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Book SynopsisThis innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the region, Juanita De Barros takes a comparative approach in analyzing the struggles among former slaves and masters attempting to determine the course of their societies after emancipation. Invested in the success of the great experiment of slave emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare and health policies. Concerns about the health and size of ex-slave populations were expressed throughout the colonial world during this period. In the Caribbean, an emergent black middle class, rapidly increasing immigration, and new attitudes toward medicine and society were crucial factors. While hemispheric and diasporic trends influenced the new policies, De Barros sh

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Book SynopsisThe South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as Stephen A. Berrey shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes.

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Book SynopsisAnalysing the ideology and rhetoric around race in Cuba and south Florida during the early years of the Cuban revolution, Devyn Spence Benson argues that ideas, stereotypes, and discriminatory practices relating to racial difference persisted despite major efforts by the Cuban state to generate social equality.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"While Gaines is an adept close reader of the white unconscious and of literary narrative, she also demonstrates a keen understanding of historical contexts that shape debates about race from the 1940s to the present. [...] In doing so, Gaines’s work admirably demonstrates a multidisciplinary American studies methodology. [...]Black for a Day offers convincing and important analysis of the failures of white allies and skewers facile claims of cross-racial alliance, and in that way participates in a “hermeneutics of suspicion,” uncovering racism lurking within narratives of seemingly liberal whiteness." — ALH Online Review, XXVI.1 (2018)

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Trade Review"While Gaines is an adept close reader of the white unconscious and of literary narrative, she also demonstrates a keen understanding of historical contexts that shape debates about race from the 1940s to the present. [...] In doing so, Gaines’s work admirably demonstrates a multidisciplinary American studies methodology. [...] Black for a Day offers convincing and important analysis of the failures of white allies and skewers facile claims of cross-racial alliance, and in that way participates in a “hermeneutics of suspicion,” uncovering racism lurking within narratives of seemingly liberal whiteness." — ALH Online Review, XXVI.1 (2018)

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Book SynopsisIn this history of the social and human sciences in Mexico and the United States, Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt reveals intricate connections among the development of science, the concept of race, and policies toward indigenous peoples. Focusing on experts who collaborated across borders, Rosemblatt traces how intellectuals forged shared networks in which they discussed ethnic minorities.

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Book SynopsisMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the four-century story of race and democracy in America’s capital. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations, this is an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.Trade ReviewAn ambitious, comprehensive chronicle of the civic experience of blacks, whites and other races over more than two centuries in Washington. . . . [It] succeeds in being both scholarly and accessible to the general reader." - Robert McCartney, The Washington Post"An ambitious, kaleidoscopic history of race and politics in Washington, D.C. . . . Essential American history, deeply researched and written with verve and passion." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review"[The authors] embrace the funk band Parliament's moniker for the District of Columbia and deliver a narrative as grand as the city itself. . . . This enriching journey showcases the underappreciated saga of African-American success in the face of adversity." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

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Book SynopsisTells the story of race and voting rights, from the end of the Civil War until the present day. The authors show that battles over the franchise have played out through cycles of emancipatory politics and conservative retrenchment.

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Book SynopsisWomen are treated as marginal, if not overlooked altogether, in histories of the criminal legal system. In this history - the first on the relationship between women and police in the modern United States - Anne Gray Fischer narrates how sexual policing fuelled a dramatic expansion of police power.

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Book SynopsisAs downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences by examining how Black women’s cultural production engages debates about the growth in income and wealth gaps in global society during the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries.

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Book SynopsisAnger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender—but at the same time, being angry always results from the circumstances in which people find themselves. In On Anger, Sue J. Kim opens a stimulating dialogue between cognitive studies and cultural studies to argue that anger is always socially and historically constructed and complexly ideological, and that the predominant individualistic conceptions of anger are insufficient to explain its collective, structural, and historical nature.On Anger examines the dynamics of racial anger in global late capitalism, bringing into conversation work on political anger in ethnic, postcolonial, and cultural studies with recent studies on emotion in cognitive studies. Kim uses a variety of literary and media texts to show how narratives serve as a means of reflecting on experiences of anger and also how we think about anger—its triggers, its deeper causes, its wrongness or rigTrade Review[Kim’s] very timely book gives us a much needed window through which the collective anger of people in Ferguson and too many other American cities becomes comprehensible. * Melus *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Anger as Cognition Chapter 2. Anger as Culture Chapter 3. Liberal Anger: Technologies of Anger in Crash Chapter 4. Temporality and the Politics of Reading Kingston's The Woman Warrior Chapter 5. Anger and Space in Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and The Book of Not Chapter 6. Estranging Rage: Ngugi's Devil on the Cross and Wizard of the Crow Chapter 7. "This Game Is Rigged": The Wire and Agency Attribution Conclusion. Anger and Outrage Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisEssays chronicling the experiences of fourteen Latina/o LGBT activists present a new perspective on the hitherto-marginalized history of their work in the last three decades of the twentieth century.Trade Review"While Queer Brown Voices is likely to become a seminal text in college and university queer studies programs, its conversational tone makes it compelling for a general reader as well." * The Guardian *"The creation of Queer Brown Voices is itself a kind of activism; it renders visible the challenges faced by Latina/o queer communities in decades past as well as their robust efforts to pave the way for a more just future." * Texas Observer *"Filled with insights." * Bitch Media *"Queer Brown Voices is a unique book that does a good job in documenting Latina/o LGBT experiences with grassroots organizations, local, state, and federally funded programs. This book is recommended if you are interested in learning about the 1980s, and 1990s organizing and issues faced by LGBT Latina/o activists." * QED Journal *Table of Contents Preface by Letitia Gomez Acknowledgments Introduction. Brown Writing Queer: A Composite of Latina/o LGBT Activism, by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz Luz Guerra. Dancing at the Crossroads: Mulata, Mestiza, Macha, Mujer Dennis Medina. We Are a Part of the History of Texas That You Must Not Exclude! Jesús Cháirez. From the Closet to LGBT Radio Host in Dallas Laura M. Esquivel. An East L.A. Warrior Who Bridged the Latina/o and the Gay Worlds Brad Veloz. A South Texas Activist in Washington, D.C., Houston, and San Antonio David Acosta. The Boy in Fear Who Became a Latino/a LGBT Advocate in Philadelphia Letitia Gomez. No te rajes—Don’t Back Down! Daring to Be Out and Visible Mona Noriega. Creating Spaces to Break the Circle of Silence and Denial Gloria A. Ramirez. The Queer Roots of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas Moisés Agosto-Rosario. Latinas/os and the AIDS Treatment Advocacy Movement José Gutiérrez. We Must Preserve Our Latina/o LGBT History Olga Orraca Paredes. All the Identities on the Table: Power, Feminism, and LGBT Activism in Puerto Rico Wilfred W. Labiosa. Visibility, Inclusivity, and the Fight for LGBT Rights in New England Adela Vásquez. Finding a Home in Transgender Activism in San Francisco Conclusion by Uriel Quesada Index

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Book SynopsisWinner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2017 Best Publication Award, Section on Body and Embodiment, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2018The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family. Based on interviews and a sixteen-month ethnography of ten working-class Brazilian families, this provocative work sheds light on how families simultaneously resist and reproduce racial hierarchies. Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates the privileges of whiteness by revealing how those with “blacker” feTrade Review"The Color of Love is an insightful treatment of the social psychology of race and the family, ostensibly in Brazil but with observations that have more general applicability." * Social Forces *"Certainly a page turner, Hordge-Freeman makes various scholarly contributions, the biggest being her exploration of how phenotype-based affection can reproduce racial inequality in racialized societies, which hardly any studies of race in the United States and Brazil have done. . . . This book should be read by anyone with an interest in the African Diaspora, race and racism in Brazil, and family socialization practices." * Humanity & Society *"...an important contribution to the growing academic literature on race and color in Brazil. The Color of Love, firmly rooted in the discipline of sociology, is interdisciplinary in the best possible way." * American Journal of Sociology *"The Color of Love provides a necessary narrative that must be included in family research dis-course...I urge family researchers to read [it] to help them in understanding the family unit as a complex societal agent that is capable of resisting and reproducing dominant ideologies and also love." * Journal of Family Theory and Review *"[Hodge-Freeman's] work with an understudied group allows her to add a significant contribution to the field of race. . . . The Color of Love is an excellent ethnographic project." * Symbolic Interaction *"This book makes a great contribution to understanding racial relations in Brazil by considering family and close neighbor relationships, the socialization process, and negotiations of gendered and racialized bodies, from a perspective that dialogues with theories of social stratification, feminist theory while triangulating race, class, and gender." * Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População *"This book undoubtedly offers both theoretical and empirical gems to the sociology of race and inequality as well as to the study of the African diaspora in Latin America and beyond." * Contemporary Sociology *"The ethnographic data on families show that ideas about racial hierarchy operate across a wide range of phenotypes and self-identifications. Hordge-Freeman shows this exceptionally well for Brazil . . . Hordge-Freeman's excellent ethnography interrogates families and bodies as sites of race-making in Brazil." * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. The Face of a Slave Part I. Socialization and Stigma Chapter 1. What's Love Got to Do with It? Racial Stigma and Embodied Capital Chapter 2. Black Bodies, White Casts: Racializing and Gendering Bodies Chapter 3. Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Affective Capital, Stigma, and Racialization Part II. Racial Socialization and Negotiations in Public Culture Chapter 4. Racial Fluency: Reading between and beyond the Color Lines Chapter 5. Mind Your Blackness: Embodied Capital and Spatial Mobility Chapter 6. Antiracism in Transgressive Families Conclusion. The Ties That Bind Appendix A: Research Methods and Positionality Appendix B: Major Interview Topics Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner, Humanities Book Prize, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2018Many scholars believe that the modern concentration camp was born during the Cuban war for independence when Spanish authorities ordered civilians living in rural areas to report to the nearest city with a garrison of Spanish troops. But the practice of spatial concentration—gathering people and things in specific ways, at specific places, and for specific purposes—has a history in Latin America that reaches back to the conquest. In this paradigm-setting book, Daniel Nemser argues that concentration projects, often tied to urbanization, laid an enduring, material groundwork, or infrastructure, for the emergence and consolidation of new forms of racial identity and theories of race.Infrastructures of Race traces the use of concentration as a technique for colonial governance by examining four case studies from Mexico under Spanish rule: centralized townTrade ReviewNemser's work offers a theoretically complex and multifaceted argument that shows how the material and the ideological worked in conjunction to form colonial notions of race, especially those defining indigenous subjects. * Hispanic American Historical Review *Nemser's writing is strong and often inspired throughout . . . Overall, this book will provide deeply thought-provoking for scholars versed in the aforementioned fields, particularly those interested in Mexican history, the questions of Marx and Foucault's utility to postcolonial studies, the process of racialization, the relationships of ideas to the material world, and legacies of human concentration. Its arguments are sure to fuel discussion, especially about the nature of Mexican history and race, for years to come. * Revista Hispánica Moderna *Infrastructures of Race provides essential historical background for present-day interrogations of how infrastructures – from aged water pipes to search engine algorithms – reinforce persistent racial inequalities...Through Nemser’s case studies, we can better apprehend the hundreds of years of oppression that have been built into our material lives. * New Book Network: Science, Technology, and Society *[Nemser makes] a valuable contribution to the field: to wit, race is not an idea, but a structure. * Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies *Nemser contributes a thoughtful exploration of colonialism’s legacies...this is an impressive work, one that would be especially fruitful for scholars situated at the intersections of biopolitics, race, and decolonial studies. [Nemser] leverages themes of space and structure to bring light to a unique understanding of racial subjectivities during the colonial encounter and into the present. * New Political Science *[A] groundbreaking and beautifully written monograph...historians, anthropologists, and cultural studies scholars will find in this book a welcome and provocative approach to studies of race in colonial Latin America in particular, but one that can and should be considered in other colonial contexts as well. * Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Before the Camp Chapter 1. Congregation: Urbanization and the Construction of the Indian Chapter 2. Enclosure: The Architecture of Mestizo Conversion Chapter 3. Segregation: Sovereignty, Economy, and the Problem with Mixture Chapter 4. Collection: Imperial Botany and Racialized Life Epilogue. Primitive Racialization Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Racism Postrace theorize and examine the persistent concept of post-race in examples ranging from Pharrell Williams's “Happy” to public policy debates, showing how proclamations of a post-racial society can normalize modes of racism and obscure structural antiblackness.Trade Review"The essays found in this collection make an important contribution to our understanding of how postrace is becoming more and more insidious and dangerous." -- Amardo Rodriguez * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Racism Postrace is an essential collection for the study of postracialism transnationally." -- Stefanie Boulila * German Studies Review *"[A] well-written and stellar collection of writing." -- Amal Abu-Bakare * Journal of International Communication *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Postrace Racial Projects / Sarah Banet-Weiser, Roopali Mukherjee, and Herman Gray 1 Part One. Assumptions 1. Race after Race / Herman Gray 23 2. Theorizing Race in the Age of Inequality / Daniel Martinez Hosang and Joseph Lowndes 37 3. "Jamming" the Color Line: Comedy, Carnival, and Contestations of Commodity Colorism / Radhika Parameswaran 57 4. On the Postracial Question / Roderick A. Ferguson 72 5. Becked Up: Glenn Beck, White Supremacy, and the Hijacking of the Civil Rights Legacy / Cynthia A. Young 86 6. Technological Elites, the Meritocracy, and Postracial Myths in Silicon Valley / Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts 113 Part Two. Performances 7. Vocal Recognition: Racial and Sexual Difference after (Tele)Visuality / Karen Tongson 135 8. More Than a Game: LeBron James and the Affective Economy of Place / Victoria E. Johnson 154 9. Clap Along If You Feel Like Happiness Is the Truth: Pharrell Williams and the False Promises of the Postracial / Kevin Fellezs 178 10. Indie Soaps: Race and the Possibilities of TV Drama / Aymar Jean Christian 199 11. Debt by Design: Race and Home Valorization on Reality TV / Eva C. Hageman 221 12. "Haute [Ghetto] Mess": Postracial Aesthetics and the Seduction of Blackness in High Fashion / Brandi Thompson Summers 245 13. Veiled Visibility: Racial Performances and Hegemonic Leaks in Pakistani Fashion Week / Inna Arzumanova 264 Epilogue. Incantation / Catherine R. Squires 283 References 287 Contributors 321 Index 325

