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A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in
America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi
Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New
Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America,
with astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a
lynching trial and James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My
Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more
recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith,
Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. Felix, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Kelefa Sanneh, and more. Reaching back across the last century, The
Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the
New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces,
profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses
everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and
politics, and brings us up to the present day with accounts of what
Jelani Cobb calls "The American Spring." The result is a startling,
nuanced and, ultimately, indelible portrait of America's complex
relationship with race.
"This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean
presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the
field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using
administrative records, newspapers, and interviews, it explores the
French Caribbean presence in the colonial administration in Africa
before World War II"--Provided by publisher.
In "African American Childhoods, " historian Wilma King presents a
selection of her essays, both unpublished and published, which
together provide a much-needed survey of more than three centuries
of African American children's experiences. Organized
chronologically, the volume uses the Civil War to divide the book
into two parts: part one addresses the enslavement of children in
Africa and explores how they lived in antebellum America; part two
examines the issues affecting black children since the Civil War
and into the twenty-first century. Topics include the impact of the
social and historical construction of race on their development,
the effects of violence, and the heroic efforts of African American
children when subjected to racism at its worst during the civil
rights movement.
Practical Social Justice brings together the mentorship experiences
of a diverse group of leaders across business, academia, and the
public sector. They relay the lessons they learned from Dr. Joseph
L. White through personal narratives, providing a critical analysis
of their experience, and share their best practices and
recommendations for those who want to truly live up to their
potential as leaders and mentors. As one of the founding members of
the Association of Black Psychologists, the Equal Opportunity
Program, and the 'Freedom Train' this book focuses on celebrating
Dr. White's legacy, and translating real world experience in
promoting social justice change. Experiential narratives from
contributors offer a framework for both the mentee and the mentor,
and readers will learn how to develop people and infrastructure
strategically to build a sustainable legacy of social justice
change. They will be presented with ways to pragmatically focus
social justice efforts, favoring results over ego. This is a unique
and highly accessible book that will be useful across disciplines
and generations, in which the authors illustrate how to build
relationships, inspire buy-in, and develop mutually beneficial
partnerships that move people and systems towards a more equitable,
inclusive, and just future. Providing a personal guide to
developing an infrastructure for institutional change, Practical
Social Justice is based on over half a century of triumph,
translated through the lenses of leaders who have used these
lessons to measurable and repeatable success. This book will be
essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in the
fields of Psychology, Social Work, Ethnic Studies, Sociology,
Public Policy, Leadership, Communications, Business, and
Educational Administration. It is also important reading for
professionals including leaders and policy makers in organisations
dealing with issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion, and
anyone interested in promoting social justice.
The Whitman Sisters were the highest paid act on the Negro Vaudeville Circuit, Theater Owner Booking Association (Toby), and one of the longest surviving touring companies (1899-1942). Nadine George-Graves shows that these four black women manipulated their race, gender, and class to resist hegemonic forces while achieving success. By maintaining a high-class image, they were able to challenge fictions of racial and gender identity.
This book provides an autobiographical and research-based
exploration of the perceptions of Black middle and upper class
preservice teachers about teaching and learning in high poverty
urban schools. While there is an extensive body of knowledge on
White preservice teachers, limited studies examine Black middle and
upper class preservice teachers who may also lack experience with
students in high poverty urban schools. Through this narrative, the
author explores her own professional journey and a research study
of former students who experienced the same boundary crossing.
Their voices add to the body of current knowledge of how race and
class affect the perceptions of preservice teachers.
Literary and Sociopolitical Writings of the Black Diaspora in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries traces the historiography of
literary and sociopolitical movements of the Black Diaspora in the
writings of key political figures. It comparatively and
dialogically examines such movements as Pan-Africanism, Garveyism,
Indigenisme, New Negro Renaissance, Negritude, and Afrocriollo. To
study the key ideologies that emerged as collective black thought
within the Diaspora, particular attention is given to the
philosophies of Black Nationalism, Black Internationalism, and
Universal Humanism. Each leader and writer helped establish new
dimensions to evolving movements; thus, the text discerns the
temporal, spatial, and conceptual development of each literary and
sociopolitical movement. To probe the comparative and transnational
trajectories of the movements while concurrently examining the
geopolitical distinctions, the text focuses on leaders who
psychologically, culturally, and/or physically traveled throughout
Africa, the Americas, and Europe, and whose ideas were disseminated
and influenced a number of contemporaries and successors. Such
approach dismantles geographic, language, and generation barriers,
for a comprehensive analysis. Indeed, it was through the works
transmitted from one generation to the next that leaders learned
the lessons of history, particularly the lessons of organizational
strategies, which are indispensable to sustained and successful
liberation movements.
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil examines Black
Brazilian political struggle and the predicaments it faces in a
time characterized by the increasing institutionalization of
ethno-racial policies and black participation in policy
orchestration. Greater public debate and policy attention to racial
inequality suggests the attenuation of racial democracy and
positive miscegenation as hegemonic ideologies of the Brazilian
nation-state. However, the colorblind and post-racial logics of
mixture and racial democracy, especially the denial and/or
minimization of racism as a problem, maintain a strong grip on
public thinking, social action, and institutional practices.
Through a focus on the epistemic dimensions of black struggles and
the anti-racist pluri-cultural efforts that have been put into
action by activists, scholars, and organizations over the past
decade, Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa analyzes the ways in which these
politics negotiate as well as seek to go beyond the delimited
understandings of racial difference, belonging, and citizenship
that shape the contemporary politics of inclusion.
Toya Boudy's father grew up in the Magnolia projects of New
Orleans; her mother shared a tight space with five siblings uptown.
