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Rutgers University Press Parcels Memories of Salvadoran Migration
Book SynopsisAnastario investigates the social memories of rural Salvadorans from an area that was heavily impacted by the Salvadoran Civil War, which fueled a mass exodus to the U.S. By working with travelers who exchanged parcels containing food, medicine, photographs and letters, Anastario tells the story behind parcels and illuminates their larger cultural and structural significance.Trade Review"This book is sociologically important and politically urgent. It reveals, through powerful and convincing prose, the ways in which imperialist interventions of the past are shaping the immigration crises of the present. With a compelling analysis of migrants’ memories, Anastario re-centers humanity in the brutal history of US-Salvadoran relations." -- Leah Schmalzbauer * co-author of Immigrant Families *"Parcels is a powerful book. Sociologist Mike Anastario has crafted a timely, deeply researched, and beautifully rendered account that captures the critical role of transnational couriers in diasporic life and in the making of diasporic memories. Anastario’s sharp focus on the ubiquitous and intimate movement of objects, from money, to food, to photographs, brilliantly opens up new and exciting areas of inquiry around memory studies, postwar, state violence, and the queering of the rural diaspora. It is a compelling and engrossing read that invites an ample audience across borders." -- Irina Carlota Silber * author of Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador *"In this remarkable study Mike Anastario reveals a world that is hidden from most US citizens—a world that challenges the very notion of borders. As Anastario traces the movement of humans and goods across borders from tiny towns in rural El Salvador to migrant enclaves in the urban United States, he also presents an authoritative example of how the past influences the present. With unprecedented access to Salvadoran couriers and their networks, Anastario unpacks the tremendous power of memory—and the hazards of forgetting. Parcels is not only a positive model of engaged research; it is a heartening call to accountability for the US Fugue State." -- Molly Todd * author of Beyond Displacement *“Parcels is relevant to the interdisciplinary fields of Central American studies and Latina/o/x studies to a general readership attentive to the context around contemporary battles over Central American immigrants.” * Aztlan *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I Diasporic Remembering 1 Es barata y es cara: couriers and parcels in transnational space 2 A sequence of undocumented migrant memories 3 Diasporic intimacy and nostos imaginaries 4 We don’t have to learn to be what we are not: Memory and imagination in the rural diaspora Part II The US Fugue State 5 Silence and systematic forgetting 6 Fields of violence 7 Deferments of voice, myopic reflections Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Rutgers University Press Parcels Memories of Salvadoran Migration
Book SynopsisAnastario investigates the social memories of rural Salvadorans from an area that was heavily impacted by the Salvadoran Civil War, which fueled a mass exodus to the U.S. By working with travelers who exchanged parcels containing food, medicine, photographs and letters, Anastario tells the story behind parcels and illuminates their larger cultural and structural significance.Trade Review"This book is sociologically important and politically urgent. It reveals, through powerful and convincing prose, the ways in which imperialist interventions of the past are shaping the immigration crises of the present. With a compelling analysis of migrants’ memories, Anastario re-centers humanity in the brutal history of US-Salvadoran relations." -- Leah Schmalzbauer * co-author of Immigrant Families *"Parcels is a powerful book. Sociologist Mike Anastario has crafted a timely, deeply researched, and beautifully rendered account that captures the critical role of transnational couriers in diasporic life and in the making of diasporic memories. Anastario’s sharp focus on the ubiquitous and intimate movement of objects, from money, to food, to photographs, brilliantly opens up new and exciting areas of inquiry around memory studies, postwar, state violence, and the queering of the rural diaspora. It is a compelling and engrossing read that invites an ample audience across borders." -- Irina Carlota Silber * author of Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador *"In this remarkable study Mike Anastario reveals a world that is hidden from most US citizens—a world that challenges the very notion of borders. As Anastario traces the movement of humans and goods across borders from tiny towns in rural El Salvador to migrant enclaves in the urban United States, he also presents an authoritative example of how the past influences the present. With unprecedented access to Salvadoran couriers and their networks, Anastario unpacks the tremendous power of memory—and the hazards of forgetting. Parcels is not only a positive model of engaged research; it is a heartening call to accountability for the US Fugue State." -- Molly Todd * author of Beyond Displacement *“Parcels is relevant to the interdisciplinary fields of Central American studies and Latina/o/x studies to a general readership attentive to the context around contemporary battles over Central American immigrants.” * Aztlan *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I Diasporic Remembering 1 Es barata y es cara: couriers and parcels in transnational space 2 A sequence of undocumented migrant memories 3 Diasporic intimacy and nostos imaginaries 4 We don’t have to learn to be what we are not: Memory and imagination in the rural diaspora Part II The US Fugue State 5 Silence and systematic forgetting 6 Fields of violence 7 Deferments of voice, myopic reflections Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Warring over Valor How Race and Gender Shaped
Book SynopsisBy focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. Trade Review"This intriguing volume demonstrates how marginalized groups’ identities and experiences were shaped by the hegemonic white, masculine warrior image. The essays are well-researched and simply fascinating." -- Edwin A. Martini * author of Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty *"This book sheds light on what people see as the normal hero, while at the same time showing that there are many other deserving people that are heroes and don’t get the same recognition." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"This work is highly recommended to anyone seeking a nuanced grasp of the complicated milieu of military heroism, marginalized groups, and the vital intersections between them." -- William A. Taylor * Marine Corps History *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Reconsidering Military Heroism in American History Simon Wendt Chapter 1: The End of Military Heroism? The American Legion and “Service” Between the Wars George Lewis Chapter 2: GI Joe Nisei: The Invention of World War II’s Iconic Japanese American Soldier Ellen D. Wu Chapter 3: Instrument of Subjugation or Avenue for Liberation? Black Military Heroism from World War II to the Vietnam War Simon Wendt Chapter 4: “Warriors in Uniform”: Race, Masculinity, and Martial Valor among Native American Veterans from the Great War to Vietnam and Beyond Matthias Voigt Chapter 5: My Lai: The Crisis of American Military Heroism in the Vietnam War Steve Estes Chapter 6: Leonard Matlovich: From Military Hero to Gay Rights Poster Boy Simon Hall Chapter 7: Displaying Heroism: Media Images of the Weary Soldier in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War Amy Lucker Chapter 8: “From Louboutins to Combat Boots”? The Negotiation of a Twenty-First-Century Female Warrior Image in American Popular Culture and Literature Sarah Makeschin Chapter 9: From Warrior to Soldier? Lakota Veterans on Military Valor Sonja John Chapter 10: Virtual Warfare: Video Games, Drones, and the Reimagination of Heroic Masculinity Carrie Andersen Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
£26.99
Rutgers University Press Warring over Valor How Race and Gender Shaped
Book SynopsisBy focusing on how the idea of heroism on the battlefield helped construct, perpetuate, and challenge racial and gender hierarchies in the United States between World War I and the present, Warring over Valor provides fresh perspectives on the history of American military heroism. Trade Review"This intriguing volume demonstrates how marginalized groups’ identities and experiences were shaped by the hegemonic white, masculine warrior image. The essays are well-researched and simply fascinating." -- Edwin A. Martini * author of Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty *"This book sheds light on what people see as the normal hero, while at the same time showing that there are many other deserving people that are heroes and don’t get the same recognition." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"This intriguing volume demonstrates how marginalized groups’ identities and experiences were shaped by the hegemonic white, masculine warrior image. The essays are well-researched and simply fascinating." -- Edwin A. Martini * author of Agent Orange: History, Science, and the Politics of Uncertainty *"This book sheds light on what people see as the normal hero, while at the same time showing that there are many other deserving people that are heroes and don’t get the same recognition." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"This work is highly recommended to anyone seeking a nuanced grasp of the complicated milieu of military heroism, marginalized groups, and the vital intersections between them." -- William A. Taylor * Marine Corps History *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Reconsidering Military Heroism in American History Simon Wendt Chapter 1: The End of Military Heroism? The American Legion and “Service” Between the Wars George Lewis Chapter 2: GI Joe Nisei: The Invention of World War II’s Iconic Japanese American Soldier Ellen D. Wu Chapter 3: Instrument of Subjugation or Avenue for Liberation? Black Military Heroism from World War II to the Vietnam War Simon Wendt Chapter 4: “Warriors in Uniform”: Race, Masculinity, and Martial Valor among Native American Veterans from the Great War to Vietnam and Beyond Matthias Voigt Chapter 5: My Lai: The Crisis of American Military Heroism in the Vietnam War Steve Estes Chapter 6: Leonard Matlovich: From Military Hero to Gay Rights Poster Boy Simon Hall Chapter 7: Displaying Heroism: Media Images of the Weary Soldier in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War Amy Lucker Chapter 8: “From Louboutins to Combat Boots”? The Negotiation of a Twenty-First-Century Female Warrior Image in American Popular Culture and Literature Sarah Makeschin Chapter 9: From Warrior to Soldier? Lakota Veterans on Military Valor Sonja John Chapter 10: Virtual Warfare: Video Games, Drones, and the Reimagination of Heroic Masculinity Carrie Andersen Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Intersectionality and Higher Education Identity
