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  • - The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists
    by Michael Miller Topp
    £20.99 - 59.99

  • - The Ambivalence of Witnessing
    by Wendy Kozol
    £18.99 - 49.49

  • - Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation
    by Kazuyo Tsuchiya
    £20.99

  • - The Rise of Asian America
    by Daryl J. Maeda
    £17.49

  • - Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture
    by Rafael Perez-Torres
    £17.49

    Focusing on the role race plays in expressions of Chicano culture, this work is a provocative exploration of the volatility and mutability of racial identities. Informed by theoretical investigation of identity politics and race and incorporating feminist and queer critiques, the author analyzes Chicano cultural production.

  • by Stan Weir
    £15.49 - 44.49

    Bleu-collar intellectual and activist publisher, Stan Weir devoted his life to the advocacy of his fellow workers. Weir was both a thoughtful observer and an active participant in many of the key struggles that shaped the labor movement and the political left in postwar America.

  • - Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas
    by Zita Nunes
    £18.99 - 49.49

  • - Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity
    by David J. Vazquez
    £20.99 - 54.49

    How Latino autobiographical texts reconfigure identity in opposition to familiar notions of self

  • - The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies
    by Lee Bebout
    £20.99

    The importance of myth, symbol, and image in the Chicano movement and beyond.

  • - Life And Meanings Of Blackness In South Central Los Angeles
    by Joao H. Costa Vargas
    £15.49 - 44.49

    Examines the ways in which economic and social changes in the twentieth century have affected the black community, and conveys the experiences that bind and divide its people. This book tells the story of urban America through the lives of individuals from diverse, overlapping, and vibrant communities.

  • by Donald E. Pease
    £18.99

  • - Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life
    by Diane C. Fujino
    £18.99

    The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki

  • - Race And The Fictions Of Multiculturalism
    by James Kyung-Jin Lee
    £19.99 - 44.49

    Challenging both the uncritical celebration of abstract multiculturalism and its simpleminded vilification, Lee roots Urban Triage in specific instances of multiracial contact and deeply informed readings of works that have been canonized within ethnic studies and of those that either remain misunderstood or were.

  • - Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism
    by Michael A. Elliott
    £19.99 - 54.49

  • - How Development Shaped the Global Sixties
    by Molly Geidel
    £22.49

    In a provocative culturalhistory of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency'srepresentative development ventures legitimated the violent exercise ofAmerican power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life.

  • - American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism
    by David W. Noble
    £20.99

  • - National Culture And Imperial Citizenship In Early America
    by David Kazanjian
    £19.99

  • by George Lipsitz
    £19.99 - 49.49

  • - Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois
    by Alys Eve Weinbaum & Susan Gilman
    £19.99

    Although W. E. B. Du Bois did not often pursue the connections between the “Negro question” that defined so much of his intellectual life and the “woman question” that engaged writers and feminist activists around him, Next to the Color Line argues that within Du Bois’s work is a politics of juxtaposition that connects race, gender, sexuality, and justice.This provocative collection investigates a set of political formulations and rhetorical strategies by which Du Bois approached, used, and repressed issues of gender and sexuality. The essays in Next to the Color Line propose a return to Du Bois, not only to reassess his politics but also to demonstrate his relevance for today’s scholarly and political concerns.Contributors: Hazel V. Carby, Yale U; Vilashini Cooppan, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brent Hayes Edwards, Rutgers U; Michele Elam, Stanford U; Roderick A. Ferguson, U of Minnesota; Joy James, Williams College; Fred Moten, U of Southern California; Shawn Michelle Smith, St. Louis U; Mason Stokes, Skidmore College; Claudia Tate, Princeton U; Paul C. Taylor, Temple U.Susan Gillman is professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Alys Eve Weinbaum is associate professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle.

  • - Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal
    by Ruby Tapia
    £18.99 - 49.49

    What visual tropes of race, death, and motherhood tell us about citizenship.

  • - Black International Writing
    by Wendy Walters
    £18.99

    Examines the work produced in exile by writers of African descent. The author suggests that in the absence of a recoverable land of origin, the idea of diaspora comes to represent a home that is not singular or exclusionary. In this book, he investigates the work of Himes, Cliff, and three other twentieth-century black international writers.

  • - The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life
    by David W. Noble
    £20.99 - 54.49

    Why do modern people assume that there will be perpetual economic growth? Because, David W. Noble tells us in this provocative study of cultural criticism, such a utopian conviction is the necessary foundation for bourgeois culture. One can imagine the existence of modern middle classes only as long as the capitalist marketplace is expanding.

  • - Asian American Critique and the Cold War
    by Jodi Kim
    £20.99 - 54.49

    Ends of Empire examines Asian American cultural production and its challenge to the dominant understanding of American imperialism, Cold War dynamics, and race and gender formation.

  • by John Carlos Rowe
    £20.99 - 49.49

  • - Toward A Queer Of Color Critique
    by Roderick A. Ferguson
    £18.99

    The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture--sexual difference--can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the discourses of sexuality are used to articulate theories of racial difference in the field of sociology. He shows how canonical sociology--Gunnar Myrdal, Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and William Julius Wilson--has measured African Americans' unsuitability for a liberal capitalist order in terms of their adherence to the norms of a heterosexual and patriarchal nuclear family model. In short, to the extent that African Americans' culture and behavior deviated from those norms, they would not achieve economic and racial equality. Aberrations in Black tells the story of canonical sociology's regulation of sexual difference as part of its general regulation of African American culture. Ferguson places this story within other stories--the narrative of capital's emergence and development, the histories of Marxism and revolutionary nationalism, and the novels that depict the gendered and sexual idiosyncrasies of African American culture--works by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. In turn, this book tries to present another story--one in which people who presumably manifest the dys-functions of capitalism are reconsidered as indictments of the norms of state, capital, and social science. Ferguson includes the first-ever discussion of a new archival discovery--a never-published chapter of Invisible Man that deals with a gay character in a way thatcomplicates and illuminates Ellison's project. Unique in the way it situates critiques of race, gender, and sexuality within analyses of cultural, economic, and epistemological formations, Ferguson's work introduces a new mode of discourse--which Ferguson calls queer of colo

  • - The 1968 Olympics and the Making of the Black Athlete
    by Amy Bass
    £15.49

    "In her excellent new book, Amy Bass uses the famous 'black power' podium salute by sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith as the centerpiece of her expansive examination of the black athlete in America." -Boston Globe

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