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1. | | Title: The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton cultureAuthor: Foley, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | American StudiesPublisher's Description: In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1 . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue-collar jobsAuthor: Royster, Deirdre A. (Deirdre Alexia) 1966- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | American Studies | Anthropology | Economics and Business | Urban Studies | Public Policy | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: From the time of Booker T. Washington to today, and William Julius Wilson, the advice dispensed to young black men has invariably been, "Get a trade." Deirdre Royster has put this folk wisdom to an empirical test - and, in Race and the Invisible Hand, exposes the subtleties and discrepancies of a wo . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial pastAuthor: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: David R. Roediger's powerful book argues that in its political workings, its distribution of advantages, and its unspoken assumptions, the United States is a "still white" nation. Race is decidedly not over. The critical portraits of contemporary icons that lead off the book--Rush Limbaugh, Bill Cli . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Redefining Black filmAuthor: Reid, Mark (Mark A.) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: Can films about black characters, produced by white filmmakers, be considered "black films"? In answering this question, Mark Reid reassesses black film history, carefully distinguishing between films controlled by blacks and films that utilize black talent, but are controlled by whites. Previous bl . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Dateline Soweto: travels with black South African reporters Author: Finnegan, William Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Media Studies | African Studies | Social Problems | Politics | African HistoryPublisher's Description: Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who - fearing government disapproval - may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited seve . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Black magic: religion and the African American conjuring traditionAuthor: Chireau, Yvonne Patricia 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | African Studies | American Studies | United States History | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: Black Magic looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure - the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements - from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both schola . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Race music: black cultures from bebop to hip-hopAuthor: Ramsey, Guthrie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | American Music | American Studies | Popular Music | United States History | Ethnomusicology | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gathe . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Rethinking the American race problem Author: Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon) 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: American Studies | Law | Politics | Ethnic StudiesPublisher's Description: If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma.This incisive book provides a bold . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Broken silence: voices of Japanese feminismAuthor: Buckley, Sandra 1954- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | Japan | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | SociologyPublisher's Description: Broken Silence brings together for the first time many of Japan's leading feminists, women who have been bucking the social mores of a patriarchal society for years but who remain virtually unknown outside Japan. While Japan is often thought to be without a significant feminist presence, these inter . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Black African cinemaAuthor: Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | FilmPublisher's Description: From the proselytizing lantern slides of early Christian missionaries to contemporary films that look at Africa through an African lens, N. Frank Ukadike explores the development of black African cinema. He examines the impact of culture and history, and of technology and co-production, on filmmakin . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papersAuthor: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | African Studies | African History | PoliticsPublisher's Description: "Africa for the Africans" was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). Volumes I-VII of the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers chronicled the Garvey movement that flourished in the Unit . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: What is this thing called jazz?: African American musicians as artists, critics, and activistsAuthor: Porter, Eric (Eric C.) Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | History | United States History | American Studies | African American Studies | American Music | Contemporary Music | JazzPublisher's Description: Despite the plethora of writing about jazz, little attention has been paid to what musicians themselves wrote and said about their practice. An implicit division of labor has emerged where, for the most part, black artists invent and play music while white writers provide the commentary. Eric Porter . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggleAuthor: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | United States History | Labor Studies | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own wor . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: Women without class: girls, race, and identityAuthor: Bettie, Julie 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Sociology | Chicano Studies | American Studies | Popular Culture | Education | Anthropology | Social Problems | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color, et . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: African-American Christianity: essays in historyAuthor: Johnson, Paul E 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | United States History | African American Studies | ChristianityPublisher's Description: Eight leading scholars have joined forces to give us the most comprehensive book to date on the history of African-American religion from the slavery period to the present.Beginning with Albert Raboteau's essay on the importance of the story of Exodus among African-American Christians and concluding . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Thinking fragments: psychoanalysis, feminism, and postmodernism in the contemporary West Author: Flax, Jane Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Gender Studies | Psychiatry | Political Theory | Literary Theory and CriticismPublisher's Description: Thinking Fragments provides a brilliant critique of psychoanalytic, feminist, and postmodern theory. Examining the writings of Freud, Winnicott, Lacan, Chodorow, Irigaray, Derrida, Rorty, and Foucault, among others, Flax conducts a "conversation" among psychoanalysts, feminist thinkers, and postmode . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Bureaucracy and race: native administration in South Africa Author: Evans, Ivan Thomas 1957- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Sociology | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native A . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Men, women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab feminist poetics Author: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Middle Eastern Studies | Gender Studies | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Men, Women, and God(s) is a pioneering study of the Arab world's leading feminist and most controversial woman writer, Nawal El Saadawi. Author of plays, memoirs, and such novels as Woman at Point Zero and The Innocence of the Devil , El Saadawi has become well known in the West as well as in the Ar . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: To place our deeds: the African American community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963Author: Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | African American StudiesPublisher's Description: To Place Our Deeds traces the development of the African American community in Richmond, California, a city on the San Francisco Bay. This readable, extremely well-researched social history, based on numerous oral histories, newspapers, and archival collections, is the first to examine the historica . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: Material girls: making sense of feminist cultural theoryAuthor: Walters, Suzanna Danuta Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Gender Studies | Sociology | Women's Studies | American Studies | Politics | Media StudiesPublisher's Description: Madonna, Murphy Brown, Thelma and Louise: These much-discussed media icons are the starting points of Suzanna Walter's brilliant, much-needed introduction to feminist cultural theory. Accessible yet theoretically sophisticated, up-to-date and entertaining, Material Girls acquaints readers with the m . . . [more]Similar Items |
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