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Book SynopsisWhen the French government passed a ban on the veil in 2011, surprisingly few French feminists spoke out against the racist measure. Christine Delphy--the sociologist who Simone de Beauvoir once described as "France's most exciting feminist writer"--was one of the notable few. Castigating humanitarian liberals for demanding cultural assimilation of the women they were purporting to "save," Delphy showed how criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism was fundamentally paradoxical. Dominating Others is Delphy's manifesto against this tendency, and for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place different political struggles in a false opposition. Dismantling the absurd claim that Afghanistan was invaded to save women, alongside the notion that homosexuals and immigrants alike should reserve their self-expression for private settings, Dominating Others is a call for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others.Trade ReviewFrance's most exciting feminist writer. -- Simone de Beauvoir

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Book SynopsisMany people struggle to have honest conversations about race, even those who consider themselves allies or identify as anti-racist. For anyone who wants to have better, more productive discussions, COURAGEOUS DISCOMFORT is an empowering handbook that teaches you how to do just that. In these pages, authors (and best friends), Shanterra McBride, who is Black, and Rosalind Wiseman, who is white, discuss their own friendship and tap into their decades of anti-racism work to answer the 20 uncomfortable-but-critical questions about race they get asked most often, including: - Should I see color? - I'm a good person - how can I be racist? - What if I say something wrong? - What kind of apology makes a difference? These 20 questions-as-chapters invite you into the conversation without judgment and inspire thoughtful reflection and discussion. There will be moments when you will laugh or cringe at the ridiculous or awkward things you read. But the truth is, there is no perfect solution or script for every maybe-racist, sort-of-racist, or blatantly racist situation. And that's OK: making mistakes is just an opportunity to do better next time. But doing this work will empower us to have the relationships we really want to have, including the relationship we want to have with ourselves.

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Book SynopsisEquality and Anti-Discrimination Law covers The Equality Act 2010 and other anti-discrimination protections both within the UK legislation and in the context of EU law.The UK's approach to ensuring equality for the workforce is notoriously difficult to navigate, with various aspects of protection being contained and discussed across a range of statutory and non-statutory instruments. Although the Equality Act 2010 is often viewed as central to the equality laws of the UK, there are other key areas that must also be borne in mind, including atypical worker protection and family friendly regulation: each of these are discussed to sufficient detail to enable the reader to gain a working understanding of how each operates.In considering each of these key areas this text attempts to decipher and navigate each of them with the end user in mind. The protections, and the thresholds that need to be satisfied to acquire the protections, are broken down into their constituent parts and analysed using key case law and relevant codes of practices with a view to ensuring that their practical use is understood by the reader. Through adopting this approach the book ensures that the reader gets to grips with key concepts that protect on an equality footing.The text takes account of case law from both UK courts, and European Courts where this is needed. This helps show the interaction that UK and EU law has in the area of equality law, and that the systems are interdependent to some extent.For those wishing to go beyond the simple practical application of the law the text touches upon a number of academic debates that exist in the area of equality law, to further stimulate those with an interest in the law, but further to highlight some of the perceived weaknesses that exist with the UK's current approach to equality protection, and whets the appetite for further discussion.Table of Contents Contents List of abbreviations Table of authorities 1. Introduction to Equality Law 1.1. The legal landscape 1.2. Purpose of this text 1.3. Structure 2. Development of Non-Discrimination/Equality Protection 2.1. European Union Level 2.2. European Convention of Human Rights 2.3. National Level 3. Defining Equality 3.1. Introduction 4. The Equality Act 2010 4.1. Public Sector Equality Duty 4.2. Combined Discrimination 4.3. Direct Discrimination 4.4. Indirect Discrimination 4.5. Harassment 4.6. Victimisation 4.7. Vicarious Liability of Employers 4.8. Instructions to Discriminate and aiding a contravention 4.9. Discriminatory Advertisements 4.10. Disability Discrimination Protections 5. Defences 5.1. Genuine Occupational Requirements 5.2. Positive Action 5.3. Statutory Defence 5.4. Illegal contracts 5.5. National Security 6. Scope of the Equality Act 2010 6.1. Working Arrangments 7. Protected Grounds 7.1. Age 7.2. Disability 7.3. Gender Reassignment 7.4. Marriage and Civil Partnership 7.5. Race 7.6. Religion or Belief 7.7. Sex 7.8. Sexual Orientation 7.9. Pregnant Workers and Maternity 8. Evidencing Unlawful Discrimination 8.1. Burden of Proof 8.2. Presentation of a Complaint 9. Remedies for Direct and Indirect Discrimination, Harassment and Victimisation Claims 9.1. Compensation for direct discrimination, harassment and victimisation claims 9.2. Recommendation 9.3. Declaration 10. Equal Pay 10.1. Introduction 10.2. The Gender Pay Gap 10.3. The Scope of the Equal Pay Protections 10.4. The Sex Equality Clause 10.5. Choosing a Suitable Comparator 10.6. The Genuine Material Factor Justification 10.7. Bringing a Claim 10.8. Remedying Equal Pay Claims 10.9. Conclusions on Equal Pay 11. Family Friendly Policy 11.1. Introduction 11.2. Right to Request Flexible Working 11.3. Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Rights 11.4. Conclusions on family friendly policies 12. Atypical Worker Protection: 12.1. Introduction 12.2. Part-Time Worker Protection 12.3. Fixed-Term Workers 12.4. Conclusions 13. Concluding Remarks Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful and revealing collection of essays focuses on seven Welsh women who, in a range of imaginative ways, resisted the status quo in Wales, England and beyond during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Written by an acclaimed biographical historian, the essays not only challenge expectations about how women’s lives were lived in the last two centuries, they also explore different ways of approaching biographical writing and understanding, as well as raising issues of gender and nationality. From the pioneer doctor and champion of progressive causes, Frances Hoggan, to the irrepressible twentieth-century novelist Menna Gallie, these women spoke out for what they believed in, and sometimes they paid the price. Although proud of their Welsh identity, they articulated it in a variety of ways, and each spent most of their adult lives outside Wales. They became familiar, and often controversial voices, on the page and platform in London, Oxford, Northern Ireland and internationally. Lady Rhondda and Edith Picton-Turbervill championed women’s equality at the centre of power in Westminster, whilst Myvanwy and Olwen Rhŷs saw education as the key to change. Women’s suffrage played a prominent part in the lives of these women and was especially central to Margaret Wynne Nevinson’s thinking, writing and actions. The intelligence, determination and grit of these women is revealed through their stirring stories. Taken together, the essays critically investigate the challenges, setbacks and hard-won achievements of feisty women who rocked the boat over a period of 150 years.

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Book SynopsisThe challenge of developing forms of practice that are effective in tackling discrimination and oppression remains a major one. In Promoting Equality, Valuing Diversity, internationally renowned author Dr Neil Thompson explores a wide range of issues relating to equality and diversity. Topics include the case for equality and diversity, understanding and challenging discrimination in relation to age, race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability and religion.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book that examines how “ethnic spectacle” in the form of Asian and Latin American bodies played a significant role in the cultural Cold War at three historic junctures: the Korean War in 1950, the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and the statehood of Hawaii in 1959. As a means to strengthen U.S. internationalism and in an effort to combat the growing influence of communism, television variety shows, such as The Xavier Cugat Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, and The Chevy Show, were envisioned as early forms of global television. Beyond the Black and White TV examines the intimate moments of cultural interactions between the white hosts and the ethnic guests to illustrate U.S. aspirations for global power through the medium of television. These depictions of racial harmony aimed to shape a new perception of the United States as an exemplary nation of democracy, equality, and globalism.Trade Review"The Cold War has been studied by many, but this is the first book that does so by looking at how the “ethnic spectacle” helped the United States in winning the cultural Cold War."— Journal of Popular Culture "Fascinating, compelling, and important, Beyond the Black and White TV demonstrates how government objectives were married with the goals of television productions to display migration, integration, and global imagination in order to control discourses of race and nation.This work reframes television history through the lens of variety shows by engaging with race from an industry perspective, informing readers how race factored into the production of genre and national identity." — L.S. Kim, associate professor, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz "Benjamin M. Han illuminates the secret history of the American variety show, deftly revealing the cosmopolitan roots of a familiar TV format. A major contribution to the cultural history of the Cold War."— Christina Klein, author of Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema "Beyond the Black and White TV makes a convincing and timely argument that the history of Asian and Latin American media representation is the history of anticommunism [and] serves as a warning to critically examine such media representation as more than merely evidence of America’s racial liberalism but also as an instrument for its political interests."