Social discrimination and social justice Books
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
£19.79
Stanford University Press Race Defaced
Book SynopsisThis book compares different forms of racism and anti-racism in the United States and Britain from the 19th century to today, situating the development of various racial doctrines within the political movements of the modern capitalist world order.Trade Review"Race Defaced is a thoroughly engaging and stimulating attempt to rethink and resituate conservative and radical orthodoxies surrounding the history and development of racism and anti-racism. Using an effective comparative methodology encompassing the U.K. and the U.S. [...], this book highlights the commonalities shared by conservatives and radicals that constrain the potential for true equality being achieved . . . The authors' main contribution lies in providing a conceptual toolkit, framed within 'hope' and 'possibility,' with which to begin a movement toward an emancipatory politics."—Waqas Tufail, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Race Defaced is an exceptional contribution to the debate about race because it does so much more than most writing on the subject. In a field where moral stances usually get in the way of thinking things through more deeply, Kyriakides and Torres have pulled together a pointedly philosophical reflection on the meaning of race."—James Heartfield, Spiked"Race Defaced shakes up the status quo in the field of race—and social theory more broadly—delivering an exciting, forceful challenge to prominent thought. A major contribution."—Alana Lentin, University of Western Sydney"It's refreshing to see an ambitious work that steps back from the immediate cauldron of race and places it in a broader political, historical, and theoretical framework. Kyriakides and Torres offer a compelling challenge to the current orthodoxies in this bold, wide-ranging critical analysis."—Stephen Small, University of California, Berkeley
£91.80
Stanford University Press Income Inequality
Book SynopsisThis volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries.Trade Review"This book is a valuable addition to the existing literature on economic inequality . . . This is an excellent book that is highly recommended to those with an interest in all aspects of income distribution in contemporary societies . . . [Gornick and Jäntti] need to be congratulated for broadening the focus beyond a purely economic perspective on the issues under examination."—Peter Saunders, Review of Income and Wealth"Janet C. Gornick and Markus Jäntti's Income Equality is one fruit of this massive research effort. The book consists of studies of contemporary inequality trends using the [Luxembourg Income Study] data woven into a rich tapestry of understanding of a complex historical episode. The contributors—economists, sociologists, political scientists—analyze the data using powerful methodologies capable of laying bare the underlying structure that human intuition cannot access . . . The combination of high-quality data comparable across countries, international coverage of a period of major change, and insightful analysis based on sophisticated methodologies makes this book a major contribution to our understanding of income. Income Inequality will influence research for years to come."—François Nielsen, American Journal of Sociology"A timely, informative volume for students and researchers concerned with income inequality . . . Recommended."—R. S. Rycroft, CHOICE"This is one of the most important books on inequality published in the past decade. Focusing on what has happened to the middle class since the 1980s, during a period of substantial economic and political restructuring, this volume's remarkable insights and influence will span disciplines."—Jason Beckfield, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. How Has Income Inequality Grown? The Reshaping of the Income Distribution in LIS Countries 2. On the Identification of the Middle Class 3. Has Rising Inequality Reduced Middle-Class Income Growth? 4. Welfare Regimes, Cohorts and the Middle Classes 5. Political Sources of Government Redistribution in High-Income Countries 6. Income Distribution, Inequality Perception and Redistributive Preferences in 7. Women's Work, Inequality, and the Economic Status of Families 8. Women's Employment, Unpaid Work, and Economic Inequality 9. Women's Work, Family Earnings, and Public Policy 10. Wealth: The Distribution of Assets and Debt 11. The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth 12. The Fourth Retirement Pillar in Rich Countries 13. Public Pension Entitlements and the Distribution of Wealth 14. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 15. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 16. Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities in India 17. Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality Conclusion
£84.15
Stanford University Press Racing for Innocence
Book SynopsisInvestigates the roles of popular culture and white professional elite men in constructing and facilitating the backlash against affirmative action policies.Trade Review"In sum, Racing for Innocence is an important addition to the literature on race, gender, and equal opportunity and expands our knowledge as we contemplate the roots of the backlash against affirmative action." -- David Hamilton Golland * Journal of American Ethnic History *"Interviewing the actual players—those who hire or fire employees—Jennifer Pierce takes a novel approach to understanding how the popular narrative of affirmative action became internalized. This thoughtful book demonstrates how a rather neoconservative template of opinions, metaphors, theories, and beliefs was disseminated into the main stream." -- Charles Gallagher * LaSalle University *"This compelling book brings affirmative action back into the spotlight. Pierce delivers insights into the thought processes of opponents of affirmative action—including white women and white men—and also offers insights into how African American attorneys, both women and men, experience white privilege and the stigma of affirmative action as expressed in the language and behavior of whites." -- Patricia Yancey Martin * Florida State University *"A major contribution to our sociological understanding of the backlash against affirmative action. I know of no other book that examines the issue from so many perspectives. Pierce provides a unique look at the cultural cues that led some white male lawyers to resist affirmative action in the workplace. She also shows how the media's exclusion of gender and white women from the discussion obscured the reality that white women were a major beneficiary of affirmative action even while they continued to experience workplace discrimination." -- Susan E. Chase * University of Tulsa *"A signal contribution to the sociological imagination and to critical whiteness studies at the levels of method, content, and even style. Pierce gives human faces and gendered bodies their places in the attack on affirmative action without losing sight of structural forces that have connected colorblindness and conservatism." -- David Roediger * University of Illinois, and author of How Race Survived U.S. History *"Pierce's book is a welcome look at how the concept of 'whiteness' operates among elites. . . Pierce makes a compelling case that the timing of these [1980s and 90s Hollywood] movies was not coincidental, as affirmative action policies were being attacked nationally and, at the same time, there were many stories circulating about white male innocence and injury. . . Recommended." -- J. M. Richards * CHOICE *"It is the continued controversy surrounding affirmative action that makes Jennifer Pierce's Racing for Innocence an important book for scholars in this field . . . The greatest strength of Pierce's work is its ability to elucidate the opinions and beliefs of an elite group in American society . . . Overall, this is a very good book that raises questions that are not going away no matter how much white America wants to believe that racism is dead." -- Margaret S. Hrezo * Law and Politics Book Review *"Jennifer L. Pierce uses a nuanced qualitative lens to offer valuable insights into the workings of whiteness . . . Pierce is a careful analyst who provides astute insights into the workings of whiteness in these elite spaces. These insights and Pierce's clear, lucid writing will be appreciated by both students and specialists alike." -- Amy C. Steinbugler"Considered together, the chapters in Racing for Innocence demonstrate how collective and personal narratives of white male supremacy have buttressed each other—remaking racism and sexism as interpersonal rather than collective and institutional problems (and, conveniently, always someone else's problem) . . . Pierce pulls back the curtain to reveal just how tightly, and in how many ways, elite white men have gripped and consolidated power when faced with pressures to make room for others—and the mental and rhetorical gymnastics they have undertaken to convince themselves and others that they came by their status fairly." -- Katherine Turk
£20.89
Stanford University Press Rhinestones Religion and the Republic Fashioning
Book SynopsisThrough an examination of North African Jewish youth practices in Paris, Rhinestones explains the production of race, alienation, and intolerance within an understudied European minority population.Trade Review"This study of North African Jewish (Sephardi) adolescents enrolled in Jewish day schools in Paris brings a relatively understudied population to the burgeoning literature on the problem of multiculturalism in postcolonial France . . . [T]here is fascinating material here worthy of further unpacking." -- Andrea L. Smith * American Ethnologist *"[L]ittle attention has been paid to Jewish perceptions of the Muslim Arabs [in France]. In her provocative new book, [...], Kimberly Arkin takes on this topic, and in doing so, provides a brilliant analysis of the complicated legacies of colonialism, antisemitism, and nationalism in contemporary France . . . [Her] book masterfully uses a wide variety of theoretical frameworks to make sense of French day school identity politics, and she artfully fleshes out her anthropological study with extensive use of primary source material." -- Nadia Malinovich * Association for Jewish Studies *"Anyone still concerned that the ethnography of Jewish communities remains wedded to nostalgia, provincialism, or salvage should consult Kimberly Arkin's bracing ethnography of the schooling of young people of 'Sephardi' . . . Arkin shows us that [French Jews], and especially their young people, can provide an unexpected and revealing window on the troubled processes of integration and democracy in Europe today." -- Jonathan Aaron Boyarin * American Anthropologist *"Anthropologist Arkin tackles a sensitive subject: racial views among Sephardic Jewish adolescents in Paris . . . Arkin builds upon existing historiographical themes by exploring the formation and cultivation of French Jewish identity, while adding a useful anthropological perspective on the manifestation of these identity choices . . . [T]he book is well written and engaging, and should be accessible to advanced undergraduates. Summing up: Recommended." -- J. Haus * CHOICE *"This bold book takes on the subject of French Jewish adolescent racism—a topic so 'untouchable' that Arkin was expelled from the school in which she was doing fieldwork after having publicly acknowledged the phenomenon. Through this carefully researched and notably historic ethnographic explanation of a complex subject, Arkin uncovers the way racial understandings and categories were constructed, often unwittingly, by state educational policies, school administrators, and parents, most of whom held quite different and even diametrically opposed views on the nature of French Jewish identity." -- Maud Mandel * Brown University *
£56.10
Stanford University Press Citizen Strangers
Book SynopsisSet during the first two decades of Israeli statehood when Palestinians who managed to remain after 1948 lived under a repressive military regime, Citizen Strangers examines how Arabs and Jews navigated the opposing impulses of exclusion and inclusion in a new state forced by new international norms to grant citizenship and suffrage rights to its unwanted native minority.Trade Review"Citizen Strangers is an extremely important, highly scholarly work on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians . . . The book is based on exemplary original research involving extensive use of both Hebrew and Arabic archives and newspapers, as well as interviews . . . This is an essential work for scholars (including serious nonspecialists) and policy-makers concerned with Israel/Palestine or broadly with ethnic conflict and colonialism. Summing Up: Essential." -- G. E. Perry * CHOICE *"This well-researched book thus provides essential context for current events in the occupied Palestinian Territories and is required reading for anyone interested in exploring the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." -- Kabir Altaf * Dawn *"Robinson's well-researched and detailed account of Israel's dramatic formation period and the creation of what she calls 'a liberal settler state' is a welcome academic addition to Israeli and Palestinian historiography." -- Joseph Dana * The National *"Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates that the treatment of Palestinian citizens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself. Carefully tracing the historical dynamics of the institutions that constructed Palestinian residents as both liberal citizens and colonial subjects, Robinson shows how these institutions also shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order, and society." -- Gershon Shafir, University of California * San Diego *"The paradox that cleaves the title of this exceptional book into two goes to the heart of its revelatory findings: a state that is both liberal and settler-colonial is an oxymoron. Robinson's absorbing, meticulously researched account decisively historicizes Israel's contradictory combination of colonial subordination at home with pretensions to democracy abroad." -- Patrick Wolfe * La Trobe University *"Shira Robinson offers a rich analysis of the politics and laws that shaped Palestinian citizenship in Israel, the complexities of liberalism, and issues of control and domination in settler colonial states to illuminate the historical roots of Israeli politics toward Palestinians today." -- Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah * The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel *"In recent years the concept of settler colonialism has become a fashionable if controversial way of understanding the Palestine-Israel conflict. It draws parallels between the Zionist movement and European settlers in North America, Australia and elsewhere who built their own societies and economies while excluding, dispossessing or eliminating the natives. There are some obvious differences. But Jewish immigrants who were fleeing anti-Semitism were also settlers. Robinson uses that framework to study the Palestinian minority left in Israel after 1948 and the paradox of their being second-class citizens living under a military government, but with democratic rights, and in a Jewish state surrounded by Arab enemies. Superbly researched using archival and a wealth of other sources in Arabic and Hebrew." -- 10 Must-Read Histories Of The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Ian Black, Literary Hub"Shira Robinson has authored a remarkable book. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler Stateprovides a detailed panorama of the many ways in which the Israeli state limited the rights of its Palestinian subjects; it reveals the latter's acts of refusal and resistance; and it provides incredible insights on Israeli perceptions of citizenship and sovereignty.[T]he conceptual and temporal paradigm suggested in this book will inspire many scholars working in the field. Indeed, Citizen Strangers is a great academic achievement that reveals much about the past and helps us understand, with tragic clarity, the realities of the present." -- Orit Bashkin * H-Net Reviews *"Robinson describes techniques of exclusion with a concreteness and detail that is useful and compelling. The book is therefore an important addition to the empirical literature on Israeli treatment of Palestinians, and the theoretical frame leads to further debate about how this treatment is best conceptualized." -- Aziza Khazzoom * American Historical Review *"Robinson's framework succeeds in moving 'beyond the conceptual straitjacket' that tends to trap other studies that examine Zionism purely as a purely settler-colonial movement, precluding any attempts to examine Israel as part of the global history of liberalism. We are encouraged not to view these currents as mutually exclusive; Israeli policies of early statehood encompassed elements of both settler colonialism and liberal democracy." -- Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *
