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ENERGY NEVER DIES
Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago
AYANA CONTRERAS The undefeatable culture of Black Chicago, past and present “Contreras puts virtually every aspect of Black Chicago culture, music, business breakthroughs, and more on the table, then shows exactly how they are all interconnected. She writes the book as the Black experience is actually lived— this guy knows that guy, but the other guy used to work for the two of them. And none of it would’ve happened were it not for a certain audacious manner of hope and optimism found in Black Chicago.” —LEE BEY, author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-determination, aspiration, and hustle. In Energy Never Dies, Ayana Contreras embarks on a journey to share the implausible success stories and breathtaking achievements of Black Chicago’s artists and entrepreneurs. Past and present generations speak with one another, maintaining a vital connection to a beautiful narrative of Black triumph and empowerment that still inspires creativity and pride. Contreras weaves a hidden history from these true stories and the magic released by undervalued cultural artifacts. As she does, the idea that the improbable is always possible emerges as an indestructible Afro-Optimism that binds a people together.
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Passionate and enlightening, Energy Never Dies uses the power of storytelling to show how optimism and courage fuel the dreams of Black Chicago.
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AYANA CONTRERAS is a radio host/producer at Chicago Public Media, a founder/blogger at darkjive.com, and a columnist and reviewer at DownBeat Magazine.
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JOURNALISM AND JIM CROW
White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America
Edited by KATHY ROBERTS FORDE and SID BEDINGFIELD Foreword by Alex Lichtenstein A pioneering work on the role of the press in building—and opposing—Jim Crow “Together, the collected essays highlight the pivotal role of a set of actors and institutions, making substantial contributions to scholarship on the origins of Jim Crow as well as filling a major gap in journalism history and media studies.” —BRUCE J. SCHULMAN, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
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White publishers and editors used their newspapers to build, nurture, and protect white supremacy across the South in the decades after the Civil War. At the same time, a vibrant Black press fought to disrupt these efforts and force the United States to live up to its democratic ideals. Journalism and Jim Crow centers the press as a crucial political actor shaping the rise of the Jim Crow South. The contributors explore the leading role of the white press in constructing an anti-democratic society by promoting and supporting not only lynching and convict labor but also coordinated campaigns of violence and fraud that disenfranchised Black voters. They also examine the Black press’s parallel fight for a multiracial democracy of equality, justice, and opportunity for all—a losing battle with tragic consequences for the American experiment.
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Original and revelatory, Journalism and Jim Crow opens up new ways of thinking about the complicated relationship between journalism and power in American democracy.
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KATHY ROBERTS FORDE is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment. SID BEDINGFIELD is an associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina, 1935–1965.
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THE POETICS OF DIFFERENCE
Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora
MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN Black women artists, writers, and performers, and their theories of intersectionality “This luminous book lovingly parses the poetics of difference that forms and informs the continued life of black queer feminist thought in many genres. The work is brilliant and bracing.” —JENNIFER DEVERE BRODY, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship.
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Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s writing.
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MECCA JAMILAH SULLIVAN is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr and the author of Blue Talk and Love.
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DRESSED FOR FREEDOM
The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism
EINAV RABINOVITCH-FOX Feminism’s link to fashion from the 1890s to the 1970s “Fashion and feminism may seem antithetical, but Einav Rabinovitch-Fox cogently argues that they are closely intertwined. Her stimulating book highlights how Gibson girls, flappers, women designers, and even 1960s feminists saw modern clothes as an integral part of women’s freedom.” —KATHY PEISS, author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox examines how clothes empowered women, and particularly women barred from positions of influence due to race or class. Moving from 1890s shirtwaists through the miniskirts and unisex styles of the 1970s, Rabinovitch-Fox shows how the rise of mass media culture made fashion a vehicle for women to assert claims over their bodies, femininity, and social roles. She also highlights how trends in women’s sartorial practices expressed ideas of independence and equality. As women employed new clothing styles, they expanded feminist activism beyond formal organizations and movements and reclaimed fashion as a realm of pleasure, power, and feminist consciousness.
