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The Alchemy of Race and Rightsby Patricia J. WilliamsISBN 0674014715 (0-674-01471-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alchemy of Race and Rights'Book summary:In a personal and profound examination of the United States legal system and its effect on African Americans, Patricia J. Williams uses the term alchemy--the medieval, mysterious practice of turning base metal into gold--as a haunting metaphor for the nearly mystical process by which United States law emboldens and endangers blacks through arcane interpretation, as well as the heroic will of a people to make those laws manifest. "I'm interested in the way in which the legal language flattens and confines in absolutes the complexity of meaning inherent in any given problem," she writes. "I am trying to challenge the usual limits of commercial discourse by using an intentionally double-voiced and relational, rather than a traditionally legal black letter, vocabulary."
With an authorial voice that draws upon Williams's perspective as teacher, lawyer, black American, and woman, The Alchemy of Race and Rights uses a palette of court cases, educational encounters, and personal experiences--including her discovery of her slave ancestor and her interactions with school deans over how to teach law--to create a literary cubist portrait detailing the rhetoric and reality that color the complexion of American justice. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Anatomy of Racismby David Theo GoldbergISBN 0816618046 (0-8166-1804-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justiceby Derrick BellISBN 046500329X (0-465-00329-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Asian American Women and Men: Love, Laws, and Loveby Yen Le EspirituISBN 0803972555 (0-8039-7255-5)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where Black Meets Queerby Kathryn Bond StocktonISBN 0822337967 (0-8223-3796-7)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Being White: Stories Of Race And Racismby Karyn McKinneyISBN 0415935733 (0-415-93573-3)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousnessby Paul GilroyISBN 0674076060 (0-674-07606-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'Book summary:Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism.
Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons. For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture. In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap. He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W. E. B. Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison.
In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic.
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowermentby Partricia Hill CollinsISBN 0415924847 (0-415-92484-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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Black Looks: Race and Representationby Bell HooksISBN 0896084337 (0-89608-433-7)
Softcover, South End Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Looks: Race and Representation'Book summary:In these twelve essays, bell hooks digs ever deeper into the personal and political consequences of contemporary representations of race and ethnicity within a white supremacist culture.[via]More editions of Black Looks: Race and Representation:
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be Whiteby David R. RoedigerISBN 0805211144 (0-8052-1114-4)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White'Book summary:American literature boasts a long history of white authors writing about blacks. From Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, to Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's controversial study of ethnicity and intelligence, The Bell Curve, the right of white writers to examine the lives of black people is accepted without comment. But where are the commentaries by black writers on white culture? They exist, to be sure--Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston, to name just a few, have all written on the subject of "white folk"--but little if any of this work ever makes it into the consciousness of mainstream America. This new anthology might just change all that.
Edited by David R. Roediger, Black on White brings together some of the most succinct writing ever on what it means to be white--from the African American point of view. Consider, for example, William J. Wilson's satiric "What Shall We Do with the White People?":
For many centuries now have they been on this continent; and for many years have they had entire rule and sway; yet they are today no nearer the solution of the problem, "are they fit for self-government"--than they were at the commencement of their career.
Or bell hooks's critical "Representations of Whiteness in the Black Imagination":Usually white students respond with naïve amazement that black people critically assess white people from a standpoint where "whiteness" is the privileged signifier. Their amazement that black people watch white people with a critical "ethnographic" gaze, is itself an expression of racism.
Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker are just a few of the heavy-hitters included in an anthology that runs the gamut of African American writers and thinkers. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White:
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Critical Race Feminism: A Readerby Adrien Katherine WingISBN 0814793096 (0-8147-9309-6)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Race Feminism: A Reader'Book summary:In Critical Race Feminism, Anita Hill, Lani Guinier, Regina Austin, Patricia Williams, Emma Coleman Jordan (Anita Hill's lawyer) and over three dozen other women seek to ensure that their perspectives on race, power, law, and politics in America will never again be distorted or ignored. Revealing how the historical experiences and contemporary realities of women of color are profoundly influenced by a legacy of racism and sexism that is neither linear nor logical, the book offers a panoramic perspective on American women's lives, illustrating how women of color derive strength from oppression. Both a forceful statement and a platform, the volume addresses an ambitious range of subjects from life in the workplace, motherhood, and parenting to sexual harassment, the O.J. Simpson trial, and criminal justice. Extending beyond national borders, it also takes on such global issues as female genital mutilation with sensitivity and eloquence.