£77.35
Stanford University Press Citizen Strangers
Book SynopsisSet during the first two decades of Israeli statehood when Palestinians who managed to remain after 1948 lived under a repressive military regime, Citizen Strangers examines how Arabs and Jews navigated the opposing impulses of exclusion and inclusion in a new state forced by new international norms to grant citizenship and suffrage rights to its unwanted native minority.Trade Review"Citizen Strangers is an extremely important, highly scholarly work on the conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians . . . The book is based on exemplary original research involving extensive use of both Hebrew and Arabic archives and newspapers, as well as interviews . . . This is an essential work for scholars (including serious nonspecialists) and policy-makers concerned with Israel/Palestine or broadly with ethnic conflict and colonialism. Summing Up: Essential." -- G. E. Perry * CHOICE *"This well-researched book thus provides essential context for current events in the occupied Palestinian Territories and is required reading for anyone interested in exploring the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." -- Kabir Altaf * Dawn *"Robinson's well-researched and detailed account of Israel's dramatic formation period and the creation of what she calls 'a liberal settler state' is a welcome academic addition to Israeli and Palestinian historiography." -- Joseph Dana * The National *"Shira Robinson brilliantly demonstrates that the treatment of Palestinian citizens in Israel is a mirror of Israel itself. Carefully tracing the historical dynamics of the institutions that constructed Palestinian residents as both liberal citizens and colonial subjects, Robinson shows how these institutions also shaped Israeli citizenship, legal order, and society." -- Gershon Shafir, University of California * San Diego *"The paradox that cleaves the title of this exceptional book into two goes to the heart of its revelatory findings: a state that is both liberal and settler-colonial is an oxymoron. Robinson's absorbing, meticulously researched account decisively historicizes Israel's contradictory combination of colonial subordination at home with pretensions to democracy abroad." -- Patrick Wolfe * La Trobe University *"Shira Robinson offers a rich analysis of the politics and laws that shaped Palestinian citizenship in Israel, the complexities of liberalism, and issues of control and domination in settler colonial states to illuminate the historical roots of Israeli politics toward Palestinians today." -- Hassan Jabareen, General Director of Adalah * The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel *"In recent years the concept of settler colonialism has become a fashionable if controversial way of understanding the Palestine-Israel conflict. It draws parallels between the Zionist movement and European settlers in North America, Australia and elsewhere who built their own societies and economies while excluding, dispossessing or eliminating the natives. There are some obvious differences. But Jewish immigrants who were fleeing anti-Semitism were also settlers. Robinson uses that framework to study the Palestinian minority left in Israel after 1948 and the paradox of their being second-class citizens living under a military government, but with democratic rights, and in a Jewish state surrounded by Arab enemies. Superbly researched using archival and a wealth of other sources in Arabic and Hebrew." -- 10 Must-Read Histories Of The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Ian Black, Literary Hub"Shira Robinson has authored a remarkable book. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel's Liberal Settler Stateprovides a detailed panorama of the many ways in which the Israeli state limited the rights of its Palestinian subjects; it reveals the latter's acts of refusal and resistance; and it provides incredible insights on Israeli perceptions of citizenship and sovereignty.[T]he conceptual and temporal paradigm suggested in this book will inspire many scholars working in the field. Indeed, Citizen Strangers is a great academic achievement that reveals much about the past and helps us understand, with tragic clarity, the realities of the present." -- Orit Bashkin * H-Net Reviews *"Robinson describes techniques of exclusion with a concreteness and detail that is useful and compelling. The book is therefore an important addition to the empirical literature on Israeli treatment of Palestinians, and the theoretical frame leads to further debate about how this treatment is best conceptualized." -- Aziza Khazzoom * American Historical Review *"Robinson's framework succeeds in moving 'beyond the conceptual straitjacket' that tends to trap other studies that examine Zionism purely as a purely settler-colonial movement, precluding any attempts to examine Israel as part of the global history of liberalism. We are encouraged not to view these currents as mutually exclusive; Israeli policies of early statehood encompassed elements of both settler colonialism and liberal democracy." -- Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud * The Tel Aviv Review of Books *
£19.79
Stanford University Press Income Inequality
Book SynopsisThis volume presents cross-nationally comparative evidence on income inequality trends, women's employment and its effect on inequality, the distribution of wealth, and the interaction of politics with inequality across several mainly high-income countries.Trade Review"This book is a valuable addition to the existing literature on economic inequality . . . This is an excellent book that is highly recommended to those with an interest in all aspects of income distribution in contemporary societies . . . [Gornick and Jäntti] need to be congratulated for broadening the focus beyond a purely economic perspective on the issues under examination."—Peter Saunders, Review of Income and Wealth"Janet C. Gornick and Markus Jäntti's Income Equality is one fruit of this massive research effort. The book consists of studies of contemporary inequality trends using the [Luxembourg Income Study] data woven into a rich tapestry of understanding of a complex historical episode. The contributors—economists, sociologists, political scientists—analyze the data using powerful methodologies capable of laying bare the underlying structure that human intuition cannot access . . . The combination of high-quality data comparable across countries, international coverage of a period of major change, and insightful analysis based on sophisticated methodologies makes this book a major contribution to our understanding of income. Income Inequality will influence research for years to come."—François Nielsen, American Journal of Sociology"A timely, informative volume for students and researchers concerned with income inequality . . . Recommended."—R. S. Rycroft, CHOICE"This is one of the most important books on inequality published in the past decade. Focusing on what has happened to the middle class since the 1980s, during a period of substantial economic and political restructuring, this volume's remarkable insights and influence will span disciplines."—Jason Beckfield, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. How Has Income Inequality Grown? The Reshaping of the Income Distribution in LIS Countries 2. On the Identification of the Middle Class 3. Has Rising Inequality Reduced Middle-Class Income Growth? 4. Welfare Regimes, Cohorts and the Middle Classes 5. Political Sources of Government Redistribution in High-Income Countries 6. Income Distribution, Inequality Perception and Redistributive Preferences in 7. Women's Work, Inequality, and the Economic Status of Families 8. Women's Employment, Unpaid Work, and Economic Inequality 9. Women's Work, Family Earnings, and Public Policy 10. Wealth: The Distribution of Assets and Debt 11. The Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth 12. The Fourth Retirement Pillar in Rich Countries 13. Public Pension Entitlements and the Distribution of Wealth 14. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 15. Income and Wealth Inequality in Japan 16. Horizontal and Vertical Inequalities in India 17. Post-Apartheid Changes in South African Inequality Conclusion
£21.59
Stanford University Press South Central Is Home Race and the Power of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"South Central Is Home offers an illuminating history of one of America's most iconic communities in transition—from the War on Poverty to the War on Drugs. In prose as vivid as her subjects, Abigail Rosas beautifully captures the struggles, tensions, and aspirations of people typically portrayed as perpetrators or victims of unremitting violence—reminding readers that South Central Los Angeles is, indeed, home." -- Robin D. G. Kelley * author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original *"Finding seeds of hope for a better racial future in the stories she uncovers, Abigail Rosas offers profound insights into how ordinary folks did extraordinary things, the remarkable possibilities and limits of multi-racialism, and sweeping transformations in urban life since World War II. South Central Is Home is a compelling, timely, and imaginative book." -- Luis Alvarez * University of California, San Diego *"Interdisciplinary in scope and accessible to scholars of race, power, and urbanization, as well as practitioners working with communities at the intersection of these processes, this volume probes how distinct black and brown communities emerged, grew, and shaped each other in LA since the 1960s. Rosas...effectively engages with archival material and several detailed oral histories....Highly recommended." -- J. deGuzman * CHOICE *"Books like Rosas's help to fill an enormous void in both the urban and historical literatures where historical communities of color are often described too simplistically....South Central Is Home is a very well written urban history that should be a starting point and guide for all future work on the history of South Central and should be mandatory reading for undergraduate and graduate students in both introductory and higher-level social science courses." -- Robert Vargas * American Journal of Sociology *"For young scholars, [South Central Is Home] provides a model for writing about communities that formed us, communities that we unapologetically love. ....[By] disentangling the rich history of South Central, Rosas shows us the future of cities across the United States." -- Claudia Sandoval * Boom California *"South Central Is Home covers many of the issues found in interracial urban communities across America, and offers us a better understanding of the notions of race, community and place." -- Juan Manuel Niño * Journal of Urban Affairs *"This is a thoughtful, insightful, and at times, personal history of South Central as a particular space and place. South Central is Home provides important contributions to our understanding of the City of Los Angeles, the community of South Central, and the often complicated and complex relationships between Latino/as and African Americans in that community." -- Robert Bauman * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Uncovering Black and Latina/o Relations chapter abstractThe Introduction explains the historical configuration of South Central Los Angeles's demographic change from a predominantly African American community to a multiracial African American and Latina/o immigrant community. It posits that daily acts of community racialization and activism defined resident belonging and investment in this racially diverse community. The chapter examines how it is important to enrich existing scholarship by reconceptualizing South Central as a racialized space and community forged and sustained by African Americans and Latina/os' sharing South Central as their home. As neighbors, entrepreneurs, homeowners, political advocates and representatives, teachers, parents, and students, South Central residents refused to be overwhelmed by U.S. national discourses and policies on crime, poverty, education, immigration, and public health and to live isolated from each other or to abandon or forfeit thriving together and as members of this community. 1Placemaking in Our Community: Race Enterprise and the War on Poverty chapter abstractThis chapter introduces African American migration from the U.S. South to Los Angeles as foundational to South Central being understood nationally as an overwhelmingly African American community in the post–World War II period. An in-depth consideration of the emergence and influence of African American entrepreneurship in South Central's business sector reveals the power behind African American migrants spearheading the establishment of Broadway Federal Bank, a minority-owned bank in South Central. By the 1960s, however, the economic realities of South Central and Watts were increasingly defined as working class, working poor, and poor. The introduction of War on Poverty funding and programs would play a role in the relationships fostered between African American and Mexican American activists and advocates. 2"Let's Get Them Off to a Headstart!" Community Investment in Head Start chapter abstractThis chapter centers on African American and Latina/o South Central residents' struggles to establish, lead, teach, and benefit from Head Start programs throughout South Central. This consideration of the War on Poverty pre-school education program's vision, design, and implementation elucidates how this program brought African American and Latina/o South Central residents together to forge an approach to "school readiness" that lived up to their expectations for the future of their children, families, and community. 