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A fascinating account of clothing as an everyday feminist practice, Dressed for Freedom brings fashion into discussions of American feminism during the long twentieth century.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05294-1 A volume in the series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History, edited by Susan K. Cahn, Wanda A. Hendricks, and Deborah Gray White
EINAV RABINOVITCH-FOX teaches history at Case Western Reserve University.
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AFRO-NOSTALGIA
Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture
BADIA AHAD-LEGARDY The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future “If you’ve been waiting for a book that steps out of trauma- time and the perpetual present of slavery clear-eyed and with its critical faculties alight, you’ve found it. Badia Ahad-Legardy breathes gentle and sweet-smelling fresh air into stale corners in her book on Afro-nostalgia, which cogently analyzes and affectively affirms Black cultural producers and chefs who treat the past less as an ongoing traumatic wound and more as a surrealistic space of black historical regenerative possibility and happiness. A gem.” —AVERY GORDON, author of Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination 240 PAGES. 6 X 9 INCHES 11 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS
As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. This phenomenon created a missing archive of romantic historical memories.
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Badia Ahad-Legardy mines literature, visual culture, performance, and culinary arts to form an archive of black historical joy for use by the African-descended. Her analysis reveals how contemporary black artists find more than trauma and subjugation within the historical past. Drawing on contemporary African American culture and recent psychological studies, Ahad-Legardy reveals nostalgia’s capacity to produce positive emotions. Afro-nostalgia emerges as an expression of black romantic recollection that creates and inspires good feelings even within our darkest moments.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05255-2 A volume in the New Black Studies Series, edited by Darlene Clark Hine and Dwight A. McBride All rights: University of Illinois
Original and provocative, Afro-Nostalgia offers black historical pleasure as a remedy to contend with the disillusionment of the present and the traumas of the past. BADIA AHAD-LEGARDY is an associate professor in the Department of English and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Loyola University Chicago. She is the author of Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESIDENTS
Making History from Daguerreotype to Digital
CARA A. FINNEGAN Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks “This narrative weaves the evolution of a technology, a communications medium, and the highest office in the land into a vivid historical panorama. In current times, in an atmosphere in which visual politics can be all too affecting and effecting, Photographic Presidents places the visual presidency into a necessary frame.” —MICHAEL SHAW, publisher, Reading the Pictures Lincoln’s somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson’s swearing in. George W. Bush’s reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama’s selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium’s transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications.
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An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.
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CARA A. FINNEGAN is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Making Photography Matter: A Viewer’s History from the Civil War to the Great Depression and Picturing Poverty: Print Culture and FSA Photographs.
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THE BLACK INTELLECTUAL TRADITION
African American Thought in the Twentieth Century
Edited by DERRICK P. ALRIDGE, CORNELIUS L. BYNUM, and JAMES B. STEWART Considering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberation.
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Expansive in scope and interdisciplinary in practice, The Black Intellectual Tradition delves into the ideas that animated a people’s striving for full participation in American life.
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Contributors: Derrick P. Alridge, Keisha N. Blain, Cornelius L. Bynum, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, Pero Gaglo Dagbovie, Stephanie Y. Evans, Aaron David Gresson III, Claudrena N. Harold, Leonard Harris, Maurice J. Hobson, La TaSha B. Levy, Layli Maparyan, Zebulon V. Miletsky, R. Baxter Miller, Edward Onaci, Venetria K. Patton, James B. Stewart, and Nikki M. Taylor
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DERRICK P. ALRIDGE is a professor of education in the School for Education and affiliate faculty in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Educational Thought of W. E. B. DuBois: An Intellectual History. CORNELIUS L. BYNUM is an associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights. JAMES B. STEWART is a professor emeritus of labor studies and employment relations and African American studies at Penn State University. His books include Flight in Search of Vision.
