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  • 1
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    Sissy Insurgencies : A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness (2022)
    Durham : Duke University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781478022459
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (450 p.)
    DDC: 305.3
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    MS 2870
    Keywords: Geschlechterrolle ; Männlichkeit ; USA ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that are expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He reconsiders several black leaders, intellectuals, musicians, and athletes within the context of sissiness, from Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and James Baldwin to Little Richard, Amiri Baraka, and Wilt Chamberlain. Whether examining Washington's practice of cleaning as an iteration of sissiness, Baldwin's self-fashioned sissy deportment, or sissiphobia in professional sports and black nationalism, Ross demonstrates that sissiness can be embraced and exploited to conform to American gender norms or disrupt racialized patriarchy. In this way, sissiness constitutes a central element in modern understandings of race and gender.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781478022459
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    Fear in Our Hearts : What Islamophobia Tells Us about America (2021)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479804610
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    Series Statement: North American Religions
    DDC: 305.6/970973
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    MS 3300
    Keywords: Islamfeindlichkeit ; USA
    Abstract: Argues that anti-Muslim activity reveals how fear is corroding core American valuesIn a 2018 national poll, over ninety percent of respondents reported that treating people equally is an essential American value. Almost eighty percent said accepting people of different racial backgrounds is very important. Yet about half of the general public reports that they doubt whether Muslims can truly dedicate themselves to American values and society. Why do many people who say they believe in equality and acceptance of those of different backgrounds also think that Muslims could be an exception to that rule?In Fear in Our Hearts, Caleb Iyer Elfenbein examines Islamophobia in the United States, positing that rather than simply being an outcome of the 9/11 attacks, anti-Muslim activity grows out of a fear of difference that has always characterized US public life. Elfenbein examines the effects of this fear on American Muslims, as well as describing how it works to shape and distort American society. Drawing on over 1,800 news reports documenting anti-Muslim activity, Elfenbein pinpoints trends, draws connections to the broader histories of immigration, identity, belonging, and citizenship in the US, and examines how Muslim communities have responded.In the face of public fear and hate, American Muslim communities have sought to develop connections with non-Muslims through unprecedented levels of community transparency, outreach, and public engagement efforts. Despite the hostile environment that has made these efforts necessary, American Muslims have faced down their own fears to offer a model for building communities and creating more welcoming conditions of public life for everyone.Arguing that anti-Muslim activity tells us as much about the state of core American values in general as it does about the particular experiences of American Muslims, this compelling look at Muslims in America offers practical ideas about how we can create a more welcoming public life for all in our everyday lives.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479804610.001.0001
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    The Philadelphia Irish : Nation, Culture, and the Rise of a Gaelic Public Sphere (2021)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781978815490
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (242 p.) , 23 b-w images, 19 tables
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.8916/2074811
    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-1914 ; Iren ; Ethnische Identität ; Kulturelle Identität ; Nationalismus ; Soziale Situation ; Community life HIstory 19th century ; Community life History 19th century ; Irish Americans Ethnic identity ; Irish Americans HIstory 19th century ; Irish Americans History 19th century ; Irish Americans Social life and customs 19th century ; Irish language Social aspects ; Irish language Social aspects ; Irish HIstory 19th century ; Irish History 19th century ; HISTORY / General ; USA ; Philadelphia, Pa. ; Irish, Irish American, Gaelic, Philadelphia, Celtic, Celtic paramilitary, Gaelic sport, Irish community, political nationalism, Jurgen Habermas, public sphere, Irish voluntary associations, Irish culture
    Abstract: This book describes the flowering of the Irish American community and the 1890s growth of a Gaelic public sphere in Philadelphia, a movement inspired by the cultural awakening in native Ireland, transplanted and acted upon in Philadelphia’s robust Irish community. The Philadelphia Irish embraced this export of cultural nationalism, reveled in Gaelic symbols, and endorsed the Gaelic language, political nationalism, Celtic paramilitarism, Gaelic sport, and a broad ethnic culture. Using Jurgen Habermas’s concept of a public sphere, the author reveals how the Irish constructed a plebian “counter” public of Gaelic meaning through various mechanisms of communication, the ethnic press, the meeting rooms of Irish societies, the consumption of circulating pamphlets, oratory, songs, ballads, poems, and conversation. Settled in working class neighborhoods of vast spatial separation in an industrial city, the Irish resisted a parochialism identified with neighborhood and instead extended themselves to construct a vibrant, culturally engaged network of Irish rebirth in Philadelphia, a public of Gaelic meaning.
