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Columbia University Press Heading Home
Book SynopsisHeading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women’s experience of continued injustice. It draws on in-depth interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children, juxtaposed with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family.Trade ReviewThis book tells a story about sacrificing career for family that resonates far beyond the lives of the women in London Shani Orgad has interviewed. Orgad makes a powerful argument about the denials women experience, precisely because the author does not rant. She is a gifted explorer of adulthood in all its promises, twists, and disappointments. Shani Orgad is one of the finest sociologists of her generation. -- Richard Sennett, author of The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New CapitalismHeading Home is a wonderfully researched and written book, highly engaging, and on a hugely important topic. Orgad’s interviews highlight very meaningful themes: the fact that oppression can be experienced alongside privilege; that structural inequality masks what are perceived as personal choices; and how the public discourses and media representations of ‘choice’ shape the self-identity of women who in fact did not have much of a choice. A great accomplishment! -- Dafna Lemish, Rutgers UniversityIn this rich and compelling book, Shani Orgad persuasively argues for the power of cultural forces, alongside toxic workplace structures and flimsy public policies, to block pathways, shrink selves, and stifle rage among accomplished, highly-educated women who sacrificed careers as they headed home to care for young children. She beautifully weaves the sometimes-wrenching stories of mothers with incisive analysis demarcating the unique predicament of these mothers, who find it difficult to articulate return pathways to the work world despite the celebratory and contradictory culture of mompreneurs and the confidence fantasy. Brilliant! -- Melissa A. Milkie, University of TorontoOrgad argues that if these affluent women find it hard to juggle work, family and childcare, then those with less money must find the struggle so much harder. * Financial Times *Heading Home is an essential book. Its significance lies in astutely analysing the contradictions and ambivalences of lived experiences and public discourses of motherhood, equality and work, an important task that is often neglected in media and cultural research. * LSE Review of Books *The sociologist Shani Orgad enters this rich terrain with a book that asks us to consider those highly educated contemporary women who leave the workforce to raise children. * Times Literary Supplement *This is a fascinating study, written in the best traditions of interdisciplinarity that would certainly be of great interest to academics studying gender and work, feminist theory and contemporary culture. * Gender, Work, and Organization *Shani Orgad’s Heading Home is a fascinating book. It is insightful, attractively written,warm, sometimes painful, pessimistic – yet also hopeful. -- Hanna-Mari Ikonen * Sociology *[An] engaging and well-written book . . . A strength of the book is Orgad's insight into the role of the individualist and gender-egalitarian social imaginary on individual and collective understandings of gender, work, and family. * Choice *Heading Home offers a rich analysis of the challenges that many mothers face as they attempt to combine work and family. Because it often engages with the canonical work on these subjects, it would be an excellent resource for introductory courses. The scope and writing of the book make it accessible and interdisciplinary, and it would be of interest to those studying work, gender, and family in various fields. * Affilia *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction Part I: Heading Home: Forced Choices1. Choice and Confidence Culture/Toxic Work Culture 2. The Balanced Woman/Unequal Homes Part II: Heading the Home: The Personal Consequences of Forced Choices3. Cupcake Mom/Family CEO 4. Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives Part III: Heading Where? Curbed Desires5. The Mompreneur/Inarticulate Desire 6. Inevitable Change/Invisible Chains Conclusion: Impatience Appendix 1: Interviewees’ Key CharacteristicsAppendix 2: List of Media and Policy RepresentationsAppendix 3: Study MethodologyAppendix 4: Characteristics of UK Stay-at-Home MothersNotesIndex
£25.20
Columbia University Press Making Sense of the AltRight
Book SynopsisDuring the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: “alt-right.” George Hawley provides an accessible introduction to this troubling racist movement, detailing its origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white nationalism through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right’s influential texts.Trade ReviewMaking Sense of the Alt-Right understands alt-right thinking from the inside. George Hawley's erudition on the subject is evident. The work is supple in tracing out the lineage and development of the movement against the conservative establishment, and in explaining its present incarnation in the form of the alt-right. -- Lawrence Rosenthal, University of California, Berkeley Making Sense of the Alt-Right is clearly written, insightful, and impressively documented, getting the reader genuinely close to the essence of this amorphous movement. I know of no other work that does nearly as good a job of dealing with the alt-right, and I suspect that this will become the "go-to" work on the movement for students, politicians, and serious readers alike. -- Michael Barkun, Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Alt-Right’s Goals and Predecessors2. The First Wave of the Alt-Right3. The Alt-Right Returns4. The Alt-Right Attack on the Conservative Movement5. The Alt-Right and the 2016 Election6. The “Alt-Lite”ConclusionNotesIndex
£58.77
Columbia University Press Making Sense of the AltRight
Book SynopsisDuring the 2016 election, a new term entered the American political lexicon: “alt-right.” George Hawley provides an accessible introduction to this troubling racist movement, detailing its origins, evolution, methods, and core belief in white nationalism through exclusive interviews and a careful study of the alt-right’s influential texts.Trade ReviewMaking Sense of the Alt-Right understands alt-right thinking from the inside. George Hawley's erudition on the subject is evident. The work is supple in tracing out the lineage and development of the movement against the conservative establishment and in explaining its present incarnation in the form of the alt-right. -- Lawrence Rosenthal, University of California, BerkeleyMaking Sense of the Alt-Right is clearly written, insightful, and impressively documented, getting the reader genuinely close to the essence of this amorphous movement. I know of no other work that does nearly as good a job of dealing with the alt-right, and I suspect that this will become the "go-to" work on the movement for students, politicians, and serious readers alike. -- Michael Barkun, Syracuse UniversityI am no fan of the term “alt-right,” but an academic study of this much-hyped movement was well overdue, and George Hawley was the only one who could make at least some sense of them. Recommended reading! -- Cas Mudde, University of GeorgiaGeorge Hawley’s fine new book is one of the first accounts of the rise of a new radical political ideology. It’s an important contribution to scholarship about extremism, digital communication, and contemporary American political culture. It’s also a good read, packed with interesting anecdotes about right-wing intellectual infighting and the online community of the alt-right. All serious followers of American politics today will want to read it. -- Thomas J. Main, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, CUNYHawley's survey represents a good early effort at understanding a strange time in American politics. * Publishers Weekly *Suddenly, everyone claims to be an expert on the white-nationalist reboot, but Hawley actually is. His deep knowledge makes this the most thorough guide to the movement yet. * New York Magazine *WHY READ IT? A good, short (222 pages) primer to help understand the political forces responsible for Charlottesville (and the election of Donald Trump as president). * Hollywood Reporter *An important contribution to contemporary political discourse that sheds light on a disturbingly influential group in American politics. * Library Journal *For anyone trying to figure out how to appeal to the exasperated while maintaining hard boundaries against white supremacists, an important book... -- Joan C. Williams * Times Literary Supplement *Valuable accounts of a movement that [the author] has studied in depth. * Inside Higher Ed *Vital for understanding our times. * Urban Daddy *A slim, neatly focused work that attempts to define the radical new movement. * New Statesman *In Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Hawley does what he set out to do: exploring deep into the heart of the alt-right and its origins, ideology, and political influence. * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Alt-Right’s Goals and Predecessors2. The First Wave of the Alt-Right3. The Alt-Right Returns4. The Alt-Right Attack on the Conservative Movement5. The Alt-Right and the 2016 Election6. The “Alt-Lite”ConclusionNotesIndex
£16.14
Columbia University Press Trauma
Book SynopsisAn expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates the latest research in trauma theory and clinical applications. It features coverage of the experiences of historically disenfranchised, marginalized, oppressed, and vulnerable groups.Trade ReviewWith the inclusion of excellent chapters on LGBTQ clients, clients who have been incarcerated, combat trauma, the effects of bullying, and cultural trauma, this second edition of Trauma becomes very relevant to vulnerable and at-risk populations. Social workers will appreciate the depth of multiple perspectives and the artful integration of clinical practice throughout. This is an important book for every social work student and practitioner. -- Joan Berzoff, professor emerita, Smith CollegeBy exploring the theoretical underpinnings of the psychosocial impact of trauma, the authors provide the reader with clear mechanisms for understanding how trauma affects people. An excellent survey of the many facets of trauma and surely the best textbook for teaching. -- Eileen Dombo, Catholic University of AmericaOriginating from the editors’ rich experience, this is a comprehensive book bringing a diversity of theories and tools centered on new developments in the conceptualization of attachment trauma and trauma-related interventions. This is a must-read, and its scope should prove pertinent to undergraduates and clinicians from all modalities of psychotherapy. -- Orit Badouk Epstein, editor of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational PsychoanalysisThe second edition of Trauma is a must-have for mental health clinicians. The book provides expert descriptions of the leading forms of trauma therapy and how to apply them with diverse populations. I encourage any therapist who works with traumatized clients to study this amazing book. -- Russell Carr, M.D.The editors offer an expanded view on the topic of trauma through an excellent collection of chapters addressing theory, application, intervention, and research. Environmental issues are addressed, special populations are highlighted, and discussions are research-informed. Students, practitioners, and researchers will find this an excellent resource. -- Kathryn S. Collins, University of MarylandTable of ContentsIntroduction1. History and Development of Trauma Theory: Discussion of Main Concepts, by Shoshana Ringel2. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, by Antonio Gonzalez-Prendes, Stella Resko, and Caitlin Cassady3. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 1, by Jerrold R. Brandell4. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 2, by Shoshana Ringel5. Attachment Theory, by Shoshana Ringel6. Mindfulness-Oriented Approaches to Trauma Treatment, by Shoshana Ringel7. Cultural and Historical Trauma Among Native Americans, by Shelly A. Wiechelt, Jan Gryczynski, and Kerry Hawk Lessard8. Art Therapy with Traumatically Bereaved Youth, by Laura V. Loumeau-May9. The Effects of Bullying on Schoolchildren, by Jun Sung Hong and Jeoung Min Lee10. Combat Trauma, by Kathryn Basham11. Trauma and Incarceration: Historical Relevance and Present-Day Significance for African American Women, by Laverne D. Marks12. Working with LGBTQIA+ Clients in the Context of Trauma, with a Focus on Transgender Experiences, by David Byers, Kai Z. Thigpen, and Sara Wolfson13. The Effects of Trauma Treatment on the Therapist, by Brian RasmussenList of ContributorsIndex
£95.00
Columbia University Press Trauma
Book SynopsisAn expanded and revised edition of the first social work text to focus specifically on trauma, this comprehensive anthology incorporates the latest research in trauma theory and clinical applications. It features coverage of the experiences of historically disenfranchised, marginalized, oppressed, and vulnerable groups.Trade ReviewWith the inclusion of excellent chapters on LGBTQ clients, clients who have been incarcerated, combat trauma, the effects of bullying, and cultural trauma, this second edition of Trauma becomes very relevant to vulnerable and at-risk populations. Social workers will appreciate the depth of multiple perspectives and the artful integration of clinical practice throughout. This is an important book for every social work student and practitioner. -- Joan Berzoff, professor emerita, Smith CollegeBy exploring the theoretical underpinnings of the psychosocial impact of trauma, the authors provide the reader with clear mechanisms for understanding how trauma affects people. An excellent survey of the many facets of trauma and surely the best textbook for teaching. -- Eileen Dombo, Catholic University of AmericaOriginating from the editors’ rich experience, this is a comprehensive book bringing a diversity of theories and tools centered on new developments in the conceptualization of attachment trauma and trauma-related interventions. This is a must-read, and its scope should prove pertinent to undergraduates and clinicians from all modalities of psychotherapy. -- Orit Badouk Epstein, editor of Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational PsychoanalysisThe second edition of Trauma is a must-have for mental health clinicians. The book provides expert descriptions of the leading forms of trauma therapy and how to apply them with diverse populations. I encourage any therapist who works with traumatized clients to study this amazing book. -- Russell Carr, M.D.The editors offer an expanded view on the topic of trauma through an excellent collection of chapters addressing theory, application, intervention, and research. Environmental issues are addressed, special populations are highlighted, and discussions are research-informed. Students, practitioners, and researchers will find this an excellent resource. -- Kathryn S. Collins, University of MarylandTable of ContentsIntroduction1. History and Development of Trauma Theory: Discussion of Main Concepts, by Shoshana Ringel2. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, by Antonio Gonzalez-Prendes, Stella Resko, and Caitlin Cassady3. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 1, by Jerrold R. Brandell4. Psychoanalytic Theory, Part 2, by Shoshana Ringel5. Attachment Theory, by Shoshana Ringel6. Mindfulness-Oriented Approaches to Trauma Treatment, by Shoshana Ringel7. Cultural and Historical Trauma Among Native Americans, by Shelly A. Wiechelt, Jan Gryczynski, and Kerry Hawk Lessard8. Art Therapy with Traumatically Bereaved Youth, by Laura V. Loumeau-May9. The Effects of Bullying on Schoolchildren, by Jun Sung Hong and Jeoung Min Lee10. Combat Trauma, by Kathryn Basham11. Trauma and Incarceration: Historical Relevance and Present-Day Significance for African American Women, by Laverne D. Marks12. Working with LGBTQIA+ Clients in the Context of Trauma, with a Focus on Transgender Experiences, by David Byers, Kai Z. Thigpen, and Sara Wolfson13. The Effects of Trauma Treatment on the Therapist, by Brian RasmussenList of ContributorsIndex
