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Book SynopsisFor nearly 20 years, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice has been the trusted, leading anthology to cover a wide range of social oppressions from a social justice standpoint. With full sections dedicated to racism, religious oppression, classism, ableism, youth and elder oppression, as well as an integrative section dedicated to sexism, heterosexism, and transgender oppression, this bestselling text goes far beyond the range of traditional readers. New essay selections in each section of this fourth edition have been carefully chosen to keep topic coverage timely and readings accessible and engaging for students. The interactions among these topics are highlighted throughout to stress the interconnections among oppressions in everyday life. A Table of Intersections leads you to selections not in the section dedicated to an issue.Retaining the key features and organization that has made Readings for Diversity and Social Justice an indispensable text for teaching issues of social justice while simultaneously updating and expanding its coverage, this new edition features: Over 40 new selections considering current topics and events such as the Black Lives Matter movement, workplace immigration raids, gentrification, wealth inequality, the disability rights of prisoners and inmates, and the Keystone XL pipeline protests. An updated companion website with additional resources and short classroom-friendly videos that further complement the readings in each section. A holistic approach to sexism, gay, lesbian, trans and gender-queer oppression that challenges widely-held assumptions about the usual practice of separating analyses of sex and gender binaries. A more optimistic focus on the role of social justice at all levels of society, whether personal, institutional local, or global, and the intersections among them. Offering over 140 selections from some of the foremost scholars in a wide range of fields, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice is the indispensable volume for every student, teacher, and social justice advocate. Table of ContentsTable of IntersectionsAcknowledgementsReadings for Diversity and Social Justice: A General IntroductionSection 1: Getting Started: Core Concepts for Social Justice EducationIntroductionMaurianne Adams1 The Complexity of Identity: "Who Am I?"Beverly Daniel Tatum2 Identities and Social Locations: Who Am I? Who Are My PeopleGwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey 3 The Social Construction of DifferenceAllan G. Johnson4 Microaggressions, Marginality, and Oppression: An IntroductionDerald Wing Sue5 The Cycle of SocializationBobbie Harro6 Theoretical Foundations Lee Anne BellCore Concepts for Social Justice EducationMaurianne Adams and Ximena Zúñiga7 Five Faces of OppressionIris Marion Young8 Intersectionality RevisitedPatricia Hill Collins and Sirma BilgeSection 2: RacismIntroductionMike Funk, Rani Varghese, and Ximena ZúñigaContext9 Defining Racism: ‘Can We Talk?’Beverly Daniels Tatum10 A Different MirrorRonald Takaki11 This LandRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz12 The Possessive Investment in WhitenessGeorge Lipsitz13 Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color OrganizingAndrea Smith14 La consciencia de la mestiza: Toward a New ConsciousnessGloria Anzaldua 15 Patrolling Racial Borders: Discrimination Against Mixed Race PeopleHeather Dalmage16 Selected ReportsNational Network for Immigrant and Refugee RightsVoices17 Finding My Eye-dentityOlivia Chung18 Identification PleasEric Gansworth19 American Hijab: Why My Scarf Is A Sociopolitical Statement, Not A Symbol Of My ReligiosityMariam Gomaa20 My Tongue is Divided into TwoQuique Aviles21 Letter to My SonTa-Nehisi Coates22 My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face PrivilegeRobin J. DiAngeloNext Steps23 Women, Race, and Racism: A Dialogue in Black and WhiteAndrea Ayvazian and Beverly Daniel Tatum24 Forging El Mundo Zurdo: Changing Ourselves, Changing the WorldAnaLouise Keating25 The Personal Is PoliticalRichard (Chip) SmithSection 3: ClassismIntroductionMaurianne Adams, Larissa E. Hopkins, and Davey ShlaskoContext26 Class in AmericaGregory Mantsios27 Class DismissedLaura Smith and Rebecca M. Redington28 Race, Wealth, and EqualityMelvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro29 What's Debt Got to Do with It?Brett Williams30 At the Elite CollegesPeter Schmidt31 Is the Near-Trillion-Dollar Student Loan Bubble About to Pop?Sarah Jaffe32 Students with Disabilities: Financial Aid Policy IssuesThomas R. Wolanin33 "Free" Labor: Past and Present Forms of Prison Labor Whitney Benns 34 Wealth InequalityPew Research CenterVoices35 Bonds of Sisterhood—Bonds of OppressionMary Romero36 White Poverty: The Politics of Invisibilitybell hooks 37 The Laws That Sex Workers Really Want (TED Talk)Juno Mac38 Born on Third BaseChuck Collins39 Gentrification Will Drive My Uncle Out of His Neighborhood, and I Will Have Helped Eric RodriguezNext Steps40 How Occupy Wall Street Changes EverythingSarah van Gelder41 "Classism from Our Mouths" and "Tips from Working-Class Activists"Betsy Leondar-Wright42 Deep Thoughts about Class PrivilegeKaren Pittelman and Resource Generation43 Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic WorkNational Domestic Workers Alliance44 Charts from United for a Fair Economy Section 4: Religious OppressionIntroductionMaurianne Adams and Christopher MacDonald-DennisContext45 America’s Changing Religious Landscape Pew Research Center46 Examples of Christian PrivilegeSam Killerman47 Christian Privilege and the Promotion of "Secular" and Not-So "Secular" Mainline Christianity in Public Schooling and in the Larger SocietyWarren J. Blumenfeld48 Racing ReligionMoustafa Bayoumi49 Precedents: The Destruction of the European JewsRaul Hilberg50 Maps—History of Anti-SemitismSir Martin Gilbert51 "Working it Out" and "See You in Court"Diana Eck52 Native American Religious Liberty: Five Hundred Years After ColumbusWalter R. Echo-Hawk53 Religious Freedom Advocates Are Divided over How to Address LGBT RightsKelsey Dallas54 From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: Lessons from the Internment of Japanese American BuddhistsDuncan Ryûken Williams55 A Somali Influx Unsettles Latino MeatpackersKirk SempleVoices56 Jews in the U.S.: Rising Costs of WhitenessMelanie Kaye/Kantrowitz57 Oral History of Adam FattahAmna AhmadOral History of Hagar OmranHoda Zawam58 Modesto-Area Athiests Speak Up, Seek ToleranceSue Nowicki59 Why Are You Atheists So Angry?Greta ChristinaNext Steps60 Creating Identity-Safe Spaces on College Campuses for Muslim StudentsNa’ilah Suad Nasir, Jasiyah Al-Amin61 Guidelines for Christian AlliesPaul Kivel62 Critical Reflections on the Interfaith Movement: A Social Justice PerspectiveSachi Edwards Section 5: Sexism, Heterosexism, and Trans* OppressionIntroductionD. Chase J. Catalano, Warren J. Blumenfeld, and Heather W. HackmanContext63 "Night to His Day": The Social Construction of GenderJudith Lorber64 Feminism: A Movement to End Sexist Oppressionbell hooks65 Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, Or an UsAllan G. Johnson66 PrivilegeDevon W. Carbado67 He Works, She Works, But What Different Impressions They MakeGwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey68 Generation LGBTQIAMichael Schulman69 Women & LGBT People Under Attack: 1930s & NowWarren J. Blumenfeld70 Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender IdentityMichael S. Kimmel71 Overcompensation Nation: It’s Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun ViolenceAmanda Marcotte72 Introduction—How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United StatesJoanne Meyerowitz73 The InterSEXion: A Vision for a Queer Progressive AgendaDeepali Gokhale74 Transmisogyny 101: What It Is and What Can We Do About ItLaura Kacere75 Pansexual Visibility & Undoing HeteronormativityCameron Airen76 Transgender LiberationSusan Stryker77 The Impact of Juvenile Court on Queer and Trans/Gender-Non-Conforming YouthWesley Ware78 Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the Twenty-First CenturyAngela Y. DavisVoices79 BonesLindy West80 Men Explain Things to MeRebecca Solnit81 Mutilating GenderDean Spade82 Violence Against Women is a Men’s IssueJackson Katz83 Trans Woman ManifestoJulia Serano84 Real Men and Pink SuitsCharles M. Blow85 Mestiza/o Gender: Notes Towards a Transformative MasculinityDaniel E. Solis y Martinez86 Look! No, Don’t! The Invisibility Dilemma for Transsexual MenJamison Green87 My Life as an Out Gay Person in RussiaMasha GessenNext Steps88 Grassroots: IntroductionWinona LaDuke89 National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) Statement on Healthcare for AllNational Latina Institute for Reproductive Health90 Becoming an Ally: A New ExaminationNancy J. Evans and Jaime Washington91 Transgender Day of Remembrance: A Day to Honor the Dead and the LivingShelby Chestnut92 Unbowed: A MemoirWangari Maathai93 Calling All Restroom Revolutionaries!Simone Chess, Alisson Kafer, Jessi Quizar, and Mattie Udora Richardson94 Why I Marched on Washington—With Zero ReservationsRinku Sen95 Getting to Why: Reflections on Accountability and Action for Men in Gender Justice MovementsJamie UttSection 6: AbleismIntroductionBenjamin Ostiguy-Finneran and Madeline L. PetersContext96 Struggle for Freedom: Disability Rights MovementsWillie V. Bryan97 Immigration, Ethnicity, and the Ugly LawSusan M. Schweik98 Disability Does Not Discriminate: Toward a Theory of Multiple Identity Through CoalitionZanita E. Fenton99 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Leaves Scars "on the Inside," Iraq Veteran SaysEdward D. Murphy100 Disability in the New World OrderNirmala Erevelles101 Disabled Behind BarsRebecca Vallas102 The Silent Victims: Inmates with Learning DisabilitiesDouglas P. Wilson103 Go to the Margins of the Class: Disability and Hate CrimesLennard J. Davis104 Why the Intersexed Shouldn’t Be Fixed: Insights from Queer Theory and Disability StudiesSumi Colligan105 Students with Disabilities Frustrated with Ignorance and Lack of ServicesAllie GrasgreenVoices106 Understanding Deafness: Not Everyone Wants to Be "Fixed"Allegra Ringo107 How to Curse in Sign LanguageAshley and Deborah108 On the Spectrum, Looking OutJess Watsky109 What I’d Tell That DoctorJason KingsleyNext Steps110 Toward Ending Ableism in EducationThomas Hehir111 Facilitating Transitions to College for Students with Disabilities from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse BackgroundsHeather A. Oesterreich and Michelle G. Knight112 Increasing Awareness: Language, Communication Strategies, and Universally Designed EnvironmentsKaren A. Myers, Jaci Jenkins Lindburg, and Danielle M. Nied113 Learning Disability Identity Development and Social Construct: A Two-Tiered ApproachCheryl L. Howland and Eva Gibavic114 Creating a Fragrance-Free Zone: A Friendly Atmosphere for People Living with Environmental IllnessInvisible Disabilities Advocate115 Recognizing Ableist Beliefs and Practices and Taking Action as an AllyMadeline L. Peters, Carmelita (Rosie) Castañeda, Larissa E. Hopkins, and Aquila McCantsSection 7: Youth Oppression and Elder Oppression IntroductionKeri "Safire" DeJong and Barbara J. LoveContext116 Understanding Adultism: A Key to Developing Positive Youth-Adult RelationshipsJohn Bell117 Terrorizing School Children in the American Police StateHenry A. Giroux118 Police Make Life Hell for Youth of ColorKathy Durkin119 Ageism: Another Form of BigotryRobert N. Butler120 Ageing with Disabilities: Ageism and MoreDebra J. Sheets121 Black ElderlyCenter on Aging Studies, University of Missouri—Kansas City Voices122 From Keystone XL Pipeline to #DAPL: Jasilyn Charger, Water Protector from Cheyenne River ReservationAmy Goodman and Jasilyn Charger123 Elders Liberation Draft Policy StatementMarge Larabee124 People of Color Over FiftyDottie Curry Next Steps125 An Immediate End to the Criminalization and Dehumanization of Black Youth Across All Areas of Society Including, but Not Limited to, Our Nation’s Justice and Education Systems, Social Service Agencies, Media, and Pop CultureThena Robinson Mock, Ruth Jeannoel, Rachel Gilmer, Chelsea Fuller, Marbre Stahly Butts126 Allies to Young People: Tips and Guidelines on How to Assist Young People to OrganizeJenny Sazama with help from teens in Boston127 Taking a Stand Against Ageism at all Ages: A Powerful CoalitionMargaret M. Gullette128 What Allies of Elders Can DoPatricia Markee129 Youth Oppression as a Technology of Colonialism: Conceptual Frameworks and Possibilities for Social Justice Education PraxisKeri DeJong and Barbara J. LoveSection 8: Working for Social Justice: Visions and Strategies for Change IntroductionXimena ZúñigaContext130 Reflections on LiberationSuzanne Pharr131 Developing a Liberatory ConsciousnessBarbara J. Love132 Toward a New Vision: Race, Class, and GenderPatricia Hill Collins133 What Can We Do?Allan G. Johnson134 The Cycle of LiberationBobbie HarroVoices135 CourageCornel West136 AlliesGloria Anzaldúa Next Steps 137 Social StruggleRichard (Chip) Smith138 Intergroup Dialogue: Critical Conversations about Difference and Social JusticeXimena Zúñiga, Gretchen E. Lopez, and Kristie A. Ford139 Decolonizing Theory, Practicing SolidarityChandra Talpade Mohanty140 The Renaissance of Student ActivismAlia WongPermissions Acknowledgements and CitationsAbout the Contributors