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    DOI: 10.36019/9781978815490
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    Getting Something to Eat in Jackson : Race, Class, and Food in the American South (2021)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691230672
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.) , 32 b/w illus. 1 map
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 394.1/20976251
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    LC 17610
    Keywords: Schwarze ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Kochen ; Ess- und Trinksitte ; African Americans Race identity ; African Americans Social conditions ; African Americans Social life and customs ; Cooking, American Southern style ; History ; Ethnology ; Food habits History ; Food security ; Social classes ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations ; USA ; Staat Mississippi ; Jackson, Miss. ; Amerika
    Abstract: A vivid portrait of African American life in today’s urban South that uses food to explore the complex interactions of race and classGetting Something to Eat in Jackson uses food—what people eat and how—to explore the interaction of race and class in the lives of African Americans in the contemporary urban South. Joseph Ewoodzie Jr. examines how “foodways”—food availability, choice, and consumption—vary greatly between classes of African Americans in Jackson, Mississippi, and how this reflects and shapes their very different experiences of a shared racial identity.Ewoodzie spent more than a year following a group of socioeconomically diverse African Americans—from upper-middle-class patrons of the city’s fine-dining restaurants to men experiencing homelessness who must organize their days around the schedules of soup kitchens. Ewoodzie goes food shopping, cooks, and eats with a young mother living in poverty and a grandmother working two jobs. He works in a Black-owned BBQ restaurant, and he meets a man who decides to become a vegan for health reasons but who must drive across town to get tofu and quinoa. Ewoodzie also learns about how soul food is changing and why it is no longer a staple survival food. Throughout, he shows how food choices influence, and are influenced by, the racial and class identities of Black Jacksonians.By tracing these contemporary African American foodways, Getting Something to Eat in Jackson offers new insights into the lives of Black Southerners and helps challenge the persistent homogenization of blackness in American life.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691230672
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    Beyond the Politics of the Closet : Gay Rights and the American State Since the 1970s (2020)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780812296723
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    DDC: 306.76/60973
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    MS 2870
    Keywords: Geschichte 1971-1996 ; Homosexuellenbewegung ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politics. The AIDS crisis of the 1980s made the battles for access to welfare, health care, and social services for HIV-positive Americans, many of them gay men, a critically important story in the changing relationship between sexual minorities and the government. The 1980s and 1990s marked a period in which religious right attacks on the civil rights of minorities, including LGBT people, offered opportunities for activists to create campaigns that could mobilize a base in mainstream politics and contribute to the gradual legitimization of sexual minorities in American society.Beyond the Politics of the Closet features essays by historians whose work on LGBT history delves into the decades between the mid-1970s and the millennium, a period in which the relationship between activist networks, the state, capitalism, and political parties became infinitely more complicated. Examining the crucial relationship between sexuality, race, and class, the volume highlights the impact gay rights politics and activism have had on the wider American political landscape since the rights revolutions of the 1960s.The three sections of Beyond the Politics of the Closet conceptualize LGBT politics both chronologically and thematically. The first section highlights the ways in which the immediate post-rights revolution period created new demands on the part of sexual minorities for social services, especially in health and housing. The second examines the impact of the AIDS crises on different aspects of national and local LGBT politics. The last section considers how analyzing LGBT politics can reorient our understanding of "the closet" and illuminate the challenges for those seeking to integrate questions of sexual rights into broader political narratives, whether of the left or the right.Contributors: Ian M. Baldwin, Catherine Batza, Jonathan Bell, Julio Capo, Jr., Rachel Guberman, Clayton Howard, Kevin Mumford, Dan Royles, Timothy Stewart-Winter...