— Journal of Asian American Studies "This book illustrates the process by which various races coexist to construct a state and how television programs are used to form national identity… Readers tired of examining the Cold War only in the context of international politics will enjoy understanding the conflict through various experiences of racial diversity and ambiguity." — Wonjung Min, Asian Communication ResearchTable of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Narratives of Integration: Ethnic Spectacle and Las Vegas 2 Narratives of Exchange: Asian/ American Performers after the Korean War 3 Narratives of Partnership: Latin American Entertainers in the Post-Cuban Revolution 4 Narratives of Co-Existence: Pacific Islanders and the Statehood of Hawaii’i Epilogue Epilogue Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTo Defend this Sunrise examines how black women on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua engage in regional, national, and transnational modes of activism to remap the nation’s racial order under conditions of increasing economic precarity and autocracy. The book considers how, since the 19th century, black women activists have resisted historical and contemporary patterns of racialized state violence, economic exclusion, territorial dispossession, and political repression. Specifically, it explores how the new Sandinista state under Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has utilized multicultural rhetoric as a mode of political, economic, and territorial dispossession. In the face of the Sandinista state’s co-optation of multicultural discourse and growing authoritarianism, black communities have had to recalibrate their activist strategies and modes of critique to resist these new forms of “multicultural dispossession.” This concept describes the ways that state actors and institutions drain multiculturalism of its radical, transformative potential by espousing the rhetoric of democratic recognition while simultaneously supporting illiberal practices and policies that undermine black political demands and weaken the legal frameworks that provide the basis for the claims of these activists against the state. Trade Review"This is a very important and well-written book that will be attractive for scholars and students of race, gender, political activism, and citizenship in Latin America. Courtney Morris' work is essential for understanding the politics of authoritarianism and resistance in present-day Nicaragua." -- Karen Kampwirth * author of Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba *"Morris has written a profoundly brilliant, sophisticated, and nuanced critique of mestizo nationalism. This book is a gift for anyone who cares about feminist organizing, ending anti-Black racism, and understanding contemporary authoritarianism, state violence, and mestizo hegemony in Nicaragua. It is also anthropology at its best, seeking to right the wrongs in the historical record by centering Black women’s struggles for autonomy and self-determination on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast." -- Victoria González-Rivera * author of Before the Revolution: Women's Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821–1979 *Table of ContentsPreface: An Unexpected Uprising? Introduction: Black Women’s Activism in Dangerous Times Part I: Genealogies 1 Grand Dames, Garveyites, and Obeah Women: State Violence, Regional Radicalisms, and Unruly Femininities in the Mosquitia 2 Entre el Rojo y Negro: Black Women’s Social Memory and the Sandinista Revolution Part II: Multicultural Dispossession 3 Cruise Ships, Call Centers, and Chamba: Managing Autonomy and Multiculturalism in the Neoliberal Era 4 Dangerous Locations: Black Suffering, Mestizo Victimhood, and the Geography of Blame in the Struggle for Land Rights Part III: Resisting State Violence 5 “See how de blood dey run”: Sexual Violence, Silence, and the Politics of Intimate Solidarity 6 From Autonomy to Autocracy: Development, Multicultural Dispossession, and the Authoritarian Turn Conclusion: Transition in Saeculae Saeculorum Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisScholars have long explored school desegregation through various lenses, examining policy, the role of the courts and federal government, resistance and backlash, and the fight to preserve Black schools. However, few studies have examined the group experiences of students within desegregated schools. Crossing Segregated Boundaries centers the experiences of over sixty graduates of the class of 1988 in three desegregated Chicago high schools. Chicago’s housing segregation and declining white enrollments severely curtailed the city’s school desegregation plan, and as a result desegregation options were academically stratified, providing limited opportunities for a chosen few while leaving the majority of students in segregated, underperforming schools. Nevertheless, desegregation did provide a transformative opportunity for those students involved. While desegregation was the external impetus that brought students together, the students themselves made integration possible, and many students found that the few years that they spent in these schools had a profound impact on broadening their understanding of different racial and ethnic groups. In very real ways, desegregated schools reduced racial isolation for those who took part.Trade Review"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation." -- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland * author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s *"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." -- Hilton Kelly * author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers *"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings." * Ethic and Racial Studies *"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening." * History of Education Quarterly *"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation." -- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland * author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s *"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." -- Hilton Kelly * author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers *"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings." * Ethic and Racial Studies *"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening." * History of Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Segregation, Politics, and School Desegregation Policy 2 Busing, Boycotts, and Elementary School Experiences 3 “The World is Bigger than Just My Local Community”: Choosing and Traveling to High Schools 4 “I Don’t Know If It Was a Racial Thing or Not”: Academic Experiences and Curriculum 5 “We Were from All Over Town”: Interracial Experiences in and out of School 6 “We All Got Along”: Difficulties and