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Book SynopsisWith the election of Barack Obama, the idea that American society had become postracial—that is, race was no longer a main factor in influencing and structuring people''s lives—took hold in public consciousness, increasingly accepted by many. The contributors to Racism Postrace examine the concept of postrace and its powerful history and allure, showing how proclamations of a postracial society further normalize racism and obscure structural antiblackness. They trace expressions of postrace over and through a wide variety of cultural texts, events, and people, from sports (LeBron James''s move to Miami), music (Pharrell Williams''s “Happy”), and television (The Voice and HGTV) to public policy debates, academic disputes, and technology industries. Outlining how postrace ideologies confound struggles for racial justice and equality, the contributors open up new critical avenues for understanding the powerful cultural, discursive, and material conditions that render postrace the racial project of our time. Contributors. Inna Arzumanova, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Aymer Jean Christian, Kevin Fellezs, Roderick A. Ferguson, Herman Gray, Eva C. Hageman, Daniel Martinez HoSang, Victoria E. Johnson, Joseph Lowndes, Roopali Mukherjee, Safiya Umoja Noble, Radhika Parameswaran, Sarah T. Roberts, Catherine R. Squires, Brandi Thompson Summers, Karen Tongson, Cynthia A. YoungTrade Review"The essays found in this collection make an important contribution to our understanding of how postrace is becoming more and more insidious and dangerous." -- Amardo Rodriguez * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“Racism Postrace is an essential collection for the study of postracialism transnationally." -- Stefanie Boulila * German Studies Review *"[A] well-written and stellar collection of writing." -- Amal Abu-Bakare * Journal of International Communication *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Postrace Racial Projects / Sarah Banet-Weiser, Roopali Mukherjee, and Herman Gray 1 Part One. Assumptions 1. Race after Race / Herman Gray 23 2. Theorizing Race in the Age of Inequality / Daniel Martinez Hosang and Joseph Lowndes 37 3. "Jamming" the Color Line: Comedy, Carnival, and Contestations of Commodity Colorism / Radhika Parameswaran 57 4. On the Postracial Question / Roderick A. Ferguson 72 5. Becked Up: Glenn Beck, White Supremacy, and the Hijacking of the Civil Rights Legacy / Cynthia A. Young 86 6. Technological Elites, the Meritocracy, and Postracial Myths in Silicon Valley / Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts 113 Part Two. Performances 7. Vocal Recognition: Racial and Sexual Difference after (Tele)Visuality / Karen Tongson 135 8. More Than a Game: LeBron James and the Affective Economy of Place / Victoria E. Johnson 154 9. Clap Along If You Feel Like Happiness Is the Truth: Pharrell Williams and the False Promises of the Postracial / Kevin Fellezs 178 10. Indie Soaps: Race and the Possibilities of TV Drama / Aymar Jean Christian 199 11. Debt by Design: Race and Home Valorization on Reality TV / Eva C. Hageman 221 12. "Haute [Ghetto] Mess": Postracial Aesthetics and the Seduction of Blackness in High Fashion / Brandi Thompson Summers 245 13. Veiled Visibility: Racial Performances and Hegemonic Leaks in Pakistani Fashion Week / Inna Arzumanova 264 Epilogue. Incantation / Catherine R. Squires 283 References 287 Contributors 321 Index 325

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Mirra Komarovsky Book Award, given by the Eastern Sociological Society2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineHow workers navigate race, gender, and class in the food service industryTwo unequal worlds of work exist within the upscale restaurant scene of Los Angeles. White, college-educated servers operate in the front of the housealso known as the public areas of the restaurantwhile Latino immigrants toil in the back of the house and out of customer view.In Front of the House, Back of the House, Eli Revelle Yano Wilson shows us what keeps these workers apart, exploring race, class, and gender inequalities in the food service industry.Drawing on research at three different high-end restaurants in Los Angeles, Wilson highlights why these inequalities persist in the twenty-first century, pointing to discriminatory hiring and supervisory practices that ultimately grant educated whites accTrade ReviewUsing his keen lens of participant observation and his powerful writing style, Wilson takes readers into the world of high-end dining in Los Angeles. He shares the often-unnoticed, taken-for-granted ways that managers, customers, and even workers themselves sort workers into different and unequal jobs rooted in systems of inequality and socially coded expectations that advantage some and disadvantage others. This book is a must read for students and scholars who are interested in the racialized coding of labor in US workplaces, and will be a seminal text for both the sociology of work and ethnographic studies. * Choice *You’ll never see that Hamachi crudo with yuzu kosho the same way after reading Eli Wilson’s Front of the House, Back of the House. The stories and commentary of this well-told tale of restaurant work give that plate a chain of literal “back-stories”: of structural and racial discrimination and of the real humanity of food workers. The meeting point in a fine-dining restaurant is the kitchen-to-dining-room “pass-through” where the dishes created by mostly “brown-collar” workers, with different pay scales, languages, family lives and opportunities meet the front-of-the-house workers whose wages, lives and experiences, in the very same establishment, are so very different. This should be required reading for anyone interested in the social, economic and racial coding of labor in America – and for anyone who comes to the table to consume the foods of that labor. -- Merry White, author of Coffee Life in JapanEli Wilson’s careful research reveals the parallel universes of work that keep upscale restaurants humming. At the front of the house, young, white bartenders and servers who telegraph “cool” and “class” leisurely interface with the customers and collect the higher pay, while in the kitchen an army of lower-paid Latino immigrant men frantically cook, clean, bus tables and literally run as “food runners.” But one of the many surprises is this: the back of the house runs not only on super-exploitation, but also a complex work culture defined by an ethos of loyalty, mentorship, skilled craftsmanship, and masculine competition. And a smaller sample of US-born Latinx workers use their in-between status to leverage new positions. Offering nuanced insights into how race and class operate in the workplaces of 21st century global cities, this book is a must read not only for students and scholars, but also for fine dining enthusiasts, celebrity chefs and their Instagram followers—if they are willing to look beyond their plates. -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Florence Everline Professor of Sociology, USCEli Wilson invites us inside some of the fanciest restaurants in Los Angeles. The food may be exquisite, but the mundane racism he documents will churn your stomach. As a waiter he is privy to a system of racial apartheid between the front of the house and the back of the house. This book vividly shows how white managers and workers benefit from the everyday oppression of immigrant laborers. -- Christine Williams, author of Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social InequalityThis beautifully written book uses the world of restaurants to provide readers with a primer on the making and re-making of everyday social inequality. Filled with lively ethnographic detail and yet always keenly analytical, Eli Wilson has delivered a volume to be savored by scholars and students alike. -- Roger David Waldinger, The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and Their HomelandsFront of the House, Back of the House: Race and Inequality in the Lives of Restaurant Workers stands as a brilliant empirically grounded account of how food service work and social inequality intertwine in ways that go largely unnoticed by consumers in these establishments. Written in clear and descriptive prose, Wilson provides a vivid image of the processes that pattern social inequality in the lives of restaurant workers. -- Paul Jakhu, University of the Fraser Valley * Sociological Inquiry *Sociologist Eli Revelle Yano Wilson skillfully traverses the swinging kitchen doors of high-end restaurants in Los Angeles and takes the reader into the two worlds of fine dining, the front-of-the-house, and back-of-the-house. Wilson’s riveting book…highlights how swinging kitchen doors provide a physical barrier that separate staff based on job tasks, but it is a series of formal and informal practices that ultimately cements inequities between them. -- Glenda M. Flores, University of California * Social Forces *Wilson joins a legacy of ethnographers who take jobs in the fields that they study, building a bridge between theory and practice…His book fits into a growing body of scholarship and activism that not only theorizes but also works to transform the injustices built into the restaurant and hospitality industries. -- Natasha Bunzl, New York University * Gastronomica *