Book SynopsisThough colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.Trade Review“Accessible and engaging, Intersectionality and Higher Education will have a great impact on the field. This is a meaningful and powerful book.” -- Robin J Phelps-Ward * assistant professor at Clemson University *"This sophisticated and comprehensive treatment of the intersectional identities of students, faculty, and staff experienced within structures of inequality is a must read for all who care about higher education." -- Susan R. Jones * coauthor of Identity Development of College Students *‘Intersectionality and Higher Education’ by Scott Jachik * Inside Higher Education *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," complied by Ruth Hammond * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents Part I Chapter 1: Always Crossing Boundaries, Always Existing in Multiple Bubbles: Intersected Experiences and Positions on College Campuses Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, Sarah M. Ovink, W. Carson Byrd, and Antron D. Mahoney Part II: Beyond Exams and Parties: Student Identities and Experiences Chapter 2: The Contingent Climate: Exploring Student Perspectives at a Racially Diverse Institution Marcela G. Cuellar and R. Nicole Johnson-Ahorlu Chapter 3: More than Immigration Status: Undocumented Students in U.S. Jesuit Higher Education Terry-Ann Jones Chapter 4: Race-based Assumptions of Social Class Identity and their Consequences at a Predominantly White (and Wealthy) Institution Deborah M. Warnock Chapter 5: Biracial College Students’ Racial Identity Work: How Black-White Biracial Students Navigate Racism and Privilege at Historically Black and Historically White Institutions Kristen A. Clayton Chapter 6: The Still Furious Passage of the Black Graduate Student Victor E. Ray Part III: Between Research, Teaching, and Service: Faculty Identities and Experiences Chapter 7: Faculty Members from Low Socioeconomic Status Backgrounds: Student Mentorship, Motivations, and Intersections Elizabeth M. Lee and Tonya Maynard Chapter 8: Doing Less with Less: Faculty Care Work in Times of Precarity Denise Goerisch Chapter 9: Faculty Assessments as Tools of Oppression: A Black Woman’s Reflections on Colorblind Racism in the Academy Bedelia N. Richards Chapter 10: “Diversity” Goals and Faculty of Color: Supporting Racial Inclusion and Awareness in General-Education Courses Melanie Jones Gast, Ervin (Maliq) Matthew, and Derrick R. Brooms Chapter 11: Pursuing Intersectionality as a Pedagogical Tool in the Higher Education Classroom Orkideh Mohajeri, Fernando Rodriguez, and finn schneider Part IV: Life among Paperwork and Bureaucracy: Staff Identities and Experiences Chapter 12: Intersecting Identities and Student Affairs Professionals Ophelie Rowe-Allen and Meredith Smith Chapter 13: Studying STEM while Black: How Institutional Agents Prepare Black Students for the Racial Realities of STEM Environments Tonisha B. Lane Chapter 14: Exclusion, Perspective Taking, and the Liminal Role of Higher Education Staff in Supporting Students with Disabilities Annemarie Vaccaro and Ezekiel Kimball Part V: Intersectionality and Equity Efforts among Campus Communities Chapter 15: Making Room for Gendered Possibilities: Using Intersectionality to Discover Transnormative Inequalities in the Women’s College Admissions Process Megan Nanney Chapter 16: Troubling Diversity: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Action Plans at U.S. Flagship Universities Susan V. Iverson Chapter 17: Tips of Icebergs in the Ocean: Reflections on Future Research for Embracing Intersectionality in Higher Education W. Carson Byrd, Sarah M. Ovink, and Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel Notes on Contributors Index
£29.70
Rutgers University Press Intersectionality and Higher Education Identity
Book SynopsisThough colleges and universities are arguably paying more attention to diversity and inclusion than ever before, to what extent do their efforts result in more socially just campuses? This book examines how race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, age, disability, nationality, and other identities connect to produce intersected campus experiences.Trade Review“Accessible and engaging, Intersectionality and Higher Education will have a great impact on the field. This is a meaningful and powerful book.” -- Robin J Phelps-Ward * assistant professor at Clemson University *"This sophisticated and comprehensive treatment of the intersectional identities of students, faculty, and staff experienced within structures of inequality is a must read for all who care about higher education." -- Susan R. Jones * coauthor of Identity Development of College Students *‘Intersectionality and Higher Education’ by Scott Jachik * Inside Higher Education *"Selected New Books on Higher Education," complied by Ruth Hammond * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsContents Part I Chapter 1: Always Crossing Boundaries, Always Existing in Multiple Bubbles: Intersected Experiences and Positions on College Campuses Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel, Sarah M. Ovink, W. Carson Byrd, and Antron D. Mahoney Part II: Beyond Exams and Parties: Student Identities and Experiences Chapter 2: The Contingent Climate: Exploring Student Perspectives at a Racially Diverse Institution Marcela G. Cuellar and R. Nicole Johnson-Ahorlu Chapter 3: More than Immigration Status: Undocumented Students in U.S. Jesuit Higher Education Terry-Ann Jones Chapter 4: Race-based Assumptions of Social Class Identity and their Consequences at a Predominantly White (and Wealthy) Institution Deborah M. Warnock Chapter 5: Biracial College Students’ Racial Identity Work: How Black-White Biracial Students Navigate Racism and Privilege at Historically Black and Historically White Institutions Kristen A. Clayton Chapter 6: The Still Furious Passage of the Black Graduate Student Victor E. Ray Part III: Between Research, Teaching, and Service: Faculty Identities and Experiences Chapter 7: Faculty Members from Low Socioeconomic Status Backgrounds: Student Mentorship, Motivations, and Intersections Elizabeth M. Lee and Tonya Maynard Chapter 8: Doing Less with Less: Faculty Care Work in Times of Precarity Denise Goerisch Chapter 9: Faculty Assessments as Tools of Oppression: A Black Woman’s Reflections on Colorblind Racism in the Academy Bedelia N. Richards Chapter 10: “Diversity” Goals and Faculty of Color: Supporting Racial Inclusion and Awareness in General-Education Courses Melanie Jones Gast, Ervin (Maliq) Matthew, and Derrick R. Brooms Chapter 11: Pursuing Intersectionality as a Pedagogical Tool in the Higher Education Classroom Orkideh Mohajeri, Fernando Rodriguez, and finn schneider Part IV: Life among Paperwork and Bureaucracy: Staff Identities and Experiences Chapter 12: Intersecting Identities and Student Affairs Professionals Ophelie Rowe-Allen and Meredith Smith Chapter 13: Studying STEM while Black: How Institutional Agents Prepare Black Students for the Racial Realities of STEM Environments Tonisha B. Lane Chapter 14: Exclusion, Perspective Taking, and the Liminal Role of Higher Education Staff in Supporting Students with Disabilities Annemarie Vaccaro and Ezekiel Kimball Part V: Intersectionality and Equity Efforts among Campus Communities Chapter 15: Making Room for Gendered Possibilities: Using Intersectionality to Discover Transnormative Inequalities in the Women’s College Admissions Process Megan Nanney Chapter 16: Troubling Diversity: An Intersectional Analysis of Diversity Action Plans at U.S. Flagship Universities Susan V. Iverson Chapter 17: Tips of Icebergs in the Ocean: Reflections on Future Research for Embracing Intersectionality in Higher Education W. Carson Byrd, Sarah M. Ovink, and Rachelle J. Brunn-Bevel Notes on Contributors Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Dangerous Masculinity Fatherhood Race and
Book SynopsisConsiders how those within the prison system negotiate their expectations about “real” men and “good” fathers, how prisoners negotiate their relationships with those outside of prison, and in what ways this negotiation reflects their understanding of masculinity.Trade Review"This compelling ethnography reveals the excruciating cost of mass incarceration on fathers and their families. Not only do institutional policies undermine relationships between imprisoned fathers and their kids, but gendered expectations of prison masculinity often derail men's efforts to be fathers in a meaningful sense. Curtis's book is an urgent reminder that dismantling mass incarceration is not enough--we must also heal the damage that has been done to children, families, and communities." -- Jill McCorkel * author of Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment *"Anna Curtis evocatively demonstrates how cultural tropes concerning blackness, criminality, and violence have cohered into the organizing concept of 'dangerous masculinity' within prisons. With a discerning eye, Curtis takes us into the prison to show us the sad and misunderstood consequences this has for fathers and their children." -- Timothy Black * author of When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Str *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Race inside America's Prisons 1 Neoliberal Responsibility and "Being There" as a Father 2 Little Me versus My Princess: Fathers’ Expectations about Gender 3 Unruly Boys and Dangerous Men: Security and Masculinity in Prison 4 Game Faces and Going up the Way: Enacting Masculinity in Prison Conclusion: The Conditions of Possibility Appendix: Methods and Research Setting Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£24.29
Rutgers University Press Dangerous Masculinity Fatherhood Race and
Book SynopsisConsiders how those within the prison system negotiate their expectations about “real” men and “good” fathers, how prisoners negotiate their relationships with those outside of prison, and in what ways this negotiation reflects their understanding of masculinity.Trade Review"This compelling ethnography reveals the excruciating cost of mass incarceration on fathers and their families. Not only do institutional policies undermine relationships between imprisoned fathers and their kids, but gendered expectations of prison masculinity often derail men's efforts to be fathers in a meaningful sense. Curtis's book is an urgent reminder that dismantling mass incarceration is not enough--we must also heal the damage that has been done to children, families, and communities." -- Jill McCorkel * author of Breaking Women: Gender, Race, and the New Politics of Imprisonment *"Anna Curtis evocatively demonstrates how cultural tropes concerning blackness, criminality, and violence have cohered into the organizing concept of 'dangerous masculinity' within prisons. With a discerning eye, Curtis takes us into the prison to show us the sad and misunderstood consequences this has for fathers and their children." -- Timothy Black * author of When a Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers On and Off the Str *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Race inside America's Prisons 1 Neoliberal Responsibility and "Being There" as a Father 2 Little Me versus My Princess: Fathers’ Expectations about Gender 3 Unruly Boys and Dangerous Men: Security and Masculinity in Prison 4 Game Faces and Going up the Way: Enacting Masculinity in Prison Conclusion: The Conditions of Possibility Appendix: Methods and Research Setting Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines intersectional identities of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality in Hollywood cinema. Intersectionality, traditionally associated with social activism, is used here more liberally as a critical and analytic tool to explore films, expressing multiple points of views and multiple ways of looking at films.Trade Review"Wide ranging and critically deep, Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity addresses the persistence of race in Hollywood film with considerable implications for the intersection of racism, misogyny, and identity we see today on big and small screens alike." -- Daniel Bernardi * editor of Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation *"This is a timely collection - forthright, expansive, and right up to date. Commonly situated at the margins of discussions of race and identity, intersectionality here is placed at the center, crucial to understanding Hollywood's uneven engagement with race, social justice, and ethics. These rigorous and generous readings of key moments across cinema history reveal Hollywood encountering and marking more fluid senses of identity than usually credited to popular film. In all this book shows how, in bell hooks's terms, Hollywood can 'make culture' in problematic, revealing, and surprisingly anticipatory ways." -- Jeffrey Geiger * author of American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation *"Konzett deserves thanks for curating another must-have book on cinema studies. