The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964-1980

Examining the long War on Poverty from the 1960s onward, this book makes a controversial argument that the programs were in many ways a success, reducing poverty rates and weaving a social safety net that has proven as enduring as programs that came out of the New Deal. [from the publisher] HC110.P63

The African American Struggle for Secondary Schooling, 1940-1980: Closing the Graduation Gap

This is the first comprehensive account of African American secondary education in the postwar era. Drawing on quantitative datasets, as well as oral history, this compelling narrative examines how African Americans narrowed the racial gap in high school completion. The authors explore regional variations in high school attendance across the United States and how intraracial factors affected attendance within racial groups. [from the publisher] LC2717.R87

Murda', Misogyny, and Mayhem: Hip-Hop and the Culture of Abnormality in the Urban Community

Spencer unwaveringly exposes the harmful effects of hip hop as a regulated industry, music, and culture. Her careful analysis allows the reader to examine the relationship between the presentation of hip hop and the prevalence of murder, misogyny, and mayhem in the urban community. [From the publisher] E185.625.S73

The Making of the New Negro: Black Authorship, Masculinity, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s in America and was marked by an outpouring of African American art, music, theater and literature. The Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, began attracting extensive academic attention in the 1990s as scholars discovered how complex, significant, and fascinating it was. [From the publisher]

PS153.N5.P63

From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity

This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, Miles White examines how these representations have both encouraged the demonization of young black males in the United States and abroad and contributed to the construction of their identities. [Provided by the publisher]

ML3918.R37.W53

Diversity in U.S. Mass Media

Diversity in U.S. Mass Media provides comprehensive coverage of the evolution and issues surrounding portrayals of social groups within the mass media of the United States.

P94.5.M552

Feminist Disability Studies

Disability, like questions of race, gender, and class, is one of the most provocative topics among theorists and philosophers today. This volume, situated at the intersection of feminist theory and disability studies, addresses questions about the nature of embodiment, the meaning of disability, the impact of public policy on those who have been labeled disabled, and how we define the norms of mental and physical ability. The essays here bridge the gap between theory and activism by illuminating structures of power and showing how historical and cultural perceptions of the human body have been informed by and contributed to the oppression of women and disabled people. [Provided by the publisher]

HV1568.2.F46

Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race

Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, the authors analyze diverse forms of data to explicate the racialized origins, operations, and consequences of a new mode of poverty governance that is simultaneously neoliberal—grounded in market principles—and paternalist—focused on telling the poor what is best for them. The study traces the process of rolling out the new regime from the federal level, to the state and county level, down to the differences in ways frontline case workers take disciplinary actions in individual cases. The result is a compelling account of how a neoliberal paternalist regime of poverty governance is disciplining the poor today. [Provided by the publisher]

HC110.P6.D57

Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West

In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century. [Description provided by the publisher]

HD6300.S53

The Conservative Ascendancy: How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America

Hailed as "perhaps the best scholarly overview of the conservative movement in print" (American Conservative), Donald Critchlow's The Conservative Ascendancy has depicted, as no other book has, the wild ride of the Republican Right. [Description provided by the publisher]

JK2356.C73

Behind Valkyrie: German Resistance to Hitler

While the “Valkyrie” plot by Nazi officers to kill Adolf Hitler is the best known instance of German opposition to his dictatorship, there were many other significant acts of resistance. Behind Valkyrie collects documents, letters, and testimonies of Germans who fought Hitler from within, making many of them available in their entirety and in English for the first time. [Description provided by the publisher]

DD256.3.B44

Education in Nazi Germany

Shaping the minds of the future generation was pivotal to the Nazi regime in order to ensure the continuing success of the Third Reich. Through the curriculum, the elite schools and youth groups, the Third Reich waged a war for the minds of the young. Hitler understood the importance of education in creating self-identity, inculcating national pride, promoting "racial purity" and building loyalty. The author examines how Nazism took shape in the classroom via school textbook policy, physical education and lessons on Nationalist Socialist heroes and anti-Semitism. Offering a compelling new analysis of Nazi educational policy, this book brings to the forefront an often-overlooked aspect of the Third Reich. [Description provided by the publisher]

LA721.8.P56

Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings

The first systematic approach to the parallels between fairy-tale retellings and fairy-tale theory.

PN3437.J66

Representing Black Music Culture: Then, Now, and When Again?

An homage to Black music of the last forty years and beyond!

ML410.B2084.A3

To and from Utopia in the New Cuban Art

In this spectacularly illustrated volume, Rachel Weiss offers the definitive critical history of the new Cuban art, exploring its remarkable artistic accomplishments and its role as catalyst for, and site of, public debate.

N6603.2.W45

Rugged Waters: Black Journalists Swim Mainstream

Written by Wayne Dawkins.

PN4882.5.D38