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood todayThe Complexities of Race illustrates how several recent dynamics compel us to reconsider race, racial identity, and racial inequality. It argues that race and racism provide key but complex lenses through which critical events and issues of any moment can be more fully understood. The emergence of intersectionality, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, changing ethnic and racial demographics in the United States, and other forces challenge prevailing values and narratives related to race. The volume provides new and detailed snapshots of the diverse and complicated ways that race, racism, racial identity, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in America, offering new ways of understanding the complex dynamics of power and systems of oppression. Each chapter uses a current, real-world example to demonstrate how race works in tandem with Trade Review"A cutting-edge analysis of race and interlocking identities, The Complexities of Race is compelling, focused, and thorough. " -- Vasti Torres, Indiana University Bloomington"Featuring important contributions that include new perspectives on issues of identity and race, The Complexities of Race is an invaluable addition to the field. " -- Susan Robb Jones, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State University"The Complexities of Race is a vital contribution that provides critical insights into systems of inequality and social movements that seek to enact forms of transformative justice. " -- Andrew J. Jolivétte, University of California, San Diego"Of particular interest to social justice practitioners and scholars are the last two chapters. Taken together, they provide a rich overview of what it means to apply critical race theory, intersectionality, and other themes around racial identity discussed in the book." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how recent shifts in demographics, policy, culture and thinking have changed how race is understood todayThe Complexities of Race illustrates how several recent dynamics compel us to reconsider race, racial identity, and racial inequality. It argues that race and racism provide key but complex lenses through which critical events and issues of any moment can be more fully understood. The emergence of intersectionality, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, changing ethnic and racial demographics in the United States, and other forces challenge prevailing values and narratives related to race. The volume provides new and detailed snapshots of the diverse and complicated ways that race, racism, racial identity, and racial justice are represented, experienced, and addressed in America, offering new ways of understanding the complex dynamics of power and systems of oppression. Each chapter uses a current, real-world example to demonstrate how race works in tandem with Trade ReviewA cutting-edge analysis of race and interlocking identities, The Complexities of Race is compelling, focused, and thorough. -- Vasti Torres, Indiana University BloomingtonFeaturing important contributions that include new perspectives on issues of identity and race, The Complexities of Race is an invaluable addition to the field. -- Susan Robb Jones, Professor Emeritus, The Ohio State UniversityThe Complexities of Race is a vital contribution that provides critical insights into systems of inequality and social movements that seek to enact forms of transformative justice. -- Andrew J. Jolivétte, University of California, San DiegoOf particular interest to social justice practitioners and scholars are the last two chapters. Taken together, they provide a rich overview of what it means to apply critical race theory, intersectionality, and other themes around racial identity discussed in the book. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisHow we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of Black Lives MatterWhen The Color of Crime was first published in 1998, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime. Now, in its third edition, Katheryn Russell-Brown's book is more relevant than ever, as police killings of unarmed Black civilianssuch as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Daniel Prudecontinue to make headlines around the world. She continues to ask, why do Black and white Americans perceive police actions so differently? Is white fear of Black crime justified?With three new chapters, over forty new racial hoax cases, and other timely updates, this edition offers an even more expansive view of crime and punishment in the twenty-first century. Russell-Brown gives us much-needed insight into some of the most recent racial hoaxes, such as the one perpetrated by Amy Cooper. Should perpetrators of racial hoaxes be charged with a felony? Further, Russell-Brown makes a compelling case for race and crimTrade ReviewRussell-Brown’s new edition of The Color of Crime is essential reading for students and scholars of race, crime, and justice. It not only provides excellent overviews of concepts and issues for those who are newer to investigating this huge topic, but also presents stimulating material for those more steeped in conversations about race and crime. Be prepared to be wowed by her thoughtful and provocative final chapter–the 'Parable of the Soul Savers.' -- Lauren J. Krivo, co-author of Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial DivideKatheryn Russell-Brownprovides plenty of food for thought, new information, and intriguing perspectives in the portrayal of race, crime and justice in the United States. This updated edition of The Color of Crime will be a valuable resource for a variety of audiences, providing a broader and more thorough treatment of race and crime than many other works, including attention to timely issues like racial hoaxes, White crime, and more. -- Ruth D. Peterson, co-author of Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial DivideThis book is a classic. When The Color of Crime was first released, Russell-Brown shook the worlds of criminology, penology, and a then-burgeoning sociology of punishment by centering anti-black images in the media in her study of what we would later understand as the rise of mass incarceration. Updated with chapters and case studies that account for new kinds of media and racism, as well as our broader understanding of the carceral state’s reach, this interdisciplinary, accessible, and ambitious work has proven, once again, that Russell-Brown’s trenchant analysis is indispensable for serious students of race and crime control in the United States and beyond. -- Reuben Jonathan Miller, author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

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Book SynopsisHow black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performanceWinner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or cultureWinner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchWinner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, presented by the American Society for Theatre ResearchTracing a dynamic genealogy of performance from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Uri McMillan contends that black women artists practiced a purposeful self-objectification, transforming themselves into art objects. In doing so, these artists raised new ways to ponder the intersections of art, performance, and black female embodiment.McMillan reframes the conceTrade Review"Uri McMillans magisterial debut book engages while naming a two-century-long tradition of black womens performance art in the United States, intervening in the problematic racialization and gendering of particular art historical traditions buttressed by the presumed absence of black womens aesthetic and political enactments." * Theatre Journal *"Uri McMillan's magisterial debut book engages while naming a two-century-long tradition of black women's performance art in the United States...Part of the greatness of this book is its complicated engagement with racialized, gendered, and sexualized objecthood as method, the risk-taking practices whereby the historically unfree recalculate the possibilities objecthood for smuggling in liberatory alternatives." * Theatre Journal *"Embodied Avatarsdestabilizes the boundaries between art, objecthood, and survival within the last two centuries [....] Readers are left with the reverberating echoes of not only the black women artists profiled, but the resonances of their multiple avatars, becoming a fierce atonal chorus. Performing objecthood becomes a transformative human strategy in the face of searing dehumanization. Rather than arguing for another iteration of the human as a salvageable category, McMillans innovative scholarship illuminates a complex and obstinate way of being, a being that strikingly prefers not to." * Women & Performance *"Roll over Joseph Beuys, tell Yves Klein the news! Embodied Avatarsradically disrupts prevailing histories, definitions, and genealogies of performance art by focusing on black women who, over the course of two centuries, sought to turn their degraded bodies into dissident tools of emancipation and social critique. Recognizing the first modern stage of black performativity as the auction block, Uri McMillan reveals how black women turned objectification into objecthood, enabling them to remake, disguise, remold the self into an object of resistance, an embodied nightmare to the American dream. Full of eye-popping analytical turns and thrilling theoretical high wire acts, this book is both brilliant scholarship and a performance to be reckoned with." -- Robin D. G. Kelley,author of Thelonious Monk"Embodied Avatarspresents a sweeping and charismatic investigation of the ways in which Black women have strategically staged versions of 'themselves as modes of public, personal, and critical performance and as interventions in art, expression, identity, identification, and freedom.This vibrant and energetic study of art, performance, and embodiment is far-reaching, profound, lively, and engaging." -- Stephanie Leigh Batiste,author of Darkening Mirrors"Uri McMillan takes us on a journey to unexpected terrain. With powerful alchemy, he reveals how black women performance artists work on multiple registersthrough seduction, trickery, the comfort of the seemingly familiarto enact possibility, or what he theorizes as performance & in the service of a certain type of freedom. Meticulously researched and rigorously theorized, Embodied Avatarsis a model of interdisciplinary scholarship grounded in archival work and impressive textual analysis. This book is certain to forge new paths of inquiry and debate in performance, gender and sexuality studies, and black cultural studies." -- Nicole R. Fleetwood,author of Troubling Vision"AlthoughEmbodied Avatarsis an art historical text, the author displays an admirable dexterity across discipline and epistemologies: the mixture of art history, disability studies, object-oriented ontology, and discourses of black subjectivity is deft and, at times, dazzling." * QED *"Uri McMillans Embodied Avatars is a masterfully multilayered exposition of black womens performance art from the nineteenth century to the present. McMillan not only centers black women within traditional and feminist performance art, but also challenges black hegemonic ideas about objectification in performance." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Performing Objects 1 1. Mammy Memory: The Curious Case of Joice Heth, the Ancient Negress 23 2. Passing Performances: Ellen Craft's Fugitive Selves 65 3. Plastic Possibilities: Adrian Piper's Adamant Self-Alienation 95 4. Is This Performance about You? The Art, Activism, and Black Feminist Critique of Howardena Pindell 153 Conclusion: "I've Been Performing My Whole Life" 197 Notes 227 Index 275 About the Author 283 McMillan_i_283.indd 9 7/30/15 9:04 AM