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Those interested in identity politics and representation in film and media would find this helpful." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"Those interested in identity politics and representation in film and media would find this helpful." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction Hollywood Formulas: Codes, Masks, Genre, and Minstrelsy Daydreams of Society: Class and Gender Performances in the Cinema of the Late 1910s Ruth Mayer The Death of Lon Chaney: Masculinity, Race, and the Authenticity of Disguise Alice Maurice MGM’s Sleeping Lion: Hollywood Regulation of the Washingtonian Slave in The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) Ellen C. Scott Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings: The Black Camel (1931), Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935), and Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) Delia Malia KonzettGenre and Race in Classical Hollywood “A Queer, Strangled Look”: Race, Gender, and Morality in The Ox-Bow Incident Jonna Eagle By Herself: Intersectionality, African American Specialty Performers, and Eleanor Powell Ryan Jay Friedman Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships: Peola’s Racial Masquerade in Imitation of Life (1934) and Stella’s Class Masquerade in Stella Dallas (1937) Charlene Regester The Egotistical Sublime: Film Noir and Whiteness Matthias KonzettRace and Ethnicity in Post-World War II Hollywood Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas Chris Cagle Orientalism, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Go for Broke! (1951) Dean Itsuji Saranillio Savage Whiteness: The dialectic of racial desire in The Young Savages (1961) Graham Cassano Rita Moreno’s Hair Priscilla Peña OvalleIntersectionality, Hollywood, and Contemporary Popular Culture “Everything Glee in ‘America’”: Context, Race, and Identity Politics in the Glee Appropriation of West Side Story Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz Hip Hop “Hearts” Ballet: Utopic Multiculturalism and the Step Up Dance Films Mary BeltránFakin da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017): Exploring Black/Asian Relations in the Asian American Hood Film Jun Okada “Let Us Roam the Night Together”: On Articulation and Representation in Moonlight (2016) and Tongues Untied (1989) Louise Wallenberg Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
£27.90
Rutgers University Press Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines intersectional identities of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality in Hollywood cinema. Intersectionality, traditionally associated with social activism, is used here more liberally as a critical and analytic tool to explore films, expressing multiple points of views and multiple ways of looking at films.Trade Review"Wide ranging and critically deep, Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity addresses the persistence of race in Hollywood film with considerable implications for the intersection of racism, misogyny, and identity we see today on big and small screens alike." -- Daniel Bernardi * editor of Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation *"This is a timely collection - forthright, expansive, and right up to date. Commonly situated at the margins of discussions of race and identity, intersectionality here is placed at the center, crucial to understanding Hollywood's uneven engagement with race, social justice, and ethics. These rigorous and generous readings of key moments across cinema history reveal Hollywood encountering and marking more fluid senses of identity than usually credited to popular film. In all this book shows how, in bell hooks's terms, Hollywood can 'make culture' in problematic, revealing, and surprisingly anticipatory ways." -- Jeffrey Geiger * author of American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation *"Konzett deserves thanks for curating another must-have book on cinema studies. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Those interested in identity politics and representation in film and media would find this helpful." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"Those interested in identity politics and representation in film and media would find this helpful." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction Hollywood Formulas: Codes, Masks, Genre, and Minstrelsy Daydreams of Society: Class and Gender Performances in the Cinema of the Late 1910s Ruth Mayer The Death of Lon Chaney: Masculinity, Race, and the Authenticity of Disguise Alice Maurice MGM’s Sleeping Lion: Hollywood Regulation of the Washingtonian Slave in The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) Ellen C. Scott Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings: The Black Camel (1931), Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935), and Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) Delia Malia KonzettGenre and Race in Classical Hollywood “A Queer, Strangled Look”: Race, Gender, and Morality in The Ox-Bow Incident Jonna Eagle By Herself: Intersectionality, African American Specialty Performers, and Eleanor Powell Ryan Jay Friedman Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships: Peola’s Racial Masquerade in Imitation of Life (1934) and Stella’s Class Masquerade in Stella Dallas (1937) Charlene Regester The Egotistical Sublime: Film Noir and Whiteness Matthias KonzettRace and Ethnicity in Post-World War II Hollywood Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas Chris Cagle Orientalism, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Go for Broke! (1951) Dean Itsuji Saranillio Savage Whiteness: The dialectic of racial desire in The Young Savages (1961) Graham Cassano Rita Moreno’s Hair Priscilla Peña OvalleIntersectionality, Hollywood, and Contemporary Popular Culture “Everything Glee in ‘America’”: Context, Race, and Identity Politics in the Glee Appropriation of West Side Story Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz Hip Hop “Hearts” Ballet: Utopic Multiculturalism and the Step Up Dance Films Mary BeltránFakin da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017): Exploring Black/Asian Relations in the Asian American Hood Film Jun Okada “Let Us Roam the Night Together”: On Articulation and Representation in Moonlight (2016) and Tongues Untied (1989) Louise Wallenberg Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
£105.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia What Reconstruction Meant Historical Memory in the American South
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£18.00
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Segregations Science
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Limited Choices
Book SynopsisDocuments the slow progress of change for many African Americans in the South, explores the still little-known experiences of Black household workers in the suburban North, and reconstructs the textured lives that Mable Jones and the many women like her nevertheless carved out in a system that was and continues to be stacked against them.Trade ReviewThis excellent book explores the intersections between race, class, and gender, as well as how additional variables such as location and time impact these dynamics. I appreciate the focus on the principal subject, Mable Jones, throughout this commendable book—even as the authors explore the context of her life and work and their own relationship with Mable Jones." - Brian J. Daugherity, Virginia Commonwealth University, coeditor of A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia"Understanding Mable Jones’s working conditions in the North further elucidates the realities of Black migration. We understand more clearly the circumstances under which Black domestics maintained familial ties to the South and are made to realize that migration does not break bonds but can strengthen them. Consequently, Limited Choices can be read as a cogent synthesis of modern African American history." - From the foreword by Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director, Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
£18.86
Wayne State University Press Negroes with Guns
Book SynopsisExamining events surrounding the test case of the right of Blacks to armed self-defense in the 1960s, this book tells the story of a Southern Black community's struggle to defend themselves against the Ku Klux Klan and other racists. This book heavily influenced the leader of the Black Panthers.
£19.96
Wayne State University Press A Peoples Atlas of Detroit Great Lakes Books
Book SynopsisIn recent years, Detroit has been touted as undergoing a renaissance, yet many people have been left behind. Drawing on action research and counter-cartography, A People's Atlas of Detroit aims to both chart and help build movements for social justice in the city.Trade ReviewA People's Atlas of Detroit is a remarkable achievement. Not only is Detroit one of the most important cities to understand, but this book includes a multiplicity of forms of knowledge, which, when woven together, tell a powerful story. A People's Atlas of Detroit offers a new model and standard for critical urban geography. This book not only works to understand the many ways Detroit has come to help establish the urban fabric of the United States, but does so through a deeply embodied and popular mode of analysis that feels generative well beyond the specifics of the city itself. Detroit organizing has always been among the smartest, sharpest, and innovative work throughout people's history. This is a project that provides more evidence of this fact-a thoughtful, important resource developed by the people in the very best tradition of community-led and -centered research and analysis. A People's Atlas of Detroit proves once again that if we seek to understand a place, we must break with the extractive practice of traditional 'research' and listen to the people who make it what it is.
