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Content Warning: This article cites a work whose title contains a racial slur that is disturbing and may be triggering. (The slur is directly visible in a photograph of the manuscript reproduced in figure 3.) We have chosen not to reproduce the racial slur in full, replacing some letters with asterisks. We do not wish to sanitize what historical speakers and writers have said, but neither do we wish to create additional harm via the unnecessary and insensitive repetition of offensive terms., I shall emancipate myself from the materialistic dreams of my parents; I shall emancipate myself from the bind of the past and the present; I shall emancipate myself from myself. [...]

Filipino time: Affective worlds and contracted labour By ALLAN PUNZALAN ISAAC New York: New York University Press, 2022. Pp. 159. Endnotes, Works Cited, Index. Allan Punzalan Isaac offers us a [...]

The suppression of community knowledge and tradition has been so historically incessant for LGBTQIA* people and communities that it has become a formative force in the understanding of queer history. One mechanism forged by this network of erasure is 'queer aphasia.' This is a disconnect between the ability to see queerness and identify it as such--a stoppage in verbalization. I use my research on blues performer Clara Smith as a case study to explore this phenomenon and potential pathways for counteracting its pervasive impact. Contextualizing my research within a wider legacy of queer being, I explore the broader impact on the archiving and study of queer lives., For LGBTQIA * (1) people and communities, our history has not just been erased but rendered invisible when in plain sight. This is what I term 'queer aphasia,' a disconnect [...]

A large number of refugees come to Canada every year, supporting the government's claims that they are encouraging of <> Nonetheless, the pervasiveness of racism and the paucity of research focused on the intersectional identity of Black refugee students raises several concerns, especially in light of the White savior myth that is embedded in a White society like Canada. Based on the ethic of hospitality, self-determination theory, and the tenets of critical race theory, this case study explored the hospitality of K-12 schools for Black refugee students in Manitoba. Through the voices of five students, this research demonstrates how students' needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competency were often threatened by racist (in)actions of teachers and classmates, thus negatively impacting their educational experience. Keywords: hospitality, self-determination, Black refugee students Un grand nombre de refugies arrivent au Canada chaque annee, ce qui appuie les declarations du gouvernement d'encourager la << diversite culturelle >>. Neanmoins, l'omnipresence du racisme et la rarete des recherches axees sur l'identite intersectionnelle des etudiants refugies noirs soulevent plusieurs preoccupations, en particulier a la lumiere du mythe du sauveur blanc ancre dans une societe blanche comme celle du Canada. Basee sur l'ethique de l'hospitalite, la theorie de l'autodetermination et les principes de la theorie critique de la race, cette etude de cas explore l'hospitalite d'ecoles de la maternelle a la 12e annee envers les eleves refugies noirs au Manitoba. A travers les voix de cinq etudiants, cet article demontre comment les besoins d'autonomie, d'appartenance et de competence des etudiants etaient souvent menaces par des (in)actions racistes d'enseignants et de camarades de classe, ce qui a eu un impact negatif sur leur experience educative. Mots-cles: hospitalite, autodetermination, etudiants refugies noirs, Introduction Despite the high number of refugees settling in Canada every year (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2022), or in Manitoba more specifically (Immigrate Manitoba, 2021), educational literature indicates [...]

Education researchers and policymakers popularized the school-to-prison pipeline metaphor to understand the connection between school failure and youth incarceration in the United States. However, the metaphor has been criticized for [...]

You don't look like you have an eating disorder. Aren't you supposed to be thin? This paper discusses representations of two eating disorders--binge eating disorder and anorexia--as they appear the [...]

Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American Culture WILL B. MACKINTOSH New York University Press, 2019 244 pp. When I first read Daniel Boorstin's remark in The [...]

Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism. By Gregory Smithsimon. (New York: New York University Press, 2022. Pp. [vi], 302. Paper, $30.00, ISBN 978-1-4798-6149-1; [...]

THE BATTLE OF NEGRO FORT: The Rise and Fall of a Fugitive Slave Community. Matthew J. Clavin. New York: New York University Press, 2019. x and 253 pp., figs., bibliog., [...]

Everyday Crimes: Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America KELLY A. RYAN New York University Press, 2019 400 pp. When Abigail Adams asked her husband to 'remember the ladies' [...]