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DEGREES OF DIFFICULTY
How Women’s Gymnastics Rose to Prominence and Fell from Grace
GEORGIA CERVIN How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women’s gymnastics “Georgia Cervin's Degrees of Difficulty is an enthralling analysis of elite women's gymnastics, from a scholar's and insider's view. Through carefully applied lenses of gender, race, power, and politics, Cervin exposes the historical underbelly of cheating, bribery, abuse, and political manipulation in one of the world's most popular Olympic Sports.” —KEVIN B. WAMSLEY, coauthor of Sport in Canada: A History, fourth edition Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women’s artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games. But the transition of gymnastics from a women’s sport to a girl’s sport in the 1970s also laid the foundation for a system of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of gymnasts around the world. Georgia Cervin offers a unique history of women’s gymnastics, examining how the high-stakes diplomatic rivalry of the Cold War created a breeding ground for exploitation. Yet, a surprising spirit of international collaboration arose to decide the social values and image of femininity demonstrated by the sport. Cervin also charts the changes in style, equipment, training, and participants that transformed the sport, as explosive athleticism replaced balletic grace and gymnastics dominance shifted from East to West.
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Sweeping and revelatory, Degrees of Difficulty tells a story of international friction, unexpected cooperation, and the legacy of abuse and betrayal created by the winat-all-cost attitudes of the Cold War.
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GEORGIA CERVIN is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a former international gymnast.
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FIGHTING VISIBILITY
Sports Media and Female Athletes in the UFC
JENNIFER MCCLEAREN Ultimate Fighting Championship and the present and future of women’s sports “A scathing critique of the exploitation that defines the relationship of the UFC to its women fighters, Fighting Visibility fills a hole in the study of sports. Never has this subject been explored with the depth and clarity that we have here. A necessary and groundbreaking read. It makes the point with crystal clarity: visibility and equity are not the same thing.” —DAVE ZIRIN, sports editor, The Nation Mixed-martial arts stars like Amanda Nunes, Zhang Weili, and Ronda Rousey have made female athletes top draws in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Jennifer McClearen charts how the promotion incorporates women into its far-flung media ventures, and then she investigates the complexities surrounding female inclusion. On the one hand, the undeniable popularity of cards headlined by women add much-needed diversity to the sporting landscape. On the other, the UFC leverages an illusion of promoting difference—whether gender, racial, ethnic, or sexual—to grow its empire with an inexpensive and expendable pool of female fighters. McClearen illuminates how the UFC’s half-hearted efforts at representation generate profit and cultural cachet while covering up the fact it exploits women of color, lesbians, gender non-conforming women, and others.
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Thought provoking and timely, Fighting Visibility tells the story of how a sports entertainment phenomenon made difference a part of its brand—and the ways women paid the price for success.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05263-7 A volume in the series Studies in Sports Media, edited by Victoria E. Johnson and Travis Vogan
JENNIFER MCCLEAREN is an assistant professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin.
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MANIFEST TECHNIQUE
Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture
MARK R. VILLEGAS An obscured vanguard in hip hop “Manifest Technique brilliantly demonstrates how to place Filipino American choreography, lyrics, and crew allegiances at the heart of our study of hip hop as a cultural vernacular. Villegas invites us to listen deep and to consider how these expressive forms carry forward memories, desires, and critiques.” —THEODORE S. GONZALVES, author of The Day the Dancers Stayed: Performing in the Filipino/American Diaspora Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture’s early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre’s significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing hip hop’s connections to memories of colonial and racial violence. Villegas scrutinizes practitioners’ language of defiance, placing the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of decolonization.
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An important investigation of hip hop as a movement of racial consciousness, Manifest Technique shows how the genre has inspired Filipino Americans to envision and enact new ideas of their bodies, their history, and their dignity.
E-BOOK, 978-0-252-05268-2 A volume in the series The Asian American Experience, edited by Eiichiro Azuma, Jigna Desai, Martin Manalansan IV, Lisa Sun-Hee Park, and David K. Yoo
MARK R. VILLEGAS is an assistant professor of American studies at Franklin & Marshall College.