3"The Wave of the Future": The Emergence of Community Health Clinics chapter abstractThis chapter historicizes late mid-twentieth-century South Central African American and Latina/o residents' community investment in the building of a hospital and community and health centers "where the poorest and most humble can be treated with respect and feel they belong." It argues that in the wake of the 1965 uprisings, South Central residents, U.S. political officials, and physicians waged an interracial campaign for this community to have access to a hospital and community health clinics that would meet the diversity of South Central residents' health care needs. The chapter showcases African American and Latina/o residents' unwavering resolve to act together and in support of community wellness as a formative step to asserting their community's humanity, investment, and power. 4Becoming "Bonafide" Residents: Developing Relational Community Formation chapter abstractThis chapter advances our understanding of the impact of U.S. immigration policy on the resolve of Latina/o immigrant South Central residents to invest themselves in forging a sense of community and home alongside and with their African American neighbors. The chapter elucidates the shared racialization of Latina/o immigrant and African American South Central residents' experience. The emotive range of feelings framing this demographic change speaks to this community's relational interracial formation, humanity, and livelihood. 5Teaching Together: Interracial Community Organizing chapter abstractThis chapter considers the enduring reach of Head Start centers in South Central throughout the 1980s. In the midst of neighborhood demographic change, Head Start classrooms implemented a multiracial and multicultural approach to early childhood education and community activism that resonated with South Central African American and Latina residents. By focusing on the goals of the educational curriculum framing Head Start, as well as this program's teachers' receptiveness to training African American and Latina immigrant parents and residents to participate in the teaching of the program's curriculum, the chapter provides an analysis of the lasting legacies of Head Start's benefits. The collaborative efforts of these women points to the importance of locating and learning from the power of investing in the educational attainment of South Central as a community of dedicated and promising children and women. 6Celebrating Diversity: Selective Inclusion in a Multiracial City chapter abstractThis chapter reveals narratives of selectively acknowledging the ways demographic change and immigrant diversity influence community relations, opportunities, and life in South Central Los Angeles. The interracial tension between African American, Korean immigrant, and Latina/o immigrant South Central entrepreneurs and residents was the result of heavy policing and profiling in the community, escalation of the drug epidemic, anxiety over immigrant enforcement, and the national and local government economic disinvestment. The chapter examines these lived 1980s realities to argue that the indignities of underemployment, police brutality, immigrant enforcement, a drug epidemic, diminished educational opportunities, and poverty culminated in the 1992 uprising. It concludes with the community's commitment to not becoming undone by such instability, to magnify their resilience. 7Banking in South Central: The Limitations of Race Enterprises chapter abstractThis chapter returns to Broadway Federal Bank in the wake of the 1992 uprisings to investigate this race enterprise's longevity and commitment to the community. The race-based politics that framed this establishment's management had to embrace the realization that to thrive and genuinely serve the South Central community it had to cater to an African American and increasingly Latina/o immigrant clientele. The economic and social realities framing South Central's community life leading up to and after the 1992 Los Angeles Uprisings has compelled some of South Central's most invested community entrepreneurs and residents to face demographic and social change with an outlook that cannot underestimate the multiracial configuration and needs of this community. Epilogue chapter abstractThis final chapter alerts readers to the urgency of learning from South Central's history of relational community formation and solidarity. By identifying and discussing contemporary local South Central branding efforts, informal economies, and electoral campaigns shaping this community's current neighborhood interactions and investments, the chapter elaborates on the importance of building on the investments, relationships, and ties that have sustained community building, placemaking, and friendships in South Central. The onset of gentrification and the rise in underemployment, homelessness, border enforcement, white supremacy movements, and police brutality are highlighted as realities that render an inclusive approach toward race and community as important to maintaining a sense of home.
£81.90
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Spain in the Southwest A Narrative History of Colonial New Mexico Arizona Texas and California
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Tulsa 1921 Reporting a Massacre
Book SynopsisIn 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's “Black Wall Street”, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the US. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob invaded Greenwood. Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence.Trade ReviewJournalist Randy Krehbiel has written the best book on the Tulsa tragedy of 1921 to come out in the past twenty years, or possibly ever."" - Alfred L. Brophy, author of Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921 - Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
£26.96
John Wiley & Sons Tulsa 1921 Reporting a Massacre
Book SynopsisIn 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's “Black Wall Street”, was one of the most prosperous African American communities in the US. But on May 31 of that year, a white mob invaded Greenwood. Tulsa, 1921 shines new light into the shadows that have long been cast over this extraordinary instance of racial violence.Trade ReviewJournalist Randy Krehbiel has written the best book on the Tulsa tragedy of 1921 to come out in the past twenty years, or possibly ever."" - Alfred L. Brophy, author of Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921-Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
£17.06
John Wiley & Sons Race and the War on Poverty
Book SynopsisPresident Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to implement War on Poverty programs.
£18.00
John Wiley & Sons Racial Microaggressions Using Critical Race
Book SynopsisDrawing from over two decades of research, this book offers an in-depth analysis of a systemic form of everyday racism commonly experienced by People of Color. The authors make a unique contribution to the study of racial microaggressions by using Critical Race Theory to develop the concepts, frameworks, and models provided in this book.Table of Contents Contents Series Foreword vii James A. Banks Acknowledgments xv Artist’s Statement xix Luis-Genaro Garcia Introduction: Origin Stories: How We Came to Study Racial Microaggressions 1 Danny’s Story 1 Lindsay’s Story 8 Our Stories Coming Together to Further Theorize Racial Microaggressions 14 Overview of the Book 17 1. Laying the Conceptual Groundwork for Understanding Racial Microaggressions 19 Counterstories of Everyday Racism 19 Majoritarian Stories of Everyday Racism 22 Recognizing History to Name Everyday Racism 25 Chester Pierce and the Conceptual Development of Racial Microaggressions 30 Defining Race and Racism 32 Using Critical Race Theory to Theorize Racial Microaggressions 33 2. Understanding the Types, Contexts, Effects, and Responses to Racial Microaggressions Using Critical Race Hypos 37 A Critical Race Hypo 37 Types of Microaggressions 39 Contexts of Microaggressions 41 Effects of Microaggressions 42 Responses to Microaggressions 45 3. Examining the “Micro” Versus the “Macro” in Researching Racial Microaggressions 51 Theorizing the Macroaggression: A Tree Metaphor 52 Macroaggression: The Roots of Racism 52 Institutional Racism: The Trunk and Branches 53 Racial Microaggression: The Leaves 54 Applying the Framework 56 4. Racism Within and Between Communities of Color: Internalized Racism 66 Internalized Racism: The Clark Doll Experiment 69 Internalized Racist Nativism: El Teatro Campesino’s “El Corrido” 71 Intergroup Conflict: The “Blexit” Movement 77 5. Responding to Racial Microaggressions: Theorizing Racial Microaffirmations 84 Theorizing Racial Microaffirmations 85 Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Existing Literature 88 Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Our Personal Stories 92 Examples of Racial Microaffirmations: Empirical Evidence 94 6. Conclusion 98 Future Research on Racial Microaggressions: Promising Areas 99 Praxis: Disrupting Racial Microaggressions 106 Notes 111 References 125 Index 144 About the Authors 155
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Teachers' College Press Critical Race Theory in Education A Scholars
Book SynopsisBrings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars of our time. In this collection of her seminal essays on critical race theory, Gloria Ladson-Billings seeks to clear up some of the confusion and misconceptions that education researchers have around race and inequality.
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Teachers' College Press A Brighter Choice Building a Just School in an
Book SynopsisDiscover how a group of mostly Black parents, working with an energetic principal and dedicated staff, helped build a sought-after, multiracial school in Brooklyn's rapidly gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant - a neighbourhood where parents have long been dissatisfied with most of their local public schools.Trade Review“A Brighter Choice masterfully chronicles one woman’s struggle to maintain a school’s mission as a bastion of hope for Black families in the face of gentrification. The story shines new light on the process of neighborhood change and provides hope that we can manage gentrification in a way that benefits us all.” —Lance Freeman, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania “For many years, Clara Hemphill has been one of the most astute observers of New York City’s public school system. A Brighter Choice, which is incisively reported and beautifully written, explores the efforts of a Black-majority school in Brooklyn to provide a first-rate education for all its students amid the changes of gentrification and the crisis of COVID. With an emphasis on the crucial role played by parents, Hemphill reverses the usual top-down focus on New York City’s schools, dispels much conventional wisdom, and sympathetically shows that it is possible to reconcile Black empowerment with racial and economic integration in public education. A Brighter Choice provides a new way to think about the promise and challenges of public schools today.” —Peter Eisenstadt, author, Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing and editor, The Encyclopedia of New York State “’Clara Hemphill’s fascinating, stirring book, A Brighter Choice, suggests skilled and empathetic parents can help to create truly integrated schools that provide our best hope for restoring social cohesion and social mobility in America.” —Richard D. Kahlenberg, New York City School Diversity Advisory Group executive committee member, former senior fellow, The Century FoundationTable of Contents Contents Introduction 1 1. A Proudly Black School in a Gentrifying Neighborhood 5 2. The Roots of Inequality and the Struggle for Just Schools 13 3. The Deep Decline and Uneven Revival of the City's Schools 26 4. The Promise and Pitfalls of School Choice 42 5. How Gentrification Brought Conflict 59 6. Bringing the Community Together 75 7. Problems Outside the School's Control 86 8. COVID-19 Tests the Community 101 9. ÒTrust Is the GlueÓ 115 10. The Work Still to Be Done 129 Conclusion 139 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 147 Data Sources 157 A Word About Names 159 Index 161 About the Author 168
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John Wiley & Sons Civic Engagement in Communities of Color
Book SynopsisSituated at the intersection of race and civics, this volume discusses how communities of color interpret and enact civics both within and beyond the classroom. Chapters focus on historical and contemporary topics ranging from issues facing Asian immigrant communities to the Black Lives Matter at School curriculum.Table of ContentsContents (Tentative)ForewordIntroductionPart I: Current Realities of Civic Education: Perspectives from the Margins1. Emancipatory Civic Education for Black Students: An Action-Oriented Literature Review Erica Kelley2. "Have We Been Civically Educated to Seize the Present Moment?": Two Black Social Educators' Sense-Making of Civic Education Carla-Ann Brown, Rasheeda West, and Elizabeth Yeager Washington3. Civics and Latinidad: Letters to the Past With Hopes for the Future Jesús Tirado, Gabriel Rodriguez, Tim Monreal, and Tommy Ender4. "I Understand Both of Them. But Nobody Understands Me!": Civic Dissonances Among Arab-Palestinian Students in Israel Aline Muff and Aviv CohenPart II: Civics Embodied in Communities of Color5. It's Been Here All Along: Integrating Local Stories of Struggle into Civics Discourses Asif Wilson, ArCasia D. James-Gallaway, and Sabryna Groves6. #FreeThemAll: Civic Action through Southeast Asian Community Defense Digital Toolkits Van Anh Tran7. More Than Talk: Youth Poets' Civic Action and How Youth Spoken Word Prepares Minoritized Youths as Civic Actors Camea DavisPart III: Possibilities for Civic Education8. Black Feminist Pedagogy for Anti-Racist Civics Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Natasha C. Murray-Everett, and Crystal Simmons9. "Responsible, Capable, and Whole Human Beings": The Value and Necessity of Indigenous Civics Leilani Sabzalian and Michelle M. Jacob10. "It Didn't Mean 'Me' When It Said 'We'": Counterstories as Pedagogy When Citizenship is Not Guaranteed Brittany Jones11. The Black Lives Matter at School Guiding Principles: Fostering Black Cultural Citizenship Through Critical Civic Empathy Denisha Jones and Sarah A. MathewsAfterwordEndnotesIndexAbout the Editor
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Teachers College Press Is Everyone Really Equal
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Many Minds One Heart SNCCs Dream for a New
Book SynopsisBetween 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time.Trade Review"Does a fine job of analyzing how SNCC combated racism in some of the worst parts of the nation and, for a brief moment at least, allowed sharecroppers, students, and other ordinary folk - both black and white - to believe that a deeper, richer, more democratic culture was possible in America." - Washington Post"
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina White Over Black American Attitudes toward the
Book SynopsisThe author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."" New York Times Book Review
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina If We Could Change the World Young People and
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement
Book SynopsisThe civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, theatre, and literature as political weapons to broaden the struggle and legitimize its appeal. Joe Street places these cultural forms at the centre of the civil rights struggle, arguing that the time has come to recognise the extent to which African American history and culture were vital elements of the movement.
