Social discrimination and social justice Books
University of British Columbia Press Driven Apart
Book SynopsisThe author demonstrates how calls for family-friendly employment policies have met with inappropriate action on the part of successive governments. The text explains why federal governments have been able to implement employment equity policies, but failed to develop a national child care system.Trade Review[A] meticulously researched and engagingly written book ... Those interested in Canadian politics and administration should find this book as illuminating as those interested in employment policy and in policy issues differentially affecting women. -- C. Shrewsbury * Choice *Table of ContentsTablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. The Double-Edged Nature of Women's Employment Inequality2. Citizenship, Motherhood, and Employment in the Wartime and Welfare States3. The Royal Commission on the Status of Women4. A Just Society? The Trudeau Government’s Response to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women5. Redefining the Issues: Systemic Discrimination and National Child Care Policies in Trudeau’s Final Term6. The Royal Commission on Equality in Employment7. Breaking the Links: The Mulroney Government’s Response to the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment8. Tiny Timid Steps: Employment Equity and Child Care in Mulroney’s Second Term9. Creating Opportunity? The Chrétien Government’s Approach to Employment Equity and Child Care10. Linked Together, Yet Driven ApartAppendicesA. Research InterviewsB. Turning Points in Canadian Policy Development on Women's Employment Equality and Child CareNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Oriental Question
Book SynopsisPatricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration.Trade ReviewThis complex and meticulous study will reward an attentive reader. It is an admirable contribution to the historiography of British Columbia and Canada. -- Hilary K. Blair * The International History Review *A finely textured account that convincingly show that while anti-Asian racism was never a monolith, it became consolidated in the image of British Columbia as a “White Man’s province” during this era ... the significance of this work is that, like the earlier volume, it catalogues English-language anti-Asian discourse in British Columbia. As such it is an invaluable reference for students of racism and of British Columbia’s history. -- Timothy J. Stanley, University of Ottawa * Labour/Le Travail, Issue 58, Fall 2005 *The Oriental Question is a solid empirical work, using government records, contemporary newspapers, memoirs, and secondary literature. It would be a highly usefu monograph for an undergraduate audience, since it brings together a broad range of information in a readable and congently argued style. -- Bonnie Huskins and Michael Boudreau * Canadian Literature, Issue 186, Autumn 2005 *Roy's careful attention to political contest and compromise gives us a rich portrait of how British Columbia consolidated around white supremacy ... These books are important empirical studies that will ultimately allow us to understand how migration and regional identities are framed in local and global terms. -- Henry Yu, University of British Columbia * Pacific Historical Review, vol. 75, no. 2, 2006 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 “The least said, the better”: The War Years, 1914-182 “We Could Never Be Welded Together”: The Inassimilability Question, 1914-303 “Putting the Pacific Ocean Between Them”: Halting Immigration, 1919-294 “Shoving the Oriental Around”: Checking Economic Competition, 1919-305 “A Problem of Our Own Peoples”: An Interlude of Apparent Toleration, 1930-386. Inflaming the Coast: The “Menace” from Japan, 1919-417 “Poisoned by Politics”: The Danger Within, 1935-41ConclusionNotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Race and the City
Book SynopsisPresents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Racing against Time and Place2 Systemic Racism in Canada3 Toronto: Political Participation and Chinese Canadian Community Groups in the Multicultural City4 Systemic Racism in the United States5 Los Angeles: Political Mobilization and the Place of Chinese/Asian American Community Groups in the Multicultural City6 Conclusion: Racing into the Future Appendix: InterviewQuestionnaireNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Race and the City
Book SynopsisPresents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.Trade Review"A fascinating contribution to a dialogue on alternative forms of political participation by Chinese community groups in two multicultural North American cities. Race and the City should be read by students and scholars of urban politics, race relations, political science, and ethnic studies, as well as by those community leaders mobilizing for political change. - Kim Geron, author of Latino Political Power In her exploration of the processes of marginalization and mobilization of the Chinese communities in two multiracial cities, Shanti Fernando charts new ground, critically challenging the way we think about political inclusion. - Myer Siemiatycki, Director, Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Ryerson University"Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Racing against Time and Place2 Systemic Racism in Canada3 Toronto: Political Participation and Chinese Canadian Community Groups in the Multicultural City4 Systemic Racism in the United States5 Los Angeles: Political Mobilization and the Place of Chinese/Asian American Community Groups in the Multicultural City6 Conclusion: Racing into the Future Appendix: InterviewQuestionnaireNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Reshaping the University
Book SynopsisProvides a comparative indigenous and postcolonial critique of the modern university. This work argues that the future of the university depends on its openness to indigenous epistemes, which have thus far been excluded by various mechanisms of epistemic ignorance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1 The Gift2 From Cultural Conflicts to Epistemic Ignorance3 The Question of Speaking and the Impossibility of the Gift4 Knowing the “Other” and “Learning to Learn”5 Hospitality and the Logic of the Gift in the AcademyConclusionAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Triumph of Citizenship
Book SynopsisThis final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.Trade ReviewPatricia E. Roy’s two previous books on Anglo-Canadian treatment of the Japanese and Chinese in British Columbia, […] have established her reputation as a leading authority on the subject. The present study extends her inquiry into the tumultuous years of the Pacific War and up to 1967. […] no one has marshalled as much evidence from the political arena and the media to capture the cacophony of the expressed views and to discern the evolving direction as Roy has in this book. Her research in public archives and newspaper collections yields a most comprehensive assemblage of the voices of government leaders and politicians, and also of local reactions not only across the country but also community by community across British Columbia. -- Wing Chung Ng, University of Texas at San Antonio * International History Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 A Civil Necessity: The Decision to Evacuate2 Adverse Sentiments beyond the Coast3 “Repatriation” to Japan and “Non-Repatriation” to British Columbia4 The Effects of the War on the Chinese5 Toward First-Class Citizenship for Japanese Canadians, 1945-46 Beyond Enfranchisement: Seeking Full Justice for Japanese Canadians7 Ending Chinese Exclusion: Immigration Policy, 1950-67ConclusionEpilogueNotesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Judging Homosexuals
Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Barry AdamPrefaceIntroduction1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City HallConclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?NotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Judging Homosexuals
Book SynopsisThis history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.Trade ReviewJudging Homosexuals has a clear thesis and is logically organized. The translator has done an excellent job in making specialized academic discussion understandable in a second language. The book is highly readable and should prove to be of value to not only academics in a number of disciplines such as history, criminology and gender studies, but also undergraduates. -- Greg Marquis, University of New Brunswick * Law and Politics Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Barry AdamPrefaceIntroduction1 Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century: From Pederasty to Sodomy2 The Grande Ordonnance of 1670 to the British Conquest: The Sodomist and the Stake3 The British Conquest to the Late Nineteenth Century: From the Sodomist to the Invert, or From the Priest to the Physician4 The Late Nineteenth Century to the Sexual Revolution: From Invert to Homosexual5 The 1970s to the Present: From Prison to City HallConclusion: From One Sexual Perversion to Another?NotesReferencesIndex
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Contesting White Supremacy