£29.96
New York University Press God and Blackness Race Gender and Identity in a
Book SynopsisBlackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio-political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. This book offers a study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community.Trade Review"WithGod and Blackness, Abrams gives us an engaging case study of a twenty-first-century American Religious world, expanding our conceptions of contemporary Protestantism scholars of American religion, race and class will find this ethnography fascinating." * Religion and Society *"What does it mean to treat everyday and existential commitments to 'blackness' in anthropologically holistic ways? God and Blackness provides one compelling version of an answer to that question. Abrams uses this rich ethnographic study of an Afrocentric church in suburban Atlanta to tackle an important and longstanding conceptual terrain, pushing readers to think just a little bit differently about some of their taken-for-granted assumptions vis-à-vis race, gender, class, and spirituality in all of their mutually constitutive simultaneity. . . . A very engaging read!" -- John L. Jackson, Jr.,author of Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity""A welcome ethnographic study on middle-class African Americans. Abrams's research constitutes a significant advance in the study of Black religion and African American Studies. She reports on congregants views concerning blackness, middle-class status, feminism, and national identity and skillfully explores how middle class African Americans manage the tensions that arise between middle-class identity, Afro centrism, and Womanist perspectives. " -- Stephen D. Glazier,University of Nebraska-Lincoln"Abrams has written a striking interrogation of the multivalence of black identity constructions within Afrocentric communities wedded to Christianity. Using First Afrikan Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, GA, as a lens by which to expose the problematic nature of racial essentialism within concepts of Afrocentrism, Abrams reveals the fluid, convoluted ways black identity is constructed through class and gender experiences within local black Christian communities seeking to root themselves in Afrocentric paradigms. Furthering the arguments ofVictor Turner and W. E. B. DuBois around liminality and double consciousness, Abrams discloses the numerous ways in which black Christian nationalism, Americanness, and middle classness are structured within Afrocentric Christian identities.Summing Up: Recommended." * Choice *"God and Blacknessis an ideal introductory text for undergraduate courses on American religion and critical race theory, illustrating First Afrikan beliefs in compelling fashion while situating them within the contours of current scholarship on the intersections of race, class, and gender in the US." * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Sunday Morning: Anthropology of a Church 1. The First Afrikan Way: Method and Context 2. Situating the Self: Becoming Afrikan in America 3. "Who I Am and Whose I Am": Race and Religion 4. Ebony Affluence: Afrocentric Middle Classness 5. Eve's Positionality: Afrocentric and Womanist Ideologies Conclusion: The Benediction: Ashe Ashe Ashe O References Index About the Author
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New York University Press Achieving Blackness Race Black Nationalism and
Book SynopsisProvides a history of Blackness and a theoretically challenging understanding of race and ethnicity. This book traces how Blackness was defined by cultural ideas, social practices and shared identities as well as shaped in response to the social and historical conditions at different moments in American history.Trade ReviewAlgernon Austin offers sweeping, occasionally defiant, essays on the state of Black social and political thought. Achieving Blackness will provoke, inspire, irritate, and educate its readers. Austin may well be setting the agenda for a new generation of race theorists. -- Charles Lemert,author of Dark Thoughts: Race and the Eclipse of SocietyAustin does a magnificent job of advancing the field and pushes the scholarly conversation in exciting and productive directions. Beautifully written, this truly is a groundbreaking piece of work and will have a major impact on the field because it challenges leading theorists and well-established theories of race and difference. -- David N. Pellow,author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in ChicagoThis book is engagingly written from start to finish, and, since (Austin) draws upon- and often debunks- views of other scholars, I felt like I was eavesdropping at a symposium which grew heated at times. . . . I also must confess this is the most compelling reading I've done this year. -- Gerri Gribi,Curator, AfroAmericanHeritage.comThis highly informed work addresses a complicated and difficult topic in light of solid research and common sense. It should become required reading for those who are interested in clear definitions and balanced views. -- Wilson J. Moses,author of Creative Conflict in African American ThoughtTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of TablesPreface 1 Making Races 2 Asiatic Identity in the Nation of Islam 3 Achieving Blackness during the Black Power Era 4 The Racial Structures of Black Power 5 The Racial Ideology of Afrocentrism 6 Conservative Black Nationalism in the Afrocentric Era 7 Change in Black Nationalism in the Twentieth Century =8 Making Races, Making Ethnicities Appendix Notes Index About the Author
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New York University Press Musical ImagiNation U.SColombian Identity and
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan MiamiTrade ReviewCepeda's analysis stands on its own strength, grounded in her explication of complex social contexts in which popular Colombian music is made and disseminated . . . She skillfully weaves analyses of race, gender, class, and nation and offers multiple readings of of singular texts or perfromances. -- Hui Wilcox * Ethnic and Racial Studies *The book is a major contribution to studies of the production of Latin music in the United States and a significant intervention into debates about musical identities in an out of Columbia. -- Keith Negus * Journal of Popular Music *A valuable contribution to Latino/a cultural studies. Cepedas book expands the traditional boundaries by focusing on Colombianos transnational identity through popular music. Cepedas sophisticated, critical, and compelling arguments locate popular music as an alternative to violence in the social imaginaries of and about Colombianos. Erudite, rigorously researched, and accessibly written. -- Frances R. Aparicio,author of Listening to SalsaUsing the lens of popular music to illuminate the aesthetics and identities of Colombian musicians and their fans within the United States, Maria Elena Cepedas Musical ImagiNation finally gives these & new Latinos, so long tainted by facile and stereotypical associations with drugs and violence, the thorough and respectful attention they deserve. A masterful and deft exposition that draws the threads of social history, media studies, transnational studies, and gender and critical discourse together. -- Deborah Pacini Hernandez,Tufts University
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New York University Press Musical ImagiNation U.SColombian Identity and
Book SynopsisProvides an overview of the ongoing Colombian political and economic crisis and the dynamics of Colombian immigration to metropolitan MiamiTrade Review"Cepeda's analysis stands on its own strength, grounded in her explication of complex social contexts in which popular Colombian music is made and disseminated . . . She skillfully weaves analyses of race, gender, class, and nation and offers multiple readings of of singular texts or perfromances." -- Hui Wilcox * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"The book is a major contribution to studies of the production of Latin music in the United States and a significant intervention into debates about musical identities in an out of Columbia." -- Keith Negus * Journal of Popular Music *"A valuable contribution to Latino/a cultural studies. Cepedas book expands the traditional boundaries by focusing on Colombianos transnational identity through popular music. Cepedas sophisticated, critical, and compelling arguments locate popular music as an alternative to violence in the social imaginaries of and about Colombianos. Erudite, rigorously researched, and accessibly written." -- Frances R. Aparicio,author of Listening to Salsa"Using the lens of popular music to illuminate the aesthetics and identities of Colombian musicians and their fans within the United States, Maria Elena Cepedas Musical ImagiNation finally gives these & new Latinos, so long tainted by facile and stereotypical associations with drugs and violence, the thorough and respectful attention they deserve. A masterful and deft exposition that draws the threads of social history, media studies, transnational studies, and gender and critical discourse together." -- Deborah Pacini Hernandez,Tufts University
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New York University Press Sustaining Faith Traditions Race Ethnicity and
Book SynopsisExamines the religious experiences of the new second generation of immigrants to the US: the children of Asian and Latino immigrantsTrade Review"[T]he volume presents in rich empirical detail the way religion remains important in many different ways for Latino and Asian second-generation migrants in the USA. Sustaining Faith Traditionsallows us a glimpse into the ways in which the needs of migrant groups change over time and the role religion can play in their life, thus reaffirming its importance." -- Carolina Ivanescu * Social Anthropology *"A generation of scholars has arisen that makes clear the complex, shifting, but organic links between religion and racial and ethnic identities. Sustaining Faith Traditionsdemonstrates that the sociology of religion is alive, well, and relevant in today's America. Casting off the simplistic assimilation theories of earlier scholars, they chart a sophisticated course among race, religion, class, and context to explain the experiences, affiliations, and identities of second-generation Americans. In vivid ethnographic and interview studies, the contributing authors take you inside houses of worship, families, and communities. They illuminate how second-generation Korean, Arab, Mexican, Chinese, Filipino, and Jewish Americans live their religions and experience their identities. Students of religion, immigration, multiculturalism, and ethnic identity will want to read this book." -- Paul Spickard ,University of California, Santa Barbara"a well cited book for immigrant religion scholarship" -- Philip Conner * Sociology of Religion *"This book is particularly suited for scholars of immigrant religion, as well as those of racial and ethnic identity, as it increases the understanding of the complexity of race, ethnicity, and religion for second generation immigrant communities. It is a well-written and organized volume...provides empirical research from leaders in the subfield of immigrant religion." -- Jennifer L. Le * Religious Research Association Review *"Sustaining Faith Traditions includes an impressive array of new studies examining how race, ethnicity, and religion permeate the lives of second-generation Asian and Latino immigrants. Taken as whole, the collection shows how diverse faith traditions transform 21st-century America, offering a nuanced understanding of ethnoreligious hybridity and racialism." -- Min Zhou,Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies, UCLA, and author of Contemporary Chinese AmericaTable of Contents1. Introduction: Religious, Racial, and Ethnic Identities of the New Second Generation Part I : Re l igious Primacy2. The Diversity-Affirming Latino: Ethnic Options and the Ethnic Transcendent Expression of American Latino Religious Identity 3. Islam Is to Catholicism as Teflon Is to Velcro: Religion and Culture among Muslims and Latinas 4. Second-Generation Asian Americans and Judaism Part I I : Racial i z ed Re l igion5. Second-Generation Latin@ Faith Institutions and Identity Formations 6. Latinos and Faith-Based Recovery from Gangs Part I I I : Hybrid i z ed Ethnore l igion7. Racial Insularity and Ethnic Faith: The Emerging Korean American Religious Elite 8. Second-Generation Filipino American Faithful: Are They "Praying and Sending"? 9. Second-Generation Korean American Christians' Communities:Congregational Hybridity Part IV : Minority Re l igions and Fami ly Trad itioning10. Second-Generation Chinese Americans: The Familism of the Nonreligious 11. "I Would Pay Homage, Not Go All 'Bling'": Vietnamese American Youth Reflect on Family and Religious Life 12. Religion in the Lives of Second-Generation Indian American Hindus About the ContributorsIndex
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New York University Press Brooklyns Promised Land The Free Black Community
Book SynopsisIn 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place.Trade Review"In Brooklyn's Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York, Judith Wellman, an emeritus professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, reanimates this black nationalist enclave in the boroughs eastern Beford Hills, which by the Civil War had more than 500 residents." * New York Times *"The author uses a variety of sources and biography to paint a multifaceted picture of Weeksvillean important symbol of African Americans struggle for equality and justice during a time when the nation did not want them to have either." * The Journal of American History *"Brooklyn's Promised Land is local history at its best. It sheds light on the politics, family life, and economic strivings of a remarkable independent black community all but lost to history." * Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University *"A comprehensive history of Weeksville, Brooklyn's nineteenth and early twentieth century free black community, is long overdue. Judith Wellman's meticulously researched and clearly written social history finally charts this story through the lives of teachers, ministers, activists, a woman doctor, and ordinary citizens. What an important contribution to the lexicon of books on New York, African American history, and the history of the preservation of African American historic sites and museums." * Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Distinguished Professor, State University of NY College at Oneonta *"Fascinating and meticulously researched. . . . It highlights the experiences of a community founded on black nationalist principles during a time of instability in American race relations, and it highlights the power of blacks in carving out their own community in Brooklyn." * Jane Dabel, California State University, Long Beach *"In this fascinating and groundbreaking book, Judith Wellman opens wide a window on not just one long-forgotten community of black New Yorkers, but also more broadly upon the diverse, sometimes surprisingly successful lives of urban African Americans in the nineteenth century. Rooted in fine-grained research, written with grace and a fine eye for the telling detail, this book should serve be a model for historians struggling to wrest the realities of antebellum black life from scant documentary records, and the willful forgetting of the larger society." * Fergus M. Bordewich, author of America's Great Debate *"Judith Wellman has skillfully demonstrated how the success of her subjects transcends their important local history and enriches our understanding of free black life in nineteenth-century America. Brooklyns Promised Land is a welcome addition to the growing literature on free African Americans in the U.S. and New York in particular, and merits a place on the shelf of any serious student of antebellum black life." * American Historical Review *"Not a novel, but nevertheless a fascinating story of Weeksville, the little-known community of free blacks in what is today Crown Heights. Nearly lost to demolition, Weeksville was rediscovered in 1966 and is today home to several restored houses and a handsome new welcome center. Wellman tells the whole story, from the villages roots in the 1830s to its near fall into oblivion in the late 20th century." * Newsweek.com *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Brooklyn's Promised Land, Weeksville, 1 1835-1910: "A Model for Places of Much Greater Pretensions" 1. "Here Will We Take Our Stand": Weeksville's Origins, 13 from Slavery to Freedom, 1770-1840 2. "Owned and Occupied by Our Own People": Weeksville's 49 Growth: Family, Work, and Community, 1840-1860 3. "Shall We Fly or Shall We Resist?": From Emigration to the 97 Civil War, 1850-1865 4. "Fair Schools, a Fine Building, Finished Writers, Strong 137 Minded Women": Politics, Women's Activism, and the Roots of Progressive Reform, 1865-1910 5. "Cut Through and Gridironed by Streets": Physical Changes, 183 1860-1880 6. "Part of This Magically Growing City": Weeksville's Growth 211 and Disappearance, 1880-1910 7. "A Seemingly Viable Neighborhood That No Longer Exists": 226 Weeksville, Lost and Found, 1910-2010 Notes 241 Index 279 About the Author 295 Maps appear as an insert following page 136.