£15.26
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Daughters of the American Revolution and
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive history of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), one of the oldest and most important women's organisations in United States history, Simon Wendt shows how the DAR's efforts to keep alive the memory of the nation's past were entangled with and strengthened the nation's racial and gender boundaries.
£63.75
University Press of Florida Southern History Remixed On Rock n Roll and the
Book SynopsisHIghlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. While musical activities are often sidelined in historical narratives of the region, Michael Bertrand shows that they can reveal much about social history and culture change.
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University Press of Florida From Death Row to Freedom The Struggle for
Book SynopsisOffers an insider’s account of the case of Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee, two Black men who were wrongfully charged and convicted of the murder of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida, in 1963, and sentenced to death.
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Rutgers University Press EC Comics
Book SynopsisDuring its heyday in the 1950s, EC Comics was an innovator in socially conscious stories challenging the conservatism of Eisenhower-era America. EC Comics examines these works and explores how they grappled with the civil rights struggle, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice. Winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.Trade Review"A seminal work of meticulous and original scholarship."— Midwest Book Review "Whitted’s book is an excellent example of how comics can serve as tools of social protest and instigate new realms of thought in both young and old readers alike. [It] is a worthwhile entry in the field of comics studies. Qiana Whitted provides sharp analysis and insight into a publisher that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable for a young medium to do."— The Journal of Graphic Novel and Comics "The Best Books of 2019: Non-Fiction" by PopMatters Staff https://www.popmatters.com/best-books-2019-non-fiction-2641136347.html — Pop Matters "Qiana Whitted’s insightful book EC Comics thoughtfully weaves together carefully researched historical context, keen analysis of the discourse communities surrounding EC, and meticulous close readings of the comics, ultimately building a powerful argument for the decisive role the company and its comics played in combating social injustices of the day while advocating for a better, more inclusive society in the future."— Susan Kirtley, author of Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass "Recommended."— Choice “Qiana Whitted’s well-written study confirms and complicates EC’s reputation as the most aesthetically ambitious and politically daring comic book company of the twentieth-century. A subtle exploration of the relationship between race, gender, and representation, it should be considered essential reading for anyone with an investment in modern popular culture.”— Ben Saunders, coeditor of Comic Book Apocalypse: The Graphic World of Jack Kirby "The book restores some specificity to our understanding of the way cultural norms were contested in the pages of postwar comics. It also delivers a measured appraisal of how the ostensibly shocking tactics of social protest comics secured a space in the public imagination for the modest ambitions of moral appeals for social change before the uptake of more radical civil rights discourse."— Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society "This is a scholarly exploration of a much maligned genre of comic, with heavy examination of the implications both inside the comics and of the outside commenters. The beautifully illustrated, comic-style cover may send some in the wrong direction if they're not ready for such a heavy reading, but if they stay with it, they will be richly rewarded.— Pop Matters "Race, Shock, and Social Protest: An Interview with Qiana Whitted," by Julian Chambliss— Black Perspectives "Whitted delivers in her analysis, which takes note of the texts in such an exemplary manner, interprets the drawings, perspectives and the inkwork without neglecting the coloring, and ultimately also takes cultural and publication contexts and economic conditions into account. The result is a careful, differentiating and yet clear reading of the comics, which has seldom been taken as seriously as here."— Comic.de "‘EC Comics: Race, Shock, Social Protest’ Author Qiana Whitted: The Conskipper Interview" https://conskipper.com/ec-comics-race-shock-and-social-protest-author-qiana-whitted-conskipper-interview/— ConskipperTable of ContentsContents Preface A) Introduction: The Preachies 1: Spelled Out Carefully in the Captions How to Read an EC Magazine 2: We Pictured Him So Different, Joey! Optical Illusions of Blackness and Embodiment in EC 3: Oh God…Sob…What Have I Done…? Shame, Mob Rule, and the Affective Realities of EC Justice 4: Battling, in the Sea of Comics EC’s Invisible Man and the Jim Crow Future of “Judgment Day!” B) Conclusion: Hence We See Justice Triumph! Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press In Lady Libertys Shadow
Book SynopsisRobyn Magalit Rodriguez explores the impact of anti-immigrant municipal ordinances on a range of immigrant groups living in different types of suburban communities. Although it is a case study of New Jersey, In Lady Liberty's Shadow offers crucial insights that can shed fresh light on the national immigration debate.Trade Review"Robyn Magalit Rodriguez makes an original intellectual contribution to the study of migration control that places the politics of race, anti-blackness, and suburban governance at the center of the analysis!" -- Alfonso Gonzales * author of Reform Without Justice *"Robyn Magalit Rodriguez has written an important book for anyone who embraces, chafes at, or aspires to being an American. In Lady Liberty's Shadow reminds us that the specificity of the U.S. suburb reflects and fuels the generality of whiteness in which we all live and breathe. Rightly marking 9/11 as a political launchpad for the latest era of xenophobia and racism, Rodriguez vividly brings together the too-often separate narratives of race and empire, of Trayvon Martin and San Bernadino. This is a deeply personal, refreshingly vulnerable, and urgent piece of scholarship." -- Soya Jung * Senior Partner, ChangeLab *"Rodriguez brilliantly sheds light on border enforcement in New Jersey suburbs, linking alarming local and national policies, Jim Crow segregation and 'Juan Crow' xenophobia, to expose threats to American social justice." -- Allan Punzalan Isaac * author of American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America *"In Lady Liberty’s Shadow is a heartfelt, enjoyable, and edifying text that tries 'to make sense of anti-immigrant local ordinances in a place where they don’t make sense.'" * American Journal of Sociology *"Implore[s] readers to recognize the hidden work immigrants have continually performed in both cities and suburbs. They also reveal the racialization that immigrants and their descendants experienced and continue to experience in these spaces. This scholarship showcases how urban spaces outside of the Northeast shape immigrant identities and racial politics." * Journal of Urban History *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 The Politics of Immigration and Race in the “Garden State”2 My Hometown: Immigration and Suburban Imaginaries3 The New “Main Street”?: Ethnoburbs and the Complex Politics of Race4 Being the Problem: Perspectives from Immigrant New Jerseyans5 Fighting on the Homefront6 Conclusion NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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MW - Rutgers University Press Blaming the Poor The Long Shadows of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
Trade Review"Greenbaum's powerful and important book provides valuable and little-known context for the Moynihan Report. She traces the ideas in that report as they were adopted and challenged over time." -- Brett Williams * American University *"I applaud Susan Greenbaum's timely book, with its sober reasoning, scrupulous scholarship, theoretical acumen, lucid prose, and penetrating and spirited critique of mainstream perspectives on poverty." -- Stephen Steinberg * Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York *"An intimate portrayal of social science researchers' and policy makers' roles in shaping perceptions of the poor in the US … By examining the ways in which the tangle of pathology thinking has shaped housing, criminal justice, and antipoverty programs, Greenbaum highlights that the real winners of these programs are the non-poor. She argues that dismantling racialized stereotypes of the poor and holding open discussions with those who experience poverty will lead to more sustainable solutions to poverty ... Essential. All academic levels/libraries." * CHOICE *"Blaming the Poor is a thorough examination of the anti-poverty trend that began with 'the thesis that broken families cause poverty' and continues fifty years later to demonize poor African Americans." * Contemporary Sociology *"Wonderfully engaging ... Susan Greenbaum has written an important book, which deserves a wide audience among both practitioners and academics." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Greenbaum's text offers an accessible review of approaches to poverty in the second half of the twentieth century that can help educate students of all kinds about how we ended up in the mess we find ourselves in today." * H-Citizenship *"[Blaming the Poor] is an exceptional challenge to common conservative opinions of poverty… Politicians and policymakers of all backgrounds and political stances should read this book." * Poverty & Public Policy *"A fascinating synthesis of existing scholarship on poverty and policy that draws on Greenbaum's fieldwork to extend the existing literature in helpful and provocative ways." * North American Dialogue *Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Research and Politics: The Culture of Poverty KnowledgeChapter 3. Kinship and Family Structure: Ethnocentric MyopiaChapter 4. There Goes the Neighborhood: Deconcentration and Destruction of Public HousingChapter 5. Crime, Criminals and Tangles of PathologyChapter 6. Commercializing the Culture of PovertyChapter 7. Ending Poverty as We Know It: And Other Apparently Unreachable Goals Notes Index
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MW - Rutgers University Press Blaming the Poor The Long Shadows of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty
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MW - Rutgers University Press Redefining Japaneseness Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland
Book SynopsisWhat happens when Japanese Americans, born and raised in the United States, are the ones living abroad in Japan? Redefining Japaneseness chronicles how Japanese American migrants to Japan navigate and complicate the categories of Japanese and “foreigner”. Jane H. Yamashiro tracks the multiple ways these migrants strategically negotiate and interpret their daily interactions.Trade Review"Based on excellent and extensive research, Redefining Japanesenessis a comprehensive look at a previously understudied area. Yamashiro has produced a work of the highest academic quality." -- Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu * author of When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities *"Not only does Yamashiro give us engaging portraits of how Japanese Americans navigate the social and cultural terrain of contemporary Japan, but she also provides a fundamental rethinking of the analytic frameworks by which migrant identities have been contextualized and understood." -- Michael Omi * University of California, Berkeley *"Yamashiro’s insightful and ethnographically rich account of the migration of Japanese Americans to their ancestral homeland and its impact on their identities is an important intellectual contribution to numerous fields of study." -- Takeyuki Tsuda * Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University *“Jane H. Yamashiro’s Redefining Japaneseness is an innovative and provocative addition to Asian American studies….Yamashiro’s Redefining Japaneseness gives readers a solid understanding of Japanese American identity construction in Japan while also reflecting upon her subjects’ identities after their return to the United States.” * Journal of Asian American Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Terminology Introduction 2Japanese as a Global Ancestral Group: Japaneseness on the US Continent, Hawaii, and Japan 3Differentiated Japanese American Identities: The Continent Versus Hawaii 4From Hapa to Hafu: Mixed Japanese American Identities in Japan 5Language and Names in Shifting Assertions of Japaneseness 6Back in the United States: Japanese American Interpretations of Their Experiences in Japan Conclusion Appendix A: Methodology: Studying Japanese American Experiences in TokyoAppendix B: List of Japanese American Interviewees Who Have Lived in Japan NotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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John Wiley & Sons City Kids Transforming Racial Baggage
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Rutgers University Press City Kids Transforming Racial Baggage Rutgers
Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism - the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity - is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.Trade Review"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography." -- Lauren Silver * Rutgers University, Camden *"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels" -- Maryann Krikorian * Teachers College Record *"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography." -- Lauren Silver * Rutgers University, Camden *"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels" -- Maryann Krikorian * Teachers College Record *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Transcription Conventions Introduction: The Transformative Politics of Learning Race 1. Sensing Urban Space 2. Loving Friends and Things 3. The Collective Labors of Conviviality 4. Racist or Fair? 5. Enacting Sex Ed Conclusion: Out of the Heart of Whiteness Notes References Index