Book SynopsisBy drawing on Chinese sources and perspectives, this book offers an anti-racist history of the 1922-23 Chinese students’ strike in Victoria and Asian exclusion and racism in British Columbia.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Questioning the Existence of the World1 The 1922-23 Students’ StrikePart 1: Racism2 Anti-Chinese Racism and the Colonial Project of British Columbia3 Racializing ‘the Chinese,’ Racializing ‘the Canadian’4 Schooling and the Organization of Racist State Formation5 The Chinese Archipelago in Canada and the Consequences of Racialized ExclusionPart 2: Anti-Racism6 Resisting Racialization and the Invention of Chinese Canadians7 Making Inclusions and Chinese Nationalist State Formation in Canada8 Mitigating Racism through Chinese Nationalist Schooling9 Anti-Essentialist Anti-Racisms and the Resistances of Odd PlacesConclusion: Anti-Racism, History, and the Significance of Chinese CanadiansAppendixNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Mission Invisible
Book SynopsisBy unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the 9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslim communities but also reveals the discursive processes that rendered this racism invisible.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Mission Visible?RationaleWhy 9/11 and Canada?Why Racism?Why Muslims?Why The Gazette?Overview1 Mission RecognitionThe EventThe MediumThe MomentThe MessageThe MethodThe Procedure2 Mission AmbitionImpact of the MediaJournalists’ Agendas3 Mission DecisionThe Rhetoric of RacismThe Discourse of RacismThe Discourse of Anti-Racism4 Mission OppressionThe Discourses of GriefThe Discourses of Justification for WarThe Discourses of Readying for WarThe Discourses of Orientalism5 Mission PerceptionShock and DisbeliefDenialBlamelessnessAngerPersonal SafetyRevengeRacial ProfilingFear and Moral PanicAcceptanceImpact on Quebecers6 Mission OppositionDescriptive Analysis of Muslims’ VoicesDiscursive Themes of Muslims’ VoicesThe Discourse of the “Good” Muslim7 Mission PositionWritings on Leaders’ VoicesWritings on White Victims’ VoicesWritings on Muslims’ Voices8 Mission EnvisionRepresentations of Leaders’ VoicesRepresentations of White Victims’ VoicesRepresentations of Muslims’ Voices9 Mission CompletionThe Journalistic Process in ContextNewsgathering PracticesThe Effects of the MessagesThe Anti-Terrorism ActRacial Profiling10 Mission ConditionThe Gazette: Success or Failure?White ReadershipMuslim ReadershipJournalistic LeadershipConclusion: Mission Invisible!Why Invisible?Correcting VisionHindsight 20/20Notes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press M233tis Race Recognition and the Struggle for
Book SynopsisA provocative meditation on how “Métis” has come to signify an ever-expanding racial category rather than an indigenous people with a shared sense of history and culture.Trade Review“Métis” is, without a doubt, essential reading for everyone who studies the Métis, Indigeneity, and/or race and racialization as it provides a powerful critique of Métis racialization and an example of the impact of racialization on Indigenous nations. -- Monique Giroux * Acadiensis *Andersen's book is thorough and deep, insightful and provocative. Some will find it unsettling. But, for anyone interested in questions of Métis identity, or more generally Indigenous rights in Canada, it is an essential read. -- Dwight Newman * Review of Constitutional Studies *Andersen does a superb job of engaging with the scholarship of the field, allowing the reader to gain a clear understanding of its historical trajectory and where Andersen’s work stands in comparison ... Métis is an important contribution and I expect that it will spur lively discussions, productive critiques, and shift the scholarship in the field. -- Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe) * NAIS (Native American and Indigenous Studies) Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2015 *Table of ContentsForeword / Paul ChartrandIntroduction1 Mixed: The History and Evolution of an Administrative Concept2 Métis-as-Mixed: The Supreme Court of Canada and the Census3 The Métis Nation: A People, a Shared History4 Métis Nation and Peoplehood: A Critical Reading of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Census5 A Case of (Mis)recognition: The NunatuKavut Community CouncilConclusionNotes; Works Cited; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Not Fit to Stay
Book SynopsisIn the early 1900s, panic over the arrival of South Asian immigrants swept up and down the west coast of North America. While racism and fear of labour competition were at the heart of this furor, public leaders including physicians, union leaders, civil servants, journalists, and politicians latched on to unsubstantiated public health concerns to justify the exclusion of South Asians from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. Not Fit to Stay examines how and why South Asians were excluded from immigration through legislation that took effect in Canada and the United States in the early twentieth century. This book is an important study of how white North Americans saw first-wave South Asian immigrants as separate from, and inferior to, other groups in the evolving racial hierarchy on the west coast of North America.Trade ReviewNot Fit to Stay acquaints modern readers with the “hookworm strategy” of immigration law. The facts are raw. Historian Dr. Isabel Wallace is a skillful writer. The effect is startling. If bigotry is rooted in fear and economic despair, Wallace’s research proves even the mildest society is capable of devising something akin to the Nuremberg Laws … Not Fit To Stay is an extraordinary story, meticulously documented. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “Leprosy and Plague Riot in Their Blood”: The Germination of a Thesis, 19062 Riots, Plague, and the Advent of Executive Exclusion3 “The Public Health Must Prevail”: Enforcing Exclusion4 Amoebic and Social Parasites, 1910–135 South Asians, Public Health, and Eugenic Theory6 Franchise DeniedConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography
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University of British Columbia Press Not Fit to Stay
Book SynopsisNot Fit to Stay reveals how officials used panic about public health concerns as a basis for excluding early twentieth-century South Asian immigrants from entering Canada and the United States.Trade ReviewNot Fit to Stay acquaints modern readers with the “hookworm strategy” of immigration law. The facts are raw. Historian Dr. Isabel Wallace is a skillful writer. The effect is startling. If bigotry is rooted in fear and economic despair, Wallace’s research proves even the mildest society is capable of devising something akin to the Nuremberg Laws … Not Fit To Stay is an extraordinary story, meticulously documented. -- Holly Doan * Blacklock's Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “Leprosy and Plague Riot in Their Blood”: The Germination of a Thesis, 19062 Riots, Plague, and the Advent of Executive Exclusion3 “The Public Health Must Prevail”: Enforcing Exclusion4 Amoebic and Social Parasites, 1910–135 South Asians, Public Health, and Eugenic Theory6 Franchise DeniedConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography
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University of British Columbia Press Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of
Book SynopsisA unique contribution to the literature on minority rights, Intercultural Deliberation and the Politics of Minority Rights examines the role of cultural difference in minority rights claims, building a case for inclusive political deliberation in liberal democracies.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: The Politics of Paradox: A Perennial Problem1 Cultural Difference and the Minority Rights Paradox2 Liberal and Non-Liberal WorldviewsPart 2: Intercultural Deliberation: An Innovative Approach3 Deliberating Difference4 Public Reason5 Political Identity6 Intercultural Deliberation and the Minority Rights ParadoxConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
£52.70
University of British Columbia Press Invested Indifference
Book SynopsisInvested Indifference exposes the tenacity of violence against Indigenous people, arguing that some lives are made to matter or not depending on their relation to the settler-colonial nation state.Trade ReviewGranzow has produced a must-read book on Canada’s murdered and disappeared indigenous women… This book is highly recommended, as it will surely lead to excellent discussions and insights into issues of continued colonization. -- L.L. Lovern, Valdosta State University * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 A History of the Present: Methodology2 “It in no way makes you safer”: Contemporary Policing and Remaking the City 3 “All they could do to help”: Imaging, Diagnosing, and Transforming Indian Tuberculosis and the City4 “All traces of his footsteps are fast being obliterated”: Fictioning and Controlling Land and Life5 “Just bury them and be done with it”: Managing Affect and Producing the PastConclusionNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press White Space