In a foreword that discusses relations between black women and men in the wake of the Million Man March, Derrick Bell argues that there is a singular focus, and thus a unique power, in Critical Race Feminism that makes this anthology relevant for women and men of all colors.
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Critical Race Theory: An Introductionby Richard Delgado, Jean Stefancic, Angela HarrisISBN 0814719317 (0-8147-1931-7)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edgeby Richard Delgado, Jean StefancicISBN 1566397146 (1-56639-714-6)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Critical Race Theory : The Key Writings that Formed the Movementby Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas, Cornel WestISBN 1565842707 (1-56584-270-7)
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Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movementby Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kimberle Crenshaw, Kendall ThomasISBN 1565842715 (1-56584-271-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folksby Lucius T. OutlawISBN 0742513440 (0-7425-1344-0)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Critical White Studies: Looking Behind the Mirrorby Richard Delgado, Jean StefancicISBN 1566395321 (1-56639-532-1)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Crossroads, Directions, and a New Critical Race Theoryby Francisco Valdes, Jerome McCristal-Culp, Jerome M. CulpISBN 1566399300 (1-56639-930-0)
Softcover, Temple Univ Pr
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Dessa Roseby Sherley Ann WilliamsISBN 0688166431 (0-688-16643-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dessa Rose'Book summary:Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative. Toni Morrison
Expanding the canon of African American literature, alongside Zora Neale Hurstons Their Eyes Were Watching God, Alice Walkers The Color Purple, and Toni Morrisons Beloved, Sherley Anne Williams critically acclaimed and unforgettable Dessa Rose is a novel of two powerfully conceived female protagonists forging a vital friendship in the face of racial divides in the antebellum South.
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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racismby Derrick BellISBN 0465068146 (0-465-06814-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism'Book summary:The noted civil rights activist uses allegory and historical example to present a radical vision of the persistence of racism in America. These essays shed light on some of the most perplexing and vexing issues of our day: affirmative action, the disparity between civil rights law and reality, the racist outbursts of some black leaders, the temptation toward violent retaliation, and much more.[via]More editions of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism:
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism And White Privilegeby Robert JensenISBN 0872864499 (0-87286-449-9)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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How the Irish Became Whiteby Noel IgnatievISBN 0415918251 (0-415-91825-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Irish Became White'Book summary:Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American. He uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish-Americans and African-Americans and draws a powerful connection between the embracing of white supremacy and Irish "success" in 19th century American society. [via]
I'm Not a Racist, but: The Moral Quandary of Raceby Lawrence BlumISBN 080148815X (0-8014-8815-X)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Cultureby Kwame Anthony AppiahISBN 0195068521 (0-19-506852-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture'Book summary:The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America.
In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at Harvard, explores, in his words, "the possibilities and pitfalls of an African identity in the late twentieth century." In the process he sheds new light on what it means to be an African-American, on the many preconceptions that have muddled discussions of race, Africa, and Afrocentrism since the end of the nineteenth century, and, in the end, to move beyond the idea of race.
In My Father's House is especially wide-ranging, covering everything from Pan Africanism, to the works of early African-American intellectuals such as Alexander Crummell and W.E.B. Du Bois, to the ways in which African identity influences African literature. In his discussion of the latter subject, Appiah demonstrates how attempts to construct a uniquely African literature have ignored not only the inescapable influences that centuries of contact with the West have imposed, but also the multicultural nature of Africa itself. Emphasizing this last point is Appiah's eloquent title essay which offers a fitting finale to the volume. In a moving first-person account of his father's death and funeral in Ghana, Appiah offers a brilliant metaphor for the tension between Africa's aspirations to modernity and its desire to draw on its ancient cultural roots.
