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Outside and Inside: Representations of Race and Identity in White
Jazz Autobiography is the first full-length study of key
autobiographies of white jazz musicians. White musicians from a
wide range of musical, social, and economic backgrounds looked to
black music and culture as the model on which to form their
personal identities and their identities as professional musicians.
Their accounts illustrate the triumphs and failures of jazz
interracialism. As they describe their relationships with black
musicians who are their teachers and peers, white jazz
autobiographers display the contradictory attitudes of reverence
and entitlement, and deference and insensitivity that remain part
of the white response to black culture to the present day. Outside
and Inside features insights into the development of jazz styles
and culture in the urban meccas of twentieth-century jazz in New
Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Reva Marin considers
the autobiographies of sixteen white male jazz instrumentalists,
including renowned swing-era bandleaders Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw,
and Charlie Barnet; reed instrumentalists Mezz Mezzrow, Bob Wilber,
and Bud Freeman; trumpeters Max Kaminsky and Wingy Manone;
guitarist Steve Jordan; pianists Art Hodes and Don Asher;
saxophonist Art Pepper; guitarist and bandleader Eddie Condon; and
New Orleans-style clarinetist Tom Sancton. While critical race
theory informs this work, Marin argues that viewing these texts
simply through the lens of white privilege does not do justice to
the kind of sustained relationships with black music and culture
described in the accounts of white jazz autobiographers. She both
insists upon the value of insider perspectives and holds the texts
to rigorous scrutiny, while embracing an expansive interpretation
of white involvement in black culture. Marin opens new paths for
study of race relations and racial, ethnic, and gender identity
formation in jazz studies.
'A powerful - even startling - book that challenges the shibboleths
of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the
threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of
the 1970s. Perhaps more so' - Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda
Report Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black
radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst a rising
tide of Black political organizing, this foundational classic
written by a key figure of the Civil Rights movement is republished
with a wealth of original material for a new generation. Anarchist
theory has long suffered from a whiteness problem. This book places
its critique of both capitalism and racism firmly at the centre of
the text. Making a powerful case for the building of a Black
revolutionary movement that rejects sexism, homophobia, militarism
and racism, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin counters the lies and distortions
about anarchism spread by its left- and right-wing opponents alike.
New material includes an interview with writer and activist William
C. Anderson, as well as new essays, and a contextualizing biography
of the author's inspiring life.
Haiti is the first, and only, modern nation-state to be created as
the result of a successful slave revolution. However, since its
emancipation, the Haitian state has been forced to pay Western
states compensation for the loss of the enslaved people, contended
with a chronically unstable and authoritarian state system, and has
been ranked as the poorest economy in the Western hemisphere. Black
Interdictions exposes the antiblack racism latent in the US
government's Haitian refugee policies of the 1980s and 1990s that
set the tone for the criminalization of migrants and refugees in
the new millennium and lead to the migration and refugee policies
of the Trump era. Within this experience of controlled mobility
many Haitians find themselves in a devastating catch-22, unable to
survive in their home nation and unable to find a better way of
life elsewhere due to border enforcement strategies, strict
immigration policies, and unprecedented measures to prevent asylum
claims. This type of radical exclusion is singular to the black
experience and the black/nonblack binary must be factored into an
analysis of the US migration regime. It shows how techniques of
control applied to black populations, whether free or slave,
migrant, or native-born, have been precursors for policies and
practices applied to nonblack migrants and refugees. It is not
possible to work together for equity and justice if we are not
prepared to grapple with this divisive history and the instinct to
avoid dealing with the singularity of the black experience
participates in the orders of knowledge and power that have been
fostered by antiblack racism. This book will be of interest to
scholars of migration and refugee studies, black studies, legal
studies, public policy and international relations, and many
others.
'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y.
Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** The mainstream
conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of
violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a
cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered
violence committed with the complicity of the State. In this book,
Francoise Verges denounces the carceral turn in the fight against
sexism. By focusing on 'violent men', we fail to question the
sources of their violence. There is no doubt as to the underlying
causes: racial capitalism, ultra-conservative populism, the
crushing of the Global South by wars and imperialist looting, the
exile of millions and the proliferation of prisons - these all put
masculinity in the service of a policy of death. Against the spirit
of the times, Francoise Verges refuses the punitive obsession of
the State in favour of restorative justice.
