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Book SynopsisExamines the work and actions of seven local initiatives in Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. This book reveals these local organizations as committed to programs of community activism that focused on problems of social, political, and economic justice.Trade ReviewSeeking to move beyond the usual media stereotypes, condemnations from the Right, and romanticization on the Left, this book follows the story of local Black Panther Party chapters in Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. While the party "as an organization is often reduced to Oakland, and Oakland is often reduced to Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and perhaps Eldridge Cleaver," this book deliberately ignores Oakland (as well as Chicago). It follows Panthers in other communities who resisted police brutality, "participated in broad coalition politics," and "demanded self-determination for oppressed and improverished residents in urban as well as rural areas." Each chapter's authors follow a similar format, first by establishing the history of black activism in the local communities to which they are assigned, and then following the rise and fall of the Panthers in their selected areas. In most cases, the local BPP's legacy was that some members "continued the socially deviant activities that had caused the group's descent," while others "continued the evolution to respectability that the Party had experienced in the 1970s." Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * Choice *Judson L. Jeffries and his contributors have done the Black Panther Party a great service by highlighting perhaps the most important, yet least studied aspect of the organization—its community survival programs. Comrades is a must read for any serious student of the Black Panther Party. -- James N. Uptoneditor * Encyclopedia of American Race Riots *. . . this is an important contribution to an underdeveloped topic in the scholarship on the party. . . . offers original and important research on the subject, broadening the scope of the field in essential ways, while adding to the scope of postwar ubran history.December 2008 -- Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar * University of Connecticut, Storrs *. . . move[s] beyond the usual media stereotypes, condemnations from the Right, and romanticization on the Left . . . Recommended. January 2009 * Choice *[T]his collection of essays skillfully situates seven rarely examined chapters of the Black Panther Party (BPP) within the larger scope of African American urban migration, civil rights activism, and the Black Freedom Struggle. * Indiana Magazine of History *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Painting a More Complete Portrait of the Black Panther Party Judson L. Jeffries and Ryan Nissim-Sabat1. Revising Panther History in Baltimore Judson L. Jeffries2. Picking Up Where Robert F. Williams Left Off: The Winston-Salem Branch of the Black Panther Party Benjamin R. Friedman3. Panthers Set Up Shop in Cleveland Ryan Nissim-Sabat4. Nap Town Awakens to Find a Menacing Panther; OK, Maybe Not So Menacing Judson L. Jeffries and Tiyi M. Morris5. Picking Up the Hammer: The Milwaukee Branch of the Black Panther Party Andrew Witt6. "Brotherly Love Can Kill You": The Philadelphia Branch of the Black Panther Party Omari L. Dyson, Kevin L. Brooks, and Judson L. Jeffries7. To Live and Die in L.A. Judson L. Jeffries and Malcolm FoleyConclusion: A Way of Remembering the Black Panther Party in the Post–Black Power Era: Resentment, Disaster, and Disillusionment Floyd W. Hayes IIIAppendixList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between the slave trade and one of Africa's most vibrant centersTrade ReviewThis is a sophisticated analysis of the realities of slavery in an African culture in which belonging to a social group was the basis for both wealth and power. Mann (Emory Univ.) has devoted 30 years of research into the legal and financial records of this great port city in Nigeria to produce a masterpiece of urban history. She arranges her material in three chronological periods: the era of slave exports, the era of palm oil exports, and the late-19th-century period of conversion to wage labor. The central theme is the 'slow demise' of slavery and its reorganization through the medium of the social structures of the population of Lagos. Mann thus argues for the adaptive qualities of African slavery, which had economic and social roots. Both former master and slave developed new relationships in the growth of the new colonial urban culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. * Choice *It may not be possible to write a better social history of Lagos—let alone less fully documented African port cities; and, even if it is, future scholars will have to recognize Mann's book as a benchmark.Jan 1, 2009 -- Ralph Austen * University of Chicago *Slavery and the Birth of an African City is an original and insightful work. This book is well written and well organized. It is an important guide to the history of the Atlantic slave trade, to the economic history of Lagos, and to the intervention of the British, especially since 1861 when Lagos was annexed. Overflowing with anthropological, cultural, and historical information, this book will be of interest to general readers and undergraduate and graduate students of West African history and anthropology.April 2010 -- Julius O. Adekunle * Monmouth University *Mann's work is an intellectually engaging, multifaceted, and tantalizingly in-depth study of slavery's gradual demise. She does an admirable job of offering fresh insights into the redefinition and rearrangement of employer-worker relationships in Lagos County, especially in the last decade of the 19th century.American Historical Review * American Historical Review *The author covers a lot of ground in this book, and she fills in an important gap in the historiography of Lagos. Through her careful use of a set of primary sources not often used by historians for this purpose, she has expanded the boundaries of the debate about slavery and dependency and has offered new details about the organization of business in nineteenth-century Lagos.Vol 83.2 summer 2009 -- Dmitri van den Bersselaar * Business History Review *This story is told by the author with the skill of a master—master researcher, master analyst, master story-teller, and master essayist.51, 3 Dec. 2008 -- A. E. Afigbo * Ebonyi State University, Nigeria *A valuable contribution not only to African history, but also to the history of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic. . . . Brilliantly organized . . . Mann's style makes the reading enjoyable.June 2008 -- Ana Lucia Araujo * H-net / H-Atlantic *A sophisticated analysis . . . Highly recommended. -- R. T. Brown * Choice *[T]his book combines extensive archival research and interviews and does an excellent job in chronicling the complex history of Lagos with authority and clarity, and it does so in a manner that is pleasant to read. This is, indeed, a well-written book with an insightful trajectory attesting to the author's decades-long research on West Africa and the Atlantic world. * Journal of World History *By looking at an emergent commercial town with deeply engrained political and economic competition, and relating this study to the wider library, Mann provides a fine example of how the rise and decline of African slavery can be traced in its complexity. * International Journal of African Historical Studies *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Rise of Lagos as an Atlantic Port, c. 1760–18512. Trade, Oligarchy, and the Transformation of the Precolonial State3. The Original Sin: Anti-slavery, Imperial Expansion, and Early Colonial Rule4. Innocent Commerce: Boom and Bust in the Palm Produce Trade5. Britain and Domestic Slavery6. Redefining the Owner-Slave Relationship: Work, Ideology, and the Demand for People7. The Changing Meaning of Land in the Urban Economy and Culture8. Strategies of Struggle and Mechanisms of Control: Quotidian Conflicts and Court CasesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDiscusses formations of blackness and whiteness in US cultureTrade Review[T]his project fills a major gap in both Critical Race and Foucault studies. It will undoubtedly be cited and engaged for years to come. * Critical Philosophy of Race *Racial Imperatives is a strong tome with a great deal of value across disciplines. Building on her previous scholarly investigations and relying on a robust scholarship to push intellectual boundaries, Ehlers's work is insightful and thought provoking. . . . Scholars that study race in any academic discipline would benefit from the ideas and analysis in this book. * Spectrum *Racial Imperatives . . . is a thoughtful and provocative contribution to the literature of discipline, performativity, and agency as they relate to race. * Foucault Studies *In Racial Imperatives Nadine Ehlers explores the idea that racial identity is a construct both performed by individuals and maintained by the law. . . [Raises] interesting ideas, particularly that 'all identity is a form of passing,' and that all subjects . . . must continually enact their racial identities.June 2015 * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Racial Disciplinarity2. Racial Knowledges: Securing the Body in Law3. Passing through Racial Performatives4. Domesticating Liminality: Somatic Defiance in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander5. Passing Phantasms: Rhinelander and Ontological Insecurity6. Imagining Racial Agency7. Practicing Problematization: Resignifying RaceBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDiscusses formations of blackness and whiteness in US cultureTrade Review[T]his project fills a major gap in both Critical Race and Foucault studies. It will undoubtedly be cited and engaged for years to come. * Critical Philosophy of Race *Racial Imperatives is a strong tome with a great deal of value across disciplines. Building on her previous scholarly investigations and relying on a robust scholarship to push intellectual boundaries, Ehlers's work is insightful and thought provoking. . . . Scholars that study race in any academic discipline would benefit from the ideas and analysis in this book. * Spectrum *Racial Imperatives . . . is a thoughtful and provocative contribution to the literature of discipline, performativity, and agency as they relate to race. * Foucault Studies *In Racial Imperatives Nadine Ehlers explores the idea that racial identity is a construct both performed by individuals and maintained by the law. . . [Raises] interesting ideas, particularly that 'all identity is a form of passing,' and that all subjects . . . must continually enact their racial identities.June 2015 * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Racial Disciplinarity2. Racial Knowledges: Securing the Body in Law3. Passing through Racial Performatives4. Domesticating Liminality: Somatic Defiance in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander5. Passing Phantasms: Rhinelander and Ontological Insecurity6. Imagining Racial Agency7. Practicing Problematization: Resignifying RaceBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRace and Immigration in the New Ireland offers a comprehensive approach to the many aspects of transformations in Ireland related to immigration.Trade Review"This collection is essential reading for anyone interested in the complex global interplay of race, migration, citizenship, and nationality that so irresistibly shapes the contemporary moment. Bringing together a remarkable range of essays on topics as varied as race theory, sports culture, language politics, the role of gender in immigration policy, and the ongoing social and political legacies of Northern Ireland’s partition, the volume offers thoughtful reexaminations of an Ireland we may have thought we knew along with insightful analyses of how Ireland’s palimpsestic relationship to migration sheds new light on pressing questions about race, globalization, and mobility that extend far beyond Irish shores. This is a book that is sorely needed." —Mark Quigley, University of Oregon"Race and Immigration in the New Ireland is ideal reading material for teachers in need of a solid text on contemporary Ireland. There is nothing comparable in the existing literature." —Kevin Whelan, Director of the Keough-Naughton Notre Dame Centre, Dublin, Ireland"Race and Immigration in the New Ireland presents a wide range of insights on the ethical challenges and possibilities of the post–Celtic Tiger Ireland. Together, the essays here offer an open and constructive debate within the social frame of Irish Studies. This book emphasizes the critical importance of the moral imagination in shaping the evolution of state policy in the ongoing contexts of migration, diaspora, and global markets that have marked recent Irish history." —Fionnghuala Sweeney, University of Liverpool“Race and Immigration in the New Ireland analyzes modern Ireland’s struggles with the issues of immigration, looking at both halves of the Irish nation and their unique approaches to these critical issues that grow ever more intriguing and important. From women’s issues, religious concerns, the place of language, and the presence of racism, [this book] is a strongly recommended addition to social and international issues collections.” —Library Bookwatch“. . . a strong collection of essays entering, if not starting, a pertinent conversation about the changing demographics of Ireland and the post-Celtic Tiger immigrant struggles. The landscape of Ireland has changed dramatically over the last two decades and Race and Immigration in the New Ireland provides an informative and insightful introduction as to how Ireland and Irish identity can be shaped in the years ahead.” —New Hibernia Review"The selection of material contained in this valuable contribution to the field of Irish and migration studies offers a breadth of perspectives that supports the editors' objective of broadening the concept of Irish identity, and provides a snapshot of the island of Ireland at a time of significant change." —Irish Studies Review"This wide-ranging collection of critical voices on the question of migration to Ireland extends the compass of Irish Studies to assess how culture and the state create and respond to social change in the evolving context of global migration. . . . [T]he title Race Immigration and the New Ireland reflects a continuing and vital undertow of change due to Ireland’s most recent experience of ethnic demographic change through inward migration. This is an important collection of critical work, signalling new areas of concern in the study of Ireland’s multi-faceted experience of migration." —Canadian Journal of Irish Studies