£29.75
Columbia University Press Measuring the Effects of Racism
Book SynopsisA large body of research has established a relationship between experiences of racial discrimination and adverse effects on mental and physical health. Robert T. Carter and Alex L. Pieterse offer a manual for mental health professionals on how to understand, assess, and treat the effects of racism as a psychological injury.Trade Review[A] well-researched book. -- H. Steven Moffic, MD , Jessica Isom, MD, MPH , Rahn K. Bailey, MD * Psychiatric Times *It is impossible to cover immense strengths of this book in this four-page review. The authors validate many points that address a huge gap currently prominent in society and provide evidence of ways to measure the effects and impact of racism, encourage training to prepare mental health workers, and clinical ideas for working with people of color who are impacted by racism. I believe this text takes a huge step in the process of helping clients who come to mental health workers measure the effects of racism and guide future work to effectively increase the well-being of people of color who have experienced racism. This text is appropriate for all mental health workers and health-care professionals who work with individuals, families, and student groups. -- Edward N. Randle Tarleton State University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA * Social Work with Groups *Carter and Pieterse increase our understanding of and the treatability of traumatic stress that results from racism. The proposals proffered in Measuring the Effects of Racism will lead to better treatment methods of race-based trauma and increase the evidence base for advocacy and agendas for social justice. -- Hugo Kamya, Simmons UniversityDrawing on decades of experience, Robert Carter and Alex Pieterse have given us a tour de force exploration of new research on race-based traumatic stress (RBTS). Introducing an invaluable new theoretical model and assessment, they have provided an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners, and trainees interested in systematically addressing the ill effects of racism in our society. -- Helen A. Neville, coauthor of Counseling the Culturally DiverseMeasuring the Effects of Racism is the definitive guide to understanding the scope of the psychological impact of racism. Providing a clear and comprehensive conceptual framework and assessment strategy, Carter and Pieterse have written a book that will be of great benefit to educators, researchers, practitioners, and policy makers. -- Matthew Miller, associate editor of Journal of Counseling PsychologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. What We Know About Racism and Stress 1. Terms and Concepts Defined2. Understanding Reactions to Stress: Trauma, Traumatic Stress, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 3. Redefining Racism: Documenting Racism’s Effects4. Variations in Responses to Racial DiscriminationPart II. What We Need to Know About Racial Trauma5. Race-Based Traumatic Stress as Racial Trauma6. Measuring Race-Based Traumatic Stress7. Empirical Research Evidence Associated with the Race-Based Traumatic Stress Symptom Scale 8. The Short Form and the Interview Schedule of the Race-Based Traumatic Stress Symptom ScalePart III. What to Do with What We Know: Practice Applications 9. Clinical Applications of the Race-Based Traumatic Stress Model10. A Guide to Forensic Assessment: Clinical Applications11. Training Mental Health Professionals to Treat Racial Trauma 12. Emerging Issues in Practice and ResearchAppendix A: RBTSSS-Short Form (RBTSSS-SF)Appendix B: Carter-Vinson Race-Based Traumatic Stress Interview ScheduleNotesReferencesIndex
£99.45
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Columbia University Press Manufacturing Decline
Book SynopsisManufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on—and perpetuated—Rust Belt cities’ misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Jason Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause.Trade ReviewManufacturing Decline is a sobering yet essential read for anyone who is interested in the fate of America’s inner cities. This recovery of the politics behind—and, indeed, that created—the devastating decline of key cities such as Detroit is deeply unsettling but ultimately uplifting. As Jason Hackworth makes clear, just as America’s inner cities can be deliberately unmade to serve the political agenda of conservatives, so might they be remade in ways that could actually benefit all citizens equally. -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyManufacturing Decline implicates conservative thought leadership, anti-urban interests, and elite—and ordinary—laissez-faire racism in a deliberate, decades-long degradation of U.S. cities via privation, demolition, and desertion. It is a thoughtful, stimulating, and efficient read at the intersection of urban geography, planning, and the social sciences. -- Michael Leo Owens, author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black AmericaManufacturing Decline convincingly argues that, while the disappearance of manufacturing jobs affected Rust Belt cities, their decline was not inevitable. Jason Hackworth provides a marvelous exposition of how this decline was largely produced by the rise of neoliberal policies emphasizing free markets while deliberately overlooking the region’s long history of racial disparities. -- Reynolds Farley, coauthor of Detroit DividedTimely reading for troubled times...a sturdy exploration of a continuing problem. * Kirkus Reviews *Throughout Manufacturing Decline, he demonstrates how even the most well-meaning plans maintain the austerity structures that became prevalent in the last half-century. These have immediate and long-lasting effects on the black populations of Rust Belt cities. * Cleveland Review of Books *In this well-researched, data-driven book, Jason Hackworth makes a persuasive case that the devastating demographic and fiscal declines that have turned once-thriving rust-belt cities into quasi-wastelands were not simply the resultof impersonal market forces or the supposedly spendthrift policies of left-wing mayors, but were the predictable, if not always intended, result of neoliberal nostrums such as ‘right-sizing.' * Survival *When you put this book down, you leave with a powerful understanding of the forces and whose choices made the Rust Belt what it is today. * Metropole *Manufacturing Decline is an invitation to a long overdue discussion, and I hope that urban sociologist, urban geographers,scholars of race, students of American political development, and others show up. * American Journal of Sociology *A valuable addition to the shrinking cities literature and should be required reading for anyone interested in the forces that contributed to, and continue to perpetuate, decline across the American Rust Belt. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Organized Deprivation in the American Rust BeltPart I. Othering the Deprived City1. Racial Threat and Urban Decline2. Urban Decline as Conservative Bonding Capital 3. The Conservative Myth of DetroitPart II. Depriving the Othered City4. Conservative City Limits 5. Land-Market Fundamentalism6. Demolition as Urban Policy7. Saving the City to Kill ItConclusion: Urban Decline Was PlannedNotesBibliographyIndex
£75.00
Columbia University Press Manufacturing Decline
Book SynopsisManufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on—and perpetuated—Rust Belt cities’ misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Jason Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause.Trade ReviewManufacturing Decline is a sobering yet essential read for anyone who is interested in the fate of America’s inner cities. This recovery of the politics behind—and, indeed, that created—the devastating decline of key cities such as Detroit is deeply unsettling but ultimately uplifting. As Jason Hackworth makes clear, just as America’s inner cities can be deliberately unmade to serve the political agenda of conservatives, so might they be remade in ways that could actually benefit all citizens equally. -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyManufacturing Decline implicates conservative thought leadership, anti-urban interests, and elite—and ordinary—laissez-faire racism in a deliberate, decades-long degradation of U.S. cities via privation, demolition, and desertion. It is a thoughtful, stimulating, and efficient read at the intersection of urban geography, planning, and the social sciences. -- Michael Leo Owens, author of God and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black AmericaManufacturing Decline convincingly argues that, while the disappearance of manufacturing jobs affected Rust Belt cities, their decline was not inevitable. Jason Hackworth provides a marvelous exposition of how this decline was largely produced by the rise of neoliberal policies emphasizing free markets while deliberately overlooking the region’s long history of racial disparities. -- Reynolds Farley, coauthor of Detroit DividedTimely reading for troubled times...a sturdy exploration of a continuing problem. * Kirkus Reviews *Throughout Manufacturing Decline, he demonstrates how even the most well-meaning plans maintain the austerity structures that became prevalent in the last half-century. These have immediate and long-lasting effects on the black populations of Rust Belt cities. * Cleveland Review of Books *In this well-researched, data-driven book, Jason Hackworth makes a persuasive case that the devastating demographic and fiscal declines that have turned once-thriving rust-belt cities into quasi-wastelands were not simply the resultof impersonal market forces or the supposedly spendthrift policies of left-wing mayors, but were the predictable, if not always intended, result of neoliberal nostrums such as ‘right-sizing.' * Survival *When you put this book down, you leave with a powerful understanding of the forces and whose choices made the Rust Belt what it is today. * Metropole *Manufacturing Decline is an invitation to a long overdue discussion, and I hope that urban sociologist, urban geographers,scholars of race, students of American political development, and others show up. * American Journal of Sociology *A valuable addition to the shrinking cities literature and should be required reading for anyone interested in the forces that contributed to, and continue to perpetuate, decline across the American Rust Belt. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Organized Deprivation in the American Rust BeltPart I. Othering the Deprived City1. Racial Threat and Urban Decline2. Urban Decline as Conservative Bonding Capital 3. The Conservative Myth of DetroitPart II. Depriving the Othered City4. Conservative City Limits 5. Land-Market Fundamentalism6. Demolition as Urban Policy7. Saving the City to Kill ItConclusion: Urban Decline Was PlannedNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press Artificial Whiteness Politics and Ideology in
Book SynopsisYarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.Trade ReviewIn this timely, compelling, persuasive, and eye-opening book, Yarden Katz makes profound contributions to knowledge at the intersections of technology, philosophy, and critical race theory. Artificial Whiteness exposes artificial intelligence (AI) as a malleable technology of power rooted in raced, classed, and gendered models of the self. Katz reveals how the artifice of whiteness provides the organizing logic of AI and enables its racist and capitalist ideological projects to be disguised as socially neutral technological imperatives. -- George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity PoliticsIn Artificial Whiteness, Yarden Katz takes a deep dive into the history of artificial intelligence in order to reveal its enduring connections not only to the military-industrial complex but also to white supremacy itself. Katz sounds a chilling warning about how amorphous and future-oriented domains of knowledge production like AI—perhaps especially when abetted by the modern university’s false claims to both neutrality and benevolence—are able to be hidden from public scrutiny while they produce inequality, violence, and catastrophe in our world. A unique and fascinating study. -- Britt Rusert, author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American CultureFor the technology worker, the netizen, and the poet who wishes to tear into the handiwork of empire, here is a book that will dispel the illusions cast by artificial intelligence. Katz demystifies a field built on self-mystification. AI is a nebulous technology, a morally ambivalent discourse, and at its core, a political-military-scientific program, which, like whiteness, masquerades as universal and all-seeing when it is in fact deeply invested in race, gender, and colonialism. -- la paperson, author of A Third University Is PossibleThis is a book about how white supremacy can be found at the roots of artificial intelligence, an ongoing influence confirmed by links between AI startups and white supremacists. -- Khari Johnson * Venturebeat *The dialog this book introduces is one worth having; I recommend the read. * College and Research Libraries *Provides a useful frame for understanding both the historical arc of white domination under which we continue to suffer and the current wave of fascination with AI. * Public Books *[A] frontal assault on the flexible and nefarious association between whiteness and artificial intelligence...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Formation1. In the Service of Empire2. In the Service of CapitalPart II: Self and the Social Order3. Epistemic Forgeries and Ghosts in the Machine4. Adaptation, Not Abolition: Critical AI Experts and Carceral-Positive Logic5. Artificial WhitenessPart III: Alternatives6. Dissenting Visions: From Autopoietic Love to Embodied War7. A Generative RefusalAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£76.00
Columbia University Press Artificial Whiteness
