Social discrimination and social justice Books
University of Minnesota Press The Racial Order Of Things Cultural Imaginaries
Book SynopsisPresents a conversation about culture wars and affirmative action. This book analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. It exposes a discursive tug-of-war over antidiscrimination policies during the nineties.
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University of Minnesota Press The Racial Order Of Things Cultural Imaginaries
Book SynopsisPresents a conversation about culture wars and affirmative action. This book analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. It exposes a discursive tug-of-war over antidiscrimination policies during the nineties.
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University of Minnesota Press Stare in the Darkness
Book SynopsisCritiquing the true impact of hip-hop culture on politics.Trade Review"In Stare in the Darkness, Lester K. Spence brings an essential degree of clarity and precision to our understandings of popular culture and political expression. This book is engaging and nuanced, and it will enrich in an original fashion our understanding of hip-hop as well as black politics." —Richard Iton, author of In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era"Stare in the Darkness offers brilliant insight into the political realities of contemporary black life. More importantly though, Stare in the Darkness is remixed, chopped and screwed in ways that hip-hop heads will certainly love and more than a few social scientists will find great value in." —Mark Anthony Neal, coeditor of That’s the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies ReaderTable of ContentsIntroduction: Follow Me into a Solo 1. In This Journey You’re the Journalist: Rap Lyrics, Neoliberalism, and the Black Parallel Public 2. A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous: Consuming Rap and Political Attitudes 3. Follow the Leader: Hip-hop Activism and the Circulation of Black Politics 4. Put Here to be Much More than That: The Rise and Fall of Kwame Kilpatrick Conclusion: Obama and the Future of Hip-hop Politics Acknowledgments Appendix A. Political Platforms for the Hip-hop Social Action Network (HSAN) and the Black Panther Party Appendix B. National Hip-hop Convention (NHHPC) Agenda, 2004 Appendix C. Top Hip-hop Albums for the Week of Dec. 1, 2006 Appendix D: Ownership of Top Market Urban/Urban Adult Contemporary Radio Stations Notes Bibliography Discography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Imperfect Unions
Book SynopsisHighlights the interplay of race, literature, and nation-building in U.S. historyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Setting the Stage: The Black–White Binary in an Imperfect Union1. Under the Covers of Forbidden Desire: Interracial Unions as Surrogates2. Clear Definitions for an Anxious World: Late Nineteenth-Century Surrogacy3. Staging the Unspoken Terror 4. The Remix: Afro-Indian Intimacies5. The Futurity of MiscegenationConclusion: The “Sex Factor”and Twenty-first Century Stagings of MiscegeNationAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Neoliberal Deluge Hurricane Katrina Late
Book SynopsisA critical collection on the politics of disaster and reconstruction in New OrleansTrade Review"This is a very important volume that all people interested in the Katrina disaster, governance, and American politics should read. In this book, Cedric Johnson and the other contributors reframe our understanding of the disaster by highlighting the role of neoliberalism in shaping both the preconditions for and response to this crisis. Those who read this book will come away with deeper knowledge of the meaning and work of neoliberalism over the last quarter century." —Cathy Cohen, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsContentsPreface: “Obama’s Katrina”Cedric JohnsonIntroduction: The Neoliberal DelugeCedric JohnsonPart I. Governance1. From Tipping Point to Metacrises: Management, Media, and Hurricane Katrina Chris Russill and Chad Lavin2. “We Are Seeing People We Didn’t Know Exist”: Katrina and the Neoliberal Erasure of RaceEric Ishiwata3. Making Citizens in Magnaville: Katrina Refugees and Neoliberal Self-GovernanceGeoffrey Whitehall and Cedric JohnsonPart II. Urbanity4. Mega-events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New OrleansPaul Passavant5. Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter SchoolsAdrienne Dixson6. Black and White, Unite and Fight? Identity Politics and New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Public Housing MovementJohn ArenaPart III. Planning7. Charming Accommodations: Progressive Urbanism Meets Privatization in Brad Pitt’s Make It Right FoundationCedric Johnson8. Laboratorization and the “Green” Rebuilding of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth WardBarbara L. Allen9. Squandered Resources? Grounded Realities of Recovery in Post-Tsunami Sri LankaKanchana RuwanpuraPart IV. Inequality10. How Shall We Remember New Orleans? Comparing News Coverage of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 Midwest FloodsLinda Robertson11. The Forgotten Ones: Black Women in the Wake of KatrinaAvis Jones-Deweever12. Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New OrleansNicole Trujillo-PagánContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Represent and Destroy
Book SynopsisA stinging critique of the link between global capitalism and U.S. multiculturalismsTrade Review"A brilliant correction to both Weber and Winant, Represent and Destroy demonstrates how ‘the control over the means of rationality’ characterizes post-World War II US liberal racial orders. Working against the grain of change-as-progress, Jodi Melamed painstakingly demonstrates how official anti-racism has steadied, rather than dissolved, race as a structuring force of capitalism." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Producing Discourses of Certainty with Official Antiracisms1. Killing Sympathies: Racial Liberalism and Race Novels2. Counterinsurgent Canon Wars and Surviving Liberal Multiculturalism3. Making Global Citizens: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Literary Value4. Difference as Strategy in International Indigenous Peoples' MovementsEpilogue: Rematerializing AntiracismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press HumAnimal
Book SynopsisPower and counterpower in the space of silenceTrade Review"Kalpana Rahita Seshadri’s HumAnimal is remarkably inventive, innovative, and thoughtful. Readers of Derrida and Agamben will find it especially stimulating."—Robert Bernasconi, author of How to Read Sartre"HumAnimal is one of the most insightful books on biopower and ‘human nature’ that I have ever read. This book has the potential to change not only the terms in current debates over the categories ‘human’ and ‘animal,’ but also to change the way that we think about ourselves. This is truly a beautiful and important book."—Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human"Vibrant and lucid."—Feminist Legal StudiesTable of ContentsContentsPreface: What This “Book” Is AboutIntroduction: The Trace of the PoliticalPart I. Language and SilenceThe Mute Prince1. First Words on Silence2. The Secret of Literary Silence3. Law, “Life/Living,” Language 4. Between Derrida and AgambenThe Blink of LifePart II. The Exemplary PlaneRecovering WolfIntroduction to The Exemplary Plane5. The Wild Child: Politics and Ethics of the Name6. The Wild Child and Scientific Names7. HumAnimal Acts: Potentiality or Movement as RestIn-ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Voices of Fire Reweaving the Literary Lei of
Book SynopsisTrade Review "ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui artfully performs the cultural and intellectual labor of overturning dominant paradigms and creating new ways of seeing and being an Kanaka 'Oiwi (Indigenous Hawaiian) woman and member of the Lahui (Nation) that draws inspiration from the volcano goddess Pele and her favored youngest siste Hi'iaka, patron of hula. This is an important and exciting book." —Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i"An amazingly well-crafted, well-selected, and well-analyzed lei that is, in and of itself, an incredibly powerful narrative destined to become an integral component of the intellectual lei of Kanaka Maoli literature."—Native American and Indigenous Studies JournalTable of ContentsPapa Kuhikuhi / Table of ContentsKa Pule Wehe / The Opening Prayer: Kūnihi ka Mauna (Steep Stands the Mountain)Ka Pane / The ResponseʻŌlelo Haʻi Mua / PrefaceNā Mahalo / AcknowledgmentsʻŌlelo Mua / Introduction: Ke Haʻa lā Puna i ka Makani (Puna Dances in the Breeze)Mokuna / Chapter 1. Mai Kahiki Mai ka Wahine ʻo Pele (From Kahiki Came the Woman, Pele): Historicizing the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 2. ʻO nā Lehua wale i Ka‘ana (The Lehua Blossoms Alone at Kaʻana): Weaving the Moʻokūʻauhau of Oral and Literary TraditionsMokuna / Chapter 3. Lele ʻana ʻo Kaʻena i ka Mālie (Kaʻena Soars Like a Bird in the Calm): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo as Intellectual HistoryMokuna / Chapter 4. Ke Lei maila ʻo Kaʻula i ke Kai ē (Kaʻula Is Wreathed by the Sea): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo and Kanaka Maoli CultureMokuna / Chapter 5. ʻO ʻOe ia e Wailua Iki (It Is You, Wailua Iki): Mana Wahine in the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 6. Hulihia Ka Mauna (The Mountain Is Overturned by Fire): Weaving a Literary Tradition: The Polytexts and Politics of the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 7. Aloha Kīlauea, ka ʻĀina Aloha (Beloved Is Kīlauea, the Beloved Land): Remembering, Reclaiming, Recovering, and Retelling: Pele and Hi‘iaka Mo‘olelo as Hawaiian Literary NationalismKa Pule Pani / The Closing PrayerʻŌlelo Wehewehe Hope / NotesPapa Wehewehe ‘Ōlelo / GlossaryPapa Kuhikuhi o nā Mea Kūmole ʻia / Works CitedPapa Kuhikuhi Hōʻike / Index
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Tropics Bite Back
Book SynopsisThe Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or rather the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Valérie Loichot employs cross-disciplinary methods to rethink notions of race and literary influence by providing a fresh perspective on forms of consumption both metaphorical and material.Trade Review"The Tropics Bite Back is a brilliant and highly original work of scholarship from one of the outstanding voices in contemporary Francophone studies. Valérie Loichot identifies cannibalism as the master trope of Antillean Literature, and goes on in this mature and insightful book to explore and analyze its various manifestations in a series of penetrating and novel readings. Exciting and profound, the book is both engaged and engaging." —Nick Nesbitt, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Cannibal and the Edible1. From Gumbo to Masala: Édouard Glissant’s Creolization in the Circum-Caribbean2. Not Just Hunger: Patrick Chamoiseau, Aimé Césaire, and Jean-Baptiste Labat3. Kitchen Narrative: Food and Exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisèle Pineau4. Sexual Traps: Dany Laferrière and Gisèle Pineau5. Literary Cannibals: Suzanne Césaire and Maryse CondéAfterword: Can Hunger Speak?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Educated in Whiteness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Angelina E. Castagno's up-close look at how whiteness operates in actual schools, and within one school district, offers a rare, ethnographic portrait of how policies ostensibly aimed at effecting educational equity actually end up reinforcing the status quo. We still have much to learn about how whiteness and racism function in everyday life, and Educated in Whiteness is unusual in the field, offering an important way of seeing how whiteness operates across the system." —Thea Abu El-Haj, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Whiteness, Diversity, and Educators’ Good Intentions1. “Equity Has to Be a Priority”: Converging Interests and Displacing Responsibility2. Engaging Multicultural Education: Safety in Sameness or Drawing Out Difference?3. Practicing Politeness through Meaningful Silences4. “It Isn’t Even Questioned”: Equality as Foundational to Schooling and Whiteness5. Obscuring Whiteness with Liberalism: Winners and Losers in Federal School ReformConclusion: Engagement and Struggle within the “Culture of Nice”AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Physics of Blackness Beyond the Middle Passage
