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In Whiteness Interrupted Marcus Bell presents a revealing portrait
of white teachers in majority-black schools in which he examines
the limitations of understandings of how white racial identity is
formed. Through in-depth interviews with dozens of white teachers
from a racially segregated, urban school district in Upstate New
York, Bell outlines how whiteness is constructed based on localized
interactions and takes a different form in predominantly black
spaces. He finds that in response to racial stress in a difficult
teaching environment, white teachers conceptualized whiteness as a
stigmatized category predicated on white victimization. When
discussing race outside majority-black spaces, Bell's subjects
characterized American society as postracial, in which race seldom
affects outcomes. Conversely, in discussing their experiences
within predominantly black spaces, they rejected the idea of white
privilege, often angrily, and instead focused on what they saw as
the racial privilege of blackness. Throughout, Bell underscores the
significance of white victimization narratives in black spaces and
their repercussions as the United States becomes a
majority-minority society.
The Accomplisht Cook was first published in 1660 and this is a
facsimile of the 1685 edition. Robert May was cook to the
aristocracy of Royalist England; born in the year of the Armada;
trained by his own father, then by powerful patrons in Paris;
before apprenticeship in London with the cook to the Star Chamber.
In the course of a long life, working almost exclusively for fellow
Catholics and Royalists, he absorbed all the most fashionable
tendencies at large in the kitchens of England. 'By its sheer size
and comprehensive scope Robert May's book eclipsed its
predecessors,' writes Alan Davidson in his foreword. Here is the
most complete portrait of English cooking as it was when Charles II
was restored to the throne, as well as before 'the unhappy and
cruel disturbances' of the Civil War, in 'those golden days of
peace and hospitality,' as the author puts it, 'when you enjoyed
your own.' This edition has an excellent biographical introduction
by Marcus Bell, revealing new facts about Robert May's life, a
graceful foreword by Alan Davidson and a full glossary of
contemporary terms. This new reprint of Prospect's edition of 2000
is part of the series 'The English Kitchen' and sits alongside and
in similar format to other works, ancient and modern, on the
history of English cookery.
In Whiteness Interrupted Marcus Bell presents a revealing portrait
of white teachers in majority-black schools in which he examines
the limitations of understandings of how white racial identity is
formed. Through in-depth interviews with dozens of white teachers
from a racially segregated, urban school district in Upstate New
York, Bell outlines how whiteness is constructed based on localized
interactions and takes a different form in predominantly black
spaces. He finds that in response to racial stress in a difficult
teaching environment, white teachers conceptualized whiteness as a
stigmatized category predicated on white victimization. When
discussing race outside majority-black spaces, Bell's subjects
characterized American society as postracial, in which race seldom
affects outcomes. Conversely, in discussing their experiences
within predominantly black spaces, they rejected the idea of white
privilege, often angrily, and instead focused on what they saw as
the racial privilege of blackness. Throughout, Bell underscores the
significance of white victimization narratives in black spaces and
their repercussions as the United States becomes a
majority-minority society.
Giorno first rose to fame in New York in the early 1960s as the
star of Warhol's Sleep. Associated with key 1960s avant garde
figures such as Ginsberg, Burroughs, Rauschenberg, and Johns,
Giorno was an early pioneer of multimedia poetry through Giorno
Poetry Systems, which also distributed a who's who of the American
underground from Patti Smith to Sonic Youth. Giorno's use of
transgressive material and in-your-face amplified delivery was also
a key influence on punk/new wave pioneers such as Suicide,
Throbbing Gristle, and Black Flag. Not just a poet but a sexual,
spiritual, and political radical, Giorno helped pioneer the open
celebration of queer sexuality in poetry in the 1960s. His AIDS
Treatment Project, begun in 1984, set the bar for action in the
AIDS crisis. Subduing Demons in America offers the best of Giorno's
revolutionary poetry, from his striking Pop Art-influenced poems of
the 1960s to the psychedelic, echo-laden, multitracked cut-ups of
the 1970s with their explosive configurations of queer sex,
spiritual practice, and the bohemian Good Life. Also here are the
pared-down punk/hip-hop performance poems that Giorno performed in
the 1980s.
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