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Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo (Paperback): Brenda F. Berrian Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo (Paperback)
Brenda F. Berrian
R967 Discovery Miles 9 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In July 1961, five months after Patrice Lumumba's assassination, 14-year-old Brenda F. Berrian's consciousness was raised by her family's move to the turbulent Republic of the Congo. Race, Identity, and Privilege from the US to the Congo traces Berrian's experiences of subsequently traveling the United States, Canada, France, and three other African countries against the backdrop of emerging African independence and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Detailing the complexities she faced in her global identity as a Black woman, Berrian explores how the love and support of her parents and her developing racial, feminist, and political consciousness--strengthened by her embrace of literature and music of the African diaspora--prepared her to deal with adversity, stereotypes, and grief along the way. See more info about the book here: www.brendafberrian.com

Pachappa Camp - The First Koreatown in the United States (Paperback): Edward T. Chang Pachappa Camp - The First Koreatown in the United States (Paperback)
Edward T. Chang
R957 Discovery Miles 9 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through new research and materials, Edward T. Chang proves in Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States that Dosan Ahn Chang Ho established the first Koreatown in Riverside, California in early 1905. Chang reveals the story of Pachappa Camp and its roots in the diasporic Korean community's independence movement efforts for their homeland during the early 1900s and in the lives of the residents. Long overlooked by historians, Pachappa Camp studies the creation of Pachappa Camp and its place in Korean and Korean American history, placing Korean Americans in Riverside at the forefront of the Korean American community's history.

The Other Black Church - Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Paperback): Joseph L. Tucker... The Other Black Church - Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom (Paperback)
Joseph L. Tucker Edmonds
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom examines the movements led by Father Divine, Charles Mason, and Albert Cleage (later known as Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman) as alternative Christian movements in the middle of the twentieth century that radically re-envisioned the limits and possibilities of Black citizenship. These movements not only rethink the value and import of Christian texts and reimagined the role of the Black Christian prophetic tradition, but they also outlined a new model of protest that challenged the language and logic of Black essentialism, economic development, and the role of the state. By placing these movements in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, this book suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of U.S.-based democracy. These prophets of Black theological thought and their attention to the limits of the state and traditional Black religious formations are most fully appreciated when studied in light of their conversations and interactions with other key Black prophetic and theological figures of the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately, The Other Black Church will use those conversations and archives from these movements to highlight their protest of the racial state, to explore the limits of the Black church, and to argue for their continued significance for thinking about the variety and vibrancy of Black protest, specifically Black religious protest, during the twentieth century.

Philanthropy and Economic Development (Hardcover, New): Richard F. America Philanthropy and Economic Development (Hardcover, New)
Richard F. America
R2,696 Discovery Miles 26 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Basic information is provided on how contribution programs can be used in community-based development with satisfying results for all. Senior corporate managers are encouraged to go beyond traditional giving and to consider other areas. Concrete suggestions and a review of the experience of some of the pioneers are presented. For companies and foundations which have limited resources, but have a desire to participate, several techniques of indirect investments in social development are shown.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Hardcover): Harriet Ann Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Hardcover)
Harriet Ann Jacobs
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Emperor Has No Clothes - Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know (Hardcover, New): Tema Okun The Emperor Has No Clothes - Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know (Hardcover, New)
Tema Okun
R2,680 Discovery Miles 26 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A volume in Educational Leadership for Social Justice Series Editor Jeffrey S. Brooks, University of Missouri-Columbia, Denise E. Armstrong, Brock University; Ira Bogotch, Florida Atlantic University; Sandra Harris, Lamar University; Whitney H. Sherman, Virginia Commonwealth University; George Theoharis, Syracuse University The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching About Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know offers theoretical grounding and practical approaches for leaders and teachers interested in effectively addressing racism and other oppressive constructs. The book draws both on the author's extensive experience teaching about race and racism in classroom and community settings and from the theory and practice of a wide range of educators, activists, and researchers committed to social justice. The first chapter looks at the toxic consequences of our western cultural insistence on profit, binary thinking, and individualism to establish the theoretical framework for teaching about race and racism. Chapter two investigates privileged resistance, offering a psycho/social history of denial, particularly as a product of racist culture. Chapter three reviews the research on the construction and reconstruction of dominant culture both historically and now in order to establish sound strategic approaches that educators, teachers, facilitators, and activists can take as we work together to move from a culture of profit and fear to one of shared hope and love. Chapter four lays out the stages of a process that supports teaching about racist, white supremacy culture, explaining how students can be taken through an iterative process of relationshipbuilding, analysis, planning, action, and reflection. The final chapter borrows from the brilliant, brave, and incisive writer Dorothy Allison to discuss the things the author knows for sure about how to teach people to see that which we have been conditioned to fear knowing. The chapter concludes with how to encourage and support collective and collaborative action as a critical goal of the process.

