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• Part I. Taxonomies of Power: 1. Impassioned disputes
• 2. Animals, nature, and the races of man
• Part II. The Battle over Live Animal Markets in San Francisco's Chinatown: 3. The optic of cruelty: challenging the markets
• 4. The optic of racism: mobilizing the Chinese community
• 5. The optic of ecological harm: protecting 'nature' in a neoliberal age
• 6. Vision/critique/avowal
• Part III. Other Disputes: 7. Makah whaling and the (non)ecological Indian
• 8. Michael Vick, dogfighting, and the parable of black recalcitrance
• Part IV. Conclusion: 9. We are all animals/we are not animals.
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Dangerous Crossings offers an interpretation of the impassioned disputes that have arisen in the contemporary United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of nonwhite peoples. It examines three controversies: the battle over the 'cruelty' of the live animal markets in San Francisco's Chinatown, the uproar over the conviction of NFL superstar Michael Vick on dogfighting charges, and the firestorm over the Makah tribe's decision to resume whaling in the Pacific Northwest after a hiatus of more than seventy years. Claire Jean Kim shows that each dispute demonstrates how race and species operate as conjoined logics, or mutually constitutive taxonomies of power. Analyzing each case as a conflict between single optics (the optic of cruelty and environmental harm vs the optic of racism and cultural imperialism), she argues for a multi-optic approach that takes different forms of domination seriously, and thus encourages an ethics of avowal among different struggles.
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• Introduction. List of Acronyms. Chronology. Part I: Sowing Seeds.
• 1. Foundations. Introduction. Article: Southern Reformers, the New Deal, and the Movement's Foundation. (Patricia Sullivan) Document A: Street Car Petition, Jacksonville, Florida,
• 1901. Document B: NAACP School Desegregation Petition,
• 1955. Further Reading.
• 2. Labor and Civil Rights. Introduction. Article: Organized Labor and the Struggle for Black Equality in Mobile during World War II. (Bruce Nelson)Document A : Transcription of Tape Documentary on Natchez Laundry Workers Strike, October 17,
• 1965. Document B: Memoirs of a Birmingham Coal Miner,
• 1964. Further Reading. Part II: Defiance
• .3. White Resistance. Introduction. Article: Crabgrass-Roots Politics: Race, Rights, and the Reaction Against Liberalism in the Urban North, 1940
• -1964. (Thomas J. Sugrue) Document A:Untitled Little Rock Poem, ca.
• 1957. Document B: Americans for the Preservation of the White Race, Broadside, ca 1960s.Document C: Brumsic Brandon Jr. "Up North, Down South, " cartoons,
• 1963. Further Reading.
• 4. Anti-Communism, Anti-Civil Rights. Introduction. Article: Race and Red-Baiting. (Adam Fairclough)Document A: Defender's News and View's Aug-Sept
• 1959. Letter to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission,
• 1960. Further Reading. Part III: Participants.
• 5. Liberals and Moderates. Introduction. Article: "South of the South?": Jews, Blacks, and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945
• -1960. (Raymond A. Mohl) Documents: Document A: The Conversion of Peggy Terry, ca 1950s. Document B: "One can not be a Christian and a Segregationist, Too, "
• 1979. Further Reading.
• 6. Women in the Civil Rights Movement. Introduction. Article: Passing the Torch: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement: LaVerne Gyant. Document A: Fannie Lou Hamer, "The Special Plight and Role of Black Women, "
• 1971. Document B: Septima Poinsette Clark Memoir, 1979,
• 1984. Clarice T. Campbell Correspondence, summer
• 1956. Further Reading. Part IV: Local-National Relationships.
• 7. The NAACP. Introduction. Article: The NAACP in North Carolina during the Age of Segregation. (Raymond Gavins) Document A:NAACP v. Button,
• 1963. Document B: Jackson, Mississippi, Boycott Campaign, 1962
• -63. Further Reading.
• 8. Grassroots. Introduction. Article: Baseball's Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training Sites, 1961
• -1964. (Jack E. Davis) Document A: Siege at Savannah,
• 1964. Document B: People in Motion: The Story of the Birmingham Movement,
• 1966. Further Reading. Part V: Empowerment.
• 9. Black Power and Culture. Introduction. Article: New Day in Babylon: The Black Power Movement and American Culture, 1965
• -1975. (William L. Van DeBurg) Document A:Robert Williams, Negroes With Guns,
• 1962. Document B: Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton, "The Search for New Forms, "
• 1967. Document C: Brumsic Brandon Jr. cartoon,
• 1968. Further Reading.
• 10. Political Power. Introduction. Article: The Civil Rights Movement as Urban Reform: Atlanta's Black Neighborhoods and a New "Progessivism": Ronald H. Bayor. Document A: Voter Registration Testimonies, ca 1960s.Document B: Petition, August 29, 1965.Document C: Shaw v. Reno,
• 1993. Part VI: The Continuing Saga.
• 11. Environmental Injustice. Introduction. Article: From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement. (Eileen Maura McGurty) Document A: Slum Clearance, Community Style, ca 1940s.Document B: Letter Addressing Lead Poisoning,
• 1957. Further Reading.
• 12. Affirmative Action. Introduction. Article: Race, History, and Policy, African Americans and Civil Rights Since
• 1964. (Hugh Davis Graham) Document A: The Kerner Report, Employment Report, Introduction,
• 1968. Document B: Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado (1973). Further Reading.Index.
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The Civil Rights Movement is a collection of the best scholarship on one of America's most important social movements. Editor Jack Davis expands the usual historical boundaries of the Civil Rights Movement as he follows it from pre-World War II activism to the affirmative action initiatives begun in the 1960s. These essays reveal the grassroots character of the movement by exploring its continuity, local nature, and decentralized and diverse leadership. Through this broader scope, students learn about women's activism, white liberals and moderates, local initiatives, environmental racism, and black political empowerment.Twelve essays are arranged chronologically and topically, each with supporting primary documents, a detailed timeline, and further reading lists. This collection provides an ideal source for teaching Civil Rights with a fresh perspective.
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• White
• Brown
• Yellow
• Black
• Appendix of documents: 1. Benjamin Franklin, "observations concerning the increase of mankind, " 1751
• 2. Thomas Jefferson reflects on the issues of African Americans and slavery, 1785
• 3. Josiah C. Nott speaks on the natural history of mankind, 1850
• 4. President Andrew Jackson calls for the removal of Native Americans westward, 1830
• 5. Sam Houston rallies his fellow Texans, 1836
• 6. John Fiske on the evolution of races, 1873
• 7. Reverend Josiah strong prophesizes on God, the Anglo-Saxon, and the world, 1891
• 8. Senator Albert J. Beveridge defends America's actions in the Philippines, January 9, 1900
• 9. Anti-Chinese sentiment in California, 1878
• 10. Lothrop Stoddard warns of the rising yellow tide, 1922
• Time instructs its readers on how to tell a "Jap" from a "friend, " 1941
• 12. Charles Lindbergh witnesses the war in the Pacific, 1944
• 13. "Constructive engagement" with white regimes in Southern Africa, 1969
• 14. U.S. GI testifies about atrocities and "gooks, " 1971
• 15. Martin Luther King Jr. condemns the Vietnam War, 1967.