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Book SynopsisPity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Sheryl Luna's poems are also about family and home within the broader context of the border as both a bridge and a barrier. They deal with the bilingual and bicultural city and how a place is longed for and viewed very differently as the observer changes and experiences other cultures.The first two sections of poems focus on home and family. They show that, despite poverty and geographical isolation, the border towns of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez are places of beauty and promise. The third section explores cultures: how anxiety over aesthetic judgments, values, and difference are negotiated. The final section is one of praise and recognition that despite differences we are all longing for faith and a place to call home.Trade Review“Sheryl Luna’s debut collection, Pity the Drowned Horses, poses several questions about the meaning of ‘home’: is it rooted to a particular place? can we escape it? can we find it elsewhere? once we’ve left, can we return? . . . She circles through various locales and landscapes, including San Francisco, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Prague, and Paris, but like the frayed-wing hawk who drifts through the collection, Luna’s speaker is drawn, slightly battered, back to the desert of her origins.” —Latino Poetry Review"[A] heartfelt testimony from the borderlands, the place where music clanks like chains as history simultaneously crumbles and rebuilds itself, where weary dancers laugh anger away. …a triumphant debut and worthy of keeping company with the classic titles of border literature. Luna proves herself a leader among the next generation of Chicano poets."—El Paso Times"In her opening poem, Luna declares that 'pain is living and living is pain,' but while she relentlessly probes the hardscrabble lives of many of America's Latinos, these poems aren't grim reading. They're transfigured by this debut author's extraordinary lyric power." —Library Journal"... there's a weighty mournfulness to Luna's borderlands, where the stark poverty of Mexico butts against the brash, unyielding sprawl of her American city. Pity the Drowned Horses takes its reader across a ravaged landscape where ... the last few hares sprint across a bloodied/highway and there are women everywhere/who have half-lost their souls/in sewing needles and vacuum-cleaner parts. In this world of little comfort, Luna is intent on seeking meaning—however bitter—in the emptiness and meditating on the redeeming power of language."—The Texas Observer"From Sylvia Plath to popsicle-sellers in Juarez, from Mozart to maquiladoras, this stunning debut collection charts 'the way of borders....the way things thirst.' Remarkable!" —Lisa D. Chavez"Sheryl Luna’s book Pity the Drowned Horses bears witness not only to the poverty and wonder of the borderlands, to their dynamic and often tragic clash of cultural rivers, but also to an intense, tender, and unflinching sensibility refusing the easy distance of mere reportage. Rarely do we encounter a poet with such associative speed, such free access to her unconscious resources, who simultaneously reaches out with such heartbreaking clarity and sweep of vision. Here we see the moral imagination made both vulnerable and bold by its transfigurative investments, its impassioned music, its raw energy and recovering grace. A dazzling debut." —Bruce Bond“In Pity the Drowned Horses, Sheryl Luna carves out of the El Paso landscape the music of the borderlands where loss and acceptance converge. . . . Luna exquisitely captures—like no other poet before her—the ‘unsung positive capability/ of the desert’; her syntax—sometimes raw and edgy—creates a tableau where everything rushes toward ‘our wild need, all sweat, all shiver.’ The overall effect is simply mesmerizing.” —Robert Vasquez