Book SynopsisWhite Space offers a compelling analysis of how whiteness sustains settler privilege and maintains social inequity in the BC interior.Trade Review“With its focus on regional specificity, White Space makes a distinctive contribution to the critical literature on white privilege and spatial imaginaries of race in Canada.” -- Jennifer Henderson, Carleton UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Historical Erasures and Re-inscriptions of White Fantasies1 Emerging from the Whiteout: Colonization, Assimilation, Historical Erasure, and Okanagan-Syilx Resistance and Transforming Praxis in the Okanagan Valley / Bill Cohen and Natalie A. Chambers2 Niggertoe Mountain: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies / Daniel Keyes3 Nkwala: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies with the Indigenous / Daniel Keyes4 The Rhetoric of Absence: Susan Allison’s Racial Melancholia / Janet MacArthur5 Camp Road / Audrey KobayashiPart 2: Revealing and Challenging Contemporary White Fantasies6 Mapping White Consumer Culture: Kelowna’s Tourist Maps 1983–1999 / Jon Corbett and Donna M. Senese7 Fantasies of Encore Whiteness in the Central Okanagan Valley / Luis L.M. Aguiar8 White Supremacy, Surveillance, and Urban Aboriginal Women in the Kelowna, BC, Housing Market / Sheila Lewis and Lawrence D. Berg9 "The Jamaicans are here and working": Race and Community Responses / Carl E. James10 Okanagan in Print: Exalting Typographical Heimlich Fantasies of Entrepreneurial Whiteness / Daniel Keyes11 Emplacing and Displacing Whiteness in Kelowna: Aporetic Urbanization and the Limits of Modern Politics / Delacey Tedesco12 The Imaginary of Redneck Okanagan Whiteness: A Sketch / Stephen SvensonContributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press White Space Race Privilege and Cultural
Book SynopsisWhite Space offers a compelling analysis of how whiteness sustains settler privilege and maintains social inequity in the BC interior.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Historical Erasures and Re-inscriptions of White Fantasies1 Emerging from the Whiteout: Colonization, Assimilation, Historical Erasure, and Okanagan-Syilx Resistance and Transforming Praxis in the Okanagan Valley / Bill Cohen and Natalie A. Chambers2 Niggertoe Mountain: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies / Daniel Keyes3 Nkwala: Colouring Hinterland Fantasies with the Indigenous / Daniel Keyes4 The Rhetoric of Absence: Susan Allison’s Racial Melancholia / Janet MacArthur5 Camp Road / Audrey KobayashiPart 2: Revealing and Challenging Contemporary White Fantasies6 Mapping White Consumer Culture: Kelowna’s Tourist Maps 1983–1999 / Jon Corbett and Donna M. Senese7 Fantasies of Encore Whiteness in the Central Okanagan Valley / Luis L.M. Aguiar8 White Supremacy, Surveillance, and Urban Aboriginal Women in the Kelowna, BC, Housing Market / Sheila Lewis and Lawrence D. Berg9 "The Jamaicans are here and working": Race and Community Responses / Carl E. James10 Okanagan in Print: Exalting Typographical Heimlich Fantasies of Entrepreneurial Whiteness / Daniel Keyes11 Emplacing and Displacing Whiteness in Kelowna: Aporetic Urbanization and the Limits of Modern Politics / Delacey Tedesco12 The Imaginary of Redneck Okanagan Whiteness: A Sketch / Stephen SvensonContributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press King Alphas Song in a Strange Land The Roots and
Book SynopsisThis insider look at the forces that came together to make Canada’s reggae scene reaffirms the power of music to combat racism and build bridges between communities and cultures.Trade Review...maybe the most comprehensive focus on reggae and Jamaican culture in Canada's most populous city. -- Howard Campbell * Jamaica Observer *King Alpha's Song in a Strange Land is a vital contribution to scholarship on reggae and Canadian music and culture... Wilson disrupts many notions asasociated with reggae, leaving readers with a deeper appreciation for the music in Canada and all over the world. -- Ty Hall, Carleton University * CAML Review *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: King Alpha’s Song1 Hybridity and Jamaican Music2 Music of the Black Atlantic3 Jamaica to Toronto 4 Place and Meaning in Toronto’s Reggae Text5 The Bridge Builders6 Blackness and Whiteness7 In Search of the Canadian Sound8 A Strange LandNotes; Bibliography; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press King Alphas Song in a Strange Land The Roots and
Book SynopsisThis insider look at the forces that came together to make Canada’s reggae scene reaffirms the power of music to combat racism and build bridges between communities and cultures.Trade Review...maybe the most comprehensive focus on reggae and Jamaican culture in Canada's most populous city. -- Howard Campbell * Jamaica Observer *King Alpha's Song in a Strange Land is a vital contribution to scholarship on reggae and Canadian music and culture... Wilson disrupts many notions asasociated with reggae, leaving readers with a deeper appreciation for the music in Canada and all over the world. -- Ty Hall, Carleton University * CAML Review *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: King Alpha’s Song1 Hybridity and Jamaican Music2 Music of the Black Atlantic3 Jamaica to Toronto 4 Place and Meaning in Toronto’s Reggae Text5 The Bridge Builders6 Blackness and Whiteness7 In Search of the Canadian Sound8 A Strange LandNotes; Bibliography; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Queen of the Maple Leaf
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University of British Columbia Press Queen of the Maple Leaf
Book SynopsisQueen of the Maple Leaf reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentieth-century Canada.Trade Review[Queen of the Maple Leaf] is a seminal contribution to better understanding how histories of women’s bodies make for legitimate historiography of settler colonialism, truth regimes and power dynamics within Canada. -- Isabelle Leblanc * Canadian Journal of History *[Queen of the Maple Leaf ] will be of interest to all who study nation making in Canada as a process involving intersecting categories of subject positions. -- Kate Korycki, Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies, Western Univerity * University of Toronto Quarterly *Gentile’s compelling argument and sharp analysis of a diverse set of sources provide a rich examination of oft-trivialized beauty pageants. While Gentile hardly celebrates these events, she does allow room to consider women’s (uneven) agency. -- Laila Haidarali * Journal of the History of Sexuality *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Beauty Queens and (White) Settler Nationalism2 Miss Canada and Gendering Whiteness3 Labour of Beauty4 Contesting Indigenous, Immigrant, and Black Bodies5 Miss Canada, Commercialization, and Settler AnxietyConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Reckoning with Racism
Book SynopsisReckoning with Racism is a riveting account of Canada's most momentous race case, which drew in the country's first Black female judge and spotlighted racist police practices.Trade ReviewThis is a landmark book about a landmark case in Canadian history. -- B. F. R. Edwards, Queen's University * CHOICE Connect *"As Backhouse notes in the introduction, decades before George Floyd, this case brought the discussion of race in our legal system into focus, challenging the white privileged and racial silence that generally characterize Western justice." -- Shauna Wilton * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Trial2 The People3 A Black History of Nova Scotia4 Race and Policing in Nova Scotia5 The Initial Fallout6 The Appeals Begin in Nova Scotia’s Supreme Court7 Nova Scotia Court of Appeal8 Gender Matters9 Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada10 The Supreme Court of Canada’s “Gang of Five”11 The Concurring Opinion in Defence of Judge Sparks12 EpilogueConclusionChronologyNotes; Index
£55.80
University of British Columbia Press Reckoning with Racism
Book SynopsisReckoning with Racism is a riveting account of Canada's most momentous race case, which drew in the country's first Black female judge and spotlighted racist police practices.Trade ReviewThis is a landmark book about a landmark case in Canadian history. -- B. F. R. Edwards, Queen's University * CHOICE Connect *"As Backhouse notes in the introduction, decades before George Floyd, this case brought the discussion of race in our legal system into focus, challenging the white privileged and racial silence that generally characterize Western justice." -- Shauna Wilton * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Trial2 The People3 A Black History of Nova Scotia4 Race and Policing in Nova Scotia5 The Initial Fallout6 The Appeals Begin in Nova Scotia’s Supreme Court7 Nova Scotia Court of Appeal8 Gender Matters9 Appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada10 The Supreme Court of Canada’s “Gang of Five”11 The Concurring Opinion in Defence of Judge Sparks12 EpilogueConclusionChronologyNotes; Index
£22.79
University of British Columbia Press Fighting Feelings
Book SynopsisFighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.Trade Review"This enlightening and affirming text investigates the memories women of color have of racialized violence and how differing narratives and emotions about white supremacy should be seen and encouraged instead of dismissed. On page 6, Charania literally says it’s ‘a book about race for the rest of us.’ It will provide deep relief and brilliant insights for many." -- Ms. Magazine
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Fighting Feelings
Book SynopsisFighting Feelings investigates the lived experiences of women of colour to reveal the complex ways that white supremacy is felt, endured, and navigated.
