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Theorizing Music for Antiracist Futures

Key Terms and Critical Methods

Edited by Jade Adele Conlee & Tatiana Rose Daub Koike
Subjects: Music, Music Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Ethnic Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

Explores complex histories and assumptions behind musical terms

Feeling Yellow

Asian Americans and Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Musical Theatre

By Donatella Galella
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian American Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

A contemporary history of the usage of yellowface in musical theatre

Gender Is a Weapon

Liberalism, Difference, and US Counterinsurgency

By Elizabeth Mesok
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Critical Ethnic Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Critical Militarization Studies
Series: Critical Militarization Studies

A sobering account of the strategic leveraging of women for counterinsurgency and impossible promises of inclusion

Creative Belonging

The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

By Yanshuo Zhang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: China Understandings Today

An interdisciplinary study on the creative cultures produced by China's ethnic minorities

A Beautiful Fight

The Racial Politics of Capoeira in Backland Bahia

By Esther Viola Kurtz
Subjects: Dance, Music, Ethnomusicology, Latin American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Music and Social Justice

A critical ethnography of Black and white participation in Afro-Brazilian music and dance

Corpse Crusaders

The Zombie in American Comics

By Chera Kee
Subjects: American Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, American Literature, History, American History, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Writing, Race and Ethnicity

Unearthing the undead stalking the panels of action/adventure and superhero comics

Viewers in Distress

Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

By Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity

The changing politics of reception, and how rebellious spectators are redefining the avant-garde

The State You See

How Government Visibility Creates Political Distrust and Racial Inequality

By Aaron J. Rosenthal
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Political Science, Public Policy and Governance

How race affects Americans' experiences of government

Visual Syntax of Race

Arab-Jews in Zionist Visual Culture

By Noa Hazan
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies

The visual representation of racial thought

A Beat Beyond

Selected Prose of Major Jackson

By Major Jackson
Edited by Amor Kohli
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Race and Ethnicity, American Literature
Series: Poets on Poetry

Foregrounding the possibilities of human song

Made-Up Asians

Yellowface During the Exclusion Era

By Esther Kim Lee
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Why and how Asian characters have been represented by non-Asian actors on stage and screen

The Right to Difference

Interculturality and Human Rights in Contemporary German Literature

By Nicole Coleman
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Race and Ethnicity

Develops a theory of intercultural literature to reconcile diversity with traditional notions of German identity

"Destined to Fail"

Carl Seashore's World of Eugenics, Psychology, Education, and Music

By Julia Eklund Koza
Subjects: Education, Music, Disability Studies, History, American History, Psychology, Race and Ethnicity

How eugenics became a keystone of modern educational policy

Adoption and Multiculturalism

Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific

By Jenny Heijun Wills, Tobias Hubinette, and Indigo Willing
Subjects: American Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology

Exploring skewed views of transnational and transracial adoption

Vitality Politics

Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

By Stephen Knadler
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Race and Ethnicity, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Traces the post-Reconstruction roots of the slow violence enacted on black people in the U.S. through the politicization of biological health

Nimrod

Selected Writings

By Frieda Ekotto
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Race and Ethnicity
Series: African Perspectives

The first English translations of key essays, stories, and poems by Nimrod, a major figure in contemporary African letters

Sites of Translation

What Multilinguals Can Teach Us about Digital Writing and Rhetoric

By Laura Gonzales
Subjects: Latinx Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Digital Projects
Series: Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative

A groundbreaking study of the inventive intellectual work performed by multilingual communicators who translate information in academic and professional spaces—Winner of the 2016 DRC Book Prize!

Black Cultural Life in South Africa

Reception, Apartheid, and Ethics

By Lily Saint
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: African Perspectives

Explores the shaping of black ethical consciousness by popular culture in apartheid-era South Africa

Muslims in a Post-9/11 America

A Survey of Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for U.S. National Security Policy

By Rachel M. Gillum
Subjects: Political Science, Race and Politics, Islamic Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Explores the vast diversity within Muslim American communities and shows how negative rhetoric toward Muslims makes America less safe

White Rebels in Black

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

By Priscilla Dionne Layne
Subjects: German Studies, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Investigates the appropriation of black popular culture as a symbol of rebellion in postwar Germany

Uncle Tom's Cabins

The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

By Tracy C. Davis & Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

By Andrew Kellett
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, European Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race and Ethnicity

An exciting new examination of how African-American blues music was emulated and used by white British musicians in the late 1950s and early 1960s

 

Performing the Intercultural City

By Ric Knowles
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores how theater in Toronto, the world’s most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup

Passing Illusions

Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany

By Kerry Wallach
Subjects: German Studies, Jewish Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by “passing” as non-Jews

 

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