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BEING LA DOMINICANA
Race and Identity in the Visual Culture of Santo Domingo
RACHEL AFI QUINN Dominican women being seen—and seeing themselves— in the media “A unique and timely examination of the significance and cultural strategies of Dominican women in the contemporary era marked by neoliberal economic structures, (post) colonial geopolitical arrangements, heteropatriarchal beauty standards, and global anti-blackness. It is an important work of feminist ethnography.” —NICOLE FLEETWOOD, author of On Racial Icons: Blackness and the Public Imagination Rachel Afi Quinn investigates how visual media portray Dominican women and how women represent themselves in their own creative endeavors in response to existing stereotypes. Delving into the dynamic realities and uniquely racialized gendered experiences of women in Santo Domingo, Quinn reveals the way racial ambiguity and color hierarchy work to shape experiences of identity and subjectivity in the Dominican Republic. She merges analyses of context and interviews with young Dominican women to offer rare insights into a Caribbean society in which the tourist industry and popular media reward, and rely upon, the ability of Dominican women to transform themselves to perform gender, race, and class.
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UNLIKELY ANGEL
The Songs of Dolly Parton
LYDIA R. HAMESSLEY Foreword by Steve Buckingham The creative process of a great American songwriter “Lydia Hamessley invites us on a deep dive into the world of Dolly Parton as songwriter. The book weaves together insightful analyses of the musical forms, cultural roots, and meanings found in Parton’s vast catalog, with Parton’s own accounts of her music. Hamessley unveils these songs as the heart and substance of Parton’s contributions to popular culture, and will inspire every reader to take yet another listen.” —JOCELYN R. NEAL, author of Country Music: A Cultural and Stylistic History Dolly Parton’s success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton’s compositions like “I Will Always Love You” and “Jolene” have become American standards with an impact far beyond country music.
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Lydia R. Hamessley’s expert analysis and Parton’s characteristically straightforward input inform this comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that have shaped the superstar’s songwriting artistry. Hamessley reveals how Parton’s loving, hardscrabble childhood in the Smoky Mountains provided the musical language, rhythms, and memories of old-time music that resonate in so many of her songs. Hamessley further provides an understanding of how Parton combines her cultural and musical heritage with an artisan’s sense of craft and design to compose eloquent, painfully honest, and gripping songs about women’s lives, poverty, heartbreak, inspiration, and love.
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Filled with insights on hit songs and less familiar gems, Unlikely Angel covers the full arc of Dolly Parton’s career and offers an unprecedented look at the creative force behind the image. LYDIA R. HAMESSLEY is a professor of music at Hamilton College.
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WHEN SUNDAY COMES
Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD Gospel music after the Golden Age “When Sunday Comes is the book we’ve been waiting for—a thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the impact contemporary singers, songwriters, and musicians have made, and continue to make, on gospel music.” —ROBERT M. MAROVICH, author of A City Called Heaven: Chicago and the Birth of Gospel Music Gospel music evolved in often surprising directions during the post– Civil Rights era. Claudrena N. Harold’s in-depth look at late-century gospel focuses on musicians like Yolanda Adams, Andraé Crouch, the Clark Sisters, Al Green, Take 6, and the Winans, and on the network of black record shops, churches, and businesses that nurtured the music. Harold details the creative shifts, sonic innovations, theological tensions, and political assertions that transformed the music, and revisits the debates within the community over groundbreaking recordings and gospel’s incorporation of rhythm and blues, funk, hip-hop, and other popular forms. At the same time, she details how sociopolitical and cultural developments like the Black Power Movement and the emergence of the Christian Right shaped both the art and attitudes of African American performers.
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Weaving insightful analysis into a collective biography of gospel icons, When Sunday Comes explores the music’s essential place as an outlet for African Americans to express their spiritual and cultural selves.
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CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD is a professor of African American and African studies and history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South and The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942.
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PASSING THE BATON
Black Women Track Stars and American Identity
CAT M. ARIAIL How African American women athletes tested a nation’s image of itself "Ariail pinpoints how important the women of track and field were to changing opinions in both white and black communities about the accomplishments of women of color. But she also powerfully argues that this story does not end with victory. Rather, she reminds us how much work gender did (and does) to undergird racism." —KATHERINE C. MOONEY, author of Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures—both white and Black—to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America’s dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship.
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A rare exploration of African American women athletes and national identity, Passing the Baton reveals young Black women as active agents in the remaking of what it means to be American.
A volume in the series Sport and Society, edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Jaime Schultz
CAT M. ARIAIL is a lecturer in the Department of History at Middle Tennessee State University.
