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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
University racial quotas have caused strong reactions in Brazil,
where ideals of racial and cultural mixture are crucial components
of national identity. Focusing on an in-depth ethnographic study of
a Rio de Janeiro public university and its students, Andre Cicalo
examines the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative
action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized
inequalities in the urban space. By engaging with the relevant
literature on Brazilian race relations, this volume discloses novel
considerations, crucial for a possible future reading of race
relations, racial classification, and affirmative action in Brazil.
Throughout life black Africans in the Bahamas worked, voluntarily
or not, and possessed material items of various degrees of
importance to them and within their culture. St. Matthews was a
cemetery in Nassau at the water's edge--or sometimes slightly
below. This project emerged from archaeological excavations at this
site to identify and recover materials associated with the interred
before the area was completely developed. The area has been
-collected- for decades--both professionally and by interested
citizens, and Dr. Turner, a native Bahamian, coupled the results of
her research excavations with the collections and archival
material, to provide insight into the lives and deaths of the
interred.
Of the many captivity stories or 'slave narratives' that emerged in
the first half of the nineteenth century, the Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass is widely considered to be the most
important. The author, known for his eloquence, brings the same
mastery of the English language to his memoir. His book describes
the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most
influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement
of the early 19th century in the United States.
From the labeling of jihad as a 'holy war' to the generalization of
all black Muslims as 'converts' to the religion of Islam, myths and
deficiencies in today's rhetoric and scholarship foster stereotyped
images of black Muslims. Black Muslims in the US provides
historical and contemporary analyses of political Islam among
mainstream black Sunni Muslims in the US who-despite being the
least-examined group by scholars- represent the largest, oldest,
and fastest growing Muslim group in the US. Rashid seeks to correct
deficiencies in scholarship by identifying alternative ways to
recognize black and other indigenous Muslims in early America,
offering more authoritative descriptions of the black American
Muslim experience, and citing new evidence of a strong black
Islamic presence in contemporary American society. Using both new
and re-examined research from historical records, field study data,
ethnographic reports, and oral accounts, Rashid examines the status
of black Muslims in the US from their arrival to the influential
role that they continue to play in contemporary US society.
A masterpiece of American literature, Frederick Douglass'
"Narrative" is a powerful story of an enslaved youth coming to
social and moral consciousness by disobeying his owners and
secretly teaching himself to read. Achieving literacy emboldens him
to commit further acts of disobedience that ultimately lead him to
escape to freedom. Angela Y. Davis explores key passages from
Douglass, touching on the philosophical and political importance of
self-knowledge, resistance in the pursuit of liberation, and the
importance of Douglass to the Obama Generation.
Statistics indicate that African American females , as a group, fare poorly in the United States. Many live in single-parent households - either as the single parent mother or as the daughter. Many face severe economic hurdles. Yet despite these obstacles, some are performing at exceptional levels academically. Based on interviews with hundreds of successful young women and their families, Overcoming the Odds provides a wealth of information about how and why they have succeeded - what motivates them, how their backgrounds and family relationships have shaped them, even how it feels to be a high academic achiever.
In the two World Wars, hundreds of thousands of Indian sepoys were
mobilized, recruited and shipped overseas to fight for the British
Crown. The Indian Army was the chief Imperial reserve for an empire
under threat. But how did those sepoys understand and explain their
own war experiences and indeed themselves through that experience?
How much did their testimonies realise and reflect their own
fragmented identities as both colonial subjects and imperial
policemen? The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World
Wars draws upon the accounts of Indian combatants to explore how
they came to terms with the conflicts. In thematic chapters,
Gajendra Singh traces the evolution of military identities under
the British Raj and considers how those identities became embattled
in the praxis of soldiers' war testimonies - chiefly letters,
depositions and interrogations. It becomes a story of mutiny and
obedience; of horror, loss and silence. This book tells that story
and is an important contribution to histories of the British
Empire, South Asia and the two World Wars.
This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores
its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester
reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique
the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that
were appropriated and re-articulated as a useful vehicle for the
enunciation of the peculiar terrors and complexities of black
existence in America. Re-reading major African American literary
texts-such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One
Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora-African American Gothic
investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture
to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the
African American literary canon.