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Book SynopsisMy Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martínez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martínez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range from the usual suspects brutalized by police to factory workers poisoned by their environment, from the victim of a homophobic beating in the boys' bathroom to the body of Juan Doe at the Cook County Coroner's Office. Some of the poems rely on somber, at times brutal, imagery to articulate a political stance while others use sarcasm and irony to deconstruct political stances themselves.Trade Review"Like the poet’s native Chicago, even when violent or troubling, Paul Martínez Pompa’s poems risk beauty. His work possesses a fluidity that appears both effortless and well earned. His is a Chicago Renaissance of one—Gwendolyn Brooks’s Bronzeville and Carl Sandburg’s 'city of big shoulders' becoming a 'city of broken lovers' and 'an entire city in your ears' in Martínez Pompa’s capable hands. Playful and political and passionate, the poems in My Kill Adore Him mark an important debut, one you’ll surely adore."—Kevin Young author of Dear Darkness and For the Confederate Dead“This is an important book if we care about the lives of men, day-laborers, immigrants, factory workers and those on the urban fringe who don't get a fair shake. And this is an important book if we don't. Paul Martínez Pompa knows how to write; these poems vividly evoke people and lives that urge us toward awareness and honesty and compassion. Poetry can do no better than this.” —Valerie Martínez, author of Each and Her and Absence, Luminescent."This is one tough, smart poet. The poems of Paul Martínez Pompa are gritty and visceral, but never cross the line into sensationalism. They are poems that vividly evoke the urban world, especially Chicago, without ever lapsing into urban cliché. They are poems that seek justice for the Latino community without ever resorting to the overheated language that all too often consigns poetry of social conscience to oblivion." —Martín Espada, 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize judge“Paul Martínez Pompa deconstructs with a deft sword. Straddling literary strategies, no supposition nor paradigm is safe. He slays the stereotypic dragons within as well as without, putting popular culture, elegy, nightmare, personal narrative, identity and gender politics in the same hat, and drawing from the source, Pompa plays a poetic hand for keeps. Every turn of trope is more delightful than the last—a breakaway collection from an exciting new writer.” —Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of Drive: The First Quartet"There is so much more going on in this book . . . My Kill Adore Him is an exciting and tough collection of very well-composed and accessible poems. It’s been a while since I tore through a book of poetry and really enjoyed the read." —Harriet: A blog from the Poetry Foundation“My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poetry from Paul Martinez Pompa focusing on the issues of masculinity, race, and who people are. My Kill Adore Him is an entertaining and thought provoking work, highly recommended.” —The Midwest Book Review“Martinez Pompa’s collection engages the urban landscape and how its cultural and historical legacies extended south into the border and Mexico itself. . . . As a first collection, My Kill Adore Him . . . is definitely a find, with its impressive range of Latino literary influences, from Herrera to Andres Montoya, to Martin Espada. With such poetic energy and intensity in one book, there’s no doubt that Martinez Pompa’s next collection will engrave him on the literary map.” —El Paso Times"In his breathtaking debut poetry collection, Martinez Pompa bursts onto the contemporary Latino scene with literary guns ablaze. He is precisely what we need right now: a brave poet just as critical of himself as he is of others. Within the pages of this clever and brutally honest text lie the words of an old soul—who just happens to be a young poet. Martinez Pompa's youth and aged wisdom coexist in each and every poem, resulting in a fresh, yet deadly serious new voice that is not to be trifled with. . . . Highly recommended reading for anyone on the lookout for what comes next in Latino poetry." —Multicultural Review“. . . a critical tone is set from the opening quotation, lent to the collection by Joe Wenderoth: ‘As hypotheticals go, “man” seems to me the most damaging.’ Martinez Pompa sets the stage early for an exploration into what makes a man, indeed, what makes humanity. . . . Martinez Pompa illustrates the ways in which there is no recourse when decisions are made across a border in a land beyond imagination.” —Post No Ills“Paul Martinez Pompa’s My Kill Adore Him, winner of the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, vividly captures the traumatic experiences of many Latino/a immigrants. . . . Pompa’s sensitive eye doesn’t take us with the men who find a job for that day, but lingers on the man left behind, the man who will not make any money that day.” —Kenyon Review Online

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Book SynopsisIn 1911, William Pickens published the first edition of his autobiography, The Heir of Slaves, in which he writes about the importance of his education and recounts the experiences that led him into public life. The narrative discusses his family, the various teachers and mentors who helped guide him, and the incidents and methods by which he accomplished so much. Pickens''s later works increasingly demanded the rights of full citizenship for African Americans. Bursting Bonds (1923), the second edition of his autobiography, clearly demonstrates this development by the inclusion of five new chapters on racial tensions. This important work, now back in print, marks a turning point in the evolution of African American autobiography from defence to confrontation.Trade Review“This is a reprint of the second, extended edition from 1923 of the autobiography of Professor William Pickens, a leading member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Pickens, whose parents were liberated slaves, studied classics at Yale, became a professor at Talladega College in Alabama, and was involved in the NAACP from its inception in 1910.” —International Review of Social History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“As we examine the horrific examples of public racism, Islamophobia, and anti-immigrant policy and behavior in contemporary society, I read this book personally, internalizing it deeply to ask if I would have had similar courage.” —Mark Curnutte, author of Across the Color Line“Howard Ball is a tenacious legal activist and teacher of civil rights. His involvement with the cause has been lifelong. More than anything else, his work in the Mississippi ACLU grounds this entertaining and informative book.” —Howard Winant, co-author of Racial Formation in the United States"Howard Ball has written extensively about civil rights and civil liberties. Taking the Fight South offers readers a candid and emotional view of the six years he spent living in Starkville and teaching political science at Mississippi State University. In the process, Ball reinforces his Jewish identity as well as his determination to fight racism, finding out firsthand what it takes to be a 'mensch.'" —Steven F. Lawson, co-author of Exploring American Histories"Howard Ball's memoir connects the dots between his teaching and scholarship on constitutional law and civil rights, his life and career as an advocate for racial equality, and his Jewish identity. It offers a first-hand narrative of southern Jewish community from the perspective of a never-fully-welcomed New Yorker. Recounting his research on the failure of the 1965 Voting Rights Act to guarantee compliance, the memoir sheds depressing light on voter discrimination today. It reminds us of the fragility of democracy and of the urgency of resisting ongoing efforts to subvert it." —Cheryl Lester, co-author of Social Work Practice With a Difference"Ball’s third book as an interloper in the Deep South is poignant, enlightening, and serves as a reminder of how far Mississippi has come and yet how far we still have to go." —The Daily Leader"In 1976, historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball moved his family from the Bronx to Starkville, Mississippi, where they’d stay until 1982. Ball describes the experience of his Jewish New York brood as they fend off KKK phone calls and fight for a more just future." —Jewish Exponent"Ball taught at Mississippi State University, adjacent to the town of Starkville, from 1976 to 1982, and in this engaging book, he recalls his experiences as a liberal in a staunchly conservative state which had been an integral part of the Confederacy and which fiercely resisted desegregation." —The Times of Israel"More than his personal experience with religious otherness, the heart of the memoir involves Ball’s reflections upon incidents of racial discrimination and the attempts that he and others made to remedy it." —H-Nationalism"I read with rapt interest Howard Ball’s memoir about his experiences—both the achievements and the obstacles—of living in Starkville, where he taught political science at Mississippi State University from 1976 to 1982. The clash between a New York Jewish liberal activist and white reactionaries was inevitable." —Southern Jewish HistoryTable of ContentsPreface 1. Going Down to Mississippi 2. The Jewish Community in Starkville, Mississippi and We "Fast Talkin' New York Jews" 3. Refereeing Football Games in the Magnolia State 4. Confronting Racism While Serving On the Mississippi Chapter, ACLU Board of Directors 5. Defending the 1965 Voting Rights Act 6. A Solitary Hebrew Working on Campus and in the Field 7. Leaving the "Magnolia" State 8. Conclusion. Reflecting on the Yin/Lang of Life in Mississippi: Two Men from Union, Marcus Gordon and “Preacher” Killen, Collide in 2005