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Book SynopsisPalestinian women have slowly become active in the formal labor market in Israel. In this book, Vered Kraus and Yuval Yonay describe and analyse the labor experience of these Palestinian women, and explain why Palestinian and Jewish women have different rates and outcomes in the labor market. Challenging popular views that ascribe these differences to Arab culture and Islam, they instead find that it is state policies and widespread discrimination that hinder Palestinian women''s participation and success. By including the various Palestinian sub-groups - Muslims, Bedouins, Druze, Christians, non-citizen residents of Jerusalem - this book shows how the specific life circumstances of the women from these subgroups affect their employment and achievements. The book thus enriches the acute discussion on the labour market experiences of Muslim and Arab women in the Middle East and North Africa and in advanced industrialized societies.Table of Contents1. Why Arab and Muslim women participate less in the labor market than other women?; 2. The subordinated citizens: Palestinian Israelis in historical, social, and economic contexts; 3. Changing demography: trends of educational attainment, marriage patterns, and fertility; 4. Slowly but steadily: Muslim women enter the labor market; 5. Limited success: Muslim women's standing in the labor market; 6. Far and isolated: Bedouin women in the Naqab; 7. Residents but not citizens: the annexed women of Jerusalem; 8. The 'favorite minority'? Druze women in the labor market; 9. The half-full glass: Christian women in the labor market; 10. Conclusion: the politics of employment in an ethnocracy.

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Book SynopsisDespite extensive and costly diversity initiatives, little progress has been made in recent years in ending workplace gender inequality. Beyond Bias presents a compelling explanation of the reasons for this failure. Current diversity initiatives focus primarily on teaching people to be less biased and more inclusive. But this is the wrong focus. As Beyond Bias make clear, workplace gender inequality is a systemic problem caused largely by the (unintended) discriminatory operation of personnel systems, policies, and practices. Beyond Bias presents the four-prong PATH program for directly attacking this structural discrimination-and with it, individuals'' discriminatory conduct: Prioritize Elimination of Exclusionary Behavior Adopt Bias-free Methods of Decision-Making Treat Inequality in the Home as a Workplace Problem Halt Unequal Performance Evaluations and Leadership Development OpportunitiesTrade ReviewBeyond Bias offers a curated introduction to the literature on workplace gender bias, and many concrete steps organizations can take to interrupt bias by providing more structure in their business systems. -- Joan C. Williams, Author of Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good, Harvard Business Review Press, 2021Beyond Bias's actionable best practices equip leaders with the tools to create an equitable and more productive workplace that allows everyone to thrive. The "must read" for every leader who is serious about positioning their organization for success in the 21st century! -- David G. Smith, PhD, Johns Hopkins University & W. Brad Johnson, PhD, U.S. Naval Academy, authors of Good Guys and Athena RisingFinally, a book that tackles workplace gender inequality at the root of the problem. Grounded in solid research, this book is a must for leaders determined to improve business results by fostering deeper engagement from both men and women. -- Carol Frohlinger, President, Negotiating Women, Inc.Beyond Bias is a timely, powerful, and compelling book. In it, Kramer and Harris provide a clear and do-able PATH to create a business climate where people feel trusted and appreciated; one where DE&I is more than hope-it becomes a reality. -- Andi Simon, Ph.D. Corporate Anthropologist and CEO Simon Associates Management ConsultantsHere it is! We've long been in pursuit of creating a bias-free workplace-what is needed to unlock so much potential and profit for our businesses. Yet so many companies have put in place huge efforts that have failed. Through their PATH program, Andie and Al show us how big goals are met through small wins. Focus on the seemingly small practices they outline that compound over time, and you and your organization will reach the goal we all seek. -- Lee Caraher, CEO, Double Forte, Author of Millennials & Management and The Boomerang Principle, and host of Everything Speaks

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Book SynopsisUtilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes. Covers exclusion in mortgage markets in three different countries - the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands Presents an interdisciplinary perspective to the practice of redlining Connects the literature on social exclusion and financial exclusion Trade Review“Together, these strengths make Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets an excellent resource for those interested in how housing finance markets contribute to social and spatial exclusion.” (City & Community, 1 June 2013) “Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets significantly advances our understanding of the history and current reality of redlining and its exclusionary processes and consequences. Its comparative analysis is a welcome addition to the literature on financial services. Hopefully, it will lead to more equitable approaches to the development of the world’s metropolitan regions.” (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2012) “Nevertheless, the book provides a valuable account of the literature and makes interesting reading about market behaviour. It will be useful for those interested in the influence of actors on access to homeownership and the development of urban neighbourhoods.” (Housing Studies, 2 August 2012) “This is a timely and forceful book which seeks to bring together aspects of the financial boom and bust and processes of redlining and exclusion in urban housing markets in a number of countries, namely the USA, Italy and the Netherlands.” (International Journal of Housing Policy, 28 May 2012) “By covering the full field of redlining—from abstract socio-spatial theories to concrete cases and a human angle—this books offers an ideal introduction to the topic. At the same time, it considerably expands the state of knowledge on financial exclusion.” (Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2012) "The book's key strength is the actor centred focus on markets that reveals the processes by which markets and places are made in ways that would not be explained by classical models of market behaviour. The detailed descriptions of Rotterdam in particular are of great interest, including a photo essay on Tarwewijk, a neighbourhood of Rotterdam, where the decline was said to have been accelerated by redlining in the 1990s. Furthermore, the history and development of redlining, particular in the US, is also of great use to students and scholars alike." (Housing Studies, 2012) "An important book that fills the empirical and theoretical gaps in the literature on the sociology and geography of mortgage markets. The book is a fantastic, empirically rich and theoretically innovative exploration of the historical trajectory of urban disinvestment (redlining) and social exclusion that compares the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands." (Financial Technology, 15 November 2011)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Series Editors' Preface ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I The Exclusion, Urban, and Market Lenses 11 1 Social and Financial Exclusion 13 2 A Socio-Spatial Approach 35 3 Markets, Institutions, Risk, Credit Scoring 53 Part II Redlining Research in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands 77 4 The United States: One Century of Redlining 79 5 Italy: Capital Switching in Milan 103 6 The Netherlands: Colored Maps 124 Photo Essay The Tarwewijk, Rotterdam 166 Part III Conclusions 179 7 The Globalization of Redlining? 181 References 199 Index 222

