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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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The racial crisis in American higher education
A crisis of immense magnitude persists in higher education in the
United States. For this third edition of The Racial Crisis in
American Higher Education , Kofi Lomotey and William A. Smith
have gathered outstanding scholars in the field to address this
dilemma on several levels. In thirteen original essays,
contributors establish a framework for understanding the current
crisis, provide historical perspective on the present, offer a
stark overview of the day-to-day realities on campuses, and
illustrate the role and impact of university leadership. With a
foreword by Donald B. Pope-Davis and an afterword by Valerie
Kinloch, as well as an introduction by the editors, the volume is
provocative, up-to-date, and solution-driven, giving readers both a
comprehensive analysis of the racial crisis in American higher
education and ideas for addressing it.
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The Color of Success
The Color of Successtells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the \"yellow peril\" to \"model minorities\"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership.
Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders.
By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype,The Color of Successreveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
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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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Blues on Stage
Blues on Stage presents a new history of the development
of the \"Classic Blues\" of the 1920s, offering a comprehensive
review of various Black singers who recorded and were influential
in this era, including Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, Butterbeans and
Susie, and Ma Rainey. The business of music recording and
publishing, including songwriting and touring theater circuits, is
explored as part of the narrative of how and when these artists
became nationally popular. The most highly regarded singers of this
period were not folk or rural artists, but rather highly
experienced stage professionals whose careers often extended two
decades or more prior to their first recordings. These artists,
some of the most famous acts on the Black vaudeville and tent show
circuits, were preceded in the recording studio by many cabaret and
nightclub singers with a different entertainment perspective and
were followed by artists who came from a more rural, less
professional background. For anyone interested in the roots of jazz
and blues, Blues on Stage offers a new and comprehensive
introduction to the development of this American musical style.
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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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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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