During the Los Angeles riots, Rodney King appeared on television to make his now famous plea: "People, can we all get along?" In this beautiful, elegantly written volume, Appiah steers us along a path toward answering a question of the utmost importance to us all. [via]More editions of In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture:
Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Colorby Gloria AnzalduaISBN 1879960109 (1-879960-10-9)
Softcover, Aunt Lute Books
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Making Race Visible: Literacy Research for Cultural Understandingby Stuart Greene, Dawn Abt-PerkinsISBN 0807743917 (0-8077-4391-7)
Softcover, Teachers College Pr
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Memoir of a Race Traitorby Mab SegrestISBN 0896084744 (0-89608-474-4)
Softcover, South End Pr
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The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracyby Lani Guinier, Gerald TorresISBN 0674010841 (0-674-01084-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy'Book summary:Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century.
Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept "political race," Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community.
The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.
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My Mama's Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Essays on Southern Cultureby Mab SegrestISBN 0932379060 (0-932379-06-0)
Softcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralismby Walter B. MichaelsISBN 0822320649 (0-8223-2064-9)
Softcover, Duke University Press
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imaginationby Toni MorrisonISBN 0679745424 (0-679-74542-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination'Book summary:Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as much space for discovery, intellectual adventure, and close exploration as did the original charting of the New World--without the mandate for conquest."
Author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and other vivid portrayals of black American experience, Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events, and forms of social decay, economic division, and human panic. Her compelling point is that the central characteristics of American literature individualism, masculinity, the insistence upon innocence coupled to an obsession with figurations of death and hell--are responses to a dark and abiding Africanist presence.
Through her investigation of black characters, narrative strategies, and idiom in the fiction of white American writers, Morrison provides a daring perspective that is sure to alter conventional notions about American literature. She considers Willa Cather and the impact of race on concept and plot; turns to Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville to examine the black force that figures so significantly in the literature of early America; and discusses the implications of the Africanist presence at the heart of Huckleberry Finn. A final chapter on Ernest Hemingway is a brilliant exposition of the racial subtext that glimmers beneath the surface plots of his fiction.
Written with the artistic vision that has earned her a preeminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark will be avidly read by Morrison admirers as well as by students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
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Playing Indianby Philip Joseph DeloriaISBN 0300080670 (0-300-08067-0)
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Promised Lands: Modernity, Utopia and Emancipation in the Black Atlanticby Paul GilroyISBN 0860916758 (0-86091-675-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Promised Lands: Modernity, Utopia and Emancipation in the Black Atlantic'Book summary:This text sketches a critical account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The book explores the reactions of black writers to modernity's colour-coded promises, demonstrating the value of a politicized post-modernism in re-reading black cultural politics and political culture. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences outside the US in Europe and Africa. Gilroy provides an extensive discussion of black vernacular cultures, especially music. Moving beyond debates about modernity that confine it to Europe, "Promised Lands" views the black Atlantic as a transnational alternative to black political theory based, often by default, on conceptions of the nation imported from European letters. The black Atlantic is a hetero-cultural formation in which routes count for as much as roots and travelling and displacement are more usual than permanent fixity. This text should be of interest to students and teachers of English Cultural Studies and African and American Studies, as Gilroy presents a thorough indictment of their institutionalized ethnocentrism and inability to see beyond the structures of cultural nationalism and the borders of the nation state. [via]
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Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianityby Cornel WestISBN 0664223435 (0-664-22343-5)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prophesy Deliverance: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity'Book summary:In this, his premiere work, Cornel West provides readers with a new understanding of the African American experience based largely on his own political and cultural perspectives borne out of his own life's experiences. He challenges African Americans to consider the incorporation of Marxism into their theological perspectives, thereby adopting the mindset that it is class more so than race that renders one powerless in America. Armed with a new introduction by the author, this Twentieth Anniversary Edition of Prophesy Deliverance! is a must have.