They worked hard, rotated shifts and found time to make meals from
scratch for the family. In Cooking for the Culture, Boudy shares
these recipes, many of which are deeply rooted in the proud Black
traditions that shaped her hometown. Driving the cookbook are her
personal stories: from struggling in school to having a baby at
sixteen, from her growing confidence in the kitchen to her
appearances on Food Network. The cookbook opens with Sweet Cream
Farina, prepared at the crack of dawn for girls in freshly ironed
clothes-being neat and pressed was important. Boudy recounts making
cookies from her commodity box peanut butter; explains the know-how
behind Smothered Chicken, Jambalaya and Red Gravy; and shares her
original television competition recipes. The result is a deeply
personal and unique cookbook.
In Subversive Habits, Shannen Dee Williams provides the first full
history of Black Catholic nuns in the United States, hailing them
as the forgotten prophets of Catholicism and democracy. Drawing on
oral histories and previously sealed Church records, Williams
demonstrates how master narratives of women's religious life and
Catholic commitments to racial and gender justice fundamentally
change when the lives and experiences of African American nuns are
taken seriously. For Black Catholic women and girls, embracing the
celibate religious state constituted a radical act of resistance to
white supremacy and the sexual terrorism built into chattel slavery
and segregation. Williams shows how Black sisters-such as Sister
Mary Antona Ebo, who was the only Black member of the inaugural
delegation of Catholic sisters to travel to Selma, Alabama, and
join the Black voting rights marches of 1965-were pioneering
religious leaders, educators, healthcare professionals,
desegregation foot soldiers, Black Power activists, and womanist
theologians. In the process, Williams calls attention to Catholic
women's religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and
racial segregation-and thus an important battleground in the long
African American freedom struggle.
Since the passing of Brown versus Board of Education to the
election of the first Black president of the United States, there
has been much discussion on how far we have come as a nation on
issues of race. Some continue to assert that Barack Obama's
election ushered in a new era-making the US a post-racial society.
But this argument is either a political contrivance, borne of
ignorance or a bold-faced lie. There is no recent data on school
inequities, or inequity in society for that matter, that suggests
we have arrived at Dr. King's dream that his "four children will
one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the
colour of their skin but by the content of their character."
Children today are instead still judged by the colour of their
skin, and this inequitable practice is manifest in today's schools
for students of colour in the form of: disproportionate student
discipline referrals, achievement and opportunity gaps, pushout
rates, overrepresentation in special education and
underrepresentation in advanced coursework, among other indicators
(Brooks, 2012). Though issues of race in the public education
system may take an overt or covert form; racial injustice in public
schools is still pervasive, complex and cumulative. For example,
many students of colour, year after year, do not have access to
"good" teachers, experience low staff expectations, and are subject
to "new and improved" forms of tracking (Brooks, Arnold &
Brooks, in press). The authors in this book explore various ways
that racism are manifest in the American school system. Through a
plurality of perspectives, they deconstruct, challenge and
reconstruct an educational leadership committed to equity and
excellence for marginalised students and educators.
Surviving in the Hour of Darkness addresses the health
issues-physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual-of black women,
First Nations women, and other women of colour. The book is a
collection of scholarly essays, case studies, personal essays,
poetry, and prose written by over 45 contributors. It illustrates,
through the voices of many women, that gender, religious, cultural,
and class background strongly influence how one experiences
illness, how and when one is diagnosed, and how one is treated
within the healthcare system.The book also focuses on the need for
cultural sensitivity and inclusiveness in the delivery of health
services. Surviving in the Hour of Darkness aims to promote and
generate knowledge with and about minority women while identifying
key strategies for promoting their health, thus contributing to a
broader understanding of how the experience of being a minority
woman affects one's health and well-being.
This book provides wide-ranging commentary on depictions of the
black male in mainstream cinema. O'Brien explores the extent to
which counter-representations of black masculinity have been
achieved within a predominately white industry, with an emphasis on
agency, the negotiation and malleability of racial status, and the
inherent instability of imposed racial categories. Focusing on
American and European cinema, the chapters highlight actors (Woody
Strode, Noble Johnson, Eddie Anderson, Will Smith), genres (jungle
pictures, westerns, science fiction) and franchises (Tarzan, James
Bond) underrepresented in previous critical and scholarly
commentary in the field. The author argues that although the
characters and performances generated in these areas invoke popular
genre types, they display complexity, diversity and ambiguity,
exhibiting aspects that are positive, progressive and subversive.
This book will appeal to both the academic and the general reader
interested in film, race, gender and colonial issues.
Recent discussions and dissemination of information regarding the
rapid growth of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) across
our nation are creating some awareness among administrators and
educators in higher education institutions regarding the extensive
diversity of AAPIs, the struggles of some AAPI populations in
pursuing and succeeding in higher education, and the lack of
support for their educational success. National discourse on AAPIs
among educators, policymakers and AAPI communities underscores the
need for more research-including more relevant research-that can
inform policy and practice that will enhance educational
opportunities for AAPIs who are underserved in higher education.
The book focuses on diverse topics, many of which do not appear in
the current literature. The chapters are authored by an array of
distinguished and emerging scholars and professionals at various
universities and colleges across the nation. The authors, whose
insights are invaluable in understanding the diverse issues and
characteristics that affect the educational success of underserved
AAPI students, and they represent the ethnicities and cultures of
Cambodian, Chinese, Guamanian/Chamorro, Filipino, Hispanic, Hmong,
Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Native Hawaiian, Okinawan, Samoan,
Vietnamese, and multiracial Americans. The authors not only
integrate theoretical concepts, statistical analyses, and
historical events, but they also merge theory and practice to
advocate for social justice for AAPIs and other underrepresented
and underserved ethnic minority groups in higher education.
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