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    DOI: 10.9783/9780812296723
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    The Great Demographic Illusion : Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream (2020)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691202112
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 p.) , 15 b/w illus. 7 tables
    Edition: 2020
    DDC: 305.800973
    RVK:
    MS 1235
    Keywords: Bevölkerung ; Mehrheit ; Minderheit ; USA
    Abstract: Why the number of young Americans with ethno-racially mixed backgrounds is surging and what this means for the country’s future Americans are under the spell of a distorted and polarizing story about their country’s future—the majority-minority narrative—which contends that inevitable demographic changes will create a society with a majority made up of minorities for the first time in American history. The Great Demographic Illusion reveals the flaws in this narrative and how it obscures a more transformative development: the rising numbers of young Americans from ethno-racially mixed families, consisting of one white and one nonwhite parent. Examining the unprecedented significance of mixed parentage in the twenty-first-century United States, Richard Alba looks at how young Americans with this background will play pivotal roles in the country’s demographic future.Assembling a vast body of evidence, Alba explores where these mixed families fit in American society. Most participate in the mainstream, as seen in their high levels of integration into social milieus with whites and frequent marriage with them. Yet, racism is also evident in the very different experiences of individuals with black-white heritage. Alba’s portrait squares in key ways with the history of American immigrant-group assimilation, and indicates that, once again, mainstream American society is expanding and becoming more inclusive. He discusses social policies that might enhance mainstream assimilation and argues that the future is more likely to resemble a gradual evolution from the present rather than a stark overturning of an established order.An outlook on social change that counters more rigid demographic beliefs and predictions, The Great Demographic Illusion offers a new way of understanding American society and its coming transformation.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691202112
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    Queer times, black futures (2019)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479841998
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Sexual cultures 30
    DDC: 306.7608996073
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    MS 2870
    Keywords: Schwarze ; Queer-Theorie ; Minderheit ; Massenmedien ; USA
    Abstract: A profound intellectual engagement with Afrofuturism and the philosophical questions of space and time Queer Times, Black Futures considers the promises and pitfalls of imagination, technology, futurity, and liberation as they have persisted in and through racial capitalism. Kara Keeling explores how the speculative fictions of cinema, music, and literature that center black existence provide scenarios wherein we might imagine alternative worlds, queer and otherwise. In doing so, Keeling offers a sustained meditation on contemporary investments in futurity, speculation, and technology, paying particular attention to their significance to queer and black freedom.Keeling reads selected works, such as Sun Ra’s 1972 film Space is the Place and the 2005 film The Aggressives, to juxtapose the Afrofuturist tradition of speculative imagination with the similar “speculations” of corporate and financial institutions. In connecting a queer, cinematic reordering of time with the new possibilities technology offers, Keeling thinks with and through a vibrant conception of the imagination as a gateway to queer times and black futures, and the previously unimagined spaces that they can conjure.
    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814748329.001.0001
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    Fearing the black body : the racial origins of fat phobia (2019)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781479891788
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.48/896073
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    LB 44610
    Keywords: Geschichte 1420-2019 ; Schwarze Frau ; Schönheitsideal ; Übergewicht ; Ethnische Identität ; Rassismus ; USA
    Abstract: How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.
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    Borderline Citizens : The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration (2018)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501716164
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (264 p.) , 9 b&w halftones, 1 map
    Series Statement: The United States in the World
    DDC: 305.8687295
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-1950 ; Puerto Ricaner ; Einwanderer ; USA
    Abstract: Borderline Citizens explores the intersection of U.S. colonial power and Puerto Rican migration. Robert C. McGreevey examines a series of confrontations in the early decades of the twentieth century between colonial migrants seeking work and citizenship in the metropole and various groups-employers, colonial officials, court officers, and labor leaders-policing the borders of the U.S. economy and polity. Borderline Citizens deftly shows the dynamic and contested meaning of American citizenship.At a time when colonial officials sought to limit citizenship through the definition of Puerto Rico as a U.S. territory, Puerto Ricans tested the boundaries of colonial law when they migrated to California, Arizona, New York, and other states on the mainland. The conflicts and legal challenges created when Puerto Ricans migrated to the U.S. mainland thus serve, McGreevey argues, as essential, if overlooked, evidence crucial to understanding U.S. empire and citizenship.McGreevey demonstrates the value of an imperial approach to the history of migration. Drawing attention to the legal claims migrants made on the mainland, he highlights the agency of Puerto Rican migrants and the efficacy of their efforts to find an economic, political, and legal home in the United States. At the same time, Borderline Citizens demonstrates how colonial institutions shaped migration streams through a series of changing colonial legal categories that tracked alongside corporate and government demands for labor mobility. McGreevey describes a history shaped as much by the force of U.S. power overseas as by the claims of colonial migrants within the United States.
    DOI: 10.1515/9781501716164
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    U.S. Women's History : Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood (2017)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813575865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 p.) , 5 photographs
    DDC: 305.40973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Frau ; Feminismus ; USA ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful—women’s historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. Some essays uncover little-known aspects of women’s history, while others offer a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches. Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, these essays vividly convey the long histories and ongoing relevance of topics ranging from women’s immigration to incarceration, from acts of cross-dressing to the activism of feminist mothers. This volume thus not only untangles the threads of the sisterhood mythos, it weaves them into a multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that reflects the breadth and diversity of U.S. women’s history. ...