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Prophesy Deliverance! an Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianityby Cornel WestISBN 0664244475 (0-664-24447-5)
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Race Mattersby Cornel WestISBN 0679749861 (0-679-74986-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Race Matters'Book summary:First published in 1993 on the one-year anniversary of the L.A. riots, Race Matters has since become an American classic. Beacon Press is proud to present this hardcover edition with a new introduction by Cornel West. The issues that it addresses are as controversial and urgent as before, and West's insights remain fresh, exciting, and timely. Now more than ever, Race Matters is a book for all Americansone that will help us build a genuine multiracial democracy. [via]
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The Racial Contractby Charles W. MillsISBN 0801484634 (0-8014-8463-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Racial Contract'Book summary:The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. Holding up a mirror to mainstream philosophy, this provocative book explains the evolving outline of the racial contract from the time of the New World conquest and subsequent colonialism to the written slavery contract, to the "separate but equal" system of segregation in the twentieth-century United States. According to Mills, the contract has provided the theoretical architecture justifying an entire history of European atrocity against non-whites, from David Hume's and Immanuel Kant's claims that blacks had inferior cognitive power, to the Holocaust, to the kind of imperialism in Asia that was demonstrated by the Vietnam War.Mills suggests that the ghettoization of philosophical work on race is no accident. This work challenges the assumption that mainstream theory is itself raceless. Just as feminist theory has revealed orthodox political philosophy's invisible white male bias, Mills's explication of the racial contract exposes its racial underpinnings. [via]
The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations About America and Raceby Richard DelgadoISBN 0814718639 (0-8147-1863-9)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr
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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Blackby Bell HooksISBN 0896083527 (0-89608-352-7)
Softcover, South End Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black'Book summary:Over thirty contributors from Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. challenge the false promises of free trade in the Americas. Concrete strategies to build an integrated North America based on the principles of ecological sustainability, equity, and social justice. [via]
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Theories of Race and Racism: A Readerby John Solomos, Les BackISBN 0415156726 (0-415-15672-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader'Book summary:This comprehensive Reader brings together foundation work in the study of race and ethnicity and writings from many of the most exciting scholars today. It is divided into the following main sections:
- origins and transformations
- sociology, race and social theory
- racism and anti-Semitism
- colonialism, race and the other
- feminism, difference and identity
- changing boundaries and spaces.
Each section begins with a brief editorial introduction, providing a guide to the readings by historically contextualizing them and relating them to other writings throughout the book. Cross-national in content, historical in scope and offering a variety of topical perspectives, Theories of Race and Racism will be an invaluable resource for undergraduates across a range of disciplines.
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Theorizing Multiculturalism: A Guide to the Current Debateby Cynthia WillettISBN 0631203427 (0-631-20342-7)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Classby David R. RoedigerISBN 1859842402 (1-85984-240-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class'Book summary:Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roedigers widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.
In an afterword to this new edition, Roediger discusses recent studies of whiteness and the changing face of labor itself. He surveys criticism of his work, accepting many objections whilst challenging others, especially the view that the study of working class racism implies a rejection of Marxism and radical politics. [via]More editions of The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class:
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We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarityby Tommie ShelbyISBN 0674019369 (0-674-01936-9)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity'Book summary:African American history resounds with calls for black unity. From abolitionist times through the Black Power movement, it was widely seen as a means of securing a full share of America's promised freedom and equality. Yet today, many believe that black solidarity is unnecessary, irrational, rooted in the illusion of "racial" difference, at odds with the goal of integration, and incompatible with liberal ideals and American democracy. A response to such critics, We Who Are Dark provides the first extended philosophical defense of black political solidarity.
Tommie Shelby argues that we can reject a biological idea of race and agree with many criticisms of identity politics yet still view black political solidarity as a needed emancipatory tool. In developing his defense of black solidarity, he draws on the history of black political thought, focusing on the canonical figures of Martin R. Delany and W. E. B. Du Bois, and he urges us to rethink many traditional conceptions of what black unity should entail. In this way, he contributes significantly to the larger effort to re-envision black politics and to modernize the objectives and strategies of black freedom struggles for the post-civil rights era. His book articulates a new African American political philosophy--one that rests firmly on anti-essentialist foundations and, at the same time, urges a commitment to defeating racism, to eliminating racial inequality, and to improving the opportunities of those racialized as "black."