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Rutgers University Press Reel Inequality Hollywood Actors and Racism
Book SynopsisWhen the 2016 Oscar acting nominations all went to whites for the second consecutive year, #OscarsSoWhite became a trending topic. Yet these enduring racial biases afflict not only the Academy Awards, but also Hollywood as a whole. Reel Inequality examines the structural barriers minority actors face in Hollywood, while shedding light on how they survive in a racist industry.Trade Review"Anyone who is interested in who is 'in the room where it happens' and who is left out will applaud this thoughtful treatise." * Booklist *"Full of diligent research, intimate interviews, and astute observations all presented in accessible language, Reel Inequality provides profoundly practical recommendations on how audiences and industry pros alike can create a more authentic media landscape." -- Adam Moore * leading diversity expert, National Director of EEO & Diversity for SAG-AFTRA *"The rainbow is not mono-chromatic. Nancy Yuen's excellent study illuminates the embedded cultural and economic system known as Hollywood where Asian Americans and others aspire to and work to be included." -- Clyde Kusatsu * National VP Los Angeles SAG-AFTRA *“With laser-like accuracy, Reel Inequality dissects Hollywood’s colorblind racism and reveals why the struggle for increased diversity in TV and film has been such a long and frustrating one." -- Darnell Hunt * author of Black Los Angeles *"Reel Inequality highlights the institutionalized racism and implicit bias actors from various ethnic and cultural backgrounds experience while trying to work professionally in Hollywood. Yuen offers empowering recommendations for effecting change within and outside of the industry." -- Monica White Ndounou * author of Shaping the Future of African American Film *Nancy Wang Yuen points out in Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism, that actors of color generally have fewer acting opportunities, all as a result of the homogeneity of the directors’ chairs and writers’ rooms of Hollywood. Her study found that 77 percent of casting calls specify a white actor. Her book is filled with other firsthand accounts from anonymous Hollywood sources that seem to reinforce the sad truth that a mostly white industry is going to advance the interest of mostly white actors. In one interview, a Latina actor told Yuen that a casting director friend asked for her opinion on a Latino casting decision, since the director only knew “maids and gardeners” who were Latino. -- Kenneth Lowe * Paste Magazine *Sociologist and author of Reel Inequality, Nancy Wang Yuen was recently quoted in an excellent Paste magazine piece on whitewashing in Hollywood. One casting director told Yuen: “I work with a lot of different people, and Asians are a challenge to cast because most casting directors feel as though they’re not very expressive. They’re very shut down in their emotions…” As the quote began to percolate around Twitter, other people were understandably angry too, and it led to Maurene Goo starting the hashtag #ExpressiveAsians. It received an excellent response… Yuen was certainly pleased with the reaction. Speaking on the hashtag, Yuen told indy100 that "social media is amplifying previously unheard voices - providing a platform for marginalised folks and allies to protest issues like whitewashing, stereotyping, and other exclusionary practices that have gone unchecked in Hollywood for too long." -- Josh Withey * indy100.com *Social media is not happy about a quote regarding Asian-American actors not being expressive enough. At the heart of the controversy is a story told by Nancy Wang Yuen, sociologist and author of the book "Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism." In the book, published last year, Yuen quoted an unnamed casting director who provided an explanation behind the challenges of casting Asian actors. "Asians are a challenge to cast because most casting directors feel as though they're not very expressive," the casting director said... The quote stirred a backlash on Twitter, with some taking the opportunity to show just how expressive Asian-Americans can be... The discussion comes at a time of increased criticism of Hollywood for "whitewashing" or casting white actors in roles where the characters are another race. -- Lisa Respers France * CNN *Nancy Wang Yuen has devoted her research to Hollywood's diversity problem * PRI.org *"Reel Inequality serves as a welcome addition to theliterature at a time when Hollywood’ s discriminatory industry practices remaindepressingly au courant and unresolved." * Sociological Inquiry *"If there is one thing Yuen unequivocally does, it is showing that Hollywood has to work hard to Do the Right Thing." * Cultural Sociology *"Is 'Crazy Rich Asians' a watershed moment for representation?" interview with Nancy Wang Yuen * Al Jazeera’s "The Stream" *Dr. Phil: Nancy Wang Yuen, author of Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism (Rutgers University Press, $99.95, 9780813586304). * Shelf Awareness *"'Dr. Phil,' 'Deconstructing Privilege,' Season 19, Episode 29 interview with Nancy Wang Yuen * CBS "Dr. Phil" *'Kim's Convenience' Is A Sitcom About Asian Immigrants — With Depth" * NPR "Morning Edition" *"Simu Liu cast as Marvel's first Chinese superhero, Shang-Chi," interview with Nancy Yuen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmLb30nWGcU * CBC News: The National *"The Cultural Truth at the Heart of the Lies in ‘The Farewell’" by Brian X. Chen https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/movies/the-farewell-family-lies.html * New York Times *"Marvel’s diverse new superheroes target broader box office success" https://www.marketplace.org/2019/07/22/marvels-diverse-new-superheroes-target-broader-audience/ * Marketplace *"Another Hollywood moment for Asian-Americans: SNL gains first Chinese-American cast member" Marketplace interview with Nancy Wang Yuen * "Marketplace" *“Reel Inequality provides a vital critique of the entertainment industry’s discrimination in the context of its far-reaching influence…. Yuen provides clear ways that the industry can move forward, if enough of its stakeholders choose to take action.” * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"An important study of the racist barriers minority actors confront." -- Michael Eric Dyson * New York Times Book Review, "By the Book" *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Hollywood’s Whitest 2. Hollywood’s Colorblind Racism 3. Hollywood’s Typecasting 4. Hollywood’s Double Bind 5. Surviving Hollywood 6. Challenging Hollywood 7. Diversifying Hollywood Appendix A: Media Advocacy Organizations Appendix B: Methods Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Hollywoods Hawaii Race Nation and War War Culture
Book SynopsisHollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment. Trade Review"This book covers an entire history of 'Hollywood Hawaii' and does it in a superlative, utterly inclusive manner—in a text that is clear, concise, and deeply informative. This is a model of accessible, yet reliable scholarship." -- Wheeler Winston Dixon * author of Black and White Cinema: A Short History *"A marvelously comprehensive gaze at cinematic representations of Hawai`i, this insightful study shows how those fictions constitute and are constituted by US imperialism, Christian capitalism, and white nationalism. Moreover, the imagined South Pacific is not a distant, fleeting pleasure but an imminent, durable presence." -- Gary Y. Okihiro * author of Island World: Hawai`i and the United States *"A useful example of the many ways war and society intersect." * H-Net *"The strength of Hollywood's Hawaii is its breadth. Through this widened scope, Konzett examines Hollywood's representations of Hawaiians and Asians and explores how, throughout film history, they have echoed and complicated Hollywood's long, troubled history of representing black bodies. From minstrelsy (blackface and yellowface) to plantation (cotton and tobacco to sugarcane and pineapple) melodramas, Asians, Polynesians, and African Americans have been marginalized throughout film history. Konzett's work gets us closer to understanding the complex interplay of these multiple, layered, and problematic representational histories—and opens the door for further, more in-depth analyses of these intersectional cinematic moments." * The Velvet Light Trap *"Konzett's insightful book is a highly recommended puzzle piece of the ongoing critique about race and representation in film." * The Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The American Empire in the South Pacific and Its Representation in Hollywood Cinema: 1898–Present1 The South Pacific and Hawaii on Screen: Territorial Expansion and Cinematic Colonialism2 World War II Hawaii: Orientalism and the American Century3 Postwar Hawaii and the Birth of the Military Industrial ComplexConclusion Hawaii in Contemporary Cinema and Television: The New Cultural Amnesia NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press Hollywoods Hawaii Race Nation and War War Culture
Book SynopsisHollywood’s Hawaii is the first full-length study of the film industry’s intense engagement with Hawaii and the South Pacific from 1898 to the present. This book presents a history of cinema that examines Hawaii and the Pacific and its representation in film in the context of colonialism, war, Orientalism, occupation, military buildup, and entertainment. Trade Review"This book covers an entire history of 'Hollywood Hawaii' and does it in a superlative, utterly inclusive manner—in a text that is clear, concise, and deeply informative. This is a model of accessible, yet reliable scholarship." -- Wheeler Winston Dixon * author of Black and White Cinema: A Short History *"A marvelously comprehensive gaze at cinematic representations of Hawai`i, this insightful study shows how those fictions constitute and are constituted by US imperialism, Christian capitalism, and white nationalism. Moreover, the imagined South Pacific is not a distant, fleeting pleasure but an imminent, durable presence." -- Gary Y. Okihiro * author of Island World: Hawai`i and the United States *"A useful example of the many ways war and society intersect." * H-Net *"The strength of Hollywood's Hawaii is its breadth. Through this widened scope, Konzett examines Hollywood's representations of Hawaiians and Asians and explores how, throughout film history, they have echoed and complicated Hollywood's long, troubled history of representing black bodies. From minstrelsy (blackface and yellowface) to plantation (cotton and tobacco to sugarcane and pineapple) melodramas, Asians, Polynesians, and African Americans have been marginalized throughout film history. Konzett's work gets us closer to understanding the complex interplay of these multiple, layered, and problematic representational histories—and opens the door for further, more in-depth analyses of these intersectional cinematic moments." * The Velvet Light Trap *"Konzett's insightful book is a highly recommended puzzle piece of the ongoing critique about race and representation in film." * The Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The American Empire in the South Pacific and Its Representation in Hollywood Cinema: 1898–Present1 The South Pacific and Hawaii on Screen: Territorial Expansion and Cinematic Colonialism2 World War II Hawaii: Orientalism and the American Century3 Postwar Hawaii and the Birth of the Military Industrial ComplexConclusion Hawaii in Contemporary Cinema and Television: The New Cultural Amnesia NotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press Ending Ageism or How Not to Shoot Old People
Book SynopsisIn Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette raises urgent legal, economic, educational, esthetic, and ethical issues to show why anti-ageism should be the next social movement of our time.Trade Review"In her stirring new book, the pioneering US writer Margaret Morganroth Gullette argues that the meaning of the word burden has shifted from referring to the demanding work of care-giving (expressing empathy with the carer) on to the recipient of care. No wonder so many older people worry that they’ll become burdensome, and elder abuse is becoming so common." * The Guardian *"As one of the world's leading authorities on ageing and ageism, any new book from Margaret Gullette is always exciting. Here she highlights the emotional wisdom and moral imagination of old age, so very different from the narrow, demeaning public rhetorics of ageing. An essential book for our times." -- Lynne Segal * author of Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing *“Margaret Morganroth Gullette is one of the shining lights of age studies. For decades she has been sweeping her bright searchlight across the landscape of American social, political and popular culture to identify and analyze ageism wherever it lurks.” -- Alix Kates Shulman * author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen and Ménage *"Margaret Morganroth Gullette's take-no-prisoners book is as scathing as its subtitle, which refers both to cameras (the power of portrayal) and to guns (the very real risks of growing old in an ageist world). Wide-ranging and erudite, Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People frames the struggle for age equity in the most human and compelling of terms." -- Ashton Applewhite * author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism *"In this bracing, wide-ranging new book by a pioneer of ageing studies, every page sparkles with fresh insight and burns with apt indignation at how the 'othering' of older people operates. Gullette exhorts us to reclaim public space and defiantly shows us how. Wonderful!" -- Anne Karpf * author of How to Age *“For baby-boomers (like me) this is a sobering, but also an inspiring book. Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People provides a fully developed cultural analysis, anatomizing the established habits of mind, institutional structures, and economic pressures that work to belittle and marginalize older people. The critique cuts deep, drawing together an extraordinary range of evidence from visual culture, media, social history, and literature. But Margaret Morganroth Gullette give us more than a jeremiad. Hers is a positive vision, offering many specific proposals for a movement of resistance that could encourage an epistemic shift – a new conception of life’s course, a fresh understanding of words like ‘age,’ ‘youth,’ ‘decline,’ and much more. This is a profoundly engaged, urgent work of the humanist imagination.” -- James Clifford * author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century *“Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People penetrates far more deeply than the stock tropes about the affronts of age bias. With rich complexity Margaret Morganroth Gullette exposes ageism in many of its unusual manifestations, such as in her unusual and penetrating discussion of older farmers and world ecology. We too easily accept aging as a burden-in-waiting, rather than as the boon of longevity our added years can be both for individuals and global society.” -- Paul Kleyman * Director, Ethnic Elders Newsbeat, New America Media *"Gullette’s many film references demonstrate her gravity as a film plus age critic and her opinion is worth seeking out" -- Erin Trahan * The ARTery *"In her books, and perhaps most sharply in this new one, Ending Ageism, Gullette awakens her readers to the ideology of ageism" -- Robert Mundle * RobertMundle.com *"Margaret Morganroth Gullette wants you to know she means the title of her new book, Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People, as a wake-up slap. She calls on Americans to be more aware of how the underlying age-based prejudice damages the lives of older people and their families—while often placing ethnic elders and older women in double jeopardy of discrimination, adding a touch of gray to sexism and racism they may already endure." -- Paul Kleyman * New American Media *"Ending Ageism, or How to Not Shoot Old People grapple[s] thoughtfully with how we [as a culture have forgotten how to value the elderly]." -- Tad Friend * New Yorker *"Award-winning writer and cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette confronts age prejudice head on. She presents eye-opening and often frightening examples of ageism in every day society and confronts offenders and their bias." * El Paso Inc. Magazine *"Author sees book as a way to fight ageism," by Cindy Cantrell * Boston Globe *"Ageism, And What We Can Do About It" interview with Margaret Morganroth Gullette on Wisconsin Public Radio * Wisconsin Public Radio *“The One Who Feeds Us All: Old Farmers and Farm Fiction Amid the Global Food Crisis” by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Michigan Quarterly Review *"Margaret Morganroth Gullette: The Anti-Ageism Revolutionist" * Silver Century Foundation *"[An] artfully composed work...Compelling...Recognizing ageism can help us transcend our netherworlds – be they a valley in northern California, a field in Shandong, or an urban farm in Havana – and “emerge to see the stars.” * Anthropology News *"Unwanted at Midlife: Not Old, but 'Too Old,'” by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Gullette uses a personal, first-person voice and, in this way, masterfully weaves together personal experiences with cultural implications....[An] outstanding book." * The Gerontologist *"The Monument and the Wrecking Crew: Ageism and the academy," by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * AAUP *"How Does a Society Lose Respect for Experience and Age?" by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Academe Blog *" When My Mother Wanted to Die: The Neglected Issues of Ageist Undertreatment," by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Tikkun *"Ramping Up: The Problem That Went Deeper Than We Knew," by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Silver Century *"Against ‘Aging’ – How to Talk about Growing Older," by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * Theory, Culture & Society *"The ‘Christine Lagarde Memo,’ FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, from 'the Coalition,'" by Margaret Morganroth Gullette * MR Online *"Brave, defiant, and startling. . . Gullette's work is both insightful and inspiring, challenging and important; moreover, her writing style [is] at once scathing, funny, sharp, witty, and down-to-earth. .. . a text that works both in small chunks and as a larger argument. . . . much needed and urgent." * Feminism & Psychology *"Ageist “Triage” Is a Crime Against Humanity" by Margaret Morganroth Gullette https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/ageist-triage-covid-19 * Los Angeles Review of Books *"A compelling manifesto that can enable social workers and others to recognize and challenge pervasive individual and institutional ageism....As educators, social workers need to follow Morganroth Gullette’s recommendation to integrate critical analysis of age into courses, and this must include fieldwork education." * Affilia *Table of ContentsPreface Fight Ageism, Not Aging: The Discovery of Trauma xi 1 #Still Human Into the Glare of the Public Square 1 Five Special Sessions 21 2 How (Not) to Shoot Old People Breaking Ageist Paradigms through Portrait Photography 22 3 The Elder-Hostile Giving College Students a Better Start at Life 54 4 Vert-de-Gris Rescuing the Land Lovers 85 5 The Alzheimer’s Defense “Faking Bad” in International Atrocity Trials 112 6 Our Frightened World Fantasies of Euthanasia and Preemptive Suicide 136 7 Induction into the Hall of Shame and the Way Out 163 8 Redress Healing the Self, Relationships, Society 192 A Declaration of Grievances 205 Acknowledgments 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 227 Index 253
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Rutgers University Press Challenges of Diversity Essays on America
Book SynopsisWhat unites and what divides Americans as a nation? Opening with a survey of American literature through the vantage point of ethnicity, Werner Sollors examines the changing self-understanding of the United States from an Anglo-American to a multicultural country and the role writing has played in that process. Trade Review"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." -- Tom Socca * Boston Phoenix *"Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest." -- David Hollinger * coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook *“A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.” * Midwest Book Review *"Sollors is an epochal figure in his field, an inventive and risk-taking thinker who is expanding the scope of African American and American scholarship." -- Tom Socca * Boston Phoenix *"Werner Sollors is a highly sophisticated and discerning commentator on the cluster of issues that Americans associate with the word diversity. The essays collected here are among his finest." -- David Hollinger * coeditor of The American Intellectual Tradition: A Sourcebook *“A thoroughly thoughtful and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Challenges of Diversity: Essays on America is an inherently engaging, impressively informed and informative, exceptionally well reasoned, written, and organized work of original scholarship that is unreserved recommended for both community and academic library collections.” * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 3 1 Literature and Ethnicity 19 2 National Identity and Ethnic Diversity 67 3 Dedicated to a Proposition 95 4 A Critique of Pure Pluralism 121 5 The Multiculturalism Debate as Cultural Text 145 Notes 177 Acknowledgments 205 Index 207
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Rutgers University Press Poison in the Ivy Race Relations and the
Book SynopsisPoison in the Ivy examines college students in the U.S.’s upper-echelon of higher education to identify how young elites interact with one another, how these social interactions influence their views of race and inequality, and how these views and interactions may contribute to broader racial inequalities in society. Trade Review"A robust dissection of how educational racial inequality is reproduced under rosy conditions. Staggering in both facts and analysis, Poison in the Ivy will make you jump and twitch, but is so thorough that it guarantees not to leave you itching for more." -- Matthew W. Hughey * author of White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race *"Poison in the Ivy is more than a study of how students at highly selective universities interact along racial lines; the book’s insights reach far beyond to the current state of racial inequality more generally. Byrd examines a group of people – those educated at elite institutions – often held up as a model of sophisticated and liberal racial attitudes. His careful analysis raises important questions about their actual skills with understanding and navigating current racial realities. Given that these graduates tend to hold high powered positions in the world post-college, Byrd’s study offers a sobering forecast of what to expect in the years to come. This is an important book that scholars of race ethnicity, higher education, and inequality more generally should read immediately." -- Amanda Lewis * author of Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color-line in Classrooms and Communities *"Drawing on decades of social science research as well as original analyses of campus race relations, W. Carson Byrd, an assistant professor of pan-African studies at the University of Louisville, paints a bleak picture in his new book, Poison in the Ivy" -- Nick Roll * Inside Higher Ed *Forthcoming African American Studies Titles, 2018: A list of the latest and soon-to-be-released publications through October 2018. * Choice *"Byrd’s analysis convincingly demonstrates that understanding contact alone is insufficient if we do not consider how that context may imbue particular kinds of meanings to those interactions that can enhance or undermine the impact of cross-racial contact. Such insights are important not only to our understanding of higher education but racial inequality more broadly. Without attention to these issues, racial inequality may be perpetuated for decades to come." * American Journal of Sociology *"We are indebted to Byrd for his exploration of the murky social undercurrents of under-graduate life. He documents how the gap between students of different racial groups that begins at home grows into a chasm in college. Those of us who venture to campus—whether as students, staff, or faculty—should take note of Byrd’s somber and sobering call." * Contemporary Sociology *"Poison in the Ivy definitively demonstrates that racial attitudes, relationships and outcomes do not simply result from personal choices, but instead are deeply rooted in centuries-old patterns. Economic, political, historical and institutional realities can—and too often do—thwart the best intentioned, "feel good" efforts to change structured racial inequality in America by simply changing individual attitudes and behaviors." * Review of Higher Education *Table of ContentsPreface xi 1 Easing into Views of Race and Inequality in Everyday Life on Campus 1 2 Life before College: Factors Influencing Early Views of Race and Inequality 23 3 Mixing It Up on Campus: Patterns of and Influences on Student Interactions 57 4 Graduating Racial Ideologies: The College Impact on Views of Race and Inequality 102 5 When Things Fall Apart: Identities and Interactions within an Intersected Habitus 145 6 Interacting Futures and the Reproduction of Racial Inequality 168 Appendix: Methodology 191 Notes 205 References 213 Index 227
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Rutgers University Press Divergent Paths to College Race Class and
Book SynopsisMegan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead to very different college destinations based on race and class. She finds that racial and class inequalities are reproduced through unequal access to key sources of information, even among students in the same school and even in schools with well-established college-going cultures. Trade Review"In lively, clear, and well-written prose, Holland compellingly argues that students at two high performing, ethnoracially diverse high schools receive varied access to college information. Divergent Paths to College adds a much needed look at the institutional dynamics that affect the cumulative decisions that high schoolers make about whether, where, and when to apply to college." -- Lisa M. Nunn * author of Defining Student Success: The Role of School and Culture *"Applying to college? Know what road to travel" interview with Megan Holland * WBFO interview *"Research outlines inequalities in high school students’ college searches" by Charles Anzalone mention of Divergent Paths to College * UBNow *"Holland takes us inside two different American high schools to offer a deeply nuanced look at how the focus of scholars and policymakers on individual choice has limited our understanding of how young people negotiate their transitions to higher education. She very skillfully elicits from students the ways that larger social structures and processes work to the benefit of some students while holding others back. The study is well-designed, Holland’s interpretations of her data even-handed and persuasive, and Divergent Paths to College is highly and refreshingly readable." -- David Bills * author of The Sociology of Education and Work *"Helping disadvantaged students navigate the college selection process" mention of Divergent Paths to College * News Ticker *"Holland presents a nuanced description of the divergent paths to college that high schools craft for different students. Instead of token efforts, this book provides an insightful analysis of ways to create real college opportunity for students." -- James Rosenbaum * co-author of Bridging the Gaps: College Pathways to Career Success *"How Social Capital Affects College Choice," by Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents List of Tables 1 College Dreams and College Outcomes 2 Everyone Goes to College 3 Racial Context, Tracking and Peers 4 When Brokering Fails: Guidance Holes and Broken Trust 5 Opportunities or Opportunistic: Marketing in Higher Education 6 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions 7 Consequences for the Application Process, College Destinations, and Beyond Methodological Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Divergent Paths to College Race Class and