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Book SynopsisA revealing, honest and often comic coming-of-age story about growing up in 1970s Britain on the boundaries of race''Full of charm'' GUARDIAN''An account of what being British means'' i''Captures a country in transition ... You can''t fail to be moved'' THE TIMESKamal Ahmed''s childhood was very British' in every way except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road.This is his account of an upbringing of cricket and bucket-and-spade holidays, Angel Delight and the BBC - British to the core, yet always feeling foreign in the only home he had ever known. ''Ahmed grew up as a mixed-race kid in west London in the seventies, and his book charts the progress (sometimes slow and now without a few setbacks along the way) that our country has made on race issues since then. Brilliant'' Rohan SilvaTrade ReviewSparky, accessible and stimulating * Observer *Full of charm. Will no doubt deepen the conversation on race and identity in Britain * Guardian *Compelling. Ahmed writes evocatively of his almost cloyingly British upbringing: life in the suburbs: bucket-and-spade hols, cricket and card games with (white) Granddad. And yet, as Ahmed observes, he has always felt a little alien in his homeland. It is clear that Ahmed has done his homework – spoken to an enormous number of people, read endless studies. The book is a valuable addition to a growing body of work on what it means to be mixed race in modern Britain * Sunday Times *Ahmed draws on his experiences as a half-English, half-Sudanese child in 70s London for an account of what being British means * 50 Top Reads for Autumn, i-paper *Captures a country in transition. Even allowing for the lofty vantage point [Ahmed] looks back from as economics editor of the BBC, his story has a touch of the everyman about it. Ahmed recounts all this with elegance and wry humour. You can’t fail to be moved * The Times *Excellent. Ahmed grew up as a mixed-race kid in west London in the Seventies, and his book charts the progress (sometimes slow and not without a few setbacks along the way) that our country has made on race issues since then. Brilliant -- Rohan Silva * Evening Standard *[An] intimate memoir ... Ahmed uses his parents' individual and joint personal stories to pan outward into the broader histories of their countries, continents, and the evolution of ideas about race and citizenship ... Read[s] like an engaging novel ... Although emotionally similar to Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama and stylistically similar to Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, The Life and Times of a Very British Man is deeper in its complexity and broader in scope than those other two titles * Media Diversified *[Ahmed] writes movingly … With personal anecdotes and political analysis, it’s a thoughtfully written and thought-provoking book about race and identity in the Britain he passionately believes in * Choice Magazine *

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Book SynopsisShedding new light on the political socialization of American womenTrade Review "Jenkins provides a fresh approach to and a timely analysis of women's political engagement. Mothers, Daughters, and Political Socialization is a lively read, featuring captivating and compelling stories and life histories. This book will fill important gaps in our understanding of the persistence of gender inequality and women’s attitudes toward feminism and the women's movement."—Verta Taylor, Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Santa BarbaraTable of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Gender Roles and Political Socialization 2. Considering the Women’s Movement 3. Gender Roles and Private Life 4. Gender Roles and Public Life 5. Gender Roles and the Political Process 6. Consistency and Consolidation Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhy isn''t segregation based on sex illegal in sports just as race segregation is? This book examines the controversial issue, arguing that separate but equal is neither achievable nor constitutional.Will the creation of coed teams help mitigate issues of perceived sex discrimination in sports, or will equity among male and female athletes come from better enforcement of the separate but equal ideal? This book examines this highly charged issue, specifically challenging the effectiveness of Title IX and arguing that it be ousted in favor of sex integration. This is the first book to present both legal and social arguments for the elimination of sex segregation in sports and provide tangible solutions to address this issue. Authors Adrienne N. Milner and Jomills Henry Braddock II lay out the potential benefits of comingling male and female athletes, illustrating how this process may translate to greater sex equality in social, economic, and political contexts. In addition, this fTrade Review[A] thought-provoking collaboration. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * Choice *Sex Segregation in Sports: Why Separate Is Not Equal recognizes an issue in society that may not be apparent, but surely needs to be addressed. . . . This book is effective in its ability to show how segregation was approached earlier in history and the overall significance of sports in individual and societal development. . . . This book does more than highlight the importance of that area of research. It also offers a detailed plan of implementation and addresses, with confidence, how to apply and evaluate the progress. Overall, it makes a compelling case for the conclusion that the integration of sports would not only benefit men and women but also adolescents as children learn traditional sex constructs that are reinforced through adolescence and adulthood through sports. * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *Table of ContentsFigures Chapter One Introduction: Is Separate Equal in Sports? Chapter Two Title IX: History, Results, and Controversies of "Separate but Equal" Chapter Three Title IX and Brown v. Board of Education: Intention, Implementation, and Outcomes of Sex-Based vs. Race-Based Policy Chapter Four The Social Construction of Sex and Race: Concepts Real Only in Their Consequences and Why This Matters in Sports Chapter Five The Politics of Opportunity: Intentions, Aftermath, and the Necessity for Change Chapter Six The Elimination of Sex Categories in Sport: Benefits in Athletics and Beyond Chapter Seven How Sex Integration Is Possible: Recommendations for Dismantling Ideological and Structural Barriers to Desegregation in Sports Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems.Why are Black people stopped, arrested, and shot by police at such a high rate? Why are they portrayed in the media as gangbangers and urban thugs? D. Marvin Jones writes that the problem of race lies in the way Blackness has been inextricably knotted together in our culture with presumptions. In the era of segregation this was a presumption of inferiority, but in our era, it is primarily a presumption of dangerousness or criminality.In chapters on slavery, urban spaces, the drug war, media portrayals, and white spaces, he shows how the presumption of guilt continues to shape the treatment of Black people in the United States. Arguing that this presumption is not simply a matter of hate on the part of individuals,

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Book SynopsisInequality has at last taken centre stage in the political discourse, but there is very little to explain the inequality debates and to offer solutions for the UK. This introductory book provides a comprehensive survey of all the available evidence, looking at both sides of the inequality argument.Trade Review"A compelling and insightful analysis of the current state of economic and social inequalities in the UK.... provides a powerful springboard for a wide ranging and convincing consideration of how inequality works, and the ways in which it may be combatted, that has worldwide significance. Its compelling and authoritative account will reinvigorate debates on inequality and how it might be tackled. Essential reading for all those concerned about growing inequality in Britain." Diane Reay, University of Cambridge"Roger Brown doesn't just give us a lucid and comprehensive explanation of inequality in Britain: he wants action and advances policy recommendations that deserve to be chewed over, right, left and centre." David Walker, The Guardian“Roger Brown’s book adds to our understanding of the extent of wealth and income inequalities in the UK, and of the ways in which they are increasing; and, sadly, it adds to our understanding of the UK government’s promises to act on the problem, and of its failure to do so. This book is significant both for its broad canvas and for the level of details it contains.” Citizen’s Income"An authoritative and up-to-date account of the drivers of economic inequality in the UK." Danny Dorling, University of Oxford"Indispensable. All you need to know about the inequality crisis – causes, consequences and controversies – in one place." Stewart Lansley, author of A Sharing Economy and Breadline Britain"A short, necessary and powerful book which demonstrates how inequality causes significant and avoidable injuries, but is also bound up with widely held virtues. Roger Brown calls for the language and means for the virtuous reduction of harms." John Holmwood, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsForeword by Kate Pickett, University of York The meaning and extent of inequality Inequality: for and against; Structural causes of rising inequality; Institutional causes of rising inequality; Tackling rising inequality through taxes and transfers; Tackling rising inequality through policy reform; Looking ahead.

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Book SynopsisDorling brings together new material alongside a selection of his most recent writing on inequality from publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times and the China People's Daily. He explores whether we have now reached peak inequality' and concludes by predicting what the future holds for Britain.Trade Review“Peak Inequality…is filled with valuable political ammunition… the cumulative effect of his hugely impressive statistical dissections of contemporary British society is to make a compelling case for a political challenge to centuries of exploitation by the British elite…” Counterfire“… hopeful and imaginative, sometimes polemical, and full of engaging facts. If you’ve been labouring under the impression that The Spirit Level is the beginning and end of the debate on inequality, this will be a useful corrective.” Jeremy Williams (Make Wealth History)"The full consequences of eight years of cruel and counter-productive Tory austerity are devastating. There were more than 10,000 extra deaths during the first seven weeks of this year, official figures show, compared with the same period in the previous five years. That’s a 12% increase. Professor Danny Dorling and Lucinda Hiam, who carried out the research, strongly implied that the extra deaths were, in part, the result of sustained underfunding to health and social care.” Jeremy Corbyn, 3rd May 2018 commenting on one of the hundreds of new research findings revealed in the research that underlies this book: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-austerity-almost-certainly-increased-12468792)"Graphically illuminates why and how place grounds social polarization in politics, housing, education, health, and social welfare – and offers steps towards a fairer world." Nancy Krieger, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health"If you have an ounce of compassion - or self-interest - in your heart, Peak inequality is a must-read wake-up call" Val McDermid, author"An all you need to know guide to inequality in the UK today" Faiza Shaheen, Director of Class"This is the essential book about a great affliction of our times. It will become the touchstone in this debate." George MonbiotTable of ContentsInequality; Politics; Housing; Demography; Education; Health; Future.