Book SynopsisYarden Katz reveals the ideology embedded in the concept of artificial intelligence, contending that it both serves and mimics the logic of white supremacy. Only by seeing the connection between artificial intelligence and whiteness can we prioritize alternatives to the conception of AI as an all-encompassing technological force.Trade ReviewIn this timely, compelling, persuasive, and eye-opening book, Yarden Katz makes profound contributions to knowledge at the intersections of technology, philosophy, and critical race theory. Artificial Whiteness exposes artificial intelligence (AI) as a malleable technology of power rooted in raced, classed, and gendered models of the self. Katz reveals how the artifice of whiteness provides the organizing logic of AI and enables its racist and capitalist ideological projects to be disguised as socially neutral technological imperatives. -- George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity PoliticsIn Artificial Whiteness, Yarden Katz takes a deep dive into the history of artificial intelligence in order to reveal its enduring connections not only to the military-industrial complex but also to white supremacy itself. Katz sounds a chilling warning about how amorphous and future-oriented domains of knowledge production like AI—perhaps especially when abetted by the modern university’s false claims to both neutrality and benevolence—are able to be hidden from public scrutiny while they produce inequality, violence, and catastrophe in our world. A unique and fascinating study. -- Britt Rusert, author of Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American CultureFor the technology worker, the netizen, and the poet who wishes to tear into the handiwork of empire, here is a book that will dispel the illusions cast by artificial intelligence. Katz demystifies a field built on self-mystification. AI is a nebulous technology, a morally ambivalent discourse, and at its core, a political-military-scientific program, which, like whiteness, masquerades as universal and all-seeing when it is in fact deeply invested in race, gender, and colonialism. -- la paperson, author of A Third University Is PossibleThis is a book about how white supremacy can be found at the roots of artificial intelligence, an ongoing influence confirmed by links between AI startups and white supremacists. -- Khari Johnson * Venturebeat *The dialog this book introduces is one worth having; I recommend the read. * College and Research Libraries *Provides a useful frame for understanding both the historical arc of white domination under which we continue to suffer and the current wave of fascination with AI. * Public Books *[A] frontal assault on the flexible and nefarious association between whiteness and artificial intelligence...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Formation1. In the Service of Empire2. In the Service of CapitalPart II: Self and the Social Order3. Epistemic Forgeries and Ghosts in the Machine4. Adaptation, Not Abolition: Critical AI Experts and Carceral-Positive Logic5. Artificial WhitenessPart III: Alternatives6. Dissenting Visions: From Autopoietic Love to Embodied War7. A Generative RefusalAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Columbia University Press The Great Polarization How Ideas Power and
Book SynopsisThe Great Polarization brings together contributors from disparate perspectives to examine the causes and consequences of skyrocketing inequality. Contributors reconsider the data on inequality, examine the policies that have led to this predicament, and outline potential ways forward.Trade ReviewThe Great Polarization warns us that the history of the Gilded Age is repeating itself because we are aping the narratives from that era that celebrated inequality as the natural evolution of technological progress. This book gets us to focus on how policies and the public discourse have been captured to serve inequality. -- William Spriggs, chief economist, AFL-CIOThe Great Polarization makes a persuasive case that the distribution of economic rewards is overwhelmingly a political choice. While it’s depressing that our politics have made this choice, fortunately there are no real binding economic constraints keeping us from a more broadly shared prosperity. This volume should motivate economists to turn their attention to the specific policy changes that could be made that would deliver a fairer set of economic outcomes. -- Josh Bivens, director of research, Economic Policy InstituteThe Great Polarization seeks to move economics beyond market fundamentalism, not by focusing on critique, but by laying out new ways of thinking about the relation between markets and states. Representing an earnest and pioneering effort in the building of new ways of thinking about capitalism’s recent past and theorizing about its future, this volume is at the cutting edge of the transformation of economics and its way of approaching growth and development. -- William Milberg, The New School for Social ResearchThis lively and well-argued book, which takes into account race and gender as well as class, shows that increasing inequality in income and wealth is driven by policy choices that favor property rights over labor rights. It is essential reading for everyone concerned with reducing inequality. -- Diane Elson, University of EssexDescribing some of the most important economic trends in the last quarter century, particularly focused on economic inequalities, The Great Polarization tackles one of the most salient economic problems of our era comprehensively. -- Roberto Veneziani, Queen Mary University of LondonThe volume contains some outstanding papers on the causes of rising inequality and on economic policy and inequality. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Rudiger L. von ArnimPart I. America’s Growing Inequality1. Alternative Theories of Inequality: Causes, Consequences, and Policies, by Joseph E. StiglitzPart II. Recasting the Evidence in a New Light2. Labor Market Segmentation and the Distribution of Income, by Ellis Scharfenaker and Markus Schneider3. The Cost of Gender Inequality: Structural Change and the Labor Share of Income, by Stephanie Seguino and Elissa Braunstein4. The Postwar Trajectory of the U.S. Labor Share: Structural Change and Secular Stagnation, by Jose Barrales-Ruiz, Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz, Codrina Rada, Ansel Schiavone, and Rudiger L. von Arnim5. The Changing Patterns of Income Inequality in the United States, 1917–2017, by Gérard Duménil and Dominique LévyPart III. Policy Matters: Labor Markets, Education, Tax, and Intellectual Property6. Policy Decisions’ Role in Wage Suppression and Inequality, by Lawrence Mishel7. “Leave Something for the Risk-Takers:” How the Democrats Rebuilt Structural Racism and Hastened the Great Polarization, 1964–1978, by Julia Ott8. Teachers’ Unions and Public Education During the Great Polarization, by Eunice Han and Thomas N. Maloney9. Is Intellectual Property the Root of All Evil? Patents, Copyrights, and Inequality, by Dean BakerPart IV. The Political Economy of Inequality: Political Context and the Way Forward10. The Economic Discourse on Income Inequality, by Korkut A. Ertürk11. Redistribution and Social Exclusion in the United States and Germany, by Marcel Paret and Michael Levien12. A Race-Conscious Economic Rights Approach to Providing Economic Security for All, by Darrick Hamilton13. Law and the Collective Struggle for Economic Justice, by Marion CrainContributorsIndex
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Columbia University Press Racism Not Race
Book SynopsisIn this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman show readers why antiracist principles are both just and backed by sound science.Trade ReviewNamed a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year and One of the Best Books About Being Black in America for 2021 * Kirkus Reviews *What a timely and thoughtful book, posing in Socratic fashion the central questions of our struggling republic. -- Ken Burns, filmmakerIn this timely and important book, Professors Graves and Goodman provide detailed explanations in response to questions about race and racism. They have also followed the 'Noah principle.' Indeed, it is not enough to simply predict the rain. One must also build arks. And that is what Professors Graves and Goodman have done. They offer concrete steps that can be taken to help to eliminate the scourge of racism, as well as other systems of oppression, that continue to plague our nation. -- Johnnetta Betsch Cole, author of Racism in American Public Life: A Call to ActionA timely tapestry of questions and answers on race and racism! Joseph Graves and Alan Goodman have intricately disentangled and woven together biological race, socially defined race, and racism, providing a strategy for addressing not only the consequences of systemic racism but more importantly, the root cause—the ideology of a hierarchy of human value. Brilliant work! -- Charmaine DM Royal, director of the Duke Center on Genomics, Race, Identity, DifferenceIn Racism, Not Race, Graves and Goodman lay out comprehensively and accessibly why notions of race are social constructs that cannot be justified in biological terms. Packed with contemporary and historical references that place race in perspective, this is an authoritative clarification of an issue that is critically important for society but is widely misunderstood despite its ever more pressing ramifications. A valuable resource. -- Ian Tattersall, author of Troublesome Science: The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding RaceAn entertaining and informative read that will serve as a jumping-off point for countless discussions about racism. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Brings a new angle and an accessible approach to the ongoing reckoning with race in America. * Publishers Weekly *Joseph Graves Jr and Alan Goodman explain why race isn’t a biological fact and ponder why society continues to act as if it is. * New Scientist *Racism and white supremacy are killing people every day, harming society at large, and fostering deep injustice. Graves and Goodman demonstrate why antiracism is not just an ethical and scientifically correct position, but why it is also necessary for the future of science and society. * Science *Racism, Not Race is definitely the type of book we need. * Kara Reviews *It is a testament to the value of interdisciplinary collaboration, and drives home the point that dissociating human variation from race, arguably one of the twentieth-century’s greatest scientific achievements, has been a multi-disciplinary task. * Ethnic and Racial Studies *It could not be easier to use if it was an audiobook that read itself to you. * Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud *Given the significance of the information it conveys and the approachability of the writing, every biology educator will benefit from reading this book and sharing its ideas with students...an indispensable tool for our biology classrooms. * American Biology Teacher *An excellent introduction to race and racism for both students and a general audience. * The Quarterly Review of Biology *Table of ContentsList of QuestionsPrefaceIntroduction: What Are Race, Racism, and Human Variation?1. How Did Race Become Biological?2. Everything You Wanted to Know About Genetics and Race3. Everything You Wanted to Know About Racism4. Why Do Races Differ in Disease Incidence?5. Life History, Aging, and Mortality6. Athletics, Bodies, and Abilities7. Intelligence, Brains, and Behaviors8. Driving While Black and Other Deadly Realities of Institutional and Systemic Racism9. DNA and Ancestry Testing10. Race Names and “Race Mixing”11. A World Without Racism?ConclusionsNotes Index
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Columbia University Press The Long Year A 2020 Reader Public Books Series
Book SynopsisIn The Long Year, some of the world's most incisive thinkers excavate 2020's buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.Trade ReviewA tremendous set of insights from an exceptional group of scholars, presented in short pieces that are digestible in one sitting. A wonderful chronicling of an extraordinary year. -- Shamus Khan, coauthor of Sexual Citizens: Sex, Power, and Assault on CampusHere, we see some of our greatest thinkers and writers make sense of a year unlike any other—a plague year, a year of liberation talk, a year of failed states, and resilient communities. This book’s scope is global, its authors diverse in their expertise and perspective, and very accomplished in their fields. -- Jennifer C. Lena, coauthor of Measuring CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments, by Caitlin ZaloomIntroduction: Preexisting Conditions, by Thomas J. SugruePart I: Diagnosing the CrisesPandemics as History, by Andy HorowitzIt’s the Geography, Stupid! Planetary Urbanization Revealed, by Éric Charmes and Max RousseauGlobal Inequality and the Corona Shock, by Adam ToozeThe Job of Critical Thinking Now, by Joan Wallach ScottPart II: Essential Work “The Supply Chain Must Continue”, by Andrew LakoffThe Enduring Disposability of Latinx Workers, by Natalia MolinaFast Food, Precarious Workers, by Marcia ChatelainMothers, Mental Health, and the Pandemic, by Michelle CeraWorking in China in the COVID-19 Era, by Gilles Guiheux, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet, and Ye GuoIndia in COVID-19: A Tragedy Foretold, by Marine Al Dahdah, Mathieu Ferry, Isabelle Guérin, and Govindan VenkatasubramanianPandemic Security and Insecurity in the Gulf, by Neha VoraHidden Vulnerability and Inequality: The COVID-19 Pandemic in Singapore, by Sulfikar AmirAddressing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa, by Sherihan RadiPart III: Policing and ProtestCivil Rights International: The Fight Against Racism Has Always Been Global, by Keisha N. BlainRage and Uprising, by Mustafa DikeçDefund the Police and Refund the Communities, by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorPolicing’s History Argues Against Reform, by Simon BaltoCan I Get a Witness?, by Jeffrey Aaron SnyderAs American as Child Separation, by Rachel NolanProtests Against Police Brutality Go Global, by David SchmidtPart IV: Viral BiopoliticsTo Heal the Body, Heal the Body Politic, by Julie LivingstonAmerican Eldercide, by Margaret Morganroth GulletteThe World Is a Factory Farm, by Xiaowei WangListen to the Birds, by Priscilla WaldRisk for “Us” or for “Them”? The Comparative Politics of Diversity and Responses to AIDS and COVID-19, by Evan LiebermanThink Like a Virus, by Warwick AndersonPart V: Pandemic LivesFor the Love of Strangers, by Julia FoulkesWhere Is She?, by Soledad Álvarez VelascoGrief Circling, by Sophie LewisIn China, Pandemic Diaries Unite and Divide a Nation, by Guobin YangPart VI: Private Crises in Public SpacesThe Violence of Urban Vacancy, by Sophie GonickThe Limits of Telecommuting, by Margaret O’MaraA Quiet Disaster: Mexico City, Mexico, by Alfonso FierroHealth Self-Defense in a São Paulo Favela, by Erick CorrêaEmergency Urbanism, by Ananya RoyA Crisis Too Big to Waste: What Comes After Private Housing Fails?, by Gianpaolo Baiocchi and H. Jacob CarlsonPart VII: The Failure of the StateCOVID Blindness, by Quentin RavelliFive Lessons for Democracy from the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, and Selen A. ErcanCan Democracies Handle Systemic Risks?, by Miguel CentenoThe Vulnerable Foundations of India’s Urbanism, by Gautam BhanPandemics in the Post-Grid Imaginary, by Joanne Randa NuchoPandemic Déjà Vu, by Yarimar BonillaCOVID-19 in a Border Nation, by Jacob A. C. RemesPart VIII: Alternative FuturesAre We in Denial About Denial?, by Rodrigo NunesCan the Crowd Speak?, by Warren BreckmanThe Pandemic’s Brief Disaster Utopia, by Daniel F. Lorenz and Cordula DittmerBuilding a Society the Values Care, by Kathryn CaiRebuilding Solidarity in a Broken World, by Eric KlinenbergPart IX: Further ReadingPandemic Syllabus, by David S. Barnes, Merlin Chowkwanyun, and Kavita SivaramakrishnanList of ContributorsSource CreditsIndex
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Columbia University Press The Politics of Survival
Book SynopsisGladys L. Mitchell-Walthour offers a comparative analysis of how Black women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States defy systems of domination. She argues that poor Black women act as political subjects in the struggle to survive and challenge daily discrimination even in dire circumstances.Trade ReviewThis innovative, meticulously researched book sheds new light on the experiences and struggles of poor Afro-descendant women in the United States and Brazil. An example of intersectional research at its best, the analysis uncovers how the interlocking dynamics of gender, race, skin color and poverty simultaneously shape and constrain social policies. Building on a long tradition of comparative scholarship on race in both countries, The Politics of Survival offers a sophisticated and nuanced Black feminist perspective on the gendered racialization of poverty in the Americas. -- Kia Lilly Caldwell, author of Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and PolicyThe Politics of Survival offers a seamless combination of strong theory, sound methodology, and rich empirical evidence. Mitchell-Walthour anchors her analysis in Black feminist theory thereby centering Black women as the main subjects and using an intersectional approach to highlight the complex reality of poor Black women’s lives. -- Ollie A. Johnson III, coeditor of Comparative Racial Politics in Latin AmericaThe Politics of Survival treasures the social vision and economic ethics of poor Black women in Brazil and the United States. Mitchell-Walthour's impeccable research champions the political opinions of poor Black Women about social welfare policies and shows how their leadership is the best path for meeting material needs and activating and sustaining participatory democracy. Mitchell-Walthour surfaces how the global face of misogynoir and shaming poor women has been weaponized to disempower, marginalize, steal wages and family futures, and constrain political parties and policy options over generations. This is precisely how gender politics and race and ethnic politics transform comparative politics and how our research shapes a democratic Black Woman led future. -- Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, author of Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White VulnerabilityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Politics of Survival2. Support of Social Welfare Programs, Stigma, and Resistance3. Perceptions of Class, Skin Color, and Gender Discrimination4. Are Poor Black Women to Blame for Conservative Politicians? Social Welfare Beneficiaries’ Political Knowledge, Voting Preferences, and Religion5. Conclusion: Are Poor Black Women the Hope for Progressive Politics?AppendixNotesReferencesIndex
