Authors:Jos Vasconcelos, Didier T. Ja,
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Pre
Keywords: race, americas, cosmica, raza, cosmic
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1997-06-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0801856558
ISBN-13: 9780801856556
"The days of the pure whites, the victors of today, are as numbered as were the days of their predecessors. Having fulfilled their destiny of mechanizing the world, they themselves have set, without knowing it, the basis for the new period: The period of the fusion and the mixing of all peoples." -- from The Cosmic RaceIn this influential 1925 essay, presented here in Spanish and English, Jos Vasconcelos predicted the coming of a new age, the Aesthetic Era, in which joy, love, fantasy, and creativity would prevail over the rationalism he saw as dominating the present age. In this new age, mar
Author: Tasha Philpot
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: race, politics, ethnicity, lincoln, party, republicans, return
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-03-21
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472069675
ISBN-13: 9780472069675
Whether their slogan is compassionate conservatism or hawkish liberalism, political parties have always sought to expand their electoral coalitions by making minor adjustments to their public image. How do voters respond to these, often short-term, campaign appeals? Race, Republicans, and the Return of the Party of Lincoln is Tasha Philpots insightful study of how parties use racial images to shape and reshape the way citizens perceive them. Philpot has produced a timely, provocative, and nuanced analysis of political party image change, using the Republican Partys attempts to recast it
Author: Richard Thompson Ford
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: race, relations, worse, makes, bias, card, bluffing
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2009-03-03
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 031242826X
ISBN-13: 9780312428266
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWhat do hurricane Katrina victims, millionaire rappers buying vintage champagne, and Ivy League professors waiting for taxis have in common? All have claimed to be victims of racism. But these days almost no one openly defends bigoted motives, so either a lot of people are lying about their true beliefs, or a lot of people are jumping to unwarranted conclusions--or just playing the race card. Daring, entertaining, and incisive, The Race Card brings sophisticated legal analysis, eye-popping anecdotes, and plain old common sense to this heated topic. Rich
Author: Viet Thanh Nguye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: race, american, culture, america, politics, resistance, literature, asian
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-03-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195147006
ISBN-13: 9780195147001
In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture’s ideological diversity nor recognize their own involvement with capitalist practices such as the selling of racial identity. Making his case through the example of literature, which remains a critical arena of cultural production for Asian Americans, Nguyen demonstrates that lit
Author: Jonathan Judake
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: race, suny, series, philosophy, postcolonialism, existentialism, sartre, antiracism, africana
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-09-04
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0791475476
ISBN-13: 9780791475478
Examines Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.
Author: Julie M. Fenster
Publisher: Three Rivers Pre
Keywords: race, york, paris, auto, new, story, century, heroic, true
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2006-06-27
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0307339173
ISBN-13: 9780307339171
17 men, 6 cars, and a 21,000-mile race across 3 continentsOn the morning of February 12, 1908, six cars from four different countries lined up in Times Square, surrounded by a frenzied crowd. The men who competed in the New York to Paris auto race were an international roster of personalities: a charismatic Norwegian outdoorsman, a witty French nobleman, a pair of Italian sophisticates, an aristocratic German army officer, and a cranky mechanic from Buffalo, New York. At a time when most people had never seen an automobile, these adventurous men set their course over mountain ranges, through A
Author: Anne Anlin Cheng
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: race, american, culture, grief, assimilation, psychoanalysis, melancholy, hidden
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-12-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0195151623
ISBN-13: 9780195151626
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study Anne Anlin Cheng argues that we have to understand racial grief not only as the result of racism but also as a foundation for racial identity. The Melancholy of Race proposes that racial identification is itself already a melancholic act--a social category that is imaginatively supported through a dynamic of loss and compensation, by which the racial other is at once rejected and retained. Using psychoanalytic theories on mourning and melancholia as inroads into her subject, Cheng offers a closely observed and carefully reasoned account of the mi