At first glance, it may be difficult to accept that race and racism play a major role, whether conscious or subconscious, in policymaking. But leaders are products of their upbringing and era, and even some of America's best-educated presidents and secretaries of state have been slave owners, segregationists, or bigots. Some belong to America's distant past, but it was not so long ago that the civil rights movement began to correct America's troubled race relations. While race has rarely served as the primary motivating factor in America's foreign policies, Michael Krenn shows that it has functioned as both a powerful justification for U.S. actions abroad and a significant influence on their shape, direction, and intensity. Portraying nonwhite races as inferior allowed U.S. policymakers to rationalize territorial expansion at the expense of Native Americans and Mexico, to demonize the enemy in wars fought against Filipino insurgents and Japanese soldiers, and to justify intervention in developing nations. Racism made America's leaders soft on European colonialism, and U.S. racial segregation laws were an obstacle to winning hearts and minds in the developing world during the Cold War. Race plays a more subtle role in U.S. foreign relations today, but speeches about turning the war on terror into a crusade, the abuse of detainees in military prisons, and apathy toward genocide in Darfur can be explained, in part, by prejudice. "The Color of Empire" challenges readers to recognize that American perceptions and prejudices about race have influenced the conduct of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial era to the present. This concise survey is an excellent introduction to the topic for both students and general readers.
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• Women / Alice Walker
• Foreword / May Berry
• Introduction : the politics of Black women's studies / Gloria T. Hull, Barbara Smith
• Visions : recommendations for the future of Black women's studies
• A Black feminist's search for sisterhood / Michele Wallace
• A Black feminist statement / The Combahee River Collective
• Selected bibliography on Black feminism / Patricia Bell Scott
• One child of one's own : a meaningful digression within the work(s)-- an excerpt / Alice Walker
• Racism-- a White issue / Ellen Pence
• Racism and women's studies / Barbara Smith
• Face-to-face, day-to-day-- racism CR / Tia Cross, Freada Klein, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith
• Studying slavery : some literary and pedagogical considerations on the Black female slave / Erlene Stetson
• Debunking Sapphire : toward a non-racist and non-sexist social science / Patricia Bell Scott
• Two representative issues in contemporary sociological work on Black women / Elizabeth Higginbotham.