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Book SynopsisForgotten Wives examines how marriage has contributed to the active 'disremembering' of women's achievements. Ann Oakley uses case studies of four women married to well-known men to ask questions about gender inequality and contributes a fresh vision of how the welfare state developed in the early 20th century.Table of Contents1 The condition of wifehood 2 Mary Booth 3 Charlotte Shaw 4 Jeannette Tawney 5 Janet Beveridge 6 A life of her own

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Book SynopsisUsing Qualitative Comparative Analysis to explore 11 developed countries' health services, this ambitious text identifies which factors are associated with the strongest outcomes.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Social determinants 3. Healthcare funding 4. Spending on health 5. COVID-19 6. Comparing health systems 7. Conclusion Appendix: Method and data

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Book SynopsisRenowned political scientist Terri Givens calls for ‘radical empathy’ in bridging racial divides to understand the origins of our biases, including internalized oppression. Deftly weaving together her own experiences with the political, she offers practical steps to call out racism and bring about radical social change.Table of ContentsPrologue: Writing in a Time of Crisis Bridging Divides: From Racism to Empathy in the 21st Century Getting to Radical Empathy My Family’s Story: The Isolation of Internalized Oppression Racism and Health Disparities Finding Empathy in the Academy Love and Marriage Radical Empathy in Leadership: Creating Change Creating Change: Restorative Justice and Working Off the Past Revisiting the Path to Radical Empathy Epilogue: In the Aftermath of the U.S. Presidential Election

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Book SynopsisDrawing on unique new research gathered from three contrasting secondary schools in England, this book explores the aspirations, opportunities and experiences of young people from different social-class backgrounds against a backdrop of continuing inequalities in education.

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND This accessible, yet authoritative book shows how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. It argues that these inequalities are a political choice and we need to learn quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future.Table of ContentsForeword - Kate Pickett 1. Introduction: Perfect Storm 2. Pale Rider: Pandemic Inequalities 3. Collateral Damage: Inequalities in the Lockdown 4. Pandemic Precarity: Inequalities in the Economic Crisis 5. Pandemic Politics: Inequality through Public Policy 6. Conclusion: Health and Inequality Beyond COVID-19

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Book SynopsisSocial work education and interventions with Black African families are frequently impaired because of structural discrimination and racism. Rooted in rich empirical work with practitioners and educators, this urgent, scholarly and accessible book emphasises that Black Lives Matter'.Trade Review"This book invites an honest, respectful, and critical rumination on social work theory and practice with Black Africans in western countries…It seeks to fuse multiple perspectives and philosophies on the disempowerment of the Black African diaspora because of universalised European hierarchies of power within and beyond the social work profession. In short, it is a very important intellectual work. Indeed, it is…probably the only book of this kind currently available." Critical Social Policy ‘It is energising to see writers articulate how their positionality and political commitment influence their academic interests and writings…I am a Black American trained social worker who grew up in the state’s care with more than half a dozen social workers assigned to my case throughout my childhood. This book affected me and gave me hope because it provides theoretical tools for progressive educators and practitioners to promote a greater awareness of ‘social change’ within social work education and training’. Antoine Rogers, Ethics and Social Welfare, 2023 ‘This book, Social Work with the Black African Diaspora, is a welcome addition to the library of emerging African social work scholars in western societies. It is a well-overdue contribution to combatting age-long racial and political knowledge in social work. Although the book is focused on Ireland, its theoretical terrain has significant resonance for the profession, society and, most importantly, policymakers worldwide’. Oluwagbemiga Oyinlola, Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work, 2023"This work expands social work education and explicitly centres diverse, global multicultural theoretical voices, including those platforming economic liberation-orientated concepts and paradigms. As a former service user and a practitioner, I believe this knowledge makes for better social workers." Ethics and Social WelfareTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Keywords, concepts and terminology 3. Decolonising theory 4. Afrocentricity and its critics 5. Social Work in neoliberal, ‘multicultural’ Ireland 6. ‘When in Rome, you do as the Romans do’? Social work with the Black African diaspora 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how diverse citizens experience welfare provision. It seeks to promote broader debate and address the silences in research and debate, particularly in relation under-researched groups, with the aim of developing a renewed call for analysis.Table of Contents1. Introduction - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati 2. Citizenship and diversity: challenging the conceptual framework - Lee Gregory and Steve Iafrati 3. Widening the gaze: institutional racism, social policy and conceptual diversification - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory 4. Disabled self-employed people and the UK welfare state - Gerardo Arriaga Garcia and Eva Kašperová 5. Neoliberalism, division and austerity: precarity and hunger in the UK - Dave Beck and Hefin Gwilym 6. Racialised institutions in the UK welfare state - Temidayo Eseonu 7. Statutory exclusion from social security: experiences of migrants in the UK - Ilona Pinter 8. Disadvantaged, discriminated against and ignored: the experiences of Romani and Gypsy Travellers - Teresa Crew 9. ‘You mean, my theoretical rights?’ Exploring service shortfalls and administrative (in)justice among homeless trans people - Edith England 10. Diverse graduate trajectories in austere times: the case of young working- class women in the UK - Laura Bentley 11. Scroungers, shirkers and the sick: disability and welfare in the 21st century - Aimee Grant 12. Male domestic violence victims’ experience of healthcare services - Natalie Quinn-Walker 13. Conclusion - Steve Iafrati and Lee Gregory

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the prejudices that emerged out of the collision of the two pandemics of 2020: COVID-19 and Racism.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Vini Lander, Kavyta Kay and Tiffany R. Holloman 1. BLAME the BAME - Javeria Shah 2. COVID-1984: Wake MBE Up When Black Lives Matter - Tré Ventour-Griffiths 3. Black Vaccination Reticence: HBCUs, the Flexner Report, and COVID-19 - LaTonia A. Siler-Holloman and Tiffany R. Holloman 4. Pregnancy, Pandemic and Protest: The Critical Reflections of a Black Millennial Mother - Sharon Anyiam 5. It’s Alive! The Resurrection of Race Science in the Times of a Public Health Crisis - Jon E.C. Tan 6. It’s Not Just Cricket: (Green) Parks and Recreation in COVID Times - Kavyta Kay 7. Muslim Funerals During the Pandemic: Socially Distanced Death, Burial and Bereavement Experienced by British-Bangladeshis in London and Edinburgh - Farjana Islam 8. Racial Justice and Equalities Law: Progress, Problems, and Potential - Robin Richardson 9. Out of Breath; Intersections of Inequality in a Time of Global Pandemic - Anon 10. An Exploration of the Label ‘BAME’, Other Existing Collective Terminologies, Their Effect on Mental Health and Identity Within a COVID-19 Context - Yemi Moses 11. COVID-19 in the UK: a colour-blind response - Jane Hinchliffe 12. Reviewing the Impact of OFQUAL’s Assessment ‘Algorithm’ on Racial Inequalities - Bruno Mallett 13. The Impact of COVID-19 on Somali Students’ Education in the UK: Challenges and Recommendations - Yusuf Sheikh Omar, Baar Hersi and Abdishakur Tarah Conclusion: Long COVID, Long Racism

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Book SynopsisThis book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people in Greater Manchester in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on novel longitudinal research, the book analyses their lived experiences and those of organisations working to support them, shedding light on the isolating effects of social distancing.Table of ContentsForeword by Andy Burnham 1. Introduction 2. A sociological analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on older people 3. Methodology of the study 4. Everyday life under lockdown: relationships and routines 5. Experiences of the pandemic: a biographical and longitudinal analysis of four case studies 6. Changes in relationships 7. The role of community organisations and social infrastructure 8. Understanding everyday life during the pandemic 9. COVID-19, inequality and older people: developing community-centred interventions 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDespite the high aspirations of young people from disadvantaged communities, they face barriers that are frustrating the realisation of their educational ambitions. This book analyses the 'left-behind' phenomenon and explains how denied educational equality undermines social cohesion and what we can do about it.