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University of British Columbia Press Glass Ceilings and Ivory Towers
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The New Leaders
Book SynopsisBy the year 2000, white males will represent less than one third of the American workforce. In this universally praised work, Ann Morrison, co-author of Breaking The Glass Ceiling, becomes the first to offer companies practical strategies for moving tomorrow''s new leaders -- white women and people of color -- into the executive ranks. Using personal interviews with nearly 200 managers in organizations noted for their model diversity programs, Morrison presents a very definite, step-by-step action plan that will prove invaluable to leaders looking to guide their businesses into the next century.Trade Review?Morrison's insights into pinpointing barriers to diversity anddeveloping solutions are invaluable for entrepreneurs with enoughvision to see their businesses in?and guide them into?the nextcentury.? "Picks up where her first book, Breaking the Glass Ceiling, leftoff." "A practical guide to creating more powerful institutions byincorporating the talents and abilities of all sectors of ourdiverse culture." (Ann W. Richards, governor of Texas) "If you have just been charged by your institution withresponsibility for designing a program to increasediversity--ethnic and gender--at all levels of management, this isa how-to book for you."Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diversity: The Turbulent Evolution of a SensitiveIssue. Part One: Leadership Diversity as Strategy. 1. Achieving Benefits from Leadership Diversity. 2. Challenging the Barriers to Opportunity. 3. Setting Goals for Sustained Leadership Development. Part Two: Leadership Diversity as Procedure. 4. Establishing Accountability for Diversity. 5. Creating Meaningful Development Opportunities. 6. Using Recruitment to Build Diversity. Part Three: Leadership Diversity as Action. 7. Step One: Discover (and Rediscover) Diversity Problems in YourOrganization. 8. Step Two: Strengthen Top-Management Commitment. 9. Step Three: Choose Solutions That Fit a Balanced Strategy. 10. Step Four: Demand Results and Revisit the Goals. 11. Step Five: Use Building Blocks to Maintain Momentum. Conclusion: Meeting the Challenges of Leadership Diversity.
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Cornell University Press Whitewashing Britain Race and Citizenship in the
Book SynopsisKathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned...Trade ReviewA well-researched study. * Foreign Affairs *This is not just a well-documented study of an underdeveloped area of research. Sensitive to the complexities of how terms such as citizen and nationality are constructed, it brings to light not only much new information on this important issue, but new ways of looking at the creation of British identity in this late-imperial context.... A most thoroughly researched and convincingly argued book, which should be widely read by all those who seek to understand postwar Britain in all its dimensions. * Labor History *Paul uses parliamentary debates, official documents, speeches, and memoirs to demonstrate successfully how British emigration and immigration were controlled and manipulated by the post-WW II governments to preserve the 'Britishness' of the dominions and the 'whiteness' of Britain.... This cogently argued, well-researched book provides valuable insights into British politics of race. It ranks with other pathbreaking works.... Highly recommended. * Choice *This work offers an exhaustively researched account of the development of British immigration policy in the post-war period. In a break with the conventional assessment of British policy, Paul... finds that government ministers and civil servants were the driving force behind opposition to immigrants from Commonwealth nations in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean, rather than 'racist' popular opinion.... This robust work of scholarship should find readers in British and Commonwealth studies as well as migration and citizenship studies. * Library Journal *Paul's book contributes to the debate about what constitutes membership in society and identifies key differences in the British immigration policy. * International Migration Review *This book casts an interesting new light on British citizenship and immigration policy in the postwar era. Based on substantial archival research (that is presented in a very readable fashion), this is an often compelling historical account of the maneuverings of the British political elite in defining nationality policy, particularly in the early years of immigration.... A well-researched, well-written, and interesting new approach to the history of British immigration and citizenship policy-making since 1945. * British Politics Group Newsletter *
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Cornell University Press White World Order Black Power Politics
Book SynopsisIn White World Order, Black Power Politics, Robert Vitalis recovers the arguments, texts, and institution building of an extraordinary group of professors at Howard University, including Alain Locke, Ralph Bunche, Rayford Logan, Eric Williams, and Merze Tate, who was the first black female professor of political science in the country.Trade ReviewDefying his discipline's preference for theory over history, Vitalis has demonstrated how detailed, archive-based historical accounts can lift the veil on the racism running through international relations as field and practice. -- Carol Polsgrove * American Historical Review *The book stands out for how it critiques how institutions reproduce, often in an unconscious manner, the foundational assumptions of an academic discipline.... Vitalis has also contributed to the vibrant and expanding scholarly study of radical Black transnational intellectual history by engaging with a largely-overlooked dimension of the work of important figures in the history of Black radical thought such as Locke, Williams and Bunche, showing how those thinkers worked within and against formal academic structures to criticize the racist and imperialist dynamics of international relations scholarship. * National Polticial Science Review *Robert Vitalis wants his discipline to understand not only how central the category of race and the structures of racism were to its founding institutions and paradigms but also to see the erasure of that history not as progress but as repression, a willful forgetting that has if anything made it less equipped to comprehend (much less to address) the shocking racial inequities that still mark both the American and the global order. If international relations scholars want to understand the racial politics that made their field what it is today, there is no better place to begin than with this righteously angry book. -- Susan Pederson * London Review of Books *There is much to commend in Vitalis' book which is filled with fascinating vignettes and unexpected connections. He writes with clarity and passion, especially in the book's opening and close, to ensure that whilst ample room is given for the reader to make their own way through the material, it is never an aimless wander. -- Jake Hodder * Journal of Historical Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Mongrel American Social SciencePart I. The Noble Science of Imperial Relations and Its Laws of Race Development1. Empire by Association2. Race ChildrenPart II. Worlds of Color3. Storm Centers of Political Theory and Practice4. Imperialism and Internationalism in the 1920sPart III. The North versus the Black Atlantic5. Making the World Safe for "Minorities"6. The Philanthropy of MastersPart IV. "The Dark World Goes Free"7. The First but Not Last Crisis of a Cold War Profession8. Hands of Ethiopia9. The Fate of the Howard SchoolConclusion: The High Plane of Dignity and DisciplineNotes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press New Deal Ruins
Book SynopsisPublic housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, aimed to improve the social and economic conditions of urban residents, the results have been quite different. As Edward G. Goetz shows, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and there has been a loss of more than 250,000 permanently affordable residential units. Goetz offers a critical analysis of the nationwide effort to dismantle public housing by focusing on the impaTrade Review"New Deal Ruinsprovides an extensivley researched accounting of how the public housing program has arrived at this point, and a necessary primer for understanding the program's current circumstances and rather dim prospects... And as with his previous books, Goetz's latest work belongs on the bookshelves of any scholar of U.S. low-income housing policy." — James Hanlon, J Hous and the Built EnvironTable of ContentsIntroduction: Public Housing and Urban Planning Orthodoxy 1. The Quiet Successes and Loud Failures of Public Housing 2. Dismantling Public Housing 3. Demolition in Chicago, New Orleans, and Atlanta 4. "Negro Removal" Revisited 5. The Fate of Displaced Persons and Families 6. Effects and Prospects in Revitalized Communities Conclusion: The Future of Public Housing Appendix Notes References Index