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Columbia University Press Curricular Injustice
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Columbia University Press Curricular Injustice
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Columbia University Press Tears of History
Book SynopsisPierre Birnbaum offers a timely reconsideration of the tear-stained pages of Jewish history and the persistence of antisemitism.Trade ReviewWith characteristic understanding, learning, and historical range, Pierre Birnbaum compellingly illuminates central aspects—past and present—of the American Jewish experience. Tears of History provocatively chronicles how antistate white supremacist insurgencies have come to target Jews, transforming prior circumstances in which political antisemitism had proved incapable in the United States to a situation Birnbaum compares to the status of Jews in Weimar Germany and Dreyfus-era France. -- Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our TimeIn this chilling book, we get a message from a distinguished scholar of French Jewish history that we may now have entered a dangerous new age. Birnbaum asks readers to contemplate a sea change that seems to be happening in American life, which portends that antisemitism, once absent from the political realm, may be now rearing its ugly head. His history of fringe antisemitism in the American past is well worth reading as we contemplate both present and future. -- Hasia R. Diner, author ofImmigration: An American HistoryAs the leading Jewish historian in France, Birnbaum offers a French perspective on Jewish-American history that compares American antisemitism to its European counterpart. In the process, he calls many myths—including that of American exceptionalism—into question. This interesting, provocative book is more sophisticated than recent books on antisemitism and explores a subject of great contemporary relevance. -- Maurice Samuels, author of The Betrayal of the DuchessTable of ContentsPreface to the American Edition Introduction: On American Happiness 1. Salo Baron, the Golden Country and the Refusal of a Lachrymose History2. The Leo Frank Affair: The Lynching of a Jew3. From the Jew Deal to the Storming of the CapitolConclusion: Kishinev à l’américaine—the End of Hope?NotesIndex
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Columbia University Press Tears of History
Book SynopsisPierre Birnbaum offers a timely reconsideration of the tear-stained pages of Jewish history and the persistence of antisemitism.Trade ReviewWith characteristic understanding, learning, and historical range, Pierre Birnbaum compellingly illuminates central aspects—past and present—of the American Jewish experience. Tears of History provocatively chronicles how antistate white supremacist insurgencies have come to target Jews, transforming prior circumstances in which political antisemitism had proved incapable in the United States to a situation Birnbaum compares to the status of Jews in Weimar Germany and Dreyfus-era France. -- Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our TimeIn this chilling book, we get a message from a distinguished scholar of French Jewish history that we may now have entered a dangerous new age. Birnbaum asks readers to contemplate a sea change that seems to be happening in American life, which portends that antisemitism, once absent from the political realm, may be now rearing its ugly head. His history of fringe antisemitism in the American past is well worth reading as we contemplate both present and future. -- Hasia R. Diner, author ofImmigration: An American HistoryAs the leading Jewish historian in France, Birnbaum offers a French perspective on Jewish-American history that compares American antisemitism to its European counterpart. In the process, he calls many myths—including that of American exceptionalism—into question. This interesting, provocative book is more sophisticated than recent books on antisemitism and explores a subject of great contemporary relevance. -- Maurice Samuels, author of The Betrayal of the DuchessTable of ContentsPreface to the American Edition Introduction: On American Happiness 1. Salo Baron, the Golden Country and the Refusal of a Lachrymose History2. The Leo Frank Affair: The Lynching of a Jew3. From the Jew Deal to the Storming of the CapitolConclusion: Kishinev à l’américaine—the End of Hope?NotesIndex
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University of Illinois Press This Is Not Dixie
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewJan Garton Prairie Heritage Book Award, Prairie Heritage, Inc., 2017 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016 "Brent M. S. Campney's Hostile Heartland: Racism, Repression, and Resistance in the Midwest is a timely exploration of the role of anti-black violence in the making of the modern Midwest." --Journal of American Ethnic History"A compelling and exhaustive work that examines the long history of anti-black violence and racism in Kansas, as well as the myriad efforts of African Americans to resist white supremacy."--H-Net"A significant contribution to the field of racial violence and the understanding of the history of Kansas in the post–Civil War period…This Is Not Dixie secures the University of Illinois Press’s dominance as a publisher of scholarship on racial violence in the post–Civil War era. Highly recommended.”--Choice"Campney exposes the shameful extent of violence in our past and also highlights the episodes of actions against such violence by law enforcement officers and by the African American community. Others should follow his lead to rediscover the world of law, race, and violence that shaped the past and continues to shape the present."--American Historical Review"A potent portrait of dramatically unequal but also complicated, highly contested, and geographically fragmented racial power relations in one Midwestern state during the rise and consolidation of the Jim Crow era." --Journal of African American History"When discussing lynching, race riots, and other forms of racist violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the emphasis often turns southward. Brent Campney's This Is Not Dixie builds on current historiography by challenging these assumptions… This work provides timely insights into racist violence in the North."--Civil War Book Review"Campney has written an amazing and profound book that challenges many assumptions regarding racist violence in America, putting both the Midwest and the South in a deeper, richer context. This Is Not Dixie will no doubt inspire similar state-level studies."--Journal of Southern History"Campney's book is an important corrective to the still prevailing belief that racial violence was a uniquely southern problem."--The Annals of Iowa "A groundbreaking book, its extensive Kansas data and its inclusion of "threatened" lynching as a potent factor being important contributions to the study of racist violence in America."--Middle West Review "This book is essential reading for those interested in the history of Kansas or of race relations in the Great Plains, as well as for scholars of racial violence and the black freedom struggle in the United States."--Great Plains Quarterly "Campney has written a persuasive and important book that rewrites the racial narrative of Kansas and challenges the periodization of numerous eras. Additionally he makes a compelling case that a broad paradigm of racial violence is preferable to a narrow focus on lynching." --Reviews in American History "This is Not Dixie exponentially expands our understanding of racist violence in the Midwest and in so doing fills out the national picture and puts the South in greater context. Deeply attentive to African American resistance to white violence, this landmark book is required reading for all interested in the sadly pivotal role of racist violence in America's past."--Michael J. Pfeifer, author of The Roots of Rough Justice: Origins of American Lynching "Part of a new wave of scholarship that broadens our examination of racial violence. This book is an important contribution to lynching studies and African American history and to the history of the Midwest. The scholarship is top notch."--William D. Carrigan, author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 "Campney's focus on Kansas provides new and important evidence of the extent of racist violence in a non-Southern state. This is the rare book that does far more than add to the cumulative knowledge in an area of study. It challenges underlying assumptions, takes new perspectives on the material, and opens new lines of inquiry in several areas."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South
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MO - University of Illinois Press Global Lynching and Collective Violence Volume 1
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This collection makes a significant contribution to the global study of lynching, mob violence, and vigilantism. The book provides historical depth, theoretical perspective and covers a wide chronological and geographical range. It will be of great benefit to all students of collective violence."--Manfred Berg, author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America"Michael Pfeifer's collection of essays on extralegal violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East is an important contribution to our understanding of lynching. The essays cover an impressive geographic range and a multitude of time periods. Readers with an interest in the often violent history of state formation as well as the past and present politics of identity, ethnicity, class, and gender will find this volume very rewarding."--William D. Carrigan, author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 "Global Lynching and Collective Violence is an excellent introduction to the emerging scholars and scholarship in the field of extralegal violence."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Michael J. Pfeifer Lynching, Public Violence, and the Internet in Indonesia Laurens Bakker A Different Kind of War: Summary Execution and the Politics of Men of Force in Late-Qing China, 1864-1911 Weiting Guo Banzai! And the Others Die-Collective Violence in the Rape of Nanking 78 Frank Jacob Making Sense of Lynching in Medieval Nepal 103 Yogesh Raj Public Anger, Violence, and the Legacy of Decolonization in India 126 Nandana Dutta New Situations Demand Old Magic: Necklacing in South Africa, Past and Present 156 Nicholas Rush Smith 7 Sitting on the Volcano: Mob Violence and Lynching in the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict 185 Shaiel Ben-Ephraim and Or Honig Contributors 223 Index 227
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University of Illinois Press Global Lynching and Collective Violence Volume 2
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 2 broadens our perspective on lynching beyond the American South. The essays in the collection are theoretically sophisticated and well documented. This book will be a standard work in the field."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South"This impressive collection greatly contributes to our understanding of lynching, calling attention to its long-neglected global and transnational dimensions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in studying mob violence from an international perspective."—Simon Wendt, author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights
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University of Illinois Press Myths America Lives By White Supremacy and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is very powerful and has the potential of contributing to the healing of American culture with respect to race and equity." --Stone-Campbell Journal"It takes a whole lot of courage for white theologians and scholars to speak the truth about race. If we had more white theologians and religion scholars like Hughes who would break their silence about white supremacy and face it for what it is, we--together--could make a better world." -- James H. Cone, author of The Cross and the Lynching Tree "The American national story is a myth, built on a series of myths that Richard Hughes reveals in this critical book. Myths America Lives By is a book we all need in order to understand ourselves, to understand our nation, to understand White supremacy."--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America"Richard Hughes' Myths America Lives By was already required reading when it was released back in the pre-Trump era. With this update of his lacerating critique of the sordidness of American civil religion and other destructive myths, Hughes now indicts white supremacy as the foundational myth providing the most accelerant to those other myths that have burned through our history. Richard Hughes thinks hard and listens even harder to the historians, the scholars and, most of all, the prophets who understood the malignancy of white supremacy long before he did. The result is Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories that Gives Us Meaning. Once again, Hughes' willingness to tell the truth about the myths we live by has put us all in his debt."--Tony Norman, columnist, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"For those of us who struggle to understand the racially charged polarities of today as well as the highs and lows of our American past, this book paints a heartbreaking, damning, and intimately clear picture." --Christian Chronicle"Myths America Lives By is an essential read for those interested in shattering the cycle of racism and imaging a new way forward. The book strikes the perfect balance between intellectual knowledge and heartfelt story-telling." --Diverse"Those who don't understand their history are destined to repeat it over and over again. If we want to break the cycle of American racism, we must confront our history and the myths that underlie it. Reading Richard Hughes's The Myths America Lives By is a good place to start. Well worth reading, and a useful primer for many college classrooms!" -- Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race"Fresh and stunning." --The Christian Century "The myth of white supremacy, as Hughes shows, is deeply embedded both in American culture and in American Christianity, which makes its recognition and extermination so crucial." --Intersections "Prophetic, accessible, illuminating, and full of hard truths that have the potential to change minds and lives, the book deserves a wide audience." --Restoration Quarterly "I have been under the tutelage of Dr. Richard Hughes since I was mentored by him in graduate school. He never ceases to challenge my easy assumptions, invoke history I do not know, and lift my vision to more elevated realms. Agree with him on every matter or not, I am better for having contended with him. How much we need voices such as his today."--Stephen Mansfield, New York Times bestselling author of The Faith of Barack Obama "A fearless, well-researched, searing critique that shatters the underpinnings of white racial superiority in America and abroad."--Joseph Robinson Jr., president, Martin Luther King Leadership Development Institute "Myths America Lives By is prophetic--not merely in the predictive sense, so evident in the first edition, but in the far more consequential sense of prophecy as calling us to repentance and to our better selves. This is a very fine book, offering both a searing critique and a summons to embrace our common humanity."--Randall Balmer, author of Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter
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University of Illinois Press To Live Here You Have to Fight
Book SynopsisLaunched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service. Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty--shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of democratic participation, and facing personal political struggles. Their insistence that caregiving was valuable labor clashed with entrenched attitudes and rising criticisms of welfare. Their persistence, meanwhile, brought them into unlikely coalitions with black women, disabled miners, and others to fight for causes that ranged from poor people''s rights to community health to unionization. InsTrade ReviewHerbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2015 Finalist, OAH Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's or Gender History, 2020 Honorable Mention, Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, 2020 H.L. Mitchell Award for Distinguished Book on the Southern Working Class, Southern Historical Association, 2020 "To Live Here, You Have to Fight embodies new research and, with it, highlights an often-forgotten consideration of the role of women's caregiving and its relationship to activism and historical progress. Contributing a distinctive and dire form of scholarship." --Affilia"To Live Here, You Have to Fight offers a careful and compelling analysis of women's progressive activism in mid-twentieth-century Appalachia. Highlighting both the significance of coalitional labor organizing and interactions between social and capital production, Wilkerson brings to life the experiences of political actors who have been largely overlooked." --Labor Studies Journal"A compelling portrayal of women activists’ goals hopes, and trials. . . . this work adds an important addition to the field of Appalachian studies as well as histories of women, the working-class, and antipoverty movements." --Oral History Review "Fine discussion of women’s activism in Appalachia." --North Carolina Historical Review"Astonishing."--The Cut"Jessica Wilkerson’s To Live Here, You Have to Fight goes far toward filling empty spaces in the scholarship on women’s history, Appalachian history, and labor history. . . . It would be a welcome addition to both undergraduate and graduate classes on oral history and on the history of women, Appalachia, and labor. " --Journal of American History"Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the War on Poverty in Appalachia, this book documents the central role of working class women in Appalachian resistance movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on a tradition of family care giving and community support, mountain women brought to their activism an awareness of the profound connection between environmental, health, and economic justice that redefined class and gender issues in America and offered an alternative vision for their communities and our capitalist nation. Based upon extensive oral history research, To Live Here, You Have to Fight challenges many of our contemporary assumptions about Appalachia and is an important book for our time."--Ronald D Eller, author of Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945"Wilkerson surveys these women and the movements they influenced with thoughtfulness and clarity, forging an intelligent path through complicated chains of historical events." --Knoxville News Sentinel"A bold new examination of women's struggles in Appalachia rests on a concept that is both simple and profound: the caregiver as activist. . . . Thanks to Wilkerson's efforts, histories of women's bravery and persistence are here brought to life and preserved to inspire new generations." --Women's Review of Books "A crucial piece of the history of social justice in America, placing the true history of Appalachian women's radical, blood-red roots on vibrant display." --Kim Kelly, Pacific Standard "[Wilkerson's] account offers a view of class grounded fundamentally in gender, making it possible to imagine a working-class movement based in sources other than mining minerals and shaping metal—the kind of movement now taking shape in Appalachia, which has been the site of a dramatic upswing of working-class protest by women in care jobs over the last year." --Dissent Magazine "Wilkerson’s work is a profound contribution to our understanding of the War on Poverty." --Labor "Fine discussion of women’s activism in Appalachia." --North Carolina Historical Review "The story is readable and enhances our understanding of Appalachian History." --Smokey Mountain Living Magazine "Wilkerson’s thought-provoking analysis will intrigue scholars of the South, community organizing, labor, and gender, as well as present-day social activists." --Journal of Southern History "Wilkerson's compelling study is a celebration of the achievements of a highly visible, but frequently overlooked, activist group. Students of both gender and social movements history will find this a welcome addition to their libraries." --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "From the 1960s–1980s, working-class women built, led, and sustained movements to improve the health and welfare of families and communities across the Mountain South. Wilkerson introduces these activists and shows how lifetimes of caring for ailing coal miners and struggling Appalachian communities inspired both urgent demands for social justice and radical critiques of rampant capitalism. This book uncovers new links between mid-century social change movements and offers a critical reminder that the fire for justice smolders even when victories are few."--Anne M. Valk, author of Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. "In her fabulous new book, To Live Here, You Have to Fight, Jessica Wilkerson tells the untold story of the 'grassroots war on poverty' waged in the Appalachian South in the 1960s and 1970s. At the forefront of this campaign were women, women who saw themselves as family 'caregivers.' This was never just a domestic role, though it was that. It was a role that brought women to the polling station, the picket line, and to workplace protests of this own. Jessica Wilkerson tells these stories of struggle with compassion, sophistication, and heart. Readers will come away from her book understanding more about the everyday meanings and complexities of gender and class in the South, but also with a sense of what is possible when people mobilize for respect and better days." —Bryant Simon, author of The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
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University of Illinois Press Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The essays in this book bring nuance to a range of conversations about carceral statebuilding. . . . All of the essays offer well-researched, complex methodological and topical interventions that highlight the racialized implications of Jim Crow governance." --Journal of African American History"Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South brings fresh insights to our understanding of the development of racial disparities in law enforcement, incarceration, and capital punishment." --North Carolina Historical Review"These essays provide a nuanced and necessary picture of the racialized nature of southern law enforcement in the Jim Crow era beyond the common tropes of convict lease, the chain gang, and police complicity in local lynchings." --Journal of American History"Thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and well written. With its judicious blend of established and rising young scholars working at the cutting-edge of carceral studies, this breaks new ground."--Claudrena N. Harold, author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942"Given how often and how easily crime and punishment in America today is framed in terms of southern history--the 'New Jim Crow'--it is timely and important to have these deeply-researched, carefully argued essays to help us think in new ways about the connections between the South’s past and the nation’s present."—Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch, The Biography: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon
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MO - University of Illinois Press Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i
Trade Review"The color line in the United States has historically been and continues to be White vs. Black, yet the salient strength of Raced to Death is to make evident that the color line is, more accurately, White vs. Non-White."--Karen L. Ishizuka, author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties "Okamura's work opens the door for further reflection on how this history fits into larger patterns of U.S. race relations." --Nichi Bei Weekly"A fascinating account linking racism to colonialism, labor, and criminal justice in an unexpected setting. Okamura’s book makes it impossible to forget Hawai i when studying comparative race and ethnic relations."--Lon Kurashige, author of Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
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University of Illinois Press West of Jim Crow
Book SynopsisAfrican Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled. From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden Statein contrast to its reputation for toleranceperfected many methods of controlling people of color.Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state's color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan's campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists'Trade Review"West of Jim Crow explores the surge of violence precipitated by the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Black Californians responded with grassroots activism as they continued to demand access to homeownership, schools, and public spaces. Through the men and women themselves, Hudson provides incredible insight to California's racial battlegrounds." --Pacific Historical Review"Hudson's book illuminates just that: how contestations over public and private spaces as they related to race were tied together through the web of resistance that Black Californians engaged in as they utilized tactics that would become better known in the mid-twentieth century." --Journal of American Ethnic History"Outstanding history and an absorbing read. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"Thoughtful and well-written . . . Hudson has produced an impressive and finely wrought study of racial discrimination in the Golden State and the courageous and determined African American activists who challenged it in the courts and on the streets." --California History"West of Jim Crow is among the best introductions to Black California history yet written . . . an elegant synthesis that will doubtlessly stand the test of time." --Boom California"West of Jim Crow is a thorough account of California’s racist history that furthers understanding of racism in the United States." --Foreword Review"Powerfully argued, deeply researched, and alive with vivid portraits of little known freedom fighters, West of Jim Crow drives a stake through the heart of one of American history’s most persistent myths: that racial segregation and discrimination were peculiar to the South. By tracing the metamorphosis of white supremacy in the Golden State and the fierce resistance to it over the long span from statehood to the 1950s, Lynn Hudson has brilliantly plumbed the depth, complexity, and variability of American racial formations and added a new chapter to our understanding of the long black freedom movement and of women’s centrality to it."--Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Freedom Claims: Reconstructing the Golden State 2 “This is Our Fair and Our State”: Race Women, Race Men, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition 3 “The Best Proposition Ever Offered to Negroes in the State”: Building an All-Black Town 4 A Lesson in Lynching 5 Burning Down the House: California’s Ku Klux Klan 6 “The Only Difference Between Pasadena and Mississippi is the Way They Are Spelled”: Swimming in the Southland Epilogue: Remembering (and Forgetting) Jim Crow Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Illinois Press The Social Sciences Theories Of Race
Book SynopsisPresents a colorful and detailed story of folk music's pioneering stage presenters.Trade Review"Vernon J. Williams Jr.'s The Social Sciences and Theories of Race is a collection of thoughtful, well-researched essays that chart the influence of anthropologist Franz Boas's scholarship on early-twentieth-century racial thinking. . . . A valuable contribution to the historiography of anthropology and racial formation."--Journal of Southern History"Readers who are not yet familiar with Vernon J. Williams's meticulous scholarship on race in America and its accompanying implicit and matter-of-fact activism will find a rare treat in these collected essays written over two decades but consistent in tone and intent."--Journal of Anthropological Research "Provocative and thought-provoking collection of essays. . . . The Social Sciences and Theories of Race deals with important issues in the discourse on race and race relations. It is a volume that should encourage further research and writing on these topics for decades to come."--Journal of African American History
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University of Illinois Press From Racism to Genocide
Book SynopsisAstounding new information about the role of anthropologists in Hitler's efforts to create a master raceTrade Review“From Racism to Genocide is an original and important piece of scholarship based on never-before-published archival material. The analysis of the supporting role played by the anthropological sciences in the creation of Nazi racial and genocidal policies is painfully relevant for us today.”-- Bettina Arnold, associate professor of anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee"An informative textbook with a clear message about scientific responsibility and morality. . . . The author should be praised."--Patterns of Prejudice"A truly significant work, including important material overlooked by most scholars. Whereas scientists cherish a self-image of objectivity, the controversial--yet convincing--conclusions about German anthropologists in From Racism to Genocide should be met with great interest by scholars who have concerns about corruption of science for political purposes." -- Adrian M. Wenner, professor emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara"This careful depiction of anthropological complicity with Nazi genocide is fascinating and provocative. With so many anthropologists struggling now to create a more politically engaged discipline, this is a timely and important work." -- William L. Leap, author of Word’s Out: Gay Men's English
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University of Illinois Press Race Struggles