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Opening up the middle passage, and working with and across narratives by thinkers such as Paul Gilroy, Ama Ata Aidoo, and James Baldwin, Physics of Blackness asks that we think through the time and space of the diaspora in order to notice that blackness is continually updating itself."—Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds"An unorthodox and highly engaging study by a scholar unrestrained by the conventions of the field. Michelle M. Wright advances a penetrating, stimulating, and immensely rewarding contribution for those that rise to the challenge."—Stephen Small, UC Berkeley"By defining blackness against the limitations of [linear progress narratives], Wright expands our senses of temporality and even of physics."—KronoScope"Its appeal to philosophical, literary, cultural and diasporic studies is apparent; but while contributing significantly to, and grounded in, the humanities, Physics of Blackness is not restricted to it. Its redeployment of analytical categories informs an innovative, interdisciplinary approach that necessarily reinvigorates and enhances generally academic and societally transformative pursuits for future oriented, inclusive and nonhierarchical understandings of not just black, but all,racial(ised) ontologies."—Transnational LiteratureTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Many Thousands Still Coming: Theorizing Blackness in the Postwar Moment1. The Middle Passage Epistemology2. The Problem of Return in the African Diaspora3. Quantum Baldwin and the Multidimensionality of Blackness4. Axes of AsymmetryAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Slaves of the State
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Slaves of the State cannot receive enough superlatives: eye-opening, deeply disturbing, intellectually stimulating, terrible, brilliant. Dennis Childs has written a moving and intricately researched book, which weaves novels and memory, the past and the present, ancient artifacts and modern tools of repression to reveal an unwelcome truth about modern day America and the biggest prison system on earth."—Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal"Dennis Childs ‘digs a ditch’ in Slaves of the State, laboring to present the tortured captives of chain gangs and penitentiaries in ways that bring the captors to shame. With incisive scholarship, Childs analyzes the terrors of black incarceration and trauma. This daring book simplifies a democracy corrupted by penal enslavement. Its haunting critique of the racial-sexual production of misery and ghosts, through the ‘terrorizing structure of US penal law,’ needs to be read and remembered."—Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved CommunityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. “Inhuman Punishment”: The (Un)dead Book of Chattel Carcerality 1. “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”: Beloved and the Middle Passage Carceral Model2. “Except as Punishment for a Crime”: The Thirteenth Amendment and the Rebirth of Chattel Imprisonment3. Angola Penitentiary: The Once and Future Slave Plantation4. The Warfare of Northern Neoslavery in Chester Himes’s Yesterday Will Make You CryAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press With Stones in Our Hands Writings on Muslims
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Innovative and ambitious, this book will undoubtedly become a key reference when debating the issue of anti-Muslim racism. Offering a range of analysis—linking anti-Muslim racism to the global phenomenon of imperialism—With Stones in Our Hands is a crucial work in the building of a true decolonial theory."—Houria Bouteldja, author of Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love"A timely updating of critical interventions and debates—of stone throwing in the best of anticolonizing traditions—from, about, and in conversation with the ‘Muslim Left,’ the ‘Muslim International.’ In the spirit of Third World studies, this is a crucial contribution for our times, a necessary read for all."—David Theo Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute"With Stones in our Hands offers theoretical application to historical and contemporary examples of anti-Muslim racisms, primarily in the US. Like any edited volume, the quality and character of the essays vary, but as a whole, this is a solid and distinctive collection well deserving of a wide readership." —Reading Religion "Daulatzai and Rana have put together a very strong collection of essays that accomplishes their purpose of giving voice to the Muslim Left and Muslim International while also providing interesting and insightful diversity." —Marginalia Review of BooksTable of ContentsWriting the Muslim Left: An Introduction to Throwing Stones Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid RanaI. Imperial Racism 1. A Palestinian Exception to the First Amendment? The Pain and Pleasure of Palestine in the Public SphereSteven Salaita 2. The Perils of American Muslim PoliticsAbdullah Al-Arian and Hafsa Kanjwal 3. Duplicity and Fear: Toward a Race and Class Critique of IslamophobiaStephen Sheehi 4. Palestinian Resistance and the Indivisibility of JusticeRabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi5. “From Here to Our Homelands”: An Interview with Lara Kiswani on Radical Organizing and Internationalism in the Post-9/11 Era Sohail DaulatzaiII. Decolonizing Geographies 6. Oppressed Majority: Violence and Muslim Communities in Multicultural EuropeFatima El-Tayeb7. Atlanta, Civil Rights, and Blackamerican IslamAbbas Barzegar 8. Like 1979 All Over Again: Resisting Left Liberalism among Iranian ÉmigrésArash Davari 9. The Only Good Muslim Is a Loyal, Exotic, or Dead Muslim, or All of the AboveVivek Bald 10. Charlie, National Unity, and Colonial-SubjectsSelim Nadi11. “Nuts and Bolts Organizing, They Work Everywhere:” An Interview with Fahd Ahmed on Mass-Based Organizing and the National Security StateJunaid RanaIII. Technologies of Surveillance and Control12. “A Catastrophically Damaged Gene Pool”: Law, White Supremacy, and the Muslim PsycheSherene H. Razack13. Death by Double-Tap: (Undoing) Racial Logics in the Age of Drone WarfareRonak Kapadia14. The Cry for Human Rights: Violence, Transition, and the Egyptian RevolutionNadine Naber and Atef Said15. Learning in the Shadow of the War on Terror: Toward a Pedagogy of Muslim IndignationArshad Imtiaz Ali 16. How Stereotypes Persist Despite Innovations in Media RepresentationsEvelyn Alsultany17. “Grounded on the Battlefront”: An Interview with Hamid Khan on the Police State in the War on TerrorSohail DaulatzaiIV. Possible Futures: Dissent and the Protest Tradition18. To Be a (Young) Black Muslim Woman IntellectualSu‘ad Abdul Khabeer 19. Letter from a West Bank Refugee CampRobin D.G. Kelley 20. Sami Al-Arian and Silencing PalestineHatem Bazian 21. Raising Muslim Girls: Women-of-Color Legacies in U.S. American IslamSylvia Chan-Malik 22. The Audience Is Still Present: Invocations of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz by Muslims in the United StatesMaryam Kashani 23. “Make a Way out of No Way:” An Interview with Ustadh Ubaydullah Evans on the Islamic Tradition and Social Justice ActivismJunaid RanaAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Blood Sugar
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bearing personal witness from the frontiers of the quantified self, Anthony Ryan Hatch offers a reimagining of metabolism as a form of social knowledge. Blood Sugar makes a key contribution to our understanding of the evolution of racial health disparities."—Alondra Nelson, author of The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome"A highly readable account of the emergence and import of “metabolic syndrome,” a biomedical category of risk designed to capture the dangers of stroke, heart disease, and diabetes... Metabolic syndrome provides a fascinating window into contemporary racialized biomedical conceptualizations of risk, and Blood Sugar is the first sustained sociological analysis of it."—Bulletin of the History of Medicine"An important contribution to the field of science and technology studies."—Journal of Health Politics, Policy & Law/JHPPL"This modest volume is a worthy contribution to the field of critical studies of the intersections of race, health, and power."—Social History of Medicine"In Blood Sugar Hatch offers a brief, informative history of metabolic syndrome together with a critique of the radicalizing processes at work in contemporary biomedical and pharmaceutical research and regulation."—Technology and Culture"Blood Sugar is itself a social justice project. It challenges us to conduct more rigorous studies on metabolic syndrome and gets academics, policy-makers, and physicians at the same table, or exam bed, to have more collaborative and productive conversations about how it affects the radicalization of medicalization, drug treatment, and health."—Contemporary Sociology"Medical sociologists, public health theorists, and historians of medicine will find this work of critical social theory most useful, and it should be consulted by policy makers who interrogate the limits of personal responsibility for health."—ISIS"This modest volume is a worthy contribution of the field of critical studies of the intersections of race, heath and power."—Social History of MedicineTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Metabolic Fetish1. Race, Biomedicine, and Health Injustice2. The Emergence of Metabolic Syndrome3. The Scientific Racism of Metabolism4. Killer Applications: The Racial Pharmacology of Prescription Drugs5. Sugar Stained with Blood: African Americans, Sugar, and Modern AgricultureConclusion: Metabolic InsurrectionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Beautiful Wasteland The Rise of Detroit as