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Book SynopsisMy Kill Adore Him interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones.Trade Review"Like the poet’s native Chicago, even when violent or troubling, Paul Martínez Pompa’s poems risk beauty. His work possesses a fluidity that appears both effortless and well earned. His is a Chicago Renaissance of one—Gwendolyn Brooks’s Bronzeville and Carl Sandburg’s 'city of big shoulders' becoming a 'city of broken lovers' and 'an entire city in your ears' in Martínez Pompa’s capable hands. Playful and political and passionate, the poems in My Kill Adore Him mark an important debut, one you’ll surely adore."—Kevin Young author of Dear Darkness and For the Confederate Dead“This is an important book if we care about the lives of men, day-laborers, immigrants, factory workers and those on the urban fringe who don't get a fair shake. And this is an important book if we don't. Paul Martínez Pompa knows how to write; these poems vividly evoke people and lives that urge us toward awareness and honesty and compassion. Poetry can do no better than this.” —Valerie Martínez, author of Each and Her and Absence, Luminescent."This is one tough, smart poet. The poems of Paul Martínez Pompa are gritty and visceral, but never cross the line into sensationalism. They are poems that vividly evoke the urban world, especially Chicago, without ever lapsing into urban cliché. They are poems that seek justice for the Latino community without ever resorting to the overheated language that all too often consigns poetry of social conscience to oblivion." —Martín Espada, 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize judge“Paul Martínez Pompa deconstructs with a deft sword. Straddling literary strategies, no supposition nor paradigm is safe. He slays the stereotypic dragons within as well as without, putting popular culture, elegy, nightmare, personal narrative, identity and gender politics in the same hat, and drawing from the source, Pompa plays a poetic hand for keeps. Every turn of trope is more delightful than the last—a breakaway collection from an exciting new writer.” —Lorna Dee Cervantes, author of Drive: The First Quartet"There is so much more going on in this book . . . My Kill Adore Him is an exciting and tough collection of very well-composed and accessible poems. It’s been a while since I tore through a book of poetry and really enjoyed the read." —Harriet: A blog from the Poetry Foundation“My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poetry from Paul Martinez Pompa focusing on the issues of masculinity, race, and who people are. My Kill Adore Him is an entertaining and thought provoking work, highly recommended.” —The Midwest Book Review“Martinez Pompa’s collection engages the urban landscape and how its cultural and historical legacies extended south into the border and Mexico itself. . . . As a first collection, My Kill Adore Him . . . is definitely a find, with its impressive range of Latino literary influences, from Herrera to Andres Montoya, to Martin Espada. With such poetic energy and intensity in one book, there’s no doubt that Martinez Pompa’s next collection will engrave him on the literary map.” —El Paso Times"In his breathtaking debut poetry collection, Martinez Pompa bursts onto the contemporary Latino scene with literary guns ablaze. He is precisely what we need right now: a brave poet just as critical of himself as he is of others. Within the pages of this clever and brutally honest text lie the words of an old soul—who just happens to be a young poet. Martinez Pompa's youth and aged wisdom coexist in each and every poem, resulting in a fresh, yet deadly serious new voice that is not to be trifled with. . . . Highly recommended reading for anyone on the lookout for what comes next in Latino poetry." —Multicultural Review“. . . a critical tone is set from the opening quotation, lent to the collection by Joe Wenderoth: ‘As hypotheticals go, “man” seems to me the most damaging.’ Martinez Pompa sets the stage early for an exploration into what makes a man, indeed, what makes humanity. . . . Martinez Pompa illustrates the ways in which there is no recourse when decisions are made across a border in a land beyond imagination.” —Post No Ills“Paul Martinez Pompa’s My Kill Adore Him, winner of the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, vividly captures the traumatic experiences of many Latino/a immigrants. . . . Pompa’s sensitive eye doesn’t take us with the men who find a job for that day, but lingers on the man left behind, the man who will not make any money that day.” —Kenyon Review Online

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Book SynopsisIn Communicate for Change, Genelle Aldred explores how to recognise bias and the way it impacts every area of life, and how to communicate in a way that works to create meaningful and effective change.

