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Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow by Mollie Godfrey 9780252083235
RRP: £21.99£19.19African Americans once passed as whites to escape the pains of racism. Today's neo-passing has pushed the old idea of passing in extraordinary new directions. A white author uses an Asian pen name; heterosexuals live "out" as gay; and, irony of ironies,... -
Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death by Courtney R. Baker 9780252082993
RRP: £19.99£17.54In the history of black America, the image of the mortal, wounded, and dead black body has long been looked at by others from a safe distance. Courtney Baker questions the relationship between the spectator and victim and urges viewers to move beyond the... -
Global Lynching and Collective Violence: Volume 2: The Americas and Europe by Michael J. Pfeifer 9780252082900
RRP: £21.99£19.19In this second volume of the groundbreaking survey, Michael J. Pfeifer edits a collection of essays that illuminates lynching and other extrajudicial "rough justice" as a transnational phenomenon responding to cultural and legal issues. The... -
Leaders of Their Race: Educating Black and White Women in the New South by Sarah H. Case 9780252082795
RRP: £21.99£19.19Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women,... -
My Curious and Jocular Heroes: Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia by Loyal Jones 9780252082672
RRP: £19.99£17.54We were going down the road, and we came to this house. There was a little boy standing by the road just crying and crying. We stopped, and we heard the biggest racket you ever heard up in the house. /What (TM)s the matter, son? /Why, Maw and Paw are up... -
Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. by Treva B. Lindsey 9780252082511
RRP: £20.99£18.37Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the... -
Local Vino: The Winery Boom in the Heartland by James R. Pennell 9780252082252
RRP: £15.99£14.24The art and craft of winemaking has put down roots in Middle America, where enterprising vintners coax reds and whites from the prairie earth while their businesses stand at the hub of a new tradition of community and conviviality. James R. Pennell... -
Scripts of Blackness: Race, Cultural Nationalism, and U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico by Isar P. Godreau 9780252080456
RRP: £27.99£24.14The geopolitical influence of the United States informs the processes of racialization in Puerto Rico, including the construction of black places. In Scripts of Blackness, Isar P. Godreau explores how Puerto Rican national discourses about race--created... -
Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives by Stephen John Hartnett 9780252077708
RRP: £20.99£18.37Boldly and eloquently contributing to the argument against the prison system in the United States, these provocative essays offer an ideological and practical framework for empowering prisoners instead of incarcerating them. Experts and activists who... -
Sarajevo: A Bosnian Kaleidoscope by Fran Markowitz 9780252077135
RRP: £20.99£18.37This fascinating urban anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation. Rather than seeing... -
Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture by Simidele Dosekun 9780252043215
RRP: £91.00£78.92Women in Lagos, Nigeria, practice a spectacularly feminine form of black beauty. From cascading hair extensions to immaculate makeup to high heels, their style permeates both day-to-day life and media representations of women not only in a swatch of... -
Autochthonomies: Transnationalism, Testimony, and Transmission in the African Diaspora by Myriam J. A. Chancy 9780252043048
RRP: £91.00£78.92In Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy engages readers in an interpretive journey. She lays out a radical new process that invites readers to see creations by artists of African descent as legible within the context of African diasporic historical and... -
On Trend: The Business of Forecasting the Future by Devon Powers 9780252042874
RRP: £91.00£78.92Trends have become a commodity-an element of culture in their own right and the very currency of our cultural life. Consumer culture relies on a new class of professionals who explain trends, predict trends, and in profound ways even manufacture trends... -
The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by David M Struthers 9780252042478
RRP: £103.00£89.14A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational migration brought people from Asia, Europe, and Mexico... -
To Turn the Whole World Over: Black Women and Internationalism by Keisha Blain 9780252042317
RRP: £91.00£78.92Black women undertook an energetic and unprecedented engagement with internationalism from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. In many cases, their work reflected a complex effort to merge internationalism with issues of women's rights and with... -
Scandinavians in Chicago: The Origins of White Privilege in Modern America by Erika K. Jackson 9780252042119
RRP: £91.00£78.92Scandinavian immigrants encountered a strange paradox in 1890s Chicago. Though undoubtedly foreign, these newcomers were seen as Nordics--the "race" proclaimed by the scientific racism of the era as the very embodiment of white superiority. As... -
The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology by Ira E. Harrison 9780252042027
RRP: £91.00£78.92After the pioneers, the second generation of African American anthropologists trained in the late 1950s and 1960s. Expected to study their own or similar cultures, these scholars often focused on the African diaspora but in some cases they also ranged... -
Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports by Andrew C. Billings 9780252042096
RRP: £91.00£78.92The issue of Native American mascots in sports raises passions but also a raft of often-unasked questions. Which voices get a hearing in an argument? What meanings do we ascribe to mascots? Who do these Indians and warriors really represent? Andrew C... -
Syrian and Lebanese Patricios in Sao Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil by Oswaldo Truzzi 9780252041952