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[The author] examines how affluent white children think about race Hagerman spent two years immersed with 30 privileged white Midwestern families to produce this timely...study. [S]he provides revealing portraits.[and] is especially good on the & conundrum of privilege.A complex and nuanced...book." * Kirkus Reviews *"Hagerman's book is a careful, painful and convincing argument that when white people give their children advantages, they are often disadvantaging others. Racism is so hard to overturn, in part, because white people prop it up when they work to make sure their children succeed." * NBC's "Think" blog *"Margaret Hagerman's White Kids brings to mind two words: must read....Hagerman unearths the segregation, income inequality, and racial biases which run rampant in her subjects lives... Hagermans writing is crisp and riveting...She puts forth a crucial analysis on the 'well-meaning,' 'colorblind' racism that her subjects perpetuate, stripping down the coded language of suburbia until it reveals the ugly truth underneath." -- STARRED * Foreword Reviews *"By studying how affluent white children think about race, we can see how racist attitudes permeate the structures of power in our society and what it would take to change them... its sobering message should be required reading for all affluent white parents (and affluent white college students)—and especially those who believe in social justice." * American Journal of Sociology *"Hagerman boldly unearths the development of racial identities among white children, and the choices and justifications white families make that perpetuate inequality and entitlement ... Hagerman’s work provides indisputable evidence that choice (of schools and neighborhoods) is for the privileged, and not even the privileged know how (or want) to alter structure. Margaret Hagerman’s book is a much needed investigation of whiteness and the making of such; this would be a great addition to any course that touches on race and inequality in the United States." * Social Forces *"A terrific book tracing the different trajectories of racial meaning young white children make about themselves and others as they navigate the worlds of school, friendship, and neighborhood, as well as the larger world beyond. This book is full of rich insight that should give us both pause and a sense of possibility." -- Amy L. Best, Author of Fast Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines, and Social Ties"More than anything else, whiteness is an everyday practice constructed out of mostly mundane, seemingly & beyond race interactions. In her masterful White Kids, Margaret A. Hagerman demonstrates this fact by showing how privileged children in a Midwestern town are socialized into whiteness and, more significantly, make choices to reproduce whiteness. Hagerman's book deserves to be read widely as it is a sociological gem! -Eduardo Bonilla" -- Silva, Author of Racism Without Racists"This innovative, absorbing ethnography reveals that there is no single way that whites learn about race. Environmental influences such as schools, neighborhoods, and even extracurricular activities profoundly shape the ways that affluent white children think about racism and its impact on people of color. Its fascinating to learn how one child develops a critique of police shootings while another insists that racism does not exist at all. This immersive study will transform the way we think about racial socialization among the privileged. White Kids is a must read for anyone interested in how racial attitudes in America take shape in their earliest moments." -- Monica McDermott, Author of Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social ProblemsHonorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological AssociationAn inspiring look inside immigrant youth's political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in the United States who engage in social activism do so at great risk: the threat of deportation. In Organizing While Undocumented, Kevin Escudero shows why and howdespite this riskmany of them bravely continue to fight on the front lines for their rights. Drawing on more than five years of research, including interviews with undocumented youth organizers, Escudero focuses on the movement's epicentersSan Francisco, Chicago, and New York Cityto explain the impressive political success of the undocumented immigrant community. He shows how their identities as undocumented immigrants, but also as queer individuals, people of colTrade ReviewNever before have I read an empirical and theoretical book-length treatise on intersectionality as the identity politics of a US social movement, in this case, one of the most prominent: that of unauthorized immigrant youth. This highly sophisticated analysis centers the organizing of the usually-unseen Asian ethnics without papers and interrelates social axes and activist strategies by way of the undocuqueer movement. Organizing While Undocumented is an indispensable read for anyone interested in the intersection of race, legal status, queer identity, and gender in activism and for anyone seeking a model of meticulous and incisive analysis that is both razor-sharp and inspiring. -- Nadia Y. Kim, author of Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LAOrganizing While Undocumented is a timely and powerful book that makes a major contribution to contemporary debates over immigration and citizenship. The courage and tenacity of undocumented Latino and Asian youth activists shine through in this book, revealing inspiring stories of personal and societal transformation. -- Rick Baldoz, author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946Since the massive immigrant-rights protests of 2006, the undocumented youth movement has emerged as one of the most powerful social movements of our time. Organizing While Undocumented offers an enlightening perspective of the more nuanced aspects of identify formation and cross-issue campaigns that undergird the importance and influence of this social movement. Timely and incredibly relevant, this book is a must-read for those interested in the contemporary processes of migration, identity, and protest. -- Roberto G. Gonzales, author of Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in AmericaThe book does a great job highlighting how immigrant-rights activists think about and mobilize their intersectional identities to advance their civil rights agenda locally and nationally. [...] Escudero’s work will certainly be a model to conduct further work on mobilizations around immigrant rights. * Social Forces *

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Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industryWhy is being a computer geek still perceived to be a masculine occupation? Why do men continue to greatly outnumber women in the high-technology industry? Since 2014, a growing number of employment discrimination lawsuits has called attention to a persistent pattern of gender discrimination in the tech world. Much has been written about the industry's failure to adequately address gender and racial inequalities, yet rarely have we gotten an intimate look inside these companies. In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that lifts the Silicon veil to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. This work draws on close to a hundred interviews with male and female technology workers of diverse racial, ethnic, and educational backgrounds who are curreTrade Review"France Winddance Twine casts a harsh light on the supposed meritocracy of the tech industry, where Black and Latina 'geek girls' confront painful barriers while their white and Asian coworkers leap over them, thanks to elite connections. It’s not what you know but whom you know and who you are that largely determines success in Silicon Valley—a massive injustice that stifles innovation and calls for new forms of recognition and solidarity." -- Sharon Zukin, author of The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy"The first step in dismantling unjust systems is knowing exactly how they operate. In Geek Girls, France Winddance Twine peels back the screen to illuminate the mechanisms that produce and sustain inequality in Silicon Valley. Through innovative research, this book offers conceptual tools that illuminate the way racism, sexism, classism, and casteism stifle opportunity behind the veil of meritocracy. This book should be read by everyone who is committed to broadening opportunity in our deeply stratified world." -- Ruha Benjamin, author of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Strategies for the New Jim Code"Geek Girls explores intersectionality in women's experiences in technology careers, thinking beyond the careers of white, middle class, Indian, or heterosexual women. Twine highlights the real divide between the experiences of white and Asian women in the industry compared to Black women, including the racial advantages they receive through their relationships with white friends and partners. Geek Girls complicates our understanding of race, gender, and sexuality in Silicon Valley" * Maryann Erigha, author of The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry *"With Professor Twine's sharp eye for detail and compelling testimonials from industry insiders,Geek Girls fully captures what it is like to work as a technically skilled woman in Silicon Valley…is an exceptionally well presented expose of workplace discrimination in the computer and technology industry." * Midwest Book Review *"Geek Girls is a critical, significant sociological work on structural inequality in technology occupations…this book is a must-read for anyone interested in systemic inequality in work and occupations." * Choice *"Twine’s book is an important contribution to this canon of work, but it is also original in that it is a thoroughly sociological study … The book’s rigorous scholarship is presented in a highly accessible style, such that we become drawn into the lives and experiences of many of the ‘Geek Girls’ featured as they attempt to negotiate the ‘dominant White world’ in which they work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Geek Girls should be on everyone’s book list because the injustices described are not going anywhere unless individuals understand where they come from and how they work. Twine tells the story of the nontraditional geek in a comprehensive and thoughtful way that we all would benefit from reading." * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 American Book Award, given by the Before Columbus FoundationHow games have been used to establish and combat Asian American racial stereotypes As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. From the Chinese Exclusion Act and Japanese American internment to the model minority myth and the globalization of Asian labor, Tara Fickle shows how games and game theory shaped fictions of race upon which the nation relies. Drawing from a wide range of literary and critical texts, analog and digital games, journalistic accounts, marketing campaigns, and archival material, Fickle illuminates the ways Asian Americans have had to fit the roles, play the game, and follow the rules to be seen as valuable in the US. Exploring key momentsTrade ReviewRevealing the orientalist origins of game studies and locating the very tenants of game theory in Japanese internment, Tara Fickle engages racialization as game-play itself. In doing so, Fickle explodes our understanding of economic survival and success by revealing the centrality of gambling rhetoric—and a willingness for risk-taking—in the appraisal of Japanese Americans as the ultimate model minority. An original and timely intervention that at last accounts for the dominant representation of Asian Americans as both the hard-worker and the obsessed gamer. -- Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New MediaRevealing the mutual constitution of gaming and racialization, The Race Card’s concept of ‘ludo-Orientalism’ offers a significant new way of understanding the historical discourse of Asian exclusionism, as well as more subtle forms of post-1960s anti-Asian racism. Focusing on representations of Asian Americans as pathological players, Fickle shows how racial discourse is linked to the speculative logic of American exceptionalism. -- Colleen Lye, author of America's Asia: Racial Reform and American Literature, 1893–1945Games of chance, video games, and game theory converge in this examination of the relationship between gamification and racialization in exploring the Asian American experience. ... argues that games are used as a form of soft power geared toward advancing an exclusionary view of national identity. * CHOICE *Fickle brilliantly illuminates the many facets of games as a rich site of potentiality for thinking about Asian and Asian American identity, and how they co-constitute parts of the same problem. The Race Card is both a scathing excoriation of the Orientalist roots of the study of play and games, and an intellectual framing of games as a critical access point for understanding power relations concerning constructions of Asian identity. Witty, controlled, righteously outraged, inspired and incredibly persuasive, The Race Cardsets a new bar for understanding the role of games and play, broadly defined, in the struggle of race relations. -- Soraya Murray * American Literary History *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis insightful, accessible ethnography reveals the broad and deep reach of the punitive immigration regime, which enlists even the medical personnel whose goal is to heal people. It is an excellent contribution to several fields and will be read widely. * Cecilia Menjívar, author of Enduring Violence: Ladina Women's Lives in Guatemala *Comparing immigrant-serving clinics across red, blue, and purple states, Meredith Van Natta captures with clarity and conviction the urgency of reforming both the US medical and immigration policy landscapes. Her careful analysis is both striking and humanizing, as she tells the stories of health care providers’ and patients’ heartache, fear, persistence, and triumph during critical political moments during the Obama and Trump eras. Medical Legal Violence is a must-read for anyone interested in immigration and health care policy in the United States. * Leisy J. Abrego, author of Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders *For decades, punitive federal immigration policy, rising interior enforcement, and a social welfare system that treats health care as a consumer good has wielded ‘medical legal violence’ onto the lives of Latinx immigrants. In this timely book, Van Natta deftly shows how the situation became even worse after 2016, as both immigrants and the mission-driven safety-net clinicians and staff working to treat them faced new and uncertain ‘decision-scapes’ in accessing treatment. The results—more people blocked from and foregoing care, more people forced to let their illness progress to the point of acute and costly emergency care, and more providers torn between their personal and medical ethics and the US laws and bureaucracies that prioritize insecurity over health—are no less than a national disaster. * Helen B. Marrow, author of New Destination Dreaming Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South *This vividly written book tells the painful story of how US anti-immigrant policies have permeated the nation’s medical system, making it increasingly difficult to meet the health care needs of an impoverished population who often lack English fluency and legal documentation. Rich in ethnographic and environmental detail, Medical Legal Violence highlights the political struggles between two broken systems in need of reform—health care and immigration—and the chilling effects this battle has on the health outcomes and well-being of migrants. An invaluable resource for public officials, as well as academics, Van Natta’s work powerfully addresses the dire health care needs of our most vulnerable yet essential members in our society. * Jacqueline Hagan, author of Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey *

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Book SynopsisA sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to beThe landmark Supreme Court decision in June 2015 legalizing the right to same-sex marriage marked a major victory in gay and lesbian rights in the United States. Once subject to a patchwork of laws granting legal status to same-sex couples in some states and not others, gay and lesbian Americans now enjoy full legal status for their marriages wherever they travel or reside in the country. For many, the Supreme Court's ruling means that gay and lesbian citizens are one step closer to full equality with the rest of America. In Fragmented Citizens, Stephen M. Engel contends that the present moment in gay and lesbian rights in America is indeed one of considerable advancement and changebut that there is still much to be done in shaping American institutions to recognize gays and lesbians as full citizens. With impressive scope and fascinating examples, Engel traces thTrade Review"Fragmented Citizens is a major contribution to the interdisciplinary literature on LGBT rights. The book is meticulously researched and brimming with fascinating historical details.[A] considerable achievement." * Contemporary Sociology *"Offers innovative answers...that will likely be of interest to many sexualities scholars....Identifying five distinct ‘modalities of recognition’ that have been employed throughout the American polity, often simultaneously, Engel shows how the development of various agencies and institutions has led to tensions in policies and practices that have manifested as fragemented, and indeed unequal, citizenship for gay men and lesbians....Fragmented Citizens makes a meaningful contribution." -- Sexualities"In this ambitious and important book, Stephen Engel breaks new ground by introducing a new conceptfragmented citizenshipto the burgeoning field of citizenship studies. He shows how this kind of democratic citizenship is embedded in the general logic of American political development and convincingly connects fragmented citizenship to contemporary LGBT political experiencethereby opening up a whole new way to talk about the civic status of LGBT Americans." -- Richard M. Valelly,author of The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement"Engel delves into the problem of LGBT citizenship at what appears to be its moment of resolution. What he finds are incongruous advances, partial transformations, reconfigurations that open up new and unforeseen issues. In Fragmented Citizens, the LGBT movement becomes a lens through which abiding features of American political development are brought into focus. The result is a profound commentary on the limits of state recognition and the elusive quest for social justice." -- Stephen Skowronek,author of Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal"This is an impressive, well-argued and valuable book. All too often we associate the idea of LGBT citizenship with simply a concern about vindicating constitutional rights as if a proclamation by a court will ensure substantive equality once and for all. Stephen Engel persuasively challenges that view by positing a novel and important concept of a 'fragmented citizen.' This approach argues that rights do not operate independently of institutions and time.We must be attuned to the ways in which public and private institutions often haphazardly, tenuously, unexpectedly and even inconsistently recognize certain features of citizenship while denying others.LGBT citizenship in the United States provides a timely framework from which to develop this argument." -- Sonu Bedi,author of Beyond Race, Sex and Sexual Orientation: Legal Equality without Identity