Book SynopsisExamining the material conditions of race and its relation to class and genderTrade Review"Emphasizing the material bases of racial dynamics and the interplay among race, class, and gender, this stimulating volume provides a challenge and an analytical alternative to contemporary postmodernist discussions of race."--James B. Stewart, coauthor of Introduction to African American Studies: Transdisciplinary Approaches and Implications"A provocative, integrative approach to looking at race that takes capitalism seriously. The contributors utilize a range of methodological tools to discuss and analyze race, arguing that race and racial divisions go hand-in-hand with the political economy of capitalism and with globalization today."--James Jennings, editor of Race, Neighborhoods, and the Misuse of Social CapitalTable of ContentsIntroduction viiPart 1. Racial Structures 1PART 1 READING QUESTIONS 6 1. The Changing Same: Black Racial Formation and Transformation as a Theory of the African American Experience 9Sundiata Keita Cha-JuaCHAPTER 1 READING QUESTIONS 39 2. Capitalism, Race, and Evolution in Imperial Britain, 1850-1900 48Theodore KoditschekCHAPTER 2 READING QUESTIONS 72 3. Globalization and the Cycle of Violence in Africa 80Tola Olu PearceCHAPTER 3 READING QUESTIONS 95 4. White without End? The Abolition of Whiteness; or, The Rearticulation of Race 98David RoedigerCHAPTER 4 READING QUESTIONS 108Part 2. Racial Ideology and Identity 111PART 2 READING QUESTIONS 114 5. Rationalizing the Racial Order: Racial Color-Blindness as a Legitimizing Ideology 115Helen A. NevilleCHAPTER 5 READING QUESTIONS 134 6. Race, Theory, and Scholarship in the Biracial Project 138Minkah MakalaniCHAPTER 6 READING QUESTIONS 153 7. Sociopsychological Processes in Racial Formation: A-Case Study of the Autobiographies of Former Black Panther Party Members 158Monica M. WhiteCHAPTER 7 READING QUESTIONS 177 8. Benjamin Brawley and the Aesthetics of Racial Uplift 179Jeffrey WilliamsCHAPTER 8 READING QUESTIONS 200Part 3. Struggle 205PART 3 READING QUESTIONS 210 9. Organizing from the Margins: Japanese American Communists in Los Angeles during the Great Depression 211Scott KurashigeCHAPTER 9 READING QUESTIONS 227 10. Between Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Mason-Dixon Line: A Case Study of Black Freedom Movement Militancy in the Gateway City 231Clarence LangCHAPTER 10 READING QUESTIONS 255 11. Common Legacies, Similar Futures: African American and Latino Studies 260Pedro CabanCHAPTER 11 READING QUESTIONS 282 12. "Livin' Just Enough for the City": An Essay on the Politics of Acquiring Food, Shelter, and Health in Urban America 286David CrockettCHAPTER 12 READING QUESTIONS 304 Conclusion 307 Glossary: Race Struggles 317 Contributors 325 Index 329
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University of Illinois Press Foot Soldiers for Democracy
Book SynopsisFirsthand accounts from the Civil Rights Movement's frontlinesTrade Review"The oral histories excerpted here document the rich organizational networks that suffused the community, and the 'sphere of self-organized workers' activity' largely ignored by historians that was key to the movement's tenacity and ultimate successes."--Anarcho-Syndicalist Review"This book is a must-read for anyone searching for firsthand knowledge of how hard minorities had to fight for equality in a land of opportunity. It is also a must-read for those seeking to understand minorities' shared experience of never giving up."--U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Labor Review"An excellent text for those seeking a work that offers something besides the standard narrative."--Southern Historian"This volume contains a remarkable cross section of firsthand accounts that will interest scholars of the black freedom struggle, especially those attuned to bottom-up views of black history and generational change."--The Journal of Southern History"This outstanding work is an enormous contribution to the literature on the civil rights movement, and it will provide rich material for debate as well as inspiration for years to come."--Paul Ortiz, author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920Table of ContentsPreface . . . vii Acknowledgments . . . xii Introduction Foot Soldiers for Democracy, by Robin D. G. Kelley . . . xiii Look for Them in the Whirlwind, by Rose Freeman Massey . . . xviii List of Abbreviations . . . xxv Chronology of Events from April and May 1963 . . . xxvi Illustrations . . . xxxiii Emma Smith Young . . . 1 Eva Lou Billingsley Russell . . . 10 Jimmie Lucille Spencer Hooks . . . 17 Nims E. Gay . . . 26 James Armstrong . . . 35 Joe Hendricks . . . 46 James Summerville . . . 53 Henry M. Goodgame Sr. . . . 57 Joe N. Dickson . . . 63 Johnnie McKinstry Summerville . . . 78 Jonathan McPherson . . . 82 LaVerne Revis Martin . . . 88 Paul Littlejohn . . . 93 Carlton Reese . . . 97 Elizabeth Fitts . . . 106 James Roberson . . . 111 Annetta Streeter Gary . . . 115 James Ware and Melvin Ware . . . 122 Willie A. Casey . . . 126 James W, Stewart . . . 132 Gwendolyn Sanders Gamble . . . 142 Carolyn Maull McKinstry . . . 150 Carl Grace . . . 161 Malcolm Hooks . . . 169 Miriam Taylor McClendon . . . 174 Shirley Smith Miller . . . 182 Washington Booker III . . . 187 Carrie Delores Hamilton Lock . . . 200 Audrey Faye Hendricks . . . 208 Epilogue . . . 213 Index . . . 217
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University of Illinois Press Indian Accents
Book SynopsisFocuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film and television.Trade Review"A truly innovative use of 'accents' as a methodological entry into understanding where South Asians are positioned within America and American popular culture. Persuasively argued and full of many sharp insightful moments, Indian Accents will be invaluable to scholars of American studies, Asian American studies, ethnic studies, and media studies." --Gita Rajan, coeditor of New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the U.S "Davé brilliantly studies the racialized, classed, and nationalistic codes of Orientalist and model minority representations with an underwriting analysis of heteronormative masculinity… Davé does crucial critical work in diasporic visual culture."--Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas "This book offers a much needed corrective to the portrayal of South Asian masculinity in American popular culture and is, therefore, a valuable addition to the field."--American Studies"Shilpa Davé was able to capture the multidimensional elements of representations of people of color that go beyond visual markers of identification but also include sonic components to ethnic characters in media. Her innovative application of the double meaning of the word 'accent' opens a new level of analysis of ethnic representation in film and media studies and ethnic studies." --Journal of Asian American Studies
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University of Illinois Press Lynching Beyond Dixie
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays illuminates the factors that distinguished lynching in the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic.Trade Review"The essays collected in this volume remind us, no region of the country--and no ethnic group--was spared the spectacle of lynch mobs in the 19th or early-20th centuries."--Shepherd Express “Each essay expands understanding of lynching and shows how deeply the practice was embedded in the cultural DNA of the nation. . . . Thought-provoking and impressively researched.”--The Journal of American History "Theoretically sophisticated, well documented, and superbly written, this volume provides an in-depth examination of lynching outside the South and will stand out as a fresh and unique contribution to recent scholarship on lynching." --Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South "Michael Pfeifer, the editor of Lynching Beyond Dixie, has emerged as one of the most important contributors to the scholarship on lynching. . . . Reminding us that lynching was a national phenomenon that reflected national, no less than regional, anxieties."--The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"A must read for all historians who work on lynching and mob violence in American history." --Manfred Berg, author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America "These perceptive case studies underscore Pfeifer's contention that lynching was a national phenomenon that disrupted the transition from 'rough justice' to 'due process.'--The Journal of Arizona History "Lynching Beyond Dixie, admirably fulfills its title's promise in extending our gaze beyond teh former Confederacy to recognize "rough justice" as a national -- not simply a regional -- phenomenon."--Utah Historical Quarterly "The book brings together interesting case studies, new empirical evidence, and challenging perspectives. Most importantly, it clearly demonstrates the "Southern exceptionalism" in the study of lynching is no longer tenable."--Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Books "Michael J. Pfeifer is the most important historian of lynching since W. Fitzhugh Brundage began reinvigorating the field in the early 1990s, and Pfeifer solidifies this position with an excellent collection of essays that pushes us to consider lunching as a national phenomenon rather than as something unique to the American South."--Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains "These essays are thoughtful, engaging, and clearly written. Taken as a whole, the collection will force scholars to ponder how they study mob violence in America and to begin to broaden what they think of location, motivation, and response when they discuss that violence."--The Annals of IowaTable of ContentsContributors: Jack S. Blocker Jr., Brent M. S. Campney, William D. Carrigan, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Dennis B. Downey, Larry R. Gerlach, Kimberley Mangun, Helen McLure, Michael J. Pfeifer, Christopher Waldrep, Clive Webb, and Dena Lynn Winslow.
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University of Illinois Press Child Care in Black and White
Book SynopsisThis innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two 'sister' orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan''s Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children. Drawing on quantitative analysis of the records of more than 1,500 children living at the two orphanages, as well as census data, city logs, and contemporary social science surveys, this study raises new questions about the role of childcare in constructing and perpetrating social inequality in the United States.Trade ReviewHerbert G. Gutman Prize, Labor and Working-Class History Association, 2010. Lerner-Scott Prize in Women's History, Organization of American Historians, 2010. John Heinz Award, National Academy of Social Insurance, 2010. "An important book that will appeal to all scholars interested in the histories of child welfare, the working class, or social welfare. Highly recommended."--Choice"Jessie B. Ramey demonstrates why she is both a first-rate historian and writer."--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "This book is an important contribution to the history of child welfare policy. Jessie B. Ramey's research illustrates the role racial segregation played in a northern industrialized city in child welfare policies for dependent children whose parents turned to orphanages for help."--Kriste Lindenmeyer, author of The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s "Child Care in Black and White is part of the University of Illinois Press’s superb ‘‘The Working Class in American History’’ series, and it effectively ties orphanages into a broad array of historical literatures, including but not limited to working-class life, African American life, and arguments about both motherhood and women’s work. . . . valuable to readers interested in families, children, poverty, labor, race, gender, and class in turn of the century America."--Journal of Family History "Ramey's research contributes to greater understanding of working-class families in the early twentieth century and the flexibility and adaptability of child care institutions in response to the communities they serve."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "Child Care in Black and White, Jessie B. Ramey’s study of two Pittsburgh orphanages, the United Presbyterian Orphan’s Home UPOH and the Home for Colored Children HCC, during the years 1878–1929, is an extraordinary contribution to the history of US orphanages and child care institutions. . . . a valuable resource in advanced child and family policy courses in social work. Students will learn from its complexity, its attention to both micro and macro issues, and its unusually strong example of mixed-method, historical research."--Social Service Review"Ramey makes numerous contributions to our understanding of the role and operations of orphanages. This timely research informs debates about the limited public resources available to working parents for the well-being of their children, and Ramey repeatedly shows parents using the few instructions that did exist in ways that served their own purpose."--Journal of American History
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University of Illinois Press Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Book SynopsisOften considered peculiarly American, lynching in fact takes place around the world. In the first book of a two-volume study, Michael J. Pfeifer collects essays that look at lynching and related forms of collective violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Understanding lynching as a transnational phenomenon rooted in political and cultural flux, the writers probe important issues from Indonesia--where a long history of public violence now twines with the Internet--to South Africa, with its notorious history of necklacing. Other scholars examine lynching in medieval Nepal, the epidemic of summary executions in late Qing-era China, the merging of state-sponsored and local collective violence during the Nanking Massacre, and the ways public anger and lynching in India relate to identity, autonomy, and territory. Contributors: Laurens Bakker, Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, Nandana Dutta, Weiting Guo, Or Honig, Frank Jacob, Michael J. Pfeifer, Yogesh Raj, and Nicholas Rush Smith.Trade Review"This collection makes a significant contribution to the global study of lynching, mob violence, and vigilantism. The book provides historical depth, theoretical perspective and covers a wide chronological and geographical range. It will be of great benefit to all students of collective violence."--Manfred Berg, author of Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America"Michael Pfeifer's collection of essays on extralegal violence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East is an important contribution to our understanding of lynching. The essays cover an impressive geographic range and a multitude of time periods. Readers with an interest in the often violent history of state formation as well as the past and present politics of identity, ethnicity, class, and gender will find this volume very rewarding."--William D. Carrigan, author of The Making of a Lynching Culture: Violence and Vigilantism in Central Texas, 1836-1916 "Global Lynching and Collective Violence is an excellent introduction to the emerging scholars and scholarship in the field of extralegal violence."--Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Introduction 1 Michael J. Pfeifer Lynching, Public Violence, and the Internet in Indonesia Laurens Bakker A Different Kind of War: Summary Execution and the Politics of Men of Force in Late-Qing China, 1864-1911 Weiting Guo Banzai! And the Others Die-Collective Violence in the Rape of Nanking 78 Frank Jacob Making Sense of Lynching in Medieval Nepal 103 Yogesh Raj Public Anger, Violence, and the Legacy of Decolonization in India 126 Nandana Dutta New Situations Demand Old Magic: Necklacing in South Africa, Past and Present 156 Nicholas Rush Smith 7 Sitting on the Volcano: Mob Violence and Lynching in the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict 185 Shaiel Ben-Ephraim and Or Honig Contributors 223 Index 227
