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American Indian/First Nations schooling : from the Colonial period to the present
\"Tracing the history of Native American schooling in North America, this book emphasizes factors in society at large--and sometimes within indigenous communities--which led to Native American children being separate from the white majority. Charles Glenn examines the evolving assumptions about race and culture as applied to schooling, the reactions of parents and tribal leadership in the United States and Canada, and the symbolic as well as practical role of indigenous languages and of efforts to maintain them\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Race, place, and suburban policing
While considerable attention has been given to encounters between black citizens and police in urban communities, there have been limited analyses of such encounters in suburban settings. Race, Place, and Suburban Policing tells the full story of social injustice, racialized policing, nationally profiled shootings, and the ambiguousness of black life in a suburban context. Through compelling interviews, participant observation, and field notes from a marginalized black enclave located in a predominately white suburb, Andrea S. Boyles examines a fraught police-citizen interface, where blacks are segregated and yet forced to negotiate overlapping spaces with their more affluent white counterparts.
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Native tongues : colonialism and race from encounter to the reservation
\"Native Tongues explores the morally entangled territory of language and race as it relates the intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American languages strongly influenced whites' beliefs about the descent and capabilities of Native Americans. These beliefs would play an important role in the subjugation of Native peoples as the United States pursued its 'manifest destiny' of westward expansion\"--Provided by publisher.
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Teaching Black History to White People
Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five
years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in
the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well
as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an
understanding of Black history is necessary for everyone.
With Teaching Black History to White People , which is
\"part memoir, part Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to
guide,\" Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the
Black experience in America. He poses provocative questions, such
as \"Why is the teaching of Black history so controversial?\" and
\"What came first: slavery or racism?\" These questions don't have
easy answers, and Moore insists that embracing discomfort is
necessary for engaging in open and honest conversations about race.
Moore includes a syllabus and other tools for actionable steps that
white people can take to move beyond performative justice and
toward racial reparations, healing, and reconciliation.
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Playing America's game
Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized baseball from the beginning. In this benchmark study on Latinos and professional baseball from the 1880s to the present, Adrian Burgos tells a compelling story of the men who negotiated the color line at every turn—passing as “Spanish” in the major leagues or seeking respect and acceptance in the Negro leagues.
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Separate beds : a history of Indian hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s
\"Separate Beds is the shocking story of Canada's system of segregated health care. Operated by the same bureaucracy that was expanding health care opportunities for most Canadians, the 'Indian Hospitals' were underfunded, understaffed, overcrowded, and rife with coercion and medical experimentation. Established to keep the Aboriginal tuberculosis population isolated, they became a means of ensuring that other Canadians need not share access to modern hospitals with Aboriginal patients. Tracing the history of the system from its fragmentary origins to its gradual collapse, Maureen K. Lux describes the arbitrary and contradictory policies that governed the 'Indian Hospitals, ' the experiences of patients and staff, and the vital grassroots activism that pressed the federal government to acknowledge its treaty obligations. A disturbing look at the dark side of the liberal welfare state, Separate Beds reveals a history of racism and negligence in health care for Canada's First Nations that should never be forgotten.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subverting Exclusion
The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included people with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Geiger examines the history of these and other Japanese immigrants in the United States and Canada and their encounters with two separate cultures of exclusion, one based in caste and the other in race.
Geiger reveals that the experiences of Japanese immigrants in North America were shaped in part by attitudes rooted in Japan's formal status system,mibunsei,decades after it was formally abolished. In the North American West, however, the immigrants' understanding of social status as caste-based collided with American and Canadian perceptions of status as primarily race-based. Geiger shows how the lingering influence of Japan's strict status system affected immigrants' perceptions and understandings of race in North America and informed their strategic responses to two increasingly complex systems of race-based exclusionary law and policy.
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Mean Girl Feminism
White feminists performing to maintain privilege
Mean girl feminism encourages girls and women to be sassy,
sarcastic, and ironic as feminist performance. Yet it coopts its
affect, form, and content from racial oppression and protest while
aiming meanness toward people in marginalized groups.
Kim Hong Nguyen's feminist media study examines four types of
white mean girl feminism prominent in North American popular
culture: the bitch, the mean girl, the power couple, and the global
mother. White feminists mime the anger, disempowerment, and
resistance felt by people of color and other marginalized groups.
Their performance allows them to pursue and claim a special place
within established power structures, present as intellectually
superior, substitute nonpolitical playacting for a politics of
solidarity and community, and position themselves as better, more
enlightened masters than patriarchy. But, as Nguyen shows, the
racialized meanness found across pop culture opens possibilities
for building an intersectional feminist politics that rejects
performative civility in favor of turning anger into
liberation.
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Houston Bound
Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States.Houston Bounddraws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations-particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles-complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also uses music and sound to examine these racial complexities, tracing the emergence of Houston's blues and jazz scenes in the 1920s as well as the hybrid forms of these genres that arose when migrants forged shared social space and carved out new communities and politics.This interdisciplinary book provides both an innovative historiography about migration and immigration in the twentieth century and a critical examination of a city located in the former Confederacy.
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