghlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. While musical activities are often sidelined in historical narratives of the region, Michael Bertrand shows that they can reveal much about social history and culture change.
£63.75
University Press of Florida From Death Row to Freedom The Struggle for
Book SynopsisOffers an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death.
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Rutgers University Press EC Comics
Book SynopsisDuring its heyday in the 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in socially conscious stories challenging the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice. Winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.Trade Review"A seminal work of meticulous and original scholarship."— Midwest Book Review "Whitted’s book is an excellent example of how comics can serve as tools of social protest and instigate new realms of thought in both young and old readers alike. [It] is a worthwhile entry in the field of comics studies. Qiana Whitted provides sharp analysis and insight into a publisher that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable for a young medium to do."— The Journal of Graphic Novel and Comics "The Best Books of 2019: Non-Fiction" by PopMatters Staff https://www.popmatters.com/best-books-2019-non-fiction-2641136347.html — Pop Matters "Qiana Whitted’s insightful book EC Comics thoughtfully weaves together carefully researched historical context, keen analysis of the discourse communities surrounding EC, and meticulous close readings of the comics, ultimately building a powerful argument for the decisive role the company and its comics played in combating social injustices of the day while advocating for a better, more inclusive society in the future."— Susan Kirtley, author of Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass "Recommended."— Choice “Qiana Whitted’s well-written study confirms and complicates EC’s reputation as the most aesthetically ambitious and politically daring comic book company of the twentieth-century. A subtle exploration of the relationship between race, gender, and representation, it should be considered essential reading for anyone with an investment in modern popular culture.”— Ben Saunders, coeditor of Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby "The book restores some specificity to our understanding of the way cultural norms were contested in the pages of postwar comics. It also delivers a measured appraisal of how the ostensibly shocking tactics of social protest comics secured a space in the public imagination for the modest ambitions of moral appeals for social change before the uptake of more radical civil rights discourse."— Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society "This is a scholarly exploration of a much maligned genre of comic, with heavy examination of the implications both inside the comics and of the outside commenters. The beautifully illustrated, comic-style cover may send some in the wrong direction if they're not ready for such a heavy reading, but if they stay with it, they will be richly rewarded.— Pop Matters "Race, Shock, and Social Protest: An Interview with Qiana Whitted," by Julian Chambliss— Black Perspectives "Whitted delivers in her analysis, which takes note of the texts in such an exemplary manner, interprets the drawings, perspectives and the inkwork without neglecting the coloring, and ultimately also takes cultural and publication contexts and economic conditions into account. The result is a careful, differentiating and yet clear reading of the comics, which has seldom been taken as seriously as here."— Comic.de "‘EC Comics: Race, Shock, Social Protest’ Author Qiana Whitted: The Conskipper Interview" https://conskipper.com/ec-comics-race-shock-and-social-protest-author-qiana-whitted-conskipper-interview/— ConskipperTable of ContentsContents Preface A) Introduction: The Preachies 1: Spelled Out Carefully in the Captions How to Read an EC Magazine 2: We Pictured Him So Different, Joey! Optical Illusions of Blackness and Embodiment in EC 3: Oh God…Sob…What Have I Done…? Shame, Mob Rule, and the Affective Realities of EC Justice 4: Battling, in the Sea of Comics EC’s Invisible Man and the Jim Crow Future of “Judgment Day!” B) Conclusion: Hence We See Justice Triumph! Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press In Lady Libertys Shadow