Relation of Virginia: A Boys Memoir of Life with the Powhatans and the Patawomecks HENRY SPELMAN; TRANSCRIBED, EDITED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN New York University Press, [...]

Jenkins, Henry, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, and Sangita Shresthova. (Eds.). Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 365. ISBN [...]

Ferguson, Andrew Guthrie. The Rise of Big Data Policing. Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement. New York: New York University Press, 2017, p 272, $28.00 paperback. (9781479892822). The [...]

Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN New York University Press, 2019 233 pp. Four hundred years ago two major developments occurred in [...]

A half-century ago, Dan Ben-Amos decried the incongruity between what he called localized 'ethnic genres' and analytical categories constructed by scholars. He called attention to native cultural expressions in their context. I suggest that balut-eating contests cannot be categorized simply with the analytical category of a festival game or a competitive-eating contest. Instead, it should be seen as a localized genre which communicates Filipino Americans' experiences and opposes the denigration of their cultural practices. KEYWORDS: Filipino, balut, eating contests, performance, identity., There is no question that I am not the only folklorist who is indebted to Dan Ben-Amos, as can be surmised from the other pieces in this issue in his [...]

Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society VAUGHN SCRIBNER New York University Press, 2019 264 pp. Vaughn Scribner's Inn Civility argues that the American Revolution was spurred not [...]

Emergent Worlds: Alternative States in Nineteenth-Century American Culture EDWARD SUGDEN New York University Press, 2018 256 pp. Emergent Worlds is an aspirational and counterfactual history of what might have been--and [...]

Abstracts Most people have committed crimes, but few have been caught. These individuals hold positions of sociolegal power by remaining unmarked. Findings from a survey administered to 209 university students [...]

Black Fundamentalists: Conservative Christianity and Racial Identity in the Segregation Era. By Daniel R. Bare. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 261 pp. Daniel R. Bare's well-researched Black Fundamentalists [...]

Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism. By Nicholas T. Pruitt. (New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. 296. $45. ISBN: 9781479803545). When we [...]

The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, Feminist. By Donna T. Haverty-Stacke. (New York: New York University Press. 2020. Pp. 312. $50.00. ISBN: 9781479802180.) This is a well-researched [...]

Lothian, Alexis. Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 352 pp. Softcover. ISBN 978-14798-2585-1. $30.00. Alexis Lothian's Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer [...]

Joyce Antler Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement New York: New York University Press, 2018. 464 pp. Joyce Antler has written a comprehensive history of Jewish radical [...]

THE BLACK SMEARS of paint on my face and hands were smelly, and they itched. It was the mid-1980s, and I was seven, maybe, or eight. In my first church [...]

Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom: History, Poetry, and the Ideals of the American Revolution G. J. BARKER-BENFIELD New York: New York University Press, 2018 240 pp. Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom is [...]

Travis Linnemann, Meth Wars: Police, Media, Power (New York University Press, 2016) Fear, Insecurity, and the Economy of Deception ON THE SURFACE, METH WARS: POLICE, MEDIA, POWERIS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY examination [...]

Garretson, Jeremiah J. The Path the Gay Rights: How Activism and Coming Out Changed Public Opinion. New York: New York University Press, 2018. Pp. vi, 297. ISBN 9781479822133 (cloth) $99.00; [...]

Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics Since 1945. Edited by Felipe Hinojosa, Maggie Elmore, and Sergio M. Gonzalez. (New York: New York University Press. 2022. Pp. 352. $35.00. ISBN: 978-1-479-80452-8.) [...]

Cowan, Douglas E. America's Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King. New York University Press, 2018. 243 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-4798-9473-4. $30.00. As a professor of Religious Studies, Douglas [...]

Cunningham, Stuart and David Craig. Social Media Entertainment: The New Intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Pp. 368. ISBN: 9781479890286 (cloth) $89.00; 9781479846894 [...]