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Cornell University Press Disowning Slavery Gradual Emancipation and Race
Book SynopsisFollowing the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope...Trade ReviewDisowning Slavery brims with ideas: it is an exciting and argumentative book. * Journal of American History *Fifteen years in the making, this is an unusually mature and finished first book. It is also a major contribution to the study of the construction of American national identity. * Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science *In this ambitious and often compelling study, Joanne Pope Melish seeks to explore in detail, and then to reconfigure, our sense of the meaning of 'gradual' emancipation in New England.... Her relentless vision of New England Americans 'disowning' the enslaved history, and displacing it on the South, illuminates in a new and important way the history of race and regionalism that we must rethink again. * Journal of Southern History *Joanne Pope Melish argues that the need to portray a virtuous North battling the slave-holding South during the Civil War resulted in the creation of a 'mythology of a free New England' in the antebellum period and that the notion persists to this day.... She makes the case that slavery was far more important to New England's economy than is commonly recognized by historians. * New York Times *Melish's book makes an important contribution to the literature on slavery and abolition and fills a significant gap in our understanding of how slavery in New England affected both that region and the nation.... This is a terrific book, one that all scholars of slavery, abolition, and the early republic absolutely must read. * H-Net Reviews *Melish's determination to put the history of local slavery at the core of New England racial attitudes has produced a highly nuanced picture of the gradual emancipation process that goes well beyond anything of its kind.... A tremendous achievement that will have an impact across a wide historiographical spectrum. * Connecticut History *Melish's searching analysis compels a reconsideration of many aspects of the conventional narrative of antislavery within both white and African-American communities.... This is an important book, one that commands a reconsideration of many of our assumptions about the meaning of emancipation, the development of racial ideologies, and also about antislavery itself. * Reviews in American History *Melish's work is original, important... a fascinating work that opens new interpretations of emancipation and race in New England. * William and Mary Quarterly *Painstakingly researched, filled with new information and astute analysis, this book is a major contribution to our knowledge of New England slavery and a valuable addition to the understanding of race relations in the United States. * American Historical Review *The work is an invaluable contribution to the emerging picture of slavery and emancipation in the American North. Pope Melish has made it difficult for New Englanders ever to see their history quite the same way again. * Law and History Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. New England Slavery"Short of the Truth": Slavery in the Lives of WhitesAnother Truth: Enslavement in the Lives of People of Color2. The Antislavery ImpulseTo "Clear Our Spirits": Whites' Expectations of Freedom from SlaveryThe "Privilage of Freemen": Blacks' Expectations of Freedom from Slavery3. "Slaves of the Community": Gradual Emancipation in Practice4. A "Negro Spirit": Em-bodying Difference5. "To Abolish the Black Man": Enacting the Antislavery Promise6 "A Thing Unknown": The Free White Republic as New England Writ Large7. "We Are the Alphabet": Free People of Color and the Discourse of "Race"Index
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Cornell University Press Whitewashing Britain
Book SynopsisKathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned...Trade ReviewA well-researched study. * Foreign Affairs *This is not just a well-documented study of an underdeveloped area of research. Sensitive to the complexities of how terms such as citizen and nationality are constructed, it brings to light not only much new information on this important issue, but new ways of looking at the creation of British identity in this late-imperial context.... A most thoroughly researched and convincingly argued book, which should be widely read by all those who seek to understand postwar Britain in all its dimensions. * Labor History *Paul uses parliamentary debates, official documents, speeches, and memoirs to demonstrate successfully how British emigration and immigration were controlled and manipulated by the post-WW II governments to preserve the 'Britishness' of the dominions and the 'whiteness' of Britain.... This cogently argued, well-researched book provides valuable insights into British politics of race. It ranks with other pathbreaking works.... Highly recommended. * Choice *This work offers an exhaustively researched account of the development of British immigration policy in the post-war period. In a break with the conventional assessment of British policy, Paul... finds that government ministers and civil servants were the driving force behind opposition to immigrants from Commonwealth nations in Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean, rather than 'racist' popular opinion.... This robust work of scholarship should find readers in British and Commonwealth studies as well as migration and citizenship studies. * Library Journal *Paul's book contributes to the debate about what constitutes membership in society and identifies key differences in the British immigration policy. * International Migration Review *This book casts an interesting new light on British citizenship and immigration policy in the postwar era. Based on substantial archival research (that is presented in a very readable fashion), this is an often compelling historical account of the maneuverings of the British political elite in defining nationality policy, particularly in the early years of immigration.... A well-researched, well-written, and interesting new approach to the history of British immigration and citizenship policy-making since 1945. * British Politics Group Newsletter *
£21.24
Cornell University Press Norms in International Relations
Book SynopsisApplying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns. Norms can play a crucial role in the formation of global policy.After forty years of protest against apartheid, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela''s inauguration as South Africa''s first democratically elected president. Klotz considers why racial discrimination in South Africa became a global concern and whyin a remarkable change of practicenations and international organizations adopted sanctions against the Pretoria regime. By explaining how the world community actively came to condemn apartheid, Norms in International Relations contributes to broader debates on the role of norms in global politics.Klotz rehearses a fascinating history, combining the power politics of economic sanctions and the normative politics of racial equaTrade ReviewKlotz offers a persuasive argument that in the South African case the moral principle of racial equality influenced policy on a different, often conflicting, level from economic and strategic factors. * Foreign Affairs *The puzzle Audie Klotz seeks to explain is why a large number of international organizations and states adopted sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa despite strategic and economic interests that had fostered strong ties with it in the past. Klotz argues that the emergence of a global norm of racial equality is at the heart of the explanation.... The book fills in important gaps in both regime theory and constructivism.... Klotz demonstrates in a nicely argued section that neoliberal regime analysis shortchanges the role norms play in international politics.... She elaborates three transmission mechanisms that link norms and policy choice: community and identity; reputation and communication; and discourse and institutions.... This is... a foundation upon which other scholars should build. * World Politics *
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Cornell University Press Suspect Relations
