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Modern China
\"Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China. Covers contemporary Chinese politics, economy, geography, law, education, culture, and history, providing readers with a breadth of insights into modern China and its people ; addresses a variety of current issues such as pollution, corruption, human trafficking, human rights, civil liberties, and the one-child policy ; contains accessible information ideal for high school and college-level students, grade school teachers, and any readers interested in the general topics of Asia and China\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature
Brings together scholars and practitioners to present
an ethnic studies framework for studying and teaching youth
literature.
For decades, youth literature has been reckoning with its
role in systemic racism and oppression. In this landmark edited
volume, Marilisa Jiménez García and Sonia Alejandra
Rodríguez assemble a cadre of well-known women of color
scholars and practitioners to make a case for ethnic studies as
a path for pursuing racial justice in the field. Ethnic
studies, they argue, demands that we go beyond seeing race,
ethnicity, culture, and diversity as questions of identity and
difference. Instead, it shows us how marginalized
positionalities create epistemologies that shape our
understanding of age, craft, genre, and knowledge production.
Multidisciplinary and intersectional in its approach,
Ethnic Studies and Youth Literature analyzes US
imperialism through the lens of youth literature and vice
versa, shedding light on the roots of our current culture wars
and curriculum battles.
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The Sovereignty of Quiet
African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. InThe Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person's desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture.The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos's protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander's reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks'sMaud Martha, James Baldwin'sThe Fire Next Time, and Toni Morrison'sSulato move beyond the emphasis on resistance, and to suggest that concepts like surrender, dreaming, and waiting can remind us of the wealth of black humanity.
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Black girls and adolescents : facing the challenges
\"This one-of-a kind book challenges the current thinking about Black girls to show how America has failed them--and what can be done to make their lives better\"-- Provided by publisher.
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More Than Our Pain
Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership,
state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind
laws that trap black Americans in a racial caste system, Black
Lives Matter activists and the artists inspired by them have
devised new forms of political and cultural resistance. More
Than Our Pain explores how affect and emotion can drive
collective political and cultural action in the face of a new nadir
in race relations in the United States. This foregrounding of
affect and emotion marks a clear break from civil rights-era
activists, who were often trained to counter false narratives about
protesters as thugs and criminals by presenting themselves as
impeccably groomed and disciplined young black Americans. In
contrast, the Black Lives Matter movement in the early twenty-first
century makes no qualms about rejecting the politics of
respectability. Affect and emotion has moved from the margin to the
center of this new human rights movement, and by examining
righteous rage, black joy, as well as grief and fatigue among other
emotions, the contributors celebrate the vitality of black life
while documenting those who have harmed it. They also criticize the
ways in which journalism has commercialized and sold black affect
during coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and point to
strategies and modes-of-being needed to overcome the fatigue
surrounding conversations of race and racism in the United States.
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The psychology of Black boys and adolescents
\"Drawing on personal insights and research-based knowledge, this important work facilitates understanding of the psychological struggles of young African American males and offers ameliorative strategies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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African American gothic : screams from shadowed places
\"African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places is a new study of African American literary interventions into the gothic genre. The book investigates how African American authors have utilized the genre since its very beginnings in America to represent the real horrors of Black life in country haunted by racism. Re-reading major African American literary texts--such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora--African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the African American literary canon\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Disrupting Political Science
Nineteen Black women in political science share their
personal and professional journeys, shedding light on the state
of the discipline-and how it needs to change.
This volume brings to the fore Black women's experiences of,
and contributions to, political science-a field that never
intended to view them as subjects worthy of study and certainly
not as professors.
Disrupting Political Science demonstrates how Black
women blend creative resistance and self-care to overcome
obstacles and navigate the discipline's hegemonic demands.
Representing a range of career stages and types of
institutions, the nineteen contributors share stories of trauma
and triumph, as well as concrete guidance rooted in Black
feminist literature and reports on the profession. A witty,
searing, sometimes heart-wrenching catalyst to reimagine
political science,
Disrupting Political Science is essential reading for
everyone in the discipline and for faculty and administrators
across the university committed to recruiting and retaining
Black women.
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