America, Goddam - Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice (Hardcover): Treva B Lindsey America, Goddam - Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice (Hardcover)
Treva B Lindsey
R540 Discovery Miles 5 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, Kirkus Reviews "A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny."-Publishers Weekly A powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title, this book is a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. America, Goddam explores the combined force of anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. Combining history, theory, and memoir, America, Goddam renders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm and death, while the circumstances and traumas of this violence go underreported and understudied. America, Goddam allows readers to understand How Black women-who have been both victims of anti-Black violence as well as frontline participants-are rarely the focus of Black freedom movements. How Black women have led movements demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Toyin Salau, Riah Milton, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and countless other Black women and girls whose lives have been curtailed by numerous forms of violence. How across generations and centuries, their refusal to remain silent about violence against them led to Black liberation through organizing and radical politics. America, Goddam powerfully demonstrates that the struggle for justice begins with reckoning with the pervasiveness of violence against Black women and girls in the United States.

Learning Whiteness - Education and the Settler Colonial State (Hardcover): Arathi Sriprakash, Sophie Rudolph, Jessica Gerrard Learning Whiteness - Education and the Settler Colonial State (Hardcover)
Arathi Sriprakash, Sophie Rudolph, Jessica Gerrard
R1,960 Discovery Miles 19 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life. Learning Whiteness examines the material conditions, knowledge politics and complex feelings that create and relay systems of racial domination. Focusing on Australia, the authors demonstrate how whiteness is fundamentally an educational project - taught within education institutions and through public discourse - in active service of the settler colonial state. To see whiteness as learned is to recognise that it can be confronted. This book invites readers to reckon with past and present politics of education in order to imagine a future thoroughly divested from racism.

Palm Oil - The Grease of Empire (Paperback): Max Haiven Palm Oil - The Grease of Empire (Paperback)
Max Haiven
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Powerful' - Silvia Federici It's in our food, our cosmetics, our fuel and our bodies. Palm oil, found in half of supermarket products, has shaped our world. Max Haiven uncovers how the gears of capitalism are literally and metaphorically lubricated by this ubiquitous elixir. From its origins in West Africa to today's Southeast Asian palm oil superpowers, Haiven's sweeping, experimental narrative takes us on a global journey that includes looted treasures, the American system of mass incarceration, the history of modern art and the industrialisation of war. Beyond simply calling for more consumer boycotts, he argues for recognising in palm oil humanity's profound potential to shape our world beyond racial capitalism and neo-colonial dispossession. One part history, one part dream, one part theory, one part montage, this kaleidoscopic and urgent book asks us to recognise the past in the present and to seize the power to make a better world.

Beyond Race and Gender - Unleashing the Power of Your Total Workforce by Managing Diversity (Paperback, New Ed): R. Thomas Beyond Race and Gender - Unleashing the Power of Your Total Workforce by Managing Diversity (Paperback, New Ed)
R. Thomas
R461 R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Save R122 (26%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The ability to manage this diversity successfully has become a basic strategy for corporate survival. Beyond Race and Gender supplies a sorely needed Action Plan, extensive case studies, and a series of tough questions and answers to get readers thinking deeply about what elements are blocking the full use of the human talent available. In this visionary work, R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., rouses organizations to face the facts and embrace the challenges--because it is the only efficient way for America to compete and prosper.

Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations - The Multicultural Challenge (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Fethi Mansouri Cultural, Religious and Political Contestations - The Multicultural Challenge (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Fethi Mansouri
R2,901 R1,865 Discovery Miles 18 650 Save R1,036 (36%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the foundations of multiculturalism in the context of emigre societies and from a multi-dimensional perspective. The work considers the politics of multiculturalism and focuses on how the discourse of cultural rights and intercultural relations in western societies can and should be accounted for at a philosophical, as well as performative level. Theoretical perspectives on current debates about cultural diversity, religious minorities and minority rights emerge in this volume. The book draws our attention to the polarised nature of contemporary multicultural debates through a well-synthesised series of empirical case studies that are grounded in solid epistemological foundations and contributed by leading experts from around the world. Readers will discover a fresh re-examination of prominent multicultural settings such as Canada and Australia but also an emphasis on less examined case studies among multicultural societies, as with New Zealand and Italy. Authors engage critically and innovatively with the various ethical challenges and policy dilemmas surrounding the management of cultural and religious diversity in our contemporary societies. Comparative perspectives and a focus on core questions related to multiculturalism, not only at the level of practice but also from historical and philosophical perspectives, tie these chapters from different disciplines together. This work will appeal to a multi-disciplinary audience, including scholars of political philosophy, sociology, religious studies and those with an interest in migration, culture and religion in contemporary societies.