Book SynopsisMegan M. Holland examines how high schools structure different pathways that lead to very different college destinations based on race and class. She finds that racial and class inequalities are reproduced through unequal access to key sources of information, even among students in the same school and even in schools with well-established college-going cultures. Trade Review"In lively, clear, and well-written prose, Holland compellingly argues that students at two high performing, ethnoracially diverse high schools receive varied access to college information. Divergent Paths to College adds a much needed look at the institutional dynamics that affect the cumulative decisions that high schoolers make about whether, where, and when to apply to college." -- Lisa M. Nunn * author of Defining Student Success: The Role of School and Culture *"Applying to college? Know what road to travel" interview with Megan Holland * WBFO interview *"Research outlines inequalities in high school students’ college searches" by Charles Anzalone mention of Divergent Paths to College * UBNow *"Holland takes us inside two different American high schools to offer a deeply nuanced look at how the focus of scholars and policymakers on individual choice has limited our understanding of how young people negotiate their transitions to higher education. She very skillfully elicits from students the ways that larger social structures and processes work to the benefit of some students while holding others back. The study is well-designed, Holland’s interpretations of her data even-handed and persuasive, and Divergent Paths to College is highly and refreshingly readable." -- David Bills * author of The Sociology of Education and Work *"Helping disadvantaged students navigate the college selection process" mention of Divergent Paths to College * News Ticker *"Holland presents a nuanced description of the divergent paths to college that high schools craft for different students. Instead of token efforts, this book provides an insightful analysis of ways to create real college opportunity for students." -- James Rosenbaum * co-author of Bridging the Gaps: College Pathways to Career Success *"How Social Capital Affects College Choice," by Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents List of Tables 1 College Dreams and College Outcomes 2 Everyone Goes to College 3 Racial Context, Tracking and Peers 4 When Brokering Fails: Guidance Holes and Broken Trust 5 Opportunities or Opportunistic: Marketing in Higher Education 6 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions 7 Consequences for the Application Process, College Destinations, and Beyond Methodological Appendix Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press PanAfrican American Literature Signifying
Book SynopsisPan-African American Literature charts the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Trade Review"Timely and promising, Pan-African American Literature will make a major and distinctive contribution to African American studies, cultural studies, and American literary studies." -- Michele Elam * author of The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium *"Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars" roundup * Journal of Blacks in Higher Education *"Essential." * Choice *"[An] important book." * American Studies in Scandinavia *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement 2 Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole’s Open City 3 The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu 4 Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5 Becoming his own Father: Obama’s Dreams from My Father Conclusion: Blackness Now Works Cited Index
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Rutgers University Press PanAfrican American Literature Signifying
Book SynopsisPan-African American Literature charts the contours of literature by African born or identified authors centered around life in the United States. The texts examined here deliberately signify on the African American literary canon to encompass new experiences of immigration, assimilation and identification that challenge how blackness has been previously conceived. Trade Review"Timely and promising, Pan-African American Literature will make a major and distinctive contribution to African American studies, cultural studies, and American literary studies." -- Michele Elam * author of The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium *"Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars" roundup * Journal of Blacks in Higher Education *"Essential." * Choice *"[An] important book." * American Studies in Scandinavia *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Signifyin(g) on the Slave Narrative: African Memoirs of War and Displacement 2 Uncanny Rememories in Teju Cole’s Open City 3 The Impossibility of Invisibility in the Novels of Dinaw Mengestu 4 Refiguring the Ancestor in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5 Becoming his own Father: Obama’s Dreams from My Father Conclusion: Blackness Now Works Cited Index
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Rutgers University Press Toxic Ivory Towers The Consequences of Work
Book SynopsisToxic Ivory Towers documents the realities of social and economic inequalities in the work-life experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education. It takes a look at the institutional factors impacting the professional ability and health of URM faculty to be successful at their jobs, and to flourish in academia. Trade Review"This book presents the most complete picture to date of faculty of color in elite HWCUs (historically white colleges and universities). It shows how higher education institutions promote unwelcoming climates that adversely affect their career trajectories and the health and well-being. A fascinating read with both frustrating and triumphant moments, the book provides a necessary analysis of the professional lives of an important intellectual group in the academy." -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva * author of White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism *“In Toxic Ivory Towers, Ruth Zambrana deftly and painfully explores the life experiences of underrepresented minority faculty of color in the academy. The author demonstrates how hegemonic white cultures and structures create and sustain systems of exclusion and discrimination that result in extensive workplace psychological stress for many minority scholars. She goes further than most, locating these academic inequities in the broader and historical contexts of racial and economic injustice in the academy and the society at large.” -- Mark Chesler * Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, co-editor of Faculty Identities and the Challenge of Div *“Toxic Ivory Towers is a thorough review of relevant literature and critical analysis. It contributes to the literature a unique and nuanced examination of workplace stress and the health issues faced by minority faculty. A robust collection of survey and interview data, this book is an important read for educators leading the way toward intentional inclusion within the professoriate.” -- Caroline Turner * author of Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees *“Through an insightful examination of relevant literature and original research, Ruth Zambrana offers a unique and compelling perspective on the entry, retention and advancement of diverse professionals in science- and health-related careers from a historical and contemporary viewpoint. These are individuals who often find themselves in systems where they are marginalized and/or undervalued because of intersections related to race, ethnicity, gender and being “other.” Toxic Ivory Towers moves the dialogue and the strategic action-agenda and as such contributes significantly to understanding knowledge gaps and illuminating intervention points to advance diversity in the scientific workforce.” -- Joan Y. Reede * Harvard Medical School, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership *"The Stress of Being a Minority Faculty Member" by Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Zambrana unmasks the misleading data that a lot of universities publish on the 'success' of diversity initiatives; she offers constructive language for URM faculty to help name their experiences; and, her work provokes responses that challenge the status quo....Every academic leader (presidents, deans, department chairs, and so forth) who wants positive change in these areas will benefit from interacting with Zambrana’s research, and virtually every URM faculty member will benefit from her adeptness at naming the workplace stressors that they experience." * Reflective Teaching *Table of ContentsContents 1 Where is the Diversity? The Importance of the Domestic Talent Pool in Elite Higher Education Institutions 2 The History and Importance of Inclusion of Historically Underrepresented Faculty in the Academy 3 The Academy as a Site of Intellectual Determinism 4 Mentoring: Institutions Applying a Solution without Acknowledging the Problem 5 Unwelcoming Climates: The Costs of Balancing Belonging and Inequality 6 Work-Family Balance: The Quandary of URM Professionals 7 The Intersection of Hiring, Appointment, Tenure and Promotion: Is it Possible to Survive and Thrive? 8 Workplace Stress: Impact on Well-being and Academic Career Path 9 Does Gender Matter? 10 Creating a Sense of Belonging for URMS in the Academy Acknowledgments Notes About the Author
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Rutgers University Press Toxic Ivory Towers The Consequences of Work
Book SynopsisToxic Ivory Towers documents the realities of social and economic inequalities in the work-life experiences of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in U.S. higher education. It takes a look at the institutional factors impacting the professional ability and health of URM faculty to be successful at their jobs, and to flourish in academia. Trade Review"This book presents the most complete picture to date of faculty of color in elite HWCUs (historically white colleges and universities). It shows how higher education institutions promote unwelcoming climates that adversely affect their career trajectories and the health and well-being. A fascinating read with both frustrating and triumphant moments, the book provides a necessary analysis of the professional lives of an important intellectual group in the academy." -- Eduardo Bonilla-Silva * author of White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism *“In Toxic Ivory Towers, Ruth Zambrana deftly and painfully explores the life experiences of underrepresented minority faculty of color in the academy. The author demonstrates how hegemonic white cultures and structures create and sustain systems of exclusion and discrimination that result in extensive workplace psychological stress for many minority scholars. She goes further than most, locating these academic inequities in the broader and historical contexts of racial and economic injustice in the academy and the society at large.” -- Mark Chesler * Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, co-editor of Faculty Identities and the Challenge of Div *“Toxic Ivory Towers is a thorough review of relevant literature and critical analysis. It contributes to the literature a unique and nuanced examination of workplace stress and the health issues faced by minority faculty. A robust collection of survey and interview data, this book is an important read for educators leading the way toward intentional inclusion within the professoriate.” -- Caroline Turner * author of Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees *“Through an insightful examination of relevant literature and original research, Ruth Zambrana offers a unique and compelling perspective on the entry, retention and advancement of diverse professionals in science- and health-related careers from a historical and contemporary viewpoint. These are individuals who often find themselves in systems where they are marginalized and/or undervalued because of intersections related to race, ethnicity, gender and being “other.” Toxic Ivory Towers moves the dialogue and the strategic action-agenda and as such contributes significantly to understanding knowledge gaps and illuminating intervention points to advance diversity in the scientific workforce.” -- Joan Y. Reede * Harvard Medical School, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership *"The Stress of Being a Minority Faculty Member" by Peter Monaghan * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Zambrana unmasks the misleading data that a lot of universities publish on the 'success' of diversity initiatives; she offers constructive language for URM faculty to help name their experiences; and, her work provokes responses that challenge the status quo....Every academic leader (presidents, deans, department chairs, and so forth) who wants positive change in these areas will benefit from interacting with Zambrana’s research, and virtually every URM faculty member will benefit from her adeptness at naming the workplace stressors that they experience." * Reflective Teaching *Table of ContentsContents 1 Where is the Diversity? The Importance of the Domestic Talent Pool in Elite Higher Education Institutions 2 The History and Importance of Inclusion of Historically Underrepresented Faculty in the Academy 3 The Academy as a Site of Intellectual Determinism 4 Mentoring: Institutions Applying a Solution without Acknowledging the Problem 5 Unwelcoming Climates: The Costs of Balancing Belonging and Inequality 6 Work-Family Balance: The Quandary of URM Professionals 7 The Intersection of Hiring, Appointment, Tenure and Promotion: Is it Possible to Survive and Thrive? 8 Workplace Stress: Impact on Well-being and Academic Career Path 9 Does Gender Matter? 10 Creating a Sense of Belonging for URMS in the Academy Acknowledgments Notes About the Author
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Rutgers University Press Baltimore Revisited Stories of Inequality and