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University of Illinois Press Global Lynching and Collective Violence
Book SynopsisIn this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial rough justice as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues. The volume's European-themed topics explore why three communities of medieval people turned to mob violence, and the ways exclusion from formal institutions fueled peasant rough justice in Russia. Essays on Latin America examine how lynching in the United States influenced Brazilian debates on race and informal justice, and how shifts in religious and political power drove lynching in twentieth-century Mexico. Finally, scholars delve into English Canadians' use of racist and mob violence to craft identity; the Communist Party's Depression-era campaign against lynching in the United States; and the transnational links that helped form--and later emanated from--Wisconsin's notoriously violent skinhead movement in the late twentieth century. Contributors: Trade Review"Global Lynching and Collective Violence, Volume 2 broadens our perspective on lynching beyond the American South. The essays in the collection are theoretically sophisticated and well documented. This book will be a standard work in the field."--Margaret Vandiver, author of Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South"This impressive collection greatly contributes to our understanding of lynching, calling attention to its long-neglected global and transnational dimensions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in studying mob violence from an international perspective."—Simon Wendt, author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights
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University of Illinois Press Myths America Lives By
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is very powerful and has the potential of contributing to the healing of American culture with respect to race and equity." --Stone-Campbell Journal"It takes a whole lot of courage for white theologians and scholars to speak the truth about race. If we had more white theologians and religion scholars like Hughes who would break their silence about white supremacy and face it for what it is, we--together--could make a better world." -- James H. Cone, author of The Cross and the Lynching Tree "The American national story is a myth, built on a series of myths that Richard Hughes reveals in this critical book. Myths America Lives By is a book we all need in order to understand ourselves, to understand our nation, to understand White supremacy."--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America"Richard Hughes' Myths America Lives By was already required reading when it was released back in the pre-Trump era. With this update of his lacerating critique of the sordidness of American civil religion and other destructive myths, Hughes now indicts white supremacy as the foundational myth providing the most accelerant to those other myths that have burned through our history. Richard Hughes thinks hard and listens even harder to the historians, the scholars and, most of all, the prophets who understood the malignancy of white supremacy long before he did. The result is Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories that Gives Us Meaning. Once again, Hughes' willingness to tell the truth about the myths we live by has put us all in his debt."--Tony Norman, columnist, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"For those of us who struggle to understand the racially charged polarities of today as well as the highs and lows of our American past, this book paints a heartbreaking, damning, and intimately clear picture." --Christian Chronicle"Myths America Lives By is an essential read for those interested in shattering the cycle of racism and imaging a new way forward. The book strikes the perfect balance between intellectual knowledge and heartfelt story-telling." --Diverse"Those who don't understand their history are destined to repeat it over and over again. If we want to break the cycle of American racism, we must confront our history and the myths that underlie it. Reading Richard Hughes's The Myths America Lives By is a good place to start. Well worth reading, and a useful primer for many college classrooms!" -- Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race"Fresh and stunning." --The Christian Century "The myth of white supremacy, as Hughes shows, is deeply embedded both in American culture and in American Christianity, which makes its recognition and extermination so crucial." --Intersections "Prophetic, accessible, illuminating, and full of hard truths that have the potential to change minds and lives, the book deserves a wide audience." --Restoration Quarterly "I have been under the tutelage of Dr. Richard Hughes since I was mentored by him in graduate school. He never ceases to challenge my easy assumptions, invoke history I do not know, and lift my vision to more elevated realms. Agree with him on every matter or not, I am better for having contended with him. How much we need voices such as his today."--Stephen Mansfield, New York Times bestselling author of The Faith of Barack Obama "A fearless, well-researched, searing critique that shatters the underpinnings of white racial superiority in America and abroad."--Joseph Robinson Jr., president, Martin Luther King Leadership Development Institute "Myths America Lives By is prophetic--not merely in the predictive sense, so evident in the first edition, but in the far more consequential sense of prophecy as calling us to repentance and to our better selves. This is a very fine book, offering both a searing critique and a summons to embrace our common humanity."--Randall Balmer, author of Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter
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University of Illinois Press To Live Here You Have to Fight
Book SynopsisLaunched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service. Jessica Wilkerson tells their stories within the larger drama of efforts to enact change in the 1960s and 1970s. She shows white Appalachian women acting as leaders and soldiers in a grassroots war on poverty--shaping and sustaining programs, engaging in ideological debates, offering fresh visions of democratic participation, and facing personal political struggles. Their insistence that caregiving was valuable labor clashed with entrenched attitudes and rising criticisms of welfare. Their persistence, meanwhile, brought them into unlikely coalitions with black women, disabled miners, and others to fight for causes that ranged from poor people''s rights to community health to unionization. InsTrade ReviewHerbert G. Gutman Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), 2015 Finalist, OAH Mary Nickliss Prize in Women's or Gender History, 2020 Honorable Mention, Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, 2020 H.L. Mitchell Award for Distinguished Book on the Southern Working Class, Southern Historical Association, 2020 "To Live Here, You Have to Fight embodies new research and, with it, highlights an often-forgotten consideration of the role of women's caregiving and its relationship to activism and historical progress. Contributing a distinctive and dire form of scholarship." --Affilia"To Live Here, You Have to Fight offers a careful and compelling analysis of women's progressive activism in mid-twentieth-century Appalachia. Highlighting both the significance of coalitional labor organizing and interactions between social and capital production, Wilkerson brings to life the experiences of political actors who have been largely overlooked." --Labor Studies Journal"A compelling portrayal of women activists’ goals hopes, and trials. . . . this work adds an important addition to the field of Appalachian studies as well as histories of women, the working-class, and antipoverty movements." --Oral History Review "Fine discussion of women’s activism in Appalachia." --North Carolina Historical Review"Astonishing."--The Cut"Jessica Wilkerson’s To Live Here, You Have to Fight goes far toward filling empty spaces in the scholarship on women’s history, Appalachian history, and labor history. . . . It would be a welcome addition to both undergraduate and graduate classes on oral history and on the history of women, Appalachia, and labor. " --Journal of American History"Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the War on Poverty in Appalachia, this book documents the central role of working class women in Appalachian resistance movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on a tradition of family care giving and community support, mountain women brought to their activism an awareness of the profound connection between environmental, health, and economic justice that redefined class and gender issues in America and offered an alternative vision for their communities and our capitalist nation. Based upon extensive oral history research, To Live Here, You Have to Fight challenges many of our contemporary assumptions about Appalachia and is an important book for our time."--Ronald D Eller, author of Uneven Ground: Appalachia Since 1945"Wilkerson surveys these women and the movements they influenced with thoughtfulness and clarity, forging an intelligent path through complicated chains of historical events." --Knoxville News Sentinel"A bold new examination of women's struggles in Appalachia rests on a concept that is both simple and profound: the caregiver as activist. . . . Thanks to Wilkerson's efforts, histories of women's bravery and persistence are here brought to life and preserved to inspire new generations." --Women's Review of Books "A crucial piece of the history of social justice in America, placing the true history of Appalachian women's radical, blood-red roots on vibrant display." --Kim Kelly, Pacific Standard "[Wilkerson's] account offers a view of class grounded fundamentally in gender, making it possible to imagine a working-class movement based in sources other than mining minerals and shaping metal—the kind of movement now taking shape in Appalachia, which has been the site of a dramatic upswing of working-class protest by women in care jobs over the last year." --Dissent Magazine "Wilkerson’s work is a profound contribution to our understanding of the War on Poverty." --Labor "Fine discussion of women’s activism in Appalachia." --North Carolina Historical Review "The story is readable and enhances our understanding of Appalachian History." --Smokey Mountain Living Magazine "Wilkerson’s thought-provoking analysis will intrigue scholars of the South, community organizing, labor, and gender, as well as present-day social activists." --Journal of Southern History "Wilkerson's compelling study is a celebration of the achievements of a highly visible, but frequently overlooked, activist group. Students of both gender and social movements history will find this a welcome addition to their libraries." --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "From the 1960s–1980s, working-class women built, led, and sustained movements to improve the health and welfare of families and communities across the Mountain South. Wilkerson introduces these activists and shows how lifetimes of caring for ailing coal miners and struggling Appalachian communities inspired both urgent demands for social justice and radical critiques of rampant capitalism. This book uncovers new links between mid-century social change movements and offers a critical reminder that the fire for justice smolders even when victories are few."--Anne M. Valk, author of Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. "In her fabulous new book, To Live Here, You Have to Fight, Jessica Wilkerson tells the untold story of the 'grassroots war on poverty' waged in the Appalachian South in the 1960s and 1970s. At the forefront of this campaign were women, women who saw themselves as family 'caregivers.' This was never just a domestic role, though it was that. It was a role that brought women to the polling station, the picket line, and to workplace protests of this own. Jessica Wilkerson tells these stories of struggle with compassion, sophistication, and heart. Readers will come away from her book understanding more about the everyday meanings and complexities of gender and class in the South, but also with a sense of what is possible when people mobilize for respect and better days." —Bryant Simon, author of The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
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MO - University of Illinois Press Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The essays in this book bring nuance to a range of conversations about carceral statebuilding. . . . All of the essays offer well-researched, complex methodological and topical interventions that highlight the racialized implications of Jim Crow governance." --Journal of African American History"Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South brings fresh insights to our understanding of the development of racial disparities in law enforcement, incarceration, and capital punishment." --North Carolina Historical Review"These essays provide a nuanced and necessary picture of the racialized nature of southern law enforcement in the Jim Crow era beyond the common tropes of convict lease, the chain gang, and police complicity in local lynchings." --Journal of American History"Thoroughly researched, cogently argued, and well written. With its judicious blend of established and rising young scholars working at the cutting-edge of carceral studies, this breaks new ground."--Claudrena N. Harold, author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942"Given how often and how easily crime and punishment in America today is framed in terms of southern history--the 'New Jim Crow'--it is timely and important to have these deeply-researched, carefully argued essays to help us think in new ways about the connections between the South’s past and the nation’s present."—Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch, The Biography: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon
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University of Illinois Press Raced to Death in 1920s Hawai i
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The color line in the United States has historically been and continues to be White vs. Black, yet the salient strength of Raced to Death is to make evident that the color line is, more accurately, White vs. Non-White."--Karen L. Ishizuka, author of Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties "Okamura's work opens the door for further reflection on how this history fits into larger patterns of U.S. race relations." --Nichi Bei Weekly"A fascinating account linking racism to colonialism, labor, and criminal justice in an unexpected setting. Okamura’s book makes it impossible to forget Hawai i when studying comparative race and ethnic relations."--Lon Kurashige, author of Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
£19.79
University of Illinois Press West of Jim Crow