• Black women's health : notes for a course / Beverly Smith
• Three's a crowd : the dilemma of the Black woman in higher education / Constance M. Carroll
• Slave codes and liner notes / Michele Russell
• Black women and the church / Jacquelyn Grant
• Toward a Black feminist criticism / Barbara Smith
• "This infinity of conscious pain" : Zora Neale Hurston and the Black female literary tradition / Lorraine Bethel
• Researching Alice Dunbar-Nelson : a personal and literary perspective / Gloria T. Hull
• Black-eyed blues connections / Michele Russell
• Teaching Black-eyed Susans : an approach to the study of Black women writers / Mary Helen Washington.

• Bibliographies and bibliographic essays
• Afro-American women 1800-1910 : a selected bibliography / Jean Fagan Yellin
• Afro-American women poets of the nineteenth century : guide to research and bio-bibliographies of the poets / Joan R. Sherman
• On the novels written by selected Black women : a bibliographical essay / Rita B. Dandridge
• Black women playwrights from Grimké to Shange : selected synopses of their works / Jeanne-Marie A. Miller
• American Black women composers : a selected bibliography / Ora Williams, Thelma Williams, Dora Wilson, Ramona Matthewson
• A listing of non-print materials on Black women / Martha H. Brown
• Additional references and resources
• Doing the work : selected course syllabi
• General/Social science/Interdisciplinary
• Literature.

Essays study the history and position of Black women in America, discussing such topics as racism, Black feminism, and Black women's literature.

• 1. The Politics of Organized Hate
• 2. From the Margins to the Mainstream: The Rise of Louis Farrakhan
• 3. The Prophet Motive: The Theology and Ideology of Black Radical Reaction
• 4. The Paranoid Style in Black American Politics
• 5. The Popularity of Paranoia
• 6. Explaining Farrakhan
• 7. Toward an American Apartheid: Farrakhan and Black Leadership in the 1990s.

Presents an analysis of Farrakhan's career, drawing on interviews, records, and speeches.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• I. The Challenge of Contact with Foreigners
• II. Freedom: American Culture as Human Nature
• III. Inbound: Immigrants from Internal Threat to Incorporation
• IV. Lurking: Communists and the Threat of Captivity
• V. Outbound: U.S. Expansion Into Foreign Lands
• VI. Subversion: The Power of American Culture in a Global Era
• Conclusion: Not So Foreign After All
• Notes
• Index

