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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Researchers, higher education administrators, and high school and
university students desire a sourcebook like The Model Minority
Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success. This second
edition has updated contents that will assist readers in locating
research and literature on the model minority stereotype. This
sourcebook is composed of an annotated bibliography on the
stereotype that Asian Americans are successful. Each chapter in The
Model Minority Stereotype is thematic and challenges the model
minority stereotype. Consisting of a twelfth and updated chapter,
this book continues to be the most comprehensive book written on
the model minority myth to date.
Let Freedom Ring For Everyone: The Diversity of Our Nation provides
students with selected readings that encourage a more fruitful,
informative, and open dialogue about race, ethnicity, and
immigration in the United States. The text explores the vast impact
of immigrants to the economic, political, and social systems of the
nation, as well as modern attitudes and perceptions toward ethnic
and immigrant populations. The book features four distinct parts.
Part I introduces the concepts of race, institutional racism,
whiteness, and race and ethnic equality, then presents articles
that examine these concepts from various perspectives. In Part II,
students learn about tools of dominance and division, including
stereotypes, the criminal justice system, the health care system,
the political system, and educational structures. Parts III and IV
contain readings regarding various minority groups that have
immigrated to the United States. Students learn and read about Arab
Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Brazilian Americans,
Haitian Americans, Jewish Americans, Native Americans, and Nigerian
Americans. Let Freedom Ring For Everyone is an enlightening and
illuminating text that is well suited for courses in American
history, American culture, black studies, and ethnic studies.
Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who
resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the
1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of
Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political and
intellectual strategies they used to critique and resist employment
discrimination, dismantle unjust structures, and transform their
lives and the lives of those in their community. Moten emphasizes
the ways in which Black women transformed the urban landscape by
simultaneously occupying spaces from which they had been
historically excluded and creating their own spaces. Black women
refused to be marginalized within the historically white and
middle-class Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association (MYWCA),
an association whose mission centered on supporting women in urban
areas. Black women forged interracial relationships within this
organization and made it, not without much conflict and struggle,
one of the most socially progressive organizations in the city.
When Black women could not integrate historically white
institutions, they created their own. They established financial
and educational institutions, such as Pressley School of Beauty
Culture, which beautician Mattie Pressley Dewese opened in 1946 as
a result of segregation in the beauty training industry. This
school served economic, educational and community development
purposes as well as created economic opportunities for Black women.
Historically and contemporarily, Milwaukee has been and is still
known as one of the most segregated cities in the nation. Black
women have always contested urban segregation, by making space for
themselves and others on the margins. In so doing, they have
transformed both the urban landscape and urban history.
Microhistory unlocked new avenues of historical investigation and
methodologies and helped uncover the past of individuals, an event,
or a small community. Reclamation of "lost histories" of
individuals and colonized communities of colonial South Africa
falls within this category. This study provides historical
narratives of indigenous Khoikhoi of modest status absorbed into
Cape colonial society as farm servants during the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. Based on archival and other sources, the
author illuminates the "everyday life" and "lived experience" of
Khoikhoi characters in a unique way. The opening chapter recounts
the love-loathe drama between a Khoikhoi woman, Griet, and Hendrik
Eksteen, whose murder she later orchestrated with the aid of slaves
and Khoikhoi servants. The malcontent Andries De Necker, arrested
for the murder of his Khoikhoi servant, attracted much legal
attention and resulted in a protracted trial. The book next
features the Khoikhoi millenarian prophet-turned-Christian convert
Jan Paerl, who persuaded believers to reassert the land of their
birth and liberate themselves from Dutch colonial rule by October
25, 1788. The last two chapters examine the lives of four Khoikhoi
converts immersed into the Moravian missionary world and how they
were exhibited by missionaries and sketched by the colonial artist,
George F. Angas.
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