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Book SynopsisUsing original data analysis from a wide range of sources, this book addresses the vital contemporary issue of regional inequality through the impact of COVID-19.Table of Contents1. North and South: Introduction 2. The Plague Year: Regional Inequalities Deaths From COVID-19 3. Parallel Pandemics: Regional Inequalities in Mental Health, Hospital Pressure and Long COVID 4. The Costs of COVID-19: Regional Economic Inequalities 5. Perfect Storm: Understanding the North South Pandemic Divide 6. Levelling Up and Building Back Better: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIlluminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary WarThe successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the coloniesa possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shoresTrade Review"The Counter-Revolution of 1776 shows the centrality of slavery in colonial American life, north as well as south. It demonstrates how enslaved peoples struggles merged with international and imperial politics as the British empire frayed. Gerald Horne finds among white American revolutionaries people who wanted to defend slavery against real threats. He addresses how in the United States, alone among the new western hemisphere republics, slavery thrived rather than waned, until its cataclysmic destruction during the Civil War." * Edward Countryman, Southern Methodist University *"Nearly everything about Gerald Homes lively The Counter-Revolution of 1776, from the questions asked to the comparisons drawn, is provocative. And if Professor Home is right, nearly everything American historians thought we knew about the birth of the nation is wrong." * Woody Holton, author of Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in *"This utterly original book argues that story of the American Revolution has been told without a major piece of the puzzle in place. The rise of slavery and the British empire created a pattern of imperial war, slave resistance, and arming of slaves that led to instability and, ultimately, an embrace of independence. Horne integrates the British West Indies, Florida, and the entire colonial period with recent work on the Carolinas and Virginia; the result is a larger synthesis that puts slave-based profits and slave restiveness front and center. The Americans re-emerge not just as anti-colonial free traders but as particularly devoted to an emerging color line and to their control over the future of a slavery based economy. A remarkable and important contribution to our understanding of the creation of the United States." * David Waldstreicher, Temple University *"The Counter-Revolution of 1776 asks us to rethink the fundamental narrative of American history and to interrogate nationalist myths. Horne demands that historians consider slavery not as the exception to the republican promise of the American Revolution but rather as the norm insofar as protecting slavery was a fundamental cause of colonial revolt." * The New England Quarterly *"History books have painted a narrative of the U.S. founding that any student can recite: Colonists, straining against the tyranny of the British crown, revolted in the name of freedom, liberty and justice for all. But in recent years, historians have revisited that conventional story, examining the important role slaves played for Britain in its quest to quell colonists. Now, in a new book, historian Gerald Horne argues it was the desire to maintain slavery that was the prime motivator of the uprising . . . . Horne revisit[s] the period leading up to 1776 to find out how slavery in North America and the British colonies influenced the revolution." * The Kojo Nnamdi Show, DC Public Radio *"In a refreshing take on the independence movement, Horne places slavery and its expansion in North American during the early eighteenth century at the center if the conflict between London and its increasingly nervous and truculent colonies across the Atlantic . . . . This is an important book for both its novelty in a crowded field and its implications . . . . Eminently readable, this is a book that should be on any undergraduate reading list and deserves to be taken very seriously in the ongoing discussion as to the American republic's origins." * The American Historical Review *"Horne, Moores Professor of history and African-American studies at the University of Houston, confidently and convincingly reconstructs the origin myth of the United States grounded in the context of slavery . . . . Horne's study is rich, not dry; his research is meticulous, thorough, fascinating, and thought-provoking. Horne emphasizes the importance of considering this alternate telling of our American origin myth and how such a founding still affects our nation today." * STARRED Publishers Weekly *"In The Counter Revolution of 1776, Horne marshals considerable research to paint a picture of a U.S. that wasn't founded on liberty, with slavery as an uncomfortable and aberrant remnant of a pre-Enlightenment past, but rather was founded on slavery as a defense of slavery with the language of liberty and equality used as window dressing. If hes right, in other words, then the traditional narrative of the creation of the U.S. is almost completely wrong." * Salon.com *"[I]t is Horne's book that has the most to teach about the complex intersections of race, class, religion, and ethnicity." * Cambridge Humanities Review *"With The Counter-Revolution of 1776, Gerald Horne refigures the origins of the American & revolution to offer a challenging and potentially explosive critique of foundational myths of liberty and rebellion." * American Historical Review *"Gerald Horne's Counter Revolution of 1776 is a critical contribution in the struggle for clarity around one of the most misconceived periods of history. Horne's work provides the vast historical narrative that proves how this premise is false. He centers his analysis on the inherently counter-revolutionary nature of what led to the colonists desire for succession." * Black Agenda Report *"Horne returns with insights about the American Revolution that fracture even more some comforting myths about the Founding Fathers.The author does not tiptoe through history's grassy fields; he swings a scythe . . . . Clear and sometimes-passionate prose shows us the persistent nastiness underlying our founding narrative." * Kirkus Reviews *"The Counter Revolution of 1776 drives us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States." * Philadelphia Tribune *"The underlying truth of the 'so-called' American Revolution is finally now out of the bag, and told in its fullest glory for the first time here. And what Professor Horne has discovered through meticulous research is nothing short of revolutionary in itself." * OpEdNews *"Every personcommitted to the struggle for racial justice, liberation, and equality, and who struggles every day with the difficulties of forging unity between Black and white, needs to read this book." * Portside.org *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean Slavery Came to the Mainland 2 Free Trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution Unleash the Slave Trade? 3 Revolt! Africans Conspire with the French and Spanish 4 Building a "White" Pro-Slavery Wall: The Construction of Georgia 5 The Stono Uprising: Will the Africans Become Masters and the Europeans Slaves? 6 Arson, Murders, Poisonings, Shipboard Insurrections: The Fruits of the Accelerating Slave Trade 7 The Biggest Losers: Africans and the Seven Years' War 8 From Havana to Newport, Slavery Transformed: Settlers Rebel against London 9 Abolition in London: Somerset's Case and the North American Aftermath 10 The Counter-Revolution of 1776 Notes Index About the Author

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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 SynopsisExamines how Martin Luther King's life and work had a profound, if unpredictable, impact on the course of the United States since the civil rights era. With unique, multidisciplinary works by scholars from around the US, these pieces explore wide-ranging issues and contemporary social developments through the lens of Dr. King's perceptions, analysis, and prescriptions.

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Book SynopsisUsing cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as Tell about the South, bro-ken/ground, and Family Name. After considering the emergence of the region's biraciality through a consideration of the concepts of racial citizenry and racial performativity, Brasell examines two problems associated with this framework. First, the framework assumes racial purity, and, second, it assumes that two races exist. In other words, biraciality enacts two denials, first, the existence of miscegenation in the region and, second, the existence of other races and ethnicities.Brasell considers bodily miscegenation, discussing the racial closet and the southeastern expatriate road film. Then he examines cultural miscegenation through the lens of racial poaching and 1970s southeastern documentaries that use redemptive ethnography

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Book SynopsisIn the 1969 issue of Negro Digest, a young Black Arts Movement poet then-named Ameer (Amiri) Baraka published 'We Are Our Feeling: The Black Aesthetic.' Baraka's emphasis on the importance of feelings in black selfhood expressed a touchstone for how the black liberation movement grappled with emotions in response to the politics and racial violence of the era.In her latest book, award-winning author Lisa M. Corrigan suggests that Black Power provided a significant repository for negative feelings, largely black pessimism, to resist the constant physical violence against black activists and the psychological strain of political disappointment. Corrigan asserts the emergence of Black Power as a discourse of black emotional invention in opposition to Kennedy-era white hope. As integration became the prevailing discourse of racial liberalism shaping mid-century discursive structures, so too, did racial feelings mold the biopolitical order of postmodern life in America.

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Book SynopsisA fascinating biography of a fascinating woman. - Booklist, starred reviewThis definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods. - Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA brilliant analysis. - Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize winnerFeatured in Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Reads for the Rest of Us 2022 (books by or about historically excluded groups)Born in New Orleans in 1875 to a mother who was formerly enslaved and a father of questionable identity, Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a pioneering activist, writer, suffragist, and educator. Until now, Dunbar-Nelson has largely been viewed only in relation to her abusive ex-husband, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. This is the first book-length look at this major figure in Black women's history, covering her life from the post-reconstruction era through the Harlem Renaissance.Tara T. Green builds on Black feminist, sexuality, historical and cultural studies to create Trade ReviewAnalysis of Dunbar-Nelson’s stories and poems are woven into the main episodes of her life, which helps shape Green’s exquisite examination of Dunbar-Nelson’s public persona. This definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *‘Respectability politics’ has always been a flashpoint for marginalized groups … Few historical figures understood this better than Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the bisexual, feminist, and Black activist most famous for her marriage to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar but deserving of recognition for her poetry and essays. Green makes it clear that as a Black woman, Dunbar-Nelson struggled with conflicting codes of respectability … [and] chronicles how, throughout her life as clubwoman, teacher, journalist, activist, and wife to the temperamental and abusive Dunbar, Dunbar-Nelson navigated the contradictions of intersectional Black feminism, carefully guarding her image as a ‘respectable’ woman while advocating for radical causes, writing openly about colorism and same-sex relationships, and serving as her husband’s sexual scapegoat and (literal) punching bag. A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman. * Booklist (starred review) *This is the first book-length biography of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, the trailblazing activist, writer, suffragist and educator, remarkably researched and written by University of North Carolina Professor Tara T. Green. * Ms. Magazine *Tara Green proves herself the scholar born to make the sojourn through archives of every kind to bring us Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. This book is superb in its ability to show through the example of a secretly queer and always revolutionary Dunbar-Nelson how Black people continue to subvert the very systems in which we participate for the sake of or survival. Thanks to Professor Green, we can finally see full-fledged that Harlem Renaissance figure whose name too many of us know better than we know her work. This is a brilliant analysis. * Jericho Brown, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emory University, USA, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Tradition *In this meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted study, Tara T. Green commences to construct a portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson that lifts her from the shadows and resituates her in a space where her talents as a writer, organizer, editor, and activist are consistently foregrounded. Green’s investigation of Dunbar-Nelson’s vast archive demonstrates with tremendous persuasiveness that far from being a minor figure in African American literary history and cultural production, Dunbar-Nelson’s work across creative, political, and activist registers anticipates the kind of work that will be taken up by Zora Neale Hurston, Pauli Murray, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker later in the 20th Century to further the cause of Black feminist organization and to challenge the intersectional barriers to an authentic and fully-realized selfhood. Producing a work that puts Green’s talents as literary detective, feminist theorist, and critical interlocutor in bold relief, what ultimately makes this study so valuable is its insistence that Dunbar-Nelson had an unflinching commitment to a life lived on its own terms, emphasizes how one Black woman’s political agency was contingent on her ability to define whom she could love and how. * Herman Beavers, Professor of English and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA *The archival work Tara T. Green has done here is remarkable. We know more about Alice Dunbar-Nelson that we imagined we could know. But there's more. This book teaches us about the layers of Black women's lives that go unremarked upon even when they are remarkable. This book about Alice Dunbar-Nelson's life of activism is itself an act of liberation. * Dana A. Williams, Professor of African American Literature, Howard University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroducing a Respectable Activist 1. A Respectable Activist Is Born 2. The New Negro Woman in Alice’s Literature 3. Activism, Love, and Pain 4. Love and Writing 5. Finding Alice After Paul 6. Love and Education 7. Ms. Dunbar and Politics 8. New Negro Woman’s Activism 9. Family, Film, and the Paper 10. The Respectable Activist’s Harlem Renaissance 11. Love, Desire, and Writing 12. ’til Death Does the Activist Part Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the world of online dating, race-based discrimination is not only tolerated, but encouraged as part of a pervasive belief that it is simply a neutral, personal choice about one's romantic partner. Indeed, it is so much a part of our inherited wisdom about dating and romance that it actually directs the algorithmic infrastructures of most major online dating platforms, such that they openly reproduce racist and sexist hierarchies. In Not My Type: Automating Sexual Racism in Online Dating, Apryl Williams presents a socio-technical exploration of dating platforms' algorithms, their lack of transparency, the legal and ethical discourse in these companies' community guidelines, and accounts from individual users in order to argue that sexual racism is a central feature of today's online dating culture. She discusses this reality in the context of facial recognition and sorting software as well as user experiences, drawing parallels to the long history of eugenics and banned interracial partnerships. Ultimately, Williams calls for, both a reconceptualization of the technology and policies that govern dating agencies, and also a reexamination of sociocultural beliefs about attraction, beauty, and desirability.Trade Review"[A] troubling investigation of structural racism in online dating platforms.... Williams's highly accessible narrative is made extra intriguing by the liberal inclusion of users' own words sharing their intimate thoughts."—Publishers Weekly"From the automation of white beauty standards to the chilling prevalence of racist abuse in private messages, Williams reveals the harms created when racism, technology, and romance interact."—Angéle Christin, author of Metrics at Work"This book changes how we think about the sociology of the 'real world' in dating by taking seriously the online world where so many of us find love forever or just right now. Apryl Williams shows us a new, better way to do digital sociology, and her writing makes for a compelling read."—Jessie Daniels, author of Nice White LadiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A New Sexual Racism? 2. Automating Sexual Racism 3. I'm Just Not Comfortable with Them: The Myth of Neutral Personal Preference 4. I've Always Wanted to Fuck a Black or Asian Woman: Being Racially Curated in the Sexual Marketplace 5. Safety Thirst: Who Gets to Be Safe While Dating Online? Conclusion: All You Need Is Love (and Transparency, Trust, and Safety)