How we can understand race, crime, and punishment in the age of
Black Lives Matter When The Color of Crime was first published in
1998, it was heralded as a path-breaking book on race and crime.
Now, in its third edition, Katheryn Russell-Brown's book is more
relevant than ever, as police killings of unarmed Black
civilians-such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Daniel
Prude-continue to make headlines around the world. She continues to
ask, why do Black and white Americans perceive police actions so
differently? Is white fear of Black crime justified? With three new
chapters, over forty new racial hoax cases, and other timely
updates, this edition offers an even more expansive view of crime
and punishment in the twenty-first century. Russell-Brown gives us
much-needed insight into some of the most recent racial hoaxes,
such as the one perpetrated by Amy Cooper. Should perpetrators of
racial hoaxes be charged with a felony? Further, Russell-Brown
makes a compelling case for race and crime literacy and the need to
address and name White crime. Russell-Brown powerfully concludes
the book with a parable that invites readers to imagine what would
happen if Blacks decided to abandon the United States.
Russell-Brown explores the tacit and subtle ways that crime is
systematically linked to people of color. The Color of Crime is a
lucid and forceful volume that calls for continued vigilance on the
part of scholars, policymakers, journalists, and others in the age
of Black Lives Matter.
Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and
sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized
politics. Violence against people of color, transgendered and gay
people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party
affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing
political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their
racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom
of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of
these white men's speech, few notice or have thoughtfully
considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and
conservative white women's messages that organizationally preserve
white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity
Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how
white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and
web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation
of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, and Ivanka Trump have amplified through transnational
politics. By validating racial fears and political divisiveness
through coded white identity politics, postfeminist and motherhood
discourse functions as a colorblind, gilded cage. Rebirthing a
Nation reveals how white nationalist women utilize colorblind
racism within digital space, exposing how a postfeminist framework
becomes fodder for conservative white women's political speech to
preserve institutional white supremacy.
The fullest account to date of African American young people in a
segregated city Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex
narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a
racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted
Washington, DC, during the 1930s. In contrast to the ways in which
young people have been portrayed by researchers, policy makers, law
enforcement, and the media, Paula C. Austin draws on previously
unstudied archival material to present black poor and working class
young people as thinkers, theorists, critics, and commentators as
they reckon with the boundaries imposed on them in a Jim Crow city
that was also the American emblem of equality. The narratives at
the center of this book provide a different understanding of black
urban life in the early twentieth century, showing that ordinary
people were expert at navigating around the limitations imposed by
the District of Columbia's racially segregated politics. Coming of
Age in Jim Crow DC is a fresh take on the New Negro movement, and a
vital contribution to the history of race in America.
Ndangwa Noyoo was Head of the Department of Social Development at UCT from 2018-2020.
This book exposes corruption and malpractices at UCT, which the author witnessed during his tenure as HoD there, before he was ousted by a group of lecturers in his department. The former had been aided and abetted by senior administrators at the faculty level.
It is a personal account that is evidence-based, as the claims the author makes in the book are documented in various reports, communications and eye-witness accounts that span a period of five and a half years.
George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist
shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around
the world. Shortly after, Sarah Everard's murder by a serving
police officer sparked a national abolitionist movement in Britain.
But to abolish the police, prisons and borders, we must confront
the legacy of Empire. Abolition Revolution is a guide to
abolitionist politics in Britain, drawing out rich histories of
resistance from rebellion in the colonies to grassroots responses
to carceral systems today. The authors argue that abolition is key
to reconceptualising revolution for our times - linking it with
materialist feminisms, anti-capitalist class struggle,
internationalist solidarity and anti-colonialism. Perfect for
reading groups and activist meetings, this is an invaluable book
for those new to abolitionist politics - whilst simultaneously
telling a passionate and authoritative story about the need for
abolition and revolution in Britain and globally.
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