RRP: £91.00£78.92Syrian and Lebanese immigrants to Brazil chose to settle in urban areas, a marked contrast to many other migrant groups. In Sao Paulo, these newcomers embraced new lives as merchants, shopkeepers, and industrialists that made them a dominant force in the... -
Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance, and Survival by Sophie Richter-Devroe 9780252041860
RRP: £91.00£78.92During the last twenty years, Palestinian women have practiced creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism. Sophie Richter-Devroe reflects on their struggles to bring about social and political change. Richter-Devroe's ethnographic... -
Muncie, India(na): Middletown and Asian America by Himanee Gupta-Carlson 9780252041822
RRP: £91.00£78.92Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the image of so-called typical communities across the United States on an illusion. Their decades of studies ignored the racial, ethnic, and religious diversity and tensions... -
Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier by James Schwoch 9780252041778
RRP: £91.00£78.92The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon,... -
Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground by Yetta Howard 9780252041884
RRP: £91.00£78.92What would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non-white, non-male, and non-heterosexual physicality and experience. That same pejorative migrates to become a label for... -
Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism from World War II into the Cold War by Ian Rocksborough-Smith 9780252041662
RRP: £91.00£78.92In civil-rights-era Chicago, a dedicated group of black activists, educators, and organizations employed black public history as more than cultural activism. Their work and vision energized a black public history movement that promoted political progress... -
Building the Black Metropolis: African American Entrepreneurship in Chicago by Robert Weems 9780252041426
RRP: £91.00£78.92From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United... -
When the Light Is Fire: Maasai Schoolgirls in Contemporary Kenya by Heather D. Switzer 9780252042034
RRP: £91.00£78.92A host of international organizations promotes the belief that education will empower Kenya's Maasai girls. Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of gender-related... -
Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media, and Social Mobility by Stefan Fiol 9780252041204
RRP: £91.00£78.92Colonialist, nationalist, and regionalist ideologies have profoundly influenced folk music and related musical practices among the Garhwali and Kumaoni of Uttarakhand. Stefan Fiol blends historical and ethnographic approaches to unlock these influences... -
Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics by Margo Natalie Crawford 9780252041006
RRP: £91.00£78.92A 2008 cover of The New Yorker featured a much-discussed Black Power parody of Michelle and Barack Obama. The image put a spotlight on how easy it is to flatten the Black Power movement as we imagine new types of blackness. Margo Natalie Crawford argues... -
Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott by Kim E. Nielsen 9780252043147
RRP: £91.00£78.92Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive... -
Women against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century by Karissa Haugeberg 9780252040962
RRP: £91.00£78.92Women from remarkably diverse religious, social, and political backgrounds made up the rank-and-file of anti-abortion activism. Empowered by--yet in many cases scared of--the changes wrought by feminism, they founded grassroots groups, developed... -
Politicizing Creative Economy: Activism and a Hunger Called Theater by Dia da Costa 9780252040603
RRP: £103.00£89.14Scholars increasingly view the arts, creativity, and the creative economy as engines for regenerating global citizenship, renewing decayed local economies, and nurturing a new type of all-inclusive politics. Dia Da Costa delves into these ideas with a... -
Ecological Borderlands: Body, Nature, and Spirit in Chicana Feminism by Christina Holmes 9780252040542
RRP: £91.00£78.92Environmental practices among Mexican American woman have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across the arts, Chicana activism, and direct action groups to reveal how Chicanas can... -
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America by Jennifer Brier 9780252040399
RRP: £103.00£89.14Connexions investigates the ways in which race and sex intersect, overlap, and inform each other in United States history. An expert team of editors curates thought-provoking articles that explore how to view the American past through the lens of race... -
Table Talk: Building Democracy One Meal at a Time by Janet A. Flammang 9780252040290
RRP: £91.00£78.92Etiquette books insist that we never discuss politics during a meal. In Table Talk , Janet A. Flammang offers a polite rebuttal, presenting vivid firsthand accounts of people's lives at the table to show how mealtimes can teach us the conversational... -
Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State by Bilge Yesil 9780252040177
RRP: £91.00£78.92In Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to globalization's inroads and the recent... -
This Book Is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics by Jaime Harker 9780252039805
RRP: £91.00£78.92The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with... -
Embodied Protests: Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia by Maria Tapias 9780252039171
RRP: £91.00£78.92Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial... -
Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland by Cynthia Clampitt 9780252038914
RRP: £103.00£89.54Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending... -
Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms across Scholarship and Activism by Richa Nagar 9780252038792
RRP: £91.00£78.92In Muddying the Waters, Richa Nagar uses stories, encounters, and anecdotes as well as methodological reflections, to grapple with the complexity of working through solidarities, responsibility, and ethics while involved in politically engaged... -
Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left by Todd Wolfson 9780252038846
RRP: £91.00£78.92Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. Todd Wolfson begins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s, and how aspects of the...