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Where Is Your Body?: And Other Essays on Race, Gender and the Lawby Mari J. MatsudaISBN 0807067814 (0-8070-6781-4)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Is Your Body?: And Other Essays on Race, Gender and the Law'Book summary:A Japanese American law professor who asks trenchant questions about gender and ethnic identity, Mari Matsuda injects messy reality into complex legal and social doctrines. The title essay in this rousing, incisive collection celebrates the American civil rights protesters who challenged segregation. Among those who laid their bodies on the line, Matsuda hails an earnest group of middle-class black schoolteachers who risked jail by registering to vote. "They are old women now," she writes, "full of peace, I imagine, knowing as they do that they stood tall in a moment of history making." Initially cast as lectures, papers, and speeches, her words have poetic lilt and immediacy. She relishes unpopular, sometimes contradictory positions, wading into the fray on political correctness (she applauds it) and racist speech (she's willing to ban it). Now, says Matsuda, "it is time to hear our own voices, to silence the ones that say 'stop acting your color.' This is the privilege we earned from generations before who made wise choices. They survived so we could flourish, so we could speak up, act up, do right, with our colors flying." [via]
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Whiteby Richard DyerISBN 0415095379 (0-415-09537-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White'Book summary:White people are not literally or symbolically white; nor are they uniquely virtuous and pure. Racial imagery and racial representation are central to the organisation of the contemporary world but, while there are many studies of images of black and Asian people, whiteness is an invisible racial position. At the level of racial representation, whites are not of a certain race. They are just the human race, a 'colour' against which other ethnicities are always examined.
In White, Richard Dyer looks beyond the apparent unremarkability of whiteness and argues for the importance of analysing images of white people. Dyer traces the representation of whiteness by whites in Western visual culture, focusing on the mass media of photography, advertising, fine art, cinema and television.
Dyer examines the representation of whiteness and the white body in the contexts of Christianity, 'race' and colonialism. In a series of absorbing case studies, he discusses the representations of whiteness in muscle-man action cinema, from Italian 'peplum' movies to the Tarzan and Rambo series; shows the construction of whiteness in photography and cinema in the lighting of white and black faces, and analyses the representation of white women in end-of-empire fictions such as The Jewel in the Crown, and traces the disturbing association of whiteness with death, in vampire narratives and dystopian films such as Blade Runner and the Aliens trilogy. [via]
White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in Americaby Joe L. Kincheloe, Shirley R. Steinberg, Nelson M. Rodriguez, Ronald E. ChennaultISBN 0312224753 (0-312-22475-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whitenessby Ruth FrankenbergISBN 0816622582 (0-8166-2258-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Raceby Matthew Frye JacobsonISBN 0674951913 (0-674-95191-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race'Book summary:When we speak of race, we tend to categorize nonwhite people into rigid classifications--but how is whiteness itself determined? Yale American Studies professor Matthew Frye Jacobson looks at the American construction of whiteness out of its polyglot European immigrant population. In 1790, United States naturalization law granted citizenship to "free white persons"--which meant, mostly, those of Anglo-Saxon descent. Thus, Celtic-descended Irish immigrants were discriminated against. As the U.S. population became more culturally mixed beginning in the 1820s, with an increase in immigration from non-Anglo Europe, the nation experienced "a fracturing of whiteness into a hierarchy of plural and scientifically determined white races."
In other words, people who came from Poland, Germany, Italy, and Greece, as well as Jews from many nations, all became, by virtue of the "melting pot" ethic, "Caucasian" whites. But, as the graphically racist cartoons reproduced in the book show, the creation of whiteness was--and is--by no means an easy, continuous process. Jacobson details the political assault on white racism that culminated in the civil rights movement and cites the contemporary "revival and denial of white privilege" in the United States. Although he expresses doubt that a dismissal of white privilege will happen anytime soon, he does hope that in "recognizing the historical fabrication, the changeability, and the contingencies of whiteness, we might begin to look in a new way upon race, the power relations it generates, and the social havoc it wreaks." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Writing Manhood in Black And Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, And the Literary Politics of Identityby Daniel Y. KimISBN 0804751099 (0-8047-5109-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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