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rebecca J. Kinney's sophisticated and compelling study demonstrates the centrality of race-making to contemporary narratives of urban decline and revitalization."—David M. P. Freund, University of Maryland"This is a welcome addition to studies in race and political economy."—Katherine B. Hankins, Georgia State University"In Beautiful Wasteland Rebecca Kinney offers a sweeping cultural analysis of the images and symbolic landscapes that have made and remade our imaginary of the city of Detroit."—Jessa M. Loomis, University of Kentucky"Beautiful Wasteland is a superb analysis of the role of popular culture in the production of Detroit as a 'postindustrial frontier'."—Sara Safransky, Vanderbilt University"Beautiful Wasteland adds greatly to our understanding of why nostalgia is such a central part of how white working and middle class Americans construct their sense of self and the world."—Patrick Vitale, Eastern Connecticut State University"It’s part personal memoir, part reporting, part academic dissection, drawing on life history, pop culture, photojournalism, architecture, TV news, and more."—Detroit Metro Times"While modest in length and scope, Beautiful Wasteland provides a fascinating analysis of the cultural narratives that underpin both public policy and our everyday depictions of postindustrial cities."—The Michigan Historical Review"Kinney’s book is a valuable contribution to the growing body of research on Detroit in that it makes visible the banal ways in which racism occurs through a cultural lens."—Urban Geography "Kinney’s insistence that neoliberal market strategies cannot resolve structural inequities raises this succinct contribution to the critique of ‘ruin porn’ above the fray."—Indiana Magazine of History "Crucially woven into this analysis is Kinney’s sensitivity to the persistence of race in narrative tropes, and the significance of what is unsaid and what is forgotten, as much as what is said and remembered."—Environment & Urbanization"Historical and cultural geographers plus scholars with an interest in the US Midwest, manufacturing history, or urban history will likely find this a welcome addition to their shelves - or night stands: the book was a compelling read and difficult to put down."—Historical GeographyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Building a Beautiful Wasteland1. It’s Turned into a Race Thing: White Innocence and the Old Neighborhood2. Picturing Ruin and Possibility: The Rise of the Postindustrial Frontier3. Fanning the Embers: Branding Detroit as a Phoenix Rising4. Flickers of the American Dream: Filming Possibility in Decline5. Feeding Detroit’s Rise: Provisions for Urban PioneersConclusion: The Strait: A Tale of Two CitiesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Our Gang
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Thoroughly engaging, Our Gang makes historically and politically clear the discriminations of the Jim Crow south and the ways the series softened, and in many cases contradicted, the virulent studio and audience racism of the day."—Ed Guerrero, New York University"Like the series it traces, Julia Lee’s book is a gem."—Henry Louis Gates Jr."A wonderfully inviting study."—Publishers Weekly"[An] agile and insightful cultural history."—The Atlantic"Julia Lee gives a degree of depth and context to these four talented performers and their work in Our Gang: A Racial History of the Little Rascals. By foregrounding the stories of the black actors in the series, she uncovers how black America’s attitude towards its representation by Hollywood evolved throughout the 20th Century."—PopMatters.com"Our Gang is not one of those academically written film books clogged with jargon, but a fully fleshed-out and colorful pop-culture history: of Hal Roach, of the Roach Studios lot and both early Hollywood and L.A. culture."—LA Weekly"An engaging new book."—Pasatiempo/Santa Fe New Mexican"An impressive study of how the US’s racial history reverberated in the series and how it became an integral part of American history."—CHOICE"An excellent work of scholarship on an important part of America’s twentieth-century popular culture."—Studies in American Humor"The book provides an insightful and coherent resource for students and scholars, as well as general readers, who are interested in film history, American media, and cultural studies."—The Journal of African American HistoryTable of ContentsContentsForeword Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Introduction: All of Us1. The Eternal Boy2. A Boy and His Gang3. 100% American4. Sambo’s Awakening5. Everyman 6. The New Negro7.Movie-Made Children8.The Good Soldier9.The Little Rascals10. The Good Old DaysEpilogue: Coming HomeAcknowledgementsBibliographic EssayNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Civil Racism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lynn Mie Itagaki's book is an incisive critique of the civil racism that has become dominant in both liberal and conservative discourses of race in the post-Civil Rights era."—Daniel Kim, Brown University"Given recent urban unrest that lays bare tensions between state power, late capitalism, and race, this is a timely book."—CHOICE"Civil Racism considerably advances literature on the concept of racial civility. Lynn Mie Itagaki's text will be of significant interest to race—specifically those in Asian American studies—and feminist scholars, pushing readers to consider how systems of oppression manifest in insidious forms such as civility."—Journal of Asian American Studies"Exceptionally timely."—American Literary History"Much-needed contribution."—Critical Ethnic Studies "As a sociologist coming to this work, I found Itagaki’s elaboration of civil racism theoretically rich and relevant for many other facets of race relations in the US post-Cold War context. [...] I appreciated Itagaki’s careful use and analysis of language. Calling the events that occurred in 1992 a rebellion instead of a riot provides insight into how the rest of her book centers the subversion of people of color in the face of state oppression. Overall, I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about race, intersectionality, citizenship, and critical literary/media analysis." —Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies AssociationTable of ContentsContentsA Note on TerminologyPrefaceIntroduction: The 1992 Los Angeles CrisisPart I: Racial Civility1. Model Family Values and Sentimentalizing the Crisis2. In/Civility, with Colorblindness and Equal Treatment for All3. The Territorialization of Civility, the Spatialization of RevengePart II: Counterdiscourse of Civility4. At the End of Tragedy5. The Media Spectacle of Racial DisasterEpilogue: Lives That MatterAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Martin Heidegger Saved My Life
Book SynopsisIn Martin Heidegger Saved My Life, Grant Farred combines autobiography with philosophical rumination to offer this unusual meditation on American racism. In the fall of 2013 while raking leaves outside his home, Farred experienced a racist encounter: a white woman stopped to ask him, “Would you like another job?” Farred responded, “Only if you can match my Cornell faculty salary.” The moment, however, stuck with him. The black man had gravitated to, of all people, Martin Heidegger, specifically Heidegger’s pronouncement, “Only when man speaks, does he think—and not the other way around,” in order to unpack this encounter. In this essay, Farred grapples with why it is that Heidegger—well known as a Nazi—resonates so deeply with him during this encounter instead of other, more predictable figures such as Malcolm X, W. E. B. DuBois, or Frantz Fanon. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Testing Fate
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Testing Fate illustrates how diseases become racialized, how racializing them supports political projects, and how the medical profession has been instrumental in racial formation."—Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century"Shelley Z. Reuter offers a thoughtful, thorough, and sophisticated analysis of themes of modern biocitizenship and belonging refracted through a historical case study of Tay-Sachs disease."—Jonathan Kahn, Hamline University"As she tells the fascinating and important story of Tay-Sachs disease, Shelley Reuter skillfully reminds us of the tight links connecting our concepts of disease to visions of belonging and otherness, selfhood and social responsibility."—Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research"An engaging and carefully documented piece of scholarship. "—Disability Studies Quarterly"A thoughtful, rigorous contribution."—Journal of the History of Medicine"A sound contribution to anthropological debates surrounding the expression of biocitizenship, and, more specifically, how the decisions surrounding genetic screening are constrained by the continuous inculcation of normative ideas of what constitutes a responsible body and biocitizen."—Medical Anthropology Quarterly"This well-written and fascinating account of the history of a racialised disease should be read by both health care providers and scholars in a wide range of fields interested in the history of race and medicine."—Medical History "I suspect this book and the issues raised will nonetheless lend themselves to vibrant discussions in graduate seminars."—American Journal of Sociology"Reuter offers a necessary critical, comprehensive, and sociological examination of the history of Tay-Sachs and its construction as a disease concept."—New Genetics and Society"Testing Fate is a readable and inspiring book that has the great advantage of remaining accessible throughout. It would likely appeal to scholar and intelligent layman alike."—IsisTable of ContentsContents Introduction: A Critical Historical Sociology of Disease Part I. Pathologizing the Other 1. Diagnosing the Genuine “Jewish Type”: Medical Racialism and Anti-Immigration Legislation in the United States 2. Governing Disease: Cultivating the Will to Health in Jewish Immigrants to the United Kingdom Part II. Imag(in)ing Difference 3. “Plainer Than Words Can Describe”: Medical Portraiture and the Visualization of a Jewish Disease 4. The Unethics of Looking at Disease–Disability: Online Representations of Tay-Sachs Part III. Paradoxical Biocitizenship 5. The Right to Be Responsible: Agency and Contemporary Carrier Screening Conclusion: Freedom, Exclusion, and Genetic Decision Making Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Negro Education in Alabama A Study in Cotton and Steel Library of Alabama Classics Series
Book SynopsisWritten by a scholar who lived and worked in both the South and the North of the US during and after the time of Jim Crow laws, this study on higher education for African-Americans in Alabama is derived from his 1937 prize-winning dissertation.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Remembering the Memphis Massacre An American Story
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Remembering the Memphis Massacre An American Story
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood White Women Class and Segregation
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood White Women Class and Segregation
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University of Georgia Press BJU and Me Queer Voices from the Worlds Most
Book SynopsisProvides behind-the-scenes explanations from nineteen former BJU students from the past few decades who now identify as LGBT+. They write about their experiences, reflect on their relationships with a religious institution, and describe their vulnerability under a controlling regime.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Bricks before Brown The Chinese American
Book SynopsisWrites about the many important cases that led to the culmination of Brown v. Board of Education. Marisela Martinez-Cola reveals that the road to Brown is lined with ""bricks"" representing at least one hundred other families who legally challenged segregated schooling in state and federal courts across the country.