Difference 7 After High School and Desegregation Benefits Conclusion: Continuing Inequality Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisScholars have long explored school desegregation through various lenses, examining policy, the role of the courts and federal government, resistance and backlash, and the fight to preserve Black schools. However, few studies have examined the group experiences of students within desegregated schools. Crossing Segregated Boundaries centers the experiences of over sixty graduates of the class of 1988 in three desegregated Chicago high schools. Chicago’s housing segregation and declining white enrollments severely curtailed the city’s school desegregation plan, and as a result desegregation options were academically stratified, providing limited opportunities for a chosen few while leaving the majority of students in segregated, underperforming schools. Nevertheless, desegregation did provide a transformative opportunity for those students involved. While desegregation was the external impetus that brought students together, the students themselves made integration possible, and many students found that the few years that they spent in these schools had a profound impact on broadening their understanding of different racial and ethnic groups. In very real ways, desegregated schools reduced racial isolation for those who took part.Trade Review"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation." -- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland * author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s *"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." -- Hilton Kelly * author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers *"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings." * Ethic and Racial Studies *"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening." * History of Education Quarterly *"In a nation still grappling with segregation, this timely book elevates the voices of Black, Latinx, and White students to craft a compelling collective narrative of the experience of desegregation." -- Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland * author of A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s *"Thoughtful and well-written, Crossing Segregated Boundaries complicates a literature that people think they know well. This book will be celebrated by Chicagoans and by anyone interested in school desegregation, race and education, and the experiences of minority students during desegregation." -- Hilton Kelly * author of Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers *"A unique window into the lesser-known experiences of students who participated in a desegregation programme in a northern city in the 1980s, three decades after the Brown rulings." * Ethic and Racial Studies *"The recollections that Danns assembles in Crossing Segregated Boundaries constitute an important contribution to histories of the desegregation era. Chicago's school integration programs were anti-systemic, built from a pessimistic view of the city's body politic. Yet in Danns's narrators, we recover memories of a buoyant optimism about intercultural connection and belonging. Danns reminds us that if we want a better view of how schools have structured social arrangements and condensed civic values, we might need to ask people what it was like when it was happening." * History of Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Segregation, Politics, and School Desegregation Policy 2 Busing, Boycotts, and Elementary School Experiences 3 “The World is Bigger than Just My Local Community”: Choosing and Traveling to High Schools 4 “I Don’t Know If It Was a Racial Thing or Not”: Academic Experiences and Curriculum 5 “We Were from All Over Town”: Interracial Experiences in and out of School 6 “We All Got Along”: Difficulties and Difference 7 After High School and Desegregation Benefits Conclusion: Continuing Inequality Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2022 Cheiron Book Prize An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in particular on the influence of phrenology. In the United States, phrenology shaped the production of medico-legal knowledge around crime, the treatment of the criminal within prisons and in public discourse, and sociocultural expectations about the causes of crime. The criminal was phrenology’s ideal research and demonstration subject, and the courtroom and the prison were essential spaces for the staging of scientific expertise. In particular, phrenology constructed ways of looking as well as a language for identifying, understanding, and analyzing criminals and their actions. This work traces the long-lasting influence of phrenological visual culture and language in American culture, law, and medicine, as well as the practical uses of phrenology in courts, prisons, and daily life. Trade Review"The book will be of clear interest to those interested in phrenology, but it will also be relevant to scholars working in the history of criminology and punishment. One reason is Thompson's excellent demonstration of phrenology's reliance on the prison, which raises larger questions about criminology's relationship with confinement....An Organ of Murder will prove interesting and helpful to scholars working in the history of criminology and punishment." — Punishment & Society Privacy International - Technology Pill podcast interview with Courtney Thompson— Privacy International - Technology Pill podcast "An Organ of Murder is a fascinating, well-written history of phrenology....Recommended."— Choice "For a compelling introduction to what a new generation of scholars is discovering about the perennially interesting topic of phrenology, Courtney E. Thompson’s An Organ of Murder comes highly recommended. This sophisticated, well-written history explores an aspect of phrenology that deserves more attention: its influence on both elite and popular conceptions of criminality....An Organ of Murder should find an appreciative readership not only among historians of science and medicine but also scholars interested in the new carceral history."— Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Scienes "This short but informative book will appeal to anyone with an interest in phrenology, criminology, or the histories of psychiatry, psychology, and related fields, especially in nineteenth-century America. It fills a void, is well researched, and is written in an engaging and captivating way."— Journal of the History of Neurosciences An Organ of Murder? - BYU Radio "Constant Wonder" interview with Courtney E. Thompson— BYU Radio, "Constant Wonder" "Unlike many existing studies of phrenology, which tend to focus on the science’s European fortunes, Thompson takes on the nineteenth-century United States, particularly the period from 1830 to 1860. The book situates phrenology in the history of American criminal justice and the emerging conceptualization of criminality as an innate biological predisposition....Thompson adds a new, distinctively legal note to recent histories of phrenological science."— New Rambler Review "This book provides much needed insight into the confluence of phrenology, criminal justice, and the attempts by Americans to better explain, understand, and even correct criminal behavior in the nineteenth century and beyond."— Law and History Review "In this compelling book, Courtney Thompson takes readers to the prisons, courtrooms, and streets of antebellum cities to expose just how phrenology claimed authority on criminality. Rich in detail and analysis, An Organ of Murder vividly illustrates the long history of making criminal minds and bodies into objects of medical and scientific inquiry." — Carla Bittel, Loyola Marymount University "Courtney Thompson provocatively measures the face, head, and soul of American phrenology and invites us to a discovery of the historical origins of scientific criminology."— Stephen Casper, Clarkson University "Professor Thompson’s book does what it does quite well. It is an important contribution to the literature. And we might expect that it will be a guide to contemporary legal theory as well. It surely should be."— Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "Vividly narrated with great wit and insight, An Organ of Murder constitutes an important contribution to the history of criminology as well as phrenology, with important implications for the practice of law and the human sciences... Thompson succeeds brilliantly. An Organ of Murder deserves a wide readership among historians and legal scholars, who will readily see the importance of following her leads."— Susanna L. Blumenthal, Isis Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Sciences of the Mind forum held in partnership with American Philosophical Society: Courtney Thompson and Alicia Puglionesi in discussion — Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine - Sciences of the Mind "New Books Network - New Books in Medicine" interview with Courtney E. Thompson— New Books Network - New Books in Medicine "Thompson presents an impressively researched and appealingly structured argument for the importance of crime and punishment to phrenology, that problematic frontrunner of so many human and social sciences."— Journal of the History of the Behavioral ScienceTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Through a Mirror, Darkly 1 Origins and Organs 2 Transatlantic Societies and Skulls 3 Phrenology on Trial 4 The Prison as Laboratory 5 Policing the Self and the Stranger 6 A Victory for Phrenology? Epilogue Phrenological Futures Notes Bibliography Inde

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention - 2022 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Special Admission contradicts the national belief that college sports provide upward mobility opportunities. Kirsten Hextrum documents how white middle-class youth become overrepresented on college teams. Her institutional ethnography of one elite athletic and academic institution includes over 100 hours of interviews with college rowers and track & field athletes. She charts the historic and contemporary relationships between colleges, athletics, and white middle-class communities that ensure white suburban youth are advantaged in special athletic admissions. Suburban youth start ahead in college admissions because athletic merit—the competencies desired by university recruiters—requires access to vast familial, communal, and economic resources, all of which are concentrated in their neighborhoods. Their advantages increase as youth, parents, and coaches strategically invest in and engineer novel opportunities to maintain their race and class status. Thus, college sports allow white, middle-class athletes to accelerate their racial and economic advantages through admission to elite universities.Trade Review“Special Admission is a truly outstanding work that provides a point of informed entry into a previously largely neglected topic. It is a graphic indictment of an institution which–despite all reifying allusions to the contrary–is a highly effective engine of social differentiation.” — David L. Andrews, Physical Cultural Studies Research Group, University of Maryland, author of Making Sport Great Again "Readers engaging with this book can expect to understand the historical, political, and economic factors that influence current practices in college admissions, with a critical analysis about the racial and gender exclusion of non-white athletes and the concentration of resources in white, suburban areas. Central themes within the work focus on race, gender, economic status, state control and access to resources as the contextual factors that influence the favoritism of white athletes in college admissions."