Book SynopsisOver the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from colonial North Carolina to reveal how early notions of racial difference were shaped by...Trade ReviewBeginning with a sketch of Anglican (English) ideas of race and sex in the seventeenth century and the ways that North Carolina women were perceived as disrupting society, Fischer subsequently discusses cross-cultural sex, regulation of sexuality (especially of servants), defamation suits, and violence (including rape). -- Joan R. Gundersen * Journal of Southern History *With this book, Kirsten Fischer joins scholars who have demonstrated the interconnection of race and gender in the evolving social hierarchy of the early South.... Because she skillfully weaves together questions of class, race, gender, sexuality, and the social order, her book should be read by scholars of all related fields. -- C. Dallett Hemphill, Ursinus College * The Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Changing Conceptions of Race1. Disorderly Women and the Struggle for Authority2. Cross-Cultural Sex in Native North Carolina3. The Sexual Regulation of Servant Women and Subcultures of Resistance4. White Reputations "Blacken'd & Made Loose"5. Sexualized Violence and the Embodiment of RaceEpilogueNotesIndex
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Cornell University Press Difference and Pathology
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn ten chapters filled with literary examples and historical evidence of astonishing diversity, a major historian of psychoanalysis develops enough theses for several books. Acknowledging stereotypes as necessary and ubiquitous, Gilman traces some important destructive ones from Aristotle to the present: women, Jews, and blacks seen as repositories of sex, disease, and madness. Embracing history, philosophy, psychology, public health, and the arts, this landmark work clears a path through terrain strewn with false historical pointers, and puts Freud's influence in a welcome new light. * Library Journal *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Disappearing Witness
Book SynopsisIn documenting this transformation in American photography, Disappearing Witness forcefully rethinks the history of photography itself.Trade ReviewVery few histories of photography read like novels... Disappearing Witness is... a pleasurable experience in form and content... Garner not only knows her subject but understands it: she moves with extreme ease in it and takes us for an interesting guided tour, one that does not pretend to be blandly objective but clearly defines her learned vision. -- Bruno Chalifour Afterimage This handsome and well-illustrated book surveys the history of American photography since the 1920s, arguing that the 1960s marked the beginning of a profound shift in photographic practice... Garner writes in a clear, straightforward manner, laying out her two-part argument in a series of topical chapters. For the pre-1960s period, the age of 'spontaneous witness,' she focuses on fine art photography, documentary photography, and the use of photography in the great picture magazines. For the later period, she organizes her chapters around the issues of artistic style in order to emphasize her argument about photographers' increasing disengagement with the world and their growing interest in self-expression... It is the bold historian who even attempts such an argument, and Disappearing Witness provides believers and doubters alike with a clear structure against which to test their own ideas about the shape of photography over the past ninety years. -- Martha A. Sandweiss History: Reviews of New Books This well-written, readable book would be best used as a course resource in 20th-century photography. Choice 2004Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction PART I Photography of Witness ONE Being There: Spontaneous Witness TWO Speed and the Machine THREE Fine-Art Photography, Redefined FOUR Documentary FIVE The Magazines SIX Spirit in PhotographyPART II Disappearing Witness SEVEN New Paradigms: Uelsmann, Michals, and Samaras EIGHT Documentary-Style and Street Photography NINE Photography about Photography: The Academy and the Art World TEN New Landscapes, New Portraits: The Seventies and Eighties ELEVEN The Subject Self TWELVE Arrangement, Invention, and Appropriation THIRTEEN Digitized PhotographyConclusionNotes Works Cited Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Unchosen Me Race Gender and Identity among
Book SynopsisThe Unchosen Me is a rich examination of the underrepresented student experience, offering a new approach to studying identity, race, and gender in higher education.Trade ReviewGroundbreaking research on a controversial topic and written by a courageous author... It's a unique addition to the existing literature on identity development. -- Sybil L. Holloway NACADA 2010 This book has a valuable, unique approach to understanding issues facing black women in university environments... Winkle-Wagner has brought sister circles out in the open in a way that could spur dialogue between black and white women that could lead to cross-racial sisterhood that has been lacking on college campuses. I hope to see black and white women walking around campus with copies of The Unchosen Me. -- Will Tyson American Journal of Sociology 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The "Problem" of Race and Gender2. The Unchosen Me: The Intersection of Opportunity, Privilege, and Choice3. Research across the Color Line: Empowerment, Mutual Learning, and Difficult Decisions4. Walking in Enemy Territory: Being Black on Campus5. Academic Performances: Between the Spotlight and Invisibility6. "Too White" or "Too Ghetto"? The Racial Tug-of-war for Black Women7. Learning to Be a "Good Woman": Interpreting Womanhood through Race8. The Unchosen Me and the Interactions That Create Race and GenderAppendixesA. Participants in the StudyB. Data Analysis and ValidationC. Examples of Data AnalysisD. Sister Circle ProtocolsNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press From Black Power to Black Studies
Book SynopsisShedding light on the black power movement, Black Studies programs, and American higher education, this historical analysis reveals how radical politics are assimilated into the university system.Trade ReviewRojas' book makes a significant contribution to the small but growing literature on social movements within organizations; those who study knowledge politics will also find it a useful read. -- Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur Mobilization From Black Power to Black Studies is a valuable sociological study of the way in which militant student protest led to the institutionalization of African American Studies in higher education. Moreover, it provides insightful analyses of the pitfalls, both institutionally and politically, that have conspired to hamper Black Studies' growth and legitimacy as an academic discipline... Rojas has provided a thoughtful and substantive contribution to the emerging new literature on the origins of Black Studies. -- Peniel E. Joseph Left History Rojas has made a qualified yet significant scholarly contribution relevant to multiple disciplines in myriad ways. -- Stephanie Y. Evans Higher Education Review A fascinating account of the development of black studies departments in American colleges and universities. -- Anna-Maria Marshall Administrative Science Quarterly There is more than one way to analyze historical phenomena, and the sociologist Fabio Rojas has chosen to approach the issue in sociological terms... historians of the civil rights movement and of American higher education will profit considerably from reading this work. -- Richard H. King Journal of American History Carefully conceived and designed, and contributory... adds to the social science literature on ways in which marginalized groups mobilise to alter established organizations and institutions. -- Thomas O'Brien History of Education Rojas's organizational perspective, informed by a strong foundation in sociological theory, provides valuable insights. As a study of the major issues surrounding the birth and development of Black studies, the book works very well, covering most of the important controversies, often in careful historical detail. -- Mario Luis Small Journal of Black Studies Roja's treatment of the subtleties and ambiguities of the coevolution process that black studies and American academia underwent together is well-balanced and complex. Kritikon LitterarumTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Terminology1. The Movement That Became an Institution2. The Road to Black Studies3. Revolution at San Francisco State College4. The Life and Death of Black Studies Programs5. The Ford Foundation's Mission in Black Studies6. Constructing the Discipline7. Black Studies as the Loyal OppositionAppendixesA. Note on Research MethodB. Archives ConsultedC. Newspapers ConsultedD. People Interviewed by the AuthorE. Sample Interview QuestionsF. Interviews Collected by OthersG. Quantitative Data UsedH. The Survey of Issues in Africana StudiesNotesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Queer Judgments
Book SynopsisMacDougall sifts through hundreds of reported and unreported cases of the past four decades in order to uncover the subjective assumptions and biases operating in Canadian courts.
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University of Toronto Press ColourCoded
Book SynopsisA richly textured narrative that seeks to capture the role played by the law in the definition of race and shoring up of racial repression in Canada.