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813575865
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    Frankie and Johnny : Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America (2017)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477312094
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 398.2089/96073
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Schwarze ; Volkskunde ; Ethnische Identität ; Geschlechterrolle ; African Americans Folklore ; African Americans Folklore ; African Americans Race identity ; African Americans-Folklore ; African Americans-Race identity ; Folk songs, English ; Music Social aspects ; History and criticism ; Popular music African influences ; Popular music History and criticism ; Sex role ; Sex role-United States ; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century ; USA
    Abstract: Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of “Frankie and Johnny” became one of America’s most familiar songs during the first half of the twentieth century. It crossed lines of race, class, and artistic genres, taking form in such varied expressions as a folk song performed by Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly); a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page and Bentley Stone under New Deal sponsorship; a mural in the Missouri State Capitol by Thomas Hart Benton; a play by John Huston; a motion picture, She Done Him Wrong, that made Mae West a national celebrity; and an anti-lynching poem by Sterling Brown. In this innovative book, Stacy I. Morgan explores why African American folklore—and “Frankie and Johnny” in particular—became prized source material for artists of diverse political and aesthetic sensibilities. He looks at a confluence of factors, including the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and resurgent nationalism, that led those creators to engage with this ubiquitous song. Morgan’s research uncovers the wide range of work that artists called upon African American folklore to perform in the 1930s, as it alternately reinforced and challenged norms of race, gender, and appropriate subjects for artistic expression. He demonstrates that the folklorists and creative artists of that generation forged a new national culture in which African American folk songs featured centrally not only in folk and popular culture but in the fine arts as well.
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    DOI: 10.7560/312070
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    The New Jewish Diaspora : Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany (2016)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813576312
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 figures, 22 tables
    DDC: 305.892/4
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1970-2015 ; Juden ; Russisch ; Diaspora ; Russland ; Israel ; USA ; Deutschland ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New Jewish Diaspora is the first English-language study of the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora. This migration has made deep marks on the social, cultural, and political terrain of many countries, in particular the United States, Israel, and Germany. The contributors examine the varied ways these immigrants have adapted to new environments, while identifying the common cultural bonds that continue to unite them. Assembling an international array of experts on the Soviet and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora, the book makes room for a wide range of scholarly approaches, allowing readers to appreciate the significance of this migration from many different angles. Some chapters offer data-driven analyses that seek to quantify the impact Russian-speaking Jewish populations are making in their adoptive countries and their adaptations there. Others take a more ethnographic approach, using interviews and observations to determine how these immigrants integrate their old traditions and affiliations into their new identities. Further chapters examine how, despite the oceans separating them, members of this diaspora form imagined communities within cyberspace and through literature, enabling them to keep their shared culture alive. Above all, the scholars in The New Jewish Diaspora place the migration of Russian-speaking Jews in its historical and social contexts, showing where it fits within the larger historic saga of the Jewish diaspora, exploring its dynamic engagement with the contemporary world, and pointing to future paths these immigrants and their descendants might follow. ...
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    Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States : Reimagining Survivors (2016)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813569710
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 3 tables
    Series Statement: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
    DDC: 306.74/5
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    MS 6440
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    MS 1235
    Keywords: Kinderhandel ; Schmuggel ; Kinderprostitution ; Überlebensstrategie ; Kinderfürsorge ; Empirische Sozialforschung ; USA
    Abstract: Trafficked children are portrayed by the media—and even by child welfare specialists—as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex. Basing her observations on research with 140 children, most of them girls, from countries all over the globe, Gozdziak debunks many myths and uncovers the realities of the captivity, rescue, and rehabilitation of trafficked children. She shows, for instance, that none of the girls and boys portrayed in this book were kidnapped or physically forced to accompany their traffickers. In many instances, parents, or smugglers paid by family members, brought the girls to the U.S. Without exception, the girls and boys in this study believed they were coming to the States to find employment and in some cases educational opportunities. Following them from the time they were trafficked to their years as young adults, Gozdziak gives the children a voice so they can offer their own perspective on rebuilding their lives—getting jobs, learning English, developing friendships, and finding love. Gozdziak looks too at how the children’s perspectives compare to the ideas of child welfare programs, noting that the children focus on survival techniques while the institutions focus, not helpfully, on vulnerability and pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model, one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked children. Breaking new ground, Trafficked Children in the United States offers a fresh take on what matters most to these young people as they rebuild their lives in America. ...