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Book SynopsisHow media propagates and challenges racismFrom Black Panther to #OscarsSoWhite, the concept of race, and how it is represented in media, has continued to attract attention in the public eye. In Racialized Media, Matthew W. Hughey, Emma González-Lesser, and the contributors to this important new collection of original essays provide a blueprint to this new, ever-changing media landscape. With sweeping breadth, contributors examine a number of different mediums, including film, television, books, newspapers, social media, video games, and comics. Each chapter explores the impact of contemporary media on racial politics, culture, and meaning in society. Focusing on producers, gatekeepers, and consumers of media, this book offers an inside look at our media-saturated world, and the impact it has on our understanding of race, ethnicity, and more. Through an interdisciplinary lens, Racialized Media provides a much-needed look at the role of race and ethnicity in all phases of media productTrade ReviewRacialized Media presents a timely collection of readings investigating the complex relationship between race and media. A diverse mix of established and emerging scholars highlight contemporary topics, issues, and controversies concerning media production, circulation, and consumption. From traditional media forms like film, television, and news to social media and online artifacts, the book covers a broad array of cultural objects. An informative and thorough book, Racialized Media makes a convincing case for why media and race matter and how they are essential to understanding our social world. -- Maryann Erigha, author of The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry

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Book SynopsisHow media propagates and challenges racismFrom Black Panther to #OscarsSoWhite, the concept of race, and how it is represented in media, has continued to attract attention in the public eye. In Racialized Media, Matthew W. Hughey, Emma González-Lesser, and the contributors to this important new collection of original essays provide a blueprint to this new, ever-changing media landscape. With sweeping breadth, contributors examine a number of different mediums, including film, television, books, newspapers, social media, video games, and comics. Each chapter explores the impact of contemporary media on racial politics, culture, and meaning in society. Focusing on producers, gatekeepers, and consumers of media, this book offers an inside look at our media-saturated world, and the impact it has on our understanding of race, ethnicity, and more. Through an interdisciplinary lens, Racialized Media provides a much-needed look at the role of race and ethnicity in all phases of media productTrade Review"Racialized Media presents a timely collection of readings investigating the complex relationship between race and media. A diverse mix of established and emerging scholars highlight contemporary topics, issues, and controversies concerning media production, circulation, and consumption. From traditional media forms like film, television, and news to social media and online artifacts, the book covers a broad array of cultural objects. An informative and thorough book, Racialized Media makes a convincing case for why media and race matter and how they are essential to understanding our social world." -- Maryann Erigha, author of The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry"In an age in which mass media platforms increasingly shape our judgments about race and decision-making even about who should hold the highest office in the land, Matthew Hughey and Emma Gonzalez-Lesser have assembled an impressive array of scholars who provide nuance and texture to our understanding of the salience and ubiquity of race across various forms of mass media. Their work is a must-read!" -- Gregory S. Parks, co-author of A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

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Book SynopsisShows how mythologies of meritocracy, the land of opportunity, and the American dream remain firmly in place while simultaneously erasing injustices and the struggles of the working poorTrade Review"Mary Romero's book The Maid's Daughter is a rich and detailed sociological account of the lives of a live-in maid and her daughter." -- Jessica M. Vasquez * National Catholic Reporter *"While there are numerous books examining the lives of domestic workers, in The Maid's Daughter has delved into less-studied questions...while it is often argued...that microsociological research can yield results with macrosociological implications, Romero shows this more convincingly than many." -- Elizabeth J. Clifford * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"A compelling story of how a maid's daughter moves from a girlhood of rage and resentment to a level of empowerment, as a grown woman, that will make readers want to stand up and cheer. Blending life history and cultural analysis, Mary Romero shows that it is possible to do creative ethnographic work that is of service to both the academy and society. Although the identity of Romero's protagonist must remain anonymous, her struggle will live on in this memorable book." -- Ruth Behar,author of Translated Woman"A page-turner. The book's remarkable protagonist tells a compelling story...with each episode, the reader cannot wait for the next. How will she negotiate high school, dating, college campus politics? Mary Romero's more than two decades of research have produced a book worth waiting for." -- Renato Rosaldo,co-editor of The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century"The circumstances of & Olivias true storygrowing up in the servants quarters of a gated luxury suburbmay evoke Upstairs, Downstairs meets Beverly Hills 90210, but the narrative is infinitely more profound and subversive. A unique, autobiographical collaboration between two brilliant women, The Maids Daughter relentlessly interrogates every facet of privilege and subalternity to achieve a psychological complexity and irony worthy of a great novel." -- Mike Davis,author of Planet of Slums"[Romero] transforms twenty years of recorded interviews with a woman referred to as 'Olivia Sanchez' into a highly readable book which juxtaposes Olivias story, as told to Romero, with sociological commentary, research and selected interviews with other children of domestic workers. This thought provoking study raises many questions to wrestle with on both individual and societal levels Open-minded readers may find their views transformed after reading this engaging narrative." * Englewood Review of Books *"Why read it: This isn't The Help. Romero's nonfiction book relies on 20 years of research and is an anthropological study into identity politics and the myth of meritocracy." * Diverse Magazine *"A valuable case study and a dramatic life story, this oral history explores identity and illuminates race, class, and gender in America at a peculiarly intimate intersection between upper-middle-class white families and the women of color who provide domestic labor for them" * Library Journal *"While The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream is an emotionally draining book at times - the reader is witness to the abusive treatment of others - it is well worth the depth of experience and knowledge one gains by reading it...Author Romero has successfully encapsulated the plight and struggles of domestic workers and given the reader a great deal to contemplate." * New York Journal of Books *"For this sequel to her groundbreaking study on the social inequity of domestic work, Maid in the U.S.A., Romero spent two decades following Olivia, who was raised in between two worlds, living in an upscale Los Angeles house where her mother worked as a maid." * Ms. Magazine *"Twodecades of research culminate in the real-life story of a Mexican-American girl navigating issues of class, race, and identity in contemporary Los Angeles." * Los Angeles Magazine *"This detailed, intimate investigation of domestic work from the perspective of a domestic worker's child is a significant achievement that reads like a more academic Random Family." * Publishers Weekly *"A moving work that deconstructs the American Dream at the fraught intersection of race, class and gender." * Kirkus *"In her new book, The Maids Daughter, Romero is again the perfect scholar respectful, curious, honest about her own orientation. Shes a listener, allowing the women she talks with to guide the way in which their stories are revealed... Its very moving work; thoughtful, sensitive, the best possible use of scholarship to open our eyes." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"There are no inherently good and evil characters in this story--just people trying to deal with the problems that come with having too much money, or not enough." * Los Angeles Times *"Readers who found the popular novel The Help annoyingly glib and superficial may find The Maids Daughter, an oral history and sociological study, astonishingly complex and often raw with emotion." * Washington Independent *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1 Who Is Caring for the Maid's Children? 2 Becoming the Maid's Daughter 3 Being the Maid's Daughter 4 Passing and Rebelling 5 Leaving "Home" 6 Making a Home Epilogue Notes References Index About the Author

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Book Synopsis2017 Wilbur Non-Fiction Award RecipientWinner of the 2018 Author's Award in scholarly non-fiction, presented by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Winner, 2020 Kornitzer Book Prize, given by Drew UniversityExamines the oft overlooked role of non-elite black women in the growth of northern suburbs and American Protestantism in the first half of the twentieth centuryWhen a domestic servant named Violet Johnson moved to the affluent white suburb of Summit, New Jersey in 1897, she became one of just barely a hundred black residents in the town of six thousand. In this avowedly liberal Protestant community, the very definition of the suburbs depended on observance of unmarked and fluctuating race and class barriers. But Johnson did not intend to accept the status quo. Establishing a Baptist church a year later, a seemingly moderate act that would have implications far beyond weekly worship, Johnson challenged assumptions of gender and race, advocating for a politics of civic righteousTrade ReviewThis lucid and engrossing reframing of the suburbs adds to a growing body of research uncovering the overlooked and courageous social activism of working-class African-American women. Adams's work should fundamentally alter the way we talk and write about the civil rights movement in the United States, from where and when it happened, to who contributed to its real momentum. -- Morris Davis,Drew UniversityWith care and nuance, Betty Livingston Adams illuminates the social worlds and religious activism of a group of ordinary black working women who made extraordinary contributions to black public life. Well researched, engaging, and accessible, Adamss work adds new dimensions to our understanding of the history of the black womens club movement, their participation in interracial social reform and political organizing, and leadership in black churches. She has done a great service in restoring these women to a place of importance in the narrative of African American religious history. -- Judith Weisenfeld,Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion, Princeton UniversityAdams follows the fascinating careers of Violet Johnson (1870-1939) and Florence Spearing Randolph (1866-1951), black women born in the South following emancipation, who traveled to New York City to find work. * Christian Century Magazine *Contributing to scholarship on black women’s Christian activism, this well-researched book uncovers activism among black churchwomen. * Religious Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisExamines Black Americans' suspicion about the potential political harassment of Black elected officialsIn Marked Men, Nyron N. Crawford offers a novel perspective on political scandal, corruption, and racial politics in the United States. Contrary to traditional beliefs that politicians are forgiven for their transgressions because of the benefits they provide their constituents, Crawford argues that Black Americans view political misdeeds by Black elected officials through a lens of suspicion towards the criminal legal system. Crawford's work reveals that Black Americans often question the motivations behind investigations and indictments of Black politicians, expressing concern that such actions by the state are intended to undermine, embarrass, and harass Black leaders. Through a mixed-method approach including experiments, case studies, and survey data, Crawford illustrates that racialized suspicion shapes the way Black voters rally to protect their embattled Black political repr