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature There is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating—or, at least, no food—preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harvested, dishes prepared, and meals consumed, An Archive of Taste reveals how a focus on eating allows us to rethink the nature and significance of aesthetics in early America, as well as of its archive.Lauren F. Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it. She tells the story of how eating emerged as an aesthetic activity over the course of the eighteenth century and how it subsequently transformed into a means of expressing both allegiance and resistance to the dominant Enlightenment worldview. Klein offers richly layered accounts of the enslaved men and women who cooked the meals of the nation’s founders and, in doing so, directly affected the development of our national culture—from Thomas Jefferson’s emancipation agreement with his enslaved chef to Malinda Russell’s Domestic Cookbook, the first African American–authored culinary text.The first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature, An Archive of Taste shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States.Trade Review"In An Archive of Taste, Lauren F. Klein’s old-fashioned archival work and new-era computational skills grant access to subterranean literary narratives, reanimating matters hard to locate, much less taste or see. Klein’s welcome meditations on absent chefs and occluded stories bring new insights to early American literature."—Rafia Zafar, author of Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning"An Archive of Taste is a gorgeously written account of the relation between eating, the archive, and the histories of racial exclusion that shape them both. Lauren F. Klein offers a new frame for understanding the eighteenth-century category of taste, as well as a sharp exploration of the affordances and limits of digital humanities methodologies’ efforts to redress the imbrication of race and the archive."—Monique Allewaert, author of Ariel’s Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics "Klein’s probing, careful, self-reflective analysis becomes a model for us as readers as well, and enables us to engage in a speculative reading of a book that, no doubt, will be much-cited because it offers an inspiration and paradigm for future work."—American Literary History"Across all five chapters, Klein discerns an abundant archive of taste, even as her capacious analysis confronts that archive’s unique risks of perishability."—Early American Literature"An Archive of Taste makes an important intervention into the fields of nineteenth-century literary studies and food studies through thoughtful citational and archival practices. Importantly, it also bridges established and emergent conversations on the challenges of archival recover, typically written in analog, with digital research."—CriticismTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: No Eating in the Archive1. Taste: Eating and Aesthetics in the Early Republic2. Appetite: Eating, Embodiment, and the Tasteful Subject3. Satisfaction: Aesthetics, Speculation, and the Theory of Cookbooks4. Imagination: Food, Fiction, and the Limits of Taste5. Absence: Slavery and Silence in the Archive of EatingEpilogue: Two Portraits of TasteNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom the denial of abortion rights in Ireland to sexual violence against British South Asian women in England, the state and its institutions continue to fail women. This book offers a counter-narrative to contemporary injustices and a persistent culture of victim-blaming. The academic and activist contributions to this collection explore contemporary research areas and pursue new discursive directions in order to present a feminist criminology, built on feminist praxis, for the 21st century. Providing a direct challenge to regressive and ineffective theory, policy and practice, this book resists the politics of gendered victimization through extending feminist analyses of the state and documenting interventions into contemporary injustices.Table of ContentsPart I: Feminist Epistemology 1. Introduction: Denying Oppression a Future – Gender, the State and Feminist Praxis – Kym Atkinson, Úna Barr and Helen Monk 2. Denying Violence Against Women a Future: Feminist Epistemology and the Struggle for Social Justice – Anette Ballinger Part II: State Practice and Feminist Praxis 3. State (In)action and Feminist Resistance to the Denial of Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland – Maev McDaid and Brian Christopher Nelis 4. At the Limits of ‘Acceptable’ Speech: A Feminist Analysis of Official Discourse on Child Sexual Abuse – Katie Tucker 5. Universities, Sexual Violence and the Institutional Operation of Power – Kym Atkinson 6. Gender, Policing and Social Order: Restating the Case for a Feminist Analysis of Policing – Will Jackson and Helen Monk 7. Sanctuary as Social Justice: A Feminist Critique – Victoria Canning Part III: The Criminal Justice System and Feminist Praxis 8. Constructing a Feminist Desistance: Resisting Responsibilization – Úna Barr and Emily Luise Hart 9. Improving Police Responses to Sexual Abuse Offences Against British South Asian Women – Aisha K. Gill 10. Traumatizing the Traumatized: Self-Harm and Death in Women’s Prisons in England and Wales – Kym Atkinson, Helen Monk and Joe Sim 11. Sensing Injustice? Defences to Murder – Adrian Howe 12. An Anti-Carceral Feminist Response to Youth Justice Involved Girls – Jodie Hodgson Afterword – Pragna Patel

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Book SynopsisOutlining the key developments of the Disability Hate Crime policy agenda, Seamus Taylor brings together a unique consideration of the theoretical and practical questions at its heart. This book analyses the contributions of activists, politicians, policymakers and criminal justice system practitioners to policy development, and critiques both the under-recognition of disability prejudice fuelled by ableism and the challenge of vulnerability in addressing disability hostility. Concluding that a critically reflective approach on the part of policymakers and practitioners can lead to progress, the author gives clear policy recommendations to address current challenges in the criminal justice system.Trade Review"Compelling and rich in evidence, this timely new book challenges us to question prevailing assumptions about Disability Hate Crime. Essential reading for anyone seeking to develop fresh ways of thinking about and responding to an urgent set of problems." Neil Chakraborti, Professor of Criminology, University of Leicester"Taylor provides a clear, comprehensive and compelling account of the development of policy on Disability Hate Crime – a go to text for scholars, policymakers and practitioners." Rt Hon Lord David Blunkett, former Home Secretary"Taylor draws on his unique experiences as a policymaker and scholar to help us understand the true nature of Disability Hate Crime and why it really matters. Essential reading for anyone interested in ensuring justice for disabled people." Joanna Perry, Independent Consultant (Hate Crime) and former Hate Crime Advisor, OSCE, Warsaw“This must-read book provides original insight into the policy progress made, or lack thereof, in tackling Disability Hate Crime. It implores the reader to reconsider how ableism informs this odious form of victimization.” Mark Walters, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Sussex"Brilliant and timely, this compelling account of an under-explored area is a passionate call to arms. Taylor lays bare the real meaning of these crimes and of society’s continuing failure to address them. His book is a demand for justice." Ken Macdonald QC, former Master of Wadham College, Oxford University and Director of Public Prosecutions 2003–8“This book is long overdue: a welcome account of the development of Disability Hate Crime and a timely challenge about the way forward.” Sir Keir Starmer QC MP"Taylor has been at the centre of Disability Hate Crime policy development for some years. He is ideally placed to describe this journey and, most importantly, the action that is still needed to provide equitable rights and protections to disabled people." Paul Giannasi OBE, National Policing Advisor for Hate Crime, HM GovernmentTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Fifteen Cases of Disability Hate Crime 3. From Hate Crime to Disability Hate Crime 4. Agenda Triggering 5. Agenda Development 6. Towards Agenda Institutionalization? 7. Problem with the Current Agenda: The Focus on Vulnerability 8. An Agenda Item Yet to Fully Speak Its Name: Ableism and Disability Hate Crime 9. Conclusion Appendix: Research Design and Methods

