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| 61. |  | 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 |
| 62. |  | Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Religion | African American Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 63. |  | Title: Busing and backlash: white against white in a California school district Lillian B. Rubin  Author: Rubin, Lillian B Published: University of California Press, 1973 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | African American Studies Similar Items |
| 64. |  | 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 |
| 65. |  | Title: Marcus Garvey, life and lessons: a centennial companion to The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers Author: Hill, Robert A 1943- Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: History | United States History | African American Studies Publisher's Description: "I do not speak carelessly or recklessly but with a definite object of helping the people, especially those of my race, to know, to understand, and to realize themselves." - Marcus Garvey, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1937A popular companion to the scholarly edition of The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 66. |  | Title: Not our kind of girl: unraveling the myths of Black teenage motherhood Author: Kaplan, Elaine Bell Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Social Science | Gender Studies | African American Studies Publisher's Description: One of the most worrisome images in America today is that of the teenage mother. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom. Elaine Bell Kaplan's affecting and insightful book dispels common p . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 67. |  | Title: Between Sundays: Black women and everyday struggles of faith Author: Frederick, Marla Faye 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Religion | African American Studies | Women's Studies | Politics | Anthropology | Christianity Publisher's Description: To be a black woman of faith in the American South is to understand and experience spirituality in a particular way. How this understanding expresses itself in everyday practices of faith is the subject of Between Sundays, an innovative work that takes readers beyond common misconceptions and narrow . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 68. |  | Title: Rara!: vodou, power, and performance in Haiti and its diaspora Author: McAlister, Elizabeth A Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Cultural Anthropology | African American Studies | American Studies | Latin American Studies Publisher's Description: Rara is a vibrant annual street festival in Haiti, when followers of the Afro-Creole religion called Vodou march loudly into public space to take an active role in politics. Working deftly with highly original ethnographic material, Elizabeth McAlister shows how Rara bands harness the power of Vodou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 69. |  | Title: William Grant Still: a study in contradictions Author: Smith, Catherine Parsons 1933- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | Composers | African American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers." He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood; major symphony orchestras performed his concert works; and an opera, written in collaboration with Langston Hughes, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 70. |  | Title: Writing tricksters: mythic gambols in American ethnic literature Author: Smith, Jeanne Rosier 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | Asian Literature | Native American Studies Publisher's Description: Writing Tricksters examines the remarkable resurgence of tricksters - ubiquitous shape-shifters who dwell on borders, at crossroads, and between worlds - on the contemporary cultural and literary scene. Depicting a chaotic, multilingual world of colliding and overlapping cultures, many of America's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 71. |  | Title: Jazz cultures Author: Ake, David Andrew 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | American Music | Jazz | Ethnomusicology | American Studies | African American Studies | Jazz Publisher's Description: From its beginning, jazz has presented a contradictory social world: jazz musicians have worked diligently to erase old boundaries, but they have just as resolutely constructed new ones. David Ake's vibrant and original book considers the diverse musics and related identities that jazz communities h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 72. |  | Title: Blood politics: race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Author: Sturm, Circe 1967- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | African American Studies Publisher's Description: Circe Sturm takes a bold and original approach to one of the most highly charged and important issues in the United States today: race and national identity. Focusing on the Oklahoma Cherokee, she examines how Cherokee identity is socially and politically constructed, and how that process is embedde . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 73. |  | Title: From savage to Negro: anthropology and the construction of race, 1896-1954 Author: Baker, Lee D 1966- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies | United States History | Sociology Publisher's Description: Lee D. Baker explores what racial categories mean to the American public and how these meanings are reinforced by anthropology, popular culture, and the law. Focusing on the period between two landmark Supreme Court decisions - Plessy v. Ferguson (the so-called "separate but equal" doctrine establis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 74. |  | 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 |
| 75. |  | Title: What is this thing called jazz?: African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists Author: 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 | Jazz Publisher'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 |
| 76. |  | 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 |
| 77. |  | Title: To place our deeds: the African American community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 Author: Moore, Shirley Ann Wilson 1947- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Californian and Western History | California and the West | African American Studies Publisher'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 |
| 78. |  | 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 |
| 79. |  | Title: Miles and me Author: Troupe, Quincy Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Music | African American Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | Contemporary Music | Jazz Publisher's Description: Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistic and personal. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 80. |  | Title: L.A. city limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the present Author: Sides, Josh 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | California and the West Publisher's Description: In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass - embodying both the best and worst of what urban America off . . . [more] Similar Items |