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Book SynopsisThe end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured laborers in what became known as coolieism. From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court test cases brought by Chinese activists, public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S. industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the figure of the Chinese labor immigrant who struggled for inclusion at a time when black freedmen were fighting to redefine citizenship.Racial Reconstruction demonstrates that U.S. racial formations should be studied in different registers and through comparative and transpacific approaches. It draws on political cartoons, immigration case files, plantation diaries, and sensationalized invasion fiction to explore the radical reconstruction of U.S. citizenship, race and labor relations, and imperial geopolitics that led to the Chinese ExcluTrade ReviewThis book will be of interest to African Americanist and Asian Americanist scholars and graduate students and, indeed, to all scholars of nineteenth and early twentieth-century US literature and history, but it will be especially useful to people interested in adapting their nineteenth-century US literature courses to reflect more transnational, multilingual perspectives. * Melus *The juxtaposition of these policies provides for intriguing analysis. It clearly shows that US history is never simply linear, as when steps toward freedom for some coincide with oppression of others. The topic is fascinating. * Choice *Offering illuminating analyses of the paranoid fantasies of Asian invasion in travelogues, political cartoons, and sensational fiction that proliferated during the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Edlie L. Wong deftly probes the way in which these narratives shaped the racial formations and understandings of free and unfree labor in the American imaginary. Exploring the impact of Exclusion Laws both in the U.S. and China against the backdrop of popular culture in both nations, Racial Reconstruction provides incredibly rich insights into the global repercussions of these policies. A stellar book. -- Shelley Fisher Fishkin,author of Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded KneeWith impressive archival research,Racial Reconstructiontraces the fascinating transnational history of U.S. racial formation in the aftermath of abolition and reconstruction. Exploring the legal discourse around Asian exclusion in relation to African American inclusion, Edlie L. Wong pushes our thinking and offers new insights about how Americans decide who does and does not belong as a citizen in the United States. -- Gretchen Murphy,author of Shadowing the White Man’s Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color LineRacial Reconstructionclarifies the stakes of citizenship in the US racial state, offering important insights into current debates about immigration and the shifting contours of the US labor force. It is a model for the kind of deeply historicized work necessary to elucidate the shifting contours of race in the twenty-first century. * American Literature *Racial Reconstructionis an engaging study that further illustrates how race is a comparative phenomenon in the United States, and is a useful read for those interested in how comparative racialization of African Americans and Chinese Americans permeated American literary culture. * American Nineteenth Century History *

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Book SynopsisWinner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda LiteraryNeither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Pérez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with elusive queer historiesthe sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy Pérez unpacks how each has been memorialized and desired for their heroic masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for the expansion of the US borders and neocolonial zones of influence. Describing an enduring homonationalism dating to the birth of the homosexual in the late 19th century, Pérez considers not only how US imperialist expansion was realized, but also how it was visualized for and through gay men. By means of an analysis of literature, film, and photographs from the 19th to the 21st centuriesincluding Herman Melville's BilTrade ReviewPerezs highly sophisticated study gives nuance not only to queer studies but also to critical race theory and American studies. Surely,A Taste for Brown Bodieswill transform our reading methods to redefine future scholarship in our field. * Men and Masculinities *Perez offers a provocative study that identifies connections between modern gay identity, sexual desire, US imperialism, and national identity. * Choice *Tracing the homoerotic archetypes of sailor, cowboy, and soldier, he offers close readings ofBilly BuddandBrokeback Mountainand uses James BaldwinsGoing to Meet the Manto parse images from Abu Ghraib, prodding readers toward a deeper, sometimes uncomfortable understanding of cultural context, colonialism, and complicity. * Chronogram Magazine *Pérez argues that despite queer studies’ avowed dedication to liberation politics, it remains “susceptible to ...a racial unconscious shaped by nation, empire, and the dispositions of global capitalism”… Pérez’s important book offers an unexpected perspective on queer studies, critiquing it for its unexamined imperialist investments rather than simply celebrating it based on an intuitive assumption about queer theory’s radical potential. Readers should not, however, take Pérez’s critique as an attack on queer theory. Baldwin once said that it was out of his love for America that he insisted on the right to critique; Pérez’s book seems to be written in a similar spirit of critique and love. He writes in the service of “contemporary antiracist queer politics,” and as he argues, without a thorough examination of queer theory’s racial unconscious, the field “remains imperiled” (17). -- American LiteratureA compelling contribution to the pivotal turn in queer studies toward a critique of still-emergent forms of homo-normativities. With dazzling close readings of diverse texts, such as James Baldwins 'Going to Meet the Man,' alongside an equally bracing collection of visual texts, Hiram Pérezs book is an impressive critical and analytical performance. Absorbingly written, it never loses sight of the urgency of its core claims and the work that a critically committed queer studies must continue to do. -- Ricardo L. Ortiz,author of Cultural Erotics in Cuban AmericaA Taste for Brown Bodiesis a crucial and groundbreaking study that throws new light on the interplay of cosmopolitanism and homosexuality. Its stunning historical depth and engagement with the promises and limitations of queer theory make it essential reading for scholars of critical ethnic and queer studies. With gorgeous prose and unflinching arguments, this book is sure to incite intense debate, ruffle the right feathers, and move us beyond the impasse that equates race politics with knee-jerk identity politics. -- Richard T. Rodriguez,author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural PoliticsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Queer Afterlife of Billy Budd 25 2. "Going to Meet the Man" in Abu Ghraib 49 3. The Global Taste for Queer 77 4. You Can Have My Brown Body and Eat It, Too! 97 5. Gay Cowboys Close to Home 125 Notes 153 Bibliography 163 Index 169 About the Author 1

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Book SynopsisReimagines how race, ethnicity, imperialism, and colonialism can be central to social science researchand methodsThere is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and globally. In Disciplinary Futures, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. With original essays from scholars such as Y?n Lê Espiritu, Sunaina Maira, Hokulani K. Aikau, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Ben Carrington, Yvonne Sherwood, and Gilda L. Ochoa, among others, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism, namely: the black-white binarTrade Review"The margins of sociology are at once its cutting edge. There we find innovative scholarship remaking the discipline through critical engagements with American, cultural, ethnic, gender and women's, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. A stocktaking and agenda-setting book, Disciplinary Futures brings empire, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, queer of color critique, white supremacy, and intersectionality from the periphery to the core of our concern. May sociology take heed." * Moon-Kie Jung, author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present *"Much lip service is paid to the significance of engaging in inter- and multidisciplinary research, but surprisingly little or no attention is given to why it is important and how to do it. These issues are central to this volume. A diverse and stellar group of scholars illustrate how the discipline of sociology can be rethought, enriched, and expanded through a deep engagement with other disciplines. Their scholarship reveals the necessity for sociology to revitalize and reinvent itself in order to fully comprehend the positionality, experiences, and voices of racialized and marginalized groups." * Michael Omi, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States *"This is a powerful collection that challenges sociologists to confront the epistemic violence that undergirds their discipline. It challenges race-neutral and nation-bound analysis of the experiences of people of color as it calls for a critical sociology that acknowledges the injuries of racism, settler-colonialism, and imperialism in everyday experiences. This is a must-read for anyone committed to dismantling inequality." * Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work *"The important essays in this exciting interdisciplinary volume bring valuable insights from studies of race and immigration, disability, gender and sexuality, and Indigeneity to bear upon research and methods in sociology and the social sciences.”" * Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents *

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Book SynopsisHeartfelt personal accounts from transgender people fighting for the right to serve in the military Prior to coming out as transgender I served the first several years of my career under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, hiding my sexual orientation out of the constant fear of expulsion. I then found myself in the same predicament as when I first joined, wanting nothing more than to serve my country and do my job, but at the cost of sacrificing a major part of who I am. . . . This time, however, I decided that I could no longer sacrifice my own well-being, my own authentic self.Mak Vaden, Warrant Officer 1, U.S. Army National Guard, 2006-presentI have traveled around the world. . . . I have been on five cutters with eleven years of sea time and commanded the Coast Guard cutter Campbell. I have negotiated treaties and fostered international law enforcement cooperation. I have stopped drug smugglers and seized illegal fishing vessels on the high seas. And, I aTrade ReviewAn exquisite book about serving in the U.S. military as a transgender person, with just enough historical and sociological context to make the volume’s personal stories that much more meaningful ... A simple description can’t do justice to the beauty, elegance, and courage displayed here. Readers will want to meet and spend time with these contributors. A worthwhile collection, highly recommended for all readers. * STARRED Library Journal *With Honor and Integrity shares the pain of the closet and the triumph of transition for transgender patriots. Their stories underscore how policies of integrity and truth serve our nation best. Our nation's thanks goes to the brave souls who have blazed trails and shared their truths. -- C. Dixon Osburn, co-founder of the Servicemembers Legal Defense NetworkWith Honor and Integrity is a must-read book by two of the nation's leading experts. This volume is a badly needed contribution to our understanding of military service by transgender personnel, but it’s also much more than that, providing invaluable historical context and insightful policy analysis. Most of all, it centers transgender and gender-diverse Americans who show, in their own voices, that it’s possible to live authentically while serving in uniform. -- Aaron Belkin, Director of the Palm CenterThe world has waited too long to hear directly from the transgender patriots who have put their lives on the line to protect the rest of us. Now, at last, two leading voices in the field who have worn the uniform themselves, have brought together an extraordinary collection of first-hand accounts by active-duty service members and veterans, officers and enlisted personnel, those who have undergone transition and those who are doing so or may in the future. In the process, Máel Embser-Herbert and Bree Fram have made an invaluable contribution to our understanding of gender and military service, showing once again what it means to serve their country. -- Nathaniel Frank, author of Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to AmericaThe experiences of transgender servicemembers have been all too scant in analyses of the US military's anti-LGBT history. With Honor and Integrity ameliorates this absence, powerfully demonstrating the impact of gendered military policy on the trans and gender nonconforming people who serve under its watchful eye. In their own words, the trans servicemembers that Embser-Herbert and Fram profile show the difference that supportive—or unsupportive—supervisors, colleagues, and policies can make. This extremely timely intervention is a must-read for military scholars and policymakers alike. -- Catherine Connell, author of the forthcoming A Few Good Gays: The US Military’s Incomplete Gender and Sexuality RevolutionThe editors succeed mightily in producing a volume about the challenges and rewards of military service for transgender troops that will engage a wide readership. All libraries should acquire this necessary title. -- C. Pinto * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe views and experiences of multiracial people as parentsThe world's multiracial population is considered to be one of the fastest growing of all ethnic groups. In the United States alone, it is estimated that over 20% of the population will be considered mixed race by 2050. Public figuressuch as former President Barack Obama and Hollywood actress Ruth Neggafurther highlight the highly diverse backgrounds of those classified under the umbrella term of multiracial. Multiracial Parents considers how mixed-race parents identify with and draw from their cultural backgrounds in raising and socializing their children. Miri Song presents a groundbreaking examination of how the meanings and practices surrounding multiracial identification are passed down through the generations. A revealing portrait of how multiracial identity is and is not transmitted to children, Multiracial Parents focuses on couples comprised of one White and one non-white minority, who were mostly first generation mixeTrade ReviewMiri Song’s Multiracial Parents …. is a long-overdue addition to the sociological literature in mixed race studies. Multiracial Parents makes an invaluable contribution to the sociology of race and ethnicity, mixed-race studies, and race and ethnic studies more generally, as well as the sociology of the family and social psychology. Song’s book would be an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate courses as well as for interested readers in the general public. -- American Journal of SociologyMiri Song in Multiracial Parents examines multiracial people as parents and how they racially socialize their children, including whether a multiracial identity is passed down to the next generation… Song argues that the prevalence of multiracial parents labeling their children as mixed reflects generational continuity in multiracial identity and mixed-ness gaining purchase in Britain. She also challenges the notion that a multiracial label signals an attempt by mixed race people to distance themselves from their minority status, as many parents actively maintained or revitalized their minority heritage through their parenting practices. -- Qualitative SociologySong raises critical issues about the varying structures of race, racism, and the demise and persistence of ethnicity and race as meaningful categories due to differential histories including relationships to slavery, colonialism, nationalism, religion, and indigeneity. * Journal of Asian American Research *A novel and searching look at how mixed race people contemplate and confront parenthood. Though their circumstances may seem unique, Song compellingly shows how their experiences and reflections speak volumes about how race is more widely understood. Questions of appearance, community, racism, and ancestry may take on particular forms for multiracial parents, but their power and poignancy clearly derive from the weight they hold for all of us -- Ann Morning,Author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human DifferenceA rich account of the complexities of racially classifying mixed-race children. Song strikes at the heart of where mixed-race identity and its variants - such as to identify as White or non-White - are formed. By following parents accounts, this innovative and important book helps us understand an important dimension of a world of increasing ethnoracial diversity. -- Edward E. Telles,Author of Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin AmericaAn insightful study that illuminates a neglected group: multiracial parents who are raising children. We learn how second-generation multiracials conceptualize and negotiate the meaning of race, racism, and the identity formation of their children. -- France Winddance Twine,Author of A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