Book SynopsisRobyn Magalit Rodriguez explores the impact of anti-immigrant municipal ordinances on a range of immigrant groups living in different types of suburban communities. Although it is a case study of New Jersey, In Lady Liberty's Shadow offers crucial insights that can shed fresh light on the national immigration debate.Trade Review"Robyn Magalit Rodriguez makes an original intellectual contribution to the study of migration control that places the politics of race, anti-blackness, and suburban governance at the center of the analysis!" -- Alfonso Gonzales * author of Reform Without Justice *"Robyn Magalit Rodriguez has written an important book for anyone who embraces, chafes at, or aspires to being an American. In Lady Liberty's Shadow reminds us that the specificity of the U.S. suburb reflects and fuels the generality of whiteness in which we all live and breathe. Rightly marking 9/11 as a political launchpad for the latest era of xenophobia and racism, Rodriguez vividly brings together the too-often separate narratives of race and empire, of Trayvon Martin and San Bernadino. This is a deeply personal, refreshingly vulnerable, and urgent piece of scholarship." -- Soya Jung * Senior Partner, ChangeLab *"Rodriguez brilliantly sheds light on border enforcement in New Jersey suburbs, linking alarming local and national policies, Jim Crow segregation and 'Juan Crow' xenophobia, to expose threats to American social justice." -- Allan Punzalan Isaac * author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America *"In Lady Liberty’s Shadow is a heartfelt, enjoyable, and edifying text that tries 'to make sense of anti-immigrant local ordinances in a place where they don’t make sense.'" * American Journal of Sociology *"Implore[s] readers to recognize the hidden work immigrants have continually performed in both cities and suburbs. They also reveal the racialization that immigrants and their descendants experienced and continue to experience in these spaces. This scholarship showcases how urban spaces outside of the Northeast shape immigrant identities and racial politics." * Journal of Urban History *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 The Politics of Immigration and Race in the “Garden State”2 My Hometown: Immigration and Suburban Imaginaries3 The New “Main Street”?: Ethnoburbs and the Complex Politics of Race4 Being the Problem: Perspectives from Immigrant New Jerseyans5 Fighting on the Homefront6 Conclusion NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press Blaming the Poor The Long Shadows of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
Trade Review"Greenbaum's powerful and important book provides valuable and little-known context for the Moynihan Report. She traces the ideas in that report as they were adopted and challenged over time." -- Brett Williams * American University *"I applaud Susan Greenbaum's timely book, with its sober reasoning, scrupulous scholarship, theoretical acumen, lucid prose, and penetrating and spirited critique of mainstream perspectives on poverty." -- Stephen Steinberg * Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York *"An intimate portrayal of social science researchers' and policy makers' roles in shaping perceptions of the poor in the US … By examining the ways in which the tangle of pathology thinking has shaped housing, criminal justice, and antipoverty programs, Greenbaum highlights that the real winners of these programs are the non-poor. She argues that dismantling racialized stereotypes of the poor and holding open discussions with those who experience poverty will lead to more sustainable solutions to poverty ... Essential. All academic levels/libraries." * CHOICE *"Blaming the Poor is a thorough examination of the anti-poverty trend that began with 'the thesis that broken families cause poverty' and continues fifty years later to demonize poor African Americans." * Contemporary Sociology *"Wonderfully engaging ... Susan Greenbaum has written an important book, which deserves a wide audience among both practitioners and academics." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Greenbaum's text offers an accessible review of approaches to poverty in the second half of the twentieth century that can help educate students of all kinds about how we ended up in the mess we find ourselves in today." * H-Citizenship *"[Blaming the Poor] is an exceptional challenge to common conservative opinions of poverty… Politicians and policymakers of all backgrounds and political stances should read this book." * Poverty & Public Policy *"A fascinating synthesis of existing scholarship on poverty and policy that draws on Greenbaum's fieldwork to extend the existing literature in helpful and provocative ways." * North American Dialogue *Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Research and Politics: The Culture of Poverty KnowledgeChapter 3. Kinship and Family Structure: Ethnocentric MyopiaChapter 4. There Goes the Neighborhood: Deconcentration and Destruction of Public HousingChapter 5. Crime, Criminals and Tangles of PathologyChapter 6. Commercializing the Culture of PovertyChapter 7. Ending Poverty as We Know It: And Other Apparently Unreachable Goals Notes Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Blaming the Poor The Long Shadows of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