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John Wiley & Sons Opening Doors Gender Equality and Development in
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Ohio University Press Dark Smiles
Book SynopsisAlthough George Eliot has long been described as “the novelist of the Midlands,” she often brought the outer reaches of the empire home in her work. Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot studies Eliot’s problematic, career-long interest in representing racial and ethnic Otherness.Placing
£29.45
Ohio University Press Writing a Wider War
Book SynopsisA century after the South African War (1899-1902), historians are beginning to reevaluate the accepted wisdom regarding the scope of the war, its participants, and its impact. Writing a Wider War charts some of the changing historical constructions of the memorialization of suffering during the war.Writing
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Ohio University Press Writing a Wider War
Book SynopsisA century after the South African War (1899-1902), historians are beginning to reevaluate the accepted wisdom regarding the scope of the war, its participants, and its impact. Writing a Wider War charts some of the changing historical constructions of the memorialization of suffering during the war.Writing
£23.39
Ohio University Press The Exile Mission The Polish Political Diaspora
Book SynopsisLooks at the interplay between the established Polish community and the refugee community. This book presents a tale of Polish Americans and Polish refugees who, like postwar Polish exile communities all over the world, worked out their own ways to implement the mission's main goals.Trade Review“(The Exile Mission) makes it clear that Polonia is far from being a homogeneous group, and instead is quite diverse and complex. How it became so, during the terribly tragic conflicts and upheavals within our civilization between 1939 and 1956, is the focus of this study.” * The Polish Review *“Jarosyńska-Kirchmann…has produced a solid analysis of the often contentious argument about ethnicity and obligation toward the homeland engendered by the infusion of political refugees into an increasingly Americanized Polonia. Her work is richly detailed with interviews, letters, journals, and a plethora of unpublished materials.…an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of this period in American ethnic history.” * American Communist History *
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Ohio University Press Race Resistance and the Boy Scout Movement in
Book SynopsisConceived by General Sir Robert Baden-Powell as a way to reduce class tensions in Edwardian Britain, scouting evolved into an international youth movement. It offered a vision of romantic outdoor life as a cure for disruption caused by industrialization and urbanization.Trade ReviewIn effect, this study of the boy scout movement in Africa serves as an avenue of entry to a much broader consideration of the African experience under British colonial rule. The scholarship is not merely sound; it is downright formidable. This is a highly original, first-rate work of social history.“Scouting, according to Parsons, could promote either empire loyalism or anti-colonial resistance, ambiguities that surface in his case studies.... A solid piece of history.” * International History Review *“As Parsons shows, scouting was from the start as much an instrument of social protest as of social control.” * South African Historical Journal *
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Ohio University Press The Black Laws Race and the Legal Process in
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1803, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. These laws instituted barriers against blacks entering the state and placed limits on black testimony against whites.Trade Review“The book is a welcome addition to the literature in the field, not just of studies of slavery and fugitive slavery, but also of constitutional and political history. It tells an important part of a complex story, and its availability to scholars will help to shape our understanding of the history of race and slavery in not only Ohio but the Midwest for generations to come.”“As Middleton makes clear, opposition to slavery was not the same thing as support for African American civil rights, and the Ohio constitution, while prohibiting slavery, placed several restrictions upon African American residents, including denial of the right to vote.”“It is sprinkled with sparking insights and should be of interest to scholars unconcerned with Ohio, the black laws, or this era.”“Stephen Middleton’s scholarship is superb: he mines nearly seventy manuscript collections in seventeen depositories in ten states as well as about fifty major legal cases and sixty newspapers. He weaves together legal and social history in a seamless narrative fabric in nice chronological order from the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to the abolition of Ohio’s Black Laws in 1887.”“Black Laws, Middleton persuasively argues, mirrored Southern slave codes.”“Middleton provides a new story of African-American survival and resistance amid systematic, institutionalized racism. Indeed, historians writ large will marvel at Middleton’s ability to weave together, rather seamlessly, local, state, and national law and politics.”
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Ohio University Press American Pogrom
Book SynopsisOn July 2 and 3, 1917, a mob of white men and women looted and torched the homes and businesses of African Americans in the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois.Trade Review“Lumpkins reveals the engagement of political and economic insiders in shaping both the violence and its aftermath, and in so doing he presents a model for understanding racial violence that both highlights black political activism and reminds us of the costs that maintaining white supremacy imposed on the black community and the nation.” * The Journal of American History *“Charles Lumpkins provides an important reinterpretation of the 1917 East St. Louis Race Riot. In American Pogrom, he challenges Elliott Rudwick’s classic Civil Rights-era account, Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 (1964).… Reflecting a generational paradigm shift in historical scholarship, Lumpkins respectfully repudiates Rudwick’s interpretation.” * Journal of Illinois History *“In expanding on the sources of Rudwick and McLaughlin, Lumpkin instead emphasizes black political activity and community-building that—given the voting potential of oncoming black migrants—threatened white powerbrokers, who promoted racial fear and violence.” * American Studies Journal *”Whereas previous scholars placed the responsibility for the riot on white working-class males concerned about social strife, Lumpkins argues that city elites, women, and political bosses played an integral role in this destructive demonstration of white superiority.” * Indiana Magazine of History *“American Pogrom deserves a wide audience among historians, although some readers may find themselves overwhelmed by the machinations of East St. Louis politics.… Lumpkins’s insights should intrigue and inspire other scholars.” * Ohio History *“Often comparing the East St. Louis experience with that of other urban centers, (American Pogrom) establishes the context of a continual struggle for equality from the nineteenth century to the present, using solidarity, political savvy and determination.” * Book News, Inc. *
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Ohio University Press Taifa
Book SynopsisTaifa is a story of African intellectual agency, but it is also an account of how nation and race emerged out of the legal, social, and economic histories in one major city, Dar es Salaam.Trade Review“TAIFA is James Brennan's compelling meditation on Tanganyikan nationalism seen through the lens of relations between diasporic Indians and indigenous Africans in colonial and early postcolonial Dar es Salaam. Brennan is regarded as one of the most careful researchers of his generation of Tanzania scholars and his book has been long anticipated. It does not disappoint.…TAIFA combines methodologies drawn from social, political, and intellectual history in a manner that is as enriching as it is rare.…A deeply thoughtful and well-argued account of the ways in which race and nation were articulated [in] one of the continent's frequently-cited cases. TAIFA's appeal will not be confined to Tanzania specialists…” * Journal of African History *“[This book’s] theoretical project…is to describe the formation of racial identities as emerging from below rather than constructed from above…Brennan’s analysis of the racial identities that emerged during the post-Second World War colonial period is particularly fascinating. …[The final chapter] is first and foremost a masterpiece of discourse analysis. Brennan unearthed a TANU primer defining the new words to be used after the Arusha Declaration, and he uses that and other sources to illustrate how an elaborate vocabulary of socially undesirable people emerged.” * African Affairs *“The book is a rich and insightful account of how the racial, ethnic, and socio-economic pluralism of Dar es Salaam was an inherent part of the emergence of a racially conscious TANU-led independence movement.…Its emphasis on the unintended and the contingent, a view that relativizes and reveals as inherently relational the power and incapacities of important actors and organizations, makes this book a work of depth and detail.…Taifa is as any good academic book should be, replete with the kind of answers that breed a new multitude of questions.” * African Studies Quarterly *“With Taifa, James Brennan establishes himself as not just a major historian of Tanzania, but as an innovative scholar of urban history, racial relations, and colonialism…. The extraordinary range and depth of his research is reflected in every sentence; the book is densely packed with information and insight about colonial and early postcolonial Tanzania. Taifa is a ‘must read’ for all scholars of Tanzania, including anyone interested in contemporary political debates about ‘indigenous’ Africans that rely on the very racial logics and legacies that Brennan so deftly explains and explores.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Taifa is the first urban history to tackle nationalist politics in towns, an achievement made possible by Brennan's grounding in two separate sets of secondary literature which gives his work a breadth that is rare in today's monographs.”“In a compelling and highly nuanced way, Taifa shows how African colonial subjects conceived and articulated their own ideas about race and citizenship during the final decades of colonialism and the early years of self-rule.” * Comparative Studies in Society and History *“Brennan’s provocative and important work builds on his impressive range of publications on political culture in Dar es Salaam. It will stimulate others to test his conclusions across Tanzania and Africa.” * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“Taifa is distinctive in discussing Africans together with ‘Indians’ (most are also Africans now)…. (Brennan) skillfully dissects stereotypes, notably the stigma of unscrupulous merchants unfairly borne by Africa’s Indian communities…. Indian Ocean studies has grown as a discrete field, usually through broader surveys. This work on a specific port city makes the subject more concrete.” * Choice *