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Book SynopsisThis book is novel and unlike any other book out there. It will expand the knowledge base on activist Feminist Geography research in one place and include cutting-edge original research.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Kate Boyer, LaToya Eaves, and Jennifer Fluri 1. Evacuation Lost: Activism and Scholarship in a Time of Geopolitical Crisis – Jennifer Fluri 2. Women Weaving Critical Geographies – GeoBrujas-Comunidad de Geógrafas: Frida Itzel Rivera Juárez, Gabriela Mariana Fenner- Sánchez, Karla Helena Guzmán Velázquez, Valeria Ysunza, Tlazol Tlemoyotl, Esperanza González Hernández, and Karina Flores Cruz 3. Critical Geography Collective of Ecuador as Feminist Geography Collective Praxis – Sofia Zaragocin, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Guglielmina Falanga, Amanda Yépez, and Gabriela Ruales 4. Legacies of Black Feminist Activism in the US South – LaToya E. Eaves 5. LGBTQ+ Activism and Morality Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Understanding the Dynamic Equilibrium in Czechia from a Broader Transnational Perspective – Michal Pitoňák 6. Sexual Harassment and Claiming the Right to Everyday Life – Kate Boyer 7. Giving Birth in a ‘Hostile Environment’ – Maria Fannin 8. Respectful Relationalities: Researching with Those Who Contest or Have Concerns about Changes in Sexual and Gender Legislation and Cultures – Kath Browne and Catherine Nash Conclusion – Kate Boyer, LaToya Eaves, and Jennifer Fluri

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Book Synopsis*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times, Bustle, and more*In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander-one of the great literary voices of our time-turned a mother's eye to her sons' and students' generation and wrote a celebrated and moving reflection on the challenges facing young Black America. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay incisively and lovingly observed the experiences, attitudes, and cultural expressions of what she referred to as the Trayvon Generation, who even as children could not be shielded from the brutality that has affected the lives of so many Black people. The Trayvon Generation expands the viral essay that spoke so resonantly to the persistence of race as an ongoing issue at the center of the American experience. Alexander looks both to our past and our future with profound insight, brilliant analysis, and mighty heart, interweaving her voice with groundbreaking works of art by some of our most extraordinary artists. At this crucial time in American history when we reckon with who we are as a nation and how we move forward, Alexander's lyrical prose gives us perspective informed by historical understanding, her lifelong devotion to education, and an intimate grasp of the visioning power of art.This breathtaking book is essential reading and an expression of both the tragedies and hopes for the young people of this era that is sure to be embraced by those who are leading the movement for change and anyone rising to meet the moment.

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Book SynopsisIn this New York Times bestselling book, author and conservative icon Dr. Ben Carson lays out a hopeful roadmap for how America can come together.External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But rather than appreciating the gift of diversity, some have chosen to use it to drive wedges between groups of people. Some of these external characteristics are associated with the past moral failing of slavery. Though slavery in America formally ended in the 1860s, the vestiges of that evil institution are still with us today, and those vestiges often inflict guilt on some and facilitate feelings of victimhood in others. In Created Equal, Dr. Carson uses his own personal experiences as a member of a racial minority, along with the writings and experiences of others from multiple backgrounds and demographics, to analyze the current state of race relations in America. Instead of using race a

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Book SynopsisWe began the call for this book by asking authors to ideate on activism -to take up and seek to extend- the interbraided values from the Curriculum and Pedagogy group’s espoused mission and vision, collocating activist ideologies, theoretical traditions, and practical orientations as a means of creatively, reflectively, and productively responding to the increasingly dire social moment. This moment is framed by a landscape denigrated beyond even Pinar’s (2004) original declaration of the present-as-nightmare. The current, catastrophic political climate provides challenges and (albeit scant) opportunities for curriculum scholars and workers as we reflect on past and future directions of our field, and grapple with our locations and roles as educators, researchers, practitioners, and beings in the world. These troubled times force us to think critically about our scholarship and pedagogy, our influence on educational practices in multiple registers, and the surrounding communities we claim to serve. This is where the call began: from a desire to think through modern conceptions regarding what counts as activism in the fields of education, curriculum, and pedagogy, and to consider how activist voices and enactments might emerge differently through curriculum and pedagogy writ large.A guiding source of inspiration for this book, weaving among the emerging themes between the collected manuscripts, reflections, and poems, was a passage in Sara Ahmed’s (2013) book, The Cultural Politics of Emotion. In this passage, Ahmed works through the complicated relationship between the testimonies of pain that injustice causes, the recognition of this pain, and the potential of these wounds to move us into a different relationship with healing (p. 200). The chapters, reflections, and poems within this volume, thus, effect a collective ideation on how specific cultural politics and deleterious ideological formations – racism, colonialism, homophobia, ableism, to name only a few – persist and mobilize. The authors seek to expose and name some of these injustices, asking readers not only see and hear these experiences, but to inhabit our complicities in their promulgation.It is important to acknowledge that these named social troubles do not exist in isolation, and will enmesh, weave, wind, and entangle with one another. The section headings parallel Ahmed’s (2013) own ideations: testimony, recognition, and wounds, not as a formula to follow as an activist call, or as a model for a means to a more just end, but as a way to engage in these issues as a trope of activist confrontation of readers who are, as many of our authors suggest, complicit in maintaining many of these social troubles. The chapters do not need to be read in any particular order, though the ordering of the chapters moves from the naming of social troubles, to showing how teaching, research, and theory ask us to take a more active role in recognizing and acknowledging the prevalence of these issues, and then theorizing ways to engage the wounds.

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Book SynopsisThis work is not endorsed by or connected with the National Urban League.An incisive collection of essays that reveals the past, present, and future strength of black America as the best hope for a nation that has lost faith in itself."A much-needed antidote to the madness-inducing contradiction of woke orthodoxy." —The Honorable Judge Janice Rogers BrownIn a nation that is tearing itself apart over race, trying to speak honestly about the state of black America is a perilous task. Candor and thoughtfulness are often drowned by hysteria, expediency, and sentimentalism. The State of Black America seeks to restore these sorely needed virtues to the present discourse, assembling a company of scholars who confront our nation’s troubled racial history even as they bear witness to the promise the American heritage contains for blacks.The essays in this volume bring clarity to the murky darkness of America’s race debates, reviewing and building upon the latest scholarship on the character, shape, and tendencies of life for black Americans. Together, they tell a story of black America’s astounding success in integrating into mainstream American culture and propose that black patriotism is the key to overcoming what problems remain.Featuring scholarship from a variety of disciplines, including history, economics, social science, and political philosophy, The State of Black America offers to the world a “toolbox” of intellectual resources to aid careful and sound thinking on one of the most fraught issues of our time.Featuring contributions from W. B. Allen, Mikael Rose Good, Edward J. Erler, Robert D. Bland, Glenn C. Loury, Ian V. Rowe, Precious D. Hall, Daphne Cooper, Star Parker, and Robert Borens.Trade Review“The State of Black America is a much-needed antidote to the madness-inducing contradiction of woke orthodoxy. These essays carefully consider the importance of human agency, culture, character, and the resilience of the human spirit. It is a meditation for grown-ups and not a fairy tale. If you want to know how to heal the afflictions of identity politics and restore the promise of the American republic, read this book.” —The Honorable Judge Janice Rogers Brown“This book combines an admirable attention to empirical reality with moral seriousness and reasoned hope in the promise of America. Where so many recommend fatalism and despair, the contributors to this volume celebrate the achievement of the black middle class and the moral and civic agency impressively displayed by black Americans even under conditions of distress. A most welcome plea for sanity and the recovery of the moral promise of the American republic.” —Daniel J. Mahoney, professor emeritus, Assumption University and senior fellow, the Real Clear Foundation“Here is a sober and hopeful book. In it, you will not find the leftist tale of a black America that must be rescued from ‘systemic racism’ by ever-more state intervention. Nor will you find the right-leaning claim that America is color-blind. This book gives a believable history of black America, which is to say, one beset by moral agony and ongoing labor to make good on an American promise longing to be fulfilled.” — Joshua Mitchell, professor of government, Georgetown University and senior fellow, Common Sense Society“In the face of a plangent chorus of ‘white guilt,’ ‘black victimization,’ and ‘green’ futility, this book revives the American dream and drama of triumphant possibilities and creative abundance for all. Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, 19th century pioneers of the American dream, would gladly welcome these authors into their pantheon of true heirs and proponents of the promise of 21st century American abundance and opportunity.” —George Gilder, author, economist, and cofounder of the Discovery Institute