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University of Toronto Press Equity Diversity Canadian Labour
Book SynopsisEquity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves.Table of ContentsPreface Union AbbreviationsIntroduction GERALD HUNTLooking Back: A Brief History of Everything JULIE WHITEBargaining against the Past: Fair Pay, Union Practice, and the Gender Pay Gap ANNE FORRESTUnion Response to Pay Equity: A Cautionary Tale JUDY HAIVENLabour's Collective Bargaining Record on Women's and Family Issues KAREN BENTHAMWe Are Family: Labour Responds to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Workers GERALD HUNT AND JONATHAN EATONBroadening the Labour Movement's Disability Agenda DAVID RAYSIDE AND FRASER VALENTINERacism and the Labour Movement TANIA DAS GUPTAEquity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour: A Comparative Perspective DAVID RAYSIDEAfterword LINDA BRISKINReferences Contributors
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University of Nebraska Press Street Shadows
Book SynopsisWalker's narrative dramatically captures his pursuit and embodiment of the American dream.Trade Review“[A] spectacular debut. . . . A funny, poignant, thoughtful and exceptionally well-written memoir. . . . While delivering a thorough, personal take on race relations, opportunity, and privilege, Walker hooks readers with his prose and honesty, without plying for sympathy or playing to readers’ preconceptions.”—Publishers Weekly"I am a racist, Walker declares halfway through this thoughtful memoir, and much of the book is spent building up to and unpacking that statement. Born poor on the South Side of Chicago, Walker became an honor student, which made him vulnerable; and in defense, he succumbed to the urban undertow. A violent opening puts it all into play: drugs, sex, guns, gangs, and chance. But this is a feint; Walker pulls back from the salacious parts of his past to focus on his university education in Iowa City, his growth as a writer, his beginnings as a teacher, and the fairly banal struggles of being the rare black English professor at an East Coast college. The chapters alternate between his crime-filled youth and his increasingly egalitarian life of sushi dinners and awkward Kwanzaa faculty events, with the latter taking prominence. This will frustrate those looking for a gritty urban drama, but that's the point as Walker realizes his tale of black teenage delinquency seemed too cliched. This unique literary biography, however, is nothing of the sort."--Booklist“[Walker] has written an inspiring book about willfully redirecting his life. But this is also a larger story about racial self-consciousness. . . . As his book makes clear, racism of a sort—latent, systemic or otherwise—is a simple fact of life in America. Destiny is another matter.”—Economist“Walker never fails to be honest where truth is needed and he never fails to be gracious where generosity is possible.”—Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead and HomeTable of ContentsAuthor's NotePrologue: GodsA Place Like ThisSchooledSeducedThe Lake of FireStrange FruitDisobedienceOrientationRealChameleonsSissiesSacraments of ReconciliationBaddest Nigger in TownBobby JenkinsThe Souls of White FolkWorkshoppedBad OutcomesWe Are AmericansFloatedSimplicityThe Second ActScattered InconveniencesMy Sister's RoommateCommunionTrashTechnicalitiesBreak-InThe InterviewBreak-OutBaitGreat ExpectationsCaptain WalkerPoopA Place of RedemptionGang LifeVisible ManNakedGameThe ProfessorDragon SlayersBulletsThe Mechanics of BeingWhen Love SpeaksTwo BoysPrinciples of MathOutlawsEpilogue: ClownsAcknowledgments
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University of Nebraska Press From Jack Johnson to LeBron James
Book SynopsisExamines the intersection of sports, race, and the media in the twentieth century and beyond. Considering how media coverage has evolved over the years, the essays begin with the racially charged reporting of Jack Johnson's reign as heavyweight champion and carry up to the present, covering the media's handling of LeBron James's announcement to leave Cleveland for Miami.Trade Review"Media coverage has expanded greatly since Jack Johnson put on boxing gloves to defend his heavyweight title, and a critical, sharp look at media coverage through the years is a necessary—and welcome—addition to sports literature."—Bob D’Angelo, Tampa Tribune“This is quality scholarship that will be of interest to specialists in history, American studies, African American studies, journalism, English, media studies, sociology, and sports studies, among others.”—Trey Strecker, editor of NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture and assistant professor in the Department of English at Ball State University Table of ContentsList of Tables IntroductionChris Lamb 1. Framing White Hopes: The Press, Social Drama, and the Era of Jack Johnson, 1908–1915Phillip J. Hutchison 2. Jesse Owens, a Black Pearl amidst an Ocean of Fury: A Case Study of Press Coverage of the 1936 Berlin Olympic GamesPamela C. Laucella 3. Multifarious Hero: Joe Louis, American Society, and Race Relations during World Crisis, 1935–1945Dominic J. Capeci Jr. and Martha Wilkerson 4. Outside the Pale: The Exclusion of Blacks from the National Football League, 1934–1946Thomas G. Smith 5. Democracy on the Field: The Black Press Takes On White BaseballChris Lamb and Glen L. Bleske 6. A Nod from Destiny: How Sportswriters for White and African American Newspapers Covered Kenny Washington’s Entry into the National Football LeagueRonald Bishop 7. Jackie Robinson and the American Mind: Journalistic Perceptions of the Reintegration of BaseballWilliam Simons 8. “This Is It!” The Public Relations Campaign Waged by Wendell Smith and Jackie Robinson to Cast Robinson’s First Season as an Unqualified SuccessBrian Carroll 9. Integrating New Year’s Day: The Racial Politics of College Bowl Games in the American SouthCharles H. Martin 10. Main Bout, Inc., Black Economic Power, and Professional Boxing: The Canceled Muhammad Ali–Ernie Terrell FightMichael Ezra 11. A “Race” for Equality: Print Media Coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest by Tommie Smith and John CarlosJason Peterson 12. Sports Illustrated’s African American Athlete Series as Socially Responsible JournalismReed Smith 13. Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat: Sportswriters, African American Athletes, and Coverage of Curt Flood’s Lawsuit against Major League BaseballWilliam Gillis 14. Chasing Babe Ruth: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Hank Aaron’s Pursuit of the Career Home Run RecordMaureen Smith 15. Arthur Ashe: An Analysis of Newspaper Journalists’ Coverage of USA Today’s OutingPamela C. Laucella 16. Michael Jordan’s Family Values: Marketing, Meaning, and Post-Reagan AmericaMary G. McDonald 17. Rush Limbaugh, Donovan McNabb, and “a Little Social Concern”: Reflections on the Problems of Whiteness in Contemporary American SportDouglas Hartmann 18. I’m the King of the World: Barry Bonds and the Race for the RecordLisa Doris Alexander 19. Redemption on the Field: Framing, Narrative, and Race in Media Coverage of Michael VickBryan Carr 20. Weighing In on the Coaching Decision: Discussing Sports and Race OnlineJimmy Sanderson 21. The LeBron James Decision in the Age of ObamaJamal L. Ratchford Source AcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Redskins
Book SynopsisExamines how the ongoing struggle over the Washington Redskins team name raises important questions about how white Americans perceive American Indians, about the cultural power of consumer brands, and about continuing obstacles to inclusion and equality.Trade Review"[A] must-read book."—Chicago Tribune"Those seeking a deeper understanding of the anti-Skins crusade will find a vibrant apostle in C. Richard King. . . . Illuminating."—Dave Shiflett, Wall Street Journal"King shows why this controversy matters well beyond the football field."—Kirkus"An important and must-read book for understanding the Redskins controversy."—Andrew McGregor, Sport in American History"The absolute high-water mark study of the contours surrounding the logics of contemporary mascotting."—Jason Edward Black, American Indian Culture and Research Journal"A vital work that will make a significant impact on our grasp of and debate over this issue."—Kevin Bruyneel, Native American and Indigenous Studies"An insightful resource for sports fans, sociologists, and critical sport researchers."—Munira Abdulwasi, AlterNative"This study is vital not just for academics . . . , but also for the wider public, especially fans of American Football."—Ruth Flaherty, Cultural Sociology"King's study is powerful, well researched, compelling, and honest."—Daniel Casey, Misanthropester Blog"This book is one that should be read by anyone who cares about the use of this name by the team, no matter on what side of the issue the reader currently sits."—Lance Smith, The Guy Who Reviews Sports BooksTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor’s Note on Language1. Introduction2. Origins3. Uses4. Erasure5. Sentiment6. Black/White7. Ownership8. Simulation9. Opinion10. Change11. EndsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Book SynopsisCarlisle Indian Industrial Schooloffers varied perspectives on the school by interweaving the voices of students’ descendants, poets, and activists with cutting-edge research by Native and non-Native scholars. These contributions reveal the continuing impact and vitality of historical and collective memory, as well as the complex and enduring legacies of a school that still affects the lives of many Native Americans.The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than fighting deadly battles. The result was that the last Indian war would be waged against Native children in the classroom.More than 8,500 children from virtually every Native nation in the United States were taken from their homes andTrade Review“By bringing together such a diverse range of voices—academics and non-academics, Native and non-Natives—to speak about the history and legacy of what remains the most well-known Indian boarding school, this book does us all a great service. The contributors share their important stories with exceptional grace, insight, and power.”