Book SynopsisNicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City,” Baltimore is a city of contradictions. To help untangle those apparent paradoxes, Baltimore Revisited assembles over thirty experts, both from inside and outside academia. Together, they find that the city has become ground zero for neoliberal policies, but also home to intensely engaged resistance movements. Trade Review"Baltimore Revisited presents an important and compelling portrait of Baltimore’s past to advocate a more just present and future. Not just a book about Baltimore, this collection can serve as a roadmap for scholars, students, and civic leaders seeking to understand how cities take the shape they do and what can be done to challenge those patterns when they deny justice to citizens." -- Rebecca K. Shrum * associate professor of history, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis *"The Baltimore School represents a school of thought that seeks to radically change how we understand cities and how we redistribute resources within them, by taking space, race, and political economy seriously. In the years to come, this work will be known as one of the central Baltimore School texts, used to help people understand Baltimore and cities like it, for the purpose of making it (and them) more just and humane." -- Lester Spence * Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University *"Trump's Dehumanizing Attacks on Baltimore Are Hiding an Awful Truth--And He Knows It," op-ed by Nicole King https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-dehumanizing-attacks-baltimore-are-hiding-awful-truth-he-knows-it-opinion-1452035 * Newsweek *"[The book] is a fascinating accounts of public markets, vacant housing, highways. [It] stimulates curiosity about Baltimore at a time when friends and foes alike cite the city as the epitome of American urban ills." * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Epigraph: Placed Love, Shawntay Stocks Preface: Linda Shopes Introduction P. Nicole King, Joshua Clark Davis, and Kate S. DrabinskiSection 1: Place and Power: Roots of (In)Justice in the City Chapter 1: The City That Eats: Food and Power in Baltimore’s Early Public Markets Robert J. Gamble Chapter 2: “Shove Those Black Clouds Away!”: Jim Crow Schools and Jim Crow Neighborhoods in Baltimore Before Brown Emily Lieb Chapter 3: “The Pot”: Criminalizing Black Neighborhoods in Jim Crow Baltimore Michael Casiano Chapter 4: Vacant Houses and Inequality in Baltimore from the Nineteenth Century to Today Eli Pousson Chapter 5: (snapshot): A Psychology of Place: Race, Violence, and Community in Baltimore Daniel Buccino and Teresa Méndez Chapter 6 (snapshot): Community Health and Baltimore Apartheid: Revisiting Development, Inequality, and Tax Policy Lawrence Brown Section 2: Histories of Contestation and Activism in a Legacy City Chapter 7: The Riot Environment: Sanitation, Recreation, and Pacification in the Wake of Baltimore’s 1968 Uprising Leif Fredrickson Chapter 8: “The People’s Side of the Road”: Movement Against Destruction and Organizing Across Lines of Race, Class, and Neighborhood Shannon Darrow Chapter 9: More than a Store: Activist Businesses in Baltimore Joshua Clark Davis Chapter 10 (snapshot): “Welfare isn’t a single issue:” Baltimore’s Welfare Rights Movement, 1960s-1980s Amy Zanoni Chapter 11: The Last Censors: The Life and Slow Death of Maryland’s Board of Motion Picture Censors, 1916–1981 Joe Tropea Chapter 12 (snapshot): “Temple of Drama”: The Six-Year Protest at Ford’s Theater, 1947-1952 Jennifer A. FerrettiSection 3: Voices from Here: Listening to the Past Chapter 13: “Because They Were Also Downed People”: Black-Jewish Relationships in Baltimore During the 1968 Uprising and Beyond Jacob R. Levin Chapter 14 (snapshot): Korean Communities in Baltimore Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin Chapter 15: The Lumbee Community: Revisiting the Reservation of Baltimore’s Fells Point Ashley Minner Chapter 16: Over-Burdened Bodies and Lands: Industrial Development and Environmental Injustice in South Baltimore Nicole Fabricant Chapter 17 (snapshot): Finding Closure: The Poets of Sparrows Point Steel Mill Michelle L. Stefano Chapter 18: Baltimore’s Socialist Feminists—Lessons From Then, Lessons For Now: Community Empowerment and Urban Collectives in the 1970s Elizabeth Morrow Nix, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, and Jodi Kelber-Kaye Chapter 19: Relentlessly Gay: A Conversation on LGBTQ Stories in Baltimore Kate S. Drabinski and Louise Parker KelleySection 4: Surviving in the Neoliberal City: Redevelopment in Baltimore Chapter 20: Johns Hopkins University and the History of Developing East Baltimore Marisela B. Gomez Chapter 21: Image and Infrastructure: Making Baltimore a Tourist City Mary Rizzo Chapter 22: Skywalk: The Life and Death of Multilevel Urbanism in Downtown Baltimore Fred Scharmen Chapter 23 (snapshot): Rethinking Gentrification in Baltimore, Sharp Leadenhall Matt Durington and Samuel Gerald Collins Chapter 24: The Superblock: A Downtown Development Debacle, 2003-2015 P. Nicole King Chapter 25 (snapshot): Under Armour’s Global Headquarters and the Redevelopment of South Baltimore Richard E. OttenSection 5: Democratizing the Archives Chapter 26: Social History in the Archives: Baltimore’s Enduring Legacy Aiden Faust Chapter 27 (snapshot): Building a More Inclusive History of Baltimore: Preserving the Baltimore Uprising Denise D. Meringolo Afterword: Shawntay Stock, Weaving Knowledges Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Baltimore Revisited Stories of Inequality and
Book SynopsisNicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City,” Baltimore is a city of contradictions. To help untangle those apparent paradoxes, Baltimore Revisited assembles over thirty experts, both from inside and outside academia. Together, they find that the city has become ground zero for neoliberal policies, but also home to intensely engaged resistance movements. Trade Review"Baltimore Revisited presents an important and compelling portrait of Baltimore’s past to advocate a more just present and future. Not just a book about Baltimore, this collection can serve as a roadmap for scholars, students, and civic leaders seeking to understand how cities take the shape they do and what can be done to challenge those patterns when they deny justice to citizens." -- Rebecca K. Shrum * associate professor of history, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis *"The Baltimore School represents a school of thought that seeks to radically change how we understand cities and how we redistribute resources within them, by taking space, race, and political economy seriously. In the years to come, this work will be known as one of the central Baltimore School texts, used to help people understand Baltimore and cities like it, for the purpose of making it (and them) more just and humane." -- Lester Spence * Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University *"Trump's Dehumanizing Attacks on Baltimore Are Hiding an Awful Truth--And He Knows It," op-ed by Nicole King https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-dehumanizing-attacks-baltimore-are-hiding-awful-truth-he-knows-it-opinion-1452035 * Newsweek *"[The book] is a fascinating accounts of public markets, vacant housing, highways. [It] stimulates curiosity about Baltimore at a time when friends and foes alike cite the city as the epitome of American urban ills." * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Epigraph: Placed Love, Shawntay Stocks Preface: Linda Shopes Introduction P. Nicole King, Joshua Clark Davis, and Kate S. DrabinskiSection 1: Place and Power: Roots of (In)Justice in the City Chapter 1: The City That Eats: Food and Power in Baltimore’s Early Public Markets Robert J. Gamble Chapter 2: “Shove Those Black Clouds Away!”: Jim Crow Schools and Jim Crow Neighborhoods in Baltimore Before Brown Emily Lieb Chapter 3: “The Pot”: Criminalizing Black Neighborhoods in Jim Crow Baltimore Michael Casiano Chapter 4: Vacant Houses and Inequality in Baltimore from the Nineteenth Century to Today Eli Pousson Chapter 5: (snapshot): A Psychology of Place: Race, Violence, and Community in Baltimore Daniel Buccino and Teresa Méndez Chapter 6 (snapshot): Community Health and Baltimore Apartheid: Revisiting Development, Inequality, and Tax Policy Lawrence Brown Section 2: Histories of Contestation and Activism in a Legacy City Chapter 7: The Riot Environment: Sanitation, Recreation, and Pacification in the Wake of Baltimore’s 1968 Uprising Leif Fredrickson Chapter 8: “The People’s Side of the Road”: Movement Against Destruction and Organizing Across Lines of Race, Class, and Neighborhood Shannon Darrow Chapter 9: More than a Store: Activist Businesses in Baltimore Joshua Clark Davis Chapter 10 (snapshot): “Welfare isn’t a single issue:” Baltimore’s Welfare Rights Movement, 1960s-1980s Amy Zanoni Chapter 11: The Last Censors: The Life and Slow Death of Maryland’s Board of Motion Picture Censors, 1916–1981 Joe Tropea Chapter 12 (snapshot): “Temple of Drama”: The Six-Year Protest at Ford’s Theater, 1947-1952 Jennifer A. FerrettiSection 3: Voices from Here: Listening to the Past Chapter 13: “Because They Were Also Downed People”: Black-Jewish Relationships in Baltimore During the 1968 Uprising and Beyond Jacob R. Levin Chapter 14 (snapshot): Korean Communities in Baltimore Aletheia Hyun-Jin Shin Chapter 15: The Lumbee Community: Revisiting the Reservation of Baltimore’s Fells Point Ashley Minner Chapter 16: Over-Burdened Bodies and Lands: Industrial Development and Environmental Injustice in South Baltimore Nicole Fabricant Chapter 17 (snapshot): Finding Closure: The Poets of Sparrows Point Steel Mill Michelle L. Stefano Chapter 18: Baltimore’s Socialist Feminists—Lessons From Then, Lessons For Now: Community Empowerment and Urban Collectives in the 1970s Elizabeth Morrow Nix, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, and Jodi Kelber-Kaye Chapter 19: Relentlessly Gay: A Conversation on LGBTQ Stories in Baltimore Kate S. Drabinski and Louise Parker KelleySection 4: Surviving in the Neoliberal City: Redevelopment in Baltimore Chapter 20: Johns Hopkins University and the History of Developing East Baltimore Marisela B. Gomez Chapter 21: Image and Infrastructure: Making Baltimore a Tourist City Mary Rizzo Chapter 22: Skywalk: The Life and Death of Multilevel Urbanism in Downtown Baltimore Fred Scharmen Chapter 23 (snapshot): Rethinking Gentrification in Baltimore, Sharp Leadenhall Matt Durington and Samuel Gerald Collins Chapter 24: The Superblock: A Downtown Development Debacle, 2003-2015 P. Nicole King Chapter 25 (snapshot): Under Armour’s Global Headquarters and the Redevelopment of South Baltimore Richard E. OttenSection 5: Democratizing the Archives Chapter 26: Social History in the Archives: Baltimore’s Enduring Legacy Aiden Faust Chapter 27 (snapshot): Building a More Inclusive History of Baltimore: Preserving the Baltimore Uprising Denise D. Meringolo Afterword: Shawntay Stock, Weaving Knowledges Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Black New Jersey 1664 to the Present Day
Book SynopsisBlack New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimination. Extensively researched, it shines a light on New Jersey’s unique African American history and reveals how the state’s black citizens helped to shape the nation. Trade Review"The leading historian of the Mid-Atlantic has written a sweeping, bold, and insightful history of Black New Jersey. It is a singular accomplishment." -- Craig Steven Wilder * author of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities *"The history of black-white race relations in New Jersey is one of the best windows into the strange career of the Jim Crow North. Few historians are qualified to write that epic tale, punctuated by not only tragedy but also triumph and irony. But, Graham Hodges has mastered that awesome intellectual responsibility and scholarly challenge with both force and clarity. Indeed, Professor Hodges sets the gold standard in this historical narrative of the long struggle for racial equality in New Jersey. Bravo!" -- Komozi Woodard * author of A Nation within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics *"Black New Jersey is most interesting and full of important information long buried in primary sources. Graham Hodges brings New Jersey and its people to the fore as people in particular places and times yet within a national context. I appreciate the comprehensiveness of a book very well done." -- Nell Irvin Painter * Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University *"Summer Reading 2018: Understanding Black Life in NJ, from 1664 to Today" * NJ Spotlight *"Flawlessly researched." * Newark Star-Ledger *"The breadth of topic and detail in this work are impressive. Recommended." * Choice *"The Academic Minute" interview with Graham Hodges and feature by David Hopper * The Academic Minute *"The Black Ssholar who Gave Up Her Family to Earn Her Ph.D.," by Graham Russell Gao Hodges * Zócalo Public Square *"A highly nuanced and sophisticated history of the black population in the state....This study is a tale of progress and accomplishments of New Jersey African Americans, but also of racial disparities which negatively affect the quality of life in New Jersey." * New Jersey Studies *"An engaging read, especially for persons with interest in the history of the Garden State, and it is a fine exemplar of the state historical genre." * Journal of American History *Interview with Graham Russell Gao Hodges on "New Books in Intellectual History" https://newbooksnetwork.com/graham-r-g-hodges-black-new-jersey-1664-to-the-present-day-rutgers-up-2018/ * New Books Network: New Books in Intellectual History *"Hodges seamlessly transitions between events transpiring in communities across the state and how those events affected the lives of the Black residents locally. Moreover, the book strikes a balance between the strife and destitute conditions of many and the achievements of various prominent members of the community and the emergence of the Black middle class." * Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsC O N T E N T S List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1 From Initial Euro-African Settlement to the Pre-Revolution, 1625–1763 12 2 From Revolution to Gradual Emancipation, 1764–1804 34 3 Slavery, Freedom, and Struggle, 1804–1860 59 4 The Civil War and Reconstruction to World War I 98 5 Black New Jersey Battles Jim Crow, 1918–1940 159 6 World War II and Its Aftermath, 1940–1960 211 7 The 1960s–2014 249 8 Present and Future 291 Acknowledgments 301 Notes 303 Index
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