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Book SynopsisHow the Alamo's transformation into an American cultural icon helped to shape social, economic, and political relations between Anglo and Mexican Texans from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.Trade Review"Drawing on a broad range of theorists in various fields (geography, social history, semiotics, cultural studies, and anthropology), Flores provides a compelling and quite forceful analysis of various historically produced forms of documenting, recalling, and interpreting the Alamo." Olga Najera-Ramirez, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa CruzTable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Texas Modern Part One. The Alamo as Place, 1836-1905 2. History, Memory-Place, and Silence: The Public Construction of the Past 3. From San Fernando de Béxar to the Alamo City: The Political Unconscious of Plaza Space 4. From Private Visions to Public Culture: The Making of the Alamo Part Two. The Alamo as Project, 1890-1960 5. Cinematic Images: Frontiers, Nationalism, and the Mexican Question 6. Why Does Davy Live? Modernity and Its Heroics Conclusion: The Alamo as Tex(Mex) Master Symbol of Modernity Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing histories of film reception, convergence, and race relations over seven decades, this pioneering book undertakes a superb, multifaceted reading of one of Hollywood’s most notorious films, Disney’s Song of the South.Trade ReviewDisney’s Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South (University of Texas, 2012) does more than dissect a film and the pros and cons around it. In its own way, it reveals that Song of the South, more or less by accident, holds a mirror to American views on race, with beauty or the lack thereof completely in the eyes of the beholder. * PopMatters *This study is meticulously researched and current on contemporary research, and though it reads slowly…the payoff is worth the work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. -- S. R. Kozloff, Vassar College * Choice *This excellent study of the controversy surrounding Disney’s Song of the South is an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of one of the studio’s most controversial films…Jason Sperb has produced an important analysis of one of popular culture’s most hotly debated products. * The Historian *Jason Sperb’s Disney’s Most Notorious Film quickly overcomes any concern that there might be nothing new to say about Song of the South by demonstrating how surprisingly “persistent” the film has been. * The Journal of American History *While Sperb's conclusions of conscious racism are debatable, his meticulous documentation of Song of the South merchandising through sixty years and its other cultural references…make Disney's Most Notorious Film an essential reference tool to those interested in SotS-iana. * Animation World Network *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Conditions of Possibility: The Disney Studios, Postwar "Thermidor," and the Ambivalent Origins of Song of the South Chapter 2. "Put Down the Mint Julep, Mr. Disney": Postwar Racial Consciousness and Disney's Critical Legacy in the 1946 Reception of Song of the South Chapter 3. "Our Most Requested Movie": Media Convergence, Black Ambivalence, and the Reconstruction of Song of the South Chapter 4. A Past That Never Existed: Coonskin, Post-racial Whiteness, and Rewriting History in the Era of Reaganism Chapter 5. On Tar Babies and Honey Pots: Splash Mountain, "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," and the Transmedia Dissipation of Song of the South Chapter 6. Reassuring Convergence: New Media, Nostalgia, and the Internet Fandom of Song of the South Conclusion Appendix. Timeline for Song of the South and Its Paratexts Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This eye-opening collection of essays serves to remind readers of the power and potential of games as a catalyst for change... Woke Gaming seeks to push readers to recognise persistent inequalities, as well as those who struggle for change within both our virtual worlds and in our everyday communities." -- Tola Onanuga * The Guardian *"Gray and Leonard have assembled a courageous chorus of voices that challenge an industry emblematic of some of the most insidiously oppressive structures in American society... A must-read for scholars and students in fandom studies, popular culture and media studies, critical and cultural studies, communication, and sociology... Highly recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[I]mmediately urgent and immensely creative monograph." * Peitho Journal *"In this important monograph, Chávez eloquently interrogates the concept of national belonging as it relates to race, disease, power, and morality in the US. She clearly and articulately expresses her core thesis of the alienizing logic of exclusion and offers a fresh and insightful contribution to existing histories of the early years of the ongoing AIDS crisis by repositioning themes of race and immigration into the central frame of this narrative." * Connections *"[P]rovides a multifaceted narrative analysis of the dual policy frameworks of quarantine and immigration-related bans and detention as the United States coped with the rise of HIV/AIDS in the last quarter of the twentieth century. [Chávez’s]work represents an admirable effort to integrate relevant voices from a variety of strata. Naturally, all historical work in the contemporary era should endeavor to do the same, but the tapestry Chávez weaves through her diverse employment of sources proffers truly unique perspectives in her field." * H-Net Reviews *"This book made me hopeful about what scholarship can be and do. Chávez plays with time, drawing connections between the Reconstruction era, the AIDS epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic, but always carefully. Chávez is confident about her political commitments, while not afraid to admit what she and we do not yet know. And perhaps most importantly, she allows oppressed people's freedom dreams to live on." -- Andrea Bolivar * American Ethnologist *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In the ardently thought-provoking and often stirring Power Interrupted, Falcón, a sociologist and assistant professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, sets out to reveal how feminist activists of color ‘advocate for a more comprehensive approach to understanding racism at the UN level’ by offering a candid and, at times, caustic critique of Western feminism as practiced within the UN." * National Political Science Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction | The Challenging Road to the Durban Conference 1. Race, Gender, and Geopolitics in the Establishment of the UN 2. UN Citizenship and Constellations of Human Rights 3. A Genealogy of World Conferences against Racism and the Progression of Intersectionality 4. Making the Intersectional Connections 5. Intersectionality as the New Universalism Appendix | Copy of the E-mail and Non-Paper Sent by the US Government to US NGOs during the Preparatory Period of the 2001 WCAR Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe author places Huckleberry Finn in the context of long standing American debate about race and culture. He points out that this quintessentially American novel, assigned to many schools as an important weapon against racism, yet including the word ""nigger"", arouses controversy.

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Book SynopsisA practicing attorney views the sexual harassment of working women as a pervasive social problem and presents a legal argument that it is discrimination based on sex.

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Book SynopsisA fascinating investigation of America’s only alleged case of blood libel and what it reveals about anti-Semitism in the United States and Europe.Trade Review"Two powerful new books show that anti-Semitism acknowledges no time limits and recognises no borders. Edward Berenson’s The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town is a warning against complacency." -- Jim Crace, Books of the Year 2019 - New Statesman"Berenson’s skill in this eye-opening and timely book includes weaving into this local story the larger history of the European blood libel, and how it migrated into the New World — in the 1920s it was rife in Montreal." -- Howard Cooper, Year in Review: Books in 2019 - The Jewish Chronicle"He [Berenson] offers a vivid picture of early twentieth-century America, a time of lynch mobs, urban riots and intolerance towards Jews, Catholics, African Americans and immigrants...The Accusation is part of a fascinating new wave of the social history of modern antisemitism." -- Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work that exposes the twisted origins of affirmative action.Trade Review"A fresh, highly readable, first-rate history." -- Sanford D Horowitt - San Francisco Chronicle"A penetrating new analysis." -- Nick Kotz - New York Times Book Review"Ira Katznelson has made a major contribution to the affirmative action debate…[His] book makes as strong a case as I have ever seen for vigorous action to bring about equal opportunities for African-Americans." -- George M. Frederickson - New York Review of Books"A gem of a book." -- David Oshinsky - The Nation"Katznelson’s explosive analysis provides us with a new and painful understanding of how politics and race intersect." -- Henry Louis Gates Jr."When Affirmative Action Was White was one of the first books that helped me concretely understand how racism was embedded into federal policy." -- Clint Smith, author of Counting Descent

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Book SynopsisBeyond Martin Luther King’s dream of civil and voting rights lay a revolutionary vision of economic justice.Trade Review"Of the present crop, Michael K Honey's To the Promised Land is the most cogent biography, focusing on King's fight for economic justice." -- Prospect

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Book SynopsisExplores, theoretically and practically, issues of race, the state, social movements, and civil society, and then goes beyond these themes to ask whether Brazilian politics will forever circumvent the severe problems facing the society by co-optation and by tinkering with unjust structures.Trade ReviewBrazil has pursued a more tolerant path in regard to the interaction of races than the United States. However, this more tolerant path did not lead to upward mobility among the black population and access to higher education has been one of the causes of low social mobility in Brazil. Since the last decade, Brazilian public universities introduced several programs for access of blacks to universities. These programs together changed the landscape of Brazilian public universities but also deeply divided the country on the adequacy of these policies. On the one side, intellectuals and social movements activists considered the change a watershed in the country's history while on the other intellectuals and conservative actors considered it a disaster or an undesirable Americanization of race relations in Brazil. In a country divided on many issues, Brazilians could not reach an agreement on the programs, the interpretations on race and the effectiveness of public policies for inclusion in higher education. David Lehmann's book offers the most balanced attempt so far to evaluate all these issues. The book is a history of affirmative action in the form of quotas for black students and also a survey of arguments in favor or against race quotas. In addition to that, the book provides the reader with an excellent account on how the Brazilian state created public policies for the inclusion of blacks in higher education. Professor Lehmann explains not only each one of these programs but also the itinerary of several intellectuals and social movement activists from civil society to the state. The result is an excellent book that I recommend to everyone interested in race relations and social movements in Brazil."" - Leonardo Avritzer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil""Lehmann offers fresh critical perspectives on affirmative action whilst respecting the arguments of others in the strongly polemical debate over racial quotas, coupled with a broader analysis of the Brazilian state, politics, and social movements that makes this book obligatory reading even for those less interested in its primary theme."" - John Gledhill, University of Manchester""The Prism of Race provides an in-depth analysis of how Brazil unexpectedly created racial quotas, arguably the country's most important social policy since the end of the dictatorship, 40 years ago. David Lehmann masterfully combines archival research, interviews and a deep understanding of Brazilian politics to produce a much-needed analysis of this important social experiment in the country with the largest Afro-descendant population in the Western Hemisphere."" - Edward Telles, University of California, Santa Barbara""David Lehmann has produced a profoundly thoughtful, insightful and comprehensive analysis of affirmative action in Brazil, which will lead the field for many years. He analyses it as a political phenomenon, asking how such a policy could emerge in such an elitist society, and as a social phenomenon, critically and sympathetically exploring its diverse effects."" - Peter Wade, University of Manchester

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Book SynopsisReveals the history of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA: the aftermath of the tumultuous 1922 convention. This title demonstrates how important Marcus Garvey and the mass movement he controlled were to Afro-American history.

