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Raciolinguistics
How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa. The book brings together a team of leading scholars-working both within and beyond the United States-to share powerful, much-needed research that helps us understand the increasingly vexed...
Strange Future
Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Sometime near the start of the 1990s, the future became a place of national decline. The United States had entered a period of great anxiety fueled by the shrinking of the white middle class, the increasingly visible misery of poor urban blacks, and the mass immigration of nonwhites. Perhaps more...
Gender, Whiteness, and Power in Rodeo
Breaking Away from the Ties of Sexism and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The lure of cowgirls and cowboys has hooked the American imagination with the lure of freedom and adventure since the turn of the twentieth century. The cowboy and cowgirl played in the imagination and made rodeo into a symbolic representation of the Western United States. As a sport that is emblematic...
Bridges of Reform
Interracial Civil Rights Activism in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In her first book, Shana Bernstein reinterprets U.S. civil rights activism by looking at its roots in the interracial efforts of Mexican, African, Jewish, and Japanese Americans in mid-century Los Angeles. Expanding the frame of historical analysis beyond black/white and North/South, Bernstein reveals...
The Road to Chinese Exclusion
The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the West
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Denver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurred—in the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880—it was sparked by white resentment at the growing encroachment of Chinese immigrants who had crossed the Pacific...
Angels with Dirty Faces
Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
"There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer. . . . When I saw for the first time (but not the last) a mother sobbing and clutching her son when visiting hours were up, only to be physically pried off and escorted out by guards, I knew nothing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Based on new research and combining multiple scholarly approaches, these twelve essays tell new stories about the civil rights movement in the state most resistant to change. Wesley Hogan, Françoise N. Hamlin, and Michael Vinson Williams raise questions about how civil rights organizing took place....
In Remembrance of Emmett Till
Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
On August 28, 1955, fourteen-year-old Chicago native Emmett Till was brutally beaten to death for allegedly flirting with a white woman at a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam were acquitted of murdering Till and dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River, and later that...
by Liz Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almost wholly ignored. This new study, based on in-depth interviews with 60 women, is the first to cover the experience of a range of forms of sexual violence...
Sanctuaries of Segregation
The Story of the Jackson Church Visit Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Eudora Welty Prize
Sanctuaries of Segregation provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Jackson, Mississippi, church visit campaign of 1963-1964 and the efforts by segregationists to protect one of their last refuges. For ten months, integrated groups of ministers...
Who Killed John Clayton?
Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1998
In 1888 a group of armed and masked Democrats stole a ballot box from a small town in Conway County, Arkansas. The box contained most of the county’s black Republican votes, thereby assuring defeat for candidate John Clayton in a close race for the U.S. Congress. Days after he announced he would...
Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance
Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood and American popular culture, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry...
Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places
Justice Beyond and Between
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
An impressive line-up of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines – law, but also anthropology, rhetoric, literature, history, geography, and race and ethnic studies.
by Phil Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2010
Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms,...