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"A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia centers landscapes in narratives generated by public memory and movement of African Americans and other racial and oppressed groups. It provides the reader with rich perspectives that add meaning and texture to lived spaces. These narratives are as American as apple pie. I recommend this text as a major or supplemental book in the social sciences and Virginia history courses. Although cities often use the term 'unique charm' to attract the wealthy, this People's Guide exposes the uniqueness of charm in predicable patterns of whiteness. Yet, the authors' resolve through research to guide people to read more intently about these landscapes and narratives, which shape the complexity of landscapes today, is timely given the assault on African American history and culture. With this guide, one will travel well."--Colita Nichols Fairfax, editor of The African Experience in Colonial Virginia: Essays on the 1619 Arrival and the Legacy of Slavery "This manuscript is by far the most exhaustive and comprehensive review of the complex and complicated history of Richmond and Virginia that I have seen or experienced. It is clear from the writing that Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer are deeply invested in truth-telling, and are knowledgeable of the issues that continue to plague this region. What I particularly appreciate is their concerted effort to include the voices of community members, activists, and people living in the midsts of these times still plagued and very much in the shadows of centuries of oppression, divisions, neglect, ignorance, and many atrocities, while remaining hopeful that change is possible and continues to take place in this region due to the tireless efforts of hundreds of people committed to making change a reality. This is a must read for all Richmonders, and for those ignorant of the facts of our American history yet willing to learn and work for change in the big ways that are necessary in this society we call our home."--Cheryl Groce-Wright, Founder and CEO of Kaleidoscope Collaborative

"This beautifully written but heartrending book tells what happens when refugees needing rescue from violence come to America. Instead of security, the refugees encounter a resettlement system that leaves the promise of humanitarianism unfulfilled and pushes them into the ranks of the unprotected working poor. An eye-opening, deeply unsettling account."--Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles "Sharply analyzed, richly detailed, and intricately humane, We Thought It Would Be Heaven exposes the bewildering maze of rules and regulations that trap refugees in Kafkaesque fashion as they navigate the US bureaucracies charged with their resettlement. Highly recommended for everyone, especially for scholars, policymakers, and anyone who cares about the lives of some of the most vulnerable groups in society today."--Cecilia Menjívar, Dorothy L. Meier Social Equities Chair, University of California, Los Angeles "This extraordinary book exposes how the gap between the American dream and its reality is, for many refugees, filled with administrative burdens. With We Thought It Would Be Heaven, Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau have written a book that is not just exhaustively researched and theoretically rich, but urgent and actionable. It demands both our attention and our capacity to rethink how to ensure that the most vulnerable immigrants are not lost in a bureaucratic maze."--Donald Moynihan, McCourt Chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University "Fleeing the deadliest wars since World War II, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo were the top nationality group resettled in the United States from 2014 to 2022. Blair Sackett and Annette Lareau follow forty-four Congolese families who came to America thinking it "would be heaven," but instead have encountered a bare-bones and hollowed-out resettlement infrastructure, not to mention a bewildering and disconnected maze of American financial, educational, social, and legal institutions that, built upon the twin logics of cost-cutting and racialized surveillance, presents hurdle after bureaucratic hurdle to block their progress. Only with the most committed of cultural brokers and institutional advocates do a few of these families manage to get ahead. We Thought It Would Be Heaven is a must-read for anyone looking for an understanding of the dismal state of US refugee admissions and for fresh ideas on what can be done to improve the outcomes."--Helen B. Marrow, Associate Professor of Sociology, Tufts University "As the former leader of one of the bureaucracies that the refugee families in Sackett and Lareau's book traversed, I can only hope that my peers will have the wisdom to read this book. The United States can fulfill its promise of being a beacon to those fleeing persecution only by heeding this book's lessons."--León Rodríguez, Former Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services "We Thought It Would Be Heaven eloquently shows the many challenges and resources needed for refugee families in navigating different institutions in America to start a new life after having spent years surviving in refugee camps and civil wars. Its captivating and often heartbreaking accounts of these families' struggles reveal how American institutions meant to help any family in need can end up hurting families through a series of seemingly innocuous yet endless bureaucratic missteps and hurdles."--Leslie Paik, author of Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality > "This deeply humanist ethnography explains how refugees who fled persecution confront new challenges as they resettle in the United States. We Thought It Would Be Heaven follows four Congolese families as they fight their way through bureaucratic circles of hell to make a new American life."--David Scott FitzGerald, coauthor of The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach "The book is beautifully written, with vivid and richly detailed portraits of refugee families and the bureaucratic challenges they encounter in the United States. It offers fresh insights into how institutions shape refugee resettlement in the U.S."--Nazli Kibria, Boston University

Explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. This title offers an insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, and more.