Youth on Edge - Facing Global Crises in Multicultural French Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie... Youth on Edge - Facing Global Crises in Multicultural French Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre; Translated by Sarah-Louise Raillard
R2,794 Discovery Miles 27 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores disrupted youth cohesion in France within the context of multiple ongoing global economic, migratory, social, political, and security-related crises. While these trends can be observed in numerous Western societies, France provides a unique case study of various anti-cosmopolitan and anti-Enlightenment movements shaping youth conditions and reconfiguring relationships between the individual, the group, and society. The authors undertook in-depth interviews with French young people between the ages of 18 to 30 years old to inquire into how they experience "vivre ensemble" (living together) in a time of rising economic inequalities and multicultural tensions. Through these findings, they invite decision-makers, politicians, educators, and parents to propose a renewed narrative of social cohesion for youth who are not disillusioned, but deeply on edge.

Ethnicity and Racism in Cyprus - National Pride and Prejudice? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): P. Stevens Ethnicity and Racism in Cyprus - National Pride and Prejudice? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
P. Stevens
R2,220 R1,749 Discovery Miles 17 490 Save R471 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Investigating the relationship between ethnic pride and prejudice in the divided community of Cyprus, this book focuses on the ethnic stereotypes that Greek and Turkish Cypriot secondary school students develop of each other and other ethnic groups in Cyprus.

The Blue Divide - Policing and Race in America (Hardcover): Will Moravits The Blue Divide - Policing and Race in America (Hardcover)
Will Moravits
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Plantation Society and Race Relations - The Origins of Inequality (Hardcover, New): Thomas J Durant, J. David Knottnerus Plantation Society and Race Relations - The Origins of Inequality (Hardcover, New)
Thomas J Durant, J. David Knottnerus
R3,586 Discovery Miles 35 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For more than three hundred years, the American South was essentially a plantation society, in which the plantation system penetrated all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political life. During this period, plantation slavery evolved into the key institutional component of Southern society and played an integral role in its development. This interdisciplinary collection of essays provides a sociological framework for the interpretation of historical data on plantation slavery by addressing different questions concerning four broad areas of research--theoretical perspectives; social institutions; race, gender, and social inequality; and social change and social transformations. The contributors depict slave plantations as organized social systems that contributed significantly to the racial stratification of the Southern plantation society, and in this way served as the origin of contemporary race relations and social inequality in America.

Can Muslims Think? - Race, Islam, and the End of Europe (Hardcover): Muneeb Hafiz Can Muslims Think? - Race, Islam, and the End of Europe (Hardcover)
Muneeb Hafiz
R2,443 Discovery Miles 24 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As Europe goes astray, deeply conflicted about where it is both within and with the world, it does not know what it wants to know about, or do, with the racial subject. It is into this context of anxiety, and the Muslim subject as its most intense source, that I write Islamophobia. Islamophobia represents not merely a species of the racism constitutive of European modernity, but is rather symptomatic of deep contemporary transformations in (racist) power, knowledge and governance, propelled by technologies and economies of seemingly endless wars on/of terror. The Muslim, who is at once the terrifying object and dehumanised subject of race, is called to answer for Europe's existential fear of relegation. But who, or rather what is s/he? How might the Muslim speak about the world, its past and unfolding terror(s)? Which questions must s/he answer, and which answers are deemed acceptable? Presenting a speculative theory of the (post)racial subject of Islamophobia, this book is an attempt to build an adequate vocabulary for analysing the complexities of racism today, its potential futurity, and (Muslim) techniques for its dismantling.