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Book SynopsisScholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. This title features eight articles that support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights.Table of ContentsIntroduction THOMAS LAQUEUR Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology LONDA SCHIEBINGER Skeletons in the Closet: The First Illustrations of the Female Skeleton in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy CATHERINE GALLAGHER The Body Versus the Social Body in the Works of Thomas Malthus and Henry Mayhew D. A. MILLER Cage aux folles: Sensation and Gender in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White MARY POOVEY "Scenes of an Indelicate Character": The Medical "Treatment" of Victorian Women LAURA ENGELSTEIN Morality and the Wooden Spoon: Russian Doctors View Syphilis, Social Class, and Sexual Behavior, 1890-1905 ALAIN CORBIN Commercial Sexuality in NineteenthCentury France: A System of Images and Regulations CHRISTINE BUCI-GLUCKSMANN Catastrophic Utopia: The Feminine as Allegory of the Modern List of Contributors

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Book SynopsisSpans the great divide in the affairs of the American Garvey movement that resulted from the imprisonment of its leader - Marcus Garvey - in 1925. This work tells the story of Garvey's failed efforts to win the appeal against his conviction for mail fraud, his incarceration, and the massive grass-roots petition movement mobilized in his defense.

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Book SynopsisCharts the magnetic, controversial Pan-African leader's career from his deportation from the United States in November 1927 to his death in England in 1940. The volume begins with Marcus Garvey's triumphant welcome in Jamaica, his tour abroad, and his entry into Jamaican party politics.

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography that examines the gendered nature of large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, it discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals.

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Book SynopsisGiven that matters relevant to race remain confused and divisive in many corridors of American society, it is not surprising that rumors and legends that reflect racial misunderstanding and mistrust frequently circulate. This work focuses on a wide array of tales told in black and white communities across America.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Rumor in the Life of America: Riots and Race 2. How Rumor Works 3. Mercantile Rumor in Black and White 4. The Enemy in Washington 5. The Wages of Sin: Stories of Sex and Immorality 6. On the Road Again: Rumors of Crime and Confrontation 7. Cries and Whispers: Race and False Accusations 8. Coming Clean Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pathbreaking civic history. . . . A historical journey through the beginning, middle, and present of one of Los Angeles’s most prominent neighborhoods. Sánchez counters the fear that shrouds its image and allows us to understand why this neighborhood is the way it is — powerful and pure of heart." * Los Angeles Review of Books *“In the annals of Chicanx history, only a few historians stand heads and shoulders above the rest. One of those is George J. Sánchez whose recent publication . . . leaves off where his award-winning Becoming Mexican American made its mark roughly three decades ago.” * Latino Book Review *"A remarkable book." * Housing Studies *"The author has written this valuable history in clear and concise language. Scholars as well as civic activists and government officials concerned with social and racial justice and with urban planning will find the book useful and enlightening. It would also work well in graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses concerned with those areas. The interested layperson will find it straightforward and comprehensible​." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Coherent, sweeping, dazzling." * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Illustrations Preface Chapter One • Introduction: A Multiracial Map for America Chapter Two • Making Los Angeles Chapter Three • From Global Movements to Urban Apartheid Chapter Four • Disposable People, Expendable Neighborhoods Chapter Five • Witnesses to Internment Chapter Six • The Exodus from the Eastside Chapter Seven • Edward R. Roybal and the Politics of Multiracialism Chapter Eight • Black and Brown Power in the Barrio Chapter Nine • Creating Sanctuary Chapter Ten • Remembering Boyle Heights Time Line Mayor and City Council Lists Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBrings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation. This book explores far-reaching concerns: slavery and land ownership; labor and social movements; torture and war; and genetics and the body.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Daniel Martinez HoSang and Oneka LaBennett Part I. Racial Formation Theory Revisited 1. Gendering Racial Formation Priya Kandaswamy 2. On the Specificities of Racial Formation: Gender and Sexuality in the Historiographies of Race Roderick A. Ferguson 3. The Transitivity of Race and the Challenge of the Imagination James Kyung-Jin Lee 4. Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy Andrea Smith Part II. Racial Projects and Histories of Racialization 5. The Importance of Being Asian: Growers, the United Farm Workers, and the Rise of Colorblindness Matthew Garcia 6. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America Michelle A. McKinley 7. Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations in the United States Tomas Almaguer 8. Kill the Messengers: Can We Achieve Racial Justice without Mentioning Race? Gary Delgado 9. The New Racial Preferences: Rethinking Racial Projects Devon W. Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris Part III. War and the Racial State 10. "We didn't kill 'em, we didn't cut their head off": Abu Ghraib Revisited Sherene H. Razack 11. The "War on Terror" as Racial Crisis: Homeland Security, Obama, and Racial (Trans)Formations Nicholas De Genova 12. Racial Formation in an Age of Permanent War Nikhil Singh Conclusion. Racial Formation Rules: Continuity, Instability, and Change Michael Omi and Howard Winant Bibliography List of Contributors Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisExplores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the US - at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers - and presents richly detailed evidence from interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help.Trade Review"Levine uses the concept of trust and the associated literature as her analytical tool." Social Service ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Welfare Reform and the Enduring Structural Roots of Distrust 2. "The Way They Treat You Is Inhumane": Caseworkers and the Welfare Office 3. "I Couldn't Put Up with It No More": Perceived Mistreatment and Distrust at Work 4. "I Don't Trust People to Watch My Kids": Mothers' Distrust in Child Care Providers 5. "You Can't Put Your Trust in Men": Gender Distrust and Marriage 6. "I Trust My Mother and No One Else": Trust and Distrust in Social Networks Conclusion Appendix: Research Methods Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis provocative story of contemporary high school argues that a shallow culture of kindness can do more lasting harm than good. Based on two years of research, Nice Is Not Enough shares striking dispatches from one high school's regime of kindness to underline how the culture operates as a Band-Aid on persistent inequalities. Through incisive storytelling and thoughtful engagement with students, this brilliant study by C.J. Pascoe exposes uncomfortable truths about American politics and our reliance on individual solutions instead of profound systemic change. Nice Is Not Enough brings readers into American High, a middle- and working-class high school characterized by acceptance, connection, and kindnessa place where, a prominent sign states, there is no room for hate. Here, inequality is narrowly understood as a problem of individual merit, meanness, effort, or emotion rather than a structural issue requiring deeper intervention. Surface-level sensitivity allows American High Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface 1 No Room for Hate 2 The Politics of Protection 3 Love and Justice at American High 4 When Powder Puff Becomes Power Tough 5 The Philanthropic Class 6 The Politics of Care Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPublic schools across the nation have turned to the criminal justice system as a gold standard of discipline. This book shows how schools and prisons became so intertwined. It tells what this mean for students, communities, and a democratic society?Trade Review"The Prison School is a disturbing and important book." New York Journal of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Public Schools in a Punitive Era 2. The "At-Risk Youth Industry" 3. Undereducated and Overcriminalized in New Orleans 4. The Prison School Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Black students organized hundreds of protests that sparked a period of crackdown, negotiation, and reform that profoundly transformed college life. At stake was the very mission of higher education. Black students demanded that public universities serve their communities; that private universities rethink the mission of elite education; and that black colleges embrace self-determination and resist the threat of integration. Most crucially, black students demanded a role in the definition of scholarly knowledge. Martha Biondi masterfully combines impressive research with a wealth of interviews from participants to tell the story of how students turned the slogan black power into a social movement. Vividly demonstrating the critical linkage between the student movement and changes in university culture, Biondi illustrates how victories in establishing Black Studies ultimately produced important intellectual innovations that have had a lasting impact on academic research and university curricula over the past 40 years. This book makes a major contribution to the current debate on Ethnic Studies, access to higher education, and opportunity for all.Trade Review“Thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and a fascinating piece of history . . . an exceptional piece of scholarship, and a book greatly worth reading.” * Washington Spectator *“Biondi’s work offers a fresh perspective on the student protest era, acknowledging the major and overlooked contributions of Black students.” * Booklist *“Biondi’s book is a very powerful chronicle of the struggle and strategizing that moved seemingly immovable institutions toward change.” * Souls *"Enriches our understanding of the vital, if often undervalued and understudied, role of black students in linking campus radicalism to broader struggles for racial and economic justice and in calling public attention to issues of diversity in higher education. . . . The Black Revolution on Campus is a valuable addition to our understanding of the modern black freedom movement, student activism, and the institutionalization of black studies as an agent of change in higher education." * Academe *"The most comprehensive account of black studies founding generations. . . . [A] nuanced telling of the creation of black studies programs." * Journal of American History *"Deep and interesting. . . . Provides a sweeping view of the birth of Black studies. . . . Biondi succeeds in creating a first-rate book that should be considered necessary reading for those interested in student activism and in stiutional change, current debates on ethnic studies, and black intellectual history." * American Historical Review *"The Black Revolution on Campus does contribute to our understanding of 1960s black student activism and the rise of Black Studies, and deserves close examination." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Black Revolution on Campus 1. "Moving toward Blackness": The Rise of Black Power on Campus 2. "A Revolution Is Beginning": The Strike at San Francisco State 3. "A Turbulent Era of Transition": Black Students and a New Chicago 4. "Brooklyn College Belongs to Us": The Transformation of Higher Education in New York City 5. Toward a Black University: Radicalism, Repression, and Reform at Historically Black Colleges 6. The Counterrevolution on Campus: Why Was Black Studies So Controversial? 7. The Black Revolution Off-Campus 8. What Happened to Black Studies? Conclusion: Reflections on the Movement and Its Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Acknowledgments Photo Credits Index