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The Negro
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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Chronicling over forty years of critical changes in
African-American expressive and popular culture, covering diverse
forms of music, dance, and comedy, the Regal Theater (1928-1968)
was the largest and most architecturally splendid movie-stage-show
venue ever constructed for a black community. In this history of
that theater, Clovis E. Semmes reveals the political, economic, and
business realities of cultural production and the institutional
inequalities that circumscribed black life.
This compelling book examines the interrelationship between gender,
race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically and
within American politics as a whole. Nikol Alexander-Floyd's new
work highlights the critical role of race and gender, showing how
they operate to define political discourse and to determine public
policy.
Serving African American Children was initiated to present an
African American perspective on child welfare issues affecting
African American children. The chapters in this volume challenge
the child welfare community to ensure that all African American
children receive protection, nurturing, and an improved quality of
life; to create and sustain mutual communication and support
through program development; to ensure that African American
consultants are involved in the evaluation of agencies where
African American populations represent a significant proportion of
the service population; and to increase African American leadership
through education and training opportunities in preparation for
executive level positions.
Major chapters and contributors to Serving African American
Children include: "Family Preservation and Support Services: A
Missed Opportunity for Kinship Care" by Julia Danzy and Sondra M.
Jackson; "Achieving Same-Race Adoptive Placements for African
American Children" by Ruth G. McRoy, Zena Oglesby, and Helen Grape;
"African American Families and HIV/AIDS: Caring for Surviving
Children" by Alma J. Carten and Ilene Fennoy; "A Rite of Passage
Approach Designed to Preserve the Families of Substance-Abusing
African American Women" by Vanesta L. Poitier, Makini
Niliwaambieni, and Cyprian Lamar Rowe; and "An Afrocentric Program
for African American Males in the Juvenile Justice System" by
Aminifu R. Harvey and Antoinette A. Coleman.
The chapters reflect a variety of policy, research, and practice
issues; clinical techniques and treatment models; and new
perspectives in child welfare. The theme that runs throughout each
chapter is the grave concern about the overrepresentation of
African American children and families in the child welfare system,
and about the limited--if not missing--influence of the African
American perspective on policy and practice. Serving African
American Children is a book of vital importance and should be read
by all social workers, sociologists, African American studies
specialists, and professionals in the field of child welfare.
African Americans today face a systemic crisis of mass
underemployment, mass imprisonment, and mass disfranchisement. This
comprehensive reader makes clear to students the mutual
constitution of these three crises. NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT
Critical Black Studies Series Editor: Manning Marable
The Critical Black Studies Series features readers and
anthologies examining challenging topics within the contemporary
black experience--in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and
across the African Diaspora. Under the general editorial
supervision of Manning Marable, the readers in the series are
designed both for college and university course adoption, as well
as for general readers and researchers. The Critical Black Studies
Series seeks to provoke intellectual debate and exchange over the
most critical issues confronting the political, socioeconomic and
cultural reality of black life in the United States and beyond.
"Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for
women," Harriet Jacobs states plainly in this riveting account of
her life as a slave, and then sets out to recount, in chilling
detail, the particular horrors for women caught in that terrible
snare. Published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, Incidents
was the first account of slavery to explore the sexual abuse female
slaves endured... in Jacobs' case, a catalog of harassment she
suffered while working in the home of a doctor known to have sold
children he'd fathered with slave women. Long believed to have been
written by a white author as a fictional novel, Incidents in the
Life of a Slave Girl rings with a ghastly truth that still has the
power to haunt modern readers.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A fascinating exploration into the
lives of three women ignored by history ... Eye-opening,
engrossing' Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half
In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the
incredible storIES of three women who raised three world-changing
men. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about
Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm.
But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women
who raised them, each fighting their own battles, born into the
beginning of the twentieth century and a deadly landscape of racial
prejudice, Jim Crow, exploitation, unpoliced violence and open
police vitriol. It was a society that would deny their sons'
humanity from the beginning as it had denied theirs, but Berdis,
Alberta and Louise were extraordinary women who instilled
resilience, resistance and greatness in their sons. They would
become mothers not just to three world-famous men but to the civil
rights movement itself. These women represent a piece of history
left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue.
This book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by
South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late
1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider
historical context. Using recently opened government documents the
extent to which these women were interrogated and scrutinized at
the border is uncovered.
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