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Ohio University Press The Life and Death of Gus Reed
Book SynopsisGus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship.Trade Review“Much of Reed’s biography remains conjectural, but Bahde does an excellent job of constructing the series of contextual landscapes that support his conjectures. …The Life and Death of Gus Reed contributes to the vein of recent historical scholarship that widens the geographic compass of Reconstruction beyond the South and lengthens its chronological scope beyond 1877. In emphasizing the unsettled state of race relations in the North as well as the South during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, this historiography performs a valuable service.” * American Historical Review, Vol. 120, No. 5, 2015 *“The Life and Death of Gus Reed is a major new interpretation of emancipation and Reconstruction. Bahde weaves together the details of an emblematic life into larger social, political, and legal themes. The result is an ambitious and novel design for a book on this period of history.”“Historians of African Americans and of emancipation will welcome The Life and Death of Gus Reed … Two themes signal new approaches in nineteenth-century American social history. First, Bahde offers a more intimate portrait of the ways in which everyday individuals experienced the American Civil War. In this study, such individuals included free blacks and runaway slaves, antislavery whites, pro-slavery whites, and all manner of Midwesterners who found themselves at a crossroads. … Second, Bahde challenges our assumptions about the history of criminalization and incarceration of African Americans in an age when our society now has no choice but to face the ghosts and demons of our own brand of raced justice.” * Journal of the American Civil War Era *“Bahde has mined a wealth of primary sources … which make The Life and Death of Gus Reed a valuable contribution to the growing literature on Reconstruction in the Midwest.” * H-War *
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Ohio University Press The Life and Death of Gus Reed
Book SynopsisGus Reed was a freed slave who traveled north as Sherman’s March was sweeping through Georgia in 1864. His journey ended in Springfield, Illinois, a city undergoing fundamental changes as its white citizens struggled to understand the political, legal, and cultural consequences of emancipation and black citizenship.Trade Review“Much of Reed’s biography remains conjectural, but Bahde does an excellent job of constructing the series of contextual landscapes that support his conjectures. …The Life and Death of Gus Reed contributes to the vein of recent historical scholarship that widens the geographic compass of Reconstruction beyond the South and lengthens its chronological scope beyond 1877. In emphasizing the unsettled state of race relations in the North as well as the South during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, this historiography performs a valuable service.” * American Historical Review, Vol. 120, No. 5, 2015 *“The Life and Death of Gus Reed is a major new interpretation of emancipation and Reconstruction. Bahde weaves together the details of an emblematic life into larger social, political, and legal themes. The result is an ambitious and novel design for a book on this period of history.”“Historians of African Americans and of emancipation will welcome The Life and Death of Gus Reed … Two themes signal new approaches in nineteenth-century American social history. First, Bahde offers a more intimate portrait of the ways in which everyday individuals experienced the American Civil War. In this study, such individuals included free blacks and runaway slaves, antislavery whites, pro-slavery whites, and all manner of Midwesterners who found themselves at a crossroads. … Second, Bahde challenges our assumptions about the history of criminalization and incarceration of African Americans in an age when our society now has no choice but to face the ghosts and demons of our own brand of raced justice.” * Journal of the American Civil War Era *“Bahde has mined a wealth of primary sources … which make The Life and Death of Gus Reed a valuable contribution to the growing literature on Reconstruction in the Midwest.” * H-War *
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Ohio University Press Crossing the Color Line Race Sex and the
Book SynopsisInterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations.Trade Review“A fascinating exploration of sex across the color line in colonial Ghana. This book is a brilliant addition to the literature on sex, gender and empire.”“In this creatively and brilliantly conceived book, Carina Ray uses the story of interracial sexual relationships between European men and African women in the Gold Coast and African men and European women in Britain as an entry point into a much broader history of racial and gender relations.…Crossing the Color Line is tier-one scholarship, capable of directing a new course in historical research on sex, gender, race, diaspora, empire and identity formation.” * Africa *“Crossing the Color Line has already made its mark in African and African diaspora studies.…There can be no doubt that this is an important book.…Many authors claim to be bringing colony and metropole into a single analytical field, but few of them really succeed in highlighting transnational dynamics without forsaking detailed knowledge of social relations in specific times and places. Ray’s book is one of the successes.” * H-Net *“A book that offers a rare glimpse into the intimate world of mixed race couples in colonial Africa....[Crossing the Color Line] is truly innovative. Whereas historians of the transatlantic slave trade had previously written about the instrumental nature of interracial marriages on the Gold Coast, Ray seeks out the forces of attraction, desire, and love that brought these men and women together, and goes further to demonstrate how ferociously they sought to maintain their unions, even in the face of humiliation and penury.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“[A] brilliant exposition of the colonial and nationalist politics of interracial unions in the Gold Coast and the eastern Black Atlantic…Through incisive analysis and beautiful narrative detail, the book reminds us that, even more than ideology or material power, it was the intensely personal webs of social relations that structured the politics of colonialism and decolonization.” * Journal of Modern History *“There can be no doubt that this is an important book.… Many authors claim to be bringing colony and metropole into a single analytical field, but few of them really succeed in highlighting transnational dynamics without forsaking detailed knowledge of social relations in specific times and places. Ray’s book is one of the successes.” * H-Net *“[Ray's] analysis of available records shocks and moves readers, offering delicately nuanced interpretations of the lives and relationships (not just sexual) of the men and women caught up in scandal. Indeed, few historians can match her skill in demonstrating the interplay between race, sexuality, and class.” * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Employing interracial sex as a loom, Ray deftly weaves disparate threads into a compelling tapestry that displays the underlying tensions of empire hidden in sex across the color line. …This innovative study is accessible, deserves a wide readership, and is essential reading on race, sec, and colonial politics in Ghana and Britain.” * Journal of West African History *“This groundbreaking book has set new standards for understanding race, its implementation and its interpretation not only in Africa but also around the world.” * New Books Network *“Crossing the Color Line uses a wide-angle lens to think broadly and adeptly about the fate of sexual liaisons against the backdrop of imperial change in the 20th century. Ray pays scrupulous attention to the embeddedness of sexual relations in local contexts through textured personal stories and fine-grained analyses of how race, gender, and class intertwined to produce both African agency and British unease. In the process, this book makes a persuasive case for the indispensability of interracial histories to any account of imperial power and anticolonial resistance.”“With Crossing the Color Line, Carina Ray has produced a leading work on the intricate interracial relationships in colonial Ghana. Her study builds on so far fragmented studies for the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, giving us a comprehensive understanding of the development of interracial relations during the height of colonialism in Ghana in the 20th century and beyond. Theoretically and methodologically, the book is of seminal importance for the study of the subject in general.”“This is a smart, well-researched, and nuanced account of the politics of sexuality and race that animated the establishment and contestation of colonial rule in Ghana. Drawing from transnational scholarship on gender and colonialism, the book explains how anxieties about racial mixing remain fraught into the present.”“Carina Ray has produced an ambitious monograph about interracial relationships in the colonial period, transnational in its remit and based on vivid biographical examples and fascinating case studies… The originality of this book lies in its focus on the positive and intimate aspects of interracial sexual relationships during a time when, as Ray carefully documents, a fear of miscegenation took hold of the popular imperialist imagination.”“The account that Ray provides in Crossing the Color Line is a fine combination of both astonishing insights and disarming lucidity. That she opens up an entire new domain of historical analysis there is no doubt. This book will quickly be recognized as an agenda-setting work and will illuminate debates on race relations not just in Ghana and West Africa, but wherever such relations occurred in the British Empire.”