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FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture
KORITHA MITCHELL African American mothers and wives navigating double standards Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in “their place.” Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights era to “post-racial” America. Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards.
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Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women’s homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.
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KORITHA MITCHELL is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University and the author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930.
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LAUGHING TO KEEP FROM DYING
African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century
DANIELLE FUENTES MORGAN How African Americans have infused satire with a potent new dimension “Danielle Fuentes Morgan attunes readers to the variable registers and resonances of Black laughter in the present moment. Examining a wide range of media, from novels and television series to standup comedy and performance art, Morgan shows how the satirical impulse in Black cultural production expresses not only collective histories of subversion but individual practices of survival. A bold account of humor’s capacity to traverse the realms of sociality and interiority, Laughing to Keep from Dying is a model of Black study for the twenty-first century.” —KINOHI NISHIKAWA, author of Street Players: Black Pulp Fiction and the Making of a Literary Underground
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By subverting comedy’s rules and expectations, African American satire promotes social justice by connecting laughter with ethical beliefs in a revolutionary way. Danielle Fuentes Morgan ventures from Suzan-Lori Parks to Leslie Jones and Dave Chappelle to Get Out and Atlanta to examine the satirical treatment of race and racialization across today’s African American culture. Morgan analyzes how African American artists highlight the ways that society racializes people and bolsters the powerful myth that we live in a “post-racial” nation. The latter in particular inspires artists to take aim at the idea racism no longer exists or the laughable notion of Americans “not seeing” racism or race. Their critique changes our understanding of the boundaries between staged performance and lived experience and create ways to better articulate Black selfhood.
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Adventurous and perceptive, Laughing to Keep from Dying reveals how African American satirists unmask the illusions and anxieties surrounding race in the twenty-first century. DANIELLE FUENTES MORGAN is an assistant professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University.
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WEST OF JIM CROW
The Fight against California’s Color Line
LYNN M. HUDSON African American resistance to white supremacy from California statehood to the 1950s “By tracing the metamorphosis of white supremacy in the Golden State and the fierce resistance to it over the long span from statehood to the 1950s, Lynn Hudson has brilliantly plumbed the depth, complexity, and variability of American racial formations and added a new chapter to our understanding of the long black freedom movement and of women’s centrality to it.” —JACQUELYN DOWD HALL, author of Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, “The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled.” From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State—in contrast to its reputation for tolerance—perfected many methods of controlling people of color.
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Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state’s color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan’s campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists’ preoccupation with gender and sexuality.
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LYNN M. HUDSON is an associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of The Making of “Mammy Pleasant”: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco.
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QUEER AND TRANS MIGRATIONS
Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation
Edited by EITHNE LUIBHÉID and KARMA R. CHÁVEZ Centering the experiences of LGBTQ migrants and communities in crisis “An extraordinarily important volume bringing together activists, artists, and academics, Queer and Trans Migrations models the wide range of approaches that can help us understand and challenge the heteronormative frameworks, settler-colonialist politics, and racialized logics affecting migration, detention, and deportation.” —ERICA RAND, author of The Ellis Island Snow Globe More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume center illegalization, detention, and deportation in national and transnational contexts, and examine how migrants and allies negotiate, resist, refuse, and critique these processes. The works contribute to the fields of gender and sexuality studies, critical race and ethnic studies, borders and migration studies, and decolonial studies.
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Contributors: Myisha Arellanus, Greg Bal, Felipe Baeza, AB Brown, Julio Capó Jr., Anna Carastathis, Jack Cáraves, Karma R. Chávez, Ryan Conrad, Monisha Das Gupta, Molly Fair, Katherine Fobear, Jamila Hammami, Leece Lee-Oliver, Edward Ou Jin Lee, Rachel Lewis, Adela C. Licona, Eithne Luibhéid, Hana Masri, Matice Moore, Yasmin Nair, Bamby Salcedo, Fadi Saleh, Elif Sarı, Rafael Ramirez Solórzano, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto, María Inés Taracena, Rommy Torrico, Myrto Tsilimpounidi, Suyapa G. Portillo Villeda, Sasha Wijeyeratne, and Ruben Zecena
A volume in the series Dissident Feminisms, edited by Elora Halim Chowdhury
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EITHNE LUIBHÉID is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant. KARMA R. CHÁVEZ is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities.