—Stephen Amerman, professor of history at Southern Connecticut State University and author of Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940–2000Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose Welcome, with Seneca Thanksgiving Prayer “We Are One” by Peter Jemison (Seneca) Part 1. A Sacred and Storied Place 1. The Stones at Carlisle N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) 2. Before Carlisle: The Lower Susquehanna Valley as Contested Native Space Christopher J. Bilodeau Part 2. Student Lives and Losses 3. Photograph: Carlisle Poem—Who Is This Boy? Maurice Kenny (Mohawk) 4. The Names Barbara Landis 5. White Power and the Performance of Assimilation: Lincoln Institute and Carlisle Indian School Louellyn White (Mohawk) 6. The Imperial Gridiron: Dealing with the Legacy of Carlisle Indian School Sports John Bloom 7. Waste Maurice Kenny (Mohawk) Part 3. Carlisle Indian School Cemetery 8. Cementerio indio Eduardo Jordá Translation by Mark C. Aldrich 9. The History and Reclamation of a Sacred Space: The Indian School Cemetery Jacqueline Fear-Segal 10. Death at Carlisle: Naming the Unknowns in the Cemetery Barbara Landis Part 4. Reclamations 11. The Lost Ones: Piecing Together the Story Jacqueline Fear-Segal 12. Necropolitics, Carlisle Indian School, and Ndé Memory Margo Tamez (Ndé/Lipan Apache) 13. Sacred Journey: Restoring My Plains Indian Tipi Carolyn Rittenhouse (Lakota) 14. Carlisle Farmhouse: A Major Site of Memory Carolyn Tolman Part 5. Revisioning the Past 15. Research Note on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Digital Humanities Project Malinda Triller Doran 16. Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Projects for Teaching Paul Brawdy and Anne-Claire Fisher Part 6. Reflections and Responses 17. The Spirit Survives Dovie Thomason (Lakota and Kiowa Apache) 18. Response to Visiting Carlisle: Experiencing Intergenerational Trauma Warren Petoskey (Odawa and Lakota) 19. The Presence of Ghosts Maurice Kenny (Mohawk) 20. A Sacred Space Sharon O’Brien 21. Carlisle: My Hometown Charles Fox 22. The Ndé and Carlisle: Reflections on the Symposium Daniel Castro Romero Jr. (Ndé/Lipan Apache) Epilogue N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) Chronology Selected Bibliography Published Resources for Researching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Contributors Index
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Stanford University Press Prejudice Politics and the American Dream
Book SynopsisIt has been half a century since the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's seminal work on race in America. This book is an attempt to contribute to a fresh understanding of this dilemma by viewing the issues of race as they are now, not as they were a generation or so ago.Trade Review"This extremely important book has a number of strengths: most important, its interdisciplinary nature; its methodologically sophisticated and innovative research; and its raising of new perspectives on race, perspectives that should challenge stale truisms and clichés and stimulate new research. The papers are uniformly strong and provocative, and many should engender a healthy dose of controversy. The book represents an important shift in perspectives, both theoretical and methodological, in the study of race and American politics."—Kathleen McGraw, SUNY at Stony Brook"An eclectic group of contributors consisting of psychometricians, social and personality psychologists, sociologists, demographers, and political scientists have attempted 'to see anew the American dilemma.' Transcending the usual emotional polemics surrounding racial issues in America and viewing racism from the perspective of both blacks and whites, the authors succeed admirably in accomplishing their objectives. . . . An exceptionally fine collection."—Choice"Why is this a path-breaking book? Because it presents the first big new idea about political participation in a decade. It demonstrates how specific, vivid personal experiences can trigger political involvement. It shows how issue commitments can be the product of participation rather than its cause. And it asks why people continue to be involved in politics, not just why they became politically active." —Paul Sniderman, Stanford UniversityTable of Contents1. Prejudice and politics: an introduction Paul M. Sniderman, Philip E. Tetlock and Edward G. Carmines; 2. Intergroup relations and stereotype change: a social-cognitive analysis and some longitudinal findings Myron Rothbart and Oliver P. John; 3. Personal attributes of people described by others as intolerant Harrison G. Gough and Pamela Bradley; 4. Age and cohort differences in American racial attitudes: the generational replacement hypothesis revisited Sue Dowden and John P. Robinson; 5. Ethnic stereotyping: a black-white comparison Lee Sigelman, James W. Shockey and Carol K. Sigelman; 6. Dimension of whites' beliefs about the black-white socioeconomic gap James R. Kluegel and Lawrence Bobo; 7. Middle-class blacks and the ambiguities of success Jennifer L. Hochschild; 8. The inevitability of oppression and the dynamics of social dominance Jim Sidanius and Felicia Pratto; 9. The politics of the American dilemma: issue pluralism Paul M. Sniderman, Philip E. Tetlock, Edward G. Carmines and Randall S. Peterson; 10. The changing American dilemma: liberal values and racial policies Edward G. Carmines and W. Richard Merriman, Jr.; 11. Assessing the presidential candidacies of Jesse Jackson Harold W. Stanley; 12. The decline in college entry among African Americans: findings in search of explanations Robert M. Hauser.
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Stanford University Press Shades of Citizenship
Book SynopsisThis book explores the politics of race, censuses, and citizenship, drawing on the complex history of questions about race in the U.S. and Brazilian censuses. It reconstructs the history of racial categorization in American and Brazilian censuses from each country's first census in the 18th and 19th centuries up through the 2000 census.Trade Review"Censuses have been an underused resource in the study of Latin America. Melissa Nobles's fine monograph reminds us of what we have been missing." -- Journal of Latin American Studies"A fine book and a welcome contribution to the comparative study on racial politics." -- Canadian Journal of Political Science"Nobles has advanced the discussion of race Brazil and the US to higher levels of sophistication and maturity." -- Luso-Brazilian Review"Nobles does an outstanding job of tracing major debates that have influenced the ways in which the census in both Brazil and the United States reflect racial understandings in their respective societies and in specific time periods. . . . Because this book is well written and documented, it would be an ideal book for a graduate seminar in critical race theory and international understandings of race and people of mixed descent. . . . This book is, overall, a welcome addition to studies of racial formation." -- Journal of American Ethnic History"There is much to admire in this book. . . . It is an impressive piece of scholarship and brings a wealth of obscure historical sources to bear on the topic. The author boldly confronts some of the more sensitive issues surrounding race. . . . This is a solid contribution [to modern racial politics] and it will no doubt inspire further analysis of the subject." -- Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsContents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Appendix:
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Stanford University Press The Ethnic Project
Book SynopsisAmericans believe strongly in their ethnicity and use it in self-promoting ways. The Ethnic Project shows how destructive ethnic thinking can be in a society that has not let go of racism.Trade Review"I think that The Ethnic Project is an outstanding work that makes an important contribution to our understanding of the past and present racial history of the United States. The book is very well written (Bashi Treitler's prose is a delight to read) and meticulously researched . . . The Ethnic Project should definitely be part of the conversation as we press forward with the task of understanding race in the United States."—Ashley "Woody" Doane, American Journal of Sociology"Treitler offers a succinct history and diagnosis of racial grouping in the U.S., from the nation's origin to the contemporary moment . . . The text has solid promise as an introductory ethnic studies course reading . . . Highly recommended."—N. B. Barnd, CHOICE"With her ingenious concept of 'ethnic projects,' Vilna Bashi Treitler brings a new optic to the study of race. She shows that, despite their oppression—indeed, because of it—minorities develop collective agency. Not only do they mobilize to overcome barriers of discrimination and to remedy past wrongs, but through their activism and cultural production they also transform how they are perceived and treated by their oppressors. Treitler reveals why some ethnic projects are successful, others less so, and thus her book provides an authoritative answer to those who ask the tired question, 'We made it, why haven't they?'"—Stephen Steinberg, author of Race Relations: A Critique"Vilna Bashi Treitler masterfully weaves race and ethnicity into a single historical narrative that reveals the ugly reality of exploitation and stratification that has always undergirded American society."—Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
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