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MW - Rutgers University Press Redefining Japaneseness Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
Book SynopsisWhat happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living abroad in Japan? Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan navigate and complicate the categories of Japanese and “foreigner”. Jane H. Yamashiro tracks the multiple ways these migrants strategically negotiate and interpret their daily interactions.Trade Review"Based on excellent and extensive research, Redefining Japanesenessis a comprehensive look at a previously understudied area. Yamashiro has produced a work of the highest academic quality." -- Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu * author of When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities *"Not only does Yamashiro give us engaging portraits of how Japanese Americans navigate the social and cultural terrain of contemporary Japan, but she also provides a fundamental rethinking of the analytic frameworks by which migrant identities have been contextualized and understood." -- Michael Omi * University of California, Berkeley *"Yamashiro’s insightful and ethnographically rich account of the migration of Japanese Americans to their ancestral homeland and its impact on their identities is an important intellectual contribution to numerous fields of study." -- Takeyuki Tsuda * Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University *“Jane H. Yamashiro’s Redefining Japaneseness is an innovative and provocative addition to Asian American studies….Yamashiro’s Redefining Japaneseness gives readers a solid understanding of Japanese American identity construction in Japan while also reflecting upon her subjects’ identities after their return to the United States.” * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Terminology Introduction 2Japanese as a Global Ancestral Group: Japaneseness on the US Continent, Hawaii, and Japan 3Differentiated Japanese American Identities: The Continent Versus Hawaii 4From Hapa to Hafu: Mixed Japanese American Identities in Japan 5Language and Names in Shifting Assertions of Japaneseness 6Back in the United States: Japanese American Interpretations of Their Experiences in Japan Conclusion Appendix A: Methodology: Studying Japanese American Experiences in TokyoAppendix B: List of Japanese American Interviewees Who Have Lived in Japan NotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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John Wiley & Sons City Kids Transforming Racial Baggage
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Rutgers University Press City Kids Transforming Racial Baggage Rutgers
Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism - the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity - is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.Trade Review"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography." -- Lauren Silver * Rutgers University, Camden *"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels" -- Maryann Krikorian * Teachers College Record *"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography." -- Lauren Silver * Rutgers University, Camden *"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels" -- Maryann Krikorian * Teachers College Record *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Transcription Conventions Introduction: The Transformative Politics of Learning Race 1. Sensing Urban Space 2. Loving Friends and Things 3. The Collective Labors of Conviviality 4. Racist or Fair? 5. Enacting Sex Ed Conclusion: Out of the Heart of Whiteness Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Reel Inequality Hollywood Actors and Racism
Book SynopsisWhen the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduring racial biases afflict not only the Academy Awards, but also Hollywood as a whole. Reel Inequality examines the structural barriers minority actors face in Hollywood, while shedding light on how they survive in a racist industry.Trade Review"Anyone who is interested in who is 'in the room where it happens' and who is left out will applaud this thoughtful treatise." * Booklist *"Full of diligent research, intimate interviews, and astute observations all presented in accessible language, Reel Inequality provides profoundly practical recommendations on how audiences and industry pros alike can create a more authentic media landscape." -- Adam Moore * leading diversity expert, National Director of EEO & Diversity for SAG-AFTRA *"The rainbow is not mono-chromatic. Nancy Yuen's excellent study illuminates the embedded cultural and economic system known as Hollywood where Asian Americans and others aspire to and work to be included." -- Clyde Kusatsu * National VP Los Angeles SAG-AFTRA *“With laser-like accuracy, Reel Inequality dissects Hollywood’s