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| 1. |  | Title: The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture Author: Foley, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Ethnic Studies | American Studies Publisher'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: Female subjects in black and white: race, psychoanalysis, feminism Author: Abel, Elizabeth Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | African American Studies | Gender Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such issues as the primacy of sexual difference, the uni . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Redefining Black film Author: Reid, Mark (Mark A.) Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | African American Studies Publisher'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 |
| 4. |  | Title: Black workers remember: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle Author: Honey, Michael K Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | United States History | Labor Studies | African American Studies Publisher'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 |
| 5. |  | Title: Colored White: transcending the racial past Author: Roediger, David R Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Immigration Publisher'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 |
| 6. |  | Title: Race music: black cultures from bebop to hip-hop Author: Ramsey, Guthrie P Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Music | American Music | American Studies | Popular Music | United States History | Ethnomusicology | African American Studies Publisher'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 |
| 7. |  | Title: White plague, black labor: tuberculosis and the political economy of health and disease in South Africa Author: Packard, Randall M 1945- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Medicine | Medical Anthropology | African Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Why does tuberculosis, a disease which is both curable and preventable, continue to produce over 50,000 new cases a year in South Africa, primarily among blacks? In answering this question Randall Packard traces the history of one of the most devastating diseases in twentieth-century Africa, against . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Land without ghosts: Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present Author: Arkush, R. David 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | United States History | China | American Studies | Californian and Western History Publisher's Description: Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. Land without Ghosts presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 year . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | 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 History Publisher'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 |
| 10. |  | Title: Natural history of the White-Inyo Range, eastern California Author: Hall, Clarence A Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Environmental Studies | Ecology | Earth Sciences | California and the West | Natural History Publisher's Description: The White-Inyo Range - rising sharply from the eastern edge of Owens Valley - is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in the world. High, dry, and amazingly diverse, it boasts an expansive alpine tundra and features the oldest living species on earth - the 4,000-year-old Bristlecone Pines. This . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest Author: Boag, Peter Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | Men and Masculinity | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young ur . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Women without class: girls, race, and identity Author: 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 | Immigration Publisher'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 |
| 13. |  | 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 Studies Publisher'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 |
| 14. |  | Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: One of the children: gay black men in Harlem Author: Hawkeswood, William G d. 1992 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Gender Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | African American Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Gay black men, a thriving subculture of the black and gay communities, are doubly marginalized. Along with other black men, they are typically portrayed in the media and literature as "street corner men" - unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. In the larger gay community, they ar . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: The development of Attic black-figure Author: Beazley, J. D. (John Davidson) 1885-1970 Published: University of California Press, 1986 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations. Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Pioneer urbanites: a social and cultural history of Black San Francisco Author: Daniels, Douglas Henry Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | African American Studies | Social Problems | California and the West | United States History Publisher's Description: The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transpor . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Honky Author: Conley, Dalton 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | Autobiography Publisher's Description: This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view - the streets, buses, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Inside organized racism: women in the hate movement Author: Blee, Kathleen M Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Social Problems | Public Policy | Christianity Publisher's Description: Kathleen M. Blee's disturbing and provocative look at the hidden world of organized racism focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews with women active in the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi groups, Christia . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: The comparative imagination: on the history of racism, nationalism, and social movements Author: Fredrickson, George M 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | United States History Publisher's Description: In this collection of essays, an eminent American historian of race relations discusses issues central to our understanding of the history of racism, the role of racism, and the possibilites for justice in contemporary society. George M. Fredrickson provides an eloquent and vigorous examination of r . . . [more] Similar Items |