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Book SynopsisAmerican communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governments. Arguing that there are structural flaws in the American dream, Troutt investigates the role that place plays in our thinking and how we have organized our communities to create or deny opportunity. Legal rules and policies that promoted mobility for most citizens simultaneously stifled and segregated a growing minority by race, class andmost importantlyplace. A conversation about America at the crossroads, The Price of Paradise is a multilayered exploration of the legal, economic and cultural forces that contribute to the squeeze on the middle class, the hidden dangers of growing income and wealth inequality Trade Review"A rare and compelling account of how local governance practices produce racial inequality at every level of American lifeand of what we can do about it. Ambitious but pragmatic, the Price of Paradise offers fresh and concrete ideas for solving the most entrenched social problem in American history." -- Devon Carbado,co-author of Acting White? Rethinking Race in "Post-Racial" America"David Troutt's The Price of Paradise is a careful analysis and also a personal, passionate critique of the widely held assumptions that have helped generate metropolitan inequity in the United States. The critique and analysis are written in an engaging and readable style, and they are powerful and persuasive. This is a book everyone should read, because the lives of all Americans are structured by the inequities Troutt describes and seeks to overcome." -- Gerald Frug,author of City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation"Through clear and evocative prose, The Price of Paradise makes the movement for regional equity accessible to the broader public and all those hurt by the disadvantages of regional inequality.It is a clear call for a better and more unified America." -- Myron Orfield,author of American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality"Troutt definitively demonstrates why no community is an island, and why caring about those people in the neighborhoods on the other side of the tracks can be the best move you could make to secure your own economic future. Troutt's chapter on remaking communities through metropolitan equity should be required reading for policymakers, activists and urban economists alike." -- Daria Roithmayr,author of Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage"Overall, this book is an exceptional example of how to have a poignant discussion of how race still matters in what many have called a post-racial society. As such, this book should be read by professionals and students studying urban studies and planning, demography, history, and American race relations. Scholars whose interests are at the intersection of policy, race, and poverty will also be well served by readying the issues presented in this book." * Social Forces *"A forcefully presented eye-opener sure to provoke controversy as well as interest." * Kirkus *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Mutuality: The Thief, the Preacher, and the Late-Night Lawyer 2 All This I Made Myself: Assuming That Middle-Class Lives Are Self-Sufficient 3 Keep Your Distance: Assuming That Middle-Class Status Requires Distance from the Poor 4 The Promise Half Empty: Assuming That Segregation Is a Thing of the Past 5 We Renamed the Problem and It Disappeared: Assuming That Racism No Longer Limits Minority Chances 6 Islands without Paradise: Assuming That Poverty Results from Weak Values and Poor Decisions 7 Raceless Wonders: Assuming That Racial Labels No Longer Matter 8 The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America AcknowledgmentsNotes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisNarratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law As the mixed-race population in the United States grows, public fascination with multiracial identity has promoted the belief that racial mixture will destroy racism. However, multiracial people still face discrimination. Many legal scholars hold that this is distinct from the discrimination faced by people of other races, and traditional civil rights laws built on a strict black/white binary need to be reformed to account for cases of discrimination against those identifying as mixed-race. In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Katerí Hernández debunks this idea, and draws on a plethora of court cases to demonstrate that multiracials face the same types of discrimination as other racial groups. Hernández argues that multiracial people are primarily targeted for discrimination due to their non-whiteness, and shows how the cases highlight the neTrade Review"[Hernandez’s] personal story as told in the preface helps enrich and inform this highly recommended work." -- CHOICE"In Multiracials and Civil Rights, Tanya Kateri Hernandez insightfully analyzes the claim that mixed race people will end racial discrimination as we know it and render inadequate the existing legal tools to address it. At the same time, Hernandez skillfully addresses the claims that the civil rights laws fail to address the discrimination against multiracial people in American social life. Unfortunately, racism and discrimination based on physical appearance -- even with the rise of multiracialism -- is alive and well in the modern United States and the traditional legal tools exist to support efforts to challenge discrimination against multiracial people. Multiracials and Civil Rights is a 'must read' for anyone interested in sophisticated analysis of the use of the civil rights laws to challenge discrimination in the United States." -- Kevin R. Johnson,Dean, UC Davis School of Law"The increase in interracial marriages following the Supreme Courts decision in Loving v. Virginia ushered in an era of racial self-identification as Lovings children struggle to define themselves in a world that views race as monolithic. Multiracials and Civil Rights is an important contribution to the emerging literature about the post-Loving multiracial generation. It explores claims that multiracials experience a unique form of race-based discrimination. This thoroughly researched book is a must read, the first legally-focused discussion of whether current anti-discrimination law adequately addresses discrimination claims by multiracials." -- Taunya Lovell Banks,Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence, University of Maryland Law School

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Book SynopsisIn everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensationpleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts. Drawing on rich and varied sourcesfrom 19th century sexology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory to literary texts and performance artAmber Jamilla Musser employs masochism as a powerful diagnostic tool for probing relationships between power and subjectivity. Engaging with a range of debates about lesbian S&M, racialization, femininity, and disability, as well as key texts such as Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, Pauline Réage's The Story of O, and Michel Foucault''s History of Sexuality, Musser renders legible the complex ways that masochism has been taken up by queer, feminist, and critical race theorieTrade ReviewSensational Flesh explores the material aspects of powerhow, in a Foucauldian sense, it is & felt in the bodyunpacking the bodily, sensational dimensions of subjectivity. Comprehensive and exhaustive in scope, Musser leaves no stone unturned in her consideration of & masochism in all its different formulations, and in the often-contradictory ways it has been deployed. -- Jean Walton,author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race Psychoanalysis, Sexual DifferenceA lively and enlightening contribution to queer studies, investigating affect and embodiment as avenues for the radical reinvigoration of how we experience and think about raced, gendered, and sexualized subjectivities. Masterful in her engagement with queer, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory and their historical contexts, Musser provides incisive analyses that make for exhilarating and highly informative reading. -- Darieck Scott,author of Extravagant AbjectionMusser has written a book well worth reading. * Sexuality and Culture *InSensational Flesh, Amber Jamilla Musser explores the appeal of masochism via empathetic readings of historical texts, extracting meaning from writing that might otherwise appear outdated or limited in its perspective. . . . Musser does a fine job of weaving together various texts to present the reader with a nuanced view of the practice. . . . [F]or those with a basic understanding of the philosophical complexities of arguments concerning subjects, objects, and notions of the 'other,' Musser presents a compelling and deeply satisfying read. * Bitch Magazine *In a sex-positive era, Musser admirably defends black womens rights to experiment boundlessly with sensations and the erotics of power, free from the restraints of the collective memory of slavery. * Gender & Society *What does it feel like to be enmeshed in regimes of power? And how does masochism challenge and extend notions of agency, subjectivity, difference, freedom, and representation? InSensational Flesh, Musser probes such questions in an effort to distill how it feels to exist in the liminal space between agency and subjectlessness and, importantly, how to account for difference within these performances of submission. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi1 Introduction: Theory, Flesh, Practice 12 Specters of Domination: Patriarchy, Colonialism, and Masochism 313 Objectification, Complicity, and Coldness: The Story of O's Narratives of Femininity and Precarity 584 Time, Race, and Biology: Fanon, Freud, and the Labors of Race 885 Lacerated Breasts: Medicine, Autonomy, Pain 118Conclusion: Making Flesh Matter 151Notes 185Bibliography 211Index 231About the Author 255

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Book SynopsisHow activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The U.S. has consistently positioned itself as a moral exemplar, seeking to export its philosophy and values to other societies. Yet in this book, Traci C. West argues that the U.S. has much to learn from other countries when it comes to addressing gender-based violence. West traveled to Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil to interview activists involved in the struggle against gender violence. In each of these places, as in the United States, Christianity and anti-black racism have been implicated in violence against women. In Ghana and Brazil, in particular, their Christian colonial and trans-Atlantic slave trade histories directly connect with the socioeconomic dTrade ReviewThis book is a gift. Traci C. West synthesizes scholarship, spirituality and searing analyses to challenge the ways we perceive, practice, and oppose violence. West built an international platform between book covers to transform religious, social, and political-economic institutions that structure predatory power. This book helps us to clean old wounds as it offers healing through strategic perspectives to diminish and eradicate gender violence. -- Joy James,author of Seeking the Beloved Community, and editor of The New AbolitionistsTraci West's text is radically innovative, critically startling, and defiantly embodied. Her transnational approach to gender violence takes seriously the role of religion, spirituality, culture, and the wisdom of African women leaders. It utilizes courage, wit, and vast research findings extracted from many parts of the world. -- Fulata Lusungu Moyo,Circle of Concerned African Women TheologiansAfricana women fight for their agency. Traci West acts as a griot for this Africana revolutionary becoming, documenting their journeys to freedom. She carefully recovers women’s voices lost to or drowned out by racist and sexist structures and creates a platform on and through which they can tell themselves. In ensuring their visibility Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality makes room for Africana women’s possibility and power. * The Marginalia Review of Books *Can assist faith-based anti-violence and anti-racist activists in acknowledging religion’s collusion in the social structures that perpetuate sexual & gender based violence... This is a dense book that brings together transnational feminist theological, gender studies, sociological, and activist knowledge and experiences concerning SGBV. It is daring, creative work and an engrossing read for scholars familiar with these fields. * Sociology of Religion *