In this article, I explore how the social contract of schooling and the three functions of schooling (Noguera 2003)--to sort, to socialize, and to control--impact and constrain the freedom and agency of a group of young Black and Latinx men in one suburban school district that was experiencing sociodemographic shifts in the Northeastern United States. I use qualitative data to frame how the young men experience schooling, and I show how the local community context facilitates the institutionalization of discriminatory sorting processes and racially prejudiced norms. I also show how the young men are excessively controlled and monitored via zero tolerance disciplinary practices, which effectively constrains their humanity and capacity to freely exist in their school and which inadvertently strengthens the connective tissue between schools and prisons. Keywords: Black boyhood, community contexts, discipline, freedom, sociology of schooling, zero tolerance, By virtue of being human she [a student] is endowed with the unassailable right not to have any part of her personhood assaulted or stolen. A free person can expect [...]

Widowhood is an under-recognized, albeit significant, aspect of life all over the world. The scant literature on contemporary narratives of widowhood among women as a consequence of conflicts indicates that this aspect of lived experience is relatively underexplored. Although loss is integral to life in the Nagorno-Karabakh region in the South Caucasus, it has been overlooked because of the unsettled politics in the region. Since the end of the full-scale war in 1994, the self-declared, internationally unrecognized republic has been locked in a protracted conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia. This longstanding conflict has had severe consequences for society in this region. Sporadic clashes along the border of Nagorno-Karabakh (3) are not a rare occurrence. Thus, for women married to soldiers, confronting death is not something rare in the everyday life of the region. The purpose of this article is to examine the everyday experiences, understanding and reworking of widowhood there. The article is intended to open up the hitherto neglected subject of widowhood as affected by violent fighting in this part of the world and to create awareness of the importance of the topic. Keywords: widowhood, patriarchy, Nagorno-Karabakh, Introduction Becoming a widow is completely contingent and leads to major changes in a woman's life. In many parts of the world, widows become victims of their circumstances due to [...]

The Course of God's Providence: Religion, Health and the Body in Early America. By Philippa Koch. (New York: New York University Press. 2021. Pp. xiv, 265. $39.00. ISBN: 9781479806683.) This [...]

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This article examines the gentrification of Fort Greene, which is located in the western part of black Brooklyn, one of the largest contiguous black urban areas in the USA. Between the late 1960s and 2003, gentrification in Fort Greene followed the patterns discovered by scholars of black neighborhoods; the gentrifying agents were almost exclusively black and gentrification as a process was largely bottom-up because entities interested in the production of space were mostly not involved. Since 2003, this has changed. Whites have been moving to Fort Greene in large numbers and will soon represent the numerical majority. Public and private interventions in and around Fort Greene have created a new top-down version of gentrification, which is facilitating this white influx. Existing black residential and commercial tenants are replaced and displaced in the name of urban economic development., Author(s): Themis Chronopoulos[sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) Swansea University, Swansea, WalesUK Introduction On February 25, 2014, in a Black History Month speech at Pratt Institute, after being prodded by an audience [...]

Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration Reform and the Waning of Mainline Protestantism. By Nicholas T. Pruitt. (New York: New York University Press. 2021. pp. x, 279. $45.00. ISBN: 9781479803545.) Evangelicals [...]

Laura Sjoberg, GENDER, WAR, & CONFLICT. Polity, 2014. (Gender & Global Politics series.) 240p. bibl. index, pap., $22.95, ISBN 978-074566028. Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, & Christina Ewig, eds., [...]

WHAT'S GONE WRONG?: SOUTH AFRICA ON THE BRINK OF FAILED STATEHOOD Alex Boraine New York: New York University Press, 2014 193 pages, cloth, $25.00 Readers familiar with South African history [...]

Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism. Edited by Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman. New York: New York University Press, 2015, 384 pp., $35.00 paperback. U.S. [...]

Jamillah Karim, AMERICAN MUSLIM WOMEN: NEGOTIATING RACE, CLASS AND GENDER WITHIN THE UMMAH. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 303p. notes, bibl. gloss, index, pap., $23.00, ISBN 978-0814748107. Faegheh [...]

DON'T NEED YOU: THE HERSTORY OF RIOT GRRRL. 40 mins. Directed by Kerri Koch. Produced by Urban Cowgirl Productions, 2006. DVD available for purchase: $14.99 plus shipping, http://urbancowgirlproductions.com/ uc/?page_id=3/. Sarah [...]

The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayo: America's Miraculous Church. By Brett Hendrickson. [Religion, Race, and Ethnicity.] (New York: New York University Press, 2017. Pp. xi, 245. $89.00 cloth; [...]