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New York University Press We Will Shoot Back
Book SynopsisReconstructs the use of armed resistance by Black activists and supporters in Mississippi to challenge racist terrorism, segregation, and fight for human rights and political empowermentTrade Review"In We Will Shoot Back, Umoja presents a compelling and important argument for the role of armed resistance played in the Mississippi freedom struggle. . . . He successfully challenges the often silent narrative on the importance and prevalence of armed resistance in Mississippi and, in doing so, We Will Shoot Back underscores the importance of reexamining the Mississippi movement in all of its complexities." * Register of the Kentucky Historical Society *"Umoja follows confrontation in communities across the state through the ends of the 1970s, demonstrating how black Mississippians were ultimately able to overcome intimidation by mainstream society, defeat legal segregation, and claim a measure of political control of their state." * The Clarion-Ledger *"In We Will Shoot Back, historian Akinyele Omowale Umoja adds his voice to the flurry of recent scholarship that examines the relationship between armed self-defense and nonviolent protest in the black freedom struggle. Umoja Succeeds in his quest to enshrine a tradition of militant self-defense within Mississippi's black freedom struggle." * Journal of African American History *"[B]y extending the narrative of armed resistance through the late 1970s and emphasizing grassroots activism, this well-researched and beautifully written book succeeds in pushing historiographical boundaries. It will undoubtedly be of interest to scholars and students alike." * Journal of American History *"[Nelson Mandela's] sister recalled when considering that thing in him; that courage and light in the world would eventually herald. . . . Akinyele Umoja, chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta and author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement concurs." -- Asha Bandele * Ebony *"Akinyele Umoja's marvelously rich and exhaustive study of Mississippi will radically transform the debate about the role of nonviolence within the civil rights movement, proving that armed self-defense actually saved lives, reduced terrorist attacks on African American communities, and laid the foundation for unparalleled community solidarity. We Will Shoot Back is decidedly not a romantic celebration of gun culture, but a sometimes sobering, sometimes beautiful story of self-reliance and self-determination and a peoples capacity to sustain a movement against all odds." * Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination *"Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking of Black Southerners about the forms of effective resistance." * Charles M. Payne, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago *"The book is meticulously researched and easily accessible. Part of a wider trend toward understanding social movements through targeted community studies and oral histories, Umoja's scholarship has contributed to a deeper, richer, and ultimately more accurate understanding of the civil rights/black power movement(s). The stereotype of cowering black sharecroppers, awaiting the intervention of well-meaning white do-gooders to rescue them from virulent Klansmen, cannot withstand the withering fire of We Will Shoot Back." -- Christopher Strain * American Historical Review *"This riveting historical narrative relies upon oral history, archival material, and scholarly literature to reconstruct the use of armed resistance by Black activists and supporters in Mississippi to challenge racist terrorism, segregation, and fight for human rights and political empowerment from the early 1950s through the late 1970's." * Mark Anthony Neal *"Timely and timeless. . . . Expands our understanding of the hidden narratives of Mississippi's black armed resistance groups scattered through generations." * Kathleen Cleaver, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Emory Law School *"Umoja's eye-opening work is a powerful and provocative addition to the literature of the civil rights movement." * Publishers Weekly *"[Umoja] asserts that armed resistance played a significant role in the Mississippi Black Freedom Struggle, providing a useful corrective to the assumption that southern blacks were passive in response to white terror and the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Umoja's greatest contribution is to tell the stories of the less well-known black Mississippians who had the courage to confront White racism and fight back. . . . Their stories and legacy provide an essential correction to the stereotype of indigenous southern black passivity perpetuated by such popular Hollywood fare as Mississippi Burning (1988)." * Journal of American Culture *"Umoja (Georgia State Univ.) challenges the notion that the classic civil rights movement in the southern US was always a nonviolent movement. He provides new information and interpretations, which are a welcome contribution to knowledge of this period in the 1960s and an appreciated addition to the history of the civil rights movement." * Choice *"Umoja has contributed to a more complex and less romanticized understanding of the civil rights movement by documenting civil rights tactics difficult to hail in & beloved community tones: the deployment of coercion toward the very people the movement meant to free from coercion." * American Quarterly *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 11. Terror and Resistance: Foundations of the Civil 11Rights Insurgency2. "I'm Here, Not Backing Up": Emergence of Grassroots 27Militancy and Armed Self-Defense in the 1950s3. "Can't Give Up My Stuff ": Nonviolent Organizations 50and Armed Resistance4. "Local People Carry the Day": Freedom Summer 83and Challenges to Nonviolence in Mississippi5. "Ready to Die and Defend": Natchez and the Advocacy 121and Emergence of Armed Resistance in Mississippi6. "We Didn't Turn No Jaws": Black Power, Boycotts, 145and the Growing Debate on Armed Resistance7. "Black Revolution Has Come": Armed Insurgency, Black 173Power, and Revolutionary Nationalism in the Mississippi Freedom Struggle8. "No Longer Afraid": The United League, Activist 211Litigation, Armed Self-Defense, and Insurgent Resilience in Northern MississippiConclusion: Looking Back So We Can Move Forward 254Notes 261Index 305About the Author 339
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New York University Press From Bombay to Bollywood The Making of a Global
Book SynopsisAnalyses the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as BollywoodTrade ReviewReaders concerned with new media configurations in the wake of globalization will be attracted to From Bombay to Bollywood. The structure and prose grow clearer as the book proceeds. No prior knowledge of the Indian film industry is needed, but the Bombay Bollywood evolution provides insights that will carry over to those concerned with media developments in places ranging from Lagos to Sao Paulo. -- Maria Magdalena Leturia Bravo,International Journal of CommunicationFrom Bombay to Bollywoodis a truly distinctive contribution to the field of global media studies. Punathambekar's comparative and transnational approach examines the movement of people, capital, images, and ideas. An engrossing read. -- Marwan Kraidy,author of Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public LifeHistorically situating the spatial and geographical coordinates of both 'Bollywood' and 'Bombay' within global landscapes of intermedia relationships and expanding the domains within which we can constitute and imagine these as focal points, this book crucially illustrates that Bollywood can no longer be imagined only as a film industry. * The Velvet Light Trap *Aswin Punathambekars From Bombay to Bollywood is a welcome addition to the recent shift in Indian film and media studies from an overwhelming focus on texts to ethnographies of Bollywoods industrial, production, and material practices. [] [T]his book crucially illustrates that Bollywood can no longer be imagined only as a film industry. * The Velvet Light Trap *[A] timely reminder of the untapped potential of Bombay's film industry for extending existing theoretical frameworks in media, film and production studies...If the changing text in Bombay cinema in the past decade has been a visible fact, Punathambekar's book demystifies that change by showing us the structural, geographic, and material transformations that have enabled a new form of meaning making to emerge in Bombay. * Media, Culture & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 Bollywood Is Useful: Media Industries and the State in an Era of Reform2 Staging Bollywood: Industrial Identity in an Era of Reform 3 "It's All about Knowing Your Audience": Marketing and Promotions in Bollywood4 "Multiplex with Unlimited Seats": Dot-Coms and the Making of an Overseas Territory5 "It's Not Your Dad's Bollywood": Diasporic Entrepreneurs and the Allure of Digital MediaConclusion: Fandom and Other Transnational Futures Appendix 1: Profiles of Key Bollywood Companies Appendix 2: Top Box-Office Successes, 2000-2009 Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press The Games Black Girls Play