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Ohio University Press Crossing the Color Line Race Sex and the
Book SynopsisInterracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Ghanaians shaped and defined these powerfully charged relations.Trade Review“A fascinating exploration of sex across the color line in colonial Ghana. This book is a brilliant addition to the literature on sex, gender and empire.”“In this creatively and brilliantly conceived book, Carina Ray uses the story of interracial sexual relationships between European men and African women in the Gold Coast and African men and European women in Britain as an entry point into a much broader history of racial and gender relations.…Crossing the Color Line is tier-one scholarship, capable of directing a new course in historical research on sex, gender, race, diaspora, empire and identity formation.” * Africa *“Crossing the Color Line has already made its mark in African and African diaspora studies.…There can be no doubt that this is an important book.…Many authors claim to be bringing colony and metropole into a single analytical field, but few of them really succeed in highlighting transnational dynamics without forsaking detailed knowledge of social relations in specific times and places. Ray’s book is one of the successes.” * H-Net *“A book that offers a rare glimpse into the intimate world of mixed race couples in colonial Africa....[Crossing the Color Line] is truly innovative. Whereas historians of the transatlantic slave trade had previously written about the instrumental nature of interracial marriages on the Gold Coast, Ray seeks out the forces of attraction, desire, and love that brought these men and women together, and goes further to demonstrate how ferociously they sought to maintain their unions, even in the face of humiliation and penury.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“[A] brilliant exposition of the colonial and nationalist politics of interracial unions in the Gold Coast and the eastern Black Atlantic…Through incisive analysis and beautiful narrative detail, the book reminds us that, even more than ideology or material power, it was the intensely personal webs of social relations that structured the politics of colonialism and decolonization.” * Journal of Modern History *“There can be no doubt that this is an important book.… Many authors claim to be bringing colony and metropole into a single analytical field, but few of them really succeed in highlighting transnational dynamics without forsaking detailed knowledge of social relations in specific times and places. Ray’s book is one of the successes.” * H-Net *“[Ray's] analysis of available records shocks and moves readers, offering delicately nuanced interpretations of the lives and relationships (not just sexual) of the men and women caught up in scandal. Indeed, few historians can match her skill in demonstrating the interplay between race, sexuality, and class.” * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Employing interracial sex as a loom, Ray deftly weaves disparate threads into a compelling tapestry that displays the underlying tensions of empire hidden in sex across the color line. …This innovative study is accessible, deserves a wide readership, and is essential reading on race, sec, and colonial politics in Ghana and Britain.” * Journal of West African History *“This groundbreaking book has set new standards for understanding race, its implementation and its interpretation not only in Africa but also around the world.” * New Books Network *“Crossing the Color Line uses a wide-angle lens to think broadly and adeptly about the fate of sexual liaisons against the backdrop of imperial change in the 20th century. Ray pays scrupulous attention to the embeddedness of sexual relations in local contexts through textured personal stories and fine-grained analyses of how race, gender, and class intertwined to produce both African agency and British unease. In the process, this book makes a persuasive case for the indispensability of interracial histories to any account of imperial power and anticolonial resistance.”“With Crossing the Color Line, Carina Ray has produced a leading work on the intricate interracial relationships in colonial Ghana. Her study builds on so far fragmented studies for the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, giving us a comprehensive understanding of the development of interracial relations during the height of colonialism in Ghana in the 20th century and beyond. Theoretically and methodologically, the book is of seminal importance for the study of the subject in general.”“This is a smart, well-researched, and nuanced account of the politics of sexuality and race that animated the establishment and contestation of colonial rule in Ghana. Drawing from transnational scholarship on gender and colonialism, the book explains how anxieties about racial mixing remain fraught into the present.”“Carina Ray has produced an ambitious monograph about interracial relationships in the colonial period, transnational in its remit and based on vivid biographical examples and fascinating case studies… The originality of this book lies in its focus on the positive and intimate aspects of interracial sexual relationships during a time when, as Ray carefully documents, a fear of miscegenation took hold of the popular imperialist imagination.”“The account that Ray provides in Crossing the Color Line is a fine combination of both astonishing insights and disarming lucidity. That she opens up an entire new domain of historical analysis there is no doubt. This book will quickly be recognized as an agenda-setting work and will illuminate debates on race relations not just in Ghana and West Africa, but wherever such relations occurred in the British Empire.”
£25.19
Ohio University Press Cartography and the Political Imagination
Book SynopsisEncompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur’s study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for the articulation of new political communities and resistance.Trade Review“MacArthur’s exploration of the historiography of ethnicity in Kenya combines theoretical sophistication with innovative and deftly interdisciplinary methodological work, along with a knack for personalized storytelling. In Cartography and the Political Imagination, MacArthur has knit together a diverse and complex array of actors, plot lines, and forms of evidence (archival, cartographic, oral), resulting in a fascinating and important piece of historical scholarship.”“Three intertwined lines of argument are central to the study: ‘imagined communities’ constructed out of perceived concepts of ethnic, religious, linguistic, and genealogical links; the emergence of a particular form of ethnic patriotism consisting of the complex interplay of nativism and cosmopolitanism in African political thought; and how the mobilization of geographic identities rendered the development of ‘cartographic political imaginations.’ … Summing up: Recommended (upper-level undergraduates and above).” * CHOICE *“Cartography is really a fascinating and important study of how the Luyia successfully ‘imagined’ and then created a single ethnic constituency ... Cartography draws on the already rich literature on ethnogenesis … and takes it further in a case study that challenges much of the conventional wisdom about how ethnic identities are made.” * African Studies Review *“The Luyia defy assumptions about African ethnicity. With neither myth of common descent nor shared vernacular speech, this modern community is yet no colonial invention. These least ‘tribal’ of Kenya's peoples mapped their own territory of civic pluralism. In this new departure in ethnic studies, Julie MacArthur persuasively subverts our conventional wisdom.”“Cartography and Political Imagination breaks new ground in Kenyan historiography with its focus on western Kenya. This detailed and sophisticated study argues that Luyia ethnic architects used cartography to create a demographically inclusive, politically pluralistic, and progressive cosmopolitan community. It is refreshing to read a book on Kenya that does not focus on Mau Mau or the Kikuyu. MacArthur's exemplary study of a regional history will be indispensable to scholars of ethnogenesis and cartography in Africa and elsewhere.”“The Luyia have long represented a potential test case for the limits to the invention of ethnicity. MacArthur’s rich study does not disappoint. It reveals how a series of external influences—land pressures, gender panic, and the drawing of administrative boundaries—led the Luyia to define themselves through appeals to locality rather than shared ancestries. Its most fascinating contribution lies in its treatment of Luyia practices of counter-mapping.”
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Ohio University Press Cartography and the Political Imagination
Book SynopsisEncompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur’s study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for the articulation of new political communities and resistance.Trade Review“MacArthur’s exploration of the historiography of ethnicity in Kenya combines theoretical sophistication with innovative and deftly interdisciplinary methodological work, along with a knack for personalized storytelling. In Cartography and the Political Imagination, MacArthur has knit together a diverse and complex array of actors, plot lines, and forms of evidence (archival, cartographic, oral), resulting in a fascinating and important piece of historical scholarship.”“Three intertwined lines of argument are central to the study: ‘imagined communities’ constructed out of perceived concepts of ethnic, religious, linguistic, and genealogical links; the emergence of a particular form of ethnic patriotism consisting of the complex interplay of nativism and cosmopolitanism in African political thought; and how the mobilization of geographic identities rendered the development of ‘cartographic political imaginations.’ … Summing up: Recommended (upper-level undergraduates and above).” * CHOICE *“Cartography is really a fascinating and important study of how the Luyia successfully ‘imagined’ and then created a single ethnic constituency ... Cartography draws on the already rich literature on ethnogenesis … and takes it further in a case study that challenges much of the conventional wisdom about how ethnic identities are made.” * African Studies Review *“The Luyia defy assumptions about African ethnicity. With neither myth of common descent nor shared vernacular speech, this modern community is yet no colonial invention. These least ‘tribal’ of Kenya's peoples mapped their own territory of civic pluralism. In this new departure in ethnic studies, Julie MacArthur persuasively subverts our conventional wisdom.”“Cartography and Political Imagination breaks new ground in Kenyan historiography with its focus on western Kenya. This detailed and sophisticated study argues that Luyia ethnic architects used cartography to create a demographically inclusive, politically pluralistic, and progressive cosmopolitan community. It is refreshing to read a book on Kenya that does not focus on Mau Mau or the Kikuyu. MacArthur's exemplary study of a regional history will be indispensable to scholars of ethnogenesis and cartography in Africa and elsewhere.”“The Luyia have long represented a potential test case for the limits to the invention of ethnicity. MacArthur’s rich study does not disappoint. It reveals how a series of external influences—land pressures, gender panic, and the drawing of administrative boundaries—led the Luyia to define themselves through appeals to locality rather than shared ancestries. Its most fascinating contribution lies in its treatment of Luyia practices of counter-mapping.”