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the social history of skin color from prehistory to the present, showing how our body's most visible feature influences our social interactions in profound and complex ways. This book explains why skin color has become a biological trait with great social meaning - a product of evolution perceived differently by different cultures.Trade Review"Accessible to general readers... The book fascinates! Highly recommended." -- D. C. Cook, Indiana University Choice "Clear [and] thorough, but not exhaustive or boring." American Journal of AnthropologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Biology 1. Skin's Natural Palette 2. Original Skin 3. Out of the Tropics 4. Skin Color in the Modern World 5. Shades of Sex 6. Skin Color and Health Part Two. Society 7. The Discriminating Primate 8. Encounters with Difference 9. Skin Color in the Age of Exploration 10. Skin Color and the Establishment of Races 11. Institutional Slavery and the Politics of Pigmentation 12. Skin Colors and Their Variable Meanings 13. Aspiring to Lightness 14. Desiring Darkness 15. Living in Color Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDo human capital differences explain black-white inequality, or are other factors more important? Are we seeing patterns consistent with assimilation among Hispanics and Asians? This book examines patterns and trends in inequality over the years for different racial groups, focusing on education, income, poverty, wealth, and health outcomes.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Conversations about Race 2. Race and Ethnicity and Causes of Inequality 3. Black-White Inequality 4. Hispanics and Asians 5. American Indians 6. The Multiracial Population 7. International Comparisons and Policy Debates 8. Conclusion: American Color Lines Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisInStick Together and Come Back Home, Patrick Lopez-Aguado examines how what happens inside a prison affects what happens outside of it. Following the experiences of seventy youth and adults as they navigate juvenile justice and penal facilities before finally going back home, he outlines how institutional authorities structure a carceral social order that racially and geographically divides criminalized populations into gang-associated affiliations.These affiliations come to shape one's exposure to both violence and criminal labeling, and as they spill over the institutional walls they establish how these unfold in high-incarceration neighborhoods as well, revealing the insidious set of consequences that mass incarceration holds for poor communities of color.Trade Review“An in-depth, detailed example of the ways in which the criminal justice system replicates the racist inclinations of the larger society.” * CHOICE *"Stick Together and Come Back Home is a compassionate look at criminalized youth and adults. . . . This book is likely to be of interest to students and scholars of juvenile justice, incarceration, race, and gangs. It should also be of interest to policymakers and practitioners . . . who may be individually well-intentioned but embedded in larger and destructive systems." * Social Forces *"Stick Together and Come Back Home is a valuable contribution to the field for its examination of the interplay between state and street violence on both cultural and structural levels. ... In shifting the focus from gang conflict itself to a deconstruction of how institutions systematically organize youth around gang conflict, Lopez-Aguado illuminates how law enforcement simultaneously structures and deploys intergroup violence as evidence of the need for criminal justice targeting." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Carceral Social Order PART I. INSIDE THE FACILITY 1. Constructing and Institutionalizing the Carceral Social Order 2. Carceral Affiliation and Identity Construction 3. Negotiating and Resisting the Carceral Social Order PART II. COMING BACK HOME 4. “The Home Team” at the Intersection of Prison and Neighborhood 5. Carceral Violence Inside and On the Outs 6. The Carceral Social Order and the Structuring of Neighborhood Criminalization Conclusion: “How You Just Gonna Make Up Your Mind About Where We’re Gonna Be, When Our Minds Should Be Going Higher?” Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLooks at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantage are at the root of prison conflict and violence, reflecting the women's pathways to prison.Trade Review"Theoretically and conceptually sophisticated... the authors provide a sound rationale for their proposed solutions, and they are likely to be applauded by many critical criminologists exposed to them." * Critical Criminology *"A timely and sobering assessment of what mass imprisonment has meant for women behind bars in our country. One could hardly have asked for a better team to compile the assessment." * Theory in Action *"Owen, Wells and Pollock have produced a perceptive and thought-provoking study, an invitation to think creatively about the connections between gender, criminal justice and harm.... Overall, this is an extensive, thorough and important contribution to the field, one which will reverberate personally, politically and professionally." * British Journal of Criminology *"Conceptualizing the incarceration of women as a human rights issue is timely and important, and it is a powerful feminist stance for social justice for this gendered population that is in need of advocacy, treatment, care, and concern. We recommend In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment as a powerful tool for education and empowerment by those who would choose to step forward to offer care for these women behind bars." * Sex Roles *"In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality in Women’s Imprisonment is an expertly written, and captivating book that examines imprisoned women’s experiences with violence and their ability to navigate prison conflict." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Intersectional Inequality and Women's Imprisonment 2. Pathways and Intersecting Inequality 3. Prison Community, Prison Conditions, and Gendered Harm 4. Searching for Safety through Prison Capital 5. Inequalities and Contextual Conflict 6. Intersections of Inequality with Correctional Staff 7. Gendered Human Rights and the Search for Safety Appendix 1: Methodology Appendix 2: Tables of Findings Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. This title provides an analysis of controversies sparked by efforts to separate boys and girls at school.Trade Review"This book greatly contributes to conversations about single-sex schooling by illuminating how racism and sexism have undergirded arguments for public single-sex schooling." * American Journal of Sociology *"In The Separation Solution, Juliet Williams revisits the issue of single-sex education with a well-written combination of personal experience and scholarly research . . . the author is deeply involved in her topic, which makes for very good reading." * Sex Roles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Rethinking Gender Equality 2. Single-Sex Education in Historical Perspective 3. “We’ve Got to Try Something”: The Male Academy Initiatives 4. What about the Girls? 5. Single-Sex Education and the Popular Neuroscience of Sex Difference 6. Different but Equal?: Reflections on the Future of Gender Discourse Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSince the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. This title provides an analysis of controversies sparked by efforts to separate boys and girls at school.Trade Review"This book greatly contributes to conversations about single-sex schooling by illuminating how racism and sexism have undergirded arguments for public single-sex schooling." * American Journal of Sociology *"In The Separation Solution, Juliet Williams revisits the issue of single-sex education with a well-written combination of personal experience and scholarly research . . . the author is deeply involved in her topic, which makes for very good reading." * Sex Roles *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Rethinking Gender Equality 2. Single-Sex Education in Historical Perspective 3. “We’ve Got to Try Something”: The Male Academy Initiatives 4. What about the Girls? 5. Single-Sex Education and the Popular Neuroscience of Sex Difference 6. Different but Equal?: Reflections on the Future of Gender Discourse Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisYoung minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. This book delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the American dream narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago.Trade Review"One of the most profound findings of Soyer’s book is how desperately these young people want to make a change in their lives... the connection of the American Dream mythology to institutions of change is a worthy contribution, and Soyer’s critical gaze as a result of having grown up in Germany is unique." * Theoretical Criminology *"Necessary reading." * Punishment and Society *"The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story. Soyer does an excellent job at showing why so many juveniles recidivate. In doing so, she contributes to a highly needed but surprisingly sparse area of developmental research that focuses on how systems influence juvenile reoffending and reentry." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Throughout her book, Michaela Soyer takes the reader into the communities and into the conversations with young men who were struggling so hard to cope with their incarceration and, even more so, their release. The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Michaela Soyer’s A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America provides an insightful reflection on the paradoxical roles of rehabilitation institutions and, through youths’ own narratives and stories, vividly portrays the challenges faced by young minority men when trying to avoid recidivism and reincarceration." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process 2. Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems: Juvenile Justice in Boston and Chicago 3. Too Little Too Late: Juvenile Justice as a Social Service Provider 4. Imagining Desistance 5. Weak Ties—Strong Emotions: Caring for Juvenile Off enders in Boston and Chicago 6. The Uncertainty of Freedom: Teenagers’ Desire for Confinement and Supervision 7. “I know how to control myself ”: Autonomy and Discipline in the Desistance Process