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QUEERING THE GLOBAL FILIPINA BODY
Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/o Diaspora
GINA K. VELASCO Globalization, work, and the images of Filipinas in the media “A rich analysis of the transnational circuits of culture, labor, goods, and ideology circulating around the material and symbolic body of the Filipina. With its uniquely nuanced documentation and theorization of multiple, competing nationalisms, this book clear-sightedly accounts, on the one hand, for heteropatriarchy within the Filipino diaspora and, on the other hand, the limits of queer white definitions of desire and liberation.” —SARITA SEE, author of The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance
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Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization.
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Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital instruments of struggle.
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GINA K. VELASCO is an assistant professor in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Gettysburg College.
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BLACK QUEER FREEDOM
Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire
GERSHUN AVILEZ Mapping a geography of black queer life through art “With pristine writing and bold thinking about queer desire, gender, and spatial justice, Avilez’s Black Queer Freedom is a timely addition to the growing body of scholarship on black vulnerability, trauma, and queerness. Avilez dynamically illustrates how gender non-conforming artists are important to challenging the boundaries of black freedom.” —L. H. STALLINGS, author of Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic injury. Attending to and challenging threats has become a defining element in queer black artists’ work throughout the black diaspora. GerShun Avilez analyzes the work of diasporic artists who, denied government protections, have used art to create spaces for justice. He first focuses on how the state seeks to inhibit the movement of black queer bodies through public spaces, whether on the street or across borders. From there, he pivots to institutional spaces—specifically prisons and hospitals—and the ways such places seek to expose queer bodies in order to control them. Throughout, he reveals how desire and art open routes to black queer freedom when policy, the law, racism, and homophobia threaten physical safety, civil rights, and social mobility.
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GERSHUN AVILEZ is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism.
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UPON THE ALTAR OF WORK
Child Labor and the Rise of a New American Sectionalism
BETSY WOOD The North-South divide over child labor, 1850–1939 “Betsy Wood manages to say highly original things about an old subject—the movement to abolish child labor. Was the labor of children a new form of slavery or an embodiment of the free labor ideal sanctified by the Civil War? Wood shows how, despite (white) sectional reconciliation, a deep divide between reform-minded northerners and rural southerners over child labor, and the power of the government to abolish it, persisted well into the twentieth century. At a time when millions of children are at work throughout the world, the book is extraordinarily timely.” —ERIC FONER Rooted in the crisis over slavery, disagreements about child labor broke down along sectional lines between the North and South. For decades after emancipation, the child labor issue shaped how Northerners and Southerners defined fundamental concepts of American life such as work, freedom, the market, and the state.
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Betsy Wood examines the evolution of ideas about child labor and the on-theground politics of the issue against the backdrop of broad developments related to slavery and emancipation, industrial capitalism, moral and social reform, and American politics and religion. Wood explains how the decades-long battle over child labor created enduring political and ideological divisions within capitalist society that divided the gatekeepers of modernity from the cultural warriors who opposed them. Tracing the ideological origins and the politics of the child labor battle over the course of eighty years, this book tells the story of how child labor debates bequeathed an enduring legacy of sectionalist conflict to modern American capitalist society.
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PLEASURE IN THE NEWS
African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press
KIM GALLON How sex and sensation fueled the power of the black press “Blending unprecedented research into the African American press, and the journalists and editors who put the papers out, with a careful synthesis of the existing scholarship, Pleasure in the News shows how opinions about sex behavior impacted reading publics over several decades of profound change in the black experience. Kim Gallon’s systematic analysis of an almost endless news cycle of marital infidelities, scandalous divorces, celebrity drag queens, and low-down queers of all kinds provides a fresh angle on what are now classic questions in the field.” —KEVIN MUMFORD, author of Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
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Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance—arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity.
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Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Sensational coverage also expanded African American women’s sexual consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth-century African American urban communities.
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Informative and empowering, Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press in African American history and advancement while shedding light on the important cultural and social role that sexuality played in the power of the black press. KIM GALLON is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Purdue University.
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