£26.09
Ohio University Press Citizenship Belonging and Political Community
Book SynopsisAfrica, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience.Trade Review“This edited volume offers an important contribution to the study of citizenship and community in colonial and early post-colonial Africa. The volume’s thematic and geographical diversity are a testament to the richness of the field, and several contributors offer examples and methods for a more sophisticated reading of the continent’s contentious political history.”
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MJ - Ohio University Press Citizenship Belonging and Political Community Dialogues between Past and Present
Book SynopsisAfrica, it is often said, is suffering from a crisis of citizenship. At the heart of the contemporary debates this apparent crisis has provoked lie dynamic relations between the present and the past, between political theory and political practice, and between legal categories and lived experience.Trade Review“This edited volume offers an important contribution to the study of citizenship and community in colonial and early post-colonial Africa. The volume’s thematic and geographical diversity are a testament to the richness of the field, and several contributors offer examples and methods for a more sophisticated reading of the continent’s contentious political history.”
£26.09
Ohio University Press Internal Frontiers
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious new history of the antiapartheid struggle, Jon Soske places India and the Indian diaspora at the center of the African National Congress’s development of an inclusive philosophy of nationalism.Trade Review“Ambitious and rivetingly intelligent, Internal Frontiers offers a decolonized model of global history. Located at the intersection of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle with the idea of India, this book rescripts notions of race, empire, nation, diaspora and much more. Exquisitely written with exceptional interdisciplinary depth, it will become a model of intellectual transnational history.”“This paradigm-shifting book locates a radical strain of South African nationalism in the political firmament of postwar Durban. Deeply researched and beautifully written, Internal Frontiers reveals how insurgent intellectuals such as Anton Lembede and Albert Luthuli, influenced by India’s independence movement and the challenges of building solidarity with Natal’s Indian diaspora, conceived a vision of the nation ‘from below’ that affirmed African agency while also embracing a diverse, multiethnic political community.”“Soske’s combination of ‘high’ political narrative with material histories of class, race and sexuality is indispensable. This book is an extremely important counter to sentimental ideas about social and political relations between Africans and people of South Asian descent in South Africa during turbulent times.”
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Duke University Press The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness
Book SynopsisPresents a range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race. With essays devoted to theories of racial domination, comparative global racisms, trans-national white identity, and post-apartheid South Africa, this title discusses the intersection of gay identity and whiteness.Trade Review“If for no other reason than that the circulation of racialized power has been and is fractured, multi-faceted, contradictory, and continual, then this collection would be valuable in its attention to the accumulation of the political and disciplinary effects of whiteness. The particular strength of this attention is magnified by the combination of work herein that originates in both academic and other than academic sites. And it is brave work; it proceeds without guarantees of its own outcome, without knowing what questions it might settle.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University“This very powerful volume touches many nerves in contemporary cultural politics. Its collected essays take various perspectives and collectively—and sometimes individually—engage various contradictions. It’s a disturbing, engaging, sometimes frustrating, deeply affecting book.”—Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an “Other” AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction / Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Eric Klinenberg, Irene J. Nexica, and Matt Wray Universal Freckle, or How I Learned to Be White / Dalton Conley “The Souls of White Folks” / Mab Segrest The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness / Ruth Frankenberg White Racial Projects / Howard Winant The “Morphing” Properties of Whiteness / Troy Duster “White Devils” Talk Back: What Antiracists Can Learn from Whites in Detroit / John Hartigan Jr. Transnational Configurations of Desire: The Nation and its White Closets / Jasbir Kaur Puar Perfidious Albion: Whitenss and the International Imagination / Vron Ware The New Liberalism in America: Identity Politics in the “Vital Center” / Eric Lott How Gays Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays / Allan Bérubé (E)racism: Emerging Practices of Antiracist Organizations / Michael Omi Moving from Guilt to Action: Antiracist Organizing and the Concept of “Whiteness” for Activism and the Academy / William Aal Bibliography Contributors Index
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Duke University Press Pluralism
Book SynopsisProminent political theorist defends democratic pluralism as a political stanceTrade Review“Pluralism is a brilliant study. Powerful, cogent, and compulsively readable, it presents a strong case for a democratic pluralism that is worthy of embrace by all who think the fundamentalism of our age needs to be countered, not with more of the same from another direction, but with the best-articulated and most profoundly true vision of another way of being together politically. If taken up, this book will change hearts and minds.”—Thomas Dumm, author of A Politics of the Ordinary“Pluralism is a practical intervention in the politics of antagonism in liberal democracies. William E. Connolly’s openness to religious ways of being in the world is unusual in a political theorist. But that openness allows him to draw on a wide range of resources for practices of agonistic engagement among political rivals. Connolly has an exceptional ability to plumb ordinary experiences for nuances that help one to realize virtues of faith, forbearance, and respect. Here are agile reflections on how we might become better than we are. And, as ever, Connolly’s style is warm, eclectic, honest, accessible, and somehow distinctly American.”—Kathleen Roberts Skerrett, Department of Religious Studies, Grinnell College“If I were to pick an academic text as my political manifesto, if I were to look for a scholarly piece of writing which combined intellectual rigor and humility with incisive political analysis and practical effects, then Bill Connolly’s Pluralism would be the one. It will become the touchstone for a range of debates in political theory around democracy, global politics, and the political virtues we require.”—David Campbell, author of Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity“William E. Connolly pursues his impassioned search for a renewed pluralism, beyond mere tolerance. In a world beset by easy answers and hard action, he argues eloquently for a ‘multidimensional’ ethos of openness, in acceptance of complexity. Against doctrine, secular or religious, he refinds faith—in this world. A significant new philosophical statement by one of the foremost political thinkers of our time.”—Brian Massumi, author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation“[The book] helps us understand the complex ways in which the pluralist sensibility opens the path to a richer and more psychologically realistic liberalism.” -- William A. Galston * Perspectives on Politics *“Connolly offers a concise new defense of democratic pluralism.” -- M. Coulter * Choice *“Over the past twenty years or so,William E. Connolly has compiled a richly complex and highly original theory of deep pluralism. Calling upon each of us to recognize the contestability of our most basic commitments, Connolly has sought to articulate a set of civic virtues that can inspire a generous, progressive, and agonistic democratic culture.His latest contribution is an attempt to consolidate the core of his work into a single volume, rendering his political vision both succinct and widely accessible. . . . Pluralism is a fascinating read.” -- Andrew J. Douglas * Journal of Politics *“William Connolly has been one of the most perceptive and creative political theorists writing about pluralism over the past fifteen years. In this new book he draws together the various different strands he has been weaving into a compact, intense, yet accessible assemblage of arguments, concepts, analogies, and metaphors defending a new vision of democratic pluralism. What is distinctive about Connolly’s approach could be summarized thus: his argument is political and metaphysical.” -- Duncan Ivison * Political Theory *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prelude 1 1. Pluralism and Evil 11 2. Pluralism and Relativism 38 3. Pluralism and the Universe 68 Interlude 93 4. Pluralism and Time 97 5. Pluralism and Sovereignty 131 Postlude: Belonging to Time 161 Notes 171 Index 187
£22.79
Duke University Press Reproducing the French Race
Book SynopsisArgues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France. This book examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time.Trade Review“In this book, Camiscioli goes far beyond a skillful analysis of interwar immigration discourse and policies. . . . Camiscioli’s [argument is] smart, carefully constructed, thoroughly and widely documented. . .” - Brett A. Berliner, American Historical Review“Elisa Camiscioli’s Reproducing the French Race makes a significant contribution to the historiography of interwar France. It does so by integrating two fields that have too often been dealt with separately: gender andimmigration. . . . Beyond recasting the historiography of interwar France,Reproducing the French Race provides an important basis for comparing the mutual implication of sex and immigration in France today.” - Judith Surkis, H-France Review“Reproducing the French Race skillfully weaves together the discoursesof empire, corporeality, racialization, citizenship, and intimacy in a boldand innovative look at the foundational actions of republican citizenship,gendered identities, and the racial grammar of early twentieth-centuryFrance. Camicsioli’s command of the feminist scholarship aboutsexuality and empire renders the book accessible to non-Francophonespecialists, a welcome addition to our knowledge of the imperial roots ofcontemporary immigration.” - Michelle McKinley, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“Reproducing the French Race is well written and studiously argued. . . . Camiscioli’s work is worth reading and offers a cogent summary of the discursive origins of contemporary anti-immigration politics in France as well as the vitriolic debate over French national identity. . . . I recommend Camiscioli’s work as one of the more important studies of immigration and identity formation in early twentieth century France.” - James E. Genova, Left History“Elisa Camiscioli’s book is an intriguing examination of the importance of race and gender to late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French anxieties about population decline and national degeneration. . . . On the whole, Reproducing the French Race is a careful, well documented, and persuasively argued investigation. . . . [I]nsightful contribution to the growing literature on French universalism.” - Naomi J. Andrews, Canadian Journal of History“Camiscioli’s Reproducing Empire offers a very rewarding and pithy illumination of race and sex and the anxieties they produced in the French Third Republic (1870–1940). It is an impressive work. . . . This book gives longevity and intellectual breadth and depth to acute contemporary debates about the French nation and its jealously-guarded identity.” - Patricia O’Brien, Journal of Women’s History“Reproducing the French Race is an original, insightful, and very important contribution to the historiography of twentieth-century France. One of the best explorations of the intersections between race, gender, and national identity that I have seen, it has no parallel in existing histories of modern France.”