Описание: An illuminating, in-depth look at competition in diverse suburban high schools, where parents are often determined to ensure that their children remain at the head of the class. The American suburb conjures an image of picturesque privilege: manicured lawns, quiet streets, and-most important to parents-high-quality schools. These elite enclaves are also historically white, allowing many white Americans to safeguard their privileges by using public schools to help their children enter top colleges.
That's changing, however, as Asian professionals increasingly move into wealthy suburban areas to give their kids that same leg up for their college applications and future careers. As Natasha Warikoo reveals in Race at the Top, white and Asian parents alike will do anything to help their children get to the top of the achievement pile. She takes us into the affluent suburban East coast school she calls "Woodcrest High," with a student body about one-half white and one-third Asian.
As increasing numbers of Woodcrest's Asian students earn star pupil status many whites feel displaced from the top of the academic hierarchy, and their frustrations grow. To maintain their children's edge, those parents complain to the school that schoolwork has become too rigorous. They also emphasize excellence in extracurriculars like sports and theater, which maintains their children's edge.
Warikoo shows how, even when they are bested, white families in Woodcrest work to change the rules in their favor so they can remain the winners of the meritocracy game. Along the way, Warikoo explores urgent issues of racial and economic inequality that play out in affluent suburban American high schools. Caught in a race for power and privilege at the very top of society, what families in towns like Woodcrest fail to see is that everyone in their race is getting a medal-the children who actually lose are those living beyond their town's boundaries.
Автор: Chong Название: Love Across Borders ISBN: 1138212547 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138212541 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Love Across Borders, Kelly H. Chong compares two types of Asian-ethnic intermarried couples -- interracial and interethnic - and examines what motivates marital boundary crossings and what happens inside these marriages.
Автор: Chong Название: Love Across Borders ISBN: 1138212555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138212558 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In Love Across Borders, Kelly H. Chong compares two types of Asian-ethnic intermarried couples -- interracial and interethnic - and examines what motivates marital boundary crossings and what happens inside these marriages.
Описание: This book offers a new perspective of the Pacific War as seen through the experience of African Americans. Chris Dixon explores the relationship between race, American military power, and foreign policy during the Pacific War, paying particular attention to African Americans` attitudes and interactions with other non-white peoples.
Описание: The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains.Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.
Описание: Throughout the Jim Crow era, southern police departments played a vital role in the maintenance of white supremacy. Police targeted African Americans through an array of actions, including violent interactions, unjust arrests, and the enforcement of segregation laws and customs. Scholars have devoted much attention to law enforcement's use of aggression and brutality as a means of maintaining African American subordination. While these interpretations are vital to the broader understanding of police and minority relations, Black citizens have often come off as powerless in their encounters with law enforcement. Brandon T. Jett's Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South, by contrast, reveals previously unrecognized efforts by African Americans to use, manage, and exploit policing. In the process, Jett exposes a much more complex relationship, suggesting that while violence or the threat of violence shaped police and minority relations, it did not define all interactions.
Black residents of southern cities repeatedly complained about violent policing strategies and law enforcement's seeming lack of interest in crimes committed against African Americans. These criticisms notwithstanding, Blacks also voiced a desire for the police to become more involved in their communities to reduce the seemingly intractable problem of crime, much of which resulted from racial discrimination and other structural factors related to Jim Crow. Although the actions of the police were problematic, African Americans nonetheless believed that law enforcement could play a role in reducing crime in their communities. During the first half of the twentieth century, Black citizens repeatedly demanded better policing and engaged in behaviors designed to extract services from law enforcement officers in Black neighborhoods as part of a broader strategy to make their communities safer.
By examining the myriad ways in which African Americans influenced the police to serve the interests of the Black community, Jett adds a new layer to our understanding of race relations in the urban South in the Jim Crow era and contributes to current debates around the relationship between the police and minorities in the United States.
Автор: Dixon, Chris (macquarie University, Sydney) Название: African americans and the pacific war, 1941-1945 ISBN: 1107532930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107532939 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4118.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a new perspective of the Pacific War as seen through the experience of African Americans. Chris Dixon explores the relationship between race, American military power, and foreign policy during the Pacific War, paying particular attention to African Americans` attitudes and interactions with other non-white peoples.
Автор: Gasman Marybeth Название: Envisioning Black Colleges ISBN: 1421425149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421425146 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5897.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
The multifaceted story of the UNCF.
Winner, Outstanding Publication Award, American Educational Research Association
Etched into America's consciousness is the United Negro College Fund's phrase A mind is a terrible thing to waste. This book tells the story of the organization's efforts on behalf of black colleges against the backdrop of the cold war and the civil rights movement.
Founded during the post-World War II period as a successor to white philanthropic efforts, the UNCF nevertheless retained vestiges of outside control. In its early years, the organization was restrained in its critique of segregation and reluctant to lodge a challenge against institutional and cultural racism. Through cogent analysis of written and oral histories, archival documents, and the group's outreach and advertising campaigns, historian Marybeth Gasman examines the UNCF's struggle to create an identity apart from white benefactors and to evolve into a vehicle for black empowerment.
The first history of the UNCF, Envisioning Black Colleges draws attention to the significance of black colleges in higher education and the role they played in Americans' struggle for equality.
Описание: This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant support of the civil rights movements in the 1960s.
Автор: Lien, Pei-te (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara) Filler, Nicole (Instructor of Ethnic and Gender Studies and Political Science, Instructor of Ethnic and Gender Studies and Politica Название: Contesting the Last Frontier ISBN: 0190077689 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190077686 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5010.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Interweaving personal interviews with empirical research, Personal but Not Private examines how queer women mediate their digital identities across Tinder, Vine, and Instagram to form relationships, increase their social and economic participation, and counter intersecting forms of oppression.
Автор: David K. Yoo, Khyati Y. Joshi Название: Envisioning Religion, Race, and Asian Americans ISBN: 0824882741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824882747 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11365.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Brings together a wide-ranging and important collection of essays documenting the intersections of race and religion and Asian American communities. These essays attest to the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American religions, while at the same time situating these conversations in a scholarly lineage and discourse.
Автор: Parker, Patricia S. Название: Race, Gender, and Leadership ISBN: 080584919X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780805849196 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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