colorblind racism and reveals why the struggle for increased diversity in TV and film has been such a long and frustrating one." -- Darnell Hunt * author of Black Los Angeles *"Reel Inequality highlights the institutionalized racism and implicit bias actors from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds experience while trying to work professionally in Hollywood. Yuen offers empowering recommendations for effecting change within and outside of the industry." -- Monica White Ndounou * author of Shaping the Future of African American Film *Nancy Wang Yuen points out in Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, that actors of color generally have fewer acting opportunities, all as a result of the homogeneity of the directors’ chairs and writers’ rooms of Hollywood. Her study found that 77 percent of casting calls specify a white actor. Her book is filled with other firsthand accounts from anonymous Hollywood sources that seem to reinforce the sad truth that a mostly white industry is going to advance the interest of mostly white actors. In one interview, a Latina actor told Yuen that a casting director friend asked for her opinion on a Latino casting decision, since the director only knew “maids and gardeners” who were Latino. -- Kenneth Lowe * Paste Magazine *Sociologist and author of Reel Inequality, Nancy Wang Yuen was recently quoted in an excellent Paste magazine piece on whitewashing in Hollywood. One casting director told Yuen: “I work with a lot of different people, and Asians are a challenge to cast because most casting directors feel as though they’re not very expressive. They’re very shut down in their emotions…” As the quote began to percolate around Twitter, other people were understandably angry too, and it led to Maurene Goo starting the hashtag #ExpressiveAsians. It received an excellent response… Yuen was certainly pleased with the reaction. Speaking on the hashtag, Yuen told indy100 that "social media is amplifying previously unheard voices - providing a platform for marginalised folks and allies to protest issues like whitewashing, stereotyping, and other exclusionary practices that have gone unchecked in Hollywood for too long." -- Josh Withey * indy100.com *Social media is not happy about a quote regarding Asian-American actors not being expressive enough. At the heart of the controversy is a story told by Nancy Wang Yuen, sociologist and author of the book "Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism." In the book, published last year, Yuen quoted an unnamed casting director who provided an explanation behind the challenges of casting Asian actors. "Asians are a challenge to cast because most casting directors feel as though they're not very expressive," the casting director said... The quote stirred a backlash on Twitter, with some taking the opportunity to show just how expressive Asian-Americans can be... The discussion comes at a time of increased criticism of Hollywood for "whitewashing" or casting white actors in roles where the characters are another race. -- Lisa Respers France * CNN *Nancy Wang Yuen has devoted her research to Hollywood's diversity problem * PRI.org *"Reel Inequality serves as a welcome addition to theliterature at a time when Hollywood’ s discriminatory industry practices remaindepressingly au courant and unresolved." * Sociological Inquiry *"If there is one thing Yuen unequivocally does, it is showing that Hollywood has to work hard to Do the Right Thing." * Cultural Sociology *"Is 'Crazy Rich Asians' a watershed moment for representation?" interview with Nancy Wang Yuen * Al Jazeera’s "The Stream" *Dr. Phil: Nancy Wang Yuen, author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (Rutgers University Press, $99.95, 9780813586304). * Shelf Awareness *"'Dr. Phil,' 'Deconstructing Privilege,' Season 19, Episode 29 interview with Nancy Wang Yuen * CBS "Dr. Phil" *'Kim's Convenience' Is A Sitcom About Asian Immigrants — With Depth" * NPR "Morning Edition" *"Simu Liu cast as Marvel's first Chinese superhero, Shang-Chi," interview with Nancy Yuen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmLb30nWGcU * CBC News: The National *"The Cultural Truth at the Heart of the Lies in ‘The Farewell’" by Brian X. Chen https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/movies/the-farewell-family-lies.html * New York Times *"Marvel’s diverse new superheroes target broader box office success" https://www.marketplace.org/2019/07/22/marvels-diverse-new-superheroes-target-broader-audience/ * Marketplace *"Another Hollywood moment for Asian-Americans: SNL gains first Chinese-American cast member" Marketplace interview with Nancy Wang Yuen * "Marketplace" *“Reel Inequality provides a vital critique of the entertainment industry’s discrimination in the context of its far-reaching influence…. Yuen provides clear ways that the industry can move forward, if enough of its stakeholders choose to take action.” * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"An important study of the racist barriers minority actors confront." -- Michael Eric Dyson * New York Times Book Review, "By the Book" *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Hollywood’s Whitest 2. Hollywood’s Colorblind Racism 3. Hollywood’s Typecasting 4. Hollywood’s Double Bind 5. Surviving Hollywood 6. Challenging Hollywood 7. Diversifying Hollywood Appendix A: Media Advocacy Organizations Appendix B: Methods Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Hollywoods Hawaii Race Nation and War War Culture