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Book SynopsisThe melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America’s history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist. Instead, they advocate multiculturalism, which promotes ethnic boundaries and distinct group identities. Both models have precedents across the centuries, as Jens Heycke demonstrates in a contribution to the debate that incorporates an international, historical perspective.Heycke surveys multiethnic polities in history, focusing on societies that have shifted between the melting pot and multicultural models. Beginning with ancient Rome, he demonstrates the appeal of a unifying, syncretic identity that diverse individuals can join, regardless of their ethnic or racial origins. He details how early Islam, with its ideal of an inclusive ummah, integrated diverse groups, and even different faiths, into a cohesive and flourishing society. Both civilizations eventually abandoned their integrative ideals in favor of a multicultural paradigm. The consequences of that paradigm shift are instructive for societies that seek to emulate it.In the modern era, many nations have implemented multicultural policies like group preferences to compensate for past injustices or current disparities. Heycke examines some notable examples: Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. These nations were on a rough trajectory toward ethnic tolerance and comity, a trajectory that multicultural policies altered dramatically. They contrast with Botswana, a country that opposes group distinctions so resolutely that it prohibits the collection of racial and ethnic statistics.Since World War II, ethnic conflicts have killed over ten million people. But the consequences of ethnic division go far beyond that. Heycke analyzes those consequences in an international statistical survey of ethnic fractionalization. This survey, combined with the extensive historical record of multiethnic societies, illustrates the staggering costs of accentuating group differences and the benefits of a unifying identity that transcends those differences.Trade Review“Jens Kurt Heycke provides a much-needed, meticulously researched—and courageous—defense of the melting pot from classical antiquity to 21st-century America. His data and analyses show how and why the assimilationist model alone has always unified fractionalized ethnic and racial groups into a coherent national whole. Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire stands as a dire warning to beleaguered Western democracies that have foolishly rejected the melting pot that has so often proven the pathway to their survival and success.”—Victor Davis Hanson, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and author of Mexifornia: A State of Becoming“The United States has been, from its colonial beginnings, a multiethnic society. It has had to choose between being a melting pot society—assimilating newcomers and, while appreciating different heritages, seeking a single national identity—and a multicultural society, with separate enclaves and official quotas and preferences for those deemed members of different groups. Americans are not the first nation to face such a choice and, in Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire, Jens Kurt Heycke shows how other societies have faced this choice—and why Americans should embrace the melting pot model in the future.”—Michael Barone, senior political analyst, Washington Examiner, and founding co-author, The Almanac of American Politics

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Book SynopsisThe first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots activism in the decades since its decline, Black Power Afterlives represents a major scholarly achievement as well as an important resource for today's activists. Through its focus on the enduring impact of the Black Panther Party, this volume expands the historiography of Black Power studies beyond the 1960s-70s and serves as a bridge between studies of the BPP during its organizational existence and studies of present-day Black activism, allowing today's readers and organizers to situate themselves in a long lineage of liberation movements.Trade Review“What Fujino and Harmachis have done with this collection of articles is comparable in scope to Charles Jones’ The Black Panther Party (Reconsidered), and Judson Jeffries’ Comrades, both superb and deeply critical anthologies, but with a provocative twist: what would be the historical impacts of the Black Panther Party half a century hence? As a young member of the original collective, I can say without contradiction, we were so busy, and often so nerve-wracked that we barely thought about the next 50 minutes, much less 50 years! Fujino and Harmachis show us that history is never done. It runs like a river, sometimes rushing, sometimes meandering, but always moving.” —Mumia Abu-Jamal, author of We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party“Black Power Afterlives constructs an urgently needed bridge between the Black Power era and the Black Lives Matter movements of today. Deftly side stepping well-trod ground, authors trace how the Panthers' international engagements, artistic practices, ideological frameworks and community organizing have continued to influence new generations of activists. By locating the Panthers' richest legacies in the work of students, poor Black folks and Black queer feminists and in the sustained commitment of political prisoners, it reminds readers of the transformative possibilities of struggle.” —Robyn C. Spencer, author of The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panthers Party in Oakland“The Black Panther Party’s 1966 armed actions against police brutality in Oakland’s black community reorganized mainstream consciousness in the US. The BPP exposed entrenched notions of gun-ownership as the exclusive right of white Americans. The Party’s armed cop-watch, aesthetic exaltation of blackness, and challenges to capitalism also released black resistance from the state’s ideological grip. Black Power Afterlives is the first book to explore this post-60s reorganization of black consciousness, resistance and humanity. Its intervention is as urgent and rich as the legacy of the Black Panthers.” —Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History“Black Power Afterlives gives us concrete insights into the continuing significance of the Black Panthers without the common iconization and stereotypes. Through carefully chosen writings and interviews we are reminded of the transformative power of movements and real people that envision a far more just and equitable future for humanity and the planet.” —Claude Marks, director, The Freedom Archives“The vivid, engaging, and compelling testimonies that Diane C. Fujino and Matef Harmachis have collected in Black Power Afterlives offer unparalleled insights about the origins, evolution, and continuing influence and impact of the Black Panther Party. This is an indispensable book, one that demonstrates how oppositional social movement organizations fuel future struggles long after they seem to have departed from the scene.” —George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes Place“Tender and determined, these meditations on the enduring afterlives of the Black Panther Party illuminate the incandescent dreams of freedom joining one revolutionary generation to another. The essays and conversations—on art and prison, ecology and the spirit—focus on the lessons rank-and-file Panthers have to offer today's rank and file. They remind us of the eternal dedication and determination required of us all.” —Dan Berger, author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era“Black Power Afterlives shares important insights about the Black Panther Party and radical activism. Examining an inheritance that bridges two centuries, it explores mobilizations against poverty, exploitation, imprisonment, violence and war. Fred Hampton's Rainbow Coalitions sought to wrest victories from police in order to secure "Power to the People." With prescience, Hampton warned that he would not die slipping on icy Chicago streets, and that we either organize with radical intent or forget him. Black Power Afterlives remembers Fred and the sacrifices of those who fought and fight for their communities—especially political prisoners. Recognizing the need to free them all, and our communities, Black Power Afterlives builds an archive and a foundation for continued struggles.” —Joy James, author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics“There are more stories of the deep and continuing legacy of the Black Panthers than can be contained in any one book, but Black Panther Afterlives does a good job at beginning to fill the gap. Editors Fujino and Harmachis present us with a must-read book, essential to a true understanding of the positive ways in which Panther politics can and do enrich our lives today.” —Matt Meyer, secretary-general, International Peace Research Association; co-editor and author, Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions“Black Power Afterlives is full of fascinating accounts of those carrying on the Panther legacy and makes a compelling case for a re-evaluation of the Black Panther Party's lasting political influence.” —Yonas Makoni, CounterfireTable of ContentsContentsForeword | Kathleen CleaverIntroduction | Diane C. Fujino and Matef HarmachisI. The Persistence of the Panther1. Assata Shakur: The Political Life of Political Exile | Teishan A. Latner2. “We Had our Own Community:” Hank Jones, Spaces of Confinement, and a Vision of Abolition Democracy | Diane C. Fujino3. Kiilu Taught Me: Letters to My Comrade | Tina BartolomeII. Sustainability and Spirituality4. A Spiritual Practice for Sustaining Social Justice Activism: An Interview with Ericka Huggins | Diane C. Fujino5. Serving the People and Serving God: The Everyday Work and Mobilizing Force of Dhameera Ahmad | Maryam Kashani6. EcoSocialism from the Inside Out | Quincy SaulIII. Sankofa: Pan-African Internationalism7. The (R)evolution from Black Panther to Pan-Africanism: David Brothers and Dedon Kamathi at the Bus Stop on the Mountain Top of Agit-Prop | Matef Harmachis8. States of Fugitivity: Akinsanya Kambon, Pan-Africanism, and Art-based Knowledge Making | Diane C. FujinoIV. Art, Revolution, and a Social Imaginary9. “Art that Flows from the People:” Emory Douglas, International Solidarity, and the Practice of Co-creation | Diane C. Fujino10. Poetic Justice: Fred Ho’s Music and Politics and the Influence of the Black Power Movement | Ben BarsonV. The Real Dragons Take Flight: On Prisons and Policing11. Legacy: Where We Were, Where We Are, Where We Are Going? | Sekou Odinga and dequi kioni-sadiki12. Black August Organizing to Uplift the Fallen and Release the Captive | Matef Harmachis13. The Making of a Movement: Jericho and Political Prisoners | Jalil Muntaqim14. Dialogical Autonomy: Michael Zinzun, the Coalition Against Police Abuse, and Genocide | João Costa VargasVI. Black Panther Legacies in a Time of Neoliberalism15. Black Student Organizing in the Shadow of the Panthers | Yoel Haile16. Black Queer Feminism and the Movement for Black Lives in the South: An Interview with Mary Hooks of SONG | Diane C. Fujino and Felice Blake17. The Impact of the Panthers: Centering Poor Black Folks in the Black Liberation Movement | Blake Simons18. The Chinese Progressive Association and the Red Door | Alex T. Tom

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Book SynopsisWilliams draws on her background in dramaturgy to envision a space that accommodates the biopolitical economies that inform how movement might be read. Looking at the interconnections between popular culture and myth, she relates in her work anatomy, regions of Black diaspora, and communication and obfuscation. Williams’s body of work shapes an alternative language that examines how Black moving bodies are regarded. Williams continues to make visible the inexpressible violence Black bodies have been subjected to in dance and beyond. Featuring contributions by the curator of 52 Walker—a David Zwirner gallery space—Ebony L. Haynes and the artist and writer Hannah Black, and a stirring conversation between Williams and the choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili, the book serves as an extension of the exhibition. Included are high-quality illustrations of the artworks alongside rich archival materials. — About Clarion Series The Clarion series of illustrated publications is positioned as an extension of each exhibition at the groundbreaking gallery space 52 Walker, curated by Ebony L. Haynes. The program focuses on showcasing conceptual and research-based artists from a range of backgrounds and at various stages in their careers. The series title is derived from the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, the oldest of its kind, at the University of California, San Diego. Octavia Butler attended this workshop in the 1970s. Both she and her work have been extremely influential in many cadres of Black culture and subculture. With a sleek design influenced by encyclopedias, each publication will feature color reproductions of the works on view, alongside an introduction by Haynes, commissioned essays, artist texts, archival material, and more.

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