— International Journal of Educational Integrity "Special Admission: Dr. Kirsten Hextrum Discusses How College Athletic Recruitment Favors White Suburbia" — Diverse: Issues in Higher Education "With careful research and astute analysis, Kirsten Hextrum unveils the systemic ways privilege works in and through sport. Special Admission is a game-changer for anyone who cares about college sports and social justice."— Michael A. Messner, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, University of Southern California "Supreme Court Roundup: Voting Rights And NCAA Athletes" interview with Kristen Hextrum— WORT - "A Public Affair" "What the NCAA ruling really means for student athletes" by Faith Karimi— CNN.com "College athletics are routinely portrayed as a vehicle of social mobility. Kirsten Hextrum proves that the opposite is true. White-dominated sports, such as crew and lacrosse, offer a hidden pathway to college admissions that is known only to affluent, suburban parents. Meticulously researched and conversationally written, Special Admission exposes the fundamental unfairness and hypocrisy of college sports. It impels action."— Evan J. Mandery, author of A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America "Kirsten Hextrum has perfect timing. Her work is not only topical but carefully researched and very well-argued. She reveals the extent of special admissions for athletes and its negative effects: on the university and, ironically, often on the athletes themselves. Special Admission is a must-read for everyone concerned with unfair college admission procedures, and especially for all those parents who are dreaming of athletic scholarships for their children."— Murray Sperber, Indiana University, Bloomington, author of Beer and Circus: How Bigtime College Sports Is CripplingTable of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Gentlemen’s Agreement: College Sports Become a State Institution 2 The State Alignment: White Suburbia and Athletic Talent 3 Build a Wall: The State Segregates Sports 4 Activating Capital: Pay-to-Play Sports 5 A Guide: Socializing Future College Athletes 6 The Offer Letter: Athletic Talent Secures Preferential College Access Conclusion: Altering the Path Appendix A: Study Participant Background Characteristics Appendix B: Participant Recruitment Appendix C: High School Sports Relative to College Sports Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisProtests against racial injustice and anti-Blackness have swept across elite colleges and universities in recent years, exposing systemic racism and raising questions about what it means for Black students to belong at these institutions. In Black Space, Sherry L. Deckman takes us into the lives of the members of the Kuumba Singers, a Black student organization at Harvard with racially diverse members, and a self-proclaimed safe space for anyone but particularly Black students. Uniquely focusing on Black students in an elite space where they are the majority, Deckman provides a case study in how colleges and universities might reimagine safe spaces. Through rich description and sharing moments in students’ everyday lives, Deckman demonstrates the possibilities and challenges Black students face as they navigate campus culture and the refuge they find in this organization. This work illuminates ways administrators, faculty, student affairs staff, and indeed, students themselves, might productively address issues of difference and anti-Blackness for the purpose of fostering critically inclusive campus environments. Trade Review“Sherry Deckman has written an important volume about how space, place, and identity are racialized through campus life that is truly a gift. People should read, reflect, and hopefully struggle with the complexity presented in this study because of its implications for how we work towards diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education.” -- W. Carson Byrd * Faculty Director of Research Initiatives, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan *"Deckman’s treatment of cultivating safe Black space in an elite, predominately white university context is masterful and instructive. As it turns out, mission, commitment, transparency, respect, care, and most importantly, love comprise the necessary chords to maintain a racially safe space for Black students that centers blackness and where non-Black students may also choose to participate. How much better off our schools and universities would become if only they embodied the lessons that Deckman beautifully conveys." -- Keffrelyn D. Brown * Suzanne B. and John L. Adams Endowed Professor of Education *“Sherry Deckman has written an important volume about how space, place, and identity are racialized through campus life that is truly a gift. People should read, reflect, and hopefully struggle with the complexity presented in this study because of its implications for how we work towards diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher education.” -- W. Carson Byrd * Faculty Director of Research Initiatives, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of *"Deckman’s treatment of cultivating safe Black space in an elite, predominately white university context is masterful and instructive. As it turns out, mission, commitment, transparency, respect, care, and most importantly, love comprise the necessary chords to maintain a racially safe space for Black students that centers blackness and where non-Black students may also choose to participate. How much better off our schools and universities would become if only they embodied the lessons that Deckman beautifully conveys." -- Keffrelyn D. Brown * Suzanne B. and John L. Adams Endowed Professor of Education *Table of ContentsForeword by Richard J. Reddick Introduction: How Do You Lift Every Voice? Prelude: (Un)Safe Space and Racial Diversity in the Ivory Tower Verse I: Being Black Verse II: Staying Black Bridge: Non-Black Members in the Black Choir Chorus: Learning to Care Coda: Lessons from the Safe Black Space Appendix A: Interview Participants Appendix B: Note on Methods Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThrough a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees’ grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency shows how Hmong, despite being one of America’s most economically impoverished ethnic groups, were able to make sustained claims on and have their interests represented in public policies. The author, Yang Sao Xiong argues that the key to understanding how immigrants incorporate themselves politically is to understand how they mobilize collective action and make choices in circumstances far from racially neutral. Immigrant groups, in response to political threats or opportunities or both, mobilize collective action and make strategic choices about how to position themselves vis-à-vis other minority groups, how to construct group identities, and how to deploy various tactics in order to engage with the U.S. political system and influence policy. In response to immigrants’ collective claims, the racial state engages in racialization which undermines immigrants’ political standing and perpetuates their marginalization.Trade Review"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *"Immigrant Agency provides new insights about the Hmong American experience and puts race at the center of its analysis to understand the complex ways in which the state constrains political incorporation and how refugees themselves have engaged in political action to shape public policy. Xiong's well-crafted and informative book changes the way in which we understand refugee populations and their political incorporation in the U.S." -- Dina Okamoto * author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries *"In Immigrant Agency, Xiong offers a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of immigrant collective action and political incorporation through the case of Hmong Americans. He sheds light on how a vulnerable group of refugees from Laos, in response to political threats or opportunities, strategically interacts with the state and other minority groups to effectively influence public policies. This is an important contribution to the fields of migration studies, ethnic politics and Asian American studies." -- Min Zhou * Distinguished Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA *Table of ContentsList of Tables and FiguresList of MapsList of Abbreviations1 Immigrant Agency2 History and Contexts of Exit3 Campaign for Justice4 Battle for Naturalization5 Movement for Inclusion6 Racialized Political Incorporation and Immigrant RightsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.Trade Review“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbsence Abuse Angel Babies AwarenessBabyland Black Infant Mortality Blame BreastfeedingChildren’s Rights CIA World Factbook Congressional Black Caucus CubaDads Deprivation Disability DoulasEmptiness Envy EpigeneticsFolic acid Fracking FrankensteinGrief GuiltHopeInfant Mortality Rate InfanticideJapanKangaroo CareLifeMaternal Mortality Medicaid Memphis Mother’s DayNeonatology NursesObstetric Violence OhioPlacenta Prematurity Prenatal CareQuietRacism Rainbow Baby Reproductive JusticeStillbirth SurvivalTahlequah TraumaUrgency VulnerabilityWashington, D.C. Weathering Women’s HealthXenophobia Y earning ZIP Code

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.Trade Review“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *“This is a moving, beautiful book. The composite effect is stunning, both an indictment of systemic racism and sexism, and a tender offering to those touched by baby loss... The text seamlessly weaves between the personal and the sociological, and is very accessible while also being nuanced and not sacrificing complexity.” -- Annie Menzel * Assistant professor of gender and women's studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison *“This book contains entries that are robust in their exploration of intersecting concerns around infant mortality. It is important, timely, and innovative.” -- Dána-Ain Davis * Author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth *Clio Talks: Babylost: An Interview with Monica Casper by Lauren Freidenfelds * Nursing Clio *Table of ContentsIntroductionAbsence Abuse Angel Babies AwarenessBabyland Black Infant Mortality Blame BreastfeedingChildren’s Rights CIA World Factbook Congressional Black Caucus CubaDads Deprivation Disability DoulasEmptiness Envy EpigeneticsFolic acid Fracking FrankensteinGrief GuiltHopeInfant Mortality Rate InfanticideJapanKangaroo CareLifeMaternal Mortality Medicaid Memphis Mother’s DayNeonatology NursesObstetric Violence OhioPlacenta Prematurity Prenatal CareQuietRacism Rainbow Baby Reproductive JusticeStillbirth SurvivalTahlequah TraumaUrgency VulnerabilityWashington, D.C. Weathering Women’s HealthXenophobia Y earning ZIP Code

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Book SynopsisMaking Choices, Making Do is a comparative study of Black and white working-class women’s survival strategies during the Great Depression. Based on analysis of employment histories and Depression-era interviews of 1,340 women in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and South Bend and letters from domestic workers, Lois Helmbold discovered that Black women lost work more rapidly and in greater proportions. The benefits that white women accrued because of structural racism meant they avoided the utter destitution that more commonly swallowed their Black peers. When let go from a job, a white woman was more successful in securing a less desirable job, while Black women, especially older Black women, were pushed out of the labor force entirely. Helmbold found that working-class women practiced the same strategies, but institutionalized racism in employment, housing, and relief assured that Black women worked harder, but fared worse. Making Choices, Making Do strives to fill the gap in the labor history of women, both Black and white. The book will challenge the limits of segregated histories and encourage more comparative analyses. Trade Review"Making Choices, Making Do is a remarkable study that recasts the 1930s working class through the lens of black and white women's experiences during the Great Depression. Analyzing how race, immigration, and gender shaped women's survival strategies, Helmbold opens up fresh interpretive possibilities and an intersectional, comparative, and feminist methodological approach to defining class." -- Keona Ervin * author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis *"Deeply researched in remarkably rich sources, this fine study takes us into the lives of working class women—their budgets, jobs, struggles, interactions with authorities, worries, and dreams. Full of insights regarding gender, immigration, and family, the book especially succeeds in its careful comparisons of women’s lives across the color line dividing African American and white women, capturing both common oppression and critical differences." -- David Roediger * author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History *"No one knows the social history of working-class women better than Lois Helmbold, and no one has written with more insight and sensitivity. By uncovering the everyday lives and struggles of working women, she manages to recast the story of the Depression-era labor upheavals in completely new light. Making Choices, Making Do ought to be required reading." -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression *"Making Choices, Making Do is a remarkable study that recasts the 1930s working class through the lens of black and white women's experiences during the Great Depression. Analyzing how race, immigration, and gender shaped women's survival strategies, Helmbold opens up fresh interpretive possibilities and an intersectional, comparative, and feminist methodological approach to defining class." -- Keona Ervin * author of Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis *"Deeply researched in remarkably rich sources, this fine study takes us into the lives of working class women—their budgets, jobs, struggles, interactions with authorities, worries, and dreams. Full of insights regarding gender, immigration, and family, the book especially succeeds in its careful comparisons of women’s lives across the color line dividing African American and white women, capturing both common oppression and critical differences." -- David Roediger * author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History *"No one knows the social history of working-class women better than Lois Helmbold, and no one has written with more insight and sensitivity. By uncovering the everyday lives and struggles of working women, she manages to recast the story of the Depression-era labor upheavals in completely new light. Making Choices, Making Do ought to be required reading." -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression *Table of ContentsPreface: My History and PositionalityAbbreviation in Text and NotesCitation ConventionsIntroduction1. Urban Working-Class Daily Lives and Work in the 1920s2. Job Deterioration and Unemployment: "You just can't depend on a steady job at all."3. Employment Strategies and their Consequences4. The Family Economy: Daily Survival and Management of Resources5. Interrupted Expectations: Loyalty and Conflict in the Family Economy6. Outside the Family Economy: “Most times I’d go to a friend.”7. Relief: "I never thought I would come to this. I am so willing and anxious to work."Conclusion: Working-Class Women’s Class and Race ConsciousnessAcknowledgementsAppendix 1: Interview SourcesAppendix 2: Women’s Bureau Social ScientistsAppendix 3: The CensusTablesEnd notes

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Book SynopsisBetween Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship.Trade Review"This exquisitely nuanced ethnography takes anti-carceral feminism to new heights! In tracing how 'coercive violence' amongst migrant families in Australia comes to be defined and policed, Zeweri demonstrates how Muslim women are still being used to justify anti-immigrant policies, whether they are framed as victim or threat. Most importantly, she shows that intimate forms of violence cannot be understood outside the violence of war, displacement and detention." -- Miriam Ticktin * author of Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France *"Between Care and Criminality offers unique insights into how social policies are lived on the ground by frontline workers, community leaders, and the young people who they target. The book resists the static portrayals of forced marriage in providing empirical examples of families who negotiate tensions surrounding marriage decisions within the context of family dynamics." -- Reva Jaffe-Walter * author of Coercive Concern: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the Schooling of Muslim Youth *"Between Care and Community, a well-documented, well researched analysis of forced marriage prevention policy, both informs and unsettles. Helena Zeweri makes a real contribution to studies on the anthropology of marriage and biopolitics of intimacy, and poses important questions concerning first generation migrant women and notions of family, culture, and the domestic." -- Frances Julia Riemer * author of Working at the Margins: Moving Off Welfare in America *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: An Emergent Regime of Truth Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Forced Marriage Prevention Chapter 2: The Threat of Suffering: Configuring Victimhood in Forced Marriage Scenario Planning Chapter 3: Reluctant Disclosure: Epistemic Doubt and Ethical Dilemmas in Prevention Work Chapter 4: Phantom Figures: The Erasures of Biopolitical Narratives Chapter 5: Beyond Criminality: Narratives of Familial Duress in Times of Displacement Conclusion: Reflections on the Coercive State Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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