Book SynopsisHollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment. Trade Review"This book covers an entire history of 'Hollywood Hawaii' and does it in a superlative, utterly inclusive manner—in a text that is clear, concise, and deeply informative. This is a model of accessible, yet reliable scholarship." -- Wheeler Winston Dixon * author of Black and White Cinema: A Short History *"A marvelously comprehensive gaze at cinematic representations of Hawai`i, this insightful study shows how those fictions constitute and are constituted by US imperialism, Christian capitalism, and white nationalism. Moreover, the imagined South Pacific is not a distant, fleeting pleasure but an imminent, durable presence." -- Gary Y. Okihiro * author of Island World: Hawai`i and the United States *"A useful example of the many ways war and society intersect." * H-Net *"The strength of Hollywood's Hawaii is its breadth. Through this widened scope, Konzett examines Hollywood's representations of Hawaiians and Asians and explores how, throughout film history, they have echoed and complicated Hollywood's long, troubled history of representing black bodies. From minstrelsy (blackface and yellowface) to plantation (cotton and tobacco to sugarcane and pineapple) melodramas, Asians, Polynesians, and African Americans have been marginalized throughout film history. Konzett's work gets us closer to understanding the complex interplay of these multiple, layered, and problematic representational histories—and opens the door for further, more in-depth analyses of these intersectional cinematic moments." * The Velvet Light Trap *"Konzett's insightful book is a highly recommended puzzle piece of the ongoing critique about race and representation in film." * The Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The American Empire in the South Pacific and Its Representation in Hollywood Cinema: 1898–Present1 The South Pacific and Hawaii on Screen: Territorial Expansion and Cinematic Colonialism2 World War II Hawaii: Orientalism and the American Century3 Postwar Hawaii and the Birth of the Military Industrial ComplexConclusion Hawaii in Contemporary Cinema and Television: The New Cultural Amnesia NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press Hollywoods Hawaii Race Nation and War War Culture
Book SynopsisHollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment. Trade Review"This book covers an entire history of 'Hollywood Hawaii' and does it in a superlative, utterly inclusive manner—in a text that is clear, concise, and deeply informative. This is a model of accessible, yet reliable scholarship." -- Wheeler Winston Dixon * author of Black and White Cinema: A Short History *"A marvelously comprehensive gaze at cinematic representations of Hawai`i, this insightful study shows how those fictions constitute and are constituted by US imperialism, Christian capitalism, and white nationalism. Moreover, the imagined South Pacific is not a distant, fleeting pleasure but an imminent, durable presence." -- Gary Y. Okihiro * author of Island World: Hawai`i and the United States *"A useful example of the many ways war and society intersect." * H-Net *"The strength of Hollywood's Hawaii is its breadth. Through this widened scope, Konzett examines Hollywood's representations of Hawaiians and Asians and explores how, throughout film history, they have echoed and complicated Hollywood's long, troubled history of representing black bodies. From minstrelsy (blackface and yellowface) to plantation (cotton and tobacco to sugarcane and pineapple) melodramas, Asians, Polynesians, and African Americans have been marginalized throughout film history. Konzett's work gets us closer to understanding the complex interplay of these multiple, layered, and problematic representational histories—and opens the door for further, more in-depth analyses of these intersectional cinematic moments." * The Velvet Light Trap *"Konzett's insightful book is a highly recommended puzzle piece of the ongoing critique about race and representation in film." * The Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The American Empire in the South Pacific and Its Representation in Hollywood Cinema: 1898–Present1 The South Pacific and Hawaii on Screen: Territorial Expansion and Cinematic Colonialism2 World War II Hawaii: Orientalism and the American Century3 Postwar Hawaii and the Birth of the Military Industrial ComplexConclusion Hawaii in Contemporary Cinema and Television: The New Cultural Amnesia NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People