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Book SynopsisYoung minority men are often portrayed in popular media as victims of poverty and discrimination. This book delves deeper, investigating the social and cultural implications of the American dream narrative for young minority men in the juvenile justice systems in Boston and Chicago.Trade Review"One of the most profound findings of Soyer’s book is how desperately these young people want to make a change in their lives... the connection of the American Dream mythology to institutions of change is a worthy contribution, and Soyer’s critical gaze as a result of having grown up in Germany is unique." * Theoretical Criminology *"Necessary reading." * Punishment and Society *"The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story. Soyer does an excellent job at showing why so many juveniles recidivate. In doing so, she contributes to a highly needed but surprisingly sparse area of developmental research that focuses on how systems influence juvenile reoffending and reentry." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Throughout her book, Michaela Soyer takes the reader into the communities and into the conversations with young men who were struggling so hard to cope with their incarceration and, even more so, their release. The intricately detailed descriptions of the teenagers and their raw narratives are effective at telling a somber story." * Journal of Youth and Adolescence *"Michaela Soyer’s A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America provides an insightful reflection on the paradoxical roles of rehabilitation institutions and, through youths’ own narratives and stories, vividly portrays the challenges faced by young minority men when trying to avoid recidivism and reincarceration." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Role of Agency in the Desistance Process 2. Two Cities, Two Systems, Similar Problems: Juvenile Justice in Boston and Chicago 3. Too Little Too Late: Juvenile Justice as a Social Service Provider 4. Imagining Desistance 5. Weak Ties—Strong Emotions: Caring for Juvenile Off enders in Boston and Chicago 6. The Uncertainty of Freedom: Teenagers’ Desire for Confinement and Supervision 7. “I know how to control myself ”: Autonomy and Discipline in the Desistance Process

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Book SynopsisDelves into the multifaceted identities of second-generation Nigerian adults in the United States and Britain. The author argues that they conceive of an alternative notion of 'black' identity that differs radically from African American and Black Carribean notions of 'black' in the United States and Britain.Trade Review"In this unparalleled global and comparative analysis of the racial and ethnic identities of Black African immigrants, Imoagene aptly demonstrates that second-generation Nigerians “choose ethnicity, while negotiating race”." * Canadian Journal of African Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 * Setting the Context: Immigration, Assimilation versus Racialization, and the African and Nigerian Diasporas in the United States and Britain 2 * "You Are Not Like Me!": The Impact of Intraracial Distinctions and Interethnic Relations on Identity Formation 3 * "It's Un-Nigerian Not to Go to College": Education as an Ethnic Boundary 4 * Forging a Diasporic Nigerian Ethnicity in the United States and Britain 5 * On the Horns of Racialization: Middle Class, Ethnic, and Black 6 * Feeling American in America, Not Feeling British in Britain Conclusion Appendix A: Notes on Method Appendix B: Ethnic Identification Information Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wherever this historiography [of education] moves next, scholars will do well to engage with the work of García." * History of Education *"Delves into political tensions within Oxnard, California, and illustrates the board of education’s decisions enacting segregation and thereby shaping the education of Mexicans and blacks . . . The work uncovers hidden histories of Mexican American and black struggles to end segregation, and it results in a very rich study." * American Historical Review *"Provides a meticulous, nuanced, and brilliant study of the complex layers behind the historical connections of educational and residential segregation." * Latino Studies *"Amid the racial reckoning and protests that have swept this country, Strategies of Segregation is a timely and invaluable contribution to California history, Chicano/a studies, and ethnic studies." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 • The White Architects of Mexican American Education 12 2 • Pernicious Deeds: Restrictive Covenants and Schools 39 3 • “Obsessed” with Segregating Mexican Students 55 4 • Ramona School and the Undereducation of Children in La Colonia 79 5 • A Common Cause Emerges for Mexican American and Black Organizers 100 6 • Challenging “a Systematic Scheme of Racial Segregation”: Soria v. Oxnard School Board of Trustees 129 Epilogue 162 Appendix: List of Interviews Conducted and Consulted 167 Notes 169 Bibliography 247

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