Excavating Memory - Bilge Karasu's Istanbul and Walter Benjamin's Berlin (Hardcover): UElker Goekberk Excavating Memory - Bilge Karasu's Istanbul and Walter Benjamin's Berlin (Hardcover)
UElker Goekberk
R2,115 Discovery Miles 21 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This study moves the acclaimed Turkish fiction writer Bilge Karasu (1930-1995) into a new critical arena by examining his poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul's Beyoglu, once a cosmopolitan neighborhood called Pera. Karasu established his fame in literary criticism as an experimental modernist, but while themes such as sexuality, gender, and oppression have received critical attention, an essential tenet of Karasu's oeuvre, the evocation of ethno-cultural identity, has remained unexplored: Excavating Memory brings to light this dimension. Through his non-referential and ambiguous renderings of memory, Karasu gives in his Beyoglu narratives unique expression to ethno-cultural difference in Turkish literature, and lets through his own repressed minority identity. By using Walter Benjamin's autobiographical work as a heuristic premise for illuminating Karasu, Goekberk establishes an innovative intercultural framework, which brings into dialogue two representative writers of the twentieth century over temporal and spatial distances.

Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives on Organizational Justice (Hardcover): Stephen W. Gilliland (University of Arizona, USA),... Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives on Organizational Justice (Hardcover)
Stephen W. Gilliland (University of Arizona, USA), Dirk D. Steiner (Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), Daniel Skarlicki (University of British Columbia, Canada); Edited by Stephen W. Gilliland (University of Arizona, USA), Dirk D. Steiner (Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France), …
R2,694 Discovery Miles 26 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume includes essays on fairness heuristic thoery, the problem of over and under emphasis of cultural differences and fairness as deonance. It also offers a categorization approach to fairness judgements, and asks if fairness is possible in disputes among nationally-different employees.

A Sociology of Hikikomori - Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan (Hardcover):... A Sociology of Hikikomori - Experiences of Isolation, Family-Dependency, and Social Policy in Contemporary Japan (Hardcover)
Teppei Sekimizu
R2,221 Discovery Miles 22 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Hikikomori, which literally means "withdrawal," is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japanese society. This issue has been attracting worldwide attention for two decades and is now recognized as a problem for the youth as well as for middle-aged and older adults. Based on interviews with people who have experienced it, Teppei Sekimizu explores what the hikikomori experience is like from a sociological perspective. He also examines the characteristics of four decades of hikikomori discourse by governments, professionals, and mass media; the difficulties faced by parents with hikikomori children; and the social policy which has relegated most provision of welfare for citizens to the private sector. Through these examinations, the author illustrates how the exclusive labor market and familial social policies create masses of family-dependent and isolated individuals in contemporary Japan. The Sociology of the Hikikomori Experience leads the reader to understand the manifold hikikomori phenomenon in a wider social context and also to a deeper understanding of Japanese society itself, which has regarded not the government, but corporations, families, and communities responsible for individual well-being.

A Race for the Future - Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness (Hardcover): Marina Mogilner A Race for the Future - Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness (Hardcover)
Marina Mogilner
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The forgotten story of a surprising anti-imperial, nationalist project at the turn of the twentieth century: a grassroots movement of Russian Jews to racialize themselves. In the rapidly nationalizing Russian Empire of the late nineteenth century, Russian Jews grew increasingly concerned about their future. Jews spoke different languages and practiced different traditions. They had complex identities and no territorial homeland. Their inability to easily conform to new standards of nationality meant a future of inevitable assimilation or second-class minority citizenship. The solution proposed by Russian Jewish intellectuals was to ground Jewish nationhood in a structure deeper than culture or territory-biology. Marina Mogilner examines three leading Russian Jewish race scientists- Samuel Weissenberg, Alexander El'kind, and Lev Shternberg-and the movement they inspired. Through networks of race scientists and political activists, Jewish medical societies, and imperial organizations like the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population, they aimed to produce "authentic" knowledge about the Jewish body, which would motivate an empowering sense of racially grounded identity and guide national biopolitics. Activists vigorously debated eugenic and medical practices, Jews' status as Semites, Europeans, and moderns, and whether the Jews of the Caucasus and Central Asia were inferior. The national science, and the biopolitics it generated, became a form of anticolonial resistance, and survived into the early Soviet period, influencing population policies in the new state. Comprehensive and meticulously researched, A Race for the Future reminds us of the need to historically contextualize racial ideology and politics and makes clear that we cannot fully grasp the biopolitics of the twentieth century without accounting for the imperial breakdown in which those politics thrived.