Book SynopsisIn Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal, economic, educational, esthetic, and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time.Trade Review"In her stirring new book, the pioneering US writer Margaret Morganroth Gullette argues that the meaning of the word burden has shifted from referring to the demanding work of care-giving (expressing empathy with the carer) on to the recipient of care. No wonder so many older people worry that they’ll become burdensome, and elder abuse is becoming so common." * The Guardian *"As one of the world's leading authorities on ageing and ageism, any new book from Margaret Gullette is always exciting. Here she highlights the emotional wisdom and moral imagination of old age, so very different from the narrow, demeaning public rhetorics of ageing. An essential book for our times." -- Lynne Segal * author of Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing *“Margaret Morganroth Gullette is one of the shining lights of age studies. For decades she has been sweeping her bright searchlight across the landscape of American social, political and popular culture to identify and analyze ageism wherever it lurks.” -- Alix Kates Shulman * author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and Ménage *"Margaret Morganroth Gullette's take-no-prisoners book is as scathing as its subtitle, which refers both to cameras (the power of portrayal) and to guns (the very real risks of growing old in an ageist world). Wide-ranging and erudite, Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People frames the struggle for age equity in the most human and compelling of terms." -- Ashton Applewhite * author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism *"In this bracing, wide-ranging new book by a pioneer of ageing studies, every page sparkles with fresh insight and burns with apt indignation at how the 'othering' of older people operates. Gullette exhorts us to reclaim public space and defiantly shows us how. Wonderful!" -- Anne Karpf * author of How to Age *“For baby-boomers (like me) this is a sobering, but also an inspiring book. Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People provides a fully developed cultural analysis, anatomizing the established habits of mind, institutional structures, and economic pressures that work to belittle and marginalize older people. The critique cuts deep, drawing together an extraordinary range of evidence from visual culture, media, social history, and literature. But Margaret Morganroth Gullette give us more than a jeremiad. Hers is a positive vision, offering many specific proposals for a movement of resistance that could encourage an epistemic shift – a new conception of life’s course, a fresh understanding of words like ‘age,’ ‘youth,’ ‘decline,’ and much more. This is a profoundly engaged, urgent work of the humanist imagination.” -- James Clifford * author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century *“Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People penetrates far more deeply than the stock tropes about the affronts of age bias. With rich complexity Margaret Morganroth Gullette exposes ageism in many of its unusual manifestations, such as in her unusual and penetrating discussion of older farmers and world ecology. We too easily accept aging as a burden-in-waiting, rather than as the boon of longevity our added years can be both for individuals and global society.” -- Paul Kleyman * Director, Ethnic Elders Newsbeat, New America Media *"Gullette’s many film references demonstrate her gravity as a film plus age critic and her opinion is worth seeking out" -- Erin Trahan * The ARTery *"In her books, and perhaps most sharply in this new one, Ending Ageism, Gullette awakens her readers to the ideology of ageism" -- Robert Mundle * RobertMundle.com *"Margaret Morganroth Gullette wants you to know she means the title of her new book, Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, as a wake-up slap. She calls on Americans to be more aware of how the underlying age-based prejudice damages the lives of older people and their families—while often placing ethnic elders and older women in double jeopardy of discrimination, adding a touch of gray to sexism and racism they may already endure." -- Paul Kleyman * New American Media *"Ending Ageism, or How to Not Shoot Old People grapple[s] thoughtfully with how we [as a culture have forgotten how to value the elderly]." -- Tad Friend * New Yorker *"Award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette confronts age