Americans have long considered themselves a people set apart, but American exceptionalism is built on a set of tacit beliefs about other cultures. From the founding exclusion of indigenous peoples and enslaved Africans to the uneasy welcome of waves of immigrants, from republican disavowals of colonialism to Cold War proclamations of freedom, Americans' ideas of their differences from others have shaped the modern world-and how Americans have viewed foreigners is deeply revealing of their assumptions about themselves. Just Like Us is a pathbreaking exploration of what foreignness has meant across American history. Thomas Borstelmann traces American ambivalence about non-Americans, identifying a paradoxical perception of foreigners as suspiciously different yet fundamentally sharing American values beneath the layers of culture. Considering race and religion, notions of the American way of life, attitudes toward immigrants, competition with communism, Americans abroad, and the subversive power of American culture, he offers a surprisingly optimistic account of the acceptance of difference. Borstelmann contends that increasing contact with peoples around the globe during the Cold War encouraged mainstream society to grow steadily more inclusive. In a time of resurgent nativism and xenophobia, Just Like Us provides a reflective, urgent examination of how Americans have conceived of foreignness and their own exceptionalism throughout the nation's history.
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• * Strategies for Getting Beyond Race: Reframing the Problem * Inventing Race: The Social and Scientific Construction of Reality * The Changing American Culture: Challenges to Race * The Military: A Model of Success in Race Relations * Promoting Equal Opportunity and Treatment * Immigration and Traveling Abroad: Undermining the Concept of Race * Interracial Relationships and the One-Drop Rule * Transracial Adoption: Building Bridges that Transcend Race * Conclusion: Getting Beyond Race.
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In Getting Beyond Race, Richard Payne takes the practical approach that race relations are ultimately about ordinary people interacting with each other. Payne argues that confrontation, blaming, and dwelling on failure in race relations are not as productive as adopting a positive view and looking at individual success stories. Drawing from his own experience of having lived with different racial groups and hundreds of conversations with Americans from all walks of life and racial backgrounds, he writes about those who are helping to reduce the significance of race in society and through their actions are creating models of behavior for Americas future. Payne covers topics from how race is an artificial concept created for social purposes to race in the military, interracial marriages and adoptions, affirmative action, and the effects of generational change and immigration on racial attitudes in America. Instead of looking at questions of race simply in terms of black-white relations, he expands his discussion to include Latinos, Asians, and other people of color. Moreover, Payne contends that the very concept of race is being weakened by fundamental changes throughout many facets of American culture. This book looks forward and offers concrete suggestions for getting beyond race.
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• Series Editor's Introduction - John H Stanfield II The 'Other' History An Overview of Interracial Unity and Cooperation in the United States Interracial Unity from Colonial Times to the Present Maintaining the Racial Status Quo Black Expectations and Demands The White Role in the Struggle for Racial Equality in the 19th Century The White Role in the Struggle for Racial Equality in the 20th Century Building on the Legacy An Opportunity.
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The history of interracial unity and cooperation in the United States from the Colonial period to the present is examined in this volume. Topics discussed include: the tendency to maintain the racial status quo; the impact of black expectations and demands; and the role of whites in the struggle for racial equality over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Richard W Thomas concludes with a consideration of race relations in the contemporary United States. He argues that people of all colours must become aware of their shared history of interracial struggles for equality if racism is to be truly tackled.
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DeMott examines a stunning range of cultural evidence--from the oratory of politicians to popular cinema and television to scapegoated welfare mothers to some of today's most respected thinkers--to lay bare the assumptions of "friendship orthodoxy", which maintains that racial problems can be solved simply by blacks and whites working together, one on one, to reconcile differences.
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DeMott examines a stunning range of cultural evidence--from the oratory of politicians to popular cinema and television to scapegoated welfare mothers to some of today's most respected thinkers--to lay bare the assumptions of "friendship orthodoxy", which maintains that racial problems can be solved simply by blacks and whites working together, one on one, to reconcile differences.
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Taylor believes that racism has declined dramatically in virtually all areas of American life, yet an enormous body of policy and opinion rests on the belief that American society is relentlessly prejudiced. The most important book on the subject of race for many years.--National Review.
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