Emily E. Straus, "Death of a Suburban Dream: Race and Schools in Compton, California "
English | ISBN: 0812245989 | 2014 | 328 pages | EPUB | 1389 KB
Compton, California, is often associated in the public mind with urban America's toughest problems, including economic disinvestment, gang violence, and failing public schools. Before it became synonymous with inner-city decay, however, Compton's affordability, proximity to manufacturing jobs, and location ten miles outside downtown Los Angeles made it attractive to aspiring suburbanites seeking single-family homes and quality schools. As Compton faced challenges in the twentieth century, and as the majority population shifted from white to African American and then to Latino, the battle for control over the school district became symbolic of Compton's economic, social, and political crises.

Jennifer Goett, "Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1503600548, 0804799563 | PDF | pages: 235 | 9.4 mb
Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated. In Nicaragua, Afrodescendants have mobilized to confront this state of siege through the politics of black autonomy. For women and men grappling with postwar violence, black autonomy has its own cultural meanings as a political aspiration and a way of crafting selfhood and solidarity.

Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797-1920 (Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)) by Jane Samson
English | November 6, 2017 | ISBN: 0802875351 | 284 pages | EPUB | 0.62 Mb
Race and Redemptionis the latest volume in the Studies in the History of Christian Missions series, which explores the significant, yet sometimes controversial, impact of Christian missions around the world.

Powered by Porsche - The Alternative Race Cars by Roy Smith
English | October 15, 2017 | ISBN: 1845849906 | 464 pages | PDF | 105 Mb
Strap in for German engineered horsepower in this specialized history of Porsche engines. You'll get a full account of race cars powered by Porsche engines, but developed by other companies, in this detailed and extravagantly photographed book. This is the first title to detail the entire history of Porsche engines down to exact specs, non-Porsche chassis, and race details; plus, personal stories from team drivers. This massive volume covers nearly 50 years, and is loaded with over 700 photos, many of which have never been published before. The rest is history that you'll be able to see for yourself!

Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity By Paul Austerlitz
2005 | 302 Pages | ISBN: 0819567825 | PDF | 11 MB
Drawing on his background as an ethnomusicologist as well as years of experience as an accomplished jazz musician, Paul Austerlitz argues that jazz-and the world view or consciousness that surrounds it-embodies an aesthetic of inclusiveness, reaching out from its African American base to engage all of humanity. Fans and musicians have made this claim before, but Austerlitz is the first to examine it from a scholarly perspective. He considers jazz in relation to race and national identity in the United States and then broadens his scope to consider jazz within the African diaspora and in very different transnational scenes, from the Dominican Republic to Finland.Based on extensive fieldwork, this book explores jazz in an extraordinary range of contexts. One of the central chapters is devoted to the history of the groundbreaking Latin jazz band Machito and his Afro-Cubans, who were inspired by the dancing of both Harlemites and Jewish mamboniks. In chapter six, seminal drummer Milford Graves, one of Austerlitz's mentors, shares his philosophy that music profoundly influences our biorhythms and indeed shapes our thoughts.

Tami Navarro, "Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the Us Virgin Islands"
English | ISBN: 1438486022 | 2022 | 254 pages | EPUB | 640 KB
Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands-St. Croix-has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008-2009 financial crisis,

Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music, and Migration in Post-World War II Paris By Rashida K. Braggs
2016 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 0520279344 | PDF | 3 MB
At the close of the Second World War, waves of African American musicians migrated to Paris, eager to thrive in its reinvigorated jazz scene. Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. On the contrary, musicians adopted a variety of strategies to cope with the cultural and social assumptions that confronted them throughout their careers in Paris, particularly as France became embroiled in struggles over race and identity when colonial conflicts like the Algerian War escalated. Using case studies of prominent musicians and thoughtful analysis of interviews, music, film, and literature, Rashida K. Braggs investigates the impact of this postwar musical migration. She examines key figures including musicians Sidney Bechet, Inez Cavanaugh, and Kenny Clarke and writer and social critic James Baldwin to show how they performed both as artists and as African Americans. Their collaborations with French musicians and critics complicated racial and cultural understandings of who could represent "authentic" jazz and created spaces for shifting racial and national identities-what Braggs terms "jazz diasporas."

Art Rebels: Race, Class, and Gender in the Art of Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese By Paul Douglas Lopes
2019 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0691159491 | PDF | 2 MB
How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artistsPostwar America experienced an unprecedented flourishing of avant-garde and independent art. Across the arts, artists rebelled against traditional conventions, embracing a commitment to creative autonomy and personal vision never before witnessed in the United States. Paul Lopes calls this the Heroic Age of American Art, and identifies two artists―Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese―as two of its leading icons.In this compelling book, Lopes tells the story of how a pair of talented and outspoken art rebels defied prevailing conventions to elevate American jazz and film to unimagined critical heights. During the Heroic Age of American Art―where creative independence and the unrelenting pressures of success were constantly at odds―Davis and Scorsese became influential figures with such modern classics as Kind of Blue and Raging Bull. Their careers also reflected the conflicting ideals of, and contentious debates concerning, avant-garde and independent art during this period. In examining their art and public stories, Lopes also shows how their rebellions as artists were intimately linked to their racial and ethnic identities and how both artists adopted hypermasculine ideologies that exposed the problematic intersection of gender with their racial and ethnic identities as iconic art rebels.Art Rebels is the essential account of a new breed of artists who left an indelible mark on American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. It is an unforgettable portrait of two iconic artists who exemplified the complex interplay of the quest for artistic autonomy and the expression of social identity during the Heroic Age of American Art.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0861545648 | 338 pages | True EPUB | 5.68 MB
The Sunday Times bestseller

Michael E. Donoghue, "Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal Zone"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0822356783, 082235666X | PDF | pages: 362 | 1.8 mb
The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.