prejudice head on. She presents eye-opening and often frightening examples of ageism in every day society and confronts offenders and their bias." * El Paso Inc. Magazine *"Author sees book as a way to fight ageism," by Cindy Cantrell * Boston Globe *"Ageism, And What We Can Do About It" interview with Margaret Morganroth Gullette on Wisconsin Public Radio * Wisconsin Public Radio *“The One Who Feeds Us All: Old Farmers and Farm Fiction Amid the Global Food Crisis” by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Michigan Quarterly Review *"Margaret Morganroth Gullette: The Anti-Ageism Revolutionist" * Silver Century Foundation *"[An] artfully composed work...Compelling...Recognizing ageism can help us transcend our netherworlds – be they a valley in northern California, a field in Shandong, or an urban farm in Havana – and “emerge to see the stars.” * Anthropology News *"Unwanted at Midlife: Not Old, but 'Too Old,'” by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Gullette uses a personal, first-person voice and, in this way, masterfully weaves together personal experiences with cultural implications....[An] outstanding book." * The Gerontologist *"The Monument and the Wrecking Crew: Ageism and the academy," by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * AAUP *"How Does a Society Lose Respect for Experience and Age?" by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Academe Blog *" When My Mother Wanted to Die: The Neglected Issues of Ageist Undertreatment," by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Tikkun *"Ramping Up: The Problem That Went Deeper Than We Knew," by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Silver Century *"Against ‘Aging’ – How to Talk about Growing Older," by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Theory, Culture & Society *"The ‘Christine Lagarde Memo,’ FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, from 'the Coalition,'" by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * MR Online *"Brave, defiant, and startling. . . Gullette's work is both insightful and inspiring, challenging and important; moreover, her writing style [is] at once scathing, funny, sharp, witty, and down-to-earth. .. . a text that works both in small chunks and as a larger argument. . . . much needed and urgent." * Feminism & Psychology *"Ageist “Triage” Is a Crime Against Humanity" by Margaret Morganroth Gullette https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/ageist-triage-covid-19 * Los Angeles Review of Books *"A compelling manifesto that can enable social workers and others to recognize and challenge pervasive individual and institutional ageism....As educators, social workers need to follow Morganroth Gullette’s recommendation to integrate critical analysis of age into courses, and this must include fieldwork education." * Affilia *Table of ContentsPreface Fight Ageism, Not Aging: The Discovery of Trauma xi 1 #Still Human Into the Glare of the Public Square 1 Five Special Sessions 21 2 How (Not) to Shoot Old People Breaking Ageist Paradigms through Portrait Photography 22 3 The Elder-Hostile Giving College Students a Better Start at Life 54 4 Vert-de-Gris Rescuing the Land Lovers 85 5 The Alzheimer’s Defense “Faking Bad” in International Atrocity Trials 112 6 Our Frightened World Fantasies of Euthanasia and Preemptive Suicide 136 7 Induction into the Hall of Shame and the Way Out 163 8 Redress Healing the Self, Relationships, Society 192 A Declaration of Grievances 205 Acknowledgments 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 227 Index 253
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Rutgers University Press Challenges of Diversity Essays on America
Book SynopsisWhat unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines the changing self-understanding of the United States from an Anglo-American to a multicultural country and the role writing has played in that process. Trade Review"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." -- Tom Socca * Boston Phoenix *"Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest." -- David Hollinger * coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook *“A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.” * Midwest Book Review *"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." -- Tom Socca * Boston Phoenix *"Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest." -- David Hollinger * coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook *“A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.” * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 3 1 Literature and Ethnicity 19 2 National Identity and Ethnic Diversity 67 3 Dedicated to a Proposition 95 4 A Critique of Pure Pluralism 121 5 The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text 145 Notes 177 Acknowledgments 205 Index 207
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