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    DOI: 10.36019/9780813569710
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813569710
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    Beyond Machismo : Intersectional Latino Masculinities (2016)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781477308783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.31098
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    MS 2900
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    MS 1240
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    Keywords: Hispanos ; Chicana ; Geschlechterrolle ; Männlichkeit ; Männlichkeitskult ; Feminismus ; Unterdrückung ; Feminism ; Machismo ; Masculinity Social aspects ; Men Education ; Men Economic conditions ; Men Identity ; Men Social conditions ; Mexican American women Ethnic identity ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies ; Lateinamerika ; USA
    Abstract: Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo-a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men's attitudes and behavior-is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look reveals young, educated Latino men who are going beyond machismo to a deeper understanding of women's experiences and a commitment to ending gender oppression. This new Latino manhood is the subject of Beyond Machismo. Applying and expanding the concept of intersectionality developed by Chicana feminists, Aída Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha explain how the influences of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender shape Latinos' views of manhood, masculinity, and gender issues in Latino communities and their acceptance or rejection of feminism. In particular, the authors show how encountering Chicana feminist writings in college, as well as witnessing the horrors of sexist oppression in the United States and Latin America, propels young Latino men to a feminist consciousness. By focusing on young, high-achieving Latinos, Beyond Machismo elucidates this social group's internal diversity, thereby providing a more nuanced understanding of the processes by which Latino men can overcome structural obstacles, form coalitions across lines of difference, and contribute to movements for social justice.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/308769
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/308769
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477308783
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    Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers : Emerging from the Long Shadow of Farm Labor (2013)
    New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780813562865
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , 10 photographs, 1 map, 1 table
    Series Statement: Families in Focus
    DDC: 305.8968/72073
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    LB 44610
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    LC 22610
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    LC 56610
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    LC 86610
    Keywords: Grenzgebiet ; Mexikanische Einwanderin ; Frau ; Landwirtschaftlicher Betrieb ; Landleben ; Soziale Mobilität ; Generationsbeziehung ; USA ; Mexiko ; Kalifornien ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California’s Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate to the United States as farmworkers. This book explores how that decision has worked out for these second- and third-generation Mexican Americans. Wells provides stories of the struggles, triumphs, and everyday experiences of these women. She analyzes their narratives on a broad canvas that includes the social structures that create the barriers, constraints, and opportunities that have shaped their lives. The women have constructed far more settled lives than the immigrant generation that followed the crops, but many struggle to provide adequately for their families. These women aspire to achieve the middle-class lives of the American Dream. But upward mobility is an elusive goal. The realities of life in a rural, agricultural border community strictly limit social mobility for these descendants of immigrant farm laborers. Reliance on family networks is a vital strategy for meeting the economic challenges they encounter. Wells illustrates clearly the ways in which the “long shadow” of farm work continues to permeate the lives and prospects of these women and their families.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)
    DOI: 10.36019/9780813562865
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813562865
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    Crossing borders : migration and citizenship in the twentieth-century United States (2011)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674061309
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 316 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 304.87300904
    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Einwanderungspolitik ; USA ; USA ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Immigrants--United States--History. ; Citizenship--United States. ; United States--Emigration and immigration--History. ; United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy. ; Electronic books History ; USA ; Einwanderungspolitik ; Geschichte 1900-2000
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674061309
    URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061309
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    Clinging to mammy : the faithful slave in twentieth-century America (2007)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780674040793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (322 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.3620820973
    Keywords: Jemima ; Geschichte ; African American women in popular culture History 20th century ; African Americans in popular culture History 20th century ; Women slaves History ; Slavery History ; African American women History ; Racism in popular culture History 20th century ; Stereotypes (Social psychology) ; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in advertising ; Sozialpsychologie ; Rassismus ; Massenkultur ; Schwarze Frau ; United States Race relations 20th century ; History ; USA ; USA ; Weibliche Schwarze ; Rassismus ; Massenkultur ; Sozialpsychologie ; Geschichte ; USA ; Schwarze Frau ; Rassismus ; Massenkultur ; Sozialpsychologie ; Geschichte
    DOI: 10.4159/9780674040793
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674040793
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