Book SynopsisAfrican Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled. From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden Statein contrast to its reputation for toleranceperfected many methods of controlling people of color.Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state''s color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan''s campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregTrade Review"West of Jim Crow explores the surge of violence precipitated by the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Black Californians responded with grassroots activism as they continued to demand access to homeownership, schools, and public spaces. Through the men and women themselves, Hudson provides incredible insight to California's racial battlegrounds." --Pacific Historical Review "Hudson's book illuminates just that: how contestations over public and private spaces as they related to race were tied together through the web of resistance that Black Californians engaged in as they utilized tactics that would become better known in the mid-twentieth century." --Journal of American Ethnic History "Outstanding history and an absorbing read. . . . Highly recommended." --ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Freedom Claims: Reconstructing the Golden State 2 “This is Our Fair and Our State”: Race Women, Race Men, and the Panama Pacific International Exposition 3 “The Best Proposition Ever Offered to Negroes in the State”: Building an All-Black Town 4 A Lesson in Lynching 5 Burning Down the House: California’s Ku Klux Klan 6 “The Only Difference Between Pasadena and Mississippi is the Way They Are Spelled”: Swimming in the Southland Epilogue: Remembering (and Forgetting) Jim Crow Notes Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press Blinded by the Whites Why Race Still Matters in
Book SynopsisArgues that all oppressions (of race, gender, class, sexual orientation) intersect and must be confronted to upset the status quo.Trade ReviewSadly, the issues here are as old as race in America, though Ikard's survey of their contemporary forms is instructive. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Hidden In Plain Sight: What Does Black Empowerment in the Twenty-First Century Look Like? 1. White Supremacy Under Fire: The Unrewarded Perspective in Edward P. Jones's The Known World2. Easier Said than Done: Making Black Feminism Transformative for Black Men3. All Joking Aside: Black Men, Sexual Assault, and Displaced Racial Angst in Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle4. Boys to Men: Getting Personal about Black Manhood, Sexuality, and Empowerment5. Rejecting Goldilocks: The Crisis of Normative White Beauty for Black Girls6. "Stop Making the Rest of Us Look Bad": How Class Matters in the Attacks against the Movie PreciousEpilogue: So What Does It All Mean? NotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Radical French Thought and the Return of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Both important and timely, it will be a notable contribution to the ongoing public and intellectual discussion... of contemporary antisemitism and [the animus of intellectuals] toward the state of Israel." -Elhanan Yakira, author of Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel "Represents a significant contribution to our understanding of both the phenomenon of the 'new antisemitism' and a certain strain of French critical theory over the last several decades." -Maurice Samuels, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Bruno ChaouatTo My American Readers1. Jean Genet's Anxiety in the Face of the Good2. Alain Badiou: The Future of a Denial3. Saint Paul among the Moderns 4. On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception5. Foucault, Deleuze, the Jews and IsraelIndex
£49.30
Indiana University Press Radical French Thought and the Return of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Both important and timely, it will be a notable contribution to the ongoing public and intellectual discussion... of contemporary antisemitism and [the animus of intellectuals] toward the state of Israel." -Elhanan Yakira, author of Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel "Represents a significant contribution to our understanding of both the phenomenon of the 'new antisemitism' and a certain strain of French critical theory over the last several decades." -Maurice Samuels, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Bruno ChaouatTo My American Readers1. Jean Genet's Anxiety in the Face of the Good2. Alain Badiou: The Future of a Denial3. Saint Paul among the Moderns 4. On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception5. Foucault, Deleuze, the Jews and IsraelIndex
£20.89
Indiana University Press AntiZionism on Campus
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnti-Zionism on Campus is a tour de force. It accurately exposes the depth of anti-Israel bias on campuses (primarily in the U.S., but with several insightful chapters also focusing on the British, Australian, Canadian, and South African campus climate). It also underscores the high price and personal risk that comes with taking on this rising tide of anti-Zionism. * Legal Insurrection *Though these testimonials acknowledge that free academic inquiry can—and should—include criticism of any nation's policies, the writers make a persuasive case that the BDS movement is a dangerous amalgam of speech suppression and thinly veiled anti-Semitism. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction and Overview: The Silencing / Andrew Pessin and Doron Ben-AtarI. Scholars' Essays1. BDS and Self-Righteous Moralists / Dan Avnon2. Consensus, Canadian Trade Unions, and Intellectuals for Hamas / Julien Bauer3. Bullies at the Pulpit / Doron Ben-Atar4. A Traumatic Professorial Education: Anti-Zionism and Homophobia in a Serial Campus Hate Crime / Corinne E. Blackmer5. Slouching Toward the City That Never Stops: How a Left-Orientalist Anti-Israel Faculty Tour Forced Me to Say Something (Big Mistake!) / Gabriel Noah Brahm6. On Radio Silence and the Video That Saved the Day: The Attack Against Prof. Dubnov at the University of California San Diego, 2012 / Shlomo Dubnov7. Fraser vs UCU: A Personal Reflection / Ronnie Fraser8. If You Are Not With Us : The National Women's Studies Association and Israel / Janet Freedman9. Rhodes University: Not a Home for All: A Progressive Zionist's Two-Year Odyssey / Larissa Klazinga10. Loud and Fast versus Slow and Quiet: Responses to Anti-Israel Activism on Campus / Jeffrey Kopstein11. A Controversy at Harvard / Martin Kramer12. Attempts to Exclude Pro-Israel Views from Progressive Discourse: Some Case Studies from Australia / Philip Mendes13. Anti-Israel Antisemitism in England / Richard Millett14. Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom / Cary Nelson15. When Did We Abandon Academic Integrity for Academic Freedom? / Denise Nussbaum16. BDS and Zionophobic Racism / Judea Pearl17. Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 at the University of Texas, Austin: Anti-Zionists on the Attack / Ami Pedahzur and Andrew Pessin18. Col. Richard Kemp at the University of Sydney, Australia 11 March 2015 / Jan Poddebsky, Peter Keeda, and Clive Kessler19. "Oh! Now I've Got You!": In the Sights of Anti-Israelists at The Claremont Colleges / Yaron Raviv20. The Magic of Myth: Fashioning the BDS Narrative in the New Anthropology / David M. Rosen21. Retaliation: The High Price of Speaking Out about Campus Antisemitism and What It Means for Jewish Students / Tammi Rossman-Benjamin22. A Field Geologist in Politicized Terrain / Jill S. Schneiderman23. Fanatical Anti-Zionism and the Degradation of the University: What I Have Learned in Buffalo / Ernest Sternberg24. What is it Like to be an (Assertive) Israeli Academic Abroad? / Elhanan YakiraII. Students' Essays25. A Wake-Up Call at the University of Michigan / Jesse Arm26. On Leaving UCLA Due to Hostile and Unsafe Campus Climate / Milan Chatterjee27. BDS and Antisemitism at Stanford University / Molly Horwitz28. On Being Pro-Israel, and Jewish, at Oberlin College / Eliana Kohn29. Battling Anti-Zionism at CUNY John Jay College / Tomer Kornfeld30. Students for Justice in Palestine at Brown University / Jared Samilow31. Battling Anti-Zionism at the University of Missouri / Daniel SwindellIII. Concluding Thoughts32. Inconclusive, Unscientific Postscript: On the Purpose of the University, and a Ray of Hope / Andrew PessinIndex
£32.40
Indiana University Press AntiZionism on Campus
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnti-Zionism on Campus is a tour de force. It accurately exposes the depth of anti-Israel bias on campuses (primarily in the U.S., but with several insightful chapters also focusing on the British, Australian, Canadian, and South African campus climate). It also underscores the high price and personal risk that comes with taking on this rising tide of anti-Zionism. * Legal Insurrection *Though these testimonials acknowledge that free academic inquiry can—and should—include criticism of any nation's policies, the writers make a persuasive case that the BDS movement is a dangerous amalgam of speech suppression and thinly veiled anti-Semitism. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction and Overview: The Silencing / Andrew Pessin and Doron Ben-AtarI. Scholars' Essays1. BDS and Self-Righteous Moralists / Dan Avnon2. Consensus, Canadian Trade Unions, and Intellectuals for Hamas / Julien Bauer3. Bullies at the Pulpit / Doron Ben-Atar4. A Traumatic Professorial Education: Anti-Zionism and Homophobia in a Serial Campus Hate Crime / Corinne E. Blackmer5. Slouching Toward the City That Never Stops: How a Left-Orientalist Anti-Israel Faculty Tour Forced Me to Say Something (Big Mistake!) / Gabriel Noah Brahm6. On Radio Silence and the Video That Saved the Day: The Attack Against Prof. Dubnov at the University of California San Diego, 2012 / Shlomo Dubnov7. Fraser vs UCU: A Personal Reflection / Ronnie Fraser8. If You Are Not With Us : The National Women's Studies Association and Israel / Janet Freedman9. Rhodes University: Not a Home for All: A Progressive Zionist's Two-Year Odyssey / Larissa Klazinga10. Loud and Fast versus Slow and Quiet: Responses to Anti-Israel Activism on Campus / Jeffrey Kopstein11. A Controversy at Harvard / Martin Kramer12. Attempts to Exclude Pro-Israel Views from Progressive Discourse: Some Case Studies from Australia / Philip Mendes13. Anti-Israel Antisemitism in England / Richard Millett14. Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy, Antisemitism, and Academic Freedom / Cary Nelson15. When Did We Abandon Academic Integrity for Academic Freedom? / Denise Nussbaum16. BDS and Zionophobic Racism / Judea Pearl17. Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 at the University of Texas, Austin: Anti-Zionists on the Attack / Ami Pedahzur and Andrew Pessin18. Col. Richard Kemp at the University of Sydney, Australia 11 March 2015 / Jan Poddebsky, Peter Keeda, and Clive Kessler19. "Oh! Now I've Got You!": In the Sights of Anti-Israelists at The Claremont Colleges / Yaron Raviv20. The Magic of Myth: Fashioning the BDS Narrative in the New Anthropology / David M. Rosen21. Retaliation: The High Price of Speaking Out about Campus Antisemitism and What It Means for Jewish Students / Tammi Rossman-Benjamin22. A Field Geologist in Politicized Terrain / Jill S. Schneiderman23. Fanatical Anti-Zionism and the Degradation of the University: What I Have Learned in Buffalo / Ernest Sternberg24. What is it Like to be an (Assertive) Israeli Academic Abroad? / Elhanan YakiraII. Students' Essays25. A Wake-Up Call at the University of Michigan / Jesse Arm26. On Leaving UCLA Due to Hostile and Unsafe Campus Climate / Milan Chatterjee27. BDS and Antisemitism at Stanford University / Molly Horwitz28. On Being Pro-Israel, and Jewish, at Oberlin College / Eliana Kohn29. Battling Anti-Zionism at CUNY John Jay College / Tomer Kornfeld30. Students for Justice in Palestine at Brown University / Jared Samilow31. Battling Anti-Zionism at the University of Missouri / Daniel SwindellIII. Concluding Thoughts32. Inconclusive, Unscientific Postscript: On the Purpose of the University, and a Ray of Hope / Andrew PessinIndex
£74.70
Indiana University Press A Mosaic of Believers
Book SynopsisMosaic in southern California is one of the largest and most innovative multiethnic congregations in America. This book shows us how this unusual church has achieved multiethnicity, not by targeting specific groups, but by providing multiple havens of inclusion that play down ethnic differences.Trade ReviewMarti's insightful reflections on these issues at Mosaic will help observers of other groups as well. * Nova Religio *Engagingly and accessibly written, this excellent book deserves wide readership among everyone interested in US religion, ethnicity, organizations and urban culture. * Choice *A very thoughtful, unique contribution [that] edges us forward in our understanding of the interethnic religious experience [that] will stimulate researchers . . . to forge ahead in their quest to understand this important social phenomenon. * Review of Religious Research *Gerardo Marti. . . argues that racial and ethinic identities are fluid and negotiated and that interracial churches can successfully create a model of 'ethnic transcendence' in which a common identity as Christian transcends specific racial or ethnic identities.1/13/09 -- Peter W Marty * Senior Pastor, St Paul Lutheran Church, Davenport Iowa, host of the radio program "Grace Matters" *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Multiethnic Churches, Mosaic, and Social Change2. Describing Mosaic3. History, Agency, and Evangelicalism: A Reconstruction of Ideology4. The Hollywood Connection and the Management of Artistic Talent: A Reconstruction of Involvement5. Innovation and the Cultivation of Catalytic Leaders: A Reconstruction of Imperative6. Mosaic and the Emerging American Culture: A Reconstruction of an Institution7. Becoming a Mosaic of Believers: A Reconstruction of IdentityConclusionAppendix A. Methodological Considerations from a Religious InsiderAppendix B. Women and Leadership at MosaicBibliographyIndex
£20.89
Indiana University Press Races on Display French Representations of
Book SynopsisWhile European commerce in race was substantial, the colonial trade in ideas of race was profitable as well. Looking at official propaganda and commercial representations in France during the Third Republic, this book explores the way the French increased the value of their identity at home at the expense of their colonized brothers and sisters.Trade Review"... very clear and straight-forward. The introduction is brief and refreshinglyunencumbered with theoretical jargon; indeed, the work as a whole is free of the commonly cumbersome and overly complex intellectual gymnastics of many postcolonial studies of racial images. In these opening pages, Hale lays out her argument and gives the reader a clear blueprint for the text. Throughout the work, Hale blends historiography into the narrative flow in an almost seamless manner." —Michael Vann, Sacramento State University, H-French-Colonial, H-Net, April 2009"... a worthy addition to the literature on colonial representation and French colonial history." —Karin Speedy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New Zealand Jrnl of French Studies, Vol.30.1 2009"[This] book offers a broad view, in both time and space, surveying almost the entire life of the Third Republic as well as the major and widely dispersed areas of France's 'new' colonial empire. This allows the author to make important observations about how views of empire and race changed over time and to compare images of different 'races'." —European History Quarterly"Races on Display is a rich work. If its conclusions are not as novel as its wealth of detail, it will nonetheless appeal to an interdisciplinary audience and provoke the sort of discussion that will make it a useful text for classroom use." —Journal of Modern History, Vol. 82.3, September 2010"Dana Hale's book provides an overview of the French case from the 1880s until the First World War, focusing on exhibitions (particularly in Paris in 1900, 1931 and 1937 and in Marseille in 1922) and on trade-marks used for advertising." —Journal Imperial and Commonwealth HistoryTable of ContentsContents<\>IntroductionPart 1. On the Path to Civilization, 188619131. Overseas Empire and Race during the Third Republic2. Sub-Saharan Africans: "Uncivilized Types"3. North Africans: Mysterious Peoples4. Indochinese: Gentle SubjectsPart 2. Children of France, 19141940Introduction to Part 25. Sub-Saharan Africans: La Force Noire6. North Africans: Fils Aîné7. Indochinese: Fils Doué8. La Mère-Patrie and Her Colonial Children: France on DisplayNotesIndex
£18.89
