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RACE AND ETHNICITYBlackness in the AndesEthnographic Vignettes of Cultural Politics in the Time ofMulticulturalismJean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University,USA"This book is the crowning achievement in JeanMuteba Rahier's impressive oeuvre. It affirms him asa leading theorist and ethnographer of the Africandiaspora experience." - Kevin A. Yelvington, Universityof South Florida, USA, editor of Afro-AtlanticDialogues: Anthropology in the DiasporaThis book examines, in Andean national contexts, theimpacts of the 'Latin American multicultural turn' ofthe past two decades on Afro Andean cultural politics,emphasizing both transformations and continuities.Contents: 1. The Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas - Ecuador:Creolization/Malleability in the Time of Interculturalismo andNeo-Essentialism * 2. Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jews in the Afro-EsmeraldianCelebrations of the Semana Santa, Ecuador * 3. From Panacea for Harmonious Race Relations toIdeological Tool for Oppression and National Identity Imagination: Reflections from the Andeson Mestizaje through Time and Space * 4. Afrodescendants, the Multicultural Turn and the ‘New’Latin American Constitutions and Other Special Legislations: Particularities of the Andean Region* by Jean Muteba Rahier and Mamyrah Dougé Prosper * 5. A Glimpse at Afro-Ecuadorian Politics,Influences on and Participation in Constitutional Processes, and State Corporatism * 6. Blackness,the Racial-Spatial Order at Work, and Beauty Contest Politics: Señoras, Mujeres, Blanqueamiento,and the Negra Permitida * 7. Stereotypes of Hypersexuality and the Embodiment of Blackness:Some Narratives of Female Sexuality in Quito, Ecuador * 8. Fútbol and the (Tri-)Color ofthe Ecuadorian Nation: Ideological and Visual (Dis)Continuities of Black Otherness fromMonocultural Mestizaje to MulticulturalismJanuary 2014 UKJanuary 2014 US256 pp 2 maps, 1 b/w tableHardback £62.50 / $100.00 / CN$115.00 9781137272713Canadian RightsBlack StarBritain's Asian Youth MovementsAnandi Ramamurthy, University of Central Lancashire,UKBlack Star documents the Asian Youth Movementsthat emerged in 1970s and 1980s Britain. Theseorganizations, established by the children of earlymigrants, were determined to struggle against both theracism of the street and the state.Contents: Acknowledgements * List of Illustrations * 1.Introduction * 2. The Birth of the Youth Movements * 3. TheMovement Spreads * 4. A Heterogenous Collectivity * 5.Campaigning against the immigration Laws * 6. Self Defence isno Offence: The Bradford 12 * 7. The Later Youth Movements *8. New Organisations and New Identities * 9. The Asian YouthMovements and Politics Today * Bibliography * Notes * IndexSeptember 2013 US216 pp 20 b&w illustrationsHardback $105.00 9780745333496Paperback $35.00 9780745333489Published by Pluto PressDebating Cultural HybridityMulticultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-RacismNew EditionEdited by Pnina Werbner, Keele University, UK, TariqModood, University of Bristol, UKBringing together some of the world’s most influentialpostcolonial theorists, this classic collection examinesthe place and meaning of cultural hybridity in thecontext of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism.Contents: Preface * Introduction: The Dialectics Of CulturalHybridity; Pnina Werbner * PART I: HYBRIDITY, GLOBALISATIONAND THE PRACTICE OF CULTURAL COMPLEXITY * 1. FromComplex Culture To Cultural Complexity; Hans-Rudolf Wicker *2. The Making And Unmaking Of Strangers; Zygmunt Bauman * 3.Identity And Difference In A Globalized World; Alberto Melucci *4. Global Crises, The Struggle For Cultural Identity And IntellectualPorkbarrelling; Jonathan Friedman * 5. ‘The Enigma Of Arrival’:Hybridity And Authenticity In The Global Space; Peter Van Der Veer * 6. Adorno At Womad:South Asian Crossovers And The Limits Of Hybridity-Talk; John Hutnyk * and more...Critique. Influence. Change.August 2014 US320 ppPaperback $19.95 9781783601615Published by Zed BooksA Post-Racial Change is Gonna ComeNewark, Cory Booker, and the Transformation of Urban AmericaJonathan L. Wharton, Stevens Institute of Technology,USA"Jonathan L. Wharton’s A Post-Racial Change isGonna Come is a fresh approach to understandingAfrican American politics in the current politicalenvironment. It is an indispensable upgrade of thekey research that gave students of US urban politicsand African American politics a deeper understandingof the move from protest to electoral politics andpolitical incorporation more than two decades ago.Wharton’s work will inform students of post-CivilRights era black and urban politics for at least anothergeneration, regardless of Booker’s subsequentfate in state and national politics." - James LanceTaylor, Chair and Professor of Politics, University ofSan Francisco, USA, and author of Black Nationalism in the United States: FromMalcolm X to Barack Obama (2011)An investigation of post-racial politics and the future of coalition politics in anAmerican city.Contents: Introduction * 1. Synthesizing Racial Politics, Coalition Politics and Urban America* 2. Newark’s Sordid Past and Early Community Development Politics * 3. The 2002 and2006 Mayoral Elections * 4. The Mayors’ Identity Politics and Their Political Shortcomings * 5.Booker’s Community Development Initiatives * 6. The 2010 Election and Booker’s Second TermHoneymoon * 7. Newark, Booker and Post-Racial RealityNovember 2013 UKNovember 2013 US284 pp 3 figures, 1 b/w table, 16 b/w illustrationsHardback £62.50 / $100.00 / CN$115.00 9781137277718Canadian Rightsebooks availableClick on the regional link to view more product information or to buy.21