Book Synopsis2007 Alan Merriam Prize presented by the Society for Ethnomusicology 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Book Award FinalistExplores how the traditions of black music are intertwined in the games black girls grow up withWhen we think of African American popular music, our first thought is probably not of double-dutch: girls bouncing between two twirling ropes, keeping time to the tick-tat under their toes. But this book argues that the games black girls playhandclapping songs, cheers, and double-dutch jump ropeboth reflect and inspire the principles of black popular musicmaking.The Games Black Girls Play illustrates how black musical styles are incorporated into the earliest games African American girls learnhow, in effect, these games contain the DNA of black music. Drawing on interviews, recordings of handclapping games and cheers, and her own observation and memories of gameplaying, Kyra D. Gaunt argues that black girls'' games are connecteTrade Review"Fusing academic prose with vividly rendered memories, Gaunt's journey is refreshing. . . . Gaunt successfully lifts ignored girls from obscurity to center stage. . . . With The Games Black Girls Play, Gaunt has created a necessary space for translating black girls joy in a society that typically overlooks it. Hopefully, others will take their turn and jump in to keep the games going." * Bitch *"In thoughtful and affectionate prose, Gaunt makes plain how the schoolyard syncopations of body and voice are both oral-kinetic play and improvised lessons in socializing girls into the unique social practices of black urban life. . . . The Games Black Girls Play is a smart, delightful and witty polemic of attributions; a cultural benchmark of the complex web of history, race and gender to suggest a & gendered musical blackness and an & ethnographic truth linking the & intergenerational cultures of black musical expression as embodied in the infectious playfulness of black girls." * Black Issues Book Review *"The Games Black Girls Play is an insightful inquiry into a frequently overlooked and influential site of cultural production." * Popular Music *"Gaunt provides a layered and rich analysis of a cultural form that has been all but ignored by scholars far and wide." * Gender and Society *"The Games Black Girls Play is beautifully and passionately written. This book presents an engaging reflexive narrative that ranges from childhood memories to involvement with ethnomusicological scholarship. Gaunt makes a convincing argument that the playsongs of African American girls is the foundation of African diasporic popular music-making. In a radical counter-history, she shows how African American girls-interlocutors who are triply minoritized through race, gender, and age-are producing music culture that has profound influences on popular music and the popular imagination. She calls for an engaged ethnomusicology and moves gracefully through an array of anti-essentialist perspectives on race and gender. She argues that kinetic orality is key to African American musicking and that the body is always a locus of memory and communality. From somatic historiography to serious cross-talk with girls, Gaunt offers new methodologies for ethnomusicological work. The reader is pulled into a world in which Black girls are masters of musical knowledge, and in emerging from the book, we can't see the world of American popular music in the same way. When we chant Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack is dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back, we suddenly see how musical play and embodied knowledge generates a world of raced and gendered sociality. Oo-lay oo-lay! Congratulations, Kyra!" * President Elect Professor Deborah Wong, Society for Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsList of Musical Figures AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 Slide: Games as Lessons in Black Musical Style 2 Education, Liberation: Learning the Ropes of a Musical Blackness 3 Mary Mack Dressed in Black: The Earliest Formation of a Popular Music 4 Saw You With Your Boyfriend: Music between the Sexes 5 Who's Got Next Game? Women, Hip-Hop, and the Power of Language 6 Double Forces Has Got the Beat: Reclaiming Girls' Music in the Sport of Double-Dutch 7 Let a Woman Jump: Dancing with the Double Dutch Divas Conclusion Appendix: Musical Transcriptions of Game-Songs Studied Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Dangerous Curves Latina Bodies in the Media
Book SynopsisTraces the visibility of the Latina body in the media and popular culture by analyzing a broad range of popular media including news, media gossip, movies, television news, and online audience discussions.Trade ReviewThis compelling study examines the visibility and marketability of Latina actors and characters in tabloids, blogs, telenovelas, movies, and music... [Molina-Guzman] argues that deviation from prescribed images unsettles mainstream viewers, whose notions of identity/sexuality reject foreign or exotic representations. * Choice *Dangerous Curves is an absolutely essential, central, and most insightful component of Latina/o media studies. Molina-Guzman brings together structural, labor, textual, and audience elements to provide a nuanced analysis whose influence will span across communication, media, and Latina/o studies. -- Angharad N. Valdivia,University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDangerous Curves is an unswerving look at the flattening out of Latina lives in mainstream media narratives. A must read for anyone interested in understanding why and under what conditions the slightest tear of a stereotype can be perceived as disruptive of the social fabric. -- Frances Negron-Muntaner,author of Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American CultureDangerous Curves remains an engaging and compelling examination of the conflicting demands placed on Latina bodies in the popular imagination. -- Magdalena L. Barrera, Camino RealTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Mapping the Place of Latinas in the U.S. Media 1 Saving Elian: Cubana Motherhood, Latina Immigration, and the Nation 2 Disciplining J.Lo: Booty Politics in Tabloid News 3 Becoming Frida: Latinidad and the Production of Latina Authenticity 4 "Ugly" America Dreams the American Dream 5 Maid in Hollywood: Producing Latina Labor in an Anti-immigration Imaginary Conclusion: An Epilogue for Dangerous Curves Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Manning the Race
Book SynopsisManning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Marlon Ross provides an intellectual history of both famous and lesser-known men who have served?controversially?as models and foils for black masculine competence. Ross examines a host of early twentieth-century cultural sites where black masculinity struggles against Jim Crow: the mobilization of the New Negro; the sexual politics of autobiography in the post-emancipation generation; the emergence of black male sociology; sexual rivalry and networking in biracial uplift institutions; Negro Renaissance arts patronage; and the sexual construction of the black urban folk novel. Focusing on the overlooked dynamics of symbolic fraternity, intimate friendship, and erotic bonding within and across gender, Manning the Race is the first book to integrate same-sexuality into the cultural histTrade ReviewIn this rich, eloquent, and indeed magisterial study, Marlon B. Ross explores how black manhood was constructed, produced, and reproduced under Jim Crow. At once cultural criticism and intellectual history, Manning the Race is a landmark contribution to the study of the deeply imbricated discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and nation. -- Valerie Smith,Princeton UniversityAn ambitious intellectual history of black manhood reform in the New Negro Movement, dating roughly from the 1890s to the 1940s. * GC Advocate *This major effort describes and analyzes how African American men were socialized and imaged for their public and private roles in the early 20th Century. Ross takes readers deeper into new dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance and African American urban life. * CHOICE *
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New York University Press Manning the Race
Book SynopsisManning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Marlon Ross provides an intellectual history of both famous and lesser-known men who have served?controversially?as models and foils for black masculine competence. Ross examines a host of early twentieth-century cultural sites where black masculinity struggles against Jim Crow: the mobilization of the New Negro; the sexual politics of autobiography in the post-emancipation generation; the emergence of black male sociology; sexual rivalry and networking in biracial uplift institutions; Negro Renaissance arts patronage; and the sexual construction of the black urban folk novel. Focusing on the overlooked dynamics of symbolic fraternity, intimate friendship, and erotic bonding within and across gender, Manning the Race is the first book to integrate same-sexuality into the cultural histTrade ReviewIn this rich, eloquent, and indeed magisterial study, Marlon B. Ross explores how black manhood was constructed, produced, and reproduced under Jim Crow. At once cultural criticism and intellectual history, Manning the Race is a landmark contribution to the study of the deeply imbricated discourses of gender, sexuality, race, and nation. -- Valerie Smith,Princeton UniversityAn ambitious intellectual history of black manhood reform in the New Negro Movement, dating roughly from the 1890s to the 1940s. * GC Advocate *This major effort describes and analyzes how African American men were socialized and imaged for their public and private roles in the early 20th Century. Ross takes readers deeper into new dimensions of the Harlem Renaissance and African American urban life. * CHOICE *
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New York University Press Partly Colored Asian Americans and Racial
Book SynopsisAnalyzing pre and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, this title investigates the ways in which racially 'in-between' people and communities were brought to heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic.Trade ReviewPartly Coloredis a work that should be read not only by those interested in the South or regionalism but by all scholars interested in issues of racialization. -- Jennifer Ho * Journal of Asian American Studies *Bow's work is an imoprtant contribution to Asian American studies and southern literary criticism, and it brings together two forms of intellectual inquiry that have been treated as quite distinct by other scholars. -- Krystyn R. Moon * The Journal of Southern History *Intelligent and provocative. Partly Colored exemplifies the full possibility of & trans scholarshiptransnational, transracial, transgender, and transdisciplinary. With a deep appreciation of the ways in which mobility, hybridity and interstitiality itself exist within systems of power, accommodating themselves to the tropes and laws of the white supremacist South, Bow consistently demonstrates the telling power of black/white divisions. -- David Roediger,author of How Race Survived U.S. HistoryThrough her brilliantly executed and wide ranging analyses of how Asian Americans, Native Americans and other & partly colored subjects in the American South have been depicted and have depicted themselves, Bow reveals the region to be haunted by a different set of racial histories than the ones with which we have become familiar. She offers a revelatory perspective on how those who occupy the liminal zone between black and white negotiate the dynamic and contradictory social processes that sustain a monochromatic conception of race. -- Daniel Y. Kim,author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of IdentityAn impressive and well-researched interdisciplinary response. * MELUS *Scrutinizing the bipolar axis of power separating black from white under the Jim Crowe system of segregation, Bow tracks the oppression and elision of those who are partly colored"here chiefly Asian Americans but with comparative nods to Native Americans and the binaries characterizing gender and sexuality . . . What she finds is not a "third space" apart from black or white but an eneven extension of repression of racial differences into which Asian American subjects are shoehorned or erased. * Journal of American History *In a refreshingly wide-ranging study, Bow compares the circumstances of the Lumbee Indians with those of Asiansthe two groups were not classified as black or white. The author considers the consequences of intermarriage in the racialization of Asians, as well as the roles of class and gender. Above all, she explores the rich interstitial possibilities of Asians being in-between set categories. This stimulating read is suitable for a broad audience. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Interstitially 1 Coloring between the Lines: Historiographies of Southern Anomaly 2 The Interstitial Indian: The Lumbee and Segregation's Middle Caste 3 White Is and White Ain't: Failed Approximation and Eruptions of Funk in Representations of the Chinese in the South 4 Anxieties of the 'Partly Colored' 5 Productive Estrangement: Racial-Sexual Continuums in Asian American as Southern Literature 6 Transracial/Transgender: Analogies of Difference in Mai's America Afterword: Continuums, Mobility, Places on the Train Notes Works Cited Index About the Author
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New York University Press Partly Colored Asian Americans and Racial
Book SynopsisAnalyzing pre and post-1954 American literature, film, autobiography, government documents, ethnography, photographs, and popular culture, this title investigates the ways in which racially 'in-between' people and communities were brought to heel within the South's prevailing cultural logic.Trade ReviewPartly Coloredis a work that should be read not only by those interested in the South or regionalism but by all scholars interested in issues of racialization. -- Jennifer Ho * Journal of Asian American Studies *Bow's work is an imoprtant contribution to Asian American studies and southern literary criticism, and it brings together two forms of intellectual inquiry that have been treated as quite distinct by other scholars. -- Krystyn R. Moon * The Journal of Southern History *Intelligent and provocative. Partly Colored exemplifies the full possibility of & trans scholarshiptransnational, transracial, transgender, and transdisciplinary. With a deep appreciation of the ways in which mobility, hybridity and interstitiality itself exist within systems of power, accommodating themselves to the tropes and laws of the white supremacist South, Bow consistently demonstrates the telling power of black/white divisions. -- David Roediger,author of How Race Survived U.S. HistoryThrough her brilliantly executed and wide ranging analyses of how Asian Americans, Native Americans and other & partly colored subjects in the American South have been depicted and have depicted themselves, Bow reveals the region to be haunted by a different set of racial histories than the ones with which we have become familiar. She offers a revelatory perspective on how those who occupy the liminal zone between black and white negotiate the dynamic and contradictory social processes that sustain a monochromatic conception of race. -- Daniel Y. Kim,author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of IdentityAn impressive and well-researched interdisciplinary response. * MELUS *Scrutinizing the bipolar axis of power separating black from white under the Jim Crowe system of segregation, Bow tracks the oppression and elision of those who are partly colored"here chiefly Asian Americans but with comparative nods to Native Americans and the binaries characterizing gender and sexuality . . . What she finds is not a "third space" apart from black or white but an eneven extension of repression of racial differences into which Asian American subjects are shoehorned or erased. * Journal of American History *In a refreshingly wide-ranging study, Bow compares the circumstances of the Lumbee Indians with those of Asiansthe two groups were not classified as black or white. The author considers the consequences of intermarriage in the racialization of Asians, as well as the roles of class and gender. Above all, she explores the rich interstitial possibilities of Asians being in-between set categories. This stimulating read is suitable for a broad audience. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Interstitially 1 Coloring between the Lines: Historiographies of Southern Anomaly 2 The Interstitial Indian: The Lumbee and Segregation's Middle Caste 3 White Is and White Ain't: Failed Approximation and Eruptions of Funk in Representations of the Chinese in the South 4 Anxieties of the 'Partly Colored' 5 Productive Estrangement: Racial-Sexual Continuums in Asian American as Southern Literature 6 Transracial/Transgender: Analogies of Difference in Mai's America Afterword: Continuums, Mobility, Places on the Train Notes Works Cited Index About the Author
£23.74
New York University Press Sports Matters
Book SynopsisSports Matters brings critical attention to the centrality of race within the politics and pleasures of the massive sports culture that developed in the U.S. during the past century and a half.Trade Review"Most of the contributions strongly project the authors' perceptions of the role of race on their subjects, and essays should elicit lively discussions in the classroom." --CHOICETable of ContentsI Sports in the Era of Segregation 1 Duke Kahanamoku's Body 2 Jump for Joy 3 Baseball along the Columbia 4 Mexican American Baseball II Sports in the Era of the Civil Rights Movement 5 Jazzing the Basepaths 6 The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing 7 "We Want a Pennant, Not a White Team" 8 Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? 9 Documenting Myth III Sports and Race in the Post-Cold War Era 10 The Silence of the Rams 11 Warriors and Thieves 12 Running with Her Head Down 13 Saving Face, Place, and Race 14 Race in Soccer as a Global Sport 15 Tiger Woods at the Center of History
£23.74
New York University Press Policing Hatred
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection of race and law enforcement in the controversial area of hate crimeHigh-profile hate crimes like the torture-murder of Matthew Shepard and the dragging death of James Byrd have drawn the nation's attention, but there are thousands of other individuals who are attacked because of their race, religion, or sexual orientation each year. This study of hate crimes challenges common assumptions regarding perpetrators and victims: most of the accused tend to be white, while most of their victims are not.Policing Hatred is an in-depth ethnographic study of how hate crime law works in practice, from the perspective of those enforcing it. It examines the ways in which the police handle bias crimes, and the social impact of those efforts. Bell exposes the power that law enforcement personnel have to influence the social environment by showing how they determine whether an incident will be charged as a bias crime.Drawing on her unprecedenTrade Review"This useful and timely book deals with the ethnographic basis of hate crime." * Choice *"Readable and interesting...a fine work that offers fresh insights into how the police enforce hate crime laws." * Law and Politics Book Review *A very well written analysis of the process of enforcing hate crimes. Policing Hatred illuminates basic matters of policing in a democratic society-balancing victims rights versus the rights of suspects, the role of public ignorance and political pressure on police work, and the quite striking decency of these investigators. . . . Will be a & must read for all social scientists interested in hate crime as well as scholars in criminal justice, law, sociology, and political science in the area of police studies. -- Peter K. Manning,Brooks Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern UniversityTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Framework of Police Decision-Making in Hate Crime Cases 3 Integration and Hate Crime: The Institutionalization of Civil Rights Law 4 Investigation: Detectives and the Making of Hate Crime 5 The Difficulty of Hate Crime Investigation 6 Police Culture and Hate Crime 7 The Decision to Seek Charges 8 Prosecutors and the Courts 9 Conclusion
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John Wiley & Sons 41 Shots and Counting
Book SynopsisWhen four New York City police officers killed Amadou Diallo in 1999, the forty-one shots they fired echoed loudly across the nation. In death, Diallo joined a long list of young men of color killed by police fire in cities and towns all across America. This title offers an oral history of Diallo's death.
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John Wiley & Sons Blood and Faith
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John Wiley & Sons Breaking Broken English
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University of Arizona Press Traditional National and International Law and
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University of Arizona Press Our Fight Has Just Begun
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University of Minnesota Press Catching Hell In The City Of Angels
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which economic and social changes in the twentieth century have affected the black community, and conveys the experiences that bind and divide its people. This book tells the story of urban America through the lives of individuals from diverse, overlapping, and vibrant communities.
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University of Minnesota Press The Racial Order Of Things Cultural Imaginaries
Book SynopsisPresents a conversation about culture wars and affirmative action. This book analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. It exposes a discursive tug-of-war over antidiscrimination policies during the nineties.
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University of Minnesota Press The Racial Order Of Things Cultural Imaginaries
Book SynopsisPresents a conversation about culture wars and affirmative action. This book analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. It exposes a discursive tug-of-war over antidiscrimination policies during the nineties.
£18.89
University of Minnesota Press Stare in the Darkness
Book SynopsisCritiquing the true impact of hip-hop culture on politics.Trade Review"In Stare in the Darkness, Lester K. Spence brings an essential degree of clarity and precision to our understandings of popular culture and political expression. This book is engaging and nuanced, and it will enrich in an original fashion our understanding of hip-hop as well as black politics." —Richard Iton, author of In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era"Stare in the Darkness offers brilliant insight into the political realities of contemporary black life. More importantly though, Stare in the Darkness is remixed, chopped and screwed in ways that hip-hop heads will certainly love and more than a few social scientists will find great value in." —Mark Anthony Neal, coeditor of That’s the Joint: The Hip-Hop Studies ReaderTable of ContentsIntroduction: Follow Me into a Solo 1. In This Journey You’re the Journalist: Rap Lyrics, Neoliberalism, and the Black Parallel Public 2. A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous: Consuming Rap and Political Attitudes 3. Follow the Leader: Hip-hop Activism and the Circulation of Black Politics 4. Put Here to be Much More than That: The Rise and Fall of Kwame Kilpatrick Conclusion: Obama and the Future of Hip-hop Politics Acknowledgments Appendix A. Political Platforms for the Hip-hop Social Action Network (HSAN) and the Black Panther Party Appendix B. National Hip-hop Convention (NHHPC) Agenda, 2004 Appendix C. Top Hip-hop Albums for the Week of Dec. 1, 2006 Appendix D: Ownership of Top Market Urban/Urban Adult Contemporary Radio Stations Notes Bibliography Discography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Imperfect Unions
Book SynopsisHighlights the interplay of race, literature, and nation-building in U.S. historyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Setting the Stage: The Black–White Binary in an Imperfect Union1. Under the Covers of Forbidden Desire: Interracial Unions as Surrogates2. Clear Definitions for an Anxious World: Late Nineteenth-Century Surrogacy3. Staging the Unspoken Terror 4. The Remix: Afro-Indian Intimacies5. The Futurity of MiscegenationConclusion: The “Sex Factor”and Twenty-first Century Stagings of MiscegeNationAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Neoliberal Deluge Hurricane Katrina Late
Book SynopsisA critical collection on the politics of disaster and reconstruction in New OrleansTrade Review"This is a very important volume that all people interested in the Katrina disaster, governance, and American politics should read. In this book, Cedric Johnson and the other contributors reframe our understanding of the disaster by highlighting the role of neoliberalism in shaping both the preconditions for and response to this crisis. Those who read this book will come away with deeper knowledge of the meaning and work of neoliberalism over the last quarter century." —Cathy Cohen, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsContentsPreface: “Obama’s Katrina”Cedric JohnsonIntroduction: The Neoliberal DelugeCedric JohnsonPart I. Governance1. From Tipping Point to Metacrises: Management, Media, and Hurricane Katrina Chris Russill and Chad Lavin2. “We Are Seeing People We Didn’t Know Exist”: Katrina and the Neoliberal Erasure of RaceEric Ishiwata3. Making Citizens in Magnaville: Katrina Refugees and Neoliberal Self-GovernanceGeoffrey Whitehall and Cedric JohnsonPart II. Urbanity4. Mega-events, the Superdome, and the Return of the Repressed in New OrleansPaul Passavant5. Whose Choice? A Critical Race Perspective on Charter SchoolsAdrienne Dixson6. Black and White, Unite and Fight? Identity Politics and New Orleans’s Post-Katrina Public Housing MovementJohn ArenaPart III. Planning7. Charming Accommodations: Progressive Urbanism Meets Privatization in Brad Pitt’s Make It Right FoundationCedric Johnson8. Laboratorization and the “Green” Rebuilding of New Orleans’s Lower Ninth WardBarbara L. Allen9. Squandered Resources? Grounded Realities of Recovery in Post-Tsunami Sri LankaKanchana RuwanpuraPart IV. Inequality10. How Shall We Remember New Orleans? Comparing News Coverage of Post-Katrina New Orleans and the 2008 Midwest FloodsLinda Robertson11. The Forgotten Ones: Black Women in the Wake of KatrinaAvis Jones-Deweever12. Hazardous Constructions: Mexican Immigrant Masculinity and the Rebuilding of New OrleansNicole Trujillo-PagánContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Represent and Destroy
Book SynopsisA stinging critique of the link between global capitalism and U.S. multiculturalismsTrade Review"A brilliant correction to both Weber and Winant, Represent and Destroy demonstrates how ‘the control over the means of rationality’ characterizes post-World War II US liberal racial orders. Working against the grain of change-as-progress, Jodi Melamed painstakingly demonstrates how official anti-racism has steadied, rather than dissolved, race as a structuring force of capitalism." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Producing Discourses of Certainty with Official Antiracisms1. Killing Sympathies: Racial Liberalism and Race Novels2. Counterinsurgent Canon Wars and Surviving Liberal Multiculturalism3. Making Global Citizens: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Literary Value4. Difference as Strategy in International Indigenous Peoples' MovementsEpilogue: Rematerializing AntiracismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press HumAnimal
Book SynopsisPower and counterpower in the space of silenceTrade Review"Kalpana Rahita Seshadri’s HumAnimal is remarkably inventive, innovative, and thoughtful. Readers of Derrida and Agamben will find it especially stimulating."—Robert Bernasconi, author of How to Read Sartre"HumAnimal is one of the most insightful books on biopower and ‘human nature’ that I have ever read. This book has the potential to change not only the terms in current debates over the categories ‘human’ and ‘animal,’ but also to change the way that we think about ourselves. This is truly a beautiful and important book."—Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human"Vibrant and lucid."—Feminist Legal StudiesTable of ContentsContentsPreface: What This “Book” Is AboutIntroduction: The Trace of the PoliticalPart I. Language and SilenceThe Mute Prince1. First Words on Silence2. The Secret of Literary Silence3. Law, “Life/Living,” Language 4. Between Derrida and AgambenThe Blink of LifePart II. The Exemplary PlaneRecovering WolfIntroduction to The Exemplary Plane5. The Wild Child: Politics and Ethics of the Name6. The Wild Child and Scientific Names7. HumAnimal Acts: Potentiality or Movement as RestIn-ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Voices of Fire Reweaving the Literary Lei of
Book SynopsisTrade Review "ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui artfully performs the cultural and intellectual labor of overturning dominant paradigms and creating new ways of seeing and being an Kanaka 'Oiwi (Indigenous Hawaiian) woman and member of the Lahui (Nation) that draws inspiration from the volcano goddess Pele and her favored youngest siste Hi'iaka, patron of hula. This is an important and exciting book." —Ty P. Kawika Tengan, author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai'i"An amazingly well-crafted, well-selected, and well-analyzed lei that is, in and of itself, an incredibly powerful narrative destined to become an integral component of the intellectual lei of Kanaka Maoli literature."—Native American and Indigenous Studies JournalTable of ContentsPapa Kuhikuhi / Table of ContentsKa Pule Wehe / The Opening Prayer: Kūnihi ka Mauna (Steep Stands the Mountain)Ka Pane / The ResponseʻŌlelo Haʻi Mua / PrefaceNā Mahalo / AcknowledgmentsʻŌlelo Mua / Introduction: Ke Haʻa lā Puna i ka Makani (Puna Dances in the Breeze)Mokuna / Chapter 1. Mai Kahiki Mai ka Wahine ʻo Pele (From Kahiki Came the Woman, Pele): Historicizing the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 2. ʻO nā Lehua wale i Ka‘ana (The Lehua Blossoms Alone at Kaʻana): Weaving the Moʻokūʻauhau of Oral and Literary TraditionsMokuna / Chapter 3. Lele ʻana ʻo Kaʻena i ka Mālie (Kaʻena Soars Like a Bird in the Calm): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo as Intellectual HistoryMokuna / Chapter 4. Ke Lei maila ʻo Kaʻula i ke Kai ē (Kaʻula Is Wreathed by the Sea): Pele and Hiʻiaka Moʻolelo and Kanaka Maoli CultureMokuna / Chapter 5. ʻO ʻOe ia e Wailua Iki (It Is You, Wailua Iki): Mana Wahine in the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 6. Hulihia Ka Mauna (The Mountain Is Overturned by Fire): Weaving a Literary Tradition: The Polytexts and Politics of the Pele and Hiʻiaka MoʻoleloMokuna / Chapter 7. Aloha Kīlauea, ka ʻĀina Aloha (Beloved Is Kīlauea, the Beloved Land): Remembering, Reclaiming, Recovering, and Retelling: Pele and Hi‘iaka Mo‘olelo as Hawaiian Literary NationalismKa Pule Pani / The Closing PrayerʻŌlelo Wehewehe Hope / NotesPapa Wehewehe ‘Ōlelo / GlossaryPapa Kuhikuhi o nā Mea Kūmole ʻia / Works CitedPapa Kuhikuhi Hōʻike / Index
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press The Tropics Bite Back
Book SynopsisThe Tropics Bite Back traces the evolution of the Caribbean response to the colonial gaze (or rather the colonial mouth) from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Valérie Loichot employs cross-disciplinary methods to rethink notions of race and literary influence by providing a fresh perspective on forms of consumption both metaphorical and material.Trade Review"The Tropics Bite Back is a brilliant and highly original work of scholarship from one of the outstanding voices in contemporary Francophone studies. Valérie Loichot identifies cannibalism as the master trope of Antillean Literature, and goes on in this mature and insightful book to explore and analyze its various manifestations in a series of penetrating and novel readings. Exciting and profound, the book is both engaged and engaging." —Nick Nesbitt, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Cannibal and the Edible1. From Gumbo to Masala: Édouard Glissant’s Creolization in the Circum-Caribbean2. Not Just Hunger: Patrick Chamoiseau, Aimé Césaire, and Jean-Baptiste Labat3. Kitchen Narrative: Food and Exile in Edwidge Danticat and Gisèle Pineau4. Sexual Traps: Dany Laferrière and Gisèle Pineau5. Literary Cannibals: Suzanne Césaire and Maryse CondéAfterword: Can Hunger Speak?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Educated in Whiteness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Angelina E. Castagno's up-close look at how whiteness operates in actual schools, and within one school district, offers a rare, ethnographic portrait of how policies ostensibly aimed at effecting educational equity actually end up reinforcing the status quo. We still have much to learn about how whiteness and racism function in everyday life, and Educated in Whiteness is unusual in the field, offering an important way of seeing how whiteness operates across the system." —Thea Abu El-Haj, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Whiteness, Diversity, and Educators’ Good Intentions1. “Equity Has to Be a Priority”: Converging Interests and Displacing Responsibility2. Engaging Multicultural Education: Safety in Sameness or Drawing Out Difference?3. Practicing Politeness through Meaningful Silences4. “It Isn’t Even Questioned”: Equality as Foundational to Schooling and Whiteness5. Obscuring Whiteness with Liberalism: Winners and Losers in Federal School ReformConclusion: Engagement and Struggle within the “Culture of Nice”AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press From Orphan to Adoptee
Book SynopsisSooJin Pate explores the ways Korean children were employed by the U.S. nation-state to promote the myth of American exceptionalism, to expand U.S. empire during the Cold War, and to solidify notions of the American family. In From Orphan to Adoptee we see how Korean adoption became the crucible in which technologies of the U.S. empire were invented and honed.Trade Review"Complicating existing studies on Korean adoption and Cold War militarism, From Orphan to Adoptee shows how practices of transnational adoption required first the production of the ‘orphan’ as an available commodity open to transfer. ‘Orphans’ need not be parentless at all. By demonstrating that ‘orphans’ were made through various forms of militarized humanitarianism in the years leading up to the Korean War, Pate offers us a counter-history that profoundly changes our understandings of the relationship between U.S. empire and adoption. An original and exciting book." —Mark C. Jerng, University of California, Davis"Pate’s work is wide-ranging, highly compelling and certainly an incisive addition to American studies, transnational studies, and orphan/adoptee studies."—Asian American Literature Fans"Pate enlarges the critical lens on international adoption and U.S.-South Korean relations."—Diplomatic HistoryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Challenging the Official Story of Korean Adoption1. Militarized Humanitarianism: Rethinking the Emergence of Korean Adoption2. Gender and the Militaristic Gaze3. Marketing the Social Orphan4. Normalizing the Adopted Child5. "I Want My Head to Be Removed": The Limits of NormativityEpilogue: Tracing Other Genealogies of Korean AdoptionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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