—Tyler Stovall, coeditor of The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France“Reproducing the French Race skillfully traces underlying connections among immigration, gender, and national identity in interwar France, while fundamentally refiguring seemingly settled scholarship on pronatalism and labor rationalization by demonstrating the still under-recognized centrality of race to them. Elisa Camiscioli has written an accomplished and ambitious work that integrates issues typically treated separately into an innovative argument about ‘embodiment’ that challenges conventional assumptions about French republicanism as essentially abstract and universal.”—Gary Wilder, author of The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the Two World Wars“Reproducing the French Race is well written and studiously argued. . . . Camiscioli’s work is worth reading and offers a cogent summary of the discursive origins of contemporary anti-immigration politics in France as well as the vitriolic debate over French national identity. . . . I recommend Camiscioli’s work as one of the more important studies of immigration and identity formation in early twentieth century France.” -- James E. Genova * Left History *“Reproducing the French Race skillfully weaves together the discourses of empire, corporeality, racialization, citizenship, and intimacy in a bold and innovative look at the foundational actions of republican citizenship, gendered identities, and the racial grammar of early twentieth-century France. Camicsioli’s command of the feminist scholarship about sexuality and empire renders the book accessible to non-Francophone specialists, a welcome addition to our knowledge of the imperial roots of contemporary immigration.” -- Michelle McKinley * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“Camiscioli’s Reproducing Empire offers a very rewarding and pithy illumination of race and sex and the anxieties they produced in the French Third Republic (1870–1940). It is an impressive work. . . . This book gives longevity and intellectual breadth and depth to acute contemporary debates about the French nation and its jealously-guarded identity.” -- Patricia O'Brien * Journal of Women's History *“Elisa Camiscioli’s book is an intriguing examination of the importance of race and gender to late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French anxieties about population decline and national degeneration. . . . On the whole, Reproducing the French Race is a careful, well documented, and persuasively argued investigation. . . . [I]nsightful contribution to the growing literature on French universalism.” -- Naomi J. Andrews * Canadian Journal of History *“Elisa Camiscioli’s Reproducing the French Race makes a significant contribution to the historiography of interwar France. It does so by integrating two fields that have too often been dealt with separately: gender and immigration. . . . Beyond recasting the historiography of interwar France, Reproducing the French Race provides an important basis for comparing the mutual implication of sex and immigration in France today.” -- Judith Surkis * H-France, H-Net Reviews *“In this book, Camiscioli goes far beyond a skillful analysis of interwar immigration discourse and policies. . . . Camiscioli’s [argument is] smart, carefully constructed, thoroughly and widely documented. . .” -- Brett A. Berliner * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Embodiment and the Nation 1 1. Immigration, Demography, and Pronatalism 21 2. Labor Power and the Racial Economy 51 3. Hybridity and Its Discontents 75 4. Black Migrants, White Slavery: Metissage in the Metropole and Abroad 99 5. Intermarriage, Independent Nationality, and Individual Rights 129 Conclusion. Gender, Race, and Republican Embodiment 155 Notes 161 Bibliography 197 Index 223
£76.50
Duke University Press Black France France Noire
Book SynopsisIn Black France / France Noire, scholars, activists, and novelists address the paradox of race in France: the state does not acknowledge race as a meaningful category, but experiences of antiblack racism belie claims of color-blindness.Trade Review"Black France / France Noire is the most comprehensive and urgent anthology regarding the questions of citizenship and belonging in France since Pierre Bourdieu's The Weight of the World. There's also a salutary combination of scholarly and personal narratives in this book, which elevates it to the stature of a groundbreaking manifesto, the controversial nature of which will be discussed for years to come."—Manthia Diawara, author of African Film: New Forms of Aesthetics and Politics"Black France / France Noire is the most recent and best record of an ongoing and important international scholarly conversation on issues of color, race, ethnicity, exclusion, and belonging. With essays by both French and American scholars, the collection addresses some deeply challenging questions about how prejudice manifests itself in French life. Some of the French contributors are hesitant to employ ethnic categories, as is the case in the United States, as ways to speak of identity, justice, and injustice in French society. But most of them realize that to eliminate color prejudice in France they must talk about color. This collection is essential reading for scholars who study France, Europe, and the politics of racial discourse more broadly."—Herman Lebovics, author of Imperialism and the Corruption of Democracies"Black skin may be officially invisible to France's government bureaucrats, statistics-gatherers, and devotees of French republicanism, but as a lived experience, blackness in France is very real. People of color routinely endure discrimination and find it difficult to gain full acceptance as French. Race matters in France, and the more that people talk and write about it, the more salient a social and political phenomenon race and racism in 'color-blind' France becomes. Black France / France Noire makes a major contribution by directly addressing experiences of blackness and anti-blackness in France."—Edward Berenson, author of Heroes of Empire: Five Charismatic Men and the Conquest of Africa"In Black France / France Noire, leading thinkers and intellectuals raise challenging questions about how France's history of slavery and colonization, and immigration from its former colonies, are shaping the important, increasingly public discourse about blackness and racism."—Valérie K. Orlando, author of Francophone Voices of the "New" Morocco in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition“This volume makes an important claim for the field of Black French studies as a bridge between constructions of Black identity in France to African American studies…. It is my hope that this particular approach will contribute to a deepening historical and cultural address to the complex implications of black Diasporic subjectivity.” -- Peter J. Bloom * French History *“Black France/France Noire is a must read for any serious scholar of Black French Studies, or indeed, of Black European Studies. This text could also be successfully employed in undergraduate and graduate seminars.” -- Julin Everett * Contemporary French Civilization *“Black France / France Noire offers a valuable snapshot of the vexed status of blackness in present-day France and illuminating historical genealogies for its reemergence and significance.” -- Alexander G. Weheliye * Black Scholar *“Black France / France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness… uses a nuanced approach to discuss and problematize variously identified questions by relying on solid contributions from a diverse group of authors to form a well-rounded interpretation of race issues in France…. It offers an ideal introduction to complicated issues involved in formulating a black French identity. It skillfully combines theoretical analyses with personal narratives and historical accounts and represents a meaningful contribution to black French studies.” -- Yasmina Muthoki Martin * Africa Today *“The collection, as a whole, is dense but richly rewarding…. Black France/France Noir shows how the past has shaped present outcomes, debates, and difficulties in France but does not draw overly simplistic conclusions or too-easy morality stories. These features, along with the methodological richness of the collection, make it an important read for scholars of France, the French empire, and the black Atlantic. They also make it a strong candidate, almost mandatory reading, for any graduate seminar on modern France, the black Atlantic, or empire.” -- Rachel Anne Gillett * History: Reviews of New Books *Table of ContentsForeword. Black . . . A Color? A Kaleidoscope! / Christiane Taubira ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Blackness Matters, Blackness Made to Matter / Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Tyler Stovall 1 Part I. Theorizing and Narrating Blackness and Beloning Black France: Myth or Reality?: Problems of Identity and Identification / Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi 17 The Lost Territories of the Republic: Historical Narratives and the Recomposition of French Citizenship / Mamadou Diouf 32 Eurafrique as the Future Past of Black France: Sarkozy's Temporal Confusion and Senghor's Postwar Vision / Gary Wilder 57 Letter to France / Alain Mabanckou 88 French Impressionism / Jake Lamar 96 Part II. The Politics of Blackness—Politicizing Blackness The Invention of Blacks in France / Patrick Lozès 103 Immigration and National Identity in France / Dominic Thomas 110 "Black France" and the National Identity Debate: How Best to Be Black and French? / Fred Constant 123 Paint It "Black": How Africans and Afro-Caribbeans Became "Black" in France / Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga 145 The "Question of Blackness" and the Memory of Slavery: Invisibility and Forgetting as Voluntary Fire and Some Pyromaniac Firefighters / Michel Giraud 173 Part III. Black Paris—Black France The New Negro in Paris: Booker T. Washington, the New Negro, and the Paris Exposition of 1900 / Marcus Bruce 207 The Militant Black Men of Marseille and Paris, 1927–1937 / Jennifer Boittin 221 Reflections on the Future of Black France: Josephine Baker's Vision of a Global Village / Bennetta Jules-Rosette 247 Site-ing Black Paris: Discourses and the Making of Identities / Arlette Frund 269 Coda: Black Identity in France in a European Perspective / Allison Blakely 287 About the Contributors 307 Index 311
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