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Book SynopsisReveals the dark underside of environmental privilegeTrade ReviewThe authors...make a convincing and highly disturbing case about how some of the nation's most prominent promoters of sustainability depend on the labor of immigrants to enjoy privileged lives amidst a lovely environment. * In These Times *Documents, observation, and interview material over a number of years combine to give a full picture of the situation...the book's rich background of Aspen and the whole state's history is nicely provided, and the interesting flow of history and people's everday lives make Slums of Aspen very accessible. * American Journal of Sociology *Two barrels of leftist buckshot, aimed at America's ruling class. -- Ted Conover,author of Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing and Whiteout: Lost in AspenAs Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow make clear, we cant tackle todays environmental problems without simultaneously solving social ones. The Slums of Aspen is a must read for all of us who want not just a green and healthy economy, but also a fair and just one. -- Annie Leonard,Author and Host, The Story of StuffAs the limits to growth discourse gains currency, Park and Pellows groundbreaking book is a must-read. Tracing the nativism that has bedeviled the environmental movement for decades, they tell the fascinating story of eco-conscious, upscale Aspen, which was gripped by anti-immigrant fervor in the name of 'saving the planet.' A great addition for courses on environment, race, class, social activism and contemporary problems. -- Juliet Schor,Boston College, and author of The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't NeedIts the perfect text to look at the intersection between social and environmental issues. -- Marci Krivonen * Aspen Public Radio *A pair of sociologists, in their new book, paint a damning picture of the stark inequalities between local immigrant laborers and Aspen vacationers and the wealthy homeowners they serve. -- Andrew Travers * Aspen Daily News *Park and Pellow offer a blistering critique of environmental privilege and immigrant discrimination within the Rocky Mountains' elite playground of Aspen, Colorado...their argument effectively extends well beyond Aspen's ski slopes and elite shopping streets. -- M.M. Gunter Jr. * Choice *The Slums of Aspentouches a wide variety of important topics both inside and outside the subdiscipline of environmental sociology. It takes long-lasting debates about population growth and examines them anew. It should be of interest to scholars in social movements, race, labor studies, political sociology, leisure studies, to name a few. Its main strength is that it engages so many different, and new areas, of environmental justice, and most importantly, provides a big step forward toward understanding the causes and consequences of environmental privilege, as well as the struggles by some to oppose its racially motivated 'green' politics. -- Justin Farrell * Mobilization *A brilliant, darkly funny expose of Aspen, the ruling classes' green utopia, and the invisible, scorned immigrant labor that makes it all possible. -- Mike Davis,author of Magical Urbanism and No One is Illegal[Park and Pellow] provide an impactful account of a wealthy Colorado community's attempt to limit the number of immigrants in their neighborhoods and their reasoning for doing so: environmental protection. * The National Memo *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Environmental Privilege in the Rocky Mountains 1 The Logic of Aspen 2 The Ultimate Elite Retreat 3 Living in Someone Else's Paradise 4 Nativism and the Environmental Movement 5 Advocacy and Social Justice Workers Conclusion: Dreams of Privilege/Visions of Justice Notes on Research Methods Notes References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2016 Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book AwardA collection of insightful and heartbreaking essays on Muslim-American life after 9/11Over the last few years, Moustafa Bayoumi has been an extra in Sex and the City 2 playing a generic Arab, a terrorist suspect (or at least his namesake Mustafa Bayoumi was) in a detective novel, the subject of a trumped-up controversy because a book he had written was seen by right-wing media as pushing an anti-American, pro-Islam agenda, and was asked by a U.S. citizenship officer to drop his middle name of Mohamed. Others have endured far worse fates. Sweeping arrests following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 led to the incarceration and deportation of thousands of Arabs and Muslims, based almost solely on their national origin and immigration status. The NYPD, with help from the CIA, has aggressively spied on Muslims in the New York area as they go about their ordinary lives, from noting where they get their hair cutTrade Review"Some of the essays were written as many as 15 years ago. Still, the policies he writes about have been much-discussed of latefrom Muslim registration programs to increased surveillance of Muslim communities." * amExpress *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: My Muslim American Life 1 PART I. MUSLIMS IN HISTORY 1. Letter to a G-Man 23 2. East of the Sun (West of the Moon): Islam, the Ahmadis, and African America 35 3. Racing Religion 48 PART II. MUSLIMS IN THEORY 4. Sects and the City 75 5. A Bloody Stupid War 78 6. The God That Failed: The Neo-Orientalism of Today's Muslim Commentators 99 PART III. MUSLIMS IN POLITICS 7. The Rites and Rights of Citizenship 121 8. Between Acceptance and Rejection: Muslim Americans and the Legacies of September 11 128 9. Fear and Loathing of Islam 140 10. The Oak Creek Massacre 148 11. White with Rage 152 vi Contents PART IV. MUSLIMS IN CULTURE 12. My Arab Problem 169 13. Disco Inferno 175 14. The Race Is On: Muslims and Arabs in the American Imagination 185 15. Men Behaving Badly 210 16. Chaos and Procedure 217 17. Coexistence 240 Conclusion: Our Muslim American Lives 253

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Book SynopsisThe essential guide to understanding how racism works and how racial inequality shapes black lives, ultimately offering a road-map for resistance for racial justice advocates and antiracists When #BlackLivesMatter went viral in 2013, it shed a light on the urgent, daily struggles of black Americans to combat racial injustice. The message resonated with millions across the country. Yet many of our political, social, and economic institutions are still embedded with racist policies and practices that devalue black lives. Stay Woke directly addresses these stark injustices and builds on the lessons of racial inequality and intersectionality the Black Lives Matter movement has challenged its fellow citizens to learn. In this essential primer, Tehama Lopez Bunyasi and Candis Watts Smith inspire readers to address the pressing issues of racial inequality, and provide a basic toolkit that will equip readers to become knowledgeable participants in public debate, activism, and politics. This Trade ReviewThis is the essential guide on race, racism, the BLM movement, fighting for racial justice, fighting against racial injustice, and more. I am looking at you, fellow white people! Buy this book and read it. Own it, love it, memorize it, and live it. * Ms. Magazine *An examination of the Black Lives Matter movement that bridges gaps between academic discourse and popular culture in powerful, provocative ways ... A valuable guidebook that deconstructs myths and provides actionable steps people can take to avoid complacency and complicity; essential reading on social justice. * STARRED Library Journal *Lays bare the common sense assumptions that both sustain and obscure racism..Makes it impossible for anyone to sleep on 'Black Lives Matter' and the ongoing struggle to end racism as we know it. * Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination *An accessible guide to understanding structural racism and the goals of the Black Lives Matter movement and related organizations, both within a historical context and through contemporary lenses. * Choice *This book will prove useful to anyone interested in seeing America strive to live up to its purported values of equality, liberty, and justice. [...] Stay Woke is refreshingly direct, comprehensive, inspirational, and unapologetically antiracist. * Political Science Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisThe views and experiences of multiracial people as parentsThe world's multiracial population is considered to be one of the fastest growing of all ethnic groups. In the United States alone, it is estimated that over 20% of the population will be considered mixed race by 2050. Public figuressuch as former President Barack Obama and Hollywood actress Ruth Neggafurther highlight the highly diverse backgrounds of those classified under the umbrella term of multiracial. Multiracial Parents considers how mixed-race parents identify with and draw from their cultural backgrounds in raising and socializing their children. Miri Song presents a groundbreaking examination of how the meanings and practices surrounding multiracial identification are passed down through the generations. A revealing portrait of how multiracial identity is and is not transmitted to children, Multiracial Parents focuses on couples comprised of one White and one non-white minority, who were mostly first generation mixeTrade Review"Miri Song’s Multiracial Parents …. is a long-overdue addition to the sociological literature in mixed race studies. Multiracial Parents makes an invaluable contribution to the sociology of race and ethnicity, mixed-race studies, and race and ethnic studies more generally, as well as the sociology of the family and social psychology. Song’s book would be an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate courses as well as for interested readers in the general public." -- American Journal of Sociology"Miri Song in Multiracial Parents examines multiracial people as parents and how they racially socialize their children, including whether a multiracial identity is passed down to the next generation… Song argues that the prevalence of multiracial parents labeling their children as mixed reflects generational continuity in multiracial identity and mixed-ness gaining purchase in Britain. She also challenges the notion that a multiracial label signals an attempt by mixed race people to distance themselves from their minority status, as many parents actively maintained or revitalized their minority heritage through their parenting practices." -- Qualitative Sociology"Song raises critical issues about the varying structures of race, racism, and the demise and persistence of ethnicity and race as meaningful categories due to differential histories including relationships to slavery, colonialism, nationalism, religion, and indigeneity." * Journal of Asian American Research *"A novel and searching look at how mixed race people contemplate and confront parenthood. Though their circumstances may seem unique, Song compellingly shows how their experiences and reflections speak volumes about how race is more widely understood. Questions of appearance, community, racism, and ancestry may take on particular forms for multiracial parents, but their power and poignancy clearly derive from the weight they hold for all of us" -- Ann Morning,Author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference"A rich account of the complexities of racially classifying mixed-race children. Song strikes at the heart of where mixed-race identity and its variants - such as to identify as White or non-White - are formed. By following parents accounts, this innovative and important book helps us understand an important dimension of a world of increasing ethnoracial diversity." -- Edward E. Telles,Author of Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America"An insightful study that illuminates a neglected group: multiracial parents who are raising children. We learn how second-generation multiracials conceptualize and negotiate the meaning of race, racism, and the identity formation of their children." -- France Winddance Twine,Author of A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy

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Book SynopsisThe work at hand for bridging the racial divide in the United States From Baltimore and Ferguson to Flint and Charleston, the dream of a post-racial era in America has run up against the continuing reality of racial antagonism. Current debates about affirmative action, multiculturalism, and racial hate speech reveal persistent uncertainty and ambivalence about the place and meaning of race and especially the black/white divide in American culture. They also suggest that the work of racial reconciliation remains incomplete. Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation seeks to assess where we are in that work, examining sources of continuing racial antagonism among blacks and whites. It also highlights strategies that promise to promote racial reconciliation in the future. Rather than revisit arguments about the importance of integration, assimilation, and reparations, the contributors explore previously unconsidered perspectives on reconciliation between blacks and whites. ChaptTrade ReviewFor critical readers wondering whether racial reconciliation is possible in the United States, whether many in the country are committed to curing the nations racial divisions, and what strategies might move the nation towards healing, Ogletree and Sarats new volume presents an extraordinary collection of modern essayists, looking back at de Tocqueville and Myrdal and forward to myriad lingering barriers to equal citizenship in American life. This compelling book lays bare the many challenges to and opportunities for reconciliation in this age of systemic racial disadvantage. -- Bryan K. Fair,author of Notes of a Racial Caste BabyAt a time when we sorely need it, this book challenges us not only to confront the painful state of race relations in this country but also to do the difficult work necessary to heal the deep wounds caused by our divisions. This collection of essays, written by a dynamic group of preeminent scholars, tackles some of the toughest social problems of our day, from discrimination and mistreatment of black and brown youth in public schools and in the criminal justice system to seemingly impenetrable segregation in the pews of churches across the country on Sunday morning. -- Montré D. Carodine,Professor of Law, The University of Alabama School of Law

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