The Girl from Nowhere - A Romani Ghetto Life (Paperback): Eliska Tanzer The Girl from Nowhere - A Romani Ghetto Life (Paperback)
Eliska Tanzer
R139 Discovery Miles 1 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

My mother was a prostitute. My grandmother and great-grandmother were prostitutes. Maybe I should have given the family business a chance... BBC RADIO 4 PICK OF THE WEEK, Katie Puckrik 'Eliska's story is an extraordinary and powerful read. It's the ultimate book about survival and an against-all-odds fight to make it in life. Highly recommend.' Clover Stroud 'A scintillating, devastating memoir, and a fiercely witty and unabashed tribute to the toughness of the human spirit.' Damian Le Bas __________________________________________________ To westerners, being Gypsy means being wild, romantic and free. To Eliska Tanzer, it means being rented out to dance for older men. It means living without running water. It means not being allowed a job or an education. It means being stuffed into a bare room with all your aunts and cousins, fighting over the thin, stained blanket the way you fight over the last piece of half-mouldy bread. It means joining the family prostitution ring when you're still a child. But Eliska was given a way out. Slung out of Hoe School and shipped to England in a washing machine box, she thought she had made it. But her dream soon turned into a nightmare. A moving and timely memoir from a powerful new voice in literature.

Civic Multiculturalism in Singapore - Revisiting Citizenship, Rights and Recognition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Terri-Anne Teo Civic Multiculturalism in Singapore - Revisiting Citizenship, Rights and Recognition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Terri-Anne Teo
R2,511 Discovery Miles 25 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is about multiculturalism, broadly defined as the recognition, respect and accommodation of cultural differences. Teo proposes a framework of multicultural denizenship that includes group-specific rights and intercultural dialogue, by problematising three issues: a) the unacknowledged misrecognition of non-citizens within the scholarship of multiculturalism; b) uncritical treatment of citizens and non-citizens as binary categories and; c) problematic parcelling of group-specific rights with citizenship rights. Drawing on the case of Singapore as an illustrative example, where temporary labour migrants are culturally stereotyped, socioeconomically disenfranchised and denied access to rights accorded only to citizens, Teo argues that understandings of multiculturalism need to be expanded and adjusted to include a fluidity of identities, spectrum of rights and shared experiences of marginalisation among citizens and non-citizens. Civic Multiculturalism in Singapore will be of interest to students and scholars of multiculturalism, critical citizenship studies, migration studies, political theory and postcolonial studies.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (an African American Heritage Book) (Hardcover): Linda Brent Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (an African American Heritage Book) (Hardcover)
Linda Brent; Edited by L.Maria Child
R455 Discovery Miles 4 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women. Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible and harrowing for women than for men. Harriet Jacobs was owned by a brutal master who beat his slaves regularly and subjected them to indignations that were far worse. Jacobs eventually escaped her master and moved to a northern state. Though she was unable to take her children with her at the time they were later reunited. Read her powerful and compelling story.

Fearing the Black Body - The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Hardcover): Sabrina Strings Fearing the Black Body - The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Hardcover)
Sabrina Strings
R2,545 Discovery Miles 25 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals-where fat bodies were once praised-showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of "savagery" and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn't about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

Mixed Race Cinemas - Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (Hardcover): Zelie Asava Mixed Race Cinemas - Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (Hardcover)
Zelie Asava
R3,937 Discovery Miles 39 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Using critical race theory and film studies to explore the interconnectedness between cinema and society, Zelie Asava traces the history of mixed-race representations in American and French filmmaking from early and silent cinema to the present day. Mixed Race Cinemas covers over a hundred years of filmmaking to chart the development of (black/white) mixed representations onscreen. With the 21st century being labelled the Mulatto Millennium, mixed bodies are more prevalent than ever in the public sphere, yet all too often they continue to be positioned as exotic, strange and otherworldly, according to 'tragic mulatto' tropes. This book evaluates the potential for moving beyond fixed racial binaries both onscreen and off by exploring actors and characters who embody the in-between. Through analyses of over 40 movies, and case studies of key films from the 1910s on, Mixed Race Cinemas illuminates landmark shifts in local and global cinema, exploring discourses of subjectivity, race, gender, sexuality and class. In doing so, it reveals the similarities and contrasts between American and French cinema in relation to recognising, visualising and constructing mixedness. Mixed Race Cinemas contextualizes and critiques raced and 'post-race' visual culture, using cinematic representations to illustrate changing definitions of mixed identity across different historical and geographical contexts.

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