"In China, from the past to the present, ceramics is not just a material but a language. Alex Burchmore has insightfully translated this language and its variations, or accents, in contemporary Chinese art."--Jiang Jiehong, author of The Art of Contemporary China "Rather than simply extracting meanings from the artworks, Alex Burchmore tells us broader stories of China's history, culture, and contemporary social life associated with the making of contemporary ceramic art. These are not aesthetic objects alone; rather, this is a conceptually oriented collective production full of the ambiguity between traditional symbolism and contemporary deconstruction."--Gao Minglu, author of Total Modernity and Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

"World Socialist Cinema narrates a film history beyond received canons, explicitly decentering and dewesternizing the way that we approach cinema's past. Masha Salazkina's scholarship is breathtaking, using hitherto unexplored archives and primary sources to complicate what we understand by terms like 'world cinema, ' 'global cinema, ' or 'cinemas of solidarity.' I know of nothing comparable."--Peter Limbrick, author of Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi "Through the prism of the Tashkent Film Festival, this extraordinary study offers a kaleidoscopic view of what Salazkina terms 'world socialist cinema.' Deftly tessellating a dazzling array of institutions, films, languages, and geopolitical, formal, and theoretical questions, World Socialist Cinema is a field-changing book, and a model for future scholarship."--Alice Lovejoy, author of Army Film and the Avant Garde: Cinema and Experiment in the Czechoslovak Military

"Victoria Duckett reveals the innovation and acumen of three turn-of-the-century French actresses, once dismissed as old-fashioned and theatrical, in reshaping both theater and cinema--Bernhardt, Réjane, and Mistinguett. Réjane, a trailblazing comic actress, is a particular revelation. Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema demonstrates the power of transnational history, in all its surprises and contradictions."--Laura Horak, author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 "Theater and cinema history have for too long been separate and even antagonistic. Victoria Duckett has already shown her prowess in navigating both, and in this new study she marshals formidable amounts of evidence to compare the transnational careers of three legendary French actresses who triumphantly crossed from stage to screen by different routes. In doing so, they brought immense prestige to the new medium and to French cinema. Star studies should never be the same."--Ian Christie, author of Robert Paul and the Origins of British Cinema "Victoria Duckett provides a remarkably detailed analysis of the underappreciated contribution made to early film by three celebrated French performers. Her book conclusively demonstrates how closely intertwined the inherited techniques of nineteenth-century theater and the innovative possibilities of twentieth-century cinema were in practice. This is a major reassessment of a significant moment in transnational culture that casts aside disciplinary boundaries to discover a creative and complicated historical process."--John Stokes, Emeritus Professor of Modern British Literature, King's College London "From Belle Époque Paris and Victorian London to cosmopolitan New York, Transnational Trailblazers of Early Cinema takes us on an exhilarating transatlantic and transdisciplinary voyage. Archival, intertextual, and historiographic, Victoria Duckett's three eloquent case studies dislodge preconceptions to enlarge our vision of the international and intermedial impact of the actress-entrepreneur, from transmedial networks of performance and celebrity culture to emerging film markets and business models, demonstrating theater's vital and intrinsic role in early cinema and culture."--Tami Williams, author of Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations

"There is no such thing as a voice without an accent, yet theories of voice ranging from philosophy to media studies to machine learning still treat accents as the exception rather than the rule. Thinking with an Accent teaches us how to begin from accented voices and provides a panoply of tools for imagining, working with, building on, analyzing, and desiring accents."--Jonathan Sterne, author of Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment "Thinking with an Accent is a creative and ambitious multidisciplinary collection of essays that clearly captures the academic and popular zeitgeist about race, listening, and power. Together, these essays advance our theoretical understandings of accent as methodology, accent as epistemology, and accent, in general, as a multifaceted cultural source of wealth. Thinking with an Accent encourages scholars and the public alike to reconsider our own accented lives and how they work to structure our social, digital, and literary worlds. I already consider it to be an essential book."--Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public Advocacy "This book teaches us that the accent must be understood not as an ontological reality but as a co-constituted happening between bodies, people, objects, and space. The result is that the reader learns to think freely about accent, and accent becomes something to think with, not just to study. Straightforward, well argued, and a pleasure to read."--Kareem Khubchandani, author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife "This is, without a doubt, a very timely study, given how accent increasingly intersects with migration policy, employment, culture, digital technologies, and (identity) politics. The chapters illustrate the complexities of accent, at both personal and structural levels, and testify to accent's role in negotiations of power and desire. The collection does very important work and is likely to set an important agenda for how accent is studied and taught in the future."--Jennifer O'Meara, author of Women's Voices in Digital Media: The Sonic Screen from Film to Meme "This work is fascinating and extremely valuable, brought to life through multiple case studies and contexts. The collection gives space to difference, alterity, intersectionality, and marginalization through nuanced thinking that also works to question and destabilize subject positions, labels, and constructs."--Tessa Dwyer, author of Speaking in Subtitles: Revaluing Screen Translation

"A perceptive and original analysis of the field from a world-leading authority. This is a condensation of a lifetime's outstanding and innovative scholarly research into the historical and cultural relations between Jews and Russia."--William F. Ryan, Professor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow at the Warburg Institute in the School of Advanced Study, University of London

"Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves offers a colorful and exciting narrative of ameliorist capitalism. Its painstaking research ties together the history of nineteenth-century North America to the Indian Ocean world. A must-read for all, but especially for those seeking a layered, complex, and globally inflected history of a paracolonial present. A model of collaborative writing in global history."--Indrani Chatterjee, author of Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India "In this innovative and microhistorical yet spatially ambitious work, Gunja Sengupta and Awam Amkpa recount the complex intersecting worlds of slavery, empire, and antislavery in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This marvelous book shows how British imperialism reinforced slavery in Africa and Asia when evoking antislavery, while abolitionists and subaltern subjects deployed human rights to resist colonialism and new regimes of labor exploitation. The versatile authors of this gem of a book tell a complete, global history of slavery and emancipation during the long nineteenth century."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition "Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves is a remarkable work of scholarship, as it engages a fascinating history of two regions of the world rarely discussed and mostly forgotten in one volume. The authors' beautiful academic prose, interspersed with testimonials and governmental documents, shows the profound commitment to unearthing new narratives that redefine these connections. It is an impressive and gripping story. This book is unique and groundbreaking; it is a long journey that disrupts and enlightens the reader along the way. We see turbulent moments described in great detail, empires challenges as women and children give voice to the abuses they endured. The impact of this important book will be long lasting."--Deborah Willis, author of Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

"What does it mean to 'see' theater? This ambitious and wonderfully engaging book turns the spotlight on the theater spectator, finding the drama hidden away in the very act(s) of watching Greek drama. Weiss's phenomenological approach foregrounds the multisensory nature of theatrical performance. Reading the tragedians--especially Aeschylus and Sophocles--will never feel quite the same again."--Melissa Mueller, author of Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy "Naomi Weiss breaks new ground, powerfully reconceptualizing theatrical visuality on a phenomenological basis. Informed by the fluidity of roles and positions in vase paintings' views of viewing, her fresh, engaging, and sophisticated analyses not just from the genre of tragedy but also from comedy and satyr drama, bring much-needed emphasis to the aesthetic. Seeing Theater is poised to become a classic that will shape performative criticism of ancient Greek drama for many years to come."--Mario Telò, author of Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy "An original and outstanding contribution, Seeing Theater opens up an entirely new approach to ancient drama and related artifacts, yielding conclusions that are of fundamental interest to Greek drama and art."--Eric Csapo, coauthor of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC